The Express. — London, England, 1851-04-09 00:00:00

rant fur the large amount of I,BOW. still duo fur the poor rate. There was anothe-r proof of the distress in the fart, that the 'lumber of co,u hes and publieconv. vanes had di minished in a mist extraurdinare manor, an.l of the t•mo steamers which formerly plied - between Waterford :mud Ilristul, one had berm gin up, and the nth. r was about to be given up. Ile thought he had a right to say that a country that was suffering iu this manner demand, d the careful attm idiots of that house. Every class—and no class more than the tabourer—was reduced to the lowest stain of misery awl poverty by the system which they ins re following up in Ireland. A wing gentlesuan who had made great raterifices fur up wards of tam fly years in order to serve his party had written to him on the 21th of Ft bntary thus :—" The re port of the minister's resignation has reached Isere, and 1 regret to Lass it to sa: that it Las been received with uni versal satislaction. ,Laughter and Clit,:n.) The wigs lave berm very unfortw....mt., tim the ;:overnment of Ireland. ((Local clas s.) Tm.le ,mashed— the landlords ruined OM' tenant. broken down—;cheers)—the labourers in the pour hews:m—(4:ll,r.; --Ciose of the population who hale y! the memos of lemon, tlyiwt out uftbe kingdom by parishes. (Chew's.) With WI th.s. rosraplications of misery it has some to pwa at last tivt the Irish tuition is totaily wrecked go d is kit t o b e &round by its own paupers. (('heers.) Citks, tow us, and •iliatte 4 are half desolated—was:tub' mot- t. 4,, • ore anun.Jly :evened to tit. trrountlood tg.ir loran r in. wasu:..r . tat tla• onnstry Y 10. , 7,..nrs or thkvet. " ' ' g...,14 are ustrata with critithial.z.lol thty are Do sower fli.-Caurgetli for one crime than the) ;w rl. 1130- th. r 111 bitiCr 1.0 In t Wt.:111. Slieh I. . . . the mu:titwh• ut`tit,,c btr.,at-r, that %la: iArmer, cannot ;ivy', al uhrl.t fur fiar, I. 4 thstir pruptry should Ix stoles ,r Ch. it how.. :mod rublu.d. breaking ha. of L.te become u trequent ur pocket piet,iag L. I.mulam. (A laugh.) The tide of r migration ha. stea dily gum . tenting the winter, and la%t the spring emigration rummies.- .1 be 7UU per leaving from this part of the eennet:y." s idiivi The infutifief was that it wee not tun were tenting the country. It was tho.e, woo Lad money, and it wa. only the paupers that were Lft ianniel. (11,...r.) Ile (the bun. baroact) tietinly :iare .11 eitis Lond Stanley in what he stated a km nigueeagusuitoug.t hii ow a friends when he Nilet with great trath mad elwlu, nee, It 21.1.2 he a murk," ob served the noble lord, " of the prosperity of the country when 141,0un of inilu•trion. Men, woeten, and children are ft , ttiug together the wreeles t:wer tortune, tiyiug from penury and Ware., at home, end carrying with /111.81 what thy can save out of their diminished capital, and going to enrich not even the puo,-..iens of the MAW' erown, hat earryiuu to fun igu and T. , al Cular.trk.+ tin it indtts!ry and their capital, and, in ton fumy ens it may be found, their blighted ;acct.... too. (Loud tbeere Nits thee eanit,l with tin ea the ;otter remembrance it eta. lead Um, that druce them free the land ~ their birth—from that land which Irishmen, of 33 men on the Met of tLa globe, I value,l -dna": iron: their friend., tbtir kindred, and from ever) 416114; that wie. neer and dear to their booms. (Loud ewers.) lltp MI upon it, nothing but extreme or the yror.puct of it, could otive trishine a from their uatise hove. ; cud yet they were bosom;{ them by thou...to (tle:ere.) 1 - he parrs rel.:heal frmu Inland that s sty tiny stated that the en.tonis retort. showed a elclL.itney thi. yen; of 3i,ntge. ; and then: b, l en a C:r in the circulat ing Mialitlini,/t IIW t math she. . . . Wints th. y looked at thcso facts mob: U.cy doubt that tt. , country was is a fcarful slut.- of 11. . ( rnerrs.) If for • com mittee to 4.11:c into c0..4.1. ration Ow s.ultjt ct, awl if they would nut grant it him ,e ssy that tii4 would nut do tit. it duty. (llear, hear.) lf you say, continued the boo. bonnie:, that there is no remedy, you confess your impoteure; you admit that you are unlit t o govern the country. tilear.) , Night after night y o u is, est of your inereusaag revenue ; you boas; of the great femur. of the tapir.; Co.. isaa,t that free tradu km unule this cowitry 11w first in the world. Sharie, shume upon you, fur you have out lreland. Irtland, prostrated, impairs risked, eletrailesl! (Loud cheers.) Legishitors of England, win you allow this. country to perish within sight of pier own shorts, from your impotence, your ignianinee, or your UnWilitagito“ W granple with this awful Mate of things ? (I:uudi cheers.) You eau boast that you have pampa eity, but you newt* mention 'related. You do Out even put it haw the tlucen's speech. I. it MUM unknown ..and (Ilex, hear.) India is attended to. Your Can:Mimi pssessimis are Uttllttilli to; 101131 poor-hour? Iluditiogs . are 0tte13411 , 1 to—but a whole nation per! hing before your eyes is uusainieval. (Item hear.) I call upon you us Uritisim k.aslator,, us Own, us (Item, to save the country. (Hoer.) llyini will not, we will not sit tamely by anil see it parish; but in long as my fa lde rules, can he beard, I will expos., to you our nii...ry and distress--misery which bas been brought on by your load legislatiou. (Loud cheers.) sir 011111 EN entirely coincided with the bon. baronet. was glad that lialrusli uniuu had bean brought 4116111,1 , tn.• notice of the how,' the other night, although he comet not quite approw ui the tunas of the hon. geutli twin who had mentioned it—pirtie illarly with re -pact to the VANUA: of the chairman. No tenet than 20,0101/ p•isuss were in the puorhouns of the county Char alone; and in ti/A: city of Liaseriak there were 7, 1 100 permit* in tlw workhouses. That war a fearful state f things to contemplate, . eon if they only thoug:A on the actsiration of .41141. A, ii into:tad, and en the mamery tam thew lout ettatUrtu lewd endure wii.o *bey met iota tither after ueslis of separatism and saw how their number had been diminished, and how ariseralde was the app.:name of tit,- survivors. (Cheers.) Th e rts gh g ,,... a of the present system was Emu of its win , * feature... Sts less than in,ooot. lia,l been expended on the Malt; and that cat une-third ui the amount laid out in the Irelkf of the ;.our. (Chem.) Sir W. NONIr.tiViLLIE aid the hon. kironet who intro durstl this oscims had dose so in a .itimewitat ingenious moaner. Ile eoutuela oil by tixina on Ap. rind from which he said be wooed start, mid by stitiug that between :hut p 6%1 and 01 • i.e. seat 1.. intended to male a CoMpAti on, awl to drone the conclusion whirls he wuiud to offer to the bon,. 'the bun. har•iu•-t .!stash that he attributed the pre• aeut dbtress ts the to the rep• al of tlw rim has, amid to the poor tans. After stating that opinion, however, he cowls ens,' ate att uu on the poor laws and from the p oral tenor of his sp.. eh it was not dillicult to embeerve that the Isms. ho .ittributill the whole distress to those lAlr, (sir N . harem—. No, no.) 11, (sir W. Somer. silk) would wit bow dwell on what was the condition of teetotal I.i Isl:/ ; lint to hear the hon. baronet they would bare so pp.o. el that it ism then lu A state of perfect press pv•rity - (hear. hear)-I.iit on that paint he need only refer to his hoe. Iris red the rueiabier for Xac Univrnity of Dublin 113nel:on) to the Lou. :.min r of the city of 1,111, nutria . ) ‘Sir 1:441. rt Et•TRU.4.II. clan were members ot what was called the Devon isnutaission. (h ear, hear.) 11 • bad drawn a cutaperi•un h,tweva theme two periods; but iii IL,' opinion of that commission the condition of the lalsoiring poor, In th • former of tins... periods, was most w. t. h.,1 aa I d orithog. The hon. baronet Mel then tom pue. the AOsouat of rate in 150 and 1,411, oiaitiia•: nibs st tin r the in.. rvellilig period. But, by a return which he (Sir W. Si...servill.) had moved for early this session, the Chant.: 1113 the pour rate for the last three ye.:re was shout'. In tile quarters ending on the 31st lfecember, in Is Its, laitt,outt respectively, the amount of rite was 1110 follow. • ; 111119, SWAN. ; PILO. 247.00 W. Though this did not show any great state of prsperi.v, it waseti Irnr.