The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-05 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVE G, JUNE 5, 1851. . . • • t . i ne:11 , ver '4"" Id • - . 21 1 1i/erri l fi . ydfal' . , • • q eight not, herds to • • is M s which it is -proposed Jos; is we relies 7hat why Orem heel dedrabliehed ttak ila nd lepers of die bee diee, and, di lopes dee umbel bod k y— Amid .41ell-rolle *Oh" Ma Mk Ow Ilikelk lel gig ebdbld die re orgalls snwl the 8111114116 ,• Mgr hear.) It it If Is Wend edesslien Owdeed, if we have issiessies2 Oahe enL deolelbJa • au:a bet of the Weis podia bee mei the peoeddel system ina dequate lis the present went§ a tbe people; red if it be :=to lave another, and a mere extended system, let It s metea a basis which,however wide It may at one times hews beat, . has new bebonie narrow, Imams a basis which erfilL nate the three bodies which best the great mess of the people of Scotland. (Chan, dill 0 Hear, km") Oka wren to be the rasa ea ilia this bill reels. I Mai Netaialy not say lid the alladimery pro pels* lay the MI is in a state of pewles, des. I know Wei windier IS add wall be wwienW ha a committee of Me lads bins, bat in a said dessittes I think it mine le very well and very adeemedgermly considered. Is die weraittire it might ales be eidiresill whether there sisal met elm Mr seer obligadea w ailepayera to bfieddisoepsn, base)-aia Writ *wily to spread the hmaMs loon esteadily tbaa is reposed by this bill. filiag, se I have often seen, boob inweedlagly well and wilt what practical views Scotch armabore listen to each elm in committee and finally epee ea some useful mea- Seek I can see no reason why they should not in a select Sedmittee on this bill agree on some principle which the lewd might sanction. The hon. baronet (Sir It. Inglis) ids psenteanced a high panegyric on the ancient parochial ediniof dootlead. I quite agree with him in his panegyric. ItbbdtMt parochial schools of Scotland have been moot MOM Isedbillens. I should also, however, have agreed with dolga baronet if he had pronounced a panegyric on the turn plllll see& of England, or on the oil lamps which used to Midair ear streets. They were both improvements on a state Stielebeldses and darkness, but I see no reason why we did& aell woh-a-days mike improvements on the works of our assodera " Hear, hear.") Sir G. CLIME, amid* OW " Divide, divide," con tended tire hoe wheels woad not teemed in the greater part 51 deerhaL If they paced free schools in the rural perishes Is by side by the parochial school., ouch was the spirit of inaprodesse which characterised the Scottish peasantry, ddieillior MOM prefer paying for the education of their chills= i the parochial schools. Ile did not, hew ever, object 10 the extension of grants tothe mime Middies denonainatiemsby the committee of privy 03112911, sad la this way be thought that educatioa might be largely pro ranted. Hr. F. SCOTT rose amid loud cries of " Oh, oh," and " Divide, divide." His remarks were for some time lost in the noise and confusion. When a comparative lull ensued he proceeded to say—" Gentlemen," turning at the same time towards the reporters' gallery. The house then became convulsed with laughter, the hon. member retracted the expression, and commenced his observations with the usual " Mr. Speaker." Ile maintained that not one of the hon. members who had supported this bill had given any substantial reasons fur so doing. He denied that the education which the measure proposed to provide would satisfy the people of Scotland or improve their moral con dition. The bill was identical in principle with the propo sition of the lion. member for Oldham, and the same objec tions applied in both cases. There was no passage in the report of any of the inspectors of schools in Scotland which war ranted the separation of secular from religious instruc tion. On these grounds he should vote against tho second reading of this bill. Lord MELGUND, having briefly replied, The house divided— For the second reading 124 Against it 137-13 COUNTY COURTS FURTHER EXTENSION BILL. This bill passed through committee. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. On the motion of Sir G. Gary, a bill for the better ad ministration of criminal justice was brought in and read a first time. The house adjourned at half-past 5 o'clock. Mr. Parke has poked of for a fortnight with Mr. Rice. erantoo. spelt illumination. The lightnings of the stormy fight bare ceased. but the day has not come. Bloqiitsice like that of ORMAN, FLU/MET, or O'Costram., is no longer heard ; and no hand is ready to re-lame the torch now fallen from tho grasp of one whose wit and fancy for so many years charmed the listening can of senators and assemblages of the people. The death of RICHARD LALOR Sum terminates a long and illustrious train, which con nected our day and generation with the men of poli tical celebrity of the last century. The times and the necessities of the times are indeed changed, and mastery of words is no longer the talisman of power it formerly was. The genius of arithmetic is in the ascendant now ; and the same men, were they to live over again, would have to apply them selves to other studies than those which occupied the youth of those we have named. But genius is uni versal ; earnestness and passion will for ever lend wings to sober thought ; and while genius is moved and eloquence is loved the name of the distinguished orator whose lips are now for ever muto will be re membered with admiration and respect. ME experience of free imports of corn, so far as it has gone, tends materially to lessen whatever credit the prognostics of the opponents of the great reformation in our commercial system may have been supposed to enjoy. During the prolonged con troversy between the league and the landowners from 1841 to 1846, no assertions were more dog matically made by the defenders of monopoly, than that France being herself an importing country was not the quarter whence supplies of food were to be feared, but, on the other hand, that North America, with her limitless prairies and energetic population, was certain to flood our defenceless land with corn ground and unground. Indeed, the transcendant superiority of the latter was said to be so palpable, that no reason able or candid man could doubt in the progress that prolific continent was sure to make, once the ports of Great Britain were open towards supplying our po pulation with bread, to the exclusion of the native growers, and the disculture of our once wheat-wav ing plains. France was too densely peopled, and too badly tilled, to be a formidable rival in an agricul tural point of view; but the valley of the Mississippi, and the borders of Lakes Erie and Ontario filled the RICIDIONDS and NEWDEGATES with dismay. On the memorable occasion of the introduction of the Canada Flour Bill in 1844, the tocsin of monopoly began to sound, and at irregular intervals, though latterly more fitful and more faint, it has constantly been heard giving forth its melan choly tones of warning and of woe. Of late, peculiar emphasis has been laid upon the depressed condition of the millers as a distinct class from the cultivators of the soil. The insatiable rapa city of foreigners who, not content with underselling our farmers in their own markets for wheat iu the ear, have shown the ingratitude which all true Britons foresaw they would