The Express. — London, England, 1852-06-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FILIDAT, Jux 21 The Luau Ca sacscaoa took his seat at 5 o'clock. LEGAL EDUCATION: Lord CAMPBELL, in answer to Lord Lyndhurst, ea plaiord that steps had been taken to improve the state of Wei education, which he admitted had been disgraceful, and Lord BROVOIIAM espressed his wiab, which he said was.hartil in by his brother heathen, that the improve ment. :Wowed should be varied ranch further. PKINTINU THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE. On the motion of Earl OILANYILLZ, the following report of the select committee on the mode of printing the rneredings end reports of the select committees of tho house was taken into eonsideration " That the committee have met, and considered the subject-amuse to them referred. and have also considered the resolutions of the House of Commons of the 12th of February, 1836, on the hest means of appointing and trans acting business in the select committees of the house. That they have taken the evidence of Sir dames Graham and Mr. Edmund Detiont, two menalters of the llouse ot Commons of mush experience in committees ; of Mr. Dyson, Chief I COLIIIIIMCC Clerk of the House of Commons ; and of Mr. Gurney, the short-hand writer. That, according to the sin minions evidence of these witnesses, the rules of 11436 have b. en acted upon in committees of the House of Com mons si.-ce that year, and have been found to work advan tageously, and have never been altered or emended. The committee have come to the following resolutions,and remits mend That to every question asked of a witness under exami nation in the priverdolgs of ■ny select committee of the house there be pretized in the minutes of the evidence the name of the peer asking such questions. That the names of the peers Present each day on the sitting of any select com mittee Ile entered on the minutes of evict. nee, or on the stews" of the proceedings of the committee (as the ease may Ise), and reported to the house on the report of such committee. That to the event of a division taking place in any select committee, the question proposed, the name of the peer proposing the question, and the respective votes thereupon, of each peer present, be entered on the minutes of evidence, or on the minutes of the proceedings of the committee (as the ease may b•) and reported to the house on the report of such committee." The two first resolutions were agreed to. Upon the third, after e short conversation, a division took place, when the numbers were For the third resolution Against it SA-17 EXTRADITION BILL. The Earl of MAIN' IlSl3l.*ItY being interrogated by the Marquis of Clanriesole, stated that no correspondence had tak. n pl tee with the government of France in reference to the withdrawal of the extradition hill, hut that government, acting in the friendly spirit which had characterised them in their relations with this country sines the present ministry had come into office, hail stated, when they found the opposition against the bill so severe, that they would not persevere in requiting the execution of the convention. The purpose of the bill was to carry out a convention agreed to by the late government, and lie had naturally anticipated their support. Earl GRANVILLE reminded the house that the opposi tion to the bill had been on the part of the high ►egal autho rities. Ile was favourable to a law for securing an inter change of criminals. Lord C.kMPBELL believed, had the bill in question passed, England would no longer have been a free asylum. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE considered that France had lust rause to complain of the existing state of the law. Lord thought this country could not ex pert the full benefit of the existing treaty while France ryes ived so benefit from it. —......... - Riiiiii%;il 7 S -- oF SOUTH WALES. Vi•tount 11}11tEFOltD, in presenting a petition from the eoulity of Brecon, complaining of the provisions of the Act of II and 15 Viet., c. 16. relating to the highways of South Wa.is, eared the attention of the house to the injury which that act inflicted on the people of that district. The act occasioned greed expenditure and inequality of ratinc, and what be suggested was that the existing exceptionable act should bo done away with and • general act brought in which would give satisfaction to the inhabitants of Wales. Thz h:arl of cAwDove, who was inaudible in the gal lery. was understood to support the prayer of the petition, which was ordered to he on the table NEW ZEALAND SILL. Th- house then ..entiniocc;;alttreirir the New Zealand till. the clausts of which were agreed to after soma dis cussion, and the house reunited. COUNTY R.ITES BILL. Tb:. bill paned through committee. ExrisE SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS DILL. Tilt EAT' of DERBY moved the second reading of this bill, and briefly stated its object Anreed tn. WOOD::, FORESTS, AND LAND REVENUES BILL This bill wag read a wooed time. VALUATIONS (IRELAND) BILL. The Earl of DERBY gave so outline of the provisions of this bill, sad moved its 'mad reading. Agreed to. Metropolitan Sewers Bill, Nisi Pries Officers Bill, Friendly Societies (No. 2) Bill, Public Health Act (ISO) Amendment Bill, Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill, Die tresu it Unions (Ireland) Bill, Encumbered Estates (Ire land) Bill—thew bill. were severally rood • second time. THE CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT. Lord LYTTELTON presented • petition from the inha bitants of the Canterbury Settlement in New Zea land. complaining of • public attack made by the Governor of New Zealand es the principles en which that settlement was founded. The noble lord read the petition at length with greet rapidity, and in as under tune of voice. It concluded by praying that • bill which had sow nearly reseed might re ceive the sauetion of parliament. He wished to take the opportunity of saying that the Cant, rhury settlement had been very successful and prosperous, and that it was not true that any serious loss bad been inflicted on the colony by the discovery of gold in Australia. Accounts hail reached this country very lately stating that hardly any one person bad left the colony for the gold fields. The Canter. bury colany was founded in 1848, and received the sanction of a v.yal charter sod the approval of parliament. The chart. r was forwarded to the governor, and he was asked to rove the colonists ell the assistaxesi he could. Governor Sir George Grey did so for two or three years, when he made a long and d. liberate attack on the whole principle en which that colony had been founded—namely, that of the 31. per acre to be paid for the purchase of land, 11. alspuld he appropriated to tb purposes of the church of Eueland. That provision the governor of the colony at tacked, saying it was unfair to other denominations. This was an attack on the fundamental principle on which the colony w.is founded, and the governor did not complain of it till three years &Reecho colony had been founded. He thought it was the duty of the government to reprove him fur such conduct. The petition was then ordered to be laid on the table. HOLLOWAY HOUSE OF CORRECTION BILL. This bill wu reed a second time. PHARMACYBILL. This bill was rend; third time ;;elpnssed. COMMONS INCLOSURE ACT E XTENSION BILL. This hill was read a third time, and puled. TURNPIKE ACT CONTINUANCE BILL, POOR LAW BOARD CONTINUANCE BILL, INLAND REVENUE OFFICE BILL, SAVINGS BANKS (IRELAND) BILL. Them bills severally paned through eimunlttee. On the motion of the Earl of WRIT the bowie adjoszafed instil 2 o'clock this day. HOUSE OF COMMON3.—FatBAT, Jcsz 25. The 51. E.