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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LOlLDS.—Moreray, MARCH 3. Tbe LOUD CRANCELLOR took his Slat St S o'clock. PIaITIONS PRESENTED. Para . Anuavistow.—By Lord ItEDESDALE, from ammo: plaecs fa Warwiekshire, aiming papal sggre•.si.on. The Earl of IIODEN, team tariou• parishee is the annties of Armagh, Limerick, Wexford. Down, Kildare. Ilfretretath, berry, Tyrone, and Queen's County, to the mac • freet. The n.•tde •arl mid the petitioner. all expresreel their ,trpzia..- end iadi,4nation at the conduct of the l'upe; ▪ mu•t telt' , that opportunity of taring bow entirely • ihtt Ted from the noble earl (of Abeilem) in the genti an !Ida rhieh he had sapre.sedi on this subject the other niuht. (Hear, hear.) He muet also my that the letter of L.r•l John Itwxll to the Bishop of Durham. for which he hrl fo ra •o much hlam.d, hail ihtained for him the grati fy& •.1 a large elms of her 1.. j-sty's subjects : and the in. troduttion ot the evemment toll shor.•d that the noble Lori woe maximsa to redeem the pledge which he had given. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. Marqllll - of LANSDOWNE, after presenting a armor., id -I may as well, in laying this report on the table. before. I more the adj....ol,lmnd of the house, discharge -my duty by acquainting your lord.hipa that in the cimum stem.... of this ...,untry, and after the failure of three MSC coratirt air , for constructing a new administration, her Majesty, eft,/ duly reflecting upon the situation in which 1 . she was placed by that failure, has been pleased to call upon those of her ministers wl.o have a been recently in offtee to resettle those of and to endeavour. at least, to carry on the governmi nt fora time. That step on the part of her Majesty was not taken without full and du , ueliberatiee. I have the authority of her Majesty to state th-t baring, during the time the was so placed. bad neon'. , to the advice end ii;.iniun of a noble sad . .11aste.ou. duke, a must distinguished member of this hose., who now .its at your table (the Duke of Wel hi, advice sail his op'.iiiori was in conformity with that sti p. liner tin eirtunistances, I have to aetionut your lordships that her Majesty's late ministers bad leat alternative hut to ' 'take the task of nto,s aity int( on them. In making that sut,me nt I may rmAt.-t1 to 114.1 for myself what I am sure your will readily believe, that no peron laments atom deeply than I do the esistenco of those differences of opinion which it it obvious to your lordships, and well known In the public, have prcirtuted the construction of a stronger and more effective administration ; and nothing would {i:ve m,• more satisfaction, tither to or out of unite, than I,y any a tlort of aline to e,uutribute to put an end to soy of thocc ditfcriwem which bast provcd ohot.ielc. to *e con•truetim, of that which I thought most &sizable— new ;vv. runient. (Cheers.) PAPAL AGGRESSION. The Nuke of AIt(iYLL, on prmeuting a petition from the corporation of filasgow against tatted aggression, said that th. enittion in Stotlnnil on the subject was stroog. oleo p, add pervading. 'l•he Roman catholic bishops its Stottind in re vicar apostolic, hut he supposed if the a•t of the Cape were to have passed unnoticed the reverend ipontleman who would have been the cathodic bishop of Edinburgh w ,ul,l have rejoiced in the title of Bishop of Lymea. 'Then• had toot been many meeting , in Scotland a. in England on this subject, but the great cities of that lingdom had spoken out, and one of the largo-1 nos tongs ever held in the gnat roamer tint tit). of Glasgow was a meeting on this subject N •of the petition. from Scotts:oat had contained a syl lable against the synatlical milieu(' of the Roman catholic., because the synch people generally belonged to a church, a. did hinuell, which admitted the right of persons of aU religious persiceione. too regulate their oav affairs. The atatumption of the Roman catholic-, however, that those persons who aoltocatall religious treed.,,,, wets. bound to tolerate tam) thing which their church might ay was al . - Ce.ary far their government, was neither good in logic or trier in fart. It had been hound neressary on the part of every visit woo-ram nt in all tim, to curl, and r e train the free mints of the Roman Catholic church -(1Icar)-and 11w petitioners pro, c•Ilell on the• principle that whetter, r re striction might hare limn thought nee, .wry on the catholic hierarchy tin... past was nae•sar) now, fur that church bad 10101111041-.1 • of h,, pretensions. (Hear, hear.) A Homan catli old peer, on the hint night of the session, had ...a me • tlin , e.ion the full extent of which he hail not po rims•. call•lilatt.ol upon, but whit-A WA, most true, namely, that the• Roman catholic religion was all onehangrahle reli gion Elle., hear.) The noble tart (of Alo-rdia.n) had md, it,.' other night. that he treated this act of 'Nod ag gr•won with contempt, but he must remind the noble earl that the Roman cathodic power was 004 a contemptible power. (hear, hear.) It was still capable of exercising great influence for evil, and required to, be guarded against with all powilde CAR. Ifeeply as he should have lain in, had to, deplor e the events 01 the last ten days-albeit they had shown, in the face of Europe, the high pi Melt& tool incorruptible faith of the protestant poloople of this country -(h..ar, Mitr)--yet, under the circumstances which hall actually occurred, and alley the opinions whir* had been expresaed by his noble friend (the Karl of Aberdeen) near him, and which • Ire lielitvol was *hoed by nearly sill his former cob lisignis. he (the Duke of Argyll) did lint hesitAte to & e l s e., that he rejoiced in the failure of his noble friend to form • government 11. rejoiced that no government had 1 , 41 . 15 lurmd in tisin the bads of ~.sing over in total silent. Ail set which Ind I. en proved to he an aggression against the public law of Europe ; —(hear, hear) —and against the spirit, if riot the letter, of the municipal law of (Ileir. hear.) Above all. an aggr e s s ion on whirl., if so passed over, otln-r aggroesions would infallibly lollica.—(hear. hear) ••anil this country, in the end, be plump .1 in the -Mlle retest, with this grievous ilis.ulvan tage. that she had been impaired by fatal m11%11.44°1/I and fame-hearted iirquiesriasee. (Cheers.) lor.l ISM it'lrllAM present., • jut tition from ('..rk against the tr:erli-siasticel Titles Bill, which denounced it a, a tsranional violation ..f the principh, of I ivil and reli gious !liberty, awl as opening a door for the plunder of charitable trusts both of which statements he denied, as well a, iffiser all...cations in the petition of • similar cha racter. Hut he would take that opportunity of imploring the ;roe mewed to 1T411.0 . 1.11.. n. 'hay Ts-plied the advice which bad larva given to them not to legislate at present am this .sheet, hut to br satisfied with resolutions passed by both hourses. This would allay the worst agitation, sloth was tearing to pieces society on both sides of the ebrignel. 'I he effect of such a course souk! be to postpone tlw agitation and opposition whirl: would be prssicntssl at every stage of the measure in the rithr r howbeit( parliament. Ile thought, moreover, that an inquiry should Ise insti tuted to obtain more accurate information on the subject. Ile had felt it to lie hit duty. agreeing al. hi did with the prinetpls. enanciAtill the other evening by his noble friend its,. Earl of Aberdeen, not to lose this opportunity of stating it.. opinion he bad arrived at after must painful and anzisius The Marquis of lIREADALBANK presented seseral WM.'