The Express. — London, England, 1849-04-04 00:00:00

IDIPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDL—TozsDAY, Aram 3. Tis Loch Chasm:as took Ws Net et 6 o'elock. 11713L1C INSCMIN 11174;01:40.—ephits (Inheep 8111 . CON NlTTEM—lnensy of Wien (inked) ; Preteens at Jib INN glehri) Burma.— SUL PZITIIOI Zed YITZWILLIAII trete • bees in the mg* et Wester*. maw • tete fa CAMPULL. trebrieb. *oho the toolea r et t gos ce the btard -TAMIL. et es the t o lates et ebrieblurel dieseb—lble ben nbubbies stele Mem AR peekeith etthe bet Ilet CANLOLN. hen Wray. le Omer et b. *Nubia n& esibreltes.—ltezt gababotib. NONA the NM OR ROYAL AWRY. Tao real emit was Oven by seaseielies to th e follow. Mlae i : —TM lietioill e t the Muth, Nutley the Woltes lett Dill. The lortis Comairieols we Bill ; sad the Lied Cheasethw, the Eel of Ithattabary, sad Lord ChmkelL IRISH FISHERIES. Lard MONTEAGLE. on presenting the petitios from Omit, said the Irish Fithay Art of lest series bed hi assesd the pauperism of Irels. It levied s tea on all beats goieg up rivers fir the pnrpese d otrsisisi lbh. sad the petition as prayed for its &assassins. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said the wthfest wit miler she eoseiderstas of s committee of the ether home of pertiemeet. After a brief tonverestios between Lord Bsovonme sad W Earl of O LIIOALL, the subject dropped. ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved that the beer, at hi *Mg, do adios= to Monday, the 19th iset.—Agreed to. AUSTRIA AND SARDINIA. Lord BROUO HAM algid again be allowed to express • bee, before the adjosfamost kr the Zama moses, that this emstry would.lesva Me Medial ion between Anstria and flow Rids entirely to Fumes. The noble and leartai lord tbm pessudell to madam the French National Assembly fur their blustering talk about pemereing the intevity ol Pied. auk which wee so more menaced than the integrity of TIN , noble sad learned lord proosedad to say that it was important that the Melia, of that house should not be miimpreeested, particularly is • asighbrarlng kingdom. Re MO, thememer wry anxious to mato that it was untrue what had been atited In some of the newspapers of the day, that when he spoke the other night of the nal wereel joy and “ultatioa obi& all parties had emulsion upon Ms late giddies ressite of the short (and far that reason the mem *Ms* sampolgs is piedmont — the statement was ressive4 wish erase of" No, no." and " Oh, oh." That wasemstrary to the truth. Their lordship adjourned at iVeloek. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Tusenst, Arm 3. The Bramum took the chair at 4 (Moak. PRIVATE _BUSMEN. sad &War& Railway (am M. IMPORT ODBUDERED.—Lin met Nil altruism et Ur) BUL PUBLIC MINIM PZTITIONL—Ry It,. DEWAR. area a Pees in rube. in toner et the leen reg ea lden d Mango lib—dr. B. ADAM pod. Yoe bon ober Is bethod ; Arland OOIDON, tan Aberdeen; Mr. LOCKHART. be. lean ether; M. MUM% Den Na iades, spinet the bill.—Mr. DOMCAR, Din=em plane Is Paohnike; Mr. P. MACLI, swan peddler den y la Parthdire; OIL 11010CWON, Don One in lisellielt ffr. 111. DRUMMOND; lb. teen SC lents thersonlielsOloupper; Mr. a. ADAM linnern ; Lard J. isiTART. tre u n=l rr e barks; AA. wird atiaCoN, from Monne ; Mr. a born enmencon; Mr. FORBES, pedienu Den lierefelske ; Mr. COWAN, wend enables, from allanwat • Mr. WART, from Leith; Lord ASHLEY, km Reel isi Mier pieces la Beettend, .q rx the ICI be the ended et railway Mine an tin .—Mr. LOCKE, has Obrgew, Is boom at the bol. Yr.inn, ham badwiek mine the repel ot the wigs tam . trameserbery. went the Montego 1111.—Itr. P. MARL&bi • ken Per C thsh t ire, in &tour of the CDrgy Redd Da.—Lord L BIAMIRe. teen the Tab d Vs. greying pm Mkt lens earl. Irnitiwat bienn—Mr. KRBABAIT. Awn • Flan in Cleelbe ; Col IiZIKIUSICHI, Ben Kirtaidy, to been of is onlkillus dm, in tnellea.—Od.lllollPSON. hen lamb" veer hr NM to the Rev. Mr. ihere—lard D. STUART, tram MerOnweet pe It. WEILOURIIIITO rem Choking's, ha boost et • emenestanka len Mr poor law eillein—Mr. MORN a, ham dinnes Wes. In fewer et the nillill• et the wisp, was by builik Owl pee. negeopeny gseneriden. SWUM the motion etlfr. MUMR—Relam nil deramein haled tea er mem benden es/ yeelbniene Is M dare% and swam shaft webs et the est wiled Os Ha- Midis ; t ilennee the hmellen se Mini by ; she the eiesen enema of eon r=prairsomit held n plernlty, rod the smatter of the pops. Wee In den bodes et the be 111•1OL Of MOTION.—Ina or lane terorm—litr. &ADM% ma i rtil l oliApril. teen the ellenin ct the hone to Me bpi In. =Ato the NM progerty Ironed, with • view le ellen rt lamer easy steer. Itsesonn Zillektillel.-111. 0. A. MAMMON. shot lacer, to tram ea Mien preying for Mee medibelleas la the mem ot m ined eamillea Henn need' remeve the eneekenew eyes Om of • hide lades et the menlime ot the enthiblind amok Is int earmery. Inearearnen a CULL. WOUE -0011, ea be Mk et April, to men Wheats to • bit hr the lassependes el Mine, lienstegtea. Coon or CSAMINST no lantam.—Mr. MO.JIII. ea dee Mk el APB. le nen hr ambit eannittes to nimbi Ye the tined the law la tone neenimint noilvere by the Overt et Carr eery la eel the neemenen et ernes neer their on to eneelne bow for Demme maineed to the hopronerere e 4 these Mane. inlet the Oman ea then NAVIGATION LAWS. Mr. LABOUCHERE stated that he would postpone the order of the day ins bringing up the report on the navigation laws till Thursday, the 19th inst. INCOME TAX FOR IRELAND. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON wished to know from the hon. member for Her whether ft was hi intention so to alter the terms of hie amendment to the motion for raising LCOLOOW. f,r the relief of Irish distrem as to give an oppor tunity to those gentlemen who thought that there ought to be imperial taxation to support his amendment ? Mr. H. A. HERBERT said it was hi intention to move the szamdment, of which he had given lustier, with such verbal amendments es would assure the support althorn' who thought that If than was to be an inootae-tax for Ireland it nand be for general purposes, and not for poor-law pur poses elope. SICILY. Mr. URQUHART wished us know from the noble lord =le (Lord Palmerston) when the paper& relative to the of Sadly, which had been promised a month ago, mould be presented. Lord PALMERSTON hoped that they would be laid on the table of the hoses that sight. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Loa J. RUSSiab7pedtbatatter Beater the bouts would be reedy to begin public business at beltpest four Vele& (Rem.) ROYAL C 911111,8810,11. Sir A. Cury"a apprred . at the fay., ..a ...mow the house to the Reese Of Leeds to hear the rirl 'meat gives by tememiadee to antral bills (far which see Lords report). Laid J. RUSSELL hosed that as it wee the general wish et the house that the adjourned debate as the rate is ate should be preseeded with that night. those lea. gegthemon who had notion fee that evening would have the Maim Ite Ciprthem. ia order that the adjourned debut= e ceaded with, sad, he trusted, brought to a OM Wild. (Rear, bear.) Mr. SCOTT said he felt the greatest relasteace to rie► pens a mace of so mush important" es hie ems with referees@ to the colonies. but he would sensed to ties t on the understanding that be thrill bin treerward atm ern Thursday, the 19th Ind , after the report en the Navigation Bill had been received. Lord J. RUSSELL had so desire that say other oldie of 1 , the den y should precede the bon. gezdsman's motion. deeksi that the hoe. geetleinaa had waived his prior *Pa he