The Express. — London, England, 1850-03-05 00:00:00

- D1 PE RIAL PARL LAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—HONDAT, MARCH 4. The house met at lialtpaat fonto'clock. LORD 001/011 Tigress% Goton, introdeced by V4eonnt Thwartlen and Viscount Harding., wok the oaths and his seat, and subscribed the parbeaseetsry roll. PETITIONS PRESENTED. DI/TN-AMINO FON Roars (SCOTLAND) DILL —By Lord BRO COHAN. hem the Cunha: of Reassure, &Lahore+, is botany of this bill. BDUCATIOL—By Lord STANLEY, from a parish is the county of blonsentli, on the subjeet of the grants by lb. Coessaltee of Privy Council. By the Bishop of LONDON (42'. PI the Earl et HARROWBY, Earl of POWIS, and Sul WALDRORAVE, praying tor enquiry bate the pre sent rysam el nadonal 'derail At, INQussr ON •NLDIER'S WIFE AND CHILD llf OURRNSBY. Lord BROUGHAM had to move for Me prod•etiw of pipers of w'aicb ►e bad give• the particulars Maitre to two otitis which had been bade. in Alderney and Guernsey, touching the deaths of a unfortunate woman, and her child, the wile of Rile, • privets is the 16th Reiff meat. The nobl., sad learned lord proceeded to say : 1 is,ee for these perms ;or the parpms of hams,/ transactions btospht before y ma lordship. tato which an insperket Inquiry has beta insti tett d, sot the matter cannot end 'hire. I have the opinion or learned in !retread judges of the land, that maastanith ter is to be imputed to wine partite, if not murder ; and i: upon tae production of those papers, the conduct of any p..rties should w•me an equivocal aspect, or a despicable septet, or a &Meltable aspect, it mast be their own deedo, and not my words that will catee the islander, sad that slander will rebound from them oa the service Willeb they may ao•tiase w defile.—Ordered. AUDIT OF RAILWAY ACCOUNTS BILL. Earl 011.ANVILLE said that some of their lavishly* at the b. fining as the session questioned him as to the lama lama a the government ea the subject of the auditing of rail way accounts, end he then stated that they only waited to Low what aurae would be taken by the riilerey directors and others interested. It new appeared that the railway directors were not likely themselves to bring forward a mea sure which at the close of the lest sessionihey had amounted their latent/ea to introduce, and it appeared right to the go mrament that they should so longer delay soma information as to the coarse which they latended to pursue ea thissubjeet. lie was about to ask Weil lordships to give a first 'mange to a bill for the audit of railway amounts. It was usual for their lordship. to allow a bill to be reed a first time, as a matter of course; and he would mot, therefore, go into any aria meat to snow that the present mode of auditing,railway ae courts was not a good one, or that the measure proposed by the government was the best adapted for the purpose. At the same time, be theta ht it right that he should state the principal provisions of the Intl which he held in his hand. The object of %hi bill was, wi h the smallest possible amount of iaterfereme, to secure an independent and con- Siamese audinag of railway 'comets ; and thsvad of the pre. seat system, Irr which each company, ewe • year, appointed two auditor', t err reopened to establish one pernuuvat amoral board, whom duty it would be matinnowsly to audit all the accounts of the various railways in the kingdom. The machinery by which this board would be fleeted was as follows t—Esitts railway company, at a emend or panel seeder, or at the first annual regret medlar WWI the peening of the bill, would elect one delegate; that the several delegates should elect a chairman; and that their rotes should be in proportion to the amount of capital they represented. The delegate representise atom. pony, whine paid up capital did not amount to 2,000,0001., would be ealitled to ase vote ; where the capital amounted to 2 000,0001, and was loss thin 6,000,0001., the delegate would have two votes ; where the capital was 6,000,0001. and nadir 7,000,0001, three votes; and when it was above 10.000,0001., the delegate would have tour votes. The delegates at their first meshing would proceed to nominate • chairman sad the otter members of a board, ler the pur pose of aunties railway acemats. This audit board, when sleeted, should be irremovabl., except by the vote of two thirds of the del-gates, *sectioned by the commissioners of railways. As to the duties which would devolve en this beard, it wee proposed that they should have the power, and be called to report haltyser/y to inch isonspeny, whether their financial trenmetions seemed to be properly ordered ; whether tne accounts of rew ipts and en penditare ham been correctly set forth ; whether the heeds of romans sad capital are sufliciently distinct: whether the dividend declare(' is injurious to the capital of the railway ; sad whether th e law charges are properly toed . It would also be their day to sabmt all there reports, together with as memai of thole own expenditure, to parliament at the begin:nag of each year. And in order to enable them to perform these duties, they would have the power to call before them the oaten at the railway companies; to in spect, by themselves or their ofilons, all books doeumente, and vouchers, which sateht be necessary to enable them to give a comet baleen, sheet of the railway accounts. It was proposed 'list the expenses incurred by this bill should be defrayed in the following manner :—ln the first plate, 10,0001. would be eubseribed by the railway companies, and paid in to the Bank of England, to the credit of an account to be opened in the name of " the auditors of railway ac counts." It was proposed afterwards that the expenditure of the railway auditors ihou'd be audited in the lams manner as the public ammunta, by the commissioners for the auditing of the public menial. The railway auditors would hays to prepai• an estimate of their ace-unto for the ensuing half-year, which would be certified by the said commis Messrs for auditing the public **counts. I t would be open to the delegates ct railway companies to object to any items of expenditure ; and if they did ea object, an appeal would be toads to the c nentiesioners of rsi.wsyo, whose decision on the disputed points would be foal. These were the prin cipal points to which he thought it necessary to call their lordships' attention; eo.d he would conclud- by moving that the Dili which he had laid oa the table be read a first time. (Hear, hear.) Lord MON rEAOLE ezpressei his satisfaction 014 hi nobie friend and his co-leagues hrd undeztakin to solve this &Mesh problem. The bill was thew read a first time. NATIONAL EDUCATION.—TUE MANAGEMENT CLAUSES: Lord STANLEY, on pres:;tisirthe petitioN from a parish is Monts s4.l2shire, ft m persons, principally laity, cinneced with the Church of England, interested in the erection of national schools, said he did not intend to discuss the ques tion, but the petitioners prircipolly complained of the in senion of clauses which prevented their submitting any differences which might arise to the arbitration alone of the bishop of the dioceir, in c•nsequsuce of which they could sot panic:two is the root made by the Committee of Pm', Comet/. The kargais of LANSDOWNE did not intend to wo into any argues( en t►e subj. e.; cut ►e erculd merely say that Use clause ref reed to by the petitioners was an exceptional clause, and whether it should ise so or not was matter cf ar gument. The Bishop of LONDON hoped he night bs instrumental is preventing what he considered would be • great oalamil —namely, the entering into a disemaion of what bad bees said for and against the pr vie/slings of the Colllllllt6llo of Education of the Privy Colima. Their lordsbips would I remember that in 1839, when an address to her Majesty was I moved by his everarebeelaniented friend the Is. Azdtbialiop of Canterbury, he expressed his views on the subject ; but it I appeared that they did not meet with the approbatios of the government, sad he had ever Mace exerted hieneelf to ; maintain a good feeble' !Demme the Committee of Privy I COLIIViI sad the Natimal Society. He would not say how far he agreed with Mose who complaiaed of oartiality on ; the part of the former body, but he might state that be did sot go the length which meat did. He had always ander storm that the process by which the committee of privy i oonneil was to dispense the pablic Made in aid of the import oat thjiet of oducatioa, was to a great extent experieneatal. I