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do you meet the difficulty by the present proposition?— (Rear, hear.) I think the Hen. Gentlemen, with the view s he ente r t a i ns , was justified in brineing ter ward thi s - question—with his views I think he would Pie tsking !.iestifiable and legitimate course if he proposed to legis late on the subject. But if there is this appeal to the pre late's superior, I think the Hon. and Learned Gentleman Will agree with ma that it should first be had recourse t°• - -(Hear.) If be thinks no such power of appeal exists, then I imagine the Hon. and Learned Gentleman mast. feel that the proposition he makes is totally ins.- ?Neste to cope with the subject.—(ll ar, hear.) But now address myself merely to the motion of the Hon. and Learned G ent l eman , w i t h ou t w i s hi ng to g i ve an y opinion, as to th e m er its of the important case he has brought before us. Far be it from me to vindicate the Fondant of any clergyman who can be shown to have . lle haved in th e man ner a ll ege d aga i ns t Mr. Bennett. i L (1 9 not .presume to offer any opinion on this lalporeatat subject, for I feel that this is not the tribunal in Which to decide the case.—(Hear. hear.) I feel the in eonveuience of the House listening 0 the statement of the ?on.. an d L earne d G ent l eman , . ma de with ability, and, as lam willing to admit, conscientiously. A Com mission of inquiry without power to elicit the rkquired Information is a mockery to which it would be unwise Of the House of Common to lend itself. It, is of the ut most imp or t ance that such an inquiry should be r eal and " efficient, and that a Commission s hould have cone Petent power to elicit the truth.— (Hear, hear.) Ido flat think, therefore, the lion, and Learned Gentleman will, hink it necessary to press this particular reselu ion. which I admit he was perfectly ju stifie d i n bringing f orward, as it refers to a subject of great imp 'rtance to all classes of her Majssty's subjects. — (Hear, hear.) It • itquite impossible that the conduct which he has al leged should not be the subject of comment and explana tion; 'and that whatever may be the merits of the ease, the discussion should not be productive of public advan tages But I must recur to the subject with which I set aOt—ethat a remedy for such a grievance as is here al leged 'either does or does not exist. If the remedy ex- WS, as I think it does, in an appeal to the Archbishop the House will not, I think, sanctio n t h e issuing of a Commission of inquiry, which can have no power to elicit and secure the information it wishes to attain.--(Hear, hear.) . IF, on the ,other hand, no reined y does exist, it surely i s th e d uty of Parliament to lNiattile on the subject, and provide a remedy. But a Commission such as that proposed, without the neces sary powers to fulfil its task, would disappoint public eepe . ctetion, and whilst it would lead to protracted dis cussions, would not secure the settlement we desire.— ear.) And l et We also to s motioneupono the attention h tt t en e tio l n io o n f . the press thee House th a t b y acceding and Learned Gentlemen we ehoul l be only evading the difficulty. W e s h ould be establishing a precedent Which you may be sure would be found a source of per manent difficulty 'and embarrassment.—(Hear. hear.) i. e you adopt thi s resolution, I cannot understand how single clergyman could be instituted to a living with out the House of COLOBIODS interfering with and chat l_ellgibg his indu ct i on . —(H ear, h ear .) I n every i n • tan c e what would you do? You would address her ' fla iestY, praying her to institute an inquiry into the propriety of the ind uc ti on . S o t h at if y o u adopt thi s resolution you will establish a mischievous precedent "'theta effecting a beneficial settlement of the grievances and difficulties of which you complain. 7(llear, hear.) I trust, therefore, the Hon. and Learned tle e ntleman will be satisfied with having amply, corn- P o te l.'', and ably brought before the House a subject t e e ,VerY great importance, and that he is satisfied ;Z.' the persons connected with these transactions can tur avoid placing their conduct fairly betore the public. trust the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, feeling 4u. a . t . the result of this discussion must be to have en se -44,0 and complete view of all the circumstances of the )4._etaction—that it is his duty, owing to the position he " o : l l , taken in this question, either to have recourse to remedy which the law supplies, or it the law sup -44710 remedy, to p ro p ose one to t h e L eg i s l ature . I . trust the Hon. and Learned Gentleman will net ;Zs,. to a division a resolution which I feel sure would hR Y_Oe Pregnant with great inconvenience and embar- Bit to to our future deliberations. I beg, theref o re, Si o,rnove the previous question. b et P. 'VERNEY biped the Hon. and Learned Mem de._lould not accept the invitation and advice ju t ten s, ;TR to him, but would persist in his motion. It 0,7_ preposterous to maintain that the head of the h."!'ich had no power to cause the necessary inquir to 'llit,ti!uted, and he altogether deprecated the question_ shelveds ~, in the manner proposed. % ell "- H. INGLIS fully agreed with the Honourable 11 04 !tattti (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) that the oat h e (4 . Commons was not a fitting tribunal to adjudi• th e Upala this suhject, and that if they once admitted tethr t aelple that a grievance with respect to the in let% °f a particular individual could be legitimat e ly ph iii ! r t before th em , occasions on grounds m ore or l ess ....( i i e u te would be found for preferring similar claims. facie e " ' h , : ear.) Granting for a moment that a prima con e ' s ,a had been made out for inquiry, he defied tbeui IDea e rn the position of the Hight. Honourable Gentle hf th l: 4 st the case ,could not end there. The edoption in aPPosie• l' D Cl , e ' ut ioll would be a mere brutum ,fulmen, for On e , Bupios'eua Commission to be appointed, did any e ee tta * n woulatha t th e parties implicated in this dis ri° !_hratieh 4 . 11 005E11b to a tribunal issued by only r e n ",.. of due Legislature?—(Hear, hear.) The —° urable e s tn nalons did not consist, as an umbersof t ,L'eather bad supposed, entirely of ▪ Wer e ho " Church of England—(Hear, hear)—and s a l d equally - oetri eha y interested in maintaining the eter wereot a Would anal to which any English churchman hereh mau. g'3 7 submit his faith or his practice as a ttld he h o (tleen) The House consisted possibly, er a , nn and believed it did, of a majority of mem 'to the lnln allat Chorally' a.l events, and consistently attached that 4 , o f -0 lengland; but would it be contended the the U "'" of Commons was a tribunal to which se parties could appeal? Who in that House repre_ AA dlr. Bennett, the parishioners of Frome, the I he ° r P e a cif u n ti a o th and Wells, and the Bishop of London? .e o all' h d upon assumed the guilt of the parties it was ne-tided, !0 adjudicate. The facts as set forth were andPr , ip asio _ n could not be met with an antagonistic (Si r it. Tn... authorised to be presented—(Hear)—and he bestdi s a j Inglis) was of opinion that the House would ar ena __,, , earge i ts d uty , an d prevent i ts becoming the to e d :T. ,oeh discussions in future, by proceeding at once asion as to w h et h er t hi s mot i on s h o uld be enter ,Of e ed or u ot , ,: c4 VVART, while he was of opinion that the House logie t rotts ought not to be made an authority on theo- Ap h i d subjects, recognised it as the power which fore '..!et the proper tribunal in motion, and he there , 4,7l,ported the original motion. Port ed n UME (amidst cries for a division) also sup* Lhe 'teflon. th e k‘EWDEGATE felt deeply the importance of ri , co r !sent question, and, as it had been raised, fully th e 'ruled the necessity of dealing with it. During Wie6gPle. of years the powers of the Constitution by • ee ibis question could be settled might have lapsed grew d ahlviiid a tti r i usty, but depend upon it the country would atltl,alth investigation of the subject—( Hear, hear) — h ._ e laugh he desired to leave to her elejesty's Go nt the manner in which the investigation should be ee e cteds 'he did not think the public would rest satisfied "tbout such investigatiou He thought hat • un ought to be examined • this ques- Government would into, and h e hoped that the ma be enabled to propose some other !lode of t e _ inquiry than that moved by the Hon. Member iae Cockermouth. As an independent Member of that eii`ll:l°:lsaescit.eide was sincerely attached to the Church of .noxiqui; should d incerely anxious that a full and search the t, House nos, t 4ut suggestin° be, made into this matter. He ask d with ware the proposition before them Ma j esty authorifaQt4 practical means by which her Might be brought to' 11,3 e temporal head of the Church Sir J. PAKING-mw s opon the suejeet.—(llear.) Lion had not only been raxi(-1 he thought that this qten ought not to be raised; but c h d' but it was one which of opinion that it ought to be dealt been raised, he was Ile said for himself, and he belie alt with.—(Hear, hear.) ved inen4 of the Government meraii ho spoke the send . question which, in the ' sea w all i Y. that this was a stare Placed, ought not to have been raised , which it was now d, it was one in reference to whic. but at the same questionably to be an inquiry instituted there ought un and • Provided.—(Hear, hear.) At the same ' t , a remedy s ay, not only as a member of the Govern tale he must 4l etuber of that House, and above all :lent? but es a S a sumer attached member of the Church of E eg t„ 4, it w e acid sincere opinion, after having listened with P 'info' was ..."matt to the statement of the Hon. Member for Cocker_ 'tenth, that the mode of inquiry p ro p osed w as not the on w hich theyadopt. would briefly e xp l ain hi : hUT ought to aa was f this opinion. He wou ld cal the Ro n . m em. hr's attention to the fact that his re solution g oes Solely Q aLI in question the conduct of the Bishop of B ath 4; , Wells in having instituted Mr. 13.mnett to the r e —u g of .Frome.—(Elear, hear.) They could not fail to of 44 ember h 1 d well known, that the Bishop w at was a rea y • lambbut e. and Wells was not only advanced in years.d. wa s t6' 101 2011 impaired in health. He veld not vin gond uct of the Bishop, bat it appeared to him that Cone which the Hun. Q tt ,„ uct was not the real question the ei le ""etuan had raised. The real question wet', m e lted conduct of Mr. Bennett at Kissingen, which de . Member f er .,7:. an inquiry.