The Express. — London, England, 1850-06-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—Tao T. Jinn 13. Tko km* not at 6 o'clock. Lord C•airsal.s. sat Sposkar. PRIVATE BUSINILSS. Suomi RiAnuses Shryshint Umbra Railways and Canal ; Swarms Maaittleal Corporation,. Bills. TIMID Remota. —Forth awl Clyne Novloatioo Bill. ROUTH 11A151 SRN RAILWAY (41111INDURNT OF ACTS P2I_VIR 10 RAISE ADDITIONAL CAPI- ?AL) Os the emetics that this bill be read a third time, Lad MONTILAGLE presented a petitioaiTOM Mr. Josiah Wilees,a shareholder is the aspen,. eJaplaistiog of On- Ida salpeostiore as the part el the directoss. sad prayiag le be heard at the bar of the kenos agaisat the present sea man. TM pultioser alleged that the directors had jobbed Is shekels shares With the lands of the eospaoy, and as the prayer of the petiticiew Geoid not be acceded to, the noble Red purred to insert a taws pieta, the punt of Trade power to epeeist as @editor, should the ll&Oraty of the pre- Idolises sonesst to that emus. The those having been opposed by several noble lords, Lord MONTILIGLE sored the adjoernmeat el the debate, whist we negatived, arid the WI was reed a third time mad passed. PUBLIC BUSINESS. COURT OF CHANCERY cCOUNTY PALATINE OF LANCASIEIt) BILL. On the sod s of the Earl of CARLISLE, this bill (after brief ducession, nearly the whole et whisk was inaudible is the gallop) was read a third tine sad peered. COLLECTION AND DELIVERY OF LETTERS ON SUADAYS. Lord BROUGHAM wished to ask a question with regard to Sandal Labour is the Pdst-11t,e, is eons , quer.co of the vote which hod been some to in the other how,. He wished to know whether, it they sent to the Poe•otlice, they souk& put their lessen ? The Maur& of LANSDOWNE replied that they would be locked op. Lord BROUGHAM—Then redly I hope that in the owes et heat mo-itit the people of literpol and Wale', sad the mute puts el the lunation', will learn the ►nrou treniesee that they will be sables to by this stoppage of the SHERIFF a BILL. Oa the motion of the Manlike cf Least:oolmi, this Mil WY read a second time. UNIVERSITIES COMMISSION. Lard MONTEhOLE. is movie' tor .0121..0 kitten ad dressed by the First Lsal of the Treasury to the lJniirenkies of Odd(sad of Cambridge on i s subject of the mite of a ominaissioa of inquiry, and is.pi-s of any resolution or con munacations entered into or mad. on behalf of those miner- Mies is relitioa to the emu subject," said he could not say that say incoavenieme would arise from the prodsetioa of then papers, bat at the same time he felt bound to state the pauade us whkk he wished Co bring then papers und e r seasideration. He should be very sorry indeed if he should seise even an inference that he imagined her lidjcsty's government, in advising this eonamksion, were actuated by any adverse fee/ again.% the universities. On the con trary, he Wu wiiliug to admit that is issuing this commission they were redly wishing Co promuta the interest of the suivenities. But while he gave them credit for this, he begged to express • doubt whether this measure, taken at this time, and under pretest cirmunsuencte, was really calculated to pro 'ode ' that object. This mums appeared to have origliiated ' purely and exclusively with the government itself without any communication with any university authordy or with any one concocted with the universitics. Teased, frost am of the documents whisk would be lain before them I. sem secinence 01 this order, he meant • letter from the illestelous' Flan who was Chancellor of the University tit Cambridge ; it appeared that be wee entirely unaware of the intention of issuing Ids commi.sion until the declaration wan made in the other house of parliament. He was not present when the noble and gallant duke who at near him made some observations upon it, but it appeared that the Chancellor of the University of Oxford ales wee emanate of the leientions of government. Indeed he knew no one who entertained the slightest suspicion that each a Course was about to be taken. It might be right that suck a course should be taken, but at the same time great didlcul ties were thrown in the way by those who were interested beicg left entirely in the dark on the 'object until incidea tally it was d.ci.red not only that such a measure was con templated, but that moll a decision bad been taken. In the Univenity of Cambridge the measures of reform that bad been in progre a had been very considerable The tome:salts Lad been, that in the University of Cam bridge the course of study was too connoed ; that they had set aside the larger objecte whico were bet tight tin ler coesideration by the lectures of the proles em, and teat they tad confined themselves to the peculiar study for which the University of Cambridge gave the itiguest honours—mathematics. For • considerable period of time they did devote the highest honours of the university a=sost exclusively to tigb mathematical attain ments. Bat bad they adhered to that? He thought that it was sliest the year 1922 that they =nods's/ • correspoading system of hoaours as connected with elassied examaation. Treat was certainly resisted, or at least it was viewed with a certain degree of disfavour, hut honours gained from classical attainments were now looked upon with as much favour as in the old time honours connected with the =sebum:kr were. Nor was it to be said that mere dis tinct' in was thus Fitted; they obtained position in the titii veni:y by the tdcours gained by the classical tripes; the System had AM take& root and was from day to day advancii e. Bet it did not net with the act of 1622. In 1849 the University of Cambridge opened an entirely new held of university distinction; he meant the establiehmeat of two new tripes. Hi.tory, political economy, more: pluldeephr, hotaziy, all the various pursuits of science, were all involved, and were all made matter of uciversity distinction. 132: it was said that nothing was done to reform the colles s. ow he prayed their lordships' attenti 'a to what Lan been dme in this respect. Take the foundation if Trinity. The whole of the statutes of Trinity had been reformed ; they had been consolidated ; they had bees amended, bat without the exigency of any commission whatever. They bad been amended in the named way at the ree eameaddion of the crown as visitor ; and at the comet of the crews, the statutes Were altered. The rival college, M. 'hem's, had dose the same. New statutes bad been teemed, sad mallrosid by the mown. But 4 was Sail there were r.striridne with respect to fellowships, and that those inje Reims revrictions, for so they were in many batanses, had Mt beta removed. When they had the power of dein' it, they had dote it. The whole of the sta tutes of Pembroke College had been revised and confirmed, ae bad also the statutes of Jesse. And now, with respect to the Uonersity. It had been intent on the nviaion of its owe statutes, and that re vision was very nearly brimeht to a close, and there was every reason to suppose that within the present year it would be complete, and this had been dos* without an external owes-tire. Then will be examinations in f e, and a course of chemistry, and Mess were only parts of the re form that had been effected. It was far from his wish in easing thee', facts, to claim any peculiar merit far the creel lent and learned persons who bad been engaged in this work, but what he wished to gall attention to was, that these improvements had been undertaken by the parties themselves. He thought this comaission had beta undertaken without an adequate or just appreciation of that which was now in progress, or without any thought at all of the difficulties it might interpose. But he was far from saying or wilds, it to be underweod that he believed adver sity reform senid be entirely accomplished without reek ing for ithis iate , piesition and the asst tacos of parliament. He believed .hat both univenities would dad that the =term arias of parliament might be required, and then he thought government ought to cowed° it; bat he thought that inter fering with the coarse of improvement that was now going en, interfering with these measures which were now nearly