The Express. — London, England, 1849-02-24 00:00:00

I I / 1 4 I► Ina member eelselated to do greet pod, sod therefore mbevali dive it hie moppet - - - The ioneeeeee elifieL For the *deal isedstien l4O For the amerimist di-72 M. SARKIS odd that be bed eke lira arise of se emend seat, bet that thee omesement wield some is pre tritisia remit ..toles :e a ? err bin. l Imo i l l iumadesent ress z e r . Li e r i he druid have wropseed it then bed he ia setl i s e u rn informed Net. eke the &idea that ked jest eaten ,he weld @sly divide Grier the while resehers. should oiler to remiss of the astir, the seer of whisk would he the eiselrNa of her Mokalro Jowl& sobjeas fa peineasint. Is the Romeo Wheal o•ll,—whisk the aphis had se* as is was par of the medemeat erne to is 1211, be was set prepared te disturb whatever seight be his rear edits imperesse—weve the words whisk he (11fraiedies) preparli to intreder la the oath the sable lord was sew sheet to er eabffah (hoer) —rd he smell eel ass what eh- Eb:sre said be to their slimiest's, the er,.b the same marry to the reeds sitar by riding the hears gad restiamis of them who were not amour he silierente. Hie propen flea wee to bind the coosiissess of Jews tile might be rme member of parliament by the safes words se these el Rears Whelk members were brad at this moment. As be ppoomee sesid or theta rove his sereadasset, he did not pro. a le divide spier the resetaties, bat in stating his lstsegiies as to the rare he Freed to take. be hoped the adde led weld give .studs. to the obsereatior he had retard to effer. Lied J. RUSSELL was glad the lea. gentlin o traz posed to defer putts( his amendment lentil the o as the bill. niFer{iptioseshatlerssa supposed that ineentsch as the wards be w ere included in the Roman cathce Es oath, they nig ht properly be admired into the oath whir was sheet to be framed. Now with respect to the Roam sithilie oath, the words were introduced at the period of the interest of the 'question of esthete esser. eirdea, sad brined • pert of the terms on which Rama 'rhino we. theoseforth to be admitted to sit in pude. meat, the Arad being to protect the established shareh. A....t.* Mend not supposs there was any danger of the Jews er overturning the church establishasent, Venom oder have been entertained wile li souk =ll to Roma esesse. As he understood ha hoe. behind him, le wished to tatted ace the weeds tato the oath takes by all member : that was a different qrs. dee. seek an amendment berg • relaxation in favour of one dem of pusses, esalike them to sit In the house, would be at the sire time • teseistioa spas proterant dissenters. Ile aphelia be (Loud J. entertained before the fluor Where sett was proposed he entertained still, and what wall DOW prop.-d would in bet operate not ss terms ot sheiries but of Oa these comideretione, and ash berg of rat the words themselves were very fit to be latrines& es a qualification for members to sit in par. Nemo% nod burr rip agreed to them is the ease ot the Remo eathens gosh es pad el the uttlemest this effected, he shield, whet the amendment wee moved, object to their lareirlies ee oaring the Jews or any other class except She lemma inthenes. (Rear, hear.) M. CiOULBURN rose to express a hope that the sepal- Meru to the present vote would not be taken u replying; a esairiesses in the noble lord's vier, ands precludmg drat rem taking what course they might think it here ohm The settle lord had stated en objection to the words pre ea the ..wart that they would impose • hardship Oa assierma Re (111. r. Goulbsern) was not one of those wee wield impose hardships ar unnecessary exclusions upon protestaat dissenters ; bat when he found that the condition of their sersirien to corporate offices, which wee thought a greet boss& to thee when the Test and Corporation Acts ware meek& was an oath in which they were required to swear that they would not exercise any power or authority they might posses in connexion with such offices to injure or subvert the protestant church as by law established, he meld ace cone/wee how such • declaration rola create as a hardship or as insult when imposed as • qualification for mambas sitting in parliament. He made :this observation, sot with say view of expressing an minim s to the pro pricey or otherwise of adopting his hon. friend's proposition. Lord'. SUEIBIILL observed that there was • great dig armee between corporate offices and seats in parliament. Mr. J. O'CONNELL thought it should be decided in what position •• catholic stood in that house. Were they in the sear free position u protestant members or not ? It appeared to be the opinion of the hon. gentleman that the restrictions in the catholie oath, imply Jae that they were not ins position to deal with the revenues of the protestant church, should be Lammed on protesteat dissenters. Be did not think the con dole of the gerrement quite clear in this matter. Why did they act thew the our regard for cantons as others ? Re thought the time bad come when the question should be Mild re way or the other. The wide lord midis, would set impose a restriction on dissenters, implying dist he redelered there was a restriction on catholic,. If so, be the Bohr lord or let the right hon. rulers who =in the Emancipation Bill declare it ; and let the no longer be taunted with perjury for acting as their consciences dictated. For his own part, he believed that money, so far from strengthening, injured religion; and with regard to catholic:4 generally, they repudiated any state pooddint for their church. NIL DRUMMOND said it was the constant complaint of the eatholic church that all alliance with money and wealth w deteimeatal to the cause of true religion. It might be 1111; but it did sot accord with the motto temper ans. If Roma israilis had sot • right to vote on the revenues of the pretestent rear it would be remembered that neither led eye t a right to vote on the catholic rarer. Mt ). The ol led of ARUNDEL and SURREY regretted the ebtomsat of the hoe. member for Limerick, that there were amilholise of equal bummer and scrupulosity who took different views of the obligations of the oath. Catholics were not Allred to become members of parliament; bat when they ad se they were called upon to subscribe to an oath with whisk they were perfectly well auquaintl. (Rear, hear.) The asotion of his right hon. friend (Mr. V. Smith) would her delivered than from the diffieelty consequent on that di .ease of 'pintos in regard to the nature of the oblige. tiro that coat imposed, and the accusations which were mile ageing them In respect to it. He had engaged is serum conditions on entries the house, and it did sot appear to him that he arid take advantage of the power he bad arise" by assepting thole conditions. te do away with the oseditres thenteiller. He therefor bit that be could not ardiedeerly rote for the motion of his right hon. fired, sad with mud to the present motion be should he the sans coma dear to Tote at ell, confider. her _that be should leave all serer of this nature to be de nied es by protestant, themselves. Rarer said so much as to his ewe view of the mese, be &mid take it es a boon from the reverential sad do hers if they would make seek alterations is the ear as wadi norm all reties doable as to its intorpreteden. (Eger, has.) Mr. NEWDEOATE we. osmodhigl7 gratified at the =W whist the ride had who had jest sat down had thee house, sad who, with every desire to