—(llear, hear.) The Hon. kermouth bad stated all the facts of the case l' e h i grc'et particularity. It appeared to him (Sir J. zton), it' the Hon. Gentleman's statement was true, d 4,6 r; Bennett must be regarded as a Roman Catholic lld Slid f ore entirely u n fi t to h o ld hi s p resen t appoint :`-(Bear,u hear.) B u t h e su b m i t t e d to t h e Hon. embers that so far as th e y k new t h ey h a d no reason to e r :rc that the conduct, of Mr. B-nnett at Kissingen to the Bishop at the time of his institution a living eats: , gat Frome. On the contrary, he believed, te lly in% of the case wore investig‘teJ that the c'r li t i'„" 4 noe of h - ' • • Frome.- ca .r is institution to was the means of out tu 4 , what had occured at Kissingen.—(Hear.) e Ol. -i d loe Motion of the Hon. rzlember did not touch the tb h tl et 1 ;)f Mr. Bennettat K . • Looking, • ett • iesingen. then, at th • r eMeinconveeience of biin • ee l bringing tin-s e cases before die,„_7 n e of Commons, and making them the subject of t0eheir...41.1... that Housteunless,under circumstances of I"' easing necessity, he thought it most unadvis bl of % LID th e p ro _ e mereinstitutiota of Mr. Bennett to the living for s _CL'e tho Subject o f a mot i on . —(H ear , h efts.) Be ttie down he must advert to what had fall en f rom hn,,, i t „9,entkenian in respect to the Bishop of Linden. elne u'uehttepen to come within his own knowledge, tedd 4 e r'n .autho r i ty h e coul d not d ou b t , t h at t h ere was . ;ice to sh ow that the language of the Bishop of Lon • 4 1 1011 the occasion referr e d !o conveyed so strong an Na -that if it w ere k nown to the H on . Gentleman he 811 Cure that costt t em the Hon. Gentleman would not evince the utslioeit* e , ,, 00 lote to complain of the Right Reverend rliier Conduct iii this matter.—(Hear.) Under the tir k , e had mentioned, he telt that the right Pike was not that pr dby the Hon. Mein' e dl:.,: d h" hoped that ho o ' * the House to apt,..teton.up ou i t. would not [TeSii At the Same time he . trusted that k ustrieri4 4 .4 1 ..49WN V 0414 bg THE SUN, to cause an inquiry to be inside into the conduct of B?nivet at Kissingen, and the whole matter to be in vestizeted. Lord J. RUSSELL said, he trusted that the state ment just made by the Right Honourable Gentleman op posite would be the means of relieving the greater por tion of the Members of that lion:w frcan censiderable embarrassment.—(aear, hear.) He thought it impos• sible to deny that this was a subject upon which this House had a right to demand an explanation. He could not agree in the opinion expressed he his Hon. Friend the Memher for the University of Oxford (Sir R. H. Inglis). when it appeared to him that he would exclude this House from any right of itiviry in respect to matters of this nature.—(Hear. hear.) This House wa s a party to the pasing of the Act of Uniformity, and at that time Protestant Dissenters were members of it, and he was not q cite sure but Roman Cethelies might have sat in no.) But at all events, the Act of Uniformity having been passed by them, this Hausa had a right to ask whether the persons who were ap pointed ministers were faithful members of the Church of England—(Hear, hear) —or . whether, in tact, they did not belong to some o th er Ch r i s ti a n com munity. hiving thus established their right to matte such inquiry, he owned he felt the greatest difficulty in proceeding to exercise it—a difficulty arising both in respect to the mode in which the inquiry was to be ex ercised, and to the consequences to which it might ulti mately lead. HP could not hut feel that if a Commission were appointed, which had no greater powers than were nom allowed to the Crown, and , hich could not be had w i t hout a special Act of Parliament, they might rather provoke hostile refusals t ) answer, and metre dissensions between this branch of the Legislature and a portion of the clergy of the Church of England.—(Hear, hear.) He could not but fear, also, lest after such interference the remedy would be found insufficient. He felt, like wise, the want of that assistance which they had in for mer times, in the presence of those Members of the House who ware particularly qualified to give an opinion upon such a question. They wanted information upon those points upon which the Right Hon. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer expressed himself in doubt and hesitation—namely, how far an appeal would lie from the Bishop of Bath and Wells to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and how far the law could be brought to bear in matters of this kind. He must say that they were, in a great degree, uninformed upon those points. In respect to what the Right Honourable Gentleman opposite had last men tioned, the circumstances under which the case came before the Bishop of Bath and Wells were at present unknown to the House. It might be said by some Hon. Members that that furnished an additional reason for inquiry. He concurred in that opinion, but at the same time he owned he felt the greatest hesitation in proceed ing to give a vote in favour of an address to the Crown for an inquiry that was to begin with the House of Com mons. It. as the Right Hon. Gentleman who spoke last said, it was a proper sutiject for inquiry, and that there ought to be a full inquiry made into it, he telt the better course would be to wait until some of the Ministers of the Crown were able to ascertain more of the facts, and to obtain such explanations as they might think tit to ask for in the most friendly spirit, and not with a view to anything like accusation and impeachment. It' they made such inquiry, they would then be in a much better position to consider in their places in the House of Com mons what course, under the circumstances of the case, they ought to take. He could not but think that it might be finally the duty of the Ministers of the Crown —not to make new laws upon the subject—but to pro vide for the more essy operation of the laws already in existence. Those woo were most learned on the sub ject had informed him that the points of the greatest difficulty were in ascertaining what those means were which should be resorted to for re dress. The whole subject being one of transcendent importance, and fraught with consequences so serious, he should certainly, for his own part, be inclined to hesitate before giving a formal vote upon the subject, and as the case at present. stood he thought it better to leave the matter in the bands of the Ministers of the Crown to consider what steps should be taken, and whether any more facts could be ascertained to be laid before the House. Until these steps were taken he could not assent to be a party to an address to the Cro an. Mr. H. DRUMMOND said, a question had been asked whether subjects of this nature could properly be brought before the House. Oa one Riot it was evident that this House alone was the proper tribunal to discuss such matters; and that was, in asserting the rights of the laity against the usurpation Of the priesthood. He was now contending against things, and not against persons. He cared little whether a man called himself a Papist or a Protestant—he was against that man who said that the priests were the Church.—(Hear, bear.) Whatever might be the lapse of time that had occurred, the original law was unquestient bly this, and he believed that the present law now was, that no person could be appointed over any flock in the Church without that thick by some means testifying their acquiescence to such appointment. That was the point they had to maintain, and unless they maintained that all their motions and commissions were utterly useless. Mr. SPOONER thought that the case would be much worse, and the consequences most serious, if, when they were told the facts which were then disclosed, they, the Commons of England, were to say that these facts should not be entertained by them—they would meet the mo tion at once with the previous question.—(Hear.) He agreed with the Right Hen. Gentleman the Secretary for the Colonies that the inquiry was one that ought to be raised, and must be disposed of. But was it disposing of it to say that be would not entertain it? He said fear lessly that that was not the way the country would con sent to have such an important question treated. The turn which the discussion had taken exhibited a tendency to leave out the main points submitted to them. The facts of the case, which, according to the statement of the Hon. Member for Cockermouth, could be easily proved, were these—that a professed clergyman of the Church of Eugland, who was dismissed by his bishop, or . rather whose resignation was obtained upon certain terms, which conveyed the opinion of the Bishop of London of his being unfaithful to his. Church, had been living abroad for several months, during which time he was ,in the daily , habit of at tending the Roman Catholic masses; that that man was now acting as a Protestant clergyman, baying been instituted by a Protestant bishop to preside over a Pro testant oongregrion.—(Hear.) He asked whetter such a statement as that made in that House was sufficient to justify them in voting for the previous questi.in? for one, could do no such thing; neither could he absent himself from such a division, as he believed others were about to do; that was not his habit. His constituents had a right to know his opinions, and their opinions should be represented by him in that House. If the que,tien go to a division, he must vote for the motion of the Hon. Member for Cockermouth. But it was yet in the power of the Goverment to take the proper. course. They had already gone half way—he wished that they would go the whole way. He wished them to say that they had made out a strong prima facie case, into which the House of Commons was billed to inquire; and they might then ask them to pause in such inquiry. because they did net think the mode now proposed was the most effectual one for the purpose of such inquiry— that they themselves would cuter into an inquiry, and would recommend the Crown to take immediate steps for such inquiry, and that they would come to Parlia ment for additional powers if they thought it necessary to do so, in order to remedy that which was a greAt and a growing evil. That was the course which the Government ought to take, and not to meet the proposi tion by moving the previous question. Mr. MANGLES said that his Hon. Friend the Member f or Cockermouth did not ask the House to turn itself into a tribunal for this inquiry, but merely whiled by his proposition to put the matter in a proper channel for a full and searching investigation. He thought that the real weakness of the Church consisted in the concealment of such facts. In bis opinion, the strongest point for an inquiry was whether the Bishop of B Ala and Wells d►d institute Mr. Bennett with the full knowledge of his recorded unfaithfulness. He would, however, recommend