The Express. — London, England, 1853-04-27 00:00:00

tpsN was, would the House of Commons lend its sanction to the prism ijdo of separate education? A united system of e d wa t, o o mei impossible in practice; and, even if pow Ad a . weed he dangerous: but, though he held this opt sin, the teeerests of the catholic poor of Ireland were too send to be trilled with ; cad he certainly would nut ace thie Gamines give any vote to sanction a large grant of ase aey f or the purpose of sustaining proselytising schools, int o which children were to be trepanned by fanatical or eseetupelons landlords, who could use the screw of a ti tena,eing gate." (Hear, hear ) Lord NA.t' r-Jrctted that the h n. gentleman who had jest set down should have introduced a personal question uto the de hate, and shoulei have made on attack ot which he heal riven nu notice, on so estimable a nobleman as Lord Clnearty. N T . 1.17CM/interrupted, and stated that he had men tienel the sulijec: to the hon n hat day, and had been assere.l that no further notice was necessary. Lon H AAS thought that whether or nor, an attack ad that had on a nobleman who bad done such great publie clad p r ivate good could not be properly introduced into • &bate like the present. (Hear, hear). And most assuredly be (Lord .Nsies) utterly disbelieved that his lordship had ever male use of so improper an influence as that which s ew called " landlord influence, " or had ever used the ...crew" of a " hanging gate" for the purpose of intimi dating his tenantry into an adoption of his views is p.,:ird to the best system of education in Ireland. (Hear, hear). With regard to the motion, he (Lord s a w) would give it his cordial approbation ; and he be lieved he would be perfectly consistent in taking that tonne. The right hem gentleman opposite quoted from a r eply which he (Lord Naas) had made, when Secretary for Ireland, to a question put with respect to this subj ect; and trots that rely the right hon. gentlemen bad endeavoured to show that he (Lord Non) could aot now vote for this motive. Hut the right hon. gentleman had only quoted an part of the arewer. (Hear.) Ile certainly had said that the t een government was cot disposed to propose any alteration is the eye; eni of national Wm atiou in Ireland: but he had COW on to say, " if any gentleman on either side of the house should show that the objects for which that system hail beer, ellifiliArti had not been fully carried out, and should point oat where alterations or amendments would he improve. w ets, so far as they would more completely fulfil the original purpose, thea it would be the duty of the govern ment not iany to acquiesce in, but to assist in any such in quiry.- (Hear.) having said that much, what other vote could he now give than oue in favour of the motion ? (Hear.) He believed such an inquiry would be attended with a most beeeticial edict. He believed the tenon the national eye. tem of education in Ireland had obtained so strong a hold ea the oh, lions and sympathies of the people was that it was wit a combined system of education. This was proved by a reference to the accounts of the commissioners. It appeared from their general summary that of 491,927 chil dres attending the schools on 31st March, 18-52, 24,651 were anthem or the established church, 421,717 were Roman pl a n t a in 40,61 S Presbyterians. end 1,908 other sects ; that the proportion of protestant' of all sects to the Roman ca tholic* was 24 to 427 ; and that of the schools there were . .!.775 under Roman catholic, and 147 under the manage ment ot clergymen of the established church, while there were only s under the joint management of the protestant and Ronan catholic clergy. Those who had witnessed the workout 01 the system must admit that it bad been the means of diffusing woong the people books of a superior order and instruction in all secular matters necessary for the people according to their station ; but the question which now arose was whether it was sot possible to make it more really national, so as to enlist in it. !avour the sympathies of the whole of the popu lation. Ile idsclaimed all idea of making it a proselytising system ; but it could not be denied that the effect of the rain laid down hail been to deprive a large minority of its adimatages. (Hear, hear.) And when, after 20 years, they found the conscientious opposition of that minority continued, it would be unworthy of the house and the go- Moen at to refuse to enter into an inquiry whether the system might not be se modified as to remove the objections upon which that opposition was founded. (Hear, hear.) Sr J. GRAHAM having been associated with Lord Derby is the administration of Earl Grey when this system or national education was founded, and having always taken the deepest interest in its success—having amidst every variety of circumstances uniformly supported it, and dif fering from the noble lord who bad just sat down in thinking that there was an attack hardly concealed on the system itself in the present motion, and believing that system to be in danger, he should not think he would be discharging his duty if he did not offer a few words. He had been anxious to hear from the noble lord some unequi vocal declaration with reference to the pertineat grades put by the hon. member for Meath (Mr. Lac..)—he wished to hear it distinctly stated whether or aot there was an Sho opposition side of the house and on the put of the prawn= of this motion, a desire to suggest for the Church Education Society in Inland a separate grant. He knew not what might be the present intention, but he was sere that at as &mat period those who promoted this Milieu awnight, when they brought forward a similar modes nn • presto's occasion, did entertain that wish and did mit metal it. (Haar, hear.) Now with reference to the poopondisquiry, it was absolutely necessary to consider ids* bad been urged by those who had taken a part in the abate. He thought he was not wroag when he beard, or asight ho hem] the hoe. member for Dublin University agate Sr night , that the time had arrived when it was mairavy abandon the " phantom" of mixed 'education. Suety die hon. gentleman and that esprearion—(bear, bad}—and if he did then could be no doubt of his object mad motive is bringing forward :he question. (Hear, hear.) Then again the hon. and learned ',edemas the member for Catatin who wended the motion pat the claim of the parochial clergy of Ireland as high as this—that it was not only their duty, but their right, to administer religious education te , the whole of their flaks—that was to the children of the whole of their parishioners. Perhaps this declaration might he in simordenes with the views of the hon. member for Heath, but the bee. gentleman said that he was anxious that the poor of Ireland should be considered. Ile (Sir J. Graham) was actuated in resisting the motion by the same motive. (Hear.) It was out of consideration for the poor of Inland—the peat body of the people in that