The Express. — London, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

other railway companies. Now from the moment that the 600,0001. now prepased to be granted should be advanced, the period would sot be distant when the propassl of the h: a. member for Itommaines must be en'ertaiued by the 'overseen at, end th .t, too, upon grouada which could not be resisted. He felt loathe distress of the people there, but he must say that he knew greet ditheulties in the path which the Chancellor of the Exchequer was entering upon, sad he moat therefore oppose the resolution. Mr. HUME said that, as a general rule, he had always looked with great jealousy at any advance of the public mosey tor the purposes of completing private enterprises. In consequence of that jealousy, he had most narrowly exa mined the whole of the grounds upon which the resolution before the h. lit) was based, and he had come to the conclu sion that the proposed loan might fairl, properly, and safely be made. The e-mpany had a lr eady expended 800,0001., and 50 miles of road had been constructed, the 'scripts bring now 1,000/. per week; and be found that if the line were continued to Galway, it would be productive of • variety of very great advantsgt a whin. , were sufficiently obvious. The next question to be considered was, the security which the government could obtain for the loan, and all things considered. the Chancellor of the Exchequer had taken a fair and candid view of the matter, and bred satisfied hem as to the validity of the NCU rity that was ;•ffered. The right hon. gentleman had stated that he should carefully watch the expenditure of the sums advanced to the company, and see that edentate value in laboar was ob'ained. Oa the whets, therefore, he was of opinion that the advance was fairly and properly made. He had voted in su..port of Lord Aitherp's motion to assist Ire land by yeast:undies railways for her, and under the cir cumstances he had stated he should give his vote for the resolution, though upon principle he was opposed to inch loans. Kr. O. GORE said that the government had done a miss and a moot beneficial thing in bringing forward the presmt propoeition. Mr. ROEBUCK said he was obliged reluctantly to differ from the opinion that hail been expressed of thin mea sure. Oo a former occasion, in 1847, the Chancellor of the Exchequer had said he did not like the state to become a money lender, adding, that if the parties had good security to offer, and the speculation was fair one, ho bad never known any difficulty in the way of obtaining loses from private individuate. What had since occurred to change the whole toes and views of the right hos. patie nts,. ? In 1847 Lwd George Benda& had proposed a regular plan for making advances to the railways of Irelead ; sod bad be (Mr. Roebuck) bees &pond to accept any plan of money lending, he should have accepted twat. Here the Chancellor of the Esehequer ems forward and declared that, in Tits of all the oppoeitice he had then made, he was now going to lead money to the always, whereby a trade would be °posed, end so doubt a good dividend wool be obtained. But would not this circumstance Liflueire private lenders; and why ebould like :state lend money If private lenders could be found ? If rivet, lends m could set be found, the justification pleaded for tne measure did set exist. But Le distinctly objected to the state lending mosey for may such undertaking, either in Ireland or any part et the kingdom. The data of Ireland was nothing like so bed as it was in 1847; and, eves it it were, the present state of England was by so mews favourable to the proposal. The p oar rites were iitereseiwe is every anion throughout the kingdom. Is beotland—hardweekine, industrious Scotland—they had amounted to half a million, and were expected to be 600,0001. this year ; though a tow yeses ago they were ugly 40,0001. And what was ibis money to be lent for ? Not way for the purpose of giving people 'labour, but to teach them to labour. But money Let to railways din net enxiloy the suffering people, bat the ab'e• bodied and the chancen were that, instead of Irish labourers, dallied kbasten frost England would be kt to work with this mosey. Mr. NEWDEOATE regretteil that the hon. member for fgbstield should new with jealousy any proposition which =Wu collaterally benefit Irish lasdlorili. Ue supported the prepoevl on its merits per as, and regarded it as a tribute elm the whams of his late noble grimed, Lord George Bestial. Mr. ROEBUCK explained that be did nut oppose the leas sekly because it would benefit Ir 4 sh landlords. An to the wearily el the government only being given, he consi- Awed that that would not be asses/my utilise there was a question as to the value of the investment. Sir 11. W. BARRON said that 7,600.0001 had mealy ben advanced a- lame in England, and the bile of the hon. Umber for She M. I I had never been excited by that dream stases. This hod bees done in rick and prosperous Eng. line, Mkt. capital *weft swed, and lettere the poor were not starving akolud Of this sum, 1,470,0001. had been ad vanced fee canals and bridges, and sums or nitro ids and workkouus. and 250,C001. for the Thome. Tunnel (Laughter) Where was the patriotism of the hon mem ber for Shr Meld when thus large sum+ were advanced ? (Hear, beer) Not a word did he then say about the enormous weigh: of Walton preening on the transition's seisms of Eoigl d 4. [Here the hoe. bar 'net exited great laughter by mimickieg the tone of the n. member for Beediebil It was osly when the loons were fir Irish pur poses that the antiilriah feelings of the hon. gentleman were excited. (Hi ar, hear.) • -•- • • • • Mr. FLAHERTY !rued to express the gratitude which all &awes is Ireland would entrrtain for this proposal of the goverment. lb.; had never introduced a measure of greater essoquelice. It wiled tend to bring capital into intend. and would mist in the working of the Lumbered Evans. Bill. Sir T. D. ACLAND said he had reluctantly opposed I Lord G. Deninek's 'magnificent but inordinate proposal„ hating th t tt wool! Lad to great eels for want of proper vegetation; hat s.ith perfect consistency he bad suppottol a grant 4.1 .1000001 or 600,0001. in the same par, advanced with cacti sod placed in tnistensetky h tads ; and for the paw. reason he ehould support the proproitiu now made. Ile was not air id of 2,000 or 3,000 English labourers being introduced into Ireland an the first instance ; ha did not be lieve they would have any other sleet than to stimulate tee industry of their Dish brethren. (Hear, bear.) Though ha poen used no land in Ireland, he bad learned to feel that the interests of the two countries were identical; and whether the grants went to Dublin or to Idell.npr, be was convinced the object wee essentially an imperial one. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the alum in which his pe • peed had hoes received left no doubt of its souwa. It appeared to met the approval of the whole of the Irish members. In answer to the hon. member who had last spoken, he could bear the most satisfactory testi mony that every sixpence due from the committee of railroads in Ireland bed been punctually paid. An Hun. /dement said that there wee no better way of stimulating industry in Ireland than by loans of this kind. A largo number of the best railway 1 ibourers in this country eame frets Ireland. He hoped that this was only a beginning en the part of the goverment of similar plelges of the credit of this country, for in his opioion nothing could be better, when the case. were wall considered and the money safely bestowed. (Rear, hear.) FREWEX considered that the estimate of 500,0001. for the mekii g of this railway was race. dingly large. He thought that 450 000 f. would have been a sufficient estimate. The Great 13 rather and Western line cost rely 12,0001. a mile ; and, as land and labour were lets valuable in Con naught than in bolster, it was rewonable to suppose that the present line would not oust so much per mile. His la pueei,,g nas that the traffic upon at would be larger than was estiwated, because a largo amount of traffic which now went from Galway to Dubin by other roiess would be drawn upon it. (Hear, hear.) Sir L. O'BRIEN said he looked upon the present question rather as us relating to the distribution of capital in rime districts of the empire than as one between England cad Ireland. He maintained that the people of Ireland were industrouv, end &though they would accept with gratitude gond offices performel like the present with kind fuller and a good heart, they would accept them only en terse which Pesos would fully justify them before their Mail trials in grating. (Hear, hear.) Mr. H. A. HERBERT said that as the house was in suds geed humour, end as the Chancellor of the Exchequer ad mitted that the ra)mcnt of the interest on the advatices bad been on punctual, he hoped the noble lord would take the case of tie memorial, which he had presented to him a few days ago, into his consideration ; in which ease he could assure him the county would be (Tally advantageous, and received with equal favour. (" Hear, hear," and a laugh.) The tea lotion war thin agreed to. ADVANCE TO DISTRESSED UNIONS. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the next vote tie had ti propose was of • different nature. it was • vote of 150,0004. for affording relief to certain die turfed poor law unions ' on the security of the rate in aid. He had stated before that the demand upon them had nue surily increased. A certain sum had been alreuty advanced from the civil contiogehein before the set passed, but the increase of destitution had been such, that they ad vanced • larger sum than 100,0001. The weekly demand now was 15 0001., and it could not possibly be less than that, till the early crop of potatoes, which be was happy to say were exetediugly good, and came into more general con. sumptien. (Wear, hear.) The house had granted 60,0001. Since that they advanced 124,0001., and there was the last weekly demand of 16,0001., whkh made altogether 193,0001. He waa afraid it ' , wad not be said that lees thus 160,0001. MOW Corer the ezrnditure between this aad next year -130.0001 would certainly be the least. The present vote of 1600001 wee merely for the distressed unions. He would propose another elmmittee for the purpose of moving a vote fur the rs-advanee of any part of the workhouse loan that might be rec. iced. Mr STAFFORD wished to know from the right hon. gent. whether be would lay on the table of the house a return of the unions to which the mosey was to be advanced, and also whether he meant to enforce the p semen , . of the workhouse lune more stringently than it bad hi herto been eaf tad' - - The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER read a Mara et the somas to which it was proposed to make the advance They aatonated to twenty-three. With res ptet le the (slur gigaton, he thought it better to postpone answeriag it till he primed the wins/Rea. la smiler to tf D. Roams, SM CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that lie sallecticsa of the Mee la these unioas had beam **Greed *Her rousse ;risible eat:rat. The greatest strictness was glierrreed fa that resin et. ?he tomailisd twat thee spied to, sad the hones resumed. POOWEELIKIP (IRELAND) BILL. Os use motion of 84 0. Oltee, thi. till was reads third Ilse. CM MI Maim thesits.lol de pees, Mr.]. O'CONNElXpiepgasil, the following clines : • gad whorl.% by the Agt Aij e. 34 the Poor-law themus. diem if etejoinMed treappibt pewee* tete eluiplaiee le work haseee, be it feared that we dosysiweehell evened • lit perm tweredeelbevor if:weber'. be ye d cieetel is MI) offish who Mull not he approved of by We ; meld that seelergy man thipli Tying r IMO Sedrellbrellir della purely dzil lb* NAINFO, ihe semeret el bis ..~ - lie said he was luducad to propose this dense in mew queues of the di•mimsl sf the Rev. Mr. Ryan from the chap. Misty of a ludas is Team, for an il. pd ocarlorformaaes of his spirited fsections towards the poor. Mr. FAGAN seconded the motion.' Sir W. SOMERVILLE opposed the clause, on the ground that it would do a‘ything but promote an effective sdeal nittration of the law: for it would brine into every work holm: in Ireland a collision between two distinct authorities, (Hear, hear.) Mr. STAFFORD said that In the diocese of Dr. Ryan there was no difficulty arising from sectarian feelings. In reply to a question from ,ffir...l3cru.v, Sir W. SOMERVILLE said the poor law commiseionera had now clearly the power of laying down roles for the guidance of the conduct of t h e ckaplaiae, and it was solely for thee to judge whether or not those rules were observed. Mr. N. J. O'CONNELL hoped hie hon. friend would not divide the house. He regretel that there had been a dulli Ilion between the commissionen and the er-clesiarical power, but he thought th • remedy would be worse than the disease. Sir H. W. BARRON joined in the recommendation not to divide, coosidetiig the grounds stated for interfering imufileient. The house then divided. For the motion Against it Hr. GROGAN propaeeda clause provi lin; tor the forei- I3'.e delivery up of powers:on to the landlord, in cue of no.- payment of rear. Sir G. GREY objected to the clause that it had no direct reference to the ebj.ct of the bill. It was a clause to facili tate ejcetments, wb the bill related solely to the relief of the poor. Alter • brief dismission the clause was negatived. Mr. GROGAN then per pmed a clause to the effect that. in the ae of a tenant who occupied more than a quartsr of an scrod land having apposed for and received relief, a certill cate to that effect should be furnished to the owner by the beard of guardians, and that such mrtifizate should entitle the owner to take forciole possession. Sir G. GREY said that the case already provided for in the statute law, and he did not see what benefit could arise from adopting the clause. Captsio JONES said that, notwithstanding the fact men tioned by the right hon. baronet, practically, many tenants occupying more than a quarter of an acre had hitherto obtained relief without delivering up possession, _ _ Sir 11. W. BARRON stated a ease within his own know. ledge, of a tenant who bad given up all the land in his occu pation buts quarter of an son, and who, when the land to resigned had been cultivated and croppe d by the landlord, had claimed the crops, on the ground that he had not legally parted with his lease. Mr. B. B. ROCIIE opposed the clause, on the ground of hardship lathe tenant. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL observed that those who dwelt so much on the hardship of restriction Irg to consider the evils which would have arisen from the recognition of an nelimited right to relief. (Hear, hear.) It was most in. peetant that the doubts at present existing on that subject should be removed. Mr. P. fiCROPE said there scald be no doubt that this claims was as ejectment clause ; and he really thought the samba of evicsions was quits sufficient already. It must be borne in mind that besides giving up the land over a quarter of an acre the tenant was often compelled to give up even that swill quantity, and his dwelling into the bargain. This clause seemed to be designed to compel such a sur. reads. - - - - Bir L. O'BRIEN deprecated the mune taken by the hoe. member foe Stroud (Mr. &rope). That hon. gentle men's speeches were repeated in the newspapers in Ireland, end it was made to appear that the telemetry were always in the righr, and the landlords always in the wrong. These were questions width the pvernasent should take into their most serious consideration, for loath they were settled on seen satisfactory principles, then would be no end I. the Woking system of ejeetsmate. Mr. I. CRAWFORD rid the hoe. member far Stroud might to some eases have been misinformed; bat he was ready to amen that in the math he was correct, and that the pauperised condition of the people of Ireland arose from the conduct pursued by the landlords. The exaction of enor mous recto compelled the people to subsist upon the lowest species of food, and that in the very smallest quantities. Bir G. GREY repeated that the clause as proposed would he inconsistent with the p rinciple of the biil, and he felt bound therefore to oppose it. The house then divided, when the numbers were— For the clause 23 Against it • 97--74 Sir A. BROOKE rose to propose a clause to alter tho Ha- 1 bility of lessee for rates, in respect of tenements not ex ceeding the value of 41. to a value not exceeding 21. His opinion was, that if the liabLity of lesson was fixed at 41. the consequence would be to prevent the improvement of waste land. There were throughout Ireland a rut number of tracts let to farmers under a 41. valuation. The msjori yof these we re mountainous tracts, let to tenants with a view to the improvement of the land; but ion feared, if these tene ments were charge 1 with the liability proposed by the clause, the effect would he that all those lands would remain barren and maultivided. Sir 0. GREY said he did n•it quite understand the nature of this clause as it had sot been printed. He understood that it propos ed only to substitute 21. for 41.; but belted bun informed that it effected something snore than ttua object. The subject had been fully discussed the other day ; and he must say that he thought the arguments of the hen. gentle. man went rather in favour of repealing the clause altogether than of the substitution which he proposed. On the whole, he thought it would he better to adopt the decision come to by the house upon a former ocessioa. The clause was thee negatived without a division. Mr. NAPIER, then moved the following clause: And wherein It hit= and reassonable that the deduction for Poor Bate claimable by the pees= Immediately table to payer the rent =erre, should not =mei the deducts= by law allowedthe case es any lie farm rent or other rent charge chargeable alma and paya ble out of the rents and pronto of the rateable property charged with such rest and rent charge, Be it therefore enacted, that it shall no' be lawful Ica any peones immediately liable pay tithe rent shame to deduct Licretrom for every pound in 'value thereof, any further or greater um than one-half of the poundage of any rate made after the punting of this Act, foe the relief of the Poor : Pro. aided always, that nothing herein contained shall be taken to affect er otter the right of dedwutm of the entire poundage of any rate made before the pawing of this Act. Sir 0. OBEY said that there was a great of &Meaty at tending this subject of the payment of tithe. Is 1437, there was a proposal made that the tithe owner should be placed in the same state as the tithe owner in England, hat daring the progress of the bill the clergy expressed set opinion that they preferred the existing state of the law, and the clause was withdrawn. He thought there would be an unfair advantages given to the tithe owner by at once tsking off half the rate he paid. He thought that as between landlord and tenant, said not as between land owner and tithe owner, the alteration of the law ought to take place. There could be no objection to placing the tithe owner in Ireland on the same footing as the tithe owner in England ; to the present clause he thought there were very serious objections. Mr. NAPIER said that this was not a question betweentlut clergy and the poor at all. Whether his clause passed or not it would not maks one farthing difference as to the amount of the poor rate. The mode proposed by the right hon. gentleman would defeat the p they of the Tithe Rent Charge Act ; his clause would make it more consistent, and he thought the house was bound to allow it. Mr. P. SCROPE said that it he landl ode were Metre in regard to the church, they should vote for the proposition of the bon. member. Sir J. YOUNG was not prepared to deny that the clergy had a grievance to complain of as the bill stood, hut was not prepared to go so far in the way of remedy as was proposed by the hon. and learned member for Dahlia University. After a few words from Mr. IiAIItLION, Sir D. NORREYS thought that the best thing his hon. and learned friend could do would be to accept the else which had been made by the government, namely, to have a separate rate struck in the cos of the clergy. Mr. E. B. ROCHE said that his ton. friend the member for Mallow spoke as a warm friend of the church. He be lieved the fact to be that the hon. baronet was a tithe owner. (Laughter.) If so ' he was very much in the position of a man who became his own counsel. (Laughter.) The ob ject of the bon. and learned member fir the University was quite transparent—it was to relieve the clergy trim certain taxes and to place them on otber shoulders. Sir D. NORREYS explained, after which the house divided. For the clause 5O Against it 125 Majority agaiust the clause Mr. It. J. O'CONNELL moved ths omission of estate ten, which renders rent charges, granted by way of annuity or jointure, liable to the rate. The motion was negatived. On the question that the bill do pus, Mr. STAFFORD complained that the first two clauses of the bill did not bear out its title, for their object was not so mush to amend the poor law of Ireland, as to introduce perfectly sew principles the principle of a maxi mum 'rate, and the rate In aid. He contended that the maximum rate, which was only an eosins for still further burdening the whole of the rateable property of Ireland, had been forced upon the Irish members by hon. gentlemen on the ministerial side of the house, who were fond of maintaining the intimate connexion which out 'fated between taxation and rommutation. Those hon. retitle men had succeeded in sending three unfettered commissioners to the sister country to tax millions of property there 10 per seat. This wee the justice of the Whig ministry towards the peuperty of Ireland ; and, so far as the libertii sof the coun try were concerned, the same ministry had taken care Of them by suspending the Habeas Corpus Act. Mr. BRIGHT wished tiny two or three words in reply to the hon. member who had just sat down. He wet obliged to plead guilty as to his absence while the moose* was being &massed, and the chief reason why he had kh Mm disposed to take past in the discussions in the house was thle—that, after having sat in the committee, he was se much la the dark en the subject, if not mere in the dark, than he was when the committee commenced its sittlage. (Hear.) If, then, he had voted on the serious clauses, he must have voted in deference to authority on one side of the here or on the other ; and ander them stream stand, she had not meddled with the bill io the hewn. He had doubts so strong as to the propriety of a maximum rate, that had be been preheat he should certainly have voted against it, because the sum fir d by the government was muck smaller than in his opinion it was desirable is Lx. If they were to have a poor law on the principle of the one in England, then the principle of a maximum rat: wan a very hazardous one, and if tol:trated at all it should be fixed so high that It would not be likely THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1849. to be amity reached. He was willing, too, that it should be temporary in its duration, in order that it si g ht not be made a precedent for the adaptation of the same principle hereafter to other pars of the United King dons. Had he been present, he would have voted with those who opposed the maximum rats. (Herr. bear.) Oa the general question of the bill itself, lie was of "pinion that the result would be nil, or next to nit, in Ireland. (Cheers.) It would not remedy the complaints made relative to the poorelaw ; end indeed it was impassible by any shape of • poor law whatever very . 