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....., h aving been abolished in this country. It was unjust that the Dissenters of.Englane should be taxed to sup- Port the m i n i sters o f th e Pr e sbyterian; in Ireland, who Were a far richer body. Mr. HEY WORTH also opposed the vote, which he rail was objectionable on policy and principle. .Mr. V. SCULLY sa i3, that until the weolo question of the end owment o f the three Churches had unetereone C° nsideration he was not prepared to withdraw , this par ticular grant. Mr. S. CARTER opposed the grant. Mr. KERSHAW trusted that the time would shortly a rrive whey this scramble fer public money for religious Purposes would terminate. He could see no utility i n aating this sum of money to the Presbyterians o f Ire land. The only elfect of the endowment was to check Private contributions for the support of the Presbyterian Ministry. After a few words from Captain JONES, the Core- Illittee divided, when there appeared— For the vote ... ..• ••• "• 34 Against it ... ••• majority f The vote of 6,552 1, for the Concordatuna .fund srrelend) for charitable parposee, and for the minister °F St. Matthew's Chapel,, Kin send, his salary, and siloe ;tee° to clerk and sexton, was agreed to after an !,1 3 nosition from Mr. ANSTEY , which was with arawn. On the vote of 10 7451, to defray the charges of the General Board of Health, Mr. HUME complained that the power enabling one tenth of the inhabitants of t o wns to petition the board e aend down a surveyor to inquire into the sanitary con dition of towns was at present frequently abused. He did not think the initiatory step of requesting inspection should be taken until it had received the sanction of at least two public meetings. He (atr. Hutne) was not pre- Pared, however, further to oppose the grant. Mr. ELLICE called upon the Government to look closely ieto the working of the board, or it would do a great deal of mischief in the country. , • , Mr. G. A. HAMILTON said the present Act of Par liament would come under revision in two year?, and could therefore be readily amended. He would not enter into any details; but he would say that, as a general rule, he could not admit the mismanagement of the board. Viscount EBRINGTONsaid some of the imputations against the board were owing rather to the deliberate in terference of Parliament than to the board itself. The average amount of these preliminary expenses was very say about 1201, compared with those of a private Atifi, which ,was usually not less than 2,0001. for large Pieces, and which in some cases amounted to tens of thousands ' while the resulti obtained were of the most i rsPortantcharac ter. ;Mr. HUME complained only of giving the power of L'doging down a surveyor to one or two of the rate- Payers.. It led to jobbing and abuse in a variet y of cases. Re bad no confidence in the ma nagement of the Board of liesulth as regarded discretion, after the disclosures th4t e :bate iaken place. . • Sir B. HALL said the only proof of the Metropolitan Interco sat Act having passed into a law since 1850 was th a " ; app ointment of Dr. Southwood Sm i t h as an addi.. t "'mat c puniseioner. The Act was inoperative, and the ee . Pe use' of the Commission, 2,4001. a year , ou g ht to be dt spensEd with. The vote was then agreed to. „ lleeeeo • for the Encumbered Estates Co mmission Uourt, w Mr. FRENCH protested against the vote , b u t he oe ° e_' l , not divide on it as it involved the salarie s of the c 1 persons connected with the court. ~19. at CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER sai d the ilertiont of the Hon. Gentleman, that the Government. tZ! Suadenly resolved to continue the Act under wh ich 4 1 7. court was constituted, surprised him. T hat rentiort was announced three months ago, and it was Toids.ble under the circumstances. t;„"r•H.UME asked how long these courts would con . "'co to supersede the courts of law? ses a l • IsTAbIER said the court was created for the pur r van o f i t es lacilitatiug the sale of encumbered estates , and Was at present impossible for the law courts to deal Zestates the subject.. There were twenty millions'-worth of re ' lo s at present undisposed of. In moving the second "minx of the Continuanoe Bill, he (Mr. Napier) shoul d a mts this course intended to be adopted. shld EIUME wished to kn wh the courts of law not be freed from the ow sent pr processes which r• eveeteit their operation in the case of encumbered est 4t4B? FL' t ENCH maintained that the decision of the ;;eVerurnseit, as regarded the continuance of the Bill, Was acellen an d astonished the greater part of their ' ,• supporters from Ireland. One o f t he ablest p am p hlets icmlUst the measure, in fact, was, he u ndersto od ,- written 3 c p leg a l mem b er o f the Government. 'he vote was then agreed to. So also were 7 ' 7601 . for lighthouses abroad; and 40 .2001. for the census. 4 ' 332 /. for building chapels for the embassies abroad. ANSTEY objected to the vote. HUME thought the. vote wa s an extraordinary on e . a e o n G. THOMPSON said there wer e in all ex p ended 1 7, t 1 the erection of a residence for th e British Amine 4ktor Constantinople, from 1843 to 1850, 83,7651. e I VEt 3 9 therefore, not surprised th at 3,0001. and up rus Lho , o , "" le b ended on a chapel for this costl y idene, r• G. A. HAMILTON had nothing to say to the e Ta that h a d b een passed. As respected the vote r l i er consideration, the chapel at Constantinop le had a w e destroyed by fire some time ago , and the foam of (:)°! of this vote was for the erection of that chapel at : the accommodation of the English residents in Con stantinople. ee 'ne CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER mid the ,iaber of English residents at Vera was much more 4 4 sider.tb!e than was supposed. —certainly more than e e ,, e °, and the chapel was built for their accommodation et* than for the embassy.- He had no objection to "tPone the vote. KEOGH said this was a case of economical re -7,o,eia which he would take the sense of the House. ch a l t " i ght Hon. Gentleman said there were 300 mer th B in Pera ; why did they not build a cha p el for e eiselves? Ole CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER in n:sled the lion. and L e arned Gentleman that Pera was , a .l Part of C ons tantinople which the British ambas t nr dwelt; he had thought he only deferred to the de e s s n n the Committee in prop osin g the p ost p onement of -- vote. After fewa words from Mr. Aglionby, Mr. Hume , and U. 1 r ea Willoughby, ' Mr. WILLIAMS sa id ,no advantage could be gained b y,Rostponi ng th e vo t e . It was a question of pri nci p le. ho CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would t r .'stPone the consideration of the vote, and co mmence With it whoa next going into supply. He now moved in 0 Chairman report progress. Mr. ANSTEY objected to the motion for reporting Progress. He wished to go to a division on the vote how, for he believed the opponents of the vote had a ejoriter—a position he doubted whether they would hold when it was again brought on. „ Mr. G. THOMPSON thought, instead of postponing reco ns ideration of the vote, it would give more satis faction if the vote itsolf were postponed. ese Tbe 'question was then put, and the Committee di w - 'ed, when there appeared — For reporting progress ... ... 92 Against ••• ••• ••• see 12 Majority for reporting progress ... —BO The CHAIRMAN reported progress , a nd the House 'ssuint sd, NEW ZEALAND BILL. The House went into Committee on this Bill. (31 1 dame 74 being proposed, ~,• 43 . 