The Express. — London, England, 1853-05-07 00:00:00

le y,*Ste this amendrisen!, he(SL.Whiteside) votild 'nor into Vie discussion of a ..ham, and ne believed etas a motion to 'sestet trades and proteasione Imo) the io. tome tax and leave it on land would be abortive—Onar, !earl —end while he had 'end f.,r a motion which re stored a fair case Dr In built he could consistently be no party to thi. hrotiroi. 11- s.i ul l ei•tfir vote against it or yu le out of the house. It was the intention of gentlemen is los side of the house to submit to the house in commit tee aa the bill the case of Ireland. If tho house decided ag.iost meta they would submit to its decision • but they 't that there was a ease to by submitted to Ate justice thl i d u g eo ` s . o ; ration of the hnu.e. and voteY espial:led tlle grounds on which he hs.l gives his in the recent division. ej o tiLADSIONE had been deprived of the c , oo tsulity of discussing the extension of the in• sa me taw to Ireland by the unexpected division to ;4tic ; but nevi rthelees, as there was to be another occasion j ar o s eu , sing the subject, he welsh' pass the general ques tion by, and proceed to ch al with the amendment. Sow be could not a:re* with the amendment, because the prae tol fact of it woad be to strike Schedule 1) out of the bill *6 I tor: ber as far as Ireland was concerned. The hon. and learned gentleman founded his argument in divearof this particular proposition exclusively upon the boot which he entertained that schedule D would be so ojoiroductiee, as after the cost of collection, to yield no w ows at all. If that were not the hon. and learned motiernsn's belief, it was clear, as he admitted, that he ; F uld have no argument for such an esem; tion ; since he st ogewledgesi the jealousy and heart-burnings among other COWS of which such an exemption would be the cause. Now, obviously, that question as to the productiveness of o ckedule 11 could not fairly be argued by the hos. and learned gentlemen, and could not properly be dealt with by him (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) tin t; the bill i self wis before the eornmittee—(hear)-- far astil the bill was on the table it would be impoasih:e to explain the proposed machinery. (Hear, hear) ti s far the opt estion • as between him and the hon. and learned peademo' wee entirely one of opinion and not one of jut; soil &di:megrim' about opinions could not be desirable. (Hear, hear.) CadouOtediy, however, he (the Chancellor of the Excheque r ) did hold an opinion contrary to that of the hen and 'loaned gentleman ; he did believe that schedule I) would return a considerable sum. But be 'go od rota the hon. and learned gentleman that the mode of collection must be different from the mode ef collection in Ireland. The difficulty with re gird to that country was in the fact that th, persons who would he taxable lived in scattered plans, and that a staff of officers to collect the impoit from these persons would be proportionately vastly apeman; sod that was a difficulty which the hon. and h o med gentleman would find, when the bill was before ham, had been amply considered by the government. (hear, hear.) Without going into the g e 1 question at all, he mart on this oceasiou refer to two points arising oat of the conversation with which a deputation of Ms. gen tlemen from Ireland had favoured him, on which MIN ens atfl/107 existed. The first point concerned the tenant (seater'. The amount that would be produced from Wallowa, was sot large ; but it was natural that hon. gentlemen should feel a great interest in that class. It should be at once %tri dental, that the smallness of the amount would not ir.ducte say eoaceseion from the government, which was baying its operations in this respect on a distinct principle ; but it was the endeavour of her Majesty's minieten to get with thorough justice in each a case ; and the repeeseatations ea this bawl had been fairly considered. They la/ MAW toured to make as fair a comparison as they essid:between the position of the Irish tenant farmer relatively to his riot sod the case of the Scotch tenant farmer; and after looling into the use they had come to the conclusion that it would be just to place the tenant-farmers of Ireland en the sortie (isotope, not as the ten int-farmers of England, but a. the tenant fanners of Scotland. (Cheers.) He had heard something said in the course of the evening to the efat, that those hon. gentlemen who bad done him the know to see him personally on this matter, had thereby betrayed their obligations to their country ; but he could cely say, without presuming to defend or commend them, that he hail felt deeply indebted to them for the mode they had taken of stating the facts, and he thought that they had certainly done their country some service. (Hear, hear.) The next point to which he had to allude was with regard to the manlier in which the Lx would he collected. As to assessing on Schedule D. some difficulty existed ; and it was a matter of the utmost 41.:tokey to consider what agency was to be employed; and, after careful deliberation, the government had arrived at the opinion that those hon. gentlemen who exprzteeed their ebjeetion to the intervention of local and mueimpal author Wars were in the right—(hear, hear)—and that it would be preferable to look exclusively to the omen's of the ex entire government in Ireland. (Cheers.) These were an nouocemenu which would give great satisfaction in Ireland ; and under these circumstances ha would urge upon hon gentlemen the desirability of not pressing new for total concession in regard to schedule 1), sad of postponing all discussion until the bill came up. With regard to what had Annelid of the legacy duty he could only observe that he would be grateful for the 6,000,0001. prophesied as the probable return under that extension. The system of fanning out taxes was a bad system; but in each a cue it might be worth while to enter into a bargain with any hon. gentleman who would undertake that such would be the result of the new tax. (Hear, hear.) lie feared, however, that he would have to be content with his own more mo dest estimate of 2,000,0001. Mr. DISItAELI asked for an explanation in respect to this sum, about which some misapprehension prevailed. Was the 2,000,0001. the ultimate estimate, when four yeses had puled ? Mr. GLADSTONE was glad of the opportunity of re peating himself more distinctly on this matter. The meet reasonable estimate which he hod been enabled to form was that the proceeds of the legacy duty would ultimately be 2 W 0,0001., in addition to the 1,300,0001. now derived from it. Certainly he would not be surprised if 200,0001. or 300,00 W. beyond that sum were received; but he did not take credit for that email over on this ground, that the house would of necessity soon have to modify the Probate Dnty scale ; and when that was done there would be • falling o ff to the probable amount of the excess he had mentioned under the extension. He had, however, he believed, been somewhat in error In calculating that the result under the extension would be attained in four yean; it would be in about five years. It wu also to be observed that the inference was not correct that the 2,000,0001. would spring solely from the extension in respect to real property ; it was also to be borne in mind that there would be a chage in respect to settlements of personal property. Mr. VANCE commenced a speech, in which he did not intimate what vote he would give or what pones he would take, by an attack on the Irish members on the ministerial aide. They could not be in earnest