The Express. — London, England, 1853-04-19 00:00:00

1311 ' E RI A L P. I; lAA Si ENT 0110101.111. The while earl at the commencement of the see sies—in the early part of November—put upon the minutes of this house a notice in the tollowire words : " les move HOUSE OF LOEDS.—NIoIeDAT, APRIL 113. for a committee to inquire whether the social and mural The LOttle CSIXXCII.tott took hie seat at 3 0'....c.5. principles, inculcated by the system of educatiou pursued PUBLIC BUSINESS. at Maynooth, are not opposed to the great principles PEI I I lONS PRESENTED. of civil end religious liberty on which the protestant govern- Anilleetue env Jew. To l'atet.tAMlXT.—By the Earl of meat of this country is based." New thir, accenting to the RODEN, the Emil of WINCHILSEA, and this Laskop of ordinery rules of eoudruction, id a .Ir elate:ien that the sy.- W I NCHKO I EU. from several I.!aets, against. tem is opposed to those principles. Nevertheless the notice . Tres Dakar To Mav xam tn.—By the Eul of WIN- remained on the book of your loral•hip's 1600411 fur are. or CRIMEA, from a meat nur.,`„,..r of places; the Earl of four months. I Wink your lordships must feel how . lfen- RODEN, truce several places ; t . .e Duke of RICHMOND, sirs and insulting it must hove been to every Roman catho from a pr, s 4yiee 7 i n Ai eh e„ e he„ ; t h e m eth ", o e he sulfitct of her Majesty. At lase, however, the noble earl EREADALBANE, from ventral free church cengregee fell into t'.e hands of more dexterous tat:Mien*, and they Boas in tivalaud ; and Lord ISERNEILS, trona several told hint "this n eiet .1o; this canuot Le corned—it is too pores; asta:ust. insulting, too olfeneive ; whatever you think, whatever you OrtStoin ow Ina Cstriii.al. PALkielt On StanaT.—By feel, at least make your motion a little decent in its terms." the Bishop of %V INC II Ee I ER, front Southampton and Accereingly, tic noble earl substituted his present motion to other places; ag , i ~, t. " move fa an inquiry into the system of education pursued C..% auk I.:Lanus Iltietuvr Istec.—By the Bebop of at Maynvsth." The whole course of procedure seamed ill' INtell eleikelt, !WM el \ rota: is of Stoke, Demme and the animus of the weld , * earl in the ' , hitter. Other places, against this bill. I Ti e noble earl then weut on to say, that the mover of the COLON lAL FISHERIES. resolution before the house had detailed at length verinue Ile Earl et MALMESSURY gave notice that on matters connected with the Pope and the church of Rome, bat he feel given no reason or stetemeut to show how this ikandav he wemel ask a queseel ae to the state of the nee but clone:led with the College of Maynooth, except that gptSatioas beewee.* this counts and the Gaited States uw be bad e•ferred to the excess and violence in the conduct of f 1... objec t sitiie Nei ill Amereen etheries. the !rich pricethoel during the late elections. But even MAYNOCII H. . this bed nothing to do with /Bernath, for the priests who The Earl of WINCHILSh:A runt to move •' fur • cam- had so acnd improperly were not educated at Maynooth. aiTtee to he l ot , . into the system if education pursued at He believed that the measure of 1543 In reMreeee to this She College of 11 etnenth, and its results." Before he pro. college was a sti.e and just senora—(hear)—and that it C.:led to salt.. • few obarvetloos ou the genera: question, had already bed a most beneficial effect ; but front the be- most ears, Luria that this important subject had regulations of the college, it was impossible that the exi,t not fallen into abler barb. lir hail waited to see the eh fact pelves eouid have bees educated since that time. lie feet which the attempt. nada by the Roman cethelies en anteipatee great g eml would result from the measure of th •pr deetanf religion of ibis country would pso.Ane ou 1813, avid, holeea, greet g v.: hie elready nos tee. the Ilritiab reversment, and whet steps they would take in He had in his trend a letter from the Chief et...sequence. Between two an 1 tI.:Ce yeers ago, the Pope Boron, in which he descriluel these ts :vantages. riennutted an le tof gross vete ono* on this country. He He saw that very soon after the Hey,' math Aet passed, a had the unparalleled audacity to eivide the kingdom into most pie .sing change was observed; the number of c inde Le 6 pries for the ae.wed puree.* of carrying intu rtes.?, as dates WAS very much ha:teased, the prehruinary ex ration al thee by ;he man be had plea , l4: the bead of the It imish tens were more strict, met a much better eyieem of finnan Churl in Viol land, the ena...inea•s of the canon law. A teas was Adopted. If sins shown that the full effect of the whole ',Won had been cenetreed on a question which, it act of ISO could not be develoeed for a consilerable time, there heel been ere spark of ssetermal pride left, would nut but derma letee-7 aid 8, and dui in= the cholera, the mon base esmtlit:a a moment ter its e . .seaion- The act at last vary among the parish priests had been re ry great, hut this b.c emu in..., but it on:v proleeiteu the assumption of tern- I act would operate in supplying for the population a very Semi tithe. by the ltemish bleb. ps, and that statute superior else* of spiritual instructor., and thus eminently bad bees meet openly mot ostentatiously trodden under fuel! the views of the great state-man who iatrodueed the AWL After eaplentons of ieshenetens I.y the prime Inseeeure. Ii• (Lent Aberdeen) did not Wir the re.ult et se:sister of the (Lay the canon law was openly iutroduced any ON:Airy fairly conducted that might take place ; and lavr this country by the Pope, with the knowledee of the he venue e.y, that although ter from us jecting to any Lair goe dream it. The anion law of Rome was hostile to the inquiry. be del nut think that it wooed be at all detai l:lT:l laws of Europe : and ins Recean catholic trete:raiment in able that such • subject should occupy a committee Eerope would permit it to be intro I eced except under their of their lordships house. (Hear, hear.) He theueht son election and thltelotiehe, bemuse it was &mad to be it was inevitable, that before a committee et their lonise ips' opecont to all poverranene Nevertheless, , it wee house, in a case of this kind, 'Along religious enmity end ege sh d to be neatted it. nee coutory to govern a per- disc .rd would be excited; ant an unseemly discu•sion lion of V c pc...pleats.' it wee virtueey a surrender of • 1.01- sus: al etmoirily occur in committee. If they were eie,ir boo of the governmtut of the cetaitry to a foreign potentate. ous of Melee a fair, impartial inquire, con.lue ed by Ale I Bet he sheald he told that the eenee Law referred only to i and imparted men, he believed th it tie man in thee house neuters of religion. Ile Lee.: their tordthipe would nut 1 thought, but the: he would endeavour to appoint such a bye to sec the day when that canon law would be as fear- commission as would ensure the utmost degree of inner fully ilerc:aped 41k:upland ea it hal been in times past. It tidily. (Reno) The boble end (Winchilsea) haul referred ere. nec, , s'eay to iuquire how tut. low was curried out in to epatiens which he (Earl Aberdeen) had expressed ou Chi country by the Pope's a:so...tains—his bishops and this trotter, Slid he thuught lie attached inure importance eleety-31. I the nature of the education which they re- to those opinions than they were worth. and he hoped that oreerd. i.e re was ono holy so porte lat the public ex- none of their lordships would imagine whatever those opt p. %a, as::: the facilities we ; ennead for inquiring into the niees were worth, that he hail abandoned the protestant se ....at of : : chieg at Meyneet e nel the subsequent train principle+ which he professed, or that he has ray In of He pi lest-, were mod ahuneeet. An inquiry hail te,lina toneerls the noble reel which he ought been insti:rted into the tams. real., vi Oxford and Cant• not to have. He repudiated any such feelieg, bridge, the report of which eh l be t a published. Some slime nark : chimed him, hut, to the Lest of his judgment, allusion was made in teat ripen to the canon law of he was sincerely desirous that the commission should be Eugland, and the fullest n.eaus ea:sted of ascertaining the so conititutt el as to give full satisfaction to that louse and na.ere ea the canon law of 1i..11W. The noble earl then to the c.