1 % GLADSTONE wished to know if Government 87Lendoi to make certain amendments to the cl auses, 114 how that would affect the amendment his Hon. • end had to propose. He wished to know who should h live precedence? Sir J. PAKINGTON said the most convenient plan would b e for the-74th clause to be amended, and when t quesCol I be put, that the clause so. amended stand Dart of the Dill, the Hon. Gentleman could make his a ' , ztetnent. After sonaeluriher discussion, Sir W. MOLESWORTH proposed to move to omit all the words after the word " and," p. 20, line 36. The reason why he suggested this amendment was, because it was proposed to transfer the management of the waste lands from the , Colonial-office to the General As 4,:nably of New Z He desired that the New 4 4eahnd Company should not have any augrnen tiati^ f their strict legal charge on the waste - ) , 4 n f (1 Zealand. By the Act of 1847 the New n s da -14 3 ew p were entitled to the saplus of • the 4:llBl4Pntidre*r'hl34,l3after the expinses of emigration were , n any alteration that might be 4 thaed. desae-. "ri 1 i Company to their to - , et the N-'w labelh restrict New Zualand Company objected to t charge. '__e 4115 plan, stating they had , in addition to a legal claim, 2 t ilorL , l e i • —and that Ole Colonial-office recognised that Etlll3 if ta moral claim. The New Zealand Company contended, r i i i r transfer to he Gene:al Aszienably from the Colo- Zfti uf6a e was made, that the moral claim of the Now co ta Company would not be . recognivd; therefore the to ei ,lrm.ny wished ParliwneW, and to in making this transfer, m rt i, ll.s i - icr its moral and legal claims together, effe 'o its, moral claim a legal claim;, which could be Wasted bY giving them ono-fourth of the produce_7of_toh: 1 0 4 e la ads. Now, he contended that the Ne titl e npany had no moral claim strong enough. to en th • "' l ain to Acts of Parliamlnt for anything a eir h stri c t legal claim. Had some documents vvhich he neyond l a " moved for been forthcoming, he should have beret p a a bettor position to prove that the New Zealand Com pany had no moral claim to the advantage they sought. h e ' 84 6 the company obtained a loan of 100,0001 to g iPPlieti to purposes of general utility, with " „Prohibition, that no part of the money should be prohibit on te payment of their debenture debt. This pwas distasteful to the company, and the cons _ltlY soon afterwards obtained another Act, which 1 :1 1 . 1 :tied them to apply half the borrowed sum to the th•," ar g, e -of the debenture debt. Not contented with other concessions, the company in 1846 obtained anothat' Act, excusing them f r om the payment of into let;and• empowering a further advance of public money. as also provided, if the company surrendered their : h ealer to th e C rown , and if the power s of the com p an y °lll d thereby revert to the Crown , th at the Crown sh ou ld be bound to satisfy any l i a bility of the company W ith ret:ere nce to the sottlement at Nelson. Notice of a _ U rrande r of th e c h arter was given, and the Crown be 2ton liable to th e N elson sett l eme nt for any claims they might have on the company. Now, be cont ended it was distinc toy th e duty of the C ha ncellor of the E xche q uer 1 1 ,. the time, before he consented to support an et of Parliament which was to render the Crown liable to the settlell/ ew have in quiry. Bat th " to made duo in hev a Chancellor of the E xche q uer had er obtained proper information as to the New •.ottitin rI Company's liabiliti es . In 1846 a paper of queries was sent to the New Znelend Company by the (Planet , llor of the Exehequer; but peovieus to this the company had submitted a case tsi their etandieg counsel with retoretce to their liability to the settlere of Nelson, the reply to which was, that the coinpany were liable to the sctslors for non-performance of contract, nod that they would be'litible to refund money received, with in terest and damages.. At. the time this opinion was given, no contradictory legal opinions were in. existence. The New Zealand .Company, however, did not hesitate to leave out in their replies to the queries sent them by the Chancellor •of the -Exchequer all mention of their liability; and the opinion of their standing counsel, re lative to the settlement at Nelson. By this step_ they produced a belief in the mind, of the .Chancellor of the Exchequer that the settler's had only a moral and not a legal claim upon them. The facts he, had stated' showed that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had no cogrtiztaee at the time of the opinion of the standing counsel of the company. He would next come to the Colonial-ea - eh A week after these answers were given to the Chencellor of the Exchequer, the Under Secretary for the Colonies (Mr. Hawes) wrote a letter to the company enclosing' a Peti tion from persons in the Nelson settlement, complaining cf the conduct of the ,company. . The substance of the petition was, that the New Zsaland Company had not fulfilled their ebligations to the settlere—that tee settlers had no legal redress, and they, therefere , p r ay ed to hare the means of legal redress secured to them. The company replied, without referring to all to their coun sel's opinion, that they had not failed in any contract, with the Nelson settlers; which they could be called upon to fulfil. He would next procee d to the formal state ment of the company to the Secretary for t , the Colonies (Mr. Hawes), which formed the basis of the meow of 1847. In giving in a statement of their _liabilities: sand claims upon them, they again omitted all notice of their counsel's opinion, .hnd merely , enumerated claims of the Nelson settlers to the extent of about 25,0001, trust money. Ocher documents_ to Government re peated those assertions, and in coneegaence of such re presentations the Lords of the Treasury concurred in an application to Parliament for the . Act of . , 1847. His statement was, that no proper communication- was made to Parliament of the liability, of the New Zealand Company for non-performance . of, contracts to the Nelson settlers, .Lord Grey, however, in a subsequent letter, appeared to consider that some ceecsalment had' been made, but that the concealment had not been an improper one. At a later:period the Commissioners represented to Lord Grey the difference of opinion which prevailed among legal authorities, as to the liabilities of the company to the Nelson settlers, and suggested the expediency of having the doubts cleared up. Lord Grey, however, did not think prdper to comply with the suggestion. One settler hid brought an notion against the company, and the company had compromised it. The proceedings of the company, with reference to the Colonialeoffice, and also with respect to the settlers, were of a very questionable nature. In February, 1841, the coma puny issued• a prospectus for a settlement, to be called Nelson, and for the sale of certain allotments of land in the settlement pn certain terms. About 315 persons purchased allotments, to the value of 132,0201. On ar riving in New Zealand they found that the company, could not,fulfil ,its conditions. They complained of a breach of contract, and demanded compensation, but com pensation was refused them. A'ease was submitted by the company to their standing counsel, but this gentleman was a large shareholder in the company. On the 26th of February, 1846, the company wrote to their agents in New Zntland, Messrs. Cox and Wakefield, that they bad submitted a case to counsel, and that they meant to proceed in the way best calculated to unite the interests of the settlers and the company. That letter produced in the settlement a feeling very favourable towards the company. Afterwards they received the opinion al luded to in their letter of the 26th of November; but they sent out the opinion of a second counsel, which was favourable, as if it were the opinion of the first. When that opinion reached Nelson the agents, of the e company made good use of it to bring about an ar rangement beneficial to the company. Mr. Wakefield bad stated in a letter that the pertial dieene ettre opinion had had the effect of indu cin g m any of toilet:eat! leis to accept the terms proposed: by the company; but he felt bound to state_ that Mr. Wakefield.had acted,iu the belief that the second opinion was the opinion referred to in the letter of the 26th November,. and that Mr. Cox had suited to him that he was of a like belief. He was warranted therefore in coming to the conclusion, that the company had concealed from the settlers at Nelson the state of its affairs. It was bat due to the company that he should state that in a letter, dated March 22, 1848, they ! bad stated that they had concealed the opinion of the first counsel, lest it should mislead the settlers, and lead to disputes between them and the company. To show that the company believed the first opinion to be right, the Hon. Baronet referred in detail to the case of a Mr. Veit, who • had purchased an allotment from the company, at Nelson. Mr. Veit, finding that the company could not fulfil its conditions, returned to this country. and, after some proceedings, the comPaTlY repurchased