• iniptivienient, and show. :I that the comparison of the present time w ill 1815, co sit. ring the period of tie panic t hat had int. reamed, was unfair and entail:nisi to mislead. The numbers on the relief hat ut the NIA of iae sever.' quarters ti lore referred to tv, , re follow: ISIS, ..t;,411.10; 1519, 2'41,0110 ; 21;nagin. (11sar, hear.) Tau hon. baronet had complained of the system of out-door relief being pat an end to by the IIn•JAUTC of tier p... ninient. mut yet, while ailmittint: that the com missioners huh discharged their duty well, In. had visited Mama a Ail his inost severe censure. Sir IL. W. 11.3.111L0:4—Nu ; 1 never said a word agaiait them. sir W. sOMERVII.I.E sail the him. learonet 111:1 re ferred to Captain Larkins's retorts., and by Molt extraordi nary proms, ouch as leasing out the peas, he nude nut that there was a dcereued quantity of laud in Ireland under cultivation. Now, as he read the raurns, they showed an entirely different result. lle had before hint u renim of the total extent of land under crop., arid the total quantity of produ.v. in 1817, 'l3, and '1.1; and the quantines were ea follows: 1817, 5,686,573 acres; 1818, 5,108,062 acres; 1819, 5.511.060 aces. Sir 11. W. BARRON—Of what? Sir W. KOMF.ItVILLB—Of cultivated acres. Sir 11. W. BARRON—The right lion. gentleman has totally miqopprehended what 1 said. What 1 .tated was that in cure—iiieluding pow and beans—accorilina to the returns of Captain Larkurn, there were, in 1817, 3,313,379 wee* of laud under cultivation for these eroi , ; an d, Is 1819, 2,171,180 acres ; leaving a decrease el 1,139,620 acres. Sir W. SOMERVILLE said the hon. baronet had just pieked out these three crops in order to shwa a den. limey. Takina it as a whole, the amount of cultivated land in Ireland was greater in 1519 than in 1844 and 1817. With regard to cattle, the hon. baronet had also taken that part of the return , which suited his purpose, confining himself to that valuable animal the pig. (Laughter.) The returns Oftattle, gen•aallv, showed an increased capon in 1849; and, th, ugh he did not thence argue absolute properity, be cont. fond that there was some improvement in the last two years compared with those miserable yeats of the famine. Then the hon. baronet had branched off to his own district, and quoted the county secs paid by the city of Waterford. But the returns showed that this amount was actually less than it was some years ago. Arguments founded on returns quoted in this partial way ought not to have any weight with the house. On a former occasion the hon. baronet had censured the government in a letter for the introduction of a bill. many of the clauses of which he said were copied from a Nil of his own. He could assure the hon. baronet that not a single clause had been adopted from his bill. (Rear, hear.) The honourable baronet had then referred to emigration as a proof of the distress in Ireland. Emigration wu not a very healthy symptom ; but they had had numerous motion , in that house, nut for the purpose of checking, but of promoting emigration. (Hear, hear.) If emigration was so great an evil, the duty of the government would be to check, and not to promote it. On the subject of crime, he WWI again at issue, relying on the returns before the house, with the hon. baronet. Comparing, not 1850 with 1845, but with 1819 and ISIS, a decrease was shown ; and this was the fairest test of the condition of Ireland. The returns of commitments made by the constabulary showed the following totals for the months of January and February in 1819,18.50, and 1851; 1849. 1850. 1851. January February 1,686 .... 1,124 .... 960 (Reat, hear.) These statistics were more correct and better calculated to lead the hoax to a jest coaduaion than thole APRIL 9, 1851 THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY r;Tiv::4srg, Tear 1845 u a rear of prosperity in Ireland. (Hear, hear.) His hon. friend had merely stated that it VIM a point of time from which, in his opinion, the evils hail I been aggravated. The hon. menther was 'about to show, u we understood, how his countrymen had conducted themselves under the circumstances that had been detailed I by his hon. friend the number for Waterford, when and how they had deported themselves eLewhere, and the military honours they had won, when he was interrupted by a storm of impatient shoots and calls for division, which obliges" him to give up the attempt to be heard. Sir 11. W. BARRON ruse en reply, but the interruptions continued, and he obtained silence only by promising not to exceed two minutes. He denied both what the right honourable gentleman the Secretary for Ireland and what the noble lord at the head of the government had said, and also what the hon. member for Dublin he believed had said, namely, that he (Sir 11. Barron) bad stated in hi 4 speech that he wished to have the poor law repealed. Ile had stated nothing of the Lind , or in the remotest degree leading to it. He had objected to the out door system of relief, and had alluded to nothing else. (Cheers.) It had as:,) been alleged by both the noble lewd and the Secretary fur Ireland, and lie believed hy the hon. member for Kerry, that he (Sir H. Barron) had ;:ropos.xl in his IT: ech that they slmulel return to ti. old system of protection. He had never said anything of the kind . (Hear.) Ile had lot the house to draw their ow.: inferences. (" Oh, oh," " ilia ide"). He had purposely avoided proposing any remedy, because it was not the time. (" Oh.") But let them vu into emarnittee. and he would be prepared then to du so. (Loud cries of "Divide, divide.") The house divided: For the motion Against 133-9 The anuottneement of the numb.., cam received with loud cheers by the Iri h members. MAIL TRAIN'S. Mr. FREWEN moved Mr a select committee, to inquire into and report to this house on the advantages to be de rived by the establishment of a mail train between Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, and LA . ..ester and Rugby, to meet the mail trains at Rugby, going to and returning from Lirepnrpl and Holyhead. Mr. ELLI 3 seconded the motion. Mr. C. LEWIS said the matter would be duly con sidered by the government and the Feast-office authori ties, and under these cirturustances, perhaps the lion. sen tient in would not press the motion. The motion was withdrawn. ItEMOVAL OF IRISH PAUPERS. On the motion of Mr. Sue LET, a return was ordered of copies of all coral pendency, since the lit day of December i last, between the Clogheen Board of Guardians, the I'uor Law Commis•aiuners in Ireland, the Poor-law Board in a England, and the Lambeth Boma of Guardians, relative to the alleged illegal removal of a pauper named Margaret t M'Cartlay and her two children, from the Lambeth to the . Cloghetn workhouse, last November. BILLS OF COSTS. • Mr. srumx moved tor a rt.turn of nny bill or bills of cots 11lagud in the proper ..flice for tax.nina in the Court of Chancery (Ireland), in any raw.. iu which George latlietws was a relator, or one of the relator., and A. J. 31acrory, Esq.., the tu.Leitor fur the relators, 'ince ROO.— Agrettl to. PRICES OF IRISH AGRICULTCIRL PRODUCE. Mr. SCULLY ir...ved for a return of the names of the thirty-nine pr . ...rip:A maritime and internal markets of Ire laud from which Mr. tirittith constructed the average sec.le of prices appended to his letter to the Lord-Lieutenant, on the 23.1 day of December last • with the prices of the diff at er e ar.icks of agricultural pinduce ntioned in the said scale in the several markets, on the Hest day of every month during the years 1818 and 1849.