The Express. — London, England, 1849-05-23 00:00:00

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ID—Ditto (sew M le U s. , MOM& sad lAeo s (reef. eh.), 1 -em), 111 d.—Neweeetie sad Cordele, SO—Shreseber7 mad Ouster Wei For. 4 per mit). IS—booth Neeters end Dover (No. 4, In. eit e.ett-, el dish 0 134. 9d. MAli I ITER, May XL Orocz-Iscwol.—The sarka6 vas ?fig fiat sad prim w.derlieNy lower.-614616: Neslers Ceenise, S 1-14; Not La imeldre Pert pre" 1: 1d1a61610 sod Dingdw„ MC boa eemil Tort. WO" 41 d; Da Prof. (derial i ll laid; Wm. Mem,l hes. 2.4 mega Pest, 11; Do. Griasby ( . 114 ;Da (era Ned ), 141; 6 Sire 1116111mlehlie. 3146 ; Ikea Maws sad Dow, Na 4, 114111 ; Do. 114.114 fed, 61. BIRMINGHAM, May U. broctilicaeson —The shareaeadrat took? wee tether fetter. llimans 6 prr cents. were Sons at 1164; 'teeth Meares. Shrewsbury and Birmingham. 41.1 a. N. als.; Ihregidrir 61. es. ed. ; 'Muth thaws* 4f dle.; Ted eallevemoothe (ezlealea), N dig. DS, lbw 22. Stool-Zzotutoi.—The &slings fa &aro te-day was in r cabin r as Wray. yet pars ad ar arra any rate flrl arnaba. Lars aid Thar Quorum 111 s. pd. pea; Ert sad wart Miry Itatherbar, rd Orr. U. U. 9d. dia. BRISTOL, May 21 braes-Ixamairoa.-I%e only trassardeas is railway limes wen rue • d Awes d the & mad Exeter Haim, Ind& allaiel at MI die. The market hi bad mitten' von Inactive sad • OMNI& now, May 22. &rocs E xcisaos.—Sales: Yea, News., sad Bevisk W. (0.14.14 Par.), 41; Tort n 4 N. DA, 301; Do. (Led W . L ii.), &ILWAT BILLS IN PARLIAMENT, 01100? B.—Lsaaritire sad Yorkshire (Ashworth brush, so Preamble proved. Oscar 17.-Btirliag W Dosferodiao, *s. Preamble proved. Tat Vole. Seidner further bout IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAT, MAT 22. Loan CAMPBELL (in the ateenee of the Loan CHAN. cainoa) took his seat as Deputy-Speaker at 5 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND READINGS. Division of the Living of Richmond and Kingston upon Thames; Whittlesey Saint Mary end Whittlesey Saint Andrew Union of parishes, and for improving t h e town of Whittlesey, Bills. THIRD READlNGS.—Bradford Waterworks ; Scottish Amicable Life Assurance 8 .ciety (incorporating and con ferring powers) ; Universal Railway Casualty Compensation Company; Hartlepool Gas and Waterworks, Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS. COMMITTEES.— Neriration ; Apprehension cf De steer. ; Servers Acta Amendment; Bale. THIRD READING. —Small Debts (Scotland) Acts Amendment Bill. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Baia Houses.—By Lord BROUGHAM, from Hudders field, foe the abolition of licenses to beer houses. ALIENATION or TITRES. —By Lord REDESDALE, from the clergy of Bridport, on the subject of alienation of tithes. AostsctrurunaL Durrassa.—By the Earl of STRAD BROKE, from numerous places, complainiog of agricultu ral distress sad praying for relief. , CHORCIL OP ENGLAND AND IRELAND. —By Lord BROUGHAM, petitions from members of the united Church of England and Irellnd resident in 800tland, on various subjects connected with the established church. CHAIRMAN OF COI Lord durin g itie — aiience of the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord Beaumont should act u chairman of committun—Agreed to. RIVER PLATE. The Reel of HARROWBY bad called the attention of their lordakice a short time ago to the condition of affairs in the River Plate, when the noble marquis had given his SNIIIIIIIOII that, from information which he had received, the matters in dispute would shortly be arranged in a man ner satialactory to this country. It was only two or three days ago that they had seen an account in the papers that some eirmgentent had been coma to between the French and BIWA Ministers and General Roses, which had been sent home to receive the sanction of their respective mun iments. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the only infor mation which he could give the nobly earl was that the anti cipations which he ventured to express some time ago were confirmed by the Wanly's°, which he bad lately received. At the same tint• he must say that the negotiations bad not arrived at that state at which it would be convenient to make them the Dialect of a special communication to the house. Than Gould be but little doubt that they would be brought to a eatidactory conclusion. The Earl of ABERDEEN said the statement of the noble marquis was most satisfactory, if be understood correctly that the bade of the arrangement which had taken place was that which had been taken out by Mr. Hood, who had been sent by him (the Earl of Aberdeen) some years ago. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE made some observations, which were inaudible in the gallery. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IN SCOTLAND. LOWBBOUOIiAii on presenting, pnniukiliViaj os the petitions from la mars of the mated church of Eoglanel and Ireland resident in Ear land, said that the petitime were from members of the church of England and Indeed tempo rarily settled in Scotland. It was a matter chitty alsterest to the parties concerned. lie did not state his *am either la favour of, or opposition to, the views of the pahissers. The politica las very well drawn no, sad the gurgles ably erred, bat he preferred stating the substage is resin the =BThe ministers of the petitions wore or "by bishops of the proatrat shank but the Wakens of dm other sect—the Baia Peals* °bulb— were net so cod deed. Epiacop toy whisk anis leek a deep root Is flatland, was utterly put down by the ernietian of 1689, sad presbytery was established to lie deed. Dy the 10th Asa, rap. 7. the petitioners wese Mews" to "oda. m *ter swan as they chose, taking the sea alewn tad saiwwwasy. The noble and learned lard preersist hoes the at the English Char& in llesehal, eat the Nose& Clara down to 1792, who oriels idyl lips wavelets& to the latter on their eau tithe th e etch et ,to pray for the royal , sub stabs the arab'. These terns they to is 1804, but they said privately among themselves that they sub. scribed the 39 %Aides, holding them to be in unison with • certain book called" A Layman's account of his faith in the eekcopal ohm& of Sestlancl." In 1840 the late Archbishop of Cantattery brought in a bill to extend certain privileges to these sector's of the epbcorsal church of Scotland, who wanted to be put on a footing with the English church in Scot'ead, and have certain penalties egging them abolished. This, however, having bean done, they wanted to go a little forther, end they wished to discountenance and pat down their brethren of the English church in liesdtlend ; and they Mixed them schismatics and warned all professors of the Cladetian faith net to hold any communion with them. The English church in Scotland, as he had before said, adhered strictly to the liturgy of the church of Eng• lend; but the other met did not. In their communion melee, in praying for a blessing on the elements of the eucharist, they used the words, " that is ma y become the body and blood of Christ" — not " to no , " or re by faith."