The Express. — London, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

Ntriasom • sp“,•a 'Tort a• airtg'7M—RiiiiMENTSCONSlDEßED.—cternentred Improve 'sent ; E=nter and Euneuth Railway Acts Amendment ; Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS. fitOOND READINGS.—YIIIbank Prison; Blare Tends (Reputes* and Mosest) Bins. COMNIITEKS.—Yever (Ireland); Transfer of Landed Property (Ireland); Dohtin Police; Bills. RRPORT.--Coninions loelosure Act Amendment; MOP, Ea, Cos. /Disorders P re vention; Bills. TAD READlNGS.—Latiouring Poor (Ireland) ; Cordetwerted Elections; Rills. PETITIONS. —By Mr. DriRARI.I, from Fillmore, ht Ontadiktre, comp) Mango' the conduct of the Bildrip of Oznird paUlng dawn a chapel and endowing therewith neirhouring lektgin the esimity of Buctingt u m.—Mr. NAPIER, bons a piecein blind, @palms the national system of education.—Col. THOMPSON, from the Oell rea. lows' Society of Bradford, against the Friendly Mteletles PET°. from visions places in Noribik, to igsoor et an adonis& of • the suffrare ; also a petition from Norwich in favour of a Vassal enmity rate. NOTICES OP MOTION.-14aierriar Reroan.—Mr. MACKINNON, when the Nimmons and Contagious Diseases Bill cones before on the e the house, to mots that a medical gentleman be appointed mu miraion. STATE or lam..tem.—Sir D. NORRETS, on the earliest opportunity, to move that it is necessary in order to prevent utter rain in Ireland, tomato • general rating fu r the suppirt of the poor to aid of the poor site. DISTRESS IN IRELAND. On the motion for going into committee of supply, Mr. S. CRAWFORD wished to knmr whether it was the intention of government to make any financial statement with respect to the poo r • law unions in Ireland, and as to the means government would adopt to meet the distress which it was now ascertained was likely to arise from the deficiency of food in that country L . Lord J. RUSSEL said th his rig fri rater to the subject in committee of wa s ant eans.end would VANCOUVER'S ISLAND. Mr. HUME wished to know whether her Majesty's go. vernment had made up their minas to persevere in the grant of Vancouver's Island, and to execute.it without further tn. quiTY ? Lord J. RUSSELL said be was hardly in a position to answer the question of the hon. gentleman : he expected to see the noble lord at the head of the Colonisl•office that day on the subject. But he would state that he was unwilling to postpone for two years any arrangement with regard to Vancouver's Island. Mr. HUME asked whether the government were awnre that the Bur:boa's Bay Company had been negotiating with the government of the United States respecting some of their territory? Lord J. RUSSELL said that the propmal made by the Hudson's Bay Cempany had been made with the enaction of the government, and it referred to territory in therm which now belonged to the United States. • The house then went into committee of supply. SUPPLY. 3001. for the Royal Irish Xcademy. 3001„ teas the Royal Ilibernian Academy. 3,0001. Royal Dublin Society. 3,4431. Belfast Academical Institution. 42,0381. new buildings of the British Museum. On the vote of 8,7661. for the expenses of procuring anti wain and works of art for the British Museum, ldr. HUME said he loped no more purchases would be made till those that had been bought were properly ar- Tied. bord J. RUSSELL said that he could not make an abso lute pledge of that kind, because cues might occur in which the opportunities of making purchases would be favourable. The vote was then agreed to. On the vote of 1,5001. for the National Gallery, Xr. ROME said he wished to know what the govern- Meat meant to do with respect to the recommendation of the committee with reference to the removal of the Royal Aca demy from the National Gallery, and appropriating the whole building for the purpose of a national gallery ? e believed that many persons would be disposed to follow the example of Mr. Vernon, if the moommodatir pictures was better. Lord J. RUSSELIdejd die_who on le for pictures wai better. Lord J. RUSBELI i JgId Qtswhole subject would receive ' **attention of the government. The vote was then agreed is 4,7981., geological surveys of Great Britain sad Ireland and the i t eologiesheneenm. magnetic observatories at Toronto, Cape of Good Rope. Van Dienten's Land, he. 2,1001., for the *mastodon of the Nelson monument. 3.4101., he the civil establishment of the Bahamas. 4,0481., for the civil establishment of Bermuda. The following votes were agreed to without disesalies : 4001. for the edabliehaleat at Table Island. ............„,„,...,.........---- 13,880 e, for the charge of the civil eatatelishmants on the western easel ef Africa. 11,5001., for the civil antablithenent at Se Helena. The next vote was TAM for the settlement at Western Australia. In answer to Mr. Otaxerrone, lldr. HAWES *aid that Weston Australia would be in cluded in the measure be should being in early next eassioe, forproviding venous eolonies wide repruentative eonatito- N____ ____ __ DOD/. He added that the prospects, of this settlement were He thought it would have been more ecessistees w..—__ so tavourable that he bad hopes it would soon pay the tau and the usages of the house, if the bon. and leagued expense of its own establishment. gentieman bed refrained from users his name on that mos- The vets was then agree d to. mon, end he only rose now for the purees. of preventing any 2,7261. for the settlement at Port Essequibo.—Agresed to. inference that might be drawn by his sil es from those 'rho next vote was for 6,0401. for the establishments at the observations. During the investigation that was pending Falkland lalands. he thought it would be unbecoming in him to Introduce In reply to Mr. Hung, circumstances personal to himself. But the hon. and Mr. HAWES admitted that it would be desirable to learned Attorney• General, it would seem, had complained make a clams inveritigatiou into tie expenditure upon this that there were no witnesses to support the action, or they would have been produced before another tribunal, Now settlemat. The vote was then speed to. he could assure the hon. and learned gentleman th at lie was The next vote was 20,0001. for the colony of New Zealand. altogether mistaken, for there were witnesses who could M n . GLADSTONE asked in what condition were the re- speak to the charge preterred against the hon. and learned tenons between the colonists and the natives of New Zee- gentleman, and who would have been examined in support land, in regard to the transference of the property in land of the petition presented in the early part of the present from the latter to the former ?It was in his opinion essential session against the return for Horsham, who tnot been for to the peace and prosperity of the colony that the attainment the sudden withdrawal of the gentleman then repro of land by the colonists should be conducted on principles of se ded the borough in that house. If any course of inveatiga strict fairness and justice. non could be suggested by which the facts might be arrived Mr. HAWES said that Lori Grey was dispened fully to at it would meet with his warmest co-operation. respect. the spirit and scope of the treaty of Waitangi. GO- The ATTORNEY-GENERAL mid the hon. gentleman earner Grey had, in carrying, out that treaty, acted upon seemed to have been misinformed as to what be said on Fri principles entirely consonant with ` land ust right. of the na- day night. What he said was this, that on the 27th or 28th tires —upon th e principle that no should be alienated of June the election for the borough of Horsham had taken from them without a toll compensation being, or having • place, and that when Lord Edward lioward had objected to been, made them. The extent of lands really belonging to the qualification ( petit th hon. member, and had given notice the natives was, of courts, as yet, altogether unknown, for it o f his intention to ion against the return, on the 30th of was as yet unknown how many natives there were to claim June he was served with a writ, which wes lensed by the *t imid. Middle Island, there appeared ev, ry reason to be- torney of the hon. gentleman. He did not state that ie was lieve, did not contain more than at the outside 2,000 natives, with the knowledge