The Express. — London, England, 1848-02-16 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, The right rev. prelate bad called those who differed from him in the judgment friends of the liberties of the church. The Bishop of EXETER said he did not mean to apply it specially to them. Lord DENMAN thought that no person in any situation an ever had such opportunity of conferring so great a benefit on the church, or rather of protecting it from so much nag chief, as his brother and himself (se wee understood). With regard to the resigning of the archbishop, be thought that if any man in any office was celled on to de what his coescience told him be ought not to do, he ought to ratio, and that no advantage should induce him to violate hut own conscience. (Hear, hear.) In making that observation he referred to judges of the courts as well as to archbishops, who, he thought, should resign rather than submit to the dictation of the crown, in pronouncing that to be law which wria not the law. (Hear.) With regard to the petition. be did not view it in the severe manner that his noble aid learned friend on the woolsack did. (Hear.) He understood that it to which merely prayed for the repeal of the penalty of proemunire, the dean and chapter w ere subject, as the law now stood, if they did not elect the person named by the crown. He con fused he 'tidied to see the word pros/nursere altogether abo liaised from the statute book. But he thought there wee • better mods of arriving at the end which the petitioners had in view, and which had been suggested by Archbishop Crea mer to King Edward the Sixth—namely, by taking away the power of election from the dean and chapter (as we under stood the noble and learned lord, who read the extract in a very low tone). Lord CAMPBELL was sure the right rev. prelate who introduced this subject was actuated by pure and laudable motives. He entirely approved of the line of conduct pur sued by his noble and teamed friend who had just spoken, and considered it would be derogatory to his high character if he were to come before their lordships to justify the judg ment he pronounced, because some persons complained of it. He hoped no chief justice would ever set such an example. Although the judges were equally divided on the q uestion, there wee no doubt that the judgment war against the man damus ; as in the case respecting the validity of marriages in Ireland without the presence of a priest apostolically ordained, the judgment of that house wee against the validity of such marriages, although the votes of such of their lord ships as voted wave equally divided. The right rev. pre late spoke of the frightful consequences of the law, if it turned out to be such as the Court of Queen's Bench decided it to be. lie begged to remind the right rev. prelate, how ever, that the act of 25th of Henry VIII., though plumed when the reformation was only beginning in this country, must popularly be considered the act of the Ist of Elizabeth, when it was complete. The right rev. prelate compered this cue to what takes place in Scotland upon the appoint ment of a minister of congregation. Both in England and in Scotland it war clear that there ought to be • power of objection to the nominee of the patron. If he wee deficient in doctrine, morale, or learning, he might be objected to. It was not true therefore that a Jew, a Turk, or an infidel, could be forced on the church of England. The right rev. elate had token an exaggerated view of the matter. He seemed to forget that the bishop must have been first ordained a deacon and a priest, and that he must be appointed by the head of the church; and if his sufficiency must be determined in some quarter, with all respect he affirmed that the sovereign, with the as. sistance be or she could obtain, might come to *Aright a con clusion as any other individual respecting the doctrine, morals, and learning, of the person to be appointed a bishop. Moreover, if the bishop elect did not answer the solemn questions which were put to him at the time of consecration, the archbishop might refuse to consecrate him, and he would not thereby incur the penalty of a pranawaire. He con sidered these were sufficit nt guards against the danger re ferree‘to by the rivet reverend prelate. He did not think that new tests ought now to be set up realest the practice of 300 years; and he therefore thought that Ids noble and learned friend and the other learned judge who concurred with him in refusing the rule should be looked upon as the saviours of the church. lie would concur in any change that might be desirable respecting the form, but as a warm and ardent friend of the church of England, be hoped that no alteration in its substance would be attempted, and if successful he believed it would be productive of the most melancholy consequent eo. (Hear.) The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S said he rose to address their lordships because he was unwilling to let it be supposed that his two right rev. friends who had spoken on this subject had delivered their sentiments with the unanimous and unquale fied assent of every member of that bench, and he was the more unwilling that this should be the cue, because, though there were many parts of the right rev. prelate's argument in which he fully concurred, in the expressions which he used, and in the whole tone of his address there was some thing which he could not help regarding as a sinister prin ciple—as an augury of an approaching storm which might, unless averted by the wisdom of the legislature, ,hake the church and even the state to their very foundations. The right rev. prelate described the present state of the law es monstrous, intolerable, oppressive, and tyranaical. lie cer tainly had no objection that the prayer of the petition which the right rev. prelate presented should be granted, ea far as related to the penalty of prirmunire, and in that respect he believed it echoed the wishes of the entire people. (Hear, hear.) But if it was intended to go further than this—if the inevitable tendency of what was proposed should be to make • transference of that power which now rested with the crown, into the hands of any other body of pawns, he would most strongly oppose it. (Hear, hear.) The parties to whom it was proposed to transfer this power were not mentioned ; that was reserved as an open question. But he believed that the real aim of the petition was in some way or other to effect that transference. The utmost extent of change to which he war prepared to assent was something clearly desirable, u that there should be an alteration in the form of the law by which the power now substantially re siding in the crown should be really secured to it. He was not prepared to go one step farther than that. He did not think the present law deserved the epithets which were ap plied to it ; sod he hoped there was not that deep discontent with the institutions wader which they lived es to render it an intolerable hardship to leave these institutions without material and radical alterations. It appeared to him that his right rev. friend overlooked a great many modifying circumstances. lie overlooked the material consideration that the power of the crown wee limited to a certain number of persons, who must be all con sidered equal in the eye of the law to be selected for the office of bishop. He did not know of any qualities which were required for the office of bishop. which were not equally re quired by the presbyter. (Rear, hear.) This was not the only limitation. There was another of equal importance — that of public opinion, which restricted the choice of the minister. But it was a form, or fiction, or novelty, that inspired the language and tone of both his right rev. friends. He, however, gave his unqualified assent to what they mid respecting the act of consecration. He thought that his right rev. friends enter tained an exaggerated idea of the present case, and erroneous views with respect to the remedy which ought to Le applied. He did not think that the present state of things should be left as it was, but lie would prefer it to what he considered would be infinitely greater evils—namely, an ecclesiastical conclave, or popular control. (Hear, hear.) 