The Express. — London, England, 1849-02-20 00:00:00

. . lazaiselis rum, raw, pence, en penman= la_ !ion gnaws.. 'sof Is deiratiss ableirisey jesiikealry ifearaeitier; ▪ pressatator Jen, flea foreiga prime, prelate, suaLpsesetaas bade es am* have toutperal er shed greedy is irilitatly, vials this park" New wwid whit to the atria bed whether he world set is greys hit prepaid by thus words al /leer beer.) Why *add who are se= Pepbe alled la the temporal pester af the e.Ten right Uwe sans abater el • rases la the are se Reran Wham IS islend eepeelveltle damson* Lassa whelks Wea r anatomy did is kerma date, think dr rope soared at tamped jadatistien i but sunk that mar arty to pram el earlier peeleallea (Row ) litho* be to. the el the melds lard—that et sashed, fag ail isrelevest nta.ter bra the sash, ought, • wy *Wen, let be men te sand as as as I have seggered, sat gentle ar Roma whales shard ne loam be idled ap-n $5 atinto •Wsk it is sway ispalible dig enisrtais. (t a r) La hon. member teed as that the eriglual tropes of thus wards was Is emu& eartda prties frees this hewn. They esetaisly 0111110 t rube& protestant' or Jere, bet tbey do palls oar .setts et edam rereats, when some &sold be used szerpt those shish ere absolutely necessary, limo dies whisk as tar as I Gut eneesive, ar sehair nentesery sec tread fk say pupae" whatever. I *right it right is threw sat those kw obstrvatiess, trusting that, with respect to the tratadiatt part at ire% reatlesesu will not think it arissary to raid tie nodes he sorniktea Mr. NIWDEGATE sot bevies any doubt as to the ea• tare el the oath he took, or Mt say of the eiaberrauaseet wbhh the tight be.. somber lee the Haivsnity et Oaford leeletai to Eight kayo seafood the malls et souse sowaliee whoa oaking the regal est% at the table, be Eight be pormetted or mg dot be felt the eresiout *bionics to the K the sable lard. (Her, hear.) The slob!' 1:r1 grailis together le pMthe all that wee likely a teradtery apedassee, be bad act ea the one head huilied that dederadea was awte=t: b gaard the Obliteellegliad apisotthe Roma ea while ea the ether appeared be had not gem airy asee4le meet the views el the right Mu. tennelstr lot Weed, sack ea he bed retelsed to the prep Ed oath a:Tattoo wars the teutperal *stied el " the Pepe. how ever, to irk the wile Pod or emend NM edgesnasees•— (uo, se)—la ewer that les. aaraben Eight Mew what ware the terse of the nodes wad et the seta. • The mein * of the worth "ea the true faith Christina M the Nth whoa talon by protestant., sad eatildeg theta what Eh= Wethate„ Ad e.* that tot atice be thiamin the eggeseesse of Etedowy—(hear) ;—ad he wail erg It they weee or beau* wet tor owe der of wweabera, let the. be dm* out he all. _Meer.) It the Hesse et Coosneee waa see lower to be a Christina aresably, let it be avowed. Ho did sot MOM to say that the deelasation os the true faith of *Midas woe ineess to Neese the observaeseet the oath ea vai ltgert et has tiews gemeally, bat he repelled it se fa roe Meg the Christie character of the legit:Le aseembly of a Ca astioa. As he desired to ter that aseenli_ly that sem ha which all the hopes and tine of awieNswe wow esaterwl, he 'Maki above the seat of the abode. The emotive ettlse sejeammat having bee. eseonded std put, Mr. DRUMMOND had se lode of the desire of his right los. Mend (Mr. Gladstone) to do natural justice; but his right hos. friend west further than that ; for it appeared to be his view that they should do natufel beSse to the Jews by retuning to Retard religion. (Hem ) It mented to him that then was a very great di between the noble lord's rpm& and the motion withbe bed emelnded ; so week so, that be (Mr. Drommesel) was in doubt as to the pew souse to be takes as that Modem He easestired with the learned gentisiatis It. that than was asset in the oath es sew fetes whale would he better emitted ; but, so kr as he sodomised it, the resent propueltion el the r oble :ord was nattiest bet the old Jinn bill of last miss over spin—a richer" of the mei. sum of nine surds ego. (Hoar, hear.) If so, be bed no option but to sore maim* it, as he bed ds before. If, however, the *hires were to go tab essemittee simply to emaider of** term. of the teeth, the. it might be matter few mosiderstion whether it would not be atonable to amede M that moles, end not to divide the lease @phut it. Mr. NRWDEOLTE sand the neble lord to reed the terms of the realism he proposed to submit to the cow Witte, sad of the oath he intended to substitute for the waseat. Laid J. litrBBl3LL said the teems et the reselatioa were, " That it is expedient to due the es& required le be meta by saidede et kw Welty set peteadastae idesia bW religisaos a tea/odes ke mad vedai la the Osmi um bum d palleaseM, te .k. yeevhisas la sash oath ka Ibe edierefysosem of die lesish pttesaea"--ead ea that sualadsa be Filmed te band the bill. Ti. noble bid also repseled the hems of the oath ea given at the esa ehnisa of his spies& 111. WALPOLS saggesesti that the w ho should ye into females prefers& - Lord J. IUIIO LL otifeeled that b that 00111•9 he would not haw the eggsetwaity et Indfreg nteastus before the tram All b. &said sok the - assulttos to do now wee imply to imbue the weolatios, thin it wee nootosary to aloe Um oath. Mr. WALPOLI observed list the house bed sow two didiset propeoletess lean it. The one • least abseeden to be mete is the emb—tbe star, a stbeemsiel whisk be and Ids lea *lads ear Ida thought to e toadamistel He .Mu.ply felt that they saga sot te shaft ; eel thank ke bed is.. rows , to the beam disposed to go iste mambas to madder the FiMlle edit, yet des the disermise that hid taken ' li m e hit it le lime moistly imemsible that be wad swede I the pesgmities sew belles dian. He wished Ike noble bud te sewage 'balm dime was set s broad dittoed= khans OMNI dgble ad pitied truths—sad whether the riga all mum bed to Me et the law, and that =Sat the law ressesgers dime political peivilsga aralee della. dime base keg seek es, moordag le Ike esimitudes. geoid abbe perbreesd by • Christian. He bed aged dug the sells used would use Wive thought aormeery deli • meads* wash bed haw telly dis owned ledly mauled oak see meta ego, byte sae yeediastest. He bed dings usdresteod that it ins s wise play ea the _pert el tresesseent sot to bawd, es alight groseds, collides or dimpreemant between the two Mum of parliament (Hem, Lea ) He had alway s usdastood eke Mee it wee e will wiser policy oa the part of perlisateat me to said or In may way do violence to the Religions etegkeisse se the rem mar of the people. oar, hear.) leek these oessillestions were, he those ht. le the peewee pespositise for me ow could data if the reesin were seeded list the ..h. lord would at all mesa was lb, risk der diesgreemest with the How el Lads whisk Mould be lesseettd, sad no one amid doubt eilbee-esit at.. the aside lord if he had iaggimed Ma the adfiset drag the MUM—that his pro penal mead Wise a pawed desk on the fella, end opidess of • hap body Of lb. people. (Hear.) Not of the Illftigeoirent sot ueinesiligest, merely, bet of scale of the beet, most adighsesed md ablest seen I. the eosin ay,wbe laeh epos the payables es a national vieledge eel easuesiedes d Ulteledes principle. lie believed that the deep religiose smaietiess of the puldie were est to be disregarded ; sad diet Mani of this - bee; es isseditgated ease of peresseeks egoism ate Jews, it Wireggreissmied thee die Magas, et wig would _Met the ugly pmesesties Dew peg e perm gibs spied Mena eke Wigged Is the ease& et liggised. (Moses, sad arts cal " Divide.") Lied J. RUSSELL—Mr, I bed hoped, after the re pemeil Mesessiose wheel emened lest year on that which the itseeerable_ ratan= states to be de only point Awhich • differeace will arise this pier—namely, the resegral of Jewish diebilithe —that I should be allowed to istrodum the bill, sad that the dissessise should be reserved for some Were siege (Hear.) All 1 ma do at preens is, to }sago that the hew should sow go intim otimasittee. If the lame le pleasedge isto m• emittee, I will propos this iessiedis set pat It tato the heads of the skeireme. If debate semi* thee .loo—if die. AMINO be Weed en that nesigliss, and if boa viemben awe to make that the quads' upon wadi they me die- posed to resist the premien I should mate, I Mould set sortelely propose to trartkas with the dimmed= at =Tim hen. madmen bee, however, gone farther IL. end be bee sapreseed his surprise thee I skald Vie Oh timeless deer it mad bee reined, sad be *lna set delsiemesike age. Sir, Mork seethe way la wadi! have emberieed seseitheties of errasay. (01More.) I beg Iberskt appseed that to r ay Rome getigHee. quietism tekiag away some of tiss - Rama esthetic bed bees peeved is this home, said retested in Ille Mews of Lords, gad yet tad se member of lie kern limit kiss& bona by NM mbeedem es If the.. were is the Hems of Leeds ea keemegbie sod irteirenale veto from biteglag ea the diem.