The Express. — London, England, 1850-03-01 00:00:00

I , ta g that when a great number of peruse in menuf-euring w. are not represerted ( borou g hs .,,, rt i o n to the re ppulation, the small he distilled, I do not think the object Zji I, fairly plaid by destroy tag all the ▪ alt bmaol oasected with agriculture, and hieing the h-t-t-joeltunil counties with this inequality. You complain of t h e autuality. I have coveted up the populations el Wol• ur b ani ses, Brsdford, Derby, and Leicester, and I fled that the, mott o to If who seed twelve members to putt.- we t, wh.le Booth Devemshire. with 207,000, sends but two. war,Ctrs /hill.) It pit are to 11411% this qusetion of intqualv kt us tight it hirly—(cheers and counter cheers) a-siti either adopt the plan of the hos. umber for Not. dreg lut set divide the country into districts, or else give sa lacf,toe a lumbers ti the Malin as well ma the hwal bs, (near, beer.) But that is not the qaes;ion whack the kto. gentleman proposes. Teo hen. gentleman the t i, ga g who set wa t him have always stated the question with rtoopt to the great towel, they have taws). objected to the en, &aces of the borough, never utterlos a ward about the awl,. : a which tl.ey totte d to regulate the g a w k. 1 h a w ca other occasions stated why I think that the tepee which woli:d be (zinged entirely of large tows. and divrions of counties would not so well represent the goo& es that dieistira which at Finset exists. Ido not behest, that it would hue any utter result than that of tum our that division, almost that collision, between the yr:intend and malloraeuriag interests whic h the repro hu.t,ittni of we mullet towns o'snutteted with the agri salters: districts hods to lessen, if not prevent, by the mush ut clues. At all eaters, if we are to have a refers in the rnpreseraation upon time ground, let it be fair at t eivniity proporuusd ; and let us have it explicitly pat t ot , a , u s, not ma the hon. gentleman hes done now sal ou ober occashine, by pointing au; the susellness of the borough and never telling us what plan he intend. to propose in its p:Er. 1 hat wee not the spirit in which I brought Inward see Ileterm Bill. Waen I brought forward that mit.ivure I thought it :teary ta soy whet were the oorou t the I pro rod to dcstroy, what Neil the hoses and counties to 'Lich 1 proposvd to give regreeeetatiow. At least I I v o the ivicle are fairly before the house, that the onto sad the country might judge of it. lint the hot. , arable gentleman, I meat say, always gives me am , suspicion that his plan is to give, not a prepos agitate. ha; alms: the 0,17 weight to the great tuned the cottatiy—(bur, hear)—and not to dhide fairly the' "NU population of the country in its divisions into spinal esteamersid sod manuteetur. , 4 districts. The hon. sci leaned gentl.•aunt, the member tor Sheffield, talked of me sabordieste clams se if we made them a distinct class fmm Galen; sad as if we were in the habit of talking of taw eta class to be eistraged. 1, certainly, entirely italer hAa . hat boa. meterar, and I agree with the hon. genii man Tr .,,,,te, that that class is far from being to the t member fur In intros, represents them slaves the (vestry. They' have inestimable wiliness* use vileness &I security to their - • and v— . bate 4 pt. _ ...0611itj Vv._ A pennies pro. y, they are s awed Iran injury ; Men have as t aar a r .quicied. before • jury of their esaintryses as Lily !.:teats: pewee in the land. (Hear, hear) Tray :he security of licks under • free ocamitatios, which e a a. I :ellitifile seems to think hie been altogetber ,CS, at loss; 1 or sure, is their feeling. 1 have at any tin e that I remember, any sentiment it „ c i a ui gum that wa are cot • free pies; le or nit t.%. ...ileums of liberty. A men may rise to eke' tat e.: ton .ea and to the greatest power in the state ; he soot bane. • sunistar of his cuintry, however \usable t °rum, had advise his sovereign as to the policy to a-d mower's to be adopted; ne may sr. .. A *L e bi,hest position in the church or the law. He si.,y become Archon.-op of Canterbury, or Lord High Crewel: rof the 1.3. i tam, with of the slightest regard to the aaien tr.. 31 which ne may nave sprung; and in such • p 064.411 Le owlets betors the Luke of Norfolk and'' age rriukst nobleman in tLe land. We are t a . a peseisai.a of every privilege; our pueras aid our lives are protected by the • am , s ad we are really aid truly a free people, whether or w t the whole of the I.opulation, poesew votes for the C..ctica rt menrers of p.: aliment. I need not hen diecues L ; at lot 0r... the duratioo u: parliaments. These questions gee.. Me; id.:) lint •ith ea former occasions; but I will ata3 uttiough I aitireTy diff or from the motion of the gentleman (Mr. Hunk), and although I n.o: pee tt toonkla • distioct negative, yet I d. 3 the Po:. velaa to I. the absolute limit and p , r.eiLe tout, of IL• euitrapt. (Haar, hear.) I mny be heel • t r cued a eiratler opinions before, why we do not cam Lora.rl is the Tersest session of parliament and ',to pic rat. earnoimen's au 1 reams se we may consider to Le 1: is my opiciA, aad it is the opinion of illy C 1 - 440.*, •Lans I sehmitted that question, that it 1101.41a0t o e lit present session of parliament to pat nu o•Ler yiii•iins In order to raise the question with us?. en t 3 L.le bane nhkh must lead to lung nod pru:racte tiv•%l ' •: , ..ri every other subject, nod likely dlecusei.a. t Hess.) I have con eidered that we Lire of late ',an male very great changes with respect to u commercial p.icy, and that those charges are now 70;4111 , I 0.1i06 is tltts house, still more matters of di.. cmat its the co nary—the-a, hear)—and my opinion is it,: tie fent:mean of the conitty should be allowed to be sit-red and waled upon that question before we place Centre the e.un'ry anotUrr qu surto which must be the DIM et oa.%:.aeitement, situ can hardly be settled without gust t:ivies oit ptrties. (Cheers.) I believe, it 1. e were to ad: to Whit is to, invicuely the muse of angry debate .eitlemot the country—the present state of the question to our commercial we were to add to 3...... t moment another question —we most do iry to the intemts of the country. (`' Hear," Woe nave sees in three countries cf is cum of liberty defiled ; the cause of good . c,:rage by those who came forward in the 3: .3 rtv, ant if democratic principles. We have it in 1:3.) • venerable pont.tf, of whim good intentions Belo v.:* no era can doubt, obliged to fly from hie ; ne ._,e stet that capital sawed with the blood of r, aisseeio..to d while in the perfarmance of has and ebt.t. at :exit. F ;ctrt" rill. mid we have nen the newly established republic r. br a fsrein bumbarlmeat and a foreign occupation; • tan tier:any various changes from the extreme Asr,•tql: :. the 'striae* of deniocricy ; we have men ▪ indi• n given as-Althea withdrawn in order to sub- I it,ste id it u. i;venti birrowed frau ancient Rome, by writhe hut.ilte , l of the Milt': will give votes equal to a tw....isad or the poorest. Wo have MID this substitute el pied is • remedy fa the ev.ls which waiver's' suffrage crs.-sd in the viitirse of • few months ; we have seen in Fran, write the demand was at first for an 411v1 0, the Andros, beyond the narrow and Ism. 3. t.os sr of s one 20.3,009, we hams wen a republic se, t 3 the utter astonishment of 99 inhabitants t. 3 syss 1.. e. have seen under that republic universal I.Zk ktv , itdflli; :Ind acted upon, and we now see that kidser.s. -Age reviled by those who proposed it, and at tne sine time by the atijority of the people. (Hes ,r Lear. We litre kin tant efI , !I:ITOUT to remedy the evils which have been tri u: ht upm them, u it were, to their surprise thd a . th iut their k nowledge, by a suffrage smevia.s , i 3111.11/ to tcat which the hon. member Moctrns has poi:mad for our acceptance to night. I r.tes been told to others have been tau) that the pro. ty is that the opinion 61 the mass of the people of d met aid ulnesatt., Kula in a judgment that their pre. sent ciiuticion :IP% suited to tacit national habits and eier.cter, and tat their institution, mast be replaced b otttr incaution, of a di ff erent kind. As I stated when I w.::•,: a k 1 a question on t` e subject by the hon. meta ter tar UtearJell..