The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-07 00:00:00

ethsh theturbad deadened their asteroid lassitude- tee. Ur did net seek to rival his blether in Me eta ke—be th.oKht that be never coal s sat bitterly resigned to • sari of his own inferiority of sad Wed, he Rtve klui•elf up to idleness, sad himself to be what . ethers said he was. His shereeter, too, unappreciated by' tho , c arond him, was asd harshly acted apes; far tear t .1 a child's real and form • system of education Inked to it, eney timid has a distinct in to,,....thsVsa. charatter, +WA. le he *led developed, ought ....4 .. 'tidied. Bat is egeseal educate children in a whoi,nile way, as if a set ef with which they set on one child'. dispoaise de ell. Toe humph vet's was peened. lit mind womb his indohnee not al so issumanontedslo m it appeared to be; but, by inj udicious treatment, and actual tinkled's.= at time., he bad been cowed down into a state of despair, sad it wi. only jealousy that ever aroused him from his seeming iniLfUrence. It was jealomy that urged him to his eight fr ea home ; be had sickened for kis parents' love, felt that be did not pousees it, sad is the seam of his slighted a ff ection he lied from their protenkst, cave up the rights that, yoaag though he was, be knew he possessed to the brother they so fe.dl7 loved, and resolved to work, and to corn his own living, that they may not," he th ought. . wish fur my death! Poor child—the shaft of sorrow had stricken his bead right early' and though his eight was open tocensure, that step was well expiated in alFsr years by many a pang of bitter grief. !low this forlorn truant goes through all kinds of hardship, is befriended by a doctor at the request of a young . lady and gentleman, who casually meet ciim in the street—how he becomes in time, a medical practitioner, is called upon to attend some relative—how he is brought back to his family—assumes the parental title—(whichhis hand some brother had worn in the meantime)—how be is still snubbed till he saves his brother from ship wreck—and how. finally, be marries tne young lady who befriended him when he was a beggar in the streets—are matters which the reader will find duly unravelled before he closes the third volume. The dissipated brother, also. has a love affair with a young peasant girl, while he is engaged to the heiress of the eccentric old gentleman, and, atter having made dishonourable proposals, offers marriage. The indignant peasant girl (who is no less a person than the heiress in disguise) lectures the young man, imposes penalties, consisting of ab stmence from di,siputions of various kinds, and ulti mately agrees to marry him. The scene between the disi.mised young lady and Lord Itavenshill is grace fully written. We extract it : THE HIIIISIS IN DISGUISE. Annie lifted her dark eyes to his face. " Do ou love me so much, then ?" asked she. " Do I not ?" replied Lord B,avenshill, " Annie, it is the depth of my passion fu r you which renders me miserable." The young girl paue for a moment ere she answered him; she glanced towards him half mournfully, then • quiet, singular smile paned over her features, and she said, . Why so ? What reasons are there that your love for no should render you unhappy ?" His lordship turned away from the inquiring, yet trust ing look oflove, expressed within her dark, clear eyes, and answered in a low, constrained voice, " It would not, if I could do as my own heart prompts me to do, Annie ; for then I would make you my bride ; and you, dearest, should share with me the scanty honours , and riches I poseen. But this I cannot do; my father . would never forgive me if 1 did—because he wishes me to wed a rich bride, a Miss Childe, one whom I have been partially engaged to since childh ood, so that her wealth may arrest the downfall of our house—which rumour and truth say is near at hand. Do not start—do not glance towards me in terror, Annie—l never will—is not my heart already yours? And yet—and yet—his irrevocable anger would he directed against me did I, during his lifetime, follow the wishes ray love for you teaches me--did I make you my wife—dare 1, at present, do so, dearest Anr.ie ?" " No," replied the young girl, verse quietly ; but Lord Raveushill saw by the distinct light oldie ninon that her brow was contracted as it were with pain. " No, we should obey our parents conic what will. Must we part then?" she added, more hurriedly, and her breath seemed more suddenly and shortly drawn, while her utterance became partially impeded, 4 . Must we never meet again i" " Annie," answered Lord Itavenshill, and not unwil lingly she suffered him to draw her to his side. " Annie, do not say that—l cannot beat it." And there was • reuse s an embarrass d one it seemed on the Hart of his lent ship, and then--" Annie," he murmured. as the younggirl lent her large soft eyes still trustingly, still lovingly on his countenance, " dearest, in some things you are shove the prejudices of your tea, you have views of your own—are nobler, wrier—are there not other links that can bind us together. more truly, more disinterestedly than those which the ...rid deems so indispensable the links of true, self meritieing election ? Come with me, Annie; reign over my h, art— make cue your slave fur ever—you shall be my hi arf• idol." Ile made a slight pause of a few neon& in which Annie might have spoken; yet she did not ,lo so. Still leaning on his ann, utterly niotiouless, perfectly silent, but with her eyes cast downward on the ground, she appeared to listen to him half dreamingly, and he, seeing that the had as yet testified no displeasure at his words, imagined she demurred over them, listened to his tempting., and he continued— " Part—must we part? Ilan not my spirit sought yowl? is on my heart knit to yours ? has not my every thought and feeling bent of late bound up in you ? to part will be death to you, deed* to me. Think of the long dreary morrows that will bring us uo hope of seeing each other, when the loved tome of the voice we were once wont to hear will be remembered but as dream-music of tho past,— sad the Mare and the past alike must be clothed with woe. Annie, will you doom us both to suffer this ? no, no, you cannot, you will not, be mine ; let not the paltry censure at the world =trammel you with its idle blame; be the brght star of my destiny, m y heart's only dear cue! love. Amin, lon each as ours will hallow the tie; ever faithful, ever losing through life, it will bear us an to pinions—joy. Where the spirit of the beautiful lingers, there will we rows—i• the lands of the east we will wander; these bright eyes now =sing on me shall shine amidst the glories of southern dimes, amidst their orange and myrtle bower, their silver fountains, rippling river... moonlight seas; there others hate loved as we will love—happily, enduringly— bound by no tie. but these of everlasting affection, only fettered by the heart's own chain. Annie, even uow in yonder distance wait fleet steeds to bear us far away AII,IIIV. my own, my beautiful, shall not this glorious life he oun Still motionleu, utterly motioning, Annie continued to lean upon Lord Itavenshill's arm the while he spoke .. but gradually she slightly turued her head more d irectly towards Isis face, and bent her eyes upon his with an in quiring. wonder-stricken look; then, as he proceeded to unfold his views more eagerly, more clearly, they grew almost stony in their perfect immobility of expression. When his last words died away in the moonlight solitude around them, that look slowly changed to one of grief, whet, grew upon her features almost imperceptibly at Hest, es iffier feelings were only gradually awakening from a slnth.like chill ; yet the strength of its expression, though it gathered slowly, never slackened in its increase, and at length the actual depth of her emotion was fully manifested in a heed and dreamy gaze of intense suffering. She did sot speak, she did not move, nor did Lord Itavenshill im mediately ; for. surprised by her strange change of coun tenance, which exhibited neither anger. pride, nor even a reluctant assent to his wishes, he hesitated for a moment before here-urged his suit, that he might aim his words with more efface Wanderingly attest one of Annie's little hands