country— that be wee lamely acs imss that the system of mixed education should be preserved. He relied on the facts of the case, and contended that in the main, considering the cireumstaaties of Ireland, and the difficulties which these eisewasstaans occasioned, it was • rof mixed _edemas& that bed Oinanded to the eteat that its authors could lose_ espeeted. Then were in that country 625,000 ehillees edumMed under that system, of which number 70,000 moot pretestasta. WI of that number of reassume 24,110 mem of the cher* of England, the rest being prisdpoLly Preehnsdams. And what had been the result of this system of lied location? He believed thaws was no other summery, in Europe at this moment where education was ! ducted on so large a scale, or where he would "ay withstanding religions differences, Scriptural kso w rmmmo was so widely diffused by teaching as in Ireland. (Hear .) H o contended that a clergyman of the established church, the patron of a school under the national system in Ireland, had at this time every opportunity of administering to the youth in that school, of which he was the patron, not a instruction in the scriptures, but instruction in the catechms, and all the doctrines of his church, to the sets most extent he could desire. If it were set amain the hoer+ of secular instruction, day by day he Ma the gyps tanity and the right of adounisteriog Maim im struction to all as members of his shwa who attended his school. And that right wes aid yemalier to him. Every *did member of all the Mutant persuasions—prearhs eideelie *the right of attending shed ma sellednistarks In struction, day bylaw, if be theet* to del t what really was the peetssiss el the OM* Ilasistbs *Way ? It Will neither use uer Ito Ibis that they should be put on the sane *elk* me the disentsra of Eagles/ la the cam of the dimming et Ibeglited e it they ses4 Mar children to the unbind =hide thin they mint be Imo& the church eatables, air that we the Nub et the national schools, and they smut mesh. imabumetm In with its rules. The state of the sellamal eibeeh e i l a sk = wit exactly the reverse. The sheaves mint set be lasight the church entedidess, or remise rayless isibusess in.. which the pet dissent, malls Neel ablest wee tun obtain kid ir , mt the public purse, ihr the sepses of tatelibig all whochouto aitsed the sabeelassil be. the sedan of any creed the Lea proyertioa of the NM* is Islied were 'tempted. The me, therefore, we the reveres et that of then nimbi. Wayland, ad be warned the hems that if they eggeod to this sedis, which Ommtea alder the omen pretext of absofirmiag the p of mixed embeseles, te establith s quint of separate putts, that the issesesenie weld be that the claim sit up by the homemaker be Keith would be irresistible, sad trim die lima esthetes ens be treated in proportion to their .ambers, los the largest grant, and the smallest amount be ghost te the church of England; and you would have the flame se religions discord spread through the country, and the proselytising spirit raging to an ex tent which he should be sorry to see added to the sorrows of that country ; and he believed that instead of the peace tad concord whkh this scheme was Intended to promote, there would be an aggravation of the evils and sorrows el that gauntry. He hoped, therefore, that when the success of the system was se prosaidng ; when Lord Derby, its author, sad who lately bed the opportunity of controlling its opera. bon or exasstaing into its defects, told them deliberately that he mold met aontemplate any change in the system which MOSIdI sin be injurious; when after the experiesee of twentrtme lure no reason had been assigned for in quiry on shish ieleses could be placed except in the word of the ben. ths member for the university of Dublin," *1 time bad come when the phantom of mixed edoesties mit be abandoned," that phantom beins the reality 'MI he (Sir J. Graham) had stated, namely, that the system had been most successful, embracing in its 'Pure 1 larger native number of the youth of Ireland than could be fowl in any other country is Europe, he hope ii the house would feel that it would be highly inexpe dient to agree to this motion. (Cheers.) Mr. WHITESIDE, who was met by loud cries of " M iura," and " Divide," asked for a fa and fair inquiry. if the present system should turn out to be good, let it be maiatained; if it could be made better, let them improve it, sad at the sun* time gratify the lints/4We of Ireland. (Cheers ) Mr. FAGAN moved the adjournment of the debate. ',Cnes of "Divide.") Lord J. RUSSELL opposed the motion on the ground that the question had already been fully discussed and was Perfectly familiar to the house. The hon. and learned gen tles*. (Mr. Whiteside) wished to give protestant clergy. met the power of reading the authorised version to Roman embalm children, for that was implied in the "modifies /14%C' spoken of in the resolution. If the proposal were ,/nlated, the same liberty with respect to protestant chil am would have to be conceded to the Roman catholic 'nary. and the whole system would be broken up, in order l e ere 0,0001. to the establahed church, and 100,00U1. to the Raman catholic's. There would arise another Maynooth que-Von. only that, instead of 3u,0401. CPI sum would Ibe 10t1.0 , 101. • year. (Hear, hear.) Mr. KIRK should oppose the amendment, but he greatly • admired the seized system.. He would give the house an example. In the Newry school there were 83 childrgn of • the estsblished church, 123 It0013:1 cstholics, 87 presbyte risas of the General Assembly, 10 of the Remonstrant Synod, and 11 Methodists. The population consisted of 3,000 of the established church, with two places of worship and three clergymen; 10,000 Roman catholic', with three places of worship and flee clergymen; and 7,000 presbyte tient and other dissenters, with eight plsces of worship and eight minister , . The hon. gentleman concluded, amidst much impatience, by reading a petition he had received that day, signed by the protestant Dean of DiolllofP, and by protestant clergymen and dissenters of all denominations, expressing warm approval of the national system. Is these sentiments he fully concurred. Mr. FAGAN was certainly desirous of addressing the house ; but, if it was the desire of the house, he would with ' draw his amendment. (Cheers.) ' Mr. CONOLLY did not think the question had been ' sufficiently discussed. (Cries of " Divide.") The house aceordinely nivided. For the adjournment Against The house again divided : For the motion Against HACKNEY-CARRIAGES BILL. This bill was reed a mound time and ordered to be com mitted on Monday nest. • bro The ught report on the Merchant Shipping Advances Bill was up. SOUTH-SEA AND OTHER ANNUITIES COMMU TATION BILL. The order of the dsy for the third reading of this bill having been moved by the CIUNCELLOR of the Excels- Q L A a ' - - - - Mr. SPOONER objected to the bill being proceeded with at that hour (it was after 1 o'clock), especially in the absence of his bon. friend the member fur Suffolk (Sir F. Kelly), who had given notice of an amendment. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the honourable and learned irember for Suffolk had stated in the early part of the evening that he would be ready to pro pose his amendment whenever the bill might come on. Sir J. PAKINGTON was surprised that a bill of this importance should be pressed between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning. Mr. SPOONER moved that the house do now adjourn. The house divided. For the adjournment Against On our return to the gallery, Sir J. PAKINOTON was on his legs, appealing to the Chancellor of the Exchequer not to proceed with the bill, on account of the absence of Sir F. Kelly. The CHANCELLOR. of the EXCHEQUER said what he had referred to took place in the hearing of the whole house. The case was one in which every day's delay might cause the most serious inconvenience. The whole founds lion on which the property of the parties interested rested was tobe altered, and the terms could not be declared till after the bill had been passed. He really thought the bill ought to be proceeded with. /dr. SPOONER said he himself wished to introduce an alteration. He observed the ether night that as the bill stood trustees had power to alter stock without the consent of those who had a sionary interest. That case ap peared to him to require a special provision. Sir J. Y. BULLER said they should pt into a dirtassion on the bill. He moved that the house do adjourn. The SOLICITOR GENERAL remarked that there had been every desire to meet the wishes of the hoc. gentlemen opposite. For instance, a clause had been suggested by one hon. member which would be introduced. There was a general understanding that the bill should pass to-night, and he hoped they would allow it to pass. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was perfectly vain for him to pass a bill of that kind to-night in the teeth of determined opposition, bat he could not with draw it without observing on the character of the opposition. The hon member for Suffolk gave notice of certain amend manta. lie was not here ; and then hon. gentlemen came forward with their injunctions and suppositions. He should propose to read the bill a third time now, then to in sert the clauses, and then leave the further proceedings of that bill in order to give the hen. member fee Suffolk op portunity to move his amendment. The SPEAKER said the amendment of the hon. mem ber for Suffolk might be moved on the question that the bill do pass. Sir J. Y. BULLER withdrew his motion for adjourn ment. The clauses were then brought up, after which the further proceedings on the bill were adjourned to this day. FOREST OF WHITTLEWOOD. Mr. WILSON obtained Rave to bring in a bill to disaf forest the forest of Wbittlewood. The house then adjourned at twenty minutes to 2 o'clock. Panic—Ma. 0. A. HAMILTON'S MOTION.—Lord More ton against, with Mr. Whitmore for; Mr. Alderman Csbitt for, with Mr. Brockman against; Mr. Moody for, with Bir Timothy O'Brien against. The Hon. A. Pmmonby was sectidentally shut out on the division. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 25. Lard Derby's mingimat ha tonialnie an the Clergy Rearm (Canada) MIL Agin*, 117 ; far, 71. MAJORITY (Fannin). M.P.H. the Duke of Fitswillna Cann Otatendr, Onend Lord Cis mentor Omni. g n i= Aacasissor. = mon Coltrane Tan CM\ OM WIN& HMS Crow. Arll7 ll Mame* Iluelsre Ran= &V an n.) , WNW Slime Debris ilimurtle lawast Denier Iladdk larry Wallirtak nearberenitt pas wan nom elan 6= ni e lismne ginner Tannenn nnounts. Mathertaa n Im =o n 1 liasistia, = ll. Lanksbanack 1,0" Markskeees _ ___ Orme& Mora& = sty Memeemee Milked WILL Mears Mink= =facd Overdose Aka •-- • Puma* P. Ailam& Aisliiiii Illabareeit Susind litiatore Dew Ifirkseter Bilks = WI 111111166 alllid _ 11bigwigs Riven Om ft. 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Ida* Dols at libiniall Lid Min llosemi ism& id of Viddip lard alma t a lf=„ lar! hob int damperdwa Sri of laradierough Meld Irak be Len Di if Saihwind Earl lismo Demi Earl Eazt d liardals Zed at= et Dirlawath NM Farm Viscart MI Ilieropls of Mid Earl Iferailribel id el Dadra Doke et bang Ilid et lillemin WI ar i = da BM Pairs Lard Lad Nelms Earl °Napa Ikel it issabary Daq . of Illialbrt LaillOr - ' " - _1 Lord =IS 11lir - Di - any - Lord Dyson, Selma Lard Maw lard Earl of Am Lad Toolordia rnaires vm WacOiat—Essth STATE or ',MAIM—The committee of the Jamaica Association met on the 22nd instant to consider the new budget in its relation to Jamaica, when, after deliberation, resolutions were passed declaring that the affairs of the colony were getting worse under the mired rule of the Governor, Council, House of Assembly, Home government, sad Imperial Parliament. That the necessity is urgent for some more united legislative action, by which subjects of reform and matters of finance may be efficiently worked out; that these changes can only be effected by the spon taneous act of the House of Assembly, in concert with the other governing powers; and that no such changes could possibly benefit her without a guarantee from the Hans Government to an amount covering the present debt, a further sum to carry out judicial and other sorsomieal reforms, and emigration on a large scale. CLERICAL, MEDICAL, and GENERAL LIFE ASSCILANCE SOCIETY. VICE BONUSES has bren decimal ; et the Lest to Isobar?, 184 the PUS or E 131.1.13 Ism added to the /Views, producing a bonus seeTtng vita tar different us tram 241 to 3$ per amt. on the pa mimics paid during the live pars, or from t 3 to Ell Its per cent. on the sum maned. iiiieMo.l7.re of prollt d.vieltl. in future ammo: the rhareho:dere beam now profiled fne. tie AS 4 PRED will hereafter derive oil the benefit* obtainable twee a mutual °dim. WITHOUT ANY LIABI LITY OR 11141( OP PARTNERSHIP. One halt the life premium to the pfd dm years may remain on atwdit. iFIVALID LIVES mty be assured at ratca proportioned to the pate thirty day, after pr. of of death, and sr Policies are Indisputable except in caere of fraud. The Lot year's Report Just printed) can be otrained he: of °WAGE H. PINCkAktD, Resident Secretary. 90, Great Unwell-street, Liloonssaury, LAldan. tur erairtio• THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING APRIL 27, 18.53 TO 0.:RI:S81%./NbE141:8. 4 etoted Edition .f "7!a Ewer," 0011tallaing tb• aaa. 4 . aoiiNre .4 pabsabod story Toad., aai :ebb, aieht. is USW tat Nat. • upetsexte Intended lnr"lae Earrasa," Lesion Ttirantaa payer, orq b atee whets 14, Efouvariwstreet. by Two u'olook oa tas of ooloa. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOR. ;an Dor —Mame I. 41. 25a.. Aftereocn. 4a. 450. U.stonsow—Moraing. 50. I2a Afternoon. SO. Um. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27. Tue success of the Government in the House of Lords on the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill must strengthen the Coalition in their battle of the Budget in the Commons. To see the Earl of DERBY beaten in the Peers is to be sure that Lord JOHN RUSSELL will be stronger in the other House. It the Ex-Prime Minister finds himself, on a purely Church question, left in the lurch of a minority, we may be satisfied the political rats who, under a more prosperous flag, would be Derbyite to the echo, will be just as prompt to forsake a leader who, t o a b a d cause, adds superfluous intolerance, want of judgment, and ill-luck. A glance at the division list shows, indeed, how weak the Tories are, oven in their own chosen ground—the House of Lords. No lees than seven dukes voted personally with the Earl of ABERDEEN in his wise attempt to ive the Canadians free disposal of their own churc h lands, whilst two others gave him their support by pairing against the Earl of DERBY. And not only do we see how large a majority of the highest peers back the Ca alitionCabinet, but, looking more closely to the list, we detect also how great the number of the more wealthy "hereditary legislators" who give their aid to the present Ministry. Many vet be surprised, and still more will regret, to see the Archbishop of CAN TERBURY on the side of intolerance, backed, of coarse, by the Bishops of EXETER and LONDON, and b_y the smaller episcopal satellites of TUAM, B ANGOR , CARLISLE, ST. ASAPH, LLANDAFF, ROCHESTER, and Wl:mueslis& Eight Bishop, however, took the tolerant, Ministerial view,—Bishop WILBERFORCE being amongst them. After this we may very safely expect to see the long-vexed question of jus tice to Canada in church matters set at rest; and in this sense the Ministerial victory of Monday night is an unmixed good. Any countervailing influence that may arise by rendering the Coalition Cabinet too confident in the Commons may be met by a proper position being assumed by Re formers. To this end it should again and again be repeated, that unless the Reformers who usually vote with Mr. lIUME vote in a body for the Budget, the Opposition would at once upset Coalition and Budget together. This vital support so needful for the very existence of the Ministry, can only be given on the faith of Ministerial projects being worthy of assistance. Without this belief Reformers could not vote with Lord -lons RUSSELL, and without Radical support no temporary suc cesses in the Upper House—however many dukes and wealthy peers might grace the follow ing of the Earl of ABERDEEN—couId keep the Pre mier in . place. No new-born confidence, then, should inflate Mr. GLADSTONE with unnecessary hauteur or depress Reformers in their own esee3y giving good measures Mr. GLADSTONE commands the votes of every Liberal—by offering bad ones he invitee their opposition. The Budget cannot become law without the support of the ultra party, and that party oast only lend support on a belief in the portion that may have good within it. Legacy tax establishment and soap tax repeal deserve, and will secure, the votes needful for Minis terial strength, but whilst this is accorded, Reformers are quite competent to enter their clear protest against the doctrine that income-tax reformation is impossible. The allegation of Mr. GLADSTONE that this impost cannot possibly be cured of its evil fea tures, is one not to be endorsed, nor will many be ready to sanction a too long en actment of the unreformed Income Tax under the shallow doctrine that we shall be able to dis pense with the impost altogether in 1860. A reformed and equitably adjusted Property Tax is a very legiti mate source whence to look for an important portion of our permanent revenue, and in a country where there is a market price for every commodity,—for every sort and kind of property in which men can deal,—to say with Mr. GLADSTONE that it is impossible to ascertain the property-value of any man's income, is simply an absurd and in dolent excuse for postponing an act of jus tice which the nation will eventually insist upon. At present it may be at once the interest and duty of Relormen to vote for The Budget on amount of the good features it contains, but they may do so with the verbal protest that they hold themselves at liberty, on the very first available opportunity, to assist in giving equitable pre... sure • only to a Tax that in principle is wise and that in practice might be permanent if it were but made just. Mr. GLADSTONE'S financial scheme, with all its faults, is more broad in its soope,—more manlyin its expositioc,—more honest and honourable in its attempts—than that of his pre decessor. No comparison ean be fairly instituted between the uprightness of the one and the jugglery of the other. But with all this we are bound to say that every fair means should hereafter be taken to correct the errors into which Mr. GLADSTONE has fallen, by demonstrating the possibility, and leading public opinion to demand, a thorough Income Tax Reform. THE answer given last night in the House of Com mons by Lord Joint RUSSELL to a question regard ing the course which Oovernment intend to take relative to the affairs of India will be read with dis appointment and surprise by all who feel sincerely interested in the future fate of that gigantic depen dency. The Ministerial leader announces, we pre sume after due deliberation, that the Cabinet, having made up their mind, is resolved to legislate perms- Featly on the form of government to be henceforth imposed on the tributary nations of India during the present session. In other words, they think it eat only jut and reasonable to form a positive judg ment upon a half-hoard case, but they think it &Kent sad propos to endeavour to urge the Legislature to give effect to that arbitrary and imperious sentence where 120,000,000 of our unrepresented fellow-subjects are concerned. Not a single witness has yet been examined by the Committee appointed to inquire into the grievances and wrongs of a conquered continent, who either does not hold office under its present mis-rulers or has held office under them. Company's servants and servants of the Crown, military officers , and tax col lectors have indeed been examined, and, even from their inevitably partial and one-sided testimony, manifold and vaned admissions are derivable as to the nature and tendency of the despotism under which Southern Asia pines. What would the indig nation of our people be if the other aide were heard, and the whole truth made known? The native go vernments of the East have one by one been over thrown by British arms, and numberless communi ties of the East have become the subjects of the British Crown. Whatever their humiliation may have been, it was always the boast of those who compassed and accomplished their subjugation that the change in their condition would be instru mental in imparting to them all the blessings of Christianity and of civilisation. But the hope of the one ban proved as delusive as the promise of the other. The spectacle of judicial injustice, of fiscal rapacity, and of supreme selfishness, levity, and neg ligence in the Christian rulers, has been little calcu lated to wean a shrewd and discerning people from the faith of their forefathers, or to make prose 1 lytes by example to the conqueror's erect:. Be the cause, however, what it mar, we know tha: the light of the Gospel has not beiu diffused eve.' a single province of British India; that the worst st.'