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the removal, as was undentood, of those objections ; that the amendments when printed, instead of re moving, greatly strengthened and increased their ob jeci:ons ; and that Low, when the PtiOlo Minister Inds a measure so objectionable cannot be cirried without a serious and determined opposition, to has tartar d iouud and th: enteced t hat, un less the opposition bs withrbawn, be will place the bill in that long list of =ISOM which ministers will Lot make any effort to VW. Such, in brief, has been the course pursut d this session by Lord Joust Russet'. of Church Reform. It is one which has eirtainly the merit of having peralys d the exertions of the church refo.mers in the L ook ; not, hower.r, by good measures—not by skilful tactics, nut even by political management—bat simply by bed faith. Toe goveromeut allured their seetldecate first by a b.ll which, thou o h sadly bin& eat, had nevertheless the principle or seeds of preston in it; then procured their acquiescence in arlay, by promising a thorough discussion of it, until time ono public business were at issue, by listening favoemble to their auggestions fur its improvement; afterward- gave notice of amendments which they were tutigl.t to believe trotted be their own; next pro duied &Aerations, which mode a measure originally' bad a great deal worse ; and now attempt to throw cm those they have thus deceived the re-ponsibility of *neither Ninon cles'ng with ut the smaArat modicum of reform. Saco cunduc: is not, we repeat, skilful ; it does nut deserve the description of tactics; it is nothing more ucr 'coo than a chscieditable piece of faithlissress, which wit sooner or later recoil on its practisers. But the case spinet the present government does not re to here. Ito their teem sion to power they found eublte opinion—tiiat iv, the opinion ef all who hail stud ed, nick stood, or were interested in the subject—made up on the necemity of attiring the composition of the Ecclesiaatie_l Commeniom Whilst in oppositi in, no one had denounced that body ISMS! loudly than Sir Geonoe GREY, himself a COW minim.' r ; and to some alteration hot he and Lord, June stied decks c )(undue.' to the it politied friends.' In order, however, to ensure (as was said) suc cess to any masons for its improvement, it was arranged that the subject should be referred to a select committee; sad in 1817 a committee war, on Pile. EVELYN DENIPION's motion, spooieted. With its spit it tment mtnimerial boksliding commenced ; for no ammo was placed on the committee withent the approval of the late Primate, and on it wore five Ecclesiastic.' Conim'esimeis. It took, however (and from the members and officers of the comeniseior, too), a mass of most conclusive evidence ; in short, 0 c evi dence in favour of a great charge was complete. It. 1514 ministers 'kcal*, still more afraid of the subject; and, in spite of the remonstrances of the 'cattalo church rt f owes, they insisted on the re-appointment of the cominitt e. It was rc-appointel; sod this session, toe committee mods a rtipurt on the evidence, it had takes. Tee report was indeed a compromise— the cheich reformers not premiog their e xtren e opi nions—but leo strong was the testimony that the nomi nees of the chinch were obl:gad to give way; sad the repot, if not a siatos'actory, was, at all events, are moan m us one. Though it did cut, as it ought, te come- end a cowl tete remodelling of the eonimiosiue, it condi nailed it I FateiNhaildin4 enormities, the se parati mof the tp.scopil Ltd common fu nds, and other miller aim Ai; mad, f r the:r future c erection, it segoestad the oppeintmetit of three pail lay tom minion. re to neeiage the property entrusted to the adminiorai ion of the minmia•i :n. The i' te•itioe Anil ohject of the committee were to ploy, that pr le r'y substantially in lay Lands; to coast tu e a paid c office reloosible to parliament for it. sdm' istrut im ; and ti comic the responsibility of this edits: by m eking all its officers removable. Woilst iatrodecing tbio great improvement the committee were willing to I. ate the purely ecclesiastical bu.i mem to be de, ....id of by the Owed as at pe.sent com posed; and there the bishops are supreme. This espedoest, though not the best which could have been devised, heed at least oat advantage: in the lay ;rid eommissii.nera the public tad security for bate r toanagement of the i reperty ; in the siorimacy o' the bishops in matters welt siestical, the clergy woold have cootliente. A return to the original oompoition of the eocleoisitical commission, where the bishi pe were as five to eight Inynoen, would, with the addition of the lay paid outumimioners, have been much pre ferable to the proposal of the committee. Still their recommendatioas had the merit of simplicity, and would have been an obvious improvement : for as two of the paid commissioners had to be appoheed 17 the crown, sr ono by the primate; so the pubhe would have had a merrity of two to one. This recommendation Lord JOHN Ittlise:Lt.'s bill, as originally introdui ed, seriously damaged, hut, as altered in c manatee, effectually nullified. Its principle 010 viotoly was that of three paid COIUMiSUOU.TS to manage the propeety, Now, the original bill ap pointed only two rid commissioners—one a crown, the otl.er a ciiurch c onmissioner ; hut the altered bill only nominates one paid commis inner. Thus the pinciple of the committee's recommendation is frit- ' tered away ; in Lord Jons's hands it becomes "small by degrees and beautifully less." In ono paid com matinee r neither the public nor the clergy will have any erouri y fi.r the better management of the, pro perty. this coninissiont r will he just as much in the hands of the irremoveable officers of the commie sioners as all the lay members of the board now are. I And, as if this were not sufficient, the paid commie- 1 Mauer has to beat the mercy of an estates committee, where the episcopal iefluence must orevail. I Let it not b i thought that this is a light mitts? There is at stake an am nut of property involved which I under the worst management, will produce not less than 320,000/. a year, and which, on a ir detect, NUM ;meat, would certainly produce 400,0001. a ye sr For the improvement sod management of this pro perty, responsibility is above ail things required. But responsibility without remuneration is a delusion; and each is the complexity and var:ety of the pro- perty hi question, that its administration by one paid commissioner is a physical impossibility. Such an appointment is a mere avoidance of good manage ment and re.ponsib.lity ; it will amount practically to a confirmation of episcopal mismanagement. The present embarrassment arises primarily from the false step taken in 1810. In that year the whig government, to conciliate the political support of the I episcopal bench, gave the bishops supremacy in the Ecclesiastical Commission ; that supremacy hits be gotten all the jobbery, the palace building, the s me ntion of funds, and the other enormities we have so repeatedly exposed ; and the difficulty now is how to abate it. Up to 1840, the composition of the Ecclesiastical Commission was in the main satisfactory ; as we have said, it was made up of flee bishops and eight laymen, and all ISM removable. But into a statute passed in 1840 (3 &4 Vic., e. 113),tocarry out the fourth report of the commission, was slipped a clause (not recommended in that report), under which the present commission is composed of thirl7 l clerical against twenty . lay members, and all (their , officers included ) are irremovable. Aed since that ' year, palace building has been going oe. Now the bill, original and amended, of Lord JOHN Russell., shows how hopeless is the improvement of the com mission lust i l the episcopal supremacy therein be abated. Had the commission at present stood as originally composed, there would have been no difficulty in in troducing into it three paid commissioners, as recant- mended by the committee; but, altered as it has been by the act of 1510, Lord Jon Russcu, quails before its priesteraft. Church reform in 1849 is, then, hopeless ; hopeless, of the cowardice and fai thlessness of the go vernment. Whether the eau.° will be more enmes h' in IB.A, when the church reformers have learnt to rely on their own strength more, and on ministerial promises Is time will eteow. THE STATE Pusosnas.—Smith O'Brien and the other three state prisoners will be eent to Van Dimes's Led in her Majesty's ship Swift, ordered to the Pas& 'tabor.— Standard. OBSEIVANCE Or THE SABBA'fa.