% are took the choir et 2 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Tit,. Lords' amendments to the London Necropolis and Nationel MimeoLem, the Lancaahire and Yorkshire Rail way, the Hastier Conservancy and Kingelonwpos-Ilell Docks, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (No. 1) Bills were considered and agreed to. larva's Charity Estate and Thornhill's Estate Bills were read a third tieseaed paned. ABERDEEN BOYS' AND GIRLS' HOSPITALS BILL. The Lords' asiendeseets on this bill, with trilling altera tion, was agreed to. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRBSBNTED. Herrin° Housen.—By Mr. MASTERMAN, from the ward of Aldesogate, for the suppression of. T us CANTIRMURT SETT . By Mr. ADDERLEY, from the colonists of the Canterbury Settlement, complain- ing that the governor, Sir George Grey, had expressed strong disapprobation of the principles on which that settle ment was founded, and that he had recently forwarded for presentation to her Majesty, memorials from the nominee legislative council, professing to represent the sentiments of the people in accordance with that opinion—the petitionen stated further, that they had embarked their property in the colony, on the faith of the principle of colonisation on which the settlement was founded—that that principle had been most successful , 14 emigrant ships having arrived in nine months, and 3,000 settlers being already located, and the petitioners prayed that representative institutions might be granted to them, in order to guard them against similar mkrepresentatioas in future. (Hear.) COLONIAL BISHOPS (No. I) BILL. On the motion of Mr. GLADSTONE, the order for the second reading of this bill was read and discharged. TILE HANK OF ROMAN CATHOLIC COLONIAL Sir R. ixot.ls interrogated the Colonial Minister as to his intentions in reference to the remonstrance made by the Bishop of Sydney to Lord Grey's circular, directing that Roman catholic archbishops and bishops should, take rank and precedence in the colonies with the bishops of the Church of England. Secretary Sir .1. PAKINOTON bad found the remon strance at the Colonial-office unanswered when he suc ceeded Lord Grey, and had not yet had time to reply to it, but he intended shortly to forward to the governor a dis patch conveying the views of the government on the sub ject ; he, however, declined to explain what those views were. -- Si; It. INOLIS would bring the subj ect before the house agaisia the nest parliament, should ho have a seat in it. CONS'fITUTION-lIILL. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE asked the First Commissioner of Works why the privie of riding down Constitution hill to the Dird-sags . had born withdrawn from the public ? Mr. Secretary WALPOLE answered the question, and said be wee obliged to the the hos. gentleman fur putting it. The reply was simple—that privlege had not been 'Adm a n, 1191' was it intended to be withdrawn. (Hear, bow) THE SALE OF CHICORY. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER bating been questioned by Kir W. P. Wood, repeated a statement mad* by Lord Derby on the previous evening, that in any alteration of the treasury minute authoristug th e sale of chicory, the interests of the lair trader would b e respected. THE KAFFIR WAR. Secretary Sir J. PAKINOTON, In el/ewer ill Mr. An ginaorr, admitted that the only deepness uneived from eiseral Cathcart sines bin arrival at the Cape announced Ye intention of driving the OUIJA WON the Kai, which woe en doubt necessary to briag the war to a speedy and magenitel termination, but that announcement in no way eempromised the policy of the goverment as to the future frontiers of the e deny. METROPOLITAN BURIALS BILL. The house then went into committee on this bill. lh reply to Viscount ERKINUTON, Lord J. MANNERS stated the government had not as sented to the proviso fur preventing the owners of private burial grounds from building thereon alter their being clobcd under this act. Should the proviso be again brought forward the government would oppose it. On clause 2, Viscount EBRINOTON moved the addition of the pro viso is .1 in question. After some conversation, Sir W. CLAY suggested the abandonment of the proviso, because there was so great an objection to the compensa tion clause, that it had already been struck out, and be callq. it 'A uuld be a great hardship if the owners were com pelled to shut up their property without compensation. Viscount EBRINGTON insisted upon the insertion of the pros's.). If c irnpensivion was not to be given out of the Consolidated Fund, it might be given out of the poor rates of the parish. The committee then divided: For the proviso 2l Against it The remaining clauses were disposed of, and the bill was read a third time and passed. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 2 . ) BILL. Tins bill was also read a third time and passed. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL. Lord .1. RUSSELL said he would take that opportunity of stating the course he intended to take with respect to this bill, as altered—he would not say amended—by the House of Lords. In his opinion the alterations made by their lordships tended to impair the efficiency of the bill and to obstruct inquiry into corrupt practices at elections. The first amendment provide d that the address for a com mission should he the joint address of both houses, instead of the House of Commons alone. It certainly appeared to him that, as the object of the bill was to promote inquiry, an address from the House of Commons having had the proceedings of a select committee before it, would have beta sufficient to induce the crown to appoint commissioner,. But by this amendment two inquiries were rendered neces sary, and thus investigations would be materially obstructed. His noble friend the Marquis of Lansdowne had given this amendment all the opposition in his power. With regard to the other amendments,he did net think them of much importance. It was true that their lordships had decided that the commission should have no power to in quire into any election retrospectively, nor to take saner of any corrupt practice. , except those which they been especially summoned to investigate. This might appear at first an obstruction of justice, as, for instance, the last election for a borough might have b een compromised, whereas corrupt practices might have prevailed for a series of years. But the House of Commons could at any time apnoint a committee to inquire into corrupt practices irre spective of any particular election, and therefore he did not this amendment likely to be as injurious as at first 8101 it appeared to be. There was another amendment =treating out of the bill. With respect to that he say, that while bribery was easily defined, treating assesand different aspect. in different places. In some *wit was mere necessary refreshment, while in others it vas as corrupt as the worst bribery, and therefore he lbessecht it desirable that the house should retain the power daddrias on this subject. But taking the bill as a whole, and even as amended, he thought it would be of consider able advantage in prosecuting bribery in boroughs. Be although the Howe, of Lords thought a double Inigney necessary, it was obvious that they would never present themselves as a bar to an address in a clearly proved OM For these reasons he should propose that the Lords' amendments be weed to. Sir A. COCK BURN concurred in the conclusion at which his noble friend bad arrived, although be considered that the alterations were mutilations of the bill. The joint ad dress would impede its action, but, in his opinion, the most serious alteration was that by which, though a committee of the House of Commons should report corrupt