The Express. — London, England, 1853-08-20 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FstoAT. ArGusT 19. ilte Lotto Cisvccrtamt took kis ',St lit 6 o'clock - - PR f FriONS PRESENTED. NJUROLIAOS WITIC a DlCLAeltli SISTER.—By Lord STAN LEY of ALDERLEY, from the City of Lon don sod adiondog parishes, comprising Spaarields, Bethnal- green, Mile.end, Hackney, 11-imerton, Debtors, Moat's, De Beauvoir Town, Balls l'und, STU:Ifor.l, Poplar, Borough, Bermondsey, Horeelydown, Old Kent-road, Wagon's, Lambeth, and Newington Loth, signed by 23,361 pumas, 12,110 being married w men ; in favour 01 - Coeser Coinets.—By Lord BROUGHAM, from Dol. is pawner al the *starlings of the jurisdiction ul coanty courts. COMMON LAW COURTS. A lull fir the unprovemeut of proceedings in the courts Of common law Was nod a first time. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Lord REDESDALE gave notice t hat early neetmesion be would mute a resolution to the effect, " That this oust do not road any bill • snood time after some day in the. swath of July, to be hereafter named." SLAVERY IN CUBA. Lord BROUGHAM 'bind to ask a question of his nails friend opposite. Lord sTANLi:r of ALDERLEY su?gested that the orders of day hail been called on. Lord BEI se:SI-SALE objected to the noble and learned lord immure his question at that time, as it would interfere with the beigiess of the home. Lord DWI' 0 RAM stead then, to put himself in order, muse toe erbournment of the house, to enable him to put a question to the pubis Iced the Sc :eatery for Foreign Affairs. Ile understood that a person named Zuluetta, the owner of the ship Laity Suffolk, and a notorious slevedesler, had been sent to a pinion is Cubs, but in a few days afterwards be had been retested, and had gone Leek to the li h, where Ached held a meeting of the persons most notoriously engaged in slave trading, and it was snits(' to be in further ance of 'he proetedisin of the govenamtot of Cuba, who was strongly suspected ut having given, on all occasions, only a colourable adhesion to the treaties for abolishing the slave teethe. He welted to know whether the noble earl had mosimed any authentic information on the subject ? The Enter CLARENDON eou:d only say that a short time ago the Consul-General of Cuba reported that, as he un derstood, in councilman of very atnogeot instructions from Spans, an improvement bad taken place with reference to die abolition of the slave trade, and that mot severe measures were heinq taken for its suppres sion. lie bail received this intelligeace about three wales ago, and had laid it benne the committee of the House of Commons then sitting on the slave trade. Among other facts stated by the Consul-General was the arrest and imprisonment ot Zuluetta, who was said by his uo'le and teeniest friend to be a notorious slave dealer. He added also that such an arrest was a measure so annual in the:Oland of Cuba that it spread consterna tion amongst the slave traders, and he had no doubt that a good result would he produced by it. He had certainly seen an account of Zuluetta's having been released, but he bad no official knowledge of the fact. Lord REDESDA LE complained of the course which the noble and learned tura pursued in setting the orders of the house at defiance. If such a course were allowed to be pursued they might as well have no orders at all. if the noble lord had waited only a quarter of an hour the orders of the day would have been disposed of, and he might then have put his question without being out of order. Lord BROUGHAM contended that he had a right to adopt the course he had taken; and his question was an important one. Ile should like to see the orders adhered to as well as any one of their lordships; but if they were to be strictly acted upon, as the noble lord contended for, it would nut pr./duce order, but revolution in their lord. ships' house. HACKNEY CARRIAGE DUTIES (No. 2) BILL. This bill was read a second dam ; and, the standing orders being dispensed with, it went through ILI remaining stages and was passed. The Militia Pay; Land Tim Redemption Act Amend ment; South Sea and other Annuities, Provision for Payment, de ; Apprehension of Offenders Act Amend ment; Battling-houses; Commons Inelosure (No. 3); Fe male Convicts ; Lome Societies ; Marriages lloly Trinity Church, Ilulme , Validity ; Friendly Societies ; Copyhold, Ac., Commission Continuance; Metropolitan Sewers Acts Continuance; Customs Consolidation Act ; and the Eccle siasticel Jurisdiction Bills were severally read a third time, and passed. Atter waiting for some time for a message from the Commons, which brought up the rnult of some amendments to a bill, The house adjourned at b minutes past G. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY, Atc. 19. The BPIAILIA took the choir at 3 o'clock. NEW MEMBER. The lion Mr. LYTrurrum took the oaths and his seat for South Staffordshire._ PUBLIC BUSINESS. 'RETURN ORDERED. Mr. VANCE moved to a return of the poor law unions of Ireland, datiogniitung those that have their schools in connexion with the National Board from those that have not. SLIGO ELECTION. Mr. BUTT presented a petition from Mr. J. P. Somers, and requested that it might be read by the clerk. The petition was read accordingly, and it stated that the pati tioner was • candidate to represent the borough of Sligd is parliament at the last election; that Mr. &Melt' was re turned fur the said borough; that the petitioner presented a petition against such return, two persons having entered into recognisance' on his behalf; and that such persons had been tampered with, whereby the privileges of the hones were interfered with. Mr. SADLEIII trusted that the house would permit his to make one or two observations upon the petition jut read. He would say, in the first instance, that he hoped that the hon. and learned member for Youghal (Mr. Beta would take some steps which should subject the seveN allegations in the petition to the test of a public inquiry properly constituted. (Hear, hear.) It was due to his (Mr. Sedleir't) personal as well as to his public position, to declare in the most solemn manner that as far as regarded himself the various allegations in the petition were altogether unfounded and void of tenth. (Hear, hear.) He had had no opportunity . of communicating with the other parties against whom imputations were made, with the exception of Mr. Walker. It was due to that gentleman to say that he (Mr. Sadleir) called upon him to tarnish him with such explanation as he could with regard to the statements in the petition, with • copy of which he had been furnished. Mr. Walker had assured him in the most distinct manner that he had no knowledge whatever of the alleged