= spin. (Itesewed skean) The lemmeseses was, ewe know, thus the Home et leek et booth reed the MU ter the east of the Booms embolic. Lir: r a se ! mud! Wok part is a wan* if the poetess the pans bill. was corded imp majorities's this Mew It wee rejo It ded ie the Home by eller& Why , it the boa gesCsmaa's deutrine be true, we ought them to have set dam easeattod. (Hier. boss.) We eagle to have believed it sealed that then weld be so mina of prlimmet—(bar)—ad we might sot to have matured edge the odeileatistiss of Lord Grey Is dleart• the guseliss • sewed tun. atesswed of " Her, barmwas o l se s s tpisese.) I erg, with mem to thi s it les bees seerejesied by rlouse, gam, rz., yes, wish all dueiherate es that we may aura eek thou se weeeeflee b 4 sad dot they, our. Ming their tadeebeed * Ilk macaws Aber give is eau. alive oe reject it a leeseCtios. Pei Met s “itiee of the Hem if Lords ate mile Nell be biding for ever es this awe, sea peeled we fe bringffeg the metes Seward NOD, sitbsegh that mem to he lissAssedDe of the hon. yet it canna premil, busses I esessim it frould, "lla tt allowed, remise the whole prudes of pedlemet. (Grist spellems.) Having sold thus nue kjustillesdos of the mune I have punned, ees Mize teasel toted seemed to he offensive to my hoe. I sertaiely used them with regard to peer& pansy I did ant apply them personally to any bon. mem twf..eaddid sot wish to give dhow. I now propose that the swim fee adMernieset b r withdraws, and that the hovel p tato ewe eittee es the bill. videdStreagets von matt e s withdrew, and the bows di- Oa Ihe iseAra bee aortlesee 111-103 ne kers thee wegt iato amass apca the bill erbeeeepea shoonti thee as the diens* had eons *TM hive by mph% and ss they wen ass swats of Ss none the sold• isrd wadi Mu, it wag hayed he would ast *bit to go Inner gel the preent eseestos- Levi 1. 111171131 ILL—I al weld, gar 11 1 ova part, werialaly vlth M pawed further hp-arght ; lato U the hera. seademea 40011 nu* give way, sad wit leava that the essuaittee de oh again ea Friday awn.—Agread IBIBH INLAND PIBRERLES. Oa tha notion of Mr. Awns , : it woo ordered that the ablest oomaillso ea hi& lalaad !iambs sod Navigatica do ought at the Mewl. embers :—Mr. Amoy, Sir W. Somirvillo, tEr O'Oorsisa lishos, Biz H. W. Hama. Mr. lksirord, Mr. Naos. Mr. &Flaherty, Bir P. Nmost, Mr. Mama, Mr. 'Marsala Meatplorm Mr. &who, Mr. Sadly. Mr. M. Fos, Ilr. Oreg.% sad Mr. 0. Gore (8 4,). IBIBH POOR LAW comilifizz. On the modes of Sir W. Soninvnan gr. G. A. gnmt►tom wee discharged from farther attendance an the ZHU poor law emunittee, and Mr. Napter's mums woe sub stituted. SAVING OF THE PUBLIC EXPENSES. Mr. B. OSBORNE wed far as swat of the saving effected by the eassalidatiou of the unless of the Paynester- Onteral. Paynarteer of Civil Services, end maiden of eachequer NW; distinguishing the want of salary tress every other owe : and, date wand of the number of clerks into superior deems slime the 17th day of August promoted the winds for mak pewit*, if est of the motel progretalea • together with a retara of the attendance of every ollea; I. the peanut setablishissat melded es super enaustiak hoes tate ISt day of January to the 31st day of Dwaber 1848. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER bad no ob jection to give the tint-mentioned parts of t►e returns inked ter. But Ise could not c )asent to the entire. He would give the liet of tke number of clerks promoud to superior lineations ernes August, 1848, bet ha decidedly objected to stale the posse for peossetien. W. OSBORNE believed it to be et fact that in 'sae in stance sae el the persons promoted was pissed over the heads of losneen ethers gadded by seniority. The CHANCELLOR of the gICHEdUER Wooed to melee say reasons for the promotions Waned to, sad the »tam were acoordlnglyordenod. FIBS IN COURTS OF JUSTICE. Os the motion of Mr. 13013•13111, tha comnitree Wafer Menne of jimmies arne mimed. NEW HOUSES QF FARMIMENT. The Bari of ARUNDEL sad SU=ET moved that it be an Metruetles to. the 110111111intil appointed to control the arrangement of the kitehes end the refreshment Noma is the department of the Oedema at Arms attending this boom, Li inquire into thp poems% position of the tichetportme of the home. hefted to. NEW BILLS. The Mowing new bills offs introduced aced read • Ent tines : Oa U.. motion of Mr. Du Ps" to mural tha act of the 21st year of Kiag George the Strand, for holding the sonar assizes for if. county of Buckingham at Rocking ham, and to authorise the appointment of a more oturs- Eisen place far holding the cams ; of Kr. C. Luna, to au thoress the !scissors of certain Lads in pureness, of the South masa! gensral report of the lacksars Comanksioun for England and Wales ; of Sir Wm. Sumas to mama the laws relating to dm tmeat of .we• gasedLra of cutlass it inland ; of Sir H. W. Banaort, for the non speedy trial and punishment daemon in Inland. THE ESTIMATES. Ia reply to a quoilus from Capt. BOLDIIIO. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that the ordnance estimates would be takes beim these of the army. Oa the select sousstittse. the right Ites. gestleataa had that the sans of Col. Asses should be substi tuted that of t►e Marquis of Ormsby, as the noble lord totted it hopeseible to stead.—Agreed to. The house thou edjoursed at haMpest 12 **Meek. Vie Orprems. *AILS. The awesW Gibrallir. Idslla,tireitee. the lonian Nang* Egypt, Ma. Opien. bas. lisieg•Kaag. and Mina, Me nouthimptak will be mode op= Se swift et the liatti Mt. • milla he Milk Meth Ater" and the United Hates, will I. noloupandie l = B : 64 M• Feb. The BM ein te the ideditemmeen, Egypt, Heim MP. Magiung. will be made ap ea the twailsg Adel the Mk M. The mob rgo, o=4.l: w ban, Madeira. Cadiz, end Oftealtar, uPIR MEM up au the at the rib M. 110 meth int New South Vm Diemen% Lan, and New Mink will bum& up cm Me main et the nth et Feb. nu mile Om as Welt Coma at Metes and Mathria will be made up en the evening et the UM at Feb. Th Weak Mk inebrilag Demada, Noma, H m avana, isabans e i Saw Odors. and Mak" and embed* Mo Sw NM"to losn-de.Ntieweges. New Orearde, awl, and Ma, will le Noir dm tbe Mlle, of tbe Paid Mo. TM man hr lingerie. the ling* and Mace Ayres, will be made my =He emir at the Hank. Inwit Wall A? ORIDOIL Tan Day inftir. pia 11. Alimony le lels. NM O. Tiofitagew —lllstalag, I Ws.pr l; mem. II Ws. jail 1. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 20. LOW JOIN Rossam.'s conduct on the subject of Church Reform, though not quite unintelligible is, eareinly, perplexing and ensatis'actory : On throe different ocessions during the last session of parlia ment, be admitted the necessity of a betteilidmulia tertian and distribution of church property, of further reforms in the cathedral establishments, end of an alteration in the composition of the Roolimiestiad Commission. And threw by these ad. minions, each one rising in emphasis over the pre ceding, and by . pledges a as langu age Can convey obligations, that the =teal= considers lion of the government should be given during the recess to the subject, with a view to the early introduc tion this session of measures corresponding to the requirements of the case, the Prime Minister thus averted divisions, which, though their results might have been unpleasant to his ministry, would, in all probability, have committed the House of Commons to the adoption of Mr. HORBMAN'EI motions. One of these motions, made early in May, 1847, was for the issue of a R oyal Commission to inquire into the best means of improving the property of the church. It was received with favour from both sides t and but for such assurances from the Premier as .4 I am quite ready to admit that the whole question require' further attention on the part of government ;" and, "although I cannot hve that in this session any measure will be introduced, yet I do think it most desirable that further measures for the reform of the abuses in the church, end with a view of rendering cathedral churches more conducive to the service of the church and the welfare of the people, ought to be adopted,"—but for such assurances as these, it was a proposition that would have been then agreed to; and by this time its results might have laid the basis of much useful legislation. It was, however, withdrawn on the understand ing that the recess would be well employed by government. And yet, towards the close of the recess, just es parliament wee on the point of being re-easembled,nßoyel Commission, having the very ob jects Mr. Honsmair had then in view, was issued. Nearly eight meths have been thus lost in the. • issue of the Commission; and bow many more will pees ere its labours are productive of practical legis lation time only will show. This much, however, is very clear, that its issue wee intended by Lord JOHN RUSSELL to have the effect of tiding the whole sub ject of church reform over another semi= of parlia ment. For, to Mr. 1101111MAle5 inquiry, on the day slier parliament reopened, what measures of eccle siastical reform were to be introduced this session by his losiship, the smassment eta! who = n l i r a irs. t replied that to it wee impossible to enter into any statement of the intoned= of government until this Commission had reported. Mr. HOLMAN appears to have esarcely believed his ears; and a week's rousideration only increased his ineredelity. 80, after seven &y delay, (on one &widish, however, he made a tell in gspesch veil= the government,) he repeated his inquiry. How different was the answer be then got 1 So far from its being then an impossibility to announce ' the intentions of the government ; so far from it then being indispensable to await the pporortt of the Commission; so far from the government being then without measures, Lord lons Rumen announced ' that they actually had two bills in preparation ; one `' almost reedy to be laid on the table, regarding the composition of the Booledestioal Commisdan ; another in hand for the fusion of the episcopal sad common funds administered by that 00011111111i011 ; and that other measures were under consideration. Here was indeed a wondrous change; almost equal to that con segewt a new administration. Hen were new lig new views. new *icy l How produced, how rod it were profitless to inquire. But it is not it is useful-It is encouraging to note ' the effect that individual earnestness and seal in a good earns have on a squeezable* government; to observe how knowledge, and labour, and determies lion, snob as Mr. Hossawee, act like a harlequin's wand on ministers who, though full of good inten tioon have the miserable weakness to pre a bellow true with theliebeirof bishops when they are wrong, to the hearty applause of a nation when they are right. Weil then, thanks to Mr. HOLMAN, we are %have manures of church reform ; and the nest is to be a bilkto improve the competition of the ecelseiestical commis ; don ; the second a bill to fuse the spimpal and com mon fonds. The very statement is sualisioss. Why ' r two bills on one and the semi salesst t Why not i fuse the hinds by the m = oldest is to alter the composition of the co ? Than have been so THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEINUARY 20, many tricks played off ca psrlisassat by this commie liCle, that the greatest eagles in legislating on its affairs is ladispeneable. It an be watched as the Sikhs ought to be, bat are not, under Lord Moon's command. Credit the bishops, and they are all ignorant of how the elms which ellimPtl dowdy separated their thud from the comma had was slipped into a statute ! Believe Mr. Kumar Mousy, and he knows nothing of the origin of the clause which made him secretary and treasurer of the commission for life. Nobody, in short, on or about the commission know. anything of how all the mischief it has accomplished has been ceased. Parliament in legislating on it has already made neveral false steps; ears, the greatest oars, mast therefore now be taken, or the legislature will be babbled (that is the proper word) again. Improve the composition of the commission by all means ; the more the better. Bat, first of all, secure the episcopal fund for the common purposes of the church. Move neither to the right nor to the left, until the distinction of funds be extinguished. De lay on this point is dangerous. Already 100,0001. from it have been spent on episcopal palaces : it was only last week that the fond was charged with 4001. a year to pay house rent for a bishop who has an income of 6,0001. a year ; and other 20,0001. or 30,0001. may be spent ongetting an episcopal palace at Manchester bgy fore the bill for the fusion is introduced. Make, then, that fusion part, nay, the first enactment, of any bill that is brought forward. Separate it from general legislation on the subject—let it form • distinct mea sure, and the dangers of its passage through the House of Lords are fearfully increased. On every ground, then, it is to be hoped that this fusion will be rat I secu;'ed- The fusion accomplished, do itapmvensent in the composition of the commies.= will be easily achieved. For it is impomible to males that body warmth= it L. Any altaironon must be for the bettor. At present the commimion is, for all priktical purposes, in the hands of the bishops, and of Abair tools, its offieers, who, in their torn, pay heavy eontributions on its funds. There us, to be sure, a few lay commissioners, but three-fourths of them are oosimistioners es-officio; and their ether duties preclude the posibility of their attendance. Yet the business to be transacted is sufficient to fully occupy a department of the state. It is not occasional business • but permanent, increasing, and important besineSs; busmen, any postponement of, or delay in which, involves neglect, aaai expense, loss, sr mistnanazement. And this basil:sea is left to the transaction of a class of dig nitaries whose fanctieos in their various sees are said to be so overwhelming as to require the creation of suffragan bishops, or of additional btshops. The Bishop Of LINCOLN candidly told Mr. EVELYN DENISON'S committee last session that he had little or no time to owe teethe commission. And the troth Is, that either the bishopsmust, in attending the commiasies, neglect their dimness; or, by attending to their dioceses, ne glect the oommlinioe. Accordingly, Dr. KAYE is rarely to be found in Whitehall ; whilst Dr. MALTBT delays answering diocesan applications (that of the Vestry of Gateshesd respecting a local charity abase in which is strongly suspected, for instance) for months on the excuse that the church is more benefited by his presence in London than by his residence at Auckland; and other prelates have, under a