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2 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAT, JULY 23. BFIA[RI {Oa the chair shortly after 12 o'clock. NEW MEMBER . • Kr. Ci. E. Tovmu. the by M &only-elected member for Scar. beemigh, w u introduced r. T. Baring sad Mr. Fresh- and wok the oaths and his seat. NEW WRIT. Oa the motion of Kr. Monsat.r., a new writ was directed to lone foe the city of Lime rick, in consequence of John the seeeptaiwe of the Chiltern H undreds by Mr. O'Conneu. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The St. Helen's Improvement (No. 3) Bill, and Barton's Beige ball were wverally read a second time. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PBTILIONS PItEBENTBD. • PAPAL Aoukassion.—By Hajar BIikLEBFORD, from Una, against papal aggreinon. BIWISTRATIort OTA/At 1311.L.—8y Mr. SMYTH, born Yurk ; and Hr. HOLLOND, from Hastings, spinal Ibis bill. ATTOANETS . CEIVTIrICATI 1311.1..-11 T Mr. S. BM BERT, from Warminster; Mr. MOVI. AT, from Vert month, in favour of the bill for the repeal of this duty. 1111111 SCIIIITVILAL ELICCATION.—By Mr. NAl'lElt trust 23 parishes in Ireland, praying for public support in aid of the schools in which there is no antecedent restriction in the uic of the Holy Scriptures. CENSUS OF IRELAND. Sir R. FERGUSON moved for a return of abstracts the emus of Ireland in 1811 and 1841, arranged according to counties, and showing the houses, distinguishing Inss babited from uninhabited, and of the latter those built NM those budding, with the total ; the number of Emilie' aid of persons, distinguishing males from females, with tutalat and showing the increase or decrease in the number Of houses and of persons between 1811 and MI, and the de. crease par amt. of each between 1811 and Agreed to. IRISH POST-OFFICE. Mr. ItEYNOLI/S referred to the accounts of the Is. ecipta of the Bich I'm/Vallee, and complained that a per. lion of the emu was charged to the credit of the Englidt Walcott of the Irish oflke, as it amid to he, whereby it was made to appear that the Means of the Irish l'oet-uffice in 101 we. 13, 1 471. short of the expenditure. Mr. C LEWIS said that when the postage on American lettere was collectal is Ireland the winds went to the credit of the Irish revenue ; whets it lad to be collected in the United States no part way carried to the credit of the Irish resttalit: though it was tainted to sae-half. It wee not improbable that 7,0001. or b,9001. a year might be car ried to the credit of Great Britain which properly belonged to Ireland. It was a mere question of amount. AItIfICLES IN THE EXHIBITION. Mr. NEWDEUATE put the following questions:— Wlorthet all the articles imported from abroad, and now exhibited in Hydrepark, have been entered regularly, apecia/ly, or in any manner, at the Custom-house ? Whether an account of these article., giving the descrip tion, quaatities, and official or ammeed value of them, can aow be given Whether arrangernente, and if so, what arrangement, have been made ter taking au account of any of these articles which be told in this country, as dis tinguished frem those which may be re-shipped, so ma to secure the revenue and provide fur the correct entry of all mach articles in the official accounts fur the year ? Ile was credibly informed that articles bad been sold and removed, and that the iatalua ties were su imperfect, that there was great difficulty in identifying the articles. Mr. C. LEWIS said he had communicated with the board of Customs gin rally on this subject, but had nut received any detailed information. The Exhibition build iag hail been treated as a bonded warehouse ; account. had limo taken of all articles eubject to duty, and none could be removed without the sanction of the board of Customs. In some few instances raecW application bad been made to the Treasury for pe to VIIIOTC certain article., including 01 the Americas revolver pistu:s, which had been ts. ken out by the regiment going to the Cape. These arms re ant subjvce to duty, being a contraband article. Run AT GItELNOCK. SADLEIIf, after recounting the circumstances of j u i te:.listurbanee at Greenock, asked 'if the government but ttwxy 'anted the precise nature of the riot, the amount ryl property destroyed, and the number of liven lest ? Mr. UO VEIGE saki the llome-ottico was iu pcesession of very little knowledge on the sobject. Application kg troops had been made by the authorities of Greetiock, said I those had been ordered to be in readiness. Icdtedity an' application from a private individual hie an inquiry lied been made, and the matter was referent to the Lord Ain. caw. Wiwi or dokaal, or to extort mosey or goods, or falsely to alallel sew crime, or to obstruct, prevent, pervert, or detest the emir of public justice • any escape or resew from lawfal easlody on • criminal Aare ; any public and Indolent expose* of the person ; say indecent assault ; any pulblis esdlag or exposing for public sale or to publin view of say cheese book, print, picture, or other indecent exhibition. It Abell be ,lawful for the court le sentence On: atesiderte be imedeesed for say term now warranted by law, sad dm lobe leapt to hard labour during the whole I ce may part of sack term of imprisonment." • • Sir J. PAKINOTON moved that the word " indecent " be 'track out. He thought then( lig& be :assay grave eirenmstancim attending a common assault for Which it was desirable that the court should have the discretion of sub- jeeting the party to imprisonment with hard labour. Mr. WHITKSIDE said that would be giving the judge a power of awarding a punishment beyond what the finding of the jury would warrant. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that there was great force in what had fallen from the hon. and teamed member for Enniskillen, and he should be unwilling to leave a dis cretionary power in all cans of assault. The ban. and learned gentleman concluded by moving, after the word' " indecent," the insertion of the words, Assault whereby serious personal injury is inflicted." Mr. WHITESIDE said there was the danger on the one hand of subjecting en innocent man to a punishment which he did sot dmerve ; and, on the other , of %not ing • guilty man to escape with a less degree of punish ment than he deserved. After some conversation, Sir J. PAK INGTON withdrew his amendment. Mr. GRANDER thought it should be left to the jury to say whether or not an indecent asaault, or an assault involv ing serious bodily harm hail been committed, and proposed words to that effect. Ultimately Mr. GRANGEWS amendment was adopted, and the clause agreed to. Mr. FRESH) , lELD proposed, in the absence and on be half of Mr. S. WOUTLEY, the following clause :—" And for the adequate punishment of persons indecently abusing the persons of young girls, be it enacted that whenever any person shall be tried for an assault on a girl being under the age of twelve years, the defendant shall not be acquitted upua the ground of such girl having consented to such alleged assault, if on such trial it shall appear that such defendant had done any act to such girl which, but for such consent on the part of such girl, would amount in law to an assault; and upon being convicted of any such assault, the defendant shall be liable to be imprisoned, with or without hard labour, in tho common gaol or house of correction for any term nut exceeding three years." The clause was agreed to, and the house resumed. VALUATION (IRELAND) BILL. The remainder of the sitting was occupied in committee on this bill, the first six clauses of which were agreed to with amendments; and after some discussion, during which Mr. M.Cuttanit objected to the manner in which Irish bills were brought forwang by the tovcrnment at late hours of the night. if the right - hos. baronet the Secretary for Ireland hail a privy council of Irish members, whom he consulted on all Irish subjects, the names of those indivi duals should be known in the house, for ho believed that they were not the representatives of the liberal portion of the Irish people. At half-past five, The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and the house resumed. CONSOLIDATED FUND BILL. This bill was read a second time. Other orders were postponed, and the house adjourned at 6 o'clock. The day sitting this day will be in the new House of Contains. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1851. the political troubles of the Continent to bring back a part at least of his old gainful ascendancy. As long as Pio Norco had hopes to make the papal go vernment the head of revolutionised Italy, he was as rank a revolutionist as MAZZINI himself. Battled in ki.,attempte he reconciled himself with the despotic powers—at *hat prix may be infetted front what •ist now 6-iloing, under the protection of Austrian by°. lets,' in proteetant Hesse-Cassel. The aggreesion I . which we are sow engaged in repelling in -England is only part of a great plot against the secular liberties of Europe hatched at Rome. And the legis lative act of the - British parliament, against which a cry of persecution has been attempted to be got up, is merely levelled against this plot so far as England is concerned. The abettors of the Roman court in this country boast that the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill will prove inoperative. Time will show. If it do not answer the ends for which it was passed, other measures will be resorted to. The Roman court has dared free England to a trial of strength, and England will not shrink from the contest. It may fare with the Roman pontiff as it did with the dog who let go his supper to snap at its shadow in the water. The audaciou3 attempt to extend the secular authority of the POPE over England may end in his being stripped of his temporal sovereignty in Italy. IN his speech on Lord REDESDALE'S motion Bishop WILBERFORCE said there was no faith in the divine mission of the church. . This is a solemn appeal to the great idea of the Christian church; that idea which is peculiar to the faith of Christians; the greatest of all earthly ideas. Let us, then, take it up in all sober earnest ness; neither as politicians nor journalists; but as Christian men, acknowledging its truth and cherish ing the duty of its realisation. For that is the mighty consideration ; the elevated motive which Bishop WILBERFORCE has put before us. We thank him for this exercise of his pastoral office; we re spond to his invitation; we will enter into counsel with him as Christians, reverencing the same faith, and intent on doing the same bidding. For what ends, then, was the Christian church instituted? Who so eloquent, so impassioned on this topic as the high church school. The church, say they, exists in this world; but its objects trans cend it. It is the body of Cultist, and is animated by his spirit. CHRIST'S example is therefore its rule; his tone and feeling, his whole mind, its law. It associates men together avowedly as followers of CHRIST, as communing with him now, as seeking to be with him hereafter. These are lofty thoughts; yet they are the daily occupation of the church ; they should be the practi cal sentiment influencing us really . and truly as churchmen. The church aims at raising men above the world; the ends of its institution are always held out as higher than those of the state. That is, men, as Christian churchmen, arc called to a higher life, to nobler and holier feelings, than they are as citizens. The church tells men to set their eyes on heaven to live as those whose treasures arc there. It sum mons them to place their warmest affections there; and then, by holding out brighter prospects than this world can offer, it purifies and elevates the world. The church is an abiding, ever active protest against worldliness, selfishness, and every temper of mind which buries men in earth. Its pattern in the Scriptures exhibits the loftiest self-denial, the most heroic self-sacrifice ; and this ideal, thus pourtrayed and carried out in the days of the founder of the church, has been its vital principle throughout its history ; it has lived and prevailed by virtue of this idea. The bishops are the chief pastors of the church. If any, they are called to set an example of what the church would have men to be. High churchmen extol episcopacy as the greatest of human blessings. Clearly, then, episcopacy , should show itself pre eminently us a leader guiding men to Christian feel ing. The bishops are called the successors of the Apostles. Think of the Apostles and think of them, Alas! is it not fearfully true—so true that it is a pain to all conscientious men to speak of it—that our bishop' s live and act just as the purest men of the world do; but no more. They behave just as pru dent, moderate, sensible men of the world do ; they appreciate the value of worldly advantages as other people do; they care for them as much; they shape their conduct with respect to them precisely in the same way ; when reproached, they answer " there is no law against it." But of examples of self-denial, of living oliore this world, of seeking objects higher than worldly good—where shall we find them amongst our bishops ? Take the Bishop of Lox Dos. We would not speak harshly of him. With man y faults he ha: many excellent qualities. But we a sk, does he not act precisely as any other prudent man of the world does ? Ho has solemnly declared that 10,0001. a year is an ample income for the r of his see : that is, he has avowed that a i r s tl es i g e ° objects the church aims at realising by having a Bishop of Lon don, can be realised by an Income of 10,0001. a year. He acknowledges the annual receipt of more than double that sum. From whom does the surplus come? From the church. Does the bishop restore these funds which he obtains from the church, but which he says arc not wanted for the discharge of the duties which the church requires of him ? No: he pleads that it is private property—that it is • good thing which the church has made him a gift of for his own private use and worldly advantage; he tells you that it is his " by laic." We ask, in sober sadness, how could the spirit of pure worldliness be more plainly manifested? As citizens we do not complain ; what the Bishop of LONDON does is exactly what hundreds of ordinary men do in respect of state property, or of any other good thing which they have been so fortunate as to secure : his conduct is moral ; it violates no rule of society • it is even in conformity with the received doctrine of the House of Com mons. But we say also that it is the very essence of worldly-m indedness; it has the com mon tone of mankind; it is totally wanting in every feature which peculiarly belongs to the Christian church; there is not a trace of a divine mission, of any divinity in it. Would it ho possible to conceive—would it not shock our feelings despe rately to think of any of the Apostles pursuing the same conduct? Can we, by the strongest effort of imagination, picture to ourselves ST. PAUL agreeing to receive from the Christians he taught