now ; for if they wire earamt In their attempt to benefit their country, why had they neljoimmil the patriotic members for Ireland on that (the elleshiee) skis whoa time mean opportunity of doing some bvia., ea Me I. kale's amendment ? Ile would not say they Wen corrupted • but be would say that they had been mesmerised by mieleletr. e. Oh, oh," awl begetter.) Mr. FITZGERALD wake weep the of the Chancellor of the ttp, wad Oil lest mom *no of op. pettiest. He was he Oahe mom as he was 'domed that lesson Is redeem ensile (Kr. Dimwit% putt) would walk eat of dm beam tribe amendment we pressed te • divides. Mr. hoped that the hos. member would press the salsa to a divides. and eon ; for M thweght it very iseleable le relieve way emediseehie doss in bobad fres Ihs inseam lan. His mestkasole would pester Se lave the massidated WON= wefts./ than Is salgeolod Os an imam tax ; they disstibed the Wait as at Imdmai (Lam Oder.) It fora dm m in Thai Ii wee 'okay he b ane[— Imes to the amount of ewe and a half Wiles le yew being missed *hay for the benefit of England. Grebe thirty- Lien amebas who supported the geromwmat ea Mos er, s7 e there oat wise wield and say that he mlf ir eadsnillly with the wishes rise,Ms osodttnents ? OMIT would wet bare takes ow part in the debele had be sot wheel to mention two for the maddstslisa of the Chasidim of the . The am Rimed le the reverse to be raised by a cm upon sue maim ♦ wry large ameowll mast esisswerily be raised Alm diet Ina& of samba ; sod whet he wished chiefly ritt.that subject wok that he hoped the light bon. would he Wooed se embrace is his proposal - arge elms of leeway which was held hi martmaia. (Hear, hear.) The Nina point had referseso to the mode of sedating the Were loz. A very Legs imam be eilamsd by do dal* leasombie m g, lead bear imolai wbrillte (Mr. was Meat la state. He Ovid to the um et thee alto tow paid doublo—lbel, Ipso dm wake of the Made meil then upon what woo Mom by dm led es the Inds awe years' value; whils t ea dm ether MBA if the efabt_ him mailman esnmiad late the matter. he would MEd dna only one-sixth of the lonia made any return. sir T. O'BRIEN said he lees principally for the pumas of telling the Cloasollie of the Ezdiscaar the ► setwido standing what had bees mid by womb MS a~lsms la must ant take it Am graallsd that Has Imo blown a Ireland would derive great odosatege bon is budget. He did not agree with the km member Ate Clare ci that subject. Sir. F. SCILLY said he had referred only to the re minion of the Consolidated Assuities. Sir T. O'BRIEN believed that the opinions which had been expressed on that subject were incorrect. He had read the proceedings of • deputation to the Chancellor of the Entitles? ; but he objected to Irish cliques of 1.5 or gentlemen taking upon themselves to decide what laws theuld be made for his country. There were some members of the deputation who had no interest in Ireland ; and he ventured to say that many members of that house who voted against the budget, had as much property there as thetdirty-one gentlemen who bad voted for it. N'ith the exception of the redaction of the tea duty, there was nothing in the budget that could benefit Ireland. His vote on Mouthy wu given conscientiously and not factiously, and he heard nothing sines which led him to regret the course which Le had taken. Sc, G. GOODMAN wished to make one remark in reply to an observation of the hon. member for the city of Dublin (Mr. Vance.) That bon. member wee one of his (Sir G. Goodman's) constituents, at Leeds, and had also extensive property in the town ; but, in reply to his remark that the manufacturers of Yorkshire would be verploth to have the income tax extended to Ireland, be begged to say that neither as borough of Leeds nor of the county of York, generally, had he heard a single objection (tAtttplite . r.) He believed the inhabitants of York e4reunordered it • step in the right direction. (Gear, Sneaking of the budget generally, he believed it wield prove very beneficial both to this country and to helm Mr. & NAURICE O'CONNELL paid the boa. member for "I 4 •1 (Sir I. O'Brien) had spoken of a certain il9pat•UP a a ekes:, be begged to say that it represented as much I landed prOpe:ty and u large a prop or ti on of the In..h coo stitueney as cosiJ be made the subject of boast by some boa. gentlemen who were ottea very loud in the: be."- As chairman of the deputation he per formed only a nOatv teri3l duty, and he begged to say that the hon. member for Cashel might hsve been present. Ti impugn the rro eeediogi of that deputation would be to impugn his private character and honour. (Laughter.) Mr. li. M. FOX hoped that the ameadmant would be withdrawn, and that the acerbity between one clAss of Irish members and another would henceforth tease. (liter.) He hoped that such scenes as they had last night and that night witoresed would never again be repeated. The way is :which he viewed the question was to make the best bargain he could for Ireland, and he acted accordingly, (Cheers.) Mr. MAGAN, in explanation, denied that he bad attri bated improper motives to the hon. and learned member for Haim He believed that be was sincere in the motion be made, but he trusted they would never again ►ave such a motion as that of the hos, member for Cloame), and that he would be left alone in his glory. (Laughter ) Mr. J. BALL ton amidst loud cries of " D.vide." He said be could heartily sympathise with those English mem bers who thought it an infliction to listen to another debate on the Irish income tax. (Hear, hear.) Ile could assure them he would not add to their sufferings by any lengthened observatioce. (Hear, hear.) Hut this was an important question to Ireland. The people of Ireland were divided on the subject. (No, no.) He would endeavour to discuss the question as rapidly as possible. (Oh, oh.) The quer don before the hones involved the hoancial position and taxation of Ireland. (Oh) ll.d hon. gentlemen opposite wish to put down all discussion on the subject. (Oh.) the bon. member for Cosh and the hoc. and learned member for Kilkenny:referred to the articles of the Union. (Oh.) Did hon. gentlemen opposite mean to rely n arguments or interrupters? (Oh, oh.) He believed the articles of the Union were unjust to Ireland in a financial point of view, but w►at had . been the working of the act of union: (Oh, oh.) For 30 years after the Union—(nh, oh)--Well, If hon. gentleman would not listen he would sit down. (0 i.) Mr. M'CANN said that there was no difference of opinion on the subject of the income tax in Ireland. (Hear, hear.) English members said that they were flinching from being taxed in Ireland as they should be. That was not an, but he believed that Ireland was paying in proportion to Eng land as much as she had • right to pay. (Cheers.) Ile might lie mistakes in that opinion, but he would willingly leave it to a jury of English gentlemen to decide. (Hear.) The amendment was then negatived without a division. Mr. W. MICHELL moved the following amendment:— " To leave out ' or from any profession, trade, or vocation,' in order to add to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's reso lution, ' and for and in respect of any profession, trade, or vocation, whether the same shall be respectively exercised in the United Kingdom or elsewhere, on the first hundred pounds of income no duty shall be charged, or chargeable thereon : for every twenty shillings, the annual value or amount thereof above the yearly profits of one hundred pounds, end below that of five hundred pounds, for two years from April 5, 1853, 4d.; for two years from April 5, 1856, 4d.; and fur three years from April 5, 1857, 3d.' " His object was, that if • man bad 1001. a year he should sot be taxed on it, but that he should pay the tax on every pound over 1001. According to the proposal of the Chan caller of the Exchequer, the man who, by his industry, in genuity, or sobriety, made V. • week, would be placed in • worse position by 11. 