The Express. — London, England, 1848-07-27 00:00:00

, I i i• 1, -.-- 1 ! , :t , 1 1 ii 11 , , r -•••••••—•••••••••••"'"-------nese the landlords. Last year Ireland produced 16,000,000 quarters of corn, oats, and barley, which were sent . out 0 the country, leaving it to ho supplied through Liverpool merch.ants. Against that system the people would wage war until they forced the landlords to join them in seeking for their t iri n g and fora government that would not take from the rg their constitution and their liberty, or refuse to the dead a shroud and • burial. Mr. URQUHART was surprived to hear a man bearing the historic name of Grattan Heyjufing rebellion. (Mr. Grattan repudiated the charge.) was glad the hon. gen tleman denied it, hut such was the impression which his V:- mecca ma le on his (Mr. Urquhart's) mind. When lea com pared the industrious and stern character of the northern Irish with the unsteady people of the south, and their want of mutual cuididen would in each av other, he was sate tht a repeal of the union he the effect of placing tied the a go. vernmont of the country in the hands of the onneemen. he (Mr. Itereoees: There's a diseevay for you!)—leut ma i nta i ne d that that house had not the po w e r to grata a repeal of the union, inasmuch as it awed nnt m com a suicidal ac In like he was pre to argu it e that the Irish t. parliementmanner could not comm pared it a Dui tidal act, and that it was now in the power of the crown to aurenlon a parlament in Ireland, aed take couocil with lice in the government of that country. After a few words from Mr. 11. GRA eml TTAN in cxplanatioa, Mr. B.IOE said that nee h e became amer of paella went he had retrainee.' from making obeervatie hns on but Irish ma tters, because he felt incempeent to deal wit there, he was not the lees diepoired to remove the evils under which Inland suffsred. Major IllenCliALL thought it weula he better to bring this debate to a conclusion. lle was glad that hoe gentle men who were favourable to repeal had shown such geed feeling • and he regreth motion oy unpleaeant feelings shoutl have been rained by the of his right hon. colleague. Lard .1. RUSSELL said that lie quite agrsed with the hon. gentlemen a no bad jest eat down in thiaking that thin, who were Caveat a ble to the repeal of the union had shone a wise and considerate feeling to postponing the diseussien of th e measure of which t he y were the advocates, in order not to cerate an acerbity in addition to the irritation that now pr evailed, and he only begged it to be understood that lie had himself no persenel objection to the renewal of this de bate, and that he ilnl net at ell shrink from thc diseussion it the question of the repast i f the unless. lie was really te eater into the questien ; end when the hon. menilser for Duhlin told him w that it as to come on, he (Lord .1. Ru e seil) was determined to come down to the house and take p art in ' the dchate ; therefore he had no pe rsonal objc mien to cuter ', into the di: cession of the subject. Having clone this, lie left it to these who were advocates of the repeal of the union—' stud ho theeight they deserved a great deal ot for the I determination which they hadcome te—whether or credit not they would bring the question forward. Ile would state further that ore of the main grounds that ho should have teken in r. slating the repeal of the union, if the I dismission of the questioa had came on, would hate I been, that in h a s opinion the repeal of the union and the I totesablishment of a sepnrate legislation for Ireland we uld tend that very degradation to a province of which Irish gentle men S.) very much complained. He thought that the honour and distinction el having a seat in the. house of parliament, and of taking a part in the govsneraut of this empire—he thought that that distinction was one which raised and ele vated them as a earl of the united kingdom, and by . which, at the snore thne, they might be enabled in thin leguleture to improve and benefit their country. Two men of greet. affinities, and possessing those talents which fitted them for luting menkind, rose i'n Ireland at aboat tie end of last cen t or,. On of them, Mr. Burke, sat in this house, his stractchtzivn whic h . on:a plia,reeawsezieoctt iourchthae Tapmetiorioc:tnoolet,eavi apes, but he mould not take any part which could influ ence the legislation of thee country towards Ire. laud, strong as his opinions wa e, and remark ilee us his views were ; they were written ex letters to member of parliament in Ireland, in emir, and various other wa y s ; but he could not ex ercise an y influence aimed,' in the legisla ture with regard to Ireland. Those talents were of no value as regarded that partieular portion of of public atfaire. Auoth. r great man wasproduced at the same I time e izh talents nearle . as remarkable, aho name wend be always remembered with honour for the se sentiments of patriotism which he entertained, nod for , h• - • li , gh and die- I tangential abilities which he possessed. lie devoted his abi lities to the coesideration of Irish alle:rs. Every one knew that E s to tho name of Henry tirwten. - But in de- '1 voting E:s abilities to Ireland, as long as the two countries were separated, he could not take that part in the leenl dims with regard to imperial affairs, with regard teeny quation of foreign palicy, to any colonial qu estion, or any of those subjects which must be decided by thelegisliture sitting as the coinee of affairs, which his great abilities qualified him to take, and his talents were lost therefore on imperial qui:niers.; in which he ought t i have taken a part. lie thought that it was :oit he benefit and advantage of Ireland, that lrisemen should com bine these two advan ta g es ; , should a man like Mr. Burke, i to f such a man were to rue in the house, should be able declare his opinion ; and that a man like Mr. Grattan should disp:ay his talents ee as to be madded to sway, as Mr. Grattan did sway after the union, the pionsde of this Louse on the most momento us q uestions, on acc and war, and matters which affected the general policy of the state. This was one Freund on which lie would resist the repeal of the union. The hon. gentleman the member for Dublin haeing wisely taken the part which he had taken he hid now only to say that he trus t ed the distinction at present was nut between gentlemen who differed from one ano ther on the question of repeal, but, looking at the important and critical lineation of puffiic affairs that the distinction would be between those who elated to maiutain the general institutions of bah coun tries, who wished to pursue a loyal course, and who wished to nuke such improvements and alterations as they thought requisite, either by means of public discussion or milli men tery debate, and those who were attempting by force and insurrection tooverthrow the institut i ons of this kingdom. He trusted that that would be the diteinctisn, and that gentlemen °reflected with Ir.: sod, whether protestant or Roman catho lic, whatever mash[ be their views with respect to the measure of repeal, would unite together for the peep ;se of mei:nesting their detestation and abhorrence of the insurgent and rebel lidus spirit now abroad, and would use all their energies to suppress rebellion, and to endeavour to maintain peace and good will between the two countries. (Cheers.) After a few words from Mr. FEAUGes O'Connor. the I I debate was agree). to be postponed to that day three months. 