The Express. — London, England, 1850-08-14 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUsE OF LORDS—Tom:IAT, AVOllort 13. The LOAD CII•NCIILLOS took his seat at the anal leer. LONDON-BRIDGE APPROACHES BILL. This bill was reed • wound time. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 3) BILL. TM Karl of CARLISLE lama the committee on this bill. The Earl of LONSDALE complained of the manner in which bills IMO brought up st this period of the session. The bill then passed thrush emenittee, end was reported to the house. LIVERPOOL CORPORATION WATERWORKS BILL. Lord MONTRAGLI moved the order of the day that Mr. Coulee Orem (solisiter), sad Mr. Michael Alexander. Gage (engineer), snood at the ter. This. ',admen having appeared, the noble and keened hod proesedei ft call the attention of the house to the helleggrd is the com mittee with reference to the bile 'Wel **Wind to a petition against the bill. It appeared that from 900 to 1000 of the neuters' to the petition were (undulate The parties at the bar, who were interested is getting up the petition, were informed of this freed at • public meeting, and had the lamas of satertaning whether theygn WS false tie aot ; bat it did sot appur that bad dose se, sad there was so doubt that psge after page Use written in the same kaadweiting. The committee of their lordships, which had been appe need to faultiest, tie subject, bad traced the antbre to the Chairman of the COMlllittat la Liverpool, an engineer, sad their solleitar, who were the parties now at the bar, and they were misle d shot Wes parties had not used due diligence to avoid the *mid; moreover, they had subsequently employed counsel so matted before their lordships' committee that the 4na tares eir.te genuine. The petition potheilled is be sigma by 19,000 persons. who were said to be etheyepera, and is sea-, legatee of the fraudulent aims= petition 1111111111. terely rejected. Tacit lordship.' hei core lodes' mention that the miles at the by had his. twig Op*, fried, end were responsible foe it. He amid emeleis by movies* resolution to thelollowietelbet That k opposer/by tli• evidence of C harlegi ream osolieetor,u/IMishael Almada Gage, the chairman, and of other perms taken before the mid committtee appointed to Inquire into the Unmet/tam attending the employment of persons to proms signatures to • petition against the Liverpool Corporation Water Works Bill, that the said Charles Orem and X. A. Op bed name inch petition to be pressated is the base, well knowing, or baring good reason to believe. that 111111101M1 &Otiose signatures, sad the names of parties without their authority had been attached to such petition mid that the said Charlie Orem sad M. A. Gap hael boom guilty of a gross breech of the privilege's! the here. The LORD CHANCELLOR mkt that erne evp meld result it seek practices as these were allowed to p en puoiitied. Alter • few words from Lied BTAMIONT, The LORD CHANCELLOR put the reuilutios, which was Lord MONTEAGLE then moved that the parties be takes Into the custody of the Usher of the Black Rod. The LORD CHANCELLOR having told the parties at the bar that the house had resolved that they had been guilty of• gross breath of the privileges of the house, caked slam whet he r they had anyth*l to state by way of extant atioa er explaaation. Mr. Gar-so claimed his right to be beard by annul and whams on this most important subject. He was totally Meant of the charge made against him. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that Mr. Gram had himself gives seldom before tke eosamittee, and he mid cwt now l e heard to controvert the judgment of the hem Olathe had been guilty of • breach of privilege. Mr. Minim then said he would explain NM Ilkelln• etances. May of the parties employed had been nest sanded by the Guardian Society. Re himself had ailies whatever to do with the selection of the men who ewe to proms the signatures. He knew, from Lis prude* am a solicitor, that it war dialcult to olivion proper men ; but be should say that law-writers were the best able to tram* that kind of basini es, and such persons had been employed. He was sot aware that he was to be charged with btiag a party to the fraud until he saw it so stated in the Daily News of yesterday. If he had known it before he shoed have twouitht up those men and had them examined. There was not sufficient time to do what their lordships thought ought to be done. With regard to the parish mut ing held on the 20th of June, it had been stated by Plinth, that it was in consequence of what be said the alterations 1$ the resolution were made. Bat that meeting bed nothing to do with the petition ; it was held fur the purpose of ascer taining how the expenses of the oppoaitioa to the bill were to be met. The elteratioas in the resolutin were made, not because of what Placebo said, bat because a Mr. Earle expressed his belief that there were not 19,000 'sumer, In Liverpool. There were, however, upwards of 60,000 rate powers there. With Nord to the suspicious character of the petition, occasioned by the number of " marks "it contained, he (Mr. Guam) could only say that there were very may unlettered ratepayers residing at the teeth end oe Liverpool, and that his instructions to the agents who were employed and sent out were that they might append the marks " of such ratepayers to the yeti. lien if they had their (the . r‘tejnyen') authOrity for doing so. He might add that Planate', speech at the meeting was coesidered of so unimportant a character, that not one of the Liverpool Aspen reported it, cr even mentioned the man's name. Brennan had certainly come to the local committee, and said he bad heard of and seen the manufacture of names to the petition ; bat afterwards he said he had not seen, that he had only hued of the mann facture, and, in fact, he prevaricated so stub, that no ere donee could be given to hie statements. It was matter of regret that there wee at present no opportunity to contradict Inmates evidence by calling winnows. He was cony if soy errors had been committed. If he had been guilty, should he have recommended the ratepayer to get up • second petition, or should he have asked their lordship to punish the parties who had calmitted the fraud upon their employ. en' He concluded by saying that in his own breast he felt izcocent of any intention to inmate upon their lordships. The LORD CHANCELLOR, having directed Mr. Dream to withdraw, silted Mr. Michael Alexander Gage If he bad earthing to arge in 'mitigation or defence ? Mr. Gabs said it was impossible he could do jusice to himself, or that he could enable their lordships to do justice in the case, units he referred at same length to the pureed- Ines which had taken plus before the first and second com mittees of inquiry. Tae main point urged against him and his colleague was, that they bad not taken sußcient pain to Inform their lordships of the fraud alter they had received information from the woridess Brennan. But they were not an culpable in this matter ha the noble lord (Montepagle) seemed to think. There we. no time, for instance, to lova*. tigate the character of the 18,000 signatures. There had been a committee eppoieted by the petitioners last September for the purpose of guarding