promote the adeeasement of his ewe church, had shown that he was art dispirited to avail himself of that doctrine which some ealledice believed, in that they were free hue the dim of the oath. (Cries of " No, no," sad "t a lP) Rs woe glad to Sad that that was net the far If the oath ears to be slunk he thought his hon. friend (Mr. Beare) bad reser es his side ; bat he was glad his proposal wee tidented. Mr. ANSI= fully agreed with the noble lord appetite (tl. Est it Amadei) as to the erne which should be taken Rosen eatholle members on any proposal for altering oath. As for e. he wee aneented, he should deers* Uhler pest in say divides epee lithe satrest. Zs rend segue& to the Ire. member he Derseisbre, instead of alter ing die oath, to resins, a armee fete the bill. distralifying • t he not reembas tithe erebikhed °hydra - el Ene diensed, oe Wird. bell istierdar in esy wry with the Isam of the Am& That wee tee dealst the Isleadse of the est of UZI, sal as a an of leaser, he ece- Waged wi th boned by I. Mt. RAPIER observed that the dreit he whisk the t • Emeesiredie Ad we. read, ea explored by the debt boa. Wiest em Istriedor it, wee to areal to the Madre die eel teXes s = mad at the mime dies to mien " the Mrs shwa ; end be wee obi to lad that tie intespeseines pelt ea that est by Dr. Drib, wieder =Rome Wiens ealbsdlin, was that it was a his by the Issidatur ea the one heal= estheticism the arse, ene orillisa of which was that*, r isers thee areiree by thee todynecield aot Ise rid to the Illtoisdist Of the Pl 0 ,11•14 tilln lad that sethisreseld sz. eseestetheisrebunthe lisestimsimeseed. (Rear.) He was glad to led that the inteepratedia which wee pet upes the mord ley priesirate woe shared ia sot e a u ii ltl these sethorinee„lnnlty In sable lord sad ether memben of parlismentorad that it wee in se way opposed . to the tenets of the mai& faish. (Rest.) t Mr. SHELL three it rensibmit on him, as • catholic member, te elate that his view of the cbligatioa imposed by the Roman sethdie oath did sot «decide with the inter pretation pat ern it by the ban. member for Limerick, nor enthral of hie ride friend behind him. If tkOnterpntation of his noble friend—which had obtained far him the wo rof the hoe. and learned member outwite (Mr. Na _reif that were wart, as Roma esthetic could voted for the Church Temparalities Bill. No Roman catholic weld have voted for the diebeanon et the number of bishops in Ireland, nor for the abditioa of dna* era, the effect of which had been to dimiaish the re ream of the established church iadireedy to the extent of 110,0001. a year. There was • great disdains& between the teed satwersios of the chant aad a iseilleanos, or ern a diesinatioa of its revenue', it they left an adequate mesa not eel, for the maintenance of the spirit& rdablYhmmt, but for its repent surainesent as ose el the radiances of the .sentry. Re did net Walt it proper on this emir to eater far an examination of the suet words of the oath, but would crust bawd with referring the Lea. and learned manta to the observer= made by Bir C. Wetherell at the Was the tams of tar ear were settled. No C. Wetherell seU, ring a foreade exprosice, that the forme wen wide rear le to dr:ve a esesh sail bar therek this. WWI Mae Way War te miss • Ratan outline evalf th at be wieldnet Nip* W den privileges to dinar tile inordel of t o ar I the rilespre ldlet M A W estabchurls ? I e , thai MA, we ' due set a deeremerry see? (Rear, hear.) lie fat spasm* Ohs \swarthy kr Limerick, that if • re, Wee Fred by • seeterity, or eves • large of the bow" pet** a different interpretation spas the oath, ~ re genii render hired brad by it. Re (AYA re. re. , . fared theesil.lesews legal maul. that the sea mete be • tikes end reser' aicassikaa mull* isapaallme. OM et the Affinit ie s:es , , whet was the inestioa of the ..- hers ? His wee that he was herd att. ~ eased as std brew eat le dirge the aninerice or erre i • threw of the esteendeed arch, ' eta rag ho wee at fie .it liberty et seas sash areeldims in As trapWlffitlell Mg 'VI a• should be sonsiilent with its garret actratigie doe se pozeasse mistesemb (01seel.) .e. p—s-1 THE tE%PRES§, SATURDAY`, Afar • few wads in esphifedira hens the Earl of Astrn. nee sod Stream ad 1111191ffiallawle Mr. J. O'CONNELL Semi* litehosse ought to geraider whether the present waresdar 41aakki be Roam eatheat mambo. lied& any Wager e He was willies to sae suck a derigrawy ost as that referred to by the right Ma. the Megrat of the Mkt order that the tams of the oath mighthesaM i tesassa la et gnome he was plead la • semewlat He heil anodes of media far w a sow modifica tion ell the rename of OD hat of mans he weal last Wank it il in i r i lleemil ra tear " interferieg in ohm* tarttses, Ihe was Mlle Milfkagy le the oath he hal Mims. Tim gasalka, however, eseelval Itself taco thle—wego the milledies mlanosiented ei4= they set bhh Wham INS weft for thelbalkille and the Eleghle estigaite; god, two of the biter had spokes thea times thee wintleek they mut goodleM *et what/nee gadealwahog Ober* had some We I upon. the bkh eathelise ad sot entered whit their hands tied. The ease alluded ythe wags lord (Anutdel and Barmy), was inapplicable, becaltre the bah emboli's would have rejected emancipation were it clogged with any objectionable condition,. The viatica, however, which bad now arisen was in every respect • most important one, for it resolved itself into this the of Ireland, who paid their money to the support of the church of the minority,were to haven° voile in any matter pertaining to the temporalities of that establish ment. He called upon the right hen. berated, the member for Tamworth, to answer this intseroptory, sad to explain the views he entertained in proposing the Boman catholic oath. (Hear, hear.) Sir R. PEEL said, that as the imprettsios of the bon. mem ber Frr Limerick was incorrect that the oath to which he referred had been introduced into the Emancipation Act upon his (Sir R. Peel's) motion, it appeared to him that be should set most improperly it he personally and individually were to undertake to say what he thought was the prop, r construction of that oath. (Hear, hear.) Its adoption was the act of the House of Cnamone and the legislature. Votes had since been given by Roman catholic members which had been questioned when viewed in connexion with the oath ; bat the honourable member for Limerick would do him (Sir R. Peel) the justice to say that sines the year 1829 he bad never apenided any boa. mem ber from Ireland with having acted otherwise than in what he believed to be a comdentious manner. (Hear, hear, from Mr. J. O'Connell). But the oath not having been in troduced upon his motion, nothing would be so unfair to wer& Irishmen, who had been all along acting upon their construction of its contests, than to undertake to say, in reply to the boo, member, what the legislature thought of that oath. If the legislature did not now feel satisfied with the course hon. gentlemen were taking, it was the duty of the house to establish a new rule for their guidance and to ma what the thought ought to be done with Tee to the of Boman catholic members. (Hear, r.) He was willing to believe that hon. members acted on the ton adentions construction they put upon the oath they had taken ; but the hon. member for Limerick was entirely in error In supposing that the oath in 1829 had been introduced by kit (Sir R Peel). In that year • proposal was