1 HORSHAM ELECTION. The Cflialitat XS; informed the house that he had received the necessary certificate from the clerk of recegnisances, that the aunties of the petitioners against the member returned fur the borough were senile lent. WASTE LAWS (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion fur teeing into committee on tide hill, Sir J. W.eLSII °hinted to the bill, believing that it con tained provisions which we re most extraordinary, and va i ich the house would never sttsrart from its title. It van pro- ' posed that certain commissioners should determine what was and what was not wain lane in Ireland, and that tliy should take what lanai they plensed from proprietor% in order to try their oar rite:ads on them. The government were to drain and to divide these waste lands, to erect houses neon the hem i so divided, or to take other steps, whieli would not only he a great drain upon the resources of tho country, but we ich would he establithing entirely • new prin ciple in this country. It was in fact a system similar to that which had recently failed in France, and the mode ' lof obtaicing these results was to se izo in the fi rst instates I the Kemeny of private individuals. Another provision of the measure wan that which gave the power to the go . vernment to sell those lands when so redeemed, and to retain two-thirds of the mon e y , on mortgage . So that the govern ment would be placed in the position of a great mortgagee over all those waste lands in Intend. lie thought that no thing could be more at variance with sound principles than this measure. Anything so preposterous or impracticable was never suhmitted to the ennsideration of the legislature. The hon. member for Stroud, who, he believed, was one of the promoters of this Ullman he had no doubt, most anxious to benefit Ireland ; hut the hen. manner would give him leave to say that in his own political organisetion there was hut a fain , distinction between WWII aid teem. He was anxious to know whether the hon. memLsr had ever been in Ireland in hie life? Mr. P. SCROPE sail that he had. Sir J. WALSH them wished to ask him whether he ever encrypted to draM land ? Having received no reply, he pre sumed that all his knowledge was rather thenret cal than practical. The hon. gentleman, is a pamphlet which he published, alluded to Chat Moss and the draining th wit ere. h a Chat Mess was in the heart of a dense population, railway running through it; and yet, thoueh the railway had been there for nearly 20 years, a very large portion ut that mess was in • perfect state of nature. Tnis hill, he thought, would fsil in the very object which the promoters of the hill had in view. Supposing that the lands were reclaimed to the extent to which the bill provided, and tenants were located on the farms, they must be provided at the public cost with all the appurtenances of cultivation, as well as with the means of sulaistense for the tint year, or else they would starve. The eff et of this mt &sure "mild be to increase the poverty of Ireland, to spiced it more, and to render it more difficult to future eenerations to grapple with it. He should be glad to hear what were tee opini ins of the goy( rnnient and the house generally upon tie subject ; and for that per ' p se he would move that the horse go into committee upon ' the bill this day three months. Mr. STAFFORD seconded the motion. Mr. P. SCROPE admitted that he wee not en Irishman, nor perhaps intimetely acquainted with Ireland personally ; , but ha thought the hon. gentleman, n it being a repealer, ' would admit that a member of the imperial legisleture ought to interest Limo If in Irish affairs. But, in print of fact, the bill was not brought in by him, but by his hon. friend the member for Romommon (Mr. F. French), who was an Irish landholder, and et leant as good an Iri-liman ha the hon. member. The hon. member had charged him snit not retort sufficiently alive to the rights of property. Redid not retort tile charge • but he belleved that the cry of the rights of Sirer was ;bused. Si J. WALSII.—Who is to pay for these lentions ? Mr. SCROPE said the money expended by persons in 'refloating would be amply sufficient tor the purpose. There were thousands who Possessed capital enough for the reels enatien of these lands, and who would be most happy to apply it in that war, ii they had the opportunity, instead of ;mine out to America, and tarrying their capital with them. The working populatinn of Ireland worn now maintained by the public money ; and n dhing sees mon needed than a measure which should put the idle hands tenon the Ole lanai of Ireland. As to the practicability ottreel gheicing these waste lauds with the certainty of a pprofs',profs',lie mit cite wt had been done by Mr. Bent" in Lancashire, whose farm re we on Chre at Mena unw paid 10 per cent. on ilex utlay. The Millions of acres of waste land in Ireland whichght be mare I ossify reclaimed than that. Mr. S. Robinson, o mi f Claraville, I a seilfill r:clenner of lands in a letr to Leen Clarenden, ex- 1 prose'. his convictien thet , the coun te try %WS fully capable of empling all the population, and stated the favourable re sul which experiment made in reclaimiug 10t acne in 183 S, 011 he had expended 31. an me, sad the value of the IINIPERIAL 1 ARLIAIEN'f. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDVf, JULY 26. The SriAm took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND hEADINO.—WaIsaII Improvement Bill. Loßoe' AMENDMENTS CONNIDERED.—Oreat Northern Rail way of .tehotme Extension); atonktand and Eirkintilloch, Bal. Rainey and Stansinnan Railways parrolgarnation, er of eter, and amendment or repeal of acts); Newry and Enniskillen Railway (amendment of ai.ta, and to authorise arrangements with other com panies,; PUBLIC BUSINESS. In SECOND READINGS. —Life roliciee of Assaranoe ; Appeals Criminal CAMS t • Bills. COMMITTEE- —sale of peer NOf ICEOF MOVlONrmirr dromea Mosse.—Col. SIBTIORP, on some Into committee of a 1)5 and Warta, to more a Tr.oluticrO , That it is expedient that sonic clear and ilistnet atatement .hould be Mad.. to the house as t the approldiation of the 36,009/. annually voted for secret ,ervie , money." PAYMENT OF WITMMITTEENEosSES S.ON ELECTION CO Mr. RUMS, in calling attention to the petition of Patrick Purcell, one of the witueeses on the Dublin Elect is ion Coespenses, m mittee, co mplaining that he h ad not been paid h said hc so knowin that as the law now stood hc re was no r emedy, but to su g gest that the law should be t so altered as to ensure to witnesses the payment of their reasonable expenses. PU 11 LIC PETITIONS. Mr. TIIORNELY brought up the report of the con. mitten on public petitions, mating that the practice of cre wel.; it-titions bearing several signatures all in the ante handwriting hat much increased of late, and fuersting a more strict compliance with the Titles of the house against the recention of such petitions. Mr. HUME and Mr. 0. THOMPSON each spoke a few words condemnatory of the practice, after which the report was ordered to lie on the table. REALTII OF TOWNS BILL. Mr. SPOONER asked whether the u meedments made by the bards to this hill would be printed sad a day need for their consideration ? Lord MORF E VII replied the bill had not yetbeen returned from the Lords. When it came ho would state what course he would pur:ue. THE COUNTING OUT YESTER.DAY. Mr. URQUHART comp:sit:eel that on the counting out of the house last ni. ht during the speech of !dr. Anstey the division bell had not been ring to summon members who were not actually in the hon. e at the time t . the bell had not Th e SPEAKER was no t aware tha been rung, but would take care that it should be in future, when notice of 40 members n u t being present was taken. Mr. URQUHART gave notice that he should move that the stunts of mensben present when the house was counted Out in tutnre shonld be taken notice of. Mr. WAWN, no the member van counted out the haw on the previous day, also gave notice that he would persist in doing so on all occasions (if opportunity t fßicd) when the Lon. gentleman and his friend the member for Youghal thought proper before 12 o'clock to move the adjournment of one delete, in order to bring on a totally different ques tion afterwards. (Hoer, hear.) Tee SCE.t.liEli subeequeudy stated that he had made Inquiry, and found that the bell had been rung. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL. Ii reply to Col. SlBTltolcr, Sir G. GREY said it was the intention of his noble friend (Lord J. Russell) to proceed with this bill. Col. SIBTTIORP would then give notice that he would i oppoze it in all its stages. DIPLOMATIC REL TONS ROME atell BILL. that he Sir 0. GREY, in reply to Itle. ANSTEY, st could give uo assurance that this bill, which stood on the paper 'or Monday. win Id come on on that day. REPEAL OF THE UNION—ADJOURNE is bill DEBATE. been The order fee resuming the debate on th D having read, re Mr. It. M. FON s aid be hail come down perfectly p pared to go on wan this debate, but in the !ilsienee of his hon. friend who was at the head ot the repeal vement in Ireland, and of the majority of those mew rsmo who were favoureble to repeal. he could not feel justified in carrying the question to a division. Hs was the more alliio3ll to withdraw the question at the present time, seeing a tendency in Ireland to confound repeal with republieanisat—(hear) — a delusion to which he would never be a port!. (Rear.) He begged to move that the order be read and discharged. The SPEAKER. having suggested that there would be an informality in that motion, Mr. R. M. FOX moved that the debate be further adjourned. ANSTEY, though favourable to repeal as a restore- Hen of the ola constitution of Ireland as it existial in the year 1500, was of opinion that in the present state of Ireland it would be better to withdraw the motion. He repudiated the condact of those who were making repeal the plaything of rebellion. Ile believed that the repeal of the union was a mere question of time, but he would never be a party to the views of thoie who sought to attain that object by force, I or use it as a pretext for the entire separation of Ireland from England. Sir B. HALL expressed his belief that the repeal members had no intention from the last to take the scare of the hones on this question ; bat that it had been brought forward to raise expects anis on the part of the ignorant multitude, which could !teem be realised a by keeping alive such expectstions of to enable • few designing individuals to the means maintaiuing themselves in • station to which they had no right to aspire. (Hear.) The hon. g mtleman (Mr. Fax) now made the absence of the hon. member for Limerick the excuse for not proceeding with the motion. Why the hon. member far Limerick had not bn in the house since since Aha thet 11th of Apri l —(h ear , hear)—while they sad time over and over again had the assurance of hon. members who were favourable to repeal that the questi on w tainly be pressed to a division on the first opportunity. In this respect the conduct of the hon. member for 'Nottingham, who, bevies; brought forward a similar motio t at the com menceent of the sr mien, took • diviaion uron it, contrasted honourably with that of those gentlemen. (Hear. hear.) The origin of the present reielutienary movement in Ireland was to be traced to the repeal association—(hear, hear) —and to the exertions of those who, keeping themselves just with in the verge of the law, excited others to gee beyond it and then left them to their fate. (Hear, hear.) He trusted after this we should hear no more of this repeal agitation. Let the Irish people know the truth—that the e were members in the house res.ly to discuss the question fairly with those who were the advccates of repeal—that the question stood as the first order of the day, and yet, netwithstauding the distinct and positive promlse of the hon. meer for Dublin that tie would at all hazards bring it tenger& mb it was now to be 'ban I doned. (Hear, hear.) To show the vaciaati.ti of the repeal members, he might state that last Alonday, otter first stating that they had not m ade u p their minds whether they would I Krieg on the question, they at length gave an assurance that it womb come on, and c i rcu lars were sent round that morn - ing an nouncing diat the debate would certainly be proceeded with, and now, at 12 o'clock, they (the repeal members) had the moaest assurance to move thee the order be discharged, and the motion oestooned till another session. Mr. REYNOLDS said th en o Ladenmmber did him tuated great in justice when he supposed th he et been ac by a sincere desire to take the sense of the house on this question. On the occasion to which the hen. member had referred, all the repeal members in London amounting to nine—(a laugh) —met together, and resolved to bring on the 'question to-day, but, when it was found that no has than 37 repeal members were absent, it could hardly be expected that they should bring it on under circumstances which must give so great an advantage to their opponents. The hon. gentleman asserted that it was never intended to take the sense of the house on tha motion; in the strongest lan guage parliamentary order would permit, he, on hie own part, repudiated such parliamentary hypocri+y. lie denied that a revolutionary spirit had been evinced by the Repeal Associn ion, which contained men quite as loyal and disinterested as the hon. baronet the member for Mary lebone, He would go farther and say that the moral-farce eel:weer; of Ireland comprised nine-tenths of the population. (Hear, hear.) Hilly he.n. baronet had said that the spirit of revolution which had recently manifested aself in that coun try hail had its origin in the Act of Union, and not in the Re peel Assoclation, he would have been noun nearer the truth. He (air. Reynolds) thought it would be most unwise to bring forward the question in the absence if its pledged sap porters, as well es the ban. gentleman/rho first promoted the discussion of it, and which he did against the unanimous opi nion of the rest of the Irish repeal members. lie thought it would be particularlyunwfos to do so at the present moment, when the house hail just sanctioned a me enure auseeuding I the constitution in Ireland, and when an angry discussion on th e question of repeal wouldNa o n ly all fuel to the political fire now raging in that country. (Hear, hear.) Nat tempt to throw ridicule upon the question sho.ll prevent hint, if in that house, to take the sense of the house upon it next :session, for he could assure the house that the people of Ireland were determined, by every legal and constitutional means, to recover that right ot self goverment of which they felt they had been robbed by a meaiure whicL was carried by force and fraud, which had I disappointed as warmest sup a orters, and which had inflicted ' grea t poverty and misery on the country, with out adding to the strength or prosperity of the British empire. (Hear) Mr. H. orATTAN observed that the conduct hitherto of the hon. batoaet the member for Maryleliene towards the Irish members proved sufficiently that he was unkind by nature; twit now he bad shown himself actuated em byen a spint injustice by intemperate attacks upon gentl who were alma. He !nun also observe that it we e a piece of the greatest presumption for any hon. m ember to declare that the people of Ireland veer- rebels because a small psis eel of men chose to write sedition and treason. the people et Ireland hat d the British government, and they Woula not he men if they did not, and they meant to teke aa ary legal appsetarity and meeea al'aa:araleg the go- Tam:eat of the country ; did not mean the instil,.'". • but the ministry, until they forced them to do justice. He totally denied that the repeaters of the association were not sincere. Was not O'Connell sincere There never lived one more to—and the only thing that ever mien] him as a popular leader was his connexion with the whip (L ane hter.) As to the acc ounts of that body, he could hima It, if it were his last breath, bear testimony to their cor --• Si and honesty. He felt it necessary to say thus much of the dead, whom the hon. baronet inveighed .op disguise by which ho was accustomed to .timents, aid by which he proved himsed mite that had ever appeared on any staee. e Welt members in town hesitated to brill/ on through • desire not to add fuel to the a throw oil on the troubled waters, they were taunted with being insincere re s the habit to assert, too, that Ira hmen were iness, and therefore unfit to legislete for them -1111 he was m ataio, that if they had had an Irish would not have sat Item N o vember to August, ore boa and done literally nothing. ha t Tt fe e t Imams in favour of • repeal of the od unless that measure were granted, the an y t rebellion e nd insurrection, but • war against THE EXPRESS, TIIURSDA.Y EVENING, JULY 27, 1848, Zit' crops bad reached 71. an acre. There could not be a more obvious method of putting down the ilimmtent and sedition which now prevailed than by leeislathig so as to provide for tho redundant population of Ireland. The land hitherto had been placed at the merry of some 8,000 proprietors, who exercised their right of keeping the wastes in their