transactions, and that, if they took place at all, they were without his authority. He (Mr. Sadleir) denied that any one except Mr. Walker was authorised to act in a professional manner for him in the matter of the petition which had been presented against his return for Sligo. He could not but regard it as • misfortune that a petition of this character should be presented at the close of one ses sion, when it would be utterly impossible to subject the allegations contained is it to investigation before the coin encamp, at of the next session. It was very possible that this petition, which bore a miens rtsemolanee to one which emanated from the sane quarter in ISIS, might share the same fate. A petition was presented in 1&48 charging the gentleman who preceded him as representa tive for Sligo with illegal acts amounting t's an unconstitu tional interference with the privileges of the house. That peti tion was referred to a select committee, and the persons who made the allegations in it were obliged to appear before that committee, which after careful inquiry reported their statements to be unfounded. It was very possible that the promoters of the present attempt would find it as abortive as the one of ISIS. Mr. LICTT said thst it was his intention to take the ear liest opportunity of having this matter inquired into. The petition was placed in his hands and he did not feel him self justified In declining to present it. Ile said nothing as to the allegations contained in it; he did not wish to pre judice the hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Sadleir) and he was sorry that the hon. gentleman hail not been equally gwirdcil with respect to the petitioners. In conclusion he stated be would not have presented this petition hid he not known that the hon. member would be in his place to sake any observations upon it whickhe thought lit. CANTU LAR PROPERTY. - - The Marquis of IILANDFORD gave notice that at the commencement of neat session be would move for leave to bring in a bill with respect to the management of capitular property. ASSAULTS UPON WOMEN AND CHILDREN. Mr. AGLIONI3Y, in putting a question to the noble lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department, wished to remind the house that when the act of parties meat relative to assaults upon women, and children under 12 years of age, was passed, it was propoeed to inflict cor poral punishment upon those guilty of such assaults. That proposition, however, being opposed by government, was lost. He wished to ask whether the numerous cases, which had recently occurred, of brutal assaults of the character to which he referred, had come under the notice of the noble lord—and if so, whether he was not convinced that it would be necessary to bring in a hill in the next session of parliament to amend the law with regard to this matter. Lord PALMERSTON had, with great regret, noticed the cases to which his hon. friend alluded. He hoped that when the operation of the bill to which reference had been made became known and was understood by those brutes in human ahape—(hear, hear)—to whom tt applied, it would h►ve the desired effect. If this should not be so, he should consider the propriety of introducing some farther measure on the subject. CHOLERA AT HAMBURG. Mr. BUTLER asked the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, whether he had received any intimation of an out break of Orders at Hamburg. Lord PALMERSTON hal not received any intimation of that feet. It was a matter, however, which would come not to hie department, b•t rather to that of Foreign Affairs. If there were any truth in the matter it would, without doubt, have been nii ationed in the newspapers. Mr. WILSON might perhaps state that • representation hail been made to the Treasury to the effect that 30 cases of cholera had occurred at Hamburg ; none of them, however, terminated fatally. GUANO. Colonel BLAIR. said that •Wicelie called attention to this matter • lew evenings ago, he had •aetrtaincd that an inland containing guano had been discovered on the east soul of Africa, and be wished to call the attention of go verninent to that fact. Lord J. RUSSELL mid the matter shonia receive due euisidszatice. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1853. messenger from the Lords brought doers • batch of bills, including the Customs C. , osnlidation Act and the South Sea Annuities l'ro titiota A mendment Act, to wbich there were same amendments. T. he house agrsed to these. _ _ SLIGO ELECTION. Mr. I. BUTT Aare notice that neat Peuion he should moire that the petition of Mr. Patrick Somers be taken into consideration. LEADER OF TIIE ROUSE. Mr. CATLEY gave notice to move, early next session, that the house should take into consideration the duties of the leader of the house, and the propriety of attaching a salary to that office. Th. house then adjourned, at a few minutes before six o'clock. TEIIIIITOILY 'JF MOSQUITO. Lord D. S asked whetter the negotiations be tween this government 'snd the governments of Central America and the Unite States, with regard to the terri tory of Mosquito, V ere terminated; if not, whether the noble lord would e•-plain to the house the state of those negotiation.; sod whether he would have any objection to hay before the he AN any portion of the corresponds:lice on the subject ? Lord J. RU .;SELL said that the negotiations in question were not terminated. Various propeohtions had been made by her Ms' j esty's government to th^ government of the United St:me, and, some time ago, be had hoped that some of taws t . gopositions might have led to an amicable ter minatio'a of the question. The latest communication, how ever, tem the government of the United States was un listed, story, so far as regarded the acceptance of any of the Pre asitions which had been made, although the proposi nor a were of a most conciliatory nature. At that moment be was unable to statellic precise stage at which negotiation s'.ood, bat in the next session of parliament he would lay papers upon the table which would show what propositions had been made. ••••• LAW AFFECTING PROTESTANTS IN PORTUGAL. Mr. KINNAIRD asked Lord John Russell, if any in formation had reached the government with reference to a late decreee said to have been passed by the Queen of Portugal, and sanctioned by the Corto, by which any sub. feet ut that kingdom was condemned to fine and imprison ment, varying from one to three years, if he should do any thing, by word ter in writing, which, in the opinion of the government, might be considered as an insult to any of the dogmas of the Roman catholic religion, or attempt to pro , I agate doctrines contrary to that religion, or celebrate public acts of worship