The Express. — London, England, 1853-02-24 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT NOUSE OF CONIMONB.-WEDNESDAT, Fn. 23. The Simotst took the chair at 12 o'clock. SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION. The committee to try this election, comprising Mr. 11. A. Herbert, Mr. J. A. Smith, Sir J. Walsh. Lord liothsra, and Mr. Ursad, were sworn in, and directed to mut at 12 **clock to-morrow (this day). PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND READINGS. The following bills were read a second time :—Allendale Road; Belfast and Ballymena Railway ; Chard Railway; Cork and Bandon Reilwat; _peeping Fen Drainage; Gravesend sad Wrotham Road ; Nantwich and Woore Nort h ate• . 67.1 S'"lth Wt."-• J un ction Railway; Nor . wfch .11-e St. 11 .'• • •• versa K :chesty, • . itarbour ; Shipley and lirauiley Road; Westport Port sod Harbour ; Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETI (lONS PRESENTED. 7IANCIIIIIII TO Tut UNITIRAITT or Loam:ie.—By Mr. HADFIELD. hum Sheffield; Mr. IIU ME, lees the make:a uSLiers uf tbe Charing-erow, Ln0 , ".00. and Liver pool Ilespitals, praying T for; Mr. lIORN . ALY, from he sad meantime of Mill Hill seaml, and St. Ives, ileutineilooshire. praypresen ing ted in that ruin ales of the London lilnivensty ry he re P art. ameut. Tun MALT T*l.—By Sir. FRE WEN, from Sneers, er Met the nosh tel. Teens ns IsisowiLutson.—By Mr. lIUME, from Picker ing, in Vorkshire ; Mr. COS OEN. from Wakefield, for 1k • repeal of the taus an knoirled_ge. PAUL! . PAPS** To MEONANICS . INITITCTIA. —By kly.li ADE I ELD. Newt Sheffield ; lir O'FL A ERT Y, kale Gainey ; Mr. MOODY, from Crewkense, preying fur Vie supply or parliamentary papers to iseshanice institutes. Auutss:,,:s ur Jews To PAKLIANDier—By Mr. WAL POLE, trom a place not tamed • Sir IL INGLIS, from Dur sotshire ; aral Mr. ADDERIKY, from Staffordshire; against the removal of the profeemien of the faith of a Christian by members of parliament. 'I CliT•r.% I. Pram's —By Sir R. INGLIS, from Derby ; Mr. MASTERS SMITH, from working men of the diarist at Chapelry of Linton, in the parish of Chat ham ; Mr. MOODY, from Kingston, against the opening of t e Crystal Palms on Sundays. Larvae eAlielliall.—By Mr. BREMRIDOE, from the linter carriers of Bedford and Ilfracombe. Devonshire; Mr. C. TURNER, from the letter-carriers of Liverpool; Mr. BA IN Ks irons Bolton; in favour of better remuneration to letter-carriers, and complaining of the order prohibiting Christmas hose,. INereCTlos or NUNNlalite.—By Mr. MOODY, from Button Montle, against the establishment of Jesuits and menhir, sr d for the inspection of ries , and against the intmduction of papal bulls. Wirral. or Ties .BUTT ON 80.41. AND TEA. By Mr. BAINES, from mayor and aldermen at Bolton, for. °DIAN PENNY POSTAOI.—By Mr. H. HENEAGE, from the borough of Devises, in favour of. SALT or Sri Itini.—By Mr. COBDEN, from the Anti- Spirit Dealing Asseeiatios, Glasgow, praying for restriction meal. sod mania iciures of spirits. ELIMILMTS or Tile Aerosrutral.—By Mr. BERM RIDGE, from Wm. Parker, surgeon of Birkenhead, for a commisatue to inquire into the physi cal causes of the ele ments of oar atmosphere. MATNOoTtiI °SANT. —By Mr. MOODY, from Welling ton; Mr. KINNAIRD, from Perth, and from the free church congregation of Lavers Lochtayride, Breadalbase (265 signatures); Mr. P. BENNE UT, from the mayor and inhabitants of Sudbury; Mr. HAMILTON, from Protes tant Institution, Islington ; Parish of St.. Mary's, Isling ton; Parishes of Briuldi Id, Cockfiehl, and Lsvenham, Buff ilk ; and P.irish of St. Andrew's. Holborn ; Mr. M. SMIT 11, from the working men of the district at Chapel', of Linton. in the parish of Chatham; against. COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL. Mr. M. GIBSON, its moving the second rending of this bill, said the subject had been before parliament for the last 20 years. After the Reform Bill, committee of both the Lords sod Commons sat on this subject, and it was then admitted that the ratepayers should have some voice in the county expenditure. A commission was next appointed, and which recommended that the ratepayers should act in conjunction with the magistrates, in the control of the couuty-rater, and the principle of representation was recognised. His hon. friend, the member for Montrose, in troduced a bill for this object ; but after a straggle gave it up ; and he (Mr. Gibson) had removed it front his hands. Ho was sorry to lay he had been obliged to make great con ceuivas and alterations in the principle in order to get such an instalment of letti.iation on the subject es be could. The present bill had the support of members on both sides of the house. It was, in fact, a liberal conser vative measure, as it gave • representative power to the ratepayers and yet continued the itifluence and cnatrol of the magistrates When the bill was introduced In 1830, it was referred to • select committee, which reported in favour of the representative principle. It was again introduced in 1851, and again referred to • select committee, and alte rations made in it with which he (Mr. Gibson) did not quite nth*. He should have preferred the hill being in the hands of the government. But the government did not show any disposition to take it up, and it was a matter of duty in him to promote the bill, hoping that in its progress the government would as sist in carrying it. He was encouraged in this by the de claration of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, who stated that the government had no objection to the intro duction of tho representative system into the management of the affairs of this country, and he saw no reason why it should not be applied to the control of county expendi ture. He (Mr. Gibson), therefore, claimed the vote of that right hon. gentleman fur the second reading. He also claimed the support of those members who were adhe rents of Sir Hobert Feel, who admitted the prin ciple of representation in the master of county rates, and that opinion was then echoed by the present First Lord of the Admiralty. He also t'aimed the votes of the Whigs who always supported the principle that representa tion like that in our municipal institutions should be ex tended to county management. (The right hon. gen tleman then referred to the alterations made in the present bill as contra-distingnished from that of 1861.) The first material alteration was that in the constitution of the Bounty financial board. It wee provided that all the members should be elected by the guardians instead of the justices, • portion of them being elected by the justices thimselese, thus carrying out the principle of responsibility to the ratepayers . The next change was to give to the Ileascial boards all the powers with refer ence to fesallethalary regulations which had hitherto been hell by the justices, in the same man ner MB dim powers were mated in town couseih in linmerghs. There was, however, a provision enabling On *Wise to make represeatation; to the Secretary of Nolo trt the proper increase of the senstabalary. It was ille pespeed that the ilasseial beards should ham the pion of restiellisi the salaries of Alain of gaols, se wee wow ants is brouglio—altheegh all pewees of ref/We an amlyetinnege wen still preserved to the Jonas A dpsr resides was made with regard to pasrulsollie ..,.... ooadowle sk:;, o ="1. Ilso right ir.. . . sign ens w wag would eily @ameba the Main of ihe nyenestative In s t a t e sgs mgegg a eres 4 . te a =lsM a tt it t u h r :tuterlei ppm= of a sisal eineetee, se the wiliest bed bees eshwasi by the Mame el isquiry, esd the hens was quite septa of legidstleg wpm it. • Lord PALKIIIISTON mid he wished to elate os the pert of the g...... set the views he sehriand with re gard Isla mad he theeght ab lia lV es early etsteesmt of that wail he Oar, bona Ile daily * illatain eis ostiell. whielk. Is MM. was Mgr Ws Si Itel eight it append, se is ineadast the swam of eirest 'unmans, but Me wean wawa VLsl 7. l7 th es ea tht MU' lobos Oda peas sail yams . wed tat deli cate man ihe teeshmst et kaiks. It else the mesas of the whim of that .et nimble Mis o _tbe un paid aegiaMary. (Zeman.) With remsd to VW nis ei* of the Wil. the Was of the repreeniethe eye lets to l id austral et essefe s sre, it Ist boa so W sad siouliwd Vl a =:l7 . ".',.:bb = .