The Express. — London, England, 1850-03-22 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THITRIIDAT, MAIM 21. The More net et in eVerk. Lord Lanes's.' eat ea —Sr. Tonne ow inorriniman—By Lord BROUGHAM, hes the Blldalinglas Glob end Metrepahtaa Aillbeentan, wheat the lows Mlasenledge, and people( for the ebAitias of the nevepoper shmc the muse dot) , ea paper, mad the &den. *mast dep. The sable lard supported the of the i=cia a poiats.— Berl FITZ WI Id, tree to the sone 'Beet lie, however, doable/ the pre- it oreedies to abe of the petition, Iseenoeh as it amid ineenerse the of shop puffballs, el a pending ebereetra. TITLU OP RILICIIOIIB CONORBOATIONB (SCOT. LAND) BILL. Oa the solos of tbs Naval. of BatanAssAirs, Ws bill vos Ned • first tine. TURNPIKE ROAD AND BRIDGE TRUSTS (IRE LAND) BILL. Oa Um media al Om Masai& el CLiaIIICAILDII, Ode WU posed through cawaistaft, sad or reported te the ►wc. RIOISTRAR OF METROPOLITAN PUBLIC CAR- ------ iiiiiii iiii. - - ----- Os ti.• =sties of the Marquis of Czawstaams. this bill pensei doessk ammittee, sad was rsparomi as the haws. Their lordships Wm, at a quartet balers Oa, Miasmal. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THIIIIIIDAT, MAIM 21. The Bruns* ark the chair at 4 °Week. PETITIONS 1111151INTED. TAX= ON ICNOWLIDOS —By in How. MNII3III, from Leith, Lmearkire ; Mr. H. BERHBLEY, from the editor, , and piatilishor,or the Brituh Essauster ; Sir O. rib i lr w lLL flea U. Chairman et • radio meeting at Brighten, andl from the LWOW. Working Mea's lasia ties ; Mr. ACHOLEFIBLD, from Birosiogbant (thrre) Lord NUGENT, from the printer, proprietors, and prifehor of as previneialjouraal, for the repel of the taxa ea ow- Tu Mr. DIINCUFT, from Oldham, for a laaatio• of dam doilies ea tea. EDVCATIONAL OIANTO.—By Mr. CLAY, from Hall, for • therhaties of educational grants without referees, to ✓digions spinier. Form LIIIIIAIIIIII AND /11.410N0.-131 Mr. BWART (plan not heard); Mr. 80 HOLEFIBLD, fro. Birming ham, for the establishart at girlie libraries sod MWIO2OIII. Haim Drrr.--By Mr. CARDWILL, from t h e brick trade of Liverpool, for the allowance of a drawback as the bricks as kind. NOTICE! OF MOTION. Miwirrifte Mosar.—Mr. W. FAGAN, after Easter to novo a resolution respeetiag Wellston' nosey is 'Maud, sad that stein should be takes for eiv4g effort to the mem sursdatioss of the select committee is Wt subject. Crier irsricas' SOILARIIIIII Btu,.-11r. CHRISTO PHER. on golor tato committee as this bill, to novo "That it be aa lastruetiou to the cossnittso to take into asasidters ties the salaries and emoluments of the Lord Chausellor,th• Hater of the Rills, the Vice Chanselore, sad the prima* Jude.., with a view to their fetus miseries." Kixo's•llOAD, PIXLICO.-Bir .1. PAHINGTON, early after Hooter, to put • question to the httorney.Geseral, whether it was his inteutiin to obtoia a decisiou is the courts ot lag as to the liability to repair this road. (Hear, hear.) THE FACTORY BILL. Mr. M. GlBS62 7 l;islit:ato o.k - the;ortie I , rd the mem ber for Bath (L rd Ashley) a question is uremia, to the Factory Bill. Would his lordship poetises* it till after Easter, in ceder that hoe. members might have hal time to consider its provisions. (lint.) li - )rd ASHLEY said it was to the power of the right hon. gentlemen to hare opposed the mond reading ot Use bill. U Le bed thought it was pressed forward with too much ruts. It stood for oomatitto• that evening; but in ennsideration of the nearness of the Easter holiday*, sad of the represents *ion made by the right hoe. gentleman, be should ask leave of the house merely t t commit the bill pro forma is order to totrodoee two or three worde, and kis would the; psetpose it till after Easter. LIBERTY OF PETERBOROUGH. On the motion of Hr. PREWSN, the following Maros wars ordered:—Return of V. abstracts of the metroots of t►e tressams of tee liberty of Peterborough, in the winety of Northampton, sad the liberty of Bt. in the musty of Hertford, for the year, tedium Miehaeletu 1847, Michael mas 1848, and Miehaelmu 1841 (in a similar term to the return of the several ciun.y ensurers in England sad Wake, presented and ordered tithe printed by the Hones of Commons on the 4th day of May, 1849, Parliamistary Paper, No. 260). IDOLATRY IN INDIA. Sir E. N. Bt ZION wiased io lessen TIM attendee of the right hon. basset the President of the Board of Control had bees draws to a pamphlet tonally published (as was 151181fenni)i 'bowing tint then wens largo funds beleaglag to the Bratiesdas is India, which had been hitherto very much misapplied, sad which, if properly managed, would be at for the maintenance of the id 'litmus ceremonies of 7egg.roast, wittiest this country haring the thirteen of supporting that idolatrous worship; also whether the dire.. ton of the East ladle Company had taken any steps in coat sequence of this &Onion. B.r .1. C. lIOBHODBE said he had read the pamphlet to which the hew. barman alluded. The only measure which had been recently takes, trough not in consequence of the statements in the pamphlet, Mai that the court of directors had met oat a despatch to ladia, directing inquiry to be made into the alleged facts. THE MERCANTILE MARINE BILLS. Mr. 14a101.61iiiii far the ionvenmace of the boom that he should state ti• • course be meat to puny, with regard to the several bills consictsd with the Merchant amtima's worries. He proposed to take gee Nand media' of these Mho en Friday. the 19th of April. no would therefore move that the orders for their mead mama he postponed till that day. RICARDO asked whether the right boa. gestlassa the =ONI to king them on in the order la whisk they Mw aa lb. paper. Kr. souviats alto wished to know v bother the right bes. evades= proposed to make my statement of the aegegginente it was undimmed he want to istrodace is them hills beam their mond nadiag Mr. LABOUCHERE had no teams to believe that be ,bald alter the srreagement a whisk the bills DOW stood, nemely, list the Merchant harries Bill, then the Mashaat Beamea's Feed Bill, and the bill for regulating the mason meat of toasty last. With impost to the secood goestion, lier thought it would be quite impossible for bin, eminently with the toles of the home, to same say alteration which he =l.dtwake in the Maisatile Maria. Ball until it was o emend Wow After a taw words from Mr. CA/LDWILL, Sad in esplana des has. Mr. Lasoucusaa, ra w seder of the day foe the wooed reading of than bells Was them discharged, sad the woonad media' was appoiatod ler Friday, the 19. h of April. MUTINY BILL AND MARINE MUTINY BILL. aka taw holm to give these bills, whisk Wen wholly unopposed, a third reading, la °Mar that they sift be seat up to the Lords that sherucos. hills were severally read e third time. MARRIAGES BILL. Mr. WORTLEY laid that, looking st the state of the pope, sad thiakiag ft doubtful whether his bill would sou* at be thought it would be for the convenience of the house if he ova himself of a new regulation and fizsd the son. minor as the bill for Thursday, the 18th of April.