The Express. — London, England, 1849-07-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNEsosY, JOLT 4. The Erma= took tke choir at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. SECOND READlNG.—Houghton's Dimes Bill. REPORT CONSIDERED.—NOW Narth.road (Boothia& Nos Act) scli. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Tun Paorta's Crsinn.—By_Mr. ROZBUCT„ g e m a piece, name sot heard; Mr. W. PATT EN f:igi; gim Preston ; for the adoption of the people's charter Pawn - nom or Woman BILL —By Mr. DIC. fNCOURT, Bea Lambeth, and several other plias, I &Tow of t hi s bil. MINIS AND COLUMNS BILL—By Y.L LACY, several, visa various places, egainet this bill. ADTIIITISINZNT DC7l.—By Mr. E. TYNTE, from Bridgwater, foe the repeal of this d COPTIOLD Enrasscanzunv.r BILL..—By Mr. CAMP BELL, from a place not hese. ; me, cOmlsmm ; 'see m, hoe lords of maces in Sulf&A, against this bill. Biatnaurvcv LAW CO',IIOLIDATION BILL—By Mr. W. P. WOOD, f , cm 100 soli•Jitore of Manchester, for an littera- Bon doom* of the claws of this bill. Tun Ps r..arsi COCIIT.—By Mr. GODSON. from clinks of the Palace COMM for compensation in the event of the abo lition of that cmat. RA. stAon 13a.t.—By Mr. ROBEOUSE, from Lincoln, la favt oar of this bill. Ms AMASS Ace or 1835.—8 y Mr. BERNAL, km Ro shes in favour of the amendment of this act. Pam Snors.—By Mr. W. BROWN, from Stanley, Pr At yin, for the prolobit out of farther Bosoms to beer stop In ad *et those already granted shall be is 621011 only during Cm tenure of the present holden ; and by Mr. BROTHER 'tON, from Ss Idlewat , to he mine affect. Pool' Lew Cosuors.—By Mr. W. BROWN, from Pil- Wanton, preying that a lan may be passed by chilli the amnion chasm of parishes in unions may be apparition ascending to the anima value of such parishes, respectively, and not according to the amount of relief &dalmatian or the poor. VINTILATION. — Bp Mr. COWAN, fern' Dr. Banta Reid, in fame of his system of ventilation. AUSTRALIAN COLONIES BILL. reply to Mr. Roam:co, Mr.llA WEI said that the Australian Colonies Bill, should it be pawed by the imperial parliament, would come into operation upon its beiag proslamied in New Ssuth Wales. The new caony of Victoria would doubtless accept it, or otherwise that colony would be without any government at all when separated from New South Wales; and although Van Di men's Land akin refuse the bill, he hill every reason to believe that it would be adopted there als HIGHWAYS (DISTRICT SURVEYORS) BILL. Mr. FREWIIN having moved the second reading of this bill, Sir G. STRICKLAND protested against the measure, as involving a great addition to the present oppressive county rating, without any adequate compensation. Ile moved that the bill be read a second that day six months. Mr. RICE said that the present system was moat ineE. Meat to good, sad replete with jobbing and abuv. He mid have desired a still more stringent and extensive measure than the present, but be was ready to accept the bill before tee h .use sea 'Up in the right direction. Sir J. TROLLOPE desired that a comprehensive cusped easy 111114411116, applicable to the whole country, should be in troduced under the auspices of government, rather than that this partial sad merely permissive bill should be proceeded with. He should therefore support the amendment. Lord H. VANE elm supported the proposition that this bill should be withdrawn, in order to make way for • more general measure. Mr. C. LEWIS concurred, while quite approving of the principle of the bill, so far as it went ; he also thought it would be better to have a large and general enactment on the whole subject. The expenditure on highways was nearly two millions a year, an expenditure which called for the closest and most skilful supersition. (Hear.) - Mr. B. DENISON . entirely agreed with the last speaker that the principle of the bill was good, ar d that it was ab solutely esesatial some such measure should be passed. But the periA of the session was ro far advanced as to induce him to think the bill could not be carried during the present year, and he therefore naked the boo, member to withdraw the bill. Mr. T. EGERTON hoped that before the bill was with drawn some pledge would be given by the right hon, gentle man opposite (Sir G. Grey) that he would consent to some comprehensive mounts respecting highway rates and local apeaditure. Sir G. GREY said that the very circumstance that a com prehensive measure was requisite corsituted one of the chief ditlicultiee attending it. However, his hon. friend the Under Secretary for the Home Department had charge of the subject, and would at some future period state what his views wore, when he hoped to meet with the concurrence of hon. members opposite. Mr. 001.:L110ItN thought that some legislative enact meet on the 'abject was indispensable. Mr. V. SMITH was of opinion that if the government did introduce a comprehensive measure, it would be pulled to pied son all sides. Ile thought it better to deal with the question of kcal expenditure in detail, and that the present bill would be very advantageously beginning the reform. Ile therefore recommended the n. member to persevere in pressing the principle of the bill on the acceptance of the house. Mr. 0. BANK ES entirely concurred in the view taken by the right boa. gentleman, and recommended his hon. friend to miscue in pressing his bill to • division, it it were ne cessary. Mr. li. PALMED. supported the principle of the bill, though he did sot think it could peu thia cession. Capt. HARRIS would certainly vote fer the second read ing of the bill. _ _ Mr. YREWEN said he was the last man in that house to woes a measure egaint the common assent of hoc. members; lost as to the lateness of the period at which he had intro duced the hill, he begged to say he could not do to earlier, as the government was in poewwlen of the tiny, and it was °sly urn the withdrawal the government bill that he multi with propriey interfere, and then he was obliged to wait for the first open day. Mr. G. C. LEWIS said that the government would sop poet the seemad reading of the bill, on the understanding *hit it would sot be pressed farther during the present ses sion. Ile agreed is the !multiple of the bill. Sir G. STRICKLAND having withdrawn his amend seat, the bill was read a second time. lIARBIAGE BY_ LICENSE. church; an: with that view he had framed the precut clause, losaing it to the free unfettered judgment of the clergy to celebrate the marriages or not as they should think at. He had hoped that the clause to framed would have put the general sanction of the entablished clergy, and he had in his pocket the expressed approval of the clause by •.large number of them. At the wane time he was aware that in some quarters the clause as it stood excited opp al- Son. He, however, was still of opinion that the clause should be retained in its present form, although be should not thiak it necessary to give up the bill if the amendment should be adopted. The CHAIRMAN observed that the amendment amounted in point of fact to the substitution of a new clew'. The amendment, therefore, must take this form. The hon. gentleman must first move the omi &on of the present clause, and subsequently move the insertion of his own clause. Mr. MONTE said the [question wee, whether we were to take our own exposition of the Bible, or that of the canons of the church. He contended that we were to expound the Bible according to our own mode of thinking, otherwise where was the nee of publishing the Scripture in the Eng lish language ? He had seen the greatest advantage accrue in his own family from marrying the deceased wire's sister, and he