a certain income to cover the expense of his apostolic journeys, and then, on finding a large surplus remain over, pocketing it for himself and his children? The thing is absolutely inconceivable. Such com parisons as these provoke great anger. We are indignantly remonstrated with for comparing modern bishopswith the holy Apostles. We admit that Christians in these times cannot be expected to come up to the standard of the church's heroic days. But then, we add, that if the principles of the volt toile practice are not to be referred to; nay , if it is not the duty of the church constantly to b rir.g them before the minds of men now ; if conduct is to be excused now which could not be thought of for one moment in a primitive bishop; if the plea that bishops now do as other men do, is to be received as satisfactory; if any example of self-sacrifice, of pure devotion, of superiority to worldly motives, is sot even to be expected, much less talked of in respect of bishops of our day; then, we conclude that, and the conclusion is an awful one, the church has lost its Divine mission ; 1 It has bec ome a purely secular institution ; it is an association of worldly men—respectable, amiable, excellent, worthy, and so on—but destitute entirely of the scripture idea of the Christian church, without the vocation to exalt and purify the world : in short, in the glorious sense of St. Pert., no church at all. This painful and distressing topic is none of our inking; it is forced upon us ; and it were treachery sad cowardice to turn aside from its consideration. It is in these cases where the conduct is respectable, ordinary, uneensured by the tone of society, in harmony with the common dealings of the world; it is in such cases (and the cases of the parliamentary bishops are, of course, more deplorable still than even the one we have quoted), that the divine mission of the church is fairly tested. If the church and its rulers set no example, and proclaim by their own practice no teaching higher than the average standard of the world, then it has no divine mission. This is not, however, an argument against bishops, but an argu ment justifying our reminding them that they are no better, higher, or more Christian, than the world. Yet Christianity is nothing if it be only as the ' , world. For the Bible rings with the elevation of Os church above the world. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENINO, The ministers hese mane up their minds to remain in office foe the present, notwithstanding the defeat en tine motion of ceasare proposed by M. Baze. In `fact it is evident that the meaning of this malevo lent vote was to dash the triumph of the large ma jority on revision with a personal mortification for Lotus Napoleon. It was to show that at least one hundred of the 446 voters for revision were decidedly opposed to the re-election of the President; and the division euabled those hundred to record in a rather spiteful way their protest against being considered revisionists in a Napolconist sense. The reports have fallen which were current in the morning about the intention of the Assembly to in terpellate ministers on the appointment of General Mignon; and to prosecute the Patric for some ar ticles on the recent votes, couched in a disrespectful tone to the Chamber. M. Bane has charged M. Placatory and General Ledo to demand an apology from M. Leon Faucher for accusing him of calumny. To-day the Assembly entered on the first delibe ration relative to the Assembly Bill. M. Emanuel Arego delivered a long speech, of which the main object was to show that the municipal franchises were not the growth of the monarchy, but due to the revolution of 1789. He then criticised the elec toral conditions proposed by the committee, and at tacked the law of May 31. M. de Tinguy defended the law. M. Mathieu de la Drimie then occupied the tribune. The debate was expected to be ad journed. As the first deliberation is usually little more than a formality, the chief speakers reserve their strength for the second reading. A vote of supplies to meet the extraordinary ex penses of the ministry of the interior, was adopted by 481 against 205'. 31.Lcon Faucher has presented a bill for continuing the law of July 30, 1830, on the police of theatres for another year. The inatAll's baton vacant by the death of Gen. Sebastiani is expected to be given to Oudinot. M. de Clermont Tonnerre, a legitimist emissary, with instructions from Frolisdorf, arrived yesterday in Paris. The object of his mission is to reconcile the contending fractions of legitimacy. Conferences opened to-day at the ministry of foreign affairs between delegates of the European powers for the purpose of coining to some under standing on a common code of sanitary laws to be applied to the ports of the Mediterranean. The necessity of reform upon this question has long been apparent, and has reappeared from time to time in a shape asuming a political no less than commercial importance. 1n fact, not many mouths ago a sort of oillieute occurred at Marseilles, from a disagreement between the government and the municipal autho rities on a quarantine question. M. l)uinas, then minister of commerce, thought fit to supersede the sanitary board of that city, because they set their faces against a decree of the govern ment, removing the quarantine on vessels from Malta at a time when the cholera had hardly disap peared from that British colony. The whole town was up in arms at once against the minister, who, to maintain the dignity of the central government, was obliged to supersede the Marseilles board of health for contumacy, and to appoint a government commis sioner to carry the decree into execution. Fortu nately the conciliatory temper of Dr. :Mellor, the gentleman employed upon this mission, succeeded in soothing the susceptibilities of the municipality, and the question was finally compromised between the contending parties. On that occasion M. Dumas headed his decree by a scientific preamble, in which he impugned somewhat superciliously the theory of contagion and infection in cases of cholera as a popular superstition. But so rooted is this belief among the apprehensive peoples of the south, that a scientific minister can no more affront such notions with impunity, than a Calvinist can safely question the miraculous powers of the Madonna among fanatic Romanists. More or less this terror of the great epidemics which scourge from time to time the populations of Europe prevails along the whole Mediterranean coast, and in greater intensity in pro portion to the ignorance and religious fanaticism of :the local race. Thus, of all the sovereigns of the Mediterranean, the King of Naples is the po tentate who most frequently plagues the merchant with his arbitrary impositions of quarantine. Fer dinand no sooner hears a rumour of pimples appear ing among the loaders of hides at Genoa, than like a true Lazzaronc despot he claps on a quarantine of 20 drys on all ur.ivals front Piedmont, thereby inflicting grievous losses upon merchants, and inconveniences of all kinds upon his subjects. The quarantine is also popular at Constantinople, formerly desolated by plague, the cessation of whose terrible visits is set down, with what truth is open to dispute, to the operation of sanitary cordons. These facts are enough to exhibit the urgency of adopting some common system which cannot be capriciously violated without raising an international question. To Dr. Helier belongs, 1 believe, the merit of having suggested the