. whir'? the Pagel aggressism, and could assure their lonlships that the people of SooLind would have tolerated no such aggression. The noble lord did nut know the feeling of the people of Scotland. if he believed that dew wen- not opposed to the papal swgreseion; on the ..weary. he (I.ril Breadalbane) ...old elate that, although there had been few public meetings in, and few public petitions from, that country. the teeling was renearkahly strong all over the kiiig.lont. Consider ing. however, the state of our informetion, he thought they conl.l hardly come to a Cur and sound decision without lurther enquiry. They did not know. for instance, what were exactly the powers claimed by this t arilinal, who was a fonsign temporal prints.. (Hear. hear) Altogether the ..beet was .10 complieuted, as, in his ..pinion, to ougge4 the propriety of este-n.1.4 enquiry Allyre they preceded any hardier in le,jislation. Meer, hear 1 There wen• institu toms in this country connected with the Roman catholic slum+ which hr thought were totally inconsistent with our free institutions. Ile alluded to the nunneries —their, hoer' • where they heard of young persons immure.' la dungeons, and of some of them ottempting to agape. (Hear, hear.) On this and other subjects, be thought that the law of this ionntry should he raide paramount to the canon or any other law, and that every earl' should be taken to preserve the protestant inst,- lotions of this country. lewd IlltOrCill AM &nits' having represented the people of Swollen.' as apathetic on the subject of the lope' aggression. On the contrary. he hail instaneed the excite mem prevailing in that country as a ground for proceeding by re...lotion instead of legislation. The Karl of who was heard somewhat indistinctly. rose to say a few worsts in consequence of the misapprehension, and consequent suisstutemsnt of a noble friend whom he did not then see in his place. Ills noble friend had given their lordships to understand that he (lard Aberdeen) had recommended that thie papal aggres ses. should be allowed to pans off without notice. aud in sikmee. Now that was not the ease, for he had meat especially mentioned, in the few words he had addressed to tie• hoot: on a former evening, that he thought the subject a very proper one to engage the a tt e nti o n of governini nt. and even of parliament. (Hear. hear.) And, in saying en. he allud e l to an opinion be had expressed hellos. thy meeting of parliament, to the effeet that the proper moil• of dealing with the subject amid. be precisely similar to that ressionmended by his amble and learned Cristo' who had just spoken - namely. by ri gatutbm of both houses carried to the foot of the throw... Ha did not think the %object a tit one for legislation, and be was much mistaken if experbucs in that and the other boomed' parliament did not very linen ionvinee their lord ships of the soundness of his opinion. They had seen that the noble lord, who Win again at th e b ea d of the „men_ sent, had already proposed to alter the bill very maegially, and no doubt it would be found that the futther be advanced the greater the difficult,. and delay that would arise on the subject. The noble e a rl below him had called him to account for styling the government mea sure • penal and persecuting measgre. Now, penal it cer tainly was, whither the penalty were a tine of hall. no a ponied of imprisonment. The severity of the persecution was another TICAtiO7I, bat he must remind noble lords that persecution wia a very different thing at different periods of history. People entertained different opinions on the .ul4eet of perseeutim. Recording to tb • period in which it was etereised. No doubt. Craton, r. wit• nha burned poor w, •te`t fur denying Vie King's etre :navy deemed bintself anything but • pent tutor, and Calvix, when he eintleme.s4 Sorvetus to the stake, had similar faith in his own mode ration. Indeed, he (Lora Aberdeen' very much doubted whether Philip li. and the Duke of &ea did not look open THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1851. all their cruelties as Indy peat of th eir tender regard for I would be given for full consideration of the subj ec t, and, the salvation of the soul. (Hear, hear.) Those days had.l above all, that the measure should not take pr e ced en ce of happily named away, but he recollected bdsing often and I the important financial business of the country, th a t th a t often heard in that house eloquent speeches especially from ilmeinan would not be postponed to a late period of th e the Woolm proving ek, pving that Keenan catholic, had then no sesalan ; but that it might be afforded a fair chance of being cause of complaint, but were in full enjoyment of everyillelsigg entelt ouneured of an early day. (Hear, hear.) privilege. The greatest opposition from the meet eminent rd J. MANNERS said Tie would take upon himself quarter. was then given to the bill which gave to Romig to declare, considering the peculiar circumstances under catholic' those privileges of the eunotitutien which it was f which the sub. lord opposite had reconstructed his cabinet, now generally concedes) were properly bestowed. He must that from that (the protectionist) side of the house would say that the speech of his noble friend near him, if good for • proceed no factious or unnecessary obstacle to the policy of anything, was a very good reason fur repealing the Roman the noble lord. (Hear, hear.) But while he said this he Catholic Relief Bill; hut that measure having been con- believed he was but empressing the general opinion and coded. such tenoning came ton late. The propost.l mss- feeling of the protectionists when he added that should their cure would, is the first place, be ineffectual, and, therefore, assent be sand to measures in antagonign to they general would impose no penalty; but ha maintained that if it principles, whether in respect to finance, or protection, or Were thought lawful and right of the Roman catholic that question which had lately occupied some days' consi charch in this country to constitute regularly and in an deratinn, then it would be their duty to withhold their as orderly manner their episcopal government, he maintained sent from such measures. Nay, more—he believed he that any impediment thrown in the way of such action " might say that should her Majesty's ministers unfortunately would be per.ecution ; because It would infringe upon take no notice of that agricultural distress which what he conceived to be the rights of any church had been acknowledged by her3lajesty's late adviser,, then that had been legally acknowledged. Their lordships ihe had little doubt that, although unwilling to interfere must recollect that times had changed. If the Roman , with the general conduct of public business, the hon. mem catholies remained nut of the pale of the constitution, there her for Buckinghamshire (Mr. Disraeli), as the leader of might he some force in their legislation, hut having given I the protectionist party, would ask the opinion of the house them full civil rights, their right to an episcopal church on such a measure tulle should consider best calculated to followed as a necessary consequence. They (the Roman afford relief to that distress. (Hear, hear.) eatholim) might for reasons which had satisfied them have Mr. REYNOLDS said that, with every po s sibl e anxiety thought fit to remain so long under vicars apostolic, but to