was retried to her face, while the other still rested in Lord Itavenshill's; pasting it over her eyes she seemed to collect her scattered thoughts, and as she did so, she turned her head 'aide, " Pawed, passed:" she murmured, in an almost YOlactilli whisper—" The dream has paesed—ab ! God for give him ." Aud fully herself, she attempted to leave him, with the intention of eutering the house, but be yet detained her hand. and she could not. The utter absence of all anger in her words or gestures misled him into a wrong appreciation of the feelings his words created in her mind. " We meet met part—at least not now," he said, " you must promise to ease me again—bear me. You are the life of guy seal-1 swum live without you. You do not know the mad melon whisk peewees me. Annie • have com paenua; me one sweet weed of distant hope." The col with which Annie had tried to dis engage her =NS Lard Rarenshill's ceased, sa he uttered the lan weed, sad she stood quietly by his side, ao she answered him - Hope'" ski repeved, half bitterly, sad dm best her dark bright eyes tesersedilds fees, while the Isms Where& slowly within them, and fall alma her pals *eft deep by drop. " yea ask thus I should give yen beget eel of what ? of my besewsiee the frailty thing yes wilt see le be. You weal tempt sae —*ore me—dzede me-40 ii thus you love ? Wes it for this you soe I T min trup p for this yesa ted my heart to centre its w em you. and mead a truth and honour, so tart . ...._ _Pa showed your falseness, and urged me to alowdes ell I wee hitherto held dear, the struggle on my past might be the more cruel—your success more easy ? And I love you—and my heart which clang to yours as something nobler than itself must brook this—brook the knowledge that you are false, dishonourable, selfish—guilty before Heaven emu now--and would be so on earth where she whom you . !rat so Idly as weak as . you imagine her. Lord Rae Lord Ravenshill, loving you as I do, can any eart hly be more bitter than this .?" /lad with bar last words Annie's calmness pared away, ma she wept psenismaft Me bitterly. " Let me pan," abe aded, • moment afterwarb, "way Mbar wit' fee me—let me_psis." o Am..," rejoiesd Lard Hamelin, not hie re. speak Aside, ii we trembling, weeping—pm me yet! ibis par is • hitters ee to you even sew ; sad its east peeps an to ems." ss AD, as, *s went an pest already," mgrieved she. "slew 1 Mew yes te be a that 1 ever preyed you We* ast be ; sad if I wasp, beware my life's happier' is soy gam me, tenses I Pad hat yes ate sot what I t pera wee•—it I leanikki knew my heart is sick from hive it has neon* yet. Dad of Renee ! I do not waver is ay abbesses, eat whet 1 hers bstseed to. De oat pr im be dossiolog ms bare—de set let me ends bear that weisiLl diabikkesa bear* ; if pa knew Me my heart bleeds et easy De* word yes VW yea wield Wpm le dm* egellee. Lent Beevillk, I veld gamut keen W you to implore your silmsee, for my 'OM Aims beneath the truths it is sow disarming, my heart is mitberbse se yours is laurelled to its rim" In conclusion, let us ask the author if he believes 'that there exists in the world a woman so lost to parental feeling as the mother of his heroine? Has not he read the records of nature with more truth, who declares that the lame child is doubly dear to all about it? How to See Ow Exhibit:ow. By W. IliAscaoao JszooLo. Bradbury sad Emma To master an exhibition of dimensions and variety so unparalleled u that of the Crystal Palace is no easy task to the visitor who is introduced there for the Bret time; as the crowds of bewildered s tators who may be encountered any morning in the tran sept of that building amply prove. To supply • straightforward guide to the build in g is the ob ject of the series of four sixpenny of which the above-mentioned is the first. Mr. Jerrold here describes the more remarkable articles to be seen in the transept, nave, and south-western section of the British department, and certainly lave out work enough for one visit. With this methodical little book in his hand, the stranger need not be lost amid the multiplicity of objects which surround him in the Glass Palace. Davidson's Musical Treasury. London : Doc tors'-commons. Little Pines for Little Players, arranged to mat SISOU Hands. ]lord. Little Songs for Little Singers, Easy to Sing and Easy to clay. - Ibid. Classical Songs of Germany. Book 1., with German and English Words. Ibid. Davidson's Standard Oratorios Ibid. The Messiah. By HANDEL. Parts Ito 5. Davidson's Illustrated Libretto Books. With English Ver sion, and the Music of the principal Airs. " Don Pas quilt," by Donisetti • Norma," by . Bellini ; Gustavus III.," by Auber ; " Giovanni, ' by Kogan; " Der Freisrbuts," by Weber ; " Cinderella ," by Rossini; " Kasarnello "by Scribe and Anber ; Barber of Se silk," by RMaini ; Piano Forte Duets, part 19; " The Battle of Prague," by Rot:wars. Ibid. Operatic Gems. Arranged as pianoforte pieces. " Norma" by flguasi. Ibid. England's Wekome to all Nation,. Words by Mr. F. A. DAVIDSON. Music by 11. Russell. Ibid. Polkas. "The British Queen, " composed by FILLY!. "The Great Exhibition" Polka and Galop, composed by S. Pansy. "The Paxton and Crystal Palace Polkas, by B . KILLER and Josern Von JoeL. " The Quadrille of all Nations, " commemorative of the Great Exhibition. Composed by itchier Wier. Ibid. One of the " signs of our times" is the manifest ir grease of a taste for music, and the consequent spread ' d musical education. The middle classes now seek kr their children some tuition in an art formerly cared for by few, and, indeed, heretofore almost ex elusively confined, as a general educational rule,. to the very wealthy. Now-a-drys a piano is beginning to be a part of the fittings of all comfortable houses ; the girls all learn to play, whilst amongst the people to whom such refinements are forbidden by want of means—amongst the really poor—we find the child ren by tens of thousands being taught in the national schools the art of singing upon Hullah's method. In truth, we are in a fair way for becoming a really musical people, and the day is probably not very far distant when we may rival in this respect some of the continental nations, who have hitherto been so far in advance of us in the knowledge and enjoyment of the " heaven of sweet sounds." Before, however, this anticipated national musical millennium can ar rive in England we must change a few of our pre sent arrangements, and one which cries loudly for reform is the mode of publishing new music. When the musical public was a very small body, it MO easy to understand why a publisher should demand for a single ballad, or a short instrumental piece, a sum so large as two or four shillings. The market was limited, and those who wanted musical novelty must, amongst them, make up a sum sufficient to repay those who produced it. But that is all changed, however, and, as we have just said, the musical portion of the English nation has grown enormously. The constituency has been enlarged— the patrons are now told in thousands instead of tens—and the ancient fee of two shilling is no longer justified or justi fi able upon the old plea of the musical public being deficient in numbers. We live in an age of cheapness. The loaf, that was once worth eighteenpence, is now to be bought for six pence ; s swayed by tho influences that have thus ands ths WO necessary of life more easily par dossablab dont all other commodities are obtain able krlsgswas_ is 7 than they commanded a few years rlipChop Nisi brigs lo its wake cheap clothes, balm and Amp books. Before us we have new dna, though slowly, the same law of =Pallk paving this way for giving us cheap . The old established music sellers still hold to the old extrasagaat charges, and to them at pre sent we owe no thraka. If they see the error of digit ways, sod &mid reform them, the merit of *air @sovereign will be largely due to Mr. Novelle kr big typoidnlod music, and:to Mr. Davidson, the pubisher — of the works at the lead of this notice— who offers ths sesisical world selections from various excellent masters—popular operas—good exercises for pupils and ballads for players, both young and old--all well and cleanly printed from types— at a price infinitely below the rates at whichsethpro ductions have heretofore been and are still glgswhers charged. The publisher who ventures his caphol and his skill in such a work of musical reform, Arsarvee all praise and support. •It will be seen by the list given above, that Mr. Davidson's publications are sufficiently numerous to suit all tastes and all classes of players, ranging from the chef-crceurres of Wood sod Rossini to the humble simplicities of "Little Fasces for Little Players." Let those who are mo ire, therefore, show their estimation of the effort to supply cheap and good music by patronizing such Gibbons. We do not now seek to criticise their logistic character, but wish merely to draw earnest attention to the evidence they give of progress in a right direction, and to claim for them the public support they richly deserve. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen arrived in town yesterday from the residence of her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Frogmore, nem Windsor. His Se rene Highness visited her Majesty's Maths last evening. A deputation from the Royal ha: Improvement Society of Ireland had an interview with thr Chancellor of the Ex chequer, yesterday, at his °facial nsidence in Downing street. The deputation :consisted of Yr. Tennant, Y.F., Mr. Marshall, 11. P., Lord A. E. Hill, M.P., Colonel Bow don, M.P., Mr. Crawford, M.P., Hon. T. Veiny puma, M.P., Sir A. B. Brooke, Bart., M.P., Viscount Bernard, M.P., Slr.Conolly, M.P., Mr. O'Flaherty, M.P., Mr. McCullagh, M.P., Mr. M. J. O'Connell, M.P., Mr. Corbally, M.P., lir. Greene, M.P., Colonel Dunne, M.P., Dr. Power, M.P., Mr. Herbert, M.P., Mr. G.A. Hamilton, M.P., Viscount Jocelyn, M.P., Mr. Sadlear, M.P., Mr. Scully, M.P., Mr. O'Brten, M.P., Mr. Tenison, M.P., Mr. Monsell, M.P., Mr. Grace, /CP., Mr. J. S. Crawford, Mr. Hancock, Dr. M'Kibbin, and Mr. Macadam. Mr. Whyte Melville had an interview yesterday with Sir Charge Grey at the Home-oMee. The Rector of Liverpool, chairman of the select vestry, aoeinapaaied by Mr. Cardwell, M.P., had an interview with the Hight Hon. H. Laboachens yeeterday, at the Board of Trade. Mr. Grenville Berkeley, M.P., and Mr. G. E. Williams, a deputation from Cheltenham, had an interview with the General Board of Health yest erday at their one., White hall. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-oaks from the Governor of Van Dieman's Land. Dispatches were mat of yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Clover- I nor of the Canada. and the governon of the other North American colonies. Bagwzit's COVET RAGGED SCHOOL—The third masa meeting of the supporters of the Brewers-smut, Drury-lane, Ragged School, was held on Thursday night at the Mule Hall. Stort-street, liusselloinare, to moo the report of the past year, and floe Ober boluses ; Lord Kimura is the chair. After te i =rodiefaizz had hos goo through, the secretary to read the report, whisk Noe& that Z wila hers' weekly scion ow well and regshety asardsd, and that the best dhelgibe sad order gesesied Ibis as in the ettfte digartmesh ; the avenge sehaduse la the girls' day selest had bus 33, whin' &rod a putgoes. The regs!t farther stated that ia the sea* ef her last as meat abed bad hem estabibied whisk was w well, and that elm the deg sisal was ageesda Allem entered, widths smalswia withy's inereesed M Id, and dose the swift fM stgpd ehildsts were ad witted. the avenge author st deitg aftsadesis was 130; it wseterhar sesiedthet by the @whams shim salweihsis mad Meads of the saes", tin sambise bed bees sided to seed oat ow lic* Ausiesis. The south dohs the year bed beta sod the swgeadhese WA b. Id.. {sarisg a lishrsola boob of thelleaftweeed Milk IL The newt wessimbroady adopted, sod sllwiss= he the easslai we, after which retelatioas la et the oldish et the abode way shyest LIIIIIMem••••.. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 7, 1851. IMPERIAL P. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FSIDAY, Joxs 8. The Loan Csancitz.Loa took his seat at flee o'clock. PETITIONS PRBRIXTBD. Sonosone.—By lard BBALUMONT, from t►e Veterinary Wisp. and boa amine Ober veterinary praying tolse vs no' Bea aeMmikee • juries. Asanannait.—By Lod SONDES, fans Cam berwell ; end by the Duke of RICHMOND, hem Aber deen ; *wart papal Fain Tuna.—ByMtifDlA, from Downbeat Mar ; whist fres trade. Aar isms or Jews.—By the Bishop of OXFORD, from Bath ; against the admission of Jews to parliament. LAW BEFOIIII. - - - Lord CAMPBELL, la answer to a guides Rem lord Blo[loll/.11, .:premed regret that tie oseamksimerre appriatod to mho the ram et prectior and pheakto la the made of amiss km, _BA alt _yet primaiod a report. Beam amy attempt mead ha amide at hoprommorit, the roper{ aline lamed pan= ought to bo totehed, and be trailed ha prassatelita would aselo tarther &Wed. COURTS OF 112001101 1 1AMBRT. . . Lord Bierlienighid Mao lab certain resolutions the sabLect of Oseree et Rommsliensat. LAW OF MARRIATI IN AUSTRALIA. . . Some esaversedsa took due w . t i ts pesseutation of perdue the Dohs el AZOTLL, from the state the made. law is Aufisabla duke balk _main& the aamideratiaa at whatnot Bad =EY repliti that the =Maw we we with which the asitaial lesielstwee was pediatly asupsteut to deal ; and be had ao doubt the law would be esamidered and any alteration made which was band to be ehehable. . . L;tdFAMPßlLLties;ghtii;epetitiiapresented by the noble duke was mat meemeble, and he biped it would be complied with. IPresbristle= in the aelrnw were in a ituation of great maberreement, and wen subjected to great injustice. Ye leave it to the colonial legislatures to say what marriages should be valid and what marriages invalid was the very way_to create confusion and injustice. The Duke of ARGYLL then Fesentell a petition from the synod of the united presbyterian church of Edinburgh, complaining of the grievance of which he had spoken. , Heiken, Ii reheemes te lbo report of the finance sem- Miele if lie agawative semen at Coyle*, said that the apse ire of esoddeestde kepeetease, and en deed ante late the details of all the depart ments of the adialaddiaties of the revenue of the eekey. The dammed bed been brought under the maim el Earl (hey, wise bad carefully considered all its stategrede sad reammeadations, but inasmuch as a new genesis" bad been for the colony, who would be estrusted wills the of marrying out such of those re- EarlaNkiiilli OS it be thought advisable to carry win, It bed us ll= s tricat just to him and to the island, shush& and the reasons for them should be reamed* the to consider and report his opinion nil 0111.. Ihr fil if the governor not having been yet reseived, he Mr. Hants ) wee not in a condition at pre rent .. E l.. the mile lewd an answer as to what would be does; bat when Ids Noble friend (Earl Grey) should have resolved and emeddned the governor's reply, no doubt all the papas weshl. as a leaner of course, be laid before par- ADJOURNMENT FOR THE HOLIDAYS.—BUSI NESS OF THE HOUSE. Lord J. RUSSELL, in rising to move the adjournment of the house for the Whitsuntide recess, said it might be convenient to hon. members if he stated the course in which the government proposed to take the public business. (Hear.) On 'f huriday next, when the house again met, it was the intention to take the committee of supply as the ant order of the day, and in committee to consider the remain ing parts of the navy estimates, after which his right hon. friend (Sir F. Baring) would make his statement as to the regulation for the retirement of admirals, and after the naval estimates it was proposed to take a vote for the ex penses of the Kaffir war, and then to go on with the civil contingencies. The miscellaneous estimates it was also pro posed to take on Thursday and the following day, Friday. He had stated the other day that he proposed proceeding with the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill on the Monday after the holidays, but in order to give more time to those hon. gentle men who represented Irish constituencies, he now proposed to take the second reading of the Customs Bill on that day, and the committee on the Window Tax Repeal Bill, an d the remaining miscellaneous estimates after those two bills, and not to resume the consideration of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill till the Friday following—viz., that