'fhe Bishop of EXETER denied that he proposed to withdraw the nomination of bishops which now resided in the crown, from it. It was a complete misconstruction of his language to draw such en inference from it. What he proposed was, that the crown should nominate, and that the Archbishop of Canterbury, within the province of Canter bury, and the Archbishop of York, within the province of York, should have the right of decidin g whether they would consecrate the person so nominated, and if substantial charges were proved judicially before the archbishop against the person named, that he might pronounce him unfit for censecration because uncanonical. No lay power, nor even the crown, ought to be able to appoint a person canonically disqualified ; and this would be secured by the plan he proposed. It was said, what became of the right of nomination if the archbishop had the power to reject? But did not the some rights co-exist in every pre sentation to a benefice ? The Lord Chime , llor had the right to present to a living, but the bishop of the diocese bad in sot only tie right, but the duty, to reject th e p erson a pp o, if be were objectionable. He denied that the crown was the best judge of the orthodoxy of the p erson appointed ; that point must be judged of by others more competent. He hoped some good would be attained if he had succeeded in laying before government a practical method of avoiding the existing difficulty. The house adjourned at a quarter before eight o'clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDB.--TOVIDAT, FIBRIIART 16. The LOUD CILNCILLOII took his seat at 5 o'clock. ELECTION OF BISHOPS. The Bishop of EXETER, in presenting the petition from clergymen in the county of Buckingham, said he bad not sought the presentation ot the petition, but he had been requested to do so by the petitioners, and he could not refuse their request. It was not .an ordinary petition, but one which prayed for the repeal of one of the greatest evils of which the church heat° complain. If the petitioners wished for anything more than a wholesome cheek eta the preroga tive of the crown, the exercise of which he believed to be essential to the pease and prosperity of the church—if they wished in any way to oppose the nomination of bishops by the crown—his did not agree with them. The constructim which he put on the statute 25 Hen. VIII. cap. 20, made ft oar of direct persecution. So far as deans and chapters ems concerned, it seemed to him to be an act of unshed tyranny, inasmuch as it forced upon them the forms of ea election, accompanied by the edema service of God. It com pelled them, under the penalties of pramun;re, to elect any individual, however unfit they might conscientiously foil him to he for the office of a bishop. He hoped the govern ment would take the matter into consideration, and while they asserted the prerogative of the crown ea no minate bishops, they would also support t w he rights of the church so that no unsound or immoral magi —no man canonically disqualified, should be fiercest on the dean and chapter in any diocese to he elected a bishop. The te deuns wee sung at the close of the and electionit was of a bishop by the electors and the congregation, a blasphemous mockery to proceed in this manner when the individual was believed by many of those who had been forced to elect him to be unworthy. (Hear, hear.) e would cast aside say allusion to any particulor individual or instance, and speak only of such election' generally. He did not mean to allude to any nomination which had lately taken plus. On a recent occasion two of the electors thought the individual nominated was a person they could not con scientiously vote for; and he hoped they abatained from joining in the te down ; but the fact of the minority having voted against the individual showed the injustice and unease wanablenem of the act. So capricious, too, was this act, that although the dean intimated that he intended to violate the law, it seemed that he broke no law, inasmuch as the elec ties took place. If, however, there had not been an election, every one who refused to vote would have been subject to the penalties of frsernunire. He wished the crown to retain the right of nominating to vacant bishoprics, but he hoped the opinions ones two leaned judges who thought that eonfirmatioa and consecration were judicial sets, might be found to prevail and be the law of the land. The arguments which they had used declared the law of England to be in conformity with the 8 7 1' with the rights of the church, and with the liberty o man. He hoped such a magna ehortoof tyranny as the act of 25th Henry VIII. would not continue while a doubt existed, and it h been declared by the highest court in the land to be of a doubtful character, and that court also doubted whether the Bishop of Hereford bad been legally confirmed. It was clear that the Court of Queen's Bench had not been able to prove that he had been. In the course of the argument a case was put, whether, if a person who had been convicted of felony was nominated to a bishopric, the dean and chapter would be obliged to elect him, and the archbishop to confirm and consecrate him, and the Attorney-thmeral had boldly awned that they had no choice, and mast obey the act of parliament. He would, however, waive the subject of confirmation and consecra tion, if a sufficient check were placed upon ministers of the crown in the first instance in the nomination of a person to a bishopric. lie had alluded to the opinion expressed by the Attoiney-Oeneral, but he might go on to say that a judge (Lord Denman) elevated by his rank, but more by his character—who would go down to posterity as one of the most able, learned, and independent judges this country had ever produced—(hear, hear)—had said that if a the con scientious discharge of his duty the metropolitan could not eonfitm the election of a bishop who had been nominated by the crown, he might resign his office. The law must, in deed, be in a most atrocious state if such was to be the result of the honest convictions of an archbishop; but he hoped it would still be found—in spite of the opinion of the noble and k er nel lord—not to he the law. What would be the consequence, however, of such a step? He had never heard In the history of the church of an archbishop resigning; but if it were so, in such a case as that supposed, a dis honest man must take his place—somebody must go about with a lanthorn, like Diogenes, but with a very different purpose—to find a dishonest man. Who, however, was to consecrate this dishonest archbishop ? The crown must find four dishonest bishops to do it, but who would consecrate them ? Why, they mast put an end to episcopacy—to the apostolic succession in England alto gether to carry out such a law. lie was, therefore, certain that no man, be he churchman, dissenter, or iutidel, would advocate the continuance of such an act. This law, if ever it had been law, was without precedent. The noble and learned lord near him (Lord Campbell), who was a good communicant he believed, would shrink from the imposition of so tyrannical a law in Sonland. The presbstery there had the power of refusing the ordination of m inis ters whom they thought morally disquelitied, and would their lordships be content to see their privileges trampled under foot ? His right reverend brethren would, with himself, suffer the pains otpremsunire or any ether persecution, rather than submit to have a person thrust upon them who was unfit for the office. Since the discussion in the Queen's Bench be had referred to a book published by Cranmer, with the authority of the King (Henry VIII.), and entitled " The institution of a Christian man," and he might say in passing that he thanked the noble and learned lord for his vindication of the memory of entailer, to whom we owed the prayer-book, the great body of the articles, and this book to which he had referred—but he still considered his recantations, frequent as they were whilst a hope . of life remained, were much more deserving of condemnation than the denial of his master by Peter. Cranmer, however, nobly redeemed his errors by his death. The book to which he had referred, and which was published after the 2.5 th Henry VIII., and revised by the Kiog himself, plainly showed confirmation to be a judicial act, and that the archbishop might reject any improve per son presented to him for consecration. The right rev. prelate concluded by presenting the petition. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the right rev. prelate had hoped the power of the crown its the nomination of bishops might be retained, and he also said that he would sot refer to a recent event. The Bishop of EXETER interposed, and said that he did not intend to allude to the Bishop of Herefurd. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the right rev. prelate was ready, then, to discuss everything connected with the proceedings, except the individual to whom they related. His (the Lord Chancellor's) object was to state what the law now wee, and what it would be if the prayer of the peti tioners should be granted, or if what the right rev. I relate suggested should be adopted. As the law now stood, the right of the appointment of bishops was absolute in the crown, ratel:the right rev. prelate wanted it to be altered. The Bishop of EX ET ER.—No, no. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that such appeared to he the prayer of the petition. At present the crown sp rinted bishops without reference to any other p serer ha,- mg the right to intervene. That was so by the act of 25 1 Hen. VIII. He did not say anything in favour of the man ner in which it was enforced, but it was quite clear that it was intended the power should be in the crown, otherwise, why subject those who slid not obey the letters missive from the crown to the penalties of pre/moth . e ? (Hear, hear.) The form of the election might be inconsistent and absu rd, , as many o ther forms were ; but what did the petition ask ? Why, that the penalty of prantunire might be taken away ; or, in other words, that the dean and chapter might do as they pleased. Why was the penalty of peerniun , re en acted ? Why, surely, in order that the power of the crown might be preserved intact, end that the dean and chapter might not have the power of putting, as it were, a veto on the nomination at the sovereign. The petitioners said it was very bud that the deans and chapters should be obliged to elect the person nominated, which meant " give us (the deans and chapters) the power of electing the bishop, or at any rate of saying, " we will not el, alt the per son named by the crown." The right rev. prelate sa I mu satis fi ed the peace sod safety of the church depende id d he on the preservation of the royal prerogative in the appointment of bishops; and yet, somehow or other, be had rusted sot the way he wanted the church to interfere and take the power from the sorer, ign. (Hear, land a laugh.) The nomination of the crown, before the act of Henry VIII., was only forma', and the power of the church absolute; but by that ac: eh,. state of things had been revers ed; and he thought their lordships would not be prepa to say that one of the bulwarks set up at the RefOrtllatioo, and which was necessary for the preservation of the principles then struggled for, should no ioniser be supported. As they valued the Reforuntion and the blessings which the act of Henry VIII. secured to this protestant country, he trusted they would riot consent to alter the provisions of that act. (Hear, hear.) The Bishop of CHICHESTER said the noble andas learce td l o rd had simply rega rded the act of Henry VIII. one upheld the prerogative of the crown, but they e had high legal authority fur sa y ing that its principal objct was to exc lude the power of t he Pope of Rome, and any one who &amine: to construe it otherwise would not give i fleet to its object and spirit. If he understood the noble and learned lord to lay down the doctrine that the nominetion of the crown was absolute, and that no consideration could prevent oonsura'ion of a bishop so maneds, in he tbe tho historyught the :uf y had solved at a most Important crisi the church, and he could not subscribe to such an interpretation, for he felt that if s uch a doctrine prevailed, there would be great risk of a schism in the church. (Hear, hear.) Lord DEN MAN said it did not appear to him convenient , to dinues what had taken place on this subject iu the court over which he presided. He might say, however, that he had never devoted so much time to the consideratiow of soy subject which had come before him in hisjudihecialmost character; and if he had erred , it was not without t ous and painful endeavours to arrive at truth. or the most sin great onviction that he had attained it. Ile onhad fel the wt ight of resp ona ihility which devolved hisn, t and whatever difference of opinion might have existed between himself and his learned brethren—however much one judge might differ from another—still he was to pronounce his judgment from the dictates of his conscience. With refer ence to the message in his judgment to which the right rev. prelate bad referred, as to the archbishop resigning,his observations were not folly reported in the newspapers, which only contained the substance of them ; and they were mode upon the presumption that it was not to be ',apposed that the 'crown would recommend to the office of a bishop a person who was in any way disqualified. (Hear, hear.) Be was not going, in that place, to defend the judgment he had given, but it was important to knew what they were required to do. They were required to is.ue a writ of man damus to the Archbishop of Canterbury, commanding him to hear any persona who had objections to urge against the bishop elect, on account of au ancient form, which form WiS never known in any country or age except as a form, and which was a " one-sided term," as Bishop Gibson called it. HOUSE OF to COMMO chair NS.—Tu 4 EsDAT,FIEB. 15. The S ok the at o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND READINDertry Waterworks; Dublin immurement; Ediriboneti Police (Amendment and Omsolidatlon of Acta, and Pollee sod (*sitar, I m provement) ; Folkestone Waterworks; Forth and Clyd e Navigation , and Airdrie and Coatbridg, Water ; Harms Moor (otherwise Preston Common) Incboure; Lanark and Hamilton Court. house and County Butes ; Nantirleh and Wheelock Turnpike-road ; North of Scotland Fire and Life Assurance Company (Incortoration of ComPdill); Oxford Queensterry Prange; Tram Turn pilm-roadst PUBLIC BUSINESS. FIRST READING. —Agricultural Tenant Right (England) Bill. REPORTS. —New Zealand Government Bill. Committee of Supply. ELECTION COMMITTEES. Mr. FOX DIAULE reported from the general committee on elections that th e committee had appointed Thursday the 3rd day of March for the selection of members to serve on the Rye election committee : That they had selected the following members to serve on thR Kinsale boroug h election committee : Mr. Cripps, Mr. Tancred, Mr. B. Cochrane, Mr. Trelawny, and the hon. E. P. Bouverie. That they had selected the following members to serve on the Lyme Regis Election committee : Lord Seymour, Mr. Keogh, Sir John M'Taggart, Ron. Col. Lindsay, and Lerd Ashley, chairman. The members of these committees were afteiwards sworn at the table : the committees to meet to-morrow (this day). JOINT STOCK COMPANIES. Mr. THORN ELY asked if it was the intention of the government to bring in, at an early period, any bill to enable Joint stock companies to wind up their concerns ? Mr. M. GIBSON sa'Al the bill to which the question of his hon . friend related was quite ready, and he proposed to night to give notice of his intention to move tot leave to bring it in. PRIVATE BUSINESS OF THE HOUCE. In answer to a question, Viscount MORPETR said, the act of parliament th dire toted that that the reports upon private bills should be upon e of the house each swoon ' before the let of March the n each rt year, and he hoped very ortly to be able to layrepo Of this year before them. TILE AVENGER. Capt. FITZROY wished to know whether the Avenger was sent to the Mediterranean without the forca or the if she was provided with the charts usually furnished nev • gatiou of the sea. Admirel DU:OAS—The Avenger received on board at Gibraltar a box containing every necessary chart, and the re ceipt from her captain is in the hands of the Admiralty. reedy Went to MN remedial measures, by which the present disgraoshg erindltion of the British mercantile navy might be put an end to. The motion was then agreed to. LAW OF LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRELAND). Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that, in moving for leave to bring in • bill to amend the law of landlord and tenant is Ireland, he should probably hest consult the convenience at the house if he at once proceeded to state what we. the nature of the measure, IPAI well as to give some details rer epecting the machinery by which it was to be carried out and also the means which the government intended to pro- peas for rendering it efficient. The subject was at once deli cate, complicated, and difficult to deal with; and those cha racteristics led him to think that the best plan to pursue was to lay the whole of the details of the proposed measure be fore the parliament, so that there might exot an opportunity for judging it, and compering it with the difficulties which it was framedto meet. The bill, therere, might be d osai to embrace two distinct plans. The first was for affording rn penastion to tenants for improvements effected on their hold ings. The second would, he trusted, be fuund to embody several not unimportant changes in the present relations between landlord and tenant. The bill oroposed to encou rage the outlay of capital upon his holding by the that y outla yb se curing to him an adequate remuneration for in all cases where he had not derived the full benefit from it. This would be effected with as little interference with the rights of the landlord as was possible. It was not his impose to linger over the subject at present, by insisting on the necessity for conceding this act of justice to the tenantry. The principle bad already been admitted to be just by a ma jority within that house, and out of doors also. It was, moreover, no new principle ; on the contrary, it was one of some antiquity ; for in a work now a century old it was laid down that, inasmuch as it was not the custom in Ire land for the landlord to provide farm buildings for the te nantry, if the tenant, after having built such, was dispos sessed of his holding before he had derived the full benefit of his outlay, he was entitled to be compensated to that extent. That principle came likewise with the recom mendation of the Earl of Devon's committee, and it bed been embodied in a bill introduced on the subject of land lord and tenant by one of his (Sir W. Somerville s) prede woofs, which hill had been permitted to be read a first time. He would proceed to state how he proposed to create the machinery by which the compensation to be made for outlay of capital should be ascertained. From tbo passing of the act all tenants having holdings above 101., and possessing an interest, as specified, whether under a lease, or from year to year, might serve a notice (the force o' which would be given in a schedule to the bill) on his landlord, specifying the nature of the outlay intended to be made, whether it be buildings, or drainage, or subsoiling, or of any other description, and having done so the tenant must proceed to same an arbitrator, calling likewise on the landlord to no minate one on his own behalf. If the landlord did not nomi nate an arbitrator within twi nty-one days, then the tenant might apply to the petty sessione, where a landlord's arbi trator was to be appointed and afterwards conjoined to that of the tenant. The two arbitrators were then to choose an umpire, and if they could not agree in the choice, then the petty washing was again to be applied to, and the person there named was to be umpire. The body thus constituted would roceed to examine and decide on the notice served by the t enant on his landlord. They would have to survey the land and the projected improvements, and report on the value and the amount of additional rent whit h would accrue from them, and if their decision should be in favour of the improvements, then they were to be empowered to make an award wherein they were to state the name of the superior landlord who would be bound thereby. (Hear.) The award thus made would be deposited with the clerk a the peace, a copy of it would be served by the tenant on his , immediate landlord , and the other int ermediate landlords concerned in the land in question, up to the superior of all, were likewise to be served with copies of this award. An appeal might be made against this award within 21 days of its being notified to the landlord ; the assistant barrister of the county would decide upon it, and his decision was to he final. The tenant was then to be empowered to proceed to execete the works thus specified, and upon their completion, the arbitrators were to examine them, and to fur nish him with a certificate of their having been finished, after which they were to decide whether any deduction was to be made from the rent fixed, and their decision was to be filed by the clerk of the peace. When the tenancy as to be terminated, it was proposed that if the period of 21 years bad not elapsed since the outlay was made, the landlord, whatever mode he might take to regain his possession, was to proceed by first serving a notice on the tenant, calling upon him to no minate an arbitrator, and in case of neglect or refusal, pro curing the appointment of one, as in the first instance. The arbitrators of both parties would then proceed to examine the improvements and to make their award of the amount of compensation to be made to the outgoing tenant, which, however, was not three years ' rental of the holding. And the imme diate: landlord was to have the power of recovering the same amount from his upper landlord, if his interest in the holding terminated within a given sad specified time of the improvements being paid fur to the out going tenant. All the provisions of the bill which be had detailed were of a prospective nature. There was a greet difficulty in making them retrospective in some eine ' hut not so in respect to holdings under the annual value of 101., although it would be a hardship to such a claw of tenants to subject them to the machinery of the bill. For that reason the bill enacted this , no tenant, whose holding was net above 101., should be entitled to more than three years' rental for improvements of five years' standing, and the decision of the aesistant-barrister in all cases was to be final. He had now finished his explanation:with respect to the tenants' improve ments portion of the bill, and would proceed to explain that part of it which regulated the relation between land lord and tenant. There were to be clauses inserted by which .the occupying tenant was to be protected against a double distress for rent—(hear) —which he was subjected to at present, as well from his immediate as from his supe rior landlord. The bill enacted that for the future a tenant who held land under certain interests should be deprived of the power of making a didn't' when he sublet his land ; and the bill provided the sub-tenants in these cases with an equitable defence in the superior courts of law. They already had such a defence in the courts of the assistant barristers, but it was not good in a court of equity, and consequently the tenant was deprived of the benefit of the meatiest barrister's decision. It was proposed, therefore, to increase the powers of the assistant barristers, the details of which would be found in the bill. The measure provided also that tenants at will might be ejected upon non-payment of their rent. This clause would be beneficial alike to landlord and tenant, and it would not give the for mer any advantage which he did not already possess. He believed that if the landlord bad such a power, the system of holding notices to quit, in terrorem, over the heads of tenants, would be no longer resorted to, and a great source of irritation would thus be done away with. It was proposed to couple that power of ejection with a provision that on parol demise co rent should be recovered which was of more than two years' standing. Mr. F. O'CONNOR asked the precise meaning of the words pared demise I Sir W. SOMERVILLE—Where there was no lease; and the bill also provided that every receipt given for rent should specify each particular gale for which it was paid, or else that such receipt should be taken as good for the last gale due. (Hear, hear.) lie had now gone through the chief details of the proposed bill, and in answer to the ob jections of those who urged the impropriety of interposing a legislative interference between man and man in their private transactions, he would reply, " Look at the state of Ireland, her undeveloped resources, her neglected agricul ture ;" and thee he thought it woul d be admitted by all that the time was come when legislation ought te prevail, if ever it was to do so. For himself, he could only say that, pro- vided justice was done to the landlord, the more generously tie house legislated for the tenantry of Ireland, the greater would be the benefit conferred on thatcountry. The question was not a party one. There was, he felt certain, no gentle man pan sent who would not willingly help to frame a race cure which should put an end to the existing state of affairs between landlord and tenant in Ireland. The public mind, there, was now beenning fully alive to the importance of agricultural improvement It was out of his immediate province to advert to the great and striking success which had attended the Lord Lieutenant's exertions to dis semieate on this suect by means of agricul tural lectures, b ut he could not kelp stating that the results of that happy movement had already far exceeded Lord Clarendon's moat sanguine expectations. All parties hod assisted those gentlemen, and none more actively—and he was grateful for it—than the Roman ca tholic clergy of Ireland. (Hear, hear.) It was, therefore, evident that never was there • more auspicious time for commencing the agricultural improvement of the country. 