The Express. — London, England, 1849-03-03 00:00:00

.INSOLVRST MEMBERS BILL. Yr. I;:mrii;aiitioirrieb;ra es the tai tattles es this bill; but Yr. WARN objecting, on account el the thfeasse of the home, the motion wee pestposed till Mew ajouraell at a quarter to 1 a'eloek. ate erprtfilS. The mils kr the W. hoeakin sad XM*s mle mit Nile Ott „ the ant Mated Woos to be eddratol, wEy Bettlw." The =lgo ko TIM Clgtote, Utah, Yobbo, Ong* Ind Ofbraltat will be note op cat the numbs at the Ttk Kw& The otea . eht leaneMos, to the Itatilareasea, Ilgypt, Aden. liregi Sta loog, . will be matte op as tie ~kw cr Th tl i nth Moab. e mile Ow 111111 North Arid" mid the Vaned Steam, Idaho mildew eAlhe ~Pig et the I& lismi Ur INA NM milolleg isio4 ll g enitslewswo, a lrag ; Now lite=llll, -- Z Pa% will =a:ft mil Ifth el Ilw Ite 011gelme,111d14 Eemo d ao bobs Littaga, Egypt, A.k.. loft Iliniali egg els leotbasptoa, will be weir". am the gmEleg Mk The nob eir New ENSWiIk be Elegewee Load. sad New 1 labia mil le made op es the amaze at the Eat 11woh. NM 'WATER AT =OM Tu D•• —.llO mks. 4 Isla pot Ss 41 NA past IL Trarassom—naratied, SI eta got M fMa. poi 10. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAR. 3. TES froth and spirit of the Irish poor law debate escaped ea Monday night, so that it opened singe lady fiat yesterday. Th. ministerial' project, it was mere than nimoared. had been severely haMbi 12 the committee. Mr. Beano, one of the Poor.law Commissioners, had given mi aow of the impraetioability af the sixpenny rate. And Mr. Oarsman had declared that no valuation existed of Irish property by which say , . thing like an equality of the rate coati be levied la the (Efferent axiom& Hower exaggerated these wenn* the tone of the Prime Master's apse* was subdued and almost despairing; and he Meng to the how, to take or leave, with the •of a man who cared little what became of it. - 47., A 7 ; THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1849. is gam dietromef Min imetesat o agleam ? (Hear, bear.) Oat, teabeam she gm to teradame tw e. Now, the 'vi- a.. teksa the Pour-law Osnim hod boos hides sad therein he presumed ha itseisetlied la al - le it, sad is that ultimo, Ewald he bald slated I[e. Power, the amistaat peer.law eammfeedesep s Hit is go make Mere were sissydietriot la wWL K mae idle to the distress would be Mimed her may pen wide ns atreseess makaraes. (Hews, leer.) Melbea plat w oe apes in that induce wee the samba of valuaticet. xr. mow modaimed the exlaqme valsalkee to be most ogle, lignastiag to the emus of 10s. per awe ablest dig:Acta He asked, dam, would the 6 0 .-grogli Egli* members mama to so sou aim an boogies as a rate is aid fluaded is that v aluating ? He seem now to the eel y messiest widak in Ida ..aj oa had any lbws mit buss ii the government mope- W o o. It was seemled dial Irelaad paid as income tax, and it wit admitted gra a hemihhtlim if Ireland paid that tax gore woad IPS alle WON% IA tazisi it enerally for ess selisf of &Mk.* t he. the g n wo•W be Teekshke es laillesez for the eras purpose. Ho tgaipreposities, sad be asked the house was it fair Chet the _S a o ( halms* should pay time which the Inmess in did mil pay, is is wee wall luau that gem. had es Issemie tky great majority ad d o going use ken its opmaliss. The only valid meserst ta kvisez of the rate wee Me sheens agesesity, but M Misled that the maxim, sem, eueemsters mode sees, e gad never be urged es • nem for levying ea *al am He was snits, to accept for Ireland noel tesatCs, but he mast explain what he meant by the Wm whoa applying it to Ireland. He did not mesa the ,seemed taus, became he believed that their ealleetios meld NM anti than they were wank. (Hear ' het.) To A go as spirit duty to the English level w ield, Is Ida =he stijust and impolitic, because k woad resseallato evils of illicit distilinioa Thesauri might be said of ess map day ; and, therefore, all that remised foe mei. amnion was Use Monts us. He wished dies to state the gems upon which, as representing sa Irish speastitnency, he ges willing to accept that tax. It would Ips is the rendlew Wm of many ban. members, that 'rhea dills was prepaid lm iselsed, her Majesty's aiaistae gave m a rum for an Imeseleig It es Ireland, that in the ties &premed state of the eermstry.ke Imposition would be egaushe. He welt men *e law that Inland wee siew ii a wares Mate Piss ekes that eggeptios woe made be her iheemr. IE4 theseheo, when as Mit member sampled the beam tes, It amid be moomlai to hie that it. premeds Shill le apalled to sada evely Meal purposes. Hi believed it weld have this great avatar •. it would provide ler the kageolitt• dis uses, ead thus math the gensisemea to proceed is the masideraties of sae pummel sad comm. Wave remedies. At that late hews he would aot s essmpt to yoke out than remedies la detail, but would m anly point oat what had already bees dose by • sable god, • dktioguinted mixable of the goverment (Lord Ihimmiles) apes_ his properM, situated, se it wee, la a diggistiske ea seimile4 m abut whisk they W bawd se mush. net selie lord had devoted all his =t• the task of raising the oesdidoa of the district, house weld be 'Masi to leers that his lordship's Mrbad been estlrely mesmeraL (Hear, hear.) How sable lied soeseead t Not by attemptiag to feed *I else the ease pepoletioe , but, pandas the only 111111011 aeon, he esobled Awaked* of them to go to rnetMr esstOry, whirs they were doing well, sad Led lees molded to eel mazy bens to their friends. He steed tile ups the beet wit* eulkeelty. (Rear, hear.) ge might seals tin whit lei bees dose by another mem ber alas goverane*-4he Heal el Carib's. That noldtmen Levine fiend the es • preps*/ Is Ireland balsas eg to the wows ao rent bad bees - veil he elms pan, sad that the manta and emayien ware awl mid knee to the whole "'MIT someformed,wish the tends at Me **owl, mesa *Es ft mimes; sad tb assessesee bed bees the wokisee essevatios tt the whole *Ma (Rear, low.) He Weal *et greessest wants at hes* pay awe demi* to the eespetteoe el di gewlems, sad weld sit wows assns "Web, bailee helm ado* was seeibilly Wash* hr *spoor* bends* (lieer.) CIANCILLOII4 the =MU= odd that Ws gin* el dm hoa umber who kai Jaw sot dorm r•- boor hit of the asemeity Ise wag arab that be &mad Aerate, have lad lo tog ia mown to Ida swam dio. *kolas any daft on the port of Waal baethosed ihs Whit of smut illioulets wield* hor own es& Ile err happy to bier at least or • Web =mbar say that it melt he unfair to tar Great Brads be a purpose which &Jul is exeluively Mt. MONSILL bad said it would he hopeless to expect it. TM CHANCELLOR is the HICHEQUER.