The Express. — London, England, 1852-04-30 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TnuasoAr, Arsu. 29. The house mot at 5 o'clock. Lord llionuaLs eat Speaker. PETITIONS PRESENTED. C PALACI.—Uy the Marquis of NORMANDY, from the metropolis, in favour of the retention of the Cry. , tal Palace, a prayer in which he could not unite, as ha con eidered it would be at variance with public faith. NUNNERIce.—By the Earl of RODEN, from a pines sot heard, praying (or the ie.pection of nunneries. GENERAL ROSAS. Berl GRANVILLE rose to put a question to the noble lord opposite (Mahnesbury). In the morning perms of yesterday there appeared the following statement:— „ Plymouth, Tuesday. "The ez•Bietator of Buenos Ayres and family, who strived here on Sunday, in her Majesty's screw stem-ship Conflict, Commander Robert Jenner, landed yesterday afternoon at the jetty of the Devonport dockyard, where be was received by Commodore Superintendent Sir Michael Seymour. Shortly after lauding the general took up his quarters at Moor-head's 'Loyal Hotel, Fore-street. Devon poet, where he was visited by the Con Admiral, Sir John y, and other heads of departments. Sir John Rolt, the Commander of the Forces in the Weytern Dis trict. was prevented by sickness from calling at the hotel. Is consequence of a Treasury order, every respect was paid by the officers of the Conflict to the noble visitor, and at the Custom-house every facility was gisen for the ready clearance of his homage." If this statonent were correct it would appear that men. Rotes was encased with rather unusual official honours. IMe did not wish to limit in the slightest degree the hospi tality which this country had always shown to foreign refugee*. Such was the variety of opinion in this country ; so little was that opinion checked by any restrictive law ; sad so secustowted were we to tonal intercourse with per sons who differed from us in political opinions, that he be hests' no 111,11•14,13.1, whatever his opinions might be, if driven here by political misfortune, failed to meet with a favourable reception from some part. But he thought that the preceding government ha d shown the stormiest dbcrrtiou in avoiding to receive with official honours foreign refugees, some of whom had been r , marLable for their birth, others fur the power which they had previously exercised, and others fur their great literary attainments. lie hail no donld that the answer which be should get would show that the reception to which he had referred was in reality merely an earn...mon of spontaneous courtesy, and that no 'political de monstration was intended by it. Ile should, therefore, be obliged to the noble tail if be would answer the question whether instructions had been given to receive Ben. ROOM with ohicisl honours? The Earl 01 MALMESBURY said the paragraph to which the noble earl nierred had escaped his attention, and he was not aware of the fret it stated until his noble friend wrote to him that moronic on the subject, stating the man ner in which Gen. Hoods had been received by the autho rities at Plymouth. Assuredly no order to the effect referred to bed been issued from the k'oreign-ollioe, and he thought he might say as much tor the Admiralty. lie entirely agreed with his noble friend that • refugee of rank and sta tion mild feel himself more agreeably received when he was received in quiet, than if his snivel were marked with any particular honour; ant: he believed that was the titivate opinion of General Rome himself. The only communication which the government had received from him was • letter very simply written, asking leave to live, as humbly sad quietly so playable. in her Majesty's domi nions ; and asking for some person to be placed near him until he knew the tisplish language better. He could not, therefore, explain why the authorities at Plymouth should have reamed him in such a manner as they appeared to have done, except by supposing that a very natural feeling instigated the ufficers to receive hospitably, and with a rser tam degree of welcome, a refugee from a foreign country who was no common refugee, but one who had shown great distiaetion and kindness to English merchants—a refugee with whom her Majesty's late government bad mental on nee nietions of • mint important character, and with whom la 1819 they actually signed a treaty. The Marquis of t LANILICAItDE wished to know if tki. re had been • Treasury order directing particular atten tion to bs paid to lima.? The Berl of MALMESBL'HY was not aware that there bad been such no order, but such an order might have been sent, because Mr. Gore, in his communication with the poet rnruent, stated that it was a complete error to suppose that General Row way possessed of any money, or any ether property, for he had It'd without money, and would have to spend the rest of bin life in abject penury. After • few words from Lord STA:SLIT of ALDIIIIIT, whit h were inaudible in the gallery, Viscount CANNING said he was not io the he en when the question was aels,d, hot it appeared to him that It should go farther back. As Rases arrived in • laneasn's atop, nothing was more usual then that the QOM . / Ganef seeing him arrive under her Majesty's penult, theald de se in their power to mark their seam a reaped 4 him lie did not know whether the masks of Been aa Weld • Q11C13 . 11 ship was authorised by the previous isetreetient 01 the Admiralty or ant, and he had no wish te lagiire. Ile agreed genteelly with the obeemdess whisk had - been aide am to Mesetal Roses. The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND said that, although the qut vtion had set been asked, be begged to state that so mkt hid bees seat to receive Gesrea liana es board a Yawl's Ship; but there was • gement eider to move the bees of refugees, sad from that elesumetesee we doubt be was received. (Haar, hear) He west es hoard ibe Oen iiet with the isteation of ma*" Mare by the Iteedlies picket, but the Cosaiet arrived to. hihe Ihr ie pocket, sad as hii life would not be safe if he had embed was the Sect picket the Coolie brought him ever to tllk eestata7. If there was aaythisg wrcag he was amweeabie he It. Marl GRANVILLE explained the mows why he had put the quastios., sad expressed his eNtiniliable Ithh whet had hike from the Duke of Northambeetead so to the general ceders sent out to preserve lib; Gaels! Inseam however, ought sot to have been paid to Gen. Rau. THE BANDA ORIENTAL. Lan! BEAU Wolffwiebed to P;t;ineetimi M the whir earl as to the affairs of the River Plate. her Vail deb it had been reported in this country, end there wane Imo era to doubt it, that Monte Vides Ise* been oceugled by • Bruilias forte. He did not ask whether that was the ewe but eupptelas It le be se, be Mae/ M knew whether the soils lied wee yawed *stele te *abeam dat mesh essew patios wee swab eta lowboy Moms It the noses et pewee*, the km sal peeper" et the people is Meat* Video es • eserneet Hee; et whether It wee likely to bed ta penalise,* mesh' eningeelgg She iseepewlease et die Beane ? Pedalos the aside sod wadi she state whether Needs Girds, the ideal es the am* nab, had bees she ewmffed by Brasilia* trope t The End d MALMIsSBURY esld, mte the AMAIN,- tine, the wilds bed wee eight is suryeelag that Mobs Video wet complei by BralEaa troops. Hs bed bees kw formed by the wend readiest there that it bed bees head necessary that erne weeps limb be sweehed is Se mho win order. He bed bees eleared by the 11•1•111•11 abiebe at this court thee it WM SUIT • siewparary essepelle used he could swan the noble lord that the government did set undervalue the importance of maintaining the biereadisse of the Beak °Fiesta, although he had se nuea be sup pose it Ma anibmgereff. espied " di* ling et M.rtin Oesern be bed not Morn iff ha being essayied, sad he did not believe it war. The subject then dropped. EXCHEQUER BILLS BILL. On the motion of the Earl of DZILIT this bill parsed through eouisittett. SHEEP, &e, CONTAGIOUS DISORDERS FRB• ♦ • BNTIO\ BILL. . . _ . On the motion of the Earl of EARDWICIII this bill went through committee. SANITARY STATE OF THE METEOPOLIB. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY rem peasant to ;Mire, n to move, to resolve that hertlitlL=sere et em of the isimies poi a requires the lemislate Wires government." He W Se lay flak headdge - fes state of the heal* eml di the no of Memo ma thelli. which wets ifilasesi howiteit esa theoseedt slats se greet ilimeasee of the sob of list Waist owl be soda endeavour to set helm Ilea dm emesseeense idea diem who survived, and ail" won mew se_ bt imellmi drath, and all the AM% meld, femeele% meed. and physical, which eaboleil the eisallais of the metropolis, and the orimamity ea Ilbh mionsideration, at all time Imperrest. MUM ite in the present day. Her ifitheire 'Shake h &algae would soon invite end "Mae a hiape=n at ell *NM ale' sad strength esdelitemd g the maillist would flow ham the OPIUM Mr dew 100 Wow mils would flow We thin), thin to 'wimp Iles awe - Aar ile t spai Wonting proms M irtMeelvel , or is Ibir dillime. bib, of premmtsre Emil sr ie, Ile Men is Elm its am miumoso i est Ikon mew limmi pull @apply. awl the putpoides wail tees be nabs& ay. it that, if emlimlles ressiessa Imeerldr hest ses counties, and the line at the mem lime edibllell do same emortall_ ,ty tbo evustual w are e of n oolky 1111 Old set be a /010101ority, _bud a of ; a et lardy shim for iedlesldel. Te thew le what se retest theme Is• oilitiOO were demmedent for their Bop* of 10 der preetriel Meat, and how • mai amiss Os influx would sleet t he teehoesesso of the weetbele • the noble lard yeessated to the Imes a table elenvine the numbers hers he the lietromditen Perishes, led Is the Citive of Lades emi Westminster. elm ether teems, loge titer with the sombson imelauellog dent* with the pre amt. of these ftwattatiag to theme been r li rb r ii iish eemeri peehsm, and itembe that the mor tality of • lmlrp aidriet is out 1.4, sod the extent to width the middles le seoloisea by hemlines being takes his semdisraties. they meld well believe (and he had Maid ft a day or tete op oreodetil is authority), the Slafthelit of Dr. Prior, that Lesdat, 2: 111 4 refreshed hest the siesetry. would le a assert Is A yam I At, most loolleele oseantroo mile mesh' maw maw healthy m eat met die Markt. is Aid me OA ellenise Meant torbso Ash questa be MI ladle yolthe essidly of the pre* Oa ell peel eta. odd. mil leaseldel your peon The .xleft twat wer a : s ch=welb regal pow Lirlle weed Ned the etedd r: esehele, esil alenhes. The orporto l firl re= eanevel kr Lemies. buns ISM le WM that tie ditells hem Mame haring the la tune yews estoseed hi WI, but autos tbe last de yews they summated Is 1i,136; and die _element weleisi the &nal* eases nen, as to lho meta lbw, helm the am ais yeses the ember aught dem ms is the metemselis te et be MS; end a t ad fie lest is yaws a The tem the toses ef dleea7ma; wed it wawdrift tbe aid eh years, dr ands were eageit T i b i l i t iledno Me las_ t ela rare they emeested t to 1 mem then thmoteeW And wise they acmelo NON of scrofula, le weasel that dubs the het six yeses the deaths were 3,008, and the emend period 7,016. Bet the most impute amikkeation of all was to be dernitt from the meads of the Fever Hospital of London. It moored by the report of last year, that there were received - from ad parts of the metropolis 877 eases of fever ; and I. show the effect of the condensation of persons in Res kiditice, 11/ those patients no less than 211 cases mine Sem the eastesn side of Grey's-iaw lane ; and front • two hams in thid locality therl were 32 cases, 12 from one, and 30 from another. (Hear, hear.) The noble earl thee rood extracts from the Registrar General's report with reference to the seertality in I.aasabin. Similar evils were to be found in 'Marge towns where sanitary arrangements were defective, and the people were congregated in great flumes. In Brad ford, in 1841, the deaths were 16,58 to a thousand of the population; in 1848, 24.4 ; in 1819, 26.0; in 1830, 2113. In Selby and many other towas the mortality had been proportionably great, and in every instance it far out stripped the increase in the population. Year by year, thousands and tees of thousands were perishing ia the Me tronolis, where thouiands came into dens Ms ansigmente of which were only calculated fur headeedi—plems which be defied anyone to describe who bal Mt seen them. There was no water ese there was no drainage to carry off the filth tdisease lli = death were rife amongst the wretched fatbabfgabey and when they came to die, there was no sme is whisk they could be decently interred. Look to the puma state el intramural interments ; it was • most esseedis Mag. sod mast be got rid of. Although they had preenled sodast it fur years, and some of their kniship ibli he II ethats, it still continued oppressing sad oisselelleg two mdllleae of her Majesty's subjects. The meet meet exeraiMstien ef the graveyards of the metrogolie .._gaud to show that they contained putrefyiug maga, isseash putrefying proems to them whe are impeesd to it. It was stated by Sir James WO= that en ass sashes hs Spain, soon after 20,000 ma losse pan Me the _wad within two or three numdes se the troops nemeined ex posed to the emanations of soil and thee Mink tie water tram the wells sunk in the audghhourbeed of the spot wero attacked by malignant fevers sad by dysentery, and that the fevers constantly pat ea the dysenteric elleneter. In the metropolis, on spaces et ground net exceeding in all 218 acres, closely surrounded by the abodes of the living, crowded together in dense mesons, upwards of 60,010 dead bodies were buried every year. In Bothael-_sees burial ground, consisting of as mesa Meat M. seam and • half, there had been interred shoe he corning ha theieer 1746, ',verde et 56,000 dyad bodies. In Hanhill-Bells beriel greend, City-road, emulating of an area of leis than her wee, there had been interred from April, 1713, to August, 11188, according to the registry, which, however, in the earlier years, was very imperfectly kept, 107,416 dead bodies. But in St. Pancras churchyard, one-half of which had been used as a burial.place fer at least oil centuries, there had been deposited the remains of more than 20 generations ; and in this space of ground, wl.ich did not even now exceed four acres, and a large portion of which was considered as full to excess 20 years ego, there had been interred since that pe riod upwards of 26,000 bodies. Er imating the duration of a generation at 30 year., them must have been interred in the small space of ',UM acres ' in the last generation a million gel a half of dead bodies ; and within the next 30 years mem than mother million and • ball of the dead—that is, • l..ra preperthin of these who now people the metropolis, weuM haw is lie crowded into those same churchyards un less ether and better provision for interment were made. The noble lord, after entering very fully into the statistics et the subject, and demonstrating the miseries which a large portion of the population suffered under the existing system, enteinded by entreating the house to pass a resolution to the abet that the ennitary state of the metropolis required the hemediate ineeepsition of the government. the Artiobbirp of CANTERBURY felt that be mold mot be dreg lip duty if he did not rise to bear his Mimi se to them et the statements which the noble made to the hors. (Hear, bear.) The lad of DERHY—lVithout entering into the eleilkille of his Mile hind, would at once &J -OH that a peptise= Heft in the country was more not only then a population living ia the me repslh was more healthy than a population past up in the large towns of the manufactur ing districts. Ho would likewise admit that there was a difference of ealubrity in proportion to the extent and cleanliness of the towns, their crowded state, =dila@ want of a free circulation of air. His noble friend had pakited out the existence of a great evil; but he Amid not be satisfied with that; he should have shown what remedy could be applied; he should have shown what the government could do—he was not speaking of the pre ttiest goveralaent alone, but what preceding governments and preseding parliaments mild have done to remedy the evil. He should have shown that preceding governments and parliaments had failed to give attention to this rub int, or that they had not introduced illeasstell for the of diminishing evils which no human legislation =T e do away with altogether. (Hear, hear.) He was glad that his noble friend altered the terms of his motion, for it be had brought it forward in the shape in which it stood on the paper a few days ago he should have felt it to be his duty to oppose it, bemuse it implied that Mae obstruc tions were thrown is the way of pediment edepeing each measures as it or deem to be expedient bear.) His noble friss& however, peepers& in the isms series a definite sad spoils remedy, and who he (the Sari of De ) wimpkkal of am was, that be osatantod himself with si gl e ipt mkt oho Mies of the Muss wither men the sew at ainedykg or =the rib le doodled. If In sbaildlave