The Express. — London, England, 1848-05-19 00:00:00

1141PERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORIIB.—TUTRADAY, MAT 18. Tie LOS]) CIAANCMILLOR took his seat at 5 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINP23S. SECOND READlNG.—Jervia's Divorce (India) Bill. COMMITTSR. -Maxweirs Restitution Bill. PUBLIC BUSINFAIS. SECOND READING.--Fenoke Prohibition BM. PETiTIONS.—By the Earl of BANDON, hook Cork, against the national mute= of education in Irelend.—The Illation of DURIIAM. from various jaor• in Yorkshire and Durham , and from Truro • and by the Bistio of ()NEMO), from places in Berke and DV 1, Wind the eof intoxicating liquortou the Sabbath.- - Lad CAMP BELL, from the free church of Mdinburnh, praying fo wane snow of obtaining sine:— Duke of BEAUFORT, from whoolmastera In Sootiaad, raying for an aiiinueatation of their salarim.--Earl f lIADDINL,TON, from the borough of Iladdingtoa, in favour of the Jewish linahnities Bill.—Lard STANLEY, horn a place not beard. Earl Ft 11. WILLIAM. from several place. in Yorkshire, against the foregoing bill.—Earl —Earl of lIADDINOToN, hem psrochial school muter!, in Scotland, praying for an augmentation of their a l t inerim— Earl I.IIZWILLIAM, from Rotherham, and another place, u e sub joet of the removal of the poor. SCOTCH SCHOOLMASTERS. Lord WHARCLIFFE, on presenting a petition fro &WVm the parochial achoolmwdere of Scotland, praying for an mentetion of their salaries, said that he would now put the the question of which he had given notice, on the subject of grants to be made by the Committee of the Privy Couat;il fur e ducation, under the minutes of lu l l, to parish schoolmaa ten in Scotland. The noble lord made a statement which was inaudible in the gallery, but it was understood that he wished to know the grounds on which the grants had been made—whether any applications had been made, and a so, what number and to what amount ? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said there had been a great many applications made, i 0 for schools and 28 for the augmentetion of the salaries of sehoolmasters. They were now un :ir consideration, and would receive the best and must careful attention. After a few words from the Earl of Haunitiovole, the Earl of :Sitsto, the Marquis of BitnADALBANII, and the I Duke of liecotxten, the subject dropped. SMOKE PROHIBITION BILL. Lord REDESDALE moved the second reading of this bill. The subject had been so fuily inquired into that there could be no 7%. ceepity for further investigation, and he did taut an ticipate any opposition to the hill. Earl GRANVILLE would not oppose the second reading of the bill, but he would throw out, for the consideration of the noble lord, whttker it would not be better to poetpone it until the house had had an opportunity of seeing the gene ral sanitary measure now before the other house of puha ment ? Earl FITZWILLIAM was andentood to express a simi lar opinion. Lord PORTMAN thought the immense volumes of smoke from lrge chimneys was a groat nuisance, and it wan efo proved that i t might be easily prevented. li e should therefore sup port the bill. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE approved of the principle of the bill most heartily ; he, however, thought it desirable that its further stages should be postponed. Lord REDESDALE said the Health of Towns Bill was not very likely to come before their lordships until a very late period of the session, and lie therefore thought that to wait for that bill would be to suspend the subj. et for the ses sion. The evil was a very great one, anti was constantly get ting worse, and he did not see any reason for not ,proceeding with the 11. Lord CAMPBELL supported the bill which was then read a second time. Their lordships adjourned at half-past six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUURSDAY, MAY 18. The Secants took the chair at 4 o'clock. ------ - PRIVATE BUSINESS. REPORTS CONSIDERED.—MidIand Railway (alteration of the line and bnutrber near Wellingborough, and approach to the Wel lingborough station) ; North Smith Railtray, No. I (increase and division 54 capital) ; Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Rail. way ; Bills. THIRD READlNGS.—Brentford Gem Light Arta .kmndment ; Liverpool G. Light Company and Uremia' New Gaa sail Gam Company Amalg'a'mation ; Santish Provident Institution ; Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS,—By Mi. W. B. M'CLINTOCK from !several parishes in Ireland, praying (sir inereand Fermin to the Church Education Society in Irelan,L —Lord BERNARD, from places in Cork county, on the eubjecq of the poor low.—Mr. PEARSON, from solicitors of Derby, for the abolition of the certificate duty.—Mr. MACKINNON, from Lyinington, in favour of Public Health BilL—Mr. M•GREGOR, from • place not heard, praying for a Coolies hill. —Lori MORPETIL and several other bon. _members, from various places, in favour of Public Health Bill. Also several from pi.ices in Scotland, in favour of Bites of Churches Bill, and praying for alterations in the tact. laws. CoMMITTEP--(bileetion of thins (Ireland) Bill. NOTICES OF MOTlON.—Yianuv Puernua—Mr ANDERSON, on Tuesday next, to move for returns of rates of postage to and Irian pin, in the Mediterranean and the East Indies. Ypoirat an, far Lists —CoL CONOLLY, on Monday neat, to pat • question to the Secretary for Ireland, as to whether the fisheries, re cently establithed on the ...item pasts of Ireland, bad answered the purposes Intended, and paid their espensee. SPaeraL .11 lartants—M r. KEOGH, on Monday nest, to move for a return of the names of the specisl jurors struck in the we of Mr. Smith OBrie, distinguishing those of tbe Roman catholic reli gion. Also a similar return in the awe of Mr. Meagher. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. In answer to a question from Sir J. HANKER, Lord J. RUSSELL said that he proposed taking the com mittee on the Public Health Bill the first thing that evening, with the understanding that the house ►hould resume at U o'clock. He should then proceed with his hon. friend's bill, relative to ciontrov , rted elections. He would also take that opportunity of stating the intention of the government with reference to the navigation laws. He proposed resuming the committee on the Public Ilealeh Bill to-morrow (Friday) se'nnight, to be followed by committee of supply. That being the case, end hon. members having expressed • strong wish that the navigation laws shout. be fixed for the Monday following, he was ready to accede to their wishes, with the understanding that they should then and at once take into consideration the resolution of the Louse, and pro ceed to the introduction of a bill. The opinion of the go vernment and the house had been so clearly expensed on the subject as to rtnder any further delay, in hi, opinion, un- nece H rsary. MI UME asked what estimates woul.l be taken in com mittee of niggly ? Lewd .1 RUSSELL said the hi: right bon. friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer would inform the house to mor:ow (this day). Mr. {YAWN wished that the discotion on the sub ject of the navigation laws should be postponed until after the introduction of the bill. PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. The order of the day for a committee on the Public Health Bill was then read. Col. SIBTHORP stated his intention of opposing the bill in all its stages, as a centralising, inquiaitorial, and unoonsti tutienal measure. One objection he bad to the bill was that it appointed several officers without stating what were to be their salaries. Another, that it had been placed so recently in the hands of members as to leave no tame for perusal or consideration. He moved that the house go into committee on the bill that day six months. After an observation from Mr. FILEWEN which did not reach the gallery, Mr. HUDSON begged to call the attention of the noble lord at the head of the government to those chums which went to exclude those places which 'heady had local acts. VILA the noble lord aware thatunc hundred and ninety towns would be so excluded ? Lord J. RUSSELL thought it would be more convenient to'cliscuss the intentions of clause+ when the house got into c-mmittee. The hon. member would then find that they did not hear