for 3,0001. the allotment for which Mr. Veit had given only 1,500 1 . This was a. most important fact, for by the terms of the Act of 1847 the Crown was bound to take on itself any:claims which the company might be liable on account of the settle-, ment of Nelson. Mr. GLADSTONE said that the words of the Act were, " for which the company may then be , Sir W. MOLES WORTH said that if the opiniol of the first counsel was correct the liability of the company would be enormous, for they had sold land in Nelson to the value of 152,0001.; and if all the settlers were in the same position as Mr. Veit the liabilities of the company could not fall short of 300,0001. (Mr. Gladstone here pointed out to the Hon. Baronet the clause in the Act referred to.) It was clear (contended the Hon. Baronet) that whatever remained of the liabilities of the year 1846 the Crown was bound to discharge, except those which had been cancelled by valid arrangement between the company and the settlers. It was for the Committee to determine whether the company where entitled to anything under the Act of 1847, 'except their legal rights, and he had therefore to move the following amendment:—" Clause 74, page 20, line 36, omit all the words after and,' to provided,' in page 31, line 24, andinsert, Nothing in this Act, or in any Act, law, or ordinance, to -be made by the said General Assembly, or by any Provincial Assembly, shall affect or interfere with so much of an Ant of the session holden in the 10th and 11th year of her Majesty, chapter 112,' pro mote colonisation to New Zealand, and to authorise a loan to the New Zealand Company," as relates to a cer tain sum, with interest, to be chaNed upon and paid to the New Zealand Company, out of the proceeds of all future sales of demesne lands of the Crown in New Zealand, after deducting the outlay for surveys and the proportion of such proceeds which is appropriated to the purposes of 'emigration.'" The question having been. put, Mr. aGLIONBY deprecated the time as most incon venient for raising such a discussion. The Hon. Baronet had fully prepared himself for it under the instructions of his friend, who had been removed from the Colonial office for a reason that did not redound much to his credit—that reason being that he was in the habit of taking notes of private conversations and communicating them to third parties months after. One case was that of a conversation with Mr. Godley—a gentleman whom he (Mr. Aglionby) could not too highly eulogise—which the gentleman quoted by the Hon. Baronet made use of afterwards to represent that there was a Cabal among the directors preparatory' to an attack in the liOuse 'of Commons. He (Mr. Aglionby) should not rest under these charges, but would demand a Com mittee of the House, befOre which everything must be rigilly investigated. With respect to Mr. Nelson, he had thought it a good project, and had him self bought land, which he still held, and he hoped and believed it would yet prosper; indeed he had . that morn• ins received a letter from a young man of Carlisle,. wha had emigrated twelve years since, and who gave a most favourable account. 'The opinion upon which the com pany had acted was that of one of the ablest counsel at the bar, and ho believed it to be a - sound one. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to refer to the com pensation received by the directors is regard to the. Nelson settlement. This compensation, he had con cluded, determined the whole question; and hence his astonishment at the old matter being raked up again that evening. Then there was the charge against the company in connexion with Mr. Veit. Mr. Veit had not claimed compensation for land, bat fur arrears of glary, and for interest ou salary. There was en arbi tratz.hn; and Mr. Cowell wesa the person negotiating for -Mr. Veit. Mr. Veit was driven out of the first nego tiation; but on a second negotiation 3,000/. was awarded to that individual. Hero the Hon. Gentleman entered into minute' details, and then continued to repeat 1 his denials of the general charge that the 268,0001. was I obtained on misrepresentation. —That charge had root been made out; and the company "was quite willing to submit the whole case to any impartial tribunal. The fact was that the company had paid 100,000/. more in Nelson than the prospectus undertook in emigration, surveys, &c., and though that sum might not be obtained back oscause it had not been expended in the propor tions specified by the prospectus, still suah,was the fact; and he did not believe the Government would have to pay more than the 25,000/. In conclusion, the Hon. Gentle man expressed his entire confidence that the House would not be misled in this mater, and that, should the whole case he brought under any other -tribunal, the company • would stand honourably acquitted. Sir J. PAKINGTON had listened to the two last speeches addressed to the Committee with feelings of pain,' in which he thought every other Hon. Member would s ympathise.—(Hear, hear.) But as the tlon'. Baronet bad now entered on the charges he haft - con e sidered it his duty to urge against the New Zealand and as the Bon. Member for Cock ermout h Ch had r a ni; his reply on beha lf ' of, the com p an y , he (Sir J. Paltington) bought he would be able to show that thought he would be able to ehow that there was n° oceasiOts to press the discussion further— omnartkheedß-itoll ( th"e occasion that 'the bearings of these - differences in before the Committee r i3a e i r e )to the N e w Z e7e l°' n n d o t(lsuliPcia:iYitl anon illear, hear.) It was natural lion of the Bill itself.— • should become the sub lead away the Committee from an exclusive coneidera the directora of the New Zea landject of special iuquiry; fur . and proper that these diffsrenm 9 r_T hear) --and it was to be something akin to that Ehriuk from , such c o mp lo y were charged with fraudulent practices, or, expected 'that Hon. Gentlemen roof. Bat in accusations, and demand realisatien and P mime reality these were questions with whieh the Cora „ lied nothing to do. 1 t le did the charge shou In one respec _ Of the Hors. Baionet against the'New z3alo4lo4.)ompanY effect the Bill. The lion. ' Baronet said than the Act of 1847 gave the liew2eafand Company b ette r terms than they were entitled ao; that th at Act vre.s obtained by an intentional concealment from the . Government of ,the liabilities that would pass to the Government under the the Company such terms as W ld be new a rrangement; and that, therefore, the present Bill should only give t o ou warranted by a construction of the had. e l n et r te e r pt.l c d f ia t t } e ) d e Act of 1847. All thege . accusationshd 1 by the Hon, ldomber for Cockermouth ; a nd th ere , .as (THE r StJN, t , LONDON, '!IFRIDAY EVENING, far as the Committee :was • concerned; the ••question stood. It could not be expected that • he . (Sir J. raking ington) could act judicially in - such natteraand as little could it be expected that the Committee should view jue dicially these transactions so many yearae. after their occurrence.—(Hear.) Considering that for, four consecu tive years Lord ,Grey, who 'had originally conducted the transfer, had expressedasit tmeatisfactoryeopinions in re femme to thetematterahe (Sir J. Packingtou) shrmils at this moment from accieptiteg -the responeibeity of nil:ora tion to which the Hon. Baronet invited tim.—(llear, He:considered.that •his duty in. promoting this Bheiallr.2nnsisted simply in looking to the Act of 1847. 'and to take care that the New Zealand Company 'should net be a loser by ; e arrangement 'entered ineaundinibtedly far the benefit of the celony,—(Hear, hear.)' TfiellPns Baronet eaid, "Leave them strictly to the Ace." That seemed a very plausielo proposal; but in fact, it_would. not be a just ono, for this particular clause, in the Act relating to the terms to be obtained by the company, was so defectively drawn up that the moat liheraleintere pretation was Tee/aired. The clause said that the pro ceeds_of the sales shall be divided into three portionsaas first, for emigration; next. for surveys; and the balance to be apportioned to the New Zealand Convent:. Bats then the clause eicenot specify the proportiobs, and there fore the company said, et. If you. turn us over to a new Legislature- withthat clause, 'and with nothing else, we can't tell what- censtruction they may choose zo put upon it." This was obvious, and hadeed it might ba- that the company would get nothing, inasmuch.as the "balance" under this clause could be prevented altogether.