—Ordered actordiagly. pucipla OF CORNWALL AND LANCASTER. their 'prairies. Primogenitors exerted also es evil Isla ease, ad • review of eke law of Witmer mese various madams of satiquity proved kew ris that @ream had been admitted eyes with reeldemble sedifitatiess. Deravimg that the sabeliviricia of properties emadmid es • highly improved 'sedition at saltivation—a belief whisk he seppermil by the examples cm shirr side of Proses is the preset sad het centuries. Holland. /elem. and Ireland—the honorable samba sided that 11 4 wee sot within his purpose to mash the dismillf land amen eti-heire compregy, milel&Magas el To farilitato sad there. the t en siggehf seri paltreqy mad to the same malt, and lee allering Ipslelhassue vwM ether the load into its oatmeal elaumeisesem ree of semi sa me and smartie! for produetios. balsa d* it be expired to relit large ly by re siliptiem dm priori . Mr. 'WART referred to as asemenneglai steempt he himself made to terry an asalogre moseneethemegh pair meat fifers ago. He was emaressd lima both soar neercislly and gesedtationally its teeth memM w hemefird, sad therefore sesoadod the modes. Mr. NE WDEGATE hand that the pilipedlisa woe oaly a prewar of that " resale reeoludis "r the state of society air tare of property ia this weary, of which Mr. Cohdes had gives sorsa reessm/y. He wished to hams its real old_ort. Mr. HUME said that, kris, bees owe of those who fifties yeses ago supported • melon somewhat similar to that which hit hes. irked (Mr. King) brought forward at preseet, he wee ensiose to soy a few words on the abject. The hen. member, whose mod he supported 16 year. ego moved for loam to bring is a till, smoothie that whore parr died fastigiate the law, inetrel of heading all the property over to the eldest son, should equally divide that property between all the ehildrea, as mortal property was at mom% divided. (Hen, hear) He believed dine 'saki be toad is no °retry in the world to many examples of enormous wealth and prosperity, and at the Mae time of wretabodnom sad misery. He wished to know why that woes° ? (Hear,bear.) He wished to know If it nor set tie cut, of the legislature to Inquire into tho principle of tee thing, and reertals if any same were at work to prime such an effect. Is no part of the world could there be found sash • proportion of poor as is England. (Hoar, hear.) He (Mr. Hume) alwas • coupled capital with employmeat, and employment with wages. It was a well-kaow• fact that in Begird rem was vast capital at the disport of several which could be applied to labour, and yet they Sew daily a rester amount of wretchedness than could be seen elsewhere: did it sot, then, behove them to inquire the cause of it ? (Hear, hear.) It might to a matter of surprise to boa. gentlemen to know that, according to the returns. then were in the British WHIM the year 1821 only 60,000 landed proprietors; whilst in Denmark, a small state comparatively, there were no fewer than 60.000 small estate proprietors. (Hear, hear.) Ie the kingdom of Prussia there were 200,000; is Austria, 660,000; la fish:orients, 200,000, or fear times the number la the Bride\ Isles; and in Portugal, 1.54,000. This 'retry was at the bottoms of the list as regarded the number of leaded proprietors; and if there existed more wretchedness is this country than in any other, was it sot worth consideration to laviire if it were or were meowing to the feudal lyre? (Hear, hear.) There were lags tracts of land hold in this creamy under the laws of primo geniture and entail, on which no pumas were over em ployed. sad the land csnesquently was allowed to lie waste. His (Mr. Hump's) opinion was, that it was meet impolitic to have • law sanctioning such a state of things. Losg experi ence convinced him that much of the present ampere of the country was incurred by rearm of the aristocracy quarter ing their poorer relatives ea the perils taxes of the country. (Hear, hoar.) Oa • loran erasion he IMr. Hume) in curred much displeasure by reading the wills of two noble men is that house-which he obtained from Doctors' Com mons. At the time there were three anus of one nobleman la that hors ; but one will bequeathed 6001. a year to the eased the dammed, until thee should be better provided for by goverament appointer t. (Hear, bear.) 241 W, let them look at the position list He did not mean to say that all on that list were members of the aristocracy. But it they took the 10,000 army officre,and 7,000 navy officen,they would find that the uistoracy were paramount in prelim sad pro. motion, though many of them had never seen—he believed he might say sought—anything that con d be regarded as series. (Hear, hoar.) He believed no such proceeding could take piece if that hour were differently constituted, and if it were not filled with the scions of who benefited themselves much more than the country. Einar.) It was with the view to alter such a state of thine, that new legislation was required. (Hear.) He (Mr. Hume) would abolish the law of primogeniture altogether, as being in jurious to the state, as being uonatural, and also believing that its abolition would be productive of great benefit. (Hear.) He supported the motion on the principle that the law of primogeniture entailed great wealth on one elan whilst it imposed great poverty and wretchedness on another, and also took from the country the advantage it was otherwise certain to have, namely, the application of csoital to the land, were the land f.ivided into smaller portions. He admitted the present war only • half measure of benefit ; but still, If carried, it would ensure at least the certainty of a man being at liberty to dispose of his landed property with the same facility as at pretest 'listed for disposing of his per earl. (Hear, hear.) Mr. ld MILNES merely rose for the purpose of statist that, in his opiaios, his hon. friend who had just sat down much time rated the nature of the motion before the hour. He should say, as a landed proprietor, the boa. gentles= was ranch mistaken if he thought the landed proprietors would ;object to any measure that would enable them to dispose of their landed property without being compelled to resort to the present cumbrous process. ( Hear, hear.) Whether the present measure passed or sot, he was certain any sours having for its object the facility of transfer of property would receive the support of the landed interest. He saw no objection to the assimilation of the law as regarded landed and per sonal property. He thought, however, they should es tablish Me principle of every man having a right to dispose of OM own property, whether Willed or perional, as he pleased ; became he clearly foresaw the time was not far distant whoa they might be forced to adopt the principle which worked so beat &daily on the other side of the At lantic. (Hear, hear.) The CHANCILLOR of the EXCHEQUER (who spoke in so low • toss of voice as to be almost totally inaudible la the gallery) was understood to say that the motion before the house comprehended two subjects, the facility of the transfer of land sad the assimilation of the laws affecting landed and personal property. With regard to the first 'measure, he thought it could sot be advantageously die. rimed at present, until the measures which her Majesty's ministers had already sirified their intention of bringing forward, aad some of which had already been brought for ward, were disposed of by that house. As regarded the 'sera branch of the motion—the assimilation of landed sad pereciaal property—he did sot agree in the view of the hos. (talisman ; and be believed the general °piers wee in assordesee with the existing law. Mr. BRIGHT repudiated the charge of desiring any era pulsar, laterference with this rights of rime. property. It