The Express. — London, England, 1852-05-22 00:00:00

Ht. BRIGHT said that. after the ime tba ,zi ts of the opt wet/ictkrera, be kit boaad entirely es withdrew of itpkicia be bad given alienate to— sigely, that the rieM boa Ate adieu* bad not acted with tleivoity is this metier. (Ilear, kw.) TIN committee divided: tor the withdrawal of the dams Mount 6l-96 The close was thee withdraws. 0 , a . .. 2s. which was postpesed. tlr GIUSON hoped that the strsamosst would reeen pArr t h e but el esseeptiene. He owe so moos for adhering w tik .,, tr ange list of exempting* oneiltimedl Is the 42nd of should like us knew hen the hue, and k.. iiu d Attorney Lien, ral what was the Meaning of '• • o isan not having more than sus thud bars is wedlock." Er„,t,r) deptery•liestewekli wash' have nine wty is deciding the ammo of pommy whisk was to mss. Ile thright k mat umnasseable that peen Igo canopied. Their gumption was ea ezeinptiett are titans', breasts if they were balloted they swald • to pay for sehstitetia hie ethers. (Iles.) Halted bees au bc learJ by misionties es this b He tht be bad est as saltscs esa.uich to make • motion. w ould *IMAM we e,lir throw himself spas the mercy of the govensient, mitt bole that the g o..manit would reconsider them ex. guiptions• Mr EWAILT said that be maw no reason for the exernp tiw of pers. With regard to the uoivenity exemptions, sent , the sine privilege might to he extended to the new ust.re Ines witch R. given to Oxford and l'ambridge. g., It. VIOLS b% reminded the committee that the G. neon students rontr Rioted more then en other clan to the out of their country. lie thought the oil yowl. a must extraordinary one. Mr. 11E% M 1101 i said that there were special exemptions is tower of the Gentian studenti. Xf. WALIVLE proposed the following proviso as an adaitioe to the clause .—Provided always, that no ballot, err any meeting or other proceedings for or in relation to a Adis. shall Ire had under the mid lint recited Act, and ~, Ads aim mimic the same, save when her 'Majesty shall coder see to he raised by ballot as hereinbefore provided; sad the Militia to he raised under this Act shall be is nib ▪ toe, and not in addition to, the Militia directed to raisvd bs the said firstreeited Act. the Al tilliNEY-tiESEItAL said he did not know why he shou'ol be called on tomes • definition of • poor ▪ s Liag,hter.) 'Jibe right hot. gentleman had asked him two qoestioes • first, " what is a poor man?" and secondly, s• what r. the meaning of a child born in wedlock." (" ).Cu no, - and much laughter.) The right bun. gentleman said that the deputv-lieutenants would have much difficulty in k.,,00ut wintker • child was horn in wedlock. He (the Attonny.liesend) did nut think the right hoe. gentleman etpeu.l Jai answer to that question. With regard to the eth e r que•tion, it was impuisible to give a definition of a t• ovr which would apply to every part of the toss. try. Oboe.) It was a relative term, and all the circus. moues .4 the person must be considered. NV hat would be such. rest to a person in one part of the country might be iesurtioent is another part. the question, therefore, must • somewhat at large, and the deputplieutenants would on all the Cireoni.taneril Or each case, list .hoard say that a mere unskilled labourer would be te e; ted. Aft. r some conversation the proviso was agreed to. Mr. lIEVWOOD having made some observations with stoat. the exemption of universities, )Ir. WALPOLE said he SAW no Mania why young uni v.roties should not be exempted, if the two oldest ones site. Ike 2.:h class, as amended, was agreed to. Mr. W A LIVLE then proposed a clause, pstaxitiog that "the on...mations of Slicers in the militia may be derived from v.-mead as +cites from real estate ;" end also a clause re, that supplemental corps may be raised by so:anion enlistment in one county to supply the deti coney au another county ;" which were enccomivoly spoil to. Me clause was then a dd e d to the bill. . _ Mr. WALPOLE then moved a clause that the luta sheu:d be plated on the doors of all churches and chapels, mi ethading the period during which appeals may be Ault. Mr. HODGES moved a clause providing that substitutes who dewri,tl should, on apprehension and conviction, by court ertati.d, be adiudged to serve in some regiment abroad. 31‘jor lIERESFORD opposed the clause. It would be declaring that a man who was unlit to serve in the militia ht for the regular zloty. Mr. Hooting thereupon withdrew the clause. The pr amble of the bill was then agreed to, and the hill pried tbrou, th committee ; the house resume d, and the re pun was lima to be brought up on Thursday. NEW ZEALAND BILL oa the order of the day for the mama reading of this bal. .i.: f W . NIOLESWORTH said he was much dimoyedsbed is V.. la. Ou reading it custody throsgh, sad situ. ti,:i .tad} tog its detaihi, the favourable saigairagiall whisk he bid conceived with regard to it, from the emelt of the nebt hoe. baronet, had anon entirely vanished • an, to the oblertioas which he node oa its introducing', he hand that be had many others to add. He bad sot wily to Alen to se appose house, composed of esembare asnisated he lifa, sal to auperinteadants beisg nominated by the govesser, an tot . tenni, ; bat be found that the grenades owns& veto nut municipalities but positive and that there are to be sittaiel dpl i t tlife lt alditiou to the provincial council.. Ile found, also. that owe of the most obnoxious power. of the Coloaial- Ace, which the right hoe. baronet stated it was his bites two to abandon, bad been substantially retained, and that the most important provision of the bill—namely, that for the surrender of the wute Lands, was clogged with a eon. ditioa which would greatly diminish its value in the eyes of the adulate I. reeding through this bill the ant thing that stink km wee the immense number of goversasest oil am which were I. be iapneil upon the meaty of New Zealand, which amounts at the higt P e a tet sate to &hoot 26,000 &teepees., sad about 100,000 Datives. Fiat, New Zenon was to be divided iato tire en English pert, and • satin part ; Within the ' lint pale English laws wen to be is force. Without the is the satin part native laws end cus tom. were to maiateised by the Governor-Oeseral of New Zealead, sotwithstasdhig the repugasoey of any slICh Lilac laws to the laws of England or of New Taloned pro • ndel they wen set repugnant to the laws of latoWity. Ise part of New Zealand • akin the liaglie pale was to be Leidal Mto eon provinces. Time neap be, la fact, minis tin ernotoes ; the two largest enbors inuld have an Hog- Lib p.polatios of about ..000 sash; the tote mann an / . .....k tornados of about 1,0:11016. are et thine petty 0 sue. was, however, to have abaft ell the legal incidents et a n colas (okay. Each of then was to ban • separate al .i. lepeodest legislature; ses s =:o elsii4 of a .. ...•mint-xoireffer_ (111611.11 • and of • le. ?...sale 'genii. Lash of diosiapsonaelei waste highv i lans limo the ordinary pewee eta Wend a s = laws on all inducts, with the etteldita of a lbw terns Lank of then sit lieutuaril.genenies woe Me an a. hare all the 'niny farelisaseteedeahl i mese that be was he be suesediene to the dest i =, at to the Colatialwass, bat to the dionsusels•adef of New Zesised. Each of than was to have the power of plait or withhadieg kis rent to • bill of the pro liati.l natal. He was also to have the pew to were a bid toe the meat of the Oevesser-Ciaanol t agaldf that bast be out pus within two peen, the bill ornate die • wand death. Again, if a bill le sweated to by the Lion. toutt•Goversor, though it hosone lau, still at say time value two years alter it had besanneived by the Oftwrisair- Gewrat he might repeal it by • yeeinoreles. Sy this roue. the I:denial-41es sahanadally rennod to lath all its vexatious powers of repodhag _ pm- Wail arc.. or of an neatng to reserved Isila 1 hr withw tat two yeses then wend be eagle time kr the Nom- Cc to iamb. ientoolisai to the Cleenareala.Chisf a era in; preetialala eel. sr an to rent to a reserved ati iti toll, awl ft then isbutisse the Howonsor•ia• Gin would have to enahen. The el beasueoble bort. 10 1 soloTaatiolly retained to the Cdenelaffin all the " ' • --4 Grey reposed to whir, They were, vexatious sad whoa the hill he papas aneadnealt by ~.