The Express. — London, England, 1849-05-22 00:00:00

n ap, as khan elate ammistiss ► ving hem very Rua tasitessd by the suibrusk of *Mira in *reelt pro o f the calar7- AORICIILTLIELL DISTRESS. Mr. (HUNTLEY BERKELEY asked whither govern ante esatsmplated any mama fa the relief of agricultural &gum and whether ft was proposed to abate the income tax as larded Maws ? lAA J. RESSELL aid that grarnattnt had no special messem fie the seta el sp oa iealtureti aa was =r ..81-• mire the keens to chargeable on ~ KAFFIR WAIL Mr. V. SEWS aid that during hapset nearly a maims w as tea IM Ear war, and at Asa time no account wetfyswei to the Inn of the assmsr k which it had b ias e senaki. Sloss Oft a MA ban peosived km Mr H. Plakiers by a awe of osseastu That swats were n the esanekiswers of audit m the Lad of May, Int sad Ills, had Emmdshal a short T ara, otitis/ that the scanals were en esaylisated as to bs naustalligahls. The commissional bed des rasitsted osir rifinaci to a commission in the agony. He wished to gaew whether his right honourable friend (the Chancellor of d o Rachman) meant to act on that gegen by appointing • esmatimisa in the colony. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that at rf esieiag the sommissioners of audits report he had cosy beck to the geology for fresh amounts. Until he had iseseeld them be mold take no further maps in the metier. IRELAND. Nr. SADLYIRMas anxlms to bear the intentions of go. erases' with retsina to two massures which we re of ohe *Wm impertanes to Ireland. The first wan • health of sums bill, and t h e other a system of reei.tration of births, Lots, and marriage', similar to that which was carried on Is Regbuid, Lord J. RUSSELL hoped to proceed with a health of towns 101 l during the pretest 1111111i011. With regard to the star measure, although he fully conceded its importance, br could not at present fir a time for its introduction. bICIINLBERED MATES (Iny t yD) BILL. The Woe west hdo sethmilese rim the bill. Os oases 1, " appethileseth of esseasimiosers," lb. J. STUART espeeesed lie regret that no notice had bees taken by any member of the government if the for- Mashie objectless whisk he (Mr. Stunt), and other mint hem had started fes knew stages of this measure. His ob. *llion was one of primeipb. Tim bill greeted a set of 1 Othuandosen Mbe paid out of the Eastisk exchequer. He ivory lime erhh* related to this appoiatment riti te sem. Wilk Toped to those clauses which ailed to the regulatith elf sales, it might be proper to Sadder them, even eh th e house aopt his view of keying those powers in the beads of the Court of Chancery which it was now proposed be transfer to the commisszonen, theta ire he had not, mama the motion for going into committee. ('ol. RAWDON thought it only just to the government to read a short letter he hid received that day fn m Dublin from a gentleman having great experience in such marten, and in the management of property by the Court of Chancery in fraud. That letter stated that " the bill for the sale of encumbered estates in Ireland will be one of the most beneficial museum for that country which has been yet introduced. It I, pretmred with such wonderful clear ness, and the provisions of it are a simple, that it is unst erile:7 for me to trouble you with any observations in re ference to it." (Hear. hear) He (Col. Rawdon) also, from all he bad heard, believed the bill would be attended with peat advantage to Intend. Mr. S. ADAIR thought the ememplets failure of the En cumbered Estates Act, as proved by the experi , nee of twelve mmths, was is itself a sufficient sumer to the obser vations of the hen. sad loathed member (Mt. Stuart). Mr. F. FRENCH had bees opposed to the measure when It was list introduced, but had feud then, as since, that the opposition of Irish members was always ineffectual oltes brought tate competition with English prejudices. Sir J. WALSH believed this ensemare would he like that of lea year, wholly aced entirely ineffectual. It wee futile to upset that the mere power to dispose of these est tes would bring a spite) into tie conany, to be expended in gleam employment to the t cop,. Men did not toy Istate a cm the philanthropic principle of employing labour, Lat to make profit to benefit themeelver, and until circumstances should be an altered in Ireland as to give security kr the profitable employment of the capital invested I. these estates, capital wou:d not Soil its way there. He had a strong obj-lion to the constitution of the proposed commission, which, like all then commissions, was, in his opinion, an attempt to intro duce a none dangerous principle, which it behoved all who loved liberty, property, and order, &restively and jealously to watch. The enunissionen were to have ell the powers of the Celia of Char.cery with reference to these *states, without say of its safeapads. No provides eas made for the rade' whose interest* were to be dealt with to appear by counsel, nor was cry appeal against the decisions of the cogent...bin ailowed, except with th- consent o: the commis sneers themselves. The eemosissineerships would involve a delegatio of pow. nlt parties who, if they were to exercise them at all, ought to be thoroughly masters of equity law— persona et Lie h charmers, and station. lis objected to AO prir.- ciple as estoOlishine a meat deogenue prey dent,andte kit a very stro'.g darks that her lbjestre ministers would be ena bled on the tensest oceseims to give to the tonne some posi tive 11%.100.01 that the ethambeleas would he placed in the hands r t men of Wag standing thil great legal knowledge. Lord J. RUSSELL add the whole question we whether the eat. of baud was oath se to demand some earserdi tau y remedy fur the purpose of facilitating the tr easier cf tarl and the sale of iseusehnel estates to parties who woul i do tb , ir deny by the soil and the tenants )steed thereon, If tie musics were not one of an extraordinary nature, then Om reasoning of the his, baronet who had last addressed the home would be perfectly correct, became if they were &Alai with an ordinary state of eireuntetanees, it would be quite necessary and justifiable to make some aniendonts ta the bill. But, as they stood, the house had decided upon the second reading that there was a state of circumstances in Ireland requiring as extraordinary ri medy —(hoar, hear)—and what wee now to be considered wee this, sot whether the principle .-..f the bill should be revised &he ather, hut whether the machinery proposed would carry km effect the object in view, and whether the robs nermered were auffielandy wrong for the esession, or whether they were mote lartietrary sham was necessary for the purport intended? (Hear.) lele may wished further to state that he did not think the Chancellor of Ireland, in ex preoing his consent to this bill, had shown any want of &Onto/Ant to the forms or proceedings with which he was more omordiately conversant, or that he wished to divest Wraith of any responsibility or labour which properly be longed to hon. His belief wsa, from all the oorrespondence be had with the Irish Char cellar, mid from all he ket I seen of him, that he screed with the opinion of the majority of that house that it was desirable to adopt some extraordinary means for procuring the sale or transit, of encumbered estates, more especially for the purpose of speedily giving a goal parliamentary title to the properties a dis posed of. That was his object, and he was by so means actuated by any of the motives attri buted to him by some boa. members. (Hese.) The beta member fur &meow:non (Mr. French) had intimated to the house that these encumbered estate bale had bet n de vised by English members possessed of English prejudices. He (Lord J. Russell) could not agree to the truth of that vestment. The flat person h, had heard declare it to be seminary that there should be a great change of proprietors la Ireland, is order to produce prosperity in that e noon% was a gentleman