The Express. — London, England, 1849-04-20 00:00:00

oido...art-- 0 the eammittee el inquiry had estedtted to the tier ON isms of the noble toed, sad bed adopted the ,he for me fall that all woe our. r:tid esalideras le tle• Irish shamus, but not oo yob es nail of ju noble friends. But mew he should .... 0 &mph, whoa le fad those very mosabom of the LT. - d ig:lse who had metaled to the gourmet's repeal had W▪ . soh th, sewage M vete wheel it ha that house. The grouted he mad ethers bed opposed the raft in ai4 was, as monsiares bed his. tereaght hunted In eenjusuloe wig width woad Freer nt the rerterremen of the emergency , i ., bed eelled it late *MMus. After Ws the Easter tor woe, sad what Unseat ties? The Ant gig r. well the aPPthallath of a polygraph in the . 0 0s, beating an 060111/ tramp, el h . ft by the Frji - representatives were invited to repair to go g aingetreet by a certain day, whoa th: y would let ye ll the prime miniitar. Ile had obeerent at an earlier of the weenie; that he taoudht this an uncoustith rortedind, and he still was et that opition. (A Mfr,) He Sep ated that it was unconstituta .41. To be pp, the Comeellor of the Exchequer had taken up new moil, sad had said that he, for one, was cot a-hrtned to Mr te the opinions of Irish members: but this was • very hia hied of d.hrenee that the aubie lord bad shown to the dgetation, and the confidence of the gutter meet was of a oi l p oho order. Bat he must maintain that it was on aggilestiorod in the minister to call together, in a rivets lip s a very large section of the Hum of Commie." for the perm of touter:Mg with them on public %minus. (No, ll,He knew what that alt eel murmur implied. The hos. beruet opposite (Sir J. Holthouse) n.ightsuy that, steedibi to the pedantic letter vf the constitution, it was not geosentutionat for • minister to consult • large body of gmbert of parliament on tame points of the public twirlers. psi had the noble lord time so ? There •an no similarity pima the mineeter connoting the leaden of pantie, et d osadvertisimg in the public papers that they were to togas 6s body to his See. The duit4 etion between the two SIS WAS elem. In the true constitutional touru the sisien t the the beads of pasties if they will app. rt him la thaw that question. In the present case the musts rel the sown 111111111(11WS h's opponents her the purpose of asking WOWS 1 of them. Tinian was a mashed a - tempt at Mains off from himself the respossiblity attathed to his Am (Hear, leer) - Thus was soneulitag very degrai log otke miteleter tallies( together 103 memern cd the House dCurnoce, and asking them to give him an idea, for if goy lit icit, he wool 1 not be able to co n tinue to rata But rt only was this an uncouetitn step, it was also • easy ineffectual one. )ew did the minister demean himself when he had go this body of one sixth part of the Host, of Commons Weld up in his private dieing-room. He asked them who. itas 1110, preferred being rued in aid, or tie pay an iucoas go, What was their reply? It use tidy Irish. Tney nit{, You hare sit as hen ; we are in for it, and now let us 6 • little basica& If yaw will tell us what you at. gulag ode, we will dead, wietlser we like it sr nu. Oh, Do o ld the Chant:elite et the Butte gem who was alt adward of seeking salvia , who felt a p ride is steering g i We impossible ler us to put ea alterative to yin ; it goy he indelicate for us to whisper to you in a private FLwhat are the taxing propesides of England towards Ws will tell y• is that Is war plans in this boom F pith cumbers tale the hint, "ad reply to the RIAU. lA . Wolk then, we won't la swer yea here, but we w i ll give en your rats is aid to the Rome of Commons." r bad . .Pildea ra tow gin. his re seems for myth.' the noble lord's =mg micoustitutiousl ; it was worse; it was in. tamps, : ti pti le, sad absurd. Be could imagine nothing more Miaow than the ne hie I ad o& ling together thin liN5 mew hp Rai tellivg thi at to open their mouths ant see what Clad eeehl I*-d them. The Liable lord hod provided two cabbie% gjaletere, a viva., secrmaes, and a reporter, Gm the wee -64-4•4 all far the pu-peee of ialormiag ell' deputation get he had nothing to tell Ikea, an i then he eumonnniestee, tip gimes of his rep aster, • bu led& to the owning pa, ere, bald " latest intelligence." The whole proeieding was is fillailan with the government measures. ludmity of pur ples us stamped upon all they did. Taein was a policy at hated es, funded oa • Krim of hints and eagle st i ins from f.* appellants—foe Imre was the Huse of Commons die. melte, is he third with of the seesaw, the very tame pro whim whica tom mooted on the first night, smell, like , be a small arm el money elleuld be meet tor Ireland. MY prospect did*, government hold out that there would is no Nguema, of the protein emergency ? He thought that the Some eirenmetaser e attended the persist demand brim advance of mosey that had chumetetised its junior kola. But they wet* ' , dog to have laid before theta not sly tempt. hresive scasturis for the relief ed !reload. he hicompretentable auseur e. Be was wean Y. to severe on the government, the Individual mem. hat of which, in their private capacity, were so egri- MAIL MOS were the minister' of dire soil ale Arts VOW ity. Whatever they did they must continue to govt ea. idle might be allowed to say that it they passed the MOM they lied so loog—too long—penstd wi.n regard to Wad, it was not only eartaim that they would lose the malltilesse, hat they would exhaled the patience of the sehay. (Cheers.) WSJ. Zlll3B5LL—Sir, it it hardly necessary for me to slime this mush tee with respect to the asswer which the hap 'artesian opposite has given to my tight hon. 'deaf, ham the hon. ge n t le man has not shaken use of the argil. ape what my right hon. Ideal brought forward in sup ra alike present proposition. (Ilea, beta.) My rid* hop friend stated that when the great was first rots pal the • readies to that great peatieded tae ly trim Seim. paths, an the Numb. r for Northamptonshire (Nr.l hied), that he pointed out that belated paid mmewhat nine thin i liven millions less is mewing' then kingl end, and *ethos groats did more harm than good in their comae dm. The hon. gentlemen he. ant shaken in any degree Ant otateatelt. kly right hoe. friend Metal that there was ea moral in Scalsad el what win certainly root • rate I. ad, hat which was &taxation is e inseminate of • delli Beef drop. Taut was a tax of 141. per cent , and it wee im plied on the emote.' is which distress esisiell. If ii be leas, thea, that the imposition of • rata of W. in the Mud on all the property assumed in Inland is a I iemtion of the iron, and tends to separate the two Olaalries. Ow name obiection is Hale to that act of podia. Wm which imposes in Scotland a rate of 141 on every 1001. ht ths ropy' of the Mitred distress (Hear, bear.) So lir this es my right hon. friend's statement went the hoe. Matsu has cortaialy done nothing to shake the validity Whinarguseint. • but the him. gentleman attempted to p Weed this , sad las chosen to give a narrative of wb .t his Marna daring this sender. Upon this subject it is nem. usy that I should make some observation, and the first I Rare to mike is, that though it is perfectly competent le the hon. gentleman to give an scoouut in works of fiction of the state of political parties is Begamei, and to pansy thou parties as he flaw and to invest events and occurrences which give ne edit rest amesemest to the public, sad very much into. Mitall these who read them, yet that it is not so fair in a riles of the House of Commons to coma and make • lath In parliament and comma a narrative