The Express. — London, England, 1851-06-20 00:00:00

----- IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. _ __ HOUSE OF LORDS.—TsyssDAy, Jo(' 19. The Loa° CMAXCILLOS took seat at fire o'clock. PETITIONS PRE.SENTED. VETERINARY SURGEONS ESEIIFTION BILL. Os the motion of Lord Iluenoar, this bill was read a Mena dam TIM CASE OF JOTEE PERSHAUD. The Had ELLENsouoUoli postponed his notion far dm on Mtheshicarajgasi Jonas Pershasd, an nary eresteaseer is Das, =IR THE CAPE OF oo — ol - ThoPE. Lod STANLEY gars orifice that on Thursday next he AMU will the attention of their lorlahips to papers which, lad been laid oa the table by . her Majesty's comosaad ea the sageet of representative institatoos aver the Caps of Good ope. REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCES BILL. Os the motion that this bill be re-committed, The LORI) CUANCELLOR. • iota petition front attoracys on the Ward of this ' Lord BROUGHAM wished to avail himself of that op portunity of stating that if any o ne wanted to know the nature of the bill, they would find it briefly and lucidly mated in • pamphlet which hadrecently been published by Mr. HAMM, • good distinguiihed member of the English bar. Lord CAMPBELL wished to bear testimony to the ex cellence, pavictsity, and ability of Mr. Harlitt's pamphlet, which fay met all the objecuoas to the bill. The noble sad learned had then stated the nature of some amend ments whisk be had made in the bill. Lord LYNDHURST woe satisfied with the explanation cif the anesaments by the noble and learned lord, His camearreate would depend oa the terms in which the *IBM were drawn op. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE made some observations which were quite ioanilitile in the gallery. The bill then went through committee pro furoki ; to be reported on Monday. ANNE'S f OP ABSCONDING DEBTORS BILL. On the 'notion of the Earl of nAtkOW/IT, this bill west through committee, with amendments. A liteldUfly convenation took place upon the subject of allowing counsel to be heard on the Capitate'. Estates Bill, ma it war determined to adjourn the consideration of the grwatioa to Mondry nest. Their lardehipe Witnessed at a quarter after aim o'clock, to Manday asst. NOOSE OF COMMONS.—TitcsbatT, JUNE 19. The Stsaisa took the chair at a inarter-past 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. TIMID RE tol:lo.—Cam Yneiiatiunglo. 2) BilL a1ti.0241.0 ULALuto.--eubitt's Estate ill. PUBLIC b SIN ESs. TRESTILENT OF P STEAMAUPERS ON BOARD CORY ER. Colonel CRATTERION, pursuant to notice, Naked the Secretary of State fur the lime Department, if he bad re ceived any communication trom the Poor Law Cammie• "loam respecting the inquiry he promised be would direct them to make a. regard. the treatment of certain paupers conveyed by .4cent-1 - tweet from London to Cork ; and, en receipt thereof, whether lie would have any objection to lay it on the tattle or the house. Sir G. Gltk:Y, in reply, said he had forwarded Make Bearnish's correspondence to the Poor Law Comminioners; but the information vras so vague and undelited , they could not lorm any inquiry upon it ; but he had written for more information with u slew to further inquiry. SMI'IIIFIELD MARKET REMOVAL BILL. On the motion that the house go into committee on this bill, bir J. DUKE objected to the schedule of tolls. Ile wished it to be refe.rred hack to the select committee. Sir U. GREY thought that this question would be more properly raised in committee of the whole house. bit J. DCKE would then move that the Speaker leave the chair that day six months. This schedule had only been approved of in committee by a casting veto ; and this being practically a negative, the government were not jus tified in proceeding with the bill. 'the City of London hail had no proper import yof offering evieleue, against the bill in the select committee: and thin alone would be a good num fur the house not going on with the measure. All that wan neeeesery to protect the public was, that cattle should nut pm. throu..lli the striate within certain hour-. Mr. HUME was astonished at the attempt of the govern ment to increase the rates. In fairness the-e rates ought to be referred hack to the committee. It appeared that they had only been agreed to by a casting vote in the committee. Ile hoped his hem. friend (Sir J. Duke) would withdraw his umeneliaeut that the Speaker shuuld leave the chair, and propose NI amendment retorting the bill hack to the com mittee to re-consider the new amendments. lie thought that the nos( nunent ought to be candid as to the site se lected fur the new market. Sir 0. oREY—There was no private interest whatever affected by the toll. ; and a committee of the whole house was ut any rate the proper tribunal to deal with them. As to the site for the market, he hail already stated that no selec tion had yet been made suit that no steps would he taken for this rUfpfrit until the house had come to a decision on the Lill. Ile hoped his hen. friend would not prews his amendment. Mr. rsTAF FORM CrllltiderNl that the queetion of the toll, was the whole questiim. It was not merely a ques. Lion between the city and the government ; it was a ques tion for the farmers, the salesmen, the butchers, uud in deed for the whole metropolis. The house, it was true, had alri ally affirm, el the principle of the bill. But the principle of ale bit had molting to do with these tolls. Mr. G. LEWIS thought that all these questions would he more fitly discuseel when the house had gone into committee. The commission• rs would not he:paiel ;and that, upon careful estiniat, of the toll,, the government found that they would Out be under the necessity of asking 50 grant of public money for the new market. In the new ache:elide there WAY no increase whatever. But, ID he had no wish to pri,s it, lie could have no objection, if strong opposition were offered, to withdraw it and bring it up again on the report. After a few words from Mr. G. Ilsoreog, Mr. CIIILISTUI'IIEIt urged the house to go at once into committee. Mr. W. WILLIAMS complained that all the objections which had ehanieterisoil the former kill were to be found in the present meaaure. The house ought to know where the site of the new market was to he fixed, and who were to be the eummiesitiners. Ile wished to hear else bow the expeuve of the market was to be paid, and what that ex pense would be. Mr. FREW EN said that this question of the site of the market wan which deeply concerned both the inha bitants of the southern side of Loudon aud the agricul turists of the southern countita. lie should oppose the bill. Mr. W. r.trrEN said that, as cliairmau of the com mittee of selection, he was of course deeply iuterestod fa any question teLitino to the formation of the committ“ ow the bill. That couunittet had been appointed to secure a complete inquiry into the merits of the ease, and into exist ing rights and interests. The committee of selection bad taken two member' who hail each expressed themselves strongly on the opposite side of the question ; judging that those two hon. gentlemeu would fairly represent both aides. The other five were impartial, and the committee of selection deemed; themselves fortunate in securing the valuable services of his hen. friend the member for Liverpool, and neither that hon. gentleman nor the other five member* were interested in taking anything from the corporatiou. It was most unfair not to support the com mittee, but it would be worse to reverie their decision. Ile felt warranted, as chairman of the committee of selection, in asking the house to allow the bill to go into committee. It would he twist unfair to atop the measure at this stage. M. RICE should vote against this bill, as being very in convenient to the county he represented. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY ...ad that if the government were going to persevere in a bill of pains and penal ties against the first city of the empire,they were bound to show good reasons for it. Also if he hill had a tendency to dininsish local trade and inmate local bur dens, the government were bound to hear tiosrpoinents on that side of the question. The gormand wen Interfer ing with the eorporatMei of London `the unmsestent of the a iut-ntal atfairs.sad the inference woe thst ern meat cenisiderrel the skims incompshmt mertand their own interests, awl menage their mu alhirs. The • wen shahs antralimilem k everything ; Whan em esedraffeed the laws sad the peke, and now they were sok iMeA.Lwith lead government. He shoats ellhe lie mot Otoomoot oppoollia to this bill. Aker • Mods lbout NE. Busimitatokat, Mr. WAITIZMAIII sit do w ono tithe when for the City Of Liodoi he Illtitommt to voloopiott this bill, width he otoidoroil tom an kketillehle lerrnce smith vented MOM lakeeks. Tht levee Own Melded, and the numbers wen— T seei Ito committee et no bras awn resolved olved itself into committee. 36-3S 0. Blame I bring proposed, Mg 0. (MEV, in reply to Sir J. Duke, said that no 411•Mmirdoners had been named. Ile hoped that commis sioners would never be appointed, but that the City would take the matter in their own hands. After some discus ion, in which Messrs. Stafford, Card well, W. Williams, Buck, and W. Miles took part. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY moved that the clause be ae e V. 'SMITH said that as ho was favourable to the re moval of Smithfield market he had rotvd for going into committee; but ho would not say it was fair that the in tended sits should be concealed. After a few words from Sir 11. VERNEY and Sir J. Dv et, Sir U. GREY was understood to say that the commis sioners would not be invested with the power to take load. Mr. Alderman StIMMT repeated his intent/on of di against the clean. TWIN! The committee divided oa the question that clause I stand part of the bill— MoseAyee . ClUsee - I mama I & On chum $ 17-37 Mr. A. STABFOlgi i =ed that Mass Ow ISM laded say say father they *soh& know whose tee doe of the uew market waste be. Mr. MACIIIINON tbssiiMt thel It tha badity of she site wars inendsned it wield kid to saes which it WU Vary proper tonvoid. bpsoistbatiosnii Immedlododyesneir. G. C. LEWIS, -sibs_ laths eh% amnia ably I i n sesatis that the Apowesessat were =ebb Is eve any The MB isse as the City tbs power of tak ing up the metier, BA*, obese, and U they 1101:z they would he at Ml to f• oa the Of esteem, of muse, to the annual ,eta Monkey steles. After • few wee from Xr. Buck J. Duke, sad Mr. W. Wail% Ms. N Alderman SIDEY that they would on no accounttake market. The eosporation could 'Lei peat from taking each a step. Tbl einntittce when the house pia fill pods". of the day. He novid, tho igi: at a lead J. RUSSELL mid that oldie* Ile tharraa rr anothe ed r le :M e e! ' ?IVA limy should pea wide the Mr. W. WILLIAMS ressitmended minsber (XL AIL Slimy) sot to dbilatbalmme.: - -- STASIORD joined is the settentietilla don of the has. amber for Lambeth. Nr. Atiseara SIDNEY thought it was quite intern shard to theet,te be there legislatzei for the destruction of sn cairns erelre. without seseig• site. Hem made hisses l[ peesli=edeoquainuat w ib tbs sabre, be on rZlib& that tree wee so site so canesiatt te Awe tbe reakot preent Mat "Cteastste=yuelltelarrig ardtaa.at stir J. DUI* red as seassimet as the dense, to dr glint that ttr its alma be grovel et by par lausint. Sir U. GREY did set see how be eould adept the hon. usember's suggestion. There was no way in tart the as sent ot pertisimat *nig bo given to an ageserast for the purchase of I. The amendment having been withdrawn, clause 3 was aimed to. Clauses 4 and 5 ware dm agreed to. SIMI 41, Oa Sir J. DUKE propose& an amendment, providing that the bye-laws should 100 approved of by the judges. After a few words from Mr. G. C. Lewis, the amendment was naptived, and the clause agreed to, as were also dna.7, 8, and 9. On Muse 10, Or J. DUKE proposed, after' the word " opened," in plee 4, line 49, to knee out the reasainder of the clause. The object of the amendment was to provide that, while the public might enjoy the advantages of as many new markide as might be erected, the ancient market should not it up. D. C. LEWIS said the adoption of the amendment entirely defeat the purpose of the bill. Alderman SIDNEY mid that if his hon. friend (Sir B Duke) did not divide the committee on the question reteuuon of Smithfield market he intended to pro hat in page 5, beginning at the words " no new =f ees, the remainder of the clause bo left out, the object of the amendment being to admit of the erection of new mar kets where they were thought desirable. The CHAIRMAN asked if Sir James Duke withdrew his arsendrneut Sir J. DUKE said he intended to take the sense of the house on it. After some discussion, the committee divided. The num bers were, For the amendment 2l Against it Mr. Alderman SIDNEY then moved to leave out th rest of the clause from the word "markets," in the fifth line; the effect of the amendment being to allow other markets to be held. The committee divided: For the amendment. 2O Against it 47-27 Mr. A. STAFFORD said there were good sites at the south side of the river not two miles from St. Paul's, and he wished to know what objection there was to putting in the figure 3 or 5, instead of the figure 7. Mr. CARDWELL said his answer was that they had copied the words of the original charter. Whatever might he said now, he was confident that eventually the City would take the management of the market, and they did not wish to deprive the City of its privileges. Atter a few words from Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. C. Lewis, anti Mr. W. Williams, Mr. A. STAFFORD moved that the figure " 3 " be in serted in the clause instead of " 7." After a few words from Captain PECHELL, Sir J. DUKE must my the City of London had not been fairly treated in this question. Notwithstanding the pub lic declaration he made in that house, they were made to appear as if they wished to interfere with the inhabitants ou the youth side of the river, by striving to preserve a monopoly. What he complained of was, that the govern ment wished the public to believe that the City of London was wishful to preserve the distance. Mr. MACKINNON remarked that, if they got rid of Smithfield-market, they must get a better ; and it was on that around that they ought to establish one market. The committee then divided; For the amendment Against it 46-28 The clause was then agreed to. Clauses 11 to El were teemed to without observations. On clause 16, Sir J. DUKE observed that, in the event of the City un dertaking the management of the market, there ought to be • provision that the tells should be paid into the treasury of