—.1greed to. SCAII.II:F, KILKUSII, ENNISTYMON UNIONS. On the motion of Mr. I'. Senora, returns were ordered of the weekly numbers of paupers iu the workhouses of the Searitf, Kilrush, and Knitistynien unions, since the 31st day of December last, stating also the numbers for which there was accommodation in such houses; also, of the W.q kly I nurnher of deaths in the same workhouses for the same tie- Hod, sad of the number of coroners' inquests that have been held on the bodies of any persons who have died in such workhous. s within the same period. SMALL TE.NE3IENTS RATING ACT AMENDMENT O - •FFI O FFICIAL.EXIIIFUTION " . 0 ADVERTISEMENTS will continuo to be received tor in.cubli V the Oilletd: Cataleeue• amine the whole Late the Ll,Abidrit tee anslns open; but se the Centre crt• are Liuv.,l to pay a Amity of gm a day it they do tot ,:eliver the first edit, 10 to the :toys! Ceattnilf iin by the 2•0:10 of April, tame Advertleeraen I:emitted °or the 51-t five of SO; 0 0 each of the email latalotrue, and for the trot ed.tione ef the Illustrated and Vretteh and Dermot Cei Josue., :mist be MIA to the t ootrasbeell he 11th e Wholesal , etaticncre, JointContranors tothe W. CLOWES AND SONS, Printer., Royal Coolol7llerian. °tidal 'Stalest's Dace, :9, NeW Brldge-r.rmt, Illaekfriare. of the ben. baronet. The bin. baronet had said that the affairs of Ireland were mot eared for in that house. Now he (Sir W. Somersilk) had just taken the trouble to make out a list of the ditfereut commissi , n, of inquiry into the , state of Ireland which had byre issued since the year 1810. ! 1 He would ton go through that list, but he mh;lit state that they amounted in number to thirteen. A large number of committees of the 'louses of Loads and Commons had been rim:minted on matters relating to Ireland from the year 1%0 to the year 1841. These committees had em brazed every conceivable subject connected with the social condition of Ireland. The number of questions thi v had put bad amounted to many thous:mils, and the number of ! committees hail be m6l (Hear, 10,r.) flaying these 63' committees to refer to, his boa. frie:eil (Sir Li. SN . Barron) came forward sod asked for a committee of the whole house to con.ider the state of Ireland. And what to consider ? Ile i (Sir %L . . Montervill,) had listened with attention tothc szsech tit the hon. baronet (Sir 11. W. Barron), Lot could not make out from that spree.. one single idea as to what it was into a birch they were to enquire. The hon. baronet (Sir 11. W. 1'....rr0n) had nut ant., them the slightest intimation as to ti.e business of the committ e. Were they to launch out to sea, as it were, with no object in slew, and silo every hon. gentleman is the lious2 to propooe his own nostrum. (Hear, bear.) Ile (Sir W. SJaterrille) hoped the h•Jusa would asgatitra the pr0p0,..1. Mr. ItEYN 4 )l.lts said that the right hon. baronet (Sir W. Sr/ursine, had stated that he esta:d find no tamilL: rnTition in the motiod of the bon. m. tuber fa Wirt..r (..sir 11. W. Harr en). lie (Mr. Iteynolds) had lint nod to the speech which he (Sir 11. W. Barrios) had tr.ad..., and he had the same f.ailt to tint!. (Near, hear.) Bat 11 (Mr. It. ;molds) could nut forget, and the haws: coral not forgo:, tLat the Secretary fur Ira land (S .r W. Somerville) hail in fo arid theist that this: yen committees had sat on the affairs i.l Ireland. __ - Sir W. SOMEILVILLE.—Sixty-three. Mr. REYNOLDS thanked hi hen. friend for having multiplied it by eleven. (Loud anti coatinuttl laughter.) He (. Ileyasulde) was sorry that he was a little *time in Isis multiplication. (Renewed laughter.) Ile (Sir \V. So merville) had informed them that these sixty-three committees hail a-kid a certain number of question.. lie (Mr. Reynold.) had forgotten the number, awl seould therefore lave the matter to the right hon. baronet. (A laugh) Let them ask in seher etriousuess what bsnefit tires, tat committees, with all their qui sliest., had conferred on Ireland? llad they put tiny additional clothes on the backs of the people ? Had they increased their comforts in any degree ? (Hear, bear.) lie (Mr. Beynolds) be lieved they had not ire any respect improved the condition ci the people. (near, hear.) they ell knew that when any griea once was to be shelved unit thrown reside the proper way of get:ing rid of it was to appoint a committee, who put a certain number of questions, and made u large blue hook. (Laughter.) Now, he (Mr. Rey maids) hugged to state that it was his intention to vote for the motion of the bun. member for Waterton' (Sir 11. W. Barron), but he wished to guard himself against approving of his (Sir 11. W. Barron's.) speech. (Langhter, and ie hear, bear.") Rav in, adverted to his.niett Luiuu, Mr. thy-ileitis said, the right boo. wanton:els had said that lreland showed signs ui preonerity. lAshere did he find the evidence a f that Pfusperity Mantilmtures had a anished from ire'- hind; and their eiittuere: el trausavtious had declined. The trade of Ireland was a acre coasting trade: she was a mare lixter-shop to England. Irehmel manufactured nothing fur Iseesif, and even was compelled to import the east-off clothier of Erne:rad to supply her population. (Hear, hear.) 'low could it he otherwise ? 1% hat had th it house done to improve her condition ? lie found nothing but acts to suspend the constitution, and acts to emend poor law act,. (Hear, bear.) lie heard the hen. baronet (Sir U. AV. Barton) expects !:ia regret that the landlords had not garter power given them in the administratiou of the pint law, notwithstanding that already the unfortunate people were bomb tl over to them bound neck and heels. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord (Lord J. Itussell) had unrodueed amass, into the Pour-Law Act increasing the number of eat °fir, guardians, and making them equal to the elected guardians, thow,,le preciously they were only in the proportion of 3:1 per cent. on each board. (hear.) Ile• noble lord also sanctioned a clause in the boor-law Act which greatly opiate ...all the poor tenant. lie asked on what ground. the government could justify their refusal to grant ing this committee. What harm could it do ? One good that might be expected f.s,m it was, that the feeling espresn-el in that house might compel the poor-law authorities is Ireland to direct immediate attention to the mortality that was occurring in the Eilzush and Ennistv omit I.nions. (pear, hear.) Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL regretted that the committee had been refused by her Majesty's ministers. Ile agreed in a great mane of the otinvvatimer that bad fallen from the how gentleman who hail just sat down. Nothing could be more unfair than to attribute the distress* of !re lated entirely to the prevalent, of free tratk. (hear, hear.) Ile believe.' that giving lacilities to the investment of money in useful and productive works--1, a sw ip e w i o n o f the etandiug ordert of that house—newt' gist void em ploymeot and diminish pauperism in au lateness:degree. Liovernment money was not required; they needed not a Ppull at the exchequer." (Laughter.) l'here were railway ill. before the home impeded by the et:toiling orders, which allowed of the progress of no railway bill until half the sulierrila el capital was paid up, which, if reminded, would eta ourage many capitalists to came norward and in vest he:Ands of thousands, and thus diminish pauperism and circulate capital. (lie or.) In voting fur the motion of the houJianntet he (Mr. M. J. ()Turin L 1) should, however, protest against the idea that Ireland was to be relieved by a return to the ? stem of protection. (" Hear, hear," and "Divide, divide. ') Mr. W. S. CRAWFORD rase amid loud and repeated cries of "divide." 11e thought if hon. members paid at tention to the evidence already bets the house on the state of Ireland they would nut be at a loss to understand the nature of the di-asters that prevailed in that country. (Divide, divide.) 