__ toady be fist - rid el. In oddities legislatures for these in petty etiesies, • general annaly, to menet of • governor '-eive coursed asmisated for Isle, sad • This amend nissably wee to have, p al wets ' ro P ioci wer efts= a all bo or-madly, it was ts have the pram onneinnit -' - provincial legit/attires of sod s tigma loon which the provincial ewe , legislate; thirdly, it woo to pawn ' acts • and filially, ell nee of the per which conflicted with thamiell the yew be null and void. Tbsildbill lie .Zealand would hold Ileenallt ft Zealand precisely tbs Mao meat held towards the Milos And the governor-In-ohne of 1 towards the six lieutenant% Wei. Iperistefsdenta, pprroommrsaly the some whits n her tatty 's moisten, bald towards ._ _. ...en the other basd, the governor-et-chief, gulia tr y colonial governor, would be wader the cos • Colonial-office. Ile is to have the pram of scolding his mond to any bill greed by the meal and the House of Ropreseatatine, Gad ay each bill for the signification of the plau :olosialsiffice; but if within two pan ilia vireo by the Coloaial-ofAce, the bill will die a And, again, if shill pseud by the Legials ' House of Amembly were assented to, law, was acted epee, and was ironed is Zealand, yet within two years after It the Secretary of State he might repeal It was evident, therefore, that by ...of Omani Assembly of New Zealand reference to the sit provincial legislature' all to of an Imperial parliament, !sad in referees, 'flintiest all the legal lanileats of as •r -parliament ; therehre lito einetiaglea • .be gismo to New Mind wall an Ain es dew* hut anal of einten You s I t wadi beik al of sr sr& c"loaill 11,11.0 al Illmiaid tem waiM be 1ea....... weald be 1 the old see la Douraireiraiß and bar liatipsios; sad lis A probability the we,.. than the melba. Barely this . complicated madam be the government pesos and about IMMO aavageo—a most government—foe • aeries of Lilliputian states. beronet stated the other night that in order superintendents of the Aix provinces ~ without augmenting th. civil list, the number of judges. He thought Warn death: Again, if • I haw. Governor, awash it I value two years after it Ilad General ne m .ght repeal it Folio, the Colouial•oillice snail all its vexations I teed act., or of rat se far within toe two yews then Calmea., :hie to mar imam Is aspen -my provalatial set, pima LAI bill, awl to these would have to conform, bai satiiviotiilly retained whili Lord Gray per mar irr. o.ry bad mid Tryon west onto eununittee he s glut\ they could toady b is these na legislatures fa Gus was to be a general use *doer a legislative COUIII Lbw of Amenably. This ge ird. the initials, power of • sea *hick the provincial le koala ; secondly, it was to voth that of th• provincial leg Ili the upon which ti be p as II go legislate; 1 peavismial acta • as vise r l kiridaturipp,which Ctel • h ie...ably, would be null a arriably of New Zealand Bovine, el New Zealand y 44 napelial parliament held I Us *MA empire. And th leased would hold towards r 1 1•9 . w eaperintentlents, j the Clasen, or rather her M • *Leary governors. On the oil `t'se ordiaary colonial goy • 4 '4 of the Colonial-office: I ,•' 4 llar withholding his aro ' 41, 4.•• C9UISCiI and the 1 haring say such bill foe inn of the Colortial.office; b 4. ' 1 " be nut given by the Ca kind death. And, again, i h4 Cooeiril and Rouse of Omagh it became law. woo a th statues a New Zealand, 44 tons rtc••••.0,1 by the Boer b/ order le tnYxd . It we roaditation the Wizen 'Ned have in reference to th O' iatole n a of an !raper the imperial parliament all parliament ; sni els proposed to be pie xa sonpertstas I Ngnia a colony. It would be ab sY •Ystem of colonial 1107 '4 "sf that system would "M; oninsi-offices, the old a 16 4rbler at the Antipodes • lh oohler would h o worst ISrs • most complicated Europeans and al , t hors Ernnet .tate t i •• • • • • ach of th e super n al ...ery :nig. a T car, with the stun this wae ea igedvised its.. He nested mese elesegly to MIMS engendeedoato being somiested hy the gerentor er the Voleelgelle l / 2 gni et the deg Mg of New Zahn. 'l'bey owe to be .Iris erm the ogee ef the grown gewereer of New Zergat He meg in the home te tosselde whet we re to be No powers of time superin tensile. They were to be subordinate to the in chief, brit may to be tenured by the Coloai•lafss. He protested they were to have all the ordinary pewees of a colonial governor, executive as well as legislative, dough strange to soy is this bill no reference was made to the ex ecutive pewee, ef the seperinteedents, and no meestive powers, bet oaly legislative ants, were conferred upon them. lle presumed, however, they were to have exe cutive powers, and to be, in feet, petty eskinial goveniors. Now the peen of • none nevem wee *mean : awedsell be dee without hie eseent, as Memo in him, no job end he lerpoleted eget hie ten emeties. Me et vim* weer of the Gelesial edise—be es the trued serveme at the aim; to Men him we. to attack the_ gegmeet of the nem ho go w .ed 11111, an was keg ebe • see of euleigee •against go ift : gagehe oemphing epee lea wee little at tuned to ego egged by ingeedel_ gemem en an hong oillsont 'slimy et the antipodes meld manly mere the as elegem of wens • Mehl Norether must be • usm who did sot get his hen terse by the to whisk he is sestastly exposed. There fore, wee be somidered the elms of men who weld have to be aomimesil to the OMNI of superisOndhels of these settlemenu, espeenly sines the egos* of the ging MIAs is Australia, he his nineteen& thet, generally speakiag, they would be Jackenowellee Of UN Oast odious descriptioa, unless constantly bops is meant by Whig fre quently subtend to paella gem Wee this bill was istrudneed, ha used ere gel, M M. sementisa of the mperiatenente of meioses, bet to the mind= el the members of the legislative council. The egg been.bereme had stated that Lord Urey had decided thin the igniters council should be elective, and that be hod vetoed to differ from te decision of Len (hey. He g I the wisdom of his having done se. A system of lesolostion would in all probability work woes, in New Zinn then in any other eidony, because nomination had Men mewed odious in New Zeeland. When tbe egg bee. bonnet stated the content, of his bill, he w delighted to boor that he intended to Front the waste lands to the (general As eembly of New Zealand: oa reeding thesngh this bill he was excessively disappointed at finding get this grant was clogged with • con•tiosi which would feeder it nearly valitelese to the settee ia New ZcalaeL TM condition was, that in respect of all sales of waste MEd, the sum of Ss. for each acre should be paid to the New Zeeland Com pany, until the sum M 268,01.001., with interest at the yearly rate of ai per cent., should be paid. If the clause contain. ing this condition paned, a great injustice would be done to the widen in New Zealand, and the New Zealand Compasy would acquire a valuable property, to which he did not consider them to be entitled. He would now proceed to consider what ought to be the forme( government in New Zealand. In giving a constitution to a colony, the wishes of the colonists should be taken into consideration, though not absolutely deferred to, especially when a colony bad not had any experience in self-government. Now, what were the wishes of the inhabitants of New Zealand ? They had to a certain exteut expressed their opinion. TM house would remember that is the year 1840 they gave sew tea stitutions to the Annie seen& During the debates which thence arose the Mweity of milonial ommiemises was discussed at length, leeportant elestioes woes proposed to be made in the measure of the sod he (Sir W. Molesworth) presumed to lay go house a sketch of what he thought eight to be the megieden of the Aus tralian Colonies and New Seelen Them gee reached New Zealand, and raised en esposteelen awe' thi settlers that their time to have • settle -. ma won seen MSS. In the three chief settlement of Mew gothei the tow tion what ought to be the hornet that teams essistitatioa was much discussed towards the elms of the year 1830; and petitions and memorials evening the wishes of the set tlers were to be found in the gegen nig Mg bee me muted to parliament. First, Math Othettat, Mks seethes at Auckland was very numemesly lige& otheideift the number of the population of the esetienient, with however is the largest one is New Zeinsd. The _petitiomrs stated that the meetitiatisa whin be (Sk W. Mules worth) hail eshmielei le the been o weld not oaly be smiling to the sionsities, bat