the initabiteate of Liverpool against the infliction of the Rivington-pike scheme. At the vestry meeting then held a parochial com mittee was appointed to attend to the matter. That committee betrayed Its trust, and *Bain remained quiet until the lining:on bill paned the House of Commons. Then, the people 44 Liverpool becoming impatient, smother vestry meeting was held on the 7th of Jane, and • "'tithe to their lordships' house was determined on; and between the 7th and the 20th of Jane the petition was got up and presented. Three days after its presentation Mauch. made the speech in question at smother meeting. But then it was said that their lordships ought to have been made acquainted with Been aan's communication of the 24th of June. Brennan had, however, prevaricated, and he had not told the Liverpool commit:se all that he now alleged. Now, their lordships had taken a moot unjust and unfavourable view of the ease, so far u himself and hie colleague were concerned, from the com mencement, for it had been said in that house, in the count of • former debate, that the employ ere of the agents, who ware the really guilty pasties, ought to be brought to the bar. The LORD CHANCELLOR said It was not competent for Mr. Gage to refs. to what might be supposed to hays in that house on a former cousin ,sad , what might pseud been reported in the newspapers. Mr. Gaon said he would forbear from doing so, and that he wculd now quote from the evidence given before the parliamentary committee.. [He here read long extracts from this evidence, most of it bearing on the manner in which the signatures to the petition were alleged to have been obtained.] Resubmitted that the whole accusation was nothing mon than a deep-laid conspiracy for the purpose of defeating the petition, sad his efforts should he directed to discover the authors of this iniquity. The utmost that could he charged *Oast them was en error la judgment. There was no latent= of imposing on their lordship, by the thuree which had been adopted ; indeed, any each intention we his part was Impossible, for no one bade deeper respi ct for that house thee he had, and he cordially jnwrd Ia the sentiment, "Thank God we have • House of Lords." Ile concluded by praying their lordships' most favourable Con sideration. Mr. Gage having bees desired to withdraw, Tee LORD CHANCELLOR, after resoling their lord skin' attendee to the magwtode of the casco which the two persons who had been celled to their bar had committed, both to the public. in the iaterfennes with the right of pe titioning, and to the authority of their lordships' house, said that it would be his painful duty I. recommend that their lordships should peresysn in punishing them. If that punishment were in proportion to this Genies and to the dist' 'poet which thon two penoas had ex Whited to their lordships' &althea', it would be far more se vere than be apprehend-d their lordships would be disposed to inflict; it would therefore he for the. to consider how small a mune. of punishment would, wader all the circum stances, be sufficient to vindicate the right of petitioning and maintain the authority and dignity of the hoses. But, en eldering the respectable position la whin these pantos had occupied, he eonosived that by fen the nearest part of the punishment would be that which would commence when that inflicted by their lordship, bed expired. (Hear.) He recommended that,looklng at all the circumstances of the ow, and after the statements which had been mode by the penis, at the bar, bat in which statements he saw no /Emends for laitinatios of punishment, that the parties, Mr. WISIIIII and Mr. Gage, be committed to prison for a fortnight. A resolutioa that Charles Gomm be committed to the irfThitl3larATtoel, con: veyed to bar Majesty's gaol of Newgats, and them confined for a lortaight, was formally put and carried ; as was a similar reonlatioa la nferenes to Miami Alex. Gags ; and the parties mem committed acoordusgly. RELIGIOUS PRIUISCUTIONti (IRELAND). The Earl of EOI)EN, In rising to propose the question of which he had eves maw, disclaimed any feeling of hos t:lo4 towards the government, to whom he gave full credit for their intentions to benefit Ireland, bet whose ads is that direction had safortunatsly not been attended with success. When he looked at the nuaerosa crimes, at the many stunts of blood which had take, plies wklain the last few years, and were still occurring, he saw nothing to justify the hope that improvuagat was really going forward, either In the Cite ezyprefSo. OUTGOING MAILS. Th. malls for BiltiaiinithAlierim, Bermuda, sad the United Stites will be made cap as the evening of August 16. The Neat India Mails, excluding Honduras, Nassau. Ha ?wash, and Jam& (St. Domingo), and including Vase • gala, New Granada, sad Grey Town (St Juan de Nicaragua) will be made up on the aiol,lllnif of August 17. The mails for Havannah, Honduras. Nassau, Jaemel, Chili and Peru, will be mode up oa the morning of Aug. 17. The mails for Lisbon, Spain, aad Gibraltar will be made up on August 17. The malls for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands, ggypt, Ceylon, India, and China, Ma Southampton, will Ise made up on the amain, of August 20. The mails nut liaresillas, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Colon, ladia, Hong...Hoag, ite., will be made up oa the sawing of Auzust 24. The snails for Mexico will be made up on September 2. The mails for Maderia, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will M made up on the evening of Sept. 4. MON WEI= AT LOWDOX AMMON. Tau Dal-Mar . lIC pa Altman.. I MAL, Tipionaur-Alatemkg. Th.lo Moues. IL W. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14. THE state of parties at the clove of the session differs in many essential features from that which existed at its beginning. No section has changed sides ostensibly, nor has any crupicuous privateer changed his seat. Ministers have preserved, through many fluctuations of fortune, pretty much the same I species of predominance in divisions that they have claimed from the commencement of their official regime. And the elements of the popular and pro gressive party remain in somewhat of the same chao• tic condition that they were in six months ago. Yet all have undergone a conscious mutation. To all the conviction has irresistibly come, that the undefined and suspensive position they have lately occupied is ao longer tenable, and that the knell of their passivity has sounded. Proteetwo, which began the session with loud pre hidings and threatening rappel, has gradually sub sided into a low and drowsy hum—half malediction and half moan. Not once, during the six continuous months, during which parliament sat, did its cham pions venture to avow their belief in the possibility of retrogression in commercial policy. On the address, indeed, Mr. DISRAELI., with a pensive manner and expression, offered to fold its mantle round its sink ing frame, in order that, as it could no longer move with dignity, it might die with historic grace. But the animal instincts were too strong. When it could no longer strike, or even use " the sheltering shield," it would still kick and cry. It would not die in peace; and so with pitiable wailings