The Express. — London, England, 1851-02-22 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORI/S.-FRIDAY, FEB. 21. TiteLOZD CIIANCILLoII took his scat at S o'clock. _ LOrd *raki, of Alderley, took the oaths, and subscribed the parliamentary roll. THE 'NEVI VICE-CIIANCELLOR. ...... Lord LANODAI.E; laid on the table a 101 l to repeal so much of the att of 11441 4. prorlutltd the appointment of a third ♦ice-chancellor, and to authorise the appointment of a new vice-chaneellor. The noble lord said he should move the second reading of the hell on Monday neat; and he should ohm then move thus the %tending orders he dispensed with, in order that the bill might 4t come law as speedily as posrihle. The hill war then re 01 • tint time. CRIMINAL LAW J L ILI SI/ICI lON IMPROVEMENT BILL. Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of this bill, with a view to its being referred to a *whet committee. After a few word., from Lord Boot Gnaw, the hill was read a mend time and relieved to a select committee. cot'N'ty cote ItTl4. lined 81101. 611 AM laid on the talde a return of the number of write of certiorari for removing Cafe' from the county Manta. It appeared by it that in 1847 there were 17 ; in 131/1, the same number ; in 11.19 there were 15; and time the pawing of the lu•t ::•t there hail been 11. There we., tht refine. not the I. il+t pri to ever for saying that there • tljpito , 4l . ton m o re Lao. from the countt. court.. The noble and learn' d lord then pi...tweed until if huraluy neat hi. mcu.un• for pis law to county courts an equity juris diction, and making them of reconciliation and add in COOseltill 11C1, of tin alOetlC: of the Lord l'reah dent. nEorcrn.tTioN 01' TITLES. Lnrd rA)11'111:1.1. tad on the table a bill for the ngir trati.rn 4if title% whirl, .6... rcarl a tint time. Their loniship..ljoun...l,t A .luarttr Islort 6 o'clock. 1 101'SE OF COMMONS.—FIan tT, nal. 21. Tl;SVit.Tststnnk the...hair at i i bk-fi.r.- 4 o'clock. I'ItIVATK BUSINESS. --- - %Zo' osNID RRA ICI —CYO Na%Walt10111; Dundee Police; National Lead Connpany Vi,' sing; M. Ambdrewi . llail •ay ; PILIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS Pit Y....FISTED. Numbers of petitions were presented arrainst the Papal Atter. • .ine, the Y.eeSsinstital 1it.1,5 Bill, and the Window I.■ AI.I.I.7IMATION ov Col in:. --By Sir T. IBIRCTI, from India A ,seintion Lisa rpool, praying that the ►..... e wrmhl pan I rinolution n-eindinfr the Treasury order Fa the swipen.ins the met asminst the adulteration of ion. e. A1.141.,1,0% i.e 7111 Jew, 117 Sir I). TItOI.I.OIT, from Wiutoft, eensinst the edist . ...loll of the Jews intu pur balm nt l's eau 111 . 1 mi. By Mr. W. J. FOX, from Oldham; Mr. IiIAIiTEI:M.tN, Inca a plate not heard; Mr. tOß bltN,fmin M srhoroisufs. S l / 4 i•iton, and other I,hw. in York ship, ; the M A n i u,sof tilt.lN horn Nottinuhani ; Mr. BitliillT, loan Motithester ; Lord J. MANNERS, from a pl.". tuEw s ; Mr. ItOEIII . CK, from ShefM•ld ; Mr. N 01.11., (non Wi stool, ffueen'st'ounty,unil Itincont moo ; and Mr. It. hi. FOX, from ; Mr. B. CSI F. t 11, from tr.elersid K n .r.*borough, praying fur the repeal of the tifige duty um paper. NI;W MEW BLit. Mr. netI)110 took oit;lntl, awl ;;;; ICU fur the Falkirk DiNtrict of burghs. OIfaRF:SIS IN IRELAND. Sir 11. DAIMON g.i.e notire that on the nth of March td move for a sf lett onumith r• to infinite into the elfsto -.AI Mate of UM, mut t•r point oat a remedy fur its n 'fp f Sir I. 011111E.N prAve Indic.• that nn a future clay he &h.. 0.1 rail thc att. Minn of th• hectic.. tot the tliatin,acl .talc Eli ill , illituela in the Vl'Mil 4111111%1A 41i Ir. - land. ittiNEFICES. . . Mr. Fit 1.:%% EN sunset! that the ninth (slumming bent, 6 , 4 •settutstered (pr. -5t5t.4121.1 August, 1840), bt priubsl. red. KII.MAINIIAM HOSPITAL 1,,nl NAAS hittrill to put • to the right hnn. itrntluniaa tbr tkvertiry at War in cono-quilirt• id n rtsport wloi. 11 Wla prrvaliait lati‘e to liiiniaintrun lle 10 hal.W if .ml.-r.. 1.4.1 1.4'11 iu. it that no further of tars •litailit 1•• Inado , iutn tint hoNtital till•sr Ist April. and if it Ira triue that tlit• vac:alai,. in the by edit odirg,i, hail not 1.. ;is hlh.l up; and it so, alrthi-r thomr \ 41.111.11, wan t./ b tribal up i Mr. F. MAU LK wa. not aviAiN• that there were any or mane v.ireiwie., either for Hien or officers. The imitruc *ion. w Writ 11.1 liven given by him were. that after the 31.4 Wiwi' no ee n wen - taken in nrotti-era appointed without 41.4-4 ial instruetiiim frvim the War-office. CASK OF Mlt. ERNEST JONES. Mr, F. O'CONNOIL M•lrlpd to ad( the 'tight hon. gentle man the flora• neert-tary, wit. thrr he had n•reived soy rontrouttWation from Mr. Ernest Jowl., with rotard to tie nt.tont r is which he had been treated in the gaol in wiled, he wtet cnfind? s,r (MKT dal nog recollect that hr hAd received any toonnuniration from Mr. Jones abler his liberation, but it thr hmi. gentleman had given indict: of his question, he w "old hAse liven hob r utile to Kit,' him so answer. KINGSTOWN II AltltOr It (111,1i1.ANI))._ ..... . . ,• ?lir 'IF:V:6111.1/S mid that in aikinu a iluiotion of which In- hail otiien with,. it vc:\ nerekkary for him to ednte that, under the provi•ioint of the art* LGtli Oro. 111., r. fo2, rind Ist tiro. IV., r.:'., duty of 1.. wit. paid upon every entry in Iliolditt l'autous-howhe, to provide a fund to pay the ...p010...id King -too u Ilurlootir, and that teowlio hound for any foreign port, which happened to Like Trftice in ttn• harbour did not pay dino, while thin going direct up the laifey were oihliiood to poly them, and in one imedanee the elpino• 1,11•V*411111t of the cargo amounted to 2011. Ile ',Wool, therefore, to ask the hon. gentleman the Secretary so the Troasury if it his the intention of her Mutioly goo fitment to introduce, oluritig the pn.viit orp.ion of path: lit, any lIICU•Urt• to rrlieir the m..n.hantl • tr.ukri or Ifuhlin from the port charges to which they ore nun liable under the tirovionima of the acts 46 thou. 111., e. slid lit In o. 1 V.. r. 26 ? _ . Mr. CORN EWA 1.1. LEWIS raid that certain port dues Ur, 10 ... 11111 tow I. interim: the harhour sit Duldi f i, under 110.1•41 in ISIS to t the ev pens.. of Dun kin'. 11... ingstown, harbour, which wan. ....taunted till iftO, both as rivararil attired from abroad unit in the osotinft trade, hut they were in that year remitted on 11••••• d. in t 11.• rmeitiint trade. A sum of public Is. Is .1111,1111.611 tot the security of those pat of w Melt had liven repaid, and there annual ff runt vot. d for the exp. uses of Kings tonn Il arbour, s 1,1 le about 1(1,1100/. trim paid into the el. t 111 quer uvery year. The subject had hum under consi r..f not be roula not wly whether the government would bring tu a bill. ...... BARHAM VNION. Mr. BAINES. in n illy to Mr. Danko,. *aid he had rceeisisi no intimation of disturiemers in any other union norkhoim wept in that of Barham, and he thought that the hon. gentleman no. a ll u di ng In a disturbance of a le.. serious character in the union of Ihliwade, in Norfolk. With regard to the inquiry as to whether the ilisturismer hail been caused by able men who w. re in the house in consequence of want sif employment. the amounts he had received were enullicts inn .1111• atitittjt tint that was the CALM', and the sole cause, while another stated that the conduct of the inclua trO .. s labourers unit, great lirisations, had been mmt patient and praissworth,, lint that instigation to the riot had 11f.11 . 