10s. Bd., than the man who, from the absence of these qualiticatioes, made only 21. 113.. a week. This he thought was unfair and unjust. The hen. gentleman made • speech of considerable length, but amid so much intenuption that scarcely an intelligible sentence reached the gallery. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not think that at that hour the house would be inclined to listen to any lengthened discussion on this subject. (Hear, Mar.) Nor would it be necessary to say many words, in order to show why it was impossible to accede to the recom mendation of the hon. gentleman. It was so upon two main grounds. In the first place, although the hon. gentleman bad no doubt been actuated by a per fectly sincere and straightforward desire to facilitate and improve the working of the tax, the principle of his amendment was a dangerous one, mid involved the whole difficulty of laying different rates upon different classes. It I likewise involved another difficulty stilt more grave, namely, that of a graduated income tax. The hon. gentle man said, and said truly, that Mr. Pitt had proposed what was in some sense, a graduated tax. His tax was gradu ated below 2001., and no doubt in the abstract it was epee le the hoc. gentleman to argue that that involved the Wire principle of graduation; but they settled such matters, not so much upon abstra ct principles, as upon pre geriptim and tradition. Ever since they had had en in mate tax they bad had exemptions, but the exemptions hod n passed beyond 2001. ; and Mr. Pitt had grads- Med below that, In order to obviate anomaly which at was Maly stated would exist, if they passed suddenly from absolute exemption to the fell rate of the tax. Still, although they had had exemptions and graduations below a certain point, they had el ways, up to the present time, been fouuded upon a certain principle, namely, that these classes who were not in the poscession of an independent income placing them above the immediate necessity for labour, should not have this tax demanded of them. A liberal construction ought to be given to this idea of necessity, and in fixing on 1601. as the amount below which the exemption was to be ar.rwed they bad adopted a very liberal view. But whether they Sled on 1601. or 1001, or even 2001. for the limit, they must have a uniform rate above that. The hon. gentle man, however, proposed to graduate up to 6001.; but if ee, why not up to 6,0001., or a higher sum? (Hear, hear.) If they adopted his principle, they would have that great controversy re-opened without any prospect of its settlement, namely, at what rate ought they to tax the rich as compared with the poor, through all the grada tions between absolute wealth and poverty ? But he could give a shorter answer, and that was, that the Ex chequer could not afford to grant these exemptions. He believed that the boo. gentleman's proposition would involve the loss of about 700,0001. a year, namely, 320,0001. or 360,0001. for the exemption below 1001., and a similar I amount for the graduation of incomes up to 6001. If they were prepared to give up so large a sum, they must entirely re-arrange the remissions °f e ta:atlas which the government were prepared to propose. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MITCHELL, amidst some uproar, denied that ha wished to introduce exemptions. On the contrary, he de sired to abolish them altogether, by commencing at 1001. instead of at 11. • J.ord A. VANE hoped the amendment would be carried to a division, and contended at some length that the man who earned his living by the sweat of his brow was not to be taxed at the same rate as the man who got his income by sitting in his own room. (Divide.) Mr. SPOONER reminded the hon. gentleman that there would be an opportunity of moving an amendment to carry oat his object when the bill was in committee. He was Prosily opposed Mike extension of the limit of the tax down to incomes of 1001., on-the ground that it would be a tax ea labour, and would inflict a great hardship ea the working classes. He was prepared to support the principle of • paduated tax. He also urged that the tax should oily be igtd on the surplus beyond the 1001. or 1601., whisk was fixed as the limit. He suggested that the ameadment should be withdrawn and proposed whet the bin wee la costaittee. Mr. MITCHELL adopted the suggestion, and the mead neat was withdrawn. Mr. PALMER had an imperaat eamintsat, which used text is order, and as it wield Germ nap time to simmer, tad it Yawata near 12 eatek, heseggeeted that listirleses Asia Isms Ilosi S. Russ= sod the t r iair r itz.os et the Uma tilla both urged the leeperlease el melee the reetintiss Me earliest prank peeled, tad el‘milei be palpate. nom. Nis. ]ISLES said that the tatailatet Ahead the landed late nt. which paid 9d. is the ptual braid of Id. The dieneffia would occupy a semblorside time, aid he would ate miser* to its baits bray* ea at 12 &Mesh at night. He stead that the 'Oarsmen repast Plelamor et& anti mud that he weelddivide theemaklet wpm the imam. After sums asiemation, the maim ter remit, pro gress wee treed to and the hems resumed ; the ttee to sit tisk es Meads, next. SLIGO ELECTION. Tim SPEAKER reported that he eid received a letter from the scents of the petitioners ageism the !Mom for the comity of =lntimating that they did cot band to prosecute the EXCIDIQUER BILLS BILL. Oa the order in ON late oreenittee on this bill being reed, Sir W. CLAY anglind that the enurement to take the imam tax resonlion on Mislay would deprive him of the agent the ankle lard had premien him for anima as damn ratan ea that day. be M a S SIIIIIMLL had plonked Is inks assmemses Os inakie . tbe boa. member is ling ea his nodes, add& ph"s wild do, bat sot to give up an order day kit OMB C e' llouse west lab stmenttos ea this blO. . Sir OIST oil be shield hN esseepprrewtity is supply of befasfag es the geolies et aura nom The various dames of the bill were agreed to, and the hewn resumed. ENTAILS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Oa the order of the day that this bill, as amended, be . . considered, Mr. DUNLOP moved the addition of a clause to enable the tenant in tail, when the entail has been executed sub sequently to the let August, 1848, to execute building leases and few. He said that by the present law this coula not be dons without the consent of the next heir and the heir after him, who must bed the age of 25. The conse quence was that en many estates, as on his own, building loans could not be granted for many years—in his own ease, not for fifty years to come. The estate wm badly housed, and as the tenant in tail could not gnat a build ing lease, and having only a life estate couldnot build one himself, the workmen on the estate had not proper houses to live in, but were obliged to live in hovels, greatly to the detriment of their moral character and social comfort. The hon. gentleman concluded by moving the clause, the object of which be had stated. The LORD ADVOCATE said that the house was aware that entails in Scotland up to 1848 were of the strictest pos sible character, and that, except under what were calledthe 31 _ ___. o nitrolnell Act and the Aberdeen Act, it was almost ira- Pr:,_ble tat tiara under entails to make provisions for their w '''":"'„ la 1848 the question of entails was ca"' 4 ' .y considered, and a statute passed, which wu coati der -4 u an arrangement of the question by all parties oon *cerned. One of the provisions of that act was, that the M to o g n rac tgo t m a erg n A w c u t, b n y ot w t h o ic a h pp po l en g tai ive l n s lo ad s: au / MU T th lie e y v to Pr en wal y lit August, 1818. The present bill was not intended to dil -1 THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1853. 