The Express. — London, England, 1847-04-24 00:00:00

facet e te r.. (Hear.) Protestant intervenes was sod of the two alternatives before the govern s,4 which was talked of this year, namely, that the ets were to be taught in different schools, according varier se- pec uliar dogmata,—would be done away with ; sad ° Ws °e° would have the noble lord proposing the th e y „ hit, namely, that persona of all persuasions were to be together w it h in the national schools. (Hear, hear.) t"ght tool yielded to those who said they would not The 11110ney to propagate error. Ile 11e. Roebuck) P" IMir • t wha t th ber ea cre aldaot take thetr money to propel* e ey err s es error, but he would say, " I am going to take your won to rescue the people from that 'hate or Vl7llO igno. raw described by the right hon. baronet—l take your w eey ass matter of police,"--hr would not put it on any higher eround,—and , "till you elevate yourse l ves to feelings ' higher tonaideration. And, as you allowed me to of s creole a po lice a justiciary , and an army, I will take your muuey to create schools and schoolmasters in order. Without any infringement of your conwience, to render you e and the moon happy." (Cheers.) Such was the Jaeger e he would use in thee'th fimt instance till step andep be made them met off lough of intolerance, led them to that bright sphere of tolerance, kindneu, and remedy in which perfect public education would be - mei, The noble lord, on the other hand, would lead them by steps of *irony, rind through sectarian differences ger sect was forcing the noble lord on to that system. His erso tots liberality which led, but a liberality which was weed; a liberality only . liberal when others were mere ewe' ; which was only right when others were more right. (Cheers.) He was wrong when left to himself (Hear, h e m.) He should let the people know that government was without passion, and had no desire to side with one party or the other, but wished well to sll,and was anxious to advance the happiness of all setts without battle, fighting. o r agony. and without creating all those ill feel ings which every contest, such as was now going on, must inveritably produce. (Hear.) Could he for a moment hesitate as to the vote which he should give on the present oreasioa ? Not at ell. Whatever might he the consequences to himself. he hal formed for himself such notions as he deferred. Believing that they were advancing, day by day, in eirilisetion, he was convinced that every government in teas country would be forted into the track which he descrihed—that of perfect toleration, and the absence of all sea s., feeling nn the part of the government, and an utter disregard of the particular hatreds and differences of ,ace sect; and, therefore, he would support the motion of the bon, member for the Tower Hamlets. (Cheers.) Lord J. RUSSELL said he did not expect that be would have been called on to address the house again on the pre membereect ; hut, after the speeches made both by the hon. e for Maryiehone and the hon. and learned gentle. man, he tell it nee-emery to address the h ease again. He conceived that he had stated clearly, and from the authentic document what was the statement. made by the secretary of the committee of privy council to the Wesleyan body, bat the bon. and learned gentleman lost sight of the whole statement, and raised up an edifice of his own imagination. (Hear. hear.) He had stoppered that the Wesleyan' came to them to ask that the Roman catholic, should be excluded —that we said there was a time when they might be admitted—that still they were left with the belief that they should not be admitted, and likewise that the government, at lease so far as he (Lewd J. Russell) represented it, had an elastic conscience—(laughter)—about tree things, and though they felt great reluctance about ad mitting them in the present year, they would probably admi them ix some future year if there was no objection. He (Lord J. Russell) could have no objection to the education of the Roman catholics from the funds of the state, because in 1829 he already agreed rod submitted to parliament a minute i by which the education of the Roman catholic* in their own version was to be established—(hear, hear)—and, therefore, to pretend that he had a conscientious objection to the edu cation of the ltomau catholic was impossible. What the hon. and learned gentleman, therefore, said was the creation d hi* own imagination. The broad ground on which he had placed this was that which he had said in 1839—what he said since—namely, that he saw a strong objection in the public mind eontrary to his own, and that he did not like to shock and disturb that public feeling. thinking it more advisable to wait tile it became more favourable to hie own opinion, when he 'weld propose the establishment of such secleoole. One of the sentences which he read last night wax, that there would be other minutes, and that separate provision would be pro posed for Roman catholic schools; so far was he from saying to the Wesleyan' that ne provision was to be made for the Roman catholics. Any proposition fur that purpose would come before parliament, and the Wesleyan, would have the opportunity of opposing it. Really, how a person of the hon gentleman's acuteness could say that the Wesleyan' were deceived after the statements which he had made, almost surpassed his comprehension. (Hear, hear.) With regard to what the hon. member for Marylebone stated, that he refused to sec the Roman catholic bishopa, he could only say that but one of the Roman catholic biahops cleared to see him before the minute respecting the Roman catholics was determined upon, and he said that nothing shnuld be done without seeing that Roman catholic bishop before considering the minute. That was not a refusal to see him. (Hear, hecar.) With respect to refusing to see the dissenters, he mold also say that he saw deputations from them, even two from Leeds, who urged various objections to the scheme he proposed. Having a great many other public matters to attend to, he thought the hon. baronet should not make those statements without iufurmiog him of the particulars in order that he might answer them. (Hear, hear.) W ith respect to the motion of his hon. friend, if it had been more considered during the debits, lee did not drink so many members would have declared that they would support it. Its it observed that the principle ass which they hied gone, e as that of giving sup port to different societies and reboots, supported i the main by voluntary contributions. They began in 1833 with giv ing aid to the National Society and the British and Foreign School Society. That provision shut out a great number of the inhabitants of the country, and, as the right hon. baronet ( Sir R. Peel) observed, the Wesleyan* were excluded from it so well as the Roman catholic., because, by their constitution, they could sot avail themselves of the grant. Last year they lead said—and they had not gone farther— that they would, in special cases, listen to epplicatione, and, if the grounds alleged were sufficient, entertain them favourably. But they must still remember, that the great mass of applications would come from bodies connected with one or other of those two societies, and who had already mode large suiscriptions of their own ; and how did the hon. baronet propane to treat these ? His proposal was, that in any plan for promoting education by pecuniary waist line from the state, provision should be made that in schools receiving such assistance, the opportunity of participating in all instruction other than religious should be afforded to children whose parents might object to the religious doctrines taught in such schools. The effect of such a regulation would be to prevent the national society from receiving any all from this grant as being contrary to the fundamental basis of their society. (Hear.) Then let them look to the British and Foreign School Society, which was the most effective for bringing to. tether the children of parents of different religious persurions. They