— Is conclusion the noble and learned lord said he felt the most profound veneration for the English church as established in this country, and which he believed was the most tolerant, peaceable, and kind church in the world. Having read the prayers of the petitioners the noble and learned lord pre sented them to the how*. _ _ _ . . . --- The Bishop of SALISBURY concaned most entirely in I the observation with which the noble and learned lord bad ennelnded his address as to the great importance of avoiding sR bittgIISSIIIN but he must dissent from the statemeat which the noble lord had made as to the state of the episcopal dearth in Scotland. It might be true that that church was a Mmenting body, that it did not enjoy any of the advantages which had been attached to the church which had been este bibbed in this country ; it was unendowed, unprotected, and had bees earned to proscription ; but he could not assent that because that church wee not endowed it was no church at all. One of the greatest orn ors who ever sat on this bench on the oemion of a debate of a similar kind, on the question of passing the act of 1792, which was pro posed by B shop Austin, the then chancellor of Durham, said, " As to Oct interests of episcopacy in ficotlecd, my opinion is unfortunately the very reverse of that of the no b le sa d Th, credit of er:isco?acy will never be advanced by the scheme of suppling epee:op:a iloirgri- station in Seabird with ;senors of our ordinathn. and for this reason, that it would be an imperfect crippled episcopacy. In Scotland we have no authority—there can be no anthc rity there ; the legislature can give us no authority there : the attempt to introduce anything of episcopacy would be a direct infringement of the set of union " lie begged, there fore, to all to the noble lord's attention that when he stated that there were no bishops established by law in Scotland, be might have gone one step farther, and stated that the act of anion provided that there should be so bishops ; and, therefore, the petit'. n was • direct infringement of the act of union. The house could give no other authority except a legal authority. Lord BROUGHAM observed that the petition was not to send bishops, but for • visitation on the part of bishops. The Bishop of SALISBURY read the prayer of the peti tion, to the effect that it might please their lordships to sanc tion and recommend the particular visitation by certain bishops of the Church of England and Irelacd. I. their ! lordships sanction visitation by bishops of the church of Eng ' land and Ireland, in Scotland that could only be by legate , tive enactment. He thought that, as members of the est, - Wished church, they were bound to be very tender and to exerciso careful consideration of the rights of all other bodies equally established by law. - • - The Earl of 813FF5LIE. made as Obsc.vation in reference to the question before the house, the purport of which did not reach the gallery. . . . The Archbishrp of CANTERBURY was indistinctly heard. He was understood to say that he concurred in the last obtorration of the right rev. prelste, and regretted that thin subject had been brought be on their lordship.. The Bishop of GLOUCESTER fully concurred in the estimate expense by the right rev. prelate. He should always be happy to admit any eliminate of the church of England in Scotland who brought testimocials of is good character, although not countersigned by a Scotch bishop. The Duke of ARGYLE called their lordship' ettintion to the fact that, as one branch of the legislature of tele sun try,. it was their right and duty, and it had frequ.ndy been their part, to legislate on the ecclesiastical government of the English church. Therefore they could net be surprised it English clergymen living in Scotland, and suffering under great grievances, should apply to their lordships' house. But it seemed to him that the putieular grievance had b: en essembat overlooked by the right rev. prelate, who spoke W permission, as he understood, of the Bishop r f London. The grievance they complained of was this, that, having eildated in Scotland ass Boulish clergymen, when they re tained to this country ditlicullies were put in their way by these right rev. prelates of the English bench who apnea thbed m the opinions of the Scotch bishops fie teMsd that this grievance would he almost en'irely remedied by the excellent and Chris' ian speech of the fast rev, prelate. The noble lord 'EU& d at some length late • narrative of Sir W. Dunbar's 'moils firm the church, and, in strug language, condemned the conduct of Bishop Skinner. The Bishop of EXETER said the house was greatly obliged to the noble duke for having tendered his advice to them ; only he thought be was a little mistaken in wandering into the topics which he had entered on. He heartily joined in the noble duke's wish that eacunmunication had no longer any temporal effec., and be most sine, rely wished that the day would come when imprivement as a puniehment for such an eoclesiutioil offence would be abolished. He denied that the petitioners, being persons domicil, d in Scot land, had any title to be called members of the Church of England. Their lordships had no right to legislate for the Church of Scotland. Lord BROUGHAM—CaII it the Church in Scotland. The Bishop of EXETER—WouId call it what he pleased. (A loud laugh.) What he meant to say was, that if he spoke against the act of parliament let the noble lord take down his words and cell nim to account. (Oh, " no, no !") Ile oared not for the Lehi* lord's interruption, but he would speak as he thought—and as in his conscience he thought was right of the Church of 13 - .•othtud. The right rev prelate here entered into a comparison of the Mathieu which the Episcopal Church of Scotland received from Kings James 11. and William 111., and stated that he honoured the Scotch spimpalians for their allegiance and loyalty to the house of Stuart. Nothing could be more contradictory than the noble lord's statement, and the views ex pressed by the petitioners them-elves. The right rev, prelate, in conclusion, hoped the church of Christ would always "minis the r:ghts of the illustrious order, and that those rights should be exercised, whatever might be the temporal consequences. Lord BROUGHAM having said a few words across the table in explanation. The Bishop of CASHEL read a letter, addressed to him by a Scotch bishop, to ascertain whether the right rev. pre late sympathised with the Scotch episcopalian church, or concurred in their opinions. To that letter he replied that he sympathised with the lovers of truth in Scotland as well as in England, but not because they were eels°. palians. He felt no more bound to concur with th,m, as episeopalians, than with the Romish episcopelisn church, or any other itomish church in foreign countries merely because they were episcopalism The Earl of IdINTO, although personally Indifferent with respect to the two dissentine bodies established in Scotland, hoped that whatever steps the house might think proper to take, nothing might be done to lead to the recogniMet of episcopacy In Scotland. The Bishop of EXETER wished to remind their lord ships that he had never said a word denying the status, or rights, which the laws had long accorded to the episcopacy. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH defended the episcopalism' of Scotland. They had an ancient church, and all the orders necessary to constitute it. As to the matter upon which so much stress had been laid, respecting the senses read in Scotland, there was • perfect mistake. In some cases there happened to be a difference of opinion &moppet the congre gations, and the two services were then used for the accom sedation of both parties. The Bishop of OXFORD said he could not allow the speech of his right rev. friend to go forth to the world with out offering a few word+ of explanation and remonstrance. (Lord Brougham approached the right rev. seeker, whom he whispered in • very earnest manner, the incident hav ing mild general laughter and merriment.) The Bishop of Oxford hoped their lordships would rive his their attention for a few minutes, while he arwaud the speech of his right rev. brother, as the subject was very pave and mast importenL The histori cal part of the argument relied upon by his right rev. friend was so utterly untenable, that he was quite sur prised it should have been advanced at all. Why, it was a 'postal ietare in the doctrine of the Church of Rome to re jig& eillegother the very words , the very power, for retaining whichllas liturgy now in quo stion was said to be erroneous. (Hat, Um) The doctrine of the Roman church was that fa commotion a mysterious change took place in the ele ments, the substance massing a change, the quality remaining unaltered. The ream why the power remained in the Scottish churls and not in the Eng lish, was that tW English church, deriving the power from a Romish source, rejected it in common with other Romish attribu te, whereas the power held by the Scottish church cams to it, not from a Latin, but from an Oriental sours. (Hear, hear.) The examination in the Scottish church ran thus: Question—Are the bread and wine not changed by consecration ? Answer—Yea, in general, but not Ia substance. In the Roman church the answer was, Yes, in substance , but not in quality — (Mar, MO— so that ' this ultra Roman church, as it had been desi gna ted, differed diametrically in this leading point from the Roman church, of which it was described to be an exaweratien. (Hear, hear.) The Earl of HARROWBY agreed that the difficulty of establishing a kciu .Susdi for interference would be great, and that it would be unwise to seek to remove the diffieelty ; but, as we uadentood the noble earl, he did not admit that the difficulty was insuperable. Earl FOWIS expressed his opinion that the object of the petition was simply to prejudice the cue of Bishop Skinner, which was about to come ruder their lordships' judicial notice, but he was Battened that it would have no such effect upon their hardships' minds. The BM of GALLOWAY said that the reason why the edisemel their lordship was, that they felt they Mi d r s. prieenese which they were entitled to have remedied. The =WO earl =mimed his belief that this grievance, dish was • most serious one on episcopalism, might be re ' MOM without the slightest offence to the presbyteries I WNW, I Lord BROUGHAM put it to the house whether they had net had quite enough of this matter. (" Hear, hear." and • Mash.) The reel grievance was, that an E ng li s h clergy men having resided some time in Soothed oesW not, on his eaters to England, get license to preach. He was mese off MA the feminist priest, whose crdination was recognised la the church of England. The English clergyman under such circumstances was looked upon by certain right rev. prelates as mutely a schismatic from the church of Scotland. The Marquis d LANSDOWNE expressed hie hope that, as Thursday was fixed for the adjourned eozantittee on the navigation laws, they might be pereolted to enter on the discussion without the intervention of any petition relative to the church of Scotland. (Hear, hear.) Petitions ordered to lie on the table. Their brdshipa then adjourns& at 10 o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS-Tuz.DAT, MAt 22. The SPRAWL took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. REPORTS CONSIDERED —B rkeahead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway (abandonment of part of line, extension to London end North-Western Railway, &e.); Coekermonth sod Workington Railway (branch to Bridge foot, amendment of set and pow. r to lease to Wbitehal en Junction Railway Company) ; Cougletan Inclosure Act Amendment; Bills. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. CAMI OF JUttM BIRKS. ♦ rOLICEII•N.-By Mr. OS BORNE, from a policeman of the 1) division named John B3rne, complaining that he had been dismissed without safllient rave, and praying for parliamentary inquily._ • . - - _ Peausaiestrrazt Batas Bita. —By Mr. PLUMPTRE, from several places, against tbis bill. _ ...,... ------ -- . SMITHFIELD MARILIT.—By Mr. C. LUSUINOTON, from butahrrs end other inhabitants of Westminster, against the removal of Smithilsld Market. Rona CoLonmadrum.—By Mr. C. LUSHINGTON, from 700 shoeinalten of London • Mr. P. SCROPE, trots Stroud, praying for home colonis ation in the cultivation of warts lands. _ _ _ P- ROTECTION TO AGRICULTURB —By Mr. PORTAL, from revered plasm in South MUM, in favour of this pre p° ition. MIDICAL RITORII.—By Mr. C. VILLIERS, from Wol verhampton, in favour of medical reform. RELIGIOUS TOLSRATION AND CAST or Ray. MR SNORE. —By Mr. GIBSON, from Manch. star ; Mr. CAULFIELD, .in. Rh • Mr. CC-Monis sore R i.;ree itoelantre, In favour of religion/ toleration, and for the liberation of Mr. Shore. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.—By Lord D. STUART, from St. Pancras, In favour of parliamentary reform, and for the repeal of the Septennial Act. COUNTY COORTS FOR WALILS.--By Mr. COBDEN, from a place in Montgomeryshire, for an extensiorsot the principle of county courts to Wales. Breit Housins.—By Lord R. GROSVENOR, from Mid dlesex ; Mr. P. SCROPE, from a place, name not heard, for the abolition of licenses to beer-houses. COPTHOLDS ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL.—By Major BR RESFORD, from lords of the manor in Essex and Hertford, against this bill. MARRIAGES BILL.--By Sir J. DUCKWORTH, from Exeter, against this bill. NOTICES OF MOTION. LANDLORD AND TENANT, IRELAND.—Mr. J. O'CON NELL, on an early day after the recess, to move for leave to bring in a bill on the subject of landlord and tenant in Ire land. POOR EILIEP.—Lord NUGENT, on Thursday, the 7th of June, to move for a committee to inquire into the practi cability of making the legal charge for the support of the poor a burden cn the general revenue of the country. RECEITERB IN EQUITY, IRELAND. Mr. OSBORNE, on Monday, the 11th of June, to submit a motion relative to receivers under the Court of Chancery in Ireland. POLICE EXPENDITURE —L ,rd D. STUART, on UM day, to move for a committee to inquire into the police ex pendi.ure of the metropolie. COLONIAL EXPENDITURE.— W. MOLESWORTH poesponed until the same day his motion respecting the colonies. PUBLIC RECORDS —Mr. M. MILNES, on en early day after the recce, to moss for leave to bring in a bill to provide a proper place for the safe keeping of the public 'mid,. *salmi bills stood for crasideratioa baron tiro Lords' stoalse WWI castadttee, bet woe all postponed ia COMO quince at Lard dta lasbarrs Indisposition. PR0D1702.-1111necuraums, AT 22.—n. sup , oa ks& bee edam speed u a Ana eseresase, sad the alma al. Irian led bays bees lbadyiphlind Nola 9 fest Mk old 11.119, 1M99 lea _at Ilmallas sell wllb watt lepelile sok, la. le Oat Oa Oa bees ef leadelTersry.lee,.Awbi& ear yes pit et us. le Sea. Oda was tear s( readieal ear. esely • amp brim las leaden la fewlepa abet etlig alma esellea. teems= ef laime is Illwoad. Mad asebst of erle rew WOO sirs—Cite MIAs sell la Wean gee rata; goad relleary oda Coke ie ale a Oak la hour of the laere•—las s kele =ef ebbe Hogg, prhalpelly of Lawlor wiga ll a isle . te 111—efeCTO 011fitr. bat the ykaale - o a pubis ads wel beeght Is.