the City of London. Mr. C. LEWIS said there were various modifications that might be made in the bill if the government could receive • positive assurance that the City would undertake the management of the market. Mr. CARDW ELL said they could introduce words to the etl et suggests it by the hon. baronet in the 38th clause. Clauses 16 to 2.5 were then agreed to. On Clause 26, which incorporated the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act into this Art, Mr. W. WILLIAMS said the amounts ought to be audited, whether the City was to receive the tolls or the Mr. CARDWELL observed that if the City provided a now market and found the money they would be in pre cisely the Santo position with regard to it as they stood in now. They did not propose to send the accounts to Somer set-house to be audited, if, instead of its being public money, it was corporate money. The clause was agreed to, as were also the remaining clauses up to 37. On clause 38, Sir G. GREY said, on the consideration of the report, he would wove an unterolment to this clause. ...The remaining clauses were then peed to, and it was agreed that the schedule should be printed with the bill, on the understanding that alttrutions might be made in it on the bringing up of the report. The Chairman then reported progress, and The house, at ten minutia to four o'clock, adjourned until an. The house resumed at six o'clock. SMITHFIELD MARKET REMOVAL BILL. Mr. BERNAL brought up the report on this bill. SELECT COMMITTEES. Mr. EWART postponed his motion for the reduction of select committees to seven members to a future day. MILLING INTERESTS.—IRELAND. Lord NAAS postponed his motion in reference to the Irish milling interests to Tuesday, July 13. BORNEO. Mr. lIUME gave notice that on Thureday, July 16, he would bring forward his motion in reference to Borneo, which had been postponed a few nights since. TRANSPORTATION. Mr. AN STEP begged to postpone to the 15th July the moti n which had been set down for Monday next, in re ference to the subject of transportation. ACCIDENTS BY STEAM-VESSELS AND "gel iWrvi.j ........ .....,.. Lord NAAS said that as several of the late accidents to travellers and workmen had been manifestly caused byne- Blest and carelessness, he wished to ask the Hight Hon. President of the Board of Trade whether it was the inten• tion of the government to propose any measure during the present session for the more efficient protection of persons travelling by steam-remelt or railways, or of those employed in working steam machinery ? Mr. LABOUCILERE said the question put by the noble lord related to three different subjects. The noble lord inquired if it was the intention of ministers to introduce any measure fir the purpose of affording protection and security with reference to steam-vessels and steam machi nery employed in factories, as also in reference to railways. Now, with regard to steam-vessels, it was his (Mr. Labou ebere'id opinion that the law was in a very defective state. In consequence he had introduced a bill, which had been read a veered time, and which, he hoped, would receive the sanction of that house, as thereby the law would be placed in a more efficient state us regarded steam ma ehinery on hoard vessels. With regard to the se ' einul..part of the question, the machinery employed in fecieries, be was not prepared to introduce in the present session any measure conferring on the government more power a the supervision of machinery used in factories than they at present possessed, However, the matter would receive his consideration ' • but for the present be wee not prepared to go further. I,ostly, as to whether it was the intention of the government, in any way, to take into their hands increased power of supervision with a view to pro tecting the public against railway aWdmiM he wad assure the noble lord that the subject hadaesiad Ms cwt anxious and 'titmice consideration. He ha sow to the opeetasion that any meanly of t. = 4 =isa or opplkation that might be lot the of directors would be isionded wish srica lea inn As regarded security*, possia= be hod essidolly con . - sidered the various that had' , bee made ; but ho i1Zr . 44 6411 4 rogiCra ti t u sh poen] I sad unieenal appidalisa asoserer. Thorabre, be should 1 =to giving my dapansoll of the parairat that 1 they swahl ass exercise propady, but whhh the ! dbostarosooM, aw e „ I. tho supseisse of the deals c ' t =' , r .. 46„„ I . i after on, as soeurity of the public : de is the pasta mita, he was not prepaid to inta re kes a bill to karma Oho lowa otiovern Sir D. NORRIFF meat ks this osal_ S to ihr b thris aillitt. sell the othation of the i eight hon. gentlialma to report la* ads by Captain Leans on the salkiest of railway assidento end wished to ' know if prostalissof the directing her , in ease of apsidint, =Win* b e resorted to t . I Mr. LABO R moiled dal the tam *which that referred hod bola nods the, of a soraner's in • ' awl a sadist of astommd against ' Therohae 14 opal lairamasi that after esmh the mossooma should holitals a prose r issoldis osila. Me hsliwad tam lagohas mat atioadsdi with area br a Win atasitha to ths ossiewsks, and the dilate to ardspt seam uss to pre tine rsonsasse of Meadaasoisna WOODS AMR - FORESTS. Lord DVNOAW vial& to knew hen this nab led the Chief Otwasolesicaor of Wads and Forests, if it were his intention to fix ea early day lee the diesusina of that outs- tie* ? Lord SEYMOUR replied that on Friday the bill would be read pro, orma and that on the Tuesday following they would take the dis cussion. CROWN PROPERTY. 14. t. HMIS said it was his intention to take the opinion be she Mr. Of the. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY E' '' io .4 (ts, JUNE 20, 1851. • 77 4 27* - ;=.l7.:.7llltiViitit iii: - . , a 34" ,11 -- .imn, AVON': ' ' Kr. Htoolll ol while to knew toes the a • hem taN third/ M St the Adegkelty,f her 'a .11,,es hod Lead 1111411hlesd the Mead ((Ji lf of Mayo ; iota, if so, the laden and Olin enninc es which she was engaged ea that oneeigui Mit Y. T. PARDIO was understood to repi rou tLeg or tt WO WO are &the asession wee done in His seguiththe eta large number of the inhabiting. eIfE S ine • TY - lir. HEYWOOD 178 rose to s i ntunit T ge Lion, - 4 -7 -- 111; b=i ti e e nteS e isima s° o2 7 l , rly, idr T ut hr the home do e wstsslsr :rily impend either by the authority of the croomerl, l parliament, at a <ll,Mad6°@ for any civil lia = Sin the universities and colleges of emi Dublin." It should be known to that the foundations of the ager skin of tbr ill ± la were of very great ent s ire*. In the time of VIII. several colleges were ethr I bushed as noel • schools, and the fellows were obliged is take ea meth dra theywould make theology the ensf elf =strinc. REM Parke and other eminent mew in were obliged to take this oath. This , WNW tie gaths which he proposed to abolish. In the r im thee of Mary it was the theology of the holy Roman eine& that was to be the end of their study. deem was retained in the reign of Elisabeth, bat enelthet ion was prefixed declaring the sufficirie, of the So things went on till the time of hing Jams, l ier n=relgn the statutes first assumed a settled firma. Ia I his as it was that subscription to the three articles of the Nth moo of the church of England was required. Tai . 