—WeII, this, tapeless to npeet it. He bed perhaps pm is. sr in essertiog that any Irish member had admitted that it maid be ,tabu. TM question, as far at Meet ea the bon. member wee eseassued, was merely as to the mode in Midi the enemy hale was to be tubed he belied. The bon. member admllisi that the security was great—indeed that misiden mat be made by any one is the slightest degree sequinsi with the mete of Ireland. Even the hoes. miser be. he Demstelin bad said that, to meet the em tbe Maim motet brie ; and he (the Chancellor lithiqat) art that as one wild have read We popes Mich had lien laid on the tabl e shalhig *Ws a eceihesble portion of the west dishes sad stansties were inevitable, antes emeasem Mame were anis& He was glad diked Met, that was Wasitted, because maim said Maw nest w Me them to hear has. numbess wails dhomieg Foment, essmilse sad parameat memo whoa a po em and met ibig namely wee Matte diem la the Lee. (Ha& Marl la *air anxiety to have ages parlies mtat sash eitentiii as they thought inerieny In the poet Mir, 1= sl i aned to &net the amides of a starving from a deprive*" of *At Mane foW Mr: s omesmtive yam. He ma far from mendeg that be. Wei lateaden to perpetrate sash inliummity, but he did Oak lint MOW, many chest pest-taw legi•letlea they esedesieed the prime Ingest useseity. TM hon. mea l* t vissis Dess:dre bed onwhisi et the govrnment ter Mparliamest Imatimi mike; but the boa. maw have remisslsil that •the autumnal poen there wee no nesseity Ibr within my Wessels. TM eiseiselly did set arise until Felinity, etW he mild mini the hese that four days after the sling of M4iso bad stated the SSW a the and had mind the bens ler emit a ins m would earn them up to the paled what lb sink Mead would introduce hie preset Is, Wei that a matimance of the distress must le r t mlea s. : Mad upen, at km, d is cm Mama. There would be nen et eppertmlw , forng the meths of his noble Mein pesposilisa la its sevetal Mrs. All he would say at eat lea lam weld be a few womb as to that nerds of tab- Wh o = renestieg Midi the has. member opposite M a rinvidiem Na meet No that he amid net minima Mimes is the oldeolleis width bid bon urged to a mind nts, avi t2 sei that be bad had beta mains nolo of that a Ms, to sumo sins se MM was use of the bast media that wed peal* be minted In risible the _mostinery hada. Oas toggesties thiithe thew WEneeMellabonshatild as Mtn tram tin emeadated lami, mei the malty, wd that ea onevaisit em M pasted In aid of smigroden ; bat fl nen be beese Mid that the Immo eerie the to to be anglegni did not In di of me of the to a - nedissal rate. no 'Mine= stated net to days elms, that to a aalleeel We for the purposed penmen megretice be mill ost *M. (Hear, hear.) If le, WM bosom of Me ehjoilin m which so tow* Mw *A hem bid dim* the peewit Mate, that it would be truly unjust SWIM pro- Ineele of fraud should be ogled or to pay Stlistraan s Mr ethellopw *Dub api % riem ? (C / ris a( " No. But the bras. am- mimes* (Mr. r bad. eartelnly on the mdse. emedeg alluded to thi s, the religious point, and he ismeleil ft, twit introduced a pthotal element into the di* nuke. (Hear, hair and arise of " OM") He (tin bliatis the lialineer) wee, however, may that ill penahteil say relleream to it to boa bin Ils eimilled it wee • mei welt i = te lle: 4l. = mire la that honse—Oiser, bem)—mei he allowed !!nislea We hod of tio memo* Is some him 11• eel rasp MAW nnessemy Mahn of • snare utak ha WNW to be the last man to to, be meat (Her, Mr.) It hewing, been =lt i n si t ed itineses W the north be toned upon pp he the sold et keeplag the pane an tam mem sieste Inur e is limy, end k Oneaugli„ ban stern llia. The Ma. nallemem (Mr. 1) might *make that Migratim wm the beet made el thaect, bod the :t=talses an the previous evendig wee t that obj the people win moo Mit Minas Medi be ailed urea to u ateibute t the Mid d the starvlag perk smother pat tf *Med with whist they were mismerisd. Woe sm nMg, however, den ims hoa : mesa, mme wm pod ismerd by ltia maly§ and by tholes. gentle ma Moat net to Op inso, Ws props& of a Mimi este Me memos of andeting la We raid of the exhlng ditrus by sumo of that midst= *soli Wish tint a pospedlies he a Mike at he earl* relief la artrawr hour would set sitsgethw ea unpalatable to bib nimbus as it append *be aur es *me and impaetitabie as the bat. maim . 61 had that Wight desidired ft ? (Haar, was peollmtly ready to admit OW to mist in endwatisa was • mod used Wisdoms, m peed thelmlbseie. Noalag geoid he men Wean = Rea mans se bad bees adsnsi by his mile use Iliad PADEN* Ina 0 1 lodei outs& Me their owe Mate to Irelteor, bess)' —ad the hem goallumen should Mew that his shit bind (Lori Jobs lbemell) did net perm le snide& Ws eggileatien of a garden of die money ha sd seem eialma tom* and that abj.d. (Her. Mr.) Ist t o sa y h i p i s MINIM a GM. mien at by the 1.11 " 1 " hit sup vim 180 /M end Indulay la the bet pima, it matermaty_ es was new eat mit moulnuses in a baths war liwils Tr ongo l " 1111 do I. Smandb, ft wield im a nd heemesh as it meld isim des inerliem al pitgligkimatsi" and Mirkiip imam Wit what wee am Wan be a mote ties e, sails a men ademigione Ind it waddle orinhineus also by isawlag len mot PlEbi_ei the esuatry that labour whisk me nommen fw lb weineellia usl v et y ear.prevammt. Meer. b la same Pei el el holm& alread &lid the the Emits to whisk it meld safely be Duda. no Imo was sot aware of the nasal to whin Ml i ss u e suried. He bad la Ms bada stets mnahm a/ anigrents who had hit these Mar fme ia the maths of Jima, fa nets ri thise mit flood t. This nem bale&j pens. if uwell as Imbed, bat it wee well ham that Ile Of tke neigrante ware Ina the hint matey. la amain 1417- the number was U. I is jemmy 1148, it wee 4 '" 6 10 His hymn a the t year, it wee 10,142. Zit.) eplisu was, tbat , eWea an t cm what Ili be aEn to mil he varsity mien, me meet Ikepliky osd ors that au that sedd take pitta —(beer)—beessie s t 'signals wno ended ea invitation at their friend is who had gime owl lehmt, sod who preglied he then a shelter and a readwpisee ea their ining la a tonna b enatiy. AM whoa le stead the sums et noway that had est remitted emigra ie Amain to amid Meads to join then, by the house te woad be animined. sad at once admit how little assemity there was he the govenuont to interim. The new= pad he this muss, it should be nneiabseed„ mes lei* hi pommel Ow pelage and partly is mum mg emelleeL eel o f men thew em he bed gave Oat a sena pepediem et the pees seem= enelleated ter this pr igs= The rots= beledebtaiatid lownerthowed that ao less a ram Shea 409,5101. hod ban remitted last year by parties who had emigrated to aunt these they bed left behind to tallow diem bs the ienntry of their whigtioa. (Hear, hear.) He semi esandy my Isere is dew OM it wee useacenary to Ins aay nest stimehes to nem= sniped= Bat as to die me es nimbi the money saw domed. As he had add it had bees seopeted by Disk menhirs themtelves, sad the panel elfsenes, at whisk he was not m ho bandy sympathised with then Irish =mo ron...Z.), =in dreemenmere at extraordinary difficulty dung the has dues pen had felfWed the ditties inn dent to their perillem. s.d to when, met tidy he, but every lumber of the genenned wee swifts to afford all the esitlenee in their pewee—he had heard so annum% (arit (Hear.) But he believed with lis noble hind i. boil) that it was only he a Wormy purpose that this ale mim, and he need never have dreamt el impaig a ea ..iis bed he supposed that it would be peesime= Whms, hawse= a tannerary mane was to be peowank it was a net= he sealikleransa how it could be meet reedffy raised, sad at the leimengemse. Now, in the =gee, the plaa pegged would met oshedeesse Aro ing exittameene Dew numbiasey was seq.= wow weed be sellested hy the same poetise who lb tr Zmmd wu r ea res, sail the ealy =saes would be the peamdege ea the eallestion. Hs could bmtft Ulm Irbil ambers were neon whoa they talked of Judninie her this aid rate in mid equality of taxation. (Hen.) That wee se Medd= an offer to a Chancellor of the Ilselmspar, that. if it were made in serieuseass, he could hardly be expend to nine it. (" Bear," sad • laugh.) Hot when he vollestull en the suggestion mate by the bee. member for Liershis sad *these who took the ease ,•view win the expades nentaery which must be established l/m de suit-."