—Ostesa : sled MOW IT TePortra seldr lam MIL 33e. $ le.—Tes Me W. bet ass seem— Not leis Way old ISI. r SM. 13e—the bens leak .14 is le Ida ML—Due lens sat Oa dd. to 861.--17abb Iheras parUy odd I ft ea. 182,41109.90,0 IT0611.0 • 402 , 1 dells barbs la &L— -ayaway nediere.prit KEA Se. Id. te37e—Oarrite sold7es.te 79a Id. —la ether madras alleratica. MINOIIIO LANS, WSDNISDAT Halfrst 711,0.—This art le assidered arttally se leak la 02/Teill mob& , 11 ale hada aka pato, sat a sera alseilesee r rho lear, al wades sena be mired at the ease ate a yealeedey. Of tie d sisa ellverles tram Lambe this year le Mk 1141 , aid es mead 1•8911,10111 e. le the eon Oas bet ; alba resew Belay 11.1101,811 1 et Oskar MOO TANI Ow haw as, ihe belay red Neat esearika 'Ow sleek ia Lard" eadra V, al ale meters i lea; i Ow Mess Ilasias ea the =lra • sumwasib„ wawa v,slo.9B•Da Nil lift lest year. De e Odes war le lest week la Lantos. Liverpool, att. ka; 1011. ad the Clyds 1,9,7,431 re Ile uses pseled lest yea...........„. 1,963,864. Deemer Mae Naas we at rat us 1149 TO tan watt. as. Leedom Li , erpoot Bristol Hull Clyde..... 10,448,995 2,311,363 25 14928 7,879 7N Wel . Imo Vial In ISIS 1 2 , 1 !!!,9ii 15,773,960 Lamas 138,954 OfiScial stook, receipt, wed ipt , deliveries of Tea at Liverpool sod Bristol, from the 3111 of Aysll to the sth of May, ISO i Stock, Awl 5, 1848 11,003,290 lb. 917,932 lb. Imported foe Gomumption 819,634 Received coastwise 44,130 23,184 11.800,294 9714116 Exported ar - id Mores INAS 2,034 Commie, MP. 103,110 Home oceletruptiort HMO 76,344 __. 1 1,35a,139 179,648 Mack, May S 1849 in,sokiss 793,448 land mat iacladed —Wm. Prawn TALLOW.—The market cooties's steady, with not ranch dieing either for goods on the spot or for forwsrd delivery. There is rather more disposition to sell tor the end of the year. The tononlag are the quotattans IPetereburg Y. C. on the spot, We. dd. to Ns.; Oct. to Dee. delivery, Mk. to id.; separate months' delivery, SW. bd. to ad. COALS.—MAT 23. —Ships at market, 81. —Buddle's West Harley, IL. Untied Moor, 135.; Walls End BradylP, Helton, les.; Walls Had Haswe ll , 16s. 9d. ; Wans Lad Hatton les. ed.; Walls Had lasaktilsa. Ha. ; Walls Ead TC4III, Ha dd. COTTON.—lavitsrooi, MAT 22.—The market to day wee steady. sad Ms sake were stout 5,000 balm, including 1,000 1 Min cm apsea MAargazirria ladem , lire V.—The market cantinas. stsedy, I Male • meleede see at of bemires doiriet, at the sanest at Lit week. I* pp os eiallas there is more istmery, y the Mew seil Male of 7.00, Mask am ruble worm to buy to. 1 87 0 ... . 1. • It= 114114 sad the lbw weedities of 74h. remain . Demean sad loan larks, gimmay, show or or ImprovemewL Is ehirtiopy some houses have evert. meld a hater imam' yomemisy sad te4lay. The mos market a Mesa emy mateatel dory, either es regards dmessi or price. li p s i f er =eni Mew ember more finesses then they Ad bet week, la Mita mosteen for alike es. Is gmerel. however, =lrere mole et Ma week's rabic: fin Tins, whale ter the ma lisaikshem memelisteres. hose been to Yr esesset =re het law aye. We hoes est et Maywood sad *fry the ase elok wassiem thew dry woe • flew weeks ligs. Base of Os mayier u then mateowiess a newt le short time main, it teals& mit.risre,-MesicAtirier iftessisar gad Time. WOOLLEN CLOTHS.—Lzuse, MAT 22 —We bad again a geed stlamdmula et menhatala m ear Moth hake this morning, and, although time um min* at meg ado effected as on Saturday, owing, ta awe ma ma% te the warm M the morning, yet a amount at %dam true charht pods of the finer qualities, and morally at Me pekoe Moly asemi, BLANKETB.—Hiciwoximms, MAT 21.—The» was • Tay this attendant* ci buyers ha the blanket ball to-day, and very little buli-eve wee inasseted, but prism remaised at teat wetk's eats, es Ike peke d the raw materiel still matinum relatively MANUFACTURES.-44IIDD1ISTIELD, May 22.—Our minufactozes are somewhat boar to order, and, though our Cloth hall has not b. ea very saloMW, yet a fair a,rouat of bunnies haa bees dose. Low tam goods, of new pattern and style, have tmn sought 'nett. WOOL—MITODZILSPIIILD. May 22.—Our Wool market has been a little more animated dodo, the past week. This arises from the very decided foes that has been shown at the public sales. Auriga' low in price, from Is. to Is. 3d. per lb., has met with reedy sale. 110P3.—Botovon MARK Er.—lferws. Patienden sad Amite repxt that the market =doom Arm, with a alight tendency to stuns. CATTLE, &e—DusaY, If.y 22.—The supply of Beef today vas still leas than it has been for some time ; higher prime were again sited and obtained. The supply of file ep and Lambs was about the average, tad the demand was eat. Fat and store Calves were plentifaL Reef. Std. to ed. ; Mutton, 4d. to ed.; Vcal, 4d. to M. per lb. Lambs, If.. to 31s. Newcarma-uroat-Tirma, May 22.—The market was abundantly supplied with ell kinds of Beasts, and the rates of last week were nay maintained. Instate, inferior to prime, es. 3d. to es. per stone. Sheep. elapsed, sd. ; emoted, W. per lb. Pigs, in good coedition, fle. to Ss. 9d. per stone. Id ii dill. 14_ 19 dia. . Y 36 B 701 0 10 11 31 21 it 12 H dd I 7 ells. 1$ 14 die. 13 14 Ms. lb 31 2/ di. SS 12 11 die. 12 44 IF: 124 34 Si IS IS Ms. 15 1 ii I 111 su bs. S 5 41416 1/ . 7 az tag THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1849. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Mr. NSWDZGATI, II new writ wu or• dere i to issue for South Warwickshire, in the room of E. J. Soirley, Ezq , who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES, Mr. P. SCROPEi;ciaTiuesiionii)iaTiie bon. member for Norh Wilts, namely: Whether the bill on irk ndly societies which he has introduced sill have the effect whieb I. apprehended in some parts of the country, of depriving all societies of the mandgement of their own affairs, end of taking poet mks of their fundslor the one of the government.; Mi.SOTHERON was 111401 obliged to the bon. mem ber Vr Stroud tor asking the question. It was quits true that much alma had risen among pencils who wire not much in the habit of reading acts of parliament, because in one el iuse of his bill the commivi niers for the reduction of the rational debt were mentioned. (A laugh.) They feared that their funds were to be applied to the reduction of the national debt. It was hardly necessary for him to say th.X there was no foundation for the alarm. (Hear, hear.) On the contrary, the object of his bill was to give friendly iocietios proper control over their Weir:, by empowering theca to cell for and examine their accounts whenever they might deem it necessary for the pu-pose of ascertaining their rolvency. BALLINASLOE WORKHOUSE. hr. REINOLDS wished i;l;l7,WietlTer the right hen. baronet, the Secretary for the Rome Department, wu aware rhat in the town cif Baliiniudoe there was one work hous4 btelt to accommodate 1,600 people, and that re eehtiy ton: teen additional houses had been taken by the auardlaos. Whether he knew that in that small t Ain the average ef paupers received into those houses wet 4,000 weekly, and that the average of sick had reached 1,000 in one week. A.so, had the right hon. baronet heard that all this mass of sickncst wa. at'ended by one apothecary, at a 'ahoy of 401 per year, assisted by the organist of the church (as compounder of medicines), at 12s. 6d. a week ? Whe ther the right hon. barenit knew that in three weeks cholera and typhus had carried oft 1,150 of the inmates t (The hon. member was here interrupted by cries of " Omer," and " One at a time.") Sir G. HUEY said be thought he could We the hon. member a good deal of troalil • by stating at once that he was wholly uninformA as to these details. He was aware that great eintions bad been mode by the guardians to ex tend in-door relief, and he lite tie occupation of additional houses. No doubt the mertality had been great; but the week in which it was greatest was that in which cholera broke out in the town, end the houses should, therefore, h►ve been looked upon during that time rather in the light of cholera ho•pitels. (Hear, hear.) As to the nature of the medical aesistance rendered, be c' uld pin the bon. member no information, but certain corn...pond...nee between the commissi ners and the guardians, vs also Lord Clancarty's evidence before tee poor-law committee, would soon be ready, when the bon. member would Le able to acqvire full information. THE DERBY DAY. The Marquis of aiiitNiinWs proceeding, pursuant to notice, to move the adjournment of the house ova. this day, when _ _ . -...- Mr. M. GIBSON asked the Speaker what was the rule of the house relative to notices of motion, and whetter there was anything in the noble lord's motion to take it out of its The SPEAKER said that it had always been the practice of the house to entertain maims for the adjeatrament of the house before entering into the ordinary motions of the day. (Opposition cheers.) Mr. M. GIBSON asked whether the similar motion of het year had bad premience or had come on in its turn. (" Order," and cries of " Go on," addressed to Lord thereby.) The Marquis of GRANBY said, that in submitting to the house the motion of which he had eiven notice, he shou'd need but few words to explain its object. (Chet re and laughter.) Gentlemen who did nut usueelly attend raco courses were yet aware that to-morrow was ' The Derby Day." (Hear, beer) He submitted his motion for ad journment with full confidence because it had been the eutnn of that house from time immemorial. (" Oh, oh," and laughter.) Why, I: had been carried in the previous year by a majority of thirteen, a majority in which the Prime Minister voted. (Hear, hear.) He regretted that he did nut then tr. e the noble lord in his place. (laughter.) the noble lord had supported the motion of lut year cn the ground that the Derby was a grand national Mt*, and he (Lord G. sully) now repeated it on similar grounds. Epsom Downs were open to all ranks, rich and poor, where they met once a-year—he wished they . did so much oftener—tor a cammon purpose, namely, to enjoy the fresh air, and par ticipate in a great national spent. (Hear, hear.) Perhaps he might add that although the house had usua ll y two holidays in this union, they htd this year, in consequence of her Majesty's birthday falling on Saturday, been deprived of one. (Loud laughter.) He would remind bon, members who might vote against his motion, that although they put no restraint on themselves by doing so, yet there were officers of the house—(the noble marqu a here pointed to the clerks' table, and the remainder of the sentence wen lost in a general explosion of laughter.) The question wa put amid loud cries of " Order," SI A grif .e. Mr. AGLIONBY declared his intention of dividing , against the motion. Sir O.GREY said that this was a question for the dis- I Cffleti'll of the house itself, without interference on the part of the government. (Hear, hear.) Mr. AGLIONBY was determined to take a division. (" Divide.") The qoestion was between private pleasure and public business. (Hear, bear.) He had a mat important public measure standing for to-morrow, and should certainly UN every possible means to bring it forward. Mr. S. CRAWFORD took a similar view of the q•cetirn. Mr. C. ANSTEY thought that the bon. member for Cockerm uth would save the time of the house by allowing this motion to pass. He (Mr. Anstey) supported the mo tion as one in favour of a great catholic and national holiday. The hon. ►nd learned member might rest assured that *here was not the slightest chance of making • house, as even those who now voted with him would themselves be off to the Derby. (A laugh.) Every member of the house would be there—(hear, hear)—ond the oily result even of success would be, that the right hon. gentleman in the chair would have to remain at his post from 12 to 4 o'clock. Mr. REYNOLDS did not mean to oppose the motion of the mobil marquis. In a parenthesis he might say that, although "Chatterer" was in great force in the betting, it appeared that the odds would be against him in that house —although confessedly a horse of speed and exceedingly longwinded. (Laughter.) It was quite clear that the hon. and !earned member for Cockermonth had not made up • book. (Continued laughter) To be serious, be could not help 'smirking the alit abed attention with which the house listened to a debate about the Derby, whilst, when he asked a question involving the lives of hundreds of our fellow creatures, considerable impatience was manifested. (" Rear, hear," and cries of " Question" from the opposition.) He did not mean to ruffle the good humour of the everting benches—(lond laughter)—but it had really appeared to him that there was much more anli , ty about the Derby than about the suffering people of Ireland. (Rear, hear.) The house divided— For the motion l3B Against it The result was hailed with loud cheers. Mr. LABODCRERE expressed a hops that the carrying Of the motion would not have the effect of preventing the private committees from siring on the following (this) day, beam.e it would be a gnat hardship and inconvenience to those who were in attendance upon the committees if they should have to incur additional exprnse in coneeguence of all business being suspended upon the Derby day. (Hear, hear.) lie thought it extremely desirable that Om commit tees on private bills should at all events be afforded an op portunity of sitting on the following day, if they should feel so inclined, and he proposed a 'sod= to this effect. Mr. AGLIONSY would not oppose the motion, although he was very much inclined to ask where the difference lay between the transaction of private and public business upon the Derby-day. In reply to Sir W. JoLLtrra, Mr. LABOUCTIERE •aid that a discretion would of course be left to each committee to sit or not, as they might think proper. The motion respecting the sitting of the committees was then put end speed to. SHORTENING THE DURATION OF PARLIA MENTS. Mr. D'EYNCOURT, in rising to move for leave to bring in a bill to shorten the duration of parliaments, admitted that there had not been any great number of petitions of late pre vented in favour of his bill, or any great agitation upon the , subject out of doers. But he knew not that he was justly chargeable with any impropriety if, instead of waiting for the results of agitation and an external ebul i:•teae of feetiee rs.asad any lancer a.. . prevent the Eines. Lion itself frees being fairly, friely, and fully discussed by the house. The house must not suppose that the question , had been forgotten by the people. It was one which bed engaged attention and consideration for the last 200 pats — for 50 years antecedent to the revolution of 1688. Sines the , passing of the Septennial Art