similar pretence, had the cruelty to hold their ordinations in town. But were there any other alternative—were diocesan duties and the functions of commissioners compatible in these respects, the bishops are ill calculated to be efficient commissioners on other grounds. The great majority of them are not church reformers in the proper sense of the term; they are opposed to such an administration of ecclesiastical property as the no amities of the country require • they are influenced in its administration by the prej udices of their order by the obstructive tendencies of their own enormous stipends, by the aristocratic pretensions of their own positive, and by their love of power. They are with out uniformity of motive, view, or object. And they are disturbed by the conflicting inducements of serving their own high incomes and of s spreading the common fund over as large a number of the second order of demise the preservation of life in that body will permit. The duty of 'bishop ought to be amazed to things spiritual; the duty of an °eel& deistical commitment" is entirely to regnlee and manage things temporal And it is because the duties of the one are incompatible and inconsistent with the duties of the other office, that the temporal affairs of the commission have been so scandalously mismanaged. What then the reel interests of the church require is the exclusion of the bishops from the management of the ecclesiastical commission ; and the assignment of its affairs to the conduct of a few responsible lay commissioners with duties well defined and limited by the legislature. But such an improvement in its composition is hopeless from the hands of a ministry which is frightened at the very shadow of what it calls, but most improperly calls, the church; as if the laity was not by far the most important part of the church. Any such expectations from Lord Joss Roseau's pro- mised measure are vain; for he has already announced that It will, in the main, be based on the very insuffi cient recommendation of Mr. EVELYN DENISON'S very halting committee. And there can consequently be no difficulty in foreshadowing its contents. The measure will, of course, provide for the ap pointment of three lay and paid commissioners, two to be appointed by the crown and one by the Archbishop of CANTERBURY, who shall devote their whole time and attention to the management of the property vested in the com mission, to be called Church Estates Commissioners; their salaries to be paid out of the funds of the com mission. Theo officers will naturally give form and shape to the management of the property, produce order where chaos now exists, and diminish the power of the existing race of subordinate functionaries. But if these commissioners are to be hampered by an Estates Committee; and if their proposals, and schemes, and management are to be subjected to the control of the general and unwieldy and irresponsible board, their power of good and improvement will, in other respects, beexceedingly limited. They will im prove the business details, Om the internal economy of the commission-so a sound andecoessible footing, and ,facilitate the completion of arrangements. Bat, con trolled by the general board, they will have small op portunity of introducing those larger schemes of im t for which three commissioners will worth their salarisis. The measure will, also, it cannot be doubted, pro- hibit hereafter the anion of secretary and treasurer in the aus• person, appoint an auditor, place all the officers ea the tenure at good conduct and efficiency, and alter the presort absurd system of precedency. All meal iniprommisols is their way, but all net camellia:big such • reform as will P onumbi th iblle refidence on the Ecclesiastical Wbe Clint A &publics bum the Provident laarltation, Marthemplass, ecesiensse et Mr. _Cebidiene, Its. Mr. Brown, ffir James Eyre, Mr. Deogsee, Mr Mweltonl, and Kr. amass* had an amullemee of Prime... Albert yse terday at lesideginea Plel the bower et s Bola kletnns Womb, of aellelt die lastlarden. T he Prince masplemod to acorns the aro of Prodient. Tho Duke of Cambridge vidtether Matesty yester day, at Eneldeshan Pales.. Prins Albert, attended by Colonel Sam= ILL Equerry in Wilda., visited Culitt's factory, at lank, yesterday. TM Queen and Prince Albert honoured tho per of the Preach Plays with their prerees yesterday evening. The royal smite annieled of the Countess of Charletaoat, Eon. Mies Macdonald, the Earl of Listowel, Sir Edward Bowater, and Colonel Seymour. Mr. Beetherton, Bir Elkenah Armitage, and the town els* et Mansiestn, bed an interview win air George Grei yelanday Matte Mame-allee. Mr. %wok dm American minister, returned retarder km Paris to his home la tipper Belu a re-et oh rl ar et A degullaine of iserary operatives front tfea, tee• Oldbma. and the Laneashire Newel ahem-omi , had aa interview Lord Jean Rata and Sir Orttrae l t ra Cr =at the eM&I maidens, or the noble lard in A deputation of amounts to the borough of Bir (exemption from county rake) bill, eensistlagol Brooke, Y.P., Mr Charles Douglas, M.P., M r. M.P., Yr. Newdepte h M.P., Mr. Willie.. lient d (B Warwie -on-A sad lin rt learter ) ierlaael J. Yan W. a jbles (Loadre ) , lead an inte rview yeaterday with Sir George Grey. Mr; Dodo hid an interview with the Right Roe. R. laboushere retarder ma* ease of the Boarerd Trade. A &palatial', coesisting of the *yet of Man chester. Dtr. Alderman Kmehaw, M.P., Mr. Alderman Hopkise, Ocomeillor Gibb, ' and the Town Clerk of Maneheeter; else the Mayor of &died sad ir. Aliteasa Jeskinscse, aereapaeled by the Right Hoc T. Milner °da ta, M P., Mean. Brabant" M.P., Brews, M.P, sad Henry. Hwy, MP., had as 'atavism yeanday with the Cart a-Der of the Isehegaer, upon the &gest of WEAK I. Meashestar sad the =panes sow paid. Next Wednesday being Ash Wednesday, Lady John Reason oath will sot take place. Load Henniker had yesterday an interview with Sir George Grey. Despatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colenial.allee for the governon of Hong Kong, Gybe, Malta, Labuan, Sierra Leone, and New Zealand. THE WINDOW TAX. An adjourned meeting of the delegates appointed by the various metropolitan parishes to take measures to se ewe the repeal ache above tax, was held yesterday evening at the Cos* bows, Marylehone ; Mr. C. Michie In the chair. The CHAIRMAN observed that the object of the meet ing that evening was to detonates whether or not it were de. arable to senate for the repeal of the window tax alone, or to merge the question in the fi nancial schen'. of Mr. Cobden. It had been urged by some gentlemen who were then present that the dele gates could not eoesistently join Mr. Cobden, but most proceed as they had done for the last three years. The reel question was, which of these morose was moo likely to be effectual. He had before expressed himself to the effect that they would be most likely to sucerd in obtaining their own object by amalgamating the question, as 't were, with Mr. Cobden 's tame ; others thought that, having been fleet in the field, success would be most likely to attend them if they tangoed themselves to the object for which they were origi nally delegated. If the meeting took the latter view, he would go with them to the fullest ex tent. Be thought it impossible that the Chsheelloe of the Exchequer could propose to repeal any tax prior to ewe th ast fla w s:thee% dia. % ti zi th c r h i eVitli casel aud man whea ku i r i t peop wilgsk le, so the window tax. , Ike Board of Health and siterytilbg coanceted 'with it seld be a fares se bag as that tax re mained aneepeelei. (Meer, hear.) Mr. GZOROB prepeeed the following ',Wefts: That dmintawsons meetings be held lausedlately for tin Propose et sitrailt i Lltafiestitelakaetthe various perishes, as se the neoweitt of a Mai repeal of the window lex, sad likewise to snow fah hoes the didepted should be Ashdod la eapporting Mr. Cob. km'slessdal rant dm% Mr. Cobden, he said was an eminently practical man; his scheme would Mend the test of examination. There mold be no harm la appealing to the various parishes ea to the propriety et merging the gosation of the repeal of the win dow tax in Mr. Cobden's badget,:iscluded in that object. No other tax could be compared as a grievance with the tax on light ; and it would certainly be wise to gather strength f or the agitation from all claws of the community. If they west to the Chancellor of the Exchequer demanding the repeal of the malt-tax, the window tax, and the duty on tea, he might be expected to my, Gentlemen, you have been hers so often that mom you half way ;at any rate I will strike off tits window tax." _ _ Mr. GEESIN oseonded the resolution, and, in doing so, rithrred to Lord Daimon's proposal in the Rouse of Cow sane to as,. 