The Express. — London, England, 1850-03-27 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARL LAMENT. ROUSE OF COM3IONS.-TunDAY, Ma= 2& The Sew= tick Si. chair at 12 eolocb. PUBLIC BUSINESS. ADJOURNEENT.—BUSIEBSS OF TEI HOUSE. lewd J. RUSSELL-1 beg to nerve thatthe hiss" as its rising, de adjoers to Monday, the Bth of April; sad M Inn so I thigh las state the come I Wes& to take i rehresee ti the baker Wen the beam I thseelese kaki to take the orders tor the slap* elk the unmans es Merday, the day of renneinbiln; es ales the erdasnee and Navy ad man, the canons mining taking prosidesee of the navy. There an en my Innen% answer is wank tee, semen, the Irish Iteseldee bill, sad the Asensio* Colony WI, the Jame of stash I parse to take es the Thursday toßewW, sad the knee IS the ant day. Filimy. Then is eastbse manse whisk unwire. the stria sonshise. des el the lissee—the Mane Desks hill—whish I rho Fr pose to take immediately ; beseson whin that mane remain teanteod, there nese be ,elemilistable etenseeiss to the strryteg on of raki, bairn (Hear, hear.) Therefore, we will take the mho* oppornaity of brining is the Meng Moths bid ; sad I Lope ay hoe. hind the Obeasellsed es iselenese will be able to briac that manes liensed es Mesday, the lerth of April. (Hear, hear.) I may, therefore, state that the newer.* I ranee first skin nil be the orders for supply es the ordeals* sad navy estimates, the Irish Frannie. aad Austral se Colony Bab, end Si. Soap Duties BEI, the enthderalea it which shall made all other banana. (Hear, beer.) Ilf. HCME thesght it would be much man neveelest and egnestile Is the penis if the Sump Dann Bill were brought on Ern that was, es Musky, the lith of April, es is-easteabling, sad In the eninates and wanly nod over to Friday. (Hear, bear.) Then mad be se incenvesiene malt trout that, es rota bad bees already takes es newest amoral of the estimates. (Hear, hear.) Mr. B. DENISON said that great seziety prevailed out taken that Si soap duties shosid be arranged as quickly al pouible; sad he therein* hoped the noble lord would suede to the sweeties of the hca. ameba to Mostrose. (Heer, bear.) Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to say that arrange kens had been nark to taint the tinwares Ia the order erne It he had Its statrit,nd That these anangeisents could see be departed from. Major BLACEALL boned to sob the nthle lord whether the Irish Franks or Australis& Colony Bill was Seed for lesi Theral es ,es bin members were Raab concerned in the Lora J. RUSSELL—The Irish Prentiss Bi I is Sled fur Thursday. (Hear, hear.) . _ NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Tna WINDOW Tax —Lad DUNCAN, on Tuesday, the 9th et April, to move toe nave to brag in a bill for the loped of the 'deem tax. (Hem, beer.) Orrom AND Cansatton I.lntranentes.—Mr. HEY WOOD, on as early as occasion as ponible, to move that as nanny into the management of Orford and Cambridge Ilenrsnitin should take place. Pares Dorzas.—Mr. EWART, on Tuesday, the 16th of April. to move tot the abolition of these duties. OFFICIAL ',ALAIMO —kir. HENLEY, on Tuesday, the 30th of Anil, tree general revision of the salaries of all palate dime. Pontdc Omeds.—Lard J. RUSSELL gave notice that cm Friday, the 12th of April, he would move for a select eenieitttee to impairs into the minks and emoluments at taching to Isemben of patina/eat bolding ewes under go vertmene, of the Judges, and of the exper.in of diplomatic establithments. (Hear, bear.) Ea nor or WAILLIDI Amaxastes.—Mr. COBDEN, nn the 30.12 of April, to soave that an humble address be presented to the Queen. prayiag her Majesty to direct the Secretary of State toe Foreign Affairs to enter into nego tiations with the goverment of Freon, and other foreign gonromitotil, laming them to concur In a mutual reduc tion of warlike armaments. (Hear, hear ) BALI or Poxeore.—Mr. STANFORD, on an early day after t e teem to submit a motion for imposing legislatin Itilirietiosil on the sale of poisons. CAPITAL PCNOMMINT.—Mr. EWART, on Tuesday, the 23ed of April, to more teethe abolition of capital punishment k all eases. (Hear.) Tag Maur Tax.—Mr. CHRISTOPHER (on:behalf of Xr. Cayley), en Toesdav, the 16th of April, when that hon. member would move for the repeal of the malt tax. Tag DIPLOMATIC ilinrica.—Major BERESFORD, ea %halt of Mr. D.sraeli, for Tuesday, the 23rit of April, when it was 'he intention of that hon. gentleman to call the notice of the home to the diplomatic and =War services, *kb a view to their more economic management. Coax DUTY—SLATS Prioorci —Mr. H. BERKELEY steed that it was the intention of an hon. relative or his to more for a committee of the whole house, on en early mw sin, to resider the propriety of imposing an Se. fired duty or the imported di of foreign wheat ; and also for the cola shoe of all slave produce from their markets. (Hear.) ADTEUTMENtifT DrTT.—Mr. EWART, on Tuesday, the 23rd of April, to move lot the abolition of all advertise ment duty on newsmen. (Hear, bear.) SETTLEMENT, fte.. ON THE GOLD COAST. On the motion of Mr. HUME, address let copies or ex tracts of the corrtspondence that has taken place between the government of Denmark and the British government teepee ins the purchase of a fort and territory on the Gold Coon. THE CASE OF MARY ANNE PARSONS. Mr. FITZROY said he wished to all attention to the ease of the pencas who had just been tried en • charge of having maltreated the unfortunate workhouse girl, whom they took into service, to such a degree that she died it con sequence of the cruelty practised Maude her. He perceived that owing W same informality they had estsped. An alle gyioa was nude, at least was not denied by the muster of the workhouse, to the effect that when the unfortunate girl, by mama of the brutal conduct of the parties to her, was not able to perform onus work given her, the workhouse muter, when told of the circumstance, declared that her muter sad mistress should have broken a stick on her. However, on being presval for an answer, he neither admitted academical the charge, but contented himself with refusing to answer. Now the question which he (Mr. Fitzroy) had to ask was this—whether the pooelaw authori ties had gins directions for a more searching investigation into the cam and into the conduct of the muter of the work house in particular. (Hear, beer.) Mr. BAINES stated in reply that as long as the ease was in course of investigation before the proper crimi nal tribunal, the poor law author.ties did not think fit to interfere. (Hear, hear.) However, as soon as they saw the ferns of the case, they instantly ordered a searching investi gation, which be begird to emirs the hon. gentleman would be e'rictly proceeded with. (Hear, hear.) BRIDGEWATER HOUSE. Lord DUNCAN said that,ia rising to move for aeopy (deny application for permission to build walk in the Green-park, la front of Bridgewater Ism, also say minutes or other docu ments relating to the garden attathed to Bridgewater-home, which have bees named or condi:ere' by the Commissionees of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, he would make a few observations. In the lint place, he thought it ne cessary to state his sazitty to explain that he was no: influenced by perusal feeling wield the noble pr .prietor of the house in bringing forward the matter. Oa the contrary, he believed the encroachment ea the park had taken plus without that noble earl's know ledge. His object la moving for all papers connected with the baildisg was that he might aseertais who it was that' asked permlmies from the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to make encroachments on the crown property. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BAN EES wished to know if the noble lord raised the question ea public groands, inasmuch ae he (Mr. Betakes), ewe ef the public, felt that the result would be gait, the enan to that espected by tho noble lord. (Hear, hear.) In kng at the house then in tour,* of erection, he should my he saw ezieg up a splendid emeimen of arehlteetural homey—(mar, hear) —gad which only required the addition of • gamin to make it the most beautiful mamba in the metropolis. (Hear, hear.) He reouliacted wham that part lithe park wee la • far different condition—when it was the depo.itori of ashen's, and the lou• p of the idle sad Indolent. (Hear, hear.) There fore he, as one of the public, returned thanks for the vast improvement made; sad, if it should Ire mo ameseary to alter the hue by public mut neat, ha would most cordially support the measure. (Hear, hoes.) Sir DE LACY STARS said the object of the noble lord was to prevent enerominment on the public rights; and if the argument of tie boa. gentleman wt.° bad just sot elowa WPM to prevail, any person might encroach on the public pot, at the ground that he did so fur the purpose of beauti fylag sad improving it. (Hear, hear ) Sir B. HALL in reply to the quiestion whether or not any individual felt himself aggrieves', helmed to sty that com plaints had been made to himself, se one of the reetr.politan members, sod he keel, la cionneakin with laL hon. friend who had just est dm, been requested to bring the subject before the noun. He speed with the has. gentleman opposite (Mr. Bashes) that Bridgewater been was one of the greatest ormaseiste the metropolis ; bet he must observe that, if the intentica of the parties had bees ;tarried out, the public would sr t have bad the advantage a 'Seism it. (Hear, hear ) The whole subject was one of great importance. He Ind been informed that encroachments on St. James's-perk and on the Green-park were in coatemplation ; sad it was the duty of the 'metropolitan meseb.n to resin any such at tempts. A plat of groem.d sear Albert-gate had been taken a, sad as hes mills' set up. It would also be recollected that ground bad been enclosed near Park.laae. He be lieved that but for the disc onion which bat taken place Is that house, not only would the wall of Briogewstar.house bare been made higher than it was, bit ken railings would also have been placed. Lord J. RUSSELL advitted that it wee a matter of the highest importance that the public should be guaranteed Po eopywient of the ogees sir la every part of the public pee* bat he could not think that whet is this case bed bees allege.' as • complaint had been any public inconvealease. (Hear, hear.) Ile cecitiely bad been surprised to see • wall rising which seemed as if it were intended to make the garden of Bridgewater Houma entirely private. He under stood, however, that the Commissioners of Woods mad Forests had interfered, and that upon their remonstrease the dodge, which WAS not in the original plan of Lord Ellesmere, was abandoned, and this bows r wall was begun. So far Meehan being anything to find fault with, be must my that, with the eueption of the wall, which had been lowered, sad which was not origioally built, he understood,in accordance with Lord Ellesmere's desire, he thought the public were indebted to has lordship for making .so hand some an addition to the metropolis. (Haar, hear) With napalm to the stAtement of the hon. baronet (Sir B. Hall), as to a porilos of ens of the puke from which the publ had bees *Waded, he presumed that he alluded to the ' ground between Apeley House sad Hem pis sad fag what I tab b y mid seilessl pies of pentad s p ile ki =t ia4 it kid been, he WWI that he t per mese who sow walked mot derive Ma maid *abysmal , t he shrubbery which was sew ibis hat., . frees dewlap the parsed la he Yr. SUM, wee nervy that lard • ' liave spokes se Ughtly Mrs bis . Ile add a pine er mead had .. . • . Where limir weefehas ? (Neer, Mar.) They should lowerdi 'risk and peer th the same maser. (Beer, bear) No peer mess mold he allowed to merged to t he West of is. bet ea w part of the parks. (Hoar. Mee.) The 11•011111billaie ditek had takes platy were wawansated. TM Tweedy bad s° poem to authorise what was *imploded et. by the set 10 Ow. 1 1;1": 1 4 . % wader whisk the elks et the Wesel awl Needs Ito functions, _it war beebeid that the pewees id leasing dada rids Medd ad *AMU to the &odds' or besiaLter here eta e y of the ttryal parks er elms, er say . He meet shim that marseshamb Mil 1 Ma iesie es the park at the house ed the Dole of Saillkse. laid. Walls had bees eroded sad paw pat aro - - --.---- • "' Lint J. ausszu.-14. walk. Mr. HUME said that then was at all events as eacreeeke meat. Per his owe part be 'Mt very mush indebted to the setae Iced farr calling attendee to the saltiest, and be hoped he weal& fellow tip he. males by Dalin epee the Attorney- General te die a bilL (lesagliter.) Mr. MATTER rid the beim the committee ea the weeds sad feeseas isavirie were made iota the milord illegal aneemehments. Oa the side of Eirdesgomalk a great essay sukehise were removed, and ornamental tallier and gar6tas substituted for them. The awe of the Doke of Betherieng was in neatly the same position. What was complained et win justified by pablie eesettelence. With respites tithe garden at Bridegwater klosse,he must observe that • wartime et that prase was the freehold maj u ser : i r d l Loyd Ellesmere, and thee poet .f k whieb bad was wiped under a hoe nalmegteently to the report of the eommitteh The hem. usealer it lifeetrom bed stated that tbe Commdedemme ef Wash eUi Forests had, under the est, no right to great a hem of the greyed le qua - trial. He (Mr. Maytse) was at issue with bias en that prism It wee preyed before the eine. mines that they had the pewee of leasing, subject to certain restrictions, end, after seeertaising that, the noble lord pursued the inquiry no farther. With respect to the wall, immediately atter a complaiat had been made, It was reduced ; sad now, net only did nett the well form any im pediment to the retitle view tram the park, but to remove it motel be estirely to destroy the sagelarity se WI view, by exhibitieg the descent from the Istreee. (Rear hear.) There egad be no doubt that if the Wei were steel retried eat, the white 011ie wall nesse be removed ; bat t would be a greet Wary and misfortune le the public If that were done. (Hier, bear.) The public had a right to a nuisance —(laeghter)—bat, ma the other band, those who did sot desire to use a minutes. might well complain of it. Mr. J. 8. WORTLEY treed with the right hon. gentle. man that the strict carrying out of the lease would be a great Injury to the public. Unquestiosably the encroach. meat was a breach of the covenants of the lease. Hut a part of the garden was freehold, and were Lord Ellesmere aeta atrd by a desire to exclude the public, be might build on that part a welt of any height. (Hear .) It was admitted es all hands that he had dose a public service by the erection of this essgnifiorat banding, having previously shown himself a great patron of art and szience; sad in mondani; the gaieties before the how, it should not be forgo:tee that he was inclining a considerable additional expense is order to give the public a separate entrance to his gallery of pictures. Lord DUNCAN,in reply, said he should not have brought forward the select if the Commissioners of Weeds and Forests had done their duty. The question was whether the nohle lord, under the lease, bad • right to erect the wall. la his opinion, he