well known to the members of that house —be meant Mr. Mare O'Ferrall, the present governor of Mika. ( Hear, hear.) That gentleman declared, OD EN back as the year 1832, that same means mast be adopted for reducing a champ of proprietors in that country, before say hope could be entertained of its permanent prosperity. Colonel DI:NNE designated the bill a sweeping measure, ' ineensuih as it entrusted to a commission a very arbitrary power over every estate in the country which was indebted is steam the nulled amount. Various of the clauses of the hell were anon unintelligible. He should like en explana- tive to be given of the meaning of the Cith, 19th, and 24th clauses The CHAIRMAN suggested that it was very desirable to take the clauses seriatim, commencing with the first (Hear.) CoL DUNNE would bow to the decision of the chairman, and aurae any amervations he had to make upon the clauses moil they severally came before the house. But he must again object to the injustice of the bill, and deny that the pres-nt circumstances of Ireland afforded any justifica tion far its enactment. Land could not now be sold in the aster country except at a price considerably under its real value, although a sale under the Court of Chancery con kited as safe and good a title as any that could be granted by Mr. °LOAN said the ben gentleman who opened the discussion that evening had pie ced the subject in a clear and intelligible manner before the house wits& he alleged that it was unconstitutional to 'paint these commissioners under the bill. Ile (Mr. Orogen) admitted, with the noble had at the head of the government, that the state of Ireland we extraordinary, and that it called foe extraordinary meesteres,• but be thought that if the objectious which existed to the dadaist/aka of justice in the Conn of Chancery were facilitated and meek that court might be mote an ex ceedingly enatheteat jurisdiction for the carrying out of the Encumbered Estates Bill. (Hem) He admitted that mach appreher DOD would he removed if the commissioners wen named in one of the clanses,• but he contended that, supper. leg the best men to be appothted, they would after all be the 'termini es of the government, and suck as absolute and un controlled power as that over the property of Ireland ought sot to be vested is any mlesinistratios. (Hear, hear.) Sir L. O'BRIEN thought the appoidatett of commis. sifters would estab!ieh a safeguard, and effect a great im pennant in disposing of encumbered estates with justice mall "Pi', ; bat then the house ought to be informed of the name of those corernioioness. He bed the meet perfect confidence in the present Lord Chancellor and 'dietr of the Rolls is Inked, and he should have no o?jectinn to abide by their decisions in buying or d"I"4"'S of property, but he wee opposed to the investment of extensive powers In inapossibli hands, and he should , Note aphid the bill value the names of the commissionaire wive prated. (Hose.) Col. DUNNE moved that the chairman report proms sod ask Imo to sit sou & Mr. J. O'CONNELL said that so far as he had been obis to 'guinea Inlaid was dooklodiy u favour of Ike prime sarentre. (Hear, heard He felt Oat say Isla memberdwell oppose a vacuum w=a l likely to alai each general benefit in the doer countay. Mr SADLEIR reminded the house that the Lord Cloth re& r ~ t I Wind and the Chief Remembrance, of the Fectitiel:l had ea alsolute poem at pres en t to dispel priwit. r‘ kir whatever sum night be offered, and de= bad som e times, u p = the most trivial applications, rs I sa'es, whereby seven' parties had been injured. After • few Rafe halt MT. BOWMAN, Cal Dimwit withdrew his amendment. The chum was agreed to, as were classes 2,3, 4, and 8. Oa dame 8, it Wag proposed to up the blank with OWL, the ealary el the Chief Conssaiselower, w lfr hich. HENLEY put a caution ea the lulled, in reply to The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said it wee Wended to give a Balmy of 3,000 i. a year to the chid eemadmiewer, sad 2,000 L to each of the other ammabriesere. In answer to lb. Gaootre, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated that it was ant =l a ureate any dim for the parpoes of valastica The dame was then agreed to, as were classes 7,8, and 9. On claim 10, respective; the rules to be Blade by the oom tteissloa•rs being approved of by the Privy Canned, _ _ Col. DUNNE moved that tie Court of Chancery be sub- Mislaid for the Privy Cerascil. The SOLICITOR GENERAL defended the clause, ob. serving that power was gives to alter the rules from tim el to time, as the commkskinen should thick right. The amendment was then negatived, and the clause was agreed to, as were clauses 11, 12, 13, and 14. On clause 16, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated, is answer to Mr. BADLIII, that it was thought necosary that be commie shiners should have the assistance of counsel, and heaps they were Weeded with the powers of a court of equity. Oa clause 16, Kr. SADLEIR sold be did not think it would be pos. ▪ W effect salve wader this commiesion exempt in large Week, and to joint-stock ooinpanies. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Why ? Mr. SADLEIR said one reams was the large miss of the sums, of itself sufficient to prevent individuals of moderate fens from investing their capital in land. Then the drain zserrations, as now carried on, affected mere than one sad would cause the parties desiriog to purchase to to It: state of the serroundie: lands, He was Salim also to introduce a clause glass life•tenants the Fewer of selling a postioa of the estate, to pay debts secured the InheriMmith There were other interests in Ireland, them far muss ei SI er 40 years, which ought also to have the knelt et far ammiesion. Eba SOMMEOII-01114ERAL s and feared the clause Pesommd b y tile Ma. gentleman, and feared it woe Medals bible ; for It wendil lame this effect. that any person might create an kistmebrame es his estate, and get it sold by the emsembeinn e ens ma it almost without incurnbrance. This wail emit deer to get hand, as it might be done by par ties beaky eldeetive Sir A. BROOKE inquired if this bill would give any power to landowner to sell and discharge their Mama still reserving the sights over their estates whichrl= secured to those coming under the commission? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said It was not content plated to make any alteration in the law as it Ansel in this respect. The next clause, the 17th, clearly Wised what wee being subject to any incumbrance." The clause was then agreed to, as were clauses 17 sad 18. On the neat clause, giving power to the commissioners to proceed to a sale as the application of any iseumbranoer, Mr. TURNER moved a proviso to the effect that no order oink, should be made on the application of any owner or ineambrancer the value of whose interest was net equal to the amount of the irmumbranee; nor unless the whole of the incumbnaces amounted to two-thirds the value of the estate. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL hoped this suggestion would sot be adopted, as it would involve the necessity of a previous inqu'ry am to the respective values of the estate emit the iacumbrancet, which, in the depressed state of landed property in Ireland, wee perhaps now not worth more than half its amount when the mortgages were effected. The necessary Mlllt would be to prevent sales in a great sew cases. It would bathe duty cribs oommimiesers to look some thing beyond the technical law in these oases, and to regard what might be morally due ; hence they ought to bate a very large diemetion. Mr. GROGAN suglested that estates ineurabered to th e extent of " one-halt,' should be substituted for " two thirds." Mr. TURNER having stetted to the alteration sug gested, the committee divided on the amended preposition— Fir the amendment 9 Maisie it 66 —67 The clause was thee agreed to. Clause 20 was agreed to. Oa clause 21 being proposed— Mr. S. MARTIN said he wished to know how his hon. and harped friend meant to deal with the ewe of leases created af.er the incumbrance when the estate was not sufficient to meet all the demands upon it. In that case the ineuiabrance would over-ride the tenancies on lease created subsequent to it. That would be a great hardship in the ease et bookifids tenants. What he should therefore propose would be this, that power should be given to ascertain whether the lands were let at a (Air rent, and upon proper hams, and upon its being ascertained that this was the case that the tenant should be protected mama the subsequent —seer. