The Express. — London, England, 1856-02-26 00:00:00

matte their sholitioa very dilllcalt. He mmitioced Alabama, the danger rf a de'ar. He mammieed sow that the ..=mil- timers bad dose their duty, is t►e report which they had lade upon aim mewl., sad, is advisisg a fell aid sompleto remedy, that th• g ..ernmeat had dose its duty la bringing the matter before •he house, aad orcousiteriag the stir= of obloquy a selti.h oppostios wit► which this mime was sure to be assailed ; the adverse's of peculiar immures sad Oi bl , sted eorporirioni being allied with great party balers la rewiring it, He hoped the Moue of Cims►oas would also do ite duty, and read 'hit latnlerab•e abuse to the lams limbo of dela cod j rbs aid isittaities wh•eh ba I, within the last thirty leers already received the rotten bet nibs, tbs old municipa cxpnntohs, aid the vicious eyes= of lOW sal real siewo3oly which lied falles is their tan by the just c •neum et eehli , r pinion. (Chem..) Mr. RORSFALL, lc supporting the aassisimat, trona the oricia of the Immure to Maorheiter. Mr. ItIDLEY, in a m iid.i speech, argued that the bill • rea.e las allow pt to legislate upon property on prised- Vet of tnin.t.re alto wrong. Ur TOLLEMACHE admitted that roue measure wee steel easy for the regu'atios of barbels, dam, bet could cot accept the bill of the go•enmaot, which he believed very imperfectly earned out the recommeadatim of the barb :sr commimio er., and would occasion besides as ammonite able isterbr-r c • with the rights of prep,rty. Mr COLLIER hieh , y approved sr the bill. It would sweep away as isiquitius series of tare% which the ache. bitmiti of teeth, t •wa 'Ratted from the shipping iatereet fir their ow. sad witlotit readeriag say service is return. Wyse. Rldpord, J. C. Swore, Liddell, Ceires, sad Sir F. Kelly opposed the bill ; Mr. Rise aid Mr. Deedeswonld support it coodittoselly. Mr. BAINES noticed that the arguniets prnented arnica the bill wt re founded rather epee its detail. than its principle. Stec motions of tn. erasure, such as thee elides to te. ebolition of peasieft tt lls, freed sena& ap probation. 11,apeetteg local de. I, the bill °sly professed to regulate them; and the breed prieeple whitens it ore- Periled was to provide that no toe sbould be level ester. in mum ler bloefite conferred or seniors rendered. HI. owe etoostituents is Leeds were thee mulcted by the load im posts cm wool paid to the coo poritiou either of Liverpool or Hell, and from watch they obtained so compensating ad vantage. Oa ohe questioo of property the ripht boo. mems her submitted arguments to prove that a wide distinction Head betereso the poseersions of private individuals sad the menses .lai=d by e opiate bodies. Mr. BAXTER weed the adjeernmeet of the Mate. Lord PALMERSTON at nee consented to the adjoure meet, at the saw time segnsting that the debate should be adjourned to Friday seat. in which are the stay asti attes slant erred for the &Nerd.' Moeda,. Mr. DISRAELI world not oppose the adjournment, bet obi. red se es antral& day se Friday. The decrios of the beers on •i imp west a question sboald be takes with as littidelay as possible; and, besides, the ken. sad learned mitather for Shellekiked gives notice far Friday, that he intecded oe that day eating the &thistles of the hoses to the pr. position of the portiremeni, to *pools% a bard of ia. gutty to rummies late tin tendeet of their owe commie. stoners. He was sot goiag to gin any °palsied thin se to the noting' of the bee. and leaned member for She Meld. bat be wss bound to say that the widest of the government in propeetng that hinny was so fraught with momeatose meesetnences as to demand the immediate attest oe of p r Linnet ; so mush es, that hod sat the hon. and leaned member for 8n11.141 given hY satin ' it was the fittest's* of a hied of his (Mr. Dierseles) to have nbmitted it to the ornsideratio• of the house. He would therefore suggest that Use edjoorosseet should be to to-serwer (this day), the mon ',nasally as these nsenshen who had =otiose es the paper had espied their wi- bagmen to yield prnedesee to the a/jemmied debate. He weld pat it t the hoe, sad leareed giallo man sad the LT: se a° :lt tw e i f is d pert r, att self et en the baw t. which the hoe. and lentil geodes= had OTOS win, eis that member. sight he enabled to wove se saisednest if they thought it right son do. As the Booties o f Ma. red Isarani estimaa was as saipsdaist as the nodes for geese km eraimtt.• it would set be u=senet to de the,. Lord PALIIIRISTON add It would I. asbesemlag bia part to ...sane Oat op. ratlines ea ate OW side weld pet their mottoes off. It be ass setberieall is speak tar Otero sad they oweated to ►I seppeetos, the grow meet weld be peered, reedy to wry is dm debate So nemer. (H-sr.) He bad Bard Friday. Imams that beteg sa eater aiebt the government c ).1,4 own tls seatiasaatte K the debar at that Wen. (Hm.) Kr. HOZBUCK salt be bad takes t►w wares be bed dose Wow se We, we left *pea to ►i.. It the poem wat s'leard Ips he dwell be ready to new a sabstaatire mottos. (liner) tbr F. ICILLT sad Kr. Maui. baring sowated I. ?impose the seeder ohieb steed la %belt awes, the de bate ar..s adjourned to this der. PRISONS (IRELAND) BILL. nil bill was raid a weed time. DELAYERS FOREST BILL . _ Oa the Emotion f n the third 'sedum of this bill, Br H. WILLOUGHBY asked whether it was the Wes. Nee to 0111 the forest ? Mr. WILSON replied that it wet set iateaded he ssG the fovea, but to let it. The mu was this read a third time. COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) BILLS. The sseer.l kilts velars, ims to. Owen of Chswearp la based ware seed a Mat Noe Ire Ilse pupa.. el Resin veferried Is a West eesulletee. LOCAL MANAigozmumirr OF TU METROPOLIS Ile Arrossinr-ozinam, =nod he Lave to Wog la • be SO WOOS sad 11111111111 g tLa Illth sod 19.1 t of Vic tor* Rs Os brae bed of the seetropotie. The we et het assies. is wee he sea a owe of eeefeslealbot me eve Nell eel whether the old mines or the sow weeks, mated by the meat est, bed the power of reign the poor Moe. The Ojos& of the bill was i s give the power to PH sew vestries. Leave wee thew gives. COURT OP DELEGATES. Os the notice of Mr 1. O. Paiwitoas, the petitioa of Thomas Tomas Pepe foe iegairr Lto abs co:laded of the severel umbers or the Coen olD:logetee of Dublin la the ease of " Telly v. Talbot" (. retested Feb. B), wee ordered lo be 'rioted with the voter. THE ROAD THROUGH sr. JAHRIMPARIC. Tit+ SPEAKER mound enlad on He H. Hall, wins was Y move f •se est committee es tkb subject. Hr. KINGLET moved the as of dm boson He considered tbs osr no far 'snood fx Iniagion (a ward so impetus's a 'motion. Yr. MICHEL acceded the motion. The SPAM= bat*/ pet the neediest of idjoers met, sir B. HALL Win Had mourn wee pot, desired to mks s shoat elieedent. It was wef known to both the mover sod smoke oft miles that for a long tiro put as earned desire WI bees est nosed by the public that • don sooveuint etammilintlea should be node from me side of St. flew'.