The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-19 00:00:00

1 vir•ifti. PARLIAMENT. MOUSE OF COMMON k.—WkEtnitur, Jun 18. Tb. OWES& Ica dos chair .t 12 (Meek. PRIVATE BUSINESS. ancom zr Enaineu.—Camere way ( s Coslhrook Steam Coal mad `No. 2) Rill. TIMM t, Markets, wain. sad RIR per Estate Bill. 1,11111111.011•11 1 161 eft BILL 0511135 TO LIB vron TIM RwanAasral Cemetery Bill.—Cirdsred waled_ MC BUSINESS. TIE TRUCK norm IN SOCTII STAFFORD. SHIRR Mr. T. DUNCOMBE pot th• wadi" e( which lo tad sires snip, to the tictreaffy kit ra Rees Departneat, If he had takes say sad whet infs. ansepeoace et a imisooni Oat had Mrs heworied W bin be week's= ea peeped is the miens diarist of Ikea Statealei&e, taw *maim( a the preveknee of tank is OM dilutes, aad that ins tit an Inn arooply eesemed tble Mien Mae wit that of Matra Maas ea& MIK eon of whit ins, Mery Mill, being • *ir of the pens, set aft As and sob la petty scram . Int is sasisMit einbirmilf "Mtn serious, whereby the difficulty of tie answelaliete ea Ann justice sad to ounces the law was vraleela_lkhareesed ? Sir O. ONEY mined tint Mr. Min had bees applied . to sail had 'opining Ben he bad mar Wen elf _KIM part in the armament ef wry maiser-41101 Irn hail sow oared to bar as pecumary interest whereat ha say soldiery. Ile (Sir G. Grey) feared that the lase spawn wee caseadiug in South Staffordshire ; bet la herd that gentlemen engaged in collieries or mines, ma The at the same WIN were magistrates, would use thole ittniest ewer Boas to prevent infrusgemeats of the law in Ws respect. PA IiOCIIIAL ASSESSMENT. Mr. W. PATTEN asked whether it was tha lineation of the government to intruduce daring this realm emy arms en the subj, et of parochial assessment. Sir U. le REY replied that lie did not thiak it meld be possible to bring in any such bill this session. NEW Alta FOR BATH. Sir R. INGLIS moved for aI ew writ for Bath for a member to serve in the place of Lord Ashley, called to the ROOM of Peers. The Ira. barest book this opportunity of eulogising the character sad this eiroiees of Lord Ashley. Me wr prieeediog to refer at Nag* te the various acts of Lord Ashley's hie, when Mr. FOksTEll. interfered, and cenplairied that the hon. baronet ought not to base taken so moans' a emir with out giviog notice. (Hear) TheSl hon. baronet is awls. • new writ, sad a in order. Mr. W. WILLIAMS thought that it was disrespectful to the house to occupy attention with such a matter when the sitting was Incited to sin hours, and when important busi ness stood on the paper. (Hear.) Sir IL INGLIS had not expected that any bon. member would grudge a lee moments to en expression of sym fri :t2 at the departure loom that house of the friend of the lam. The hen. baronet then abruptly terminated kW speak and saved that the writ be issued. Mr. BROTHERTON concurred in the hon. baraset's view of the meritorious services in the cause of the poor of Lord Ashley. Mr. FoRSTER begged it would be understood that he had only interfered, in the belief that tho hon. baronet was out of order. Sir 0. GREY was sure that the house would cordially concur is. the admiration expressed by the hon. baronet, of the career of Lord Ashley; and be hoped that that noble lord, in his new sphere, would sucasfally continue that career. 1 he writ was then ordered. SUM )AY T RADINO PREVENTION BILL. TIM order of the day fur the adjourned debate (on the motion to go int.. committee) on this bill was then read. Mr. W. WILLIAMS complained of the numerous and impracticable amendments in reference to this bill, which had been put upon the paper by the hon. and learned mem ber fur Youghal (Mr. Ansley). This was a bill demanded by the metropolis, and of which the majority of the metro- politan members hail approved; and it was altogether un justifiable for au hon member in no way connected with the metropolis to offer a factious opposition to such a Reason Mr. ItOEBCCK denied that this was a bill of which metropolitan members only were called on to ex press approval or disapproval. This was a measure totally uncalled (or ; and as it now stood it was simply so much mote nailer. This was a bill which wan. to prevent the "selling, vending, hawking, or crying," of " any goods, chattels, matters, or things when server," after U u clock on the Sundt, morning. This Was the sweeping enactment of the bet clause. Theo came the cleeptions. Apothecaries, dmellib, and chenille were ezeepted. But why were the via= if "milk nil cream" to br excepted ? The hon. and usual 'endgames then commented upon the great number of articles the sale of which on Sundays, provided it wax widish the pow scribed hour-, was exempted from penalty; 1161111Miall .et these exceptions would leave the practice of fluindny tmiteg pretty much in the same state as it now was. Pamirmight sell beer at a price under three-halfpence a quoit, or ginger-beer. or any newspaper, or other periodical paper." A newspaper' WWI a newspaper a necomary of life? What wee the peculiarity of a newspaper at Wed be hawked on Sundays? But that was Mg MIL The next exception wax that the act should no t app s) to "any person selling or vending, or offering or ex be sale, tobacco, after the hour of one of the clock in the afternoon." Was there ever such an idea heard of as the permission to hawk tobaren—negruhrail or cigars, the simulation of genuine to• ham ? Was not this literally making a farce of the sub ject? He hail no doubt his hon. friend was moved by the desire of interfering as little as possible with the conve lIICIICC of the people, but how were these nice distinctions to be observed Still the exceptions went on. The eft was not to *fleet any moon vending or eeang for We " fuel , food, or f~' beam 10 deka to the owning, or any peak milky in his awn dwell ing.place to his lo g os r to roma' ea board steamboats really -dread pawkiest, liquors, or fe tes-Milos-Ma" That, of course, (sided every spooks of fermented liquor. No that after all Moos olooptiemi any man might sell beef or any kind of hod, or say kid of corn before It/ o'clock in the meek& Oil hawk sews papers or any other emeignsileg y eker !,,Re wasted to er know what as really elivotol laM; beaks if it effected nothing more time woo controbemiled in the exist ing law that wail a sulkiest reuses be throwing it out. Tae wernhiseey employed by hit hos. kind to put hie bill to gawks sea meat extraordinary. Ho had sot yet as. with Me essoptions. Hem we another. Hie bus. Maid looked to mom that the sissfiess of his bill shoal not extend or apply to "any lissesd Metealler, or the houpse of any inn, tavern, harl, polikhoese, or mbar teem licensed for the ode of ossiembk fermsoloi as dhelhsd liquors, coma* hie emilsey feeds." He iambi suit W hoe. hired of a postosee. Hi hes. hind NM he wet very aaakso abset the walks, et oasis anon of the pope, and he wanted to give them • be the wok. se Why did he (Mr. Roebuck) ; he tae mesh M give t hem a real holiday ; but ho Kan* thought hie ben frees west the right way to work. Whom wiso his assisty fee the kepi rs of public-hew% booraimpa, and vielmmiling homes? He weak to have se nee wheemer ka than peesons. (A laugh.) It was slid there wove Win penes* in London who wanted to abut up Oa' asp et Sendeys. But if they weft mad why they al est at me, what wea their swam ?