It was a liew process la this coturry, and he thought the thne had sow come wrier. Pity might fairly hope to obteia I from the govemment their mealeat to the inaltution of • i 1111301 sew diepasoonate inquiry into the results of that experiment. He admitted that there had been I many mieropreventatiou; and be thimeht it, t.eref the mom important that they Mould eve lb. Uri' before them is no undorb ed form by bearing the emdeteo of persons on both sides of the question He held a number of petitions three/go, th e i r t or oa t i p , to grant a committee of i. coley. I'. ere was another riot of importmos ho he ronsidereo, gamely, the intik et of 'male education. For all these remoss, and ahem which he had not exproesed, he trusted that a select committee would be a;.poiated to inquire lam the who's subject. (Hear.) The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said the etre of edusatom fa tnis country was a• present very anomalous. There 11111 W. two pertim equally desirous of promoting the use object and they orild only Walt it by muted me "perks, whila they we odd be sure to defeat their purpose by priories and emplevess—hs meant the clarity of the church of England, and the educational roinnottee of the pricy council. No owe mould doubt the feelings which both parries entertained.-Os the part of ehe cited', be could speak of the p.ias they had mama, a. d, in WWI eases, the per @Gael entserresesmat they had suifired in e heir end avows to support 'Mode It their galore p entities ; and no on. could dosed the eanieertems et Al gown sent so knew. an he did, the passes lob had hems brans* , d e a the ell Jere he the noble mania a, sad the ;ahem which he bed moVegone la &nada( .Hens hy which he hop d .be Mitres he ad is view Might bee he enneed into, atter (Chiten.) At a moment when the on i f tit • torte, had sot been in the mos 8 mrishirg condition, it was gorilla' to see teat the sty branch of Witco ex perliture which ser so! e .aid .;seed the 'untie rut moat tibia sad ire', made ley ediseeil.s. ;Hear. rm.) The Amok could a t pr vile from be 0.11 , to ais goer Use 11110 , 11 . . and meintriiiiiee of oihoole sad tr. • &mew* o f t h e most there:", of rye* ity de peod is a great degree on the sit el pull , meat. 0 t the nth. r haul. eke state could not easy out such Olives wi ' 'ant the ' , eremites of the church, for the Perm es of the ; are r tel school n net gristly depend toes the ex r iota of the per ehiel slug ; a •n, Lord BROUGHAM ha fee thirty live 'min laboured the cause of • wawa, hut had been uoiebol to doapp ba ilment in the pm* mores of lis de. imam. Toe bi I which he irtroduce i an 1100 sad be ell throrn out, but wit by the "lurch, I r they had been his e oiljutors. A bill pmerlirg fee be World-cm of the pro. le of E., lad was of all othi rs • St question for the govermatnt of the counts) to lake up, ard he hoped t 'et they would speedy make up their salvias es the r.bjeset, and take it into their own bands. (Hag, berm.) Tae Bishop of CHICUBBTER had Nivea no'iee of his Manatee to ores ..t Um. important yes i inn he now ..eld in his Mad, not as ptvd,lst; tassel! to all ,It. •iewr e apr earl by ttu Potitiner., blot r indisatias that if was a petitiois do serving of their lordships' most serious attention. (Haar, bear.) Probably his aeswer to the noble marquis when he asked him privately if the petition was likely to lead to any dismission, hie answer ' probibly some what too pesersl, wee, that be had wo intention of entering into the qsestioa of the management clauses 'or the prone. dingo of the educational committee of the Privy Council, but to represent simply that the petitioners oonsidreed they had something to complain of. and without asking the house to go at one* into the question of whether they were right or wog is that °pintos, be &fired to urge upon them to take the matter into their consideration. Beyond that it was not his intention to enter into the question - ----- • • • • • - - _ The Bishop of T. DAVID'S w •uld be glad to ham informatl , n on the suhjeci, bat dii not tellers viat any satis factory result could be expected from the inquiries conducted by a committee. The Earl of HARROWI3Y thought that lomat) . ine should be dose to pat an end to the uncertainty which at present existed on this important subject. In his opinion to vital a matter as the religious *ducat i in of the people should not met merely on orders in council passed without consults don with the legislature. Lord BROUGHAM observed, that it was out of the reports of the committee of the other house. of which he was chairman, that the system of 1833 had originated, and the rants under it were Rule. Th. Marquis of LANSDOWNE, referring to the meeting at Willis'sßoom., at whs. h the petition presented by the right rev. pules (the Bishop of Chichester) had enemata, said there was scarcely one Aegis statement made at that meeting, i s referent» toNsi at tees of fact, which he was not able on the most unquestionable .vide-.a—evidence laid oa the table of that house—moat decisively to controvert—(hear, hoar)—and to prove that pusses imaNainted with this subject, Ives induced to sign that petition, by statements which might kave been contradicted on the spot. It would be sufficient fur him to tell their lordships that when a clergyman of the Cberch of Ragland, a meteeriger of one of their church schools, who was prima at that meeting rose to contradict them, he was told that that was not the fitting opportunity to do s, they wanted se information from him, and he was refused an honing. Thus shoeing that those preatlewasn who were usemblei at that meeting in the spirit of local liberty as they said were di.posed to I.ceord that local Shorty to now who Teetered to inform the meeting of the fads. (Hear, bear.) He was aware that this was a subj ect eS which the public mind had bun much ezeited and maw various and conflicting views had been formed, bat however incited a man's feelings might be, that formed no excuse Is a matter la which the cause of religion and charity wee se deeply coneareed, ter perverting the truth—(Cheers)--ead Ist sountenansiug and dissensthatine statements which those who put them forward, bed they made Huffish.. acquainted with the facts as they mast have done, nest have known to be wholly and entirely unfounded. (Load cheers.) He would risply state two or three facts which wise material as proving the nature of the sniarepreeents- Mims ander which this petition had been signed. It was Mated that the Church of England under the administration of the Educational Committee of the Privy Council bed not received its due I roportion of the public messy voted by parliament. Now (continued the !noble marquis) I beg to inform your lordships, without entering into any argument as to the principles on which these grants have been app.. dosed, that of that considerable fund, so liberally allowed by parliament—(hear, hear)—not less than four fifths ul the money has gone to the Church of England— (cheers)—that, in fact, I expected if any cuspid s% were mad. from any quarter on this subject, it would kw come not from the church, but from the dissenting body I hear)—mho might undoubtedly hays stated that Ia proportion to the amount of their population they had not received their due. (Hear, hear) But with resp‘ct to the church of England, their schools, as shown by the paper I now hold in my hand, have received at least four•tilthe et the whole of the grants made for building schools, and abet is not lees important, hays had a still greater proportion es I believe, but at least the same of the grants for mils. taming the schools when founded. (Hear, au tess epi! Yet, my lord, ootwithstandieg these fu as facts, it w and eceildinuly snorted, at that meeting, that not IMP 'bil ling of the public money voted by yarliament had gone to any school, the opogregation promoting which had nit been required to subscribe to what was called the management clauses. (Hear, hear.) Now, that statement I say was perfectly unfounded. iCheen.l I have in my possession at this moment, anl can at ones lay it ore the table of your 1 irdships' luau, a list of so less than 400 ochools which have received for various purposes connected with education out of the parliamentary grant sums for books, LT masters, and other items of expenditure amounting altoeeth.r to a great many th ousand pounds which hays been so applied, which are being so applied, and which will continue to be ro applied. (Hear, hear.) This