The Express. — London, England, 1847-06-30 00:00:00

V IMPERIAL PARLIANIENI'. I. HOUSE OF LORDS.—Tt'ESDAY, JUNE 29. of The LORD CHANCELLOR wok his seat at Ave O ' clock. • in PUBLIC BU3INEII3. SECOND ftrADLSO.—Poor-Laws Admtnietratke Bill. ce ODMElTTEES.—Quatilleatims of Peers (Scotland); Baths and rat Washbouses ; Pollee Chimes ; BliP. llEPORT.—Pmerngers aet Amendment NIL TRIED HEADINC.— Royal Marine Service BBL POOR-LAWS ADMINISTRATION BILL. • The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in moving the second reading of this bill, briefly explained, that it continued the tl powers, bat altered the machinery, of the present low, the principal alteration being the appointment of one eons- v missioner at the head of a certain hoard, who would have a 0 seat in to parlia ment , and there be compellable to answer ques tams re the administration of the law. ' Lord BR UG HAM expressed his admiration of the prin. eiple of the present law, and hoped the house would not depart from it. But when they went into committee on the ' bill, he should feel it his duty to suggest some amendments. He must take this opportunity of offering his tribute of gra titude and praise to the conduct of Capt. Nicholls and his coadjutors, and alto of Mr. Chadwick; but he deeply re gretted t hat the commissioners generally had, owing to a want of firmness, shown a willingness to sacrifice subordinate officers to newspaper clamour : Pm• whom does false honour chsrre or lying stare — Whom but the faulty and the vile: Lord REDESDALE objected to that portion of the bill which provided that the chief commissioner should hove a mat in parliement. In his opinion the delicate duties which that functionary had to perform should be kept wholly apart from party politics After a few words from the Marquis of LANSDOWNE in explanation, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday next. BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES BILL. On the motion of Lord CAMSBILLL, the house went into esimmittee on the above bill. Lord CAMPBELL said that in this bill, which was in tended to promote habits of cleanliness among the poorer classes, it was originally provided that all the baths, hot and cold, should be charged at a uniform and minimum rate, but subsequently it was thought that classes immediately above the poorest might be benefited, H baths at a somewhat higher charge were established, and that, further, the revenue derived from these latter would support the baths for the poor, without any increase in the poor-rate. With this view a clause had been introduced, authorising in certain Caen a charge of threepence for cold, and sixpence for warm, baths. It had been objected to this bill, that it would interfere with private bathing establish ments, in which large capitals had been invested ; but he did not think there was much fear that the customers of those establishments would come to the parish baths. Be sides, works of greet public utility were not to be stopped on the ground that they interfered with a few private interests. LordMONTEAGLE oppceed the clause. as applying a public rate to that which was not a public purpose. To establish baths and wash-houses for the better climes at the public expense would be tantamount to establishing a tenant hrmers' ward in the workhouse. There was a good deal of hardship also in the cases of the private bathing establish ments scattered over the metropolis., 50,0001. had been ex pended en those establishments; an ti the introduction of the noble and learned lord's clause in this bill would completely destroy their trade. The Bishop of LONDON had no fear that the operation of the bill would go to disturb the rights of property, or to in terfere with the interests of trade. Gentlemen who indulged in warm baths at present, paid two or three shillings for each, aad it was not at all likely that they would be attracted by the parish baths. But even if private interests should be in a slight degree interfered with, he did nut think that that would justify the house in refusing its assent to a measure which was intended to promote the health, the cleanliness, and the morality of the people. Since 80 0 establishment of the cheap bath-houses no leas than 80,000 persons had taken advaetage of them in the north western district of the metropolis. It might be safely pre dicated that if the lower and middle classes adopted the practise of bathing, their eaample would soon be followed the higher classes, and bathing would become fashion able, to the great benefit of private establishments of that class. He trusted, therefore, the bill would be permitted to pats without being amended as the noble lord had suggested. Lord BROUGHAM made a few observations which were totally inaudible in the pillory. Lord STANLEY said that the principle of the bill ap peared to be to furnish the lower orders of the people with baths at a rate cheaper than that which they cost, and to de fray the excess by baring another class of baths charged at a higher than met price. The principle was unobjection able, and in fact it bad been adopted in the county lunatic asylums, wherein patients were received and treated at a greater charge than the pauper patients, the county rates being thereby considerably relieved by the surplus derived from the richer patients. The fact, however, was, that, ix the present bill, it was not a question of principle, but one simply of arrangement, and in order to obviate the difficulty suggested by the proprietors of private baths, some condi tions ought to be imposed on the managers of the baths to be created under the bill, whereby the higher class baths should be charged at such prices as not wholly to supersede the private establishments of that nature, whom existence was supposed to be endangered by the measure. With this proviso, the bill would have his perfect approbation and sanction. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, that the suggestion of the noble lord was a good one, and might be adopted with great advantage. Alter a few words from Lord Nlwrrnsoms, the clause was mrreed to. The house minuted, and the report was ordered to be re ceived on Thunder. Their lordships adjourned at 7 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY, JUNE 29. There being only 16 members present at 4 o'clock, the house stood a dj ourned till tomorrow (thu day). The follow ing is a list of the hon. members invent, exclusive of the vsaker:—Memrs. Barnard, Thornely, Brotherton, Duncan, B. Yorke, Kemble, Cholmondeley, Green, Hamilton, Patti son, Chri stie, Ward, Wakley, Trelawny, and Dr. Bowring. erprog. Me mile he New South W. Disemede Land, and New Seeterivrtll be made ler es filiethethe el the SO* Jane. • The Woe ails MO. 111111 Mail VIM tie lllmYe. Honduras, and the lisesamit. Idaho mei, up ea the meek( et the 2nd July. The who he kIII Nee* hamelea. Buren* and the United Illbeek vale nob up ea the eteelogef Ole Sol July. The embed ailiefer (111hrsitir 16101,,Orrece, the lonian Islands, EalSedoklbOolians IlloPilotdend China, via Southamptea, whl he mit op ea tba Genie el the July. The kr the letehi t ilth _Wm be made ideo, Fermi =ffline 1112 :Z . " Milms AP% be made op on the the areleall dead milk Itarenee. to the Heditemnesni =itdee hinteelhet. WA. Bing Zees Ste., will be made up on the 711/ely. A mg he Wee Wlll eates. British North America, &c., will be melespendle 1111 b July, for tramemission by the steamer Wasbieseen c Sim Letters and papers mist be specially mearbei, °TN Weoldelles. TO COLITIPONOTNTS. lebbeeel Or The Tome. Lembo eemne paw, Mast be skA the Ofte W Tee o'clock en the eey et pebtemOee. NW Ohl pe TSII AT LONDON RILID43I Tat. D2r— 4 ffil 2; Allarsoaa24 •22. peg 3. 72-11444442 nIA p 224 3 Alumna, S 2312. put 4. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 50. I." the House of Lords, yesterday, the bills dia. mussed were the Poor Law Administration and the Baths and Wash-houses Hills ; the former of which was read a second time, and the latter passed through committee. In the House of Commons, there being only sixteen members present at four o'clock, the house stood necessarily adjourned till this day, at twelve. POLITICIANS have grown somewhat like authors or inventors in the eagerness and haste with which a new idea is clutched at, or disputed, or stolen ; made the most of if decidedly one's own, and vilified if found to be irrecoverably anther's. Sometimes the most common-place thought is claimed and vaunted as the most wonderful discovery. Of this kind is Lord GEORGE BENTINCK'S plan of saving Ireland by lending money to make its railroads. The idea is a most obvious one. Of course it suggested itself to Lord JOlOl RUSSELL at the commencement of the seesion; but through inadvertence, or unwilling to awaken prematurely a host of claimants, he med over the subject altogether of succour to railways in his programme of the measures he intended for Ireland. Lord O. BENTINCK perceived the omission, seized the idea with greediness, and expanded it into a scheme, which had for its modest aim and purpose to take the government of Ireland and tko imperial finances out of the hands of the cabinet into his own. By this piece of gratuitous impertinence, the leader of the country . party did immense damage to the cause of railways in Ireland, for which much would have been done inevitably had not the cause been taken up by such a champion. But the protectionist chief being defeated in his manifestly party move, government, though still tied and constrained by the arguments necessarily brought forward to rebut Lord GEORGE, came round late to make a loan to a railroad running through the distressed counties, and which, but for such aid, would certainly have dis continued its worts for a season, till money was cheaper. The amount was not great, the security good, the motive urgent; and party alone, with the wish to shine in a favourable light in the proacenium et the elections, could have swelled the question into • serious and debated one. The otjeetions of Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII and Mr. ROEBUCK do not appear either generous or well /minded. They set forth on the dangerous and repeal aeppoition that England and Ireland are two disjunct countries, separate in int,enms, in accounts, in hopes and claims. We deprecate, as fully as Mr. Sam, this playing into the hands of Young ireland, and arguing of Ireland just as if it were France or Portugal. It is a repetition of the illiberal cant which was indulged in towards Scotland by the English tories of the last century—a vulgarity which pervades the politicians, novelists and essayists, of the time, and which at the present day we look upon with surprise and pity. Lord Jons RUSSELL, in reply, committed a blun der, not unusual to him. He ran the ploughshare et his sharp intellect too deep, and turned up some of that crude, philosophic soil, which does not mingle well with the surface earth of the politicians. The same error was committed in the Portuguese debate, in which the Premier and Mr. MACAULAY entered, unfortunately, into the theory of interventiod. So did Lord JOHN'S philosophy establish, far too nobly and too eloquently, England's obligation to aid Ireland. The theory that government could do much for a people, beyond the mere preservation of peace and order, grated upon the prejudices of econo mist and political economist. And quite a storm arose against the philosophy of Lord does RUSSELL. Mr. CARDWELL came out very warm upon the sub ject, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM made a very unfair attack. He actually censured the government for not refusing this half million to a solvent railroad, in order to give it to the reclamation of waste lands and to emigration. Who was it that killed in its infancy, with a most unfeeling joke, this very reclamation of waste land scheme? other than Sir ROBERT PEEL, Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S colleague, who, with a laugh, in which the house joined, besought the government to sink no money in Irish bogs. Then, as to emigration, which seems likely to be Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S hobby, es railroad loans prove Lord GEORGE BENTINCK'S, Mr. DISRAELI seems to have disposed of that for the present, as summarily as Sir ROBERT PEEL, in the beginning et the session, disposed of the question of reclamation. Although Lord GEORGE BENTINCK rides his rail road hobby rather hard and out of season, it would be unfair not to do justice to his masterly and clear exposure and refutation of the Lust humbug of the currency doctors, that railroads have swallowed up our floating capital, without setting free a still larger amountof capital, fired by the former wretched system of transport, and slow-coach communication. But this subject is worthy of a special notice. MR. MACGREGOR has reason to be grateful to Mr. 'NomAs DUNCOSIBE. Whatever the object of the question relative to the Glasgow election put by that gentleman to LORD Jous RUSSELL on Monday night, or by whomsoever prompted, the premiers reply establishes beyond question the entire independence of Mr. MACGREGOR'S position. Lord JOHN declined to express any opinion as to the legality of the permanent secretary of the Baird of Trade holding a seat in parliament, on the ground that Mr. MACGREGOR, when he intimated to him hie intention to stand for Glasgow, intimated at the same time his purpose of resigning the appointment of were tary should he be elected. Mr. MACGREGOR'S pe sition, therefore, is this—Conscious of talents for public baldness, and taking pre= their exercise, he wishes to remain in the public ser vice. He would prefer being a member of the legis lature, but if unable to obtain a seat, the post of usefulness next in his estimation is such an office as he now fills. And he very wisely determines not to throw away the one before he has made sure of the other. For our own part, believing that there is no law to prevent a Secretary of the Board of Trade sitting in parliament, we see nothing inexpedient in it either. His official pursuits are eminently , calculated to qualify him for communicating useful information in debate, and suggesting improvements iu legislation on commercial and financial subjects. If be can find a constituency which has confidence in his personal integrity, and sympathy with his political views and convictions, why should they not be at liberty to re turn him? Ile is quite as trustworthy and likely to be useful as a party lawyer, and far more so than many inexperienced sprigs of nobility, who are daily put forward to increase the number of a party's votes in parliament The cause of Mr. MACGREGOR is the cause of every man who would see the balance fairly held between capacity and connexions. At the same time we do not mean to question the premier's right to decide as he has done. An official, responsible to a large constituency, may both hamper and be hampered by. a ministerial connexion, and either party may, without just ground of complaint, render the advent of such embarrassment impossible, by at once putting an end to the connexion. The constituency of Glasgow, however, will remember that Lord J. ResseLL has admitted that this was his wish in the case of Mr. MACGREGOR. They are thus made aware that Mr. MACGREGOR is an entirely independent candidate, perfectly free to act up to his avowed principles aad opinions. Can those anony mous defamers, who have been attempting to affix to him the character of a "crouching" placeman, say as much ? Or are they not rather, by their own admission, subservient instruments of " the legitimate -, anagement" of "great party interests?" SOME years ago, Mr. CHARLES BULLER called the emigration of the day, a " shovelling out of paupers." He might call that of the present year "the empty ing of a lazar-house." The intelligence that reaches us both from the United States and the British North American provinces, of the condition in which the e migrant ships, and their human cargoes, are arria ing there, can be compared with nothing but the dead carts of