to suit hi. own y view of what will produce en effect —( load th em kter)—to make aecurrenoes happen which never happen, and to MU the while course of events to that *lrk will be exceedingly diverting, while the plain truth hell eould give very little swerminment to the holm. (llesewed theme and laughter.) Sir, the first state ment a the 11111. gentleman was that the government ie - Aided to have • committee nem the Irish pear he, meaning that that committee shculd hems amuses for them, and that great discontent having been mime-4 in this holm at that intention, I went down to the annuittee, sod, is a " precipitate end agitated mature," ropoted a number of resolutions to the committee. Now hat is the bolos. (A laugh.) It wou'd make en admir able chapter in a roncatoe—e telling account of what had seemed in the year 1919 with regard to the Eagli.h Hoses il Commons and committees of this house ; but the hot hiprus to be something very different. (Chum) It se hipper. that I stated ie this house, when the 0011211 Si tee was daterained upon, thee it was my intention, as soon as it theald meet, havi n g bewaght together • numb er agendum* thoroughly acquainted with Ireland, to state the views of the government with respect to the amendment of the Irish Pm law i and anything more unlike going down in a bar tied and agitated manner, than going down f, or or five days Oa such a automata se tha, cannot, I think, well he Imo fled. Then the hon. gentleman says that, during the BMW recess, I put an advertisement In the newspopers—(a b&P)—asking the Irish w ethers to come to my dialog ing", and, shutting them up there that I asked them to mussel me, and begged their advice as to what should be hoe fur Ireland. (Laughter.) Now that SSMII is • very pleasant knavery in eceurate statement. I communizated ',Ph the re- Pesstahves of Ireland, and sated than to do me the favour to Wet me on • certain day, and when they did meet me I filmed to them, not to give me counsel with regard to whit I should prune*, bat seeds( that the hon. gentleman, Ag_ member for Kitty, had given police of the 11011011 Whisk he has proposed to night is such • spirit of taienees, ad with so mush paniotiim—rent only Irish, but cal laud retied nt—l asked them, "Is it your intention, WA. it not, to vote for that proposition of the hon. member for t Kerry,becease it being our opinion that the urgent distress in bawd ought to be relieved from extraordinary resources, if it is year opinion that these resources should be derived from to fund proved by the hon. member for Kerry than from a bats in aid, it would be far better that, instead of going to lha house and making counter propositions, we should he in fused of it before, so that then we ourselves should be rosdy to adopt the proposition of the hoe. member for ." (L cheers oud ch and counter cheers.) The house will !V„., en that when I last s; oke upon this subject , I said that II the bon gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire Must to my that he should vote for the reposition of the hie. amber for Kerry, there would not be any insuperable diffaveare between us, buena it that were really th e opinion til the majority of Irish representaUves, I alseuld think It bettor to obtain that rate er tax from Ireland in a way thigh ma, sot the mut pelatable,but the least disegreeable Imalsimpose mils on cffetudve manner. (Cheers ) I rya; kW think that is making that statement I did anything latileolltst'onal, anything tune/liven% with my duty, et Olt Cat in the least degree lowered any dignity which lbe rof the crown ought to posses (Cheer.) On ballealmay, es this wan a tax &Meting not **whole, bat WS patios 4 the United Kingdom, I think it was perfectly filhalaat with my duty to endeavour Misses the opinions of !awks were to be subjected to that tax. (Hear.) Well, Oro the hon. gentleman makes various slat/aunts in various t wo of hie 'peed. sad he says that nothing could be more °ens of rupee " than oar showing 'disposition to charge a Proration which we had laid before the haute. Bat t he I "' aaalluma, Itherelf, Witt/ some countenance to a ..,_ purpose, because, alluding to thou Irish members ...elated kW a rate in ail in committee, he WAS almost Is Wades at their polriotion for having three or four days girds voted ith a cor teary direetioo. If that d finale , lill ' sk amaaitalsoiss on their port were 112 admirable, omill is m i tiemies P at ijolici way ma pling some deference to Irish vas.. ad to their reprise stating/, cannot be so very --. ,1114.171 5a1a alum cur part. (Cheers.) With rupee. to this "We howeme. I mast say, that I think the hon. palls- Rua. t►e SIM her for Ciekirtstreeth, Nees seeeow het beyoroi the usual prival.pte of &bee, w►'s ►e aye thee Ile ►•opai ties i►r ea Minutes is • propoeitias las& epos Wet pe ewees. Mr. HOESMAN.—I said that it was not only based upon false principle*, bet that it might*. almost seam to be " based apes false pretences. (Laughter.) Load J. RUSSELL (continued).—Well. the hon. gewle men adopts the salvo of t. might seem to be." All I can say is that that " speemine " would be a very false wining ; would not be ithe real fact with regard to It, because eertainly say expectation is that if the bell for a rate in aid should pus, the advance would be repaid by sums which would be taken oat atlas rates which would be levied in Ire land. (Hear.) Now, with regard o the proposition before the committee which has been made by t• • hoe. memher Fir Reny. As I bass aliwaiy said, we were ready to unseen the wishes of Irish members; but I think we were no: mis taken in oar original view, that with reopect to the interest. of Ireland the rate is aid was prof abs to an income tex My right hnn. friend has Arid that a rate in aid can be col tutted with the machttery already in existence, wilt rens an bums tax would require a new machinery; ar.d my right hon. friend, as Chancel:o- of the Exchequer, has very tutu ashy not gone beyond that 'Wein. at; but if any one wilt reSect what as that new machinerr wito regard to taxation. I am sore he will agree that it Is sleuthing net at all agreeable in practice. (Cheers.) With respect, et the income tax, it Is ;enmity believed that we couldn't have it in Ireland without applying it to trades and pro fissions, and we could not apply thin machinery to trades and professions, wieout asking every person engaged in them ' what his profits have been during the past year. Now that is a question which is not answered without diff.oulty, It being of costs • very injotions to any man in trade to state that his prat' have been v ry low during the put year; and, on the other hand, if be Waned i sate that his profits have been high, his income tax would of course increase in proper ion. The machiaery of say uther tax, of any tea of 'wile, requires super , vision, end be therefore_ attesdol wi h inronv. nieces and irksi.nteness. But, now, I do with the c mmitue to moiler what are the eir.ariuts.ces is which we proves this rate in aid. Ido beg the committee to ne.4lect that what I have so ones wired to the house, but which is greasily almost totally omitted hos the deism., that here is a very ronsp'er able population which, having for many years lived on the potato as the it &caromed food, so hPn those potatoes bled having; no eraployasent, roe Lying no wag , • and eat getherieg that accustomed food, were left totally deetituto, and without ezto naive aid must have perie..tii. Now, I du think that, when • subject of this kisd la under conaideraticm, let the hoes* decide is what form they will give relief, and in the way that they be t thi as pay that they will do it by means