- - ..::....1 - a .1...zer.:.11 ear se eggedlim Is o f f t isimisi thorny to de* is pal* of the of the supesents dee gala le the mad The asse, bewswir , sail bow is stint ai r li bi llilL egpegete et the coasts InfehaitsW the pieties viedee ibe 'semi el the Justine was web the wollien, me iminseh as s large pties et Wt ezwilapeined mil by este e ar twinesest. MI Mali se e ns. thee=7l . l eeniseL We Me. *Wei" espial eat the el the legmennetive omen wadi maielly isms se the ty apeaditure. Be shwa west in OS Ness' mad lywith she view that la ansilse the bill Weld be lousehtbadsle the provisioner the NB of 116 t. es it sun as the Meet when Os Wiest we wistesaly as& wee* ins sod the bin smeinsumly en owed la by the annitsee • or, at lam, is me repownd be she walla& Is tha t bid a right hos. had the Ent Ind of the Alianft sod _kb Vas. *WI the Ikernen kr Se nine Depenserst O. an) ma warred. Then 11111111111 D Oat isietiesed a riga hes. Mini the mohair a Ilwrobasier. es width be (Lord Peleesseles) Wald est alt—ss septettes el the bill of MIL * seems the Meals se to how lama musty aril shield be deeleL The bill el MI presided Out the bised dwell he sesignikbelf et miaow. esd dist that kW Wield be dead by the esegletruise then =while so d Wee belL eseidetiog of Mope ere, be M by the beard of la right honourable had, is the alenlisse hamaremeedimitirst 'bees as by Mat smog meld be astir. dead by lbe bade of powilese. Iff ibie gLerd Pawnees had se eb tirle diet, esd be it Wild endues Whizz e eteides, seal he tilde taste r tow besed was Me ti: l e is se Si ell* me is be dead by me body, sat the ether eselbee body Met their nresesto thee ; mea lady amid tam nee to wrest= of to owls kW only, sad the bleed of merdwas meld, most likely, mil steel my neer *lee le Wit sew Si the_ ,heeed • whew% if ell the min lies won elected by me aseseret body it was nest ale sumofthe miaow meld be Meted isle =Z . dr. UM' wiiiiiii was not ear pesed of ungionew In all Ober new% he wished to adept the issussat bill to the ar vessenests et tii• bill of 1861. He had whim further to say, map that in agreeing to such • poossedies he truned rat gie hew and the country would sod wpm that the eignomeen of the government in this heperteot ebrmo MN hem any distrust in the Inagingrasy. Nor did be arcs. the l a L be" e l'esFla qdnotfrutist:dailtheetiorf duty ens of that though this change might at agree nosgE? dig gad factory to the feelings of the country at large, it would be found that, practically, there would be no ma terial diminution of expenditure; and„ although there might be some instances of the away, in Neu the• tricts, yet, on the whole, the fit.4B et the eeggelea had been administered by the r m t i t Es s i g w ith s do. regard to economy : and, 1-4 - , g ag w i g htgagg being an essential and importer A part of the ri g gio y ert . I t was obvious that it was their ir.. A .," ti, beim tare within such a compass r A was muskiest ~ , tamda. ~.. vices to be performed. Ar .other change had bees to him, which, at the Pr ~;,er time, might be well M i t i f consideration. It us e s ausgatta a that, as t hi s moms might naturally be re, tugn ant to the feelings of a class—that is, the r Agistrates at large—it might be optional, instead of . :imperative; and, instead of compelling every county to '' .sopt it, it should be leP to th.t. Zectliett a, the 6" ,....e11 00 01 u intimate 4 by a majority or otherwise,' ohei:fr e e or oof it should be applied to their county. It was stated that. some counties, as Lancashire and Nottingham,' sere desirous of the change, and that other counties did not desire it. He threw this out for consideration in the p rooms ct the bill. He had nothing further to say. His intention in ri-ing was to state the acquiesence of the go vernment in the second reading of the bill, on the clear un derstanding, that in committee, subject to the exception he had stated, it should be brought back to the arrangements of the bill of 1831. Mr. FRESLIFIELD believed that financial county boards were unnecessary, and would be productive of much mis chief? Why were they wanted? The whole proceedings of the justices at sessions were made public, and showed how little of expenditure was really under the control of the magistrates; in consequence of the provisions of acts of parliament which regulated the greatest part of the expenditure. The proceedings at sessions were carried on in public, and returns of the expenditure made to the lie aviary of State, and laid before the house ; and the aside in which every item was dealt with was shown, an Whine tare which would not he enjoyed under a system of `ra cial county boards. This was a queen et lasesehke against all England, for this bill was MS MWMOMI7 I ,IIIIIIIIIOt for Middlesex and Surrey. Sir B. HALL was sorry to hear heft EMU& yeatbales• who had just sat down the old tory ismomielimei Milk re. Bard to the magistracy, whisk be INV VIM hag exploded. He thanked the Maki IBM he accesehe le the principle of the bill, whisk wee esieekled to 'mem all chance of any odium being east on eke meitiatracy. The hon. gentleman (Mr. Freshfield) had said that this was a question of Lancashire ag.ainst All England, and that the 1 bill was not wanted in Middlesex. He (Sir B. Hall) knew Middlesex very well, and he could say that the people of that county desired to have the measure. Sir J. PAKINGTON asked that the house should bear in mind the palpable animus of the bill, which was to strike a blow against the magistracy of England. (Hear, bear.) The first bill which Mr. Gibson brought in to carry out this object actually dispensed with the services of the magistrates altogether on the financial boards, and even now the hon. member, though he had modified his demand, confessed that he was proceeding "by instalments." He (Sir J. Pskington) was glad that Lord Palmerston bad ex rred the fallacy on which the hon. gentleman himself pro ceeded in this proposed legislation,—that the magistrates hail an unlimited arbitrary power. The fact was the WV g6trates acted within the four menus of seta of pads. meat, and really had but a limited esstrol over the pees expenditure In counties. Another emer ea which the bas. gentleman prcoeeded was in assainie that the ratepayers WOVIIIIM body and the magistratinesalm body in regard to the Wriest, here involved. Why Orr uggidrates were =2 the Mrgest ratepantse—the way meow melt is sememy and etlielisq. The imeilles wee to be leaked et gmellesny. He esehl set eldest le nisalttinst the ratepayers he caroling Illesdr_ expenditure, if It could he Mimi liet seek a &asp gal E s t i. educe public evil ; and is that pima he wee see to offer oppe aition to tiein g es fro as the was concerned. But at the SIM tlie he objected Memel Mite provisions ; and be wool gist withhold his *aka Gat such a measure should be is lbw Made of the gemesissat. (hear, hear.) The right Imm. piebnea then reseeded to plat out in detri the ietteb et Om iill, illestrelkg lb .... us by 1141111111116 to bit met sesety (Weeteester). Generally his view wee, Set representatives might usefully be skied to the 0 Magistrates ; to disfranchise sad deprive of power the separates themselves would be most absurd. _ Sir G. GREY expressed his entire continence with the course taken by the Home Secretary. He had long been of opinion that it would give confidence in the country to apply the representative principle to the management of county finance ; and he had not hesitated, when Home Secretary, to agree to the second reading of a bill, nearly identical with this, introduced by Mr. Gibson, the condition of his anent to the second reading being, that the measure should be referred to a select committee. If the amend ments recommended ,by. that co!ntittee were now on- forced, the bill would, - in his opinion, be deserving of the assent of the home. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HENLEY would look to the noble viscount to see that this bill should include all the safeguards which the recommendations of the committee referred to had contem plated in regard to the just inflames of the body of the magistrac. Mr. BAINES was decidedly fa favour of retaining for the magistrates power in regard to gaols, lunatic asylums, ; and proviss for such powers would be found in the bill as it MU from the select committee. (@eat.) Mr. W. H. BARROW made setae general observations in f of the bill, expressing his gratillesties at the ab sence of tion. Mr. 3. B. SMITH supported the bill. Mr. FACILE pointed out some objestites le the Math of the bill. WifALLEY would sapped Ss bill on the ground that it would tend to rabs he maim of the magistrates, as torandag all oppoetualliss of bringing imputations samba thus, while, prosthally, 'sateen would stand pretty mask samatlywhen hay vars. Mr. HUME eqtras a &sided 'Odes *at the bill should be in the base of the gewnwast, mad advised lir. Shama not to press anything Load Palemeeles would not sem*. There was a time for wmpilimg I nail the effort Mw should be to get the bole shwas they solid under the circumstances. (Kw, beer.) Is the swims of his ob servations Mr. Hume urged ea the govaisamat the expe diency of aointing • podia prasesater. The want of much an other was the same of imams Ppm in eon awns with the ri_mena magitrasy in his assay. Mr. M. GIBSON would same to the pepeddea made to kimobst the ruasamsaislfaus of the salad asmamittee should he alti ~at ; sad be woad therefore sow mew that ha bill go hes sennaillee proalte forma, the wader slasher *lag that it *ea* *es ba red in ashemelly with the widow et Ibm peweimmat. (Cheers.) The bill was *la read a mend time. CAMIIMINSO Friday. COVETS OP COMMON LAW (IRELAND) BILL. Oa ha maim of Mr. Nun's, this bill pawed through so Ansa I LAYBOOTH—ADJOIJRNED DEBATE. Tits adds on Mr. 831.001111.11 mottos was resumed by Mr. PAGAN, who mid be nutted he should make out a 'as both maims the nation sad the ansenlmest, and in favour of th e rolicisa which ir prelessi. Supose the ..wants t abus. sia ban Iwo szi;. p 7hat bed they to do with ? OM hides was to keep alive he feeds. et the =this ementry with re to Mei lbellimen religion. He fully bellitvellbett the lamas amain show all *taw themselves bead ant sod into the hmthsear but who was to blame ter that ? The boa. maker he Warwidobies pondp. bat primlpsila the aids i g s a m =lene Is lbe abides Ss sal la 11= 1.11 re ga was Wa lh irr el 'weadmdal. Ihwlbia the Oren la Whoa task es active a rat la toe desires ? Ma task ble Ilona lipid this semblish sad penal Oh awe essabled sr Ibe Ephillea inns Ems new lbs. Ids bedewed that Is blind *ay asmabasi din aid- Sm, lobo bed bees Ins to *de Via. impels the =sedan la whisk *my bad lima elliseial la tosser Latterly Mbar mows, awns, bell ben and. Thank lied It was sot, se it Ai estialiy, naiad law tat a man who Mead to sae hem et * endeavour to gsseitala theme vibe Cislu eastbre ;• bat still be ad met lidsk lademper mbeuld be amid. Hs W slays sag: et aadwil edemas mad the Queen's but sill be Omaha reffelia should I be gives Wilt No lobed bis toga le be la depsolostst the dela, bet IN be *wig* It the tidy of lbe dab Is am that he dingy UM gonad, naishiest The Oslo. of was hanisi" la TM He be lend It was *NNW ft resent be prison ham be sweidissemy Mims mid* Asp Wald BM w= Eddie pmegia sita i lb s s e y Vies wheal gnash' hr Oil cast has IL prison wars eduaded Ishii by Ibe el ballhimals sad kaolin and V Os enisetawk wore withdraws e ar dzi be dime sepia. Sappho the honourable member he Ma* Wasorldablao sasmodod, he weld 2rseiga awe is Imbed arbisb le It wall le is m ega ta. diodes the radsimmat was tbs. dr Midis. were • mindagla the empire. TM game ggiumeal h e ld good he samptaria the sear V i e NOMMISI IS GYM& Allitlak end Ibe kii =Mithemeasleabee mad Ilsidldom ie Isla. in eiVssika, bswerre lase* t IPSO lie m reora pa l limistl *be abledlea Im *a pdadgies *at bad ban made sad meld *e beh mob* Ar a ": Wiring add ad bone mead *m d tbe semen lee at *V is mamma Is lbe adamlima Me se pants* Se Madam el Thaws_ Awakes Depardha. With he dada ever wars *e added et es lkama °s hells Wen*. It was silk brown OW hair works were is the libmary, but la Ws he ache *vs ea maws ahlob was gives by atm of be poshest= to the semaittle, that he weld_went • both basins, it contained somas neoplasm paossew The boa. member salt Rama Whales IPSO Segued to civil sad isligistis liberty, but be shad, bad set Se vales of the has catholic' damps bola slams la brew stela sad religions libmy Tries milk regard te oath, it was Ins *lna wu • hapiames power, but the dispensing power wined in th e gretatant church also. An oath might be dispensed with to the catholic church whoa it was takes wader weeds% whin it was an unlawf i n g le where then was an impessibiline that the of in should be dose, on the monad tgae, there was error or traad‘ mad lastly whew bias was • Unita that was, supposing the law of the land to bo a against it. Paley said that ma unlaw ful promise might be broken, and that suer as fraud vitiated a promise. That was jut the same doctrine the Ra man catholic. held; there was, in point of fact, no diffe rence. Another objection was, that in the Roman catholie religion thero was the sacrament of penance. lie consi dered that that sacrament had conthrod much to good order and the moral improvement of society. Some obser vations had been made with regard to the Jesuits. They were namely is:popular with the protestant, and for a p THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1865._ very good reason. Protestantism was making great pro- with regard to Maynooth bad failed. The avowed object gress when the order of Jesuits was founded, and they ac- ,of that pest statesman was to put an end for ever to the an rested ih g egreii. They were aim opposed by seversigas, sad dismission on this subject. (Hear, bear.) His wish and Why ? use the Jesuits, had always ben sup- was that they 'timid not every session ;mete two valuable porters of the derneeratic psinctiple, and they were nightlife' abusing each other's religious doctrines. In that the first to promulgate the axiom that alli power Sir Robert Peel bad certainly failed. How "odd they es proceeds from the people. He maintained that no order of pect the people of Ireland to be tranquil it the house Fes men had. dose so much for social order and the adapted resolutions which placed them ander a ban and 'lithe oomsaanity at large as thatisartmaligned order, put a stigma upon their religion ; and if in consequences of Awaitscal opinion of certain hon. gentlemen they IA. b. XILIJI diddled say desire to attack the Ro- could not do them justice in a matter of pounds , , ausaa nd s b a a . oho notice, a ., and pen ? (Cheers.) Hs would not condescend shawl Was} wow ao tbsag~t Est s miaa as a ... wiz, awn