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you meet the difficulty by the present proposition?— (Rear, hear.) I think the Hen. Gentleman, with the IPiaWa he entertains, was justified in bringing forward •Sh isquestion--with his views I think he would be taking *justifiable zed legitimate course if he proposed to legis late on the subject: But if there is this appeal to the pre latehrstiperior, I think the Hon. and Learned Gentleman will agree with me that it should first be had recourse tt o . - - . .-(flear.) If he 'thinks no such power of appeal exists, then I imagine the Hon. and Learned Gentleman must feel that the proposition he makes is totally ina dequate. to cope with the subject.—(l-1 ar, hear.) But `lndw address myself merely to the motion of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, without wishing to give any Opinion as to the merits of the important case he has brought before us. Far be it from me to vindicate the vanduct of any clergyman who can be shown to have behaved in the manner alleged against Mr. Bennett. - . do not presume to offer any opinion on this i mportant'subject, for I feel that this is not the tribunal in which to decide the case.—(Hear, hear.) I feel the i nconvenience of the House listening to the statement of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, made with ability, 1 41 d, as I era willing to admit, conscientiously. A Chin mission of i nqu i ry w i t h out power to e li c i t t h e requ ired information is a mockery to which it would be unwise of the House of Common to lend itself: It is of the tit . Zboat• importance that such an inquiry should be reel and efficient, and that a Commission should have corn- Patent power to elicit the truth.— (Hear, hear.) Ido not think, therefore, the Hon. and Learned Gen.leteao will think it necessary to press this particular reselu tion, which I admit he was perfectly justified in bringing forward, as it refers to a subject of great importanc e to *ll classes of her Majesty's subjects.—(Hear, hear.) Ii is quite impossible that the conduct which he has al leged should not be the subject of comment and explana. tient and that whatever may be the merits of the case, the discussion should not be productive of public advan tage. But I must recur to the subject with which I set Oilt-4hat a remedy for such a grievance as is here al leged either does or does not exist. If the remedy ex ists, as I think it does, in an stiappealctionto the ee itrucihnbgieolitotaa the House will not, I think, 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 remedy does exist, it surely i s t h e duty of Parliament to legislate 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 expectation, and whilst it would lead to protracted dis (Hcussions, would not secure the settleme nt we desire.— ear.) And let m e a l so pressupon the attention of the_ House th a t b y acceding to the motion of the Hon. and Learned G ent l eman we should be only evading the difficulty. W e s h ould be establishing a precedent which you may be cure would be found a source of per ?anent difficulty and embarrassment.—(Hear. hear.) If you adopt this resolution, I cannot understand how a t ingle clergyman c ou ld b e i nstituted to a living with tit tile ROUSS of Commons interfering with and chal lenging his induction. —(Hear, hear.) In every in . s tance what w ou ld you do? You would address her Majesty, praying her to institute an inquiry into the P r opriety of the i n d uct i on. So that if you adopt this tesolution you will establish a mischievous precedent Without effecting a beneficial settlement of the grievances and difficulties of which you complain. (Rear, bear.) I trust, therefore, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman will be satisfied with having amply, corn teetelY, and ably b roug h t b e f ore t h e H ouse a su bj ect g j very reat im and that he is sfied fat the persons con p nected ortance, with these transactions can ?lot avoi d placing their conduct fairly betore the public. .t. t the r esu l t of this discussion must be to have an Rittrust that th e H on . an d L earne d G entleman, feeling c ote and complete view of all the circumstances of the 11711eaction—that it is his duty, owing to the position he taken in this question, either to have recourse to 4,7.!etnedy which the law supplies, or it the law sup ;,;leno remedy, to propose one to the Legislature. I press trust the Hon. and Learned Gentleman will nut i hd lit e to a division a resolution which I feel sure would le ! be Pregnant with great inconvenience sod ember- Ciiihent to our future deliberations. I beg, therefore, ;Ito Move the previous question. h e rr a VERNEY hoped the Hon. and Learned Mem ee'reweotild not accept the invitation and advice ja-t ten et,. ° to him, but would persist in his motion. It eh: Preposterous to maintain that the head of the r° ll had no power to cause the necessary inquiry to belastituted, and he altogeth e r d eprecate d t h e quest i on p:she lved i n the manner proposed. Q eo ` t r , R• H. INGLIS f u ll y agreed with the Honourable 401*M/in (the Ch ance ll or of t h e Exchequer) that the 0 ,4 1 0 of Commons was not a fitting tribunal to adjudi se, °Pon this subject, and that if they once admitted etthl r inciple that a grievance wi t h respect to the in k. I ° ll of a particular individual co u ld b e legitimately pioti_ bef ore them, occasions on grou n d s more or less a(tf u le would be found for preferring similar claims. fe c i e e Ori hear.) Granting for a moment that a print eoeate had been made out for inquiry, he d e fi e d them th at man eB t the Position of the Right Honourabl e Gentle of th e . 14 ease could not end there. The adoptio n lepp,:tenolution would be a mere brutum fulmen, for One t he Commis sion to be appointed, did any 841311°80that r oti m i on „„, the parties imp mated in this die one hrtui-erta succumb to a tribunal issued by only tioese. ofof the Le g i s l ature ?—(H e ar, hoar.) The 4fallonrabb, Co mmons did not consist, as an aember % of th ute tu ber had supposed, entirely of e c !al I:wer e not e horeh of England—(Hear, hear)—and dOetrin es q ual lY interested in maintaining the titer- Were no t a trii3o..f that Church.—(Hear, hear.) They n ir e ctld , an al to which any E ng li s h c h urc h man etereh izon, giY aubeeit his faith or his practice as a 1 11 , 14 hOpZ (aear •) The House consisted possibly, t re, e,, zoinan and believed it did, of a majority of mem all eventa, and eon6ibtently p.ttached th th 6 huree?' at n et th e _ o f England; but would it be contended rest, Parti e s of Commons was a tribunal to which ?hied e e t'', 3 , could appeal? Who in that House repre ;ll,B:o4.7lls,::s.sittehnanentdt, the parishioners of Procne, the VVells, and the Bishop of L'indon? cell ed euutn,lon assumed the guilt of the parties it was °ll esidin to adjudicate. The facts as set forth were PProp oilit . and could sot be met with an antagonistic ie .4 . Tin authorised to be presented—(Hear)—and he 241 stases %lb.) was of opinion that the House would "retie net marge its duty, and prevent its becoming the SO aUbh d' • divj • 'sensuous in future, by proceeding at once , 74ned B ion as to whether this motion should be enter ir not. ( 1 ) f 002 ; VAIIT, whil e h e was o f op i n i on t h a t th e H ou 4 e ° ION I4 ought not to be made an authority on theo poeuict s e e ubj eets, recognised it as the power which re t the proper trib una l in mot i on , an d h e there /qr. con e th e or i g i nal mot i on. por ted , h U RE (amidst cries for a division) also sup. R 4 e.r. tidel p. 4 4 WDGATE felt deeply the importance of e n i - 8 :1 1 t question. and, as it had been raised, fully le t he necessity of de a li ng w i t h i t. Daring *hi o h.P t t! of Years t h e powers o f the Censtitudun by g,45 luestion could be settled might have lapsed e mend so nata, but depend upon it the country would L_ite e d ue investigation of the subject—(Hear, hear)— ite rne "..° . _Fn he desired to leave to her Majesty's Go -7eted:',lnemanner in which the investigation Atould be "Mh o he did not think the public would r. at satisfied ti ne „ ineeatigation. He thought that this clues -1,er.,62‘ ' 43 be exernined into, and he hoped that the feed , Went would be enabled to propose some other soro e r a °f inquiry than that . moved by the Hon. Member s ' °°l termouth Enee, awl , • As an independent Member of that on t ßi aod, re was attached to the Church of 4 ,1 1 8 inq u i r ! 8. as sincerely anxious that a full and search bould be made into this matter. He asked Flor ae not to ignore the proposition before them 44 1Plity , tip liMesting some practical means by which her kittht b e a b a r tLtherity as temporal head of the Church a, Sir J, 1, 4 ",c 2 . , Rht to hear upon the subject.—(Elear.) o ‘tOn had of said he thought that this ques :fight no t to' be o nly been raised, but it was one which 11 °Pin ion that ireapi"d; but having been raised, he was said for bleaselfu, ttdtiolebe dealt with.—(Hear, hear.) believed he spoke the send- Zais of the Government Tetion which, in the p„ l f t i o n n er ° ll Y, that this was a r i (l 4d, ought not to have been raised 'inch it was now toinawtta.etidueLlbut tong the same here ht un ri„a° it was one in reference N e ationably to be an inquiry time he must tie v r itled.