of an income tax if they do net regal the rue in aid ; hut let me esk them to ome to a decision, so that the Rovers meet may be enabled to relieve the great distress. I do not wonder that os!jections have been made to repeated advances. The failure of the potato is 1816, and the grants made in 1846, and tn.:otos made in 1848, eon by no means diminish a 'fail , r misfor tune mooring in 1849. You may as well ray, as the right bon gentleman nrepeated on • former debeto, and which has not been feisiy reprepented by the hon. member for Cnclunnouth—You may say, lit as supply the instesoii our rarkseity, let us vote means for relieving extreme distrees, but let us coneider what is to be the cue in future years, and 1. t us have future p hey semen u a means of alleviation. The right hon. gentleman did not • .7, Irt us have pribey, and therefore let us base to means of alkyls !' os. On the contrary, the right hon. sealleman said he did not object to taking one form or the ether. It was for the future that he al peels( tided there should be some plc, 14d duns. No v, Ido not wish to ewer f other into the ques tions which •he hoe. rutleraan has raised. With respect ts a gr:at p pion of the Et we shall hsveopportacitio s of d emotion whin the D:11 of the Solicitor.° moat shall come tastier the onnsPierrion of the house. There mart he burro. sera 'ions on which the. • qiestiolus of p diey towards Ireland mast bs crapidered. What Ido a.k the h sue is, that, who may be toeir opinion of Wore police—whatever may be their opinion as to the eines in which immediate want ma y b e re li e ved, that they will c pnsiier that the went of 1849, dist the distral of 1849, and the starving of 1819,are as great as they existed in 1846—perhaps almost so , great as they existed in 1947; and I hope the committee will decide in such • manner that effectual relief for the present will be given. (Cheers ) Cel. DUNNE moved the adkraramest of the debit*. (Oh, oh.) Lord J. RUSSELL—This resolution will have to be re ported, and we aka have afterwards to go into • committee on tie Bate in Aid Bill; sad I do not think I am erking too much to ask the house to eratinu: the debate. Mr. BERNAL—Den the hon. and a.ll►nt member w ent is bi. ovtios ? Cul. DUNNE—There ere numbers of Irish msnsb"re who ere as.: GIN to speak. If Irish minim do not wi.h to ad journ the deb.tn, I shall b.w to their decision; but iT there are Irish members who win to speak, I shrill pers!st in the motion I have Elide. The debate has been *Artie I on extraneous p int,. There has been no arauserut in Grout or the rate in aid or the application of the Income tax to Ireland. Lori CASTLEREAGH regretted that his hon. friend the member for Keay had persisted in briegine torward this motion. Ile had already _stated, in writing to the oohs lord, the reasoos which had i...ucTel many of the Irish meresers to decline Ririe g an opinion upon the question. As to the imposition sf the inecm T nut, he conceived it absolutely impossible to answer to these who had seat them bare as to whether they were willing to agree with their ineabsra in coesectirg such an income-as. If the hon. member for KT rry premed bis amendment, he could not vote 'or that amendment, how ever willing he might hs at sow her time to vote for it sal I support it. Its desired dislue.ly to be understood as per fectly will 03 To enter int. the q .edion of increased tszstlon 1 of Ireland, on the understanding that it !should be impedel taxation for imperial peewees; and he really object...l to local taxation. As far es he wen concerned, if be had env weight with the hon. member for Kerry, he should not d the work of hr n. gentlemen opposite by press mg a divisli n. Mr. MONSELL, on the other hand, requested the hon. comber for Kerry to persist. He wished, for one or two minutes, to reply to the observations of the noble lord. Col. DUNNE rose to order. It was not competent to the hog. member to speak on the qu .burs, upon the question of adjournment. Ii any one was to speak he was in possession of the house. The house divided. For the adjournment Aaainst it Mr. SADLEIR was &anions to bane the opportunity of ex plaining why he could support neither the rate in aid nor the propontin of the hon. member for Kerry. He believed' other bids members also wished to speak, and be hoped therefore that the noble lord wouli not persist in going to a division on the main question that night. He would mere that the chairman report progresa. (Cries of " adjourn,"! and "go on.") Lord J. RUSSELL wcnld not opines the adjournment. as the foiling of a large portion of the house appeared to he in fart or r f it, but reminds I Irish member that by y ovens. log their derision they ineleased the difficulty of providing the means for relieving the dztreas which existed. The m trend f r reporting proves was then put and agreed to, and the committee obtained leave to sit again to-morrow (this day). Lord J. RUSSELL intimated that the government would take some rot. a in anneniun of supply, on account of the navy estimates, as the first busintes tomorrow, alter which they proposed to go on with the edjoamed debate on the grant on the steamy of the rate in aid. LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL. Oa the moan of Mr. Pulsar this bill wee committed. bin the moment the house went into committee, Mr. F. MACKENZIE moved that the chairman report provers. Mr. PUSEY urged the delay which had already taken plain as a reason for going on with Oa bill then, ba-, on to,. Mackenzie insisting on his motion, consented to postpone it I ts a future do. AFFIRMATION BILL. Mr. P. WOOD moved that this bid do pan. , Mr. F. MACKENZIE objected on the ground of the late- MSS of the hour. Colonel SIBTHORP *poke against the bill, under the supposition that it wee the Lendlord end Tenant Bill, and quoted the speech made by Prince Alown at Grimsby, on Wednesday, to the effect that the mutual advantage of landlord and tenant depended on mutual trust end eons dimes rather than on the mere letter of agreement ; and ere assigned considerable laughter, when Informed of his mistake by Sir J. Y. Bun Las, by derlarina that in effect the two bills were alike, both being tinselly objectionable. ANT some conversation. in the course of which Captain HARRIS stated that the rewon he spoke until six o'clock ea Wednesday to prevent a sietietot on the bill then was, became no minister had spoken upon it, and Sir ll Grey in• limited that be append of the bill generally. The debate was adjourned tell Wednesday next. The house then adjourned at one o'clock. to - PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. AFFIRMATION DILL. Amami reworks at the third reading of this tel.— Aron 70 AT ,• Naas, {S. E& Adak H. Gawk T. M. Maths ass, 3. Sullivan, H. Aißurlip, IL A. Glyn, 0. C. Matheson, Col. Teseusit, B. 1. Gresse. J. Merlin D. Thiskneate, R. A. =71. 1 A. Only, Mr O. OrocaseU, Z Tbompees. Col. Isids•.eir P. T. (Any B. W. POMO& Iturnely, T. Batigvhy, c. OWL Wayinrten, La.z:V it. r Trefaiwny. J. 8. sfoxik EurisoB. Tanen, H. Berea, IL Hulk, A. Baer, E. Watkins, CoL L. Benverle, ILL ,W. G. Hamar, OWL Wines:, B. 11.0. Dr" Dm CiaL Iteurs, T. B. Rare& lord I. Williams, J. Drodieries. Hunk J. Rollevsird, A. Wilhamrce,sial Drees, W. Jer J. Salwey, Or& Bi ll ion, I, Odd" 11. Kershaw J. fulaoleSdA, W. Wilson, Ni. Diarymple, Capt. Klnir, P. J. L. Bally. P. Ounsen. O. Lewis. 