and toothier barkings it has finally expired in an unseconded amendment of Col. SIBTIIORP'B, on the Copyright of Designs Bill, and a few broken utterances from Mr. STAFFORD est anything being done for the farmers at the lan dlords' expense. Availing themselves of the decrepid state of this, their old beast of burthen, the ci-devant tory officials made sundry ingenious and strenuous efforts to jump into the saddle again. They sent Mr. GLADSTONE, sieve in hand, up to the hnogry creature's nose ; but though it suffered the knowing groom to stroke its face and smooths its roughened coat, no cozening or coaxing would prevail on it to let the bit within its mouth again. In vain young emit- TEM and old 0011LBORN lay down at its feet affect big to fondle aad give it food. With a look of ineffable shrewdness and sadness the creature shook its unreasoning head, as though it would say, had it the gift of speech,—who brought me to this sorry pass ? As a last resource, the great political Ducaow attempted to throw the lasso over the heed of the wanderer. Regardless of all ooneequences, and reckless wholly OA to means, Sir JARIA GRAHAM undertook to guide the outcast back to the stall where royal provender is daily spread, or at least to clear that much coveted abode of all rival oirupants. Bat his failure proved more signal still; and so unmercifully bruised was the Netheiby Knight in his fall, and so cruelly did the intended daps of his efforts seen to enjoy his discomfiture, that it is now believed no earthly in ducement will ever induce him to make any approach to one so vicious again. In fact, Sir Jaya feels sen sibly bow disastroasly his reputation for skill and dis- THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1850. erotica has suffered this melon, and that for its re trieval he must prepare to take some new line, is the next. ' Impelled by the sot unnatural fear of being wholly forgotten, Lord LINCOLN has re-appeared on the some. It is said to have weaned to his hatthipla mind (the idea was doubtless original, foe it could saved have entered any other man's brain), that the death of Sr ROBERT rzn, bad made room for him OAS parliamentary leader. And to the Arent= saes of this monomania his midden return to is currently ascribed. We always knew that there was folly in the family ; but we had no idea of any thing so truly lamentable as this. To wrestle with a delusion so weak is impossible. To laugh at it is almost unchristian-like. Theme's but two individuals in the House of Commons intellectually capable of Plaid the part of chief of the opposition—Mr. and Mr. GLADSTONE; bat bow their rival protmemisem mad conflicting ambitions oat be made to word raisins tabs seen. To judge by the puquinadee of their respective journals, no common hatred which may be supposed to animate them towards the whip is to be compared with the animosity they bear to each other. It is edifying in the extreme to see their parliamentary friendship illustrated in their daily organs, by the interchange of such soubriquets as those of "Jesuit in disguise," and "Aspiring Jew." But whatever prejudices may exist, or be susceptible of excitation against the tribe of BENJAMIN or the creed of Rome, it were easier for either of the casuits in question to win and wear the dignity of tory lead ership than for a doll duke's son like LINCOLN or Gamow to attain that position. Even to guide the country gentlemen of England, before all things it is necessary that a man should have a head. If the state of things, however, on the retrogressive side of the house in obviously one of transition, the condition of the eiri-disant progresistas is certainly not less so. In the general thaw, all parties and persons are slipping from their former holding ground. Among the old whig clique, the English radical party, and the liberal Irish section, the ties of common aim and purpose have long been growing few and frail. The arrogant monopoly of honours and emoluments by those posesesthg hereditary pretensions to power, has alienated man after man and class after class from the existing administration. Nobody thinks ill of Lord JOAN, or grudges him the pre-eminence he has morally and intellectually won. But men of worth,expe nem*, and talent resent the assumption that the basis of all political valuation is to be "the Bedford level." If tie whigs will not be content with that moderate portion of public trusts and profits of which intrinei tally they are deserving, the day is at band when they must reap the reward of their inordinate covet ousness and presumption. The day of sinecures is passed. To have and hold thousands a year of the national money, or to be placed in stations of high responsibility and confidence, public opinion has irre vocably decreed that men most possess ability, con duct, and judgment, me well as exalted parentage. The regime of distinguished dullards is at an end ; and no infatuation can be more suicidal than that which prompts the expelled from the old Castle of Indolence to haag as grumbling paupers retied the gates. Measures most be changed; bat s likewise must men; and of both men and measures not a few. Ascrrnts sanguinary battle is reported to have taken place on the confines of Schleswig. Some ten thousand lives, with incalculable misery and loos, will have been sacrificed, because the stupid and selfish statesmen of Europe have not been able either to re spat people's rights or define their allegiance. The treaty of Vienna, that solemn act of Europe, told the pnlation dwelling on the Eyder that they were (iisrmans, attached to Germany, though subject to the King of DENMARK, is Duke of riOLSTEIN. And the King of Domani: in a üb:io proclamation admitted that the same law of suecession did not prevail in the duchies as in Denmark. Such was the common, kaowo, proclaimed law, to put down and alter which the Danes have twice marched their armies into the duchies. It pleases our tones to call the resistance of the latter rebel lion. All we can say is, that if so, the treaty of Vienna, the German Diet, and the comma' law of Europe, enjoined rebellion. The only revolutionists that we can see are the Danes in the first instance, and then the powers of England, France, and Russia wh3 interfere by declaring that they will forcibly alter the law of succession in the country, and that they will forcibly subject the German population of the dnehies to whatever rigour it may please the Danish crown to octroy. What was Lord PALMERSTON'S fair and impartia view of the question, has been put on record. His lordship recomme nded the dividing the coun try into two parts, the Danish and the Ger man, governing the one from Copenhagen, and giving the other representative states, and a separate I government. If this could not be done, his lordship recommended a division into three, and the admini stration of Denmark, of Schleswig, and of Holstein, separately. Either of these was fair. But Russia would allow neither, Russia wanting to establish a new Danish monarchy for her own relative and pro- tege, the Duke of OLDENBURG, setting aside for him the claim of the rightful presumptive heir to the duchies, the Duke of AtIOUSTZSBOBG. The wrong and the disgrace of England is that after having accepted the