The Express. — London, England, 1848-06-01 00:00:00

IMPERIAL I' A ItLIA NIEN'I. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAT, MAT 31. The BriAais took tho obeli at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE IMBINICOL THIRD ELM t4o.—Whitehaven ionotke Railway Bill. ---..--- _ PUBLIC BUSINESS. PITITIONIL-11r. ISSAGUER, from Waterbed, in favour of the neiezadoi at dessikk births aad marriages—Lord 110 fatim, from t.With Sef Terbium againat the Roman Catholie Relief —Yr. U, Ise the limn* Lay Amosiatiou of Binning mime system of education-- Mr. E. CRAW - Teithwthis. ix favour of a general system of secular tbssegbest the county of LAIIONSLIN, to be supported by local Mot sag arassed by local authorities elected by the rate ✓s/yr& wrung cososiso.—On the motion of sir P. NUGENT, return der W raraspareare which pawed betw.en Capt. Telford. Pi ddle Mutineer Union, and the poor-law commis- M s ice duo of his appointment to the dam of the diemissel cello armor bawd of stannous, inclusive ; at any other oar. cello abash my bra, to th at dumbest. RONAN CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. _On the order of the d.,y fur going into committee on this bill, _ Mr. LAW moved that it be an initrultion to tie c immit tee to divide the hill into two hills, omitting so much in the first as relate. to the 10th tyro. I V.. chap. 7, and the provisions thereof. Ills object in making this motion (and in which he said, in reply to Mr. Anstey, he wa s determined to persist) was not to .how any favour to the first part of the bill, but to rescue the 10th Geo. IV. from its operation. Mr. ANSTEY regretted that the hon. and learned gen tleman felt it necemary to anticipate by his motion a discus aion which would have necessarily arisen in committee. That moth's' was directed against the most important part of the bill—nom.ly, the penal ensttme .ts of the measure of 1829. Until those enactne nts were repealed complete Satin faclon would not he render, d to tete feelings or consciences of the Roman catholics; and if that house wished to pre serve their loyalty they would not consent to the hostile amendment of the hon. and learned geutlenssn, which would plec- the clergy men of that religion from which the esta blished church Weskit of deriving its apostolic succession in a worse position than the rabbi of the Jews, who believed our Saviour to he an imioloor. If that honer legislated for the Roman catholic, of lieland, forming as they did the great majority of the pep lotion, in such a spirit as that, they could not expect them to have confidence in a British parliament, or to remain unshaken in that loyalty for which they had hitherto been distinguished. The km. and learned gentleman then proceeded is explain some alterations which he proposed in the bill, by the introduction of clause., (of which be had given notice! requiring certain state in nts to be made by members of religious orders to the clerks of the peace. The hon. and learned gentleman was proceeding to urge the adoption of the clauses of which he had given notice. when Sir t 3 GREY ouggested that as the question now before the house was, whether or not the bill should be divided into two parts. it would he better to decide that question first, and then to discuss the claims proposed by the hon. and learned member when the house got into committee on the bill. Mr. LAW hoped the hon. and learned member for youghal would not give way to the suggestion under the impression that the measure generally would not be fully debated. Mr. ANSTEY a,id that, though obliged to the right bon. baronet the Hume Secretary for his suggestion, he felt it necessary to proceed. It would not be necessary for him to repeat his arguments when the clauses came on fur discussion In their result: order. He called upon the house, by their Adoption of those clauses, to remove from the statute-book the Penalties to which, though not rnforeed, the members of monastic and other orders bound by vows to the church of Borne were liable. The services which these religious orders had rendered to the country merited this coacession. Be would mention that the society known as the Christian Brothers had en Ireland established 59 schools, in which 7,760 children were taught ; and in England they had established 34 schools, into which 4.400 children were re ceived, In addition to this, which was exclusive of Birming ham, from whence he had no return, there were schools established by the Christian Brothers in which no less than 1,600 .dulls wars receiving instruction. Was it for such That deeds as these that these men merited transportation ? That was the question to be decided ; and with confidence he (Mr Mutes) should leave it in the hands of the hou-e, relying upon that sense of justbv, mercy, and fair dealiog which was implanted in the bosom of every Englishman, and to which no appeal was ever made in vain. Mr. N EWDEGATE thought it was right the house should be informed at whose instance and upon whose authority this measure was now being , pressed forward. It happened that, in turning over the ' Roman Catholic 'Directory" for the year 1848, he found the f.l owing announcement:—" Feb. 19, 1847. Thomas Chisholm Anstey, Esq., M.P., barrister. at-law, made a Knight of the order of St. Gregory by his 110h11 , 111 the Pope, to consideration of his great exertions in favour of Roman catho.ics, and ia respect of the repeal of those laws which in Great Britain imposed penalties upon Roman Catholic fraternities for the exercise of their rights." (Hear, hear.) Such was the valise which the Pope set upon the exer ions of the hon. aed learned member, and from this circumstance it was euy to guess at whose instance this movement was made. The object of the bill was, in fact, to legalise Jesuit and other Roman catholic monateie est thlishments in this country. The different order it was difficult to describe by name, but of this the house might be certain, that whweeer name they held they were all under the cognisance of the Jesuits, a body which had not only been expelled from Rome itself, but from every Boman catholic country in Europe which stood forth in the eau," of treedom. History showed that the Jesuits ever cams into power like lambs, but that they ruled like wolves; and yet it was proposed now not merely that this body "hould be allowed to exist in this country, but that their existence should he legalised by statute. And what was the diameter of this order with which the hon. and learned member had been honoured ? St. Gregory the 7th, the patron of that order, was the Pope who had deposed the Emperor Henry the 4:h. The hoc. and learned member said it WWI not Gregory the 7.h, but Gregory the 9th, who bad deposed the Emperor Haney the 4th. Be that as it might, the decrees of both those piped sovereigns were of the same character and spirit, de claring the oath of allegiance to an excommunicated person (such as was the Queen of these realms by the Church of Home) was not valid, and that such oaths ought to be called perjuries 111 against the Church of Rome. Nay, it had been admitted that if a statute of this realm came into collision with the laws of conseenms, the latter ought to prevail. These decretal orders of both the Oregories maintain that faith was not to be kept with heretics against the interests of the Romith church, and he (Mr. Newdegate) must say that if the principle, of thew decrees were to prevail among the Boman catholic' of this country he trembled for their alle giance to the sovereign. He trusted, therefore, the house would view with the deepest caution the proposal now made to deer those protections which by the Emancipation Act were secured to the established church. The removal of these protections had been demanded in a manner that was almost insulting to the protestant members of the house, but the protestant people of this country were not to be deterred by that manner. They had no desire to persecute any class of their fellow subjects, but they would not submit to be dictated to by any clan. The words of the noble lord at the head of the foreign de partment in reference to the Jesuits of Switzerland were per fectly applicable to the ease of Ireland. The noble lord recom mended the expulsion of the Jesuits from Switzerland. He (Mr. Newdegate) would not rte that; but he would appeal to her Maj. cy'a government not to legalise their existence in this country if they did not wish to see the institutions of tee country overthrown. Tbere was a paper in this country which was uoderotood to represent the policy of the Jesuits at Stonyhurst. It was so stated in a letter in the papers-- anonymous, no doubt—but he believed the writer was will i,ty to the hon. memeer for Youghal! i qo u to l d g t i th,lis authority Tho Earl of ARUNDEL.