1,11111141111 errluin interested quarters, and that hut for that instigation it would not hair occurred. lie would it no .pimou I , o* 11 Id; but the whole ,Ilb jeCtwould be ru .. vistigate.l on the trial* Which taunt about to take place. VAGRANCY IN TUE METROPOLIS. Sir G. GREY, in nide to 3lr. !bloke., told that hi. attention had not been called to the in,reaye 14 vagrancy. nor hail he received any itibirmation from the roonimissioono r, of police or other authoritie. in the tropoli.. whi t would lead him to M11e.,. that 11- gtmry had invert, 01. On, the contrary, he had called for a report from the elommi..tomer. of polar fora statentent of the number of vagrants taken into enstoily in the last three year., and it wa. bound that the number. were about the same in each, while a return of the List ten years .hewed that in 18. at the number was has than iu any year except ISloi. Them might he an increase iu certain localities whioh had come under the notice of the hon. member, and if that so re he wouild communirate with the cooLnia slump. of police the suldurt. DISTI'ItII.% NCEs IN WORKIIOCSES. Sir J. TY It ELL lapaiil to ask the resident of the Nor Law Itouni if he had any information of disturlainees in a uniim workhouse in Esser Mr. It.%INES sail he had not veer ivol any such infers notion, and there was no around fur believing that any dasturtaincs a had taken plare in that county. In answer to a questitm !non Col. ('lir, frritrou, Sir U. GREY vwl a repr,entation had been made to him by the magistrates of the district that the °Meer is command of the deletions who were present at the &star- I Lamer al Ilarham hail corn., is ‘,l it to be his duty not to dire mount his men. Ile had referred the question to the com mand, r-in-rhisf, and an aasuranie had hien given to the mutistrat, • that d'avetiaas had born nt to Ipswich that if, unhappily Ism after the services of the troops should be' requiri d, the officer in , a 1111111.11141 would he permitted to dia.,' mount a pontes of his men. if it was necewary to do m. STEAM COMMUNICATION WITII AUSTRALIA. Lord HAAS het gsd to ask the Chancellor of the Ea. cbcquer whether any or what steps have liven adopted by post rnmvnt towards , stablishing regular steam contrium , eat ion with the Australian colonies: and, also. to ask him 11 how soon the puNie may r% r, that such communication to deal may ht opened ' that an The I'll t NCI:I.I.On of the EXCIIEQI'F.R said that 0141.1 it I 4 oilers had bet n C.1%41 tor this performanCe Or 'team tr i m- ~,,T at sit from Singapore to .tustralia. some of w Intl hail been would, • mei lord a day ur two ago. Ile had been abbe only to east (Cheer, 1 11 hi* tye over them, but they w e r e n one o f t h em b y any I Lord means satisfactory. power, Mr. H. 31. FOX inquirsil whethir all other lines but baronet a that wow pnipined winild be excluded i with tl The I'II.tN('ELLOIt of the I•At'HEQUER said that I Arehbn three different lines bad been tendercd for, and the most, self on , I advantintious appeared to 1w that from Sinsrapore, which . just br would include not only Australia but the East Indies and the eft i Chn a. grace. Mr. ADDERLEY begged to ask the railer Secretary of, plainest State for the t'olunies. whether the ship Pyrenees, now , sired th embarking convicts at Woolwich, has h a d h e r destination steps in, *banged from Hobart Town, Van DiCalt6 . s Land, to' rz ; i: es Wton Assurlis ? I ...._ THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1851. Mr. HAW ES, who was very inaudible, was understood / had for some time been directed to the modes of service i to say that it was true that the destination of the vessel is adopted in the church of St. Andrew, Wells-street, and ~ question had been shared; but we were unable to catch ths which he certainly did not consider to be in conformity reason stated by the hon. gentleman. with those recognised in the practice of the church of Eng- THE HOCSE TAX. • land ; that the inhabitants of the district in question had On the motion that the house at its rising do adjourn to ! complained to him (the bishop), and that he had been must Hondas, , anxious to give every consideration to the matter of their complaints ; but (the Bishop of London added) although, in Sir li. HALL said he wished to ask two questions of the i m p or t - coves where the clergyman complained against was willing noble lord at the head of the government of great to attend to the admonition of his bishop, the ecclesiastical once, one relating to the elective franchise, and the other to ' the dim ipline of the established church of this country, sad . law provided an easy and inexpensive mode of satisfying Ihe would put them separately. Firstly, with regard to tho . the complaints of the parishioners, and of securing the dia house tax, which had bests proposed ; the noble lord was continuance of the practices reproved by the bishop as 1 I their instance; the result was widely and altogether aware that i,y the ratepayiug clauses of the Reform Act, all feerent where the clergyman, persisting in such practices, assessed taxes and rates orf the relief of the poor must be di , paid before a house holder could he placed on the register.. altogether refused to be bound andrestricted by the ohm 'fhe Chancellor of the 3e:chequer had proposed to abolish , ninon, or remonstrances of his bishop. (Hear, hear.) In the window duties and put on a house tax, and he wished this state of things , the effective inteefeycnee of the (Deft to ask if it was the intention of the mernment to require I sat axe matters of very considerable difl.culty, and found qua _ i to Le attended with holiday to heavy expense and vexatious payment of that tax before a householder would be ° lifted to be plated on the ri izi.i r i. ° delays on the part of those promoting the necessary pro- I Lord J. RUSSELL ..id the r.' was no intention of neat. I circling,. (Hear.) The noble lord assured the house that he knew that the Bishop of London had consulted the ing a new qmilifiration ; hut the interpretation of the act, ! as reworded this tax, would be the same as that with regard highest professional advice on this .subject; and that right to the a,AC•AId twits. I he felt satisfied that th e bi s hop rev. prelate's attention has ing been thus especially called Sir IL. HALL said, when Sir R. Peel had imposed the to the evil eoffi P lailwd 0., income tax he said that the payment of that tax would not 'would with the least possible delay do everything be necessary to a qualification for la ing declared un the : in his power in order to prevent the continuance or the re register. (f the house tax WAS to be considered so an I sisal of practices, which, as the house must have observed, ww ,,, w , citax, myetent of it must he made before a I the biAhop hail chino! that lie considered