of the hots, gentleman. Ha further or, according to some authorities, not more than 1,500. stated that the witnessee were prepared on their oath, and so Whatever claims the natives had would be honourably wa s he, to deny the truth of the charge' brought against respected. (Haar) him, an he further stated that the pluntie's attorney had Mr. GLADSTONE wished to know whether Earl Grey not examined one of those witnesses, as he Das inform e d. published by considered, as was attributeZ to him in a book VANCOUVER'S ISLAND. the Aborigines Society, that the treaty of Waitangi was an Mr. 11UNIE said that he wished t' know from the noble act of the executive government ? lord whether he wou ld la y on the table of the house the Mr. HAWES was not prepared to give a definite answer ,„... ra relative to an Island, ania oleo whether he to the question, but he theu:ht the case was most probable, •—•-• would state the number and names of the sharelsold ,- rs in the as hail been stated in the work to which the right hon. Hudson's By Company, and the amount of capital which gentleman referred. they poseeasa, in order that they might be able to judge if Mr. HUME hoped this would be the last vote for New they were in a position to co-operate in an extensive system Zealand, now that this colony had the power of assessing its of colonimation. If the answer were not satisfactory, be own population for its expenses ? would make a motion on the subject en Friday, and call the Mr. HAWES said that the present vote was less by attention of the house to a grant of so H much h importance to 16,0001. than Conner grants, and he confidently anticipated the future interests of this country. ear.) that before long no vote for New Zealand would be re- Lord J. RUSSELL said that he had seen his noble friend quired.. at the head of the Coloni a l - office since his hon. friend put his ' • M r . HUME wantad to know whether or not it was to b e former question at an early period of the day. He under ivaderstood that each coli-n y , at it received a represen tative stood from his noble friend that it was his intention to pro oonstitution. was to pay its own cop 'n-c'• pose certain conditions to the Hudson' s Bay C o at p ath by W be Mr. HALVES said this would very d es i ra ble, and road t h tt aoneythgaratettt would he acconecerazyteorlt wthithtittthwe should be the rule whenever feasible ; but it would not in all esses be immediately precti . able. do everything in their power to enc Hinge and promote Mr. GLA:aSTOSE expressed his gsstification on this colonisation. Ilia noble friend intended to lay the grant and subject to find that Enrl Grey had expressed hi. determina tion that, should there be turther wars with the Kasen, the the condition accompanying it before the committee of the Privy Council, and it would depend on their determination colonists should bear the main burden of the cost ; but, on whether the -rant would be proceeded with. It was not the the other hen:, the colonists were entitled to demand that intention of the government to send out a committee of in if such cost were thrown upon them they should also hare q airy , which would be Wended with great expense, and thelbenefit as wee as the burden of self - government . whose report could not be presented tonere two years. Mr. HAWES and that the last despatch from Sir Hurry Mr. HUME said he would be satiated if sufficient aide- time Smith conveyed his views th at no time should be lost in was given to cons ider such documents as might bo l b giving a reprove native torsi of eocernment to the Cape fore the house. colony,. and the Colonial-office entirely concurred with Sir Mr. ULADS PONE maid he did not understand from the IL Singh en this point noble lord that the g-aot was to d e pend on any examination Mr. M. GIBSON observed that whenever the large of the conduct of the Hudson's Boy Company, up to the salaries of the colonial officers were objected to in the house, present time, or the legality of the despotic powers which the hon, gentleman talked of the greet sacrifices submitted they exercised. He was of opinion that no restrietionsc.uld to by the holders if these offices. It was tither remar kable, remedy the fendemental unfitcess of the compan h y for the however, Vat so many persons should be always beseech- work of colonisation. (lieu, hear.) They migt be the ing the Colonial-office to subject teem to these sacrifices. means of preveming positive evils, but they could never (A laugh.) e l u tes of persona the powers requisite for colonisation. Mr. GLADSTONE sa id there were two Lord J. RUSSELL said that inquiry into other conduct of with whom the Colonial-office bad to deal : thou who were the Hudson's Bsy Company wee lung ago ded by his caking office, and those whom it was the business of the co• noble friend. Trutt inquiry was proceeding, but it was not lonial department to seek out to hold office, on amount of intended to wait for the result of it before they proceeded their tried efficiency. It was the latter class by whom, as with the grant. The opinion of his noble friend was, and he he understood it, sacrifices were made. (Hear, hear.) himself concurred in that opinion, that they would have to The vote was then agreed to. wait long for colonisation except by means of the Hudson's The next vote was 0,8271. to defray the expense of the Bay Company. settlement at Labuan. NATIONAL SYSTEM OF EDUCATIO N IN Mr. HUME objected to the extravagant cost of this set- IRELAND. Clement in the very first year of its MOHASCO. There would Mr. 0. A. HAMILTON said he would confine himself , in not be 30 people in the whole colony for several years to bringing forward the motion, to the bearing which the pre come, yet there was to be a governor with 2,0001. a year, and sent system of national education in Ireland had on the the most preposterous charges for deputy-governor, first established church in that country. The motion itself was : master-attendant —nobody knew upon whom—and what not. That so bumble address be presented to her Majesty, peaying He moved, as an amendment, to reduce the estimate to mat bee o fMa? wilt be graciously pleased to direct that Ruch a mo -3,0001. m• non f tbe systcrn of national education in Ireland may be Mr. B. HAWES said that the necessity for establishing a made as may remove the conscientious objections which a very va _ trainmr that syste m of t rn he " ellv t iry an: t atty of th settled i e nw en o ta pe b m llted ch o u;cl o z h en er : station in the Ea-tern Archipelago was forced on the att don of the goverment by the large manufacturing commu- wise, that meson may be taken to enable those ol the clergy and laity nities, including Glasgow and Manchester, and accordingly of the established church who estertain such courcientious venetian' Labuan was selects-1 for that pus pose. If the salary of the to extend the blessinga of scriptural education in Ireland. governor was too small, a man of the requisite talents could The sum and substance of his complaint wes that the priest. not be secured, and therefore, although the amount of the pie of toleration in ed.cational I matters' For this he might as it existed in this vote appeared large, the present establishment was considered country, was not applicable to reland. to be only cu te u the importance of the object to be at- rely on the language of the noble lord opposite and the right tamed warranted, and he should be sorry to find the House hon. baronet the member for Tamworth ; but he would of Commons disported to reduce the amount of the vote. rather quote a different authority, that of Dr. Briggs. [The Mr. HUME mid that the establishment of Labuan was hon. gentleman here quoted a portion of ••speech delivered one which could be required for a full rown colony alone, by Dr. Briggs at a Roman catholic meeting held on the 16th and not for an iniant and newly founde d settlement. March, to the effect that religion should be made the basis Mr. B. OSBORNE said that before such au establish- of education.] That being admitted, the question of the ad ment as that of Labuan was resolved on by the government mission of the holy scriptures in national educatiotal este there ought to have been laid on the table an estimate of blishments wasraieed. In