—. Oh, if I ask up way dasp, ay soighbour them, who Niko the same she e, would km knee enstoes, ea he limps hi they epos." Now. weal ay teli las thst aan ADM rokrisso, and Assand. brairwe mush be Mik shoot soak maker% wield ma obi* up shop Wan kb aviiflersor might maks a tittle mkt masoy. (Usu. hem.) The bat was, the bill was mini be ami Waned be. wesibbe pine prem. het woad the been meshes sash rearhari. mil ash pe. testes to ,ltl s.l ay the amok Oran plea= had atiaturd .swe ar nee ail web iworhed ea op Cl:be sob within be panned bass. be did nit with to say anythisg spina polimmes I they wore a 'soy regal body of ma, withset whoa Ina ate amid set le whet it was. But he amid sot IMPS the dam of poem hen when they was seV age / eruitesl, and vas It ors seeenary to ant the that they did net milwasst the parrot the te that own selfish mamma. (Hear, boar.) lien by the moo clause, power am pins be the junket te Area el goads so wised to be mold able these deqy is awe b abseil be paved that the mom had beat prearaly oar noted a may _Mem win the peabiews the mai so k ahem he shall ea mar auplienies he the nenalles ef the gado Whin the lea a 11 en Ober at the theme hips wet taw* sea mesa.. He wished to has if mew ken was such a power given to • Janice balm ? ammo that his geode happened to be mined, hod la, mot k skewed three days to maker widak ape= mattreetiok nsagistrato night, teLtla So whet he Mod 111•01 them (Ham, km.) Mrs halo be me not of litigation with Nepal to dr Vat atlas what arab psis were espial kr aka floppeate the wish a be paeans to le • kw alemen bet. or the walla of the radar to be a few mbintes tisk &motes wail at ease mime me to whether the set bad boas violated ee set 1 12=glz in this way would they ma be ld etultipiyng wou not such }awes" toad to depute the poorer population ? He wail bat ask, was then a wrosseity for this bill ? and next, did the ball amomplish what the present law did not ? He sessidered this to be an unwise and cruel measure, and be utterly mediated it. (Hear, bear) Mr. SPOONER considered many of the is the mamas inexpedieat, and mai the ha. arm to withdraw it. Sir. W. CLAY, bele/nisi le would elevate the onaties of tho is, working slam meaprove essentially beneficial ia the metropol somparma doe brn. Mr. W. J. POI amassad ups the mimeo time that had been put isps the ie .a. of *b atmen. He behoved thet it wee la WI Ws' Wive act to Raise& to sissy es , ornate sto satisfy at once the cammigeoes mei the amenities of dif ferent sects and dams. Let the her provide is It rest for the many see be newel l eis tearksTimg wtett; thefew. Hopeless of meempilking or amenelietory as nun be mad le saw te 'bats that peat bems—• seven* dayy of amain Me, mad boliang bet the day wee as prostat . peerelly elmenel whit propriety Ind de area he should vote - span mond* with the pasta 111101110. Lead R. GROSVENOR emppenell the bill. be O. GREY was Mekkooll that ume Mieshistien the tt b :r h ae . bereembin Thine age nosy emosalials sal it Dun e il sod Set _deaths, t e the heme essename ewe Issesest Is =rift era sash* to be ottelsoL Ho vellesal ama hip le ma the ememare pentthin stets, eel he sisal set abet& is the whit that a bald be roister and k ask Sir B. BALL chesselnded AS* a • samisen of seed ported Isgisssion. Mr. C HINDU'S poikloi art the ineseine, if sew rejected, would be hereafter twisted yea by the card tasty, sad become, is feet, • " \uplifts aseesso." Mr. T. DUNCOKBE beV es , esaftery *at dwellers is the artroplis, *s la% lashed with 'Wavier so elbo owposlodl le woo heaved shady by a marrow sod palm arise of the driers he Lashed'. Mr. TaWAViot Id.r. Alma= eared • few rearrita. The heap thee divided on the perks ot piny into eararitten Ayes 42 Noes The bill war eceseresstly lest. LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL. On the order of the day being seed far going into colli mates is this bill, Mr. MULLINOS explained the object et the riseere. As dr law u t stood, if • tenant died after having sews any pertfea of the land, hie oasseass were enelied to sae the portate without there Lag any el= lasir to seeks caugenallea le the His Ague was to gat as ed to as present ansasellas, rsd to provide that in sea asps as the ads of ter seep there should be a continuance of the adrift UMW up to as ind of the then current year. _The Mali dors reisbal to agricultural fi Mans, and be believed it amid abet se fa garment in the state of the law with softest to than. Mr. BERNAL thought the bill, epee the wiser, was • good bill, but dee fourth claw% giving the twat the r to remove hem buildings sad bares greeted by Srequired the Welooro of bee. members is eseraitter . HENLEY sal the 'brit se thse dare appeared to he to lsee the ham in the leas yeshiva as • *redeems, sod that he anddared wee a Jess grimisis. At the IMO One, it woe nesserry that the eared of the lead ord should be gives to the erection of heildings ea a hue. Sir G. STRICKLAND objected to the clause in ques tion, as be murdered these matters were better left to ar rangement between the landlord and the taunt. Mr. FRESHFIELD supported the bill. Sir G. GREY suggested that it would be better to die cuss the details in committee. Col. SIBTHORP objected to any interference by legisla tion between landlords and tenants. If they could not agree, let them separate. Mr. S. CRAWFORD thought the fourth clause was only such M simple and plain justice required. He feared it was the object of the landlord clam to keep tenants in a state of bondage, and therefore a bill of this kind was necessary. After a few words from Mr. Beat, Mr. HUME dissented from the statement of the hon. member for Rochdale, as showing the necessity of the bill. Mr. Spouse and Cul. DUNNE made • few remarks, and the house then went into committee. Clause I was agreed to with some verbal amendments. In clause 2 some verbal alterations having been dis posed of, Mr. HENLEY opposed the clause altogether, as being calculated to complicate the affairs of clergymen dying in the occupation of their glebes. Mr. MULLINGS supported the clause. Mr. SPOONER, being the executor of a deceased cler gyman who had farmed 400 acres of his glebe, had a prac tical acquaintance with the evils of the present sy.tem. He was unable to make any arrangement with the new incum bent, and that gentleman was deprived for some time of his income. On the other hand, if the clergyman had died at another part of the year, his family would have been the 'offerers. Sir G. GREY thought the difficulty of the hon. gentle man was an imaginary one. lie knew of no law to prevent the parties making an arrangement. Mr. BOUYERIE supported the clause, And, after some other conversation, the clause was with drawn. In clause 3, Mr. GRANGER said this clause bed been justified by putting a very