was, however, repugnant to nativist ja•tiee to conf r wealth apes one child cut of • family sad leave the rest wholly noprovidod for. Why should not the prineiple which was found appropriate for all other descriptions of property be applied to land , 3 far from destroying the value of real property, the change would in many instances be worth six or seven yeses' additional purchase. To the labour, the impossibility of nit ag himself into the proprietary class formed a serious obstacle to his moral sad physical ad macentest. Sir H. VERNEY was conviseed that, by • proper regu lation of the laws of property, the labourers whom we were assisting to 'nitride could be mach better employed at home. He imported the trips. Mr. I. KING replied that the right bon gentleman the Chancellor or the Exchequer had alluded to the real property conialmiesore. This. gentlemen maameneed their labours in 1830, and lied not yet concluded this. The present state of thins wee a barbarous remnant of feudal times, end a diagram and scourge to a civilised country ; and la reply to the question of the hoe. member for Warwidishles what wes his object, he begged to reply, to do justice, and by the division of land to secure the em Moment of apical in the cultivation of the soil. The hones then divided— Poe the motion 62 Against it THE PRINCES OF INDIA. Lard J. rid he saw that the hon. asember for Tatra** (Mr. Talaway) had a motion an the paper, re lating to the managewat of the Duchies of Cornwall sad lAssaresr. He dad a= think it would lead to a very loag dismission ' • hat as scma has. members, who had looked into the subject, thosakt that it involved • question of the pro reptile of die mows, and se the riobt hos. gentleman the member fee Tamest*, who would probably take some part is the dleismiss, was obliged, as well as himself, to be =seat la the wares of the erasing, he would submit to his lea. Mead that it wood not be eoavenient to bring oa the motion that sight. At the same time, is sekiag tor its post ponement, he felt bolted, if el sable, to make some arrange ment for it to come a ; sad. as it was not a quamtioa that would take • eery long time, be proposed to take is bilk= the orders of the day on Monday. Mr. TRELAWNY sail be =odd readily accept the noble lord's offer • at the some time, h. was sorry not to have the opportunitiol bringing on the motions immediately. ORDER OF BUSINESS. Lord J. RUSSELL said it would, perhaps, be convenient that he ehteld state the order in which he proposed to pro ceed with certain Wail. Toe committee on the Australian Colonies Bill would come on neat day. He could not de cidedly say whether the committee ea that bill would have proceeded beyond a point which would render It memory to take the ball again on Monday, or whether it would be ferth.r I ostponed ; but the course he at present intended to take wee to go into committee on the Australian Colonies Bill neat day; to take the motion of ►is hon. friend (Kr. Trelaway) with respect to the duchies of Cornwall sad inn easter on Monday ; then to ge to the orders of the day, nod take t►e distressed Unions Bill ; and then to no on, if neces sary, with the oraanai.tre on the Australian Colonise BBL In answer to Col. Si atm one, Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to say dist he pre peed to she the second reading of the Distrait's/I Unitas Bill neat day. Certain returns which were ri gaited weak' be before the house before going into committee on the bill ; at ell events, he would postpone going into committee till the returns were received. Sir E. COL/iIia:JOKE then roes, in pursuance of notice, to motet for a select committee to inquire int the rights of succession of the allied and dependent princes of India. The hon. baronet proceeded ter a few minutes to address the home on the subject of his motion ; but his voice was remarkably weak and at times scarcely audible. Ultimately it become manifest that he was indisposed, and h• was, in feet, compelled to resume his stmt. Sir J. C. HOBHOUSE would recommend his bon. friend to adjourn his motion, as in his then state of health it wu evidently impossible that he could do justice to it or to him self by attempting to proceed. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HUE Putted In this suggestion. Sir E. COLEBROOKE said he would adopt the coarse recommended. (Cheers ) The motion was accordingly withdrawn. BORNEO. Mr. HUILE moved for the (atoning returns:—" Copies of the Instructions from Sir Francis Collier to Commander Farquhar, alluded to in Mr. Farquhar's Report of the 25th day of August, 1819 (page 9); of Sir Francis Collior's Ro nan adverted to in Lord E Idisbury's Lotter of the Stn day of November, 1849 (pigs 11); of Sir James Brooke'. Despatch to Lord Palmerston, relative to the buildings fort at the en trance of the &hernia river, noticed in Sir James Brooke'. Letter of the lit day of October, 1849, and of the answer of Lord l'a/menton thereto ; and, of the depot:Woos taken by order of Sir C. Rawliason, Recorder of Singapore, respecting the pirates destroyed by a force under the orders of Comman der F arugqshar, on the 31st day of July, 1849, for which Sir C. Rawlls.os has granted certalkiatos for bounty " Sir F. BARING said be had a* objection to the prodaction of these papas; but as some of them would have to be written for, and others were as yet only on their way to Eciland, there would necessarily be some delay. Mr. HUME said there was in the estimates a vote of 98,00 W. for remuneration and other purposes to which he objected, and he wanted the liven to substantiate his ease. The motion was than agreed to. The following return was also agreed to, on the motion of Mr. Hume Account of the East hubs Company's charges for steamers and troops employed at Libyan, and on the coast of Borneo, from 1839 to 1819, inclusive." TRANSFER OP LANDED PROPERTY. Mr. L. KING m.ved, "That cons.dering the sour plaints which is many parts of the kingdom have promeled from the wain and hccupiers of land, an.t considering also the benefits which have arisen to all other classes from re cent legislation promoting free trade ; it is expedient now to adopt measures for diminishing the existing restrictions ma the tree transfer of landed property, and for distributing such property in can s of intestacy according to the yams milts es prevail in nerd of personal property." The 'violin, state of the law, argued the hon. member, tended perpetually alienate Papilla from the land. Founded Is feudal limes, wnen the principle of keeping lead in imams was neetwary and meted, tness laws had continued to exist, thoutth their influence was now pernicious. i tracts were now to be m e n l e ft al mos t un p ro d u ctiv e , sr a lfir aa &l une Vile and destitute population dwelt upon its border*. There were properties belonging to the crown, the churls, to puttim chanties whose uses had well nigh pissed away, to eccentric and guns preserving lendlorda, whom futility was bet is a alight degree developed is eemperieoa with THE lONIAN ISLANDS. Mr. HUME also moved, " in addition to the papers already before the house, respecting the proclamation of martial law, aad panishmenta under that law in 1849, for copies of all papers relating to the proclamation of martial law in Use bland of Cephalonia in the beginning of that year 1833 ' together with the correspondence that took place on tot between the then