The Express. — London, England, 1851-08-06 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—'!vaso*Y, Accarr 5. The Loan ell ANVIRLLOR took his seat at flee o'clock. CHURCH BUILDING ACTS AMENDNIENT BILL. Oa the motion of the Earl of Cant.tscs, the Commons amendments were arced to. COLLECTION 0! FINES (IRELAND) BILL.—CON STAUULARY FORCE (IRELAND) BILL—SUM MARY JURISDICTION (IRELAND) BILL. — Pin TY SESSIONS (IRELAND) BILL.—CROWN ESTATE PAVING BILL. The above hills were severally read a second time. BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 2) BILL. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTIISOCRT, this bill was read • thin) time and ponied. BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 2s) BILL. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY moved the committee on thia bill. The Duke of NEWCASTLE °hinted to the introduction of these bills at so late a period of the session. After a short conversation the bill passed through com mittee, and was reported. COALWHIPPERS (PORT OF LONDON) BILL. On the motion n( Lord Sinatner, this bill wan read a third time and pawed. EMIGRATION ADVANCES DISTRESSED DIS TRICTS (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the 1610li•PU of this Earl of Minro, this bill went through committee. REMOVAL OF OUBTS AS TO ON ASSUMPTION D OF ECCLESIASTICAL PENALTIES TITLES BILL Lord MONTEAGLE coved the Nemo' reading of thin bill, which was the tame as • clause which he had endea voured to introdace in the committee ou the Eakeiastieal Assumption of Titles Bill. Ile proposed that and the pre sent 101 l in the spirit of peace and conciliation, and to pre vent evil consequeuces which he thought must arise under that bill. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE opposed the second reading of the bill on the Wile grounds on which he had previously oppmed the introduction of • clause introduced by the amble lord (Lord Munteiegle), and se hich lie sought to introdure in committee en the Ecclesiastical Titles lull. Lord MONTEAGLE briefly replied. The LORD CHANCELLOR &Mil he had repeatedly ex pensed his opinion that the measure rec.-ntly passed did ant at all interfere with the spiritual functions of Itoman catholic prelates, wlnelt were totally distinct from their uriediction given by • papal bull. It was • matter of justice to the Roman catholic' to see that the act was not open to any ambiguity or doubt ; u,d he was convinced there was nose outs io the act just passed. The Earl of ST. fi I.:IIMANS supported the bill, and in /penal wh. Der the coons of law would construe an set of strictly view-opal juisalietion to be • spiritual act within the jusalties of the statute. The L(IILD CHANCELLOR said he had no hesitation • la answering the question in the negative. Lord Clt.t N WORTH concurred in thinking the bill of Lord Mouteagle unnecessary. The Earl of St. GERMANS asked if Dr. Murray would be indicted for ordaining priests in the archdiocese of Dublin ? Ihe 1.0111) CHANCELLOR. said he was distinealy of opinion that the seititual acts of a bishop were nut touched by the statute.. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved, as an amend ment. that the bin be read a second time that day six months ; and this motion was agreed to without a division. 1 he 101 l is emospie ntly bet. CONDI:CT OF A PARLIAMENTAItY AGENT. 1.01.1 CA altriS c died the attention of the house to the report of the select cmmittee, appointed to consider of so much of the report of the select committee of the Water ford. Wriford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Bill, as re lated to the coniluet of Charles Dr Lary Nash, and moved that, in consequ• nts. of his reprehensible conduct, be should nut hr aiiinitteel hereafter to act 10 a parliamentary agent belies th d house or its committers. Lord BEAUMONT having presented a petition from Chart's Nmli, Sen., After a G w 1.01,14 from the LORD CHANCELLOR, 'l'he motion was aoreed tin GENERAL Ilo.altD OF HEALTH (No. 2) DILL. , lased ItEDEsDALE presented a petition in favour of this hill. The Earl of SHAVTESEUItY, in moving the second reading of the bill, said the tells which the bill pniposed to remedy were increasing ones. Ile had visited the worot parte of 'Amami, and did not believe that there was any place in the kingdom wM-rt the standard of human health and morality was so much depressed us it was in this city from remediable 1,1104.4. After a few words from the Marquis of LANSINVIINZ, Lord Itrionsicinr, and Lord liege MoNT, the bill wee read a second lime. ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IM PROVEMENT BILL. lard CILANWOICIII proposed that the house take into eonsideration the amendment, which had been made by the house or Commons in this bill. Ile moved that all the amendments except one *bookd he agreed to. The Lord CHANCELLOR said that one important alteration had Man male in the bill in the other house. By the original hill power hail been given to a judge, where an aniendnovit of an indietnient was made, to postpone the trial, so that no one might betaken toy surprise ; the Commons had *trek out this provieion, thus leaving the hill in • state in which it might operate very unjustly. lie recom mended the house not to consent to that alteration. C. rtain of the amendments were agreed to, and reasons were directed to ho drawn up for disseuting from the others. CRIMINAL LUNATIC'. The Earl of SIIWIESIIUIZY, m peenenting a petition from Soniermetdiire on Oak ,uhject, .aid that a 20 yearn' ezperienee had convinced I • that nothing more vicious than the pre‘ent moist he imagined. Ile should, therefore, at the rarilext poe.ible period neat wait" intro duce a measure 111.014 the -t h im. CIIANCEILY SUITS, &c. A motion of the Earl of IiAItRINOTON for a stoics of n•tnrn+ ridatind to snits in Chanerry, alter a short discussin, was nrimtived without a division. LAW 1)1 EVIDENCE AMENDMENT BILL. Th.. 1'..r0 ttttt ns' amendments were eonsidered. AT I'OILNEYS AND SOLICITORS' RE`JUIATION Arr. On the motion of the Karl of Catmint.; the Comm amonlmento to thi. toll were *Antra to. The I . :41 . 1 Of i'.%1t1.1 NM.. premised s plains from Lea comvr the hlegi.tratios of Asesssles W. Their lorilativi then iiiijourserl at INlPpost (Vasa. lIOUSF. OF COMMONS.—Tur.sovr, AUGUST 3. The SeEtatit took the chair at I.! . ' clock. I'ItIV.ITE BUSINESS. The ankendsucnti to Uharing-cruat Br idite 1 and the l'anoor, E3t4).. , SUChly (Ireland) Bill teamed tu. Pl' HUI' BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Corstv Col li , trEssios 110.t..