is a matter of fact which, under the eirstmstaneee, your lordships will I am sun agree with ma that I am fully justified in stating. It was also stated on the ocea•ion I aas alluding to that in some part of tits proteedioel of the Committee of the Privy Council these was a determination shown to pre- vent religion from being connected with the edu cation given is the schools aidid by those funds. Yet there were at th.it moment, and the fact must have been known to the person who made that statement, but whom I will not name, and who ought undoubtedly to have ac quainted his audience with the minutes on which he was commenting (hear)—there were at that time in ex *tenet • series of regulations (which I have in my possession, and which it would have been my duty to read to your lordships had we gone into the discussion of this question)—making in the first year, in the emend year, the third year, and even thirst to the liftn year, examisation and instruction by • clergyman of the church of England iato the catechism sad formula:in of the etwar-h of England an indispensable emir dition. (Loud cheers.) Yet such was the obliquit of mind—such the peculiar construction of the undentan of this gentleman who made that statement, that he oo being himself to wen that there was to be baud is those minutes and regulations only a disposi tion to separate religious from secular education. (Ilear.) Now, my lords, these are material ruts, these are slaw meats, which I mast allow to pass uceontradieted, because each is my feeling on this subject, so deeply am I persuaded that it is indispensable to the course of sound education to cosnect it, and to connect it inseparably with religious in struction, that if one tithe of what was stated at that meet ing were true, it would have been my duty instantly to bays discontinued having any share in the administration of these grants, and, far from opposing, to have seconded any tootles that might be proposed for putting • stop to such • system. The noble marquis then observed that it seemed to have been the prevailing opinion that the dis tribution of the grant and the proceedings of the government as connected with it had cot led to a successful issue. Cer- Sainly it might not have been es successful as some had en acted, but he would not admit that their exertions had not led to any successful issue. He could inform their lord ildps that at that moment there were scattered throughout the country 800 schools founded with the assistance of the parliamentary grist, in close accord with the privy eeuacil, and under the superintendence of the ses hose clersgmen, who wore their patrons and sage. From them Ise was daily in the habit of re osivirg testimony as to the ben. its derived from inepectios, and from the system adopted with regard to teacher and leaders. All of those commun'estions stated that the schooh fully realised the expectations held out, and that being the owe, he could not admit that 800 schools, founded on • re gular system, were not an impruvement, and a very great Improvement, oa the no system that had previously pre- The right rev. bench must not think that they could enter into this investigation as regarded the church cf England and at the same time exclude other nets and other churches. (Hear, hear.) It might be admitted that every religious denomination in the country shr uld share in any public bounty granted for educational purposes, but it was not so easy to settle the proportions in which that bounty was to be distributed, or the nature of the safeguards you were to have from each. (Hear, he .r.) He spoke with a knowledge which even the right rev. prelates could not hays —a knowledge derived from the experience of the lest three yeah--of the diffieulty of dealing with sec tarian samples in the allocation of public grants. (Hear.) His could assure their lordships that they would find the teak no easy one, either in deciding on the system they should recostmead, or is satisfying those cisme of the community whose numbers and importance entitled them to consid. ratios. Petravas ordered to Le on t►e table. TIMM WORKHOUSE. The Kemal, nt LANSDOWNE laid on the table copies of eorreap.,adeeee Mamma Archbishop Ill'Hale ant the eowmaeronen of poor law relative to the stet* of Tam workhosee. PARTY PROCESSIONS (IRELAND) BILL. The Minima of LANSDOWNE noted the committee on this bill. The Deka of WELLINGTON said he had en objection to this bill, which, having been in a distant part of the country, he bad been usable to urge on any of its former stmts. He would now state h's objection very shortly. His opinion was that the hill did Lot go far enough, for, u it stood at present, it would not pet an end to these distur beams in Irelaad which the government were so anxious to IMIDP/0111. Oa reedier over the account of the D Brae affair it appeared to Dim that bete, en the parties segued to the disturbances there were many cane. a of quarrel existing, and many riete were Likely to take place which could not be prevented by law se laid dawn in the present bill. It appeared that both parties were in the habit of burying .beir dead with great formality, and that whenever such a mremonial as a funeral took plea the opposing party inter rupted, sod note often occurred, u dangerous to the public peace and as fatal to human life as any anniversary proces sion. (Hear, hear.) Now, he protested that he could sin lerstaail the reran why the legislature should not at ones prevent persons in Ireland from appearing abroad in arm., or why we, It that in Ireland the population should be sneered a privilege which, he would venture to my, did not exist lee elm pie.pie in any other parte( the civilised world. (Hear, beer.) Why should any man bee lowed to appear in arms, incept a in this or in other countries, for the amusement *reporting? Why should not every man appose:- kg abroad in arms be required pro.luce his game ear thiest*, 'alike t very man carrying arm. ought to have, or on refusing to predates it, he deprived of those arena t (Hear. hear.) He should prepare a clause enehed_ying his Mews either for toe report or the third reading. (Hear.) The Marquis of ListidDOWNE feared that it would be impossible to introdu -e such a clause in the present bill, wh'sh wee a proce•sions bill, and not an arms bill. He was very fez, however, free, saying that mime such legislation as that indicated by the noble duke would not hereetter be atmeseary in [Mewl. Lord MONTHAOLE concurred in the expediency of Netzietiag the posseinioa of arms la Ireland, mad to effect that object, in as far as was consistent with the mope of the present bill, be 'unwed that the forfeiture of arms ahead mustelthe peisaity in the ease of both, the tairdesseanoue by the bilL At mom it sitetbod to 'sky dm sea taro. De would uo. move say formal amendment, but merely Orriw out the supgestios he the ecersideration of the goverment. ' The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that the power of proelmatira would fetal the object inteudwl by the noble "rd. Lord STANLEY would support say muss calculated to dimiuieh, he wuuld net aay toe poesessioa of areas, but the habit of parading with then about the country. After an observation front the Earl of Citusioat.L., the house went into committee. Clause one was ape( d tu. The reinaftnag clauses were agreed to, and the house resumed. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY ETENING, MARCH 5, 1850. ECCLESIASTICAL C9UK . ISSION BILL. Upon the notion for the third retdiog of this bill, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE proposed attain amend meats of a verbal swam The Bkbop of SALISBURY proposed seined emend meats in the seendraent which he had proposed the other eight en the 15th clause. The bill was then read a third time and passed. Their lorlohips ►djourned at twenty willow before eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONB.—MONDAY, MARCH 4. The 8 took the choir et 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. - _ SECOND READIXOI —Tee Farmer's Estate Society (IN land), the Ipswich General Cemetery, and the Railway Maumee Company Bills. 681 - AT CENTRAL GAkcprrsummur COMPANY BILL. Oa t►e mention that this bill M read a emend time, Mr REYNOLDS said he was inetnteted to ask whether the Grant Central Gas Consumers Company would or would not interfere with the 'Marin, EIS enmpanits in the parishes of St. Pancras and I•linatm, and, if not, whether they bad any objection to insert a clause to that effect in the bill ? Mr. NVYLD replied that it wee not the intention of the company is gnarl nt to interfere with the existing Rua com panies in either of the p■riehes mentiomed. The works of the Geese Central Company would be erected at Bow Common and not in the perish of St. Pancras. The bill was then read a second time. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. SIECOLAZ EDUCATION.—By Kr. M. GIBSON, from pieces in the north of England. for the establishment of secular system of education supported by local rates. STAMP BUTT ON New . By Sir W. MOLES WORTIL from certain typefoundeis is the city of London, praying (or the instil of the stamp duty on newspapers. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. NAVIGATION Laws.—Mr. M'OREGOR, to MOTO that, in consequence of the resent changes made in the naviastion laws, and if consistent with the state of the natirnal menus, eertain charges to which shipowners were liable for charter &e., be abolished. 800 AR Dunce.—Sir N. BUXTON, on a future day, to MOT. a IC6OIIIOOO that it wee unjust and imp...laic to en• pose free grown sugar in British colonies to the competition of sugar grown in elate growing colonies. PUBLIC WORKS (INDIA). Upon the motion of Mr. Ewcirr, the followiag returns were agreed to:—Return of all public works which have been completed in India by the But India Company within the last 10 years, includiag embankments, canals, and -oat, of navigation, made and bridges, buildings, factories, dock., and all other public wake; also, a similar return of all public works now in progress in India (with the addition of any.proposed railways), showing in each ease the object of the work, the date of ill comment:amen; and (where termi nated) its termination, the amount of capons. intoned, the amount estimated for ompletion, and the probable time of completion of all unfinished works, with such statements or documents as may be deemed necesury to a =plain or Mu trate the above returns. CITY OF LONDON ELECTION. Tim SPEAKER informed the home that he had received • rommuniestion from the petitioner against the rata-n o! Baron Rothschild for the City of London, stating that it was not their intention to proeeents the said petition. CORN AND GOLD. Mr. WODEHOUAB wished to put a question to the right hon. 'intim= the President°, the Board of Trade, relating to the export of gold from this country in the year of scarcity 1800-1801, and also of the previous year of scarcity 1795, in connexion with the import of corn and grata of all kinds is the some period. Re wished to ascertain whether the supply of grain from abroad at that time Will principally conveyed in foreign 'result, and what the recommendations were which had the* been made by the late Sir George Scott / Mr. LABOUCHERE said he found upon inquiry that there were ass official decuments wilt regard to she export of gold prior to 1800. With r. geed to the year 1801, he be lieved information could be given, though he was afraid is would be incomplete, but whatever aecourt for 1801 could be rendered was at the hon. gentleman's 'service. With re formes to the other question about the conveyance of the supply of corn to this country, that was rather a matter of opinion than of anything else. He thought it must be obvious that the supply of corn at that ti • a was very muds conveyed in foreign vessels, but that could not be made a 'subject of return to the house. The third question was easily answered. The communications of Sir George Scott were principal; of a verbal nature between him and the minister of that day. There was very I.trle correspondence between them, and there were, therefore, no records remain ing that would enable him to give any information on that subject. NORTHERN ARMISTICE. Mr. SANDABlsiiiiiicai c4lFgiailasT, bad the noble lord the Secretary of Siam for Foreign Affairs been in his place, he should have asked him the following question— whether an answer had been received from her Majesty's ministers at Frankfort aed Berlin, in reply to the proposal of the Danish government to renew the armistice on certain ennditigns ' • if those conditions bad been acceded to; if not, whether this provisional state of peace or war, dspendicif on sin weeks' notice on tither side, was to be suffered to continue on the part of England, to the serious hindrance and prejudice of the true and commerce of the United !CUR does. He had on Friday given notice that he would put the question ;to-day, but as the noble lord was not yet in his place, he wished to ask the noble lord at the head of the government—seeing, from the SOLTC•II of public informs . tion, - that an armistice tied been 'peed to between Ramie and Denmark—whether official information on that subject bad leen received, and, if se, what were the terms and con ditions of that armistice ? Lord J. RUSSELL replied, that no official informed= had been received. Certain conditions had been proposed by Denmark. bat whether they had been acceded to had yet to be learned. Mr. SANDARS said, that this answer was not satisfac tory• that he would renew the question tomorrow evening, and that if the noble lord, the til cretary of state for Foreign Affairs, was not in his place to answer it he would move the adjournment of the house for an hoer to enable the noble lord to be present. (Hear, and laughter.) Lord J. RUSSELL said he was not aware, from the na ture 01 the notice Co the paper, that the ques*.ion could b• answered in any more sausfamory manner than he had al ready answered it in the atomics of further official in formstion. (Hear, heal.) NAVAL DESPATCHES. Sir E. BUXTON asked whether Rear-Admiral Sir F. Collier's despatched, dated September, 1849, inclosing Com mander Farquhar's report of his preciedings on the 31st July, 1849, would be laid before the house prior to going into the naval estimates ? Lord J. RUSSELL said the question would be answered by the First Lord of the Admiralty, when he was in his place. THE SARAWAK PAPERS. Mr. HUME ohs ned tout he had for some time pelt been expecting papers to be laid on he table respecting the Sara wak affair, the more pardculaiy as he wanted to know the grounds upon which her Majesty's government had ordered some of the troops to interfere in that matter. The papers in question had mference also to the lonian Islands and the Eastern Archipelago, and they ought to be ;pieced before the house without delay. Lord J. RUSSELL said he did not know the reuons of the delay, but would wake inquiry and have the paper produced. DUTIES ON RAW MATERIALS AND MANUFAC TURES. Mr. HUME said there was another return of considerable importance which hod not yet as been laid on the table ; he alluded to a return of the duties levied on raw materials and manufactures. Mr. LABOUCRERE said the return in question was very int, ortant ; tha• he was in c immunication with the B surd of Customs on the subject, and that it would be pre pared with all pomade expedition. SCARIFF UNION. Mr. P. SCROPE begged to ask the First noble Lord of the Treasury, wheelie' be had received a letter from the guardians of the Seariff Union, stating that during four weeks out it they had been unable to give the news say sego( to the peer; that the workhowse was overcrowded, many bolas s cent to rentals in • shelterlms condition swim the wane; that 23 persons had been seized with fever in the probadwery watd in one night; that there was no milk or bread for the sick is the holvtal; that some of the sick were withoet shirts ; that the clothing of others was sally deficient ; that the sheriff,' officers h a d se . ze d all the goods in the house, for debts owing by the union ; and that the guardians were utterly unable to fulfil the duties en joMed on them by law. He also wirhol to a•lt the noble lord on whom be considered the responsibility rested of aegoviug the poor ? L .rd J. RUSSELL said that he certainly had received a letter from the Scud(' Union, which he had referred to the poor-law commisslonen in Ireland. I' ha I not, ho sever, entered into all the particulars just detailed to the house. It appeared that the numbers redeved in the workhouse in the week ending the 19th of February was 2,446, and that out of the house there was a very large number, who ha I not reamivtd constant relit f. There had been gr, at difficulty in collecting the rates in the union, and very lane advances had been made to it. 20,0002. had been adverse,' to it last Sep.ember, and since the Itate-in-aid Act passed, about 15,0001. more had