lord high commissioner and C Covers, then resident la and for that island, . . . THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1850. sad esommadent of the *rpm Oman, by wham martial hew hat hoes so pesaisineet.' tbow west late eamedinee ea Ms nano (hoed mosey) Boma thou Kr. Hlllllndled MI knew etiMber leer MeMotio L retsmajbr d W4 li t Pt . ....dowa ad ont s l ll= Ga rele ; a i s t emilso that N Wain mitosis so le the amber teletos h a to me wjz o te poise e rry rai r s e as t d o be piv riatrd i r t Ha at . BARING woo astentood to say that tke emus. mast had :E gir r Radar ike set be Won pamaam Hs thought it fa is bit bon friend le take seedy op pertasity of aa attacks that sition. Wks taa .minutes mem before the bone hie bolo Mesa maim be able to aster into thee girds fatly, but he loped that b. would at hart allow the bill to paw IMMO eppielliss. He depeesated hi. maiden roma*" os that mantles fa pants tibia lsoolsoal las beams of savel Ohms. Mr. RUMI did sat wish M.ena the program of the bill, but snit Wise his grease aphid the payment of say per. Noe of this is the abases ef amtileates cad ratans as to the pectin g pintas. He ems prepared to show that that w use Wiz character, aad, therean, that they were asked te pay for the capture of (ascent perms. air F. BARING said so payment would be mad* without sertileates. Afar rose ameadegeate, all the slimes were agreed to, aad the bill weal thrown committee. BRICK DUTIES BILL. Tito mood rerclini;f tall Dill wr postponed man to morrow (this dig.) REAL PROPERTY CONVEYANCE BILL. TIN cassalital of this MU was postponed. COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL. . _ . Th. ediettraed debate ea As wt laatice of thee;iieni " I tem ea thte bill wee reeeised. 81r J.FAXINOTON said that his hoa. friend, the member for North Tines, had given notice that it was his intention to note two durations in the enuissittee leaned by the right honourable gestlesnan the member far Hehakester. He mast say that he thought that then was ample ground for the actin of notion which his hes. friend had given; ..d It would be his duty if that hen. patina= pressed his notion to vote with kim. He could not help thinking that it nun he quite clear to the mind of the right hen. geatlemass (Mr. M. 0th...) who p ro posed the committee that it was Rot one that would give satisfectin or carry weight with it. His main object la rising wee to suggest to the right hon. gentleman whether it would sot be far better, instead of taking divisions as to the propriety of re taining one nano or stibstitatg another, to withdraw the list, and substitutw a hotter one. Hr. M. GIBSON said that his object wee to sea. sti•ute a fair and impartial eosawittos; and he had succeeded in funning what he considered to be a fair and impartial one. He, therefore, maw no reason why he should withdrew the list of names that he had pproro d. They had on the row wilta sonaty members, of quarter serious, mem ben of the government, mad representatives of various parrs of the kingdom. He only regretted the loss of 811 J. Graham, who would not be able to attend, and be would now more that Mr. Cobden's nem be substituted in plea of his. Mr. NEWDEGATE t►ought that the right hon. gentle men would do much bettor be consulted the wishes of the house on this =Mb,. On the name of Mr. Reethaw being proposed to sit u a member of the committee, Maj it BERESFORD said that he believed that he spoke the sentiments of • large ►ody of the count:, gentlemen when hs said, that he considered that this would be as unfair committee to sit on suc► a question. The committee was an unfair one in every way, and th. ir opinions were too mach on one side. He was determined to divide the house on the subject, and though he wu certain that the committee would be agreed to as propeeed by the right hoe. gentleman, he knew that it was a commit- tee to whole report the country would pay no attention. Mr. SPOONER said, that is consequence of the import ance et this question, and the fewness of the members pre sent, he would move the adjournment of the debate. After a few words from Mr. HatwooD, in objection to the adjournment, Mr. AOLION BY said that he never saw a more extra. ordinary step than that which had been just taken. The hon. gentleman had every right to bring forward opposition on every occasion that he thought tit ; but he thought it extraordinary that he should commence by complaining that there was a very small attendance of his own friends. Mr. HUME expressed • hope that the hon. member for Warwickshire would not press his motion for an adjourn. meat. Major BERESFORD objected that then should bs on the comtai•tee tw, mem►en from Sussex. Mr. FREWSN mid teat he believed that the right boa. gen lamas bad takes great pains in selecting a committee to sit on this subject, and that it was with great diSculty that he got memben who would act as it. He however succeeded is getting seven memben from one side of the house, and seven from lie other. He himself was asked to attend on it, and he complied, saying that he would do his best. He was sore that the committee would frame a bill which would snit the circumstancesof the different counties. Mr. FOX. MAULS said that he hoped that the hos. gen. Seeman opposite would not press his mottos for an adjourn ment. Hs thought that there were a sufficient number of members present to debate the question. He thought that it would be far better toe than to discuss the question bef.re them ae to the constitution of the Committee. Hs hoped that they would not renew the debate on the principle of the bell. Us would now ask the hon. gentleman the mem ber for Warwickshire, to withdraw his motion. Sir J. FAKING MN said that he felt that the change which was intended to be made should not be left in the hands of private members of parliament, but should be dealt with by the government. He protested against the committee as at present constituted, but at the same time he would ask his friend the member for Warwickshire to adopt the suggestion of the right hon. gentleman eppmite. Captain PECHELL said it would highly satisfactory to his constituents that the house had chosen the hon. mem ber for East Sumea. His constitu.nts had the greatest confidence in that hon. gentleman for the course he had taken, aad felt fully satisfied that his being planed on the committee would eslieve Brighton from the enormous sums which were paid ►y the ratepayers. Mr. SPOONER had no objection to withdraw his motion for an adjournment of the debate. The amendment having been withdrawn, the committee divided. For the original !notion Against ft . . On nisi return to the gallery tea Mend Major BERES FORD deprecating the formations/IMB nemmittee, 'hien he thoatt►t was ea little like &just osemithe as any which had ever be* appointed. Mr. F. MAL:LE observed t►at this ellinittee would not be called upon to make a report. A committee would sit on the bill, and there would be ample opportunities of die cueing the ►ill in the house. The esmmittes W6B then wad M. The Ilium adjourned at 20 alpine part 8 o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. SOUTH DEVON RAlLwal.