amemplished, was a very great Wen. He knew that cos misdeal of this description had been issued before, and on the authority of parliament toot could not now be a question ; bat it was one thing that a matter should be legal, and another thing whether, connected with the incidents of =risky it would be useful. He was we that in his own university (Cambridge) they had nothing in the world to conceal. In one respect it would be • great advantage, he meant as to the abided belief of the wealth et the Univertity of Cambridge. That wealth was that they had not money enough to build an enclosure for the botanical garden, and they bad scarcely money enough to provide stationary to lay en the table of the senate home. He hoped there would be no objection to laying this correspond ence on the all.. The Earl of CARLISLE said that there was no objection to the produe ion of the papers moved fur ; but begged to mare the ~obis lord and the house that both Lord John Fussell and the other members of the government, in any steps they contemplated on this subject, were actuated by swot respectful, sad even reverential feelings towaeds those mines% insti:u ions. For his own part he must my that he would have to sacrifice altogether his private feelings on the question before he could be a party to any Como-Wiwi not inllieneed by such considerations. (Hear, hear.) Ilk n , ble friend at the head of the govern ment was tar from underrating the step. of progress and im provement that had been adopted by both the universities. Bet be nevertheleas hoped that this commission would not be without its u.., not only by citifies attention to those im provements, bat by obtaining the neerasery aid and encou ragement for earning them out. It was obvious that sta tutes and charters passed or greeted by the Tudors or Plan tagenet'. even though modified in the days of Archbishop Laud, were not very applicable to the requirements of the preseot day. Indeed, soma of their provisions had I been rendered obsolete by the altered manners and the altered religion of the country. The Eul of POWIS was opposed altogether to the com mission,and thought that the universities should be left to • thimmlves, having within themeless all the necessary amen of modifying or altering their laws and discipline. TM 111%/Mlllitilll were encouraged by an exemption from •.h• laws of Morten's, which were lambed on every other insti tution ; and yet now a cosanission was to be issued by which the prime Moister was to break up and destroy the ap; ointment% of particular counties wad grammar seholfis which the originators bad sacrificed their properties to found. Lord 13ROUGHAIII said that while be readily admitted that the propos.il commission was not intended in any un friendly split towards the universities, yet he thought that the government bad fallen into a great error in appointing It. It would be a one-sided comeaks. Every disooatented person, as was usually the case would be found ready enough to give them inf orsoilio4; and, being one• sided, would of course be prejudiced. What, then, was to become of the parties who were attacked and assailed by the re formers ? They bad no means of defending tholatelvits. The evidence taken would not be of them but of °there, end they would be left without use Welk person to defend them. It would ).e juot ea if he were indicted by the crown, who had Ike power sad moans to rove Wit ono, bat 141 Ito woo deprived of all power to nuts vitamins to . prove an afebi or some other defence. Tint wee the pain's in which a voluntary crown comniesios gum hisosssarily plea the porde/ awed The Eni of CARLISLE made 4 nimark or two la ea. planatioe, which did not rro es wants' . We wider stood him to say that he lefedi d to the Con atheloa, for the purposilt shaft( merely thii the forma; lion of it wee ditratot by SO want of reaped Wads the individuals who were Ote subject of the inquiry. The Duke of WELLINGTON confessed himself satisfied in the first idioms with the 'adoration of the noble earl that the commission was to issue upon the uodentandirg that the istimilien wee to make choice of paws to constitute that oommilien w t e priseiple w cal* pintas were se lewd tar the whinnied commission. Lord lIRODOILLII, making sow reference to the noble duke whisk' we did sot hear, said that if the commissloaen were weds, they most sIW open their ears to all the seen salines sad Wats of dissented that might be brought Wort Wm. The Deka of WELLINGTON said that that of whisk he had expressed hie approval related only to the choice of the members of the commission. The noble lord, who hod Wiwi his intention of advising the onamlanos had stated la his kitten to the illustrious prince, and to him (the Dokeof Wellingtoa), as the heads of the uolvetsities, the objects of the proposed ioquiry : He (the Duke of Wel lington) did sot dean that this inquiry should be made —he did not think it necessary ; but if they were to have it, then he desired to he the commissioners appointed on the principle laid down by the noble met Lend BILOUGHeiIIi said he misundentood the noble duke. The motion was then agreed to, and their lordship ad journed at 20 minutes vine seven o'clock HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TnintsDAY, JUNE 13. The A zzzzzz took the chair at the usual hoar. The lining was is the new house. ------- WESTIIOAELAND ArroINTMENT PUBLIC BUSINESS. SEWERAGE OF WESTMINSTER. Mr. GREENEput the following question, of which he had given notice, to Viscount Ebrineton :—" Whether there is any intention of erecting a steam aline at the corner of Palaces-yard for the purpose of forcing the contents of the sewer to a higher level. If there he such intention, whether it is proposed that such steam-engine shall permanently re main, or it is only to be pissed there for a teespormy par ' pole :Ulm a temporary purpose, how long easy it be pro bably required to remain there. Also, how far it was likely that an injurious 'fleet would be produced by stirring up the sewerage at this time (WO* year. Viscount EBIONOTON said that if his colleagues fa per. 'lament and nimsrlf had allowed to pass without notice the numerous misstatements and charges which had bees made against the commissioners of sewers, it was not because they acquiesced in the juetic , of those charges, or were unprepared with an answer to them at the proper time. but bemuse they did not wish to interrupt the regular business el the house by raising incidental debates. In answer - le the first question he had to say that it (*Mainly was the hatter Um of the commissionen to plies • steam-elm:ins in Palen- yard. The drainage of that district of Westminster, in which the commissioners were proceeding to make great improvements bad been for some time under consideration. The district was • very low one ; most injurious conw• quenoes had resulted from the want of drainage there; and several saforeseen eifellnlWlCtil, amongst others, the un expected Walvis of their chief engineer shsrtly after ►e was appointed, had delayed the proceeding with t►ose weeks mad a period which the commisslmers regretted. The object with which the steam engine wm pissed In Palace-yard was for the purpose of raising the water up to the level of the existing sewer in York-street. It was obvious that, in driving a mueb deeps,. sewer, to ena ble the men to work all the sewerage must he diverted into • neighbouring sewer ; and this sewer being on a higher level the stearc-eneine was necessary to lift it. The engine would remain until the Newer wen finish. d, which would be about four months from the present time ; then it would be re moved and the ground made un. The stirring up of the sewage he feared was unavoidably incident to the execution of say new work, but in order that the residents in the neighbourhood might suffer as little annoyance as possible from the smoke directisas had been given for the use of Welsh steam coal and anthracite, which pioduoed very little smoke. Some further conversation having taken place. the other hos. member taking part therein bah g Mr. Henley, Sir B. Hall, Lrrds Ashley and Arundel, the subject dropped. THE SPIRIT DITTIES. Col. DUNNE asked whether the rep ,n on Lard Naas's resolution, agreed to on Tuesday, would be brought op nut day. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, u the noble lord was not present, he could not say whether it woul I come on or rot . Kr. F. MACKENZIE said whether the sob:a lord did so or act. he 'mild hrintt the so.leet on, and at am hour. PUBLIC ESTABLISHMENTS AT BERMUDA• Oa the MO:10I1 of Mr. Hrx; the followina returns were ordered: Return of the several public estegishmenta at Bermuda, on the 14 day of January 19a., stating the name anal rani', pay ant all mance, of every kind, of the 'aria=; also, the number of °dicers of every elm% dell and flu .17 ury, under hta amount, in detail, stating the name, the office held, the duty to be performed, the pay ant all m antes of every kind received be each dikter ; and the amount of con tingent expewei of even kind theme I, so es to eahilat the total charge of the garrison staff and establishment (the troop* excepted) for the year ended the 31st day of December 1949. similar return of all othoers, civil and military, belonging to the ordnance deportment (artillery and pioncsas excepted), stating she what the public boild ler are for the we of the department, end the to:al expanses of the department for one year, to the Slot day of Member 1648. Similar retain of all dawn% drU and mWtary belonging to the cam minuets:. department, Magma the buildings for their we, the number of matter, dimes, and the totsl charge of the depart mut for the year ended the 31st day of December 1148. Similar return of all othcers, dctl and adllnry, belonging to the naval and victualling department. Italia( the number of balks and Newts, houses and Width ' s, for thetr we, and the total charge for the per ended the 31K _day of Desenther, 1649; Rimilar return of the niediell department, aril the namber of hospitals and builthnes for their we, awl the total charge kw the year ended the 31st day of December, 1649: returns of the trocce, infantry, artillery, pioneers, and marines, on the let of January, 11331.0, dating wahlng the member of each rank s od included In any of the prer.ous re. lacer: of the number of mete* at Btflll , lll on the let day of January, Into, the number of hulk* and barracks for ther recap. tire, and the estab.ishment of all climes inalatained for them, and the aggregate charge In the year ended the 31st day of December, 194:1 : and of the total amount of revenue crollected at Bermuda In the year 1119, stating the wen' sources, and the amount derived from e ich puree; a'so, • return, in detail, of the ins Aker in which the revenge fur that yea was anpropetat est. RAILWAY - AUDIE BILL. - Oa tie motion of at67o7a; this bill was read a first time, sad ordered to be read a second U. nest Thursday. SALARY OP THE CHIEF jIISTICE_OF THE COURT OF QUBKv'B BS\Cs. Mr. 11111LLiffirii sold that a return had been made upon a nation of his ingesting the salary of the chief justice of the Court of Glances Bench, and he now wished to know whether then wee any objection to give • caps of the ap pointmntot Lord Denman, • hick was not included in that return ; and, also, whether theru would be any °bp etion to give a copy of any sign manual or warrant made or executed with mud to the salary of the present Chief Justice Campbell. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that if the hoe. gentleman gave him notice of his question he would give an answer, because it wee diflismit to answer such slues dons off.haind. SUNDAY TRADING BILL. Mr. B. WALL wished to know from the hon. mem ber for Lambeth whither hr would have any objection to postpone the Doomed reading of the Sunday Trading Bill, which was tired for Wednesday next, till Wednesday week, a. ,the evidence which was taken before the committee on the subject was not yet before the house. Mr. PEARSON said that if the evidence c-.u'd not be laid before the how in sufficient time he would have no objection to the peatpunement of the bill, if he could obtain an early day for bringing it on. Otherwise, as the subject was one of great Importance to Lis constituents, be would bring it on on the day for which it was fined. COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION BILL. Tt e house resolved Itself into a committee upon this bill, sod proceeded to take Into ronsidsritiun several new clauses introduced by the Attorney-General. Claws A was agreed to after some few observations from the ArroaxarsoxisztiAL, which were not heard. On clause 11 Sir .1. ORA kAM said be had to repeat the observations which he made yesterday with regard to the difficulty of bearing in th e house. (Rear, hear.) With respect to thee clause, it we., as drawn up by the Attorney-General, pro spective in its operation as to the removal of clerks. By the thistinw law, clerks being appointed by the judges, with the sanction of the Lord Chancellor, the government had no d i rect power to remove them, whatever their misconduct might be. Besides that, several clerks resided out of their districts, and neither was there any power of removing them. Sir 0. GREY admitted that the irremovability of clerks was a great evil, and, therefore, it was proposed to give a generel power of removal by this bill. (fisar, hear) With I respect to the power of sing existing court houses for the purpose of holding eoanty courts, his hon. and learned friend had a clause prepared to effect that object. lie could assure the right hon. gentleman that the government were prepared to carry oat such recommendations of the committee of five judges es they thought likely to remedy existing defects. The clause was then agreed to. On clause C, the object of which is to alliw the plaintiff to serve his own summon., The iiToKITIN:GENERAL said that this clause had been premed on him tram all quarters, and he had taken pains to see how it could be carried into operati n. But once he had given aotits of the clause he h.d received com munications limn the judges of the county courts stating that the matter would be atteaded with consul. table diffi culty. He therefore proposed tostrike out the clause. (Hear.) The clam was 'Knack out accordingly. Sir G. PECHELL said that they laboured under the great disadvaatage on his aide of the house of not hearing one word of what fell from the hon, sad learned gentleman. (" Hear, bear" sari laughter.) The CHAIRMAN—The clause is now withdrawn. (Laughter.) Sir G. PRCHELL—I did not hear a word ahout with drawal. (" Hear, hoar," and laughter.) bir. 'lugs --If this is the only way that we can conduct business in this house, I think we had better return to the other house. (" Hear, hear," and renewed laughter.) Mr. 0011LLIURN said that the reason why his right hon. friend had been heard was, that the house expected some. thing worth hearing from him. (" Hear, hear, laughter, and " Ne no" from Sir J. Graham.) Sir J. GRAHAM said it wne much more important that tho louse should be able to hear what el.e government said than anything that might fall rum him. But he could assure his right hon. friend that the imperfection was la the house itself. (Hear, hear.) Th, y were completely at grow rupoiss. (Hear, hoer.) They heard what wee said as as. aide, but not a word of what wee said on the esker. (Rear, hear.) Title sushi be fount tray iseemeealeat is debate. wad in etramitte• It would preetrut the prow Wimeection of Widow. I Hear. leer.) • Mr. STAFFORD—I was net aide to hue Nos bon. and leaned gentleman the Attotsay-Genseal on his (the Atter .47.o,,sorare) side of the has" and therefore I creased here esalikme so do so. • (Lutektir.) Mr. HUME—I think we should adjourn to the other hones. (" Hear, hear," cheer., aid " me, no.") Oa clause D, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL me "reseeding to make some ebeervatinne. when Sir 0. PIiCH ELL eri-d out—Speck load—we met hear • word hue. f L-mehtor ) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL mid that If he spoke loader he wu afraid he would only still more defeat the object which the hon. gentleman had in view—that of making himself distinctly heard. (Rear, hear.) The object of the present clause was this—at present the