The Express. — London, England, 1850-02-28 00:00:00

f. IMI'ERIAL I'ARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAT, FIB. 27. TM SPIAIII Mob the chair at 12 o'clock. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Cocotte Rivas.—By Hr. arooN BR, from Warwick shire, in throw et giving control to the payers of county IMAM Wnenow Derr —By Mr. C. LUSRINOTON, 18 peti. tins from SL Aan's and other parish's ia !Andes, preying for the abolition of the window tax Taxis ow KnowLroon.—By Mr. RICE. from Dover ; Mr. S. ADAIR, iron Cambridge ; sad Mr. J. PARKER, from Sheffleld ; for the abolition of the taxes. Simi or Srtairs.—By Mr. REYNOLDS, from 'pint drains of Dublin. praying to be plaerd on the lams footing as the ineporters of Mesita spirits. Baia Horsne.—By Mr. HEY WOOD, from Lincaster, ageism any Mimeo* i. 6 the arteher of beer•holiess. Posv-orrirs.—By Sir R. H. INOLIS, from a place in Herefordshire; Mr. H. DRUMMOND, and Mr. MOODY, from various place*, 1.4 the abolition of Sunday labour is the Priet-ofAce. Wittman's BILL —By Mr. BROTHERTON (16); Mr. CAREW, Mr. DAVIS, and Mr. PETO (74), from various absenting eontretations; Mr. HRADLAhI, from Newastle ; Mr. J. I'ARKER, from Stu Mold ; Sir 0. PR CHELL, from Sam ; Mr. MACKINNON. te =Leaming ton, in favour of the MU.—Sir R. H. INGLIS, from the Clergy of the rtiocees of Elder, from Canterbury, and other Mr. OOULBURN, frees the University of Cam bridge, agreed to unanimonsly by one house, and by a alacrity of only seven in the other; Mr. FULLER, from Ea.ez; sad Mr. A. HOPE, frees several places, against the tilt. AWILICCLIIIII.I. PROTECTION —l3, Mr. CAREW. from Cornwall, pray 5( tor agricultural protection. Pam Drie.:-By Mr. REYNOLDS. from Oalway and other pions in Inland, for the abolition of the paper duty. . . TZA Derr.—By Mt. TENNENT, sroat &Mat, for the &bollix et the slaty .4 few LAZOVI IX FACiOZIIII.—By Col. THOMPSON. from Braabord. ia &TOUR of OAS IniCifla Tea Holm Ha LAW OF MARRIAGE BILL. Hr. J.S. h avi ng prevented vest number of pe Wone in favour of the metre, proc tiled to move the second readies of the hill. As the provides' of the bill were well Mown to the bowie, he need not page over the extensive ground which had bees gone ov.r in previous dis cussions. Ile regretted he was opposed on this quoit to many boa gentlemen who sat ow the same side with him, gad for whose opinioce be entnteined the highest respect; bat having dia'y considered the tune he was about to take before he tiered upon it. and beteg fortified by the opinions of many hafted and pies men of high station and cha racter is the e:iurch ant out of it, he felt that he was cot at liberty to onsult his own private feeler, which would have tilted kin probably in recede from the task. The present bill I. Its main toile:ors was the seas in prirciple as the tae of last ye-r. It planned to grout relief in the in state of marriages the prohibition of which was proved to be productive of the greatest moral evil. (Hear, hear.) In framing the bill of lest year, he ecdeavoured, es tar se paisib'e, to avoid siring ground of Irri tant' t 3 the feelings of any put of the community or of an; relloitte body, and this year, profiting by experience, he had titutround to restrict the bid to that which most required amendment, and thus its far se p sable to avert opposition. (Hear, hear.) Is list year's bill he propcsed to legalise marriage not only with the deceased wife's sister, but also the matriage—which was nowhere for. la !den by seeipture nor by the ties of blood—with the lien of the emend wife. But, yielding to the feelings rather thee the judgment, perhaps, of some of his own sup porters. as well as of some of the opponents of the measure, ard feeling that the numb,, of Curb marriages was to small that the practical grievance war much less then in the other can, he had thought it right to omit that provision from the present biii. In the bill ef last year he thought he was coo. suture the enlist of the church and of a large n.ajority of the cleray, who might be expect.dto oppose say alteration of the eating law, as alto, on the other hand, the large L. sort ecepprien g many meet pi All and leareed men sheet& a different view, seethe the state of opinion in the chuck, net to make it compulsory, bet to leave the clergy at liberty to perform such usen-ges d disposed, hut from the discus Moe on the bill sad the petition presented he found that by a very large body of the church that provision writhed ups. as an imitation of diorite's*, sad was offensive alike to many of those who diffend trees !atm as well as to others who were favourable to tha principle of the measure. (Hear.) Yielding then to this view he had is the present inetur. abandoned that prevt•ioa and had Wetted another the effect of which would be to preserve the discipline of the church whole and entire, leaving the clergy of the church who wen milder the snidest and disciple's, of their superior, liable to eccleeisetleal censure if they sikmnised such 'marriages contrary to the ord:rt date euperion. and the discipline of the church coseequently sedosached. (lieu, hear.) He had been etrosely anxious also to consult the feelings of the clergy . of the Church of Smit'and whore position in this re , specs oilseed materially from that of the clergy of the Eng lish church. Strange as it might seem, amongst the canons salted fur subeeniptioa by tier en of the Church of England on than 'dation t a holy orders, this canon relating to 'write with the deceased wife's sister did not appear. But the case was different is the thank of Scotland. Clergymen cf that church, on their &daisies, were required to noble-the to that %Iron. In the Pet con7ession ff... 1 .1 - r-t h l. of .7. - 1;4 X lel—lbere was no peon lion prohibiting these marriages; but in the subsequent con fession—the second confession which was ;mesa by the Assembly of Westminster in the beat of the rebellion, and he might say in the heat of fanaticism—this particular canon was inserted, end the clergy of the church of Scotland were to this day bound to suinvibe to it. Such were the motives which had induced him to make the alteration in this respect is the present bill from that of last year. The measure was simply and altogether one of relief. It attacked no men's conscience—it everetd is no way the religious feelings of any community, neither did it interfere with the discipline of any church ; but on a question of admitted difficulty and immemorial controversy, at simply allowed to each commu nity, and to evert; individual churchman or dissenter, free doss of judgment. And in doing this he had confined the question to the narrowest possible ground. The leading feature of the measure was to legalise the marriage with the deceased wife's sister. That was the existing gnevance which it was his object to introduce a practical remedy for. Judgirg from the nature of the objections, he very much doubted if the bill were really undoes/ od even in that loam. It had been argued frequently, as though it were a question as to the character of these marriage'. That was sot at all the question. If this bill were pared, each com munity, each family, and each individual, might form their own opinion as to the character of such marriages, as freely as they could now. There was nothing Is the bill defining the character of these marriages ; the object was merely to say that there was notion., in scripture, nothing in the prin ciples of morality, to induce the legislature to declare such marriages invalid Neither was he about to call upon the home to alter some anci.nt and long-established law. The statute he troposed to amend way only 15 years old. The law as it now stood was never the law of England till the year 1835; and