1 the Mimes articles set forth the supremacy of the gem 1 raw g mos&bilief in the liturgy ; and the third, belief hi So Arilithe. Subscription to these three 106. tithe wee nquieel at oath universities, but they were intro- the& with a Maw other to the clergy than to the laity. The =V shale farmed only one-third of those who e tt ientweeilly, and those, at least, who were not divinity stalls Whole be ezeopted fromobscribing to any such taste. Ilehenelpies to the Thirty-ale• Articles seemed to Inn to be sae M the most extraordino, teen that could be devil& kr arq ens entering a college. m p.) It was tonna that the shodents should wear Re had slipVisbet he that rlosegist rt w sto o wished ula be hilt te= l : r whether they wail di se ar no (Hear, beim) Masher canon required the simisistration of tho semenial gm times a year, and there was a due of 4d. on Use. gige_ild not attend. In Trinity College, Cambridge, it was U. 'Meth effect of retaining these old laws was to give a enthelb complexion to the universities, and to ensounlia= church discipline. In Oxford it was required Wes that persons should be instructed in the Thirty-alas Aellike as • part of the " rudiments of religion." Now it might boon, proper to call the Greek Testament and Paley's Evidensas " the rudiments of religion," but the Thirty-nine Articles appeared to him to be rather the results of theory, than' the rudiment; of religion. With es much pro prieW might the Athanasian Creed be called the rudiments °IMO"' se the Thirty-nine Articles. As these elaborate teas wens ser quired, he di I not think the interests of the established church would bo properly promoted. It was because he thought that the interests of the church of England would be promoted—because it would remove a sense of injustice from the dissenters—because it would increase the benefits to be derived from the universities by making them what they were intended to be, great educational institutions— , that he proposed this motion. Mr. ht ART seconded the motion, which he did with great revive' for the university at which he was edu cated, andwith great regret that he did not profit more by the instruction which was there given. So far from its toeing prejudicial to the universities to abolish these testa, he thought it would greatly benefit them. (Hear, hear.) If they were national untitutions they should adapt them selves to the condition of society in the nation. When these institutions were founded, the people of this many were Roman catholic, and at that time tests could be Me har. It was stated that in the 13th century, no fewer than 30,000 students attended the universities. But now, in consequence of the happy freedom of opinion which pre vailed in our times, there were persons of all religious de nominationg, and tests operated as an exclusion. What he wanted was, that they should be mode really national insti tutions. These tests did not serve the cause of education, religion, morality, or the universities themselves, and therefore he seconded the motion of his hon. friend with great pleasure. (Hear.) The question having been put, Mr. CAMPBELL, after some remarks upon the abstract question of religious tests, observed that, wiless some great emergency arose, reform in this matter would be more hap pily and more harmoniously effected by the internal agency of the universities themselves. Lord J. RUSSELL said as the house was about to pro ceed to a division he would state very shortly what was the view he took of the motion. Ili, bon. friend had moved' that the house should resolve itself into a committee of the whole house, sod the object of the propnaal was " to con sider the religious tests imposed as a qualification for any civil corporate privilege in the universities and colleges of Oxford, Cambridge, and Dublin." Now it was a good man) years since any question of this kind had beau raised in that house. He remembered, however, that at MN Has it occasioned a great deal of interest there, more Pledra• lark because many of the most distinguished mono= it the University of Cambridge, amongst whom was hie noble friend Lord Mooteagle, thought that fnen ther advantages should be given to the dissenters Ia that University. On one occasion a late friend of his (Mr. G. W. Wood) proposed to introduce a bill by which persons dissenting from the established church, whether protestant dissenters or Roman catholics, should obtain the right of admission to the Universides of Oxford and Cambridge, and be admitted to a degree, if otherwise qualified fur one, always excepting a theological degree, without taking any religious test. He (Led J. Russell) supported that bill, believing that it was founded on right principles, and that it only gave di .seaters the proper dis tinction and reward of study. The bill was also supported strongly, and in every able speech, by the present Lord Stan ley ; and a distinction was drawn by that noble lord between that bill and a measure which some were inclined to support, to which he (Lord J. Russell) wished to direct the attention of the house, because he thought it bore on the present motion. The noble lord said:— " I must fairly say, that whilst I am ready to admit the dissenters to the full benefit of a university education —to the full benefit of the civil privileges which might attend and accompany the attainment of a university degree—l would sedulously guard those institutions from the adonis. lion of dissenters as part of the governing body of the uni versity. Ido hold (continued the right hon. gentleman) that them is between these two as broad a line of distinc tion in principle as it is possible for the imagination to ma. ceive. Further, it is a line we see drown in the actual practice of two of the universities. Trinity Dub lin, is indiscriminately open to protestants and as far ria regards the distinction conferred by degrees, but net as regards the government of that institution, which is la the hands of protestants alone. In Cambridge, again, although we are told, that, if dissenters were admitted to the universities, there would be an end of all discipline, of all religious instruction, do we find that the admission of dissenters to study in that university produces any of the bad effects which it is said would result from their admis sion ? Do the _y not go through the whole of the under graduates' studies as a matter of course ? Do they refuse te conform to the discipline, or to shrink from compliance with the rules and regulations of the respective colleges into which they are admitted ? Not at all; but at the very moment when, es my right hon. friesd observed, the honours of a degree appear waiting to mown his exertion, and send him with distinction in an honourable profession into the world—at that very moment the university inter poses, and rays, ' You must sign the Thirty-nine Articles, or go without the reward you have so well deserved.' There is no objection raised on the score of the religious insane tion of the university not having bees received ; and, therefore. the plain and simple question for the house to consider Is, whether you will require this taut to be taken immediately before receiving the de gree, or having received it, on the party pm seating himself as a candidate for university honours.' Now, he Lord J. Rumall) thought it was well stated by Lord StasNy as that gesegion, that there