-011 Tuesday, the competitors for the Waking Men's Prize Essays on the Ob. servant, of the Sabbath, resident in the Leeds district, held a public meeting in the Mamie Mall of that town, to promote the proper observance of the sabbath. There was a very numerous attendance of the friends of the cause. J. H. Shaw, Esq., the mayor of Leeds, presided, mud several =Mis ters sad influential townsmen were present. The chains 's, in opening the proceedings, expressed the pleasure it a ff orded him in being able to attend, and having the honour to preside at the meeting. Hie worship then proceeded to take into consideration the various privileges which the Sabbath held out to men, physically and manly, setting Meth some of the ligaments which have used by the writers of the various essays, proving that the Sabbath was truly the Pearl of Days."—Several addresses were after wards delivered, sad resolutions adopted in furtherance of the object of the meeting. Vbe Court. The Queen will hold s privy clown to-mcarow (Febeey), the 2901 inst. ' at Buckingham Palms. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attenled b; Colonel Booverie and Limit -Colossi the Has. Alezander Gordon, west yeeterdey morning to the review of the 11th Muses at Wimbledon Comma. _ _ Their R-yal Mihail' • the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess Canaluidtte, and the Hereditary Grand Duch. es of Meek- Malting Strelits, visited her Maj. sty the Queen of the Bel giant yesterday at lltekinglinen Palace. Her Majesty the Queen, her Majesty the Quinn of the Belgium, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, honoured the Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster with their company at dinner yesterday evening, at their resitltneo. Grosvenor House, Upper Grosvenor-street. The Queen was attended by the Countess of Mount Edgecumbe, Lady•in- Waiting; Lmd Waterperk, Lord-in-Waiting; at d eut.- Culttual 11-en. C. U. Phipps. Equerry-in-Waiting. The Quota of the &Limns was attended by la Commas* van der Straten, Dame du Palcas, and blij tie bl.terkerke. The Priam wee at ended by Lord George Ltnntn, Wa Cite, and Culunel Bouveris, Equerry-in•Wmtinr. The Countess of Mount Editecumhe has succeeded the Countess t.f D4sut es tie Lady-in. Waiting to the Quem, and Lord Waterparn has Meted Lord Camoys in the duties of Lord-In-Waiting to her Majesty. S:r Francis Baring, Earl Grey, anti Lord John Hay had as interview wub the lkiht lion. H. billow:her yes terday a• the oft ss of the Board of Trade. The Duke of Buccleach had a large dinner party yesterdas at Montagu Howe, Whitehall. The Juiicial C.namittee of the Privy Canna' tat Yesterday and con.meneed a case front Bengal, hludhoo Bsondun Sundial r. Surrolichunder Si,kar Chowery (two appeals.) The caw wae adjourned for further hearisg. PRINCE ALBERT and the Prince of Wales intend v:si•ing Winchester on the 12th of neat month. The Prince Censers is anxious that his visit eball be attende t with as little ceremony as postale. His object is to we the cathedral. mill." and the numerous and interesting antiquitice with which the mints' of the ancient Bas •a kingdom abounds. TM Prince will take the opportunity_ of Ws vi,it to Win chester to present sew odours to the 23rd Regiment. Tne Dueness or ORLEANS, travtll ng under the name of the Comtewa de Villiers, is expected to arrive in E• gland to-ily from the contin-at, aid the Lids of the Tremory have directed the authorities at the pima of die emharkoti m in Low! on and at Dover to show Per Royol Rightism' the rtsko3 due to her mit on her arrival in this untg. ROYAL VISIT TO GROSVENOR HOUSE. Lest evening her NI sjes'y and the Prince Consort honoured the Marquis and fslarebiontas of Westminster with their compahy to a grand banquet and concert at Grosvenor Hoare. In the courtyard was stationed the full band of the R 441 Hose Guards and the only other at ruction that could p-at. *Orly afford the public any gratificition was the illumination of the valor of the mansius. TLe gardens m the rear of the r.sidence were tastefully illuminated at dusk by thou. rands of variegated lamps. The Duke and Dreher of Norfolk, the Earl Sneneer, the Arehtibtop of Canterbury, arrived shortly before 8, by which hour toe whole of the guests to the banquet had assembled. Shortly 'titer 8 the Queen and Prince Albert, acianuptnied by the Queen of the D.:liens. and attended by the personnel t' the inert In waiting, arrived. The Mai quis and .rehien. a. of Westminster MOM list Wart to welcome their engine vidtors as they alighted from the carriage. The Queen, vesting on the arm of the noble marque, followed by the Queen of the 11.1frisas, Prince Albert and retinae, proceeded at once to the saloon. Immediately afterwards dime r was announced as being windy, when tee lord party was ushered to the grand di e:legroom. Her Majesty sat on the right side of the noble hose, the Queen of its Delgians and Prince Albert sitting riaa-ria, the Mucbioseas beirg on the left of the Prima l:assort. In additon to these august personages, the fol. couldfuted the diorer ciree : the Duke sad Duchess of Norfolk, the Arebbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl Spencer,Viasount Herdirge, the lion B. and Lady 111:xsheth the lion. W. 11. and Lady Carolee L igh, the Earl thawvenue, Lord Robert rinse'. ' nor, and the f dewing penons attached to the per on of the Q 1 1 ,411 and Press awl the (a men of the Belgians C enter of M eat Edgetumbe, L.rd Waterpark, Colonel Douro* laird Ocoee Lennox, the lion. Cul. Phipps, and the Ciente.' of reader Stratus, and Major de Mnerkerko. were laid for 21 Fero:ins. The military band per formed during the entertainment. Her Majesty's health was the only toast drank. At half put nine o'clock the whiten invite.' to the con rut beg .es to esegr,gate, the court-yard thing by that time fully illsiainved by varb gated lamps arranrad along the ' anbitactsual outline of the surrounding buildings, and also in theca need the columns of the portico. The Quet s and the company at dinner entered the gallery from the sekron about 10 o'nloalr. The illustrious vi-icon wore e .nducted to ottomius appointed for their exclusive se oomeelation at the er.d or the t.a:lery, in which magnificent room tee concert was to oak- place. The Quinn and royal party having taken their seats, and the majority of the company loving assembled, the cone rt commenced, Mr. Costa presiding at the pianoforte. Toe vocal or/isles ceganed were Madame Peririuti, Madile. Marie, and signors Mario, Tamburini, and Lablache ; and the selection was made from the favourite operas of Marcella, Donistetti, Ittarini, Monoclinic, Haydn, and CIMMOM. During the interval between the second and first part of the concert the company adj wool to the dining room, where the most choice delicacies of the confectionary art were supplied. ' The Qu-ea and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the Queen of the Belgians retained until half past 12 Yelock. , The hbrquis and Marchioness escorted the illustrious party to the royal carriage when her Maiesty took leave. GRAND ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION HOUSE TO SIR R. PEEL. The sixth of what may be termed the state dinners given by the Lord Mayor during his year of office, and the third of the political reunion., wok place last evening at the Mansion.house. The party to whose kosour the present haoqut was devoted was that of which Sir R. Peel is the Dada, the two political parties previously entertained by his lordship being the rainisterialists and the protectionists—the liber do, supposing civic hospitaii y recognise this fourth party, yet remain to be feted. The dinner was served as usual in the Egyptian flail, where covers were laid for about 200. The dinner ended, and the loving cup—which was sent round with cue effect by the stentorian voice of Mr. Harker. the toast- master—passed The LORD MAYOR gave " The Health of her Majesty the Qu. en," which was drunk wiih the usual loyal honoun,l as were the touts of the " Queen Dowager, ' " Priam Albert," " Tbe Prince of Waits, and the other branches of the royal family." The LORD MAYOR nest proposed the "Army and Navy," and begged to couple with the toast the noble marquis (Londonderry), and en old captain of his own, Rest-Admiral Sir H. Hart. The al wools of LONDONDEItUT and Sir H. HART see*. rally returned thanks. Ise LORD MAYOR then gave " Her Majesty's Minie ten," which having been duly honoured, His LORDSHIP again rose to propose the health of " Sir R. Peel." He assured the right tor,. baronet that often as be