day fort night. (Hear, hear.) He would now move that the house, at its rising, do adjourn to Thursday next. NATIONAL EDUCATION. Mr. EWART, pursuant to notice, asked the First Lord of the Treasury whether her Majesty's government were willing to cause to be made, through a minister of the crown, on going into the education estimates, a statement of the condition and progress of education, so far as Ammo under the administration of the government and within the supplies voted by parliament; including national institu tions connected with art or science, training schools, schools of design, public libraries, and similar institut i ons, mop formably with the promise made by the late Sir Reheat Peel during his administration ? Lord J. RUSSELL had no knowledge of any reef pre mise having been made by the late Sir R . Peel, and oar taittly no such statement had been made while that r fabf hon. baronet was at the head of the government. He had previously understood that all his boa. friend (Mr. Ewan) wanted was an explanation as to the general disposal mad arrangement of the education vote, and that had been given in each of the last two years by his right hon. friend the Home Secretary, as be ( Lord J. Russell) had thought, in conformity with his hon. friend's wish. He would con sider whether any further statement could be made with regard to the schools of design, or any other matter in re spect to which it was proposed to as k for a distinct vote in the estimates, but he thought it would be inexpedient to make any general statement on education beyond those particular objects for which a vote of public money was asked. With regard, however, to any progress that bad been made in the last year in regard to these school', he would endeavour to meet his hon. friend's wishes as gar as possible. He hoped this answer would be considered oath factory. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME perfectly well remembered the late Sir R. Peel saying that whenever any grant on this subject wa made, it would be the duty of the public department to make a report similar to that which was made annually in regard to the British Museum ; and he (Mr. Hume) knew of nothing more important than that they should have a statement made each year of the progress which had been made by means of the previous year's vote. Mr. CARDWELL had a perfect recollection of the oc currence to which the hon. member alluded, and which took place in a debate on the miscellaneous estimates in the year 1846, and his impression entirely coincided with that of his hon. friend the member for Dumfries. After a few words from Mr. LATloliciLticE, Mr. MOWATT said that what was wanted was, not a mere dry official report, which might escape the at tention of hundreds, but that the minister of the crown should state to the house what had been done and what was contemplated for the future. THE BIRMINGHAM CONVENT. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, in reference to:a statement made some time ago by the hon. member for North Warwickshire (Mr. Spooner) that a convent had been erected in Birming ham, with cells under ground, supposed to be for the con finement of the inmates, observed that such statement had occesioned a great deal of odium as against the ltoman anabolic inhabitants of the borough, to whom the hon. .caber always showed much hostility, who had called apes the mayor in coasequence to inspect the building and r: . result of his inspection to the Home-office. Ile . ileholefield) understood that he had done so, and had his opinion to be that there was no truth in the statestent put forward by the hon. member, nor even the shadow of a foundation for it. Under these circumstances he had given notice of a question to the right hon. the Hoene Secretary, which be now begged to put—Whether the right hon. bart. had reasived arty communication from the mayor of Binniagluma Native te the erection, now in progress, of a hew _esavuet within dot borough ? Sir G. GB= DM seethed no eimesheOlen, either private or Adel, hem the Mayer of Ilbsdesbent or mg other quarter, tive Maw anstlen mil* be are la pee gress of a courvest in tem. . Mir.) Mr. SPOONER tliso sny hostility foes Imes SIP thrills; individually, though he felt the pealed bra* te the Roman catholic lia. It was true what he mid in the house on a former ao might lead to the samlsmion that the cells were being built gar the purpose of ceasing Ma of the inmates as might 61l ender the displease's, of the superior ; but he had the nee emegenve newer to the assertion that then was st, headed= for that statement from Dr. Newman, who stated himself, in a letter addressed to the Morning Chronicle two days after the discussion in which he (Mr. Spooner) had made the statement referred to in the house, that there were underground cells, which had been devised to economise room, and were intended for those offices commonly attached to a large house. Here there was at least some foundation for what he (Mr. Spooner) had said. (" Hear," and laughter.) And he further said that one was to be • coal-hole—(a laugh)—and another a place for beer, sad perhaps for wine—(laughter)—and that a third might be occupied by the inmates. Here, then, according to the Father's own confession, there were to be baking, and brewing, and washing, all underground. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MOORE, amid loud cries of " Oh, oh," begged to be permitted to add one word. The hon. gentleman (Mr. Spooner) ought to be thanked for having on the present occasion exposed his absurdity, for it would be impossible to make that hon. member more ridiculous than he had made himself. (Loud cries of " Oh, oh.") Did he not, in his original statement, mean to insinuate that these under ground cells were constructed for unworthy purposes? And did he not thereby cast an unworthy stigma on the establishment? (Hear, hear.) GOVERNMENT OF VENEZUELA. Mr. DISRAELI gave notice that he would, on that day week, present a petition from Mr. Ward, relative to certain alleged injuries he received from the government if Vene zuela. TRANSATLANTIC PACKET-STATION. Mr. H. HERBERT complained that a year had elapsed since the appointment of a commission to inquire with re spect to the future transatlantic packet-station, and that no report from them had hitherto been received. laud J. RUSSELL said he would take an early oppor tunity of asking his hon. friend, the member for Hertford (Mr. Cowper), the cause of the delay. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. It was then agreed that the house at its rising should ad journ to Thursday next. THE KAFFIR WAR. MrADDERLEY expressed a hope that, as there were many mew of motion on the paper for Thursday next, the noble rote loethronld postpone the for the Keffir war until the fo U Lord J. mil that if the other business should HL extend to a Bowen Thursday he would not propose the vote for the Kaffir war on that night. Mr. HUME said that if no further information from the Cape of Good Hope had been received by the government since the date of the former despatches, he would consent to postpone the following motion of which he had given notice :—" For copies of the lot despatches from the government of the Cape of Good Hope, ia continuation of the papers already before the house, to show the state of the war by the last accounts, and the measures taken to terminate the same, with the view of having these despatches in the hands of members before the vote of 300,0001. is taken on the 13th of June for carrying on the war." And, Copies, or extracts of the correspondence be tween Mr. Fairborn and Sir A. Rockingham, deputies from the inhabitants of the Cape of Good Hope, with Earl Grey, the Secretary for the Colonies, with regard to the respon sible government promised to that colony." Lord J. RUSSELL said he had no objection to furnish the hon. member with extracts from the further infor mation which had been received. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Mr. HUME postponed his motion for parliamentary re form until the Ist or July. RELIEF OF THE POOR. Mr. L. KING moved fora return showing the amount of property assessed to the relief of the poor in each county, and division of a county, and in each of the boroughs and cities, returning members to parliament in England and Wales, for the year ending on the 30th day of March, 1860. Agreed to. In repl y to Mr. Ewer, Ur. WILSON said that the returns respecting India were in a wry advanced state of preparation, and that they' might be expected to be laid on the table in the course of ten days. THE DIAYNOOTH GRANT. In reply to Mr. Brooxu, Lord J. RUSSELL said he would take re that that part et the miseellaseoss estimates which C2 lstelatted the t to Mayan* *Amp iusM ail next INCOME AND nOPERTY TAX COMMITTEE. Mr. HUME said be should have been content with simply moving that the name of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer be added to this committee if it were not that he understood the right hon. gentleman was going to move the adjournment of the debate. It was usual fur those who Roved committees to make the best arrangement they could, and to obtain the fittest men to serve upon them. The ambers, howevcr,who were originally selected to be on the immense and property tax committee had, some of them, Wised to serve. The had led to several changes, so much so that he had been obliged to intimate at the last meeting that the alines of those willing to serve should be put dowa 11l leper. He was convinced that the house must adopt asses new mode of naming committees on public business. Twenty years ago he had proposed that, on the meeting of parliament, the Speaker should take upon himself to name a certain number of committees, to whom the ques tions with which they wore best acquainted should be referred, thereby putting an end to all die pute. This had been • long-established practice in the United States of America, and it had been found to work admirably well. There were, for instance, the mili tary, the legal and the commercial committees, and to these, respectively, military, legal, and commercial matters were referred. In all nine different committees were selected by the Speaker at Washington, and thus the objectionable eye. tem of packing was prevent ed. But, here, one person after another backed out. He had named four on this committee ; the hon. member for Buckinghamshire had named four more, and then it was discovered that none of those belonging to the Peclite division of the house were inclined to serve. (" Hear," and laughter.) He knew not why a member should be compelled to sit on a private committee, and why he should be at liberty to refuse to sit on a_public committee. (Hear, bear.) The Chancellor of the Exche quer had handed in four names—his own, Mr. Labsu chore's, Lord Harry Vane's and Colonel Romilly's ; but now it appeared that the noble lord at the head of the go vernment was very anxious to withdraw the name of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) It was desirable that the public credi tor should receive some protection on the committee from • member of the government, and therefore it was very desirable that the Chancellor of the Exchequer should be elected on it. He had substituted the name of Mr. Vil liers for that of Mr. Labouchere, and he had allowed the name of Col. Homily to stand. Leaving the house to de cide for itself, he had now to propose that the Chancellor of the Exchequer be elected a member of the committee. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the difficulties which had arisen in the nomination of this committee had been very fairly stated by the hon. member for Montrose, but there was no reason to complain of the ordinary mode in which the nomination of committees worked in that house. His hon. friend (Mr. Hume) had only allowed him to nominate three members out of the whole Is. It was perfectly impossible for him (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) to attend the committee very diligently, and, therefore, if he was to be a member of it, he could .not do his duty to the public creditor unless he had on it an adequate number of persons on whose assistance and support he could depend. (Hear, hear.) As the proposition now stood, there was to be only one per son of adequate financial experience, and he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) was to be supported by only two hon. gentlemen on whom he could rely. lie believed it would not be for the benefit of the public to place a Chancellor of the Exchequer in that position. As the committee was now named, there were eight hon. gentlemen upon it who, by their speeches and votes in the house, had declared them selves in favour of modifications which he believed to be unjust and unfair; and he Sound that altogether there was an unfair preponderance of opinion is the committee against the landed interest, which might be said to pay one-half of the Meow) tax. (Hear, hear.) The committee at least ought to be fairly representative of all interests and parties and opinions in the house. (Hear, hear.) The house had already declared its decision by 2 to 1 against suet modifications. The committee, therefore, could not be said to represent tho house. (Hear, hear.) He thought that it was no unreasonable request that he should be permitted to recommend five names for the committee. (Hear, hear.) Under these circum stances, and string that it was impossible to appoint the committee that evening, he would suggest to the hon. gentleman an adjournment of the question. The proposal of the government was a perfectly fair proposal ; and if other parties, and leaders of parties, in the house would Te pid tie matter in the same light, then they might, if not make the committee useful, at least endeavour to make it useful. (Hear, hear.) Mr. DEEDES having moved that the debate be ad journed, Mr. W. WILLIAMS said he should be obliged to any gentleman to point out a single beneficial result front the inquiries of all the committees that the house had of late years appointed. (Laughter.) lie thought :the system should be entirely changed, as the present ono served no good purpose. Mr. W. MILES thought a committee so constituted in capable of producing any report that would be satisfactory, or tend to the correction of the inequality, injustice, and frauds of the income tax. before Fri- The subject was followed up by some remarks from Mr. Roche, Mr. Mowatt, Sir 3. Walsh, Mr. H. Willie, Lord Grosvenor, and Sir H. Willoughby. Mr. HUME, in replying, offered that, four names being reserved for his own nomination, the Chancellor of the Ea chequer should have a carte blanche as to the reit. Lord J. RUSSELL submitted that nothing could be done at the moment, and the best course would be to consent to an adjournment of the debate. After some further discussion this proposition was adopted, and the resumption of the debate fixed for Friday next. BORNEO. Mr. numE asked if the noble lord was prepared to place him in the same position in which he had stood in respect of this motion, so that he might have a fair oppor tunity of stating the case. Lord J. RUSSELL would endeavour to meet the wishes of his hon. friend. He would take this opportunity of saying, that in the earlier port of the evening he had sated that the subject of the Kaffir war would be taken on Thurs day, but he had since found that it could not conveniently I be entertained on that day, and therefore they would not bring it forward until Friday. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL The house resolved itself into committee on this bill. On clause 2 with the amendment being put from the chair, Mr. REYNOLDS rose to move that the words, " Under any designation whatsoever," be omitted from the clause. His object in this was to carry out, as far as he had power, the declaration made by the l'rime Minister, and by the law authorities of the crown, that the intention of this bill was that persons of the catholic religion should be left in the same position as they were left as regarded religious rights by the act of 1829. He could not find the words he proposed to omit in that act, and he asked the noble lord how he could justify the retention of them in this bill con sistently with the declarations he had made over and over again; for it was clear, if those words were retained, that the catholic archbishops and bishops, and the catholic people in Ireland, would not be in the same position as they were at the passing of the act of 1829. The grounds laid down by the government for this violation of the principle of religious liberty were, that the Pope bad—but not by temporal authority—appointed certain vicars apostolic to be bishops in certain districts in England, and it was considered an aggravation of the of fence that a cardinal had been introduced into England. They might depend upon it, that the catholic church was above the power of human legislation. She had existed before the House of Commons had been heard of, and had withstood all the persecutions which had been brought to bear against her. No matter what laws they passed, they might rest assured that they could not detract from its strength. They had persecuted the protestant dissenters as they had persecuted the Roman catholic', and what had been the result? The protestants in communion with the church of England did not exceed ten millions, and the dissenters boasted that they had • majority over that number. What, too, was the state of matters in regard to Ireland ? In the reigns of Queen Elisabeth and James I. the protestants of that country had been declared to be a majority, whilst in the year 1841 the proportion had been seven millions of catholics to seven hundred and fifty thousand Protestants. This diminution had taken place, although they had nurtured the protestants in Ireland, as they did their exotics, in a hotbed. (Laughter.) They had killed them with kindness. Every interest in Ireland had been sacrificed to that of the protestant church, and yet, to use a remarkable phrase, they had " grown smaller by de grees, and beautifully less." (Laughter.) lie saw the hon. and learned member for Abingdon in his place. That hon. and learned gentleman might yet be an official legal dignitary. More unlikely things had come to pass. Well, he would ask that hon. and learned gentleman what he would do with an act of this kind ? Would he put it in force ? Would he be prepared to dignify his official reign (if he might so speak), by sounding the tocsin of religious dismrd in England and Ireland ? Was he prepared to let loose the dogs of war on men who exercised the religion which they conscientiously professed ? The hon. and learned member for Enniskillen might also some day fill an official position. What would he do ? He (Mr. Whiteside) had had some experience in state prosecutions, and the late Daniel O'Connell had declared to him (Mr. Reynolds) that no language was sufficiently strong for him to express his admiration of the advocacy of the learned gentleman. Well would he (Mr. Whiteside) adopt the course of persecuting the Roman esthetics ? Was any one of them prepared to say that, with this act passed, they were prepared to arrest a catholic bishop, dean, or priest ? lie believed that if the question were put to any of them on or behind the Treasury benches, or on either side of the house, they would lay their hands on their breasts, and dec lare solemnly that they would not put a hand on the Lord's anointed chiefs of the people of Ire land. (Hear, hear.) He was not inclined to advise any one to violate the laws of his country, but really he thought that resistance to such a law r this would be • vir tue. It was a law which would net be Nerved by the people of Ireland. (Hear, bear.) estriamg this j us , and supposing that the four at klidiegi and die 34 in Ireland disobeyed it ; then ramessed IS slate Nide; then if they bad not the raw isatedal of discoed and dis union he did not know how it could paddy be fernidted. An aggregate meeting would be held in Dublin, mad ea address would be voted to her Majesty to peeteether Damn catholic subjects from this Algerian statue, (aw, beer.) He (Hr. R ey nolds) wee informed that Hog were to have as interregnum with regard to the Maas Magee of this bill. The noble lord had that night eameaseed that he would not proceed farther with it ha a ketaigitt. During the last recess he (Yr. Reynolds) had gone over to Dublin, where he found catholic arguing with protestant, and public feeling at a high state of excitement upon this subject. And what had caused this? The Durham letter and the papal aggression bill. An aggregate meeting of the catholic.' of d had been held, where they had been unanimous in pawing au unmitigated vote of censure on the government and on this bill. They had also been unanimous in ano ther matter—in calling on all their representatives to vote against the bill and to vote against the government on every occasion on which their existence as a ministry was at stake. He and some other Irish representatives had obeyed these orders, although a few of his countrymen had nut. Now they were to have another recess. And what would be done during it ? lie would tell them. A requisition was in course of signature for another aggregate meeting in Dublin. That requisition would be signed by all the catholic peers, archbishops, bishops, and other influential persons. At that meeting this bill and its authors would be arraigned, and a catholic defence associa tion would be formed, which without encroaching on the religious rights of others would adopt every possible means to defend and enlarge its own. Well, this Catholic Defence Association would not be one of their squeaking penny whistle associations whose voice was not to be respected—it would be the aggregate voice of the Roman catholics of the United H . om. (Hear, hear.) They would form one great combination against the encroachments which were at tempted on their religions freedom—they would not consent to the enslavement of their religion in the land of their birth. (Hear, hear.) A general election, too, was not far distant, and when an appeal was made to the people, there was not a single man in Ireland friendly to religious liberty who would not use his influence in pre venting the return of those members who had deserted the peoples cause. The votes of hon. members would be taken to the hustings, and the people would know how to act. Men would be returned who would not only vote for the repeal of the bill, but vote always against its authors. He had commenced by moving that certain words be omitted from this clause. These words occurred is the thirtieth line, and were—" under any designation or description whatsoever." lie concluded by reputing what he said at the commencement, that these words were not to be found in the 21th section of the Emancipation Act, and that if they passed the clause as it was, they placed the people of Ireland in a worse position than the act of 1829 placed them in. Lord J. RUSSELL said it did not seem to him that ho need follow the hon. gentleman in all his observations. With regard to the question now before the house, and which merely related to a part of the clause under dis cussion, the committee would recollect that this was a clause that was intended to prevent the assumption of the titles of Archbishop of Westminster, Bishop of Birming ham, Bishop of Clifton, and so on, and it did certainly so Ass go beyond the clause in the Relief Act, but they tboaght that although it went beyond it in the letter, it was quite in conformity with the spirit of that act ; and that as a matter of national policy no power ought to be permitted to give a territorial title to • prelate whether it was in accordance with the title of an existing bishopric or nor. That wag the simple question, and the =ntleman, as he had said over and over again, was n in supposing that in endeavouring to defend them selves from this aggression they did anything that would very much tend to change the state of matters in Ireland ; but if it was not lawful to take the title of Archbishop of Armagh, he did not see why another archbishop should take the title of Archbishop of Tuain, and although there was no position hardly so agreeable as that of a modern martyr, he must say that if Dr. M'llale chose to incur the penalty of this bill he must be allowed to do so. Now, with regard to these words the hon. gentleman was quite correct in saying that the words " under any designation or description whatsoever," were not in the Emancipation Act, but then the Emancipation Act pointed to taking a particular title such as that of Archbishop of Dublin or Archbishop of Armagh. What they proposed was to prohibit not merely taking the exact title, but the taking