- p eek to the idler. The wily object a the gonromot a aapealedni•emmittee was that tine should be ea imperial iscsity bet. the Gabfest, with the new et emertsiaiag the best meek by whisk that andeene Mettles sight be sfforded. (Hoer.) His right hen. Mead lb. Home fledetary had laid upon the lade ll= which ha (Sir a Held had gins oileateleee m be for 'myna out the el , jset, but it was by se mem the intention of the government to rosins the leamohles to the essibirratioa admire two plan; hot they would be referred to the 410011iiitH, tegetlier with ser Whet OWNS which sight be suggested. After what \Kama anill la the public ens* aid is other quartets, it codehdy tipped"' to him that tin nod cosvenisat toms mold bete appoint • select @amain**, is was propmed. As he was aslL4 spot to sake ibis outsmart, it night be net al terther out of peer tot bits to ray that the piddle Wed bed bees lad limy epos this noodles mid deneyielly : roman hod bees ostensively swelling that a desire Meted ti ezelodo the pada, frees praise is heat of litiehinshara }Weer. (Him, hear.) New the beet mower ha mild mite to these suit .mate we., that beim these reports wee es indas triowly desolated, he had reasieed lastrretteas to rms.' • pd. by which tto public anted be admitted Imaddidely la frost if the palm. All that he sew asked woe that a written eh veld he aprolsted to eaerider set mealy the me plass whish bad i.e. sob• silted be hie eight bosearabie hired, bat say plane test sight be ben& fsetword ; and he emlil i 5..,. his boa. *wad, the =mbar few Ashton, that in genteel eon snail be told, la rrikima time same of that sea Wen. to weld that it might be fairly sonstitoted. Hs (Sir H. Hale) had a. with whatever to tab. say sodas selves time as flat, or to sake Olio is asp way a perry question. He would tin snide emirs of Ins canoe ha peopseed N plan one the soddittee. so that hoe. mombses wha &wee to object to say nt 'hes Bight dose. dr. HENLEY did set deny that than was • wish es the pest of tee goalie is have a e nneasolesties lammed Doi greed acd St. (sad's, street, but as If No mystify the quit s. the gerninlinent proposed a eseeassak atlas from the non tt the lost! elder of Oa perk that was Iran St. Jsmeemotrese m Walmbein. which war aiteorther • deficient matter. (Usie WO I. se erns w that west tt there ems es he Owe ban s ay doe e• the port of tb• her MO**, IS the pshis bong allowed to pm la M. ef the Wore het ha .odd att.ter.teall teat than sight Wells, motives Is wine quer era, sad 'het it might be eaohatie to draw • rod benne ears tic' Use t duo dr die asmal"troae," sod a teesh)-4•4 he tonal sorely sus a bother mile el disectmg the emend of the paiille hen whet they really want 4 ens to sonde ME s dram Om se the ' , mint** ; lot if the eeryboa. Sept pppw L thin wry ~strife to dad baNieedeeen hens depend epee it the ensile mold seen notch gllbed (" Hen." sad Laughter) He felt etinielde'tie Inessed Is the ewe tios psis *ell, of. resning is Westminster, his family derived greet iteleysint from St. Jsaisee-parh, sad be did ad end se en it cut to pines by memos a reed direst mem the middle Nit. if toed was to be a. inquiry therm Ade, he be prni it would be • (Or OW. sad that the gnaw melt mold ine eon. pledged beforebead open the gadded, Mt weal/ be epee te remain and set opal soy sapid that miebt M reeminnided fee sffor Mg a aired aomsnaka tfec heiwen Seised.' sad St. Janteem Meet That wee what the 'obit. owed : t tinny one beard of their ask ing 10T a reed Ins. Welland., sans the sensmotal weld. (HIV 1...-d seaINSTON said asthiei e iuld be mere fell sad es en 'bee tee seder et referesee t s the eandittek se it would teed spo t dm mottos _stout mmao bey • Mika lac , t!. it 4 P tfi Wake hos. Mead tad distinctly elated there was no nett latention, sad to precast the possibility of its being coo side red that the inquiry would be De limited the words of the mot oat were as open es on mid referred, not to a sommuniestion from Bel gravia merely, het embroiled the whole of that spear between Hyde-park-c user sad the Hens Onarde, by whisk at rawest two cossiderable portions of the inatuteats of Leedom were sepsreted. (Hear.) An with regard to the red berries, be was sure hie right hon. friend (Sir B. Hall) would appoint sects a committee as would follow the hare without allowing the Deem he be diverted by any of than denests to which the right hon. gentleman opposite had referred. " Hear," and a laugh.) rd EBRINOTON considered the ineonvenienee arising from the wont of a corentunicattou between Belmar a an St. James's obvious, ■nd c mit see no reason why it shoal I art be diluted with cut the intervention of a s lent ems mittee. The tonrinuoication bet wean tb s north and the south sides of the park was a diffeult question, but es far as he had heard, be wee not aware that then was such an amount of truffle between those districts as to require it. Sir 0. GREY &reeved that at present there wm a com munication between Belgravia and St James's for pr vote carriages, but the inconvenience of the abrupt corner at Par-mall, tsrnieg into the park, wee fond to be so great, that if that enmeeintion wen opened generally •o the public, deeper might ensue. It wee nemenry, therefore, to inquire how the eneminicatiom could be ',lorded with convenience and safety. Hr. ROEBUCK smelted that the removal of the Ger man Ctapel at the end of Pall-mall, near Marlborough hone, w. a►d afford the readiest acmes to the park from St. Jame 'a. ffiri.Y.BIIELLEY said that then wag a great desire autoorst bid omstituents fa Westminster to hive a clams ! 