The Express. — London, England, 1850-05-31 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT'. ROUSE OF LORDS —TEITIODAT, MAT 30. The hoses met at 6 &elect ; Lard Cretan& sat Speaker. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Por-otnns —By Lord bROUGRAM, from Fyfe ; the Rehr of OXFORD, beta several plates ; the lasi of HARDWICK', from Casebridp; and Earl NILSON, from Wisaborse, Yeovil, said ether Oases, against Basis, labour to the Per kilos. IMISMSIasTIOAS. Merl. Btu..—By the Bishop of OX FORD, beta the kern of Abieres, sal lawri" Leaser ire, Torehlre, ae., ia /avast of toe Bishop of Les des'e Bill. ST. DAVID'S, FACrann Lair:A.—By the Bishop of Rosa several plasm, is hirer id this Tea Bill. TAMAN? Rusiev,—By the Earl of RODIN, hots Castle reagh is favour of creme right. Fin (COURT OP COMMON PLEAS) BILL. Os the reties el Lord BEAUMONT, the hem west LM ocussiur es this ball. /Ord BROUGHAM said this bill, lilt wore mired to pre, would rib all wrists at rod nei salaries It intro heed with vested rights, some of the dams brag retro wove. se amid, *ageism move ea emendement, Orin Ms. Wire and Mr. Tindal, whe Mid two earns la the Comet of Cosmos Prat, fret the operation el atria class la the bill. Attar • few words from Lord BIAIIMOSIT, the O&M woe adjearnid until Woodsy. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Lord BROUGHAM said that he haired so who had tired go lor is parliament as himistill, isl ior no oti dem rhea oasis. of any libellous merge eider labla, or somplaird of say broach of pram to dike if the home of whir hi bad had the herr . of == g er, as himself. He might add that no perk had ever been more the *Wed of try indlimicskre, and run of very absurd, sod generally yin aim Meeks. Nevertheless he bad held a stratly sowtrodesnom and had left the truth to come oat by its own peopar and Wrest Wright, which always put lbws Bat then was sue species of breach of privilege which be worn sever direeed tosspa over. Attacks every one meet soder sad= be ma ought to 'brink from them, or we ander them; but under the pretense el *stir what prod in releaser, to put words late • member' Meath which he n used, for the espies purpose of cla s mmy, ar of which the party publish those words mot have been aware, berate in his own envious publicatimilishr gives& harmless and secrete report—he aftarwards bind a fait and calmanitat report in earlier paper, which be bed Reprinted is his own columns, instead of adhering is be ow. repsot.— to put sod words in a rasabu's 1601111, whit* bo bad weer used—he repeated, was ea *Seam whisk be mid sot pees ever. Hs read with some eserinidatest, sod wish from amusement, a most atoned time el mirtlieseints respecting his conduct upon diocese bilk It seemed, hem these statements, that minty hat himself attended to divorce bills, mod& attsmied M them sli The mama was this: a law lord pot needs ollsed.and am wise was familiar with the peers of the eintris law Meer; but he most say, he never attended IM them bins mere than to appeals, or say other legal hiss whist teem Won the ruse. It was set forth that nobody said be dimmed sakes he were present and essistina se patm) Thai err • variety of inventiosa sad el baths »- delved terra parties et Itie lease, who won eswitiag end other, wises be knew that one of the penis was at that tisso living in criminal ionsection with the other; whereas, the troth was that he disbelieved every tittle of it, lad wrote five letters to different • sem of them members of their lordships' hoses, say ing he had made inquiry into the setter, and that he not believe sae titti of it. The parties did sot leave England together, sad they wore sever seder his roof after it esme out that tiers wet • snit poring in the Eselasiestied Court. Another statement was that at the Queen% trial he was smarting for polishing with porallar gams o (and he sapper relikiiii mast gam) ell the vile and abominable Italian sari, in widows. Now,.. the contrary, he was digitated with then, hot be wasehlid toestimemaise the wirers He did all be meld to ro bottistie evidenes—to MIAs and smother it ; sood, sot messodiag is that, to throw disoredit upon the tasiessay of Mass Italia +imams. Then tams a staining that be bad gives notice that be was _going to obstruct the rasp of • certain hill by brow-beating the 'thulium Why, it was his owe bill, and he had gives tries of moving its second reeding, sad he wee, forsooth, to brow-best wilasesee L support of his own bill, sad thee to pretest hie geitiag what hewished. It was farther said in this paper, celled the Daily Nista _that if all the letters of married wanes ad dressed to himself were pig In riders, the coasermeas trek be dreadful. (" Heat, hear," and laughter.) Now be staid sly say if all the lairs width lid ever ties: written to him by married women were published at Char ing-cross, that no tonseqaracts slattern would result, except, perbsp, pity for the isdividual who had been obiiged to read so may letters. (" Hoar, hear," and • laugh.) It was a most weesegaly thing to have it staged that he bad carried es • maltite4e of correspoadence with married warn. (Laughter.) With respect to the editor of the papa whir had es Iginally printed all flats trash, he mast say that be (Lord Brerbam) had filed as adidayit supported by an aMdavit of a freed to whom some of the letters bed been mddreassel, with the view of moving for a trimisal infirmities against that individual; tut he was bound to say that that individual (Mr. Wilms) the respectable proprietor of the Gleba nespaser, in whir the statement had first append. had said he was very sorry it had got into his paper, sad pee up at once the arse of the party who had written the article, sad who was • man of great talent but evidently not of great prudence or dis cretion, for plarly he bad been guilty of • groat simper seutatios He was a priest of another church, and his same having been gives up, he at ones plead is his (Lord Brougham's) head the letter in his own vindicatios, upon which be had proceeded. It was a letter from a person ef the highest credit, but who had evidently written wider great trimmest and in total iliflief&110111 of the hew That letter rein • hasty moment credited sad scud ups Far these reasons be should say nothing further on the 'abject. If the gentlemen had been wrong in the first instates, they bad made all the reparation in their power, by offering the fullest and most handsome apology. Bat the other paper which had given • report of what passed, are, because It was more calumnious to him, to go back from its own mu rate account and put in the statement he had referred to. Now, he would appeal to his noble and learned friend oppo site as to whether the words " married women " ever dropt from him ? Lord LANGDALE—I sever heard dam. Lord BILOUGRAId should reconsider this matter, and, ft be felt tomorrow as ha did then, he should move, at the sitting of the Louse, that the printer of the other paper be «am to the her. Lord LEDESDALE said what he had stated on a falser evening bad been misrepresented. He hid not stated that he wee opposed to the bill, Oat he did not consider that aH eieot evidence bed been adduced to sanction ita From his own knowledge ha bad ao doubt Lord Duel' wu entitled to the relief he eked, and he ht the bogie was proceeding rather upon sane ruralkao~owledge of that feet than ova the evidence given at the bar. He considered that the second reading should not