evince for the lavish concessions made to them of permission to send their produce hither,—by grinding it into flour before they sent it! The surpassing avarice of this unhandsome proceeding was only to be paralleled by the impenetrable stupidity of a nation that preferred buying foreign flour from thankless strangers, to bribing domestic landholders to grow wheat, and domestic millers to grind it for our use. In vain have we remonstrated on behalf of our beloved stomachs, that milling, being a manufacture, it ought rather to be served than disserved by the abundance and cheapness of the raw material. The raw ma terial, we were assured, would soon cease to be imported altogether, and nothing but the manu factured article would at length be brought. In vain we argued, that milling being a trade which required capital and skill, there was no reason for supposing that in the neighbourhood of our own unrivalled entrepota of merchandise and centres of opulence, the means should not be found for reducing by machinery, to its useable state, raw corn from Illinois, as well as cotton from Georgia or wool from Swan River. Incompatible fallacies and irrecon cileablc fears, do as well as any others to swell the panic of protection. And, accordingly, we arc now assured that the danger is from au inundation of French flour, because the channel is so narrow, while it is also from American flour because the ocean is so broad. To make good this wondrous case of terror and alarm a return has been recently moved for by one of the followers of Mr. DISRAELI, showing the quan tities of wheat and flour imported into the United Kingdom during the years 1849 and 1830, and during the first three months of 1830 and 1831. The results arc curious and instructive. In the first place it appears that the total amount of flour imported last year into these islands exceeds, by a comparatively small amount, that of the preceding year. In 1849 the amount (reduced to quarters of wheat) was 937,097, while in 1830 it was 1,091,288. Of this, two-thirds in 1819 came from the United States and Canada, and considerably less titan a third came from France ; while during last year more than a half was imported from the latter country, and the difference only was borne across the Atlantic for our usc. The explanation is easy and obvious. Last harvest in western Europe proved so plentiful that, in despair of being able to consume or sell at any price their surplus corn at home, our French neigh bours wisely bethought them of sending a portion of it here on speculation, less in the hope of obtaining a remunerative price, than of getting something in the shape of reimbursal for the toil and capital it had cost. For this purpose, it was manifestly better to send it in the manufactured state for sake of the saving in freight and charges. When persons speculate in the hope of small profits they need to economise nicely ; still more so when they only hope to save themselves from loss. This casual and exceptional condition of the French corn market, which in spite of a pro hibitory duty on corn is actually at the present Foment as low as our own, explains the augmented importations during the post year of French flour. On the other hand, everybody who can and will understand knows perfectly well that from the day that it becomes known at hew York that the London and Liverpool corn averages have fallen below a certain point, exportations thence to our shores cease to be made. The outlay for freight and charges becomes a formidable consideration in proportion to the price that can be realised; and the same state of things that renders the French corn merchant more prompt to ship, and anxious to sell, deters the American speculator from thinking of either. This view is singularly illustrated by the compara tive statement regarding the first three months of 1830 and 1831. The quantities of lour imported into the United Kingdom from Jannatyl to March 31 in these two years were— TO CORRESPONDENTS. A UiSU I ell " The Engem," enktaising ho isms evesi , k'e 0r00k1,..b gOtolieked sus, Twirls, Nil MIL, west, lo time dos pmt, Advatlogoorata Intended kr lb, Mimeo," London Evening over, kat bit .0 the Oka; 10, bouvortewirest, by Two o'clock on the Way or poblicatkek HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tins DST— Monier, Mt. Ont. Anemone: en. las. Toroasow—Montag, .Aftereas. 71a. Sm. LONDON, THURSDAY, JUNE 3. TUERE are few by whom genius is honoured, or to whom political worth is dear, who will not have heard with unaffected pain the announcement of the recent death of Mr. Stmt. His brilliant career as popular tribune, and subsequently as parliamentary debater, had indeed been recognised as ended some time ago; but still in the vigour of matured and cultivated intellect, he had but lately entered on another and not less useful walk of public life. and brief as was the opportunity afforded him for ' the ezereiso of his powers therein, we have reason to believe that it had sufficed to show how quickly his versatile nature was like'y to have adapted itself to the requirements of diplo macy, and the duties that a representative of a great and free country has to discharge when accredited to the court of a feeble and faulty sovereign. The appointment of Mr. SHEIL last autumn to the Florence mission was deemed by some rather an evidence of party-gratitude by the Whigs, than a proof of lord PALMERSTON'S discrimination in dre choice of his instruments abroad. Cavils were raised at the nomination of a Catholic to an Italian state; cynicism carped at the fact that his celebrity had been gained rather by rhetoric than red tapery: and, above all, his nomination was an affront to scores of elderly younger sons and unpromoted cadets of quality, who, having been thrust into the diplo matic service in boyhood as a means of aristocratic subsistence, considered the reversion of such offices as those of Minister at Florence as part of their lawful heritage. We ventured at the time to express our thorough contempt for all such objections, and our satisfaction at seeing a man without family influence, religious bigotry, or a stock of threadbare civil ser vice uniforms of every cut from the days of MALMES BUILT downwards, entrusted with the care of elides to win the confidence of the Italian people of ein and orders in oarprofession of sincere desire loses &smash throughtheir period of political transi tion. and atpersuading them that, as regards the inter a sage et material benefits, England wants and wishes 11sr nothing that is not equally beneficial to her com mercial a laise and to herself. We knew, indeed, that an active spirit of intrigue was, as it still is, at work, for the purpose of driving our growing com merce from the ports of the peninsula. Political hate, even more than mercantile envy, animates every thought of tie Austrian government wherever we are concerned ; and since the failure of the revolutions of 1848, and the relapse of the minor • 1851. One of the spectators received a mortal stab. r -- The effect of the explosion was terrific. Culla He had been accused of tling- be an instaass ia whish ssankr instruction only would be revolutions of 1848, and the relapse of the minor 1850. Late Texas dates say that Lieut. Brady recently 11 a intended to overturn given. This bin r ho mbi= the principleof local and paroc hial states of Italy into their former condition of depen- United States and Canada 284,25 4 1650. a : : we 1N: 2 . 