—(Elear, hear.) At the same , a':ct a remedy as a sincere and 4142 not only as a member of the Government., but as a Nettie...bee of that House, and above all was %i ll 'hied member of the Church of England, it w •,, tio l ar e opinion, after having listened with P 4inful ko to the statement of tho Hon. Member for COckeeit. ire h, that the mode of inquiry proposed was not the hie bet's they ought to adopt. He would briefly explain be e l the Ron 51 hee i 4 s . for this opinion. He would cal on tO co. tinetention to the fact that his resolution goes solely it in • the conduct of the Bishop of B ath hee ,. question Mr. Bennett to the 414, 1 %ne in having instituted gemProcne — ( lear hear.) They could not fail to tubknown, that the Bishop B eth What was already we 4 ,rh but i Wells was not only advanced in years, a til-c " Unpaired in health. He could not vindicate ,o°llduct of the Bi s h o p, b u t it a ppeared to him that I, ll hti: lu ct was not th e rea l ques t io n which the Hon. Zeg e fan 'hate raised. The real question was, the retekee e duct of Mr. B enne tt a t Ki s singen, which de- A r Ce e i 4 ° inquiry. —((f ear , hear.) The Hon. Member sh pre:lloh th had stated a ll the facts of the case thltii7gto°t Particularity. It appeared to . him (Sir J. 14 „ 14 ) b ), 11 the Hon. Gentleman's statement was true, ti le ; 'uennett must be regarded as a Roman Catholic, I t !ht eee e i r re entirely unfit to hold his present appoint elreber`,:nr, hear.) But he submitted to the Hoc. . 11 P0 "At so far they knew they had no reason to t „ ea th e . as ." t he conduct of Mr. Bennett at Kissiogen •4 1 we iivi to the Bishop at the time of his institution ti 'he n g at Frome. On the contrary, he believed, i°tte of the e a t p oe so were investigated , that the cir- Vio l? o ` o l his institution to Frome was the means of ° tee th ° M • t what had °canted at Kissingen.—(lleur.) th 114 f la tten of the Hon. Member did not touch the ° Mr %t r • Bennett Kissingen. Looking, then, at ,t tv eiz e eilleeteuso in convenience of bringing these cases before le„_ ° saie ha u !'eenemens, and making them the subject of t, It p re . I tr that linuv unless under circutneeinc ts of to b atik asing necessity,h e : e e • • e th thought it most unadvisable fto e teerp '•• ON th matt of Mr. Bennett to the living, 111 he "übjeot kat do _ of motion.—(Hear, hear.) Be ehee'&oll- c re wit he must advert to what had tattoo from 14 *it di d ,,,tietnan in respect to the Bishop of London. t'efi t iPoia nu u ti l PoPl3 to come within his own knowledge,' goe t 'lleti t o ts , i nritY he could not doubt, that there was %VP% the unw that the Language of the Bishop of Lou-' e toe Oteui th at i f on referr e d to conve y e d so str ong an 1 1 31 1 4 re th at were know n t o th e H on . G e ntlem an h e 4 3 .2- non. Gentleman would not evince the ,ollitieeultion to complain of the Right Reverend k l lle ee t titne es e at in this. mutter,—(Hear.) Under the e to t at . 11 ° had mentioned, be telt that the riebt ? 4 44 . 6 Was not th ehi., he hoped that at proposed by the Hon. Mem ' ithi t flys. _ he would not tresq the House to I 44 to ' it. At the same time he trusted that . , "'"I Fund= 'th t • Bosse' would be raffieieg 1 LONDON, to cause an inquiry to be made into the conduct of Mr. theological subjects if it were at all possible to avoid it. Bennett at Ktseingen, and the whole matter to be in- lie, however, concurred with the Right Hen. Gentleman vestigated. Who teed just sat eleesn, that a case had been mate out Lord J. RUSSET,L said, he trusted that the state- which not . only invited put el....mended inquiry.s--(ll,ir, meat jtiet made by the Right Honourable Gentleman op. hear.) For if any inieister be instituted into a beim flee posits would be the'meens of relieving the greater per- , of the Church while he waa in factoOr was likely to be, tion of the Members of th a t Ileum) from considerable ! a member of some other Christian communion,, it was a embarrassment.—(Hear, hear.) He thought it imps- state of things which ought-neo be 411 Pw 6 4!: ,And 4 sible to deny that this was a subject upon which this 1 the law he not strong enough toeereyent en . * an abuse, House had a right to demand tin explenation. Re could iit ought to made strong enough --(Hee.r,,hear.) The Hon. Friend ! Hon. Memb e r for Warwickshire (Ur. Spooner) said, by not agree in the opinion expressed hy his the Member for, the University of Oxford (Sir R. FT. ' moving the previous question they were, shelving. the Inglis). when it appeared to him that he would exclude 'main proposition; that was not the case. ' 'By the course tlis House from any right of inquiry in respect to I they were taking they were simply saying thet the matters of this nature.—(hear, hear.) This, Hens() i question shetild not now, be put., Chia was an important was a party to the passing of the Act of Uniformity, end centideration in reference to the motion before the a - fuse. at that time Protestant Dissenters were members of it. Let him cell the Hon. Member attention to the facts and . he was not (pito sure bat Roman Catholics might connected with it. A niteioo stood on the netice-hOok of Uniformity having been pissed by have at in it.—(No, no.) But at all events, the Act for a fortnight or more, by which it'wes intimated that them, this House the Hon. Member for CoCkermouth. was geittg to call had a right to ask whether the persons who were ap- attention to the institution. of Mr. .„ Bennett to the NeW, until ye4terdey 'the House. pointed minister s vier , ey or did E faithful members of the vicaraee of Frome. ae Churchfact, th negoltabn3dl—onTear, hear) —or whether, in wai-na'aware . of the precise intention of' the Honour. , to some other • • M h . for Co •kermouth.--e(Hear hear) So Chrietien cum- ante em r r s, . munity. Ravine tiles - , us established their right to make little was he (Mr. Walpole) aware of them, that he asked such inquiry, he owned he felt the dff 1 toe • greatest i eat ty in gees io t . n of many of hie own friends, end the': were proceedine. ,to exercise it—a difficulty arising both in utterly unconscious the motion of the Hon. Gentl em an respect to the node in which the inTiiry was to be ex- was about to take the turn it assumed in consequence of ereisecl, and to tee conseqeences to which it might il ia- the notice given by him lAiit night.' Ha meutimied the'se. neately lead. He could not but feel that if a Commission feats in common tairness and justice to thoie parties whe were appointed, which had no greater powers than were were implicated by the speech addressed thin evening by now allowed t o t h e Crown, and ehich could not be had the lion. Member to that House,' to show that they explaining without a spec i al Act of Parliament, they might rather . oug ht t o b e a ll owe d a pro p e r' op po r t un i t y o f . , provoke hostil e re f usa l s to answer, an d ma k e di s s e nsions- the facts and cirennestances - of the' case as far as they between teis branch of the Leeisletnie .and a portion of related to them. He referred to the Bishop - of London, the, clergy of the Church of England.--(Hear, hear.) the Bishop of Bath and Wells, end the patron of the He could no t b ut fear also, feet after such interference living. Under these circumstances. he asked if the moy : the remedy would be found insufficient. H e felt, I.k e . ing If the preCious questiou was uotehe prewr course wise, the want of that assistance which they had in fore to take. Hi. would follow it up by saying . , 'het in een mer times, in the presence of those Members of the sequence of the ehtervetions of his Noble Friend oppo- House who were particularly qualified to give an opinion site, supported as they were by the Right Henoureble upon such a question. They wanted informadon upon Gentleman the . Member for the University of Oxford, those p o i n t s u p on w hi c h th e Ri g ht lion. Gentlemen the • that the Government wouldin a friendly spirit institute Chancellor of the Exchequer expressed himself in doubt such an 'inquiry at was suggested in reference to the and besitaien—namely, how far an appeal would lie institution of Mr. Bsnuett to the living of ' Frome, and , from the Bishop of Bath and Wells to the Archbishop particularly in reference to' the question whether the of Canterbury, and how far the late could be brought law could be made to meet the evil of which they to . to bear in matters of this kind. He must say generally eomplained.—(lear, beer.) Mote than that that they were, in a great degree, uninformed he hardly thought the Government could he galled upon those points. In respect to what the upon to undertake. The . Heusa might call upon them Right Honourable Gentleman opposite had last men- to do that, and the Government would be prepared to tioned, the circumstances under which the case came obey that call.