conferences which open to-day. A 13th democratic bulletin has been seized, which speaks of the proximate triumph of the so cialist republic as certain. Notwithstanding the threats of the Mott/tear against papers reproducing such documents, the Petrie prints the manifesto in full. M. Cabet appeared to-day before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, to clear himself of the sentence by def mit pronounced against him for the embezzle ment of Icarian funds. The ntlnir of Lemulier against M. earlier, which has been so often postponed, actually came on at the Palais de Justice today. The speeches of coun sel were very animated. The cause stands ad journed till this day week, when the Avocat-Gene ral will be heard. The Bourse was flat. The Fives closed at 94.95, with a rise of 10c. The Threes rose 10c., and closed at 3.85. The national guard of Chatelhcrault has been dis solved, by a decree of the President of the Republic. It will bC remembered that it was at this place that the President of the Republic was insulted, on the occasion of his visit to Poitiers. Marshal Horace Sebastiani was born November 11, 1771, at Porta, in Corsica, of an ancient family, connected with that of the Bonapartee. Ho entered the army at a very early age, and gained the first steps of his promotion in the Italian campaign. His services on the 18th Brumaire placed him high in the confidence of Napoleon. He was severely wounded at Austerlitz, and was raised to the rank of general of division on the field of battle. In 1805, when the emperor formed the design of excluding the British fleet from the Dardanelles, he selected General Sebastiani as his ambassador to animate and sustain the courage of the Sultan Selim. The gene ral afterwards took part in the campaigns of Spain, Russia, Saxony, and of France in 1814. Lnder the 'restoration, on the vacancy caused by the the death of General Foy, he was elected by the de partment of the Aisne to the Chamber of De puties, where ho sat on the benches of the constitutional opposition. After the revolution of July ho was railed to the ministry of foreign affairs by Louis Philippe, was subsequently ambassador suc cessively at Naples and at London, and was, on the 21st October, 1840, created a marshal of France. A dangerous illness, from the consequences of which he never recovered, compelled him to retire prema turely from the responsible conduct of public affairs. But lie was on terms of private friendship with Louis Philippe, who often had recourse to the counsels of his sagacity and experience ; and perhaps that mo narch, in the bitterness of his exile, may have re proached himself with having turned a deaf ear to ' the frequent representations of Marshal Sebastiani , of the perilous consequences of an over-strained policy. The terrible catastrophe of his daughter's (the Duchess de Prelates) death, cast a dark shade over the latter years of the marshal's life. PArrEa EnrcATlON.—Yesterday, at the meeting of the St. Pancras vestry, Mr. Churchwarden Pearce in the chair, the report of the committee of directors on the schools of the workhouse was brought forward. It recommended =entire change in the system of female education in the house, and stated that the present means adopted are ex tremely defective. The report recommends the appoint most of a competent person to take the entire management of the establishment containing the girls and infant children, duly qualified to educate the children, and to make the elder girls practically useful in the care and superintendence of the infants, and that en assistant mistress to carry out these objects be appointed, and that their respective salaries should be. superintendent mistress, 2.51. per annum; assistant ditto, 201. per annum. The report was ordered to be catered upon the minutes, and the vestry will be specially called for Wednesday next, to take it into consideration. the x#trefig• TO CORRESPONDENTS. I Sewed Edition Of "1 in Express," soetaning be sane eetwing's Gazette," is pe,klbbed every Tutsdily awl Iriday night, la thus toe peel. Ldeettlssaests Intemie4 for " The Espies," London Ereaing paper, east be at the Odle', 10, 80U,a14 , 114C011. by Two o'clock ow the YE it pelt/teatime. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tons Doe—lforniag, 9b. 330 t Afternoon, lon. 24m. To.noasow—lforning,llb. Om Afternoon. ILL 33r. LONDON, THrRSDAY, JULY 24. IT is rather a curios' coincidence that Miss THE SHOE-LANE RIOT. TALBOT was married and the Ecclesiastical Titles Lord 11. C. STUART asked if any steps hail been taken Bill read a second time in the Lords on the same by the government " rug& dim"' riug the policeman day. On the morning of that day the following ad arrein,t whom a verdict id manslaughter had been returned isement occupied a prominent place in the co by the coroner's inquest on the body of John Hogan, killed vert in the recent diaturlmnee in Shoe-lane, and whether any lumns of the daily organ of the Romanist and Roman reward bail been offered by the government ? Wog . priestboods:—" No. 3.i, Golden-square.—This Mr. Boe vEitth "i. l the m"mt-'ffice poesented no evening there will be the usual Tuesday converse knowlidee of the circumstance., as they hod no control zione." It can hardly have been a " merry meeting." over the City police. Nu application for a n;waril had been Such concurrent rcmembraneers of the fact that made, and it was unusual iu such eases for rewards to be riestl Wrens'. py usurpation had been repelled from without IMPROVEMENT OF TOWNS (IRELAND) BILL. and baffled within the church, must have cast a In answer to Mr. Mossaet, gloom over the cartlinalition halls. Sir W. SOMERVILLE said it WA. not in his power to The thoughtless or unworthy Englishmen who, my whether the !minimum -it of Towns (trekked) Bill either from slavish subserviency to their spiritual would be proceeded with. Ile was most anxious to do so. CASE OF MARY ANN HICKS. directors, or from want of a proper sense of what is Col. SIBTHURP gave notice to drew the attention of due to the national dignity, have, in the struggle the "IMO , to the case of Mary Ann Hicks on an early tt against Rome, pa ll iated or abetted the papal en cillittco BUILDINGS ACTS AMENDMENT LH croachmcnts, arc beating about in all directions for ID answer to Mr. S. Banana, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that consolation under their defeat. They affect to be oe• • - of the vnm at to exclude from this lievc, that, with the single exception of Lord JOUR It was ..... ititeiltailt bill the climes that had been objeacil to, to h a ve the bill HussELL, all the cabinet ministers were averse to °untainted pro forma, and then reprinted. The bill with- legislation on the subject. They even find a mel out those clause, promoted a meet desirable object, and was ancholv pleasure in taunting ministers with having altogether unobjectionable. been Oblig!..d to make their measure more stringent AITORNIES• AND SOLICITORS' CERTIFICATE DUTY RILL. than they intended. If they can alleviate their pro- The second reading of this bill Will postponed for three found mortification by such silly averments, and by weeks. such exultation in their own deeper defeat, be would SALE OF BEER (No. 2) BILL. be churlish, indeed, who should grudge it them. Sir J. PAKINGTON pres e nted petitions front 300 foe men, mad from upwards of SO gaol chaplains, in favour Let them talk of the bill as they please ; let them a this hill. As the gaol chaplains resided in different yummier about its inadequacy to meet