extreme case. There was, however, a grow ing opinion that the landlord's powers of distress were very unfair to the other creditors, and he hoped, therefore, that the house would not increase these powers. The clause, at the best, was quite unnecessary. Mr. MULLINGS argued for the necessity of the law to enable the landlord to recover his rent. Sir G. GREY cousidered that the rights of creditors would he very materially affected by the clause. Mr. MULLINGS explained that such would not be the ease. _ _ The ATTORNEY-GENEItAL observed that if one exe cution creditor could conic in and obtain a preference over other creditors, there might be some pretext for altering the law of debtor and creditor; but as that law was fair both to the landlord and the execution creditor, they had better make no alteration. Mr. FRESHFIELD defended the clause, as affording justice to the landlord. Mr. HENLEY said that if the present state of the law were maintained, it wenn drive the landlords to put in die- teems quarterly. Mr. altANtilElt thought that it landlords adopted that tonne, they would raise such a norm of indignation as would sweep the law of distress from the statute book, as he had no doubt would be the ease ere long. Mr. BRIGHT said that the preference given to landlords had excited great discussion in Scotland and England. The report of the Devon commission went, he thought, to the same elect; and he suggested that the law should be left r it was, inasonneh as any attempt to bolster it up by a new enactment might lead to its being abolished sooner than it might otherwise have been. Colonel DI:NNE said that in Ireland anybody could ante crops except the landlord, who was continually cheated by fraudulent acknowledgments. After some further conversation, Mr. MULLINOS stated, in answer to Mr. Anstcy, that the bill gave no further power to landlords in England than they now enjoyed. Mr. ANSTEY objected to the retention of the words •' or otherwise," which might be construed to give land lords other remedies beyond distress. Mr. M'CULLAGII could not assent to the alteration of thi,liwofdisT;;;;pr;po.7ciliciiieeFause:By the act of 1846, the power of seizing the growing crop wan in Ireland taken from the landlord; but it was left to the ordinary creditor having en execution spinet the goods of the tenant. It was stated that facilities were than afforded for collusion, aa against the landlord, If that were so the remedy should be sought in the opposite direction, mad the right of seising the uneceured crop had better be taken away altogether. Undoubtedly it would be fairer to take it from both creditor and landlord than to leave it to one and not to the other. So long as the creditor retained the power the landlord would seek to regain it, awl so long the farming class would feel that they were in danger of !anv il:3:hr: old harness of prcedial esesalage fitted on them as ght •I'le'egi46. TO CORRESPONDENTS. fiscal Ohba if . The Japan. containing tba tam pantairs Cleartie," pnbibbed every Teaday sal Friday debt. bt taps kr pat. blverdsonicato Wended kr me Ezproa." Landon Vining peer, post be at dr Mee, 11 Iltrarark.atrest. W Two .'.la agi tir day et palisades. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BlliDdi Tau Dar—Mendair. 51. Va. -Afternoon. K. 40116 Tamassow—Morulag. IC 1I e. ..—.. Abram% IL MS. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 19. IN the sketch already given of the positions which the various states of tho Plate and Brazil occupy in relation to cechother, and the attitude the Diplomacy of England has assumed at Buenos Ayres and Rio de Janeiro, we have shown how, on regaining possession of authority in the Banda Oriental, General Oates, after the lawless fashion of a successful military chief in South America, levied reprisals on the great landed proprietors of that state who had supported the pretensions of his opponent, General RIVERA ; how he carried his exactions beyond the bounda ries of hie own republic into the Brazilian province of the Rio Grande, thence, it is said, carrying off, sr destroying, the almost incredible number of 000,000 head of cattle; how the Brazilian govern ment had tbsimatled satisfaction and redress for this attack ea Its territory and this plunder of its sub limes; how, whilst a discussion thereupon was in at Monte Video, the Representative of M i tte r r e :l l Roma at Rio appropriated to himself and to his master the defence of General ORIBE, and re quired the withdrawal of those Brazilian requisitions; how, on the Rio Cabinet declining to recognise any such interference on the part of Buenos Ayres in its controversy with Monte Video, the Minister of Buenos Ayres obtained his passports and withdrew, threatening hostilities; how Ros is immediately summoned the Chiefs of the other provinces of the Argentine Confederation to send contingents into the Banda Oriental to act, as he might deem n , against Brazil; how the Imperial Government, in self - defence, had advanced 12,000 troops into the province of the Rio Grande, and sent its fleet to the Plate to enforce, if required, its claims on Monte Video ; and bow UsQuizA, the military chief in possession of power, and at the head of some small army, in the province of Entre Rios, had taken ad vantage of these embarrassments to excite the other provinces of the Argentine Confederation to combine against ROSAS, in the hope of receiving assistance from Brazil, and still more, perhaps, with the expectation that the threatened league against }toms would retard, if not avert, the ratification by France of the treaties concluded by Admiral LEPRE DOUR in its behalf with General ROSAS and ORIBE— an expectation that seems not unlikely to be realised. Such is the position of these states to each other— such the internal hostility of parts of the Argentine Confederation to the Chief of its principal province. If our readers will look at the excellent map pre pared by Mr. ARROWSMITH, from materials fur nished to that skilful Geographer by Sir Wool). I BINE PARISH, on his return from Buenos Ayres, they will perceive that the Confederation, an enormous parallelogram upwards of 1,000 miles in length, and full 500 in bre ad th, is subdivided into no fewer than thirteen provinces. These subdivisons are, however, bound together by the very slightest general ties. Each is, in point of fact, independent of the other ; ruled by its own chief, and by an illusory form of representa tive government under his control; its mural population lazy and corrupt—its rural, wild and lawless ; central authority or power there is none; the connexion is rather geographical, and historical, and traditional than political ; repulsive, not homogeneous. Of these thirteen states, so in theory united, Buenos Ayres is, from position, population, and the character of its chief, by far the most important ; and, as it commands the mouths of the great highway by which all the rest are to be reached, to Buenos Ayres has been confided the representation of the Confederation in its foreign affairs; hence, to