The Express. — London, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

gOIPIRANSVATION 01 POOL-LAW 0771 CW—By Mr. WIN, boo liositoe ; Sir C. BURILELL, frost a warn to g o ons ; awl Mr. BROTHEIiTON, from s asks is Lw ow. praying fat a sapsramautka Rat far pm-law CEYLON AND MIME GUIANA. 111 r. RUNE gam amiss that. sa that day week, if the Wee Weld into committee of grapple, be would submit the gamin amolistim; and he reepewfully submitted that the *nip Dews which bad reached Lasdon that day rendered le sat impsetsat that the goverment should allow au early eg les appointed for the discussion of the subject. would be, " That it somas by the evidence s a d a nippectiali Cnioa sad British Guiana, that the ;Green mat o r these idea& bas bees carried on in opposaion to lie views of the sambas of the legislature, and to the great e a gy ag eere of Ceylon, and that the house is of opinion that** time has arrived whoa the expeuditure of the solo. w e e cheek be reduced with a view to the presemstios.of pew sad mew. The boa. ameba observed that he weal gas the wan of the how span this motion, it being was emy that the house should dad& something, iasemmh as the committee up stain, who had been receiving 'widow. hid WA os yet &aided wiseetiog. (" Hoer," and • laugh.) THE PALACE COURT. (SRORNE wished to put a Rumba to the boa. try Ar Marylebrue apt. a subject resposctiog whisk p D rWW sanity was mimed out of doses. He derikrA to l a m what coarse the noble lord meat to purees about ths Palen Court Lord D. STUART begged to say la reply that he had cot given say notice of a swam with respect to this palace soars hitherto. He had manly combed himself to NIVIin fersome Mums with regard to that court. If he should gad that the government did sot intend to bring in a bill /ac the purpose in question, be should himself introduce a mama% which he hoped would rawly, the support of the hos. and gallant member for Middlesex. (Hoar.) IiEBELLION LOSSES IN CANADA. Mr. GLADSTONE pare notice that on gelog into com mittee of supply on the miscellaneons estimates, on a future evening, he wuuld ash the attention of the luaus to certain parts of the recent act for providicg nnstpeneation for rebel lion lasses in Canada and to papers relating to the lame. NENAOH UNION. Mr. J. O'CONNELL, In the absence of the hon. member fee Tipperary (Mr. Sadly), wise had given nodes en the subject, mead few sepias of say wawa' from • meeting of the ratepayers of Nenegh Mika held an the 6th ult., to the gear law comnitaionen, end any corremondenee in relation themto.—Acreed to. THE CHARTER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGES. The Marquis of ORANBY asked the Lord Advocate whether it was his intention to embrace in his promised me dial bill, or by any other means to make an alteration In the existing charter of the Royal College of Surecom of England, es well as of the Royal Collate of Physicians of London. by wlllott the grieves's' that the great body of its niensban have complained ot, and petitioned against, shall be redressed. The LORD ADVOCATE was understood to reply that was Lot intended to alter the dater 10 far as the would of Semmes wee concerned, but that he tulle= It he neessesry to make an alteration is the charter of the Royal College of Physicians in Lowden. ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. Mr. HORSHAN begged the noble lord at the head of the mamma to explain the course hi meat to pursue with reference to the Nocladastlea Commission Bill and the ma tory of Bishop Wanneuth ? Lord J. RUSSELL said that, with meet to the Bale 'Usti& Commission BM, he proposed to ask the house to go into committee upon it,pro forma, on Friday. The matters relating to the rectory of Bishop Wearwouth, which would be disposed of by en order in council, was at present in the hands of the law °Seen of the crown, and would be sub mitted by them is a few days. --- • -- - EDUCATION AND ART. Mr. EWART expromed • hope that a statement would be nude by a minister of the (TOMS, of the appropriation sad results of the sums voted for education, as well as of the sums voted for the promotion of literature mimeo , and art, on the intro.: uction of the class of estima tes especially devoted to those sufjeets. Sir O. GItEY said that ample details on these subjects had beta given by the committee of conneil of education, and that if be were to make a statement relative to the appro. priation and results of the sums voted, it must necessarily wand of an abridgment merely or what they had sot ftrth at considerable Isiusth. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Mr. F. O'CI.)NNOR begged to ask the hon. member for Montrose (Mr. Hume), wheth.r ha would b r i ng f orwar d hie motion relative to parliamentary reform to morrow (this day.) His object in putting the question was this :it the hon. amber for Montrose would submit his motion on the following day, then he (Hr. F. O'Connor) was nuthoribed to withdraw the amendment of which notice had been given by the hen. member for Hooladale (Hr. 8. Crawford), who was at prment la. =der indisposition. That amendment was to the un at the suave be extendad to every adult male of legal se, of sound mind, and not dboualified by conviction of mine, end who has resided far a hoed period, and been duly reghta rod, in one locality. Mr. HUMS said it was his full intention to submit his Mahal hr wham:stag Worm on the following day. (Hew. last Mr. F. O'CONNOR—Tim n 1 beg team to withdrew the iseadoent el the hes. member for Rothciale. Mr. DRIOHT—Is the hem. member for Rochdale in disprmea Mr. F. O'CONNOR—I said he was. INCOMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. rpm the order of the day being reed for the third reading M tho bill, Sir L. O'BRIEN moved as ea amendment that it be recd • third time that dry six months. Its said hie opposition to Ilho immure would matinee unshated, mule,. the Games line tirsisbed him of the corn Winners whom it wee I.ro pool to eppolot for the transfer and sale of the Irish estates. GAL DUNNE reee•ded the amendment. - - • it. 13ROOAN protested against the plaint of a bill tibia pissed such extensive powers and control over the while lend of Udine in the hands of coessaissimaam who 1991. set mined. There should at least be some security ghee as to their character and capabilities. Mr. NAPIER else opposed the aird reading. He OW thrred in many of the ohjects of the measure ; he thought tt was very right to aft id great. r facilities for the seta of estates in Ireland; but he saw no mum, in order to the: object, that the Court of Chancery should be set side sad three c-neminioners appointed, with eateries to the amount of 7,00 W., to be paid out of the public purse. and with powers greeter than aerie poems. d by the Lord Chan cellor and Mawr of the 1011 s. Ile did not hesitate ti say, 90 strongly did he object to this measure, that it would strike at the reeled society and injure the conscitusion of the covistry, by taking the rights of property from under the contest of the ordinary law of the land. On behalf of the members of his prefers:on, he claimed the credit of the it being honestly anxious to (Maga the welfare of their country, and not opposing this measure from any interested motive. Their principal objection to it was, that it went to supersede the cwrisof equity in Ir.land, and to empower certain persons cal.ed commissioners to frame rates which it wee assumed musters in chancery were in. espable of doing. It they did so, let the responsibility h- on themselves; he should have the satisfaction of having done all in his power to avert the evil. Mr. SADLEIR Batiks teak a very different view of the bill hos that takes by the hon and learned gentleman who bad jut sat down. He had resisted assay proviei ns of the In cumbered Estates Act of lust reason, and had precreted that that act would be thereby rendered abortive, which bed caw had proved to be the . It d operated, and would conUese to operate, as a practical preventi. n