the emer parts of the country, their signature* had only been at- gency, the alleged impossibility of carrying it into Melted by the authority of letters from the parties. execu ti on ; ono thi ng is certain. It is an unequi- T h e 1411 " 1 " It h e ld t h " t the petition could nut he re- vocal, a national declaration that the antipathy of teivell. mr. nionN ELY said the number of petitions sent in England to priestly arrogance mid usurpation is un with groups of signatures in the same writing was a source abated. It is a renewal of the great protest against of great inconvenicace to the committee on petitions. the plunder of the industrious laity under false Mr. WALTER presented a petition from Nottingham, pretences; against the suppression of free inquiry by against the bill. Sir J. OT ON, after stating that he could not Rome through the instrumentality of 'superstitious hope to the bill this laWlol3, moved for have to with- fears and physical coercion. It is a proclamation draw it. that the English people as a body are-protestants in Withdrew,' accordingly. the brand and unsectarian acceptation of the name— ENIIIANCRISSEML:a OF COPYHOLDS (No. 3) protesters rigiinst the juggling erection of temporal BILL. Mr. AOLIONBY said this bill was the result of the re. power on the basis of ecclesiastical authority. • of a select committee, and had his full sip- An attempt has been made to represent the bill— rural ; but he thought it better not to press it any further which in the course of a few days at furthest, will this session, but to allow it to be circulated through the have received the assent of the sovereign, and have country during themes'. with& view to its early riintrodue- become law--as in attempt to bias and coerce tril lion flint ikWOOII. He moved that the bill be committed that glows conviction. It is nothing of the kind. It day three months. Agreed M. debars neither priest nor layman of the liberty to ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE entertain and avow what religioua opinion he pleases. IMPROVEMENT BILL. It interferes neither with the liberty of the priest to The house went into committee on this bill, inculcate his doctrines, and administer his rites and Mr ' BAINES, the promoter of the bill, said the public sacraments, nor w i th the liberty of the layman to liindented fur it to the Lunt Chief i untie. of the Queen's t en ene ' li ;it had ease down from the other house with the receive these ministrations. It leaves to the Roman approesit of nearly all the law lords, and every one best catholic elector the full exercise of the rights erquainted with the subject. Its objects were important. of citizenship ; to the Roman catholic legis- The tint was to give power tea court to amend any variance lator the unrestrained liberty of voice and vote between indietm.nt and evidence in criminal cases, subject in the senate. Roman catholics in England are to the restriction that the primate was not thereby in jured i n his means of deceit, Another object of the free to believe and worship as they lease; p their bill was the shortening and a m plifyi ng t h e f orm s o f criminal e personal liberty, their rights of pnvate property, pleadings. A third object of the bin war to do away with ob- are as secure as those of protestants; they may *lions strictly formal. Another object was this. It pro- boldly, in and out of parliament, call in question the Tided that on trials for offences, where it should turn out *lace or expediency of any law that mi.slikes them, that the party had nut been guilty of the entin• offence chanced, but only of the attempt to commit it. the effect and advocate its abrogation. The pirotestants of the belief in the Romish should not he as at present, that the entire indictment England wish, indeed, to see 'boob! fell. Under the present ball the jury might find the church eradicated from the minds of men, but they party guilty of the attempt, when the court could deal know that that cannot be accomplished by penal laws with the hnding accordingle. These were the p rim - anti coercion, and that they have no right to use app objects to be attained by t he bill. There were several others of lesser importance, which he would not then stop such instruments, even though they could be effi to explain. Hi. opinion was that this bill would have a cacious. great tendency to improve the adiniMetratiers of criminal The Ecclesiastical Titles Bill is a blow struck, not lustier, to render it cheaper and more certain, —by doing at Roman catholice,'mt at such of their priests as seek away with salvo technicalities—and thus to reduce the to extend over non-members of their church the same question to be determined according to the real truth and .c • f lu - justice of the ere. (Hear, beer.) authority that y exercise over t h e ir own tSr clamor I beteg put, The insolent attempt of a foreign sovereign to parcel Mr. S. WORTLEY said he highly approved of the min- out this country into administrative districts, and to eiple of the bill. But he thought it might be improved in confer territorial titles of honour and authority with some respects. In eases, for instance, where a verdict in this land, were it a mere empty insult, would call waareturned by a coroner's jury behind a man's back, charging h i m with ((dewy , that pa rt y could not he admitted for resistance. But it is something more. It is pal to bail unless ha went before one or the judges, which was pably intended to be the first step in a series of mea tovzespensive proceeding ; he . therefore thought justices surer for conferring upon the dignified priest have the power of admitting to bail : and it would . hood of the Romuth church in this country a be well if the present act would confer such power. (Hear, 1 more absolute control over whatever funds fir ' ) can persuade their flocks to devote to After a few words from Mr. Armstrong. Mr. Napier, Sir the? . J. Parkington , Mr. Aglionby, and Mr. Whiteside, ere esiastical purpses. It is well known that in 1 Clause I was agreed to. old times, when' ecclesiastical property in this coun- The other clauses., up to 2A, were agreed to. try was thus plieed at the disposal of the hierarchy, On clause 25, relating to the mode of arraigning the a large per ventage of it found its way into the Ito prisoner, treasury, and that of the residue a large propor- Mr. NAPIER moved the rejection of the clause, on the man ground that it would enable parties to make a vexatious Don was indirectly made the means of rewurg sr of it. subserviency to the court of Rome. Our Roman Mr. HATCHELL thought that an inconvenient use catholic forefathers struggled against the system it might be ou made of the dame, and that it would be better to which plundered the laity of the country to replenish *mike t. Mr. GEANGER thought the elausc ought to be struck the Ro m a n t reasury, to promote the secular ambition oat. and intrigues of the Roman court, and their protes- Mr. BAINES said the clause was not his ; it was intro- tant descendants will not submit more tamely to such deeed in the Hone of Lords. practices than they did. The ATTORNEY.GENERAL said he was not going to oppose what seemed 'to be the wish of the house, namely, that the clause should r e st 7 r a s l iek out. But, at the The Roman treasury has presented comparatively a beggarly show of empty boxes since the Popes same time, it was desirable, if pcoable, to avoid calling on were restricted to the revenues of the domains which a prisoner to plead not guilty, when in his conscience ha they hold as temporal sovereigns. A natural desire knew that he was guilty. (Hear, hear.) The clause was then smack o ut . is felt to bring back the times when Peter's penes Mr. BAINES moved the following clause: o Whenever flowed into the POPE'S coffers from every co untry 1 , any person shall be convicted of an y one of the offenses Europe. Long accustomed to fish in following, as an indictable misdemeanor, that is to say, any waters, the fisherman at Rome has bss cheat or fraud punishable at common law ; any conspiracy making a bold attempt to avail himself of directed -r the PORTUGAL. The Oriental Company's steam packet, Madrid, Captain lobo. Weeks, arrived at Southampton yes s,y,s and lanied-her mails under the charge of Lieut.