this exoettion, if he might use the word, was given to the law of the church, that if the fact of the marriage was proved in the Ecclesiastical Court, the law of the land allowed it to exist during life, sad sinless prcceediegs were taken beforehand, It was incontestable after death as well as during life. He believed there was no instance of any such mar risme being annulled in former times, unites for the purpose of obtaining property. NHS opinion was not opposed to ouch marriage', for they were by no means unfrequent in the lower and middle class of life, and the first case in the upper class brought promirmatly forward was sanctioned by the legislature in the bill of 1833, which prohibited similar MU riff( for the future. Ta, y were all aware of the circum stance. under which the bill was passed—(bear, hear)—and he therefore would , not repeat them. Mr. Wortley then, at some length, considered the social evils expected from the 111111 h» by its opponents—which be believed would be so greater them in other comatties—mostrastisel them with the evils attending the present state of the law—which proved that pointsr opinion did not sanction it;—and he adduced fresh evidence, and the testimony of emi nest clergymen of large expiiriesee, in favour of am alttrattoa of the law. The admitted inefficiency of the law was a great reason why it should be amended. Public opinion generally diaregands I it; end, notwithstand ing the number of such marriages which were constantly taking plats, they did not shock that johlic opinion. On the contrary, the married parties were well treated, and no reproach was cast upon them for having contracted matri• wormy under such circumstances. He bad been mach, sad perhaps justly, ridicele'l for having estimated the mar. nieces so contracted since 1835 at somewhere about 30,000. He thought it possible he was in excess, but this his catculatios ,:tended to the whole king dim ai.al to the colonies, whereas the estimate of ti ose who differed from Lim was confined to England and Wain. He b lived, however, that he would have bees mar the mask had he said that the number of eueh mar riages, and eassatitaapte without marriage, since 1835, was eh aut .41,U00. but he easel at what th e exact number might be. It was admitted that 3,000 or 4,000 such mo rtar's had harm s , lernnited; and therefore, averaging the number of children from each of these marriage" at three, no fewer then 8,000 men and yawn and 12,000 children, in an 20,000 perm s, were °enormity injured by the ezistiag law. (Hear, hear. j The Loodon Church Union bed been whin/ inquiries on this a abject, and they hail obtalsed 271 answers from parochial clumpy. From thee' answer it sp line's! that 2 1 1 marrisg. within the prohibited eh gran b a d taken plat, and flat of these 169 were contracted with a wilt's sister, 11 with a brother's wife ' 19 with a nice. and 6 with an aunt. But returns of this description were seldam to fi- relied upon, inasmuch as Lao contractiag partite son. misled their discrete of sanity from the deny at the time ta,a, marriages were solemnised. (Hear, hear.) The hes. and ai sr gentleman then read affecting lett , in which bed passed between (slimness mod some of the most exemplary of their panel. , oners who had restricted marriage wi.bin the pro hitaittet dewires, In which the former elm-lei their bleep regret that the print at state of the low compelled them to look UV."' sash aterrians as illegal, and concluded amid los4 cheesy., by movie, that the bill he read • second tams. Th.: motion laying bees duly ascended, Sir F. THESIOEH oppneed the wand reading. It was sew len years ago *ism a number of persons of wealth, sons of IleMea bail 'iodated Ike law by contracting /YET imps whack it prohibited ; coth n who were scrupulous es the sob ;./..•, het who desired so of terettios of the law, senciated them e. Iwo together Arol employed ottorof ye of very great teepee's wilt) to take ouch metsuros as is their professional discretion they should think espailient for the purpne of obtaining the object of the parties. Undoubtedly, the porteVerante, the skill. the adding., the sustained prosemation of the object committed to the charge of three attorneys fully jusil• fled the choice made et such They eon menced as truly as the year 1840, by feeling public, opinion on the 'abject by the publication of pamphlets, written with very greet ability, is will* the question as to these marrirestatag prohibited by nil* u well se bosun law was . Thus were fingered up by at cuter, sent to all the bishops and areb o biel p e h isrelidt theses opinion—certsinly with no very great "Mu they preluded to so li cit petitions and 'kers a; clergymen ; and he had reams &abetters that luny le Vie. linen read to-dav, were letters ink had be oliotalsed darns' the pried when the attorneys wen agitating tint question on behalf of those who suployed them. They thee proceeded to lay cases before the different tenderest the bar, and got their opinion. They even took advantage of the Mains] law, the law of settlement, in order to keep alive in the public mind this question ; and ultimately . they employed professionally no leas than nine different individuals, who were sent into various districts hie the purpose of collecting materials to enable the units to obtain the object they bad had so long in view. Now, he did not slop to inquire whir they the selection of these gentlemen urse by reason of their known opinions on the subject. He did not attribute Vest they were not gentlemen of character and intelligence, but he apprehended that the very astute of their employment prevented the possibility of their taking en impartial view of the question. (" Hear hear," and cheer, ) They air etmarily would by introdu cedC is the first pleas to these inte rested in the alteration of the law. What was the result ? Why, the whole of the evidence they collected for this par. titular purpoes—the direct object of their mission and em ployment—was that which termed the emple of the report presented to the house. They, in fact, reflected nothing more than those materials which they had collected under the circumstances stated. Evidence - had boon given by 41 witnesses. Tea of these whatnots were the professional *nee employed—(hmar, hear)—and 15 of the others were in terraced either personally or through their relations or friend& There were 2 lawyers examined, and 14 clergymen aid thinisters of different denominations, all of when ex pressed very different opinions on the subject. (Neu ) Now, he had been anxious to ascertain what was the view the commissioners themselves lock of the state of public feeling on the question, and he found that they state; that the majority the clergy of the esub:ished church in this country objected to such marriages—(ita, hear)—that in Ireland the great majority of the elerey of the established church disapproved of them—(heer)—that they were disap peeved of in that country by most of i he presbyterian clergy— that in Scotland the clergy were against them and that among the laity of the United kingdom the prevalent feeling was against them. (" Hear, bear," and cheers) We bad, therefor,, the admission that this was not a ease in which the state of public opinion imperatively required the house to penevere. (Hear, hear.) Well, now, what were the reasons which Induced these learned parsons to form the opinion they had arrivid at? Why, the reasons were scat. tared up and down the report, and this was the result: " Be nue families of a religious and moral character had, in many instances where such c nonezions had taken place smug themselves and their friends, been perfectly satisfied on a consideration of the whole subject that such carriages were not objectionable, either in a religious or en sal point of view ; because experience of the world bad proved that these marriages sprung out of • particular combins.ion of circumstances which gave ries to feelings naturally leading to marriage; sled because it was not • state of the law, prohibitory or permissive, which had governed, or would effectually govern, such attschmi nu and marriages." Now, anybody looking at this report, with an inclination to criticise, might be induce,. to thick that, from the unguarded expressions used, it seemed to be the opinion of the commissioners that, whatever might be the state of the law on any subject, if the gratification of the desires of corn should lead them to violate the law, they should be allowed to do so. (Hear, hear) And taking thew reasons, as the reasons of the commissioners, they almost went to justify any breach of morality, provided the concurrence of cir cumstances rendered it natural. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Well, now, under these circumstances, with this present view of the state of public feeling on the subject— with thus reasons which, after deliberation, these learned panes ham put lace the face of this report, the house was called tapes by his right hon. friend to legislate upon this important matter, and in one particular respect to alter our law of marriage, and to allow • person to marry the sister of kis deceased wife. At the outset, • very serious and startling question presented itself—namely, were or were net these murrain the subject of divine prohibition ? (Hear, hear.) It was admitted that if they were so, it would be presump tuous in the house to legislate in en opposite character. Ha.h man must determine for himself before he entered on • c scsideration of this question, whe ther he was or was not of opinion that there was a divine prohibition attaching to marriages of the kind. (Hear, hear.) He should have most earnestly d. sired that the opinion of the church could in some way have been col lected—in some sweatily of divines, either in convocation or otherwise—ins ceder that this preliminary question of vital importance might be settled. He knew that that weuld be considered by many as • weak abandonment of the tight of private judgment, and be confessed he bad no great expecta tion that ar y sue.' proposition would meet with favor from the house. He must, then, form his own deliberate, conga. anions opinion for himself, and he must endeavour WI weU as he could, amidst all the edmitted difficulties of the subject, to same to that conclusion which he thought was warranted by • correct judgment of the wetter. (Hear, hear.) Now, he felt the painfulness of discussing a question of this description before an assembly of teat kind. He did not mean to enter into any minute or parties/sr details on the subject. The paramount question was whether there wee a divine prohibition of these mere isrs, and ie the absence of any Zeciaraucn tai the church, in convocation or otherwise, individuals must form their own deliberate opinion, and he believed that the prohibitions in the Leviti. cal law on the subject of marriage were not part of the political, bat of the moral law of the Jews, and that they were of universal obligation. Ilia conclusion was, that thesis starrier.' were forbidden by that law ; but if there was even a doubt, it was not a matter of mere worldly prudence, but of the highest wisdom, not to concur in an act which far anything certainly known might be opposed to the Divine will. The first affect of this measure would be to legalise marriages contracted in kaolin and wilful violation of the law, and he endeavoured to counteract the sympathy which Mr. Wordier had tried to swam in fav or of the poor law, by showing that their interest in this quer tloa was an after.thought ; that the pievalame of three marriages amongst the poor had been greatly overstated ; in short, that the cue of the poor had entirely failed, and with it the argument founded upon urgency. Upon the s icial part of the question, and the expediency of changing the law, he enumerated the mischiefs of legalising such unions, which, ' be contended, greatly outweighel the conveniences; for the lake of a few, the legislature would am the seeds of alienation and suspicion in many families. This bill, too, whilst it broke down the barriers between parties in the nearest re- lations of affinity, still left those in the remoter relations subject to the present law. It inhibited this further in consistency—that it left the doctrines and canons of the church untouched, which, if not based upon the divine law, could be controlled by parliament, and thus (sinned • door to in justice towards the poor. It was quite clear that number of clergymen who would refuse to solemnise mar risges of this description. It was said that ha those cases the parties might go to another perish to be married. But the pow man could not leave his home ; be was tied to hie habit ition and his occupation ; be could not afford the real. dent* which was neenwary to enable him to contract mar riage in another parish. But suppose he did, and he returned, he would be regarded by his minister as having violated the divine law; and what would be the consequence Either he would be driven to the ranks of the dissenters, or he would be compelled to remain without the counts. sance or approbation of the clergyman. Then it was said that he might go to the registrar, and get married in that way. But if he did, he did not better his position. He bad now stated, impsrfutle he knew, the grounds on which he deeply felt the necessity of resisting to the utmost the introduction of a law of this description. They might appear to many, perhaps, grounds not founded on reason, bet they wen those which he conscientiously entertained, and therefore he felt it his duty to move, and he now moved, " that this bill be read a mond time this day six mouths." Col. THOMPSON shorly supported the bill ; as did Mr. IIEADLAM, ,ho cot tended that, if these marriages were not prohibited by Scripture, it was a matter of duty to thou who suffered a grievous to afford them relief ; and whilst Scripture did not in terms prohibit such unions, ana logy wu in fauwr of the non-' xistecce of a Divine prohibi tion. The present law waa intffictual, and without el•ar neosesity and the explicit sanction of the Divine law, it was highly im,olitic to array a portion of the people in direct opposition to the law. Mr. WOOD acknowledged that this bill removed a por tion of his objectifies to the measure, but it left some remain ing. He took • very wed. view of the aserriege lace of ancient nations, and deduced the couched...a that as nations advanced in civilisation, they always became peculiarly on their guard against a relaxation of morals. This considera tion, therefore, independently of its religions aspens, made the question • very pave one as respected the ar e and moral conditi . .n of our homes. The morale of this cauntry, he maintained, were superior to thsee of the continent, which he attributed in • great measure to the confidence reposed in our young unmarried women and the icnocent liberty conceded to them, and to the devotedness and at tachment of oar married worn, ',the one being • consequence of the other; and it was a seri des question whether, in this state of things, the remo v al os the existing barriers would not directly tend to • relax etion of our morale. Upon the subject of the po,r, ha impeached, the accuracy of the stetisticel evidence appealed co by Mr. Wortley, observing that a diligent inquiry into those of Weatmine er had discovered only one cue of a man married to his wile's sister, and he was leaked down upon by lie neighbours; whild there