The Express. — London, England, 1847-03-17 00:00:00

. tains, there ere many reams why it would be better enter for the character of the eauritry. tthere hat should not appear to have been sny atteerr.'s in this house to elicit an expression of opitlion for which there was not the most dent and India r.potaevince. (Hour, hear.) M I O'CONNELL said he must enter hie protest s pinet the attempt at a vindication, which had been made t h a t sight of the horrible manures of Oallicia, through the blood-stained Metternich, and the bigotted tyrant of Austria Mr. HUME said the debate had furnished a complete vin dicstion of the deaunciations he had given of the conduct of t h e t hree powers ; and he considered that the triumph had been complete. He could not conceive the motives of the noble lord, the member for Lynn, and one or two hon. mem bers near him, for the course they had taken on thM queer non, notes it was that they intended to visit Vienna, e nd were preparing the way for a good reception and undoub tedl y all the pomp which the despots could di s play would be put in requisition on the occasion. B e beard with great delight the speech of the right which hon. barone t the member for Tamworth, every word of would redound to his credit, notwithstanding what had fallen from the hon. member for Shrewsbury, u long as the Eulish language existed, while he left the latter Lon. gen tleman to toe benefit which history would bestow on him. (taught , r.) There did appear, such difference of opinion with re gard to his last resolution, that though he had • rat disposition to maintain his own opinion, he was not in a situation to set aside the opinions of others. When the hon. member for Bath addressed the house he made out the pie wilier he wished to make out in a most complete and triumphant manner. If it were thought proper to continue th e payment of the Russo-Dutch loans, let the government bring in • ',wale act con taining the trounde on which they continued to pay it. They were hitherto paid according to the agreement of 1e32, in which the Emperor of Russia agr eed to maintain the general arrangements of Vienna . Theon. gentleman the member for Shreviabury said Chat be was about to show the white feather. He was not so weak as not to know that great interests rested on this ann ne did not wish to show that stem was a great ausjoritv against him on the last IMPlntion, se in other countries it could not be well underatood under what circumstances that majority could be obtained. He would tell the hon. gentleman, that in such a cue as this, discretion was the best part of valour, and he would therefore nut press the resolutions, but take the advice of hie friends, and not of those opposed to him, and withdraw them. (Cheer) Considering that he had a complete to. tarnish in debate, barring always the mischieemakers— (laughter) —he would not press the house to • division on the resolutions. (Cheers.) The house then adjourned eta quarter put one o'clock. Vie erprog. The aerial ma Ow Camlenr, ilea" Game, the lonian lelanda, Erp, Adra,Oryits. ladhainFilang, end China, ea Soutbampton, lake Nei* ae the renergatthe cdhared. lie Maned dad Mak via Nandir to the Mediterranean, leapt, Alm =tr. /Ng Lag IS.. will be ...le up on the aidniefthe lama Ow Vivi e= a res.Cada, and Gibraltar, vale mit aim ree el re m rh. The Err it Me ana Illimeale lark and New Zadaleal he wile up ea Irevisier star SW WEIL alet ale mirk miwilearibre kir Yak" Narberu, end reiveri. lbe Err ur as re wieraig etre Illse March Tbe Ere Mae" Iteeresia. sad the United he all %ere& up ea Vr aeaYftre >N April. TVs rib ktrellealls, the lire Pa, Nesse Video, Yaw .. llarka. Mall dile la ApriL end Banos Apr, will he mad* up cm the TO CORIIBBPONDENTB. T.fleM , sr IltOlsessofthe"DAlLY NEWS" sad " EXPRESS " has tom REMOVED from 00Y0,, YLEEVVIEEET, to No. 10, BOUVIIIEATRICET, FLEET , smarms to the Priming Pahliattai Oleeee. ••e Advertisement. laesded Ow The Borma, Leedom mains paper, sag M at the Mee by Two dela* to the day at pabtlestioa. HIGH WATER AT LONDON:BRIDGE. D* .... Ts .2--larabiCi de 2 ; Memo" 2$ Ls. pod 2. 20.11anom—Mailas, 21 Ws. pad 2 ; Aftersoce, 13 Wis. post I. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17. GOVERNMENT seems likely to fare better with its Irish Poor Law, than might have been expected from the opposition threatened. But the Irish landlords tarn out to be not so black as they are painted. Scarcely one of them stood forward to denounce the measure, or to echo the Recorder of Dublin, always the leader of a forlorn hope, in his attack of the other night. All were ready to vote for it, even Mr. Some O'CONNELL. The coming forward of such men as Mr. VILLIERS STUART and Lord COURTENAY in sup port of the ministerial proposal, spews that the mea sure must pass, and that the Irish proprietors, how ever dubious and distrustful of some of its probable effects, prudently see that there is really no other alternative. If there was lakewarmneas of attack, there was also lukewarmness of support. Even Mr. LABOU CHERE's answers to Lord JOHN MANNERS and Mr. SHAW, was far from being imperative. The Secretary for Ireland admitted that, were all Ireland like Mayo, the property of the country would break down, and we might despair. The Poor law would, however, act as a stimulus, and Irishmen, he had no doubt, would get through the difficulty. This only shows that the Irish government, even in pass ing the poor-law, is fully aware of all its difficulties, of its unequal pressure, and of the necessity . of remedy ing and equalizing by administrative justice, and skill, the inevitable general operation of a measure which, en forced without discernment, would begin by sweeping the poorer raters off the face of the earth, and would crush the rich, thereby drying up rather than augmenting the sources of employment and labour for the poor. There was one quality of the measure which evi dently proved a strong recommendation in its favour This was its being the most stringent absentee-tax. In order, however, to give the law full effect in this, it would be better to restrict the area of rating, even to the limits of private estates, as proposed by Sir WINSTON BARRON. The result of this, in many cases, would be that the beard of guardians, or the date, would have to take possession of the neglected or absentee property, and administer it for the benefit of the poor. Indeed, whatever the area of voting, the great fear as to the result of an Irish poor-law is, that it would in time convert the state not only into gene ral and sole poor-law guardian, but into general and sole administrator of Irish property. We see enough in the blue-book which records the elections and the working of Irish boards of guardians to per ceive the strugle that will instantly take place in all—of - the priest and peasant against the landlord. We have seen in the present ment sessions what will be the result. The landlord mast either go with the stream, even to the voting away of his own property, or he must absent himself altogether, and leave it to the government or its functionaries to fight his battles. This will end by either government or popular party conquering, and whichever conquers dealing with the landlords as they please. Of the two alternatives we should prefer the ' government dictatorship; and the best plan might be fa government to assume at once this dictatorship, sad apply the property of Ireland (a ft er the present °Late &arms has passed awa e y) to the settlement and maintenance of its poverty. This would be the most somomical, the most efficient, the most speedy remedy. It implies indeed a suspension of many of the rights of private property, and of all the privileges of loaf inflame. It constitutes Ireland m the dupe of a mino r , w h os e property is under tutelage, and whose freedom of action is