•untry—(cheers)—and, ucder these circumstances, read an address presented to cite Vice-Chancellor King, of lie treve 1 that their lordships would see fit to reject the CA-Libretto-, from gentlem n of Huntingdonshire, on the ne nen of the noble earl, and adapt the amendment which cut jett ut the eanou law et It ..me, remeestine that a report he we ul.l move. The noble earl then moved as en amend =eget be drawn up, from documents in the archives of the melt, •• That an humble address be preheated to her Me Ohne, showing the unsure and eh erecter of the canon law jcsty, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleated of Rome. lnose duettist ire were prepared and certified to issue • cummiesiou to iequiro into the mauagemeut and by rime of the inathereies el the mheee, whose character goverrenent of the College ot Msynooth, the discipline, noel WAS abate Seipieilln i a n d therefore the committee for the Courtly' of studies pursued therein ; also ' into tLe effects which he inlet would have ..eeurate information, them the to ewe.: by the increased grants Conferre d by parliament best sowrers, Wore them : and at re time when the church ire 1)43." of Reno, was wahine reel s street-lin .ry efforts, those Lord RODEN sail he hoped at the commentent of the decumeht., many of which had hitherto been carefully con. speech of the noble earl (Aberdeei.) that it was the intentiou c .ilea, should Le brought to the Mowledge of the world. of the noble earl not to opieee the runtion of his noble lie had on former occaeoile entered his protest esteinst the friend, the Earl of Wiccliesee, whtu he stated that croutenanee given to an establi,hment subversive of the it was his wish to arrive at a toll and fair Comlitatiot He now ask. dau inquiry into its moral and examination into this important subject. Ile would Kcal prraciplea, which were, be still believed, totally op- not trouble their lordships at ally length after p used to th CiVii and retgiente lilitety of this nation. It the epeech of his noble friend (the Earl of \liucleile-a), for tun reties . : be true, if the Id.-einau catholic were such as he had tilly exposed the results of the course of education th .rein stated • if the canon law set up by the Roman ca- at the College of Maynooth. lle could hose no hesitation th die we r. mat as there el.sefibed, he contended that it in giving his vote for the motim of his noble friend (Lord was impos-,ble that the ceudition of Ireland could be other Winekilses). th at what their lordship. foetid it. And when they found Lord DUFFERIN said that the motion of the nolle that the ceeen law had fur its end as spirituel object, but earl (Winehileee), as interpreted by his speech, could only oaa the temporal power of the Pope, if they refused • full he looked upon as an attack spun hleynooth— (hear, hear) sea fair investigation into the syn. m pursued, they would • —and if the house were to secede to the motion, it would he be guilty of • vital abetel' amen: of :tattle duty to the count followed by hostile operations against that institution. try. This was no trifling quese-or.. The civil and re- As to the amendment proposed by her Majesty's govern. beton. ..h.rties both of the esthetic and prone- ment, he thought it would do good, if carried, by allowing Met reputation of this cowry were involved in all pieties to explain. (Cheers.) it. M. by were the people en • Roam' catholic coun- The Earl of DESART thought the country was much trees w at: off than here? It was the effect of the indebted to the cubic lord who had brocgiit 'forward tins canon Ire. And were they vi allow that law to have mitten. He th'nght that from the commission of the go any weight here ? The elects of the canon law would be vernment little information would be gained, and nothing !Nougat %hen he put • east. Suppose the noble earl (the but ~ ed effect, would result. Earl of Alordeen) were to hike any steps with regard to the papal Lull, not lem Lg since seat to thin country, no ord BEAUMO NT believed that both the committee Homan c . .thelic member of their loidship,' or of the other and COLLITiAsiOII would be attended with the same result— fact, useles Ite.oe would date, whatever might be his opi n i on , to give that hoth would, in aid to the tibia earl. It he eine he would be liable to ex. commission would be the be shortest s ; but he though • mode of proceeding, and he should, therefore., vote for the amendment. c eniuunieetien. What aecurity. then, was there for the lieerty of the Roman cetlielic au this country, or for his Tne Bishop of LONDON had heard with surprise rend allegiance to the throne ? LA has report which he held in regret the speech of the noble lord (Dufferin) who spoke his hand th, re WAS a statement which was made public early in the debate, when he said that those who proposed about • twat. month since. In it an Irish Roman catholic this inquiry were instituting a crusade against the Homan p-iest said t‘eit he ceule ttet have moth expectation of catholic church. There was, in truth, a crusade being car de rag any 'toed by admiaistering the test sacrament to • tied on in Ireland, but it was by those who were educated voter woo should dare to site for the English in the College of May:nos:tin against the protestant . enemy. Id principles sorb as these were to be tale- religion. (Hear, hear.) If there was any secret which need in teis country, it WAS a mockery to cell it the hierarchy of the church of Rome wished to conceal, . hoc Wee:, he wduld ask, could he slid of • priesthood of they would reveal it. But still, we were bound to which this men was a sample ? A Roman catholic noble- make inquiry ; bed if the fate revealed did not surprise the man had ventured to a.; that, Wawa/1y anxious as he was country, it would be because of late people had been so for the advancement of h s ehuren, be had n heless stunt hued to see what papal tyranny could perpetuate and such a respect for the English nese - Ration that he could aim at. (Hear, hear.) not 1-.ok without apprehensive at its increariug power in The Marquis of CLANRICARDE thought no inquiry at this nation. In Met the mitten law must be put clown. But the prescut moment was necessary ; and that it would be Marmot:l was the very place where it was chiefly taught I most inopeortuee. to the pe lest,. With regard to the amendment to be moved Toe Duke of LEINSTER merely rose to give his testi to this SlieS:oo, he WSW say that be should prefer a corn- moray to the geed conduct of the priesthood. aittee to the proposed c atnmi..i n. The latter would be the Earl of SHAFTESBURY thought that the feeling appointed he, the noble earl eppcsite (the Earl of Aber- extent's( ia the minds of thousands of the people of this deeu), and, he ventured vt say, would give satisfaction to colliery was sufficient to justify an inquiry into this sub so one. Again, a eortruissiou nail no power is c om pel th e pct. lii order that the commissioner should be able attendance of witnesses—a mot important point. But, fully. to enter tato the maitre he would suggest that noverkeless, if the noble earl would, out of four commie. a few additional words should be added to the amendment gioners. allow him to ;mime two, he would be satisfied to of the noble earl. He suggested that after the word. "a withdraw his motion. (Ileer, hear.) corraniesioa to iuquire into the management of the College of Mayneuth the discipline, seal the course of studies," the The Eul of AIIERDEEN—I shall not think it neeessary .. u • and the char ter of the studies" sho uld be intro eateam before your lereeeips the discussion of what se : on e , . ~ . les* the parmE aggrenion, which occupied so much of duce, . me w add also se . add to the ensendmentthe . fol lowing your j e h itn • t i n . some wombs since . I ~..h. I mink words, "and to ascertain the numbers educated in t he col lege and the parishes to which the had been appointed." the debates upon that subject are not to be looked heck to -- e.' . 'hue Duke of ARGYLE cordial y supported the amend with any great saunter ion. (liter, hear.) I certainly meat of the noble earl at the head of tbe government. It slack that the motion male by th e noble earl seems hardly ' slated to answer Cue &reflation with which he prefaced had been said that it was a national sin to give the funds of it. Sore:y if he think+ the imprudence is iso vest, the a protestant uatiou to the support of the catholic religion. danger so imminent as he bus demobed, it 1. not • commit- But the error of this statement was obvious. Our funds tee which he ought to have mint by proposing to your were drawn in no small measure from cathulics as premises of well as loniships, hut A measure which would have met the emer gency. Upon the declared objects of the noble restoats. He therefore disputed the premt who called this grant • great sin, and, earl s motion Ido not intend to o ff er any observe. conclusion. He confessed that he could not undentaed the run ; in fact I think it perfectly reasonable thet over ail institution *schwa I, estallobed, toad maintained, by a° . titres of the noble earl opposite (the Earl of Derhy). the state, parliament ought to have a right of super- The motion for a committee was made and supported in' reseon—(hear, her)—in order to see that the intentions of erery instance by noble lords committed to must extreme Yet that motion udoubtedle had the support of the legislature had been to Ailed, and honestly carried out. t haws . - v i d l y a . •, d But t h e fidtantent must be meo w ing to t h e i ntent ., of toe noble earl,. and . it certainly seeme tuat • change Ili the loges:due ; you are not to expect protestant doctrines taken plane ai l hie Tu.