'materially to diminish the pressure which the pauperism existing in Ireland was bringing on the Irish proprietors. He thought the Irish proprietors in that house, instead of making pau perises bearable, which it never conli be in Ireland, ought to look to the source whence it sprung, and to the measures which might rem,ve it, for the feeling of the people only tended to destroy, and did not in any sensible dept.. sti nulate, industry. Efforts should be made to with draw bona dependence on thoea whl were em• ployed vast numbers of those who were unemployed. (Hear.) He confessed that he lo.rked to other mea sures which had passed, and were passing, infinitely more foe any advantage to Ireland than he did t the present bill. He should be gin: if he were min aken, and if the bill ' made pauperism bearable by the complete e mancipationi of the soil; and he should vote in its favour because there seemed to be nothing better to propose inste ad of it. (Hear.) Mr. H. HERBERT complained that the English mem ben had by the present bill forced on Ireland the principle of noun rating, a principle against which the moat distinct evidence had been given by Mr. Twisleton. After a few words from Sir D. NOILIZTS, the bill was passed. - - - - ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL. The SOLICITOR-OENERA.L raid he should propose that the house should nest at testis' o'clock on Finley, to consider the lot. s' amendments to this bill. HOUSE OF COMMONS OFFICES BILL. Test bill was read a woad time, and ordered to be committed. JOIN r STOCK COMPANIER ACT (1848) AMEND- VENTIa 117 The home having resolved itash into a committee on this bill, The SOLICITOR GENERAL moved the addition of some ammsdadota to clause 1, which were added thereto. Mr. TURNER opposed the c la use in that form, as intro ducing too great an alteration in the law of partnership. The SOLICITOR GENERAL defended the clause as amended, its object being to give additional powers for wind ing-up the attain of companies, and reducing the expense . Mr. WYLD Ili' it was his wish to havi opposed the addi tion to the clause had it not been made before he arm aware. By requiring one-tenth of the sharehol lees in • mine to concur in winding up the concern great injustice might be wrought to individual shareholders. He should take the opportunity of urging his objection to this provision at a future st Re.. • - - Mr. TURNER repeated his objections to the clause, and said he should divide against it. After a few words from the SOLICITOR•GENtRAL, Sir C Lissom, Mr. HEAULLII, and Mr. J. H. Vista's, the claw was agreed to, with the understanding that it should be sub. ject to further discussion. The remaining clanses were agreed to and the bill parsed throegh committee. NEWOATE GAOL (DUBLIN) BILL. . . . This bill passed through comisittee. The Highway Riles Bill also pess.d through committee. The Puor Relief (Cities and Boroughs) Bill was read a second time. The Titles of Riigions Cengregatioas (Soot'and) Bill pined through committee. The Boroughs Relief and the Trustees Relief Bill were read a second time. The Turnpike Trusts (Union) Bill pried through con mittee. The Bribery at Elections Bill wee considered and amended, the third reading being Sled for Friilay nest. The Friendly Societies (No. 2i Bill was read a second time. The Bank•uptey (Ireland) Bill was reed a third time. The Real and Personal Property Transfer Bill was read a third time and passed. - - NEW BILLS. Lave was ohteitiedViiira7lece7l;e : By Mr. C. LEIVIS-INi to authorise the 'edgier° of certain lands, in pursuance of a special wport of the Lido sure Commiwioners for Eopland and Wile.. By the SOLICITOR GENERAL—BM to amend an let to regulate certain offices In the Petty Big in the High Court of Chancery, the practice of the common law aide of that evert, and the 'orelntent office of that c tart. - - - • By Sir W. CLAY—BiII to amend the law fur the regis. tration of certain persons commonly known as compound householders, and to facilitate the exercLe by such persans of their right to vote in the election of borough members to serve in parlismc nt. By Mr. AGLIONBY, on behalf of Mr. HAWES—BiII to facilitate the execution of conveyances and other instru ments by or on behalf of the New Zealand Company in New Zealand. JUDGMENTS, Re. (IRELAND.) On the motion of Mr. BR Gan, the followieg return was ordered:—Return of every requisition for negative search, in pursuance of the act 7 and 8 Vic. c. 9, delivered unto or left with the reglrear of judgments in Ireland, between the lit day of January, 1848, and the Ist day of January, 1849, show ing the date of each such requisition being delivered to the re. gistrar, the date of the certificate given in pursuance of each such requisition, the number of days which elapsed between the delivery of each such requisition to the registrar of juda ments, and the giving of the certificate to the person making each such requisition. and the stamo duty paid on each such negative search. Return of ev. ry requisition for search and negative certificate, in pursuance of the act 2 & 3 Will. IV., e. 87, delivered unto or lett with the registrar or any of the assistant registrars of the office fer registering deeds, convey ances, and wills in Ireland, between the Ist day of January, 1848, ar.d the lit day of January, 1849, showing the date of each such et quisition being delivered in the registry-office, the data of the certificate of search given in pursuance of each such requisition, the number of days which elapsed between the delivery of each suck requisition to the registrar or as sistant reestrar, and the giving of the certificate to the per son making each such requisition, the fees charged in the registry-office on each such negative search, and the stamp duty paid thereon. The House adjourned at half-put 1. " STATE OF THE NATION." PAIRS ON MR. DISRAELI'S MOTION. Afl AgHanby, 11. A. Amon. Col. Booked, W. Corbin", M. Clements, C. Dunoembe, T.B. Duke, Ni J. Elliot E. Fox, it. M. Fordyce, A. Drone, 0. D. Herbert, Hon. S. lioleard, P. H. Jackson, W. Mangles, B. D. Matheson, J. Maitland. T. Milton, Lord Mulgrave, Fort O'Brien, T. Vendor'''. E. W. Ricardo, 0. Tbickneo-e, It. A. Waren, M. Fos. Cotton, lion. W. Wynn, sir W. Dick, Quintln Mamma, T. P. Cale, lion. H. Need, J Ilouldsw, T. Brooke, Sir A. Prime, R. Bonbury, W. M. M.iswell. lion J. Baring, Iton. Y. Stanley, E. 14 , ephention, R. Portal, M. Bruce, Cumming t oz, s Sir J. Duneombe, Hon. 0. Baldwin, C. B. B(e, W. Trevor, Hon. 0. Lowther, U. Gwyn, H. Gilt eirstreni. OUTGOING MAILS. die few aritigh North AIMOTiCS and the United Para will be wade up oa the tweak', of the 13th July. The mails for Vigo, °pato, Lisbon, Itedeira Cadiz, and Gibraltar, will be nude up on the 17th ofJuly. The West Laths Amy ezoluding Rwanda. Berms, Nam% fleadarra, Nora Orleans, and Minims and inelacUng thole for Madeira, Kt. litasaleoritterseaa, New Granada, Chili, sad Pere, sill te made ap oa the 17th or July. The ails foe Gibraltar, Naos, Grose, the bliss Lim* Orgies. India. and China. via houthempera, will be mods up on morning of the 20th of July. The mails, roe Marteilles, to the liseilerreasell, rapt. Ceflest, ladle, lime-Koos, ha, will be made spat the 'Team et Itey 24th. The moils tot Waders, the Brazils, sad Deem Ayres, will be made op on the 4th of 41101MPL WOE WATER AT LOl4llOll =IDS IL Totts n/. —lllmator. II Ma. out 4 ; Allersoms. WA got 3 To Xoamovr—llaislAg. 