4 ,54 t consi Th d e e ßo rab Ur l 7 radar TheF w il ati vs ex c ee los ll ed ent. at T 9 h l c 2 f o u , n w as ith ros: had a fight with the Indians, in which six were Ow 1 7 01 • 1 or in • but a more aressmont. owl principle general l y adopted m the Pa- dencc for the preservation of order on the condesten- • Form rise of 65c the Threes at 56.45, with a r i se of 40e. 482,603 .. 332,53 killed, and one was taken prisoner, who was subse- imp lad meow hew ailvaassd, for his valid Wee* et Beetland, that if the parents object to the neon of the cabinet of Vienna, no efforts have been ' lva ' all p arts .; . Mil maim awes thee bed lan* boon done in religious teashisg the children shall not attend at dm And thus it that, after all the clamourquently shot. The Indians were committing great assimed ea trimmest samdies. ub swat was ie remedy wen wises sow .. iissuissiion is given . Agai n, there is syared to inclose all these dependencies of the empire depre&tions near Goliad. eel dearty-essertoiewl beer and impsillestima in. the @amass question. mem*, this—that at present the Maroc- in a fiscal net, and to establish, from the Alps to and terror the:C a tena conjured up, the gross k s twite p.5....t , sat w p.s , a ga m eat sa nd e s lisa gives in the 'shah of Scotland, according to the an- Agrigentum, a strict cordon sonitaire against the aggregate of the importations of flour during the BELGIUM. Dates from the City of Mexico to May 3 have introduction of British principles and tinted call- last swatter has actually been less by 80,000 quarters been received. There was great excitement about r ',d epen d ance 8 . ---- , of 3 . ester d ay ger —Nir e Tehuantepec, in consequence of the bad treatment • tra of alasseiss tissagliment the emeary. SUN pegs ego diet parochial syetam, Is not sufficient to afford education imesellea le tin mbosis ire Soslised Om. alr the people of that sountry. From a report by Mr. than in the corresponding period of last year. which had been received by the American passengers coes—ironmon and ideas. ilsteet mini ot • dream k the basis, a te the Geedon I find that on of 790 parishes there are assured that the ministerial crisis ts well nigh at *Ma eallisidwat sea Its peassiod wow Is esparato the am 329 leeslities without the . benefit of schools With no better watchmen of our interests than the an end. The resignation place in the king's hands tween the Cherawna tribe of Indians and the cr steamer Gold Hunter. A treaty has been effected rebate= thee the maim besiege to m a t nie l 44 .6.7 .2 description, and where it is desirable schools , rank and file of diplomatic humdrums supply, it is yh the acia rausasui vidt St nevi* wee a . Dr. C be established. Well, there is a want—the want I not improbable that these hostile designs might have NATIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL ASSOCIATION.—Yeater. in consequence of the vote of May 16, have, we are told, been refused. The cabinet will retain office treat. sada in which bead. of education—to be supplied, and I think that I already been accomplished, so far at least as entrees- day evening at eight o'clock • numerous meeting of the in- Mexicans. i - this house almost unanimously agreed that fur• itant tariffs and secret treaties can secure the object. habitants of the united parishes of St. Margaret's and St. without any modification. A letter dated New Orleans, May 23, says aifoir T oTw he ethh s u c e L l oo ante n re m ng C . y ob rus futth l et c h tt care hgtece.anbisicadt.m threatened i authorities w ii h t o p re ro serus r u t e i a o th ns te. g the sse P Ll P T =gh• geNelpse ; math. 0 •oerai &boa. they means of education should is be rogiven. to So fir - baffle this anti-English combination while et in- John's, Westminster, was held at the Westminster Literary yof Scathed bed pat threard a similar view. At the house is agreed; but when it c r posed give l ' and to keep alive the friendly yet Institution, Great Smith - street , Westminster, for the pur- vest" out of 5.000 mho& ht Ssolland , there were 1,50) smelt education byres . lassementan eitencinthe complete, namineseted withwaymllsisesigmlemissowell who heats's,' meow parochial system without any change whatever, I , towards us as a nation by the people of Italy, bemd et thew Ithe lobe* blearg dies tho is dad that hassediutelly an objection would arum to any ex- jar?? am, bear. The telmeso saw us ogee the Weise st that kind . ; because, however desirable it may be 1 from whose detriment and degraon we have nothing to gain, and much, as customers, to lose— English envoys at pose of adopting measures to support the National Pub li c DENMARK. School Association, in promoting the establishment by Our Paris correspondent writes :—" Negotiations law of a synem of free schools, to be maintained by local have just been opened for the renewal of the ju esse gto l a .. A revenue cutter bas cargo, and sent down to protect the v schooner, and complaints have been forwarded to Wash- schwas the shwa was of a moral s sad am se have the lastruetion of the people in the hands of the this has been the duty which the rates, and managed by local committees, elected for that convention relative to the navigation of the • I Naples and at Florence have had to discharge, while et a eherathr. The pspalatioe of Seethed bed dwarsh—and I say that in other circumstances it would have object by the ratepayers,secular only. Mr. Send and Belt. The original convention, eon- for instruction COMMERCIAL. ' Ibow dosirahle that the church of Scotland should have had inerlissull alegaisull A aud As parochial "len° by " de l N.seinteedcaee of the education of the couutry—l find at the same time they have been called upon ire- G. Will"' a guardian, took the chair, observing that he eluded in 1669 between Denmark and Sweden, under New Yong, Mar 24. . I seems kept tam! _ the seeweldes of the halsitamM. Thom were OWN Mina at be cheat • d, aad yet that the ehureh is out now in circumstances to superintend peratively to avoid Since sailing of the Europa business at New York had all cause of offence to the govern- believed them were above 2,000,000 in England and Wales the mediation of France, put an end to the war b ean goh d . swsks were in .... hat is , iisi iis , ssis , i, and had had . 1 d ern were ew ly se poe m n u* is .uk o i ng 74,51. *a general education of the people of Scotland. At mews • Ito whom they are accredited. M b h Men mug t who had an imperfect education, and that about half th a t during which Charles Gustavus, the King of Sweden, vas i their late deproodoo. The money market Inio tolerably easy, whams. The free alma sad lbsi soishlithsdl shank wsse use time the established church of Scotland included . notwithatanding that the expor t of specie continued to be on a t. up in mere routine and schooled in obsolete forms number were entirely uneducated. (Hear.) In the parishes creased the Great Belt on the ice to besiege Copen- dn . ' ," ..„ . .. 1 ..... 4 ~,,,i , tee ii , iiiad odueatiee about MAN ethlthea ; ether embeds wens dm great majority of the people. At present there are the . are far less likely to succeed in combining these ti p of St. Margaret's and St. John's he knew that an immense kagen• sin nue, LA PXCIIIIIM on .nt educating about IMMO ; awl et the reseistaa free church wed the united presbyteria• church both din The convention of 1669 has been already remained steady. 