0. C. Shad, B. L. 71ILIALS. DOM" Adis. !Minor, J. dean, J. W Midttaad, T. fludtb, J. B. Wood, Ewen, W. Alsrshall, J. 0. likenerv ndle illnOrW.Burtan, els & Praia, P. Marshall, W. Sta BOLL Arknrilt, O. Coles, IL B. Ltoipay, CaLDatord, A. Twelose, Str J. E. H. grBwPOl4llBl.giliewnZiller*e.aicTurnm 0. J. Dobes, O. Edward*, H. Parke. C. . Yyse, VI-uneven'. W. T. !skim:ton. Sir Waddinrog = "l 4. o Padre, J. W. Walsh, Sir J. B. Dieurt. P. Plumy, Has H. Pad, sir B. Willoughby,Mr H. Dotillbrd, W. Puller, A. E. Humptre, Jr. P. Worcester , Marg. Greesall. O. Por al, H. Pork D. D. Bielvirds, R. 771A210. Die ft, Lord. Hard., He. Capt.Sidstv, Mr. Ali. Healry, Mr. Mr. Daft SW. T. Hood, en A. Spouncr, IL Gou'hura, &C. loiliffe, Dr W. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1849. The erproo, OUTGOING MAILS. Mb toe British Berth Amelia and the ITntted Web. will vitae no Ms day ((April 20). to ha taken by the Week nyt..n which talk Wen SnedUinpWa. Lettere to be ialieed, "By tatted Matta lialtyithet"_ _ _ The m ese ileeeellleu, to the blellteneseee, Egypt. Aden, Ceylon, India, Btawiliag, ft., will tornado up on the Lvestwe of the 2tth ut Apra. Ilse mils tor Vile. Opel% Week Madeira. radix, and Meal!. all be made wt eallteemilm Oahe 17th st April. The nails toe Kids e, Ceps &Verde Isbavb, Nem Leont end Arcaesere, still be isses ep ma the illeh el 4dt. Letters te be eve 'bay addressed. "Dr lielliteg Alp.° sae Wag bag Perintgla. fitteantut. Nam% :toughing. lien Odom. esel Moak°, as I ex-Ito:mg thaw b. Nadir; et. lans•deableerepes, Mew Ihsnads. Chill. and Pau, nit be arab ess es the ieseuln Otto lid Ilay. lir =Ms kw Nabbs. awl beep* Ayreso4lll be made apes lime waft, at tbs.& et ilmy. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20. The Irish members have declined to enter into any negotiation with the mieheer oa the te:sis recently proposed. We own we are rot sorprised• at this remit. With the notorious doe" pucy tf views and aims ex st It; amor g-t them, no propoeition on the part of the gavirne eat was lik• ly to lead to any either lune save one which might possess the unhoped for charm of a general relic f all C:114 , 11 in the sister °pantry from the burden of additional taxation. The supgesttou of an alternat ye method of raising the sum indis; crumbly requisite to vett the pressinl wants of the we stern p could only serve to demon strate move early than before how wide a diff , relate of opinion preys& between the majority and the !a ntral of th ee who rep , esent Ireland in the lower House ef Parliament. The majority of Irish meml - ers, like the majority of English u embers belong to the larded interest. They are, either by ' birth or msriage, by property or by top -toe ion, landlords. Th y either owe toeir seats to the direct cr to the indirect influa nos of their aristocratic ecnnexione. Man y of them tit nomir aily for boroughs ; but their nom ination for such places will, in almost every ease, be toned atinbutaole to the prestige which family or ten itorial wealth enjoys. and to the disposition which a. ill casts amongst the Inhabitants of our les cr towns on both sides of the Channel, to reek in p eference to mon of pruvon ability and known business-like experience the younger branches s f nobility, or the condo esniing set vices of their neighb ur.ng gentry. In Ireland, where the population and property of the towns bear • less pro; onion to those of the agricultural districts than in England, this tendency is more developed. There are hut five merchants, three barrieters, and one solicitor, among the represeatativea for 'rebind ; the remaining ninety-seven are either landlords or their immediate relative', of which no fewer than tavuoy-five belong to noble families. To expe..t that a body of men so selected shru'd came to any ut animons d-cision having for its object the further reduction of rent, in order more effectual'y to prorde for the necessities cf the labouring poor, appear. to us, we must confess, ratter extrarrlieary. The ministe r upon whom the dre ad reap insibility of human life is thrown, is sanguine, if he hopee that they will as a body relieve him of a portion of that retponsib.lity, by 'pacifying in whet particular form or manner they are willeog to be taxed. Rates come out of rent. there is no mistake about it. Rates in aid may, in othercharacteiiatici, (Mot from online , y rates for the relief of the poor ; but in this prominent feature the family resemblance is unmistakeable and unforgettable. Tte same instinct that impel d the landlords of Ireland to re ant the proposition of a rate in aid, inspires them with hostility to an equal amount of local taxation in any atd in every ether form. They want new 1 cane toey say, not new taxes; grant, in aid, net rates in aid. And if government had in hand, or could quietly get the money, we have little doubt that they would get instead of hay ng to give m - re. It is an ()HOW task for g tvernment at all times to impose new imposts; it is pie diary unwel come when the novel impost , ' ate con oted . y to fall upon that kindred elms to whom gown= rats in this country have hitherto almost exclusively belorpecd But we repeat it, it seems to us to savour somewhat of credulity on the pert of Lord Joao RUSSELL and Sir CHARLES WOOD, to tEFCCt that those who sue foredoomed to expiate the here ditary sins of their order, should be induced to aid in choottog, knitting, and applying the instrument of fiscal discipline. Far from woudering,then fore, at the answer g'ven by the majority of Irish repo sentatives to the Pre mier's pronosition to substitute for the rate in aid the income and other taxes not now plyable in Ireland, we think they . may readily be pardoned for declining to give any °plena on the matter. "The money I must have," innocently pleads Lord JOHN "but if you have a pre faience and will te'l me what it is, I than be quite as happy, I assure you, gentlemen, to take it out e f the :of. hand pocket as out of the right." Not inteueing to pay it if possible out of either, the nobility and gentry of Ulster, backed by oertein of their brethren in the other pravince", wholly decline to tame either pocket. Tney have a friend elsewhere, they mutter—an Irish landlord, too —who keeps a great big wicked dog, called " Not-Content," and he, they fancy, sill be set by his matter at the hated rate in aid to devour end to destroy it. Meantime they will not bo cajoled by soft whiz closings into doing or saying any thing the lea't inlica ive of acquiescence in the measure they so earnestly abhor. As for the minority, about twenty, we believe, in somber, who support the claim of their poorer countrymen b be sustaired by whatever means may be necessary for the purpose, and who, although some of them belong to the landed clam, are ready to submit that a special rate should be imposed en Irish property to me t the special exigency—it is clear that they have done wisely and well in acquiescing silently with the greet-r number of their fellow-re presentatives on the present (cession. Tacy profess to guard the industry of the towns from unjust cr injudicious =petition". They com prise the delegates of same of the largest of them, and several of the second rank. The exist ence of trade and manufacture in these places would, twisted a doubt, be seriously endangered if, beside* an income tax, new excise duties were now to be in troduced. Ch arty, it is for rho interest of the towns of lisland that the rate in aid should be adhered to rather than theta substitute fir it should be sought he the modes just adverted to, and their representatives would have betrayed their trust if, to please the minister, or to elude transient unpopularity amongst their fellow Country men is parliament, they had at tempted to play a separate part, or to take a different course from that which the y have pursued. In the qcestion of a tax on income, in aid of th e ordinary rate of real