of the investment of capital os mortgage of land in In land—a molt muck to be deplored. He regretted that the present bi:l did net contain a clause repealing that of the last tendon, and re enacting the two or three useful provisiors which it see- Lined. In supporting the third reading of this bill, as a step in the right direction, he would urge en the SolicatorHeneral the necessity of adding other prev4 slow, lest the measure should break down for want of pow chasers. (Hear, bear.) Many of the suggestions of 'ebb members bad been adopted in the bill; but he re. petted that provision was not made for enabling the owners of life-iatereetn to put the act in force. He thought that without an efacient ',stem of registration persons Wadi be indisposed to ems forward to purehue estates in Ir.land, Mr. HENLEY thought the hon. gentleman who had just sat down rather inesnsicent in supporting a measure with which be bad found so many faults. He sh'uld oppose the third reading of the bill, because it came before them under a title whirl was not true. It did not deal with encumbered estates alone. It might be a very good object for the benefit of the country to let loom a number of encumbered eetatee t bat they did not cor fine the operation of the bCI to that orajees, nor did they give any security that the bill would be ap plied to that object. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he would not this ge into the minute details of the bill, which had Men already discussed in committee, but would confine himself to the leading points which ha d been introduced by the hon. mem ber for Oxfordshire and the hon. member fur °seine. The objection thst the bell would supersede the existing tribunate of the cienatry was One which have struck every one. His hoe. and learned friend said, " Why not MMus the Conn of Chancery ?" and he also asked whether the present Lord Chancellor was not competent to carry tk• swum into erect? Ho (the Solicitor.GeneraT) would be second to no one in praising the present Lord Chancellor of Ireland, sod it was a great source of satisfaction to him that the bill had the fill sanction and approbation of that mint Issilinf judge ; but there was a meat difference between attempting to reform an old-established systems and modem Veth to establish ecimething of a tens nature to effem Eat whisk the old ,ena was found No of Aim. There were, es bad seen pointed cut byte right IS. rimmber Ae Tazaworth, many eases with which the Coast of Obansery was incompetent to deal, arising partly hem the *a of the system of that Court, - and Pc* Iheirte ll aatan if the ementhnstes. Instead efalempling M elk= the 11 1 01.1111 is a manner is which wadi sem =Meth be met by meta helmets, fths Valium of miens kwadpllems, It lei eppsered desir , able le appelat three pumas %My dawn Meer rule* and • P i tr issi of precisfuen, and. V gettieg rid of *very species ity, to an at enhateskaljustice—the sale of the Waled the Sivhlss d thei=7o a 91% these ° who Ink neap te them. thh money rt him the splint ef the Genet kW sad :night wost 2 2, k h More tomemthe IM ihnellene owe eisetnelly. 12 ° temusiesionas wad i, a h• messivelhem me difficulty tbalr They wadi love two amen emm with some Urged gni Meet nails.. totted ; and, while the latter would be disposed o f i rapi dly, a is the settlement of the former the son Off would have the assistance of all the courts in Ireland. The general operation of the bill would be to enable landlords to perform their 'nisi duties more effectually. One effeet would be to introduce a new class of pirebseen. What woe especially wanted in Ireland at the prawn time was security for the invennent of capitol, and it would be afforded by this bill. He and, before sitting down, publicly ettprese his gratitude to hie esteemed friend Mr. Coulson, wines peat ability end legal lessor/lees had greatly Rosined him Solicitor• General) is introducing and forwarding a bill Intended to effect refuse which were essential to the rep aeration of the rights of property is Ireland. (Hear. hear.) The house then divided— DoT ~me~am:at l2 Against ft The bdl wen then nod • third time. SUPPLY. Oa the mottos for song into cosuettteo of npply, -•- • • - Sir H. WILLOWIEIBir sold Ise wished to pot Wipteetion to the right be.. genHoman, the Chasseilor of tisExeltequer. Is the report of the ONlMiltell oaths oderolleseeoe estimates which galled session, it was stated in the lest that the Chancellor of the Exchequer having toritd the estimates with the utmost care had made reductionsto the sueount of 246,0001., the total amount requited being 3,700,0001, ie Mead of 3,946,0001. It now appeared from Use papers laid on the table that 3,946,0001. had been spent. He would be glad to have this apparent ineensisteney explained. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was under stood to reply that formerly it was customary M vote the pose amount without including the fees, and that in the case rewind to the vete included these. The house then went into committee et apply. The kllowing rates were agreed to: 110,1171. for super annuation. and retired allowances, sad compensations to persons formerly employed in the public ennui 4,1001. for Toulonese and Coral= emigrants. In, and American loyalists; 2,0001. for the National Vann, Establishment ; 2,0001. towards the support of the Refuge for the Destitug. Oa the proposal to grant 8,9901. for Polish refugees and dirrened Spaniards, An Ron. X said he thought it was bighting that a stop should be pat to these Polish grants. Everyone must be aware what a prrannent part the Polish anion bad taken during the past year in the affairs of Europe. No one who had watched the coins of avant/ could be ignorant that no revolution had bracts' out in any country in Europe in which the Peke bad not taken a pennant sad dlitingunbed part. (Laughter.) No doubt there were amongst them a great many excellent and worthy men, and amongst the number of such was a Polish nobleman who had distinguished himself by his benevolent exertions is the sister country. At the same time he thought the house and the country should be made aware hew the money voted annually was spent, who re solved it, and how the distribution was osanaggd—points ca which they were all at present la perfect igneranes. If any bon. lumber would co into the lobby with him he would certainly divide against the vote. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the house would renumber that last year be promised that it should be made into the circumstances of thii ime sad that these names which had been improperly r ed should be struck off. His don. friend the Beeretary to the Treasury, with the assistance of the Lords of the Treasury, bad made the promised inquiry. The result was that several IMMO bed been straek off ; in other eases the parties had resigned; sad there was • third claw, below a certain age, to who no ellevranem would be made beyond the year. It would have been • very herd measure to have street all the names off the list at once. In regard to those who had no means of nssiateasam whatever, and who must either be maintained by a palish or by the nation, he thought it was tar better to continue to them for a time the allowance which had hitherto been made. His hem. friend would per ceive from the estimates that the vote had been reduced from 10,7001. to 8,9901., and after this year it would be re duced to 2,8001. The nut vote was 6,4231. for miscellaneous &newsman, to:steely defrayed from the civil list, the hereditary re venues, site., for which no permanent provision had been made by parliament. Mr. LUSHINGTON said that early is the session he bad given notice of his intention to oppose suck portion of this vote as related to the dissenters' Regimen Datum, and he bad fully intended to carry out this announcement, bet find. deg that during the melon the din enters themselves had taken so steps, by petitioning the house, to strengthen his hands, he should net proceed in his