-thet is no business of curs (hear)—it is no buldess at ours to swerhre with any kind of government the 1 ret.l4 nation nay thou, to give to themselves—but it is our pra4,ge, and we should be idiots indeed if we did r .te.l ' , omelets of it to observe what is going on in L., ;,,e, and to take aomt counsel by those events. I say, Les, if tic re •ult of the first lesson of 1848 was to teach on t. w,.it until It was too late, the remit of this seemed w teach us " not te do toe much—not to go too far dii.bericios." (Hear, hear.) I say that are Q.v. happy position that we have a emetitution to seek. (Cheers.) The ton. leur.cd menthe! foe 81111 field says that he hem always liming toe this eematitutiou, but has not yet been able t • L..d r . (ilea, hear.) Why that is our happiness and • mat is that we have no written constitution, but that tasty 'EngUshman knows his rights, atd knowing dun 31 c - t - an trissa—rehetrs)—and no person would venture to edi...re so lilylistun•ri of the liberty which, notwithstand isw whit has bees said by the hon. member for Montrose, ti knows Peat he possesses, and which be enpsys and values. i lit 4, hear.) 11 that be the ease—if we are in the enjoy ...J.: of so Rub liberty, and the people of this country the years 1848 sad lniff have shown so mach tamper, .: 1 . the boa. member for Montrose tells us, are at this I...mtes In a state of quiet and contentment, I say o • sot thick It aril be trawls' in us to pause and consider to take the next step without first ueertaieicor what t. :-• psi as be. (Ilea.) That then is no very prevailing this time amongst the body of the peop . e for then char...es-Out the middle classes are, as the hon. and learned mos. et Is Sheffield rates, epposed t) them, are certainly e.ry tohthisive retinas ia favour of them. (Hear.) We a " LA "at it ill unwise to wait until the storm comes upta r !on we furl the sails • but if we waste our ener pits card t art oar sails while yet ' it is a perfect calm, we may •.! dr.ftti taws ' the rocks. ("Hear," and laughter.) t:o a.t think, therefore, that in the present tempt Ot rte I.,uyle it would be advisable for the elveesment tt•.: csintry to propose • great plus for tee tr.- res.'s :I the seffrege. (Hear, hear.) Whenever wed...., , ac1. a 0 ,n, I think it should not be as a nhe•rett t'r tht Arm Bill, but that it should be a supple- S"" att. The lon. member for °oral has eloquently '; 4is adheres ec to the established constitution of the • L., I know his w..h is to preserve and uphold the 7.3.44411 1 ear other institutions I have no doubt that tint—(hear)—but with the members who would It ,:ected istder the plan of the boa perleman, the AOIitZWW, it it should be sanctioned by puha- Mien the ton. member for ttmch sm Iv" li'Aely to carry the majority with him is his - Ants. tri , s the hon. and 1 , sand member for " • . - 1 . is his iutentl-n of preserving Its Innitesti one e :iv. Illear, hear.) But 14 that at it may. This '..ev! n of mere eonjtcatre and uncertainty; and my "to t.. 0 1041.11 is, to prefer, to ctr jeeture and unezr ' 1 :•.: itAttitaltAss we boys now toting prepared to thna with regord to coy of their defects ; et.fu.inte With the views of any party as to what may !., pm:At benefit ,• bat not adopting a course full of fu,l e ld es t *, an d hill of peril to our best intonate. Ir. B . 0131:01tNE obstreed that the ministerial replies to ••• motion before the house wtro most unsatisfactory to a .r a portion of the sepr.orten of the government. He • :o:d not bat naafi. that toe whole of th e o pp o sition heel '• 1 "' 'ma the bench with ose exception, and that I. u 0 ..1.. a 4 n Of very amphibious politick ht,e I NO Vii ilhe r or. the t.ther title had addrsterl 'his Lorin ea the in ,, ;cet. He (Mr. Osborne) wee one of iL:trist those who previous to the commencement of the session had indulged in the pleuras dream that the noble lord (J. Rua. sal) would have deprived hie bon. friend (Mr. Hum ) of the necessity of again bringing forward this question. (Cheers and a laugh.) For in J gly, 1848, he rememb. red n.. 1 only did that noble turd di.' claim the doctrine of finality, hut exprdewd !lima( totally dissatisfild with the then state of the elective fraactia•—(bear)—and though the noble lord's leagasge was vague and indefitive, yet at that time, when the cams on the continent die. Melted aU minds, it was thought by s drat he wss jos-is fled in his reserve; taw thought he intended to put ufl the popular claim to that indefinite period be had hinted at to night. (Hest) He told them to-night that be wood! not pu• to tee in a Awns nor in a calm. Then, was the nublc lord really waltieg tor a beets..? (Load cheers.) Was he waiting for the excitement of the 'prose' cf a general 'leaden, then, to lay oh the table • bill to extend the elec. rive franedse ? (Cheers.) That war not, he thought, a course eslculased to plies the noble lord sod his government in a very high posttiou in the opinions of the people. He supp dried the present motion with some feelings of die. app&ntment, he col:teased ; for he believed wird the br,..ad arrow of government support was stamped upon it th..re was very little hope of its success. The noble lord had given the homes hut few reasons for his dtlatsry conduct. He Jerded that the principles o: conserestiem and whinging were Alen tied wit.. this stood at . ase " policy wLieb ministers were pursing—(cheers) —a putty of neither Trimmer nor csh c 'don, hut added 104 to the flames. Such was not tit.. principle which Fox had laid down ' when It was the du y of the g ivernment to take the 1 ad. Neither w4s it the policy of Lard Grey. And his. Pot, the great emservatiee authority. asserted that it was the theory, es it had been the practice in all thou, to a +apt the representation to the tt Ate of th, country. Triers could be no dnitt hut that it had always been the principle of representation that it stuould °huge' with tits chsirg.s which the country might en4ste, tied that it should not bo governed by local considerations." And the succsasnr of Mr. Fitt, the preen: pre it le-der r f this great country, the hon, member for Bueltinghernshire— (" hear, hear," and laughter)--whot did he .3 1 ? W hat was the ike•rine Lila down in 1841? Spiakinr nn the subject of agitation in February, 1811, that hon. gentlemen ' said They Lewd a Rest drat of reform sedation•, of anti-ems-law iragueN and other cumbinatinsio of that ki,..l—View things were mrrrly thr eoare,iton, r of the pen,* taking the government or the country into then oan hands, brean•e gurcrarseat woul.l wit :tatra - shirr =wars them..•lssa Opinions were snow, t►e puhlie mind was agitated, and no one wh c was in authority cone forward to leaal the people. As the natural eestrquenee of such aeeleet racy coalesced to gether ; Lee wise nothirg was elcory than this, that if tue goverment aid not In t the p.oole, the peuole vuuld drive the government. Now, the n ;hie lord wet bringing things to that PlAithwt he was refusing to lead the people. .ad the agitator*, Li whom the noble lord was Ike godfather—(laugher)—must get Lp and mike him lead. But the n.bte lord Ltd wde that he must take doe to ewitoder. Was the house nw at' that three !etre after , he 13.. deer of the It form Bel the nide lorl eapn seed Li. thwetieteetlon wits tai tranabils• just predowly granted ? Is his letter to the electors of Brood he suit: It inlet hare b , en dillleult i hat It Wag sot Inipoerilie, to hare made the hem, a the mopev reprowataaret of au• of vie mut min able eterus of th. r Innutiatty -tha: of the talmenout, Inte,lippm, and able ratehasmo o at at, until In Oar great remattfulitt rag and s - 0111. amnia' ammo, mot 'mac. of wham only ere sow a quitted to tnc night o: r.adaz. Sagh a Mamma la the ebtrieter of freem-a would du much to purify our elatto.se, rat t strengthen the Howe of Comaloaa. - - This WAS In 1835. Was Ins hone pug itivi Core ? D 4 not a greater 11111,tlist of trinity bow exist th at ever had existed in the huiati.d tidies of Ins boroughmengers ? (14e,r, hear.) There had been a eetnaki!tee appoints:l three years aft, r the ptedag of the (ixform 8.11 to inquire intocases Iv Any, sad such passages of depravity as they had publehed it was almost imp essible for the mind of min to Umiak's.. This also wee in 1835. But he earns now to a more recent period, the year 1811. when Lie hon. friend, the nisinh:r for Sheffield alt. Roebuck) brought foulard Vie subject of the " disgraceful eansprom.ses," and when a committee WI/ op pointed to inquire isto those compromises. He bad looked through that evilenes and found that in Harwich 94 tory votes cost 6,3001. ; 84 whir votes cost 2,000!. Nottinahant, 529 whig votes cost 12,0001.