barren s tate, and of periodically driving out the incresaiug popula tion. bill which Col. DUNNE felt difficulty in opposing a, bill purported to be for the advantage of Ireland, but he did nee think this measure would produce any . such effect. The bill atm:seed to compri s e three distinct aer ies of cilia!, ; the first appoiuting commissimen, and dellnine their duties ; the next, enabling the government to rob the proprietors ; and the last, empowermg them to rob the country. (Hear, h od lie decidedly objected to the power of seizing iands; this would carr y into elfect the wild decants of communism, now advocated by Meagher and others. (I [ear, hear.) But the seizure of these tends would be wholly unnecessary, as there would be a sufficieet quautity ot land on sale for the purpose. As a proprietor of wsste lands he wits ready to fire a lease for nothing, for a long period . , to soy one who would reclaim it , or to grant them it in perpetuity on a rental. lie tried that exiseritzient some years ago, before going abroad, and found on his return that those who had taken the land had done nothing at it. (Hear.) The amount of reclaimable waste land in Ireland was grossly exaggerated. The hon. member for Stroud had spoken of 10 per cent. on the rental being derived from the cultivation of waste lend : but the best land in Ireland could not bo cultivated Ire au as to produce that prone In many parts of Ire land, the wastes conei mil of small patches, some Dot larger than five acres. Those that were reclaimable ought to be reclaim , d by private enterprise, and not at the expense of the state. Companies hal beat formed for thin purpose ; and there was no doubt it' the qxculation was a prefeable one it would soon he carried out. Ile fully re. relief; the importance of giving labour in preference to but he was convinced teat it men were placed on the lands referred to, they would soon beeonie pau;*rs if they were not so originally. If he thought the scheme would relieve the pewieratee, it should have his the scheme Mr. REYNOLDe deified that the measure was one of spoliation. Its chief object was to rimble a company er a board of commissioaere to undertake the cultivation ot waste lands; and in the next piece, to stem? land with a mercan tile &erecter. The industrious classes of 'Maudin vested 3,000,0041. in the savings bulks, and 10,000,0001. hi joint-steck banks 'fur e these sums were ampl suffi cient to pay their location on the wastes. From the evidence given before Lord Devon's com mission, he found that there were 2,5117,000 e n. He acres of waste land in Ireland capable. of cultiveti believed there was a elisinelieation on the port of the ',risco entry to have these wastes re claimed, lent they should ose their grouse and other sport. Let the house teach the landlords a little common sense on this subject. One hene fleitreffect of this meaeure would he to increase e lse, don n e in feemimple in Ireland, whereby snore might lee done to -reserve pesos and ruder than by sending h elf a tondo's of soldiers there. (Hear.) The reclamation of tof he wwees would for in tee firs' place employ half a inelion 'slimmers 20 years, and would he the means of loeetino 1.93,00 G ta ot What he regretted was, that the government did ntake the matter into their hand., and cause the waste lands to he reclaimed, even in spite of the landlords. If they would do so it would be a step towerds the peeilicetion of Intend, and would not entail sty loss span the government. (11e,r.) Mr. F. FRENCH &vied that the measure was ice of either public or private plunder. There was out One shilling require from the Treasury. There was ne undue ieterfer ewe with property. The object of the bill was to give an oortity to time; who were now emirating to Ameriea to p e lucate un themselves on the waste lands o g f Ireland when re. claimed. A bedy of indleneent egriculturists would thus he created. lle had no et suht that there were many in the humbler chases in Ireland who would be able to purchase from 20 to 30 seven of the land. Mr. 0. GORE said that there was an act of parliament in existence for the reclamation of waste lands. the but It was true that it contained no compulsory power, objrction to the present bill in his opinion was that it gave su ch compuls•ry power . There was a enamels , at present in existence o' carry cut that act, but they hail not leulti. dent Muds. Ile believed that the waste node sat Ireland if cultivated would ho m ere than the ate to supped ths over population which isted. It the government gave means to the company to which be allieled, it would be much more beneficial than by compulsery pewee to Lake lands. If government did to, ha believed it would tend to the ta citication of Irelaed. Sir 0. GREY approved of the object of the bi ll, but doubted whether the provisions of this hill. were calculate , ' to attain that object. When he assented to the introduction of the bill, he did so on the aesurance of hon. friend that the bill would not require goverament machinery or public money. Oa reading the bill, how,. er he Lund that the pledge of his hon. frien d was not kept, b ecause' ho perceived that the measure was to be carried into etfoct by the ap pointmcnt of a government commission. It was true they were not to be paid at lint, bat there was a pro via on giving a eieht to come to parliament for salare s. Th.. n with regard to the funds to be raised, he thought that the government would be undertaking a liege pecuniary re spensibility if they absented to the measure in its present mufti% lie was also of opinion that the compulsory power given by the bill was too extensive. lie wale sorry to oppose shill which might give pro liteble employment to the people of Ireland. Ito thuugl.t that the assistance of pariisment might be requisite to carry nut the object contemplated by the measure— (hear, hear) —but lonking to the proviekins of the present bill, and the machinery by which it was to be cane d out, he was not prepared to assent to the second reading. Sir D. NORREYS expressed himself favourable tothe principle of the bill. I t was a melancholy thing to see such distrese and went of employment in Irelind, of when there was such an opportunity as the cultivation the waste iands would atlurd of remedying this evil. lie be lieved that some such bill as this was neoc sary to stimulate the industry of Ireland. Mr. FRENCH said, that after what had fallen from the right hon. gentleman he would not divide the house. The bill was then withdrawn. LIFE POLICIES OF ASSURANCE BILL. Mr. FAGAN moved the second readir.g of this bill, the object of which was to make life polities assignable at la s. It had been approved of by the g reat insurance companiee of this eountry. If the bill passed he believed it would have the effect ot greatly augmenting the number of polices. The bill was then SA read a second time. LE OF BEER BILL. The house went into committee on this bill. On cleuee 1 being proposed, Mr. SPOONER moved an amendment, that beer-shops should be awed on Sundays during the morning service. Mr. THOILNELY objected to the amendment. It was Weer to fix a definite time. Mr. SPOONER said that the licenses specified that the houses were not to be opened during the period of morning meek% Sir G. GREY said it was better to define the time. An act of parliament would override the words of a license. After some cenvemation, the amendment to insert the words " before half - past twelve o'clock," was put and negatived. The places words, "or in where the services of the prris I h church may not usually terminate before that heur," were then read, Mr. SPOONER moved to omit these words, butafter many observations said it was useless to divide the house, and there fore he would withdraw bill amendment. Copt. PECIIELL remarked that this was a very curious proceeding, and being strongly of opinion that the words ought to he omitted, he begged to adopt the amendment. Mr. W. PATTEN opposed it, and after some time occu pied in discusdon, the gallery was cleared fur a division, but none took place. Capt. PLC HELL having given way, The clause was erect' to. Clauses '2, 3, and 4 were agreed to. On clause 5, Mr. SPOONER moved an amendment facing a power to constables and public officers to enter