the construction he was disp.std to give them. Mr.'MACKINNON mid he did not rise for the purpose of opposing the committee, but to remark on tome observations which had been made, and which, in his opinion, did not do justice to either the noble lord at the to ad or the Woods and Forests or. tdalr.Chadwick. The hon. member for Exeter had accused the noble lord of adopting the hill at the suggestion of Mr. Chadwick. Now that was not a fair remark. Mr. Chadwick hod been called upon, about four years since, by the Home Secretary of the late government, to give informa tion respecting the Interments in Towns Bill, and made an able report as to the sanitary con itien of the country. Of course, when the present government came into office, Mr. Chadwick was the first person consulted by the noble lord on the subject of the public health, and the noble lord could not have had a better counsellor. Mr. DIVETT remarked that what he had stated and wat he maintained was, that the grossest exaggeiation had bi h en resorted to to get up a case for this hill. He happens d to know that his noble friend the member for Plymouth and Mr. Chadwick had gone about, like Siamese twins, to thel different county towns to get up statements ; and that those statements were exaggerated was proved by a commu imitation he had received from the Mayor of Exeter, • town which had been describ , d to be in the most its plorable con dition, swing that the supply . of water was good, that very large sums had leen laid out in sanitary and other improve ments, and that there was, perhaps, r.n town in the kingdom more healthy or in which mortality was lower. This was the kind of misstatement of which he complained, and upon which the cue for the bill was roundest. Mr. URQUHART went through vari , ,us details of the bill, and, comparing them with the provisions of the Muni cipal Act of lfe:ls, showed that the principle of popular go vernment was neglected, and that the great object of the measure was to centralise all power in the hands of the government. He suggested that the committee should be postponed for a month, to give time to ministers for recon sideration, and to effect such alterations in the measure as should make it applicable not to • part euly but the whole of the country, and obtain for it the general assent of tke public, without which it was impossible for it to work well. lle had been commissioned by the whole of his constituency to give the moat determined opposition to the bill in its present shape. It had been stated on a former occasion that a petition in favour of the bill had been pre sented, signed not only by the clergy but the whole of the medical profession, whereas the fact was, that there was net a medical man in Stafford who had not either signed the re quisition for the meetings out of which the petitions against the bill had originated, or the petitions themselves. It was true that a petition in favour of the bill had been got up by an apothecary, who was neither a ratepayer nor au inha bitant, except so far as he was an inhabitant by being the house-surgeon to • hospital, and who, he believed, had ex pc:t snots of some appointment under the bill. The house divided—For going into committee 219 For the amendment • 1-218 The announcement of the numbers was (Keine' with cheers and laughter. The house then resolved itself into committee. On the Ist clause being proposed, lu answer to a question from Mr. CAItbWELL, The ATTORNEY-OENERAL expiained that in towns which had local boards tke bill would not o perate without Hie intervention of parliament. It would apply. to Liverpool this way a preliminary inquiry would be institOtcd by ternmisaion under the bill, and the result would be ci:`,ll- lau r ic " at ,:sl and parliamentary anthorit! obtained before the operation of the law would be extended to that town. With regard to London it was different: there preliminary in uiry was in progress , a nd the was no neassity, therefore, re ,r milkier this provision apply. Mr. CARDWELL said that In Liverpool there was now a sanitary hill in opvretion, which had been framed in refer ence to the local circumstances of the town, and which was in every way more suited to it than the premat bill. He could not understand why London should be exempted while Liverpool was included. Lord MORPETH repeated the explanation which had been given by the Attorney•Oeneral, and After a few words from Mr. lima.yr end Col. Sovotoar the clause erm agreed to, as was also clause 2. On clause 3, which establishes the general board of health, being put Lord LINCOLN observed that he had given notice of amendments to this and the next clause, which he did not propose to press on the present occasion lie would, how ever, suggest that as, under whatever arrangement , ' they now made, it would be necessary to have some central authority to carry out the bill, it would be better to define what the duties of that centrid authority should be before they decided what that authority should he. (lleer.) After a few words from Mr. NewnecraTai Lord J. RUSSELL said (in reply to Lord Lincoln) that it appeared to the government that there ought to be some worsen stated in the act of parliament as being mainly en trusted with tho execution of the act, and that it would be much better to name the first commissioner of Woods and Forests than the Lord President of the Council, who, never thalami, might co-operate with the Commissioner of Woods and Forests warn necessary. But thinking it rigitt that the chief person responsible should be that commissioner, the government proposed to leave the clause as it stood. Mr. IiUME said that his experience of unpaid commis. eioners induced him to suggest that there ought to be a paid oommissioner with equal powers on the hoard, and who might have a seat in that house to answer any quesiions put to him on the subject of the act. lie had made inquiry, end found that the first commissioner of the Woods and Forests was a member of no lees than 18 commissions, acme of which were alone sufficient to engines all his time. Mr. MILES concurred la the propriety of having a paid commissioner ; unpaid commissioners were too apt to become negligent wish the lapse of time. The ATTORNEY-OENERAL observed that if e com mittee should think a maid commissioner necessary, the sixth and not the present clause was the fitting time for discussing the question. Atter a conversation, in which Mr. T. Eannros, Mr. livirson, and others recommended, Mr. URQU H ART moved, the postponement of the clines. Lord tdORPRTH (with Lord J. RVKSELL and Sir G. Gear) misted the motion, on the ground that it would be exceedingly inconvenient to discuss the subsequent clauses, until they knew how the central board was to be constituted. (Hear, hear.) Sir \V . JOLLIFFR was opposed altogether to a central Ile did not see why inspectors appointed by the government would not answer the purpose. After a short desultory conversation the committee divided. For the postponement of t he clause Against it ll5-100 Capt. HARRIS moved the insertion of words it the clause to the effect that the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests should superintend the execution of the act. Lord MORPETH said that looking at the onerous duties of the office he had the honour to hold, duties involved in the execution of no less than eighteen different commissions, he did nut feel himself in • condition to assent to the propo sition of the hon. and gallant member. Ile must, therefore, negative that amendment. Mr. NEWDEGATE again urged upon the government to leave to local management the edministration of local affairs. Let them consider what had been the results of cen tralisation in a neighbouring country, where for years they had centralised everything, and had ended in centralising discontent. Mr. P. IiOW ARD thought that if the bill was limited to five years no such results would arise as the hon. member (Mr. Newdepte) seemed to contemplate. Mr. HENLEY said that when he remembered the various and onerous duties which already devolved upon the chief commissioner of Woods and Forests. he did not think it would be possible for that minister satisfactorily to discharge the functions which this art would cast upon him. He therefore could not assent to the amendment, and