hoped other hon. members would follow his esampb. Sir R. PEEL thought the renewal of the lehltdebehe so early as Monday might he attended with some bonsai emu to Irish members. It would, perhaps, be better to fix the motion in rebuses to the colonies for that day, and the Irish debate for Thursday. After some conversation the right hoe. baronet's slope- Men was adopted. Mr. ANSTBY postponed his motion with mad b &Wry until that day fortnight Mr. P. KEW'S trusted there would be as eiteelleM his introducing the bill of which he had_ ghee meth Is oir Manes to the employment of labour in Iseksii. (A bash.) Lord J. RUSSELL thought that as tabu bon. gentlemen bed given way, the hos. member would est ruin. SUNDAY TRAVELLING. Mr. LOCKS obeerved, in reference to the bill which he soeght to introduce, that all the petitions which had come up ham Scotland were founded on the assumption that he wished to compel ralwav companies to put oa additional trains as S u nday wherea s . the real object of the bill was to compel 00111pligies to attach passenger curlew to all the post-oo hobs travelling on Sunday. (Hear, hear.) As there was a bed deal of agitation on the subject in Scot land, and se het agitation would probably continue during the Easter be biped the house eroaM allow the bill to be printed, in velar that the public might be made aware of 1 the nature of its provisions. (Cries of "Move, move.") The hon. member was proceeding to move for leave to bring in the bill, when Mr. COWAN roee to object, whereupon Lord J. RUSSELL said it woe evident that as the modon was to be objected to, it could not be carried without previous digression and delay. (Hear, hear.) Mr. LOCKE hoped that he should have similar facalitise, as the time for renewal , to those which were granted to f o l tre d en. re numbers. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL obtained leave to Latro be.' • " bill for giving effect to the stipulations of • treaty between her Majesty and the Queen of Portugal, for the 'p rehension of outais de enters ;" alto • " bill to facilitate the administration of justice at the Cottle Criminal Court, sad at sessions of the pesos in and near the metropolis." SUPPLY. The report of the committie of supply wen then received. POOH LAWS (IRELAND) RATE IN AID BILL. ADJOURNED DEBATE. Oa the order of the day for mussing the adjourned debate, Mr. J. O'CONNELL said he could sot but regret that on a Question of such deep ininortanos to Ireland any language should have been used which was calculated to create bitter feelings and to prevent ca'm diicussion. He especially re grayei that the hon. ant learned member for the university of nubile (Mr. Napier) should have tessiled the eqnstltn timel movement in Ireland in ruler of legislative in dependence-4 movement in which gentlemen of the honourable and burned gentleman's politic in former days gloried. 'Dr Lividions comparison drawn between the people of Ulster and those of other par's of Ireland he had also regretted to hear. The people of Utter hat many amid fieelidee, but be deviled that they were the best sallisele of leer Mejesty ; should the Mire forget the sekEsie prebnes end with whin the pe ogle the se eri had bourse their diereses. With regard to the _,,et Ware the hones, sideleg whisk be led heard fit drawee of the debate bad mooed Ws ebilsettime to it ; his chief objection being that it woad pees uojendy lease, eadibelneeft paid by, the peewee drier He did set dug thst there were mug monad la= belied, but the mem of livelihood if =my of the terms scow issue' tithed mile bad sot Men rableM, an i the todesey of the meanne would be to auk the poor rate payees. The sells bed (Lewd _ff. Estiell) bed set eat by min that it wenn be siMendoe fie pat the beam tax or the bed tax De Imbed, or Sheba the melee ands there to a bed with the dada in this twass7—se Murk" though I=tlis beespediest. He mainsbol that ft would be belk Imlay and beak, and be direct violation of the alkali welen. tee ger tg_hi that home would be jessibil plisefies bet awl ben. - (Hes, hoer.) It that est were to be militeekeed pants of advaatage, it mos • equelayfiesiateined Y ride of dkadveatage to this (Seer.) He Wes may to beer the 110 t hon. gon dolas' (Sir L Pail) joking the noble bed In dictating that Wiwi aught to maks a greeter see then she had deco, ge peebeled Wad its Whig odd that Ireland at mode me smnisa. There Meld be no doubt that the intends* of the pverereent to promote the improvement of band by uslstaime to rail ways, for &Mae" de., would have • ImA:id effect. As to the security widget would prove most beneficial. it would be the giving to the tent that which be had r iti c e i ! enjoyed, a acuity in the pommies yat ef hie holding, a bin in the remits of itsmeat. As to be expe dient of en Moons tax ill = it would be most gill• estrous to Ireland. At more Lee, those bon. gentle. men who desired to *Distribute in this way to the wants their country, let them send in their teas of pounds or of of pounds by way of conscience mosey. He urged the house toles* no time canyieg oat so moth of the plea of the right bon. member for Tanwortli se would en courage the small capitalists of Imbed to beirmissell pro pneten there, instead of carrying their money end their labour to distant countries. An essential pebeitilb was, to take effective manures for ehatillog I ebesitedes and for stopping that encases. drain of Irish 1111•1•5 and Irish tan dem which now left Ireland so assents. Ed *es d to think that an excellent might cut of the various pleas before the taking, mangle, the hon. member for Bultlegbesehbre's iimiseme en. the aoble herds railway and below shine, ased the outline of the plan of the right fen member fie Tan= Hr. LAWLESS contended that the whole course of their legislation 'rimed the utter indlifereas of the imp Irbil par liament to the lives and prosperity of Irishmen. As to the mesas before his, he considered it as based upon the of robbery, and, for himself, he preferred that C a l:n 46 dshould labour under the reproach of mendicancy rather than nada that of robbery. He was of opinion that the sum required could be easily raised by an imams tax upon ell description of _property in Ireland, the tax being doubled for absentees. But justice could not be a:- pa! ed from the nob'' lord, who sat there, worse than Nero, with his arms folded, utterly indifferent to the woes of Ireland. (Lighter.) - • - - Lord C. HAMILTON said that he did not resist the rata in aides mesa as the grated of its amount as on that of the priest* • whisk" was levied. If it were applied to pre pays( easy esker Inked it would be lees objee tiseshie. The la. br keOlbashestar, whom he did net nein his pine, noted lest alga that it would be very ~yeer t< Ulster smell be smimilated to Ireland, sadaom nnllmeeerion had hem meal" that Ulster had been more fanned ilea anyStber privisee, sad, in tact, that this district was pre-eminent one the rest of Ireland. This wee sot true. It bad wither the fertile soil, the ports and har bours, son the Sang coasts of the other provinces, and yet it flousiehed, became the inhabitants were thrifty, disposed to look after their own affairs and not prone to run alter seaters. (Hear.) Therefore, wine the hon. member said that he wanted to make Ulster Ireland, did he mesa to say that he desired Ulster to abandon those advantages which she pos sera sad to be lowered to the condition of Ceenanght ? His hags IRIS tansies the other provinces to a level with Ulster, emir he meld sot abandon that