would prove the an grateful concession to • free and loyal people." The petitioners, however, stated that, in their opinion, New Zealand should be divided into two separate and quite Ante colonies; and, if it was to be divided at all, this was the division which he should propose. But he agreed with the expressed opinious of the settlers of Wellington and Nelson, that New Zealand should form only one colony. Hee* sated at some length from the dif ferent reports and in which those opinions were expressed, the hem member went on to say that from these facts he was entitled to infer, first, that the majority of the settlers in New Zeeland, including the heutenant-govereer, were of opinion that New Zealand should Ibres one esisay with one legislature, or at most should bo divided lag,two distinct colonies, altogether la depe • edent ▪ ormadly, that they condemned the system of prowled"! higliseeres, and are of opinion that municipali ties should be established, with powen to elect their corporate Mere and to make bye laws upon spe cific au*" and that more municipalities should be sekWood, not by the imperial parliament, but Its the colonial legislature. He must also re peat t h e the governor-in-chief of New Zealand was of melee that the proemial commit should have the consti tutive Na hop meicipality, which had the power of dieting Its era olepente neers and of detenninieg their salaries. The whim of the itemise seemed to him very remenable. Why should they not be complied with ; they could be complied with, and without dignity or departure hem precedent, whereas the bill was utterly without oresedent To maple with the wishes et ta. colonists of New Zeeland it weld cely be ne cessary first to free them the oedissery medal cosetitation —say the constitteuen of the pen assembly of this bill. He had so debt that they would probe to have sad he ha should peeler to give them, the eastimition nig he propmed in 1840, sod of white they W imprieme• dopir cordial approval: bat he was oft so umesemiable as to ask tbe haw at puma* to disown that thooliOMies width weld iambs • eemplets thump eat Meek' Vella The asestlel dbliselles beams the bill awl he plea woe dna the pPr..hew by the knew would have pewees*, Whhjeesas ausburaf gab. .... beieg nay salle kikkalag spas • mall et esenasted fuy.tl,t mar hie poise t melelpiitise, f seenteled by the Geseral Meembigotowil ely have pewee le make wasor certain degredemi seumerated peopeer. The bill a epee d eta new glerated eamigerepea a plea which bed 'ways haled, needy, the of gees to the hien bishlature 01 hif~avith the Mate losidatares. The result would ha a piepenal sesdha twain the rennin Initiations's' the Mini Annably. The weeker ist w iso ween eessinsly appal se as ; the pre mising wadi amplebi thin the amen' repealed theireen, est muse all the weer without say for thee, dad they wield beg the Colonial-eft. repeal the wile et the Morel deenably. On the .thee heed, the Orrearal Amarmbly would mint the sameles at the Celosialnlies to measures curtail*, W peww et das provincial lesliatarea. The result of the wife moll be either that the Memel Anneb/y would eat up the omen of the praelselel lesidensee. and redoes es le ner&l4se the posnisaiel ml adatures wadi saseesd la lll Ora them sages ea id= WIN es be Milne fo ie hinge The esish. l E would be, ether his play as igen Millide fele rein teener after the Maim of the Vaned Waft% width he should be my to to see. He biped tho he would do anew to essearage this eashwhmen. The vino of the settee of Nelms MI Oh subject wee see eighteen and stateemonge. • & their oriel= awls shield be mode to unite the mew together, to remove local ignorance end pre suni diseoml 111 eastern the narrowness of view, and whish never failed to Moe in Imbed esmma fffNNNfeeseaa eordially wig then *nth be &mild, in sommige ‘ peepose she assesitheme mist* bethought were IT=awry out what he modderea to he the meow age colonists of New Zeeland. And behead the home would no: commit le pm this bill in lts prmaat awe. (Hear, hear.) gr. ADDERLEY took this Apperteedty of Mathis the prayer of a petition (which he had heft too late to presmit) from the settlement with obishle WINS Min sele espee netted—the Canterbury settlemee. The esteem = that without referring to sub.., penissien, es whisk there might be differences of VIM% greatest they aseszl the constitution with the eatest soggelie, ess• Oilseed that it weld be • bees el iseeliesable vane. Mid not the debate mme IS maw am bed been expealed, be should have been ebb to mien similar pantie. hem ac credited some of the esisense who were now in Longa. He weld tell alb, hens Ma is woe not safe to play, la the men ere hi which tbey Ind dose, with the feelings of the Menem Theta& an to wait until a measure, per fect toil Ile ertaih, eind asi b e e e r of earn but they ought at cuss past thethe ;chalets, samWy, self ` t Smelted he so favour, but simply that the rights of ongets should be extended to them. P t had been pens ea year after year poet , peeing the subject ; but If that peones were miatiesed r ismibloager would emir misk imitation sad sash I base denten as would Enka the missies the nest &ogeromis pietism of bee Ilejesalludeas. It was now enes_yeen lies it had bees semi bbyp w gmeragent the Ne w fasimad wee rips he a esseMadsa I wed lime then 4. swam adwieles bad bsea repialetly node by sansensa es Ise An of the been. Hs oresildned that 91* Wend lowskel WeslS hie day la at ogee weed . ing to the end of tho eshein ; red in having, Immedi ately all.. W eareka a lets. soothed kneel( to the task of easingiagg_the wannes whit* Qs nee government had I. ft anion o n The MOO woes MOW to SO very dein situation dheft Owe ens= air apes to then. rely must either orea the aspesnes Lees or they Ma" • allow the auspeded amistitatio• is mote km fere' neat year; or, they noel pas the mien 4,111. Of the he was Weedy meals SO the bet w the ; wens, awl the her the best, Armin i to wisp se be Wee leigellia. aentlesob et the steroaMsfesists dr a t missy. The evils et the peon" velem were evi t The eel o sot terry wet the rane- e fee • sew edemy, sash as tbe ho liglithonses, end the They ifm that they wee ereetroreveted heat Amiss a hr ttair own debase. That w a mess hearimates amytelat. end such nee m they had oat had mods am the days of our North Ame siw rier mi ciess• men to the he. baronet's respoetlos the andmeate of the colonists, It appeared le bin nal die ben podiums bed only read the esothisomoisot of the ilseemomth sod had not bad penevenaes eineah le Mbh Am, et he wend have bread the slehniewle le lid "NW nalealeily wadi- 'RE EXPRESS. SATVEDAY ING, • MAY 22. 4452. lied. The bra gentiemen meek did set mean to my that his eltheasties w tat far the aide group of the Aus tralis minion He (Mr. Addedey) sadustoed at the time that it wee to be only a eat of model sesititake. The semitiesassf the hes. Wesel wee • smeadien for a eis.le easy. sod think* k well net he eesesed as a new Ica a essetitelies while bed to be made applied& to • et edesien dot preetleally there was bet • beans the yeepseals of the ha. Weer the be Oh bell. The has. bream was urging his to dlo Potholpio a d in ill is Os ha of the lest despata a Governor trey e at( had jot bine laid os the talk), which w.s ghee* in faker a heel indite. dom. ead which bend the aserity for heel legislatures upon the physiral peculiarities a the aion. But, after all, whet al the heassrable hammet himself pagger T A desk esesseive sad legitimism he the aide groin), hat she sealant pevernmesle in the area heaths to eany amt aleph amaidpal hmetiem Theme wee, then, Ia reality sod peendeally but • samara Mar ire! phaar is the sheers of the hes. baronet and y. apain the t eight bon. the Caudal Ibrease ese Owe was a de cided duress ; and this be Mr. Adilmbey) bad en the hear enema p seenemtly on the attention of the right ben. gentlemaa (Sir J. Paitiagton), and, indeed, he still hoped that the right hoe. gentleman would consent to the attendee reesesseaded. The power of concurrent leghiedis in the had aid Is the astral bodies was un denbeedy a Mash h the be. ilea • provision could only lead to confusion ; and it would be kipeseible for such a system to work without perpetual eneellonionn, only to he consieded by the ems body over-riding the ether. Tamp we no tease. whatever why there should not be in this had ea nut sad precise definition of the =apses whisk I* would be open to the local bodies to spa ; sad this the measure, identical, except in asks, with the mama dashed by the boa. baronet the .caber for Southemelk_ , weak sear all the benefits sought by the toloants themadre, and advocated by those whom he seta cell the opreemailives of the colonies in that hems. Ia the memo a same hear remarks Mr. Adderly obsoned that leaks Lomas kande had taken the same view as Sir W. lgelesworth ; bet papers connected with the coloay had esergeled this bill as • grist boon. The colo nists were the beet yefiges of the question, and he read evidence to sheer theit the heal governments would be popular in the easy. Mr V. SMITH bad ventured, when the bill was last be fore the home, tosuggest to the right hon. gentleman (Sir J. Pekington), while (idly acknowledging the ability be had shown in mastering the subject, the expediency of not pressing such a measure in the present parliament. Oa that occasion the hon. baronet the member for Southwark had denounced him (Mr. Smith) as • person indifferent to the feelings of the solos • bet, now, the honourable bargee, had a emir immolate', round to his views in to this bill; sad while he (Mr. Smith) quits in every ad of the speech, that even ing, of the boa. bereset, be eseteisly did think that the consistent coadasios weal lave bees • motion to read the bill a second time that day six months. There were no good reasons for proceeding with such an important bill which it was impossible the house, under present circum stances, could adequately discuss ; while there were lain merable reasons for giving it up until next session. This was • bill which included every great question of colonial government, each one of which questions was en titled to deliberate discussion. 'f he thirteen ex emptions specified by the bill constituted one MN of di ffi culties. On these grounds—that the bill, if per severed in, could only be pseud in an imperfect state, and at a far greater evil than delay wee a legislation in regard to the colonies which required subsequent consideration and amendment—he hoped that tee Secretary fur the Colonies would be esoteat with having declared his own views, and with having elicited the feelings of the Doane, and that he would withdraw the bill for the pigeon session. Mr. E. DENISON did not think that the several expressed were so essentially different and •ppseed es to forbid the hope of a satisfactory conclusion of fileiseedia. The fault which he found was less to the quaky dna he the quantity of the ha' ; and all he compleined of was that they were proposing to overlay with legislation • young and nut a very well settled esmosaity. It would be impassible to allow this bill to per within& Jaye,- tigating the details very closely. Mr. J. A.I3M ITH supported the second maks adds bill. With reference to the body with whom he bal bees so long connected, the New Zealand Coinpany, he aimed for them the merit of having obtained thaw khan he the British crown ; and, thouth there might have boas meats of Judg ment, they had acted in a way bem sakelated he ormelliate tee natives. Their transactions bed bees examined over and over again by that house, and neatly a strict autho rity had been placed over them. Be arid not consent, therefore, that the interests of the seaspany should be ig nored at • moment when the colony was about to receive the benefits of self-government. He did not believe that the house would perpetrate such a flagrant wrong as to take away the security possessed by that company. Mr F. PEEL said there were many parte of the bill of which be disapproved, but he would reserve his remarks on those for the committee. The observations of the hen. baronet (Sir W. Molesworth) went far to dew that self-government, in its application to • new missy, was not an unmixed and unalloyed bees. Ia may infant colony but thinly inhabited, whisk hadsal persons powered of selliciant wealth mid lelme devote their time te the pebble inemeste. ence showed that what was intended to be a representation of these esionies dwindled into • very loa f repreeentation—a repreeeneelise of that pariahslsmlity which was made the silaagewerameat ; the representative assembly came to be sempseed era* of these mesas whose occupatiose er Nees at karst enabled them be re side at the pier where the mossentative assembly kid its sittings ; and Noe the lamer, a that particular apes were consulted, to the airiest or disregard of more resale put of the country. Whet was the kinetic*? If they ialluded to give oelf t, and to make it • reality, sad set • nominal se -goverment, they mar make it a heal self government. Hens the necessity of sating_ up those Wends of New Zeshed whirls were only or 900 miles in length, asil la is Mandeb. late ma argrepties of small and asperses trainees. sad Sing to ash a a theme settle meats, iadpiasamt theeigh might is ambers sad is wed* eel the realksey the ambersome sad sow - IteTile siesika Of a parte end self-rasa bod. ls ata bill reseeded me the s se era a ph*, sesemmodstiss—ao y ememodationtothe hres of eirenademees is New Meshed. And it wee their pea ie ahead mire le the swaths and almenmeleires et ter etheme 'Ma they kgbiated. than to any sa say speculative sedans of greernmest wire might be eatertained is this country. The gees eel Nam at this bill was entitled to the seaport of the kemq mid wee well adapted to the require mar of emir* In New Zealand. (Hear, bier.) It led been said Oat by eembinieg dm, two kinds of seen. oil it add_ she rise to a medley a legislation ahead ridi aka WA. without question. dims art be • genre Mika= he the whets alike Naha& and that general emesaidy nsig zht to has lain*, Arianism air time nib le k sad ememeralled is the bill. No ins add =it Os perkily ef Owe traft uniformity of legislation on enehrakele es the enetesid leelf,the currency, the law of repay, and rights of est hied. (Hear.) Without • Chard hanite, hathig amelegive Addled= our these points, they woad have • arm a ad MOM= detlee in on. part iar attrzide dada, in umiak ; oais rate of Nee ; here • Mehllic currency, =piper ; her the law of raimegesitsre is the deratiefeed popery, there eqvaldivielaw all the &Men ; is err allarre psaithed by peak amt,, is esedese Ise mid hogelemeast hear.) 0 - aid there he emy data es to ',bother it was prop., that the. seldeeh sheets be seemed he the eddie eesside ration of the Gland Assembly. He hoped the time would come when all the settlements would be merged into one, earl New Zealand would Arm a essfediested misty. He therefore thought that these as might to be kneeled is the es there was, • pear c ila unc rig th a esscsr. rest *halides; to the • eral in heal eseselh. There could be as conflict bermes die asecils as the asst ameiably ask override the had esessile. Let such a pewee be ghee to the gamed smamidy, ea if it felt Itself nempeleell M in legfelats he the heel eireirements of each settionemt. It mold not be debarred MIK doing so by this ast. end 14 es the oestrary, it was found that them was • tentleeny be ilesestraliaation and a leadisation of government. it weal abstain from exercising Its powers, and the heal esnaide would brass what he (Mr. Peel) hoped they would act beseme, the peneemest heart of the political system of New Ilieelari. Mr. GLADSTONE said that he amid net per by an mession of this kind, whea they were dealing with the question of giving a esnetitetion to a re treats saw. without reed lag attends. he the hies peddes is adsh they stood with aped to the geamessat of thet elms at colonies. He am set aware that eaq Bri dals Nifty bed arrived at • jua and what he add mil a ratio between the Weq and the mar ma tey. , hoar.) What was required to be hammed es the aim& of the park of this country wee that, In the flesolaties at • sehoy mesa free and g las sed, not elapses' eilesies, sad seal se were dssts~ by any qualms shies hem Oakum of race)—that in founding sea sania dry bed cried as that, telpir il funds efabia act ll Aiment wil larsi• peseirefe give them w ° slowly free eirataima there had been ao a debt yekelpies. bet medibmans el sad re= li a wsi(He r, si bees.) The sight parish was that while wee by esr misers em years ago,whe when they Ad me a saw did net ear with an admire to the hone sail sal Ike ems thinned* at pestle a, year for a gamer, end a thief brae. mad • 'dead essistary, and IN WlN=i 11011•11. - Mom, be r.) They collected a hay a hoe lees who were ready *heal a free state ease levies le es ass—pear, hear)—ead