his Hon. Friend to withdraw his motion, as they had receiver) a plain, explicit, and un mistakeable pled:,e that a bona fide and searching inquiry would b,4 institute i. Mr. GLADS I'ONE said that they had heard a long series of allegations from the Hon. Member for Cocke r mouth stated with great ability. It was not, in his opinion, at that moment fitting that these allegations should be examined into. He was bound to say, from a partial knowledge of the case, that he disputed, and he was ready to confute, many of the allegations take up. made by the Hon. Member, and to show that he had not even correctly quoted the documents to which he re ferred. thatulrt do so, and This chalieno4 he was ready at that moment to The aon Member tells him to do so. He praye r of in quire,.but that would confine himselt only to one ' case B ishop ofmoment, The Hon. Gentleman stated that the Baththe and Wells, in a modest and humble reload to me petitioners, was asked to consider and . the haughty prelate of Bath and Wells Is , n w n h e tot:Ny:l7l"i published by a Mr. Crutwell, of his hand a Zu_e!e . e. Now be Oir. Glldaton-) held in tort' adverse to the appointment of sir. rial referred th, disti B tifit " l utlenaxe, in quoting. the memo was not to Coosldp r and ?' stated that the prayer of it the institution of X i .. AVlire, but it was, not to grant whether "to consider andeinunet-t. He wanted to know as to rt fuse institution to Vis..ii:t u re" was the same thing t h e Hon. Member in thinking,th. ()nett. Hecencurred with most serious. It' a man wh o 1 these allegations were pretended to be - of the Church of England was i n motion a clergyman member of the Church of Rome, such a or in heart a condign puniahaaPnt. However i nexpedi m en T i letterved make that House the scene of theoi sg " iota discussion,wto this was still a question which could scarcely be a eluded trom their cansideratio b n. .He, however, rose for the purpose of declaring his . o . i , , c t that 3n t o all vague or in definite pledges. It was right they should know what the is,ue of these prGctedingq was to be. Nothi ng wo uld induce him to agre e to a motion cslling upon tt a Crown to do in a formal winner what he knew it w ou ld the same time. he fail in if it attempted to do it. But, at n was raise admitted that a most s erious cilestinjd 4 _ namely, whether the Bishop o f Bath a of Wells, in -Fropeoe,ro ceeling to institute Mr. ifainett to the living had acted according to the letter and spirit of the law. As that was the question, of course the whole cauluct . en, of Mr. Bennett was relevant to that. It appeared, th to him, that the Government, instead of agreeing to an address to the Crown, must, in a friendly spirit, make such an investigation into the facts as would enable them to judge what further steps should be taken in the matter. He for one had for a leng time felt that the ecclesiastical law was in a most defrotive and imperfect condition in respect to a case which, though a .rare one, was yet a possible case —namely, that in which it might be necessary to put the law in motion against a Bishop for the purpose of tying him up to his duty. He hilly isoneurr, d in, the sugges ion of the Noble Lord the Menaher far London. Mr. WALPOLE said it was to b d e pr ec ate d e the wisk*Ati jips t o of Cogillang UN Will fo r cliovuosiDg . LONDON, theological subjects if it were at all possible to avoid it. He, however, concurred with the Right Hon. Gentleman who hed jest eat down, that a case had been ma-`e out which not only invited but dsmanded inquiry.--(II-er, hear.) For if any minister be instituted into a benefice of the Church while he was iu fact, or was likely to be, a member of some other Christian communion, it was state of things which ought not to be allowed. And if the law be not strong enough to prevent such an abuse, it ought to be made strong enough —(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Warwickshire (Mr. Spooner) said, by moving the previous q uestion - they were shelving the main proposition; that was not the nese. By the course they were vatting they were simply saying that the question should not now be put. f his was an important consideratien in reference to the motion before the House.. Let him cell the Hon. Merabet'a . attention to the facts connected with it. A motion stood on the notice-book for a fortnight or more, by. whick,it was intimated that the Hone Member for Coekerinouth was going to call attention to the institution- of Mr. Bennett to the vicarage of Frome. Now, until , yesterday. tna House was not aware of the precise intention of the Honour-, able Member for Cockermouth.—(Hear, hear) So little was be (Hr. Walpole) aware of teem, thet he asked the question of many of his own friends, and they were utterly unconscious the motion of the Hon: Gentleman was about to take the turn it assumed in consequence of the notice given by him last night. He mentioaed these facts in common fairness and justice to those parties who were implicated by the speech addressed that evening by the lien. Member to that House, to show that they ought to be allowed a Proper opportunity of explaining the facts and circumstances of the case as far as they related to them. He referred to the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, and the patron of the living. Under these circumstances. he asked if the move. ing of the previous question_wes not the proper course to take. He would follow it up by saying, that in con sequence of the observations of his Noble Friend oppo site, supported as they were by the Right Henourable Gay leman the Member for -the University of Oxford, that the Government would in a friendly spirit institute such an inquiry as was suggested in reference to the institution of Mr. Bennett to the living of Frome, tied particularly in reference to the question whether the law could be made to meet the evil of which they so generally complained.—(Bear. hear.) More than that he hardly thought the Government could be called upon to undertake. The • House , might call, upon them to do that, and the Government. would be prepared to obey that cal.l.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that this was the proper way of proceeding, in order that full.justiee to all parties might be done, and not by an address to the Crown, founded upon what was after all uncertain information. In order, then, that the question might be simply and satisfactorily investigated, the Govern ment were anxious to carry out the iequiry.iu the spirit, suggested by the Noble Lord, if they were permitted to do so —(Heir. hear.) Lord R. GROSVENOR said that but for the promise which had been made by the 13, , ght,Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Walpole) on behalf of the G«.veroment, he should have felt it to be his dte y to vote fir the motion of the Hon. Member for Coekermouth (Mr. Horsman).; but after the promise had be« n made that the stabjedt w hi c h had to-night been brought before the House should be thoroughly investigated, and in a friendly manner, by the Government, and that they would then come forward and state whether or not it was. desirable that the law should be altered, he trusted- the Hon. Member would not press his motion to a division. Mr. AGLIONBY hoped the opinions of those lion. Members who agreed with his Hon. Colleague in think ing that an inquiry was demanded in this matter, which was one certainly of great importance to the nation, would be shown to the public by a division upon the subject. He could not concur with the Nohle,Lerd who spoke last, when he said . he was satisfied wit , the speech of the flume Secretary—(Hear, hear.) Fer his part, he should like to know, first, when the inquiry was to be made, by whom it was to be made, and when the House would have an opportunity of considering and deciding upon a_ the report of such an inquiry. So far from being satisfied, then, his previous dissatisfaction was only in creased by the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman. From the Chancellor of the.Exahequer he heard not a t w ra ord ryi ab th ‘ e )u ß c i t g h h e t c H on u c n e . s G sio e n ,f n ; le n m 4 an i s T id .ii t r O Cho House the se .n of c c , oro • - m ons .was not a fit place for i heological controversy, and that it was inconvenient to discuss these caleitieue there. True, it was not the place for theologies! controversy; but, in his opinion, it was the place of all others in which an appeal ought to be made for an inquiry; and he thought the House would not be doing its duty to the country if it did not express its wish and determination that an in quiry should be made —(Cheers.) He hoped, there fore, that his Hon. Colleague wield divide,—(Cheers.) Me HORSMA.N (in reply) said he had not the smallest difficulty in deciding as to the course which it was his duty to pursue, though he had certainly some. difficulty in reconciling the various reasons which bad b • e n urged upon him for adopting a different course.— (Hear, hear.) Before noticing them, however, he must be permitted to say one word with regerd to the extra ordinary attack, he might call it, weich had been made against him by the Right Hon. Member for the Univer sity of Oxford (Hr. Gladstone). That Right Hon. Gentleman set out by observing that, at the proper time, he would be prepared to impugn and disprove some of his (Mr. Horeman's) most important statements. Now, considering that these statements had been made in the presence of the assembled House of Commons, he thought the proper time for confuting them was the time at, which they were made, and that the proper company in which to confute them was the comp any in which they were made.—(Cheers.) But the Right Hon. Gen tleman did not think it a convenient time, and wished to postpone his coufutation to a more appropriate season.—(H,ar.) He (Mr. Horsman) invited the Right Honourable Gentleman to confute his statements. 01 said the Right Hon. Gentleman, "I will do so now ;" and he thereupon proceeded to . notice one of those statements, but left all the others untouched. In en deavouring to show, however. how capable he (Mr. Horsman) was of misquoting, the Right Hon. Geutie man was himself guilty of ODO of the grosseseanatquota dons he had ever heard intha ß t ig l h lo t u un se o .— . u nem house.--(Nu.), li an e would prove it —(Cheers.) 'The acid that he (Mr. Horsman) bad stated that the me morialists called upon the Bishop of Bath and. Wells to institute an inquiry, and that to that petition he pee the answer which he (Ur. Horsman) bad characterised, as a haughty answer—an answer which breathed the spirit of Laud.