attempted to be made by extent enactment to limit the functions of Roman catholic* taking their nab in that house. It was thus proposed by an honoured and now deceased friend of his (Mr. Wilberforce) that Roman catholics should not be permitted to vote on occasions affecting the interests, spiritual or temporal, of the established church. He (Sir R. Peel) stated his objections to that motion. He admitted that his late right hon. friend had brought it forward with • view to calm the fears of those who objected to the admis sion of Roman catholic' into parliament, and who thought that, if admitted, they should be disqualified by; law from voting on matters relating directly or io directly to the church of England. Teen ap peared numerous objections to the proposal in the mind of him (Sir R. Peel). First of all, that it would be dangerous to limit the tuoctioos of any member of that blew; eeooadk, that it was difficult to say what were the questions which affected the interests of the church, because some,apparently trivial inthsraselvm, might have • particular bearing on its welfare ten times more important than others of seemingly greater moment ; and thirdly. that by exclud ing a Roman catholic from giving his vote you deprived him of a power of which, Iva" porremed of it, he might not avail himielf. For these remoss he was unveiling to deprive the Roman catholic members of the house of their hoe right of discussion and voting on them gesetiens; but, at the suns tints, he might observe that the sal of 1829, which required en oath to be taken by those members, did not impose *Meath for the first time. It was adopted from acts passed in 1774 and 1793, end it was arranged in earnests wilt Roman esthetic gentlemen, who made no ob jection whatever to it. Hon. members might recollect that it was no easy matter to carry the Emancipation Bill (hear, hear,) and that if he and those who acted with him had parted altogether with the security for the church which then existed, • greater objection to the measure would have been raised; but the security was taken and assented to by tee Roman catholic"' themselves. He would nod the oath which was required to he taken by the act of 1793, which act conferred very important privi leges on the Roman catholic', and provided that they might he elevated to all offices under the crown, with some few ex ceptions, provided they could take the oath. They consented to do so, and then it was that they became relieved of many clink:ices under which they laboured with reference to the possession of landed property. In fact, they were then placed on the earns footing as other subjects. Now, the oath they took was to the effect that they would defend to the utmost of their power the several arrange ments of property in this country as established by the law—that they disclaimed, renounced, and abjured any at tempt to subvert the present protestant establishment with the view of hassling • catholic establishment in its stead, and that they woad not exercise any privilege of which they were or Night become pored to weaken the pro aslant religion eml preaseleaM government. (Hear.) Every sae appeased to Age ender the el of 1793, and every free holder who exercised the fraashise, had questions of this ldad pat to him • sad at the taw of the palming of the Imeacipation Ant, ad now, he wee content to leave it to the conselsome th e Remo catholic, to my whether or not they mold safely take the oath, which, as be had said before, was copied, very nearly, from the bill of 1791. He agreed with the right hen. gentleman opposite (Mr. Shell), that it was for the Roman Catholics to consider the purport of that oath; and if they, after having taken it, emented to vote on particular questions, all he could say was, that he had yet upbraided them for a breach of what they had contracted to perform. (Hear.) He left it to their own consciences and Jude/meats to decide the con sanction which ought fairly to be pat spa the oath. Mr. J. O'CONNELL raw amid loud cries of "Oh ! Oh !" gad said it now appeared hoot the course the ditcusion had taken that this question must now be @staid aninso neeigiststis. He wished to me • short derimakay bill intro dosed whisk would settle the matter at ogee, and to its pro. Aims, it adopted, he promised to yisid a nedygegoisessace. Zs admitted that the right hon. Unmet the member for Tammy* had Bowe Memsd the sahib members ef per- Poylei, bat thee hb elm % when the asap am edeemeall, opmetskpelailaighy se he as ir simssliss was sessissi. Hs re ginied the dole ben. tht Woad that there Wes a masiltrabh dillweate between the wasselphea oath end the oath of 179; and he had always been of cztti: that according to the words in which the was couched he we net _ presladed teen speaking end rating ea the limplaillM el die skunk. He was psrfselly Witte adept the leagenge used by the if& ila t irittlw 9 tithe mint oa this subject, sad le wi w what he W i limerlf previously said whoa advertise to the oath. Mr. LAW said that In sides the reseirtisa t ri tz without requiring Ow Waft to &vide upon it, be to state that he neseved hinesif the full power of preening the subject to a division ea a fatale worrier. The erigiaal motion washers pat sad agreed to without a divides. Mr. DARIUS asked when the noble lard at the head at the government would proceed with the mend reading ? Lord J. RUSSELL, who brought up the bill and laid It ape these of the loam fixed Monday the 16th of April Iss the mad*. Thu CHAIRMAN then reported program, and the house reamed. RELIEF OF DISTRESS (IRELAND) BILL. On the order of the day hr the snood reading of this Mr. HUME protested against the swam upm the that it would muse an extravagant expe ndi ture of Figitareladrea sad Intimated that re tit e would on- Ths bit ins Slim send a second time, end ordered to be egnealttel ea Me day. IRISH COLLEGES. Ito. BAII sell he had bees gives to understand thltthaoollsgotelehliMed by the government In Ireland wow now sraitana to be useless. lie wished to know if they weee fa opeollek es Iff any salaries were being paid to the em sod sidlia Lied J. RINIBILL replied that there had been • ram vsteil ic pserna he the erection sad maintenance of these and that the were now nearly com pleted. would be ready ion month of Octobsr, and • peat sasz eis preleseers had already beenman appointed. y So hr *ma the hag a ssign, a great penes, biskut sespeetablAty is the Rama Whelk chunk at wo the o their wages eapportere. (Hoar, hear.) IRISH MEASURES. Mr. HUMS seised the noble lord what other messures for Inked he inhaled to bring forward in the present masks ? Lord J. RUSSELL wss andantes& to reply that his right hoe. fraud, the Secretary for Ireland, would presently iatrodace two or three bills, and on a future octagon gate his views with regard to these and other mesearee. Mr. HUME.