differing therefrom, awl by which any foreigner convicted of similar offences was to be banished from that kingdom. And if so, whether he bad any objection to lay a copy of such decree, or extract there from, on the table of the house. Also, if any provision had been made for the protection of the rights and liberties of the subjects of her blojesty resident in or visi ting that kingdom, its conformity with the treaty of July 3, 1512. by which treaty the right was guaranteed to them of building and maintaining, without hindrance, places of public worship, and the free ezerciee of their reli• Rion was promised to them. And if so, whether be would lay a copy of inch provision on the table of the house, together with copies of any correspondence between her Majesty's government and that of the Queen of Portugal on this subject ? Lord J. RUSSELL said that the attention of hcr Ma jesty's government had been coiled to this matter by the minister at Lisbon. At the period, however, when that oc curred the decree in question was not completed, and since then the government had heard nothing of the With regard to the subsequent portion of the question he conceived that there could be nu doubt upon the construc tion of the treaty of July. Portugal was bound to observe that treaty quite independently of the articles of any de cree having reference to the internal law of that country. There had been no complaint made of any infringement of that treaty, and such bring the case, he did not see that her Majesty's government would be justified in addressing any remonstrance to the government of Portugal upon the subject. MAYNOOTII. In answer to Mr. SI'UONER, Lord J. RUSSELL said that the persons who had been applied to to act as commisaioners in this matter had given their consent, and that therefore there would be no further delay. BALLAST BOARD (DUBLIN). Mr. WILSON wished to explain, in reference to a entre ment which he hail formerly made, that the Ballast Board of Dublin was responsible for the state of the harbour Mi nims, and which he had made upon the authority of en Admiralty report, that he bad since ascertained that the board in question had nothing to do with the harbour of Ardglau CASE OF MR. EDWARD MURRAY. Lard D. STUART asked the noble lord the member der tba Chy of London, whether the attention of government W been further directed to the case of Edward Murray, a British subject, condemned to imprisonment fur life by the government of the Pope, and whether they would take farther steps for obtaining his liberation. Lord J. RUSSELL said it appeared that Mr. Freeborn, the British Consul, had made an application to the papal iamrmment with respect to this case, when he was in that Mr. Money was detained as a prisoner in the no Mad of Rome. Mr. Freeborn was informed that the primmer 's life having been spared no further concession peal dbe made. Another application had been made by Mr. Frisbees upon the subject, when he was informed that the papal pverrment had already been placed in an un gaunt peibon though the clemency extended to Mr. Murray, many persons having suffered death who were not more guilty than he, and that no further concession could be made. Under these circumstances he did not think it right that any further appLcation should be made at present. CASE OF PHILLIPS, THE CABMAN. Lard D. STUART called the attention of the Secretary of State to the cam of Phillips the cabman, who had been fined and imprisoned, as he alleged, for not having Os. to deposit before the magistrate, when it was proposed that the distance in dispute should be measured. The noble lord's attention had, once before, been called to this mat ter, and he then promised to make further inquiries ; he (Lord D. Stuart) wished to know whether those inquiries bad been made, and what was the result of the investi gation. Lord PALMEItSTON was much obliged to his noble friend for having been the cause of the inquiry which he had made into this case. He found that Mr. Bond and the cabman did not differ as to the line of route along which the cab had been driven. Ile felt bound to say that Mr. Bond he thought had acted in the handsomest swam The line of route being agreed upon, it was mannered by the police, and turned out to be somewhat lese than seven miles. The cabman. therefore, did not make any over charge, and, baring been erroneously fined, had there fore been erroncouly imprisoned for a few hours. Ho (Lord Palmerston) had directed that the fine, amounting to forty shillings, should be returned ; and also that a further sum of 40s. should be given to Phillips as compensation for the trouble and inconvenience to which he had been subjected. (Hear.) He hoped that the magistrates would have in their office a plan of London, upon a large scale, which in most cases might enable the parties to come to an immediate settlement of their disputes. In many in stances it would doubtless be requisite to have recourse to actual measurement, hut iu 19 cases out of 20 he believed , that the map would sufficiently answer all purposes. PAUPERS. Mr. LUCAS moved for returns of the number, In the last week of September 18.52, and in the last week of Janu ary 113.53, in each workhouse in England and Wales, of the paupers of each religious denomination ; distinguishing the adults from the children, and the male from the femtle ; specifying also in each workhouse, and for each religious denomination, the religious accommodation, the number of services in each week, the names of the chaplains, the salary of each chaplain, and the provision made for the re ligious instruction of the children within the workhouse. And, of the number of children placed or farmed out in any establishment, private or public, external to each workhouse, aid in each such case, the name and place of such establishment, the number of children of each religious denomination in each establishment, and the provision made in each for the religious edleation of the children of cash religious denomination.