-.. et 0112111 which mow did not exist thin, mei the emened et those taxes the tax on Man on windows, the land tax, which in itself wee net lass I. this asualry than le. ia the 'man— dato& mild act he less than 2.. to 3s. In the posed lusted et the =rpm peopesed ; he could not suppose that their oiler was made la pod faith, sad the only InGnaa he could drew wee, that sot bang willing to pay at all they made an offer whisk no cos would believe Ina euriouly meant. ( Hearken.) He believed that the mode proposed for rais lag this relief, suggested se it had bees by Irish imentUrs themselves, end being at the sans time the cheapest and readiest that could be devised, was, upon the whole, the best adulated to meet the The inaisar able 'sullen= opposite hod s ea at the inequali ties of rating is different parts et Inland ; but there wen inequalitk sin the entatry, as& they w ere not considered so =portrait as to be Wet to any rate which it might be found astaistay to raise. Ciee hen. gentleman bad stated that evening that property had fallen in value in some of the disturbed dittritts, wad it would be unfair to impose this additiosal rate on the old valuation bat be be lieved in mat of those districts the property hid been re valued, and the rating, of coarse, would be as the new saluatiets ; but when that wee set the case, he add not on detstand why, when the salted= was not .**d to for as. general rate, it should Is obleotorl Ss biome.( the ad. ditional =peen which woo sow proposed to to MOW. Nobody could pretend to ea of ay too wile sense into the exchequer that it was perhedy Just with Menses to all up= wham it was =gee= ; het wham the lees on sidesed the stlveateps to be pima a calkiritzz a l of mu, by aa whim , wins= sew expense, that weeld sewn say which might arise from an unequal pressure of When that principle was applied with referents to a pew rate of ed. In the pound, the house would see that the piped the peen mint had made was infinitely man boisSeki then an of the saggestioas offered by the Irish mashies wee Re l y to be. (Applause, and cries of " divide " and a adjours.") - - - Mr: otiBORME moved that the &Alma report pro pels, sad wk Woe to sit maks. . . Lard J. RUSSELL saiithat, comddering the debate bad sot made smelt progress as ho expected, and as many bun. members still wished to express their opinion., he would not object to the proposition of the boa. memb er for ltid. dimes (Mr. Oaberair). He wished to state, however, that ea be was exceedingly soxions to go on with the debate, he would hive np Monday for the purpose of monads, and con tinuing it. He tippet on Monday to make some smangmaent by which he would bring on t he adjourned debate on the navigation lama on Tuesday, bosanse, although there were several measures of considerable importance before the bones, yet none of then were of sufficient importance to stand in the way of a modification of the navigation laws. (Hear, bear.) - - The CHAIRMAN then reported program, and asked leave to it soda to Meeday. The house rammed, and short' y after went into committee an the PETTY SESSIONS BILL. Sir J. DUClCVl3ltilfstronglyobjected to the holding of petty namins in public-houses. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL mid that if it were the wish of the house that petty see dons should not be held in publie.honses he would insert a clause to that effect in the bill. At present be left a discretionary power with the ma gistrates on that subject. Capt. PBC HELL contended that it was mat improper to snake ow of inns sad publie•housee he such purposes. The practice, however. was very general. There were 724 petty nosiest held in Ragland, and 336 of these were heN in terms. The publicans charged nothing for the am of the moms, biretta they received • sufil 'jest peat apes the wise led grog drank upts the premises by the parties liftaat. There were 36 places where petty amnions were bald la magistrates' clerks' offices, and to nom few leadidee the workhouse the gaol, and the home of torreeties wore all vied for theipose. It sow times happened that the meghlrelse prefer sitting in the inn rather than the town-hall, and that they dined at the plate where that provided. Re weeld sot permit Makin moms to be resorted to by the Justine except is men of amenity, and be was happy to dad the right Isom gestle w the Ationey.framal willing to meet the views of the boon en this impeotest seigeet. The boa. gentlemen eon eluded by movies ihe hilowing 411111189 : W is it meted stew the mesh' at this met, it *ell not be WIN sen OW eoleue et the pore la litesbiel le laid sey petty at swig norm ef the nate la my here limed fir the sale et esehrlie et, eller essolia been OM hone bees enerthisgleme bervialisibro orainne. abowleve Ewe r= NNW =NO la m tot Mot stmeteity, the ems et width AA le Is the slaiies os elpeesellep. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the bill wee framed with the express bileatica of waft the orleatioa to held tog the petty endow is pellirkeussa. It gave the angle. tastes the authority of end Wing dimmed to leave it to ask disere s" MtM not MINN is the clause of the hem aid gallant member. eel Sir R. P hem their u ike s Ilk W. lonia% Ms. Peek" Kr. Ho other swilibussen to hold petty egoism Meleun and as the bin Mewed the practice, bagel the pota. end pliant mem ber would withdraw it. PECRELL tali Were was as ow to wheat he tenW ta asere willingly daft Om the hes. member for Rent,' bat be lima that in that masts est of 17,11 petty sonioas won held in publialicream and 2 fa the mailman's Mks, whilst was still worse, as mon likely to malude the public. He would, however, withdraw the dame at the regent of as asay has. gentlemen. The einem win withdrawn, and the bill passed through committee. DU3TmAINING FOR RATES BILL. The house thee went into commi t tee on this bat. _ o;;;In710, - iioo;dii 3U7.lssipisTitOno of tho doom, yea avoid IL This bill pared through oornadttoo, sad du home nostafeel. pleaßat, hewer open ill-digested may be the ministerhd , however grave objecti ft is , like the isiaistryitielf to , impossible to set on, aside, still and for the same ream—where is abetter to be feud P A bead-roll of unites amend the west coast of Ireland are in a date of destitution. The population tail not, neither do they spin. And from the no-prodece follow no sestesanes and no rent. Of what illiEne dial. an would be Mr. 81 . 11170111 A RIMINI& for such anions, and reduce the area of tuatara P The area is barren. A part is what the whole is, nor is there more use in dividing than in multiplying nought. It is euy to object to the rate in aid; such as it is proposed in Ireland; it is no doubt contrary to the principle of poor-law which lays down that thus only shall be . applied to for rates _ who by vicinity, experience and egrets, inter fere to prevent siseth rates being needed. Bat what can the north of Ireland do to prevent or obviate the poverty of the west? It must trust for all to government, end government tells pretty . plaitqy that it can do nothing with the money save give it in alas. No wonder the north rebels ; no wonder such counties u those of Fermanagh, with scarcely their own heads above water, should protest against addi tional loads. Nor are the aarrgguments employed by the minister either ooueelatory or conclusive. He enumerated several districts throughout Ireland, especially in the north, where the -rate had been Is. Bd. or Is. Bd., and he inured that sorely they can bear sixpence more. But he forgot to take into anment the efforts and sacrifices made by men of pro mty in these unions to keep down their rata, the lownem of whish is made an argument against them. Convinced, as we are, of the necessity of a national and exclusively Irish rate, after all that Ragland has done during the Let three still it is not a pleasant theme. For wo feel y that s every argument that tells for it tells also for that exclusive nationality of Ireland, and for the claim to manage their own affairs, which with them amounts to moral rebellion. We said, indeed, at the first, that the rate in aid was a repeal of the union, from the force which it gives to all arguments for th at measure --such force, indeed, that wo wish it had bean pos sible to graduate the Me in aid according to distinct, from the centre of destitution, so that England might have its share. But though the law may not do this, fact dace it. Liverpool and Manchester, and all our manufacturing and popuhas towns, pay a rate in aid to the Irish poor as it is, and in somewhat greater proportion thus sixpence. If Irishmen were wise they would gr: , ,z the boon, if offered to them , of local taxation. 