The Express. — London, England, 1847-02-22 00:00:00

I BUSINESS IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. (THIS DAT.) OWENS OF THE DAY.-Taus AZADIRO4I. -Destitute Pavane r(lmbed); Brewing Ran Sugar, mad Distilling trona Sew Ms. The Lade eustmenedd NO lICE UP 1110TION.-To rem an addreel tor sepias Beare. erseldwace of Scotch hankers with the Late and }cwt rovernowth respecting the bill of last wadies for regutsting the joint-stock beaks • * o p..' •.• uelend. los 'Winder . the correspondence of any &mon of the North Benda Bank ; and term of an arrangement amid I. hors beta entered into in broth of that Bank. - - BUSINESS OF THE W COMMONS. EEK IN THE HOUSE OF HONDAT, Foe. 22. ORDERS OF THE DA F T. —Sums, Itannores.—apinsaltoral Tinian WA; Mewls" t omm, sod limdied Mawr, de. zwr i mer in g); ?=; Taerllellef (Debbi) ; (Adoeme) SW. e"l o2M— Laa" Weisto; Inn Fog*. HOMES OF MOTIONS ON E ORDERS OF TDB DAT.—Leerseo Pernimirr (Isawarri).—(ln committee.) Thelma to Ida pospis. Yes espy be unjust, auks their pi• Is So be sellsollsdi am won no property in Chest Erip olp. Non Naulm.,--(0a men le pies romesalles) Mr. WrigliiloftYaeE ett to Impeders et lib( dis saroant if tats Dr iiiithemilt et =e sr* le lory la • yew. M. P. Sim% le owe list De goer to ani Se eve SS IMO all Mid es thumb IWtaL Imitri Hs Eh E. W. Mieres. to owe ail herb dem& Led Mee • p mmollei dome la @Mr WOMB kr I S. lar. Moiliket oo Milks le dome I. Nr Z. W. Wee" term imoimeot to dime 9. M. M, to move NM preset Mee rest dim be Med to Nand Irma Mr. P. Serege, mow WIDEN dome Nod amembeellelstimeet I mod to. Lei Clooloety. le awe emsolmest dere I. Nr. Oregon loom Wens loMfar of koi Nene bates glee bgalalled ID Mit Oka W. Demo. Se am allelor•I dom. Nr. OWN to Olin. Smote eilleog dwires. *won Diems.—(o2 mean p womMloh) Owls Ittedlark, MOW Mat te bM rehnel le • it surellie. Ixemesam Msweet—Cle Ommittee of Way. ep. Mesa.) larillaim Dem" to mobs Itsulelstaloseat, end move veto 41 eight mamma ettbomosellieled Smd. Isr. 011erie t to men Not Debt tote iseel~lit mores of Lief, weld le fir brio onse le mit alloys d• w eggeeved orb, Imead. Er De dew Dome bet to. Wog Otn. et Womb sod lab • Doollea WerfmNiAw teldm mills Hi ia. dtkl Twasseg a ptatt. MID, to We Moder Do INlFilDrelmool at aillery ado& is r. allairy WIN. et estilwalet slNee; mei biome diet Mr pelllits Alm RAIN ung wsparese ow purism to gritted NMI tbe nem The led to "a 1111 br doer. minter la sod "OM MiafYslnst tou theemelltrilia mierio•" MAL Yepreent olden pe kr • mittni reie ettezollio lie emend mloslo Wool. M. IL Mimeo, teak dr= fkr rrit=-4..l..mtb:Palge""B"...ri 11 :11 beopromolike. Miler ewes., =De et doimmle NNW to relief yobbo meets% Irani Mr. Semen thet the petn of the ovum ow " Dirk Cat " let plated wlth the vela. Sr. Mut he at the Mow Aldine or the Dime et Trade • (mike reepeelleg edloilin of DODS InaNll6llllllllll the Mislin of the 21n. le. W.F. ileshosie. to =see Mr teas seralog Omega Lembo Ararafra: Meer Laystd. milt Ihe Plemralme dee lewd et Osolte ratraks nerneig the Oimese mod lade telsootrot o Llr. Ortosra. to mov• ke Miura Moho" to the Corasesdra TVESDAT. 33. Non= OF MOTIONB.—(ht the raw or private bombrs).-11r. Hors to mos Woo amine, b erattsoe the teradry Imo the mom et taloa Mr. T. Domtimale. mew la Is to. peal OM elle Iralbra /144116 =mins the 1W le isirahredeo poprist camomile's Mr Mien, lowan bill kr nee wolf Inal mad podierd ejetedhodbedera. led JohaMrarsers. %move ditto sonde* Imarentemb. 14. T. DWI. edobotsdowelte returns rererarte Wished& modes. Mr. 114ssi. to aoss Or raison st notes ad art elsesashs. He. CoMill. now terrelerue ;nog the are we velem re e warlitsezL n e i Viel mai Wales hen ISM le awl eer laergllm llef,• the ems et eepeteled emeeele• p wpm. et usibel Oedema. nevelll le im and emege poem le abet Ile boar& Reskes, rw .lrlles le aged ambit eemmellee es Mlle mot eel pees manes' !me, le at the ValleNtleedeey ik the °lei whether eel wtee memeese hew In time le awl the allopula between She et Ameeebly sod Mee el the Mal ef Torii. M. SW& Mew le le y m r ove he rites ef tile liet hoe bees eirerleked ly ow =NO estlN Deland late let Haunter, ISM; tohave et sterve return as reverie of mere's. ORDER OP THE DAY.-B.comm Reameo —Repant's Gael '. Company (Piddle/ft= and Lamborn, Hallway and Branch) J. WEDNESDAY, Fah 24. ORDERS OF THE DAY.--therem MAWNO& —Roma Old& Relief ; Arrest fir Debt (Ireland); Poor Rato (Ireland); Nealithe soli Fairs Clauses: Oss Works Clauses ; and Waterworks aemmun lOU NOTICE OF 1160110 N.—Mr. Brahman, to more recur= MOS brr and sues of pergola employed in the textile manatee:two of die 'United itsgdoes. THURSDAY, Fan. 23. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. —Dr. Bawring, to move resolutions re ePectioe the concedes of the mums. Mr. Wawa, to move hr select committee as the consadan and appropriation of fed In courts of law and equity. Lard Jelin WON, to eall attention to the ren dition of Greece. Ilr. E. Lamina, to mu for Meet committee on at Emil& licebigastical Cammiadon. FRIDAY, Pu. 26. NOTICE OF MOTION.—Mr. OW* O'Brien, to ask Lord John Raul! or the Chistelke of the Rseeireers, whether nenernment Mailitata the ampidtkm el the more by companies formed to pushes* me reeleire vette lands In InWd for male, ar to par dliet os re 4.11 arc inhered "Mtn. - - ORDER OF THE DAT.—(ettreed debate ce.]-Baeowe Real. um. Leaden (City) amid Debts IN THREE. OR YOUR DAYS, MR. WAGHORN'S THIRD PAMPHLET on STEAM to AUSTRALIA. In • Letter addremed to WI Orc7, Smith, Harr, sad Co. gilt erpreoi. MAILS. The elleteed aged went vis Itereelliek he As /derliterrenean, ladb. use@ Um, An, ell beanie up ea the • et*, Litherk ter. sike et the=m adi rri: °fbral TM was he ME ter silk Van Dieneee and New linkman!" le NW@ ea Ow moles of the ha Mew& The West India e a. lashalls. then sr Ned" elan SY Iles =end see ihreneelk wine mg= ea le ning era fie DMA Ireennfla. mit the Valid Ware, .ut ft.= I wa So 3rd Mei. 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TR e estimate formed by government of the pro bable outlay required by the distress in Ireland, and the mode in which it is purposed to meet that extra ordinary outlay, will this evening be explained to parliament. With regard to the expense, government. can with certainty of the past, but the taw e may s =e every calculation. It is highly desire' ,le, indeed, that the labour rate should cease, that the labourers should apply their remaining strength to tillage, and that presentment aossions should no longer occupy the columns of o ffi c ial newepapers, as well as the hopes and atten tion of landlords and peasantry. But how this transition is to take place—how the marshalled road gang is to be dispersed into the pliers of spade and plough—how these spade and ploughmen are to be Ted—and whether these 600,000 able-bodied paupers will beprevented from crowding with their familia around the soup-kitchens to the same coat as they have hitherto crow. ded round the paymasters of the Board of Works, sae questions which events will answer in proper time, but which no minister can be sufficiently powerful and sagacious to command or foretell. i:ngland is at the some time anxious to learn how this extraordinary drain is to be provided for. Is it to be dealt with, as altogether extraordinary, and the debt, occasioned by it, funded, without dislaniking the other economical arrangements and progress of our finance and its reform ? A petition from Liverpool has loudly demanded this. Or is the doctrine of direct taxation considered so popular, that the British public may be asked to bear an increase of the is come-tax, not for the alleviation of the birdman of our poorer classes, but for the make of its i=scis being flung into the gulf of Irish