any title which in smrit was the assumption of a territorial title. In so doing it was desirable that there should be no evasion of this clause, and that whatever might be the designation of the title a territorial title should not be taken. That was really the whole meaning and effect of these words, and therefore he should not consent to their being left out. After a few words from Mr. E. Recite, who thought the noble lord should accede to the proposal, Mr. WHITESIDE, having replied to some of tho observations of the honourable member for Dublin, said he should like to hear him prove how it was pos sible to maintain that the Polo could create an arch bishop of Dublin with a right of succession to his successor unless he had the power to create a corporation within this realm. When the bill passed, in the 33rd of George 111., for the establishment of the college of Maynooth, the man agement of it was vested in the Roman catholic bishops as trustees, bat they were not designated bishops, but Doctor so and so; and did they refuse to accept the trust so conferred upon them ? No such thing. The only complaint that was made was in a remarkable petition, presented by Mr. ' Grattan from catholics in Ireland, praying that the pro ' posed colleges might not be for catholics alone, but for pro testants also, as they apprehended ill effects from the sepa rate education of catholic* and protestants. His hon. and learned friend had quoted cases of equity in which the authority of the Roman catholic bishops had been ques tioned. Ile (Mr. Whiteside) would quote a case or two at common law. There were several instances in Ireland of Roman catholic laymen against Roman catholic bishops fur excommunicating them. In one of these, an action brought evilest the Rev. Peter APLoch, the court held that a Roman catholic bishop had not a right to punish any of his parishioners by sentence of excommunication; that that was an assumption of power contrary to the law, and a usurpation of the rights of the bishops of the esta blished church. In another action brought against Dr. M`Mahon (as we understood), the bishop pleaded not that he was bishop of a district but that he was bishop of the Roman catholic church, in which the judges said neither the discipline of the church of Rome nor the canon law were of any value in this country. There were severs! other cases, and in all of them considerable damages were awarded. Ile could not admit with the hon. gentleman for Dublin that he was attacking the liberties of Ireland in supporting this bill. r. MONSELL contended that there was a fallacy in the speech of the hon. and learned gentleman who had just sat down. The catholics did not ask them to recognise their archbishops and bishops ; all they asked them to do was not to prevent them from recognising them themselves. The attempt to show that bulls, relating merely to the spiritualities, had been prohibited in Roman catholic times, had signally failed; but he (Mr. Monsell) was afraid that a large majority of the house were determined to listen neither to reason nor to argument. Deeply did he deplore the consequences that would result. They would alienate the affections of a third of the subjects of the Queen, and in the end they would, after a long and disastrous struggle, be compelled ignominiously to retrace their steps. (Loud cheers.) Mr. J. O'CONNELL repudiated the idea of the Roman catholic members taking counsel of the hon. and learned member (Mr. Whiteside) as to what would be best for them. The Roman catholic of Ireland had certainly not, as they had been charged with doing, broken any of the conditions of the Emancipation Act. There had, at all events, been no cardinal appointed in Ireland, and why, then, should that country be included in the bill? After • careful study of the statutes of prerinunire, he was convinced that they had nothing whatever to do with (the spiritual authority of the Pope. Let them not forget the new Ireland that was rising on the shores of America, and endanger our friendly relations with the vast country across the Atlantic by their oppres sion of the sister isle. Above all, let not England, when she had summoned a world to admire her boundless resources, her almost fabulous magnificence, and the gigantic progress which she had made in the arts, in the science*, and in the attributes of civilised life—let her not, ho said, hold up to its astonished indignation one of the worst precedents of the darkest, most persecuting, and the most barbarous ages. (Cheers.) The committee then divided. For the amendment 3B Against it Mr. S. CRAWFORD rose to move an amendment ex empting Ireland from the operation of the bill. Lord J. RUSSELL suggested that it would be better to move it as a separate clause. Mr. ROEBUCK thought it better to have the amend ment before the house at once. Mr. KEOGH was in favour of the amendment being postponed, and Mr. CRAW FORD acquiesced in this course. Sir IL WILLOUGHBY then moved to insert after the words "united church," the words " or if any person shall hereafter obtain or cause to be procured from the said Bishop or See of Rome, or shall publish or put in use within any part of the United Kingdom, any bull, brief, rescript, letters apostolicsd, or any other instrument or writing for the purpose of constituting an hierarchy of bishops, named front sees, and with titles derived from places belonging to the crown of the United Kingdom." He considered that the real aggression consisted in the introduction of these bulls. His amendment was very much to the effect of that which had been proposed by the hon. and learned member for Midhurst (Mr. Walpole) and after wards withdrawn ; and he now took this method of raising the question. Lord J. RUSSELL said he wished to recall to the recol lection of the committee what had occurred on that subject. The hon. and learned member for Midhurst (Mr. Walpole) had, after much consideration, placed on the notice-book, before the Easter recess, an amendment in words similar to those now proposed. Nobody could doubt either the learn ing or the ability of the hon. and learned gentleman, and that if such clauses were to be proposed, they were fitly placed in his hands, and would come from him with all the advantage that could be desired. But that hon. and learned gentleman, before proposing them to the house, had seen such difficulties in proposing these clauses for Ireland, that he had confined them to this part of the United Kingdom. When he proposed the clause in that shape, it had excited a great deal of opposition from various quarters. In the first place, the Attorney-General had objected to the clause as creating an additional offence end another specific penalty, urging that thereby the measure would be carried beyond its original intention,and beyond the spirit of the act of 10 Geo. IV. (the Ronan Catholic Eman eipation Act),frout which it was proposed to take this clause. The clause had been opposed by Sir It. Inglis, and other bon. members, on the ground that it was not desirable to introduce any distinction between England and Ireland in this respect; and the hon. and learned gentleman (Mr. Walpole) on heaving the various objections that were urged, had consented to give up the clause. After this, it would be better that the committee should not again be 'shed to agree to those words. He (Lord John Russell) felt yorr TRANSPORTATION. Lord MONTEAOLE sSidheiss«; to call attention to a petition of which he had given notice on this subject. On •II emu occasion he had observed that it was utterly im e for the mother country altogether to abolish ortation, tion, but that unless some remedy were applied to the undoubted grievances of the colonists the example set et Ihe Ceps of Good Hope would be followed in other parts of Mr colonial empire. Not only the petition which he held he hand, but papers recently laid before their lordships, *roved that the dangers which he bad apprehen ded cow rapidly coming to a crisis; and he bcheved that Minn user effort were made by this country to alter the mews at employing convicts, there would be a struggle rather of force then of reason with many of the colonies. (Hear, hear.) His fears on the subject were strengthened by the combination of New South Wales with Van Die men's