had no power to do so; bat the matter would be set at rest if the government would furni.h him with a copy of the lease, ss well as of the ether papas for which he moved. . Mr. HENLEY thoughtthe house was very much indebted to the noble lord for bringing the subject under the eon nderation of the holm, because it was quite clear that the intention of the parties was to build a wall in front of the mansion. That wall was erected, bet had since been redtteed in height ; but theta could be no doubt that if the wall had remained as it was, facilities would have been given to the par ties to make =Janda and to plant tress and shrubs upon them. 1 he motion was then 'greets to. GRANT TO THE ROYAL ACADEMY. . . Mr. HUME hoped there would b. no objection to his mo tion for "an account of the receipt and expenditure of the Royal Academy, in each year since 1836, when there were 47,0001. funds in hand, with a detailed statement of themes. appropriated for salaries, and showing the eminent of sock funds now in hand for general purposes." H made this motion in consequence of what had fallen from the noble lord last night, that he had some idea of galling upon the house to vote a sum of money for the Royal Act:lessy. He regretted that the noble lord had come to that determination without having the accounts before him. In 1839 he had submitted hie motion that the whole of the National Gallery should be given up for the use of the pahlie, that the aca demy should not take money there. and that the public should know what that money was. He w.ly lost his modem by a majority of 6. The committee of last session had recommended that the whole of the National Gi should be applied to the use of the national l collection of pictures, end that the Royal Academy should be removed. No notice had bees taken of that. The evidence which ittel been given before a C3Oililittell of the house, of which the hoe. member for Duatiries was chairman, showed that the funds of the Royal Academy in 1838 were no lose than 47,0001. They tad had tie use of the National Gallery for years, free of rent, and they had been so illiberal that they were the only body public or private in London, which had refused to admit the public gratis after the exhibition, regardless of that which ought to have been their first object, to form the taste of the puhlie by accustoming them to see the fine arts. He was satisfied that there was no country in the world which could boast of inch a collection of pictures as we had at Hampton Court, and yet the waking cloves, instead of spending their holidejs is ptedie houses, went, to the number of 500 or 600 a day, to enjoy themselves at Hampton Court, and never had then beeu the least damage done to the whole collection. The hon. member concluded by submitting the motion. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he had frecineutly had occa sion to object to returns of this kind; and when hon. gentle men had made motions of this kind, he sod the hon. member for Tamworth had succeeded in ppeenuading the house that the ortier ought to be reminded. He could not see how any eve could maintain that there was any ground for such a ; motion. The hon. gentleman might maintain an opinion that the Royal Academy was bad—that it did not promote art—that it ought not to be allowed accommodation in a public building at the expense of the public ; he might maintain that Sir Joshua Reynolds and all the great artists that belonged to the kingdom were mere disobeys ; all this might be maintained, but how was the hon. pathless to maintain that the how ought to take an account of the amount of money which had beat received from the exhibi tion of the works of them artists ? He might as well ask how much Madame Tasseled had received. Mr. HUME —lf the public gave her rooms, I would. Lord J. RUSSELL—If it were argued that it had been said when the rooms were taken you should give us a r e . turn of all you received, that would have been a coatract. It was evident that in this case, although the house had • right to turn them out, they had no right, then was tee stipulation, to ask how much they had ne Prod. After ill, these pictures were their property ; you gave them the rooms in which they exhibited them ; but the pm-tures which the public went to see were the property of the artists. It was complained that the academicians would not admit the public to see the pictures without pay. meet. Sir Martin She., with whom he had spoken on the subject, said that the academicians had considered the matter, and that they were of opinion that many valuable pictures would be injured and the miaiatures stolen. His belief was that gratuitous admis sion was wrong—that gratuitous admieskes would not have been as safe as the payment of le. Mr. EWART said that many years ago, when the veto time was whether the Royal Academy should have apart ments in the National Gallery, he had stated that as long as the Royal Academy remained in a private building they were a private body, but the momeat you built a National Gallery, and gave the greater part of it to them, thee he said that they beam. responsible to those whose building the occupied. They were putout of their former possession, and occupied publiepierty, and on that ground his hon. friend had very pro y moved for this return. Another reason existed why hon. friend should have this return. We had not only put them into a national building, but we were going to vote then money to give them another build ing. He 'eked, thou, whether this body was not respon sible to the country foe the monies they had received. He supported the modes because the Royal Academy had a loess standi in the Natimeal Gallery, and bemuse they came beim the nubile for publis money. Mr. BARRIS said that if be were preparel to print one shilling oldie public money to this academy be cmtainly should support the motion of the lion. member ; but, as he was not prepared to grant one shilling to the academy, he hesitated to support the motion, as It did not appear whether this institution should be considered a public or a private one. He was fearful of Netting a precedent which might hereafter lead to the consequence of examination Into the amounts of private institutions width he should depre cate. It was fee that reason only that he hesitated in scald ing to the motion of the hos. memb. r for Montrose., for la regard to those who constituted this public institution he did not know why there should be any opposition to the propo sition, which we. In every reaped reasonabl Mr. HAWES agreed with the hon. member that this mo tion would set a precedent which the house would do well to smolder. What was tie history of the Royal Academicians ? They were established by the set of his Majesty George 111. who granted them a charter, and at the Fame time gave them rooms in Somerset House for the exhibition of their pictures, and as theft rooms had slam bees surrendered to the public use, the pelmet puds had other apartments allowed them sa the Natkmal °Arty. Did that make them a public body ? He contended that it did not. If the Repel Aca demy had over had ore sloes farthing granted by Mellows he admitted that narl4meat would have had a right to incisive late the appropelation of these funds. ; This asedensy seat sedate abroad. Was that an ? They conferred peadose as the widows of artiste, and on I thou who had not suecesded in life in =skies a pr for old age. This was the expenditure of toe fund, and tris was the fund which it was asked that parliament should inquire into. Unless it could be shown that this was a public fund parliament had no right to inquire. This matter had been disowned three or four timee, to his knowledge, • and in every instance these funds were proved to have been fund, derived entirely kom the genius of the ardsts them , mks s. What object would be gain. dby the lequiry ? If the accounts were published, it would be to the honour of the Academy, and not lead to alter the destination of thew I fithda. The public had no interest la a peeunissy painted view. As to the great to the Amboy, when hon. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY asea mid they would met tar • mat to the boadmay, let t o 0 441 Ow grisWitic ir rho=tmot t. BM a db_ as loyal Aeadeely et arid Me room wad* sow itisherrasowealbi- boos u ea llet thi k et I Adiedwoof hod the ale MIIII - 611111 - 6. 4111rniintoro sew Ile, led ask ter tk• praileolle• Maks to the upoaditiwe albedo whisk Imo *Taw lir B. oboarved that Ike mealassise Ike ode hid sunhat these feeds hal how acquired by lin polveas centime ed eltirnsi Bo alibied from tee boa. Slim bar ; them hale bad aeoree or d kaai Natalia es for i se =1 to sales pisteroo bisit were is the pokble ; aid the pertiet who had those aMtatw had shwa such illiberality that they w.uM alt allow the poser ohms to see the *tares say day is the week. =lepropeMNs bed boos Nab Macaw of the amp boos of the Areaway, sad, as be al he wee iskessed, thlinweitteely reposed seek! atnesitios. Bet the roma Ames the has. samba is" ailaista• Naha file"..'' tta'Am. woe, thee the soadoadelape latesiod lb roily he th•cri a l . o army to met a balk& Zs bad as Wids• I. Et (hay peptides ef dist Wed was owl% he or , Ito me, mot putatively *II la h sad he =lied the loyal Aeadesy had set salisiset Oak them aloes to wrest Ible bang; ? It was alma to this with tba Balk lastitatioa, which was as butt. tattoo, sad whisk the hew had no alibi to bilks into, booms Any had tisk urn premise, mud by Ihoterlves. Mi. lIMILIT Sankt that this Isialbra tamed 011 irked's, this misty was to my emu }ails , @trimly a private body. He did set Walk 11W Ibis gesetic l : had hem quite met at rat by lobes. mad homed seatleason the Beisercary of the thistiks, who bad mad that IMthis body was private, awl he west cia to lay dm led the dames ia &mew* BOMA. Did he mesa Ie lay thee doe ewe meld isporpotaily or to foe t Kr. BA.WES—Of Naive a& Kr. HENLEY—Under what tenure did they hold them ? If they bad mainly held them by su ff erance of the mown, be took It that sow they held them by infamies of the pub lie. If it were not so, by whose sufferance did they hold ? Who paid for the repair of this building? That was not paid tor by the crown, but out of the ordinary revenue of this wintry. If the academicians had this buildiag for the purpces of showing pictures, he took it that that was • ow which enabled them to derive the money which they now derived from haag a public building Washed by the pub lic, thus 'ivies than the oppertunity of getting money without met to themselves. He did not think that that wee the whole gouda,. It had been en nonacid by the Chancellor of the Exchequer that he was analog to parliament to ask for a grant of money to this very body. Before he mine to them to sib for • giant, he (Mr. Mosley) should like to have an explanation for what society did he ask for the money? He tboutht that the question now did not stand on the mine ground on which others had been brought before the house. There were many who might be unwibing to vote for the grant of money. Before they came to • decision on the question. he should like to know the puticulars of the cue. No man would objset more than be did to go into an Inquiry where them was any body which was strictly private, but he doubted the fact that this was altogether a private concern. In the drat instance you had • charter—a charter, no doubt, granted for public purposes. That of itself was not actually of a private nature. It related to pensions to widows—to the students sent out to different parts of the continent to gain experience and instruction in particular matters to which their attention was turned. All these were great objects of a public nature. They had existed by the use of a public building for carrying out them objects. If the hon. member for Montrose pressed his motion to • division, he (Mr. Bosley) should vote with bim. Kr. NHWDEOATE 'skid the hots. member for Oxford shire, 'uprising he bid put a person into • public hones, whether he would require that he should publish a retail; under schedule /3 because he had got • Hoene@ ? (A laugh.) That seemed to be the case with them artiste. They had had certain facilities afforded them for thispnblic exhibitions. With the firmest of the public they lad used these rooms. He could not me that the house had • right to inquire as to the funds, with a view to dispose of thaw funds which were the proceeds of their labours. Mfr. P. HOWARD could not agree with the bon. member for Oxfordshire that the poseeeton of the charter by the Royal Academy teoesesrily constituted them a public body. There were a number of companies strictly private that bad the advantage of a charter, but it was not exactly upon those grounds that he should oppose the motion. The rooms were first granted to the academy by the private munificence of George III.; they were some rooms in Somerset House which be himself might have occupied—in fact, they were part, at that time, of the palace of Somerset. It was very ungenerous to lay great stress upon a very small gift to those who so essentially contributed to the public amusement and gratification. Mr. HUME simply said that the academy originally ob tained a portion of the building intended fur the Net:ooal fl liery on the plea thtt they had no funds to build a house for themselves. His boo. friend, the Under Secretary for the Colonies, did not seem to know the difference between money and Ines], having assorted that the academy had never received a shilling of the public money, while the fact was they had obtained a building from which they obtsioed an Moons of 3,5001. a year. He (Mr. Hume) thought the time had arrived when they should be removed. Let them restore to premises of their own, and he did no• care a fig about their accounts. They bid accumulated a fund of 103,0001., and shoald now be able to erect a build ins forthentaelvm. The blues diviied— Fat the !notion l9 Against it INCOME TAX. Col. DUNNE moved for a return of the amount of income tax paid in England, and reckoned as English income, but which is derived from Irish property, whether real Property, mortgages, pensions, or property of any other description. Mr. HATTER said that there would be no objection to give the return, if it were found possible to prepare it. Perhaps his hon, and gallant frisad would postpone his motion until after Easter, and in the meantime he (Mr. Hayter) would mortals' whether the production of the paper wire practicable. Mr. FRENCH recommended the poe'ponemcnt of the motion, but said that the return, if produced, would prove that half the rental of Ireland paid income tax in England. After a few words from Col. Dunn' and Major Birgit au,the motion was withdrawn. TITLES CritiEIoraiiiEONGREOATIONB BILL. TEL bill wu read a second time, and ordered to be com mitted. SUPPLY REPORT. Oa bringing up the report of the committee of supply (votes cn account of ordnance estimates), Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL asked whether it was the inten tion of the Solicitor General to resume, at an early period after the mores, proceedings with regard to the Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill Mr. C. LEWIS promised that the bill should be resumed at the earliest paellas moment. Col. DUNNE announced his intention of opposing the bill in every stage and by every means known to the con. stitution. LIGHT DUES. Mr. MOFFATT prTsenc;ciapitltiOn from the steam-ship owners of Dustin, complaining of the light dues chargeable at that port PAVING RATE. _ On the motion of Lord D. STUART, an address was ordered for return from each of the several paving boards, or separate paving districts, in the parish of St. Pancras, in the county of Middlesex, showing, for each of the years 1847, 1848, and 1849, the rateable value of property assessed; the date and amount in the pound of each rate, distinguishing the rates made for any special objects, with other partien• bars : also stating the length of roads and streets included in each district; the number of lamps, the Dauber of public pumps; aad the number of gates or barriers erected amass say streets or roads. The house adjourned at three o'clock, until Monday the Bth of April. BANK Or ENGLAllo.