—I am quite ready to do so. Mr. NEWDEGATE knew that neither the noble lord nor the Earl of Shrewsbury was treated with favour by that paper ; but would the noble lord state distinctly that that paper did not represent the opinions of the Jesuits ? Tho Earl of ARUNDEL would state presently. Mr NEWDEGATF. then quoted an article from the Tabift, in which democracy was recommended as the true policy of he Roman catholic eolith at tho prent. Ile mu anxious t .' show the house s that the principl. es of democracy was now a weapon in the hands of the pops! power. He would use no threats, would but he was ern sure the peopleas of this cou ntry overturn any government which w so un- mindful of the principles of protextantism as to expose tne country to the dangers to be apprehended from the unlimited admission of Jesuits into it. (Hear, hear.) The hon. and learned member for Youghal had threatened them with agitation if the measure was thrown out. He would tell the hon. gentleman to beware how he roused the religious feelings of the people of England. It woe well known that there was no point on wteich they . were so sensitive. •No revolutions bad ever been effected in this country except on I wabjects connected with religion. Protestantism was dear to them, sad he felt assured that they would not suffer any. thing that tended to weaken it. (Cheers.) Mr. ANSTEY, in explanation, said that the hon. member was wrong in stating that he (Mr. Anstey) had made any threat in case the bill was thrown out. The Earl of ARUNDEL said he complained of the pre sent motion as an unfair one, the object being to delay the bill. With regard to the Tabl, t, he believed that paper had a large circulation in Ireland. The hon. member said that if Tablet was the organ of the Pope and the Jesuit's. But, ha looked to the Gazetta di ltonta, he would find that paper spoken of In not very favourable terms. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the letter which appeared in the TOMS, he was aware that a letter had been sent to the Times in reply to it, which, however, had not been published, for what reason he did not know. (Hear, hear.) It afterwards ap peered in the Tabkt, he believed. It was a singular charge to attribute the revolutions which had taken place in Europe to the Jesuits, seeing that they were the very first to suffer from them. (Hear.) No; the fact was that the Jesuits Were the most loyal of all people, for they always supported the governments under which they lived, no matter what their form was. As te believed the object of the motion was to delay the bill, would not trespass on the house farther. Mr. NAPIER said that he was willing to agree to the removal of say civil di-abilities which affected his Roman catholic fellow-subjects, but he would arenuosoly oppose that part. of the measure which interfered with the Emancipation Act. (Hear, hear.) Prot , etantism was dear to the people of this coo itry, it was vital to the conotitution, and they could not do an injury to the one without at the game time injuring the other. (Hear, hear.) Under the law as it stood the loyal Roman catholic enjoyed perfect and ...oral Jett toleration ; and if he did not, he was ready C, stand by him titre or elsewhere to resist in his obtaining it. But then slay should not endeavour to destroy the securities for pro- teetentissa which etisompealed the Roman It was odd that the law was violated tit they were asked to frame a mowers which law into harmony with those who violated 1' If the consciences of thou persons were ut Isw, lie should have thought that was entitling them to th e benefits now asked r hear.) They were subject to • constitut in harmony with that of England, and which was to give way, theirs or ours. (Hear, beer.) They would give toleration is far as It was possible, but if • con flict should arise between Individuals on a vital principle, they could not sacrifice the principle of the constitution to the orders of others. (Hear, hear.) At the time of the Emanci pation Act there were no securities as to the regular clergy, because none could be given. But it was said that a great chugs had Wren place sineetheEmanelpation Act, and that these men were now so innocent that It was perfectly safe to admit them into the bosom of the country. The obvious mode of showing that would be to move for a committee of inquiry. (hear.) But the noble lord at the head of the Foreign-office was not of that opinicei, as appeared from the correspondence relative to the affairs of Switzerland. The Jesuits had been expelled thirty•senin times from vari. ous countries. Were we to give them, under the sanction of law, perfect freedom from all control in every part of our own country ? That was in reality the question—the vital question—on which they were to decide. The bill, indeed, did not profs-e to do that; but it would do it. Let them not then do one thing under pretence of doing another. (Cheers ) Let them not admit the Jesuits until it was proved to be de sirable that they should be admitted. Their greatest safe guard at the present time was the protestant sentiment in Ireland, and that they must support and maintain. Mr. FAOAN should have said little or nothing about this bill had the diseuseion been limited to the subject mat ter of clauses in obsolete acts of parliament. Roman catho lics had too many practical grievances to complain of to trou ble themselves about such mere by. gones. But it appeared to be the policy of hun. gentlemen opposite to take up ibis question upon other grouado, and to perpetuate a system which premed with the greatest hardship upon the Roman catholic clergy. It was well know, that ender the Charitable Bequests Act the Roman catholic clergy were unable to hold property. The consequence was, that their moperty was obliged to be placed in the hands of trustees, and instances had been known in which, in consequence of these limitations, the property had been grossly misappro priated. He called that a practisd grievance, and lie would struggle to the last fur its removal. On occasions such as these they were accuntomed to bear the outpourings of all the bigoted spirits of that house, and especially to hear the Jesuits abused and vilified. But it they would read " Reinke's History of the Popes," written by a protestant, they would fled thou pious retiring men properly repri stinted. It was said they bad been driven from the con. tinent. They had; but why ? Because they were the ens mire of anarchy and confusion. lie objected to the amend merit, because he considered it intuiting to his priesthood. Sir R. H. INGLIS said