'petite, between the north and south Wee of the verb, in order to r .11eve the tramp of Chsria6•eror. He approved of the prormitios to refer the mihjeet to a committee. Atter a few wrr to from Lord C. HAMILTON, Mr. HINDI. EY declared he wo,ld divide epos his me. don, hut ultimately allowed it to be novelised without a Sir B. HALL then moved Oat a select sesemittee be appointed to consider the boat nesse of eorsmoateation boluses thane parts or the 'metropolis which lie north of tho St. Jamie's-park sad those parts which lie south and south west thereof. and to reps rt thereupon to the hosts. Mr. HINDLBY said he certainly should oppose this motion. It was only that day that the two pleas had been lees is the libearp, and so time hod bees afforded for their eorsidi ratios.. Lord PALMERSTON observed that if the house wet• stoat now te Made tip in the Minim merits of the two pleas, tit ►es. bind's objection wield be remoiable, ►it the motion wee merely to refer the 'yippee tea relict eem mitte•, red the home would rot have io decide seta that committee had ripened, co that his has. friend aired ham ao leer bet flat the pleas would be is the ►rade of mem bers loag Delete they were celled ups to pr.mooses may derision wpm them. The notice was them put sad agreed to. COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND) BILL. Mr J. D. FITZGERALD prop/lied the following se members of the soh et c 'matinee an this bill : The Selieitot- General h r Ireland, Sir James Graham, Mr. B. Ellice, Mr. Healey, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Keogh, Viscount Moak, Mr. Cabo., Mr. Msearteey, Mr. H. firriurt, Mr. W. Fits- Mr. Whiteside, Mr. De Von, Sir B. Perry, sod Aber some ebiestioas front Col. Daus, Mr. Whiteside, and Mr. &yawn Pitseeraid, the modes wee withdrawn. POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS (IRELAND). Mr. WILSON (for Mr Hominy) moved to istrodoeo • WI to abolish tbo old, of Secretory to the Peer Law Com at'stioa, a is Irolaad..—Agreed Some Mum wrr. , tiered, •ad the house •djesraed at 10 =tastes to 1 o'elt ek. 1 It ...id tme 'pot tbe 'settee Osesete be . me; plebe lee Weed. The sheen %Ambits of tb• rig rin t u t y ere m th , r a t i bere IMO S MNyelrILL: tri:7 sa le y eeetle p e w plan, wee ahnistaer usheellei. ILI right hoe. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EMING, PrBRUARY 26. 1856. au expreOpt hilviellmiNsleiaiiiii ;; ii• — liiiireT"Vaiiii imasgP•Mß. nut be at Ur 0.1114 la. Beaveriertrest, by Two Wank cs tlis dor et pahlkstise. NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan DATX/Offlife. N. 1ft......-JJtanan. IL 11as. Tonaann—llandaa. N. 42.. „litamosti lb. W. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26. Twuz are grounds foe hope that the question of Life Peerages will be entertained by the House of Lords on its own merits, apart from an irritating eonffict between Prerogative and Privilege. Lord LENDHURST and Lord DERBY propose to call the at tention of the House to its defective constitution u a Court of Justice ; and, with reference to this sub ject, Lord DERBY intimated that he considered the plan of Life Peerages as an open question. In behalf of the Government, Lord GRANVILLE ex pressed their desire to approach the considera tion of the subject fres from personal or party feeling ; and Lord LANSDOWNE, while dis claiming any intention to swamp the House by cresting an immense number of life peerages, asserted the expediency of creating a limited number,' including other professions as well u lawyers. Here the matter rests for the present; it will be satisfactory if the conviction expressed by Lord LANSDOWNE— that there is really no essential difference of opinion on the question between the parties who sit on oppo site sides of the House—shall prove well-founded. The most zealous advocates of the proposal to intro duce a limited number of life peers into the House of Lords have no desire to destroy or impair the hereditary character of that usembly. They believe that the institution of a hereditary peerage is as firmly based 00 the convictions and affections of the people sa that of the Throne, or of the representative branch of the Legislature. They regard the con tinued existence of a House of Lords as depend ing, not on theoretical opinions as to its utility, bet os its power to maintain itself. After a brief, though fierce, contest to establish a re public, the people of England acquiesced in a ;no , narchicsl form of government, as beet adapted to the national peculiarities. After a much more protracted struggle both the Crown and the Commons acquiesced in the assertion by the Peers of a right to an equal voice in the Legislature, with the Crown on one hand, and with the representatives of the Commons on the other. It is no doubt a prevalent opinion that the necessity for subjecting every legislative measure to a twofold disunion—first in one House of Parliament and then in the other—has the advan tage of diminishing the risk of reek and hasty legis lation; bat it wee not with • view to this object that two Legislative assemblies were made parts of oar constitution. The arrangement was the result of a compromise between two bodies neither of which was strong enough to pet down the other. In no other country except the United States have two legislative assemblies been found to be permanently compatible; and in the United States, as with us, the existence of two legislative assemblies in Con gress is the consequence of a compromise between equally balanced powers. The smaller States feared that they would be swamped by the larger ones if a Legislature based exclusively on the principle of the representatiou of numbers was adopted and to assuage their fear. a second branch of the legislature was instituted in which every State has an equal number of votes. The House of Lords in England and the Senate in the Congress of the United States are not powerful bemuse they have best invested with legislative authority; they have been invested with legislative authority because they are powerful. The Housed Lords is a necessity .rising from the social ooedition of England. We should have to endure it for the sake of pesos and quiet, even though we derived no advantage from it. Bat we do derive great advantages from D. Indispensable though an elective legis lature be to maintain the liberties of the people, it cannot be denied that the experience of history seems to establish that the existence of such an Institution is inseparable