distress ? would be the way to cure the country, or sr li = portion of the country, of its sudden predgeethis direct taxation, of which perhaps the most objection able quality is its placing the handle of the pump so directly in the hands of government, that the act of plying its arms and exhausting the purses of the public is a matter too simple and easy not is be prep timed and repeated. We understand, too, that it is not the question of the expenses of Ireland, which weighs exclusively upon the minister in the forming of the estimates. ladependent of the Spanish marriages, the attitude by M. Ou rzor in his late speech was To this is added the report that Russia den ukase for raising 150,000 men. These aces warrant, it is said, an increase of and naval expenditure, which has already alarm in diplomatic circles. Smaller causes !quarrel; are, indeed, disappearing. Th ere are vats or Lord NORMANBT'S and M. OVIZOT'S dif e being appeased. Count ST. ACLAIRE, the envoy, who has been for some time absent court and ministerial circles, has joined, and cordially welcomed in both. But this suaviter do does not at all do away with the impression 1 by the fortiter in re, which is expected to sense the budget of this day. respect to Ireland, it is asked, if the income augmented for the sake of that country paying its share? 18 Irish property is a bear at once the double burden of poor-rate and I ? These are all questions difficult to solve, and requiring for their solution not merely wisdom and sagacity, but power. Mr. O'CONNELL declares that these are times which demand a dictatorship, for that nothing less than absolute power, not to be controlled or questioned, could overcome or provide for the diffi culties of Ireland, and force those, who hive the means, to come forward, furnish, or apply them. If Mr.O'Con gex be right we are very far removed from the remedy. For these times, which ho declares to require dic tatorship, happen to be those in which the direct contrary of a dictatorship prevails, and in which no party in the State possesses, or could possess, even the ordinary force of a constitutional government, much less the dictatorial power of an absolute one. Meantime, the conduct of all parties is calculated to render the task of government more and more difficult All indeed exclaim that they admit the difficulties of that task, and will do their best to remove and smooth them. Yet none refrain from pursuing a selfish or ambitious vie w, from th warting the minister, and attack ing or exposing his supposed remissness or error. The exclusive Enghsh party is indignant that anything at all should be granted to Ireland, declaring that the landlords there should 'office for aIL The Irish land lord in turn recriminates, and instead of both coun tries putting their shoulders to the one wheel, each is dragging in different directions. The division between England and Ireland, which the charity given and received by the many should heal up and cause to disappear, is, on the contrary, rendered more wide and more sore by idle and in temperate talkers on either side, and at the very time when one country is proved to be so completely and materially dependent on the other, narrow spite is undoing the natural effect of the great demonstra tion. Whilst the greatness, and philanthropy, and charity of the Fogyish nation is active in sowing peace and gratitude, the littleness and the rancour of some English individuals is rousing hatred, and provoking and offering pretexts for ingratitude. Mr. ROEBUCK is at this moment a more strenuous repealer than all the O'CONNELL tribe put together. The system of the government is the only practica ble one. Its temporary measures offer aid to every Irish locality, but they call upon the in habitants and landlords of that locality first to bestir themselves. Interest prompts them strongly so to do. The necessary labour of tilling and manuring must be done instantly. Whilst it is horrible to think that despair and irritation have so deeply entered the souls of both peasant, tenant and landlord, that many would recklessly and purposely neglect the necessary labour of preparing the ground for production. Is this a state of mind—this a state of things f r o e r prc Zj i l il ieh members to harrow over with speeches, or for Irish members to aggra vate by retorts or by repeal twaddle ? Ireland, and oar finances, and the future prospects of food-supply for the United Kingdom, can only be saved by the exertions of Irish landlord, and Irish tenant, and Irish peasant, trusting to the government, aiding the go vernment, and aided by it. The pull that helps the sister country out of the mire must be not only long sad strong, bat " all together." Otherwise it will stick feat, and the entire empire will be jeopardised. It is not yet an inquest over the dead, but a con sultation over the dying, that parliament is holding. It is idle at suck a crisis to stay recriminating as to who is to blame. The object should be first to relieve, and to discover how to relieve, instead of scolding, reprobating, and indisposing the only agents, whose attention and zeal can give hopes of salvation. Express of Saturday lut. The occasion was • dinner of farmers to present a silver bowl to the Rev. N. Bogo, of Grange, as " a testimonial for his hay ing kept down the game on his estate;" and the statements made by the farmers are remarkable fur the energy with which game preservation is Is noanced. And every article of charge against game and the game laws then exhibited is borne out by the evidence received by the recent game-law com mittee. One speaker said, " The system of game preservation had risen to so great a height that the farmers of the neighbourhood must keep down the game, or quit their localities." That " game was gnawing away the vitals of the country," and " that farmers had no cause of complaint with their land lords beyond that bone of contention, the game,' were statements deliberately made on this occasion, which should induce landowners to consider whether they can safely uphold the game-laws any longer. And the Earl of ELDON was denounced by name as a most 'mischievous game-preserver. Another speaker having " it was too bad to forbid the killing of rabbits, ilt was as bad as ohjecting to the destruction of rats, the meeting responded by cries of "worse, worse." Lord SALISBURY, then, who retains the rata in his own hands, is, it seems, no worse than the common herd of game preservers. The value of the wild ani mals fostered was contrasted with the quantity of food they consume and destroy, with marked effect ; and the fact that poaching is the nursery of crime in the rural districts was strongly dwelt upon. The rev. gentleman in whose honour the meeting was held, in giving thanks, said, "He had more satisfaction in looking at a turnip than a hare, and felt more happi ness in regarding well-cropped field, than in wagon ing a larder overflowing with the fruits of the pre toned cover." This is apt and just, and it goes to the root of the matter; for, evade it how they may in their own circles, the landowners must soon learn that the educated classes of this country are now completely aware that game-preserving is inconsist ent with good farming, and is utterly destructive of the comfort and well-being of tenant-farmers. If we mistake not, some political landed proprietors will get a glimpse of this at the next general election. Yet are there gentlemen, known as game protectors, and no good besides, who still imagine that they can enlist on their behalf the sympathiesof tenant-farmers. Perhaps one of the most striking instances of po litical hallucination on record is that of Mr. GRANT LEY BERKELEY, the member for West Gloucester shire, who seems to imagine that he could, under some possible combination of circumstances, be again re turned to parliament as the representative of an agri cultural constituency. At least, such appears to he the purport of a letter he, not long since, ad dressed to the constituency of West Gloucester shire, dealing largely in family quarrels, and little with public principle. Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY'S conduct in relation to the game-laws has entirely dis qualified him from representing an agricultural con stituency. His own evidence before the game-law committee placed in juxtaposition with a few " mo dern instances " of the fruits of the game-laws, would render few constituencies, save those of game-preservers Of such there be), likely to select such representatives. And, first, of the sayings of this candidate for the farmers' political favours. MR. G. BERKELEY dada he had a " little knowledge of farming," whhh i sm further inquiry, turned out to be the experience lend acquired on fourteen acres rented with a county house. His experience, however, as a game-preserver on other men's farms had been considerable ; on which Tarim cannot be a more difficult and delicate task than that which an ambassador has to perform in the capital of a foreign oountry, in relations necessarily close, whether of amity or rivalry, with his own, and in the midst of the various parties and personages aiming at power and disputing the helm of govern ment. To conciliate, to please, yet maintain the dignity of his position, but above all to acquire a full information respecting men and things, renders it im perative that all eminent leaders in political athirs thould be known to him, and that his palace should I be open, at least in countries under a representative system, to all parties who do not dissent from alle giance to the sovereign. In despotic states, the representative of a foreign power could not well visit or favour a disgraced minister. Opposition in such states is akin to rebel lion. But in constitutional countries, where parties alternate in power, and where the Sovereign feels, or &mold affect, indifference ; to lay down, as a rule, that ea envoy should close his doors seined the member of any parliamentary opposition, liberal or illiberal, is a slavish, a mean, and an an-English doctrine. The limes, nevertheless, lips down this rule for English diplomatists. It reemmta, fairly enough, with what subterfuges M. OUIZOT spoke on the matter of the Spanish marriages to Lord NORMANDY; bow right the latter was in not allowing the minister to withdraw and change his expressions, days after they were uttered, and how justly indignant the am bassador felt when M. Getzerr accused him in the Chamber of sending over such expressions to his government, which were not correct, and which oaten) ban, been brought to him to modify. Times admits that the conduct and the words of the French minister were quite unwarranted. But then, continues the journalist, Lard NORMANBT is also to blame. His excellency has held intercourse with the statesmen of the French opposition. And because he lea been guilty of this crime, M. GUIZOT cannot and ought not to yield ; the King of the FRENCH cannot and ought not to do justice to Lord NORWANIT'S complaints. Both minister and sovereign &rain their own country, and have therefore a right to insist on Lord NORMANDY'S withdrawing from France altogether. Was ever doctrine so monstrous? Because M. Orator is at home in France, he may deal with our English envoy as he pleases ! There is to be no question of right and wrong, of troth and falsehood, of prevarication and frankness. We always under stood that the person of an ambassador was sacred, and that his abode was considered a portion of the soil of his own country, and that he stood as indepen dent there as if be were on the cliffs of Dover. The Times says no. It declares, that a foreign ambassador must conform his colour and conduct to flatter the persons and the party which happen to be in pos session of the government. He must see no other. Queen VICTORIA may invite the Duke of WELLING von or Sir R. PEEL to Windsor during a Whig admi nistration, Lord LANSDOWNE or Lord MELBOURNE Ender a Tory administration, bat Count Sr. AULAIRE suit take no such liberty. The King of the French invites M. Timms and Count MOLE to the Tuileries, has long interviews with them, is friendly to them, but Lord NORMANBT must allow neither into his hotel. His Excellency is paid by the British govern ment to flatter the king and court, not to see and judge of persons and parties with his own eyes. He should go, like Lord Coemer, to the Tuileries and the Foreign-office, as his sole sources of information. This was quite in harmony with Lord ABERDEEN'S law of never sending a despatch without communicat ing it to the French Charge d'Affaires. We must protest against this entire code of diplo matic servility, which the Times would introduce in imitation of its patron. England never had an envoy who represented it with more dignity, more effect, with more complete conciliation of sovereign authority and of ministers in France, than Lord Gator - mix. He was the very model of what an English ambassador in France should be. Yet was he exclusive? Did be shrink from contact with opposition ? Far from it. His hotel was open to all parties, and constituted for ell a neutral ground, on entering which the moot furious million= left prejudice and passion behind. We trust that Lord NORMANBT will walk in the MIMI path ; that he will not, like Lord Colmar, lila die British embassy to every Frenchmen of =eminence or influence; that he will not few M. TRIERS in opposition, more than Lord Onatrvlue shrunk from visiting him in &gm* that be will be neither the slave of fashionable nor of political exclusiveness; but that, true to British dignity and interests, and fearlessly exposing and re sisting all and any who would openly or covertly encroach upon either, he may conduct himself as the representative of a free country at the court of another free country, and this in despite of the traditional booing of Lord ABERDEEN, or the ukases of the Times. —a point he said: I find it easier to preserve game on lands belonging to my family, because there you ensure the co-operation of the tenants to a certain extent. On lands where I am a renter, I hare found some skilkulty ; because where the owner of the estate does sot preserve him self, the shooting has very often been tacitly given to the tenant; and then, when a third person comet between the landlord end tenant, the tenant ia frequently dissatisfied. Dissatisfied! and with reason: for what is it the game renter coolly hires from the landlord? Why the power of keeping wild animals to trey extent upon the farm for which the farmer pays a full rent. Animals, toe, not folded os confined like sheep or Battle—which, though a wrong, might not be so intole rable—but roam at large over the farmer's crops, biting here and trampling down there, from eled-time even until harvest ; and destroying, lin numberless instances, more than half the produce, or what, but for game, would have been the yeodace of the soil. Bering these drier in mind, let the farmers of West Gloucester shire learn Mr- BESICELEY'S reply to the question whither the farmer has not good right to be amide lei limier such circumstances No, I do not think that the tenant has any right to be dinetiefied, because the game being the property of the lsmdlord, he has a right to dispose an in any way he pleases, sad besides these, in ms ("union, Me fact of ale sporting ;els brizf vatton o iers to askant interferes with And he mid, that he had very frequently known awes where a deficiency of crop arming from bad