—Yeaterday a ballot com muned at eleven o'cloca in the morniap, for the yawn of taking the determination by vote, in print or writing, on the resolution relined at the court of proprietors but Thursday, vie .• That a dividend be made et 4 per cent. interest and moats, for the half.year wading the 28th of PO:every last, without any deduction on account of the inns, tax " At four o'clock the ballot closed, and it appeared datum resolution was unanimously *imbued. - - MERCHANT BIAMIN'S CORPORATlON.—licethrdey thoraces • quarterly court of the governors of the Corpora tion for the BstEef of Merchant Seamen, their Widows, and Cnildren, waa held at 26. Bireltin-lane,CornhEl. G. Lindsay, Eq., in the chair. The adaainof the last court were read and warmed, after whisk aa sommant of the receipts and capon. dime for 1849 was rend, showing th•Jormer to be 28,9391., and the latter to be 16,1 W. The income includes 10,4641. duty frets London mends. 62131. from outputs under th e management of the earipmesties, and throduce by the sale of 6,0001. Rata Aaraltivis. The eapeaditare includes 12,8401. for Leaden pewelettere. 8,1061. for out-port pension ers, and 2,1231. dietribereed in temporary ' , diet at London and the ea TM bill now in the Mouse of Commons for ey. at a the Merebant fisimaa's fund having ben leid barn the meetiwg, the emit egjonra d, and the coat- mitts, premeded to mweider and award pensions and tem peruy relief to IiaNYWINIS applicants. Since th• quarterly smut at Christmas then have been 282 applications tur ;elle from disabled ream ea, sad their widows end children. UNITIFASITY EXTRAVAOANCS.—The author of a Leaamplalet OR Ms eabiset. entitled " A Few Pl a i n Furs," t published, suerts the following:—" 1 bring fumed • t of Mama saws which have comae t. my knowledge of shameful extravegratee at the nattenities. The first we was that of a youth who spent 2001. beyond his &Bowsaw daring the period La which he was in college ; the sm o g Teeth spud the suns tau daring his midget* also beyond his *nowise.; the third, 1,6001. ; tb. fourth, 2.0004. fifth, 1,0001. ; th• sizth, 2001. ; the seventh, 1,0001. ; the eighth, 2,0001.; the ninth. 2001.; the tenth, 2001. ; the eleventh, 2001 ; the twelfth. 1,0001.; th- thirteenth, 1,6001; the fourteenth, 8001.; the firtuath, 8001.: thus, upon an average, seek of them fifteen youths .pent 8501., dining their slime mazes, beyond their memo; and it fifteen gush ours could them my owe knowledge, what must now be the total excess through the different hells and our gree?" WHALE Foever—Some importatioes have recently taken place at the port of Liverpool of an article called whale 1001 s, from the limited States 01 AMIIIIII. The article is considered to come ander the mud term of grew, sad thereon edesheibk, wider that head, daty tree. 'G, MARCH 27, 1850. eke erpreofs. OUTGOING MAIL& Tim West Lila Mail. fasleilep Baraiuda, Nweasnall; lilairen, Rerierne, New Wefts, eel Meelaikied raiding obese Me II"Odra, Si. dwau4e-Niaaragna, New Goer* ChM, aid Po% will be made up ea April 2. The siup es dle air M die •I Deadis, sad Baena Arm; will be Rade die April 4. The anti ~ 4 DAM • *Awls& aid the United States ME be made up in *. mass of April 6. The rib ibe Li*" Spas, sod Gibraltar will be nada ap ea Apen Tie mai wid Marla* it' the Mediterraaean, Egypt, Coyle% llSHontioag, de., will be mile up es tle el wrealag 11. The male Gibraltar, Malta, Greta, the lonien Woad% ligypt, Goyim, ladle, sad Chios, .is Southampton. will be made ap en April 20. MOH WATER AT WIDOW 12IIXIL !1 DAt—lldnlAA 1L MA Aftinews. IL WA To-seassw—lbseiss. A 17.. AlawaraL. kis LONDON, WEDNESDAY; MARCH 27. INTO the theological controversy which is now raging, the readers of this jrtrnal will not, of course, be led. The property of infant ba pt ism; on what its efficacy may depend; the standard of evidence by which the character and effect. of that sacrament are to be decided ; whether the Holy Scriptures have to control the Prayer-book, or the Prayer - book has to interpret the Bible—are questions we shall leave to be decided by the angry polemics who are now, some in rebellion, all in arms; if, indeed, divines so intempe rate, angry, and intolerant, can come to any com mon decision on points which nothing but indiscretion the most mischievous has brought into serious dis cussion. The inconveniences, the troubles, and the discords of our present eeelselaitical condition almost create regret at the loss of the High and Dry party in the church, who, in the old times of political bigotry aNd . religious indifference, acted like ballast in the bailie of mother church, and kept the cumbrous old ship steady. Good souls, they had their faults; but, in despite of their toryism, their horror of the Pope, their hatred of dissent, their dislike of BCONAPARTE, their love of pluralism, and their ignoracce of anything but the form of religion, they were too gentlemanly, too jolly a set, and had too much affection for the church, to disturb either their own, or our, or her peace, as their successors are now doing. They were content with a text from Paul and a sermon from EPICTESIIS, and solved all dogmatic scruples over that good old port which has disappeared with them. The rise of the evangelical party disturbed the cld gentlemen sadly in their latter days; they never ciuld exactly comprehend what Mr. WILBERFORCE'S " Vital Christianity" meant; it wu something, they were sure, not much to the old King's mind, and that was enough for them; they opposed its progress and threw in their hostility to abolition of the slave trade to mark more strongly their dislike of the Clapham s.ct. The full of NAPOLEON roused them for a while ; but tho decline of their loved VANSITTART, and the duke's " treachery," were blo we from which they never recovered. Gradually u they disappeared, the evangelical party came to the surface. Its growth was, perhaps, a natural rendition from the indifference o f High and Dry party, assisted a little by the rising spirit of political liberalism with which it had liaisons. One ex treme promced the otter. But, though the great body of the clergy yielded for a short time to even gelicism, they never took kindly or heavily to it. Its leaning was shallow, its habits were not cmirtly, its doctrines were puritanical, and its views of the church were loose and indefinite. It left • huge want in the mind' emlesiaatical onsupplied. So, dis gusted with Exeter Hall, and taking advantage of its senseless tirades against Irish popery, Oxf o rd took another tarn, and brought forth the Poseyites. For a while they carried everything before them ; until, carrying