—(Cheers.) Now it so happened that he did not apply these expteysions to the answer which was returned to the memorial. bat to the answer which was returned to the second letter addressed to the , Bishop of Bath and Wells. He had stated that that see' oond letter of the Bishop well deserved to be chatac._ tensed as he (Mr. Elorsrnats) hai characteri sed it. That . , letter was an answer to a meek and reasonable request to give the parties 14 days more delay, and it; was that answer which he had designated as haughty, and es breathing the spirit of Loud.—(Cheers.) He aked then, whether the Right Honourable Gentleman had not mane a charge which he himself must feel was totally On- becoming his position in that House?—(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman ,seid theahe (Mr Horsman) must be aware that he had not honestly quoted the documents which he had brought before the House. What was the meaning of that? Did ho mean that, holding a document in his hand, he (Mr, Hotamian) had falsified its reading to the llouseethe Right Hon. Gentleman having a eouu terpart of that document in his own hand at the time, and being fortunately able to detect it?—(Cheers.) Was that the Right Hon. Gentleman's meaning?' But he would not pursue the subject further. 119 would leave . it to the Right inn. Gentleman and the house to sat, whether, for the statement he had made, he deseraad an sccueatioe which he should be ashamed to make against the Right Hon. Gentleman or any other Member of that Houss.—(Cheers.) Of the mintier in which his motion had been treated by other Hon. Gentlemen who lead taken part in the debate he bad not the smallest dis position to complain. He must admit, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer had observed, that the motion was . an embarrassing one. It was equally true that every thing einflected with those questions which respected the Established Church, and which so much agitated the country, was most embarrassing. But what was that Church of England of which they had been speak ing ? Was it not a Church that had been established by Act of Parliament ? Did it not rest upon an Act of Parliament ? Did not its ministers receive their privi leges and pay under an Act of Parliament ? And if the Parliament of England had established a church, with a staff of ministers for the propagation of a particular faith, and the teaching of certain doctrines, and it it were alleged that the men who were the agents - and servants of that church used their priviliges and their powet to teach very _different doctrines, then he wanted to know whether the Parliament, which bad establivheci that Church for certain purposes, was not in reality the very tribunal to consider whether those purposes bad been - answered or not ?—(Cheers.) The Right Hon.' Gentleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the motion was very vague and indefinite the in its character. Of coarse he <Mr. Horsman) was quite prepared; in bringing forward an ecclesiastical question for the consideration of the House of Com mons, to find it met as a question of great difficulty, delicacy, and embarrassment. He knew well. that the first ground which would be taken'vvas the technicality of his motion. He knew that if he had proposed ta Com mission it would have been objected to, and that the very fact of its being a definite course would have laid it open to difficulty. What did be do then? He prOposed merely that her Majesty, as head of the Church, should be petitioned by this House graciously to • institute an inquiry—that .inquiry being, of °Ours-, carried on in the manner which had been euggested on that (the Opp'oai to for s t i h d o r ef the House, upon the advice, and under the giir T:epihsert;vio cioniqon:i responsibility rubiit :I:tas.e t Baoaurvireiahtte hear.) . ) direction, H e proposedo f the • Ministers s t t h e e r ofs il() u s e the ro*vn.......(Flear, hear.) He proposed that the Hkiusa of Commons should 'address her Majesty for an inqairy; but he left the mode_ of inquiry expressly open to the Government, It was not for him to suggest, nor wee t use to dictate to them, what should be the advicette r lf mode . airiscretiovvitie.rfn(Ce 411 try they agreed 'to an" in would tohid kabve 'it fn" their` _0 what t" m p an u o d r s p t t o h e sr:ly l e a l .::::: d Crown to institute that a mit ; n a n n er i ' h a is s ,tit t . l , ly ,ii m ex ig pt h e t soy de a tz stituted the tuq d' y e ..:: b li t e . e ih ts .e .) i'er if f M ul i l r e iL t i p e o rs we ii r e s but it must not' h e it in their hands, i ' hh f ee r sy i e e . w nd a,, l n y ftre i id n e g ito u j i lsy r t y i : i ...4o 3lquiqueeepsat e tt) ll :w l roter e . _.l :S e( e n, ter k: e , t iiy a r: ry w t e c i r i m w ei hn a t set ra e n o t n ar foot 0 m a m " i f t r te i e e n t d o l y sit in . upon it: . end get a Parlia wanted was a judicial inquiry.it The inquiry - h to demand a judicial inquiry, s ad mega will?verl.l7 leave the Matter in their handi,. Nothing ei ... mg te .... 1 sa ti l f a 6.l._,_ .... ~0 than meat - ment instituted such an incpiry, he wa y jUdicialinquiry would u • w rYt aspeeateek alter the arfiniiieion Of - the Government' that 'the' ej east ii..„ ought not to be suffered 'to Teat where it was that it $o wo isiptutat 19 be lefo time. Vutlet , t i icio yip: • . ~.. ... _ . .. ..,.. - • . , ... „... _ ..... . _ provided ieldde toh hear.) 0, : d6 o awrai sot l eott: 1 cumstances he did not think he should be doing his duty if ho consented to withdraw _ the motion.—(Cbeerse) He had brought it forwerd with a specific purpose, h cause he. telt that the .evil was-growing and ought to ' be met ; and heving,doee this. he should certainly press it to is division.—(Loud cheers,) . , • - Mr. GLADS.CONE was sure the House would feel that, after what had fallen from .the Hon. Gentlemen, some explanation was necessary on his part.—(Hear.) The Hore.Gentleman had stated that he (lrealadstotte) bad charged him with not having quoted." honestly" . a d ocum ent to which he had ref erre d i n t h e cours e of het, speec h. Now his (111 r. Gladstone's) memory might err. like that of others; but his recollection was strong that he had never used swab an offensive or improper word. . - , . - - - ' • ' -- s (Elear, hear.) If he had us e d it, ,- he would be the fi rst t o ap .logise for having done e tio; but he had .not used the word " honestly," and he - had m erely charged the Right lion.,Gentlemun, w i t h not hav i ng quote d cor rectly.t-(Hear; hear..) . •The. GHINCELLOR ofetthe, EXCHEQUER ex- • .eleined,.thtw Are H.:ire:nen had very. Entice. mistaken What he had uddressed to Owl-louse s ,He (the,Chae• eullor of thnExchtpter) hid never denied for one me-. meat the grave -imeortence vof the subject which the 1-n,brought forward. in feet he had stated was impos s ibl e to exaggerate i ts import ance.—(Hear, hear.) the observ u ti ous . we re addressed to this-that he did not s ee t h at the propoa i t i on w hich e that it Gentleman had the Hon, ;--Gentleman had made would meet . the , difficulties with ; which they had to contend; , that the c ir c umstances on which h e had dilated were very im perfectly known to H ei. Members of that House; and, listening with great attention ,to the Honourtae. Gentlemae's statement, he acknowledged at once it,. vest importance, at the same time that he said it did not appear to him that the propositioir of the Hon. Gent's man was one which would meet the difficulty; but he had no, wish, whatever to c one , y - to the House the im pression that he did not hiuneelt feel the absolute neces sity of inquiry. :When the B ore G entleman sa id t hat a " friendly inquiry" bad beet) offered, but that he re- quired a " judicial inquiry,. he (the Chancellor of the felt when he first rose, and whi c h h e st i ll cont i nue d to feel, was that he did noteee-eo, at present advised a Exchequer) must tell tom that t h e d if f iculty w hi c h he judicial inquiry coulclsbe instituted. He would not talk of a f r i en dly inquiry, but certainly he could nut promise a judicial inquiry. All.. he could say was th a t there should be a bona- fide inquiry; and, under the circum stances of the case, he thought that was a ll th e Hon. Gent Majesty's Gentleman- ought to ask her G overnm ent to do.—(Hear.) The subject brought befo re t h e House— important .as it waS*evils surrounded . w i t h diff icu l t ies. shouldk i o hon. the a bonii fide inquiry i nto the grave.cir part of the G overnment that -the No person %mkt oentend that there were means of insti tutihg a judicial inquiry as et prese n t advised, an d b e could onlys curnstanees alleged.--(hear.) The House divided, when there appeared— For Mr. Horsman's motion... ... 8 0 . Against it ... -- ••• .... 100 • Copies between the Go- Meierity against the motion ... —2or FOREIGN REFUGEE& • , Lord DUDLEY STUART, put suant to notice rose , Pies or extracts of ltey, and other foreign Hungarian wed other refit gees detained at Ktutayah, from the date .of the last. dispatch on this subject, a copy of which has been laid Governments,vatoenrl'nmcommunications makeetheof t°hlli'sjwincountry which respecting motion :— i a h n e bda ll 7Te u n n p: i before this House up-to the present time (in continuation of papers already presented to Parliame n t) . , i L would be in the recollection of the House that very early in 1850 he drew their attention to the events... which had taken place in Hungary and Turkeyeend particularly to the demand made, as he thought most Oujustifia,bly,.by the Governments of. Austria and Russia upon the Sultan for the surrender of certain retueeesewhos after havute taken part in the struggle which had then recently . pre agreed to lay on the - different Govern it rindependence from °f ' lt h ot i e f 1.. k d: lei: Hungary,atch e s n' ps afterel before s taYt in g thoselhhi The soughth V : i d ledtor t a h n e. asylum lhet.t y ina and d e terr Noble Lord the Member for Tired() table e ion of on tho tht i le on t s r e an a sa s c e t t i o "ou oti s o , n , m wh e i n c t h s. h A ad ve p ry ass c e o d as b id e e tw ra a b e l n e -i i i m b.o e se ela papers were forthcoming, and was not until 1851, after had been shut up in he had remintledais Noble Friend (Lord Palmerston) of , . came down to his s i .e - t d promise,tben that t c h n e . P eh rn e ha t is a n blel s wo l.u.i d fil is le p d alnh El es i , B one of which releted to the refugees who Turkey, ' His present motion only contemplated a con tinuation of these diapers:hese-All that. he asked was,tisai. inasmuch as this. correspondence only . April, 1850, that they should have other papers laid on tee table which would bring down the correspondenc e to the time of the hberation of those refugees on the Ist o; September last. The Noble Lord at the head of the late the table of th e H ouse t h ey would prove that the Briti s h Government had said, that if these psp e y i were laid oh Government had in reality done that which the Ameri can Government claimed to have done, I) . 