from a greater or less amount of electoral corruption. To such a sinister influence an assembly of legislators emir- Wain authority in their own right is a wholesome soaaterpoise. Again, the hereditary character of the Chief Magistrate weld not long be maintained in a country whore the Legislature was exclusively elec. tie,. A hereditary assembly of legislators is required es a buttress, or outwork, to impart greater stability to the throes. And in a country in which the distribution of property is so unequal as in England it is absolutely seeresary that the tenure of the supreme executive authority should be hereditary. The convictica impressed upon all from boyhood—growing with the growth and strengthen ing with the strength of every man—that ministerial power is alone open to the ambitious, prevents those Beres and iiseerupuless tiostasti for ascendanoy which have shattered and subverted the liberties of every European Sate but our own. These are the res. sans which—by the peat majority rather needy felt than clearly understood—have originated and confirmed the predilection of Englishmen foe their mixed =maniacal form of government, and the equal reverence in widish they hold the institation of the peerage with their other inetitatioes. Bat the very men who sr* meet resolute to uphold the privileges of the passage—hecanse they see more *leanly thaw others the benefits which are derived from mush as institution—an, from the very Name of their knowledge, the most homely alive to Its de fects, sot only as a judicial but as a legislative body. With all its faults, oar existing House of Commas is characterised by a universality which pre-ennineratly qualifies it for the task of legielatioe. Men of all pursuits and avocations lad their way into it. Not a nbjeet can les submitted for discussion in the Hesse of 03111111086 regarding which there are not some members posallarly fitted to pronounce a wend opiaies, by the experience which they have acquired is satire life. In this respect the Hoses of Lords is indisputably inferior to the Hesse of Commons. The mw of the peers are neither mare no, less than English country gentlemen —a most valuable class, but ono which is to a very limited extent brought into actual contest with the multiform phenomena of our varied and dimes past social relations. It is believed that this defect in the constitution of the House of Lords admits of Wog remedied by the admission to their delibera tions as Life Peers of a limited number of men who have distinguished themselves in various walks of life. The truth is that even when the power of the Barons was at its height, they allowed the Crown to associate a duo of life peers with them. The Bishops and mitred Abbots who at in the House of Lords be fore the Reformation were not mere Churchmen ; they were not called in merely to give opinions on Clerical matters ; they were the Diplomatists, the Jurists, the learned Statesmen of their times. Since the Reformation this classless been reduced • in num bet, and the prevalent jealousy of the aerial Order has in general prevented the Bishops from taking an active and prominent part ia the deliberations of the Peers. Something is wasted to replace the "Clerks" who added accomplishments, business talent, and natural powers strengthened by struggles against adverse circumstance', to the chivalrous sentiments and proud self-reliance of the Barone. And our modern Protestant " Clarke " must be sought, not among the Caves of the Oulleges and Cloisters exclu sively, bat among the educated claws of all proffer clone. The occasional creation of hereditary peers is an inadequate substitute for the introduction of such a clue. The moat eligible men are often so circum stanced in point of fortune • that they shrink from the acceptance of an honour which would entail upon their descendants the necessity of living at great expense without the means to do so with honour end independence. Besides, in the second—or at furthest the third—generation, the' newly ennobled family becomes assimilated to the rest, thus rendering conti nual new creations necessary, and exposing the peer age to the risk of being lowered in popular estimation by the excess of their numbers. A declaratory Act limiting the number of life peers that could have seats at one time in the House of Lord., would give ample security for its permanent hereditary character. Such an Act would be as acceptable to the people es to the piers, for it would ensure them against the danger of the House of Lords becoming a sere assembly of nominees of the Crown. But indeed, es Lord LANSDOWNE justly observed last night, the Lords have ample security against any attempt 10 swamp them by an excessive creation of life peen% in public opinion. Intimately connected with the measure in favour of which we have been arguing is one which has as yet scarcely been mentioned in any quarter, but which well deserves the consideration of the Rousso( Lords when the question of Life Peerages is under discus sion. The security of the Hones of Lords as a per =anent institutioa rest, upoa the power possessed by its individual members. That power is d► rived, not indeed entirely, but in a great measure, from their large property. Nothing can tend se Rook to weaken the Hones of Lords as the exists's** sta number of pauper peers. But it is notorious that Wee are some members of that body whose circus stances are the reverse of affluent. Might not a peri odical histration of the House be advisable, with a view to enable such members as are not in a condi tion to maintain the state of the Peerage to demit their nobility? There would then be less tempta tion to thrust Peers into lucrative appointments, for which their tole recommendation is that they need the salaries attached to them. One abundant source of aspersions against the Peerage would thus be stopped up. The living holder of • Peerage, who was unable to support it, would thus be relieved from a false position; and his feelings for his descendants might be assuaged by the reflection that, in all new creations, ancient lineage and historical associations, as well as large possessions, are generally taken into amount; that if his descen dants again became wealthy their claims to Peer ages would be preferred. " MANKIND,' lays SYDNEY SMITH, "are much like the children they beget. They