* in a Roman catholic college—(bear, Lear)—nor are sou to ,_ haul theE Earl of DERBY said that the noble duke Mt •rfere or to control the doc.rine or the religious disci- w " Pew and worship of the church of Erns as taught and as an older man than the noble duke, to give him a word of practised therein. It is a hole late after the system now advice, and that was never to him an unprovoked at tack pursued at elayuoeth ha, been I.:lowed fur so many years, u . isols ant said thus had given Man uo ground for so wog. he would tell him an anecdote, to tell the house thee we have ablinlened our duty to our 'e a ' al id II" mach, • wo uld also show that he was oenstry and our Ood. Der what, after all, is the real object which , while it was in in oft us inquiry ? 'the nob! v earl (the E art of Wincbilees) perfectly goes! humoured point , hie a dvice. The re war • talk% of an inquiry foss the system ul education , but surely strong, powerful man, one of the class common l y known as that aineot be the real object of his motion. The object of " navvies," who was married to • remarkably little wife. the noble can, he h e . more t h ee on , avowed i n t hi s b iebyt. Nevertheless, it was rumoured that this little wife was in is to overterew tee oh .le a stehlishment of M eynoote— the habit ,f heating her big husband. So prevalent did (boar)—to withdraw the recent prints, and to annihilate the rumour beeome that one day some persons asked the great wields whether it was true ? He said, " Yes, it was." th It system which Ms so long been established New, I think. it is unneccoary to refer to the history of They then asked why he allowed her to do en ? " Oh," Mevenotte Your loteletip, are all perfectly acquainted rejoined he, "it amuses her and it doesn't hurt me." with it; unfurtunately, indeed, we have heard of it too ( Loud ialleit") Pe smog, however, from the noble duke often. The noble earl will recollect teat that institution to the question before the house, it had rotes admitted by we. first ITCUiMiStfI in the Teem of George 111., by the ad- her Ilao.ty's geverument, that although there was no em etics of Mr. Pitt. It ha I since received many advantages me :matt riecenity for an investigatioe yet, in the present by eer•GIAS acts of parliament, until at last tame that wise temeer ot the nation, they were not prepared to o ffer any entwine introduced by my late right hen. friend Sir R. opposition to an investigation. Tee only point at issue we. Pee I. and in this house carried by toe resistless aad per-1 the so. eras by which that inveetieetion should Ise ellr..tete an 'sive eloquence of the noble earl opposite (the Earl of Fee various reasons he preferred the motion fir a committee Derby). U s iam that occasion the noble earl who moved the to tee amenernent of the noble earl opposite. But if there a strong feeling in that houo in favour of a commission mutation this evening said, that to carry that measure would be to commit an art of p 'Wind suicide more Hag- t 4. ahe wee I . rat h erhave .*err 1 I 1 cur a commies' es t h an. I. coil u All them to decide the queetiou nut than had ever been committed by any country since But . in this he was in the Lauds of the eartener of the world. This waste h act of 1814, which I bye tler . a T io!' he division he li 1 • ;if chose to go to a snu . I believe to h .ve been one of the most wise, most just, and I no b le frien d; country,feel himielf bound to divide with him. (Cheers.) most boacurable me sores adopted in this The Marquis of LANSDOWNE entirely differed from since the great act of emancipation, against wh ich the miler earl (the Earl of Herby) as to the mode ic which however the noble earl had spoke's in equally strong term s . should be taken, and was of operant that if the Tl.e noble earl whets he propme . .l this motion could hardly t o he,iweeiTY. one. oar. opp site . were to pr. es his motion it would be Mee had he Lee memory the vete , ample inquiry into the I eheeee , by 4,ery large majority. wit-le system of Mayn.. all made in the year IhOJ. Mr. M 1..", , She min of Sttairk.lstAtT and Lord HaallownT mule Pl' vAli• Lewis aed ethers then inquired into the whole i 1 a . fis e observance,' as to the objects of the proposed com m:ater, and Ins It • erere eletiorate revert, so elaborate in : sion, but their remarks wet. very indietincely heard in deee test it bed been and, me perbries justly, that their e _ Ist. int*. ape!' •,:orl the necessary of any inquiry at the pre- I Is!gal l e ry. kiOnEY add he did not intend to enter at any length ma* qui. But lam .4.10 g ta concur in the tide of puttee , . IMO we Pots Mn ha lore the brave. He was glad to hear Is i lime. sand I therefer •d i nut e,pose myself as I should I s', raii-e do from a fatting thee no sof% ien.ly urgent case I that the noble earl (Derby) mitered to the ouinione whteb h e expressed upon this wetter in 119115. Foe his ;art, be II:0 teen male out ter an. icquity. I hope and believe' si:y at all tor this inquiry but if thee t eh o tee (' :len of 31 4 a int, na• loathing to fear from it. 1 ea,___*__al h re ". ry he saw li tle neva to prefer o r m olu cute ef I relieve, Miteed, that P. w:,l realism:a to the advantage i a" e l are meld of Suet to-its - ten, I am awaro i snquiry ir . i gut tM ' other and the eiey gr. and of Lis preferring at ° le was that ' he thought it the least exacting, the Beet the pietiet ia-i reteet el a net Id to my I a ealn tta a gee ;swirl anima in ey b• lesdteted. at thouelt , Liert est, and tee least mischievous of the two. I ere -. et oppose pory ; I ers-rat admit that such an 1 The EAI of DEBBY said the aela--. earl . ( Gre y 2 ,111,14 said isequ'ry as Vs *mos: -I ny z . ... u due der: r that to whSeh I that Le (Earl Leahy) adhered to ets s ere i ,is e pc seen I y.'_r sera lips erre. t a art,. :a. 'i 1..^ noble earl seri he ' 1.13. ILet was not what he bad said, . d sui ir pporor 'Wit& aWe usquiry. I :ears put: la:.lships tojudoe what I °emeriti in of ten ceranteeien ems uu eneence e l . ha vin g *.r: j as inquiry Y.a "::: P.'' , hi if t•gulated is the spirit • adhered to or altered his erns. In eeflich the sonic cal s: •des. P.arsj e gotlow me to ! say .. mod :upon the c - or • . ea pu.v.:-:c the :io ile earl Earl OBEY cogwheel great regret if lic had mi,under el upon tLls stood the matter ; and he also regretted that THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 19, t. 53. (lltrby) had not more explicitly It tated his prtsent opinions upon this matte!..... ,..... __ 'The Earl of WINCIIILSEA then replied, and repeated that his ultimate intention was the abolitiuu of the May math grant—(bear, hear)--and be expres•ed his intention to divide the house if he was alone in the division. (Laugh ter.) lie also expressed his conviction that this commis mica would not give: satisfaction ; and if this were the cue, then the result would be to keep alive public f e eli ng an d excitement upon the subject. lie, however, would have no objection to the commission proposed if the noble earl (Aberdeen) would undertake to rominate it himself and without any concert with those around him. (A laugh.) The house thtn divided, when there were—log the motion— Content Isiou.coutent Majority in favour of the governii.ent. The other orders of the day veer° digosed of, and the house adjourned at a quarter plait 11. HOUSE OF CONINIONS.-11oNatr, APRIL 18. The SettAKEu took the chair ehortly before 4 o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. KEEN E took the oaths and his scat, on his election for Lanc.iskr in the room of Mr. Armstrong, unseated on petition. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Mr. 131tOTIIER.TON moved that tLe order referring the Holm: ll,serroirs Bill to the committee of selection be read and tignl.trged—That the bill be withdrawn—that 'r ire be given to bring in a bill for the adjustment of the debts of the commissioners of the llolrne reservoirs, and of the interest due thereon, and fur ena'iling them to restore and repair their reservoirs, and for other purpoms ; and that Mr. E. Denison and Mr. Bretherton do prepare and bring in the same. Agreed to. Mr. W. PATTEN moved that the report from the select committee on standing orders, in the case of the Lands Improvement Bill, petition fur additional provision, and the order ut the house thereupon, he read ; that the bill be withdrawn, and that leave bo given to Mr. Mulling., Mr. M. (jibson, and Earl Jermyn to bring in another bill, with an instruction to make provision therein, pursuant to the said order. Agreed to. The follnwing bills wars read a third time and passed:— Bognor Railway; Irwell Valley IVaterworks ; Runcorn and Weston Canal; Shipley Gu; Teignmouth Harbour and Teign Navigation; Bills. The tollowing bills were considered, agreed to, and ordered to be read a third time :—Midland Railway (amendment of acts, &c.) ; Scottish Central Railway; Bills. The following Mils were read a second time, and ordered to be committed :—Banhridge, Dublin, Newry, and Belfast Junction Railway; Portsmouth Railway; Amhergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junction Railway ,(sale, &a ), (No. 2); Ayrshire end Galloway (Smithstown and Dalinellington) Railway ; Criiff Junction Railway ; Great Wmtern Railway (Henley) ; Great Western Rail way (power to run over Shrewsbury and Birmingham, &c. Railways) ; Great Western, Shrewsbury and Birmingham, and Shrewsbury and Cheater Railway Companies Amalga mation; Great Western, Shrewsbury ;Ind Birmingham, and Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Companies (Traffic Arrangement) ; Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Railway ; Limerick and Foyers Railway ; London and Finsbury Im prov,ments and Railway, &c.