net down as the first of their . fundemental rules, that the bible should be read in all the ir schools—(hear) —and their next rule was, that neither need nor catechism should be admitted. But the proposal of the hon. baronet was, that the parent. should have it is their power to determine that their children should receive secular instruction only, apart altogether from religious instruction of any kind. He very much deuhted, therefore, if the British and Foreign School Society could r.tcrive aid from the grant, if it were given on principles so directly contrary to their two leading rules. I (Hear, hear.) Tao two main societies then, the schools in connexion with which it was proposed to assist, would be prevented from receiving any aid from this grant of 190,000 e, and the effect of such a resolution would be to defeat altogether the intent and meaning of the grant. He had before said th it he thought it would be right en the ease of the church schools, in localities where there were a number of the children of dissenting parents who could not be instructed in the catechism, that they should be received without being obliged to participate in that part of the duties of the school. There was one obvious objection which the dissenter would state against his children being taught the church catechism, which was—that the answer to the second question in that catechism required the child to sty that he received his name from his godfathers and godmothers, whereas god fathers and goduothem in his cme had nothing to do with it. And with regard to Roman catholic children, if it were objected to their reading the bible, it might be right, in certain cases, to exempt them, but such exemption could not be adopted as a general rule, in violation of one of the fundamental rules of the society. He hoped the hon. baronet would see that, if he succeeded is his motion, the grant of 100,0001. would he wholly ineffectual for the purp we for which it was made—that of affording assistance by the state to education. (Cries of "Divide.") Captain HARRIS observed that the hostility of that Part of the deriding body on where behalf the hon. baronet had brought forward this amendment was such that, if he succeeded, it was doubtful whether they would consent to participate in the grant. The agitation upon this question had emceed a system of bitter hostility to the church on the part of the independents. (Cries of " Divide.") lie suggested that with regard to the workhouse schools, some principle of apprenticing the Isom under the conerol of the Inspectors might be adopted with advantage. Mr. P. HOWARD, who was, also, frequently interrupted by impatient calls fur the divcrion, was anxious to say a few words in reference to the interview which the Boma* catholic bishops had requested with the Prime Mi nister. The Roman catholic bishops were naturally anxious to see the noble lord previous to the 19th, when he was to explain his plan. They had heard that deputations from otter religious hoesies had been received by the noble lord, and reports had gone abroad that the cat holic* were to be excluded, and that the question of the exclusion had been made a condition by the Wesleyan' with the government; and they knew also, that unless they could obtain the inter view before Monday, it would be wirier; they therefore wrote to the noble lord on the 14th or 15th, soliciting an interview. The answer of the noble lord would show that he declined to see them berme the 19th, when they believed they would be excluded. His reply way— , Lord John Russell prewar his Compliments to Bishop Oriffithie, and will name a day fir receiving the deputation of catholic bishops, before the intro duction of any measure relating to the education of the children of poor esthetics. Iles Majesty's ministers, how ever, ham no immediate intention of promulgating minutes of the privy council on that subject." (Hear, hear, and cries of "divide.") This showed that the object was to delay the interview for an indefinite period. He maintained that the catholic hierarchy of England—the hierarchy of that religion—was in force in this country when the foundations of freedom were laid. (Hear, hear.) He did not agree with the hon member for Somersetuhire in his strictures en the right bon. baronet, the member for Tamworth, for the acne/resents expressed by him in reference to the children of the Roman catholic poor. On the eon trary he thought those generous sentiments did the= 11 811. baronet great honour; and he felt we that they . legiskted in that spirit they would not consult the true interests of the country. Mr. ACLAND explaine d. The house divided—For the amendment 74 Against it 2lO-136 The hoses went into committee, and the vote was nursed to. The house resumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Monday next. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS BILL. On the question diet this bill be read • second time, The Earl of MARCH sugges t e d th at t h e c h arges of the bill should be defrayed out of the consolidated fund, and not out of the county rate. Mr. MILES was of a similar opinion. Alter a short conversation, The bill was p nitiymed. BIRTHS' REGIS'CRATION (SCOTLAND) BILL, &c. The LORD ADVOCATE (in answer te a question from an hou. member) intimated that he should move the com mittee on this bill, and the Marriages (Scotland) Bill, on Monday, and that he should hope to be able to take the second reeding of the Scotch Law Amendment Bills on that day. _ _ POOR LAW, Sir 0. GREY obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to the removal of poor persons from Eng land and Scotland. The hill he stated to be rendered neces sary by certain difficulties which had occurred in the law an it now stood. Leave given, and bill brought in. FEVER ACT. . . _ On the motion of Mr. LAIBOIZ 11;11E, the Lords' Amend ments to this art were agreed to. The house adjourned at one o'clock. he eriirtigo. MAILS. The overland Bored mails, rim Mane'llea, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Aden. Perkin, India, Hong Kong, Me., will be made up to the evening of the 2lth ApriL the mail. for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira. Cads, and Gibraltar, will be made uo on the morning of the 27th April. The mall. for New South Wales, Van Lbemenh Land, and New Zioland will be mad.. up on the evening of the 30th April. The West India mail., excluding thaw for enrich Bandon., end he Ilan/malt, will be made up on the morning of the let May. Tim ',Friday& emit. for Gibraltar, Malta, Dena, the lonian Kdrept, Aden, Ceylon, India, Boo•Kadig,and China, ma Southampton, will be made up an the morning of the 3rd May, The mails for Briti,b North America, Bermuda, and the UrAted Shawl, will be made up on the evening of the and May. The mails for the Brealle, the itlrer Plate, Meets Video, Penman =militia, Madeira, and Bawds Apes, will be made up so the (tithe 4di May. HIGH WATS& AT LONDON-BRIDGE Tom —144440 r, 14 as prt f ; Altera," 49 min. prt 9. Toalassow—Manias, IS WA. pot 10; Afterioaa, 2am prt 11. LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 24 SIR WILLIAM CLAT's amendment was negatived last night, as impracticable at least for the pres nt, although so desirably in the eyes of all, that no °Hew tunity will be lost for reaching its gradual attainment. Such, at least, was the general impression. Controversy on the great question of National Education is at an end; overwhelming as the majority was on Thursday night, more than half of the minority voted against it, not because it went too far, but be cause it did not ge far enough. With the doubtful exception of Mr. BRIGHT, and the still more doubtful exception of Mr. GISBORNE, no one was prepared to adopt the resolw ions of Crosby-hall ; indeed, no parties more emphatically cheered Sir ROBERT PEEL'S declaration of the right and duty of the State to educate the people, than the gentlemen who subse quently voted in the minority. We congratulate the congregationaliets on the victory that has been pitied for them over themselves; they will share largely