property for th;maintenance of the poor, a principle of no trivial moment is involved. It is in another form the same question, which was raised by Mr. Disitottoo's motion, for a revision and re-adjustment of English taxation, six weeks ago. The battle ground is changed bat not the quarrel. It is the old controversy between the landed and the trading interests of the community, whether those who claim local control should not beer local respon sibility, and whether those who, by employing the labour of those around them, may prevent the growth and the aggravation of poverty, should not be held accountable for the consequences of their neglect, rather than the distant and itdasttious inha bitant of a town, whoa, by . accumulating capital, is daily creating now drains into which maples labour, if such there be, may naturally flow. Let theprio eiple of a tax on persertal property and income, an aid of poor rates, becarried for Ireland, and it will no longer be easy to resist its application in this country. This the protectionists well know, and hence the canto tearoom and support given by that party last night to Mr. HERBERT when moving his amendment to sub stitute an income-tax for the rate in aid. IN these hard times railway compaules ought not to be too harshly judged for attempting to raise the wind. But Olcrance has its limits. It is not unrea sonable to exact from them some respect fa- morality and common decency. Aod it pains us to be com pelled to state that the managing body of the Eastern Counties Railway appear to have grievously offended against both. The walls of the metropolis were yesterday thickly placarded with the announcement of a cheap excur sion train that is this day to lcive London for Nor wich. The travelers by it are to have their option of returning to town on either of the two fAlowin: days. The Baster Ir,lidsys are over, and the season, as yet young and urconfirmrd, scarcely tempts people to. make an extra holiday. The bait to travellers by this train is the brutalising and revolting spectacle that is t be exhibited ta-muti ow in front of Norwich JAMES BLoSITIELD RCM is to be etranglod to morrow, and, as the local caterers t t public curl( sits have taken dun rare to proclaim, the pima of extee floe is " vie b'e to a ergot dietanie." And the managing directors of the Eastern Counties Railway —or borne adventurers with tteir consent—me no harm in endeavouring to turn a penny by offering te convey the curious in such sigh's to aid fr o m Norwich at charges unprecedentcdly Icw. Great and delerved applause has bein earned by wine spirited undirt.kers of cheep ex, nrrfon trains Trey have enabled the over-toiled mechanics of the manufacturing districts, or the smoke-dried pcomr eitlzeos of London, to estA glimpses of the rural beauties of to it nat've land, or I f the wondrous stores of art in the pea' capital and the provincial eaitals. They have eintributed in' a'culeb!y to the Lumaniin; of general soc'e'y. But the 'lexi ma leree'sity of the d vieers cf to-dsfs cheap excursion train fromLoneon to Norwich will iuvert and reverse such beneficial effects. Whet a mov:ng Pard mmium the lo•om^tive ii doomed to drag tier it, they may eeily imagine who have any idea of the kird of people who &tit to -witnese exectriona The squalid inmates of the lowest haunts of hair infamy in the metropolis, may, 'hanks to tee reduced faree, enjoy to morrows rpm tacle at Norwich. The raffish finery of the s yell mob, male aid female, will impart a shabby spleteLar to their pilgrims to the shrine ofcallt tie coriewity. And it m She that tone who flatter the ms.lces they belong to the class" respectable," may mingle with he throng. The brutal jest, the callous glee of the hangic g hol , day make), as tl ey pass along, will resemble a moral Simoom sweeping along the railway. And then what an impalas will have teen given by the announcement of die cheap excursion train to the pickpeket trade of L•nion ! Every area soesk, every juvenile professor of diehoceety, whatever his clang designation, will hive on the alert yesterday and lest night to mile funds for a trip to Norw:ne. What a deluge of London rurality will overflow th , etreets and le: es of tlte Es•t Angl . an capit el ! The cheap excursion train, for the benefit of amireers in human butchery, i.e. it were a (hedge let down int ) the deeptet dse t ts—the moral black mud at the bA tom of acciety—to etir and brirg the cans oils and pes tilential ma , . to the to;, end spread it over a wide surfac Is it likely that any perren accueomed t t mingle in honeet soc'ety will run the risk of bring teen in the moveabee pilliry that is this day to ha dragged from London to Norwich? TURKEY. We coped front the Morning Chronicle a reatemtn• relative to the Dat.ubian proviaces and their con e. xiors with ltuesie and 'Eckel, leaving to that jou•nd the remensitili'y a its statement. The statement would gamma a 'elution cf the question which must be considered at halt as premature. According to it, the Ewen)? of Russia bad seat to Coscantnople an aide-d -e .mp, General Grupe, bearer of an ultimatum requiring the Perm to e. ase Cl her pre, artificers of war, to withdraw the Turkish troops pieced on Its Danube, and to evacuate the chian Trovi. c. 8, which would thus be left at the num of the Czar. Failing in Vtese cm ditiotm, the result would be the departure of the Maiden ambassador, end the immediate advarce of a ltureisn army an Constantinopl-, whilst the Russian fleet would support the movement. S r n.uch ernive me nee has tern published of late upon this quesioe, that the greatest dub' must net upon toia bt itement. Such is not the usu +I method of proceeding of Ruch in h mitten'. It would be no easy mattsr to march up , n Coettsroi ; and Russia were her intenti..ns hos'ile, would, by protis cions cf friendship and disinterestedness, cover hers crtt hostility. Tne conduct attnbut dto it is not only contrary to ell prec. dent, bat opposed to the welt-known habits of the Emperors of Russia. Little credit can therefore b 3 attached to the state tn, nt put firth in our columrs. THE UNITED STATES. The Canada, Captain Harrison, arrived at Liverpool yt sterday m ruing, from New York and Hali'ax, with dates from the forrcer tort to the 4th awl 'he letter the 7th inst. We pular shed r sterols, a rummaty cf ler news. The following letter from our c,r.espondent gives an excellent summary of news : NEW YORK. APRIL 4 In my last I wrote you in relstiun to the probable action of our government in cue of any political disturbances is Canada, and that Goitral Taylor would take care to present any breach of our friendly relations with E-glend by acts of sympathy towards to those who were fourd in arms spirit her. I have reason to know that the utmost faith will be kept on our port in this matter, and pr.bibly, ve ry probably, the moment is not far off when this good faith will be appealed to. It is Paid that secret associations are now on foot in this country, not to help the Fri nib but the Reglish, and that their move ments are upon a large reale. We hear that very extensive arrangements are going on at Boston to this end, and that arms and money are already on their way to Canada. In this state of things we are naturally on the tiptoe of expectation. We have late news from Califernia by - way of Mar lean our 'deices being to tle 27th of February. General Lane, the new governor, had arrived out in the Southampton. The severity of the weather bad prevented the working of the miner, but a crowd ref people were getting ready to b gin operations early in the sprang. A new city called Breccia had been founded on the Sae.ramrnte, thirty