—Yesterday, after the bepoduction of • great sisal of evidence beariog on the de nture question, and tending to show that the financial scheme proposad to be adopted by the company in their bill was the best for relieving the company frum liabilities, the use of the promoters closed; and to dip Mr. Hope, Q C.. replies for the opponents of the bill, whom evidence will be gone into. The other so-salled public committees," sitting in secret, were the Ceylon Committee, the Public Libraries C tee, the Oaths of Member, Committee, and that oa the postal communication between London and Paris. WESLETAN METHODIST DISTURDANCES.—A large amount of excitement prevailed at Bristol on Wedneeday, in consequence of its becoming known that • leaden' meeting had been summoned to meet at Rho Chapel, to try a charge 'preferred against Mr. H. Carnock, leader, local preacher, and trustee, for having on th e 18 t h o f February interrupted a religious meeting by asking • question. On the day in question the precedent of conference came to Bristol. At first It was understood that he was to attend at a meeting of members of the body, but subsequently the intention of the promoters was changed, and the meeting called as for religious worship and a sermon. A large number of members attended at Langton-street, and on the doors being opened • rush took placer, and a great deal of excitement and divatiefection was produced. Upon the president unending the pulpit, Mr. Curnock asked if Mr. Dunn, the expelled minister, could be admitted ? Tne pre. eldest gave no answer, and • good deal of uproar followed, which ended in the meeting being dissolved, and the police sent tor. Mr. Curnoek wee now charged with causing the disturbance, and it becoming known that the leader's meet ing was to be held on Wednesday evening, • lugs concourse of parsons assembled around that chapel and claimed to be admitted. The gates were locked, and for a time no one admitted except through the sexton's private entrance. At length, however, it was found necessary to open the iron gate in order to admit the accuser, who was wedged in by the crowd against the railings and could neither gat in nor out. The populace took advantage of the opening of the gam, made • rush, and filled the avenue leading to the vestry, in which the leaders' committee sat, but did not attempt to force their way into it. Their noise, however, and a clamour to get the chapel doors opened, considerably interrupted the proceedings The com mittee sat till hall-past 12 o'clock, and were understood to acquit Mr. Curate& by a large majority. The announcement of this result was received by the crowd out side with deafening cheers. The Rev. Mr.lidonkhonse, who was known to have voted for • conviction, was hooted and yelled th rough the streets, and the accuser was so roughly handled that the polies were obliged to convey him for pro- tection to the central police sta tic s, from which he was passed through • back doer, and thus escaped the vengeance of his aerailaate. DEATII PREFERRED TO PAIIPERIIOI.—A few day' sines a widow, named Brains, in poor circumstances, hut of good character, attacded the board of guar !lens at Kept. sham, for the purpose of obtaining relief. Whilst wailing outaile with others, she was otrerved to I awe the place, and go across the meadows towards the river Avon, where the bank is very iiteisp. Alter once or twit* wistfully looking over the hank at the water, she retired a short distance, and then walked backward, and in this way threw herself into the river. A man who saw her commit the act, but was at too rut a distance to prevent it, immediately hastened to the spot, and every effort was made to save her, but the body was not recovered before life wail extinct. Wit Orrttio. OUTGOING MAIL& The mile ter Zeitkb Nora Menthe sad Biases wM be male up ebb eroalag. Tea seals WI Memailles, to I. Illeiiterreaess, lope, Coyle., ha% ariemEeog, Ls., will be made up oa ovule, Mae WM bat The se ea dr M mob ler Mar Lisboa, Up ,mad Gibreltar will be made t a. Tbe West UM' Kane. faebelikag berowla, Havaaaal, II um% Mer.deree, New Wens, sad bilaise, sad minding time Qr Maidaa. et. Jestode-Niseregus, New Oremada, sat Pen. irOl be made up ea April 2. The melle Ae Malreia, tho Break, sad Bosom Ayres, will H made op ea the 'Testes .1 April I. Tb mile Mr Gibraltar, Malts, Orme, the lonise leleade, at=Oglea, India, sad China, via ikostbametee, will sp ea April 20. WON DAT= AT LONDON fIIDOL r... .italor—Nanag. N A a....- Aharia. Us. —UasOa. N. M ANanstaa. TN LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 22. SLR CHARLES WOOD'S budget has never pleased us. We have regarded it from the first se the budget of a small mind. The state of our natural remota oes presented a great opportunity, and the government threw that opportuaity away. Sir ROBERT PEEL, with his two millions of cash in hand, and prosperity in prospective, would have set about a great reform. He would have revised the excise laws, or arranged the stamp . acts upon more equitable principles, and an approving country would have reaped a tenfold benefit, whilst the revenue would probably have been augmented. Sir Cariame WOOD appears to have an idea of what is wanted, without having the will or the power of performance. He his nibbled at every thing, but grasped nothing. He abandons an excise duty—it proves one of the least oppressive. He pro- poses to pay off the national debt—and his proposal results in buying up an annuity of the value of 10,0004 He suggests a revision of the Stamp Acts-- and, as we are about to show, he has got himself into such inextricable confusion that it is ten to one that his plan must be abandoned. Like most of his colleagues, Sir CnaaLes WOOD is a minister of conciliation. He is very anxious to oblige everybody. Most especially is be desirous to oblige the tortes. The whip always were anxious to make their opponents comfortable. Like Short, in " Humphrey's Clock," they are always endeavour ing to conciliate their Collins, and we need not say always failing in the effort. Sir CHARLES WOOD on the most recent occasion saw an admirable opportunity of " gaining over," as they term it, the landed propriet AS of England. By letting them have a little money upon loan, and by reducing the stamps upon leases, he thought he should smooth them down after the pleasantest fashion possible. The landlords gulpid at the bait greedily. We don't know whether Sir CHARLES WOOD intended it or not, but it seems to us that they are caught upon the hook. The proposition of Sir CHARLES Woon assumed the shape of an ad valorem scale. He asked the house to abandon the present heavy scale of stamp duties on bonds, conveyances, leases, molt sign, and settle ments, and to adopt ins tead thereof I very small rate of ' payment, proportioned to the amount of the money to be invested. He informed the landlords that he was making a great concession ; that they were to save not lees than 300,0001. a year by this arrangement; and he put it to them, whether some small sacrifice was required with respect to payments on the higher part of the scale, it was not equitable that they should make it. There wee, of course, a general cry of "hear, hear," at once, for wbat can be more reasona ble than a scale of stamps equitably proportioned to the amount of money represented? Yesterday there reached us with the votes a copy of the resolutions by which, after Easter, Sir CHARLEs Woon proposes to elerry out his plan. We have gone through it carefully ; we have contrasted carefully the existing with the proposed scale of duties; and we ,arrive at the conclusion that instead of a remission of taxation