was the greatest distinction 6atwean wilatiabsg persons who dissented from the chnreh, nee only to 'lady at the university, not only to obtain ail the rle which they could derive from the library and the prelberm bat afterwards to obtain a as sess as the owned 0 proideno—theo sees, be said, the of ret &thrift between sash en &Weise es that, and pernMeg drentres boom pert of the gnat:ft body of the inethes,, by Se resolving the bllownip tor - time ' whiek beleaged to then. Cosmidering how wry season there were in this country whq though they dimemeed ion the established church, might obtain these hone/am and would and them of great use in after-life, he thotaght such a ought to be coothappeared, ed. It far In stanedvarr, lam • me that the author of " The Credi- bilit at tbe Gospel " Dr. Lardner, could not receive the n of • slegrei at the University of Oxford or Cambridge. But tint was a very different thins from id persons who we. awed to the char* in their religtoesbelief, or in doff vierre of church , assent, as Pea re the Mends, body din university. This last on noise wear, he laws& intosiaso esatasisa Lis the die , alpine it the animosity.. Rs odd net soesehe bow por no who dills& oath sada coupe& hemicesisoly is gaming anther es onset of wan, sat. gadder whkh were goesonal se diewast the gaiveritice db .rw, Y 1 was afraid themetha beano the be.. oat to the latter I paint. It cosily reallagpor m hose the weds, and he u n dressed It to go is that anent hum the "soh of the boa. gageassars. Guaeding blaandf, therefore, by saying that le sash a bill so was themerly ineduswil by Mr. Weed a& supported I,Lord Story be field eve hh geraial soport, he not therm that he emil net gin his anon le the meths beige the bee& wad sea if be could give lis amid men to kbe ea net id& the time re =,..eanneint lor intranscbg ig—Osear, hear= geoid nee la a party to the bringing of it M the rAI e_!_t_a sNles t. Mr. METWOOD ezpiained. Mr. MILNER GIBSON contended that dissenters ought met to be deprived of any twister which the menthes of the church wore entitled to enjoy. The hon. member was proceeding, when Ai Hog. Marmot moved that the house he toasted ; andl Whin strangers had withdrawn it was found that there were only 38 members present. no house accordingly adjourned at twenty minuted tot eight o'clock. GRu.viricu ELECTION.—Mr. Alderman Salomons has been personally canvassing the electors in Greenwich, and the friends of both pelmet are beginning fe bestir them. selves in must. • :t ••• ` V/ I.L , she _ eyortlSO• 4. The right of the bishops to subject their subordinates is a special exami nation, and to punish them according to ha canon law. 6. Tele abolition of the examination prescribed by the state for'seminarists. 6. The abolition of the right of sanction of the govern ment in filling up vacant cures. T. The abolition in the exercise of the ecclesiastical penal jurisdiction of the right of appeal to the secular tribunals. This *hall extend from the simple remonstrance to the re , mond from office and the loss of emolument. Every at tempt to appeal in these matters to the secular authority shall be looked upon as an act of disobedience to the legal authority of the church, and shall be punished by excommu nicatio laattsee sententia. 8. The establishment of seminaries for yo aBl boys. 9. Episcopal sanction for the nomination of masters for religious education in the colleges and universities. 10. Abolition of the right of placct of the Secular autho rity as regards the 7.u'etication of papal bulls, of briefs, and pastoral letters of the bishops to the members of the clergy. 11. Permission for the bishops to preach to the people in public, and to hold exercises for the instruction of TO CORRESPONDENTS. I &lend laths et " The Express," coati...dm ,aa mai ' new. toads; le published STK/ Tender and Pride/ night. In thee ON poet. gs in ar wrontended hr" The Emmen" LOWS &SO* MST. glad he at the Odle% 90aleliFillIPK, by Two 'Moak ow dr y at poblisados. MOH WATIN AT LONDON BRIDON Tffn th. lbs. Afterioce, be. ifr Taxossor—Morning. 6i.55m Attenitosi Th. 17m, LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 20. "HAPPY is the nation," Says the Fretiais historian, " whose annals are vacant." In the olden time, chro nicles were, substantially, little more than catalogues of remarkable misfortunes. A singularly abundant harvest was either not noted at all, or disposed of in a sentence. Seasons of scarcity were topics of eloquent lament; but of those of abundance nothing seemed to be predicable. We are passing from this melodramatic tone of national thought by degrees. Great facts are recognised as such, and their teaching is listened to, although they do not make their appearance sword in hand; and events are beginning to be placed in the first class of national interest and importance, though unsullied with the dust of ruined cities and unstained with human blood. We arc still too prone, however, to overlook the gradual and the peaceful, and to be fascinated with I the more startling and transitory, though generally far less consequential circumstances that are around us. Our very language betrays the love of exceptional and personal matters above those that affect whole classes of society, or even entire communities, for the better or the worse, silently but seriously. Not to instance the royal family affairs that arc continually dignified with the high sounding name of " revolutions," the tidings being brought "by express," and announced in sentences of gasping brevity ; and the Significance of which, past, present, or to come, is probably limited to the grief of some score of ruined flunkies, who henceforth must work for their bread; we are apt to apply such terms as crisis, for example, to the sudden break-up of a cabinet, or' • the sudden break-down of some great commercial combination. The idea that a crisis may come and go gradually, and without disruption or catastrophe, we hardly realise. Yet, that it may do so is certain, as a recent instance may suffice to show. For several months the state of the cotton trade has been one calculated to cause apprehension and anxiety. A succession of deficient crops had ren dered the supply of the raw material scarce beyond any example; and the accounts of the produce of last year's yield tended still further to aggravate the evil. The consequence was that, during the winter, the price of cotton wool rose both in Liverpool and New York, until at length it exceeded rid. per lb., or nearly double the ordinary value. Speculation had, of course, no inconsiderable share in bringing about this result. But the practical dangers atten dant upon it, were not on that account the less for midable. Beyond a given point, it is certain that those who convert the raw material into yarn cannot continue to work their costly machinery with profit. That point once passed, it was obvious to all who understood the subject that the owners of spinning mills must be working at an absolute loss. How long they could hold on in this course rather than stop their steam engines and disband their " regiments of industry," was a question nobody liked to ask himself or his neighbour. From week to week the price continued undiminished, and from day to day the employers with signal prudence and courage con• tinucd on the one hand to keep their mills open, and