miles from San Francisco. and a large number of houses was to be erected there as son as possible. The American , held a meetir.g on the Bth January last to organise a provisional government, in default of any being provided for them by the last congress, and while they expres - ed their confidence, as " citizece of a great and glorious republic," in obtaining a proper territorial government at a future day, they resolved to govern themselves in their own way in the mean time. It. was agreed that the several district. should hold elections for delegates to a convention, at which a political organization should take place. A resolu tion was also passed that slavery should be opposed in every shape and form in the territory. Tams my prediction, made some time ago, that the " domestic institution" of the south would not be permitted to take root in California, is very far on the way of being realised. In some districts elections had already taken place. Meetings of a similar character had been held in the neighbouring districts. Gold was selling at various prices, from 9 dole. to 14 dole. per ounce, and was very plentiful. The meanest emigrant seemed to have his bog of gold. A. correspon nt of mine writes me, it was supposed that three millions of dollars had 'seen actually taken from the mines since they were Int worked. Provisions had oome in so plentifully, that the price bad fallen; but they were yet dear en comparison with their value on the Atlantic crest. Flour ranged at from 12 dole to 15 dole. per barrel; perk, 20 dole. to 28 dole., and no demand el sal bens 30 to 40 cents. per lb. The price of board was about 21 dole. per week, the rent of a lodging-room 130 dole. per month, washing was 8 dote. per dozen, and a pair of good boots br..ught 50 dole. Immense numbers of persons were arriving at San Francisco, and the Americana were at present in a minority. There were rumours afloat that a large body of Mexicans were on their march through the interior to reconquer Alta California, but did not cause any apprehension, nor were they fully believed. There was a crowd of persons at Panama awaiting the means of traneportation. Vessels were taken up at enormous prices as soon as they arrived at Panama. We bear to-day of the breaking up of an overland party, with which Andabon, a son of the celebrated, was connected, while passing up the Rio Grande. The elegem destroyed a large number of the party, and they were then plundered of their gold, amounting to about 14,000 dole. The survivors returned to New Orleans quite dispirited. We begin to have large arrivals of gold from Cali fornia. More than 200.000 dole. in value have pissed through this city, from Boston, the lest week, on its way to the Mint. We have this morning authentic information that the array has proved the ore to be excel dingly rich. Tne Northern, which is now hourly expected from Chem', is @append to have a large quantity on board. The disposition to emigrate has nenved, and our streets are full of young men, whore draw bespeaks their intention to depart. Al most every association adopts some diatinctive dress, and each member is well armed. You will find in the newspapers accompanying thislor ter those parti clears which I pnrysely omit. We have late news from Mexico, having dates from the caplal to the lath of Match, and from Vera Cruz to the 10th. A courier passed through Jalapa on the night of the 12th, bearing despatches, as was sop reed, from the Mexican minister at Washington, in relation to the protocol. As that subject was gives the "go by" by the late coigrer, it is at present an undecided though not a vest d question. Our go- vernment will doubtless refuse to consider it any thing more than an explanation of a friendly rather than of an official character, and Mexico will have to make the best of it. A project to calumet Valpara's) and Acapulco by a railway wts in discussion by the Mexican Congress, and Mannirg and Macintosh are agitating the route by Tehuantepec as the best and I most feasible. The inhabitants of Alvarado were seeking to have their port declared one of entry. The army of the north has covered itself with" glory" in its operations under General Marron against the es.- Yager,. Them persons have become so formidtbl that there is to be a meeting of delegates from all the northern states to take measures for the com mon defence. We may form from this some idea of the power of the Mexican goy-rnment when it is unable to defend i e own citizens from the attacks of these " onteide barbarians." GeneralOway has been emitted and sent prise* rto Peat's. General 1.0111• %radii is made adjutant-general of the army. It is said that a law will be weed banishing Santa Anna from Mexico, or, at lost, prohibiting him from land ing on its shores without due nofce of his inrention We also learn that etme free schools have bre° established at Puebla. This is the mit-stance of our latest &deices, by the way of New Orleans. At Washington nothing has marred recently QC saw& importance. Turning to other topics : We have late acc-uots from Srata Fe, u late sa the 26th of Febrathy, which state that Cul. Fremont had arrived there in great distress. In attempting to sews the mountains he lost eleven of his party, and all his horses, in core. quence of the depth of the scow and the severity of 'ho weather. He was com pelled to return to the valley for assistance, and sue seeded in evening the survivors, a'm at at the ex pense of his own life. The journals of the various ex ploring parties +ha' have gone overland from the Mitt elsvippi to the Pecifie are among the most interesting of our American narratives. There is yet an un bounded 6 Id of adventure open for the adventurous. All our rivers and lakes are now navigable, and our canals are nearly so. The greatest activity pervade the north at this season of the year. Eery one seems to be in motion. The ci'y is crowd. d with strangers, and Broadway , is almost impassable for them at many hours of the day. They are the principal support of our public nieces at th:u season. Exchange is down to 6 per cent. nominal, making the oar of exehanze against you at this momert. One large house is buying up all the bills it can on England for the purpose of importing specie at a - Oar motry market, however, is very stringent and tight. There is a general complaint in Wall-street of the pc nteity of mosey. I send Ton a circular to " c.srtify to tho same." I now break off, ttlthltivit I have no' half finished what I revered to say. The resamotion of the weekly trips of the steamer+ will Rive me more room f r discussion. I am compelled to close at a moment when I would prefer to continue my emulations. [For Markets, tee let page.] CANADA. RIOT AT TORONTO. We have in'ellicerce from Montreal which proves the gr at excitement caused all over the cAtotry by the ministerial measures for the payment of ex-rebels. A serious riot had he n caused by it at Toronto. On the evening of March 22, em". Baldwin and Mackenzie were banned in effigy ; they were carried though several streets elevated upon Inng polee,pa.s ing from the residence of Mr. Baldwin to the resid ence of Mr. Blake, and then returning tr Mr. B.'s. The effigies of the two were then burned. The mob. to the number cf some thousands, then pro ceeded to the house of Mrs. Nlsento-h, where Mr. MMenzie was stopping, where hie effigy was burn', and the house assailed with stones and all manner of missiles, completely riddling the windows. The gas Fghte in the vie inity were nut not, and the peliee r. stated. The house of Mr. Montgomery, which is situate opp site, was attacked and the win dows moth