always make wry faces at what is to do them good, and it is mower, sometimes to bold the nose, and force the medians down the throat. They enjoy the health and vigour consequent upon the medicine. but cuff the doctor, and spatter at his stuff." For some reason or other, few prescriptions have proved so nauseous to the British patient as that constitutional remedy else where so universally adopted, and with such signal benefit to the health of the body politic—s Depart ment of Public Justice. The old delusion, indeed, which formed a main article in the political creed of nine-tenths of the nation in the days of Lord &Dow, ham long eines been dimipated. The laboon of ROMILLY, and Baououut, and BENTHAM have not been is vain. Mu are now everywhere eon rimed that however excellent oar laws may be in themselves. yet the mode of their aderiniatratices, and, above all, the shape is which they are suffered to exist, " if shape it can be called which shape ham none," is unworthy of the enlightenment of the age and disgraceful to the character of the coun try. Unconnected efforts, highly laudable in therneelvee, bat eminently unsatisfactory in their results, have in various directions been made to get rid of the acknowledged scandal of abuses which no one any lector seeks to defend or has yet proved able to destroy. Outside the walla of Parliament the Law Amendment Society has taken an honourable lead in the assault ; in Parliament itself Committee after Committee he. been formed, and Report after Report been added to the existing mam of printed lumber under which the spirit of vigorous legislation lies hopelessly buried. There he. been a vast apparatus, but oo reault—inflnite preparations for doing,bnt nothing done. There in un diminished enormity, be:heroes and shapeless, still spreads out "huge in bulk ' the unwieldy body of the Statute Law. Vaster and more unmanageable still, OMNI loads—ay, ship loads—of ever-accumulating volumes burden the shelves from which the English lawyer hes to educe for the English litigant the pria oiplooaad precepts of the unwritten law. Earnest men, weary of the results of the past—justly apprehending that a monotony of repeated efforts and repeated failures is likely ere laeg thoroughly to disgust the public with the very name of Law Reform—have at length set their faces resolutely towards the only remedy whisk has not yet been tried amongst us, and which English memos sense and continental experience alike recommend as the sole method of treatment likely to prove truly effeetual. It is with 'liners @adoration we perceive, from the report of the Law Amendment Society meeting on Saturday lust, that the Law Reformer have at length agreed to concentrate their energies on a single point. Rightly feeling that the &Nooses of all measures of Law Reform meet mainly depend upon the presence in Parliameet of a State functionary specially charged to forward and superintend them, the friends of improvement have agreed to " go in " for the appointment of a Minister of Public Justice. There can be no doubt they are right. In the existing state of public and professional feeling with regard to the amendment of the law, the preemie, want of the time is not so much the industry, knowledge, and zeal of individual reformers—all these exist in abundance—but the right direction and doe organisation of individual exertion, under the superintendence of a Minister specially and solely charged with the work. The thing needed—aeLord STANLEY, with that statesman like acumen which so rarely fails him, told the meet ing on Saturday—" is organisation and system to give unity and dilution to 'Lee which other. wise are in great danger of being wasted I what we want is a little more driving power--a little more propelling force to overcome the resistance of inte rested parties." Mr. NAPIII, who also spoke with greet spirit and ability, declared that in his opinion " the appointment of a reeponsible Minister of Justice to direct and untie the laborite of others, we. the real key—the tree Malakhoff of the poeitioa ;" and he pledged himself (a vow which we trust he will lose no time is making good) "not to desist from his attacks on that stronghold till he had carried it or knew the reason why." As far as we are concerned, we willingly tender him all the assistance in the prosecution of so useful an enterprise which it may be in our power to give; nor do we think there is any danger of his failing to find a very effectual support in the general feeling of the public. The case, indeed, is really too plain a one to need any elaborate arguments in its support. Every one who has ever thought on the subject is fully prepared to admit the indispensable necessity of having our laws looked after by somebody. It is universally re cognised as expedient that efforts should be made by the State both to re-mould the legislation of the past and to watch vigilantly over the legislation of the future. That the law officers of the Crown are nom. petent to such a work is a notion too weakly Utopian to be any longer indulged in even by the moat confirmed optimist who ever gave in an unqualified adhesion to the creed that whatever is is right. To believe this is simply to believe that the three most busily occupied mein in the three kingdoms are qualified to undertake a task which demands, and would most laboriously em ploy, the whole time and the undivided attention of one of the ablest men that can be found, having him self a special aptitude for the work and being em. powered to command the aid of an ample staff of well qualified assistants. Sir FITZROY KELLY indeed, with his usual talent for minute objections, seemed to find in the difficulty of procuring an adequate man for fill ing the office, an objection against creating the office at all. On this head it is sufficient to remark that the ex perience of Europe is the other way, nor is there any reason to apprehend that the man need long be want ing if the place were once rightly constituted. To go no further than the present Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is to go far enough to show that the objection of Sir FITZROY KELLY is utterly destitute of all foundation. The administrative ability evinced by Mr. BAINES; as President of the Poor Law Board, could not be employed more usefully to the country or more creditably to himself than