34.•44. put ; AMMAN, 44 Ma. post 6 LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 10. ALTHOUGH we entertain the most serious and de- (tided objection to any imitation at the present day of JAMES the SECOND'S plantation of Ulster, we can have none to the terms of the motion made in the Court of Common Council on Thursday last. This motion was to consider the propriety of purchasing Irish estates and waste lands, to cultivate and in prove the same, :so as to benefit Ireland and employ its people, and at the same time secure to the cot poration a return of the capital invested, with interest, and so on. There is in this nothing but what is most praise. worthy and wise. Any association that will apply its capital to the purchase, and thin to ths draining. fencing, and improving of land, to its division into farms, the erection of homesteads thereon, and finally to the sale of these to natives of 'he country, who as landlords and tenants will pe form landlords' and tenants duties —such an application of British capital must cer ainly be conducive, as the Lord- Lieutenant promises, to the prosperity and well-being of the cnaqtry. This, however, is very different from a revival of JAMES the SECOND'S scheme, which, by giving the City of London a permanent footing in the west or in the north of Ireland, would terrify, it is slid, the French or Americans from ever looking in at that back door of the empire. If a Loudon c rporation is not merely to purchase Irish lands for improvement aad for re-vending, but is to settle down and con- stitute itself the permanent landlord, u is the case in the north—if the English corporation is to rep'ace the lord of the soil, such a landlord, b log per force, and by nature an eternal absent e, al u•.tieg up land in mortmain, aid tendering it, like church property, unclaimable : —then, we do say, that sot's a system would be most untair to the Irish people, would excite both in its commencement and progress their most determined opposition, would produce the failure of any such financial scheme, and instead of strength ening and uniting Ireland against insidious firs, would, on the contrary, eatab'ish a point of dissension and weakness, to excite native disorder and tempt foreign interference. Hitherto, no doubt, the duty of a landlord has been but an admirers of privilege and pastime. A bruised condescending visit once in three years, I !Its= acts of generosity mingled with coer cion, petitions to government to do what it cannot do, and dire complaints when government does what it must do, these duties of landlordism might certainly be well pf eormed, or replaced by a i distant corporation. But the times are past when such performance of dufee sufficed. The facetious of landlord become the most difficult, delicate, and one rous. And any attempt to pereorm these func tions and duties by contract is preposternurn An absentee landlord is bad enough. Bat still there is such a thing as personal devotion, as attachment to a family, but a corporation cannot com mand them. And any such fureign lady permanently thawing rent from a country is not of those thirgs that are t lerable and pose bee mach longer. We have such things, no doubt, and on a largo scale, both in the East and in the West Indies. We have the Hudson's Bay Company. The universal result of these has been to enrich officials and stockholders— even that not always—bat also the oppression, impo vtrishment, and extirpation of the native races. Ireland is no county to play such experiments with. And any politician who regards acd would deal with Ireland by applying to it the old cauteries and nostrums would find that the land would no longer bear the application of the traditional blisters. One of our c mtemporaries com pares Sir ROBERT Pact's Lew plantation scheme to the erection of a cathedral—a just einele, for we know nothing more likely to set the Irish by the ears than to erect a cathedral for them. We warn the corporation of London sot to follow that counsel, or to be guided by precedent in their deal ings with Ireland. We entreat London not "to go to plant Connaught in the 19rh century, merely as they planted Ulster in the lith ;" and to add, u the Times does, that "the interval is nothing." We beg to say, that the interval is immense. The Irish in the nineteenth century have id• a•, liberties, powers, susceptibilities, all which you must consult and conciliate. London, in the seventeenth century, sent over English landlords, protestant labourers, who had wastes to settle on, wag, a which the mere Irish no longer disputed. But Connaught has a population which you cannot get rid of, which must be employed both as tenants and as farmers, and who will not suf fer themselves to be expatriated. No doubt the m st natural and only mode of re claiming remote portions of land is to allow and facili, tate the circulation of capital from the centre to them. But, as a general rule, whoever would make money fructify on land, must conduct the operation himself. The management of land and of the labour er; upon it, is a complicated process of economy and philanthropy that requires the personal conduct of a resident landlord. Joint-stock schemes and exploitation by ledger and by circular, will fail there, or will Inver do halt what a man can do with his own. Moreover, there are lands, waste lands, left waste as much from poverty of soil and incong.miality of position and clime, as from want of capital. On these land', and the greater tart of the Connaught lands aimed at by the London corporation are of the kind, the constant and minute labour and attention of an occupier in terested in the soil as proprietor or long leaseholder, would do more than capital for Hsieh laud. The power of reclaiming lies as much in the tenure as in the outlay. This is no region for a wealthy corporation to come and squat in the One of a lord of the evil, wringing by its agerts its five shillings and its ten shillings an acre. Small profits would not be worth its care ; and large ones are not to be expected. Let ns ba pardoned, therefore, for hinting that the joint-stock or corporate mode of employing capital, however apt for a great many purposes, are lees apt for the cultivation and management of land than for any other source of profit. Such associa tions a-e bad landlords in any country, in a country like Ireland, they are unpopular ones. But if the aim of the London corporation be a temporary, not • permanent investment—if. their purpose be merely to purchase large tracts cf land, to drain, to open roads through them, to divide, and direct the first works of enclosure, in order afterwards t s get r:d of the lind in its improved stats—th , n inde ed, but then only, eo we think the scheme likely to be p-ufit ab'e, possible, or philaattropie. Ir any man could have doubted what the main object of the o.d Bailey prosecution of Price: GRANATELLI was, the voeirsrations of the absolutist print. over the