that in voting for Mr. Law's amendment he should not feel hint-elf bound to give his assent to tiller one division of the bill or the other. He had no prat renee for either, he objected to both. But knowing that they had the tieing of the house with them as to at least one part of the bill, he thought it would he rertectly fair anti right to divide the measure, and thereby secure at least the rejection of the wont half of it. It was said that the number ofJesuits in Ireland was small. On s former occasion, however, they had been estimated at half the total number of the priesthood, and on another occasion at one third. But the danger was not, perhaps, so much from those now there as from those who might be admitted under the influence of such a measure as that now proposed. Be. Having that great practical evils would fellow the settlers, nt of Jesuits in this country. he should certainly strive to avoid either admitting them or supporting the church of which they were the body-guard. Mr. SHELL said ho would not detain the house one minute. He merely wished to cite the opinion of Lord Stanley—a great prop and stay of the established church — who in 1829 expressed • very favourable opinion of the Jesuits founded upon his own knowledge of those who were settled at Stonyhunt. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord's opinion tarried with it gnat +tight. lie (Mr. Shell) felt most strongly respecting this bill, and especially as regarded the right of Roman ca•holics to be elevated to the pest of Lord Chancellor in Ireland. That privilege had been originally refused them under the Roman Catholic Eman cipation Act, in consequeuee of an impression that the Lord Chancellor of Ireland had at his disposal a great amount of ecclesiastical patronage. Now, he had taken the trouble to inquire into that matter, and he found that with the excep tion 01 being jointly with other judges (one of whom, by the way, was a Boman catholic) patron of the livings of St. Andrew and St. Mark, in the city of Dublin, the Lord Chancellor of Ireland had no duty whatu ver, in cones akin with the established church. (Hear, hear.) Tito Lord Chancellor wrote to him, " I know of nothing connected with the office which ought to disqualify a member of the Roman catholic church from holding it,and l least sincerely add that the Roman casholie her of I telend has produced many men of sufficiently distingaioln d merit to be fully qualified for the office." (Cheers.) lie (Mr.Sheil) felt that it would be impossible to express a stronger opinion than that— (hear)— and there could be no doubt that the hon. member for Tamworth, in the original discusaions on this subject in 1829, had been induce .cesi by the impression that eccle siastical patronage was attached, to the office. (Hear.) 'this, therefore, was a practical grievance, and one of such a na ture as to entitle him to cal upon the house to go into com mittee on the bill. With reeled to the amendment, it was carrion, that it was nothing but a party expedient to delay the measure—and delay in this case was a procrastination or right. (C heering. ) Mr. H. DRUMMOND could not have allowed so many summers topes* over his head—he could not have lived in so many foreign countries, or associated with so many Romeo catholic families, without discovering that the p puts of books and the real live members of the Roman esthetic church were two very different things. (Laughter.) He was ready to credit what history said about all the evil done by papist+ in past times ; but really he never met with • more harm less, inoffensive sort of people than the esthetics of the present day. Ile wished, however, merely to take this opportunity of adverting to what had been said by the right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Shell) on a former occasion respecting some observations of his on the Roman catholic oath. The right hon. member had Bind he was wrong, and he wanted to ask the right hon. member how lie proved it Luckily fur him, his (Mr. Drunsmond'e) observatiens on the occasion referred to were, every °ilea them, completely mis represented in the public prints of the next morning ; to that of course nobody out of doors had ever yet got at the merits, though all the world said Dear me, what a fool that Mr. Drummond must be." He was willing to amide to the practical thing urged op the right hon. and learned gentle• man opposite, hut he objected to the iutroduction of any special concessions for the Jesuits in particular. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY supported the proposition of the right hon. and learned member for Cambridge University. The house divided.—For the motion For the amendment The amendment for dividing the hill into two parts was accordingly carried. The house then went into committee upon the bill. The CHAIRMAN having read the portion of the clause which was left undecided oo the last discussion of the measure, Mr. GORING moved that the chairman do leave the chair. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL protested against this most un fair attempt to get rid of the bill by a 'id, wind. Mr. GOULBURN expressed a hope that his hon. friend would allow the committee to proceed. Sir R. H. INOLIS had concluded that, as a matter of cosine, won the decision of the house being known, the hon. member for Yu ighal would at once have withdrawn the bill, for the purpose of dividing it into two pens, accord ing to that decision. He appealed to the chair whether such a curse would not be more consistent with precedent, as well as with the common reason of the thing, than the course adopted by the how member for Toughs! ? The CHAIRMAN sail that instances of the division of bills were very rare indeed. lie remembered but one such occurrence during the whole time he bad filled the office he now occupied. Ile considered that the ordinary course in such cases as this had been fur the member who had oh. tainsd the severaneo of a bill into two parts to point out, in the course of its Furth( r discussion, the point at which he proposed to divide it into two parts . Mr. LAW differed from this view of the matter, thinking that a member who had charge of a bill upon which such a decision had been passed should obey that &notion at mice. I The ATTORNEY.GENERAL supported the opinion of the chairman. Mr. W ALPOLE cited the precedent of the bill introduced in 1846 hl Mr. Watson, to a similar purport with the present bill, and which, on the motion of the government, was or dered by the house to be divided into two parts, in the same manner as was now ordered. When the house weld into committee upon the bill, it was moved that the chairman leave the chair. in ord. r to give the hon. twmher the tower tunity of dividing his bill into two pate, as directed by the house. Mr. ANSTEY said he should propose to tro on with the committee, striking out as they occurred the clauses to which the amendment applied. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL supported this view of proceed ing. When the committ. e come to the clauses relating to the act of George IV. these could then be formed into a separate bill, as the house had directed, which weld be pro , needed with in committee, the second reading of the mea sure es it stood, embra&ng these clauses, having already been sanctioned by the house, and needing no second dis suasion. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL also contended that the bill, up to a second point, we. already disposed of, awl neid I not, when serarated, be proceeded with de novo. I Mr. GORING said he would withdraw his amendment if the hon. and learned member for Youghal would move that the chairman report progress, with the purpose of dividing the bill into two parts. Mr. ANSTEY would be no party to any proposition that Weald lave the effect of unduly procrastinating the bill. XL MILES urged the hon. member for Shoreham to withdraw his amendment, in the hope that the hon. member far Toughs' would then see the advisability of moving that the chairman report progress,—a course at once consistent with precedent and calculated to facilitate the progress of that portion of the measure to which toe body of the house might be dispersed to assent, when it war relieved from that potion to which the majority of the house were opposed. Mr. °OILING withdrsw his amendment. Mr. STAFFORD moved that the chairman report pro grew, a n d ask leave to sit again. Sir J. GRAHAM pointed out that the precedent of Mr. Watson's bill did not apply to the present case, for there no progress had been made with the measure, which it was then decid dby the house should be :do two part., whioo es lien r.onsiat ruble progn es had been made with the bill under consideration. He thought that it would be very unfair to require that the separated bills should be (Us- conilderatiOn at which the ecWwtitiee had determined the bill should be divided into two, sad aft* the hill had gone through the committee, it would be his duty to report to the house the instruction of the committee to divide the bill into two. The clause was then proceeded with. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY moved as an amendment the in. section of the fu:lowiiig words : - - Troy/Wed always, and be it declared, that nothing in thie enact. ment relating to an act passed in the first year of Queen Klatt,. tb, chapter one, shall suthorine or rendrr it lawful fur any person or per sons to alekun, hold, stand with, set forth, maintain, or defend the authority, pre-eminence, power, or jurialletion, spiritual or embalm doe!, ur auy foreign prbice, prelate, person, state, or potentate, within the United Kingdom of ()real ltiiWn and Irelmid, nor shell the same extend further than to the repeal of the part kulgr p. aslant and punbibments tlwrein referred to, but in all tither respeetw the law shall continue the same m if this enactment had net been made. . . Sir It. li. INGLIS begged to ask the Chairmen whether the amendment of the hon. baronet which he had just read was the question Wore the house ? Mr. BERNAL said that there was a previous amendment to be taken into cinsideraion, which had been already printed in the votes. Mr. LAW complained of the course which was followed of proposing long verbal amendments in committee without plicing these amendments distinctly before members by printing them in the votes of the day. The hon. and learned member having referred to the votes, proceeded to express, his objection to the amendment; and whilst the Attorney- General, Mr. Walpob, and other hon. members, were dis cussing the subject, the hour of sis arrived, at which the house stood adjourned. ELECTION COMMITTEES.—Ye , ThunsY. Dunims.—The discussion on the genuineness of tho poll books wu terminated yisterday, by a d‘ cision of the committee affirmative of their validity. An imilication was then m de on the part of the sitting member for p. r.oksion to revise them. This RAI refused, after which the committee adjourned to this day. LElCeterEst.—This committee terminated its labours yesterday, by resolving that Sir Joshua WalaWey and Richard Gardner, Es.' , had not been duly elected. P.IRLLI IENTAftYDIVISIONS. HOUSE OF LORDS.-IRISH POOR LAW. lifisoarry of 27 to 23 who voted against the Earl of Luean'e motion for a e immittes to inquire into the oornitian of the Irish Poor Lan Ads, relative to the ratiugol immediate lessors : utus linvon Stafford Campbell Leninist Fabian utatora Cotu•nlam 111.4111411.3 Fortmitue Ilereford 'Wimp Clanricarite limy Illartchotter Saye mat nk• Lan.doa se Granville retertionstah Stutri du De- Northampton Huntingdon iOlitill 114, I.IILA Blotto Arundel Sudeley Auckland Scarborough (Saw). netsnut (nigh Natant Zit, Oppretifi. MAILS. me mails for British North Ainerica, and like Vnited States, will be made up an the evening of the 2nil June. The West India Mails, including lernskl.la, Natant, Havanna, llonillost, New laical., Vera rrtte, Turnincet, end Porto lam, and ruining' Chum fur Madelra, Jecinel, Carthagen i, edits Martha, Charm, Panama, West Coast of south America, and St. Jeamile. N lea:ague, will be male up on the mei ning al tar 2nd June. The mails Mr the Uremia, tie lever Plate, Monk Veko, Pleven. bum, liable, Madeira, and Buenas Ayres, will te made up an the evening ul the 3rd JUR°. The mull• for Vlgo, upset., Lisbon. Modena. CAM, and Gibeallite will be made up .in the morning of the 7th June. The orerhind clo•t,' mails, es. Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Kgypt. Aden, Veylise, India, Ilueg.lining, he., will be made up on the evening of the 7th June. !Ike overland mans lug Gibraltar, Malta, °ream, the leedan islands, V.gypt, Aden, Ce)lon, laha, flompliong, and China, rag *MUM:Up ton, will be made upon the morning of the 20th June The maths fur New south Waits, Van iiieniarea Land, and New Zealand will be made up on the evening of the .10th June. The nema foe the Mire Gest of Africa and Martin: will be mule lip on the evening ol the jeth June. , JUNE 1, 1818. A pills' s/ wags Iziahnienwhish an tog ought, to,diadsin to handle. The Shaun never the snepen of the bandit it the cut- Alen the solos said the arm an powerful, no daggers in I foe and a ti.inking country. voice of the intelligent, and the arm of the ; cannot command a hearing for grievances, assassination wholesale, or menaced, that will command or entorce attention. The peaceable, the industrious, tho moral and religious, form the im• memo majority of the country t and that majority will sot be put down by any band or legion of reales§ criminals, whether inoculated by Irish ruffianism, or continental madness. Tim Lords have proved themselves to be for once wiser than their brethren ef the Commons. A motion for a committee of inquiry into the working of the Irish poor law, similar to that which not long ago was re fused in the lower house, was carried by a majority of six in the upper house on Tuesday last. Ministers vainly attempted to thwart the purpose of those by whom, of all parties and opinions, it was supported; and fortunately for the interests of country, though unfortunately fur their own reputations, they were outvoted on a division. The specific terms of the resolution thus adopted are of comparatively little consequence. It virtually opens up the entire question of the maladministra tion of that excellently well-intended and essentially necessary law. Far from tending to defeat or weaken the sound principle it contains, we are persuaded that nothing will contribute so potently to render its true benefits thoroughly appreciated by those who have nut had personal opportunities of observing its operation ; while, on the other hand, by exposing the perversity and priggery by which it has hitherto been deprived of its due share of general confidence and popularity, some chance will be afforded of a gradual if not immediate change of eande in its administration. In truth, it is high time that nettle steps of this kind should be taken. As was justly said by Lord STUART Lilt Deeirei, in the debate of 'I ut aday evening, nothing for many years had occurred to give so strong an impetus to repeal among the wealthier and better educated classes of the community in lie land as the rash and overbearing vote of the House of Commons refusing all inquiry. The law has been rendered odious and hateful by the insolence and ig norance with which it has been