—(Hear, hear.) Ile thought that this was 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 Hight Hen. Genilemau who spoke last said, it was a proper subject 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 expl.nations as they might think fit to ask for in the most frienliy spitic, and trot with a view to anything like accusation and impeachaaent. If they made such inquiry, they would then be in a much better position to consider in their places in the House of Com mons whet course, under the circumstances of. the case, they ought to take. Ho 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 easy operation of the laws already in existence. Those vino were most learned on the sub ject had informed, him that the roints 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 nis own part, be inclined to hesitate before giving a formal v to upon the subject, and as the case at present stood he thought it better to leave the matter in the hands 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 Crown. Mr. H. DRUMMOND said, a question had been asked whether subjects of this nature could properly be brought before the House. On one p ilea 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, hear.) Whatever might be the lapse of time that had occurred, the original law was unquestiont bly this, and he believed that the present law nom was, that no person could be appointed over any flock in the Church without that flock 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.) HQ agreed with the Right H an. Gentleman the Secretary for ihe 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 he 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 England, who was dismissed by his bishop, or rather whose resignation was obtained urn certain terms, which convoyed 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, having 'been instituted by a Protestant bishop to preside over a Pro testant corigregaion.—(llear.) He tidied whether such a statement as that made in that House was suffi il.nt to justify them in voting for the previous question? He, for one, could do no such thing; neither could he absent himself from such a division, as he believed others wore 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,tion 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 Government 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 wes bound to inquire; and they might then ask them to pause in such inquiry, because they did not think the mode now proposed was the most s tfectual one for the purpose of such inquiry— that they themselves would enter into au inquiry, and would reef i:emend 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 is 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 for Cockermouth did not ask the House to turn its into a tribunal for this inquiry, but merely wished 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 his opinion, the strongest point for an inquiry was whether the Bishop of B , th and Wells did institute Mr. Bennett with the full knowledge of his recorded unfaithfulness. He would, however, recommend his Hon. Friend to withdraw his motion, as they bad received a plain, explicit, and un mistakeable pledge that a bona fide and searching inquiry would be instituter% ; the proper way of proceeding, in order that Lull justice 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 inquiry in the spirit suggested by the Noble Lerd,.if they were permitted to -do so.—(Eleir, hear.) • . Lord R. GROSVENOR said that but for the promise which had been made by-the Right Hon. Gentlemsn ' (Mr. Walpole) on behalf of the G ,vernment, he should have felt it to be his citify to vote f,r the motion of the Hon. Member 'for Coelternaituth (Mr. Horsman) ; but efter the proarse had be , n mido that the subject whiCh had to-night been brought before the [louse should be thoroughly investigated. and in a friendly mantier, 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 Hun. Member would not press his motion to a divisi )n. Mr. AGLIONBY toped the opinions of those Hon. Members who agreed with hie Hon. Colleague in think• ing that an inquiry was demanded in this matter, which was one certainly of great heportance to the nation, would be shoem to the public by a division upon 'the subject. He could not concur with the Noble Lord who spoke last, when • he said he was satisfied' wit the speedi of the [Lime Secretary—(Hear, hear.) For his part, he should like to know, first, when the leptiry was to 'be made, by whom it was to be made, and when the House would have an opportunity of considering and decidieg upon the report of such an inquiry. So far from being satisfied, then, his previous dissatisfacrion was only in creased by the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman. From tne Chancellor of the Exchequer he heard not a word about the concession of an inquiry. Oa the con trary, the Right Hon. Gentleman said the House of Com mons was not a fit place for theological controversy, and that it was inconvenient to discuss these questions there. True, it want not the place for theological controversy; bur, in his opinion, it was the place of all others in which ae appeal ought to be made for au inquiry; and bethought the House would not be doing its duty to the country if, it did not express its wish and determination that at in quiry should be made —(Cheers.) He hoped, there fore, thet his Hon. Colleague would divide.—(Cheers.) Mr. HOUSMAN (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 had bsen urged upon him for adopting a different course.— (Hear, hear.) Before noticing them, however he must be permitted to say one word with regard to .the extra ordinary attack, he might (it'll it, which had been made against him by the Right Hon. Member for the Univer"- sity of Oxford (Mr. Gladstone). That Right Hon. Gentleman set out brobserving that, at the proper time, he would be prepared to impugn and disprove some of his e (Mr, Horsman'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 company in which they were made.—(Cheers.) But the Right Hon. Gen tleman did not think it a convenient time, and wished to postpone his ceufutation to a more appropriate season.—(Hear.) He (Mr. ilorsman) invited the Right Ilooourable Gen.lein.ti to confute ht.. statements. 0! said the Right Hun. Gentleman, "I will do so now ;" and he thereupon proceeded to notice one of those statements, but left all the others untouched. In ee cleavouring to show, however, how capable he (Mr. Hotsman) was of misquoting, the Right Hon. Geittie man was himself guilty of one of the grossest miequota tions he ,hid ever heard in • that House.—(No.) Ile would prove it —(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman said that he (Mr. llorstioan) had stated that the me morialists called upon the Bishop of Bath and Wells to institute an inq u i r y, and that to that had o petition hlr a c h t e er v d e the Answer which he (Mr_ Foreman) as a haughty answer—an answer which breathed the spirit of Leud.---(Cheers.) Now, it so happened that he did not apply these expte,sione to the answer which was returned to the memorial. but to the answer which was returned to the second letter addressed to the *Bishop of Bath and Wells. He had stated that that se cond letter of the Bishop well deserved to be charac terised as he (Hr I:larvae:o had characterised it. Tnat letter was an answer to a meek and reasonable request to give the parties 14 days more• delay, and it was that. `anew er which he had • designated as haughty. and as, brewhing the spirit of Laud.—(Cheers.) He asked then, whether the Right Honourable Gentleman had not made a charge 'which he himself must feel was totally un becoming his p sition in that Howe?—(Cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman said that he (Mr Roraima) must be aware that he had not honestly quoted the 'documents which he had brought la, fore the House. What was the me - suing 'of that? Did he mean that, holding a document in his hand, be (Mr. Uorinan) had falsified its reading to the'House; the Right Hon. Gentleman having a coun terpart of that document in his own hind the time, and being fortunately able to detect it?—(Crieers.) Was that the Right Hon. Gentleman's ;wailing?' But he would not pursue the subject further. He would leave it to the Right Hon. Gentleman and the House to say whether, for the statement he had made, he deserved an accusation which he should be eshatned to make against the Right Hon. Gentleman or any other Member of that Houss,—(Cheers.) Of the manner in which his motion had been treated by other Hon. Gentlemen who had 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 connected 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- Mr. GLAD) CONE said that they had heard a long series of allegations from the Hon. Member for Cocker mouth stated with great ability. It seas not, in his opinion, at that moment fitting that these allegations should he examined into. He was hound to say, from a partial knowledge of the case, that ho disputed, and he was ready to ..confute, many of the allegations made by the lion. Member, and to show that lie had not Tien correctly quoted the documents to which he re ttear:r:d. This challenge he was ready at that moment to pwr _ ii :y : ooff The utha Tlon. Member tells him to do so. He would do m 0 so, me o a t ! d w T o h u e l diiceoen.fine Gentleman himself onlystated to t one hat case the rbeisfu ialeacilldtooapautesce. ethpaentidtiWoneelrlas,, wasin aaskmeoddetsot inquire, but that the haughty prelate of B at and n and consider Wellsan humble and Now ho (Mr. Gladstone) held in Frome, who Wacasethlet, published by a Mr. Crutwell, of Mr. Bennett, and formerly adverse to the appointment of rial referred to, distisugeotlemate in quoting the memo was not to consider steecji7 stated that the prayer of it the institution of M r . puire, but it was , not to grant whether " to consider andrPett, lle wanted to know as to refuse institution to