• South Eastern Railway (Canterbury and Whitstable, ; South Eastern Rail way (Lewisham ' Croydon, and Bromley) ; South Stafford shire Railway ; West Cornwall Railw.,y ; Worcester and Hereford Junction Italtway; York, Newcastle, and Ber wick, York and Nortb Midland and Leeds Northern Rail way Companies (Amalgamation, &c.) ; EASTERN UNION RAILWAY. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Lord A. PAGE L' opposed the Prcood reading. The ob ject of the bill was to enable the Evitern Union Company to run for fifty miles over a rival line, namely, the Eastern Counties, and he contended that it would be danaerous to public safety t grant such a lower. He, therefore, moved that the bill :,e read a second time that day ►ix months. Mr. 11. ADAIR supported the bill. There woof! be no danger in passing the bill, because the directors of the Eastern Union Company were really to place the regula tions for running trains under the control of the Board of Trade. Ile hoped the house would allow the bill to go be fore a committee. Mr. CAYLEY said this was the case of a small railway company that required protection against the oppression of the Eastern Counties Company. The E - astern Union route to Norwich was shorter by 13 miles than that of the Eastetu Counties line, and since toe district through which the Eastern Union It 'away passed had unanimously petitioned in favour of the bill, there ought to be no difficulty thrown in its way. Mr. LABOUCHERE said he had received a deputation from the neighbourhood of Ipswich in favour of this bill. None of the deputation were in any way connected with the railway itself, but they urged that it would be for the public interest that the bill should pass. The railway cons. :Mtn e had reported vnerally against running weir., but a reservation had been male in favour of exceptional cases, and perhaps this was one of them. He had, however, only heard oue side of the case, and was therefore not in a poal• tion to speak for or against the bill. Mr. WADDINGTON compared the struggle of these two companies to that of • young man fighting with • giant, the fernier twin anxious to put down the latter— (e iliac he could not have all his own way. &a far from the Eastern Counties Company:having oppressed the Eastern Union, the fact was just the •averse, for the Eastern Union had foritare been coquetting with the Nor folk Company and others to the detriment of the Eastern Counties. Be called upon the house to affirm the amend ment. Mr. COBBOLI) sold the Eastern Union wes nothing more than part of the original scheme fur making the Eastern Counties or the Giant Railway, and it would be most unfair to allow the Eastern Counties to stand in the way of Eastern Union traffic. After a few words from Mr. &THERON and Mr. BALL, the amendment was withdrawn. The bill was then read a second time aad ordered to he committed. PUBLIC BUSINESS. TAUNTON ELECTION. Sir G. GREY brought up the report of the select committee appoiuted to try and determine the matter of a petition presented by Sir Edward Culebrooke and certain electurs of the borough of Taunt in, complaining of an undue return at the last elec tion. The committee had determined Arthur Mills, Esq., was not duly elected at the last election to servo in the pre ' sent parliament for the said borough. The committee bad further to report that Arthur Mills,Esg ,wu, by nis agents, guilty of bribery at the last election for the said borough; and that it was proved to the committee that James Lea was bribed in the sum of 21., but notwithstanding the bribe, that said James Lea had voted fur the defeated candidate. (A laugh.) It was also proved that other parties were bribed in similar sums; but it was not proved to the satisfac tion of the committee that such acts of bribery took place with the knowledge or consent of the said Arthur Mills, Esq. The committee had also to report that the peti tioner, Sir Edward Colebrooke, Bart., was, by his agents, guilty of bribery at the last election for the said borough, as various acts of bribery were proved before the committee, but it was not proved to the satisfaction of the committee that such bribery took place with the knowledge or con sent of the said Sir E. Colebrooke, Bart. The petition was ordered to be printed. NEW ROSS ELECTION. Mr. HEADLAM brought up the report of the select committee appointed to try sod determine the matter of the petition of Henry Lambert, compluining of an unglue return at the last election for the B4rough of New Hose. The committee had determined that Chsrles Davin Duffy, Esq., was at the election held on the 14th of July, 1852, duly elected a burgess to serve in the present purliameat fur the nit' borough, and they had also directed the peti tioner. Henry Lambert, to pay the costs of the petition, in consi queue. of a frivolous allegation in the petition. The petition was ordered to be printed. THE BALLOT. Mr. 11. BERKELEY gave on the 10:h of May, he should move for leave to bring in a bill to protect the electors of Oreat Britain and Ireland, by causing the votes at all parliamentary elections to be taken by the (clear, hear.) CITY POLICE. Sit DEL. EVANSw isit• to uk the noble lord the member for the City of London whether, in the commission of inquiry regarding the state of the corporation of Lon don, there will be any objection to direct an investigation into the working of the City police acting under the cor poration, with a view (without derogating from the present excellent administration of that force) to a consideration of . . the advantages of consolidating the whole of the metropoli• tan police under one managemeat ; also, whether that com mis,ion is to be appointed by act of parliament so as to enable it to pursue, with adequate power, its inquiries ; and whether there he any objection to add to its duties a like inquiry into the corporation of the adjoining city of West minster. Lord J. RUSSELL said there could lie no objection to etch an inquiry, as it was desirable that the working of the City police under the existing act should ha ascertained. With regard to the second question, he had to state that the corporation of the City of London hail expressed their willingness to give every assistance to the inquiry, auJ under these circumstances it would not be necessary to in troduce a bill into parliament for the purpose of the inquiry. With regard to the hot question, he had to state that the governing nt did not think it advisable that the inquiry should extend to the city of Westminstir. SUCCESSION TO THE CROWN OF DENMARK. Lord I). STUAR f asked Lord J. Russell whether a protest has been received by the goye mini at of thin country teem the Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, against the treaty of the Bth da7 of May, 1831, regulating the succession to the grown of Denmark; and if so, whether there will be an/ objection to lay thist document on the table of the house. Lord I. RUSSELL said n protest had been received by the government, bat the subject required further consi deration before he could lay it on the table of the house. GEOLOGICAL suKyKy . .OF TILE ISLE OF w 1(; lIT. In answer to 04. HARCOURT, who comdleined that the officers emOoyed in the geological se. vey at the Isle of Wight, hot ni.irked an arrow on a clo arch, MONSELL said the persons rambled to make this survey, wing under t..e Master gent cal cf the Ordnance, wen empowered to male Inttr . /Y on buildings for the put puses of tho , urvey. They were instructed it they met with obstruction to desist anti report tl their superior officers. In the ease alluded to by the herr and gall..nt member the officer had not obeyed those Ma:ructions, and he had been severely punished. MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND). Oa the motion of Sir It. FERGUSON returns were ordered from the treasurer of each county, county of a city and town in Ireland, stating the number of disper.snries, fever bo'pitals, and infirmaries for which county prtsentments were made in the years 1&i1 and 