1 turb that settlement, but to facilitate certain procedure under the set of 1818, and did nut alter the rights of belts of entail under that set. His hon. friend prop.eed to repeal the 12th clause of that act. It was not desirable to disturb I so recent and deliberate a settlement of the question, and 1 therefore he hoped the question of hi s b un . 'fiend would not he . - waned. If it was, he must oppos e it, fur the reason I j u st th e p..'l only proposed to regulate process, and this amendment was • modi fi cation of the statute of 1 848. Mr. CRAUFURD urged that the clause to which the amendment applied did not relate to procedure only, but gave powers wt: ich wens not contained in the bill of 1818. Mr. CUMMINL I BRUCE suggested that it would be better to withdraw the present proposition, and introduce • bill for the specific object desired by the hon gentleman, rather than to engraft it on this bill, which was simply in tended to facilitate the prouder* under Lord Rutherforses bill. Lord J. RUSSELL hoped that the bill might be allowed to be proceeded with, and if it was desirable further to amend the law of Scotland on this subject, a substantive measure might be brought forward, and he submitted that this bill ought not to be defeated by this proposition. Mr. DUNLOP said it was not Isis object to defeat the bill, the provisions of which he approved of, but nil he asked was to extend to one class of entails the provisions which the bill extended to other classes. After • few words from the LOkD.ADVOCATZ, The house divided. Fur the amendment Against it The bill, as amendpd, was then considered. The house then went into committee on the Taxing officers Common Law Business (Ireland) Bill ; but on the motion of Mr. J. Burr the Chairman reported prorate immediately, and the house resumed. PUBLIC-HOUSES (SCOTLAND) BILL. Oa the order of the day for the committal of this bill, Mr. COWAN said the hon. gentleman the member for Liverpool, who bad charge ,of the bill, was absent through indisposition. The bill contained a clause relative to the system of licensing public-houses in Scotland, and it was understood on a former occasion that the honourable mem ber intended to consult the chairman of the Inland Revenue department on this part of the bill. He should be glad to , know from his hon. friend the Secretary to the Treasury if the interview had taken place. Mr.WILSON replied in the negative,but the bill contained provisions which were objected to by the Inland Revenue 1 department, and which would render it necessary to refer the bill to the select committee sitting on the general sub ject of public-houses in Scotland. On the motion of Mr. Fuittterotr, the committal of the bill was postponed until Wednesday nest.: CHATHAM WRIT. Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving that the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate on the Chatham writ be read, for the purpose of being retponed until the lath of June, took the opportunity of giving notice that on an early day ho should move for leave to bring in a bill to disfran chise all persons employed in her Majesty's dockyards. NEW WRIT. Oa the motion of Mr. Ca•urcian, a new writ was ordered for the borough of Maidstone, in the room of Geo. Dod, Esq., unseated on petition. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. On the motion of Mr. Wli.son, it was agreed that the house at its rising should adjourn until Monday next. The other orders were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at one o'clock. ELECTION EXPOSURES. 111. IL HARWICH. DECLAIIID DULY P/tACOCXII When the committee met yesterday morning, the proceedings wire resumed by Mr. James commencing his address u counsel on behalf of Mr. Peacocks. Mr. Ballantine then addressed the committee u counsel for Mr. Waddington. At the conclusion of the learned counsel's speech, the room was cleared, and the committee remained in delibera tion about two hours. When the public were again admitted, The chairman read their decision as follows: "That George Montagu Warren Peacock., Esq is not duly elected a burgess to serve in the present parliainent for the borough of Harwich. " That the last election for the said borough is a void election, so far as regards the returnof the said 0. M. W. Peacock., Esq. " That the said G. M. W. Peacock., Esq., entered [ate an arrangement with J. Attwood, Esq., through his solicitor, in accordance with the terms of which arrangement the said 0. M. W. Peacock., Eq., was, on his part, to pay a certain sum of money in the event of his return ; and the said .1. Attwood, Esq., was to endeavour to procure the return of the said 0. )1;W. Peacock., Esq., for the said borough of Harwieli. "That it was proved to the ceininittee that John Cotting ham was bribed by the sum of 37i. lea., paid for his release from prison; that Adam Pratt, Jen. was employed in com pleting the said set of bribery ; a n d that the said Adam Pratt and George Jay absconded to avoid appearing before this committee. " That it is not proved to the satisfaction of the commit tee that the said act of bribery was done by the said G. Y. W. Peso:ache or the said David Waddington, Baps., or by their legal agents." The prooeediap then terminated. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. ROUSE OF LORDS, HA: 6. LIMITS ON 'MILD PAWING Or TEIIt 112011 111181711ANCES BILL. Lard Chancellor. Ilbghim scams. orsinille arbirise Argyll liaddlegtos Oremarri awoke* *Ft= Da lgautry i Newctitle Maw itlikiew De nom. alo m TS7 rac oons.ammals. Omni swami& Mason - aneti Ormond' MINK alhrefaril = l4 Aberdeen Lisamick Albemarle Norwich 11.1.1011 800670M10 OIL — 0/61.11;a• Barllnitaa il ßt. l David's l'amate Claistivaisr WHIM Clare 8e111160114 rib Cowper Blantyrs Webboass Me Court. lON OP OSBORNE, nun Ar. The Queen drove andwalked in the park at Osborne yesterday. The Prince and the royal children also walked and rode in the grounds. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Ade laide et Hohealohe, went to Frogmors yaterday morning. The duchess sad the princess retarmed to Clarence House, St. amines, is the afternoon. A joint dle”tation on the subject of redoing sugar in bond had an lanrview with the Earl of Aberd,en yesterday ad bis said neldemee In Downing-street. The deputation maim&et Mr. Martin, Provost of Greenock; Mr.Wreds, of osemedo Mr. Biebardeces, of Glasgow •, Yr. Yawata, of Glargew ; Messrs. Crush Eawell, C. Kenya, 8. Cave, and Maegregor, and wen sesseapanied by Mr. John Mao. grew. M.P., INN Jaime Aalisses, X.P., Mr. Alexander Hestia, M.P., Sir lenses Matheson, Ban., M.P., Col. Blair, M.P. Mr. Cowan, M.P., Mr. Janes Baird, M.P., Mr. Mof fatt, M.P., and Mr. Forbes, M.P. Despatches were sent last evening from the Colonial-ofilee to the governor of Canada. ATROCIOUS MURDER IN NORTH WALES. CONWAY, THIIMUMIfo—A Met barbarous and cold-blooded amsoise hoe Jae bees m eke locality. Teem des widows at present It span that yesterday the ammuid platy, William William a man who bears an la" Gadded • Mai swag named hey William, MI fat of itte Mike Co.. way, late a pahllebeme, and