to he incom lionwholder emild lei placed on the register. I putible with the spirit of the worship of the Church of Fog- Lord J. RUSSELL sa id lie could not give a precise 1 Lind.. (R e ar) Now the Archbishop of Canterbury had answer as to thut ;the interpretation of the net would be the arpriod him (Lord J. Russell) that he had had several province of lawyers. communications with the bishops on this important matter— ST. ANDREW'S (WEI.I.S-STREET) DISTRICT his grace Lilly believed those prelates were moot desix- CH CECIL ous to put so end to these practices that had already been so strongly denounced by hinioclf ; but lie believed, also, that Sir B. lIAI.L said that the question be was about to pro pose was one of great importimee in relation to the digreat difficulties iiiteriooed themselves to eneorein;.! the ma, in its present condition, against them. (Hear.) It would cipline of the established church, and it wan necessary that be found, perhaps, that the terms of the Rubric itself were, be should state a particular rase; in doing which he should confine himeelfto the fa. ts,anol make no comment upon ih rie. in some respects, precise and stringent even to the en- Thehancement of the difficulties lying in the way of legal pro. parish of Marylsbone, containing a population of lii,isal (ceding+ to compel refractory ministers to desist from pm...cel -1 souls, was some years ago divided into districts, for etelesi waical purpose s, owe of which was " la All soul., which logs which had occasioned so much irritation and sesoulaL I was hounded on the cod by Tottenham-court-road, and on It being in any case, the general wish of the bishops that in some !Orin or other these practices should be repressed by the south by Oxford-street, and extended to a considerable distance north and west. This was mbdivided three ears law, he mustexpress his hope that hi hon. friend would not ago, 'and a district culled St. Andrew's (Well-stree t) was call upon him to take the question as to the mode of pro created. It woo determined that it should be a,. pa- seeding out of the hands of the Archbishop of Canterbury rate descried ; that there should be a new ineutulmoit, and the Bishop of London, in which it was now, with great • . ...,, propriety—und he did not doubt with great ultimate silvan .. .. there hi dug about 5,000 inhabitants, and 4-50 householders rated to the ;slew. A new church was built, to whit h the inhabitants sole-trilled largely, and width was consecraoill on the Pith of January, Ist 's% The presentation was to be alternately in the hisliop, or the crown and Hector of All Mud.. Mr. Fallow* was the fint incumbent, and during his ismumbeney the inhabitants were satisfied with the man ner In which the duties were rocrfornitd. Unfortunately, after • few months helot, and the pis sentation fall lino the hands of the bishop, who appointed a Mr. Murray, who was now the ineumtent. In a short time after, a memorial, which lie (Sir B. Ilall) held in his band, was penciled to the bishop, nianed by owothird of the haws:holders. To that memorial he should unw call the notice of the noble lord and the house, and he had communicated to the Bishop of London his intention of calling the attes ting of the house to its siihstanee, and to the ennelutt of the bishop with refer •nce to the matter of it. The inhabitant* complained that immo diately after the ap pointment of the Its, Mr. 3lurr.ey, lie began to introduce a great variety of changes and innovations on the customary rhumb service; and that, in fine, he hail at length brought the service in the chancel, and the general forms observed throughout it, to what was Menstfully stated to he the most perftet model of l'useyite ceremonial. (Ilear.) The com munion table was now noon el with a richly diesoratiol and endiresioleeni cloth. It had loon, on two several roma shins, raised, an that the table, or ";afar" as it was termed in the rhumb, hail to be apprretch• d by a flight of steps. Tall wax candles acre plaissl upon it, and w with these, em high ft.:Beals or holidays. wr. aths of flow, es. The communion plate was deposited no a seporate table, and not set out on the communion table itself, until oft, r the offertories es re issioplen it. In addition to all this, the pnannwims whiili he had introduced, and in width he oreasioo t ally Joined himself, soy, eases ilingly distasteful to the congregation generally ; but notwithstanding all the re nomstraaceo which had teen midis-sod to Mr. Mornay on that topic, the items nil gentleman had hitherto decline-a to discontinue these practices. The table. containing the De calmest has/ hem twice taken down from above the commas ni tt n table loy his order, and had twice In be replaced at the 4 . 111.e1ti1• of the. clourthwanicns. The Litany, in place of Is ilia said in the wood manner, a as intoned, the minister himself kneeling all the time, with hi* fare to the " altar," and, conoono nay, having his hark turned to the congre gation. The commonion service was also intoned, the boy cho rister. remaining all thee time in attendance, so that many of the parishioneys, w ho could not mintier in these step:inure le from the simple nudes and forms of our established church to which thy had been accustomed, found thcnissives thus de.lsarred from participating in that sacrament when they felt very desirous of receiving it. (Hear.) There were very many other allegations in this memorial of the parishioners of Saint Andrew's (Well-string) into which it was unnects sary for him now to occupy the Bone of the him..• by enter ing. Ile es osuld mention, howevtr, that it was signed loy WO out of the hat inlialoitant houscholden of the dintriet. It was, also, a eurious fart that every individual inhabitant householder of Ilemeni-street, Ostiord-street, hail signed this document on being applied to for that purpose, with one single temptioui, mot that party was a Homan catholic. (blear.) lle most nom gray the attention of hon. gentlemen to a very sinus!, lout significant fate It was eon the 2lst of Ihmembrr Lest that the memorial was tivinentittill to the. Bishop of London. The gentleman who was deputed to de hoer it apprised his lordship that at any time he might be pleased to MUM' suitiugf his convenience some two or three attn. ladle duals loy whom the memorial had lanai signed would very reality wait 1.11/0111 his lordship, in order to afford any further information he might desire• to receive, 411111 to answer nil quo 'ohms the bishop might desire to put in respect of any of the alltgatious contained in the me morial. Now, port of the information that the memorial ists desired to convey to his lordship was, that the incum bent of the parish, professing to Ise a minister of the esta blished thumb, was in the habit of attending a Rosman eathoolic plate of worship in king William-street, Straml. (Loud cries of "liter.") The statement hail been made to him (Sir B. hall) by u gentleman of the highest respeotoloility—well.known to some hon. inembtrs of that house, -and upon a loom veracity he hail terry reliance. But lie was frtu to confess that lie considered such a state ment to invoke a charge of so grave a