18.32. the sum pmented for each, and the sum subscribed for *ach. Of the di.pen sary districts, with the expense thereof, for the year ending the,g:ith day of March, 18.53, distinguishing—first, the rent of dispensary buildings; second, the salaries; third, the medicinei and medical app li ances; fourth, books, sta . tionery, prii.ting 2 and advertisements; fifth, fuel, atia n• dance, and other incidental expenses ; with totals by unions, counties, and provinces, as in the First Annual Report on Medical Charities by the l'oor Law Commissioners, Ire land. And, of the number of fever hospit ils in Ireland that were supported by poor rate; dis:ieguishing those under • the temporary Fever Act, and the cost of each, in the years 18,51 and 1862. QUEEN'S_ COLLEGES. On the motion of Mr. It. Hooke returns were ordered showing the number of days in each session since the open ing of the Queen's Colleges at Belfast, Galway, and Cork, the respective presidents, vice•presidents, and members of council were in residence at their colleges. Of the number of councils held an each session, the imendance of each member, and the name of the presiding officer at each coun cil ; and, ut the name, emolument, and duties, of any uthe r office held or enjoyed by any president, vice- presi lent, or whet member of council, since the epeniug of their respec tive colleges. FATE OF MR. BENJAMIN BOYD. Mr. M. MILNEB asked the Secretary of the Admiralty whether, in consequence of any instructions issued to Sir Evened Home, of her Majesty's ship Calliope, with a view to nwertain the fate of Mr. Benjamin Boyd, that officer had transmitted any report un the subject to the Admiralty, in connexion with his recent cruise amongst the .outh Sea Island+, from which be wets understood to have returned to Sydney on the 19th of Deeemlxv last; also, whether any report had been received from the officer in command of the China station on the same subject ? Mr. B. OSBORNE s eid the Calliope left Sydney on the 22nd of July last, but no report had been r:ce iced as to the success of her mission. The Serpent had also been ordered to leave liong-Kong on the some service, which she did he believed on the 9th Nov. last. No report had yet been received respecting her. Ile had also to state that Captain Deuman's surveying vessel sailed on the 15th May, 1842, and had orders to call at the group of Solomon's Is lands to ascertain if any information could la, procured. THE LAW OF SETTLENIENT. Mr. A. \VISE asked Lord John Russell whether it is the intention of her Wieldy's government to introduce, either in this or the neat session of parliament, any mea sures to abolish or revise the laws relating to the settlement and removal of the poor, or to alter the present mode of raising the rates for the relit f of the poor, by distributing the charge over a wider and less variable basis, or otherwise. Secondly, if her Majesty's government are not prepored to propose early legislation on these suhjects, whether Lord John Russell will assent to the appointment of a committee to inquire into the practical epetation of the laws for the re lief of the poor in England and Wales, and to consider the policy and general effect of all the laws relating to settle meet, removal, and parochial assessment? Lord J. RUSSELL replied that government were of opinion there would not be sufficient time to discuss a measure for the revision of the law of settlement during the present session, and, therefore, it would not be desirable to introduce it. At the same time he begged to state, that a measure comprehending a complete revision had been prepared, and would in all probability be introduced neat session. With regard to the second question, all he had to state was that the inquiry, conducted under Mr. Charles liuller's committee, was very c implete, and that the go vernment did not intend to appoint a select committee on the su'.ject. TIIEEDUCATION BILL. Mr. PETO asked Lori .1. Russell if it is the intention of the government to proceed with the second feuding of the Education Dill, pending the inquiry now proceeding in a committee specially appointed by the house to inquire into the subject, on the introduction of the Manchester and Sal ford Education Bill. Lord J. RUSSELL said it was net the intention of r vernment to bring on the second reading of the Education Bill till after Whitsuntide, and when they did proceed with that bill, the bill for Charitable Trusts should likewise be on the table of the house. lie trusted that by the time the se cond reading was to be moved, the inquiries respecting Manchester and Salford would be concluded. INCLOSURE OF WASTE LANDS IN DENBIGH. Mr. WIIALLEY asked the Secretary of the Treasury, whether there is any and what objection to give consent on the part of her Majesty (who is lady of the manor), to the inclosure of the waste lands in the parish of Ruabon, in the county of Denbigh, the proceedings In such inclosure having been commenced upwards of two years since. end having been delayed by the refusal hitherto to give a defi nite answer whether such consent would be given or not ? Mr. WILSON replied, that the reason why government had not been able to advise her Majesty to give the consent of the crown to the inclosure referred to war, that at the time the application was made, negotiations were on trot with Sir Watkins Wynn, and the advisers of the crown conceived that they were not at liberty to act. COI vac E. ..... Mr. DIVETT asked the Secretary to the Treasury whe ther arrangements were in progress for giving a better supply of small coin ? Mr. WILSON s .id the inconvenience which had arisen, and which still existed, with regard to the mintage of this country he admitted was of the highest importance. They had complaints every day of serious inconvenience by backers and merchants from every part of the country. But when he informed the house th at t wo years ago the Itighst amount of coin that could possibly be turned out of the mint was 210,000/. a week, and that by the extraordinary exertions of thou by whom the Mint was conducted, the present out-turn was now up wards of 600,000/. weekly, he thought that Istatemeut would show the house that whatever inconveni ence might be suffered by the public, the authorities con nected with the Mint bed not been lacking in their duty. During the first three months of the present year there had been no less en amount coined titan 4,31'40001. in gold, and 92,0001. in silver, and the whole number of coins including silver and gold turned out of the Mint for three months of the present year was 6,000,100. It appeared to hint that this accelerated rate was quite inadequate to the present demand. The demand for the last days at the Bank of England had been equal to 100,0001. of coined gold per thy, which it was utterly Impossible for the Mint at the present moment to tura out, and therefore what they were to do with regard to silver unless same cessation of the demand fey silver took place he did not know. With regard to half sovereios, it was obvious that the number of coins was two to one, and the difficulty was increased by having half sovereigns. The Master of the Mint's attention w• - ti di rected to the su' ject, and if nothing else would do they would work day and night, but then the difficulty would be to get the metal assayed. Mr. DISRAELI asked if the report of the Muter of the Mint had been laid on the table. Mr. W ILSON said there was no report from the Master of the Mint on the subject, but if the right hon. gentleman would move for a report it should be laid ea the table. There had been a paper moved for already as to the amount of coikage in the last three months, which would be pre sented that evening. Mr. DISRAELI observed that if there was no report it was impossible for him to move for it. Mr. DIVETT asked whether any project had been die cussed as to the expediency of coining quarter sovereigns. Mr. WILSON replied that that had been discussed, and it had had their attention so far that he had requested the Master of the Mint to have a sic cut, in order to make the experiment. There were a variety of reasons against it, snd there were a great many reasous for it. There was an American gold dollar issued lately, which would perhaps not he an adequate reason against it, but the great reason was that every pound required four coins, and the labour, therefore, of coining quarter sovereigns would be qua drupled, as compared with coiaing sovereigns. NEW ZEALAND. Mr. 11. BAILEY asked Sir W. Molesworth whether he intended this session to bring forward the charge which he made last session against the New Zealand Company ? Sir W. MOLESWOIITH said the charge which he brought before the house with regard to New Zealand was founded on certain papers which he moved should be laid before the house. Those papers bad been printed and laid before the house. They stated all the facts of the case accurately, arid therefore there was no necessity whatever fur further inquiry. CITY OF WESTMINSTER. and, when such persons have received their education at more than ens cf such classes of schook, sp. cityii g, as far as practicable, :he total periods of their attendants at each of such classes of schools. PETITIONS PRESENTED. ADWISsION or Jgwa To PARLIAMENT —By Sir J. Y. BULLER, from the Rural Deanery of Moiettin Hampstead, against; Lord MARCH, from postmasters, int.. REDUCTION OF AUMAMENTS.