aspiration. The whole body duties.. contained in the pore law reports from Ireland spoke wing a rate in aid. He feared the sesemat would Ise iselpdficant, but what he mere appreheeded was that all the government sought to do was to get the fine edge of the wage Insetted sad to trust to Snare parliaments for driving it home. (No, no.) He was glad to hear the noble lord deny this intention ; and he hoped the objections founded on such apprehensions were bawler. The hon. member for Manchester bad also asserted that the fanners 'of Ulster would not so strongly have ap pend the rate in aid had not the landlords stimulated item . He for one had required to be stimulated to his app eitioa by the Lumen ' although his stake in the burthen to be imposed by the rate in aid was not inconsiderable. Perhaps the honourable roem , ur's view of the ease was influenced b 7 his recollection that bodies of ratepayers had been stimulated by others to resist those imposts, and he had applied the sane facts to the Ulster farmers. The hon. member had also made some re marks on the amount of poor rates levied for the Irish paupers in the large manufacturing and commercial towns of England. He was unaided at the bon. member's illiberality, more especially remembering the doctrices be had held m a free trader respeedeg the labour market. With respect to an observation made by the right hon. baronet (Sir R. Peel), that Ireland had repudiated the debt due to Ragland for building thOusion workhouses, he must Bey . he thought that was a harsh and an undeserved expression. The debt had not been dined or mediated, but the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, having regard le the distressed con dition of Ireland, had abstained from paseim Is, the rep meat of the sums advanced for the purpose - Maned to, but t claim had never been disputed. Bodies, there were just grounds why the Irish landholders shoal have some con sideration shown them in respell to this debt, for they had been .addled with the out-deer relief of the Irish poor. which they were sentred should set be given when the poor law wee pees& He laped, thseasee, that any pre judice &rift if= the It* Ma. boom* accusation of Ireland hiving espediated a debt mad be done away with. He would now seeing himself to the *abject of the rate in aid. He could net esisneuti either is justice on its policy. Besides, it would be early inadequate to meet the purpose Ice which it was imposed. He was quite convinced, not- I mineteming the noble lord's unrance, that the duration meal see be limited to two years, nor the amount to ed. The nab bid had also asserted that it would relieve and mu remedy the distress, but all the poor law authorities were aspinceded it would increase the area of destitution. He objesta le the rate in aid, because it pressed upon then pada community which was already the heaviest taxed. If they wanted to levy additional taxes, they shield by them upon that property which at this time was the bad taxed, sod was tke best able to pay It. But em. Maley win added to tax that clam which was the may lazed sloes, tbes he denied that they wen albs mesisfaery to amble them to tax that elms (quit .bly. Their iseedia asst be fouoded epos the pesr-law yaw ties ; and that was so =equal throughout diffirsnt parts of Ireland, that any taxation fou nd ed upon it most be alas unequal and mint. He was astonished that the scheme of government which ben as much the applesauce of being crude and ill-digested, was the only one with which they had been favoured. (Hear, hear.) Be could not help ask ing whether this was the only measure that was to be sub mitted to them? The government stated, on entering office, that they had conceived greet and comprehensive remedies for Ireland. They were pregnant, then, with those remedies. What had become of them now ? Had there been a mis carriage, cr were they stillborn ? Tie period of gestation had exceeded anything ever known in animal or natural life, and yet no comprehensive measures had seen the light. (Hear, hear.) The poet had beautifully said Naps sertuatersel la the human breed, weer te, but slyer to be blot. - - - Now he asked when Ireland was to be blest, and when they were to see the issue of all the grand promisee of 1842 ? (Hear, hear) There was so precedent in any part of the united umpire for seek a tax as was now proposed. It was called a national tax, and it might be supposed that its proceeds would be paid hate the national tree nary ; bat net we. It was paid in to the credit of a private individual the paymaster of the civil swiss a mere armature of the government who was set seepeesible to parliament, and over whom the ei relieedellim of those who paid the tax lei me whatever. finch a symbol would not be tolerated br element k this coentry, and he invited the attendee of them warm= who were so usefully employed in wale leg; the maillemed expinditere lie this part of the abject. (Hear, hoer,)imilead of stimulating industry and sumalhalibe the olden of labour, whereby alone the ex beiselfs medilie removed, would weaken and destroy all Miemmeim, and would involve alike thou counties such es Demegal, when sun pae ll as untie& bad been made to Mug* with the dilieellporita ethane sash Oil Clare, where no such exertions bad been aai, to ono osmium and irre trievable rain. (rmir i btar.) Mr. W. BROWN said thot the Isiels, like the waggoner in the fable, (sesta not to all upon Jupiter so often, but ought to lay Male own @bodies to the wheel. He did not UM upon u: i sm& they weld skim an exemption from thisrate, when bulheen exempted hem the property tax and all the tem. One dais eldeseallte hat in address ing** hams wale embevour to understand clearly the bene dotal meeeme peeriseiA a he right hon. baronet the member be Teams* who of a esmaission. If he meant that the mmededen tehe pawed= tithe embarras sed estates and sell them in small period to purchasers, then bestride be del' glad to go with the right hon. baronet, bat if they _could eel; get the title fee 6 years, then the bringing them Iddt to sale was of no ; there were plenty of lands for salethetedid not find purchasers, but they would be sold if then sem a title instanter. He was rare that this country had given prooh of a sincere de sire not to let any preen starve In Ireland ; the Esglish would do more when they saw that their fellow-countrymen on the other aide of the water were &spored to make some exertions ; but at present they must be excused from voting expend until the Irish showed their sincerity by meeting this rate is aid. Mr. S. CRAWFORD as an Mailman, should vote against the bill, because it vestei the Poor law Com.mis stoners of Ireland with arbitrary power to lay en a rate sub ject to no restriction ; and as an English representative, be cause he thought it wou l& be dangerous to England, Inas much u it would increase the existing discontent, an I entail an additional expense on this country in keeping up a much larger military force than strut, en order to the pester vatton of the peace in "reign Sir D. NORRHYS exposed the inconsistency of calling For self-exertion on the part of Ireland, when it was admitted that lugs portions of the land were waste, its farmers and its instantly uturty destitute ; and at such a td, this tax was to be placed upon the landlord'. lie interpreted the proposal of an income-tax as an Irish us& aT6lsaifylas a dislike to a este ht-akl, it restieet to whisk ha saterteased the spiel= that aU rake foLthe relief of the peer is Inlaid