1 - taxation means money relied in the country and spent in the country, almost always for useful and neoeseary purposes, and neosmiarily requiring local control. Local taxation, such as that of the poor-rate, is the most efficient of absentee taxes, sad that most cer tain to be economically levied and applied, especially when reload on those empowered as well as interested in preventing either its abuse or its over-requirement. Mr. DIME' hu a plan, with which we are to be honoured next week, for doing away with all this, and for making the poor-rate a property tax, for ell to skulk from, and which none can control or preleat. Mr. ISTuroan's legislative efforts for Ireland are in the same mate with Mr. Dissum'a for England. The endowment of the landlord with all authority, and his coemptien from all borders, form the key-stone of Protectionist policy in both countries. One of the pried* point' of the ministerial mea sure developed last night was the rendering the lite charges on property bible to poor-rates. Mortgagees aro exempted - from them, on the plea that they would withdraw their money if the rate of interest was ding aided by a rate. Indeed any permanent tax on the interest of money is impossible. Settlements inflator° are also to be exempt from the rate. Exemption from pool-rate for tln years is promised to all improve ments. If improvements, however, mean the re-colti ration of the land that has been suffered to go waste, it will be a long time ere anything like a rate of five shillings be raised, however it may be struck, in the West. These indeed, united with what was pro posed of a remission of arrears, would act as a premium upon sloth and resistance to the law. VAaious circumstances have recently transpired by , no means calculated to improve, in public estima tion, the cherubic of privatesolkers in the British I army. It has Lae a long t ime been a fact rather tacitly admitted than openly expressed, that there are mean places in and about the Green Park and its , environs, "where soldiers most do congregate," which are felt peculiarly unsafe, and are, therefore , seldom frequented after aightfall by gentlemen of a nervous temperament., who have a dislike to be exposed to the altresatiew al 'being dragged off to the guardroom Aria • Weed at their breast, unless, in the ms e 1 they consent to part w ith witatever,bese change or trinkets may gams to be in their pememiss : in short, that the localities to which we allude are enoompused by dangers of an aspect so saline, that few but those who have a strong reliance en their °enrage, determination, and physical pours, ems to encounter theta. Those perils which beset the imidtight path of the wanderer in the streets of Rome, so felicitously described by 'intim., fade into insignificance when compared with those of our own time. The trial of the soldier. COOPER, has brought all these things to light; and his sentence stamps them, as true. Disclosures have been made, and facts have come to light, of • character so extraordinary and so startling, as to leave little doubt that he some years pest them has been in active operation, in the very heart of this metropolis, a mins of via and flagrant ' pleader, carried on in a male so etlietive, and under the raver of an accusation so appalling, that very few this amuled, especially those of sensitive feeling, have hitherto had the moral courage to Nat. In the few instances where resistance has been attempted, it has led to a publicity often attended with residts, which, although innocence has been vindicated, pre date too frequently en impression which cannot always be effaced. If the evidence of the comrades of the Nome of the Rev. CHARLES BALMS be true, it has for some time been well known, at all events, generally, is hie own regiment, that Comte, when occupying the post el sentinel, bad been in the habit of extorting money sad other valeshies hos such passers by u chance threw in his way, by threatening them with the eremitism* of an canoe which we need not name. The het of his having been eminently his in the Mead preens is proved by his own at/We i M tha morgeast of his company, coupled with the dusemchmes his having bees men upon urine amine in the possession of coma of sawn which he this asieuied for. Had there been any dealt apes this *bet it has been set at rest by the subbase of the same cam, who stated that they Mee idled to remove him from a leadity (in the )dance-yard) the oechnion of which afforded to Ms Sersand bonnie; for the cony's; on of his as helms placoss. Tide we ti n matter of notceiety to his regimes!, list crafted d being disgracefully bilied M. be was aely phased upon another pest —satin and whose the meow of a second mufti wadi lssoesa a °beck upon the predatory pectinate, lay which be was disoingdshed. • • On the careunutanoes of this disgusting cam we seed no further dilate. Coupled with that dthe mesa robbery committed en the French Bathed peed by one of the same corps, and with that of themes's, of Annwers Mums, it strongly suggests the impro priety eaddengerafbiepingregimests celled theemeds Pailthestly qoarbred in the metropolis. The inlaid' et the guards um men of the lower or labouring ohm,. poorly paid, yet kept in comparative lasses wed is dated with the luxuries and emimelitim of a great metropolis. Their ardour he mum and ter vice is excited, and they have nothing to comb:- id it in the usual movement or ezeitement of the witiikery profession. We never hem of these= ammaget the troops . of the line, els me not to the some tempta tion, who she moved sheet to take their there of all climes ad videdimise s end who are the Wier for it. The dicers of the guards would perhaps make a streiger cane against kesplar any regiment per m:wetly in the capital. Bet that is another theme. TEE COOT or Commas' Iscarirrs.—lt from Wield nouns wade to the Finaselel sad pose Committee of the Middlesex Beath, that, front the Ist of Jaa. ;to the 6th of Feb. in the present year, Mr. Wakley, the sorosw held 128 haptisitions upon dead bodies, the shows lise fees, sad ilebarommate on which amosafti is 1901. 1 3 1f.V. From the let el Jan. to the 10th of Feb. Mr. Baker held 144 inquisitive', the like charges oa widish were 48W. is 4d. la the month of Jen. Mr. C. Bt. Clare Balked, the mow for Westminster, held • isonhadens, the sharps. as whitit were 761. Os. 10d. Told 299 ; oasts, 964.. lfiL GERMANY. PRUSSIA.,--We have received the following letter from oar Berlin ocerespondent, dated Fob. 27 : "Th. two ebantben niet today at 'lO. In the first, Von Amamild was chosen president by 93 oat of 121 vette. In the snood, the senior member, aged 65, baying taken the c hair, m a de a speech praise of the constitution odroyie, white met with frequent interruptions from the left. Two motions were then otd n o, one by . Vielishn. on the part of the rig dise ai rrg lump other by Un ruh, proposing the division of the chamber into secdons, and the appointment of a committee for the mrificetion of the. elections and an other to draw ap regulations which should ease ' gamey bodkin/nod by the Chamber. Neither of these having been accepted, Inereermams, of the Centre Left, moved that the emulations of Viebaba, and the motion of Unruh, be demand to-moerow, and that to-day the Chamber should be formed into seven sec tions for the trial of the elections. This motion was, on thepreposition of Unruh, separated into two parts, by a majority of 161 against 183, which produced some sensation as a idgis of the strength of the constite ticeal liberals. The lint part was voted by . a majo rity of the Right; the second carried unaiumly. Then the chamber, having been divided by lot into seven sections, adjourned at half-past one." FHANRFORT.