Land, and that combination, coupled with the fact of the withdrawal of troops from New South Wales, now led him to apprehend a conflict between the colonies and the mother country. The petition which he held in his hand emanated from the New South Wales Association for Pre venting the Revival of Transportation in that Colony. It was signed by many persons of considerable importance, including members of the legislative council ; and in it re ference was made to a resolution of the council, declaring that no more convicts ought to be introduced into any part of the colony. The petitioners claimed the fall performance of the promise of the Secretary of State to abide by the expressed opinion of the colonial legislature. But they also claimed a good deal more, and, in fact, that to which he thought they were not entitled. They said it was unjust, and a violation of the promise given to them, to divide a portion of the Aus tralian territory into a new province. Nothing could be clearer than that Australia must be thus divided as the ne cessity for it should arise ; and yet the petitioners held that not only should the government abstain from sending convicts to New South Wales, but also from sending them to any new state, although the inhabitants and the legisla ture of that new state should ask to be assisted with con vict labour. The position assumed by the colonists on that point, he must say, appeared to him utterly inde fensible. (Hear, hear.) But the petitioners further said, and reasonably, that it was impossible that their prosperity could coexist while the present exclusive and excessive transportation to Van Diemen's Land continued. If par liament wished to maintain the system of transportation in any part of the Australian colonies it must put an end to the abuse and excess which now prevailed. However they might differ on other points, no one could doubt that the present amount of transportation to Van Diemen's Land was excessive. (Hear, hear.) He must now call atten tion to the character which the complaints of the colonists had now assumed. Formerly the petitions on this subject were couched in language of respect and moderation ; but he was sorry to say that that was the case no longer. They uniformly attributed to the authorities, and to the legislature of this country, a breach of faith ; and they spoke (Whin noble friend (Earl Grey) in terms which he certainly did not deserve. The breach of faith was traced in his noble friend's despatches and speeches, and in the contrast be tween the principles on which he began to act and those on which ho had acted recently. But the colonists went be yond complaining of a breach of faith. At a public meet ing, including magistrates, sheriffs, and municipal authori ties, it was said that if convict ships had been sent to a particular place transportation would have ceased long ago, for the colonists would not have allowed the convicts to land ; and it was added that, where they were strong enough, they would rely on their strength. Nor was this all. It was further remarked that, after what happened at the Cape of Oood Hope, there could be no doubt as to what was the best way of getting rid of convicts ' - and this ob servation was received with " three cheers and three more." It must be remembered that the public land in Austra lia was the wealth of the colony; and supposing they were able, by means of the labour of convicts, to convert that land from its present insignificant value toe value greater than any whichhad been realised in any part of the Australian ter ritory, there would be employment for the convicts and re muneration for the cost, and the convict problem would be solved. While there were only 49 petitions, signed by 1525 persons, in defence of transportation in a modified shape, the petitions against any transportation whatever bad 16,000 signatures. Hari GREY said his noble friend having been kind enough to send him the petition, and afford him an oppor tunity of reading it, be cathemdt he was not quite prepared for the speech which their Ismiehips had just heard. The petitioners prayed that swine might not be introduced, except under such . 'triaged sad salutary regulations al would preclude their lame into any of the other colonist, within the express esneerrance and sanction of the ode. dal legit nwa Dy ea set passed last year it was pme , sided tbet ea the petition of the inhabitants of the northern cle d tbs seism el New South Wales that part might be IMO a distinct colony. A few days ago a petitiss woe teethed km the governor, signed by nearly all the /Went Indenter& in the district, praying that the crows wadi merein its powers and give the new colony the ei• =sof nada labour • end he found from a dist as of the limeade on which the hessitheir de la wee tint theegh they contributed tithe /MOM the legisistere of Sydney refused= the reseedea Opines sad absolutely did nothing for fink beweet. The red *est of this petition trustiest the= mend b r pediment for the divides dthe wimp setbeemmof endthat if it wentereniedtheolteeparamee Mike* Alan le should not be allowed to avail 611111•1111•01 of movie Meer mess if they found it for their inmost to den. Ea was most happy to find that his noble Mend did act sneer in that. The governor, in sending the petition, ail be had only just received it, and had not time to n lll it with say information. Of course, therefbra, airwerail be taken at present ; but he was prepared to cep List If the etereise of the government powers was vasessery for the relief of the inhabitants in the north, it ti winlinet be withheld on therewith put forward in the peti on. -- liter a few further observations, the subject dropped. SALMON FISHERIES (SCOTLAhD) BILL. In reply to the Duke of RICIIYOND, The Duke of ARGYLL said that it was his intention to take the opinion of the house on the question in the present session. He would not, however, move the committal of the bill on that occasion, but begged to give notice that he would do so on Monday, the 16th of June. INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS. In reply toCordßomnisoLz, The Earl of CARLISLE said that he knew the Board of Health were in communication with the cemetery eom poise with mewl to the terms on which they were to take peesewlea dal= eameerisaThe precise nature of these ne be was not detain a position to state, further then they derasiel operations of considerable was. -- 1 7 1;e1r kullahipa actioursed at a quarter past 7 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FILIDAY, ZUNI 6. The Sew= took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. METROPOLIS WATER BILL. Sir 0. GREY moved that it be an instroction to the committee of selection to appoint a committee for the Metropolis Water Bill, consisting of Ave members, as in the Mut private bills.—Ordered. =PORTS ON ANINDED BILLS CONSIDINSD AND —Cansesea's CoallFooh Steam Coal and Swan- MS MI lisagthor Railway (No. 1) ; iaTt itMiehouse Walsgwodis 11111• Cheat Maims Is Police, Masegmo'dis, Oas, and Markets (R-oommitted) BM; Impmeamemt IM; National Land Com pany to be BlBLWodhrd !ma Bridge Bill (mend meats posprod). 81COND itaaaare.-431 Bartholomew's Hospital Estate Bill. Itz-oonurrrar..--Swanses and Loughor Railway Bill. PRIVATE LUNATIC ASYLUMS. In reply to a question (torn Mr. Lyantuorott, Si, O. GREY said a bill for the better reralation of pri. trate lunatic asylums was ander consideration, but he did not think it potable to bring it forward this anion. COMMON LAW REFORM. Mr. J. EVANS asked when the report of the canna,- elm en the principle and practice of common law would be UEir O. ORZY bad inquired of the earai l ida sers , w h o brped soon to have the report ready. AFFAIRS OF CEYLON. Mr. HAWES , i n reply to a question Eras Led strong' Gown which grst cy csr, that 1 ...e for t 'moan — • s the In for th , for an ing to partial tart tr - - - • 0710 1 Lion of Sir Manta partici applic dom. Li the enamb presse port enabli preain the an s .übs not re groun b on. 1 factor sent was t severe rankle (Hear attain object (Hear net a that o Mr warra rimila hear.) the w lookii his or —tha spool state Ther, ana T 1 ace effvc of 1( plan with tclle 1 , 11;.1 how clew who men that whe witl into Si pass the akin fair OM tIOI Cu' Il&S the hri gel du At