act was worded, if a party laid his plaint, and served it upon the defendant, eves though the defendant might not intend to make any defense, the plaintiff wee obliged to go into court with ha ease, and incur all the names of provieg it, even though it was an undefended plaint. He sow meant so moon a slaws the object of which wee that whether the defendant was served with a plaint or not, if he knew a suit was about to be instituted he might with the plaintiff agree about the amount of the debt and eater that agreement in writing with the clerk of the court, and thereupon the judge should proceed to adjudicate upon this case in the muse manner as If he had tried it. Tote would be a moat economical measure, and he believed a setie.aetory one. Mc FITZROY proposed a verbal amendment, which was agreed to. The elutes then rased. Clauses E, F, and 0 were agreed to. Clause* IR to K, as prepared by the ArronlearHaxatur., were successively win ed to a tor a briet and irrestular lik ens/On. only snatches ant! isolated sentences of which reached the reporters' gallery, as also many hon. members, who se verally took oceadoes, amid much laughter, to protest they did not hear s word that was Rare on, and that the debate assumed a character quite " private and confidential." Mr. MITCHELL moved the addition of the following clause, which was carried without dawn% : Be It muted that noth•ng contained In this bill shall take away the power of the Jades of the .upenor c tarts to nuke, or shall interfere with the exercise of their discretion in making, onieni for bolding defendants to bail In actions ennmenord In the superior courts for claims not exceeding iOf., mid that when In say action any such order shall remain the provisions of this act shall sot apply with respect to such setiom Mr. M'CULLAOR moved thefollowing clause And ba it enacted that the court shall, after the trot day in which It Mellott in ea b district ur eummence ka MU- es not later than nine of the eloek in the forenoon, pave when prevented by dim re o- unavoidable absence in the judge appointed to preside in each court ; and that no total, ere, or buslima shall be entered nine after the boor of fix of the Mork In the afterhoun of any day by eueb court, except at the request of bath partite. Tne ATTORNEY. GENERAL opposed the clam*, which was immediately withdrawn by the hon. propose. Mr. CROW DER, In moving the adoption of app. al clauses, recommended that the judge should bays the pwer of greeting to each party the right of appeal in a case of pal pable error, and that in the et se of a supposed nurtirection or error on the part of the judge, the party who c pidered himself t r be agerieved should have • richt of appeal inde• pendently of the judge, to two 01 the ledges of the superior courts. II they wished to dest•oy the efficacy of the bill, and to raise as greet a clamour against it so had been heard in favour of it, they could not do so more effectually than by passing it without the power of appeal. Mr. FITZROY said it appeared to him that to introduce into the b.ll the principl of appeal would be to throw on the suitor the whole or the espies. a incurred in the conaty courts, in addition to th se which were now incurred in the other courts. The public would net hove cried out, as they had done, for an extension of the jurisdiction i: they had found the decisions su 13201.01!rOUS. Sir G. GREY skid he had opposed the extension of the jurisdiction Incises he thought it would make the courity courts unpopular ; hut the house hens' decided in leveler of exteeding it to 604, in order that the* courts might not be deprived of their distiocive character, his had since been, and was still, neje...id to the principle of the bill. Mr. AOLIONBY believed that the addition of three clauses would render the bill distaltelal to the whole ceum ' try, and ineke It a curie irony! of a blessing. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL must oppose the introduc tion of these clauses. The object of establishing these coons was to have the matter in dispute summarily, cheaply, and, if possible, ettisfactorily decided ; and though he had been opposed to the extension of the jurisdiction to 501, the house havieg decided in favour of it, he felt it to be hip duty to assist in paseing the measure as proposed. Mr. COCKBURN believed an appeal to he abeolutrly necessary. There was no member of the house who was a more c irdal supporter of the prin. ciple of the measure than he was. (Hear, hear ) Unless they provided for en rpprd te the superi it courts, there might be considerable hostility in the other house ; and, it only because he was anxious for the ultimate success of the meteure, he aboald suppon the proposed addition. Sir J. GRAHAM said he, too, was v ry aexious for the success of the measure, but he would not prognostieete as to the fete of the bill in the. other house. (Hear, hear.) He was extremely glad that her Majesty's government bed adopted the course which they had done that evening, that of endeavouring to perfect the bill as for se possib:e, so as to meet the reasonable expectations of the greet body of the people. (Hear, hear ) It was the opinion of the people of this country that, in the sispenor courts of law, what with delay of process, and what with the great expense attending an application to them, justice was too dear—(sheen)--and that they must hays a more summary and r-ady pr icess. (Hear, hear.) He was afraid that the justice which was about to be placed at their disposal, though cheap, would be imper fect as compared with that which they were accustomed to receive at the hands of the judges of this couatry. lie abio entertained some tears as to the indirect effret of this mea- sure in relation to the Is or of Westminster of men which he tonal loved to be rate of the greatest ornaments of the giuntry, and to whom it wee under eternal obligations. It was the earnest and the legitimate desire of the people of this country, with regard to debts of moderate amount, to have cheep and ream justice at their own doors; and though be th ught the elan... proposed had been both framed and supported in the right spirit, and although he could not satisfactorily answer the arguments urged for them in the abstract, he felt bound to say that he thought the house would not correctly represent the opiaiona of the eountry by sanctioning them. (Hear, hear.) Sir It. INGLIS said, Rosrever t'ght it might be to desire cheap, speedy, and summary istatioe, certain justice was not Irisimportant ; and he could not help fearing that the dad sinus of the 60 County Court judges would be found a. con flicting ea those of election committers were form' rly when no person could anticipate the decision of the committee ezeept by looking at its constitution. He had no wish to impede the program of the b.il ; on the contrary, he aimed at making it perfect, and for that meson he sleculd vote for the additional clauses. Mr. J. S. WORTLEY doubted whether thou were the best friends of the measure who resi.sied, the proposed addi tion. Colonel THOMPSON said that without profanity any an might pray the Lord to deliver him from SUMS try an d uaadvised decisions. Mr. W. J. EVANS would like to know how much of the 501. would remain if this appeal were granted when the eau had been brought into onu of the soperior courts (Laughter.) Mr. CROWDER, in reply, sail that it was rather in deference to the bill u it stood that be framed the clauses ; and that tha right hon. baronet the meueb.r for Alpo had failed to convince kiln of the propriety of passing the bill without inserting the appeal clauses. The hums then divided— For the clauses A4ainst them lOB-83 The mo•ion was consequently lot. Mr MULLINOS then moved the following clause: That the fees to be taken by barristers-ad or and attorneys prat. using in the raid courts in car, brought within the jurisdiction mean by tile act, shall bees follow.:—An attorney shall be entitled to Mee or recover a sum not exceeding one pound ten shillings for hie fees and costs, where the debt, damage, or demon I coined in one plaint in covenant, debt, detinue, or assumpeit, shall not mewl 