Englandthedinenten and the mem. the proposed expense which the new colony would involve. ben of the established church were left independent with re- Looking at what had recently occurred, he was disposed to gardtotheir religious education and very lately the Roman:ca ul that government had not acted quite fairly towards the Wolin were allowed 'o particip ate in public grants of money church, in not having added a bishop to the newly created for schools, in which the n Roman catholic doctrines were staff of Lebnon. (A laugh.) taught. The utmost posible toleration was allowed in Mr. MACKINNON was of opinion that Borneo might, at England, but in Ireland the religious scruples of the mean no distant period, become • British possession and therefore bers of the established cheetah were not regarded. Up to he thought that the present vote was ens which ought to be 1831 the principle of scriptural education was adopted in cheerfully acceded to. Inland, by what was called the Kildare-place Society. Mr. GLADSTONE was rather alarmed at the views ex- There wen 1,634 schools under that society, which were pressed by his boo. friend, seeing that the Dutch had attended by 132,000 persons. There were other schools also already long possessed a settlement at Borneo, end established under their superintendence, and on the whole sc riptural a regular government there. He was of opinion that the education was given to no fewer than 374,000 children, of wisest mode of proceeding wee. for England to cultivate the whom at least one half were Roman catholic:. Toe Roman territory she already posseseed, instead of seeking to extend church in Ireland repudiated the principle of acriptural edu it. The hoe. member for Middlesex had not shown his usual cation in 1832. He did not find fault with them for object ecusracy in what he said about a bishop for the colony of lug to the principle on which that society was conducted ; Labuan. If he looked through the colonial estimates he but a different system of education was introduced, to which would find only two charge ' of that nature ; one of which the great body of the protestant clergy in Ireland was was 6001. for the Bishop of New Zealand, which was one of opposed, and their feelings should nu be respected. the cheapest outlays that ever was made, seeing that it had It was the principle of Lou protestant religion enured the services of a first-rate man. He certainly thought to 'allow the free use of the scriptures at all that the charge of 3.3751. for the governor and lieut. toyer. times. But as the system of national education was at Dor t of tubule was ex cess ive . If Si: James Brooke's other present conducted a protestant patron could not carry out duties called him away from Libman, the salary of his do that principle of his religion in the national schools out of praty ought to be earvednut of his own allowance. deference to the scruples of the Roman catholics. The con- Lord J. RUSSELL said, that, undoubtedly, England sequence was that , instead of being a united system it was wield be better without than with Borneo. As for Lsbuan • separate system, and if pushed to its legitimate comae i *OW* Ina different Sir James Brooke was a remarkable queue he believed that it wies a system which would be MUM, who had, by his energy and enterprise, opened out equally repugnant to the Roman catholic and the protestant. new prospects for English commerce in the casters seas. If all the members of the church of England were a pp or- When he (Lord J. Russell) saw Sir James Brooke be was in- tinned congregationally among the ministers of the church formed that in time the trade in thou seas would become of England, there would be for each minister a congregation considerable, and Earl Grey in his evidence before the of 600; and were the funds similarly apportioned there estimates committee had stated that the settlement of Labuan would be for each minister a salary of only 2001., • fact would very soon pay its own expenses. The question there- affording a sufficieat answer to the as of the noble lore was, whether the bower thought it worn while to try lord apposite on a former occasion, that the funds of the the experiment of founding the settlement. If after a short Irish church were inadequate:to provide spiritual education time the colony was found not to pay its expenses it could be foe the members of that church. He complained that given up. He could not agree in the last suggestion offered the patronage of the government was systemati by the right hon. gentltinso °plush. with raped to the ally withheld from those ministers who bad ma salary of the lieut. governor of Labuan. nifested any hostility, however conscientious, to the Mr. HUME was one et those who had recommended the national eystion of education in Irelawd. He called upon ent to take possession of Lab an ; but so far was he the government to relinquish this evil eourse—to act to =reaming that a vote like the present would be the wards the people of Ireland in this particular as they acted ru of his recommendation that the very largest establish- towards tee people of this country, and to proceed upon the m int ent he had looked for there was a corporal's guard of principle that there was but one test of right and wrong, =wines, which any of the ships craning in the eastern acid- namely, the revealed word of God, which was not to be de pelages could furnish. from for any considerations, sectarian or pelitioal. - Kr. URQUHART complained of the extravagance of the r 61t a clergymen out of 2,000 had signed the petition he gentscment, and stated his intention to vote for the reductioe had presented to that house, for an alteration of the present d. ',stem, and had thus evinced their devotion to what they proposed. HAWES mad that 16001 , of the amount of the vote deemed a hallowed MM. lie urged upon bon. gentlemen was for public buildings. The sum of 2,0001. was not, be eon- to sok the whether d te e d conscientious men w andashieconsulardutlacilledhimfrequentlytoßonsee,there entitled to some weieht, andt, he to call ed reli u eve pon ththe house, must be • resident chief authority at Delouse in his absence, and upon governmenose clue for whom, in the person of Mr. Napier. 1,3001. was DOI too gymen from the and files posit Bad to ion with re gard to large a salary. If the hon. members for Middlesex or Mon- the government, eirdiat trees could 1 sat their fingers on a tingle item of the vote that liOCks, and with regard to the protestant community of tro wel extravagant he would reduce it. land, in which their conscientious scruples had placed them. lir. fd'OREGOR defended the vote, and stated itto be Sir W. SOMERVILLE said the real questioa was, far ' from an exorbitant one, considering the importance of whether the mixed system of education in Ireland, which Lawn as • settlement. had now been established there for fifteen years, was to ben Mr. G. THOMPSON only regretted that his bon. friend set s uperio r? and relaced by one which the hon. gentiemaa had not proposed to reduce the vote to nothing, as he should thought He trusted that the house would net ammo lima have had much more pleasure in supportiag his amend- to any such proposition, but permit the system which Meet. The new settlement at Labuan would only lead to for years bed been making prosperous increase in Ire the more speedy and effectual extinction of the aboriginal lead to complete its growth. He contended that the bon. %habitants of t hat island, and also to increase the difficulties gentleman wee erroneous in saying that the system was in. that existed in the trade of the Eastern Archipelago. compatible with the existence of strict protestantiam in Ire- Lod PALMERS lON said that the very reverse of what land ;on the eon th e while a very large portion of the the hon. member had stated was tae fact, the settlement of protestant clergy there had all along warmly supported the Wotan being created for the purpose of protecting own- mitre, very many of those who had been prominently hostile 1111211811 and of extirpating the pirates wbo swept the Ma Of 10 it were now giving in their adhesion, and admitting their the eastern islands by thousands, murdering and robbing all peat misooscepuen of the real character of the system. who