—Our dates from this city are to Feb. 27. The National Assembly was occupied on that day with the discussion of the 13th and 14th sections of the law of elections, bat no vote was arrived at. The house adjourned till March the let. Tbe sitting ,of the 26th was a very stormy one, in consequencesof one of the members (Herr &nut brecht) having charged the Austrian government with the murder of a member of the Frankfort National Aseemhly, with metalling in foreign coun tries against , t.O German constitution, and with having bed mourn to the Russians as active allies. An Austrian member mowed a vote of censure on the President of the National Assembly for not having called Herr Grumbrecht to order. The motion was referred to &B raid committee. The official journal of Frankfort publishes in its number of the 26th inst. a collective note to the cen tral executive, signed by the plenipotentiaries of Prussia, the two Hews, Brunswick, Luxemburg, Saxe-Meiningen, Saxe Coburg Gotha. Schleswig- Hols:ein Mecklenburg, Oldenburg, Name, Baden. Lubeck, Hamburg, and five or six other states of minor ;sink. This note is the result of the deliberations of the representatives of 26 German states respecting the proposed constitution foe Ger many, and is as follows: Inthe dismiss which has ameba ha the following ob. eireatioes resgeitiag the reeetalisas mime to by*, National Armed, teeiblag the immthatioa, we have not deputed from the esaddiesitha of the basis of those rembitioes, timely, the bash of a *dents Mate, whom genteel authority will be samatidedi by a repreesatation pretending hem the eludes tithe maim people . Imbed of pant dotal! ea& of elearsa, It will Mies to_ pante sot la a general seesaw the points of dew hem w hirl we have set out. They may be samosa up se omatiteting • single aim, namely_ that of diminishing the difikalties which present theemalses to a salon of sovereign states in • fede rate state reprimand by • antral authority ; difficulties regultieg le the lint place, from the necessary renounce ment of the rights of sovereignty on the part of particular states in favour of the emassenity ; and secondly, from the fear lest the central power should gradually limit those fights- Military subordination to a central power affects a right of sovereignty, which right, eer clan, in times of peace, all would be unwilling to ms muchdiminished. By mean of the proposed modifications to the articles 12, 13, 14, 16, and 18, those attributes which appertain to the central power in its quality of executive powernre placed in relations which protect the independence of particular states ; on the other band, the right of making, with the concerns*" of the wire national representation, general laws rattly, to the army, may be regarded as • means of mousing unity and strength. With a view of faeilitatiag the relations of affairs, we claim for each state the right of having itseU represented at the seat of the central power by a plenipotentiary, and this both sea coasequenee and symbol of the maintenanos of po litical existence. We shall favour the independence of particular data by limiting the attributes of the central power, and more espe cially by giving to it the general power of l e gislation, and by withholding from it the execution of the laws. We would conduce to the maintenance of the independent existence of particular dates, by confiding to them the car rying Out of measures and works ordered by and fur the community, by not contracting their sphere of activity, by not preventing the canted of a general and par ticular administration ; and by avoiding what might necessi tate an extended central administration, and a large number of functionaries of the central power. The principle that the central power should cause its own decrees to be executed by its own ovens, but that, on the other baud, it will not exercise an inspection over what falls within the jurisdiction of particular dales. will tend, it cannot be denied, to draw a more defined line of demarcation between the autho rity of the astral power and that of the separate states. But it cannot be made compatible with nio nerckleal Institutions and with the situation of Our- the result et ancient political coo. . The goverment. would lose consideration i i n nt e g own opinion aid in that of the people under their authority, if, in their own territory, the °Acids of the central should hold factions side by side with those of the state Itself ; thence would resell miasma ' or at least ill-will, and comb maid would probably end in the extension of the authority of the central power. These considerations acquire a special im portance, if we regard the central power as delegated to a powerful sovereign. It is different with morel to the com petence of the eental power to nuke generel Wm. A lavi which concerns all the elates in mama is resolved more favourably by a particular state by mesa cif ha gess talky. Of all the incouvenietices of the Wised* of Way, the dAmlty of making legislative ordisanses he the whets of Oeratsay, is what the nation he peskape fait the meat deeply, and bas require should be the most pump* Tio . ro*isd ; bat in Ivislatien ft is set the eassalin timer which is exclude* or even priatipally active; it e l2 l only a secondary place, while the first place is oecapb s ; the legislative wesmblies, inning from Use mass of the peo ple, sad to whom would seerae, as it were, only th e rights oebbb liskag, or whisk should beim , the repreasatetice of the peopleoath to state. It omit be d enied that a ll are tempted to soaks an isuamierate we efleghistims, when they have the facility of meld., sal faimmiesies _general laws; it is, therefore, iiesioalle * draw well4elasd and slowly resegaimble Iknlin. The *opal useadaisate to the Whim 14, 21, 27, Ilk se, RI, 11, 40, 42, 46, sod 47, el the shaper entitled "of m a gegmel power; wow* to these &wads teadiag to limb emil tales* the admiabillidea sad leghlatise. Whoa a peat eseambly b hassled with the power to vote supplies hit essidlembie umbeMblep, tt will rarely resist the . sheen WNW to time. power ; it will relit it so iamb the kes he that *see e6i always be f i e el a ametitar et *Me sway wil e = ' Wel lissisfis, sr time ell mho tea may tithe will *meth* *vote ear impose midi is es be divided smog the efierresity. t This wili Mead ta dirsommede the set mirely:of the Ibilesie Mates, bat (aid ems man y) of tie partied., slabs. It weld mein advisable, tkerehrth to limit as area as Twelfth the detail vellsg greats he the pee lendertelthoos at the osemaieft, _To Wee mesh Weer sway altogether world be iniiimilis and mastery ens *lime prostate* at the easiset hiked massitalise. whish resegehee, velem the 19* snide of the gooiest, the mem* of essabZ ' Mod baleseres Per dew wpm ~ Midair the Wily et passim; tits melt le a Newt *Miaow • mho she with regard to el thisivarea h wean he seat to impatellie to set a t i : r t e t=p et the iliffilmmrstatew the miliimallike, Ind et meow= *sew mosose, which poodato am ressight Oa time** head