London in the time of the greet Owe, which carried out to the charnel-field, in mane fit. termixture, the quick and the dead together. From the New York papers, it appears that about 60,000 emigrants landed in that city between the Ist of January and 31st of May last; that about 700 of the emigrants, who embarked, died on the mop ; that of those who landed, about 1,300 were sent to the hospital, sick ; and that about 100 of these had died. The latest accounts from Quebec estimate the num ber of emigrants arrived, at 30,000; the number of deaths on shore and at sea, 3,000. The number of deaths in hospital at Grosse Isle, during the week ending June 11, was 119 ; the number of deaths on board the 30 vessels performing quarantine there, could not be ascertained, bat was known to be greater. On one day there were 128 funerals. The statistics of death from the other Atlantic ports of North America are not so exact; but from Baltimore, Boston, St. John's, Halifax, Miramichi, there comes one unvary ing. story of the immense numbers of emigrants arriving, of the numerous deaths at sea, of the preva lence of fever and death among those who have landed. We noticed in our yesterday's publication, the case of the ship Looehtank, frem Dublin, in which 117 passengers out of 467 died daring the seven weeks' voyage, and 40 daring the week after its arrival at Miramichi. A report had gained ground in some quarters that the disease was typhus, and there may . have been some cases. But in the immense majority of in stances the " ship fever," as it has been called, ap pears to be a peculiar febrile affection, developed among the crowded inmates of ships, by anxiety and discomfort acting upon constitutions brought down by long-continued inanition. The future of the survivors may be such as to make them yet envy those who have escaped by so speedy a termination of their sufferings. Accounts from Quebec and Montreal state that numbers have perished on the passage between Quebec and Mon treal. The majority of the emigrants are poor—many may be called destitute. How many may not lay them down and die by the way-side before reaching their destination in the interior? Apart altogether from considerations of humanity, is there not something in these details to excite a manse of shame in every Englishman ? Complaints are not unnaturally made both in the United States and Britishprovinces that we are heartlessly sending our laws and destitute to die among them, in order that nor lack of charity may not be punished by the pain the spectacle of their suffering is calculated to excite. It was known months before the emigration season opened, that the emigration of 1847 would im measurably exceed that of any preceding year : were any additional precautions taken to guard against the increased risk of sickness and suffering in the circum stances of that emigration ? The inspecting-staffl under the Passengers Act, was proved, last year, by the experience of the Sarah and Elizabeth, and other emigrant ships, to be inadequate even for the average' emigration of the year: has it been increased in propor tion to the augmented number of voluntary exiles ? The emigrant snips to British North America were relieved a year or two ago from the necessity of carrying a surgeon : have they been desired to pro vide medical assistance in a MOM when it is 41111044 THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY certain that a number of their passengers ms the privations they hew. emdergone, oury t of lethal disease in their constitutions? The Paris journals and our correspondence of Mon. I day have arrived. The Minister of the Interior having disavowed all knowledge of the bribe of 4,0001. alleged to have been given for obtaining the license for the new opera-hone, M. Thibandeau, one of the parties concerned, has published a letter to M. Du chitel, the minister who made the disavowal. A telegraphic despatch, received in Paris on Sun day evening, armoured that disturbances, the alleged cause of which is the dearnees of bread, had brokeu out at Mulhaueen, where the interference of the military was resorted to. The shops of several bakers and wine-sellers were pillaged. The colonel of the lath Light Infantry, who commanded the troops called out, was assailed by the mob, and, it is said, wounded in the face. Tho troops fired on the populace, three or four of whom were killed. BERLIN, JrNr. 26. The first session of the combined estates of Prussia will terminate to-morrow. Your readers are aware that both chambers petitioned the King to dispense with their appointing a standing committee, and to assent to certain modifications of the constituent ordinance of 3rd February. On the afternoon of yesterday a royal message, a hasty translation of which 1 subioin, was forwarded to the estates, the effect of which was, to induce all the provinces to elect deputies to the standing committee, the dela pies of the towns of the Rhine province alone refus ing to concur. We, Frederick William, &c. &c., to our faithful estates in the first diet assembled, preeting.—The petition of the 23ed inst., which we have received, respecting the modification of the letter patent and of the ordonnances of the 3rd of February, has made us acquainted with the doubts raised in the minds of our faithful estates by the contents of the ninth section of the ordonnance on the convocation of the general I diet. In order to remove those doubts, we hereby declare that, with reference to the right of co-operation granted by the law of June 5, 1823, the law of Feb. 3 not only refrains from any restrictive measures, but that, on the walmity, it renders that right applicable to all the general laws and to all the ordonnances concerning changes in taxa tion. That right has been granted by the law of Feb. 3 to the united diet and to the committees, so far as they do not militate on that point against the attributes of the provincial diets . The proof will be found in the 12th section sttheordonnance on the formation of the united diet, and the 3rd artfale of the ordonnance on the convocation of the coin. mittens (Ausschiisse) ; the said 9th section of the ordonnance does not contain, therefore, in say way, the least diminution of the rights of the estates, bat, on the contrary, it gives them a greater extension. With respect to the anxiety of one estate regarding the alleged diminution of their rights by that portion of the 9th ordonnance, which, it is said, does not extend to them the same privileges with reference to in direct taxation and the national demesnes which are granted with regard to direct taxation, we are desirous of removing that anxiety also by declaring that, when we made that arrangement, we had no idea of introducing any changes in the laws and in the relations which prevail with respect to the demesnes and indirect taxes—laws which are not altered in any way by the ordonnance of Feb. 3. With regard to the required changes in our law of Feb. 3, we have already made known to our faithful estates in our opening speech, and in our reply to the address, that we shall be only guided by riper experience in proceeding to the further development of this new constitutional work,—a work which we have ourselves seen is capable of ame lioration. Faithful to that resolution, and mindful of our assertion that we should gladly convoke the united diet more frequently, we shall take into serious con sideration the expressed wishes of our faithful estates regard ing the periodical convocation of the diet, and the limitation of the rights of the permanent committee, reserving to our selves to keep the resolution on that subject secret until the ordonnancos of the 3rd of February have been fully carried into execution. We have been requested by our faithful estates, in their petition of the 23rd inst., " To dispense with the nomination of the committees of the estates until we have announced our resolution with respect to the preceding questions." We shall observe, in reply, that the request re lative to the committee, and to the changes