opposition. Mr. WYLD could assure the bon. gentleman that the dissenters of England were as decided as ever in their oppo sition to the grant, and they had only abstained from yeti tioning parliament on the subject because they considered that as parliament was sow constituted their petitions would not much avail them. It was certainly a meet ex. teaordinary thing that year after year parliament should vote • sum of money to babes who repudiated it. As to the grant itself, were it really needed and solicited, the amount given was absurd, insulting. If divided among the ministers of the three denominations who alone partici pated in it, the amount received by each would be just per annum. Unless an matinee* were given that this grant would not be renewed, he should at oace move its rejection. Lord J. RUSSELL could not give the assurance required. So far from the grant being repudiated by the &miners, it was most gratefully received by Dr. Rees and the other dtstributers on the part of the recipients. It had been annually distributed since the time of George 1. *moos persons whose necessities rendered it a most acceptable charity, and he could not understand how it could be denounced as as Insult. Mr. J. B. SMITH sail that at all events the government should furnish a list of the recipients, that the rublic might jade* of their worthiatea At present, nobody knew upon whom the benefactors were bestowed. Lord J. RUSSELL avid the government could give no list. The government did not themselves know who the recipients were. Mr. BRIGHT snared the boa. member for Wes' minsar that the dissenters had la no degree relaxed in their an tipathy to this grant. (H.er, hear.) He considered it grossly uneonititutional on the pert or the Treasury to die. pens* this amount of tuition without, at all events, fur nishing a periodical list of the recipients. It was not at all the Met that this sum of 1,6051. sun distributed among more than 1,004 ministers. He did not believe that there were in the whole country 1,000 ministers so necessitous, and, even if necessitous, so menthe to accept the paltry 2.15. mentioned. hear.) As to • lis: of recipiosts, most certainly the first list famahed, ot actual miniests, would be the last, fee no congregation would permit la minister to retain his same on ouch a list, but would at once take steps for reliev ing his ascertained necessities. Mr. W. J. FOX repudiated the suggestion that any dis senting minister found worthy of • congregation needed such paltry alms. Mr. KERSHAW said that one of the denominations which had credit, or rather discredit, as recipients of this wretched alias, gave every year to one single society more than 50,000/. Lord J. RUSSELL thought it would be sufficient if the minus of the distributing committee, of three members a each recipient denomination, were annually laid before parliament. Mr. BRIGHT said people already knew who were the eight or Line men forming the committee, and people also knew that the real distribution and patronage altogether vestel in one or two active members of that committee. The noble lord, who himself was reputed to have at one time at tended a dissenting chapel until he was frightened out of it by hon. gentlemen opposite—(groat hughter)—ought t 3 be better acquainted than he seemed to be with the sentiments of .tisseaten on the subject. The committee divided— For the !rant 52 Against it ?dr. J. B. SMITH asked how much longer the descendants of Sir Thomas Clams were to have 500/. per annum of the public money. Since this preposterous annuity had been granted by Charles 11., the descendants of the grantee had received mere than a million sterling of the taxes. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the grant was originally payable out of the hen ditary reve nues of the crows, which were clearly at the disposal of the sovereign for the time then kin,. 'These hereditary reve nues had sines been given up to the public for a considera tion, but given up with all charges apart them ; and the de seetdante of Sir Thomas Merges were es much entitled to their annuity as any gentleman in the house to his estates. The grant was then agreed to. The next vote was for 1,0001. to defray the expense of the Foondling Hospital, Dublin.—Agreed to. The next vote was for 12,0331., to defray the expense of the Houses of Industry, Dublin.—Agreed to. The next vote waster 8001., to support the Female Orphan Asylum, Dubin. Mr. FAGAN objected to the exclu , iveness of the appra rimiest' of this vote, which was entirely devoted to pro testante. Sir W. SOMERVILLE said the objection was well grounded, but every year the vote wee diminished, and it would soon disappear from the estimates. The following Vail were then agreed to : 2,2501. for the Westmorland Lock Hospital, Dublin. 8001. for the Lying-in Hospital, Dublin. 1,6001. for Dr. Staievens's Hospital, Dublin. 3,8001, for the House of Recovery, Dublin. 6001. for the Hospital for Incurables, 37,1831. for sou-conforming, seceding, sad protestant die, minting ministers, Ireland. 7,0964. for charitable SUOWILSON mmaideration fund, Ireland. 1,0001. further, on account of the Metropolitan Senitasy Cesandallon. 14.7621. for the 0 I Board of Health. 2,4171. for the Central Board of Health, Dahlia. 16,0001. for one moiety of the met of works of navigation and &eisags in Ireland. OHM In works and repairs of the British ambeenthe's keen at Pais. WOOL >IK rebuilding the British ambastador's house at ConstoMhoegin 160001. he the militia and volunteers in Canada. The OMAXCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, is answer to a quail= put by Mr. V. Barra, said that this vote would digs peem Mem the estimates pretested to parliament after Apt% ISO. 1,3001. for liokdiosses at the Bermase, Cape Ran, Table V a lise Seeds, He. he the lomboar of reap at Lybita. tie esker theorem of the emoting:Mt de. psolment. OAR to provide for the half-pay and supeeennuation alimeneses. The Czhismax mend that he do report pogrom THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY 3VENIN4, JUNE 5, 1849: Oa tits question that the resolutions be reported to the home, Kr. V. SMITH Wished whether the commission upon the ninthly al law was luny eked ? ——- - - Si, 0. GREY said that farther motley would be ap propriated to the um of the cousheioa. Ooe of the cm mietioners had recently died, and it was not thought agora airy to appoint another gentleman in his place. -- ------ - - Mr. V. SMITH mid there votes had pissed the commit tee with very little observation. He thought it well to o►- serre, however, that that large vote of 483,0001. for the com mi•sariat department bed been brought on without notice. The neolutions were then reported to the holes. Mr. BERNAL brJught up the report on supply agreed toon Friday night, when each vote was pat seriatosa. On the question of the vote of 103,4631. granted for royal pshsoss and public buildings, Mr. J. NiYLD referred to an item of 1,2961. on behalf of the mihtary kniehts of Winhor, and inquired what por tion of that sera was applied to the repair of tha house of the military knights. The ATTORNSIT.GENBRALwaI nudentool to reply that the whole seta was available for that purpcse. The vote sad several other resolutions were then gone tensile* upon a !ergs wale of a system of transportation. I. thought there wo 2ld be great danger in adopting the wieomniendation of a tali' tariff by the authositi of Par liament. We had not, al yep, meddled with the customs duties in the eeloske except where .7otaldow offered and de manded, and th ee t i m e, t h e g eetet ew for the Catanial. But he wee startled by the proposal of the dira7. 