practices in a particular borough, and though an address should be presented to the crown and a commission issued, the eons. missioners were prevented from going back beyond the period of a single pure election, which would, in some eases, defeat the whole object of the bill. Mr. WALPOLE defended the government against the suggestions of Sir A. Cockburn, and criticised the constitu tional doctrines laid down both by Sir Alexander and Lord J. RusselL By the amendment which required the concur lenCt of the House of Lords in the address for • commis sion, parliament, in fact, took away from the government an enormous power which it might exercise in that house for the disfranchisement of boroughs. If this bill had • this marated bum a tory government ....ss very alteration would probably have been raggested i.y their whig antagonists to protect the minority. With regard to the joint address, he reminded the house that the bill would arm the commis sioned with an enormous power, and he thought that, in such a ease, the House of Lords should have a voice in the matter. As to the retrospective operation of the measure, the power with which the commissioners would be clothed was so great, that if they were permitted to go back for 20 or 30 years, is order to make up a cumulative case of cor ruption, no borough would be safe where there should be a determined= to disfranchise. Mr. T. BUNCOMBE believed that the amendment" had been introduced for the purpose of defeating the bill. He did not see why there should not be a compromise and con cession. If this could not be, the amendment' must be adopted. Colonel SIBTHORP protested against th• bill altogether. Mr. ACi LIONBY was not prepared to throw out the bill, though he objected, strongly to the amendments, and espe cially to leaving out "treating." But fur the determina tion of Lord J. Russell, he should have preferred rejecting the amendments. Mr. HUME concurred with Mr. AOLIONIIT. Mr. HUDSON, *meg% ha *said hen has. glad if the bill could have buss gel did ether, expressed his satisfaction at the hapasmsma mile by the Lords. Mr. STANFORD seldl, Sal a the bill was at first, it was now a piece of waste pew. Mr. OSWALD deeply regretted the course pursued by Lord John Russell, and should more that the house dis agree with thearnendenents. Sic D. L. EVANS considered the step made by Op bill k Its present stage a retrograde one. Mr. BRIGHT likewise regarded the measure its its pre ss* drip as unsatisfactory, and the whole action of Lord I.lleassa in respect to it as extremely feeble. The address *Ble arewn for a commission was for inquiry, not legisla- Onn ; and the House of Lords would have a veto in a case whoa dm 1111 wee hdreduced. The joist maw was au elalado sa Vy east the way of presearreku a real, bowsok scrutiny into practices whkda would lay bare • spawn was a disgrace to mem bars u well as constituencies. Sir I. GRAHAM observed, that the practical question was, whether the alterations made in this and the other bones were of a character to destroy the usefulness of the 'meteor*, and to render it worthless. He was of opinion to the contrary. Ha did not believe that an address agreed to by that house, touching the representation, could fall practically to operate upon the judgment of the other house, and to obtain its concurrence. Being of opinion that the bill as it stood was a valuable measure, *ugh not so effec tual as he could have wished it to be, he was for agreeing with the Lords' amendments. After . few wage hem Kr. 8501211111 . 021, Mr. OSWALD mkt dame apposing!" a &sire smug hot. members MIMI Has >w sammold art divide. He there fore withdrew aim Ismaiaaat. The Leeds' ameadinswis were therefore agreed to. SESSIONAL AND STANDING ORDERS REVISION Th. order of the day for the consideration of the report of this committee we. read. . Mr. W. FATTEN explained the reportof the committee. The most important change recommended was with regard to the standing order, which had existed from 1713, apply ing to the introduction of bills relating to religion. At present it was required that all such bills aka motions should be introduced in a committee of the whole house. Of late yesre that standing order had been found to cease great inconvenience ; and it was now proposed to do away ' with it. The next change would remove the difficulty found in approaching the committees of the house, the re commendation being that In future the public departments should have the right to go before committees without petition. Mr. HUME said that the importance of a simPification of the standing orders could not be exaggerated; and he took that opportunity of stating that he felt deeply obliged to the hon. gentleman (Mr. W. Patten) for the seal he bad shown in this matter. (Cheers.) Mr. WALPOLE joined cordially in the eulogy on Mr. Patten. lie differed with the hon. gentleman ma to the reasons which had induced the passing of the old standiog order in reference to religious hills and motions; he was not altogether satisfied that the change proposed was desir able. But be thought it a good rule for members not to object to the reports of the standing orders committees. The standing order with reference to discussions on religion had not been altered. It certainly was one which required very grave consideration, and ought not to be altered with out the fullest deliberation. (Cheers.) Mr. AOLIONBY complimented the late chairman of the Commando on standing orders (Mr. Esteourt), and the hon. member for North Lancashire (Mr. Wilson Patten) on the untiring seal and ability with which they had performed several arduous duties. The report woe then received, and the alterations recom mended in it agreed to. Mr. HEAD AM moved for further papers relative to the case of Mr. Borne, namely, a letter from Mr. Nichol, of Singapore ; a letter from the Sultan of Borneo to Sir James Brooke; minutes of a conversation held with Pangeran Makota, made by Mr. Low, governing secretary in Labitan. Agreed to. PARLIAMENTARY IPAPERS.—MECHANICS' INSTITUTIONS. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ The MASTER of the 161Lia:V the absence of his right hen. colleague (Mr. Tureen), who had given notice of a motion for " a Select Committee to inquire into the expe diency of distributing gratis, under certain regulations, aselm lion from the report% and returns printed by order of the iiouseotCommon+,antongst the literary an& ientitic iota a tioue and mechanics' institutes throughout the United King dom," said that it would be idle in the resent state of the session to press the motion. Hs desired, therefore, simply to call the attention of the government to the subject. He be lieved that the Chancellor of the Exchequer wee not unfit vourahly this to some distribution of . political informa tion of this istaracter among the various institutions of the country. The parliamentary papers contained very valu able information. When first printed in 1651 they were sent to the sheriffs of counties for the information of the people, but that practice was stopped by Mr. Secretary Jet:duns in the reign of Charles IL More than seventy of the Mechanics' Imititutions at present in existence num bered more than 300 members. To all of them the infor mation contained in the parliamentary reports and papers was not accessible. It would be advantageous if the print ing committee were to receive powers to make such • se lection of parliamentary papers SG was desirable for the purrews of distribution. Perhaps the right hon. gentle man (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) would give the subject his attention during the recess. Mr. BROTEEETON supported the request of the right hon. the Master of the Rolls, and concurred in thinking that the distribution ought to ho confided to the printing committee. . _ Mr. HUME was quite willing that information should he afforded to the mechanics' institutions, but reminded the house that parliamentary papers of every kind might now be had by the public at one peony per sheet, and that the postage upon them was very cheap. If hon. members were so desirous of givin t information to mechanics' institu tions, let them remove the pape r du t y and newspaper stamp, and they would soon find that information of all their pro ceedings would acquire the widest dissemination. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought the suggestion of the right hon. gentleman the Master of the Roth,s a very desirable one, but it would, in hisopinion, require more consideration than it had hitherto received. If a distribu • tion was to take place, he thought the printing committee would ho the most proper organ for effecting it, but ho thought at the same time that the observations elf the hon. member for Montrose were worthy of consideration. Per haps it was not sufficiently known at what a light rate the publicatiocs of that house might be obtained, and the best thing to be done was to give that information a wide circu lation. The parliamentary papers had now become a very important branch of the national literature, containing mat ter of the greatest interest on a variety of subject., and if they were widely known they would redound to the honour of the house. Motion qiesT;;Vrithdrawn. TRANSPORTATION TO VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. Mr. HUMS called attention to the complaints of the assembly of Tasmania with regard to the expense imposed upon them by the transportation of convicts from Great Britain, and asked of the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the government had received any petitions from the colony on the subject. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEOr ER replied that all he could state, in the absence of his right hon. friend (Sir John Eskington) was that the petitions referred to had been received. OCEAN PENNY POSTAGE. Mr. BRIGHT wished to put a question to the govern ment on the pert of his right hon. colleague (Mr. Milner Gibson). The right hon. gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer was aware that a great many petitions had of late been presented in favour of what was called ocean penny pastime. Emigration was going on at a very rapid rate to America, and any reduction is the rate of postage was most important, es would at once be seen by the Met that one-third of the correspondence carried across the At lantic in British packets was to and from Irish emigrants to America. That was • strong fact. (Hear, hear.) lle wished to ask the right hon. gentleman whether he would be able, during the recess, to devote some time and atten tion to this subject. The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQPER replied that he feared the recess would be very mach occupied, but he would endeavour to remember the Ocean Penny Postage as well as the complaint from Tasmania. He now begged to move that the house at its rising adjourn till Tuesday next. MISREPRESENTATIONS—THE MASTER Oh THE THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1852. ) The MASTER of the ROLLS gave certain explanations with reference to some observations made by Lord Lynd hurst in the other house on the sui-ject of the suitors in Chancery Relief the correctness of which he im pugned. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could only conclude that the observations referred to had not been dif fused with packet accuracy. Sir J. GRAHAM was satisfied the explanation of the Muter of the Rolls would remove any misapprehension from the mind of the noble and learned person, who would be the first repair any unintentional iujury he might through misapprehension have done to the high reputation of the Muter of the Rolls. THI T MISSIONA RIES EXPELLED ' Mr. ANSTLY said he understo d that answers to cer tain letters in this cue, written to Mr. Murray Stewart, had been received. They had not, howevet, been laid on the table of the house ; and as the case was to come on on Tuesday, he hoped that every information relauve to it would be given. Lord STANLEY replied that the answers had not been received. THE TREASURY MINUTE REGARDING CHI- CORY. Lord D. STUART said the Chancellor of the Exchequer had that day stated, in answer to a question, that the trea sury minute of 1640 had not been rescinded, but that if it were rescinded it would be so done as not to interfere with the fair traders of the country. Now these words, however plausible, and smooth, and soothing they might appear, he was a f raid would carry dismay to the hearts of hundreds,> he might say thousands, of honest traders in this country. lle would not attempt to discuss the question now, hut he could only say that the trade looked upon any alteration with the greatest possible alarm. lie had before him a memorial from the trade to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject. (The noble lord then read ex tracts tram the memorial, deprecating any alteration.) Un der these e; - -"instances he appealed to the government 'whether, - that this rewired whe—r, considering . question . a very full investigation and underwent repeated discussions in that house, which divided upon it twice, and in both cases rejected the motion of the hon. member for Huntingdon for the rescinding of the minute—he asked if it was right to make such an alteration as this, without giving an opportunity to those concerned in the trade of stating their case fairly, and having it discussed in that house; and whether it would not evince a greater regard for the interests of all concerned if the question was put off till the beainning of the neat session ? The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not agree with the noble lord, that treasury minutes were to depend entirely on votes of parliament. If they were, the bruises of the country would be stopped. Treasury mi nutes wore made on acts of parliament. iVith re seed to the partieu ar point to which the noble bit bad rehired, the treasury minute in question had not boss reminded, and if it were rescinded it would not leave the law in the same state that it was in before the treasury minute was made. It would be necessary, of souse, deny alteration were made, that the minute should be formally rescinded ; but at the same time, if it were re minded, such instructions would be given to the officers of inland revenue that would practically leave the dealers in a very different position from that which they were in before the minute was made. For example, before the minute was made it was not in their power to have chicory or any article of that kind en their premises; and now, if this alte ration were dad., they would have it in their power to have any amount of ehincey upon their premises. At the same time sufileienttinte would be allowed to dispose of their pre sent edultented stock. But the treasury minute had not been rescinded, and when it was altered, he believed it would he altered in a manner that would not disturb the fair trader. Mr. HUME thought they ought not to unction the in terference of Excise-officere with traders. lie complained that government on the lest day of the session without notice had determined to make this alteration. He thought it ought to be let alone till parliament met again. Ile could not believe it possible that this had been done with out the influence of parties interested in the question. The motion that the house at its rising adjourn till Tues day next war then put and carried, and the hour. imme diately IMO, it being then 7 