—8y Mr. LIT TLETON, from Walsall, against the two last clauses of the County Court, Estension Bill. Eris, .ir st. C.iri 11 I. %It EATATES BILL—By Col. SI WillOkl . (2). trona the trusters of charities in Lincoln, against the passing of this hill in the present session. Itii FREE SCHOOL. Mr. 111tOTHEIVION moved that all till standing osiers applicable to the Ripley Free School Bill be suspended, and that the said hill he allowed to proceed forthwith; that it by an in.tructian to the committee of selection, that they may appoint the committee on the Ripley Free School Bill to priseyd forthwith. Sir J. Y. 111.:1.1.Ell complained that this bill was sent down from the other house of parliament at a period when it was inspossihle for this house to consider its provisions. He should therefore move that the standing orders be nut dispensed with. Mr. WV:SIM:AI/said that the 11,1.4 originated in some difference of opi ~ i, m between two nobly and learned lords in the other house of parliament. If the bill was not al lowed to be proceeded with, the charity would be put to great expimer. Mr. Liitionli.'hefi, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Bernal, Mr. Greene, and Mr. Aglionby deprecated the practice of sending bills to that house, Al a period when it was illlVOSSiblf to consider them. Y. El I•1.I.Elt withdrew hii amendment, and the bill was thew reAl j iirs and second time, and referred to the euwamitt, :itrraorous WATER MU,. Sir J. GILA in moving that the evidence taken be fore the committee on this bill be printed. said that the committee bail -at between thirty and forty *lays. and it might be desirable that the house should know how matters stood. The committee hail thoroughly investigated the evi dence on hvhalt of the promoters of the bill, anal that por tion of the evidence was entire. They then proceeded to hewn evidence on behalf of those who contended for thy principle of popular eoutrol and representation. That pose lion of the es ideate was also . complete. They then heard evidence on the part of the caeding companies at eon.nder able length. hut this portion of Va., evidence was not en tirely completed. There was evidence enough for the dis cussion of the question, and for the formation of public opinion, during the freers, so g. 4 to lay the basis of future kgislatiem ; but the committee were nut in a position to giro any opinion that would be aatiotietory to the house. The motion was then agreed to. DUCIIY OF L.%NCASTER (HIGH PEAK MININ3 CUSTOMS AND MINERAL COURTS) BILL. This bill was read a third time and COVRT OF CHANCERY AI II JUDICIAL iiiiiiiiiiii struck out. The Lords' assetSdajdts to this bill were considered and oltot4 PATENT LAW AMENDMENT BILL. The committee on this bill was resumed. Clause ri was agreed to. On clause 9, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said tint in consequence of the objections which had been urged yesterday, he pro posed to stoke out the find part of the clause down to the word "effect," anal to add other words, for the purpose of requiring the commissioners to cause every application for letters patent as ode under the act to be forthwith advertised in the I owdm Gazette, and allowing persons to give notice of objections for it lays after the publication of such ad vertisement; hut aR,r the expiration of it days the specifi cation, with the objections, if any, was to be referred by the law officer to the examiner or eaantincrs, and on his or their being satisfied that the nature of the invention was correctly descrioed a certificate to that effect was to be given to the inventor, and be was to have protection for sin months. • The clause is altered was agreed to. As were elapses to U. On clause IT, Mr. MUNTZ mid he should late to know what was the meaning of the word " utility" in the clause ? Did it mean that the invention was to be mail to the magic before a patent would be granted ? He did not think that any one or two individuals could decide as to the utility of an invention. He thought it would be better if the word were omitted altogether, and he should take the sense of the committee upon it. Mr. C. LEWIS said that the meaning of the word in the clause meant private utility—utility to the individual from an object which had en exchang- able value. Sir J. GRAHAM said that there was great disadvantage in discussing a law of such importance at so late a period of the sessino, and in so thin a house. (Hear, hear.) There were, it appeared, conflicting opinions entertained as to the meaning of the word " utility," and he should, therefore, wish to know from the hon. and learned gentle man (the Attorney-General) on what principle the law ad visers bad heretofore recommended letters patent to be granted / They were about to - create new officers, who, as it appeared to him, were to exercise the duties under the responsibility of the law advisers of the crown, end now they were going to relieve them from that responsibility, and to delegate the inquiry to other.. (Hear, hear.) The ATTORNEY-GNEItAL said he had never known I , a case decided in which it was nut admitted that the inven tion possessed some utility for tie public. He did not agree in the construction put upon the word utility by his hon. friend (Mr. Lewis). (Hear, bear.) Ile considered that the word utility meant public Utility. (Hear, hear.) He did not agree with the right hon. gentleman (Sir J. Graham) as to the duties of the law officers of the crown. The law officer' were not bound by the report of the exa miners. The examiners would only, it he might say to, pioneer the way for him. If there was no conflict as to the invention the patent would be granted, but if there was a conflict he would refer the matter to the examiners for their report, from which, aided by that general scientific know. ledge which now formed a part of every liberal education, he should expect to be so acquainted with the general nature of the invention as to be able to form a judgment fur hims,lf. (Hear, hear.) After a few words from Mr. Henley, Mr. Ricardo, and Sir 1). L. Evans, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the word be After some uhsetssion,. • c omm it tee • .thd The d ivide d— }'or Yor the retention of the word utility Against it The word was theretorc struck out. The clause was then agreed to. Clauses up to IN were agreed to. On clause IN, which limits the operation of the bill to the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Mao, Mr. LABOUC HERE said, in reply to an observation of Mr. Greene, that it had been thought better not to involve the coionies in all the difficulties of their own patent law— (hear, hear) —but to leave them to their own free action. Sir J. (MADAM said it was quite clear the more they entered into the discussion of the provisions of the bill the greater wear thedifficulties which beset them. The hon. mem ber for Birmingham bad given notice of an important amendment on the 2.ith clause, which was connected with the present clause ; the important clauses 'slating to the cx• Millie bad yet to be considered, and since the bill arrived in that house, 31) new clauses had been introduced. Ile feared that if they were to consume the remainder oh the day in dis cussing these clauses, to the exclusion of other subjects, the arrangements which had been made for the termination of the session would be found to be inconsistent with a proper consideration of those matters. (Hear, hear.) Mr. LADOUCIIERE regretted that his right hon. friend had cast the weight of his great authority on the side of those who olejected to the passing of this bill in the present ses sion. Of course, it the house was determined that the bill should not pass, he could not help it, hut should regret that the house should come to any such derision, for he knew that it would cause great disappointment, and lead to great practical inconvenience. If the hill should not pass the fault would not be his, for he should do all he could to get it through. (Hear, hear.) After wane further discussion the farther discussion on the clause was postpone d; the chairman reported progress, and obtained lease to sit again in the evening after the mo tions were disposed of. EPISCOPAL AND CAPITULAR ESTATES MANAGEMENT (No. 2) DILL. The report on this hill was brought up and agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow ((this day). COUNTY COURTS FeRTHER EXTENSION DILL. On the motion that this bill be read a third time, some new clauses and amendments were agreed to, and the bill was read a third time and pawed. NUISANCES REMOVAL AND DISEASES PREVENTION BILL. Lord SEYMO(.llE7tatWthailt VZl;l7nt his intention to proceed with this bill any further. (Hear, hear.) He should, therefore, move that it be postponed for three munths.