—De you intend to stand by the Irish church as it now exists, or do you net ? (Laughter.) That is the question. Lord J. RUSSELL said that it was not his intention to give any nodes of motion respecting the Irish church. TICE-GUARDIANS OF UNIONS (IRELAND) BILL. Oa the order of the day for the second reading of this bill, which provides for the payment of vise-guardians from the 98th of Man* to the 26th of Sept., Leud LINCOLN, and expound a hope that the wad et toyingould be postponed to the Mk of Mon* 1860, as he saki - the winter six waits was the melt important MMUS for the vim swam@ le &lathery their dudes d he ofhailadt sr m:d isbeg theirdiaz meat might est be provide hops& bill Mood as at present, and paw was pegregisi at the meal time. Sir G. ORBY, who was *eat whiff, ahlthilhe ley le the umber of members iambi tha Mee" testmaisset Mead to reply that the sanguine% led the ea** ' timed by the noble ked %odor Wit sonekileitlah .1 At bit was ass seed a 9010 ad *es. ivig l •-, ' . . adoilis . ,• --- - .. • z (‘ i triqedliu. iiittti,l.thoi.l,o4, ' .... %tali a %keit on X nu kOzitTILTURAL - lirrahlatii. ' • ' Mr. DISSAILI inurcareed are it was $1 kiioooo6 06 byeday, sod probably on Marday, is whi c hp the f Via 10•10 lb* sp•ailk fiteltile, 4 es lard given socks tatt mid Thursday work, relative NI rho whorl surd in sal tiro battle's. tir 'Adak drir..bruarr& *sr sal4seted— boar.) _ IRISH MHZ/WM Ups. the swim el Mt. Awu, OQtdn doonaota Wog to the lAA YEW true ordered to the amities am *deg yea that wabjeee. be bad before IRISH BILLS. St W. 15011211 VILLE brought up and id as the table the Ortorhal Whew Orelead) Bill t the Ounnary Convic tions Ordeal)) dm Protection of Justices (fraud) Bill; sod dig were ordered to be reed a Ant tine ea Friday, the 9th et &Ink. no Woe sijoursed at tea minutes after eaten o'clock. vie erpreMS. MAILS. Its may els MemWes, to the ltediterrenton, geppt, M.D. dyke. bah lgong-fficag, lb, will be Node up this orenkg, the ffitk IVA The mils lir Mpg o= 4 Lleb, Madeira, Cub, sad Olteulun will be sale wen Se ef t be Mb Feb. 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AT this moment last year France was giving the signal of those great popular uprisings which have overturned every throne in Europe save oar own, and some others sunk in barbarism, or lost in insignifi cance. Yet no one, even amongst the wise heads of Europe, was aware that revolution menaced, that society was undermined, or that monarchs did not reign, as during time immemorial, in the hearts of their people. M. °mon and Loris PHILIPPE, with the book of French life before them to open sad to consult, did not drain that there were fifty thousand discontented men in Paris read y , to do battle against an army, determined and able, if roused, to upset the throne, and crush the entire governing and electoral clam into subjecties. The Times, the leading journal of all gaae mas. declared that the riot in Paris would a strengthen the ministry", and yield to a system of resolute seercion." Since that time the governments of Europe have sew through every phase of policy and sentiment, ihaa smatident security in their force and merit, sad statempt of either the claims or the power of their subjects, first to utter prostration and aelf-sban doninent, then to resuscitated hopes, to a trust in sunning; afterwards to well-concerted schemes for the restoration of their old ascendancy by means of mili tary conquest; and, lastly, this being achieved, to the very same spirit of insolent tyranny and con tempt of popular rights which characterised the governments overthrown. In fact we may consider She time from February 1848 to February 1849 a =Oor clock, on the dial-plate of which the 'intl. f governors have moved round, so as to mark at the present epoch the self-same point at which they were surprised a twelvemonth back. But however the tendencies and principles of govern mesa may be the same as heretofore, their position, dales, and necessities are different. A . year ago there seemed to be scarcely such • thing in Europe as public opinion. Minister and monarch took no count of it, or bemocked it : 1848 has shown that public opi nion, however dormant, possesses still a vital and irre sistible power, and that the government which braves it, is never secure from its sadden spring, its powers of opportum and vengeance. Absolutists now hail aid liberals deplore the universal ascendancy of mili dry rule. But in truth and in reality the armies have no where prevailed where a great mass of public opinion wasnot roused to be decidedly in their favour. Had not the exams and follies of the red republicans in Paris excited universal condemnation, no government durst have turned its cannon upon ;hem. Had not the majority of the Prussian Diet erred into extravagance, and allied with unmeaning tur bulence, General WRANGEL durst not have ventured upon his untainted reaction. Had the Viennese Diet net alienated the Sclavonian population,the Sclavonian vestments could not have been brought to assault it. In Prussia and in Fear oe, at least, the army is as amenable to public opinion as the government; it I both countries public opinion is, and will remain emenign, and the fall or ascendancy of different =depends upon the assiduity, the sagacity, the , and the success with which they pay court to this new queen of all governments and of all mobs. The great characteristic of 1848 is its having with. drawn the curtain from before this dread tribunal of public opinion, which existed indeed, veiled and mealy believed in by either government or peo ple. But its jurisdiction is now patent, even in those astral countries of Europe where the light of free am was supposed not to have penetrated. Our abso lutists build their hopes on the throne of the old Re na empire, or the sword of WINDIsCRORATZ and the barmen of the Bohemian soldiers. We:plue our trust for this part of Europe oa the German public and the German press, which together constitute in sentiment a German nation, spinet which neither dynastic 's tates nor military violence can permanently peal We are aware, however, that in this country it is not anxiety for popular liberties, either abroad or at home, that tens the predominant sentiment of the 'dishtowel dams. Fears at; present are for ths orgeniestits se moiety italf, and for those upper alma sorPNril to le nseessary to its conservation. We joie in the Wider& upper classes are natural. I and thwarts neeseary, and that the inequalities whisk austitate these will exist under free as under despoils dates; nay, we are inclined to think, that an upper ekes, not eerie, would be more powerful and more rapeseed, were it to seek no privilege or prefer ence whatever from the law. But an aristocracy entrenched in privileges and bolstered by immunities, is quite another matter. Such an aristocracy is seriously menaced in all parts of Europe. And there can be no doubt that the odium attached to it does prevent such people as the Flesh, ter example, from granting that fair degree of tolerance and weight to a natural aristocracy, that will ever be paid, es soon as the institution ceases to be an oppression and an offence. The most serious result of 1848, however, to the minds of loyal pe ople , is the dethronement of kings, and the to establish republiceigovernments. Far tin prang, °wear, there seems little reason to be alarmed on this score - Republicanism is rather at a dissant. The identification of the name with ana emia doctrines, popular turbulence, and excessive taxation, has discredited a republic in France, al-1 though these things are not more necessarily connected with a republic than with an absolute monarchy. But the idea of a republic, whether realised or not, in France or elsewhere, does and will exist, and will always serve as a subject of comparison with mo narchy. And this fact cannot but render the task of a monarch exceedingly difficult, especially in such countries as France. And for our owsipart, without any predilections for • republic, we must confess to entertain the