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that such was the object of the clause, but if that meaning was not clear enough frees the words as they stood, he would undertake to introduce others which would make ft plainer. (Hear.) Akre a few words from Me. BADLIIII and CoL Donna the clause •as agreed to, as was also clause' 2. Clauses 23 to 37 inclusive win ,greed to. Oa clause 38 being proposed, Mr. MONSELL thought the bill would fall to be effectual for its object if this clause restarted in Its poi sent form. la his opinion, the parties should be compelled to come before the canminioners, aid the powers of the Court of Chan cery in the ease of bankrupt estates should be suspended. The SOLICITOR GENERAL observed that the capes lion of the hon. gentleman was Incesegent with the object of the bill, which was to have a compulsory sale only is case the parties interested were desirous of it. After some discussion, in which Mr. SADLBIR, Colonel Dorms. and Mr. Tong= took port, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL intimated that he would iatecduce some verbal amendments. The clause was, on this understanding, agreed to. Clause 30 was also agreed to. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he had introduced a clause permitting partition in certain eases, but he could not thick of making it general. He tbnught the power should be strictly cosfined to encumbered estates. At a future day a specific measure might be introduced relative to partition. Mr. SADLEIR thought it mortifying that all the Im provements in legislation were to be appropriated by the extravagant ineumbrancen of these estates. It was hard that this power of partition should be denied to the resident and solvent proprietor. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he would reconsider the subject. The clause was thou agreed to, as were 41, 42, and 43. Clause 44 was, after a sheet discussion, agreed to. Clause 45 end the remaining clauses were agreed to, and the bill was ordered to be reported on Thursday neat. PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL. The above bill was postponed to Monday, 11th Jane. LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL. The amendments to this bill, of which soda had been given, were takes into oonsideration. Mr. MILLINGS moved the ineartien of the following elauese. (A.) And with a view of prevent*, or lementid tbe evils of the ryas to ro/birliefia, se well re the lea and feisty to w bolding miler Undo& baying limited Intense, be it enacted. Met where the I ire or tenancy of a teal held by • Issas at rack yiet, Mash deter. nee by the death cr weer of the eine ef 'lay baited entitled far W We, or for any other limited intereet, the Mem itell 'retinue to bell and army the fams til the rands. ete the then current Oa er ore and mama as tf art then quit upon un t or tansy wen Mahe farms et his are= te Meals of ti ether lawful mesas, drag the asearnemes eft% hmlbstra mew, end the exceeding landlord it he NOW to renew end mesh. d the Imam in the sem imam ai Ids pier. ern mil love time 11_, a fair prepertfoa die mit fir the meted whisk may have inn the day el Me dsetk or meow el the Maimed mei gewbeemor Is the time of the great m eitm sad re wisessike hmlleed end the mont esspesideelg rer4 ea be tween themelese end as egehm seeit ether, his anent Ie all the Waft mil stikresam am be saltnet to the meniedent to which the presedhur Mara dal sleek tenant seepeutesty mei* haws bon emtned art seireet, la ere the are or Wow hal Wool ar =mei spawn" di tad elidd= of ear esner yam (a) OM be it met* SW ha ear the growime airs dam treat day arm shells egad end sal W aq amid or other liar, by *toe day welt et GM him or ether writ of eisailea, seek crops shaft, so ire r the Mlle Jail remake Ira the firm, bellahle to the rent wish mey warm and become dr to the ladierd after any err Nelsen an arm sail to the remits by Menem amt other wise for reemory Men* mt, and that nereithebrlbg terra end mate imignment math stay have been are or ezestded of sea mops by an era *MS or other Miter. Mr. PUSSY suggested the withdrawal of these clauses end th it embodiment in a separate bill. Colemel SI BTRORP was opposed to the bill both in prin. Mple md detail. The bill was partial, delusive, and in every way objectionable, and he was only astonished that it should have been brought forward by an agricultural mem ber like the hon. member for Berkshire (Mr. Pussy). He should rams that the report be postponed till that day sla months. The amendment was seconded, but wee afterwards with. deems, Col. Sibthorp declining to divide. Mr. MILLINGS then moved the insertion of the follow big clause That in ere the growing crone of the tenant of any brie re la mixed sad mid by any sheriff or other officer, by virtue dreg "Mt of art fats, er other writ of eaecution, Ptah crops Anal, ern limns the same Am verde urn the fem, be liable to the Mg Vita. may INIMI ad 1s doe to the landlord after any soda Indsore end ean, Ned Ise tbe narrate by diem, sad otherwise be nearer, of each rent, NA 11111 amtwithatesdlg env bargain and els re assign. meat whir nworhar her mule re esseutat of such crepe by any moth timelier other diem Mr. PUSEY doubted whether the clause would not be oposed to the title of the bill. Kr. HENLEY considered it a ft ne . emeary protection to the landlord and to the tenant also, for itprevented third parties Ikon coring between them, and therefore would often obtain loathe tenant itaithedincise which he could not expect, if the owe not so secured to the landlord. clause was then agreed to—the bill ordered to be iletand to be road a third time on nanday next. haritable Trusts Bill was mad a mooed time and the committee fixed for Friday next—the Solicitor-General then to state the day when it would positively be brought forward. The Pervengen Bill went through committee preforms, and was ordered to be recommitted on Thursday neat. RATE IN AID BILL. The lad.' amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to. no how adjourned at 11 o'clmk. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1849. Elie erprelso. OUTGOING NAILB. Mks mil% els IhresOlts, to the hadhsersesse, Tgypt, has, Coyles, lons. HaagZefsg, ha, vM Wm& es the mobs of the Seek et leg. Mow ler lett& tad the thilsl aster will to made ap as the Amok, of the Mk Msg. The mile ter Ms% Opert% Woo, libillehrs, OAK earl Gibrelter, TOI be mole ye in es =soft se the Mb sins:. The West lads NM* hismorls. !noes, hems, Sew Odom eel MEI" earlier thaw la op hees4lollrOmteereess, h Goosis. Chlh. and Psis. will Is mit ea the reare silks led um The alb tar Its6alre, the In^ mad Dews AMA, ‘ llll4, merle was the insets, se the 4th al Sum The oohs he Moller, Whs. Sow% the Undo' biases. tape, Ides. Croke. Isike. leras-lecog. awl Mai, via Sosthesaptos, wW M leads up as the 10th Wass. 111011 WATTS, AT LONDON 21111111 Two DLT —ttawdow,lB stla. mat I ; Anuses. 111 K. pot I. TAlwoosw—listalso,lll Et•. past I; ilowwwww. 