over • glees ell ale premed 1 that they elesid amend ea adios* ampealala to NI rabbits. The tedeteente lemma eamaMed, bat " that he bad set •eta, ea whist presser mid VI, alludis le ete he had Pr balm sernplitioady conveyed ken the lea to whirl it end Make behind • veil. He then seat he come gespowdse, and the two proceeded lip the easaatra. Whoa about halfway up, the primmer issued Ids pm, and deliberately shot bossy Williams. Ha thou TIM the body of a valuable mark and some . The watch is supposed to have excited his dlty, it having just been made foe deceased. Primer thee returned to the inn, and quietly reseseed the pia to its plass. Whoa questioned area W aseapairoa ha said hi had goes farther up the moustele, where ha expend better sport. Some heirs after • men with a dn was messing the mountein, and discovered a large pool of blood. Oceriseal dro mays of blood appalls, be tracked them a essidembl. tre. tam" sad enetnally arrived at a p r r e = dawn vrtleh the body red bees thrown. Having the spot , dreamed the emfortunste young man, shot Wallet the back. Memwhile the prisoner proceeded to the tarn who had made the watch for deceased, !ad said be } rd bees seat by tbelatter to obtain same useful articles i ns tead of the wash. The watchmaker, after ezyreselar j surprise, pie is Man as old watch, an Americas d el *, tee:. niissad lON articles. Hearing soon aftw r that Jail fsiis bad bus murdered, be informed to 40 polite that his wets bed boa exchanged by the prime ,er. They the same a Ma= into custody who . u i n b e d, The inquiry s ew ng. So unusual I , c h two donee oa a dal bei s Mau in the mountainous districts of North Waft bee awed the most intense emit , anent, Tue LAW OP - BANKRUPTCY.— -Yesterday a govern ment bill, in thC Commons, was P' Anted, to amend the Paw relating to .osoksoPtsY is Sco ' .land. The object of the bill is to ,oelish the office of int .erim factor, and the as.,eriffs' clerk i s to take immediate Pam ,anion of a bankrupt's estate. cues where the assets are tration is to be recalled. found to be wider 10'„g. wpm. give Orprenc. TO CORI:RSPONI4ENI'O. & .elet Editic-- >f "The Express." re:attaining the acne leeeldeee Gazette." le published every Tuesday and ?lids" aidbt. ZO the far poet. k tert tteenteate inleaded for The &peva." Landon Masashi( pow, mum be the Ulnae. ta, Boureric•street, by Two o'clock on the tar of publication. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. I s it MIT —Moraine. lb. 4 ;at Afternoon. Vt. On. 2: NZ: ii: sia7. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 7. YESTERDAY—as our report in another column tells —a very remarkable meeting took place at the Lon don Tavern. The largest room in that well-known arena of political and gastronomic demonstrations was crowded to excess, the attraction being the_presenta tion of a " SIIAKSPEARE Testimonial" to M. KOSSUTH. It must hare been quite evident to the most unwil ling witness of that meeting that there is in London an immense sympathy for the Ex-Governor of Hun gary—a sympathy assuredly increased by the recent awkward and unsuccessful attempts to identify him with the:Rothertithe rockets. Englishmen have at all times had a generous leaning towards the weakest side—be the quarrel what it might, —and in all cases where foreigners, beaten down in their struggles for liberty, have fled to England for safety, there has ever been a uatirinal pride in exhibiting not only a manly determination to make this land a perfectly free asylum for the re fugee, but manifestations of warm personal sympathy have invariably been added. The struggle of the Hungarians for the re-establishment of constitutional freedom offerei no exception to the general rule. That struggle was warmly applauded by the bulk of the British nation ; and when the evil day came, and the combined forces of Austria and Russia trod down the patriotic Magyars under the heels of a barbarous soldiery, a feeling of mingled sorrow and indignation —sorrow for Hungary, and indignation against the despots—spread over the length and breadth of this country. 'The demand for the release of KOSSUTH, and the welcome accorded him on his arrival at Southampton, and subsequently in London, in Bir mingham, in Manchester, afforded new proofs that English sympathy for the Hungarians did not die out when their freedom was strangled by Russia. It was felt that the misfortunes of the fugitives gave them new claims upon a generous people whose hos pitality had been offered them. But the welcome once over, the exiles were left in peaceful security— the boisterous demonstrations of the platform sub siding into silent good will. This quietude was unbroken whilst the refugees were unmolested, but the moment it became known that Austria* influences had extended to our shores and that police spies were dogging the steps of those who had sought shelter amongst us, the old flame began to light up again. When the shameful and stupid system of espionage was set on foot by the govern ment of Earl DERBY, 'we warned the authorities of the evil they were abetting. Again, when after the Earl of ABERDEEN'S House of Lor ds : speech, this Rotherhithe " mare's nest" was discovered, we once more told all whom it might concern that political policemen were very double-edged tools, and that police-discovered plots had generally been far more dangerous to those who desired their existence than to any one else. The warnings were unheeded, and now they who sowed the seed of folly are reaping its fruits. To abet Austria is to offend Englishmen; and the distribution of a few detectives in St. John's-wood has been followed by the congregation of last night in the City of Leedom, —by a torrent of denunciation in half the papers of the kingdom, and by columns of democratic speeches that will assuredly be read in all parts of the cone ivy. Lord DERBY'S Government would not let the Mhgees live in peaceful obscurity, and Lord ABER DEEN was equally unwise. They seemed to think Austria must be propitiated—policemen must be put in motion—a rocket factory must be upset. The con sequences are now plain enough. Not a tittle of evi dence can be brought to identify Kossunt with HALE, for the simple reason that the Hungarian leader had nothing whatever to do with the Rotherhithe missiles or their manufacture ; Lord PALMERSTON gets well mauled—to the great injury of big temper —in the House of Commons; the Cabinet, in the midst of their Budget struggles, are hampered by damaging questions on the newly inaugurated Spy System; and the refugees are drawn from the quietude and non-importance of their exile-homes to be lifted upon a platform whence their sentiments will be heard all over Europe. Is this likely to please Austria and Russia ? Will the Emperor Fnancis believe thhat the powder plot is a mare's nest P or that the speeches at the London Tavern could not have been stopped ? Do not the Government now believe the truth of what was told them—that poli tical-policemen are dangerous double-edged tools? The Spy System must be stopped at once. We all pay police rates for the suppression of robbery, mot for the encouragement of espionage. When the authorities first used our useful Constables as useless spies they took a step that none in the end must repent more bitterly than themselves. Let that repentancebe followed by instant improvement. The SUARSPEARE Testimonial, that formed a peg on which the demonstration of yesterday was hung, had its own share of grace and interest. In the first speech which Rossirrw made in this country be told how he had learned our English language by read. ing in an Austrian