whisk, enjoying our freedom. Anil kappa cur nee, cur hagsuc l e4e b : . - siltation ad ) magies. is • Aka (Hear, bear.) It wee mei es their hems britaders that dry lased fee sweet. Th wee the they abased with • aridity, t han dram= of the lime, little lees ant the to us had bees that awry s er g ee= s of any aeries being made fens thole Impart, ba es boles the eentsary, they sew rely amid Oh sonatry ia her heap wars, asdierreal mimosa sad service usepe alse sent oat to reams the *sties of and foram the peace, Peel wee their estimative orh li el . r trades& that they not only did met ask this country to find them nes end swan eamprmise to keep the peace for them. but hap held it se • gebersee that she intruded on them bar Itch essediag mdse. and declared that they were sapid, of defending themselves. (Hear, hear.) De con=but Nat principle we had implanted inn, our system • principle of comparative feebleness and =es esmelvee enormous expanses, while by with from them the Minus of political freedom, we bad deprived them of the best in. deotaseat they cook bo ld est to oar population to entlgrete. flaglinmea were not desirous of emigrati mild ea whisk was ruled by a power which, howeve Mee yet a delpetisea. (Hear, hear.) Such a system was regiodeil by Beglignes• as 024:0010US sad irrateasel, and theuelnee isne that we could not get a superior class matey to deatgrate to OUT coles. (Hear, bear.) 'hey had been Mumma to leave the n fr ee sheets of Rag lan le teem sot only the arellaary !muds of coleolsation, but the metals deprivation a their political liberties. In stead of carrying their adithal liberties from England, they west forth to New Zielaud or Now South Wales to he deprived of them; ead a inehaps, after a lops of twenty or thirty mom a meths these polcal HOW were given ' to them, ameenolltd rh • laa dg= at which was coed when they ware by lia gE went—ad then they had to hem the Jurgen stow so same. ahead trololag them sad them to receive • hoe eenetitellem (Hoar, hum.) Let earry their heeds. with them as they would their egr lealtural instrummen, sad thee was the saint of eNeaiai sear. He had mid that he did not rest his opinias ea the specu lation of philesephme dad seemaisu, hat me fiats. The &Mem wide mossy pat ea the convictions was the sys tent at whisk Me soloniastie• of North Amities was sea- Meted, the wiling which Mr. Burke stedieds sad esetniesed, sad mat rehended from the top to the Whom, sad whisk be daerib.d is his epoch to Animism tam don, who be Mooned perlimat whist the essemmences of atainhing ma alministretive power over ihrfr ado also, mileardag from them a admiral& prialoilirl Med% hiseeed of which the policy of neweed ought to be the sweldpaleation of her race in order that they might propagate her Institutions , and whatever tended to the rapid population of the colonies would react with benefit ma the seam country. That system had reached its edema se an early period. In 1662 the charter of Rhode Island was granted. But it was now considered sot safe to allow the colonies to pus en met relating to any local purpose unless it was till it warmitted to England, where it re = re whips, for two years before it was returned, so that three years were interposed between the colonies and decisions in their local matters and the knowledge as to whether their acts were to take effect or not. That was the system under which they lived. What would be their feelings if they were to pass acts on subjects which they understood, not imperial subjects, but such u as act re lating to the Great Western Railway, and they were to be minded to the other end of the world and kept in an office and ansldered or not considered, as the ease might be— (hear, hear)—for two yam? (Hear, hear.) Yet that was the system that was adopted towards our colonies. The old idea of a colony was that it was in the nature of a municipality or a corporation. In this country corporations were placed under the control of the law of the land, but they had the liberty of local regulation. The bye-laws of the corporation of Liverpool, or any other great town, were not sent to the Home Secretary to be considered for two years. (Hear, hear.) Now these municipalities as they existed in the:ancient times, were well defined ; they were subject to the general restraint of the laws of Eng land, but in every other respectehey were almost absolutely sad entirely free. (Hear, hear.) The degenerate and de grading practice of retaining the substance, and still more, the principle, of colonial patronage, was totally unknown du s r a i7 the old colonial system. The old colonists p ee .- ietthe soil; they administered their own polio,; they bad to defend their own frontiers ; they were the hearers of their own charges, the electors of their own oflicemand the Innen of their own laws. (Hear, bear.) Now they had reversed in the last 70 years every me el these salutary principles. (Hear, hear.) We re tained the fee-simple of the co'cnial land. (Hear, hear.) The mbehts were not fit in our superior judgment to me ans their ma stain, and hence those magnificent sums appeared in the estimates, becamse we provided that they were set to beer their own expenses. Instead of allowing them to eassider the measures which they thought to be the beet adulated to adopt in reference to the aboriginal inhabitants, we said, oh, that is a matter for the impala midmost. And a minister sitting in Dnalaintailleat mot Mamie, bow the localities between the aborigines sad the Monk* are to be settled. (" Hear, hoar," and laughter.) The idea of allowing them to elect their own Moen ! That would be extremely revo lutionary.' it woad set destroy the royal supremacy it would, at all events , be • diesembeemeat of the empire. As to allowing them to make their own laws the notion is so dreadful, u opposed ft an ideas of right and truth, that no person could fat a ammeat _gravely think of proposing such a thing. (Hen beer.) They had thus reversed the five great' principles al the easiest system of time, dad they hod maned the bream looked upon thole .seeks es stakes. (Hear, hear. If they looked epee them as municipalities founded in the shadow end node of their own imperial power ; if they only homed •• them necessary restrarnts and left them free in every Mier respect, then they would not only have saved emelt= minims to the exchequer of this country, but they Wend have prodused a erases which would have been mess meth, of themeelves, because no one could read the history e the great American revolution without seeing that yen mimeo then reared men of such a mental stature mil isomer es eatirely tranwencicd those whoa the colonies eg the pmeme day piedmid. (Hear, hear.) Hs would read to the hems • portion of the charter to abode Island which wouldibew that what he had stated wee en exagge rated, but the plain end simple truth. TM ellealer created the omeniste al that island Ma • belly eseperoM sod poli tic; it poes body of embeente ad hoe men, in aaticipation of the fahMtente hoseashe numems • ieyave them the power of destiny their own Mime and repre sentatives. The system which your anesseen thus founded two centuries ago bad borne the strain of the American Revolution; and at the present moment, in every state of that wonderful country, it wan the form and model if government from one end of it to the other. For a colony to elect its own government now ! That would be shock ing indeed. But this . power was conceded to Rhode Island is 1662, when he would not say the warmth, but the fever of royalty wes at its height in this country. (Hear, bear.) Yet it was at that period that they were desired to elect their own government. They were allowed to maks their own laws, subject to no other restraint except that, as ear as circumstances would admit, they were not to be con trary to the laws of Elegised. They could appoint their own MMus, constitute their own courts of justice, embody their own forces for their own defence, and appoint their own commanders over those forces. They were the owners of their own soil, and the bearers of their own charges. (Hear, bear.) He might be inked what security there wee fee the good behaviour of the colonists in this me. (Mae, hem) It was, he could not say the Ease mhos, but it WAS as perfect as any whisk had been recently invented, for in case of the colonials Melba auy prime or power in alliance with the crown of liagbatl, they wore to make Miami's to the (rown, " or put Mtn of far InaIOWIND end pretastion." (Hear, beer.) Two hundred yam mused greet amps is the circumstances of mankind, and thew\ be did not say that is away particular this system eight tele imitated, yet when he regarded the acts which hod hem passed of late yeas, hir tie felonies, the million* whisk had been spent sad the disoutent which had Mesa, sad minted that 200 yeses ego • system had Menseaceived in which the spirit awl ceameterisdes erne maw country were main tained, theyesuld not draw the:mama without bringing a blush es their flees. (Hear.) He would now proceed to disease the bill, which he would de in a spirit of fairness. He looked um the bill as upon the whole creditable to her Majesty's government—(hear, _lteer)—not becaure it went back to the ming system of Riede Island, but because it indicated a real ineation to approMmate to that system, and because he thought it comeisel a larger measure of freedom than was given to ea af their asionies, if he ex cepted one. This was the merit of the bill. (Hear, hear.) He wee emy M soy be he not agree with his ben. fined the seater lir Ihotkwark, with when be generally semaineed Am quedisas, when he said that the hid sommieed too meek the pekedple of Mal seelismente, sal ON he we diploma to leave it in the Mode of the astral legielshiro to determine the amount of authority to be given M the local kgisla tures. He (Mr. Gladstone) regarded the recognition of local settlaseats es en of the greatest merits of the bill. (Hear, bear.) On One obsemteektho of their recent legislation was that it wee, Ise eminent degree, arbitrary. (Hear, hear.) We dam the line fee ourselves', instead of following the line that nature and nesesaty drew for them. (Hear, hear.) It wee • mistake tommee that it required 10,000 or 20,000 pumas to smastbste p pelitkal society. That was a great mbealte—a mime error—and no better. (Hoer, Moe.) • pellikal moiety was formed by • mom= approsimetion, amnia pursuits, common releases in a great degree, amnia Ideas in a crdegree, ammo iadraetry, sad messes trade. e lt eeematituted • social Mem, if he might so speak. (Hear, MO The right hon. gentlemen departed from modern emeditiou hp granting a large share of power to (Heer, beer.) Their forefathers in like man ner, emoted * f p powers to small bodies of men, beam time hefts so constituted contained a great power of , ea the morn contained the germ of the oak. rs.) And when they considered how well that mem worked in North America, and that the Meacham Haim was dependent on the local principle, as asthma hole the central principle, this recognition of smell emennadties which were to have • substantive exist mei of their own, whilst they WON to be united for certain onew of the fundamental merits of the bill, =sir, ; as ant in which it permed a real advantage over ken mesures la Mania legislation. (Hear, bear.) AAllttlh to the allallialli of laws, the right hon. gen dananiVintroduold them* ethos edge, but he must confess it wall the my Mk end of it. The right hon. gentlemmfor the lind ems, did not require measures passed fa the enemy le be net here. All that was necessary was to subunit Meen te the Governor of New Zealand. And it wiled depend men him whether the colonial go vernment in Domingotreet was to know anything of them. (Been hear.) Amber meets of the bill was that the right lea. genelemen lad the amp to throw over. board another maim superstition—Wt me to say, the supposed sem* of =detains: the infiname of the crown by "foie • Lege amber of nominated members into the legated.* mash. (Hear, hear.) AD 111.11ilal that the right hem matiomma delivered thins them the neemeity o kooPill wr Mare iallasaso, whisk sadbe for no other that he email me exempt to crest .EsssslnM Sod dareislimisa. (Cheers.) The right had. gentleman spin took a step la advance in handing over to the °Maim, subject to certain restrictions, the control over the lead. (Hear.) Another matter of great importance, without which he would not be prepared to content to the details of the measure, eras the largeness of power of alteration allowed by the bill. (Hear.) The right hon. gentleman did not pretend by this tell to except any political enactment from the profane touch of the colonial legislature. (Hear.) He gave the colonial legis lature full power to lay their hands on the work of the , imperial parliament, and to alter the laws passed by it in any manner they pleased, only Imposing the cond it i on that the alterations should be transmitted home before they were finally effected. (Hear, hear.) These were the great merits of the bill, and on the ground of these merits he for one, moved by his admiration—he might almost say his Idolatry—of the old eskelsl system in Its purity, was dis posed to sink much ed Ye Own pease views, and to lend a helping band to the main( of the bill. (Hear, hear.) Now, with regard to the faults of the measure, be cum eurred with his boo. friend the member for Southwark that great difficulty would win from the concurrent ju risdiction. (Hear, hear.) It would create, in his opinion, an unnecessary and en objectionable perplexity. (Hear, hear.) There was to be the central legislature, the dis trict legislature, and the municipal legislature, to be topped by parliament. He would suggest to the right hon. gentleman that these municipal legislator. e should be swallowed up In the district legislatures. (Hear.) This would give greater simplicity to the measure. The district legislature would only have to menage the affairs of from 1,21.10 or 1,600 people to 3,000 or 4,000. lie thought It unnecessary that there should be separate legislatures for this purpose. It was impossible that the three legit. latures could work together without confusion. He confessed that this concurrent jurisdiction wee in his mind • subject of apprehension and alarm, fur it meant in the lug run conflicting jurisdiction. He thought that this wu • fictions objection to the bill, and, if he did not join with his honourable friend in deprecating the progress of the bill, it was because of the lugs power of alteration given by the bill. (Hear, hear.) Ilia belief was that the intelligent body of the colonists would themselves find the remedy of their hasty and crude testis ' letion and would bring about that pr i nciple of unity which he regarded so much. (Hear, bear.) Another great objection to the blil was, that it required the colonists to wait for two years before they could know whether the laws passed by them received the sanction of the imperial legislature. Now, he would suggest to the right bon. gen tleman, that if the right hon. gentleman inserted four months or six months, it would not at ell take from the efficiency of the measure, whilst it wouldbe a great matter gained in point of practical convenience. (Hear.) Though ho dial not wish to lose the bill altogether, ho must say that there were one or two amendments which appeared to him quite essential if it were passed. The right hun. gentleman had thought fit—following, in this instance, the traditions of his department—in his paternal care for these settlements of New Zeeland, composed of Englishmen as inteligent as ourselves, except in so far as they had lost their intelligence by having been for a certain number of years under arbitrary government—the right bon. gentle. man had thought tit to propose that they should each be governed by • superintendent, who was not to be elective —though we true persons under our own noses to elect mayors to have authority over 60,000 people —but to be nominated by the Governor of New Zealand; and, for fear the superintendent should be sub jected to the peril of starvation, he provided that each su perintendent should have a salary of .5001. a year. Now he (Mr. Gladstone) thought it would be a great improve ment to get rid both of the dike of supuintendent and of the salary attached to it. (Hear, hear.) He wished the right hon. gentleman to consider from what source the political office derived its advantages. They were there m an assembly of 6-50 gentlemen who gave laborious ser vices to their country. There were other offices in this country connected with the executive department which were also laborious. The first class of officers were un• paid, the second salaried ; but who could say that the executive offices were coveted more than a seat in that house t And why was • seat in that house coveted ? Be cause it wu a mark of confidence on the part of a portion of their fellow-subjects. That confidence did the work of money, and it did it far better thui;money—(hear, hear)—and if the right hon. gentleman would allow the colonists to choose out from amongst themselves thou whom they knew to be their best men, and to bestow on their fellow-citizens marks of their respect and confidence, he would find that, without his undertaking to provide 6001. a year, these offices would not only be objects of honourable competition to the colonists, but would draw from England men of • different and a higher cleat than could ever be drawn till there was stamped on the whole of the colonial institutions the same broad and deep character of freedom which marked the institutions of the mother country. (Cheers.) 