we might gimp the power et math* sedieersseds me railroails 49 to mat it impraso amiped f ri M irw g r ag e r d algt vasee, whys ea* edisslime hove hem 111111 be emegmbee, se he se It nabs@ the ogee* rills The ado sel waited* mast haw lb) pow he dispose bogy the asessemy mom, without being Mailed to he ewe share. Bat, it must, oa the ether bead, alba that the eral right to establish impois, *aid *lima it lioesla *sea by a opssial ergmieella, will be bat imeseited by ll* tritipossumsals; sad as whisk they mph* pare a gre ler ph 36, re if the MIS= sad gamma hopetes, mina to pew ef fie, awed, we should thew munives the •- &wood to mamas, the direct right of ultedie ImMllgilimess the bodges of the make, to has been ismessa, wlll isset only a small pan dlllO mem led Ism& lapis. Thee Allows olotsrvatimi.sa the dimes it is pro posed dna he made is the reesintiene taken by the Nation' hassibly, relative to the mestitation, and whisk to _rbd on the grounds above stated. BAY_ We hale news from Munich to Feb. gg, Oonbery to expeoleideeh the wocidng menu' banquet on the mammy Cl the French revolution passed off without any disturbance. The government pro fern, have propped to forward to the central executive, se the contribution of Bavaria, the sum of 1,621,976 &eine. The regerten for Bemis. paper, and the Meath essesegandenta ot foreign journals, have resolved net be take down or forward any ao count of . the_gmeseelbes of the fired chamber, ustil they are Awigetl milk I suitable room for amembhag in, preview* to their admission to the chamber. In oollegninee et this determination, the important sitting et the 26th ult. has nob been reported in any German Pena WURTEMBERG.—The position et this state with =to the future oceatitation of Germany is ea : It chime the right of deciding whether that coustitution be a thane for the above kingdom ; ob• Garman to the pia:ling of the supreme power of the German empire in the hands of me puma ; attaches the utmost importance to the continuance of Austria in the German confederate state, and declares that the exclusion of Austria would be the self-mutilation of the German fatherland. FRANKFORT, Frs. 27. Than was a preliminary . skirmish yesteroay, if I may ass the expression, in the church of St. Paul, between the parties which divide the Assembly on the question of the executive authority for united Germany:, Ton are aware that opposed to th e P ros . utara, which aims at a hereditary emper or o f th e lern family, are the Austrian party end the 1 party of the left. The Austrians, back e d by th e Bs varians, and the Tramontenee of almost the whole of Germany, wish to see placed at the head of German asks a directory of seven persona nominated by Prune, Austria, and five c roles embracing the rest of Germany. The left, who see no hope for the future unity of Germany except in a powerful and en erge ti c parliament, and who re-unite and retain the whole of Germany (especially German Austria), in the empire which the Assembly in St. Paul's was elected to organise, would prefer a directory to a hereditary emperor. It miOt seem then that on this ground a kind of coalition be tween the Austrians and the Left might take place, with a view to oppose the appointment of a heredi tary emperor and the partition of Germany, the inevi table consequence of choosing the King of Prussia for emperor. An attempt at a coalition of these two par ties has accordingly been made. The Austrians, Bavarians, and l'ramontanes appointed a committee to prepare the draft of a constitution on the basis of a directory ; this draft was communicated to the Left, who had on their aide nominated a committee to con sider and suggest such modifications of it as might enable them to give it their support. Thus stood matters when the prel!minary skirmish of yesterday, to which I have alluded, took place. Von Gagern, the presiding minster, presented yes terday to parliament and the committee on the con stitution (which is a committee of the whole) all the notes in which the different governments of Germany have communicated their remarks on the preieg of the constitution in the form in which it wee read a first time in the Assembly. The Prussians embraced the opportunity to insist that the emend reading of the constitution should come on immediately after the first reading of the electoral law, the debate on which is at present in progress. The coalition—if it deserve the name—called for a longer adjournment of the second reading of the constitution. The Austrians supported this postponement because they have sent three of their number 0 Olmiitz to submit their draft of a constitution is the Austrian ministers, and did not wish the second reading to come on be fore their envoys returned. The Left was for ad journing tie mead reading of the constitution till after the second reading of the electoral law, because they look upon a flood electoral law as the only pa rasites for the efficiency of future parliaments, because they think they have a better chance of getting a good electoral law before them after the second reading of the constitution. It had been previously agreed be tween the two parties to the coalition that the Left should demand the postponement of the second read ing of the constitution till after the law of elections had been read a second time. In making this demand the Left acted in perfect good faith: they consented to an adjournment that would enable the Austrians to receive their go- vernment's decision as to the project of a directory ; but they did not wish for an indefinite postponement. On the contrary, M. Venedey's motion was in effect that the second reading of the meditation should come on immedia€e4 after the second reading of the electoral law. In this way a delay of a fortnight would have been gained, but the time of the second reading of the constitution would have been defini tively fixed. This, however, did not suit the game of the Austrian party. The intriguing members of this party—the successors of Mette-mehand friends of Bus ies— seek no better than to prevent any resalte whatever ensuing from the deliberations in St. Paul's. A con siderable number of them voted yesterday against M. Venedey's motion, and the consequence was, that once more there was not a sufficient majority for any of the counter-motions under discussion. Yesterday—the first day on which the coalition was to come into play—the Left saw themselves deserted by the " black and red" Austrians—that is, the Aus trian diplomatists of the Metternich school. I fear that this will lead to untoward consequences for the constitution and the coalition of Austria and Ger many. Of late every step taken by Austria and the representatives of its government, as well at Frank fort, as at Olmiltz, have told against that power. Excesaivefinesae never effects anything. The choice of Schmerling to repreeont the government of Austria, after ti , e parliament had compelled him to resign his ministerial appointment—the alliance between Muni& and Austria—the scarcely concealed tame of prevent ing any German constitution from being adopted—all these tricks may be very clever and cunning, but they will probably have no other effect than to pave the way of Prussia to the imperial throne of regenerated Germany —or, perhaps, to provoke another revolution, a war to the knife, in the spirit of the red republican. Meanwhile everything is going wrong. The only good news is that Russia is advancing towards Ger many. The expulion may surprise you ; but I sin eetely believe that nothing but a great war, or a new revolution, can save Germany. THE ItrPITER MAIL PACKET AND THE LATE STORIL—DARSHODTH, MARCH 1.