had come to that ball, he had neva entered it with • more cordial welt sap than on the present occasion. (Hear.) When he (the Lord Mayor) entered public life as the Sherdr of London, it wee during the time that L wet John Reseal was Secretary of State for the Home Department, and though he hail from that time swerved from hie attachment to the noble lord, no man could pm. sibly entertain a higher sense of the public ser vices of the right honourable baronet than he did; though he had not had the adnntage of official or public interccurse with him, he was well aware how much the City of London was iodated to him on many occasions d the long time he had been connected with the government al the country, for the interest he had always taken is Its affairs. To speak of the merits of the right hen. kraut wunid be to detain the company with a history of the last forty years, for what tarot measure was theme daring the whole of that period in which he had net taken an active and a prominent pan? Hoping that the, right honourable baronet might long live to enjoy the respect of al parties in the country, and assuring him on all occasions, whether in or out of office, a hearty welcome in the City of Lsndou, he begged to propose the health of Sir H. Peel. The toast having been drunk, Sir R. PEEL nee to return thanks. He said, "My Lord Mayor, I th ank you most cordially, and most sincerely, for the very marked and especial compliment you have been pleased to pay me on this day, and with equal cordiality, and with equal sincerity, I return my thanks to this company for the friendly feeling and good will which they have mani fested towards me. My Lord Mayor, your kindness, and the kindness of the company, have. I assure you, made a deep impression on me, and have excited feelings to which I do more justice by the simple expression of my heartfelt gratitude than if I sought to give vent to them by espy, mons however ingenious and eloquent. Such expres.iote could amount to nothing more than the cordial enunciatii. of my thanks, which, in the simplest and sincerest form, now tender to you ; I feel considerable difficulty in addressing this company—apart from the kindness shown me I recognise the justico of the rule which excludes from a convivial meet ing of this kind any reference whatever to topics that are eskulated to excite party differences. I have stood in this ball on former occasions as the organ of a powerful govern ment : on other occasions as the organ of an opposition but little lees powerful, trying to subvert the government which then held the reins of Dower, and even then I carefully adhered to the rule the justice of which I admit, and now when I stand in a different position, when I am altogether aloof from party and political conflict—so far at least as any abject of personal ambition or any consideration of party intmest is concerned, I should be inexcusable indeed if I did not respect the neutrality of this board—if I did throw any impediment in the way of your indulging In that magnifi cent and unbounded hospitality by which you have b een a bl e to cod :et torthermen of all shades of politics, who, abju ring all party considerations, meet together on these occasions to do honour to the first corporation in the world in the parson of its chief magistrate. I shall, therefore, care fully observe that excellent rule ; and yet, my lord, you can hardly expect me, after the referencs you have made to the public acts of the administration with which I have been THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1849. connected, you cannot expect me to suppress the feeling which nee in my mind when I look around and see those whom you have done me the honour of associatirg with me on this occasion. (Cheers.) I see many here who were not concocted with the government over which I resided, but who were nevertheless prepared to wake, and who did make the greatest peroonal saer.fins to min their free support to that government from the invest and most disinterested motive s, even when they knew and felt assured that its days were numbered—(bear, bear) — but who, mating on the honest conviction of their own minds, submitted to any degree of obloquy and urjust misconstrue Mon of their motives rather than ebasden the duty they be lieved they owed to their sovereign and their country. (Hear, hear.) I cannot ace them, and—l will not say return thanks to them, for they want no expert's:on of gratitude from me for the performance of that which they felt to be a public dory—but I cannot meet them at this table, without placing on record my admiration of the principles which guided their conduct. (Hear, hear.) Still lees when I see around me those who were associated with me in the execution of public duty, who were homed with me by the tits of a common responsibility, and still more closely bound with me by the ties of unvarying reel penal attachment, reciprocal esteem, and reciprocal support —(cheers)—when I see around me these who gave me their professional Reisman as men of the highest eminence at the bar—when I see these with whom I conferred on questions of the deepest interest connected with the commercial and colonial paicy of this country— when I see the miuister with whom I was in daily commu nication on the internal affairs of this country, sad who brought to the performance of his duty the highest talen t, the greatest wisdom, and the most consummate skin in the administration of his department—when I tee my right honourable friend, to whom more especially the charge of the finances of the country de volved—one with whom I made my earliest political friendship, and with whom I have shared every vicissitude of political fortune, and who, by his financial ability and his judgment conciliated the respect of this great city, and in whose integrity the most unbounded confidence was always felt, and whose administration of the franc's of the Ciuntry eyes as eminently successful as that of any Chew calor of the Exchequer that ever held the office—when I tee on my right hand my noble friend, who wee charged in the most critical times with the adminis tration of the foreign affairs of this country—(cheers)—who while in °Mee gained the confidence and good will of every foreign sinister, with whom he had to enter into comoweication, and who gained for the coun cils of his sovereign in foreign affairs an influence never sur passed, and which was mainly due to his own personal con duct and character, and who inveriibly mode the influence he possessed subservient to that which was the great end of his militant life —the removal of all obstacles which prevented • good and cordial un derstanding between this country and foreign powers. and the miiatenance of universl peace consistently with the mot scrupulous and undeviating regard to the interests and honour of his own entatry—(hear, hear )—when I look on those around me I cannot hear you, my lord, give me at much of ere lit f r the sets of the administration one which it was my lot to preside, without acknowlidginet as I now deliberately do, that I believe no man who ever stood in the situation in which I stood as first minister of the crown had the same advantages in the sealoup, the faithful, and the cordial eupport of those who were united with him is' his duty as I had. (Hear, hear.) We had our d fferences of opinion,no doubt, and we expressed those dif ferences, as it was our duty to do—but this I can say with truth, that they for a moment interrupted the hu man, of privan friendship; and when the decision was taken the difference that had existed never interfered with the di rect and earnest execution of that which was decided upon. (Hear, hear.) lam bound, therefore, to admit that whatsoever may have be-inj my influence in public affairem far as feeling is concerned, my gratitude is due to thou with whom I was associated, and f may add that try respect for their probity, my attachment to them as private friends, has only gained strew:di by the interval which has elapsed since I resigned office. (Cheers) But you, my Lord Mayor, have sliuded to a moon earlier period of my connexion with the strain of the crown. It is now for' y yeses since my parliamentary career commenced, and my lot has been cast during a most impor tant and ful period of the history of the country. I look back on that which has passed diming that eventful time with mixed feelings of satisfaction and regret—of regret, bre 'use with scarcely an exception the tide of time has swept away every one who then occupied the chief posts in the government-almost