'need that the bill he was about to introduce would tend . . •-•••••••.--- PORTUGAL. Mr. UME asked whether the arresigements enteral WI theH pro tocol of May, 847, 1 with the governments MI FllllOO and Spain had been fulfilled, end whether we won free from them ? Viscount PALMERSTON said that the hen. WhiMblir f m erred " be to a r e ere ( th ou " . ou T r i: Dialailhimil o Of them related " le raga and the moisten.. Who rendered; two ethers, to the tions and the summoning of the Cortes. The election bed , taken place and the Cortes had been assembled. Ths. 1 doubtedly, therefore, the circumstances to which the pro tocol related had gone vernment by; and unde r that t h e n sc rc were umstan no her Majesty's go thought ces longer any grounds on which this country could be called on to interfere in the affairs of Portugal. THE BALLOT. subj M ect frem tr. I. BE 17th RKELEY postpone inst. d his motion upon this he to the 29th DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME. Sir B. H. INGLIS said that he observed by the votes of the other house of parliament that on the 7th of February a bill had been introduced to enable her Majesty's ministers to hold diplomatic intercourse with the court of home, and he observed that on the 14th of February their lordships were specially _summoned to meet to take the bill into considera tion. Without giving any opinion upon the merits of the mea tire, or contemplating the coarse he might hereafter take respecting it, he hoped that the noble lord, the first minister of the crown, feeling . and admitting its great im portance, would cause to be given in the upper house, and in that house should it ever reach it, the ample time which was necessary for consideration, and he would add a l so , if re quisite, for the expression of public opinion upon the subject. Lord J. RUSSELL — T he bill referred to by the hon. gentleman was in the hands of the Lord I'resident, and he had no doubt but that his noble friend would give the ample time required without any interference of his. Mr. HINDLET asked whether tiere would be any ob ection to lay the correspondence between Lord Mint*, the court of Rams, and the home government, on the table of the house ? Lard PALMERSTON said the hon. member must be aware that the mission of Lord Minto to the court of Rome was entirely divested of any diplomatic character. The noble lord had credentials with him to the courts of Sardinia, Florence, and Naples, but the correspondence re lating to the court of Roma was altogether confidential. COMMERCIAL LEAGUE OF ITALY. Dr. BOWRING then rose to move, pursuant to notice, he copies or extracts of correspondence on the subject of the 'Commercial League in Italy. He observed that the recent events in Italy, conductedsa they were with such combined prudence and energy, bad been watched with the utmost in , latest by the people of England, and not the less so that the government of Austria had manifested itself by no means so aware of the real position of things in the peninsula as was to be desired fir the sake of all parties. Pewee Metternich, however, had of late years been making great concessions to the Hungarians, and to other nations within the peculiar territories of Austria, and it was to be hoped that more mature consideration of the progress of events would lead him to adopt a liberal policy also with regard to the Italian populations. (Hear.) The conduct of Lord Palmerston would doubtless materially conduce to this moat desirable result. In Italy, the great object of British policy should be the consolidation of the various Italian interests in one national league. The commercial spirit of Italyppo tion , and still active; the country still preserved a large of the trade of Europe, and many of her ports were dis tinguished for the excellence of their mariners and he ter. cerise of their merchants. What he hoped was, t that the Italians would guard against the mistake which had been committed lm the German Zollverein, and in their tariff re cognise no elevated duties, and place no obstructions in the way f friendly trade communication with other countries. (Hea o r, hear.) The hon. member concluded with repeating his motion. Viscount PALMERSTON said that his hon. friend had called the attention of the house to some of the most re markable and interesting events which had occurred in our time. (Hear, hear., It was, indeed, impossible for any man to witness the progress which constitutional opinions and institutions were making in Italy without feeling the deepest and liveliest interest in that progress. (Hear, hear from.) Italy was t ot only interesting in a very high degree her peculiar position at the present moment, but site was interesting to us, perhaps even still more, from our cherished and elevatinsdassociations with her wondrous story, with her rise, her greatness as mistress of the world, and her fall to almost entire political insignifi,ausce—an insignificance from which he fervently hoped she was now about to emancipate herself. (Hear, hear.) Nor did he merely hope ; he felt confident that a brighter day was now dawning on Italy. (Hear.) The confidence with which we might look to the . future prosperity of that country was Wooded on the gifts which nature hod bestowed both on the land and on its inhabitasts. Amid all the political misfortunes to which the country had been subjected, the natural vigour of the Ita lian mind, the 'rent of its intellectual resources, and, he might say, the splendour of its genius, bad, even in the darkest periods of the political history of the Delius, shone forth with a brightness which had attracted the admiration of the whole civilised world. It was most gratifying to see that the progress which national liberty was making through out Italy was a progress brought about by the harmonious second of the sovereigns and people of Italy (hear, hear); and it was on that circumstance more especially that he ventured to found his hope that the ameliorations now proceeding there would be permanent and stable, for, based upon mu tual compact, they were naturally less likely to be shaken by future untoward events. (Hear, hear.) . The hon. member had adverted to the position of Austria in relation to the events now passing in the Italian peninsula. It was highly satisfactory to him, and he was sure it would be no less gra tifying to the hoax, that he was able to state, that so far as her Majesty's government was informed of the intentions of the cabinet of Vienna, then) was ne reason to apprehend that the policy of that cabinet would lead it to any hostile interference with the events which were new taking place in Italy. (Cheers.) He had, indeed, within the last twenty tour hours, received a communication from our ambassador at Vienna, which gave very satisfactory assurances on this head. (Renewed cheers.) The course thus indicated was the course naturally to be expected from the prudence and wisdom of the Austrian government; and mo't happy was he to find such • course adopted. (Hear, hear.) With re. ference to the commercial league of Italy, he should wish his hon friend and the house to defer asking for the corre spondence on this subject until a more expedient occasion. (Hear, hear.) The general principles of that league only were at present laid down on a broad basis, the di tails re mained to be fixed ; and he felt convinced that it would only retard the progress of events, to produce before the house the various communications confidentially, exchanged be tween the various courts of Italy and our ministers there, as to the various supgestiens and propositions made on the sub ject. (Hear, hear.) He could mew* the house that the general principle which seemed to actuate all parties was in the highest degree favourable to the promotion of the com mercial prosperity of Italy on one uniform basis; and ho would add, that so far ae it became the government and this country to tender advice, or to express an opinion, the ad vice was offered in a spirit of earnest desire to aid in the de velopment of that