which our faith ful estates are desirous of introducing into the previsions regulating the organisation and the efficiency of that com mittee, has not reached us. With regard to the wish of our faithful estates not to nominate the committee, we cannot comply with it, solely because we intend to submit to that committee a project of law oa the criminal code, a question on which the provincial estates have already expressed their opinions, and for the discussion of which we shall shortly assemble the committee. We therefore invite our faithful estates to proceed to the election of the committee, under the direction of their respective marshals. ROME, JUNE 18. While you are celebrating the victory of Waterloo, we have been engaged here in commemorating the anniversary of last year's amnesty, the first act of our new sovereign, who then struck the key-note of his glorious reign. One would think that we ought to be, 133 , this time, tired of festos, ovations, and public re joicings; but we have no sooner hailed one great achievement of Pius, than we are impelled to cele brate another and another: " still they come," and we must again " hang out the banner on the castle walls." One thousand crowns prize was offered for the best ode on the great exploits of the Grand Conde, in his youthful dalliance with victory. It was awarded to a poet from Gascony, for the follow ing lines : Pour Water taut de rertua. Tant de hauls faits et tent de slob*, Kills fens:—parbleo! salts eras Oe meet pas on ssu par riotous! Such is oar case. We are exhausted in our means of testifying fit appreciation—bankrupts in gratitude. We made an effort yesterday: 1,500 musical ama teurs, and it is easy to get together that number here, all more or law vocalists, put themselves in training beforehand, and executed under the balcony of the Quirinal a monster anthem in honour of the great deliverer. The standard brought hither from Bo logna was plucked from the Capitol and placed in the van of a gorgeous processional march ; thence to the baths of Diocletian, and is those gigan tic halls which the genius of Buonerotti has restored to more than Roman grandeur, the anthem was reamed and shook the vaulted roofs of the imperial structure. Vespers were sung by a whole population in a way that would have astonished the old Pagan persecutor. In the evening the illumination was a truly wonderful affair: not a lane or alley that was not radiant; but the Jews outshone us all. Their Ghetto being an obscure hole, embosomed in desola tion, and almost under the bed of the Tiber, afforded a grand opportunity for a scientific exhibition of chiaroscuro. Rembrandt and Gherardo dells notti were cast into the shade by Hebrew ingenuity on this occasion. The effect of a lanthom on a pole, draped in an old blanket, and stuck up in a lone churchyard, is known to most coun try gentlemen. Equally sublime and terrific was the glare in the Ghetto. A fish hung against the wall of a dark room sometimes grows awfully phosphorescent, and the race of Abraham could well afford to shine out on this occasion, immense sums having found their way into Israel's pockets for the purchase of old tapestry to line the exterior of palaces, and hang from balconies, on the passage of the procession. This trade has been enormous for the last year, and there is not an old rag of embroidered silk or arras to be had now in that once celebrated emporium—a hint to Holy well-street. I told you lately how Pius refused to deliver up Marquis Dragonetti to the tender mercies of his most lazzaronic majesty ; but I am sorry to be obliged to add that this Neapolitan nobleman has been going on a little too fast here for our lees enuthern latitude, and the consequence has been a message from the Pope a few days ago, giving him a caution, and con veying to him the query, whether it was good taste in him, a stranger, to attempt so prominent a part in the management of public matters at Rome ? The hint has operated like magic, and Dragonetti has given up the torch of incendiary politics for the calm cigar of coutemplative repose. It will be news for your Roman catholic readers in Scotland, in which thrifty kingdom your paper is understood to reign paramount, that Bishop Murdoch of Glasgow has got for coadjutor bishop, yesterday, Rev. Mr. Smith, of Airdrie—his bolls are on the road. Overbech has just executed one of those graceful , and touching little outline drawings in which his real genius is conspicuous, and his present effort will be shortly known extensively in Edinburgh. Bishop Gillies, who is personally a most amiable and kindly man, fall of zeal for bettering the operative classes, has founded, it appears, a sort of holy guild in modern Athens, and prizes are given Co those of the brotherhood who excel in " thrift and cleanliness." Overbech was asked by the patriotic prelate to furnish the design for a medal to be dis tributed on these occasions, and I have seen the result. It is the holy dwelling at Nazareth displaying a , modest but neat interior ; Mary is at her distaff on the right, Joseph plying his axe on the left, and the mysterious young iadweller among men is humbly engaged sweeping the chips of wood from the earthen floor with simple dignity. The general effect is har monious and beautiful. Young Dan and his reverend companion have had EVENING, JUNE 30, 1847. their audience at the Quirinal, but, as I apprehend, Dr. Miley will wish to figure as the exclusive Xeno phon of this modern Anabasis. I leave it to him al t e l t e ker s for free traders! There has been a grand customs union, or gollverein, established in Italy, between the dominions of Lucca and Tuscany. The grand-duke and the Li•tle One have knocked down mutually their tax-g►thering sentry-boxes, and a mil lennium of unrestricted commerce is at hand. What the previous trade wu I can't tell. But this step is a I really important one, as preparatory to the abolition of the lottery, a point on which Tuscany could not act without the concurrence of Lucca, for obvious reasons. Once the lottery stigmatised in Central Italy, it must go down through the whole peninsula —a blessing devoutly to he prayed for. This paltry penny gambling has done more harm than plague, pestilence, or famine elsewhere. The new Cardinal Balaffi is an instance of literary merit meeting due appreciation. Besides numerous pamphlets on political subjects, he has written two volumes of a history of the Spaniards in America, and is engaged on a third. The weather has become cool and pleasant. The corn is all cut and garnered up round Rome. Wine and oil are likely to be abundant. MONTREAL, IFNI& 14, 1847. The parliament was duly opened on the 2nd inst. [Our correspondent here inserts the governor's speech, the substance of which—as received by the Mannion— we pub lished some time ago]. The speech, after the most approved home models, cautiously avoids topics of political hostility. After a four nights' debate on amendments introduced by Mr. Baldwin, a division gave a majority in favour of the ministry of two. Mr. Sherwood, who, took the office of attorney-gcneral, West, in place of Mr. Draper, elevated to the bench on the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Justice Hagerman, had not then arrived from his election at Toronto. His presence would have lifted the ministerial majority to three ; and that number, should it be maintaieed, will be sufficient to enable the government to work through with the necessary business of the session. it is, however, problematical if the majority will be maintained. The loose fish become very lively and loose when parties are so nearly balanced, and very difficult to manage. By loose fish I understand that class of men, to be found everywhere, who do not give their support to a party from principle, but from a lively expectation of what personal ad vantage they can derive from their parliamentary services. The real strength of parties will not be determined, nor can there be any settled government, until& dissolution shall have tested the question ; and