to the extent of 300,0001., the CHAN CELLOR of the Excnequele's plan involves a very considerable increase of the charge now payable by those who are necessitated to use stamps. But this is not all. The plan not only increast s old stamp duties; it absolutely imposts new ones. Henceforward a duty will be chargeable on convey ances whenever the consideration consists of money in the funds. Deeds of covenant, which were pre viously free from an ad valorem deity, are also in future to be subject to a heavy one. But let us just contrast the actual and proposal duties. Nothing is like a tabular exposition in such a case as shin. We will take, first, the case of the stamps on bonds. Every one is familiar with the fable of the horse-shoe nails. Every one knows how a farthing paid upon the first shoe-nail amounts up, under a pleasant pro cess of compound addition, to we don't how many hundred thousand pounds upon the four-and-twentieth. Just as it was with the horse-shoe nails, so, it seem., the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER intends it to be with the adralorem duty ; 101. per cent. seems a very little sum, but we shall see how it moanta up presently to something rather above joking. Like the man who goes to the milliner's with his wife, the land owner will presently find that it is the multiplication of those "charming little things" that makes up the great " Cottle of the whole." Now here is the scale of stamp duties on bonds, put and prospective. SAW.. Present Duty. Proposed Duty. s. d. s. d £5O ..., 1 0 0 .... 0 6 .00 .... 1 10 0 .... 0 10 /00 .... 2 0 0 .... 1 0 500 .... 4 0 0 .... 2 10 £l,OOO .... 6 0 0 .... 6 0 1:5.e00 .... 9 0 0 .... 25 0 £lO,OOO .... 12 0 0 .... 60 0 £20,000 ... 20 0 0 .... 100 0 £25,000 .... 25 0 0 .... 150 0 E100:555 0 0 ::: 500 0 Certainly the boon here is of the smallest sort. How the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER is to give us the 300,0001. he promise. out of this, we cannot form the most remove idea. It is impossible to find a saving of 301. on any stamp; whilst, on the other hand, the amounts payable for bmds abnc 1,0001. are increased at a multiplying ratio that it quite frightens one to contemplate. Bot the bond et imps are not the only stamps with which the CHAN CELLOR proposes to deal. Let us look next at the STAMPS 17PON CONIISTANCIS. Punkas, lira 47 iSsiTsisCiUty. Fropeesod Duty. £ 0. d E. s. d. Uadei £2O .. 010 .. 0 2 • £5O .. 1 0 .. 0 .5 „ £3OO .. 2 0 .. 1 10 „ £4500 .. 3 0 .. 2 10 „ £l,OOO .. 9 0 .. 710 „ £5.000 .. 45 0 .. 60 0 • £lO,OOO . 95 0 .. 100 0 „ £l5 000 .. 130 0 .. 150 0 „ £40,000 .. 350 0 .. 400 0 How is the 300,0001. to be given no under thia re adjustment? Where are the multiplicity of estates of the value of from 201. to 501., the purchasers of which are to receive their share of the money which Sir CIIARLEB WOOD so liberally apportions for their benefit ? But we will go to the leans. The govern ment are quite sure that their dear friends, the latd owners, desire to encourage their tenants to take leases. They propose, therefore, the following enor mous reductions peculiarly foe their advantage. LIAIIIB. Yeuly Rent. Prase at Duty. Proposed Duty. E s. d. 1.: a. . £2O .. 1 0 0 .. 0 2 £lOO .. 1 10 0 .. 0 10 £4OO .. 3 0 0 .. 2 0 £6OO .. 4 0 0 .. 3 0 £4OO .. 6 0 0 .. 4 0 £l,OOO .. 6 0 0 .. 6 0 The tenants who will rush to their landlords ur g i ng them to g ir o them leases in consequence of this one pound reduction in the stamp duty, will, Sir CHARLES WOOD thinks, be enormous. He has distant visions of a general exhaustion of the supply of stamps in consequence, and of • paucity of boxes in lawyers' offices to hold the valuable parchments. But there arc some landlords who desire rather to mortgage their estates than to grant leases on them. Sir CLIARLEB WOOD accommodates them. Hero is the schedule for MORT° AOlll. Amount. Present duty. Prorrored duty. £ s. d. £ r. 11. E5O .. 1 0 0 .. 0 6 0 £lOO .. i 1 :: ole 6 L 500 .. 4 .. 2 10 0 £l,OOO .. 6 .. 6 0 0 Li 000 .. 8 .. 20 0 0 £15,000 .. 16 .. 76 0 0 £ 40,000 .. 26 .. 200 0 0 We really de sot think this will suit the liusdlords . teats. Will they favour us with an early expression of their opinioef It is not often that a mortgagee talks about 501., or else we might expect him to thank the CHANCELLOR for a saving of 16r. But this class of gentry usually " speak in round num bers," i.e., in thoawods, What do they say to paying 201. when they have heretofore paid 81., or 761. where they have been used to pay 161. P And, above all, how do they expect to get the 300,0001. oat o f this arrangement P We don't know whether Sir CithithEs WOOD has got any daughters ; or, if he has, what he may in tend to settle on them. But were we among " those about to marry," we should scarcely thank the CHAN CELLOR for his amended scale for stamps on marriage settlements. Here it is : 13sTrthiesiirs. Young Ladies' Portion. Present Rate. Proposed Duty. £lOO .... 116 0 .... 0 6 0 £l,OOO .... 116 0 .... 210 0 £4OOO .... 4 0 0 .... 10 0 0 £12,000 .... 12 0 0 .... 30 0 0 £20,000 .... 20 0 0 .... 60 0 0 Estimating ourselves u quite marketable at the latter price, we have no idea of being mulcted of 30L in this cool way, and all in order that some possible Miss JENKINS, whose papa giver her 1001, may have 255. extra to spend upon her b3nnet. As we never heard, however, of a settlement of less than 1,0001., we can only look upon the readjustment of this duty as an increase of taxation ; and, in that point of view, we stigmatise it as a gross deceit. For, be it remembered, this readjustment was to save the purchasers of stamps 300,0001. out of the million and a half the CHANCELLOR had at his dis posal. It was for this that he turned a deaf ear to every appeal that was made for a remission of taxation. It was fur this that he insulted those who called for a remission of the window-tax, and scouted all who asked fur a repeal of the taxes upon know'. dge. It was for this that he maintained the excise duty or soap, and prevented the poor man from obtaining occupation by p , rpetuatirg the tax upon advertisements. It was fur this that he threw over the greatest opportunity ever offered to a minis ter, and has sacrificed, as we believe, his little reputa tion as a statesman. For now that this scandalous attempt to defraud parliament and the public under a deceitful pretext of remitting taxes is exposed, who will believe that this budget can be carrikd ? Who will consent to vote: in favour cf a plan which gives us increased stamp duties, whilst professing to give us the brnefit of 300,000/. reduction ? As the attempt is too gross to deceive anybsely, so we may be sure the country will resent it. If the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had said, i t I will make a great alteration in all the s t am p laws, I will modify the duties on bonds, mortgages, &c., and I will remit those which press upon honest industry and enterprise, *63 would have refused him leave ti hold 300,0001. by way of caution-money, to be applied wherever there was found to be a deficiency occasioned by the work ing of his plan ? But Sir CHARLES WOOD has not attempted this. He leaves the stamp duties on ad vertisements, on bankers' licenses, on pawnbrokers' licenses, on postmasters licensee, on lace dealers, licenses, on attorneys certificate; on fire and lite insurance policies, on sea policies, die., exactly where