all these great minds that were then awepieg the destinies of empires or commanding the applause of listening senators. (ll.ar, hear.) It has ased God, indeed, to spare to us one illustrious man. He remains, Like a great ota•mark, standing every flow, And twine those that eye thee ! I uttered public lite when Spain was occupied by the French army—by nn leis than 360,000 French a when, after the battle of if-levers, the Duke of Wellington retired from Spain, and withdrew a force of 30,000 British within the lilies of Torres Vodras. There was great disuse. and great sir pression felt in conet quence,and it was prophecied that the British army must evacuate the Peninsula, and a public proclamation was issued that Napoleon himself would take the command ie Spada, and that his crossing the Pyrennees would be the signal for the British leopard to rush into the sea to escape death or disgrace. Preparations wero made to withdraw him the line, of Tones Vodras, it neceseory— hut there woe one man who and who aided by the noble marquis near me (London derry), and the other martial spirits of the time, advanced from those lines, and the Bri ish leopard its career until the British standard was floating on the wells of Pan-, sad the independence of Eur pe wee won by the gallantry and intrepidity of the Duke of Wellington. (Cheers.) lle, thank God, is still spend to us. (Hear, hear.) And I am sure I only echo the universal sentiment when I toy may he long live to enjoy the maul of a grateful pe3ple, and may the country long witness the lustre of his declining years when his wisdom in the senate is scarcely eclipsed by the meridian splendour of his early days in the field. (Cheers.) During the whol e period I held office I had the advantage also of the eminence of that noble duke, and I cannot express in terms sufficiently warm and emphatic my sense of the great advantages which in civil lee the country has derived from his sagacious coun cils. (Hear, hear.) Having said so much, my lord, to none of those other subjects to which you have adverted, with one exception only, shall I refer to —but there is one subject of which I may speak without the chance of giving offence to any one, or evoking the slightest feeling of party—that one subject is Ireland. (Hear, hear.) Men of all patties and all political connexions are now feel ing the deepest sympathy with the misfortunes of that un happy country, and feeling the most sincere desire to admi nister ti her present wants, and to lay the foundation for her future prosperity. If the City of London can co-ope rate in this great object, it will confer on itself a credit which is already jusey its due from its past connexion with the history of that country. It is now almost two hundred and forty years since a sovereign of this country desirous to make a settlement in Ireland sought the assistance of the City of Loudon, at d invited their co-opera. Men in restoring what wee then ca led the ruined cities of Londonderry and Celerainc ; and if there be any authority which has seuen to look b ick on its c otnexien with Ireland without remorse it is the City of London, which has done more than parliament or proprietors to promote the interests of that country, and, forgetting temporary gain or pee -1 sent interest, has sought a compensation for such sacrifices in the permanent welfare of the district with which it was connected. I hope, after the lapse of 240 years, the City of London may be again able to assist in promoting the welfare of Ireland. If so, it will act now on new, on more liberal and more comprehensive princi ples. It wid not seek, as it used to do, to expel the na tives from the soil, but will rather seek to elevate their cha racter, to encourage their industry, and find permanent employment for them, and instil into their minds the principle of order, of respect for the laws, and submission to the cent stituted authorities. I hope such a plan may succeed, and that it may receive front the government the emconragement which is necessary. The boundaries of the City are mew eerily limited, itajuristictien cannot be extended ; but if by a useful connexion with Ireland it can encourage in the re mote districts habits of industry and selt-support, it will endear the English name to the people of that country, and do more to cement the union than any legisla tion. it is my deep obligation to the city of London, my respect for its past Course, and my respect for its present chief magistrate, which induces me to say, that I hope, under his auspices, this charitable work may laa undertaken, and that it may please God to prosper it, and to Ity the foundation for the future peens and prosperity of that country. The right hon. baronet then proposed the health of the Lord Mayor, to whose political independence he paid a T h e LO RD compliment. e LORD MAYOR acknowledged the compliment, and proposed the health of Mr. Bancroft and the Foreign Ministers. Mr. BAN CROFT expressed his gratitude for the hospita ble reception which the city of London had always gisen to the representatives of his country. The LORD MAYOR proposed " The health of the House of Peers, coupling with it that of the Earl of Aberdeen." The Earl of ABERDEEN, in returning thanks, assured his lordship that the House of Lords could never be indif ferent to the good opinion of the City of London, particu larly when expressed by its chief magistrate. The LORD MAYOR next gave " Sir James Graham and the House of Commons," which was acknowledged by Sir James Graham. The remaining toasts were "Sir F. nudger, and the bar of England," "The Mayors of Manchester, Liverpool, and , Tamworth,",which, having been acknewlelged,the company itoseiation I broke up. PROCLAMATION OP OUTLAWRY.—At the last sitting ! of the Sturiffe' Court, Mr. Hemp, the bailiff, made the usual proclamation.and called upon the following to surrend•r into the custody of the She• iff of Middlesex, according to the several processes against them, or be outlawed:—Philip Bow Daniel, at the suit of the Rev. W. Boleyn ; the Due de Mellott, at the suit of Robert Burt; Edward Thomu Delalleld, at the suit of Frederick John Francis; 'derma -1 duke Hut Hart, at the suit of John Sherpa.; Ashby Blair lisalewood, at the suit of William Francis Lowe; Gilbert Aussie, Young, at the suit of Onesiphonts Roberti' William Benham, at the salt of Edward Runde, ; Robert Clifton, at the suit of Charles Henry Rowel; Caroline Young De Latour, at the suit of Henry Richardson ; George Rstonsin, at the nit of Richard Bland Lucas ; Henry Brett Barlow, at the snit of Henry Charles Curlewis; Robert Martindale Clerk (clerk), at the suit of Jobs Pook ; H. D. Campbell, at the suit of Charles Humphreys ; James Alexander Thoms., at the suit of Thomas Howard ; Frank Whitworth B)kes, at the suit of John Wyatt ; F. C. Cope at the suit of Charles Sanderson and ethers; and Sir William Massey Stanley, Bart, at the suit of Joseph Knight and another. There were twenty-one other sautes in the last, but they have been before published. FAMINE IN IRELAND. A public meeting took place last evening at the Lendon T , B shol agate street, for the purpose of hear ing the statements of a d pu•ation from the Relief Commit tee to Dublin on the subj-ct of the alarmi.g distress now prevalent in !velem', and with a view to suggest measures los preventing its periodical recurrence. There was a very full attendance. Mr BRI G HT, M P. presided ; and in opening the prenteedinet, said, I have consented to occupy the enact on this occasion at the request of gentle man who are over here, members of the Relief Corea mattes of the city of Dublin, who are anxious to lay important facts before this meeting and the English pullie, with respect to the present condition of Irel end. I consented to be here with some reluctance, and I have accepted the posi tion in which Itad myself placed, because I am extreme iy anxious not to interpose the slightest obstacle to the pur potation has visited E ng l an d. (H ear , h ear .) Th e ob jectalienate of the benevol e nt an d exce ll en t o bj ec t w ith w hich is one with which I think every man and hts o d f e this meeting every woman must symptith4e ; for it is impossible that the meet perverse ingenuity can find fault with the aim of the gentlemen who are over here front Ireland, and who are anxious to enlist our good will still further in the cause of V.eir unhappy country. We are met for the pur pose of continuing that very long discussion which fur the last four or five years has occupied the attention of a large portion of the . people of this