4i EWE. pot 11. LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 22. The division on Lord STANLEY'S amendment on the first clause of the Navigation Bill must be gratifying to all lovers of order and rational legis lation. No efforts were spared by his lordship's whippers-in to obtain a majority. Itie leather lunge of Lord BROUGHAM were put in requisition, to sleek against time, till a last attempt was made to sum mon reluctant friends from dinner parties and other snug retreats, whither they bad betaken themselves to escape the necessity of voting against a measure which they have the sense to see is inevitable. Bat all in vair. Common sense prevailed, and a majority of 110 to 103 declared that the peers of England are MO a u - 4;d7 too high-minded, or too wise in their gene ration, to defeat by , insidious matceuvres what they cannot defeat in a fair stand-rip fight. Lord STANLEY'S tone was last night subdued sad insinuating. He was only the more to be dreaded on that accnunt. TM venomous snake which gives warning of its attack its rattle or by its vindictive hiss, is Ms to be dre ad ed than th at which coils itself noiselessly around its prey. Lord STANLEY last night conceded, in terms, the great principle foe which the friends of free trade and promoters of the Navigation Bill are contending. He professed to be walking in the footsteps of Mr. Husxissox, assumed the character of a disciple of that statesman—of the disciple upon whom his mantle had fallen. He proposed so to alter the bill that the relaxation it is intended to introduce into oar system of navigation laws shall only operate in favour of those countries whieli meet is half-way. This, Lord STANLEY says, will offer an inducement to other nations and governments to adopt the Fame liberal principles of commercial legislation in respect of shipping as Great Britain is anxious to establish. Lord STANLEY must, therefore, believe that it would be bo ter for all governments to impose no restrictions—no exclusive privileges in favour of their own subjects on the ocean carnage of merchandise. Lord STANLEY is, or professes to be, a free-trader, and above all, a free - trader in the carriage of goods by sea. He: profeist not to differ from ministers in the end he aims sr, but only in the mode by which he seeks its attainment. Let us examine the means of emancipating the carrying trade of the world which Lord STANLEY recommends as preferable to that contemplated by the authors of the Navigation Bill. He would vest is the Quzzx in council authority to concede to the ships of any and every nation any and every extension of liberty to fetch and carry all sorts of merchandise to sad from this country, which the government of that' nation are willing to confer on the ships of Groitl Britain. The effects of such a statutory enactment would be twofold. In the first place it would make the commercial policy of Great Britain dependent not upon the judgment and insight of the British people and their statesmen, but upon the views, it , might be the whims of foreign governments. What ever system of legislation any foreign governmeat might think proper to adopt in respect of its marine intercourse with this country, our genre moot would be compelled, by eet of parliament, to adopt towards it. In the second place, the power of determining the commercial policy of Great Britain,' in respect of our commercial marine, would be taken from parliament, and vested in the Queen's ministers for the time being. So long as the commercial policy of the nation is determined by parliament there will be a certain degree of fixity and consistence about it. The convictions of the people do not change from year to year, or with every change of ministry ; and parlia ment will more or less faithfully mirror the prevail ing convictions of all the constituencies. But a cibinet is accessible to a multitude of subordinate and unseen influences. The broad leading principles of our navigation law (whatever it might be) a ministry would not dare to counteract openly, but modified as that law is by reciprocity and other treaties a ministry might, if invaded with the powers Lotd STANLEY seeks to confer, purchase a prolonged tenure of office by concessions in favour of this or the other interest, which leaving the general principle of the law as it stands, might yet compromise large amounts of pro pert, and valusble classes of the community, and might even lead to unpleasant cos troversits and collisions,' with foreign powers. Even a bad law, if certain and defined, is preferable to the vacillating and uncertain' will of a ministry whose component parts are conti wally shifting. Even on the assumption, then, that Lord STANLEY eke in perfect good faith when he professed to offer his amendments on the Navigation Bill as a surer method to attain the ultimate emancipation of the carrying trade of the world, these amendments de served rejection. They would deprive this nation of the power of originating its own commercial policy ; and they would place our shipping interests, and all who are concerted in manufactures and merchandise, at the mercy of the mutable views and interests of party alliances. But is any man se simple es to believe Lord STANLEY sincere in the professions he made? Mr. HUBKISSON'S principles and practice are mat ter of history. It is notorious that in his reforms of our commercial legislation he did what he could, not what he wished. His principles would have led him to much bolder changes, but the constitution of government and parliament, awl the unripened state of public opinion in hie day, com pelled him to pause where ho did. Now that the obstacles have been removed which arrested Mr. BusiiissoN'S career, it is rank affectation in Lord STANLEY to quote Mr. Hemmen:4's authority fir weeping short, where Mr. HUsHisSoN was reluct antly obliged to stop. With a landlord and West India parliament, it was a wonder that Mr. 11111:1s- SON accomplished so much as he did, but he would not have been satisfied with that, had he had a free trade House of Commons to back him. The difference between Lord STANLEY'S policy and Mr. HusKissoN's is this : the latter got as much good out of a protectionist House of Commons as be could ; Lord STANLEY, finding the House of Commons no longer protectionist, but anxious to carry out Mr. Hrsetssox's principles to their full legitimate iesues, would persuade the house to concur in an act tying up its own hands, and transferring to the ministers of the crown for the time being the exclusivepower of doing what it is the right and duty of the - House of Commons to do. There can be no mistake as to the object of Lord STANLEy in seeking to deprive parliament of the power to decide what shall be the commercial policy of England. The majority of the people of England are free traders. No House of Commons, however picked by the sinister influence of landlords, would dare to legislate in contradiction to the views and wishes of that maiority. But a Houtie of Commons might be got together by the unscrupulous exercise of landlord Influence, that would place and keep in power a pro tectionist ministry, and excuse themselves to their constituents by the allegation that they . supported that minis t ry, not because of their ant i-free-trade practices, but in spite of them, on the ground of their being friends to the church in danger, or any other pretext that might be found most palatable at the time. Lord STANLEY'S associates and allies have not teen so cautions as him self in veiling the reasons which make them' hunger and thirst after office at the present moment. Their object is avowedly to arrest and turn beck the rising tide of free trade. And a navigation bill " cooked " by Lord STANLEY would be a most service able instrument in their hands fur the attainment of this object. The rejection of Lord STANLIT'S amendmen's in the form in which he proplees them does not however en sure the safety of the Navigation Bill in the only f‘vm in which it can b- passed with saf:ty to the constitu tional authority of p irliament and the proept•rity of the national commerce. Ocher noble lords, and some of them professing friends of the melaures have given notice of amendments which would equally well subserve the purposes of Lord STANLEY and his allies , . Not one of •hem can