• 144 tory votes cut 5,00 , 4. Lewes, 411 whig votes cost 5,0001.; 407 t'ry vgescoet 2,9031. Readinte, 670 tory votes cost 6,0001.; 410 se.ig v tee coo litedport, 304 whig votes vat 5,4661. ; 244 tory votes no return MIL Penryn and Falmouth, .142 whig votes cast 4,0031.: 3el tory Cute, cut 4.0004 In these six borough. alone 3,736 votes had e at upward. of 53,3681. This wag in 1311; and now they were talking of the precut pure pulisment He lound, in 1817, that there was another comers, appointed. II en. gentlemen were at that time shocked at :he t lea of its ap. ointment, and parti cularly ea when it was moved that a commission 'Quaid go down to the boroughs to inquire into the c erupt prastites. The next milieu the bon. lumber far Droetee auk proposed that his brother men ben should take their oaths that they would not bribe by the oiselv s or agents in future. Lsng speeches were delis rad, and most sententious maxims were heard from all sides, oat at length the Lill wu ahandone t and had never b 'en heard of since. Was it not evident to the cone:try, under such circumstances, that they were so many bypovi:es in that hone.• ?—thet they were contented with making lurg speeches Aim% the house being th- honour and envy of surrounding r.ations, an! with doing nothing ? (Hear, hear.) I. they were sincert in wishing to prove that they had a korror of br:bery whet bitter step e cold they adopt than to inerenee the franchise ? An ancient colleague of the noble lord bad expressed himself in favour et extend ng the suffrage to Isdgers—he meant Lord Brougham. (An ironical laugh ) Anything proceed ing from the pen of Lord Woeful:am—he (Mr. Osborne) drew a distiuctien between his lordship', speeches and his pen (laughter)—ought to be attended to with some degree of respect. What had Lard Br .ugham said on h-vots-hf 11 suffrage ? He said, in a work euutled t. l'ulitical Pallas sophy" if I there were no man pieces entitled to return members, if no place ur district under km. v.Sers were allowed representatives, time would be no such dune as briery knowu. The exclusion which cur 101. test elfrezts of some must molt 'emus and valuable members of society is a grievous mil. All lodgers and boarders are eselts led, the most maenious artisans, the men 0rb..., ex7ectnesa and Industry are the props of our eorumretal arsatness ; mid or uur literary and seleatine Int:I. whoso unwearied Istours illustrace their country and adorn their age—all are disfranchised hr a law f ,rmcd or the purpose of drawing the line hstween ignorant: and Oltenia me. No doubt it dots draw the line, seal haves itifurmation excluded. When he (Mr. Osborne) referred to bribery as a national leprosy attaching to our constitution, he wished to ask, how were majorities in that house made ? Was there no other fora of corruption besides money? (Rear, hear.) It was generally supposed in the country :hat the emblem of a Se cretary of the Treasury was a whip, bat b n. members of that house knew that it was a fishing rod. (Laud laughter.) The secretary was indeed an exacrt fisher of men—a parlia mentary Isaac Walton—(grsa• laughter)—who knew bow to bob for eels and to angle as skilfully as any country gentle man. (Continued laughter.) Some nibbled at colonial baits, linen at empty honours, ribbon and garters, but that house seemed to have • peculiar fancy for the honours of the bloody band. (Roan of laughter.) Look at the peers made by Pitt; and, when the Melbourne ministry were in dihigulty, who did not remember the " miraculous draught " of hermits that appetred all alive in the Gazette one morning ? (Continued roan of laughter) Ile lamented that the days of chivalry were gone, but certainly it was much easier for a belted knight to win his way by succouring a minister in his difß• ouldes, that by be. eking lances fur a damsel in distress. (Renewed laughter.) lie was surprised that the noble lord said nothing on the subject cf the ballot. Ile (life. Osborne) did not wish to take up the time of the house GS the ballot, Oceansa he had Tay strung Opi, lone that both the evils and the advantages of that system were very much exaggerated. But he thought if toll people wished for the ballot, if they thought it was a protection from intimidation, they were entitled to hove tlse halts:. Ile thought that the events which had happened in France said something ,in favour of the ballot. Could any gentleman suppose, in the dreadful state of things which had occurred in France, that if it was not fir the protectiou of the ballot they would have at this moment conservativeitutmbly is Frinec ? He advocated the ballot as a protection fr..= an untn!ightened democracy, and he advocated it es • protection fur the mi ny against the prejudices of the few. In reference to electoral districts, the noble lord said Natenghem, with 63,000 inhabitant'', lent two mem bers to parliament; while S such Devon, with 207,000, sent only two. The noble lord made an important omission. Ile ought to state that there were Ogeit borougs.3 in South ',Lyon, each of which sent two members to parli men' ; and the members for these little boroughs were chiefly returned by gentlemen who lived near, and who were aupposed to be the great gaudiest' and representatives of our territorial constitution. Now he contended that this household suf frage, as was ably shown by his hon. friend the member for Montrose, was nothing more than a recurrence to the ancient practice. He did not wish to divide the country tato districts, bat he should like to see the Scotch system of consolidating towns. Ile beli .ved that the Scotch elections were more pare than the English ones were. Take the borough of Lyme Regis. There was never a par liament but they had a committee of that house sitting two or three weeks respecting the election for Lyme R gis. He did not know who the member was; be believed be was generally a leased genele:oau. (Laughter,) Why not in corporate Lyme ltsgis with Sidenouth, or any other Tittle town. He throw that out to the noble lord. The noblo lord said he wanted suggesions • he threw out that suggestion. Why, if he objected to electoral districts, did he not consolidate these small places after the Scotch system. They would not then have au Attorney-General going down to a Borough, and being sub ject to the horrible imputation of having put his hand in his pocket to bribe 'people. He threw out the suggestion; he thought the noble lord might adopt it with great effect in Ireland. And he believed the notie lord would give great satisfaction if be would masks the elec toral districts larger and the nand= of meth bus smaller, for they were too numsr us ter busi nem. Hell the members did not come to do b.ainess. Why the molt important business was trenseeted in a house of 45 ussmbers, and at a certain hour they saw gentlemen coming in in th at dress which had 'Jethro., as elusive' es the toga, and it they had had a good dinner they listened to the speeches, but if they had not they would not listen. He supported the motion bemuse he ',GA .