The Express. — London, England, 1850-04-20 00:00:00

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He (Kr. • have imseisied that • mesa eh* was net ea opinion is sad poises, or net i ors the responsibility of doing so, was the be lushness to be • seeretary of state .s from Lord J. Russell.) The sobs lord s ., bets. - He (fir. Disraeli) was glad that he .1 to Lsten to his observable.% sad he hoped ho ' • this cocstitutioasl difilealty. (Hoar, hear.) . e re the members of the eommittre of privy h s d tree left to decide es these points) One s eiMomati who tilled the office of Lied Bugled, and who had, he believed, ,Rue in a se which mould mass his tan.lta down to posterity • ice th e games .t raiment of hit predreneore. (Cheers.) Lord • o.ia time Chastener of the Derby of Lan. .. , ugh he bad entertsised great respect for his -.h., nreeity, 110 preferred the responsibility of .00.11. Th. creed member of the committee wbotos the Bard of Trade. The right hoe. ororl, so doubt, every qualideatioa for the • •.• asinirter, having greatly distinguished him ' ?eery for the colonies; bat he would rash- r . , so.onial escretary, and es *sett rt sponsible yirforating the fuactioos whilst another .t,r. I is , se two members were r.spocsibls for 11. h tb, y care—this one is the HOMO of Com h ttr oat :n tke House of Lends. But theft • r: member of the committee--a gentlemen :he raw of Sir Edward Rysa—who was a r Ater house, end soint whom if he lived at aa . ity e. &el be Sled. (Lighter.) Them iitiels to whom the hems was issiebted for the !it takes Owe t the policy of the govent e e'..t 51W invite the stuntmen of the haute to • ettch was the basis of that change. It was •le committee of the Privy Council is trod* sad was data' April 1, 1849 Perhaps the ...no sly there was nothing uscoestitet h a enneittee—:hat there had bets beton., end that the duties of a State bad been per'ormed by them. a • of trade and plantations were members of -over. keart—an4, in fact, it was the vices of .tira • hob was rupposed to have bees removed by .r. T s, which had, in this mot, bees adopted the prevent covenanted. (Hear, hear.) Bat • . ir.nual• of the o:Mion of tee committee is chamber? They said they thought it de institutions of the Booth colonies into the nearest possible analogy to the 'roe Vol ed Kiosdom ; that Ike experience t ascertained the value of the maxims and •" onotitstion ; and that, in the absence of .r and urgent reason for breaking up t of dings is the government of the be saline to depart from that taws, were the overwhelming this terecositsmid a change of polity ? the duties of the Colonial Secretary were .i.x.ittee. The noble lord at the bead of the seed to doubt that. • 4 .I:LL sans that what be motet was that any s. r J with r. pad to emigration and to waste . :egated to the committee. -..L1 cad he had betore his the book sating . a,. eh the esimmitee• bad advised the lows r. was the divines Of the solosies ; then es staistmest of municipal eneacile; next e. t ag et noes is districts. Could sot the - - ate foes ea elision on such subjects without ail of the Chancellor of the Duchy of ano:her cabin. - minister, and of a Tae seat point was the manage . .-te lends, it being recommended that ~TeSiiii derived from the sales should be :Lean impravemeate. Was that a p tied on .rotary of State emld not decide on his cows Theo there were oleo public worship, the •• • .sv li-t, and the duties and customs. He . the house to consider the political . =matte. Having takes upon themselves . .f he extremely delicate and Micah task •• . -rev:wort out of its scrap*, had aseunaed, a.. the responsibility of a cabieet e they said, . ite 0.4 constitutional astablisbnen'e, that until .4. tar it was almost the invariable weep to .:.r watt.—a governor, appointed by the love . ..t.: . immolated by the sovereign; sad as - • .• r. 1 the people. He had never before heard s: •. e l was an estate. He had always undentood • ••.. •s• • class of emblems invested with Is:Stint : •.: .r.r• three estates in England—the Lords L Jo Temporal, sod the House of Commons. . .• •e. Victoria was ea estate of the realm, •a! v t her Majesty was • class of her • 1. oichter.) Yet these glove gentlemen, • .r•eing up coestitutioas to send to the anti. x sow rant of what was mow by an estate. . here was enough in this review of the . • • the government during the last four years oe hesitate before they adopted the pvers• .•...1e et this important subject. (Hear, beat.) . : of period they had bees the advocates of two .rt swot hove pondered their measures long • leafed them, preparatory to sending them •ottless voyage. In the middle of this term of .• :wary of State for the Colonies, the hot whether in tooseqesence of a sensitive his Wares or of the upbraiding reason . • j•Geses he (Mr. Die-aell) would not pretend .-t the middle Otitis Feriod they found this fervent • •r- - abdicating his (onetime and delegating the result of whose labours was a total :ohms of the government on the vital principle • ~.se was then discussing. (Hear, hear.) • r an opinion on that principle, he thought • . oft come to the conclusion that the • e s not the best, the most infallible le 4 blow on that subject. i Hear, hear.) :.are his vote in favour of the pin ' • c:. emben, however they might be formed, himself against being supposed to be • :.raStiOlt of an upper chamber on the prin .'.s riesa senate ; he wished to avoid any none •of controversy epos that. (Hear, bear.) It • xs that every obeervatios he had made bad • • • t.vour of the record before the house. He • .- .• second chamber, because he thought that, eireseastacces, it added stability to the .• .• scion of two chambers was not hoe . : forties. He looked up -a it as representing • -Lye priteiple is its purest elements; that its • (tepees would be to secure the society of the .apt at it, to set it out of the range of popular •:. immunities • to introduce into those comma isvic.; element. It it were pat to the communities whether they would have two chambers or one, roe duo* chambers was not to be full of govern -..stinees, their decision would be decided and -• • The Secretary of State bad told the • :on tr a last few hours that he was lamentably The-. w'.y legis'ats under such ignorance? to prayed him to do—what he ventured to feeolll7 11 to do, was to inform himself better upon this topic, .and, until he obtained the informatioo, to ooletwo. HAWES hoped the house would consider that it was s of duty which induced him to rise at this late after a long debate, but there were some portions ';.-eels of the bun, gentleman who had just sat down, rendered it absolutely incumbent upon him to put - 4 right with reference to the state of the subject. .e.