331.; and in no ems shall any fee exceeding 21.4 e. fat be allowel for ernoluying a barrister or counsel in the mum, and the expense of MO.) lilt; a barrister or an warm% either by plaintiff or defendant, shall not he allowed on taxation ot amts, unless by order of the judge ; and the judgca ofthe said courts respectivel y shall from time to time deter mine In what eases such expense. shall be a sllowed. to. V i r r .7OOCKBURN proposed the following clause And whitens by the act of the 10th of her alajeety, hereinbe'ore m elted, it la enacted that the judge lot any county court may make criers concerning the time or time., and by what Instalments any debt, or damages, or costa tor which juaume a t s h a ll be °Malawi, shell be pail; be it enact, d, that in any case where any &hi recovered under this set shall Amount to more than 2 0 1., and tbe party against whom any eider for the payment of such debt shall be male, shall be In respect of his trade, business, or calling, subject to the laws relat ing to bankrupts, it shall not be lawful 6.r the jtelito making such order to postpone the payment of such debt beyond the period of one OR:eodar month from the time of making such order. The ATTORNBY-GENERAL said that he would oppose the clause unless he heard some very cogent argument in favour Sits insertion, After a few wards in its femur from Mr. MITCHELL, it was negatived without a division. Mr. BROTHEBTON then proposed a ease to extend the privileges to be granted by th sbtll to the local courts of Salford and Liverpool. The ATTORNEY GENERAL opposed it. It was negatived without a division Lord D. STUART proposed a ease which he said would facilitate the berries of notioes, and another which he asserted would be calculated to protect the °liken of the county courts in the execution of their du•iii• They were both negatived. The treatable was agreed to and the house resumed. The aB WAS ordered to be read a third time on Ts *day next. PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS BLL. Mr. xwear, In moving that the Louse resolve i I self into committee on this bill, said that be understood that the gallant c done', the hon. member fur Lincoln, intended to oppose the bill ; but two divisions had already been taken on this bill. The object of the bill was to enable the popula tion of towns to have the advantage of • library. By the bill, as it at present stood, the consent of two-thirds of the ratepayers was necessary, and the parties who wished to have the museums and libraries were.requirsid to put up p u bli c notice at the Town-hail and other pise s. He hoped the hoses would not reins, to go into committee. Col. SIBTHORP said that it was a Watt., of indiffer ence to him whelks there had been two or 2.0 divisions. lie telt himself called upon to give as strenui.ue an oppo sition to the present bill as he had given to Ow former one. He moved that the further progress of this bill be postponed until this day six months. Mr. HUME thought that the hon. and gallant officer Gould not have read, this bill with attention. Tne Yee %Mani of one halfpenny in the pound was a very moderato one for so great and Important a purpose. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY . RUINING, JUNE 14, 1850. Mr. Atdersna BIDNRY observed t►at it was sot a volun tary tendon of the nsubses themselves, for there wee se provision la this set for anion say peddle Besting. Kr. HEALD thought that there yen Mom for the bows going into smarslttee on the bill that it night be asseaded. He approved of the principle of the bin, sad should jive his Tenpin support of the motion for going into sosereitese.. 11; , . -- fiflaNFORD objected to a mail portion of the community fermi the rest of the ratepayen to agree in es. tablidimats of this description. Mr. EIRSNAW sed that lb. ratepayers would eheer- W folly pay the small pm iafileted by the bill in considera tion of the good ft would offset. Mr. SPOONER hoped that the hon. sad gallant man, her would withdraw his saitadmat Mr. WYLD believed that la properties as onassans sad libraries were nadir 'sensible to the working dame, the public Meese would kamatid. Wherever public libraries dad been entablinek, Mass bad in a remarkable degree itainished. Having these views, he Mt bound to support the bill. For going into committee For tee amendment 2l—eB The house went into committee on the bill. Oa clause 1, a desultory discussion ensued, but oar at tempts to leas the purport were for some time utterly futile. At length Mr. 001:ILEUM was understood to ask how many towns bed taken advantage of the Museums Act ? Mr. EWART said, five, Warrington, Ballard, Leiouter, Manchester, and Liverpool. Two or three hon. members rose in sueession, and ap peared as if addressing the ebair, but nothing m..re than • murmuring sound reached the gallery. With mush diffi culty we gathered from Mr. BROTHERTON that he considered the object of hon. members opposite to be nothing more than obstruction. Ha moved that the chairman report progress. Sir 0 GREY thought it bitter to go on with the bill. The committee divided: Foe reporting progress Against The house resumed, and the chairman reported progress. Mr. EWART moved to resume the committee on Wed nesday next. Mr. LAW moved that it be resumed on that day six months. Mr. HUME appeared u if remonstrating with the right hon. and Parried member, but his words were unheard at our end Mae gallery. Mr. LAW reminded the hon. member that he had just voted for reportirir progress. Sir H. VERNEY thought that the house had much rearm to complain or tee conduct of the promoters of this bill in , heinselves votirg for delay. (Haar, hear.) The house divided— For the motion For the amendment d7-38 Mr. ANSTEY suggested to the hon. gentleman wheth , r, after the experience be had new of the fe.ling of the oppo nents of the measure, it would not be &drillable for him to rest satisfied with the victory he bad just obtained, and withdraw the bill for the present sissior, Mr. EWAlir should state hie intentions on a future day. The further proceeding with the bill in committee was then and for Wednesday neat. MARRIAGES BILL. On the otder of the day for resuming the committee on this bill, Mr. E. ELLIE', Mr R. HAILIM, Mr. SWART WOIEI , LET, Mr. C. Peannox, and several other boa. members ;assented petitions from various parts of the country in favour of the measure, and Mr. B. Hor■ presented tm:itiens against it from clergy and laity of the Church of Englend, the Dean of Down, C,ttenh►m (2), Ludlow, Birch ington, and Monkton. The house tuiviog resolved itself into committee, com menced with clause 3, on which Mr. ItOUNDELL PALMER rose to move the amendment of which he had given notice, to insert the foliuwing words: "Nor shall any member of either of the mid churches, who may hereafter cotrract any such m bo exempted, by virtue of this act, from any such spiritual or mclesutstica.l censure or punishment ; nor shalt any senterc • for restitution of conjug.4 rights be pronounced by any sorresiawieal court In any suit or procceding between the parties to any such marringe." This amendment differed from the clause he had moved last year, and for this reason, that lot year the bill did not pro fess to he for the relief of dissenter,, but took the question breselly oy the horns. and said there shall be full liberty for all persons in the United Kingdom to contract such mar r.ages, and it shall be open to any minister of religion to celebrate such marriages or not, as Le may think fit. That being the principle of the bill, as affirmed at the second readies, the object of his amendment waa confined to the preservation of the doctrine and discipline of the church, by enacting that no churchman should be compelled to cele brate any marriage ceutrary to the rule of the church of which he svu a minister. Soon after the house rose for the recess, it became evident Wit the bill would be on the next ' , cession presented to the country and the house as a dis senter's question, and be had seen a letter, purportiog to be written by his right bon. and learned friend to n &reenter after the prorogation of parliament, and published in the