bit ot gosh a arm b taboa es the part of any ember of their Marks' hawk be hit Mil mire surprise at soh a we bag adopted by sae who me ea motive warm of a Mind which was Mamma to sem wish the oralablogaisa of doe Mai of the ourtry. de n; • ageprba Oat his ark trod, with bh osporires, should Imo Minded to or re Mom is pledge itself ea so dank a subject, be egailmai he felt ire impels— seeing the difficulties which groar ve governors wo rmed when rang wish 11—that his sable Mont shield bar abandoned his barriga stroking that mgeonrs. Bat ihsa le ma say, dim ass spar war k the , aka ids asks read midi bid ram • paposilles whir aid, that a pest evil we. to M artwisk lot Mast Pr Thom the benefit of his past orprome es to the mum of re =Saying or polkaing dm or. akar, hear.) Yr allures re Minor ouhrols referred to *the East el Bissitsehmy, am inemenmeal burials, want GI water, proadoese el sears, die., the mob's earl admitted*, olveategai efdeaslisess lobed* and allowed that its else. was ast mailned to health meanly, but that it likewise emblem* to goorallty ; that chelegimeas and &wag were the Maim ile ef morality if they did set direetly comiloste le it. atm, Mar.) But add ray ogrW Ity ast at pattianast to be either meral, fteint, tr ils ? (Hso bear) The great iilliodty they had to emend with is this me was that wen legislating swim the lakes of the 4) : hate the Mil at rairsl4 4 3 l. Rod not lb amble 671 lionelf Mr& Omer ass Mama et pen god pat phis neglect in the pert of the hereedsrAirs? He ma door Mersa most rigor 04 asourabalgoo gad sad pram NM( err ask Moor, broo) =net ramord rose seartabligas et INI, III / they to lave Mom removed ? His ark Mood roe row rani same la widoll penons a ght nod I kgridag laboloarou ri_uyory hied gad dim `ens angli that the MhalobsiM of tbe hems piebeed gis t the pookiwas the of ibis briar dram that it they Mideesil ea Ws enlgest„ they the lamas the amid these walmem, eit a lt a irt i t= the Witililleelty with whir they bail le dud. Orr.) s Roble Mood mot to brainse the am gliaery of the Board of Health kW the asehopile, look if so, would le lore the obrisa at idiom to the Mbar prim, god would he lea r the mospemoot of the growl inks& mil WWI talbji rat kir k the Moe et panne wile tears Meted - by Mama pareekhd metherities ? (Hear, IMO He Mind to know what his noble friend would de. His noble Mend made no sign. The Masi of 1111ATTIMBURY said that his motion was rat the warm rafflion of the metropolis required the Hmeier klopeilea of her llggropto government. And llomelte rot wen wing an the eggposition of a motion Whir be MS 101 d r Mist by his former lake win dke dm rileopor should le placed in erectly the same pairs mill sward to the Board of Health as ATMlargo Mona lasi of DlM—His noble hind thought that mime should be dens was to apply the pewees et the Ihmerel Health AM; hot for kb purpose the prim Awn apply to be braght mica the eat, aims word ler to in god as a eggoilary doem this trio emu be la adios with mood he the sewer ege ea the pre gar iadivirel pier Orb me the oriel Vs noble Mead an do rr marrog the Bat E s. , _ this was a propmffimumbisti wen ri howord. And the ditinalias of sittylai g l lie 2S ware Mod to be es imanoseatalkAat it was aboodear by rosy regagir prenneat. (Her, Mr) TIM of all lad • disk poohl applied ibr sea an ortorka of the kw ; art, eappesiog that erg park in Leedom bad applied far ma an autogiro of the kw, word Is lave thin ear es we, it eat by its own borprimit airs If he bar on etre promolat lordiiii with the duty of levying . sa hommos grime of rates—air gamer gad im p rier dolise—loot which at the semi km would interfere with the deMmlis eiIIOPMS of eon IMdlvdanl he the me tamale io a way as armagivo le pub& hasp that it word wear spirt Os aseurpree of Wimp so authority. Ite It sot to la milsonend that be Os r eel at rah hb orb friend slmsi, bee when lb male hind IMO termed le lay se piker • sold* Ishee the knee he u with ezpieled that meld m lave bees ante d =rot ger a sot wok lo he O gov wilk st i r a s t i g iho Monitor o f orma nt—br it received the moral atomise of orgy prenostat hr yaan page-re did not thiak that he wadi have been molleard with asking the boom le aim a mere Arad papositisa, bat mlllid dm le word have pa ramoo mons et rammlas ies eell. dmilittlist Ye gable Irma ward Mos rao the sore ge o l i btreif and le lb ram by la iag a big as the of re bees--a bill shish wadi be diermod ihe pupae of ennyina a m pp pep Non* Irish be I was Met M dist his Ark hat as woo he set to WM lo meat bh Mod watt my direetek. tbe d:b ge b ho lo spirt re words " boredialo " lodged re groat imprones of the be bad torgelt for mod, and dm it was Ira govormmil ✓igid dial with time in wink er he ff it aril de se early and Be did net Mead to offer say .__alien te the mai II Ns ark hiss& that this was a state of rah . =CM immodiete integrities of Isar) • lief dimarsa hinged, I. whir Lord Di_. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1852. Btu BRAD ♦ TAIiD Trim 11110 PASSIIL—Bury (Susses) Road Bill; Deptford Gas Bill. HILL AS AIINIIDSD CONSIDIRID AllO AOlllO TO.— Loads., Tilbury, and Southend Railway . Bill ; &Wham to Kinsale Road Bill; South Eastern and Reading, Guild ford, and Reigate Railways Bill; Portydullaen amid Nan thwyuant Roads _ the EMI of Carlisle, the Karl of Herrewhy, sad the Duke of Neweeetie took part , after which the sestina wee mewed toe:2l iti eryd attention ".kering book enplitetekipe . 4 4 euess a: • HOUSE OF 0P1M0N4..--'IuUSINIAY. APRIL IL The Spinsgs belt the chat at 4 °'a . PRIVATE 131381141014.. CITY OF LONDON AND GREAT ORN&L GAS COMPANIES AMALGAMATION . Mr. MASTERMAN snored that *Ow (Feb. 27) he referring the OW of Landes Or Lii& and Coke Owe, pony. awl !beet Mabel Ose Deserigitige CeNgeny Ain& ipmelow wed Aniebeeet of Ails IRE le lbe osarwilee of minden be reel !Ed diceberged, lad art the suds, be PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS C several petitions from Poterbeeregh and othor places; Ailejeul STEWART, from Oreenwielt ; Mr. HARRIS, from U. I cuter; Mr. PIGOT, Ewa Eradirg ; Major BERESFORD, has Maldon and other places in Ewer ; Mr. HODGES, from Kest; Mr. SCHOLEFIELD, from Birmingham; Mr. T. DUNCOMBE, from Finsbury; Sir DE L. EVANB, from various partici( Westminster—one signed by upwards of 50,000 persees—also a petition from holders and aces - *PM of in the immediate vicinity of the Lord D. STUART, from Marylebone ; Mr. COBDEN, from SheSeld ; Mr. WYLD, from Bodmin, and another from Longford; Lord R. GROSVENOR, from Kensing ton and other places; Mr. WAKL EY, from Hammer. smith ; Alderman HUMPHERY, from the City of London; Mr. M. MILERS, from the Whittington Club; Mr. HEY WOOD, from a number of visitors to the palace, and from inhabitants of Rues-street, and other plates; Mr. C. HINDLEY, from various places ; Sir BENJAMIN HALL, from Oxford - stmt; Mr. WILLIAMS, from Lambeth; against the reaseva oL By Mr. HOPE (Gloucester), from a number of weakmar4 fee the removal of. Elttozavion.-311 Mr. HUME, from band-loom wea vers, oomplaksieg 'fastness, and praying for assistance; Mr. EWAET, ibent Enniihmem weavers of Scotland; Mr. COWAN, from a *Mk, May. MATNIIOIIII ENDOWIIIaNT Arr.—By Mr.ANDERSON, from the Free Church of St. Andrew's, Orkne Mr H. DRUMMOND, from places in Scotland ; Mr.LA SCELLES, from Orkney ; Sir C. BURRELL, from Sussex ; Mr. A. E. LOCKHART, from Selkirk; and Mr. BRIGHT, from a dissenting congregation (also against all religious endow ments by the state) at Boston ; (or repeal of. MURDER OF A BRITISH OFFICER AT ADEN. The PRESIDENT of tha BOARD of CONTROL, in reply to a question put by Lord Mahon, stated that the Arabs who lest year murdered a British °Meer near Aden, had not yet been brought to justice. THE PROSECUTION OF THE " lIOUSEIIOLD NARRATIVE." The ATTORNEY-OENERAL, is reply to Mr. &bole geld, repeated the explanation he gave on a former even ing, that a new cue would be submitted to the Court of Exchequer against the unatamped publication of the Household Narrative, on the judgment upon which the writ of error would issue—this course being neat-miry, in consequence of the provious judgment having been given on a special case. The CIIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was asked by Mr. Hume if, pending the judgment of the Court of Error, other publications of a similar kind would be allowed to circulate, but declined to allow any concession which might endanger the revenue. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. _ _ Mr. WAKLgitsUgioWted;TtheiaoiXey -General whe ther he did not think it would be better at once to introduce a declaratory act as to what constituted a newspaper than to have e ndl ess and expensive legal investigations, as at present ? SMITHFIELD-MARKET. Sir B. HALL gave notice that he would this evening ask whether the corporation of London had taken any steps for the removal of Smithfield-market, and also whether the site of the new market had been determined on. NEW WRIT. On the motion of as Hos. Manna, a new writ was or dered for Cannarthenshire, in the room of Lord Dynevor. DISTRESS IN AYRSHIRE. Mr. BAILLIE presented a petition from linen weavers in Ayrshire, complaining of distrem, and asking for aid for the purpose of emigration.__ MILITIA BILL. Mr. COBDEN gave notice that he would, on Monday next, i. eceamittee on the Militia Bill, move that, to enable the home benne to consider the provisions of the bill, there be laid as the table returns of the force of the royal navy 3:4 1.ix..k last. First, of the names, armament", 1110111/3 of her Majesty's ships in active service, the sine= as which were employed, with the length ef Nue bee sash vessel,, jibing steam trom sailing meek and sit sans ham paddle-wheel, with the total Number at barns power; secondly, a similar return of all reserve or advises ships, and the period that would be required to fit than /or active service ; and he would fur ther sews that the assideration of the bill in committee be postresed, in enter to give time for the production of these returns. JOTEE MASAI:D. Sir DR L. EVANS asked the President of the Board of Centro, whether there was say radiation to lay on the table the papers in the Nth at Jame Puma It,. REARMS lath that the PPM bad already been 4119611111 by the Hasse of Lords, sad had been prepared in aseplisses With *air lordships' cedar. He but no objec tion to this. bang also laid on the table of that house. 444 D HALIFAX RAILROAD. Mr. 60 BDEN said Maur bo is dr netibelion dr. bra that some conemealson bad boa kid es the Iris orpostiog the orelnetiso of a Mathew hos Idler to Qnstos. The Me govenenent boa a big et rear, et • enornatoe he he eseetreeNesa et • relheed. But Wier rise the late Secretary he theOsteres left erre the raistre we. still in abeyance, and fear esegetlatioeor erwirod. Zs usdratood that arm aqueladens were new ina= and. es lit be=i l o a kaaw Eta there was silons of is espesielly in tipper =do, en the be bred t before Beesurent seas te of thelere would be eroded re swank of heinic a IS the pre. 11,-111 aid. the so re Mentor, he tie Rele ase was net to his prey le meet beg re he.. ambit to repeat his questions ea whether marg. Mr. COBDEN rasiuml to do so. CHURCH PROPERTY. The Ilir ads of BLANDFORD rose paean to sere, to men berm ra to in a bill to enable her m o an, farther hi ago the !rag duties of eakelielitel and to aeloshater revision for the asingrowit Pul t i td tandem of samosa sin .dike. nessose. He be by ru e beer of the egged be had made la re MANS series. mai the media eimdwse be bed remind. La aims to two am was en is saner to that abbess her hr emitter to Woem the howee i t lir the ettentlos of nt bad been previously &Wean to the beat seeds of write the resource. of the established elhiSlit avail able to the spiritual west. of the pear. Vert nit melees be WES some than ever enseenged to brag re arrer isig er sio undee the nonce of the lines. Ms seo thee is the erase were twofold. I= wee wrier that adebribed church should be te earn Ile remillarene theough all deems at the papa ; IA molly, to allw ISM erZi e r row theme Thole obsess he tensed in the frot to the wine a ne the an Is re lbst whet had bus roe was with a news sae ef n, sod made es poehiso Ire fawn esollegossies. Is Immerses presse the set of ISM la& Pal aid that be was Wing a fonderee for eared esellainses, bed if ore, where was now the ewer saran t Then wen INS &mum shakos seder exerwhitheleg ea*, sal Wm lift Me or as= the midi. Zs sherd En rawer a row the that bed has evinced d=l:eg a Mee is mi ters onissled with the that are the eras whir boll boa pronsd, rarQty, Writ the =of the mane. wies of ant to Me het, tram the r ag a Hoary ~ Pair rat bed orbited • dale. Menu religious isinstise for the po,and at state paled had laid dome the persiple, Rod Waal datitidire was one of the antierd eels miles du whisk priament was bend to provide • tee. He reread to deal, t i dy, wilt share" en Oar par pioos next, with the amiss of new sea Lood s hially, with the uneumant Mehra poporty. By the sestet wastirtine of therm they were the senor of the ii. ad they woes is imelbst a 0 Been% Reskrialsol Ire." It wee re der ef they 1 , ..34 MS oft in the salhedrel cbs_i te era they bat ales in Rio era churches is the pier where thled, ad .pithily la the trea where the oloplor derived note end pada This system bed met beenmerisd or, while the Wisp bed little or me induenre h. it sennezios eta, Om doper He geyser to return r seas as possible to the mien system,on by his bill to suet tbat the bishop shed/ mew the thief pines ia the chapter, sat be Mr hhhop art den end an en re nest norms of nay decry re blimp of the resew shout neeeed term Maori mop, the desseel rosirnee la re Manisa eiU. Tbe bras a Is raved Ira this wear be tern theiristop in • Tampion rides with re gard to his eager sad to bring Ma witlila ea soy di. tames of th ri e s =lll clergy, while a wee of 36,03111. • yow wooing 4 the era ware of the oinweb. ripe wore to be tar be the minim of nay snob damn, ad the Rededestiesl Gmainisme were to r ades I t ime. diegesedia of whet an bat bee lam to asp he sistitissal peeps., se rot k sherd be yew e rrata= is whir the renew to be nine be Azad= reelien ef the bill wee Se rensedy the ls =n Hof setheral sp . Ceoneles eat ra shisenor sod err:4 l n 'odorant Orem door erect to be thews sway. By the eat of Mid the avenge keens at rem area sae list et NM or MK a year ; but the teal wise of the bonslises had by user with tisk Illellike emoted the esniend of the arena roman.. Kw erutt a zii i t * grass ' t Mgr weld non Iniesseent of monties, and the fons M the Wes sitteli•is to ether wpm, et the bi sstrusil Sots, ossesties wear be hold hots arm smikedery arid be lett ia teem ire. nth the wiser ISM; word i ll i e i ty thin 11:= dot erne Innedoe. ( tellsMt Os =i s . Men el whhh dilidil be pits: of the dim" km! is the met of in Iks thOepswire al. Lai Obeweellw, I(u{ 14 ~ ,ritbraskiessery Amid be e.. 1 in the aumbir ef arms is a shapers dismild C i rt "E"plispeie'd to ream le the ampler. their saeleat *imbed= te satimpre Y ease of 'sale almnisal ofemees. The l e i ta i r pis 'meld be, that a eget of 20.0001. a year would iv evailable em s = churchosidell, added to the MIR sa f available hem the alteration with regard to wield give •ma 0100,0001. Theo, with mead es the 1110414111 of new diesels, be was sot shoat to eater on a defame et episeepeep. The elm& we humid en that eyelash sad in evesy attempt to =teed the skew& the effinlielf mit ales be aelmiall. B.,peweppesmeddtmt two saw else sheald be essated—ese d Weetaimise sad one of Mid, the het to take *feet ea the seat mrelilemes of the here, sad the dimes* of Braid to be t md created sa the of the present bishopric, ea the bishop le be elm the dean. With regard to other hussies the bill would be priesiseise. It enacted that the Eedeliestigel Cemeelmionera should lay before the Queen In memen ae newish touching the division of dioceses, and intim avoid- arse of any diocese, either the Ecclesiastical Comaisolowen or the Queen in council should proceed te divide it. It was that on the Cr division : ej t ir e r splice should elected by the Eoel which shield be the cathedral town of the dime" Ned the imam batt of which should be one of the mamas a the chapter, the bishop to nominate one other incumbent te seethes ca asarr, while the incumbents of other Melo were to be sairotod by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Ire &tore ea nasslos, so that a chapter should be hissed around the bishop. Theo with regard to endowments. By the act of 1840 the average income of every dean was to be 1,0001. a year, and no bishop was to have a less income than 4,208/. a year. Ile proposed that the income of the deaneries should be taken, and that, with a portion to be deducted from the in comes of the existing bishop., would go far to provide the income of the new sees, and give 2,6001. to every new bishop, while 4,0001. a year would be left as the income of the pre vent prelates. Assuming that there would he 16 or 17 new sees, their endowment would require 40,0001., while tbe sum acquired in the manner he had mentioned would be 