slssuldi be foetid urea the prheliffe of a retwiaitid, ao district being fairly resptnible for ft. web paapstisas, which was a common burden. He approval' of this tate-la-sid ; bat he belisead that =Was solid be =rag foe Ireland Ismail l•s landed property was - - - - - ' Mr. MONSELL contracted Sir D. Nanny's vote with his speech, which proved the inability of the property of Ireland te bear this rate. He wondered the government should per sist in this mann when they saw how universal wee the hostility it had eneuntend, even from its own ofilepre, sod mineldend he nequelity and insuffidency. A stronger *b indles still wee, that it was part of a system to deal with un exampled distress and famine by means of a law alone. Of the insemene prepesed to Lpes the vanities of Whe and.esseedered that the of Sir H . Peel would re move the etetatales to the flow o a capital trees ere geeing le the other,' whereas the speech of Lead 3eha Enema wee shearing and hopeless. Mr. BOWMAN said it was a most gratifyiee fact, that In the progress of the debate, the genius had hum nisei auk higher than esc mere Irish one, and that the bib members were quite justified is congratulating themednee an the improved manner in which the suited had bass ' treated, for it was quite clear that it was demisting of being approached with eerie:wain seeing that the needy of dee coo country paralysed thane:WWll of the ether. If deer' tine to the rate in aid had been leas cogent than dug VIM still he could not permit • division to be erne to waked M ung his reasons fur opposing it. Some of kM hinds considered it eeriest, but they appeared willing to en* N because no batter plan had been propred ; bat he theught the house and the country had arrived et a pried tee grave to allow Irish question now to be disposed of after inch a fashion. He never would be induced to vote on an Irish question without first investigating its principle and de tails, and seeing its real nonage on the natural intenote of Eogiend end Ireland. He had voted in favour of the grant of 60,0001., but he wee quite prepared to contend that there was • nit difference between a temporary vote to meet an emergency sad the adoption of whet might be considered a permanent policy. He believed that the peeing of • nuenre of this nature would be merely a perposerneat of the evil, which would return at no distant day ; bat, nodding the advantages of the plan, was he in ' Med parehaein them at say price ? He thought that it the hetseSrn were impend atelL • fair share of it ought to be equally horn, and dial it was neither wise, ire, nor wife to throw the when elk apes penman nets of Irelesdevibleh were not reeptmeible tee the distress of Connaught. t Hear, bear.) He gessfemed that he had listened with gnat plum= to the admirable speech as the former night of his frilled the hon. member foe ll• nchteter, but he felt surprised that that hon. gentleman should support the late wilten examining into the character or policy of the measure. He (lb. Horsemen) dented that there was any affinity ce andegy between a Radont rate and a poor law, or that there was any ground for the amnion and in the course of the de bate, that the rate in aid was • natural extension of the poor law. The tendency of every poor law was to teach men te rely upon the certainty which the law provided ; but a rate in aid, while it caused the pauper te beg more sturdily, and the guardian to withhold Ism rductandy, destroyed ecr gee r, diminished industry, dbenraged improvement, and di down pentane, who previously were in a better con dition in life, to the unhappy level of indigency and want. (Hear.) Cruel and unjustifiable as, it app weed to him, beta been many pernoos .4 Irish lepisletion, he knew of nothing se cruel and unjustifiable as the present attempt to despoil and destroy one province in Ireland in order to perpetuate the misery of another. (Hear, hear.) Upon what principle was this dm* ? It had been repeatedly asked in the progress of these disunion, what possible claim had Connaught upon Una r which Ulster bad not equally upon Middlesex ? The answer appeared to be, that Connaught and Ulster wee both is belted, that Ireland was exempt from the pro perty and other taxes, and that this sax was to be imposed as an equivalent for that exemption. (Hear, hear.) Everybody knew that improvement in Ireland must be sun- mallard. But there was one thing necessary, without which agricultural improvement would be impossible, and that was to convey to the mind of the agriculturist that he knows the worst, and can make hie future calculations upon his own scale. The rate in aid, however, would baffle all calculation. You might tell him that the ninon rate was only 25., and the national rate only 64., to be limited to two years, and that that constiteted the worst. Bat who could assure him that this limitation would be observed ? (Hear, hear.) The princi ple once admitted, no one could say that the insolvent unions would right themselves in two years . • at the end of which ' time the s same arguments now used in favour of a 2a. rate might be used in favour of a 4s. rate. He therefore objected to the rate in aid not only on principle but as a remedy tor Ireland at the present moment. Indeed the objedine to it on that score were so great and weighty that the only thing that could justify parliament in entertaining it was its being only part of • more comprehen sive scheme. But then to judge of the portion before them, they ought to be inhumed of the whole scheme. They bad been long since promised a number of remedial mea sures but had heard no more of them ; and, judg ing from the speech of the noble lord on the previous night, he should say that he had evinced a lament able unconsciousness of the real state of the cue. That speech was neither satisfactory nor statesmanlike, amounting as it did to this, that one of two thing' would happen—either that there would be a good harvest, and the people would find employment; ors had harvest, and the people would emi grate. The right hon. baronet's manner of dealing with the state of Ireland was more statesmanlike and comprehensive, while neither in matter nor in spirit did it contain any thing calculated to provoke hostility. (Hear, hear.) In the difficulty in which they were now placed they ought to feel indebted to any man for suggestions to solve that difficulty, but from the right hon. baronet more espe cially such suggestions ought to be warmly welcomed and well condriered. The right honourable baronet had already assisted the government in position which might otherwise have been found full of difficulty ; and he was only consistent now in supporting this props& non for a rate in aid, although he did so with caution, and with the intimation in which he (Mr. Hon e man) fully joined, that he drew hops from the very depth of Ireland's calamity. Into the details of the right hon. baronet's scheme be would not then enter; but be they good or bad, practicable cr impracticable, still, as the right hon. baronet had given them a comprehensive plan, he quite agreed with the hop. member for Northampton shire, that the government ought either to say they were prepared to adopt that plan, or put forward some other. Many suggestions and e: lent, some of which had been already rejected by that house, might again be fairly con sidered, now that the position and state of Ireland were better understood, and might help them to some extent in salving the difficulty. Although none of them could be re garded as a