'rho 'sport otsesele for the week eliding Bay M modified ; and fresh alterations, in harmony ono,otlo he was unable to Mee say serve Vbeleem. He seating from t he establish ment , a m having together as parenriy opposite functions than men whose liven number of the children never went to school. Mr. Prout present needs of commerce and navigation, are on the with t h e was abet 1,230,000 dots, ibis bad been, however, sore than smut- one, who had fought ten - to o ver by tee arrivals of gold dust truss uratonda, amounting I proposed by his bill to supply this itheimem, eat to make many congregations as has the established church. (Hear, have been passed in more active and more varied life. said he had been connected with Westminster about hall a to over 1,500,000 dots. suelltheprommests in the isamnitiimi 111111mla ma the re- hear.) Well. then. the pri n ciple of the established char= w e thought th e choice of eminence like Mr. Sum.. v century, and he believed that the association would have point of being introduced." the co-operation of the influential gentlemen in that eity. The marlut for brevistuffs was quiet, and the quotations advised l' ' nuirsmasts at the sass missed . The noble is that first. tha schoolmaster should be appointed by the ....-._ _____ by the Europa remain ! unchanged. ial eweetetha br *area* a Widths% ever might heritore and minister, after having conformed to the tes — t ; aided his own waY to - He hoped to see associations in every parish, as he felt the object was most important. He saw no reason why secular The cocoa market bad been meetly unsettled by the @dykes re. b• the Inerks of Chia whinh he now asked the and, wand, that the heritors and ministers should have singularly happy one. We thought the circumstance MUNICH, MAT 30. *Seed per the Ablest width Palled hence on toe 10th ult., end ar- bour* to wed a eatawd Haw. tth thibetetae which sue- the superintendence sad regulation of the schools. B ut , if o f hi s being of the Roman catholic faith the education should not be made separate from religious educe- The Bavarian troops sent to Electoral-Hesse are to deed at New INdi koi ontbe :Li st rien S ty sub a Ztt b,le erec ted mewled Ile i t moths wisel disappear If hon , you ask fur an assessment, it is evident that the free church !reverse of an obection. We thought he would have don for he thought that those who were desirous to give be reduced by half. 'embers thiernithe to it them sad the united presbyterian church, who differ from the move d em i nen tl y serv i cea bl e to h is coun try a broad thin; chddren a secular education would desire also that red mil. falr to fair, tile:l(We. per lb.. ..r a . fall of te. Up Made NM Plarlda s tete-mahout lie , per lb., showing a shatter de. Itr.l.MAClEßNilleeeeed. paresest tenetiembeeeeeri. church of timtland, and who maks up together about 1,400 1 r-- idle . . iin soothing lrritations and recovering confidence ta • they should have a religious beatedation. It was announced - - Mom Oa allailberktade lir . tteste decline took place. Prom me.a. the , the hm him ,' swam i d.,,,, t b.s e l s t. isist a a . eoavregat io us. would object to the extension of a systemthat ano th er meeting would called to form an asscreia. KOSSCTlT.—Yesterday, at the Court of Common wme lbe. ra "' b e e neetbert:l4=eseteteeri. that the " ' mil" I lion for the purpose of aiding the object. He that ths amble lord in the seem of his mesas which was confined to only a third of the pre,h 7 . l where it had been alienated without substantial came. Council, was read a communication from the Foreign-office, bedZ :Loeb et the anent question sad so lissie o f loth= or Scotland. There is another matter which is IWe think so still ; and on these accounts we cannot Cuutica OF Rom uth _...,..5„,, bill . H s m r. bi ne u sis s id be li eved i n c ut well deserving of attention. Although the free and united I but deplore F..-- , here has jast been printed, stating, in answer to • letter enclosing • resolution of the Wbger shisa wasedolk ualan" prtes nossisal, and, In route lostroteni, „la- the sail and sadden fate that has five- by order of the House of Lords, a return, extending court respecting Kossuth and his companione,that " her Ma- Atha. New emestrett, II dais.; sew prime mesa, 13.1 doh.; Biel . Nalgty r""'"ir solio Timm'', extents a the mea ns of eds. presbyterial' churches differ from the established church, trated a ll h andeimetien e . more than 30 folio pages, containing, f rom count i es ' , s eke jesty's government have been using, and are continuing to hew/ led the eil•••leellelltee• I 1 iiiiiim 6 Scotland ; bat he she believed that this bill they do not &LT in respect to any essential point of doo. .7 In Ireland, every wise and good man will mourn United Kingdom, the names of persons returned to the use, .their good offices with the Turkish government to ' I would bars the elect of sabwortis the peceent parochial trim. They differ only on the suleect of church severa- -1 wises —a system to which ths of Scotland were meet, and not on the doctrine—not on the faith to b e his lost; and well they may. Never oonnt ry stood VT II . B of the pax. " required by act of lettlia•telts of all . . omens and attached, sad all that grossed r i. rasimed the meagre. taught in the schools. The free church, I may say, does in greater need of Heists to guide its political and is somewhat o b tai n the release of these Hu , from their present other of monastic vows . The number captivity in Turkey, and her ty a government trust , bat no summary Is made of the that their endeavour* ma Wen lellg, lead to a favour- sow bake, at • &dim ei m Naw OatEsse, MAY 23. Ths sobs of oaths during the last two days ham Nee smiera ratemes sei se u is lisa ; imis. llol I t l t. lo4l . sales moderate); Pula 5.9; afore to • quarter cc • seat. slam tea I This um perm ' a disisoargase of sailitioas has seder sot even direr with the established church on this natter social feotetepe; never path maul Moms bereft of e t erni ti es ere & able moult." legato of Ms Africa's ans. MN peck Is wire, sad • speculative l i ! / / I l I I . . IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.--.WEDNESIOAV, ICNN 4. The Srmaan task the chair shortly after 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Clerkenwell Improvemeot (transfer of powers to the Corporation of Loaded, 40 Bill wm road a third time and rmed. Leine AMIND)11M111 CONMDIAND AND Amman 10.— Donk, Impremment Ball ; Great Northern M iffellia lmintillamst (No. 1) Bill; Harwich Improvement, tasazariallftractilleid,Sitellieultieltothewritamay Bill ; srasoilysti Wales (No. I) Bill. /Orogen SN ASIDIDND BIALA AOILSID 10.--Cepper Miners to ],gland Company Bill; Dublin, Deadens', sad MathfeeMata Railway Waterford and Liimerisk Railway Bill; Waterford, Wesford, Wicklow, and Dublin Railway Bill; Whig Bridge and Road Bill. PUBLIC BUSINESS. NEW MEMBER. Mr. Dawns took the oaths sad his seat on his election for Cie Ids of Wight, in the room of Mr. Simeon. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Taloa oN Knowbooos.—For the abolition of by Mr. IBERNAL, from Rochester sad Chatham. Cumin Couars.—For the extension of, by Mr. PUOH, Arm Newtown, Montgomeryshire. Farm. Acmaitsitim.