—By Mr. THORNELY, from Billiton, for. OrF:NING OF TILE CRYSTAL PALACE ON SUNDAY.— By Sir J. 'INItELL, from Ihrch, in Eases; Sir J. Y. DULLER, from Luddiswall, in Devon, against. Taxra uN KNOWLEDGE.—By Mr. J. KERSHAW, from 2,t 00 inhabitants of Stockport, and from the presi dent, secretary, snit o ffi cers of the Stockport Reform As,o elation ; Mr. BRAND, from the Lewes Mechanics Institu tion; Mr. DUNLOP, from Greenock, for repeal of. ADVERTISEMENT DUTV.—By Mr. MORRIS, from the newspaper proprietors of Carmarthen ; Sir J. DUCK WORTH, from E. Wooliner ; Mr. BRAND, from the pro prietor of the Sussex Mee, tiser ; Mr. L. KING, from the proprietor of the Surrey Gereette praying tur repeal of. Isiconn TAX. --117 Lord IloioANl, from medical prac titioners of Bull and Beverley; Lord D. stuART, from Menem a of the Metropolitan A•socittion of Physicians and Surgeons; Mr. PIGOTT, front the medical practitioners of Reading anti its neighbourhood; Mr. SM„YTH, from the medical gent:elven of the City of York, for modification of. ATTORNEY..; . CEILTiricATE MTV. —By Mr. rworr, from the sulidtors and proctors of Reading; Mr. GAS KELL, from the attornks and solicitors at Bradford, Yorkshire, for repeal of. PArEit uTT.—By Sir J. ANDERSON, from the pro- Yost, ilia.tistrat•N., and town couucii of Dunfermline, for the re sal of the. I . .slLtAmEstrattTParetta.—lly Mr.D.SEYMOUR, from town ar.d corporation of l'uule, fur distribution of to Me chailies Institutes. SCOTTISH UNIVT.ILSITY TESTS.—By Mr. G. J. Durr, from Lussilmouth and Alyea, in Morayshire, for the aboli tion of. Derr UN TEA.-111 Mr. BUTLER, signed ley rector and 1,421 inhabitants of White chat el and adjacent parishes, praying that the duty ou tea may be seduced to Is. per pound. THE BUJ)GET. The house having gone into a committee of supply, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIII;t/12 Elt ruse and said,—Mr. Liouverie, sir,—The annual exposition of the financial state and prospects of this country upon ordinary occasions affords abundant materials of interest to this house and the country, and of anxiety to the person who is charged with the preparation of that exposnioa. But on the present occasion, perhaps, that interest on the our hand and certainly that anxiety on the other, are greatly en hanced. A variety of circumstances, inc luding uniting them the number of motions that have recently been mode in this house, indicate the increasing eagerness of the people with respect to financial questions. Political events, and the shocks which have enteebled and overthrown adminis trations, and which have made it necessary to adjourn from year to year questions of taxation, have likewise accumu lated upon the present government the tit* which they have to discharge in that department ; and iu connexion with this question, there have of late been grave discussions of a nature the most deeply interesting, de scending to the first elementary principles of taxation, and almost to the first principles upon which men are united in civil society. (Cheers.) Sir, with a task so formidable before me, I feel warranted in addressing a special appeal to the eamruitt,e for their kindness and indulgence— (clieers)—for I am certain that ouly by that kindness and indulgence can I be able-1 will not say to discharge that task as it ought to be, for that is beyond my power—but to discharge it so as in any case to be intelligib,e to my hearers. Mr. Buuverie, the first portion of my duty will be to lay before the committee the state of tie public account. I think I shall best discharge that duty by taking up the recital ut the state of that account from the point ut which it stood last year, when the financial department was in the hands of the right lion. gentleman opp•sit ; and it will be satiefactoi y to the committee to libber , ' that as our experience grows with the lapse of time, so do we obtain larger and still larger proofs of the elasticity of the revenue and of the progress of the productive and con suming power of the country. (Cheers.) On the 30th of April, 18.52, the right hon. gentleman opposite, my prede cessor, estimated the revenue for the year at 51,625,0001. ; and in the month of December, 1852, when he had occasion to return to the subject, he was able to present to the house an estimate which placed the revenue tot' the year at ' 52,325,0001.—exhibiting an increase win his estimate of April amounting to sin less than 700,0001. Now, sir, within the few months which have elapsed since December, we have further evidence of the same gruff. ing character ; for the revenue o hich the right lion. gentleman had judi ciously estimated at 52,325,0001. amounted to no less, when we hail reached the termination of the year, than 53,069,000/.—ellowing an increase of no less than 1,461,0001. upon the estimate which had been submitted at the com mencement of that year. The expenditure of the past year, as it was estimated on the 30th of April last, was taken at 51,163,0001. ; but the actual • expenditure has only reached 50,782,000/. (Cheers.) The consequence is that you have has figures presented to you that must have gratified every member of this com mittee, for they show an actual surulus of income over expenditure amounting to 2,460,0001. (Cheers.) But having reached this point, it now becomes my duty to ask the committee to make some large deduction from the sanguine expectations which have been expressed—expecta tions so sanguine, considering the quarter from which they come, as to have excited my surprise. For it has been pre cipitately inferred that because the balance of the income over the expenditure of the year was 2,460,0001., therefore you have a sum of 2,460,0001. available for the remission of taxation. (blear, hear.) Unfortunately before we can arrive at that conclusion, there is one circumstance rather material to examine; and that is, what is the estimated amount of the expenditure of the year which we have jest commenced ? Well, sir, when we look at that expendi• tare as it steeds upon the votes of this house, and compare it with the expenditure of the last year, we shall find the matterwill stand thus : The expenditure of 1852.3, which I take from the accounts, reached 50,702,0001., and t`.e expenditure of 1853-I, a great portion of which has already been voted, and the remainder of which I cannot anticipate will be diminished by this house, is estimated at 62,163,000/. Therefore, air, without going into other parti maitre, which I am very sorry to say would cause a fur ther deduction from the surplus of 2,160,0001., 1 beg leave to point out that at lead 1,400,0001., or three-fifths of that surplus, are already disposed of by charges to which the country is liable under acts of parliament or by votes to which you have agreed for the eleteuves of the country, and by charges on account of miscellaneous services, which I apprehend this house will not be inclined to refuse or di minish. The right hon. gentleman, my predecessor, when in December, 1852, he estimated his surplus fur the present year, took a total sum of 1,600,0001., of which he stated that upon the ordinary revenue he should veuturc to anti cipate a surplus of 1,300,0001. or 1,400,0001. To that he . 