4 interfere' , " of parliameat Mr. V. SMITH concurred in almost every opinion ex pressed by the right hon. gentleman who had just sat down. He felt with him tbat great difficulty would attend the for nation of a single chamber. Whether It should be a tingle or double chamber was a most momentous question in pro posing a federal government for these colonies. Mr. WOREGOR conceived the measure one of the most liberal that had been brought forward for the esti:mass. Mr. B. DENISON was anxious that time should be given for the discussion of the measure. Lord J. RUSSELL said there was an act of the imperial parliament which regulated the price of lend ; sad it would not be in the power of the colonial legislatures to alter acts of the impend parliament. Whether or not they sheu'd have that power in this particular case, would bs • very proper question to discuss when the bill was furater con sidered; but he wished to discuss theses questions as little as possible at that moment. He had heard with great in- i Wrest the suggestions of the right hon, gentleman opposite' (Hr. Gladstone); their consideration he would reserve roe the future stages of the bill. One point, or whisk he had laid considerable strew, wee no doubt of peat isportenee—whether there should be one ateumbly, or • council and an assembly, according Is M form of government in some of our older colonies. Tee right hon. gentleman had hardly given sufficient weight to the objeuims made in New South Wales Well to the proposal of having a council and an assembly. He said that' in the Ur Led States the iastitutim of the senate was of the g et importance, and most %shields in meintaining the harmony of the whole state and the genteel wetting of the constitution. He (Lord J. Russell) quite agreed in that ; a body like the senate of the United States could not but be of the greatest value ; and the good working of the Ue iced States constitution was mainly owing to the particular Lem ice wflok the moats had been framed. (Hear, hear.) Bat it wastruly sail, that the whole value of such • body mast depend upon the elements of whisk it was cone Need. The senate of the United States con sisted of men of weight and conelderatioa, minted by the legislatures of the separate states; and hens the great authority which they possessed in their combined enpacity. Thom who objected to such a constitution for New South Wales said that there were no such materiels from which to form a emunil, end that in the absence of persons of property and consideration from which an independent body might be chmea by the crown the council would be mere nominees of the crown, persons who, if they Interposed between the ex ecutitie and the assembly, would take away arose the former the responsibility of putting its veto upon certain acts of the assembly, and at the same time would not have any ouch weight, derived from personal influence sad character, at would enable them to exercise the requisite math . rity. That was • question depending on the state of society in the particular colony. This kind of constitution bad not worked so well in all our North American colonies. In Lower Canada when • body was formed by the crown, with the view of in terposing • barrier between the assembly and the executive, it was of very little use, because it was supposed not to he in accordanos with the general sentiments of the colonists. This was a point on which opinion was balanced in New South Wales itself; he would, therefore, not pronounce defi nitively. He hoped the question would be fully considered, and that due weight would be given to the opinion of thole who thought there ought to be one council. He was In dined to the *plains that those who objected to the council and the assembly had judged rightly. Some time hence it might be desirable to have both a council and an assembly, but in the present condition of the colony he did not think I it wasp. However, on that part of the subject he washed to reserve any decid ed opinion till the water came under convileration. Capt. HARRIS thought the time molt •nprepitious for introducing a disclaim of this nature. The most objec tionsble feature in the bill was the optim given to the colo mate of chnoing their own form of government, thereby throwing the apple of discord among them. It would have been the wiser coarse to keep beck the question for a year or two. Leave was then given to bring in the bill. DUBLIN GAOLS. - - - - Sir W. SOMERVILLE obtsined have to bring is "a bill to abolish the g tol of Negroids, in the county of the city of Dublin, and provide comps nsivion far the °Mune thereof, and to enable the grand jury of the county of the said city to increase the ealsrise of the chapisins of certain other gaols thereof, and to re assess on the county of the said city cer tain amen of the Grand Jury Coo.' COUNTY CESS (IRELAND). Sir W. SOM ERVI L LE 1,1, arced leave to brine in "A bill to make temporary provision relating to the collection o! county cue in Ireland, and to the remuneration of the collec tor thereof." The ....e bills wen severally brought in and read a fir 4 time. FREIGHT MONEY. Captain PECHELL moved (or a return of the amount of freight mousy paid in each year tines July, 1819, to the ad • inirais and commodores of the set eral stations. laud to the captains and officers commanding her Majesty's ships and vessels far the conveyance of public and private treasure, with the total asnunt received (hll; the same period by the treasurer of Greenwich Hospital, as the proportion of 'such freight money for the use of that institution, pursuant Ito the proclamation dated the 12th day of July, 1819. Ordinet "I"%e bowie adjourned at 20 minutes! to 12 o'clock. thionsh and agreed to. Oa **Tote foe the ecclesiastical coroathrios, Y►. V. SMITE rose pursuant to notice to express his dis- approval of the vote. Lord J. RUSSELL said the reasons for this vote had been riven several timer, and it was one which had been several times disttmed and approved in parliament. Mr. HENLEY looked upon the ewe u one of spoliation, end said whilst they committed such spoliation for what they called the public advantage, he thought the public ought to pay for it. The resolution was then agreed to. On the Tote of 125,0001. for education being proposed, _ . . Mr. BWART suggested that a statement should be made by a iniaistn the crown of the appropriation and results of the snm voted for eduatioo, u well as of the same voted for the promotion of literature and art, en the introduction of the clam of estimates eimmally devoted to those subjects. The right hen. member for Tainwortli had acceded to this proposi tion several years ago. fEr G. GREY said that he would etas now whet were . . the principal items of expenditure of the parlLunentary grant of 125,0002. The stipends of teachers were 18,6801. The appropriation of this money was doubly devoted to affording education, end contributing to the support of the schools The salaries of 62 masters and 92 schoolmistresses who had obtained certificates of merit in 1848, was 11,4921. Then were 200 students in the training schools who received 4,11011. There were, in addition to grants to the National Society and the British and Foreign School Society, the ex penses of the tra'ning schools maintained by these bodies. The plan of the government bad given a stimulus to educa tion, and it became necessary to check the expenditure in ceesequence of the flambee of claimants. The vote was agreed to. On the vote of 1,3001. for the National Gallery, Mr. VERNON BYITR askea whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer was able to make any proposition as to the gallery given to the nation by the late Mr. Vernon, whose pictures were in a cellar under the National Gallery / The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER quite agreed that it would be desirable to provide better accommodation for then pictures, which had been presented to the nation by the munificence of a private geatlemur. The only reason why it bed not been done was, that, of course, it would en tail, in some shape or another, considerable outlays, end he did not tea justified in the present year, and in the present state of the finances, to propose any additional outlay. The rots was agreed to. The rosasialsg Totals wen agreed to. PROTECTION (SCOTLAND) BILL. The bill Ina read a second time. To be committed on Monday. SHEEP STEALERS (IRELAND) BILL. Tbis ball was read a second time. To be committed on Wednesday. GOVERNMENT OF THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES. Mr. HAWES said that it was not his intention to occupy the house at any length in introducing td.e bill which he had now the honour to ask the howls to consider, with • view to the better government of the Australian colonies. Those members of tee bonne who had perused the papers which had been laid upon the table would, in a very great degree, have mastered the details of the bill which he now presented. The bill was framed with a view to meet the wishes of the colonists, and, as far as possible, it pro ceeded upon the buds of the constitution which now existed in Sew South Wales. Some time IRO his noble friend the Secretary if Sate for the Colonies addressed a despatch to the governor of New South Wales, raising the question of a new constitution fur the colt nisi, and pointing out toe constitution conferred upon New Zealand as a model The colonists considered the contests of his despatch, and communicated by resoluti no agreed to at public meetings that any alteration in their existing conotitution would be unacceptable. His noble friend, in deference to the opinion so electrum!, determined at once to abandon his own opinion. The baiis of the coaridution was • governor and legislative assembly cocci-ling of thirty-six, twelve • the council) , rs being ofilciel, and twenty four dieted by the people at large. The council had worked ga urally utisfutsrity to the colonies, and under these Mecum , steno's, niter much consideration, it was determined to adopt it as the basis of the inure constitution for the Australian ettnies generally. The main object of the bill was to carry that constitution into ramie,. In New South Wales • de sire bad long existed for the separation of the southern per- Mon of t"m colony, Port Philip, from the colony of New 8 oath Wale.. The first object of tee hill was to create a @o perate and &rind colony, that of Port Philip. The next object was t r confer upon nil the Australian colonies, New South Wel a, Pert Philip (which would henceforth be known by the name of Victoria), Van D:easen's Lard, South Australis, and Western Australia, condilonally, • constitution similar to that which now existed in New South Wales. He said " onditimally," because at t .is moment Western Australia was unable to defray the expenses of its own government ; and until it was elr's to do so, it was not intended that it should enj )y the benefit of this constitution. Thera was another great object c ntemplated in this Ml', and that was the federal union of all these colonies for certain general pureous. It was intended that these colonies, baying thus scoarate:and independent legislatures, should be em powered to elect certain members at a general assembly of the whole union. the general council would hare the power to establish n supremo , court ; it would have the regu lation of all weights and measures; it would have the regulation of the opt-dikes within the four colonies ; it would have to legislate on all matters connected with roads, canals, or railwate ; to legislate cos. ceroing beacons and lighthouses, end the general enactment of laws which 'Meted all the colonies in relation to a ether subject or matter en wbi hth • anembly, by the ad dress of tie (afferent legislative council', might be culled ea to act. The bill also decided spin establishing certain civil ISt.. It was not proposed in any way to alter existing civil lists; they were taken a' the amount at which they now stood, but it was thought unjust that these civil lists should be fixed permanently without the legislative bodies in the separate colonies having a control ever the 'moan Another great object attained by the bill was the fixing of certain amounts for public worship. By the existing consti tutional act, the sum of 30,0001. a de yeuwas set aside for public worship, according to the severed denomination of Christians and the census or the year 1841. By dividing the colony of Vittoria from New South Wales, it would become neressery Is dienibute this mosey, and by the bill • sum of 28,0001. was reteined for New South Wales, and a mum of 6,0001. was retained for Victoria. Them sums exceeded the amount of the existing appropsiations •' but as the colonies would possess the power of revising and reducing by bill these several meal. 9, he hoped the house would not object to this point at the bill. Van Diemen's Land was a convict colony, and ft was necessary, therefore, to adopt ample Melte for diffusing spiritual instruction there; and it must be understood that the money would not be devoted to any particular sect, but that it would be given to the established church, the Roman crholics, the presbyteries', and the independents. Another great object of the bill was, to endeavour to place the trade of these colonies upon an nail foot ing as between c,lony and cony, in order dud there might be the ume free intercourse between each ea there existed between the different counties in lir land. The great of ject of this provision was to es tablish uniformity; and taking as the bill did the tariff of New South Wales as the one of the largest buis, and leaving the *then to hargeonUt thehe in harmony with that, it was hoped that in that manner all difficulties would be overcome. The general assembly alone would deal with the custom duties; and should any of the colonies done to alter the tariff, they would have to address the Governor of Australia, and through him the General Assembly would deal with the subject. These were the main provisions of the measure, and the papers on the table clearly sheered the principle upon which it rested. He hoped the details would be found to harmonise with that priample, and that practically good effects would result. The bill left undi - turbid the existing constitution in the colony, but should the *denies wish to aftee that constitution and adopt another fen, they were left unfettered, and could modify it ea they demised. He wished the measure to be in the hands of hos. *embers before any discussion was raised upon it, and it would be transmitted to them in • coop!' of days. Mr. GLADSTONE was apprehensive that this bill would pens Monk parliament attracting • much less share of at tention then ft deserved. But attention should be drawn to ft, banns the discussion edits merits would in every way be besedcial. He was friendly to its seismal purpose', for the deggigges apes which it was founded —namely, the report oft mo ngtftee et Privy Council, and the bin itself, p_ ro pod a gissen'd advance in our colonial legislation. The c hb o r eld alikei:7l ,l,l l l,l4 4:tralisal .:4, "su vt i i "i n on sTe isL w bi Son ibl th nedeadt Wal e s, ilhte w fr where it wee extremely limited. 11 . 1 ea rs kerne') He telly cow' caned with the benOteitZ, gr tlemen ebee should be powers given to the ca10:74" to el iediff their - own constitutions and tnir own civil ,8 Land.hed some doubts rennin the eivil list of Van L.. colony He did sot knew if it was intended to fix Inca s. ~creua all it at present paid ; but althou g h admen to an t i s 4 l ~c in the colonial Amps upon our senates, he . - Wther unjust nee imlitic nat we should pay a porton of governor's missy .1 Van Dismiss Land. Mr. HAWES—We do so. Mr. GLADSTONZ, in that an, wee gaits satisfied. There was another part of the measure on win% be should await with anxiety to learn the views of the rivernment— he mean that portion which related to tramp:anion. He was afraid that that was the standing diMoulty of all colonial meenteries, and that it promised to became more for. 