farming has been charged by the occupying tenant upon thegame ; and he added, " I have known instances where burley has never come up at all ; where the seed has never appeared, and I hare known the kiss of the barley Aarged upon the game." And being asked whether farmers did not always attribute to game the demure to crops done by wood ' and other creature, ? Mr. BERKELEY answered, " Undoubtedly; in fact, I have never known any one eagle instance to the contrary • I never knew, in the whole course I of my life, a ;shier, called in by a farmer, make allowance for any such damage upon land, as arising from insect, atmospheric, or other animal damage ; but in every single case, every bit of existing damage has been set down to the game, and the owner of the game charged with the damage." What will the farmers and valuers of West Glonoestershire my to that? Nor is Mr. BERKELEY singular in his dyslogistic remarks on farmers, fee the whole tenor of the de fence of the game laws, by the game-preserving mem bers of the committee, and their witnesses, con sisted in imputations on the integrity and veracity of farmers who complain of injury from game. Possibly this was the only line of defence left open to game preservers, for the farmers of England with one universal voice declare that game preservation has become a nuisance well nigh into lerable. To prove, therefore, that game-preserving is innocuous, the game preservers must show that the British farmers are utterly unworthy of credit. Perhaps the effect of the game laws was nowhere better described than by Mr. W. GAUNTLET, a sur veyor and farmer from Derbyshire. Now Mr. GAUNT LET had seen game-preserving under the most favourable aspect s it is r possible -r 'a practice so repre hensible can bear; for he bad for many years been employed to value game damage on the Duke of RUT LAND'S estate, in order to ascertain the amount of compensation payable by the duke to his tenants. Yet, whea Mr. GAUNTLET was asked whether!' the diacon- tinuance of keeping game would be felt as a very considerable relief to farmers, and a great benefit to the labouring classes ?" he replied, " I think so ; it is a demoralising thing as it is ; tt seta one man as a tiger against another, quarrelling and fighting about it." The Duke, we see, by the Orford Chronicle, keeps flftivwatchers he to protect his game at Wotton. When such means are found necessary for the preservation of game against the labouring classes, are not such horrible scenes as those described in the reports of the recent game affrays in Sussex the neces sary results ? We are glad to see, that the farmers are beginning to nuke their interests and efforts in this came. On the eve of a general election, they may convert their will into a law, if their will be general and firmly acted upon. The Paris journals continued on Saturday to be engrossed with the Guizot-Normanby quarrel. The more avowed organs of the cabinet observing some self-restraint; but the quasi-official organ, La Preue, 1 pouring out the usual measure of scurrility and abuse against England the English. On Friday evening an unusually crowded assemblage filled the Naomi of M. Guizot. Several of the ministers were present; the whole diplomatic corps and a grftt number of foreigners of distinction, among others, Lord and Lady Holland, Lord Howden, the Baron de Capellen, former governor of the Dutch Indies, Count Villa Real, former Portuguese minister, Prince San Gusz-ko, a noble of Austrian Poland, M. Cieszkowski, deputy from the states of the noblesse of the Prussian diet. A great number of the peers were present, among whom was the Chancellor Pasquier. Among the deputies present were remarked M. Dnpin (else), arid almost all the members of the Conserva tive, party. The French corps diplomatique ) the council of state, and the Institute, were severtily re presented by a great number of their leading members. The long talked-ot soirie musicale at the British The farmers in many parts of the country are tearing up the question of the gams laws in a manner not to be mistaken ; being rightly oenvinoed that no thing but a combined effort on their patio requisite to pat an end to the most monstrous system of wrong that ever existed in a cultivated country or • civilised-cum =tufty. The reader will not have failed to observe the very significant meeting of farmers at Wareham, in Dorsetshire, of which an account appears in the THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 22, 1847. mar circnmdna r at t V and c of fouarrel; ta Fro m rere e be French envc from court been cordial in modo doo caused b, t chwactense Witt). MI/ tai is to be without its state to bear looms tax i embassy took place last night, and, as was antici pated, none of the cabinet ministers nor their sub ordinates, none of the high functionaries of state, pre sident's secretaries, or leading members of the govern ment party in the chambers, all of whom had been invited, were present. It is said that between two and three hundred persona bad thus declined accept ing the invitation. Of the Chamber of Deputies present there were eight opposition members, among whom were MM. Thiers, Duvergier de Hauranne, and Rkmusat, and two ministerialista, one of whom was Count Castellane. Of the Chamber of Peen four attended, Count Molk, the Due de Richelieu, Alexis de St. Priest, and the Marquis de Boiasy. The number pre sent is said to have been nearly &thousand, among whom were of coarse the most distingaished of the British in Paris and the whole corps cliplornatique. The magnificent suite of rooms, so well known, oa the ground floor communicating with the conservatory, were thrown open and beautifully decorated. A concert was given in the ball-room, and an orchestra, erected in the conservatory, performed from time to time during the evening. The marked absence of the entire minis terial party and all dignitaries of state was the general !abject of conversation during the evening. Notwithstanding all this, business at the Bourse was more than usually brisk, every description of stock undergoing a considerable rise. The Threes rose four-tenths per cent. as compared with yesterday ; but in railway shares of every kind the rise was much more considerable, as may be seen by reference to our tabular returns. The monied interests appear to attach no great importance to the diplomatic quarrel. Peals, Pea. 10.—Treee per coma, 7P .o; Plea per Ceara, 111 05 . Foar.un a-lialf per Cent., Few per Ow., —, Belgian Piro per Crow. IMO, 1011. D.. Poor.and-a•Halt, eel, Two-aan-a.lialt, t 4. Naples new, lel , Rao. Loae, 101 l , Teems Beads, st, Baal Beans, 3111.—Zeclange coo Loagoa, PS dam 55 10, Do.,tedays, 50. Pear. Pas. 10. Paris awl Orissa. 1.2:0 Pure sad Hewn, 075 , pass Ylersoa. • Boolgroal. 