nave been mud I. until further evideece bad been received. iiiiiiiiiiiiiTioiebTEilMlNAL JUSTICE lIIPBOVBI[BNT BILL. On the Motionof Lord CAMPBELL Wis bill passed pro forma through committee, and was reported to the hose.. The noble and learned lord said that he bad to Wats their lordships that the Pleadings in Civil P gs Bill had parsed its third reading in the other housed parliament, and only waited the royal meant. The judges were so anxious to carry the measure into effect, that they bad met for the purpose of taking tee necessary preliminary steps. PARLIAMENTARY FRANCHISE (IRELAND)BILL. In answer to a question from Lord BTANLIY, Earl GREY said the nomad reading of this bill would be taken on Thanday next, and the oommittee on the following Monday. Lord STAXLIT and the Marquis of LONDONDiIititY depre- cated the appointrarat of the committee on se early a day. Their lordships adjourned at six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TuunDAY, MAT 30. TM Bra*zi* took tlos choir (la Cho sow boom) at 12 o'clock. A amerces atteadanee of members greeted the Speaker upon his abet antrum, at a few othllltia Were noon ' and considerable eacitnnent was manifeaNd among the hi s. re presentatives upon musing their plena for the area time in their new hall of legislation. The bench occupied by the nnaietere stood, as usual, on the right hand of the speaker's chair ' with the principal opposition bench opposite, sad the seats takes by the leading members on both sides ewes peocied as nearly as possible with those which custom had appropriated to then when le the former house. PETITIONS PRESENTSD. The fint in the aiWr house woo Cu. by Mr. Scraavax, the 'mayor and inhalation of Siikezoy, preying foe " the removal of the odious tax nand ninon& soesey." Bt: tone Laivo.—By Sir 0. STRICKLAND, from Col. cheater, pa*, lei as donation is the lair far midair the law of horieneo is cooperate tows. in Reflood cad Wales. St TIIMIUSAL lavoutairro.—By Sir B BALL, is favour of entruisral laterantio Gaitanef Plaus...—By Mr. HUM E, (pm the inhabi teats of Eireoserielt. be vestry &ambled, eentplentiep of the easkoare el Gre4tairiek Park so am to 'stet-left with the palate r. friaries mad eajotatest. He Me. Homo bid Mhos the oppartataity of the hdiday yereeday to whit the pert. sad he mould mars the fan. (Meer. hew.) TIM pail tea ellos payed that seamen eroold be takes to sentare touter pobli three pens of the park which rid from time to do s bon esekoed, and to pet as end to Ware estroadt seiltnts. _ _ LOCAL ACTS. eed 01t The Ant betimes permed sae the appelatosat el easiest osansittes to implant late the within of the 'tattoos which rerekted the ptyeedure of &pp/testi= for legal etAt of pr. hentess. The neon ma Women forward by Mr. W. Pates. and atter • sheet tenvoreatih. awned to. The hot digitise Si. taloa epos • moth's by Mr. Me/ m.ooa fat • zea.aspi Mr. it Haiti' frata Stl41111121e• go ,n toe e , ,talaittee is ,p9ap pima bilis. The nos btra wire— For the notion setil N 6160•141 Mr... airis,er Avat TRZ ROYAL COMMISSION ON Till UNIVERSITIES. Mr: GLADRION_Ii sod to pat o quatiow to the boa. wombat for N9rth Imamate., (Mr. Heywood) with nward to ha lawatioce at to ea order of tit* day for the adjoaraod debate on the Unirersitim Commission. As it stood it could !Atli ease on tonight, and b. wished AM the how understand what were the boa. restleass's iota- War Um subject. Mr. HST WOOD said that it was mot We hitoatioa to pus es ths adjessiel Mbar, as be um refastly emir b.." 11;11-169. "M s 18 7.1•1111 1 .MEM bed am boe wt , sitsnualty sad all %. Issiolsiddoes ',solved weld seastall,- -- Ilr 011110R/Sil—An I lo sadmilead Slat members osy make signmedans Mr. GRElllll— , Yea, soombra sat BM ass is tiro mud in their siappstism. . Kr. MUNTIN-Whea ray sea is moldy table neigh bour it b Impounds to hear. I shield suggest Mgr we abould have a debate of semi ll 8w 0. OBEY—I do net thiait pounds b judge ;from on A s triaL Hon. MEMBER—Ws ars hear say thing when private loudness is on: Mr. FRE WEN asked. If sitar th briars was mmehuhd there that morning it was asamiry that dr house should formally 1141j011f1I, sad whether the boom',rid ten sintatod whet they met elk at firs o'clock. The SPEAKER—When the briars hire Is dote, the house will adjoins and that Ike hors wil hartursd when U mar agar. Mr. ELLIOT (whs. epithet tram the galisr, tad is oses- Smarr created trite a samosa)—Mr. Speakar. I do or ' know *balm yen eta boar wee, bat we Mar hear • word. Mr. HUME—The bast way is is bar art rantissfloa at dr bar, and 1 do est sr that we ma have may perm brew than Mr. Barry himosif. ELECTIONS (IRELAND) BILL. Oa theorise ter the third reading of this MIL varier add!- dotal clauses were dismissed. A' dams Inapoosl by the Attorry-Ossind for appoindag addldonti pißag Orin upon prides bum Justioss is Quirts Smeleas, was agreed to, sad a Maur mord by Mr. numb, rallmehrtg thu pp ! pointarat of additional palling press sa the rider et INN electors, which was negatived, mrsaplal the bra sae dims o'clock, whoa Tits his. adjotrusd till fir *Wink. I The hoses resourd at 6 o'clock. TRUANT-RIGHT (IRELAND). Mr. S. CRAWFOILD gar astir that is Thursday, Jane I, he wild moils for Isar to befog fa • Mil to provide for the hater sosignag sal regulating MI ends= it tenamt-tight as Il c t ai of Maarmia leier u c i d t o e s :sewn ortreass mik. claim wati7ir — Zie oweasat, sad M limit Ile pent el owl► lion is amok sopa. ENCUMBERED ESTATES ACT (IRELAND). Col tool DUN NE asked the Solicitor Guard whether it was the lalsaisa of but Majesty% goveraseat to introduce say anmaimsat far Om lassubered Erwin Act (Itelead), , 'bash will ohm MAIO gentian* of that mourn, whom OWN kali hala fildjolrd to its etestarro, lits err ro tation Is** purr that is girt to lisakrupts la this snaky ? The SOLICITOBAIINERAL said that the suss of hankespts in this fomatry sad of gwithissa briers maim bend morn in brolingl were perfectly disdain, and raid not be dealt with la dre was way. It was not the laterite of her Majesty's got ramatt to introdass any such amend meat. THE NEW HOUSES OP PARLIAMENT. Mr. HUME wished to appeal a the goverment to fig some day on which he might take the songs of the house oa the proposidat which he brought Wore their amiss Monday last. He added that no would be eaabled to plant before the booms some Important yardarms Matirs to these buildings from their foundation. Lord J. RUSSELL having letraod beta the him. umber that he had a definite moths to being forward on the subject, was tadintood to promise kir on early opportunity. MEDICAL REFORM. Lord It GROSVENOR asked the Secretary of State for' ' the Hew Department whether he was prepared to bring forward any monsani la Meters to thi. subject. Sir 0. GREY slid that ha had recisany received a largo ' deputation on the manor, carpals& in peer,' who repre sented themselves r the general prommoners of the soantry,*and demanding certain legislative measures in their behalf. On the same day he received rather large deputation ' who also stated that they were the medical panderers of the corny, and esraweed totally different views ea the subject. So cootlistlas were the °pirate sari the pro- hear that he was tot prepared to being la ay and" of rho kind. FACTORIES BILL. In rower to Lord J. M•morana, Sir G. GREY said that be proposed bi take the crunittee a this bill on Thursday neat. SUNDAY LABOUR IN THE POST-OFFICE. Lord ASHLEY, in moving "an address to