administered. Huard after board of guardians have vainly striven to have their most reasonable and rightful requests attended to; but they have been met almost invariably with neglect, or a reprimand from official cuxcombry, until, worn out with fruitless con troversy, the best and worthiest men in the country have been inducA to withdraw them 'elver from all participation in the working of the law, and the rest have been drummed out by the com mand of the generalissimo of the grand army of com missioners. The lust and most notable proof of this is the rumoured, if not formally published, withdrawal of the Duke of LEINSTER from the chairmanship of the board of guardians in the union where he resides. The-re c .nnot be a more amiable man or a better resident landlord ; and it must be of the very first importance to enlist such men in Ireland in the local ad ministration of the law. Yet here is a man of large pro perty abject t *the rates imposed, and ha , ing, therefore, the strrmgest motive in seeing that they are justly expended,—a man of great experience of the wants and feelings eef hie fellow-canto men, and therefore peculiarly qualified to deal with their require ments,—a man of high personal worth and honour, aed therefore wholly above any mise rable suspicions in the discherge of such duties ; and yet tuch a man is to be twitted and snubbed, and made to feel 'tie position as the chairman of his own union board intolerable because, forsooth, Mr. Twlst.terote has been seat to Ireland, and is sus tained in deputy absolutism there, not for his accept ability to the Irish people, but because he happens to be a pet of a certain section of the English cabinet We must, however, do the pews connected with Ire land the justice of saying, that few if any allusions were made in the recent discussion to any personal topic*. Better and manlier statements than those of Lords FITZWILLIAM and MoNTEAGLE we have seldom read. You have waste lauds " said the former, "at one end of your empire, and waste hands at the other; why will you not even try to make the one useful by means of the other P There was no answer to give, and so ministers went through the same economical econmunplaces about melt-reliance tied gradual progress towards eventual improvement, anti letting things alone—which, in reality, simply signifies letting ifcivernment alone. Lord GREY moreover in dulged in a short homily on the great advantages likely to be derived from tranquillity, order, end the security of property, which, with a bold stretch of prophetic imagination, he declared was now at length achieved. We would it were, or that we could cherish a faint hope that even now any one of the inveterate causes of social discontent and disorganisation were in progress of removal. But it is not so. Absenteeism, in security of tenure, eceleeiastieal monopoly, perver- siou of justice in the jury -box, and though last not least, the despotic and most mischievous abuse of the poor law, are all likely to remain unchecked and un mitigated for anything that parliament is likely to do to the contrary. We are as staunch believers in the wisdom at d duty of self-reliance as any one, but we know that there are hundreds of thousands of willing hands in Ireland that are unable to find work to do ; and to these we shudder at the mockery of preaching self-reliance, when toot a chance is likely to be therewith afforded them of benefizial employment. We are as fast friends to peace and order as need be ; but we cannot cry peace, peace, where there is no peace; and where, so long as the legislature insists upon keeping things as they now are it is wholly impossible that there ever can be. ALL men are prone to speculation, which, when directed by knowledge and controlled by judgment, becomes in the forms of industrial enterprises the origin of individual and national wealth. And such speculation is in the main the result of calculation. But the spirit of speculation wrongly directed is a fertile source of private and public evil. It is simply gambling. For the sake of great prospective advan tages, real or imaginary, men will make present sacrifices, and in so doing they will overlook any con ceivable amount of coatingenews which may interpose to prevent the realisation of their hopes. Each has so much confidence in his own good fortune, that if his chance be but as one to hundreds or thousands, he will mill indulge in sanguine expectations of suc cess. This feeling has led to the establishment of lettcvies, which have afforded governments a certasn but noxious engine of taxation, and have produced deplorable moral results. In this country we have got rid of government lotteries, but little-goes in the form of " Derby sweeps," and land lotteries, are I still prevalent. In the laud lottery department Mr. Fesitoes O'CoNeoe is the presiding genius. He preaches chartism to create subscribers to his land scheme, which he affects to believe will improve the condition of the working classes. A more fella- Mous scheme was never offered to the acceptance of the working classes. There arc persons, professing to understand Mr. O'CONNOR'S land scheme, who eharga Lim with something worse than being the per severing advocate of an empiricalsocial remedy. But into each charges we have not the means or the inclination to enter. We have, however, from time to time looked at the Northern Star to see if we could obtain any information as to the working of the plan, and we confess all reference to it there seems to be of the most vague and dreamy character. All seems to de pend upon an ignorant personal reliance on Mr. O'Cosswit. The scheme, ea our readers know, consists of an alleged company--which, however, has and as the law stands can have, no legal existence—with a capital of 100,000 shares of 11. 6s. tech ; and every subscriber must have two, and not more than four, shares, consequently the highest contribution any indi vidual can makeis 31. 45., for which he has the chance of obtaining by ballot four acres of land, with a cottage, and buildings thereon, and 301. in money, at a rent equivalent to five per cent. per annum " upon all the capital expended in completing the allotment." This amounts to from 3501. to 4001., and the rent is there fore nearly or quite 'a. per acre. Now, passing the lottery part of the scheme, and not pausing to inoire for how ninny years each subscriber has a chance of waiting for his land prize, let us see what are the pro mises held out, and what are the prospects of per formance. In the Northern Star of the 20th of May we find the following notice to correspondents, signed by FUNGUS CYCONNOR • . THE E'' PRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, ur 1e.:...1., iCatholioßaliefß . • IS e lkel Iffillospfj„ .. tket -7- c 44 . "-- nlii w w 4Ohnll p now, and thisefor• WSW ass , 'NUB • 'EMMA lt ilia be. " i o* licb would bring ' .10 Mtn ilrY illsthen mnO •40r maned read,og. • ed t pd it. (Hear, hear.) mdm paMt whiAt . nta lAsSedyibeisaltiained. ' , ih r o m , w h o not subject to l Th s scossitkist 401 11 4 14 — Pee' ee lP e eilarSPWeelk• l i t f, e d Bu l-. a nua , for dia. , ;., .. , - •Agairlet 41 ..6.e ...... 1,0 -40 7 need n 0 d for them. ( Re ar, The chairman, on our return to the gallery, stated the And if the v, Mon which was not course which he had to takt in respect to the prom's of the industrious c I the question wka bill, namely, to pruceed to that point to the clause tinder it is not aasa NOTICE TO ADVE aTLSERS. The number of STAMPS issued by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during 1847, to the DAILY N EWS was 3.447.009 This, we believe, is within eipott per tear o: the number usued to the dornirso Berates, Morning C4ronirk, and Mornsno Poet, ALL PUT TOOPTIIIK. In addition to to,, above, issue.