The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-20 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. TIOUSE OF 0031MONS.—WenxrADAT,ILARcn The Srnan an teak the chair at 12 &clock. PIMVATE BUSINF.SS. Sitcoms, Itawitsna.—Cluring-crum Bridge ; Kensington Improvement; Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS. ECCLES! tSTICAL TITLES ASSUMPTION BILL. • Mr. S. I'ItAWFOILD gave notice that if the house agreed to the second reading of the Ecelesiutical Titles Assumption Bill, he would, in morunittee on that hill, move an amendment to exempt Ireland horn its operation. THE FItAISCIIISE IN IRELAND. On the motion of Mr. ra•Velt, a return was ordered of the wind, r of registered electors in each county in Ireland, and r thu tii:t 1:1 rc 14 Vie., e. 65, distinguishing each class of . tom ; and similar return for rib county of a city, rowdy of a town, and borough in In returning o ne or Law, 1114-011sers of parliament. 31.1YNOOTII COLLEGE. On the motion of Mr. Stoma en, a room woe ordered as folloWs Detailed account of the esrenditure of the sum of 3o,isittg., grunted in the year 1813 for putting Maynooth tIollew• into repair; copy of any estimates and plans fur nished by the architect employed on that occasion; awl de- tailml amsoint of the sum of 5,715/. his. lid., the total amount of the grants voted from the year Nit to the year Wok in•7lllsiSv or 100111 pear, for the repairs ;awl main tenance of Maynooth Collette. 1101'S 1111.1.. Mr. FItEWIIN moved the s, rood trading of this bill, which stood first on the orders id the ttiy. lle found, as he hail antieipatml from the first, a itering opposition against this bill from the county of Kent; and he certainly did not think the Kent platiterc were acting very con•istently in taking this (tours, inasmuch as they had repeatedly sent up deputations to th e' Chancellor of the Exchequer calling twat him to r. mose the excise duty on hope, and very pro perly, in.tolinch as the whole Ohjeet of the bill was to di 'troy .1 monopoly whi_ls Kent had long enjoyed. A. to this *seise duty, it was not necessary that he should now say much about it, for the question was one, a full et...midi:ration of which would have to be enters' into by the house on an curly future day. A few *only, bowel, r, WiTe required to .%plain how this matter stood. The original arise duty upon loops was intim..l in the fir-t halt of the last century, and early in this century that duty wan doubts d in order to meet the esigenties of the Witt which was then raging. No neeltheation whatev. r hail, from that day to this, taken plan-; awl it nags pmbable the only tax which had been 1. ft intact kince the cline of the war in 11.115. It was, moreover, the only tax now levied on anything grown out of doors; and considering that of the hot few years had been of a character insulting serious injury to Ow intermts of the hop-planters, he thought that the planter, we.o•in a pti make on tel oke out very good against the Chancellor of t he Each, quo r. Sine. 1837, as a return test furnish.d to the house downistratill,the growth of hopsin t ,istoutitry 110tV11 rvatly diminishing , and there was very ilitultt tha t tis di JJJ inutio was to be attributed to the policy parotid sin h e., 1812. In t n hat year the w tariff re owe. il Al the they from qu Issia, thereby offering strong induentents to adulterate to the brewers. In ISIS the duty upon the importation of (union hops was taken off 4.0.-loneth ; and now the duty was menly nominal, and in pew ot fact no protection whatever to the Itritish grower. lint the ohject of this 1.41 was confined to placing 114,01 of British philters against another elass* of llrit,-h planwrs. At present holm brought to market had to bae stamped with the UAW of the county of which they w, re the pnuluee, and thus, while Kent re reiviel a gnat h mfit, n grint injury was dime to all other hop growing counties. What lie desired, and what by this bill he intended to effect, was that bops should I,e sold at nonlife: to their actual salue, as te4.11 by *ample, and that ts i, stamp should In. nemeetrily used, What was the ...tom in other trades, in the wile of wheat for instance, Ir• w islied to set established in this trail", anti he did net doubt that the preeaution• against trawl taken in other nom would be quite Mb etual in this. (The hon. nietnherr pnors.c.l.4l to explain m o re fully the nature Will tenor of the 1.41, brat as he spoke with his buck to the gallery be was very imperfectly heard.) Mr. It 4:1:1) liSt could assure his hon. friend that there uss arrayed against him on this occasion, not merely the oppo sition of the country, of guar muscle, hat the opposition of m a jorit . , of the hop-growing counties, and that the hill was further 1..4 1 upon with ilisCiiour by nearly all the lin.wers. That stamp-mark Fairmont, by distinct legis• 1•110011. )1001 nquin .1 4i Is • used Ibr the purls - ec of pn•tenting fraud, and the hon. insatiate had not shown One single rasa why the Irma. should suppose that the restriction was not n. cesury„ and if done away nth that it would t 1.4 tllllOOO4. the ,eremite to trickery and ,heating. II.• Ileate4, so an ado n6uent, that the bill he read a second time that day six months. Mr. IL DRUMMOND seconded the amendment. The alijert of the' hill he would mutiny, translating the hose nosolter, (Mr. Intwen) to captain in plain English. It wa. le. II kit..it that the Kent hops were the Mot in Ymitland. It ivss as Well known that the Sous holm Were the worst in England; Anil, then fure, the hon. ne ett els•r for Siisoli nos selling t 0111131•00 such a mystifica tion !einem, Soso, owl Kent, that Kent should 1100 longer mows. it. advansw. • in the market ~site SW•set. (Laugh ter.) Twill such mystilieation lie objected, and he would th n•fore sole heartily mriiiist the bill. Mr. lA.H (who had ...emoted the motion for the se stool feasible.) suggested to hu hon. colleague (Mr. Frew,n) In withdraw the bill, in the fare of the earnest opposition whieti it +teeniest to have canted. Mr. BASS should vote against the bill, and for this noun, that even the inset eaperieneed brewers could not pronounce upon the value of hops until they were in the tom r, and that, the rk lore, the btailip.initk now used, di , - taiccinslimc the simony in which the hops were grown, was required. Mr. Mr MpTEE should also vole :uraiwt the bill. lie could only regard it it, a bill for the eunturagement of trickery. 11...slottild have nu objection to a et-elm-bon Of duty, hut he „old not support a bill that gave direct enema regenout to deception. Alter a feet words from Mr. lions 1., who was adverse to du hill. The t'IIANCELI.OR of the F.XCIIECIL*EII said he was app-.l to the hill, the object of which was to enable persona got. ing inferior hops to IWOs them for Kentish hope. Ile was si wild, that his hon. friend was the but person to take an Unita 3011:111t:144e. Ind the WV.WtiVil etfeet the bill would he so If his I . friend did not withdraw the measure it • sionld Is his fluty to oppose the 51.4 nading. Mr. Cu irmis shortly ailsorateil the cause' of the Sussex lug growers. If something wen n o t dime fur thew he did Rut we how they could get ma ut all. Mr. EISEWIII replied, and alter a few wont.. frum Mr. A. 1t,,, , ,. and liteneral Lvtowt, the house divided— For the second reading Fur the amendment l3l-122 The bill Was conospiently thrown out. SUNDAY 'I KAI/ING HILL. Mr. W. WII.I.I.AMS, in moving the +mond reading of the above bill. said he had undertaken the ehar;.• of it at the request of a very lame portion or his constituents. 