• member for Baekinghamshirr, in opening his -sated that the question which the house bad 1' we this, whether they would confer the 'Vita of two chasten upon all the Austrelisn colo- The too. member for Buckinghamshire had altogether en :lie debate which took place the other evening on '.'et, where, with reference to New South Wales • r,lony of Van Diemen's Land the house decided ' malls, the constitution. The Committee of • been constituted to contider various colonial • tnd the Seevetary of State, in constituting the Com A Privy Council, had delegated hie duties, and bad 'ter abandoned his negotiability. If there was one which be had complained of more than r, it was that on gnat colonial questions, the Seem e State hitherto had decided upon them is , without due deliberation and advice, - without ask information ; and now, when he gathered round him I knowledge to advise, and was adopting the report bent make, the complaint was that the Secretary of ad delegated hie authority and abandoned his 'upon- Who constituted the committee ? The hon. mem- - toniciony to the ability of Lord Campbell, but in Sir Edward Ryan—did he not know that Sir I:yan was a privy councillor, and had been chief A Bengal—trot he was • man who had die meet important fenetioos ? The committee acil left it to the Colonial Secretary to 'a reject the report. He adopted the re- I when be adopted it, and formed • measure on • .o on hlm the full authority of his office ; and, is 0 thai bill, he thought the responsibility was not which he would for one moment shrink. The oleo for Beckinichantsbire said that it was as the the government abandoned its opinion. In A Stanley first introduced the single chamber. ltieed the bid whe • the has. member himself was : the !Duo, and the bill west through the house Ha would pat it to the house whether ced without a division, and without a • nation. Se much for the cirensathanee to whisk t. her had alluded. mad upon which be stalls 1 1 Or boo* to Meet the proposition. But lba r said that Bari Grey was ignorant, and W its. ranee ; that goverment was ignorant We t Foiled by the, goverameat. The covena nt Lem r times recommended two chambers. tt* the Cape, the Committee of Council tire chambers. Did they change all ass hennas the Committee of Council re a 'i'•fee elt:mber la New South Wales? re' Cunt:cal, hum the report of which r made 1.1.140 7 .11ti,5, stated the ground of .two, What was the ground? Let as try .1.- tilt on the grounds there unsigned. The • brad of the Colonial-01es altered hie what grounds ? In 1847 there was a bill THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 20, 1850. Efte erprefsfs. OUTGOING MAILS. The nails yid Mensilles, to the Mediterranean, Celke, I ad*. Hoeg [- Kong, to., will be made aeon the ',minx of April 24. The nails far British North America sad the United States will be nada up on the evening of April 26. The wags fer Lisboa, Spain, sad Gibraltar will be made op on April 27. The West India Wells, laoludiag Serenade, Havessalt, liessea, Honduras, New Orieaas, sad Mexico, sad ezelndiap Mese tor Madeira, fit. Jusa-de-Nisaragna, New Grimed., Mil, and Peru, will be wads up on May 2. Tie mane for Maderia, the Brasile, sad Buenos Ayres, will be made up ea the 4th of May. SION WAIU AT LUNDON IMMO& 7'. Allenem h. Na 41, N. AAinesa, SA 47 LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 20. Tali ben of one of VOLTAIIIII'S TOMlallme,whea asked whether he preferred black mutton or white mutton, replies that it did not matter which, presided it were tender. In political questions we confess to a leaning to the philosophy of this poco-eureste gentleman ; we are comparatively indifferent to the forms of govern ment prsvided they admit of the public opinion and popular will exercising their due influence in a peace able and ordeily manner. Not so Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTII and those who follow his lead in the discussions on the Australian Colonies Government Bill. They are not satisfied with a measure that will enable the colonists to govern themselves, unless it enable the colonists to do so in the exact form and manner of which Sir WIL LIAM and his coadjutors approve. Thev are not con tented with tender motto* ; it must be black or white (according to their personal tastes) to meet with their approbation. It would be pure waste of time to enter again into an exposition of our views ' , massing the ministerial bill for the government of the Australian colonies. We have repeatedly stated our objections to it. The bill is awkwardly framed, and obscurely worded: it is certain to prove a fertile source of legal chicane; and it contains provisoes relative to the civil hat, in consistent with true constitutional government, re lative to the project of a general congress, incompa tible with the rights of the individual colonies, and connection of all of them with the mother country. V. believe that Sir WILLIAM and his colleagues, in the existing temper of the House of Comment, had it pleased them to address themselves to these defects, could have obliged ministers to correct them. Bat instead of doing so they have wowed their strength upon a pedantical, unpractical controversy respecting the comparative merits of double and single legislative chambers. We have objected, and still object to the constitu tion which ministers propose to give the legislatures of the Australian colonies. If you have made up your minds to concede aslf-government in local matters to these colonies do it honestly and outright. Do not attempt to hood-wick them by establishing legislatures comically elective, but in reality under the control ot government influences. Entertaining these views we are anxious that the Australian legis latures should be composed 'exclusively of elected members. But this is not what our vii-disant colonial reformers are driving at. They wish to retain these I nominee members, but to have them in a house apart from the elective members. They appear to have taken a hint from the traveller who, when a dish of butter lull of hairs was served up to him at a Scotch inn, poli'ely requested the waiter to have the hairs put on another plate. This would satisfy Sir WlLLtall MOLESWORTII : we want to have the hairs removed shot then. The truth is, that in communities in the actual condition of the Australian colonies, a first or upper house of legielsture must of necessity be a sham, or something worse. Theorists have advocated double chambers, on the ground that they ensure greater deliberation and more thorough scrutiny of legirls five projects. But undue precipitancy may be midi ciently guarded against by orders ot the house rela tive to fist, second, and third readings and committals of bills. In America and England double chambers have been adopted, and have proved useful, but for reasons altogether irrespective of deliberate or hasty legislation. In England there existed a powerful aristocracy and a powerful democracy. they were pretty equally balanced, aid therefore it was tscily agreed thet no bill should become law which had not received the assent of both. Hence our Houses of Lords and Commons. In the United States the popular will wu bent upon establishing the equal rights of citizens, but at the same time each state in the Union was bent upon maintaining its independence. The difficulty was solved by establish ing a House of Representatives, in which the citizens were numerically represented, and a Senate, in which each state had a voice equipoteot to each of its con federates. The double chamber system has been in each of thus great n alone a concession to a pre existent state of society. Double legislative cham bers in an Australian colony would be • servile mimicry of English and American institutions, with out the materials whereof to construct them. There are two classes of advocates of the double chamber system in the English House of Commons who argue on quite distinct principles. Messrs. IVALPOLE end ADDERLET are inimical to democracy, and ask for an upper chamber in order to impose • check on the demccratictl spirit of the colonies. They dream of doing what is impossible. Aristocracies are not to be created by means of statistics ; they must be the natural growth of social relations. There is no arist :cracy at present in the Australian colonies, and you cannot make one by law. You may make family compaca to job and lord it over their fellow-colonists, but the experience of Canada is a beacon to warn from the shoals of such a shallow policy. Again, we have liberals who, while professing to have no fear of the democratic spirit of young colonies affect to support double chambers as a concession to the wishes of the colonists themselves. Where is the evidence that the Australian colonists went doable chambers ? Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH quotes the governors of Van Diemen's Land and South Australia. It is something new to find him attributing each importance to the opinions of Downing•street nominees. We prefer to gather the sentiments cf the colonists from their own mouths. In New South Wales the most intelligent of the conservative leaders, Mr. MACARTHUR, and the most able and energetic of the democratic leaders, Mr. WENTWORTH, have alike declared In favour of a' single chamber. In Victoria, the cJloniate have peti tioned the QUEEN and parliament to pass in the course of the present session an act to separate them from New South Wales, and confer upon them the same constitution that New Synth Wales possesse t. The colonists of Van Diemen's Land have pe:itioned the QUEEN "that a legislative council, to be elected by the colonists, may be granted without further delay." The colo fists of South Australia, in public meeting assembled, have passed the following resolution : "That the bill laid befire parliament entitled ' a bill for the better government of her Majesty's Australian colonies,' so far as it relates to the colo•y of South Australia, meets the wishes and wants of the colonists in most of its essential provisions; end by recommending the concession of a representative government with such extensive powers, deserves to be regarded ea • wise liberal, and comprehensive measure." The provi sions objected to are the limited franchise, the general Australian congress, and the fixed civil list. Mr. MORPHETT'S resolutions in favour of an neper chamber, intended to be moved in Council, and pub lished in the government Gazette by the governor two months before the time fixed for the meeting of Council, were treated by the speakers and auditors at the meeting with the mait unmitigated contempt. It is clear,therefore, that the Australian colonists have no wish fur a double legislature. Common sense tells us that a chamber of nominees possessing a voice equally powerful with tho elective chamber, can have no other effect than to invest a few individuals in the colony with the power of neutralising the popular will. Any admixture of nominees in the elective chamberia undesirable, but if they are a minority the elective members an defeat them on all vital ques tions. Such being the state of the case, it is lament able to see those members of the Heins of Commons who take upon them to support tho rights and inter ests uf the colonies, wasting their time in pedantic advocacy or bookish theories of colonial government, instead uf exerting themselves to render the m nirte rial bill intelligible and coherent, and to eliminate its really mischievous provi. ions. IT a writer were to undertake to compass a history of the &ebb poor, of their fortunes, audition, and the law seder which they lived, he would have to shady saufally the entire of the proceedings in par liament daring this week. For, in fact, the public Maces, as it called, has been • amiss of proposals affsedag the poorer classes. One friend of the people called the identical of the legislators to the fact, that a large proportion of the population, that which was beyond the ewe or seatrol of either rich proprietors or totes religiose eseistiee, was totally without instruction. He pew peed to remedy this by providing schools and sobs& meters to teach them to reed, to cultivate their understanding, and thus prepare it for the reception and appreciation of religious truth and moral beauty. To this proposal the leading men of the house showed themselves decidedly adverse. For any peer shit to be taught except under the inlinease if Ow clergy, however it might be beyond the Ilea or power of the clergy to teach it, was declared to be profanation. This is chapter the first of the history of the English poor, in the month of April, 1860. The next proposal was to give better and cheaper mums of information to the mass of the adult poor, and net merely the very indigent, bat the middle and indus- 1 trions classes. It was folly shown that the reviler clinical organs for communicating intelligence, record. ing public events, promulgating laws, defending the rights of the poor, and resisting their pretenatots, if exorbitant—these useful and necessary vehicles of knowledge were utterly denied to the lower chases, by taxes of some hundred thousand pounds, not more than was annually spent in efforts to check the kid napping of regrow. Parliament, in its wisdom , however, dt aide.: that the money c ould n o t b e spared from the polies of the Guinea *oast, and that worthy JOHN BULL might very well do without newspapers. The Prime Minister plainly maid so. There were abundant penny publications, with amus ing accounts of rape and incest, and of every ape „pies of conceivable crime. Let those who like reed these lessons of morality. It was better intellectual food for the poor than a speech of Lird ASHLEY on the discipline of ragged schools. As it is, it would be much cheaper to get an English book printed in America or France, and re-imported for the use of our population. Bat free-traders in corn are not always free-tradern in intellect, and a wore or two of liberals voted fur the continuance of the paper duty and the newspaper stamp duty. Then it was argued that it would greatly facilitate the poor and the industrious in their changing and gaining employment, bettering themselves, and escaping the poor-house, if the wants of one class could be made known to the other by means of cheap advertisements. At present this cannot be done, except by the price of the daily wages of a poor man being paid to the revenue for an adver tisement, in addition to what the newspaper charges for its necessary expense and profit. Eras to this modest and righteous demand parliament and ministers were deaf They could not spare 150,0001. for the advertisement duty, although they were paying nearly the some sum for head-money to officers for having done their duty in the Chinese seas. This forms chapter the second of the cotemporary history of the English poor. And on Thursday night we bad chapter the third. Certain representatives of the squirearchy came down to parliament with the complaint that the growing juvenile population of the country were fast demoralising. Shut oat from the fields, denied