the crown, praying her Majesty to take sack measures as shall stop throughout the United Kingdom the collection and delivery of letters, and also the transmission of mails on the Lord's day," said that in bringing forward the question which be had to propose he had no other view or object than to wry out the wishes that had been manifested by the whole of their consti t uents. No subject had excited deeper tate rest than this bad throughout the country, which was fully evinced by the number of deputations and petitions which had been got rip on the matter. This feeling we. not unfilled to any one elms or proles& n ; it was not confined to an 7 one station, to any one order or rank in society ; it prevailed teem the very highest to the very lowest. it was to be found amongst artisans, labourers, trades men, bankers, merchants and capitalists of all descriptions. This feeling was not confined to one form of theological or political opinion, but prevailed equally is the small agricul tural es is the large manufacturing districts. But the ques ties might be argued on higher grounds, both in relation to its religious character and its deep importance to the ems munity at large. He hoped that it would be discussed is the boom in • sober and friendly spirit, suited to the plus in which the discussion was held, sad the character of the debate, and he would utter nothing likely to provoke wrath. He thanked her Majesty's government and the Poet-office authorities for the desire they had exhibited to confer a great benefit on thaw isterested, and what they bad done was a proof that they could do more ; and he hoped they would now endeavour to perfect their own good work, and establish their own reputation. He wished to invite their attention while he endeavoured to show the depth of feeling which had bun exhibited on this sub jet and stated the extent to whirls the public had delivered their opinion oa this vital mater. The report of the peti tions up to the present time wee not complete. (Here some now occurred from members leaving the house.) He could awn the house that he would conks his observe. Lions withia a small compass, and he asked them to give him their attention to tie few words he should utter, not out of respect for him, but for the hundreds and thousands of persona who bad petitioned on the subject. The total am ber of petitions up to the 24th May was 3,820, mad the num ber of signatures 549,638. Many of these (from Boatload alone 335), weessigned only by the chairman of meetiage. The number was not yet complete for several hundred had not yet been presented, and he had a right to con clude that the number of signatures would be 700,000, and if there were taken the petitions presented from public meetings, signed by the chairman, he might conclude that the whole number of signatures would not fall short of a million of adults. To look into the details : Take Liverpool, from whence a petition had come, signed by 14,000, with a prayer exactly in the terms of th is motive. When the matter was mooted there 200 'unbents and bankers had forwarded a petition. Ia Manchester the number of signatures was 31,000, and the petition had been signed by many of the largest fi rms and capitalists in that town. From Aberdeen the number of 4nateres was 16,702, comprehending essay merchants sod ban k ers. From Paisley 6,638, from Edinburgh 24,298, acd from Glasgow 21,760. The petition from Glasgow was well worthy of attention, on amount of its importance as a commercial city,' and out of the town council, consisting of 60 members, 41 tad signed the petition. Of the surgeons there had signed 22, of the procurators 68. There were 11 banks, and sine of the firms had signed, besides merchants, manufao curers, sad other capitalists, amounting to 600. He wished to impress his noble friend with the fact that when la 1839 the question of the penny post wee before the house, the go vernment had yielded to petitions signed by 260,000 persons, and given up a million of revenge ' placing themselves in a Remittal difficulty. For this object there were 600,000 psti diners who asked nothing for themselves, but only a boon for their humbler fellow-labourers. There was the London memorial to the First Lord of the Treasury signed by 6,000 bankers sod merchants. It was of immense vales in rela tion to the gelation that Loudon should be the model of all other eitim In it the London heathen there ezpromod their MUM that there was no more necessity for the transac tion of badness In the other past oases el the kingdom than Is London, that in a metropolis oontainiatt two minims of people there st.s found to be no secessity for opening the Poet office on Sundays, while the great increase of postal communication obviated the amenity elsewhere ; and they also stated their bast in the moomity of a day rest, and flee propriety ot the solemn observance ot the Sebbath, and they preyed the attention of the government to the question. So far ea the government wee emcerned, they were in Im manuel* with the supporters of this motion. The govern ment, hoverer, said they hod done enough, sod must stand still, while thee who thought with him said that they ought and could go forward. The demand the made wee simply this—they required that even town a- d thy in the United Kingdom •hould he ma on the ammo footing as the asistropoils; they requbed diet the metropolis should be the model for every tows sad shy in the Veiled Maness se rewarded the role prohibiting the delivery of Wien sad the ireamdmios of male on the Lord's-day. It was not, howsver___,proposed to interfere with the tramosiadon of mail begs. Would the home, then, coesider this demand ("hie% was a v. ry simple ewe, Moms it merely r.laired such town and eat, the kingdom to be in the seem condi das se the metr loth, to have imposed ea them ode seam metrletime and a4vantinee whisk were applicable to Leedom, aro that the rale should be the same ler 2,000 as for 2 000,000? They did a ot require any no w political pawner*, ny ancthing which would he a benefit to themselves • all t h e y staLQ was, the thenrisital affirmation of 'the principle, and the practical exit, lion of relief to a _body of over-toned men, and that they should be plated in the same c owlitius as the other servant& or the government. This was the long sad short of their deemed, and be could not understand bow it could be refused. He knew he should be told that be eked that which was it. predimble, bat be remembered Yew Oft. the mss mown peeks% a end dam tins weallimi ak aelsweint tee iaA !deli rhat es Ike sonar, Um* reeM Weed Who met a seddeelea ia tke SeielopleUveet. Me sett same id meat pen of the sielialise i *a, dt trundle= of - the' OWL • Oa Wr welew the ippon ass tb. enneyen Mil n lint nimmidga i a seek a as weal& heed mespal o beteg Ilender as regarded ell lewmi Mai fed se el a= li tt Ebat teeming moot orneedyna IS dross hoped that . b " Ile that we a Who st . NO Whelk* awasees e issapiasilvir bendlees. New thie maim sew Ike skied the multi, fleimithes tar ea raerek . 