11 th. ll wan read a aveollll time he would offer no objmiiiin to it going twfon. a whet comminute, when• all the details mold In• esamined, and the Tnesenlift• rendered as unoin. v 410144111,, OA islosihle. The h terabie member then quotml Untanceit of journeymen in various trades who had 1%411 ohlitnsl to he at shop at seven o'clock on Plumley morning. and stay kteping the shop open while the pap', w .r e p a ssing to church, and other ins 44 jour ncylnell Whiter. wad others, Who Col7llll4.lteetl labour at four o'eleek on Saturday wonting, and continued until half-pu.st twelve, resuming at ...no on the Sunday morn ing. Here, then, were men who were obliged to work 21) bows a day and upw arils, Ought any for man In let placed in such a situation which was not now the lot e'en of a slave ? Ile knew of no cue calling mon• for protec tion. Ile hoped the house would allow the bill to go into committee.. Then• were no religious. purpons in the rivea, slate. list wished every 111411 to have the opportunity of attending ti placte .4 worship on Sunday ; but he attem tied uo such obligation in the bill. All he wanted was that there should be one day of rest on the seventh day, and let every man %LW it according to his COlllssiVllCe. Ile toncluded by moving the second reading. Mr. It WALL row to norm., as an amendment, that the bill lie read that clay six months. Ile could not sec the grouatle upon which the hon. member propueval w revive the legislation 01230 years ago. The hon. member made distinct' between the religious observance of the Sab bath and :thstiwitee (rims all Labour on the seventh dray. Ile would ark the house before they passed any measure whether the alwtinence from labour iu America was in em sequence of the good feeling or •0031 principle of their transatlantic brethren, or from the sets pseud by the legis lature of that country ? By an order of the Excise Bourd,dated the Ilith Nov.. 1830, the officers of excise Wen: directed to allow the sale of table beer by ;tenons not licensed when the rice was not more than Om,• halfpence per quart. Now, if they mowed this hill they would prevent the poor from buying this wholeurne beverage from persons not licensed, and would drive them to the publiehowte. Then this hill would prevent the wile of own...loped publication.. Thc re were AI unstamped periodicals published in London, many of which were respectably conducted, but if this bill tweed the tale of these periodicals would be much checked, to they were principally sold on the Sun day. This was retrograde legblatWn, winch he trusted the bows. would not sanction. 'The hon. gentleman then quoted from , ~dent. given heron• the committee of the House of Lords On Sunday trading. for the purpose of showing that is the opinion of those lint qualified to .100Ige such a bill as this was undesirable. One of the +num.. was Mr. Mayne, the Chief Commissioner of Police, who said he did not think any such bill could be effective. The him. h r iidentio eoneluded 11 Whiting the amendment of which e hail given notice—that the bill be nod a ...mud time that day six month,. Mr. LENN.tRIT seconds! the amendment, which, 1w said, he did with hearty good will. Seeing what this bill allowed and what it prohibited, they might say it was a Will which strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel. It was a bill which (tressed hard upon the poor, while it did not interfere with those who WV1•1 in more prosperous Cir cumstances. Sir B. lIALL said he believed opinions were ex tremely divided in reference to this propuition, and that while in some dietricte the people particularly desiresl the bill, in others they were hostile to it. Now the hurt. gentle man, the member for Lambeth. had thrown oat a euggestion that if his hon. friend would allow the bill to pass without opposition, the bill should be referred to a select committee which should be fairly and impartially chosen. Mr. B. WALL—With power to call fur papers and witiwom ? Sir H. lIALL said he hoped his hon. Send the member for Lambeth would agree to that also. Mr. W. WILLIAMS signified hit Roust, and Mr. B. WALL said he would agree to that at one.. Thu bill was then:sad a setond time. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1851. see why they should make an exception in the present in stance. lie was aware the bill had been brought in in consequence of the Staines' case, but they were not likely to have another ease of such gravity. Mr. BAINES said that a discretion was allowed to the judge as to the term of imprisonment, which was not to exceed three years. It should be recollected that the cases which the bill intended to meet were morally not inferior to murder.. (Hear.) The clause was agreed to. name 2 win agreed to. Clause 3 was struck out, and the following clause was substituted for it. " That where spy person under the age of IS shall have been or shall be hired or taken as a servant from the workhouse of any union or parish, or shall have been, or shall be, bound out as an apprentice by the guardians of any union, or the guardians or overseers of any parish, it shall be lawful for such guardians or over respectively, and they arc hereby required, so long as such young person shall be under the age of eighteen, and shall be known to theist to reside as such servant or appren tice within such union or parish respectively, or within five ' miles of any part of suds union or parish, to cause the I relieving officer, or where there 1. no relieving officer then some other officer duly authorised for the purpose, to visit such young person at least four times in ever] year, and to report to them, if he shall find reason to believe that such young .person is not supplied with necessary fond, or is subjected to cruel or illegal treatment in any respect." On the suggestion of Mr. Mier. an amendment was agreed to, making it obligatory on the relieving officer to report to the board of guardians. In reply to Capt. Ileums, Mr. BAINES said that he would endeavour to extend the operation of the clause to servants from other unions, but he was afraid, having already considered the matter, that there were difficulties in the way which were insuper able. He would, however, consider the subject again, with an anxious desire to carry out the object in view. (Hear, hear.) The clause was then agreed to, as were the remaining clauses. APPOINTMENT OF A VICE-CHANCELLOR BILL. The house having gone into committee on this bill, The ATTORNEI -GENERAL appealed to the hon. member opposite (Sir H. Willoughby) ant to bring forward his amen d ment in that stage of the bill. The case was pressing, and if he allowed the bill to pass through com mittee he would take care that the host. baronet should have ' an opportunity of bringing forward his motion. Sir 11. WILLOUGHBY said that under the circum stances he should yield to the appeal made to him. (Hear, hear.) On clause I, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, In reply to Sir H. Willoughby, that he could give no reason why the salaries of the officers of the court were paid out of the euitori fund, except that it had been the previous custom. That fund now amounted to about 40,0001. This bill would place things in the same situation as they were when Sir J. Wigram was Vire-Chancellor. The matter referred to by the hon. baronet might be taken into consideration when the bills for regulating the Court of Chancery were brought under the notice of the house. The clause was then agreed to, as were clauses from 2 to 5 inclusive. On clause 6, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL introduced words giving power to the Lord Chancellor to appoint court keepers tit salaries not exceeding 80/. a year. At present they were paid but 401., which was considered inadequate. The Clause with the amendment was agreed to. The house resumed, and the amendments were reported. ENFRANCHISEMENT OF COPYHOLDS. On the motion of Mr. AGLIONET, leave was given to bring in a bill to effect the compulsory enfranchisement of Lind, of copyhold and customary tenure. The hon. gen tleman said it was his intention to refer the bill to a select committee. The bill was subsequently read a first time. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. In reply to Mr. MACKENZIE, Sir G. GREY said that he hoped to be able to proceed with this bill to-morrow (this day), the hon. member for Southwark having consented to postpone his motion relative to colonial expenditure. The house then, at six o'clock, adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. STANDINO ORDERS COMMITTEE.—ILCSOIULionS reported on Tuesday "That, in the case of the Durham Markets Bill, petition for additional provision, the standing order ought to be dispensed with. That the parties he permitted to introduce their additional provision, if the committee on the bill shall think fit, on proving to the said committee that the notices have been inserted in the county newspaper for three successive weeks. That the committee on the bill, if they shall introduce such additional provi sion, do report to the house how far such order has been complied with, on the report of the bill." 2. " That, in the case of the East Anglian Railways (No. 2), petition for leave to deposit a petition for • bill, the standing orders ought not to he ilispens“l with." 3. "That, in the case of the Leicester Waterworks Dill, petition for dispensing with standing orders Nos. 10.5 and 110,, the said standing orders ought not to be dispensed with." First resolution agreed to. Report to lie On the table. FALKIIIK BERGIN ELECTION PETITION.—On Tues day Sir George Clerk reported from the General Com mittee of Elections, that they had appointed Thursday, the third day of April, nest, to choose, from panel No. the select committee to try the Falkirk Burghs Election Petition. EXPENSES OF PROSECUTIONS BILL. On the order of the day for going into committee on this bill, several petitions were presented against the sth clause. (See list of petitions.) The house then want into committee. Clause I was agreed to. Oa clause 2. Mr. HENLEY said he doubted whether the certificate would include the constable' expenses. He thought it ought to he made clear in that respect. Sir O. GREY said it was intended that the words should include all the experves that were now included in the certificate. If that was not the ease the words should be altered so as to make thlt quite clear. Mr. JICLLINGS observed that in sant^ instances where the cases were not sent to the session.. nu expenses were allowed, which he thought a great hardship. Mr. WAK LEY was glad that the hon. member had pile l the attention of the Secretary of State to the subject to which he had referred. It was a ecru important one in deed. The law as it stool at present field out a premium to parties to adopt what was called hard swearing in order to get a committal for trial. If they succeeded their es , pensos were paid, if not they were not paid. It was the same with reference to medical witnesses, who, in the event lof a committal, were paid an much per day, but nothing where the party was acquitted. Mr. E. B. DENISON feared the clause would open a door to much expense. Sir J. DUCKWORTH also made some objection to the clause. Mr. BANKES was anxious that the magistrates should be entrusted with a discretionary power. Cases of this kind fall very hard on poor persona , when called un to prosecute. Ile hoped a discretion would he al awed the magistrates to award rests in eases of misdemeanour. Mr. W. MILES utjected to the country being called on to pay the coats in every ease where angry feelings might prompt parties to go before a grand jury. Still hc would , have a discretionary power left to the magic trite 1 out this the expense would be enormous. Mr. DEEDES was also in favour of a discretionary I power in the court, in cases of misdemeanour. • Sir O. OltelY observed that the discretionary power at present only existed in cases of felony, and might be ad- I vantageously extended beyond those of mentioned in the act of Oto. IV. In muses of assault with intent and criminal assault on girls under 10 years of age, this power might be advantageously; given. It would be better to fit the cases in which costs should be given, rather than give an unlimited discretion to the court. As to the sug gestion of the ben. gentleman near him (Mr. Wakley) that costs ,hould he given in owe where there was no com mittal, he feared that it would give rise to greater evils than it would remedy. Mr. MiLIONI3Y referred to is prevision which he had brought before the house last session, and said it might be advantageously incorporated in the bill. Mr. ‘VAKLEY said he did not recommend the indis criminate allowance of costs in all cases of acquittal, but simply a discretionary power in the maeistrate•s. After a few words from Mr. liteirre, the clause was agreed to, as was the following clause. On clause 4, Mr. W. MILES said the judge+ of assize had the power of gruding rewards to officers for extraordinary exertions in apprehending offenders; but the magistrates at quarter sessions had only this power in thecae, of receivers of stolen goods. 'this would be a good opportunity to extend that nver. Mr. DEEDES suggerted that provision rhould be made fur compensation to offivers who received injuries. Sir ti. OILEY thought the necident of the trial taking plaer at the searinas or Lariat ought not to deprive the con.' rtalik of his compenration. The prop' r course appears dto he to make it a matter of reprew.ntation to the Secretary of State. The clause was agreed to. On clause 5, Mr. STAFFORD said it would entail a great additional expt nu to the coanty rates, by taking away the power of prosecution from a sery deserving class Id professional men —the clerks to the justices. He therefore moved that the clause should he omitted. Mr. BROTIIEII.TON thought it necessary that the clause should he either omitted or modified. Lord EBRINGTON thought the whole of this discussion afforded a fresh illustration of the difficulty of legislation for local Calreatiell by • central authority. Ile was :toured that the operation of this clause would be very injurious in malty places, and he hoped it would be withdrawn. Sir 0. STRICKL.aND said the most important pOillt was the exclusion from practice of certain professional men. lie had received various complaints about this clause, and thought it required much modification. Mr. CHRISTOPREIt said the real object of the clause was to diminish the cost of prosecution., but it would have a directly opposite effect. lie hoped the clause would be withdrawn Mr. l',t(KE, from long experience as a chairman of quarto r sessions, was confident that if clerks of petty sev stuns were prevented prosecuting, justice would not be done. Mr COWAN read a letter from a magistrate's clerk, sh owing that the clause would operate ditenlyantamataly. lie was an tiolvocatc for paving the clerks by fixed sularisa, Sir J. TROLLOPE haul never heard any accusation against justices' clerks; he believed their employment hail traded to economy of the rates. Sir 0. OItEY said he had received a great number of letters, remonstrating against the clerks to justices twine deprived of the prosecutions. lie brought no charge against those gentlemen what ever; there was no imputation on their character ; he believed they comprised some of the most