recommended the hon. and learned peutleman to per severe with the clause, or to withdraw the bill altogether. Col. THOMPSON said not only did the Levitical law not forbid the marriage with deceased wife's sister, but a man's face wu to be slapped with • slipper if he did not marry the brother's widow, which he took to be an analogous case. (Hem, hear.) He feared that the hon. gentlemen op posite were apt to misquote, like the celebrated titer-chamb.r version of ate of she commandments, which, in consequence of the "not " being omitted, stood thus, " Thou shalt commit adeltery"—(a laugh)—and many there were, he believed, who followed that reading. (laughter.) Mr. MANGLES supported the clause, and joined with the hon. member for Birmingham (Mr. Muntz) in won needing the withdrawal of the bill rather than the yielding up of the clause. He knew that many clergymen did not object even now to celebrate these marriages. Mr. GLADSTONE opposed the clause. These canons had been acted upon in courts of juetios for the last 250 years ; and though certaia of them relating to external regimen had been contravened by act of parliament, yet this was a canon of a very different nature, plainly declaring what was the sense of the word of God. His hon. and learned friend affected to throw some doubt upon the inter pietation, but surely nothing could be clearer than the precise terms of the canon. It was in the following words "No person shall marry within the decrees prohi bited by the laws of Gad, and expressed in the table set forth by authority in the year of our Lord 1563." (Ironical cheers, and an hon. member—" The pope.") As the clause stood he was convinced eons( qualms would be involved, which might be remote, but the approach of which would be sure and formidable beyond expresiou ; because it would destroy altogether the recognition by the law of the country of the true ehristian and scriptural standard with regard to the law of marriage. (Hear, hear.) This would not he the cam if the amendment were agreed to, and he should there. fore give it his support. Sir G. GREY said that the clause as it stood was prefer able to the amendment. The amendment consisted of two parts, and the first portion was, in his opinion, wholly in consistent with the second elan." of the bill. He objected to the words " or authorised " further on, and believed that the object of the hon. gentleman who moved the amend ment would be secured, if those words were left out. At the saute time if the committee divided, he should divide in favour of the clause. _ _ Mr. WORTLEY replied, and expressed his determina tion, alter the opinions which had been expressed, to perse vere with the clause. Ile would only acid, that the 99.6 coon was no doubt an article of the church, but that r o clergyman was called upon to subscribe to it upon his ordi nation. . . . . . . Mr. GOULBURN feared that the bill would lead to greater end more extended evils than wasoriginal:y supposed, amounting even to a total subversion of the rules by which the church was governed. He recommended the hon. gen tleman not to take the opinion of the house on the rejection of these words, but to take time f r c3nsidering the amend ment he proposed, and take the discussion on the report. Mr. B. DENISON said that he had presented a number of petitions, from the constituency which he represented, in favour o f the bill, and a great number of them were signed by the clergy—clergy of the highest standing, and he was quite sure those clergymen would not have signed these petitions unless they had taken all the bearings of the case into their most mature consideration. The bill, as it stood at present, was to relieve the minds, and quiet the consciences, of a vast number of persons ; and he trusted the house would pose it, on the ground of the opinions entertained in its favour by the large constituency which he represented. Mr. HOPE would withdraw his opposition to the clause, en the distinct understanding that the discussion should be taken on the question of bringing up the report. Mr. S. WORTLEY did not agree t this, and the gallery wu cleared for a division, hut, alter a short time, strangers were readmitted; and we understood that the amendment was withdrawn, and the clause agreed to. Mr. F. MAULE roes to propose a clause which bad for its object tte exemption of Scotland from the effects of this bill. The hon. member for the West Riding had jut stated that he appealed to the house to enact this bill oo the ground that he represented one of the largest constituencies in Eng land, and that the voice of his constituents was in favour of this measure. He (Mr. F. Maule) spoke confidently in the name of the whole people of Scotland, and It r the reason stated by the hon. member, entreated the house to exempt Scotland from the operation of this act. Ile called on the house not to take the step of extending this bill to Scotland, first, as the marriages did not exist in Scot land; secondly, on the ground that the idea of these mar riages was abhorrent to the people of Scotland; and further, on the ground that they were making an uenecessary and rash attack on ecclesiastical authority in Scotland ; and, lastly, that they were introducfr g a practice of marriage which had never yet had around there. In every instance where these marriages had taken place, so offensive was it to the neigh bouring people that the parties had been obliged to quit the neighbourhood. He therefore moved to bring up the clause of which he had given notice, to exempt Scotland from the operation of this bill. The LORD ADVOCATE said that this amendment, if carried, would lead to the wont possible C•I2IINYC nCes. lie i admitted that there was an aversion, amongst the people et Scotland, to this class of es, but he could not say that it was very general. That, °mover, was not an argu ment of sufficient importance to prevent the bill being passed. Considir what would be the consequence of a mar:lege being lawful In England, and not in Soils:id. It would throw matters into the greatest confusion, it would disturb all the relations of life; all the relations of property, everything which could be subject to iiihentance would be thrown into confusion by this arrangement. What would it be to say that a marriage which wes good in Eastland was incestuous and punishable by transportation in Scotland ? lie would rather have the bill thrown out altogether, although he thought it a most important one, than that the house should adopt the amer.dment of his hon. friend. Mr. FORBES tali, that admitting that confusion such as was described by the lord advocate, was likely to arise, he did not think that the happiness of the whole man of the people was to be sacrificed for the disturbance of the property of one or two individuals. He trusted that for the ',Ate ut this happiness of the great body of the people, for the sake, especially of the poor, the house would exempt his country from the operation of this bill. Mr. EWARYimitial neilltictit;inTse;tsYstens of mar riage litmus was regulated by act of parliament, which al lowed aerbtrri of the church of England .o be 'married by liceuse without giving any previous notice, whereas dissen t/re WTI compelled to give Wren days notice. The bill which he now moved shout.' be read a second time was framed in order to remove that inequality of treatment, and he hoped the house would not refuse to affirm the principle, bat would ar.ew it to be read a second time. Mr. GOULBURN herbs( understood that the bill was to have been withdrawn, had not tome down prepared to argue it. Sir 0. GREY said that the hon. menhir had stated the case very fairly. The subject wee ander the consideration of the Registrar General, and he hoped the bill would not be persevered in. Mr. BROTHERTON recommended that the bill be with drawn. and hooeght forward the next session. TM bill wee then withdrawn. REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY CONVEYANCE. The house went into committee on this bill. The whole o: the closers went agreed te. Mr. HEADLAM brought up a chew to the following effect :—"Aad be it 'meted, that the powers and authorities given by this ant to the Court of Chancery in Ireland shall and may he exercised in like manner, and are hereby given and .xrended to •be Clue of Exchequer in Ireland." The clause was agreed to and added to the bill. The house thin mused. MARRIAGES BILL. Mr. FORBES Feinted a petition from the members of the free kirk against t►is ►ill, and Mr. S. WORTLEY several from Bridgeninth and other pluck, to Mvoar of it. The hon. member then moved that the bi I be committed. TM IMlise Imola( into committee. Clem.