2 l.ll lleagee, semi be the walk Ye Wink AU Vih eL lowsio' se the herbs teseenithia nap et la whisk Ike Healey seseeleg Oselveoy way stoat else Ileedesil mid Indeed wadi romielnly be isible sweat, that the asstag delivery S i r *" le the atteni t zn, a di r od ie: n befiod Inlets ►ad rogay a rtilisasilfte Mee et the week re added sad , Welles the etty if Glasgow, ap Os 141 k Hey, WI met. yedlises fa the eserylare total weaseym, 153,167 tipster's. No Ogled Ashley) lied se Asa* the mead part d the mop. baba wee wale Ma dela% lad byelaw, .we IM wallies dos tmasteesat Se iket. As he the ant k wee limpielide that toy dhedVe eippedliea be made le slab a vegalselea. wide WOKi as .we thee ghee iqt r i:ise ea the ewe feetleg esLassal se awe se Ise a blink dor limo Weed Be &said be Se s .ek e tlier idtheeek seek .be mei is lie knew, eat Vag* be end time with wines be sated wereardassidlle lbadbialt eflbe wbeivressiallea, as lbws we p et Masa eves ag, saw of Vase sobsa ga bad IVA bad beta pe& awed, be was to mead it to eat Mast, ewe be Weald state the teems ea white he sew pesteeed to Seen Thiess addiembe pee b4/11*Isty pet dal aseleares Waft b. takes few mitaus die tee et sess ea Wm Ilebbatit la tie Leaden Pad-in.. gemlasse, ead that the embodies sad doilvely et ham sheaM eadrely Mass ea that dig la all parts el the li (the wed esiltellas " wet a Ilesbaisal law eadg i ret seaset istesse that the % r ut W sorting mad I) . she that her 'mold sews bask, e es at bow fir, without to the pub is sonfok Hee tranadalia dawdle ma the Lard a-dey should manly meek" He Medd all an Wm les to ire the drat part sake resehilea, mid while be Itelellesd hie opines sr to Ike feat thinly et his °ripest repeat's.. be wadi ody urge UM tee Om _ peestiesbillty of dm ttee-leseumiedsa b ergs meek They had all sm. Ilhe movements to hit emer of early aiming and the Nalledell et linear la fleterles, and yet all the ad• mama et wine invention, as regarded rapid loco modes sad otennaleation by the penny pet, so kw Irma hang a bnedt to the men employed ia the posies were absolutely a sure, pressed harder cm their meergisk end exuded them trol the benefits enjoyed by Sr elude eomannity. The rasters was a simple one. It meal seta simple Amend to truster to the nanny post game the privilege which was enjoyed in London. He woe astorted by the knowledge that he was speaking the osslimollb of a million of his fellow-eountrren, and M peeked that in the instance the vox pa per" said the " eon Doi " wars in strict harmony. He was mil asking for a new law, or for a restriction on the freedom of ethers, or as interferes., with any rights or liberties, but simply tor • right given to the sons of toil to enjoy, mid if they ware diepoo an opportunity of serving Gad and, remembering His Sabbath, to keep it holy. H. would sow conclude by moving the reeolvden, merely pining oat that it was modified from that which was given in the votes by praying for ea iitqatry into the possibility of effectieg the aboliion of the transmission of the mile on the Sabbath. Mr. COWAN osoonded the Betio". The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER oould moors his utile friend and the house that in opposing this motion he sympathized with the deep feeling unnamed by many on this subject, and he should be sorry if any word of his would lead it to be supposed that he Mi tered with the views expressed by his noble Mend of the value of the Sabbath to all persons, for in that he entirely concurred. But the motion west a very small way to carry the object into execution ; and if his noble friend was really of opinion that no work should be dons in the Pest-sties the Sabbath, he should have proposed a different resolution. The noble lord fell into an erraordinary error when he stated that the Post-ohm was the only public department in which Sunday labour was required._ Wont would his noble Maud say to the polio, and to t he noise, in which departments the officers nessemrily laboured as faithfully and u zealously on the Sunday as on any other day 1 He mentioned these because they came immediately under his own department, but his noble friend mast be aware that there were many other claws of servants, private and public, from whom his noble Mud could not for one moment sup pose that he could take away the harden of Sunday labour. That that burden should be reduced to a minimum, no one was move desirous than himself. Indeed, his noble friend had borne testimony that governats.t had not been neglectful in this matter, but that they had, with in the lest two years, caused the reduction of Sunday labour to en extent never contemplated before. He confeestd he was grateful to his noble friend for having borne that testimony, for he could not conceal from himself or from the house the fact that daring the last six months the government bed been open to the gnomon mistakes as to what they had been doing for the last two years. (Hear.) During the last two years the gentlemen at the head of the post office department had been most unremitting in their endeavours to reduce Sunday labour, and yet thee" efforts had been taken up in the mantry as having an opposite direction. Though be was far from wishing to underrate the feeling that existed in the minds of many on this subject, yet his noble friend could not deny that the most extraordinary mistakes won made, and charges were made against the government not only which they did not demon, but the very reverse of what they were doing. He would state genorady the effect oinks measure government had adopted. The effect bad been to relieve from Sunday labour upwards of 8,000 per sons in the United Kingdom, so as to enable them to attend divine worship. (Hear, hear.) The menus which excited so muck feeling throughout the country woe the temporary employment of about 23 clerks in London for a few months ; 27 clerks had been employed nakterniptedly without obser vation in the London poet-office for years, and it was pro posed to employ 25 clerks additional for a temporary mirte. That was part and parcel of a asearnre by which in England upwards of 6,000 puma were relieved, and on its being ex tended to Soothed mid Ireland upwards of 2,000 persons more were relieved. But what had ham Wanly the com pletion of the imam ? The mania was habitually to em ploy 27 persons la the London pod-ease as alloaday morn ing, and 96 pusses additional wen implored's' a few months to ton tho now 'yam left operation, mad sat may had that immimmoat boss altais/hor aneatiased, but the 27 mum who wen horsOshos employed fa the London Post 4111111 had by auburn.' gageweeaust, hem; rodusd hos (Hear , . boar.) Monist, liking Lanka gibino, 99 rams had hum neesid to imo neck end three wit c h the Post-affloe, he the osently, la modra gen gusrally, personofths 0011.611iit pans e ountry, had been relieved to the number of 8000—with the single exception of th e ns.who .attended to tie receipt and delivery assails, owing to the arrival of trains and convey anal a by whisk mans were brought, no perms was debarred the opportunity of attending public worship on Sundays. This was the result of the measure that government had corned into execution within the last two yearn, the greater part lof it within Ili but six mottle, and daring that time they had been attacked ea having wantonly desecrated the Sabbath. He appealed to the house whether these attacks had been just. He gortainly had felt very strongly the exceeding injustice of the Wadi that had been made upon them by persona who generally would not give themselves the trouble of ascortainiag what the hots were. And though he accepted scat gladly the testimony of the noble lord as to what they had dose, he hoped the house would excuse him from stating what the facts were, and would not be led away by the supposition that they had been unmindful in any degree