they were. He make. no one single elf irt in any way to benefit trade by his arrangement; and yet he calls on us to assent to a plan which turns out to be a plea for imposing additional duties under false pretences. Me= depends upon the passing of a good measure for the government of the Australian ' colonies this session. The need for it is urgent. New South Wales edam of these colonies en joys at this moment anything like representative government. The people of Australia Felix (or Vic toria as it is to be called in future) are impatient to be emancipated from a double dependence. Their ' dirance from Sydney has rendered it impossible for ' them to be represented in the legislature of New South Wales by members elected from among them selves, and the consequence has been that they have been governed in part by a New South Wales in terest, tied in port by the Colonial-office, but in to part by any voice or will of their own. So keenly have the disadvantages of being subjected to two ' sets of masters been felt, that on a recent occasion the electors refused to go through the mockery of an election to a legislature in which they were utterly swamped. Fur:her, Western Australia is at this mo ment administered by a government, of the legality of which great ar.d well-founded doubts are entertained. The colonists of Van Diemen's Land have lately wit nessed the decision of their supreme court of law on a question of taxation set at nought by the home go vernment, at the request of their governor and his no minees :n council. The sturdy and intelligent men of South Australia have arrived at the conclusion that their chance for good goverrrnent depends at pre sent entirely upon the personal character of their gover nor for the time being. All these circumstances are evolving and confirming a spirit in Australia most prejudicial to the influence of the mother country. If parliament separate without passing a constitu tional law which shall give satisfaction to the cold_ nies, they who have long lost all confidence in the Colonial-office, will lose all confidence in parliament also. This country's tenure of the loyalty and affec tion of the Australians will in that case not be worth 20 years' purchase. Nor will it be sufficient to pus a government bill for Australia of any kind, merely to save appearances. It must be a bill giving to the Australian colonies the reality of representative local legislatures— a real power of framing their local institutions and regulat ing their local expenditure according to the wants, wishes, and convictions, of the inhabitants. This is in our estimation the one essential point—the sine qua non of any constitutions which may be conferred by parliament upon Australia. The question whether there is to be in each colony one single le;islative body, or two such bodies, linked together like Siamese twins, is u dust in the balance, compared with ' the question whether the representatives of the colonists, freely chosen by them, are to have the power of local legislation and tarries. For expressing this opinion strongly we have been somewhat unceremoniously taken to tusk by believers in the infallibility of a Siamese legislature. Mr. ADDERLEY politely hinted that we had ben caught in a trap of the Colonial-office. The Spectator can didly accused us of "suggesting a mancouvre to go vernment." The imputation is not very flattering to our honesty, but it is still lees so to our tact and intel ligence. We beg to assure the candid writer in the Spectator that load we intended to suggest a ma nceuvre to government we would have made the com munication privately. When we pointed out pub licly the possibility of a trick being played, the fair and natural interpretation would have been that our intention was to put those at whose expense it might be played upon their guard. Since the imputation in the Spectator was pub lished, we have had fresh reasons afforded us to fear that the manmuvre which we showed might be had recourse to may be tried. The Morning Chronicle of Tuesday last strongly recommended that the House of Commons be first divided on the simple question whether there are to be one or two legislative cham bers. It will then, according to the Chronicle, be time enough to raise the question whether one of these chambers is or is not to be composed of nomi nees of the crown. The Chronicle then proceeded, on the assumption that the vote might be for a nominee council, complacently to ask, Well, even if this should happen, who does not see that a double legislature, so constituted, would be an im mense improvement on any single-chamber constitu tion, such as that contemplated by ministers?" This is showing the cloven foot ; this is letting out the secret that the nominee council is the favourite scheme of that section of professing colonial re formers olpliineyienatreo already by to eireo the ne e t h ie ror p ir a e b te l the idea. We answer to their insidious question, that one chamber mainly elective, with a minority of endeavouring reprented nominee members in it, would be an intinitely less powerful engine to neutralise the popular will, than a separate nominee council. On important ques tions, the nominee ;minority in the one chamber could be outvoted by the elected members ; but the nominee council would have a voice equally strong with that of the House of Representatives. And that is the reason why its advocates urge its adoption. They wish to give the colonists the appearance of Legislating for themselves in local matters, without the reality. The notices of amendments to be moved in committee on the Australian bill amount to about a clouts, and embrace some of its most important features. We aro glad of this inasmuch as it indicates an interest in the subject, and guarantees a fell and exhaustive dis cussion of its principles and provisions. The more minute and complete such discussion can be made, the more likely is the result to be satisfactory. Only in their 'rum' for debate honourable members will do well to remember that immediate action is necessary. It is no curious abstract question that they have on nand : it is one of urgency, upon which will, in all human probability, depend whether we are or are not to keep the Australian colonies. This warning is tot superfluous, tr ministers have shown a strange reluctance to proceed with the discussion of the bill, ethich they introduced in such hot haste and with such creeutatious professions: and, on the other hand, some who are hostile to its provisions do not hesitate to bout that, at all events, they will be able to prevent the bill from passing this session. Both parties may rest a'sured that in the case of the Australian colonies delay is dangerous. Of the numerous amendments to which we have adverted, the series of which Sir WILLIAM MOLES WORTH has given notice, has the first chime on our attention. This is owing principally to the complete and systematic character of these amendments. They bear testimony to the deep, patient, and intelligent study which Sir WILLIAM has devoted to the subject But there is another reason for turning our attention to them before the others. They are put in such a shape as to meet the objections which we urged against the confused and obscure manner in which the ministerial bill has been drawn up. From a paper which was presented a day or two ago to the House of Commons, we see that our