a house or • garden, shared off and exiled to go and reside in town rows, I smail lodgings, from whence they went on foot or au back miles to work, this once rustic population had as indescribable longing for trespass and for game. Driven to loiter and play in towns or village streete, the young peasant has been rendered all the sharper, and lees respectful of property. The squirearchy has already the power of seizing and summarily whipping boys they wished this power to be extended to the almost adult. Why not send them to the regular wart to be tried' There were intervals of six menthe during which they would linger in prison. and the prisons were 13 ill-regulated, so full of immorality and crime—in short the system of Eng lish justice and English detention was so abomi nable and corrupt—that it was more charitable to palish the youth by a summary flogging, even if he were innocent, than to send him to a prison. We must own, that on reading this we rubbed our @yogi, and asked, were we in Turkey ? It is precisely tbe argument that a Cadi might use for administer ing the butinado summarily. But, on reflection, we must admit that we inflict a Deedless outrage ern the Turks by the injurious comparison. For if the Turkish peasant is brought before the Cadi to be summarily condemzel and bastinadoed, it is not on the ( ad; and his class that the rffender has necessarily committed his depredations. Ile has robbed one of the people, and the Cadi may be supposed to be impartial between the public and th- criminal. But in rustic England there is no property to rob, no rights to invade, but what belong to the squire of the locality. His is the wood, his the enclosure, his the park, his the game. He is therefore judge in his own cue, and what he asks is authority to flog all the youth on and around his meat The House of Commons, thani's chiefly to the generous efforts of the hon. member for Dundalk, would not unction the extension of this law. For our part, we are horrified at its rigour. But, nevertheless this we will say for it, that, If you will not educate the people, nor allow them to be educated,—that even in cue of their picking up the rudiments of learning, you will allow them nothing sans and cheap to read, —it you will fetter them by the law of settlement to one parish, and extirpate them from another, circumscribing the area of earning as of that of know ledge ' • if you exclude them no t on ly f rom a healthy cottage, but from • plot of ground to em ploy their own idle hours and those of their children ' • if you do all these things, we fear th a t y ou must fill up the measure of fendality by granting full fettering and whipping power over the populatioo. When things come to this, however, they will firm chapter the last of the history of the English poor, BARROW. UPON-SOAR GRAMMAR SCHOOL. A numerous and influential meeting of inhabitants of Bar row-upon Soar has bean held for the purpose of consider ing whether certain complaints which have of late been renewed with respect to the management of this school ware will-founded, and, if so. what steps should be taken to pro mo the redress of the abuses proved to exist. Mr. Hudson, • member of the Society of Friends, was in the chair • and the proceedings throughout were conducted with exemplary order and a manifest desire on the part of all the speakers, while telling the truth, and the whole truth, not to advance • single step beyond " the truth," so far as they were aware. This school was founded by Dr. Hantfrey Perkins, rector of Holm. Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, is the reign of Charles 11., for the gratuitous and efficient education of the children of Bwrow but the evidence of the different 'peahen clearly proved that the intentions of the li beral.minded testator have been most shamefully per verted —that the foundition.children have been badly treated es well m neglected in their education—and that thi school has been in effect ox.verted into a private academy for the benefit of a master who is st the same time receiving a respectable income from the rents arising from the lands leit by Dr. Perkins for the performence of duties which he takes every opportunity of evadieg ! We were glad to hear the rector Owatkin) spoken of with respect as diaap. proving of the cola wit of t►e muter—his curate ; and also at hearing the Rev. H. Fames, rector of Loughborough, onset the trustees, alluded to as a gentleman anxious to have the trust ethaluistered with a conscientious regard to the wish.. of the Munger. But we would remind the one that the mi• migrations of his curate ma scarcely be effective while mob abuses are allowed to exist ; the other (busily engaged as we know he is), that the trustees under the testator's will hoot extensive and peremptory powers placed in their hands ; and both, that they who permit the continuum of a long. oomplsined•of and acknowledged abase, become as repro. ►erosible as the active authors of it.—Leicester Mercury. " JACK'S" ALIvE.—Cla Friday night laat an Ameri can sailor was taken into custody, having been found creating a disturbance in the Low street. Oa being taken to the station house for the purpose of slaking the chug., lack was seated quietly en a harm, bat suddenly he sprung out of the police office into the yard, and jumped over the iron r-ids. Sergeant Grey at once seised him by the collar, but he was unable to hold the fellow, who suddenly tumbled a suramerset, and fell from a height of forty feet to the ground below. Nothieg the worse of his fall, he got up immediately and leaped over the wall into the rann-road. Sergeant Grey immediately ;intim d. but on nearing him Jack ran at full speed through Ur. W. Mitchinson 's ship building yard, dashed Into the river, and swam towards the north side. Sergeant Grey ran to the quay, got on board the river pollee boat, and gave chase to Jack who suddenly wheeled about in the water, an I swam towards the briJgu. When measly overtaken he dived under the boat, but when rising again to the surface, he was fairly hooked by the jacket, pulled into the bra% and conveyed to the station house, which he reached much exhausted. The superintendent kindly ad iniulatered some restorative*, which had the desired effect. S ion after this he was inquired for by a number of team mates, and his ship hoeing on a tide sail, he was aid at liberty. iskkis had given sethlanien, end wises tin Weaken bad a be s tarraseems they prayed that the need *dm night not d without their regime fit. TM noble lord did thanks hie 'Oaks, and adopted he 'Sake the animism In hie mew this bill NW es tie breed e elplie* that pt woe • bill hended, as he ea possible, ea the knowledge of the opinion of the aelany, apes their Irian sad egoism is is leaned deseneme. He wee in he habit el he wompapen, +Melt in seetsere of het be wee eieumessed to rely 41114 and there be fem. that, eta title meeting whisk was held tee the purpose of pall. Mr Majesty, they prayed kir ea elective legidative ; be they dki y for two ambers. All they preyed wn • single einesber. " Thee," said W ben. end leatsod member fee fibeheW, whale views, is npreased that eight with reopen to °Ambit matters rather kin, and led him to *Mk that be had set 100 with his mesa anermy beck to the hinny