—Against, by Mr. DUNCAN and Lord J. STUART, from places is Scotland; by Mr. CHRISTOPHER, from Lincoln. Rectum terti".ll TITANS BILL.—Is Smear of, by Lord J. STUART, from Argjleshire ; Mr. DUNCAN, from lefiabilante of Cllanamis, in the county of Forfar. Kedge Doane. —Astiast, by Mr. PILKINOTON (6), gam belependent Coogregetions is Blackburn, Darweu, Agerieggira,"&c. Ten Cara or GOOD Hors.—By Mr. ADDERLET (10), IdIN the Cape, for representative constitution. • SOUTH AFRICAN COLONIES. Mr.` ADDERLET said he bad several petitions to m ama from ten dilfcrent municipalities In Owe egad" raying for the form of constitution midi for bens wir nailed Mem b the imperial government. N. 11*Id t ever, before eoiug to Lave the *aim M the wow as lie whether be cn l l properly prmeat Mom raises under glreumstames which Lad arum. Ilse brama membl be aware probably that paper. had rosently bona hid the *Me coataining a cie.patch num the govenow of thine Molonies representing lliat the n ignt a yed e to =no ...I 414 not Eitl4laad'been got up by the fa a semi _ proper maser by rrsons cemmending see dad did WA reprearot the peneae they pmpssted to re 'reseal. Whet he wished to dam was whether with such repremotati. su from the governor of the felony is refi.rencii to these petitions he should not evehject himself to animadversion if be presented these peti- Moss without some previous inquiry as to their genuine mew. Ile believed he could prove that they were genuine Cy 'valence now is Loud's, and in the course of two or Vireo days, provided a committee were appointed fur the The SPEAK RR thought the boa. gentleman quite right `calling atteatio3 to the circurnatance that there was home question as to the authenticity of the signatures, hut di he hail made iaguirrea end wee satisfied himself that the Mgastures were (music's, he would be perfectly justified in presenting the petitions. (liver) Mr. ADDERLRY said he had satisfied himself that the Osmium were genuine, and he then presented the peti. lies% whisk were ordered to lie upon the table. '1 ho hon. gentleman gave notice that he should call attention to morrow to the allegation of the governor that the pee. Jima were fictitious and got up for the purpose of deceiving Ike boom. REFORM OF PARLIAMENT. Mr. HUME hied his motion it this subject for Tuesday, Meth. METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY. _ ..... _ Mr MOWATT obtained kens to:4t . i.• • MR for the better supply of water to the m • . This bill was afterwards broaght in and read a first time. TIIE NO HOUSE ON TUESDAY. Sir J. WALMSLEY, in reference to the no house" os {be envie. evening, complained that sufficient notice of the Speaker being at prayers had nut been given to those members who were attending on committees up stain to Ilmilde them to be in the house in time. 'the SPEAKER had made inquiries whether the bill bad lwea duly nog and that tke messengers had gone into Ilbe &Cereal committee room to summon the members, both of which he wee informed had been done at the proper time. Mr lIUME admitted that the usual announcement that Qu Speaker was at prayers had been male. but owing to Ohe distaste between the committee reins and the house it eras impossible fur members to obey the summons with suet *lent rapidity to mere u house. Ile suggested that until they gut into the new house a longer notice should be Given. Fir R. INGLIS observed, that four years ago the house bad the advantage of the electric telegraph in communicat ing with the committees; he saw no reason why it should out he ...snow. (An hon. memle r, Why nut lay down a railway."—(A laugh.) Every member, however, ought to be imbibe house a quarter before four. Mr. ILWART could say that the messengers had given notice yesterday in the committee routs, in which he and the hon. member for Bolton were attending, that the Speaker was at prayers. :be J. WALMSLEY hail left the room before the mes senger arrived -(" bear, hear," and a laugh)—but before Boom so kid expressed he. expectation th it an effort would 11.• insole to pr..vi at a house being formed. GRAILIM remarked that when he first sat in that house it was the custom of toe Sergeantat-Anns to go Nand to the committee-ro sou with the mace and summon th.• members. Perhips that practice might be revived with *Jeanne?. Mr. BILOTHERTON bore testimony that ample notice bad been given on the previous day. Mf. W. WILLIAMS said that tO or 40 members were In the lobby when the house was counted, some of whom "leis 41 him by the coat to prevent his entering the house. (A laugh) Mr. S. CRAWFORD thought that they should sesimi late the practice of the evening with that of the moruiug sittings in regard to recalling a house. Mr. REYNOLDS said there were suffieient members in the Iphlty at four o'clock to make a house, had there been a desiie to do so. Mt. It HERBERT complained that members who sent *hood thine lumbers preient at four o'clock to the news papers did nut take the trouble to be aecirate. His name ay.mitted in the list published that morning, though be nes us the house whoa at was counted. Thl* roneeriatiue then dropped. SCHOOL ESTABLISHMENTS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Oa the order of the day fur the second reading of this bill linos read, petitions were presented in favour of the bat Ey Mr. DUNCAN, from Dundee and peefaresire ; Sir 1. M'TAGGART, from Wigan; Mr. J. B. SMITH, from Kit mareoek ; Mr. ALEX. lIASTIK, from Glasgow ; Mr. btOIJYERIE, from Ayrshire; Mr. SWART, from Duna & ,es ; Mr. A Relit BA LD HASTIE, from Paisley. And eigeinat the lull, by Sir G. CLERK, from the General As s, inlay albs church of Scotland ; Mr. LOCKHART, from Lxnyrk Mr. F. SCOTT, from Itoxburgh ; Mr. F. ; E, from Peebles mad Selkirk; Mr. CHARTE NISi from Haddington; and Iik.SMOLLETT, from Dam- , bartonahire. Lord MELGUND, in umnilisi tbe mind reading of the bill maid, there was a gement Wise its Scotland that the present means of editeation wen ussoustl to the wants of She people, sad it was apes* lopertsses that the legisla ture should lay down awes_ wawa principle on which logislatis• Ibis sabbist daellil preessi. At present they were peseseiblee• amt abed te month system, which could twit lo probeelivs of wed. It meld be better, he thought, if instead of sinSe die semasemeet of educe- Congo the ply tossed, thearlsgiled • distinct legislative e.easistint se tie subject. ear, bear.) It was the feel ing of MI parties is Soothed that swiss legislation was Noseseary; and it was with the viewer giving effect to that feeling thaC he had bum* *award this bill, though be did set peeseres le say that that w the particular measure tbry desired. (Rear, hear.) The *suers& amiably, in ISso,esported in favour of ia greasing the selarLs of the !fasten, and of having an 4:lrectral supwintendenee. He bad been accused of bring -'q forward Msmem aad the prepaid= was, therefor., t ii kt or Mitst add& bed been mad* by the hon. m for Qtr. W. J. Fox). A large majori . ted V win all IMIL member for Oldham, sad skit . =MP sty a would be easeeskid . • Ibis bill., be he benefit of SoM. Onernment Moubi sex. Nosion appoint • select committee to =wire MO flee lib& subject of education in Scotland, and int/0- am abila m iesmedy any defects in the present system ; WIN lids billL which was repugnant to the feel hipme aretkbuy elf the people of Scotland, upon them fienniSita it wadi dentsztke present C 01111•11011 Wane a theliljedig OAS* god church of Scotland; It