on the other to purchase just enough to feed them withal. A different course in either direction would have been disastrous in the extreme. Had any con siderable section of the manufacturers, yielding to the apprehension of a still further rise in price, com menmd laying iu stocks even for a month's consump tion in advance, the effect would have inevitably been to ensure the enhancement of market value from the fear of which it had sprung. And had the employ - era lost heart and prematurely given up the struggle, an amount of loss and misery must have ensued which it is difficult to estimate adequately. By abstaining from even the most legitimate specu lation, and at the same time persevering in the work of production without immediate profit, the employ ing capitalists of Lancashire have not only averted infinite mischief from-society at large, but as it now appears, have secured themselves against any loss beyond the minimum that was possible under the circumstances of the case. In the month of April the American market began visibly to " give way." More accurate estimates of the produce of last year's crop became daily better authenticated. In the course of a few weeks a fall unparalleled for its extent and rapidity occurred. From eightpence the price of cotton wool declined until it reached fivepeucc. As it fell the manufacturers were content to derive the partial benefit rather than grasp at ulterior gain. No check was consequently given to the downward tendency. The benefit of returning abundance in this prime necessary of industrial life was thus diffused, by degrees, amongst all classes connected with this department of trade. There was no drawback, no revulsion, no collapse. A crisis of extreme peril has passed over, not only with safety, but with credit and with honour to those whose fortitude was most keenly tried. But the cardinal fact remains to be noted. Had the enhanced price of raw cotton, re-acting on the price of the manufactured article, caused a serious diminution of consumption, the great experiment to which we have alluded could not by possibility have been attempted for as many weeks as it was carried on successfully for months. Had stocks accumulated as well as cost more in their production, the loss would have been wholly insupportable by the manufacturing capitalist, and he must have ceased to weave and spin. But far from this being the case —tluinks to free trade—the exports of all descrip tions of cotton goods during the spring of the pre sent year not only equalled but exceeded those of 1850. The quantities in the two periods are stated in the returns of the Board of Trade to have been during the first four months of pirate. 12. Permission to collect men and women for prayer, for contemplation, and for self-denial. 13. The reinstatement of the bishops in the entire enjoy ment of their ancient penal jurisdiction as against such of the members of the church as shall manifest contempt for ecclesiastical ordinances. 14. Free communication between the bishops and Rome. 15. No interference of the secular power in questions of filling up the appointment to the chapter of canons. 16. Independent administration of the property of the church and of foundations. 17. Solemn protest against the separation Of church and school. If one wants to see to what length Roman catholic pretensions go, even in old constitutional countries, the constitutions of which are directly averse to their pretensions, we have but to read those worthy brethren of Bishop WisEmsx, who, like him, the agents of Austrian re-action, proceed openly to the annihilation in protestant countries of those guaran tees which were the consequence of the Treaty of Westphalia. If the Protestant princes of Germany were not the most pusillanimous of wretches, unworthy descendants of those who bore their name and authority in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and who knew how to hold firm by a principle and fight for it, instead of making professions and sneaking out of them, such an insolent series of demands as those made by the prelates of south-western Germany would be strenuously answered. The demands of those prelates are no less, than that a constitutional state shall abrogate all constitutional rights, make the catholic clergy permanently independent alike of the school, the government, and the courts of law, constituting an imperiton in imperio, a band of Roman catholic and Austrian subjects in the midst of the oldest and most protestant states of Germany. Their demands go to no less length than to demand that the nineteenth century shall re trogade to the fourteenth. And this demand, with the influence that upholds it, is precisely the same which has excited such agitation amongst us, which has insulted the throne, and which finds amongst English traitors to the reformation most remarkable applause and abettal. PETTY legislation is generally mischievous; and above, all petty legislation on a large subject is to be deprecated. For small matters, on which there is no precise or positive law, it is far better to let persons interested make their own agreements, or trust, iu the absence of special agreement, to the ordinary prevalence of common sense, than to enact peddling remedies, which, in nine cases out of ten, lead to more practical inconveniences than would arise from the nun-existence of a remedy ; and in legislating on small portions of a great question, which demands, and sooner or later will receive comprehensive treatment, it commonly happens either that the evil is aggravated and ultimate amelioration rendered more difficult, or, " something " having been dour, public attention is for a time diverted from the eta itself. Besides, not unfrequently even in the amending of a law confessedly defective some job is perpetrated, or the selfish purpose of some grasp ing and dominant interest served at the expense of the general welfare. Of the class of petty legislation where no legisla tion at all is needed, we have abundant examples every session; and of the second class, where petty enactments aro made about some small details of a great grievance, we lave but too many and too fre quent instances. Of this sort was the Landlord and Tenant Bill, introduced by Mr. MeLLINGs, which was considered in committee at the morning sitting of the House of Commons on Wednesday. No ono can doubt that the relation of landlord and tenant in regard to land and for agricultural pur poses, is most unsatisfactory. That is admitted by nearly every lawyer and land-agent in the king dom ; it forms the ordinary topic of complaint amongst farmers, is the theme of the market table, aid peeps out at agricultural meetings, even in the presence of the landed magnates who uphold the existing anomalies of the law of landlord and tenant. And even the landowners themselves scarcely regard the present state of the law as satis factory, though they shrink from any fair and ra tional amendment of it, and grasp at every means of exercising increased control over their tenants. True it is, that in grasping at such power they are seeking a shadow at the expense of substance, are retaining legal rights which prevent and impede the applica -11 tion of capital to land in the degree that would natu rally take place, and thereby lose great and direct advantages that would, under a