been advanced. Lately there had been 1,0004. placed at the disposal of the guardians for the ern tiOn of • temporary workhouse. There was a rata now in course of collection in the union of 4s. in the pound, and Mr. O'Brien, the inspector, had written to say that he thought Mere was 110S0 improvement going on amongst the 1,009146 Mr. SCROPE vked whether the noble Ind would allow W ISMS roosived on the subject to be printed 2 Lord 3. RUSSELL replied thet the papers mast be sent to Ireland first , and that he had no objection to their beir g afterwards Fisted. AUSTRALIAN COLONIES BILL. Air W. MOLES WORTH asked whether the noble lord would certainly bring on the Australian Calculus Bill on Friday neat? Lord J. RUSSELL mid he wee about to state that in giving notice of the financial statement being made at a teach earlier period this peer than usual, it was the inten tion of the government to take v.tes on the army and navy before that financial statement was introduced. He proposed to go into the army estimates on Friday, and to take the first two vet. on these estimates on that day. He would take** navy estimates on Monday, and he had every reason to hope that his tight hon. friend the Chancellor of the Ex chequer would bring on his financial statement on the 'Sat inst. He proposed to postpone t h e Australian bill until Friday, the 22nd inst. Sir W. HOLESWORTH said that many bon. memben were eximedincly sauna to know for certain when the Australian bill would come on. Ho did not want the crest business of the nation to be postponed for it, but he wished the precise day to be abaolatsly find. Lord J. RUSSELL said he had named the 22nd inst., with some confidence that it would soma on on that day. THE EASTER HOLIDAYS. h reply to Dud J. RUSSELL said he propond to adjourn the house for the Easter holidays from Tuesday, the 26th March, to Monday, the Bth of April. THE ARMISTICE. Lord PALYNTUITON haring here entered the hones, Mr. BANDARS renewed hie gantlet' as to the armistice between Danmark and Berlin. Lord PALMERSTON, in reply, said that he believed the report on the subject was premetore, aad that no armistice, no renewal of the armistice, had been yet agreed to between Denmark on the one hand, and Frankfort end Berlin on the ether. There had been a communication going on between the three parties, with the view of en deavouring to get • prolongation of the armistice, and • final settlement of the question; but at presetst nothing definitive had been settled about it ; and be would not be exported, therefore, to enter into details. There were diffi cold. s on both sides. The armistice continued de facto, and would continue until one of the parties had given six months' settee of its termination. (Hear.) AFFAIRS OF GREECE. Mr. MIME asked in what state were our political rela tions with Greece ? 11. hoped we might receive speedy &c -omets of matters being adjusted there. Lord PALMERSTON said it had been thought necessary to make a peremptory demand there, and that the applica tion had been made without succeae. That demand having been refused, reprisals were commenced, which consisted in getting in pledge certain property and to hold it as security for the demands. Them reprisals had been carried to a certain extent. By the last accounts of the 18th of February, he should think sufficient reprisals had been made to chewer all demands. Meanwhile, the good GRIM of the French government had been accepted, but the negotiator Lad not arrived. The diplomatic relations between this country and Greece had never been suspended. Mr. Wyse had continued in diplomatic communication with the artistry ; and, as a proof that no courtesy had been omitted on our side, when the anniversary of the Queen of Greece had arrived, our fleet saluted with all the honours. (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) In reply to Mr. Hymn, Mr. HAWES promised to have the Sarawak papers laid on the table immediately. MERCANTILE MARINE BILLS. In reply to Lord J. Maxxass, Mr. LABOUCHERE sal I, he feared it would be impos sible to proceed wi.k the second readiog of them) bills before Easter. WESTERN AUSTRALIA. Sir F. THESIGER said that a few days age the right hon. gent! •man the Atborney-General had stated, in reply to the ►on. member fur North S:affordshire, that although the 10th Geo. IV. had expired, there existed a power in West. ern Australia to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of that colony ; humourously adding that taxa . tioa was one of the essentials of good government. He wished to ask whether that opinion had been deliberately formed, or obi-tear it was an off hand answer to an unex pected question, and whether the hon. and Earned gentle man was prepared to abide by it. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that he never gave as opinion in shot house which he was silt prepared to abide by. Tee law which expired on the 10th of August wuonly a temporary one, end save the crown the power to crewel a conbeil for the order, peace, and good government, and he t►ought that taxation was a part of good government. Sir W. MOLESWORTH said that the question which he had asked wee one very differens from that which the At torney-Gsni ral had answered. The question was, whether the laws mode by the council were legal or illegal, and whe thee it had the power of texation ? The ATTORNEY GENERAL again explained the an ' swer he had given, and said he was still prepared to abide by it. Sir W. MOLESWORTH re•etated the questinn be bad asked, and tail it had bren answered in an off hand . The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said indeed he did not an ewer Man off-band manner. His boa. friend gave hint nctice of, and he answered one question, whethe r the act bad rapired ; and then the hon. Rentleman put four or five questions. His answer wu, that the act of parliament having etpired, the crown halving power to create a council, had exercised that power. Bir W. MOLES WORTH said be would now ask the hon. gewleman the question he did put, had the council power to make law. ? The ATTORNEY GENERAL said if the hon. gentlemen would permit him he would answer that question to morrow, when he could do so more satisfactorily. Sir F. THESIGER—May I ask if the council has power now to tax th•- colony ? The ATTORNEY•GENERAL—That is the very ques tion tit. hon. gentleman proposed to me just now. PARLIAMENTARY VOTERS (IRELAND) BILL. The h.m.e. having gone into committee on this bill, 8:r R. FERGUSON moved the 03141i011 of thiOnd or " j ent octopi'. cy " clause. Lord J. RUSSELL said the government bad no objection to omit the clause if the Irish members w, uld consent. A number of Irish representatives spoke in answer to this appeal, but their judgments differed considerably as to the advivability of emitting the clause ; and Lord J. RUSSELL observed that under thecircumstances the govirument would persist in retaining it. Lord J MANNERS made some sarcastic remark, upon the want of unaeinsity shown by the members for Ireland, to whose verdict Lord J. Russell had appealed. The discussion was prolonged for some considerable time, and excited much diversity of opinion. Several liberal representatives objected to the clause, cla the ground that it would tend to enhance the already excessive power of the land.ords; arid merry opposition 'members arrived at • similar conclusion, wider the belief that it would encourage the manufacture of fictitious votes. Sir R PEEL said he was disposed to concur in the opinion which the noble lord gave a quarter before five o'clock in favour of the omission of this clause. (Hear, hear.) At the same time he war in favour of this extension of the franchise, and if he had had an opportunity of giving his opinion on Friday night he would have elven it is favour of the 61., and easiest the 161. (Hear, hear.) But whilst he was in tav,ur aside exteneinn of the franchise, he was disposed to think it ought to be a bowl fide one, thereby fulfilling the intention which the lu.slature bad in view. (Hear.) But above all he was desirous of discouraging the abominable system of creating fictitious voters, to the prevalence of which under the 40.. freehold system he &reit uted not oily much of that lenity and corruption which prevailed in re spect to el, .tors in Ireland, but many of the so cial evils which afflicted that country. (Hear, hear.) But in the case of bona fide joint tenants, that was to say, it those persons took • arm for which they paid WI. rent, and