in the arduous but honourable poet of Minister of Public Justice. The choice of the man, however, is not the question of the moment ; the immediate and urgent object is the creation of the office. In this view we feel that lad Saturday's meeting of the Law Amendment Society, expressing as it did a very influential and wide-spread public sentiment, ought to have great weight with Government and the Legislature. When Education, the Army, and Public Justice are each placed under the control and superintendence of a responsible department of the State, we shall feel that considerable progress has been made towards the reform of our military system, the national in struction of oar people, and the substantive improve ment of our law. THI DANISH SUCCESSION. This day buboes Wood as a parliamentary return le as aidren of the neon of Ceetaiessoi copy of the pro tocol of Warsaw. relative to Deals► eseseemos, and of the mural of that tlonwassit by Ruda is 1862. la t►e pra ting the two Norte if Copealageo sad of Br. Petersburg agree, "That bit /dejesty the hag of Denmark shill tie *mate the Prises aid Prise= of Oleeltaboarg conjointly as heirs priseuptive of Mt wows la case the sate line • the drawly ettaally reigsiog should berme satinet." The reword of the treaty is 1862 Y soataimed is t►e fol low's,: ITIOII OF • FOTO £DDPIUID IT 'MOON 111711- POW TO 111 MOIST= 701 DIINIIADX. Lonna, April 26 and May 8. 1852. The modernised, Zany Estreesdiany and Minion Plealpoteatiary el his Majesty the Empires of ell no Rar slsa to her lititeseis Majesty, basin bees authorised to sip the treaty, entladed this day tosjoiatly with his la. wellesey the Chamberlain de Bilk, Savoy Matremdinaty sad Minister Pleniyo•eatiary of his Manny the Mimi of Des lark, has been sedated to Mauna to him at the same tins the proems nen, he the purpose of familia; sad re nown, the reserves matelind la the Preload of Warsaw, of May 24 and Jane 6, 1851; ',hies, eftee banes remind the masties of his Majesty the Imposer of all the Beesiee, ard of his Majesty the King of Meanest, was asenyed I. the kaewledas of the Canasta who bays eigeett the poem Tie third paragraph at tb. Protocol above amatioaed is weadood la then term : rr Wisblag oa ►is part to templets tb• tNr ressltiai from times reilisseistielle, mad thee to ant am arrsagetseat Irbil* would be et seek Mph Maperlesme fee the waists a saes of lb* Dash& stemsrelry Is Its integrivr. bit Nefesty We /Emperor of al the ReaSasos elgtot of the slur breach or Holstein Golorp, wool& be tour, to reroutes tbe rim►l. wide b bolos' to hist is favour of Primes Chrietiam of Cilasksboarg, sod of bit Massie. Nem rthelsos it is aadsrsu 01 that tha ereateal rights of the two youager kudos of Hohtsia Oattesp sb•ald be sepremly rimer d. "That them whit* the sagest chef of the elder teem& should absados for himself, sad for his male Ramie, in Amer of Prises Christian of Oailksbourg, sad of his ask lamp, shield he revived is the Imperial Ream of Boris whomver (which God forbid) the male Mame of that Primes should become Whist. " That insomuch a tee rentholatioa of ►Y Ifojeaty t►s Eupora would peal) .lly have fa Ito objet to failitato Y arrangement ailed for by the add lamesto of the tae• patchy, the offer a oar► a reamsenstion wo all awe to he obligatory. It thoareasiment handmaid fail." Ia reaewisg, by oast of hie govirearat, dm marvel above nthatiomod. T►e Usdersissed, &e. TBE METROPOLITAN POLICE. .-.,. This asoreiale have been Weed the accounts, sheering the sew naked sad ezpeaded for the purposes of Lte llefropelitas Pclies, piliee ettpereanaatioa lead, public terrines, sad polies can't., ha the year ended Dee. 31,1866. Yoe tile foreleg of the Metropolitaa Polies the's w la head is Jae. 1, 1866, a balsam of 63,7811. fe. 74. The Iseal sea reoeieed dada,/ the yam w, from the pubdats, 333,6711. 17s. ; freet the Temeary, 100,4731. 13e. 44. The seed sew raid for the Ketrop dhaa Pollee derieg the year was 406.1461. 111 e 84. A Mimes Is I. Mad 044410 AL 7.. Id. Ie the pollee seaereaseetisa feed the ready% of tho yes, wore 68,831 L Os. 44 ; the emseat of Mak Is 84,1761.0.. 64. Ie the estvies of psi& anima of the moweydis 10,9111.115.114. has bora nosimd, sod a Wiese of rseeipts am ezpowilters females of 11W. 11. 11d. TM ;Meat reetivad la Um Denim of taws pll. touts ilarim U. year. haslsOlasi • Mimes of 2,11111. Ith. M. sus 114,7831 12s. It 610211. Os. 61. ham beam oapeaded. sod • Oslmso rossalas of 1.7621. Ils. 64. TM greatest simsbor et fess, maaltlss, sad fishiest,. bays Nom levied at ths Tbssoso emit; , ho last at WsotaaMstor. appeadix ft the rasa smaillee the Mel ems Merged apes sad received fr ma every paralt, temetalp, prosiest. a 4 plea kr the porpoise of the Metropolitan robe. Deatetieg the sweat esalribsted as the sapersassetien ilas eateries of maerietreem clerks, be, are es %Uwe: —Ose megielnir, •1 1,6001. per mann, 1.344/. lii Id. ;20 weestresse. at 1.1001. per swam seek, 211,80111.; 23 Marks, at ellialthle owyby hos 100/. M 6001 per man. 6.701..8.. /61.; 12 saws. polite, naremagere, 4,2331. Or. U: TM statheir of the Netrepel.ten Palm me as Ulm§ : - isepemisy esperisteadeat, at 6001, par maim ; 1 inmeriesadent et 4401. ; 1 et 16 et MO& ; 1 at MU There am 1311 laspanore-3 et 3001. pee mass ; 3 at lib. 6..; 4et ;1 et 1631. ;1 st 1431. ; 6a MU ; 17 at 811. 18i.; sad 106 at 1181. 61. Then are 633 ormirsam, 7 st 188/. 44, per earie, 11/ et Sit 181. ; lat 761 141. ; 617 at 631. 14,. There me 4 992 ioeetahles. 2at 761. per seem 18 et 722. 121. y st 201. 41.; 3 et 671. 12c; 1 at 631. lb; 6 at SOL 16r. Phut airs, 1,4105 at MI 12..; armed flask 3,46 s at ps. Os. TM sommears sad essitablee are snowed Mabee sad ovals, 1 40 lbs. sash weekly is sob merried sea all the year, sad 401 M. weekly te mob slash aea devise six menthe, sad 20 lb.. weekly thrills the remainder ef lb. year. The to•al emu* of the eseirm °qua rolls. how is 6,763, sad lb. Metal &mouse of their pay 311,3101 11.. 4d. SACRED HARMONIC goctßTN.