fell into their hands. Among then the hon. baronet quoted Dr. Elrington and Mr. G. THOMPSON replied that the whole thing was • Mr. Woodward, both of whom had, in written conunnades jeb _concocted by Sir James Brooke, who came over to Eng- Sons, wholly retracted their former denunciations of the land decked out in the most gaudy and meretricious ooloure, plan, conceding that their original objections to It hail re. and who, by dint of feasting officers of the navy at mated from a want of that close personal inquiry thee the Sarawak, Mid pl eying the lion at dinner parties in Glasgow amlnent which, sines applied, had now rendered them ha sod London bad messeded in getting the present allowance eager wspperters. Once abandon the universal plan ei of 2,0001. a yes, made him. cod theft genet Inevitably rise up ia stay maw Mr. HUMS sea ellether Sir James Brooke's salary of seVraki=ols eendected by all the nualuom ids. la 5001. a year, as moral et Senseo, was to be continued to hire w would lethOoi kilt the .edged thus. in addition be his bilowenee as governor of Laboan ? noketielarian peddler thili - megelere Lead PALIONISTON replied that Sir James Brookewas peaks, nod which the Feria Ilia asehendienew al = to soodbmi he'restsive his •ary es consul, in addition to his asady mieneled : wholly to remeres There did set edell governorship allewssen gads, tbie eyelem the alighted, egarcion upon ems= Mr. BUMS eemplekedtkat the preload estimate only eat for every sh:rd mesh, the *ritual inatresties fcrth a whoa et the vets required for Labium, which ex- for it by the • jtitriss_ ..__ . . seeded la emeast wow The course taken by the governs ac =ti l i e ) tom toe tYrtedi Malted mkt meet in *I awl other money vo6ss demanded for the solo- mealleMbas. aim was mon aesremitatiossi. After arm% decks which the Bream again peg the • Aker akw trunk hem Adm. DVIeDAs, ''' , 77:,7 - = Tuition. The searlittninvitisi-.Fer the vote ...... •.- 58 - Mr. GROGAN roes and suppested the amsnimme. • .. . Agnate it - 12-44 Sir W. VliftNßß said that die ben_ u iejoi of doer The vote was aimed to. don ever introduced into Inked eel MO le. 0. 4 1,0231. lialigelend.. street Society, whisk wee Sr aMilg id& stabs • 18,0281, Wes sea L sim si,e poveratealsilies ). of the Boman catho op i r ia=aTki Reese of 001111010-bed 11,67 M. depertments in British North no right to appr . t 'of public money for educe- Amens'. don in Ireland . its wee* * manlier as to ezelede from its 14,3081. Indian depeletintiatiareade. participation them wile had formerly been enabled by its The above votes were eignsaillm aid to effect to Ike* (cod. Re supmted the amendment. The Cemintittell then repertoires:est, and asked lan to Its. S. OBAWIPOILD did net bie that the protestant of Ireland inadopting the and he perOsidated bf eses. sumbelopposi te withweedd warn the bogie to be very cautious esemidesest that was behre it Mr. S. OSBORNE seld that the Originalotion of the hon. member es it stood cm the boqiut three mon th _ ago was very different from that which he had brought forward now. The hon. member's first modal mutely s elated to the exclu. lion of protestant children from the educational scheme, but Ids resent motion went to establish reseons for making a special grant of money necessuy foe the purposes of protes tant education in Ireland. Ti.. amendment was nothing more or less than an insidious attempt to overthrow a system beyond all of education in Ireland which had been successful uty nobly 'sam ple. The Roman catholic clergy did t by the children enUusted to their care. In one district with whieh he was acquainted, and indeed connected, the rivalry of the Kildarestreet Society towards the Roman catholic schools was such, th-t they went the length of tempting the children t repair to their schs oflers of fie. a week and • lee of mutton on Fridsys M in d so strong was this com petition under the old system, that he had great difficulty in keeping the children together in his own school, for the Kildare-street Society Win coaxed them away with sweetcakes, and be was obliged to give them lerger and sweeter cakes to prevent them from desert ing. The present system of education in Ireland had been eminently successful, and if any other system was to be set on foot to rival it, the result would he most disas trous. Protestantism was carried to such the an doors of an extreme in Ireland es to induce people there to shut hospital in the face of et mon even in extremis, who would not consent to hear the Bible read to him. Ile put it tofo the h o n e member opposite whether he was not a director an hospital where such a regulation was enforced. The reading of the bible was not interdicted in the schools supported by the present graotcoitrary, there were certain hours during which the Bible was ashy used, and there was no ground for the complaint urged by the hon. member. Mr. NAPIER traced the progress of education in Ireland front the union to VOL when toe nationel eyetene was esta blished, at which period there were, he said, 300,000 Roman catholice attending the reboots in which the Scriptures derc read, and which the Roman catholic clergy were then stre. nurehly opposing. He contended that that sydem had been founded on the prineiple of concession to the Boman catholic 6ergy, and of objection to the protestant church, thus giving a preference which wee not ennformable to the este- Wished religion of the state. So that by the introduction of the National Board of Education, they raised up . two eye ' tents and two sets of men antagonistically and conscientiously opposed the one to the other. That being 1.0, he must say he coneidered it most unfair to refuse to those protestant clergy who were conseientionsly oppoed to the national sys tem any aid out of the public funds. It was no answer the part of the government to say they would grant that i to those who assisted the national aystem, because. i would be asking those men to violate their consciences, andt act in opposition to their firm belief in the right of private judgment as applied to the word of God One cf the bet remedial measures for Irelane was to extend the advantages of education in that part of Ihr Majesty's dominions ; and with that view he eupported the proposition of his hon. colleague. (Hear, hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL , said that the object of the present motion was to overthrow the system of education which had been introduced into Ireland in the year 1832—a system which bad since received the sanction and support of Mt 'waive vvernmenu : it had been continued by the admi- Discretion of Sir Robert Peel, who had rented to make any alteration In the amount of the public grants, and the system had one on until the schools in Ireland had increased lel 4,000, and the number of scholars to 400,000. (Hear, her) lie therefore thought that this ought not to be treated as a new question, or a new proposition now brought ' f or ward for the first time by the governml The system introduced by Lord Stenley as an experimeat had been feund in practice more successful than had bees anticipated, and therefore there was a prima facie ground far heisting any alteration or modification. It was said that heroic the adoption of this plan there existed the Kildare street Society. True; and he (Lard J. Russell) thought that in a country where the majority of the people were proteatants. it was of great benefit to found education upon the bible, and to use it as a school book ; but in that opiates he was opposed by a majority of the clersd of the established church, who thought the Bible was nut enough in itself, but there must be also the teaching of the Catechism, and at tendance upon the services of the church. This plan, if adopted in Ireland, would exclude from the schools a gr eat portion of the population—that was to say, the Roman ca tholic pepulsti in. Now he was on principle in favour of the plan which was the most comprehensive, and which should take in as nearly as possible the whole population. (Hear, hear.) This was tbs. principle o doi the most good, and of acting mostfairly towa f rds t he great majority of he people. Much had been said ab tit a viola tion of conscience. 