1,000,000 k in the department of the Woods and Pore is, midek, Ine said, however excellent, would not be seaslant of hoe![. They mist not go for a patchwork re fans, hat for a meeprehensive one. The amount which wand for the Disks of Wellington and Sir ktobert Peel wadi do ler the present government. Mr.IIIIILTON, at Maryleborte observed that a distinct arsosiatina bed already been for med iu that parish to assist Mr. Cobden, bat the inhabitants generally were in favour of a distinst agi tation for tho repeal of the window tax. If they stronessely sittl, avowed to attain that object, they would we tiabt have the benefit of Mr. Cobdea's assistance. Mr. WALKER. MBt Pad's, Corrent-garden, nova the following as ea ansalassat : That la theopinion ofi ve ELoonnanialing it is agininat art eon. Yawed aginaion kr tats a/ Uri winnow tan be proosidad with ; aad that whin ki kaannonniaillo le k every In lb. nalleagail% ana in alt Oka rad brim la Great . _ When the hour tai was repealed, on the motion of Lord Althorp, it was gmerally admitted that the window tax mast sham its fat,. He did not think it would be wise to merge the window tax question in Mr. Cobdon's scheme. That tax was to be condemned on pounds pedlar to itself ; especially because it premed with increasing ',verity on the tradesman, who required plenty of light, and decreased just whoa it reached the aristocrat. It could not be too widely known that a house like Lord Hol land's, alai& had a window for almost every day laths year, paid saircely any more than that of a tradesman which had only the requisite amebar of win. dows for the sarrying on of his business. (Hoar, hem.) I Though ha was opposed to the mixing up of the window tax 1 question with Me. Cobdeu's budget, he win a sapporter of tits latter on principle—(hear, hear)—and intended to ro• Pair his mots at Maordasster. Alassdisrt ecommatioo, the ameodenont was curia by mend mass& Oa des motion et IL?. Bretton, seconded by Mr. Armco, the Ihilowlogoossintisa was also serried : flat ths shoodlemodened Vas mstropeleten psdaliss bewritten ss by Ile goonolog. athiggillt s modem autortaa. end urging the assiaNg dig pills =saw Mime dim. Ths asetlag Om adjourned for this. weeks. PAROCHIAL MEDICAL RELIEF. Yesterday afternoon a meeting of medical gentle men and others desirous of procuring a change in the sys tem by which the remuneration and the duties of pooriaw "tedioal atom ars at present regulated, took ,place at the Hanoveraqu _ere rooms. Lord Ashley in the chair. His LORDSHIP, upon taking the chair, said that the pressure of business to which be bad to attend in the HOW, of Commons that evening would prevent him from doing little more than opening their proceedings. No one could read the copious evidence taken in 1844 by the committee of the Home of Commons, of elf& he was chairmen, on the subject of medical relief for the sick poor without coming to the conclusion that the relief atTorded to them was iosufileient, and the remuneration which was granted tor medical services inconsistent with the honourable position which professional gentlemen am pied. He had always been of the opinion which be had stated on that committee, and the e xperience he had since gained had confirmed that opinion, tLat the medical officers appointed under the poor laws could not properly discharge their onerous duties unless they were rendered hide pendent of the caprices of the boards of guar dians. (Hear, Isar.) They should be enabled ps occupy the position of persons who, knowing that they ha d grave and oedemas functions to discharge, should be responsible to professional authority and supervision, instead of being sub ject to the capricious control of men often ignorant and come times insolent. Let the persons to whose authority they should be subject be capable both of administering reproof if it were needed, and of forming a suitable estimate of the emoluments to which professional skill and ability were entitled. (Hear.) Their duties were of the most complex and burdensome kind, and the eases which they encountered In theirpractimi demanded a greater degree of responsibility and labour from them than fell on those who were engaged in administering medical aid to the higher classes, for it was a recognised fact that rot only were the most complicated cages in meilcine and surgery found among the worming people, but their treatment was rendered more difficult in consequence of the previous habits and mode of life of the patients. (Rear.) When, therefore, they found gentlemen of education and character entrusted with the eharge of perhaps ten or twenty thousand paring, and paid by a miserable pittance tamely sufficient to provide the necessary medicines, their position became an insult at once to the poor, and to the profession to which they belonged. He tr usted, therefore, that they would henceforward persevere in maintaining the organisation they had formed for the assertion of their claims, and con tinue to press on the legislature the propriety of introducing a system which would enable them to render to the poor the amount of relief demanded not merely by justice, but by the let instincts of humanity. (Haar, hear.) He would be most hippy to render them all the assistance In his power to advance their cause. He would not promise to undertake any legislative interference for them ; but if he could be of service to them in any other way than by the Imo& -Wan of a laglal titre pro on which the present anoint of his usentary duties forbade him to under take," they d' find him ready to support them, because he fat that he would De serving not merely shamanism's alass.of medical men discharging duties nndertbe'Pcor Law Astehut the far mon numerous clam of the suffering, sick, sad destitute pen._ ( Cheers. ) lWO. F. J. LORD read a report from the committee =at a former Meeting, from which it *peered that dpart badly eagegod is transmitting be every union imps in the kirk= a eerie, of inquiries is a tabular keel hit the puspone of diddling hots re erg their duties and eineonsemin, and they had TailliVei from albite oar- POW 386 replete N lathe week*: of powlawmedied relied It we, also Mail .Mat OM most emesimegiag sommess of good fellsw.lesimg had been received by their &palatine to rise Weise of engem end Phydeleas end the Beefily of Android's. The monat et the inerview betimes mem bees of disk geollemisa and the floseetery of State for the Henn Deplaning mad the penitent of the poor-law atm. mieshaoss, whisk bas &el* appeared In print, wee ad al verb'iba lesPow egil w the progenies wee reminded that the president n hand bed MOW, that he w Melina& to consider mensal relief as a imedies distinct fr as om ordinary poor law adadabtration, and sae which should be pat en a separate and mace sompleigeolve footing. At the tont* 4 the Provincial YAW sad !Legit:al Association, whichwas held lan utumn, odßath, they had alao remind =t sad p a ef ee.inerstkes. The mon la as elaborate .81 0 