should vote against it if pressed to a division. Lord 1). STUART inquired whether it was the intention of the goveinment to introduce • bid fur the metropolitan districts during the . progress of the preeent meaeure, and whether the execution of the metropolitim.bill would be en. trusted to the board to be constituted under the bill now wad, r consider ition ? Le:l MORPETH was understood to say, in reply, that a b:11 in relation to sewers was in preparation, but he could not stet* when it would be ready to be introduced. Atter a few words from Mr. H utmost, Mr. HUN TZ expeased • hope that the amendment would be withdrawn, for opposed as he (Mr. :Runts) was to the bill, yet he was satisfied that, if passed, there ought to be an e ffi cient authority to tarry its provisions into effect. It was admitted that the office of chief commissioner of Woods and Forests was not a sinecure, and he therefore thought " there ought to be a distinct and paid commissioner who should he re , poneible for the working of the act. Sir W. jOLLIFIE said he was prepared to support the amendment, but be thought it would not be wise to press it. Lord DUNCAN was of opinion that the execution of the act ought to devolve upon one paid commissioner, and not upon the chief commissioner of Woods and Forests, who was already charged with sufficiently responsible duties. Dr. 110 WRING also supported the opinion that even be- 1 slam the chief commissioner of Woods and'Foreststhere ought Mi he one paid commissioner appointed under this bill, Col. SIBTIIOItP was not surprised the hon. member far Bolton (Dr. Booming) supported paid commissioners, for the hon. member hail himself received some 13,0001. or 11,000 f. of the public money in a roving commission which had led to no public benefit beyond the printing of a mar of volumes of no use. Admitting that the labourer WAS worthy of his hire, he thought no one would execute the duties of hie high a thee better than the noble lord (Id ;meth). Col. THOMPSON said he believed his constituents would sooner pay a commissioner twice over than have one who was a °need. (Hess.) Capt. HARRIS consented to withdraw his amendment. Lord I). Sl. UAItT said that no answer had ben given to the question he had asked, whether the proposed board was to have juri.dicti"n over the metropolis at large ? Viscount M; lIIPETII said he could only give the answer ha bad before given, that the bill contained nothing to authorise the board so to act. After a conversation, Sir B. lIALL said the metropolitan members ought not to be kept in the dark as to what was hanging over the metropolis. Mr. BUCK dwelt on the impolicy of excluding from the bill the whole of Ireland and Scotland, the metropolis, and the two universities. Lord DUNCAN gave notice that, on the bringing up of the report, he should take the sense of the house in favour of having one paid commissioner, unless the bill were so modi fied in the interval. Mr. J. STEWART considered that a great principle wee involved in the question of having paid or unpaid commis. sinners. If the latter had a paid secretary he would be the real commissioner, the unpaid off cen being mere puppets. (Hear.) This was a very objectionable state of things. It would be much better to assimilate the board to that ap pointed under the Incleaure Act. The ATTOR.NEY.GENERAL complained of the time wasted in ri peat d discussions of the name point. Capt. PECHELL wished for more precise information as to ths powers and extent of jurisdiction of the proposed commies:oilers. Ile hoped that local authority would he allowed to operate with as little interference as possible from the centesi board. Mr. T. EGERTON said the general feeling appeared to be in 'avour of one paid commissioner; and if this was agreed to, onbringing up the report the clause which had now under gone no long a discussion would have to be struck out, and thus all their labour would be lost. (Hear.) It would be better to postpone the clause. Mr. 11. BERKELEY wished to call the attention of the committee to the fact that it was now half past 8 o'clock, and nothing whatever had been done. (Laughter.) lie be lieved nothing would rouse the house from its torpor until, some hot day, they discovered that the cholera bad broken out. (Hear, hear.) Alter a few words from Lord Di:Nese, Mr. Rice, and Mr. 'l'. R0E117014, Viscount MORPETH said the government was really anxious to collect the feeling of the house, and act on it, se far as was consistent with their duty. (Hear.) A good dial of feeling had eenexpre•sed in favour of a paid commiesioner, but us tee noble lord the member for Bath (Lord Dusan) proposed to open the whole question on bringing up the report, after it had been determined what the powers of the commissioners should be, he hoped the committee would now consent to pass these clause.. Every hon. member would have an equal right of bringing forward any amendment as to the ionstitution of tho central board. Mr HENLEY tomolained of the want of information as to the extent of the pow. ra of the central board. Mr. URQUHART expressed his disappointment that the noble lord (Lord Duncan) had not pressed his amendment now in favorer of ODE paid commissioner. Mr. HUME thought it would he impossible to carry out the hill without a paid commissioner, but believed that one would be enough. As to the metropolis, the government must bring in a bill for it ; they could not do otherwise. (Hear.) Objecting to any central Interference with local authority, he was in favour of • check being applied to abuse. Lord DUNCAN moved an amendment in favour of one paid commissioner, reserving the amount of his salary for future consideration. Mr. HUDSON was understood to second the amendment. Lord J. RUSSELL ex, rested an opinion in favour of two r THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1848. commissioners. Lord DUNCAN had no objection to the noble lord at the head of the Woods and Forest• being the mouthpiece of the commission in this house ; and, if necessary, they might have one in the other house; but he was most anxious that there shoti:d be one paid and responsible commissioner. Mr. W. MILES advocated the appointment of • corn tnission on ill.. basis of the hick:sure commission. Lord DUNCAN proposed to alter his amendment so as to authorise the appointment of one paid commissioner, with two unpaid commissioners, one in this house, the other in t 1..• Lmds. Lord J. RUSSELL thought it appeared reasonable, after what had been stated, that there should be one paid com missioner. The other commissioners, of whom his noble friend near nim (Lord Morpetb) might be one, would of course he consersant with the business transacted at the board. If the noble lord the member for Bath (Lord Dun caw) would withdraw - his amendimnt, the sixth clause might he so modified as to authorise the appointment of a paid commjssioner, with the othertwo COMMill&Ce111, Lord DUNCAN &mod to withdraw his amendment. Col. 818 IHORP opposed the withdrawal of the amend ment, sod said he should move that the chairman do report progress, as the hour had arrived (nine o'cloek) at which it was arranged the house shoul r ddroceed to other business. Vi scoun t MORPETH ho the ben. and gallant mem ber would allow this one c lause to be agreed to, and they would thee report program, (Hear, hear.) After a conversation (Col. SIDTKORP insisting on the ful filment of the pledge given by the noble lord at the head of the government, that the house should resume at!) o'clock; and Lord J. Redeem. admitting that he was bound by that pledge if any hon. member claimed its fulfilment), the me' tion for reporting progress was agreed to, and the house re sumed. BOROUGH ELECTIONS (No. 2) BILL. Sit J. HANMER moved the second reading of this bill. He entreated the attention of the house on eccount of the great Importance of the measure. On various occasions, when new writs had been moved in lieu of members who had been unseated, he had thought it right to oppose their issuing ; and he had now deemed it necessary to submit a general measure applicable to such cue.