there is so little real difference in essentials between the opposing parties that it would be very difficult to say which would be likely to have the advantage in a general election. Lord Elgin observes a very dignified and constitutional neutrality with respect to elections, and seems resolved in no manner to bring his personal influence to bear in any of the question, of the day. This course of proceeding wins for him much of the respect and confidence of the opposition, who have made a special grievance of the personal interference of go vernors in party electoral contests, and who contend that it is a point of honour in a governor to be a mere spec tator of the constitutional struggle between different parties in the state, without corruptly throwing the weight of his personal influence into the scale on either side, but simply coming forward to exercise the functions assigned to his office upon the few occasions contemplated by the constitu tion. In the opinion of the opposition, indeed, the office is one more of honour and dignity than active partisanship in the arena of political conflict, with certain added potential prerogatives, however, of inestimable utility for the pre servation of order upon occasions. In the lengthened debate, which turned mostly upon the right of a ministry to continue to hold their places when so inadequately supported, and upon the impropriety of Mr. Draper remaining in the house to vote after be had virtually accepted the judgeship, and • new writ had been issued for his constituency, but little allusion was made to the minis teriel negotiations with Mr. Caron for the admission of cer tsin French leaders to the executive council. A full debate will no doubt take plac3 upon that question, the correspondence having been laid on the table of the two houses. The following is the memorandum banded by Lord Elgin to Mr. Morin : Cosrumerisi. ftexorissnum.—The governor-general is sincerely desirous that in the administration of the affairs of the province, the interests and feelings of that important section of the inhabitants winch is of French origin should meet with the tallest attention and consideration. It would be very vat lackey to kiln, therefore, to have the mean. of including is his executive council some of those gentlemen who enjoy in a high degree their esteem and confidence. lie has roma to believe that this object might under existing cir cumstances be accomplished with crest advantage to the public, and on terms that would be fair both to them and the members of the prevent council. The governor-general has too sincere a respect for the gentlemen to whom he addresses himself, to ask their assent to any proposal involving a sacrifice of principle. But in inviting them to consider the practicability of scat an arrangement as he has sug gested, and to favour him with their ae..timente thereupon, he desires to express kin confident hope that objectiocis founded on personal or party differences If such exist) will yield tattle dictates of parted= and public duty.—Monalands, Feb. 23, 1047. To this, as yen have been already informed, Mr. Morin gave a brief reply in the negative. That reply has not yet transpired, but its substance is perfectly well known. After receiving Mr. Morin's negative, his excellency seems to have thought he could go no further in the intended negotiation, and he handed the matter over to his council, who took upon themselves to transmit the memorandum to Mr.Csron at Que bec,with an invitation to open .negotiation with them upon the same basis. The correspondence now published shows that three out of seven seats in the executive council were offered to Mr. Caron and his friends, " gentlemen enjoying in thigh degree the confidence and esteem " of the French Canadian population; that the seventh seat, that of Mr. Daly, secretary of the province, had been placed by that gentleman in the hands of the governor-general; and that the council of six were to select the occupant of the seventh seat, his excellency deciding in case of their being unable to agree. These were the terms offered, and quite acceptable to the party ; but a further conce-aion was asked. It was demanded, as a condition precedent, that Mr. Daly should in no case form part of the administration; and this demand was deemed inadmissible, inasmuch as, seeing there was no privilege of exception as to persons claimed by the ministe rial negotiators, they could not, in fairness to themselves, concede such a privilege to their opponents ; and least of could they content to brand their own colleague with a sea- tenni of official exclusion. Upon this the negotiation went off. Had the friends of Mr. Caron entered the council, they would probably have found no great difficulty in obtaining the right of appointing to Mr. Daly's seat; but to require his exclusion by his colleagues us • preliminary was to require an act of dishonour from them they could not have committed without terminating their own official lives, nor could the governor well have concurred in ouch an arrange ment. Mr. Caron ' soon after the close of the correspondence, was ' deprived of his appointment as speaker of the legislative council, and the Hon. Peter M'Oill, an eminent merchant, retired from business, was appointed in his stead, with a ' seat in the executive council. The removal of Mr. Caron I I has been thought a berth proceeding. The appointment of Mr. hVGill gives satisfaction to most parties, on account of his highly honourable character and the absence of virulent partisanship in his politics; and it is, besides, a wholesome principle to have men of mercantile wisdom and substance in the council, instead of leaving it to b 3 composed of lawyers, political declaimers, and a few to whom the emolu ments of office are essential as a means of livelihood. Lady Elgin has arrived, witlillber brother, the Earl of Durham, and her sister; and Cho houses have pared ad dresses of congratulation on the subject. Mr. Draper departs for England by this mail, on leave of absence for a few months. As a politician he will be a lose to the country, and his debating powers being withdrawn from parliament will leave a blank, how to be filled I know not. Mr. Draper entered public life es a tory politi cian, but having attempted to moderate the extreme notions of his party, and adapt the political creed to the real wants and condition of the country, something d la Peel in the mother country, his party fell off from him in sections ; and, although be would have continued to lead a parliamentary majority, it would not have been so firmly knit together as might have been desirable. The emigration by the St. Lawrence is of an alarming character this year. Already 30,000 have arrived, anal there are 60 vessels lying at the quarantine station, off Grosse Isle, with emigrant*. The deaths at sea, and Grosse Isle, and on the passage between Quebec and Montreal, have amounted to at least 3,000, and the member of sick is almost past com putation. A contagious pestilence in much feared. X. SWITZERLAND.—BEANE, JUNE 24.—A great assembly was held on Monday last, the 21st, at Brunnen, in the canton of Schwyz, on the borders of the Lake of Lucerne, by the delegates of the seven separatist cantons. The most violent resolutions have been almost unanimously adopted, which show that the league relies, as a last resource, en foreign intervemion. Two or three protestants of note were seen at this conference. 