statement ol the mins Omani which were ii. It was stated that eat ens 8,000,0001. !shed the nominal relief of 3,038,000 el poor, the largest amount divided in any sae year mon the 3,000 gentlemen rigged in admigishorbeg undid relief to them was 176,0004 in retusm i li e leterner ni trangli the country, medicines, p ros es. signal 3e-. met el drugs required in each OW of Ness atineded is boogied. was 4e. '2d. ; in dispensaries, 2e. 6 , t ; while he mina anions only Is. elf d. was allowed, emiese s s 4= r tim antis item te. A statement of receipts and expeaditer• we to the report. from which it sip . peered that Se noshed had been Insufficient to sew the.enthin and a sum of 221.175. Pd. we, due es the treeneref. The !cult we, the. received and ailegtod. - 112 . permed w 4. :L net the I.L hr sm immoral who diieelled ediefonellmiedN t* fifths sweeties, and hi d hen On ponsamen won tic 6 leelleinfel lathe light Bra .. =1 ..... tics Bien te l i_va. r il" 14611 to are U m Is mean my ens% am medlealenioo. and in bigissemgree meet preportemed te d= i reensmeg tit sp. Pdallaid. mdee r l e.d. prediedeed Ilwi preguilks vas Dr. 811130 N proposed a emulation, to the effem that the Board of Health, haviag imposed on the Door law medical staff, themigh the powers given in the " Nairmae Beamnal and NOM= Prev. taloa Act," new dada of a dirtied kind Medoff to sanitary porpoises, with out previa*. want frr the same, the meeting claimed robotism Bum smelt enaction. U,. BAINBRIDGE(of Tooting) seconded this resolu tion. which passed Kr. WYLD N.P., aildnes;tl the meeting on the topics embereed by the resolutions, and proposed a motion which embodied Mai at the views ensudeed by them; but not havieg bem submitted to the committee previous to the mt 11 was set pat from the chair. Ailfas to psrl3amsnt, praying for the removal of the ei dee mime separated the surgotes complain, was then &depend, and mostiat ARBITRATION INSTEAD OF WAR. A public meeting was held yesterday evening, at the Bridge-house Hotel, Southwa'k, for the purpose of adopt kg a petition to parliament in favour of Mr. Cobden's motion for special treaties to supersede the costly war system. AIMILIT PaLLavr, Esq., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the large matting that he saw before him afforded a sufficient proof that the object which they had in view was regarded as one of no ordinary inverses* by . the public. It was, he be lieved, about a year aline the Peace Society had ex premed its determination to oppose certain enunciation' of the Duke of Wellington when the dethronement of a foreign monarch was considered pril.ble. This exprertion of opinion on the pan of the society had had a very beneficiul effect, and he considered that this was a sufficient encourage meet for them to proceed with the peace movement. (Hear.) The Rev. 8. GREEN pro , pcsed the first resolution : That In theoninion of this meeting the system of leer for the settle ment of international disputes is diainguished alike by Its impiety and inspolley, being directly opposed to Mr spirit said preempts of Christianity, and Wang ta the &diatomite of mudded. lie considered that the people of the United Kingdonalted /won to congratulate themselves on the circumstance that they had fur a leader the man who had carried free trade. (Hear.) They were at present paying 28,000,0001. .per Imam for expenses which war bad already entailed en the country, and if they wished for the propel/ of financial re for.., they could act carry out their object in a better manage Qum by opposing the war system, The Rev. Mr. RICHARDS seconded the resolution. He believed that therm's)* the system of war had been so long to lerated was because the people had not prop, rly andentrud the evils resulting from it. Let them look at the teens of their wars. From 1688 to 1815 the people had paid more than 2,000,000,0001 for foreign warm, and daring L2O years they had paid 3,383,000,0001. From 1815 to 1848 the con of the military establishment of the country had been 540,000,0001., and the interest of shower debt f or the same period amounted to 940,000,0001. So that from the year 1815 to 1848 the people had paid the enormous sum of 1,500,000,0001. for the interest of the war debt and our military estatilishment. He found that, from the year 1793 to 1814, 46,289,4591. had been paid for f snips subsidies. The government estimates for the year 1848 was 18,500,0001., bat the Liver. pool Financial Reform Association had found that the expenses for that year had exceeded 23,000,0001. It was quite absurd to keep up a war establishment to protect the country from foreign aggression, for he De listed that there can a very strong feeling amongst nations generally la tavoar of a reduction of their own military and naval armaments. (Hear, hear.) He supported the resolu tion which had been pureed, because he felt convinced that the war system was the greatest curse under which a people could exist. The resolution was unanimously agreed to. The Rev. J BURNETT moved the second resolution : That the penalty which we areeffieduponto endure for past wars In the s h a p e of a debt of eiglithundred milUiss t pd theesanal infliction of Xi millions of taxation for the mem* Egged el a ear establish ment, are burdens mopprendve that the sod simmeans exertions are needed to free oar country from the by the institution of a wiser and better method of settling inassaatleaat tesetels than by en appeal rte. Mr. A. B. BTEVENrsecolialleiZation, which was passed, and a resolution in favour of the adoption of a peti tion to parliament in rapport of Mr. Cobden's motion for spe cial treaties of arbitration having been speed to, the meeting separated. CMOLERA.—Yesterday the following fresh ems were reported to the Board of Health :—Wltiteclopel, 1 ; Hudson'ecourt, Kiegeland-road, 1 fatal; Southwark, 1 fatal; Islington, 1 fatal ; Wandsworth, 1 fatal ; Liverpool, sines 13th Instant , 4, 1 feta; Gateshead Cajon, 8. 2 fatal ; Carlisle, 2,1 fatal Glasgow, for 17th, 13, 7 f a t a l ; Ditto, for 18th, 12, 7 fatal ; kiccarton, 7, 6 fatal Stirling, 9, 6 (rid ; Paisley. from 10th instant. 46, 32 fatal ; Hamilton, 19, 10 fatal; Lenneatowo, Campeie, 1 fatal; Oreennek, 8, 6 fatal; °Alston, 2, 1 fatal ; Newton, Dalkeith, 2 fatal ; Old Monk land, 9 fatal; Alloe, 6, 1 fatal ; Stow, 2; Anderson, 2, 1 fatal; Old Kilpatrick. 2 fatal ; Cambuslang, from 18th Jan., 32, 21 fatal. Total, 182 new ClllO9, 119 deaths. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY. DEATH PROM FIRE. —Before Mr. Baker, at the London Hospital, on the body of Sophia Petit, who was burned to death under the following eircuenstanen:—The deceased was the widow of a labourer, and the mother of three children, and she obtained • livelihood by washing. Oa Taseday afternoon last the d e . I embed was standingg near the lire, when her clothes ignited, and she was inunediately enveloped in flames Several per son went to her assistance, but before the are was extin guished bee body wee burnt in • most dreadful manner. She was removed to the hospital, where she died on the follow ing Friday.—Verdict—" Accidental death."--ALLIOED DEATE /BOX 8 vox. —Before Mr. Carter, at the Weymouth Arms Newington, on the body of Mary Ann Ward, aged 6 wee ks.—Mary Ward stated that the deceased was her daughter. Witness, her husband, and deceased, occupied a small room. Her husband was a travelling tinker. Witness very seldom had any money from him, for he was a man of drunken habits, and frequently ill-used her. The only means she had of getting a little food was by shirt making, fiar which she was paid three-halfpence each ; and all witness could earn, by working from eight in the morn ing until after midnight, was 4id. Witness, since has con finement, bad suffered great privation, and being unable to afford the deceased any nourishment trio the breast it was brought up by hand. Witness, when first con fi ned, received le. lid. and a loaf from the parish, but, after that, the board of guardians refused assistance. The deceased was therefore placed under the care of a female named Bergh Bellamy, who lived with them. Witness became very ill from want of foul. On Saturday, the 10th inst., the deceased was entirely without food, but on the two subsequent days she received a little, but at last became very weak, and on the next day deceased expired.