* 1 woe apea d to. Chime 2 tubs pt from the chair, Mr. GOULBURN said that the present clause was • roof at the inowlicy ol the bill. His hon. friend propound to miser Iron the operation of the bill such warriors wit► • er:fs's sister as had bra preceded by any acts of adultery between the part , es during the wife's life-time. The clams gave no remedy to a wife so injured, bermes her natural scam 31 delicacy would prevent her Irons going into a court of law t• arse her husband's sad her sirer's shame, and there wee Impossibility of framing such • clause so as to offer protection to wives so dreamt:towed. - - Mr 8. WORTLEY did not think that the clause was op 'n to tie, objections urged by his right hon. friend, but he had inservd it in delirium to the opinion of unite who t 1 'ought that the bill might tend to promote Ruch illicit inter course, thetarb from the high tone of moral feeling prevalent am, nest the English women be entrrtaiued co such appre roma ions as those upon which the chute was framed. The eta w at was then agreed to. On clause 3 being propoeed, Mr. ROPE, cm the pert of Mr. R. PALIIKH, moved, in line 14, ..ifter the word "that," to tray , out t • the end of the ' clause. sod insert tasked the words following : frothinicht titie set contained shall be deemed oe weaned la an, Veil or reeled vocal coon of this realm to alter or In any who alien any doctrine, ninon, re law ecelesiostisal of the United Chunk of Eninand and Ire lend, or of the Chunk of Scotland, whereby the do gr.a of ouinala Malty end affinity, within which manias, is now brit to be pr hd. ited by the doctrine and discipline et the seas churches respectively ere settled or &lined ; and no sitemmen, nhter, or "teraLL nhter, of tither of the raid churches shall ae niched or euthviest, uy virtue of thin ar t, to solemn/SD Or fruit lee nkw ellenanixiee an • marriage cootrary to the &string er of the church of wind' he is each clergyman, ,oldster, et eine; rat shall say end arinkter, or racier who may Inmeher miming or mot saybeeno• for voleautleing any m =h a ommspled, by virtue of Mi. set, from aay or 1111111 We Or =I to which ke would by law be subjected it this act had not . _ Mr. wormy egialttod dot tits amodatant referred M a wry gad jeer,' difficult pm of the question. Hi s 466 W t ima M T way a great social evil with es Mb Madam as predWe lialikaii7 of llta Mr. DRUMMOND was surprised that the hon. and learned member did not remember that the state of confu sion was precisely the state of the law at the present mo ment. Tne ecclesiastical reformers of former days were much more modest than the ecclesiastical reformers of this day; they did really and truly mean t., ref..rm the church, by taking away all the evil and leaving all the quid; but gentlemen in these days wanted to give us • new Christianity altogether. Mr. OSWALD said that it was not only the deliberate opinion of the people of Scotland. but it was the deliberate faith, that these marriages were incestuous, and it war, in the meet distinct mat.ner, so laid down in the formul aries which were in the hands of every peasant in Scotland. Tun were 1,294 congregations in Scotland which held to the confession of faith. There was, in Scotland, the longer and shorter catechism. In the 139th question of the shorter catechism, the diepensieg with unlawful marriages was said to be forbidden by the 7th comm iadohnt. In chapter 24, sec. 4, of the confession of faith, these unlawful marriages were enumerated, and in the larger catechism un lawful marriages were referred to. As the second reading of the bill bad passed, all he could do was to endeavour, by supprrting the amendment, to save the country from what he thought a great evil. Hr. S. WORTLEY, in reply, said that this bill left the law, as to the confession of faith, exactly where it was. Hs admitted that if they were attempting to cnerstoch on the esnliession of faith, they would justly raise the indignation of the people of Scotland, and he attributed the oppoai , ion to this bill mainly to the wholesome jealousy which existed as to the riseguitian of the confession of fsith. Much had been said as if they were taking a step towards coercing the conedenee of any Scotehmare It must not be forgotten that Scotland was not inhabited wholly by Scatchmen, but there was in many pieces a large English population. At present, if a Scotch clergyman celebrated these marriages, he would be visited with a suit in the Ecclesiastical Curt, and this men eats Val only to relieve him from that liabi ity. If this measure was to peas it must be an imperial measure. (Hear, bear.) If by the law of Scotland. as some suriosied, these =armies were valid, this bill could make no alteration; if they were invalid, the bill only mode the marriages of those people who chose to celebrate them good and valid. Mr. R. PALMER heard with astonishment the statement that a clergyman of the church of &eland, who et 1. bested these marriages, could not be proceeded avainat in the ecelesiestical courts, on account of the affinity of the parties, but might be proceeded against as taring violated the conies ion of faith. 11, was satisfied that no court would be pa-witted to entertain such a doctrine. Mc S. WORTLEY explained. Mr. lIUME said he was anxious to support the bill, ss applied to England, because it went to remedy many com plaints end evils; but, as regarded Scotland, Le must say, that every man he had been in communication with in that part of the kingdom was alt og ether averse to it, and payed that that house would not meddle with the law of manna l ies in Scotland. (11w, hear.) Mr. J. O'CONNELL moved the addition of words in. eluding Ireland in the exemption from the optration of the bill, believing that it would inflict a heavy social evil upon that country. Kr. F. MAULE said he had no objection to do for Ireland what he would do for Scotland. tie had n - n heard a word to shake his determination to take the reuse of the house on the question. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 5, 1849. Mr. S. WOItTLEY opposed the addition of Ireland to the clause, obserring that he had received many egotists from clergymen in that country to proceed with the bill. Mr. NAPIIIR denied that there was any general feting is favour of the bill in Ireland. Mr. WORTLEY referred to the published evidenet of Roman Catholic prelates in its favour. Mr. I. O'CONNELL said, that the evidence of the Right .Rev. Dr. Wiseman was in 1 f the bill only in ling land, his reason being, that as the Roman Catholics in Big land were only a minority, it was desirable to encourage intermarroges. (A 'ugh.) The chase having been so altered as to include Iremd, the committee divided, when there appeared— Fur the clause 66 Against it Part of the preamble was struek out on the suggestion of Mr. GOULBUIttf, and the remainder having been agreed to the report was ordered to bo brought up on Friday. The house then resumed. COPYHOLD ENFRANCHISEMENT BILL. • - Mr:A(311014IY having moved that the house go iato committee on this bill, Mr. CHRISTOPHER appealed to the hon gentleman whether it was not too late than to go into coutraitve (WC put four o'clock). The bill was a direct interference with pnrate property. (Hear, heir.) It was compulsory urn the landlords, and not so upon the tenant.. Ho there're moved that they go into committee on tha bill that day time months. Vissount GALWAY seconded the amendment. 3dr. JOLIONBY said that the bon. gentleman began by appealing to him to postpone going into c,,mmittee on tic b Li, and concluded by a much more cogent form cf 'odes- Touring to effect his wish. The objections of the hon. gee. denten had been stated over sad over aitain on the woad reading, which was carried by a majority of 24. They wets objections against the principle, and ought to have beet urged on the second reading. After full consideration he had satisfied his mind that the bill was a just and equitable bill, and was desired by the country. He denied that it in. terfered with the rights of property, and if he did not succeed in proceeding with it this session, he would resume his efforts to do so next session. Mr. GOULBURN said he knew not the object of dit Parent stages of a bill, if ton. members who could not attene, at one rare were not to express their opinions of it at ano thee. lie supported the amendment because he considersil the bill to be unjust in principle. S:r G. Ingle KLAN - D said he should be greatly Bur prised if the bill were allowed to pass another stage, as it was a most unjust and one-sided measure. Mr. FELLOWES said that if the hon. member for Cuckermouth should bring in this bill again next session, to was sure there would still be found a sufficient number of members to oppose it, because it was founded on injustice. Mr. HUME suggested that the principle havicg beer sanctieued they should go it to committee, and endeavour t) amend it, so u in some degree is meet the views of hoe. gentlemen who opposed it. Sir C. BURRELL was understood to support the amend. ment. Mr. P. BENNET considered that copyhold tenures were the best and cheapest that could be held. The la was a one•aidcd measure, and he should oppose it on that ground. Mr. H. \VILLYAMS thought that the bill, though good in principle, was bad in its details. He should, therefore, vote for going into committee, in order that the details might be amended. The house divided. For going into committee 6O Against 7l-11 MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved the second reading of this bill. He did not thaw it up himself it having been agreed to by a deputation of workmen from all the collieries of the kingdom. If the bill in its present shape might be considered objectionable in its details, he would at present content himself with having the principle affirmed. If in the meantime the government took the alit ject into their bawls, and introduced a measure, retaining the prin ciple et the present bill, but altering the details, ho was sure it mould meet with no objection from those hose interest he represented. The object of the bill was to provide an in spection of mines, in order that the lamentable loss of lifa and property which is occurring Every day in the collieries might be prevented, as far as that could be done. The bill pro aided that there should be four inspections in the year. It also provided that the workmen should be paid according to 1 1 weight, and not b) measurement, as was the case at present. The coal owners sold by weight, and there was no reason why they should not also pay the men according to the weight of coals brought to the surface. That system, he believed, prevailed in Northumberland and other places in the north, but in the tuailand counties the men were paid by mea surement. The consequence was, that if any stones or foul matter gat into the coals, the workmen lest a great deal of their weak. No person could say tnat this was a fair or proper system. It was also a matter of complaint that the workmen were not paid tiL after a litre of some weeks. It was not necessary for him to c ll the attention of the house to the appalling accidents which had lately taken place. Within the last two years he believed that no less than 5,000 lives had been lost in the various mine+ of this country. He was aware that there were certain accidents which it WWI not in the power of human precaution to avert ; but so far as human ski.l and experience could avail, they ought to apply a remedy to mitigate these dreadful disasters. (Hear.) Mr. lIUME seconded the motion. Sir G. GREY said he would shortly state the view which the government tall of this mrature, but iu the first place he begged to express his satisfaction at seeing the hon. mover of this bill once more amongst them—(loud and general cheering)—and finding that his health was so completely restored as to enable him to take part in their proceedings. Since the attcnti n of government and parliament bad been celled to this subject two years ago, most valuable reports had been laid on the table as to the practice in foreign countries, where large mines existed, with respect to in spection. The result of that information led him to believe that it would be impossible for them to have recourse to the same means which were adopted on the contihent. The right hen. gentleman here read a statement from Mr. Trementeere's report, to the effect that the minute system of inspection and interference which was adopted on the continent could not be practised in this country without injury to the principle of individual reepoesibility . and private enterprise which existed here. But to the principle of inspection, and even of a compulsory inspection he would make no opposition on the part of the government. He had been preparing a measure on this subject, but having had communicatious with persons in terested on the subject he thought it better in the first in stance that inspectors should be appointed who would make a general report on the state of the collieries in this country, and especially with regard to the ventilation. When that report was presented they would be better acquainted with the points on which they ought to legislate. But be theueht it would be extremely undesirable that any principle should be adopted which could remove the feeling of individual re sponsibility. He therefore thought that there ahou'd he no compulsory power of imposing on the owners the regula tions which the inspector might think it r'ght to pro pose. But he thought that there should be an exposure of the defects of the . system of yen. tilation and management, and that immediate notice should be given of these defects to the owners, the managers, and even to the persons employed, if r eceeeary, and likewise to the government. (Hear, h e ar) lie also intended that there seould ample notice of all serious accidents, ere as to give an opportunity of instituting an inquiry into the cause of the se accidents. The honourable gentleman proposed to hate every mine inspected four times a year, in order to carry out which an enormous staff of inspectors would be necessary, who would have to be paid out of the consolidated fund. Now, with regard to the expenses of the inspectors under the bill which the government was preparing, he was not without hopes— though he could not speak confidently on