prison the plays of SHAICSPEARE. DOUGLAS JERROLD at once proposed a people's sub scription of pennies to buy a line copy of the works of our groat poet, to be presented to the Hungarian exile who spoke SHAKSPEARE'S tongue so well. The proposition was so amply responded to that penny pieces enough were accumulated to buy a gorgeous copy of the poet's works, and to put them in a noble carved frame. The report of yesterday's proceedings will tell the rest: and few will read that report with out sympathising with Mr. JERROLD in the OM & ments that closed • his speech on presenting lbw volume of &IMMURE to Kosstrm : Hoping, believing, knowing that the day will men when you shall again sit at your own fireside in your own liberated Hungary, we further hope that, sometimes turn ing the leaves of these word-wealthy volumes, you will think of Englishmen as of a people who had for you and for your cause the warmest admiration and the deepest sympathy; and, animated by these feelings, resented with mars, almost unutterable, the dastard attempts to slander and defame you. The day will come—for it Is to doubt the solemn purposes and divine end of human nature to doubt it—the day will come when the darkness that now benighM the na me not of continental Europe will be rolled away, I s rael by the light of liberty like some suffocating fog. SWITZERLAND. A collision has taken place at Bulls. is the canton of Friburg, at the election of a member of the Grand Council. The Swim Gazette, an organ of the priest hood, asserts that the conservative candidate obtains* • colossal majority; the beard, nevertheless, declared the candidate of the minority to have been duly in turned. A great agitatios ensued; the civic drew their swords and attaclced ths_peasants, wlrddes fended themselves with *ticks. There were many wounded. According to the new Zurich Gazette, it was the liberal candidate, President Franashebond, who was elected by 3,000 votes, his competitor, M. Vnilleret, having only obtained 1,500. Pear of the insurgents of the 22nd ult. have recently died of their wounds, increasing to 12 the number of dee.ths arising out of the late attempt. The =e°at Freiburg state that the gunshot wounds 1 1 ; the conical bullets with which the military of Freiburg were supplied are far more dangerous than thoso received from the old fashioned round balls. SPAIN. Ma rid lettere of the 30th state that M. Bermudez de Castro has been induced to withdraw his resigna tion, and the ministerial crisis is postponed. The Herald° remarks that of late an extraordinary increase has taken place in all kinds of crimes in every part of the kingdom. The Espana states that the French government has demanded authorisation from the Spanish government to establish a tele graphic station at Irun, so as to unite its lino from Bayonne to Paris with that from Madrid to Irun— such station to be given up to the Spaniards, when their projected lines of telegraph to the French fron tier shall be completed. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY Evuxixo. The military tribunal appointed at St. Petersburg to examine into the circumstances connected with CIO late embezzlements, has passed sentence on the accused. • General Uschakew is to be dismissed the service, with six months' imprisonment ; Admiral Ifolsidow, to be ;imply dismissed; and Generals Arbesow, Orabbe, and a'se, ti; undergo three months imprisonment. General Uschakow 'Y sentence has been imetirmed by the Emperor; the sever;: f of the others has been mitigated. The printing offices of the Monitcur, and tiii:.•est all the other journals were closed yesterday. The Patric and the Siecle are the only papers that appeared this morning. They neither of them con eib any political news of importance, but judging Aram what we have seen for many weeks past there is no reason to suppose that the public lose much by their contemporaries having made • holiday. The Siecle observes that during the last few months there has been a marked increase in the consumption of butchers' meat in Paris. The supply (it says) has become very considerable, and yet the price has gone on rising. This fact can only be explained by the increase in the number of consumers. One feet, which shows that the working population in par ticular has increased ic Paris is the rise in the price or pork, which is more than '26 per cent. higher than in the mouth of April last year. At that period pork was only worth on an ' ge 9. c. the kilogramme, and now the ge price is 1 fr. 25e. The average price of beef in the markets of Sceaux and Palmy was, in April, 1852, 91c. the kilogramme; now it is 97c. From Ifs. de. the kilogramme, the average price of mutton has risen to If,. 23c. As to the supplies at these two markets, they have been during the last month sine fifth more than they were in April, 1852, particularly as regards oxen and sheep. The market for meat at the Pointe Saint Eustache has also acquired considerable extension. Daring the last month there were 668,134 kilogrammes of meat sold by auction, being an average of nearly 19,000 kilogrammes • day. This is an increase of 2,000 kilo grammes a day on the quantity sold in March. The Pattie says the accounts from Fribourg are every day more and more deplorable, and it professes to be assured that a number " per secuted" families have addressed themselves to several of the great powers to solicit their good offices. The late insurrection at Fribourg having been got up by the jesuite, encouraged by the sym pathies of all the absolutist powers, in the hope of overthrowing a constitutional government, it is quite natural that the vanquished insurgents should say they are persecuted, and call upon their . patrons for aid. It is curious to see the high priests of the "principle of authority" thus appealed to by a sec tion of their own party defeated at the barricades. It is reported that the Xing of Wurtemberg has offered his mediation in the difference existing be tween Switzerland and Austria ; and that there is a chance of his proposal being accepted. An extraordinary scene occarred a few days ago at Versailles. A man, whose name is unknown, was lately arrested on suspicion of being concerned in a murder committed in February last on the high road from Saint Cyr to Trappe'. The man was laid in irons for several days, and repeatedly in terrogatad without any evidence against himself being extracted from him, and he obstinately refused to give his name or address. He was confronted with a companion of the murdered man, who saw the murder committed, and, "unfortunately," as a legal journal oddly phrases it, was not recognised by Ms as the assassin. The Jute d'lnstructioo, in despair at being unable to identify his prisoner, marched him through the streets of Versailes on a market day, and exhibited him loaded with irons sad bound with cords, held by two gendarmes, at every corner of the market place. No person, how ever, came forward to respond to the question whether the prisoner was known to any one in the crowd, but as he was being escorted back to prison one of the gendarmes heard a little girl standing on the steps of a mountebank's stall say to her mother, " Why, that is M. X. —, who used so often to come to us." The mother replied by a slap on the face, and a few minutes afterwards all the inmates of the mounte banks' tent were arrested and placed " an secret." I Thus the matter rests. The zeal of the Juge d'ln demotion is doubtless commendable, but a question is nada whether, in taking upon himself to canvass for evidence in such an extraordinary way, he has not infringed the French code, which has