—(Hear; hear.) He thought Lord Grey: had . put -an equitable construction on the clauss e and that no one putting each a constructioron it would give the company loss than what was proposed—one-fourth. Mr. V. sNara considered that the New Zealand Company was altogether a trading compeer, and as such he contended, they. •had no claim whatever onthis , coun try. They had lost tber money—over . 69Q,0001: —by this transaction. .; They were destitute shareholders; their scrip was at fl discount of 75 by the last accounts; Out still all these circumstances gave them no claim whatever. He (Mr. Smith) could , see .no necessity •to depart from the. Act of 1847, unless it was• that they had great distrust in the. Legislature which they were about to confer on thet colony:—(Hear, hear.) • Mr. F. PEEL said there was- no doubt whatever of the existence of this debt' - being duet° the; New Zealand Company. He did, not understand the speech e of the Honourable Baronet below him (Sir W.. Molesworth). But it appeared to him (Mr. Peel) . as if it . went to-.in- - validate the debt due to the company; though , the Honourable Beronet adduced no grounds whatever on . Which to repudiate it. In his mind the question•was as to how the debt could best be- discharged in the least burdensomeananuen—(Hear, hear.) . It was clear the Imperial Treasury could not discharge it, neither could the Company of. New Zealand. The debt was charged on the lands of New Zealand, 'ant by these lands it should be discharge: They - had _ two courses. before them at preseateane, that suggested by her Majesty's. Ministers; and the eother that. - suggested. by. the Hon. Baronet the Member for Southwark. . Some Hon. Gen tlemen seetned to think that ..the Government plan was one-sided, and in favour of . the company; whilst it ap peered to him (Ur. Peel) not to be unattended .- with considerable sacrifice on the part of the New Zealand ' Company. The late Government pointed out tee way Ito expending theeland fund of, the colony in other modes' of improvement besides surveys and emigration; and of these the local legislature, undee, their 'new powers, would no doubt avail themselves; such, for instance, as: the opening up and , improving new districts, forming roads and other public works; and in these respects the colony derived great advantages from the ariangements. which had been. made by . Government—advantages which justified -Government en making them. Mr. MANGLES complained:that charges had been ' raked up, after an interval-of five years, against the: company, though Lord Greyehad investigated the whole in a judicial capacity, and had honourably acquitted the company. It was impossible for gentlemen and men of honour to sit silent when they heard themselves arraigned on such charges. He was as anxious as any one.nhat the whole of the papers connected with theeransuction s hould be laid before the House. At the 3EOIO tithe he. passing , n g unwillingo of thi t oß il l 0 anything which might delay the . The company had been charged with obtaining the Act of 1847' by false representations.. To negative this. it was only necessary to state that the whole of. the negotiations had passed through the hands of the late Mr. Charles Bullere—(llear, hear.) He had before him a letter from that gentleman,. stating that he h a d examined the whole of th e l ega l op i n i ons , and be lieved them , to bemell founded. H e was .a bl e t o spea k with the greatest absence of anything like, personal feel. ing, inasmuch as ho had not taken the slightest part in these transactions. He had been a, director of the New Zealand Company—so had the Hon. Baronet; but when the company fell into difficulties in 1833 the Hon. Baronet found it convenient to retire. He (Mr. Mangles), however, -would not so treat his former colleagues, in whose integrity he had the fullest :confidence.—(Hear, hear.) All they asked for was, that they should 'give them some better security for what they already pes sessed.--(Hear, hear.) Mr. GLADST9NE had seldom seen the House oc with a subject which seemed t o b e more distaste; f e u u l pi t ed o thein.,-(Hear; hear.) Nevertheless, the matter was one of extreme difficulty and delicacy; and they ought not to let the Bill pass without a strong endeavour to arrive at a just conclusion.—(Hear, hear.) ' There were four ways of proceeding open to them. First, there was the plan of the Government, who proposed to carry over to the Colonial Legislature the control of the waste lands in the island, subject to the obligation of Paying ss. per acre to the New Zealand Company% The second plan was similar, except that the amount to be paid should.be one.fourth of the price instead of ss. Tee third plan was that of the Honourable Baronet, who proposed to give the control to the Legislature, but to leave the claims of - the. company as they stood. The fourth plan was one that bad not yet been mentioned in the Committee, but • which he understood was to. have been brought • forward, namely, that they should' postpone the whole matter until another y e ar._ (Hear, hear.) Now, he objected to both the two first plane asbeing more than the New Zealand Compa n y were • entitled to under the Act of 1847.—(Hear, damage compan y ; but, on the other bane,' t h h e e ar p o co H jo e tto t f h . olght that they ought not t . ie they ought not to put it in abetter position at the ex pense of the colony.—(Hear.) The Company relied upon a letter of Lord:Grey; but the Noble Lord had no right to fix the claiess of the company.—(Heare hear.) The statute gave - him no such power. The Act of Parliament said that the expense of surveying and emt gration should 'be defrayed,sand the rate was to be fixed according to the exigencies of the public service. The Secretary of State, therefore, .went beyond hid power when he determined what the law hed left une determined. The Sec St rotary of ' ate might have com mitted hicasela. but he coaldnot bind the public 'faith,— (Hear, hear.) • Ile (Mr. Gladstone). was desirous of making as liberal an offer as possible, but he could not consent. to either o f th e t wo first plans. The t wo, how everemight be co m bi ne d, na mely, . that the compa n y should have one-f ourt h, provided that it should never exceed. 55. per -acree- e (Hear, hear.) His Hon. Friend - (Sir W. •Molesworth) Auld brought certain charges against the company, but ho (Mr. Gladstone) could not join in censuring the conduct of the Honourable Baro net.. The most that could be said.againsthim was that hehad chosen to vindicate the public interests against himself as o ne tof the f o rmer directors of t he com p an y . The charge wasthat th e com act upon which t he com p an y stood bad been obt a i ne d by fraudulent re presentations; anctif the Hon. Baronet, proved his case, it would leave their claims in a* ve r y , ques tionable position .—( Hear, p • beer.) At the same time the Committee ought to have the means given them of making a full mid complete answer. to •those - charges. At all events, he (Mr. Glad stone) would net be guilty of any act of injustice to them.—(Hear, hear.) There was one other course open • to them, and that was the postponement.of the whole matter. Upon ,this subject he felt a great difficulty in coming to a decisions He should be reluctant 'to make the proposhion,unless . the opinion of the Committee • weroinfavour of it, :and until he knew the sentiments of several Hon. Moinbers.w.ho had taken a great interest in ehe 'question, and particularly until -.he knew those of the Right Hen. Baronet the Member for Ripon. The proposal of the Hon. Baronet (Sir W. Molesworth) would .he decidedly mojust to the company, while on the other hand the postponement would be just to the co lony, and vvpuld..bo a great relief. to the Government and the Committee. Mr, J. A. - SMIT/1 was at a loss 'to understand why the llon. Baronet ahould have brought forward such charges against; the company without informing his former , colleegue of his intention. Those charges were. entirely undeserved,- and so - was the. Hon. Baronet's treatment of the company, who would have been ready to. have given:him the most complete information on illy menet respecting which he might have desired it.