—Agreed to. The Lords' amendments to the following bills were agreed to:—Nuisance Abatement Bill; Burials beyond the Metro polis Bill ; Militia Ballot Suspension Bid ; Merchant Ship ping Bill; Public Works (Ireland) Bill, and the General Board of Health Bill. TURNPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL. Upon the reading of the Lords' reasons for not agreeing with the amendments of the Commons to this bill, on the gr mod that the clause relating to dogs drawing carts WM against the standing orders of the Lords, Lord P that ALMERSTON thought the reason assigned by the House of Lords was a valid one. Personally, be was favourable to the injunction against the use of dogs for purposes of draught, not only on account of cruelty, but because the vehicles drawn by them were very much used for the purpose of removing stolen goods. He thought, therefore, it might be well that • bill upon the subject should be introduced next session, but for the present he proposed that the Lords bo allowed to insist upon their amendment. Sir W. JOLLI FEE concurred in the view taken by the noble lord, and called his attention to the fact that the clause in question did not prohibit the use of dog carts upon all roads. After a few words from Mr. Sroosza, The motion was agreed to. CUSTOMS OFFICERS. Mr. WILSJN wished to call the attention of the hon. member for Greenwich (Mr. M. Chambers) to a notice which he had upon the papers of the house relative to certain watches said to hare been unlawfully seized by the officers of customs trona& person named Marshall. Tb a notice had dropped, the house having been counted out upon the ruin ing when the hon. member was to have brought it for , ward ; but the imputation that the seizure was illegal hav ing thus never been answered, he thought it only his duty to call attention to the subject. Mr. M. CHAMBERS was not sorry that the hen, gen tleman had called his attention to this matter. It was an inadvertence on his (Mr. Chambers's) part to have called the seizure an unlawful sac. His only object was to have the facts which had been stated to him properly investigated, the matter having been entrusted to him as an indepeLdent member of the house. lie understood, however, that sitter the night when the house was counted out a petition had been presented in another place upon the matter. This put him entirely in a new position ; if, however, upon inquiry and investigation hu should deem it right to bring the matter before the house nezt session, he should not shrink from daring his duty. Mr. BC IT moved for copies of the following documents referred to in the petition of Mean Oumaid Singh, presented to this house on the 13th day of July last: Of the petition presented by Mean ()maid Singh to the Governor General of India, on the lith day of October, 18-9; and of any me morials since addressed by Mean Oumaid Siogh to the Go vernor-General of India or to the Directors of the East India Company, together with copies of the respective re ples to such memorials ; and, of • letter dated the 10th clay of Jule, 1850, from Mr. Edwards, the superintondent of the Hill estates in the agency of Simloe, to Mean Oumaid Singh, stating that his claim to the estate of Bergbaut had been submitted to the board of directors, and that in their opinion it was not proved ; and, of the minutes of the de cision or other proceedings of the board of directors of the East India Company upon his claim referred to in such letter.—Agreed to. The Speaker left the chair at half-past 3 o'clock. At a quartet to six, the Sksaur‘ took the chair, and a ghe ertireso. TO CORRESPON DENTS. ...crud Edition " Tbe beaten," centaiiii and F x it 1110 same tLaette," le published every Tueaday riday eight. in time for post t‘ii tusinests intended fat "The Espreee," Leaden Evening paper, m•:.4t he st t►e tittles . BOUTerk-Ml.7llSt. by Two ceelock on die kw of pablie:tion. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tqte DAT—Maraimc 2h. slrc nfterneon. 3h. lem. To.noanow—Yorsisif. 3b. 37n. Afternoon. 31 LONDON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20. Tim Parliamentary Session of 1833 ends this day, and it becomes the duty of the contem porary chronicler to sum up what has been done in it and what has been left undone. Sifted from the usual amount of chaff, the yield of good may upon the whole be taken to amount to a fair average crop, although it is impossible to forget that blight has fallen upon many a field of promise, and that in more quarters than one spontaneous tares have culpably been suffered to spring up and ehoko what otherwise might have yielded good fruit. The clear gains of the session may be said to be two-fold, namely, the extension of the Tax on Suc cessions to landed property, and the passing of the Charitable Trusts Bill. The latter, tliough-unwar7 rantably mutilated in compliance with the demand of Cardinal WISEMAN that ho and certain other Catholic Trustees should enjoy a special and peculiar exemption from accountability, is ►till a great and positive good, insuring as it does to all other sects save tiat which professes fealty to Rome protec- tion and redress against the peculation of hypocrites and knave,. As for the extension of the Tax on Successions to all kinds of property without distinc- lion, its justice and its value Lace already come to be acknowledged by all classes and degrees of men, and the Minister who has had the courage to pro- pose and carry a measure of social equity so long delayed, and one which is so certain to yield yearly increasing resources to the public Treasury, is unquestionably entitled to the cordial thanks of the people at large. We cannot place in the same category, or view with the same unmingied satisfaction, the re-imposition of the unreformed In come Tax, or the mutilated Canada Reserves Bill. Our opinions on the injustice of the former arc well known, and we are bound in all frankness to say they have undergone no change. It may be consis tent with the reckless role of semi-official journalism to thank the Minister for having disregarded all that 1 it had complained of as unjust, and expostulated against as unwarrantable, up to the very eve of the Cabinet announcement of its determination not to yield. But wo venture, notwithstanding the compliments which are now paid to Mr. GLADsrosz for having refused to reform the inequalities and iniquities of the present Income Tax, to foretel that before many months have passed the same Minister will be upbraided for his obstinacy, and called upon to re-consider his unjust decision re garding incomes terminable by casualty and derived from labour. A cause that is founded substantially and really in justice cannot die. It may be stunned by insidious blows, or stifled by the fumes of adula tion, but its strength will return, its voice will again be heard, and is the end truth and right will pre vail. Year after year every Chancellor of the Ex chequer, with the aid of a certain pliant portion of the press, resisted with contumely and ridicule the demand for the repeal of the advertisement duty. Never was so small an instalment of justice more obstinately denied than during the session this day concluded. Yet we have seen in that case, as in so many others, the pertinacity of common sense, and the importunities for fair play, triumph at last over the supercilious airs of bureaucracy and the sham philosophy of economist fanaticism. It is impos sible