--Tbs Palumbo. and Oriental Company's steam ship Jupiter is safe in this port. On Wednesday she encountered, off the Start Point, a perfect hurricane. A heavy sea struck her, and she shipped about 30 tons of water, severely injuring the second officer, boatswain, and a man. Mee several ineffectual attempts she wsagot in hers, and will remain till the gale moderates. no injured men are all doing well, bat it is feared the cargo is much damaged. The Sultan posed the Jupiter on the 27th off St. Alban's Head.—The Jupiter started on Tuesday from Southampton with the Portuguese, Spanish, and Gibraltar mails. _ - at Court. The Qas end Primo Albert lett town MaS araoyal moral for her e marine mildews Ohl te , r t of Wight. Her Ma sad Rh Royal Highness Were = Ga ud mohair by the Prince of Wake, Prince and the Prisons • the Primes@ Alio,. the Primers Helena, the Princes L'ouioa„ and the matte were in het ourisues end bar. The swat party left Beeline km Mew at ten valuate@ Wine does Vika, and pro o w e d ea the Nina NMI station eget Leaden and South. Wanton railway. @pedal Iran osavered her Majesty aad the Prince to Gowan. Viscount de Monson°, the Portapsso Minister, transacted business yestarday st the Fweie Mee. The Rev. T. Ainger, Mr. Hare ster and Mr. WIWI& Ford, lad ea Interview with Lord Jae Rama iisterday: LADY JOHN RIIIESELL will FOTO 11, SErie• of anent blies at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury in Downing-greet, cosameneing on Wednesday next, and on the two Mewing Wadh•Mafo.. THE HON. FRANCIS J. MOLYNEUX, IMO Secretary .0 her Majesty's legation, and chargt ff.:Taira at Frank fort, has finally retired front the diplomath service, and has wired home. DBATH ON MR. MUNDT, M.P.—WO regret to an nounce the death of Mr. Mundy, one of the memben for South Derbyshire, which event occurred (we believe) at Bar bados' on the 29th of January. We are obliged to reserve particulars for next weelt.—Derby and Chesterfield Reporter. —Mr. Mundy was in his 49th year. He was a conservative voted for agnenlarsl protection in 1846 ; and was of resell to the endowment of the Roman catholic clergy. eat for South Derbyshire since 1841. His father represented the same county for forty yeas. Tax Bp.mBn Guaiwrru Annanlois.-0991- Weamenication has been reeds to the Cartons Board by the Secretary to the Treasury, stating that Choir lordships are pleased to authorise the acceptance of the security of the British Guarantee ,fissochition in all cases where bond is required for any! revenue purposes, order which the board may be of opinion that it will be advisable I. accept its seserity. Emicriois OP Bainoanarrza.—Yesterday a com mon hall was held for the election of a Brid2whader in the room of Kr. Joseph Watson, deeeawd. The Lord ' Mayer took tha chair in the Chilldhall at 1 o'clock, ad Mr. George Ledger, formerly a wry highlywepeoted member of she Court of Common Comm, was *looted without oppedtice. Cifoixaa.—Yesterday the following froth oases IMO to the Board of Health : Work home,r7tigormin4imeast, 2. 1 Ma; lEfusingtos, 1 fatal ; Glasgow for 28th Ilk., 13, 8 Mal ; ditto, for let inst., 7, 1 fatil • Oarawaseea by Olemow; 10 fatal; mi.._ 1 . &warn& 1 fatal ; Galsakiela,. 2, 1 fatal pag — Tisid - o; Whiteside, godzingtee, 3, 1 istel—Totsi, 39 mew ewe; 19 dealhe. r .. ;` f 3 THE NAVIGATION LAWS. GENERAL SHIPOWNERS SOCIETY. The annual mss 'mg of this society was held yes. terday, at one cede*, is the large room at the London Tavern, Bishommere-street, and was lain nueserouly at tended. Dune= Dauber, R q., shah' as of the society, presided. There were deo present deptitations tram Green wich, North Shields. Exeter, Whiteness. and ilearborough. sr. G. F. YOUNG reed thereport,la whisk the committee niaMbenee by characterising the present erWe as more eg to Beitish maritime cemmene than any that hes elitynt snouted. They state that their continued attention hes teen dimeleill to the considered= of various objects of dna reirdlem blights, harbours, pilotage, &a & e., but the E a ktigentallee to shipowners of the na vigation laws, mawNlos by a minute reforms to particular • • tiny to commerce, to diminish the Inoured which tiny to concentrate on the great object en which the athmtien of the parliament and public is fixed etora Elism cant give h n e e e s : a mm ibr ary wa r et thei the r of last year, in a. .41risissi what •Wida• g %lewd. especial burettes soefulent pro laelfan, at the tithe One astsztlig their flioniethimthet IMO a, aid just 1 88 thelioe to all interein this the system e a t i rldri tt izet eminent with the real prosperity of the renaming the recent padiantentarr commit ters, the report states that no evil susceptible of any re molly has been or can be proved as arising from the practical operation of the navigation laws ; that the maintenance of **protective on which them laws axe founded is indispensable to the maintenance of an extensive mercantile marine, and that such a marine is indis pensable to the existence of a powerful navy. The report thee proceeded to .. the consideration of the pre mat condition of the shipping interest, and calls upon every friend to his country, u well as every ship owner, to give strenuous resistance to the bill brought in by mbristen in the present session, Its provisions are wholly icopnriatent with the principles put forward s its basis and with the policy it is intended to advance. The committee also deprecate the censure passed on British commanders by the supporters of the bill. The clause of the bill which compela the shipowner to man his ship with British seamen is stigmatised as the meet flagrant and disqualifying incon sistency in the measure, on account of its forties the ship owner to conduct his affairs not according to his conviction of his own intern% but according to the dictates of an in consistent and then tyrannical act of parliament. Finally, the report recommends " union among aLL classes of the shipping interest." Mr. ROBINSON, M.P.. and Chairman of Lloyd's, pro posed the first resolution. He (Mr. Robinson) had felt it his dirty carefully to go through the evidence given before the House of Lords upon this important question, and one of the main grounds stated by government why such a change as the contemplated repeal of the navigation laws should be efleeted in this country was that, in consequence of the high rate of !Mein which the shipowners were enabled to exact from the shippers of merchandise, commerce was chummed, and the mercantile interests greatly prejudiced by the freights that prevailed. He had been a merchant ins this city fur 40 yeses, and it might fairly be supposed that he knew some thing about the commerce of the country. He had NOR occupied both as a shipowner and as a shipper of merchan dise, and he had no hesitation in saying that, if they would look back for 10 or 12 years past, they would find that (with the single exception of 1847, owing to the large importation of grain into this country) shipownencomplained that theyeould hardly get remunerating freights. In the House of Commons, Mr. Rimrdo and others had stated before the committee that emesional instances had arisen where merchants had shipped goods, tor a cheaper rate, in foreign vessels. No doubt, in stances did occur—that certain inconveniences must of necessity arise' but they were very rare. What said Mr. Huskisson upon the subject? " That it was his opinion, that, where the interests of commerce and navigation clashed, in consequence of the importance of keeping up a large mer canule marine for manorial defence, commerce must give way." (Hear, hear.) But now, with rerphot to the evidence given in the House of Commons upon the ques tion