respond to the wishes of the noble lord (Russell) to avoid there Way nothing in justice or common sense to prevent discussion, he felt that if he did not make a few remarks en them substituting the episcopal government, and regulating the present occasion he should be abandoning his impera the affairs of their church in the regular and constitutional I tive duty. Ile confessed that, after all which had occurred meaner. lie hoped that debates like the present would not during the last 14 days, he had heard the declaration of the be of daily recurrence on the presentation of every petition noble lord with reference to his Ecclesiastical Titles Bill with —(hear, hear)—but he could not let that opportunity pass very considerable disappointment. he l m.) He had hoped of expressing his intimate conviction that the course the ' that the upset of the state coach, if ght use the expres government was pursuing was seriously erroneous. sion, would have involved the necessity of getting some new The Duke of ARGYLL explained. passengers. (A laugh.) He had entertained a hope that Lord STANLEY was understood to say that the noble there would not have been so much determination expressed earl had intimated his opiuion respecting the papal aggress to proceed with this had bill. He fully joined in the re "ion during the late negotiations; but be (Lord Stanley) mark made by the right hon. member for Manchester (Mr. dill nut recollect that he had previously expressed any M. Gibson), that there ought not to be so much precipi opinion. (Earl of Aberdeen, Oh, yin.") fancy about this bill, and that it ought not to be intro , COUNT II COURTS BILL. duced to the prejudice of other and more important ques- Lord BROUGHA 31 announced that he would introduce lions. (hear, hear.) He agreed with the honourable his measure extending the jurisdiction of county courts member for Athlone (Mr. Keogh) that the house ought to on Friday next. know now whether the second reading of the identical bill, Their lordships adjourned at 20 minutes past 6. lorof an entirely new bill, was to he proceeded with on Friday. lie observed that the noble lord bowed assent, and he understood by that movement th it the second reading of the same bill was to he moved on Friday. lie was glad of it, for such an intimation would be a public notice, at all events, to the Irish numbers who f.lt as he felt that they ought to be present to offer opposition. He had deemed it his duty to offer it all the opposition in his power up to this date. He had nut altered his determination; and now he wished to declare this publicly that he would offer opposition to it in all its stages. He teed been told that the people of England had demanded the bill. He did not be lieve it- Ile believed the millions of England did not care about it—that they were more anxious for enlighteued legislation, for a repeal of the window tax, for a popular parliamentary franchise, for a lightening of the pressure of taxation, and not for what was proposed in that house—e lightening of the pressure of taxation on the , rich, and an increase of it on the poor. He had looked over the list of petitions, and found that the aggregate number of petitions presented to the 21th of February, in favour of the noble lord's bill, was about 2,000, and that the number of signatures attached to them was shout' 120,000 ' • and this out of a population of 16,000,000. (hear, hear.) And what had he further found ? Why, that up to the same date the number of petitions presented against the bill was 1,200, and that to these were annexed 1.4,000 signatures. lie had a right to offer his opinions on this sub ject, because the Irish liberal members had necivell the thanks of their conetituents for having taken the liuchpin out of the state-coach. lie hoped the noble lord would give him some assurance whether he really intended to pro ceed with the second rending of the bill on Friday. (Hear.) Mr. OSWALD asked whether it was tit, noble lord's in tention, in the bill as about to be altered on Friday, to pro hibit the bishops and deans of the episcopal church of Scotland from taking the nature and titles of their dioceses Lord J. RUSSELL said he would aleaain at present from entering into any discussion of the hill . The hon. mem ber for Dublin (Mr. Reynold.) did not seem to recollect that it was quite necessary to read the hill a second time, before any amendments were made in it, in committee. (Hear.) Mr. WAKLEY hoped the noble lord would review the whole course of his proceeding with regardto this bill, that he would not press its second reading at the present mo ment, but either shelve it for the session or refer it to a com mittee, whieh would have the Mlle effect. " and laughter.) After the epeech recently delivered Hear ivered 'by the right hon. baronet the member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) he was satisfied that no hill of the kind now upon the table of the house could be passed into law. If proceeded with, it would lead to a vast deal of contention and strife ; and as " the better part of valour was discretion," it ought to be abandoned. The people thought the noble lord might have surrounded himself with more efficient colleagues, but they gave the noble lord himself great credit for sincerity. In fact, the people eared nothing about whir or tory so long as substantial measures of relief were afforded them. (Hear.) The Marquis of Granby, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Sadleir having added a few observations, the second reading of the bill was fixed fur Friday next. The other orders of the day were also postponed to Friday. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Movn.►Y, MARCH 3. Th. 8 tonk the chair at the usual hour. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND READINGS.—Bann Navigation; Cam Navi tion (No. 2); Dublin and Kingstown Railway; Duffield and Sheffield Turnpike Road; Hove Improvement; Lee nicer Trust; Malmesbury Turnpike Rend;; Mahon and Drilfielil Junction Railway; Poulnasherry Embankment; Thames Doyen Dock and Railway; Ulverstorie and Lan caster Railway; Dee River Conservancy; Royal Naval School; Shrewsbury and Cheater Railway; Stockton and Darlington, Wear Valley, and Middleklirough and %akar Railway Companies _Amalgamation (No. 2); Waterford and Limerick Bilk. ADJOURNKENT OF THE HOI:SE. Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the house at its rising do adjourn till Friday. Mr. W. PATTEN said if that motion were agreed to, it would be necessary to stivend the standing orders, to enable the committees on private bills to sit and proCeed with their lahoun. Lord J. RUSSELL wa, undrntood to say there would be no objection to that course. . . The motion for adjournment was then put and aFrreed to, and the standing onlers, so far as they related to the sittings of committees ou private bills, were ordered to he suspended. ROYAL PALACES AND PARKS. Mr. W. WILLIAMS moved for the following return : " Account of the public money expended on each of the royal palace., garden., parks, and the appurtenances thereof, stating the amount of expenditure from parliamentary grant•, crown revenues surrenden4 to the public by the risil lid acts and other sources, and a statement thereof in detail in the same form as that for 1842 in cacti year from 1843 to 1831 (in continuation of parliamentary paper, No. 313, of session 1843) ; and a return of the amount of the salaries and other emoluments of the rangers and deputy rangers of the royal parks in each of those years. and also of the number of houses and tenements pureha•cd foren larging the ground attached to Buckingham Palace."