to regard the abolition of the advertisement tax as a great measure, still less as a ministerial one. It is an acquisition for which we have to thank the honourable contumacy of a certain section of the Rouse of Commons, led with skill and judgment by the right honourable member for Manchester. Of the unrealised hopes of the session the most remarkable perhaps are those connected with popular education, the reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts and Jewish Emancipation. On all three points the advocates of progress in the Ministry have unfortu nately suffered themselves to be hustled or hocussed in some unexplained and unaccountable way. When Lord Joux Itussent stood before his constituents sod asked for a renewal of their confidence in Jemmy last, the reason he assigned for entering the Coalition Ministry was, that he believed in its power, and in the sincerity of its intention, to carry through Parliament not only a great measure of electoral reform, but many sub stantial improvements of other descriptions, and amongst the latter he was understood to indicate a large extension of primary instruction, a thorough purification of the Ecclesiastical Courts, and the too-long delayed concession of political equality to the Jews. Nay, more, so pressing and imperative did the demand for these latter seem that they fur nished a palliation—we cannot say we consider that a sufficient excuse—for the postponement until 1834 of the paramount claim for Parliamentary Re form. Well, Reform has been adjourned; and during the whole of the past session nothing has been done to check the riot of corruption or to hide its shame ; popular feeling has been bidden to hold its breath, and there has not been la ripple on the democratic wave. And what has been the consequence ? Simply that not one of these practical pleas for delay in the great change which would have insured their adoption has been listened to by a Parliament got together by dint of wholesale beroughmengering, bullying, and bribery. The education scheme propounded by Lord JOHN RUS SELL, though obviously pared down to the very minimum of good previous to its announcement, never received even the decent attention of a deli berate discussion ; while the zealous efforts of the SOLICITOR-GENERAL to bring forward the project, to which he was pledged, for the demolition of the pre sent Prerogative and Diocesan Courts, and the re construction of those jurisdictions on a lay and liberal model, were somehow or otNer stifled in the Cabinet, and save in Tuve generalities never heard of in Parliament. Fi nally, the so-often rejected Jews Bill was intro duced in a shape so temporising and exceptionable, as to quench all confidence in the resolution of its authors to press it vigorously in the House of Lords, and to sow the seeds of discontent and distrust amongst those who had once sanguinely believed in the assurance that Lord .11:1:10)1.1.N could in this respect accomplish what I ord J. 1: cs-4.1.1. had failed in achieving. Let us hope that the experience of the present session will serve to prevent the possibility of any delusion being again practised on the many regarding the pretended prudence i of postponing Electoral Reform. The in stances we have noted, and the miserable ' history of the recent India Bill, ought in \ themselves to be sufficient to convince every plain-' dealing and right-thinking man that to defer the re adjustment of the electoral system, until after those things had been done which such re-adjustment is the only effectual means of rendering secure, is simply to apply to legislation the blunder of the fable where the cart is put before the horse. But, should such considerations fail of producing that effect, it is difficult to believe that any man who valuta the stability of conservative freedom in our institutions, or the advancement of moral sense and moral feeling amongst the people, can look back without disgust and indignation to the conduct which has been systematically pursued by the present House of Commons regarding all questions of elec toral corruption and intimidation. The carnival of venality and violence we may hope, however, can never be again renewed; and the best occupation we can wish for the leisure hours of our senators, is the practical consideration of how they may speedily efface the reproach of collective complicity in the sins they have during the past session steadily re fused to punish or to check. THE Bank Directors separated on Thursday w ith out declaring a further advance in the rate at which they will lend money to the public. Till Wednesday a general opinion prevailed that they would declare an advance, and the opinion was then only altered because the pressure in the money market had be come a little less, and because certain intelligence had been received that a large quantity of gold was on the way from Australia. The directors have acted apparently on these latter circumstances, and the question which now interests the public is whether the conduct of the Bank will continue to be influenced by them, or whether it will hereafter be guided by other considerations, and raise the rate of in terest next week or the week after. Such a ques tion will be best answered by examining the condition of the Bank, and probably it will then be found that the circumstances which led the public last week to anticipate a rise in the rate of interest this week are very likely to ensure it hereafter. We have already, perhaps, more than once ex plained the necessity of making all comparisons of the Bank returns with corresponding weeks of the quarter, and we shall avoid all risk of error by com paring the Bank returns of last week with the returns of the corresponding week last year. We have also before stated that the whole of the Bank capital being lent to Government, the money which it has to lend consists in the Rest, a sum saved in the public and private deposits, and in the money which it borrows from the public by issuing its notes. The whole loanable resources of the Bank may be thus stated in August last year and last week: August 7,1852. August 6,1853, Circulation £24,472,912 £25,039,156 Rest Public deposit; 3,823,713 2,218,227 Private deposits Total loanable means.... £45,46701 £43,075,591 All these sums except the Beat, of which the Bank can dispose absolutely, are held or issued sub ject to being called for, and therefore the Bank cannot safely lend more, even in extreme cases, than two thirds of them. Thus we mayassnme that theßank last August had a capital at its disposal of 30,311,929!., and last week of 28,717,0631., or its power to lend was lessened in August, 1853, by 1,594,8861. It had, however, advanced of this capital on