there bad been innumerable motions of the nature and character of the one he was sub- mittiog, for repealing that act, and bringing in another to limit the duration of parliaments. It was twelve yams since he first intruded himmlf upon the attention of the house on this subject ; and now again bethought it his duty to assert the claim of the people, and their public right that parliaments should be shortened, and that 'greater degree of responsibility should attach to the hen. members of that house than at tached to them in long parliaments. (Hear.) It was not his intention to fatigue the house with a repetition of the arguments which be had entered into at large in the years 1833, 4, and 5; but he would not be doing justice if he did not briefly lay before them the general state and condition of the question. The hon. member then proceeded to say that up to the reign of the Tudors and Stuarts the parliaments were annual, but that during those raigos that system had been departed from, and the parliaments were held for long and irregular perio ds up to 1604, when the triennial hill was passed. The parliaments continued to be biennial until about 134 years ago when the Septennial Act was pasted. The cense quence, however, of tY e passing of that act was, that in the year 1734, after three parliaments bad been held of six years each, the people of England became disgusted with the new state of things which had been introduced. So great a dif :creme was toned between the Housed Commons under the Septennial Act, and under the Triennial Act, that a motion was made in the house, the result of which was, that Mr. Pultem y and other teen of mete in that day, who had previ ously supported the Sep'eonial Act of 1715, then voted against it. The motion, however, was lot in a house of 400 cot others. The Reform Bill was introduced in 1832 by the noble lord at the head of the present government, and it had been received by the nation with applause and gratitude. That reform had been contended for on two grounds— am. ndment of the representation of the people, and an in crease of the responsibility of members of parliament. This wes the utiles real division of the question of esteem. His noble friend had ably fulfilled in the nude one of these divi- Lens ; the other still remained where it was in 1832. In 1833 this question was nut met by • direct negative. Lord Althore moved the previous question, stating that neither he, the government, nor the house, were then prepared to come to a conclusive determination upon the subject, thereby admitting that it was one which was perfectly fit to be die cussed. In 1834 he (Mr. D'Eynoourt) brought it forward again, and was defeated by • majority of only 37,and in a sub sequent year by a majority of only 9, in a house of 100 mem bers. The hat parliament set for six years. and In the fifth year the core laus were repealed, upon which occasion he recollected it. being argued by hon. gentlemen opposite that it was not wise to pass so important a measure when the par liament was about to expire, as many hon. gentlemen might have forgotten the promises and the pledges which theygave five or six years before. No men could sit in that house with out observing that the vast influence of the crown in the army, navy, and civil departments exercised an influence more or less upon the votes of members of that house, and it was, therefore, the more necessary to place in the hazels of the people a counteracting influence by the frequent oppor tueity of election. He was satisfied that such a measure would do mare than any other to give stability to the insti tutions of the country. He begged to move for leave to bring in • bill for shortening the duration of parliaments. Lord D. STUART seconded the motion. Few questions, he stid, bad more frequently engaged the attention of toe house, or been supported by more able arguments. But, although defeated on former OCUSiOIIII, it had been discussed under similar ircumstance s, and therefore he felt that there was room to hope that th.' proposed measure might find fa vour with the house; eneesure he was that the house, by miming it, would find favour with the country at large. When the question was introduced after the passing of the Reform Bill, it was a fair argument to use against it that it would not be wise, immediately after so great a change, to make further changes still. But that argument could not be used now. The system had been tried, and after an expe reales of 16 years was found wanting, and found to give great dissati,facti 'n to the people. Whatever might be thought of it in ballrooms and In another plan not far off; or upon the racecourse, to which some hots. gentlemen seemed so anxious to go to the neglect of the public busi ness, certain he was that the middle classes of the people were greatly ditestiefied with it, and anxiously desired the change proposed to be effected by the bill now sought to be introduced. It was said that short parliaments would produce heats and animosities ; but surely those which preceded the Septennial Act could not be compared for intensity to these which followed it. Nothing ever exceeded the yiolence and bloodshed which in their own time they had known to occur under the Septennial Att. It was said also that short par liaments would be more expensive. He doubted it, when he called to mind the en emote; sums that had twee sacri ficed at our elections, emotions to the utter ruin of wealthy families. In 1768 the famous contest of the borough of Northampton gave r;sc to an expeediture between the Earls of Northampton, Halifax, and Spencer, who had in fluence in the borough, of 4000001.; one of them having expended 1(0,0001. and the teller two 150,000/, each. Even supposing the expense of short parliaments to be greater in the long run, it would be a less evil to expend =all amounts often than an enormous sum less frequently. But it was avid that to shorten the duration of parliaments weuld be to interfere with the prerogative of the crown. The real object of this prerogative was to give the sovereign the opportunity at any time of ascertain ing the sentiments of the people • and this might be done as well with short parliaments. Villiam IV. had dissolved a parliament which had lasted only nine months; but, under the triennial system, the crown would have just the same prerogative, though the necessity of resettling to its exercise would be less probable. He thought it of importance to the House of Lords that this measure should be ad( pted. While anxious to reserve to the two other branches of the legisla ture their just rights, he would make this house • real repre sentation of the people. The conservative tendencies of the House of Loris were well known ; but he had found that wh , never this house declared its opieion in a decided and continued way the House of Lords withdrew their opposition to the national wish. (Hear, hear.) He presumed the object of the motion pointed to triennial parliaments, but, as it was merely for the re veal of the Septennial Act, all who thought seven years too long would be able to support this motion. Some might be desirous of seeing annual parliaments, and they also might support this =nein as a step towards what they wanted. The noble lord at the heed of the government had last year declared that he should prefer annual to triennial parliaments ; but this, though " open," was probably not advised" speaking. Lord J. RUSSELL.