— Ordered. Ity . 4 KIN'A , NEW WORK. 00 Friday next, la — unperial /Ivo with Yeenty-one Plater., and nume rous Wooduuta, five; it:awing. by the Author, T HE STONES a VENICE. Winne the Fire—Tim POUND tTIONS. Be /owe itcwii Author of fhe Seven UMW) of Arebileaturv." 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But the unrcadiness of any and of all parties, either in opposition, or semi oprition, to meet the religious and financial diffi cu ties of the moment, has rendered a change of ministry impossible, and a modification, for the pre sent, equally difficult. This is deeply to be regretted for the financial interests of the country, which required at once the grasp of a bold, a steady, and an experienced hand. All the great men who ever took a comprehensive view of the financial condition of the empire, in cluded the condition of India and its revenues in their survey. Sir ROBERT PEEL did so especially when he first introduced the income tax. But the result of a syncope at present in financial legislation will be to adjourn all questions relative to India, not merely for a year but twenty years; in other words, ad journ iefonn for an entire generation. ' Law reform will no doubt share the fate of financial reform. Whilst the colonies, which have watched with anxiety the meeting of the legislature, some of which had sent delegates to represent their case, and all of which expected imitortant resolutions from the minister—all these colonial expectations will be disappointed; and the most unsatisfactory an swers will go abroad to our foreign dependencies that England has been too much occupied by its Crystal Palace, and too much put out of its way by Dr. Wisem.tx's impertinence, to be able this year to give consideration or relief to its colonies. The questions, however, which have come to pre dominate over all others arc those of the Papal pre tensions and of Ireland. For it is impossible not to see that they have become blended and entangled together, and that the one aggravates the other to a most painful degree. Now, however, we had de sired to see this ministerial crisis result in the admis sion of the successors and disciples of Sir Itemewr Pert. to the management of our domestic finances, and of those of India—and whilst, at the same time, we could not deem any cabinet entitled to the confidence of the people in preparing a measure of electoral reform, until some members of the great reform party were called to the councils of that cabinet —we all along have held and do still maintain the opinion, that on questions of religious tolerance and equality, and on the measures which, for the sake of public liberty and peace, should be introduced for the regulation and restriction of sacerdotal power and action, there is no statesman so fully entitled to the confidence of liberal men as Lord JOHN ReSSELL. We should consider it most fatal to entrust such a question as the present to Lord STANLEY. Indeed, his proposal to shelve it, either by empty resolution, or by a commission, which would perpetuate inquiry, and with inquiry, religious irritation—of these proposals, the one is too illusory, the other too insane, to be discussed. Great as is our respcet for Mr. ums and Mr. COBDEN, we do not think it would he for either their advantage or that of the question, to entrust it to them. We well know what undermined the old utilitarian party in this country - , and what completely• marred the popularity that ntight have been attained by BENTHAM and BowRING, and Itorteeee. And we know of nothing that could prove more fatal to that now enlarged, invigorated, and promising party of popular men, than that they should come before the nation with a line of policy, and with arguments to support it, that could render it possible to accuse them, even falsely, of religious indifference. If wo deprecate, fur a world of reasons, leaving this religious question in the hands of either Lord STANLEY or of the radicals, we have equal re pugnance to entrust it to Lord ABERDEEN and Sir J.SMES GRAHAM. Their view of it is, in the first instance, a cowardly one. They evade the difficulty by avoiding and throwing it over altogether. The merest schoolboy could solve any state difficulty in the same way—that is, not solve it at all, but lisave it to assume strength, and return to he grapples! with under far greater disadvanta•ses. Besides, looking back to the past career of these politicians, we find that they are the very men who mused and aggra vated this quarrel with Rome. All must recollect the bill which the whip brought in for establishing diplomatic relations with Rome. It was highly pleasing to the POPE and to his cardinals, and, lad it passed, would have led to an amicable understanding. It pleased, however, Lord &MIN TON to introduce an amendment, forbidding the POPE to send here any ecclesiastic's as envoys. This was turning the compliment into an affront, and, not merely an affront to the Pore, but a cause of disgust to the cardinals and members of the papal court. Yet who was the chief speaker in favour at that amendment ? Who carried it by his vehemence against the Whigs ? Lord Aueninies. Now had the original bill passed without the amendment, this papal aggression never would have token place, for then the papal envoy must have consulted the British government. The ti ae, the orignal cause of our pre sent embarrassment is no other, therefore, than Lon' ABERDEEN. Mr. GLADSTONE, too, Supported the amended bill. And as to Sir Loma GRAHAM, he took as little notice of it as he did of the first reading of the present bill. And it is now this very party, this very Lord ABERDEEN, who denied to the POPE the privilege of being represented in this country, he it is that comes clamouring about the indignity of refusing territorial titles to papal delegates. li e indulges in the theatrical exaggeration of coupling Lord Jolts and the Bull with" CILVIN'S burning Seaveres, and the Duke of ALVA decimating the pro testants of the low country. Were not this the merest twaddle, we should call it the lan guage of disappointed faction. Men such as these, who can blow hot and cold on the same question, who drive their opponents into errors of which they take DE VTR OF TUE EARL OF - 41ARRINGTON.—'Thi s advantage to trip them up, whilst affecting anxiety nobleman expired yesterday morning at Brighton, after a to relieve them—these are not men to whom could short illnese, in his 71st year. The Duchess of Bed- be entrusted the task of providing for the security 1.5e1_...y Barrington, of the country and the dignity of the sovereign ford, sister to Lord Harrington, and Lady Jane St. .llaur, her &inviter, together ag a inst p apa l ' a with Mr. Fitzroy Stanhope and Mr. Henry Stan- a .. m As far, therefore, as l ggress egislation in religious matt ers hope, were present at the last moments of th e a ccesse d earl. The deceased, Charles Stanhope, succeed e d t o t h e t i t l e may become the duty of parliament, we pi n our f a i t h in 1829 upon the death of his father, the third earl. In I far more in Lord lolls RUSSELL than in any living 1831 be married Miss Foote the celebrated actr ess , an d b y statesman. There are many politicians whit might her had two children—Chjales, viw'unt Petersham , w ho undertake with more vigour or effect other b ranc h es o f died in April, 1536, and Lady Jane St. Maur, who is now in I administration. There ma be rime ministers more the 18th year of her age. The heir to the titl e i s the Hon. y p Leicester Fitzgerald Stanhetw, brother to the late earl. P conciliatory, more comprehensive, less entangled in Lord Harrington was a colonel in the army, and his sue-; the network of family connexion. A leading states cessor is a commander of the order of the Saviour, and also : man w ith a cha rac t er to make, may be more bold a colonel in the British army. .arreaurrso " GAnorte" ROBBERT.