'till now, the conservators of this confession had, in general, been very sober of any hostile demonstrations relative to questions which appear to belong principally to the domain of religion. This circumstance suffices to restore its true character to the actual crisis, which is that of a mortal straggle between the two great principles which divide the political world. The French ambassador, M. Bois le Comte, attended by his Jinn secretary, M. Rein hardt, continues his excursions through the cantons, and will not return to Berne before the opening of the diet; in the meanwhile, it is assured by some, that he has received the full and entire approbation of his cabinet relative to the strange communication he mete known to the new president of the Vorort, M. Ochsenbein • others, who pretend to be well informed, say th at this diplo matist will be shortly called home, not that the minister Ouizot is dissatisfied with the zeal he has shown in the interest of the minority rebelling against the orders of the Diet ; but, because the too great a degree of , evidence which he gave, on his dibui, of the intimate alliance now existing between France and Austria paralyses the in fluence be could have exerted over the liberal cantons. Tne British envoy, Mr. Peel, continues to follow quite a different system, and exhibits at every opportunity the most declared sympathy for the came Berne and Zurich are endeavouring to promote.—Conslitutionnet. PRUSSIA.—CoLOcNE, JUNE 24.—0 n the 23rd inst., a locomotive engine brought to Oesebersleben several persons seriously injured by an accident which had taken place, a few hours before, on the train going from Magdeburg to liallmirstadt. The axletsi eof one of the wheel, of the first diligence having broken, that carriage and the three fol lowing were overthrown and broken. The conductear and three travellers were killed on the spot, azi!l a considerable number of persons wae injured. INDIA. We were enabled, yesterday, to publish news by the Overland Mail from Calcutta to the 11th, Madras 12th, and Bombay 20th May. We now give our correspondent's letter, which contains the intelligence in a more detailed and interesting form. BOMBAY, MAY 20, 1847. Since my last, of the 12th instant, scarcely any thing of interest has occurred in India with the exception supplied by the Nizam's dominions, where events have come to that pass that our interference in its affairs has become imperative. In my last I mentiested that the Nizam's troops had become mutinous. The contumacious soldiers are the private troops of the King, and have no coanexion with the " contingent." It would appear that the minister wished to rid the state of these troublesome mercenaries, but the mea sure* pursued by him to effect his object were in the last de gree objectionable, and such as no body of men with arms in their hands would in any part of the world submit to. The state was indebted to them as arrears of wages somewhere about 200,0001. (twenty months' pay), bat the minister tried to put them off with 50,0001., or five months' wages, alleging that this was the time he had been in office , and • that he knew of nothing which had occured prior to that time. The Nizam is greatly against the disbandment of his household troops, probably imagining that while pos sessed of them ho was in a measure independent of our authority, and that their removal from his command would inflict eternal disgrace on his name and dignity. But I presume that a mightier than he has issued the fiat for their disbandment, otherwise it is a measure which Sooraj-00l- Moolk would never of his own accord have ventured on. The mutineers refused to deliver up their arms, or to receive the five months' wages offered them, and the minister, justly fearing that they would make him the first object of attack, solicited the aid of our troops of the contingent to guard him at his palace in the city. Accordingly four guns, ma ned by European artillerymen, under Major Ditmas ; four companies of 11.M.'s Seth Foot, under Major Russell ' • the ' 37th and 40th N.I. under Majors Wardroper and Noble, the whole commanded by that brave officer Colonel J. Wallace, of Elephant-rock fame, were ordered from Secunderabad on the night of May 3, to march on the capital, and they came in sight of Hyderabad by daylight the following morning. It was thought this demonstra tion would have been sufficient to awe the mutineers into submission, but they, on being ordered to lay down their arms, retu rned an answer of defiance; doubtless, consider ing themselves able, by mere numbers, to defeat any at tempts which might be made to subdue them by such • small detachment, they mustering nearly 15,000 men, while Colonel Wallace's brigade did not amount to above 2,500. The troops were upon this directed to enter the city on the following morning, which they did, accompanied by Generals Fraser and Lovell, and the whole of their staff. The force marched to the palace of the minister, where refreshment* , were provided for them, the officers being regaled in the house. The mutineers bad, in the meanwhile, prepared for resistance at the gate through which it was expected they would have =erred the city, but, fortunately, General Fraser bad proceeded by another route, or the con -1 sequences would have been fearful. The troops were to remain in the town till affairs had been satis factorily arranged. By latest accounts the mutinous Line- Wallahs had consented to lay down their arms, and quit the city, on being paid their arrears : they had before re fused to allow their arms to be taken from them on any con sideration. The proceedings of the minister had given great offence to General Fraser, our resident ; and it is to be hoped such steps will be taken by him as will prevent for the future such unjust attempts on the part of Soorajeul- Moolk. The British force which entered Hyderabad on the tth May is said to have been the first ever seen within its walls. Unless a speedy reformation take place in the ad ministration of its affairs, 1 fear it will be far from being the last. It is seldom anything appears in the public papers regard ing the Mysore state, but in the Bombay Times of Wednes day last you will find an able article on its affairs—an article which will furnish food for comment throughout England— ay, and the Continent too. Why our government should continue to keep the present rajah out of sovereign pos session of his country, in contravention of our treaties with him, seems to me incomprehensible. Goomsoor is said again to be getting as unsettled as ever —by one party attributed to the removal of our late agent, Captain M`Pherson by another to the measures adopted by Brigadier Dyce. An influential hill chief favourable to us is said to have been murdered by the insurgents; and other chiefs disposed to order and regularity, are, through fear of the rebel,, taking part in their proceedings. Conciliatory measures were again about being resorted to with the chief rebel, Sam Bisallye ; but a man of note stated, in answer to a question as to what would induce the Khonda to abolish the " Meriah" sacrifices, that that was no affair of the rajah's, and he therefore could say nothing in•the matter. Factions run high in India as elsewhere, so that one cannot properly come at the truth from what appears in the papers; and this from no dishonesty on the part of the journalists, but from the information supplied them by the different actors in the transactions they describe. Certain it is, however, that the disturbances are far from being put down. The departure of Lord Hardinge would seem to be definitively fixed for January : he pro ceeds from Simla to Calcutta in October, to make arrangements for his successor's assumption of the reins of government. He, the commander-in-chief, Sir John Littler, and the lieutenant-governor of the north-west provinces, are now at Simla, where they remain during the hot season ; Mr. Clerk and Sir W. Cotton leave Bombay in a fortnight's time for the Deccan ; so that the Governor of Madras will be the only one at his post for the next four months to come. A large amount of discussion has been occasioned by the judgments pronounced by the judges of the Madras Supreme Court to the case of a Hindoo girl who had embraced the Christian faith, and who had refused to reside with her parents, on the plea that if she (lid so she would be persecuted for the purpose of inducing her to renounce her new creed. A writ of habeas corpus was granted, and on the case coming on for trial before Sir E. Gambier and Sir W. Burton, they decided that the child was possessed of sufficient intelli gence