—Mr. W. Fair. brother, surgeon, stated that the body of the child was very much 'madded, which he attributed to a want of nutritious food. There wee tubercular disease, which was very common with children brought up by hand.—Verdiot, "Death freer tubercular disease aris ing from the want of proper soulduaist." SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE ELECTION. Yesterday the election of a member to supply the vacancy in the representation of this county, caused by the death of the late Ball Talbot, and the consequent elevation of Lord Ingeetre to the House of Peers, took place at Lich field. The oily candidate who offered himself was Lord Lewisham, eked son of the Bail of Dartmouth, a young man about 26 y ears of age. Up to Saturday, it was the M- I tendon of the Freehold Land Society at Birmingham to hare nominated a gentleman in the independent interest; upon mature c.ne i dera ti o n, however, it wee deemed inexpedient to offer what must necessarily, in the present state of the re gister, have been only a show of opposition, and the purpose was accordingly abandoned until the next vacancy, when a decided effort will in all probability., be made to wrest one of the mats from the two great families who at present divide the representation between them. Mr. O. 8. FORSTER, banker, at Walsall, proposed Lord Lewisham. and was seconded by Mr. 0. B. Tnoalravonorr. Lord LEWISHAM having been declared elected by the sheriff, proceeded to address the assemblage. His lordship said that he was a young and inexperienced man, without any pretensions to the powers of oratory, but that in his new pooch, would make himself useful, sad do his duty. In plain, straightforward English (he rid), he thanked these for the honour they had conferred upon hint. He had en deavoured in his address td Ist theta into the secret of his private flaw on various public questions ; he had avowed himself a emservatim, and Its treated that he should never be shamed to own that; sad he was averse to say system.o lftialadon that "gave me elms an ad. veatige ems ms. The emote of t h e year 1848 had attached him mem than ever to the crown, acrd made him more then ever legal to the Queen ; he was attached to the char* and weal* Mend to it through thick and thin ; at the mum *es t he did ad with rgsasentit others who dillseed with him itt oplaioa. [Mr. ft is a Wm. lama, and this Andes by the sebb feed caused a general nails.] He Antler west on te b 7 i r ev it s t ht we attached to our venerated sennitadoa, that snider it the mat indiv e irual hi the fitesdea was leered antics. He as wo s n a l ry oppose any proposition to endow Roman catholic c ler gy re ay pan ef the realm ; on the principle that such endowment would be injurious to the protestant ingre dients of the state. Again, avowing his present inexperi ence, the noble lad said that he hoped, in time, with their baldpate and assistance, to become a fit and proper - son to represent their iatmests in parliament. He would aid in the promotion of etnaosny la every department of the public service ; but would not be a party to the reduction of our forms either by land or sea, let each reduction should tarnish the honour of the country, and prevent her VOlOll being heard when she chose to raise it. Moreover, he looked upon our naval and military forces se being essential to protect our colonies, which he regarded as useful harbours of refuge at the time that trade was bad, for each as were Whited to emigrate thereto. He did not wish to set up his jadguent against that of other persons who had had more experience than he had, but it appeared to him to be nonsense to talk of arbitration instead of war; they could not arbitrate with savages or with pirates, who were here and every where in a moment. (Laughter.) Beow honournational might be in jeopardy, and altho• he had no wish for England to bully Its ne ighbours, he would like that it should be always able to take its own part when insetted. On the sub ject of free trade he said that Mr. Thorneyeroft had ma bukoadxdc:dtthedshis:irmoishbfeeloilaistoph h a h i:l :ro o a p ul in idat ioss ousanib il y hle scve spee th c a ls o4o . it l d li tad ao,ad b.shas Men in parlisassat at the time the mature was brought forward. With tokenise to the burdens on land he bad little to say; he was net • farmer; be wished he were; but be would do his C a l a t i o as u i nderstand the questiol, and to roam. the interests of the British farmer. Thereafter the sable lord having avowed that there was no peetry in him, matured a quotatiou from " Bam Slick," the ef cabl e was that a man who profiesed extremely rb?ral ert opialons had nothing te lose, and that • man w►e talked mach on the subjtct of religion of no religion MAL These two ideas he veed to impress upon his auditory. Referring next to the subject of education, his lordahip mid that he was in favour of education ca the best paucities, and that he hoped to see the day when uo th ch would Its with out its school • but he wished of all to see social pri mes. eo that it were fa obedience to the w and authority. The promodinga terminated with the usual rote of thanks to the sheriff. IR ELAND. DUBLIN, FRB. 19. The question whether the jury in Mr. Osman Duffy's case will be unanimous engrosses much atten tion here. One of the jurors asked a great many questions in a very odd styl e; b a t th e pr i soner ' s f r i en d s have no expectation that this particular juror will be a boot-eater. There are one or two " characters" on the jury, aLd many still think that there will be no verdict, more especially as one of the jurors is so ill as to require the attendance of a physician. Yester day i thejurorr guarded by police, wire taken out drivinginto t h e country for the sake of getting fresh air. After I closed my despatches yesterday afternoon, the cue on the part of the crown having closed, Mr. Butt, Q.C., argued at some length that no legal evidence had, been 'clawed to sustain the charge that the prisoner had aided Mr. Smith O'Brien in levying war, inasmuch as the record of his conviction had not* been produced, it being weixesary, as counsel soft." tended, where guilt is denntive, to prove the crinß Utility of the pkincipal In order to ensure the ocetvies s tion of the accessory ; and, thereon, Mr. Duffy was) entitled to an acqeittaL Comma quoted find and Hawkins, Sir Michael Foster, and other authorities. • The court would not pronounce its decisidit Him; although it entertained little...doubt in the sisitqw, * bat would defer doing so till Monday. The court then adjourned to this den t eL MAI Butt will speak. In Archbishop Murray's instructions kr Lent read yesterday at the Roman catholic chapels, then was one passage which has seised much remet, desiring that during Lent certain prayers may be offered up by the clergy in thanks for the country being saved from the horrors of a civil war. It is asked, why was,, not this done sooner? and many recollect that Arch bishop Murray offered up a ruff ponti fi ca l hi g h mass for the liberation of Mr. O'Connell from Richmond prison. But people here have ceased to wonder at anything, from-the variety of singular changes they have seen within the last few years. SCOTLAND. PUBLIC MEETING IN_ EDINBURGH AGAINST THE GAME-LAWS. A public meeting was held in Edinburgh on Wednes day, under the auspices of the committee of the National Anti-g►me-law Association, to