4 meit'i to have effected the liberation of the captives of Kiutayah. Tin present Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he (Lord D. Stuart) applied to him on this subject, very obligingly said he could not think there would be any objection u , the production of them, papers, but that be .must consult the Foreign office befOre he could consent ; to their producti on . H e (L or d D. Stuart) had since learnnigh regc e t t h a t, th e Eight Honourable Gentle. man would feel it . his duty to oppose this motion. Ho was at a loss to know on what grounds such a motion could be resisted. It was well known that when the re fugses from Hungary sought shelter in Turkey, the Go vernments of Austria and Russia addressed to the Sul tan a demand at which the feelings of all Europe re volted, that these refugees.ahould be delivered up to Lb, vengeance of. those Governments; and if the British Government had been so instrumental,. as was repre sented, in procuring the liberation of the captives, that of itself eas a sufficient reason why the dispatches in question should be laid on the table of the House. Eta was very glad that England and . the United States were united in the liberation of Kossuth and the other refu gees; anti, he did not at, all, want to detract from the merits of the I.Teitect'Srateee n what they . ' hid done; but his belief that the Miseissippi might have remained at tbe,rjardaneil,reseetations made ,upen.the subject by es till' his time if it had not been for the energetic rep the 4 r ifimh Government..Government..lf the papers he asked for were granted, this fact would be established—if they were . withheld the HAIN, anti the country -would have a right to complain that they did not receiie the information to which they were entitled. - The papers ought to, be given ior Ti f v o e r t r to h n e ;aodw justification niie h o theef did not Noble We nLto to h o d t im e o ll n t e e m p be er. t sonalSmotives in the attempt to Withhold . the papers, he must saytherti did appear to be soinething like a want 'of generosity to the . late Governinent in now withhold!. log thern e The. only reason that could be given for wit hholding them was, that it might be unpleasant to,the Governmeuts of Austria. and of •Russia to have it shown that the representattens of the British ambasstidor at Constantinople were attended with mere- weight than theirs were; and further, that, these papera might ele great vecillation on the 'part of the Porte as to the .. - sit these pspers, and therefore. lwitecretttautioetneoff weight ' a i h e t in t g u e fs ea c ; iou t t u t t' o E . , j e u t s la ti b iy ugh tli t e th w e i e t e ith re o a lo so lo n g s lution of which he had given /m i ce. Mr. HUME seconded, be motion, on the ground' that the people of this country had taken a great interest in this question, and had held tneetings on the subject from country o n t o behalfthe oi li h e; :h e l ; el3 i ing r i vrcu g4 het e . h ese. r. e G n s ° o e - der to show that. be confidenco of the pdoele had' hot onev th e o rn u e gb ed i t i t t h t°h e re interferee f, the . paper s been misplaced, but, hats the .Governmeet had exerted ought to be given, in or themselves to parry_Out the wishes ofehe peOple. „' Lord PALNERtiTON 7 4 3 ISara nsuah concernea in the correspondence to which - MY Noble ,Friend has e al- ma3t be Permitted. to take the earliest question lads been put to state that, So far us I am cencerned, a rid a fact Itiow u to ell the world that Ihelieve I may say also I was then a member, that tfix:ouPedroPtbh°;:hrae'etvupFeG::rnirio'h:Yv. 1 l a rt d ! o. 9 n r b t m j eir ex e n, n t t: h ii t so e o n f : wt to i g e li r a n . : _ g "n the motion of my these refuges-were detained in Turkey for a considerable portion of titne, against the' "natural wishei of the Turkish Goverement, but in deference to the apprehen sions and the wishesof _the Government of Austria. I am not here to blame or to find 'fatilt with the Govern "lintle they entertained with persons.-.- (gear.) . (--- eilre) They did entertain a feeling of alarm, which was no doubt sincere; .btieit Was the opinion of- her Majestra GovernMent that Austria had no right to dictate to . the Porte in what manner the Offence against Turkey, no offence to set those refugees regardas entoftoAtu43etsreia for the Sultan should exercise the rights of hospitality towards my intervention and 'by the exertions of her ler ; --s s t sty's ambassador et fapineetrdes.t°hnasTt who ow ß baila ri s tis ' b centitled,ul'n'ltitiie Government did, constantly urge upon the Turkey' and her Porte to give way to its own inclinations, and. o permit these refugees to leave Turkey... o f _ Constantinople, repeatedly and course, everybody feln ighbour will at once see that, with every dis positionpower .- e relative strength of upon the generous feelings of the Sultan, onsiderati - there were,nevertheless e h . t?". °F. prudence and policy which ifiteriered withis . free choice in a matter of this ..kinci, and it ,became to . therefore important' for Turkey that it should'be obi ; ot tbao (ge in support of the Wishes of its own .Government , t t o ire ney of a foreign Government 'westing e uPon in what d do that which they, felt to be just and proper . . , .egree the Ameris .contributed to Produce this result, can Government &else it toter ' - I am not able to state. No . . - . ~etied its influence "same pup ,which we to accomplish the p .,rc 0 will laboured to achieve, but the correspotid • e ' That is . w what was done ' h lacivernment . all.whtch the House by the Bettis .. I hate only the ' ' - is concerned to know.. - e .r to say, that ' dion 'of the VaPera— foreo the dispatches by a caieful seise . the ~ tie ,___,. , _ ' ffice an° ,- "P'tes from her' Ma from the Foreign;-office, ' I b see p whet vir ' - jesty's ambissacioreeit wil . es _ . .. t„ su era thn effort of the British Government., tlel to wn ,hie, e t eeea attend& those off tido, ',without eonta id ,.! s li s i t '", gr 4 b ~ to the" would be off +naive to the feelings or al . ; e ' . f . Auntie or` aisi o . piniotis of the Governments* either 0 ,o(o,37,x,,,bieltpri4d.i .1114.11 "there fore support the motion I ee..EiCCHEQU. The CHANCELLOR of tiort hits Ste ett ER e-The 'Noble Lord,who, wade this s enct ie . ' 'eery truly - a kries cq pupara heti° been `that - I. held the opinion, , Itcdscil with regt trc ti o g placed On the_ tab4l, of the . 4 . 11; ., . i . __ . a nnni. , onaeLcv,t -i "".t. wee upon the plettAeltplomatic eOrresp . . ei . 4 . 64 oorresiie rd _ , ;whole desirsble that the u B'%...ie;'fiiiii7seqqet 'oce'''ellee should be given,, but that. 04 kniring at the p a o sion I 'told the N.Aile'Lerdthist;' a f ter 7 " Whether . that would be 'Office, I had reassed,o ; dou,htie the Noble Lordiiha e Il e' -prudent course, ,"1" can ai.ll , , n lroin ally desire' t that - did net arrive Cr that entictuste d . c . . _ e 0 e _ ..ee.ssors--(Hear, heel. r trace fremethe merits - of our pre , 's is well knovin' t *-- ' The fact is,' there had heell.• .aeiietehi, on the a great deaf of acrimonious feeling . latch-Were mixed Subject.. ''' between the ;variotie. Courts. Iv- e - feelings of 'a ii- in this question. Happily, all tiles nod undertit. acrimony ' at e now itteYeti. Thero,il ticiir f,g, bitweeti th' l7l ‘ inglkls there has, been for,sontetirna:peet;edit Wit , e Courts of Constantinople 'mid of litrielitta , fr.' s Id bte appreireisded wou e ettelethut ' thin . by us thet,ilp es the vsholeeit tau hi In - • 11 , 3 §Qf gOiregEktudeute, which AI ~ A th pemiftg WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 21, 1852. recollections of the past, and might revive feelings now happily allay e d, s h ou ld not haavin brought under the notice of :he country. an d p a i n f u lly obt ru d e d upon t h e conealcration o f E urope . B u t after th e appea l w hi c h has been made to us by the Noble Lord —and e s p ec i a l)? after the observations of the Noble Lord the Member far Tiverton. and after the statement on hi 3 part, which would lead the House to suppose that we were preventing the publication of doeumews that are necessary to the vindication of his pcliey—l can assure the Noble Lard that I shall not persist in my opposition.—(Hear.) We have no personal feeling in the matter; and, in truth, 'city first impression was that he publication of these do cuments would be disagreeable and inconvenient to the Noble Lord the Member for T,serton and the Nable Lard opposite (Lord John Russell). But if these Noble Lords think that the documents tend to their honour, .and to the vindication of their policy, I have no further ection..--(Hear, hear.) • Lird JOHN RUSSELL--I am very glad to hear the Right lion. Gentleman say he. will accede to the motion. Myopinion is that it was not only right in the Noble Lord the geinber for Tiverlon to make the representa tiOns he did on this subject.; but I consider that it was au honour to this country to take the part it did take in reference to these refugees. We did not think it was consistent with our duty, or with the policy of this country, to take part with the war in Hungary.—(Hear, hear.) Bat when they fled to take refuge in Turkey, and when. Turkey was disposed to accord to them hos pitality, and after a proper time to allow them to pro ceed to other countries, we thought it right that the support of this country should be given to enable Turkey ro carry out these views. I always thought it redounded .o the honour of this country to have taken this part, and any documents which will show the manner in which these representations were made, and how earnestly the Noble Lord repeated his assurances of support to Turkey, I think, ought to ba given, so that the country may see that we at least maintained the principles ofjustica and of hospitality.—(dear, hear)) The motion was then agreed to. The appointment of the Committee on ladia was postponed till Thuladay. The Stock in Trade Bill was read a second time. - -----__ _ The House then aojourLed 03 a Quarter pint Niue o'clock, YARLIA.AIENTAtt 'l' DIVISIONS. From the Votes cod Proeeed;ws 4' the House of Commons ) iTUESDAY, APRIL 20. FRO JIE VICARAGE. Motion made, and Question proposed, " That an humble Address be presented to her Majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to direct inquiry to be made whether due respect was paid to the Decrees of the Constitutions 'and Canons Ecclesiastical of the Church Of England in the recent institution of the Reverend Mr. Bennett to the Vicarage of F om e:" ..,..Whereupon the previous Question was put, " That that Question be now put." The House • divided:— MINORITY—AYES, 80 • Adair, R. Sl.afto Frewen, C. H. Geed', Charles Aglionby, IL A. Grenfell, C. Pascoe Paget, Lord George Ogle, S. C. Glyn, G. C. Pechell, Sir G. Baines, M. T HardcaStle, J. A. 