in the advantages of that triumph which they have la boured to obstruct, asthey would havesuffered severely, in common with the rest of the community, from that defeat which they exerted themselves to achieve. It will require time and prudence for the more violent sec tion of the nonconformists to retrieve the false steps they have taken ; we trust that moderation will re turn to their councils, and that they will abandon their insane project of multiplying the race of the MIALLS and the STURGES, the plagues of every elec tion. and the rejected of every constituency. A sub scription to send impracticable intruders to the hustings of every popular district for the mere pur poee of being defeated, is a scheme so utterly absurd, and so notoriously mischievous, that we should wonder at its being entertained by sane men, if we did not know the strength of that vanity which tempts "the illustrious obscure" to advertise their existence, and to court notoriety when they cannot acquire fame. Perseverance in such a project will in jure no one but themselves; the opinion of the country on the great question of national education !stands recorded by a vote of a larger majority of the people's representatives than almost ever affirmed a great controverted question, and nothing short of a miracle can procure the reversal of that decision. National education must henceforth be progreasive ; the present and the late ministers of the crown have alike declared that the measure affirmed on Friday morning is only temporary, and calculated to meet existing exigencies. Lord J. RUSSELL proclaimed its deficiencies, Sir J. GRAHAM denounced them, Sir R. PEEL and Lord MoRPETII equally lamented them, tke statesmanlike speech of Sir W. Ydotessvonvit indi cated the course which must be pursued for their cor rection. The Committee of Council, by admitting the Wesleyan schools, has for ever abandoned the restriction which limited its aid to the schools of the two great associations, the National and the British and Foreign School Societies ; the House of Commons very clearly indicated that no other restrictions which would exclude any class of her Majesty's subjects from the benefits of the grant would be tolerated by the house or the country. Extension has thus become the law of the measure's existence, apd before the ink witk which this sentence is written becomes dry, it is more than probable that measures will be taken to secure that extension. It is erroneously assumed that the Wesleyan me thodists stipulated for the exclusion of Roman catholic. from the benefits of the parliamentary grant, and that her Majesty's ministers assented, or seemed to assent, to such exclusion. Any one who reads the correspondence attentively will see that the very contrary is the case; the committee of council expressly reserves to itself the power of framing such future minutes as may comprehend the Roman catho lies, and the Wesleyans recognise that power by de claring that they will give such minutes their deli berate consideration. We happen to know the opinion of the Wesleyan leaders on the subjec t ; they are not only willing, but anxious, that their Roman catholic fel low-subjects should receive a sound secular education ; their only reluctance is an unwillingness that any part of the public funds should be expended in the inculcation of the special doctrines of the Romish faith. They have no sympathies for the exaggerated protestantism of Mr. PLUMPTRE and Col. SIRTHORP. Now the Wesleyan objection touches the greatest difficulty which besets the practical working of the ministerial measure ; a difficulty beginning at its point 'of departure from the plan which has so admir ably succeeded iu Ireland, and increasing in magni tude exactly in the same proportion as it recedes from that plan; we mean, the recognition by the stale of the doctrinal instruction given in the schools. If churchmen and Wesleyan° must have a voice in the choice of the inspectors of their schools, it will be im possible to refuse the same privilege to Roman catholics ; if cognisance be taken of the Church Catechism, the Westminster Confession of Faith, and the Thirty-nine Articles, it is not easy to find a re ceipt for blindness against the Romish catechism and the creed of the Council of Trent. This is the dilll culty which awaits solution; and no small ingenuity must be exercised to evade it--for under existing circumstances it cannot be completely overcome. A whimsical result of this difficulty , arose in the debate. Sir JAMES GRAHAM objected to the pro scription of the Douai and Rhenish version, because they had been used by FENELON and BosSUET, and had inspired the thoughts of PASCAL ; Lord JOHN RUSSELL retorted that these illustrious diviues had not quoted from English versions, but from the Latin Vulgate. The contradiction was more apparent than real, for the Douai version is a most literal, not to say servile, translation from the Vulgate ; indeed it is so literal and so Latin in its style, that it is not unde servedly called a translation which needs to be translated." So notoriously is this the case, that the present Pope has commissioned Mr. NEWMAN to pre pare a new version of the scriptures for the nee of English catholics. Sir J. PARINGTON offered the best possible sugges tion for escaping from the difficulty, the plan adopted by the Rev. PRICE LEE in the admirable schools he has established at Birmingham. Prayers, scripture reading, and religious instruction occupy half an hour is the morning, and half an hour in the evening, no pupils whose parents object being required to attend. But this system is too fair and equitable to be gene rally adopted at a time when religious jealousy, we had almost said religious rancour, ie so rife as it is , at prevent. Lord JOHN RUSSELL noticed the case of the Liverpool eorpemtion schools, which were long con ducted on the equitable plan adopted by the Irish THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1847. National Education Board, bat which were rendered sectarian and exclusive chiefly through the exertions of Lord STANLEY, though himself the originator and founder of that board. But we doubt whether the Liverpool transaction would be repeated in the pre sent day; it was the sequence of some unexampled scenes of bigotry and fanaticism, when a block of wood, bound like a Bible, was paraded through the streets,—rather wittily said to be an apt emblem of the party which had adopted it as a cognisance, since it presented hypocrisy outside and stupidity within; it was the time when all means and devices were tried to raise a religious outcry against the whigs, it was the time when every conservative had adopted for his motto : Si arm proem soma! Aeherenta mambo. Or according to Prrta PINDAR'S version: !woos the home, beg, threaten, nay, compel for it, We must get money, or we'll shale all hell for R. In short, it was a t ime when a game was played which in this world can never be played twice with success. Now, to the original plan of the Liverpool corporation schools, to the plan honourably and ad vantageously pursued by the Rev. PRINCE. LEE, to the plan which has stood the test of no very gentle experience in Ireland, any ministry which may exist in this country is certain to be brought by the irre sistible force of circumstances. The articles on education which appeared in the Daily News and Er press previous to the unpleasant discussion forced upon a reluctant public by the controversy on the list of 56 objections, have induced several town councils to contemplate the establishment of corporation schools, on the plan originally followed in Liverpool, and which many of those who wrought the change now regret that they ever abandoned ; and these unsec tarian schools will, beyond all doubt, surpass in efficiency any connected with voluntary societies. They will court inspection, but they will not have the inspection of sects or societies, they will submit only to the inspection of the state. This, then, is an element of progress which, once set in motion, is certain to extend and increase. • _ But the working men themselves, in many locali ties, not satisfied with dependence on the capricious exertions and capricious regulations of the superior class, contemplate the establishment of schools for themselves in direct connexion with the state, without the intervention of any National Society, any British or Foreign Society, or any Baines' Committee ; this movement, once begun, is cer tain to attain a triumphant issue, and to re move, in its progress, every deficiency in the minutes of council which afforded the friends of educa tion in the late discussion an excuse for voting in the minority. The country placed the government in its educational efforts under the bondage of the two great educational asaociationa, and the emancipation of the government must be the work of the country. Ministers have done their duty, parliament has done its duty—they have gone as far as the existing evidences of the state of public opinion showed to be safe and practicable. The duty of carrying improve ment further devolves neither on cabinet nor par liament, but on the people themselves. Now is the time for Dr. VAUGHAN to proclaim his principle*, and Mr. ROEBUCK to test the practicability of his theory ; now is the time for the friends of free education to try whether schools cannot be established and maintained independent of party and sectarian influence. The minutes of council are adapted to existing schools; let us have better schools and we shall have better minutes. WE look forward to great public benefit from the labours of the select committee on settlement and poor removal which was appointed early in the preser.t session. Including in its body some of the ablest and acatest members of the house, such as Mr. C. BULLER, Sir J. GRAHAM, Mr. VILLIERS, and Mr. T. BUNCOMBE, the committee appears, from the reports which it has hitherto presented, to have shown impartiality and sound judgment, both in the selection of witnesses and in the conduct of the exa minations. A great number of parishes and unions, indeed, will have been disappointed by the determi nation not to recommend any attempt, even to the extent of a deelarvory act, to alter or explain the notorious Removal Act of 1846. The evidence, how ever, which has been taken before them, goes far to show that their inaction was probably prudent. Wit nesses experienced in the administration of the poor laws entertain views so contrary to one another, on the expediency of the law as it now stands, that it was perhaps as well to acquiesce for the present in the accidental result of an ungrammatical attempt at law-making, as to re-open the question of non-re movability before parliament was prepared to deter mine the wider difficulties of the law of settlement. . . It would be inconsistent with the confidence which we have expressed in the committee to anticipate the recommendations which they will lay before the house, by expressing at present a dogmatic opinion on the conclusions which they ought to adopt. It may be useful, however, to those of our readers who are interested in the subject, though they may not have studied its details, or who have been led to at tend exclusively to any one of its many bearings, to remind them of the different systems which may be adopted fortheapportianment of rating, and the distri bution of relief, and of the recommendations or objec tions which respectively affect them. If the expenditure required for the relief of the poor was a fixed charge, such as the interest of the sational debt, or if, like the cost of the army and Navy, its iunonnt was determined by causes in dependent of local control, there can be no doubt that it would be most fairly and economically met by national taxation, either in the foim of a special rate for the purpose, or of an annual parliamentary grant. From the adoption of this method, which has even now many advocates, the abolition of all settlement would follow of course. As the poor would every where be maintained out of the same fund, it would be quite immaterial to inquire in what place they became chargeable. It has, however, hitherto been assumed through the whole course of poor-law legislation, that the amount of pauperism is so clo-ely connected with the managementand prudence of those in whose neighbourhood it occurs, that it is properly a local burden ; and that those who by negligence or misfortune occasion the growth of a . pauper popula tion, should be compelled to support it as an induce ment to discountenance it for the future. It evidently follows from this principle that only those paupers who properly belong to any district should have a claim upon its funds; and that intruders should be I sent back as soon as they become chargeable to use places to which they properly belong. In deciding, however, between the two principles of treating the relief of the poor as a national or a local burden, we should have advanced but a very short distance towards the solution of the difficulties on which parliament will soon hare to decide. Sir ROBERT Peet, himself would find his proverbial formula of three courses insufficient to express the complicated ramifications of the inquiry. There are, at least, three views of the object to be aimed at, and many more than three methods proposed for attaining whichever object shall eventually be thought most desirable. The number of courses open for adoption which would result from the combinations of these various means with the dif ferent ends would require an algebraic calculation, into which we cannot here conveniently enter ; but some of the principal plans which have been suggested may be stated in a limited compass. The first course is to let things remain as they are, taking the parish as the area of relief and of rating, but vesting in the board of guardians of the union the power of deciding on all grants of relief. In practice it often happens, as is stated to the committee by one of the witnesses, that each parish, through its own guardian, determines all questions relating to its own paupers. An understanding among the different members of the board will of course be sufficient to secure in this way the independence of parishes against the federal government of the union. Tnat the existing state of the law has no advocates among the witnesses is a circumstance that need excite no surprise. Witnesses before committees always recommend something sew. We never read a blue-book in favour of things as they are. The old law, however, bas possession and the cis inertia in its favour, and will probably find many supporters as soon as measures for changing it are brought forward in parliament. As the actual paro chial system furnishes the most minute subdivision of control and liability which has hitherto been sag gWed, it seems that the influence of prudence and foresight in checking pauperism is kept at the highest point under the existing law. On the other hand, the hardship to the poor of being removed, the trouble and litigation involved in removing them, and the In conveniences arising from precautions against pauper ism as far as they affect the free circulation of labour, will increase in the exact proportion in which the area of settlement and rating is diminished. There will necessarily be more removals among parishes than among unions, and a poor family which may probably become chargeable will be regarded with more suspicion where few are liable to the burden than where it will be divided among many. The witnesses are all, as we have said, opposed to the present system. Some of them adopt the pro posal which offers the most obvious modification of it, the transference of the ►urden from the pariah to the larger department, se that intruding paupers might still be removed beyond the limits of the union. Within the district they would be perfectly free to pass from one parish to another, and no parish would have any motive to check immigration, from among those of its neighbours who were in cluded in the same federal body. The motives and opportunities for checking pauperism which are now supplied by the