were each of th• m bona fide repo , Bible to ;h. iandlord for th e rent, h., was wilting to admit that each of these should is that ease be entitled to a vote. (Hear, hear.) Or, in the case of partners in a cement, such ass paper manufactory, war. re each of them bona fides contributed a cereal., am nia% of capital f r the purpose of carrying it on, If each of them was rated and each fairly represented, • p' rime of the re ap Insitvliits of the concern, he was willing to admit that each should be entitled t e • vote. (Hear) But he must say that he apprehended the greatest evil it they made each oc copier Iraq was rated entitled to the vote. (II ar.) When hon. gentlemen opposite argued this quests in, they could not help sling " each tenant." (Hear, hear.) Tnat was the tat which their own good sense and discretion suggested The law of England and of Scotland was, that each bona fide tenant being equally responsible for the rent sh , ,uld be entitled to vote. list they were not going to impose the re striction o• tenancy or joint tenancy, for they used the word "occupant" in the bill as distinguished from "tenant," though in Voir Beseeches they could not help using the word" te. sant." (Hear ) The hon. and learned gentleman said that the payment of the rate would be sufficient security. He greatly doubted that. (Hear, hear.) What would the mount really be under an Si. rating ? It would be some Si. Of 10.. ; and it would be the manifest interest of the landlord to b. come responsible for the occupier, especially on the approach of a Fetters' election, for the piyment of the rate. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the scat and lot voters, they knew how common it was for the candid de to pay, not only the rate, but the whole of the arrears, in order to quality the tenant to vote. (Hear, 11, ar ) He had no e.oubt that landlords desirous of multiplyiug their polety cal influence, would adopt means to provide for the preen% of the rates. (Hear) Now, would it be possible, under the word " occupancy," for a landlcrd who is demote, of increasing his politiesl influence to dust. Could he not say to the t. nem. " I accept your sous as tenants with you, hu• I stipulate for the payment of the rates, in order th.t 1 may inmate the number of votes." 111 r REYNOLDS said that in the county of Dublin where there were 14 or 16 , spec manufactories, having from two to four partners and others engaged in trade, the introduction of the word tenant instead of occupier, would give rise to groat diatulty and hardship. rive HENLEY called the attention of the committee to the power which this douse would give the boards of guar dians. He would take the case of a joint occupier., rated a t OW N less than ten votes were morierned. But sup reme the heart of guardians struck off a pound ? The whole ten would be disfranchised. (Hear, hear) Was that a de. sirable power to leave in the hands of board, of guardians? Oa the expectation of an election it presented • temptatioa which flesh and blood could not stand. (" Hear, bear," and laughter.) The committee divided: F the clause Against it The clause was then agreed to. On clause 3, giving the franchise le counties to persona entitled to estates in fee, or in tail, or for life, or of the rated value of 61., Sir F. THESIGER suggested that it would be desirable to introduce the following words after the words "be it enacted,' "that in addition to thou qualified by law to register, or vote at any election of a knight of the shire in virtue of any qualification not requiring occupation." Si milar words wire introduced in the first clause, and as he understood it was not intended by the bill to interfere with the existing county franchise, except as far as it depended on occupation, he thought it would be desirable to introduce them hue also. air W. SOSIERVILLE haying woreatod, the words were ordered to be imierted. Mr. REYNOLDS looked upon Ude as cue of the most dangerous clauses of the bill. Sir F. THESIOER proposed to strike out the words " or for his own life (sue-. tenant for life not being a lessee or acelirnee of a lessee at a rent)." His object was, that only p , moos who were entitled to the freehold of inheri tance, In contradistinction to those who only possessed it for life, should be admitted in the rate book. Mr. GRATTAN said that the guardians had nothing whatever to do with the rata. Aro r a few words from Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL, . _ . . Mr. HATCHELL submitted that the true construction of the clause way that a party to be entitled to the franchise on a 61. rate should be seised of a 61. holding for his own life cam d out of the inheritance. Therefore they conceived that the clause Intended to give owners of 61. holdings the ri4ht to the franchise in counties, whether the estate were limited to their own lives or whether they enjoyed the whole inheritance. Sir F. THESIGER thought at first that the wording of the clause could be mode to bear the construction which he, had put upon them ; but from the explanations of his hon. acid learnt d friend he was satisfied of their true construction, and he therefore begged to withdraw his objection. (Hear, i hear ) However, he now begged to cali attention to the amendment which he was about to propose, which was to omit • I words after the word "hereditaments" in the 93rd line, down to the words "or upwards." At present:they stood, " which shell be rated in the last rate for the time being under the said acts for the more effectual relief of the destitute poor in Ireland es of the net annual value of 61. or upwards." He proposed to insert in their steed the words, " over and above all rents and charges payable out of or in respect of same." (Hear, hew.) The committee would understand the object he had in view in omitting these suede, and inserting the substituted ones. (Hear.) They bad then come to an important question. Aster:eine, as they all did, in the necessity of making up for the de ficiency in county constituencies in Ireland, and agreeing that for such purpeee it was necessary to create a new class of voters, the question then arose whether, in creating a new freehold constituency in the counties, they wculd take rating as the test of bona fide freeholders of certain value. It was clear that any person who could get his name in serted upon the rate as at the value of 51. would be entitled to be registered, and would be regi-tend, although he might not have paid a single rate at the time of registration —(hear) —because the six months' possession or receipts of rents pre vious to the 16th of July was the ground on which he was entitled to be registered. (Hear.) A party was entitled to he registered although he had not paid his rates, within the s:h of ;musty and the 16th of July. The party might have been on the rate before the sth of January, and there fore be bound to pay all rates before that date ; yet, inas much as he might not have been rated at all, no rates might be due of him, and therefore he would be entitled to be re gistered. (Hear, hear.) Well. what was the condition of such a party—a peresn possessing property? He took the cue of a party who held for lives renewable for ever That party might be rented for the full amount of property with out possessing one obi ling beneficial interest; yet it was clear if he paid • rate of 51. he wonld be entitled to be on the nee. They had seen the noble lord at the head of her Majesty's government throwing the shield of conserva tism before the reform act when aessiled by the motion of the honourable member for Montrose; whilst in a few nights after they had the same noble lord coming down and supporting • bill infinitely more destructive to the Reform Act in Ireland than the measure introduced by that hon. member. (Hear, hear.) He (Sir F. Thesiger) assured the noble lord he viewed with great fear the course he was pursuing ; because in it he was satisfied there was great denser to their existing institutions, and that if be proceeded in such a course—at one period letting the reins loose, and anon tightening them, according to the exigencies of the times—he would be ultimately dragged headlong by those who were desirous of a downward tendency in their institutions, and who were anxious of introducing more of the democratic leaven into them. (Cheers from the ministerial side.) lie assured the noble lord these gentlemen were fully satisfied that he (Lord J. Russell) was playing the part which would assist the