of America. "yes es* M fenn for then colonies the ben eenslintien is per pewse." He (Hr. Haw -a) deeded it. (bankel inn and laughter.) He dia. %Melly denied it—(_sewed isrelater)--he need on a meet breeder genielple than thst. esalended that o r s egemeg•ennitation fer the seleales, they ought to it la ansenelip via) tics wishes of the nimbi. (Hear, hear.) Wee the 'pinkie of that keen the opinion that was to rule In he ealosies ? His belief woo this, that if their e tlonlai institution were to be perameat, they should be u far as posnble the creation of the people, end is far as passible in conformity with their wishes, sad they should sot fora • eonatitution founded on their own theoretic notions of what they thought the boat constitution. But then, said the boo. nod learseed member for Shatield, Pantsylvania, Georgians, Measeekussete, WI Virginia began with • Meek chamber, and that when they bed derived ezperkees they °beard their mitts of Initiation mid lad two (Mae ben. He (111 r. Hawes) did not thick, however, that the people of these states were leis attached to the sewed ohms. ber became they hhappenedto have tienneased , with only cm. If they bad • seined 11111111116/ in New South Wake, they would have it 11011111111111 colonle's wished it and desired it; and It wee ealy nadir suck eireetmetancies that the establishment of • mooed sham. her 'email be likely to have • pod e ff eet. Is a ll the NM whisk had been referred to this broad prlasiple embed the policy of the American stemma all they did was ended as the cosiest of the people ; sad whoa they enable's/A a legislature there were the largo onseating body the people to give weight to it. Behr, they eanW this natter into operation they would bars to des*, what the franchise should be, what sheeld be the qsaltdcatione and the numbers without eoneultitig the calamine. It al peered to him that is freesia' a • bill of that kind they were Wain, the foun dation of • representative 'overtimes; mad that If it elicited the opinion of the colonies is favour of ass stitational changes, they would mire thin the power to term a povernmeat suitable to their present condition. He week' new content himself with saying that if this bill were w eird with the amendment, a very considerablo delay would nimplace in all the colonies Is framing a bill that would misty them. With these few observations, he weaM Leave the qui stion to the house, and he would ask the hone not to consider whether this or that form of poimment was *Le beat, but to confider whetter they wail set be more Ilk ly to conciliate the colonies, sail to promote their interests by paying a deference to Web' 1, and in so doing to enjoy the glorious anticipation 4 erMilan the foundation of institutions which the colonists the/selves may look up to with pride and satisfaction as the work of their own bands, and not the work of • superior power. (Cheers, and cries of "divide.") Alters few word► in eapl►n►tion DisarmLt, sad in a spirit in forma of the amendment from the Hun. F. SCOTT, which were almost inaudible amidst the impatience of tbe how, for a division, . . _ Mr. MO WATT. admiring the animus of the government is prepari , g the bill, objected to it that the liberty it se. corded to the eolonis I to reneidel their o,n•tieution here after was s, re theoretical than practical. The nominee element in t►e colonial letislatur•s would etf.ctually bar the it fits /18 eney r the representatives of local opinion. Mr. BASS having briefly spoken, Lord J. RISSELL recalled the committee to the point realty before them, from which the successive speakers bad travelled rather widely in advocating the full introduction of the elective principle, which the amendment itself did not esperaly contemplate. The noble lord repeated in brief Wl= •01110 of the statements that bed already been ad doced to show that the bill wee judiciously and consistently framed, and bad received the rotten of present opionen and poet *artistes amongst the coloniets. He deprecated the estbarags of this safe measure for a new and perilous en• periment in constitution-nisking. The only alternative yew have (said Lord John in conclusion) is to delay this hilt for another year, and I can only say that I believe a decision to that effect would produce the greatest dismay in the colony. (itter, boar.) 1 have only fewer to say that I hope this bill will be decided with a view to the welfare of the c.untry, and with no other view. (Cheers.) Sir W. MOLESWORTH, in replying generally, eft plained the workii.g provisoes of the constitution ►e wished to introduce in Australia, contending that they involved no Freak which a prudent and liberal statesman ought not to approve. The e 'maitre divided— For the smudgiest Ageism 2lB-63 An amsodaseni, moved by Mr. C. ASIT2Y. was nega tived without a division; aber which the boo. member void that hi would, without milting a speee, take the seam of the CND Lit', on the question of admitting government nominees in t►e cileinisi legislature. Oa a division, this amendment was negro head by 159 votes to 27-132. The name as amended was then agreed to sad the chsjr ow reported progress—the committee to sit again on Moo day wit. MERCANTILE MARINE BILL. Mr. LABOUCHERE withdrew ibis bill with the view of bringing in an amended bill, m ezplained at an earlier put of the evening. MERCHANT SHIPPING BILL. Mr. LABOI:CHEHE stated, as he understood there ware serious cbjections to this bill, he did not intesd to press it during the preint session. He hoped during the recess to be to frame a resume which should meet with the easent 01 the holm. . . . — ThelraOm they ordered to be reed a mooed time that dards mouths. TECHNICAL OBJECTIONS RESTRAINING BILL. ---..--- This bill was, os the motion of the AT romxiv-Cismasix., reed a second time, sad ordered to be committal let Monday met. _ . The how aijoasnad at one o'clock. PARLIAMINTART' Yesterday the oom- mitts(' on the Shropshire Union railway paved tie preamble of that comeany's bill for abandonm.nt of their extension lines from Newton to Crewe, and Chester to Wolverhamp ton, but intimated that thoy could not pan that portion of the bill relating to the lease cf the canals to the London and North W.stern railway. The preamble of the York and North Midland Comeany's bill for power to raise further money, for alteration of tolls and inns of issue of Hull and Selby purchase was deelared °roved by the oonnituie. The Waterford sad Limerick Company's measure extending their time for phroheetag lauds also pawed through Com mittee. gt r Court. The Queen and Prince Albert took a drive, yester day, in an open carriage and four. The Einerriee in Wait ing, Lord Charles Farzrey and Lieut• Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, attended on horseback. Prince Rameham-hu, elder brother, and Prince Litoliho, the heir presumptive, Sandwich Islands, attended by Mr. Judd, plenipotentiary, were presented to Prince Albert, at en audience at Bucking ham Palace, yesterday, by Viscourt Pahnerron. The princes were afterwards conducted through the palace, and also the ' , yea stables, by Lieut..Colosel F. li. Seymour, the equerry is waiting on Prince Albert. Prince Albert, attended by Lieut.