'Mashie hem year to year. rt wee the difficulty of uniting the tree fanatical in Van Diemen's Land with the main- Zia '-• nnetiso. OUTGOING MAILS. The malls for Vigo, Oporto Idabel, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be made op on the moani ng of the 7th of 'nee. The mails, yes Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon, India, lloug-Bong, 14. • n LLI be suds up on the evening of the 7th of June. Made for British North Amorist end the United Metes will be made up on the made; of the Bth of June. The Ws u. India Matta. maladies berms* Havana, Name, Honduras, New thieves, and bleattn, and including them tog Hadar; St. JusarloAsieerague, New Grenada, Chill, and Pere, will be made up on the morning at the 17th June. 7tte meth for Gibraltar, Malta, 0 the balm Islands, Adel", Ceylon, India, itone-Kong, end tAma, em Ileathempton, 47 be w, on the 20th aline. The mails for Madeira, the Breathy end Buenos Arrea• will be made upon the evening at the 4th dirty. Mall WATT'S AT LONDON RRIDOS. Tess Ds. —llsntler. 41 Tan post Aftentoss. 2 all. Test 2. Tp.epsow—Tioulap. To al. past I . Atsessees. 38 W. Tut S. LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 5. UNDAUNTED by the repulse of last session, Mr. Rums will, tonight, ask the House of Commons whether they have a mind to reform themselves — being the second time of asking. And the opponent, of reform and popular tights may rest assured that the question will be repeated year after yeti., until a reluctant "yes " is extorted from the honourable house. No reasonable request was ever finally re fused, except for want of due pertinacity in asking sgain and again. Tte unjust judge granted the widow's prayer to get rid of her importunity; the Roman King bought the Sibyl's book, awed by the stern reiteration of her o ff er ; the annu al motions for embolic emancipation and can law repeal bore fruit in due season. The parliamentary reormers of Great Britain will find in Mr. Ht3l6, or lime of his col leagues, an advocate to press their claims upon the legislature, session after session, until they are con ceded. If the House of Commons are endowed with common prudence and foresight, they will see that at no more propitious season than the pre sent can they set about the good work. There is no passionate excitement, no clamour out of doors, to over-ride their deliberations. But the pc pular calm is not the result of apathy. At no period of our history have there been more unequivocal symptoms visible of a deep-rooted and wide-spread I determination on the part of the people to have the basis of our representative system extended, and the exercise of the elective franchise purged of corruption. The rapid end steady progress of associations for obtaining forty-shilling freeholds proves the deter mination of the nnenfranehised to find a way into the pale of the constitution. The numerous nibbles at legislation against electoral oorruption prove the conviction of our public men that their electioneering manoeuvres stink in the nostrils of the people. The very tran quillity and silence of the discontented are ominous of the earnestness of their resolve s, as the d ee pest waters are ever the smoothest, and ;he hush of the atmosphere is never so intense as immediately before the burst of the thunder-storm. The nation will have parliamentary reform, and if our legislators wish to bring andistracted, unagitated minds to ascertain the best means of effecting it, they will buckle to their task before the earnest longings of the people are kindled into passionate efforts. At the risk of being charged with repetition, we w ould observe that Mr. Humes bill embraces all the essentials of real representative reform. It would establish a suffrage qualification stainable by every man of well-regulated mind and average ability. It would enable the voter to exercise his right of suffrage unbiassed by sinister selfish interests, un deterred by the threats of power, or the clamour of nsitory local excitement. By apportioning repro ""•••,_ , yes more equally to the population, it would sea Lt. "ere a more real representation of the aieteecoush:P"PThtet"o.'.•dersadtbeaftpyordaywiltionsftsanaithe ball " o illifikliel teffectu t s i r. And lastly, the com pentisolp limited duration of the bill cos:tomPlateas would I :tittirarndriat:ehti. the lavish expo:ltars which i neepeies revue% ea l ,l keep members of constantly mindful of their responsibility to consti tuent& The question which Mr. Eras is this evening to submit for the decision of the House of Commons ought to be decided on broad end general principles, apart from all narrow cavilling about details. His measure would give us an electoral body in which the voice of every clue and interest would have its due weight; safeguanb against appeals 'o the baser and more dishonest motives by which all are more or lees ; and a guarantee that no repre sentative of the people could play fast and loose with professions and principles, unvisited by speedy retribu tion. If kayo can be obtained to bring in the toll, there will be ample opportunity hereafter for the dis cession of details; for determining the limits of elec toral divisions, or deciding on the comparative merits of a household ore residentiary qualification. As patties interested in the succi ss of Mr. }fumes motion, and desirous that what we believe calculated to benefit the public should be obtained with the least possible delay, it will gratify U 3 to eee it carried, but defeat will not render us dejected. In addition to our well-grounded conviction that an immense ' majority of the nation have made up their minds to have parliamentary reform, we witness on all hands applications for administrative reforms which parliament, es at present constituted, will withhold as loag es possible, and mutilate and neutralise when granted as far as can be done with safety. The tardiness of au unreformed parliament to do justice, and its propensity to "keep the word of promise to the ear and break it to the hope," is daily adding to the number of parliamentary reformers, and to the eagerness with which they pursue their object. The Renee of Commons may decide to-night as they please, but to stem or arrest the current of reform is beyond their power. But this indifference to what may be the decision of the aggregre House of Commons does not extend to the votes of individual members. The public will tolerate a majority against Mr. Heath's motion, but they will not pardon the members whose votes make up that motion. Resistanoe to reform is expected from a parliament packed by close boroughs and landlord-ridden counties, but the individual anti reformers will be marked foe eliminatioti at subse quent elections. The eyes of the rapidly-increasing body of forty shilling freeholders will be rivetted on the lists of this night's division. Every member who votes against Mr. Howe's motion will be noted as an adversary to the extension of pspu:ar rights, the in creased responsibility of reeresentatives, and the diminution of electoral corruption. Tim 'Tones of yesterday has an article on the de bate on the miscellsncous estimates on Friday, which, in so far as concerns the Settlement of Labaan—the principal matter of discussion—may safely be called d;rty work." The Thies "more than suspects"—that is, it is quite sure—that Mr. CORDER ss " jealous of the fame" of Sir JAMES BROOKE. If the Times be right in its eonjectuie, then Mr. COBDEN is what the public, for all the presumption of the Times, will not easily believe him to be—an unreasonable and a little-minded man. Mr. COBDEN was the main agent in the accomplithment of a great national good. By a rare exercise of appropriate eloquence and reason ing, as a writer, an orator, and a debater, he suc ceeded in deenolishlng the greatest monopoly under which a great people ever groaned—in ridding us of a burden equal in amount to the whole interest of our national debt. The government which would now gladly, but cannot, undervalue Mr. ConDats's services, abilities, and powers—offered him, after his great sweets, $ place in the administration, which he rejected. Tne nation which he had served then voluntarily pretended him with the most munificent