the rest of the world the Governor of Buenos Ayres represents and speaks for the Argentine Confede ration ; though practically, even in its foreign rela tions, that State has no real power over the union, and in the separate internal affairs of the other pro vinces, it bas not even the semblance of any. To Rests, the Governor of Buenos Ayres, has been attributed the design of recomposing tie old Spanish Province of the Plate under one, and, of course, his own government. Whether he really entertains any such desire, is scarcely worth an inquiry ; br it is an im possibility ; and, if it were not, he is hardly the hero destined to refound a state of that magnitude in South America. That part of his policy which is more t is the maintenance of his own power at Buenos Ayres, and the predominance of Buenos Ayres in the Plate. How he has hitherto secured the former, his enemies tell horrible, and in nll probability, greatly exaggerated tales. Certain it is, however, that he first recovered Monte Video and the Banda Oriental from the Brazilians, and, having brought them back to Spanish authority he has now (thanks chiefly, however, t o th e ambitious designs of Lorne PHILIPPE, who attempted to tarn Monte Video into a French colony) made them both subservient to Buenos Ayres. Hence, when difficul ties arise between the Banda Oriental and Brazil, he interposes on behalf of the former; and out of that interposition has come the embroglio already de scribed. Thus cheated, British diplomacy has again interfered in the dam of the Plate. Scarcely twelve months t i rl s tssi since it escaped from its former ember ia that river, involving an enormous cost to our Imam and our commerce ; and now it is, regard less et that experience, once more unfolding its web, as it this country had not sufficiently ex peened its Mike of snob meddlesome policy. The pretence, as usual, is a Treaty. It is, however, this time a treaty to which we wore not evea a formal ta. When, some three-.ad-twenty pore ago, r z a t ril and Buenos Ayyres wee fighting fir the Banda Oriental, Lord Pomon', then ma minister at Rio, mediated ; and, on the 27th of August, 1828, he procured the signature of those two govenments to preliminary articles of peace. When, however, they requested Lord PONSQNBT to maks Eagiand a formal andguaranteam party to arroagements, their he refused to involve itcpind by any me menu. By this treaty, the sung state= took to negotiate and mash& a definitive of peace and amity; ad by its 18th = they agreed that lartinnaly to its eraelasion, and during its negolialion, neither should moan inenos hootilitim without giving to England six months' nodal. The definitive treaty of peace has, however, sever boon • and it is under the 18th articled the platy that British dip iconacy.now 'aims to have a right to natively 'e tagere m this dispute between &mil and the Bands Oriental and Bones Ayres; whines, at most, all that Sagami le entitled to, is, mile setae eir to naive a notice d any intended Thietieim was made hy Mr. HUDSON, our Minister et Rio► ea the 13dt of March lest. It was, however, THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY' EVENING, JUNE 19, 1851. • tI:INDEPINDII24T ELECTORS ol 11011111100111 0111111111WW/L —A VIM. bi•tai WI/WA r lb. 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I law am ep to Was et Indoses. sal awe bend Ina MO Ma ssainlala assionlnl Tel Toe nay, Onts- OM% Pei lees / ay seppeedep sli wawa Main se lairirs tin woad Pei. anwesak W areseause at Its sysairy, tad =4, ems SA awe hassiefessiy mama your nal I natimals sad prlaslols• as solis. Waal • Ingo silsdly of per Inds: sad, lianas reeling sirs sinsais• assomonss al sopoort, flask wilt sceldsass M Us Is, of elsetlia yoa OM me wonky Os disdastros las lawn. at MO ~ I sew es I wad% San DA % BAL01101f& Kris Park, has la, IL% .owl &sally reJeded by the government of Brazil in two elaborate Notes bearing date the 24th of April and the WO May; Mr. HUDSON, on the one band, con- that, under the 18th article of Lord Pox postallja Treaty, Brazil and Buenos Ayres are obliged to give England six months' notice before they c an enter on hostilities ; and Senhor PAULIN°, arguing that the article refers restrictively only to a rupture arising out of questions in volved in the negotiations for the definitive treaty con templated by the preliminary Convention, and has no reference whatever to matters unconnected with negotiations for such a treaty ; otherwise theme two states would have deprived themselves of the power of attack or defence belonging to all communities. But, it is further observed by Senhor PAULIN°, the government of Brazil has no intention of making war on Buenos Ayres, and even were the article applicable, Brazil cannot, therefore, give the intima tion it requires. Any hostilities that Brazil may enter on will be against the Banda Oriental, and they, at all events, are clearly not included in the 18th article of the preliminary convention ; for if that article included such hostilities, why, it is asked, was it not appealed to by England in 1842, when Buenos Ayres invaded the Banda Oriental ? By what principle Gan the article, which was not deemed applicable to the Governor of Buenos Ayres in 1842, when ho attacked General Itivana, be so now to Brazil when it has a quarrel with General ORIBE ? _ Interesting, however, as such questions are to the governments of Brazil and Buenos Ayres, the question that concerns the people of this country, is the ex tent, if any, to which we are bound to interfere whenever disputes or differences arise in the Plate. Has England, or has it not, guaranteed the Conven tion of 1828 with all its results ; and if so, where is such guarantee to be found? Serious questions these are, seeing that the Plate is never free from embarrass ments. On the very eve of witnessing the signature of the treaty of the 27th August, 1828, Lord PoNSONBY ex pressly stated, we repeat, that he was not authorised by his government to contract any obligation in reference to it ; and ho refused to guarantee its stipulations ; all that he did was to mediate between the two states, and to attest the execution of the fruits of his mediation by the Brazilian and Buenos Ayrean Plenipoten tiaries. Consistently with this state of things General Rosss always repulsed our intervention when engaged in hostilities with RIVERA, and now when Brazil has a controversy in hand with the Bar.da Oriental, it equally denies the right of England to interfere. Here then is a consensus of testimony against our right to be perpetually meddling, making, and marring in the affairs of the Plate. What has the Foreign-office to oppose to it? To defend British subjects, when oppressed, in jured, and insulted, be it in Greece or in Venezuela, to Buenos Ayres or in Brazil, is the duty of British diplomacy ; a duty from which it will never, it is to be hoped, shrink when the necessity arises; never, we well know, so long as Lord PALMERSTON directs our foreign relations. But it is neither our duty nor our