Aug. 7,1842. Aug. 6,18.53. On government securities £13,790,720 13,027,333 On private securities 10,750,631 13,226,701 Total £21,547,334 £26,234,031 Difference £1,700,680 While the loanable capital, therefore, last week, on account of the great reduction in the Government and private deposits, was less by 1,594,8661. than in the corresponding week of August, 18.52, the Bank had lent 1,706,6801. mote. It is well known that since the date of these returns—the Bth instant—the Bank has made further advances, and those who are acquainted with these facts might very naturally suppose that the Bank, a little alarmed at the rela tive smallness of its deposits, and at the large amount of its securities, would demand a higher rate of inte rest before it made any further advances. Besides these circumstances the Government Secu- cities, which aro generally a very marketable com modity, and therefore considered to be the safest banking security which the Bank can at any time sell to meet demands, are just now at par to 3 dis count, while those securities last August were at 71s. to 745. premium. The Bank, therefore, could not now dispose of Government Securities except at a loss ; and it must continuo to hold or lose by selling them. Last August the interest of money in the market was barely 2 per cent., and now it is 3j or 31. Then the bullion in the Bank was 21,473,640/., now ; t is 17,434,5601., and decreases every week. Then the Bank had a Reserve of 12,433,4631., now its Reserve is only 7,911,7601. All these circumstances indicate very clearly a great demand for money, with a market i rate of interest fully equal to the Bank minimum este, and only kept down to that as long as its sup plies are not exhausted by its continuing to lend at that rate; and they all warrant the Bank in advanc ing its rate of interest. The reasons why it has not done so are the temporary relaxation of the pressure in the money market, the knowledge that large sup. plies of gold are on their way from Australia, and the probability, occasioned by the recent fine wea ther, that lees foreign corn will be required than was supposed three weeks ago. The temporary relief arises, we believe, chiefly from the advances made by the Bank, and from the latter circumstance, which wo hail with unfeigned satisfaction. Every fine day adds to the quantity of corn which will be safely harvested, and, in com parison to the results of continued wet weather, is a real addition to the capital of the community. It is precisely that commodity which is chiefly wanted, and tho more our harvests yield the more there will be in the world. The effects of fine weather and abundance of food in lessening the temporary pres sure for money may be followed by permanent ease in the money market, should the harvests be tole rably good ; but we cannot, with the Bank Directors and the public at large, attribute similar effects to the expected arrival of more gold. The packets from America this week have brought intelligence of a rise in tho rate of interest in New York, and also that the gold from California deposited at the American mints to the end of July is much in excess of the quantity deposited to the same time lest year. These two facts, occurring in con junction, arc sufficient to make us doubt the theory that largo importations of gold make money cheap. Our own country shows a similar conjunction. Since the beginning of the year, when the rate of interest ,was rather below than above 2 per cent., to the End or August, there has been imported into England 12,V.10,0001. of gold and 6,452,107/. of silver, toge ther 19,372,4071.; and with that great and continu oils importation of the precious metals, the interest of money has rontieuel to rise. What reason, there fore, have we to conclude that further importation of the precious metals will reduce the rate of interest? The reverse is, we think, to be anticipated, and we cannot join in the opinion that tho gold which is on the way from Australia, even if it should all go into the Bank and remain in the Bank, will tend to lower the market rate of interest. The gold does not belong to the Bank, and the persons who send it thither will want sovereigns or notes for it. They de not import it to allow it to stand idle. They will exchange it for some other commo ditits. Even supposing it to be imported as pay ment for goods already sent out, it wilt not lessen the demand for other goods, but certainly increase it. Those who receive it will buy more goods for export. The import of so much gold is, in fact, the import of a commodity to be exchanged for other commodities—merchandise to send abroad, and ships ' to send it in. It is, therefore, an increase in the demand for all those commodities which arc already very scarce, which men only borrow money to buy, and to have which they are willing to give a higher rate of interest. The importations of gold • have already operated to increase business, to raise r prices, and to raise the rate of interest ; and the future importations will, for a considerable period at ) ileast, operate in the same way. Those who import that gold will immediately enter the market as purchasers of other things. The competition to have them will be increased, prices will rise, more money will be necessary to buy the same goods ; and, till the price rises so high as to check trade and check consumption, more interest will be demanded for the use of money. The want is of capital, not of gold, but of corn, and cloth, and implements; use and consumption have, on all points, overtaken produc- I don ' and how good clothing and implements are to be immediately increased by the importation of gold we cannot conceive. It stimulates trade into activity by-and-by it will call more commodities into exist ence, but till that effect takes place, which it is now desirable to promote, the importation of gold will raise the rate of interest. We have previously warned our readers that interest would rise. It has risen, and we must now assure them that it will not fall from more gold arriving from Australia. PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT. THIS DAY. This day Parliament was prorogued by Royal Commission. The following is her Majesty's Speech : MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, We are commanded by her Majesty to release you from your attendance in Parliament, and at the same time to express her Majesty's cordial approba tion of the zeal and assiduity with which, during a protracted and laborious session, you have applied yourselves to the consideration of many subjects of great importance to the public welfare. Her Majesty has seen with much satisfaction that, by the remission and reduction of taxes which