'added, fur the extra charges on account of the Kaffir war, which he regarded as concluded, a sum of 200,0001. or 300,0001., and these items put together would give a surplus as the basis of his calculations for the year amounting to 1,600,0001. At that period the right hon. gentleman thought that the only charges against that surplus on account of the coming expenditure would be a sum of 100,0001., which he proposed to apply mainly to the relief of the shipping interests, and 600,0001. which he re quired for the increased estimates for the great services of the country. His successors in office, however, have not been so fortunate, nor has this house thought it wise to confine its votes in supply for the year within these limits. I shall now state to the house how that surplus of 1,600,0001. The augmented charges, part of which have been voted, and part of which are yet to come, amount at least to 1,654,0001. (Hear, hear.) There has been some further improvement in the revenue of the country, and there ate likewise some few items of public expenditure upon which her Majesty's government have been able to effect sonic small saving. Adding up the various items they give a total estimated income of 52,990,0001., againet which we have to set a total estimated expenditure of 52,183,0001., showing an apparent surplus of 807,000/. But, sir, anxious above all things to avoid nixing undue expectation, 1 am desirous to impress upon the com mittee that they must bear in mind that of this 800,0001. about 220,0001. consists of items which are not permanent and recurring ones, and which will not be repeated. Looking at the uncertainty in connection with the packet service and the harbour, of the Channel Islands, and the saving on the debt, it is possible that the surplus which 1 have stated to you may be reduced to the extent of 100,00 0 1. You will, therefore, he more secure if you con sider the total surplus as 700,0001. rather titan 8011,0001. • and yon, mutt bear in mind that 220,0001. of the 800,0001: is deri red from occasional ana not permanent sources of in come . At the same time, however, my sanguine hope i s that we shall realise the whole surplus of 800,000/. Well, sir, ' Of a is the state of the account of the country as I have en d eavoured to bring it up to the present moment, and to present it clearly to the committee. The committee will not have failed to observe that I have included a large sum, amounting to more than one tenth of the whole revenue, which we have an nually raised since 1842, namely, the income tax. But the income tax is ut this moment legally expired, and it will he for the committee to consider wile. thee or not it will revive it. Upon that subject I am afraid I shall hove to trouble them at some length; but before I enter upon it, and upon a complete and continuous exposition of the news of the government with regard to finance, there are two (orations to which I must previously advert, on ac count chiefly of the positions which they occupied in the financial statement of my predecessor. The first of these refers to a particular class, and has regard to the shipping interest. The committee know, from a statement already made by my right lion. friend the Pree:dent of the Board of Tref.° (Mr. Cardwell), that her Majesty's govern ment propose to afford what they trust will be found a considerable benefit mid relief to that in- Sir J. V - . SHLLGEI moved for copies of certain orders and ordinances made the 27th day of May, in the 27th year of Elizabeth, by the Hight Hon. Sir William Cecill, High Steward of the City of Westminster, and Doctor Goodman, Dean of St. Peter's, with the assent of Thomas Fowler, John Fisher, and other burgesses and their assistants, an , cording to the statutes made and provided for the got' d government of the city or borough of Westminster of any subsequent rules made by the High Steward, Deans and Court of Burgtsses for the good government of West. oio oder ; list of persons now tilling the offices of High Ste* ward, I High Bailiff, or any other officer in the civil governs sent of I Westminster, setting rth by whom such parse ns were onindnted, and under what statutes; and an accou' ,t of the i sum or sums which each of such persons has p sid f or hi s LlOPointment; account of the sources and amount of fees ur revenue derived by each and every o',N oor so op• pointed, and the duties performed ; and else of all fees or revenui a derived by the Court of Buff eases, with the sources from which such fees or revenues we .e derived ; and of the afpointment and disbursement of such tees or revel ye Imes ; diqinguishing the tines inflicted tf• . roug h t h e annoy ! sect: jury f.r each of the last twenty earn ; and of the a ppropriation or disbursement cf such i n.., Agreed to. _ BANK OF ENGLAY D NOTES. On the motion of Mr. A. Ilysrie, an account was or dered specifying srporotely am, collectively, the monthly ~meant of notes in circulatio u of the &auk of England, oat, r Minks of issue is England, Scanlon& and Ire ; with the amount ot 'Junior' in the Bank of England livid August, 1848, to the present time. EDUCATVJN OF PRISONERS. On the motion of Mr. T. Ciotattigns, a return was ot,!o-rd of the num aer of versos-, distinguishing males feom &aisles, now in emtaly in the }rousts of Correction on 1 ether prism. in Englund kind Wales; specifying tho proportion of such pawns who hays received their educa tion respectively at prison schools, workhouse schools, mill or lactnry schools, mad coma' in public or private schools ; tary for the Treasury will take a future occasion of entering more at large into that question , but I regret to say [llia we ham pot discovered any method of granting that privi lege, in the present state of the law with respect to sager, which will be satisfactory to the West Indians and to the refining trade, and which at the same time w ou ld not in flict a very heavy hues upon the revenue. Oh ar, hear.) With respect to the e tualisation of spirit duties again, I fear that really nothing remains to he done in this resp ec t I believe the distillers of this country consider that already the duties have been somewhat more than equalised, an things considered, iu favour of the West Indiaies. At all events, we are not prepared to propose any diallee in the an law in the nature of equalisation of spirit (twits es b e t ween colonial and domestic distillers. No, sir, there i s b ut one thing—there is but one way in which it has a p peared to the government that they might entertain a s angu i ne h ope of being able, at a very slight charge to this country— perhaps at no charge —to confer mat er i a l b enefit on the \Vest Indies, and that in a way which, if it can be effected, will, I am sure, command the approbation of this committee; becaus e i t i s by enabling them to economise the he a vy expend i ture of their own governments—(hear, hear)— t it er li:a i v i y : din public many cases , almost a ruinous expeaditure. (ILsr, hear.) In the cause of Jamaica, fur example, h debt the minimum rate of interest upon which is 6 p er cent., end the maximum 10 ' -er cent.—the capi ta l o f the debt amounting to about half a million of money. (Near, hear.) And it it were possible for the government to in duce the aseembly of Jamaica to amend the vicious consti tution of that island, and to place it upon a foundation that would give scope for etrict control over the expendi ture, her Majesty's government would then be disposed to recommend to this house to employ the credit of this country in guaranteeing the island's debts. (Hear, hear) I do not now inquire whether that welled entail a charge upon you ; I believe it would entail none. I would ho tho first to assert that there should be the utmost jealou.y as . . to the interposition of the credit of 64 country between debtors and creditors out of this country. (Hear, hear) But, considering all that has hip. pened to the West Indies. Considering the ellect that British legislation has had in precipitating their diffi culties, I do believe, it' we were able to point to a prospect of great unit effectual relief to Jamaica to be indirectly obtained through effective reform of its government, that this house would look with a gel erous and a considerate eye upon any proposal fur using the credit of this eountry in the mintier 1 have named. (Hear, hear.) That refers to Jamaica which presents at the present moment by far the most urgent erne of distress among the We-t India colo nies. (Hear, hear.) lam not sure that there is one other among those colonies which will he in a condition to re quest a similar interposition. (lien, Iliac.) If they did, it would depend upon the case to be shown. Ido nut think it likely that such a case would arise ; all I can say is, that it is not likely the doer would he absolutely shut against them. I pass now from the collateral topic of the Vest Indian interest, to that connected with the Exchequer Loan Fund. After all that has passe;, in the debate of December last, it was evidently the duty of the government to make a full investigation into the transactions of that department. We have instituted that investigation. We have presented the results in print to the house. They are in a form so simple that an inspection only oceupying a few minutes will exhibit them to any hon. member. It appears, from the figures there presented, that after debit ing the Exchequer Loan Fund—l will not say with the folly of parliament, but with every questionable cr am biguous advance that was made,—after charging the whole of those to the last parliament, yet each has been the sound discretion exercised by the members and officas of that board in the loans they hove made—(hear, hear)—that while they have afforded an iminenee amount of local ac commodation, they have likewise realised, alter paying every expense that belongs to the office, a nett balance of not less than 227,0001.; and if we put values such as san guine men might perhaps put upon certain innatments that have not yet been realised, it is fir from impossible that that balance way be raised to nearly a million of money, to the credit of the entire transaction. (Cheena It is our candid opinion, under these