ww• two woos of men living with th. it own aftaers. The WOUVIS of England were deeply interested in this question, tad their sentiment., so far as they had been ' , suared. were hostile to the measure Upon the religious past of the question, he rP a nitliated the interpretation put upon the &raptures It)) T-Imudists, preferring the sounder •ziotwition esontedui d en the Sermon on the Mount, which 'aught us that we should nut slur ier but extend the moral law. Tease was na known e :ample of such a marriage iu toe Christian church tallier tt , an the fifteenth century, end finales, Baum" and o h r :eu,horitits, had laid it down as • rule that questions o tlinfty sal consanguinity were gemmed by the sago prim, pie. Ms. A. HOPM wad the ad atoneteot of the deb .te. Mr. 8. WORTLEY said that as the Speaker bed <l;ties to portent elsewhere, and as three was no prospect of the debate li , dog teasel uded dirt Porting, he should be glad to rehabs him Item his duties in that boon. Ile would, there fore, more the adjournm. tat at the debate sill Weduaday neat. The ►on. and learn. d member for Oxford's bill (the ♦frmation Bill) was heed lot that day, but he believed the TILE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28, 1850. escand read* would not bo opposed, and the debate an it would be taken oa ping iato committee. TM debate wee then najournoll. COPTHOLD ENFRANCHIBEMINT. Is answer to Mr. AGLIONIT Sir 0. (IRBY said that the bill for the abolition of harlots 31 ki1!? . . D PIIPIna• it*l. M Ise introduc4 , l4 Lk. other -came of Pansameat. He did not know it had sot Ocia iaMestisti c hut he would Inquire. „ COUNTY BATES. 0a the Both,* Mr. Hwy, the tallow* retort was ordered : *tun of the valise of all extra persilal property which oithethas been at is liable to be emaessedlo the county rate, under this act 8 and 9 Vie , e. 111, as fixed either by a county rate made ander the said mat, or by the property tax. The house wijostraed at a quarter peat four. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS FOR THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 81301 ID READINO.—Party Processions (Inland) Bill. REPORT OP AXINDEINTII—RECIegiEItieII CollllEitkioE Bill. NOTICES OF MOTION. --- Tan CAPII MIID,POST PHILIP —Lord MONTBAGLE, to present • potitiAt from the Cape of Good Hope on the adniiesion of convicts; and •lw • petition from Port Philip, Australia, on the franchise. ghe eimrefso. effectual way, and that was, to rally at f once the whole of the rate-paying classes round the eaves of peaceful regress, and while in vesting them with the legal power, charging them with the lei* responsibility, of defending all that has been already gained. We now repeat that counsel, and we do so deliberately. No qualmish maples shall restrain oar utterance of the disagreeable but there fore the more urgent truth—that the cause of indus trial freedom and social peace is in danger. A sliding scale of corn duties, or a prohibition of horned cattle, we may never see again proposed in parliament, but something meant to be as good for the tax-eaters, and consequently as bad fee the tax-payers of the kingdom we shall undoubtedly see proposed and urged open the legislature by the re-united strength of the heeded and colonial oligarchy. After what we have seen within the last few days, it were sheer hy pocrisy to affect incredulity as to their numerical force or unscrupulous daring. There is bat one way of bridling the rage and cu pidity of the few, and that is, by appealing promptly and plainly to the endangered many. Free trade and few taxes are questions for the people at large, or they are nothing. If the people don't ap preciate the value of them, they are practically value less. If a larger share of the comforts and necessaries of life be not worth fighting for, we do not know what is ; and if financial and fiscal reform be not cal culated to insure these blessings to the overwhelming mass of the industrious community, its doctrines are but economic riddles not worth the trouble of finding out,—philosophical conundrums not worth tre pains of solving. But if the undeniable fact be, that the people thoroughly understand their deep and lasting interest in the matter, and would, if they were allowed an opportunity for the full and free expression of their opinion, pronounce such a verdict as would a the the great social controversy for ever, —then in justice to thorn no further delay should be suffered to take place in appealing to the judgment of an Enfranchised People. The mass of the rate-paying population of the United Kingdom, as things now stand, are unjustly and unwisely denied the suffrage. Yet these are they whose interests are peculiarly at stake in all that points to progress or menaces reaction. What infatuat-on then withholds men who ancerely wish to see the policy of gradual and peaceable progress rendered irreversible,—what timidity or apathy causes them to hesitate in taking forthwith a step which they must feel to be ere long inevitable, but which, if unhappily 'delayed much further, will be forced npoo them by the passionate reproaches of an impatient and exasperated nation ? Da the wait for Loch a call ? Do conservative liberals think it wise or politic to teach the bulk of the community that there is nothing they may not extort by agita tion, and nothing that they may hope to get without it? This is practically the question which will to decided by the division on Mr. liesues motion. Fins phrases and conventional distinctions about terms will not be heeded now. All we have, and all we want to win for I the physical and moral amelioration of the com munity is in jeopardy. "The Philistines be upon thee, SAMSON !" Will green withes from fastidious gardens, however cunningly intertwined and twisted, suffice to hold down the awakened giant? The cuckoo cry for a dissolution is among the false notes raised by the Disraelitish party. Not a bad dodge for them, if they could only bamboozle the world i :to believing it. They would appeal to the people. So would we ; only let the appeal be an swered legally and constitutionally by the rate-paying people, and not by the sham electoral bellies to which the constituency of the realm has to so great an ex tent been reduced. Will they dare to take that issue ? They know well they dare not. The very shadow of electoral reform startles them. In the House of Com mons on last Monday night they fell into convulsions at being asked to go into committee on a bill— not to extend the Irish franchise beyond that which wis intended by the Reform Bill, but confessedly to restore the constituencies of that down trodden ciuntry to something like an equality with the other portions of the empire. They grew per fectly delirious, talked in an incoherent manner, and manifested all the ague of persons labouring under the influence of insanity produced by anxiety or alarm. Well may they fear. Their last hold on Ireland is so attenuated that they shriek from havirg it even looked into closely or ex amined. To defend it is impossible ; to sub sti-ute for it anything efficient or Imitable would, so far as that portion of the realm is concerned, be their qe-ctus. Hence their iitieble exhibition of weakness and frenzy. Were we mall ciolie, we would anticipate its repetition. Nothing can be more instructive than the self-immolation of fiction. But we arc much mistaken if the old hands o' the party have not already taken measures to pre vent the recurrence of such indecent exposures. Instead of being hailed as a deliverer the next morning, Mr. DISRAELI was given to understand by more than ono weighty person age' it is said, " that this sort of thing must never happen again." Old nobles and rich monopo lists don't m'nd being well