coffee-el.ups " at any time and as often so they should think proper." Mr. C. BERKELEY objected to giving any such power, and moved that the chairman do report progreei. Mr. HUME Mitt the coffee-shots were a great cause of the general sobriety which now prevailed in this metropolis. lie submitted that they were not retailing spirits, but coffin and tea. The amendment weal I put down the very meets by which the ADrell. l of temperance was promoted. Sir J. DUCKWOIt TH thought the amendment would do much to aid the UMW Ct able coffee-shops. Sir O. GREY thought the amendment hail better be with drawn. Mr. C. BERKELEY said he would withdraw his motion if the amendment were withdrawn. It wanting only five minutes to G, Mr. SPOONER withdr , :w his amendment actordinrlv, and the remaining clauses were hurriedly agreed to. The bill was reported, and ordered to he read a third time on Wednesday next. Mr. HUME gave notice that he would, on that occasion, move to strike out clause 4, which applied the provitioce ot the bill to coffee-shops. SUP PLY. The report of the committee of supply (army estimates) was brought up and hurriedly agreed to. Mr. F. MAULE Laid there was an error in one of the votes which he should to to correct in the next committee. NEW BILLS. Leave was given to bring in tee following bills on the motion of the members stained Mr. C. LEWlS—bill to continue enact for authorising the application of highway retes to turnpike tout Mr. GROGAN—biII to regulete the amount of present meots by the grand jury sal the county of the city of Dublin for pay meet el the cis rks of the peace of the said city. Mr. C. LEWlS—bill tor dispensing with the evidence of the proclamations on had levied iu the Court of Common Pleas at Westminster. Mr. PARKER —bill to authoris: the application of port ot the unclaimed money is the Court for the Relief ot In. solvent Debtors in enlareing the court house of the said come. It being six oadeek the house adjourned. MAILS. The mails foe British North America, and the United States, be wiU ma de up lathe evening of the Tan 28th July. Lana, and New The mails for New South Wide% Diemen's Zeeland will be made up On the evening of the 314 July. The mope for the West Coaof Africa and Madeira will be made up on the evening of thr 3let Jul The West India Mails, Including Ilcimuda, Puma, 'lamina, Honduras, New thlevne, Vera Cruz, Tampico, and Porto Giro, and excluding dew for Madeira, Jemet, Carthvenv, kearta 2d:flits, cheerer., Panama, West Coast of South America, and St. Juanvde. Nicaragua, will be revile up on the morning of the 2nd Auguvt. The malls for the Ilravi le , (So Ricer Kate, Monte Vinci, Yernant bow. Bahia, Madeira, and Blleno B Ayres, will be made up on tha evening of the Cli August. ' he overland Limed mails sin Memento., , will to th be made up on o Mediterranean, pi ypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Ilong-liong, Az the evening of the lib . The really for Vigo, Aug )porto, Lisbon, hisileira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar I will be mule up en the morning of the Ith Aug. The overland mails tor Gbaltar, Malta, Greece, the ler.in Wands, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, India, Ithapliong, and China, via Southnnyv ton, will be made up on the evening of the 19th August. NOTICE TO ADVEIZTISERS. The number of STA itil'S lowed by the authorities of the Stamp-ohice, during 1541, to the DAILY NEWS war .......... 3.447.009 I This we believe, is within eight per cent ot the number ',surd 'to the Monsing Herold, MQviiing Chronicle, an I Morning Post, ALL PUT ToOrTne:,. In addition to the above, issut 1 to the DAILY NP.WS, Alt,rning Paper, there were iseuetj tor the Ever.tn? Eci2ion, TUE EXPRESS 778,714 Which was more, we 'believe, t'..en were issued either to 1 the Globe or Standard, Evening Pat.ers. ----____-_—_— 111011 INAT Yl, V? LONDON TIRIP 41-14nr..., 1•1•0111. II I. 1 11•01111011.1.,. -M.1 /theory... 21 Ws. yabt $O. ELECTION CONIMITTEES.—YEsTERDAy. Dtrimm—Scrutioy continued. Two votes struck off Mr. Reynolds's majority. NORTII CILESIIIHE.—Eyiamme as to trotting further heard. --_ ,---- A FEENcII GOVEU.I3IENTAL PItESS.—E Union, of 1 the 20th, has the following: "The Committee of the In terior has entertained a proposition for the institution of a gbveromintal 'nil ripulir press, and the creation of public libraries. The object of this governmental press will be to oppose publicity to pub licit y (dorposer 11 publecitj ci la pub N). It will @me at onCe for the political Motivation and moralisation of the people. g is pending, the issue of which is doubtful. The votes of Pennsylviwin and New York would ensure success to either party. Considering the strength of the Irish in both these states, there will be no want of professed sy m p ath y for them, until the issue is decided. The mask will then be thrown off, and the Irish will find their American, as apathetic and indifferent as their French, allies. By the middle of November _a reaction will take place in the pu'ilic mind in America, which will cause demonstrations like those now promoted to be caricatured and put down. Even already the symptoms of reaction are apparent amongst the more sober and reflecting por tion of the public, who find ready expression for their views in some of the most respec•able journals of the union. Independently of all others there are two very grave considerations which will induce the American people to p ause ere they permit thei: sympathies to be carried too Jacooiutcal princip les es p oused by the trans atlantic Irish, will be found incompatible, if encouraged, with the more conservative institutions of the republic, whilst it will run the risk of becoming seriously involved, by such demonstn.tions, with a friendly state. The American people are neither pre pared to jeopardise the cause of order at home, nor to forego their friendly relations with that power, with which, of all the world, it is most for their inte ey res will t to keep at peace, for the eake of those whom th regard as returning the welcome with which they have been received by an abeso of hospitality equal to the ingratitude with which a misguided section of them in the old world have met the generous efforts of the British people to alleviate their sufferings, in the darkest hour of their long night of calamity. Our readers need, therefore, he under no alarm at these American gatherings, to express sympathy for Irish rebellion. We confidently predict that, in the :,curse of a short time, they will die away, and leave little or no trace behind them. The parry piepoees, for which they are now partially acquiesced in, once served, the Americans will find that, in more ways than one, they are interested in tleir suppression. They are too shrewd a psople to risk their prosperity in a quarrel not their own, or to suffer themselves to be embroiled with this country by a section of the vast army of strangers whom they have welcomed to their shores. LONDON, TIIU.RSDAY, JUL . THE story of Irish agitation in Ameri Y ca is easily 27 told. Haven- its origin In the deep-rooted aversion to the British goverement, race, and name, which the great bulk of the Irish emigrants carry with them to the land of their adoption, it assumes, when con templated from a distance, an imposing attitude, from their numbers and position, whilst it is stimulated into periodic activity by circumstances, to which we shall presently allude. The position of the Irish in America is ae peculiar in Europe their misery ie prominent and almost hopeless. hopeless. They f orm a marked excepti to the general character of the emigration which directs itself to the shores of the New World. The English, the Scotch, and the German emigrants exchange, respectively, the land of their birth for that of their adoption, to better their condition, and generally accoinplish their object. On landing they remain no lodger than is absolutely necessary amongst the large cummuniths of the seaboard. They have not quitted the over-crowded streets of one populous town to linger in the se of another ; but to hie es last as possible to those fertile wildernesses, where there are millions of acres of the richest soil waiting for the superabundant labour of other climes to reduce thou to