expressly abo lished the public exhibition of criminals, and which still less can be supposed to countenance the placing an untried and consequently reputed innocent man in the pillory. A novel method of advertising has just been started by a company, under the patronage of the prefect of police. According to an old regulation, the driver of every hackney carriage is bound to give to his fare, on taking up, a ticket with a number, so that in case of property being left in the carriage the driver may be easily found. The new advertising company has obtained permission to distribute to the owners of hackney carriages elegaut little books, on the covers of which is the requisite number, while within there are fifteen or twenty pages of adver tisements. It is calculated that each of the 1,200 public carriages in Paris will distribute 12 numbers per day, which will give the company a circulation 14,000 per day, 432,000 per month, and 5,164,000 per ear. The Monsieur de r.cfrmee says : The circulars of July 17, 1835, and February 26, 1841, formally interdict any persons on active service in the army tions publishing any writing of theirs, without the authori sation of the superior administration. But it sometimes happens that the persons receiving this authorisation place del the work, "Published with the authorisation of the Mi nister of War," which might lead to the idea that the Mialeter agreed to the ideas set forth in the work. To =t a imy such conception, all the persons in the army • leave to publish a work, must abstain from men tioning • Minister of War or the administration of that departesett, on the cover or otherwise. An order of the Prefect of the Haute-Garonne has authorised M. Barrande, engineer, and his agents to proceed in that department to itch surveys as are necessary for planning out a railway from Toulouse t o Spain by the heights of La Glere: ' The Bourse was exceedingly animated to-day, and a marked rise took place in the funds and all the leading railways. - It was announced that the mi -1 perior railway commission had approved of the fusion of the four Normandy companies, and the I basis adopted for the issue of the new shares. Ac cordingly the quotations for all these liner were nearly on a level, the alight difference being re ferable to certain interest doe to the shareholders of some of them. Closing prices at the Bourse.—For money: Three per Cents., 821. Sc;. Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 8 103L 21. 20 9:c. ; Four. For an the d.a.Hav accoun pe t : r ce Thr n : ., r aif. Ce 2o rts . ., ; Bank Stock, 2,680 f. Railways.—Northern, 975 L 504 e• Orleans, 1,125 f. 25c.; Paris and. Strasbourg. 915/. ; Paris and Lyons. 975 L 25c.; Paris and Rouen. 1,170 f. • Lyons to the Mediterranean. 880 f.; Western of Fra nce, 8061. Latest quotations by telegraph i—Amsterdam : Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent.. 43g ; Metallistnes Five per Cent., 84; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cent., 52 15-16; Spanish New One per Cent., 23 15-16; Interier,.43; Certificates, 6 11-16 ; French Three per Cents., 75; American Bank. 6 3-16 ; Exchange on London, two months, 11.75; short, 11.81 k Vienna Metalliques, 941; 1851, 107 ; Bank Shares, 1,406 • Exchange on London, 10.41 ; silver, 108. Berlin : Loan, Four per Cents. New, 100; Four-and-a-Half per Cent., 1031 ; Bank Shares, 1031; Exchange on London, three months, 6.211 paper, 6.211 money. ALGERIA. The last accounts from Algeria state that in the neighbourhood of La Calle, the Kronmirs and the Ouled-Ali had attempted to attack the native sharp shooters, who defend the frontier of Tunis, but that the various troops having assembled, and opposed the men collected there, the attempt was imme diately put an end to, after a few men had been killed. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the Ist publishes a royal decree ordering the Royal Council to examine all the applications and documents relative to proposed railroads now before the Minister of Public Works and Commerce, and to report upon them with as little delay as possible, declaring which are the most urgent. Another decree orders the cessation of the conver sion of the deferred debt into 3 per cent. consuls, accorded by decree of the Ist of October last. The Gazette publishes several decrees for appoint- meats of governors of provisces, &c. The Ileralda states that the postal treaty with England is on the point of conclusion, all the leading points having been agreed to. A Madrid letter of the Ist says: 6' A rumour prevails that some important measures adopted in the Council of Ministers on the proposi tion of the Minister of the Interior, are about to be made public. Amongst others is mentioned one on the corregidors, limiting them to certain grand locali ties, determined on. At present there arc 170 cur regidors iti Spain. GERMANY. Herr Muller-Mekhior, the leader of the liberal and free wade opposition in the Darmstadt Chamber, was led to prison on Monday last to undergo the Punishment of two months' confinement for words spoken in his place in parliament. TURKEY. The correspondent of the Hamburg Nachricliten writes from St. Petersburg on the 23rd ult.: "Affairs in Constantinople have taken a turn unfavourable to Russia. We learn that the Turkish reform party is looking up again, and even the present Divan has shown itself inclined to its views since the arrival of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. Under these circum stances Russian diplomacy will to all appearance have to content itself with an engagement by the Porte to abstain from future conventions in respect I of the Holy Places without the concurrence of the cabinet of St. Petersburg." PRESENTATION OF THE SHARSPEARE TESTIMONIAL. TO KOSSUTH. Yesterday evening, one of the most crowded meetings ever seen within the walls of the London Tavern took place, the object being the presentation to M. Kossuth, ex• Governor of Hungary, of a magnificently-bound copy of the Works of Shakspeare, paid for by subscriptions of one penny each from upwards of 9,000 of the working classes, male and female, of England. Long before the hour of meeting all the passages leading to the great room were densely thronged ; and so great was the crowd in the room itself that several persons fainted from the ?restore. Among the company on the platform were Sir J. %Velma. ley, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Gilpin, Alderman Wire, Mr. Bate man, and several other prominent members of the liberal party is the City of London ; and in the gallery were Madame Kossuth and family, and several Hungarian ladies of distinction. The chair was taken by Lord DUDLEY STUART, who entered the room about 7, accompanied by M. Kossuth, Mr. Nicholay, and some of the more distinguished of the Hungarian exiles. M. Kossuth looked exceedingly well, and was received with a hearty burst of English wel come, which was renewed again and again, before the pro- ceedings were allowed to commence. Prominently on the platform was placed the testimonial itself, consisting of a neatly constructed model of Shakespeare's house at Strat ford-on-Avon, in which was placed a splendidly bound copy of "Knight's Shakspeare," ornamented with the arms of the distinguished exile, and elaborately decorated in crimson silk and gold. On the treat was a silver plate, with the following inscription : " Purchased with 9,216 pence, subscribed by English men and women, as a tribute to Louis Kossuth, who achieved his noble mastery of the English language, to be exercised in the noblest cause, from the page of Shakspeare." On the motion of