abused, and clearly con vict, d of political delinquency; they have always been used to it, and think it rather a tribute to their poeitiou than otherwise. But there is one thing which utterly destroys their digestion. They cannot bear to be laughed at. Anything else they can endure ; but when they find themselves unexpectedly placed in an absurd and ludicrous position, they get red in the fice, and thick in the speech; giddiness seizes their eves; they become altogether helpless ; and are in that condition capable of being unresistingly dragged backwards and forwards by any wicked wight whom they may have formerly stung by their' jockey scorn. If, however, such a paroxysm is produced by so very moderate an instalment of justice to Ireland as Sir W. Someavitee's bill, what may we not expect when the full payment of the electoral debt due to the united realm shall be proposed ? And how hollow must the pretended desire of toryiem be for a real appeal to the people? Aud if so, why should any sound or honest friend of popu lar right and social safety halt between two opinions any for ger ? Eighty-four members of the House of Commons voted for the same motion made by Mr. Hum e in 18-19; we have surely a right to count upon a great accession of support for it in 1850. NEVER was a request so cryingly supported by cir cumstances, or so temperately and conclusively put forward by its mover, as %Ir. Fox's proposal on Tuesday night. The field of education in this country has been completely abandoned to great political interests, or to the z•ml of religious associa tions. Education in the higher classes is the mono poly of a caste. Beneath this, it it for the most pert a mere subservient to the inculcation of religious tenet& The State, as soon as it came to meddle with education, saw noshing better to do than not only to sanction this, but to extend and promote it. Inreead of bringing in any new priniple, creating w facilities and incentives to education, the State has merely sapersedel, and thus chiller], the efforts of r e ligious societies to extend and perfect their ei veral educational establishments. Ono hundred thousand a year has been distributed, the rca'er part to aid the wealthier dame and the church in bu'lding school-house which the church and the wealthier classes were very well able to do of themselves ; this very church and upper classes now turning round upon government, and re turning, not gratitude, but bitter reproaches for the boon. . . . 'There is a certain pint, however, at which even reli.,ious zeal, though aided by government pay, stops short: and there remains beyond a large proportion of the population, not t 3 be reached by any effort of either voluntary or state cducatit n, or by a combination of both. It is to attain this neglected, and, in educational provision, this proscribed portion of the community that Mr. Fox brings in bill. Mr. Fox comes but as a gleaner. Ile puts no impediment in the way of the church reaping .11 the hams!, that its s ckle can compasq. l le would not prevent any Denomination front cutting and plucking its proportion of the ern). All he asks is to be allowed to gather std to germ r what is left. If there be a district or a knot of remote poor, not in the vicinity or in reach of the charity of either wt althy landlord or capitalist, he requests that the property of the county be made liable to afford means of it s'ruction to the benighted and neglected of the population. What more fair, what more imperative, what more charitable ! No statesman could gainsay it, and we congratulate Lord JottN Itt'sso 1.1, upon having had the courage to receive with courtesy and favour the that introduction of Mr. Fua'a proposal. The diffi collies, however, do but :there commence ; for it is precisely for th ese waifs of society for whose instrue tion and improvement Mr. Fox would provide—. it is to obtain possession of these, that the church militant is at present most eager. Not content with full educational pow er in the very school-houses which the State has erected, awhich it insists in vesting exclusively in the pre lates, the Natienal Society claims an educational mo nopoly over the young inmates of the poor.houee and of the prison, and over the training schools that are to provide teachers for this and for every clue. " The education of pauper children," writes the Secretary of the National Society, " was entrusted to this society by the crown ' • and the National Society, as the organ of the chur c h, has still higher rights and graver responsibilities in that character." The church, therefore, claims as its own the two extremes of English society. It gives no degree or advantage in its lordly universities to students of any other creed. And it will allow no education of the destitute young, save what it directs and monopolise'. Whenever, in fact, there are fends provided for educe tioo, the church insists on acting schoolmaster, be it in the village school-house or the college hall. When Mr. Fox, therefore, proposes to raise money for educating the destitute, he may be sure that the church will not hear of it. He may talk as he will of the virtues and necessities of secular education. Secular educa tion means an education that the clergy do not direct; and they will in consequence none of it. We, therefore, have no hope s o f M r . F o x carry ing his point. Ile will state his case indeed so ab.y and so eloquently, that ministers cannot but com pliment him. But ea his oppoi.ents would much rather see Englishmen uneducated, and living like swine, than have them educated by other tnen they, even though it were by state pre ceptors, strongly and necessarily bound to the inte rests of religion, we again repeat we despair of his success. Government, we fear, committed a fatal error when it took the great religious associations as the basis of its educational scheme. It sought to make use of them, to lean upoa them an crutches, till the educational department of the government grew erong. Hut the crutches have got a will and an interest of their own, and refuse to prop up or to bear that feeble and premature invalid, the Committee of Education. The National Society, re presenting the church, claims no less than to act itself the executive and admiuis:rative department of edu cation. It claims its right from the Crown, from the church, nay perhaps from the Apostles; and it treats parliament as the mere national puree-bearer, bound to furnish its wants and haw submissively to its decrees. If government resists these pretensions, it evidently loses the support of the religious bodies on which it bailed. All the schoolhouses and the teachers, and the thousands of pounds it has sunk in fith, become useless, and the annual grant will, in fact, have been tnrown away. li', on the other hand, go vernment succumb, all the poorer class, that which cannot pay for its education, will be reduced to a kird of Egyptian bondage, and consigned to ignorance, b..causii the church will have the exclu sive right to teach, without having the funds or the means to do so, whilst parliament will have voted the funds and the means without the power of apply ing them. We cannot but think, therefore, that Mr. Fox's bill is a proposal to erect a superstructure upon an edifice so mis-shapen, so ill-built and In tottering, that it would be money and masonry thrown away to set about completing it. mne educational foundations that we have laid are rani , y, and in fact incapable of supporting even the present ricketty edifice above them, much less a comprehensive and worthy structure. Mr. Fox is n 3 doubt guided by prudential reasons. He limits his proposal to what he is likely to carry. And we hope he may carry it, in order that when the pri