prosperity (Hese, hear.) As to the political changes pro ce eding in Italy, whatever the feelings of her Majesty's government on the subject, with whatever gratification they witnessed the cause of those political events—(hear, hear) —they did not consider it fitting that the British minister' in the peninsula should interfere fur ther than the giving an opinion when it should be sought by the various governments. (Hear, hear.) And here let him say it was most gratifying to her Majesty's government to witness the perfect confidence with which England was re• garded by the various Italian potentates—(hear, hear)—as a marked instance of which he would state that his noble friend, Lord Minto, had proceeded from Rome to Naples in consequence of the desire expressed by the Sicilians on the one hand, and by the government of Naples on the other, that the friendly assistance of British diplo macy should be applied towards the satisfactory settlement of the points in dispute between them. (Hear, hear.) He was sure that those who were acquainted with Lord Minto would feel that this task, delicate and difficult as it might be, could not have been placed in better hands—(hear, hear) —and that in any advice which, at the solicitation of the parties, he might think himself at liberty to offer, he would be actuated by the most disioterested but earnest desire to bring matters to such an adjustment as should be consistent with the liberty, happiness, and welfare of the people, and the just dignity and honour of the crown. (Hear, hear.) After a few words from Mr. COCHRANE, expressive of his approbation of the conduct pursued by her Majesty's government in reference to Italy, Dr. BOWRING consented to withdraw his motion, and -as accordingly withdrawn._ A was r §* g 3 1 R 1e S W X E e . 111 I tingly w.. . NATIONAL LAND COMPANY. __ ... Mr. F. O'CONNOIt said that the Attorney-General to that result, by inducing tenants to sink their capital in having requested him to postpone his motion re•pcning the the land, and, if it did so t, o he s its succhould feel most happy at having National Land Company , in order to allow him time to con- in any way d , if eider the proposed bill, he would accordingly postpone it Mr. S. CRAWFORD feared that the bill introduced by until that day fortnight. the right hon. baronet would only have the effect of pro- Sir 0. GREY wan not aware that the Attorney-General daring general disappointment in the country it was in had requested this postponement ; but, at all events, he tended to scree. The tenantry of Ulster would hear with . begged it to be understood that the request implied no assent dismay that the right which they were accustomed to call on the part of the government to the proposed measure. tenant.right was about es much sbe thrown ohe verboarshod. As thi s SHIPWRECKS OF MERCHANT VESSELS. species of right had been of uld end Mr. HUME moved, pursuant to notice, for a select cons- Your to define it ; and he could not do so better than by mittee to consider whether, in all cases of shipwreck and of reading a petition which had been presented in the previoue collisions of merchant vereels, attended with loss of life, an year from Derry en the subject. The hon. member then read inquiry, as speedily after the accident and as near as possible the petition, which, after some abstract propositions relative to the place, should be appointed, to examine into the at- to the sacredeess of the right of labour, defined tenant tendant circumstances., and to report to the house in whet right to be the right which every out-going tenant had manner that inquiry should be conducted. Taking the average to compensation for all improvements he might have effected of the three years, 1833,1834, and 1835, the annual lots by in his farm during occupancy, and a power freely to dispose ', shipwreck of seamen was 750. and the annual amount of of such right to the highest idder. The was to have property sacrificed was 3,000,0001., • turn which he believed no retrospective action to the b case of tenancies bill of less than was below the real value of the ships and cargoes wrecked. 101. annually, but this would be a small boon to the Ulster Capt FITZROY seconded the motion of the hon. member farmers who generally held large farms. To show the with great pleasure. hardships attendant on the non-recognition of tenant-right, Mr. LABOUCHERE said that it was not his intention to he would mention net se which had come within his own offer any opposition to the appointment of the proposed corn- knowledge. A man aaken 100 acres of poor land on a mittee ; it was to be hoped, however, that the committee lease for 31 years, at 10e. per sore. His capital on entering would avoid going over the same ground that had been tea- was 8001., all of which he spent on the land, together with veiled by previous inquirers, and that the members of it another 8001. of profits, which his improvements enabled would confine themselves to an inquiry as to how the recom- him to realise, for • home and (Acts. At the expiration of mendations already extant could best be carried into mat- his lease he offered 2 5 5. per acre for a renewal, bu t t his land- Lion ; in this way the committee would perform a lord refused, alleging that the profits had returned the most valuable service. lie regretted very much to be original capital invested, and that the house the tenant had obliged to express his concurrence in what his hon friend built was too good for the land. Now how did the case had stated with respect to the low and deteriorated charac- stand as to the value worth of this laud ? At the commencement ich ter of the mercantile navy. Government had received from of the tenant's occupancy it was 10s. per ,wh the consuls in numerous foreign ports statements respecting would give 1,5001. as the value of the fee, but at the termi the bad conduct of the English mercantile sailors, which nation it was worth 265., which would raise the fee to 3,6001., <dearly proved how very much inferior the characters of the all of which was seised by the landlord. He asked whether masters and mates were, in the e.stimation of foreigners, to this was not downright robbery ? (Hear, hear.) The bill those of the seamen of other nations. And there could be no before the house would not provide for such a cue ground for aeonishment at the eteferenee given by merchants on that, seeing that bp it every claim of the tenant and shippen to foreign ships and seamen. His noble friend on his land terminated with his lease of 21 years. It might [Lord Palmmton) would shortly lay on the table of the be said that this bill sin a bro g ated interfere with tenant-right. In I bow some information on the subject of British shipping his opinion it vinosity abrogated it, for it would be used as and &eamen, which would be thought of the utmost import- a pret . nee by the landlord for interfering with what was l wee, and %bids would probably induce the house to give a merely an old custom. t in his opinion tenant right was 848. the only ligielstion, not only for Ireland, bat for the whole of the United Kingdom, and although some slight call it i nter ference with the rights of property, still there wore times when the public interest called upon the state to in terfere. He confidently believed that if tenant-right were once established, in two years the spirit of improvement would spread from one end of Ireland to the other. Ile believed that the present brill had been brought forward with the beat intentions, but unless greatly improved, he feared it would fail of its desired Oject. Mr. HERBERT said that the hon. member for Rochdale had spoken of tenant-right as a matter not fp nerally under stood. Be quite concurred with the hon. member, seeing that so few of its advocates understood it themselves (Hear ) At a meeting held lately in Ireland on the subject hardly any two of the gentlemen present agreed in their definition of tenant-right. The hon. member for Rochdale repudiated any claim for occupancy, while he (Mr. Herbert) held in his hand a resolution passed at a late meeting in Tipperary, in which tenant right was defined to be " occupancy, including improve ments." The same definition had been adopted in the Irish council, where one gentleman looked upon it as a transfer of the land from the owner to the occupier. (Hear, hear.) It had been said that all legislation should be simple, and certainly nothing could be more simple than this. If you adopted the principle of transferring one man's property to another, you would simplify legislation