office of mediator, and after having as such proposed fair and equable terms, it has abandoned this impartial view and flung itself into a blind abettal of the scheme of Russia. The excuse for doing this is simply that the cause of the duchies was no longer upheld by the strength, unity, and constancy which Prussia at first displayed. Germany was a broken reed, on which there was no longer any relying. It was not to be expected that England should stand forth as the Quixotic and solitary champion of Germans, whom the German powers abandoned. " I cannot take part," ejaculated Lord PALMERSTON, " with the weak and irresolute King of Peusqa against the strong and determined Emperor of RUSSIA. ll foul hurler avec lea &ups." This may be policy, this may be expedi ency, but it is neither honourable nor just. We do not know what may be the immediate result of the conflict about to ensue, but of this at least we are certain, that every cannon shot, every bayonet thrust, every life sacrificed, raises a barrier or hate between the Danish and the German race in the dueblea The avowed object of the powers is to strengthen the Danish monarchy, and they do this by sowing between the two races which share the Peninsula between them, a mutual abhorrence that no tyranny can extinguish and no conciliation efface. There is no man of common reason who must not see that the conquest or possession of the duchies by Denmark, under such foreign protection and by such facible means, is but adding immeasurable weakness to Denmark, and rendering it for the future altogether dependent for support upon Russia. No more adroit scheme could have been conceived for the destruction of Scandinavian independence, or for making a second Finland of Denmark. Nor is Russia proceeding with more unchecked success towards the appropriation of Denmark than to the utter enslavement of Germany. It is evident that the power of Prussia to resist Russian dictation is hourly on the wane. Austria, the mere tool of the court of St. Petersburg, daily advances fresh ob stacles, fresh pretensions, and evidently prefer. sacrificing German interests, and even her own repu tation as German, to the meaner desire of humbling Prussia. Austria, we see, has at Russia's command, signed the protocol, which takes the sett lament of a Ger man question out of German hands. It has at the same time dissolved the plenum, or more open council, which itself convoked at Frankfort, and insists upon Germany being represented, as of old, by that narrow council, which used to obey the orders of METTERNicn, or MITNCII BELLINOIIAUSIN at Frankfort. Prussia, indeed, still muntions a bold attitude of re sistance. The interposition of the federal or Austrian commandant of Ma once to prevent a junction of Prussian and Badish troops, and thereby cut off Prussian connection with south Germany, hea ne cessitated military movements in month Prussia. But Russia will not admit either of its two puppet. to make more than the semblance of war. And the CZAR keeps Austria and Promote, like two dogs, snarling and quarrelling with each other, whilst he, the pre. tended umpire, disposes of their property, and slowly winds a chain around the necks of each, _ We use that the Prussian minister, MANTEMPIPEL, who is striving for German independence, menaces to resign, not finding in the monarch the support which he thinks required. Vox RADowrrz so mode rate and conservative, is known to consider the crisis u one that requires the boldest policy. As to what the constitutional German party feel, that is soft. elently shown by the bold step of its first men, VON CIAORRN and VON ARNIM, repairing to the es Dv of the Schleswig Holstein army to fight as volunteers. The fact is, that every man of sense and heart in Germany at present feels that Russia is now trdating their 'country as she treated Poland, :neutralising its princes and making nee of their mutual blekeriage and fears to enslave and to rob thorn. What is taldng place in Denmark is bet the oouatsrpsrt of what has taken place in Hungary. The German King, who might have resisted them, by a cordial understanding with his people, unfortunately found this difficult, and tried to make a stand by a league of German princes. But three princes have faint heats and selfish aims, and snook one after another from the national can.. to hoist the flag of Russian protection. Russia is, in feet, the arbiter of Germany. Her word is law. The CZAR overrides Mitosis as a conquering general; and, sad to relate, England and Francs appear on the same field u the CUR'S aide-de-camps and satellites Taw House of Commons hu voted that the evidence taken during the present session by the Ceylon com mittee ought not to be published. A plain unimpas sioned statement will suffice to plus the nature and consequences of this vote in their true light. The third session is now about to close since the attention of parliament was directed to the misgo vernment of Ceylon. At the opening of the year 1849 the incapacity and cruelty of Lord Tonainorox were as distinctly proved as they are now. To confirm this assertion we will not appeal to the expressions of the impartial ; we will refer to the columns of the nines, which attempted to palliate Lord TORRING- Twee misconduct, and defend the proceedings against the angelus accused of participating in the riots of 1848. The Times, on the Bth of February, 1849, repre sented Ceylon as" smarting from the effects of • policy which is too obscure to be thoroughly known, and too revolting to be much relished." On the 22nd of the same month the nmes affected to believe that " the real fault of Lord TORRINGTON might be that, after he had acted with such severe rigour, he did not dress up the record of his actions in language at which par liament would not have ben shocked." On the 23rd the Time. declared, "That the pretensions of the Cingalese to the royal dignity should ever be seriously supported by Kandyan chiefs is quite impossible, and Lord TORRINGTON did no more (cruelty_ apart) in flogging , GONEGOLLZGODE BANDA:than HENRY VIL did in making a turnspit of LAMBRRT SIMNEL." In January and February, 1849, the apologist of Lord TORRINGTON admitted that he had been guilty of r mockery of the feelings of the Cingalesc analogous to the mockery inflicted on LAMBERT SIMNEL by HENRY VII., and of cruelty from which HE.NRY had abstained; and that Lord TORRINGTON had not even enough of delicacy of sentiment to see the expediency of veiling what was revolting in his conduct by decent language. The Blue Book of Ceylon presented to parliament explains why the Times was so candid in its admissions: the facts were proved beyond the possibility of denial. The committee of 1849 closed its inquiries into the affairs of Ceylon by recommending the appointment of a royal commission to investigate matters on the spot. To evAde this, government, at the commence ment of the present session, took the initiatiie, pro posed the re-appointment of a committee, carried their point, and took care that there should be oa it • majority composed of their own friends, and of members of the East India directory, a body proverbially as averse to letting in any light upon the affairs of the east as any government can be. We will not