11 could not think that the protestant& bad a right to object to the system. They might, disapprov ing of the foundation of the school, what h have the righte objected to was that they raised an outcry against a grant of money in s upport of schools which would be attended by others. He concurred with the hon. tr ember for Rochdale (Mr. B. Craw ford) that as the established church was richly endowed, it might establish schools of it s own. (Hear, hear.) But to separate grants for them he was opposed, because each a proceeding would seriously injure the system of national On education which bad been established. (Hear, bear.) the whole he thought it would be wrong to disturb the system of combined education. The system had now been tried for 16 years—it had been pursued during the adminis tration of Eari Grey, Lord hieloourne, and Sir R. Peel ; it tended to unite protestants and Roman Catholics, and but for the prejudices of some of the clergy would unite them still more, and, therefore, he hoped it woul d continue to receive th e' support of the legislature. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME thought that no answer had been given to the speech of the boa. member for Middlesex (Mr. Osborne) in reference to the refusal to admit a Roman catholic into an h o spital in Dublin. He had originally supportei the system , as introduced by Lard Stanley, and he hold it to be one of the best measures ever applied by the British parliament to Ireland, and he could wish • similar system, which was so well calculated to put down sectarian rancour, was adopted for this country. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON begged to explain. The hospital to which reference had been made had been established with protestant money, to afford medical aid and spiritual conso lation to members of the established church; but he was confident no Roman catholic labouring under the effects of accident would be refused admission. Mr. REYNOLDS said that, remembering the charge made against the hospital in question, he could not but think the answer jest given was equivalent to a plea of fer it was no justification in • Christian country to ay that the hospital bad been founded with protestant money. He had never before heard of such a descrip " an tion d being given to the circulating medium. (" Hear, laughter.) This was practical bigotry on the part of the hon. and learned gentleman, who was the parliamentary Ilturdian of the rights of the College of the holy an d Tided Trinity in the city of Dublin. (Hear, hear.) From that hon. and learned member he was stonished to bear that there was an attempt to proselytise a that university. Why, it was clear that a Roman catholic might enter as a ail and at the end of four years become a candidate for • eaYa{arehip ; but however great his scholastic quaitications he wesivadmissible to thatoffiee unless he produced a meda list* that he had received the p ac ramenesecording to the of the established church nthe college chapel. Therefore, unless he became an apostate, he was excluded from honours was end emoluments. In short, though Trinity College celled • national university. no man, from the hall porter to the senior fellow, could hold o ffi ce unless he subscribed the Thirty-nine Articles. Mr. NAPIER explained, and said that he had been mis ted in being charged wide inconsistency. W C " . NEWDEGATE deprecated the taunts which had boss thrown out by the hon. members for Montrose and Middlesex. He had only heard from them words to the effeet that the system of national education which suited the catholics, suited some of the protestant', and therefore that ' they should keep it. But they found that there were 1,600 out of 2,000 of the clergy who found it incompatible with their duty to accept the terms offered, and who prayed that 'they might have some assistar ce. He proceeded, amidst iseveral interruptions from Mr. Osborne, to combat the user- Eons of the hon. member, which be said were based upon the inexperience of his , (Idr. Osborne's) own facts. The hon. member seemed to be afraid that there should be a single protestant establishment in all Ireland. He talked of proselytism ; but he (Mr. Newdegate) asked was there not such a thing as proselytism among the Roman catholic ? Forming as it did an euntial portion of their re ligion, were the in a position to taunt protestant' with the practice ? He hamented the decision that her Majesty's no vernment had come to, and his convict on was that well in tended and well devised as the system had been by Lord Stanley it was unjust to the protestanta of Ireland ; and be hoped that a system would be established in that country which would be in accordance with the feelings of both reli- vase After 'bort conversation, Mr. KEOGH expressed tion that the commission was a woes job. The an num shoned that no eases came before toe court, while a large sum was annually paid to the officers, who enjoyed a perfect sinecure. The judge at Sierra Leone received 2,2601. a year, while the chief jus. ti of the colony, with no assistant, received but 1,6001. The government, feeling this to be a bad case, halt ff o ere but d to g ive up the appointment of a judge. at Sierra e maintained those at Havannah, Surinam, and the Cape, none of whom had decided a single ease for the last three ye. re. Surely the judge at Sierra L eone mi g ht be charged with the whole duty. Never was a more f.vourable oppor tunity presented for retrenchment. Viscount PALMERSTON said he had already informed the house that the judge at Sierra Leone would not be con tinued, and one of the judges at Havannah having died the appointment would not healed up. Mr. HUME said thew courts were a nest of sinecure'. Mr. BRIGHT compared the operations of the African wit h the to the knight errantry of old, end contended that with the prevailing distress in this country no unnecessary expense ought to be incurred for the purposes for which this vote was designed. He was opposed to all government in terferoice on the question of slavery and the slave trade. Mr. P. HOWARD said the mixed commission had been established in compliance with the wish of the country. After a few words from Mr. Uneicstaar, The gallery was cleared for a divisbn, but none too k place, and the vote was agreed to. On the vote of 43,1901. for the consular establishments, Mr. URQUHART moved. to reduce it by 1,4 , on ac count of the consul for Warsaw, which he contended ought to he under the head of Poland, and not Russia. Lord PALMERSTON said he had no objection to the alter.tion from Russia to Poland, which was accordingly made. Mr. URQUHART then moved that the vote be reduced by the sum of 0,0001., as t.e objected to several of the details . p ro posed by h er Lord PALM M ERSTON defended the vote as originally aj esty's go ve. Mr. URQUHART declined to divide the committee on his amendment, and the vote was 4 9 put and agreed to. The next vote proposed was 49,4001. to defray the charge of the British settlement at Hong- Kong and the consular establishments in China. Mr. C. ANSTEY complained of the excess of authority exercised by the consuls to Cbina, which bad led to diffe rences and loss of life there. He especially alluded to the course pursued by Mr. Consul Alcock, and asked the noble lord at the bead of foreign affairs if he had taken any steps to reduce the consular functions in China to a more modest scale ? Lori PALMERSTON was of opinion that Mr. Alcock had acted with great propriety, and he (Lord Palmerston) had nut taken any steps to alter the consular powers, nor should he do so. Dr. BOWRINO inquired whether it wan ed intend to con tinue the consuls at Ninepo and Amoy, where there were no duties to discharge? Lord PALMERSTON said that this was a matter worthy of consideration, and he hoped next year to reduce the esta blishment in that quarter of the world. After a few words from Mr. I.latres the vote was agreed to On the vote of 10,0001. to defray the charge for extraordi nary expenses of ambassadors being put, Mr. URQUHART said on this vote he had numerous objections to raise, and, looking at the hour which had arrived, he should move thtt the Chairman report progress mid ask leave to sit again. The gallery was cleared for a division. None, however, took place, but the vote was agreed to, the house resumed, the Chairman reported progress, and the resolutions were ordered to be received to-morrow (this day), at 12 o'clock. NUISANCES AND CONTAGIOUS DISEASES BILL. The house went into committee on this bill. On the motion of Mr. WAILLEY a clause was inserted providing that no hospital or house of recovery should be opened without previous notice having been given to the board of commissioners of public health. The several eauses of the bill having been opted to the house r,sumed, and the report was ordered to be brought up on Wednesday. BATTERSEA PARK. 0r the motion of Lord Mourn's( Lave was given to bring in a bill to amend the act fur making a park at Bat . ersea. The house adjourned at two o'clock. ELECTION COMMITTEES —YESTERDAY. DUBLIN.