annulled. Such a power would be only tolerable as temporary, and as necessary. All the insuperable objections to centralisation, government interference, functionary despotism, would be met by the great muse, that all this was temporary, and that after three or five years' rule of a dictatorial board, to act ia arbiters between the poverty and the property of the country, things might be returned to a ! normal state, a law of settlement passed, the levy • sod management of the poor-rate restored to local boards of guardians, and the great foundations of the system laid, the landed proprietors might resume their influence, and the poor their claim to sustenance, both being in reconcileable proportion, and not, as now, necessitated to crush or to eat up one another. i , not the application of the English p oor -l aw to relsad will lead to dictatorial necessities of this kind we te . are perfectly convinced ; and we sh ou ld prefer mg them wielded and acted upon at once, and have then over in a definite time, than embarking govern asp landlords, ander people in a mike, in which each have alternately the upper hand, but out of which :eewill room unacathed, or without mutual feelings lad P u4 racety, tending to any result save the tranquillity rosperity of Ireland. itsleiry into the operation of the navigation lame comes, indeed, at the eleventh hoar, in the pre lent session ; but it in nevertheless welcome. Ac es in from all Dorn - growing countries, to the 4 "__,""net there is ere want of grain if there were but ve „ . "' s4 to carry it. About Ilk millions of quarters or ow, maim, barley have been announced by mercantile au t ho r iti es as available for shipment Ear n, he e °ming of the navigation in eastern ; but everybody is startled at the amount of required to carry so much. Assuming, in =numbers. five quarters to repre sent one ton, a fleet of 1,200,000 tons burthen would barely suffice to convey that quantity to our shores. Tws thousand four hundred ships, of 500 tons each, or four thousand eight hundred vessels, of 250 tons, being more than all Europe possesses of either class alone, would but suffice for the emergency. Still, under the influence of the high freights now paying for grain, we may assume that it will all be sent for ward in successive shipments, although at the risk of displacingtallow,hemp,and linseed to a large amount. But the abstraction of this amount of tonnage from the usual course of our merchantmen will obviously be of serious detriment to the channels of trade which they usually teed. To deprive our cotton, linen, wool, or steel markets of the means of obtaining the raw material on which they depend, is to take the means of payment from the people whom we are supplying with objects to purchase. Corn et market is of little avail to the operative who gets no wages, se well as to the manufacturer who has no profits wherewith to buy it; and earnings must be preceded by importations of raw materials. Stated in this simple manner, the want of shipping at such a moment will be acknowledged by all parties to be a misfortune. Nay, were it possible to supply the deficiency by the temporary imposition of a tax— a shipping rate—resembling the labour rate of each bed credit as we all remember—such a rate would, doubtless, be cheerfully submitted to. Could land owners, master-manufacturers, or merchants only subscribe ships as easily as they draw cheques upon their bankers, what a fleet should we not com mand? The tntliti Cost of the tonnages we have described would amount to something less than th.e sum voted without debate to relieve the necessities of Ire land. It would not much exceed half the sum proposed by Lord G. BENTINCK and acquiesced in by Lord STANLEY as a reasonable vote of credit to the sister country. But unluckily, in the matter of shipping, charity and legislative power are equally at fault. We can sub scribe, and can borrow pounds sterling, but not ships. For once we come to a pas where parliamentary and philanthropic crotchets are of no avail. A merchant navy is the creation of the unseen, unpretending ex ertions of men whose life is spent in the homely occupation of supplying their neighbours' wants in the only feasible manner in which it can be done 'or a continuance—that is to say, by making it the means of earning their own livelihood. Their efforts stimulate trade as the soft still rain aid the silent sunshine promote vegetation. A par liamint or a despot can foil their efforts, but can not replace their untiring perseverance and patient skill. Now to what result will the examination into the effects of the navigation laws lead ? It is e to place in strong light the enactments by the British legislature to impede the exertions of this me ritorious class of citizens, which does not even lay claim to praise as public benefactors, and yet whose co-operation is manifestly indispensable, if we are to be supported and enriched by trade. The efforts of shipowners are known to be paralysed by the uncer tainty of their prospects. But we suspect even few out of the bitterest adver saries of the navigation laws are prepared to find their case so strong as the evidence, if well taken, can be made. It will scarcely be credited that an im mense amount of tonnage is annually thrown away under the influence of those Laws. Ships make voyages in ballast under their operation, from ports that have enough to export; and it is well known that freights to England are invariably higher than outward-bound freights. Still lees is the com mittee or the public, as we suspect, prepared to hear, that these laws oblige the nations of Europe to keep larger navies than are resuisite for the average demands of trade ; and yet this is the case. Their vessels are only partially employed : part of the time they are going about empty. Nearly one-third of the trade carried on with the great a l torin= of Europe— with Trieste, Leghorn, Genoa, Antwerp, Rotterdam, and the Hanse-towns--is one sided, as far se regards the shipping employed. The foreign carrying trade is to a large extent managed by Danish, Swedish, Hanoverian, Sardinian, Greek, and other vessels. These ships may convey the produce of Russia or of Austria to the storing harbours, but they cannot be used to convey the produce of the countries where they unload to Eng land, where it is mostly consumed. The result is, that one-third of the ships so employed leave those harbours in ballast and go to seek a cargo where they are allowed to take it. This is of course equivalent to saying, that one-third of the ships employed in the carrying trade of foreign countries are usually going about empty. It is not easy to give a correct idea of the number thus wasting the time and wages of the crews, and the profits of the owners, without any benefit to the public, but in the course of the year it amounts to some thousands. In ordinary years, of course the shipping of Europe is more than it need be, by the amount of tonnage thus wasted. Freights are necessarily high enough to cover this loss of time and waste of capital, although not sufficiently so to induce British capitalists to compete with foreigners in shipping investments. Otherwise, we should not have, as is now the case, nearly one-third of our trade carried on in foreign bottoms. The advocacy for a continuation of the present re strictions on navigation is but a leaf out of the primer of the corn law defenders. Not content with the natural market provided for them by the wants of society at large, protectionists will have a market created by artificial contrivance. That the growth of demand is the consequence of an increase of population, and of supplies of necessaries on cheap terms, is too prosaical for those legislators. They will acknowledge nothing to be useful that has not been established by parliament. With these philosophers, not