respectable professional men in the country; but there was no doubt a Ines in the minds of men to increase their charges when they had an opportunity of doing PO at the public expnse. It would not be well to constitute the clerks public prosecutors generally . to the earl usion of: ll other professional faen; hut it would hi' well to make them liable to conduct all prosecutions in *bids they might be called on to do so by the magistrates. Ile therefore proposed that in the interim, until such salaries were fixed, the clerks should not be allowed to conduct prosecutions, unit,o specially called on to do so by the inaginrates. Not being prepared I to ask the committee to agree to the clause as it stood, he would allow it to he struck out, and would give notice of the clause which he should propose as • substitute. After a few words front 'sir. ANISTEY, Mr. W. MILES hoped that the right hon. Secretary for the Horne Department, ni any clause he might introduce,' would require the certificate of nut only one justice of the peace, but of the entire bench, as an assurance that attorney or counsel was nt cessary to prosecute in the particular case. 'floe clause was finally struck out. On clause 6 being read, Mr. HOWARD observed that it would be well if the right hos. gentleman (Sir (i. Grey) determined the amount of fn's payable to clerks of the peace. In his opinion the amount ought to be fixed. Mr. POLES begged to move the insertiou of the following word., after the words " and to his rights in respect thereof, " tool that the salary to he paid to any such clerk of the peace shall not be less than the average amount of the fees, I profits, and emoluments pity able to such clerk of the peace in respect of his office, for the three years next preceding I the paving of this art." Sir O. tiltEY said the object of the clause was to faeili- I tate the commutation of fees now received. The measure had been pressed upon the government; and the committee which last year out on the subject was unanimous in recom- I mending that the proposed change should be effected. The suggestion of the honourab:e gentleman was ob jectionable, inasmuch as the fees might be altered I and diminished at the instance of the justices of the peace ; and in that row might be he, than in any or the three year, preceding the alteration. Yet • 'a tm equal in amount should he, nevertheless, paid them. The proposition of Mr. COLEY was underst ood to have been withdrawn subsequently, and Mr. SPOON ER. proposed that the same power be given in the matter to justices of the peace in boroughs as la counties. Ile did not sec why justices of boroughs were not as competent to decide the amount of salary to be paid be clerks of peace as county justices. Mr. HENLEY thought it ought to be left to the Secre tary of State for the time being Jo act as arbiter in the ease. Sir CI, GREY oharreed that there was this difference be tween county justices and lattices of borough., that whilst the former transacted all the fiscal business of their mpre tire counties, the fiscal business of the boroughs was trans acted by the town councils. Mr. "SIULLINOS believed much of the expense attendant on the office of clerk of the peace wan caused by their having I the duties of the office performed by deputies and absenting themselves. (Hear.) In some instances these deputies paid the principals upwards of .900/. a year ; and then, to enable themselves to make something by the office, they were obliged to charge for everything, even for summoning the justices to attend at sessions. In his opinion the clerks of peace should be compelled to &whoree the duties of their office in person, 33 also to reside in their respective districts. (Hear. hear.) Mr. SPOONER proposed to insert. after "governing body," in line Si,: the words " and justices of the peace in special sessions assembled." Sir 0. GREY said that so the words proposed would not sispermle the governing laxly, but only secure the ap proval of the justices, he did not think the same objection applied to the present as to the previous amendment. Ile sight it would he well however, to give come considera tion to the matter before the words were adopted. Sir J. TROLLOP,: wished to know from the right hon. gentleman whether it was intended to include all the fees incidental to the tater of clerk of the peace Sir 0. GREY said that it was intended to include all fees received by the clerk of the pear.' as clerk of the peace, but the county rate would not he chargeable for any bust ' new he might perform as s prof.s 41 man. The I as arm tole& was agreed to. On clause 7, Mr. E. B. DENISON hoped the right hon. gentleman would take ear, that there should nut be more than one clerk to • petty woomal division Sir G. OItEY coal he would take a note of that matter. The:clause was then agreed to, as were clauses S and 9. On clause in, Mr. R. B. DENISoN mid that in the three ridings of Yorkshire, and in the division. of Lincolnshire, great locos ! yenience had Ivan experietwed in the magistrates being obliged to Pend prisoners who were to be tried at the mains to the county gaol. Ile should, therefore, move a clause, on the bringing up of the report , to enable the magistrates to commit suc h persons to the different houses of correction and detention. The clause wu then agreed to, 1116 WI re the remaining clauses, and the amendments were F. ported to the house. APPRENTICES AND SERVANTS BILL. On clause L Mr. MILES observed that an imprkonment of three ye.kr, wag a very severe outs. Two )cars was the lbual tam up tv which a disuctiou was Cowed, and he did not - - PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. ]]OUSE OF COMMONS. fors 111:1..—Order for seemed reading read; motion made and qixetion proposed, "Tat the bill be now rrad a second tone : o Amendment proposed to leave out the word •• and at the end of the question to add the word. "upon this doe oil months." 13.0 9011 Put. " That the word • now ' eland lull of the question." The house divided; Aye., ; Noes, 131. AYE't. Primo, Musgrave Gould, Wyndham Vane, Lent Horsy Cobn.ld, John C. GarTn, wel 141.1re11, Curtris, Henry H. Ilidloud, Ronert Frowen. I'.ll. Fuller, Augustus E. Lig, Ilenry C. !lupe, .kleatualer • - NOE.S. Aglinaby, Henry A. Evans, Wiliisan NY', or Arkwright, George E.rart, Wlllium Noel, llon. G. I. Arm.trong, Robert IL Farnham, F.. D. O'Connor, Feargus Baines, Rt. lion. M. Ferrer, James Pocke, Charles W. Baird, James Ferguson, Sir Robt.A. Palmer, Koncrt Ba'f, Mkhael T. Filnut, Sr E. Patten, John W. Bell, Jacob Foley, John 11. 11. Pilkiagton, Janata Bellew, Richard Forbes, William Plowden, Will..on U. Berkeley, Admiral Fordyce, Al. x. D. Plumpire, John P. Berkeley, lion. 11. F. Faster, Matthew Buford, Francs Berkeley, CL. ti. Prorogue. Hon. J. W. Rushton, Cave. Best John Freesturi. Colonel Ito pelt, Y. C. IL Blair, Stephen French, FiLutephen Fonda., George Bolt/ern. Iknry G. Gooch, Edward s. Soukup, Viscount Boyle, Hon. Colonel Greened, Gilbert Shalt°, Robert D. Bright, John Greene, Thomas Sheridan, Richard E. Brotherion, Joseph Grey, Rt. Un. Sir G. Smith, John lt. Brown, Humphrey Grey, Ralph W. Swollen. Ales miler Brown, William Grogan, eel's., d Somervill , . ani W. Ilulkeley, sir E. LI W. Guest, Sir John liotberoo, This. if. S. Button, Pir Edw. N. Ilarriv, HO, CipL Spooner, r.iCil*rd Calvert, Erederlek Iliastie, Alevsniter Stuart, Henry Campbell, Han. W.F. Hayter, lion. W. G. Stun, henry G. Clerk, Rt. Uon. Sir 0. Henley, igen bW. Sullivan, Michael Cite, Hem. It. 11. Henry, Alexander 'nonagon, Colonel Cite, Reno B. Herbert, Heuer A. Ilintneley,Th imes Coke, Henry B. Ilerbert, Rt. lion. S. Tollemmhe, John Conan, Charier Hilt Lewd Marcus Tmloye, Sir John Cowper, Hon. W. T. Midler, Charles Tyler, Slr George cealg, tot( WilliMllo. Howard, lion. C. W. 1)110, Col. C. J. K. Cabin, Willi= Howard, Philip 11. Verney, Sir harry Vidqmple, Captain Jackson, William W addington, 11. S. tampon, Edmund Kershaw, James Wakley, Thomas Dwelt, Edwer4 Lewis. George C. Wall, Charles B. [Auld, George Lewisham, Viscount Wawn, John T. Iluekleorth, Sir J.T.B. Luellect, APai, E. Wegg.Proster, F. R. Dui can. George Lygon, lion. General Williams, Wiiiism Duncan, Viscount Muck•nale. W. F. Wilma, Jams Dwacombe, Hos. 0. Hackie, John Wilson, Mathew Hinman, John kt - Gregor, John W. t, Rt. lion. Sire. flood., Hon. sir D. bliTaargart, Ste John Wynn, Herbert W.W. Egerton. W.'Fiatto• Martin. C. Wykeharn Ellis, John, Moetyn, Hon. E. M. raunas. Elliot, lin. John E. Hadvare, Earl of Hordes, W. Emlyn, Vamount Handy, William 'lodges, T. L. AsTLUM FOR Intars.