040 . North. PS W. The Madrid mail of sit 14th arrived late in Paris on Saturday. The new Minister of Marine had not yet been ap pointed. The debates of the address were to com mence in Congress on the 18th. A revision was to be made by the Minister of Finance on the labours; of M. Mon on the tariffs. A private meeting . of deputies was held to concert measures for opposing any restrictions on the tariff. The banks of St. Ferdinand and Isabella have amalgamated into one sole bank. The Gazette publishes a decree prohibiting the commercial junta from authorising the formation of any secret society before the chamber had examined the bill relative to such societies. The 14th being Sunday the was closed. We have received from our correspondent at Con stantinople, particulars of the fire at Pere, mentioned in the Express of Saturday CONSTANTINOPLE, Jilt. 28. Pere has just been the scene of one of those calamitous events which are, perhaps, more frequent in Turkey than In any other put of the world. At seven o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th inst., a fire suddenly broke out in a house adjoining the residence of the attaches of the British embassy. No one who has not witnessed • scene of the kind in this part of the world, can have any conception of its terrible effects. At the first cry of " Fire," the whole po littion of the city is in motion. The panic is not con fined to the house where the accident fint occurs, or to those in its immediate neighbourhood, but extends through the whole district. Everywhere preparations are made for Sight ,• in the streets adjacent, within the space of an hour every house is deserted. For here the fire does not smoulder king, or struggle slowly with walls of stone and brick ; but 1 le WHY to add to the tenon which belong to it one of those ea sister element, for it rushes along heaving and roaring like a mighty torrent. In ten minutes after the alarm had been given, four houses were in flames. The English attachés, who inhabited two of them, could do nothing more than secure their own escape. Every particle of their property was destroyed. At eleven o'clock, bar hours alter the fire we. first discovered, no less than n houses were in ashes. The scene at times was terrific beyond description. Pere looked like the gigantic enter of a volcano, where nothing was seen but rolling waves of flame. The air for a quarter of a mile round was filed with bluing pieces of wood, which falling in showers spin the tcharaincka, or wooden terraces on the tape of the • houses, in many instances set them on fire. flies the con flagration did not proceed regularly from house to house, but bunt out in event different places at once, so that often those engaged in trying to extinguish the flames, er to save same por tion of their property, were in danger of Wog bentesd in by the destroying element. At times the scene in the streets was something like that of a town taken by area 11. Terror-stricken people were flying in every direc tion; there were eyes for help from the weak, who were biome down and trampled under foot, or from those abed beneath the furniture, which the inmates of seen of the houses flung in desperation from the windows. At times, a pacba at the head of • party of hnosemen would gallop recklessly through the erowd, templet down alt who opposed his passage. The fire• angineesew hen hems en men's shout ere, for it would be immeadble ethic hem with horse* through the steep and narrow streets of Rea. They are always accompanied by • dense mass of firemen armed with hatchets and long poles with hooks at the end. As they rash along thus armed and Deering the engine between them, they inspire nearly a, much terror as the ire itself. Numberless are the accidents they occasion ; all Sy wildly before them to save themselv es from haetared limbo and, as it often occurs, from loss ef life. We witnessed some heart-breaking scenes of mothen sepa rated from their children, and of aged and helpless persons who in the absorbing selfishness of terror had been forgotten, and who crawled into the thronged streets calling en the pensers-by for help. The British *misery is a total wreck. All the fami taw has been destroyed, and the house itself would have been salaamed were it not built of solid stone, with fireproof aeon and shutters. It caught fire several times, but owing to the exertions of those on the spot the flames were r in i , skl . k extinguished. All the houses round about were and one veld see the dames licking the lee shut tles, and hear them rolling up with a noise like that of a rushing wind against the stout atone walls. The weed-work of the windows was destroyed ; the iron shutters and doors were red hot. In some places within the house the tempe rature was like that of a furnace. All the important papers were saved. At a little before midnight the fire began to abate, and in half-an-hour was completely got under. This, however, was not effected till after several houses bad been pulled down—nearly a bandied, and some of these the largest and best in Per. hare been destroyed. The amount of property lost cannot be ascertained, but it is supposed to be something enormous. It was easy to judge of the esteem entertained for Mr. and Mrs. Wellesley, not only by the British residents here, but by the corps diplomatsee, in the anxiety which was shown to render assistance when it was known that the embassy was in danger of being burned. The crew, of the French, Austrian, and Russian men-of war were present, and were almost constantly occupied in the interior of the build ing in flinging water upon the walls and windows. Toe much praise cannot be given to Count Stnrmer, the Austrian internnecio, for the assistance which be rendered on the occasion. He had come with only one attendant from kis own palace, which was a considerable distance, through all the dangers which we have described above, to the Bri tish embassy, where he arrived, one of the first after the alarm bad been given. With his own hands he assisted in saving the more precious effects of the British minister and of Mn. Wellesley, and by his voice and presence encouraged those present to exert themselves is extinguishing the flames. Mr. and Mrs. Wellesley are at present staying at the Austrian palace, and some of the English attar/tie are also enjoying the splendid hospitalities of the Count and Countess de Starner. The Itaen theatre is burned down, and it is said to be the intention of the government to have another built upon a more extensive scale. The Prussian cabinet he demanded its agent at Constan tinople to procure it an exact and eons ete return of the Turkish forces as regards numberand • of the men now under arms, its reserve in case of war, a list of the offi cers, de. The Prussian cabinet inquired, at the same time, if smote those officers there were any willing to enter foreign service, or who might be induced to do so by bribery; it desired to have the names of such officers with private notes on each. U we bring this fact to bear upon the step taken by Russia some time since, in demanding explanations from the Porta es to pretended armaments, and consider well the com plicity which unites those two powers, more than a fortuitous coincidenci r = sopeeted. The measure relative to the se of the sale of slaves, and the aboli tion of t s • elsereineket has bee favourably received, The Sultan has resemnsnei te the attention of his mine. ten the necemity of Leming Union reeds of communise tin between the IV woolens elproduction and en eumption. New 'ow OM edge is he mar he tang the exchange with . Tits goverassmit lea wain taken a reform in the emwge, and awaiting the time when that reform will be simple* it makes an annual sgresesent with a banking-hoess at Contardinspie who engages lima soshein e to maintain the rate a Nom never Noma It may exceed 110 piastres for ems peed f a 172 fora trine. To &endue these operatio ns,estmi to hundreds of millions, the Pacha of Wit s he, ewes to his ins ere exportations, is always lam Dave, has 4= himself to pay his tribute In et enimsge ea and Trieste. This system lm boa adonsd for Ile Lot three years. The but agreement with M. Anna, • Preen banker, expires at the end of February, but commies feet no anxiety on this heed, as the urgency of fixing the rate of exchange is urvleastood by all. The establishment of a bank is also spoke. of. It is a project which has often been taken up and abandoned. Besides the other advantages it would offer, it would reduce the pries of silver, which ts as high as 12 to 10 per set. premium. PRANCE.