themselves in their enthusiasm to Rome, their followers became alarmed, and their opponents triumphant. Slowly, however, the high church people has regained its own confidence, until, at last, in the GoitnaM case, it has fairly measured arms with the Evangelicals. . . . . . . - No; the great merit of the judgment of the Judi cial Committee is, that it re-establishes the compre hensive character of the Articles of the Church of England, and gives both parties the opportunity of living peaceably, if not unitedly, in its fold. This opportunity, to do the low church party justice, it teems willing enough to avail itself of—very much, perhaps, because undoubtedly in the judgment it had a very narrow escape ; the balance of argument from the Prayer Book inclining somewhat strongly against it. The other party reject the peace thus offered, and appeal to the letter of the law. Without following them into these arguments, we must, however, point to our readers a practical ccne gzence of their success, which would very seriously affect the relative positions of clergy and laity. Re generation, says Mr. GORHAM, precedes infant baptism, where rightly received ; that is, regenera tion is a supernatural act independent of a religious form. " Regeneration," stye Bishop PHlLrorrs, is is conveyed by and in the sacrament of baptism ; in other words, the priest administering that rite, necessarily conveys regeneration." This distinction, it will be atonce perceived, alters the whole character of the priest hood. Adopt Mr. Goatiam's view, and the priest is a mere administering functionary; assent to the Bishop's, and the priest becomes a being endowed with super natural powers. One of the main differences between the Rom& and the Protestant faiths, with all its immense practical consequences, is thus involved in the question. It is indispensable that this consequence of the controversy should not be lost right of; because all the measures advocated by the Bishop of Exuma and his followers have the elevation of priestly power for their end. They do not seek to destroy the com prehension of the Church of England merely to settle a doctrinal difference ; but to found upon the destruc tion such a superstructure of priestly power as will be applicable to the practical affairs of the world. All their schemes are, therefore, to be watched, because of this their great design. Nor is there such absolute folly in it as may at first appear. For it is impossible to trace and ex amine the growth of the modern high church party, without coming to the conclusion that even in this country—in protestant England—the priesthood has of late years, by the solemnity of its pretensions, very greatly augmented its power over the laity. Let as see what are its present pretensions. The following are the resolutions passed at the high church meetings. They declare that the church of England unless It shall openly and express) reject the erroneous doctrine sin , toned by the decision of t h e Judicial Committee, forfeits the office and authority to whams and teach as a member of the univenal church, becomes formally separate from the catholic body, and can no longer astute to its members the grace of the sacrament and the remission of stilt In the next place they recommend that License should be prayed for that the church in convoca tion may declare the true doctriae ; or that an act of parlia ment should be obtained to give legal effect to the decisions of the °oat otive episcopate on this and all other matters purely spiritual ; or, finally, that all efforts should be made to obtain from the episcopate a re-affirmation of the doctrine of holy baptism impugned by the sentence. It is not our business to decide whether or not the church is heretical ; but, with respect to the invoked decision of the convocation as at present constituted, all must protest. The most rabid tractarian would scarcely deny that the laity are a portion of the church, and yet the laity are not represented : there are no curates in convocation, no incumbents of district churches ; neither have they, the last, any vote in the election of representatives. The el( ctions themselves are " hole-and-corner " elections. The permission to convocation to settle the matter would, therefore, involve, in common jus tice tv all parties, a complete re-construction of that body. An act of parliament to give legal effeet to the decisions of the collective episcopate would involve a denial of the QUEEN'S supremacy, and could never be obtained while the church is in union with the state. Finally, an effort to obtain from the episcopate a re-affirmation of the true doctrine would, if it produced Any fruits at all, end in holding up the bench of bishops as a debating soci ety, one portion of the prelates excommunicating the other. Whatever succcu might be achieved by the Bishop of EXETER be would be at least doomed to see the archbishops of the two provinces in the minority opposed to him. In fact and in floe the controversialists should not be encouraged by any new legal machinery; by altering the constitution of the court, which now decides in such questions—by giving the ecclesiastical power any share in the mart, this and similar disputes would homages. In a society so commituted as that of Ragland, with an opisoopaey so influential by it! wealth, patronage, andpelitisal pow . er amongst the higher dame, with an aristocracy which has, by mesas of patronage, a deep yeenniary interest in the church, and whisk regards its maintenance and inte grity as a bulwark that protects itself; with a paro chial system which provides an organisation such as _to lay institution possesses ; with a clergy, one divi sion of which charges that/that with heresy, an aeon @mica which it repels by imputation, of papiatical tendencies; with a middle class micas:ly split, there is eddy in what our friends over the Tweed call Brostianion only which *insists in the state riding the church with tight rein. Tams has not been for many :ears so tmvir a iprisg-iinte throughout ovary part. of Ireland. the long aontinuanas of the rainy seuoe, u in that por tion of the realm is frequently the cue, retarded till the second week of March the sower's occupation. Since then, however, sedulous and universal efforts have be node by all classes to plant every species of crop. Greater care in the selection of seed, and in the preparation of the ground for its reception, are observable. The conviction has practically come home to the mind, of all who are connected with the cultivation of the soil, that there is nothing worth working for but a large crop and • prolific yield. Price will no longer pay. Quality and quantity are the sole re sults worth the husbandman's hope and labour. The gambling chances between scarcity profits and " good luck sales," are at an end. The probabilities of a steady continuance of low markets grow every day more strong. There is nothing for it left but in creased and improved produce. What is this but another way of expressing —better farming ? In argument all thinking men were long ago persuaded that to such a result the working of free trade would inevitably tend. It is of far more moment to perceive the gradual working of the prob lem among the laborious and imperilled claws, w ith whom error on matters of the kind is no affair of intellectual discomfiture, bat of physical and so- cial ruin. Had the majority of farmers in Ireland been duped last autumn by the pro- tectionist cry into the expectation that par liament would undertake to guarantee them a pricefor their corn, we sLould now behold wide-spread disappointment instead of