- perstitions of its people are sustained by the immoral land hypocritical system which has hithert 3 prevailed; and that sceptical Hinduos whom education has raised above the debasing belief of their own people, are accustomed to ask in bitter sar -1 casm how they can be expected to believe , their English rulers sincere in their profession' of veneration for Christianity. As fur civilisation, cough has inadvertently escaped from the lips of offiffial witnesses to cause the most incredulous to doubt whether, under the combined sway of Leaden hall-street and Cannon-row, the very elements of civilisation are not fast crumbling to decay. The highways of ancient commerce are every year be coming more and more obliterated. Works of irri gation, the noble monuments of native industry and skill, are described as being in ruins. Land is let by compulsion instead of competition, and rack-rents for revenue levied by means of threats and violence. Industry withers, and population decays; but there is an ever-increasing amount of patronage and prize money; and increasing deficits in the Exchequer are annually met by a still increasing debt. All these things the public of this country ear nestly, though temperately, desire to have inquired into, before any step is taken for remoulding or re modelling the future government of Hindostan, and all these things Parliament plainly intended should be fully and completely investigated by a select committee of its own members, before it should be called upon to pronounce any opinion upon a scheme of Indian administrative reform. The unpurchased will of the public, and the voice of its unpurchased organs, point out this obvious and necessary prelimi nary to all or any permanent legislation on the sub ject; and Parliament—which, to do it justice, has an intense consciousness of th e p ro f oun d ignorance in which it lies regarding the wrongs to be re medied, and the evils to be redressed—mo destly and wisely desires that the other side of the case should be heard thoroughly and completely, and that when heard there should be time given to digest and deliberate such evidence, before it is called upon to give its verdict upon the great question at issue. But Sir CHARLES WOOD appears to care fur none of these things. He is taking a ruining leap at the difficulty, and, according to his private backers, means to clear it in his usual style. Thin is probably in his opinion the proof of thoroughbred statesman• ship. Vulgar, plodding, plebeian intellects require to learn slowly and painfully before they can vesture to lecture or to legislate. But in Heaven's inscru table providence this country and its councils sel dom lack aristocratic advisers, who, at short notice are always ready to jump into the saddle, and go at any question, however deep, broad, or high, with the same recklessness as to consequences as fool-hardy youths display in a steeplechase. Sir C. WOOD was not two months in office when he informed the committee of inquiry that he had made up his mind what he would do with India. The committee might, if it pleased, sit during the rest of the session and take evidence, but, for his part, he had heard quite enough —he had seen the whole thing at a glance—ho did not want to have the affairs and feelings of his 120,000,000 fellow-subjects discussed and debated by . the stupid British public, or considered and weighed by a dull British Parliament, for the next year to come —he wanted no more information, he was full, and he would listen to no more advice—ho was President of the Board of Control, and, for whatever he did in that capacity, he was ready to be held responsible. But this preposterous tone of assumption did not answer the purpose for which it was intended. The committee asked whether that purpose was practically to supersede and insult them; whereupon Sir CHARLES WOOD was fain to make an ample apology, and to assure them that they had somewhat misunderstood his meaning. Then the House of Commons waxed wroth, and a heavy shower of questions began to fall on the Trea sury bench ; to save his unhappy colleague from which the Ministerial Leader was forced to unfurl his personal parapluie. Finally, the public out of doors began to give signs of a discontent which has only been hitherto allayed by repeated assurances of a semi-official kind, that little after all was to be done this year. But what are the public to think now ? What, indeed, can they think after Lord J. RussELL's answer, but that forbearance has been as usual thrown away on Sir CHARLES WOOD, and that nothing but the peremptory veto of public opinion, expressed in terms ungracious and unac ceptable, can prevent the obstinacy and conceit of this most luckless Minister from misleading Parlia ment into premature, blind, and unjust legislation FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Monitcur announces the exchange yesterday of the ratification of a convention between France, Belgium, and Prussia, on the subject of correspon dence by electric telegraph. The convention was signed on the 4th October, 1852, and will enter into vigour on the Ist of May next. At the ball at the Tuileries last night the Empress was not present, and the Emperor returned to his private apartments at a very early hour. The Mo nsieur says this morning that the Empress was de tained in her rooms by a slight indisposition. During the day it rum been reported that her Ma jesty was suffering from the consequences of having taken a bath too warm. This evening, however, rumour asserts that her Majesty's indisposition is of such a nature as to put an end for the present to the hopes that were entertained of an heir to the empire. The Empress has just given 6,000 fr. for the founda tion of an alms-house for the poor at Bareges (Hatites-Pyrenees). The Moniteur publishes a report to the Emperor by General de Goyon, an extraordinary commissioner, appointed to consider the cases of various political prisoners, whose claims to his Majesty's merciful consideration were from different causes not decided upon by the commissioners sent into the departments some time since. General Goyon announces that he met with many repentant spirts, but he cannot con ceal the fact that he also found a large number of the prisoners extremely obdurate, and wholly inaccessible to his arguments. The propor tion of these was in truth very large, for it appears that out of 596 political prisoners he only found 247 willing to sue for pardon. Of these he recommended 93 for absolute pardons and 154 for commutations. The others are to suffer the utmost rigour of their sentences. The General, in conclusion, somewhat bluntly asks that his extraordinary commission may