testimonial of its gratitude which a people ever offered to a fellow-subject. Further, the greatest constituency in the king dom, unsought, unsought, and in his absence, chose him its representative in parliament. This is Mr. Comet:N. Let us tee, then, who he is that Mr. COBDEN is "more than suspected" ef being envious of. Some ten years ago Sir JAMES BROOKE proceeded to Borneo with a cargo of Manchester and other goods. Having heard something about Sarawak and its antimony, he sailed up the river of that place, but being a better soldier than a merchant, he sold his investment, on credit, to a poor ard piratical chieftain of the place, she would never pay hem. A negotiation commenced, and ended in a cession of the territory of Sarawak in liquidation of the commercial debt, and Sir JAMES became Baja of Sarawak. But Sarawak, far out of the highw ty of commune, and its if a jueg,l3 in habited bye few meagre and pirates, was no equivalent for •he "pie c g .ode" given for it. Under the admiaistr a tion of Sir It. Peet, therefore, an attempt was made to dispose of it to the British government for what it actually cost, viz. the value of tee's piece goods." but Sir ROBERT would have nothing to say to the out landish postes4oo. Labuan, once before a Bri tth pones/den, was then recommended, but not by Sir JAMES BROOKE, who certainly had no share in the honour or obloquy of the recommendation, whichever or these it may turn out to merit. Its flue harbour, its centr:eal position between Caine and the Malay leands, the convenience of the le - valley frr the suppression of p:ritey, the small size of the island (a security against involvement in territorial acquisition), a supply of the best coal ever found in India for et am purposes, and an unbounded supply of fair tim ber, were its reesonable recommendations. All this could with troth be asserted of La buan, and having looked into the memorial of the Clamber of Commerce of Manchester, stated by the Times as having . been so successfully read in the tfouse of Comment in refutation of Mr. COBDEN, we find that it was all that it did say of it. The memor:al did not recommend that an overgrown and overpriced civil establishment should be sent to Litman in advance of settlement, or that the genie gentleman should be appointed consul at Borne 3 (with a eatery), governor of Labuan a very large salary), a- d resident at Sarawak, his own private demesne. A blander has probably prevented the realisation of the project. Sir JAMES BROOKE did not proceed at once in person and choose the locality of the settle ment himself, but he seat on a surveyor to do it for him who had no experience, and the surveyor chos3 for the seat of the new town a locality in fested by malaria. Sickness and mortality ensued, and an influx of settlers, which it was before difficult to suppress, it became now impossible by any encou ragement to prodivee Sir. J. BROOKE knew the place from personal observation, and was the more bound to be carefe; since he bad himself described the situation of the contemplat el town as " low; adding that it was " no paradise." NE malty has caneMl the removal of the site, and the new locality has been found thoroughly salubrious. As Sir JAMES BROOKE did not proji et the settlement, neither did he locate or organise it. Sir JAMES BROOKE is a man of courage, enterprise, intelligence, and abundant local knowledge, atd if he had nothing else to distract his attention, no b3tter selection of a governor for such a p'nee as Labuan could hare been made. But, un f trtunately, as human nature is constituted, he having three great irons in the fire at one and the same time—one of them his own, and two of them the public's—ard not having three heads and three paha of arms, and the faculty of übiquity, he insist of necessity do less for 2,5001. a year than the public has a fair right to expect, although he has a lieutenant-governor at 1,2751. per annum to attend to Lebow', while he is diplomatieing with the Sultan of Botreen or looking after his farm at Sarawak. As to Sir JAMES Beooxe's schemes for redeeming the savages of Borneo from head-stealing and other shapes of atrocious barbarisms, and converting them into Christian men, we have at present nothing to do. We must protest, however, against the anathema thundered against us, unless we attend to his invoca tion to a crusade ameinst savagery in general, which, if we once engaged in, ought, in justice and fairness, to be pushed far beyond the broad lands even of Borneo. We are told that " the cry of nature is addressed" to us; that "if rejected, as sure as there is justice and mercy in the providence which over-rules the fate of nations, no blessing - 'will prosper" with us; "and wealth, and dominion, and happiness, will psuri away from ns for ever." We do not fee; this horrid threat, and humbly confess that we only feel an instinctive movement of our hands to our pamp ering' when it is uttered. Upon the whole we must conclude that the "fame of the successful enter primes" of Sir Ulna Bitoosta, as far as them enter• have yet been developed, snot such as to afford prises or any one else " a little discomfort" or any discomfort at all, even suppoeing, as the Ttitnes is pleased to suppose, that Mr. - Connate is an envious man, and that is what no one bat the Them has imsgined. THE COURT. DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FOR WINDSOR. The Queen and Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace et three minutes before three o'clock yesterday after noon, for Windsor Castle. Her Majesty and his Royal Ilighnese were accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Pelee., of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, the Prince H.-lens, and the Princess Louisa, and were attended by the Viscount, tia Cannier. Hon. Mile Cavendish, the Hon. Miss Kerr, the Earl of Li•trwel, Mr. R. Ormsby Gore, Lieut.--Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Colonel Bouverie, and Mr. Birch. Ha Majesty and his Royal Highness were attended to their carriage by the Duke of Norfolk, Muter of the Hone, the Earl Forteaeue, Loa 8 uteri, the Marquis of Breadsibane, Lord Chamberlain, and Lord George Lennox, L wal in Waiting to the Princes. A detachment of the 11th Hussars formed the molt from the Palace to the Paddington terminus of the Great Western Railway. The august party travelled by a special train to the Slough station. WINDSOR, MONDAY.—Her Majesty and Prises Albert, the Royal Family, and the Lulus and Gentlemen in Waiting arrived at the Castle at twelve minutes put four o'clock this afternoon in five open royal carriages and four from the Monett station. The escort seat composed of the 2nd regiment of Life Guards. Her Majesty was received at the Castle by the Muter of the Household. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at her residence, Frogmen House, this afternoon from town, at tended by Lady Augusta Bruce and Sir George Couper. His Royal Highness Flinn Henry or the Netherlands arrived at the Castle this afternoon on a visit to the Queen. His Royal Highnees was attended by Viet-Admiral Lucas, Lieut -Colonel Rigot, and Lieutenant Van Rsppard. His Serene Highness Prince Eiward of Saxe Weimar, his Excellency Count Schimmelpenninek, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Mary Fitzalan Howard, the Duke of Rutland, the Marquis and Marchioness of Brie lenient, the Marquis of Ahereoni, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanritsrde and Lady de Burgh, the Marquis and Mereitionees of Worroetor, and the Earl Portant', also arrived on a visit to her Majesty. A deputation from the committee of graduates of the Gaivciety of London, consisting of Drs. Stetter, Mackenzie, Goodfellow, Sigson, Tyler Smith, and Robert Barnes, had an interview Mild Sir George Gusty yesterday, at the Home-office. HER MAJESTY'S SUMMER CRUISL—It is said the serviees of the royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, will be brought into requisition some time towards the latter end of July, when it is ctnfldently asserted that her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal children will proceed in her to Scotland.