be adoptel without danger of neutralising the bill. One and all of them must be resisted to the utmost. If carried in committee, an effort mast be made to resew, them on bringing up the report. If incorporated into the bill u passed by the Lords,, the Commons must refuse their assent to the mutilated and emasculated measure. The people of England have a right to know what navigation law they are bound to obey, not to be subjected to the fluetuating views and wishes of ever-changing courts and cabinets. Itis grievous to be obliged to submit for another year to the unwise navigation laws which are sought to be got rid of, but infinitely better than to have the arbitrary will and sinister influence of s cabinet substituted for a published and intelligible law. That the supporters of the navigation law most be beaten in the long run, if the people and their re presentatives in the House of Commons are true to themselves, is certain. The protectionists may pro tract the struggle in their last citadel, the House of Lords, but they must at last surrender at discretion. In the name of the people end free traders of Eng land, we declare that we can and will " bide our time;" but we neither can nor will consent to ensnar ing compromises. Tao prospects of the French President and the dif ficulties of his task mud continue to occupy the first place in every public man's anxiety. Though war rage upon the Danube and insurrection on the Rhine although the Austrians are destroying Bologna, under what pretext itwould be diffieultto discover, and shooting the inhabitants of Leghorn like wild beasts—though the French have an army in the Campagna, of which neither general nor soldiers seem to know what they have come to do, except, in making slaves of the Romans, to make very d isg race ful fools of themselvcs—though GARIBALDI has beaten the Neapolitans, and Base, having converted Transylvania into one vast fortresp, defies the Russians—in the midst of all these battles and bombardments, uncertain of issue, there is some thing mere uncertain and important still, and that is to discover what turn French politics will take. A terrible spark Las been struck from the flinty paving stones of the Parisian barricades, a spark that has kindled mighty conflagrations, which generals have sought to quench in blood, to crush under the wheels of cannon, to tread out with the heavy iron of the law, and military repression. All in vain. Defeat and slaughter, and famine , and inso lent logic, aid ruthleaa dep ortation, have not extin guished in the breasts of the Parisian people the prin ciple of socialism. And what is socialism? He who would limit it to the flattering theory that the accumulated wealth of the rich should be the employment of the poor, would give but a delusive picture. For this principle of socialism is that which nature praotiees in every day life, and, certainly, in a manner more beneficent and vast than a Minister of Labour could devise. Socialism may exist as a theory for a few, but for the formidable many, that master under the banner, it merely means disgust of old things, old ideas, old celebrities, awl an ardent de sire that the aspirations and conceptions which germ in popular minds, may have fair play, consideration, trial. Of these conceptions we are fully convinced, t hat the greater par: are futile. But we have all along thought that more leniency, and scope, and allowance might have been made them. Huw ever dangerous may have been the irresolute dallying with ouch doctrines and such parties by LAMARTINE and the Provisional Go crnment, when such doctrines and parties were armed to the teeth, nevertheless that degree of deference which Ca vatoNAc showed them even in his victory, appeared to us more likely to appease the fury of tLe many headed monster, than downright severity and de fiance were ealcolatA to extinguish and to render them harmless. The friends of "order, " however, thought otherwise. They rejected CA c.ttoNsc, because he would not consent to appoint a ministry of repression. Louts N.trot.Box was chosen in his place, and that personage hes hitherto honourably kept his word to the party which advanced him to power. lie has given full scope ta the moderatos to rule after their ideas. Tne result, however, has been decidedly antower.l, that result being to favour the development and strength of both the extreme par ties, both of those who would govern by force,and those who would leave public opini m uncontrolled. The legitimist, the imperialist, the Or 1( anist were grouped in the one, an amalgamaion of obnoxious names, stamping the party as splenetic and reactionary. As to any middle party, however it may came to ex ist in the Asaemlply, It has been in • great measure ignored by the electoral mind. The plain meaning of the elections, indeed, is, that ti eat organised parties have alone had in fluence, their ticket having been adopted, whilst no attention was paid, or place left,to individuals, of whatever eminence sr character, who stood aloof and wore not taken up by the mon ster clubs on either side. The first question, then, for the President to ask himself is, whether a ministry should be formed of • middle party, which, though of small number or weight, was still best calculated to conciliate and steer between parties. M. DUPAURE is the natural head of such a party—a statesman known for his talent, probity, and moderation, and also known to have avowed his resolve to stand firm by the republican constitution. Tte success, how ever, of such a ministry is improbable, for certainly the ideas dominant in the elections arc extreme, and the parties which they represent will but too naturally rush to collision, and cannot in the natural course of things be likely to consent or bow to the arbitrage of a middle party, till their zeal has been blunted and the first burst of their passions exhausted. In France, however, rulers and politicians are but too mach inclined to appeal to public opinion, inde pendent of parliament or chamber. And there are many who whisper to Louis NAPOLEON, that as both populace and army have been corrupted by peace, the only care for socialism is to fling the country into war. We neither believe in the For or in the success of this war party. For the socialists have forsworn fighting, and the French constituency will pay no taxes for any cause, that even Lott. NArotEox could find for his banner. General BEDEtt: is the chief man of the war party, and it sufficiently bespeaks its sagacity that it has for its leader a man so null. General BEDEAU, if his coun sels prevail, will be the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the new cabinet. General LAMORICIERE was sounded as to his willingness to take office. His answer was, that he would only accept office as one of a liberal ministry, and of a ministry determined to maintain peace; such being, in his opinion, and in that of General CAVAIONAC, the true interest of France, and the great necessity of the world. THE representatives of the monarchs who have met in congress at Berlin, with Von RADOWITZ at their head, have determined on a reline of the Frankfort constitution, with one or two not very considerable alterations. Their sovereigns, that is, the Kings of PRUSSIA, SAXONY, HANOVER, and, it is believed, BAVARIA, unite in proclaiming on the 25th this constitution for Germany. The chief alteration is the doing away with the suspensive veto imagined by the Frankfort Assembly, and the substitut on for it of the absolute veto. The other alteration, made in deference to the Kings of GERMANY, is the salastitution of the title of Reichs Schirm Herr, or Lord Protector, for that of Emperor. Much as we blame the King of PRCSSIA— much as we condemn his recent policy and execrate his ministry, we still would be glad to find that this new imperial constitution would satisfy Frankfort, and put a stop to those republican uprisings and re- eistance, which convulse Baden and the