% having failed to in duce any member of the government to do so. Ile did not assume the responsibility of presenting a now and un heard-of measure to parliament. Ile had consulted precedents, and had taken the opinion of various hon. members; and he believed his measure would be found perfectly constitutional. (" Hear," and laughter.) Taking the case of Sudbury as a precedent—a ease which was caro -1 fully considered at the time—he proposed this bill, which was strictly one for inquiry. By passing it parliament would abandon none of its discretion, but might still institute a *pedal inquiry where circumstances called for it. This was a measure merely authorising inquiry where wale were de clared void through corruption: he bad not thought it neesmary to carry it further. He contemplated only such eases as came before parliament in the regular way by peti tion, without interfering with any other places, whatever might be their character. The hon. member then referred to what bad been done in the Sudbury ease. This hill fol lowed the precedent in that case. The measure was a mess sure of inquiry, which pledged the house to no particular I course hereafter. It was must desirable indeed that they should have fell and perfect information before them, before they proceeded to any act of legislation on the subject. He proposed that in future, whenever a parliamentary com mittee reported that corruption bed prevailed at any elec tion, then that the house should have the power to cause inquiries to be instituted on the *pot by parties specially appointed by the Speaker to examine into the facts. The tall rested entirely on precedent, and he t wished the house earnestly to a ffi rm its principle. The question having been put, Col. 8113THORP said the hon. member who brought forward this bill, now member for the Flint boroughs, was formerly member fur Hull. Ile did not know why the hon. member had deserted that pure constituency. (A laugh.) Would the circumstances beat israestigation lie feared not. " Conscience made cowards of us all." The hon. member also sat for Shrewsbury. Ile did net know why he left that almost equally pure borough. lie was not there to tell why. Sir J. HAN MER—I will. (A cry of " Question ") Col, SIBTHORP—Oh, the honourable member who called " Question " was probably in a similar portion. " Let the galled jade wince." (A laugh.) Ile was too old a soldier to be caught asleep on his post. He had never represented but one city—the city of his disinterested choice —the purest city in the country. But he pissed to the bill. This bill was just as objec tionable as the last. There were to be commissioners — most extravagantly paid. Commissioners to go down to places like Lincoln to inquire what had been going on. Why, where could any one be safe ? He did not tear the bill, nut he ! Ob, nu! Let the bon. member's COMM6bluller coon down to that highly honourable professional man who was his agent in Lincoln (loud laughter) —or let him come down to 'his own house at Washing borough, and he (Col. Sibthorp) would do what he hod any British gentleman would do on a similar occa sion—kick him out ! (Great laughter, and cries of " Oh.") Oh ! let the hon. member remember the passeee of scripture —the beam and the mote. (Oh.) Ile hoped he had peed legal expenses at Hull, and no more. When a member of the Conservative Club went over and sat on the other side, he must forgive him for saying he suspected his public con duct. (Coes of "Oh, and "Question.") lie moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months. Mr. HILDYARD supported the 'intendment, considering that committees of that house were ales ally inverted with sufficient powers to enable them to deal with corrupt consti. tuencies. He could not help thinking that there was some thing of a desire to get rid of the small boroughs, mixed up very intimately with the sympathy manifested in particular quarters for this bill; that hon. mitt:eaten, doubtful, after the noble premier's finality declaration, how far they could succeed in any direct proposition for abolishing the small boroughs, were willing to avail themselves of the indirect means afforded to this end by the present bill. Mr. BAGSHAW gave notice that he should in committee move that the borough of Harwich be excluded from the operation of the bill. ( Laughter.) Mr. HUDSON opposed the measure, as one which, while it would throw a firebrand into every constituent place throughout te country, woueffect no practical good. At all events, let h the house wai t and see what plan the hon. member fer Montrose would propose. Mr. HUME said, that the house annually neolved, that bribery and undue intluence in elections were infractions of its privileges, and the question now was, merely whether they would pass • bill confirmetory of their own resolutions. The only object of the bill was, to institut , an inquiry into the practices which bad been already partially developed be. fore parliamentary committees, end on this ground he trusted it would meet with the approval of the house. The scenery was cleared fora divisim, but none took place. On our return we found Mr. J. STUAItT attempting to address the house, but the impatience fur a division prevented his obtaining a hearing. The bun. member moved the adjournment of tie house. After a few words from Sir J. HANSOM, Mr. DISRAELI said that the house had a right to expect some explanation from the government as to the withdrawal of the Horsham bill before it came to a division on the pre sent measure. It was rather a new practice for government to introduce a measure intended to legislate for the house itself, and then suddenly to withdraw it in deference to the proposition of one who was pleased to call himself a private member of parliament. Lord J. RUSSELL—It was very difficult fur hint to say what were the circumstances which the bon me mber wished to have explained. He ( Lotd J. Ruesell) hail thought that when the Horsham bill was before the house sufficient ex• planation bad been given. The question was extremely simple, but he would state again in a few word.' what was the pasition of that bill and of the Present measure. When the ease of Ilorsham was before the house, and when the house decided that the writ should be suspended, ho was asked by several persons, both those who agreed to and those who opposed the suspension of the writ, to introduce a hill upon the eubject. Ile was not very willing, but consented in obedience to the generally expressed wish. After. wards, however, there occurred other esses, especially that of Derby, in which the write were ale , . suspended, and the names of more were mentioned in which it was likely that special reports would be made. The hon. but. (the member for the Flint boroughs) undertook to bring in a bill which should include all, and provide for inquiry by means of a commission. On consideration, it ap peared to him (Loot J. Russell) tha t to include all iu o u r bill would be the better mode of proceeui ding. He had had, 25 years since some e xperience of inqries into the corrupt praetices of 'boreughs, and knew very well Unit after a com mittee and the house had been eatistied of the prevalence of bribery, the House of Lords called for further evidence, and generally threw out the bill. It was evident, therefore, that the mode of redress formerly practised was very likely to fail, and that that proposed by the hon. hart., which was similar to what had been done in the case of Sudbury, was the only one calculated to procure evidence which should be batistes tmy to both houses. If the house should see fit to reelect this bill, he (Lord J. Russell) could then proceed with his own bill, which, although not so good, might still afford some means of useful inquiry. lie thought it desirable that the house should come to a decision, there being two or three writs suspended. If the house accepted the bill, there would be good reason for con ti nu ing the eu epcnsion ; while, if they rejected it, there would he equally strong tied constitu tional reasons for causing them to issue. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HENLEY was not surprised that the hon. and learned member for Newark had moved the adjournment of the home, seeing the clamour that had 10(:(1l raised against him by the immediate supporters of government. If the hon. and l ear ned member went to a diviaion, he (Mr. lien. ley) should support the motion. The house divided For the adjournment—. 