—I said I was against both. Lord D. C. STUART hoped that all who were anxious for financial reform and for the extinction of abuses in every department, would vote fur the repeal of the Sep- Jamul Act—a repeal which had been demanded by the people upwards of 100 years—had been advocated by Pitt, Chatham, Romilly, and Mackintosh, and which was not revolutionary, but tended to the security of the crown and the well-being of the people. (Hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL said he considered this as, in fact, a motion for shortening the duration of parliaments to three ast becertafaii:thorllyyekepre,idieindtrelistntelpy7wpdifenr:y. yeas; hon. mover. this question should The n w o cussed. It bad bean truly stated that there was not much agitation in the public mind on the s ubjec t; and, 4 4 i ' e rd d is w c h on o te had nt with lagi w th h o o ug e h xp t r h esse e noble lord were to be found in omnibuses and other public conveyances Bement, be doubted very much whether they wished the duration of parliament to be shortened, and whether that would afford a remedy for any of the public grievances. He did not attach much importance to that very usual expression, that there was much to be found fault with and a great deal to mend. An Englishman of considerable talent, who had passed much of his life abroad, once said i that, on cominginto this country, if a person shut his eyes sad opened his ears, he would suppose that this was one of the meet miserable nations in existence; but that if he took the opposite course, he would think it one of the happiest (Laughter.) There was • general dis position in this country, from which undoubtedly a great deal of improvements flowed, to find fault with things existing. and to suppose that great amendments might take place. (Hear, hear.) Such beipg the want of general excitement on this particular subject,liis right hon. friend had stated that he had not made this motion for the last 12 years and he had implied a sort of threat that if it were not now agreed to, in the course of another 12 years he would again bring it forward. (Laughter.) This was a very prudent and wise course; if he were not in a majority, he NU quite right in letting 12 years pass, again giving a no tice, and bringing the subject, mutely and ably as he had now done, mailer the consideration et the licuseTTlie of the resolution tusked if he (Lord J. Russell) was D to state that he thought seven years the best t erm meets to endure. From his experi ecce s i nce tee p,„P,''''‘ the Reform Bill, now several years, his decided mot! was that it was better not in any limy to 0 . 4". present duration of parliaments. If t r i een e d e were canted into effect, there might o ft en b e a dneelatilis the end of the second year ; and it wou ld be foiled that during the first year of that House of Commges there *see be a great deal of time lest, by the want of experia ece many new member, by the pregengation of debt et %MOM 6 foxily, by gentlemen who were anxious to take an acne. in the debates, and who had net before bad m a sea's • ,F' the third year of such parliaments th ere would be'foud disposition to decide on many gestations which might h& j , an immediate effect on the approachie g geoetal •hw e, - Thus, in two out of the three parr, the trensection of et; public business would be much disturbed—i n He 6:st liar by the went of experience, in the last by log kine tee anxiously and intently on the election likely to take e 7..7 He would ask any gentleman who r eco ll ected the last 'ehiies years if some or those evils had not been fused in the last and first years of parliaments? And this " of more coesequence now than in the days of our as eeewp. Comparing the public business then transacted, th e euew of measures and the qtr ations of administ rat i on this de . bated, with the immense empire while cocceres they now to deliberate upon, speaking one day of the Mire of India, another of those of Canada, then turning th e w enea. tion home, and discussing whether their commereial p w ..• wes sound, and again occupying a cense', r e ld e t i me ia dee. berating on the affairs of Ireland, it would be sem t h at hardly too much importance could be atts bed te, tee s n. sideratiou that that house ought to be a h we let lira • wisdom, ready to undertake the beelines com ae p ews them as men used to the transaction of busimeg, and de, w decide the great end important eue adore upon which the web fare of the country depsnded, without En immediate refee tee to a then pending election, or the fear of cunsti'u nts, ye ws displeasure they might for a time incur. lie had wen many instances where members bad voted against west appeared to be the overtime , e' — se...in:lentil, led ales want* thaw ought them wrong at the uoiews admitted that they had worthily and properly d s.11;1 their duties, and had confi'aed iueir inrenatx to this so, with full confidence. The bill for estahlisbirg Ma lta* some three years ago was en instance of that kind. (g ee. bear.) He bad never known much greater clam lee r e ed against any measure ; innumerable letters were m menet" almost every member, himself amongst the f. et, threaten. that they should never again receive a vote hem ce r ewel their constituents if they persisted in voting tor the bill, Bat the discussion went on, members did their duty, sty gig right in voting for the bill in mei Lance to that demur, ad the public opinion was in the end sathfied that the te e " was a right and a wise one, and that independent m. who bed dspass their duty in supporting the mivernment on thatecesme, He would not say such would be the eve were the aim dos of parliaments greatly shortened, were the knee:etas that an election was immediatgly to intuit to peeve f e el third year, and were exaggerated ri ports circulatid auto electors in the absence of members, as to the nature of the measures before parliament. (Hear, hear) Tr ee e was said there were greater means of cnnumien in leg Parliaments than in sheet ones. Considering the form d public opinion at this time, he did not think the ii fiance of the crown, under any administration of late emirs, lug prevailed as against tee independent cpiniens if el ec t ors But if it were a question in which kind cf parliseeet it would prevail most, he should say the short, r the pubs, mint the greater would be the numher ef nienalere I.kely to entertain hopes of securing the government patronage. They would be much m ire likely to he infitterced by gs. vreenent than in a p aliment which had to site. vete tem, whose members were well t equainted wilt the remelt ea disappointments they had to sublet to. lie certainly eine to the concluelon that there was no reason for disturbingthe present duration of perliame nes. Whether six yr ars was the best period he !mealy thou eht it necessary to aim on od. nion ; whether it was five or six yearn did not seem of great importance • but he had certainly thought at one t i me t h at five would 'be better than seven. He did not remember that he ever was in favour of three years. He c, rsiaiy thought at one time, as a general question. that fire yean would be better; but there was no sufficient name fee making a change which would only dimieida the pitied eas year. Six years was not excessive, ord this wee only the period to which a parliament might extend; for in tie 1$ years