would Mtn Ile nib et nuns the schoolmasters and the suporinnineerif the pada when; and it contained II me province wisteter lbw snitVs instruction. Nrt. MR wiresned the semorking that the mean etuissatieu dedined dr • time when the population d 1 tad was bart:lawd:se, had become pshAlly inn* e line under the su sem tIICIIIIIIIII et dr amber to le peseilld fir. T of the Andrew were left within thseetle of imenction. fissbelan difficulties Mod in the 1/ff, but it was the duty of the here be stark In bas aniested—diat et dewing swat the delesier whishrensiedageneesider enssdisnbelas pined within the seen if nay member of the Yr. C. BRUM erred the messes, wbieirt md ieil, was directly at venom with the whits mil !seines One pitat Bootlaad. LORD ADVOCATE thought that this dienseleet kid bean mdiretive of at least one advaatage, sod that was the ohMlii of an admission tram all sides of the= not 'sly that there was largest necessity tar e mesas of °dated= in Seotlasd, but, farther, that it was the dusty of the boom to proceed to inquire bow that near , eity s cal d be provided for. He did not my that the bill as it steed, to the details of which he did not pledge himself, antained a perfectly complete system of education • but he should support the second reading because it furni;hed the I ground work of what might become • valuable measure, and was a contribution towards solving a question which was every day assuming greater importance. With respect to the deficiencies of education in Scotland, he be lieved that if the curtain could be lifted, the spec tate would be appalling. The fact stated by Lord Melgund, that out of 600,000 children, no provision was made for the education of 300,000, showed that in 25 years half the generation would be uneducated. This was • question, therefore, upon which all minor differences should les bid ride ; parliament Phould come to the resolution at WO be de something, and in Scotland there were unusual tie oniting oil denominations in one general scheme ena l lin ba sal education. The parochial school system was, ulna established, a grand scheme; but its founders would l ' be Sob= to dispute the deficiencies which three centuries led 1111.11• Led in it. There was no reason why the parochial staldl aft be revised, but there was an amount of rnoi mid& lit pain schools could not reach. The Lord Admen seinined the principle and action of these eshaels, eentoadin,q that they had gra dually deallmok awl allow the ma ef WA le stand as it did. Ile should, he said, set of .ti_lllis bill it it was for the exclusion of religious taides from the sehoob, but he was no enemy to its exaludea if it could not be combined with secular tnstruction. Ho thought it would be desirable to get rid of testa, the effect of which was in many cases to exclude men who held the same opinions as those who devised them. It was impossible to be blind to the fact that the establishment did not number more than half of the orthodox presbyterians in Scotland. Anything was better, than standing still. Ignorance could not stand still ; yeasl after year its evils would multiply, and there was no greater enemy to social improvement. Sir R. INfiLIS observed that this was not a question of minor differences, but of principle, and Lord John Russell had, on the 22nd of May, voted against the principle of this bill, which was that of separating religious from secular ideation. From the earliest times, religion had been the basis of national education in Scotland, with one interrniadon, the ill effects of which had been apparent, and Sir Rand dwelt upon the beneficial raults of the parochial school grams. The learned lord who had last .pokers, desired to accommo date the system to the wants of the present age. But the want' of the human .Dist were always the conic in every age—the wants of. the human soul were always those of religion, and of secular instruction also if the noble lord but secular instruction sanctified by religion. Was pleased, tt said in this day that it was of no consequence that dirietianity should not be taught in the schools of Scotland 'I it had been. Since 1613 and 1616 it was clear that nil- gion• had been always—with one memorable exception—the basis of national education in Scotland. The exception was that in IGGO the act of 1646 and other acts passed in that parliament were repealed, and the whole people of Scotland were left for more than a generation without any system of education being ; provided for them. This appeared to him conclusive that a system of education founded on religion which had au largely contributed to form the national character of Scotland could not be intermitted without great danger. The hon. baronet here argued that the national character of Scotland had been steadily advancing since 1809, and he illustrated his position by th'e comparatively large number of beggars and vagrants in England and Ireland during that period, contending that that fact was a testimony to the moral character of the Scottish people higher than any European nation could boast of po-iiesaing. This Scotland owed to her parochial system. Would they abolish a system that had proved so etlcient ? Re appealed to the noble lord, and to the learned lord opposite, to say under what other system had the great men of Scotland been educated, and whether that system was to be destroyed for nu better reasons than those which had been urged by the hon. member fur Oldham on behalf of England and Wales and by the noble lord with respect to Scotland. It had been almost admitted in the course of the discussion, that it was impossible to unite religious and secular educa tion, and the boo. member for Montrose had, if he was not mistaken, recognised that proposition. Bat to what other source, he would ask, than the parochial systemof education bad Scotland been indebted for her historians, her poets, and the other distinguished men who had adorned her history. When the noble lord spoke of the enormous mass of the people left uneducated, and of the 300,000 children ohm lately without any education, let him specify the propor tion which the 300,000 souls bore to the population of the great towns in Scotland. (Hear, hear.) Ile (Sir R. Inglis) did nut deny that there was great deficiency of educauors, both in the larger towns and in the remote districts of Scot land; but what he did deny was, that because such de fects existed, therefore they were at liberty, for • vague generality, to destroy a whole system which had raised the character of the nation of Scotland above all Europe. ' Mr. M'OREGOR believed that the bill would confer a great boon on Scotland, and he accepted by the majority of of right-thinking persons in that part of the kingdom. Mr. COWAN was satisfied that no country could be happy or prosperous where the people were not religiously taught, and therefore opposed the measure. Mr. CHARTERIS apprehended that the proposed scheme would prove unsuccessful, and as it was virtually untried, wished the house, at all events, to delay adopting it until more time had been allowed for consideration and ex- perinient. Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply to Sir R. Inglis, observed that no two propositions could be more dis tinct than thud° of Mr. Eon and Lord Melgund. The proposal of the honourable member for Oldham was, that schools should be established for promoting secular instruc tion, the words " teenier instruction " being introduced, in order to provide for the exclusion of religious teaching, and the giving of secular instruction only in there school, which were to be supported by parochial assessments levied foe their maintenance. The bill of my noble friend, so far from that, states that the boards which he proposes to establish should take means for promoting education, and thiesigh he does not specify secular and religious instruction, 1 should understand that the word " education " must in itials religious education, and therefore that religious edu odes it contemplated by this bill. (Hear, hear.) The only difficulty which couMsent itself 4 the way of pro viding reous instruction Ws measure would be if all the perie ligi l ennualtless be of opinion that religious inehweilenewilkt NOW he Omn i amithat secular instruction niffigsheshlM hug dewing as we do the opinions demo ma Ow sentiments of the different velblens gs tles Shea esystry—having heard the IiSSIM. !INKY wilds gem& es paleiteefreligises dowine, and know ing what the Wary of liseined hes hem I cannot doubt that if thesesimaitties were asesillsbad there would hardly be • instant. is which secular instruction only would be - - FRANCE. PARIS, WEDSTAIDAT EVINING. On the demand of M. Moulin, the Assembly has fixed Friday for the appointment of the committee on revision. Hence there will be no public sitting on either Friday or Saturday. The closing words of General Changarnier's speech, " Representatives of France, deliberate in peace!" form the text of the day's discussion. A long and unfavourable criticism on the Presidents speech appears from the pen of M. Lamartine, in the Pays. A cabinet-council was held at M. Leon Faucher's on Monday night, which lasted till 2 o'clock in the morning. A fresh council was held at 11 o'clock yesterday morning to deliberate on the course to be pursued relative to the interpellations announced on the President's speech. The immediate result of the President's demon stration has been to cause the re-election of his de termined enemy, Bare, as questor. You are aware that the Rue des Pyramides had resolved upon sacri ficing that irate and bristling champion of the sove reignty of the legislative power, as a pledge of their wish to strengthen the hands of the executive. The eruption of imperialism has deterred them from ex ecuting this conciliating intention, and M. Base stood on the first ballot at the head of the poll, and was forthwith proclaimed questor. The Bonapartist, General Lebreton, who was to have replaced Base, will therefore be set aside. To-morrow will take place the inauguration of the restored apartments at the Louvre. The President will attend and make a speech. Seldom has a more interesting debate taken place in tho Assembly than that of yesterday. So eager were all minds to join issue upon the question of the day, the Presidents speech at Dijon, that the upper most thought found vent in a debate, entirely foreign to the subject as to form, but involving principles only germane to it as to substance. In fact, although M. Desmousseaux de Givre bad given notice of in terpellations upon the Dijon speech, the Assembly was too impatient to wait upon the order of the day, and took occasion of the bill for extending to the de corated wounded of Junc,lB4B, the pay of legionaries, to break ground upon the manifesto of the Pre sident. In the course of discussing an amendment by General Gourgaud extending the benefit claimed for the wounded of June to those of February, and a further proposal of Larochcjacquelin in favour of the soldiers who fought in 1830 for Charles X., came to be raised the ticklish question of passive obedience in the soldier. Any one, who reflects for a moment upon the military revolutions, not only of France, but of all other countries, will see the impossibility of laying down a practical dogma upon such a question. What legislative affirmation of the duty of passive obedience would have prevented the regiments sent against Napoleon upon his return from Elba from going over to him ? On the other hand, the danger of encouraging, the right of private judgment in " intelligent bayonets" is obvious, and strikes at the root of all discipline. But merge the man in the soldier as you will, the units of an army will never entirely abdicate their superiority to mere machines. These were more or less the elements upon which Colonel Charms, minister of War for a moment under the provisional government, and a vigorous member of the Mountain, founded a speech of remarkable talent and dexterity. The speech of the Montag. nerd was evidently addressed to the army, and claimed for the soldier in a revolutionary crisis that right of political opinion which it is the object of the party of order to guard. Hence every attempt was made by Dupin and the parliamentary majorit y to stifle a discussion which could not fail to pene trate into the ranks of the military, and sap their discipline. In the meantime Charms, after meeting with unanswerable logic all the interruptions of the Right, brought the question, by a sudden turn, into close contact with the speech of' Dijon. lie put, in covert language, the hypothesis of the President turning the army against the Assembly. He wanted to know what course , the soldier was to take, if or dered by his commanding officer to march against tho legislative body. The partisans of passive . obedience were somewhat stagered by the question. General Changaruicr seised &e moment to strike in with a slashing side-stroke against the President, and his ambitious dreams. lie mud: A grave question has been raised, and, in consequence of what has been said, I think it necessary to put en end to the apprehensions expressed by M. Charras. According to the assertions of certain persons, the army is ready in its enthusiasm, to act against the laws of the country, and to change the form of government. In the first place, and to show that such cannot be the case, it is sufficient fur me to ask where is there any motive fur such enthusiasm? (Laughter on the left). I may add that the army, pro roundly penetrated with the sentiment of its duty, with the feeling of what is due to its own dignity, desires no more than you to inflict on France the wretched ness and shame of the government of the emus', when emperors were succes•ively raised to power or de posed by drunken Praetorian Guards. (Great agitation.) Discipline is deeply rooted in the French army. The sol diers will always hear the voice of their chiefs ; but no one will ever induce the soldiers to march against the law— against the Assembly; not a single battalion could be in• duced to follow for such a purpose, whoever might be the officers whom they are accustomed to obey. Consequently, representatives of France, deliberate in peace. M. Leon Faucher warmly protested against ' the insinuations directed against the govern ment by the man with whom but an in stant before he had shaken hands. Thus, before the interpellations of M. Desmou.sseaux de Givre came on, the interest of the subject was in a great measure exhausted ; and the disputes about the official and real version of the speech were of secon dary importance. Thus, for a moment, the agitation caused by the Dijon manifesto has subsided. It remains to be ascertained whether this questionable move of Louis Napoleon will have a