—Evening paper. THE TRINITY CORPORATION FESTlVAL.—Yeeterdly being Trinity Monday, the annual festival of the Hon. Tri nity Corporation was celebrated by his grace the Duke of Walington, the grand muter, and thellilder brethren pro ceeding by water to the Tenuity almshouses at Deptford, and giving a grand banquet in the evening at the corporation house on Tower-bill. His grace, who wore the uniform of the Trinity, was loudly cheered as be proceeded with the procession to the Tower stairs to embark in the state barges. Reaching Deptford, the usual inspection was made of the almshouses and school. The corporation then attended church, and heard a most eloquent discourse by the Rev. Mr. Melville. They afterwards re-embarked, and returned to Tower-hill. In the evenirg a splendid entertainment was served up in the grand dining room of the Trinity lions.. Covers were laid for 80, and the massive piece of plate presented by his late Majesty King %Valium IV. to tne corporation stood on the principal table, and attracted much inttrest. Hi,. Grace the Master presided, and was supported on his right by Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart., deputy muter; and on the left by Sir F. T. Baring, Bart., M.P., First Lard of the Admiralty. The following is a brief list of the illustrious personages present :—Right Hon. Lord Grey, Right lion. Lord Granville, Right Hon. Lord Palmerston, M.P., Bight Hon. H. L ilsouchere, M.P., Marquis of Douro. M.P., Right lion. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Reim-Admiral Dundee, M.P., Sir A. Galloway, Chairman of the Bast India Company ; Sir J. L. Lushingon, &c. The baud of the Coldstream Guards were in attendance during the evening. MR. HuME.—We Cr. happy to state that the hon. reemb. r for blontr.ve took his seat in the House of Commons last night for the first time Ante his indisposition. The hon. gentleman catered about half past lour o'clock, and as he proceeded to I is wind seat behind the treasury bench, was hailed with loud and prolonged cheers from both sides of the house. He appeared completely convalescent, and not only took an active part in the ieveedings of the evening, but promised to submit his important mo.ion tonight in favour .f parliamentary reform. FINANCIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. MEETING OF THE BISHOPSGATE WARD. Last night, t.t.o inhabitants of the Bishops a te Ward held a large influential meeting at the White Hart TIMM. METCALFE HOPI:100D, Esq., in the chair. Six members or the council were present. Mr. HOEHOOD, who was received with considerable cheering, said, that looking at the House of Commons— m lag the influences which affected the members of the hone—cbeerving how they were actuated—he thought it impossible that the wishes of tho people should be attended to. He asked the meeting to look at our Lime boroughs; to compare the number of the population with the number of the electors. Electors. Population. In Westminster there were 14,251 .... 202,460 Tower Hamlets Finsbury Marylebone But of these anomalies and incensistercies in our representt. live system there were far too many for him to enumerate. C. GILPIN, Esq., proposed : " That this meeting, deeply impressed with the conviction that no reform of a nature to give relief to tho overtaxed distributive and produeive classes of the community will take place until public opinion remotes itself through the medium of a powerful, numerous, and widely-spread com bination of all classes of reformers, pledges itself to support the efforts now malting to establish the Metropolitan Par liamentary and Financial Reform Association." Mr. GILPIN confessed tLat he indeed went beyond the apineistion, but he would go with them as far as they went. The resolution was seconded by R. THOMAS. Esq., in an able speech, and was supported by Mr. TOwNsEND, who urged the meeting to consider the advantages to be derived from the union of the middle and working classes, without which the objects of this movement never could be carried out. The working c'asses would, he was sure, co-operate with the middle classes to a peaceful egitaticn. HENRY BATEMAN, Esq., moved the second resolu tion, pledeing the meeting to support the endeavours of the Metropolitan Aesocistion. He alluded to Mr. Cobden's not beirg found in the van of the present movement, where he had hoped to see him, and ably advocated the cause of finan cial reform.. . . The reeolutina was eeewnded by J. SCOBELL, Esq. ; after which Mr. TOWNMEND moeed a vote of tballitl to the eherman, and the meeting broke up. THE BERMONDSEY ASSOCIATION. Last night a public meeting of the recently formed Financial end Parliamentary Reform Association for the Ber mondsey d es. rict, was held at the EinTl2l Tavern, Bermondsey square, under the pre sideney of Jong Heuats , Eeq., for the purpose of confirming the election mado of officers at the last meeting, for the enrolment of members, and to receive a deputation from the Central Association. The gentlemen forming the deputation were Mr. Linwood and Mr. Wickham. The minutes of the election of Mr. John Harris as president, of Mr. E'kinton as treasurer, and Mr. George Kneel as secretary, wire read, and unani mously confirmed, and, after a few preliminary observations from the Chairman and Mr. Howard, Mr. LINWOOD addressed the meeting with his usual ability as the t xponent of the views sod objects of the parent institution, aed particularly applied himself to the develop ment of the freehold land scheme, which is put forward by the council with a view to increase the constituencies in the six metropolitan counties. A person in the body of the meeting.inquired if any per son present had mimed the petition in favour of the people's charter, because if so they had no business to pay their shil lings and join the land scheme of the Reform Association. They sai 1 they meant to reek an extension of the suffrage ; if they were sincere in that intention what use was there in the Theme for creating voters in the counties ? With re spect to the suffrage, he for one would never be content with less than universality of suffrage. The CHAIRMAN explained that the suffrage they sought an extension of was the household suffrage in cities and borough., by givirg it to lodgers; and this land scheme was necessary, to increase the county constituencies, so as to meet the 601. tenants at will, by whom at present they were swamped. (Hear, hear.) Mr. B. O'BRlEN.—While be gave every credit to the promoters of the movement to which he offered no ()prod. tdon, still he advised the body of the people with which he was identified, to go with them as far as they were prepared to advance, but to go onward and never cease until they bad reamed to themselves the full enjoyment of their just rights. A committee of management having been appointed, the enrolment of members occupied the meeting until a late hour, and the proceedings closed with the customary vote of thanks to the Chairman, who announced that the officenand committee would attend at that place every Monday night for the purpose of proceeding with the enrolment of moorhen. ACCIDENT ON THE BITER LEA.--TWO LIVES LONT.—Ou Sunday evening an accident occurred on the dm Lea, near Clapton, by which two young men lest their Wm. It appears that six young Man all of whom are at Perry's Gazette office, in the city. engaged a.. -c_rog Val at the Jelly Angler's, adjoining the river Lea, fork. "--• Lea, Ow perposa of fishing . They had not proceeded far. w , hp same accident, w is at present unexplained, the z - ,. r. -* wgimil, sad they were ell immersed into the water. Two --, +•• glom sweeeeded in clinging to the boat until mistimes ,• i e :— • imiiinek two were drowned, and the other two swam -I, ••• • the ion. 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