'the hon. baronet hail referred to the repeal of the corn laws es the great cause of Irish distrsee; and Metaureil the Late famine th..t visited that country. But he (Mr. W. S. Crawford) would like to know how the peopie of Ireland would have been saved tiering the pre- Taken: of that famine were it not for the repeal of the eon laws? Hear, hear," and " lie ide, divide.".) nut remind the house that the disordered state of the relathme between lan lineal and tenant was a fertile source of toil in Inland. (So great a confusion here pre vailed that the suite of the hon. Number Was completely drowned, and the Speaker was obliged to cull for order, Ili should muse, as au amendment to the motion of the hon. baronet, that the committee should consider the means of ameitiling the law of kuidlord and tenant. (•• Oh, tilt," and .• Di. ') Kit 11. W. B.tItRON (if we heard the hon. baronet cor rectly through the mist) intimatedthat he did nut object to the udilitioe. ((sheers.) Lord J. lets ssELL said that the house, if they agreed to t h e motion, and went into committee of the whole house, would not have .any very clear remedy before them. The proposal of the hon. traconet was that they should go into committee of the whole house to consid,v the state of lre land, with a view to relieve the distress th, re existing, and, as the hn. baronet argatal, to consider the laws re lating to the :altuissioa of foreign corn, tired to consider the poor laws of Inland: because if they were to restore pro tection and repeal the poor laws of Ireland, they would be in to flair wow to remedy some of the evils under which that country suffered. 'file hon. baronet might remember the report of a committee of the whole house not tending to the repeal of the pour law, but rather to greater laxity in its edministratima, and a more liberal system of re lief. Then, with respect to difference of opinion on the question of protection, the house would see that the hon. member for Dublin uaturagy opposed the course_pro parsed by the hon. member for 11 aterford. (Hear.) Then the hon. gentleman who had just sat down, in turn pro posed and added a further subject of inquiry by way of amendment, and proposed an investigation into the relation between landlord and tenant—a must important subject of Liquirv. (Lord J. linssieli) fraud if the house went into this committee on the motion of the hon. baronet, he would only final that his supporters w o uld o ppo s e every thing that Was proposed to the committee, and the house would pass without any . remedy whatever. With respect ..es the st 'nomad of his right hun. friend, the Secretary for Ireland, he did not represent, as the hon. member for Dublin s, 'met to imagine, that the state of Ireland was a state of prosperity since 1545, but that that year was what he was sorry to say was sutlicieutly obvious—a starting point when in Ireland • although not suffering under the calamities then endured there was competition beyond the mea ns o f employ, that the labourers were without work, that their abodes were miserable beyond those of the poor in any country in Europe, that the food they ate was nut derived from wages, but was almost entirely from what they raised from the ground, when, under, these eirceinetances, there came so dreadful a cola- Inky its famine in the country. When a situation so stated existed it was reasonable that many dreadful evils would follow ; th it many persons were driven from their homes totally unable to pay the rent they had theretofore paid regularly from the flourishing state of nude potato crops; that many emigrated in hope of gaining abroad that assistance or employ that they could not obtain at home, while many others fled to the law which existed for the relic fof poverty, and sought refuge in the workhouses as a last resource. Thome were the consequences, not of any law of parliament, not of any act of government, but the consequences of the state or society which existed in the year 1811, and before, and the dreadful famine which succeeded to those years. Ireland might not be in a state of prosperity, yet there were now symptoms of leis aggravated misery and distress than in fanner yeurs. (Hear, hear.) Then there was out-door relief; at had never been refused when it was absolutely necessary, but it had lately diminished somuch that during the last three months of the past year he believed that the whole amount of coot did not exceed 1,0001. (Hear, hear.) And with respect to other similar circumstances, it appeared by various amounts from the country that scenes of absolute distress were fewer than in former years. That was the state of Ireland at present, and if remedies were required by government and by the legislature, they were hardly likely to discover those remedies by going into a committee of the whole house. (Hear, hear.) His hon. friend had suggested the going into committee, if only to consider the application of private capital and the using of great private exertion. If that quarter required attention, let it be brought on as a separate question. (Hear, hear.) If the relations of landlord and tenant required attention and inquiry, let the hon. member, or some other hon. member, bruss forward separately that question. (Hear, hear.) But by the prepollal before the house they would be able to &tide r notl i and no plan would be placed before gym. ear, bear. Mr. F. FRENC rose, amidst loud calls for a divi sivea and said he had no desire to detain them by enter- Warboannydetads member . o fo i r th 4a?e u r e fli cin had 3 n u o t t h bee th n ° flly t treated when it was alleged that he had put forward the nii% rpori the motion of Mr. J. A. SMITH, this bill was read a 14, wet time. iliiiiVirliOCSES FOR THE WORKING CLASSES BILL. Thil bill was brought iu by Lord ASHLEY, and read a first time. . . . . 7hc • ..... . house adjourned at half-past twelve o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. IIOL:SE OF COMIIONS. STATE 01 IRELAND. ntrefeli a-d Qurstion proposed, " Tout this Rouge do resolve itself into a commoner, to take into (\maid:ration the stole of Ireland, with • stew to 1 . 4.110. the Il(etr so there oilskins :" ;Sir ilea. y Winoton 11.irro.4)—Aalermituent propon it, at the end of the Quest.on, to ad k the *rotas t. and inure esee. Roily to consater the Is at me in of ountailing the lain. relat ng to the reLitionkliip of land.ord and tenant :"—( Ur. Sminn..n Crowlord.) —lto•otion, .. that those wurlA be (bier added," put, and award t o—Mona quAstlus, as innend,th put. Tkc hunt ais Jaw : A ! CA, 119 ; Nue., liS. AVF3. *lister, Thema. , C. Flyer, John Mullis" Joseph 11. Arkough,, Ors.rge leftwa, William Nook Load Badge, William Forester, lin. G.C.W. 11.. pier, Joseph Radek 11.4. %dawn Fos, Swkrille W. I. Nekkl, John Batlike, 11. J. French, Fr zstenti n Neill, Joseph Bar ~ James PreW,S, Chick,. 