m e l :e n re " was the sam e thi ng the Hon. Member in thinking t i jantett. Hecon carre d w i t h most serious. If a man who pretentdhPse all egat i ons were of the Church of England was in e a d to b e a clergyman member of the. Church of Rome. ction or in heart a such a man d co ndign punishment. However inexpedient i eserved make that House the scene of theelogioei dit was to this was still a ques tion which could )3,careai Y ct3ssion, eluded from their consi deration. H e. however,roleiz" the purpose of declar in g his ob j , ction to al l vague or in r definite pledges. • It was right that they should k now what the is-tie of these proc , edior was to be. Nothing would induce him to agree to a motion calling upon the Crown to do in a formal manner what he knew it would. fail in if it attempted to do it. But, at the same time, he admitted that a most serious question was raised— namely, whether the Bishop of ritseh and Wells, in pro ceeding to institute Mr. Bk.itiett to the living of Frome, had acted according teAbe letter and spirit of the law. As !het was the seeestinn, of course the whole conduct of Mr. Bennett wai relevant to that. It appeared, then, to him, that the 'Government, instead of agreeing to en' : 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. lie for one had for a long time felt that the eceleseastical law was in A most def ctive and imperfect condition in respect to a case which, though a rare one, was yet a po s sible case—n u m e ly, t h at i n w hi c h i t m i g ht b o necessary to pet the law in motion against a B!shop for the purpose of t in , y i ., him up to his duty. Ho fully concurn d in the sugges ion of the Noble Lord the Memeer for London, Mr, WALPOLE said it weft. to iae._ deprecated. the. viitkiiig the aßi f i e a CopiD2Oßi the arena for dimming ing ? Was it not it 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 Ased their priviliges and their power to teach very different doctrines, then he wanted to know whether the Parliament, which had established that Church far certain purposes, was not in reality the very tribunal' to consider whether those purposes had been answered or not ?—(Cheers.) The R•ght Hon. Gentleman the . Chancellor of the Exchequer said that the motion, was.. very vague and indefinite in its character. Of course 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 was the technicality of his motion. He knew that if he had proposed a Com mission it would have been objected to, and that the very 03,4iititei"eritdolYsit "P°n Nitsothing else thin fact of its being a definite course would have laid it open to difficulty. Wnat did be do then? lie proposed merely that her Arajeity, as head of the Church, should be petitioned by this House graciously to institute an inquiry—that inquiry being, of course, carried on in the manner which hat been suggested on that (the Opposi tion) side of the' Elouse, upon the advice, and under the responsibility' and direction, of the Ddinisters of the Crown.—(Hear,' hear.) fie proposed that the Hause of puotimatnis bhodtd 'address her Majesty for au inviry; o bl .on ho left t tso h niz e' euhl m dtt i e i i d rz e o o t f uo inpiry expressly open to the ~ , nor was itti fovrer t nl a cn e e H ntl ou;: t. to w li s c ' dictate f°r i h h i e al in t° wh s e u t g s j rLdl4e the iserptilow::-11 mode of . „.. • •• • . ,to • 9 should quirY" the L 'l llr Y' an their inquire to institute that purposely inquiry in most efficient and le: tu biry,l l! . :7 (c er il t e his inoien expressly and a mariner as they, might . deem quc,,stionwe.e b and ut ;throe must a s r t ::: • bt d ,r • ;„,: e hti : ot i t e ol l t! :anent tdrlo,, ari: t : li e si v te e n r ir y ne t fa. their u r l ) l , e t a e !, r p hea n ae w nd e d r sa s , 11Mieisters in stituted the inqui ---fer he knew well what inquiry?, and had to do was to the a Parlia " friendly in alt (Rear' hear.) It t t h h e e s y e wa • " u f t r e i d ei t i o dl s y tia i eo r ri ; 4 l :; ) wanted was a judicial inquiry. this thous® i i l n a quiry h e s m e e t ti n i n ar f .ip oo c t om a ci_a , t ar ight provided the ment iTistituted such an inquiry, h o w „ m , • 1 „ . . ern to demand a judicial inquiry, and (3t WHIM , t o judicial inquiry would ha satisfactory, ~,dteYhebeerusg.:neoliireistoin especially after" the admission of the Government that ~ the, citleStiQa leave the mltter in their hvids.' to rut . where it tie • ' • ought not: to be Seffsred ; thaf it was t9c• important to be 1 4 there. Under these fair. ctimstances 'he did not think ho should be doing his duty if he consented- to withdraw the motion.—(Cheers.) lie had hrtmeht it .forward with a specific purpose, b 'cause he felt that the evil wee growing and ought to be met ; tied hevieg don e thi s h e s h ou ld certa i n ly press it to a division.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. GLADS - TONlOrwa s sure the House would feel that, after what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman, some t tees necessary on his Dart.—(Hear.)The Hon. Gentleman had s t ated that he ( M r. Gl a d s t o ne) had charged him with not b ev i ng quote d "h one stly" a document to which he h a d re f erred in the course o f his speech. Now his (Mr . . Gladston e ' s ) m emo ry might err, like that of others; but his recollection was strong that he had never used such- en offensive or improper word. —(Hear, hear.) If he had used it, he would be the first to apologise for having, dune so; but he had not used the. weird " honestly,' and he bad merely charged the Right Hon. Gero-lernan with not having quoted cor )rectly.—(llear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR .of the EXCHEQUER ex eleiced that Mr. llorseaen had very mute, mistaken What he had addressild to the. House. Ile (the Chan• cellor of the Exch.-quer) had never denied fur one mo ment the grave importan ce o f the _ SU j ct which the l 3 e. Gentleman h'-c1 h -rung% forward. In fact he had stated that it wee iMPeseihi seto exaggerate i ts import ance.(Flear, hear.) Het observ a ti ons wer e addressed to this—that he did not toe) that the proposition which the , Hon. Gentleman had made would meet the difficulties with which they had to contend; that the ciecumstanees on which he had dilated were very ics perfectly known . to Hen. at em e ee „f t h a t House; and, listening, with great, attention to the Honourable Gentleman's statement, he acknowledged at once, its vast imaiertanee, at the sanie 'gine that he said it did not appear to him that the propositi on of the H on. Gentle matt was one which wo u ld meet the diff icu lty ; but he had no wish whatever t o convey to the House the im pression that he - did net hinaselt feel the absolute neces sity of inquiry. When the Hen. Gentleman said that a " friendly inquiry" had been offered but that he re" Exchequer) must tell him t h at the difficulty which h e qeir e d a " judicial inq u ireee felt when he first rose, and which h e st ill con tinued to he (th e Chancellor of. the feel, was that he did not see linv at present advised a t judicial inquiry could be instituted. He would not talk he could not promise a judicial: it:Autry. All he could say was that there . of a friendly inquiry, bu certainly ~ hould be a bond fide inquiry ; . andsunder the circum Gentleman ought to ask her N e a T ; esty's Government to do.--(flear.)-- The subject brou g h t b efore the House - Important as it was—wits surround e d w i th d i f fi cu l t i es . stances of the case, he thought t h at was all the H on . - No person could ountend that There Were means of insti. the part of the Gover nment that the tuting a judicial-inquiry as at . present'advised, and he couldn e inquiryu tnan s The 'louse divided, when there app eared— Fur Mr. Horeman's 80 Against it •-• ••• ... 100 tn shouldci Y e s say a alleged:—([leer.) o g b d.—(Elear.) a bond fide inqui r y i nto the grave a i r Majority against the motion —2O • FOREIGN REFUGEES. Lord DUDLEY aTUART, pursuant to notice, rose to make the toll- motion: - --"•Copies" or extracts (it soy communications-which hove passed b etween the Go verneeetit of this coentryeand Turkey, and Other foreign the Hungaria a and Governments,•respecting , other refu gees detain e d as Ktutayah, from the d a t e o f t h e l as dispatch on this subject, a copy of which has been laid before this House up to the present time (its continuation of papers already presented to Parliament)." It would be in the reaullection of the,House that very early it, 1850 he drew their' attention to the events which' had taken place in-Hungary and Turkey, and particuiarly to the demand made, as he thought most Unjustifiably, by the Governments of Austria and Russia upon the Sultan for the surrender-of certain refugees,' who, after having taken part in the struggle which had then recently pre vailed for . the liberty and independence of Hungary, nod sought an asylum in the territory of turkey. The Noble Lord the Member for • Tiverton, after stating his opinion on those ' transactions, agreed to lay 'on the table of the House a selection from the dispatches which had passed between those different Govern ments. A very considerable time elapsed before those . papers were forthcoming, and it was not until-1851, after he had reminded his Noble Friend (Lord Palmerston) of his promise, that the'promise was fulfilled. His Noble Ehisnd then laid on the