interest of each parish, in keeping down its own rates, would still act, though with dimi nished force, in the larger circle of the union ; while, on the other hand, the inconveniences of removals, and consequent litigation, and the checks imposed on the free circulation of labour, would still exist, but in a much smaller degree. Mr. J. M. WHITE, one of the witnesses examined before the committee, recom mends a maintenance of the parochial system by the side of the union division. He would continue the liability of the parishes to maintain the sick, aged, and infirm poor, while he would throw upon the union the burden of the able-bodied paupers, which he oddly enough considers a more permanent charge. We can imagine cases in which this arrangement would work beneficially, es, for instance, when a depression of trade in a manufacturing neighbourhood throws a large num ber of working people at once upon the poor-rates ; a calamity which the funds of a union are, of course, better able to meet than those of one or two parishes to which the claimants of relief may belong. One objec tion to this plan is, that it raises up an entirely new class of difficulties in deciding to which class any particular pauper may belong. The differences be tween an able- bo died labourer and a helpless cripple are graduated too finely to admit of any broad distinc tion which could be drawn between the two divi sions of paupers. Instead of the ingen'ous niceties with which quarter sessions are now edified, on the hearing of poor-law appeals, innumerable contests might take place between parishes and unions on such questions as whether a man of 55, with a rheumatic lameness, beloned to the parish as infirm, or to the union is a middle-aged labourer. In time, perhaps. to make the confusion inextricable, the Queen's Bench would fur nish litigant parties with an authoritative definition of health, infirmity, and helplessness. And yet this objection is not, perhaps, irremediable. Another suggestion which :has been offered to the committee involves the entire abolition of settlement, retaining the union, nevertheless, as the area of rating and of relief. The local precautions against pau perism which we have indicated as the chief ad vantage of a parochial, and in a smaller degree as the recommendations of a union,settlement, would on this plan be entirely disregarded. Those who advocate it consider that the entire abolition of removals, and the attendant litigation, and the removal of all obstacles to the migration of labour, would more than compen sate for the removal of the safeguards efforded by local jealousy. At the same time, they think, pro- , bably with reason, that while the union remained chargeable with the maintenance of its resident poor, relief would be administered with more economy and discrimination than if the burden was thrown on the public purse. Having no power to anticipate pauperism by guarding against intruders likely to become chargeable, the guardians would protect the rates by looking narrowly after their distribu tion. The workhouse test would be enforced, and made more stringent, and the paupers who could not be kept out or sent out of the union would at least be practically taught that it was not a pleasant residence for those who depended on the rates. Every union would in self-defence keep its standard of relief as low as that of its neighbour. Mr. LUMIAT, who recommends this caurse ' thinks that this judicious rigour is the only effectual check upon pauperism. After this plan, that of national taxation comes next in order, and completes the progress of departure from the old system of local control and liability. There are some modifications of these different plans, which we hive omitted for the sake of brevity ; and there are many important practical questions as to the most convenient and equitable mode of bringing any new system into operation. Some of those who have taken a part in the controversy wish to secure the less burdened parts of the country in their present comparative exemption ; others think it fairer to di-- tribute the charge of relief more equally. On all sides of all these questions there is a good deal to be add, and we propose to return to the subject on an early opportunity. For the present, we hope we have stated to our readers with tolerable clearness what are the different views entertained, and the plans proposed, for determining the liability to maintain the poor. The debate in the Chamber of I>eputies in the first stage of the project of law on parliamentary reform of M. de Remusat, was brought to a close at an un usually late hour on Wednesday evening. The sec tion of the conservatives which has lately detached itself from the ministerial majority, voted against the government, the consequence of which has been that the government majority, instead of being as hitherto above a hundred, now proves to be under fifty, and even in this case the ministry has the advantage of the timid and wavering votes which are sure to desert it as its strength fails. A number of deputies absented themselves, being unwilling on the one hand to as sume a position of open hostility to the government, and determined on the other not to oppose the mea of Mde Remusat The result of all this was, that 389 members voted out of the total number of 459 deputies, 70 votes being therefore absent. The votes against the measure were '219, and those for it 170; giving a majority of 49 in favour of the ministry. Thus it appears that the loos of 25 votes more would throw the cabinet into a minority. Reform seems to engross the French chambers, and in every case it is opposed with obstinacy and system by the government. Electoral reform, parlia mentary reform, postage reform, railway reform, com mercial reform, and educational reform, have all been brought forwa rd and discussed without any practical results. _ . . One of the German journals says that the recent fire at Buckbarest which has destroyed 1,500 houses, bats considerably affected several bankers and mer chant., of Paris. The loss has been estimated at several millions of franca. The report that Prince Frederick of Denmark has arrived in Paris is con tradicted. Our Paris correspondent adds in a postscript to his letter, that a report was circulated on Thursday after noon at the Bourse and in the city, that a serious accident had occurred on the Northern Railway by the collision of an express train carrying an extra ordinary co , irier, with an engine on the line, tho re sult of which was that the courier was killed on the spot. Our correspondent made inquiries in quarters usually well informed, but was unable to ascertain anything satisfactory either in confirmation or refuta tion of this report. One of the trains Wa.9 five hours late, and bad not yet arrived. The Madrid mail of the 17th inst., with our usual correspondence, has been received, but contains little intelligence of general interest. A commission has been appointed to prepare a project of law for the general arrangement of the public debt. The different classes of public creditors, whether domestic or foreign, are desired to appoint an agent to present their claims to the commission, and to propose to it the basis of such an agreement as will be consistent at once with justice to the public creditor, and a due consideration of the actual state of the public finances. A royal ordonnance has appeared appointintr Lieut-General Roncali Captain General of Galicia, instead of General Juan Villa Longs, who has resigned. The Queen is reported to have received M. Oloraga with extraordinary distinction, insisting on the hon. deputy sitting in her presence and conversing with him for a considerable time with the most gracious affability. BERLIN, Amt, 17. Ever since the year 1842, when the united committers of the provincial states declared in favour of the construction of a lice of railway which should connect this capital with Dantsic and lidnigsberg, the government have been very anxious to commence the undertaking, or rather to extend the Btettin line, which, at that