country, a discussion which his f o r its object the discovery of the true remedies for a condition of things exi-ling in a portion of this kinedum which is perhaps unparalleled in the civilized world. We have before us probably the most im• portent subject which the people of this country could be called upon to comelier. (Hear, hear.) We have a portion of the United Kingdom, brought now within some 15 o: 18 hour,' journey front the place where we are assembled, suffering a calamity which has been very aptly described by the present first minister of the crown as a famine of tne 13th century o:catring in the 19. b. (Hear, bear.) We have not a mere scarcity of food, not a mere time of commercial depression, not a mere failure of a particular industry ; but we have that which we understand literally by the term famine, extending over districts comprising a population of nearly four mil ions of human beings—(hear, hear)—and this famine attended, as famines always are, by a mortality of a most frightful cha racter, and by a desolating and calamitous evils, such as those who have not visited the country can form no adequate ides of. (Hear, hear.) And we see further that that for. tion of the population which is not stricken down by this mortality, or not so prostrated as to be prevented from leaving the spot, is rapidly fleeing from that country, just as people fly truth &city stricken with the plaguo ; and these is not an ocean which they are not now cruising, not a country to which they are not now hastening over the wide earth's cur. taw, as a refuge from the disasters, the sufferings—it may be, the death that awaits them, if they remain in the land of their f irth. (Hear, hear.) 'that this state of things lists in Ire :and, is, or ought to be, to all the people of the United Kingdom, a subject of mourning and humiliation. (Hear, hear.) We live in a time when public opinion exerts great influence on the eovernment—unit. r a couseito Won under which public opinion is able to tear strongly upon the government; and in as far as government is responsible for any of these things, we who are here aseernh'ed, and our fellow.countrymen everywhere,are to no en all extent respon sible also. (Hear.) And if, in past tithes, we have Leen ignorant of what was passing in Ireland, we have now little excuse, and after this meeting, we shall have none whatever, If we do not by every means in our power—whether by pri vate benevolence, by a better system of law in Ireland, or by a better administration of the law in that country-- do our utmost to remove this frightful evil which is eating iota the strength and happiness of the empire. (Hear, hear.) The existence of this rate of things argues either great miscoedact on the part of the Irish people, or great blunders and great crimes on the part of the imperial go vernment. (hear, beer.) This meeting is not ea:led for the purpose of blaming this or that party in connexion with this sorrowful question. We might throw blame upon many, and take some blame to ourselves, but it is far better that we should loss sight of the past, except so far as it should h: a warning for the future--(hear, hear)—and that, without reference to political, or religious, or sectarian differences, we should act as men would tact in a ship that was in darger of foundering, when the party squabbling which had repa rated them for a time should be forgotten, awl every man should he willing to work at the pumps as if for his on u life and thou of his corcp (Cneen.) The deputa tion from Ireland is composed of gentlemen with whom 1 have had no acquaietance before this meeting was j roposed, except by name. They are, I b,lieve, c.eunroeel politically with various parties, and re. lieiou.ly with different denominations in Ireland. They are not here en what may be called vulgarly a b aging expediti iHear, hear ) They came for a higher and more permanent object than that. They wish to Este distiecly, accurately, and simply what they know of the condition of large masses of their fellow-cauntrymeu ; end they feel awn% el that the wealthy and benevolent in England will be willing, at the opportunity may be alf.:ried them, to make sone contribution to that committee which they represent here, with the view of giving relief, iii cer tain districts, and to a considerable portion of the popula tion, durime that short period which shall pass between the present time and the full gathering of the harvest. (Hoar, hear, hear.) The relief committee w pursuing its tabours on a most admirable system. It Ms branch committees in a very large number et the distressed parishes, unions, and districts, in the south and west of Ire land; the parties connected with these sub-committees are generally the Roman catholic priests, the clergy men of the established church, gentlemen, a..d persons of every party ; because party differences, with all the best people of the country at any rate, have been swallowed up iu this great calamity. (Hear, hear.) They prove: t give relief especially to those of the peasantry who hood some portion of land, and who would have been unable, but for the exertions of the committee, in many c.ser, to cul tivate ir, and make preparation for the forthcoming har vest and the future year. 1 find, in the report of the Cast:awe relief committee, this statement of the mode in which they proceed : " First principle to be rigidly observed—no relief without week on their own holdings by those who receive aid from mu committee. " Second—We have divided the union, comprising three parishes—Castleber, Dallyheane, and Dreafty—into three districts, and have appointed three inspectors, one fur each district, who are obliged to give their undivided time and attention to this duty—namely, they are to visit, in the first place, the buiialiogs of each man see king relief. Tuey must make inquiry into hie cireamstarees. They are te report to the committee the result of this inquiry. If the committee consider the person an object of relief, toe inspector is to go next day and app Ant a certain task of work for the party for a fortnight ; and if not executed at the end of a fortnight, no further relief to be given. " Third—ln addition to this first inquiry, the inspector is obliged to visit each holding and village twice every week; and if the recipient of the aid of our committee is found ab sent from his work, without some great cause and sufficient reason given, he is disentitled to further relief. " Fourth—The relief is given in money in advance, and the scale adopted is—one shilling to every member in the family, young and old, for each fortnight. We coma , r in money in every passible respect more advantageous— less liable to abuse—less demoralising—and more econemical than in any other way. " Fifth—The committee keeps a register, which contains the name of every recipient of our charity—the amount each ' receives—the number in his family, and the date of the re ceipt of the sum awarded to him; and this register is open to the inspection of every man in the entire community. " The prospective good that will inevitably be the result of our plan, is beyond calculation. It is increaible what an ex tent of land has been cultivated in these parishes during the last three weeks. We have purchased at Drummond's, is Dublin, through our treasurer, Henry Murphy, EA., 11 cwt. of turnip seed, which has been, and is still being, dies tributed through the districts. The report of the Dublin committee shows an expenditure of between 2,00 W. and 3,0001.: at a later date it was up wards of 3,0001., which had all been subscribed within a short period. You will observe, therefore, that the com mittee is in real working order; its object is not an indiscri minate almsgiving, than which nothing can be more destruc tive to any people. (Cheers.) The committee know that the harvest will not be ready for two or three months to come, that the stock of provisions in the hands of the un fortunate peasantry is almost, if not entirely, exhausted, and that thousands must perish within the next three mooch' if assistance is not rendered to them. The object of this meeting is that we may know precisely what is the state of Ireland, and that through the public press this knowledge may go forth to the metropolis and the whole country. The Rev. Dr. MILEY, of Dublin, erne of the de putation, said, the obj.ct of their humble deputation was very easily stated. It was the same, in fact, by which the few individuals were actuated who first set on foot that relief committee, at whose request the deputation now appeared