cultivation. For hundreds of miles back from the coast they find the land already oc cupied, to a great extent, by industrious, thriv ing, and in many cases opulent, farmers, before whine industry the forest has gradually disappeared, and by whose labour the value of the soil hes been enormously augmented. In the midst of thcs: enter prising communities there is room, but still not room enough for the adventurous emigrant. His plans and his ambition carry him still further westward—he traverses the broad belt of the continent, which eivili eation hay already redeemed, and seeks a home amid the magnificent forgets and luxeriant prairies of the far west, beyond the Alleghenies, and even beyond the Misstesippi. There, on the very confines of civili sation, he courageously takes his stand, getting hun dreds of acres of virgin soil almost for a King: competence being at once his lot, and, from be ins early in the field, acquiring wealth and pixition, as an organised community rapidly matures around hen; for, in America, states grow up in less than a arenerat ion. This is the brief history of the enterprising and intelligent emigrant, who seeks the American shores to labour for himself, and be come, as soon as possible, independent, and who man fully car ries out his purpose. lie gives himself up at once and entirely to his new hopes and projects, sinks the old countryman in the new, and becomes an American as eoonas healiasemithis lot with Americana. Would, for their own sekee, that such were the ease with the Irish emigrants. but as the mass of emigration is absorbed, as it were, into the broad continent beyond, it leaves upon the seaboard a squalid residuum behind it. Few Irishmen follow the track of their fellow-emigrants to labour, competency, and independence in the woods. Whatever m^y be the cause of this, whether it is that they are deficient in enterprise, that they are I spiritlese and purposeless on stepping ashore, that they arc wanting in self-reliance, or that their miserable antecedents at home have incapacitated them for self action, certain it is that they do not in terfuse, as other emigrants do, with the great mass of the American people. They will not isolate themselves, but segremte in large masses in the towns, remaining Irishmen in everything, instead of becoming Americans. This is not the case as regards them all ; but it is incontestably true as regards the great bulk of them. With want, as their inseparable companion, labour to supply pres,,ing and diate necessities is their constant demand. This ge thoy generally obtain in the lar ftport towns, and feeling at home a mongst their own countrymen there, they care not to leave them, provided they get constant employment. It is thus that about nine out of ten of the Irish emigrants but slightly better their condition in their own day and generation. Tiiey live amid squalor and filn to thth, in a land where there are scarcely yet five mee square mile, and on ti c constant verge of want in a country which could easily maintain fifteen times its present population. If you inquire for the St. Gileses of Boston, New York, Philadclph ia, or Bah imore, you are invariably directed to the Irish quarter. In each of these towns you have the repetition of what may be every day seen in London, Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgovia and Birmingham. And yet the descendants of these very emigrants become active and enterpris ing, and wealthy citizens, resembling their tathcts only in this, that they cherish, with equal devotion, the hate, which they have inherited, to this country. I, It should be borne in mind then that the picture here drawn of the Irish emigrant refers only to himself, and not to his descendants. It would be a mistake to suppose that this is a matter which solely concerns the Irish emigrant in America, or one to which the American is indict rent, provided it supplies him with euilicient labour for the performance of what am more peculiarly, the drudgeries of society. It is accompanied by social and pelt' ical consequences, of which Irish sympathy and Irish agitation in America are but mero exemplifications. In most of the states the suffrage is universal, and the Irish, particularly in the large towns, become quali fied to vote as soon as they have fulfilled the condi tions to naturalisation. 'I ho large towns materially influence the elections in the different states in which they lie, and, from their segregating propensities, the vote of thc Irish becomes a powerful on in many of the states of the union. Its influence is enhanced by the nice balance which exists between American parties in the principal cities. This makes the Irish vote of the greatest con sequence in New York and Philadelphia fur instance, the side to which it sways being sure to preponde rate. To secure it, both parties, previously to an election, pander to the passions and the views of the , Irish residents, outbidding each other for their poli tical sup art. Having no mawkish predilections for - FRANCE.—FIItfiIIIAL OP CH . ATEAUBRIAN . D. — The Vigte de I °Wit, of the 21st, is entirely Wiled with an se party fidelities, they generally give their support to count of the funeral of Chateaubriand. AU along the road, the faction which, tbr the tints being, most inflau.es, from Paris to St. Melo, the country people received the tempts, or flatters them. It is thus that they are h earse coa ujoicg t h e b o dy w i t h ever y mar k o f a ff ec ted an d alternately an aid and an impediment to both, 'being reverence. On the 18th the funeral procession reached St. in tavonr or disfavour with each, according as they Maio, and the body was given up to the eur of St. Male by co the ni cu u ri . f i l t it he a r ii,ieonwsa,Etrriteeercziowf e P ie arls eli 7ls m o It o sd r, ec have contributed to its success or defeat. The remi • the niscenec of an injury generallyoutlasts the recollection occasion by the two ecclesiastics P . The National Quanta and of a benefit, and " native Americanism" was as troops, all the authorities, two hundred priests from different much the offspring of party , discomfitures as of parts of Britfary, and a vast multitude were present, and the um asiness which a political incubus, like the accompanied i tti x e l coffin to therurei. The er ci t t mninei Irish vote, was well calculated to inspire. Scarcely a in. th •s e el el3 w erto co ir c y on e setc t te e d in T the w llot du (Legal great electoral contest token place without giving the I n 9 ii h i; I ? By. TilJ melancholy proc:ssion which accompanied the Irish a fresh proof of how they are thus alternately remai.s of the distiogassed deceased was a most imposing wooed aud spurned, petted and pelted, flattered and ono; it cansiited of several thousand National Guard; from contemned, appeased and irritated, fawned upon commune; f o zile t s ie r i oan o t i ! h o e f fo th re s. town, de i rar . o tr ir a t egaLa i lel and hated, by the two great political parties in commune; deputations a 'from the colleen of Rennes, St. Ser o : America. van Dul, and Olean; of detachments of troops, sailors, Another illustration of public is afford( d by what is ar tillery, ex. Every window theery house along which now passing in the rep. At the large Irish of the provesion, and beyond town every apt gathering!, with t'7eir intemperate and inflammatory tied i t i i tuf ve . w h o o f it ,:i. w . 