verdict of acquittal would have die tinted it. The prosecution wee one of Kng liomua's line devices—one of his curningest tricks—to annoy Lori PALMERSTON. Herein it was malicious—cha racteristically malicious. But, as that complied ef royal cowardice, duplicity, and blood thirstyness also hoped thereby to consign one of the most illustrious of his subjects to a dungeoe, the prosemtion was vin dictive and revengeful as well as malicious. And therein it was King BOMBA all over. Lord PALMERSTON direr! to wish for the rest:ra tion of Sicilian freedom ; he dared to have intercourse with a Sicilian government appointed and obeyed by the Sicilian natieu ; he direr' to arrest the atrocities of the Neapolitan government and army in Sicily; he dart d to re:eive the representations of the Sicilian government in Downing-street ; he dared to show them honour and respect in Carlton Gardens ; he refused to give King BOMBS the aid cf the British police in hunting after alleged breaches of a statute which the wheat of modern English statesmen and the moat profound of modern English jurisconsalts have denounced ; and he would not enable that illustrious monarch to murder his subjects as his predecessor permitted MET TERNICH to murder the Btu:dials: and for these great and manifold offences no means of annoyance have been left unresorted to. The " excellent ABERDEEN" has been crammed with all sorts of tales to annoy him in the House of Lords ; the Times has been glutted with all manner of lies to annoy him in print ; and even poor Mr. BANKES has been made use of to anroy him in the House of Commons. But the last and greatest engine of annoyance—that which was to consign Lord PALMERSTON to everlasting disgrace —that which was to cover his policy with the adverts verdict of a B itish jury—was the bill of indictment against Prince GRANATELLI. Oh! it was a notable scheme : encoureged, fostered, pro moted by peers and papers, commoners and diploma (stir : aided and abetted by all the runners of the old tory rump; smiled on and favoured even by the LIN COLTS. the SMYTHE% the GODLETS, and the HAT wAnns of pseudo Tiber tlity. PriIIeebRANATELLI in Newgate ! That would V ave been "a dainty dish to set before the King." What a triumph over Lord PAL- Merinos! " There, there," pointing at the walls, " there is the victim of }'our policy," would have been the cry from Argyle-house to Printing-house square. "There, in Near - gate, ia the result of your interference." _ Happily, for the honour of this country, the con spirators have been defeated. Their indictment, their quibbles, their false testimony, their money, at d their malice have failed. Their attempt to annoy Lird PALMERSTON has recliled on themselves. And, by the verdict of a British jury, after a solemn trial of thrtm days, King BOMB k, his congenial representa tive, sod their allies, stand dishonoured and disgraced. Only think Of a monarch—who, not content with a 'tint* cisyb' blood-letting in hia continental capitol, with half destroying his Sicilian capitol, with wholly destroying the bberees of that island— in the hour of his triumph, on the mornicg after victory, when his AsbjEce are at his mercy, when he can gratify to hie heart's content all his brutal and vicdictive passions at home, when he is again despotic master of his ill-ruled state,—think, we say, of a monarch who at such a time could not terrain from indulging in an Old Bailey proiseantian alainst hie exiled and de feated. subjeAsl Think, too, what mast be the prospects of hie people who are in his power, wht n en& is his conduct to those who are happily out of his reach. Yet this is the sovereign whom the . T men, delights to honour; whose praises are recorded in the columns of the Morning Chronicle. Shades of PERRY and of WALTER, look down and forgive your dege iterate sore. The spirit cf the ( ourier in its worst days has found a refuge and an ab ding place in the very journals that were once its m sst resolute and its ablest opponents. Worthy ef the royal prosecutor were his witnesses. A venal andadiscreditable Britishofficer, who, willing to sell his sword to any cause, was even more willing to betray for mom y tho cause to which he had sold his dishonoured weapon ; and an Italian sailor ready to swear any thing or nothing for a pot de tie ; such was the evidence a diplomatist—himself a soldier, who bad the honour, in former times, to serve in the British army—condescended to rake up, and to pay for! We hope he likes his "most filthy bargain!" Prince GRANATELLI soon found out what sort of a fel low E ,sign AUBREY was, and having made the dis covery, he properly shrank from all intercourse with him; whereupon off 'posted that gallant soldier to the Neapolitan embassy, and there vended the informa tion he had obtained under the guise of honour and integrity. " For a wrefched bribe of 300/.," to use Sir FITZROY KELLY'S words, "he sacrificed his fame as a man and a Brifsh soldier." The other fel low was a cheaper lot ; be was found in poverty, and doubt'ess a few dollars , were his pric'. These, then, are the facts : a r ,yal prosecution, snworted by treachery, paid for by bribery! Worthy —most worthy—we repeat, of King BOMBA. Strange notions, however, must his adviek rs have had, when they imagined that an English jury would credit such evidence. And peremptory, most pe remptory, must have been their vindictive instruc tions when their counsel ventured into court with ' such a tale as AUBREY'S in their briefs. Thank heaven that in this subornation of testi mony King BOMBA failed; and the feelings of those who &betel him in his dirty attempt, be they am bassador, peer, commoner, lawyer, or journalist, are certainly not to b 2 envied. Lord PALMERSTON might have stopped the prowcutim at once by (greeting the ATTORNEY-GENERAL to enter a nulle prosequi. lie acted rightly in letting it take its course; and in the . righteous verdict of the jury he will find his best satisfaction, and King BOMBA and company their , condign disgrace. " Le vrai Amphitryon eat rAmphitryon ou I'on dine." The great thorsl truth first announced by MOLIERS was never more happily illustrated than at the Mansion-hone on Saturday last. Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, in the bland moment of repletion, desig nated turtle and ice punch r a graceful recognition of the claims of literature," and vowed that no " more gratifying compliment" could be paid to men of letters than "such 4 tribute from the chit f magistrate of the City of London." Sven "oar own reporter" caught the enthusiasm of the hour, and hes lauded the feast and its founder in a stain of glowing elo quence we a' ould in rain attempt to emulate. " Our owo" is decidedly of Opinion that the meeting of " the creative mind of the country," to consume dain ties in the Egyptian-halLowas even more intereating than the " festive unions which have made the citi- zene of Ludgate and Chespeide as familiar with the embroidered liveries and the emblsz used chariots of the nobility as the shopkeepers of St. Jamee's-street." It is an awkward confession, yet truth compels us to make it, that the exuberant :hospitality of the Man sion-house appears to have somewhat interfered with the wonted accuracy of " our own." Between the ' influence of the " loving cup" and of the intellectual excitement, the voices and figures of the speakers appear to have been blended in his apprehension into one delicious unity of person. At least this is tho only theory that enables us to explain his omission to report the distinguished speaker who claimed the sits ration of the dinner party immediately after the Bishop of LONDON. The men