‘1 ou it as a tree conservative motion, and bee-use in Lis conscience he believed it would add to the security of the constitution: and he supported it for the best of all reasons, because he believed it would make that house iii reelity what it pur ported to be—the Hone of the Commons of England. Kr. H. BERKELEY, amid loud cries of questim," congratulated the house that the right hon. the Roma S.crs tar, had promised to west at hest one part of his hon. friend's motion on a future occasion. Mr. L. KING moved the adjournment of the debate, but the cries for a division became so general, that the hon. number was induced to withdraw his motive. The home dtvaded— For the motbu Agitilt it 2ll-116 THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1850. the eriortoo. OUTGOING MAILS. The West India Mails, including Bermuda, Havannab, wan, Honduras, New Orleans, sad Mealoo,*and excluding Owes for Madeira, St. Jaan-de-Nitmregua, New Granada, Chili. and Peramill be Nude up to-morrow morning. Tne mails for *aerie, the Brasile, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up ow the evening of March 4. The mails for Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be mad. up on March 7. The mails aid flamelike, to the Mediterranean, Erypt, Ceylon, India, Hoag-Hong, &a., will be made up on the evening of March 7. The malls far British North America and the United States will be made up on the evening of March 8. The mails for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonise Islands, Kopf, Ceylon, India, and China. via Southampton, will be made op on the morning of March 20. mox wwrza A? LONDON MIMI. rom D44-/SoWas. 44 41. T..-. 4 44.44.4-4/ashm 44.44. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 1. Trte double negotiation in progress between so many powers, and in which so many more are inte rested. relative to the prolongation of the armistice between Denmark and S.:hlenwig, and to the conclu sion of a definitive arrangement betwixt them, have both of them been subject to so many vicissitudes, and been so entangled together, that it is difficult for the public to see their way through the conflicting reports respecting the two negotiations. If we were to consider the attempts made to pro long the armistice, we should say that these had utterly failed. The state of that question was fully told in our Berlin correspondent's letter, published in our Wednesday's impression. All parties, indeed, are agreed in representing the status quo, or a pro longation of the armistice, as impossible. The three commissioners appointed to govern Schleswig have behaved like the veriest fools and tyrants, and worked up the inhabitants to a site of irritation which renders all government impossible. Denmark would cure this by cauterisation. And Prn xis says, you may try, but we will have nothing to do with it. The consequence, therefore, would be a renewal of the civil war, for which" at least as early as the 10th instant, the Danes are even worse pre pared than the Schlawigers. This impossibility of continuing the armistice, and the equal unadvisability of renewing the war, have turned the efforts on both sides to what we have always represented as more feasible than a trace, viz. a definitive peace. By an unfortunate mistake of the Electric Telegraph Office, which rendered the word conference by the word confirmed, wo were made to announce the actual con clusion of an agreement. The letter of our corre spondent, however, speedily corrected the error, and told the simple fact, that oft the 19th the Prussian envoy had given in his counter-proposal, in calmer to the proposal which Denmark had made on the 19th of January. It is idlo now to inquire, on which aids lay the blame of previous delay. The efforts of Denmark to bring the central power with its Austrian element to be arbiter in the question ; and the refusal of Austria ro recognise or unction that which England and Prussia had before agreed on—the separation of Schleswig and Holstein—sufficiently revealed the intrieue and the purpose to keep the quarrel open, until Prussia was embarrassed by the renewal of her intestine dissensions. Disappointed of this hops, pressed by the difficulties of either renewing or denouncing the armistice, Denmark has at length consented to treat, and both parties have come to discuss their mutual proposals in a spirit, which eery more probability for a definite arrangement than any hitherto displayed. Let us consider these proposal.. The first condi. l rim that Denm irk and Pruss:a alike set down is, the independence of the Duchy of Schleswig, separated from Denmark and separated from Holstein. It is to have a legislature and an administration apart from Denmark, the King of DENMARK, and of course the Danish ministry, represent. ing Schleswig in its diplomacy and foreign policy. Local taxation and government are to be exclusively Schleswigan. The duchy accepts its quota of the debt, and pays its war expenses, as Denmark on its side does also. Where the Danish and Prussian pro jects or interpretations differ, is in the matter of military administration, and of any extraordinary or increased imperial expenditure. The normal rate, or expenditure, or budget, can with no difficulty be divided between the two, the people of Schleswig taking a proportion of taxation equal to its proportion of population, —say one-sixth. But how is future augmentation or extraordinary expen diture to be sanctioned? Are the Schleswigers to pay, without discussion or sanction, one-sixth of every debt that the Danes are willing to incur? And again ' are the army and navy to be exclusively Danish? These are questions which still divide the negotiators, and on which the Danish and Prussian projects do still considerably differ. There are hopes, however, that such differences may be got over. The most able report of M. USEIN)M, the Prussian regotiator, made by him to the Upper Chamber at Berlin, sufficiently bespeaks the spirit which animates him. We strongly recom mend the perusal of the document to all who would make themselves acquainted with the countries and their case. Between M. USEDOM and the Danish negotiator, if the latter be sincerely bent on remov ing difficulties and concluding peace the attainment of that object is not impracticable. Let the Schiff wigt re, for example, give up to the Danes the naval administration, necessarily concentrated at Cope n hagtn ; the army may be more easily dealt with by the Schleswigers retaining • few native regiments. Financial accord may be procured by rendering a vote of the Schleswig Chambers necessary to every notable augmentation of expense. Customs have hitherto been separate. If Denmark would abolish the dis tinctive line, let her render her tariff as liberal as that of Schleswig. There are some other points of difference between the projects. For instance, one of the banish proposals is, that the kingdom and the duchy shall follow in the Same line ef succession. It is in Denmark's power to regulate the succession in a manner to make it so. But Schleswig cannot be made over to the heirs fe male of Denmark by a clause like this, abrogating its traditional and fundamental law. By exaggerating and insisting on such points of difference, Denmark may render impossible the conclusion of a treaty. But with a fair and liberal desire to make concessions and do justice on both sides, an accommodation is facile, and is an event to be hailed and desired. WREN we before made the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations the subject of remark, it was to blame the projectors for a want of confidence in the success of thi it scheme, this being evinced by a rather precipitated bargain with a builder, who offered to erect their great locale. Our objection was found valid by the Royal Commission, which puts decorous and ample trust in the public, ar.d in its own great and disinterested aim. The only