7, l s esedt crowded t b at y tiim spectators,e th e y accompaniments, which are occurring there, we feel females, comnsas lowered Tito the tomb speeches were . delivere ' dby no surprise ; nor is there anything wonderful in the sympa thy professed for their object by sections of the NI. Cunat, deputy-mayor of St. M ato ; Id. Am p ere, of the French Academy, and charged to represent it; sad M. contending political parties. A presidential contest Therry, rector of the Academy of henna. menusi and hone Ia vindivation of t against iu &It eater his e, a 1 scut the greaten hy"' (A laugh.) The I this motion, th tame, but to and for doing so t pcalers. It wet I not men of busir. selves; but of thi parliament, it we as the pre.,,,mt or alone spik e r) v . ol e tt i owah hea r) ; intla IV* sot FRANCE. IN the coarse of the debate on Monday night one of those miscellaneous diseussiors turned up, which, while they produce 110 immediately practical result, yet have this good quality, that they renew the public interest and acquaintance with their subject matter, and by displaying how much there is to do, have occasionally led to something being really <l..rae. The special topic ueon the occueion we allude to was the state and cost of the army ; and the matter cam M e before the house upon the vote being asked for by r. Fox MAI;LE of 1,336,8801., the balance remaining un granted of a sum of 3,e36,880/. required for the land forces at home and abroad (East Jodies exclusive) for the current) ear. We had already surmised that the motion made early in the session, by Mr. IiUME, for a reaision and reduction of the " army estimates," had been pr tically shelved for the present. Being referred to the "committee up stiirs," it had disappeared teen t arena of debate, and we are now intormed upon the best authority that the committee, although their labours have been as assiduous as those of their col leagues upon the immortal Dublin election inquiry, cen not possibly approach the subject this se ri on. The mat ter therefore, is now past cure. Nothing can be amended or retrenched by the legislature from the estimates as originally presented, without violating the forms of parliamentary etiquette : and whatever saving can be made in this 'sear must be hoped for only from the Ileconomics of a thrifty executive. There were, however, some facts disclosed during the discus-ion which are well worth preservation. I We learn that a committee, which included among its members four of the present cabinet ministers, was appointed nine years since to pursue investigations in that wide field for research presented by our military system, and ended by compiling a report recommend ing a variety of improvements, not one of which was atterwarde heard of. We are reminded that the very natural proposition to transmute the office of an irrc spoesible commander-in-chief into that of a re spons,ble minister of war has been allowed to float about the house for years, in the shadowy and ignoble condition of a measure universally acknow ledged to be theoretically necessary, but practically disagreeable. We have from the Secretary at War an explanation respecting the flagrant neglect of the three officers to whose exertions the successful termina tion of the Kaffir war is principally due; and learn that the reason why Capt. lltesextewho " dry-nursed" tee' colonels from home into fitness for Cape warfare, mei Capt. HOUG, who trained his Hottentot " irregulars" so skilfully, that he was able with their aid to rout an enemy who had baffled the discipline of the " h , avies," did not receive a decoration con!erred upon numerous leceuse "the regulations of the ser vice" somehow forbid it. By the same " regulations," as we are also told, it is enacted that the officers whom an admiring country regrets that she cannot reward with higher pay than 601. per annum, must sit down every day to their mess dinner in a full dress coat, costing 20/., being one-third of their year's income. And finally, a motion made by Mr. OSBORNE, to reduce 13,9001. from the expenses of the Tower staff, as being uselessly appropriated in paying Tower wardens, yeomen. " gentlemen porters," and " gentlemen gaolers," was negatived upon the ground that those appointments. useless as they might be, were among the few that remained to recompense the faithful ser vices of non-commissioced officers. The great evil apparent through these and similar complaints is, that the army is made to serve a doue and inconsistent purpose. It has to perform the rough duties of national defence, and to supply a field for patronage by furnishing employment, dignities, and fortunes to the numerous scions of aristocratic families who crowd into its ranks. In addition to the honour able and frugal livelihood which the nation would never grudge to its brave defenders, provision must be made for those highly-conuected aspirants who throng the avenues of promotion—whose wealth tied pretensions have completely perverted the military ma chine from its original design, and whose interest is suffi ciently powerful to resist all efforts at reformation. Prescription has made soldiering, par excellome, the fashionable profession ; and to satisfy the ambition of fashionable soldiememployments have been created for them which their training little feted them to per form ; and military authority was inttuded into pro vinces where civil administration would have been far more appropriate. Fully half the outlay for the effective services of the army is incurred, ostensibly, on account of the colonies. In reality , we ha ve little hesitation in saying, nine-tenths of this outlay is for services with which the colonies could very safely dispense. The hon. member for Southwark, in his admirable speech on Tuesday night, stated that about one million square miles of British territory, with five million inha bitants, were divided into no less than forty different colonies, each with a separate government end from the last returns presented to parliament, those of 1843-4, the cost for colonial service amounted to 2,5.56,919/. for the army alone. By the report of the commission oa military rulministiation presented in 1840, it appeared that, of 103 battalions, 77 were employed abroad, of which several had served for 16 and even 19 years out of 20 in the dependencies. The proportion since that time has somewhat dimi ished ; but it is still sufficiently large to give room for all and ore m than all the octs for reduction which the ni tuber for Montrose has yet ventured to indicate. PARTS, Wanxr.suAY, 11 A.X. An event, of great public interest here, will take place to-day in the Assembly—Nl. Thiere will make his debut in the tribune. The ( cession which he. has selected is that of presenting a report from the committee of finances upon the proposition made by M. Prudhoe to confiscate on -third of the revenue of all proprietors. The coon I of the Bank of Francs his resolved on taking a tenth part of the new loan, being the same proportion which it had agreed to take in the loan proposed le fore the revolution of February. General Oudinot is to leave Paris this evening for the army of the Alps. lie has asked leave of absence from the Assembly. General Bedeau is in a fair way of recovering from his wound. The reapers in the neighbourhood e Paris hav e found some dead bodies, supposed to be those of in surgents who died of their woauds after takMg r e f uge in the corn. On Monday 134 insurgents, on many of whom were found documents inculpatol of themselves and others, were arrested in the Ilanheu. The following is that part of the decree in the Monit,:ur of to-day, as to tke new loan, which elates to the holders of certificates for payrivuts under the treaty for the loan of 1617 : • The tolders of certificates of the old loan rti,ll be allowed until 12. th August inclusive to PulAcrib e for the new loan. I Their bidding conformable to form A .hall he dlyai..e.i at L the " Cobra centrals," and must be seefwapanied by the cer tificahs of tho old loan and the payment o f tl.•• sea ewes . . i wiry to complete the deposit of the gutran.y ot 171 per cent. I me sum to be paid in cash will be 7i per cent. of the amount of the subscription, that is : With a cortificatc of Cash to bo paid. To rreccc a ecrtilleate old lo.n of ot the new loot of 3,oorti. 3 I,r ant stook ... 5 , 0 13 f. 75 0. ... 5,004. 3la r coat. A.A. 1,500 f. do. do. ... tail. Mc.... ;VOL do. d... GoOf. do. d 0.... 1,114. 730. ... Leoer. de. do. 3o of. do. do. ... Ulf. SSG. ... :Nur. do. do. IVA. do. do. ... :Nit lac. ... 2:all. do. do, DISCUSSION IN Till: CONSERVATIVE CLUB Ole TUB Rue MI POICT/LllB.