• Peter Ranier, R.N., Admiralty agent. lier 'dates are: Gibraltar, July 14th; Cadiz, lath; Lis bon, 19th; Oporto, 20th; 'Vigo, 20th. Our correspondent writes as follows: LISBON, JULY 19. Among the many important occurrences which I have to communicate in this letter, the meeting of the Miguelites on the 10th as a party is not the least. It was convened by invitation at the residence formerly occupied by . the Count St. Miguel, and although many of the notices tinscoMed, yet upwards of 700 of the first blood and cha racter of the country were present, representing, however, only the metropolitan city and province of Estrcmadura, and showing, whet is yet more astonishing, the immense number of the ancient nobility and gentry who yet adhere strenuously to the principles of legitimacy, or in other Miguel. The Count do Barbacena took the chair. The words, to the presumed rights of the exiled prince, Don meeting had to deliberate upon certain points , in p reference to the consideration of any other subject. Those points were : Ist. Does it behove the legitimist party to promote and accept their election to the Chamber of Deputies ? 2nd. If decided negatively, will it nevertheless behove the legitimist party to take an active part in the present election ? 3rd. And previous to the carrying into execution of any decision of the Assembly of Extremadura in respect to the Ist and 2nd questions, will it be proper that the legitimists of the other provinces be consulted, in order that a decision of a general tendency may be so obtained ? 4th. By whom ought the legitimists of the provinces to be consulted ? sth. And notwithstanding this consultation, considering the urgency of the time and circumstances, ought the elec tion of a general electoral committee to be immediately proceeded to, which, by creating partial committees, may promote the framing of the lists and other labours ? 6th. In order that the general electoral committee may perfectly discharge the duties which shall be in:posed upon it, of how many members ought it to be composed ? The deliberation upon these points, in their generality, was conducted with a grave and majestic spirit; and after much consideration it was determined that they ought not to interfere in the elections ; the points were therefore negatived with only one dissentient voice, with the excep tion of so much of point 3 as rolated to the consultation of the party in the other provinces, and point 4, which being affirmed, the committee was authorised to carry it into effect ; the party, or rather the meeting for E-tremadura, not merely not wishing to decide fur their brethren of the provinces, but being determined to carry on what may be the eventual decision of the majority in the whole kingdom. Ina former letter I described the position of the 16th In fantry in the nciehbourhood of Saldanha 's residence : in the night of the 10th a rising wasattempted, in consequence of its having been clearly understood be them that the mi nistry formed was not the desired one; but Saldanha and the colonel of the regiment being duly advised of it, the attempt was frustrated, and three sergeants sent to the castle. By all I can learn, it appears to have been the intention to have murdered the colonel ; restored Taborda, their former colonel, to the command ; and then proceeded upon a plan which has not been developed; but it is believed to be but one part of a vast plan of conspiracy which has communications with the troops in the pros inces. Letters from the country spoke at the time of the strong symptoms of re-action that were manifest. If, however, nothing could be understood (but only truly believed) of the nature of the conspiracy in question, subsequent symp toms give a clue to the intentions, and may lead to the knowledge of the occult parties engaged in it. It seems that in the night of the 11th some of the sergeants of the sth Cacadores reproached the soldiers with their indiffe renee towards the 2nd Cacadores and 16th Infantry, that they were all soldiers, and ought to be in peace and har mony with each other. This having no effect, theychanged the tune, and promulgated that the Plitulea officers had sold the battalion to the Cabralistas, and that they were to be disarmed. Murmurs of discontent immediately appeared. " Turn out the ratuleas ! " was the watchword; and a captain of the third section, who had bees re cently appointed to the regiment, was seized, ill-treated, and mode prisoner by an ensign at the head of a few malcon tents; it now ran that harmony ought to exist between them and the 2nd Cscadore and pith Infantry, as the two latter corps were on their way to the castle to assist them. The corps, however, possessing a good spirit, that the disaffected sergcauts had momentarily imposed upon, seeing their real intentions, began to assemble on the walls armed, shouting that the gates should be opened to no one but the Marshal Saldanha and theirown colonel, and then went and liberated the captain who had been imprisoned, and whom they took in triumph to his post. The colonel arriving, the en sign and several sergeants were arrested. The soldiers now began to exclaim, with loud and determined voices, "Death to the Cabral stas." In the meantime Suldanha, who cer tainly was more on the alert as a general than he was as a minister, had ordered the Queen's Grenadier:, Ist Inffintry, 9th Caradores, and 4 pieces of artillery, with its coinple ment, to assemble in the Largo da Moto; and in the Largo da Gmca, the 10th Infantry, 2nd Cara dores, and 3 pieces of artillery ; all which troops manifested the best spirit, except the 2nd Cacadores, many of this latter corps grinding their teeth and smothering "Turn out the I'atulea, ;" two progrcsista ensigns went to the marshal and reported it, as well as that they had observed all the officers were leaving it (they, the ensigns, having previously reported the same to the colonel, who had advised them to leave the regiment) ; but the mar-hal reprimanded them, and desired them to return to their duty. In this state all remained until six in the morning of the 15th, when all returned to their quarters ; the pith regiment and the municipal guard not having iu the meantime made any movement. From these detailed facts, the activity of a conspiracy is manifest, and from further information, it appears the ser scouts of the sth, who are compromised, had their meetings in the quarters of a drummer, where there was no lack of money, and from which store sundry distributions took place. Courts of inquiry and courts martial are, however, going on, and revelations arc expected to be made, which will explain the whole mystery of the design, and the occult persons of note who are suspected of being engaged init. In the meantime as the 2nd Cacadores