right to be restraining this country from war, putting pressure on that state to yield its just pretensions, rather than let it interrupt, by its hostilities, our commerce. Young states must grow; must learn from experience their own true policy; must, in the contest of nations, make their own way to greatness and power; and the more they are left to themselves, to their own free agency, the better for them, the safer for the rest of tho world. Let us, therefore, if only in the selfishness of our own interests, leave the Plato and its neighbours to pacify themselves. Taouon the Society for the Propaation of the Gospel is not a body that courts pub licity, or that recognises public responsibility, it is nevertheless very natural and very proper that once in fifty years at least it should give some account of itself and of its doings. And, though we, of course, can't swell the chorus of those adulatory strains raised by royalty, episcopacy, and aristocracy at its jubilee on Tuesday, we are 6. r from denying that the society may in the century and a half have performed many excellent services to the British colonies which are the especial field of its exertions; more, however, it is the opinion of close observers, to the church i than to the gospel. The society is, from its very constitution, from its traditions, from the rivalry which in the time of its apathy and slothfulness it excited in a more popu larly formed and governed association, from the hands into which its real management has now fallen, from the pretensions they have adopted, and from the whole tenour of its proceedings, the high est of all the high church bodies. Its affairs are, substantially, managed by the high church bishops and by churchmen higher in views than even they are ; as Mr. ERNEST HAWKINS, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, Mr. GLADSTONE, Mr. HUB BARD, and Archdeacon HALE—men of high charac- ter, pure lives, great ability, and much social influ ence ; but notoriously attached to, and actively en gsged in promoting those claims for the Church of England which, in the estimation of, as we believe, a majority of its members, interfere between it and the gospel it was instituted to propagate. This being the case, it may well create surprise, that at its jubilee, the principal speakers were not merely men who do not take an active share in the administration of the society, but were show per sonages, who, in point of fact, generally differ in principles from those who do direct its operations, who dissent from high church pretensions, and who really know little or next to nothing of what the society is about. To read, indeed, the orations of the chief lay speakers, it might almost be supposed that the jubilee had been celebrated in Exeter-hall, where evangelicalism and dissent delight to enjoy their triumphs, rather than in St. Martin's Hall, the spot where, twelve months ago, some 1,800 clergy of the church of England denounced the royal supre macy of the crown in affairs ecclesiastical. The skilful arrangement of the jubilee, adopted, it may have been, to cloak and conceal the true cha racter of the society in its existing developments, reduced, however, some curious results. There was rsince ALBERT, in that pleasant state of generalisa tion which characterises all his Royal Highness's agreeable and suggestive speeches, landing and praising (and not more than his memory and services to England and Europe merit) the presbyterian WiLwat 111. as the greatest of all our monarchs, to a society which sees only through the eyes and hears but by the cars of episcopacy. There, too, was Lord JOHN Russets. launching out into ecstasies as to the miraculous effects of circulating the Bible, to an association which only recognises the holy scrip tures as interpreted by the Prayer-book. Next, was Earl OBEY, at whose door, as Colonial Secretary, our bigots lay the encouragem e nt g i ven t o papa l aggresston at home by his recognition of Roman catholic epiaoopacy abroad, delivering himself of a homily on the policy of converting every emigrant into a church of England missionary. Then came Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, a gentleman who, though he refuses to defend the church when assailed in the realm, insisted on the necessity of its being 'ye in the colonies. In short, save for the es of a couple of bishops, who knew what they were about, the whole proceedings of this High Church Jubilee were served up on the occasion of the Royal Presi dency in very Low Church sauce; and many of the speeches might as appropriately have been delivered at a Bible meeting, or the Church Missionary Anniver sary, as at the semi-centenary rejoicing of the Society for Me Propagation of the Gospel. The whole affair wore very much the air and aspect of a sham. It was a sort of speech day for the Prince to praise the church, the bishops to praise the Exhibition, and the whig ministers to praise everything and everybody. Like the lady in the play, the orators one and all e l di : d O n nrtt e t i t t n s o g u sugge t t 7 t F e v o e ci " , e h t o y w has eve , r a , ai th d e D his uke gram of NEWan inome of " 83,0001. a year, besides 20,000/. for special objects." This enormous revenue it principslly spends in the colonies ; in planting what Lord HARROWBT, with more grandiloquence than accu racy, called independent episcopal communities," and in sending out bishops to superintend them. Well, then, is the church of England spreading and extending itself in the colonies? Does that church, thus largely and liberally assisted, make commensal rate progress in our tranamarine possessions? Does it, with this &5,0001. a-year, and with this society and its episcopal and aristocratic supporters at its back, far outstrip all other religions sects in the colo nies in sums, in numbers, in influence, end in hold of popular feelings and affections? This, we take it, is the test by which to try the society and the oolo nial churches it supports. Now,it is notorious that in our colonies the church of England has had little success—has made small way; that in importance, in usefulness, and in po pularity, various of what it would call dissenting sects have, even in their poverty, important ad vantages over the church; that it is the form of divine worship adopted in every colony by a small minority ; and that, were we to lose British North America and the Australian, as we did the United States, we should then have episcopacy at a great discount—a sickly infant in swaddling clothes. No doubt, it is true, as was so loudly boasted on Tuesday, that great efforts and exertions have of late years been made by the society ; excited by the rivalry of the Church Missionary Society, it has risen from its former apathy, and has sent forth its bishops by tens and its clergy by hundreds. But, what then? It does not follow that the church of England is making any real progress in the Cape of Good Hope, for instance, because Dr. GnaT is Bishop of Cape Town, because he has dubbed an episcopal chapel