popular hope, and general despondency instead of universal energy, perseve rance, and industrial resolution. Happily for them selves, and fortunately for the country, the shrewd occupiers of the Celtic soil were not to be gulled by the DOWNSIIIRES and (ILENGALLS. They knew by ex perience what landlord professions of sympathy, and landlord promises of service meant. They discerted the signs of the times, and wisely judged that no longer would their safety or prosperity be built on aristocratic legislation or aria• tocratic sufferance. They saw that for the tenant farmer there could henceforth be but one road, to wealth, comfort, or independence—and that that road lay through permanent and never ceasing improve ments of the soil. We rejoice in being able to recognise the first pal pable proofs that have been afforded of this awakening energy in our:neighbours beyond the channel. Sooth to say, it needed no ordinary amount of moral courage to recommence, under existing circumstances, the vigo rous culture of that blighted land—blighted tempora rily by the inscrutable decrees of providence, but far more fatally blighted by the too intelligible iniquity of landlord law. Without farm buildings, adequate fences, or thorough drainage done by the pro- prietor, as in Scotland is common and in England not unusual, the Irish tenant has no alternative generally speaking, but to make what he can out of so macy acres of land little re moved from their primary state, or to risk the outlay of hie time and toil in works of lasting utility, subject to their legal confiscation by the landlord, whenever ' he might choose to seize and appropriate them. The laud law of Ireland, as made and administered by the landlords of Ireland, by and with the help of their brethren in Britain, is nothing more nor less than the law of feudal rtpire. The only measure of privileged extortion is that sup, plied by considerations of privileged forbearance, cunning, or caprice. By force of statute and inter pretation, all the improved value which a tenant, by his own labour and at his own charge, imparts to the holding—in the jargon of law, " attaches to the free hold," in plain English becomes the property of him who did nut make it, and did nut pay for it, at his covetous and unrighteous option. The Irish tenant has no security of tenure during which he may enjoy the first-fruits of his improve ments, and no security for compensation for having made them, when he is deprived of the opportunity of enjoying them. We repeat, therefore, what we have already slid, that to set about improved tillage under circumstances so disadvantageous, is infinitely to the credit of the Irish farmers - as a'claas, and en titles them in an eminent degree to the respect and sympathy of all who are more favourably circum stanced. But sympathy and respect are hollow and hypo critical phrases if they bespeak nothing beyond the involuntary emotions which the sight of "civil courage " excites within men's minds. The Irish agri cultural middle class have other claims. They are fighting an unequal battle against their hereditary oppressors for the abro gation of the statatable privilege of plunder which we have above indicated. " Tenant right" and " tenant compensation " where the former does not by usage and custom prevail, are terms of very differ ent signification in Ireland from that which they peas for here. They are, in truth, nothing more than a simple assertion of the rights of industry as against the frauds systematically committed in the name of property. Without waitirg for their assertion and vindication, the occupiers of the soil are willing once more to deal with it as if that vindication and assertion were at hand. It is for all who value worth above birth, and labour more than exaction, to see justice done; to see that these legitimate expectations be not disappointed. II they be, what can we expect, save the renewal, in new and probably unexampled forms, of those detri mental and dangerous collisions between classes which distracted Ireland and disgraced the empire ? Already symptoms of a feverish state of feeling grow daily more apparent in many portions of the sister country. TYpperaryient has for a time slum bered, but its accursed causes are unhappily not extinct. On the contrary, there is bat too much reason to fear ibat the proprietary encouraged by the rash and fanatical promptings of certain empirics in this country, have flattered themselves with the nation this the social consequences of the potato blight would reduce the occupying tenantry more completely into subserviency to their over reaching desires, and enable them more completely than ever " to do what they will with their own. They had better waken from their dream of prodigal tyranny, ere it be too late. The people are changing, and with them the proprietary must for their own sakes change. Hard fortune has disciplined the many, and taught them courage out of the depths of suffering. If property is to be made safe among such a people, their right to toil in safety must be made secure. CONSIDERABLE agitationhm been occasioned in India by a legislative project of the local authorities at Cal cutta, to which some of the residents have given the name of" the black sote,"others a name redolent of still d m raft& ore . unsa Th v e ou ti ry tles s o ssoo f the ia ge tion draft s— s " . t w h h e ich th t r h ee e A b o l g ae lo. k Indian public are expected to swallow, are re.pec- Only :—i. An act for declaring the law as to the privilege of her Majesty's European subjects. 2. An act for abolishing exemption from the jurisdiction of East India Company's criminal courts. 3. An act for the protection of judicial officers. A very brief explanation will serve to show the nature and tendency of these proposed enactments. At each of the three residencies there is a court of law presided over by English judges, and in whi.h all Englishmen accused of crimes are tried according to the laws of England, and by a jury of their peers. Beyond the confines of throe cities—in what is called the Morussil—penal law is admi nistered by the East India Company's civil ser vants. Native-born Englishmen and persons de scended of English parents have hitherto been ex empted from the jurisdiction of the Mofussil courts; and the only systems of law administered in these courts have been tho Mahometan or Hindoo codes, by which the natives subjected to their jurisdiction have been accustomed to be judged. The object of " the black acts" is to introduce one uniform system of weal law for all residents in Indie , and *ct Englishmen to the jurisdiction of the Mofussil courts. Now, Englishmen have at all times and in all places evinced a strop; predilection for being judged by their own law', and by tribunals organised like those with which they are familiar at home. They re. getable the &etch arohers of Louts XL, who insisted iwn being hanged by th eir own Provosc-Marshal, 11U Anglo-Indians, therefore, are decidedly avenues t o being deprived of the privilege of being judged only by English laws and tribunals. They say in addition that they have no confidence in the eq u it y or intelli gence of the Mofussil courts, and that they protest against being rendered amenable to the semi-barba. rolls laws of the Koran and the Shutters. For this reluctance no man can blame them. The constitution of the Mothesil courts is certaialy not of a kind to invite at; man to seek justice in them who can keep out of them. The men appointed to preside in them are frequently raw and inexperie need young men. They have none of them had a legal education. Of the laws