and their voices, like the lights, were by that time dancing before his eyes and murmuring fitfully in his ears, to that he end.. not well distinguish ono from the other. We hasten to supp'y the omission. Altet the LORD MAYOR had retorted thanks for the bishop's compliments, Mr. Punch begged leave to say a few words. We mean the real bona' fide Mr. Punch, and none of the ingenious gentlemen who °omits' ally contribute to his miscellany ; several of whom, however, were present, and appealed to enjoy themselves vastly. fife. Punch cimmeated with a felicitous allusion to the Bishop of Loxl:toN's touching reminiscences of the time when, as sua humble chaplain, he Lad said grace in that hall. Mr. Punch observed that the graceful and characteristic humility of the venerable prelate ought to be emulated by lay eclebr:ties. This was the reason why he reverted to a period in his own career, when he too had been wont to come in contact with the civic dignitaries, almo-t es little on a footing of equality as their chaplain. When their beadles used to interfere with his peripatetic attempts to amuse the public at street corners and crossings, lie as little hoped to sit me day at that b:ard in the ohs meter of a guest who reflected honour and lustre upon it by his presence, as did his right reverend friend when discharging the functions of chaplain. In the elevation which Wallin his own peculiar walk) both of them owed to the exertion of their own abilities, ingenious youth, struggling against difficulties, might read a lesson of hope and perseverance. Mr. Punch proceeded to compliment the Amphi tryon of the evening on the del:cate tact w;th which he had regulated individual claims to literary, scien tific, and artistic praeedence. The distinguished offi cial whose proud lot it was to preside over a corpora tion cf corporations, knew well that corporate dignity was all in all. Hba'noble and leatned friend, the president of the Royal Society (here Mr. Punch bowed grace fully to the Earl of Rosso) knew from experience that all the separate talents of the gentle men over whom he presided were possessed by him self in fuller measure in virtue of his occupvine the ' presidential chair, jest as all the tributes paid to the wit which adorned his (Mr. Punch's) pages were gi timately due not to the individuals who con tribal ed, but to him who published them. With a just ROW of official dignity, their hospitable entertainer had prtferred the claims of the author of " Don Carlos,"• who might indeed be called the lord mayor of the empire, to be considered the representative of English dramatic genius to those of mere private individuals like TALFOURD, KNOWLES, or RULWER. The mime discriminating spirit had induced him to couple with architecture, not the name of BARRY, who was well ecough in bis way, but the architect of the corporation, the immortal TITE. '1 he same instinctive appreciation of corporate dignity had doubtless prompted the selection of the gentleman who returned thanks for the Royal Academy. Erre, it was true, whom some called the MICHAEL ANGELO of colour, and MCLREADT, the delicate luxury of whose tints was unsurpassed, were present among them; but of course the pas was due to their " Keeper," just as it would have been to Mr. WOMBWELL, had he and his travelling companions been partakers of the feast. Mr. Punch went on to express his admiration of the skill with which the gues's had been grouped and catalogued. The list, which doubtless the public would pause with delight on Monday morning, was as systematically arranged as the carte which he held in his hsnd,or the eatelogu- in posse of the British Mu swum library (he reMe. Phnch cc>dded with affectionate familiarity to Mr. Emma), which their great grand children might hope to prod by. The frivolous aed illiterate m'trht preposterously look with wire in terest to a Hensereembr a li f telteDaY, or a ROGERS, than to some other literary and scientific gentlemen whose names it would be invidious to mention • but transcendental philosophers like himself and his iiiend Sir JAMES, knew that proper' classification was the great end and aim . of 'Hulce. It was not the thing called geaitis-that dis'inguished'a man, but his being a member of the Royal Siic'ely, or the corporation of London, or the bench of bishops., or the body of contributors to Punch. The orator, who was evidently delighted•with his own eloquence, and, to nee a familiar prisedbial ei pression, "as pleased as Punch," would have c ei tinued his remarks, but by' this tima the conversa timid criticism of the guests began ti bverpoweeven his piercing toms. His getruree 'and thrice, it May be remarked, en paskant,.ettikitkgly resemble the dscription which Sir Ja`sees STEPHEN has giien of these of the late Mr. WILBERPORGE in his sketch of the Clapham sect. Everts; this implaieg essecistion bf ideas could not, however,restriiiathe mgrs. Sir Pre FR LAURIE whispered his fews tilt the old g man was making game of the aldermc't and the o meanies ; some)) 'dy less charitable hinted that he had partaken too freely of the " loving cup." The ere Mr of " Vanity Fair 7 muttered ictones by no iiitetes sotto v.,4e that': the patriarch was hinting truths morOrrietiah fiat-, teeing. Mr. Punch at Bart sear• dto became aware of the rising sough of a coming storm, and raising his .htill voice above the din, concluded by comparing the LORD MAYOR, matt d with himself at o• e end of the dais, sad the illustrious prelate who had recently ad dressed them at the other, to the Archduke of Au u A, in the "Talisman; betwtca jester aed sproch sprecher. Stillness and silence succeeded, amid wh'elt 4 11;- 1 phetrynn was heard to whisper, with a jolly gA,4I - laugh, to his next neighbour, that .11%-. Punch was an impertinent rascal, but that allowance must be made far the eezentticitits of men of DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. SCHLESWIG, JeLv 4. Toe only news from the seat of war comes from Fridericis. The investment of the fortress was com- pl , rted on the 30th of June, by the erection of two batteries on the north side of it. By this means the communication of the besieged with the sea, which. before was only interrupted for a short time, has been complatle cut cff; for now the batteries both on tho south and on the north cm reach every vess:l that attempts to enter the harbour with their shel!s. The uninterrup'ed communication with the ata has h therto enabled the Danes to strengthen garrison, to relieve the troops from time totime, and to supply the fortress whir munitions of war. The besieged, consequently, made the most strenuous exertions to prevent the completioa of the two batteries .just erected, by a heavy and continuous cannonade from their shipping and the walls of the fort. As son es they were completed, the bt ie zed made a sorb. , drove in the weak otyposta of the Schleswig-Holsteir.e-s, and entered one of the batteries. But before tt.ey could destroy it our discomfited troops received a reinforce ment, charged the Danes with the bayonet, and drove - them back into the fortress. The Danes wares to have had 19 killed and wounded (of whom 3 are officers) in this affair, our less was 7 killed and wounded. The provisional assembly sat on the 3rd inst. with cloud doors; the object of their deliberations was the proposal to strengthen the army by cow levies. If 1 ■m rightly informed, it was resolved to authorise the government to form a second reserve brigades. BELGIUM.—BRussEte, JULY 7.