'Ricardo, Osman . Perfect, Robert limb A. T. • • Hall, Sir B. Bell, Jacob Pigott, Francis Boyle, Colonel Scholeaeld, William ' Headlam, T. E. Scobell, Captain Bright, John Henry, Alexander Sheridan, R. B. Brotherton, J. Heywood, James Smith, J. A. Brown, W. Hill Lord M. Stanford. J. F. Buxton, Sir E. N. , Harris, Richard Strutt, E. Carter, J. B. Bernal, Ralph . Hobhouse, T. B. Stewart, Admiral Childers, J. W. Stuart, Lord D. Hume, J. Clay, James Humphery, Ald. Thompson, Colonel Clay, Sir W. Jackson, William Thornely, Thomas Cobden, Richard Tollemache, John Coke, E. K. Kershaw, James Verney Sir 11. Crowder, R. B. ' Loch, James Wakley, Thomas D'Eyncourt, C. T. Loveden, Pryse ahnsley, sir J. ouucan, George WOreg,or, John . W Hindley Charles Wilson, Matthew Williams, . Dundas, Sir David ,Maugles , R . D . - • Ellis, John Mar tin, John Wortley, J. S. wane, William Mitchell, T. A. Wyvlll, Diarraaduke Fergus, John Morris, David TELLER.. Ewan,' William Molesvvorth, Sir W. Foley, John H. • Mostyn, E. A. Horsman, E. Fox, %V. J. Mowatt, Francis Berkeley, C. L. G. Freestun, Colonel Biluitz, G. F. MAJORITY—NOES, 100. Adderley, C.B. Granby, Marquis of Newdegate, N. Irchdall, Captain ' treenail, G. Newport, Viscount Bagot, William G:osveitor, Lord R. Ossulston, Lord Bailey, Joseph Halford, Sir Henry Oswald, Alexander Baillie, 11. J. Hall, Colonel Packe, C. W. Bankes, G. Hallevvell, E. G. Pakington, Sir J. Barrow, W. IL ' Hamilton, G. A. Pigot, Sir Robert Bentinck, Lord H. Hamilton, Lord C. Portal, Melville Beresford, William - Henertge, G. 11, W. Prime, Richard Blandford, Marquis Rutledge, Edward Reid, General looker, T. W. Henley, J. W. Richards; Richard Booth. Sir R. G. Herbert, tieury A. Russell, Lord J. ft r o i w dg le e s s , Hervey, Lord A. Scott , Francis B roa dwood, Henry Hothatn, Lord Sother on, T. H. S. E, s A ir dm ß ir . al Hope. Sir J. Sibthorp, Colonel 3ruce, C. L. C. Hudson, G. . Spooner, Richard Lennox, Lord H. G Castlereagh, Vise. Inglis, Sir R. Stafford, Augustus Jolliire, Sir W. G. Tennent, Sir J. (CliarinsdtrpheMr,-arlii.uAis. Jones, Captain Trollope, Sir J. Collins, Thomas Knox, W, S. Tyler, Sir G. Cot Lon, W. 11. Knox, Colonel Tyrell, Sir J. Oisraell, B. Langton, W. H. Venter, Sir IV. Drimilanrig,Viseetuat Lennox,'Lord A. Vivian, J. E. buncombe, O. Gonne, Colonel Lewi , ham, Viscount Wall, C. B. East, Sir J. B. Lockhart, I V. W al p ole, Spencer E ve lyn, W. J. Long, W. Whiteside, James Forester, G. C. Lowther, Col onel Wigram, Loftus Fox, S. W. L. • Lygon, General Williams, T. P. Fceshfield, J. W. Manners, Lord C. Wood, Sir W. P. Fuller, A. E. Alanners, Lord G. Wyse, R. IL Gallwey, Sir W. P. Manners, Lord J. Gilpin, Colonel Morgan, O. Gladstone, IV. E. Murphy, F. S. Goulburu, henry Naas, Lord TELLERS. Mackenzie, W. F. Bateson, Thomas PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Totes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) NOTICES GIVEN Al"rlIE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. The following Bills are appointed to be read a third time on Triursda.y, April 22: Aberdare Market and Slaughterhouses. • Cheshire Cons abulary. Dudley Waterworks. E istern Counties and Newmarket and Chesterford Railway C mpanics. Glamiord Briggs Waterworks. Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland). Kelvin Bridge (Glasgow) and other 'Works. Lockwood and Melthatn .Ruad. Norfolk Railway. Retford and Littleborough Road. South Essex Estuary and Reclamation. • Stockton and Darlington Railway. • Sunderland Waterworks. , I N ' 0 1 9 N R t D h Y A AY OF April AND :‘ B v E E a DBRE wearisomeAs r s D y F s o .) R d D e.. TO Os (CONTINUEDSir,--On n SE M C: nod : ay REFORM ASSOCIATION. bate, hardly attended throughout by the number required to keep a Howe, on the appointment of' a Select Committee on the Government of India. The most remarkable feature, where little was prominent at all, consisted in the avowals on the Tory side, of the principle of conquest for the advancement of religion, borrowed from the practice of Mohammedan statesmen, though it is a vulgar error to suppose it inculcated •by their prophet. It is one thing to rate before a war, that the ob ject of the war is to plant bishoprics in the con quered lands ; and it is another thing to state after a war, that the planting of bishoprics is the great use to be made of conque4. The things are not iden tical ; and yet the difference is not great. In the eye of that Being with whom the past and the future are the same, it may be doubted_ whether the quibble will avail for much. With scarcely a verbal altera tion, " more bishop" was represented from the Tories as the end and object, the legitimate purpose and use, of Oriental wars. In the speech- of the leader of the late Government, on the other hand, there was a cautious ignoring of the principle, that bishops should be found in the bottom of MIN' chariot, whether as accomplices before or after the fact. Though all this is only the re&xiou of what occurred in another place, it is not without value as an indication of the sides intended to be taken. On Tuesday Mr. Horsinan moved an Address to the Crown for examination into the proceedings con nected with St. Bernabas, and the subsequent re placing of the ecclesiastic removed from that cure of soup, into the parish of Frome. Many new facts were adduced, highly interesting to all concerned; and no attempt was made at confutation from any quarter. The answer of the Government, was one of the lamest ever heard in Parliament. It was the " Alex andrine" of Ministerial prosody. As out of nothing, nothing can come, it ended perforce in moving the previous question. Ad kinds of blandishments were tried upon the mover, to induce him not to go to a division ; but he is a Ulysses who can put wax into bis ears against such solicitations, and he finally di vided with 80 against 100. An inspection of the division list will show who gave the victory to the other side. In all questions of interest, there is one side which wishes a step to be taken in advance, and another which wishes to hinder it ; and the way to hinder, is, if possible, to prevent a division at all. On the present occasion, much good will arise from what has taken place. The House of Commons has stoutly rejected the invitations to stultify itself by a self-denying ordinance, which cs pour in on such . oc subject, in sions. Everybody is for having his pet seould which he is anxious the House of Com Mons u ee refuse to interfere. If this only, wen t far D er, guy what, would be the use of a House o f Comm° r I am, Sir, yours very sincerelh AN OLD BEFOis, Blackheath, 21st April, 1852. most - best for Bie 0, . . - - - '—'------Llolloway's pills • tbe very Extract of .a . letter fr.,m.nllllirg.eitthna'rsdnAdbWel,ePakieegtadoilinlya,clthisa.---n_ ales teri to : Professor Holloway.:. ~Sirhe_ gratitude I owe to you is - great for the extraorinary cure I have derived by t fo a r k i ni n g o ryeotuhranwotourleyr3f,t:larPsiill7u, fflcarernd ssoixste.yv,_-f.e‘roveueiryityfTearecurpsitafii bile and digestion that life.wai.a-etimplete burden to me. I received ; the best medical advice at illiiines,hut could` get no perma nent relief. At.length Itried 3?our . pills, and they haves() in , vigorated my constitution that-Tani festered to the I _, iirobust health.= , -Sold by . all drurists and .at -Professor .01.,ow a yi s Establishment, 244, Strand', London. 4 . 1 t : ` r S oin tat i e n a t l b l e th v e iu n a u g i . eti; , l'.in'utsiliiip.Nuinistkh:6Fgo.rlel7—st 4off hDeei:3hurlaltely°trectufrutieldgliZys for a Is report 1 the following ansvver. _Atter the WOrds i n th AO s h I .a-great deal of Irish."- The accounts appear -to k gued with examined and allowed....at a town's-meetio— "av,e been Ireland for the year 16.9 held at a I•:c/tib . , Galati) eTURY' PIIESEMTMENTB. - • " --, lt is h ' ' return to Parliament (printed on . Monday) 8 own ' b r it he wrote, ' ' tiniount.,..ofi,preaentatetitallutde,._by the.that' the -grate Which . .82`` e several counties, cities and towns i n -ig_rriCl itlries.nfr the for public, curiaes 0d128,0 * IR. A A, , tl2l. 3s. lid were .' .101 wai 941,924/. si. Pd., of rttitiiToc4 to cdosigtont,.___ " Vl' %' 4 . l i fer° roVapApts •'- • - BANQUET AT GOLDSMITHS' HALL. Oa Saturday her Majesty's Ministers were en tertained by the Worshipful Company of Gol I smiths with their usual magnific , nee, and, on the health of their "brother Goldsmith," the Earl of Darby, being given, his Lordship made a magnificent ,reply. Nobody does these things better, and, in the neatest imaginable manner, without " dragging in politics," and without a word to give offence, the Premier contrived to do a little business for his friends. The associations of the place very natu rally led him to notice the wonderful revolution in ma terial which gave a name and occupation to the com- Pany, and to the_suliene and simultaneous discovery of gold in unQuspeeted quarters, and to an importation which astonished everybody, and put all calculation as fault. But," he proceeded, "it is not only in rege.rd to the discovery of gold that rew mines appear to be opened to us. Within a very short time, at with regard, to-gold, so there was (as it turns ouf) a Popular delusion that the field of statesmen and of the political enetel was almost limited ; it was supposed tle.4 the crop of statesmen was one of very limited amount, for which, if 3ou w re disposed to search, you must dig in certain favoured localities, and confine yourself to searching for them there. lam happy to think, gentle men, that, to some degree, I have been instrumented in dispelling that illusion. An unfortunate adventurer, as I was to consider myself, honoured with the commission from bee Majesty to do the best that he could for her service, I have ventured boldly to open a new mine, and I am happy to say that, in the opinion of competent jedgew, so far as it has yet been worked, the ore that has been raised contains among it as large a proportion of sterling metal, with as little admixture of drone, as any th .t was ever drawn from the old and exclusive mines to which we were formerly confined." This happy illustration was re ceived, as it deserved, with reiterated cheers. Lord Derby has been to the famous diggings in Westminster, and has brought hick a pile of dust in the rather un -common form of country gentlemen. The press of assay, by which the valuable character of the discovery can alone be verified, was not stated on this occasion. Perhaps we shall have to go to the country fur this ; and it is more than probable that our provincial refiners may send back Lord Derby's specimens with the remark, that "all is not gold that glitters." But, though our " brother