panacea for Irish evils, they were all practicable, and, in his opinion, calculated to assist them. The right hen baronet had recommended emigration ; his hon. friend the member for Stroud advised the cultivation of wear* lands ; a noble lad had proposed a measure in connexion with railways. These were questions which he considered fit for legislation ; and he thought it the duty of the government to have comeidered how far they would have met the difficulty, before they adopted this rate in aid, which could only be justified as the sole alternative. Every single official employed by the government was opposed to it, not only as impolite but impracticable; and if the house should sanction its principle, such arguments would be ad duced against in details in committee as would prove it to be so. (Hear, hear.) The principle of the meenre win dire necessity—lrish people must not be allowed to die; and to save the house from the embarrassment of appealing to England they were call- d upon to pus it with out any regard to what became of Ireland after wards. That was not the intention, but it was the ten dency of the measure. The English people felt, certaiely, that the grants already made had not been as well used or acknowledged as they might have been ; but that was uot the reason they objected to them now, but because they were tired of relieving destitution only to perpetuate de wits- tion. (Hear, hear.) They law neither humanity nee economy in relieving sufferings only to aggravate end per petuate them. Even now let the minister came forward with a ocmprehensive and ateessmanlike 1111•1111110 wan which improvement and relief wield go bead ha hind, sled then the parliament of Eagles& net only era melba of humanity, but of thrift m wen, wend be seedy le give as cheerfully and bountifully as it bed ever done. They never had such an opportunity of leglittlag cow prehensively for Ireland es now. (Hear bear.) She wee weak, prostrate , and helpless, reedy to ac cept any legislatica they chose to impose. For the fint time within their manor there was niz i ztitical agitation in Ireland, no rancour, no (Hoer, hear.) le= I land, we far from the re being say opposition. all perdu showed themselves reedy to strengthen the bank of the executive. If money were wanted it was granted with as little reluctance as if England was a mine of gold —if coercion were required, measures of that character were pared with even steepens; rapidity. And yet the only mann the at had to propose was one which every official in Ire and declared to be not only unjust and impo litic, but improbable of being carried into operation. If, in spite of such warnings, and in the truth of such evidence, they passed this measure, then did be feel that they would incur a serious responsibility ; for should thee predictions become true, and the distress beanie general, then would the folly and selfishness of par liament have achieved its work, by substituting in thou unions where now there was prosperity, poverty and want - iitrilts where there was peace—and disaffection where there was loyalty ; thus consummating th e full measure of Irish misery and of English crime. (Hear, bear Sir. A. BROOKE opposed the rate, because it taxed the poor man as well as toe rich, and because, under the ex isting mode of valuation, it fell unequally upon all. He suggested an imposition of double poor-rate upon the pro petty of absentees, which should be laid out upon their tend, end that the government, instead of a rate in aid, should call for one or two instalments of the workhouse loans. Mr. REYNOLDS differed from the majarity of the Irish representatives. He was prepared to vote (or the bill, but most reluctantly: if he could avoid this vote he would. The opponents of the rate alleged that there was no argument for it but necessity. That, however, was twelv.• points out of thirteen. The alternative of an Income tea was a land lords' provvition, to shift the burden upon the shoulders of hard-working shopkeepen and erasans. Raid Was absolutely necessary, and a puoedeat fa taxing one part of Ireland for the benefit of another was furnished by the sot of 2 and 3 Victoria, c. GI, for levying 534,0001. on twelve counties in Ireland for the improvemmt of the nevi g .tien of the Shannon, one of those counties being Mayo, which could deny. no advantage from the always. Major BLACK &LL eaploined his views, which had been misunderstood, regarding the substitution or a tax upon in tome for a rate-in-aid, which he oppssei. Mr. TENNENT sa - d he should give hi, dce:d.d oprti tion is this unhappy ocirme. He denied that Ulster sought THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 4. 1849. lobe entempt from any hir esstaibutien to the national espenditure. The people of Ulster were folly sensible to the diatresese of their fdleer-sesianyssea; bat they amid ata teal otherwise than aggrieved by sty act of each gross Injustice as this. Me. 1111IIJIMODID and this was eat a rate I, aid. In aid of whatf 9,l.the extension of plugs**, or the dimi. **a paupsesia? What he desired was, that the micas should be made to support themselves. This could be easily dons by a ring the men in the unions to work, sad is a month they . would have something to look to. The neat remedy was enugratioo. There were millions of men in Ireland *atlas labour, and there were millions of sores at lead 1111014 the omen wasting cultivation. AU that was required was a minister endowed with the energies re quisite to transport the labourers to the vacant soil. But such was not to be looked for on the Treasury berth at pre sent. Her Majesty's ministen were an of them tainted with the vice of Connaught. The last s he had to offer was the absolute necessity which ex ted of getting rid of ' the middlemen of Ireland. (Hear.) This evil was the canker of the land, and it must be swert away. Bring the landlords and the cultivators of the soil into immediate con tact, and let them no longer be made the prey of the race of middles* Moor.) As for the present measure it would never do, and inmost give it his hearty opposition. Capt. ARCHDALL said that he was the representative of a very lsree twastiteeney, and he was determined to give the amine his woo t strenuous opposition. The question was no longer worth debating, for the ground upon which it had been justified by the noble lord had been demolished long ago. Indeed, he looked upon the noble lord as a dare-devil for attempting to carry such a scheme. Tile holm • then divided, when there appeared, Far the amendment l3B Against it The bill was then read a second time. EMPLOYMENT OF LABOUR IN IRELAND. Mr. P. SCROPE moved for leave to bring in • bill to promote the employment of labour in Ireland by a pro portionate exemption from poor rate. Mr. STAFFORD opposed the introduction of the bill. He protested against the principle of a labour rate being introduced into the Irish poor law ; and he protested also against to important a subject being entrained to a private member. He called upon the government to state whether they approved of the bill. Lord J. RUSSELL said he did net think that 1111110 k harm would seem from allowing the bill to be introduced. (Hear, hear.) He meat say, however, that he was epposed to its principle, and that if the home were detumined to express as opinion upon it, he mast vote against It. Mr. SCROPE said if it were the wish of the house, he would withdraw his bill. (No, no.) But he trusted that the usual privilege might be extended to him, and that he might