— (Hear, hear.) ein the present stated - the session he de . spaired of a settlement which could either , be satisfactory to the House or to the Now Zealand . Company, andbe was prepared heartily be support a proposal for the post ponement of this land question for another year, on the tinderetanding that there should be a Committee of the House to CaftZiLia' the -claims and.position of, the New Zealand Company. They had, as he maintained honestly, to the bestof their ability, in difficult circumstances, dis charged their duty to elle public and, to the proprietors, and they ought to have an opportunity of being freed from thoaotharges which the Hon. Member for South wark had brought against them, and their claims should be settled on an equitable construction of the Act of 1847. . • • Sir J. P ABINGTON slid he could not consent to se paratothe lend clauses, to handing over the land fund to the colonial' legislature without the claims of the New Zealatid Company being first provided for, or to strik ing the land clauses altogether out of the Bill. Sir W. "DaoLEswoani said. the directors of the New Z island,Cornpany-had not eeentradicted one single o.b_ r ;leee4tlon asst beriasilebrought against them. lid should lees at- any fatcro time to meet them and sastaai all his alkgations. • • . rieu . amendment as then negitived without a divieien., -... gever4l. valaial nna endrzenta were then made in the ' clause, and on the proposition to insert the words "one fourth part (4 the sum p:,tid by the purchaser in respect ed. to substit u t e d e of e si r 4 7y ,ov s . uo m h a lgr w .e o li n ee r s a tio , t im ;" ov . words 4 0 , o p m . l xi ten N tl 4 " r i n o s js;oad..isaoif4outeh-fifot the one-fourth. ocimreptiainny3:awneerees: under which:ono-tenth. of the.proceed s o f the l and were! previnusly offered - to,the New Zoatand. c totally .distinct fiona those under . which the one-fourth was givau them. . Mr. AG LIONBY submitted that the measure offered .to the company was much shorter than they had it right to exPe°i'•' . The amendment Was then negatived without a division. . .. --eu mined to insert the. words S i r J eL P l ak D in s g li to o n N '6 4 pr t o h positidii was then agreed to. r . • at the eniirif the t•at - ,..n to the'effect "'Ott the said payment shall in no case exceed 59. par acre, so sold or alienated.". When4hey.had got the claim of , .0 body t which Neat& large indeterminate one, the best mode to aet - Wse to gorridiof.that portion 'of it that ,viss deter mined, az.d , .. .. at-thvisaine-tinae-to bring the burdens within' r easo n a ble limits.i A _ Mr. , MANGLE - 0 hoped that th© Goveinment would not went to any such anaUtttlment. Rather thtte accept of such an artangeritent'he would call upon the Govern ment to give the comilanY Back their land and let , them dual vvitk it ThProasives.. , Sir J. AKINGTON tiliii;ght that under the circum stances sue. :In alirangement would be most unju-it. Mr. J. A. Safita iuggeated that the 52. proceeds should bow a iron upon ail:land s , ur b ln as we ll t rural. Mr. ADDERLEY was lin-f avour o f the preposition of tha Eon: Metubccr ter Chichezter." Mr. COBD EN slpparted -th e • suggest i on . Mr. SCOT said•it :was no dbubt acceptable to the company; for, much land-might I n sold at h a lf-a-crown anaere : —(A laugh,.) Mr. GLADSTONE nr),7 understood tbe.OOe2PERY to ha protesting against the. Gkpreinment Bill. It so, he would not be 'liar , to any c ompulsory ' me a i nre, and would not , press his minendeaant. pa r . AGLiptilif stkidAlle-cornpany were not eat's' fied, hnt - were , ready to yield t o the exigency o f t h e c a s e, and take what' they coultget_(A. laugh.) Sir J. PAKINGTON mid be had never understood the company as protesting parties.—(llear, hear.) -Mr. GLADSTONE torrid no understand the posi tion of the -,company—(Lfeai, li'ear)—were they con senting parties or not? Otherwise he would not brink faith with hiin. Er. AGLIONBY said they were willing to take what-?ver they were forced to-take.--( A lawth.) • The ChANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought the company praised rather t oo hardly, perhapt, by the Right. lion. Gentleman : , They were. Protestant Dis senters—(A. laugh)—but had - acted on tho whole pretty fairly, assenting to what they not m i st ._-(Elear.) Mr. GLADSTONE said if there wore really no pro test on their part hestould press his amendment. The'lt'ouss then diiided, viten there appeared — For'tho arnendreent ~.5 1. , Against kt .120 Majority... ;.. ,Th e c l au s e * us a greed 40 , 1 t3 was also clause 75. On clause 76, liir J. PAKLNGTON moved to insert words to secure to the company nn alleged deht.due fr om th e C a nterbury Settlement. - z • Mr. ADDERLEY objected to the introduction of the words. - Sir J. PAKINpTON asked wilether the debt Wes disputed? . Mr. ADDERLEY replied that it was.. The clause was then agreed-to, t h e words pro p os ed to be added beiug'postponed to the report, The reinainiogrelausei were then agreed to, a nd . the Bill passed throagh , Committee. • POOR-LAVV:i3OARD CONTINUANCE BILL. On the motion for the.third reading of the Bill,' Mr. BROTHERTON Moved th e adjournment of the lEtouse.—(No no.) The CLIACELLOR of the E•criEguEß said it was only proposed to take business about which there was no disagreement.—(Hear, hear). ,mr..BRQ2B.EgTON then withdrew his motion; but the third reading: was pbstponed. TOO ,Woods, Forests, and - Land Revenues Bill was then read a third-time. • • Tho Navy Pay Bill 14(13 read a. third time. The Poor-law Continuance (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed... ;The Sunk . Island Roads Bill was also read a .third time and passed. , . . . • The Tiustees Act Extension Bill was r ea d fl 'third time and passed.: •. - . - • - Sir W..JOLLIFFE moved for, sad obtained, leave to bring in a Bill for alithoriiing and making cupaticrwof the•HOuse•of Correction r ecently 'erected by and for the City of London, at Hollow ay , in the county of Middlesex,.'legal the on- FRO,ME VICARAGE. [r. HORSMAN moved to neminate the Select Corn oh.) He hoped - the unless the H mi o t u tee se w ee oulra m lion e Vtilielel'nalogetiot(toOl•lp'roeeed, as Committee were nominated :,to-night, it would probably beedelayed till Monday, atid••it was most desirable to avoid anything. that- migtat .give :rise to an impression out of doors that the Hodbo wished to shi r k the inquiry. HQ, had. endea voure d to make the Committee as fair a representation of both sides of the question as possible.. ' He was sorry •to-finil, however,, that the Ri g h t Honour able, Gentl than e the Member for Oxford U n i versity; the lionourablo and Learned , Member f or C ambridge University, and the Honourable .Memb er f or Sout h- Leicester, d ec li ne d to act, b at h e was quite ready ' to , substitute such • other . names in lieu as might be suggested.—(Hear.) The .names proposed by the . Hon. Member were--Mr. Horsinatis, Xr.r.Siloewcrdeetgayte,Waanl: William GEvoap ne Evans, Pagehir. ,p. a jeo W khe o n, 0 Abelmi I, i r S . i L r sa n 4 1,3 m e h n sh ' it Smith, pole, -Sir David Dundas, Mr, Gla , d in sto n n e e i , i, M m r r ..S s tr o u li t o t it S or ir . Mr. Loftus Wig r am, Alr. Mr. Shalt° Adair. ; .• ' ' - . . Air, WALPOLE thought kessential the House should take care that the constitution of.the.Cominittee was sa tisfactory, and wrii;h-eut wishing- to thwart the decision the anise came tcc the other night, he could not consent to .a Committee which he.did not know the constitution of. , Three gentlethen, the Hon. Gentleman had named had declined to serve.-4k, the - Members for Oxford and Cambridge Universities, and ' Mr. Packe—and unless Hon. Members of equal weight_And ability were substi tuted for them, the constitution Of the Committee would not,be satisfactory, and he must say he saw no prospect of doing so. at all events at, present.