table two dispatches, on e. or which related to the refugees who had been shut up in Turkeyee Ili present motion. only contemplated a con tinuation of those dispatches. -All that he asked was, that inasmuch as this correspondence only came down to April, 1850. that they - should - have other papers laid on the table which would bring down •the correspondence to the time of the liberation- of those refugees on the Ist o' September last. The Noble Lord atlhe head of the late Government had said, that if those papers were laid nu the table of the-House they_ would prove that the British Government had in reality. done that which the Ameri can Government claimed to have done, namely, to have effected the liberation of the captives of liiutayrith. The present Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he (Lord D. Stuart) applied to him ou this subject, very obligingly said he could not think there would be any objection to the 'produetien of thoie• papers, but that ho must consult the Foreign- office before he could consent to their production. He (Lord 'D. Stuart) had since tearnt with regret that the Right Honourable Gentle man would feel it • his dtity to oppose this motion. Ile was at a loss neknow on what grounds such a motiot, could be resisted. lt was well known that when the re fug, es from Hungary sought shelter in Turkey, the Go vernmente of Austria and Rtissia addressed to the Sul tan a demand at which the feelings of all Europe re volted, that those refugees should be delivered up to tie veugeence or those Governments; and if the ISritist, Gov, rument had been so iestrumental, as was repro rented, in proeuric ,, the liberation of the. captives, that of itself was a sufficient . reason . why the dispatches it, question should be laid ou the table of the house. 11 was very glad that England and the United States were United an the liberation of Kossuth and the other refu gees; and he did nut at all . Waist to detract from the merits of the United Stutter in what they had done; but his belief was that- thettlossissippi might have remainto at the Derdaitellee till thii tone it it had not been fie the energetic representatipna made upon the subject be the British Government. If the papers he asked for were -granted, this fact would be established—if thee ivereeirithheld the House and the country would have a right to complain that they did not receive the information to.which they were entitled.' 'The papers ought to be given for the justification of the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton; and while he did net want to impute per sonal Receives in the attempt to withhold the papers, he must say there did appdar to be' something like a want of generosity to the late Government in now withhold ing them. The only reason that could be given, for withholoing them was, that it might be unpleasant to the Governments of Austria and of Russia to have it shown that the representations. of the British ambassador at . Constantinople were attended w i th more weight than theirs were; and further,-that these papers might show great vacillation on the 'part of the Porte as to 'the liberation of the refugees'. 'But he thought these reasons were not of weight sufficient.to yestify the withholding of these papers, and therefore he 'would move the reso lution of which he had given notice. • Mr. HUME seconded the motion, on the ground that the people of this Country had taken a great interest in this question, and had held meetings on the subject from one end of the country to the other, calling on the Go vernment to interfere on 'behalf of these' refugees. He thought, therefore; the papers ought to be given, in or der to show that the confidehce of the people had not been misplaced, but that the Government had exerted themselves to carry out the wishes o f t h e ' peo pl e. Lord PALMERSTON—A. 3 I am much Concerned in the correspondence to which my Noble Friend has al luded, perhaps I may be permitted to take the earliest opportu ynit after the quelation has been put to state t h at, so far as lam concerned ! and I believe I may say also for the Government of which I was then a member, that we have no objection to granting the motion of my Noble Friend. it is a fact known to all the world that these refugees wore detained in Turkey for a eonsiderable portion of time, against the natural wishes of the Turkish Government, but in deference to the apprehen sions and the wishes of the Government of Austria. I am not hero to blame or to find fault with the Govern ment of Austria ..for the feelings they entertained with regard to these persons.—(Rear.) They did entertain a f ee ling of alarm, which WAS no doubt sincere; but it was the opinion of her Mejesty'a Government that Austria had no right to dictate to the Porte in what manner the Sultan should exercise the - right, of hospitality towards Persons who had committed no offence against Turkey, and that he was entitled, if he chose, to set those refugees free. The British GovernMent did, by my intervention and by the exertions of her. MeHty's ambassador at Constantinople,- repeatedly and constantly urge upon the Porte to give way to its'sewn - inelinations, and to permit these refugees to leave Turkey. Of course everybody who knows the relative strength of Turkey and her powerful neighbour twill at once see that, with every dis position to act upon the generous feelings of the Suit ,n, there-were nevertheless consi de rations . of prud ence and policy which interfered w ith his free choice in a matter of this kind, and it became therefore important f or Turkey that it should be ab le to all in s u p port of the wishes of its own Government the urgency o f a f oreign t Government pressing upon them to do that which th e y felt to be just and proper. In what. degree the Aimed-. can Government contributed to, produce this result, I am not able to state,. - No doubt, it exercised its influence to accomplish the same purpose which we laboured to achieve, but the correspondence* ill show what was done by the Brats • • h Government.- That is al I which the H ouse is concerned to know. I have e_s. only further to say, that by a careful seleetion of the papers-- of the dispatches the - replies from from the Foreign-office, and what her Ma jesty's ambeisadar—it will E ff o rts ti what success of the British Gevernaientean th.n, that s attended thote eff oda, without containing al, i g would be tiff-es:eve to the feelings distressieg .r to it thes opinions of the Governments eider of Austriei Russo,, I shell ; of m urietel. - therefore •upliort the motnon 3: Lit N X The CHANCELLOR of the C E IEQUER --Th e. s , a.ed Noble Lord who made this metio n• f h gapers j'Ye." truly that I held the opinion, a 'pries 0 . hav ing been placed on the stable of the•House' with regard to a coin . • d f ; hce; it was Upon th e pitied diplomatic correspon ' d 011C0 whole dcsirsble that the sequel of flat correspondence should be given, but that ou a subsequent occasi on I told the Nettle Lord thereafter- itiquimeg' at the Foreign. office, I' had reasen to doubtewhet her that would a 'prudent course. I can assure the Noble Lord that be w - any desire to e did not arrive at. that conclusion trem . _ Clear, tract from the,merits of our predecess ors nowt); a, d hear.) ' The, .fact is, there had been,. as is well K greet • deal , Of acrimonious, feeling on the existing _ subject bet rreefi the various': COarts • which were mixed up in ny `feelings of acrimony this question. - Happily, all those - are now allayed. There is new aa- between undentandhig as there has been soars f w time past, th e Courts of Constantinople an d o f Vi enna , and it was appreh en d e d bth — tii chit, upon th e w h o l e , it weali be better that t hi s Mal Qf 00170 4011d0E108, which . was fraught with petufia THE SUN, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2l, 1852, recollections of the past, and might revive feelings now happily allayed, should not be egeirt brought under the notice of rile country, and peinfu:ly obteuded upon the consideration of Europe. 1.3 n at",e , r the rerpeal which has beeh me -l e to us b y the Noh'e Lerde-aed eepeciel'y after the observations of the Noble Lord the Member far Tiverton, and after the statement on his part, which would !cal the House to suppose that we were preventing the`publication of documents that are necessary to the vindication of his pclicy—l can assure the Noble Lerd that I shall not persist in my opposition.—.(Gear,) We have no personal feeling in the matter; and, in truth, my first impression was that he publication of these do cuments would be disagreeable and inconvenient to the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton and the Noble Lord 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 objection.—(Dear, hear.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL—I am very glad to hear the Right Eton. Gentlemen say he will accede to the motio n , Nly opinion is that it was not only right in the Noble Lord the Henaber for Tiverton to make the representa tions he did ou this subject ; but I consider that it was :in 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.