69 Against it The house then divided on the second reading. Ayes Noes The bill was accordingly road a second time, and ordered to be committed. INCUMI3ERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. The SOLICITOR GENERAL moved the second reading of this bill, iu order that it might be committed pro forma, with the view of introducing some amendments, After a conversation as to the propriety of that course, Mr. BRIGHT expressed a hope that the c ould ti would be given to this measure, for he state on legal authority entitled to the highest respect, *at no mea sures that could be devised for Ireland would prove useful unless facility w ere given for the transfer of Moan bered property. (Hear, hear.) Mr. STAFFORD concurred fully in that opinion, and sutured the house that no measure was more earnestly de sired by those whose wishes ought to be consulted. Lord LINCOLN likewise agreed in thinking the bill one of paramount importance ; but before they agreed to its second reading on the terms proposed, he wiehed to have au aasurance hum the government that the amendrutnta pro poeed to be introduced were already prepared. Lord J. RUSSELL said that the amendments were in course of preparation, and would be submitted to the house on the bill being committed. After some further conversation, the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday. NAVIGATION LAWS. On the motion of Mr. LAHOUCHERR, the adjourned debate on the resolutions respecting the Navigation Laws was post poned until Monday, the 29th inst. SLAVE TRADE COMMITTEE. On the order of the day for rearming the debate on the nomination of Mr. Cardwell to serve on the select committee on the sleeve trade being read, Lord PALMERSTON said that as he understood it was the opinion of several members that the members of the com mittee should be increased he should not press the suttees , lion he made on Thursday, but would oil Monday sub mit a distinct motion, that Admiral Bowles he added to the committee. Mr. CARDWELL underatood the noble lord to withdraw the objection to his (Mr. Cudwtll's) name being added to the committee. lie hoped the noble lord would also with.. draw the imputation he bad cast on the merchants of Liver pool, that they were interested in the quitous slave trade. lie (Mr. Cardwell) begged to state, that, co far from that Eels g the case, the merchants of Liverpool ` bemusewee inter ested la the suppression of the traffic In slaves, they found from experience that where the slave trade was carried on for commerce languished. Lord PALMERSTON udd he had made no imputation; be had merely stated facts which he believed to be true; and, therefore, he was not sow going to gainsay his former date ment, that there was sent from Liverpool a vast quantity of and modities which found their wa to the coast of Africa and were exchanged for slaves. I i the hon. member wee prepared to disprove that fact, then he (Lord Palmerston) should be quite ready to withdraw his statement, which as yet was uncontradieted, Mr. CARDW ELL did not deny that some of the exports of Liverpool did find their way by a circuitous rude to the coast of Jiffies but to thit. the merchants QI Liverpool were no parties. emphaticall7 denied' that any person in Lverpool was interested in the slave trade. Lord PALMERSTON had no objection to the bon. mew her being on the committee, but he should propose Monday to add Admiral Bowles. After a few words from Mr. DARKLY and Mr. HUTT, The Earl of LINCOLN said that he believed the noble lord opposite had been an unsuccessful candidate fer Liver pool, and had he been otherwise he could not have repre sented the foreign affairs of the country ; becauee ' on his own principle, it the mem ber for Liverpool was unfit to sit on a committee on the *lave trade, he was assuredly unfit to carry out the laws passed for the suppression of that trade. (Hear, and laughter.) Lord PALMERSTON said he bad never been a candidate for Liverpool. His name had certainly been put up there by the elector, bu , if he had been returned he should have declined to sit s fur that borough, high as was th a t honour, but should have remained the member fur the borough he now repreecated. The motion that Mr. Cardwell's name be added to the enmmittee was then put, and agreed to. On the motion that Sir E. Buxton be added, Mr. JACKSON, adverting to the previous conversation, remarked that the merchants of Liverpool merely received orders from the Brazils for British manufactures, which they forwarded. They were nu more connected with the slave trade than were the manufacturers of the goods so ordered. The law made it criminal to deal in slaves, and if anybody was engaged in that traftic the law ought to be put in force. Copt. PECHELL expressed the satisfaction he felt that Admiral Bowles would be added to the committee. Mr. OLADSTONE said that as the noble lord (Pal merston ) hod shown so much good humour to night, be bored the noble lord would not hesitate to qualify, if not withdraw, what he had said with respect to the merchants of Liverpool. There could he no doubt that goods shipped by them found their way into the slave market; but to charge them with being connected with the slave trade was as unjust as to make thet charge against the proprietors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, because they con veyed the goods when manufactured to Liverpool fur ship ment. Lord PALMERSTON observed that all he had stated on the fermi r evening had just in substance been repeated by the right hen. gentleman (Mr. Gladstone), who admitted that from Liverpool eon& were ex p orted which eventually reached the slave market. 'I he conversation here dropped, and the name of Sir E. Buxton was ordered to be added to the committee. QCOAD SACRA CHURCHES IN SCOTLAND. Mr. COWAN moved for leave to bring in a bill to provide so equitable arrangement of the differences in Sc. tland affecting church. s and chapels commonly known by the term of gunnel sacra churches Mr. DUNCAN seconded the motion. I The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the bill, on the ground that the matte? was now before the law courts. Alter a conversation, in which Mr. Wawn, Sir G. Orey, and Mr. F. Mauls bolt part, the motion was withdrawn. KITCHEN AND REFRESHMENT ROOMS. Mr. STAFFORD moved: nut a standing commitee be op 'tiled, to control the armee ownts of the kitchen and the refs t rooms in the department of the Serjennt attending this house, emulating of Mr. Stafford, Alder man Humphrey, the Kat of Warrant, Capt. Berleley. Mr. Itaatie, Lord M. 11,11, awl Mr. V. Dawson, of whom three shall he a 't, gum. That it be en instruction to this committee to carry into edict such of the recommendations of the Pe lea committee appointed " in quire into the proposed arnwiresnents of the kitchen and eating and accoennastatiou rooms for frietlltlerfl and ulteera of the House of Coln moon In the New fatter of Weatminster, and to repot whether any and what improvements could be made In the percent system of IMP. iny ing refreshment ; and who were Inatructed to inquire into the do tter of the retie:int-at-rums of this house, and the salary, melamine, and patronage of the office, with a view to the regulati m of thu same to fore the occupation of the new how" of parliament, and who were impiwerral to report from time to time to the hotly," as they mar deem expedient. Agreed to. Upon the question of Winging ep some papers, the house was counted out at two Vete*. ELECTION CONINIITTEE. LANCASTIOL—The committee yesterday proceeded with the mutiny, and struck off two votes. civil strife, unless the middle classes of this country unite, claim, and win right and law nce not only in behalf of themselves, but in behalf of those below them, and thus form a league to resist at once the retrograde fears and tendencies of the Eng lish aristocratic and ministerial classes, as well as the subversive and mad hallucinations of continental theorists. 