to pre t labour in the Post oleos on a Sunday ; and he hoped they would take that as a pledge that they were willing, as far as practicable, to carry further the redactions of Bugg labour. He was perfectly willing that an inquiry should be made as to how far it was possible to prevent Sunday labour in the Post-offlos. Now the proposal of his noble friend was that then shoald no oollosdon of letters on the Sunday in the post-offices in the country ; that was, that the pat-office messengers should not be sent round to collect the letters, but that everybody was to be at liberty to put them in the pat-office on that day. Sn far as the poet-off es was coscerned that was a very easy operation. Nothing in the world was en easy, so far is the poet-aim was concerned, as to close the post-aloe on Sunday in the country the same as is London. It was a question for the public to determine ; and is point of fact, wberever the public had in any district expressed its wish that then should be no delivery of letters ' and no col lection of lett o rs on the Sunday, they bad conformed with that wish. If the country was prepared to ' put up with the inconvenience and delay of trans mitting laden the government was willing. Bat beliertug, as he ' did, that if that system were carried into effect, it would canoe great ineortvenience and hardship, espectal:y to the rioter dames, and believing as he did that he faithiully represented the great majority of the people in this country is saying that this ought not to be carried out, he must oppose this erotica. He believed that the evil of discontinuing the present practice would be greater than the advantage. In whatever way the government could diminish Sunday labour, they were wil ling to diminish it, bat they did not believe it would be to the advantage of the people to prohibit the eollectlon and delivery of letters ia the country on the Sunday. Colossi THOMPSON said that Lord Ashley had abstained hoot all theological argument in support of his motion, except is the ono amertios that all Christiana were agreed upon Ms duty of y__ohurving the Sunday. This respond's he disputed. The Jadelmi cheerful°, of &IL, 1850. A. ll lnth id re* . ii . si t. e l tha iskin•d eves ' i ti 4.7. id, lji. . the toted Mappers of Mao ' .4 Ali * been now modified, he sup h , 1 1121111 Meng istadosiat• nod, laredliale shear— , Ilba divided : • • dr i moths. Adalail t insitt , .1 . .11141 alargas , mo ....,.. • 111.7AGAN withdrew him none to sewn fili iiiiillies ea* lea Win midden mom le Inkal." .. ' .I. . . OATH OF LBJURATIOM. A • - ' Lord J. /30888 LL, is swift ten it eenetilles of du whole horse os the subject el lamodeales is OM the mode of administer*: the nth et Waal= to prolming the Jewish !Mika. said k %ISAMU lib. to go late tin agen w mate say dendlitelleilibit Mk Jon He did eat think that the hone wend otiose te by brieglag in a bill ea the n*o. The hone had twin meld a bill, and they had this year a very detailed matensat by the . present olatedten if the present state of the law. What he dwell - pansy was, that, en moving the emend readies of the tat, he woad eta% the rawest epee whist it was istardeL He wail only Luther say that there was so Nth dealt lad asset- tansy .s to the law, that it wood boa nollter he enedier Um whether thole pumas preludes no Jewish rallgies sight have men to the tells wpm es seed groans me pr eens heleriglag to the sods*, of hiss & He was decidedly a: exi t, that k hon dashed* sew mot shed* the: beet t am lh r t e quake is all hs hee v r e istiz , ar i t t i r l ie li dar 1w wpm* sf evWg fall sowmilleratiete to the sobilentled ha *odd on he lave to bring In a bill. He, thousfere, wow moved, thee the hones mons itself late a enualieseof tie whole lune, roamers ter Isere to briar; in a bill to " regulate the made of stkaielstering the oath of abjuration to serene professing the Jewish religion." L. NEWDEGATE mat npreas his regret that tits noble lord should disregard lb. satlefaetion with which the decision of the upper house had been remind by the people. They were about to see introdand into the house a bill which threw a doubt on the propriety of the hduse retain ing its Christian character, and however humble a weather he might be of it, be pane notice that when the noble lord proposed the wooed reading of his bill, he *odd cane that it be read a second thee that day six months. Re felt can • tient that he thould be supported out of doors by the same deep feeliege to which the people had even exprceelon on brew oceadoas. Kr. PLUMP TRE deprecated greatly that the Christian character of this house should be altered, and should trite every opportunity of giving hls decided opposition to the proposition of the noble lord. _ Toe house then went into tiosunittee of the whole bolus, end leave wu given to bring in the bill. The house resumed. COEPOUND HOUSEHOLDERS. Sir W. CLiifsto;eilorToi;ot;ittisiiti;llll to amend the Law for the rogistratioa of certain persons commonly known as compound konesheidera," and to feeilitate the mercies by slick prisms of their right to rote in the elec tion of borough inamben to serve in raiment. Leave gives. ENGLISH AND IRISH UNIVERSITIES. On the artier of the day being read for the restroption of the stained debate (Med April) on this sables; Mr. GLADSTONE said that he had ghee notice in • the early part of the day of his intention to move the post. ponement of the adjourned debate, but he thought that ender the circumstances of the present day, sod considering the expectations which would be entertained, it would not be an unreasmable request that they should postpone the debate for to-night, Every riumber for the university was absent, the hon. member for Taniworth was anent, betides may lawyers, who considered that this question involved eocstitutlonal topics of the utmost lesportame. Another question Ind been raised, that this dissuasion should drop altogether, but he had a dißculty in persuading himself there was any gentleman conversant with the history of the universities who could think that the question of inquiry into the state of the universities by Royal con mission was of such alight importance that it was not worthy of discussion. The noble lord had admitted in the fairest manner that it was • question that deserved discussion. RI views were to raise the question whether the proceeding proposed by the noble lord was not strictly an unoonstitu tiosal proceeding. He should argue that it was an uncon stitutional mode of proceeding which the noble lord meant to take, and U he thought that there was cause . enough for • measure so serious as the institution of an inquiry by publik, authority into the state of the universities, the only course he could with propriety take,_ would be to propose the appointment of a commission by act of parliament. There was no inten tion of evading or escaping the question by deity, that was far front their intention, their character would be degraded by any such proceeding, and the sooner the discussion came on the better for the universities. Removed that the debate be adjourned till Monday next. The SPZAKIIII having put the question, Lord J. RUSSELL said that he had no objection to the adjournment till Monday next, because the hon. member had stated that the absence of th members for the universi ties wee caused by the expectation that it would not come on. lie soled not give a day appropriated for govern ment business for the