be cancelled, as no longer having any object. People had nearly left off talking about the Pope's coming to France for the coronation, but now a reli gious journal, the Trois de la Veriti, affirms positively that he will come, and calls upon the clergy to rejoice at the announcement. I believe, however, notwith standing the name of the journal, that this hardy assertion will turn out to be a ;canard. The provincial council of Amiens, the acts of which have just been brought from Rome, duly approved by Monseigneur de Stain* the bishop of that diocese, is the only council that has hitherto been held in 1853. It is the second holden in the jr vince of Rheims since the re-establishment of provin cial councils, the first having been held in the city of Rheims in 1850. All the other metropolitans of France have hitherto refrained from convening the councils, and it is more than probable that few, if any, will be convoked this year. This is a very remark able fact, as showing the disposition that prevails in the bulk of the clergy to preserve their Gallican in dependence. The first provincial council that assembled after the revival of the institu tion, that of Paris, set the example of not promulgating its acts until they had been sub mitted to the Pope's approbation, and of accepting all the emendations demanded by Rome. The Arch bishop of Paris, it is said, intended at first to publish the acts of the council in their original state, accom panied by the Pope's corrections in a separate co lumn, and thought by this plan to combine a certain recognition of the special privileges of particular churches with a due hierarchies', deference to Rome. His suffragans, however, induced him to give way, and to publish the acts as co rrected, so t ha t it be came impossible for the ptiolic to distinguish the work of their own clergy from that of the head of the Romish church. The, French episcopacy now perceives that this concession implies the total abandonment of all liberty, the prac tical renunciation of all " customary " rights which Rome may not chooso to approve of. It is evident, therefore, that the mare councils are held, the more thorny questions will be mooted, and the more will the ultramontane party gaiu ground upon their Galilean adversaries. Hence the general deter mination to oppose a ris ineeier to papal encroach oents, and to abstain from convoking councils. It may perhaps not be gc ucrally known that in point of strictness in religious observances !he Galikens are much more rigorous than the ultratnontaniets. The only great practical result of the council of Amiensyet made known is that the faithful in the province of Rheims are to be allowed to cat meat on Saturdays, which indulgence is an abomination to your true Galil ean. Another innovation of a more abstract kind, but in a similar spirit of liberality, or as some rather say laxity, is also spoken of. The severe Gallican holds it to be essential that players should be excommuni cated as of old, but the council of Amiens, with the approbation of Rome, is of opinion that this French " caustume " will now be more honoured in the breach than the observance. It is curious to observe in this contrast how the sturdy Gallivan, out of his comparatively honest and simple faith, maintains in the name of liberty tenets which revolt by their bigotry and intolerance, while Rome, more cunning, courts popularity, the better to reconcile men's minds to that universal dominion which is its only unchang ing principle. A telegraphic despatch fro= Cherbourg announces that the Phlegeton, 400 horse screw steam-corvette, was launched there yesterday morning in presence of a great assemblage of persons. A French ship, called the Empereur du Bresil, arrived yesterday morning in the port of Havre, and immediately the police went on board, and prevented any of the passengers from leaving her. The crew, however, were allowed to go on shore ; but no com munication between her and the shore was per mitted. The cause of these measures is not known. At the Bourse to-day the amount of business trans acted was not extensive, with a downward tendency in prices, the Three per Cents. and the Four-and-a- Half per Cents., for cash, having each declined 15c. on yesterday's quotations, the final prices being, Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 103 f. 40c. ; Three per Cents., 80f. 30e. Bank Stock, 2,730 f, There has also been a general decline in the prices of railway securities. In Paris and Strasbourg shares to the extent of Of. 50e., and in the remaining lines generally of from lf. 50e. ;to 3f. each. Parts and Rouen shares attained an advance of 2f. 50e. at the conclusion of business. Closing prices :—Northerns, 915 f.; Orleans, 1,050 f.; Paris and Strashourgs, 875 f.; Paris and Lyons, 947 f.; Paris and Rouen, 1,135 f.; Western of France, 783 f.; Bordeaux and Cette, 650 f. SWITZERLAND. The Federal Council has received an address from fifty Swiss non-commissioned officers and soldiers now serving in the first regiment of the foreign le gion in Algeria, offering their services to fight for their country in case of a declaration of war. It is said that their example will be fol lowed by the Swiss of the second legion, and it is not doubted that this demonstration will exercise an influence upon the foreign re giments in the service of the King of Naples. It is hoped that France, following the precedents set some years ago in the case of the Poles and Hunga rians then in the foreign legions of the French army, would interpose no difficulties in the way of the Swiss who might now desire to take part in a struggle for their country's independence. ITALY. ROME, APRIL 20. Mr. Lyons, who supersedes Mr. Metre in his diplo matic capacity here, arrived on the evening of the 18th. The event of the week, concerning which the whole town is talking, is a grand fray between French and Roman soldiers, near the fountain of Trevi, night before last. It appears that a Roman trumpeter, named Mariam, was solacing himself with a mug of wine in company with a pothouse Dulcinea, when some French infantry soldiers entered the oateria, and invited the frail fair one to partake of their Falerniau also, which, being accus tomed to general complaisance, she accepted, thereby so irritating the Roman that he flung a glass of wine in her face, and in those of her new protectors. An appeal aux artnes was the immediate consequence, and the trumpeter, fiercely attacked by five or Rix Frenchmen, was driven out of the pothouse and took refuge in a cafe opposite. In rushing in, however, hotly pursued by his enemies, his scabbard got between his legs and he fell to the ground, where he continued to defend himself slashingly from the French soldiers, and likewise front a French ser geant who was in the cafe, and attacked him with his sabre. Three Roman dragoons in the café, seeing such tremendous odds against their comrade, unhe sitatingly drew in his defence and a regular cavalry and infantry meMe ensued, which