period, was in the mune of construction, and which since then has been opened. The state of the money market, however, during some time peat, has deterred private capitalists from embarking in the speculation, even with the co-operation of the government. The latter have now expressed their readiness to construct the railway in question at the rest and risk of the state, and, through a royal mamma which was yesterday laid before the united diet, have asked for a loan for that per pee. It is stated that the interest and capital could be paid eat of the so. called ",railway fund ;" and (if ni emery) outof the probable surplus revenue of the national treasury. This mode, however, of raising the needful supply, is an objection able one In the opinion of the guernmenr, insomuch 42 the notemere sums for carrying on the undertaking would peebebly come in very slowly, and con.equently many veers must elapse before the grand East Prussian Junction line could be completed. A quicker mode of operation hes therefore been devised by the mini.try. It is proposed to convert into capital the average yen ly interest of the rail way fund, and to obtain a loaa from it. The fund in It was fixed in 1812 at the yearly sum of 2,400,000 dialers; and it is proposed to raise a loan in the mode before deecribed so soon es the state of the money market becomes more favour able for such operations. According to the " patent " of Feb. 3, the diet will have to discuss the question of the loan, and it is probable that the debates on it will commence in • few days. In 1842, it was proposed to construct the follow ing lines: the Cologne and Minden ; the Halle and Middle Rhine; the Berlin, ataxic, Konigsberg, and R 4122123 frontiers; the Frankfort-on-Oder and Breslau ; the Oppelo and Austrian frontiers; and the Posen, Prussian, and Silesien Junction. The first line will be opened throughout in a few weeks; the second will be entirely complete in the year 1847; and the third is at present only in contemplation. The expenses of the coustruction of bridge• alone across the Vistula and the Nogat, are calculated at 8,865,000 thalen, and the comple tion of those works alone was first set down for the year 1857. The entire cost of the line (whits will run by Kin nisi, Unseen, Schneidminl, Bromberg, Duschan, Munn berg, Hieing, Mithlhausen, Brauosherg, and Kiinigsberg to Dannie), is estimated at 32,751,593 Melees. The entire length of the line will be 08,88 German miles. The fourth line is already completed, and the fifth and sixth eves are seedy so. In the year 1842, it wee calculated that the line to Dantaic could not be finished before the expiration of eighteen years; the goveramest, however, now express the opinion that by means of the loan in question, the railway will be opened for circulation in half that time. A brief description of the so-called " White Hall," in which the lauded diet, and after the members of the upper house have retired, tne three other state* hold their debates, may be found interesting to your readers. The IVeisse Sao, is one of the noblest rooms in the royal palace in this tin, being 105 feet long, 51 broad, and 41 high ; it is adore d wilh Connthian columns of Carrara marble, Dearing the marble statues of the twelve princes --electors of Bra nde n b urg. The . . eight provinces of the monarchy are also represented by eight colossal statues. The roof is richly painted, and the four corners are adorned with allegorical bee-reliefs. The main colour of the saloon is white, blended with gold. The floor is composed of ornamented wood. A marble figure of Victory, by Rauch, is one of the chief attractions of the noble room. The king's throne is placed near the middle of one of the oblong walls; scats for the ministers are ranged on each side, and, further down, for the members of the upper house, when the diet is in plena. Opposite the throne, are the seam of the members of the eight pro vincial diets, each state brine separate from the other. The seats are numbered, covered with dark red cloth, and pro vided with moveable desks. The respective members of the three states sit in rows one above the other, so that it frequently happens that a mere tradesman, the deputy Iroin • town, sits alongside a member of the Ititterschaft, who is a prince or a count, although not entitled to be • member of the upper house. Each apeaker addresses the diet from a species of pulpit, erected for that purpose near the throne. No member is allowed to read his " speech." The members of the upper house hold their debates in another part of the royal palace. The united dot is composed of about 600 members. The miniatsea may speak s but they have no notes. ITALY.—ROME, APRIL 9.—A moot diabolical plot to muter the Pope liss been discovered. It was first found out by the French ambassador, and he revealed the names of the conspirators to the Pope. Their intention was to usassinate him whilst giving audience to one of them who was, by lot, to be appointed to kill him. A Capuchin pre sented himself for an audience of the Pope. His Holiness requested his name ; this he gave boldly, but before being eilmittkd the Pope looked ever the list of the conspirators and found the name of the Capuchin there. He immediately called for and concealed six carbineers who, on the Capu chin's entrance, seized him, and on searching him found he bad a brace of loaded pistols and a poisoned dagger about his person. The Capuchin was conveyed to prison. Meny arrests have taken place. This plot is no doubt a concoction of the Jesuits, who have made tools of the Capuchins. G ERMAN Y.—PRUSSIA.—BERLIN, APRIL 19. The Spener Zeitung says that the states of the Zollverein have agreed not to renew the treaty of commerce and nari• anion concluded on the 2d of March, 1841, with Great Britain. _ . . —••—• BAVARIA.—The King of Bavaria issued a decree en the 26th ult., prohibiting women from taking monastic vows before they have attained their thirty-third year. The ceremony is to take place in the presence of a commissary, not a churchman, who has the right of interrogating the person about to t ake the vows, and if he think fit to put • stop_to the whole proceedings. HAMBURG, APRIL 16.—0 n the 15th, at Seven in the evening, the Elbe overflowed its banks, and inundated the whole town. In some parts of the town near the • the water was 19 feet deep in the streets, entering in at the windows of the first floor. The cellars and ground floors of the houses were completely under water, and boats plyed through the streets. From nine o'clock till eleven, minute guns were tired from the ramparts, but it was impossible to render any assistance. Towards midnight the waters began to subside, and at eleven the following morning the Elbe was running en smoothly within its proper limits. Hamburg has witnes-ed many inundations, but none severer than this last. Happily the rise of the waters was so gradual i hat the inhabitants had tints to save themselves, but the loss of pro perty is immense. ItUSSIA.—Sr. PETERSBURG, APRIL 10.—A letter of the above date, in • Frankfort journal, states that the Emperor was sufficiently recovered to be able to take his usual walks. GREECE.—AmeNs, APRIL 10.—All diplomatic relations have ceased between this country and Turkey. Greece has no longer a representatise at the Ottoman court. This is the situation t 1 which we are reduced by the haughti ness and egotism of Coletti. What Coletti intends to do is unknown. It is rumoured that M. Pouiropoulo will resign but this is only a feint. The municipal elections are the muse of much bloodshed. Two rainistei ial parties have come to hostilities in Laconia. The village of Gythion has hem nearly destroyed, and even the soldiers of government have sided with the adverse parties. This is the way in which Coletti engenders civil war. On the 6th, the anniver • sup of the mourning of oar independence, took place with its usual pomp. Letters from Western Greece mention that brigandage is increasing in Western Greece. W hen will the government take efficacious measures to eradicate from that province the scourge which desolates it? In oonisequence of the Pasqua, the chamber has not held a sitting since the 30th of March. Their next meeting will be a stormy one ; the subject—the cessation of diplomatic intercourse with Turkey. COLONIAL. HONG KONG.