—Agreed to. ST. ALBANS BRIBERY COMMISSION BILL. Ou the consideration of the Lords' amendments on this bill, Mr. BOUVERTE moved that the Lords' amendments to this bill be disagreed to, as being inconsistvnt with the pre amble of the bill. The motion was agreed to, and a conference appointed. NEW FOREST DEER REMOVAL BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. The house then adjourned till 5 o'clock. The house re-tio,einbled at live o'clock. Mr. E. Lt. 'IOC gave notice that to-morrow he would ask Lord John Russell " Whether, looking to the fact that under the late franchise law the voters in boroughs in Ireland have been reduced to eight thousand, and also to the unequal and unsatisfactory state of the representation in that country, he would be prepared to extend his new lteform Bill to 'retold ? Whether he would be prepared to appoint a commission to inquire into the statute law of Ireland, with a view to its amendment and consolidation ? Whether he has any objection to lay on the table of the house a copy of any letter written by the Chief Justice of the Queen a hooch in Ireland to the Lord Chancellor or the ' Attorney-General fur Ireland in reference to the system of legislation fur that country and the unsatisfactory state of the law Y" On the motion of Col. Itono.vir the following returns were ordered: Returns of the number of each of the fol lowing motions, which have been made in the house before the orders of the day and notices have been disposed of, or in any committee of the whole house, in the seseions Is ID, ROO, and : I. That this house do now adjourn. 2. That this house, at its rising, will adjourn till Monday neat, or any future day. 3. That a debate be now ad journed. 4. That the chairman of a committee of the whole house du report progress. 5. That the chairman da now leave the chair. And distinguishing, iu each class, the number of such motions which ware withdrawn, negatived, or agreed to by the house or the committee, and the num ber upon which there were divisions. And, of each formal question put by Mr. Speaker and by the chairman of com mittees in the pewees* of the Ecclesiastical Titles Assump tion Bill through the house, in the order in which they were severally put, distinguishing those put in the com mittee from those put in the house, and stating iu each ease whether the woe was withdrawn, agreed to, or negatived, and whether a division took place." THE EXHIBITION. - Colonel SU:11113)RP wished to put to the Presi dent of the Board of Trade, ur to the Vint Cone missioner of Wood, and Forests. a question on what he considered an important subject. Before the Ex hibition was commenced he ventured to predict that it would lead to gross desecration of the Sabbath, and he now feared that his prediction had been fulfilled. Ile wished to know whether it was true that articles connected with the flue arts had been removed from the Exhibition fur the purpose of being copied un Sunday ? Mr. C. LEWIS said that in consequence of the notice which the lion. and gallant colonel was so good ax to give hint, he had made it his business to see the chief officer of the customs, who was iu charge of the Exhibition builc:iner, and he could inform hint and the house that no goods whatever had been removed tram the Exhibition building on Sunday fur any purpose whatever. No goods had been taken out of bond un Sunday fruin the Exhibition building. Col. SIIITHORP said that was not an answer to his question. He wished to know whether or not any copying hail been proceeded with on Sunday. Mr. C. LEWIS said he could out give any answer on the part of the committee of management. lle could only peak with regard to the good, which were iu charge of the Customs; he had no information with respect to anything else. Colonel SIBTIBMIP (with great encrgy)—l will leave the house, whether I was right or wrong. Lord J. ItI'SSEI,I, said it would be a great convenience at that period ut the session if hon. members who had motions on the paper would postpone them, in order that the patent law amendmeut bill might be at once proceeded with. Colonel NALU El said be had been so unfortunate in hi. Worts to bring on the motion of which h had given notice that lie did hope there would be no objection to his introducing it then. Sir DE L. EVANS hoped the hon. and gallant member would nut obstruct the progress of the bill nuntioned by the noble lord. Col. SALWEY said he should be happy to postpone his motion if the noble lord (Lord J. Russell) would ensure him a house after the government bill had been dis posed or. Lord J. RUSSELL was afraid it would be out of his power to ensure a house in the present session, but thought be could venture to assure the hon. and gallant gentleman that, in the nest session, he would be able to bring forward his motion. (,Laughter.) Col. SALA% ET said, on the understanding that he would positively bring it forward to-morrow he would withdraw it. Lord D. STL Ala moved that the house do now adjourn, and proceeded to complain of the course taken by the government with regard to the motions of independent members. After a few words from Sir B. Hsu, Lord J. RUSSELL said the only pound on which he had made the request he had done, was the public interest. lle slid not know that it was of any importance to the government that there should be a bill passed with regard to patents. His hon. and learned friend the Attorney- General thought it would be rather a disadvantage. Colonel SIB rHoRr said he bad a motion to bring for ward with regard to .1 female who had been most grossly treated hy the First Commissioner of Woods and iorests. It now appeared, too, that there were four or five other respectable persons who, after being permitted by the late Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge to ociupy places in the park, had been ejected to suit the foreigners and the Crystal Palace. He (Colonel Sibthorp) would not be put down by the First Lord of the Treasury or any member of the go- THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1851 vernment batch. Not being clothed in the government livery, be would exercise his rights as a member of that boric Lard J. RUSSELL said it was customary when a mem ber whose motion stood first on the paper had withdrawn for others to follow his example. Oolong SIBTHORP-1 won't. Lord 3. RUSSELL thought it but fair, then, that the Iron: and gallant member (Colonel Salwey) should proceed with his motion. Mr. E. B. ROCHE said it would be aln.olutely necessary next session to mate some classification of the business of the house, otherwise it could never be properly disposed of. THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. Mr. URQUHART wished to ask the noble lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he would lay on the table of the house all correspondence which bore upon advice given to the Ottoman government with reference to the internal government of that empire. As it was the noble lord who governed the Ottoman empire, and as he was not responsible there, it WS: but fair and consistent with ministerial responsibility that the house should be made aware of his proceedings. Viscount PALMERSTON was sorry that he could not answer the question. It was obvious that any communica tion of that sort generally passed between governments which west, on the most friendly and confidential footing, and, from the very nature of the case, such communications could not he made by one