—A mee*ing was hell on Monday, at the club of the Rue de Poicticra, which was mat numerously attended, and at wheels a diseivision tuck place involving the consi.leration of the policy ut the present condi tion of the country, as well in its internal state as in its foreign relations, and including en appreciation of the pc.sent and past administrations since the revolution of Farteary. The debate was opened by M. limn Faucher, who, ta as ela borate fr-ech, developed views and e ntiments on the pre sent rituation and prospects of France, which received the general colicurr. nee of the meeting. lie affirmed that the successful issue of the affair of the 15th May, and the repression of the anarchists eu that neeasi et was rendered abortive and Guides by the complicity of the executive wmmissimt. That there were aiready it dications which raised grave apprehensions that tie same course would ha ultimately punts. d in refire= to the late insurrection. The insurgents were, et es true arrested and imprisoned in prodigious numben, but cultic, were created and exaggerated, and a cry of pity cad amnesty :.had been raised and secretly provoked by the government. That the executive power is in reality euthing more than agent of the late executive commisaien. That all the n,minations and elections, made under th • iefluenee of General Cavaignac, are dictated by the members of that commission. Marie and Marred, the sure. save prteidents of the chamber, and M. Ducoux, the pre'ect of police, an examples of tail. The reel prefect of police i. soil Cauni ,here, from whom M. Damn: takes all his inspirations. Latuartine rules the foreign affairs wider the nam.of Bestide, and Ledru Rollin rules Lsmartine. Thar intentitn cpenly manifested to allow the insurgent prisoners to escape nide ire punity, is an insult to common justice, and an outrage suitst ad the mends of order. The same spirit is manifested in the I treatment of the press ; the anarchist journals, suck as Le Refornae and La D,!macratie Pacijiqw-, have been allowed to . pour forth daily their furious invectives ugliest every principle of social order, while the reseee tehle journals of La Pr i me and L'Assen;bl , :c Nationak arc mippressed. If we look to the departments, we find tit., disastrous reign of Lcdru Rollin continued in as high activity as et ben he was installed in the Ministry of the Interior. His emissaries still diffuse the poisen of bin principles through the depart ments. la the finances the same tendencies are eisndest, the duties on 'acts anions and on mortgage-, involving ca they do the principle of progressive impost, and the consequent ultimate . destruction of property, arc still main tained. It is admitted that the progressive ha pmt is the prevailing idea of °moral Cavaignae. Tho foreign relations of France have been brought to an equally disastrous condition be the p .rti ions policy of the vi,ional Government and Executive Clainliillil/11-11 policy which less not been abandoned by the present govern ment administered as it still is in the foreign department by Lemia-tine and Ledru Rollie. T.e intervention of Charles Albert in Lombardy ought to have been a happy incident for France, relieving that power Irem a necoulty which would have entailed upon her much difficulty mad cuth.ara , smmt in relation to other state, but this was wilfully mistaken and perverted by the Provielonal OtTtlll meet and its successors ; instead of seconding Charles Albert, and extending to him moral support and counteeance, difficulties and obstacles were wilfully thrown in his way. Pail agents were sent to foment the reenhlican sprit in Lombardy, and to spread the same, if pes.ible, through the ad jacent states. Instead of seeking to estahli-h the independence of Northern Italy, the agents of M.M. Lamartine and Lecke Rollin endeavoured to create an Italian repuMic. The perma nent political interests of France were sacrificed to the spirit of person and of party. The position of Chatles Albert now becomes critical ; he will probably be driven back to the Pied most. se frontiers, and France will then be compelled to in tervene, war will ensue not with Austria only, but with all Germany, and perhaps even with Rawls and with England. hat a M. Lion Faucher conclu ded with a proposition either t deputation should be sent to express the sense of the meeting to Gee. Caysiznac, or that interpellations Wield be made, and a debate raised in the asmentily. After some ()ha m tions from MM. V ivies, Mauguin, Duvergier d'Hauranne, and Degous:de, who concurred generally in the sentiments expressed by M Lion Faucher, but deprecated any systema tic or factious opposition to government at the present mo ment, the discussion was adjourned till the next meeting. This adjournment was thought the more desirable, u it happened that M. Thies was not present. Meanwhile, ft was announced that M. Idauttan wool I give notice Olt ThIITSC.gI, ill the assembly, of queseinns to be put to govern ment on t he affairs of Italy on the following Monday. SPALN.—We have received the Madrid mails of the 21st, which confirm the news already given of the Queen's illness. Her Majesty app.2ars to be in no serious danger. A royal order had been issued for the exile of the Infante Don Francisco Do Pauli, the father of the king consort. lie is allowed t* choose the point of his departure from Spain, and to reside whcrover he likes abroad. His young children amain at Madrid under the care of the D.,ke de Gor, who liar accepted the responsibility, b u t declines the salary. "dfArtin, iv, T 21.—Three per Crnta, 19/ cash ; after Nam, 19i visa. Fire p^r plipapc•r. Paesires, 4 paper. 11.0‘17 of St. tOrillimul, 70 wiper; ili , count of note.", 4 per tent. Excilange on London, at ninety days, 43.73. ITALY. NEAPOLITAN INVASION OF SICILY. NAPLES.— A letter from oar Naples oorre spondent of the 17th inst., which we subjoin, brings the important news that in consequence of the intelligence of the election of the Duke of Genoa as li;ng of Sicily, preparations on an extensive scale for the inva sion of Sicily were made. This inteldgence appeared t xelusieely in part of our impression yesterday. Orders were issued to prepare all the steam-frigates and gun boats in the bay. and harbour, and all the commercial steamers were seized, as well as every description of boat capable of carrying arms. The British merchants resident in Naples were made to contribute to the forc..l loan. The Five per Cents. fell to 851. Our correspondent writes as follows : NAPLES, JULY 17. Minor events, in the Neapolitan political world, are at the present moment entire ly absorbed in the threat. ned Inca. s.on of Sicily by the King of Naples. In consequence of the ne ws that the se cond son of Charles Albert had been chosen King of Sicily by the parliament assembled in Palermo, orders were lamed to prepare stnin-frigates and gun boa% as well as to detain all trading reamers now in thenaants y of N ap l es . Every description o f boat capable of bear has been seized by the government, as well as all milers employees in the coasting trade, not only at Naples but in the islands of the kingdom. The prsperattons for the army are equa`ly active. The Jib and 10.11 losst, which bare just re turns d from Lombardy in a very disorganised state, Mg under orders. The whelp army is being augmented in every possible way. The party in Naples which regards any event threatening the prMat dynasty with pleasure are in high spirits. The ti feat' cued invasion is looked upon se a hopeleffort 0 tie part of Naple s , since the Sicilians are united, endin Albert is certainly strong enoneh to protect his s. n, saosll events require it. I hear a British steamer is to bring the now King of Sled/ to the Wald. It now remains to be seen if the Nesellitaa chambers will accord with the desire of the Kiag to :nude Sicily. Lip to the present moment the constitution bag b een a dead letter, but so important . a question as the pretest must of =me: ay call forth the op inion of the house. ; sad There are some 20,000 Neapolitan troops in Calabria and the citadel of Mes s i na ma y contain 5,000 men : thred fr ese, , ^t b about 8,000 or 8,000 troops, which may still be spi os the city cf Naples, will form the army of inva anion, the It is To' nerrilly believ..d the troops will leave Naples ut of this month, and land at Syra use. I have visivd of the steamed, and, from what f can sea and hsar, a OS deal must be done befor e the y can go to sea. T.te have been much neglected, and there are only some mine sr four English engineers caplhle uf putting the kh The Fret.ch fleet is at Palermo and Messina, 'AA pas a WO English frigates sod stea mers. Fier hitOty's .steelar Porc for thei her( Sici Nes and Am Lib lead nom tro 11013 mii gn' or@ hat