affect ignorance of the nature of the information collected by the committee ; but for our present argument it will be sufficient to state only so much of its proceedings as the committee has allowed to transpire. The first step was to start the question of Captain WATSON'S guilt or innocence; ', the failure of that device for diverting ' attention from the question really at issue is well ' known. The rest of the session was con sumed, if the committee's own word may be taken, in listening to tales of personal scandal and re criminations between officials of Ceylon which had no bearing on the case and ought not to have been allowed to be made. In short, the committee repre sents itself as engaged throughout the session in listening to irrelevant tales of slander. Be that as it may, at the close of the session, government finds it hopeless to persist longer in its support of Lord TOR RINGTON and Focal' him; after wasting a whole year government reluctantly does what every person who has read the blue book—the lime, among the rest— admitted ought to have been done a year and a half ego. Matters standing thus what does the committee do ? Although appointed by the House of Commons to collect information respecting the affairs of Ceylon, it takes upon it without consulting or asking leave of that house from which alone it derives any power it possesses, to withhold all knowledge of the evidence it has taken from the house, and impart it confi dentially to government as a cabinet secret. In vain did the SPEAKER point out the incompetency of the committee to act thus ; in vain did he declare in effect that such conduct was a breach of the house's privi lege. On Monday sight the small body of confidential adherents of ministers, kept in attendance to guard against surprises and unpleasant adverse majorities at the cad of a session, voted that the house acquiesced in the irregularity, in the contempt and violation of its privileges. For such conduct there can be no palliation. To the plea that the evidence was such • violation of confidence that it could not bear publication, there are two obvious and conclusive answers. In the first place, if the evidence is of the character described, the committee ought not to have received it ; whereas the committee received, had it printed, enjoyed it, and only discovered its objectionable nature when reminded of the risk of the publio'm being admitted to participate in the revelations. In the second place, if the evidence ought not to have been taken, it ought not to hays been acted upon; and yet go vernment profess to have acted upon it, for to it they attribute their read of Lord Tomtit:Gros. By doing so, government places itself in an awkwari dilemma. If it is to be believed, it has recalled a governor upon secret and confidential deletions, involving a breach of confidence; if it is not to be believed, it has kept that governor in office at least a year and a half after it was convinced of his misconduct. The vote of Monday night is one of the heaviest blows ever struck at the dignity of parliament, and at the reliance the people are disposed to place on it. A committee appointed to collect and report for the use of the House of Commons on a grave charge against the local government of a colony—a committee, num bering among its members the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Secretary of the Board of Control, and the Chairman of the East India Com pany, with a number of firm friends of government— takes upon it to refuse to report to the House of Com mons, and open an irregular and unwarranted com munication with ministers. The public is left to infer the nature of this oommunication, from the fact, that shortly after it is made, the governor is recalled, and his recal attributed to it. Ministers and the friendly committee refuse to allow the House of Commons to know anything about the communication ; and the House, by a deliberate vote, declares that they ar e quite right in treating it thus contumeliously. With such a compliant House of Commons, what complaint or demand for justice on the part of the people may not ministers contrive to baffle and evade ? Tfis Oitiow.—The trial of the officers of this ill fated ship has been appolated to take place at Edinburgh, on Thursday, the 29th of August. The persons to be indicted are Henderson, the ; Lenglands, the first mate ; and the matte. The precognition or prating my inquiry has balm the lergest ever taken in Scotland. The movie's( • w are examined before leaving Portgaleish. the as to what should have bees the peeper mode the Firth of Clyde, under the eiresmsamess is which Asa was plead, has been taken in Glsegew. The Procurstoe•Piscal has been en gaged six weeks Is this work, during which almost all the spas-beat eaptains end mates 'melodist the Clyde have bees examined, with the view of filing when the culpabi lity really lay. A beautiful model of the Oriea hes been made is Greenock, sad will be wed at the trial, ea whisk the mast 'airiest mss ea both sides of the flootash bar will he 'alleged. The eases an eat ea bail. It I. barely possible the trial may be delayed a day en account °llia Mejesty's MTarrival to idlahurgh on the 29M. POTATO DISUSE, we 11111 sorry to say, hu IWO Ns appearsnee spin In this district. In many in seams% when the tubers are not apparently affected at ell, the potatoes are all dimmed, and in ether instance It Is rim term It prevails toe greeter event than last year, sad net tee than two bushels oat of tour sr* effected by it GM net esalsed to an. locality or elm of potatoes, ere to sae dsmelptica of culture, but them set under the =Oil Ihmagabis elresaulaness and attentive, equally with Wee ems amid, have felt Its influent,. The am crops are begisming to parMhe of the yellow hue, indicating the erm ine harvest, mad leek well. Peas is many !esteems ere • O, jord Carom. Mal or metal mention ad his Nub" ; is did ho tbkk ray sok imposeasat mid take plass so , izas e tZfm at 6114•1191 Mina stiamilsa panelled all makime ham she monsmat gnat to seriposol Moak. TM Mai to whisk So wished sow mare piti=to draw Mir brehips' stawatiwa. sad with whisk the quakes be vim OM to put, Masi la tho =- dos •• whisk la iim• parts of Inked pestolaat any. sa y, bad km stMostclot Me instigation, Its was llinT to say, priaapally a this Remo catboat! priesthood. aim' pen ago, in Dias'', a path P Larry, rid la ontala pans of Limerick, • lards peetiso of the Roam eighths 00IIIIIII sky loft the ohm/ a loth sad joined the ma =pion of th• chunk of nagisad. In consapenee of this a most wombs* mos had been par- sued by the Roam priesthood. sad those who won alder their Samos, net only towards those poor puma who Om ssolotisa, and opMentionsly, had joined the commisa of share% of Zeeland, but 'gains the t aalatMsw who were Shale religious st-tractora. n ba r@ prOsthat elopmes who had superbness's' ilms • pans am whiihael himself loft the thank of Romp Meat • par sad • half ago, sad • Mr. Lewis. amber elorgyma was appointed to essosselkith sod it was opted prolsoisat th is gestismaa tkst the isms a pow oaths of width ha amithlnised had boa pormods Ha the trial of owtsbi at the ellmases, whisk bah plos before Chia Jostles Bl•ckbaraa. Mr. Lewis stated la it