Palatinate, and seriously meaace the peace of Germany. Such a cabinet, indeed, u that of Berlin, and still more such a one as that put together by the Archduke JOHN, is quite sufficient to provoke the patience even of a German public. But as they could be expected to co-exist with no constitution whatever, the issuing of one presupposes their dismissal. The new imperial constitution will immediately be proposed for the acceptance of the Frankfort parlia ment, from which, fortunately for the success of the scheme, the Prussian deputies have not withdrawn. The act recalling them, issued by BRANDENBERG, at the very time that Von RADOWITZ was con cocting the imperial constitution, shows what queer and contrary eets of political doc tors and ideas the King of PRVSSIA keeps in his palace-closets. Should the Frankfurt parlia ment accept, the peace of Germany will be restored, for the republicans themselves would then not be hft an excuse for resistance. A new parliament would forthwith be elected and convokc d to Frankfort ; and with a liberal and moderate minister, like Von GAGEBN, to conduct that portion of the German government which is imperial, the chief aim of the revolution would be attained, being the unity of the country, and what is more important, its parliamentary unity. Austria gives its fall assent, and thereby finally ex cludes herself from all interference and control in the affairsof imperial sad federated Germany. This is what we have long untended for as equally requisite and advantageous both for Austria and for Germany, the career of the former, if it survive, being henceforth irrevocably Selsvonian, whilst Germany, concentrated in its national interests, will form the true bulwark of central Europe against ambition, or encroachment, mi litary or political, whether it proceed from the bar barism of Russia or the overweening civilisation of the French. THE COURT. The Queen held a court and priyy eouncil yesterday after- noon at Beekiogham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Henry, brother of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, bad an audio:lee of her Majesty. The prince was coeucted by Viscount Palmerston. 0.0.8., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Fcreign Affairs, and introduced by Colonel the Hon. Sir Edward Cost, H.C.H., her Majesys Muter of the Ceremonies. H sroyal highness was attended by Count Schimmelpenainek, the Netherlands Minister, and the gentleman of his suite. The privy council was attended by his Royal Highness Prinee Albert, the Lord President, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Department', the Chancellor of the Ruhequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Presi , leot of the Board of Trade, the P;osids at of the Board of Control, the Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, and the Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert. The Hon. William Bathurst was the clerk of the council in waiting. Her Majesty was attended by the Earl of Morton, lord in waiting, the Via-Chamberlain, the Comptroller of the Household, the Marquis of Londonderry, gold atkk in wait ing, and Sir C. Bowater, groom in waiting. The Queen gave audiences to the Marquis of Londonderry and Lord John Russell. The Count de Neuilly, the Duke and Duchess de Nemoure, the Prince and Princess Augustus et Saxe•Cobourg Gotha, the Duke d'Aumale, and the Prince de Joinville paid a vieit to the Queen yesterday morning, and remained to luncheon with her Majesty and Prince Albert in Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Mr. 0. E. Anson, presided yesterday morning at the Council for the management of the Duchy of Cornwall, at the Duchy-oißce, Somerset-house. _ _ _ Ha !loyal Highness the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majesty yesterday. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal, took a drive yesterday in an open carriage and four. The Equerries in Waiting, General Wemyes and Lieutenant-Colecel the lion. Alex ander Gordon, attended on horseback. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the performance of the German 0, era with their presence last evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desert, Hon. Miss Macdonald, the Earl of Morton, General Wernym, and Lit u tenant-Calonel the lion. Alexander Gordon. The Coont de Neuilly, the Doke and Dachas de Nemours, and the Prince and Princeu Augustus of Saxe Cobourg Gotha visited her Royal Righneu the Duchess of Kent, yesterday, at Clarence Rouse, St. James's. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended • Bre-- Lady Anna Maria 1); and by Lady Augusta Bruce, ....ady Ann. _ ../awson, Lord James P. Murray, honoured the performance of the French Plays with hcr presence yesterday evening. A deputation from the Lanlashire and Yorkshire Railway, including Mr. Cobden, M.P., ' Mr. Henry, M.P., Mr. Brotherton, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P. and Mr. Green all, M.P., had an interview with th e Commissioners of Railways, yesterday, at their oftloe in the Board of Trade. Sir John I'elly had an interview with Earl Guy en Saturday, at the Colonial.office. Mr. Darbishire had an interview yesterday with the Commissioners of Railways on the Lancashire and York shire Railway Bill—equal rating clause. Ma. JoHN PARKER, M.P. for Sheffield, one of the joint secretaries to the Treasury, hes been appinttd to suc ceed Mr. Ward, as Secretary to the Admiralty. Mr. Parker filled the saw, post from Jule, 1841, to the acceslion of Sir lt. Peel to ollic.l in September of that year, when ho was amended by the Right lion. Sidney Norbert. OPERA COMIQUE, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Tier Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent honoured the per formance last evening with her presence. Her Royal High ness was attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Lady Maria Dawson, lion. Miss Dawson, Baroness de Speth, and Lord Jame. Murray. There were also present the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas, the Marquis of Douro, the Mar chioness of Downshire, the Earl and Countess of Chesty field, the Hon. Mrs. Anson, the Marquis ILsilio, Count Dsda feldt, Lady Cecilia Deaseldt, Lord Cranborn., Lord Diande• ville, Lady Quentin, Sir o,orge and Miss Talbot, Sir Henry Webb, Sir John Lyster Kaye, Lady and Mira Macdonald, Baron Eugene de Gerlsche, Hon. CI. Barrington, &c. DEATH OF ADMIRAL SIR NIBISRTT WILLOUGHBY, K.C.H.—This offi.wr expired on the 19th inst., at his resi dence, in Montagu-shrect, Portman square. Ile was son of Robert Willoughby, Esq., of Aptly house, Nottingham (of the family of le.rel Middleton), by his secoLd wle, the daughter of James Bruce, E q., of Witter Kinlocb, grand. daughter of Sir E 'mud Gime, Batt , and maternally de scended from the first Eon of Lsuderdale. He was born in 1777, god entered the navy at the tender age of thirteen; became a lieutenant in 1803, and a captain in 1810. In 1841 he was appointed naval aide. de camp to the Queen. He was also placed on the good servi.e pension list, and likewise received a pension tor wounds received is action. He received the honour of knighthood twice—first, from George IV. for his naval ler sista ; and secondly, from William IV., on receiving the Ouelphic order. He is said to be the only British subject wh ) has received these honours. The deemed was engaged in upwards of forty sharp encounters with the enemy. .He was a lieutenant of the R./yal George, and was in a boat of that ship which miraculously escaped destruction in saving the lives of a part of the crew of the Ajax while on fire. GRAND ENTERTAINMENT TO THE BISHOPS AT THE MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday being the 148th anniversary of the So ciety for the Pr.pagation of the ()Jape' in Foreign Peru, the members and friends of the institution, with the bishops, the clergy, the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and sheriffs attended divine service