—Two failures are reported from Canton. The amounts owed by the defaulters to the teamen are said to be very large. We learn, front the China Mail, that the parties are Atning's and the Foote* Hong. A flagrant act of piracy was committed on the 6th of Feb. last, in Chimmo bay—au opium station near Amoy—oa the Omega and Charlotte receiving ships. Three days previously two large fishing-boats enteted the bay, and a third anchored outside. Their appearance being suspicious, boats were twice sent to examine them from both vessels. The boats were heavily armed for their ens, but few men appeared on deck. Those who were seen gave out at first that they were salt boats, but afterwards said they would come next day to buy opium. During the next two days the brats lett the bay at sunrise, and returned in the evening. Between eight and nine on the third evening, while sailing back, they laid themselves one on each aide of the Omega, and having thrown fire-halls on deck, the crew of one of them boarded while the other proceeded to the Caroline. The crew of the 1 Omega were driven below, and the hattles fastened down, after which the pirates proceeded to plunder the venal. The long boat, with six or seven of the crew on board, was thrown off by the pirates, and having neither oars nor sail aboard drifted ashore. The captain was last seen alive at the cabin window, calling on the long boat to come alongside. The remaining crew at last broke out, and drove the pirates freer the vessel. On gaining the deck, they found five of their six guns spiked, and the other slung, as if to be removed. Of the opium, only a few chests were left, and none of the treasure. Before the second boat reached the Caroline, its craw had discovered smoke rising from the Omega, and that it was in the hands of pirates. Before they could arm themselves, however, their assailants were alongside. The captain, two mates, and nine Luaus leaped overboard, and were either drowned or killed. Two seamen took refuge in the rigging, and escaped. The pi rates continued to plunder till recalled by a gang from the other boat. Here also only a few chests of opium were left. Both vessels were brought round to Hong-Kong, by the 18th of February. Some Portuguese are said to have been seen among the pirates ; one of their assailants was recognised by the serang of the Omega, as a person he bad often seen on board a brothel-keeper's boat at Hong Kong. It is estimated that oa board the Omega there were about sixty chests of Patna Opium and forty Bemires, worth say 70,000 doh., besides Malwa and Turkey, and treasure to the amount of about 40000 doh. ; to that deducting the fifteen chests left be hind, the Omega's loss may be estimated at 110,000 doh. The Caroline is supposed to have tad oa board forty chests Patna and thirty Benues, less eleven charts left on board, which makes the lose fifty chests, worth say 41,000 doh., to which must be added treasure in boxes and in the iron chest, to the amount of about 19,000 doh., making together 60,000 dole. The total lose of the two mauls may thus be taken at upwards of 160,000 dole. By this mail we have received the official return* ef the British trade with Canton, Bhanghte, and Amoy, during the year 1846, and the revenue and expenditure of Hong Kong during the same year. The total public expenditure at Hong Kong in 1846 was 60,3511.; the total revenue received 27,0171. The heaviest items of expenditure are :—Judicial and police department, 19,3651. ; civil government, 14,3401. • public works and buildings, 17,6761. ; revenue depar tments, 6,6141. The principal sources of revenue are:—Rants, 15,6721.; licenses, 7,1021.; police assessment, 1,6761. The estimated value of British imports into Canton in 1846 was 10,214,883 Bpwish dollars ; or, at 4s. 4d. per dollar, 2,213,1161. 6s. 4d. About two-fifths of this amount condoned of British maaufestures : the remainder of pro r duds stlndia and other countries. This merchasdiie wee imported in 182 British vessels of 85,937 tone, and 100 Hong Kong Wichita of 5,510 tons hoiden. The British exporte from Canton, in the year 1848, are valued at 16,378,560 Spanish dollars, or 3,332,0211. 6s. Bd. They were exported in 175 British vessels, of 78,374 Wits, and 63 Hong Kong lorches, of 3,4.56 tons burden. There arrived at Canton, id 1846, 214 British vessel., of 92,896 tons; 64 American, of 29,049; four French, of 1,283; eight Dutch, of 2,747; om Belgian, of 300; one Danish, of 306; six Swedish, of 1,791; four Hamburg, of 1,097; one Bremen, of 152; eine P 1104412, of 5.50: in all, 304 vessels, of 130,170 tone. There wiled: 207 British verels, of 88,880 t. as; rixty-fire Ame rican, of 29,788 ; four French, of 1,283 ; eight Dutch, of 2,574 • one Belgian, of 300; one Daniels, of 305 ; six Sivi d ish, of 1,978 ; four Hamburg, of 1,097; one l'russian, of 550: in all, 297 vessels, of 126,755 tour. The British imparts into Shanghae in 1846 are valued at 810,2001.; they were imported in 64 British vessels of 15,069 tons. The esports for the same year are valued at 1,352,5301. ; they were exported in 60 British vessels of 14,159 tons. There arrived at Shanghae, in she enure of the year 64 British vessels of 1.5,069 tons; 17 American, of 5,322; 2 Spxnah, of 750; 1 Swedish, of 296; 1 Bremen, of 152 ; 1 Hamburg, of 260: in all, 76 vessels of 21,769 tons. There oiled, 50 British vessel., of 14,159 tons; 17 American, of 5,322; 2 Spanish, of 750; 1 Swedish, of 206; 1 Bremen, of 152; 1 Hamburg, of 260; in all, 72 VOStif of 20,849 tons. The estimated value of British imports into Amor in 1846 was 1.667,9351. Ss. • they were imported in 45 it • • h vessels of 9.378 tons. The estimated value of British taped. was 8.4361. 16s. 2d. ; they were exported in 46 Britah vessels of 9,378 tons. _ _ SINGAPORE.—The intelligence from this settle ment by the overland mail in satisfactory. The Bengal government have at last been prevailed upon to direct that the leases of the periodical leaseholders shall be commuted for grants, on the payment of from five to seven dollars per acre, instead of twenty, so at first demanded. Returns were being obtained front the planters, with the view of aseessing their plantations. A considerable number of the nutmeg plantations would exhileit, it was believed, a clear surplus revenue, so that the assessment funds would derive in future an annual augmentation from this s iurce. A great improve ment is said to have taken place in the permanent tett) of the roads of the island under the present superiotendant. The neat appearanee of the Singapore sugar estates is re marked by strangers. On the Balrstier plantation • small elephant has, for a considerable time, been employed to draw a plough, with which the earth between the rows of canes is thrown up. News from Bankok to the 12th of February, had been received at Singapore. The stock of sugar was said to be abundant. Two british vessels were loading for Sings pJre. A tine frigate built for the King of Slim bad been launched ; it was to carry 30 guns. The king intended to send it to England with sugar. His majesty had four other ships on the stocks, which, with the new frigate and the two men of war he previously possessed, will make a toler able fleet. Sager cultivation was extending at Malacca. Appli-wtion had been made by a French gentleman for 4,000 urea after a personal inspection of the couatry. Pasties were also en gaged in explorations of the tin mines of the district, with a view to extensive operations. AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.