desire to liberate by some act of force the sergeants of their regiments who were en gaged in it, and who were made prisoners, the latter have been removed for security to the quarters of the Queen's Grenadien, in rampulha. Besides these sergeants, a cap tain of the same regiment, five of the newly promoted en signs, and several sergeants of the sth Cacadores, a ser aeant of artillery, and many others, are prisoners. Impor tant discoveries have been made, and more arrests taken place. A commission is appointed to reorganise the Military Col lege, and another to revise the military penal code, and form a project of code in harmony with the advancement of the age ; and to establish fixed and invariable rules, to which will belong not only the proper classification and gm duation of crimes and penalties, but the order, direction, and brevity of the process. It is singular that Saldanha de signated the majority of the chambers corrupt, rind yet he has appointed upon the latter commission three of the most determined Cabralistas, Duarte Lcitao, Viscount de Oranja, and Joaquim Jose de Mello. An inquiry is ordered into the circumstances attending the robbery of the custom-house at Tarira: the civil go vernor is to acquaint himself with the affair in order to dis cover the perpetrators and prevent similar occurrences. Movement in the wine market at Oporto for the month of May:—Exported to the ports of Europe 2,333 pipes of wine, and one of Geropiga, of the first quality ; to trr's out of Europe 24 pipes of wine of the first quality, au 208 of the second quality; to ports of the kingdom, six pipes of wine of the first quality; and for consumption, one pipe of wine of the first quality, and 2,137 of the second quality; and 48 pipes of Geropiga of the second quality. Remaining in store 76,063 pipes of wine, and 1,869 pipes of Geropiga of the first quality; 11,797 pipes of wine, and 1,761 pipes of Gempiga of the second quality, and 5,616 pipes of brandy. Movement in the wine market at Oporto for the month of June :—Exported to the ports of Europe, 1,44.5 pipes of wine, and one of Geropiga, of the first quality ; to ports out of Europe, five pipes of wine of the first quality, and 555 pipes of wine, and seven of Geropiga of the second quality; to ports of the kingdom, 67 pipes of wine of the first quality, and 82 of brandy ; fur consumption one pipe of wine of the first quality, and 125 of the second quality, and 13 pipes of brandy. The stock in store being as described in the an nual return to the 30th June, forwarded in a former letter. _ _ The new Minister of Marine has ordered succour for the inhabitants of the Cape Verd Islands. The liecato came in with people to complete the vessels of war here, and has again sailed. The Plucton frigate and the French steamers have also gone to sea. Return of the revenue of Sete Carus of I.lvben, for the year 1850-51 : Reis. Duties from Wine ~ Sirits • O i l 46 ,6,601,010 „ 'Vinegar Courams ~ Meat 294,863,135 „ Wood and ebaseeel Fruits and Vegetables Excise on• beasts of burden Excise on inheritances Eight per cent. additional Five per cent. ditto Seizures and transfers Amortisation of notes Decima on emoluments 1,390,983 10,560 Reposition Total Being less by 9,066,834 rein than the receipts of 1849.1850. Of the duties upon wine and spirits, only 8,277,845 reit; was upon what was exported, the remainder RAJ the duty levied upon consumption within the city and boundary. Exchange, 64i ; Discount of Lisbon Bank Notes, 2i per cent. INQUESTS, &c., IN LIVERPOOL.—The inquest on the bodies of the two cbildren supposed to be murdered by their mother, and who afterwards attempted to commit suicide by jumping into the dlerscy from the landing-stage, has been again adjourned owi ng t o t h e ill ness o f two of the jurors. —At the police court the man charged with shooting the deceased Irishman, !galley, during the Orange riots, was remanded till to-morrow (Thursday). A witness dc posed to seeing him place the cap on the pistol and fire the shot ; but the prisoner's muter (a brickmaker) stated that the man was at work at the time the shot was said to Dare beast tired. 'ate Court. ORBORNR,WEDNESDAY, JULY 23. The Queen and Prince Albert walked in the gar dens at Osborne yesterday ntorninx, and drove out in the afternoon, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal. There was no addition to the royal dinner party yester day. The Duchess of Kent is expected this afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Augusta Brace, Lady in Waiting, left her ri,idence, Froginore, near Wind sor, yesterday morning, for Osborne, Isle of Wight. The Commissioners for Auditing the Public Accounts, with their secretary, Mr. Bromley, attended the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at the half-yearly declaration of accounts. Sir George Grey returned to town yesterday, from Stan more. Mr. Darling had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial Office. THE PEACE CONGRESS. SECOND DAY. Yesterday, after our report was despatched, Mr. EWAItT, congratulated the members of this congress on the assemblage of so large a number of persons to witness these proseedings. This immense gatlwring showed that the occasion had presented u favourable oppor• tunity for the interchange of opinions and sentiments of dif ferent nations, and it also proved that in the event of a war being threatened they should be able to effect a powerful orgnnisation which might extinguish the spark before it could rise into a flame. (Hear, hear.) Mr. Ewart pro ceeded to obs,rve that that nation was the most powerful which had the greatest amount of capital and wealth, and which, for warlike as well as pacific purposes, prosecuted the arts of peace. In allusion to the moral benefits which had arisen from the Crystal Palace, the hon. gentleman ob served that the prince who led such an army of workmen as were employed in the construction of that building was capable of effecting a greater conquest than ever was achieved by any army that ever trod down the principles of peace with the iron hoof of war from the time of Alexander to the present day. It had been observed that the organ of combativeness was largely developed in the English people, but to this remark he would add that, according to the principles of phrenology. they must endeavour to counteract the preponderance of one organ by cultivating the development of another, via., the organ of benevolence. (Hear, hear.) He thought that this great commercial nation—the greatest in tho world—ought to commence this movement, and in his opi nion it would be to the eternal honour of the Anglo-Saxon race if they displayed the peaceful olive broach of Minerva, in order to put down war. The hon. gentleman went on to observe that he represented a deputation from Liverpool, who begged that means might be taken to promote the ex tension of the freedom of trade and the encouragement of international commerce by means of an ocean penny post age. It might be Utopian, visionary, ideal ; but he firmly believed that the day would come when the system of an ocean penny postage would be established. Mr. twart offered some further observations in furtherence of the cause, and concluded by reading two extracts front the works of Milton in defence of peace and freedom. Mr. MACGItEGOIt, M.P., supported the resolution, contending that the maintenance of standing armies was calculated to suppress civil and religious liberty in conti nental Europe, and he defied any one to point out an in stance in which