the hon. member's (Mr. Spooner's) imputations. Om wee4egradbrite the Itemnwinity. In m i lli on _ would have unwind from his speech th a t the cathoHe re etase pail,.. . rt , !tia, ha had ewe t h e „A m y manolana ligion w.e something new, and that the educated gentle of that system; and be, for one, would never participate i n men of England bad to learn what was the religion say measure which should hare for its object to en- of their forefathers, under which they had acquired dow any institution which was founded to maintain that political ascendancy, and all that upon which they that system, which he believed in his conscience were accustomed to glofify themselves. He would n to be prejudicial to the well-being of the p e ople. enndescend to vindicate the church, of which it was the They heard much in Ireland of religious equality, but en- greatest pride to be the obedient child. (Laughter and (lowing this institution was not religious equality. He be- chars.) The hon. member for North Warwickshire bad Hosed there was much truth in an address presented to made out no ease whatever against Maynooth—all his argu the city members at the election in „July, which stated that meat was against the catholic religion. Any charges against no meet in Ireland but the Roman catholics had the privi- 'he management of Maynooth he (Mr. Lucas) was ready to lege of having their priests educated at the expense of the I meet ; but the hon. gentleman's whole cue was, that May- State. _ _ 'tooth could not be a good catholic college because it was catholic. f" Hear," and _cries of " Divide.") . He would . . Mr. J. BALL considered that that house was not the proper arena for theological discussion. The College of Maynooth was just the same with regard to the educa tion it afforded that it always had been. It did not object to inquiry, but rather courted inquiry. He objected to this subject being discussed in the tone is which it was discussed last night. The object, however, with which he rose was to appear somewhat in the cha racter in a witness, and to entreat those who would vote for the abolition of this grant to consider well what they were about. Statesmen had to set en the great principles of justice and expediency; and this was no question of grati tude, but of justice. Lord LOVAINE said the honour and good faith of the legislature were bound to continue • grant of this kind, unless it could be shown, on mature and full investigation, that it was proper and right that the grant should be with drawn. This it was not proposed to do, and therefore he could not vote for the motion. Mr. FORTESCUE was glad that the hon. member for North Warwickshire had not moved for • commit tee of inquiry. He did not think that this country would lightly retrace its steps. He did not think it would have been easy to have revoked the settlement of Sir Robert Peel, nor did he think that the result of the examination would have been to confirm the charges so recklessly made. He believed the investigation would have shown that the college had been going on since 1843 very much as it had been going on before, but with great r respectability and comfort. He could die between the protestantism of the heart and the protest:indent of the vote—the protestantism of party which could rush in where the protestantism of true religion would fear to treed—(cheers)—and he should vote against the motion of the hon. member as the offspring of the former rather than of the latter. (Cheers.) Lord STANLEY thought it high time this question was Nutted, for every hour which intervened only kept open and irritated the sore which the settlement of 184.5 was in tended to heal. That being the case he would not have risen to prolong this debate bad he not thought that it would not be satisfactory to the country if it closed without any member of the late government expressing an opinion upon it. He would at the outset recur for a moment to the circumttances under which this grant to Maynooth originated. It owed its birth to times when the penal laws were in force, and to a legislature which was exclusively protestant. (Hear, hear.) He (the noble lord) did not feel that there was much weigh; in the arguments which had been grounded on the existence of a real or supposed compact entered into between the Irish parliament and the imperial parliament at the time of the union ; but it was, neverthe less, the fact, that the great had been adopted without op position by the imperial parliament. Nay, it had even been increased from 8,0001. to 9,0001.—a small sum, it wee true, but still important, as showing that the animus of the imperial parliament was not that of men who felt them selves bound to the literal performance of a contract which they disliked. It was true that during the last half eau tory the grant was merely an annual one ; but that mob the case still stronger, because if at the Amiss a permanent endowment had been made, like that of 1845, it might have been urged that the successive par liaments had not committed themselves to the principle. This feet, however, was, that every successive cabinet and every successive parliameat down to 1843, had adopted the put and given their sanction to its principle. Now what he (the noble lord) wanted to impress upon the house was this: namely, that they could not replace the question upon the footing upon which it stood previous to 1845. (Hear, hear.) There was only one cam in which they could fairly votefor the repeal of the Endowment Act of 1845 • and that wee if they could persuade themeless that the @lrma. shines of the college had so altered that the of WI was no longer to be considered ideation milk liep meth of 184.5. (Hear, hear.) There were hes. pettiness who took a somewhat different view of the case. They said that they were willing to vote for the endowment of the college in 1845_,_ because they regarded it in the light of an expenment. 'That experiment they considered had failed, and therefore they were prepared to continue it no longer. That was a cline and consistent view to take of the mesa they could suppose that the endowment of 1845 had beim granted conditionally; but he seamed he could nee see anything that could lead Wm to the eonolodite that any conditions whatever had bees etteeleed to the ' dowment of 1845. ir, hear.) Oa the esumsry, he I found everything to him believe that the Weed= of the legislature was that the end/mutest should be uncon ditional and permanent. (Hem, bear.) Re mate now to the amendment. That amendment asked them to 1111111124 to a general expressiwefbehead le favour of the voles. tory principle. Now be beamed that there were dram- Mimes and states of seal* in ebb le that principle might be net only the best, but Me only pordble one, upon which to eel. In a new esualry, fee lortinee, it might be both Idiom' politic to pima all relidess en a footing of perfect eguelley, and to adept the voluntary principle ; but how wee that principle to be applied here ? Was their declare- Wm be be retrospective or prompt:ire ? Wu it to be applied fel, to annual grants, or was it to be extended so as to pro siness all ecclesiastical property the property of the state ? If they asserted that. it would involve nothing short of the entire subversion ei neheiestisel establishments—a matter of for too grave impeelenes to be discussed as a mere sup plement to another debar. (Meer, hear.) If they mint io n :t esie he amen insee to the matted grants only, than be amid but. endows lbst the **et _al all masa had bees to put Ineseed been men needy me the same teediss at the establishinewles end thew ▪ w ould be sabverling all that bad been dine in favour the principle at ealigiess equali, upon