( to the DAILY NKWS, i/orrimo Paper, there were issued for the teens; Edshots, TIIK EXPRESS 778.714 Which was more, we believe, :than were issued either to be Globs or Standard, Braising Papers. 111011 WATS" AT LUX DOM 'MIDDX. Tele U..-144.Y.4. 14 gam pen I. Afternosa. 3; WI I T. lleratem 4 ma. p 444 1 I 1111.44., 111.. pa" I. LONDON. THURSDAY. JUNE 1. IT is certainly fortunate for the governing powers of England and Ireland that, a• a moment like the press nt, with • conflagration burning on the con tinent and inevitably flinging not • few sparks over the channel, those parties avowedly based on the sympathies and discontent of the lower classes should have been so managed by their leaders as to have fallen to the uttermost degree of in significant* and contempt.. As a rational movement, as a self-controlled and temperate body, chartism might, in the present state of England and of Europe, have held its head high, and maintained an influence impossible to either crush or to deride. The imbe cility, the bragged mio, the transparent seitiahnosa, cowardice, and treachery of those allowed to represent the nitre-popular party, have made it the laughing stock of England and of Europe. It is now brought so low, that its utmost effort is to rival the swell mob in a street row, which dire not even face the daylight.. As to the orators or chiefs, they are merely good for taking tory pay and doing work, by going about to interrupt, discredit, and destroy, every rational effort at liberal movement. The last degradation of this ill-conditioned English rabble is their fraternisation with the worse-conditioned Irish rabble, who are inclined to make use of their numbers to disturb the peace of the English cities and of that industrious population, which employs and feeds them. Whatever excuser the Irish peasant may have for entertaining discontent,and showing it in the sister island against the Saxons, whom he deems to oppress him, decidedly he can have no such excuse here. There is no difference, political or social, between him and the native of England here. An industrious Irishman, who succeeds in gaining employ in this country, has the fullest chance of fortune, comfort, and independence that can be offered to a working man—a chance, too, that the Irishman is more able to grasp, from the privations and the frugality to which he has been accustomed. It is a chance which the union expressly offers to shmen, and of which the Irish profit largely and successfully. The Irish labourer or operative,therefore,who in Eng land gets up a riot for the repeal of the union, is an un grateful and criminal fool, fur whom the best punish ment would be to take him at his wore, and seed hits home to misery and starvation. And as to the Eng lish chartist, who condescends to play second fiddle to the Irish madman, he is even a guiltier fool; for he shows that it is not redress of political grievances Of social wrong that he aims at, bat merely mischief for mischief sake. Wu wish that any of the discontented English operatives, or their 'coders, who are for betaking themselves to physical force, and who are buy ing pikes and drilling, in order to better their condition, according to Irish ideas of improve , ment —we wish they could behold the state of things produced by physical revolution in so many countries of Europe. There the noble has lost his position, the manufacturer and tradesman his profits and his hopes, but it is the working class that has de cidedly suffered most. They have destroyed the spruces of labour. And after overthrowing the go vernment, they are obliged to have recourse to weekly and daily insurrections to get bread. The middle' classes, overpowered and surprised at first, have since rallied. The army has joined them. And in every insurrection the people come off worse and worse, notwithstanding the desperate bravery of the French artisan, and his perfect knowledge of arms. Englishmen should take as a maxim, that in order to their doing anything great, just, or improving, they must do it as Englishmen. There is no use or dignity in their running like dogs after every four-horse or steam vehicle of revolution that hurries by, to bark after it, or try to imitate or catch it. All English el loses have advanced their cosuliiion, changed and mended their political and social frame, from time to time, so as to bo tar in advance of the rest of the world ; and they have done this by exposing their own wants, and seeking their own remedies fur them, for which the free institutions of the country afford ample means. We want reform, and especially re form by which the industrious classes may profit. put riot is no. the way to it, nor Chartism that brawls in the highways, or goes drilling by night BAD BALL ESTATIII.--111 reply to 11111111KOWIllipliCatiOTIN, I have only to state that there is not in England soil of a finer description, a more healthy situation, or delightful spot than the orate above named, and I beg to &pure those parties who are inclined to purchase, that if I was not con vinced of the capability of two acres of its soil supporting a man with an aver age family, and repaying him the pur chase money in leer than five years, I would not undertake the office of auctioneer. Many persona ask me to state the price at which the land will be sold ; but t►at I cannot un dertake to do. Suffice it to say, that in the immediate neighbourhood land of an inferior quality lets at a rent varying from 221 to 301. per acre. This " Red Hall estate" is, as we gathered from an advettisement in the same paper, a property which souse gentleman patriotically proposes to dispose of by auction, in two, three, and five-acre lots, under Mr. (Yetis NOR'S auspices, upon the assumed rental of 51 an acre Mr. O'Cos NOR is to be the auctioneer, and his land scheme is to form the model. This putting up land in small lots, to be let by auction to the highest bidder, is the system which in Ireland pro duced such terrible evils. But mark the propositions on which Mr. O'CoNNOtt founds his invitation to pur chasers; he is " convinced of the capability of two acres of its soil supporting a man with an average family, and repaying him the purchase money in less than five years." How the " national bailiff" has convinced himself of this, would puzzle any one who has ever had any practical acquaintance with the management of land, had not the oracular communication informed the " numerous applicants " that, " in the immediate neighbourhood land of an inferior quality lets at a rent varying from 221. to 301. per acre." Here then we have the origin of Mr. O'Cosnotes conviction; for, if land worth 301. a year can be had at a rent of 51., representing 1001. per acre, a very prudent and frugal man might possi bly, in five years, pay off his purchase money. But does any sane man in England, who knows anything of land, believe that there is the slightest foundation for Mr. O'Coission's conviction beyond the vagaries of his own imagination ? Where, and wider what circum stances, is land let at " from 221. to 301. per acre ?" It any such there be, the rent must :be in a great measure derived from large outlays of capital. Ihe highest priced land with which we are acquainted is that used for market gardening near London, and other great towns, and that does not reach 104 per acre. Yet such land has for } ears and years bet nso highly manured and cultivated, that it has attained a most exuberant fertility, which is only kept up by yearly outlays of capital upon it, amounting to three or four times the rent. But how is a man going upon ordinary land, no matter how good soever its natural quality may be, with a capital of 71. 