what is, but what they decree, is right. To this, then, have they brought us, that with the avowed intention of discouraging foreigners from building ships, our continental neighbours have for years had one-third more ships at sea than would have been built if we had not interfered. When, too, an emergency like the present occurs, and high freights appear likely to induce an increase of foreign shipping, we are told by the friends of restrictions that temptation should be offered to British merchants to withdraw their capital from trade and manufac tures, that they may invest it in shipping. In other words, parliament is expected by this party to decide upon the question of profitable investment of capital, a matter which the capitalist alone understands. We can only infer from the arguments advanced, that if no costly inducements are held out to English shipowners, our continental rivals are expected to go on Increasing their shipping in the great dispropor tion to the ordinary wants of trade that they have hitherto been obliged to keep up to. In our opinion a simpler remedy for this evil, if it be one, presents itself. Let the foreign shipping now afloat be made fully available : freights would then drop to their fair leveL We should add nearly one-third to the foreign tonnage at present at oar command, without any abstraction from wages and profits in England; and oar continental neighbours would henceforth maintain mercantile navies proportioned to the natural demand, and not measured by the crotchet, of half informed or interested rivals. We have received our Paris Express of Monday. The question of electoral reform is debated between the principal organs of the Paris press in a tone which indicates a serious apprehension on the part of ' the conservative party and the government, and some confidence on the part of the different sections of the liberal opposition, that the day is fast approaching when a revision of the present system must be con ceded. The Journal des Dibats and the Constitu tionnel were occupied on Monday with arguments on the subject of electoral reform ; the former maintain ing that the condition of France would not permit with advantage the same representative system as was established in England under the administration of Lord Grey. The opposition organs, on the other hand, desire to adopt the English system as a model. The partisans of the revolution are scandalised by certain monarchical and arictocretic tendencies be treTed in recent proceedings of the cabinet, one of which is that the ministers insist upon being ad dressed as Your Excellency. 'This point is now gnvely disciused in the peer and in the chambers. The Journal des Debats defends the tide, on the ground that in the United States the same mode of ad them is conceded to the President ; and to those whom the DEbals miscalls " [overawe of provinces.." The DEbats ought to know that there are no provinces in the United States, and that what it miscalls provinces are sovereign states, the ensemble of which makes the confederacy. The functionaries which it calls these governors of provinces are in fact the sovereigns of states, invested with as much power as the King of the French. The division demanded by M.' Lherbette on the propriety of expunging the ob noxious expression, did not take place in the sitting of the chamber on Monday, and that gentleman finally withdrew his proposition. A cabinet council was held at the Tuileries on Sun day, at which the ordonnance appointing M. Hebert Keeper of the Seals and Minister of Justice and Public Worship, in place of M. Martin du Nord, de ceased, was signed, and M. Hebert took the oaths and his seat at the council. M. Hebert vacates the offices of Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies and Procureur-General of the Cour Royale of Paris. His nomination is understood to have displeased that sec tion of the conservative party represented by La Presse. The state of subsistence continues from day to day to be the object of the most ar.xious solicitude with all parties. The rise in all the markets is unceasing. Bread rose in Paris on Monday even higher than was anticipated, the price of the loaf of 2 kilog. being If. 16c., which is equivalent to something more than 100. for the 4 lb. loaf. The rise in flour is even more alarming. It had reached 122 f. per sack, being equivalent to 31s. per cwt., and it was expected that it would immediately rise still higher. The present condition of France may perhaps, be best estimated by comparing the prices of subsistence now, and at the corresponding date in 1846, which was by no means a cheap season. The price of wheat at present within the radius that supplies Paris is on the average 45f. per hectolitre; at the same date in 1846 it was 221 f. The price of flour is at present 123 f. per sack i at the :" 1846 it was 66f, It is apparent that the most necessary article of subsistence is at present 100 per cent. above its price in seasons not the most favourable. The municipality of Paris continues to supply bread of the best quality to the poor at 2d. per lb., paying the supplement out of the city revenues. Within the three months ending the 31st of March, the sum expended by the municipality in this way will have amounted to nearly 120,000/. The railway, extending from Amiens to Abbeville, was opened for public tr affi c, and the transport of pas senger 3 on Monday morning. Queen Christina arrived in Paris at noon on Sun day, at her hotel in the Rue de Courrelles, and was soon after visited by the King and Queen, and other members of the royal family. Mademoiselle Mars, the celebrated actress, is at the point of death. In the delirium of fever, she con tinually declaimed passages of the parts in which she has been most celebrated. The Madrid mail, bringing letters and journals from that city of the 9th and 10th, was received in Paris on Monday. General Pavia, who had been nominated Captain General of Catalonia, had departed for that province. A report still prevailed that General Oraa would pro bably be replaced in the ministry of war. An inmate took place in Sarragossa on the sth inst., on the occasion of the celebration of the anni versary of the defence of that city, of which the fol lowing notice is given in a letter dated Sarragossa, the 6th, published by El Espanol. YeeterdAy was • day of festivity and rejoicing. The shops were closed, and the whole of the population, in their best clothes, were scattered over the neighbouring country places of amusement. The air resounded with cries in honour of the Queen, of liberty, of the constitution, of General Ca nedo, and especially of Espartero, who was designated as Duke of Vittoria, Count de Luchana, and even by the popular epithet of El Abuelo. All passed off quietly during the day, but, in the evening, large masses et people gathered in the Corso and princinal streets with cries of " Long live the constitution of 1837 ! down with the constitution of 1845 !" Cries of " Long live Espartero !" became more and more frequent, mingled with shouts of " Long live Ca nedo ! death to the traitors, to the Afrancesados, and to the Carlists !" The quantity of wine which had been drank during the day contributed in no small degree to the general excite ment. No steps were taken by the authorities before whose doors these cries were uttered; no patrols were ordered out. At eight in the evening the crowd dispersed, and all was again tranquil. It is true that the garrison received orders to be wider arms, but the troops were consigned to their barracks. The political chief published a bands in the evening, prohi biting assemblies in the streets and public squares, end ail shouts and demonstrations, under penalty of the law of 11th April, 1821. The joy of the population was in honour of the ninth anniversary of one of its days of