tended Ito cramp the operations of trade and industry, you have given fresh extension to a system of beneficent legislation, and have largely increased the means of obtaining the necessaries of life. The provision which you have made for meeting the demands of the public service, not only in the present but also in future years, is of a nature to give permanent stability to our finances, and thereby to aid in consolidating the strength and resources of the empire. l'he buoyant state of the Revenue, and the steady progress of our Foreign Trade, are proofs of the wisdom of the commercial policy now firmly vita- Wished; while the prosperity which pervades the great trading and producing classes, happily without oven a partial exception, affords continued and in creasing evidence of the enlarged comforts of the people. The measure which you have passed for the future government of India has been readily sanctioned by Her Majesty, in the persuasion that it will prove to have been wisely framed, and that it is well calcu lated to promote the improvement and welfare of Her Majesty's Eastern dominions. Her Majesty regards with peculiar satisfaction the provision you have made for the better adminis tration of charitable trigs. The obstacles which ex isted to the just and beneficial use of property set apart for the purposes of charity and of education, have been a serious public evil, to which her Ma jesty is persuaded that in your wisdom you have now applied on efficient remedy. GENTLEMEN OF TILE HOLTSE OF COMMONS, We are commanded by Her Majesty to thank you for the supplies which you have granted for the ser vice of the present year, and for the provision which you have made for the defence of the country both by sea and land. Her Majesty will apply them with a due regard to economy, and consistently with that spirit which has at all times made our national security the chief object of her care. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Her Majesty commands us to inform you that she continues to receive from her allies the assurance of their unabated desire to cultivate tho most friendly relations with this country. It is with deep interest and concern that her ma jesty has viewed the serious misunderstanding which has recently arisen between Russia and the Ottoman Porte. The Emperor of the French has united with her Majesty in earnest endeavours to reconcile differences, the continuance of which might involve Europe in War. Acting in concert with her allies, and relying on the exertions of the Conference now assembled at Vienna, Her Majesty has good reason to hope that an honourable arrangement will speedily be accour ' pfished. Her Majesty rejoices in being able to announce to you the termination of the war on the frontiers of the settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, and she trusts that the establishment of Representative Government in that colony may lead to the develop ment of its resources, and enable it to make efficient provision for its future defence. We arc also commanded to congratulate you, that by the united exertions of the naval and military forces of her Majesty and of the East India Com pany, the war in Burma!), has been brought to an honourable and successful issue. The objects of the war having been fully attained, and due submission made by the Burmese Government, peace has been proclaimed. Her Majesty contemplates with grateful satis faction and thankfulness to Almighty God, the tran quillity which prevails throughout her dominions together with that peaceful industry and obedience to the laws, which ensure tLo welfare of all classes . of her subjects. It is the first desire of her Majesty • to promote the advance of every social improvement, , and, with the aid of your wisdom, still further to extend the prosperity and happiness of her people. PtrTAGE Moses.—Yesterday a parliamentary paper was printed from which it appears that 822,3901. (ex clusive of tho cost of the French and L'elgian packets, of any future payment for the transit of the .lustralian mails through Egypt and of the amount payable to the East India Company) is the amount per annum of postage money received by the Post...taco for mails conveyed by steamers and Milts vessels. ASA:RANCE Assocralos.—Yesterday a report of the select committee on assurance associations was prilitetl. They consider the Joint Stock Companies Act of 1811 very defsctive, and made various suggestions. The public arc not sufficiently protected by provisional registration from deception and minepresentation of assurance or pretended mourn= companies. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Our Maltese correspondent (who dates his com munication the 12th inst.) has forwarded to us the following extract of a letter from liesika Bay, dated the 6th inst.: " We have a gocd dial of a nasty lingering fever in the fleet. Lord Edward Russell has been very ill, but is now convalescent. Tiger gone to Lemnos, for a place of water. Sampson at Alexandria, to prevent the embarkation of the Egyptian troops for Stamboul. Niger at the entrance of the Darda nelles. The Friedland, French three-decker. was got off, and is gone to Constantinople to be docked. The French fleet are very healthy, the largest ships having from five to seven on the sick list. The Ar dent will leave for the fket on the 11th, with tho mails and provisions." The only remarkable feature in this intelligence is the averment that an English vessel has been de. spatched to Alexandria to prevent the embarkation of the Egyptian troops. Such an interference with the concentration of the Turkish forces where they may soon be needed, would, if true, infer a terrible responsibility. A statement made by a correspondent of the --illyeateinc Zeitany, who dates from Alexan dria the .Ith inst., may have some bearing on this point The remainder of the Egyptian flotilla set sail on the 22nd ult., and nothing has been heard of it since. No in , nsures are taken to despatch more troops, whether it is that further orders from Con , stantineple are expected, or that the idea of send ing a second detachment has been given up' The same writer states that the departure of diplo matic missions from Cairo to Vienna and Berlin has excited much surprise, the Egyptian government having hitherto maintained no such agency at any foreign court—unless a certain Mr. Larking may be regarded as its accredited agent in London. He confirms the news of the reconciliation of Abbas Dacha with his heir presumptive, Said Paella. The envoys to Berlin and Vienna, too, have been but re cently restored to favour, after having been dis graced fur some cause or none. They were both educated in France, and have raised themselves