—By the Calcutta, which has made • rapid peonage of 3 month. and 14 days, paper, have been received from Hobart Town (Van Di.smen'e Land) to the Bth of January. H.M.S. Castor, 38 pins, had sailed on the 24th of December for New Zealand, and tho ship Sir Robert Peel, 623 tens, sailed, on the 25th, for the same dtotination, with troops. Notwithstanding these war like indications, the merchants of Van Diemen's Land appear to have been doing • brisk trade with New Zealand. Ihe barque William Hyde, 533 tons, arrived at Hobart Town on the 6th of January, with timber from liokranga, which she left on the 12th of December; on the 14th of December a schooner of 14 tont sailed from Hobart Town for New Zealand, and on the same day one of 48 tons, from Launceston, for Nelson, both with general cargoes. The papers from Adelaide, South Australia, to the 14th of January, are mostly occupied with local affairs, and dis cussions of little interest out of the colony. The Register of the 13th notices the fact of the Britannia having sailed the dsy before with, amongst other cargo of wool, 398 tons Bewk of copper ore on account of the South Australian Mining Com. Port Phillip advice, to the 17th of December. The scarcity of labour hands was still the subject of complaint there. As proof, it was stated that although wool had con siderably deelned in value, shepherds could sot be engaged at less than the exorbitant rata of 321. per awn. t!Dbt Qr,ourt. H.K.H. Prince Albert honoured the Water Colour Exhibition with a visit yesterday. H.IIII. the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. It.R.H. Prince Albert presided yesterday afternoon at • committee of the Commission for promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. 11.ILH. arrived at the new palace at three o'zlork attended by Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon. The commissioners pre sent were the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Morpeth, Viscount Mahon, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, Sir R. H. Inglis, Mr. H. Hallam, and Mr. Wyse. The secretary, Mr. Evatlake, wax in attendance. Her Majesty and Prince Albert attended by the Duchess of Sutherland, the Countess of Charlemont, lion. Mies Kerr, Hon. Miss Cavendish, the Earl of Morten, Lord G. Lennox, Major the Hon. R. Boyle, Capt. F. Seymour, Major• Gen. Weinyss, and Capt. the Hon. A. H. Gordon, honoured with their presence yesterday evening the performance of Men delssobn's oratorio " Elijsh," by the Sacred Harmonic Society, at Exeter-hall. Her Majesty remained throughout the entire performance. the Duchess of Kent visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester-house. 11.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady A. Bruce, and Lord J. Murray, honoured the performance of the French plays with her presence yesterday evening. Sir J. Hanmer, Bart., M. Mr. Hutt, M.P., Mr. Moffatt, M.P., and a deputation from Hull, consisting of Mr. Sheriff Lee, Mr. Alderman Atkinson, Mr. Councillor Seaton, Mr. Thompson, town clerk, and Mr. MtManna, superintendent of Out borough police, had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Rome-office. A deputa tion from the ironmasters and coal proprietors of Swansea, had an interview with the Right Hon E.-Strutt yesterday at the office of the Commissioners of Railways.. Lord Ash ley, Lord John Manners, and a deputation, had an inter view with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official residence in Dawning-street. A deputation of wholesale and retail spirit dealers had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday &the. official residence in Downing street. A deputation from the Caledonian Railway Company had an interview with the Right lion. E. Strutt ; Sir G. Strickland, M.P., had also an interview yesterday with Mr. Strutt in Great George-street. Lieut,Gen. Sir It, Bourke had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-offlce. Mr. B. Deniann, M.P. accompanied the deputation on copper ore to Lord J. R ussell onThursday. Lord Sandon and a deputation had an interview yesterday with Sir G. Grey. The S,dicitor.General for Ireland - had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon yesterday at the effire of the Board of Trade. DEATH OF THE BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN.— The demise of the recently-appointed Bishop of Soder and Man, Dr. W. A. Shirley, took place on Wednesday last. Ills lordship was the Hampton Lecturer of the present year, and has delivered only two of the lectures. His illness was oo casioned be sleeping in a damp bed at Liverpool, on his last journey from Oxford to the Isle of Man. DEATH Or LORD ROICEBY.—This nobleman ex pired on the 7th iv stant, at Naples, alter a short illness. The noble lord had passed the last seven winters in Italy, or the south of France. The deceased Edw. Robinson Mon tagne, Baron Rokeby of Armagh, in the peerage-of I relaqd, and a baron, tof Great Britain, was eldest son of Matthew, fourth Lord Rokehy, by Elizabeth, daughter and heir o f Mr. Francis Charlton. lie was born July 6, 1787, so that at the period of his death, he was in the sixtieth year of his age. In September, 1831, he succeeded to the family title and estates on the death of his father. Ili. lordship was not married, consequently the honours devolve.to his next brother, the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel John Montagu. (From the Gazette of last night.) WAILOFFICY, APRIL 23. let Las Oda—Cornet and gob-Liat. J. Lade . * *6 Mut., by par., via Lovell, who ret. ; A. Webb to be carat sad ebb-lieut., by Pilr• 2nd Lae Oda.—Lient-CoL J. woman to be lient.-tol. end col. 14th Lt. Drags.—Lieut. C. T. Gtilbs to be apt, without par Me great Mater Wevtoa, dec.; Cornet W. F.astilsh to be lieut. ; itoZ R. W. Chetwynd to be comet. 16th Lt. Draga. —Brevet Lient..oaL G. J. M. McDowell to be lient...ea, by per., Mae Penne, who mt.; Brevet Major T. H. Peeress to be saa)or, by par.; Lieut. It Paultme to be apt., by pur. ; Cornet F. L. Drama to be Ilea., by par. ; W. T. Dickson to be comet, by taw. bed F.— C. A. Cate, front 95th F., to be apt., vim Rowe, who each.; -Lieut. 0. J. Amam, from 62nd F., to be boa., *ice Douala n ; Ens. H. J. Ring to be Lea, by plir., vice who reL ; F. R. Baiter to be aa, by ar. • • tunes . F. Murray, from bah P., to be ander, .We Gordon. who each. ; Lieot. M. W. de la Pact Bereaard, fray 16th F., tolbe lieut., vice EViroa, who nth. 11th P.—Capt. H. W. Coultaun, from Lard T., to be rapt., vice Pleasing, who each. 27th Y.—Bea M. Reilly to be Rest, withal par., Me Hare, prom. 41 Owe Mounted Maas ; C. Warren to be ens. 3lst F.—Lieut. T. H. Plate to be apt., by par., vice Boat, who rtt ; P.m. R. B. A. Career to be Ilea, by par. ; Ea. A. R. Breen, Ban 44th 7., to be ens. 4ett P.—l. W. Dunne to be ea., by per., vice Brown, app. to 31.4 P. 45th P.-1. 0. Howard to be ens, by par., rico Woodford, wbo rot. 47th T.—Major-One. T. Delmar, C. 8., to he col., rice Major-Gen. Sir B. Smith, app to Mae Brig. 62nd P.—Baa. A. 0. Oarbet to be lieut., by par., vice Carden, who tot.; Lord F. Montagu ta be us, by per. 1111111 e P.—Mslor J. Garda , trout 17th P., to be major, rice Murray, who each. Mod P.—Lient. A. Douglea, Prom ard f to be lieut., vice Ambmp, wbo eub. lied 1 7 .—Capt. B. J. I. Mooing, Prom 14th F., to be rapt., via Coulter; who each. 70th P.—Major W. M. Blue to be lieut.-col.. by pur., rite Reed, who ret.; Capk T. Mite to be major, by pur. • Lieut. T. P. U. Abbe to be rapt. by par. ; Y. Chute to be but, by por. ; P P. Tooter to be au, by pyr, Dird I.—Dea. W. Kaah to be lint, without our., vice Hsu. W. 3. 0. Chetwynd, killed in Mica led.-Major W. Buruop to be ens, without put. ; 0. U. Waddlute• m ba sue., by par., riot Sakes, who kit Silk P.—pleat. W. H. H. Mon, frees 17th F., to be lieut., Moe liaoadieM who tub. 954 i ir.—ort. J. C. Rouge. tram led F., to be rcpt, Moe Cobik who ode. ; A. J. J. Mabbould to be mu, without par., rice South. deo. Bile Brig.—Major-Cien. Mr H. 0. W..mt But., DC.B., et. be we. Gam. of at. but., vice Lient..olm.ar. D L dilabour, 0.C.8., dm; PM J. It. Eaten to major inthatt rile pipet, des; laeut. J. Wilkinson in be opt., with out par., vise Oilom, killed in action; Lieut. C. J. Woodford to he eaM, without par. ; Ties Eaten ,• Mo. Lent. C. E. B. Baldwin to be Ltd heal, intim% poi% vice nick app. adjL ; O. Wadolinglog Boa 72rd to be eft B.