'lbis league, entered into by the reform party, is the great life-boat that has been launch, din the midst of present, and in the face of coming storms. Many yet hesitate to embark in it, either foolishly imagining that a calm may succeed, or that England may be secluded from continental storms — vain ideas both of them. Contingencies are arising, contingencies inevitable, both in foreign and in ii'.: mestie politics, the difficulties of which, if not met by a united country, by all classes sympathising and act ing together, and trusting each other, cannot but pro duce a terrible catastrophe. In furtherance of this great, popular, and truly conservative move, a meeting was convened by the sheriffs of the county of Middlesex, on Wednesday, in oonnexion with the meetings which have been held in all parts of the country for the same important object. A fitter person than Mr. WILLIANN, the ex-member for Coventry, could not have been found to open the business, and explain the purport of such a meeting. Mr. WILLIAMS, ono of the most useful and prac tical of the members of the last parliament, ' finds himself ejected from the present by a combi nation of influences, which have gulled the good people of Coventry into a complete nullification of their parliamentary representation by a return of a Whig and a tory, whose votes completely neutralise each other, except in caseswhere a great popular claim is brought forward, and then of course both unite against it. Mr. WILLIAMB, however, made himself beard at the Middlesex meeting, and summed up in one clear, and cogent speech—a speech so forcible and plain, that it almost might be retained in the memory— the results, economical and otherwise, which the country has derived from the great measure of 1831. If any man can meet such arguments by the cold denial that England does not require the complement of reform promised at that time, and out of which it has been cheated since, that man must be deaf to logic, and inaccessible to fair argument and common sense. Mr. WILIJAMS'I4 speech was addressed to the tax. payers of the country, and thus specially to the middle classes, and incumbent it is upon each and all of them to read and "take a note thereof." Mr. IiCME went more immediately and fully into the great object of the meeting, which was to hoist such a banner of reformas would unite the desires and aims of the mid dle classes, and content all the intelligent champions of the operatives. Mr. Hume pointed out four demands, as including all fair desires and practical reforms. Of these, vote by ballot and triennial par liaments are understood by all. The exact limits of the extension of the franchise, and the precise nature of how electoral districts are to be formed, have given rise inevitably to some differences of sentiment We do not think, however, that these differences are important. household suffrage is a limit to which every reformer that deserves the name must go. And those who do not must declare themselves, and must be known to their constituents and to the country as finality-men—as enemies of progress and popular rights. Whilst strongly insisting upon a close union of re formers, and a fair understanding between all classes interested in the emancipation of parliament and go vernment from mere class and narrow influences, we see by no means the absolute necessity for all reformers adopting precisely the same credo in all its minute points. Let them be agreed on the main and the great features, such as the ballot shorter parliaments, suffrage to household extent, or to a low rating or residential qualification, and electoral divisions other than the present juggling system. On this basis the standing up of the middle clawes for their own emancipation and rights will include the same aims and boons for the working classes ; and all malcontent or revolutionary or visionary ideas and efforts will be absorbed and lost in what will be a practicable, an intelligible, and a constitutional struggle. Mit Orpre 'so. MAILS. The overland mails fm Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Aition, Celion, Inaba, (long-Kong. and China, via nouthamp ton, will be made up on the monolog/ of the 20th May. The overland clued mails, no Marseille*, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden, leyloa, India, I long-hung, ate., will be made up on the evening of the 2ith May. The malls for Britudi North America, and the United Staten will he mese up en the evening .4 the 251 h Muy. 1 - he mail. (or Vigo, Oporto, I.lste.n, Metriru, Cadle, and Gibraltar will he made up on the morning of the 27th May. The lowa. for New South Wale*, Van Dienisui'e Land, and New Zealand will he made up on the evening of the lint M The /nails for the Wret Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made tp oa Or evening of the 01l st May. The West India Mall', including Bermuda, Nemo, liavanna, llonoluraa, New Orleans, Vera Ciia, Tampon', and Preto Rico, and excluding Mom for Meagre, Joomel, Coothooren.o, Canto, Martha, Chaffree, Panama, Went Coast of South Arllfillr4, and St. Juan-de- Nicaragua, sill be made up on the mooning 44 the 2nd June. The mail, aor the lira/ le, tke Itiver Kate, Monte Vi4l4V, Permian. hue/4 ttodua, Madeira, and llueuue Ayres, sill be made up on Um evening of die 3rd June. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of STAMPS issued by tho authorities of the Stamp-office, during 1847, to the DAILY NEWS was 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent of the number issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and Morning Post, ALL CUT TJOETIIIIII. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Morning Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edition, TEE EXPRESS 778,714 Which was more, we believe, than were issued other to :he Globe or Standard, Evening Papers. HIGH WATER AT LORDI/N SkIDGE. TAW Day—lior•lcti, I nue. post 1. •Ilmmea NSM.p•W 2. T.. ABMs& lb @Rapist 3: Afoiroasm. -Wm/REHR 3. LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 19. Aminhv all the speculations and anticipations of the future in which the minds of most men must at the present time indulge, there is at least one result" one contingency, which cannot be hoped for or counted on. And this is, that the great and general overthrow of thrones and aristocratic institufions throughout Europe can so little affect us as to leave England stationary, and in the same place and condi tion in which the commencement of the memorable 1848 found it. It is true of all great changes in Europe, of all revolutions, and especially of such as are now passing before our eyes, that they must affect England, and must either fling it back in the development and en joyment of freedom, or must advance it. The French revolution of 1789 threw this country back at least half a century. In many respects it was in 1814 much in arrcar of 1790, more infeodated t , ) aristocracy, bi gotry,to arbitrary and prodigal rule. We have since 1815 made up the lost ground, and 1830 gave us a notable shove onward. But the great question is now, what 1848 is to do for us? To leave us as we are, is, we repeat, impossible. Every day occurrences, indeed, show it to be so ; every day discloses the same alarm as that which prevailed in Be E'S time, pervading the higher classes and uniting their dissentient parties : the spirit, or, at least, the retrograde and panic-stricken politics of !WILKE burst from all those organs of the press which are under the influence and in the interest of these classes. A series of laws of fear and of repression occupy the time of parliament, and pass by overwhelming majorities, whilst of mea sures of popular concession not a word is heard in their precincts. A tacit league has been struck in parliament between all that is aristocratic and retro grade. And a spirit is gradually more and more per vading the dominant portion of society and parlia iiie;lt,tt":l.!"