a cathedral church, and because, under his superintendence, the number of the clergy has been doubled or trebled. These and other such agencies for church extension in the colonies are means only, not ends; they may fail by their misdi rection in practical operation by reason of the prin ciples on which they are applied, because they are accompanied by pretensions on belief that are repulsive of church membership. And this, we arc afraid, is generally . characteristic of the society's opc- I rations and clergy in the colonies. Colonial society is essentially democratic, almost republican, in its tenden cies; the uses of adversity in the colonies everywhere develop self-reliance, ant throw men on the exercise of their own faculties and judgment. Of all things, then, ecclesiastical pretensions are most unsuited to gain converts and supporters in the colonies. Yet everywhere this society's adherents—its clergy, mis sionaries, and bishops—put forth those pretensions in their most offensive shape; in every colony they claim to constitute the church ; treat the ministers of other churches as Mr. Riciitaus does MERLE D'Ai.7- SIGNE at home—" mere laymen ;" refuse co-opera tion, fellowship, and intercourse with other orthodox Christians; and affect social superiority quite as re pulsive as their ecclesiastical pride. Non hie nosier sermo. Professor JOUNSTONL'S " Notes on North America" are perhaps the latest work (certainly of value) on any colony; and such is very much the account he gives of the Church of England in New Brunswick; there it has the active support of the See ,fiir the Propagation of the Gospel, and to that support it is that he chiefly attri butes its want of power and influence. The Bishops of 1.05005 and ()swim ought, therefore, to be careful not to blow the trumpet of this society too loud ; for such noise may attract serious attention to it; and may dirniiii,h its " income of 6.3,0001. a-year besides a special fund of 20,0001." Good it has, we repeat, done—much good. But none comparable with what its means, its position, its power, and its authority ought to have achieved. It has thought too much of the church, too little of the Gospel; and in the hands of ERNI:if HAWKINS has become a society for the propagation of tractarianism abroad; possibly in the hope, that, like young chickens, it will come home to roost, in the shape of synods, convocations, church courts, and church FRANCE. wEDNESDAY EYVNIXO. ..... The President will review the three divisions of the garrison of Paris respectively on the 21st, 24th, and 26th inst. On the 28th he will review the gar risons of Versailles and St. Germains. M. Lemulier presented himself yesterday in court before the Procureur of the Republic, who informed him that a juge d'inetruction was employed upon his ease, and that several witnesses would be examined to-day. The public continue to be occupied with this affair. The awkwardness of the case lies in the imposibility of bringing the law to bear either upon the libeller or libellee. The notes of Carlier being strictly private screen him from all prosecu tion ; and no name having been published, or even indicated by M. Forcade, that editor of the Messwjcr is equally safe. On the other hand, there is no ar ticle in any code by which M. Lemulier can be sub jected to any penalty. Hence, whatever the upshot of the legal investigation may be, as far as verifying the charge goes, the real end of justice, condign punishment, must remain foiled. The affair is there fore one which touches the parliament and society rather than the tribunals. In the committee on revision yesterday— M. HE CORCELLES addressed himself to answer General Cavaignac and M. de Tocqueville. Although a moderate republican, he repudiated General Cavaignoe's right divine of the republic. Ho thought an acknowledment of the republic might be introduced into the report; but a solemn and collective assertion in its favour would have the air of prescribing to the country, when it was called on to pro nounce itself. It would, moreover, divide the majority and compromise the question. He confessed himself in favour of altering the law of May, but was for keeping that question clear of revision. He was in favour of a strictly legal revision, and finally deplored the recours e t o petitions. which he reg arded as a dangerous instrument for exercising a pressure upon the legislature. General Cavaignac, H. Charamaule, and Colonel Charms maintained the right of the legislature to deterznino the points which wanted revision. The cause of revision was defended by M. Hurons, one of the three members of the committee who had signed the motion of H. de Broglie. He drew attention to the hopes which extreme parties placed in the crisis of 1&52 for the realisation of schemes which, carried out, would plunge the country into anarchy. The revision of the constnuion was a legal remedy against that crisis, and the only one. There fore it was the duty of the Assembly to adopt it without hesitation. Nor could this course be declined without braving the opinions of the country, which only endured sufferings to which it was condemned during this period of transition with patience, because it looked to the alteration of the constitution as the terns of its distress and commercial stagnation. The objections alleged on account of the danger of opening an arena for party struggles were puerile. Par ties are not mastered by sparing and flattering their illu sions. They are fostered and inspirited by the notion that the republic is not the government suited to the country, and by the hope that it will be set aside by the nation on the first appeal to it. To decline revision would have the semblance of fearing an appeal to the coun try in the presence of extreme parties, which was the very way to make these more bold and dangerous. The diver gencics of opinion made it hard to believe that by opening the question of revision they could arrive at any result but the maintenance of the republic. That point settled, how many defects remained in present institutions which called for reform. The existence of • single Assembly, its perma nence, the rivalry of powers, the double responsibility of the head of the executive and of his miuisters fur all acts of the government, all these were admitted evils, which required to be remedied. Why not, therefore, set about the task immediately ? Were the interests in whose name such re forms were demanded subordinate to the necessity of pre venting before all else the re-election of the President ? The only possibility of avoiding that re-election will be by the intervention of a constituent assembly. If, on the other hand, it be not possible to avoid the re-election, the worst thing that could befall would be to leave it unconstitutional. The achievements of the party of order had derived their strength and success from resting on a base of legality. To dispense with this principle would be full of danger. Hence theniajority of the Assembly ought t o d es i re legal and total