here. They hid not come with the vain hope that, by any efforts of their own, no matter with what zeal and activity they might be responded to, it would be possible for them to grapple with the difficulty, to cope with the misfortunes under which such multi tudes of their unhappy fellow-countrymen wars sinking. The chief object they had in view was to relieve the country, nay, their common humanity, from the stain that must have fallen on it, if a State of things so disastrous as that under which their power were la bouring was allowed to pass along its course, desolating these unhappy creatures, without even one voice being lifted to implore assistance, and give the world warning et the desolation they were suffering. (Hear, hear.) It was said that there war an indisposition here, even amongst the benevolent, again to subscribe for the relief of a famine occurring for the fourth time in the sifter island ; but it was impossible that that indisposition could be greater than was the indisposition in Ireland, two months ago, to acknew• ledge the hideous fart that, after having passed through three seasons of the most tryirg disaster, they were on the threshold of a fourth won* than any that had preceded. The relief committee had male every possible exertion with their limited means, and the citizens of Dublin had responded with edifying seal. Districts were formed, and each day on en ave rage brought in about 1001. (Hear, hear.) With the deep conviction that the benevolence arising from home sources would be quite insufficient, they issued query sheets to the clergymen throughout the south and west, to obtain information as to the numbers of the population in 1814 and 1349, the deaths front destitution, houses levelled, extent of I arable land, class of employment, wages, out-door relief lists, rations given, etc., so as to present the most aeourate possible picture of the condition of the people in the dis tressed localities. They invited alio information from per sons in Dublin from these localities. The result was the conviction that no power of language could 'adequately describe the extent of the suffering. The intelligence from every quarter of the afflicted country would have forced them on a visit to this country, I it had not been previously determined on. They felt that they must sacritice their pride, and suffer many trials of private feeling; but had the ordeal been ten times more difficult, they must have made the attempt, or they would not have acquitted themselves of the blood of those starving thou sands. (Hear, hear.) Where else could they go but into the heart of this gnat capital, whose benevolence was only quelled by the opulence of its leading classes? How else could they have rid themselves of a heavy responsibili• y, knowing that thousands were about to fail victims to the impendingfamine ? (Hear.) Connected as he was , in his tie rical capacity, with the Irish people, be would not Teuton to speak as he felt of their national character and virtues. Any testimony of that description would come with a far better grace from those who differed from that people and from him in their religion+ opinions; and such testimony they had which was shove all suspicion. At a meeting of the Lisa Amelioration Society, held at the Hanoveriequare Rooms, on Aug. 5,184 S, Mr. Fitzwilliam said in combating the notion that Ireland would not remunt rate an outlay of capital, that Irishmen were as capable and as willing to work as any people on the face of the earth, and quite as fit to occupy the highest positions—(cheers)—and he instanced the fact of many Irishmen being the heads of most respectable esta blishments in America. Mr. O. THO NIPSON, M.P., said that he was at a loss to discover bow it ha; pened that men who were so esteemed in other countries were so wretched and d. - spited in their own that they were to be found on the bench, in the lrgisla tun, and filling every honourable position that the country opened to talent, and that they had had a recent instance of one great man ruling the destinies of that coun try. Another authority was that of a moat distinguished statesman, Sir H. Peel—(sheers)—who said in a recent de bate that he never hod believed the doctrine by which some had attempted to rebeve themselves of their obligation te ener& Ireland, namely, that there wu any inherent indis position to work on the part of the Irish labourers; they evinced, he said, when convened with, • natural politeness and cleverness which showed that nature nevi r in tended.thi m to be serfs—that they were most tractable and patient, most forbearing under privation, most industrious, meat anxious to remit small sums to their friends for the purpose of paying their rents or keeping their families out of the workhouse ; and the right hon. baronet therefore repu diated the doctrine that there was any inherent sloth Or want of activity or enterprise in the Irish people. On one side of the channel there was monst r poverty, on the other enormous wealth, and to avoid a conflict b-tween the two was impossible if allowed to continue. If they did not aid that p iserty by the timely application of states manlike and indica means, it would grapple with the great presperiiy i n which this nation had been built up, and a horrible struggle would ensue. They heard of Irish misery already in their taxes; they beard of it that evening with thi it ears, it was felt in their labour mart—(loud cries of t• hear"), and if allowed to go on ill's would be but the mere rehearsal of what was to take place in future yearn. Common wisdom, therefore, dictated the necessil of putting an end to it; he asked the English people upon thatgrouud to come to their assistance. The Rev. Air. KING (reciter of Kilmore, one of the de putation) said that presious to the failure of the potato, the people in Ireland were comparatively well-fed, contented and happy—their only failing b.ing, if fading it was, an ex cessive eagerness to p.dsess land and cultivate it, not upon the terms of small payments, but upon the highest possible terms of rent, as much as Cl., 71., to tit, and even 10/. an acre being offered by them, end paid, too, for land on which they could till the potato, But the potato having failed, the people were left without food; starvation set i ; and the generosity of this country was immediately set in action. The repei.l of the corn-laws took place moat favourably for Ireland. (" And for England too.") He was sure it did. Hue some time elaweit bahre that law was felt, and intense sieff ring was endured, unit public works were set on foot. Those works, however, a:forded only a temporary and very incomplete relief, being often withheld for so considerable a period of time, that the consequence was starvatioa and death. To meet such curs, the private cur tributions of English benevolence were applied. In the intense cold of winter he had seen hundreds of person waiting for the money which they had rigidly earned, until 12 o'cleek at night, o: ly to be disappointed, and then they were of lute] to have recourse to him or others fir a 1, tic food to support nature. Out-door relief WAR then altogether unknown. hail it been the plan at that early period, instead of employing the eeesautry at pr.iitifleu occupations, to issue tick.ds in au;n:eutation of wages to the farmers, it wculd have been much more beneficial. The poor-houses were crowded, and those entitled to out door relief obtained it ; bet what was to become of those who had • quarter of an acre of ground: They had to give up their pro perty altogether, and their only sphere of industry, if they chrec to scth cut-door relief. Many did so. Many gave up their huhsrs. and burned them, is this hope of got lug out-door relief; but they were di.sisp tinted, sank under the calamity, tend in many instances died. Last spring he bought of persons, who were lying in the ditches, ti improve the rectory, and he offered 2.1. •day to the adultf, and I id. a day to the young,fearing that if he offered more he would be inundated with otlik rs, and the consequence even of this oiler was, that multitudes came to him arid worked like alaue, the chief employment being in carrying stones off the ground, which they did until the ground itself, owing to the numbers upon it, had to be twice dug bekre it could be sown. The CHAIRMAN here real a I. tter which he had received from his fr end Mr. Cobden, in which he expressed his regret at his inability to attend, and his sympathy with the object of the meeting. The Rev. Mr. HAILDIMAN (of Westport, county Mayo) said that he had one