in the afternoon in St. Paula Cathedral. In the evening the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayores. , gave a banquet at the Mansion-house, and were honoured with the company of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Miss Sumner, the Bishop of Lsadon and Miss Blomfield, the Bishop of Llandaff, the Bishop of Worcester and Mn. Pepys, the Bishop of Oxford end Mus Wilberforce, the Bishop of Lichfield and Mrs. Lonsdale, the Bishop of Carlisle and the Hon. Mrs. Percy, the Bishop of Hereford and Mrs. Hampden, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Bishop of Ripon and the on. Mrs. Langley, the Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop of Manchester and Mrs. Lee, &c., &c. The LORD MAYOR, in rising to propose the first toast, said,—l esteem it a high honour and privilege to be per mitted to entertain in this hall the bishops and other digni. taries of tho church upon this important anniversary. I. am aware that it is not usual to offer many observations in pro posing the toast of the Church and Queen, and I shall ad here to that rule ; but it is impossible en such an ooca lion to refrain Irem making allusion to an incident of 'recent occurrence, which although greatly to be deplored, tend' in no slight degree to produce the most 1111 e• guivocal evidences of loyalty and love to the sovereign. (Cheers.) It is quite impossible to conceive anything stronger than the mingled feelings of anxiety and indigos tion which burst forth in the metropolis upon the intelli gence that an attempt was made upon the life of her /dainty. (Loud cheers.) At a time when all the conti nental nations are straggling in political convulsions, this country enjoys • complete immunity from any of those dreadful conflicts to which the rest of Europe is subjected. It would indeed be matter of regret if the lustre of the cha racter of a people so distinguished by their attachment to the laws were dimmed by an act against the person of the sovereign. (Ctsers.) His lordship then proposed " the Church and Queen." (Loud cheering.) Tne company immediately rose, and drank the toast with the utmost enthusiasm. The LORD MAYOR then proposed " The Health of Prince Albert and next, " The Archbishop of Canter bury, sad the Society for tae Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign parts." The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, in returning l thanks, commented upon the magnificent hospitality of the Lord Mayor, and then proposed the health of his lordship ; many of whose constituents were, he understood, present, and, no doubt, delighted to witness the strong feeling of I respect and regard which had been expressed by the company for the thief magistrate of Londen. (Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR proposed, " The Bishop of London, and the Bench of Bishops." He spoke of the severe duties which the Bishop of London had to perform in hit immensely extensive district, and of that prelate's never-failing exert dons for the die usiun of learning. The Bishop of LONDON returned thanks in an admir able speech, which he delivered with great spirit. He bad, he slid, been happily connected with the City of London fur 29 years, in eight of which he had served as parochial clergyman and in nearly 21 as bishop, and he rejoiced in the co-operation which his and hit brethren's exertions in the great charity they were commemorating had met with from the magistrates of London. Ships, colonies, and coin mores were the great instruments by which the propagation of the gospel must be ucompliehed, ro that the union of the City of London with the spirit of that charity was indispen sable to its saccess. (Cheers.) The Archbishop of CANTERBURY proposed the health of the Lady Mayoress. Several other toasts followed. Meet of the company retired at an early hour from the festive board, and all appeared to ho delighted with the really magnificent ntertainment. At the annual meeting of the above sociey, held yetterday afternoon, in St. Paul's Cathedral, the report of s . the society was read. It stated that in consequence of the distress in !reined end in the Highlands of Scudand in the year 1847, the emigration from this country reached the un precedented induct of 238,270 persona. Of these, 142,164 went to the United States, and 116,000 to the colonies. To make provision for the spiritual welfare of evoi one half of this multitude, suppoirg that proportion to be of the Church of Egghead, would require twenty-five mis sionaries annually. The colonies, however, had lolg outgrown the spiritual acconmodation provided for them, the population increasina with 6i.eular rapidity. and an addition of from 60,0r0 to 70,000 settlers being yearly made to it. In 1815 a collection wu made foe the society under a royal letter, by which, in addition to the ordinary income of 49,4721, the sum of 31,3991. was realised, making a total of 63,8701. IZ 1148 the income amounted to 66,4111., and In 1817 to 44,8161 , giving for the three y ears a tool of 184,0961. The expenditure an 1845 wan 65,6961 ; in 1846 it reached the sum of 61,6541. • and in 1847, 63,6624., giving a total of 190,8121. for the thre e pure. The deficiency was made up by the sale of the society's stock. The estimated expenditure for the next three years wan 62,0001. a you. There were 413 missionaries directly or in directly connected with the society-46 in Canada, supp3rted from the interest of the Clergy Receipt Fund ; 17 in Nova Scotia, supported ly parliamentary grans for the lifetime of the recipients; and others in WlOlll places. In addition this, there were upwards of 300 divinity students, de., Dried by the society. BRITISH AND FOREIGN ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. Last evening the annul meeting of the Mende and supporters of the above society was held at the gall of Com. merce, Threadneedle-street; 0. W. ALEXANDILIN Esq. (this treasurer of the society), in the chair. The tenth annual report of the committee commenced with a statement of the number of slaves at present exist ing in professedly christian and civilised nations. Making allowance for manumissions which may have taken place in the South American republics, the folliwing was stated to be a correct estimate of the number of aura In the tot- lowing countries: United States Brazil Spanish Colonies. 900,000 Dutch Colonies South American Republics 140,000 African Settlements .. 2,500,000 Som? of the revolting proceedings connected with the ini quitous and oppressive system of slave traffic were ns at de tailed, and the substance of a tabular statement which was laid before a select committee of the House of Commons ap pointed last year to consider the test means of providing for the final eistincien of the slave trade, was set forth, from which it appeared that the total number of Africans im ported into Brazil during the last 40 years has been 1,801,800 ; into the Spanish colonies, 1,446,027 ; into other countries, 682,000 ; mortality during th e middle passage, 1,121,299; and captured by British cruisers, since the year 1819, 117,380; making a grand total of 5,018,506, as the vic tims of the foreign African olive trade from 1807 to 1847 1 The report of the select committee of the House of Com mons was then given at full length, and was followd by a brief account of the proceedings of the society itself in rela tion to the slave trade. The memorial presented to Lord John Russell by the Committee, is 1846, was cmbolied is the report; and the committee congratulated the meeting upon having in that memorial established the principle " that, so long as slavery exists, there is no reasonable prospect of the annihilation of the slave-trade, and of extinguish ing the sale and barter of human beings; and that the extinction of slavery and the slave-trade will be attained most effectually by the employment of thou means which are of a moral, religious, and pacific character." The committee of the society