naturr—(hear, hear)- Srellied to him to impute conduct so extraordinary in a clergyman of the church of England—that he (Sir B. Hall) hail declined to make it in that house, unless the per who hail communicated it to him would put it upon paper, and authenticate it by his own signature. The gentleman had immediately addressed to him such a paper, with his signature app e nd e d t o it ; an d h e (Si r B. lion) had theremont w ithoout delay forwarilesl it to the right hon. Si crenery of State for the II • Ilk.partment. The dont mint being now in that right loon. horonces pssession, he did not think it note-nary to state the party's name to the house. The gentleman iu question might he right, or he might be wrong, in the averment thus made by him; but he (Sir IL Ilall) had felt that hie duty way to bring the fact thin alleged under the notice of her Majesty's government. (Hear, hear.) Some time afteywords an answer wan returned by the Bishop of Lon don to the memorial of these householder.. and it was to this effect :—•• I am sorry to have so long delayed answer ing the memorial transmi ttttt to me by you, from certain inhabitant householder. of the district parish of St. An drtw's (Ws Ilsestreet). I ant quite aware o, the circumstances set forth in that memorial, and I hart long since remon strated with Mr. Murray on the subjett matter of your communication, hut hitio•rto without *dirt." (lien.'.) Ilia lonlohip aoldeol, " that the memorialists might depend upon his doling all that lay within his power to reviler the scrim purfornicd in their church, in future, computable with o but they had a right to expect in a church of the establish ment." (Hear.) This letter win •` C. J. Loudon," and addressed to "E. L. Bayley, Esq., Ilernenmotreet, Oa ford-street." Time paosed on, aid tht me hutting that nothing had LWVII done in the mutter of their com plaints, so us to cause any dimoutinuance of the forms and Israelites objected to, addressed at length another letter to the bishop. In his answer to tlde, his lordship observed, •• 1 am not surprised that some degree of 1.01. patience should be felt by the inhabitant householder* of the district of Saint Andrew. We Ils-strett, who haee cx pressed their ilinmtisfaction w ith the forms Moserved in the celebration of divine service in their church. Ilut, inas much as the measure, which I propose to adopt for meet ing the orievanen tomplaineil of, and removing the dis satisfartion ommiontel by then, will be gcntr.ol, and not limited to dill: purticular cam, some time must elapse and sonic delay interpose, bete: those no sour., can be carried into t &et. I am, ifte., ('. J. Loudon, • k.l.aughter , and cheers.) I u the course of thtst transactions, and pend- • Mg this curs spondruce, he (Sir 11. Bali) hail lace,, re quested to take the part which had rs nsleytel it neces sary for him to submit these statements to night : and in doing ss he had endeavoured to avoid es try ofiensive ea. pension. (l'hes. Ts) What he wanted to know, and w h a t lie would now take the liberty of asking the noble lord at the head of her ).lajesty's goeernment, was this—were the archbishops and bishops of our 1 church about to take any measures for the put pose of effectually suppressing tht practices or innova tion he had alluded to, and of which those most reverend and right reservisd prelates now stated that they had Isms intimating their decided disapprobation to the clergy non maintaining them Mr the last ten years ? (Hear, hear.) Oe would they leave the protestant laity of this country to I the such steps as to then, might seem amesoary, for the pupa', of compelling the ecelesisestind heads of their church deal promptly and tflitiently with innovations and usages List art notoriously repugnant to the great body of their own docks ? ((losers) He felt that it wan impossible to overrate the importance of this suli,jeet, and trusted that it without further delay, receive ample investigation. • (Cheers.) Lord JOIIN RUSSELL said, that as far ae lay in his power, he would answer the question of the hosiourable harontt with great pleasure. B t f ort h e had communicated with the Bishop of Landon, I.k. had received from the Archbishop of Cauterbury, to whom he had addressed him -If on the subject, which his hoe. friend (Sir B. Hall) had ' brought under the notice of the , house—u reply much to effset that had been alnaaly stated. Ile drew his ' attention to the fact that the modes of wunhip con,- I ol of had °tensioned very great scandal, and had de- 1 the archbishop to give: his earliest consideration to the must expedient to be token in such a matter. In I to his (Lord J. Russell's) communication with the of Idmdua, that palate amused him that his notice Mei., plaiced. At the name time he - trusted that his hon. friend (Sir B. Hall) would not misunderstand him so much as to suppose him (Lord J. Ituesell) to mean that they, or that her Majesty's government, meant to reeomnaend any alteration or modification in the liturgy oof our church —(cheers)—oreven in the rubric. lie would only now add, that notwithstanding the admitted difficulties a hich stood in the way of enforcing the existing law, there had not isetearred, he believed, more than one or two instances in which clergymen who had given in to the practices com plained ale hail rejected the proffered admonitions of their bishops. But when that rejection has been expressed and acted upon, he was prepared to assure the house that the consequences of attempting to enforce compli ance with such pastoral remonstrances had been ascer tained, by expenence, to be most formidable. lie himself knew that one bishop had been put to un expense, in con ducting such a ease against a refractory minister, of no less than 3,00!. (Hear, hear.) As to some other points which his hon. friend hail touched upon, and the necessity for im- I mediate present legislatiot on them, he did out think that, in the present state of things, either the government or the parliament could advantageously interfere. Mr. A. B. HOPE was very sorry that a subject of this nature should have been brought forward at all in that house. (Oh !) It seemed to him that they were assuming quite ecclesiastical functions, and that, if this tendency to interpose iu matters of religious doctrine and the ceremonials of public worship were pushed much further ' the house would RIM /11, in the fervour of its emulation, entitle itself to the appellation of a second ". Iffirebones Parliament." (Derisive cheers and laughter.) Me. Murray had never in all his life, been abo et two or three times at the utmost, inside a Roman catholic place of s; ornhip. On the occasion of his going to that which had been mentioned, he went avowedly for the purpose of being pn xont at a cuntrovceial disquisition, and to beteo to a reverend and learned gentleman well known to the holme lord himself, Dr. Cumming, who was to take part in that controversy. (Hear, Mara The hon. gentle. man concluded by remarking that the danger of the inno vation which bad been so much exaggerated could hardly be deemed very imminent by the authorities; who had been so touch referred to in this discussion