exc eedingly. (.' Hear," and laughter.) He believed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would find finance a very simple study if all he had to do in making up his budget was to appropriate as much as he might require of the pro perty of her Majesty's subjects for the public expenses. (Hear, hear.) But he (Mr. Herbert) believed that that house would never sanction such a transfer. (Hear, hear.) He must strongly protest against the scheme of the hon. member for Rochdale, which could only have the effect of raising extraordinary expectations, and thus mar , ring the efforts of these who were anxious to promote the just rights of the tenants of Ireland. Mr. FAGAN said that the great question was how the cultivation of the land was to be promoted, and it was only to be done by the greatest encouragement and protection. He did not think that the hon. member who had just sat down had treated the hon. member for Rotschild—(great laughter)—he meant Rochdale, fairly, in assuming that oc cupancy was part of his tenant-right. With respect to the present bill, he (Mr. Fagan) di4 not think it half so good as that of the noble lord the member for Falkirk, which on its introduction had been so much sneered at in Ireland. Lord CASTLEREAGH said that he could not consent to any measure which woald constitute mere occupancy as pre party, or which interfered with the acknowledged rights of . propenT. Mr. 1.. O'CONNOR was of opinion that no part of the bill went to the root of the evil, while its machinery was too complicated to effect the object proposed by it. Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN did nut think the bill satisfactory, particularly in not having a more retrospective effect respect ing conipenattion for improvements, which should not be limited to 21 years. He objected also to the retrospective clause being limited to small farmers ; he saw no reason why it should not be general. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL did not think it convenient to go into the details of the bill at the present stage. He, however, concurred in the opinion of the hon. member for Limerick, that the distinction drawn respecting the class of small occupiers, towards whom the bill was to be retro spective, was not a tenable distinetion.—Leave was then given to bring ia the bill. AGRICULTURAL TENANT RIGHT IN ENGLAND. Mr. PUSEY then moved for leave to bring in a bill for the improvement of agricultural tenant right in England and Wales. The hon. member explained that the bill would be very similar to that of last sesaion.—Leave granted; Mr. Pulley, dr. E. Denison, and Sir C. Lemon, to bung lathe bill. IMPROVEMENT OF LANDED PROPERTY IN IRELAND. Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN moved for leave to bring in a bill to provide further facilities for the permanent improvement of landed property in Ireland.—Leave granted. MR. ANSTEY'S MOTION. Mr. C. ANSTEY said that, before the orders of the day were read, he would fix his motion relating to foreign affairs for Wednesday week, on which day the only order was the Roman Catholic Charitable Trusts Bill, which, however on , willing, he would postpone in favour of his motion. The house adjourned at a quarter-past Mae. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. ARMY ESTIMATES. ABSTRACT OP THE ESTIMATES FOR EP Szavlcaa for 365 days, from Ist • March, 11449, ICTIVR ARMY 1848, to 31st SC ~6 5 y 1 ; 3 4E 7 71' 17 7 g =7l E VE ,7,54 A S: it .Fa T 3 rP i• ; 6 11' 7 1 g eR4 • r : /•• • • s 11111: .:~ a s—a• 10 Y i 3 / 4 1 61a ► 6 .t vi t 34 § APlN*Priati In Aid. R' t , ffi h l a ~ H _ I . AIIsTIMEr OF THE ESTIIS ATM; OF NON-arrscriva AIME sr ash-Eq.—Rewards for military acrdae. 13, 307 /. ; army pay of gene ral °Einem, 76,0001.; full pay for retired officer% 51,0001.: half-pay and military allowances, 414,1131. ; foreign half-pay, 47,386/. ; widows' pensions, 139,855/.; co mpanionate allowances, - bounty warrants, and siuni for wounds. 98,0001. ; ip-posaionera of Chelsea and Kilmaln rm hospitals, 3;,580l.; out-pension, 1,253,13101.; auperannuation allowances, 34,2321. Numbers and charge to the Slit Starch, 1049, 71,340; 2,139,0351. Deduct appropriations in aid, 21,5771. Amount to be provided to the 31.1 Mat clo, 1849, 2,117,5001. Total of effective services, 4,201,1781.; non.effective maims, 2,117,5081. Geneva total cost of atmy, 6,318,6807. —By the Act 4 Geo. IV, a. 71, a sum of 60,0001. per annum is paid into her idajoity's Exchequer by the East India C a any . on account of the c har g e for retie iog pay and pen- Mons, and other expenses , of that nature, arising in reenact of her Mqesty's forces serving in India. This sum is applied towards the general expense. of the state. ELECTION COMMITTEES. WFar GLOUCESTERBBIRE.—The select committee appointed to inquire into the allegations of the petition against the return of the Hon. Grantley Berkeley, for the western division of Gloucestershire, met for the first time yesterday, in room 22. Present—Mr. Granger, chairman, Mr. Aghonby, Sir John Walsh, Messrs. C. Bruce, and R. G. Townley. Counsel for the petitioner'—Serf. Wrangham and Mr. Mereweather ' • Messrs. Crowder and Cooke repre sented the retiring member. The sole ground of opposition was the want of qualification. Mr. G. Berkeley had, on the demand of two electors, made a statement of hie qualification which consisted of a rent charge of 7001. a year, acquired under his father's will, and chargeable on certain lands in Gloucestershire; also a personal income out of money in the funds of 600/. a year more. The funded property consist( d of 51,142/. 141. 4d. Three per Cent. Consuls, producing 1,5341.55. 3d. a year, from which was deducted a marriage settlement; but counsel for petitioners contended that by loans raised, annuities . ranted, and pin money settle' on Mrs. Berkeley, the annual income on funded property had been reduced to 2021. ss. 7d. per annum. The (wicket property bad been acquired by marriage. It was also con tended that the rent charge was made over to trustees for the benefit—at their discretion—of Mr. or Mrs. 0. Berke ley. Annuities to the Old Rock Assurance Company were also alleged as against the amount of qualification. Counsel for petitioners sought to produce the marriage settle• went, but Mr. Berkeley's counsel contended that to torte the solicitor to produce it, would be to cause a breach of proles faunal confidence, which had never before been required. A long discussion ensued on this point, whieh was ended by the production of Mr. Becwll., Earl Fitzhardinge's general agent, who deposed that hi, client was one of the trustees to the conveyance of the rent charge, and that be (Earl Fitz hardinge) had no objection to the production of the deed. The deed wan then produced and read, and a bank clerk was examined as to the amount of money in the funds, and his account agreed with the previous statement. There were, however, four writs of distriugas to set against these deposits. Another deduction from the qualification was interest to the amount of 1801. per annum due is Lord Fitzhardingc for moneys advanced at various times to Mr. Berkeley. This closed the petitioners' case. The committee adjourned to this day. • GREAT MaaLow.—This committee sat for the first time yesterday. Present: Sit J. Pakington (chairman), Sir R. Price, Hon. H. Fitzroy, Hon. E. Moetyn, and Sir J. Duckworth. The petition to be considered was that of cer tain electors against the return of T. P. Williams, Esq., and Col. Brownlow Knox, for the borough of Great Marlow, on the grounds of bribery and treating.—Mr. Ssrjeant Wrang ham opened the case, and having enumerated the various in stances of bribery and treating, proceeded to call witnesses to prove his case.