—The third and ORB. pvfrroone. of Mr. Cers's or.torio " Eft" e+iL 1 ars plus at Easter Hall, so Prissy Distal. The Royal Southern Yacht club Hoeft at South ampton is advettissd to br sold or lot. Ine Court. The Queen held • Privy Cauncil et three o'clock yesterday aftersoos Barkinehisn Palace. It was at tended by Prime Albert, Earl Granville, Lord Presiden t; Viscount Palmenton, First Lord of the Treasury; Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment ; Lord Penman, Secretary of Stets for Wu ; the Right Hoe. R. Vernon Smith, President of the Beard et Control; the Right Hon. M. T. Haloes, Chancellor of the Daehy of La , cuter; the Doke of ArgyJ, Pratt:miter- General ; the Margate or Breadelbane, Lord Chamberlain ; sod the Duke of Wellington, Muter of the Hone. The Hoa. Wm. Bathurst as. the Clerk of the Canton la Waiting. The Qum gays sedienees to Viscount Palmentu, Earl Granville. and Lard Palmer.. Her Majesty was attended by the Earl of Malgrave, re Tasurer of the Household ; Lord Ernest Brume, Vice. Chamberlain: Viscount Deumlanrig. Comptroller of the Household; Rol Somers. Lord in Waiting ; and Mr. B. Ormsby Gore, Groom in Waiting. Prince Albert rods oat bareback with the Prises of Wales and Prince A:fred in tt e forenoon, attended by Captain De Plat sad Mr. °ibis,. TM Goan bad a dinner p trty in the evening. The coespeay iseluded the Priam. Royal, the Lord Chine nor and Lady Ciasworth. the Archbishop of York, end Hon. Mrs. Musgrave the Netherlands Minister Baron Bentinek, the Frogman Minims r Count Bernstorff, L rd George Len n nt, Lord Burghersh, Lord West, the Right Hos. W. B. sad Mrs. Gladstone, Lady Peel, Captain Williams Peel, R.N., and Sir Charles &seek*. TO* band of the Soot. Fusilier Gouda war in atteadaaee, and played daring dinar. A deputation from the Corporation of Moodiest/rt., ma elating of air B. Armitage, Messrs. Aldermen Baaeroft, Shan!swarth, Reysong, sad W&•kina, Mr. Goodsby, and the Toga Clerk, accompaalid by the Right Hon. T. M. Gitsio, M.P., had an interview mitt) Bir George Grey yesterday, at the Home ofllee, arm the abject of the Polies Bill. - The R•gt.t Roo. T. M. Giblets. M.P., 84 Elkanah Armitage, and the Tows Cirri of Manchester, had ea laterview with Mr. Secretary Laboeehere yesterday, at the C nial-oMoe. This morning, shortly altar ten o'clock, her Majesty,accoapanied by their Royal Menem. the Primers Royal and Priem* Alice left Beekiagbana Palace in an open carriage, aiteadid by the Coastal. of Daman, Major General Beaveris, and Cap•als Da Plat, for the Royal Zoolagisaliardians, Regeat's park. The Royal party to. maimed la the gardens a rionsii.erable time. _ _ _ ... The mortal remains of the late Duke of Norfolk ware ( pulped to the family null, at Arundel, this morals, with heraldic hosown. Viscount Combermers has been suffering trots a MVO?* attack of she prevailing Influenza. at Costbsrsasto Abbey. His lordship has now quite nieovered, and coins his sisal riding exurbs movers' hours daily. The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress have boned cards of invitation for a dinner at the Mansion Home °a Wedamday neat, toe e t the Americas Minister previous to his deg arture for the Coked St les. and to which away of the merohan's surged In the Ameraan acid Canadian trader, member, of the Home of Commons and of the Cor poration hive been invited. On this day and to-ororrow the stock and copy right of the Standard Novel. and P. manors V the present day will be submitted for s la at Hodgson 's rooms, at the eoruer of Ckaaseery-lane. The oollection comprises the works of Captain Manta!, W. H. idaawell, Theodore Hook, Tom Heard, Lever, Miss Ferrier, Fenimore Ccoper, Merrier, Mu. Trollop., Mre. 0 ire, 0. P. R. Jaws, Capt. Chaster, Albert Smith, aad ether,. , There ia s rumour, that, in order to relieve the oommanders' hit of man old Oilcan, and au enable Sir Charles Wool tv bring fo-ward f employment a nambir of the raieg young men, a turculer ht.' been istned fr)IIII the Admiralty I, • certain number of oosamanders, offering t place them, after the lit of July, on the retirel bet of cep taiga, with a half pay of 10a. 6d. per diem.. His Excellency the Governor of Malta has granted • pardon to Liestesset Montgomery, of the 7th Fusiliers, lately seateseed to three soothe iteprisnoment for ssit behari Jur In the eathedrel et Ci to Vt cchia, and roasting the potce. The elder offender, Lieutenant Hodgson, ILA, committed to tour stoat& imprisoontent, has not bees in cluded in this act of elesneeee. It is mid that the Ottoman representatives in Pais fully impact that the Subbase Porte will be called ■pen to make harbor ceseassions, and the tayien is attri buted to Atli Pasha (wbo was educated at Ports, and has a smattering of Mat a-um), " It is the fable of the horse who called the man to assist it to revenge itself span t' e stag." M. de Otrardia is said to be about to minute his well known essay entitled " Pais," is which be calls for the Imeatdiate dea'raetion of Gibraltar. Another pamphleteer of Paris demands that Ilaglsui abandon the islands of the Greek Archipelago ; while a third !mists that we restore to Prance the various historical documents and ancient ma nmeripts takes, he says, at Paris in 1815 by the Doke of Wellington 1 M. Lainartine is said to be revising for the press aow volume of pens, *stled 0 Des lllollop. " The Cossatutionnel says that the decoration of the Louvre has rc:opied anon than 1,600 sculptors. A letter says that it was rumoured in Madrid that Gemini Canrohert is to b appointed French Minister in that capital, in the r aore of the Marcelo de Teryrt. The Obsercateur de la Corse has just received a frit wain', for iewerting an article "ot a astute to ex cite discontent sewage oae clue of clients, and to impede the el, cation of the law for abolishing the right of com monage la Corsica." LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD THE PEACE CONFERENCES. AN ARNIISTICE. The Monittur of this day announces that the first sitting of the Conferences,which took placeyesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, lasted till half• past four in the afternoon. It wu agreed by the Phnipotentiaries that an armistice shall be concluded between the belligerent form, which is to terminate of right on the 31st of March next. This armistice is to have no effect on the blockade, now established, or that may be established. The Asbatt of this morning states that in their sittings the Plenipotentiaries follow as to precedence, not, as has been stated, the alphabetical order of t h e names of the Powers represented, bot the order in which the representatives have been presented to the sovereign. Accordingly the places to the right of Count Walewaki are occupied by Lord Cla. rendoa, Count