object they had decidedly and unmistakeably in view. (" Hoar, hear," and rere wird cheers.) He (Sir F. Thesiger) viewed the present measure with considerable a:arm, remise he saw it should naturally entail a similar measure for England• (" Hear, hear," and cheers.) He heard the senement cheered. and adopted by the hon. gentlemen on the opposite side, who felt it was the first movement in the direction which they wished to pursue. (Hear, hear.) He called on the noble lord not to deliver himself over to the views of those gentlemen, who differed so widely in views as to the preser vation or their ancient institutions. lie called on him to avoid those gentlemen : and he called on the committee of that house to adopt his (6,r F. The-igees) view of the clause, and decide if they were to create a new 61. coo tituency, to make it a bona fide freehold to that amount, instead of adopting the noble lord's fictitious and colourable project of placing parties' names on the rate, and not requiring pay ment of rate to enei:le them to be placed thereon. i Hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL said the proposal was to give the right of voting to persons who held property of the value of 51., and who were owners in tee, or in posses-ion of an estate tor life to that amount. (Hear, hear.) lie declared the proprssl was not open to the hon. and I d gentle man's objection. The hon. aid learned gentle man stated that a party might have no property whatever, or it in possession of property it might be mortgaged to such an amount as would render it va:uslees to him; but it struck him ( Lord John Russell) that the hon. and learned gentleman failed in making out his case. (Hear. hear.) In his opinion the occupiers of SI. ratings and those holdicg property of 51. annual value, were persons that might safely be 'retooled with the franchise. ( Hear, hear.) If the hen. and learned gentleman had said " do not touch the reform bill, which provides a sufficient constituency," then he (L rd John Russell) could have understood his pro position, bat half the speech of the bon. and learned gentle man went to show that he concurred with his own govern• ment in altering the Irish reform act. (Hear, hear.) The question therefore, was not whether the Irish reform act should be sltered,but whether the 301. occupation and freehold qusl.ficatioa, mentioned by the hon. and learned gentleman. ur the Martell,e proposed by her Majesty's government et presentorould be the better mr Irelanth•(Hear, hear ) They adopted the principle of the present bill, which assumed that the franchise would be conferred on • suffici, nt number of electors, and that these electors would be posse-sed of the required amount of property. (Hear, hear.) That cues of fraud might arise, he wee not prepared to contra .ict, because in England and Scotland puttee were fraudulently placed on the franchise who had no right to he on it, and, therefore, he we. not going to maintain that such would not occur in Ireland. However, the system was not open to general objection—(hear, hear): on the contrsry, he be lieved the electors would have sufficient property and would posses' a degree of intelligence and respectability, sufficient to enable them to exercise their tight. (Hi u ) Load J. Manner, ' the Attorney-0 I, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Reynolds, and Mr. Sadleir continued the debate, after which the committee divided. For the amendment Against it Some further amendments sure afterwards proposed to the third clause, leading to a very miscellaneous debate, the con. test bring principally carried on between Sir J. Jaunts and Sir F. Tunßm. The clause was ultimately adopted with some alterations. Claims 4 and 6 were agreed to without a debate. On claim 6 a long and contused disrussiou arose, in the course of which a declaration was elicited from Sir O. GRIM that the bill was not designed to interfere with any species of qua lification under which the (renal,* vs.@ at the present m-ut conferred. Another division tools place on an amend ment, m ived by Mr. Oitooxx, which was negatived by a majority of 170 to 83. Mr. REYNOLDS moved an amendment, reducing the rating qua ideation from ill. to 61. lie called n Mr. Hume, and the English reformers, to support his motion, which wo-ld much extend the electoral basis, and even, in some iestnnces, prevent the constituencies being considerably re• duced, as they would be if the 81. rating were established. Sir W. SOMERVILLE felt compelled to oppose the amendment. He recapituleted some of the reunions and cal. calations that had led the government to ti: the quslifica. tion as it stood is the bill, and declared their intention of edit. tring lo it. Mr. French supported the amendment, as did Sir T. O'Brien and Colonel Rtwdon. Mr. ROEBUCK said that the small borough constituen cies in Kilend were the great hotbeds of corruption. end that the 8/. qualification would create a vast number of simi larly e.mtrected and corruptible electoral b Aire in Ireland. To reduce the U. to 61. would so widen the basis as to elites • cure of the evil to a very considerable degree. Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL pronounced the bill under the qualtficahou a mockery or justice to Ireland. The amendment was supported by Sir 1). Norms, Mr. &Mit r, Mr. Maurice O'Connell, and Mr. A die &ion was then called for, and the (gallery partially Blared, wh. n _ Lord CASTLEREAGII rzpressed his hope that MMe member of the g,,vernnu Ist would condescend to give some reply to .he argument. th-t had been addured by so sum Iruh members an favour of the reduced qualifications. Arum tom* oonvenation. Lord J RUSSELL briefly explained the reasons which had prompted the trarittua changes proposed by the bill; and suppmtad the SS. rating qualification, on the F round that it was inflict. ntly moderate, and that a lower tang would bays tnyoty.d a troublesome precedent for England. Mr. Chri.topttsr, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. ll'eullafh. Mr. Ki.nhaw, and Mr. Grogan continued the discussion, and the cimmittee dhided— F the amendment 9O Against Mr. GROGAN inevedfiTet r sb evrend ten should be includ e d w i t h t h e pour rate ate lip.aitesj for; qualification. WI injurious istumbrancerd J. RUSSELL t upon hought the thmeasudre. e ad ition would f orm The amendment was negatived wiihout a disisio c ,, claim 6 was agreed te. The CHAIRMAN then reported program, and the house s i e . ruined. The proceedings in committee to be cutinised to. morrow (this day.) was re ad a Reg second time. ietration of Metropolitan Public Carriages ga l The Turnpike Road and Bridge Trusts (Ireland ) B ilk and the Titles of Religious Congregations ( Bill were read a seco n d time. geothi, l Mr. WAWN moved fora return of the revenue rs,'„ 4 by the commissioners eppointed under the 8 ilk 9 Vie ,e.f4 (called the N.weastle-upon-Tyne Port act a ' i g „ di year ; list of the commissioners new octal enied under that set, stating their names and their qualification • also the number of meetings of the heard, end the taw. of the cammiesionen who have attended auk of `he me. int, of ttr board, and where held, in each casir ; uount the i debt °Trios by the commissioners, the date of c .ntreeting Me Mille, and the rate of interest paid; also, • p.r.leol.r and detailed account, in each year, of what hem bee t e lpst , i,i. also a 'articular and detailed acaiunt of the mush r ant names of the police employed under the act in e year, &Lel their places of resideniie; also, a lumen , sr tad dead account of the buoys:and mo or i ngs l ai d down and %sir et; distinguishing those laid down on the t u k, of tb0 i ,,,,, a each of the boroughs of S uth Shields and iyuealoa-h; and also, the names of the vessels that have bu, drier on shore on the south s id e o f t h e T yne, in tre e of South Shields, from the want of good end eutEcs ai mooring., from the let day of September, 1449, to I , i n day of March, 1850. Mr. HEADLA.II opposed the motion, ou the mid that it w.uld serve no public purpose. The house divided, when there appeared_ Fur the motion ..... 14 Against it 6 But inasmuch u there were not ed members decision was come to, and the house adjourned at a gutter past 1 o'clock. MR. TRPLAWNY was accidentally prerentid attending in his place to vote fur Mr. 11 doWs law", 0 , Parliamentary Reform on Thursday tart. PARLIAMENTARY COM M 1 T 1 HES. GOVERNMENT Op ChTLON.