o'clock. APOTHECARIES' HALL—Names of gentlemen who pared their examination. in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs day, June 21:—Robert Tod, Edinburgh; George Deane field Brown, Croydon; Henry Jardine, London; Thomas Artindale Handaley, Alford, Lancashire ; George Daven port Freeman, Bath; Merrick Lloyd Burrows, Dunkirk, Devises; James Atkinson, Mahon, Yorkshire ; Richard Balfour Reid, Liverpool; Anthony Ridley, Sunderland; I Maurice Davis, Theme, Oxon. THE BURIAL Acr may be made useful even ea it is if it be carried out with knowledge and vigour. If we are to judge, however, from a sentence in the speech of the mover, little will be done with it. I f only such grounds are to be closed as are proved public nuisances, whet with the ignorance on the subject which still exists, the wilful blind ness of some, and the struggles of interested parties, the evil work will long go on. Burial within towns ought to be at once and wholly forbidden. It is an enor mity which barbarian nations from the earliest times have recognised and avoided, an enormity proved, en enormity pronounced against by the people and by parliament, and which is nevertheless still to be practised. What we are speaking of arc cot trifling matters: they concern a city where 156 persons die every day, and thousands die annually from preventible causes ; where, during the next thirty-one years, there will be two and a quarter millions of bodies to be buried. In England and Wales there are of the male population 266,000 con stantly sick; and 165,000 of these are to be found in Lon. don alone ; this London where every year 16,600 persons are shot out from the prison' on to the streets without re sources, where 30,000 nakOd children roam on the pave. smote, where one out of every twenty of the inhabitants awakes without knowing where to find food or shelter! It is time that lame evils were looked at with large minds.— TAe A PRESENT FROM THE DIOGINOS.--A poor but respectable tradesman in Gloucester, whose brother emi grated to Australia a few years ago, has received from him • very agreeable token of fraternal regard in the shape of a lump of gold. A letter which accompanied the present stated that the brother had made his way to the diggings, and had there picked up, among other similar " trifles," the enclosed lump, which he begged his brother to accept, and use its value in making the necessary preparations for transferring himself and his whole family to tl.e crest golden land of the south. The lump thus sent has sold fur not less than SON. Enabled b this princely gift, the Gloucester tradesman is about to pin his brother, and has taken steps to dispose of his business.—Ezeter Bite erortols. TO CORKELSYON I )ENTS. • , seued Witco of the kaprees," eueutiable tie isms everdra's Casette," Is published every Tuesday ad Friday alibi, I thee for p.t. at vague Inlets Intended ma Kamer.. London Fended paper, ;met be at Ike mites, Boeveek•etreet. by Two o'clock on the day of pabliestke. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins Dam—Yonlac lb. ..... .....Afterneco. H I. loksicabow—lionbig. 9e. Ilbs. Afterages, It ►. 19a. LONDON, SATURDAY, JUNE 26. To make a member of parliament—or a candidate for that honour—a Liberal, it is not enough that lie call himself one. The opposition of Liberal to Liberal may, therefore, in some constituencies, be more nominal than real. Still, it is impossible to look over the lists of constituencies and candidates with out seeing that in not a few cases Liberals are knock ing their heads against each other. When a consti tuency, dissatisfied with a sitting member who calls himself Liberal, invite a Liberal in whom they have confidence to contest tho seat with him, there may be some excuse for this ; though at a crisis like the present such a movement ought not to be made on trivial grounds. But when a professing Liberal comes forward uninvited to try to unseat a Liberal actually in possession, he ought to be told that if he really is what ho pretends to be it is his duty to seek out some borough or county represented by a DERBYITE, and try to gain it for the Reformers. We have already had occasion to denounce the conduct of the soi-disant Liberals in Finsbury, who by their intrigues have driven Mr. Ws•LEY to resign, rather than encounter the annoyance and expense of a contest against two candidates—Alderman CHALLIS and Mr. WYLD—the one untried and the other unsa tisfactory. We have also had occasion to expose the ludicrous character of the pretensions of Mr. VET in Lambeth. Turning from the metropolis to the provinces, wo find the same unwarrantable conduct pursued in various places. Of Man chester wo need not speak. The business-like account of the state of the canvass there, given by Mr. WiLsoN at a recent meeting of the supporters of Mr. BRIGHT and Mr. MILNER GIBBON, leaven no doubt that if Mr. Loci' and Captain DENMAN ven ture to go to the poll, they will find their proper place on it. Of Coventry we cannot speak with the same assurance, and therefore feel disposed to ven ture a few words of caution to the electors. Coventry is at present represented by the old and staunch, and advanced whig, Mr. EDWARD ELLICE, and by Mr. GEACII, a free-trader and advocate of the ballot and suffrage extension. In opposition to one or other of these gentlemen, a Mr. F. G. Henn ARD, (whether a relative of old Mother Hubbard, or the good dame herself in propria persona, does not clearly appear, though from the tenour of his ad dress ono might be disposed to believe the latter) — solicits the votes of the electors. Mr. HUBBARD'S address is a very model of the decorously unmeaning. Every declaration ho makes is neutralised by some qualification prefaced by an "on the other hand." He deals liberally in such neatly turned sentences as "I am firmly attached to the British constitution in its distinctive features of a popularly elected lower house of parliament, legislating in concert with an hereditary House of Peers, and with the assent of a Sovereign holding communion with the church of England . But there is not one opinion in his address that might not be endorsed by a member of the present cabinet, now that they have all become conformers to free-trade. The only indication he gives of his opinions regard ing parliamentary reform is an epigrammatic sen tence against vote by ballot; and on the subject of extended education, though he expresses him self friendly to it, ho may, for aught that appears to the contrary, approve of the late Derbyite tamper ing with the Management Clauses. One very suspicious admission he makes that he is " unengaged as yet in party strife; meaning apparently that he will enter the house of Commons as a gentleman in search of a party ;—and one very sill' , notion ho insinuates, that the " experience acquired in a long and active par ticipation in commercial pursuits, and in the direc tion of the first banking establishment in the empire, qualifies him to represent the interests and opinions of Coventry." Mr. MASTERMAN might say as much. Would the Liberals of Coventry deem the Tory mem ber for the City of London a proper representative of their " opinions?" Mr. Hemmen says that he has been "requested" to offer himself a candidate, but that is easily said. Has he received a requisition to stand publicly origi nated or circulated for signatures? By how many electors has ho been asked to stand ?