opinion that monarchy in France for any time is an impos sibility; and that, even if it were pomible, it is un desirable,especially by those personages who have claims to fill the high office. It is quite plain that the French, or that a people in their position, will never be content with a monarch that rests apart from the affairs of government, that lira in wealth, splendour, and dignity, and only puts forth a will ones in a lissfress, to decide between the claim of this or that chief for prime minister. A truly conatitutionel monarch, necessarily deprived of hete diari claims or old prestige, would never satisfy time 'math, who, in a ruler, require to see and to worship the powerful head and the intelligent and active mind. A monarch, in fast, eland exist, with out some claim on the affections, and even admiration of his subjects. Hereditary loyalty hitherto supplied them to an hereditary prince. But in Musa end In many other oountnes, how an this be found or be resuscitated P It mustbe by penned merit stun donator in the A s s t h in me rd. , 1849. Mly ihecospatibbr itith,tbi‘ Milky: whith con latfirdelle oilliolkkle die ' • the mass Of 10 1 t i er m 00 . 041 qt4i -111 their moist, th." pod elms of le country would not bear them. stat Z is a monarch, a Freoak monarch, for exam , to do ? Appeal from UM people to the elms, like -, Louis FHIUPPE, and fall. 0; LS from the' iestesimin chow to the people, like Lows NAPOLEON, and condescend- to exercise dictatorial power under the forms of a constitution. Neither of these thinp goodie &wades. A republic is neither more nor less than the impossibility of a monarchy. At this conclusion, we think, that France has arrived. But we have not the least objection to find the troth of our opinion disproved. THE fierce opposition which the government pro positions for the levying of Irish poor-rates have called forth in the north of Ireland, is not greater than we had anticipated. We regret, inde ed, that this hostility should be so generelly directed against the principle of a rate in aid ; for to that all rational men in this coriatry have mule up their minds ; and any further dis cussion as to its policy, and, in the present condition of Ireland, imperative necessity, would be utterly futile. If our friends on the other side of the water wish to have any other propositions which they have to make calmly and deliberately considered, they would do well to set out with the admission that a rate in aid there must be. This principle once accepted as a postulate, and submitted to with a good grace, we are not pre pared to say that the people of Ulster are not justified in looking with suspicion on the government propositions so far as regards the justice and the effi cacy of the conditions under which it is proposed that a rate in aid shall be levied. They may natu rally inquire, in the first place, whether the maximum rate fixed on for each electoral division and union be sufficient ; and secondly, supposing it to be so, what guarantees there are that this rate will be bona fide collected before a rate in aid is called for. The plan of government is obviously imperfect, in not providing acme distinct and certain means of testing I the resources of each electoral division, before recourse is had to the union rate. There is but one rational method of doing this, and that is by the sale of de faulting land. As the measure stands at present, there is absolutely no valid security that a rate of 2s. and 31. will not be, in many instances the maximum " found possible to collect." And, should this be the case Ulster and Leinster may most rationally cry out against the folly and injustice which burdens them with the surplus expenses of districts so shamefully maladministered. The question as to the fittest amount at which to fix the maximum for each electoral division, and after wards for each union, obviously depends very mach on the stringency with which it is probable that the maximum fixed upon will be realised. Supposing, however, that government gives an undertaking to follow up its present propositions by neastues calculated to make the land as well as its produce responsible for the poor-rate, it would still be a question whether the maximum of ss. for a division rate and 2s. for a union rate is sufficiently high, as well u whether (supposing it high enough) there might not be a different limit assigned for @w eenies years. For instance, it might be provided that if a rate of 7s. for division and union jointly , give a title, to a rate in aid the first year, tile district and union so relieved shall be requi red to provide from their own resources, say to the extent of 7s. 6d. for an electoral division rate, and 2s. 6d. for a union rate, or 10s. in all, before they came upon the the rate in aid a second year. Without some check of this description the prospect of a rate in aid would be offering a fearful temptation to the guardians of demoralised unions to neglect in the collection, and improvidence in the expenditure of their rates. The more these and similar difficulties are consi dered, the more necessary does it seem to re-consider the details of the measure. The 4th and .sth resolu tion, concerning the five-shilling district and the two- shilling union rate, were, we believe, withdrawn yes terday, the committee declining to vete them without evidence. The first witness, Mr. Powell, will be examined next week. It is impossible not to sympathise with the scru ples of the committee. On a question, in the right solution of which the welfare of a whole country, and the very exist ence of a portion of its population are involved, it will not do to legislate in the dark ; and the legislature and the country generally would have a right to com plain if the committee allowed either the urgency of the use or the merits of the government plan gene rally to prevent them from instituting a rigid scrutiny into its details. We trust the end of it will be that government will be compelled to admit the necessity of making property in land liable for poor rate, as well as the pro- duce and stock found upon it. Let the govern. ment and the landlords do what they will, to this it must come at last. From many districts produce and stock are vanishing fast; and the only way to bring them back will be to give the poor law authori ties a power of selling all lands on which a certain amount of rates shall have been due for a certain period of time. Such confiscation would have been most creel andanjust so long as the rate remained un limited. But once a moderate limit is fixed upon, and the resources of the rest of the kingdom called in aid, we do not see what valid objection can be made to it. In fact without some such provision for enforcing the collection of the local rates, the imposition of a rate in aid will be open to the imputation of being improvidentil well as unjust SURELY the very extraordinary objection raised by Mr. Hewes to the production of • paper, relative to the negotiations between the Hudson's Bay Company and the Colonial-office about Vancouver's Island, will not be allowed to pass without further comment in parliament. Mr. Hume moved to have the opinion of the QUEEN% Attorney and Solicitor-General respecting the com petently of the Hudson's Bay Company to restive a grant of land from the crown laid upon the table of the house. Mr. Hewes stated that the Ch/onial-offioe would not produce the document if it