'I here was one other point to which he could not help alluding, and that was the ques tion of a nominative or elective council. In constituting his local legislature, the right hon. gentleman bad certainly thrown tradition overboard ; but in constituting this central legislature he bad provided that the leOkative council should be nominative. In this important portioraiar his plan greatly degenergted from that of Ida predecessor. If he understood aright the policy of Lord Gray, what he desired was that the Legislative Council of New Zealand should be composed of persons elected by the local legislatures. It was quite evident that the noble earl deriver. that idea from the United States of America ; and, as he before said, in going to the United States for hints for the improvement of our colonial system, the noble earl resorted to the best fountain. If there were one thing in the constitution of the United States which, more than all others, entitled the authors of that astonishing work to the gratitude of their countrymen and to fame as wide and lasting as the world, it was the system which they adopted for the election of their senate, introducing the principle of election, not by the number of their popula tion, but by the separate states, and thus providing a prin ciple tocounteract the pure principle of popular election in the chambers. lie could not help paying a tribute of praise to the noble earl for choosing that plan of construct ing his legislative council. Now, the right hon. gentleman bad in that particular fallen back on the ordinary practice; he proposed • nominative legislative council. Ile (Mr. Gladstone) thought the legislative council ought to be elec tive. Whatever might be the honour of nomination, the members of the council toted not live upon it; they could not afford to absent themselves from home without being paid, and the colonists would in no case consent to pay them so long as they held their seats by nomination. The real truth was, that one of those vulgar superstitions which it was necessary to protest against year after year until they had been altogether exploded, was the superstition that it was right to have a body of men appointed in this country for the purpose of repressing the free action of popular sympathies in the colonies. As regarded the Now Zealand Company, he avowed jealousy of all commercial companies which stepped byond mercantile objects, but thought that the pecuniary position of the company ought not to be altered. Secretary Sir J. PAKINOTON concurred in the general principle of policy laid down by Mr. Gladstone, but could not agree that we should now adopt the same principles of colonisation on which our early American colonies were founded. He insisted upon the necessity which, it had ap peared to government, existed for introducing such • mea sure u this, and contended that the house ought not to be deterred by the lateness of the session from endeavouring to pus it, and to confer upon the colony the blvaing for which it was so anxious. All parties in the colonies were desirous of immediate legislation. lie addressed himself to answer the oislootions of the various speakers on the ques , tion, justified tin scastrattion of the local legislatures on the groomed of Ms WO sianeter of those for whose benefit they wore erasted, eat Ow provision regarding the New Zealand Company, as having been dictated by • sense of justice. As • rule, he stated that all local acts were to be definitely settled by the governor in the co lony. On account of the lateness of the hour (one o'clock) be abstained from going into details at any great length, but he defended the nominee system contemplated by the bill, dwelling upon the desirability of making the colonial institutions a reflex of those of the mother country. Sir J. GRAHAM would under no circumstances be in clined to oppose the bill, which be should, he said, be glad to see in committee. Ile signified his assent to what had fallen from Mr. Gladstone in reference to the New Zealand Company, of whose " bargain" he thought the house should be more fully informed. Mr. MANGLES spoke in defence of the company's in terest. Mr. WALTER pointed out that there was no real affinity between the hereditary chamber at home and the nominee chamber proposed in the colony, and in so far there was no imitation of the institutions of the mother country. After a few observations from Mr. ANITZT, The ball was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday next. The Huddersfield Burial Ground Bill was read a third time, and passed. Mr. licun moved that there be laid before the house a copy of Sir Thomas Cochrane's despatch to the Ad miralty, of the 30th day of May, 1846, together with th e letters of the 30th day of Merck and the Ist day of April, therein alluded to; and the icelosurcs accompanying them. —Agreed to. Ou the motion of Lord Jour MANNZRB leave was given to bring in a bill to enable the Commissioner of Her Ma jesty's Works and Public Buildings to complete improve ments in Pimlico and in the neighbourhood of Bucking ham Palace. Lpl sa amio nation of Lord Naas, a bill to extend the Let to facilitate the Improvement of Landed Property in Ireland, and the acts amending the same, to the erection of for match mills for flax in Ireland. ' at a quarter pia 1. bu . Atieg h L s _ . INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, WAllSTEAD.—Yeater day • general court of the governors of thin institution was held at the London Tavern. The committee of manage ment state that the number of orphans under the protection of the society on the Bth June, 18,11, (the date of last report), was 311; there have since been admitted at the half-yearly elections, 80, and by the provisions of the 21st rule, 1, making • total of 422. Of these, 76 have left on the completion of their term, and the deaths from all causes during a year in which some of the epidemics of infancy have been unusually fatal, have not exceeded four; there remain therefore now under care 342, and the elec tion of to-day will increatie the number to 382. With re gard to the sanitary state of the asylum during the past year, it is scarcely possible to speak too favourably. Th e financial position of the charity continuer most satisfactory and encouraging—the amount realised from the annual subscriptions has indeed exceeded that of any former year. The following legacies must also be gratefully acknow ledged :—Rev. Robert William Baxter, 3161. ; Mire Char lotte Winer, 601.; Thomas Carr, Eq., 161.; John Thackersy, Req., Wel.; Miss Jane Constable, 1001. The committee cannot longer defer calling the attention of their constituents to the desirableness of attempting some thing on behalf of those infante now in the asylum whose term expires at eight years of age. No less than 83 of these mast be dismissed in the ensuing year, • fact which cannot be regarded without painful apprehensions. To retain tl e whole would be impossible; but it is pro posed that, hos and after the present year, such children as have been elected for the shorter term, not intended as candidates for other asy lums, and being otherwise eligibl e , shall be submitted to the governors periodically as candi dates for re-election for the extended ages, the number so retained being of course contingent on the measure of public eacourapment and assistance received. Vie erortoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. rtoantat Mien of " Tu. Espros.“ eesuasieff ,h• our moires " tar Gratette," Y publOtted every Tarok, awl Friday sight, la use past ,dvdriamesdatalatetated fur "The raprow," Leedom Evening paw, :own be at the LO. Eurrverte-atreet, 57 Two o'ekok oa the day et pablantlea. MOB WATER AT LONDON BRIDOR. Tsui UnT—Mondos, 3h. Ma Altmann, 4h. nro. To•oseamow—Rorousg. 