revision. It ought to call parties to explain themselves be fore the country, and to leave the country to answer them. M. MOULIN held that the doubtful wording of the 111th article ought tabs interpreted in the manner most favourable to the free sovereignty of the nation. It was absurd for • legislative assembly to impose a restricted mandate upon • constituent assembly chosen under circumstances of greater solemnity, more numerous, embracing its every way • larger scope, and invested with a f u ll er authority. If such restrictions were imposed, they would be disregarded as idle, futile, null and void. As to the question whether the constitution was defective as a whole, or only in parts, not only the partisans of constitutional monarchy, but those who desired the consolidation of the republic agreed that it was defective as a whole. M. Odilon Barret, fur instance, said that the present government was no government at W. The country, by a series of acts, had manifested the same opinion. Some feared that socialism would rise out of revi sion. If that fear were well founded socialism would have an equal chance of triumphing in the elections of a legislative as a constituent assembly. gut it would triumph in neither. Would the constituent bring back the constitutional mo narch) ? There was no probability, not even a pusibility of such a result if the present divisions of the monarchic parties continued. Hence there was an opening for true republicans to amend the republic and make it a serious government, to give repose and prosperity to the country. If they succeeded in doing this the union of the royalist parties would come a day too late. But the republic would have much to do before it effaced the recollection and regret of the constitutional monarchy. A wise organisation of the executive power in a cent ra li se d country like France was the most essential reform. As to the moment for revision, what better moment could be chosen than the present, where in the upper regions all was conflict, and the lower al distress and discontent. Such a situation was not tenable for a great nation. If they refuse to recur to the only re medy, the refusal would become anew and serious grievance, which, added to so many others, would find an issue in the unconstitutional re-eleetion of the President. Bnanena said that the danger of the crisis of 1852 could only bo averted by convoking a constituent, charged to make an entire revision of the constitution. if the re ' publican form were maintained he was in favour of keeping Art. 46. Tho 111th article said well, that the constituent should not overstep the questions submitted to its examina tion. In his opinion the range of a constituent reached not beyond the limitation of the powers in the sphere of legi la_ tire action. A legislative assembly had not the right to regulate and limit the exercise of the powers of the consti tuent which it convoked; nor could the legislative deter mine whether the country was to have monarchy or the republic. • • - The committee on revision did not meet to-day. Yesterday the Assembly adopted with urgency the new commercial convention with the Sardinian States. The remainder of the bitting was taken up with the discussion on the second reading of the proposition of M. B. Delessert, tending to modify the regulations now in force in the savings banks. Three projects were brought before the Assembly: M. B. Delessert proposed to limit the amount of deposits to 1,2501`r.; the committee reduced that amount to 1,000 fr.; whilst M. Lanjuinais, by an amendment, proposed to make the amount 1,500 ft. After some discussion, the sums proposed by MM. Delessert and Lanjuinais were rejected, and the article of the committee adopted. The remaining articles of the bill were passed to-day. The Assembly to-day proceeded to discuss the Lyons Police Bill. The urgency, opposed by M. Sain, was voted. M. Pelletier then made a long speech upon the tyranny of the police, and wound up with a vio lent attack against the majority, stigmatising the laws which it had passed. He found great faults with the present organisation of society; and finally turned round upon the party of the Elysec, whom he called the accomplices of gtrasbourg and Boulogne. Upon returning to his place, M. I'cllctier received the congratulations of the Left. M. Leon Faucher raised a great stir by styling the speech of M. Pelletier abominable, an expression which was repeatedly cheered by the whole majority, whose members came down nearer to the tribune to applaud. The Left appealed to the president to call the speaker to order. M. Dupin replied that there was no occasion for such a reprimand. M. Leon Faucher continued to stigmatise such speeches as the preceding, which, he said, compromised the repre sentative system, spread alarm throughout the country, and disturbed work. Ile then proceeded to show the necessity of passing the bill. M. Jules Favre demanded to speak. Notwithstanding the outcry of the Left the As sembly refused to adjourn the debate ; and decided on passing to the discussion of the articles. M. Chanet spoke, without being able to make himself heard for the noise, on the Ist article, which contains the principle of the bill, and which combines in the hands of the prefect of the Rhone the police of Lyons and tho suburban towns. The article was carried by 449 against 217. M. de Laboulie has presented a motion for pre venting all prorogation of the Assembly until the expiration of its powers. Nevertheless leaves of absence for six weeks may be granted to not more than 100 representatives at the same time. Messrs. Bourzat, Dupont (de Bussaq, and seven other members of the Mountain, have laid before the Assembly a proposition for a negociatiom to be opened with the Holy See, for the ;oppression of eighteen of the thirty diocesan or metropolitan sees esta blished in execution of the law of July 1, 1821. M. Ducos has been appointed to-day by the Elec toral Union to present the batch of petitions for revi sion signed by 15,000 Parisians. The President has promised a deputation front Beauvais to visit that city for the inauguration of the statue of Jeanne Hachette on the 6th of July. M. Mouchy presented a report, in the name of the committee of the budget, approving the supplementary credits demanded for the railways of 'fours and Bor deaux and Paris and Strasburg. The report recom mended the adoption of the bill of the Minister of Public Works for the entire completion of the rail waY to Hormatting and the Rheims branch. 