—and are they Whigs, Tories, or Radicals? Or has he only him , elf asked and obtained his own gracious consent to stand? Any of these cases may be covered by the vague phrase " requested." Mr. J. G. HUBBARD'S address has all the charac teristic marks of one emanating from a man well to do in the world, and not encumbered with very de cided political convictions of any kind, who is anxious to get into parliament, to promote private views of his own, or merely for the honour and glory of the thing. A Deputy Governor of the Bank of England is a more important personage than the proprietor of a large, cheap, ready money establishment. But if their motives for getting into parliament are the same, they would be exactly on a par as legislators. In so far as Mr. HUBBARD'S address throws any light on his qualifications for the House of Commons, he may sail in the same boat with Mr. HARVEY, or at least with Mr. Alderman CHALLIS. Should he really visit Coventry . in per son, the electors will do well to cross-examine him narrowly on the chapter of his political opinions and connexions ; and if he should turn out really to have some claims to the character of Liberal, to hand him a list of the constituencies in which Derbyite candi dates are unopposed, and tell him to make his choice of one of them—for he is too respectable a man to be "sent to Coventry." A RETURN of the amount of property assessed under the different schedules of the property and in come-tax, No. 390 of the present session, was re cently published. It was moved for by Mr. MILES, and is intended, we believe, to show how unjustly ' the landed interest is treated by the present system of local taxation and commercial policy ; as well as to prepare the public mind for that scheme of relief for the suffering landowners which the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has been promising ever since he began to make a way into office by pandering to their vicious appetites for poor men's bread. Far, however, from finding in this document any justifica tion for indulging such vague projects, it supplies evidence of the landlords being now, as ever, the meet favoured class in the community. We expected, after the CHANCRLLOR of the Excila- UU ER'S statement, to find a great reduction in the amount of rent; but schedule 11, which states the rent of land in respect to occupation, and is therefore an index to what the farmers pay to tho landlords, shows the contrary. It represents the sum of rent on which tenants pay income-tax in England and Wales. In the year ending April 5, 1843, the sum was 41,558,550/. ; and in the year ending April 5, 1851, 42,473,404/.,—an increase of 914,8541., or 2 2-10ths per cent. In Scotland, the sum was 5,211,305/. in 1843, and 5,550,1941. in 185 I—an increase of 338,7391., or upwards of 6 per cent. If we take the averages of the three years 1843--45 and 1849-1851, and add Scotland to England and Wales, the figures ate these— Rent of land in reopen England, Wales, end Stollens]. of oeci i irtion. Average .... 1843-1845 1:46,3* ,28,3 1849-1851 The increase 1849-1861 .. £1,773,647 or 3 8-10 per cent. • Protectionist journals have taken especial care to record the reductions of rent made by considerate landlords, and have informed the public timo after limo that the most noble and magnihcent Duke of 11. and the kind hearted Lord C., and the disin terested and suffering 'Squire G., with the benevo lent Lady P., have lowered the rents of their impoverished tenantry, 10, 12, 15, or 20 per cent. But the tell-tale return convicts those journals of exaggerating the virtues of their patrons, and con victs the patrons of having on the whole exacted and probably received 1,7011,000 r, or nearly 4 per cent. more at the hitter than at the former period. If they have in 100 instances out of 300,000 reduced rent, in all the others it has been increased. It has been said too, and this must now bo remembered, I I that the landlords have in many cases divided their farms seas to bring the rent below the sum at which the tenant becomes liable to payment of income-tax, which would lessen the return made by the tax office, while the landlord's rent was increased. If the farmers have lost money, they must charge their losses as much to rent as to the law, which, if it has lowered the price of what they sell, has also lowered the price of all that they consume. Another part of the return is equally and similarly expressive. Schedule A tells us the whole amount of property assessed as lands, niessuages, tithes, manors, fines, quarries, mines, iron-works, fisheries, canals, railways, gas-works, other property, and ge neral profits . In 1814-15 the whole sum was 33,493,3751. for England and Wales, and 6,642,9351. for Scotland. In 1851 it was for the former 91,1409,9691., and for the latter 10,710,0021; being an increase in 28 years on both of 45,391,11411.—0 r about 83 per cent. This increase is mainly in property de rived from the general industry, to which the owners of it have contributed a very small proportion. Of tile whole sum assessed under Schedule A in 1831 no less than 47,833,622/. is from •• lands " alone, the first item of all the items that compose the schedule; and that sum equals, within 17,000,000 L, all the property assessed under Schedule A in 1814-13. The returns show another point to the advantage of the landlords. Schedule C, income from public funds, &c., gives a sum of 27,909,793/. in 1813, and only 26,433,182!. in 1831 ; so that, in relation to the I burden of the poor, there has been a vast increase in the means of the landowners to support them since 1813, and a considerable diminution in the means of the fundholders. Within the same period, however -184:1 and 1831—the sum assessed as the income of public officers has increased, taking Scotland into the account, from 9,7 18,1311. to 11,09(1,8331., or very nearly 2,000,0004 Of the public patronage the land owners have the lion's share, and they therefore have received for their dependants and friends a much larger proportion of this additional 2,000,0001. than the rest of the population. The case with profits or income under schedule 1) is somewhat the reverse. If they increased between 1814-13 and 1801 more in proportion than the pro-' perty under schedule A—ur from 37,038,989/. to' 71,330,3081., or 119 per cent., an shown under sche dule 1), against 63 per cent. increase under schedule A—while the latter has increased since 1843 nearly 3 8-10ths per cent., profits have fallen off from 71,330,3084 in 1843 to 63,717,010/. in 1831, or about 8 per cent. If we take, as there is a difference of upwards of 6,000,0001. between the profits of 1843 and of 1844, the average of 1813-1843, and of 1849- 1851, we shall find in the latter period a falling off to the amount of 1,217,4381., or 1 8-Wats per cent. So far as the alteration of our policy is concerned— which took place in 1843, and on which alone the landowners rest their claim of a tight to relief—they have not the shadow of a shade of an excuse for any demand. their properly has been increased rery much in value teitlioat any carrespontli»9 exertions on their part, and is, therefore, able to bear addi tional burdens if any were laid on it, while the profits and incomes of the manufacturing and mercantile classes have decreased, rendering them less able to bear the additional burdens which idle, greedy, and unjust landowners lack to heap on them. At the same time, the burdens of which the landowners especially complain, the poor rates, as well as sundry taxes, have been decreased. Thus, in 1843, the poor rates amounted to 7,083,593/., and in 1851, to 6,778,9141. Asa very large proportion of tf is sum is for establishment charges, and other expenses, be sides feeding the poor, by which the landlords profit, and as the charge for merely feeding the poor has been reduced in a still greater degree than the whole amount of poor rates, the burden on landowners, in fact, has been lessened, while their property has increased. At first sight it appears very strange that the mercantile and the