—An instance , than one who has accomplished a limg and not in glorious career. But for conducting the government be e n. new species of &ring robbery which has recently ; . and legislature of the country through the mazes of ben committed on several octwiono, in Manchester and ' London, took place in Strangeways on Saturday evening. its contending sects, maintaining the great principle Mr. Joseph Makin.con. commission merchant, Lloyd-street, of tolemtion,advancing that of equality,rcpre:sing the lee Manchester hortly before eight o' cl ' x 'k on Saturday 1 clamours of the fanatic, discountenancing the arro s evening,to return to Ida residence in Brought o n - grove. Bury emnee of the highpriost, there is noone whom we cou ld sew-road. When he reached Fairy-lan e ( a s h ort distance "- beyond Broughton-lane and the bnek-kihis), h e sm. , „ nu t_ put on a par with the member for the City o f L on d on . If denly :tusked by three men. The first threw his arm roun d we look farther and closer than the matter imme- Mr. Makinson's neck, and attempted to disable him by diatelv under parliamentary consideration ; if we strangulation : the second struck him twoor three violent consider how the Cantle of protcstantism and religious blow, r the bead with some instrument loaded with lead. of freedom is to be best strengthened against the con ! the lifi.preserver or heavy-headed whip kind; and the third • l and • h dragged him from the Bury Neweroad d6 uu „. up stitution . a argumentative . osti ty of Rome ; Fairy.lane. Although 67 years old, Mr. Makinsoa is if we think how hest our universities can he purged strong and active, and struggled so successfully with his of supe . rannuatedbigotry,and renderedefficient for the I ruffianly assailants es to get near the window of a house in , education of protestant youth and of the protestant !Fairy lane, occupied by Mr. John Redfern. coal merchant , clergy • how best the great positions of the church are and taselernaker. After another struggle, Mr. .Makinson be ' ; and die •to preserved from those Puseyite priests who, contrived to strike the shutters of the window i blow and scuffle haling been heard by Mr. Redfern's eon, I having eold themselves to Rome, hesitate to go he hastened to op. n she door ; the first sound caused by ever till thee can bring their flocks too--if we wthe the three eve.. to ;mite their desire this, hut desire it unaccompanied by re- • es: ape as ,peedily .1' pot Able. Mr. Makinsoa was taksa action, or persecution, or injustice, then may we hail II into the house. and shortly afterwards, ha • somewhat • the continuance of Lord bony 1ir5.431, in that post, recovered, he was conveyed home by a policeman. He is now gradually recovering.-11aUfaz (kaniials. I in which the confidence of the sovereign has placed him, and where even the late political earthquake has left him standing. Tnn ambition of Cardinal WistntAm is unbounded. He is bent upon achieving distinction at once in the fields of politics, literature, and art. He has thrown down a gauntlet to an English premier, challenged Lady 'MORGAN to a discussion of antiquarian lore, run a tilt against Punch in the MAIM Review, and, last and must daring of ull, he has :,et up as a rival of ALEXIi SOVEIt. Nicitoi.As, Cardinal Arch bishop, is resolved to be the Admirable Crichton of the nineteenth century; 1w deserves that Mr. AlNS \vomit should write his biography, in the same sym pathising spirit with which that distinguished author has already vindicated the fume of Gni' FAWKES. It is the latest aspiration of the versatile cardinal —his effort to snatch from the brows of SOYER the culinary crown—that now claims our attention. SOYER'S loyalty and devotion to the cause of con stitutional reform arc as notorious as his mastery of the art and science of cookery. It is to this triple enthusiasm that we owe his magnificent project for making the year 18.51 an epoch in the annals of the gourmands. His contemplated exhibition of culinary art at Kensington. Gore is a reverential tribute to the spirit of the age as represented in Prince ALBERT'S industrial exhibition. NICHOLAS Cardinal Archbishop, on the contrary, in his last new pastoral, a droller device than ever awakened the admiration of Polmiins, takes upon him to de nounce by anticipation that heretical display as no better than what Jolix RUNYAN would have (41.4 a " vanity fair." " Whatever is fair to the eye," says the ascetic primate, "and alluring to the appetite, will temptingly hang on every bough of thc newly created paradise. Great as may be the spectacle of material grandeur which will thus be presented to all nations, who does not fear the increase of sin and vice which this immense concourse for such a pur -1 pose must inevitably produce? All our usual temp tations to folly and extravagance, to dissipation and worldliness, will be increased, every snare that awaits youth will be multiplied, every evil principle more variously and ingeniously advocated; and there will be a concentration of corrupted and corrupting elements poured into the metropolis and the nation such as no other occurrence could unite. All this will endanger faith and morals, and perhaps still more charity." And to avert these evils the Cardi n Archbishop takes the field, and opposes the rethac of a Roman prince to that of a Queen and Prince Consort; while to counteract the allurements of a SOTER he assumes the character of a "gastro nomic regenerator." It is somewhat startling to the preconceptions of this protestant country to find a bill of fare ap pended to a pastoral address of a bishop to his dock. And to confess the truth, the somewhat lengthy homily of the Cardinal Archbishop looks in this strange juxta-position wondrously like a dispropor tionately long grace to miserable short commons. It reminds one of poor Cut.tat.Es - LAMB'S melancholy reminiscences of the long graces in the Illuecoat school, which prefaced with ostentatious and tine- tuous allusions to " creature comforts" the boys re pasts of stale bread and small beer. The Lenten dietary of the Cardinal Archbishop would in fact palliate a riot in a workhouse. Flesh meat is allowed on all Sundays, and once on Tues days, Thursdays, and Saturdays, with some trifling exceptions. Eggs are allowed at " the single meal " of those who arc bound to fast, and 6 discretion to those who arc not so bound, except on one or two days. Cheese is allowed " under the tame restric tions." Fish and flesh meat are not to be indulged in at the sante meal—a proviso borrowed apparently from the fish dinners of Greenwich and Blackwall. But the most notable proviso in Dr. WISEMAN'S bill of fare The use of dripping or lard is per mitted at dinner and collation on all days except, &c." This special notice of " dripping " denotes a benevolent anxiety not to cheek the sale of the per quisites of the propagandist scullions organised by Father IGNATIUS. The odds are in favour of the cartes of SOYER against the bill of fare of WISEMAN. Some, too, may he of opinion that, in propounding his "spare feast" for Lent—a season which will terminate just as the SorER season is about to commence—the Cardinal has committed a blunder in tactics. There is a risk that his preliminary period of abstinence will only send his votaries with sharpened appetites to the luxurious banquets of SorER. They will be eager to make up for lost time, and will gulp "whatever is alluring to the appetite" with increased avidity. Should any one feel surprised to hear a Romish prelate talking of the Industrial Exhibition in lan guage generally understood to he used exclusively by the conventicle, he ham only to recollect that the English play of " The Hypocrite" is a mere copy of MOLIERE'S Tartuf*." 