11. New egate. Chao. N. Baklava, Edward IL Visllvr, Augoous E. Newport, Vhnoor.t i110.a.,, (Algae Gesell, J earl, M. Muni i, Sir U. J. Barrow, %%loam U. Gilpin, Col. Nugent, Sir Perry Riese., Thom.. Goma, Edward S. O'lli ten, J. lisoulnar, Lord Henry Gould, Wyndnoin O'Brien, Sir brim liarr.forti, Wil inn Gin., Nnii.m It. O. O'Brien, She I. Berkeley, Hon. G. F. Grace, Oliver, D.J. O'Connell, Joha wernank Viscount Grattan, Henry O'Connell, M. J. Cloke, Marna J. Greene, John Otrat.erty, Anthony Conilioni, %aqui, of tin w iii, Edward PRke, Charles W. if twat, Redinant J. Ilucrowy, Lore Palmer, Robert .ondiro, Usury G. Gwyn, Rowel l'on.sonby, llon.C.F. lir..mrklier, Itichotd llols .y, Thomas P. Portal, Mt little Bra be, sir A. IL Ilamilton, Go .rge A. Report, 0. W. J. ' Brun, V. L.C. Harris, Ili n. e‘: it. Puttied., John Worn, Cuonel Hewer, Jew ph W. ticuily, Francis Hole:, air John T. Higgins, George G.O. Stoking% Colonel Rurah.cy, Lord 1014 and, Thus. IL T. Spooner, *Bawd :duke, SR T. J. 11,11, Turd Edwin Bug. rul, Augu tun Coat:. rough, Vi 4.... Hodgson, %m. N. S a nfoul, J,Jm r, Chichester. Ld. J. L. Junes, CAM. Stud, y, Edward Clingopiter, R. A. &twins, Rabat Stanley, lion. E. IL Clive, Henry It. Keogh, Witham Stuart, Henry Culibold, John C. Knistuiey, Sir C. Skiliivou r Miconel vs.:vide, l bit All B. linos, CoL Toylike, TOMO el IL Coral's,, M. E. lannov, Lord 11. G. Tenison, E Twirl E. vravrtord, W. Lot - Loon, William 'Thompson, Mr. Alai. Deversus, John T. lillockonrie, W. F. Tolleinache, John Liisraeli, benjandn Macniwnien, sir E. Tyler, Sir George Dori, Jobe W. M.Collagh, W. T. Inc. Richard H. B. Durconitc, lion. A. Magon, Wiliani U. Waddington, 11. S. Una 1., tirOftfa Altiihif, Tboons Wriby, GI) uni. E. Dunn.", Colonel Manor:, The tirlor. Wiluoghbv, Sir If. Du Pre, C. U. Man-lvville, Viscount Wislitonor , , Edmond Eiwarilo, Henry Malinielt, l'hant..s P. Wynn. Web. rt W. Fig .34 Wiloon 11l us, Sir Henry Farallon; E. H. Monson, WAlinn Barron. Sir li. W. Varna, James Moore, George 11. I ‘ , l ll olllS Jilt. NOES. Ably, Sir T. N. (treenail, ohbert Veto, Samuel M. At kl ind, bar T. D. Grit nfelk C. P. loilunotoo, James Adair, R. A. s. Grey, lit. Lion vir G. Pinney, William Aglionby, Henry A. Grey, ItAlph, W. Price, Sir Robert Ash cy, Lord Grievenor, Lord It. Ricardo, Osman Bathes, ILL Hu. M. T. lionyborton, W. J. F. Rice, !inward 1:. tie: ing. 1t'..1i0n..10:. Rammer, Su John Roliortvs, Taos. J. A. Boss, Miv hart T. llordendle, JOit ph A. homilly, Colonel Renew, Ku.l. ml M. !Look., Alexander numilly, tie J..lin lankekey, Awn., .1 Rune. Arebiba vt Rumen, Lord J no Berkeley, C. L. G. 11a:elicit, ttt. lino. J. Bossed, Ilan. Edw. B. Bernal, Ralph Howes, Ilenjamin Russell, F. C. 11. Diacs.tung, W. 9. Ilvald, Lanes licholeliold, Willant Boyle, lion. Cd. Heotinsokt, John Seymour, Lord Bright, (oho hurry, Alelililler Shifts, Robert D. Br, ekl. burst, John Ileyworilk Lao rms. Shendan, B,chari B. Brockman, E. 1). Ilin-doy, Charles Blaney, Robert A. kir...thee:oo, Joseph Robb kuse, Thomas B. Smith, John A. Brow., Humph. Holm, Thorn.. L. Smollett, A. Coulletal,JoloSt N. Howard, Hs. E. O.G. hooter,, John P. eivendiab, Hon. C.C. Hutchins, Valuta J. Somerville, Sir Win. Carendish, llon.G.li. J lekson, Milian Fotheron, 'Dios, v . Cave:kaiak, W. 0. Kerehaw, James Spearman, Henry J. Collates, John W. lOnd, Ha. Peter T.L. Stanton. William 11. Clay, James Labouchere, lalls.ll. Stuart, Lord Join s Oen, Bt. lf in. SRC. frosts, George C. Toured, Henry W. Cockldirn, sir A. J.L. Littleton, lion, E. R. Thickness% Ralph A. Colin., William Locke, Joseph Thompson, Cana Cowiser, Uon. W. F. Marote, John Tolle rune, F. J. Craig, Sir W. G. M.G7r, John Townshersk Captain Docks, Willtim M'Nei Duncan Trail, George Ihmison, John E. Marsha I, William Trelowny, John S. Douglas, Sir C. E. Matheson, Co.. Weary, Hon. Tr.onua Drumm ad, 11. 11. Morris, Dovid lawn., Viscount Duncan, Vi.conut Mu.tyu, I tn. E. M. L. Wotkint, Cannel L. Duneuft, John Monett, Francis Westheod, J. I'. B. Mind le, Sir David Mulgrave, Earl of Willcox, 11. It Gide Mice, Edward Norreys, Lord Willis ea, Jolla Ellis, John Ogle. Saville C. U. Williamson, Sir R. Loons, Willivm Oswald, Meson:a Wilson, James Foley, John H. IL Owen, :air John Wilson, Mathew leoruyee, A. D. Paget, Lord Alfred Wood, Kt. Rn. tile C. 1.111.1', Matthew Paget, Lord Clarence Wood. William P. Fortescue, Chichester Palmer, lei undell Wyvil, IlarttooliWo Freeatun, Colonel Palmerston, Viscount IRLtial. 13 0 11 . Gs tree Corr Parker, John Barer. iiklln. W.G. Cloulburn, itt. Us. U. Perfect, Robert Hill, Lord Marcus ANALYSIS OF THE DIVISION ON AIR. ILEEDIES' MOTION. Majority (tellers included) Liberals -2SO Minority (tellers ineladed)-- Conservatives 197 Liberals 232 Absent— Liberals (including pairs) 7O Conservatives (including pairs) Seats vacant— Aylesbury, Corentry,Entuslsillen,Leith,Lon dun. Longford, Somerset (West) 7 Speaker 1 6O Sir W. Molcsworth paired off with Xr. Whitmore against Mr. Herne* . amendment. Mr. Traill, M.P. for Caithness, paired against Mr. Berries' amendment with Mr. Thornhill, M.P. for the county of Huntingdon. Mr. Henry Grattan voted in favour of Mr. Herrick' amendment. Sia WrwAx has, we are informed. beenpreventediron attending the House of Commons consequence of a levet* attack of Inflame, which condom him to his room. Vie oirrpreoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Arebotrobsott‹..nt;;;:e:tior 7: Tbekt;llc; T. , crbty rprr I' tbo o;ribe to Houverie•stre.,t, by Tic) o'c.ock cos tlme MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Teu DAT—lliorulug, (lb. 49m iftetsuota, 711. 10410.1110/111-11unda{, 7b. .Aftesamn, Bb. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9. THE division of Monday night affords conclusive evidence of the correctness of the view we hare more than once expre. sed of late as to the intentions and designs of the protectionist party. The tone of Lord SiANLIA'S alter-diuner speed' at Merchant Tailors' that it did, as well us all that it did net contain—tended to create in our minds the impression that the great champion of the agricul tural interest was nut in earnest in his load profes sions of eagerness to bring the great quarrel to u final issue. We th ought we saw the button on the point of the Mil. " Fight the whigs to the death,' was the shout, for the clans ;—but " don't flinch, we doll mean mischief, this time," was the interpreta tion put upon the phrase by tliJse whose existence was threatened. .. ----- And it now is manifest that this interpretation was tight. The renewal of the income tax us pro posed by Sir CIIMILES Warn, in its ummxlitied form, presented the fairest chance of the s.-ssion to the protectionist party. The inherent injustice of the proposition was undeniable—almost unskilled. Many amongst all seetions of the liberal party felt themselves committed by previous votes and &tiara , tions against its iniquitous muquality, and , auglit in vain fur any ground of hope that film inequality would be even mitigated. Of these it was certain, therefore, that secs-nil who had readily recorded their votes against Mr. llisn %ELL'S memorable motion for the relief of agricultural distress, would either support Mr.liEttums's amendment, or have abstained front taking any part in the struggle. In like wan ner it was evident that stronger motives than ever were likely to sway the votes of Irish numbers in the same direction. Ii the income tax veto again renewed it might well be regarded as attaining an other guarantee of permanency; and once its per manence was demonstrated. they might well believe that the exemption of Ireland from its operation would become impossible. Many of these gentlemen, therefore, were likely to coalesce with the protectionists in the attempt to apply the surplus revenue in reduct:on of the income tux, with a view to its eventual abolition or modification, who had aided in rejecting . the vague isolation of sympathy fur the landed interest, proposed by the member for Bucks two months ago. And the division list shows that these anticipations ware not ill-founded. The names of many stanch and tried liberals are nut to be found :u the majority of Monday night ; and taking into account all who may have paired, as well us those who may have been absent from casual circuited ,nees, it is impos sible not to believe that a strong feeling of repugnance to this must unjust of taxes, sub nausea nut a few votes front the ministerial ranks. 