manufacturing classes should be the advocates of a system under which they appear not to have gained, and the landowners should be such furious opponents of a system which has inflicted no loss on them. The explanation, however, is palpable. We cannot accept as en ti rely satisfactory the statement made by the CHANCELLOR of the ExcitEutrEn and some otherpersons, that the returns of profits for 1830 comprise the incomes of the bad years 1817 and 18118, and therefore show a less sum in 1850-1. In addi tion to that circumstance it omit be remembered that the bulk of the incomes under Schedule 1) are derived from the sale of commodities, and as prices fall the nominal incomes of individuals will be less. Thus, suppose iron was at 101. a ton, and the income derived from all the iron sold 1,000,0001. a year, at the rate of 10 per cent. profit on every 1001. of capital employed in the trade, if the price of iron fell to 51. per ton, and the rate of profit derived from it was the same, the in come on the whole sale would be only 500,0001. But a great reduction of price has actually occurred in almost every commodity, and of course the income of all theme whose incomes are derived from the sale of commodities is proportionably reduced. At the same time, provided all prices have fallen equally, no one person will have reason to complain. What the tradesmen have to buy will have fallen as well as what they have to sell, and the whole body will be no worse off than when prices were higher. With the fall of prices, however, a great deal more trade is done; acd thus, while the trader loses nothing posi tively by the general fall, all traders gain by a great increase of business. The landlord's income is not determined by prices; his rent is usually a fixed sum, and he gets the same amount, though prices fall very considerably. His income, therefore, nominally remaining the same, while it will, in consequence of the fall of prices, pur chase more commodities, he is very much benefited. If, however, any reduction takes place in the amount of his rent, he feels it excessively. In the majority of cases, probably in seven-tenths, the landowners of England are in debt. When an estate is mortgaged or encumbered with payments on account of dowers or provisions to younger children, for the landlord to lose 10 per cent. of his whole nominal rental, while he has to pay all the incumbrances in full, is to lose the greater part of his substance. A part of the nerviest) in the value of land arises from extended cultivation, from fresh capital embarked in it, and there may well therefore be a considerable in crease in the value of the whole property assessed under schedule A., while the bulk of the landlords, their estates being encumbered, may have suffered very• much from a very small reduction in the rate of rent. We believe, however, that their apprehensions— needy men as they are—are far in excess of the reality, and that while their share of the annual produce of industry has been very much increased, their actual sufferings or losses—considering the grout fall in the price of almost everything they have had to buy—have been very small. After all that can be said on either side has been said, the alteration of our policy was not the immediate cause of the fall in price. It only gave permission for the industrious classes to exert themselves in par ticular directions: these exertions caused the fall in price, and it thero had been no new inventions coining forward—no now soil anywhere to break up— no improved methods of cultivation to come into use, the alteration in our policy could not have lowered prices. That was brought about by a great many natural circumstances which the old restrictive legis lation—to the great injury of the community—tried to counteract. LONDON AND SYDNEY Goix, MixiNo COMPANV.— Yoderday a meeting of the registered adventurers was held at the others, 2, Winehester•buildinus, in order to re construct this company. The chair was occupied by Mr. F. A. Catty. A series of resolutions were moved by Sir Chas. Kirkpatrick, Bart., seconded by Mr. liolgate, rind carried unanimously, by which it was agreed to reconstruct the company under the title of " The Monarch Gold Mining Company," to reduce the present number of shares to 25,000, and to increase their nominal amount to 10s. each. An arrangement was also sanctioned to allot ~000 of the shares to Messrs. Weatherly and Baleouilie, who were to pay 1,0001. for them, and to assign to the trustees all their interests in ►ands in Australia, and also the I , CrViCra of Captain Langley. The rules for the new company were then adopted, end the meeting haling given their chair man a vote of thanks, ailjourind. Several curious and va luable "nuggets," and specimens of gold quartz, which had been brought, over a few clays ago by the Blackwell, attracted much attention. SMUGCLINII IN SO1.! TIIANIPTON. Some consider able time since • large quantity of tobacco was wired in the Itchen river in Ilants hy the Custom-Louse officers; some of the parties concerned in the trai.sfetion wire tututimd mid others imprisoned. Through a of s,-me of the guilty ones a highly respectable tradesman of Southampton has !wen implicated in the affair and has just been appre hended and held to bail. FRANCE. PARIS, Fittinev Rvesiso. Great interest is felt in the debate on the budget, from the decided attitude of independence assumed by a considerable number or deputies. The gavent• ment is eager beyond measure to put an end deli berations, ut which even the tardy and faint reflection given in the pow,: a re..(6,11 of the Moiiirioiir sets the nation a thinking. You will have perceived from the report of the sitting of yesterday, that in several instances the committee, true to its declared intention of adhering to its amendmen's, proposed the rejection of the whole chapter, by way of answer to the Voi. sell it Roes rejection ut a reduction. Hut although, so long as the vote was decided by a show of hands the opposition mustered strong, the instant it mime to a division the fear of having their names shown up frightened the less resolute. In one instance the minority was 57, no contemptible phalanx of uppesi. tiun for a beginning, considering that the deputies composing it are nut afraid to show their faces;. Only on one occasion was the opposition victorious. The whole chapter of civil buildings was ilirown out in constspience of the Council or State havin , infused to admit a reduction. The most important discussion turned on the ministry of police. The Due uthal hazarded a quotation hum the dramatic picture of the tyranny of Tiberius in the annals of Tacitus. Thin budget of this objectionable ministry, US well as the enormous military esfitnutes, were voted (swan: near, On the reading of the prows cerbal in the Curps Le. gislutif to-day several members who spike in yester. uaj's debate complained of the omission of link names in the official summary published by the .)I(miltur. I:iI.I.AtI.T rind that all tine speeches mere, reported la the pro, 3 resin!, which would be printed us a,an tinned. Several reports of committees on bill, were pre sented, including reports on the llordeauz and Cette way, on the l'arib and Cherbuurg Railway, on the railway fruin Lyons to the Mediterranean, and on the bill tor es. yelling certain claws of 1101.11 S 110111 Patin and Lyon,. M. 1/E iittIYMUUEN applied, by leave, to print his speech of yesterday, which Vn.b granted utter an Übtertia tit u front M. LESLIIIM, that M. de Kere..suen hail be n the wrong when he attacked the natiunal ' guard. MM. its. FLA% I 4..