'I'RIV ILP.OR. A number of petitions having iieWr presented, Colonel CHATT BRION begged to ask the Speaker's opinion arising out of an occurrence which had recently taken place in the city he (Colonel Chatterton) had the honor to reprelernt. /s few days ago he presented three petitions from parishes in the City of Cork against the Popish Aggression Bill, respectably signed by many of the protestant inhabitants, and he had to-clay been in formed the names of those who signed those petitions had been very generally placarded on the walls of the city, holding up those persons to public notoriety. The conse quence was, that many of these poor pmtestants had been deprived of their situations for asserting the free right of all to petition that house. lle begged to ask if such pla ca!Ainglpts aein ! t the privileges of that house? Thii - SPEA - KER—FrUm the: statement of the pliant officer, I think it does not come under a breach of pri vilege. ST. ALBANS AND AYLESBURY ELECTIONS. The SPEAKER informed the house that he had received a report tram the Ezumino r of Recognisance stating that the recognizance* in the in titions against the returns at the remit elections for the boroughs of St. Albans and Ayles bury were %unobjectionable. WINDOW TAX. Viscount DENCA'..liontosust •tlhliinotion for the total repeal of this tax until Tuesday, the 11th in•t. COLONIAL ESTABLISHMENTS. . . Sir W. MOLESWOICIII gave notice, for Thorsday, the 13th inst., of a resolution with the view of relieving this country from the expenses of the colonial civil and military establishments, sod emending to the colonies local self-irovernmint, eseept as regards those colonies which are military stations, COUNTY FRANCIIISE DILL. Mr. ANDERSON gave notice that when the bill brolerht in by Mr. Locke King, for extending the county franehiw to EU. .wcupier*, war in committee, he would move that Scotland be included in its operation. TILE MINISIERIAL CRISIS.—RIt-INSTALLATION OF LORD J. RUSSELL'S GOVERNMENT. On the order of the day for the second reading of the Evele.inatieal Titles Bill being read, Lord J. ItUSSELL ruse and ~aid—[t is lit that I should now inform the house what has occurred since I last ad dressed it. Since I last addressed the house the public base heel* put in possession of the statement made by Lord Stanley, in the other house, with respect to his attempts to form a government, and that noble lord's explanation of the reasons why those attempts were not successful. It is not my intention to make any comment on those reasons, but I think it right to say, especially after the many rumours which have been spread abroad on the subject, that it is perfectly clear from that explanation that Lord Stanley had full power and full opportunity placed in his hands to formagovernment, and that no request which he thought it reasonable to make was denied him in the interview he had with his sovereign. (Hear, hear.) It will be recollected that I state► on Friday that her Majesty had been pleased to send to the Duke of Wellington in order to learn his pace's opinion on the present state of affairs. I have now to add that her Majesty saw the Duke of Wellington on Saturday, and that yesterday evening her Majesty received a written communication from his grace. I had the honour of an audience of her Majesty this morning at 12 o'clock, and her Majesty having received the opinion of the Duke of Wellington that in the present state of affairs the best course her Majesty could pursue was to invite her former ministers to resume office, her Majesty, accordingly, has been pleased to desire that her former ministers should re sume their °Sees. (Cheers.) After what has occurred. and the failure of the repeated attempts to form • government which have been detailed to the house, we thought we could not perform our duty to her Majesty and the public otherwise than by accepting the offer her Majesty was pleased to make us. (Hear, hear.) After entering so largely as I did the other night on various sulijscts of public interest, which will probably be made matters of debate hereafter, I will only say now that I trust the house will not require us to enter into matters of public debate until Friday neat, in order that we may have an opportunity of c.nuidering the various measures we have proposes' and intend to introduce, and the state of public business generally. (hear.) I purpose on that day —Friday nest—to proceed with the second reading of the Assumption of Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and my right hon. friend the Home Secretary (sir O. Oroy), in moving the second reading of the bill, will state the amendments and alterations we shall propose to make in that bill. I will therefore ha that bill for Friday next, with the intention of taking it as the first order of the day. With respect to the other business and other matters before the house, on the reading of the order of the day on Friday, I will state the course the government mew to pursue so far as fixing the days un which we propose that the various buta nes should come on. (hear, hear.) On that day, too, I will give an answer to the question asked of me the other day by an bon. member, and which I was not then in • posi tion to answer, by stating when we propose to proceed with the debate on the budget—(a laugh)—and to take the vote on the question of the income tax ; and on a subsequent day the course of proceeding on that and other subjects. I beg, air, now to move that the order of the day for the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Dill be postponed till Friday neat. (Hear, hear.) Mr. B. OiDOUNE—Does the noble lord intend to persist in the same budget ? ('• Hear,'• and a hurdl e ) Lord J. RI:S3ELL-1 have said that I will Maw on Fri day next on what day the subjecin will be brought on, and I think the house will agree that in the existing state of pub lic business it would be exceedingly wrong in me to do DIM at present. Mr. KEOGH thought it desirable that the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill should not be further preceded with until a sta;..ment was first made to the house explanatory of the altered position of the bill. What he suggested to the noble lord, and what he believed his lordship would be willing to canner, was this, that a statement should be I made of what the bill was intended to be—that reasonable time should be afforded to the people of Ireland to con sider the modifications, and that there should be a mum; don of the bill for ten days afterwards, to allow modhications to be so considered. ' Lord J. IttiSST.I.L said that whilst willing to make any reasonable concession, be did not believe that any state ment set' his right hon. friend (Sir G. Grey) on Friday need alfeet the second reading of the bill. It would bo rather an unusual course to submit the amendments in committee before th.