MUD in their possession : and that moreover the Irin question was the private property of the on's Bay Company, and that he doubted whe ther it were in the power of parliament to compel its production. The first thing in this reply that strikes every un prejudiced mind as offensive and objectionable is the part played by the Colonial-office in accepting and acting upon such an opinion. By calling for it the Colonial-office showed that they entertained grave doubts of the legality of a grant of lands to the com pany. This being the case, the Colonial-office ought to have consulted the law officers of the crown as public servants. Instead of doing this they allow the company to produce an opinion which they have obtained from the crown conned upon payment of a fee, and on the strength of a private confidential az porte statement. In acting upon an opinion thus procured, without attempting to obtain an unblessed opinion for the crown, without allowing the other parties competing for the grant to kuow its nature and offer objections to it, the Colonial-office have seriously compromised themselves and viola , ed their public trust. The next objectionable feature in this extraordi nary transaction is the conduct of the law officers of the crown. These officials are permanently retained and well paid to act for the interests of the crown. Is it to be tolerated that they shall receive fees and give opinions upon an ex parts statement to private parties who have an interest separate from, and, it may be, adverse to that of the crown ? Ludy, it will be remembered that the crown holds the waste lands of the colonies anddependencies only in trust for the nation. The responsible advisers of the crown have counselled it to convey a large extent of these lands to a company whose legal competency to receive such a grant has been doubted by the Colonial-office, and is still doubted by many of our most learned lawyers and experienced. statesmen. And when called upon to produce the document which contains the opinion that has dispelled their own doubts as to the legality of the transaction, they deny the power of parliament to compel its pro duction. Are ministers entitled to act in such a mat ter upon an opinion which they cannot produce in their own vindication P The matter cannot rest here. The public interest, the legality of the conduct of the Colonial-office and the crows counsel are all mixed up in this question. And the trainman which an attempt is made to conceal from public =poem by the extraordinary de claration of Mr. HAW/11, Is 1114 W ware nor less than an attempt to perpetuate and extend the powers of the only survivor of those unjustifiable monopolies which were a main source of the fatal dimensions between Meat ea I. and his parliament. BELGIUM. THE BRUSSELS CONFERENCE. It appears that while Count Colloredo is in London for the purpose of making definite ments with the British cabinet respecting the are of busi ness, the Marquis de Ricci, Sir Henryenry Ellis, and M. De la Oene, have to treat of a difficult question connected with Count Colloredo's journey, viz., which of the states are to be represented at the conference— s question by no means easy of solution in the present position of the states of the church and the indecision of the Ring of Naples. It is impossible that either the Pope or King Ferdinand can be repre sented so long as their position with regard to the congress is not ascertained. In respect to the secondary states which are moat closely con cerned in the results of the conference, and have there fore placed themselves under the protection of Sar dinia, they will not have any direct representative, but will send their representatives to the Sardinian plenipotentiary. Lombardy will appoint Count Durini ; Parma, Senator 'Maestri ; Modena and Reggio, Paßrimieri. The first difficulty commences with the claims of the republic of Venice, which has separated itself from the sovereignty of Sardinia, but whose existence has not yet been recognised by the mediating powers. Whether, therefore, its delegate, M. Picini, will be admitted to the negotiations is very dubious. Further, how will the claims of the Lom bardy republicans, who likewise claim a seat at the conference, be admitted by Sardinia and the two mediating /*were ? On what terms can the representatives of the government of Palermo be admitted, especially as England and France have taken Ring Ferdinand under their protection? Until these preliminary questions (from which Austria, with political wisdom, stands aloof) be settled, Count Colloredo will have time enough in London to arrange with Lord Palmerston respecting the basis of the negotiation. FRANKFORT, FEB. 20. There has been asreat deal of talk about a new aote from the Prussian government, accompanied by a letter from M.Camphausen, the Prussian envoy at Frankfort. In this note the Prussian government re peats its declaration that a federal state ought to be constituted embracing Prussia and all the other states which desire to be received into it ; and that the re mainder of Germany (Austria, and such states as participate in its sentiments) sh ould remain connected with this new federal state on the footing of the old confederation. It is said that Bavaria has intimated to Prussia ',threat that she will withdraw from the Zollverein in the event of Prussia being placed at the head of a federal state from which Austria should be excluded. Prussia is said to have replied to this threat that it would regret much to see Bavaria se cede from the Zollverem, but even at this hazard it would deem it its duty to interpose no obstacles to the re-organisation of Germany, and that it hoped ere long to see all the German states, without any excep tion, applying for admission into the federal state, as was the case in North America, where several states at first showed a disposition to stand aloof from the union. _ . You see Prussia maintains the ground taken up originally by its volunteer advocates in unofficial pamphlets, and subsequently in its first official note. It has gained many adherents in the Assembly within the few last days, partly in consequence of the blunders of Austrian diplomacy; partly on account of the increasing complications of Austrian affairs in Hungary and Transylvania. The cry that the Reagens have entered Transylvania has awakened throughout Germany fears in some and hopes in others—fears in the timid, hopes in the brave: for the latter persuade themselves that a war with Rus sia will be the surest means of combining the greater part of Germany to resist that power ; aed that the war, if successful, will lead ultimately to the union of the whole of Germany. Perhaps Germany has never been better prepared for war than at present ; and a war against Russia would call into action the whole energy and enthusiasm of the nation, which is unanimous in considering Russia as the meat inveterate enemy of its liberty and unity. This sentiment tells at the moment to the disadvantage of Austria, which by taking its stand upon the treaties of 1815, in opposition to the constitution of a federal state, is regarded as holding oat to Germany under these treaties a threat that it will ally itself with Russia in a crusade against regenerated Germany. The entry of the Russians into the Aaatrian States would in these circumstances be considered the com mencement of a war between Germany on the one side and Russia and Austria on