evidence that oa his rostra is Ooser lost to take Magid the parish Ms load that the Roma oalhalio di Sz be ltal solocta tun prints tlf Math* who had thamosins by their Meek' S. the pettiothato their issnosaboa of Was of the Boma MUM Matteis who had boson so is other parts of Ireland. sod MI Mom pinto had premiesd to give Lea (Mr. Lewis) • INNS sesoption. and if possible to drive him fromves Aossmikely they demisacod Mato the people min e who Mod to the way of their ob taining employment. had ski oismomoo was that ba was followed by 11011414 asiwood. - boated, and Woad by mobs wherever be map mad that ha was la. tamped la to peasessoate of distils worship . by lup bill, of the Raw GOMM lababitsats surrouaihas the thumb both asi sissimusourrikes soap. He (Lord Ran) hod mat dews • Mead to seeertain the real facts, sad that padsmsa. Is his letter, eofirmed the statement of Mr. Lewis hi mg particular. TM obi" earl pomaded to rest the portisalan of another case, as doscribed is the Maar of the Am Mr. Mb, of Capporrnore, is whisk it was stand that, tars beiag ass church in the pariah, mania was performed at to home of a private gentleman. Ter cm persica of • Rama *Mak elispel is the nashboashood passed the doer, sad koriably rat up • bison, sad Modal: at the thrums. A amploiat ha bass made to Lard Clarendon, who had, by Mara if pose, Pm histrastises to the police to appraisal my pima food &sawmills ttes law. aims thee, however, Moo hod bars so potty missions bold, sad therefore no redress hod boa ofisaissod. Ho rthmittad, therefore that the whet* salaam was well wonky Moir lordships : Annan& Their leribblys vary well Maw that may prosaism' had how Rama sailsolko, sad that no panne des had boo theists' as this, it being the privilege of the people of this asuatty to follow what religion they atom. a had thought IsimoU jastifi.d in showing their lordship the noise le whisk oak things were nanaged in Irelaad, and he helloed that the evil could be *oily remedial by the spyisistment of • nipsadiary magis trate. H. wished to ask witethar government had received any soonsualeatioas frost the local authorities respecting to pessimism of Mr. Lewis, whe that they had taken nay measures for his protection, and whether they would lay say information thay might have voiced on the table. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who was almoet in. audible, expressed his resret that so much irritation had been caused by religious dimensions is Irelacd. Us could not consent to publish all the communications the government bad received, some of which were confidential, but be would lay MS the table sufficient extracts to enable the house to form a jest opinion on the ease. Lord REDESDALE regretted that emitters of this dessrip tion were managed so differently in Ireland and in England. In the former country the potion seemed to nurse a riot, as in the Dolly's Brae cal, until great mischief was done, whereas is England they apprehended the offender in the incipient stage. After asobeervatiowleom the Bishop of CHICHESTIII, The ETil of RODEN shortly replied, and the nsotieti, as amended by the Marquis of Lansdowne, wee &resod to. _ CRIME AND OUTRAGE (IRRLAND) BILL.. OntheZoiii.iofiii:Marit7laCrliTsststeWtsi,ii4 bill was reed a second time, the standing orders were suspended, and the intervening stages having bees disposed of, the bill was read a third time sad pawl. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. The ItnaseT.rent Dud REDESDALE moved en Intendment to the 21st clause, providing that no society or branch should be ledit latad for by this bill, la which secret signs or pass words were used. Lord BEALMONT opposed the amendment u neutral ising the principle of the bill. After a few words from L,rd MONTIAOLB, the amend sent was withdrawn. _ _ _ The house resumed, and the bill was read a third time ml paused. Several bills on the table were forwarded a stage. The Stamp DAM* Bill was read a third time and passed. Their lordships adjourned at a quarter before 9 o'clock. FRANCE. PARIS. TUISDAY Bvanruto. The Oemmittes of Permanence met yesterday to meditate itself. M. Depin pretided ex officio. Dur ing histamine. from Paris, which he quite today for the departments of the will one th Vioe-Pre @ideate et the Amenably will presid of e. It wee re solved thatat least twenty members of the 39, which is the number of the committee, including the bureau of the Amenably, should remain in Paris to take part in the deliberations, which are to be held se cre tly in a MOM of the legislative palace. The Debate takes very little notice of the Pad dears journey, which is platted obscurely among the miamilamom intelligence. The Conetitutionnet, on the other hand, fills its columns with nothing else. Before quitting Paris the President appointed M. Baroehe commander of the Legion of Honour. The President entered Dijon last night amidst loud The only fact of much importance which has u yet I signalised the journey of the President is the presene.a o a leading statesman with political principles of the most decided cut at his side. The company of M. de Montalembert upon this journey derives pecu liar significance just now from the bitter and violent animosity which that statesman has always dis played against the liberal government of Piedmont. The kgt 'vest external question which occupies France at this moment is the exasperated conflict waging between the Sardinian ministry and an insolent priesthood, whose rebellious spirit is fed from the Quirinal. The French government will be naturally called upon to act u mediator between Turin and Rome. The Jesuitical party in France are straining every nerve in favour of that bigoted unfeeling clergy which denied the consolations of religion to Santa Rosa upon his death - bed, and refused the rites of sepulture to his remains. They have just sent the golden crucifix of Mon ' seigoeur Affre, the martyr of the barricades, to the infa tuated prelate Franzoni, whose written orders to refuse obedience to the laws of Siccardi and the rites of interment to the remains of Santa Rosa, have been just discovered in the convent of the Servitee, at Turin. The law of Siccardi abolished the exceptional privileged tribunals for trying offences of the clergy, and reduced ecclesiastics to an equality with the citizen before the law; and the crime of Santa Rosa was that he was one of the cabinet which proposed this just reform. The person selected for offering this testimony of . sympathy with the fanatical arch bishop of Tann, is one Veuillot, a miracle-monger, and editor of the Univers, a paper patronised by Montalembert, and occasionally honoured by his con tributions. The cross of the Archbishop of Paris was presented to the Archbishop of Turin on the day after Santa Rosa's death, and before Franzoni's arrest. M. Veuillot accompanied the offering with these words : I have been charged by a considerable numtwr of French catholic,, to offer to you a humble testimony of their tion. The erou which they have the honour to present to you by my hands belonged to the holy Archbishop of Paris, Monseigneur AM*, who, like the good pastor, gave his life for his flock. Catholic France is rejoiced at knowing that this cross of a martyr will hereafter rest on