—T. Frith wU the only witness exami lie stated that he had been promised forgiveness fur - ned. of 131., arri a further loan of 101., to rote (cubs situ,. members. On crost.examinatien he admitt d that U lm , election he had be, n supported by Sir W. Clayton._ll. committee adjourned to 11 o'clock this day. The GENERAL COMMITTEE of elections sat, t t struck no new committees. ELICIZOM PRTITIONS NOTICIM—The following is a Li of places for, and the days on which, select committees Am u be appointed by the general committee of elections for t u purpose of trying the merits of petitions complaislng undue returns :—Nottingham (borough), Thursday, May 2 ; Harwich, Abdoyrr, Lincoln (city), Monday, hli tit i x 6 . Aylesbury, Cork county (north division), Colchester, Th us : day, March 9 ; Walsall, Dundalk, Mondry, Mu c k 13; Derby t borough), Monmouth (county), Thursday, ibm 10; Dublin (city), Horsham, Langford (county), ?g - C 7 March 20 ; Sligo (borongh), Tnurs&y, March 23. Wra3regg, MAILS Wee India Mai* egcluding Bermuda, Nam, Ig h Honduran, New Orleans, Vera Crno, Tampion, and Parte LI:7Z including those for Mealeira, Jaeniel, earthmen., a m t. Cheerers, Panama, Weal Coast of south America., and et. Nieentrue, will be made up ea the morning of the 17th ?grimy. Th e mot. foe Vito, (moo o, Lisbon, Madeira, Wm, sm ph nh . will be made up en the morning of the 17th February. The °Miami emila for Gibraltar, Melts, Greets, the Imam bbm. !f1t"d1 e :,? . ..'"ii!::'",..'7. - ATegell d rTb'"'t 6'4 hiaili k The mail. foe New South Woks, Von thaman's Lead, mg p m Zeulted will be suds up on the evening of Um 29th February. Ise overtand Mused med., s• Marseilles, to the Bethim um fr . gy p, Ada, Ceylon, banks , Ilagg hong, Ite., wW berm& ap raj; evening of the 24th Febnisry. The guile for British north Aimee., Bermuda, sad tbs rim tatert, will be made tip on the evening of the 25th February. The mails for the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will heel up as the evening of the 29th February. The mails for the 13rusils, the lUver Plate, Monts rid,. h ue ., Bahia Madeira, and Burnam Ayres, will be made ap cs p h evening of the 4th March. TO COI THE number of STAMPS issued to the DAILY nem by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during the Inc 1117, : From JAN. 1,13 DEC. 31, 3,447,009 This, we believe, is within eight per cent. of t►e ass* issued to the Morning Herald, Morning Chronicle, eM Morning Post, ALL PUT TOGETHER. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS , M or aine Paper, there were issued for the treeing EAA.: THE EXPRESS, From JAN. 1,10 Dsc. 31 778,714 Which was rnore, we believe, than were issued either to* Globe or Standard, Evening Papers. AbsyMbesobata laurabel /se ` T>r Eyprebb" Loote nealby bY et tab ••••,111.11aftwywo.yro4 by Tow Wl:lack es Um 4by yt • 111011 MATS& AT 1.01111011 'AWOL n „_ m „,..., I WAN*, 0. T..lamoslor—lierolos. 41 min gaol Afteroloaa. I: ma. on, 1. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEB. 16, THE announcement we are about to make a qf doubtless o ures ti easyo. one bliire w f I t t h ; i cbmh.Etwa of l f l l b e i. tat Fri truthe gar there e dthue formally, e t o o n n startlis g a suds finally as he is capable of doing anything, renounced the leadership even of his own section of the eirsee vative party'.. The separation between the two fractions of the party has thus been rendered permanent sad cos plete. Hitherto the severance of the majority frm their once absolute leader wore the aspect rather of stubborn insubordination than of decisive arid Me concileable hostility. Sir It PEEL had accomplishes his purpose through their obedient instrumentality, while he was a minister : and he could afford to lock superciliously os, while they chafed and fretted it the irApotenee of leaderless opposition. It was mutiny af the rank and file against the staff, who clung together • firmly and effectively, biding their time, free to laugh outright at the blunders of Bentinekism, and ready to take the inarticulate host once more into their pay, when a proper opportunity should arrive. So at least men construed the rather equivocal and oscillating movement of the 110 during last sesNOK It needed a perpetual reiteration of the notice, that " there was no connexion with the forme establishment on the same side of the way," to keep an incredulous and forgetful public in mind of the wrongs and slights that had produced the die ruption of the " great conservative party.' In fact, a considerable part of the occupation of the protectionist chiefs lay in finding out from day to day something new to quarrel about with their provokingly distin. guiehed and unquarrelsome neighbours on the opposition benches. When the right side of any new question was pre-occupied by ths Peelites, they were generally ready to take the wrong rather than not make a distinction. And, when, on the recent occasion, Lord G. Bes. TINCK, Mr. BARING, and Mr. DISRAELI presumed to go right for once with Sir ROBERT PEEL, they were ready to take a loan of poor Mr. 601:LBERN from him, and ready to fling overboard the three ablest men of their section. Sooner than surrender at die cretion to Sir ROBERT, they were ready to follow the indiscretion of Lord GirANIRIC, who has, it now sp. pears, after a reluctant enthronisation last week, already manifested an irrepressible desire to abdicate. But there is hope for valour when it reeked lout thereof. A new leaf has been suddenly turned in the chapter of party history, which promises to nave the dulness and indocility of protectionism all further trouble as to self-identification. The ambiguous lips have at length been seen to move ; the dreaded oracle has once more given forth plain and simple sounds; frowns and looks askance are no longer err cessary, the conservative minority have cut their ob. solete friends, and boldly resolved upon taking hence forward a demonstrative course of their own. A meeting of the friends and followers of Sr ROBERT Piet took place, we understand, on Sate day last, when the line which it was most et. pedient for their future interest to pursue, was the subject of deliberation. It was agreed upon unaci- moody, that the indeterminate position they hid hitherto occupied between the liberals and the protec tionists was no longer tenable. Their moeoeration mast daily expose them to be confounded with the whisp their professions of adherence to the old Folios' faith of 1833 and 1841—to be identified too fee quently with the puerility and passion of the " dangerous classes " of toryism. Some Ahem of tactics had become indispensable, if their sectional prestige and distinctiveness was to he preserved. The present government must not, indeed, be systemati cally assailed, or driven prematurely from IXIKer, yet set it of was me c n on , st a it b u l t e ion an all d y w m il ee li t n , g and to to tak th e ose osi ee e eerned personally desirable, that the country shooli be kept in mind that there were, after all, soothe if need should be men united togee!ri by ties of more endurance than spleen or &append; went , and qualified by something better than acv conceit and "a courageous conscience" to accept tbi serious responsibilities of rule. But was the great architect of their political fatal ready to assume ostensibly the lead and planted the band once more ? On the contrary, Sir ROOK told his friends distinctly, that he felt himself debate [ from doing so by the resolution which upon del a ibete I reflection he had formed, never to place hinlf I such a position as that he could reasonably be tali. 1 upon to take office again. He reminded them that% man was justified in a constitutional point of view: heading a parliamentary opposition, who was not pt pared, on the defeat or dissolution of the m inistryL , opposed, to assume the responsi bilit y of sup p lp4 their place. Were he now to take the leadership as conservative opposition, he should feel himself board. should circumstances demand it, to eater anew UPS the arduous cares and duties of official life. For ttd he was neither desirous nor disposed. He preferei the independence and ease of a comparatively tuum bitious station, and intimated distinctly that hi present determination was never to take office ago But his advice and vote were at the service of whom ever they might select as their parliamentary lead! He did not wish to lead ; but he would cheerfe4 follow. Perhaps they could not do better than erg" to name Lord LINCOLN their chief, under wb green banner he, Sir ROBERT, would be the 0 soldier to enlist. The old habit of obedience restrabec all thought of discussion. Other thoughts, perhsP concurred to stifle rising jealousies. The concern tives present could not fail to remember how sirail , a part Parr had played with their fathers half a ne tory ago ; they recalled the reason why ADDING was chosen as deputy absolute in 1801 : they loo'at the delighted L INCOLN, and were satisfied. taken wit th f all l e this is the most marvellous and amusing. Lord I--Y the liberties and dS patience atie ltnOcerte of fr his PEEL p ;O. COLN King of conservatism! —or rather regent, whi it is his Majesty's pleasure not to be himself: starch on, my boys, 110 f be ime Yed For loos of rUf comman der: For Lincoln, be -.ball DC TOUT lag, _ l. And I'll be general—Wader. a debt - -- - hones S , Yri3 2 9.qi 1 '1 fil a 5 t II ' Y ist 38 r:1 f :~~ . • ri ni