—(ll ar, near.) But when they lied to take refuge in Turkey, and when Turkey was disposed to accord to them hot itality, 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 to carry out those views. I always thought it redounded to the honour of this country to have taken this pert, 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 be given, so that the country may see that we at least maintained the principles of justice and of hospitality.—(llear, The motion was then agreed to. The appointment of the Committee on India was postponed till Thursday. The Stock in Trade Bill was read a second time. The Home then adjourned at a Quarter pa,t Mee o'clock. . PARLIAIIIENT Alt DIVISIONS. From the Votes and Proceed : K is o/' the House of Commons TUESDAY, APRIL 20. FROJIE 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 Frorne:"— Whereupon the previous Question was put, That that Question be now put." The douse divided:— MINORITY —AYES, 80. Adair, R. Shaf to Frewen, C. 11. Ogle, S. C. kglionbY, 11. A. Geach, Charles Paget, Lord George Claims, M. T Glyn, G. C. Pechell, Sir G. Bass, At. T. • Grenfell, C. Pasco Perfect Robert Hall, Sir B. Bell, Jacob Pigott, Francis Bernal, Ralph Hardcastle, J. A. Ricardo, Osman Boyle, Colonel Harris, Richard Seholefield, William Headlam, T. E. • Bright, John Scobell, Captain Henry, Alexander Sheridan, R. B. Brotherton, J. , Brown, W. Heywood, James Smith, J. A. Buxton, Sir E. Y. Hill, Lord M. Stanford, J. F. Carter, J. B. 'Hadley Charles Strutt, E. Childers, J. W. Hobhouse, T. B. Stewart, Admir a l Clay, James Hume, J. Stuart, Lord D. Hump y, Ald. Thompson, Colonel .Clay, Sir W. Jackson, William. Thornely, Thomas Cobden, Richard Coke, E. K. Kershaw , J ames Tollemache, John Crowder, R. B. Loch, James Verney Sir li. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Loveden, PITS° Wakley, Thomas luncan, George M'Gregor, John Walmsley, Sir J. Dundas, Sir David Mangles, R. D. Williams, W. Ellis, John Aim tin, John Wilson, Matthew :vans, William Mitchell, T. A. Wortley, J. S. Swart, William Molesworth, Sir W. Wyvill, Marmaduke Fergus, John Morris, David Foley, John 11. Mostyn, E. M. TELLES!). ?ox, W. J. Mowatt, Francis llorsman, E. Berkeley, C. L. G. Freestun, Colonel Maas, G. F. BANQUET AT GOLDSMITHS' HALL. On Seen ray heir ~ T ejesty's Ministers were en terra;nsd by the Wee s eiptal Company of Gelb uniths with thAr • nauel magnitiernce, and, on the health of their " brother Goldernith," the Earl of Derby, being given, Ids 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 sudden and simultaneous discovery of gold in unsuspected quarters, and to an importation which astonished everybody, and put all calculation as fault. "But," he proceeded, "it is not only in regard to the discovery of gold that nesr mines appear to be opened to us. Within a very Short time, at with regerd to gold. in there was (as it turns out) a P')puler delusion that the field of statesmen and of the political metal was almost limited ; it was supposed tbst the crop of statesmen was oee of very limited titaount, for which, if you were disposed to search, you must dig in certain favoured localities, and confiue yourself to searching fur them there. lam harpy to think, gentle men, that", to some degree, I have been instrumental in di , Pallints • that illusion. An unfortunate adventurer, as I was to censider myself, honoured with the commission from her Clijeety to do the best that he could for her service, I have ventured b frhily to open a new mine, and Lam happy to say that, in the ()pluton of competent judges, so far as it has yet been worked, the era that has been raised contains among it as large a proportion of sterling metal, with as little admixture of dross, as any to it was ever drawn from the old and exclusive mines to which we were formerly conflood." This hepey iliustration was re ceived, as it deserved, with retterwed cheers. Lord Derby has been to the famous digging s i n West m i nster, and has brought back a pile of dust in the rather un common form of country gentlemen. The process 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 for 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 dently made an 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" he has brought to light, as a new method of extracting the ore. What he has done more resembles the • applicaion 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 meta!, and drawing it from its hard matrix. It is a species of political quicksilver,- as insinuating, as seductive, as slippery, and as difficult to bo tied as the metal so called. Every child ha, 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, intractable 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 heap of "dirt" that has ceased to repay for " rocking" and "washing" affords a fair gleaning to quicksilver. What a heap of Protectionist rubbish we have had all about us for ever Ics sparkledl l o d n g ha l rd ' i f ya h m e l i r ot e tvi ieet in nb a ot s hu te, a so t urn v u a en r nd v gf e . eerltyt out ta o ov r f s t , he t i i l r l h p ot e uh o t r e I s e . it, or grind but noing could be done with i t . W ash it, or burnit, or bray it in a mortar, it was all the same; the dross would not depart fro m t h e go l d, or the gold - from the dross. At last a well' known " a d venturer, " who had long been " prospecting" to very little purpose, hit on a method of dealing with the hitherto worthless commo dity. As the stream of Derby quicksilver pan es through this unpromising stuff; it absorbs a flake here and a lump there, licking up every grain of common sense that happens to survive in the " country party." The result, 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 required to separate it from the extraordinary agent which has caught it so quick, and holds it so fast, and itself can neither be caught nor held. Thus, on Friday, two hundred agriculturists met at Aylesbury, at the summons Of the' Conservative Club," and yielded themselves without the least reserve to the subtle agent we have described. Confidence, Confidence, nothing but Confidence, was the order of the day. No pledges, no &tiers, scarce even a suggestion was per mitted to i n t errupt the bland repose of agr i cu l tura l faith. " One pledge—and One pledge only," said one of the speakers, "it was necessary that they should exact from t h e i r can did ates at the next e l ec tion. 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 chei rs. " The best thing the cotatituencies could do, then," s tie another speaker, " was to determine on giving their support to her Majesty's present advisers, and to take wise thauk fulness such uneteures as they in their wisdom —and, h., hyped also in Ulric- otrcogth,would be enabled to confer upon the nation." " lc.ter your own champion," said another; " don't send him in battle with his hands tied behind him." Excellent advice, proving how completely the hard agricul . urtil nature has ) ieldsd to the lubricous policy of its new chief. Our columns of eketion intelligence tell the same tale. Every day we are informed tha: some noted Peot,,ctimist, big with imperiaece, angular with animosities, and in. diesolublo act h prejudice, has run into the stream of conversion. At a moderate estimate Lerd Derby has swallowed up two hun:lr. , :i solid individualvie.. Sib tlsorp has long slate 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? Ile is a statesman who, after breaking several times with his call , agues, and supporting a largo variety of measures, now finds himself charged with a general commission to serve the Conservatives as well as be can. Lord Derby has commonly been regarded as obstinate rather than versatile; as terrible ra her than seductive; but it is new clear that his favourite mood is the "racking" one. We have seen him as a lion, as a boar, and as a fleme; he is now gliding away in a running stream. We leave others to chain him and qu anion 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 lists. Give it free vent; let it follow the leader. It Lord Derby and a few others have had courage to break the bank and seek a natural outlet, let the rest follow. When the great operation is over, when the renunciation is complete, and the last Protectionist has cutter recanted or died in his error, then . let history step in and say what it pleases about the men who opposed tree trade on the eve of a famine, and submitted to it after a long plenty. We are only anxious that a troublesome ques tion should be got out of the way, and a number of good men released from political incapacity.—Times. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. TO FNEs. (FROM OUR CORRESPJNDENT.) A meeting of real Free Traders and Liberals will be held at Condy's Lion Inn, on Wednesday evening (the 21st), to consider the propriety of at once bringing for ward a Liberal Free-trade candidate to contest the borough at the ensuing general election. Mr. Barry Baldwin (the present Conservative Mem ber) has, it is stated, at the request of his committee, consented to throw overboard all idea of protection, so far as " corn" is concerned. Tae electors generally, however, are from experience become decidedly Rase Traders in the truest sense of the word; and, consider ing that our present commercial policy has been the moans of benefiting the great mass of the people, insist that the principles of free trade shall be still farther carried out, and are therefore of opi nion - it •will, bo wise to return a Member to Parliament (in conjunction with L.ird Seymour), who will not only promise not to rev erse the decis ion already pronounced against a duty o n corn, but wh o will , with all of purpose. strive to am en d sincerity and honesty our -. present system of taxation as still further to relieve the present p res s industrious classes of the community, by reducing tsxes on those articles of daily consumption (suchthaes & c . & c .) which at tea, coffee, too heavily on the poorer classes of the community. It is understood that Mr. Mills, a Jnorchant of considerable will be proposed at the meeting, nail as , ne is influence, is known to be of ironed principies — lo favour of a reform of our reere sentative system and vote by ballot, little doubt en t e rtained of his triiimptiunt return can be de cided split in t h e Conservative . There is a ne w.be , reckoned on as beinga e 8 f "DP ' and Tnt"g may ant Free Traders to w e now - to return two Lib era l s Parliam e nt. _-_____------,..