41,0001., so that adequate incomes would be provided. Ha also proposed to limit the incomes of certain prelates, sad that the sum to be received by the future Archbishop of Canterbury should he 10,0001. a year ; of the future Arch bishop of York, 8,0001. ; the Bishop of London, 6,0001.; and the Bishops of Winchester and Durham, 6,0001. a year. The sum required for the new prelates it was propelled as create, as he had said, would be 40,0001. The sum saesallpas calved by the existing prelates was 100,0001. as& betbytbo new scale their united incomes would be 1 30,0001. for the endowment of the new sees, lees than would be required, but that deficiency erg! only be provided by the application to it of the imam of the PUBOOBiei and deaneries, but, besides there would he left from those sources a surplus of 27,0001. a year cable to the other wants of the church. By the lase Of i ri, the measure he proposed to transfer tke samassamall ef church property to the Ecclesiastical Cammissimaim The Tensor., for such a proceeding might b. hod to dee me. suitableness of those who at prevent had the m t, in the decay which had occurred in many cathedral lo tions, and in the debates in that house on abuses of that nature. As regarded the purposes of the Tithe Cemmata tion Act, there was abundance of precedent for what be proposed. The very interests of the property itself re quired a step of this nature. Even if it was the desire of the legislature to preserve to their successors the rights of property held by dignitaries of the church fur life, yet acts had been paved by the legislature by which a largo amount of property had been alienated from the church. lie proposed that all capitular property should be vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and that thaw who were • paid from it should receive fixed incomes; those who had been inducted since 1840 re ceiving the same income as they now did, while those who bad been appolnted before 1810, incomes on so averageof the last seven years. With regard to episcopal property he pro tooled that the management should be vested in the Ecelesi mafiosi Commissioners, though the fee should stilt be vested in the bishops, but that all the bishops who had been con secrated since 1840 should enter on this arrangement with regard to their property at once, and es regarded the other sees the system should commence as they became vacant. In conclution, the noble lord hoped it would be believed that he bad no patty aims to effect in beiesies hawse& We ha. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Ile eared naught by whom or what party the object was attained, so that be could find the church made thoroughly equal to the accumulating labours to which, if she would not fall, she must now address herself, and if he could see her occupying that place in the affection and estimation of the country for which she was clearly destined by the laws and by the constitution. (Cheers.) And, as he viewed it, this was, indeed, a subject deserving the consi deration of that house as one which could not be made a plain for party controversy. (Cheers.) To a subject like glis the House of Commons might be expected to turn wil lingly at a moment when they were about to enter upon political events, in anticipation of the significance and con ' sequences of which all must tremble. They could turn to it, not u political opponents, but as Englishmen who were the inheritors of the blessings of a tbewnd years; and here, at least, they could meet in a commas effort for their I eewatry's good, and in a joinlendeavoar foe the church's hussar. (Loud cheers.) In conclusion, the noble mar pit moved—" A bill to enable her Majesty further to re the duties of ecclesiastical personages, and to make provision for the management ed distribution of episcopal and eapitular revenues." Lord It. GROSVENOR briefly seconded the modes, and hoped that neither the government nor the hawse would offer the smallest obstruction to the lawedactica et a bill for miring from the revenues of the church a tend for the spiritual instruction of the people. Mr. WALI'OLE said there was so much in the argameate of Lord Blandford that he thought the house should have an opportunity of seeing the large and comprehensive mea sure he had shadowed forth; at the same time, it was so kip sad se comprehensive, he thought it better that the ank& be seen before any opinion was pronounced upon sesseslYsse which depended very much upon the details, iaiw~ss W sands in flit Y. II(fILIS declared h ea th stronglye w ere to he b° corarlqu °d L n o s ut o . n - anent OS the alleged facts put forward by Lord Blaudford, his avenies to the mode in which he proposed to airy out kis lithos, and his regret that the government, after tho =it et the noble lord, should have assented to his mo- Sir B. HALL spoke in favour of the measure ; and Mr. HUME thought that Lord Blandford had proved himself the best friend of the church, in attempting to put down abuses which were a scandal to the church. Mr. COW PER spoke warmly in favour of the principles laid down by the noble marquis ; and Mr. HOESMAN expressed his satisfaction generally with the measure. Mr. S. HERBERT was sensible that • reform of eccle siastical abuses was becoming every day more necessary, and he trusted that the matter, being in such judicious hands, would be brought to a successful issue ; though, until the bill was before the house, it would be impossible to form a judgment as to its details. After some observations by Sir H. Verney •ad Mr. Aglionby, and Rom the Marquis of Blandford in reply. Imive was given ; the bill to be introduced by the Marquis of Blandford and Lord Robert Grosvenor. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. Ilr. HEYWOOD regretted that he bad sellbems die to bibs forward this subject at ea mar poisl est relentios. Ho WA waited early is the sessile es Ifte leek the amber for Totem, lbw First Hemmiimer of Week semi Pereste, to inform lira of hie kinslis to move for a smile sommittee. That sails Imi • wish that the amnittee might be ddepoL t t to that the whig parnment left Oise, semis it delay arose in . He had alio seen the noble lord at present at 4 6 1 : 1" = " of Woods and Poemle, and learnt that at list time the Bead of Commielosers were embielsg Ms 'spa d M emthile, L bad also de ltoid lis moths ea sesoust of the higmlest public meet is Iftleit took plea • day or Me ege at Easter-hall Thee nmeing—a very large alleillaallhgel of the inhabitants star pitheepalis—had Maid is borrocsf the retention of the Orpted Palace. (Flear esi p s. , WM opinion was tiered, to • great extent, by the in the thentry, and he appealed to it as • fair r of the views of the middle classes. The ,Now a Gimes were then unanimous in favour of its retention. Ne e no," end cheers.) The total want of opposition at the maim in Exeter hall was • complete proof of the truth of his statement. (Hear, hoer.) At the time when the subject was formerly dimmed it was understood that a select commit. tee should follow the address to the crown, and he thought Weed that Met was partly the °Nett of the address. They were under essie obligations to the govern ment for the agfeisOstmts of Lord Seymour, Sir W. Dubin, and Dr. 7Ldlsy to the commlatien—(hear, hear) —whiels bad layeMpted this subject ; and he must say, although he inn& bout certain parts of their report, there wee one pint in which ho cordially coucurred, and that was the meet theamnisal plan would be for the govern ment to purchase the Crystal Palace. The price was only 46,0001., which was very much below the valise of the ma terials of that femme pile of glom and iron. (How, hear.) The ammirelos bad examined Sir Joseph Paxton sad Mr William Fox with regard to the present dab of the building. He (air. Heywood) could mem the house that the fonsilatime were Am, the Win onsellent, and that say w hisk might be seiremy held be effected at • wry eat Sim the report of the osemition • amber of had gives MEd= to the imaged, MI a now fth i ld been draws up by them en which to atekteds the It wee to plass the Palace in the farm ofTi the traftes softie t pass esigeademes perourkeg the se of the as& ems of the meats= of tie peasmat for the time boil& mod held. itg i =diess. It me quitequitelmpossible that a tho re , M mold end to AIM, es account of the pledge ghee at an arly pried. He lam that great ins presalle was sftil by many hes. membors to the that the me to cane M rssad gram to rame% ea its site by Mlet of June. There wee a dam is the aniest, by whit it the Flat Commissioner of Woods