signs of pettiness and misgiving we still see, are to ba descried in the unworthy, and no doubt un derhand, ends to curry favour with a great organ of the pres , , by making it the exclusive channel of such inftrmation as the Commission kas to m - ke public. We shall not be prevented by this from doing jus tice to a scheme which honours its originators, and reflects the greatest credit on the Prince, who has not shrunk in embarking for its sake on the trouble, weariness, personal squabbles, public obstruction, and what Mr. CARLYLE would call the eternal " bothera tion" of such a task. By nothing can his Royal Hi4hness be more per plexed than by the conflicting opinions which must have prevailed at the council board. It is evident, indeed, from the lucubration@ of the press, that the project of the exhibition is as yet a kind of kalei doscope, in which each descries something vety beautiful and highly-coloured, but in which no two can fix the same thing. Some regard it as a fele, in which, after the French fashion, delegates from all the world are to be welcomed and to be toasted. Others regard it as a " great go." in which candidates are to be examined for university honours. Others, again, take a Jockey Club view of the business, and evidently calculate that the interest of the race and the number of articles entered, will depend upon the value of the cups to be run for. The gentlemen who originated the plan may be supposed to have had high artistic views, which, how •ver patronised by the Prince, do not seem to have altogether I. uittil the majority of the council. For the council have imposed upon them se ohief of the Notwithstanding the affirmations of the Moniteur respecting foreign affairs, they obtained little credit at the Bourse, where the funds continued to fall. The following, &ma the Constitutictinel, is slightly in op position to the announcement made in the official jour nal: "A certain number of political refugees in Switzer land disquieted by their schemes the neighbouring states, who demanded their removal. Switzerland, feeling these fears to be well-founded, has already expelled the greater part of these refo,;ecs, and con tinues, so far as depends on her, to give eititfaction. ' Austria has been the first to render justice to the honourable zeal with which the 1120311Ufe was, and is still being, executed. But it appears that Prussia is not guided by the interest alone of the neighbouring states, and desires to take advantage of the inc dent to revive her old pretentions on the principality of Neufchatel. Not content with the almost c mplete solution of the precise point of tee common quetrion, she attempts to raise a second quite personal.. This tendency having been manifested by rignlficant symptoms, France, interested and resolved to protect the integrity of Switzerland, Las taken the precau tion of considerably reinforcing her &atriums of the east." executive a military chief, known, we believe, as being profoundly versed in the " Lsw of Storms," and chosen, perhaps, on this account to Weer the trowel of the exhibition round that terrible Cape Horn, the conflicting opinions of all and every one connected with or consulted by the commission. We are sorry to see that cur contemporaries of the press, who naturally have a voice potential in this matter, have confined themselves almost altogether to the puffing or adulatory vein, instead of bringing 'Went or common sense to the subject. The s has played with it in that trifling and inge nious style with which it generally covers an ab-ence of, or an indifference to, opinion. 0 her papers have treated it, as they might an auctioneer's sale, in the OISOnGe. ROBINS manner; whilst others again have soasidered it au opportunity to indulge in a profusion etloyalty. All this is idle. The scheme does not want puffing. It is a great nation el one. The Prince is at the head of it; the nob! s and the ladies of England will generously support it: so will the leading merchants and manufacturers, if it be con ducted in a liberal and se risible spirit. The middle classes, the citizets, the commoners, down to the very labourers, are really more interested then the higher classes in the results, and the lessons, and even in the festivities of such a great industrial exhibition, in the posses sion of which every town in Europe must envy London, and which all classes of Englishmen and Londoners ought therefore to show themselves able to appreciate and ready to support. We see, therefore, no necessity for recommending the exhibition. It recommends itself sufficiently. It stands much more in need of waolesorne criticism, not directed in an invidious or hostile spirit. One of the first points to be considered is, or was, the incentive to be offered to persons at home, and more especially to those abroad, to send speci mens. Premiums and prizes have been thought on, and, we fear, fixed upon for this purpose. And we must say that we object to these prizes altogether. To act as incentives, and to be worthy of the nation and the enterprise, they must be both very numerous and very costly, demanding a much larger aura than what is proposed to be allotted to them, and which would form a very inconsiderable portion of the profits or of the expenditure. The award of them would be a matter of great difficulty and delicacy. And there is reason to fear that these awards, however made, would create much heart-burning and dissatisfaction abroad and at home, and might have the effect of converting a great feast of fraternity into one of envy and grudge. A hospitable and honoured welcome to foreign exhibitors, a catalogue raisonnee of all the objects sent, making known and immortalising their peculiar excellence, — not merely a suspension, but an abrogation of import duties on behalf of all sent for the exhibition, limiting, of course, the quantity to what was neces sary for exhibition—these and other favours might, we think, suffice to attract foreign contributors without the promise of necessarily insufficient and inevitably embarrassing prizes. What is wanting in sock exhibitions is not such articles es can be got by extraordinary care end expense for the winning of a prize, but the current run of articles prepared for trade in the ordinary ways of manufacture, commo dities bearing no fancy price, but the real price at which they can be delivered. In a word, we prefer the commercial to the artistic aim. What we want is comparison, not competition. Taking this point of view, we should decidedly exclude from the industrial exhibition the higher works of art, such as specimens of sculpture or painting, destined to form isolated pieces, and not being parts or adjuncts of decoration. A fine arts exhibition is one thing, an industrial show is quite another. With regard to paintings, the commission has adopted this rule, which it breaks from with re gard to sculpture. Torre is another collection of objects, very curious and interesting in their way, w hien we doubt the wisdom of including in this exhibition. These are objects which might usefully form a permanent in dustrial museum, such as mineral and vegetable pro du Lions in their raw state. For, first of all, where is the incentive to persons to furnish these products of nature? They offer no example of skill. They are mere natural productions, which might be co:lected by a committee of men of science, with national funds ct their disposal, to form, as we said, a museum. But if the formation ' of such a collection merely be the whim of those who have specimens to send there, it must necessarily be very imperfect. This should be the task of the found ers of a museum, not the conductors of an industrial exhibition. And we should very much fear that whatever the Royal Commission may want of "kaolin, Cornish stone, plastic clays, sand, quartz, flints, feldspar, chalk, gypsum, soda, potash, salt, alum, borax, bone ash, proxtde of tin, ox:dcs of lead, cobalt, nickel, chromium iron, copper, nod manganese," it must ordcr and buy on its own account, and not trust to exhibitors of such commodities. These are mere objections of detail, made not with a view to obstruct, but really to further the great and good national and European object, to which the Prince Consort has nobly and generously given his mind, his time, and his authority. PARIS, Fee. 28. Par I For Amount. Money. I Opraists 'Highest. Lowest. L.Malng. —. 