cubs( quently felt it to be necessary to call the attention of goserement to the power which it possessed over Brand tend Spain, by virtue of its treaties with them, b rah in relation to slavery and the slave trade. They therefore presented their case in a memorial to Lord Palmerston, in October last, and re-asserted the right of this country to demand the liberation from slavery of all Melvin who, co.itrary to the stipulations of treatlts and to municipalmunicipalliw, bud been illicitly and illegally introduced into their te refresh s and colonies respectiv.ly. Now it must be obvious that if, in this way, an attack be made on lira sdian and Spaniels slavery, se as to render insecure the tenure by which slaves are held, the whale syetem will be shaken to its basis, and the slave trade will fall with it. The ['abject of Coolie immigration into the British West India colonies was next entered upon, and it was stated that during the years 1844, 1815, 1848, and 1847, there were in troduced iota Jamaica, 8,932 Coolies; Brineh Guiana, 12,177; Trinidad, 6,734: total 25,843. No Indian immigra tion took place into Jamaica during 1847 and 1848, on con sequence of the House of Asiembly of that colony having de elided to provide the nee...nary funds for that purpose; but it was understood that government had authors, d the further introduction of 5,000 Coolies into British Guiana, and 1,000 into Trinidad, in 1847.8. The wrote scheme of Indian immigration into the West Indies was denounced as a costly failure, and attended with a mortality so frightful, and immoralities so degrading, as to involve all parties in disgrace who have pa tieipated in it. I) dells of tha African end Mad, ira emigration and of Coolie emigration to Mauritius were given at conside noble length,and respecting the mortality of the immigrants it was sinful that every elms of immigrants has suffered—the Portuguese most, next to them the Coolie', and next to them the liberated Africans. They have died from disease, nestled of hospitol treatment, want of proper shelter and care, not by hundreds, but by thousands; and the accounts which the committee continue to receive of their wretched and suffsring condition is truly heart-rending. The committee then set forth briefly the proceedings of the abolitionists during the year in the United States, France, Spain, Denmark, Portugal, Brazil, Northern Africa and the Levant, and concluded by express ing a hope that the spelt ty eaculd continue to experience public sympathy cad support. From the 'statement of the accounts nppended to the re port it appeared that the total receipts teem ell sources were 1,4301., which had been expended in promothet the objects of the society, with the exception of a balance on hand of 541. Be 3d. The society, however, had incurred liabilities; to the extent of 1501. Dr. ALDER seconded the resolution, ani the r 'port was unauimously adopt. d. Mr. H. CLAPP, of the United States, moved— " That this meeting, in reviewing the progress of the antislavery cause ouring the past year, would record their grateful acknowledge'. nts to Almighty (lid for the measure of SUCCPIS which has "Vended it, and weedd express the high est,rfaction they :eel that the National Assembly of France have confirmed the decree of the provisional government, by which comple'e emar.cipation has b-en a. cured to the en slaved population of the several colonies mid dependencies of that great country ; that the King of Denmark has pro- claimed liberty to the Degrees in long held in bondage in the Danish West India colonies ; and that several of the great nations of Europe, in the constitutions which they have pub lished, have provided teethe emplane ab slition of serfdom, and the civil and religious equality, before the law, of all classes of the population. That this meeting further rejoices in the striking pregreao of the anti-slavery cause in the United States—in the open and decided expression of public opinion —in the dnelepment of right sentiments and feelings among large portions of the community—iit the deeper interest felt by several sections of the American church on the question et slavery and its abolition—and in the discunione which have arisen in relei.n thereto, in many of the state legiels. turn and the balls of congress, and would cherish the hope that the abolitionists of America will net abandon their posi tion as the pioneen of freedom, bet will constanby and per severingly maintain the right of the whole slave population to immediate and unrestricted freedom." He congratulated the meeting to the advance which the anti-elavery came had made in the United States during the last year. The slave now found friends in quarters where ones he could meet none but enemies, and people in the highest and lowest walks of life were now joining hands for the common object of sustaining the abolition movement.. The blessings of education were now freely imparted to the children of coloured patents, and they showed that they were quite capable of appreciating the benefit thus extended to them. Rao. B. CAREY seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Rev. A. CRUMMELL, en episcopal clergyman, from the United States, prepared the next resolution, which was to the following effect : " That, in the opinion of this meeting, the abolitionists of this and other countries have a great per-onal as well as col lective duty to perform towards the suffering and oppressed millions of mankind, now in bondage, in abstaining, as far as practicable, from the use of slave-labour produce, and in the encouragement of that alone which is grown and manufae tend by the comrensated labour of freemen; they would, therefore, earnestly recommend all the opponents of slavery to set a worthy example themselves, and 109 to encourage and suetiin every well.directed effort to induce the public at large to adopt similar views and practice, as one great and powerful means for securing the universal abolition of slavery." Rev. Mr. DOVE seconded the mckn, which was adopted. Mr. J. STUROB proposed the following resolution : " That this meeting have learned with the de-pest regret, that, notwithstanding the long-protracted and caktly efforts of this country to suppress the foreign African elnoe trade by armed cruisers (a system which this meeting condemns), it is still curled on to an enormous extent, and under circum stances of aggravated a tr ocity and horror. That this meeting attribute this fearful state of things chp fin to the continued bad faith of the governments of Brazil and Spain, who, con. trillry to the solemn stipulations of their treaties with this country and their own laws, suffer it to be openly and flagrantly carried on. That this meeting, while thty continue to affirm the right of every human being, now held in slavery, to unconditional freedom, are of opinion that the BMA government should fnthwith make a formal demand on the supreme authorities in Brazil and Spain, for the liberation from slavery of all Africans who, contrary to the said treaties, have been illicitly imported into their t• rritoriss and colonies respectively, and that, should they attempt either to evade the demand, or procrastinate its strict fulfilment, it be notified to them that measures will be taken to exclude their produce from the British market until such time as slavery itself shall be &ha 'Jibed throughout their daminione." The motion was secondekby Mr. M. VINBT ANT, of Haiti, and carried unanimously. On the motion of Bev. J. BURNET, of Camberwell, a reso lution was also adopted, pretesting against the governmental scheme for supplying the emaocipeed colonies with foreign labourers, as unjust in principle al.cl di moralising and in human in practice, and expressing reprobation of the laws now in force for restricting the just liberties of the immi grants and for coercing their labour. The usual compli men'ary vote of thanks having been given to the Chairman, the proceedings terminsted.