• bill was read a second time. Before going into committee, however, the substance of the amendments would be laid before the house, and thus the members fur Ireland would be enabled to say at once whether they agreed to those amendments or not. (Hear.) Mr. M. GIBSON was afraid the second reading of the hill would take up a very considerable portion of time, and have the effect of postponing to a very remote period the financial business of the country. I,Hear, bear.) He , %soulu make an a1e.....11 to the iseeiik lord not, ihe wall a.....a. , the houie, in any spirit of le vity whether it was right to give a measure of this sort an undue precedence over the general pub lic trusiw.as of the country ? Ile hoped that ample time PLACES AND PLACEMEN. _ ...... Mr. W. WILLIAMS also moved for a "return of all new places creates! and appointments made since the 6th day of April, 1818, whether under any act of parliament, orb/ any other authority, and of the names of the persons appointed to them ; stating, separately, the salaries °reach, and the estimated annual expen.ses of the establishments in connexion with such appointments (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 633, of session 1818)." The hon. member observed that a similar return in reference to the creation of new places had twice previously been granted. Information of this description was exesedingly valuable, and he trusted that it would not he refused on this occasion. From the former returns he had elicited these facts : that from the Ist of September, 1841, to March, 184.5, during the Peel govern ment, there had been 600 new places created, with salari, attached amounting to 225,000/. • and that during the ad ministration of the noble lord ( Lord J. Russell), the return being from March, 1848, to April, 1848, there had been 1,411 new places created, with salaries attached amounting to 297,2761. Thus, in a period of seven years only, they had 2,014 new places, with salaries attached amounting to 82'2,0001. It was eery desirable that this return should he continued and that the house should further possess the knowledge of the new places created under the government of the noble lord from 1848 up to the date of his recent resignation. Lord J. RUSSELL suggested to the hon. gentleman that a return of this kind was neu , sarily imperfect and misleading, unless it included an account of the number of offices abolished and the amount of public money thus saves!. The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCITEQrEn complained that the hon. member had unnecessarily gone into details, of the truth of which he (Sir C. Wood) had some doubt, but that the government would not object to the return. The return was accordingly ordered. The house adjourned at six o'clock. FRANCE. PARIS, 310NDAY EVT.MTNO. After an unimportant sitting, the Assembly has adjourned to Saturday, in order to devote Mitrdi Gras to recreation, and the three remaining days to the examination of the budget in the bureaux, the monthly re-organisation of which took place to-day. The democratic journals are occupied in praising the speech of M. Dufraisse, and the journals of order in raking out the jacobinical antecedents and regicide i doctrines of that newly distinguished orator of the Mountain. The decrees altering the prefectures of departments are expected to appear in the Moniteur of to-morrow. The Allier, Gironde, 'touches du Rhone, Haute Garonne, Cantal, Lot and Garonne are destined to receive new prefects. M. Itondeux is appointed prefect of the Haute Garonne, and M. Charles do Bony prefect of the Lot and Garonne. The President rode out to-day at three, in the uniform of general of the national guard, and at tended by a picquet of lancers, to a review in the Champs de Mars. M. earlier, the prefect of police, has gone to Aix la-Chapelle, to have an interview with the Prussian prefect of police, who is also there, in order to con cert measures for the disposal of refugees. The Ordre publishes the apology, or rather pane gyric of Morey's horrible attempt in 1535, written by M. Marc Dufraisse, whose speech in the Assem bly, on Saturday, created so powerful a sensation. M. Dupin has been confined to his bed for several days since his great ball, with acute rheumatism. SWITZERLAND. The Federal Council of Switzerland has, in conse quence of the repeated remon s t rances of thee German powers, just abolished the absolute obligation im posed in July, 1849, on the various cantons to receive political refugees ; it has, moreover, maintained the decrees relative to the expulsion or transmis sion of refugees into the interior. These resolutions are communicated to the cantons by a proclamation, dated Berne, the 25th ult. This locument explains that, after the events of 1848 and 1849, Bich serland was obliged, from its position, and from the duties of humanity, to receive a vast num ber of refugees of diffi.rent nations, and to take measures for distributing them among the can tons ; but the time has now arrived at which the cantons can be relieved from this burden, and al lowed their old privilege of dealing as they please with refugees. It says, moreover, that the French government has offered to convey to England or America all refugees not French, who may be un able to return to their own countries. Under these circumstances, it observes that the cantons may make use of the right of expelling refugees without sub jecting themselves to the c h arge o f severity. In - July, 1849, the number of refugees under the general control of the confederation was 11,000; but by par dons, expulsions, and voluntary departures it has been reduced to about 500. The Swiss journal+ state that a sanguinary con flict had ju,t taken place at :flatten, in the district of Interlacken, between the troops and a band of insurgents, in the course of which two of the former and eight of the latter were seriously wounded. Several of the insurgents have been arrested, amongst whom are MM. Seiler, ex-prefect ; Michel, ex director of the prison of Interlacken ; Stachli and Ititschard, ex-substitutes of the prefect; Branner, formerly judge of the district; Indermuhle, ex-secre tary of the prefecture ; Rubini, usher of the tribunal; and Shasser, a medical gractitioner. H.►nwten ELEcrioN.—The liberal and free-trade can.lidate, Mr. Rol,. rt Wizrata Crawford, has broualit his canvass to a close, and the result leach his frjknils to indulge in the confident anticipation of his return, 'rho nomination takes place to-day, and the polling to-morrow. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the With and 20th ult. have arrived. The committee of the Chamber of Deputitst en the bill for regulating the public debt was proceeding with its deliberations. It was said that some communications had been interchanged between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the minister of Great Britain, respecting the capital of 'the coupons; they were said to be couched in the most friendly terms. The Chamber, on the 2fith ult., nominated a conanittee on the bill on the reorganisa tion of the Bank of San Fernando. The Gazette of the 2lth contains the nominations of Butler to the military intendence, Orlando as privy councillor, and the decree for raising 3&000 men, and the treaty of extradition between France and Spain. The English protestant residents have had a public meeting, to obtain permission to give Christian burial to their dead. The Senate is dis cussing the railroad bill. The committee on the Ad jastmcut of the Debt Bill still continues its sittings. ITALY. NAPLES. Our Naples corespondent states, in his letter of the 24th ult., that active military preparations were r e going on, as if