seeing that the date of the letter to the Bishop of Landon, which the loon. baronet had quoted, was Gth of February, WO, and the answer to it of his lordship was dated 21st of February, Dell. (('heers and laughter.) Mr. REYNOLDS complained of the disrespect shown to the Roman catholic members in that house by the manner iu which the hon. baronet had spoken of his own as "the" church exclusiseoly. Mr. 11UME could not concur in the reflections which the hon. member had just throw a on the hon. baronet by whom this qucstiem had been brought before them. Ile (Mr. Hume) himself had aim hen instructed to support the stow:nous which the house had heard fermi his hon. friend. Fur from looking at a mutter of this kind in the disparaging view that had been taken of it by the 11011. member fOr Muidstone (Mr. Hope), he considered it a very grave and important matter for the serious consideration of parliament. *lite parish in which he resided was of mw motes extent and densely populated, and paid very largely for its chinch accommodation and endowments. That parish was not disposed to tolerate practices so utterly iuronsistent with the simple ritual and purity of the reformed pretest:ant church as had long prevailed in the district church of St. Andrew, Wens-street. Hat this was not all. Look at the 1 . :111C which bad lately onournel to the wife of a parishioner of Marylebone, a merchant of high respect ability, who suppuhiug herself to be at the point of death, desired to rece•is as humiliate religious eunsoll time The el. rgymun of her own district being a I'm-elite, she declined to send for bins, and sent for another clergyman living at the other side of her own street to at tend her. Ile refused. In vain her servant represented the exigency of the cum, and pissed her entreaties. The Rey. Mr. Baring replied, " I cannot go. It is not in my district. 1 dare nut. 1 should be liable to censure if I did." Such was the consolation paid to the poor dying woman, and another clerical authority being appealed to. said that Mr. Baling was quite right in his refusal. (Hear, hear.) Sir R. INGLIS was compelled to concur with the noble lord, with the' hon. member for Maidstone, and with the bon. member fur lhablin, in thinking that an inexpedient subject to he brought before that house. After a few words from Mr. PLOWDF:N, the discussion dropped,:andelst loud cries of" Question" and "Adjourn." PA PEItS.—H I: N GAR Y. Lord I). STUAICT (amidst loud expressions of dissent) chinned the attention of the house for a few minutes, and nanplained of the repeated disappointments by which his application for papers relative to the Hungarian refugee's Arad been met. He hail to complain of the constant pro mise., and their constant non-fialliknent, given him by the noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs. (Cheers and laughter.) Su far back as the 7th Feliruary, 1840, that was to Nay, ut the very beginning of last session of parliament, he moved fur these papers, nogurdiug the treatment of the parties. he spoke teL That notice led to a discussion of considerable warmth. At its close the noble lord said, after he had se lected those which it might be proper to produce, they should be laid on the table. He stated that they would be forthcoming in a few weeks. (Much amusement was ex cited in the house by the good hwnoureel manner in which the noble lord (Dudley Stuart) proc..eded to recapi tulate the various instances in which the same pro mise was subsequently renewed to him; the unfail iihr promise to meet his a ishca ; and the equally unfailing certainty of its eventual disappointment.) Ile had followed the noble Foreign Secretary at last to his office in Downing -street. The noble viscount re ceived him with his usual courtesy. " The papers ?" said he. '. Aye, there they are in that large box (pointing Lord D. Stuart's attention to the box), and you shall have them by the end of the week." (Continued laughter.) But the end of that week never eame—(hear)—at least the papers did not, though the end of the session did—(laughter)—and found hint 110 further advanced in his object. The day be , fore the close of it he expressed to the noble viscount his fears that, an there would be no time to get an order of the house to print, the session must close without the papers being laid 011 the table. " Don't he uneasy uu that account," rejoined the noble viscount; .. we print ourselves at the Foreign-uffice ; so you will not need au order ;" and the papers, or some of them, were laid on the table. Since the opening of the present seesion (as during the recces) these had nut been distributed, and the other papers he called fur o had not been supplied. (Hear.) He did hope to get some • more effective undertaking to-night that these papers 1 world be feralicuming. (Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON admitted that his noble friend hnd o smile claim upon him for such un undertaking, but bi l g e d : him to believe that he had only been prevented from ful -1 filling his promises on former occasions by the excessive pre -.sure of other matters, and the absolute necessity of his : making selections, for which he had not yet found time. I (Laughter and cheers.) In the early days of next week, he : thought be could now undertake to any, the papers in guess Ilion should be forthcoming. WAYS AND ME.tNS.—POSTPONE3fENT OF THE DEBATE ON THE BUDGET. The SPEAKER haring again put from the chair the order of the day for going into a committee of ways and means— Lord J. RUSSELL rose and said, in a marked and pecu liar tone, " May I request, sir, that this order of the day may he tostponed to Monday next ? (land cries of - Heat, hear," from all aide* of the house.) On Monday next, on the question of going into the further discussion of the budget, I shall he prepared to state the reasons which have imbued me to move this adjournment." (Hear, hear.) Mr. lIERRIES—I beg to ask the noble lord whether it is intended positively to proceed with the Committee on Ways and Means on next ? Lord J. RUSSELL-1 cannot state now whether it is in tended positively to proceed with the Committee on Ways and Means on Monslay—(hear. hear)—but I will state on that day the reasons why I now postpone it. (Hear, hear.) This :Announcement was followed by a loud buzz of con. versation, which continued to the adjournment of the house, and rendered the remainder of the proceedings almost in audible in the gallery. The order of the date for going into Committee of Ways and Means was accordingly postponed to Monday. PASSENGERS ACI AMENDMENT BILL. This ball, as amended, was considered and agreed to. MILLS AND FACTORIES (IRELAND) BILL. This bill was read a third time and pawed. 