—;(Adjourn.) Mr. GLADSTONE said his name.had been placed:on the Committee without his knovriedge;snd nothing short of the express order of the House would induce Mai to serve on it. And for this rea son course pursued in this m atter hid b e e n s t r ictly constitu tional, and he was certainly of op i n i on that the House Might to-proceed in a wore definite•form- Charges had been made against a great bit iccr of state, the Bishop of Bath and Wells, end it' w• „ as , -a-he did not thi n k the -nl y fair • that he sho uld know that he was acquitt e d or convi c t e d of the charges brought against him. R 0 11 "' gave notice that , whin the Committee was nominated, -i t ~,,,,, h is intention to . ' move that the Hon. Memb er for cockermeath do r ed uc e the Bishop of Bath and t() heads or articles the sever a l Wells` L a 'do his these headsur articles to the Ha ta ,. It was his intention to move that those heads be refurred to the Committee, who should report their opinion Babied to the upon t he House. Mr. E. ELLICE suggested . L . ent of the .44e postponera nomination the Conamittee 1;: , f Mr. S. HERBERT isiid the ..a utaro da y. ! eady le fused. .. tiouse-had sr to inquire into the state of the law, feeling that a prima facie case of malversation- ha d been eheirges brought against in his office In common justice to the party arraigne d made out . against the; Bish op et ho ought to have the charges put upon paper, in order that he. might meet and refute them. Without pret6ua• v whether the Bishop of Bath and Wells as lag 88 . 1 i a ilty, he guilty or .no g confessed ho did not think the' • • i n any way to shuf fl e out of the inquiry. so use ought B a d and Wells. Sie B. HALL, for one, h a d . ' 1:10 7 ••• of the inquiry. He trusted th at _ this and 'the next day the Hon, Member for i , —ock e e tween uth might find it poSsible tO arrange the nare ca f TMO , . e _ ..., h h desiro to the Government. ' 3 the Lommitt u I '4' After a few words from Mr. s • d Sir P. . „, T-T•-••••••ERT CID . WOOD, , . ..... itt. The CHANCELLOR of the XgcHEGUER.said that the Government, did nOt at all ~,,,,- -h d that t h e HOD. shuffle out MemberfOr Coeltermou h hod -sufficientlyti--t—P—rt consulted that the re. solution to which the House haenion.wa was an nnfor them on the subject. .14 8 elm se , s tutiate one; but, haVihg adoatQ " is ala.t.° o w the Government desired that the inquiry should " ho' f II and What, under theeircumitances, h a • 0 to ss, .that he should f Hon. Member , for Cockermouth ~e would sugg , ask h 1.1 8 ••••• alter the te rns of his Motion as that inquirys oth o b aeint6 the grievances of the . existing law , and not into the an indi conduct o f ran whom alhnow seemed to is the permission of the lions& this be anxious to hold free By adopting t...s from attack. , aufig„tiou be (the Chan llor of the ce Exchequer) tao ugbt h„ H„,-,„ e would dis engage itself f . ,_ rem a , tery einba r „. '', • and batter f - - 2 sing situation, ir c a st Pa to rt t ia h l e . place itself on a r ootiug with resp ect to the inquiry. Mr. 13R0 raEgTONseccmck'd h raent of the House. a' 3 .lOurn L. i, a t ,(2 motiaia. as 140 t meet the wishes of the House with rega r d • C m o r l . o , :n i e l l o l 4s M m oX 4s mo s v ai e d dth h e e w to _. us o . :the Committee, and he allowed ' noting it at hour of the morni a „. 4 : idea of , ,_',‘ 'he should wish to persist in. R e . -b as not one ask which Government, however, whether begged the„,._ to th e Committee to be nominated on m oot fr a .,,Znu d I allow the • ' ' 7 —(Adjourn.) No answer was given to th is inqiiiry;• remarks from Sir J. TYRELL, whi ch and, after some t h u Te e, nommat n io o n in ?! ' we made amid manifestations of great,iMpatience, . . reed The eadtiimi for adfMent Wiiii ' . The House adjourned ourn at twenty re p u t' aeed to. o'clock. m inutes past two THE LIFE Of MARIE DE MEDICis FIIANcR. 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JUNE 11, SWIFT, STELLA, AND e e groin Eliza Cook's Joumat) There is nothing i n r •oaren ce mere pairifely iu'erett ing than the history el' Deem Swift, in con ' n ` the lives of the two.beautif u l and acco m pli s h e d women whom he addreesed by the names; of Stella nad Vanessa; end the recent French novel on the eubj t Wailly, EO ably translated by Lady Deff‘G4rd% M rt;ti d s e t yield in vivid interest to the actual cormsp ou d er ; ce be tween Swift and thee() two unhappy women. We may briefly recount the prominent faci a pre life, before entering upon any con s id erat i on of. the -'4 transaction referred to. Jonathan Swift. was descended from a Yorkshire family. His father wa s a son of the rector CI Goderich, and, through family interest, he .ob. I tained a Government appointment in Dahlia, where Jonathan Swift was born in 1667. The bey was edu cated at Kilkenny, and afterwards entered Trinity Cea. ledge, Dublin, as a student; from thence he went to Oxford, where he graduated. But in the mean time, ho had obtained the patronage of Sir William Temple, the stetestnen, who bad married one of his mother's rela tions. Sir William presented him with thu piebendery ship of Kilroot, in the diocese of Connor, worth about a hundred pounds a year. While there, ho commenced a flirtation with a young lady, a Miss Waring, to whom he gave the affected name of Variea, and though she was very cold and indifferent to his professions of love at first, his impetuosity at length won her heart: but now his ardour disappeared, he grew cold and formal, and at length broke off all intercourse with her. Swift left Kilroot, and proceeded to England at the earnest invitation of his relative Sir William Temple, for whom he now acted as secretary. It was while at Moor Park that he became acquainted with Miss Esther Johnson, afterwards better known by the name of Stella. She W 33 born at Richmond, the daughter of a merchant; Mrs. Johnson, her mother, was a widow at the time she became acquainted with Lady Gifford, the sister of Sir William Temple. As Lady Gifford Lived much with her brother, Sir William, and her intimacy with Mrs. John son was great, a friendly intercourse sprang up between all the parties, and Mrs. Johnson's daughters, of whom Stella was one, were thus admitted to the circle of Sir William Temple's family. Indeed, the little Iletty was brought np in the family, with Sir William's own neice; and it was while she was thus living at Moor Park that Swift first became acquainted with her. Swift resided at Moor Park for four years, and while there made his appearance in public as a Poet. tat his patron died, leaving Swift a considerable fortune; after which he got appointed to the livings of Laracor and Rathbeggin in the county Meath, where Swift's congre gation was so small that he occasionally officiated before only a single individual, and that was Roger, the clerk! While at Laracor he invited Stella to Ireland, whither she went in company with a Mrs. Dingley. The lived at the parsonage while Swift was away, and went into lodgings at Trim when he returned, thus never living in the same house together; but Swift spent moat of his leisure hours in their company. Such a mode of life must hare been most painful to tho lady; but as we shall afterwards find, Swift advanced all msuner of ex cuses to avoid fulfilling the promise of marriage which he had made to Stella, inferentially if not directly. Swift's reputation as an author was meanwhile grow ing; he spent much of his time in England. His " Tale of a Tub," together with many Whig pamphlets, had brought him some favour but no profit. The Whigs neglected him, so he went over to the Tories, and as sailed all the objects of his previous admiration. Hi s new political allies would have made him an English bishop if his scurrilous "Tale of a Tub," which, how ever, he never publicly owned, had not stood in the way. But they made him Dean of St. Patrick's, which was the best preferment they could venture to bestow. Having placed Stella in lodgings near the deanery, (most equivocal position for poor Stella!) Swift went to England again, and engaged eagerly in the po litical frays of the times, becoming a great power through the vigour as well as through the scurrility of his •pen. which all Men, feared. Queen Anne died, George I. succeeded, and the Whigs returned to power. Swift went back to Dublin, to a kind of exile, in which he remained for life; but he became a great power in Ireland. Ho shone again in the literary world, his Gulliver's Travels being received with immense eclat. But it was in connexion with politics that the Dean be came most widely known in Ireland. He identified him-' self with the popular party, endeavoured to promote native Irish manufactures, denounced Wood's copper coinage in his Drapier's Letters, which were made famous by a Government prosecution, end for many y ears before be died, he was the most popular man in Ireland. There are not many