..7, tf; piece this country crc!r!.; where it was in 1795, leagued with all the absolutist courts, powers, and ideas of old Europe against the demo creic interests upheld by France. The most fearful dangers, or alternatives of danger, threaten the country from such a straggle. One danger is, our becoming the aristocracy-ridden coun try that England was in 1800 ; at what a cost, the figures of the national debt, and of the taxes neces- eery to meet it, show. But the greatest danger lies in the very contrary extreme, in the poorer end industrious classes, who can no longer be gulled as of old with hobgoblin stori• a about France and BONAPARTE, taking example from the successful struggle of kindred classes abroad, and coming more and more to fraternise with the popular movements and ideas of the continent, whilst the upper classes are fraternising a ith and aiding the continental movements of powers in an opposite direction. If 1792 brought ou a continental war, 18-18 may .sad to THE bill to enable religious congregations in Scot land to obtain sites for places of worship has passed the second reading by a majority (tellers included) of ts 2 to 27. The proportion of Scotch members in the division lista is 22 for and 7 against the second read ing. The majority is a most miscellaneous assort ment of politicians, representing constituencies of the most varied complexions. The whig member for Edin burgh and his colleague, the victor over MACAULAY, stand side by side in it. The Peelitee LINCOLN and Ssiou.err, the conservative Lord DRUMLANRIO, the men of the new movement, SLIM and 141‘Gamoa, the whig MAITLAND, and TRAILL the representative of the Duke of SETITERLAND, are there in motley combination. Blue-docking Edinburgh, tory Dum friesshire, Paisley radical among radicals, the pocket burgh Buteshire, and Fife from which a class of pe culiarly constituted intellects derive their Scottish denomination—all, in so far as can be learned from the votes of their representatives, concur in approving the bill. It is a Scotch measure, and this overwhelm. ing preponderance of Scotch support ought to be con clusive in favour of its passing. The opposing members who favoured the House of Commons by stating their reasons for disapproving of the bill, betrayed singular ignorance of the prom sions of the measure, and the circumstances white led to its introduction. The bill is not intended, as was complacently as- I burned by some of them, to favour any one sect. When sites are required by the members of any religious congregation in that pert of Great I Britain called Scotland" are the words of the first enacting clause. It does not go to create " a second church establishment ;" it favours equally all Christian and Jewish sects. It does not empower any congregation to compel any landed proprietor to afford them a site; its provisions can only be called into exercise when the site " cannot be otherwise ob tained in a situation suitable for the members of such congregation." The application for a site must be duly and formally made in the Court of Session ; in timation must be given to the owners of the land or their agents; the averments of the applicants mast be substantiated by evidence before the sheriff of the district; the price or annual rent must be fixed by his award, or the award of arbiters. Every possible precaution is taken to guard landowners against vexa tious applications, the unnecessary appropriation of any part of their land, and the refusal of fair com pensation. On the ground of undue encroachment on the rights of property there can be no valid objection to the measure, and it favours no one class of re ligion:sta more than another. 'the measure hes really been rendered necessary by the state of landed property in Scotland, and by the conduct of some landed proprietors. In the High lands, and in tho south of Scotland, there are large entailed estates embracing whole parishes within their boundaries. The proprietors of some of these have, in a narrow-minded spirit, pertinaciously re fused sites to congregations of the free-church ; and at the time of the Secession under the ERMINES, the same conduct was pursued in some instances by the great landowners of that day. What has been may be again. Owners of tracts of land equalling in extent some independent Ger man states, may refuse sites to religious denominations against which they entertain a prejudice, the power of erecting a place of worship, a residence for their minister, and school for their children in the uninha bited glen, which is the only convenient centrical place of assembly for them. It is not in these wild regions as in the densely peopled lands of " merry I England," where some hut or hovel may easily be found and devoted for the purpose. There is no alternative between the power to build, and assembling in the open air, exposed to all the inclemency of Scotch mountain regions. The lord of miles upon miles of highland or border land has it in his power to compel the infirm, through age—the delicate, from sex or unripe years, to incur disease if they perform their religious duties or seek instruction, or to desert the communion to which they are conscientiously attached, which per haps may debar them access either to spiritual or secular enlightenment. The tone of some of the opponents of the measure is singularly lowered. We do not hear now proud and confident denials of the persecuting conduct which has rendered this measure necessary. They are spoken of with regret ; it is alleged that but for the committee of last session they would ere this have been entirely desisted from ; they are said to have existed under a Fate of things which cannot recur. Under these pretences a delicate bug- gestion is thrown out that the measure m ay be withdrawn ; that it is no longer needed; ass" that it is objectionable to enact a general measure to meet individual casks. 'there is not one word of truth or sound policy in these insinuation'. But for the committee, persecution fur conscience A d e would have gone on increasing, and amid bsue-fac e d denials of its existence. The same oppressive condos" over which the free church has triumphed, m a y b e renewed against other sects, new or old. In the tribution of landed property which exist', and is likely long to exist in Scotland, nothing but a general measure can guard against repetitions of this. abas e of the power which wealth and rank confer. It is es. sential to the maintenance of religious liberty in Se* I iand that the bill be passed into a law. THERE is nothing like a little wholesome agitati ly l ouw e rn, r b wo l ghf ii c troei e a nv n a ndo exhibitppc e s r e i n v f a ot hutrepe the affairs poaw r alike, eemr o andv remedyatl ofortunet,ehf wewhich iitl.hrl hello ettssho classety eex. themselves. And even where persons labou r ill apparently powerless, vigorous and combined sc u m Petted. readers will recollect the meetings and sassaia tions of copyholders of Wolverhampton and i t/ vicinity ; their energetic protests against the siveneve of that ft tidal tenure, their striking expo. sates of its practical operation upon the improvng copyholder, and their detetmined appeals to the legislature for redress. Well, we lin e pleasure in recording that the lords of the manse of Stowheath, which comprises Wolverhamptca, Bileton ' and Willenhall, have come forward w i th a general offer of enfranchisement to all the copyholders upon terms which seem to be perfectly equitable. la the hope that lords of manors throughout the king. dom will follow the enlightened course adopted bydis Duke of SUTHERLAND and Mr. T. \V. WEIRD, di lords of the manor of Stowheath, we shall state the plan they have pursued. On the first of thepres ee t month the solicitors of the lords issued a joint eh , cuter, in which they state they are instructed to offer to the copyholders of that manor enfmnelne t , ment of their respective properties." They say th a t the property is so diversified that it has requi te d much deliberation to arrive at any general rules on tha subject, " especially as copyhold enfranchisement has, until recently, been regarded as an occasMnalmatterke individual accommodation, and not a systematic alteration of tenure." However, in this, as in teat other matters where people set to with a will, ilia. culties at first appearing great are soon oversea s; the" lion in the path," when faced, becomes a docile animal. The solicitors intimate that there is not • likely to be any compulsory power of enfranchisement to a greater extent than such as might enable any copyholder to require it on terms usual when a rem. pulsory use of property takes place. That may be so in fact, for the class which comprises lords of manors are practically the makers of the laws; bat the principle on which enfranchisement of copybold should be enforced is altogether different from that cc which " property " is compulsorily taken, u, for instance, to make a bridge, • street, or a railway. Whatever may be its legal