sent education system by means of religious so cieties falls to the ground, which it is already doing by the lukewarmness and schisms of these societies, there at least may be left something else standing ti which educ don and its prospects may cling. THE financial business of the session begins on Monday next. On that day government is to pro ceed with the navy estimates. On the Monday fol lowing the first votes on the army estimates are to be taken ; and on the 15th of March the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, if sufficiently recovered, is to make his annual financial statement. We are thus particular in directing attention to the opening of the financial camplign in order that constituencies may be warned to keep a sharp look out on their representatives, and even administer a gentle hint to such as are not already at their posts that they are expected to be in attendance when it begins. The struggle for retrenchment will commence with the introduction of the first estimates. Mr. CuttDEN has already put the following notice of mo , tion on the order book : On going into committee of supply, to move, that the net expenditure of the government for the year 1535 (Parlia mentary Paper, N. MO, 1847 ), amounted to 44,422,0001 • • hat the net expenditure for the year ended she sth day o f January 15.50 (Parliamentary Paper, No. 1,15%01, amounted t 3 50,553,000 ; the increase of uowards of 6,000,0001. having been caussel principally by successive augmentations of our warlike establishments, and outlays for defensive arma ments. That no foreign danger, or necessary cost of the civil government, or indispensable disbursements fcr the services in our dependencies abroad, warrant the continu ance of this increase of expenditure. That the taxes re. quired to .neet the present expenditure impede the opera tions of agriculture and manufactures, and diminish the funds for the employment of labour in nil branches of pro ductive industry, thereby tending to produce pauperism and crime, and adding to the local and general burdens of the peep.e. That, to diminish these evil., it is expedient that this house take steps to reduce the annual expenditure, with ell practicable speed, to an amount not exceeding the sum latch, within the last fifteen years, hu been proved to be sufficient for the mainte:tance of the security, honour, and dignity of the nation. The Army, Ordnance, and Navy Estimates, for 1850 51 have been published. The following tabular statement, compiled from them will show what instal ment of reduction in the six millions of excessive ex penditure ministers intend to offer the country : 1350.1. 1649:30. Army 011,0111,397 06,142411 Omance 2.431,417 2,632,601 N.tvy I'OISt-0111CC l'Aciets 764238 748,298 Z1:,,067,473 515,756,336 15,067.4:3 Proposed &ware ie 1130-1 0720,063 Seven hundred thousand pounds out of six mil lions ! One and one-sixth per cent. ! The debtor who would venture to propose such a compromise to his creditors would require a tolerable stock of modest assurance. LOUIS BLANC. FRANCE. PRIS, 5.1 M. Carlier ' s agents a g ain a t t e mp ed EDMPRDAY to M 0 r. stir np di a . turbance in Paris by p rovo ki ng the democrats. The provocation is admitted in th e following communi cated notes of the government . "This morning the chaplets which bed been deposited st the foot of the Column of July, on the Pare de Is &rine, had disappeared ; they Were taken away during the night without any ord er . The Prefe c t o f P o li ce, w h en ial6rmed the fact, immediately gave directions that they should b of e replaced, and a Commissary of P dice, in his inaigni a office, presided over the operation. An inquiry is 'Art,/ t o eseertain the author of this unjustifiable act, and ecrue jus. ties will be exercised on him." o A peace officer, during last night, removed the ch a pl et , which had been deposited nn the 24th February roiled the Column of July. The Pr-feet of Police, after demanding in structions from the Minister of the Intrrinr,immediatsly missed this agent, who al far forgot his duty and wad eon. tra to his instructicns. The chahits the d ay by the cue of the a ut h or i t ies. aces replaced d uring This incident was touched upon in the Assembly, when M. Salved put his questions relative to the conduct of the prefect of the Loir-et-Cher, _in pr o _ venting political writings fr o m being hawked about, and bills posted up, as is permitted by the electer a l law when a general election takes place. M. Saint argued that, if full liberty were not allowed at all elections, universal suffrage would be but an empty aame, whil-t the Minister of the Interior maintained that the prefect acted Ferree , ly in accordance with a decision of the Court of Cessation, and in pureinente of orders received from the government Af cr a rather confused discas,ion, in the cour se o f w h !c! , Cremieux proposed an ordee of the motive, blaming the conduct of the prefect, the Assembly adapted the order of the day by 411 votes to 203. To-day in the Legislative Assembly, M. CaeEimir Perrier rose to move the bill on the Greek loan. He said that the situation in which Greece now f,end itself had imposed on the committee of which 1 e vp s the reporter a most painful du'y. The rpicAlon of finance involved, and was dominated by, one of policy, which presented itself as one difficult to avoid and delicate to treat. When the world was moved by the unforeseen threats made agaMst a young nationality so lately inaugurated amidst the applause of Christiani y, when France on a n.cent occasion had ehown its sympathy for sufferings which were borne with that dignity which was the best weapon of the weak, the committee had thought it necessary and possible to csneiliate the exi;:encies of national feeling with that res-rve %Lich important interests required. That reserve was an imperi .us duty in the present instance, and nothing ce,uld be more proper to mark that tendency than thst adjourn ment of anything like debate or negotiarie n resat ve to the service or interests of the loan, tad the futur e regulation of financial regulatio ns wCh Greece. M. Mauguin agreed with the sentiue n's issuir; from M. C. Perrier. However, he wou'd s'y tat the hostility that England had always evinced to - seeds Greece, its persistence, in spite of the di,e)r tent. of France and Russia, were too seriou, faces to allow of his nut insist:ng. Tnis per-i-earce on the part of England caused Burped e, hecauee it was a power which proceeded to ac•ioa after eery mature deliberation. It was therefore impos, co: to seek for the cause of this conduct. He wou:1 oat . . HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF QUESTIONS. Lew or Surri.atiner—Sir DE NOItREYS, to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether he could refer the re ports on the effect of the law cf settlement in England to the Irish poor-law boundary commissioners, with directions to them to report to bins whether the ob servations contained therein will be applicable to Ireland. 011112XIVICH PARIC—ViSOOOIIi DUNCAN, to ask Mr. Hater if any part of Greenwich-park is to be encroached on to provide residences far the oommissi niers of Greenwich Hospital, or for any other poem's.. GOLD AL/ID Coum.—Mr. WODEHOUSE t 'lint a question to the President of the Board of Trade, relating to the ex • pot of gold from this country in the year of smoke 1800- 1801, and also of the preri us year of se srcity, 1795,1 n con nexion with the import of corn and grain of all kinds in the same period. WESTERN AIYSTIIALI•.—Sir W. NOLESWORTH, to ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies a question with regard to tee nov,rontent of Western Australis. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. GAS BlLLR.ZerrfiTiail t7.;;;)i;resolution on the subject co notices to be even be the promoters of such bills to all parties residing within 300 yards of the boundary of proposed works. Luis 07 ARSZECI.—To Viscount DRUMLANRIG, for one month PARLIAMENTAILY REFORM.—Mr. HUME, to move for leave to bring is a bill to amend the national representation by extending the elective franchise, so that every man of toll age, and not subject to any mental or legal disability, who shall have been the resident occupier of a house, or part of a house as a lodger, for 12 month* at,d shall have been duly rated to the poor of that parish for that time, shall be registered as an elector, and be cstal, d to vote for a repre. tentative is parliament. Also, by enacting that votes shall be takes by Ulla, that the duration of parliaments shall not exceed three years, and that the proportion of representa tives be made IR.reeausistent with the amount of population andproperty. VOTERS PARLIAMENTARY QUALIFICATION.—Sir DE LACY EVANS, that payment of a direct tax, governmental or parochial, shall qu defy to vote for members of parliament. Eassaments z . or CorynoLus.—Mr. AGLIONBY, bill to elf et the compulsory enfranchisement of lands of copybold and customary tenure. ADTERTIAEMENT DUT7.—Mr. EWART, repeal of ad vertisement duty. DUCHIES ol CORNWALL AND LANC 66666 —Mr. TRE LAWNY, for a committee to inquire to what extent the public are entitled to claim an interest, present or pro- spective, In the management of the Duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster. with respect to which returns are atauslay made to this house, and, with regard to the Duchy of Cornwall in particular, to inquire where its accumulations are invested ; who is the h. it at law of persanel estate to the Prince of Wales; whether duchy dui, from mines are reserved in minerals or money, and whether they are rated to the poor ; whether mines are directly worked by the duchy oftimn ; what cumber of claims to estates have been made and not sustained during the lest sic years; whether there is any good reason tie the direct exception of certain kinds of pro perty in the Duchy Act of 1814 (-itch as royalties. franchises, and estuaries), from the statutory provision for the quiet of titles, now applied to crown property, to private property, and most descriptions of duchy property ; and, lastly, whe ther the management of the duchy estate has been satisfactory as regards the public, fair as regards its own tenants, or pro duetive of improvement in toe state of the rural p tpulation. CHURCH CoNORIGATIONe PROPERTY I SCoTLAND).— Mr. SECRETARY at WAR, bill to render mere simple and effectual the titles by which congregettone or societies, emaciated for purpose, of religious worship or education in Scotland, hold real property f• tptired for such purposes. BURIALS —Lord DUDLEY STUART, address for return, stating, for each year since 1830, the number of interments that have taken piece in each catuedral, church, churchyard, chapelyed, cemetery, or other place of inter ment within Steen miles of Sr. Paul's Cahedral, elistin. guishiog whether made in mal'e, britit MTH, or otherwise. WIDOW DrlT.—Sir H. B. PECHELL, return of the amount of window duty assessed. and the net amount re ceived, with the number of houses charged, for the year ending the sth day of April, 1849 ; and a like return for the twelve towns in England paling the largest amount. POOR. LAW UNION CHARGES (IRELAND). Mr. SCULLY, return specifying in detail the different items incluted under the head " E.tablishment and other charges," in the unions of Carrick on Stair, Clogheen, Clouse, Nenagh,Ruesea, Thurles, and Tipperary, between the 110th day of June and the 29. k day of September, 1849. CHARGES, CONSOLIDATED FUND. —Mr. WAWN, se count of the sums paid oat of the consolidated duties of customs for the difference of rates and charges due to nor potations, companies, or individuals, in the year 1849 ; also the total amount paid to each corporation, company, or indi vidual, up to the 31st day of Thumb. r. 1849 (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper No. 112, of last session). THE ARMY.—Mr. HUME, nominal retern of all general officers or colonels employed on the staff, the dates of their commissions. periods of mace ffcc.; also, return of all officers appointed to the colonelcies of regiments, from Jan., 1827, to March, 1818, specifying the period they served as regimental officers, and in what rank, and for what period of time, showing whether in the guards or the line; alt., showing the whole period of their employment on the staff, previous, and with the rank of general officers. THE NAVY.—Mr. HUME, returns relative to the names and number of ships in the royal navy, their build, &c., &c.; of the number in commission and in ordinary ; end account of money expended in building and repairs, at home and abroad, since if 28: : Also separate return of the vessels is ordinary which have not performed sea service, &c. ; and return of the number of vessels, amount of tonnage, number of guns, ekc., broken up since the year 1828, and the cost or rate of charge for building, and amount for which sold. OUTGOING MAILS. The West India Mails, including Bermuda, Havannah, Nassau, Ha duns, New Orleans, and Melico;end excluding these for Madeira, St. ,luan•de-Niceraaua, New Granada, Chili, and Peru,will be made up on March 2. The mails for Iladeria, the Brazils, and Buenos Ayres, will he made up on the evening of March 4. The mails fcr Lisbon, Spain, and Gibraltar will be made ep on March 7. The mails aid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, Ceylon, led* Hong-Kong, &e., will be made up on the evening of March 7. The mails fur British Nerth America and the United States will be made ep on the evening of March 8. The mails fur Gibraltar, Malta, Grvece, tae lonian Islands, Egypt, Ceylon, India, eta China, via Southampton, will be izade up on the morning of March 20. MIUI . I WATIIIF AT LONDON Mill/OIL ?me D:;l7lFlZab, —.. Tclbas A;;;;;;;;•. Ib. On. TO-NZAI.*—MaM/04. 11%. . _ LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28. MI. Humes motion for the readjustment of our representative system wands for this evening—under any circumstance, fitted to command the support of all hopeful and thoughtful, all wise and generous men. The right of every man who contributes to taxation to have a voice in the selection of those by whom it is expended, is no modern theory or rash assumption. It is as old as English freedom. It was aneieutly the law of the land. It has for generations been abridged, evaded, end set at nought by the usurping pow.r of the t-rritorial oligarchy, but in the memory of the many it rmains a treasured hope —a traditional belief—an unahandoned claim, for whose recognition and concession the people watch and Tait with more and more anxiety every duy. Hut at the pri sent moment the reiteration of the national claim is peculiarly opportune. Thu prostrate energies of class tyranny and extortion have been suddenly revived. Curtailed of its full fare in one important item, thcce who live by political prey have been for some time growing hungry and turbulent. All creatures of the kind become danger- MS as they grow hungry ; and considering the size of the slice that was taken away in 1816, it is no wonder that beings destitute of reas n, and from their birth habituated to "reap where they had not sown, and gather where they had nut strewed," should wax ravenous and unma nageable when they begin to feel some of the effects of privation. For mouths they have been roaming about seeking how 'hey might filch back their old corn plunder, or if not, what else they might devour. When first these rapacious symptoms manifested