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TILE announcement of Lord JOHN RUSSELL that he was nut prepared to proceed any further with the financial measures of the government until Monday next, and that he could not state whether he would be then prepared to do so—or until then the reasons why such an abrupt postponement had been rendered unavoidable--will create throughout the country, as it did in parliament, more anxiety than surprise. It was clear to all intelligent observers of the public mind that the whig budget was a failure past repair' and at the meeting of the House of Commons yester , day, the only subject of curiosity or discussion was upon which of it sill-omened features the weight of condemna tion was first likely to descend. The infatuation of its rash and shallow author would have led his col leagues to inevitable defeat; Lord JOHN'S better , judgment discerned the true nature of the position, • and pointed out the only safe and manly course that could furnish a way of extrication and escape— ! namely, to place the seals of the Exchequer in other hands. Sir CHARLES WOOD refusing to play the i part of Josvu, and the crew refusing to fling him overboard against his will, all thoughts of going into ' action became impossible. And Lord JOHN RUSSELL resigned. When commenting upon the tenor of her MA JE,TY'S speech on the sth of the present month, we observed that neither its promises, nor the pro gramme which the then ministerial Tinws had chalked for the session, of doing nothing, save merely registering the income tax, would suffice. Our words were : We may'surdy say that this won't do. Even if it did do for the present, and that the session was thus got through with a non-result, the etf'eet upon the country would be a disgust and a reaction, not like the reaction of '49 and 'so,' I but resembling and far outstripping the onward carter of 1830 aad 1831. It is said that we are in a "lull ;" in other words, the tide is full out, and the moment is coming when it turns. Public opinion is this tide. It has ebbed for the last three years in a conservative and tabu direction. But we repeat, it is on the turn; and a government that idly slumbers or unwisely resists will infallibly be carried away. These remarks have been verified in a surprisingly brief lapse of time. One day the ministry as left in a minority on an important free trade dnision by the desertion of several of its staunchest followers ; the next, it is compelled to make up for the omis sion of all mention or promise of progressive re form. And, finally, the admission is made that the budget is too unpopular to be proceeded with. The unpardonable fault of Sir CHARLES WOOD'S ill-starred budget was, that it did nothing, led to nothing, and amounted, in fact, to nothing. It dealt with a large surplus of revenue only to squander it. It trifled with the reduction of the national debt in a manner calculated to render the very idea of gradual liquidation ludicrous. It failed to amend the income tax iu any , one particular, and, with no other excuse than an offhand sic role, it demanded an extension of its term for three years more. It pretended to abolish the house tax estimated by the number of windows, only to substitute another to be measured by the number of pounds paid in an nual rent. It mocked the demands of the agri culturists by a species of fiscal badinage ; and, by way of compensation for the loss of a sub stantial profit, secured by a differential duty on the fruits of the field, offered the farmers an infinitesimal remission of charge upon clover seed. With long sentences, in favour of what nobody ventures any longer openly to dispute, the abstract principle of free trade—the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER (if such he still be) proved to demonstration his utter inability to do anything calculated to develope, illus trate, or strengthen, the practical working of that great principle. The universal voice of the public has pronounced against his scheme of meddling without settling, and spending without mending. As an amiable, upright, and diligent man of plain work, we have no doubt that Sir CibittLx.s might fill with credit many positions requiring less grasp of intellect or originality of view. Ilut in the department of finance, the country has unmistakably said—". Never more be officer of mine." What then? Does the existence of a ministry that has survived domestic calamities almost un paralleled, and surrounding convulsions wholly with out example, depend upon the official adherence of one minor man ? Or is the cuunby disposed to suffir an entire change in its policy, because the member for Halifax has committed a comical and somewhat coxcombical concatenation of blunders ? There is not surely such a dearth of available ability and experience in parliament as to render it u matter ' of any great difficulty to supply his place, or that of! others whose exodus from office would excite still kss of symputhy. It will be vain for Lord JOHN to endeavour to persuade the world that his cabinet could not spare such men us HOLIHOCSE, MINTO, or WOOD; and if the administration is broken up, nu other reason being assigned than their disagreement as to the selection of successors to personages of this stamp, the public will be driven to seek for a solution of the riddle in other causes and deeper influences. Had the whigs been dekated on any question of policy on which they could resign with honour, and defy their adversaries with confidence to appeal to the sense of the country by a dissolution, their posi tion would be one of present popularity and of future power. But to break down through mere inherent weakness, would indeed give the tory party a fair chance not of gaining office merely, but of keeping it. Rumour, as is her wont on such occasions, is busy with the names of some who might, and many who could not, enter with credit to themselves and ad vantage to the public, into combination with those among the whip who are likely to retain office. Wheu the significant phrase, "We must close our tanks," fell from the lips of Sir his GRAHAM in a recent debate, the thought suggested itself to the mind of every thinking man—how comes it that he who himself seems to have caught, if any one has, the mantle of l'Em—should so long have been left to tight us a volunteer in defence of a field he aided so powerfully to win ? It may, indeed, be true that the member for Ripon entertains opinions upon certain points at variance with those on which the government have recently been acting. But if these dissentient views are in harmony with the calm judgment of the nation, it might be no unimportant service to the whigs as a party, as well as to the country at large, if Sir JAMES Gnaltan's joining the admiinstrution proved the cause and the occasion of a change of measures. No additional strength which he or Isis friends could bring with them, either in point of administrative talent or numbers in a division, could do so much to retrieve the damaged position of the whigs as the infusion into their counsels of a more resolute and heartily popular spirit. TnE great question which totems to be awakened by the new bill against l'apal aggression seems really • I to be, whether England and Ireland are two or one: I t and, in either case, how fur they are dissimilar, how ,; tar identical. Nor is the Assumption of Titles Bill the only political event or legislative measure that t starts up us an interrogatory to ask this question. The income tax also forces on the House of Commons the same consideration ; and people well ask how fur • England and Ireland are fiscally as well as reli giously connected. ; ' With respect to the religions question, it is im • !possible to deny that the existence of a majority in uny country in favour of uny opinion is the strongest of all claims fur paying respect to that opinion. The .