definition the lord of a manor has morally no property in the copyhold tete ment. It is mere right to vex the actual owner of the property. It is the power to fine a man for im• proving his own estate before he can sell or mangle it, or transmit it to his children. Thus mach we think necessary to say on the broad and palpable du. tinction between such rights ate those of loth of manors in the copyholds held under them and the ordinary property in house or land ; for it is rather to be hoped than expected that the lords of manors go- nerally will so speedily imitate the example of the lords of the manor of Stowheath as to render a law for the compulsory enfranchisement of copyholds unnecessary. Every copyholder of Stowheath is de sired by the lords to " at once have the power of ob taining the freehold of his property on the mot equitable terms, with the greatest facility and at tbe smallest legal expaise." The fines due on alienating' in this manor, according to the custom, are two yens' improved value, and the report of the Copyhold Coo. missioners shows that on such the price of entree chisement averages from fete to six years value. The solicitors in the present instance say, " We propme in this manor to take a scale, varying from tiro") four years' value only, according to the rental ad nature of the property ;" and they add, " this abate ment from the usual charge will be so considerable that we have only felt justified in recommeir'ing it by a reference to the number of houses and buildings hat of the manor, and by the desire of the lords to * enfranchisement within the immediate reach of My copyhold tenant." This is justly consider= copyholdcrs at large to be a liberal and concession. Building land and other property basis prospective advantages will not be dealt with sees* ing to that scale, but according to its particular cie cumstanees ; " but," says the circular, " there is skit proportion well understood and acted upon in sok cases, and nothing beyond that fair proportion be expected." The lords have also appointed ato spectable surveyor of Wolverhampton to adjust the price of enfranchisement in each case, who ad charge a fee of 10s. 61. only, the lords tolie• f taking themselves to defray the other experam of valuation. When the price has been arranged by the surveyors, abstracts of the titles of the lords to their respective interests in the manor, which of course will form the freehold title of the enfranchised copyholder, will be open to the inspection of any copy holder, at the offices of the lords' solicitors ; where a short printed form of the enfranchising deed " settled by counsel," may be had. On payment of the price, and the steward's fees (on which we mud say a word presently), the deed presented by the copyholder will be executed by the lords without expense to the person whose estate is enfranchised. And the circular concludes thus—" Some appre hension having prevailed that, where pro perV is in mortgage, enfranchisement might be difficult or expensive, we think it right to state that such is not the case. On the contrary, a condi tional surrender, by way of mortgage without admit tance, passes no legal estate, but by the simple oc currence of the mortgagee in the enfranchisement is strument, he will obtain a legal limitation of a free. hold, instead of a surrender of copy hold interest, he his security, and the owner of the property will haw the benefit of the enfranchisement subject to them** gage. The form of the instrument to meet these cases may be had at our respective offices." Thia is a vile resolve on the part of the lords, carried out in fair and business-like way; and the lords hariu thus agreed to enfranchise, the facilities afforded by the act of parliament and the commission will come into operation. There is only one other part of this circular whirl •-equires to be noticed, namely, the steward's few. These have been settled, in the case of Stowheath manor, upon the following scale; where the con sideration paid for enfranchisement does not amount to 501. the steward's fee will be 2/. 10s. ; if 501. sod under 1001, the fee is 31. 10s.; if 1001. and under 150/., fee 41. 10s. ; if 1501. and under 300/., fee 51. 10s. ; if 3001. and under 5001., fee 61. 10s.; and if 5001. t o h r e up sa w m a e rds d , eg 7 re 1. 8 1 0 0s f . ap T pro hi v s ai sc u ale t d h oes e re n it ot of m t e: e t with scheme, being considered to bear most hardly Om the smallest copyholders. It is, however, worth some thing to have the fees reduced to a certainty. co lbg the copyholder will know precisely - what eufrandise ment will cost him, and even should he think the is s omewhat heavy he will have the satisfactios d knowing that he pays it once for all ; that fret thenceforth he is emancipated from serf-tenon , and becomes a freeholder. And let us hope that this offer of enfranchisement from the lords will be cni• dveuarsatrlioly:dsipsotrindcted, andto that by thiencompyohoyledarsers cop p thin yhoi t will have ceased to exist. LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE Pitt4E.CTION OF TOOG FEKALllB.—Yesterday a meeting of subscribers and 000 0 interested in promoting the objects of the above instituter s was held at their office, Moira-chambers, IronmongessXlo Gresham-street, City ; J. T. Barlow, Esq., in the char The secretary reported that these are now in the iglus , Tottenham 70 young females, the eldest under 15 years age, who are fed, clothed, religiously educated, end fitted(o respectable servitude. It was unanimously reached that II consequence of the numerous applications daily made. 10a which the funds of the society had hitherto precluded. al additional of the most urgent cases be admitted. The asylums. if sufficient support was afforded, contains accontrnodYi for more than 130 inmates. Th e societ y hos, during thoe, years of its existence, caused the suppression of above 57 no torious houses of ill-fame in various parts of Load ". ro eecution is now pending against a n individual wh N o )tesl his carriage, livery servants , an d country-house t ortu• fleet, and who is the proprietor of 50 houses of an infano l o description, principally at the west end, and one of *lacks , actually the next door to the residence of one of ths ceastio; sioners of the excise, and it is hoped that after m onths es laborious application, a clear case has been m ade out a3anui this ihaixidaal, wLich wiil appros the whale of the bQs°° PRUSSIA. —Um ing of the 11th sts not been disturbed the 14th, an unmet which it was dew pany in a mass a del to the Minister Pre resolution: "That be recalled by a d which is to meet ministers unwillin rtsign." The dt companied by a the house of Ho went in, and al the ministers, Vor a ppeared at the ba tion, and stated tt to Potsdam, no ans it would be further and tumult emue and the crowd alb We have no rei Camphausen ansvr journal of the 16th a proclamation, ail states:—" We her Prince, of Prussic fourteen days iron the opening of th 22nd, return to hir Previous, howee all along intended, new constitutional A correspondeni Posen, 12th May - - In the course of y with fugitiv,s oat of ported that bodies of had shown themselv Wongrowiee, and tl their way. Acemdi of the guerilla chiefs home ; but these la , campaign, had unite on the war after ti, pont d that blierosla but although probe not true that a COW thofor Krotowski ; von Pfuel is authori the Poles have laid thing to lose nature it, and such wish to people, stranse en although is scatters seems that Gen..voi now at loggerhes Steinseker, shoat ing the same faith believing in some One of the proceed is the discharge peasantry out of 1 place to-clay, but s great festival was h Posen into the formed with much pathy on the part even if most of th Getman city, and streamed from the of c ffigies of Poll and shame that P oppression which witted in Schleswig events as prematur been at their im, where and uhat not a phantom, it stoutly resisted on AUSTRIA.—' ning had enter Austrian cabinet between that pc Count Fiquelmm to all negotiation There have be everything bad t BAVARIA.— Otho from Greec had an interview 13th. Sir Strut with the King o I felt very rel tation over the national feelings foresaw all Run casien of his re nals. 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