damaged. Mr. 11. Price, son of the Hon. J. H. Pei e, was severely b .atrn, and on being con veyed 0 the residence of . Dr.Relphe, that gentleman's house was assailed by the mob and slightly damaged. The residence of Mr. Brown, of the Glam. was also injured. An investigation was ping on at Toronto in regard to these riots. From Montreal, under date April 3, we learn tint the event or dissent of the gneer tor h..d not been sig nified in regard to the Indemnity Bill. A continua ferment was beinr maintained in order to deter his excellency from signing the bill. On the 2nd inst., in the assembly, Sir Allan M'Nab mow d en address to his excellency calling for copies of all petitions received in regard to giving his sanction to the resolutions on tin payment of the rebellion losses. An excel dinely chap and hitter diseu sion ensued, and the motion was lest—ay. s, 16 ; noes, 39. In consequence of its being repeated that the bill to pay the rebellion cases was to be signed by the Go vernor on the 30th alt., mach excitement prevailed, and it was only by thb strernous exertions of Mita , ential persons of the tory party that a large crowd was prevented from aseetr.bling around the Parlia ment House. The coloured inhabitants of Sandwich had pre sented a strong petition to the flovernor-General against the Rebellion Losses Bill. A bill bad been introduced into the House of As sembly to inctrporate the Niagara end Detroit River Railroad Company. It bee been stated by the mem ber who introduced it that the stockholders of the Albany and Buffalo Railroad are ready to trice up the stock. MONTREAL, MARCH 29.—Private accounts from the Eastern townships, which may be relied on, represent the people as (morally speaking) up in arms in re gard to the bill for paying rebellion losses. Nume rous nate ings still continue to be l.eld in various parts of Upper Canada. In Belleville the notorious Wm. Lyon Mackenzie, bat for his speedy departure, would have been ridden on a rail. The Toronto papers are warmly engaged in discussing the question of an nexation to the United Sates. FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. WES r LONDON REFORM ASSOCIATION. MR. HUNIE'S MOTION. A westing of this arexiation was held last evening at the Wellesley Arms, Rsbeet-itteet. Chelsea, for general busies's, but erpecielly to CJl:SiliOf Mr. Home's mo on for the let of May. A deputation from the Metropolitan Swim" attended. FUEDIMICIL GAISNALL. Esq ,in the chair. Mr. J. LOCKHART propo.ed the following mein- Con :—" That this association is mutt gratified at seeing that Mr. Hove intends to ask leave to bring is a bill Jiro the H ass of Commons to the efftct that househald suffrage, vote by ballot, triennial parliaments, and electoral t.ietri t , should become the law of the land. gad the association plsdges itself to rap port those objects by evi ry n ewes in is power." That ab lution, be was certain, would receive tht ir cordial support. Mr. PROUT, of the M iropoli:nn Financial &ad Parlia mentary Reform Assuci.sion, seemed the resohation. Mr. CliAllaalla and Mr. MACFAISLANZ spoke is support of the re. elution, which w's carried unanimously. Several pew mintier' were prop.,. d and adiuittcd, after which thanks wets given to tho chairman, and the meeting adjourned. MEETING AT LIVERPOOL. The annual cr.ceting of the L;v rpool Fineccial Reform Asmcietion wet held on We doeulsy, LAWRENCE lIETWORTH, Req.. M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN expressed his conviction that the IPSO- Cirieft would ultimat. ly 6rm one of the ere it at blessiege that this country could possibly enjoy. He read the fol lowing letter from Richard Cobden, E q., M.P.: " Dear am compelled to bo in London again on Monday, and therefore regret that I shall net be sole to att nd your atnual motif it ; but wherever I eo I am at work fir your cause, end I find everywhere a rapidly in creasing desire for financial reform, for welch we arc mainly indebmd to the pereevetieg exertion. of the Liverpool Asso eistion.-11. have me, der sic, faithfully yonrm Ricuann COBDCN. Ludt, Apr 1 12, 1849." Tne followers)/ report of the c..trimitme was then read : " The Court 1 of the Liverpool Financial Reform Amocia ci in, in p resenting to the themle re their annual report, do not deem it necessary to go into all th details ef their opera thins for the past year, inasmuch es they have been from time to time laid belore the members in the repeats reed at tbdr mouthly pubic meeting , . I'l rs femme to the past mouth, tile council have to übovve thd. their correspondence tias continued much on the same wile end of the same satis factory narure as hetet f ve, bringing iutelligence of kindred sauwiatious forming in all parts sat the c entry, and seeking lamination, telemeter with large supplies of thar tracts, by other c iminuniiirs that have the same olj. a in contemplatien. The council have published their address to the tax payer. of the 'felted Kingdom, together wieh the petition to parliament agreed upon at the last m snthly meet ina, in the pimps uf a tour page tract for gratuitous deerlbution, men, thou sands of which have already been aiv,n away through the agency of other financial associations, while no less than 75,000 of them have been stitched into various pe riodicals as adeertisemeets. This tract may be had by any one on application at the t Mee of the association. The council have also, during the past month, retied an address to the tenant farmers of the Uoi•ed Kingdom. The council have much p 1 &sure in enneuncing that Mr. Thomas Bent, who el welt known throughout the country, from his oninexion with the National Tempera-ice Society, the Health of Towns Association, and lii. more recent investi gatien iuto juvenile dip levity and it. causes, hes consented, on solicitation, • o lecture in the principal tout., of the kingdom, on the subject of financial tc(,rm, in its twofill aspect of reduced expenditure, and the substitution of direct fee indi. rest taxa ion. Iu takit.g a review of 'briar present position, afar the leboure of a year, the coward cannot but feel satia tie 1 with, and congratulate the mem v re of, this SERIChtiOII, on the fact, that not. es than 36 Financial Reform Associa tions have been organised in the country—viz.: London: Raryletume, Metropolitae (Upper Wellingemmtrect), Cam- Weettniester (Tevistock street, Coventmsrden): Lembeth, Stet n. y ; Manchester, Oxford, Plymouth, Wtreester, Great Yarmouth, Norwich, Ipswich, Bath, Cir. wester, Derby, Wr. ahem, h ttisl.s, Ide a menu, (York), Hereford, Leeds, NeweaMle-nn-Tyne, Wed nesbury, Denbigh, Boinhurgh, Peialey, Leith, Aber dram, Haddington, Kirksldy, Cupar (File), St. Andrews, Perth, and Lentush. Many of these emaciation@ have con sidered it necessary to connect the question of parliamentary with that cf financial reform. In this ream ct they have so far gone beyond us. The council, at the formation of this lam 'elation, did confidently enrertain the hope that when the government and the legislature of the country had dewily poiate l out to them the nec.mity end practicatility el a large eedueti. n in the czpeteliture, they would fairly have met such a uthessity ; but the government and leeiala hare Pave, however, been tested by ercitia motions and bees frond wanting. This tact, uneecortaincd at the for mation of this aseocittion, may have had, and that very naturally, its weight with the more rthently.'ormed bodies in determining them to c innect parliamentary with financial reform. But, constituted es this WAWA tion woe for (Inane al te`orm elms, the ceuncil feel that, notwithatandoig :he Urge amount of id vitiation which a yeat'a experience