this ;mint—that they might be provided in some other way than by a charge on the consolidated fund. (Hear, hear, from Mr. Hum-.) He also objected to m.xing up the qyestion of the inspection of collieries with the question of wages (Heir, hear.) It was inexpedient to re gulate the wages, and even if expe dient, he believed that it would he impossible to lay down any one rule which would apply to all plates. (Hear.) There was one subject of great imp stance, namely, that which related to the education of the miners. (Her.) What they desired was to raise the education of the persons who superintended the mining oeerations. Mr. Tremenheere spoke in his report of the advantages which the mining schools in France Belgium, and Germany conferred on those coun'riee, and raid it was to be regretexi that so obvious a means of usefulness had been so lent neglected in this country. They, therefore, proposed to found a mining school in connexion with the Museum of Economic Geology. (Hear, hear.) He Mei frequent communications with Sir H. de la Beebe on this subject, who was most fav-urable to the idea of having that establiehme nt made the foundation of each a school. He had strong hopes that the effect of such an institution would be to diffuse sounder visas of m i ning eperatiens amongst the miring population of this country. (Hoar, bear.) He b Reseed that an inspection of the nature he had stated, in connexion with public opinion, would do more to prevent the recurrence of accidents than any re strictive mew urea which they might propose, or the enforce ment of any particular system. p ropose , h regard to Mr. Gurney's experiments, if they proved to be success ful—as he had strong reason to hope they would be—he hoped the e weep of coal mints would adopt them. This subject was one of importance; and it required rather delicate treetment ; and by proceed ing slowly he believed they would do more to effect the ob ject they all had in view than if they mimed all that was asked for in certain quarters, but which it was impossible to carry into effect. /it. LACY did not think the bi l likely to effect the object it had in view. It gave no op , cific by which explo sisns in mines could he prevented. He lwlieved that 99 Cut of every 190 accidents arose from the cartlearners of the men themselves. (lieu, hear.) If the men were paid by weight at the mouth of tke wino it would enhance the price of the teals by 131. a ten. By the hos. irrntisman's bill each in ►ppeecctor would hive to visit sev..,n collieries every day. He ehoul I therefore move that the bill be read a second time that flay three week•. Mr. M'OREGOR suggested to the hon. gentleman to withdraw the bill, and to leave the subject in the hands of the goverment. (Ht ar, bear.) The Hurl of LINCOLN made a similar appeal. He believed that the bill ut the hon. aro Leman would be im- ! practicable, sad if practicable, wouldhe mischievous. He wise anxious for the object which the hon. member had in view, but he differed irom him as to toe means by which it should be effected. M. AGLIONBY hoped that the principle of the bill would be affirmed. If thet were dons, the details would not be pressed. Mr. J. BAILEY, jun. wanted to know if an accident occurred after the regulations propelled, whether the owners would be liable to an action in a ce,urt of law. Mr. BRIGHT said, that the right hon. pietism= had not stated what omen he meant to take with regard to the bill. Toe principle laid down by the right hon. gentleman was one which the house, he believed, unanimously agreed to. That principle was, that there should be some system of in struction, and that miners should have the means of obtain ing all the information that science could 'dad them. By these means they hoped for a better management of mines. But this was not the principle of the present bill. (Hear.) It was of a totally different character, and the boo. member for Finsbury would himself seknowledge that. He was in favour of the principle laid down by the right hon. gentleman but he sas net in favour of the principle of this bill. (Hear.) He hoped, therefore, the right hon. gentleman would not press the house to a division, and oblige members to vote against the bill, which would have the appearance that they were opposed to any inspection, which, however, was not the ease. (Hear, hear.) Sir G. GREY said he did not move that the bill be read a second time that day six moathe, because he merely wished to swiftest reasons which might inffut nee the hcn. gentle man to withdraw the hill. (Hear, bear.) But ifhe premed it to a second reading, he would vote against its further pro gress. (Hear.) Mr. DUNCOMBE said he had already stated that he would leave the matter in the bands of the government, if the house sanctioned the principle. A voluntary inspection would be quite tireless, and unless the government pledged themselves to the principle of a compulsory inspection, he would divide the house. All the opposition to the bill came from the master class with the exception of the hon. gentle nr.n opposite (Mr. I:acy), who volunteered to become the representative of the fitedamp interest. (Much laughter.) The house wag cleared for a division, but none took place, the bell having been withdrawn. THE STATE OF THE NATION DEBATE. Mr. MACKENZIE wished to know from the hon. mem ber for Montrose whether ;he would postpone the motion which stood in his hand for to-morrow (this day), in order that the debate on the motion of the hon. member for Buck inghamshire might be misused. The other gentlemen who hut motions for that night would waive their right, if the hon. gentleman did the same. Mr. HUME said be had given way already on two occa aim, but he could not do so again, unless the government promised Lim a night. Sir C. WOOD Paid that two hon. gentlemen had motions on the paper before the hon. member for Montrose, which would (recopy the whole night, so that he would lose very little by giving way. Mr. HUME said that the right hoe. gentleman could easily settle the matter by withdrawing his Marriage Bill, which is opposed by the entire of Scotland, and giving him (Mr. Hume) Friday night to bring ou his motion 8:r J. GRAHAM naked whether they were to understand that they were to hove a university debate or the adjourned debate to-morrow night ? Mr. HUME said he could not give way. It Wing no .v ti: o'clock, the house adjourned. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER. fisoarrr of 13 to 212 who votedin favour of Mr. F. O'Connor's motion, "That this house, recognising the great principle that labour is the source of all wealth, that the people are the only lee- Wage souroe of power, that the labourer should be the lu st par. taker of the fruits of his own industry, that taxation without representation is tyranny, and should be resisted, and believing that the resources of the country would be best developed by laws made by representatives cloven by the labouring classes in conjunc tion with those who live by other indu.trial pursuits; that (in re cognition of the above great truths) this house adopts the principles embodied in the document entitled t h e People's Charter, namely, annual elections, universal suffrage, vote by ballot, equal electoral districts, no property qua li fication, and payment of members. Fox, W. J. O'Connell, John Walnisley, d.r Joshua Greene, John Pearson, Charles lleyworth, Lawrence ficholetield, William Hume, Joseph Tattered, 11. W. O'Connor, Feargus Lushiugton, Charles Thompson, Col. Crawford, Sharman Nugent, Lord Thompson, George Vitt erprtglS. OUTGOING MAILS. Malls for British North America and the United Btate. will be made up to-morrow evening, July 