advantage, but a melarcholy one, over his two confreres In addreuiog tut meetieg, and that was, that he hail come directly from the very focus of the famine. Ab.ut a fortnight ego a respectably gentleman, in writing to him from this capital, said that the Engli.h people looked upon the sufferings of the Irish people as fabulous. Would that their sufferings were fables, and he would not be there that evening, so fae from his famine-stricken flock, to make • statement of facts plain and incontrovertible. If there was one amongst them sceptical of Irish misery, he would like to transport him for a few days from the gay and festive seems of this metropolis to the awful region from which he (Mr. Hardiman) had just come. He would place him upon the summit of one of those beautiful hills that chequer. d the face of his beautiful eouniry— for so she was even in her sorrow—and thence he would show him most unmistakeable signs of the devastating agent—the scattered Menet of the ruined villages, the stand ing gables of what was once a house, se if rearing still their heads to testify to the desolation of the land. He would lead him to the catacombs where the pe .ple were buried alive, he would show him places of abode for the living that were unfit to cover the dead, and to which they went after they bad been banished from their fireside, and its humble but happy ' , tenet, which encouraged them to patience in all their difficulties—he w iuld chow him mothers with scarcely a sufficiency of elating to screen modesty—he would show him children alteecether naked—he would show him, in! a word, that the misery of the Irish people was no fable, but • sad and heartrending reality. (Hear, hear.) They wanted to draw c'oser the sympathies of the two countries. Why should one portion of the empire revel in wealth and grandeur without contributing something to elle ! vista the unutterable woe of another portion ? (Hear, hear.) He had promised some facts, and he would state is as few words as possible some of the moat revolting revelations ever mede. (Hear, hear.) lie wan the priest of a country pari-h in the immediate neighbourhood of the small town of West port, in the county Mayo, which, generally speaking, was remarkable for its wretchedness, but in his pariah the very focus of the destitution caused by the failure of the potato crop might be said to exist. In 1941, the population of his parish was 11,419 individuals. Making a moderate &Row ance for the increase of population from that year till the latal year of 1844, when the famine set in, the number of inhabitants might be rated at 12,000. At the present moment, the two electoral divisions of which the parish consisted contained no more than 7,000 souls, being a falling off of fully 5,000 since the famine com menced. (Hair, hear.) Of that number no has than 4,000 wt re registered as recipients of out-door relief oa the books of the relieving officers of the district. In the discharge of his professional duties he had entered a but in which 18 human or ings &ere huelff.ed together, nearly all of whom were suf fering from dysentery, yet they had not a roof to shelter them or a blanket to cover them. They were all on the relief fund, but there was no medical aid provided, and of the 18 ell save three were disposed of in a very few days. He had also attended a man who, while engaged in stone-breakiog, had f illen 441 tho road from fatigue and hunger. Ile concluded by warmli eulogising the humanity of the gentl' men entrusted with the administration of funds for charitable purposes in this country, and expressing his belief that the cause of the famishing people of Ireland was safe in their hands. The CHAIRMAN said that the deputation having now brought their statements to a close, he would call on some gentlemen with whom the citizens of London were better acquainted to propose some retediesions for their consi deration. Mr. EWART, M.P. on proposing the first resolution, said that he was disposed to listen favourably to the demands of the deputation for relief, because they assured the meet ing that if the people received temporary ri lief they would be enabled to continue to labour. The hon gentleman con cluded an el , gut nt appeal in behalf of the inhabitants of the distressed districts by proposing the following gentlemen as members of a committee to receive subscriptions and trans mit them to the Corn Exchanges Relief Committee: H. Christy, Esq .10. W. Alexander, Esq., M.P. ; R. C obden, Esq., 81. P. ; P. Serope, Esq., D 1 P.; J. Trains, Esq., M.P. ; R. Godley, Esq., W. Bennett, Esq., W. Ewart, Eiq., M.P.; C. Gilpin, Esq., J. Bright, Esq., Dd.P. Mr. CHRISTY, in seconding the resolution, said there was no man more convinced than himself that the giving of alms was not the way to elevate the condition of the people of Ireland, but he could not shut his eyes to the fact that there was at present in the country an amount of destitution which neither the poouratcs nor any amount of private benevolence could meet. The resolution was then carried unanimously. Mr. P. SCROPE moved " That the interests of England, no his than Ireland, require that some energetic action he taken to elevate the condition of the Irish people, and enable them to sustain themselves by the exercise of that industry which has characterised them when placed in circumstances favourable to its development, and that we are convinced, that object can be materially advanced by measures which will remove the obstacles which at present impede the appli cation of labour and capital to the soil, and will secure to the occupier the enjoyment of the fruits of his industry." Mr. G. W. ALEXANDER having seconded the reso lution, The CHAIRMAN, on putting it to the meeting, said that one of those meuures which were before parliament for remedying the social 'Vile of Ireland was at peestnt in progress through a house where good bills were seldom made better, and begged to say, that whatever opinion he had expressed regarding that bill, related only to its condi tion on parsing the House of Commons, and by no means ex tended to an approval of the alterations made is another house, which would have the effect of greatly detracting front the value of the bill. The resolution wu then adopted unanimously, and the meeting separated. FINANCIAL AND lAMENTARY REFORM. MEETING AT HAMMERSMITH. Last econitur, the fret public meeting of the Par liamentary and Financial Reform Ass :ciation for the If AM. mersinith polling district, was held at the Albion Hall, Hammersmith. The chair was occupied by WintiAm Sing sow. M D. Thu CHAIRMAN commenced the proceedings by stating that a distinct Parliamentary and Financial Reform AMOCM. tine had been formed at Hammersmith, because, according tdlaw, branches of the London Avociati , n could not be en. tablished in the suburbs of the metropolis. The subject of financial reform had commenced at Liverpool. The mer chants and traders of that town had applied the principles of common sense to the income and expenditure of the go vernment, and by means of the different tracts they pub lished they had dune a great deal of good to the calve. CHARLES BROWN, Esq., proposed the first resolution, Teat the public expenditure of this kingdom is wane fully extravagant in amount; and that the taxation by which it is raised presses most unjustly upon the laborious cloves, especially in curtailing the means of employment." ARTHUR KENNEDY, Esq., seconded this resolution. Mr. OSBORNE, M.l'., supported it in a long and eloquent speech. lie said they were now assembled for the purpose of promoting parliamentary and financi ei reform, and he thought they ought all to take some credit to themselves for having brought financial agitation into fashion. No later than the day before, on a larger stage, but he doubted whether with a more intelligent audience, certain amateur actors, in the shape of real live lords—(loud laughter)— with en undoubted duke in the chair, collected at Drury-lane Theatre, for the purpose of run ning atter the " WilLu'.ths-Wisp " phantom of protection, which the people of this country had deed wed should no longer exist. (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) The present meeting had assembled 1. r a very different purpose ; and they had acted wisely and looking fur parliamentary reform first and financial reform afterwards, for very sure he was that unleu they had a fur ther reform of the House of Commons they might, to use a vulgar phrase, whistle" for financial reform. (Hear, hear.) It was very curious to look into the present constitu