themselves, wo ventured to say that for the security of all honest homes there was bet one TO Till 111DITOR OP TIM lIPZZBS. SlR,—Accused of having encouraged tho people to invade the National Assembly on the fatal 15th of MAI-, I found myself proscribed on the instant demand of Gen. Cavaignae ; and since then I have been gene rally represented to the English public by the press as having been actually concerned in an attempt upon the National Assembly on that day—an accu sation against which I have never tweed to protest with my whole soul. Permit me then to appeal to your good faith, and to beg ycu, in the name of truth and justice, to give insertion to the following passage from the interrogation of Monsieur Girardin, before the I /emocratic Socialist Committee for the elections of Paris : The Citizen President—With what intention did you sustain the candid drehip of M. Louis Napoleon ? The Citizen Oirardia—Gloms time beton) the election, forgetting that 1 hit been thrown into a &engem I s mitSt General Clesignae, and stilted him if he would consent to abat-in from all candilateship (or the elective presidency; it he w mid content himself with remaining hi..t °tette executive under power of revocation ? lle emit that he required time before giving his enterer. That very slay the General mounted t;.e tribune the e times in order to obtain the authorisation to proseout , his coils ague, the citizen Louis Blanc. Amongst other things Oen. ravaignac sail to me this; ** Tne cities, Louis Btaec ts no more guilty 'han lam." That d.y °coeval Cavaiguao was judged. It has Lw n said that I opposed Lie eandidateship trout a feel ing of personal revenge; that is a calumi”, for 1 went myself to offer him tat support, But in the presence oleo much weakness, in face of a man who was capable of thus delivering over an innocent person to his ennui e, who, atter having put Paris in a nine of siege, transported 12,thitt of our fellow citizens, without rerincting the forms of justice, 1 asked myself how 1 could possibly make him expiate so many attempts against liberty, so many attempts against the republic. I have mho honour, &c. $7, Piccadilly, Fob. 2i. LOUIS BLANC. 3 per Cents. 5 per Cents.. 3 d.t. Sew Loan .., • . ' I . .. i •• 4i per cerite.• • •-•-••1 •• 1 .. ~ 5 8 - 40 1 ." 1 4 per Cetus . '' _'__ . " .. .. .• - -.-- . • ' . . FAO: tnae on Lord..c: 30 t „.., :5 45 0; !...r...: , 17•. kola:, 3, 1510 94* Mona)'. I Sslt.o 4 Limes.. 9) 7) 11.'ner lat. 5. 1843 Do. 44 11.5. 3 OP Bank *tares ...12';' .. 1 1 1.41rnont 3 per Ceuta. ' .:4 RIVIVIL — Patio atul ()dean., 740; Nei., and Rouen. 5;2 '••: r, , •••., and Ilarre, —; Avignon and Mar...11 1 .e., 11.7 3 , : 5:r......,,c .:.. Hale, 113; Orleun4 and Vierren, 51.7 4. 1 ; . 1 14.141111 Alt . i 1 1, :. • •,. . North, 447 5o; l' ris owl ,or....Nntre, '. 10 ; ECIr F .:..... \ : ~. 292 5. 1 ; Montereau and Troves, 107 a 0; theme and 1 c..on; , ..." : Vernullea ,tight bank), 197 33; 110. ,;e:t bank..., lt l 7 ..... insist for tbat day, but be begged_ t i 7,171411 • cabinet that within a week he intended h pi: (cl.-- tions on the subject. Evidently the aenatmv• - .•. ci England were out of proportion with the li'lqg assigned. It could not b.• for the purp,se of ex,, :- hog a few refugees from Switzerland that I'm, Austria, and Russia were forming armana.n.s ecwe considerable than any in former times. The Minister of Foreign Affairs begged to hate He hoped the house would see that he could answer questions thus put, nor could he do so r week hence than now. He could only say that attention of the government was attracted to , ;-.e subject, and that it had dune its du'y. He rfgr‘ that the reserve impcsed on him by circunwan •Es less serious than they were assumed to be f.rb.,.:,2 him to give longer explanations. M. Magnin insisted on having hie question l'l•. and it was decided that he should make a pr. pow to that effect in due form as follows: " let, As to the causes of Earopsan arniarnen!s; 2nd, On the step taken by France to pro-:rye cur fron iers from all attacks; 3rd, As to the t. , .at.c a'. steps necessary for providing for the emit Ds, of su:h precautions. The minister for foreign affairs said tie Assembly would understand he could not be ready to answer these questions in tight days. They were accordingly postponed for a month. The Assembly afterwards voted the credit of 522,004*. for tee pay ment of the dividend on the Greek loan, due oa the Ist of March, 1.150, by a majority of 55.5 to 2." An amusing incident marked the first part if day's sitting in the Legislative Assembly. M. Fla roche, vice-president, read a motion from M. I.a -grange, for leave to put questions as to the Ligi.ly derogatory manner iu which M. Barrot, the miniver of the interior, had caused the anniversary of :he re volution to be celebrated. A voice on the ri4ht td out, " After the budget." M. Baroche said that M. Lagrange wi.htd his question to be put ro-niorrow, when the same remark, " Atter the budget," threw the house into a paroxysm of :aughter. M. Lagrange cried out that it was indecent: but the house rang again with the caczhinatiars of tte members, when, the question being put to the vote, It was determined to take M. Lagrange's icies!iona " After the budget.' . . .. Five steam frigates arrived at Marteiliei oa Sun day night, from Italy, having on board the 17th and 30th regiments of the !me. noun:E. For Accoun. PARIS, Fae. S. I For Money. Opening, tllgbe.t. Lowert. , t SPAIN. The Mari,/ Gogette of the 22nd contains a decree, declaring that titit'l the bill on tailways Fre seated to the Cartes shall have been adoptid the goverament shall be authnristd to grant proci-i e:ncessions of ruilwayt, or to ratly those 4!t-C..ly concejed, and to guaruteee, in addition to the I•Tt. vileges accorded in the COI:CCilli001., a minimum in t rest of 6 per tent., aril 1 per cent. as a s • ;sr:,c fund, subject to the conditions: lit. That the ways shall be liable to the provisions of the law to be hereafter adopted. 2ad. That the govertoment only pay the guaranteed inte rest during the coat in .n;o of the works, and the ditterence between the in ., • tercet and the it...vied. of :he nerkin;, v. hen o;e:et:a shall be leis than the interest, and if the ed 8 per ecno. then one-half i. to he applied E.) q.e P Y meet of the advances made by the govert.htec : • d, that the holders of conceselors h.ir stir right to the payment of the guarsnued nits the works or working I.f the hnes shall c.l- • bY fault; heir 4th, that 1 per cent. tor the sinking fund -ha.. be paid by the government unt:t the t•xtinctimt •!.e capital, and consequently until the acquisition et the railway sby the governnient. The II st !t, s e that !esti year the deposits in the 4 avinc , + amounted to 3,040. 0 00 reds C 30,00010, s ;:erg , r sum than was ever before deposited. Itittatut, Fan. 22.--Three pr Centg., prpa. Fot. Cents., 11 9-16 pa l er. Fire per Covs.. 12 11 ,1 1 4.1% coupons, Bunk of St. Ferdinand. s:•t. F:xett.m..... ITALY. , 1: The Neapolitan army is to he imme diet ely inet c.,se d by 20,000 men, which, in ?wool nutiOvrs, will a force of 120,1)10 regular troops at the ilisleosal of Ferdinand 11. This augur ntntion of the :Piny a' Alltlo l bo for horn ., service ; from 110,000 to 7 , 1 1 .1 110 always beer more than sufficient for the ktnglotn of the Two Sicilia', and if 1 ant not mistaken the Nea politan army will be fouial in ea-operation some dity with that of Austria. Certainly, Austria has tag gested the increase of the Neapolitan army, and for some potent reasons, sine • the national Mauler i 7 by no means in a state to warrant such an addi..tottl expenditure. More troops have left for the Mortar frontier, and it is said in political circles that M the IN I I . 1. I i