—__ aM - ---i- _AJESTY'S EIEATILE.-Arriollg3t the noble, distinguished, and fashionable conipany honouring the per formances .at her Majesty's Theatre with their presence yes terday evening we remarked the following :—llis Grace the Duke of Wellington and the Marchioness of Douro, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Earl blountcharles. his Excellency the French Ambassador and suite, the Earl of Shelburne, the Earl of Chesterfield and Lord George Paget. The Queen's box was occupied by the Marquis and Marchioness of Nor manby, the blaster of her Majesty's Household, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps and the Hon. Mrs. Phipps and party. There were also present Sir John B. Yarde Buller, Bart., bl P., Sir Joh n Bayley, Bart., and Lady • Bayley, Lord Adolphus Pitzclarence, Sir George Wombwell, Bart., Mr. Hubert. de Burgh, the Viacount Anson, Sir Ralph Howard. Bart., and Lady Howard, the lion. F. Cadogan, Sir Thomas Barret T.,ennar.l, Bart., and Lady Barret Lennard and I:rt.v. the Count Corte, Major Blane, Captain Smith, Captain Ibbetson, Lady Somerset, Colonel Locky m er Free stun, bI.P., and Mrs. Locky er F reestun, Mr. Pather, Mr. George Hudson, M. P., and Mrs. and bliss H u d so n, Mr. Paul, Mr. Packe, M.P., and Mrs. Packe Reading, Mr. C. Barry Baldwin, M.P., Miss Caroline Bellew, Mr. Storer, &c. RUBBERY OF 1,600/. 7 -On Monday information whs received at the chief police station, Scotland-yard, that the confidential valet to Colonel Howard had absconded. stealing upwards of 1,60 u/. from the Colonel's residence at Brighton, chiefly in Bank of E ng l an d notes. A PEACEFUL EXPEDITION.—The Japan expedi tion,' accgrding to a Washington correspondent, is to be merely a hydrographical survey of the Japanese coast. The 32.poundera are to be used merely as measuring instruments in bast Lein the cannon balls are for lirouctur_tn._ ,bas_..,e, lillV$•, 'if any JaPanttb''if foolish enough: top n IT, hurt.--/Veze 'head - in the way of these meteorological instrommieir getu. course nobody will be to blame but himself if he il' II York Herald. I NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.. THE LEVEES. At. his Grtee the Da!ie of Northumbrirland% leveo yesterday' the following offic-rg were rEceived:—Corn ruaiid3r T. Cha'oner, Cyntain R F. Gambicr, CiTtain W. J. Williams, Lieutenant T. C. Bruce, Commander H. J. Lacon, Captain F. V. Anson, Captain W. Peel, Lieutenant the Hon. F. Foley, Lieutenant E. K. Gore, Lieutenant G. W. Jackson, Captain Sir G. Back, Com. manner Henry Boteler, Captain EL D. Trotter,-Captain J. B. Dundas, Captain a H. P. White, Captain H. Layton, Captain T. S. Thompson, Captain W.' Hood, Captain A. J. Montgomery, C omman d er T. C.• Hosea son, Commander J. B. Cater, Lieutenant J. Thnnys, Cammanler T. W. Horton, Commander W. Kirby, Commander J. G. Wigley,fCaptain the Hon. G. Hope, Lieutenant W. H. Hood. Captain W. Kelly, Lieutenant W. P. Coventry. and Captain Halsted. At Rear-Admiral Parker's levee yesterday the follow ing officers presented thetnselves:—Rear-Admiral Dou glas, Captain G. II White, Captain Sir Thos. Drindas, Mr. G. IL Gibbon, Commander T. G. Hoseason, D. Hubert, Commine.er Mile, Lir. G. S. Singer, Mr. R. 0. White, Commander G. Le Bowyear, Lieutenant T. C. Bruce, Lieutenant T. Butler, Lieutenant H. Smith, Captain Elnoondß, Captnin W. Williams, Mr. J. Cuta gar, Captain W. Hood, Lieutenant T. Forrest, Mr. T. E. Smiih, C )rateander H. S. ',aeon, Lieutenant Pollard, Commander Stermer, Mr. T. Thnald, Lieutenant Tribe, and Captain Hillyar. Admiral Hornby rf ceired the folloaint officers at his levee yesterday :—Admiral Douglas, Admiral Mends, Admiral Sir F. Mason, Commander Hoseason, Major Brown, R.H., Lieutenant E. B. Flunking, Commander J. Wood, Captain C. Erlmondß, Mr. J. Cutagar, Mr. J. E. Manterton, Mr. W. B. Gordon, Lieutenant T. C. Bruce, Mr. Templar, Mr. I'. Morris, RM., Commander W. Her Len, Lieutenant Saumar. Z, Lieu.enant C. G. Tegen, Captain Kelly, Captain Hillyar, Lieutenant Gore, Mr. Gibbon, Commander Lauri, Commander Boteler, Com mander Hayes, Mr. White. PORT/331.0:1TH, TUESDAY.--SAILORS' 11031 E, PORTS DIOUTH.—Wo are always most happy to record acts of true benevolence and philanthropy. Charles Dixon, Esq., of Stanshead Park, enclosed yesterday a cheque (being his third donation) for 1001., in aid of the funds of the Portsmouth Sailors' Home. His first donation was, we understand, 20/., his second 301., and now, having the satisfaction of seeing how extremely well the establishment progresses, he has sent the princely dona tion of 100/. Captain 4 . H. Hall (Nemesis) has had an interview with his Grace the Duke of Northumberland, at the Admiralty, on the subj.ct 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 cm , nomical arrangements adopted at the naval Fchools and other public establishments, suggested to Captain Hall several improvements which can be made. He also thought the charges made to the seamen were rather too high, and be expressed a hope that they might be reduced, which will, no doubt, be soon effected, more especially when we rceord 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, Captai 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 A.B.'a; 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 powder. By letters from the Fox and Serpent, dated Rangoon, February, we learn that both the crews of these ships wero 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 Island, the very finest oysters were observed in great abundance, and the ships had only to send their boats outside to obtain and moll the finest turtle, averaging from 1001 b. 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 inquiry about it to-dsy in the dockyard. It was not known how it was broken. The Sampson, 6, steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones, went out to Spithead to-day, and joined the squadron there. The Edinburgh, 56, screw-ship, is being fitted at this port as a sea-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. bhe will make an experimental trip to Malta. We have been informed that a contract for barrelled meats for the navy (bait provisions) has been lately en tered into w i th t h e some part i es w h o f urn i s h * d the Goldner pr eserves. 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 topma,ts, and hat topgelluntmasts ready for sending aloft. SHEERNESS, APRIL 20.—Her Majesty's screw steam frigate Horatio, 22, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, got up her steam early on Sunday tool - Ding for the par po.ie of proceeding en her trial cruise. rermiss.ion to proceed having [yen given from the flJg ship at 10 A.m., the ILrittio weigh, d anchor nod s:nrted, with Vac wind nearly ahead, steamirg apparently at the rate of about four knots per hour. Vt hen she had reached the Nero light it was teund necessary to bear up for Sheerness, in cornequence of an accident having occu-ren to acme pars of her machinery. She came into ha: bout a little 13,- fore noon, and let go her s.nehom We were informed yes• ierday that sem2 portion of the apparatus connected with the feeding gave it ay, which, on being cx ataided, was on,:d so det.esive as to resider it necessary to n...y., a no* ,-.1101 made tor workings.. This will take a f,,, d,:ys f.) etF'ct, and 'sill detain she Horatio in har bour probably the greater part a the pies,-nc week. Her Maj,s - ty's p;ddlo Aleel steamer F earl,s , ,, Captain Frtqlk.rick Bullock (1838), employed on surrey ingser vic-., carne into.por 6 )ri.t, rday at 9 A.m. - Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam vessel Adder, Mr. James Wait in charge, arrived yesterday morning early. Her Majesty's paddlewheel steam Teasel, Lizard, Mr. Brockman, second master, commanding, got up her steam yesterday at 9 A.M . and proceeded to her Majesty's ship Royal George. 120, and, in conjunction with the Adder, towed her to Chatham, for the purpose of being taken into dock and put in a tit state for commission. A statement has appeared in so me of the Lo ndon journals to the effect that one of the f irst acts of th e pre sentppTo a ppointing nisg not the a post oaptaißooraordthoofsArradomoim ironralty w p case, as Captain John liingcomo's appointment to th a t t r a o s o the -s h i p. a ship bears the date of the 9th of Febraary-10 days be fore the r,sigmation of the late Admiralty, and 18 prior to the Members of the present Board actually ta ki ng upon themselves the duties of their office. Her Majesty's scrow-g,eamer Desperate, 8, an d pad dlewheel steamer Basilis k, 6, Comm a n der G. A. Gardn er , remained in harbour, waiting to receive On board stores and provisions for the use of Sir E. Belcher's expedition, which they will convey to the icy regions. WOOLWICH, APRIL 20.