fr, m 1826 to 1841 there had been no has than six pat. liaments, giving an average duration of two yews sad a half. By diminishing the period to three years thy wield certuinly control the permeative of the crown, which, is cases where the number, on each ride were (quell tehmed, or where a mie .rity opposed the supplies or ore. acv mu. sures of government, emegled the crown to 'tip- it men decision of the people. But the right hon. gentlemen said there was no example in Europe of a legisletire hoe , I .suog seven year,; five and four years were more quiet limits. With great deference to the right hon. gentle man, he we not disposed to borrow from these new Europese ennstitie elope. (Hear, hear) We had seen the monarchy of France overthrown, and the advisers of the crows exposed to the tide of popular disapprobation, (H er) But they had seen likewise that the form of goverment which succeeded bad not es•ablished its If i public opiaior, and that those who, with the most brilliant t a lent s end the moat unquestionable integrity, had declared them- Ire the favourers of the form of government then meal tidied, had them: elves fallen in a few days under the digpleicure tithe name popular opinion which tad overthrown ere m He should conclude, ea he had Mine on former oe , .ei n., by opposing his right hon. ft iences mating. He chime think that the duration of parliament was ton long. He though, that public opinion had a very great infleence on the mem'. n of that bowie, and that if they were to make electives so es. see dicey frequent as his right hon. frier,d prep , d, they wculd lose mueh on the ground of puelic M.( urity, u ucb ex the ground of habits of business, much on the groto.d of to stability of their councils and the due defile rrion i f pubes measures, and that they world not gain in vhiic I:hirty soy thing to counteract the disadvantages which lie tad not stated. (Cheers.) Mr. 8. CRAWFORD said that in discussing this quetion it was right to know what the con•titution wars—whether that hour. waste represent the people. If that was the eon stitutiop, then this house ought to he under the epute.,l of the people. But the people ceutploine d that this boom did not fairly Term seat thc:r wishes and tidings, ►nd one of the causes why it diet not was owing to the duration of parlit. mint. He oid not think that frequent elections would give rise •to frequent changes in the persons elected. On the contrary, he believed that those who did their doty would have a better chance of being re-elected this under the present system, and that treater her. rawly and good feeling wend exist between the representatives and the represented. (War, bear.) But be did not ti ink it would be worth while to promote a change, for the purpose of establishing a five yeas' durrion of parliament. Indeed he hardly thought it worth while to promote a change for triennial parliaments; but et the some time, as triennial parliaments was the princi, le of the old constitution, he was willing to take that step. (Hear, hear.) - - - - The house then divided— Far the motion Against it 4l-5 The announcement of the numbers was rt edged a ith loud cheers by the liberal members in the house. Mr. SLANEY, in moving for the sepointment of a vend ing committee, or unpaid commission, to consider a• ,d report from time to time on practical measures (unconnected with political changes), likely to improve the conditicin of the working classes, to encourage their industry, as d increase their contentment, ca 'd that so far as the ohket of his motion went, he felt certain it would have the approval of gentlemen on all sides of the house ; but he felt bound to make out a strong cue, in order to induce her Majesty's Rovers rent to make the conceesinn which he proposed. He troitc Ihe would be able to nuke out ouch a case. The danger he bad ' to encounter was not opposition to his arguments, or contra diction of his forts, but that gentlemen on bsth sides of the house would sally out to dinner, and that the pr icees usual on ouch a state of things, that of counting out the house, would be resorted to. (Laughter.) If that were the Mel he would not use any harsh expressions or exhibit any impa tience, but would wait with good temper and a good cause till a more favourable opportunity presented itself of renews ins the subject. The great body of the labourers of this coun try were divided into the agricultural and the manufacturil classes, and every person who considered the subject west confess that whilst the wealthier and middle class had made groat progress in prosperity, the working class, to whose dustryand indomitable perseverance they owed ro much, had not advanced in anything like the same proportion. In 1817 and 1819 committees of that house Lad sat and reported oa the condition of the labouring population of the southern counties of England, who were suffering extremely Irons abuses in the law. A committee had sat afterwards on the same subject in 1830, but nothing had been done to remedy these abuses till the amendment of the Poor Law Act in 1835. 'these abuses existed in twenty-six counties, along a line drawn south of the Hua.ber to the Severn, for twenty years. The int fence which he drew from this was, that if there had been a commission or board established to watch over :he condition of the working dirties, those abuses could not have existed for so long a period without a remedy. The condition ct the un skilled labouring population of their large towns end mining districts, use not better thaw that of the rural popula tion. In 1839 the report of the poor-law commi.sioners gave a strong description of the miserable state of the eastern part of the metropolis. In 1840, the commissioners ap pointed for the purpose of inquiring into the sanitary condition' of the population of their large town, com plained of the want of drainage, and the defective sanitary regulations which generally prevailed. In 1840, 1843, and 1845, similar inquiries were made, and yet nothing was d .ne. The same thing was stated in relation to the labouring popu lation of the coal fields throughout the kingdom. The band loom weavers and their families formed a boiy of no less than 600,000 persons, and the report said that they were in great &Orem, the cause of which was the disproportion between the supply of labour sod the demand for it. The remedy, the commissioner* observed , must be sought in their own activity, intelligence, sele dental, and prudence; but they added that the possession of these qualities was the re sult of a good education, which few of the labouring classes received. The last class which he had to mention was that of railway labourers, comprising with their families 600,000 persons. The evils under which this body laboured were u great as thou which attached to the other classes he had described. Various measures of relief were necessary. First, they should provide for the education of the people; secondly, they should seek to preset ve their health ; thirdly, they should g ive them greater facilities for investing their small savings. A commission, consisting of practical men, with cool heads aid warm hearts, and whose functions wero rather suggestive than administrative, might be the lastest ment of effecting great improvements. An Hose. MEMBER here moved that the house be counted, and, there not being 40 members present, the house ad journed until Thursday.