tion of that house. It appeared, fro m a cor rect analysis which had been published of it, that only one out of seven males was now repr. seated. Out of 6,700,000 male adults, 5,721,000 were taxed by the state without having any voice whatever in that taxation, (Cheers.) This of itself formed a good ground for some further reform in the house, but there were other rvu.ons in favour of the proposed change. He had been listening in the House of Lords the night before to the debate on the Jew bill, a bill which he grieved to say, because of the great principles at stake, had been thrown out; but he hyped the City of London would do its duty again by returning Baron Rothschild to the House of Commons, for that, after all, was the only way to open the eyes of the House of Lords. (Hear, hear, and loud cheers.) In the course of the debate the Bishop of Orford gave, as his reason fur not admitting the Jews into parliament, that to corrupt was the constituency of this country that you could not trust the Jews in parliament for fear they should buy theta up. I Loud laughter.) Will, if there were cons ituenriea so corrupt, and he (Mr. Osborne) believed there were a:me, what better reason club' have been adynne.d by the right rev, prelate to show that a further reform was recraired ? There was no such farce in the world sa to cell him (Mr Osborne) and other members of the House of Commons, " guardians of the public purse." What was the cruse? No later than that morning a return had been laid on the table of the )louse of Commons, which convicted these so called guardians of the public purse of public incapacity. They had all heard of the new houses of p other high-sounding phraseology, the Na v Palace Of West minster. (A laugh.) When the eld hoes.s were buret il down—a sort of reform in parliament by the seat—(laughter) —there was an estimate obtained of the cost of building new ones, and that estimate, respecting which ho cast no r, flee tion upon the architect, amounted to 707,1011.—a sum, one would imagine, for which a very handsome building ought to be ercc'ed. He had succeeded that morning in geit•ing the probable estimate for finishing thou houses—t f only totaling them, not including the furnishing, or the ventila tini of Dr. It, id; and that probable expense of finishing them amounted to 2,045,9231. (and mirk the wonderful ac curacy !) 164. 11 (Laud laughter, and cries of " Shame !") He staked his veracity as their representative that the fur nishing and all would cast 3,000,0e1t. of (he public money; and was not this an iustance that the House of Com mons was not the guardian of the public purse? ( Hear, hear.) The mierellaneons erimatas amounted to 3,1010,0001, and he could not tell the meeting what those estimates consisted of. They included travelling expenses of the King of the Belgians and other great people who did us the faveur to visit us, and then did us the favour to call upon us to pay the bill. They also included the cost of triennial trumpets and the exportation of a bishop to Hong Kong. (Hoar, and loud laughter,) The lien. gentleman proceeded at some further length, and amid much applause, to analyse the e,timates and the body• t, and concluded by observing that the reform of the House of Commons was a measure most loudly demanded at the present time, and most urgently required. Mr. T. J. SEARLE proposed the second resolution, as follows : " That the electoral system of this country is such as to place the legislative power chi, Ily in the hands of a com paratively small class, by mane et such corrup.ion and coer cion as debase the natural &trimmer ; alit so clean will con stantly and systematically prefer the public interest to is own peculiar butulit ; that t e natural effects of class legisla tion are palpable among us, not only in the financial admi nistration, but in the tendency artificially to create inequa lity of property, in the insufficient dispensing of justice, in the amount of crime, in the ro glect of education, the perver sion of charitable funds, and in the frightful misery of a large portion of our fellow•subjects ; and that these evils, the only real dangers of the commonwealth can never b effectual'y removed except by a full, fair, and free representation of the entire pee ple." This resolution was seconded by Mr. Thos. C. FLETCHER, and supported by Mr. F. GASKELL. The other resolutions proposed, seconded, and carried on tee occasion, were as follows : That the persons here present, duly impressed with the importance of these truths, and anxious to do their duty by correcting such abuses and averting such diem ri fr m tho state, fondue members of the Hammersmith Parliament , ry and Financial Reform Asenciation, the subscription to which shall be 2s. per year, or 6,.1. per quart. r, paid in advance, eethteinygnoonwtheenrelorlsttheYemedintivid,l;yaicn. eanvedrywhmicohnsthhatll that a h n o d leta m cordingly. 4 That a council be appointed of the association for the purpose of managing its affairs, with irfoructions to elect a business and other committees from their own body, and with power to add to their number, and that A. C. Bean be requested to act as secretary to the society. " 5. That the principles of the Metrop Often Parramentary and Financial Reform As ociutioa having been explained to the meeting, this society adopts them as the basis of its re forms to be claimed, and each memb r pledges himself to assist in any peaceful and legal manner in earryibg them out." The usual vote of thanks was unanimously accorded to the chairmen and Mr. Osborne, M.l'., and the meeting separated shortly alter 11 o'ebek. ROYAL EUOHLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY. Yesterday a public meeting was held at the Free ma.ons' Tavern, in aid of the funds of this society. The Rev. Dr. Cumming having taken the chair, Dr. CLARK stated that, through the instrumentality of this excellent society, education had been carried to the remotest pans of Scotland. Ile had visited many of the schools established by the society, and be was de lighted to see the progress which had been made by these humble seminaries. On the most barren moors, and in the mat sequestered glens, he had met with happy and well educated children; cad it was gratifying to ob serve the intimate acquaintance with the Scrptures which every child exhibited. The number of children under the daily care of the society was 20,000, and the cost of educating each child was only 55. a year. The total amount, therefore, that was required for the instruc tion of each child was V. sterling—taking a pert 4 of 4 years es the time usually occupied for that purpose. The funded property of the society was 5,0001., but this sum was entirely absorbed in the maintenance of the various schools already established. The Rev. NORMAN MACLEOD addressed the meeting, observing that the Royal Highland Society had !seen ins alit ence 140 years, and, previous to its forma' ion, the inhabitants of the Highlands and islands of Scotland were in a state of absolute barbarism. It was not until the year 17b0 that they could procure a Bible pruned en Gaelic, and this was in four large volumes, whilst tne price (305.) was so heavy that the Highlanders could not possibly purchase it. So secently as the year 1803 was the first Gaelic B ible printed in a form sufficiently small that a High- lander could carry it in his pocket. A vote of thanks was then paned to Mr. Bacon for his kindness in allowing the gratuitous use of the room, and the meeting separated. In the evening the anniversary festival of the society was held at the same establishment, the Duke of Aron in the chair. Amongst the guests at the principal table were Lord Drumlinrig, Major Adair, Major-Gentral De la Motte, Captain Charles Forbes, Sir J Am( s Clarke, M D., the Rev. Dr. Clark, Dr. Cumming, the Rev N. Macleod, &c. The usual loyal and patriotic toasts were drunk on the 00. talon ; and The CHAIRMAN proposed the " Army and Navy." Major-General De la Motte returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN then proposed " Prosperity to the Royal Highland School Society," and stated that amongst the many valuable institutions in this country there was not one which, with so small an amount of money, did such great and lasting good as that which they were now assembled to celebrate. Various national toasts were proposed in the course of the evening, and were responded to with true liaghlandhonoank Angus Mackay, the Queen's piper, was in attendance, and infused a spirit of nati mality into the mutant-IV -- ..,,,.., *I,/ 4 1 i f A i ; - ..- ;