eel T em a p a d the keg power to come hi am& pull the ia l li deem,te mem sod sell the materiels, aril with a pert aill ithe palm of the sob to sow grams es its die. He ked never seas a deed &ma up with greater serisgesay. Eat the building was • new invention in archilsoMe ; it I was ese of the pietist inventions ever made fa this mendry for the advancement of mime. (Haw, hear.) Oes ggrrepat objet of the friends of inhasetiat wee to promote luawledge of science be tha exhibitisa of seleatido mots. Since the b edding was maul phis opinion had mutergene • great cheep, es& it was am Mired that the Isms atioubl allow the esmaistes to be appointed, the simmitles to have the Mat power to inverdpies every Mak of the subject. He did aei wish to limit the committee to the quails whether the building should remain in Hsge*Or whaler its size should be altered. l It wessoid by yds many Mgt the Minding was too long, and that if itsisord in idea Its beauty would be increased, with out Its anielenr any purpose being impaired. Were tio=f i redueed, the objection taken to it by Lord r:Justice Cresswell, and other distinguished wereentb Would in all probability be removed. There was a Obis effnemnbene in the house who objected to the retention of file °natal Pales. because It interfered with the ride is lineen-row. The committee ought to investigate how MIN farther accommodation could be dodged (or the riding mu. The building had admirably answered its original purpose; during the Exhibition it was the great at traction of the metropolis, and it now remained a monument of architectural skill and great power of design. There were men who objected to it u a monument of the Great Exhibition. That was the very reason why it ought to be retained. (Hear, hear.) The Exhibition was one of the most interesting events in the British history—it was an era in the history of the world, and the beginning of those intimate commercial re lations with different countries which he hoped to see vastly extended. (Cheers.) With regard to the objects to which it might be adapted. There was the plan of Sir Joseph Paxton for a winter garden. London was the only great mo tropolis of Europe without a winter garden. (Hear, hear.) The climate of this country was so uncertain, so damp, so foggy, that the luxury of a winter garden would not fail to be highly acceptable. Ile hoped that the building would be preserved, and that it would be placed under government control and careful management. He had no wish to limit the objects to which the building, if preserved, might be ap plied. He did not wish to limit it to a winter garden ; there were other more beneficial purposes for which it might be used. Ho thought our means of giving instruc tion in science were extremely limited. (Hear, hear.) The collections of geology and natural history in the British Museum were little known at the west end, because so far off. The inhabitants of the west end had no opportunity of deriving instruction from them. lie did not know any place so well adapted to the exhibition of scientific spec,- mens as the Crystal Palace. Objections were taken that the building was too large and uninhabitable. That was a point on which great improvement might he made. (Hear, hear.) If the building were kept up, ho did not expect there would be • very large concourse of people except at particular times. There was one kind of exhibition for which it was peculiarly adapted, -- that was botanical exhibition. Hon. members who had frequently visited Chiswick and the Regent's-park during the floral exhibitions must remember how often their pleasure bad bees broken by the rain. There was, in fact, no plan which could be better carried on under the dome of the palace than a botanical exhibition. lie should wish the committee to be appointed in order to have a thorough in vestigation. They ought also to examine into the point of honour which had been raised. He believed it was usual formerly to refer points of honour in that house to the then Sir H. Hardinge, but this was not an affair of that kind. An important principle was involved in this question ; it was that of clam divisions. The middle classes were in favour of, and the aristocratic classes were against, the retention of the Crystal Palace, and he considered it one of the most dangerous and serious divisions that could agitate this country. (Hear, hear.) lie should be very much cur plied if the noble lord (Lord John Manners) opposed the motion. When he (Mr. Heywood) was on a visit at Haddon Hall, one of the seats of his Grate the Duke of Rutland, he had met a French nobleman, with whom Le bad engaged in conversation on the subject of the English aristocracy. That French nobleman stated as a reason why the English aristocracy retained their privileges and position and the French had lost theirs, that the English aristocracy knew when to make just concessions. (Hear, hear.) .This was • time fur the aristocracy to make a small concession to the unanimous opi nions of the middle classes. It was stated that the building would not be open to the poorest classes. It would not be absolutely open, for under the proposed trust a small entrance fee would be exacted. But the poorer and the poorest classes have signed numerous petitions praying earnestly for the retention of the Crystal Palace. The change that had taken place in public opiaion since its erec tion was manifested at the meeting at Exetet-hall. At that meeting a deputation was appointed to wait on the noble earl the first minister of the crown, but unfortunately that nobleman had been unable from press of other business to receive the deputation, and the subject was therefore brought before the house without having been submitted to the head of the government. But the noble lord (Lord John Manners) bad paid a great deal of attention to it, and he (Mr. Heywood) hoped that the noble lord would allow the committee he asked for to be appointed. The hon. member concluded by reading his motion for a select committee to consider the preservation of the Crystal Palace, or the central portion thereof, with a view to its applicability to purpose's of public instruction and recrea tion. . . . Mr. IlUMli seconded the motion, in order to state to the house the view he took upon the subject. The lower orders of the people of this country have, until late years, not been treated with that attention, and sympathy, and fellow-feeling which ought to exist between all classes. Ile wished to see England a country in which the rich should enjoy their wealth without envy on the part of their poorer brethren, and the poor paid fairly for their labour. It was a duty owing by the high to the lower clams, which, until of late years, had not been fairly responded to. On that ground he entreated her Majesty's government to consider that what was asked now was to promote healthy recreation and to increase the means of instruction and edu cation for the people. (Hsu, hear.) There were two mil lions of people in the metropolis, caged up for the greater part of the week, who worked from Monday to Saturday without other interruption than that necessary for refresh ment. The house was bound for the sake not of one par ticular interest, but in the interest of the whole commonalty, to entertain any fusible plan for the promotion of the edu cation, instruction, and amusement of the working classes. It was the duty of the government to promote by all its means the greatest happiness of the greatest numbers. (lieu, hear.) He could not conceive any plan more satisfactory than the present. It appealed more especially to those who took an intereet In the reli gious education of the people. (Hear, hear.) In 1841 he submitted a motion to the house for a select committee to inquire into the present state of the national monuments, works of art, and public buildings. Ile did not do so for his own gratification or to serve a selfish purpose, or to pro mote the pecuniary interest of any individual ; it was with the view to consider the means of affording facilities to the public for inspecting those monuments as is means of intel -1 ectuall improvement. (Hear.) The result of that corn mittetiwasa decision that the British Museum, the cathedrals, the National Gallery and all the public monuments should be opened as speedily as possible for the admission of the public gratis. It was highly honourable to the character of the people that the attention of the aristocracy was now directed to promote the interests of the working classes. To no point had that attention been more beneficially