reasonable state of the law, accrue to themselves. But this is no uncom mon characteristic of narrow and selfish legislation. Many attempts have been made of late years to amend the law of landlord and tenant, so as to give increased security to the capital of farmers and induce them to make their investments in husbandry With more confidence than they usually do ; and moat of these attempts have either failed altogether, or have ended in giving to the owners of settled estates some power of partial escape from the fetters of an entail. A committee of the Lords, too, recom mended some alteration in the law of agricultural fixtures. The whole subject is unsettled, probably requires more consideration and discussion, in which the views and wants of farmers shall find place as well as those of their landlords, before anything like useful and comprehensive alterations can be made. In this state of things Mr. MULLINGS brings forward his little remedial measure, which contains a very serious aggravation of an existing evil. A person holding land from an owner who is only tenant for life, has no claim against the next taker of the estate, except a certain right to " emblemeats," that ;is, the right to cut and carry , away yearly crops which may be growing at the death of the tenant for life; and the remedy Mr. Mt LLINGS proposes to give is that the tenant may hold on to the end of his current year, paying a proportionate part of his rent to the new taker of the estate. 1850 1851 442,105,204 yards. 493,911,710 „ while the declared value of the former is stated at 6,598,0991., and of the latter 7,337,9821. So like wise in cotton yarn : the quantities were, in the first four months of 1610 38,900,783 lbs. 1811 42,630,783 ~ of which the declared values arc given at 1,822,6621. and 2,031,2811. respectively. ♦What a commentary this on the mighty change of commercial policy on which we have hardly se yet completely entered! What a refutation of the doc trine of over-production of which wo have heard 10 much. This is merely what in most cases is practically , the arrangement made in such cases, and an act of parliament to render it compulsory is almost supere rogatory. That clause was readily agreed to. The secoad clause, which proposed to give the same sort OUR readers probably remember that Hesse Camel, of right to the executors of the tenant for life him a protestant state of Germany, was, in consequence of self if he should be in the actual occupation of the the struggle of its inhabitants tomaintain their ancient land, was negatived without a division. The sting constitution, handed over to the Austrians to conquer of the measure, however, was in the third section ; and to crush. Ono effect of that conquest we long and this section was probably the real object of the since pointed out; it has been to render the catholic promoters of the bill. That clause enacts that priesthood of that region predominant, and to en- growing crops belonging to a tenant, seised courage them to demand that ascendancy, and those and sold under an execution at the snit immunities, which arc incompatible with any go- of the tenant's creditors, should, so long as vertunent, more especially with protestant, or with they remain on the farm, be liable to be tolerant, or with constitutional government. distrained for rent which may become due to The state of the law in Hesse, as of every civilised the landlord after such seizure and sale. Now, and even semi-free country, subjected ecclesiastics to the law of distress, the power of the landlord to seize the lay courts in criminal and penal matters. The his tenants' goods for rent, and to sell them in monopoly of education was taken from the priest- priority to all other creditors of the tenant, is one of hood, though ,fur anrceilknece was allowed them. the principal obstacles, probably the chief obstacle to Clerical appointments, whether of curates or of the investment of capital in farming, by means of bishops, required the sanction of the government. temporary loans and accommodation, in the same way All these guarantees it is now the effort of the as other trading businesses are carried on. The esthetics of Hesse and Franconia to fling off, under farmer, of all the traders and manufacturers of this the patronage and with the aid of Austria. Lord country, is alone confined to trade with his CowLEY has sent to the government the einem- own unassisted capital, because he can offer stances, and their demands, in a document just pub- no such security to a creditor as other traders lished by order of parliament. They come from the can give—for his whole means may bo swept away Bishops of the two limos, Wiirtemberg, Nassau, by his landlord. The admitted effect of this law is Homburg, Frankfort, all protestant states, and of to induce landowners to accept tenants of inferior Baden, of which a considerable portion is catholic. capital,because, come what will, the landlord's rent, is The Hamm Gazette repeats, i n acco r d ance w ith th e The which has been published under the title of • always safe, and thus a lower standard of means and te 1401 is to be found in the business of ~ The Assembled Bu m been the ecclesiastical province of the lient-BAin to the several governments," the following 'Amery wen ought to A lower order of men, demands prefierred by them :and a more numerous class of tenants, are thus I. The repeal of all religions concessions made since brought into competition for farms, to the detriment March, 1848. 2. The tea nom i nat i on to all ecclesiastical ample of the farmer of skill and c apital, f orc ing up r en t ; and benefices by the se vera l bi s h ops in their respective dio- erzgricultuial distre unduly,nts and being mainly answ erable for the loud out- coal. 3. The limitation of the right s o f patronage. prices are at all depressed. And the landowners of awe always hear when ultimately get lower rents and less secure rents than they would obtain from capitalist farmers under a better state of the law. Landlords as yet seem to regard the law of distress as their palladium. There was a loop-hole, however, in the net-work by which the tenant is enveloped. By the common law, when an execution was levied upon the tenant's goods, the landlord lost his rent, and could not enter to distrain ; but by an act passed in the reign of ANNE, the sheriff before he removes the goods of the tenant taken in execution, must pay to the landlord all arrears due for rent, provided such arrears do not amount to more than one 3 - em's rent. But where the growing crops are taken in execution, and sold before rent becomes due, the landlord cannot distrain the crops so sold for rent accruing due subsequently to the levy. Under that state of the law, a creditor, who had perhaps fur nished the farmer with the means of sowing, ma. nuring, and growing a crop at all, had some little chance of competing with the landlord in obtaining payment of his claim. That Mr. AltamsGs, as the agent of the landocracy, proposes to stop, and the stringency of the law of distress will henceforth be complete. Mr. GRANGER objected to giving the landlord this additional advantage over other credi tors, but on a division the clause was agreed to by a majority of 71 against 41. The fourth clause enabled the tenant to remove fixtures " in the same manner as if the same were