3 per Cents. 37 SO i 57 00 37 SO ST 43 37 30 S per Cents. 5 do. New Loan ,. 44 pa Cext, w w w w I per Canto 0 " 9. 9. „ PP 73 15zebangs on Loader : 30 dam 2S 43 • 90 dam. 25 32' Behrlaa.3, 1840 Do. 3, 155$ 9Bl „ I Rem .m Loan Do.o. 4! D 24 — Piedmont S per Cents 97 75 „ w Bank shard 2273 w Boonsc—Paris mid °dean% 7..0; Peale and Bonen. 531 23; Rosen and llama, 240 • Aalanort and Matacd's% 157 .50 ; atria. boom; and Raid., 115 ; bemire Marzon), 313; Orleans ao4 Bor. deans, 407 50; Northern. 447 50; Par'', and timasboora, 330; Dieppe and Feeittnp, 173; Versailles (right haat), 197 SO; Tunnies ;101; bans), :67 SO. ' , O; ?aria and Rouen. 531 25; NI and Marscil!es, 197 ; Stria lerion), 215; Orleans and Bor. 1; Paris and thrall:sire, 350; (right bona), 197 SO; Vcrssulleo This will be the last day on which Lord Denman still retain the high office of Lord Chiif Justice.— Times. Mr. DISRAELI is so severely incli*posed as to be for the present incapable of attending to public business. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY, 6.30 P v. The Momiteur of this morning contains the follow. ing offuial announcement, which shows that France SPAIN. MADRID, Fan. 23. The Gaulle contains a royal decree, suctioning the bill for amending and bettering the administra tion of the public debt, and general auditing of the accounts of the state. Another decree appoints Jose Maria Manescau president of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, in the room of Garelly, who died some days ago. Letters from Barcelona Pay t hat the misunderstand ing between the millowners and their workmen still continues, notwithstanding the efforts of the govern ment to induce them to come to some arrangement. In the meantime, the ministry heuitato about the person to be appointed to the captain-generalship of the province of Ca•alonia, which, on account of the great and increasing misery which re igna there, will probably be (like Ireland to Sir Rib* rt Peel) the great difficulty of the government. Msnain, Frs. 23.—Three per Ccnts. 29 account; Four per Centv., 12 9-16 paper; Five per Cents., 12i paper; Coupons, 71 paper. Bank of SL Ferdinand. 85. Exchange on London, 50.20. SCHLESWIG lIOLSTEIN. The Deutsche Reform publishes the contents of the communication made by von Us dent as comrniesioner of the government to the c mnatiree of the upper chamber on the affair of Schleswig-llok:cin on the 21th inst : From the documen's laid before the Cambers some time ego by the governmitht respecting the rate of the Schleswig Holstein question, the position of the peace negotiations at tat t me will have been perfectly clear, The preliminaries had been presi 'tidy published. Their basis is the separa tion of Schleswii and Holstein in political relations, but a political union with Denmark, and a non-poli cal union with Holstein, is to continue with respect to Schleswig. This bads has been assailed on all sides. It was said to be an inconsequence to carry on a war for the well-known rght of the duchies to remain undivided, and then to propose a peace having t.r its basis their separation; that Prussia, representing the duchies, was al:E.ut to enter into a treaty which would deprive them of their most unquestioned and most sacred right. This inconsequence is however only apparent. The right of un divided union with Holstein has not protected Schleswig from the attempt of Denmark to incorporate it; it would undoubtedly have been accomplished in March, ISIS, had not Germany intervened. The right of German Holstein to remain united with Schleswig, provided the legal authorisation for the intervention of Germany ; the object of this step was principally to prevent too incor poration or Danisirung (Danaciprog) of Schleswig. This object will be more completely obtained by the conditions of the preliminaries for peace than by the right of the duchies to remain united ; Schleswig receives a positi,n in dependent of Denmark, with its own legislation and internal administration, and will, according to our interpretation cf the preliminaries, be poli•ically connected with Denmark only in reference to external affairs. IThe incorporation or Danicisiog (Datisirung) are, therefore, excluded, and that yr naction is afforded to the German element which it can demand fr. in Germany. True it is known that these preliminaries have not found favour in the duchies, but the =tiro) alluded to above hove, nevertheless, influencrd the government not to give up the basis which it has succeeded in gaining. The desire of the duthies to remain united eu - s two ways. In ISIS the German party in the duchies and else where held last by that idea, because It was believed that the then state of the times would have drawn Holstein, united as it was with Schleswig, to the German side. Now, in 1850, ante-Germ in opinions in the duchies and elsewhere desire, just as forcibly, that the duchies should remain united, be cause it is believed that the present state of the times will force Holstein from a union with Germany, to the side of Denmark. This much with respect to the principle of the preliminaries. On the lith January, exactly six months after the conclusion of the armistice, the Danish plenipoeatiaries made certain propositions, which more immediately refer to the carrying cut of article 1 of th r preliminaries, viz , the restoration of a particular e:nstitution for Schleswig. Four weeks afterwards counter propositions were made by is not likely now to be embroiled in war with Austria, Russia, or .Pruseia: The alarming reports which persons have endeavoured 10 put in circulation for the last two days had to-day acquired more consistency. We are authorised to declare that they are devoid of all bundation. The government has received this very day despatches from Russia, Prussia, and Austria, and they enable us to affirm that the peace of Europe was never more secure. The news of the entry into Switzer land of French. Prussian, and Alvtrian armies is, therefore, completely unfounded. The public cannot be too much on its guard against the propagation of false new, evidently in vented with a view to the approaching election,. The Pdrie of yesterday evening further adds : Rive& completely unites herself to France on the Greek question. The Russian Ambassador in London, M. do Brunow, has received from hts government orders to act in accord with the French ambassador in the negotiation to which our mediation has given rise. It seems from what the Assenthle4 Nationale in forms us that Franco accepts the Prussian view of the Neufchatel quest i on. -• • • The journals also mentions a circular copy of a letter, written by the Czar to King Otho, in which the English government is inveighed against in no measured terms. It is said that to complete the centralised organisa tion of the government, a number of extraordinary commissioners, who are to take precedence of the pre fects, are to be sent oat from Paris. M. Floret, late Prefect of Toulouse, is said to be appointed to • divisions including the whole of the South of France. The socialist leaders in their speeches at the eke total meetings that are now taking place about Paris, are all evidently anxious to keep their partisans quiet, and to that cad they make US3 of arguments which it were well that the party had always been truo to in their own interest. " Why," they say, " should we go down int) the streets to make our opinions prevail, when we see examples of the manner in which their prt panderence is acknowledged, and makes its way." Then they show how, notwith standing excesses