modern glory. In vestigations have been set on foot by the President of the Tribunal. - _ . _ _ In the session of the Chamber of Deputies of the 10th, the Minister of the Interior, when noticing this movement, declared that the cabinet were determined to conduct the government with a spirit of tolerance and conciliation, which would not exclude firmness and the steady administration of justice. This state ment was received with much satisfaction by the chamber. On the 9th, a debate took place on the motion of M. Segasti for the production of the docu ments relating to the succession of Ferdinand VII. This was opposed by the ministry, and rejected by a large majority. It is reported that four millions of reals had been given to Queen Christina by the Minister of Finance for the expenses of her journey to Paris. The Faro del Comercio says that it Nought explanations on this subject, and that the director of the treasury replied that he had not made such an advance to the Duchess de Rianzares. The jour nalist adds, however, that this does not amount to a denial that the four millions have been supplied through another chasm& CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 27. On the 24th init., Ali Effendi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, communicated to M. Argyroponto the ultimatum of the Parte relative to the difference which has arisen between Greece and Turkey. The Porte granta one month to M. Coletti to comply with its demand ; and if, at the expiration of that time, be persists in the determina tion expressed in his despatch of the 13th Feb., relation. will be suspended between the government of the Sultan and that of King Otho. Every impartial observer must approve of the conduct pursued by the Turkish government. The des patch of Ali Effendi to M. Coletti, dated Bth February, wes written-in the sense suggestgd by the representatives of the Ave great powers. It would be, therefore, compromising its dignity to a most unpardonable extent, if the Porte were to diminish, in any way, the amount of satisfaction which it requires from the government. I am grieved to say, that France has been, throughout the whole of this affair, playing • double game. It is not her interest, at this moment, openly to break with Reschid Pasha; but, at the same time, she shows • fixed determination to support Loletti. The fall of this corrupt minis ter would have been inevitable, but for the intrigues of M. Piecatory at Athens, and the underhand proceedings of M. de Bourqueney at Constantinople. A collection has been made here for the poor Irish. It was originated by Mr. Wellesley. AMERICA AND MEXICO. ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA. At nine o'clock yesterday morning, the Cambria, Captain Judkin, arrived at Liverpool. She left Boston on the let, and Halifax on the 4th. On the evening of the 4th she fell in with a floating bed of ice. One of her paddles was much injured, and her sides were torn with the ice, but her firm build, ad mirable appointments, sad able commander, enabled her to surmount all difficulties, and, bearing to the south, she escaped further danger, although she passed through crowds of icebergs. The commercial news is favourable as to the amount of bread-stuffs available for export, but un favourable as to prices and the exchanges. The latter are slightly against us, and the former, considering the high rate of freightage, intimate that either prices mast advance here, or great losses must be sustained. Flour, at New York, was seven dollars a barrel, and, in some instances, 9s. was demanded as freight, and Be. paid. Cotton had declined three cents. but freight was one penny a pound ! Vessels continued to arrive in great numbers, bat no abatement would be made by shipowners. Stocks were rapidly diminishing at New York, but there was no diminution at New Orleans. When the canals open, large quantities at food were expected in the northern ports. Congress had only three days to sit on the 2Sth ult. Nothing definite had been done with the Three Millions Bill, and the Slavery Abolition Bill was lost in the Senate. The project for appointing a general offioer to command the troops of the United States in Mexico, had been again brought up, but in a new form. It is proposed to give the President the power to wafer seniority of rank upon any one major-general, with out reference to the date of his commission. Mr. Benton will be made major-general under the Organi sation Bill. The president can then make him senior major-general, which would entitle him to the com mand of the whole army. The committee of the House of Representatives, to the whom the President's message on _ Mexican war had been referred, had made their report. It stated that the unanimity with which supplies had been granted by Congress showed the national resolution to prosecute the war. The war was represented as THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1847. " one constant career of success," The imputation of ' passing the boundary thrown out against the executive was declared untenable, on the ground that " Mexico never made boundary a question," but took issue on the annexation of Texsa. No part of the ground between the Nueces and Grande, it is main tained, was ever Mexican soil, and several land grants and judicial decisions are alleged in proof of this position. This being the case, it is inferred that the chief magistrate only did his duty in responding to the call of Texas for assistance. This document con cludes as follows: " Confining this brief report to that single point, your committee will not extend it to the many circumstances posterior to hostilities which encourage the prosecution of the war to speedy peace. The United States buffer few of war's ordinary calamities. Never were they more prosper ous and flourishing. In a single campaign the freemen of this country have proved in Mexico what a people are worth when vindicating their rights by voluntary embodiment. In the midst of war, the burdens of the American people have been reduced far be cud the weight of any debt which war may cost. The wealth of the United States hen ac tually been increased to an unexampled amount ; a new and admirable system of finance is the creation of this war, alone worth more than all its charges ; and if, by vigorous strokes of belligerent force, it be brought to a successful termina tion, u there is every reason to believe, all its temporary inoonveuieuces will soon be compensated, and the two great ' republic' of this hemisphere united in perpetual peace." A motion had been made in Congress to vote a sum in aid of the distressed Irish, but withdrawn on account of a technical inaccuracy. A generous anxious desire to send relief pervadist the union. The news from the seat of war, received at Wash ington on the 25th ult., was gloomy. The Mexicans I had. re s orted t o 7 ,1: . ...ta of gUrilkt = cut og in outpost of eighty Kentucky men, and had intercepted a body of ten dragoons carrying dispatches from (3en. Scott to Gen. Taylor. They are said to have lassoed the lieutenant in command, and carried off the despatches containing the whole plan of in tended operation. There may be mistake in this, for the dragoons all reached their destination, though without their commanding-officer. It is eertexn, however, that several Americans have been cat off. In a more formidable affair, however, the United States soldiers were victorious. But to counterbalance this success, there is intelligence of the shipwreck of a transport ship neer Tampico, with 400 volunteers, all of whom were captured by the Moak:sue. rhe Journal of Commerce gives the following ar.ooant of these events: " Of the fate of the volunteers wrecked with the Ondiaka, nothing certain was known. On the 7th inst., which is up to the last moment of intelligence from Tampion, a