% and Dint Ita EL else obtained leave to print their spetchie. :d. it :kIONTALEMBLUT, in applying fur a similar per- MiMien, observed that the hou,e, of course, could not be considered as approving the opinions of speakers because it gave leave to print their speeches, otherwise leave would scarcely ever be granted. M. BILLAI:LI said the house would judge, not of the merits of the speech, but whether it was opportune to print it. There could be no doubt that the house was in to case responsible tor the speech. The house divided upon M. de Nlontalembert's applica tion, und the party opposed to the publication of his speech was beaten by 7K votes against la M. Penner and the Duke b'Exes then asked leave to print their speeches. M. CONAEIL opposed these motions. Everybody, be said, had witnessed the joy with which the decree sup. pressing the publication of parliamentary speech, had been rieeiviel in the departments. (Murmurs.) Ile re. grctted that ouch speeches as they had heard shialil be reproduced. t (t o me tn . t c t n uta Ii t in . ) Leave was M . fer ret and the Duke d'r'ies. Baron Alratetus said that since the house had autho rised the publication of the Duke d'Una' speech, he would ask to priut his reply to it. (Oh' oh') Leave was given acairdingly. M. BtLLAtLT legged to make nn observation. Ile would nut attempt to reverse the votes that had been pro nounced, but he thought the house should be careful that the excitement of the sitting did not lead them to disregard the spirit of the constitution In his opinion these p rmis lions should be sparieitly granted. (Cries of Yes" and " No," and considerable agitation.) On the resumption of the debate on the budget the second part of the budget of the Minister of Marine was voted with out opposition. The budget of the Minister of Finance, and the 4th and sth part of the budget of expen•es relative to the expences of the collection end managenunt of the taxes and public revenues, and the restitution of "ton valcurs" were also passed. The house then passed to the budgets aunt aid "pear ordre" to the general budget. The first of thew is that of the Legion of Honour. 'I he committee proposed the sup pression ut a sum of 6,000 fr. proposed to be allowutl to the secretary of the order, un the ground that the council met but four times a year, and that 1,5001 r. for each meeting was an absurdly high salary. M. HOLAVILLIERS, councillor of state, said that the sa lary of the secretary was fixed by a decree of the l'resident of the hiepublic. The council met at least once it month, and it was the duty of the secretary to prepare for dale meetings. M. (rods, after this explanation, withdrew the opposi tion of the committee. The remaining budgets annexed, pour ordre, were Toted, and the debate was then adjourned until the Co.dwil of State should giro its deci•iou upon the rejected chapter which have been sent back to it. M. BILLAULT announced the presentation by the minister of state of two bills for amending the budget of receipts in pursuance of suggestions of the committee, and of a bill for the definitive settlement et the accounts of 1850. The latter bill, he observed, had been prepared with a view to the next session, in Older that the house might have business ready to go on with at once. (Applause., Ile then read a letter from M. de Kerdrel, asktug leave to print his speech in the debate of Tuesday. M. BEAVVEILUER said they must well understand what they were about. if the question were whether they were only asked to do enact of complaisance to a colleague, he was ready to vote for the leave. But it he was to be under stood as associating himself with the opposition of that col league, he would refuse it. They were here, as M. do Montalembert had said, not as brilliant, not as able, but as honest men. As such, their duty was to give a loyal support to the govern ment that had scut them where they were. lie would rather that a speech, were it by Demosthenes or Cicero, should perish, than that the good miderstanding between the Corps Legislatif and the head of the state should b. in terrupted. M. Billault repeated that the house xas nut re sponsible for the opinion of any speaker. M. DE Keitunni. said the kindness with which the house had listened to him encouraged him to hope that the k the to print his speech would be given. The leave was granted without a division. The following bills were passed unanimously, and ',Ab out discussion :—I. A bill opening several credits for e.esed " exercises ;" t. A credit of 10,5rinfr. for works at the tomb of the Emperor. 1. A credit of 28,3lilife. for the monument to the Archbishop of Paris, killed in June, 184 S. 4. A bill relative to the jurisdiction of French consuls in China and the states of the huaum of Muscat ; ~ The bill for ceding the Bois de Boulogne to the city of Paris; ti. Several hint for changing the boundaries of communes. M. BiLtatf4r said that the railway bills the reports relative to which had that day been presented, would be on the order of the day for debate to-morrow. A 111Enhett objected that the reports had not ye , been distributed, and that it would be impossible t be prepared for the debate to-morrow. M. llit.Lavis persisted in maintaining the bills upon the order of the day, subject to an adjournment, if found neces sary, till Sunday, on which day, be announced there would be an extraordinary sitting. Before the public sitting, the deputies met in their bureaux to nominate a committers on the bill con cerning the amalgamation of the Lyons to Avignon, the Marseilles and Avignon, and other railway lines. The following arc the gentlemen appointed : Viscount de Kervi.guen. ('ount do Menlo, M. Calvet-ltogniat, M. Remade, Baron llallez-Clapari'Ae, Marquis de Calvii , ros, and 'l. Lepeletier-d'Auluay. The bureaux afterwards named a committee on the bill applying for a credit of 613,300 fr., to pay for the picture of Murillo of the "Conception of the Virgin." The Senate sat yesterday, and gave their sanction to some unimportant bills passed by the Corps Le gistatif. It appears that a bill relative to cri , hr , preparing by the government ; hut of course it'till not be presented until next session. The French fleet anchored at Algiers on the 19th. The entastilutinttnef of this morning has a large portion of its first page filled with an urtiele on secret societies in Algeria. It states that the recent eat" break of tribes against the French has been produced by the intrigues and excitement of secret societies of Nlusaulnian fanatics, and it goes into a long history of these societies at different periods. The Anti de rOrdre has received a first i t iertioc. mei 'from the pritiot of the Oise, for an article . which the fall of the Emperor Napoleon is aPPIIIII• listed to that of Charles X. and of Louis Philippe, and which declares that no suppressions or condemna tions of newspapers will enable the government to prevent the press from exercising its influence on the public , mind. According to official documents published every year by the minister of commerce, it is shown that tho whale and cod fisheries give profits to the slop owners ; hut, in order to encourage that branch of commerce, which may become so important for France, the last law on the fisheries has raised the bounty to 1201 i. per ton adrneasurement. A VeS4l`lof :AM tons, thus receives a sum of tift,tsiffie., sufficient to secure the interest of all the capital engaged. to which must be added the profits of the voysge- These conditions form the basis of newly organised Kate Comniecenite, which consists of fifty ships fitted out for the whale fishery. At the Bourse the Four-andwilalf per Cents. fell '2ik..„ closing. at 101.35; the ';'Frees till 35. and closed at irl,bi. The Rouen rail w.iy fell Itt; Suva bourg, 3.7.5; Orleans, Lyons, and Dieppe. ?..ill each.; Northern, 1.25; Teute and Bordeaux ruse :Lao.