be allowed to introduce his measure. (lieu.) Mr. E. D. MuroLx• and Col. Durum trusted that the boo. gentlemen would not withdraw his bill. In the present state of Ireland it was very desirable that every remedy should meet with a fair consideration. Sir R. PEEL said that no doubt there were measures so objectionable in principle, and so unworthy of nodes, that their introduction might justly be refused ; but in the Present state of Ireland, and after the interest whisk the hon. gentleman had taken in ill these matters, and in gene instances the obloquy which he bad brought upon himself for the benefit of Ireland, he thought that an opportunity should be given for the introduction of the measure. (Hear, heir.) Instead of rejecting the bill at this stage he recom mended that the boo. gentleman should withdraw his notice for that evening and bring it on on some subsequent day when he could have an opportunity of fully explaining it. (ll'ar, hear.) Iltr. OSBORNE thought it would be most ungracious in the house not to allow his hon. friend to bring in the bill. The house divided, when the numbers were— For lave to bring in the bill Against it _ _ Et - _..AILWAY TRAVELLING ON SUNDAYS. Mr. LOCKS moved for leave to bring in a bill to secure to the public on Sundays a limited and reasonable use of all railways which convey passengers on the other days of the week. He observed that the agitation which bad been got up in Scotland against the bill proceeded on a mistaken notion of its import, and he trusted that the house would allow the bill to be brought in and printed that during the recess its merits might be considered. Mr. FORBES and Mr. COWAN opposed the bill as being repugnant to the conscientious convictions of the mile is Scotland. - - - - Mr. LABOUCHERE said that at ea early period of the session the hon. gentlemen had asked him whether govern ment proposed to introduce a measure which had for its ob ject to compel those railway companies in Scotland who re fused to carry passengers on the Sabbath to do so under certain limitations. The reply which he made to his hon. friend was, that although, speaking for himself, be believed it was an set consistent with the due observance of the sanc tity of the Sabbath to allow, under proper regulations, trains to sus on Sunday, yet he was not prepared, on the part of the government, to bring in a bill to compel railway compa nies to take that coulee, in opposition to the opinion which he knew was entertained by large classes of the community of Scotland. lie still entertained great doubts whether it would he expedient so to act. Under these circumstances, he could not pledge himself to vote for the second reading of the bill, but united, if only out of courtesy to the hon member, that leave would be given to bring it in. Mr. MANGLES would vote far the introduction of the bill. The railway companies having obtained a monopoly of the public highways, must expect to be interfered with by parliament, wh the public interest rendered such interference neoessary. Mr. WORTLEY would "pees the bill as a dangerous precedent of interferezum with the rights of private pro perty. Sir G. GREY denied that railways were to be looked upon in the light of private undertakings. Perliement must not vacate its right of control wh e the public interest ren dered its exercise imperative. Mr. E. ELLICE objected to the coercive character of the bill. lie thought that if the matter was left to the compa nies, such arrangements would be ludo as would obeli* all cause of complaint. Mr. H. DRUMMOND said that as one train was at pre sent allowed to travel on Sundays for the esaveyence of the mails, it seem d as if the point Oio3oloSlSall with Scotehmen lay between one carriage and two. (Lwagitsc) - - • The house divided— For the motion 6B Against it COUNTY FINANCIAL BOARDS On the motion of Mr. HUM, leave was given to establish county financial boards for the adminiitration of county rates and expenditure in England and Wales. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONS FOR ENGLAND. On the motion of Sir G. OILZY, a bill was ordered to be introduced for amending the acts relating to the Ecclesiasti cal Cormaisionen for England. Them bills, toge•her with the Copyheld Enfranchisement B 11, Treaty with Portugal Bill, Criminal Courts Bill, were brought in and read a first time, and The house adjonraed at 2 o'clock. Eite Orprems. OUTGOING MAILS. Ilse nails ter lliederr;, ti. Brady Le - dlioseSs Aim, will he made ap this se the 46 et April. Th. made it MOM Berth Meares sad the Milted State* wl il be fele sp lies swift of the !ti of April. Tb. male Om I s Opsele. Lehr. Measers. Cadiz, sad Gibraltar will be emit up r• Gme siesseles etas idt el April. Ths Imde, els 11,semeinem to the Pietteetreasso, Egypt, Aden, Ces% `ass, Om, will be mode lip on the seeming of the libel April the ASK Das lieu emisdlas Ilemems. Item; =I New Odom. sad Me" eel dries es I. Posm.de.Plewsems, New Onemle. ChM Inn. will bsitiemeNsliPre vN AFL ** kid= Wank repls Adam ORO% eml Gmy ei. lionthamplee, te ends nes dee wig et tbe fielh April. 7_The mills Om MY" OW is Ter& Lk" arm Leone, and Assamios. will le mods up ea the Kith at April. IUON DAT= AT LONDON 11UDON. Teta Do.' —NanalßS.ll yaw Pulp ; ADmom: O W. it 0 . 114Nu00w—Ussiag.11 1 011a. peg 0. Annum. U U. pre O. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4. Ties wearisome discuadon on the Rate in Aid has at length come to a close. There never was a debate so protracted in which a wider range of irrelevant topics was taken by common consent, and few con troversies of equal bitterness have been ever waged, in which the poiot in eispute has been more fre quently lost sight of altogether. In part this somewhat strange characteristic may doubtless be attributed to the striking diversion executed early in the contest by Sir ROBERT PEEL. When he thinks fit tolead, whithersueve r it be, 'tis hard fur others not to f Mow. His isolated tenor, like the measured tone of the opheiclide towering above the ordinary instruments of sound, fascinates attention and directs the most listless ear. It is to no purpme that the small fifers and pertinacious drummers strive every now and then to remind the audienca of their penance and participation. Many attempts to resume the big-bold-boy ism of the former discussions were made during the late debate, but uniformly with the same result. Nobody believed in the gaseonado of Ulster ; nobody felt inclined to listen to pettifogging pleas in favour of the rate in aid. On all hands it has been long since set down as an inefficient, inadequate, ill considered expedient, not deserving of any praise, but as little worthy of the blame and obloquy that have been for factious purposes hurled against et. The consequence of such a state of feeling naturally was that when Mr. DISRAELI, Lord JORN RUSSELL, arid Mr. Baron applied themselves to the real sub ject uppermost in men's minds—namely, Sir ROBERT'S plan—they excited at once all the attention which their various talents seldom fill to obtain. It is not unworthy of remark that, just in proportion es they frankly owned their conviction that them etas much good in the scheme thus enunciated, so did t:;ey in the favour of their anchtory ; while their c iti tive failure to produce effect was memo able by the comparative disposition to cavil and to carp at what Mr. DISRAELI 'emetically termed "the revelations" of the superior mind tf the experienced statesman. The snake biting at the file never made greater