made such a row in the quarter that strong patrols of French immediately marched up, and occupied all the outlets, and ulti mately captured the trumpeter upstairs, and the other three Roman combatants in the Marquis Maccarani's stable. Meanwhile the whole regiment of Roman dragoons in the neighbouring Pilotta barracks were with difficulty restrained by their officers from rush ing out en masse to rescue their comrades. Yester day morning the colonel of the dragoons repaired with eight men to the French guardhouse at San Marcell°, and demanded his captive soldiers, who were consigned to him by order of the French general, and lodged in the Papal Military Prison of St. Anne, whither, although wounded, they were quite able to walk. Some of the French are severely wounded also. The Peruvian minister hero has invited the sculp tors of Rome to send in propositions for the execu tion of as equestrian statue of General Bolivar, and twelve other marble statues, probably destined to rival the great Washington monument executed by Mr. Crawford. NAPLES. A letter from Naples, dated March 24, stating that news had been received there of a soldier having been murdered at Palermo, and that to the dagger with which he had been stabbed was attached a paper with the words " Vengeance of Mancini," that a groat number of arrests had been made, that five persons had been immediately shot, and that General Pilangieri, the Governor of Palermo, had pub lished proclamation. announcing severe measures for the repression of any attempt at insurrection, was published rather more than three weeks ago in one of the Paris journals. The Constitutionnel now publishes a letter from Palermo, dated the 13th, and signed Caldareira, in which the writer asserts that the murder spoken of was never perpetrated, and that no proclamations of the nature alluded to had been published. All that was true in the letter of the 3rd, says M. Caldareira, was the fact that arrests had been made of some conspirators against the government. Four of them were condemned to death for having concealed arms, but the King almost immediately granted their pardon. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the 20th contains a circular addressed by the new Minister of the Interior to the governors of provinces. The document is too like all other circulars from the Spanish Home-office to need analysis. M. Egana especially recommends the governors to " concede to the periodical press the greatest latitude for the examination of all acts which fall legitimately within the domain of public opinion, and at the same time to defend from attacks, according to the laws in force, the sacred rights of religion, the royal family, public morality, and the honour of private life"—the very words of his pre decessor, one of the most vigilant persecutors the Madrid press ever knew. The Nacion states that the Ministers of War, the Interior, and Finance in the last cabinet, although only a few weeks in poswer, made upwards of 600 nominations to public places—the greater part of them, especially in the army, being of unworthy persons, and a number of meritorious employee having been distnifised to make room for them. A letter states that capitalists were making advances of funds to the government for the service of the ensuing month. Letters from Vienna state that M. ,Ayllon, desig nated by General Lersandi to the Spanish Foreign office, declines the precarious honour. TURKEY. The Patrie publishes the fact of M. de La l'our's reception by the Sultan. Letters from Malta, of tho 15th inst., state that the British fleet was then still at anchor there. A steamer had arrived from Con stantinople with despatches for Admiral I)undaa from Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. It was to leave the next day with despatches for this government. The Patric also says: " We understand that intelli gence has been received from Broussa, which states that the town was perfectly tranquil. The LlloseMent which took place there, and of which the details aro not yet arrived, is said to have been unimportant, and totally independent of politics.' AMERICA. • ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC. (BY ELECTILIC TELZOBLPH.) LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY Mous'No. The United States Mail steam-ship Atlantic, Capt. West, passed Port Lynas, inward bound, from New York, this morning at six o'clock. The Atlantic would leave New York on the 16th Met, bringing the mails from the United States and Canada, three days later than were received by the Niagara on Sunday last. She is expected to reach the Mersey, so that hor mails may leave by the seven o'clock traiu this evening. Vbe Court. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yestet day afternoon at Buckingham l'alace. Prince Albert presided yesterday morning at the Council for the id anugem. nt of the Duchy of Cornwall, et the Duchy office, Somerset House. His Royal Highness was attended by Col. the Hon. C. B. I'hipps. The Countess of Moon". Edgcumbe has succeeded the Viscountess Canning in her duties as the Ladyin-waiting to tier Majesty. Prince Albert rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon att:nded by Lieut.-Col. F. H. Seymour. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princess Ade laide of Hohealohe, went to Claremont yesterday morning, and visited the Countess de Neuilly and the French Royal Family. The Royal Duchess returned to Clarence House, St. James's, in the afternoon. The Duc hess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary dined with the Duchess of Gloucester, at her residence. Gloucester House, Piccadilly, on Monday. The Duchess of Kent joined the royal circle in the evening. Mr. He M.P. had 4r. Hutt, _ _ —an interview with the Duke of New castle yesterday at the Colonial-office. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor of Gibraltar. OCEAN PENNY POSTAGE BAZAAR. A bazaar was opened at Manchester, yesterday, which promises to augment the funds necessary for carrying on the movement very considerably. The ocean penny postage, as it is termed, means, of course, a threepenny postage—a penny for freight across the deep and a penny at either end of the voy age ( o r i n l an d transm i ss i on; and a large expenditure is necessary to secure the spread of know ledge among the public sufficiently to awaken guneral sympathy. The result of the bazaar appears so far to have fathomed the public feeling as to show a very stroi.g sym pathy in pounds sterling, and it is estimated that the goods contributed free of charge for retail at the bazaar would be worth, at prime coot, from 1,5001. to 2,0001. The contributions come from all the large towns (besides many smaller places), including London, Edi n b urg h, Dub lin, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Cork, Nor wich, Ipswich, Gloucester, Cambridge, Chelb.nhem, Ply mouth, and Dover. The bazaar is held in tho large rosin over the Royal Exchange. There are 17 stalls, very ele gantly