the other. Such a war appears to many inevitable, and hence the news that Russia has occupied Transylvania cannot fail to injure Austria in the estimation of German patriots. Moreover, the organisation of the Austrian party in the National Assembly is as unfortunate as can well be imagined. At its head is M, von Schmerling, whom all Mends of German liberty and unity regard as the enemy of their country, and whom an over whelming majority in the National Assembly hate the more that he has used all his influence to injure that body everywhere. The second " leader" of this party is M. Welker, who was deputed to wait upon Prince Windischgratz during the Austrian crisis, and who completely failed in asserting the dignity of the German empire in his negotiations with the Austrian general. The left in particular hate one of these politicians, and despise the other to a degree that an interposesadditional difficulty in the way of a coalition between that party and the party of Austria. Even the attempt to brag about a meeting of a joint committee of the parties to devise a common system of operation with reference to the Prussian question has failed. Each party has maintained its own com mittee. The probability is that they will be unable to come to an naderstanding. The second reading of the constitution will come on in a few days, and no one can so much as form a con jecture of what may be the vote on the essential points. The most trivial incident may reverse the majority. To-day a report is circulated that there hes been a new rising in Vies= to expel the Croats. Meanwhile chance directs everything,and unless some =foramen events oceur,the victory may fall to which ever side is most prompt and audacious in its mea sures. Hitherto the chances are all in favour of the Prussian party. P.S. A letter from Prague data that Jellachich has declared for the Hungarians. This is probably a groundless rumour. But it is also one of those rumours which swarm over the whole of Germany, and prove the agitated state of the public mind. Pro phecies are current in every corner of Germany about a bloody war with the Russians. Should it break out Crlay their account with the countenance of Eng and eventually of France. But this is too weighty a subject for a postscript ; I may, perhaps, return to it hereafter. INDIA. It is stated on good authority that a letter was re. ceived at the India House by the India mail on Thurs day from General Whish, at Moons!), dated the 9th of January, two days later than the latest dates given in the Indies papers and private letters. At that date the fort of Mooltan still held out ; but the gene ral confidently expected . that within two days it would be in his possession, either by storm or ear render. :bt Court. The Duke of Wellington had an audience of the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the Princes Amelie of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfitrat, and attended by Sir George Cooper, arrived in town at hall past 12 o'clock yesterday, from her residence, Frogmore House. Her Royal Highness and the Princess of Hohenlohe went to Buckingham Palace, and partook of a dejetiner with Her Majesty and Prince Albert.—The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Amalie of Hohenlohe-Schillingitaret left Clarence House, St. Janice's, at half-past 3 o'clock in the afternoon for Frogmen House. The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the performance at the Haymarket Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Char lenient, Han. Miss Cavendish, Lord Camoys, Lieut.-Colonel the Hen. C. B. Phipps, and Colonel Seymour. The Dutch dwarf, Van Tracy, had the honour of attend ing at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday evening. The Queen's private band . played the following pieces on Wednesday in Buckingham Palace: — l . moron^ R•Sfre Weber. iiiiii.:kxo:Tr Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the finis of Lansdowne, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmist s , Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Phi* B , John Hobhouse, Lord Campbell, the Bight**. H. ere, the Marquis of Clenrica r d e , and the S a i d Carlisle, were present at the cabinet co unc il h eld on Them hearday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The co unc il scam . Despatches were sent off yesterday evening fic eq the ColonieLoffico for:the Gammon°, the North lam* * Provinces, and also for the Governor of the Mauritius. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had a padie, mentary dinner party on Than* at his official reside*, Downing West. The company counted of th e M are * Clanricarde, Earl Mulgrave, Lord Edward HowaQ,:u u Right Hon. H. L. Shell, Sir Denham Honeys, Sir Ga m Strickland, Colonel Dunne, Mr. Grace, Mr. Blacken, Wilson, Mr. J. O'Brien, Mr. Willcox, Mr. Foga, K t Aglienby, and Mr. Langston. RATING THE COLLEGES OF OXFORD AND Cut. BILIDGM—DEPUTATION.—tt deputation from the 015:od board of guardians, accompanied by Alderman Sadler Lid the representatives of the city, James Haughten Esq., and William Page Wood, Esq , met a Wails: dept: tion from the Cambridge beard of guardians in Londosioad waited, by appointment, on the poor-law commissioners, e,. lathe to a clause introduced into a bill by the late Ide. Buller in the last session of parliament, and about to be sa: rived during the present session, exempting the two ueiv. attics from the oneration of the bill, which is to render extr a parochial property liable to the poor rates. The &paw* also suggested several clauses relative to th a pence of suits at law against email' colleges fig trying their liability to a charge ; poor rates hi. oorne in Oxford by the whole of the united parithsy instead of their being thrown on separate parishes, and saw s , clauses regarding pauper emigration, &c. The d e p ute * were most cordially received and their suggestions listsmod • by the board with treat attention, and there is little duaitd their interview resulting in the full attainment of their jut object, viz.: that of placing the colleges and'halls of and Cambridge on the same footing with all the rest of th extra parochial property in the kingdom. THE EARL AND COUNTESS OF MOUNT EDGICtlyy and family are detained at Rome by the illness of the se% earl, which has prevented the counters returning to IL, country to enter on her duties as lady in waiting tot e Queen. The noble earl and countess intended to yo Naples when his lordship had sufficiently recovered. DEATH OF THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE WO RENDER, BART —The above beranet expired at his*, residence in Upper Be' keley-street, on WedncNle7laß 114 wee eldest eon of Sir Patrick (third baronet) by els ram* with Mir Blair, and was born Dec. 6, 1781. He is mom** by his brother, now Sir John, born 1786, and married in; in 1823, Lady Julian Maitland, daughter of the eighth Bid of Lauderdale, who died in 1827 ; and secondly, in 1831, to the Hon. Frances Arden, second daughter of the lila I,osa Alvanley. 