the bppollmil that at mime Molest day,tyth atmerely might pechaps weir ,00dve, they iflisldA e llne venni uraium el 'geologies. (Rear.) Is the Wiest of lisreearth be (the wide lord) would net opposed a metim-teris quit" bar ms ft was the wedeabeed right of paßi mist t•' see w Ltihw marl bad V. " tCrisa of " Mel .1 the result of an at min Mist, than be would lay it dense as a prier eipho that in expillearibm. — " re 'Arra ( 4 ...mil', ants c. not stand in the way of a division, and he would therefore now conclude Mr. DRUMMOND (amidst loud cries of " Divide") said that his constituents, of every class and degree, had charged him to vote against the continuance of the grant. But he would not vote against it, because he would not do an act of injustice. Let there be a motion for inquire, and into that inquiry he would go. His constituents, like the people of England, were not a pack of blind bigots, that did not know what they were talking of and cheers)—but what had aroused their indignation was a statement which had been put forth by a person who called himself Paul Cullen. He said, " Our venerable hierarchy and clergy, in the fulfilment of their duties, will inculcate and direct as a religious duty the selectionurepresentatives of the people those men who are the best fitted to support in the Imperial Parliament our religious rights." Now let them see what Paul Cullen's master called their "religious rights." The Pope said, "He bath taken this principle for basis, that the catholic religion, with all its rites, ought to be exclusively dominant, in such sort that all Other worship shall be banished and interdicted." (Cheers.) Englishmen might be coarse ; but they were an honest and plainspoken race ; and they would say that, for these words to rims from men who talked about " religious equality," was • gross fraud and imposture. (Cheers.) If he (Mr. Drum mond) had time, he could prove that for the first time in the history of the church the doctrine' of the Jesuits were alone authorised. (Hear, hear.) Let them not shake their heads; let them give him time, and he would prove that, for he had all the extracts there —those pocket-pistols, as they had been termed. (Laugh ter, and cries of "go on.") No, he would not go on, be cause he knew the nature of the adversaries with whom he bad to deal, and he would not stir one step without making good his ground as he went. He knew the cleverness of the Jesuits. He knew that they had beaten a dozen popes, and he did not suppose that he could beat them. (Laugh ter.) Well, he would give them just one sample. Bellar mine was one of those obsolete men of whom they had heard; and Bellarmine wrote "Pontifes potest kgens Dei mutore." Now, that was • very startling assertion, and the King of France, after a great deal of trouble, got the Pope to place it amongst the "propositions. dannabs/es." Well, how did they get over that? They inserted a word or two, and said " Pontifez non, eke juskt cause, pant legem Dei sentare." (Cheers.) There were a dozen instances of the same kind. (Hear, hear.) Well, he would give them a few more, just to oblige the hon. gentlemen. (Laughter.) For instance, they must know that these Jesuits had taught three sorts of falsehoods ; and one of these sorts was mental reservation. Pope Innocent the Eleventh, a very good Pope, tried hard to put down this mental reservation, and they divided it into pure and impure—one of which they allowed. Mr. BOWYER—Where do you find that ? Mr. DRUMMOND—In the fifth volume of " Liguori," page 268. (A laugh.) Then again, they encouraged as sassination. The King of Spain turned them out of his dominion on that account. They said, " They only are to be accounted as assassins who commit assassination for a bargain in the shape of a temporal reward ;" so that, if a man committed murder, and was not pad for it, he was not an assassin. (Hear, hear.) But this was not the sub ject he wished to bring before them. He wanted to bring before them the subject of witness.. and false oaths, be cause it was perfectly impossible to carry on government with liberal institutions where such doctrines were taught. " Liguori" (vol. 4, page 384) laid it down that it was law ful for a witness to state what was untrue, provided he added the truth in • whisper that might be heard, although it was not, in fact, heard. (Cheers.) He (Mr. Drummond) did not wish to treat this as • question between Roman catholic and protestant. (Cries of "Oh !") It was • question of the conspiracy of these men against the rights of mankind ; and every country was equally bound to expose and defeat them. (Cheers.) Lord C. HAMILTON rose and, after making in a tssy energetic manner a few remarks which were prevented from reaching the gallery by the loud cries of " divide 1 " moved the adjournment of the debate. Capt. MAGAN then rose and sated the noble lord * whom he was referring when he spoke 61 " the miserable delegates of slaves ? (Hear, hear.) The question was not answered. Mr. MOORE said that his bon. friend (Mr. Leese) bed abruptly concluded his speech solely in defer** to Ike calls for a division proceeding from gentlemen ea that Ohs Opposition) aide of the house. Mr. NEWDEGATE said that on the contrary be bed called out "Go on " (Hoar, hear.) Sir R. INOLIB protested strongly against the expel 'ions which had been made use of by the boa. member (Mr. Lucas) with reference to the church in Ireland. Lea guage mom bitter, more insulting, more unlike what bad ever been tolerated in the house, he had never heard. (Cheers.) And it had proceeded from an hon. gentleman who had only been allowed to take his seat in that assem bly after he had solemnly sworn that he would do nothing to disturb the settlement of the church establishment. Mr. LUCAS briefly explained that he bad made use of the expressions complained of by the bon. baronet solely with reference to the church in Ireland as a political Union, and not with reference to it as • church. (t a Mr. CLAY said the cries of "divide " had p from all parts of the house. (Hear, hear.) Serjeant SHER thought it due to himself to take some Make of what had been said by the hon. member for Math. The hon. member had inamated that if the amend ment were carried out to inch** the Irish established he would vote for it. Now he (Serjunt Slum) to say that so beg al the eath required of catholic =l:enounced the law be would not vote for the t. (Cheers.) He greed with the hon. member es may subje, but tapes t the hon. gentleman did sot speak for hint. (Loud chem.) After a few weeds hem lir J. !snip, the question et adjournment was pet ami negadved by a large majority. The boos the. divided 's the 'Agora motion : irea 162 s 192-30 A. thought, tee, _ in quitey s ess—cated—la wt. at least—by members skits Bemis eked* filth. These peerless ke thought ere sauddj bat, it they wan award le, he &sold lime no te legairy. Oa the madary, he sired advocate it ; lee II amid AIM be deified that a etzersg did exis t swirl the mew, sad the beat posted* mode Oa which to Owl tbehpnindise was to lay the ra ft ed= klr and waif* before the public, beetles the et fib Kest it sight ( ban riglilnd. see 1. assn.) nib illivel that bah the nu aad yg euasadment well lie NOMA by a huge sada* ; OR he wee glad to Ni that lbws we as banger of the tument asit of WA being ablu Khan elm be ihsaK sothwaV h hor Or ltsi. sahtp of al our ualesieslis h si astablaitsats. (Obsess. and had Wass' "Divas.") Kr. LUCAS was sawelai Is &dm* divide.; but ha Iwo still mere ha hay deeraN diet& until be lad bid aa apgratalllg of way a hw weeds upsa to amain mat hi messaleasat. Am Ise the heessr, IS was ,a seedudes whisk as sae balAtai tbe madmen% be Mee. =raid he • asemsat s =t sad be would ass Vat the staselosat la hst, it we me, ibe tetra attain ia • Illa ball salbbi to amid& at in the memme the bets. member irse MT. if#4 B l_ bad bat"' awed evamdmest; hat it wee empemenenM mama dam diemethei that ft was a reielatra, a_ gnat part of the Suppers whisk it weld& resew Imola be dictated solely by • bootleg 40Kmiest eathelisity. (Cries of " Ka, aft.") It wan hirable missakesteed tie het, that the liberal iteadkasala et a pad meg memilse ln Begland and Ordeal wore jar as would psee be lt eatbsifdly es them hoe. gestressa who evert the melba et the hen. mambo, he North Wu lff* Olk. Lame) had taken a little pains to huh drunk fat intsemer g Negate: " Dod's Compaaion," and bid stambisd ea the mars of Mr. Rieaakd, the rm. masker dun Perth, who was said to be " A li beral, sad eggs* to th. Mayne** av t." (Rear, hear.) Re (Kr. Leese) bellhepaathat hem gmalemea, who had delimeed se = a ire* Ike other ails weer a fasip gatellsa al religious Isea. weal have limeared the how with his views alma Ode lassie. of dsinelis re deem treed= ; bat he regarded Ile be.. mater en an =et a elms. whom miss week' le glees Pm die An appeal bed beta made to the aikido menhass by as hen goademea tube esperrted lbe masa& Pand Wile bad said that der, e te M see le naive this " punt' et WOW. it he (Kt. Dams) was awa b eaV r ibe a S: robbing them et" as isanisass debt et Judea, he one he weld sever keep, and he the dam ea dusk gratitude which, ea lli t a r al letailk thin bawdy ease, hod been attempted to be set R; hat be did at* ogres with the abstreet views that bad dictated the 111111.11.11 A, ea the greaad of volontaryiem Why it did not emu deal with the question of Region's Dome.; and thus, if it were carried, it would take away the grant from Maysooth, while it would rave the grants made yearly to the preeby- Wiens of Ulster. It would not even affect that great Etl injustice which bad been conceived in fraud and forth in robbery, the endowment of the established in Ireland—not by the funds of the state, but by plasderittg the catholic:l of their own funds. (Cheers, and odes of Oh.") Hon. gentlemen had made almost an appeal ad mistrwordiant to the catholic members. They led begged them not to take the money of protestant., and yet they had not scrupled themselves to seize the money which bad accumulated by the piety of their catholic fore fathers, to teach doctrines contrary to dime which the donors had professed. (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. Lucas) would admit t h at the object of Six Robert Peel's legislation Mr. Spooner's motion was therefore lost ; but it being pest eta the amendment was not put s and the hones ad- NEWLY ELECTION COM- Yesterday the General Committee of Elections met again, and appointed the following members to eine on the following oommittoss:— Faows.—Mr. G. A. Hamilton (chairman), Mr. J. T. Deverens, Mr. Samuel Iston, Mr. Granville Vaunt, and Lord Claude Hamilton. — Fatt - ss - t - no - i7.-4;:Nrerson Smith (ehairman), Mr. Had ard, Sir J. VWien Shelley, Hos. J. W. Pertly, and Sir R. W. Balkeley. WATIIIFORD COVNIT,-HCC. W. 0. Stanley (chairman), Mr. G. P. Swope, Hem Colonel Lindsay, Vieecautt Monk, and Colonel Harwood. LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24. Wuo is to be Bishop of LINCOLN ?—is now an in quiry of the day. Various clerical candidates have been named—the list including the vicars and rectors of some large London parishes—more than one Dean— and the relatives of divers members of the Cabinet. Though nobody yet knows how the vacant post will be filled—the filling it is a subject of great public interest and importance, since the selection of Dr. KATE'S successor will indicate the tendencies of Lord ABERDEEN'S Government in relation to Church matters. Are we to have Puseyism and Reac tion or Liberality and Progress on the Episcopal bench? On the solution of this problem rests much Ministerial popularity or much public discontent. On PELHAM'S death, the old Duke of NEW CASTLE requested Fox, subsequently Lord HOLLAND, to lead the House of Commons. Fox, however, met the request by an inquiry, who, under the change, was to administer the patronage of the Crown. " That," answered the greedy PREMIER, " I intend to do myself." Fox thereupon had, for once at least, the spirit to refuse to conduct in the Lower House of Parliament the public business of a Government, of whose private arrangements and patronage he was to have no share or knowledge. He should not (he remarked), know how to speak to his supporters. The century that has since elapsed has, at all events, purged the House of Commons itself of corrupt practices such as Fox referred to. Members no longer drop into the Treasury on their way down to an important debate and more important divi sion, to receive what was then termed their "gra tifications." Grants of reversionary offices are now almost unknown, except, indeed, in the courts spi ritual ;7pensions on the Irish list and on West Indian funds are no longer in existence; and though pa tronage still has its charms even for members of the House of Commons, it is shorn of its old coarseness, venality, and corruption. Hence it is, no doubt, quite possible for Lord JOHN RUSSELL to do what Fox declined to undertake—lead the House of Com mons without office or its patronage. But even in these very different times, it is not judicious, nor will it prove satisfactory in the practi cal working of our Government, for the leader of the House of Commons to be without large influence over the greater offices that may fall at the disposal of the Cabinet. In leading the House, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, though without office, and advising the Crown only on his responsibility of Privy Councillor, is neverthe less practically the moat important member of the , ABERDEEN Cabinet. He has had a larger and a longer experience of public men and of public affairs than any of his colleagues (Lord LANSDOWNE ex cepted) ; he brings to the support of the Administra tion a much more numerous and stronger division of the House than any of his fellow Ministers can pretend to; and to him principally will fall the preparation of those greater mea sures on the sufficiency or insufficiency of which will depend the fate of the present Govern ment and his own permanent fame. Occupying such a position as this, Lord JOHN RUSSELL will not, it is to be hoped, be without considerable power of veto over the patronage of the Cabinet. We do not, of course, desire to see Lord Joint RUSSELL troubled or disturbed by the administration of what is known as Treasury patronage. That will take its bad course as usual, unless, indeed, Lord JOHN carry out the designs which he once en tertained of connecting appointments of that sort with an educational system. Nor is it to be wished that Lord Jour; RUSSELL should be permitted to interfere with the ordinary patronage of the other Secretaries of State, or of the subor dinate departments of the Government. Neither can it be expected that Lord ABERDEEN, as Premier, or Lord thuswoaTil, as Chancellor, will submit to be bound to consult with Lord JOHN in the bestowal of ecclesiastical benefices in their respective gifts. All thlse appointments will properly remain, as they always have been, the privilege of the departmental chief in whose jurisdiction the patronage lies. But there is a patronage higher than this, and beyond this, without personal power over which no man leading the Rouse of Commons can adequately occupy that eminent position. It is the patronage that denotes the general tone and character of a Cabinet—that has important consequences on that public opinion on which alone governments can