-Celonel F. H. Seymour, visi.ed the Gallery of the New Society of Painters in Water Colours, in Pall-mall, yesterday morning. Colonel Freettun, M.P., and the Rev. H Urquhart had en intervi w yesterday with the Right Hon. th e Presi dent of the Beard of Trade. Mr. Mulholland and Mr. Nerdman, from Beirut, accompanied by Mr. Tennant, M.P., Sir R.bert Ferguson, M.P., Sir William Verner, lt.P., and Mr. Sharman Craw ford, 11 P , permeated to Sir George Grey yesterday, at the House-office, a memorial signed by] nearly 8,000 factory workers of the north of Ireland pre eg for the eubstitutiou of E Aar Monday as a holiday in p see of Good Friday. A deputation, including Sir James Duke, and Mr. Hutt, had an interview with the Rieht Hoe H. Lehat don yesterday at the offiee of the Bowl of Trade. The mayor of Halifax and a deputation had au in towels+ with the Chancellor of the Each. quer yesterday. Mr. Jolla Wood, chairman of the Board of Inland R bed also an interview with the right hon. baronet yesterday at hie official residenee in Downing•street. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial•cilicc for the governor, of the North Ameriean colonies. Dispatches were also sent off last evening hr the Governor of Cilia. Sir It. Price had en interview yestetday with the Right Hm. H. Lebourhive. (Prom het eight's Cazetfr) LORD CHAMBERLADVB•OPPICE, APRIL 19.—The Rev. Lord Wrlothealey Bauman has been appointed, by the enimin's command, see of the D.puty Clerks of the Closet to her Majesty, in the roam of the late Doan of Hanford. WHITEHALL, Aram 17.—The Queen ban been pleased to grant to the Rev. Healy Pan Hamilton, WA , the Deanery of her Majesty's cathedral church of Berm, the same bring void by the death of the Very RIM. Fnusle Len, late Dean thereof. • - Lothian Sheffield Dickson, Esq., having resigned his coo calm' .0 as Erin in ►er Majesty's 11 , 0 y Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard, Edmund Iluok Wilson lisliairs, is hereby reappointed. COMMISSIONS SIGNED ST MIR LORD LIEUTENANT or Scrrowc.—Juha Tbessu lend Manners, Peter liohert Sans% KN., B.muel Murton Pato, Esq., sad John Georg* Welke Polly, Elm , to be deputy litstamints. _ COMMIN lO'4N RIONY.I) Iflr Tnr louto LlNlTructin. AseeNtss.—Major Sir Thsinsa Mmupsrarty Cueing• huge. Mawr, to he liestresatoolostl ; Captain Charles Romerri le MeAliater to be se.ior, is the Pnace Regent's Royal Itopimeat of Ayrshire Militia. OhIINIESION SIGNED ET THY. LIEUTENANT or SU Horsettas.—Curast OaUndo Jock Charles Budgielon to be ii orooaor, fo Lao Borth Salopiou It:giroent of Yee. =sag Cavalry. FRANCE. PABIB, FAIDAT, 7 r X. The funeral of those killed by the late dreadful accident at Angers took place at half-pod 1 o'clock yesterday. 182 corpses were buried. The President, who had not yet arrived, was represented by his aide-de-camp, Colonel Fleury, who walked at the head of the article, with the generals, the prefect, the whole of the authorities, and followed by an im mense population. All the shops were closed, and the town wore an appearance of deep morrow. The usual military honours were paid a the dead were laid in M graves. The central committee of the Electoral Union adopted yesterday, nearly unanimously, a fresh reso lution. It has now settled definitively that there is to be no preps ballot ; and has agreed to accept M. Ferorn a rcry's resignation of Ins candi dateship. Finally, it bow; to the general adhesion evinced by all shades of th e m o d era t e par t y to t h e new candidate, M. Leclerc, whom it promises cor dially to unite In supporting. This is the fourth decision of this committee in the space of a week. First, it adopted Fernand Foy without preparatory ballot; then it proposed a preparatory ballot between seven provisional candidates; thirdly, it removed five of those competitors, leaving only MM. Leclerc and Foy; and now it has contented to drop the ballot altogether in favour of the popular tradesman. New merits are daily discovered in Leclerc. General Hasson declared yesterday in pri vate conver*a'ion at the Assembly, that he com manded the 100th regiment of the line, in which Leclerc was sergeant-major, at Waterloo, and gazetted Leclerc for his brave conduct. The square in which Leclerc fought was commanded, singularly enough, by General Foy. The intention of the central committee of the Elec toral Union to drop the ballot and adopt Leclerc having got vent at the Bourse, produced a rise in the Fives of 80e. Eugene Sue has published a manifesto to the de mocratic socialists, which appears in the Voir do Peuple sod other papers of the Red pirty. He says: Democrat, I profess that the republic and universal suf frage are above the caprices of the majority: the majority has no mon right to alienate the sovereignty of the people than aaan hu to alienate his own liberty. Sacialist, I be long specially to no school. lam a socialist by fulling, be• cense I hare MU the cruel sufferings and the masculine virtassof the people. I am a socialist by reason, because I am convinced of the insuilleisaey of alms, charity, ana other palliatives. M. Sue then quotes the 13th article of the consti tution of 1848, which guarantees to the citizens free dom of labour and industry, and maintains that this article loyally executed guarantees to all, all they can desire. He concludes thus : P►olefatrea brisirye3is, cultivaton, handicraftsmen, isod. diem, tradvsmen, ail children of ins family, we are nem acilidaires, if not in prosperity, at least in distress and misfortune. Toe future will indemnify us for the present; peace, conciliation, hope, forgetfulness of fratricidal (millets, tor the country weeps equally all her lost children. The enemies of the republic alone profit by our divition. Let us unite ; let us work in concert for our cammon welfare and the consolidation of the republic. In to day's sitting of the Legislative Assembly, after the adoption without debate of • credit of 20,000 tr., opened to the questions of the Assembly for the expense of the inquiry on the state of the navy, the debate on the second reading of the trans portation bill was resumed. Article one is thus worded : Is all cases where the penalty of death is abolished by Art. 6 of the constitution, that punishment will be replaced by trenspLrtation to a fortified enclosure designated by the law, out of the continental territory of the republic, ILO where the prisoners shalt be subjected to a disciplinary re gime. The enclosure shall contain sufficient ground to enable the prisoners to erj 3y all the liberty that is compete ' hie with th_ necessity of ensuring their safe-keeping. M. Haig, reporter, proposed to remodel Art. 1 as follows : In all cases in which the penalty of death is abolished by I Art. 5 of the constitution, this penalty shall be replaced by transportation to a fortified enclosure, marked out by the law outside the continental territority of tie republic, where the convicts will be submitted to a disciplinary regime, of which au administrative regulation shall determine the con ditions. The inclosurs shall contain a space sufficiently ex tensive for the transported to be able to enjoy all liberty compatible with the necessity of securing the guard of their persons. The provision of sec 2 of tie 2t/th article of the penal code shill be applicable to them. M. Emmanuel Arago opposed this amendment. General