any advantage had arisen from those insti tutions. Don JOSE SEC UNDA, from Madrid, then addressed the meeting in French. The resolution was put and unanimously agreed to. The ,fifth resolution was then brought forward by the secretary—the fourth being passed over for the present. It was to this effect :—This Congress, believing that the inter vention, by threatened or actual violence, one country in the internal politics of another, is a frequent cause of bitter and desolating wars, maintains that the right of every state to regulate its own affairs should be held absolute and in violate. During the reading of this resolution, M. Emile Girardin, the editor of La J'resse entered the hail, and his appearance gave rise to an universal burst of enthusiastic applause. Raving taken his seat on the right of the chairman, M. GIRARDIN tendered his cordial thanks to the meeting for the reception they had given him, and he as sured them he was not a soldier, but a " deserter," for he had left the National Assembly of France and without leave, in order to present himself before this magnificent assembly. (Cheers.) Mr. li. VINCENT then proposed the resolution, and ad dressed the meeting with much eloquence in support of it. The ltev. Dr. BEAUMONT and M. JOSEI'II GARNIEFt (a French gentleman, who had warmly interested himself in the cause) addressed the meeting in favour of the resolu tion, which was carried unanimously. The Rev. J. BURNETT proposed the seventh resolution (the sixth being passed over) : " This Congress expresses its strong abhorrence of the system of aggression anti vio lence practised by civilised nations upon aboriginal and un civilised tribes, as leading to incessant and exterminating wars, eminently unfavourable to the true progress of reli gion, civilisation, and commerce." The rev. gentleman drew a vivid picture of the humiliating position in which, as he observed, the warriors of this country often placed themselves by encroaching upon the territories of unciviltsAl nations, and he urged, with much force, that if they could not secure their colonies without carrying on a sys tem of aggression which ended in the robbery of land, 010 robbery of cattle, and in the murder of the people, they had better abandon those colonies altogether. (Cheers.) The Rey. F. GUATEMALA seconded the motion, observ ing that in former years he had served its Spain under General De Lacy Evans, and during that time he had many opportunities of observing the demorali.iug influence of the barracks. In the course of the v.:ry first night that he slept amongst his "brave companions in arms," his pockets were picked, and ho was afterwards often chastised fur his " obstinacy " in not paying sufficient attention to the army regulations. The Rev. li. GAR NETT, a minister of colour, supported the resolution, and expressed au opinion that it would be more to the honour of this great nation if, instead of ex pending their money in the maintenance of a standing army and squadron on the coast of Africa, they would ap propriate it to the building of sanctuaries and schools— taking fur their model, nut the Tower of Loudon, where ha understood dreadful things had been perpetrated in days gone by, but Mr. l'axten's palace of glass. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) M. GIitARDIN said that before the resolution was put he would suggest as an amendment that instead of this words " civilised nations," they should say " strong na tions," and instead of " uncivilised tribes," " weaker tribes." He made this suggestion, because be could nut be lieve it was the intention of this congress to cast any re proach upon the weaker and unollending parties in this great question. He could not consider any tribe uncivilised that was not warlike, and he did not think the people of this country were pur.uing the duties of civilisation by visiting " uncivilised " tribes with war. If they wished to elevate those tribes they must endeavour to do so, not by means of soldiers, but through the medium of schools and missionaries, who would teach them the doctrines of Christianity. If they appeared before them in a warlike form they gave them a notion they were greater barbarism than themselves. The more he (M. Girardin) looked at the preparations for war the more was he perplexed, for the result was that such preparations led to financial embarrassment and ruin. The United State., be consi dered, had set an example to this country by . virtually keeping up no standing army ; and he was of opinion that the general prosperity of that nation might be traced to the fact that they had not wasted their resources in keep ing up institutions which they could advantageously des pense with. (Cheers.) Mr. COBDEN thought the suggestion pat forward by M. Girardin of so sound a character that he would second the amendment. The ltev. Mr. RICHARD, the secretary, suggested that the matter be referred to the committee. This course was at once acceded to, anti the proceedings were adjourned to this day. THIS DAY.-TUIRD SITTING. This morning the Congress re-assembled at Exeter hall, under the presidency of Sir DAVID DILEW3TEIt. The proceedings commenced with the reception of a de putation, consisting of fifteen working men from France, re presenting the game number of trades. The deputation was introduced to the Congress by Mr. Ilr.sity Viser.sr, who explained that the expenses attending it were defrayed by subscription, the names of Lausartine, Victor Hugo, and Oirardin heading the list. A letter was read from M. Victor Hugo, addressed to a friend, and expressing his regret that he was unable to at tend the Congress. The Rev. Mr. RICHARD intimated that there were a great many gentlemen pre , ent who would be glad to address the Congress, but as the time would not admit of speeches being delivered by all who were anxious to take an active part in the proceedings, he trustedthat some forbearance in this respect would be shown. Mr. HINDLEY, M.P., wished to offer n few observations to the meeting, %cesium: it would be a source of regret to Inns if his silence were construed into the idea that he had lost one particle of the interest which he had always felt in this important subject. Eight years had now elapsed since he ha the honour of presiding at the first assembly of the peace convention held at the Freemasons' Tavern, and when he considered the small number of people who attended on that occasion, ho could not but congra tulate the members of the congress upon the pro gress which this great cause had made in the public mmd. It might be said that the principles they sought to establish were Utopian, and that those who advocated those principles were a good-natured, though silly, people. (Laughter.) For his part he was willing to bear his share in such reproaches--if it ho a ground of re proach to denounce the continuance of warlike institutions, and to contend that disputes and differences ought to bo settled by the intellect rather than by physical force. (Hear) Man was a rational being, and th e promoters of this peace movement were of opinion that it was only by calling into exercise his mental qualities that the great evils com plained of could be averted. (Hear, hear.) The presence of this vast assembly, and the many powerful addresses which had been delivered, afforded the most gratifying evidence that their cause was advancing; and that Sheer prophecy would ere long be so completely fulfilled, that the sword would be beaten into the ploughshare and the spear into the reaping -hook.