—The proceedings consisted entirely of rehuttiog evidence in favour of the sitting member's quail cation. CIIELTENBAM.—Rebutting evidence in support of the sitting member heard. HORSHAM.—Petitioner's case closed. C om mittees severally adjourne d to Tuesday (this day). gloss. The house then divided—For the motion 118 Against it On our return to the gallery the house had gone into com mittee of supply, when the following votes were agreed to 13,4511. for emigration, 41,1501. for stipendiary magistrates in the West India colonies and the Mauritian. On the question that 30,0001. be granted for the support of captured °way I Lord 0. BINTINCK inquired whether the system of importing negroes into the colonies, which had been tried, Imago unsuccessfully, was to be persisted in ? One of the slips (the Bangalore) that had been sent to the coast bud sada rather a good trip, having received 7001. for the pas. sap of one negro boy only 13 years of age. He wished also to know whether any other and better facilities would be given to our colonists towards obtaining a supply of labour? ' Lord J. RIIBBI4LL said that with respect to what tea been done it had been done at the request of the oolimble themselves. As to the future, it was not intended to baba . in any menus ter the purpose of legalising the purchase et ea She east of Able". me r s Hindi said that goverment had sent oat two Woe, I I not in eseseines with the wines of the colonists, b* to gratify a edam of their own. These ships had been Weed nod wasanblehaving_brought Use one negro between them. aeleelithr.) He wished to know who was to pay the armor The CHANCELLOR at the ILICHEQUER was afraid 1 1 that he nest pay, although the skips had been sent oat at tholepin inure Mahe rehmilled—Vote 'greed to. stunted semmisaions. lllisl=T skated to the vote, on the grossed tbenhese essesehina Wen virtually eines:urn He should move tbei the one be rente 10,0001. Lord PALIOIRIITOII da d ssied the vote, and stated that the mixed essrminen were. appointed under treaty, by which dray was bound to be sudatained. And it was ite. -wary*" nada be le, kr if any one we olished, end -4 Ma adhanrarde avowed under We re les o ab f the other IMPERiAL PARLIAMENT. MOUSE OP LORDS.—MOWDAY. AUG. 21. The LORD CHAWCILLOI took hie seat at Ave o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND R EADlNO.—Lisedon (CitySINESS.) Small Debt* MIL PUBLIC BU SECOND READINOS.—Stock in Trans Exemptlost ; Ont-Prnsiont ere • INe. CUMISITTEE4.—Turspike Aets Oast ;Tithehe fit -charge, Sex, DeWitt (No. 3) ; Strom Navigation ; Aaibte Manors Cooinnadoera, ke. • 13orowths Ineurporatioa ; Militia Pay Poor-law Union Charges (No. 2) ; Pooplaw Union District Schools ; READlNGS.—lnaolvent O f Coort ; Money Order Department (Post- alit); Registers of Ba s (Scotland) ; Court at Justkiary (ScoUand) ; PETITIONS Lord CAMPBELL, from the iohabitants of the Orlinet Blonds, complaining of Die present Insufficient ramie of emu. inunic:dion betwvn ,from islands yod e l e mainland of Scotland. FAN of PORTESCUE, from the Mayor l Waterford, stating the ap prehentions entertained In Ireland of the aPProeth 0( dont , a. l praying for too adoption of preventive soessures.-11se Bishop of OXFORO, from certain Mergymen, against the Charity Tenet Regu lation Bill. PAPERS PRESENTED —By the Marouls of LANSDOWNE. RETURNS PItE.,ENTED.—By the Marquis of LANSDOWNE. • copy o* the It loth report of the c ommlwkwers of it ; minutes tithe Comminceof Council on faluottion kr the year 18174. NOTICE OF MOTION.—StArs Taus. —Lord DENMAN, todsor- TOW, to more en address on the tublect of the alive trade. ALLEGED FELONY BY A SERVANT GlRLheard. The Earl of RADNOR , who was very imperfectly in the gallery, celled-attention to the case of the servant girl who had been charged with • felony in Wiltshire, for piving broken victuals to a beggar. The noble earl was understood to vindicate the emdoet of the Rev. Mr. Hawkins, the com mitting magistrate, and to intimate that he had not been re. pie:tended by the judge, Mr. Justice Coleridge. Lord BROUGHAM had the greatest confidence in the respectabl, portion at the newspapers and more particularly in their law reports. In this Case lose papers distinctly stated that the learned judge reprimanded both the coin =Wing magi.trate and the prosecutor. Wnen the infor mation ou which the girl had been charged was presented t the house he would again call their lordship' attention to the subject. THE IRISH REBELS. Lord BROUGHAM wished to know whether it was true that certain Roman cath olic prelates and priests in Ireland bad presented a memorial to the Eirl of Clarendon praying for t mer of the crown towards the misguided and de ludedhe cy men who had beck engaged in the insurrection in Ireland The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had no official know ledge that such a memorial CHO or petitionLEßA. had been presented. liE Earl FORTESCU E,. en presenting the petition frin Wa terfonl on this subject, said that he hope.) it would attract the attention of her Majesty's government. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE maid a bill had been in troduced on tl - m subject in the other house, and it was a ma to., he need hardy say, which had engaged the anxious ate tenfon of his noble friend the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests. (Hear.) CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL. Lord REDESDALE inquired whether it was the inten tion of the governmeat to proceed with this bill during the present sermon ? The bill, he understood, had just been brought up from the ether house. The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated that it was the intention of the government to proceed with the bill. Lord REDESDALE pro:mted against proceeding with a measure of so mach importance in the mouth of August. Earl GREY said it would be desirable, no doubt, to post pone such a bill until next session, it it could then be re sumed by their lordship where it had been left by the other house ; bat it it were now put off until next session the pro bability was that it woad be lost altogether. After a few words from the Earl of HARDWICKE, Lord REDESDALE said it was impossible that any bill discusred at this period of the session could be fairly consi dered. He should move that the 24th standing order of the house which referred to the subject should be read. The order haying been read, Lord REDESDALE said he should next move that the bill be pwrioned for three months. The a.OIID CHANCELLOR said that in the bill referred to in the 24111 stooling order there clearly was not lima to consider it during the remainder of that session, but that could not tie said with reference to this hill, in their lordships' house. Lord REDESDALE again urged the postponement of the measure so an act of grace on the part of the government to the opposition. Lord BROUGHAM said the Commons alone had no right to dieranchise any borough by suipending its writ ; it could only be disfranchised by King, Lords, and CCEIIOIOIII conjointly. The Duko of WELLINGTON thought their :lordships would do right to ba in the possession of the bill. Its object I was to forma new jurisdiction for the decision •.f these cases, and their lordship woul I have to pronounce on the measure without previous inquiry at their bar. He thought it was a subject of so much importance that it ought not to be passed without doe consideration. (Hear, hear.) Earl GREY said the practice of suspending writs was no novelty ; the noble and leased lord (Lord Brougham) con curred in suspending the writ for East Retford for two years. Lord BROUGHAM did not object to the House of Com mons exercising the power of saspeuding a writ in such a case as East Retread ; but he complained of such • practice becoming general. The second reading of the bill was then postponed until Thursday. THE SLAVE TRADE. On the notice of motion by Lord D assist; on this subject, The Bishop of OXeoan said, as he could not be present to-morrow Af ric a beggpi to state that if the Itlockade of the coast of was wthdrawn, it would be a frightfully retrograde step, and he hoped, therefore, that the eddies, of the WM e and learned lord would ba adopted. TURNPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL. On the motion that the house should go into committee la this bill, The Earl of MOUNTCASHEL complained of certain chases being introduced into the bill foreign to its declared object The Marquis of C LA.NRIC &EDE said the bill was merely a continuation of former acts. The bill thenspassod through committee; and the house adjourned at seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, AUG. 21. The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. .e atop REARING.