facts of great interest in the Deep's life. In those days, politics meant intrigue, slander, baok-biting, favouritism, and back-stairs influences. There was no soundness in the political life in the midst of which Dean Swift lived; there was little or no deletion to principle then: men ratted from one side to another, just as their interest prompted. We therefore turn away from any further consideration of so repulsive a theme. To us, the great interest of Dean Swift's life attaches to his correspondence with Stella, and Vanessa. As for Varina and several others to whom he professed attach meet, and, by so doing, won their hearts, only to abandon them when be had succeeded in drawing from them a declaration of their love, we must dismiss them with small comment. They were the smaller wrecks of human affection, which make little wail, and excite no interest. But Stella and Vanessa are made immortal by their letters; and they will cling round the memory of Swift for ever. What are we to say of the Dean's re lations to these beautiful and accomplished women? We fear we must say of them what wo have said of his politics, that there was no principle there—no pure affection—only deception and intrigue. We ere aware that the Dean has found many defen ders, just as Lord Byron has done. Tho man of genius is always defended; his failings are lightly dealt with; what aro crimes in others, are regarded in him as peccadilloes. In palliation of Dean Swift's conduct in relation to Stella, some great mystery has been apprehended. It hes been rumoured that Stella was his own sister, or half sister, Sir William Temple having been the rumoured father of both; and Surgeon Wilde, of. Dublin, is now said to be engaged in the pre paration of a life of the Dean in which he will endeavour to establish the correctness of this view. Without his evidence before us, we can only say that all that has yet been published on the subject, is is direct contradiction of this supposition. The same theory was , once before put forth by Mr. Delany, but positive proofs to the contrary were fennel, which led to its abandonment. To vindicate even the memory of a dean, one ought to be careful not to do so at the expense of the virtuous reputation of his own mother, as well as of Sir William Temple, and Mrs. Johnson, the mother of Stella. Swift's connection with Temple is quite sufficiently explained by the fact of Sir William being married to a near relative of Swift's own mother. We do not think it necessary to go so far iu search of a theory of vindication for the Dean. The fact is, Swift's treatment of Stella will not bear investigating. He had a mean opinion of women generally, and he seemed incapable of entertaining a pare and undivided affection for them. When a young man of twenty four, living at Sir William Temple's house at Moor Park, he had a lave affair with a Miss Betty Jones, afterwards Mrs. Perkins, of the George lan, Lough borough. The Rev. Mr. Kendall, Vicar of Thornton, to whose ears this and other evil rumours about young Swift had come, took him to task about the affair; and the young man excused himself by say that his mind " most do mischief, if not otherwiee employed." " I could remember," says he, " twenty women in my life, to whom I have behaved myself just the same w ay (as to Miss Jones), and, I profess without nay other design than that of entertaining myself when it am very idle or when something goes amiss in my atrairs: Such were the sullied notions of love and its professions with which the young man started in life. Marriage he looked upon with aversion, and sneered at thoSe " honest young men" who, in marrying', " entail a misery on themselves and posterity by an overacted modesty." When Swift invited Stella and Mrs. Dingle to visit him at Lat.:seer, the former was only eighteeni•ears of age—a mere girl; and though a beautiful, educated, and accomplished young lady, with a fortune sufficient to maintain her in comfort, Swift did not hesitate thus to compromise her reputation, and to affix a stain upon her which life could not remove. The personal attractions of Stella were great. : liar hair was of a raven ~blick, her features were beautiful, and attractive, her form was of exquisite symmetry; added to this she had cheerfulness, good sense, wit, and virtue. These qualities brought lovers and admirers about her, for as yet the secrecy which had been ob served in connexion with the visit, had not affected Miss Johnson's reputation, and a clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Tindall, a friend of Swifts, offered his hand to her in marriage. What was Swift's conduct? He wrote an equivocal letter, very cautious, but saying that should he ever think Of " that state," he should certainly, of all I others, make choice of Mils Johnson for his wife, and a good deal more to the same effect. In consequence of this letter, the clergy than dropped his suit. Alas! poor Stella waited many long years in vain— till the bloom of her youth and beauty had fled-- till her heart had become wearied. end . worn waiting for the clay that came not, for the hope t bat was not td be fulfilled. It was but too ob vious that Swift only prolonged the flirtation because it was p l eas ing to him, though at the sacrifice of the health and IlaPPiness of a ,youeg and beautiful woman. He not forego his selfish amusement, though at would the cost of another's - health and happiness. He had wort a woMan's beautiful affection only to trample on it. I s it possible that such conduct can meet with any pal liation? Is it necessary to invent a theory when the d ar k facts of the once are so obvious? That Swift pro fessed love for Stella is but too clear from his letters and t h e journal which he sent to her, when absent in Lon don—written too, at the very time that he was making Incpro fessions of loe to a woman of higher intellectual powers still than more beautiful poor Stella had pretensions to. This was the unhappy but gifted Esther Venhomrigh. The part which Swift played in the political intrigues of t he time led him ofteretteLondon, where he first met bliss Vanhomrigh in society. Sho.wats beautiful, hand some, a ccomplished, and rich. She Was inspired, toe, „jai genius; and round her lirow was bJund that ecau. thus wreath which, on a woman, so often leaves it bit eding . She was fascinating , brilliant, p roud, y et lovin g; s uch was t i le woman, scarce twenty years of age, whom Swift met in t he high circles of London life. He profeea t e l ove • for her: perhaps he did love her—who can tell? But be fore his, eyes, while ho lay at the feet of this , now beauty , there roust often have ris,:n up the form of th e: d evoted ' affe ct i o uate, quiet, and graceful Stella, then in her lo ,i g iegs at Trim, or in the rectory at L a removed from the gaieties of London life, living romises which Swift had made to h • P so far on the her, still trust iug and believing in his truthfulness, and that he would yet one day rescue her from opprobrium ,and make her happy. While he was engaged in con stanter h w e u intercourseabsent from w oni ith town,Va nessa,ll l was and corresponding with h as also penning his ' = • 1852. journal to Stella, assuring her that "he loved her better than his life, a thousand million times," and that "he had not had one happy day since he 1:41 her." At length Swift left Lorp.lon—his ambition cli,-- cppointed in not having been marls a bishop—and he Vi - ;..a pnsioncd off for life with the deanery of Dablin, whither he removed. Vanessa remained behind, with the deadly shr.ft fixed in her bosom. Nothing but correspondence remained, and letters flew ceross the channel. The rumour of the Doun's illness produced in her the most intense anxiPty, and the wrote to him in a strain of the deepest firction. Swift reAded for about a year in Ireland at this bz-in&g. Stella and. Mrs. Dingley to Dublin. and piecing them "in lodgings near tko deanery." Poor Sella bad now !Ken it Ireland some thirteen 1 ear 6! Waiting, oh how patiently! but still tiOpe• She was now a woman of thirty, and Swift had- reached the mature age. Of forty-six. The. hap piness of Stella's life was staked on 'Swift's fulfihnept of his promise to her ; from hope de ferred, endthe heart preying .must thee into the seemed lik e o' `e 6 jaking tomb. We• on itself, fell upon her, and e contess there w.,s a want of woma., Hates in Stella 's