message arrived from the wreck, stating that the ship's company and volunteers, together with Lieutenant Miller, who had been despatched thiener with forty-five drarms, were surrounded by the Mexican forces stationed at Tuspan, amounting to 1,000 teen. About 200 muskets only being saved from the wreck rendered it impossible to disperse the enemy. Gen. Patterson feeling well satiated of the truth of this report, 800 cavalry were at once sent off to their assistance. The schooner Ella was also chartered, and took the whole of the small arms from the armoury of the United States schooner Nonets, corn. mended by Midshipman M. D. Smith. Two hundred regu lar were embarked in her and proceeded to the wreck. The result of the expedition may be looked for by the next arrival" The capture of 80 men of the Kentucky and Arkansas Cavalry including Major Borland and Captains Gaines and Caesitui M. Clay, while on a scout, 30 or 40 miles beyond Saltillo, is confirmed. They were surprised by 500 Mexican cavalry under General Minon, and captured without firing a gun. No authentic information of the capture of Chihua hua has come to hand. The capture of Paseo de Norte by a part of Gen. Kearney's division from Santa Fe is, however, satisfactorily appertained, and appears to have been a brilliant affair. We learn that the enga went at El Paseo del Norte took place on • y. The Mexicans had a force of 1,000, of which 480 were regulars, com manded by Vidal, and the Americans 400. Before the commencement of the engagement, the Americans de manded a parley, which was refused, and the fight immediately commenced. At the commencement, about half the Mexicans were thrown into disorder, and took to flight. The loss on either side was not known, or is not stated; but the Americans would appear to have had a much easier victory than pre vious accounts had led us to suppose. They took a howitzer and three other pieces. On the 27th, the Americans took possession of El Paseo with 600 ca valry and 400 infantry, according to the Mexican account. There is no mention of their having advanced upon the city of Chihuahua, but it was considered probable. A decided movement is about being made by the United States army, and the point of attack is to be , Vera Cruz and the Castle of San Juan de Ulm. A force of 12,000 or 15,000 men, under command of General Scott, will soon be concentrated in the neigh bourhood of Vera Cruz. The Tampico foree will pro bably proceed by land, and the Rio Grande force by water. There is reason to think that Santa Anna has sent forward large reinforcements to the support of Vera Cruz. The New Orleans Delta, of the 19th, publishes (in translation) a letter from Santa Anna, dated San Luis Potosi, Jan. 2, the essential passages of which are the following: " A loan of 20,000,000 dots., with the hypothecation of the church property is the only thing veinal, at the present moment, should 'be discussed in Congeals ; any other subject which should be taken ap now must remain undecided, for we have no time to lose. I have also had my preindloes on this 'abject. For ten years have I resisted, with all my strength, the pamage of any measure against the property of the clergy, and I have even intimated esseral times to the cabinet, that I would sooner consent that my hand should be cut o ff than sign a decree to dispose of such property; but at that time circumstances were entirely different from what they are now. The nation had then more or lees re sources—more or leas means of raising funds; it was not as it is now ; the fountains of our treasury were not exhausted, and our nation never found itself in the sad situation which is now manifested, sustaining an unequal contest with • re public that sacrifice* all in order to carry on the war, which u provoked in enter to humiliate us and rob our country of two-thirds of its valuable territory. Under these circum stances, and for such considerations, I do not oppose any longer the proposition to raise a loan by the means proposed lately, if it should agree with the will of the august Con gress. I will sustain and support it, as I believe it the most practicable mode of realising the sum required, and that the clergy's property will be better insured, and have no further changes to fear hereafter." The accounts given of the working of the law of hypothecation of church property, and other prepara tions for war, in Mexico, is as follows : . . The law authorising the seizure of fifteen millions property belonging to the church promises to bee dead letter. The property consists almost wholly of real estate in different cities of the republic. Even if the law of congress be en forced, it is said that no one will advance money upon the property so seized, much lees purchase it. In regard to the condition of the military through. out Mexico we have the evidence of an eye-witnem. He testifies that everywhere it is deplorable from the state of destitution in which the troops now are. They are miserably clothed and fed. The Mexicans appear to be particularly well-informed of the movements and posi tions of our troops. They give, from time to time, the forces at Tampico, Salta), and Victoria, and many other places. Letters from Havana expressed the belief, founded upon in formation from high quarters in Mexico, that their govern ment will mon enter into negotiations for peace, from total inability to subsist and protract the struggle. CANADA.—We have received a file of the Mon treal Gaudio to the 24th of February. The news is of little moment. The three latest publications are filled with Eng lish news. A tribute is paid (in which the Pilot appears to have Joined) to the personal worth of the late Chief Justice Vallieres de St. Real, who had been interred on tho 20th. Among the names of the parties to whom it is rumoured the Chief Justioeship of Montreal will be offend, are those of Mr. Justice Rolland, Mr. Lafontaine, Mr. Attorney-General Smith, Mr. Meredith, of the Montreal, and Mr. Henry Black, of the Quebec bar.—ln all parts of the western province, vigorous exertions were making for the relief of the distressed in Ireland and Scotland. Front he Quebec Gazelle we learn that the subecnptions in two of the wards of that city amounted to 9501., and that 601. were collected is the parish of St. Foy. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Quebec had issued a pastoral letter, recom mending collections in his diocese. NOVA SCOTIA.—Our file of the Hay= Morning cAronick extends from the beOnning of February to the 3rd of Marna. An important discussion on a series of reso lutions, moved by Mr. Howe, in a committee of the whole house, on the state of the colony, for the improvement of the crown land department, began on the 12th of February, was still in program when the mail cited. Whoever reflects on the vital importance of the question to a colony, will not wonder that (of course with the intervention of other boxi ng's) the debate had been so protracted. NEW BRUNSWICH.—On the 16th of February it was announced in the Assembly that the Executive Council had been filled up. The ministerial party call the arrangement a coalition; but this coalition has been brought about by the encemion of only one liberal, Mr. Bailin, while Mews. Fisher, Wilmot, Ritchie, and others, the real leaden of the New Brunswick liberals remain excluded. The tone mourned by these gentlemen in the Assembly indicate* any thing but confidence in the government. ITALT.