efforts or had leas seems. With imperturbable persistency, during two hours and more, be gnawed away. But all to no purpose. The plan looked just as large, as solid, and as immovable when he had done es when he bsgan. And fro n the memorable day on which Mr. DISRAELI performed his first celebrated failure on the floor of the House of Commons, he has certainly never made a feebler, a duller, or a more conceited speech than that which he delivered on last Monday night. It was an ela borate attempt at a reply, but it was confessedly no answer. Next in weakness came Lord JOHN'S. Is the Premier jealous of the illustrious chief.of opposition ? Can he never afford to be candid or generous where his rival is concerned? There was hardly one of Sir Roezar's manifold suggestions that could not be shown to be identical in principle with what Lord JOHN himself has dons or tried to do. Wherefore then the tone of evident vexation in which the FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY commented upon each and all of them ? Still worse is it when accompanied by the lamentable confession that remedial policy of his own Lord JOHN has none. All he mild sugost was an amended poor law :and a well drilled police—more workhouses, and more prisons. We turn with pride and pleasure to the contrast offered to all this by the masterly speech of the hon. member for Manchester. The stand-still policy of the minister he denounced in energetic lan guage. The resumption of the outworn sys tem of landlordism which Mr. DISRAELI recom mends he desienated as the great social root of all the social miseries under which Ireland groans. The plan propounded by the ex-Premier he discrimi natingly analysed, adopting fearlessly and frankly what was of most value therein, and: respectfully but resolutely rejecting other portions of it. This is the true spirit of political criticism ; this the true temper of imperial debate —neither disparaging the measure when intrinsically good because it comes from an opponent, nor forgetting the reverence due to age, at tainments, talents, and high personal worth, even when quarrelling with the propositions that emanate there from. The leading idea in the speech of Mr. BRIGHT, was—what sooner or later is certain to predominate in every scheme of Irish policy—the making land marketable. Till this be done, nothing else can be effectually done. When this shall have been accom plished, all other more material changes will become comparatively practicable, safe and profitable. The great bankrupt properties of the western counties must be broken up before any real reformation can be wrought in the condition of the hapless peasantry there. Sir ROBERT FEEL and Mr. BRIGHT are thoroughly agreed upon this point. They only differ as to the readiest and best means of securing an objret so desirable. Sir ROBERT would interpose the agency of a commission between the seller and the buyer ; he would ratter tempt the former to sell, and possibly help the latter to buy. The uncompromising cham pion of individual effort in all things prefers the notion of compelling the ruined landowners to dispose of their properties, and allowing their pri..* to be de termined by the ordinary rules of fair competition in the market. All he insists upon is a clear title, to be given by some inexpensive and summery tribunal, and a perfect, cheap, and universal registry of deeds and incumbranses of every description. Ws resume tbo statistical inquiry commenced on Saturday by at once adverting to the effect produced upon the great staple manufacture of the country— that of cotton—by the free trade legislation of the last parliament. Comparing 1848 with 1846, the following were the exports of the two principal deacriptiona cf cotton goods to countries at PEACE. Plain Calico. WA.. 1903. lbs. ha . 49,34000 35.116,000 . 4,326.000 2,490,000 , . 6,134000 8,102,000 l . 109, 914,0001 --; 68,1114. 40,900.0001 Ciermany.. Austria ... Belgium... Um. Rata Wasik ... Portugal . 1134. 000 1 41, 1458,001 J 14 4,000 24, 5 1,04 39,164.00 0 3, There is no t. _ .4 in this table 'll'6 ki vi countenance to the !derma reiterated by ki t Dr.oraz. To countries at war, as it Waii reek to expect, the declension in this species of ex po been the greatest ; but the decline is not core those quarters. There is also a decline to th e " vise places where we were taught to anticips enormous increase. To Russia, which ha s " 4 among the meet important of our customer.; lcr we actually sent 15 per cent. less in Ng th 1846, and to Holland 25 per cent 11s. H s , protectionists one effectual answer to these fa to We beg to direct the attention of our readers followiog table of the frrpgn vessels employed foreign trade of the Untied Kingdom, as shot the entries inwards. Thus the entries wen countries at PEACE. Possum litaua—Folunas tlana_i i IRO. 1142, Ships. Tonnage. I m os y i , United States Ronal Holland 670 51,000 Ns 7 Sweden N orwa y ...... ~,...„ 1,007 21(4,00 l,OO 1,. Oi 761,0001 30, ; - - - And from ommtries at wmt. YOut oN T IN—PoitiooN 341011.-11 18413. 1841 . map& Towage... BWp. Ti 1,7 0 5 379,000 ,I 251 11 1,420 130,000 1,111 11 1 13,000 1 1 1,745 472,000 ! 1,3•1 2 Proud& Other German State* Italian State. We have here a repetition of the phan — T — ami , have prevailed in every other department of quiry—an extension of tratsactions whereat, has fostered the prosecution of interchange, n series of opposite results wherever wa r at d i strife have encircled every interest with sum danger. A recapitulation of the whole of the facts in in the former and in the present article may n undertaken, and it is in the following form: GENERAL 11F.;CLT. mum, WOLITTOS, WILTS, COTTONS, G NAVIGATION. Lrn. UMW ;evidence] Woollens, Wor steds, Stuffs— Navigation —Toe Linens Pk. dn Called „ Printed Calico „ Lace and gauze „ Cambric' and matins „ RIL 1 1848 000 1 3,847, 983,000 30,111,000 118,413,000 i 111,960,000' 12,077,04 e 2, 93 2, 273,893, 24,659,000 82,766,000 51,328,000 4,763,000 914,00 164,43r0D01 ma,osel I 168.mons;11 These are beyond all cavil moat conclusive and in a great measure they relieve to fra dation beyond the exhibition of a few per cent Comparing, therefore, 1848 with 1846, a treating the countries at race with those at trace the following rates of increase and dime cent. upon six principal descriptions of export 16443. Yards. 1648. Yazd& 1846. Yards. 184. Yards. United Leant - Mexico Portugal Russia 11,512,000 44,187,009 1,966,000 24,144,000 955,000 18,520,000 33,313,000 6,302,000 97,236,000 820,000 17,033,000 17,213,000 5,193,000 11,775,800 208,000 45,914,000 33,436,000 11,361,0 0 0 13,8E0,000 399,000 82,766,000 .413,000 51,426,000 In t,9c0.000 Linea, cottons, fabrics Woollens, worsteds, staffs Navigation Totalot 1841 ............. I runt. Total of 1849 'acreage, D 1818 OM 1846 1843 Per cent. i P 66 37 SO --1- 300 433 , I 151,700,U1A1 .115,113,1 W . aio.Ann , , tt,,uu,uv. _____ _ __ And to countries at The two last lines of figures bring the cc WAS. to a focus, and that conclusion may be thus e Plain Cedar. I, Printed Calico. —wherever peace has given fair scope to II 1846. 1848. 1846. ism prise of our merchants, and the reciprocity Tula. Yards. 1 Yards. Yards. change, the number of transactions, which Germany 17,273,000 14,798,000 34,423,000 25,663,000 amou n t e d to onl y 300, ha s been increased to Austria 15,818,000 9,962,000 3,162 , 0 0 0 3,507,000 wherever war has cu tits baneful shadow Italy 80,948,000 17 ' 94100 1 7,517,000 12 . 