'there appear some twenty names in the minority who supported Mr. IlmuttEs's proposition which are not to be found in the list on Mr. Ns natters IMAM in February last. On the other hand, there are to be found in the latter inure than fifty who eio not appear on the muster roll of Mon , day night. Thus it is clear that one of two things must be true—either the protectionist leaders are not ready to lead, ur their followers are not ready to I billow. To the issue it matters little which alternative we credit. Whether the phenomenon be attributable to "an understanding" between the chiefs and their adherents, or to a misunderstanding between them, is a question of a domestic nature into which it were perhaps indelicate to pry too closely. The fuels are all that can lie of much interest to the public at lurge, and they are indisputable. What, then, it may be asked, is the object of Mr. Dtsltte.Ll in proposing to fight another round with the (Arm :wnt of the Emit before the Easter recess? Is it merely to show—what till the world already knows and admits, that he is in his parliamentary prhne, while his veteran colleague in the cabinet that is :tot to be, is politically keble and &flew ? %Vet have heard of doting dowagers who were jealous of younger dames, but the stutc of mind is not easily conceivable in which a man—in the full possession of all the power which well-trained abilite can confer, and of all the influence which unrivalla position among his own parthansean bestow—should inflamed with a miserable envy of such miserable reputation for red-napery as that which alone dis tinguishes poor Mr. HERMES. We ear. hardly sup pose Mr. DISRAELI capable of such weaknes , . Whatever cause for apprehension his followers may have of his throwing them over some fine morning, it is difficult to conceive how the suspicion could ever enter into any sane man's mind that they should ever meditate supersetling him in the post of mastery he has so manifestly made for himself. The tortes may cajole Sir STRATFORD CANNING into casting his sexagenarian fortunes into the same lap with them, and they any amuse themselves with speculations we the comparative defects of their only two relics of the old school of politicians which flourished in Eng land thirty years ago ; but, as a party, there is but one man tunongst them capable of guiding their in firm steps or governing their infirm purpose, and in nothing does he show his absolute ascendancy more completely than in the nonchalant air with which he appoints at short notice a given day for a general parade, and summons them to appear, full into line, fire blank cartridge, and then march home again,— apparently for no other imaginable purpose than to show their docility and his right to command. For, though some get leave to stay away, and some are sulky and unmanageable ' a sufficiently large number are mustered on such occasions to flutter momentarily-nervous Secretaries of the Treasury. Whereupon the ministerial reccilh! is sounded, and fur some hours all is astir, just as if something was really going to happen. But nothing happens after I all. • When the lists are set, and the heralds have sounded their usual parley—the one and only hero of the cause gone by, steps forth daintily to exhibit his skill of dialectic truce; and that being over, the • rest of the seen takes place in a confused and un meaning manner, the incapables falling foul of one another, and thrusting their weapons mercilessly into each other's sides, until at length their leader signi fies that for that time there has been enough of dust t and din ; and, noses being counted, they are dismissed to their more congenial occupations. One of these marvellous scenes will probably be enacted on Friday next, with the ordinary accom paniments and the usual results, or rather non results. For nothing, assuredly, will, can, or is meant to come of it, beyond what is commonly called in military systems" exercising the men," and giving the subaltern officers a day's " field practice." 'The guns, it is hardly necessary to remark, are never loaded upon such occasions; no harm is intended, and of course no harm is done. 'ant it is recollected that the last words of Lord BROUGHTON DE OTTFORD, late Sir JOHN HOBILOUSE, in the House of Commons, were to the effect that her Majesty's ministers did not on this occasion intend to propose that preliminary investi gation by parliament which hitherto had invariably preceded the expiration of one East India Company's Charter Act and the enactment of another—it must be admitted, when this is remembered, Mr.Cntsnotar. ANsrEr did both India and England substantial service by his motion of Thursday night. For, no sooner had he finished his able and comprehensive statement of India's grievances, than Lord Jou"; RUSSELL, to the obvious mortification of Mr. JANES WIL-+ON, prepared with reams of paper whence to deluge the house with well manipulated statistics, brushed aside subordinate cleverness, and frankly admitted that a grand parliamentary inquest must be holden over the results of the " great experi ment " of 1833 ; postponing it, however, to that minus miraloili, of English history, the session of 1862. All things considered, this is perhaps as inne2 l al I could be expected. The sobriety of parliamentary oftgarent, and the steadiness of pariiamentarym dustry, have necti too much disturbed this session, and are still too liable to further emotions for com mittees ()tithe two houses now to settle down quietly, perseveringly, and usefully to investigate the COIIKC• quence to India of the changes in the form of its rule wh'eh were introduced in 1s 33, the present condition and probable prospects- of its people, and the effect our administrative system has at once on them and on the functionaries it gives oecupatioa to. Mr. ANsmv, however, sought to supersede a parliamentary inquest by local "illuiry. But, though assenting to all that he so well urged as to the importance of judging of our oriental into by means of native :estiniony, of testing its sue,:ess or failure by , native opinion, and of governing India for the sake of India, not for the glorification of Englund, we nevertheless agree with Mr. llotr and I.ord .1011 N Itussul. that the balance of objections is against a royal commission and largely in favour of parlimientary committees. No doubt, as the con trariety of statements made by Sir J.tMEs and Mr. BRIGHT shows, there are the most material discrepancies of alleged wets to he reconciled nr cleared u p, . and that, of course, would best be done by meal inspection. But what is chiefly wanted in linhan affairs Is not to be overwhehned with chaotic masses of detail • it is rather to be prepared with sound principles of administration, and with practical securities foe their application ; and they, we must think, are most likely to be attained by interesting the leading public men ut home in the concerns of India, by means of a pariiamentary in quest. no main Indian questions me, in point of Met, identical with our own most prominent ques tions. 'flay are, the enormous cost of its govern ment and the heavy burthena of its taxation. These lie at the root of all Indian grievances; and until some great effort be made to apt the revenues of India more to the legitimate Via of taxation, viz., the benefit of the people taxed, and less to the sup pre-A necessity of maintaining our position by inor dinate military expenditure, wlrrein the people have comparatively very small interest ; until the great sum yearly raised shall be levied in tome mode less enleulatet to depress industry, to discourage itgri cultural improvement, and to destroy mauutacturing enterprise, It is quite hopeless to regard our posses sion of that empire us other than what the late Nlr• &lois, au uneaanable authority, showed it to be, hurtful to its people. That twenty-flee millions sterling are no mighty snot for one hundred and filly millions to pay for their government is true enough. But it is not true that, in paying that NUM, the population of lndin have the benenta of good government; it is not true that their industry is effectuully protected, that their prsons are safe, that justice is well administered, that public works have opened up to than the means of transport, that fair play is given to the great re sourecs of India, that the people are engaged in ad min:steril; their own affairs. These evidences of the proper application of the twenty-five millions ' sterhug are not generally characteristic of India; though of course there are exceptional districts •, and not being generally characteristic, the people of India cannot be said to have value received for the amount of taxes they pay. 