104. an acre, to attain market garden cultivation ? How can he hope in all reason to pay even the rent of 41. or .51. per acre, which is the interest upon the cost of his location, to say nothing of a surplus towards the redemption of the capital? Even in the vi ry paper from which we take the above golden promise we meet with indications of the beginning of the end of these over-rented allotment tenants ; there, after lists of subscriptions to the " land fund," the " Bank," and so forth, we meet with these items:—" Subscriptions for lasses at O'Connor erne, 4s. 6d.," and " subscriptions for manure at O'Cunnorville, 7s. 10d. ;" and again, "To purchase seeds, gift, 4n. 6d.; loan, 11." O'Connorville is the settlement, near Itickmans worth, in Hertfordshire, on which :35 families were located last year; according to Mr. O'Coss.at's plan, it is the earliest practical exhibition of it, and some of his critics say that it has received an undue share of attention as a show place and sort of rural decoy; but here we find there are " losses" and urgent need for " manure and seed," which require to be supplied by subscription. This is the reproduction of the Irish system in an English county. And no one elan doubt that Mr. O'Ctstsoa's allotment tenants will ere long become periodical objects of local charity. On the Hertfordshire allotment, rightly or wrongly alleged to be the pet settlement, there were last yecr the most hopeless indications of poverty ; there was only one cow, and not a dozen pigs amongst the 33 alluttees : few of them had any means of purchasing manure, and most of them were unaccustomed to cultivate the land. There was no market for their produce, and it was quite obvious that they could only exist by becoming potato eaters and sell ing all the corn they could grow to pay tneir rent. It cannot be too strongly impressed upon our artisan population that all such representations of profit from cultivating land as are put forth by Mr. O'Co..:Nott and his followers are wild, and possibly not altogether disinterested, delusions. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY, 11 The report of the Executive Commission OR the affsir of the lath, which I sent yon on Friday, and which appeared in the Erpreas of Saturday last, was not published in Paris until this morning, when it appeared in the leading journals. It is severely animadverted on as a lame and impotent delence, and moreover an unjustifiable attempt to prejudice the cause of those who are about to be brought to toe bar of j twice. l'he committee of the Assembly on the constitution decided yesterday in favour of a single president, by a majority of 17 voices against 5. A placard was posted, yesterday, in Paris, pro posing the Prince de Joinville as a candidate for the department of the Seine. The decree of banishment against the family, however, disqualifies him for the Assembly. The placard was torn down. M. Louis Blanc was brought before the examining magistrates yesterday, as a witness in the affair of the 15th. _ , Several arrests took plaza yesterday under war rants from the examining magistrates in relation to that affair. It seems that, notwithstanding M. Louis Blanc's theory of equality he hos shown but little disposition for its practice. I learn that at the Luxembourg he lived in royal state. M. Emile Thomas also, it seems, reposed in luxurious splendour in the Pavillon de Mouceaux. I learn that the furniture was magnificent, so as to be suited fur brilliant recep tions. The expences of this youth suddenly elevated from an humble rank by the political convulsion of February have amounted to 1,000 francs a day. A new associ .tion of representatives has just been organised, with General Baragitay as Presi dent. It consists at present of about 200 members, among whom there is no ex-deputy. The Madrid mails of the lt6th have arrived. Our correspondent continues to report the arbitrary arrests of English subjects, for whom it would appear that there is neither protection nor redress since the de parture of the British minister. Accounts from Valencia announce the dispersion of the formidable band of insurgents under Sendra and Ibars. The ministerial journals publish articles daily grossly insulting to the English. Govt rnment continued in great pecuniary embar rassment, and appeals were reported to have been made by Narvaez for pecuniary aid to several indi iduals of the wealthy noblesse. Our correspondent says: "After sealing up my despatch yesterday I went to the Gefatara l'olitica to learn from Col. Bristow, if possible, the cause of hie extraordinary treatment by the government, and of the violation of his rights as a British subject. I found the colonel in a filthy entresol, where ho had passed the night, swarming with prisoners. At his elbow was one of the ronda urging him to pack up a little valise with more despatch." Ai.d. again : " I understand that the firing upon the people outside the bank doors yesterday morning, between four and five o'clock, was attended with fatal results. Two have died, and five are severely wounded. It seems a patrol took them for conspirators ; at least this is the excuse. But seeing that the govern ment threatened, through its semi-official organ, the Popular, a month ago, to disperse by force the crowd that besieged the bank doors, no doubt exists in the mind of any one that these murders were committed with the connivance and by the order of the autho rities, to make the attendance with bank notes want ing change a dangerous occupation." MADRID, MAT 213.—Three per Cents., 211 obeli ; after Bolen, 211 m• 11 , 211 paper ; nye per Gents., 131 paper ; after Boise, 131 wen ; l'Aaeme, 3 . 1 iper ; &Ler 1101.4 54 wall; Lt.m . Lc of SL lardinand, aocash. I.:change on London, at SO claps 41 " ITALY.—Advises from Milan to the 26th have been received. It was affirmed that General Pepe had advanced from Bologna and passed the frontier. The French squadron, which was at Naples, had despatched some of its vessels to the Adriatic. A letter from Venice of the 24th says, that a Neapolitan war steamer, arrived from Trieste, had brought the intelligence that on the a — rr . ic,r combined squadrons of Sardinia, Naples, and ,!Pe at Trieste, the Austrian naval forces which b a d l ,7i, lucky chance come out of Pula and taken r e r.z a Trieste, were then blockaded. The com m o,lo of the combined fleets demanded the i m „„, l _l restitution of the Venetian fillips which n a d7, 4 , seized by the Austrians. Tweutt-tour hour, allowed to give an answer. ha We have received by the Levant mail th e j, arid correspondence of Athens to the 191 h eh. 411 The expenses of the civil war had pr, K f twd embarrassment to the government—th e tree, en e rt t empty. A loan of 60,000 drachms was obte, o o l the funds deposited at the Hank, and pro cee d ink lif lcga. ies made in favour of the nistructi9n uf th e o; youth. The state of M. Mussurus was improvis e . balls which had been lodged in Ins arm hadts4,"l cessfully extracted. 4 The revolt which had broken out in Mesa, 44 made but little progress. We have received the journal.' and corresp tocsi of Constantinople of the 16th. Said Pacha had been dismissed fru i office of minister of war, which wa s eenime r Riza Pacha, who had already filled the office from 1841 to 1845. This chant;e gave satisfaction in Constantinople. Rat Pad a, " vacated the Minis'ry of Commerce, was sumia that office by Kiamil Pacha, formerly General of Syria. This appointment also vu receivt d. The Russian General Duhamel had arrived it Bucharest, as commissary or the Emperor Niebob, The cholera was diminishing in intensity, both it Cobstantinople and Wistz. GERMANY. FRANKFOItT.