—Yesterday the third anni versary festival on behalf of the Asylum for Idiots, an in stitution commenced in the year 1847, for the care and edu cation of the idiot and imbecile, was held at the London Tavern, the Earl of Carlisle in the chair. The noblechair man was supported right and leR by Mr. Sherif f Carden, Rear Admiral llawhvyne, Viscount Ebrington, Mr, Ilindley, M.P., Mr. Alderman Wire, Mr. Alderman Car den, Mr. l'eto, M.P., Dr. Conolly, &c. The usual loyal and preliminary toasts having been disposed of, the noble chairman rose to propose the toast of the evening. In the institution there were at present 117 patients, and the whole inmates amounted to 183. There were, however, applications for relief both numerous and urgent, and their liberality was therefore appealed to with confidence. It was in contemplation to erect a building capable of giving accommodation to all that mass of helplessness and misery which still stood in need of it. For this purpose it was intended to accumulate a :building fund, but they felt that they would not be justified in commencing their building operations until they had secured the sum of t e n thousand pounds, and they looked forward to the meet ing of that evening in the hope that material assistance would be given towards making at all events a good start in that laudable undertaking. (Cheers.) The noble chair man then gave " The office-bearers of the institu tion," coupled with the name of Lord Ebrington. (Cheers.) Viscount Ebrington replied, and gave "The health of their noble chairman.." (Loud cheering.) The noble chairman responded, and gave the City Corpora tion, coupled with the name of Mr. Alderman Wire. Mr. Alderman Wire replied. Dr. Reed then read a list of sub scriptions towards the funds of the institution—the an nouncement of which was received with much cheering. iNCENDIART FIRE.—On Sunday night a fire, which, from the circumstances under which it occurred, was evidently the work of an incendiary, was discovered in the farmyard adjoining the premises of Mr. L a ttimore, Wheathanistead-place, near St. Albans. About two hun dred loads of wheat were consumed, and the damage sus tained amounts to about 4001. The flames when NM dis covered were trifling ix extent, but they spread with extra ordinary rapidity, being evidently diffused by some combustible materials which were placed in the stack. The labourers of the neighbourhood used the most strenuous exertions to subdue the flames ; and it was owing chiefly to their efforts that the whole contents of the farmyard, together with the surrounding buildings, were nut de stroyed. Two fellows belonging to a gang of ilera who infest the neighbourhood have been arrested uu suviciun. NEW STORY OP SCOTTIOI LIFE AND CILMACYER. Just published, In 2 sole., poet aro, price 21a., ROSE DOUGLAS; or. Sketctce at a Country Patlab. Rettig this Autolgography of a Scot& Wade?' Daughter. Amu nx domestic tales e Douglas' may tape the place which Wordssroch`s Lucy* ocenples ►lung dotneetic r oems. A mom at tractive hi. di of Ito placid order we do not often meet ; wr commend this narrative at one mare to interest, to ratisfy, and to retain the heart"—Attxnreuni. ' Rose lauslas . is what it pmfeu.es to be. In the minute, homely, but &acute Nailing* of the c haractem of the portals we are insane.- tively reminnod of the quiet Ip-flume humour td Gal .° -Britannia. " A faithful daguerreotype of the eventful, but cut nneaeiting. ex istence of the Inhabitants of Met of the rural thatrietauf Svothiad."— Edinburgh Scotsman. London : Smith, Elder, and Co., 63, Cornhill. Punished this Third FAitiort, In post geo, with numerous Illus trations, price es., bound In cloth, or Ifs. morocco • minim, NINEVEH and I'EItSEPOLIS, an Ilutnrical Sketch of Anoint Asytia Persia, with an Account of the Recent ltevarches in !hole Countries. 137 W. S. W. Vacs, A., ot the Pettish Musium. o a lt Tort ediuon has Men thoroughly revised and enlarged, an& sever new diusiration. loin. uced from recent udditioos to the cul -1 faction In the Witte& Muwum. Attbur Ilan. Virtue, and Co., 25, Paternoster-row. 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Uri Aftt/110014 4k. SS•. LONDOIS; THURSD-43; MARCH 20. Ir cannot be said that either public opinion or the press will have had much immediate influents: upon the budget, which thee]lasemion of the ExeitEuutm is prepared to promulgate the instant that the floodgates of religious oratory are closed in parliament. Since the ministry ran aground, the press has been silent an matters of finance; and the public has, from a similar cause, been despairingly quiet, the citizens of the metropolis alone keeping up some show of agitation against the window tax and the duties on knowledge. Little, in fact, is hoped from a budget reconsidered and patched up in a hurry, in a year which has been declared a blank one for public business, when not a single par liamentary committee is sitting, and not one question of public import allowed to progress. All that appears certain is, that the window tax must he dealt with. And here let us revert to the great original sin of Sir CHARLES Woos and of the government, owing to which they lost credit, and tell. There is no department of public policy in which it is at once more necessary or inure facile to guide pub lic opinion than in matters of finance. These mterests with the public are so seatterel and disjointed, • and the experience relative to them so little con centrated, that the statesman in possession of the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer is almost alone enabled to form a judgment and a scheme, in which the requirements of the country are combined with its resources, its necessities with its desires. Differ rut interests may agitate, and different interests may, front time to time, preponderate. But people and classes in this country, however clamorous each to be relieved of its peculiar burden, have shown them selves in general most forbeurant and open to reason. The duty of the minister is, in truth, to instruct the people in these great and important points, to take a comprehensive view and have a fixed policy himself, instead of, as hoe been the case of late, running to conciliate that party which happened to have the last greatest majority in a parliamentary division, and making the remission of taxation a mere subject of parliamentary mummery, rather than one of national policy and. justice. To judge of the motives of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in drawing up his budget we can but con clude that, alarmed by the division on the window tax last year, he had determined that flinging this over would be the most fitting sacrifice to allay the storm