—TILE PRESS. —The Augsburg Gazette an somas that the northern powers have just addressed to the various governments in Italy a collective note, calling on them to exercise a more active surveillance over the rem, aa for some time past the Italian journals have been putting Barth doctrines calculated to undermine social order. Mk Court. The Queen and Prince Albert took a drive in an open carriage on Monday afternoon, in the vicinity of Os borne. Yesterday morning her Majesty and her Royal Consort took their nasal early walk. The royal children walked, end rode on ponies yesterday, on the beach and in the pleasere.grounds. Her Majesty will leave Osborne this day (Wednes day) at two o'clock p.m., for Gosport. A special train is ordered at three o'clock, to convey her Majesty to Bucking. ham Palace. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left Cashiobary park, Herta, at two o'clock yesterday afternoon, in a car riage and four for town. Sir D. Davies. Rev. T. G. Hud son, and Lieut. Bedford, R.N., also left Cashiobury-park for town. The Earl and Countess Howe left Cashiobury pork, yesterday, for their seat Gopoall Hall, Leicestershire. Her Majesty , the Queen Dowager, attended by her suite, arrived at her residence, Marlborough Hones , Pall-mall, shortly before four o'clock. H .It H. the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty after her arrival. H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. H.R.H. the Duchess of Gloucester took an airing in a carriage yesterday. A deputation from the htcumohip Owners' Aro einion bad an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strut*, yes terday, at the office of the Commisaioners of Railways. A deputation, consisting of the Marquis of L'indonderry the Marquis of Queensberry, Viscount Newry, Viscount &Ala reagh, Sir J. D. Hay, Bart., Sir J. M'Tanart, Bart., Major general H. Blair, and Sir J. Rennie, bedlam interview wilt the Chancellor of the Exche q u er yesterday, at his official residence in Downing -street Mr. Hastie, M.P., and Mr. Duncan, had an inter view, yesterday, with the Right Hon. E. Strutt. A deputa tion of Irish distillers had an interview, yesterday, with the Chancellor of tho '?4 o. Z.Lpier am the Po:indent of the Road I of Trade. Kr. ‘..7limpbell had en interview with Lord John Russell, yesterday. A deputation on the South Wales Railway Bill bad an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt, yesterday, at the office of the Commissioners of Railways in Great George -street. A ' reputation of the factory delegates from the short-time committee presented, yesterday, a memorial from the factory workers of Glasgow, at the official residence of Lind Juke Russell, in Downing-street, in favour of the Ten Flours Bill. • Despatches were sent off yesterday from the Colo- Mid-dace, for the Governor of Gibraltar. INAUGURATION OF H. R. H. PRINCE ALBERT AB CIKAPICILLOR OF THE UNIVIRSITY OP CAMBHIDOE.—The inauguration of H.R.H. Prince Albert, as Chancellor of the ' University of Cambridge will take place on Thursday, the 26th inst. The deputation from the university will consist of the Vice Chaaoellor, the Heeds of Colleges, the Caput, the Proctors, Regianary, and the Esquire Bedela. The deputa tion will proceed to Buckingham Palace at the hour ap pointed. At the ceremony the Vice• Chancellor addresses the Chancellor in an English speeds ; he then delivers him the letters patent, sealed with the university seal, and also the book of the university statutes. The Chancellor takes the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and then the oath of olßce • after which the Vice-Chancellor, taking him by the right hand, places the Chancellor in the chair. The Public Orator then advances and makes a Latin speech, after which the Chancellor replies in English. The Prince enter tains the deputation at dinner in the evening. (From last night's (Mmie.) I,OID CHAMBERLAIN'S-OFFICE, MARCH 18.—Notice is hereby given that her Majesty will hold a drawing-room, at St. James's Palace, on Saturday, the 27th instant, at two o'clock. _ _ FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 12.—The Queen has approved of Mr. J. Burd, as consul at Hong Kong, for his Majesty the King of Denmark ; also of Mr. F. J. de Paiya, as Consul-General at Hong Kong for her Majesty the Queen of Portugal and the Algarve.. DOWNING -STREET, MARCH 16.—The Queen has appointed C. Packer, Eau , to be her Majesty's solicitor general for the island of Barbadoes. CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 16.—MEMBER RETURNED TO BERNS IN PA/LLIANNIVE—Sir A. D. Conyngham, Kut., commonly called Lord A. D. Cenyngham, in the room of J. Bradshaw, Esq., deceased, for the City of Canterbury. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a court was held for the dispatch of public business. The Loan MAYOR laid before the court the opinion delivered by Mr. Wilde, of the Bar, on the question of the pririleges. The RECORDER was about to read the opinion of the learned gentleman to whom the cue had been referred, when a long discussion took place se to the propriety of read ing it. Ultimately, the court:resolved to refer the opinion and the question as to holding a conferesce with the Com mittee of Aldermen to a committee of the whole court. The RECORDER requested to be allowed to represent, in a few words, the p o s ition in which he stood with respect to the privileges o the corporation. He had received from the City Solicitor a copy of the questions submitted by the committee of the whole court for counsel's opinion. These questions appear,fi to him to involve matters of paramount importance connected with the ancient muni cipal constitution of the city of London, and were so comprehensive, and, at the same time, se very vague, that to give an opinion upon them without a case, would be a matter of insuperable difficulty. To send such questions to a professional gentleman, without accompany ing them with a case, was without a precedent in the history alma practice. The court might as well require from him a statement of all that had occurred from the days of Richard the First to the days of Victoria the First. (Hear, hear.) He earioney advised the court, that it would not be to the interest of the court that he, who occasionally sat as a city judge, should be called upon to define any matter of the kind, and he certainly considered that opinions given upon such loose interrogatives would not he worth • gargle farthing. Mr. Wins immediately moved that the Recorder be excused from giving answers to the questions propounded by the court.—Mr. ASH VEST thought the Recorder's object was to shake off the other officera—The Recounos said the questions had been propounded brthe City Solicitor, his inferior officer.—Mr. T. H. HALL aid not think the Recorder was justified indeclining to answer questions. Alderman II MCP HIRT moved that the town clerk be excused from answering the questions.—Mr. KING seconded the motion.—Mr. L. Taytime said be was decidedly of opinion that any officer who was not competent to answer the questions propounded was no longer lit to fill the office he held.—Mr. AsatVR.T said the court had set a bad example in excusing the Recorder. He altogether disapprovea of the project of obtaining the conjoint opinion of the officers.— The court decided against the question that the town clerk be excused, and proceeded to the orders of the day. CORPORATION OP LONDON REFORM. —ht P. ABRIIRET brought up the report of the committee of the whole court, embodying the resolutions passed on Friday last, and con tained en our paper of yesterday. lie stated that the ques t tion differed in principle from that on which the lord mayor had exercised his power in opposition to the strongly ex pressed feeling of the court, and he moved the first resolu tion, to the effect that the corporation repaired reform, which could only be effected by the aid of parliament.—Mr. L. TAYLOR seconded the motion. The resolution was, after a few observations, agreed to. Mr. AMP fun' then moved that " That the court had the right to regulate its own proceedint."—Mr. ANDEETON se conded the motion.