Lamoriciere proposed an amendment, which consisted in providing that a regulation of public administration should determine the measures of police to which the convicts shall be subjected. The con victs shall enjoy all liberty compatible with securing their persons. A dispute arose between Gem ral La moriciere and M. Rouher with regard to the order of discussion. The general's amendment was rejected, and the rest of the article adopted; so that the principle is adopted of transportation to a fortified enclosure, designated by the law outside the continental territory of the republic, where the con victs shall be subjected to a reyinie of surveillance determined by a regulation of public administration. On the entire of the article the result of the ballot was as follows :—Number of votes, 666 ; absolute majority, 331; white cards, 436; blue cards, '2BO. The article was adopted. M. Baume demanded to interpellate the Minister of Foreign Affairs upon the eptech of Lord John Russell on the let of March ; but the demand was not allowed by the Assembly. The house then passed to the article which designated the Isle of Waitou, in the Marquesas, fur the place of transportation. M. de Lamartine opposed the article, on account of the dis tance. Finally, the article passed by a large majo rity, 52 that the law may now be considered voted. The Savle approvm neither of the candidates started for the forthcoming election, and declares its intention to abstain from voting. The Presse does not publish the address of M. Eugene Sue, nor a line in his favour • but has its first page filled with a plan of M. Gi rardin's fur a new electoral law. The octroi duty in Paris for the first quarter of the' present year has given satisfactory results. The duty on potable liquor,, as compared with 1819, shows an augmentation of 500 000 fr., the whole amount having been 3,000,000 fr. Eatables, which were for the first quarter of the last year 1,700,000 f., are this year up wards of 2,000,000 fr. Fuel has produced 873,000 fr., being 124,000 fr. more than in the preceding year. Timber fur building has produced neatly 200,000 fr., or 30,000 fr. more than in the corresponding period of 1849. Building of all kinds remains in a most lan guishing state, and the item of materials has not given more than 155,000 f., being lower than in 1819. To sum up: the produce of the octrui of Paris for the first quarter of 1850 has amounted to 8,214,123 fr, , and gives an increase of 1,012,034 fr. over the correspond ing period of 1849. The Gazelle de F rance says "It is positively stated that M. de Rayneval h as b een appo i nted to the em bossy of Rome." Sto:criptions have been opened generally by the officers of all shades of the press for the famines of the victims of the disaster at Anger,. A letter ap pears in the Patrie from the lieutenant-colonel (Simonet), who was precipitated with his horse into the Maine. At the annual meeting of the Bible Sudety, held in the Church of the Redemption, on Wednesday, M. Guizot delivered the first speech ho has made in Perim since the revolution of 1848. Some important changes have just been made by the President of the French Republic in superior military commands.. General Baragn a y d'Hilliers whose appointment in Rome was only a temporary one, returns to France, and is to be replaced by odl3. Gemeau, who now commands at Lyons. Gen. Cas tellane replaces Gen. Gemesu at Lyons, and o n . d'Arbouville takes the command at Bordeaux. The President will return to Paris this day from Angers. The ball which was to have taken place at the Elysee yesterday evening was countermanded the moment the news arrived of the calamity at Angers.' By the weekly statement of the Bank of France, published this morning, it appears that the metallic reserve has altered but little during the past week, being nearly 1 million greater in Paris, and 11 mil lions less in the provinces. The disc mat accommo dation shows an increase of about 200,000 fr. in Paris, and of about 1 million in the branch-banks, the 'meant of the former being 40,978,277 It., and of the latter 0,277,926 fr. Protested bills have declined about 40,000 fr. in Paris, and increased about 30,000 fr. in the provinces, the amount of the former being 1,163,606 fr., and of the latter 1,461,990 fr. On the side of the liabilities, the notes ha circulation have ia creasod about 21 millions in Paris, and have declined about # of a million in the country, the amount of the former being 414,290,300 fr., and of the latter 09,883,923 fr. The secennt-current of the Treasury has decreased about 1 million, the amount at present !Mug 38,753,797 fr. Private accounts current in Pans have declined about 11 millions, and io the , departments have augmented to about the same ex- j tent, the amount of the former belt g 98,677,341 fr., and of the latter 23,922,311 fr. The whole amount of the metallic reserve is now 4871 millions, to 4831 millions of notes is circulation. Bottltilt. PARIS, A -atr. 19. poi ' Par Ass . Wary. •Osseag Highest. Lowest. Closing $ par Oasts. ....... l4 70 53 90 58 0 113 65 33 46 I 3 par OWL. 5ll 50 I 99 73 69 BS 49 43 49 69 i 3 go. Sevacen „ i . . . . . 14 par OWL... 4 per Cents . " i Embargo on Lamina: at alga, 15 33 : 5.1 asp:its 45 " 7 Ser, 5, 7000 •••••• 700 Hoag. Naos. &snug— .93 60Nrsay 5, 1342 Do. 44 Do. 3 Piedmont 5 went& 13 15 ~ Beak shares 2123 „ mad_Parms and Orleans, 701 Man dl Paris and Rouen. 3105 Roues Haws, 210; Avignon sad les, Ili 30; Btsubsarg and Ede, 105 ; Orleans and Tissue. 318 7 3 • Orleans and ilos dean; 387 60; Northint. 417 30 ; Pa rtand ileushoont. 328 U; Tows and !hater. 227 10 ; Moatessmn and Troyes, 100; It. Gerona; 330; Versailles (Hghtbsak„l63 73 ; Ditto (left teak), 142 30. ITALY. The Italian papers are much occupied with the journey of Count Giulay, the object of which they surmise to be a military one. The count, having quitted Florence before the celebration of the mar riage of the Count of Trapani with the daughter of the Grand Duke, betook himself to Milan, which he entered at the same time with the Duke of Parma. SARDINIA. The Piedmontese Gazette of the 15th publishes a royal decree naming a commission of several mem bers for the purpose of giving their opinion on the articles which might be sent to the London Exhibi tion of all Nations in 1851. The Minister of Com ' merce is president of the commission, and Sir Ralph Abercrombie, British Minis•er Plenipotentiary to the c)urt of Sardinia, is one of the members. The Duke of Genoa passed through Chambery on the 14th, on his way to Saxony, where he is to meet his bride. A solemn service of thanksgiving was eelebrated on the 12th, in the cathedral of Florence, in comme moration of the restoration of the Grand Duke to his throne. GERMANY. PRUSSIA. We have received through the ordinary channel the account of the sitting of the Staatenhaus at Er furt, on the 17th, of which we gave the resale yes terday. The Chamber commenced by rejecting, by 58 against 33, the motion of the Right relative to immediate revision ; and adopted, by 62 against 29, the first article of Von Patow's resolution—that on the adop'ion of the constitution en htoc. It then adopted the additional article, without a vote. _ . _ The government, through its organ, Car'writs, had pronounced itself against Von Fatow's resolution, as Radowitz had done in the Lower House. In its sitting on the 17th, the Volk,hans continued the revision up to Art. 163 inclusive. BLII.III, Aram 16.