6. The malls tor Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Carlin, and Gibraltar, will he made up on the morning of the 7th of July. The malls, ria Marseilles, to the Mediterranean , Egypt, Ceylon, haiti, lioug-kong, rge., will be made up on the evening of the 7th of July. lee Wert India Mails, excluding Bermuda, norms, Nuns; qmidnrar, New Orleans, and Merino, i'll including those ter Madeira, tit. Juers.de-wicaranua, New Granada, Chill, and Peru, will be made up on the 17th of July. Tbs malls for Gibraltar, Mate, Greets, the lonian Islands, Egypt, Ceylon. India, and China, via .iouldunpton, will be midi, up on the morning of the Roth ofJuly. NIGH WATRII. AT LONDON MUM% Tnis Thy —l‘sndar.B7 WA. past 1. AAMIIIIS. if Eft I. Tu Noasow—lforalig.34 W. pan 7 ; ismoses.ama.mas 1. LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 5. WE are not partisans of universal suffrage, in this country, at this time. And yet there is no principle fcr which wo have a greater respect, for it is one to which all people are obliged to come at certain periods of their history, at certain grave crises in their body politic. There are but three principles on which the government of a country can be base d. The first is, the hereditary right of a sovereign, whose right after all, like that of the High Priest, consists in the im plicit bi lief in it by the people. The second is an old constitution, founded on usage or on compact, with its foundations hosed too deep in the earth of an tiquity to be shaken except by those convulsions which rend the very soil in which it stands. The brute force of the soldier or the tyrant we do not esteem a principle. In countries, where either brute force or absolute power has prevented the growth of a con stitution, what is to be done, when the faith in mo narchic right is shaken or destroyed? In such countries, reduced to such a condition, there is but one principle left, but one anchor for the state to hold by ; and that is, universal suffrage. It is impossible to tell what would have be come of France, or of the German powers, in the late , wreck or suspense of the monarchic principle in those countries, if universal suffrage had not floated as the life-boat, to which cord every life and every interest was instantly attached. These people, the Germans at least, were not perhaps advanced enough to keep, or to continue, universal suffrage as a work ing principle of government. But it served them for the time. And bad the sovereigns known how to make due use of the powers and institutions springing out of the great popular principle of universal suffrage, they would have been in a far more prosperous, and more fair position than they are, or ever can be, whilst trusting to their divine right, or their paid armies. Universal suffrage is, indeed, something so simple, so natural, and so indispensable to recur to in great convulsions, that wo may now be certain that the tendency of all governments and all conglomerations of people will be towards it. A very limited franchise, su:h as that which has hitherto prevailed in constitutional coun tries, was only possible whilst' the people were ill informed, and careless alike of their rights as of the social slur implied in being denied them. But every year makes Englishmen more alive to these thioga ; ' and every year makes the governing class of English more alive to what people beneath them think and feel. A system, therefore, of some hundred thousand voters in the midst of some millions of adult and well-informed meo, is utterly impossible of duration. Lord Joni RrssELL must feel it quite as much as Mr. FEARGUS O'CONNOR. Lord Jong RUSSELL, however, is but the head man of a parliamentary majority. He can go no father end n r faster than that majority. a certain portion of which are fools enough to thick that the electoral franchise and system can stand where it is, whilst the more intelligent hold merely to the " let•us-down easy " system of renderir g reform merely as gradual and as slow as possible. The worst of this school of resistance is, that it combats reform not by fair weapons or conscien tions arguments. It does not meet its ever advancing opponent with a bold front, and be hind a marked entrenchment. It does not' take up any natural line of defence, but stands where it happens to be, and defends itself with what weapons may be at hand—a jok'., or a sophism, or an absurdity, or a nos sequitur. Enough for the parliamentary day is the parliamentary evil. Pro vided it can baffle reform this session, it cares little what may happen next ; and it thus allows democracy to advance with a giant and an angry strid e , whilst no preparation is made for the change, and no anti dote discovered for what may be dangerous in its triumph. Lord JOHN ItessEEt's arguments against re form are unworthy of so reflecting and so liberal a statesman ; and they are also at variance with his own former argu ments and reasoning?. He denies the right to universal suffrage, and says it is a mere matter of political expediency. Tnis we could well deny, and easely disprove. But there is no necessity. Let a fair or an unfair franchise be a matter, not ofjustice bat of expediency, and who is to be the judge of that expediency ? Surely not the present governing dam, who profit by the present governing system, and of course uphold it. Tbe unenfranchised mats are distressed : they attribute their distresses to the sys tem. How argue with millions that it is expedient that they should have no vote in their own government or their own taxation. We maintain that it is highly isexpediect, because it is utterly impos,ible long to use such language as this. This weapon, this first argument, need by the prime minister against reform, appears to us there fore a dangerous one; it must snap, and prove worth less in the combat. But bis second argument is more dangerous still. Lord JOHN RUSSELL tells us that universal suffrage may do well fur • republic, but it is incompatible with monarchy. Thiiis dealing a blow, not at universal suffrage, but at monarchy. There is, however, no reason whn'ever in such an assertion. For the lower down you look for op'nion in advanced societies, the more monarchic do you find it. We are confident that universal suffrage is more monarchic than limited suffrage. And we think that the events of France and Ger manyßmEenve co it n , c fr usio m ni. ore than they prove Lord JOHN Universal suffrage, that is, popular suffrage, is im possible, said Lord JOHN, in our sys'ern. For with us all powers exercise moderation. Were the Queen, the Lords, or the Commons, to push their power to extremes, there would be an end of the constitution. But the people could not be so moderate. flow does Lord JOHN know? The people of this country already possess immense power; their united opinion, loudly and unanimously expressed, would sweep away the very constitution. But de theyexert that power ? Contemplate England and the English during the last memorable year, and do we not see that there has been a suspension of every complaint, a hushing of grievances, a resigned bearing of burdens and dis tress, lest the giving vent to them might be construed into an echo of continental revolution ? If there is any quality of Englishmen that the con stitution has to fear, it rs their apathy, not their want of moderation ; it is their ignorance, not their enthu siasm ; it is the universal links of di prneence which drag down the poor before the rich, and the employed before the employer. This is what is to be feared; this is N% hat makes us dread the results of widely universal suffrage until there is more education, more (quality, mord