—M. GITIZOT AND THE BET OP TUNIK. --A report has been spread In Paris that England, Austria, Prussia, end Russia have resolved to protest against the sovereignty of the Bey of Toni.. Thel3nti.h government rsrelines to recognise the Bey in any other way than as the vassal of the Porte. SLAVERY IN THE FRENCH COLONIES.—A petitio:t signed by six hundred and forty-eight members of the Catholic clergy, demanding an immediate and total abdition of slavery in the French colonies, has been laid before the Chamber of Poro by Count Moutalembert. Among the * meter " th ere ere twenty-seven of the cures of Pens. BELOIUM.—The last Belgian census has brought to light the singular fact tn at the population of }linden has decreased in lam years. In 1846. the population of West Flanders was counted at 642,000, a decrease of 22,000 on the former year, and that of East Flanders was 791,000, or 15,000 len than in the former year. In the other provin cee,_polalion had increased during the same period. ITALY.—NAPLES. The wish of excitement-seek ing staangen, for a grand outburst of Vesuvius, has been deferred. The volcano has kept up a slow and regular erup tion. On the 24th ult., a large quantity of lava flowed from the crater. The mountain has been a place of amusement lately. In various places, where there is some curious phe nomenon, such as an occasional eruption, you may find par ties cooking eggs, or enjoying oranges and vino jamoso.—A prohibition of the export of maize and dried fruits has appeared. EGYPT.—THE CHOLERA.—A private letter from Alexandria, of the 29th Jan., announces that a courier had arrived from Gedda, with the news that the cholera had dis appeared from the Ilidjas, and had taken a southerly direc tion, leaving Egypt. The viceroy intended leaving for Cairo. Ibrahim Pacha is still at Farsoul. MONTE VIDEO.--Several papers, additional to those we have already received, per the William Peile, have come to hand. El Comercio del Plata gives as authentic a statement, to the effect that the Emperor of Brazil had granted a passport to General Rivera, to proceed to Para guay, en the understanding that he was going in the charm ; ter of a minister plenipotentiary. From the same paper we learn that the proffered mediation of the United States be tween Paraguay and Buenos Ayres had been pre sented to the government at Assumption by Mews. Graham and Brent. The reply of Governor Loan was to the effect that although he deprecated ir ing the conduct of Roma rendered a war necessary. Till the Buenos Ayrian troops were withdrawn from Uruguay, and all obstructions of the free navigation of the Parana removed, the government of Paraguay was resolved to act up to the late declaration of their president. Lopez in his reply took the opportunity of making several strictures on the conduct of Mr. Brent, American charge d'araires et Sues°. Ayres, whose seta he declared were, is his opi nion without the sanction of his government. COLONIAL. NEW ZEALAND. The letters and papers brought from Auckland by the Cecilia, were delivered on Saturday. The dates from Auckland are to the 18th, from Wellington to tke 19th, of September. AUCKLAND.—THE LeoisLsruree.—The session of the Legislative Council was opened, on the sth of Oc tober, by Governor Gray. The rules cf Council were read and adopted. Despatches from the Secretary were then read and adopted. Despatches from the Secretary of State for the Colonies were presented and read. The following bills were presented : A bill to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a police-force ; a bill to confirm certain rules, forme, and tables of fees relating to the supreme court; a bill for the naturalisation of certain persons in the colony of New Zealand ; a bill to amend an ordinance for appointing a board of trustees for the manage ment of property to be set apart for the education and advancement of the native race. The council met daily (Sunday the 1 lth excepted) till the 16th of October, inclusive. By that time such of the mea sures above enumerated were well through commit tee. A Customs Duties Amendment Bill had been introduced and read a second time. Bills to afford poor re lief, settle a standard of weights and measures, a prison bill, rind bills foreeveral other purposes of lees moment, had been brought in. Governor Gray and his council, in short, were busy re-establishing the social order, shattered into frag meats by the eccentricities of ex-Governor Fitzroy. The mea sures of the local government were freely, but to all appear ance candidly, canvassed in council. Not so oat of doors, where an organised agitation of the land sharks, lay and clerical, was obviously maturing against th e n governor. WELLINGTON.—PROORESS op HOSTILITIES.— The natives of the W district, who had joined Ran gih►eata, left him on e 12th of September to return to their own district. Rangiheesta himself was repented to hare gees to Rangitiki with his follower on the 14th. LINIAL PROCREDINDS AGAINST THE CAPTURED IN sußowrrt—The court-martial appointed to try the prisoners taken in are, commenced its sittings at Paramatta: Point, Porirna, on the 14th of Sept. The first prisoner tried was Rankihaesta, one of the scouts captured at Pahatanui, by the allied natives, on the let of August. Ile either is or affected to be insane : he was allowed the benefit of the doubt, and sentenced to imprisonment for life. On the 15th came on the trial of • brother of Rangihaeata, whose native name is Wareaitu, and his baptismal Martin Luther. lie pleaded guilty to the charge of having been taken in arms against the queen, having joined the rebels under Raugihaeata. Witnesses were, nevertheless, examined. The natives appeared perfectly to comprehend the proceedings of the court. The evidence was conclusive: Wassaitu was declared guilty and sentenced to be hanged. He admitted the justice of his sentence, and wrote to his friends at Wan ganui to dissuade them from engaging against the govern ment. He said he was not afraid to die, but regretted that he had not been shot or tomahawked instead of being reserved to be hanged. He was executed on the morning of the 17th on a gallows erected at the foot of a low send hill, about 300 yards from the stockade which encloses the camp. Only about twenty Europeans and fifteen natives were patent. The greater part of the natives of the Taupo pah (who had waited for their breakfasts) arrived before be I was cat down. With the exception of a few old men they ' appeared to concur is the justice of his sentence, and the proprimy of its haviag been carried into execution. The prisoner walked with a firm step from the spot where his handcuffs were taken off to the gibbet, and stood perfectly firm while the rope was adjusting. The Rev. 11. Owilt attended lira during his last moments. The trials of the prisoners taken at Wainui were to com mence *lathe 18th of September. for Bonn. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, left Buckingham Palace in a carriage and four at • quarter past three o'clock on Saturday afternoon, for Claremont. Their RR. Mil. the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, with the suite, followed in four carriages and four. Her Majesty sad her royal consort were conducted to their car rage by the Lord Chamberlain the Muter of the Horse, and Lord George Lennox. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, the royal children, and the ladies and gentlemen of the royal household, arrived at Claremont at a quarter before five o'clock on Saturday afternoon. The Hon. and Rev. C. L Courtenay arrived at Claremont on Saturday evening. Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert took their usual early walk in Claremont Park. The royal family took their accustomed airings yesterday fore noon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, and the ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite, attended divine service yesterday at Claremont. The Hon. and Rev. C. L. Courts ' nay officiated. H. R. H. the Duchess of Kent attended divine service yesterday in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Diking, the lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the communion service by the Bishop of London. The sermon was preached by the Bishop lof St. Aaaph. The Anthem was, " 0 God thou hest cast us out." (Purcell.) Sir George Smart presided at the organ. Lady Fanny Howard was in waiting on the Duchess of Kent; and among the nobility present were the Marquises of Anglesey, Northampton, and Salisbury ; Ladies Palmerston and Charlemout ; Lord. Granville, Leetowel, Canterbury, Noreen De Manley. and W. Graham. The Duke of Wellington attended the early service yesterday M the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The Rae. Dr. Wesley officiated and preached the sermon. • Their ItR.HH. the Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge and ILA Serene Highness Prince Frederick of lime attended divine service yesterday in St. Paul's, Knights bridge ; Lady Augusta Cadogan and Baron Knesebeck were in waiting OD their RR. 1111. - . - H. R.H. the Duchess of Kent left town on Satnr dity morning for her residence, Frogniore House, Windsor, H. R. H. returned to Clarence Home, St. James's, in the afternoon. Their RR.HH. the - Duke and Duchess of Cam bridge honoured the Italian Opera with their presence on Saturday evening. Their RR.HH. were accompanied by His Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse. A cabinet council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lana. down*, the Earl of Minor, Sir George Grey, Viscount Pal xnerston, Rad Grey, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John Hob house Lord Campbell, Viscount Morpeth, the Earl of Clarendon, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, and the Right Hou. H. Labouchere. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was prevented from attending the council by indisposition. The COW:10a at an hour and a halt Count de Bt. Anlaire, the French &alba/m.4or, transacted Waimea on Saturday at the Foreign-office. Mr. W. Beresford, M.P., and a deputation from the Ipswich and Bury Railway Company, had an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strati on Saturday, at the altos of the Commissioners of Railways. A deputation from the National Philanthropic Association had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday at the Home-ono,. Mr. Hudoon and a deputation had an interview on Saturday with the Right Hon. E. Strutt. The Governor of the Bank of England and the Deputy-Governor Lad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday. Mr. John O'Connell, M.P., Mr. Gregory, M.P., Mr. Hamilton, M.P., and a deputation of Irish distillen, had as interview with Lord John Rummell on Saturday. Sir Alexander Johnston had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday. Mr. Greene,_ M.P., had an interview on Saturday with the Right Hon. E. Benin. Despatches were received on Saturday at the Colo nist-ofiles from the governors of the West India colonies. THE SPEAKER'S LEVEE.—The Right Hon. the Speakwr of the House of Commons held his first parliamen tary 'keret!, this session on Saturday night at his mansion, in Rem:at-square. The Right Hun. gentleman's official recep -1 Von was preceded by a full dress dinner party at which the following were the guests:—Lord George Bentinck, Lord John Manners, the Marquis of Chandos, Viscount Berner:, the Right Hon. C. E. Law, the Right Hon. Fred. Shute, Sir Wm. Verner, Bart., Sir John Tyrrell, Bart., Col. Sibt;norp, Major Bereeford, Mr. G. Hanka, Hr. B. Disraeli, Mr. C. N. Newdegate, Mr. J. Neeld, Mr. F. MIPro, Mr. C. W. Mr. G. Ntrdson, Mr. A. Leßoy, Mr. Geo. Arkwright, Dick, Mr. 0. Finch, Mr. R. Christopher. Nr- G. A. Ewa ton, Mr. Mackinnon, Mr. R. Palmer, Mr. T. Rouldsuerrg_ and Mr. T. W. Ilenlcy, The Duke of Wellington hooeys i i the right hoe. gentleman by his company at the levee, ' ft , right hon. gentleman's second and last levee is appcnistedg e Saturday next. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne received at dinner, on Saturday evening, a disci circle including the Marquis de St. Aulaire, Count i ro th tor, the Marchioness of Clanricarde and Lad. Emily de B er n . the Earl and Countess Granville, Earl and Counters Grey, the Earl of Minto. Lord de Manley, Lady Malet, Re. Re. THE LATE DUKE OP NORTHUMBERLAND.--Th e mortal remains of the late Duke of Northumberland wen removed from Alnwick Castle late or Friday evening, m g arrived at Northumberland House, Charing-eross, on Eatar, day morning, at half-past 7 o'clock. The funeral has been appointed to take place on Tuesday next, at one o'clock. Ths remains will be consigned to the Percy vault, in St. Nicholaa's Chapel, Westminster Abbey, where lie those of the w e duke's father, and some distinguished members of the Percy family. The ceremony will be private. The Duke of Nor thurnberland, the Duke of Athol, Lord Lovaine, and Earl Feeds, with others, will follow.—Obserrer. DiATII OF ADMIRAL SIR WILLOUGHBY THOMAS LAI e, K.C.B.—This distinguished officer expired at Black heath on the 18th instant, aged 74, and after a connexion with the British navy of nearly 60 years' duration. He was the second son of Sir James Winter Lake, Bart., by the daughter of John Crowther, Esq., of Bow. At an early age he entered the naval service, and after a probationary service as midshipman was appointed lieutenant November 22, 1790. His further commissions being thus dated: com mander, November 22, 1794; post-captain, January 4, 1796; rear-admiral, August 12, 1819; vice -admiral, July 22, 1830; and admiral, Nov. 23, 1841. Sir Willoughby was captain of the Magnificent, in Sir Home Popham's squadron, on the north coast of Spain, in 1812; and during the Peninsular war commanded a division of seamen and marines landed to co-operate with the Guerillas. In some skirmishes which 'ensued he was twice wounded. In 1812 he was honourably mentioned for his services in the London Gazelle. In 1824, during Lord Melville's administration at the Admiralty, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief on the North American station, and in that capacity remaine' until 1824. Sir Willoughby married, in 1795, the daught of Vice. Admiral John Macbride. He was in the enjoyment of a pension of 3001. per annum, in addition to half-pay. PRINCE ALBERT AND TEIE CAMBRIDGE UNlTER orry.—Our Cambridge correspondent, dating Saturday night, writes : "The Vice-Chancellor, who with the Muter of Jesus, and the Muter of Christ's, presented the requisi tion to Prince Albert, soliciting his Royal Highness to become Chancellor of the University, bu just returned from Lon don. His Royal Highness declines to accede to the requisi tion. It is rumoured that the Trinity will not allow the Johnian party to walk over the course, and that they have another candidate in view." THE IRISH PARTY. The Irish Party assembled on Friday at their new chambers, King-street, St. James's, for the special purpose of considering the provisions of the bill recently introduced into the House of Commons by Lord John Rumen, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Labouchere, to flail. tate the improvement of landed property in Ireland by the owners, and to afford employment to the labouring classes. The Marquis of Westmeath presided.