--74amuR of Bates Estate BEL THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY ETEN ING, AUGUST 22, 1848. irty to the commandos, there would be no wart W adju ieste. Mr. ANSTRY supported the amendment, and contended at these oommaissioners' eourts might be abolished without lay infraction of editing treaties for the suppression of the Ave trade. He should prefer to meet the vote with a direzt egativr, as he believed the object of it was to keep up sine- sit al* etimeive thii day. Th. thauselidiethined , attirenty rat e alU ese wit raX. Tr pui p f a i :o ri, s a• a• TSZ jasliANL SUCTION. On the motion for going into mommittee ot supply, lien. PriIiOSSALD said that on Prlday o f the and learned Attorsey-Osnerel had; thee& it nemesery to mention hie name in his absence, in reply to some obser- va ti o ns from th would hair e hoe. ape learne more d member tor Youchal. it s been emisistent with ooar- I he Orpreal. MAILS. The overland rimed malls, me Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Pgypt, Aden, Ceylon, LAM, liong-hoot. &a, will be made up on the evening of the 24th Aug. The malls foe Ben& North Amer's:2, end the United States will be made up the evening of the 25th Aug. The malls for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, end Gibraltar will be made up on the Morning of the 27th Aug. The mails for New South Wales, Van Diaman's Land, sad New Zealand wall be made up on the evening of the 31.1 August. The mulls for the West Coast of Africa and Madeira will be made up on the evening of the 31st August. The West India Malta, including Bermuda, Nome., Havanna, flonduras, New Orleans, Vera Cruz, Tampico, end Porto Rico, and excluding those for Madeira, JserneL Carthagena, Santa Martha, Charm, Panama, West Ceest of South America, and St. Juan-de- Nicaragua, will be made up on the morning of the bid Sept. The mails for the Beadle, the River Plate, Monte Video, Pernam buco. Bahia, Madge% and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the evening of the 4th Bwi4emter. The overland afar Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the TOM= Wanda, !gym, Aden, lndia, Bong-Kong, end China, via Southamp ton, - will be made upon the evening of the 20th Sept. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. The number of tunedSTAMPS by the authorities of the Stamp-office, during47,the DAILY NEWS was 3.44'7.009 This, we believe is within eight per cent. of the number issued to the If4ning Herald, Morning Chronick, and Morning Poet, ALL PUT TOOB IR. In addition to the above, issued to the DAILY NEWS, Vern* Paper, there were issued for the Evening Edttion, THE EXPRESS 77 8 1714 Which was mare, we believe, than were issued either to the Glob. or Stand ard. Evening Papas. 111013 WATTS AT LOxDOR •110011. Tom DGT—lientsg , post 74 fie* 44 al. past 7. To. vr-.llorains. le Aga east A kftsreaoe. H WA. poet S. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22. HOWEVER interesting in an historical point of view the Report of the Committee of Inquiry on the events of the French Republic, and the interrogatories ac cempanying it, we are still struck with the inexpe diency of subjecting the body of the French republic to this anatomy befor.' death, this ante-mortem examination, attended as it must be with agony and convulsion, and productive of no correspo ndin g result in either utility or the discovery of truth. Had the proofs been ever so flagrant, of the culpa bility of the chief persons accused, as to carry convic tion with them, still there were the objections of there being no impartial tribunal to try them, and of the entire protedings being a struggle for politi cal power in a political assembly, rather than a trial carried on by judicial gravity for judicial ends. There cannot be a more honourable man than M. BARROT, who presided at the committee of inquiry ; bat it cannot escape being remarked that M. BARROT was the great political chief of the moderate movement, who was tripped up, dispossessed, and die eomfited by the republicans in February. To set M. BARROT and his friends to inquire into the guilt of these republicans was surely not impartial or decorous. Now will follow the debate in the as sembly on the subject; and what will be the object of that debate ? It will be that the more conservative shall expel from the assembly certain of its antago nists accused of complicity in these movements, and that, divided as the assembly is, the vote on this purely judicial subject may have the result of Mraing and securing the majority. All this might be said, even if the proofs were strong, and the evidence irrefragable. What shall be said if the mass of testimony amounts to nothing Linos certainty, if it leaves the accusation vague as ever, and M. Lanitu-Rowc's degree of guilt an enigma for parties to 'Mile in contradictory fashion Our own ideas of that republican's complicity guidance of the violent movements and ontbre, aro considerably more favourable to him since we have perused the interrogatories of the in quiry. And, what we could not well do be fore—viz. understand M. Laiimatten's countenance, and Gen. CAVAIONACI shaking hands with him as be descended from the tribune—all this we Gan now fully comprehend. From all we have read of the inquiry UMRII-ROLLIN seems a man MOM weak than guilty more the 'Tort el eircumdanom than the guide of them. And the more the veil is drawn from those events'and theircauses, the more do they seem the result of national folly and frenzy rather than of indi vidual or decygning gu ilt There will - two extreme and contradictory opinions an the subject of them events. One extreme is that entertained and expressed by M. LAXARTINE. that there was very little of conspiracy or premedits- tion in them. The troubles of the 15th of May,s r — h; the populace broke into the Assembly, he attribee m to chance, to BLANQUI, or to the audacity of a f ew encouraged and intoxicated by success. The m e ,: ment of the 23rd of June M. LAMARTINE characie r i m as spontaneous, and as supported by several Ba uc hi, parties, all separated from each other. M. Nl At itan is of the same opinion. In opposition to this, the opinion of the moder n * and of the military party is, that the recent ketone. tions, from first to last, weretherestlt of long preps". tion, a compact conspiracy and combined plus . LAMARTINE says the insurrection had no general; his opponents say it had many, and not only ge ne * but directing politicians, such as CAusslnisits, I, o n in BLANC, if not LEDRU-ROLLIN. M. I,Ammt. TINE says that the most eminent and d o . gerous parties of the " advanced republic" did not intend or promote the insurrectionary move. ments ; that of the 23rd of June springing from the national workshops, and the money allotted there. By attacking the barric ides and the Esurrectiono ll the first night, M. LAMARTINE thinks they would have been put down without the terrible struggle and efforts necessitated by the military force not bay. i ing acted at first. On this point Gen. CAVAIGNAC Lad • M. LAMARTINE are at variance. And it is