resumption of this debate. Re thought the proper course for the hon. gentleman to pursue would be to take one of the days appropriated to notiees or appoint the debate for some day when the orders of the day ot indi vidual members were discussed. Mr. GLADSTONE—Do yen postpone the commission ? _ _ . . Lord J. RUSSELL did not promise to postpone the com mission. As at present advised he was inclined not to do eo. He agreed to the adjournment of the debate till Monday nest. lir. EMIR hoped the noble lord would not postpone the issuing of the commission, as it was snick expected by the public. ELECTIONS (IRELAND) BILL. The debate ea the third readiag of the above bill was re sumed. In answer to es lion.Martuns, _ . Mr. HUME regretted the abs;nee of the hon. member who had proposed to engraft t►e ballot on this measure. If any country in the world required the protection of the ballot it was Ireland, where, between the landlord on the one side and the priest on the other, the elector was constantly per pissed and coerced In the nereise of his franehise. (Hear, hear.) He did not, however, feel himself Notified in pro any amendment in the theme of the hon. member After s short distention respecting some verbal amend ments proposed by Bir L. O'Bitraw, which was wholly un intelligible in the gallery, the bill was read a third time and pissed. ribs *aria AY kaaNNIM ~,r t e M e liZarillr_ a a ms y : 81.0 tar I IX Ma 454.4 THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVEBINNO, MAY 81, 1850. , \ - .....4 :4, ... - w i t h th e d oc i a tiOdties gea We at bbili bat bus made to e prepieldet sMs Were wbial esbbatlggrioaly agitip e racr a Z probibi4A ~'' ' the souramar. V., . AI slams isis I -11 lies by ibs Fouiter „__br PM gri l le" e lb rinVOlS. ton Rs Mr. GLADSTONE said he sbeald -4 1 il k , -4 • SU ' o ld . , ,-ss 4. 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',. _, , .. ._ •,. o so i n a iss „ 7. isi2 s. - - • - A are bat OM optimally, sat all the ishesiatisa the Et titstau wee as sliest= 411 Mu put of lbe es so m,. pixidspa s iss t ”" ' ' I ' Its malls Ism is brim hi m & tite r ": malssimers Noshed voald I = IsWifisel. pert situ eisslaties, end Ws vow UM Of eifsfit toM she asstassiptsra s wqi Mr. 0111011,1 LE—Au lis ibsi t urabses may grossest sapsrleass la Ike Loader imag e they ail low ed US iloaL l r m . . • bredVai lli bige=lt . 4 +. .. floe; -AA .a. —....-11.• .... r.. Amli mlihril• ~................, _ ___....._... ... .id re* , 4 •41.....91 iU . t o 1. •,I i o. oo• tooo. ~ ot , i . WI *the as OATHS AND AFFIRMATIONS BILL. Oa the motion Wilk; thin bill was brought in and read a Ant time. The house adjourned at eight &dock. NEW ZEALAND COMPANY. The following is the, twenty-sieth report of the Court of Directors of the New liaised Company "At the conference which was held se the ltith of Feb rasry het, your attention wee drawn hyper directors to the particslan of the auntie( mirremisst between the company and her Majesty's government, =I the unditions were poinLed oat to you under +kitties, altmeatives of continu ing or diessetinaleg your °mallow after the bth of July neat wen respastively loft to your election, by the provisions of the ail of sarWmmt 10 sod 11 Vim., e 112. After a lo g and full dfisamMa of the mar, yea expressed a wish that we should open a farther ei getlatloo with the govern ment, upon the understanding that wl in! conclusive should be agreed to without being inevisesis submitted for the decision of the shareholders. We have accordingly en tered upon the duty thus entrustod to us. But, as you will readily conceive, the widen involved have been found te be of such magnitude and importune, that it has not been practicable to conduct them to a point which admix of their being laid before you at the present muting. Nor is it de sirable, while they are vat in this iaapiefe. t state, deep ea is your inter at in the result, to allude in any way to the specific nature of the arrangements soutemplated, or to express any expectation as to what that result may ultimately be. We beg to recommit d, therefore, that without mitering upon any business whatever, you adjourn to one o'clock on Tues day, the gad of July. By that time we hops to be able to report, definitively, both the suet position in which you stand, and the course which in our cp it is most advan tageous to you to adopt; and in the meanwhile you may rest around that no final arrangement will be made without your previous oonsent. Until the day mentioned, you will concur with us in thinking it advisable to abstain even flora giving a statement of the mending" of the paskyeu ; with the exception only of laying Were yen the metal annual accounts of Me' ipti and payments, sad sawn and Urbilitl. s ; and el ansonnaleg that we have elioned Hr. William Mon- I m u, KT., to fill the vacancy in the flirtation caused by the rstiremeat of Mr. Stewart Marteribeeks. You bays been apprised, by the public mottos essacieeing this meetiog, that von will be invited to eine disosaiss h tho room of Mr. Joseph Seim and Yr. Charlie Wig. Beth deceased, and the followhig gentlemen ollie litionivea for 'election namely, Mr. OWNS ROMA mew, mg. Jobe Hutt, and Mr. William Henry Barred, You IMO also hum apprised, by the man notice, t►atM.etsMsw Misoiongo oat .4 office, namely, the Berl Titbit, Mr. HHeeiimnt Birl4lll Armstrong, m.p., Mr. John Eller:tee Beale" Kr. Georie LH', jun , Kr. Archibald Hay.* M.P., and Kr. Unary Aiding; Aglionhy, M.P. And that, boles silgibit fer ft-election, 22.14 , .. , a...h er to be reelielei oemeMegly.—Naw -bouft 9, Bro•d-street-buildingi, Leadoff, May 31, MO." LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 31. IT is inamMatoniistakeitimaisederitty of the pro- Et man ioo which the Howse of llama= will taillight called on to slept withiregend todshoportadesof sugar. Sir EDWAZD Belvieu Mks the leg' adman that in oda to p* down Negro slavery we most robes to partake el iss is faits ; ai d d r a eserequoto et laying doom th prepai's d seem to any dull intellect equivoeal, air. T. Lew., ai r ge o gsts the practial addittoo....tha neteme" dation; with reg t, ard to *was est a te be forthwith sconsidored. :.• , , is, in short, a proposal, in terms, that we should go back to protection. There is no attempt at dispiek it ; indeed, the pilled itoirosly admit" of disguise. We do net atop is inquire whether a bive of differential duties larks unconsciously in the mind of the amiable baronet who hma been put forward by more wily politicians malls instrument of their most nnphihmthropio purpose, or whether hie zeal in the cause of abolition has consumed all compunction shoat taxing the poor and laborious population of his own race and clime, and that, indifferent to the priva. dons to which they may be legislatively devoted, he deems its, duty to wage romantic war in defence of the sable children of Hart. With Sir &mean oi his political metaphysics we have practically nothing -to do. He represents no party or even clique in par-, limed about whose opinions the public add enter . hiln a feeling of curiosity. It is not by those who resemble or who sincerely sympathies with him, that any motion of this or any other kind can be carried. He is notoriously the mere instrument in the hands of that inveterate fac tion who thidntained both protection and slavery 65 long as they were able, and who now are as ready to clutch at any chance of recovering the one as they are of restoring