to be allowed to choose for herself irrespective of her age (twelve—though her parents and others deposed she was only seven or eight). In the case of the Hindoo sonnet, whose ease was tried in Bombay a few years since, who was of the tame age, and I should imagine much more intelligent than the girl et Madras, Sir E. Perry and Sir H. Roper decided entirely by the age, and ordered that he should be delivered up to his father. He is now at Poonah with his parents, having, I believe, returned to the faith of his fathers. The reporter of the Atlas, by some means gave a very erroneous report of the latter part of the gulden' of Sir W. Burton, which represented him as reflecting, in a sat serious manner, on the integrity . of his Bombay brethren ; it turned out that the "pandering to prejudices" made use of by the learned judge, referred to the conduct of certain parties at Madras, and not to the Bombay judges at all, though both Sir E. Gambier and Sir W. Burton ex pressed their decided dissent from the doctrines laid down by Sr H. Roper and Sir E. Perry in the case referred to. The Times very properly substituted the correct reports of the judgments of the Madras ju:lges, in its overland paper, for that published the day before from the Atlas. A Beth min b has been baptised by the missionaries at Visage -1 Wan; which, as usual, caused a good deal of commotion I amongst the inhabitants of the place. Seemly anything has occurred at Bombay during the past week. Sir D. Pol lock quits our shores on Saturday for the Cape of Good Hope, by the Childs Harold ' • his state of health is far teem being what his friends would wish it to be. A new postage act is about being passed, by which all letters will be charged one aline for a tolah ( (M ee drachms) weight, above a tolah two minas •, all to be charged at the former rate. This will be a boon to the public, and will in a short time produce • nub loner revenue to the state then that now derived from Oho post-office, as thousands of native let ters, now claadestbeely sent by private carriers, will then all pas through the ragalar post. To newspaper readers and proprietors the boon wall be still greater, as the high rate of postage now charged preeludes many from taking to papers who would othonwho de so. Several further particulars of Lb lsrts bowohoom bays bow published, all tending to cen tre' the meows of the groat loss of life which had taken place. The European Apothecary, of whom nothing had been heard at the date of my last, has reached Vingorla in safety. The Buckinghamshire is within a short distance of Bombay, making her way under jury-masts. The news from Seinde and the Punjaub is so far unim portant as to afford scarcely an item of intelligence. Sir C. Napier is at Kurrachee with his family. The governor is buoy devising measures for the suppression of the numerous ems of theft daily occurring at Kurrachee, the chief of whisk are the lash and parading delinquents through the - s asses with their faces pipeclayed. The weather was Sod and agreeable, and the troops healthy. Colonel Shaw, ores 11th N. 1., had been appointed to command in Upper lesieris the head quarters being Shikerpore. Mr. Mc Lead, 1 ON =Hector of customs at Kurrachee, was still at this latter nerned place, engaged in devising means for the improve ment of the traffic on the Indus New barracks for a European corps, at Kurnchee, were about being commenced, the old ones, which cost 60,0001., having been condemned. Those lately built at Hydrahad are still uninhabited. The appointment of Ranger of Forests in Seinde was to be abo lished.—Everything continued quiet at Lahore. Lieut. Nicholson, who had been deputed to Meehan, had turned back on his route, and returned to the capital. A new governor, in th 2 person of the Deleon Hakeem Rae, had been appointed to Peshawur. The coins of James) had been ordered by the Maharajah Goolaub Singh to be exclusively used throughout his new province of Cashmere, in which country the Idabarejah was at latest dates, residing. Further disturbances had occurred on the confines of Rawal Pinder, which, however, had been easily suppressed. Col. Lawrence co n tinued to rise in the estimation of the Sikhs, his measure of granting petulant to the families of those who fell in the late campaign having given the greatest satisfaction. All apprehensions of a ter mination to the present satisfactory state of affaire in the Sikh dominions have; ceased ; and the troops quartered at the capital seem as wine as thou at any station is the company's dominions. The Jullundltur Doab continued quiet as usual, the troops healthy, and gaieties of all kinds the order of the day. The prosecution of the parties engaged in the coal cos- spumy to defraud government has been recommended by the advocate-general to be abandoned for want of evidence but it is thought the recommendation will not be attended to—at least, that further searching inquiries will be insti tuted into the matter by the sueerintendent of the Indian navy, who is +aid to be far from satisfied with the result of the magistrate's investigations. There, doubtless has been fraud somewhere, and it surely can be detected properly set about ; and so thinks Sir Robert Oliver. QUICK PASSAGE ACROSS THE CHANNEL.—The India mail was brought to Dover from Boulogne yesterday, by the General Steam Navigation Company's steam-Mtp Star, in 1 hear and 5.5 minutes . Z be outs. The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. Their Imperial Highnesses Prince Peter and the Princess of Oldenburg had an audience of the Queen. Their Imperial Highnesses were introduced by Viscount Palmerston, 0.C.8., her Majesty's Principal Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Curt, K.C.11., her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. M. de Koudriaffsky, of the RU9SillllLega. tion, attended their Imperial Highnesses. The WM, Wm. Temple, her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Naples, was presented to the Queen at an audience by Viscount Palmerston, ou his arrival from Naples on tempo rery, leave of absence. The Queen gave audience to Viscount Palmerston. Her Majesty was attended by Lord Byron, Lord in Wining, and Sir Edward Bowater, tiroom in Waiting. H.R.H. Prince Albert presided yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the commission for promoting and encourag ing the fine arts in the rebuilding of the Palace of West minster. H.R.H. arrived at the new palace at a quarter before three o'clock, attended by his Equerry in Wait ing, Colonel Bouverie. The commissioners present were the Marquis of Linsdowne, Viscount Canning, Viscount Mahon ' Viscount Morpeth, Lord John Rowell, Lord Col borne, Lord Ashburton, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Mr, Hallam, Mr. Wyse, and Mr. Kogers. The secretary, Mr. Eastlake, was in attendance. The meeting broke up at six o'clock, „ _ The Queen and the Queen of the Belgian N accom panied by . the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, took an airing in an open carriage yesterday. Toe E juerry is Waiting, Lord Alfred Paget, attended on horseback. The Queen and Prince Albert, aceorakiatned by the Queen of the Belgians, honoured her Majesty a hi, Are with their presence last evening. The royal suite coee.stel of the Countess of Desert, Countess Vandentraten. Lady Caroline Cocks, Lord Byron, .Major Moorkerke , Lora A. P aget, and Colonel Bouvene, The Countess of Desert has succeeded the Mar. chioneso of Douro as the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. Their RR.HH. the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Saxe Weimer left town yesterday morn ing on a tour of visits to different noblemen. Their ItH.llll. left Marlborough-house, the residence of her Majesty the Queen Dowager, shortly before 9 o'clock, attended by the Countees of Assenburg, Count de Beint, sari Baron de Ziegessr, and proceeded to the terminus of the London and North Western Railway, in Euston-square. Her Majesty - the Queen Dowager, attend e d b y Mi ss Seymour aad Esrl Howe, left town yesterday morning for Bushy-house, Bushy-park. Her M a j esty re in the evening. ce'B4 the iWr:ug Duke of Cambridge hon oure d t h e Ru e . Sir W. Fremantle with his company at di nner re turned resi .tß.R to doellft.ar yesterday evening, at hie residence in Stanhope -stmt. H.R.H. the Duchess of Cambridge, attended by Baroness Hammerstein, honoured the performance at the Royal Italian Opera House, with her presence yesterday evening. A Cabinet Council was held 'yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minn., Sir George Grey, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the E tc l kquer, Earl of Auckland, Sir J ohn Hobhouse, the Earl of Claren don, Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hun. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Hon. H. Labouchere. The council sat two hours. . . The British Museum Commissioners held their first meeting, yesterday, at Gwydyr-house, Whiteha. The Commissioners present were the Earl of Ellearnele, the Bishop of Norwich, Lord Langdale, Lord Wtottesley, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. R. M. %Ines, and Mr. Samuel Rogers. Mr. Wickham, chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the h:sco.luer yes terday. The Master-Ciencral of the Ordnance had also an interview with the right hon. baronet, at kis official resi dence in Downing-street. (Front last night's Gazette.) DOWNING-STREET, J CNE 28.—The Queen has been pleased, by letters patent under the great aral of the United Kingdom, to reduce the Bishop's see and diocese of Australia, and to divide the same into four several and distinct bishops' sees and dioceses, to be called the Bishoprics of Sydney, Newcastle, Adelaide, and Melbourne. Her Maieaty has also named and appointed the Right Rev. Father in God, W. G. Broughton, heretofore Bishop of Australia, to be Bishop of the see of Sydney, and Metropolitan Bishop is Australasia, subject to the general superintendence and revi. sion of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the time being, and subordinate to the archiepiecopal province of Canterbury. [ Her Majesty hu also named and appointed the Rev. W. Tyrrell, D . to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of the see of Newcastle ; the Rev. A. Short, D.D., to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of the see of Adelaide; and the Rev. C. Perry, D.D., to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of the see of Melbourne; the said Bishops of Newcaatle, Adelaide, and Melbourne to be Suffragan Bishops to the Bishop of Sydney. The Queen has constituted the colony of the Cape of Good Hope and its dependencies, together with the inland of St. Helens, to be a Bishop's see and diocese, to be called the Bishopric of Cape Town ; and to name and appoint the Rev. R. Gray, D.D., to be ordained and consecrated Bishop of the see of Cape Town. WHITEHALL, JUNE 19.—The Queen has authorised and appointed the Right lion. the Earl of Ellesmere, Right Rev. Edward Bishop of Norwich, Right Hon. Lord Lang dale, Right Hon. Lord Wrottesley, Sir P. M. G. Egerton, Bart., Sir C. Lemon, Bart., Sir It. I. Murchison, Ent., A. Rutherford, Esq., J. Hume, /lig., S. Rogers, E‘q., and R. M. Milner, Esq., to be her Mejesty's commis , ieners for inquiring into the constitution and government of the British Museum. WHITEHALL, JUNE 28. —The Queen has appointed the Right Rev. John Bishop of Lichfield, Right lion. J. S. Wortley, Right Hon. S. Lushington, D.C.L., Right lion. A. R. Blake, Sir E. V. Williams, Kat, and A. Rutherford, Esq., Lord Advocate of Scotland, to he her Majesty's coat mieeioners for inquiring into the state and operation of the law of marriage. CONSECRATION OF FOUR COLONIAL BISHOPS. The efforts made by the church of England for the extension of her faith in the colonies of Great Britain bare of late years been most extensive. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Church Missionary Society each expend enormous annual incomes in the support of clerical missionaries, the encouragement of theological mu• dente, being candidates for missionary employment, aol the general sustenance of existing missions. The clergy selected to fill the new sees are—the Rev. R. Gray, late vim of Stockton-on-Tees, appointed to the diocese of Cape Town; the Rev. Augustus Short, late vicar of RavensthorO, Northamptonshire, and a relative of the Bishop of St. Asps, appointed to the diocese of Adelaide; the Rev. C. Perry, of St. Paul, Cambridge, a distinguished member of that Uni versity, ordained bishop of Melbourne; and the Rev. Wil liam Tyrrell, incumbent of Beaulieu, Hampshire, appointed bishop of the see of Newcastle. Yesterday, being the Feast of St. Peter, was 'elected for the consecration of these prelates, and, in consequence of very general interest manifested on the occasion, It ass arranged that the crernony should be performed is Westminster Abbey The public were admitted by tickets issued by the Dean and Chapter, and at eleven o'clock, the hour at which divine service mis to commence, the seats in the ancent church were crowded. The Archbishop of Canterbury, and the different prelates ofth e chord in attendance, assembled in the Jerusalem Chamber, and entered the choir in procession. The archbishop took his seat on the north aide of the communion table, the bishops' sedate= on the south side, and the bishops dean nate, with the officers of the diocese, in seats appropriated in the samarium, or space between the table and the chat The Bishop of Oxford, who was the only bishop present not 'whited in full pontificals, sat in one of the s alls. The owning service of the church was chaunted by one of the minor canons of the abbey, the Rev. H. H. Milman mak tag the first, and the sub.dean, the Very Rev. Lord Jae 'Thymic, the second lesson for the day . At the Collehtli ol Of the morning prayer the dean and canons proceeded her their stalls to appointed seats on the right ef n tV archbishop, within the rails. The venerable prosbld then commenced the communion service, enancial* the commandments in a tone perfectly MMus and emphatic. The epistle and gospel were reed, 11 believe, by the Bishops of Lincoln and Lichfield. The Bishop of London then ascended a pulpit, placed at the exert of the north transept, and preached front the 17th verse of the 21st eh. of St. John. After the sermon the bishops designate retired, whilst the anthem of Tarrant, " Lord, fer thy tender mercies' sake," was sung ; and hawing returned is the sacrarium, habited in their rootlets, were there received by the Bishops of Winchester end Rochester, by the first of whom they were presented to the most reverend prinatefor approval. The Queen's letters latent for the creation of the sees, and her Majesty's mandates for the appointment d the several bishops were then read, and the appointed oaths were duly administered to the four candidate* by Mr. Christopher Hodgson, the archbishop's star tarp. The service for the occasion then proceeded; and at its doe the archbishop pronounced the bleso ing and dismissed the congregation. The holy ewe* meat was subsequently administered by the arebbsbelh first to himself, and then to the bishops, dean, canons, chip loins, and minor canons in order. The general distributes of the elements was by the bishops. tint to the clergy, Oa then to those of the laity who remained to communtate. The service throughout wee most imposing in its carade% It occupied from eleven until nearly four o'clm.k. ` R db* served among those who were present a large number of the most distinguished personages of the day. _ . SOUTH ft INTRA LIAN BANKING CoMPANIN —The Math annual general meeting was held yesterday, at the frt, Old Broad-street; Mr. Olsen, M. P., InwOOL The secretary read the report of the directors, in whisk** tollowirs aro the chief point*: . Woe aphid Nem& meeting, the esitariere at South Natoli' bid bellartr reperm by the =Wade' worlds( et the resigns EOM ( el ewer ere) baud la the totaty, sad ttit i + o4 ll erjr, Wear tier gegalseles. 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