Goldsmith" has evi de - rntly made in important discovery, we are not so sure that he has stated its nature correctly. As it appears to us, it is not so much a new quartz vein, or a " placer", be has brought to light, as a new method of extracting the ore. What ho has done more resembles the application of that subtle, quick, and mercurial agent, which many have thought to be a providential, means for gathering the al most impalpable flakes of precious metal, and drawing it from its hard matrix. It is a species of political quicksilver, as insinuating. as•seductive, as slippery, and as difficult to be tied as the metal so called. Every child has played with this charming material, and knows how playful, how elusive it is. Stare loco nescit. No one can tell its course. At one time it divides into a thousand globules; at another they all run into one, or trickle away in one long rill of molten silver. That is precisely the instrument with which Lord Derby has effected his wonders of political metallurgy. Active chairmen of quarter-sessions, obstinate lords, intracteble baronets, petty squires, and even rough yeomen, have all been amalgamated by the new Derby flux. When this property of quicksilver was discovered, vast piles of refuse ore that had accumulated for many years at the mines of Potosi were immediately operated upon with such success that it was said the second crop was better than the first; and at this day many a he a p of "dirt" that has ceased to repay for " rocking" and "washing" affirds a fair gleaning to quicksilver. What a heap of Protectionist rubbish we have .had all about us for ever so long! There it was at our very doors till people could hardly mov e a b ou t, or even ge t out of their houses. It spar - Idea a little in the sun, and telt he but nothing could be done with it. W as h i t , or burn ?:!, c)i• grind it. or bray it in a mortar, it was all the some; the dross would not depart from the gold, or the gold from the dross. At last a well known " adventurer," who had long been_ "prospecting" to very little purpose, hit on a i s method Of eisalug with thehitherto worthles s - commo dity. As the stream of Derby quicksilver pa sses through this unpromising"stuft; it absorbs a flake here and a lump there, licking eup every - grain of common sense that happens to survive in the "country party: , ['he resell', of course, is by no means pure gold. It is a little gold held in a much larger quantity of fluid, evasive, slippery matter; and, though we know the gold is there, the Parliamentary crucible will still be , requires' to separate it from the extraordinary agent which - has caught it so quick, and holds it so last, end itself can neither be caught nor held. Thus, on Friday, t wo hundred agriculturists met at Aylesbury, at the summons of the" Conservative Club," And yielded themselves without the least reserve to the subtle 'Tent we have described. Confidence, Confidence, nothing but Confidence, was the order Of the day. No pledges, no fetters,, scarce even a suggestion was per mieted to interrupt the bland rep se of aticultural faith. : " One pledge—and one pledge only," said one of the speakers, •' it was necessary that they should exact from their candidates at the next election. It was not ' Will you vote . for this or that specific measure?' but ' Will you or will you not support the Administration of Lord Derby?' and the judicious proposal was hailed with loud cheers. " The best thing the coustituencies could do, then," s eiu another speaker, " was to deterreino on giving their support to her Majesty's present advisers, and to take 1 with thankfulness such measures as they in their wisdom —anti, he hoped also in their streegth,would ha enabled I to confer upou the nation." " Don't fewer your own champion," said another; " don't send him in battle with his hands tied behind him." Excellent advice, proving how completely the hard agricultural nature has )ielded to the lubricous policy of its new chief. Our columns of election intelligence tell the same tale. Every day we are informed tha some noted Protectionist, big with importance, anvilr with animosities, and in dissoluble with ,prejudiee, has run into the stream of conversion. At a moderate estimate Lord 'Derby has swallowi:d up two hundred: solid individualitie3. Sib. tkorp has, long since become a drop in the ductile stream. Where is the country party? It is Lord Derby. He is the country party. But what is Lord Derby ? He is a statesman who, after breaking several times with his colt, agues, and supporting a large variety of measures, now finds himself charged with a general commission to serve the Conservatives as well as he can. Lord Derby has commonly b'een regarded as obstinate rather than versatile; as terrible miler than seductive; but it is now clear that his favourite mood is the "melting" one. We have seen him as a lion, as a boar, and as a fliose; be is now _gliding away in a ru , ,ning stream. We leave others to obain him and qu stion him, but for our part we have no wish to ar rest his latest and wisest transformation. By all means let Protection, or the stagnant pool that has so long been called by that name, flow away where it hits. Give it free vent; let it fylloW the, leader. If Lord Derby and a few oihers.have_ had courage to break the lattnk and seek a natural outlet, let the rest follow. When the great operation is over, when the renunciation its complete, mid the , last Proteelionist has either recanted or died iu his error, then let histo.y step in and say what it pleases about the men who opposed tree trade on the eve of: a fatnine, and submitted to it after a long plenty. We are only anxious that a troublesome ques tion i!hould be' got out of the way, and a nuthher of good men released from inea - .... ~ E L EC T I ON INtELLIGENCE-.'- . - - .- - ..., , -- -• (Fnom OUR CORRESPJNDENT.) A meeting:,,f real Frvb Trailers and' Liberals will be held at Genery!a ,Ls •n: Inn,-on Wedne,day evening (4.be 214 t), to consider the propriety of at once bringing to r wdrct a Libe..al Free trade - "candidate- to-cornets' the= borough at the eriiiiiiig general el,ction. • Mr. Barry Baldwin (the present Co'nervatire Me.m ber) hie, it is Stated; at the request of his eikninittee, consented to throw overboard all idea of protecton, .so far as " corn " is con cerned. , The electors generally, however,- are - . from experience become decidedly Fee Traders-in the truest sense of the word ; sodsoing that our present commercial policy ha been-the means of benefiting the great muss of the people, insist that the - - principles of free trade . shall " he • still further carried • out, and - are therefore - of opi nion it will be wise ' to return a - Member to Parliament (tu conjanction with. Lord Seymour) , who will not-only promise not to reverse the decision already pronounced against a duty on corn,' but who will, with ai sincerity and honesty of purpose, strive to amend our present system of taxation as still further to 1 . • a rticles of a d t ail- ucing the r put:in (such as in-lustrious classes of the comm .y un e t übrityre.rde relieve the taxes' . on those tea ; e w er ,- 8 6 0., &c.) 'which present on the poorer eleiseis of the cominanity.piess too heavily that Mr. Mills, A merchant of cons'd tis understood will be proposed at the meeting, and i arable influence of sound princiPles—in favour. of a ahe is known obe repre sentative system and vote by ball reform of onr 'eentertained of his triumphant 0 4 little dOubt can be sided split in the' Conservativereturn. There is a de now be reckoned OR as being camp, and Tetnes may tend. Free Traders to the safe to'return two Liberals new Parliament. . • "HER MAJESTY'S TnEATitne—Amongst the noble, distinguished, and 'fashionable company honouring the per :forrnances at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence yes terday everting woretnarked the following :—His Grace the Duke. of Wellington and_ the Marchioness of Douro, the 'Marquis of Clanricarde, Earl Mountcharles, his Excellency the French Ambassador and suite, ; the Earl _of Shelburne,, the Earl Of Chesterfield„ and Lord George P ag e t . Th e Q ue e n ' s • box was occupi e d by . the Marquis and Marchioness of Nor manby, the Master of, her Majesty's Household, Colonel the lion. C. B. Phipps and the Hon. Mrs. Phipps and party. There were also present Sir John B. Yarde Buller, Bart., M.P., Sir:John Bayley,' Bart., and Lady Bay ley, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence,,, Sir Geor ge W om b we ll, art., Mr. Hubert de Burgh, the Viscount Anson, Sir Ralph Howard, Bart., M.P., anif 'Lady Howard, the Hon-.' Oadiigati, Sir" , .Thomas — Barret Lennard - , Bart., and Lady Barret . Lennard and party .the Count Corte, Major Bline,_Captain Smith, Captain Ibbetson, Lady Somerset, Colonel Lockyer Free — stun, M.P 1 ,,, : .,and Mrs. Lockyer Freestun, Mr. Par.#ther,- , Mr. George Hudson, Miss ftudson, Mr.. Paul, Mr. Pack i3O ALP.; -and Mrs. Piaui Reading, Mr..C. Biniy Baldwin, M.P., Miss Caroline Bellew,.Mr. Storer, &c:f , ROBBERY OF .1,6001.—0 n Monday information WES received aethe Chief police station, Scotland-yard; that the con tidentiallraletAri - Colona Howard had absconded., stealing upwards of 1,6001. froin_the Colonel's residence at Brighten, chiefly in Bank of England notes. A PEACE FUL - --ExrunrrioN,-:-TbiiJaiiin expedi -4 011, according to a Washington correspondent, is tO Li b i e merely a hydrographical survey of the ' Japanese coast. me T nt : 3?,pounders are to ba used merely as measuring in the :triangulations; the cannon bills' are 'hake lin'e - C If any - lapancse is foolish enoughibtii:lrlPl°l:l:ttn.riil. 