• great majority of the Irish are Roman catholic's, and if Ireland be considered apart, their claim to respect, ;, and none than respect, is powerful and just. But ; i merge the Irish in the United Kingdom, and the Roman catholics of Ireland become a minority, over i! which the rights of conquest have been exercised and those of supremacy maintained. ; All these are ungracious, impolitic, and dangerous m. considerations, and, could we banish them by an i edict, gladly would we welcome it. But history in tercedes; nor can the events of the imat, no more • than the facts of the present, be ignored. The state, of the law and the preponderance of sects were be-! queuthed to us by our ancestors, who wrought and legislated according to the necessities of the times. We have legislated towards the removal of injustice and the remedy of wrong ; and future history will not say that, either in religion or po lities, the British legislation of the middle of the 19th century was an oppressive one. With regard: to religion, history will give our leading statesmen the credit of having taken a liberal and a tolerant path ; one that naturally and inevitably led to the removal of all disabilities and all yokes. The greatest of all boons that can be given in a free com munity is the admission of a sect to the popular share of sovereignty, that is to the elective franchise itself, and to the right of being elected. Once the Roman catholics were admitted to that, they were admitted to a share of sovereignty, and to a share of political influence propor tionate with their number. Admit any sect to the great platform of political power, and you admit them to all the rights of a majority whenever they can obtain it. By th e A c t o f Emancipation the protestants of this empire put generously into the hands of the Roman eatholics the weapons which can procure all that man can claim. And had the Ro man catholics trusted to this we should have had no ill-blood, no controversy, no recurrence to the feelings of antagonism, and the manoeuvres of warfare. The PorE, however, and his Austrian counsellor, and that rare agent of both who would set the world on flume for the sake of wear ing red stockings, has struck altogether out of that fair, constitutional and liberal path, which parliament had opened. Statutes had secured for the Anglican church the endowments, the dignities, the parliamentary rank, which combats in the field of war and of intellect, in the council chamber and the public mind, during two centuries, had won for it. What the POPE has attempted to do is simply to rub out the events and results of these two centuries of our history by a stroke of his pen. Aroused by such arrogance, alarmed by the absurd extremes to which it further led, the protestant bristles up, re demands a supremacy which it had almost renounced, robes itself once more in a dignity it had thrown aside, and meets unwarranted insolence by a legal assumption of pride. If titles and dignities mean any thing, if a style that implies territorial and national jurisdiction, be the right of any clergy in this country, they are decidedly the right of that re ligion on which history and events, the great union of law , circumstances, and p u bli c opinion, have be stowed them ; for not only a diminished sect, but a I foreign power in the name of that sect, to clothe as emissary with lofty dignity, and send him here as a religious proconsul, set aside and slight our laws, habits, institutions, and oven facts, was undoubtedly one of the greatest insults ever offered to a country. Nor could this insult have been visited with less severity and more of the lex' talionis than by a law annulling their assumption and proscribing their dignities. Whether the present law be strong or comprehen sive enough to meet papal and synodical aggression is a question which need not be discussed, as the minister declares that the bill does not preclude fur ther legislation if required. But as far as tho bill goes, and as far as England is concerned, it is impossible to consider it as intolerant or uncalled-for. The only doubt exists as to Ireland, where, as wo before obsCrved, Roman catholicism is the religion of the majority, and where, in corsequence, its prelates were allowed every latitude of authority and respect. They could, however, only claim this as a religious majority} - , and consequently in Ireland exclusively., not in England. But Dr. IVISEMAN and his papal ' supporters have not brought forward their assump tious on this ground. They do not distinguish Ireland from England, or chum dignity us repro. seating the majority in the one island. They claim still greater dignity in England than in Ireland, evidently prizing as naught the claim of the majo city, but putting forward instead the old infallible humbug of traditional descent from the apostles, and the consistency of having scouted COMMOU sense and proscribed common liberty in all ages. It is thus not the English government that has assimilated England and Ireland, but WISEMAN and the POPE. The English government did distinguish England and Ireland, by evidently allowing even territorial titles and precedence to Roman catholic prelates in Ireland, as the religion of the majority, but denying theta in England. Tho Runtish missionaries and legates, however, in their rescript, admit of no such ditJet'enee. They claim to be supreme in ecclesiastical dignity over Westmin ster, quite as much as over Dublin. And we do think, therefore, that, as the purpose is to rebut these pretensions, the present bill has been logically even if not prudently, extended to Ireland. plow far or how vigorously it was meant to be executed in Ireland, is another question. For ministers would, nodoubt, have gladly restored that old amicable under standing which previously prevailed, and which tho sanity of WISEMAN, acting on the ignorance of tho Papal court, has disturbed. Hut assert less authority than is done by the bill government and parliament scarcely could. We have tern anxious all along to make a distinc tion between England and Ireland; and we shall bo ready always to abet a very different settlement and consideration of questions affecting the pro testant and Roman catholic churches in the two countries. But the pending bill does not strike us as penal. It does not appear to us at all calculated to interfere with the legitimate action or organisation of the Itotuan catholic church. If it is equally applicable to England and to Ireland, that is the fault, not of Lord Jonx Russm.t., whose go. comment evidently did make a difference in adnu nistering the two cotuttries—it is the faultof Cardinal WISE MAN. FRANCE. PARIS, FRIDAY Evirsreo. The Assembly was occupied to-day with the re. ' maining clauses of the Mortgage Bill. The debate, ' presented no point of interest. ' The sixteenth committee of