directed than to the improvement in the build ing of their dwellings. No :case could be more urgent than the education of the lowest chums. He would fearlessly appeal to the benefits which had re sulted from these improvements. At one time, the British Museum was only visited by 70 or 80 parties, of seven or eight persons each, in the course of a year, and an attendant used to go round with each party, and never to lose sight of them lest they should do some injury to the collection. When the proposition was made to throw open the Museum, the officers were examined before a committee of this house, and they gave it as their opinion that if the public were admitted, serious depredations would be committed. When it was determined to grant free access to the establishment, every precaution was taken, and persons were placed in every room to guard the collection. But what had been the fact ? Why, that not a single article had been touched, although the admissions had risen to a million inane year-30.000 persons having_ frequently passed through the institution in one day. lost year—which was of course an extraordinary one —he believed that about two millions had visited the mu- seam, and not one farthing's worth of damage had been done. (Hear, hear.) A similar remark would apply to the National Gallery; but while the numbers had thus in creased at these places the trifling sum of twopence charged for admission to St. Paul's, had caused the number of visitors to the metropolitan cathedral actually to decrease. So again with respect to the Tower. When the fee was 3s. there were only 10,000 persons who went over it in • year, and of those 3,000 were free. When the price was reduced to Is. the number rose to 40,000, and now the fee was only sixpence, no fewer than 100,000 persons were ad mitted in a single year. He (Mr. Hume) thought that it would be only a fitting reward to the people for their excellent behaviour to throw open the Tower, and to abo lish the unwarrantable and absurd regulation of only ad mitting a certain number at once, lest the place should be taken by surprise. (Hear, hear.) The conduct of the people at all these places of resort had been most exemplary, and the result had been a great and general improvement in the public peace and tranquillity. Men high in autho rity had been afraid to trust the people, and would have surrounded the metropolis during the Exhibition with troops. But what had been the real state of the case ? They had seen 80,000 or 90,000 persons assembled within the walls of one building and as many more Without, and yet they had not had occasion even to call the polite. (Hear, hoar.) Colonel Rowan had assured him that since these public buildings had been thrown open the conduct of the people had so much improved that in any part of London one policeman was now sufficient to maintain peace and order over a district where the services of six or seven would formerly have been required. (Hear, base.) And it was easy to account for this. In former times the different classes of artisans and labourers, persons whe leek tour or five holidays in the year, used to make up to spend those holidays at public-houses and the haunts of immorality and vice; but now they made reemportise to take their wives and children to Hampton the National Gallery, and all these public places— net ongoing, as of old, the amusement and indul glass to themselves, but extending it to the whole of their families. (Hear, hero.) The question, then, was whether the house would avail themselves of this opportunity of providing another of those valuable aids to the improvement of public morals? (Hear, hear.) Another consideration of great importance was, the service that the Crystal Palace would render in improving the public taste. The late Exhibition had proved that although in ankles of durability we far excelled all our neighbours, yet in many of the finer descriptions of goods our produce was inferior to that of other countries, notwithstanding that Our workmen greatly surpassed their rivals as farin genuity and industry were concerned. And why ? Because the taste of foreigners had been cultivated by constantly seeing before them the various collections of nature and art which they possessed. (Hear, hear.) The committee for the preservation of the Crystal Pelee° did not call for a single shilling of the pubic money. They oaly asked the house to allow them an inquiry. They asked for no more than had been granted to the Botanical and Zoological Societies. The Committee I asked the country to let them 18 acres in Hyde park for the purposes of public education—for forming a general collection of art and machinery, and also for the purpose of affording the means of recreation to the public. For his own part, he could not imagine on what grounds the request could be refused. The scheme would be curried out, not at the expense, but to the profit, of the country; and it was proposed on two days of the week to charge an admission fee of only 3d., one day being entirely free. For these reasons, therefore, he hoped that the appli cation of the noblemen and gentlemen who had come forward and offered to act as trustees in a similar manner to the trustees and managers of the liotanical and Zoological Gardens, would not bet refused ; and he bad gnat pleasure in seconding the motion. (Hear, hear.) Colonel SIIITHORP and Mr. Le Hueco Rua then rose to gether, and the right hon. gentleman, amidst great laughter, gave way to the gallant colonel, who said that his condact with respect to the Crystal Palace had been strictly in conformity with the declarations .lic had made in th a t house. (Laughter.) He had never entered it. (Renewed laughter.) If any individual would have given him a thou sand guineas—not a small sum in these days, notwitlistand iug the importation of Californian and Australian told--lie would not have done so. He dared not, upon principle and what he considered to be his duty. (Laughter.) lie cer tainly would not have exerted any improper mimes to pro cure the demolition of their Crystal Palace, but he had hoped that sumo visitation WWII have fallen upon it and annihilated at one fell swoop what he believed to hove been prejudicial to the best interests of the eouutry. (Lauehter.) That was his wish, and, however much he might be laughed at, his most earnest desire was to promote the prosperity of our native industry against the attempt which laud been made for its subversion in favour of the foreigner. (Hear.) They had congregated great iiimihers of the working classes in London for purposes of recreation. It, creation, indeed ! These poor p. mono had been drawn from their homes by a trick, by subtlety, and by fraudulent repre sentations, and they had return, d to their families disap pointed and impoverished. A noble lonl in another plain had talked of the harmonious and amicable confederation which the Exhibition had caused ; yet two gooe roments bud since come forward, and said they wanted national de fences. It seemed that they could not rely upon the foreigners—their friends and neighbours as they hail called them. Ho (Colonel Sibthorp) could not do that. If he thought a man was a rogue he would tell him so; he would never re sort to the low, dirty, mean, and contemptible trick oinking a man to his table, and then telling him that he was not worthy to sit there. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) lie had been told iu many provincial towns that their prosperity was passing away. In London, the shopkeepers would tell them that unless they said their goods were of French manufacture, they would not buy them. People acquired this taste from persons who could not pay their debts, and who went abroad and lived in a cheap and nasty style. English goods were durable and good, but French were flimsy and fascinating. (Laughter.) As for the pie", of the park which they proposed to retain, they had no more right to take it from the people than they had to take the mace off the table. Ile rep. ted teat the building was ever erected ; it had been a serious injury to the public ; and the sooner there was a proof of repentance by removing the building the stainer the Kunio would be satisfied. (A laugh.) lie was disposed to assist as tar as he could in the education and rational enjoyment of his fallow creatures, but he would not be a party to a broach of faith. Lord J. MANNERS said he should decline to follow the example of the hon. and gallant gentleman, by cutering into the merits of the Great Exhibition, or to review the earlier acts of the public life of the hon. member fur Mon trose, when he had endeavoured, and most successfully, to call the attention of the house to the recreation of the people. The house knew his services in that iespect, and they were duly appreciated by the working people them selves. (Cheers.) Ills object was to state, us shortly as he could, the reasons which induced the government to think that the agreements under vrlii2h th,: Exhibition building was raised, and under which it ought to be re• moved, should be adhered to. (Rear.) First and tore most of these he placed the notorious fact that, bad it not been for the strong and solemn nature of those engagements, there was at any rate a great probability that the building never would have been crested in llyde.pnrk. (hear.) What were the terms of those engagements ? In the Royal warrant of the 11th July, 18..g0, were the following words : " That the same building or erection which may be erected on the said site or piece of ground, and all the =aerials and contents thereof, shall be completely re moved and carried away, by and at the e xpense of the said commissioners, on or before the let day of June, ISI2 ; and, on or before the same day, the said commissioners for the Exhibition shall, to the satisfaction of the commiesionere for the time being of woods, forests, ste., restore the soil and surface of the park to its form, before any part thereof was inclosed by the said commissioners." In the covenant carrying out that undertaking was this confirmatory clause :—" And the said commissioners for the Exhibition shall and will observe and perform all and *very the directions in respect of those premises which shall, from time to time, be given by the said commission ers for the time being of her Majesty* Woods and Forests; and especially will, on or before the Ist of June, 1652, take down and remove, or cause to be taken down and removed, all and every building or erection which shall have been erected upon or within the said site mentioned in the said royal warrant, and all the materials and implements em ployed in the erection of the same, and all the articles which may be brought upon the said piece of ground for the purposes of the said Exhibition." Nor was that all. In the preliminary discussions and arrangements between the royal commissioners and the first commiss:oner of Woods and Forests, was this provision :—" That the Exhi bition shall be closed on or before the Ist of November, ISSI ' • immediately after which all possible dispatch shall be used in taking down the building, removing the materials, and reinstating the ground, within seven months from the close of the Exhibition. Ard in the event of their failing to do so, it shall be competent for the Com missioner, of Woods and Forests to remove the same, sell the materials, and apply the proceeds in defraying the cost of removing the same. So strong was the feeling that the building ought to be removed after its purpose had been served, that the commissioners on the ith of June, • . lgfid, objected to the insertion of further words in the agreement, on the ground that the intention was sufficiently obvious, adding that they hoped to close the Exhibition and remove the building long before the period named in the conditions, and that their reason for naming so compa ratively distant a day was simply to prevent the possibility of misunderstanding should any unforeseen circumstances prevent them closing at the time contemplated. After referring to that language, it was scarcely nicessary to refer to the debates in that house. The noble lord then at the head of the government and the Attorney.Cieneral were most distinct iu their assurance that the building was purely of a temporary character, and that the public faith would be indisputably maintained. Admitting that the retention of the Crystal 'Palace in its present site would be as advantageous for the object es the mover believed it would, he contended that the evil result ' ing from so manifest and flagrant a violation of the public faith would greatly outweigh any good that might be at tained. (Hear.) Occasions might again arise when, for some great temporary purpose, it might be advisable to alienate for a limited time a portion of the royal or public domains; but the objection to such temporary alienation would be vastly strengthened, should the house take the course It was now invited to pursue. (Hear.) lie denied that the retention of the building on its present site would be advantageous to the working people of the metropolis generally, for two reasons ; the first, derived from the nature and character of the building itself; the second, from the site it occupied. It was admitted on all hands, and no one admitted it more freely and cordially than himself, that the building was admirably adapted for the purpose it was in tended to serve. (Hear, beer.) But a very strong argu ment against its retention for permanent purposes was derived from the (act that it was so admirably adapted for those temporary purposes. Sir Charles Fox gave them clearly to understand that, in his opinion, a new roof and a new floor would be essential for the purposes of a permanent building. Ile said—" If it were converted into a winter garden there would be large alterations in the floors and galleries ; and the timber com ing out of those floorings might be sold for a considerable sum. I should advise some alteration in the roof, certainly. The glazing was done under such extreme pressure for time that 1 should be disposed to re•glaze it." 'That pretty nearly amounted to a new roof. Mr. Dilke, who was very anxious for its retention, also thought a new roof necessary, substitituting iron for the present wooden gutters and ren dering it wind and water tight ; the expense of which might be 20,0001. or 30,0001. The skilled, successful, and most intelligent designer of this fairy fabric, Sir Joseph Paxton, did not disguise his opinion that if asked to erect a building for the purposes enumerated by the hon. mover, he would erect a totally new, and, in some respects, a different structure. Ile said— " If I understand your lordship to ask whether I could make a better building if I had to make another, I can only answer I ieuld do so." He also thought a new roof would be wholly or in great part necessary, and said that for 2.5,0001. in addition he could put up a much finer, more magnificent, and appropriate building than the present one. Mr. Hawkins gave it as his decided opinion that the building was not fitted for permanent purposes, and that to reader it so would be as costly as an entirely new building. Mr. Cole said that if it were desirable to have a depository for a permanent collection of articles of vertu and so on, ho did not think the present building by any means the most suitable place ; but they had got the present building— (hear, hear)—and they had got the covered space, and temporarily he would take all the advantage lie could of those circumstances. (Bear, hear.) When he (Lord J. _ . . . Mennen) saw the purposes to which it had been urged st public meetings the building might be applied, in order to stimulate the popular agitation, Its was over whelmed with the contradictory nature of those purport s. It had been proposed to make it into a ball-room, into a winter garden, into a covered ride. (No, no.) .ir Joseph Paxton wee evidently more delighted in contemplating a ball being given in the Exhibition building than anywhere else. (Hear, hear.) Then, it was to be a lecture-room,—a statue-gallery,---a garden,—a forest,.—a genteel casino. (Laughter.) Last, not least, on the only day of the week on which the working classes could have access to it, it w as to be turned into a congeries of preaching-houses for the different religious sects into which the community is divided. (" Hear," and " No, no.") That brought him to the second resents why the building in its present shape would not be advantageous to the working classes. At a recent public meeting a speaker had maintained as an in disputable right, that if the building were kept up, to give the working classes free access to it it must be open on Sun day ; and to meet the objection which naturally arose to breaking down the rule that had hitherto Lein maintained of closing all our public institutions on that day, the scheme he had referred to had been proposed, whereby the liturgy of the church of England would be used in one corner, rind every class of dissenting community would have its appropri ate preaching place in some compartment. ((ATM laughter.)