—Mr. COPE pai d he should oppose the motion, so he denied that the court had a right to put ques tions in such a form. The resolution was agreed to. Mr. Mutuar finally proposed the following resolution: " That that portion of the report agreed to this day which refers to reforms requiring the aid of parliament, be referred back to the committee of the whole court to consider aad ro Th e LORD MAYOR refused to put the question, and said he considered that it would be necessary to give notice of the last motion, an observation at which several members ex pressed the utmost surprim, and some of them expressed great indignation• - OROCEIM' AND TEA-DEALERS' BENEVOLENT PRO- Tscriox Socirri.—The tenth annual meeting to receive the report of the central committee, sad for other purposes, was held lest evening at the London Tavcrn, Mr. W. Bewsll presiding. The committee in their report first noticed the confirmation of a principle in the society, by which its benefits are extended to an merchants, brokers, importers of and dealers in colonial or other foreign produce, and all others whose principal business is connected with the trade of a grocer or tea-dealer. The income of the peat year was 1,4921. 3a., and the investments during the same period bad been 6001. 31 per cent. annuities. tacking the total amount invested in that stock 10,0001., yielding en annual dividend, free of income-tax, of 3441. 10s. During:the peat yes:, four vacancies for pensioners had taken place; the total number admitted up to the present time wee 49 and there were at present 31, receiving annually 6541. The receipts of the society, including the balance of 431. from the last account, was 1,636/. ; out of which a present balance remains of 1631. 15s. 6d. The report was adopted on the motion of Mr. Kellam, and carried unanimously. The chairman and other officers of the gimlet, were then re-elected, and Mears. Payne, Kellam, and Piroidge were elected honorary secretaries in the room of Mr. Richards, whom ill health had compelled to resign the office, but who was immediately constituted a vice-president. Several alterations were then agreed to with regard to rides the principal of which was, that all elections of pensioners shall take place in January end July in each year, and shall be by ballot ; and should the poll in any ease be equal,the chairman to have the casting vote; and that the total number of votes polled at I any election on behalf of an unsuccessful candidate, shall be carried forward to the credit of such candidate at the suc ceeding election. The proceedings terminated after some routine business and complimentary votes of thaaka. The LATE Me. WILLIAM CLOWEJL-11s• dock in trade and personal 'property of this celebrate& pekter has been valued at 90,0001. ilfith the exceptioe el • kw be quests, vis., to his modem, and to his Mod NA old as sistant Mr. D. Phipps, sad M hie servants, be arms of the whole of his property anmelet his eight Whim la certain proportions, and the residue squally immeio *ma, JENNY LEND.—TL.IIIBOWinM & Unmask= of a letter which has bass dismal to Mr. Bann by Amy Lind. lad the beam of sVr your Mem of Ilth De cember, lie, 111 white yes to ems to aim ifial IMO &MIN at OVIONWiIId T erz=ftily anement Mk my Nem= kerne me w , me Tea my =st year Orme lemblie. mewl vett?: less dm you bed est at Se tbse dart tbe amkm "PM. lope trembiel yleleigtase MOM I ems repine to sew bmare tesm OM kb sahle, br ought \slim anoint ef Mim e yield yea na il bet 1 ea delmmlael you Mall not tax se again with b 14th, howler little I any deserve wall a reproach, and I offer tom you the WM of 2,01161. en year returning the paper elowd by me to the prism I ehaJ d zaint for easing e i 4wirpolles As 1 shall, in all canal. douse to London, pre*, *alb the cosaciomancla of wing done all that depended ipso se, sad I leave It to your daW and judgment whether pan will prefer deb arrangement to ■ kw wit from which you wow* desire nothing. —( 8 4.1d) MOM LOW _ - FlRM—Yesterday morning a fire woo discovered upon the premises in the occupation of Id,. Pittman, No, 57, Elizabeth-ebreet, Hackney-road. It began in Ike lower floor of the Mese. The inmates at the time were In their beds Mem. Mr.. Penman made an crape in bar night-clothe, over the roof of the premises, and the rensainarr of the occu pants got out of the back windows. The intelligence having been promptly forwarded to the firestatimas i the Whitet". street brigade engine arrived, and having been set to wort, the firemen tumid, din getting the fire extinguished, but not I until considerable damage was dose. Mr. Putman was insured I in the Phcenix.— —About the same hour a tire broke out its I th e wine-cellar under No. 9, New Broad-street, City. the pro. perty of Mem.. Butler and James, wine-merchants _ The Jeffrey's-square engine and an escape of the Royal Society were speedily on tho spot, and the tire was soon extinguished. —Another fire took place in the premises of Mr. Alexander Young, maltster, in Church-lane, Fulhim. It originated in the malt-house, from a spark flying out of the kiln. The parish engine, with two of the brigade from town, and that of the West of England Company, attended. The fire was soon subdued, not, however, until the window, and door. on the ground floor, together with the joistings and flooring., were burned, and the stock damagtil by water.—A fourth fine broke out at 24, Williant•street, Lant-sheet, Borough, be longing to Mr. Ridler, chandler. The engines of the brigade attended, and tie damage wan confined to the destruction of a number of books, and injury to the stock in trade and fixtures. Insured in the Sun rice. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—THE COLLISION ON THE Rivers—By adjournment, before Mr. Lewis, at the World's End : Tilbur; Fort to inquire concerning the death of James Emmett and IL nry Shillebcer, who, with twe others, were drowned in the schooner Rom. Theresa Odder, an un dertaker living at Gravesend, proved finding the bodies in the wreck off Hole Haven. She was on the Essex short, He conveyed them to Gravesend but the Kest fused to act In the matter. Il ls teen removed them into Rases. The jury censured him for removing them out of the jurisdiction in which they were found. The coroner said it was not the first time he had been guilty of such a pro ceeding.—John Church, a bargeman, said that on the morn ing of the 28th ult. he was with his barge in the river off Hell Haven. He brought up there about 2 o'clock. It was moon light. There were several Teasels moored neer his barge. The nearest was the schooner Rose. She was at anchor about a quarter of a mile off the spit of Hole Haven. His vessel was anchored between the Rove and the shore. The tide was ebbing—it had been about three hours. The first he saw of the steamer was at half-past three o'clock, she was corning down to the north' ard along the Essex or north shore, at the time he was at h is' mast-head, shifting a sail from the larboard to the starboard side. As the steamer approached, he remarked to his mate that there would he pretty work with her, for she was coning direct upon the schooner. When he first saw her, she appeared to be going at full speed, but she seemed to be eased on coming up to the bay. Her engines were working, up to the moment of the collision. She struck the schooner on her larboard side with great force, sinking her in his than two minutes. The steamer brought up in about halfa-mile after the collision. There were no vessels sailing up the river to the south'ard of mid-channel at the time. There were several light brigs at anchor about the schooner.