'Need intbe wav of these meteorological should course nobody will be to blame NA 4iuieelf he [hUrtsia;END Pit* lient/d. • NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. THE LEVEES. At - his Grace the Duke of Northnnaherlancl'a levee yesterday the folla,,:ieg (,ffie,rs were received:—Com mander Cha oner, Captain RF. Gambier, Captain W. J. Williams, Lieutenant T. C. Bruce, Commander H. J. Lacon, Cf4ntain . F. V. Anson, Captain W. Peel, Lieutenant the Hon. F. Foley, Lieutenant E. K. Gore, Lieutenant G. W. Jackson, Captain Sir G. Back, Com. mandor Henry Boteler, Captain IL D. Trotter, Captain J. B. Dundas, Captain G. H. P. White, Captain H. Layton, Captain T. S. Thompson, Captain W. Hood, Captain A. J. Montgomery, Commander T. C. Hosea son, COMM :13th•r J. Cator, Lieutenant J. Dennys, Coalman er T. W. Horton, Commander W. Kirby, Conina'ander .1. G. Wigley4Captain the Hon. G. Hope, Li utenant W. 11. Hood, Captain W. Kelly, Lieutenant W. P. Coventry, and Captain fla!sted. At Rear-Admiral Parker's levee yesterday the follow ing offic?rs:.presented thoinselvei:—Rear-Admiral Don glaB. Captain G. H White, Captain Sir Thos. Dundee, Mr. G. H. Gibbon, Commander T. G. Hoseuson, Mr. E. D. Hubert, Commander Hier, Mr. G. S. Singer, Mr. H. 0. White, Commander G. Le Biwyear, Lieutenant T. C. Bruce, Lieutenant 'l'. Butler, Lieutenant H. Smith, Captain Edmonda, Captain W. Williams, Mr. J. Cute. ear, Captain W. Hood, Lieutenant 'l'. Forrest, Mr, T. E. Smith, Commander H. S. Lecon, Lieutenant Pollard, Commander Sterner, Mr. T. Donald, Lieutenant Tribe, and Captain [Layer. Admiral Horney received the following officers at his levee yesterday:—Admiral Douglas, Admiral Mends, Admiral Sir F. Mason, Commander Hoseason, Major Brown, R, M., Lieutenant E. B. Hopkins, Commander J. Wood, Captain C. Edmonds, Mr. J. Cutagar, Mr. J. E. Masterton, Mr. W. B. Gordon, Lieutenant, T. C. Bruce, Mr. Templar, Mr. P. Morris, R.M., Commander W. Horton, Lieutenant Sauman z, Lieutenant C. G. Tagen, Captain Kelly, Captain Hillyar, Lieutenant Gore, Mr. Gibbon, Commander Lamm, Commander Boteler, Com mander Ha) es., Mr. White. PORTB3I =ll, TUESDAY. —SAILORS' HOME, PORTS MOUTEL—We are always most happy to record acts of true benevolence and philanthropy. Charles Dixon, Esq., of Statishead Park, enclosed yesterday a cheque (being his third donation) for 100 L, in aid of the funds of the Portsmouth Sailors' Hue. His first donation baring was,w e understand, 201., his second 301., and now, the satisfaction of seeing how extremely well the establishme n t p rogresses, h e h as sent th e p r incely dona tion of loot. Captain W. H. Hall (Nemesia) has had an interview with his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at the Admiralty, on the snbj, cc of sailors' homes, when the Noble and gallant Admiral entered most minutely into the details, working, and management of those excellent institutions. His Grace being intimately acquainted with the economical arrangements adopted at the naval schools and other public establishments, suggested to Captain H ill several improvements which can be made. He also thought the charges made to the seamen were rather too high, and he expressed a hope that they might be reduced, which will, no doubt, be soon effected, more especially when we record such princely donations as 200/. from his Grace the noble and gallant First Lord, and 1001. from that generous and' philanthropic gentle man Charles Dixon, Esq. - - There was a report here that the Rodney, Capt a i n C. Graham, was about to proceed to sea, but we do not be lieve there is any truth in such report. She still re quires a good many latterly she has obtained but a few, and those not of the best description of seamen. The Sampson steam-frigate, Captain Jones, got up steam this morning, and proceeded out of harbour. She went down to Stokes Bay to test her engines and machi nery. She afterwards anchored at Spithead, and re ceived her powd. r. By h tters from the Fos and Serpent, dated Rangoon, February, we learn that both the crews of these ships were in good health. The men of the Serpent that had been sickly were nearly all well, and but a very few men were on the sick list. That at low water, on the rocks at a small island at the entrance of the Baseire River, called Diamond I,land, the very finest oysters were observed in great abundance, cad the ships had only to send their boats outside to obtain and catch the finest turtle, averaging fr: m 100 lb. to 5001 b. weight, and these also were in abundance, and upon which the crews fared sumptuously. We understand that the Sidon, advanced steam-frigate, had been found to have one of her pistons broken. She was supposed to be all ready for service. There was an itquiry about it to-day in the dockyard. It was not known how it was broken. The Sampson, 6, steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones, writ out to Spit'•ead today, and joined the squadron there. The Edinburgh, 56, screw-ship, is being fitted at this port as a sta-going "Excellent. ' Captain Chads will go to sea in her when ready, and teach practical sea service gunnery to her officers and crew whilst cruising about. She will make an experimental trip to Malta. We have been intortned that a contract for barrelled meats for the navy (~alt provisions) has been lately enu tered into with the same parties who furnished the Goldner preserves. We give this report precisely as it has come to us, in the hopes that it will be officially denied. The Arrogant, 46, Captain Robinson, is fast pro ceeding with her refit; she has sent up and fidded her topmasts, and hal topgellautmasts ready for sending aloft. SHEERNESS, APRIL V.—Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Horatio, 22, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, got up her steam early on Sunday morning for the pur pose of proceeding on her trial cruise. Permission to proceed baviog been given from the flog ship at 10 A.m., the aaratio, d anchor and started, with the wind nearly ahead, sicamieg 'apparently at the rate of about tour knots per hour. Vs hen she had reached the Nore light it was found necessary to bear up for Sheerness, in consequence of an accident having occurred to some part of her machinery. She came into harbour a little before noon, and let go her anchors. We were informed yes terday that some portion of the apparatus connected with the feeding pump gave way, which, on being ex amined, was found so defective as to render it necessary to have a new shaft made for working ta This will take a few days to effect, and will detain the Horatio in har bour probably the greater part of the present week. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steamer Fearless, Captain Frederick Bullock (1838), employed on surveying ser vice, came into port yesterday at 9 Aar. Her Majesty's pedellewheel steam vessel Adder, Mr. James Watt in charge, arrived yesterday morning early. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam vessel, Lizard, Mr. Brockman, second master, commanding, got up her steam yesterday at 9 A.lkl and proceeded to tier Majesty's ship Royal George, 120, and, in conjunction with the Adder, towed her to Chatham,for the purpose of being takes into dock and put in a tit state for commission. A statement has appeared in some of the London journals to the effect that one of the first acts of the pre sent Board of Admira l ty was the appointing a post captain to the Simoom iron troop-ship. This is not the case, ns Captain John Kingeorne's appointment to that ship bears the date of the 9th of February-10 days be fore the resiguation of the late Admiralty, and 18 prior to the Members of the present Beard actually t a ki ng upon themselves the duties of their office. Bisilisk, 6, Commander G. Gardner, aition Her Majesty's screw-e7eamer Desperate, 8, and pad dr e l etuwalitre)::' l lr harbour, [siting to receive on board stores and promions for the use of Sir E Belcher's eat) theywhich will """vte°setehl:Micaystr:rg-Ci°:::cuand.er' WOOLWICII, APRIL 20.—THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. Tlmh.to-XiVji:uhlwwiienhg stht'i'aammorning for Greeuhithe, having Commodore Henry Eden, Superintendent of Woolwich eletkef the Eh' from the Admiralty, on . Bo c eer'e 'Arctic e:quedronafeetT'eerhrleeptivs board, o:lck and the t a h n e d w th h e ol p e a f ) , ; p,ottfideap%ein advance, Sir and w il l ) o'clock AII on their leave Greentil! he shortly e ‘V nt o e tiC i h 'g in and L la inaving tgakernetunnrnbednartod tow the North Star ne'f n at 6 P.M. for Greenhithe to 40 tons of coal s , left train wmaeradmeß: steamer, r r The Ba s ili k distance a sa Ed er es the Sunk a t Harwich, or to n c o o rc ns m id a e n r d ne n - f m th a e y Commaeder Gardiner, the commandof and the Desperate steamer, under Lieutenant Stevens, have remained several days a t the Rll,lute sailing Nore to tow the Assistpce and vessels to the edge of the ice. A num ber of ladi es h asp preeentedC"t in Si r Edward Belcher with 22 handsomerills fl sgs and P a number of worked aftelte fur the comfort the in the Arctic of officers when regions. SHIPS ON THE ICE OFF THE.BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND. The following is an extract of a letter from Captain Penny, Riving his opinion on the subject of the ships said to have been seen on the ice in the spring of last year:-- " You ask me what I think of the two ships seen upon the iceberg. I think they were country ships,' as we wh , lers call them—formations upon an iceberg, which deceive even practised eye!. " To place ships in such a position by the process of freezing into an iceberg would require 30 to 40 years, and floe ice would' have broken up with the Western Ocean swell before it bad even reached Cape Farewell.. Not a piece of sufficient size would be found to contain• even one ship, much le=s two. No iceberg of one-fourth. of a mile' would reach such a position; it'must have been two pieces of icebergs, and the vessel being five miles distant could not observe the water over the de tacked ice. " We have the experience of the 11 whalers wintered on the ice; they all broke from their icebergs long before they reached Cape Farewell. " I have the honour to remain, " Yours most respectfully, .6 W. 1,30TNY." ' A statement of the legacy amount of capital Britain for the year 1851 shows the totalduties Paid l i a ble to the tax to which during the twelvemonths became . the portion . which paid the in Great _ b i c h paid 3 per cent., .have been 49,402,391/. Of this rents, was 28,721,0051.; the . po e _i, was 14,232,7651. ; the pot for bequests to.brothers or :Ist rs _. 1 and cousins, was 1,7884,691.; duty of 1 per cent., the bequersttsonbeing to children or pa, tion at 5 per cent., to urc to in i c e distant relations, was 229,652/. ; that at 6 per cent., t o , to strangers, was 4,385 ,308/., or and that it 10 p er cent. , the whole. The average capital about an eleventh ota‘r, da had been paid during the 54 years the reve.nu.e last . year for stamp duties on on which legacY be en ; iv; t 4,2911. per annum. The total sum which accru nrobates, administrations, and testamentary in legaCies, O P l'i t e l it Britain waa-2,253,039/., being from 1797 has sd CO an increase yen torie s P 1850. For Ireland th e to/efir m' g :N n a in o c : a ll se o:s;.- . —Yesterd ay 34,824 f. over f 1 0601' was 125,6411.; t a b m a o L un o t rd Mayor and. the Lady hdayoress entertained at dinner the members of the. courtef Common Council, and their ladies, of the wards of. coleirian-street, Alder Bread-Street, Bridge tgate, Aldgate,B ass i e haw, Bishopagete, Bread-street, Bridge -street, Broad-street, Candlewick, Castle ; Baynari; Qbeep, Go' rdwainers, and Cornhill. There were ' Also preient Mr. Alderman Cubitt, M.P., Mr. Sheriff Cot terell, Mrs. e l tterell' and Miss Cotterell, Mr. Sheriff Swift add Mrs. Swift, and several private friends of the Lord Mayor.. Como Too Itil i 4 the zgyptits 11411 Fir 20) ! .