—Voluntary Loan, 1031. Bta•e Loan, 94; Bank Shares, vat. Cr Amu'. I;.—Five per Cent. Iletalliques, 931; Four per Cent. ditto. 62. THE lONIAN ISLANDS. SPEECH OF THE LORD HIGH COMMIS SIONER ON THE OPENING OF THE SI ATES. By the Levant mail, we have intelligence from Malta to the 12th, Corfu to the let, Athens to the 8:b, and Constantinople to the 4th. The only news in the Malta papers are the expulsion from the island, by order of the governor, of M. Sichera, a Sicilian re fugee. The Corfu journals announce the opening of the states of the lonian Islands by the English Lord High Commissioner. On this occasion, that high functionary delivered a long speech, of which tho fol lowing are the most interesting portions : Mr. President and Gentlenten,—lt is with a feeling of no ordinary interest that I meet here to-lay, Pr the ti-st time, the representatives of the lonian people elected under the new consti , ution. What the pra:ttcat worii,,g of mkt con stitution will be—in how fu the new principles engrafted upon the charter of 1817, with her Majesty's sanction, and at your own desire, will harmonise with the old, time and experience must determine; but I should do little justice to my own feelings, or to your conduct, if I were not to take thir opportunity of static, publicly that the elections, even in thou islands where party 'pint as run highest, hwe been conducted with admirab:e order and tranquillity, act that the people generally have evinced a singular kvitaile for the new rights and powers with which ttey have twen in trusted. On my eon I hope that I have fully redeemed the pledge 'Mich I gave at the close of last 'vision, to 'basin fr-m in terterence of any kind. The government has considered itself simply as tke guardian of the purity of the vu:e. The Senate has stated publicly the erounds, up n which it reved the decision of the points referred to it by the regents of the different islands, as they arose upon the first applica tion of the uew eysteriel and I em willing to hope that many of those who, at first, questioned the expediency of the changes made in the electoral law of May, ISI9, by shorieniog the duration of the poll, sod dividing the Wands into electoral districts—will admit that both have con tr:buted to the ease and liberty with which the rights of the conetitneney have been exercised. I pass now to the practical objects that demand your at tention during the present session. The Senate, within the term prescribed by the low, will present to y au detailed accounts of the revenue and expendi ture, prepared its conformity with toe understanding entered into last session. The article of the constitution which re quires the presentation of these accounts within six &neater the commencement of the session, precludes the possibility of the submission to you by tho new Senate of any well detested plan for equalling the expenditure with th • income; but the subject requires, and I have no doubt will receive, your most serious attention. I have always felt that the machinery of government in these islands is very costly, and that the whale system stands iii need of revision. In undertaking this tisk, which is more peculiarly the duty of the popular branch of the legislature, I should recommend you to follow the Example of coun•ries which heirs had longer experience in selegovernment, and to appoint two committees, each consisting of five or seven numbers—the o'.e to examine the civil lie, and the ordi nary and extraordinary expenditure; the other, the detail of which the revenue is composed, and their besting upon the different classes of the community. I have directed the most ample materials to be prepared io ever, department upon these subjects; and, if the Assembly shoidd this k proper to empower its committees to call before them the heads of each depirtmect, as would be done in Eno,lied or in France, and to examine them personelly as to the details of the re spective offices, the pay and duties of those employed under them, and the practicability of conducting the public boa. nem with greater economy, I can assure you that, on the part of the government, there shall be no disguise or con cealment of any kind. It is the interest of all that the work to be done should be done efficiently, but cheaply ; and that, while tiroper provision is made for sustaining the dignity and independence of the government, there should be no ex traysganie and no supettluit,es ; that the taxis which it is necessary to levy should bear equally upon au, and that every species of property should be made to assume its altars of the common burden. Upon these points you will dad foams useful suggestions in the report of the finance committee, presented to your predecessors at the close of the last session ; and if the Mr cations contained in that report be properly holowod up, with the aid of such materials as the government can supply, I have hale doubt that the results will he Tau able. The speech then goes on to say th.it iu the course of the session the Lord High Commissioner will state his reasons and that of the mercantile body for thinking that a change may be made in the mole of levying the duties on oil and currants. He recommends mea sures to be taken for preventing the continuance of abuses with respect to church property, and announces a bill for improving the system of public education. Ho then refers to certain public work , : in the island, and announces the conclusion of arrangements with the Austrian Lloyds, for increasing steam cammuni tam between different ports. Toe speech concludes as follows: I have now adverted briefly, but fraul4, to those put ties! questions which I regard as m •utetesting to the country, and c snmquently as best entithil to your attention. Upon all these qu:stions you may expict from me and from the government just formed, a cordial C32CllffeliCe in every reasonable proposition. Lay aside, therefore, 1 beseech you the idea of ant agon i sm with which the minds of men hare been fed durirg the recent contest. That rout, s: i. now over. You have assumed the responsibility with this realities of power. Um that power with moderation and good sense, and you will wafer an inestimable bet.efit upon your country. Believe me, when I 11.111111TJ )ou that there can be no natural or mummy antagonism between you and myself, as the repel senta , ive or the proti cling stvercign—or between the Movably and the B:nate of these Stat.s—both emanating from the same popalar source—for, with one ramp:ion,. I have taken the present &sato from the bosom of the Legis lative Assembly. That exception implies no want of consi deration for the present representatives of Cephalonia, amongst whom I could have selected names that would have been an ornament to the Senate, end with whom I should have bed the greatest satistaction in co-op:rating. It is founded upon a public principle, whiol, kits me ti..t it is dangerous as well as unjust to placo the man who had the distinguished honour of tilling for lire years the post of Pre sident of these States in spoaition that may lagOal his. either 1.4