party, nor required by the other, except with the perfect understanding that they were not ' to he made the subject of discussion. Mr. MUNTZ did not understand why be should with draw his motion (having reference to postage labels), if the hon. and gallant member for Lincoln meant to per severe. Lord D. STUART said bad he known that his motion would be followed by so much discussion, he would not have made it. He would now withdraw it. lie must say, however, that had the motions on the paper been proceeded with, the only practical evil would have been, that the go vernment would have been compelled to bring on the Patent Law Amendment Bill atterwards. (Hear, hear.) The motion was then withdrawn. THE MILITARY KNIGHTS OF WINDSOR. Col. SALMI - then rose to move that a select committee be appointed to inepzire into the case and claims of the Mili tary Knights of NI laicism, set forth and referred to in their • two petitions presented to the house on the ith of August, ' 1816, and the 23rd of February, 1817, and which are fur- • ther set forth and referred to in the petition of the 20th of April, 1319, by several electors, tax and rate payers of the borough of New Windsor. The Secretary of State for the Home Department had on a previous occasion argued that this was altogether a law ease, but he (Col. Salwey) con tended that it went far beyond that—for in the claims of these poor knights the dignity and prerogative of the crown • as sovereign of the military order of the garter were in volved. The veteran or arms knights, as they used to he called, were established in 1318 by Edward 111., at the same period that he founded the order of the Garter, anal he associated these poor knights with the Dean and Canons of Windsor, who wire to be their stew ards, granting a donation in lands, fte. for their subsistence as a reward for their services in the wars. The mistor.une was that the associating them with the Dean and Chapter as one corporation—for almost from their first establish ment the history of these poor knights had in consequence been that of all other bodies of men placed under cathedral or ecelesitestical corporations—Edward 111. placed these knights on the same footing as the canons, and punted them Is. a day for maintenance ; but, although the incomes of the Dean anal Canons had increased enormously, and they had drawn large sums from the revenues out of the funds set apart for these military knivhts, and notwithstanding the increase in the value of the pro perty would now allow 2.101. a year to each of these poor men, they still received only the miserable stipead of is. a day, the dean and the canons retaining the surplus. Under the will of Henry VIII., a new dictation of lands and here ditaments to the amount of OWL a year issued for the sup port of these knights, which had been afterwards confirmed by statutes of Elizalieth and Mary. The original number of the poor knights was 26, but now they consisted of 13 under the letters patent of Queen Elizabeth, ma! .3 others on a lower 1 iundation endowed under a different will, making 18 in all. 'rite 600/. a year had now icerecieced to 12,0001., but no addition to the allowance had been made, and parliament was even called upon to repair the houses in which these pres s es wee: lodged, instead of the charge being defrayed by those who drew I this enorn ttttt s surplus. Under the deed of covenant • between the crown and the dean and canons, he (entrained that the shims put forward by these military knights were , indisputable. The hon. and gallant officer was protsceding to read the deed of CIAO ascent, the will of Henry the Eighth, ; the confirmatory statutes of Elizabeth and Mazy, and other documents bearing on the case, when An nom. Meetnen noticed that them were Not 40 mem ber. present, and on the house being counted, and the re , quisite number of members not being found present, the house adjourned at half past adz o'clock. THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ASSUMPTION ACT AND ITS AUTHORS. This bill received the royal assent on Friday last. It is the joint production of her Majesty's Ministers, Mr. Walpole, Sir Frederick Thesiger, and Mr. Keogh. The portion contributed by each is marked out in the copy of the act which follows. The part which belongs to her Majesty's Ministers is printed in roman letter; the rest is in italics, with the name of the respective authors appended: " Whereas divers of her Majesty's Roman Catholic sub jects have assumed td themselves the titles of archbishop and bishops of a pretended province, and of pretended sees or dioceses, within the United Kingdom, under colour of an alleged authority given to them for that purpose by certain briefs, rescripts, or letters apostolical from the see of Some, am? particularly [Sir F. Thcsiger's] by a certain brief, re script, or letters apostolical, purporting to base been give. at Rome on the 2.9 th of September, lbaO ; and wherett-ti by the act of the 10th year of King George I I'., chap, 7, after reciting that the Protestant Episcopal Church of England and Ireland, and the doctrtne, discipiine, and yorentment thereof, and iikcwise the Protestant Presbyterian Church qf Scot/toot, and the doctrine, discipline, and goturnment thereof, acre by the respeetire arts of union of Enuland and Scotland, and of Great Britain and Ircland, established per• snattently and inviolably, and that the right and title of archbishops to their respective prorinces, bishops to their sees, and r f j* deans to their deaneries, as well in England as in Ireland; hail been settled and estabashed by law, it was assailed, that if any pets in otter the roninsencenient of that set, other tluta the persontlierminto ant horised by law, shoidd assume or use the mine, style, or title of archbishop of any prorinee, bishop of arty bishopric, or dean ty . any deaueu y, in England or Ireland, he should fur evcry such offence forfeit and pay the aunt of 1001. [Mr. Walpole's) : And whereas it may be doubted ;Amnia the recited enactment extends to the assumption of the title of archbishop or bishop of a I pretended province or diocese, or archbishop or bishop of a city, place, or territory, or dean of any pretended deanery in England or Ireland, not being the we, province, or Mu ' cese of any archbishop or bishop, or deanery of any dean, recognized by law ; hut the attempt to establish, tinder colour of authority from the see of Rome or otherwise, such pretended sees, provinces, dioceses, or deaneries, is illegal and void : And whereas it is expedient to prohibit the as awmption of Such titles in respect of any places within the United Kingdom. it therefore declared and enacted by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and Com mons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the au tbonty of the same, that I. All such briefs, rescripta, or letters apostolical, and 411 and every the jurisdiction, authority, pre-eminence or title conferred, or pretended to be conferred, thereby, are, and skill be and be deemed unlawfill and roid. [Mr.Walpule's.s] 2. And be it enacted, that if, after the passing of this act, any person shall obtain, or rouse to be procured, from the bishop or see of Rome, or shall publish or put in use within any part of the Coifed Kingdom, any such bull, brief, reseript, or letters apostolica!, or any other instru ment or writing, fur the purpose of constituting sun archbishops or bishops of ash pretended lam-Piers, sees, or dioceses within the 0,11,4 Kingdom, or if any person (Sir F. Thesiger's] other than a person thereunto authorised by law in respect of