one of the I points that must be explained at the tribune of the It will form a melancholy spectacle and a bad pse, cedent, this dragging forth of the members of two go vernments to attack and criminate each other—th e turning up of all the crime and horror of the list months. Some of the revelations, for example, relate to the efforts of members of the provisi ons ) government to excite insurrection in Belgium end elsewhere. What government could bear such an in quest it.to its acts? M. GuIZOT himself, an t , I w o had a considerable hand in getting up an insure:. tion in Spain. Would it have been right tor his EU} censor to reveal the circumstances to the world? Again we find NI. Go t:DCIIAT: X giving evidence again* his colleague, I,nnitc-ItoLLIN, "that he was always in communication with conspirators, and was still so, although they ceased to conspire." What a vague and uncircumstantial evidence is here, casting a slur without proving a fact , and using the word conspire. tors in so vague a sense that no one can tell what it means! It must be admitted, indeed, that certain proofs of complicity have been brought against CAusNIDI ERK , PROCMION, LOUIS' BLANC, and others, who are evi dently dangerous and culpable men. But is it worth while getting up this monster inquiry to expel them from a chamber where they aro despi-ed and power less, when our loyal House of Commons Raw nothing in the events of Kennington Common to warrant any notice being taken of the chief, who called that meet ing, and who sits undisturbed upon its foremost bench? We cannot but think that the time of the assembly would have been better spent in discussing and voting the articles of a constitution, as a task which must be performed previous to the election of a president. We see no other way than this of procuring a strong and settled government, instead of the provisional irate in which the assembly takes delight to linger—with what views and hopes, they best know themselves. General CAVAIGNAC seems to have taken a ler luster view of circumstances, when he advisee the cancelling and suppression of this masa of inflaming. tory evidence. The head of the French est:cativo sees the pasition in which France is placed with re gard to foreign antagonists in Italy, the regards end minds of the French people being at the same time turned to the same quarter, and anxiously observing whether the chief of the French republic is support. ing, as becomes him, the interests and the hollow of the country. General CAVAIGNAC must feel that, not merely to make war, but to conclude u honourable peace, it is above all things is. quisite that the French assembly, and capital, sad country should assume a tranquil and firm aspect, should smother dissension, and not tempt an enemy to be obstinate by the sight of division and weaknew prevailing at the French neat of government. Gene ral CAvAIGNAC considers the present inquiry, the disquietude and panic it has given rise to, most untoward ; and France may feel it to have hes so in the unsatisfactory rei!ult of the attempted nog tiations. THE talk by which the vote of nearly 10,0001.t0 defray the expenses of the government of Lib= was preceded, is a very pretty specimen of the kind of scrutiny to which such votes are subjected in the House of Commons. Mr. GiAnerroms mated that he thought the vote a large one, and that he felt some difficulty in 'acceding to it. Lord JOHN RUSSELL scarcely defended the vote. He represented the whole affair as an experiment, and declared his readiness, if the House of Commons did not wish the experiment to be made, to give up the vote. And thereupon, the Committee of Supply, without asking any explana tion as to the nature of the experiment, voted the money by a majority of 36 to 12. Lord JOHN has discovered a new way of frightening our representatives into voting money ; at least, the house appears to have voted the Labnan grant in In agony of apprehension, that if they did not do so im mediately, the first lord of the treasury might desist from insisting upon it. The fact is, that the govern ment of Labuan is a government without a colony. Up to the date of the latest intelligence, the only re sidents, in Labuan, over whom the governor and de. puty-governor will have to exercise their authority, are a surveyor-general and a meeter attendant with their respective establishments, and a speculativehotel keeper fr om Singapore, who has gone there to set up a mess-house. At present it is little less than death o to accomplished.sleeipca Al l shore theat La eth b e t: e n, w ef h th ate e v A er e i c t khd asy I be when the island is cleared and drained, if ever that sesamer who slept on shore when she was there, wee attacked by the Labuan fever, and the surgeon fell a victim to it. Native trade there is little or none. the blend might be useful as a coaling depot for out stousers, could a healthy spot be discovered on 2; bat for this purpose a much less expensive rotablide meet than a colonial government might suffice. TM old English system of colonising used to be to giro interim make-shift governments at first to experimental plantations, and more complete ones when they appeared to have struck root ; but now, govern. I menu complicated and numerous enough to rent the needs of some independent European states, we sent out to try if they can attract subjects to lie ;under them. The last experiment of this kind sods by the present ministers was to seed out a melee government staff to found a new colony, to be ellid at North Australia. The government squatted at P (fortis, but was recalled before any colonists had gee te mettle under it. We mast not, however, delude ourselves by the ea potation that the Labnsn experiment, if unsuesesai t nut of necessity be equally brief. Among the vote I ihrpmedtheestablishmataightntthenetsreawtaspoartnunEwiopnposedgton.r T e h o e f egts " 2 b1imb. ,721/ ntents at Port Essington are a deg staff, half-a-dose " shanties," and an officer in command of a wood' guard. The soil is barren, the climate sickly. "A fes Bugle visit the neighbouring coast occasionallyil search of trepang, but no trade has been made wits them, and their visits have been less frequent WO the establishment ' was founded. Port Essingto hee been spoken of as a harbour of refuge for parties skip wrecked on the voyage from the Indian Archlpelefe to Australia T Straits. But it is so Ow pletely out of the course of there voyagers that n! tko . one or two crews cast a wa y in Torres Strait' , have reached it in their boats have taken d. weeks to oe so. Port Essington is an admitted failure, end ece Z 2,7251. is voted annual l y under a very unn appre h en sion that, if the British flag were , , down there, s ome other European stat e might be or ish enough to have its flag hauled up mete ropes, The sum of 20, 0001 . forl Ne to w Zealane that *it! d wei, batat it would be a gross deusMn believ all that will be extracted from the national pot' New Zealand this year. Sir E. N. BuvroW en: What the naval and military_ establishments ef f.' colony for the year were likely to oast ?of e Asa could not reply to thewestion ' *MI; mail( owns inquiry." The s t was a Pll i i illit pent one. In voting so large 11 . lai teeltelkei, ef the expenditure on one oolmy it EflXthe Howie of Commons should te, 4 -el the whole amount likely to be mut t okay. Mr. HAWSE deemed it • sufficient o a t for giving no information, to , say that he c0 n 0110r..., so " without making some inquiry." A d the .15 mittee, unwilling to call upon Mr. Hswies fo r exertion, voted the 200001. is 7. 01 For the government of Western Austral , was asked and granted. Western Matraluiltal IS founded about twice as long as South Ansuslisi r in the ,equate Vi; nuts,l : I ngt I"l;:,9nteiruarEeel intellect .i lahr,enoie rega r di e i°ac °A 0 :118"c ey°tYlv h s t h at ualif°l! are rgtcmh about ,8 fiineWt\rtU t ritirdnenYAb e e i er atyy• l leDeedit exeWb• e sent m a d feu°B:Ohfiaettl:'6orlb• al• r. e l Yaew i ev. rhdee r n• el:wri. lyean n ° l 'r:el'iYeVeUuPl°C:Cn°lrr:ti'llt4;(l RACOREGOR eai been exercised North Americ! This testimony be easily impugi to remark—and Nation of the West Indies du great taro was colonies, the c patronage ie . 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