in the Egyptian service by their talents alone. Nubar Bey is the name of the one sent to Vienna; Arakel Bey is the Berlin envoy. The Wittier Zeitnny (the official journal of Vienna) quotes without comment, from the Journal ar Con stantinople, that the Shah of Persia, after requesting from the Turkish ambassador at his court copies of the correspondence between the Porte and the Rus sian government, had declared that the former was in the right, and that therefore the Russian ambassador had demanded his passports. Other journals state that the Shah has offered to send an army to the assistance of Turkey, but this news requires authen tication. The eyes of the Divan hare been anxiouslr turned in the direction of the Russian army in the vicinity of Erzerontn. There is recent intelligence from that quarter to the effect that the Circassians promise to find plenty of work for these troops. The reports from the Turkish territories of sick ness and insubordination prevalent among the ltus sian troops in the Danubian provinces have been received with scepticism. The following communi cation from Cronstadt, which appears in the ...Wye wine Zeitong, will be less liable to Euspicion : " General Auretz has transmitted to Prince Gorts chakoff from Jassy a detailed report of the condition of the ltussian corps el'ar»t:e in the Danubian pro vinces. According to this report the health of the troops appears to be indifferent: the forced marches and the rainy weather have wrought detrimentally on the soldier. Fluxes were universally prevalent. This evil, however, was diminishing ; and the general expresses a hope that the number of marcdcurs would soon diminish. A brisk spirit animates the Russian. camp. Lively soldiers' songs alternate with hymns, which contain prayers fer the health of the Czar and for Russia's triumph over the heathen. The reli gious sentiment of the soldiery is kept alive by these hymns, solemn prayers are offered up five times a day in the Russian camp, although the Papas sprinkle the soldiers with holy water and give them their blessing." Russia is unaltered since the time when its gene ral despatched to its Empress a bulletin thus versi fied and commented on by Byron: Glory to God and the Empress (pnwets Eternal, such names mingled) Ismail's ours. The //dependence Be/ye contains news from the Greek frontier of Turkey. The precious court of , King Otho are " hedging." The eastern frontier has been entrusted to the command of Grass, who is understood to be favourable to the Anglo-French views; the western to Momouri, a partisan of • ltussia. FRANCE. (111 t SUBMARINE. TF.T.E(: RAPK.) SAIVILDAY MORNING. Tho Moniteur contains several concessions of rail roads,—namely, the Strasbourg Company, those from Paris to Mulhouse, from Paris to 'Vincennes and St. Maure, from Nancy to Gray; the Company from Dijon to Besancon, en extension to Bedford by the Valley of Doubs ; to the Northern Company, the amendment of the railroad from Creil to Paris; to the Orleans Company, a railroad from Tours to Mane and from Nantes to St. Nazaire ; and to the Lyons Company, a branch line from Laroche to Auxerre. AU the ships of the state stationed within the corqt of La Manche are commanded to be at Dieppe on Sunday, at the orders of the Emperor. PARIS. FRIDAY EVENING., The Menden). contains a dect:ee enacting that all corn and flour imported into France, whether in French or foreign ships, and without any distinc tions in respect to origin or flag, shall up to the 31st of December, 1833, pay only the minimum duty fixed by the law of April 13, 1832. Rice, meal, and pulse, shall, during the said period, pay a fixed duty of :15 centimes per 100 kilogrammes. During the same period, vessels arriving in the ports of the empire laden with corn, flour, rice, meal, pulse, or potatoes, shall pay no tonnage duty. The decree declares that the above e rovisions shall be applicable to all Yeavels, whether french or foreign, whose papers shall show that their cargoes of grain, flour, or other merchan dise comprised in the present decree shall have been completed, and that they have actually sailed from any foreign port before Dec. 31. In a note explana tory of this decree the 'tondo°. says : According to the regulating Otto of prices settled on the 31st of July last in pursuance of the law of April 15, 1832, foreign corn may at this moment be imported into seversl department of the simple wait de balance of twenty-five centimes, and the same rate of duty would before long be eitenoictl to all the departments by the mere operation of the law. But the in•erest of commerce called for a measure which should permit the season favourable to navigation to be taken advantage of, and should give sufficient time to undertake operations with confidence. Such is the object of the decree published in the official part of the 3lonit< or. Marshal de St. Arnaud, Minister of War, will leave Paris to-morrow (Saturday) to preside over the Council-General of the Gironde. Ile will pass in review on Sunday the troops in garrison at Bordeaux. During his absence M. Ducos, Minister of Marine, will hold the portfolio of War ad interum. M. Fould, Minister of State, has also taken his departure for the Tarn to attend the sittings of the Couneil-Genc ral, M. Abbatucci, Minister of Justice, being ap pointed to act for him in his absence. The Moniteur publishes a decree ordering the demolition of some of the present fortifications of Havre, and the sale of the ground on account of the 'treasury, and the construction of two forts on the the heights of Ingouville, and a redoubt on the Place de Provence. The departure of the Emperor and of the Em press for Dieppe, which was to take place yesterday, but was countermanded, is now fixed for to-morrow (Saturday.) The Court of Appeal of Rouen yesterday gave its decision on the affair called the Curresp,nolaoces Etranyers. The sentences pronounced against the defendants by the Tribunal of Correctional Police are confirmed, and the court, contrary to the decision given by the criminal chamber of the Court of Cas eation, has recognised the right of the Prefect of Po lice to open letters sent by the post. The defend ants, MM. Coetlogon , Flandin, I'lanhol, and I. ia maitre, will again appeal to the Court of Cassation, and this important question must now, in due course of law, be decided by the full court. It was said on the Bourse to-day that the syndi cate of the (glens de change had taken a very impor tant resolution, which is to be acted upon on Monday next. All ;the principal brokers have a number of clerks who are in the hat. it of doing business for money while the principals transact time bargains. The brokers are now, it is said, to be compelled to do