'the committee on the Avignon Railway has re jected the proposition of M. Frew for appointing a sub-committee to draw up a (-whirr des rhotwes, and has decided upon examining to-morrow the motion of M. Dufaure, who proposes the provisional execution by the state until some company make an acceptable offer. Mr. MULLINGS gave some further ezplanation, and the committee then divided: lar tbs clause 7l #plost it 4l-30 On dorms 4. Mr. MIILLINGS moved the insertion of words, render ing the pensions consent of the landlord necowary for the tenant to remove any buildings or fixtures which he might have put up. Mr. 8. CRAWFORD strongly opposed the insertion of thew words. Atter a conversation the committee again divided : For the motion R2 Against it Several verbal aesendinenta were made in the clause, which was then agreed to, sad ordered to stand pert of the bill. — iir:IIIULLINGIS then moved the follow's, new clause:— net if etay emerying esmat of bad alsll (Mt, having :XLmy mar of tide rat doge he se Wight wen *, sidelt be was W los sf lie hooey or Mbar/41Mb to pay, mid the tithe owner tYeII give or hays Owl& t i me stresses/ft by Metres arm the land Ow wwwwslithimat4 * she bilthwtel for the Inemiked, or the samiseing berg or theigier. to pay say este armee mid cep seremes baldest thereto, sad is reeever the onsest of mbar, le geld over epithet sub lint nem& lesstheremerier, er bis legal repermabatives, is the gene =sue es if the were was a debt by ample sestract dos tress web tenent or °tsarist to the landlord or tenant imbhg prosest. After a estheesseise It was withdrawn, the hon. member Smiles that be would bring it to en the report. The awe then reamed. il7s meet dig; sooarZitemit supply was received. TM Wes Psna Beats (Usk* Ball was read • third Liao awl pessail. RZTURNS ORDERED. On the 'notion of Sir 0. Peameta, the hirers returns were ordered :—Copy of the sereerl et dr dr% et her Majesty's ships in the Mediennesan, tamarind to the Admiralty by admiral Sir Warr Parker, dead the 31st ' day of January, 1830, praying that the IMO reek and peses awarded to other relmadrata earn iimq be thew leans at all WOWS OM MVO bra Ipurehred kr the peal eery dor h ig 1047 (tan ire at &alma retra ,), reties te the Nt m at May, rem pur creed, tho pare pie, end Me teems* stark ; distin guishing the sire rads (sad b r whir ies tliat hare hem taken into the service us ier tho et the 2& 3 Vic., e. 73, (or whack the sue MOIL lee . been voted in the estimates. The house adjourned at five minutes before six o'clock. PAIPA.—War E. N. Buxton *rod in favour of Mr. Bass's motion on the Malt Tax with Mr. Swart against. 7ARY Mimics Etzertos.—The Sp-nker . reports tho reeogabssess of W. C. handbill sad J. Pais to this peti tion_mshosatissabis. Mthsoirounii WArsa 13urrim BILL. —The report in reginewt wthoomplimme with tiks Winding as kw been refined Os With einwiltsth._ 1 - 1;17171;1111111114 Tea. ND DU3DII RAILWAT.—The Hamm of lase law semi to thin miespeay's bill. sea! LAXCADICUIS RAILWAY.— The preamble of We ME bee lasehed the emote of the Home at Lomb, with imerlorsto. CHI7ICII or ENGLAND Seir;creTtr;roi;ass 7 ilitioliAiiiroioe3lloCrorr .-11 h e. wood rosethig of ibis assiellteak plea het evening at B - Itatesishans M. Neriall in the chair By hstssuat it eggesesi 111, ever and above the meg aqueilhol% hen wee bight in lin& Mi. Mish Ames Ilis OM& ent Canteetweere verieelsl perth the eanAr po ser i ci buser the Laud of Latin ?Is Soder sod gni IL A nee dieted Imam The direeMes Nil stelae ints. bees eiseled, the nest ing field. I SPAIN. MADRID, JUNE 13. The Gazette contains a decree ordering a new organisation of the Ministry of Grace and Justice. Important debates are expected in the chamber to morrow on the elections and the liberty of the press. ITALY. TURIN, JUNT. 15. The chamber is occupied with discussing the bill for authorising a loan of three millions sterling upon railway security. GERMANY. The following telegraphic despatches appear in yesterday's Independence BERLIN, JUNE IS. The Prussian Gazette declares that the realisation of the principle of representation by States will not be pursued as an administrative measure (par la you adminis trative); that the aim of the government is the development of the constitutional r4intc. FRANKFORT, JUNE 17. The Federal troops will leave the Grand Duchy of lime in the beginning of July. At the same time a corps of 10,000 men will be collected around Frankfurt. THE LEVANT. Letters from Constantinople of June 3 state that on the 31st a grand banquet was given by the sultan to the diplomatic corps, in honour of the Duke of Ol denburg, at the palace of Ferryi , , near that of Tche ragan. The ministers and high functionaries were present. Reshid Pasha did the honours of the feast. At the dessert the Duke of Oldenburg proposed the health of the Sultan; the Grand Vizier that of the Duke; Sir Stratford Canning that of Iteshid Pasha and the ministers. Sir Stratford made a speech, in which he rendered justice to the Sultan 'b hospitality. Reshid Pasha returned thanks, and gave a toast to the friendly allied powers. The banquet did not break up till one. Ismail Bey, son of Ibrahim Pasha, has arrived in Constantinople, at the head of a commission sent from Egypt, by the viceroy Abbas Pasha, to nego tiate on Egyptian affairs, and particularly on the ap plication of tanzimaat to the Delta. The eldest daughter of Mehemet Ali, Nadi.] lanouni, had arrived with a numerous suite in the Dardanelles, on her way to Constantinople from Alexandria. Chekib Effendi, inspector of the Danubian pro vinces, took his departure for the Danube in ar vernment steamer, on the 30th ult. Mustafa Pasha is returned from Samoa to Constantinople. Great activity prevailed at the arsenal. A new frigate, of 64 guns, had been launched, and the Turkish fleet was getting ready for sea. No further particulars arc mentioned with regard to the murder of Father Basil, at Antioch. He had been four years Capuchin missionary in that town. The crime was committed in the middle of the day, in the most populous part of the town. He officiated in his own apartment, which he had turned into a little chapel. His body was found lying on the steps of the altar, with marks of strangulation. M. Les seps, the French consul, repaired immediately to the spot to inquire into the circumstances of the crime. By the Athens papers we learn that the Greek ministry has undergone considerable modification since the return of the king. It is now composed as follows:—President of the Council and Minister of Marine, M. Criesis ; Finances, M. Cluistides ; Foreign Affairs, M. Paikos ; War, M. Spiromillo; Justice, M. Damianos ; Interior, Melelopouloua ; Public Instruc tion, M. Barboglous. This change of ministry does not, according to the Courrier d'AthonB, indicate any change of policy, and appears to have been caused chiefly by the resignation of some members of tho late cabinet who had not the confidence of the king. Brigandage was still carried on to a great extent in different parts of Greece, and the journals mention several cases of murder as well as robbery. The Engineers of the Royal Navy have established a club at Portsmouth for the use of the members of that branch of the service. A large number of the engineers on shore and afloat have joined. This institution will secure to the sub scribers reading rooms, domestic apartments, and the other advantages of a well-conducted club. Spacious premises have been taken in Lion-terrace, Purtsea, near the Dock yard, end which are now in course of being fitted up.