—TusContaITrIENT AssEYSLT". The debate on the report of the committee sex Rave aux's motion terminated in the unanimous Lk, tion of the following resolution —"The Nsth ey j Assembly, in its character of instrument selected e l the flee choice of the German people, to establish th e unity and political liberty of Germany, resolve thy, without prejudice to exiting local constitutice som provisions of such as may be devi', d hi:teener an h e recognised as valid, except in so far as they t e e ez , formable to the general constitution." PRUSSIi.—BERLIN, MAY 21 -The pre eee di v of the fourth meeting of the Constituent Assembly, Geld on the 27th inst., have been published. M. E den was elected first vice-president, and M. Pinder seem vice-president. The assembly then proceeded to the election of the eight secretaries. A motion by 5L Ahegg, of Kreutznach, for a committee, to tune. mime the judicial and police aut hot i ties to take. sures for putting an end t i the prevailing last esee „ , was set aside by a large majority votary the ced e of the day. The debate was very tumultuone. Letters from Posen of the 25th of May rem elt the external state of the duchy as tranquil null: time; but speak of the intrigui sof %nein age d , in the provinces, and the daily more threatening de monstretions of Russia on the frontier. ACS FRIA. TIIF. ITALIAN Fterr 13EFO&' TRIEsTfL—A letter from Trieste, dated 23rd My appears in the Allyemeine Zeituny of the 27th, contents are as foliow Last night, about 10 o'clock, the steamboat whisk soiled for Dalmatia returned with the news that Os en bined fleets of Naples, Sardinia, and Venice were appease, ing our harbour. The fire in the lighthouse was immediate extinguished, and measures taken to prepare the ton an attack. The night passed without any disturbance. i is now mid-day, and signal guns art heard from the lurtee and the castle. Powder-waggons are b-ing driven to a butt- ries, the shops are closed, and the arionel guard Se semhling. My impression is, that tithing more tan, blockade of our harbour is contemplated, DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. The Altuna Mercury contains a letter from Chen.. tier Bunsen to the elective directors of the Schlen./ district, No. 4, in which he thanks them far ts honour they have conferred on him, by elec4 him as a representative for that district; Wart l that from the present state of the negotiations vats Schleswig Holstein question it will be imposable ir him to repair immediately to Fraz,kfort. SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN, MAY 27.—We have jas ascertained, from unquestiorable authority, that a the 24th of the month the son of General Wrangel arrived at Berlin, to present an armistice whichfine rag Wrangel has concluded with the commuting officer of the Danish troops. fhe basis of theu. mistice is said to be, the German troops are to iota beyond the Schlei, the Danes promise to qait Nirl I Schleswig, and to restore the ships under embargo. It is generally believed that this armistice villte I ratified. Tne son of General Wrangel returnedfros Berlin yesterday afternoon, and immediately pe• ceeded ny the Kiel Railway to the Pruiniaa head quarters, being the bearer, as he himself wetted, of amicable despatches. PORT-AU-PRINCE. HAITI, APRIL 13. The President has succumbed to the rabble of Peet Prince, who wish a return to the constitution of 1816. The late ministry would not carry out the President's views, sai g►ve in their demission. Another ministry has been farad. At present I have mile learned the names of three of the ministers ; they are Salomon of Cayes, Vara] of Again, mg Francisque of Giciaines. Meanwhile the standard of the revolt has been raised in the south against the President, tad Agnin and St. Louis have marched on Covaillon, which they have taken; and it is expected they will proceed for Au Cayes, in and around which the president has numerous putt• tans. Oen. Zamor, formerly commanding the south. and mkt was called to answer a charge of sedition that had been pre (erred against him, is in prison here. General Milord, Cavaillon, was also called to the mita], and has ape rienced the same fate; but the case which has excited th most general sympathy is that of a citizen of St. Louis, quiet, inoffensive, respectable man, who was called here t answer a charge which had been trumped up against be of having in his possession a letter containing seditim matter. He has been thrown into prison, where he remit confined in chains. Several other persons, of various grade have been summoned here from different parts of the isho but meny having a suspicion have absented themeelve This *ho.esale imprisonment of persons, against whom reasonable charge can be brought, has caused very gene disgust against his excellency, and has doubtless precipitu the present rising against him. The state of affairs is en critical, and can scarcely, I think, pau off without bloodshs ebe Court. A cabinet council was held yesterday afternoon the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Lori Russell. the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl of Mints, RI Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor the 'Exchequer, Earl of Auckland, Sir J. liobhouse, Campbell, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, the Marquis Clauricarde, and Viscount Morpeth. The council tat hours. The Rev. T. F. Bowerbank (Vicarage, Chirrii had an interview yesterday with Sir G. Grey, at the Si office, and presented to the right hon. baronet a k address to the Queen. A numerous deputation, consisting of Mr. Baring, M.P , Mr. Pattison, M.P., Mr. Blasterman, Mr. S. Gurney. Mr. C. Mills, Mr. hi. T. Smit►, M.P Huth, Mr. G. Hoare, Mr. Hattie, M.P., Mr. W. Col Mr. Triton, Mr. R. S. Thornton, Mr. A. G. Roberta Mr. R, 1). Mangles, M.P., had an O:erview with Lor Russell y. sterday, at his official residence in Downing-st Colonel Freestan had an interview with the Cl cellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residue itowning-sweet. Viscount de Moncorvo, the Portuguese mini had an interview yesterday with Lord John Ru...,11. Mr. W. Beckett, M.P. for Leeds, had an inter , yesterday with Sir G. Grey. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening • the Colonial-office for the Governor of New South WI The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady 3 Wood had a dinner party yesterday evening at their dente in Downing-street. Lord John Russell left town yesterday for hi ddence in Richmond park. INQUEST, YESTEXDAY.--SUICIDE OF THE QUI SEItOEANT TRIIIIPETER.—By Mr. Bedford, at the 1 Arms, Upper Eburpstreet, on the body of Mr. I Roberts, aged 60. The deceased had resided ter man y at 72, Upper Ebury-street, and was considered a gent of property, but it now seems he had long held the sit office of Queen's trumpeter, and was under the delusion in consequence of the recent proceedings in Paris a mo tinge of the chartists here, he should come to pc He was very eccentric, often sitting up fur nights to attending to his plants in his greenhouses, or 10.1ing sl the garden. Early on hionday morning he leaped i window, and on a neighbour going into his garden he him lying about six yards from the house in a piol of which was flowing from an extensive wound in the and another on the arm. His leg was fractured places. lie was still alive, and said he had done it 1 by cutting his arm first with a razor, and then his and leaping from the parapet. His widow was sa affects d that she was not examined.—The Coroner referred to the unusually melancholy character of tl the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity I I I ~~ ~'