for war. These armaments are sup to be directed against Piedmont and Switzer and, in alliance with Au , tria. Exchoinge on London, 361. Five per Cents, 991. ROMAN STATES. Our Roman correspondent, in his letter of the 2 ith of February, states thlt judicial proceedings had been instituted against some .Englishmen, for plotting the murder of the Pope,--not the slightest ground exist ing for so absurd a suspicion. The carnival had begun without disorder. Gaieties were going on among tho foreign visitors. An encounter had taken place between some brigands and the Austrian andFapcg. troops in which - some of the latter were killed. Archbishop Hughes was collecting money publicly for the erection of a large catholic church and schools in the centre of London. TUSCANY. Great sensation has been lately caused at Florence by an intended duel with pistols between two coun tesses, in consequenee of a political dispute. One of those ladies had taken an active part in the war of Italian independence, and the other is a titir daughter of the North, whose name is well known in the diplomatic world. The combatants were on the ground, and the pistols chargvd, when fortunately their husbands arrived, and put a stop to the affair.. PLOT AGAINST THE LIBERAL GOVERN- MENT OF PIEDMONT. SECRET SITTING OF THE TURIN CHAMBER. TURIN, Itn. 19. On the motion of M. Moga Cambieri, the chamber met in secret sitting. Deputy Brotferio asked the Minister whether, as a high personage had written to him front Paris, a deputation or secret mission had been sent to the Dresden conferences. lie had been given to under stand by that personage that the Prince de Carignan and the Queen-Mother, in agreement with the chiefs of the reaction, had sent Count Piussareo with another individual to Dresden with letters of credit, in order to cuter into communication with the Russo- Austrian coalition, and assure the high contracting powers "that the general wish of the Piedmonteso nation was to see affairs again flow in the course which they took at the epoch of ISl.i, and that therefore there was no room to apprehend popular resistance, or at the worst a civil war would not be prolonged for more than a day." llis Excellency the minister flalvagno replied that the statement just made by the honourable deputy was nothing but the simple truth. lle added that the government was perfectly well informed of all the proceedings, and that the deputies might sepa rate without tear, since the government was on the alert. That as tar as the Prince de Carignan and the other conspirators were concerned, the govern ment had no certain means of action, since, although the moral proof was completely satistlwtory, it would be next to impossible to fix them with the crime by legal evidence. The minister was asked what measures the govern ment proposed to take for securing the safety of tho country ; the chamber would require something more satisfactory than the mere verbal assurance of the cabinet. Like assurances had been given by tho democratic ministry on the eve of the entry of the Austrians into Piedmont (before the battle of Novara) M. Souza de St. Martins (a member of the abso lutist party), declared that the King's government believed itself strong enough to protect the liberals against the reaction, but it could not assure them against the Austrians. DEMOCRATIC RIOTS IN SWEDEN AND NORWAY. Letters of the 18th ult. from Stockholm announce that serious riots had taken place in that capital. On the 14th the students of Uptal University as sembled to the number of 400 or 300, and paraded the streets of Stockholm, and were not dispersed till a collision took place between them and the police, a result which greatly exasperated the body of the people. On the 13th the same scenes were renewed on a larger scale, and on this occasion the police having endeavoured to disperse a crowd of 1,000 o r 1,300 people, was repulsed by showers of stones and other missiles. The troops were called out, and squadrons of cavalry soon cleared the streets. Thirty of tho rioters were arrested. The regency instituted to act in the absence of the king at the Norwegian Stor thing published a proclamation forbidding all assem blages of persons in the streets. At the same time that these riots were taking place at Stockholm,disturbances of a serious character were also occurring in the province of Drontheim. in Norway. The socialists and democrats in the dis trict of Stordal and the town of Levanger rose up against the authorities who had imprisoned one of their leaders, and were in full ;insurrectionary move merit up to the latest date. CONSTA-NTINOPLE, FEB. 15.—The Austrian government has replied to the Porte that it cannot allow the liberation of the Hungarian prisoners at Kintaya. Dembinski's is an exceptional case, due to the special intervention of Sir Stratford Canning in favour of the aged general. MOVEMENTS OF THE ATLANTIC STEAMERS.—For the first time during many months no steam-ship ran for the week be expected at Liverpool with mails from New York. Formerly, the mercantile public were accustomed to receive during the winter months, December, January, February, and March, only fortnightly mails; but since the United States mail line started, the ordinary vacuum, much to the public satisfaction, has been filled up ; and hence the present accidental break is felt as a proportionately more irksome and unpleasant occurrence. It was at oue time hoped that the royal mail steam-ship Cambria might arrive out at New York in time to carry the European mails destined for the eastward voyage of the Atlantic; but aa she left Queenstown only on the 4th, and would scarcely arrive out at New York before the 18th ult., it would be impossible for her to leave that porton Wednesday, the 19th, with the mails of the week ensuing since the departure of the royal mail steam-ship Canada. It is understood, also, that the Cambria, although open to receive such an offer, I was not on her departure hence chartered for a return voyage by the United States Mail Steam-ship Company. Iler cargo being also unusually heavy, would require soma time for discharge, so that no probability exists of the usual intermediate mail being received. Several packet-ships are, however, due; and the royal mail steam-ship Africa, with mails of the 26th ult., may he expiietod on Sunder next. She will be succeeded, according to present arramte , ments, by the U. S. steam-ship Baltic ; unless that skip I should he detained In New York, as some time ago arranged, I for alterations in her cabin accommodation, &c. ; it is not improbable, we are told, that such would be the ewe ,• the Cambria being ag a i n brought into requisition to fulfil the company's contract in the meantime. We question, Ihowever, whether anythi ng d ec i s i ve can ye t b e state d ; an d it is at least certain that great embarrassment must have been experienced by the managers of the line in meeting the difficulties mused by the Atlantic's disaster. Great efforts ale being made to repair the Atlantic's machinery ; and it is hoped that in a few weeks she will be amain ready for sea ; though scarcely in limo to render effective service during the earlier clays of the Exposition period. 011 Satur • day, at half-past 11 o'clock a.m., the Royal Mail steam ship Asia, Judkins, commander, left the Mersey for New York, takiivr out 84 passengers, a rirh freight of British and con tiuental manufactures, and the usual mails. Several new screw steamers may shortly be expected on the Liverpool and New York line of eommeree.—Liverpool Albion.