fitted up, loaded with goods, but not containing half the c 'retributions sent, and which have had to be ware housed till wanted. Ladies deeply interested in the cause have undertaken to preside at the stalls, and what with their own eloquent persuasions and those of their fair coun try cousins who have volunteered to act as assistants, a large trade in the fancy wares usually vended on such oc carions has already been established. The commercial prin ciple is here carried to its extremest limits, for not only have the goods been obtained in the cheapest market, but they are selling in the very deal eat, and for ready money only. It is whispered, that those who, like Franklin, would like to knew beforehand what they will have to " pay for their whistle," are not very welcome people at bazaars. The bazaar was exceedingly crowded during the whole of yes terday. Elihu Burntt and Mr. E. Fry were present, and it was said the contributions had been a good deal aug mented by aid from Mr. Burritt's numerous Olive Leaf societies, established in aid of the peace movement. Mrs. H. Beecher Stowe was expected, and the stalls were plen tifully ornamented with tittle waxen representatives of Eva and Topsy, in honour of the expected visitor ; but a letter was received, saying that her health was sJ precarious as to render the visit impracticable. The following is a copy : Glasgow, April 15.—Mrs. Stowe's health is such that it will be impossible for her to be present on the occasion you mention—not from a want of interest, but of power, because life is of more importance to her just now than any thing else. If you desire her to do good, you desire her to get well, that she may do good. We go to Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Dundee next week, and, if Mrs. Stowe's health is adequate, to Landon ; otherwise she will retire to some quiet place. Wishing you success in your laudable enterprise, I sm, very truly—CH.lB. Bneegza." A subsequent letter was received, stating that Mrs. Stowe would come to Manchester, if it were possible, but that it must remain uncertain. A soiree last evening would have been held in the Manchester Town-hall, if Mrs. Stowe had come, but, under the circumstances, it was held in the Friends' Meeting-house. COLONIAL GOLD COMPANY. Yesterday the first annual general meeting of this compare was held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate strut ; Mr. W. B. Cm in the chair. The fiscasrsas read the report, from which it appeared that • charter had been granted to the company on the 18th of March, 18.52, limiting the responsibility of the share holders to 51. per cent. The arrangement made with the Australian Gold Amalgamation Company had enabled the board to secure the valuable services of Mr. Spence, an ex perienced mining captain, whore sphere of operations was limited to New South Wales, bat the gold having been found to be of superior richness in Victoria, it was deemed advisable to send out Mr. Corner, another experienced man, to that district. Mr. Riddlesworth, the assayer, had arrived at Melbourne on the 3rd of June, 1852, with 60,0001. for the purchase of gold dust ; and r. Spence was entrusted with 25,0001. for a similar purpose. These sums had realised a considerable profit, and further proceeds were expected from money so employed. Although it had been thought advisable to send out skilled labourers, tlya company did not think it prudent to employ ordinary labourers, and it was thought that the field for emigration would supply all the labour of that description—an opinion which had been confirmed by the reports of Mr. Spence and Mr. Corner. Suitable pre mises bad been taken in London for the reduction of ores. Mr. Spears was proving a quarts vein of the Great Nugget Vein Company, which was to be leased for twcnty.one years. The company had received from the gold commis sioner one mile at vein running parallel with the Great Nugget Ridge, which gave him an extent of country equal to three square miles. Mr. Spence in New South Wales, and Mr. Corner in the other districts had been instructed to push forward their operations as fast as possible. The financial account showed that the profit made by the com pany in the purchase of gold dust was 8,0931. Ils. 2d. The total amount of receipts from the commencement was 108,8951. 13s. Id., and the disbursements 85,880/. 4s. ; leaving cash in hand amounting to 23,0351. 9s. Id. The Cmatasus thought after hearing that report they might congratulate themselves that so much had been done within the short period the company had been estab lished. They had at present a capital of full 90,0001., which , sum would be adequate for all their requirements, so that there was no fear of a call being made on the proprietors. A PROPRIETOR wished to know what profit had been made by the commercial branch of the company, and what by the mining. He thought the accounts should be kept separate. The CHAIRITAN said the accounts showed that the profit on gold was 8,0931. Ils. 2d. Mr. RICHARD TAILOR then read a very lengthy report of the managers on the past and future prospects of the company, in which it was stated that they were fully per suaded of the ultimate profitable result of gold crushing. A Paornurron would like to know what the agents were paid by the company ? Mr. Joint TAYLOR said their chief agents received 8001. a year each, and he thought they were underpaid. .The reports and accounts were adopted, and the roaring three ton and audi'ors were reelected. A vote of thanks was pawed to the chairman, and also to the managers in London and in the colony, and the meeting separated. BRITISH REFORMATION BOClETT.—Yesterday the annual meeting of this society took place at the Hanover.. square Rooms, Mr. Noel Hoare in the chair. The chairman in opening the proceedings referred to the recent proceed ings of the Pope in Holland, where the government has acted with liberality to the Romish clergy, as a proof of the actively aggressive spirit of the Roman catholic church. A report stated that the appeals which have been made from time to time to the liberality of the British protestants had met with an unprecedented response. During the year meet ings had ben held and lectures delivered,or sermons pre achcd at a large number of places which were enumerated, and in the same period free grants of books and tracts had been made to clergymen and others engaged in disseminating; the protestant faith in Great Britain and Ireland. The am total ou n n u te nre t r o o 7 f 9 r v k o s la so m ld es by o f the co so n c t i rov ety ers w i i a t i hi w n t :.r h k e s, ye , : n ar d ,, 20,666 tracts ; whilst the number gratuitously dixtribqted was 78 volumes, and 46,430 tracts. The accounts for the year ending March 31,1853, showed receipts 4,3801. 19e. lid., and expenditure 3,6161. 91. 4d., leaving a b a l ance i n hand of 7651. 10s. 7d. The report was adopted, and various rega- I tuition% were passed in furth e ran ce o f t h e o bj ec t s of tho society.