lf, however, it had been his original pur pose to make but a very slight remission, he should have prepared the pliblic mind for it either by raising no hopes or by maintaining a rigid silence. Instead of this the journal, which evidently received the confidence of the ministry, was allowed to an nounce a long time beforehand that the window tax was to be given up. ]lopes were thus raised, as surances thus given, so that when the budget, which merely nibbled at the window tax, was brought forward, it occasioned a blast of dis appointment which literally blew Sir CHARLES Wool, out of the water. Bad as his budget was, he may thank the Times for its being so fatal to him. Ills organ, the Times, it was which excited the expectation that the obnoxious tax would be abolished; and as a just retribution, the Times afterwards acted the part of executioner, to carry into effect the po pular sentence on the minister. What Sir CHARLES WOOD should have done was nut to have touched any portion of the scheme of direct taxation, without reconsidering the whole. Un doubtedly we should have a parliamentary committee for this especial pumose. But unfortunately all coin . mittees are precluded this session, and though one may be appointed next session, a year must elapse ere the public has the result of its labours. Then a dissolution will probably intervene • whilst no cabinet is power ful or fixed enough to Seal with the subject. So that, in truth, the great question of the revisal and prop ortionment of direct taxation may yet require a considerable time to solve. What is required for the present is a temporary measure, not prejudging any great principle, and giving relief where it is with reason expected; I yet without throwing any obstacle in the way of a complete re-adjustment of direct taxation, when information shall have been complete on the subject, and the political mind made up as to its bearings and proportions. A complete abolition of the window tax, and the substitution for it of a tax of sixpence in the pound on the rent of houses has been pro posed, as likely to give to the Exchequer at least one million of the amount produced by the window-tax. The advantage of this is, that it might be levied on all houses, and the owners of 101. hoases, who would not find five shillings in the year any exorbitant tax. Though mentioning these amongst the plans suggested, we by no means retract the opinion that nine-tenths of the burden of a house tax will full on those included in Schedule 1) of the income tax, being the earners and turners of money ; the classes of profession and business, who congregate in cities, that are under high rents, and would pay the house tax instead of the red owners of property. A temporary measure is all, however, that can be expected from a ricketty ministry and a distracted parliament. And if the retention of a trifling house tax would enable the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER to give relief in other quarters, whether in taxes on knowledge, or in those on trade, there are few who would not submit to the inconvenience. But the general revision of taxation, and especially the full consideration of the distribution of direct taxation, should be a thing agreed upon and understood. Another portion of the budget that should be pre sented to the country without dissimulation or leger demain, is the burden of the debt, and the mode of dealing with it. Sir CIRRLES Wool), the other day, told the English people that within the last 20 years they had borrowed 35 millions, and only re paid eight of them, leaving altogether out of sight the fact, that in that period, 40 millions have been paid for the conversion of the permanent debt into terminable annuities. The debt, which exceeded 30 millions in 1819, is now but 28 millions : 000,000 i. falls in in 1851 by the re duction of the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cc tt n e t el s iaool l n : o h ooun ere dt are annuities Annoitic on o li w v h e t s ch to Lh p e it a e m t o o un t t s6 o o f a to of 2,200,0001. In 1807 the interest of the debt will not exceed 24 millions, should we borrow no more. We might expect, therefore, from a Chancellor of the Exchequer a fair and fixed plan for dealing with the debt, and for gradually converting it, or the greater portion of it, into terminable annuities. First of all, it might be laid down as a rule, that the yearly sums saved by the falling in of annuities, or by the diminution of the rate of interest, should be applied to the fur- ther conversion of stock into annuities. And this, with the application of a small surplus to the same purpose, would render the incubus of the debt less formidable. But the moment has not yet come for such appropriation of a surplus. For as long as there is a branch of customs or excise duty, by lower ing the rate of which no p er manent diminution of the revenue is likely to take place, notwithstanding the alleviation to the consumer , the first dut y of a ' minister in dealing with surplus revenue is to apply it in this way. For it is far more profitable to the nation than a diminution of the debt. There must be a term to such experiments, and a fiscal system may be attained that no longer allows room for them. Then will he the time for applying a surplus to the extinction of the debt. Meantime, we may comfort ourselves with the reflection that we are really reducing the debt, the representations of the CHAN eurott and of the Times to the contrary having been mere deception. THE debate of Monday and Tuesday incontestably establishes the danger—that the court of Rome, and the Pope of Roue, and the church of Rome have ob tained a power of doing mischief in this country ; that England is now liable to be perplexed, and dis turbed, and excited by all those mixed questions of religion and politics by which the repose of France, and Prussia, and Belgium has been perplexed and disturbed ; that we arc likely to have the canon law, synodical action—as priestly combination and aggression are now-a-days termed,—the monastic system, and the Index Expurgatorius, all in full swing in this protestant country. And we have, we arc told, no power, or right, or logical authority, to prevent this hurley-burley of priesteraft coming in upon us, because we have re cognised the existence of religious liberty. We cannot, it is contended, hinder the Poet , . from par celling out our country into Roman dioceses respon sible to him, nn Italian potentate, or restrict a Roman cardinal from " governing" our English counties in obedience to foreign instructions and to foreign law, because in 1829 we admitted our con stituencies to return to parliament Roman catholic members, if so aminded. So that religious liberty in England. by this train of reasoning, necessarily and irresistibly involves an abnegation on the part of the English sovereign and parliament of the power to resist any act of external aggression on English independence, if it only be made in the name and on behalf of a church which, recognises as its head a sovereign pontiff at Rome,' propped lip in the Vatican by f'rench bayonets.l "Which," as Mr. GEORGE BowYER would, in his' pedantry say, "is absurd." But this is only a part, and a small part, too, of the danger disclosed by these two niehts' debate. The speeches of Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER, Mr. CARD WELL, and Mr. SIDNEY lIF.RDERY disclose another and a new and perhaps a greater risk. Fur these able and influential and cautious gentlemen, whilst in words repudiating all sympathy with the court and the church of ltome, in argument adopt its interpre tation of the meaning