remarks on this subject have not escaped the notice of ministers. It le wish rtgret we add, that their only effect Penn to have been to set ministers to trepare an 'liberate special pleading in defence of the de ects we pointed out. The paper in question is signed WALTER COULSON," who pleads guilty to being fr.mer of the bid, and assigns a variety of reasons for not rep'aling in Into the earlier statuses giving a cons' atution to New South Wales, and reenacting such of their provi. sions as are intended to be declared applicable to all the colonies. The main reason for adopt. ing such a mode of procedure is pas xt over in silence by Mr. Cour.sole,—viz., that an act conferring ccnstitotions upon five col..nies—upon four of them fur the first time—ought to he complete and in'elhgible in itself. The first duty of a legisla ture is to make itself intelligible to those for whom it legislates; but this is an idea which appears never to have obtrudtd itself upon Mr. COrLSON. It would almost appear from the tenor of his rema ks that he imagines the separation of the province of Victoria from New South Wales to be the most important feature of the measure, and the a stablishmt-nt of t lec tire legislatures in ad the colonies a matter of very secondary moment. The omissions of clauses in the ministerial bil', which Sir NVILLIAIt Nfotaswoavit in•ends to move, end the clau s es which he proposes to substitute, would, in more than one point of view, materially improve it. They would eliminate the ur.eustitu tient restrictions on tl - e power of the colonists to deal with their local taxation, and they would get rid of the whole rubbish of district councils, and the general Australian Congress. Above all, they would make the bill complete and intellig ble in itself. Mi nisters would therefore act wisely ir, in a candid and liberal spirit, they availed themselves of his sugges tions. There are, howeree, some of the deaths of Sir Wleetem's a dditional clauses from which we must express our unqualified and uncompromising d i ssent. Of these the most important ere : let. It is proposed in the second of the addi tional clans s that the governor " shall melee hie salary from the Treasury of the United Kingdom." We are told that Sir Wleteeet MOLESWORTiI hes been " hie traditions," in framing b;s additional clauses. We kiew of no " tradition" that would reconcile us to quartering the officers of local colonial government upon the tax-payers of this country; but, waiving this consideration, we know of no " tradition" to bear oet such an extravagant pro posal. We have in all some 45 c donial reuvernors, with salaries rarging from 1,000/. to 7,0001. per an num. Tike the average at 3,15)01., and Sir Wlte meet's proposal would be found to entail upon us an additional taxation of 133,000/. per annum. The colonists have never asked this country to pay their , governors; th have only asked, a hat thee are fully I entitled to, for e le g ve to exercise a consti utional check upon the extravagant salaries of these officers. 2nd. In the 13:h additional eau.e it is proposed that the members of the Legie'stive Council shall be elected for a term of nine years. In the practice of this country a seven yeare' tenure of a seat in parlia ment has been fount pretty nearly equivalent to an emancipation of our legislators from all sense of responsibility to their censtituents. A nice years.' tenure would be still worse. For a:1 purpcs2s of responsibility to the electors, the memters of clone might as well be nominated by the crown at once as elected fur nine years. If the council is to be ap pointed on the representative principle, let it be S 3 in reality, not in appearance merely. 3rd. The 16th and 17th additional clauses require a property qualification to enable a man to le- elected either to the Legislative Couteil or the House of Assembly. Scotland contrives to get a cry ruspeet • able set of members cf peel merit without any pro perty qualification; and in En4ind the property qualification is found in practice to be either iiluooiy or a mere source of vexation and annoyance. Why entaq this antirpitted absurdity on the colonies? 4th. The 26th additional clause proposes to define or enumerate the prerog tt:ee sof the crown. It may be desirable that the prerogative should be more strictly defined and limited by legal enactment than it ever has been. But if ministers of the crow.), and parliaments have hitherto shrunk from under taking this task with le ference to the whole empire, they are not likely to wink at its being done by a side wind in a mere local act. This clause realty looks as if it had beea inserted merely to have it rejected, which would be tritEng with an important diseuasion. FRANCE. PARIS, TRCRSD4T, 5.30 P .Y. The government has Xgain:l;sT.iiittii severe check, from which they will with difficulty recover. In the Legislative Assembly yesterday Art :11 of the Stamp Duty Bill, declaring that a fixed duty of de. was to be imposed on the transfer of every 100 f. of nominal capital of rente, was adopted by a majority of 168, the numbers being 400 to 232. This result was ar rived at, notwilistanding the united opposition of M. Berryer, M. Pa•sy, and M. Fould, the Minister ef Finance, all of whom spoke against the article. It is stated confidently this morning that M. Acbilii Fould has tendered his resignation. Whether this be the case or not, he cannot possibly retain his port folio after having failed a, signally in every measure that he has patronised. The long expected law on the press was presented this day in the Legislative Assembly, by M. It when the minister of finance. M. &oilier seconded the tribune, and said that he had the honour to present a bill relative to the demand for caution-money and stamps of newspapers and periodical prints. 'the minister then read two projects of law, the first im posing an amount of caution-money of 50,000 francs on the daily papers in Paris, and one somewhat smaller for the journals of the departments. The second imposing a stamp duty on all journals and periodical prints within a fortnight after the passing of the law. The minister concluded by moving the urgency of his projects of law. M. Pascal Duprat rose to oppese the urgency of the motion. He said, that the ministers affected to believe these laws necessary for the defence of the constitution. If that only was the object of the mi nister, why did he not priesecute those journals who daily dragged the constitution through the dirt' There laws were only presented in revenge for tko elections of March 10, and the Chamber, he was sure, would reject thc.e. The Minister of Jnatice said, that if he had only t 3 take into considerat-ion the question of urgency. tee would have but one word to say. An act was known to be neceesnry—it must be carried out; but Pascal Duvet bad ascribed motives to the govern ment which it could not recognise. There was Lo idea of revenge in the presentation of these ls.ers. Hs would be attaching far too much importance to the elections to suppose tbsit they would give tiro to a mensure of any kind. No doubt theze elections lisil eh, d a light on the situation. If the opinion which prevailed had been everywhere awe- Wel, if tt,e assemblage of opinions Which had obtained that triumph were to sucted, thi ma p:t da Pro and pub ....... !Per ° S Per 44 li Pe ix Selo, Di\ Do fkik l'ifth, '404 P4tis Attd 7 TI ueor view