independence, and until (uncial r eform has paved the way for the last stage of political prcg:ess. ALTHOUGH the first and loudest to condemn the ab surd, impolitic, and unjust intervention of the French, and, still more, the barbarous and insane ex tremities to which the precipitate filly of General OUDINOT and his principals carried it, still we by no means regret to learn that a compromise has been entered into by the Romans. However bigot and stupid the motives of some Frerch politicians who urged the attack on Rome, and however reckless the soldier who attempted to execute such an order, there were still many in France, and several even in the French cabinet, whose motives were not b;grit, and whose ulterior aims were not illiberal. The coun sels of these, represented by M. DE COURCELLES, have, we hope, prevailed in the French camp. It is im possible to conceive that MAzzINI, or his brave and able colleagues, would have at once abandoned resistance, and even authority, unless they were induced to make such a sacrifice to peace, by stipula tions on the part of the French envoy, guaranteeing to the Roman people such liberal institutions as would rescue them from falling again under the uncontrolled dominion of the priesthood, or of the present jesuitical and absolutist knot of councillors who surround the Pope. If such be the case, however regretting and cen soring the first fatal step of intervention, we cannot but wish the French success in an undertaking, no ' lees critical and difficult than even the s'ege of home. With Austria and Naples arrayed against them, and the Pope in the hands of these peers, we can con ceive no position more difficult than that which a French general and a French envoy mint take up in Rome. And we are not as onish, dto learn that a general accustomed to large and important commands has been sent to supersede OUDINOT, whilst an envoy is to ba sent to the court of Russia to explain to the autocrat how unambitious are the views, and how modest is the policy,of LOUISNAPOLEON'S government. Such an attitude of &mime, coupled with such efforts at conciliation, was required. For Austria has assumed a tone in Italian affairs more provoca tive than it has yet done since its misfortunes; up to the French intervention in Rome it was somewhat for bearant, but since then its march into the Legations, oc cupation of Florence, and dictation to l'iedmont, present an aspect of unmistakeable defiance to France. We stated on Monday what were Austria's demands of Piedmont. These are no longer limited to leaving the King of SARDINIA at the head of a neutral sate, independent alike of France and of Austria, but seek to link Sardinia to the car of Austria by an offensive and defensive alliance directed against France itself in some degree. As it is quite evident that Austria would not and durst not make known such aims unless supprted by Russia, it behoves the French government to lock to it. And hence the attitude which we presume they are about to take in Rome. Austria is t xerting itself to the utmost to overcome the scruples of the court of Turin. For this purpose it has evacuated Alessandria, and for this itpubliehes magniloquent accounts of its Hungarian victories. Austria thus puts itself forward as the great reactionary power, net merely in its own in terest, but as the cat's paw of Russia. And, should Russia enable it to triumph in Hungary, such re actionary attitude on the part of Austria will be formidable indeed. But France, whatever be the wish of several of its eminent men and parties to be reactionary too, and to return to monarchy and aris tocracy, can Lever turn the national prow in that direction. No helm could bear up against the strong wind and tide of the national sentiment. And the French government, despite of its FALI.OUX and its fanatic moderantist', will be forced to fling itself upon liberal ideas and the liberal Catlett for tupporr, both in Italy and elsewhere, unless it consents to be taken in tow and remodelled by the new holy alliance. _ _ . Notwithstanding all these elements of antagonism, we see in them no probability of war. Austria and France will look for a long time at each other, rather than take the dangerous resolve of war. Neither of them have any thing to gain. Half a century ago the two countries might have quarrelled, because bith would have aspired to the acquisition of new kingdoms and tracts of territory. But that mania is pretty well over. Even kings know now, how impolitic and costly it is to get possession or a land containing a population full of spirit and of hate. Fifty years ago, Italian provinces and men w, ro transferable from hand to hand by conquest or by treaty. They offer themselves no long. r as such marketable commodities. Like animals of com bat, they will henceforth cost more to keep than they can be worth to an oppressor. There is not now an Italian breathing, that does not feel in his resus citation, the antique pride and indomitable spirit of hi, race. The last year has been a second birth to all from the Alps to the Sicilian waters. The despotism of priest ■nd tyrant has been for centuries sowing Italy with dragon's teeth, and lo ! they have sprung up soldiers. The tyrants may come with their swords to slay—nay, may slay; the priests may hasten with their hoods to blind and to extinguish. It is too late. Italy has had her Thermopylae, in which, though her brave men may have succumbs], the legacy which this glorious struggle has bequeathed is that of self trust, self-government, self-subs'atence. Ten years cannot pats away, ere Italy is a nation. SIR GEORGE GREY was at One time regarded as an amiable gentleman and a fair debater. He has done very much during the last two sessions to and lice all the reputation of that sort that he ever pos sessed. It has ben frequently remarked that the Home Secretary has grown testy and irritable ; that he seems to take a delight in unfairly exciting unta favourable impressions against individusls ; that he has a habit of attaching to their observations con structioca which they will not fairly bear, and that, having assumed this unwarrantable position, he pro ceeds to evade charges against himself by a sort of parliamentAry slander on his neighbour. It is a common remark that whenever the givernment can not fairly and openly meet an accusation the BONE SECRETARY is put forward to repel it. In thr /Arica] phraseology, he has taken up their dirty line of business. _ _ _ These observations would be apropos to very many of the debates of the present sesgion. We fttnev that Mr. HORSMAN, for example, could give some stiikittg illustrations of Sir GEORGE GREY'S p‘culiar tac tics in debate. But that which peculiarly calls for this present animadversion is Sir DE,.EGE GREY'S speech on Lo d DUDLEY STUART'S in“tioa resptcting the 'retro') ditan assessment to the pol•co rate. It is a very long time tittle e re have heard of anything mote unfair than toe c urea punned by Sir GaORGE GREY upon that steij ec t Lied DUDLEY STUART brought under the notice of the hews a question which involves a subqsntiel public grievance. In the course of his addro 4 h e diverged it to a minor point, namely, the general con. du .t of the police. Lord DUDLEY expressed that which c trtAir.ly a very large body of Londoners feel, ' with rega'd to the forte, and that which, within the last twenty-four hours, we happen to have heard ere influeirial London magistrate very decidedly expos e . Ls tad of answerin o r Lord DUDLEY on the reel points at issue, Sir GEORGE GREY 'civil upon this topic t f irritation, inflames and excites the house re.. specting it, and rifts off altogether from the quest