—By the Coroner Was panties there were no vessels to prevent the stemmer going down mid channel. The schooner Rose was lying out of the course of large vessels and steamers. Could sot tell the proper course steamers should take. If the steamer had net slouch the schooner she might have gone ashore. Wes thistly ef opinion that if a good look-out had been kept on board the steamer the collision could have been avoided. Saw no vessels to prevent her going deer of the Rose. She was moored in the place vessels usually anchor, and out of danger. He put a boat off to rave the crew of the schooner, and picked up the muter, Mr. Webber. He took him on board the steamer, and a person, whom be understood to be the captain, said it was a bad job the steamer would not answer her helm. Robert Jessup, the mate of the barge, corroborated the previous witness's testi- Dicey. The steamer was out of her course. He a steamer of her sine so does in the northward before. There were between 40 and 60 vessels lying in the bay near the schooner. John Frame, the carpenter of the Royal Vit toria steam-ship, deposed that his vessel left London for Leith on Saturday night, the 27th ult., at twelve o'clock. David Meikelreid had the command of her. On the pilot leaving her at Gravesend he joined the captain on the paddle-hog-bridge. He saw the schooner ten minutes before the cellision. There were several vessels lying ahead, and noticed two under weigh standing to the northward. They were so far northward, that the captain said he could not clear them, so he mile I out for the helm to be put aped three time., to clear the schooner. The helm did not answer, when the engines were stopped and reversed. Im mediately afterwards, however, she struck the schooner. He then went forward to let go the anchor.—By the Coroner : Could not say who was on the look out. Did not know what occasioned the steamer striking the schooner. Had seen the Royal Victoria steer as close to the northward as cis that occasion.—Alexander Hutchinson, engineer of the Royal Victoria steamer, said that about a second before, he felt the slight :shockj of the collision, he had orders to stop and reverse the engines, which he did. She was going at sixteen revolutions a minute, her full speed. She could not go faster.—There being no other witnesses, and the coroner hearing that several disinterested persons, who were on board vessels at anchor near the schooner, witnessed the steamer's approach and collision, the inquiry was again ad j2uroed, in order that those parties might be summoned.--•• FOUND DROWNED.—Before Mr. Carter, at the White Lion Rotherhithe, on the body of a man who was found off the Horseferry, in the river, and had ap parently been a ship's carpenter. He had not been owned..—Mr. Gardner, the constable, explained to the coroner the new system adopted by the Police Commis sinners respecting dead bodies. They had given orders to their men, that whenever a body was found, the earliest information should be sent to Scotland-yard. Printed notice. were then to be forwarded to all the station-houses within the power of the commissioners, and the notice punted on the outside, so that persons missing • relation would have only to go to the station-hour, itautsad of travellisa mile, about — The Coroner said there weeetwo sawassisas be would throw out, which would make this excellent pima complete It was that the parish constable should also sod information, sad that if parties left a description of a mass at the principal ofticelhey would send word back when sneh a body was found. Relatives wool l not then die, as they do now by hundreds yearly,without knowing what had become of parents, sisters, or friends. After again recommending the new system, he repeated he hoped it would have, from its public importance, the assistance of the pram to give it publicity. MEETING AT BATH TO PETITION IN FAVOR OF A POOR.LAW FOR IRELAND. Yesterday, one of the most influential and numerous meetings ever held in Beth took place, for the purpose of adopting petitions to parliament in favour of the measures proposed by Lord .1. Russell, for the establishment of poor laws in Ireland. The meeting was convened by the mayor, Mr. Barrette, upon a requisition sig ne d by many o f t h e most influential residents, as well Conservatives as Whigs, and was held in the large room of the Guildhall, which was crammed by an audience numbering between 2,000 and 3,000 persons. The MAYOR, in taking the chair, stated the circum stances under which the meeting had been convened, and expressed himself In favour of the object, as it must be obvious, that • poor-law for Ireland, upon an efficient principle, was absolutely requisite. Da. SEARLE moved the first resolution, expressive of the satisfaction with which the meeting viewed the deter mination of government to provide for Ireland such a aye tem of poor-lawn as would compel the Irish landlords to fulfil their duties by providing ) as was done in England, foe the destitute poor ; and pledgusg those present to support the government in such an intentions. Dr. Searle argued that the cause they were met te espouse was not one of party but one of benevolence ad jades to the poor, both of Ireland and of Ragland. (Cheate.) Mr. At. Hoar asunded the radiation. Mr. J. Km., briefly the mead resolution, = r de manse g apoor-law forl nialitee i tion to the • House of Com mons in avow of the measure, Carried unanimously. Lord Duncan, H.P., said the great question of the pre sent session of parliament was Inland, and the measures to be pursued in regard to that esmetry. (Has, bear.) He would not review all the propositions of the mislietry, but it must be conceded that that data bad bra plead in a position in which no government MI beiliplmel before, and in which no ministry would probably be planed again. Under the difficult circumstances theywas pissed in, therm. nistry was comf i elid isi to m :ome down and ask the Meese of Com mons to vote vanes of the issZ e c h zf i larad's money for the relief of In the Ms slaty to by constituents, bs WWI aces i=e as has conduct of the landlords of Otani questions, he was told that he !t i ss eli Vin opprifillt OD the feeling of the people of Reglad, ems of the sham of Bath. He had, however, &no Ids duty, and he bad se fear of his constituents doing their duty. (Hear.) The people of Rath bad subscribed 5,0001. for the relief of Irish distress, ' but there was a class which had not done Its duty—the land kris ef Ireland, (Hear, hear.) The reports in the House 'of Comma showed that they had not done their duty. h was skew that Lied Lucian, and other noble lords, had not ATM paid their peer-rates. (Hear.) He had asked why this was permitted, when the goTerementwee asking for millions for Ireland, and the next night Lord Liman got up in the House of Lords, and said if he an d Mr. Beebe& abused Ini land, they would not get re-elected for Bath. ("Oh, oh," and hear.) If an English labourer did not pay his rates, hie goods were taken and sold by the collider i and be had, therefore, asked how Lord Lucia had get aft it paying his. Hie question brought forth a letter tram Iltr. Otway, Asa. tact-Poar-law Commissioner, but it want lir no th ing. The effect of the lax mod e of collecting rates to Inland limjim out of 250,0001. arrears existed to the ansont of 1 1 0,000 k ' • , (Hear, hear.) He did net object to the ammo of --- ,- ", • 4 v : 1 which had been voted for Ireland, nor would ha ovum . . ' - double :hat rum, could they be assured that s - would be restored to a proper condition—but ...•'.. , the case / He apprehended not; for the same ''‘," , r,t. ' ',.," difficulties lay much deeper than the pima iillosiek ' : ~_..:•.: t:- ~,1 was it that English capital fl owed to Hong Kong 'Th , .", , ,r4'• -", ' ' .. •,>./ tent places , while Ireland lay contiguous to one I, and possessed mines and land which could be pvgs . , s .... worked ? It wu because capital would never be e ' . .‘ ..4 in a country where it would be insecure. (Hear.) t wee said that there was a natural disposition in the Inch people • to destroy property; but no such thing, it was theirdeititm tat sad the abacus of hope *hick dim Oleo too moll