—The noble chairman proceeded to read the clauses of the bill. It was agreed that several amendments should be recommended to the legislative. The limitation of the advances out of the growing produce of the consolidated fund, for the purposes of the act, to one million five husdred thousand pounds wag regarded as injudicious, and the general impression appeared Ito be that the Treasury Commissioners should receive per mission to ism, as from time to time might be required, sums of money not exceeding in the whole the rum of two millions. It was generally considered by the meeting thee the loans should be issued by instalments not exceeding at soy time one-tenth of the entire sum, instead of one-fifth, wad that no instalment sheuld exceed in any case 5001., inelead of 3001. In the evens of an owner desiring to clear eff his rent-eherge for loan more speedily than at the rate of 61.10 a per cent. for 22 years, the fortieth section enacted that he could do so with the sanction or the Treasury Commis sioners, bat the Irish party thought that in such case nettles should be given to the reversioner, and his moment obtained. _ _ _ The I rish party met again on Saturday, the Earl of Massareene in the chair. Some clauses of the proposed Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill wen again diamond. Mr. Smith O'Brien announced that it inn his intention to propose that the poor-law commiosionen should ream and reconsider the electoral divisions of the @erasl unions in each a manner sii that the pauperism of each district should bear to the pro perty liable for its relief al nearly an uniform proportion throughout each union as circumstances would allow. Seve ral letters were read giving an appalling account of the daily increasing state of destitution en Ireland. It was unani mously resolved that the fearful details of niery end suffer ing contained in those communications should be stated in the House of Commons, and the necessity of immediately providing food and seed for the Irish people pressed upon government. DEPUTATION OP IRISH ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY.. XEN.—The Very Rev. D. M. Canna', P.P., of Mallow, as chairman of the meeting, recently held in Penney, of the Roman Catholic clergymen of thetunited dioceses of Cloyne and Roes, and the Rev. Justin M'Carthy, R.C.C., as a dem cation from that meeting. had an interview with Lord John Russell with the view of making the noble lord acquainted with the sentiments entertained by their order, in reference to the necessity that exists for the introduction of a clause into the new Irish poor-law act for the extension of out-door relief to the able-bodied as well as the infirm destitute poor in that country, and to suggest other measures to di minish the amount of destitution at present, and to prevent a recurrence of the calamity. Another object was to inform Lord John Russell that the proceedings of the Irish party were looked upon with universal distrust by Roman Catho lic clergymen, the middle classes, and the people generally in Ireland. Lord J. Russell did not enter into any lengthened explanation of the course which he intended to take in re ference to the suggestions made by Dr. Collins. He (Lord John Russell) thought that much depended on the Roman Catholic clergy, who should endeavour to rouse the people from the apathy into which they bad fallen. After further remarks, the deputation withdrew, having expressed to Lord John Russell their warmest thanks for the courtesy with which he had received them. THE REOENT'S CANAL RAILWAY.--Saturday, at the Marylebone Vestry, Mr. Daniel, as chairman of the committee appointed by the vestry to conduct the oppo 'Rion to the proposed Regent's Canal Railway, brought up a petition to Parliament for the approbation of the vestry. Sir B. Hall explained that owing to Lord John Russell's In tention of bringing on the budget on Monday next, this railway bill was not likely to be discussed during the ensuing week. Sir P. Laurie raid he was glad to see this project opposed by the Birmingham Railway Company ; he thought such opposition would materially aid in defeating the bill The petition was unanimously adopted, and it was resolved that Sir B. Hall should be requested to present the same to the Houle of Commons.—Respecting the opposition to this. bill, a correspondent of Dossg&ss Jerrold's A estopoper mak.ea the following remarks ,--" If the company would construct their railway in the bottom of the canal, on the plan of a railway in a cutting, and abolish the water, it would at owns silence all opposition in parliament, and reconcile thousuels of dissatisfied persons out of parliament. The canal b a nuisance, as any one will testify who lives close to it, god sees three or four dead dogs in various places tainting the atmosphere with putrefaction ; besides, the stream is the foundations of houses along its vicinity, as surely rises upwards, spoiling or duitroying pictures, books, clothes, and furniture. And I cannot but think that it is far behind. the improvements of the age, to persist in keeping ep the. snail-pace system of barge-conveyance of goods." STATE OF NEWOATE.—Ata Committee of Aldermen. on Saturday, the crowded state of Newgate, from Lord John Russell haying refused to transport any more criminals, ems brought under notice. It was imposaHlie to keeptle tried and untried in the same gaol, and more preen room must be bras diately presided. Mr. Alderman Humphery proposed that the Borough Compter, which cost 7001. a year, and dial not contain a angle prisoner, might be allotted to the convicted criminals. The Recorder said they could not be legally detained there, being out of the City. The matter is to be flusher considered. Mn. Sraurr's RAILWAY BILL.—A meeting took place in Bridgearreet, Westminster, on Saturday morning, to consider Mr. Scott's new bill. After about two boars' discussion the meeting were unanimous in wishing Mr. Strutessetismil reeding to he put of for a week to enable the various iekeeresei is eareriliet the clauses of the bill. A sem i mitts* wee appeiated He the purpose, consisting of the gnat raldwazr letwen stem wintry and an application was made I to Mr. Strata at use lewd of trade, to put off the second. readies until Meek/ week. THE QUEEN AND TI Aerate:4.—h in rumoured that the highest pereeneepe in the realm has taken offence at the conduct et a coeds peer who, on the day of the opening of the present 0111111i011 of parliament, intodnoed to the benches on which the peerestes sit, a lady whom name ha for some time been unociaaed with the drama in a mass. nor so poisulass as to obtain for her niche in the temple of Fame. The lady in gunboat was introduced 111 the wife et a peer, and the imposition was not discovered until her IL.. jesty, on paying a visit to the theatre at which the lady in question is engaged, identified the heroine as the party who had, but a few hours before, sat near to her while the wee reading the royal speech.— Weekly Dispakh. - - _ THE HOUSE OF PEERS AND THE NEW BRIDGE.— It is stated that Mr. Barry has intimated to the Marquis of Lansdowne that the House of Lords will be completed for the reception of their lordships after the Easter recess, with the exception of the fresco paintings and the statues in the niches—The new Home of Commons is not expected to be ready for some time, We may mention here that the sur veyors have begun taking the levels for the bridge to cram the Thames to the new park about to be formed in Battens& fields.--AfAertertmer SERMON O, PRICE TEN AND SIXPENCE. —The fol lowing advertisement appears in the JeAn Bull of yesterday, under the lead of " Manner fp% sem= ea plied:" 361 .7701HH elolAterA from rem et yender buaara sed ban .wz PelieVe. babe IMAM 0b1.,74, way or, More test Yr more, and Wee rem testy of all r 7. to espy erre, rem beer re elwrl d lsee, r erselerd err ere et lareseeedies re of a l= ni verri alliiiiig lig ". la re? reels Sr ewe per sal are ad Meier irk Err OS OSP& mans am MOW/A to a trim aatrppieaeS rtH ere reghlreito be sset to.