of religious liberty, and support its practical application of that liberty ; in order that they may be able hereafter to claim for the church of England that immunity from state control, that freedom of internal action, that synodical power, and that complete overthrow of the royal supmnuity, in matters ecclesiastical, which Cardinal Wisestxx demands for the church of Rome. And how that which is given to the Roman can he refused to the English church passes all logical comprehension. Here then we have in the Commons House of Parliament an identity of design and a community of purpose evinced, nay, almost avowed, between the ultramontane members of the church of Rome and the Romish members of the church of England. Here, too, under the deceitful banner of religious liberty, we have a public fraternisation between the ambitious church of Rome and the disorder of the church of England, the design and purpose of which is an augmentation of the power of priestcraft : under two diffinent asps eta, it is true, but each inimical to that freedom of thought and exercise of private judg ment which from the Reformation .down to the advent of' PUSEY and of NEWMAN were the glory of England, bat which are now loudly, boldly, and audaciously proclaimed to be its shame. ! This comes of fostering, and encouraging, and paltering with such monstrous ecclesiastical figments and fables as apostolical succession, as church autho -Irity, as the sacramental system, as a sacrificial and me - I dititorial priestluxxl. By the support and succour which our bishops have given to these engines of sacerdotal craft, they have raised a spirit which nothing but the most determined and resolute popular demonstration can quell, and which, as Lord ASHLEY significantly said, the oldest amongst us may not live to see laid, —which threatens to invade our families and to dis turb society, as already it has broken in upon the bonds of political parties. This is a painful discussion, a distressing contro versy ; but it is an unavoidable and a needful one. It is one forced upon the protestants and the liberals of the empire. lo shrink from it is to submit to a revolution in our whole religious and political sys tem—it is to give the sanction of liberalism to sacerdotalism—to surrender the bulwarks of reli gious liberty—to yield, without a blow, the distinctive character of the English people. Hitherto in England the Roman Catholic church has been an English organisation, looking to the Pore as its spiritual hood. But admit as lawful and reasonable the aggression Cardinal Wisestss bus encouraged the Pnee to make, and the Roman catholic commu nion in England become a foreign organisation, looking forward to the reconquest of this country by the court of Rome. This may be, and is a Quixotic enterprise; but grant that it is one which the POPE has a right to enter on, with the anus he has assumed, and by the agency lie has devised, and, England becomes a prey to all the strife and discoid, to all the intrigues and ester; nal influence that the whole Roman catholic I world, that all the great absolutist powers, that the most insidious ecclesiastical organisation which ever aimed at universal dominion, can bring to bear on' our country. Reject under the pretence of reli gious liberty Lord Joust Itesseu.'s bill, and, by the, rejection, Rome receives a letter of license in this realm. Adopt it, and the Roman catholic church in England will retain all the freedom that the ex ercise of the of itsfaistlibte and demandcaiitv vur oo withouttrtof the disturbing pi. tur o b pe ilig the repose With such a prospect before them, and in the face of such a parliamentary union as that we' have referred to, it is not surprising that the most serious alarm should be enter tained by the representatives of the leading or thodox religious bodies in this metropolis; and it is natural that, in their alarm, they should for awhile consent to overlook their denominational differences of opinion, and come together, take counsel of each other, offer to each other the hand of friendship and of union, and resolve to make both a common and a separate demonstration against the common enemy. Accordingly, on Tuesday, under Lord ASIH.F.Y*S aus pices, a body of churchmen who act with that noble lord, met in this spirit some of the representatives of the four great divisions of the protestant Nonconformists, and agreed on making au appeal to the protestant feeling and principle of' the coun try; content, under present circumstances, to take Lord JOHN RUSSELL s measure as the minimum of national resistance to this foreign insult and ag gression, but resolved, if that be rejected, to demand larger protection for their common faith ; and a sub committee was then appointed to organise a great aggregate meeting and a series of denominational meetings in favour of the measure now before par liament. Thus, then, an opportunit y will be afforded to the country of indicating whether any change of opinion has occurred in the public mind since it spoke out so intelligibly and distinctly a few months ago; whether it adopts or rejects the tractarian interpretation given by Mr. MANDELL PALMER and Mr. SIDNEY ERBERT to religious liberty ; whether it is willing to accept the policy indicated and represented by Lord ABERDEEN and Sir JAMES GRAHAM; whether it desires with Lord STANLEY to postpone, until an indefinite inquiry is over, legWation ; or, whether it will "come at once to the succour" of Queen Vic- TORTS and her prerogative, attacked and insulted by Cardinal WISEMAN, and defended and vindicated by Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Lord PALMERSTON. For such an agitation we should under a leas im minent emergency have little taste ; hut forced upon us by Roman catholic ambition and tractarian co operation, it shall have the best support this journal can give it, if conducted with tolerance, and in that large and comprehensive spirit which can effectually repel insult without in the least shackling opinion. FRANCE. PARTS, War/NV.I4IIAT pewter. There was a meeting last night at Count Mole's, for the purpose of advancing the formation of a de finitive ministry. The evils of a trausitory ca binet of clerks were fully admitted In' all present, but the remedy was more diffi cult to discover, and the clique of Mole seperated without coming to any conclusion which will :died the situations, for their willingness to support a Fould-Bamehe restoration is not partaken by impor tant sections of the majority. As a matrimonial sembol of "fusion" an alliance is talked of between the families of Count Mole and the Due de Noailles, by the marriage of the latter's son with Mdlle. de Chiunplatreux. Nothing of interest took plan: to-day in the As sembly, which, after hearing M. Beternot's reply on the Sugar Bill, agreed to pass to a second delils-ra tion on the bill and after adopting, without debate, a bill for the better prevention of frauds by tho adulteration of articles sold, passed to the thirddeli beration on the bill relative to the organisatien of consultative chambers of commerce. M. Greterin has been appointed commissioner to speak on the side of the government on the sugar duties bill. M. Berryer announced to-dav to the Committee of Initiation his intention to withdraw his motion on the reimbursement of the 45 centimes. Some months ago, the Archbishop of Paris issued a charge to the clergy of hisdineese, enjoining on them abstinence from political discussion and allushms in their teaching and discourses, and generally to use moderation and forbearance in their language and conduct. This demonstration of Monseigneur do Slims was generally