44. Mks Ahem:loo. 40. 4/la. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 22. LAST night Lord PALMERSTON called the attention of the House of Commons to the dangers now threat ening the existence of constitutional government in Spain and elsewhere--dangers exposed some days ago in the columns of this journal. His lordship urged the present ministers to give such an expres sion of opinion upon the subject that foreign powers might knew there was still in England a ministry ready at least to sympathise with the adherents of constitutional liberty abroad as well as at home. Lord PALMERSTON made one of his telling epee thee, but with no better resultthan has followed all previous attempts to gain an explicit avowal from the present occupants of office. Mr. DisnAzu is much more cunning, and far less candid, than the ex-Foreign Se cretary, and, as usual, he avoided all satis factory reply. Lord PALMERSTON sympathised with the coup crltat—he now finds nearer home a public character curiously akin in spirit and policy to the hero of the I.:lye:v. What strong sympathy can we now hope to see evinced for constitutionalism by tho existing governments of England or of France ? In the one country we have a ministry holding ottlue on the unconstitutional basis of a minority : in the other we see a l'resident lording it over a Republic, forcibly deprived of constitutional rights. Indeed, the analogy between the actual conditions of France and England is more close than is quite agreeable to people who pride themselves upoa being citizens of a country which has enjoyed parlia mentary government for more than a century and a half, and which generally objects to be eajolea by ad venturers. Englund is ruled by Mr. DisnsELl, and France by M. Louts NAPOLEON. The previous careers of these—statesmen, shall we call them P— have been curiously similar. It is to the published speculations of the French and English rulers that wo must turn in order to find the proofs of idiosyncratic resemblance. The showy, though fantastic revels of Mr. Dtsnszu have'been_twetty wide)7 circulated; and the lucubra tion. of M. Lou i s NAPOLEON, have been eagerly published by enterprising booksellers since lie installed himself dictator. fheac bibliopules have remembered what hamlet says of people giving high prices for his uncle's portrait in little after ho became king who made mouths at him before. One literary knack is common to both of these dis tinguished authors, that is of imparting an adventi tious interest to their writings by associating them with the notorieties and popular topics of the day. Mr. DisnsELl—who, contrary to the prevailing no- tions that Englishmen are dull and solid, Frenchmen airy and vivacious—is the more sparkling and less wearisome of the two, effects his by taking the plots of his fictitious novels from blue books, trials which ,reveal the scandalous privacy of men of rank, and club gossip about party struggles. M. LOUIE NAPO LEON, in an humbler way, accomplishes the same object by prosy dissertations on popular topics, and letters to individuals eminent in science or literature. The great aim of both in their ostensibly literary productions has been to hold themselves out to the world as men who have devoted much time to retied. tions on politics, and cultivated practical statesman ship. Their theories of politics and policy are strikingly similar. Mr. DIBRAELI sterns and dis parages what he calls the fiction of representative government, and so does M. Louts NAPOLEON. Mr. DiattAELl has schemes for social, moral, and political regeneration, and so has M. Louts NAPOLEON. Mr. DISRAELI is of opinion that nations prosper most when they submit to be drilled, disciplined, and acted for by some hero-prophet; and so is M. LOUIS NAPO LEON. Mr. DISRAELI paints fancy anonymous por traits of himself as the man who has it in his power to save and elevate the ago. M. Louts NAPOLEON, more frankly, puts his own name at the bottom of the effigies he draws. The novels of the one and the essays of the other are as obviously advertise ments for political employment just as a ltygeisn treatise is an advertisement for customers for the publisher's nostrums; and the qualities and princi ples which each attributes to himself are remarkably alike. The ways in which both have conciliated politi cal supporters are as nearly similar as the dissimi larities of France and England permit. Mr. DisitAELt set himself up as the champion of the I landed interest, and coquets when in power with all shades of liberalism. M. LOUIS NAPOLEON took the field, he said, to combat the socialists and red re publicans of the proletarian class, but he turned his cannon and musketry against the bourgeoisie. The estimation in which the two worthies are held by all men of common sense is much the same. Neither gets credit for fixed principles or sincerity ; neither gets credit for solid judgment ; they owe their elevation simply and exclusively to the effron tery with which they have offered themselves as can didates for power, and the dogged pertinacity with which they persisted in urging their claims. The moral of their success seems to be that in France and England any man who has the assurance to aspire to the highest offices, and perseverance to keep the field amid universal laughter and ridicule, is tolerably sure to succeed in the end. It is a humiliating spectacle to see two great and intelligent nations like France and England ac quiescing, for however short a time, in the usurpa tion of the reins of government by two adventurers whose peculiar talents aro of that kind hitherto deemed only fitted for the manufacture of a fantastic melodrama. In both countries we have had dull and feeble statesmen ere now, but somehow they had contrived to acquire that reputation for common sense which is so liberally conferred on mere common-place. Wo have had brilliant and eccentric statesmen in both countries ere now, but then they had evinced comprehensive and sound views of policy, tact, and sagacity, in the practical business of life. But the present Dictator of France and the de facto l'rime Minister of England combine a showy, superficial glitter with that propensity to extravagant thcorisms which lis the infallible indication of ambitious, feeble, and common-place intellects. With such men in power in England and in France the people of Spain and of Sardinia must rely upon themselves alone for the preservation of their constitutional liberties. To look to Downing -street or to the Elysee for sympathy, would, indeed, be vain. Lord PALMERSTON May speak; reformers may cheer ; newspapers may report ; and journalists advise—but no sympathy will liberty , abroad obtain from a tory government in England. Tories are now as they have ever been—the opponents of pro gress. Lord DERBY has denounced orenly " the noxious influence of the people," and after such a declaration of his sentiments how can anything be expected from him but sympathy with despotic re action. If Lord PALMERSTON really wishes to sup port liberty abroad, he knows quite well what steps are proper to be taken tor that purpose. They are to heal the differences that divide the liberals at home, and so put the tones out of office. OUR husbandry and husbandmen have now fairly passed through a period of transition from protection to free-trade. From monopolists placing their hopes of profit in artificial scarcity, our farmers have be come trader open to competition, who with a fair stage and no favour have to trust alone to their skill and activity. That they have passed through this period of transition without misgiving, that they have passed it without difficulties, and in many in stances distress, we do not assert ; for it is one amongst the host of evils of such a vicious system as that founded by the corn laws, that to attain a sounder and better state of things somebody must suffer. But that they have, as a body, passed it unscathed, and w ith greater cretlit and energy than their self-styled " friends thought possible, few will at this time be found to deny. And more than that, they have come out of the trial in a condition far more sound, and with prospects of future well-doing far more satisfito tory than even their real friends and customers—the mass of the community—ventured to anticipate. I._ _ :of