an archbishopric, bishopric, or deanery, of the United Church of England aad Ireland, assume or us the name, style, or title of archbishop, bishop, or dean of any city, town, or place, r of any territory or district (tinder any designation or description whatsoever) in the United Kingdom, whether each city, town, or place, or such territory or district, be or be not the see or the province, or co-extensive with the pro vince, of an' archbishop, or the sec or the diocese, or co extensive with the diocese, of any bishop, or the seat or place of the church of any dean, or co-extensive with any deanery of the said United Church, the person so offending shall fur every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of 11101., to be recovered as penalties imposed by ,the recited act may he recovered under the provisions thereof, or by action of debt at the suit of any person in one of her Majesty's superior courts of law, tri , h the contest! of her Majesty's Attortuty- General in Ent/land and Ireland. or her Majesty's Advo cate in Scotland, as the case may be. [Sir F. 1 hesiger's] " 3. This act shall nut extend or apply to the assumption or use by any bishop of the protestant episcopal church in Scotland exercising episcopal functions within some district or place in Scotland of any name, style, or title, in relii.tt of such district or place; but nothing herein contained shall be taken to give any right to any such bishop to assume or use any name, style, or title which he is not now by law entitled to assume or doe. 4. Be it enacted, eat nothing herein contained shall be construed to annul, repeal, or 114 any manner affect any pro rilion contained ill an out passed in the eighth year of the reign of her present Majesty. entitled—'-4n act fur the more effectual application of charitable donations and be quests in Ireland.' [Mr. Keogh's.] • Oritrinally the word• were "The geld tele, reteript, &e. ;" ea the atnettoment of Sir Yr°Jerk* Theetitr the words ' • All rush brief; teersipts, &h." were tutotiteted. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES A SSUMPTION ACT AMENDMENT. The following is the bi 1 presented by Lord Mont eagle " A Bill intituled an Act for the Removal of Doubts re speoind the Penalties and Disabilities imposed by 10 Geo. IV. c. 7, and II & Viet. c. GO. " For the avoidance and removal of doubts respecting the penalties and other disaLilitie , imposed under au act passed in the tenth yeu of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Fourth, intituled ' An Act for the Relief of his Majesty's Roman Catholic Subjects,' and under an other act passed in the p sent year of her Majesty's rein, intituled 'An Act to prevent the Assumption of certain Ecclesiaatical Titles in respect of Places in the United Kingdom :' be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Common., in this present par liament assembled, and by the authority of the same, " I. That neither of the above herein-before recited acts of the tenth rear of the reign of his late Majesty King George the kourth nor of the present year of her Majesty's I reign shall apply, or he held to apply, or in any way to affect any act done by any archbishop, bishop, or dean by rirtue of his appointment by the see of Rome, or to create any penalty, disability, or offence by reason of an instru ment of appointment, or the assumption or use of an ecclesi astical title conferred or purporting to be conferred by the authority of the see of Rome; provided that the eceloiasti. cal name, style designation, or title assumed or used b y any such archbishop, bishop, or dean in the holy orders of the Roman catholic church shall be the style or title of Roman catholic archbishop, Itom:m catholic bishop, or Ro ' man catholic dean, as the case may be, officiating or having ' episcopal functions within the diocese or district in which lie is authorised to officiate, in respect to all persons and congregations of persons professing the Roman catholic reli gion within the said diocese or district." the erprelni. TO CORRESPONDENTS. "nod Minn " The Elyria'," g ri d • same vening's Culotte," IA puldiihed every Tu,:rdny and y Bight, io time fur lard. advert ifementa Intended for " The Ezprera," Landon Err fling paper, loin be at the !!dice, to, Boureric.rtteet, by Two Veuck oa the day of publieution. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tilts DAT —Motstlng, sh. sh.n. Afternoon, 9%. 33M. To.rozzow—Moramg, 10h. 12m. An:rms. 10a. 49m. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6. THE SULTAN, we understand, has given a solemn promise for the liberation of liossurn upon a fixed day, now not many weeks off. The SULTAN'S own feelings of honour and humanity chiefly weighed in the case. lie had consented to retain this man for a time, but could not consent to be his gaoler indefi nitely, in order to please Austrian susceptibilities, with European eyes fixed on him moreover, and in clined to judge of his independence by his treatment of KOSSUTH. Austria, no doubt, had specious reasons to urge. She had made not the smallest perceptible progress in the iv-organisation or settlement of Hungary. It was conquered, and garrisoned, and kept quiet by mili tary occupation. Hut neither civil nor administra tive life had resumed their functions. The collection of taxes, the dispensation of justice, the resumption of anything like industry or interchange, even the cultivation of the soil, had not been resumed. The attempt of SCIIWARZENBERG to Frenchify and cen tralise the administration, re-divide the territory, and subject it to the bureaucracy from Vienna, had utterly failed, as much for want of aptness in the instruments employed, as of docility in the people. Hut if Turkey were to imprison all Austrian liberals and reformers until such time as the Austrian minis ter had succeeded is reducing Hungary and Croatia to his notions of French departments, there had better have been no stipulation as to term or time. There is, moreover, an utter want of sympathy be tween the Turkish and the Austrian governments, not for any mysterious reasons of European policy or alliance, but simply because whilst the Austrian mi nister finds his toes obstinate amongst even the mo derate liberals of every province and every class, the Turkish government encounters the serious enmity of the retrogrades and the rcactionists of the empire, and of them alone. Europe is too apt to make light of the edict of Gulhani., and of the efforts of ItEsrmin Paella to establish the modern rule of law and of humanity, and of the separation of civil and military authority. Much of the system has, however, been rendered operative, quite sufficient to enrage the class of the high priesthood and the old functionaries. And these, having under their hands the ready support of the fanaticism of the masses, cease not to do, what liberals are accused of doing under the despotic governments of the present day— they conspire. Thus, whilst the German sovereign dreads the pistol of the democrat or the dagger of the communist, the Turkish potentate only dreads the old tories of his dominions and his court, men who are just as skilled at getting up an ,Intents as any Parisian committee of socialists. It is the Putr.r•oTrst:s and the Wl:crams/As of Turkey that demand all the Seurts'svigilance and precaution. Hence it is no marvel if lie have less - horror of KllS`irl'lt than is entertained in the military circles of Vienna and of Warsaw. . There is in fact in Turkey, as elsewhere, a party of progress and a party of reaction. There arc ruseyites in Turkey, who are most