Nentonfornaist, showing clearly the new point of view in which the question was to be brought forward. In that letter his right hon. and learned friend, after expressing his determination to reintroduce the bill, called upon all those who felt an interest in the question to spare no exertion to influence public opininn, in order that petitions might be poured in to sway the decision of the Howe of Loris in its favour, and stating that hitherto he had not received ,that effective support from the dissenters he had expected, and that no general movement had been made by them on a question which he considered affected religiose liberty. Accordingly when the measure appeared this session, instead of presenting it as a bill applicable to all classes of her Majesty's subjects his right hon. and learned friend st ited that he mean' to adopt the principle which he supp seed he (Mr. Palmer) had endeavoured to preserve in his amendment and to base the me mute en the ground of the conscientious opinions of the dissenter,, leaving the rules and discipline of the eeta blished church perfectly untouched. This however the bill es it at ad would not do. And with regard to the church of Seltlend the bill did not carry out his hon. and learned frienc'e declared intention, that the doctrine and discipline of that church should be left intact. Hence the necessity for the amendment he cow proposed. With regard to the discipline and rules of the church, ex cept as to clergymen celebrating such marriages it would be destroyed by the operation of the bill. He contended that his amendment would go far to relieve the members of the churches of England, Ireland, and Scotland, who disapproved of the bill, and thought these marriages Incestuous, from the obnoxious provision, of the measure ; and that would be no slight effect. lie celled upon the house to extend protection to that party who dissented from the hill—a party consisting of the majority of the people of the United Kingdom. (Cheers.) Mr. WORTLEY would say that his honourable and learned friend was greatly mistaken as to the effect of the clause on which he had proposed his amendment. That amendment, like much of the opposition to the bill, seemed to have proceeded from a desire to stretch ecclesias tical authority on the marriage question. (Hear, hear.) What would be its tendency if adopted ? Why, that one day you would have a marriage solemnised at the altar, and that the neat day any mischievous person might pursue the married parties bite an ecclesiastical court, and cum them to stand in a white sheet. ('• Hear," and laughter.) He contended that the complaints of his hon. end learned friend were not just. The bill proposed that no laymen who contracted marriage with a deceased wile's sister should be subject to any suit in an ecclesiastical court. The discretion of the clergyman was left untouched by the bill; he was perfectly at liberty to refuse the sacrament to such parties. it unfortunately be thought it his uuty to do so. Sir R. INGLIS said the object of the amendment was not to increase cedes &stied authority, but to leave it as it stood before this bill was proposed. He supported the amend ment, from the wish to maintain the jurisdiction of the ec clesiasticel courts as it at present existed. Mr. WORTLEY said a few words in explanation. Sir F. THESIGER pointed out a discrepancy which would be introduced iuto the bill by the admission of the latter part of the amendment without the former. Mr. COCKBURN said he could conceive nothing more mischievous than the legislation proposed by the amend ment, which would put the ecclesiastical tribunals in direct opposition to tho civil tribunals of the country ,—the latter being empowered to enforce these marriages, the former to declara them void. I Mr. OS WALL) said the amendment would merely give to the churches the power of exercising that discipline which they ought to exercise if their authority was to be of any advantage. Mr. 8. P. WOODsaid the amendment, so far from causing, I would obviate collision between the ecclesiastical and civil tribunals. Parties were not compelled to resort to the ecclesiastical courts for the restitution of conjugal rights; if they chose to daso, the courts ought not to br compelled to pronounce in such cases contrary to their own principles and doctrine. A reform of the ecclesiastical courts had been promised by the government, and it was said the bill was in preparation. He quite agreed in the necessity of an alters tion in the jurisdiztion of these courts, so u to relieve them from a clue of suits which did not properly belong to them, and most cordially should he rejoice in seeing the bill so lone promised by the government. After a few words from Mr. Fossils, Mr. S. WORTLEY said it was (ally his intention to pre serve every ecclesiastical censure now possessed by the Church of Scotland or by the united Churches of England and Irelsnd, end he considered the dense now under cousi dera.ion fully cared d out that intention. Mr. R. PALMER entirely dissented from the view taken by his hon. and learned friend. He considered that his re presentation of the effect of the clause was totally incorrect. (Hear.) The committee then divided, For the amendment Against it The CUAIRMAN begged to inform the committee that the amendment being negatived, the question then before them was whether or not the clause should stand part of the bill. Mr. FORBICS moved that the clause be rejected alto gether. (Hear. hear.) Ur. GOULDUItN recommended the hon. gentleman, after the diviner' that had just taken place, not to press his amendment. Mr. FORBES consented to withdraw his amendment, and the Meuse was 'greed to, as also wile 4 and 6. On Hausa 6 hemg proposed, Col. CHATTEHTON moved the following proviso : " Pro vid, d always, and he it enacted, that nothing in this aet contained shaU extend, oe be construed to extend, to Ire land." Mr FARRELL moved that the chairman report progress. He had been in the house for some time and had not bees aide to bear a word. There they were in a house where no body could hoar, with no ventilation, and with weeks out. aide eatiolng a meet pestiferous smell. (Laughter.) He thought the best way would be to *any hi, !notion, and enable them to go home to bed. Colonel SIBTEOIII 3 supported the emotion. Mr. J. S. WORTLEY must appeal to the house, and ex prom his hip, that this important measure would not to trifled with. Mr. F. MAIILE hoped that the motion to adjourn would not be pressed. Kr. NAPIER observed that the protestant, of Ireland were quits as unanimous against this bill ea the Roman catholic, were. Col. THOMPSON said when he heard of the unity of the people of Scotland and Ireland he confiued his faith was somewhat shaken by • feet be ascertained from the news men, that at the very tints the assertion was made in that house that Scotland was In one flame of unity on this subject flootaltinen in Edinburgh were mutually breaking heads about it. Mr. Y. MAULS mid that on this question Scotland was 110/111111101111 until stirred up by a paid skeet, who was at that moment pirambulating the country and leadieg the lowest of the low to Join in a clamour in favour of the bill. Tha: person hid been amongst his own constituents, and had managed to get up a petition amongst them ; hut when he attempted to call a public meeting in the large and populous city (Pettit), he could not dad a respectable man to take the chair. Mr. BADLEIR believed that ?he people of Ireland, both oatholies and protestant*, were almost unanimously opposed to the measure. The O'GORMAN MAHON denied that the hon. and learned gentleman represented the feelings of the Irish people on this question, and had mired at cenclug.ons opp-site to those which he had expressed. If the catholic hierarchy and people were opposed to this bill, they would have made known their sentiments through their represen tatives in that house. _ . . Mr. MONSELL ;aid that he believed that every ears in Ireland, whether catholic or presbyteriao, or belonging to ens establirhed church, was opposed to this bill. Colonel THOMPSON asked if the seven millions of the Irish catholic. would recognise