consider and adopt a series of resolutions condemnatory of the moral, social, and economical evils of the game-laws. The meeting was numerously attended; gni amontst those present were a ceasiderable number of tenant•larmers. The Lord Provost in the chair. Mr. WILLIAM CHAMBERS moved the first resolution, which was as follows: " That the moral, social, and econo mical evils arising from the game-laws exist undiminished— that these laws are continued only for the supposed amuse ment of • comparatively small number of individuals, and by whom • large proportion of game cases are adjudicated— that they are the source of much irritation to the tenantry, and of frequent disputes between them and their landlords— that a great expense is entailed upon the ceuntry by the prosecution and punishment of offenders against these laws, and by the increase of the poor-rates arising therefrom—that infringement, of these laws are not in general regarded as violations of the mural law—that a great amount of human food is wuted and destroyed—the progress of agricultural im provement checked—the land rendered much less productive —and idleness, dissipation, misery, and crime, created to • lamentable extent among the rural population." Mr. Chambers said it had hitherto been said that this was peculiarly a farmer's que.tion, and that the people of the cities had nothing to do with it. He altogether repudiated that assertion ; he considered that whatever concerned one class of the community concerned all the others, and that the people at large, equally with the farmers, were sufferers from the deficiency, caused in the amount of human food, from its destruction by the game. Mr. Chambers referred to the bad feeling which the game laws engendered between the landlord sad the tenant, and to the great amount of grime of which they were the origin. What they wanted was this—the entire abolition of the game laws, because any half seems. was oat of the question. There was a time whet • half measure would have been acceptable to the country, but the time was altogether gone by for that. (Applause.) It had been asked, " Would you permit anybody to go upon another man's groped, and not be liable to punishment ?" He replied, by no Means ; but let any man who trespassed upon his nenthbout's property be sued for trespaw, and not for the killing of these wild creatures. Therefore, let game be pot under the same category*. pigeons, or sparrows, of butterflies, if they would—(a laugh)— and it found upon any ona'sigrounde, let them be killed and appropriated by thou upon whose property they were found. That was the true common manse view of the question, and to that it must come at last. (Applause. Mr. HOPIS seco nded the motion, which was adopted with acclamation. Mr. CHARLES COWAN, M.P., then addressed the meeting, and said that he believed that the game laws were founded upon injustice; Hist they were subversive of the rights of the cultivators of the soil—a large and important class, upon whose labours we all depended ; and that, like all other infractions of right and justice, they brought with them a fearful retribution. He believed it was impossible to overrate the mischief which was entailed upon the commu nity at lugs by the operation of those laws, whether they looked to the demoralisation of the agricultural labourere,the great increase in the expenditure which they occasioned, and still more, perhaps, to the had feeling which they caused be tween the proprietor on the one band and the tenant on the other. Mr.WILSON, in movies the second resolution, contended that on this quea'ion there was no middle course. The game laws must be swept from the statute-book. The second resolution was as follows :—" That the recent alteration in the game-laws, whereby those wbo formerly possessed the right to kill t area many now do so without the payment of a certificate duty, leaves wholly untouched the manifold evils occasioned by the preservation of game except only as regards a very few small proprietor —thst this act tenant farmers have obtained no additional power to protect their property from the ravages of wild animals, and they are still plaftd in the anomalous and unjust position of being liable to pay the full commercial valve for the use of the soil, while the pro prietor may, by means of the game, indefinitely consume and destroy the produce. Provost M'LAREN, of Leith, in seconding the resolution, said he was convinced that it would tend greatly to the benefit of all classes in the community, if the game laws were repealed. The landlord wail I receive an increased rent—the tenant would erjoy uninjured the fruitfulness of Ms ; and the public at large would be gainers by the in enwd of food. The resolution was then agreed to unanimously. Mr. J. F. MACFARLAN proposed the third resolution, which was as follows :—" That the only effectual remedy for these grievances is the total and unconditional repeal of all the laws relating to game ; and this meeting strongly recom mend that petitions to parliament for this purpose fil fdrtlt with sent from all par's of the kingdom, and that the mem bers atlas different constituencies be requested to euppert tbeeriis; eril briber. that all ether constitettoeak slime esiperwrered is until these obnoxious laws be teem the seatate-beet" Mr. H. CRICHTON said that he seconded the motion with hie whole heart and soul. He had eat upon game cases fro. ;"enhatred : o r the the d gam a reason y, a il ia that we th : an he t"m i di t t o l ot s e : e w C tha i siFeca ' ss in ase:of ik Yis kie un heart- infi ty u. " ' nee Gould go, the least pomade infliction was put upon the poor victims. He was himself sprang from the aristecracy, he was eouneeted with about a doses noble sad ducal fami lies in this country—mid though it was an " ill bird that fyled its sin nut," he really would desire, for the take of the themselves, that those vile game laws were done a s t st aPg. (Applause.) Mr. MUNRO, Fowls Mains, moved the fourth resolation, which was as follows : " That petitions founded on thee* re solutions.signed by the chairman, be transmitted to both _houses of parliament ; that Lord Hetherton be requested to present and support the one to the House of Lords, and Yr. Cowan that to the Hones of Casomons; and also that the medial thetas of the meeting be given to Mr. Bright and the other members of perl.ament who have so ably and strenuously advocated the total repeal of the game laws." The Rev. Dr. RITCHIE seconded this no:dation. They had lately heard a good deal about colonels in the army being meroluat tellers; hat he *bought the @opponent and pro moters of the gesee laws Wt with as much propriety be called baesasia and right honourable poulterers—(a laugh) --tat ft vela bet that well not be disputed that a large amber of the pads awl adds sportsmen this *tunny were la the regular haMt of killing . and sending the game which their teaser tad to be sold in the public mea/tet.—. Abridged teen the theesesos. PROVINCIAL. REVIVAL OF THE OFFICE OF ABBOT IN REMAND. —The eeremosy of meet:rating an abbot took plans at tha monastery of Mount Sant Bernard, is Charawsod Fonts* on Sunday, when the Rev. I. Palmer, otherwise Father Bet , nerd, the superior of that monutery, was installed in that dace, and . presented with a crosier, rings, witme,.ead glom% each of whiettwaramparately blamed and spoisklod whit holy water by the Bomanlet bishop of the aidlead distils*, Dr. Tfllathorms. This the d* mession of the kind is England since the , some interest was ski ..,.... t i l i s c u a tboorhood, and a few catholic gee .e . ....:- t. , tit distance' wen present ta whams the .., r , ~ • • , Bishop Waring was present, bat took 4 ..: 4 : i t, , , • part in the proceedings. Several other 6 • , r .. .. A c ill vg ... -A gpasa were preetaat, u were also Abbot l i k , le hi ; •i , • .. 1 4 rA