the breast of a confessor. We wish to honour in you, mouse igneur, all thew bishops who combit for the cause of God, and prepare themselves by struggles in the faith for the sacrifices of charity. The archbishop replied : I am profoundly affected with the honour shown to me by the Wheelies of France. I accept with joy and gratitude the homage which is addressed, not to my person, but to the nrinciple of which I am one of the representatives, and which Providence his celled upon me to defend. The souvenirs attached to the cross which you offer to me render it still more precious, for the martyrdom of Monseigneur Afire is for the episcopate at once an instruction and a glory. Some time ago I sent you a letter, written by Mon talembert, indulging in the most intemperate abuse of the King and ministers of Sardinia for the firm at titude which they had assumed towards the domi neering priesthood of Rome. The President, there fore, by singling out for the companion of his journey a statesman, whose religions views were known to be so biassed in favour of Rome, lays himself open to the suspicion of siding with the Jesuits in this important quarrel, which may easily assume the proportion of a religious revolution in Italy, while he cancels all the meaning which might be attributed to M. Ferdinand Barrer presence at the funeral of the excommuni cated minister. It is impossible not to be struck by the likeness of this incoherent conduct to the course punned on the occasion of the famous letter to Edgar N T The mayor of Lyons, M. Revel, as issued the fol lowing proclamation : Inhabitants of Lyons!—The President of the Republic is coming to visit us. He will arrive on Thutaday, the 15th, at ten an the morning, accompanied by the ministers of war, cnamerce, and public works. His presence among us will attest his solicitude for our city. Attentive to the wishes of the country, he comes to sympathise with our laborious population—to visit our tectonics end examine their magni ficent productions ; he comes to study the needs of com merce and of industry, and to seek the means of giving a permanent activity to the msnufactures of Lyons, in second- We its efforts in the way of progress on which our city has entered. Inhabitants of Lyons! Let the President, Louis Napoleon, find a welcome within our walls. Ile brings with him affectionate family reminiscences. which history has con twisted; let him meet the expression of sentiments of gratitude which are attached to these reminiscences, and which ought to accompany one whom the suf frages of France have designated to occupy the heed place in the hierarcy of powers. Tee President of the Republic will stay among us the 15th and liith. His time will be chiefly devoted to visiting our hospitals, our schools, our ateliers and public establishments. The municipal adminis tration counts upon the population to aid to receive the Pre sident of the Republic in a meaner at once worthy of him and of our great city. Vise la 11 spubligue ! Vise le Pre sident ! There is to be a military banquet at Lyons. A long letter, in the Courier de 1, S9ssause, on the organisation of the Societe du Dix D. cembre, has set this secret club of imperialists in the tocus of public attention. This journal, who:se principles are con servative, affirms that the swiety in question counts throughout Fraucesixty thousand sworn members, pro vided with arms, ready to act at a moments warning from their chiefs, and organised in sections under l, aders and inspectors, who are submitted to one common in spiration from head-quarters. Making all allowance for the exaggeration of this disclosure, no doubt at all exists as to the privileged and illegal existence of this club, with an object too manifest to need further ex planation, although the assigned views of the associa tion are charitable. The scandal of tolerating an in stitution which menaces the public peace, and out rages the laws, is aggravated by the rigours applied to the repression of societies which do neither one nor the other, such as the harmless club of St. Hubert. " La Solidiariteßepublicaine," which concealed neither its i object nor proceedings, may have been justly put down ; but while its founders are in prison, it is a shameless violation of principle to extend the indul gent* of authority to the Dix Decembro. It is of a piece, however, with the toleration of the Monotettr dos Soo and Pouroir, while the whole press of the opposition was interdicted from street sale. The distribution of prizes at the Sorbonne yester day was distinguished by the warm applause bestowed upon M. Guizot, who really has assumed, beside the contrast of reaction exhibited by the present govern ment, a hue of liberalism. The ex-minister came to see his son William, who was among the rewarded, receive his two neeessils. The pupils, to relieve the tedium of waiting for M. Parieu's speech, sung out for the Marseillaust, which was given with applause. They saluted the appearance of the Minister of Public Instruction with cries of " Vive la Republique.." The representatives who remain at l'aris during the vacation are about 125, 70 of tho Meuntain and 55 conservatives. They will meet two or three times weekly, at the Salle des Conferences. The only representative who accompanies the l're- Admit officially is M. Lecomte, member for the de partment of Yonne. M. de Lamartine is going to London, in order to raise the wind for cultivating the Sultan's territorial grant to him near Smyrna, and to buy machinery and implements of agriculture. The Council of State has just decided that the Standish Gallery and the Spanish Museum in the Louvre, are the personal property of the ex-king Louis Philippe. The Bourse continues to show symptoms of de pression. To-day there was a fall of 300. on the Fives, and 200. on the Threes. not , HSE. Fur Amount. ream Acs. 13. For Koury. 'Opts lag Highs& Lowest. Closing -- I— Spar Osata. ....... .... 68 S SA 93 11 25 UlO 39 90 S pet Cents« 9 do. New Lord— .. N I • • • • 49 pa eititio .9 1. 10 00 91 4 pew Coots 3ll SO &demo ow Landow at olglLt. IS 3167 go (10,4'03 3 2 1 i• aslgten, 9. 1940 Do. 0. 184/1 Do. 46 Do. I Plalmatt 2 prOonte ll3 90 . Bank aims ..... 2330 .. Horan.— St. Germain, — • Versallies Qert sank ,p, sad Oesans, 180 • Paris sad leesin, 390 ; Knuth and Havre, .147 - In7 Msevellies and Almon, 177 d 0• etrasboare and bale, 11/ le; bes.ir, and Vienna, 360 il ; Boulogne All 3/ IS ; Urines au am deans, 390; Wank 413 73; Per and ,143 13 ; Use le a Nantes, 243 711. SPAIN. Our Madrid correspondent writes on the Bth ines, that the approaching elections excite little interest General Pavia, who had b een b an i shed to the Cow. Islands, received permission to remain at Cadiz. The Madrid Garotte, of the Bth, states that the Queen had received in private audience the plenipo. tentiaries of Prussia, Sardinia, and the republic of Nicaragua. The Qum continued to appear in public with his Majesty. She had given 10,0POr. in money, and a number of valuable effects, to the nurses who had been engaged for the deemed Prin2e of the Astariu. Lott Howden was becoming very popul ar in societ , at Madrid. The d e le ga t e of the Dutch bondholders was ab out to leave Madrid. Ile at. peered, it is said, dissati s fi e d w i t h the result of hie mission, and with the slow manner in which the measures for the arrangement of the debt were car. tied on. The papers announce the death of the Arch- bishop of Santiago. BoIoMADRID, Auoinrr B . — Three pa Cents., 33 ; ate s, 33. Fear per Cents., 121 es*. Flee per Cetvg 12$ cash ; after Bolas, 121 cash, 12$ paper . Coupozo, 71 paper. Pensive., 31 ; after bd.