permanent effect upon his interests by detaching the support of the De Broglie-Orleanists, and tending to drive them towards fusion and a coalition with the leg itimists; or whether their displeasure will be ully ap peased, and they will continue to regard t e prolonga tion of the President's powers as the safest and moat expedient solution of the crisis. To-day the Assembly proceeded to ballot for the renewal of the questors. The number of voters was 611. M. Base obtained 436 voters; General Leflo, 386 ;do Panat, 299 ; Charras, 174; Lebreton, 146; Chadenet, 134; Chaper, 117. MM. Base and Leflo, having alone obtained the majority, were re-elected. The result of the fresh ballot will not be known until to-morrow. De Panat is considered certain of being re-elected. M. Monet presented his report on the bill for the adjournment of the municipal elections. The debate was devoid of interest. A serious tumult has occurred at the Italian Opera of Pere, the diplomatic quarter of Constantinople One of the • -Ind SPAIN. A telegraphic despatch, dated the Ist instant, from Madrid, announces the opening of the Cortes. M. Mayans, the ministerial candidate, was chosen pre sident of the Chamber of I>epoties, by 16.7. votes out 197. M. Olozaga obtained 28 votes. Tho Ciazette of the 29th publishes the comparative accounts of the receipts of the treasury during the months of April 1850 and 1851, showing a decrease in the latter of 3,971,081 rails. The Epoca announces that the Marquis do Mira fibres had addressed a very energetic note on the affairs of Portugal to the cabinets of London, Paris, and Lisbon, who, with that of .Madrid, signed the Treaty of the Qaudruple Alliance. The Marquis is said to be of opinion that a military interference ought immediately to be determined on. PORTUGAL. A telegraphic despatch, received in Paris last even ing, states that three regiments of infantry, three squadrons of cavalry, and a battalion of infantry, pro nounced against Suldanha at Elvas and Moritemar on the 31st ult. The 7th military division in Estmma dura has refused to obey Dun Antos, declaring itself for the Queen and against the revolutionists. ARRIVAL OF HUNGARIAN REFUGEES. Ineetris Telegraph.) PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNIND. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Sultan has just arrived, with ship-letter bags from Constantinople, Smynia, Malta, and Gib raltar. Among the passengers is the Hungarian Lieut.-General Loizar Maysaros, and a number of Hungarian officers. Mr. Francois Izsoaosy, Kos suth's secretary, was left at Malta in ill-health. It was fully expected that Kossuth himself would have come to England in the Sultan. AMERICA. The American mail steamer Artie, Captain Luce, arrived at Liverpool last evening, at a quarter past five o'clock, with 100 passengers, 425,01 N) dollars in specie on freight, and the usual mail. She met the United States steam-ship Baltic when within three hours' sail of New York. The Arctic left New York on the 24th, and has therefore made the voyage in eleven days; the dates by this arrival are three days latter than those brought by the Europa, which arrived on Sunday. The United States mail steam-ship Ohio, with 1,250,000 dots. specie on freight, the San Francisco mail of April 15, Chaves mails of the 14th ult., and Havannah of the 17th, arrived at New York on the night of the 21st; and the N. Scott, with 19,721 dole. specie on freight, on the 22nd ult. The political news by this arrival is not important. The President, and a portion of his cabinet, have been engaged during the week, in completing their tour through a portion of the State of New York, and have been received with enthusiasm. The Herald says: " Mr. Fillmore's reception at various points has been influenced by the tact that he is iden tified with the political history of the State, but any one may perceive that Mr. %1 ebster's populaiity has equalled, if not surpassed that of the president, if we may judge by the demonstrations." A stir is being made in the legislatures of Maine and Mussachussetts to effect the formation of the European and North American Railroad," between Halifax and Boston, Massachusetts. We learn from a Boston paper that the Honourable Caleb Cushing has introduced into the legislature a bill to aid in the construction of the European and North American Railway, authorising an issue of State scrip to the amount of 500,000 dots., bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, payable semi annually, and the principal redeemable in 20 years, for the use and benefit of the said road whenever it shall be organised, with 1,000,010 stock subscribed for and 500,000 doll. paid in. The State of Maine has made a similar grunt of 500,00 dots. in money scrip, or an equivalent form, satisfactory to the Go , vernor and Council. It was thought there the bill would pass. Twenty-five men arrested in Florida as Cuba con ' spirators had arrived at Baltimore, and during the previous month 1,500 suspicious men had been on the coast, but had dispersed. Letters from Ohio (three days later) of the 18th of April state that Brazil had declared the slave-trade piracy, hut give no details. Mr. Martin F. Tupper is one of the passengers by the Arctic; also M. Cabot, of Icarian notoriety. The Washington Republic, of May 23, publishes the seventh census of the United States, complete, exhibiting also the apportionment of representatives in Congress. The following are the results: Free States: Free inhabitants, 13,533,328; slaves, 119. Slave States: Free inhabitants, 6,393,757; slaves, 3,175,783. Districts and territories: Free inhabitants, 160,821; slaves, 3,687. Total population, 23,267,198 ; representative popu lation, 21,832,62:1 (?) The whole ',umber of representatives is 233. The following states each have a member added to the number of the apportionment: Alabama, Connecticut,lDela ware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Tesas. New York will have 32 mem bers by ration and 1 fur fractions. Yaginia is only entitled to 13 members. The Republic says: "We understand tho correctness of the returns are nut yet entirely vouched ; but we presume they are sufficiently so as to render it probable there will be no change iu the apportionment as given." At Toronto, on the 23rd ult., the government suf fered a defeat in the Legi,lative Assembly in resist ing a motion to introduce a bill for preventing the expenditure of public money not previously . . autho rised by the parliament, and for restrailang the granting of pensions. It w•as the first division of the sesston, and the votes stood 26 to 2.5. The address in answer to the royal speech was I carried without a division. At New Orleans on May 21, the Spanish consul was severely beaten by a young Spaniard, who was aggrieved by a letter of the consul's to the govern ment, accusing him of being concerned in the Cuban expedition. he bridge on the Louisville and Frankfort Rail road, a short distance west of the latter place, gave way as a train was /passing over it, and fell with the cars a distance of twenty feet. Six dead bodies, shockingly mangled, were recovered from the ruins at the last accounts. The loss of life is thought to be very great. Accounts had been received at New Orleans of the explosion of the steamer Echo, at Bayou Sara, by which several persons were killed and wounded. The effect of the explosion - terrific.