the other. Sir J. PAKINGTON moved a resolution in substance similar to the present proposition two years ago, and after a protracted dimension of many nights' duration, ministers were only able to defeat it by a majority of fifteen; the numbers being 200 against 245. On that occasion there were found in the minority twelve members of the liberal party. How will these gen tlemen be found voting now? Are they still pre pared to say on behalf of their constituents that they are desirous of seeing the price of sugar raised twenty or thirty per cent, in order that the absentee landlords of Jamaica may once more enjoy an annual income out of customs duties? Then there are the followers of Mr. GLADSTONE : what will these men do ? In 1848 they helped to Eyel: the ranks of the protectioniets, from wh om th e y never been, perhaps, in feeling alienated, but whom their confidence in Sir ROBERT PEEL had temporarily lured them. If, while the bitter fetid et 1848 was fresh, and the stinging tattle BENTINCK and DISRAELI were still nnging in their ears, the instinct of exaction proved sufficiently strong to re-unite the mutinous host into one firm bud again, may we not expect to-night es ready and esmplete a fusion of sections and confusion of chatinc dons on the tory side of the house ? Two remarkable names will indeed be wanting. Tape-isle are no longer led by LINCOLN, nor the anti-Tape-lets by BENTINCE. DISRAELI and GLADSTONE, however, remain—the exponents of the old and the new dispensations of for ism, and infi nitely abler exponents of their several covenants than their predecessors of ductal derivation whom death or absence has removed. All that dexterous sophistry can suggest and diverse kinds of mystification can secomphab, will doubtless be attempted by these rival aspirants to the post of leader of the reactionary party. Nor are we so sanguine as to doubt that each will bring his usual contingent into the field; and if to these be added as many soi-disant liberals as were fooled into changing sides in 1848, on similarly vain and vague pretences, we don't see why as large a minority should not be reckoned in May, 1850, as there were in June, 1848. A minority, nevertheless, it is certain they will be, if the representatives of popular sentiment and reason are true to themselves, Ile confess we should not be contented with a mere preponderance of fifteen friends of free trade over its beleaguerers. If two years' addi tional experience of the solid benefits which cheapnees and abundance are capable of conferring on the miss of the community be worth anything, it ought to be manifested in an increasing fixity of resolution to re sist on all occasions any attempt at encroach ment or retrogression; and an increasing re luctance on the part of those whose pru dence not whose will consents, to reopen the perilous controversy between the many and the few respecting the cost of the necessaries of life. To give confidence to the timid, and courage to the wavering, to set at rest all thoughts of fiscal change, and to quench the smouldering plots and schemes of the an cient enemies of free industry, something more deci sive than a majority of fifteen is necessary. That something more will be shown upon to-night's divi sion we have little doubt. It is such opportunities that serve to exhibit the true strength of the liberal Earl in parliament, and which every wise and true earted friend of his country, to whatever section he belongs, must gladly seize to aid in demonstrating the futility of those hopes which toryism may have built on appearances of disunion. IF there be any place in the United Kingdom where the United States ought to be more popular than another, it is, of coarse, Manchester: for Man chester is not only dependent on the States for the supply of the raw material of its staple manufacture, but the United States are the best foreign cus tomers Manchester has for its cotton.. Yet Man chester, in spite of this mutuality of interests, is yearly getting more and more uneasy at its depend ence on that country. Not, however, from any serious apprehens'ons that America sill either supply itself with those fabrics, or drive us oat of neutral markets; still lees from political motive.. The unsoundness of the system on which Lowell has sprung into existence is now becoming apparent, and may w:11 relieve our manufacturers from the fear that they are shortly to lose the trade of the United States; while the annually increasing exportation of their cotton goods elsewhere assures them that their bold of other countries is growing stron er, net weaker. The uneasiness of Manchester has reference rather b the imports of the raw motet's' than to the exports of the manufactured article ; for if they eau have the former in abundance, any rivalry as to the latter is chimerical. Now, there is yearly a terrible uncer tainty in Manchester as to the extent to which they can depend on the import of cotton. With a plenti ful supply, there is profit, ample employment, and contentment. With a deficient import, there is loos, short.time, discontent, and hazard. This un certainty, too, makes the trade in raw cotton on both sides of the Atlantic a gambling trade ; false reports on the American sea board, and i•accurate returns in Liverpool, are means very commonly used to 1 , raise or depress prices ; and divided between the English speculators and the English meat:Ken- I tutees, it may be safely stated that America annually 1 extracts from this country at least half a million ster- 1 ling a year more than the cstton she sends us is really worth, in reference to i a supply and our demand. No wonder, then, that Manchester, notwithstaud ingl all its prejudices and prepossessions in favour of the United States, is desirous of beiug relieved from this dependence. No wonder it turns from east to west, from South America to Africa, in the hops of enlarging the field of supply. To whatever part it turns, there it sees natural capabilities to produce in abundance what it most wants. In Jamaica and Guiana, in Natal and Brazil, there is soil, there is climate : and in all, except Natal, there are old rot fields. Yet fres thane ra ---- ppl i es are ho for poplins& mad cheap hamar are as epe es ohi to the abeashost production of rattan as rail e s i amis.; sedition lee aionerass ere deficient in soch elemena et imedastion. Oa the western Ott Addeo thilft let helmet' ; , pm:nation Is iMiens but in , wind" curatisuous sad systematic labour tr o b i Mideralwars mot the nesenery onoomitants 0 eve ll Au spopedstiera True it io. our exports into deshlath, Africa me inorearan a but pan oil is col. Weed Mod, lansiseitimed wi th little labour s e i,,,, dpiger s . Ma nedectiois don set require habits s t order. eshordineties, mei dentisabus applie lt . ob ; i ts sesewdal grows speatiosemly ; its collo suits deealtoryto irregular, saiindeint hie o he n v .....ei I the Astalititin M. which it is brosight dow n r s the coin us minus' rather of what the negro i s •we - Woman& then of his {meant cop s . dor m : to lay prawn demand for enty,u, w .shea shave ben infused into the rade ind.berbizoss fruiewock of the Ashanti osi DaMeod sinus, then. emiainly, not befor e , Mi n . nester may empeatte remiss cotton from the wtru.ro neat of Itlness...