of England they are profoundly ignorant; and in applying the Mahometan and Hinnoo law s they are at the mercy of their Bailee assistants, a class of men distinguished even among the little ecru. Fuloas natives of Hindostan f or rec kl ess corruption. inally, the Company's servants presiding over these courts have rarely more than a very imperfect know. ledge of the language in which the business in con. ducted in them, and not nnfrequently are entirely unacquainted with it. The first reflection that these facts suggest is the culpable neglect to provide the natives with good laws and trustworthy tribunals, of which they eon. vitt the English in India. So long as English. men were left to enjoy their privileged jurirdiclon in peace, we heard not a word against tne laws for the natives. But the moment it is propcsed to extend the laws and judicial system, which have been deemed "good enough for Indians," to Englishmen an immense majority of the Company's own servants recoil from the proposal in fear and disgust. The badue.a of the Indian code, and the corruptness of its administration, may be inferred from the alarm with V( ich even the Company's officials protest against being brought within its meshes. Another reflection suggested by the incident to which we are adverting is the perverse manner in which the Company's government set about 'he task of law reform. They have two systems of laws and law courts in their dominions—one for Eri;:lialtmen, the other for natives—one tolerably good, the other intolerably bad. They have discovers d that it is unjust to give the one race a prefer. nee ever the other; and the way in which they set about removing the invidious distincti in is by reducing mere favoured race to the level of the other. FRANCE. PARIS, MESDAY,S The committee on the prss law has already hel. two sittings. The members are opposed nearly ananimrody to raising the amount of the cantion-money. AE to the st.mp, although the opinion of the majority is divided, and it is not at present easy to calculate :1. 0 result of the committee's deliberation, it is certain that the general recommendation to mercy of try pro vincial press uttered by so many men of mink in the bureaux will not be unheeded. withstanding the assertion of many warm supporters of the riccrnment that t!.ey re garded the law in a political light, it scents pret.y certain that the measure has been prompted by fiscal motives, combined with the intention to reduce the number of Lovers within narrower limits. The Legislative Assembly was occupied dosing the sitting of to-day with the discussion coteercirg the election of M. do la Tuurette in the depiatoicat of Areeohe. The election was confirmed by a maj rity of 407 against 193. Berryer and Demoustier hue been named president and sezretary cf the c.immiuce on the club law. Lunattine's new book, entitled "Le Pa'-% le Pre sent, et l'Avenir do is Republique," was i übasi.cd to-day. Another publication on the revolution of I •lPs, by one of the actors engaged in it, hest just made its sp. pearance. The writer is a NI. Dreyer, an ardent, fit an apparently honest republican, who was appoin:ed president of a committee of delegates of the people to watch the proceedings of the provisional government, and compel it to proclaim the republic. M. Pierre Leroux has presented the following pro. position :—" I demand that, before proceeding to :he discussion of the bills proposed by the ministry on the press, the National Assembly shall, by a ere frond discussion, inquire into the ideas and dcctrices spinet which these measures appear directed." The seventh committee of parliamentary has taken into consideration the proposition cf M. Chapot, tending to abrogate the duty to i; hi2h French silks,raw and wrought, are subjected when ex ported. The committee is of opinion that the clues. tion will not seriously affect the silk trade•. and in consequence considers that it will be well to inquire whether it may not be advisable to supprees the duty altogether, or at least to reduce it considerabiy, by way of experiment. A rumour was spread yesterday evenirg which ex cited considerable alarm. it was said that a regiment at Caen had mutinied, in consequence of the deport &on of three soldiers to Africa, whose offence had consisted in violent demorstrations in favour of socialist dcc trines. It was added that when these soldiers, at an early hour after midnight, were marched off from the barracks, the prisoners and their escort were followed by the greater part of the regiment, singing the " Mar seilleise;" finally, that a cimbit had token place, in which many bad been killed and wounded. The recent electoral demonstrations of the military in favour of socialism, lent to this report a peculiarly alarming character; bus it fortunately turns out the-. the grams of truth in this story are small and few. The three soldiers were marched etf to be embarked for Africa; and some murmurs were heard from many nts their comrades, but although the regiment generally mani fested a sinister humour of dissatisfaction, n sthing hke a battle occurred, nor, in fac:, any demonstratton amounting to positive mutiny. The Patrie of yesterday evening says: "The heavy fall in the French funds at the Bourse to-day, is not to bz attributed to any political event; the or ly causo of it is the embarrassment of some Lyones. sp. eii.a• tore, which caused • executi)ns,' or forced sale, of stock, and the abundance of stock thrown on the market by foreign speculators who have become alarmed by the vote of the Assembly placing a duty on t raester s." . . —I have reason to believe, however, that the fa:l is owing to large "bearing" speculations by gr, at l'aris houses. The Assem644 Nationale says that the fa:l of the Bourse is owing to large orders front Vicars and Berlin, the motive of these sales being the el;e tions of March 10. l'.S. Since I posted my letter I have heard that La rochejacquelin has laid on the table of the .I.sernhly a proposition of so remarkable a character, that I think it worth while to send you • postscript by an extraordinary wsy. This proposition moves that, on the Ist of June, the sense of France shall be taken by universal suf. (rage on the question whether the republican form 4 government is to be maintained, or wilt thet s monarchic form is to be established in its pla, e, at d ;hat u soon u this question has been settled in the way described, a new Constituent Assembly be coo oh:d on the Ist of July. DOCIISE. For Amount. PARIS, Ituten 2G. morneery. $ per &a& 5 per Oeste. 5 do. New Loan. Cents. SS 40 104 90 69 83 69 40 77 30 SS SO 1-.IZ N PIT k,- 44 I 41 4 per 1-VIIlA. Eleharge on L o OLD : 30days, 23 53 •90 dim 75 4 Belem, 3, 1340 Do. 3 1843 Do. 4 1 Do. 2 .- ~ Treusuty Bondi— S Piedmont 3 per Cents 34 73 „ , Book Rums 125; PariA and thie.inA, 7 •' ; I r 325; Avignon awl list , : 75; rhicans And VierAsn, 555 75; Tours and S BIM —VerrailleA (left bank% and Rouen, 315; Rouen and lbw 186 95; Strasburir and Bale, 119 North, 431 73; Fork sod do -138 73. Warm% 11Awcsi 21.-Ibate per CentP., 4v 13-14 p.tpr•: Craw. 111 paper ; rerun. 31 pwr i Coupon% 7 pap,. s. Lowlee. 301.1.—After Thr—ee ow Ceuta.. , Fire ow (Vats., 111 cash; Coupon., Of 0 ..6; Perin y. 32 • Fort Loan, with coupon, MI paper. BELOIUM.—BRUSSELS, MARCH 26.—FATAI. E' PLOSION IN A COAL MINIL—Ws have jail r.e..‘, intelligence from Mons of a terrible explosion in one ,I' Goal mines, by which no lcas thee 73 of the wookniea h were in the mine at the time the explosion took Os , ' "" killed: 16 bodies have eresdy been dug Commerce &Mem. ord Stu C )o etc' Nt, i4 01.4 Proi 43.8, 21 4 Pop