anxious to restore the pure Mohammedanism of the days of SoList.tsr the MAGNIFICENT—who would restore the feudal aristocracy of Asia Minor; whilst their political brethren would re-establish the obsolete rule and rapacity of the pachas, to be tempered not by pre ventive law, but by vindictive strangulation. Turkey, however, has no aristocracy. Its court, like that of Russia, has no class of landed proprietors to con sult or to fear. The only class that it has either to conciliate, or get the better of, is the priesthood. And no doubt the great crisis for Turkey—the great event that will decide whether anything can be made of, or regenerated in, that country—will be the struggle, whenever it takes place, between the old immoveable Moslem church and the reforming pro F res.sive government. The Turkish church is wealthy ; it is not oppressive. It troubles no man's family or conscience. And the Koran asks nothing that may nut be done without an effort. Its prohibitions are sanitary—its injunctions the gratification, not the denial, of human passions. No wonder it is popular. In tact, it is not to be imagined how the fevlings or the voice of the people could be raised against it, as has been done against the Roman Catholic church in Italy and in Spain. It is, indeed, one of those things that make men despair of any reform in lurkey— the impossibility of modifying the religion and the habits which constitute the whole mind of a most unintellcetual people. Another century, or indeed half century,. cannot, however, pass away without seeing sonic immense change in the south-east of Europe. Whether it will he the Turkish monarch or the Russian, whether it will be the Greek or the Slave that will take advan tage of, and rise in the ascendant, remains yet a mystery. For such revolution to be effective and beneficial, the race itself and the people should take part in it. A conquest made by a Russian or an Austrian army would fuse or would found nothing. Such revolution must proceed, not from the policy of cabinets, but from the national movements and deve lopments of peoples. Nothing is more remarkable than the bold and often successful attempts of the races of the south east to work out their independence and autonomy. The Greeks, the Albanians, the Servians, have strug gled, and have not all failed. The last, the noblest, and most memorable attempt was that of the Hun garians under KOSSUTiI. It was crushed by that great despotic, military power which now covers and directs three great European empires. But, as we have a hundred times repeated, an army can found nothing, especially in these days. It is in itself but the prolonging of a provisional system, to endure I only so long as the peculiar force and finance which supports it have not reached its inevitable point of self-exhaustion. Something might have been hoped for Hungary and the Danubian world from Kos -BUTII : nothing from ten hundred PASKIEWITSCIIES and HAVNAUS. Hence, we must look to the people themselves— their movements, developments, and tendencies; and to these as displayed in their popular leaders. The Turkish government is as liberal as it can be—the most liberal of all the governments of the east of Europe. No sovereign has a truer sense of the necessities and tendencies of the epoch than the Sul tan; and no one is disposed to do so much for tho people and popular interests. He has given proof of these in his avowed resolution to speedily liberate Kossum. A PARAGRAPH is going what is called the round of the papers, informing the public that at last, in the year 1851, the Directors of the East India Company have awarded Mr. SILK BUCKINGHAM a solatinm of 4(K)!. a veer during the remainder of his life fur the violent injustice which was inflicted on hint nearly thirty years ago by their Governor-General in Coun cil. We have no information on the subject of ' hig!er authority than this ordinary contribu tion to the news of the day; but it r eca l l§ 'to rcelqection so grievous an act of oppression as deeply requires even now, when they who were its most active perpetrators have long since gone to their final account, such a submission as this to the verdict of popular opinion, and all the reparation that time has left it possible for the Indian government to make. The expression of an earnest hope, therefore, that I i the information so conveye d ma y be well foun d ed Is quite compatible with an unfavourable opinion of many subsequent passages in Mr. BCCMIMt:IIAN s checqucred career, and with no very high estimate , lof his intellectual powers, of his taste, or of some of 1 his moral characteristics. Great wrong was done him by the government of India when he was con- ferring important services on India ; fur that wrong he has for more than a quarter of a century claimed redress. During all that period the East India Co:npany have obstinately, it might almost be added vindictively, repulsed his claims, though sanc tioned by some of the most eminent of their own ser vants, and supported by almost every public man of importance at home; yet so powerful is the voice of truth and reason that at last it triumphs, when success seems most chimerical, over bureaucratic perverseness and official insolence. Mr. BUCKINGHAM can look back with moral satisfaction, at least on his residence in Cal cutta; for it was the really useful portion of his life; one, however, in which his ser vices to the community, to the public good, and to cultivation of higher and better tastes amongst the European residents of that city, were rewarded by the enmity of a relentless clique, which, failing to delude the calm wisdom or to excite the generous feel ings of Lord HASTINGS against the object of their dislike, meanly and savagely took advantage of the interregnum between that worthy peer's departure and Lord AMHERST'S arrival to ruin Mr. BUCKING HAM, and drive him out of India. Let us cast back a glimpse at the occurrence; even the hasty remi niscence that we eau now afford to take will have its uses. It was in or about 1818 that Mr. BUCKINGHAM first appeared in Calcutta, with no better friends, we believe, than a fine person, a moderately cultivated and enterprising mind, and an agreeable wifit. In search of fortune, he established, what was much needed, a really good newspaper; and in its conduct he associated around hint nearly all the youthful ability and talent of the capital ; us much, however, for literary as even for political objects and purposes. The discussion of politics in India was then narrowly circumscribed by a censorship ; and even Lord lIAST INGS, in relaxing that fetter which Lord WEL LESLEY had placed on the free use of the press, continued restrictions on observations tending to reflect on the measures of the Indian or Imperial govenonents. But Lo.