circumstances, that the sentiments expressed by Sir James Graham in December last in loped to the Exchequer Loan Fund are justified by the facts ; and it is not our intention to propose the abolition of that systeos, which we think has been both vela tble to these to whom advances have bean made, and highly beneficial to the country. (Cheers.) I now approach a difficult part of the task I have to perform—the discussion of the income tax. (Hear, bear.) The first question that the commits, c has to consider is, whether or not it will make efforts to part with the income tax at once. Ido not say that such an alterna tive is impossible; on the contrary, I believe that, by the conjunction of thee measures—one of which must he a tax upon land, houses, anal other visible property, of perheps6d. in the pound; another, a system of licenses upon trades, made universal—(hear, hear)—aud averaging something like 71. ; and a third, a change in your scheme of legacy duties —(loud cheers)—itwould he possible for you at once to part with the income tax. But the government do not recommend such a course to the committee. They do not recommend it, because they believe, in the first place, that such a system would, uieen the whole, be far more unequal and cause greater dissatisfaction timn the income-tax. They believe, likewise, that it would arrest other beneficial reforms of taxation. (Hear, hear.) And they believe that it would raise that difficult question, in regard to the taxa tion of the public funds of this country, in a farm the most inconvenient. I might dilute upon this subject, but it is needless to do so. I leave it to those—if such there be—who are prepared to recommend the immediate abandonment of the income-tax. Such is not the recommendation of her Majesty's government. The right honourable gentle man then pruceeded to notice the objection that the same rate of tax ought not to be levied on preca rious and realised incomes ; but what were precarious and what realised ? The relation between the payment on lands and trades would go a great way to solve the diffi cult question as to the justice of the tax. The real tax, he would show, was paid by the land and houses. They paid 7d. in the pound uniformly on au income not assessed by the possessor, and without the smallest deduction iu respect to the difference between gross and net income ; whereas, if the present scheme of the tax was broken up, allowance must be made fur rep tin, insurance, law ex penses, cost of management, arrears and abatement% of rent. Taking this deduction at 16 per c nt. upon 80,000,0001., the gross income, it would be reiuced to 67,200,0001., which really bore the 2,330,0001., tee amount of the tax under that schedule. Then there were mortg ages and settlements, which would reduce the income b y at least 20,000,0001., leaving it only 47,200,0001., the net receipt of those bene ficially interested in the lands and houses ; so that the rate of the tax upon this species of property was 91. in the pound, trades paying only 7d.---a proportion neerly evial to the 7d. and 5.1(1. proposed by Mr. Disraeli. If the basis of the tax were to be broken up, there would be a war of classes, and it was difficult to see where it would end. It had been said that the fair proportion which land should bear to trades was as four to three, and that was the relative proportion of the tax at present. As to the averaging of classes among the nuelves, ho insisted that this was impracticable. Some trades were better than perpetuities, while others were not worth three years' pur chase. Moreover, trades paid 7d. upon an assessment made by the parties themselves ; and Mr. Gladstone mentioned a case in which the incomes of 28 persons, actually amounting to 48,159/. a year, had been returned at only 9,0001. As regarded the state of the case between land and trades therefore, there was no sufficient ground for attempt ing to reconstruct the scheme of the tax. With regard to schedule C, including funclhelders he appealed to the house whether, if that schedule steed a lone, it would not be an argument against breaking up the tax. Some rational con struction must be given to the words of the Loan Act. The proposal to levy the tax upon the capitalized value of the income was one which could not with honour be adopted by the British Parliament. At present, only one-third of the public debt was held on see accounts, indicating, generally speaking, absolute property ; and the remaining two-thirds were held on joint accounts by persons not in their own right. Professions paid oni - twenty-second part of the tax, and public feeling recom mended a change of this part of the scheme ; but he warned the committee of the more than Herculean task that must be undertaken if an attempt In made to reconstruct the tax because of so limited :a case as this schedule. In my own opinion it is perfectly plain, from the modo in which the income tax was put an end to .et the termination of the war, that it is not well adapted for a permanent portion of your financial system. (Cheers.) Whether it is so or not is a point on which there is a great difference of opinion ; yet 1 think this is on all hands admitted, that it is not 'Owed for a pennament portion of your fiscal system unless Eou tan, by a re-construction, remove its inequa l ities. ven if we could remove that inequality, there would still remain in my mind objections of a grave kind. The recon struction of the income tax would, under any circumstances, I think, be found to open up social questions of a very serious nature. Our proposal, continued the right hon. gentleman, with regard to the income tax then is this. We propose that there should ha a renewal of the income tax for two years from April, 15.53, at the rate of 7d. in the pound. We mopose—(the committee will recollect that I have stated that it has been our duty to look at this ques tion in its whole breadth, to look at all the difficulties with which it is surrounded in the face, and to endeavour to come to a settlement of the question)—l say, then, that we propose to renew the income tax for two years from Apra, 1e53, at 7d. in the pound; for two years more from April, 185.5, at the rate of 64. in the pound ; and fur three y ears more from April, 1817, at the rate of sd. in the pound— (" hear, hear," and a laugh)—and under that proposal the tix would expire on the mei of April, 1860. (Hear, hear.) You have a right to expect that in our plan we Amid undertake to fulfil one or the other of these objects. In considering the question whether we should make it the first object of our policy to extinguish the tax at an early moment, or whether, on the other hand, we should endea vour to bring to completion that great national work of which the income tax has been the chief instrumcm, we duly considered both those propositions, and we derided de- terest, without inflicting any charge upon the public. ! liberate'y on the adoptiOn •of the second. While, Another interest wan mentioned by the right hon. gentle- i therefore, inviting the home to renew the income man as having so much claim on the general sympathies of ! tsx, we propose the to associate it during the the house, that respect and consideration demand that I j three years which it will run with a great and should at least nit leave it without mention. I mean that ! beneficial remission of taxation. (Hear, hear.) But which is calhal the West Indian interest. With regard to it is to be feared that the statement I have that interest, I regret to sly that there is indeed little, Bony- made with regard to the condition of a surplus thing, that can he done by a r oem umen t, in our View, consis- .is not very promising oil that subject. Ile would teirly with its more extended duties to the public, in fut. ! indeed be an ingenious ut:nister of finance who could find tihnent of the riquisitiomi which that interest has pre- ! means for large remiteions of taxation out of a sum of (erred. With regard to reducti o n of th e d u ty on sugar, ! 70(1,0001., of which se me 2110,000/. or 300,000/. must be re which is one of its requests, in proportion to the fall in the ! gir d e d as uncer t a i n . I f we propose remissions of taxetim duty upon foreign sugar, so as to maintain the differential ' we must be provideq with funds to meet a deficiency, and rate that now exists between them, it is entirely impossibl e 1 th a t clement:l7 rrinciple I am sorry to say it is not wholly for the government to hold out the intellect hope of their useless fur rue W.guin to repeat. We have then leid to con rt commending any such measure. (ffeae, hear.) Wi t h sides., invidic.us as it is, what means were open to us to oh respect to the question of their refining their sugars in bond * tain such funds as would en a b:e us to apply the principle of which is of a differential character, my hon. friend the &er e - • glut 'uondicitil remission ut taxation. the first question I