parliamentary initia tive has agreed to recommend the taking into min ' aids-ration of the amended motion of MM. Laborde • and de Ranee on the railway trim Chalons to Avignon, ' 31. Betting de limeastel was appointed reporter. ' The Amsemblee Nationale has eoncluded an alliance with the Eurve Monarchigue of Brussels. a diple. matic journal, Inspired by M. de Metternich. The convention stipulated between these two papers is to conic into operation on the Ist March, when the electric telegraphs are to be thrown open. The Constitertionaci has the following : The Mon deur has just published the comparative customs' returns for the month of January. These document+ per mit us to judge of the influents. of the late political event on the flu:mei:ll and commercial situatiou of the country parties may draw more than one lesson from them. If , thew returns are looked at in a financial point of view it will be lintnil that the proet.cds of the customs' duties hays only beet, 8,211,0001'. It is a diminution of a little more than a million us compared with the corresponding month of last year ; but it is just to remark that this falling off entirely arises from colonial mid ftireign sugars. On the one hand, the deficit in colonial sugar is compensated by the increase in the consumption of native sugar ; and on the other, it is known that the duty on foreign sugar does not bem.fit the treasury, sines, it is repaid in the shape of drawlrack when the sugar is exported in a refined state. There is, therefore, no injury for tho public revenue. Let us add, that the other items of indi rect contributions are on the increase, and that, according to the calculations brought forward by M. Fould in his last speech, they would show a surplus of ' 3,40000 fr. over the produce of the month of January last year. If we now analyse the list of the principal inerchandise imported, we shall re that although some of titan show a decrease, there are many which are progressing favourably. Among thou, articles which show an increase, we may quote coals, the import of which has siren to ma • than one million of me trical quintals, or 21 iwr vent. more than it was last year; rough castings have i nerta s e d from 24,000 to 31,000 quintals; lead, sine, sesame seed, olive oils, a n d mahogany, have als o increased in greater or less proportion. Among the article. of which the im portation has fallen uhf, we unfortunately remark raw cot ton, wool, raw silk—articles the working up of which ocett• pies a number of hands, and which furnish the means of existence to a considerable portion of our labouring classes. These amounts, moreover, agree with the information which we have received from the manufacturing districts where those raw materials are principally used. Saks have been checked in presence of the hostile attitude assumed by the Legislative Assembly towards the executive power; prices have: within a month melergonc a fall of, in some articles, nearly 11 per cent., so that in some localities the, manufacturers have been compelled to reduce lahour one quarter, mid even a third, in a week. The return of exports shows in general rather more prosperous results than that of imports. 'the productions of our soil fi n d i ncreas i ng ly advantageous markets abroad. We have exported 121,000 hectolitres of wine, instead of 81,100 in 1810, and 71,000 in 1547; and 30,000 hectolitres of brandy, instead of 27,000 and 11,000. Our export of corn has more than doubled, and have increased to 4.10,000 quintals. We have also to point out an increase in the majority of manufactured articles, particularly millinery, machinery, china, glass, crystal, soap, refined sugars, silk and cotton good., ; there is scarcely any exception, except in woollen goods. 'rho comparative movement of French shipping with foreign countries shows that the of vessels int.-tang has increased from 125,000 to 141,000 tuns, and that of those sailing from 104,000 tons to 141,000. To sum up, although the state of things is rather favourable in its ensemele, the disastrous effects of the late votes of the Assembly on com =mad transactions arc clearly manifest. This is a first symptom. We hope that this warning may be understood, anti that parties, by reflecting on the consequences of their attacks against the government, will see the necessity of respecting the tranquillity and the labour of the country. The metallic reserve of the Bank of France has in creased 3 1 . millions in Paris, and nearly 1 million in the branch-banks. The discount accommodation in Paris has advanced 1 1 , millions, and in the provinces nearly I of a million, the amount of the former being 37,003.701 fr., and of the latter, 83,787,419 fr. On the side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have 'fallen off 3 I millions in Paris, and increased about 11 millions in the country. The account-current of the treasure has increased 3 millions, the present amount being 97,901,948 fr. Private accounts-current have fallen off I of a million in Paris, and increased about of a million in the country; the amount of the former being 7.1,735,939rr., and of the latter, 22312,3381 r. The whole amount of the metallic re serve at present is 501 millions to M 8 millions of notes in circulation. GERMANY. The late conferences between Manteuffel and Prince Schwarzenburg have been in the highest degree important. .Mantenticl, perceiving the very secondary part reserved for Prussia in the proposed arrangement, is said to have councilled the king warmly to reject it. His last words, in taking leavo of his Majesty, at a late interview, sari the Cologne Gazette, were, "Represent Prussia," inferring that Austria's propositions place Prussia far beneath her rightful position. Our correspondent writes : BERLIN, FEB. 12. The sudden return of Baron Muntcuflcl has given rise to various reports, with which the papers teem. The only true version is that which I forwarded yesterday. lam able to-day to make it still more complete. Schwarzenburg met Manteulfel with a new proposal to constitute the &were-Ruth of the confederation without the smaller states, to whom the last two of the eleven votes were proposed to be given. Ile spoke in hitter term, oft heir oppositiion to the desirable plena which had been proposed by Austria and Prussia, and exhorted 3lanteuffel to assist him in pun ishing them by exclusion from participation in the execu tive organ. 'That this wa. a mere feint in order to compro mise Manteuffel more completely to the project fur the eleven VOtt!. than has hitherto been the case, is seen by its success, and the rcadine•l with which Schwarxenberg abandoned it the moment Nlantcuffel had replied by in sisting ou the maintenance of the eleven votes. Having thus rendered it impo s sibl e f or P russ i a, even if Manteutfel desired to do so, to recede from the eleven vote project, Sehwarzenberg next brought out his demand that the Engere Rath should remain the executive, and that the presidency should be given to Austria. It seems that Man • teuffel has all along expected that some kind of concession would be made to Prussia on this point, for I am told igen gam the land Chil man. Inurl Gold