'G, FEBltikitY, FINANCIAL REFORM. At a public meeting held yesterday at Andertm's hotel, Fleet-street, for the purpose of Living mealunsty terming associations to co.oprate with the Liverpoot liar, cial Reform A sociation, and all similar bxlite. Taslor in the chair. . The following resolutions were gamed : That the public expenditu-e of the country is exorbitantly lirr, and ought therefore to be materially and immediately reduce d, --- That the mode in which the public revenue is relied is miss* oppressive on the industrial classes and impsntirsly oak lea VUSIOIL Mint a Flammlel Reform Association be now formed to comes with all similar bo.iles In the United Kingdom for the purpose ts. snared in the preceding resolutions, and that all persoessulatnim to the same one galling and upwards be members of the nixie^ MEETING AT KENTISH TOWN. Last evening at a meeting of the inhabitant. 11l Camden and Kentish-towns, held at the Devot.shirs Arm Kentish Town-road, for the purpose of taking iota Cab dotal:Ion the present movement in favour of financial Mee The following resolutions were passed unanimously: That this meeting approves of the reform in the public make proposed by Mr. Cobden and supported by the 1. inanclil Wfaay sedation, and considers that the distressed state of the cootryo quires a more equitable nude of taxation, as well sesame annis penditure of the public funds. That the wasteful expenditure of the public money as *Os posed by the public pros, is to be attributed to the mode insist the House of Commons is elected, the majority°, that body belK 4a aponeible to the people, this meeting, therefore, cordially 'mom thee:tension of the suflrige, and other measures, advocated by lk Mune, THE NEW SEW EANT AND QUEEN'S COUNSEL.—Y 6 terday the Lord Chancellor invited the following gentles' to take their mate in.ide the bar, viz., Mr. Seij. Kinglei (having obtained a patent of precedence), and Me. Ed, Lloyd, Mr. Greenwood, Mr. Mains, Mr. Calvert, k Keating, and Mr. K. Palmer; being each appointed met her Majesty's counsel. CuotEm.—Yesterday the following fresh or were reported to the Board of Health :—Refuge, Hadnit road, 7, 2 fatal; Bt. George's in the-East, from 11th iret,t 7 fatal; Darlington, 1; Edinburgh, 6, 1 fatal ; Ola 13, 4 fatal ; Galston, 3, 2 fatal Dunfermliae, 2 his Greenock, 2 fatal ; Galashiels, 2, 1 fatal; Kilmarnock,aii tional, from Ist Mat , 91, 24 fatal; Girvan, 12, 6 fatal; & Guivox, from 7th inst , 10, 5 fatal ; Bowmore, 1 fatal; Ti liooulty, from 14th inst , 21, 8 fatal ; Roxburgh, Kelso, fatal ; Riecarton, 8, 2 fatal ; Dandonald, 12, 6 fatal. Tai 212 new cues, 74 deaths. A GIFT TO THE POOR OF CHELSEA.—The duct trustees of St. Luke, Chelsea, were agreeably surprieir Monday last by a deed of gift being unexnectrilly preen them by their old friend and magis:rite, Mr. Floe 1, to 11 amount of 2,5001., the dividends arising therefrom to !fedi tributed among the poor and deserving of that punk mu 13th Jan., for ever. PUBLIC BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES.—Yestehi a meeting of the ratepayers of St. Martin's-in-the-fide 99 held in the Vestry-room, to receive the report of the CH missioners of Baths and Wash-house,, and to undermine rowing dutch further sums as might be required ke of completing the baths. Mr. Churches* ra7m ll :: having taken the chair, the Rev. Sir H. Dukisits late vicar of the parish, said he was happy to intone * meeting that the public baths and laundries would be e tinily self-supporting, the probable annual revenue bugs mated at 4 ? 0261. In the four weeks which had elapsed eo the opening of tic establishment the mime bathers had been 10,364, and the income 1484 8s 2d. It • to be recollected that this was the most unfavourable Me of the year for bathing, and that the laundris the poor women in the neighbourhood to wash theireado were not yet in operation. The secretary then read Es 9 port, which stated that a sum of 5,0001. in addition a s 10,0001. already voted, would be required to compile baths. On the motion of Mr. Churchwarden J 11914 conded by Mr. Davenport, the report was received. It a then resolved that the commission should have poet; borrow the further sum of 5,0001. on the security of the se rates. At the conclusion of the regular business, the de man, on behalf of several of the parishioners, preside* Rev. Sir H. Dukinfield with a silver gilt medal for ha we lions on behalf of the poor parishioners, especially in tsgn to the establishment of the bathe and washhouns. Aii of thanks was then passed to the chairman, and the nal separated. EATON-SQUARE IN DARKNESS.—Eaton-Strge the adjacent neighbourhood are, at the present, lett in altt of total darkness. So far as can be learned, the Mg of* state of things is that the present holder of the proper,' 6 clines to continue the lighting of the place, and the authorities also refuse to do so. Therefore the gas light eclipsed, and the place left in the state described. INQUEST, YESTERDAY. COLLISION AND LOH ' Lira ore THE Rrvaa.—Before Mr. Cartier, at the Man Inn Plumatead, on Charlotte Ann Hawes, sad child, Elizabeth Hawes, who lost their lives by bu s _ down in a vessel called the Sarah by the brig Yeenf t 7 of Neweastle.—lt appeared that on the night of the last month, the Sarah, a barge belonsior to It Cos, of Westminster, left the Pool for Whiteli* the master, William Hewer, having on board . 1 wife and two children. Late the same she was brought up in Halfway Reach, bedroll Powder Store and the Halfway public-house Shesel amelmired close in the Kentish shore, and where seM vessels of a similar description were moored. All on °I" . than retired to rest. About 4 o'clock on the Morin; IPA big they were awoke by a dreadful crash ; sad on 1101, getting on deck he discovered that his vessel had beat r 9 into by a brig, which, by the light of the moon, he Pe g " bearing away down the river. At the same moment helm! that his own craft was sinking. His wife, with a child's! breast, came on deck, but recollecting t hat their Mead* was left behind she gave the infant to the mate ad 11 4: below. Although the cabin by this time we, hog with water she succeeded in rescuing the child and spot! se t t big the deck she threw it to her husband, wto au riming and who caught it. The poor woman t hee took "A ti from the mate, and seeing a beat making fortkell,! celled, "We shall be saved new." But ere a f eir mom had transpired the vessel went down. The mate eanth!f. of an oar as the craft went from under him, which be en forward in the hope tt at the unfort una te woman von; hold of it. The force of the current, however, am w away, and the mother and child were ket. Tke Salted up by the boat from the barge, which was lying; and the same boat then took from the riggieff the V i o Hawes, and the eldest child, who was clang rag t°. Subsesuently it was ascertained that the brig whim the mischief was the Young Dixon, 250 tons buAmes,. longing to Newcastle. Two boys, A te , attached Burn and, attached to the crew of the brig, deposed to yed 7rst deck at the time of the occurrence. The net becoght to ; they heard the cries of the pel*:*er eleldeig barge, but no attempt was made to rave wen a nei ht night, and they could see tom s _atri eke( the river. The crew of the brig consisted oi tr e6 7o, f semi, If the master had given adore, they bid o ‘ , OO lives of the deceased could have been saved.—gr..u.' the master of the brig, attributed the accident r° favourable state of the weather. His vessel nil,. go. down with a strong ebb tide and a heavy yes When nearly abreast the Sarah, theywere catffht o vet •l t . and the vessel ran athwart the barge. !I• KE moment imagined that they had done anYthi p j be solemnly declared that he did not hear p ress aged I„;,,at domedhe bos.—Verdict, " Manslauter 70111 Fraser w ho wa s committed to Maidstone OW the nut &WM