which they admit, Prussia has in augurated liberal principles, and they ask, cannot France wait also, and will not liberal opinions and the force of public opinion di justice on the ultra conservative tendencies of a temprary majority ? The leaders of the Mountain in tho Assembly preach in the same sense, and this morning their organs in the press plead the cause.of order in the interest of coming elections, end enumerate ell the faults of the administration. This they have done in a powesful address to the people, of which Michel de Bourg.' is the whet. In this address the losses of the party by death and exile are enume.ated and de plored. The Mountain, it says, is not a faction, it is a prin&plc, and therefore it has lived. It is v. 141 that the executive has adjourned the elections; they cannot but result in filling up the ranks of the Mountain, and its present leaders in the Assembly have faith in the good sense of the masses, and the constancy of their opinions. To-thy the Assaubly was occupied with the ques tions of the Paris and Avignon Itsilway. Thu ti at speaker against the project, M. Larne, was at the tribune till post-hour. Prusais. The nature of the fatter it is impossible at chi moment more particularly to describe, but a glacee at the article of the Stacits• Anzeiier, of the 20th July, which explains the Prussian interpretation of the prelimi naries, will give an idea of their purport. But it cannot be maintained that the Danish propesitiors accord with that interpretation. There :is, diowever, no dis pute with regard to the principle. Both sides acknowledge that a middle path must be found between two extremes : between entire incorporation on the oue hand, and entire personal union on the other. It the one or the other ex treme is exclusively to be treated of it will hardly be possi ble even to arrive at sa understanding. A medium course is then to be discovered, for the question is one of more or less. That this medium line should in the Danish propesitiotas leen more to incer peration •, and in the Prussian more to pi.rsonel union, need hardly be mentioned. The Prussian government is of opinion that two countries of so differsut natures, such as Den mark and Schleswig, will maintain a b, tar understanding with each other if they are separated in their more important relatione, and the points of contact which are the su'deet cause of quarrel are lessened. It peace between Demerit and Schleswig can be obtained in this manner, the peace of Germany will be secured at the same time, because the feelings of Germany will no longer have a cause tor hastening to the assistance of the German element in Schleswig. It has been asked whether a spas ly cm:luster, of peace may ho expected. This question might, perhaps, l e an ewe red in the affirmative, it the uegeti done proceed as they have commenced, on the basis of the preliminaries, and other matters are not mixed up with them, which would lead to to , great generalities and too wide an aim. On this ground the regulation of the succession question, as intended by his lidejesty the King of Dsnamrk, where it was d ,übt ful was expressly postponed in the preliminaries until the peace should have been concluded. Thu disposition of both aavernments in favour of peace cannot be doubted. The war might be earned on for years to come without obtainiug a positive decision. Denmark might injure the trade of Germany, Germany might take Alsen, or burn Jutland. Al. this, however, would not de cide the question: pith parties wou d only have the dameg a and neither Vie advantages resulting from war. That Denmark does not desire peace, caunot be maintained from the facts that have occurre I. Negotiators for peace have been pent here from Copcnbagen, who belong to the melt intelligent and most moderate statesmen of But coun try. With regard to the money Bquidetions or other busi ness negotiations which Lee taken place in c msequence of the war, the Danish government has also until now shown the most accommodreing . spirit. A similar spirit has of coutse been exhibited by Prussia. This is, however, not sufficient to secure a speedy conclu sion of pa ace. In our times one has no longer to deal merely with the dispositions of cabinets ; we live in times of populer policy. Tire feelings and passions, the love and hatred of nations, make themselves heard perhaps too powerful!y in the polity of the present. Extremely liberal in,ditutions have been introduted into Denmark and the duchiea, and tile general right of eutfrage permits the popular feeling to operate even in the highest regions of politics. No one calculates whether or not this popular power either in Denmark or in the duchies may not I produce events which may hinder tI of pree even result in a renewal of hestilit no security can be given for question of *the length of the enutinuation shall be provided ' with this matter. It is wal I vention of the 10th of July, 1: waltung" for Schleswig, wL affairs of that duchy until the it consists of • 1) tnish I and of on En;lish arbitrt' r. evil, not been able to phi S:hleswig,where the population The acts of government which by the p Tulat ion there a% jut ii4hts tit the country•, which ov with liolceiu by the :S:w:ltait -. . . ader the conclusion of peace, or ostibties. In this respec also r possible events. The other Re armistice, au ,er it s I for, is in 31, 4‹ IX • • ted know • • , efflen • • k ria LS V.), a ••., ," ' ;ntlea which i .....'s, sh . . the co • ... • . iAt:l l . O and a • — 1 - , I te •. he Aii aut T hor* t , lthe• lieu% loCrl so is m. • 3 •.. lijih: . . ,z,"! I it un. • t . irlfiresif t. A st sr in os i .. op:•ur t ut,tht to ' , . . n, • d ;C..).,chaft there . ' ..Fli. COPYHOLD TENURE. Mr. AGLIONBY moved for lava to a bill to *Beet the eempulsory enfranchisement of lands of eopyhold sad enstemary Mauro. Ile was understood to state that the bill was the same as the one be introduced last year, with the exception of some trilling alterations. Mr. BiIOTIIBBTON seconded the motion. Mr. G. BENNE LEY opposed flit bill, and said he would divide the home upon it. Sir 0. GREY said the government had ptoposed a mea sure. last OUPLOO, having the emus object ; but there were difficulties surrounding the subject, which prevented the measure passing the other house. However, if the hon. member thought there wa• any chalice of his measure paving, the frovernsent would not oppose its introduction. Sir Ii INGLIS believed this was one of the worst bills eler brought forward; it purported to deal eunpulsorils with private property, which was a sufaMent reason for it' rejection. Lord D. C. STUART thought the opposHou unreasona ble, alter the government had contented to the introduction id the bill. The house divided— Foe the introduction of the bill 97 Againstlt Mr. FOX MAULE o b tained leave to bring in a bill to render more simple and cff.ctual the tithe by which con- Free ttions of societies, amociatod for purposes of religious worship or education is Scotland, hula 'eel property re quired for such purpose. WINDOW DUTIES. Oa the motion Corti; G. 11.kifollELL a return wry orili•red of the amount of window duty assessed, sad the net ani..unt received, with the number of bowies charged for ?ix year lading 5.b April, 1849; and the lite return for the twelve towns in 13 , oland peyii.g the largest araount. _ _ . . The trveral bills ordered to be broueht in were read a first doe, and the house adjourned at a quarter to 1. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Mramnyr of N Ida voted to favour of Mr. Humres motion lag night. Adair, Hugh B. Gilson, T.M. Osborne Ralph Aol2il, R. A. 8. Grattan, Henry Trebel!, sir Grorge R. why. Henri A. Greene, John Petri, ti.imuel Morton *brick, Moms Greenkll, C. Pantos Pilkintrtnn, James And Arthur 114, &e Benjamin Power, Hr. Attratrena, R. B. Hurt Juteph A. Itrynokli, Jnhn We, Michael T. Marra., It:ehnil Itionto John I. Berkeley. Hoe. H. P. Hardie: Steamier Roebuck, Jobe A. Berkeley, C. L. O. lia•tte, Archibald tiadleg. John Merritt, it. J. Headlam, Thomas E. Salwey, (Moue Hooverie, Hoe. E. P. Henry. Altionter Rebaknelt!, William lb ithy Juba ileywortb, inerreace Scully, Mande re, hertom Joseph Harman, Edreird Smith, Jobe B. Inrown.Weoltrad, J. liumpbery, Mr. Ald. ntrialeand, air George elultield. James M. Jaok.n, Willis.' Stuart, Lord Dudley Clay, .60104 Kean*. ItoMrt gulitrue iikhael I tar, Sir O Miam Kerrluer, James Talbot, J. Ilyminth ('lilt rd, Henry IL King, 11.108 rI. L. Teemed, Henry W. (olden, Rial.ard Loir.gtce, Charles Tenloon, Eleurd K. owing,. Wahl.= ki`Cußattb, W. T. Tenacity Robert .1. Cowan. Ctrarlse H Gregor, John Thompson, Colonel Currie, Marken Meagher, Thomas Thompson. t;erdSk I) , efi'll. John T. Marakali, Jaw. O. Thornely. Thom on DTTorouit, lin. C.T. Milner, Wm. M. F. Villiers, lion. ( harlcs Duke, Sir Janice )toffat, George %Fakir'', Monroe D:onean, (Usage Moolessorth, Sro W. Wann, John 'Dairen Dniscoatbe, TU. mai Moan(!, Francis Witte ox, B. Ill'Ohie r.Olis. John Nugent, Lor4 Wi11i4131% John . ..... EVAWS Sir Os Lacy iilrrlen, Sir Timothy Wilms, Mathew E.. n., John O'Connell, Maurine Wood, William Page 1 Ewart, WilliAni O'Connell, M. J. TILL; ht.. Fagan, William O'Connor. helms !Turn-, Jurepli Vas, Wm. J. &Flaherty, Anth ny Walensley, s.r Joshua PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS FOR THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. ORDERS OF TILE DAT. Sitcoms Mulattos. —Ashhy's Divorce; Umpires Sp pointamat; NOTICES OF MOTION. TZNANT RIoRT (Inn ayo).—Ttie Marquis of LON DONDRIfiRT, to prelim* a petition (rim certain Manta in the marina Wand in favour of tenint•right. HOUSE OF (X)MMONS. ORDERS OF THE DAY. Committees, Parliamentary Vows. &e. (Ireland); Elec tions (Ireland) ; Court of enamor, (Ireland); Process and Frantic. (Ireland) ; Bills. Supply. Sncosn Itgatorsos.—Chari , able Trust.; Mercantile Ma ria Merchant Seamen's Fuld; Merchant Shipping; Mosley Payment of Wages (Ireland) ; Registration of DeeJs (Ireland); Bills. NOTICES OF MOTIONS ON ORDERS OF THE DAY. I n eassultrao on Namur. ot.ry Voters (Ireland) B;11, S. D. Norreys,Mr.Grogan,Sir. R. Fergus in, Lord C. Hamilton, Mr. Nspii r, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Henley, Lord NW, and Mr. Stafford, to more clauses and amendments. COURT OF CRAISCRILT ( IRELINI) ) BILL —o4ROinz iito committee on this bill Mr. J. S CART to more incructioa to the commit!. to introduce such provisions as may seem advisable Inc fac lirlting the correction of abuses in the ms narement of estates under the c mtrol of the Court of Chan cery ir. Ireland, in the possession of receivers or agents acting ender the authoarg of that court. MEI:CnNTILE MAILINE BILL.-011 question of second reading of this bill, Mr. MOIPATT to move the second reading that day six months. SI:rrLT.—EXPENDITIII3 Or TAR COVXTRY.-011 order for committee being read, Mr. COBDEN, to move t•:at the net expenditure of the government il), the year 183.1 (Perlis mentery P.per, No. 260, 184;) amounted to 44,422,0001. ; that the net expenditure for the year ended the 5.h day of Jinn:try. ISSO (Parliamentary Paper, No. 1.1840), amounted to 50,853,000; the increase of upwards of 6000,0001. having been caused principally by successive augmentations of our warlike establishments, 'and outlays for defensive arms. meats Trod no foreign danger, or necessary coat of the civil government, or inuispensable di,buruments li for the services in our dependenc:es abroad warrant the coati , wince of tb's iocreue of expenditure: That the taxes r coked to meet the present expenditure impede the opera. time of agriculture and manufactures, and diminish the funds for the empl 'punt of 15b3ur in all branches of pro- ductive industry, thereby tending to produce pauperism and crime, and adding to the local and general burdens of the people. That, to diminish there evils, it is expedient that this house take steps to reduce the Annan' expenditure, with all practicable speed, to an amount not exc,eding the sum which, within the lest fifteen years, has been proved to be sufficient for the maintenance of the security, honour, and dignity of the nation. INDEPENDENT NOTICES OF QUESTION AND JSOTIONS. NORTHERN ARMISTICE.ZI4;:eANDARS, to ask the noble lord the Secretary for !Foreign Affairs if an answer has been received from her Majesty's ministers at Frankfort and Berlin, in reply to the proposal of the Danish govern ment to renew the armistice on certain conditions ; if those conditions have been acceded to; if not, whether this pro- I Lionel state of peace or war, depending on six weeks' notice on either aide, is Vs be suffered to centinue, on the part of England, to the serious hindrance and prejudice of the trade and c :amerce of the United Kingdom. NATIONAL LAND CONPANT.—Sir B. lIALL, to present two petitions from certain allettees of the Nation4l Lend Company, complaining of the conduit of the chief pro moter of that company, and praying the house to take their case info c,nsideration. REAL PROPERY.—Mr. READLAII, to amend and ex t,nd certain provisiot.s of an act made in the Bth and 9th year of her present Majesty, iutituled, " An act to facilitate the conveyance of real property." PItINTINO A PISTITION.—Mr. ROEBUCK, that the peti tion of Malcolm Lewin (presented 28;l1 February) be print, d. UNtogs (letwoon).—Sir D. NORREYS, return of the loans which have been obtained through the poor law com missioners, by each uaiou in Ireland, for the erection of hos pitals or other buildings, the amount of which is not in• dulled in the original debt for the workhouse buildings. TDB ARMY AND NAVY.—Mr. HUME, for returns rela tive to,—See Express ..f yesterday. SUPPLY.—Mr. RAFTER, to vote in COOLMitille a grant for consolidating Exchequer Bills. Vbr Court. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the Queen and Prmee Albert and the Puke of Same Cobourg Gotha on Wednesday at Buckinghaa Palace, and returned in the afternoon to rrogmore. Ills Royal Highnean the Dike of Saxe Cobourg Goths, attended by Lient.-Colcnel the Hon. A. Gordon, inspected the House of Lords, and other parts of the new Palace of Westminster, yesterday afternoon. His Royal Highness the Duke of Saxe Cobourg Gotha took leave of her Majesty and Prince Albert, yesterday, and left Buckirgbana Palace at 20 minutes before 8 o'clock last even ing, attended by Baron d'Apel, for the London-bridge tar minus of the South Eastern Railway, en routs to the Con tinent. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, took their accustomed exercise yesterday. THE EXHIBITION OF 1851. Hie Royal Highness Prince Albert presided yester day afternoon at a meeting of the Royal Commisithn for the promotion of the Exhibiuon of the Work, of industry of all NatiOln, to be held in the year 1861. Ilia Royal RlO mess arrived at the New Palace of Westminster at 3 o'clock, attended by Lient-Colonel the Hon. Alexander Gordon. The COOMillii.llol,l present were: Earl Granville, the Earl of Ellesmere, Lard Stanley, the Right Han, Sir Robert Peel, the night Hen. 11. Labouchere, the Right lion. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Richard Westinacott, Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. Deny, Mr. Cobden, 111 I'., Mr. William Cubitt, Mr. T. F. ii,bson, Mr. Jones Layd, and Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P. Tile secretary, Mr. Scott Russell, was in attendance. Colonel Raid attended as chairman of the Executive Com mittee. A deputation from the Westminster Committee, consisting of Mr. Joseph Brown, Mr. John Gregory Croce, Mr. S'ephen Lewis, Mr. P. Graham, Mr. G. John Miller, Mr. W. G. Rogers, and Mr. IL Snell, accompanied by their secretary, Mr. 0. \V. A. Drew, had an interview with the Prince at the board. The meeting broke up at ten minutes ►fter six o'clock. The Eceles'astical Commissioners for England had general meeting yesterday. Dopatehes from the Governor of the Cape of Good Rope were ICV-iTed yesterday at the Velonial-eitice.