—TRE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. The Lightning steam veseni, hlutir_c left Woolwich this morning for Greenhithe, mmandor Allen, Commodore Henry Eden, superintendent having Dockyard, and the pay clerks from of Woolwich board, and the whole of the ship s m the Admiralty, on Befcher's Arctic squadron were of Captain Sir Edward leave Greenhithe shortly after two paid advance, and will enterprising expedition. Tho o'clock AII on their Woolwich in the afternoon, Ughtning returned to 40 tons of coals, left again and !hiving taken on board tow the North Star afat 6 P.M. for Greenhithe to such dittauce as Sir aras the Sunk at Harwich, or to cessar.. The Basilisk Edward 13slcher may consider ne steamer, under the command of Comma:4er Gardiner, and the Desp era t e s t eamer , un d er the command of ' Lieutenant i Stevens, have remained several day s at the OTO to tow the Assistanc e and Resolute sailing vessels N to the edge of the ice. A num ber of ladies have pteentedCipt..in Sir Edward Belcher with 22 handsom° s il k flags and a number of worked articles for the comfort of the officers when in the Arctic regions. --- SHIPS ON THE ICE OFF THE BANKS OF NEWFOUNDLAND. The foll.ming is an extract of a letter ftem Captain Penny, Oving his opinion on the subject of the ships said to have been seen on the ice in the spring of lest year;— "You ask me what I think of the two ships seen upon the iceberg. I think they were ' country ships,' as we whalers call them—formations upon an iceberg, which deceive even practised eyes. " To place ships in such a position by the process of freezing into an iceberg would require 30 to 40 - years, tine' floe ice would have broken up with the Western Ocean swell befur, 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 wuuld 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 tached 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, „ 66 W..l,zsatr.- whTihche tiaidi stahnires A statement of the legney duties paid in Great , Britain for the year 1551 shows the total amount e capital which during the twelvemonths became liable CO the tax to have been 49.402,391/ Of this the portion duty of 1 per cent., the bequests beinug,23to2,7c6Usill.d;retahoerppoar: rents, was 28,721.0051.; the portion which paid 6 per cent., paid T ,_ ah w ue raiasnvg4e 4,585.3081., or c apital for bequests to brothers or sisters, Was tion at 5 per cent., to wicles and cousins, was 1,7884,69 i. ; that at i per cent., to mote distant relations, was 229,6521. a a b n o d u t t h a a n t cent.,aetinl,oenptherpartof, o'r had 84,291c. per annum. on which legacy dutythe 54 y e , from 1797 hay ben] 29, tht °e l, e ? sw a t hrjon p l eg a .e i which accrued to the reveuue last year for stamp administrations,and p duties on legacies; on probates' testament venrories in Great Britain wa s ~ ' 253 , >Obi., being testamentary i n ., of 34,824/. over 1850. For Ireland the amount an increase being an increase of 1,060/. nt was 125,641/., MANSION . IR IOSE.-YPS terday t l a L the Lady Jlayoress entertained at di c ord Mayor and Cuurtof Common Council, and their dinner the members of the Coleman -street, Aldersgate, Ald ladies, of the wards of .oread-street, Bridge ,street, gate, Bassishaw, Bishopsgate, Baynatl; Ctreap, Cordwai Bead -street, Candlewick, Cistle also present Mr. Alder tiers, and Cornhill. There were - terell, Mrs. Cotter 11 marl Cubitt, M.P., Mr. Sheriff Cot e i and m i and Mrs. Swift, a n d se ss Cotterell, Mr. Sheriff Swift coyero were laid the private friends of the Lord Mayor. ILI t i a Egyptin Hall for 250. MAJORITY-NOES, 100. idderley, C. B. Granby, Marquis of Newdegate, V. Irchdall, Captain Greenall, U. Newport, Viscount liagot, William Grosvenor, Lord R. Ossulston, Lord Bailey, Joseph Raiford, Sir Henry Oswald, Alexander Baillie, ii. J. Hall, Colonel Packs, C. W. Bankes, G. Hallewell, E. G. Pakington, Sir J. Barrow, W. H. Hamilton, G. A. Pigot, Sir,Robert • Bentinck, Lord H. Hamilton, Lord C. Portal, Melville Beresford, William lleneage, G. H. W. Prime, Richard Blandford, Marquis lieneage, Edward Reid, General Booker, T: W. Henley, J. W. Richards, Richard Booth. Sir R. G. Herbert, Henry A. Russell, Lord J. Bowles, Admiral Hervey, Lord A. Scott, Francis Bridges, Sir B. Hope, Sir J. Sibthorp, Colonel Broadwood, Henry Hotham, Lord Sotheron ' T. H. S. Bruce, C. L. C. Hudson, G. Spooner, Richard Castlereagh, Vise. Inglis, Sir It. Stafford, Augustus Chandos, Marquis Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Tennent, Sir J. Christopher, R. A. Jones, Captain Trollope, Sir J. Collins, Thomas Knox, W, S. Tyler, Sir G. Cotton, W. H. Knox, Colonel Tyrell, Sir J. Disraeli, B. Langton, W H. Verner, Sir W. Drumlanrig, Viscount Lennox, Lord A. Vivian, J. E. Buncombe, O. Lennox, Lord H. G. Vyse, R. H. Dunne, Colonel - Lewisham, Viscount Wall, C. B. East, Sir J. B. Lockhart, W. Walpole, Spencer Evelyn, W. J. Long, W, Whiteside, James Forester, G. C. Lowther, Colonel Wigram, Loftus Fox, S. W. L. Lygon, General Williams, T. P. Freshfleld, J. W. Manners, Lord C. Wood, Sir W. P. Fuller, A. E. Manners, Lord G. Galiwey, Sir W. P. Manners, Lord J. TELLERS. Gilpin, Colonel Morgan, 0. Mackenzie, W. F. Gladstone, W. E. Murphy, F. S. Bateson, Thomas Goulburn, Henry Naas, Lord PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Viges and Proceedings o/ the House of Commons.) NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. The following Bills are appointed to be read a third time on Thursday, April 22: Aberdare Market and Slaughterhouses. Cheshire Cons abulary. Dudley Waterworks. • Eastern Counties and Newmarket and Chesterford Railway C mpnies. Glamford Briggs Waterworks. Great Southern and Western Railway (Ireland). Kelvin Bridge (Glasgow) and other Works. Lockwood'and Meltham Norlblk Railway. Iletford and Littleborough Road. South Eases Estuary and Reclamation. Stockton and Darlington Railway. Sunderland Waterworks. TO THE SECRE VARY OF 'PHE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.) Sir,—On Monday 19th April was a wearisome de 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 promiaent 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 state 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 conquest. 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 luibble 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 cautiaus ignoring of the principle, that bishops should be found in the bottom of Mars' chariot, whether as accomplices before or after the fact. Though all this is only the reflexion of what occurred in another place, it is not without value as an indication of the sides intended to be taken. On Tuesday Mr. Horsman moved an Address to the Crown for examination into the proceedings con nected with St. Barnabas, and the subsequent re placing of the ecclesiastic removed from that cure of soulF, 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. _ . Te 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. All kinds of blandishments were tried upon the mover, to induce him not to go to a divid.on ; but he is a Ulysses who can put wax into his 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 possiole, 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 pour in on such occa sions. Everybody is for having his pet subject, in which he is anxious the House of COMEI3OO Should refuse to interfere. If this only went far enough, what would be the use of a House of Commons ? I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, „ AN OLD REFORM ED- Blackheath, 21st April, 1852. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —HOiIOWAy'S Pills the very best Remedy for Bile, Indigestion, and Weak Stomachs.— Extrac , of a letter from Mr. Richard Abel, Piccadilly, Man chester, to Professor Holloway. ‘, Sir,—ThP gratitude I owe to you is great for the extraordinary cure 1 have derived by taking your wonderful Pills. I am sixty-four years of age, and for more than forty ycars I suffered sot everely from bile and in. digestion that life was a complete burden to me. I received the best medical advice at all times, but could get no perma nent relief. - At length I tried yottr Pills, and they have so in vigorated my constitution that I am r estored to'the most robust health.—Sold by all drug g ists and at Professor Hollowa y's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. A " NUISAINCE."—Tt surve y o r of highways f or a township in the Forest of Dean la tel y returned in his re port e l i i the following answer. After t he words in the sch edul . " State all the nuisances , " he wrote, " We are plagued with a great deal of Irish." The accounts appear to have b-e examined and allowed at a town's meeting, held at a club room ha the village. GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS. —It IS shown by return to Parliament (printed on Monday) that th a amount of presentments made by the. grand juries e gross several counties. oitie : s • 'and t owap...ig _trelmacv,f of the 1851 wai 944,924 r ss. .?.d.,- Of which 82,112/. fir this. year for public charities, and 125,03-11, 14.1%4, S. lid were were repayments Of Etyma to CioYellirceut' VAV $.l