ion of dedate. He knows that he is utterly arable to meet the motion on the merits, so he divergt s in o a collateral subject, and obtains a majority by now. presenting the mover. Now, what was the real charge wh!ch it was the duty of the Home Secretary to have met? There will, perhaps ' roes when less wonder at hi s avo idi ng tie when we explain the facts ; for these facts Mc' hie own public reputaton. In the course of 1847 tte dlesex authorities made a new valuation of property, the effect of which was to crave an r tor moos increase in the amount levied for police rate. The increase was not required. It was so large that in one year a surp'us of upwards of 60,0001. was hft in the hands of the police t onions sioners—a surplus for which they had no need, bat which was, nevertheless, wrung from the pockets of the poorer class of rate-payers. Well, this RIO, in. ,justice was represented to the government ; th , r felt that tht re was good ground for complaint, at.d they actually brought a bill into parliament to re. medy the evil. The bill was read a second time. It stood upon the booker of tire house for commiral for a month. One right, however, towards the end of the session, Sir GEORGE GREY, just b fore the rising of the house, got up and moved that the order of the day far its commirsl be discharged. And thu., in silence and with ut the eliixl:teret notice, the bill was altogether droppeti ! Die vestries of St. l'ancraa and of Maryleboto , re . presenting the intere-ts of their respective ra.tpa3crs, very properly inquired the meaning of this breach of fah. They could get no saris. factory explanation. At length Sir GEoRGE GREY was forced to receive deputations from these parishes. He promi-ed "to consider." Qu shoes were subsequently rut to him in the house upon the eubjec', and then it came out that he had been ugly playing with the ratepayers, for that, in pin of fact, it had been arranged between the Home Se. cretiry and the Commissioners of Pulte to drop the bill last year, in order that th e commit siohers might be put in funds to pay d n t w he iti l t Ol he of A sp p y ril, sy a s a t d em in order ‘hiei also that they might increase the police force, a yea snhneede sure for which they suddenly found that there war great necessity, although no one else had era disco tehxePeynseesstabel vcred it. The question, therefore, rc;olved itself into a qua tion of breach of faith on the part of Sir GEORGE GREY. That breach a faith wee most conehhively proved in the debate of Tut adav night. S:r L W. I loco told the Home Sveretary that he had positively pledged himself to a dept.tatdon to go on with h s h 1 last Tear. Sir GEORGE GREY distinctly dented it. Whereupon Sir J. W. HoGd produced atd nwl the Home Secretary's own letter, giving such an aatur. ance ; and Str Geonue GREY had not another word to say. t PORTUGAL. The Oriental Company's steam-puket Jepier, Capt. Francis Meehan, arrived at &alum tea last evening, and landed her mails under the eha-es of Lieut. Langton, R.N., Admiralty agent. Her dates are : Gibraltar, June 25 ; Cad . ; 26; Liaboh, 29; Oporto. 30 ; Vigo, July 1. The ex-King, Charles Albert, was still confined to his bed in a very doubtful stay. By accounts received from the Alemtcjo it is stet:a that great siAness prevails ; a general rumour pre vails that it is cholera, but the government ke,p it a secret. But even so it is very generally Ivown, a much so that ct Alcochete and Aldcga Lego, ios: to 'Ali= on the smith side, cues of choleta have appeared. The thunderstorms in the Alemtcjo have done con. eiderable damage. Tne following is our correspondent's letter : LISBON, JUNE 21. The ministry, the change of which 1 mentioned in my last letter, was definitely composed. C lust de Thomar, President of the Council and Interior; Count Tojal, Foreign affairs ; Pereira de Magallmes, Jus'ice; Colonel Ferreri, War ; Viscount Castelhoens, Navy and Colonic; ; Avila, Finance. How the charge of Count de Thomar fur Saldanha will be received at the Foreign-office may he a matter of [speculative opinion ; but this I know unequivolally, that when D. Maria was required to agree to certain terms 17 the foreign powers, to enable them to enrilt the Oporto Junta, one of which was the absolut4 pro. acription of the Count de Thomar as a minister, she declared she only did it to save heradf, but that the Septemlyistcs should never avaia re assume power in her lifetime, and it was her inten tion to restore Thomar to office " the first favourable opportunity"—that opportunity has at le; 0 oc curred. The ministry has yet, however, to be re model!ed. 01 being asked in the chamber what was the reason of change, he n plied that it was not for him t, state why the late ministers resigned. At the moment this was going on in the chamber an awful and astounding el spot thunder alincst shook the fabric ; it was so startling and sudden tt.at many persons jumped from their ee at s in t aetr own houses ; a thunderbolt fell and butt* a house that was undergoing repairs. Au amnesty hes bee a published, embracing all ',Aid ed crimes since 28th April, 1847. The number of individuals benefited by it is rely small, it comprises the .Montemolinist General G once, and extends to the various articles in the periodicals which had been processed. Oa the day of the publication of the amnesty, two individuals who had been accused of attempting the life of Dm Carlos Mascarenhas, were tried, when it was proved that it was a plot of the p dice, and that the informer was a spy and a perjurer—the victims were acquitted, to the eteisfse lion of the public, and the spy sent to prison by the bench. _ _ Nceshicg of interest to a fen ign reader has 149 yet occurred in the chambers, which are to be closed on the 2nd of July. Representations still continue to be made to the chamber of the distress of the Douro wine eiistriet, and redress required; the ministry have deelsred there was Lo time to do anything this session, but they would do their utmcst to alleviate it. A system has been going on at Oporto which hie received a check. In order to WITS the expe. se d export duties upon wiles, the second-class pert win* has been shipped in Oporto to America and the Cape of Good Hope to save a duty of 13 mil refs ter pp& The same wine has been re--hipped for the Rurapent market as first-class wine, to the detriment of the fair trader and the credit of the wine. In consequecei; cf the shortness of the see ion soots votes of eoptidrnee will be given to the government. M. Alfred It mot, minister from France, presented his eredenthls on the 25th inst. To chow the bad fifth of the bank, the executors of Mr. John Stanley, a merchant of this city, have lately obtain d, in the WO Court of Justice, a Ter diet against the bank to annul a fate entry thi y h.d made in their books to serve their own purpose-4st rather to di fraud the executors. By accounts from Opoito, it appears Carlos Albcrto is smnewhat better. Another judgment of Providence has fallen upon this net;on. At a time when, from the spprarsnee al the crop,, the farmer expected to real, an abtmdant harvest, every part of the country has been viritcd by storms of a frightful nature—wind., torrents of rain, thunder, and thunderholta—wiuich have so devsirstid it that in many parts every thin: has been laid waste, trees rooted up and borne to a distance, and ti uses and lands inundated. The nifferers have been( blged to apply for relief to the government. Exchange 531 dinoont; of Lisbon Bank Notes, 33 to 40. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Sultan, Captain Brooki, artivcd at Sauthaniptoe, from the Black Sea, at the same time as the Jupiter. I. f