the principle of granting dis pensations for incest, or would they approve of anyth g ab horrent to general morals or the good of society ? (Hear, hear.) He thought he might conclude that when the catkin. lie church admitted such marriages under certain circum s'ancrs, the catholic people of Ireland must •i• w the subject as one on which human wisdom and legislative decision had a right to be heard. _ scrtir • few words of explanation between Mr. ANIMIST an!l./dr._N•Ptsn2___ Mr. MACOILEGOR said that the bill wee utterly opposed to the religious feelings of the entire people of Sc - Aland. Mr. SADLEIR, in reply to Colonel Thompson, said that the catholic, of Ireland would not seek a dispensation for incest, and rega-ded these marriages as unlawful, wino; 11411 C imied by • dispetuation, which was never granted wile's under v•ry preming and peculiar circumstances. Col. RAWDON observed, th'it if Ireland were to be ex cluded from the bill, and a difference all•.wed in the law of marriage between the three kingdoms, gnat injury wou.d be done to property. Lord CASILEREAGH believed the general feeling of the Irish people of every religious denomination to be again-it the hill. Mr. FARRER withdrew his motim for an adjournment of the debate, and The house divided— FIR Cul. Chatterton's clause ll4 Against it 132-1S The Ai I then went through committee. Col. CHATTERTON gave notice that on the next stage of the bill he would mwe the insertion of the same clause. THE LIGHTING OF TIIE lIOUSE. Mr. HUME complained of the immense glare of light in the house. He sr ii be had got a headache from it—a thing that he wu seldom subject to. He wished t, know for what reason they were surrounded by such illuminationi. He protested against their siving any longer in the Louse, unless some rune', were applied. Mr. GREENE wu about to reply; but hie oberea tions were completely drowned by the cries of " Order 1" GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH BILL. This bill went through committee POST OFFICE CLERKS. Mr. ANSTEY moved for a c.ipy of the memorial from the clerks of the monq order di partment addressed to the Postmaster•Generu in September, 1849, and refinod to in their petitien which was presented on the ith instant, and printed with the votes; and, of any correspondence between them and the Postmaster-General on the subject of the said ' memorial. Atter some conetrsition, Mr. F. DIACLE remarked that the hut. member had moved, not only for the memorial but for the correapoadence If this house were to make itself a court of appeal to every disconteuted clerk, ao gentleman of character or hoacur would maintain the discipline of his deportment. After some further conversation, the house div:ded— For the motion lO Against it PRINCE EDWARD'S ISLAND. Mr. ADDEItLEY moved—" That the despatches lately received from the Lieutenant-Governer of Prince Edward's Island be laid on the table of the house ; also, copies of correspondence which passed at the commencement of the year between the House of As embly of that coloiny and the Sterctory of State for the Colonial Department." Mr. HAWES a /id that the papers moved for would r.ot convey ell the information on the aubjtct which Lord Grey wished to communicate to the house. The correspondence was itcomplete, but would, when the peeper time came, be laid entire upon the table. Mr. A DDERLEY consented to withdraw the motion. Motion withdrawn. DOVER HARBOUR. Sir G. PECHELL moved fa • return of all sums re ceived by tho warden and assistants of the harbour of Darer, on account of tonnage duties, from the 10th d‘y October, 1547, to the 10th day of October, 1849, distii.• gui-hing the number cf vessels and the Lame of the port at which the same were paid u tol.e fa p►ning the har bour of Dover.—Asreeil tn. THE ROYAL PARKS. Col. SIBTHORP moved for a return of the number of rangers and other officers in R ehmond and Busby Parks, occupying houses during the last five years. Agreed to. The boas: adj)utned at a quarter to 2 o'clock. - -- • •- THE. TEN lions ACT.-OPrOSITION TO THE Go-, TiIINNENT MEASI:a2.-011 Wednesday evening a large end enthusiastic meeting was held in the Temperance Hall, Bradford, for the purpose of taking measures to induce the government to pass an act for securing to women and children employed in factorin a limitation of ten hours' labour during five days 110 the week and sight hours on the Saturday, making • total of fifty-eight hours per week. The real otject of the meeting was to oppose the ex tension of working time to sixty hours a week, as proposed by the government, as a compromise between the manufacturers and their workpeople. The Rev. Dr. Burnet, the vicar, presided, and was surrounded by Joshua Pollard, Esq., Charles Hardy, Esq., Charles Walker, Esq., and a number of other gentlemen connected with Mr. Outlet and the old agitators on this question. There were also present a number of the clergy. Resolutions were passed, and • pe tition to parliament adopted, expressive of the right of far. tory workers to have the time of work limited to 58 hours • week, and expressive of surprise at the refusal of her Ma jesty's ministers to correct a technical error in the act of 1847, without the impviitien of two additional hours of labour. A strong feeling was manifested in favour of in sisting upon the limit indicated, and a declaration by the vicar that he would, if their present efforts failed, go with the factory workers to seek an eight hours act, was re ceived with much cheering. A vote of thanks was gamed to Lord John Manners for his efforts to secure the passing of the original limit in the Factory Act, and a pledge given to assist him in securing that object. A vote of thanks to the chairmen terminated the proceedings. GOTTA PERCRA BodT.—A failing yacht, built upon the life boat principle, and with the view to combine ordi nary sailing powers with entire freedom from danger of either capsizing or sinking, has been experimenting during the kit three or tour weeks daily on the Serpentine in Hyde-park. She is a small vowel, and has been built merely as • model to test bow far the principle of the life boat may be made applicable to pleasure yachts, fishing boats, and coasters, consequently very little attention has been paid to beauty of outline, but as regards the important, object safety, the experiment which we on Wed nesday had the opportunity of witnessiog seem to prove thather builder has been completely successful. She is clinker built, 13 feet 6 inches long by a breadth of 4 feet 10 lochs., and • depth of 2 feet 4 inches. ller outside planks are of gutta perches, cemented and copper rivetted together, the sides are double, forming angular air chambers, their greatest breadth being on the upper or deck side, diminish ing to a point at the bilge. The fore and aft bulkheads, the thwarts, and the gunwale are also formed into air chambers to increase her buoyancy, and as • coun terpoise to the extreme lightness so acquired, and to enable her to bear sail, she has a heavy in•n keel and keelson (the latter being proved to re ceive the ribs) and deep bilge timbers, which acting as extra keels when she heels over, combine with the air chambers aloof the side of her deck to prevent the possibi lity of her capsizing. lier power of resistance in this respect was subjected to a mach se test than any vessel would be likely to meet with even under extraordinary chasm stances. All her ballast and heavy weight was brought on one (the leeward) side, and when by this means and the action of the wind upon her sails, she was sunk as low in the water on that side as she would go, • heavy man, hold ing on by a rope from her mast heed, h is legs hung over her gunwale, and the whole of this form failed to bring any part of her deck under water. Her buoyancy was also teased by sailing her full of water, there being at the same time on board • man of fourteen stone weight and 4 cwt. of ballast, and though this heavy cargo brought her gunwale down almost vel with the water, it neither sank her nor prevented her making fair way. Her owner calm , Wes that notwithstanding her diminutive siae, s she;would sail with two tons weight on board. As a life boat or a safety boat for pilots, fur 'matinee in rough weather, or other pur • poses, when much bulk is not required to be stowed, there can be no doubt that the invention is a valuable one ; but it is very questionable whether it can ever be made available for vessels carrying general cargoes, in consequence of the large proportion of the specs of the interior occupied by the air chambers. The plan on which this yacht is built (a claimed by her builder as a new invention, and has been registered by him under the Copyright of Designs Act. TURES SMUGGLERS CAPTURED.