exist—that indi cates the sense and the sort of responsibility under which a Ministry is acting. We refer to the patron age of the highest offices in the church, in the civil, military, and colonial cervices ; in Indian, diplo matic, and colonial positions of the greatest trust; of bishops, judges, generals commanding abroad, lord lieutenant at home, and the governors of India and of our largest colonies, such as Canada and the Australia'. Power over such appointments as these any Leader of the House of Commons ought to have but especially Lord Join( RussELL—for he, in reality, if not in form, is the Chief Minister of he Crown. It is not enough that Lord Joni', in his new po sition, should be responsible, as he will be, for these appointments after they are made. That he must be, whether consulted on them or not. It is necessary for the good working of a government that he should share, and be known to participate, in the appointments themselves. Otherwise, his personal influence will be diminished, and with it his power of public; usefulness ; and a party may be formed around otherenembers of the Cabinet aiming ultimately at dispensing with assistance now found so indispensable. Let na take care. By the death of the late Dr. Beta, the See of Lincoln is vacant. On the filling . up of that vacancy the present Govern ment may justly give great offence to a very large part of the community, if they do not follow the moderate example which Lord Joni; Enema. set them when the Head of a Government. In the present Cabinet, it is impossible not to perceive there are two parties, having very opposite ecclesiastical opinions and leanings; and at 1M head is a Presby terian Peer. The question of Dr. KATE'S successor is therefore in every respect a very delicate one. In all Etch patronage it is desirable that the Earl of Anitnnxix should act only with the full appro bation and concurrence of Lord Joint limn& Without Lord Joules aid, the noble Pannxii has frankly avowed, he never could have formed an Administration ; and that aid Lord JOHN has given in the most disinterested, as well as most unreserved form. It is therefore due alike to his former more elevated sphere of action, to his present exemplary self-denial, and to his capacity of future ea that Lord Joint RUSSELL should in this most imp ortant question of higher patronage, be on a level with the Primula himselL COPTEIGUT LAW BETWEEN ENGLAND AND Aim Elcs.—A well-informed New York correspondent says :—" You will be glad to hear that there is a fair prospect of a Copyright Treaty. It has been nego tiated by Mr. Everett with Mr. Cramptow and will soon be sent to the Senate, where I trust there will be influence enough brought to bear upon the ques tion to enure its ratification." A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.—A horrible tragedy took place a few days ago in the little village of Cauret, depart ment of the Crease. A young man named Daguet, son of a wealthy farmer, suddenly rushed on his mother-in-law as she was peeling potatoes, and struck her on the back of the head with a hatchet until the skull was completel7 hasten in and she fell dead. Shortly after the murderer a father entered, and he discharged his gun at him. Mama h it was only charged with powder, the commotion it ed caused the old man to fall, He then loaded his gun, and as his sister entered at the moment discharged it at her. She wee wsooded in the hand and shoulder. He then knot el her down, and beat her on the head with the hatchet until she was dead. He next despatched his father in the same way. He did not attempt to fly, and calmly said to one of his relatives, who came in, " All is over—take up the bodies ! You may do with me what you will—l mean neither to fly nor to do any harm to you or to my self!" lie was arrested and lodged in the gaol of Gueret. As no motive for these crimes is known, it is supposed that the murderer had become ,middouly iumme. THE STATE OF THE ROYAL DOCKYARDS. TO TIM lIDITOR OP THI =PRIM Srm.,—Allow me to may that the sooner the system of so nation is done away with the better it will be for all parties employed in her Majesty's service. It is, and has been one of the gritattet evil/ existing even in dock t.i Thew hsthe e wg spin the minds of the artisans the idea thee the it superannuation is a bad one, and that the time Douse for its situation, and that present pay ment for work performed is the only one that should exist between the employer and the employed. If hist true, as I was told by some of the piaci* dicers of the docky ard to which I belong in en interview that I recently had with them, that the principal reason why the government pay is so much lower than that of private yards is, that so much per day is kept back from our wages, in order to pro vide for our superannuation—if this be true, then at what a fearful rate are we paying for that which not more than MO in eight either lives or stays to eujoy; and what is the iskistios of the system which robe us of our daily wages, sod which, when say of us die or have the service peadeneb to our becoming entitled to superannuation, imam thinks of either refunding to us the amount kept back from our wages, or is case of death of made, a compensation to our bereaved families, although we while living are made to pay for a provision for our. Wm, of which there is seareely a chance of our ever enjoy lag. Let any one for a moment think of paying at the rate of six shillings per week, for a period of from thirty and in many cases of fifty years, for the pittance of 24 pounds per annum, the highest rate of superannuation ever given to any of the workmen employed in the royal dockyards, and he will then be convinced that in our cue, at heat, it is true that " • bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." But while expressing myself thus of the evil of the aye tam now in force, surely no government, however consti tuted, would be guilty of the injustice of depriving those esmaget us of that provision in their old age for which they have so many years been toiling and paying. Let their case be fairly met and honestly dealt with, and then the sooner the false scheme of superannuation, from the highed to the lowest of all ker Majesty's servants, is for ever abo lished the better, and let the only inducement for us to remain in the service be the regularity of employment and remunerative wages. With many thanks for the way in which you have advo. cased our claims, I am, sir, your obedient servant, February 9. A DOCKYARD ARTISAN. - fentretso. • TO CORRISPONDENTIL a reel a mks The Zaprass," esabiaft the rate ember "Oeeette,"L pabitsbel wary Tuesday rd Phis, eight, fla rise Or pea- A Wee lawareits lallaidal for TM la pram" Leaden laming paper, exast be at th• le, Ibreawirelnat, by ?we o'.k,b ea tile tay et pabbisitles. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Par DAT—Maral•r. Mu ISai Mamma. 2i. sls. fe-seassw—llerairg. It. 13sh. Ahllialas SC 32.. TURKEY, AUSTRIA, AND MONTENEGRO. We yesterday published a letter from tar Cos. stantinople correspondent, giving the SA. -ranee of General Leiningen 's ultimatum to the Port., as also the quick sharp reply of the Grand Vizier. If th ese documents be genuine, and we have good -,son for believing them so, the Porte is determined c 1 show a bold front to the machinations of its north ; a neigh bours. The demands of Austria have be o unhesi tatingly rejected, and, should the latter .ersist in them, war with Turkey is inevitable. These demands, as given by our correspeutiOnt, are ltn."lg. Turkey could n o t humiiiatio 1, and th e n acc %t p o t el til y e n na nj w us i t th b ou ut in without national well-known character of Mehemet Ali—t he present Grand Vizier—gives us assurance that they have not been accepted. The first condition required by Austria is, the cession of sovereignty, on the part of Tut over certain territories. To this demand the 'orte an swers that they shall cede no territory—" ••:. a hair's breadth." The second demand of Austria 1- that she shall hereafter be considered the protect°. .1 Chris tianity in the Turkish provinces adjoining aer own. The reply to this is, that the Christian po •atation of these provinces want no protection, and lc•ist of all the protection of the House of Hapsburg. In his answer the Vizier takes occasion to point • ut that the Christians of the Turkish empire haN• .tot only been tolerated, but that the "most perfect utonomy exists in the administration of their religi,..