Mr. GILPIN, Lord DUDLEY STUART was voted by acelsmation to the chair. His LORDSHIP, on taking the chair, said that having been called on to take the chair on this important and glorious oc casion, it would perhaps be expected that he should address a few words to the meeting. The occasion which called them together hsd originated in a spontaneous movement of the working classes, guided in some measure by • man who was well known in the literary world, Mr. Douglas Jerrold. That noble class of men upon whom, after all, the whole community depended, immediately upon the arrival of M. Kossuth in this free country—(cheers, laughter, and cries of "no police spies ")—thought right to offer to the illustrious patriot a testimony of their regard and esteem. The noble lord, after one or two further observations, concluded by introducing Mr. D. Jaanom to the meeting, who, on coming for ward, was received with loud and general cheering. Mr. DOUGLAS JERROLD said—Most unaffectedly do I wish that the duty, imposed by the noble chairman on my feeble and unpractised powers, had been laid upon any other individual snore equal—he could not be less—to the 1 1 due fulfilment of this difficult but withal most grateful task. Sir, when it became known to Englishmen—already stirred, animated by your consura mate mastery of their noble language—when it became known to them that you had obtained that "sovereign sway and masterdom" of English speech from long study of the page of Shakspeare,—u hen it was known that your captivity had been lightened by the lesson you had an nobly set yourself, by the achievement of the lesson you have since so often, so faithfully, and so triumphantly repeated to ad miring thousands, when this was known, your words, most potent in themselves, had to Englishmen a deeper meaning and a sweeter music—for they could not but hear in the utterance of the pupil an echo of his tenon., of the world's teacher, their own Shakspeare. It was then proposed to pay to you a tribute at once thankful and sym pathetic. It was then proposed to offer for your acceptance a copy of the works of Shakspeare, and this is the result —a copy of the works of Shakspeare enclosed in a case mo delled after the house in which Shakspeare first saw the light. The cue bears this ioscription " Purchased with 9,215 pence, subscribed by English men and women, as a tribute to Louis Kossuth, whn achieved hie noble mastery of the English language, to be exer cised in the noblest cause from the page of Sbakspeare.” Sir, it is my faith that Shakspeare himself—whose written sympathies, like the horizon, circle the earth—it is my faith that Shakspeare himself may happily smile • benign, approving smile, upon this small tribute, alike honourable to the many who give, as to the one who re ceives, the gift. For in the poet's own words— Never anything sin be amiss, When humbleness and duty tender It. _...trained by men and women of _..,..iitions—these pennies are so many acknow ledgments of your wondrous eloquence, are so many tributes to the genius, that, seeking our language at the " pure well of English undefiled," has enabled you to pour it forth M a continuous stream of freshness and of beauty. There is not a penny of the thousands embodied here that is not as the pules of an English heart, sympathetically throbbing to your powers of English utterance. Very curious would it be to consider the social history, the household history of many of these pennies; for among them are offerings of men of highest genius, as of men whose human story is the story 441'4 labour, whose social dignity is the dignity of daily work. Represented by a hundred and twenty pennies are here a hundred and twenty pilots, sailors, and fishermen of Holy Island. And it is to men such as thew that your waste has been musical at the fireside—has come, a word of strength and strange delight, upon the English sea. Sir, it would be a long—and with my doing —an especially tedious I endeavour to attempt even partially le individualise the tributes of which this testimonial is the psodnet. athere it is; en enduring, sympathetic record of your glorious task. Sympathetic I say, for dull and sluggish must the imagination be that cannot in some sort follow you in the Sholswerean selteshooling of year cap tivity. That cannot rejoice with Toe —the rejoicing scholar —es from the thick and cumbwea shroud of foreign words came forth a spiritual beauty ; an immortal lovelies, to be thenceforth a part of your spi ritual nature. it fie, I say, impossible not to be glad with yon, the Shakspeassaa pupil, as. one by one g e s made the acquaintance, no not the acquaintance, but albs lifolong friendship of the men and women of our ins. metal Shakspeare. It is impossible not to glow anal triumph with you as all his mighty creations ceased to be golden shadows, half-guessed mysteries---standing revealed as great Impactions, solemn truths. It is impossible. when at tenth the whole grandeur of oar poet, like an eastern sunrise, broke upon you—not to sympathise wit/tithe Sash, the thrill of triumph that powered you, having mastered Atakspeare; it may be, a rapture almost as full, almost as deep, almost us penetrating as that you felt, when fliatcleat the Anstitians. It is impossible not to sym- pit with you ia your hours of pupilage when you stadied the laegnage of our poet, it xi equally impossible for free Englishmen not to admire and thank you for the glorious:use you hews made of a glorious wee p'''. Sir, on the part of thousands I herewith present to you this testimonial, in tribute of their admiration, their sympathies, their best wishes. And, sir, hoping, believing, knowing that the day will come when you shall again sit at your own fireside is your own liberated Hungary, we fur ther hope, that sometimes turning the leaves of these word wealthy volumes, 'you will think of Englishmen as of a people who had for you and for your cause the warmest admiration and the deepest sympathy ; and animated by these (Whop, resented with scorn, almost unutter able, the dastard attempts to slander and defame you. The day will come—for it is to doubt the solemn purposes and divine end of human nature to doubt it—the day will come when the darkness that now benights the greater part of continental Europe, will be rolled away, dispersed by the light of liberty like some suffocating fog. The day will come, when in Prance men shall re-inherit the right of speech. The day will come, when in Austria men shall take some other lesson from their rules but the stick ; and the day will come, when in Italy the temporal power of Pope, that red plague upon the brightest spot of God's earth, will have passed away like a spent pestilence. That day must and will come. Meanwhile, sir, we wish you all compatible happi ness; all tranquillity, ill peaceful enjoyment of the sacred rights of private life in England—in this England, that still denounces the political dictation of a foreign tyrant, as heretofore she has denounced and defied his armed aggres sions. For to submit to the one, is to invite the other, At the conclusion of Mr. Jerrold's speech the teithitg.' l nial was formally presented, and so anxious Iwo As Mesh - ing to see it, that it was obliged to be lifted ifpfliqphesed in a prominent place in the gallery. ors M. KOSSUTU then came forward and wiikeigire# 494 enthusiastically. The whole meeting rose ma'am** again and again, the ladies waving their hands is Wel the gentlemen their hats. It would be i acre rately to describe the enthusiasm. As soon as IN restored, M. KOSSUTH said—Raving, upon serious honsilloradon And these almost all