fixtures of trade by law and custom removable by the tenant;" and the promoter of the bill himself movtd as an amendment to insert the words, " with the . consent in writing of the landlord," thus rendering the enactment simply nugatory. Of course tho amendment was carried by a groat majority. We have, therefore, in this bill a measure which, under colour of removing a few petty and inconsiderablo parts of a great grievance, renders the relation of landlord and tenant more burthensomo than before, and aggravates the general mischiefs which arise from the dominancy of feudalism in our law of real property. FRANCE. PARIS, Tnrnsnty EVENING. The parliamentary majority is so sensible of this weakness produced by its schisms on dynastic ques tions, seizes,witha ay nnasocidciastyiownhifcohr showing s i f n o g r a its united abhorrence of tho Mountain. A strong mom t e h n a t t li i k t enthusiasm,e epithet from tho mouth of M. Leon Faucher elicik4 yesterday a more signal burst of applause than would have been accorded to the finest eloquence or the most convincing arguments. The word "abominable" drew down the whole majority in a compact mass about the tribune and on the floor of the house to cheer the minister who dared to apply such an uncompromising qualification to tho doctrines of democracy. It must be admitted That the speech of M. Pelletier, like the generality of the set orations of the Mountain, was composed deli berately and read from the tribune clearly with the intention of addressing, not the Assembly, but the people out of doors. After the sitting, a subscription was set on foot by the democratic socialists for print ing the speech and distributing it gratuitously is every part of France. It was not the first time the Minister of the Inte rior had applied the lash to M. Pelletier, whose scheme of cantonal banks and socialist budget he cut up in an article of the Rt . ?' 110 des Doer Mandcs. General Changarnier was noticed among the most strenuous applauders. In the evening a more nume rous assemblage than usual flocked to the minister's reception to congratulate him on his successful hit. The l'ays, whose judicious tone of moderation, under the auspices of M. Lamartine, deserves all praise, administers a dignified rebuke to the Moun tain for turnin ,, the tribune into a means of preach ing sedition to workmen. Such was the violence of the collision yesterday of the opposite sides of the house, that three duels were arranged on the spot. To-dav the debate was renewed upon the Lyons Police and opened by M. Jules Fevre, who, after taking a general view of the evils of an arbitrary system administered by prefects, who were police men, examined the details of the bill, and pointed out the extensive powers given by the law under the consulate, to which reference was made, to define the attributions of protect of police. He then ripped up the old story about the imperialist conspiracy of tho executive power, upon which recently such strong light had been accidentally thrown by the publica tion of the notes of M. earlier ; went over the re views of Satory, and came to tho speech of General Changarnier on the impotence of imperialism and the contradictory meaning of the General ap plause which that speech had - attracted, with the cheers bestowed yesterday upon M. Leon Faucher, who was only an instrument for the completion of the President's designs. He ended by saying that tho executive power not having been able to pick up a diadem in a camp of manteuvrers, it was to be feared that it would seek it in an insurrection, in the blood of which the government would disappear. M. l'aricu defended the 2nd article, which was adopted by 416 against 212. The other articles having been successively adopted, the ensedibie of the bill was passed by 448 votes against 214. The house then passed to the discussion of its own budget. General Castellane says that, if Paris keep quiet, there is no fear of an e , nicrete at Lyons. To-day the committee on revision held a sitting. M. do Mornay declared against revision, upon anti- Bonapartist grounds. M. do Melun trod in tho steps of M. Berrycr in advocating total and legal revision. M. Odilon Barret dwelt particularly on the opportuneness of the measure. The only way of averting an unconstitutional re-election was to pro ceed to alter the constitution. M. Braze took tho same line of argument as M. de Mornay, contending that the cry was only got up by the Bonapartists, and that the constitution was much less unpopular then people supposed. The committee then adjourned until Saturday, when the general discussion was ex pected to close. The report of M. de Vatimesnil on the Municipal Bill has excited the most vehement opposition in tho committee. In one part the reporter eulogises the law of May 31, which ho contributed mainly to mo dify in its application to the municipal elections. Not only the members of the Mountain, but M. Odilon Barrot, expressed their surprise and disapproval of this step. Another portion of the report, praising the municipal liberties granted by the last reign, was equally unfavourably received by the Mountain. M. de Vatimesnil offered to resign his office as reporter , unless his expressions were maintained. The corn ; mittee adjourned its decision. M. do Larcy has been appointed reporter on the part relating to the coun cils of prefecture. The eulogy passed on the law of May by M. do Vatimesnil, who has been mainly instrumental in amending the law in the committee, as applied to municipal elections, is an instance of that vacillating and tortuous policy of the moderate legitimists, of a pieco with the double game played by M. Berryer with regard to the prolongation of the President's powers. :M. Berryer declared the other day, in the committee on revision, that if the republic were maintained he should insist on the maintenance of the 45th article of the constitution. The fact iv, that the moderate legitimists will only support the go vernment heartily upon one line of questions. 1 ho Lyons Police Bill belongs to this category. They will applaud to the echo any minister who faces tho Mountain with spirit, and styles their doctrines abo minable; but the instant the socialists are quiet, the moderate legitimists assail Bonapartism. But nei ther M. Berryer nor M. Vatimesnil has vet said his last word; the conditions of their support have not yet been granted. Yesterday, M. Eugene Forcadc deposited the notes Ot M. Carlier in the hands of the notary, M. Berceon. MM. Felix Solar and Eugene Foroado were ex amined by the Inge d'lnstruction, M. Haton. The commissioners nominated by the Minister of Marine, in 1850, for drawing up a new penal code Ibr the navy, hal; just terminated its labours, Tho code, which counts 386 articles, is to be submitted to the Council of State, and afterwards to the Legisla tive Assembly. The report of M. de Mouchy on the bill ap'plying for supplementary credits for the Bordeaux and Strasbourg railways was distributed yesterday. The sums in question are 14,800,000 fr. for the former, and 1 7,700,000 fr. for the latter ; and they are in tended to enable the state to execute the works which, by the cahier des charges, it is obliged to de fray the expense of in these two linos. Thereport re commends the Assembly to vote the bill. Vion, the murderer of M. Desfontains, the bronze