—Yeattlday, on the re. assembling of this committee, Mr. 1311411 e to the their, Capt. Watson gave evidence relative to th. various marts. martial upon prisoners for high thason. From Nepenthe, to Dccember he considered tha• the civil pow:, was maot6. cient, and that danger was to its apprehended if martial law had been withdrawn. R• did on:: ma.* wish the vies. that were taken upon this still .et by Lord Tntrinaton, 8 r Emir son Teonent, and Mt. limb r. Attsd on Mean oemsione ut.der Colcnel Dr.ught's orders; and no prams were tried and sentenced by aural'-martial who were not fully fied. No mistake took plane as to those who w , r- shot. Saw himself one prisoner shot, and " well shot" too. (Laughter.) PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS FOR Tins EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. ORDERS OF THE DAY. SECOND READINOI.—OOIIIIOIII Inclowa* ; Cora rues (Scotland) Bills._____ NOTICES OF MOTION. EMIGRANT SHIP BAIL ORZT.—Tbe Earl of MOUNT. CASHELL, to move an address fr—first, a mum a.. pipers connected with the " Earl Grey" emigrant .e.ie, order to embr ice the despatches of the Lieutexant.Gnv•r t , r of Sidney, with its enclosures; and the report of the Ezi• gration Committee therein roerred to. &cord, the col. municatirn from Earl Grey to his Excellency the L•ri L • 1. tenant. Third, the evidence and report of Mr. 07 ens. Law Inspector. Fourth, all correspondence fri mL. Et. eellency the Lord Liewenent, addressed to E el 6—.1. 1.1:e., the rep' Tts of the Emigration Commissioners, addresset Earl Grey. S•xth, the reports co the Poor Law (Away and Senior, on this subj ect; wi.h their mirs7.4 notes. Seventh, copies of letter. from the Pour L. c-,y. missioners, to the Belts. B iard of Guardians ; with ali correspondence on the subject. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF QUESTIONS. TAXATION --4ESTEI; ACITKATIA7:iii; . W. MOLES. WOR to ask the At•orney-Oeneral whether tee per.ca appointed by her Majesty is make laws for It.. colony of W. stern Australia caw at present legally levy mail on the inhahitanta or property of that colony. Sr. PATRICK'S Frxh.—Colonel CHATTERIUN, to ant the Right Hon. the Secretary at War if a fund, call , d the St. Patrick's Fund, in the 4th Ripe! Irish Dese , r. has been arranged ; and, Irmo, it be has sny object:lu tI .ay on the table the particulars of this arrimement, and h w the sum of 3,0001. and upwards, belonging to that tusd, Las been di...Aid and disposed of. Leave or ABSENCL—TO Mr. KEOGH and Mr. C. PEARSON, for a fortnight; the former on account if ;1. Tate baithese, the latter Wm NOTICES OF MOTIONS, Tee WORILINO CLASSEA.—Mr. SCANEIr, to Wye PT' the appointment of ► stand', g committee or unpaid c inue. sion, to consider and report on practical plans (not connected with political changes) for the social isproiestent of the working and poorer classes. 'rue FRANCHISE.—Sit D. L. EVANS, to move for leave to bring in a bill to provide that every male parson of full age, and not subject to any legal iatap►ecn, who shall nccupy any lands, tenements or heriditements. or 1 any house, warehouse, eructing-house, or sligi, either separately or joint:y, within any ei , unty, City, town, or borough ii Englat.d or Wales, and shall have paid any assessed, income. or property t..x, or shall have been rated for the relief of the po it as owner or occupier of such lands, &c. or premiss, as of a net annual vain, of five pounds or upwards, •ball, it duly registered, b: entitled to vote respectively at any election of a ki.ieht or knights of the shire to serve in parliament for the county, or division of a county, within which such lands, tenements, or here ditatnents shall be situated, or of a member or memb.rs to serve in parliament for the tits, town, or oorough w it'll n which such premises shall be rituated ; provided that no such per son shall be registered in any year unlves he siall have been such occupier for the spice of twelve calendar months next before the lut day of July In ouch year, and shall cn or before tie 20. h iky of July in such year tau paid suits assessed, income. cm propery tax, or such po.r•rate in re spect or such lands or premises as shell have become piy able and have been demanded from him iu respect of me lame previously to the Ist day of January then next pre cri;ing. POSTAL ARRANGEMINTS —Mr. MACKINNON. select committee, to ascertain the most tips thlt..us and least as. pensive male of postal communication between London and Paris. __ _....... _ hENNEN. CITY or Lomas —Mr. Alderman SIDNEY, bill to abrlish tie payment of tines and 117,mi) thuds on the admission of treemen into corporations of cdns and boroughs in England and Wed). TII,IIIIKDVTIIIi.—Mr. MITCHELL, that it is the opirion of this house, that the duty on foreign wood us.il tor ship building in this country ought to II • r. nutted. RAILWAY AUDIT.—Mr STANFORD, bill for the sae oft emal audit of railwareeeound, LAND (lIINLAND).—MT SADLEIR, to cal the arc , tion of the house to the injurlids ornition of those laws whiolt affect the transfer end tenure of land in Ireland LOUD LISCTRNANCY OP Inter:ll —Fr. HUME. that an humble addreu be proostittd to her Msjes.y, molting that she will be graciously pleased to irgule 'Owner the ,to sentiment of Ireland, under its present form, meet to 1. • continued, or whether the Lord Lieutenant and ott.er cd• ends may not, with a drantage, be • sues s.d with. TH it GOLD COAnT.—Mr. HUME, address NIT C•: ,, el eztracts of the correoponderce that has tsken • piece be• tween the government of Denmark and the 'lcier' e. rem meat respecting the purchase of the set:lenient hc.orging to Denmoork on the Gold Coast. SAL/aims. &e. (Irruia.)—Mr SADLEIR. return of 1:1 persons in India receiving salaries, pennon , . pay. pvii:st fete, emoluments, allowances, or grata 01 Y. bY virtue of any direct or indirect rominatien, or appointment 1w the preside-% of the m o s.., over the affairs of India si..ne, or by T ime o f g oy or•o f tes tricot with the Board of Dirstron of the East Ind" Can pony, and the dates of each each nomination. r cow emendation, or appointment rospectively, tr m the Is: cay of January, 1832, to the day of eV" re a the judges of the superior courts of law in India; swing the total amount received by each indioidusl In t teoli yo .r, and distinguishing the sources from sawn j•synunts are made. TAXING MAMMA, eke.—Mr. AOLIONBY. re'urn of the total sum due or pid for 5..1 ~ and thee i %roses under the act 6& 6 Vic., a e. 103,sinc , e , the pawn p . of the set sod also of the total sum paid for eeninensit , on for lod thou and profits to officer. , under the same lac' . Once th e roue; thereof up to the '2sth day of Noveni!er. 18411. Lke re turn of the total saw paid to each eat tire late •et r n cUritt appointed taxing muter'. for salary wd coureowioe, col lectively and together, under the Mine act, rare .he r usted thereof. Return of the anitud sm oun: of eempinestin awarded to each of the sad i t.s n t masters der the act, In the event of their ceasing to hold :he asi I , dire. sad of the annual sums to be paid to the ;remind to pr:tenta• twee of each of them as compones• ion after th.tr.l.sthcan d for what number of years alter their s l e s.h. such p ot; to their personal representative.* are to c natant, mint oat ! what Anode, and by whom, such maw s lot salary g" compensations are now made and to be made. Tut Rolm. Navy.—Mr. IIUME, returns, in columns , of the time of each of her hlsj• sty 's r.tps and sew I, of efa h r e , distinguishing those in cows fission end in ordinary, on t t fat day of January, ; stating where and when bin t , and by whom built ; the t.nitag e, breadth or hymn, orPth hold, extreme length of the Let! and gun deck for toitaltit id e. the number and des of guns ; distinguishing those shico s or service, and the estimated tine t o be so tit, the ea, ll of each whip, stating the [oral coronae of each, of ire st pe a r ton, distinguishing separately steam Nt wls, and tni pow of their engines ; also the amongst* number of tons the a l d iia. aggregate cost of the whole ; eat the number of st.te. &natty, in each year since 18 2$ , w stating the nu mber of Ir., of each class, and the aggregate torm .ge in 4nliee r y ; the number of ships in commisdoo, in elated', .a each year since 182 S, stating the n umber of each elms (in continua ion or Return. pair' 7. 7 report of 1849 mas, and the aggregate ton na g e in com? " . And account, in abstract, of the total Amou nt expended sos •sch of Ler Diejeety's ships end reside in building earl a