- aftuirs." He farther reminds the Austrian envoy or :he pro testant persecutions which have taken plaee, and are at this moment going on in Hungary. The third demand made by Count Leiningen is, a rceognition on the part of the Porto of the lucky. ttlence of Montenegro. In refusing this, the Grand Vizier la conically refers to the conduct of Austria herself in relation to Hungary and Italy. With regard to the first of these singular demands, we may state that the territories, the cession of which is required by Austria, aro some small islands on the Dalmatian coast, near the port of Cattaro. In the language of one of our contemporaries, well known for its zealous exertions in the sere Ice of Aus tria, these islands are "claimed" by Turkey. And so they are, precisely in the same manner as the Isle of Man is "claimed" by England. Austria has not the shadow of a claim upon them, farther t tian that, for certain reason., it would be convenient her to possess them. Still less claim has she to become the " pt .tector of Christianity ;" she who at this moment if in the midst of a series of persecutions, guested not only against the protestant Christians, but U.:• catholic communities dwelling upon her own soil. The Grand Vizier challenges a parallel to Ce drawn between the condition of the Christians inhabiting the Turkish provinces and those in the adjoining territory of Austria. He may safely do so, for it is well known to all who are acquainted with the Da nubian principalities that not only are the Christians permitted a free exercise of their religion, but that they exclusively possess that right. In Moldavia and Wallachia the Turkish religion is forbidden. In Servia it is confined to the garrisons uf Turkish troops, and from Montenegro it is altogether ex cluded; and this limitation and exclusion has its origin in generous laws of toleration made by the Turks themselves, and not only made, but olmer red to the very letter. The truth is, if any sect have a reason for getting up a cry of persecutio.: in reli gious matters it is the Turks themselves, and not the Christians whom Austria is so anxious to " pro- The third demand of Count Leiningen is the in dependence of Montenegro. We need not dwell upon the singularity of this demand on the part of Austria. It is absolutely absurd. With en equal show of reason might she require the indt ~endence of Ireland, or the separation of Scotland from the British crown. But Europe is at this moment wondering by what plea Austria will justify this interference in the affairs of Turkey. As yet she has offered none that will satisfy the judgment of the civilised world. Onr correspondent has furnished us with the only justification which she has attempted, and that is that some Turkish vessels containing troupe passed through Austrian waters, and this she affects to con sider a " violation of her territory !" Te that she has added the flimsy pretence of " Christi:4n protec tion." Never was there a more positive illustration of the fable of the "Lion and Lamb." We need not dwell upon the untenableness of both these pleas. The former is simply ludic! ous ; and as for the " Christian protection " plea, it is all a "sham," a cloak to cover ulterior designs. By it she expects to enlist the sympathies of Western Europe, and, in a sort of modern crusade in con ' nexion with Russia, be quietly permitted to dismem ber and partition the empire of the Moslem. Let England be cautious of such crusaders. They will but waste their sympathy who bestow it upon such a cause. Christianity has far less to fear from the per secution of the Sultan, than from the " protection" either of the Czar or his Austrian Satrap. FRANCE. (DT ITJBMAILINI PARIS, THURSDAY MORNING. M. De la Corr, Minister of France at Vienna, is appointed Ambassador at Constantinople, and M. De Boarqueney is appointed Minister at Vienna. [DT ELECTRIC SELIG/ALPHA PARIS, WIDNIEDAT EVEXIMO. A decree in this morning's Monifeur nominates M. Fremy, Councillor of State, to the post of Di rector-General of the Interior. He will continue to be attached to the section of public works, agriculture and commerce. By another decree, dated yesterday, M. Henri Chevreau is appointed Councillor of State. M. Visconti has been appointed Architect to the Em_peror. The Academy of Sciences have elected Marshal Valliant, by a majority of 54 to 8, in the room of the late M. Heron de Villefosse. The fund. have been steadier to-day than for a week past. A fall of S centimes on the Three per Cents. was compensated by an equal advance in the Four-and-a-Half, the latter closing at 105 f. 90c. for cash, and the Threes at 80f. 60c. Bank Stock de clined 51., closing at 2,805 f. ; and, with the exception of a few sales of Northern and of Lyons share., railway stock seemed to-day to be quite neglected, and prices unaltered from want of transactions. The uneasy sensation previously noticed respecting affairs in the east of Europe is by no means abated. The Debate states that as soon as the Divan became aware of the demands of Count Leiningen, of which he demanded an answer within five days, it immediately called to its councils the representatives of France and England, with whom Fnad Effendi held several conferences in rapid succession. The precise tenor of the Austrian demands does not ap pear; but it is pretty certain (continues this authority) that one of them requires the expulsion of the Ilia prism and Polish refugees. It is hoped, however, that the Porte will be able to resist this requirement more successfully now than it did in 1849. The energetic demonstrations then made by France and England gave peat strength to the Sultan's govern ment. According to Rwhid Pacha's phrase, Turkey has lived on them ever since ; and it is hoped that the same generosity will not be wanting to it in this juncture. M. Auguste Heartier, appointed on a commercial mission in China and the eastern prov incee, ls to sail immediately for Macao in the steam-corvette Colbert. M. Pages Dupont, editor of the Union, M. Tanski, and Messrs. Lowenfeld, Hartmann, and Etienne, oor terpondents of the German press, have been liberated with a simple caution. The budget for 1854 will be brought before the Legislative Assembly early in March. Public securities varied little to-day on the Bourse; the Three per Cents. opened at 80fr. 35c., and closed at 80fr. 40c. for the end of the month. The Four and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 105 fr. 95e. M. Kalbermatten, general on duty at Rome, and his aide de-camp, M. Desjardins, residing some months at Erian, in Savoy, having enrolled some Swiss in the Pontifical army, have just received notice to quit the Sardinian States within six days. It was reported in Vienna, on the 21st, that the settlement of the differences between Austria and • the Porto had been proposed and was referred to France. The German papers state that a rising was in test."