- llssrimis was a man of a great and a noble nature; worthy to direct the fate of au empire: he knew and practised the difference between a repressive law, intended for great emer gencies, and a resort to it on every petty occasion, when temperate discussion had wounded the vanity or diminished the self-importance of lesser people. So, when his councillors and secretaries urged him to repress the free tendencies of Mr. BUCKINGHAM'S journal, his good sense restrained and corrected their animosities, and, kindly and generously wa ' g Mr. liuctitNutt.tm not to exceed the bounds of discretion, Lord llssustcs encouraged, instead of destroying his publication. At lust, however, Lord HASTINGS left a country where his memory still survives : and the govern ment, pending Lord AttnEnsr's arrival, fell into the hands of Mr. Jolts ADAM, as senior member of the Supreme Council. To all the usually great abilities 'of his able and successful family, Mr. Joie Amyx added every prijudiee of the civil service of India ; and it, above all things, then disliked the freedom of the press. But Mr. Beemsaatsx's offences as the director of the then best journal in Calcutta were nut the sum of his sins in the eyes of the civil servants of government in the capital of India ; for he and his wife had rendered their house and their reunions more attractive to its general society than the formal dinner parties and the heavy evening assem blies of those who considered themselves entitled to lead the fashion of Calcutta. And we should fail in attempting to give even a faint notion of the dislike entertained on both grounds by Mr. JOHN ADAM and his circle towards Mr. BeeximiliAst. They feared the influence of his journal ; they envied him his social success; and, a week atter Lord HASTINGS Wilts& his ruin was resolved on. It was speedily executed. Amongst Mr. JOHN ADAM'S friends was a Rev. Dr. BRYCE, senior Com pany's chaplain of the Church of Scotland ; he had been connected with a dull paper intended to write down Mr. BUCKINGHAM ; and, on its failure, Mr. ADAM made this Scotch minister superintendent of the Government Stationery-office, with a large salary. The temptation to notice such an appoint ment was, of course, irresistible to Mr. Beextxhit.tm ; fur noticing it in a fair and proper I,anner, Mr. BUCKINGHAM MILS ordered to be deported from India, his press and types were broken up, and on a few hours' notice lie was hurried away front Calcutta, where he was earning honestly and honourably many thousands a vear—as much, it is said, as 14,0001. — and consigne , ;lto a life of poverty in England. Such was India only thirty years ago. This was the wrong for which Mr. BUCKINGHAM sought redress. It occurred, if we recollect aright, in 11422. Whilst the tories were in power, Mr. Bees:- I INGHAM, of course, reclaimed in vain; prospects brightened, however, a little, as whiggery rose in the ascendant. But w•higgety deluded him too. It gave him lip assistance —no more ; well repaid by votes in the !loose of Com mons. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, indeed, supported a bill for a minimisation of 20,004)1. ; but Sir JOHN llonnousE threw it out ; and at last, as Mr. BUCK INGHAM could not live on his wrongs, he ceased for a while to prosecute his claims. After years of silence, he, this session, revived them in a bill to give him half the compensation he had formerly asked; and, according to the statement referred to, the Court of Directors have compromised the matter for an annuity of 4001., an arrangement which, it is to be hoped, the Court of Proprietors will sanction; and so end one of the least creditable incidents in the annals of their rule of India. The press is now free in India—thanks first to Lord Ilssrtmis,secondarily to Lord METCALFE; and all the predictions, the fears, the apprehensions, and the evil anticipations of its freedom, have proved vain and illusory ; the mere troubles of prejudiced func tionaries at the thought of change. But, great as that change is, there is not much improvement in the spirit with which the rulers of India regard its press. The spirit is much the same ; the im provement is only in the manner in which the spirit is manifested. The Indian press, they tell us still, is turbulent, factious, vindictive, and mischievous. Believe it not. It has its faults, as what press has not ; but they are the faults of society around it, not exceptional or Oecial errors of its own. The press is the only check India has on irresponsible rule; and, if it be more violent in language, more audacious in tone occasionally than our journals at home, it is because the Indian administration is more impervious to a sense of reason and to the expression of public opinion than is the imperial government. The fault is not iu the press, but in the rulers of India. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. It has been stated that several members of the royal family of Hesse, forming the branch of imme diate successors to the throne of Denmark, had signed a renunciation of their claims to that throne in favour of the young scion of the collateral branch of Glucksburg.' It seems that this act of renunciation has only been signed by a small portion of the Hesse family, namely, the princes and princesses of Hesse. The other agnates in the female line—the Quern'. widow of Christian VIII. ; the Princess Caroline Ainclie, daughter of Frederick the Sixth's sister; and the Princess Caroline, wife of the hereditary prince and eldest daughter of Frederic VI., have re i fused to sign the document. Russia, it seems, will only consent to adopt the Glucksburg line in ease of complete unanimity of renunciation on the part of the other heirs. Then it is evident that the endeavour to drop the succession on the young Prince of Glucksburg is at present as I far as ever from success. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette, of the 31st ult., publishes a return showing that the receipts of the treasury in' the month of June last amounted to 98,7.10,924 reels, being 3,919,008 more than in the corresponding month of 1850. This, however, is less by 2,217,6:32 reals than the estimate in the budget. It thought that M. Doral, the Minister of Marine ad interim; will keep his portfolio, notwithstanding his opposition vote on M. Moyano's proposition, until the arrival of M. Armero, who is expected on the ISth or 20th instant. FRANCK PARIS, Ter , osr F.vexiso. The Presidential fete to the English visitors at St. Cloud yesterday was magnificent, and was favoured by mast splendid weather. The President of this Republic arrived at a few minutes past three. 110 received his guests in the Allis du Trocadero, which commands a panorama of all Paris. The Marquis of Normanby presented Earl Granville, the Earl I Albemarle, Lord IVaniclilfe, the ltuyal Commilsk a , ers, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, &c. Several milit ary bands were stationed in the grounds for the enter. tainment of the 3,000 guests. All the Ministers, the generals in command of the army of Paris, the President of the Assembly, a great number of the representatives, and all the principal people in Paris were present. A six o'clock the Orangerie, in which a handsome collation was served, was thrown opca. It was past ten o'clock before the last of the com pany left. To-day the whole of the English gu,st o were entertained at a brilliant Wjeoner given by the Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby at the British Embassy. To-night the grand bull takes place: at the Hotel de Ville. - . . The Minister of the Interior yesterday presented a bill for a credit of 30,0/0 fr. for the purpose of cx ploring the Temple of Scrapis, in the ruins of Wm phis. This temple, which has been covered with sand ever since the time of Strabo, and has since remained almost intact, offers much greater temptations to re search than those monuments which have been ran sacked by barbarians. The building is a mixture of the Greek and Egyptian styles of architecture, and the worship to which it was consecrated was a fusion of the Greek and the Egyptian faith. The very slight soundings in the sand which have been hitherto made li,ve brought to light curious statues and bas-reliefs, and. amongst other things, very euriouit portraits of Greek philosophers. M. Randot presented a proposal for exempting from the land, door, and window