Boo', Count de Cavour, Count Orloff, and Aali Poch*, and the places on th• left by Lord Cowley, Baron Hubner, Marquis Pee de Villamarins, Baron de Brunow, and Me. hemmed-Djemil Bey. The following is a despatch from Berlin dated yes. terday :—" A cabinet courier has arrived with des. patches for Count Orloff at Paris. It is said that Russia consents to what is demanded relative to the islands of Aland and Kan." AUSTRIA'S LAST ~ AMNESTY." The accounts from Italy indicate no disposition on the part of the Lombardo•Venetian exiles to avail themselves of the " amnesty" just accorded them by Austria. It seems that to enjoy it they most not only demand permission to reside in their country. but must make known the causes which led them to quit it, and pledge themselves in writing to conduct themselves loyally and obediently in future. The Gazette (Yield& de Savoie, an organ of the Pied• montese government, has an article upon the subject in which it says: Al is remarked at Torte, we eau only see in the general amnesty accorded by Austria ('or the fourth or fifth time, it we mistake not) a clever trick, devised to throw dust lathe oyes of the members of the Cona r mi. This worm•sstea power, which ooly extraordinary duplicity and knavishness have sustained so long, has its chief defence in dissimula tion and astutenew. These are the arms of the decrepid, but Auttia wields them, it mast be c teased, with ability. In Piedmont this act natur►lly occupies Public opinion. We can wall understand that the sentiment of nationality which dominates over est ry other in the breuts o! Italians— leads them to contains with distrust this new act of a foreign power whose domination in the north of Italy has es to fatal, end spinet which, in Fp tt of the treaties of 1815, they kayo ever protested. To what, in fact, does the Austrian amnesty amount? Is Vie Cabioet of Vienna dis posed to enter Ilion a new path? The jources of Tulin do not think to. Austria has always limited its atones iris to the decla- ration that the soverament is dig) red to raise the sequestration of the prcperty of the emiyrds provided the ledividnals who wll profit ,by the m. wore submit to e rta'n eoadiiions. Then follows • hateful bsrgain, he who =Mall to which is not an honourable mw. In the present co e, • statesman who has long pretested against the Austrian dominion is to humbly bow the had and avow himself Tar quished—for a recunisry motive. We repo., sash a btuoilistion is impossible. FRANCE. The usual letter of our Paris correspondent, dated yesterday evening, has not come to hand. COUNT WALEWSKI. The Dikes says of M. Walewski, who is the President of the Puce Conferences: " He has qualities which peculiarly qualify him to preside ever a small as sembly of slalom t and able men. He is himself a most distinguished man of the world, of amiable distoeition and massacre, at all times benevolent and courteous. Is his premeee there to no reason to dread that the bounds of dm bate will be transgressed, or the orator be eatried beyond pro priety by strong love of light and the legitimate orlon! of petrione sea'. Though still young, Count Walewski is quite a uterus in diploasaty. Tecati-five years ago he recueteatell at Paris aid London the provisional govern meet of Poland when in insurrection against the dominion of the liossians ; in 1840 he ens sect to Mel emst Ali, the Pacha of Egypt, on a mission matured to him by M, Thiene, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Conecl of Ministers under King Louis Philippe; after whirls, M. (*Mint sent him n another mission to the provisoes of La Plata; in 1819, he was the French Minister-Plenip.tee Cary at the tout of Tuscany; in the follo cis( year, the French government charged Walewski to represent it in the same cape ety at the mart of Naples, where he remained till 1862, when he was named Ambassador to the Queen of Great Britain. The pedigree of Count Colones Walewski is a twat illutrioaa one, which is always an advantage in ad p•omstic mutably; b. is descended from a branch of the Dalian family of the Colones, which las given to the church nne pope and some cardinals, and has supplied she cart of Home, and the Kings of Fresco and if Spain with ceebrated g le and skilful nem Caton. A Colons., in 1507, was Grand Constable to King Ferdinand the Catholic " RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 14th inst., in the National Zeiteng, states that up to that &Wino orders had been given to the workmen employed in building the 131-gun steam line-of-battle ship Witiaz, at Nicolaitff, to suspend their work, and that nothing had transpired to lead to the belief that counter orders would be usned to stop the concentration of the naval militia at Revel, Croottadt, St. Peters. burg, and Sweaborg. Letters from Genitchi etete that the fortifications being erected by Prince Labanow-Hostowsky for the defence of that place and of the bridge connecting the continent with the Spit of Arabat, were so far finished as to be able to withstand successfully any attack that might be attempted on the part of the French and English ships of war. BERLIN, MONDAY. Accounts from St. Petersburg etate that an impe rial ukase orders that up to the let of January, 1857, salt may be imported into Russia by the Atm. Irian and Moldavian frontiers, by ()dews and the ports of the Danube, on payment of a duty of 19 kopecks per pud. PRUSSIA. The committee of the Prusiso Chamber of Depu ties, in their report on the bill for authorising the use of the extraordinary war-credit, express them selves u follows : The menthes s of the committee, convinrcd of the truth of the srgsmenta brought forward by the Mintster-President, are of opining that, under present cireumEsnres, tke rea sons which require Prussia to hold her military form in medicos, so as to be in a state to up I every kind of agarresios, and also in the m.natiioe .trite of the great European Powers to take that p.r• odi ct corm. p aids with LAM interests and duties as a member ut Ott confederation, have not yet mated to 'ant. Teo iamb. rs of the com mittee recognise that the country ui tto feel grareful to his M y's government for having !..1 ured to Prussia, dur mg a truest period, bo It peace and the rigl t of un biassed decision. The air nlt ss unanimously I r pose the adoption of the pr, jest of lift pre:tend by the government. 7