'The government of India, proud of one of these exceptional districts, and wise, too, in its generation, haw just printed and put into private circulation a large and handsomely illustrated account of Mairwarrah. And what does it prove? Muirwarrah is a bill country, intersecting the route from Delhi to Bom bay. Some twenty years ago it was inhabited by a race similar to our own highland enterans a century and a half back. They then relieved the starvation and privation of their fastnesses by levying black mail on the neighbouring lowlands, and by robbing every one they could lay their hands on. But, in spite of their success in thieving, they were rapidly declining hr mu hers, when them lawlessness was effectually repressed by the Indian government. Well ; under the superintendence of Captain DixoN and his pre decessor, the Meirs have ceased tube thieves, rogues, and numbers, and are now an industrious, laborious. and peaceable people. Their country is a model of impoivements, of embankments, of tanks, of road-, all ( scented at an incredibly small cost; ha produc tion not only feeds and maintains them, but en ables them largely to export ;main , they produce and inautifacture cotton, and supply the neighbours they formerly robbed with articles of dress ; they smelt the iron of their hills, and make iron pots, which are becoming popular throughout the north-west of India ; they have founded a town which already con tains 9,0)4) people; they maintain their own police, execute justice themselves, and send a handsome surplus to the general government of Calcutta. Such are now the Maim and Mairwarrah. The meeit of this change is due, no doubt, primarily to the Indian government. But mark how it {lll3 dtettell! Nat by scattering highly paid civil servants through out these hills; not by occupying them with regi ments of the line; not by enormous expenditure. But by the agency of the Maim themselves ; by merely putting them in the right direction ; by let ting them work out their own redemption ; by en trusting them with the management of their own unities ; by giving them what Lord PALMERSTON is so fond of savitg is the cause of all material prosperity -• a little civil freedom. When, then, the government of Bengal print, at the expense of the twople of India, Captain Dixox's sketches of Mairwarrah, as evidence of what they have done for India ; we reply that it proves more— much mom—than that. It mdicutes wlmt the native tribes of India tan achieve for themselves; it sug gests that our attempting to do everything for the native population is the cause of their retrogression ; it shows that our system is not only repressive of native energy, but molly in the extreme. This, and not the praise of the Bengal government or Captain Duos, Is the moral we extract from the expensive quarto the Court of Directors are now circulating. And why should the rest of India be incapable of doing what the Maim, under Captain Dives, have accomplished for Mairwarrah? If Mairwarrah be no longer the abode of outlaws and a hiding place I for thieves, but a district of which the East India Company is so proud, why not apply to other parts of Italia the means by which this great change hos been produced in Mairwarrah Place and patron age, and European employment, and the expense of government would be thereby reduced; but other laudatory sketches might then be added to Captain Dixoses. Let Sir JAMES I (OGG and Mr. MaNw.ns think of this. They are both able men ; too able to sink into mere administrators of patronage. As then Mr. AxsxsY has brought out the minis terial assurance that a great inquest of the legislature will nextyear commence on the East India Company and its administration of India, it behoves all parties and persons interested in that empire to make preparations for an investigation of such surpassing importance. There arc men in England who know the truth ; let them combine and encourage each other to disclose it. Mr. SULLIVAN, Colonel Mous- SON, and General BRIGGS, will be able in 18:32 to make up for time wasted and the ammunition thrown away in the Court of Proprietors. Arrangements may be made fur the examination of some intelligent natives. The journals of India can direct . public attention here to what it is European society in India chiefly finds fault with. The press at home will be open to information on all points, and topics, and subjects. And, above all, now that inquiry is forthcoming, they who, in the natural order of things, must share in it, will prepare themselves in time for the task. (F last aiestliNaartte.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL B.—The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint David Ross, Eq., now British Vice. Consul at Coquimbo, to bo her Majesty's Consul at that port. - - - - DOWNING-STREET, AI'ItTL B.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Wattley, Esq., to be Provost- Marshal for the Island of St. Christopher. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIECTENANT op DEVONSRIII3I.—The lion. Samuel Knight Lysaght to be Lieutenant in the East Devon Regiment of Militia. Thos. Bridges, Esq., to be Lieutenant; William Holland Dick. ford Coham, Gent., and Charles Chichester, Gent., to be Cornets; Charles Colville Turner, Gent., to be Surgeon ; Thomas Cowdray, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon ; Sir Trevor Wheeler, Bart., to be Lieut -Colonel Commandant ; the Hon. Hugh Viscount Ebrington to be Lieut.-Colonel ; William Taidrew, Esq., to be Major; Alfred Robert Hole, Eq. to be Captain ; John Curzon Moore Stevens, Esq., se be Lieutenant; the Hon. Charles Henry Rolle Trefusis to be Cornet : in the North Devon Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. Cbe Court. The alterations to the front of Buckingham Palace being now completed, nll guests and visitors to the palace will enter through the iron gates next the centre gate of the eacloiure to the cast of the palace. Ihe entrane.• gate will be that to the south of the centre, and that fur exit to the north.. . _ !ler Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied Ly the Princess Royal anal the Princess Helena, honoured Sa B. Landscer, yesterday morning, with a vi.it at his rt.-4 lento, St. John's.wood. Iler M:nesty and hi. lt.ayal iligliaewa were attended by the lion. Miss Se , moor, Colonel Buckley, and Lieutenant-Colonel the lion. A. Gunton. The Queen, attended by the lion. Mi.. Seymour and Colonel Buckley visited the Duchess of Gloucester, yester day afternoan, at Gloucester Rome. The Prince of Wale., attended by Mr. Birch, took a carriage drive yesterday. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey and Licut.-Colonel Iron. A. Donlon, vi.ited the Ex hibition of Work. of Art by tie. Students of the clowl of Dodo, at 3larlbomugh yederd.tv morning,. In the afters:Lk* his Royal attended as before, in .pecte,l the Flaxman Gallery at the Loadon Univa Ay, Gower-street. Royal Highness was melted by B.tron Gold.mid, Cherie , . Atkinson, E.g., W. Wyoa, 1,1., and several of the Piofe.s.w. of the, University. The Quern and l'rince in.Lbett• i ye.dcrilay mull ing the twa engrivintr, by Mr. 11.. en is of htz Mak ty an 1 l'rince Albert from Wiutcrluxlta's ri,ture, wLieh wa re xubmittukt by Mr. Mon. Prince Albert iti,peetcd yestenlay morning a portrait of the Late Duke of Cantbri.bre, by ti. P. t lri en, Esq. Ills Royal Ili:hues, also Mlle; te‘l A statuette, by J. I.:. Jones, Elul., of tilt, Duke of Wellington. Iler Majesty and Prince - Albert, net•ompaniod by tho Prince of Wales and the l'rincess Royal, lumounsl tho Itocal Italian Opt ra liouse with their igescnce last ..venings Th'e royal suite consisted of the )!archamess of Douro, llon, :Miss Seymour, the Earl of Listowel, Colonel Iluelsley, atxd Litmt....coltwa lloa. A. Gordon. The Marchioness of thous) has reEcv .4 the Countets of Desart in her duties as lady in waiting to the Queen. A deputation from the church of Scotland had an inter view ye,terday with Lord John !twee at hi+ ut 4 b donee in )1/Fllling-Arect. The deputation embibted of the Rev. Ur. Simisou, of liirknewtoa; Res. Dr. Co.hk. of St. Audrov 3; Proti,or Campbell, Swinton; Mr. John Gordon, Mr. Home Drummond, M.P., 'Mr. Mr. Forbes Markenz:e, M.l'., Colonel Mure, .11. e., Mr. Alex. Smaller. lion. Franck Seuti, M.P., Sir John Derma 31axwel!, Mr. ileum, Mr. David wrath, and Mr. burn, of I:ilk:tn. 