tax, during the next 20 years, all houses to be built after the Ist of Jan. next, throughout France. I he Assembly to-day decided with respect to tho various proposals relating to the Paris and Avignon ,• railway, that the government bill for a credit of six million francs as a temporary expedient to carry on the works during the'prorogation, should be discussed in priority to the other schemes. M. ramie= moved as an amendment that the credit should bo extended to ten millions. This amendment was taken into consideration, and referred to the conse mittee for their immediate deliberation. The Assem bly then proceeded to discuss the third reading of the law for regulating hospitals and alms-houses. On the 13th article, NVllleh proposed that the almo ners should be nominated by the bishop of the dis trict, M. Sehoolcher moved as an amendment that tho confirmation of the government should be necessary to the bishop's nomination. M. Dupin quitted the chair to speak in support of this amendment. Ito said it was desirable to avoid every occasion of con flict, and he raised a shout of laughter by stating that bishops were nominated by the king. Ito then corrected himself by saying that they wen, nominated by the civil power, and instituted by the Pope. Ile contended that there should be a similar division of patronage with respect to tho almoners. There were almoners who resisted the regulations of the almshouses on the pretext that they knew no other authority than their bishops. litt . had known ahnoners who terrified sick persons in their dying moments in order to make converts. M. Sehreleher's amendment was taken into consider ation, and referred to the committee. The other articles of the bill were carried. M. Case then pre sent.sl the report of the committee upon the Paris and Avignon Railway, which recommended the adoption of the government project of a credit of six millions, and consequently the rejection of M. Cremieux's amendment. This report will be con• sidered by the Assembly to-morrow. The report of the committee on the bill for a credit of 15.),00fr., demanded by the Minister of the Interior, for the organisation of the police at Lyons, was yesterday distributed to the Assembly. The committee on the budget has completely ap proved of the organisation proposed. The central. rsed police force of Lyons will be composed of three otlielers de pair and three hundred scru,as ale ejile. ']here will be besides, twenty-two commissaries of police, six inspectors, and forty-eight police agents. The annual expense is estimated at about 300,000 fr. The .Ibniteur do Sole says that the workmen of the salt-works of Ilagnac, near Agde, department of the llerault, demanded, a few days ago, an increase of wages, but the directors could not grant it. They accordingly struck work, and caused a notification to be published that they would not allow the salt in the von-ks to be removed. They then barred the roads leading to the place, in order to prevent other workmen from arriving. The judicial authorities, however, caused the rigleaders in the affair to ho arrested. A fresh influx of English took place vesterdav, with the arrival of a pleasure-train, which brought 43 families, .giving a total of 283 persons. The Palm., of lust evening publishes the following communicated note :—" The President of the Repub lic, in his solicitude for the health of the troops, has ordered that the manoeuvres which are to be executed in the Champ-de-Mani to-morrow shall not begin until four o'clock in the afternoon." At the Bourse to-day the Five per Cents. rose 20e., closing at 95.50; and the Three per Cents. rose to and closed at r./;.30. GERMANY. BERLIN. Ara. 3. The Corroponden: Thereat( has sometimes news from Frankfort earlier than you can get it ilinvt front that city. Therefore, though you :ire well intOrmed from that quarter, it may not be superil•eitut t. send you the follow ing inteligence. transmitted from the ....limey jwit named: A committee lias lately been established In the Diet for the publication of the reports of Diet's proceedin,ts; that is to determine in each case what should be published, and what should be suppressed." The irresiatable force of events is strikingly seen in this resolution. Even the Diet itself rinds it impossible to go back as far as as it would. Formerly you alit recollect that all the Diet's proceedings were hidde n in the most pro found darkness. But publicity has become a neeesrity, in some partial measure at least, even Mr despotism. No ' power in Europe, except Russia, can now live altogether without the vital breath of public opinion. The difference between 1817 and 1851—the inevitable and irreversable pro gress that has been made—is confessed by those most eager to deny it, in this very art of publishing reports of the pro ceedings of the Diet. It is the conquered, whilst pretending to be unconquered, and laying claim to all their ancient knowledge, proclaiming the conquest. There can be no hermetically sealed conclave more. To the judgment of the world sonic appeal must be made; fur silence and secrecy will tell more agaiast despotism in countries where there is any public opinion at all, titan the worst revelations could du. On the subject of remodelling the German constitution, the Currey/Jun(lLn:: Bureau says: "The Frankfort Diet has given it to be understood that it would desire to avoid any direct interference in the affairs of other states. The alteration, however, of certain constitutions and their re turn to fundamental principles, giving solid guarantees for peace and order, must be insisted on. The peace and secu rity of Germany is the great aim of the Diet—the great work it has to accomplish. Its task is to remove every institution that has a tendency to disturb peace. When this cannot be obtained by the instrumentality of the separate governments them selves, sooner or later the work must be put into the hands of the confederation. But all appearances justify the con clusion that separate governments will themselves under take these reforms. Of this general change of system it is probable that the Thuringian ministerial conferences (which tt is thought will be shortly holden) will take cognisance. for these changes will, It is probable, precede that Assembly." The Corresixnulenz Bureau also mentions that a central committee of safety will be established by the Diet: and adds that the communications received from the Austria's ambassador at Paris very strongly urge the necessity of this measure. It is to be presumed that this central committee of safety will, if the notion should be realised, partake muck more of a military than of a civil character. ITALY. ROMAN STATES. We read the following in a letter from Bone. in the Venice Gazette of the 31st ult.: . . Every thing considered, the friendly feeling which for merly existed between the papal authoiitios and the French garrison no longer exists, although great pains i. taken oa either side to dissemble the true state of at air- The total occupation of the palace of the holy inquisition has un doubtedly contributed to aggravate matter. The }Wadi authorities have taken possession of all the sulphur in pow: der existing in the warehouses of the inanufavtuters, and had it transported to the Castle of St. Angelo, without par lug the proprietors anything, on the plea that they o ull keep it in deposit. Consequently. the merchants Who can not sell their stock, loudly complain of thin measure, li n t in vain. The French have also transported zo the castle el St. Angelo all the artillery belonging to the papal anoY I