- 7.4:-- • - - But these me istilti•mmistries to which Manch e ,. tea hen mainly tamed. It is to India, where , i addition Nil an* climate, ther e is also c a population, asap .labour, and systematic :nd os t it re, that Manehester hoe long looked f or re li e f from cf. pendenoe on the United Staten. As yet, h vain. .For mom .than .ten years Manchester he s 'i„,"7, eiegedthe doom the India House and the Bon e d of Costrbl withemmest entreaties to encourage the production of cotton: and for full that time the g s . vernment of India bas been engaged i n carrein4-04 -experimental tarnse,in providing American plante r .,i e sending out improved machinery, in offering ne ve , : and is transmitting samples of cotton produced wide; these auspices to Manchester. But, alas ! for such good intentions, such scientific efforts and such bele. volent designs, the bulk has never foll owe d the sample; and, after ten years' anxious expectivinn, Manchester seems as little likely to gain rehrf in her dependence on America as ever. It was in India that weaned compensation for our loss of the Ame rican colonies; it is now in India that we seek tor safety against the monopoly of cotton enjoyed he the states formed out of those colonies. The failure of these efforts Manchester cannot no. dentand : her energetic manufacturer, are puzz.ed ' to comprehend why India with every element of pro duties, cannot, or does not, supply them with , ottoc: they seek to know the reasons, and to remove th e e h. stractious if removable; and with this view, trey have requested Mr. Bitinut to procure, tt n y lg h parliament, a commission to be sent to India n.r :te pareCee of investigating the cotton question. They are not, of comae, without their suspici vas t - the causes; but they desire the commis ins, net to confirm their anspicioue, but in perfect good tsivn ; their object is to benefit themselves, and tnrouh Manchester to benefit India. The inquiry it it - . pro ' jested to collect evidence whereon to toned meat against the East I••dia Company or its 4 ment in India ; the inv2stigation is not mean: up charges to be used when the present chatter ex. pires • the examination is not intended to h a v e any politiUal effects; above all, the oonomieeien is r../. asked to dams,e the character of the present rtnert of India in the estimation of their subjects. What is wanted is the truth on this quettiot cotton only : to know whether India cannot with the United States in our markets ; to ascrr:tin the best way of bringing India into such c001ie.... ; ; to arnve at convictions founded on adequate , tion on the subject. It maybe possible, how- r likely, that free Indian labour, though ao.ndant, cannot raise cotton at prices to supply Manch( •:.r. li so, let us ascertain the fact. It may be that there some inferiority in Indian freedom, some superi,r :y in American slavery, connected with this cion,?(:. If so, let us find it out. Don't let as rest canter: v fruitless experiments, vague statements, accounts, inconsistent reasons, and de:us.‘, ; mimes. When Canada was disturbed, a ( sion was issued to tell us, and ttei tell us, the causes of its uneasiness. Wlten we were , ignorant of Ceylon, a commission was sent thither to enlighten our darkness. When Ireland organised, Lord DEVON and his brother comni,soci rt traversed the island to examine into its bad lion. Why then deny to India an investigitt. qt. ' y commission which Canada, Ceylon, and Ireland, t: if we recollect right, New South Wales also, have .. bad to their great and manifest advantage ? Vr :.y refuse to our fellow subjectio in the cotton districts India an inquiry ouch as there is scarcely a gees: branch of suffering industry has not enjoyed home ? On no subject probably are there such discordant opinions as on this question of Indian Cotton. It um in vain a Committee of the House of Commons tit thereon two sessions ago; in vain they exam..r.e l witnesses the most able, political economi-ts most scientific, retired functionaries the mss: cl,t rienced, naturalists the most learned. Thee v.:- lected a masa of facts most useful ; and of op ril,:ts very suggestive, but causes they could assign none it: their report why India did not eend us raw c :ton. Mr. F. C. BROWN assured the committee ! . 7.e land assessment was the cause. Mr. pledged his character that the land asseesment nothing to do with the matter ; yet both agree,' :ca: India ought to supply Manchester • whilst Mr. CRAWFORD as positively affirms that India under any circumstances, compete with the States. It is not a year since the Times was quite "'ran that Indian railways would remove all the now cue contemporary is as corfident that tie 0 4%4 want is Manchester agents in the cotton distrl.:s. Like Mr. Bazaar, we have our opinion : Hitt hlu we cannot think a lend assessment, which Sir 11. BERT MADDOCK told the Ceylon committee as', r throughout India 40 per cent, on the gross the soil, favourable to the culture of cotton ::end him we think the beet mode of proving who is who , wrong, is to despatch a commission to loots investigate the matter on the spot. FRANCE. PARIS, TIIUMMT The Opinion I'ublique states that all the English who have been preaenteu to the President Lave re ceived invitations for the soiree this even;ng at the Elyeke, and that Lord Normanby is expected to mate his appearance there. The legitimist organ infers that the dispute irrh England has been amicably settled. The iruparticcs of such a fact, and the generally authentic charadar of the Opinion Peoblipe s information, have iud , me to to sift this report. Ttie re,ult of my it• qii S is, that there has never been any suspension In the weekly invitations sent to the E-glish. Such esrds were issued for the party of the Elye last !fr.urs day. I believe that epon that occasion some appOdi- Gone were made at the embassy to know if it iret:l be advisable to accept the invitations. It 1 aui correctly informed, the answer was that co rurare existed between the two countries such a' to render the acceptance a breach of national decorum, and invited were left to consult their own taste. if any went, they were in a very small minority. Purmic the present week these applications for advice have been repeated, and the answer has, 1 believe, been substantially the same, but perhaps a talitee W T" encouraging. Hence, no doubt, a good n uniSer ef English will go. At one time it was support'! •hat it was not impossible that his excellency might mo be present. But whether some hitch has oce. , r.eC.:n the negotiations, which were expected perhei's to have been brought to a close to-day, or other accui.itt intervened to prevent him I know not, catrtaitt. it's that Lord Normanby was, at four this afterncon, on the point of returning to Versailles. The Petrie says "We are assured that the En peror of Russia, after having received despate' e 0 .1,- flouncing the conolusion of the Greek athor, I diately recalled his ambassador, M. de Bruno*, 'T"r's 1 London. It is said that the courier who coded this order went out of his road to communievt • his do patches to the Russian klinister at Paris, %ha was retain or forward them according to circumstances. This is not believed in well-informed quarters. M. Isturits has arrived in Paris on his sill Loudon. I mentioned yesterday that a duel had Nen ar• ranged between M. Roger du Nord and M. llouvet. They fought with pirtols the same evening. Inv parently without any unfortunate nwul. sa h were present to-day in the Chamber. The sitting of the Legislative Assembly eornm da of e noed to-day with the adoption of a bill opening a cro O a