h. s given th. m, whatever effect it might have had if known in tee it °nein sl decision, they are not at present called upon to seek powers to alter thole con . stitution. Important as the reduction of exnenditure un doutdedly and easy of accomplishment, if hence,' at om; tad, as the exposure of the wanton, wll ul, and recklem waste of public money, made in our tracts, clearly shows it to he, yet if reduct i on of expendi t ure Is to be the only aim and limit of the labours of finencisl reformers, it will difinitely fell short of the requirements of the country's need, and as such will not he w 4th the Olathe and sacrsficr s neocitary for its at tainment. A reduction once fferted—and more esp. chilly ifsuf iently large to sanely public demands, and thereby lessen its vigils. ce—ean be <wily and gradually, and very impercep tibly replaced by increased expenditure, which may again become ruinous to fire any further adequate public opinion can b.: brought again to bear on its reductions, as witness the inc ***** of present expenditure as cam 1 sired with that of the years 1812, 1833, 1844 and 1835, unites some perm went and self acting cheek be introduced. Recce the n. cessity of what we consider to be the most important objict of our associa tion, viz , the substitution of direct for inthrect taxation. Without tnia, the 'mat principles recently introduced into our comm reiel pehey can never be fully carried to their legi timate extent, inasmuch as a free commerce cannot exist with a restricted consumption :—" A permanent reduction of ex penditure, and a completely liberated commerce with free industry, therefore imperatively demand as the very basis of th. it evidence, direct taxation. Mr. EDWARD 13RODRIBB proposed its adoption, con gratulating the meeting upon the fact that the AM elation bad met with the criticism not only of the provincial press, but also the metropolitan press, and, last of all, in that cele brated white publication—the Edinburgh Review. Mr. Ed ward Brodrieb then said that if unisersal suffrage were granted to the people, the people would not stop short at univened suffrege, fur they weuld Insist upon an equitably adjusted system of taxation. If the prin ciples of the association were carried out, he would defy any mini.ter, at the rah of impeachment, to refuse grunting uuiversal suffrage. The people were the parliament of parba ciente, and no parliament could alter the principle that no man should be taxed except through his representatives. Alluding to the courage of Mr. Cobden on the agitation of the repeal et the corn laws against the opinions f the majority of the people of this country, Mr. Brodribb con cluded by calling upon the people of Liverpool to agitate for financial reform. Mr. RICHARD SKIRL seconded the resolution. The meeting was then addressed by other gentlemen, alter which the assembly separated. CLERICAL. Tare RISTORATION or Sr. DAVID'S CATHEDRAL bar been going on since the subrcription for that purpose i n 1946. The stone mod-screen has been compbtely restored, and the unsightly wood-work which surroun ded it cleared away sad replaced, where neciamary, by parcloas of wrought iron. A prejecting cornice of oak has beta substituted for the barbarous balustrade which formerly diefigured the rood loit. The choir-arch, before walled up, has been partially opened, and the work continued by th.: Dean and Chapter. The large platform before the screen and the passage into the choir have been laid with encaustic tiles. PREFRRIIIIVTIL—Rev. 0. L. WHITEHOCSII, to Bollington P.C., Prestbury, co. and din. of Chester ; 1741. with resi dence ; patron, the Vicar of Prostbury. R. v. J. Bnowx to be Honorary Canon in Norwich Ca edral. Rev. H. DOWNTON, to St. Joke: , C.. Chatham, dio. Wet. ; vacant by resignation of Rev. G. Harker. R-Y. F. M. KNOLL= to Horaepath P.C., county ant dio. Orford; 911. with residence; pat-ons, Magd. C 41., Oxford. Rev. N. Moamar( to Berdsley P.C., Ashton under-Lime, dio. Mauch. ; patrons, Hulas'. trustees. Rey. J. Piccors to Brindle C., near Chorlcy, Lane., dio. Manchester. Rev. A. W. B. VINES, A.B , to Baditworth V., with Shurdington C., co. and dio. of Olouo.; 4001. with residence; vacant by the resignation of Rev. B F. Carlyle ; patron, J. B. Vince, Req. wiVosterceitsiwdre.n—oeN;oßrtehvo.pu.Vjo.,neFsl,idnetceushiree ; d i :o ar° . St. n, Ath..; 8p.600 10.fe St. Aleph. gOt Court. Lient.-Col. the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps had the honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday eve wing, at Buckingham Palace. Th- Queen's private band was in at tend:tire after dinner, In the pabiee. Her Majesty's private band performed the follow ing pieces in Windsor Castle on Tuesday evening : Orertive—" LIMON" itebalger. Felention—ulfra Auber. Quintetto—.ob stlar:ta•e," rtoodnt Bolero and Gnawed+. Maarndelki," Sir Lucius O'Brien had an interview with Lord J. Ramon yesterday. The Earl of Clarendon and Sir Randolph J. Routh had also interview' yesterday with his lordship, at his official resiienos in Downing-streeet. Air. W. Whitbread had an interview with Lord J. Remit oa Wednesday. Mr. Stowe, of Cilaszow, hid an interview with Sir G. Grey yesterday. Mr. De edea had also an interview yes terday with the right hon. baronet, at the Home-office. Despatches were e< nt cif yesterday evening front office for the Dryer:acre of Ceylon and Hong- Song. ft.c Esrl of Carlisle returned to town yesterday evniog from attending the ceremony at the Great Grimsby Docks. A SUPPLEMENT TO TEM GAZETTE was issued yes terday, eoutaining the official dispatches from the seat of war in India, a sidemion from which we published yesterday. THE IRISH MEMBERS AND LORD JOHN RUSSELL. At a meeting of the Irish members held yesterday, sossinind for the seeds' purpose of replying to the proposi clan of Lord John Romll, it was resolved: " That, as a body, we are not prepored to pledge ourselves to the adoption of any particular tax to be imposed upon Ireland. " We are not unwilling to discus any proposal for this purpose, upon its own merits, in the our of C moons bat, without he the arguments which might he adduced upon the question, and semrtaining the capability of Ireland to bear increased taxation, we coal' not be in a position to answer for our constituencits, and must, therefore, abstain trio offering any opinion to the rovarnment as to the count which it may think praper to pd•lpt. (S good) "LUCIUS O'BRIEN, Chairman." NAVAL. Aa ADIURALTT, APRIL 19.—APPOINTMENTIL—Muten eiventa : R. C. Dazw, to Reynard B. J. YoUNO, L) Wel- M D i dey. shipmen : F. H. MoaciaN end R. 0. LEaas, to Ganges; 0. J. DIALCoLM, G. D. FITZROY, R. C. FARRING TON, T. R. FRAMPTON, G. J. Rau.. rod T. P. KIDD, to Wellesley; H. C. BCRLEIGH and O. F. ACTON, to Superb; H. B. Fisit.mmosts, G. W. SrEoNo, and A. B. BLACK WOOD, to Victory ; H. L. HOLDER and H. Miasma., to Rileiah; C. R. JEFFERY, R. P. JENKINS, H. C. Wooaw, and E. B. MIURA, to Centaur ; R P G. HELPO and E. J. WEBB, to Hastings; H. 0 FAYNI ' to Plumper; H. 001 , DEN, to Reynard ; C. 0. NELSON , to Rattler; R. 0. Gas- BRAN, to Impregnable; J. R. °CORLEY, to Prince Regent; J. A. GREGORY, to Powerful. First class Aasistant.Engineer : W. M. JoNES, to Firs Queen. Nasal COMA : P. Iht.oeK, to Rdeigh ; M. W. Wsonsgto Wellesley; HENRY BAILLIE and F. H. Ilarrisos, to DR rib; T. B. Pam, to Prince Regent ; W. J. ARNOLD, to Arr..ganti DUNCAN STEWART, and ARTHUR A. SMITH, to }Paquin ; J. B. Brume., B. H. HICRNAND, and HENRY CORERTT, to Southampton. Inspector of Joins,, : JOHN DRAKE, to Sbeensesa Yard. wasPopszdintooffurtuse,A4a.tritn.—Eicaotr. 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