of high freight', which it was stated that ship owners exacted from the shippers of goods—the evidence had been given by gentlemen connected with trade in China, the East Indies, West Indies, and Canada, and the whole concurrent testimony of those witnesses went to prove the feet, that with the exception of the year he had mentioned, they had never found any difficulty, practically speaking, in obtaining freights at a moderate remuneration. Now, he would ask which of the two alums of persons was likely to be right ? But there was another thing to which he wished to direct the attention of the meeting. The government, being driven from one posi tion, they take up another, and Mr. Labouchere exclaims, , ' Look at the peti tions from the West Indies and from Canada, in favour of the repeal of the navigation laws." lie (Mr. Robinson) found that the application for repeal from those countries bad proceeded from a very small number of persons. There was no evidence whatever that the majority were in favour of the measure. And why had the people of the West Indies and Canada petitioned ? They were per sons who, suffering under the infliction of free trade were endeavouring to ascertain whether they could carry out the same principle in respect to navigation. (Hear.) He was asked the other day to present a petition to the House of Commutes from Montreal, and his reply was, that he was unfavourable to that part of it which suggested a re peal of the navigation laws. He found that in seeking to re peal these laws they asked for a protective duty of be. They stated, in feet, that the repeal would do them no good lodes the government of this country gave them that protection. Burthened as the country was by enormous texas and the expenses of en extravagant government, they say " You must go and build your ships in foreign ports.' If this were to be the case, what would become of the thouands of men who were employed in the building and fitting of ship. In this country ? (Hear.) If they were obliged to build their shim abroad, the owners themselves might possibly he indemnified in some way ; but who was to indemnify the carpenters end all those workmen who were dependent for their livelihood upon their own industry and exertions? (Hear, hear.) Velem he was greatly mistaken, the great want of the country at preempt was th at of employment. Yet government recklessly persisted is lorcing a measure upon the country whose effect must inevitably be the extension of this grievous evil. (Hear.) He regarded the interests of capitalists as of inferior importance to the advancement or demoralisation of what were called the lower slums. When the question was under the considera lion of the House of Commons the other day,Col.Thozapeon,by way of throwing derision on the protectionist*, said that their object was like that of the man who picked another mares pocket for the benefit of somebody else. Now his object was to protect the pockets of the people of this country, and he would go over to the ranks of the fres trades at once if he thought that free trade would be of the slight est benefit to the working domes; but he believed, on the contrary, that the further the government went with this inessum, the nearer they would bring the country to a state of financial embarrassment and social demoralisation. Mr. Robinson then analysed and commented on the evidene• given by Captain Stirling before the House of Commons. Main' Sir Thomas Cochnne: Bir H. Nicolas, Captain Berkeley, and many other naval officers of the highest cha racter, bad all stated, in opposition to Captain Stirling, that the merchant service, as at present constituted was Indio pensible to the efficient manning of the navy. (Hear, hear.) Among the whatnots slammed before the Lords' committee was a man of the name of Whitwell, who had been im printed in the navy, but hag never risen to the rank of an officer, ending ' his terser idlest as a foretopman, sad subsequently becoming a reedbant In Bristol, and that man, who could have had no undue pre possession for the merchant service, stated that all the best men in the ships in which he heel served had been educated in that service. (Hear.) They were told that if this coun try consented to repeal the navigation laws other weenie, would reciprocate, sad if, on the contrary, their repeal was refired, Waistline might be anticipated. It bed beezi said that America had made *iterations in her tariff, but they had been dictated solely by the state of her den finance,, and not from any desire to remove commend restrictions, for whale England received such immense quantities of Amerind pro's°, as were now poured into the country free of duty, no English produce was received in America without the imposition of duty. Nay, eventheir neighbours the Freed', from whom a free trade policy might reasonably be looked for after late events, were as decidedly opposed to it as ever. A.• lo the retaliation of other countries which had been spasm of elsewhere, it could not be by any means so preju- Mad to the pond interests of the country as the one-sided =frof free trade. Other countries' were far more in o Great Britain for the advantages afforded them by bee madatethaa Bogiend was to theca for carrying their cue- a tea Mt hahmail beenetainly addict understand the policy of Ziaja wa ftillia prelims flee Giddy into this country while were still levied in ether countries. If this mca imeeterenrearried, the laiminne indent of capital embarked in Weld 00 er, would and in eldpbeibliog, anwasting to more than 60,0,0 a, be pissed ka iumftr, ad the polic7 of America, which was to drive trade front that conti nent end the adjoining blends, would be ably seconded. (Hear, hear.) He then read an extract from the leading ar ticle of a paper publicised in Washington, in support of this view. President Polk led heedfully referred to the rapid Increase of the American navy in hie last address to Congress, and stated his belief that America would soon have a greater number of merchant shipl than Engleod. Bina that address they had acquired large pessesEons la-Mexico and California, and opened up new avenues for trade, yet the Engle& go vernment proposed by the present measure to force them further to increase their whims tenurese by throwing the carrying trade of this country into their hand,. He denied that the shipping interest was liable to any reproach in reference to the impreenneat ',stem. Shipowners never countenanced impressment, but they had often te lament that the best wen in their ships were taken from them for the naval service. la conclusion, he stated that he looked on a measure bp of amid- he received and adopted. Sin I. H. r ztvi (deputy master of the Trinity-home) the ted re ty p n e , al had of ra the v n e a d vir e tic et laws rom se huoh_thet the report wooded the resolution, and stated that being bred a seaman Mosul( it afforded him plenum to have an opportunity, as ha thought he then had, of standing forward in rapport an d defence of the British wanes, and the shipping Interest which he believed to be the sheet other of the country. (Hear, hear.) The resolution was then serried unaaimendy. Mr. J. D. FOWLES propelled the mend resolution : That ads seelany. entimar enellentnaft lbe emelmEM easldned y,,,hengfeueigeruthemissarewerMseeperlisamktertheebroml • mi d of me seugesisa lawn se keetthime l ases dne the le the atinsteg Wand, sad Magary _ Mb e ar ars slid mune af the serseby; nil MY en_ *beetled le alba la Oa meet crtnnuens earls to Mot the isghistere to rejoin tha till. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. . . Mr. R. A. 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