*, 3 13-14 crab. Bank or I. Ferdinand, 86. Eialtange on Landes, 60.40. ITALY. TUSCANY. FLORENCE, At,irst The Doke of Csaigliano has resumel the factions of Minister of Foreign Affairs. PIEDMONT. TURIN, Arocsr 9. The Council of Ministers have called upon Mon signor Frazzoni to renounce his episcopal see. on his refusal, this prelate was conveyed to ts.e citadel of Fenestrells, fifteen leagues from Turin, t,r. the read to France by Mount Gentivre, At the same •iz e municipal council demanded from the government th e expulsion of the Servite monks who have hitherto served the church of San Car:u in the parish of the deceased. The order of their expulsion was in consequent.° notitcd to them by the authorities, and a judicial inver, tory of their furniture and property was drawn up. The monks offered no resistance, but protested. Two important documents were discovered among their papers—tamely, the autograph letter of Franzoni, commanding the refusal of the sacraments and rites of sepulture to the Minister Santa Rosa ; and the cir cular of the same prelate forbidding his clergy ta obey the law of Siceardi. The monks, 1.") in witiber, were pat into an omnibus to be conveyed to thc con. vents of their order at Saluce and Aleesandria. The income of the Servites at Turin was vs: led at 32,000 francs. There severe measures were approved u necessary by the moderate party ; but the ar . rangement which was on the pint ofbeing cot.c.aded with Rome will be thereby indefinitely retard , Monsignor Franzoni wul be handed over to Or• dinary tribunals for triaL The ministry °I .3.47: :1. ture and commerce will probably merge i:. trnit of public works. The Armenia has cea'ed to a . ,q.-.lr. Two officical notices were posted up yrs•cr..:y. first of which declares that the pet:rune t :tstit. tion styled " Economato resit- aposto:ico 'y superior order, possession of the Convent atd pr.:p,rty of the Service father', eituattd near the (lurch : Charles; the second notice warns the farmer,•er. - --.Lr, and debtors of the Servites to pay the rents al:.1 henceforth only to the Economato, on psit of have.; to pay twice over. ROMAN STATES. It is stated that a note of the great powers rccom• mends the Pope to grant a constitut.on to tht •z:a:es of the Church on the model of that which given to the LombardNenetian kingdom. M. de Rayneval invites his holiness to gran: or.:y r;anic laws promised by the niart pr of SI tt VENICE Madame de Bonisio,oli : ehice, of Colonel Grsziani, and of Lieutenant Lacen.eri the latter, it will be remembered, was shot at Na - ..es in 1845), committed suicide a few days ago, by Inrow , ing herself out of the window of her residetcc. Grief was the cause of this act. One of Nlada=e de lionisio's daughters became mad after the earnnder of Venice, in conseque of the disappearance her husband. DUCHY OF PARMA. Letters from Piacenza, of the Gth, in the c‘ Saro,ia of Turin, announce the arrest, on charges, of five advocates, two of whom are protei3ors of the university. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. We have news from Berlin of August 1 0 . A nourier had left for Vienna on the ilth inst. bearin; a decided declaration to the Austrian cshint:. that should the latter persist in convoking the die - and in. vite Prussia to take part, the latter would ref and further, in case of an attempt to impose the rw.i tions of such a body on the states of Germany. woiild resist it by force. The response of Prince S..nwar renburg is expected, and will decide the go - eminent at Berlin. Nothing further is known of the rial BERLIN, ArG CPT 12.—Volnatery Loan, V. - Four•and a-Half per Cent., 991; National Deb'. • ; C Marine Society's I'rercium,lk.l , { Ban'. WO, VIENNA, AI:OT 10.—Fire per Cent. Meta::. ,;, . Fonr-end-a-hut per Cents., dittn 4 1: Bank Saar.s, Exchange on Lee r (lol3.ll.3e; en FracVon. 1 HESSE DARMSIAIOI Letters from Nlayence of Angus; say " The tiec done for our Second Chamber are now proyeding with great activity, and a day or two d:ec:ose their tival result. It may, however. be nt stated that the democratic candidate have, %...n tho exception of the neighbourhood of Ststtaburg, everywhere a majority of supporters. and the limber may thus by anticipation be lesigna!el as porely democratic." FRANKFORT, Arcusr s.—Representations hire now been made by English, Belgian, and French agents against the Prussian proposals for altering the customs tariff. A great number of foreign ministers are met at ('easel, and spare no pains to prove the ruinous results which the adoption of these proposi tions must lisre on the foreign commerce of the Zoliver-tin. On the part of Belgium the muds qusey of the native iron works to supply the wants of Germany is pointed out, and the im portation of cheap Belgian iron maintained to be a public benefit. The Belgian envoy charac terises the determination by Prussia of the treaty of IS II us ruinous step, whose consequences mast fall on Germany, since Belgium, situated between France and Germany would be thereby compelled to unite her commercial interests more closely to the former than would be desirable for the interests of the lams country. The French minister opposes the Prussian propositions, alleging the great increase of .commer oial i n t erco urse in favour of the Zullveretn states. France, according to hint, is prepared to stimulate this traffic still further by liberal reforms. Oa the other hand, should the Prussian proposals become law France would make reprisals. It is forgotten meanwhile that the pro ducts introduced into France from the Zolive rein states, are principally such as French industry or consumption cannot dispense with, while an enhance ment of the price of French articles of taste would scarcely be felt by purchasers in Germany. 'lam pro ducts of French industry imported into the /olive rein states exceed in value the export from thence to France. The Saxon commissioner at the customs congress at Cassel has received new instructions: it is therefore probable that the proceedings of that body will shortly recomtnence.—Augsbetry Ga:eite. . . _ BELGIUM.—We mad in the independence of g rame i s: —. , . We think we may affirm that the minis terial modifications called for by theretirement of the Ministers of War and Public, Works have been de tiuitively decided on, and that the Monitesr will probably publish to-morrow Royal Decrees appoint , tog the new ministers. According to information which wo believe to be correct, the portfolio of the W ar Department will be confided to General Boil moot ; M. Van Hoorebeeke will be named Minister at Public Works; M.Teech will replace M. de thusly as Minister of Justice, the last named gentleman be coming Governor of tho National Batik. It is mud that the administration of public safety will be re moved from the Department of Justice to that of the Interior." L 1 .d c .c fi~p