—Osi Wednesday, at midnight, the Coast-guard men on duty at the entrance of Portsmouth Harbour observing • large wherry coming into the harbour, the officers manned a boat and - boarded her. when 37 tubs of foreign brandy and three men were found and seized on board. One of the men, named Hann, is only just out Of gaol for • similar offence. Elm fErpre)4s. The wails OUTGONING M AILS. St and the eg i t si • States will be w ade up thie evening. The wails for Lisbne, Spain, and Gibraltar te.il up no the morning of J ane 17 . be melt The wen imam mai* excluding Berraudii,lla Assix Nassau, Honduras, New O r l eans, and Mexico , e. 14 ,„:1,.... them for Madeira, Bt. Juan-de-Niesrasua, New .4,7 4 1 l Chili, and Pert, will be reads up on the morni, . r 14 6 it o. ~ur e ir The mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the hal‘n 1.402 Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, via liouthow, , :•..a, W t i he made up on the morning of June 20. The mail. Vii Pdarwilles, to the bi:iterrah.u. evening lon lad °Fi e * s 24. Hong-Kong, ac., will be 1.4.4 e hp ;,, I T, 2 ..• mails for Maderia, the Brazils, and Bum, Apr a be wade np on the evening of July 4. R 16.0 WATIOI A? LONDON !Milar.. Ten Day—Mervoist, 4%.44a. ........ lb To-s•as•A—Sionmas. M. VAL Atters.s: LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, WE are not surprised that the CHANC!:;.r.,, EXCHEQUER should be out of humour at : Lion to which the House of Commons cirri day last on the spirit duties. It is ohs e t , , able to a financial minister to be beaten or, of finance, no matter how small in ie. , dimecsiot a the question may be. ledesd • portence of the question as one of rev, r . t. , ossesrather aggravates than mitigates lion cause d by au adverse d ec i s i on o f th- .; Where a million, er half a million, or eft of a milhon of revenue, is suddenly ts kr.r! hands of the CHANCULOR of the E\ general responsibility is obviously z. : alleviated by the interposition of penis.. peremptory inhibition of certain m. ar. ass of to obtain the amount of tune:: to defray the pubic expenditure. circumstances government has only to duty of selecting some fit and adequate i• that a hereJt they have been deprived. But where the money coas,deratien the interfs ranee of pediment neve....i. eondemnati , :n of some unjust princie:. jurlohs practice; and when a mii.i.!rc ei retention of eithe r when its Leis' v.' ; impiaihble, it is rot extraordinary !: annoyed at sewer ce h ing prenounr: tribunal fro n whom in matters of ii be no upeeal. We are wildug •. . allowance for ii , firmities of 7.1. the irritation which a men of Sir CHARLES WOOD Inly !,( • But we cannot tolerate, allow to pass in silence, the ir.• lat.guage which certain mi. thouglit pr..per to use with ref r. • . who so•ed tne resolutions of Ti oppn ssive and unfair mode Li customs department for taking • made seiri.s in bond. If bi :- which we allude are the only int temporaries can adopt for the ,xp pathy for their offended patron, a " fully sugeeet to the mui.agers cf prudence of re.traioing ebnllitio tend to shet.ate and e • asperate, ! 7:: .. can contribute in no Ivey to c cement the union of their adherents. The Tin.ts has the effrontery to ca'. • of eighty-fre by whom the dee'am: ,r; moved by Lord NAAS were card d " a rt and Irish conspirators!" Consort' • - whom or what ? Against the apse CHARLES WOOD and the juggling of Mr. JAMES Wthaost we presume, know not again s t what else there. co-operate or combine. The principle so and declare d is simply this—that the Wes: I, nutacturer of rum should not Lars the. ei over the home distiller of spirits ma!!.: tr the maniar of taking the date. pre duty on the firmer is calculated on the que.: which is actually elected for consumpti r. duty is charged on the entire quite , ty • spirits placed in bond when new, and a e! twee for leakage and waste. It is a see ; of free and fair competition betel ea : the United Kingdom and the rest of the vitae of the deduction, as stated in (se:. government officers themselves, is halfpenny a gallon, and would proh enee in the first instance, to the etc, : • about 20,0001. a year. Yet this p • amount has hitherto been allow, :!7 • of a plain and palpable act .• , : because two-thirds of those e!. n ' • tem should be changed hap ;-• • il.e representatives, these h0n0e.... •.:. abused and b!aeirguarded by :Le • •.•• . if they had violated some rule act doned seme point of conscience. An ei..• • we find the names of some of the ce. 1. dependent members of the House of Come HiaiE, Mr. Dararmoxp. Mr. S. ('it Admiral GostrioN, Lord NUGENT, Mr. Colonel THOMPSON, Mr. STAFFORD, and Mr To call a majority consisting of men of ail ps nationalities " a mob of conspirators,' is outrage upon public decency, which r.. : tempt can too scornfully designate. the outnumbered worthies whioss virtu in defence of the customs extortion was dieregarJed? If we called them a knii: or a handful of dumb and passive Sly , r whatever the CH VECFLLOR of the 1: his wisdom thinks fit to enutcia!, probably be told by . their at have no right to inquire into in..: man's vote a as good as an •: it is the segregate opinion, rot th; • luting, that the public can lock to we are tar from desiring to set a-ide lished rules by which par:Lerner...l judged; but when the Tines is re. to stigmatise as parties to trii.l; Sr a body of men like that we hat, are c-mpelled to recall the feet on the occasion in question, tw, the tellers), or more than one ha! ber, are actually office holders! But what is the basis of this ineit. No other than this, that mini, ,rs majority of the whole house who 37, anything toward, midnight, peva! are allowed three teen hours for reposing—it is better , on coostitu.i, t• all questions should be left to their el. that in any case the leas greedy m me in m e be th r e s m o . f th l e n is h should be decided upon by those who he o ule ther sh° s a o i rd d s e , ve it r them discussed, than by those who hi can only say, that whenever this kite. , senatorial deliberation shall Le establis that it will be acted on fairly and coral. ministers shell not be let the e.,!•:.!: divisions whenever it suits their pup, seven o'clock and ten—and that at the r, • election the honest avowal will be made that they stand upon their capacities a judge without hearing, to vote withot.t lit to shout down all who yreler attendance indulgence at table. dt r et of ?he 1 4:11. :uadi ,itry Ir is too soon vet to offer any decided el.l the actual wo.king of tho Iri.h Ercutn!..t Commission, but the proceedings of missioners hive so much interest in a of view that front time to time we will notice the chief results front the establishment °fa desired by some, and dreaded by many titular " lundlords" of Ireland. We have now lying before us a minute fenso of the names of all the partii $ who haA stotices under the commission, including the well as the petitioners in the commit), red In They amount to the goodly number of lice aad eighteen entries, but of these there a double entries, where the landlords estates in different counties. We n et that for large and small estates there tir.• than four hundred and fifty petitions before t!: a vast number when the novelty of the act ing the court is taken Into consideration. the names is suggestive of many reflections, a. sents the evidence of a state of thireis suett• be anticipated by ary one conversant wit'i the • • state of Ireland. Wo can fancy an Engh,lt taking up the "Index to the Pocuinhered Ffgates Notion," and expressing his surprise that he gal not ~; af~