3510.0 region of our commerce, the transactions Prance 1,214,000 859,000 1 1,362,000 1,608,000 Belgium 1,121,000 698 , 0 . 0 652,00) 80,090 1846 were represented by 300, have dwicd li 211. 66,382,000 43,818,090 ' 47,116,000 43,732,000 to This is our reply to Mr. NnwriEnsts, si These figures convey a striking picture of the in 'fiance of free trade upon the great manufacturing portions of Lancashire and Chenhire, and also of the influence of that untoward etite of affairs in 1848 which Mr. NEWDEGATE has had the exceeding indis cretion to signalise as an event and an argument in his favour. There surely never was any allegation more at variance with the fact. We have already seen its total inapplicability to the trade in linens, woollens, and worsted,. We now see its equal variance from the truth, as concerns the predo minating branches of the cotton trade. In plain calicoes alone the increase on the one hand to coun tries at peace is 40 per cent., and on the other, the decrease to countries at war amounts to 25 per cent. In printed calicoes there is an increase of more than 100 per cent. to countries at peace, and a decrease — according to the rule which prevails throughout—of 10 per cent. to places suffering from actual warfare, or from violent political disturbances. But remarkable as are these results in the heavier kinds of cotton goods, th' se are exceeded by the facts connected with tae fancy descriptions of manufacture composed chiefly of the same material. The calico looms of the great county palatine have received no small share of advantage from the recent change in our commercial legislation. But it is apparently in the fancy adaptations of cotton peculiar to Nottiag ham and some of the adjacent counties 'hat the most extensive augmentation of the foreign demand has taken place. We select the articles of lace and gauze, and of cambric/1 and muslin'', and although with alined equally striking effect we might include one or two other species of entry, the exports of the kind of goods in question in 1846 and 1848 were as follows to countries at This is our reply to Mr. NEWDEGATE, those who, like him, construct theories upo sand, and presume to foretell the future strength of their total ignorance of the prey THE UNITED STAT Considerable excitement has been created' New York, and Washing ton, by Mr. Laboul ment of what had passed between him and croft, relative to mutual relaxations of their navigation laws by England and Ameri Webster moved, in the Senate, an ai the instructions upon which Mr. Ban acted. The reply was, that no instructio subject had been transmitted to Mr. The protectionist organs in the press are al fury , hurling denunciations against the lui Bancroft. According to them, he has (if i acted improperly in laying what he did to boncbere, seeing that a new set of men are and that a new congress has been elected whom the protectionists assume are prepar back upon their policy. Again, Mr. Bar President Polk are assailed on the assum they have contemplated a treaty Britain on the subject of the navigi before the sanction of the legislature a convention had been asked and obtained. traders, and even many of the ci-desant pro admit that Mr. Bancroft has been precipita press a hope that this will not lead to sr tions to the consummation of agreements be twocountriesfor relaxing the navigation la: The truth is that both parties have unde Labonchere to speak with more of dipla tainty than it appears he did ; to have tel count of a frank interchange of personal o a deliberate and formal negotiation in spoil On the part of the few proteetioniits ii there are distinct indications of motives splutter. In the first place they wish to lar passion, and then turn the excitement of a recurrence to protection : in the se they wish to make a diplomatic swan that there may be a scramble for the sums The only other tcpic that appears to much interest was the state of affairs On this subject the New York Courier a SAYS The ferment in men's minds in Canada h a trusting attention at Washington, and 'ethyl in earnest when in his inaugural he professed and attachment to peace, as alike the duty sw of this republic, it may be confidently relied will exercise all hie constitutional powers —a neutrality act, as it is generally tailed, num former insurrectionary movements in Canada, t sidetable—to restrain our people from meddling dian difficulties. It should be added, however, were to be anything like a general rating in the an offer of fraternisation (to use the terin of France) with us, it would be all but impos ot the people from r ushing into the contest. COLONIAL. BRITISH NORTH A'AIE CANADA.—Our dates from Montreal lfith ; from Quebec, to the 17th. The bill to compensate innocent passed both branches of the legislature. lion continued very eloquent, very fierce little absurd. " Forty-six meetings be' in various parts of the province," eays tl Gazette, " to express the detestation ent the inhabitants of the scheme for ii rebels." A propos of the bill passing thi council, the same journal valorously excla The rebellion losses iniquity is now mono two branches at the legislature. Will the tho That is the question. Upon its decision bog t half a million of the people of Caned'. Lot and the sullen hatred of the Anglo-Smoo brood, until the time come for ample re" ui thing he will thank his French =stirs—the densption is twenty years off. lie will look foi Lee and Gauss. Cumbrks and Muslin*. 1644. 1848. 1848. 1848. Yds. yda. Yds. Yds. -.. United BtAtm 3,649,800 6,990,000 629,000 1,731,000 Levant Russia .. 715,000 2,030,000 27,000 14,000 Portugal .. Mezioo ..-- 207,000 596,000 31,000 166,000 4,765,000 12,077,000 914,000 2,532.0 00 and as follows to countries at WAR. Lase and Gauze. Cambries and Muslin*. 1848. 1048. 1846. 1848. Yds. Yds. Yds. Yds. --- Germany 38,681,000 28,082,000 313,000 148,000 Austria 84,000 33,000 28,000 - FOO3lOB Naples, Sicily. 43 3 . 060 88,000 2, 0 00 9,000 Italy Belgium 61,123,000 138,577,000 519,000 235,000 These returns are conclusive. Wherever peace These _ conclusive. Wherever peace has left uu_...curbed the legitimate operation of the new order of things, we trace a prodigious increase of the export, and this increase is so gre at that to the five countries we have enumerated, the augmentation of the exports of lace, gauze, and of cambric' and muslin', amounts to very nearly 200 per cent. When we reverse the yof the demand, and group together the exports to disturbed countries, we immediately encounter a different set of facts. There is no longer an increase; but there is a diminu tion of nearly 50 per cent. under both heads of the table. There is, however, another point of view in which the argument must be conidered. The aaegations of 111 n NEWDEOATE affirm not merely, thc decline of onrownindustry, hut the extension by means of that decline of th- industry of rival nations. Now the easiest meth..d of verifying this part of the case is to examine the exports of prepared materials of manufacture from this enmity. Have we sent away more cotton yarn, or have we sent away less? That is the whole qu , stiun. We are not aware that anybody has Bs tar disputed the abil ty of this country to pro lucs yarn if it could r , p ro duce finished goods cheaper than any of its competitors. Then, while we have told fewer g047 .--- " 1 tion which we most bear in mind is a p ure —have we been supplymg our rivals with the rule for our • xtinction P Here are the returns exports in 1846 and 1848 of— COTTON YARN. 2,684,1 3,0144 $ 6 , 382 4 47,116,f 61,123,1