hailed lev public opinion as a step iu the right direction, and a timely rebuke to spiritual brethren who, not content with raving about politics in the pulpit, added a converse:wand:if, by deluging the newspapers with theology. M. Veuillot, the thaumatunne editor of the f nicer:, which was at that period in one column propagating the miracles of eye-moving madonnas of Rh ll i ttt , and blood-distilling images in village* near Lyons, and in the next traducing the successors of (Oily° and Newton, and reviling the professors of the University as atheists—M. Louis euillot then made a grimage to Rome, to stir up the wrath of the Pope and cardinals against the Arehbishop of Paris for the damnable heresy of exhorting his clergy to be peaceful and tolerant. Now, while the overt act of the papal court was diametrically opposite to the wishes and expectations of the obseuruntists and bigots, and was in fact a (-ensure of the Unirers with an implicit approval of the Archbishop's charge, tlu-re is reason to believe that the real feeling of his Holiness and advisers were in favour of the other side. In the meantime a peace was patched up, and M. Veuillot made a most penitent apology to the ' archbishop in the columns of the Unererx. There fore, the whole world has been rather taken by sur prise at an amazing long document, which has appeared in the Jesuit organ, professing to be a pas toral letter from the Bishop of Chartres, to the elergy of his diocese, and aspersing his colleagues of Pans with the coarsest abuse for having issued the above mentioned charge. The tone of this document may Is, gathered from the following passage: " L'espnt de mensonge, par une surprise fatale, a mule aux verites annoncees par M. I Areheveque de Paris des erreurs qui retirement d'effravans dangers." The answer of the Archbishop of Paris, dated yesterday, merits attention. It is as thllows: Whereas the Bishop of Chartres, by his pastoral letter of the l2th inst., addressed to the clergy of hi- , lice se, has, in contempt of all hierarchical order, attacked an act of our jurisdiction, by which we traced out to our clergy the lies of conduct which they were to follow in political affairs. and whereas he formdly ordered that his It tier should 14 published in our diocese through the medium of the public journals ; and whereas., if it were permitted to each bishop to meddle in the internal administration of other ditweses, and by documents published in these dioceses, to erTISIIIV mea sures of pure discipline, episcopal authority would he annihi lated, the bowls of olwilience dissolved, and the porern tits it of the church rendered imp. ssible; whereas, moreover, in tho same letter, the Bishop of Chartres imputes to us pernicious errors and doctrines, of which there is :to trace in our pasto ral letter ; whereas, this attack direct...l against our juris dictional authority, and this forgetfulness rat till respect for our dignity as metropolitan, as well as tin scandal which results from it, will not allow WI to be silent on the *obit et, however we might desire to be so on account of the great age and the virtues of stir suffragan • looking at all these reasons, we refer to the Provincial &mull of Paris, which will be held this year, the pastoral letter of the t2th March, 1841, of the Bishop of Chartres. The Monday receptions of the President have be. come much more frequented since the extinction of the Thursday soirees. At the last reception the Archbishop of Paris was present. No invitations are issuciL The guests are those who have been pre sented or hold some lunation. There is neither mu sic nor dancing. Mr. Armand Benin, the editor of the Debate, was noticed, not without surprise, as making his appearance at the ElysLe for the first time. _ _ . ..... The pretence of the government fur dissolving the national guard of Striesurg is the attitude assumed by that body on the 24th of February. On that day, as you are aware, by order of the central government, no review of the national guards took plate in any part of France. The colonel of the national guard at Strasbourg thought proper to post up throughout tho city oar order of the day condemning this resolution. The officers assembled, and, in violation of the con stitution, which enacts that no armed corps can de. liberate, deliberated in uniform. Sixty-eight re signed. Demonstrations of a disorderly nature were made by the companies on service. I knee occasion was seized to dissolve the battalions. The expedition against the tribes of Little Kabylia aims at securing the communications of the provmeo of Constantine, and will consist of the troops in that province under the command of General St. Arnaud. It is on a small scale, but may provoke serious con sequences, by leavinf the centre of the province exposed. D Hautpou '0 ambitious project of carrying war on a grand scale into the mountains of Great Kahylia has been decidedly rejected by the govern ment, which wishes to keep as low as possible the effective of the army of Algeria. There is no truth whatever in the report that Odilun Barret consented to acct o f fur ministerial colleagues MM. Fould, Itouher and Idaroehe. When applied to, in order to give the sanction of his name to a resuscitation of the fallen cabinet, he declined in the most positive terms. Meanwhile the President seems out dissatisfied with his ministers of transition, and has no thought for the moment of changing. It appears probable that they will go on until the revision question may be brought for ward. General Narvucz is become a gnat intimate of the Elyske. His known principles of sword rule seem to render the choice of such a counsellor fur from prudent. M. Sainte-Bens-es free trade motion has been re jected by the committee, which held a long debato on the question yesterday. M. Limayrue was ap pointed reporter in opposition to the free-trader Howyn-Tranchere. An official communication appears in the Mnai tear to correct the statements which have circulated with regard to the proceedings of the Conseil dEtat on a recent occasion. M. de Royer merely requested that the Calmed d'Etat would give the ca binet time to look at the bill which it has drawn up on the responsibility of the President and minis ters and examine it maturely. The Conseil trEtat voted the adjournment required unanimously. The Pays has been bought by M. Mires, manager of the Journal des Chemins do Ilr and of M. Lamar tine's Conseilkr du Potpie, for the commercial com pany of the "Caisse des Actions Reunies." It is said that General Vesco will leave Dijon shortly for Rome, where he will be charged with the organisation of the Pope's army. The steam-corvette the Newton, Captain Simonet de Maisonneuve, which was about to proceed to the Mediterranean, has just received orders to get ready for Cayenne. She is to take out the new governor of Guiana, several medical men, and some tasters of charity. The Newton is at present lying in the har bour of Cherbourg. From official returns just published of the produc tion and consumption of beet-root sugar during the last year, and up to the end of February of the pre sent one, it appears that at the end of last month 303 home-made sugar-manufactories were in activity, being Li more that at the corresponding period of last year ; they had produced 02,000,000 kilogrammes of sugar, being 11,000,000 more than the same period in ltf3o ; tho quantity consumed was 34,000,000 kilos., or 4,000,000 more. A man, named Coquet, has just been arrested at Liverdun, on the charge of having fired the shot Iwhich caused the death of the Archbishop of Paris at the barricade of tho Faubourg St. Antoine, in the