—A traveller who arrived from Paris at &wads this morning affirms that Ledru Rollin travelled by the same train. He put up at the Hotel de Swede, which he quitt_cl an hour after. The report which has gone tho rounds of the newspapers, and has caused so much disquietude, that the cholera is raging wi h great virulence, is:officially contradicted ; not only is there no appearance of cholera, but the health of the town was never better than it is at this summit, and there novcr were so few patients in the hospital. Vbe Court. OSBORNE, MONDAY.—Her Majeal and the Prince walked early this morning in o.bortes stk. His Ittysl Highness the Prince of Wales rode, and the junior Dr mbers of the Royal Family walked in the grounds. The Rev. Hr. Piotberoe performed Divine S2TVite and preached the sermon yesterday at Whippinghsm Church. Sir James Clark left for Lindon yesterday afternoon. With tho exception of Sir Robert, Lady, and Miss Peel, there was no addition to the royal dinner party yesterday. Mr. George Carr Glyn and Mr. Peters had an in terview with the Right lion. 11. Ltbsuebere yesterday et the Boar.l of Trade. Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., had an interview with the Contmilaionen of dtailwaya at their dikes in the Board of Trade. Hts EXCELLENCY M. CLEMSON, United States Minister at the court of Brussels, accompanied by Li; tumi!v, embarked on Sunday morning last on board the steamer Antwerpen, Capt. Jackson, on his return to Belgium L•vd 1)a Mauley and the Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, the llou. Villir s Stuart and family, General Briggs, Colonel Denny, Captti.t R-ddy, also left London by the Antwerpen. HER MAJESTY'S EXCURSION. The arrangements being now definitively made that her Majesty is to visit Thifrat, and from thence crier to Saw,- land, it has become • matter of speculation whether tho R tyal party will take this city en route to Balmoral. It hart been whispered that the Queen will proceed by the Caledo nian Canal to visit the Duke of Sutherland et Duhrohirt Castle ; hut we have soul. reasnn to believe that Otasirw will be honoured with her Majesty's presence, and that in, mores have been alr , ady adopted fle her temp:lm.. We have heard that the Western Club intend to offer their splendid mansion fur her Mikity's we oerinz her stay here. In the event of the Queel visiting this ci y, there can he only one feeling as to the loyalty and devotion with which she will be h died. —Margot° Daily Mad. GR IND FETE AT CAMBRIDGE HOUSE. Their Royal Highnesses the D tko and Duchess of Ca ~bri ige had a dinner ;only yesterday at Cambridge }h ue °. Tne company con"id d of his Ex-elleney the Ileuoverisin %Heider, the Duke and Duette'. of Beaufort, the Duchess of Suecleuch, the Marquis of Wasche"tur, the Marquis of Anglesey, the M irchrone's of Ailesbory, the Marquis of Linsilowne, the Marqu:s of Granby, the Earl ant Countess of Wilton. the Earl and Countess of Shelburne, I.,^rd and Lady Marian Alford, Lord Elphin,tone, lord and Lai., V. Onrdon Hallyburton, and the E irl of Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge afterwards gave a ball which wu numerously .'tended by the principal nobditp. Iler Royal Highness received tar ddsinsuished visitors in the principal e'rawing roam. Tht other drawing-rooms and the rest of the state 'sixes were °pea. 4 for the reception, and, tssether with the grand s:ni case and the inner hall were most tastefully decorated with d twcriite shrubs and plants. Her Royal Highness' the Duchess Gloucester, attended by Lady Caroline Murray, arra; 1 r,t twenty minute. bet red (levee o'clock. At eleven o'clock their Royal Bisbee's*. the Duke and Duchessofeanthridge. the Duchess of Gloucester, the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meeklenbu-g-Stre in, Prince George, and the Princess Mary, fol'owed by the avomblcd guests, entered the ball room, wi ich was brilliantly lit by three mrgnifleent crystal lustre.. Herr Strauss and hie minium wrrs in avendenee in this room. A quadrille was formed and danci ,g cos meretd. At one o'clock a sumptuous eupz.er was raved ht the state dinner room. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. TUE PEI/CRAM OP LAND IN IRELAND COMMITTEE. When the court Pssembled of Thursday last arei ally to take into considers ins the que:.tion of appoin.ing a committee on eke subject of the purchase of land in Ireland, it was agreed to that th- &lumen present and the eldunva not present who might b 2 members of parliament aliculd hes members of such committee. The names of uveral eider meo neerrdingly apptared upon the record of the court's proceedings. It wan objectedby Mr. TAYLOR that the names of four aldermen were on tie hat who were, not present when the committee was constituted ; and he moved chat their ntwes be struck off. A reh-r lengthy discussion having ensued, The LORD MAYOR pot it to the court whether it would be equitable to deny the privilwe of the wort to an ald•r man who was actually engaged en performing the magfale -64 functions of his cffice at the moment a eomm 7 ttte Ia which he might take a deep interest was in a state of forma tion ? (Hear, tear.) If Mr. H. L. Taylor objte•rd to the existing practice, thet it was a practice in error, and net to be justified, he could give notice in the usual manner, stet the subject could under ro discussim. Under these circum stances he had to express his decision that no alterntien e . uld take place in the exiting practice without 'mice, and that, as a matter of course, the subject was at an cwt. (Cheers.) toon th 2 motion of Dlr. Deputy BEDFORD the letter Ol Lord Clarendon upon the subject of Ireland was crderel to be printed and osculated amongst the members of the court. —Adjourned. FREE EXIIIBITIONS.—A return of the numbs of viti•ors admitted free of charge to see the state epee-rue:de and carder% at Hampton-court Palace, Windsor Casale, acsl the Royal B dacic ()orders at Kew, during she years I€l7 a.l 1648, hts lust been p intyd. It appears that the nurra:rr of v:titors to Hansp•on.c .urt Palace was destine the ramie. year, 162,031, and during the latter 150,321. Th . surre‘er of nersons admitted to in-peet Windsor Castle in 184:, woo 25,970. and in 1818, 26,897. In 1847, the visitor. , m Ole Kew B danlc Gardens amounted to 61,282, and en 1815 tO 91,703. THE CHOLERA IN TI/ E MILLBANK PRISON.—Yeror , day, Mr. tydford held fot.r more inquests in the Itillintk ?neon, on the bodies of convies who had died there. A verdict of t' Death from Asiatic cholera" having bum re turned in the case of one of the dream. d, the coroner, ad dres-ing Dr. DJy, °Unwed that this was the kur.° limo within ten days he bed been called on to hold four is gut -de on each day ; cou'd nothing be doue to ketuer.the state sei the lois• n and the psi ()hers? Dr. Baly reified ,thsid tlto fault WAS not with those who had the soperitendency of k4o mem fir. the fact sae :hat ptisincre were brought in every te of iEseitue, and th.y were then kw watt City oar* Well 'befuro tsefrg sent away. The Ccruni r —Tro a • the avcraje of 'deaths is to be placed to that cause? D... Kay *said it e&ercly erase front the pretent system of ' , moral of aanvices; the great mortality used to he at Wo .Iwieh, but Jul lino contras were now sent's° liiil,bat k Pti.i,r. T‘ip c.mener—dia, anything been done in CIOVVrIIte of the lata iorittes,s/i four pecans who died of cholera la •lt% wt., form ? Dr. Bay °beetled that same then a cechrounieel In kid taken place with the commissioners of sew, irc, sib, h.tl dative' the oleos and the open sewer was direct d, -t .1 be , c-'yered. There are now five cases o i f scholera io t' , c rrl.rd, Flu,Aliorbeelt. are said to be very. ttefFnyr. 'The °tin r ince . risque* st eer*, 4Withe k (row pulmonary ecnempption end erysipelas. - - .4: •••i X