'I lie Earl of Arundel and Stirroy and Mr. I.anTlab• au intervi.m , with Sir Geor4e tiny y vsterday at thu Hume . . . . . Mr. Charl..s ";evens had an Liter% kw with :he Conunig ioners of Li:Always yesterday, at the tillire of the It ..r of Tr.tde, in the matter of the Bristol awl Exeter Railway. A deputation from Sydenh tm, Forest-hill, and Lewis ham, in restart of the untold. d Metrupolitan Uill, 18.51, I , ltl an interview yesterday with Lord Seymour at the office of her )14 sty's Lommissoiners et Woods and Forests, in Whitthall-plane. The d.•putali.ln rnn.id .1 of—Front Forsnd-hill : Messrs. Wiliiant henry Whitten, Ivor, and Henry Major. From Syatotham 'nog. hunt, thonv Corhott, Henry Barrett, 'lllonlas Haller, Joseph Verty, (harks Pearson, Richard Ane.ek, Ovorg, Ilut-on, Jeremiah Barrett, Win. Sitarel, and Janus Grei tiwood. From I, , whhant : Henri. (201.11.11• Mill and Denjamiu Parsey. From : Mr. Hobert Evie. Dr. Johnston and Mr. W. Duncan, of Edinhirgh, had an interview with Sir Lieorje tircy yesterday a‘ the Houle anat.. Ihe Oxford University Cotuntission had a meeting yes,- teribty a the ottieial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-street. Present : IIi•hop of Norwich, the Dean of l'arli•le, the Master of nihroke, the Roe. 11. U. Liddell. J. L. Dampier, Esti., the Rec. Fru fesaor Powell, the Rev. 0. R. S. Johnson, and Um .1(.:T. A. I'. Stanley (secretary). CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. THIS DAY. OLD COCIIT. Emu's Tall COMWX 8/111111ANT. CHARGES OF FOItGEILY. J. L. llorrock,, 19, as a merchant, pleaded guilty to two indictments charging him with felt Maud, Mr:ging and utterring two hills of ...change 130/. and tilt?!. 3s. :M., with intent to th fraud William Mi'der hruty and others. lie was sc..tteneett to be transportol for fourteen year.. J• Cana Bowl. 22, clicinigt, uI pleaded gniity to 'a chargo of ,tc.:1117, u oil:amity of eh( gm, mid other %%Linable irt,trit usentp, di- property of George William Acton. it amocarol that while a clerk Wil4 in the act of paying in the in.truments in question at the hankers, the prkonee rushed to and snatched up the property mad rut otf with it. lie wa3 ocuteueed to be tranvort.al for ten 3-1.311. BLroar. Ent.z. P4I•T-OPFICF. Ito III; 1:1t1 EA. J. Coot, 21, a post Mike letter-eurrier, pleaded guilt► t, indietztteirt charging him with seer.iing and de•tru)iug three letters, the prole•rty of the l'ustinaster-lieneral. It wag stated by Mr. Clarkson, whir appeared for tiro pmg,eution, that nu di:demist motive w;:s imputed to tho prisoner, but th it he had, hfle in a state of into...l(ll[i at. deliberately destroyed the Ittterstu sate himself the trouble of delivering them. Ile was seateueed to sit mouths' imprisonment and hard J. I). Burk.., 19,.a eliTkoileakil guilty to two indictment., eliargiug him wide stealing letters tvntaining property belontring to the Postmaster-Geoettil. lle was ~.ntenced to be transported fur 12 years. J. Smith, 31, w ho plcadrd guilty to a similar charge, was also sentenced to ho transportoil for ten ri - uni. J. Reyna/eh, IS, likewise pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing letter, th..: property of the pi.gniaster-general. lie wia wallowed to be transported fur ten years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. TIIIS DAY. Tl[ ANT F.B. T. Turner, a waterman, aged *.N, of No. 6, Mill-pond street, Itotherhithe, was charged with assaulting and at tempting to rob Mr. James Jos-ph Ilaldain, ship chandler awl marine store dealer, of Nu. 2, Clark-street, Stepney ; awl also with throwiaag him oserboard and attempting to drown him. Mr. Baldwin, whose face was covered with bruises, and who appeared to he in a very weak state from loss of blood and his immerhin in the water, stated that last night he was on the Itotherhithe side of the river, and .4'..aaut twelve o'clock gait into a bout, for tho purpose of b.:ing ferried over to the Thaims-twinel-stairs, Wapping. The prisoner and two other watermen got into the boat, and instead of taking him directly across the river, took him alongside a ship, and utter rowing Lim about for soma time took him back to Itotherhithe. Ile said it was very strange, arid insisted on being rowed to his destination on the Middlesex shore. The water men then rowed him towards the Tunnel-stairs, and before they reached that plaice they began talking among themselves, and one of thou struck him a violent blow under the car, while another attempted to rub him. lle resisted as well as he was able, and wits again struck in the face and thrown into the river. Mr. Yardley—What did they rho that fur? Mr. Ilaldwin—No doubt to rob me. One man pot his hand in my pocket and attempted to take my packet-book, and then I was struck a swore blow. It was alone so sud denly I can hardly recollect what did occur. I was tip to my neck in the water, and scrambled out us well us I could. Atter I was thrown overboard the men rowed towards tbo shore. One man got out, anal the boat then rowed away. I did not lose anything. I bad Walk-notes and bills in my pocket-book. I bad been drinking, and was notkui.e sober; The prisoner, in defence, said he wins on the Itotherhithe shore, anal saw the gentleman come down the beach, and nearly walk into the river. Ile cautioned hint to mind how he went, and upon looking at Lim saw that his face wag covered with blood. Ile told the gentleman he had better go away, but he would not, and remained twenty minutes, and said he wanted a boat, and five or six more watermen took him into a public-house, and washed the blood off his face, and cleaned it, and the gentleman wanted to change a 2W. note. Mr. Baldwin said he had fallen and cut his eye in Bother ' Lithe before he went to the water side. The prisoner said he rowed the prosecutor over in a boat by himself, after others had been rowing him about; that the prosecutor afterwards got into another boataand soma other watemum rowed him away. The prisoner then as serted he was at home when sir. liaidwin w,is thrown over board, and afterwards that he was on the spot near some barges. _ Mr. Baldwin was recalled, and said he WAS not rowed over by a single man. Ile did not go into a public-house on tho Middlesex side of the river. His 201. note was then safe in his pocket-book. A. Cowc said he heard cries of " Murder" and " Police," last night. They proceeded from the river, grew more and more faint, and were accompanied with a kind of suffocating and gurgling noise. He went round to the water side, and saw the prosecutor, who was wet, and bleeding profusely, coming up some steps,and calling for aid. Ile helped him up, and then looked around and saw thu prisoner on the hard beach running behind some bargee. He caught hold of bins, and before speaking to him the prisoner said, " It's not me that did it." A constable here said that a man named Carman, who was not in attendance, could give more important evidence, for he saw the other watermen in the boat put Turner on shore after they had thrown Mr. Baldwin overboard, and heard him say " Shove off the boat." i Mr. Yardley said that, accordin to the statement of tho prosecutor, a foul murder and ry had been attempted, he should remand the prisoner 8.11,041,1,„ .... Ba r A policeman said that Mr. Win bast 70461'801. in his pocket-book when ha Wei ma r-lieuse. A watermaa ben slegrei , laid Ms best was Ruseptitlonaly take* away; sks j a .4hoh the gentleman was rowed venter, ~., The prisoner was then ;pi .:. , ^ ..., It" 1. , ,,2 - :. ,•:•,. 0 .4 , " if OP I 111 111