ooncluet throughont; but remember ing Swift's es influnnee over her, Carly training of her. hiss cred Profession, and his oft-repeated declarations of devotion and love, shall.wc not find ex cuses enough for p oor 8:01 now that hisr of inc l o u raises to isources W need not invent any far- In% woreWhld n,ort tint D ifi e l a h n i b e w p t r i c t l- , fetched theory to answer thi e s queeti on. is—Vanessa . was in Engl an d. The short answer And to England the Dean retuned i n There his intercourse and correspoudenc3 willthnlra'atii7esl43. was resumed, and increa se d in warmth to ll d her r the t perhaps more than his. B u t h e never trnth,—thet had engaged himself ° While in England on thir-. he wrot e hi noth p er. entitled " Cadence to Vane ssa ," i n which he qs.vesoeta apologetic history of the rise and p rogress of the gives ss'a love for him, in the frigid a r tifi c i al style of the day. Yet, it is obvious from that poem, th a t S w i ft, though he . attributed all the ardour to her side, loved to linger over the picture which he drew. lie is far from giving her any discouragement, for he says:-- But what success Vanessa met Is to the world a secret yet— Whether he at last descends To act with less seraphic ends, Or to compound the business, whether They temper books and love together, Must never to the world be told, Nor shall the conscious muse unfold. He a'so addresses lines " To Love," which he sends to her about this time—lines which she treasures next her heart, and they are only brought to light after her death, when they are found in a concealed place in her writing de:4lc. But he must return to Ireland again, whither -Va nessa promises to follow him. He writes to dissuade her: he says, " If you are in Ireland when I am there, I shall see you very seldom; it is not a place for any freedom; but it is where everything is known in a week, and magnified a hundred degrees. God Al mighty bless you! I would not answer your questions for a million; nor can I think of them with, any ease of mind." Bat Miss Vanhomrigh did follow Swift to Ireland, %hither she went to take possession cf a small estate, left to her on the death of her father. She took up her residence beside the Dean, end saw him often. Poor Stella—the faithful, deToted Stella, now growing old—her position was more hopeless than ever! The Dean would/ break into fits of rage against Vanessa, telling her ho would not have gone to see her at Cellbridge (where her estate was, aad whither she soon removed) "for all tho world;" that she " wanted discretion,"—ending one of his letters to her with " a fig for all your letters and messages!" Vanessa replies in a strain of grief and love, bordering on despair, and the Dean is mollified again, and:now he " will see her in a day or two," assuring her that "it goes to his soul that he does not see her oftener," and that ho " would give his whole fortune" to remove her difficulties. Vanessa replies--" I know it is quite im possible for you to burn my letters without reading them. . . . Once more I advise you, if you have any regard for your own quiet, to alter your behaviour, for I do assure yca I have too much spirit to sit down contented with this treatment." Bat poor Vanessa was in the toils, and had no help but to fret end vex herself, until her suffering became quite agonizing. Sh e k now now of h er rival, Stella, and the pangs of jealousy were added to her E,...fferings : his intercourse with Stella, though as guarded and concealed as the Dean could contrive it, yet becam e k nown to her. Stella, too, knew of the Dean' t : intimacy wi t h V anessa , and she secretly sorrowed and suffered. W e can now pity the lamentable Dean in his miserable predicament, though we can find no excuse for the imprudence, if not the villany, which had placed him there. "If you continue to treat me you do," wrote the imploring Vanessa to him, " you will not be made un easy by me long. It is impossible to describe what I have suffered since I saw you last. I could have borne the rack better than those killing, killing words of yours. Sometimes I have resolved to die without seeing you more, but the resolves, to your misfortune, did not last loug.-I must beg you to see me, and speak kindly to me, for I am sure you would not condemn any one to suffer what I have done, could you but know it. When I complain, then you ere angry; and there is something awful in your looks that strikes me dumb. Oh! that you may have so much regard left that this com plaint may touch your soul with pity. Did you but know what I thought, I am sure it would move you to forgive me, and I believe I cannot help telling you this, and live." Was ever despairing love more elcquent? What heart would not have been melted by this agonizing appeal? Bat Dean Swift's was cot. He went on buoy ing the woman up with false sympathy, and would not say the word that would have set her free. Ile was in a labyrinth, nod went on temporizing with both women, harsh, cruel, and by turns repulsive to both: often he repulsed Vanessa with extreme coarseness. This could not last long. Stella .wa,3 sacked with agony, and Isy on her sick bed; she was reduced to a wreck, and was brought to the verge of the grave. Swift, alarmed at her state, brought his intimate tiiend and old tutor, the Bishop of Cl eg h er, to visit her, and inquire from Stella what would restore her peace of mind?. The answer he brought back was this;—" That for many years she had Patiently b o rn e the tongu e o f slander, but thathitherto she h a d b een cheer e d by the hope of one day becoming his wif e; that 'of such an event she now saw no probability, and that consequently her memory would be transmitted to pos terity branded with the most unmerited obloquy." She also communicated to the Bishop, that for Swift she had refused other eligible offers, influenced by his advice and conduct. _ The Dean could no' longer hesitate to take a decided step; he was united privately to Stella, in the deanery, by the Bishop of Clogher ; bat on condition that their union should remain a secret to all the world, and that they should continue to live separate us heretofore. And Swift never acknowledged Stella as his wife. What is most lamentable to add ie, that Swift con cealed his marriage from Vanessa, and continued to visit end correspond with her, keeping up even a more fami liar intercourse than betcre; of this, Stella was aware, but she could not prevent it; the man was now her hus band. This went on for years. Vanessa became ab sorbed by the unhappy passion that consumed her life. Writing to hint from her home at Cellbridge, in 1720, four years after the Dean's unhappy marriage, she said —" For God's sake, write to me soon, and kindly, for in your absence your letters are all the joy I have on earth, and sure you are, too goodnatured to grudge one hour in a week to make any human creature happy.—Cad (her familiar name for him), think of me and pity me." At length the secret came out! Irritated by the dean's neglect; and occasioual coolness and rudeness, she discovered the retreat of Stella, and wrote directly to her, asking th e nature of the relation that subsisted be tween her and Ssvitt. Stella replied, that they were married I Stella did more; she sent Vanessa's letter to the Dean, who, filled with, sudden rage, mounted his horse and rode to Marley Abbey, where Vanessa was atayiag, burst rudely into tho room whore she was, end with a look of fury, throwing her own letter on the table, rushed from the room in the E 31120 paroxysm of rage, remounted his horsy and rode on. The blow killed her; in three weeks poor Vanessa died of a broken heart. was " tho most miserabl e man i n Ireland." like Stella; loved " n o t w i se l y, b ut o wonder Vanessa, Swift ness a, too well." What a miserable recompense was theirs, for so many years of waiting and wearying for the bright day that never camel Even after Vanessa's death, Switt would not recognise Stella as his wife. She died is 1727, after protracted suffering, of which her mental agony was not the least. Swift remained a prey to poignant regrets, and with Stella's lite all domestic happiness departed from his home. He died in 1745. what a tragedy is contained in this brief history I TIER AIAJEF,TY'S THEATIUL—The Queen's box tit her Majesty's Theatre was yesterday (Thursday) evening occupi d'a by the Marchioness of Ely, the Ladies A.nna, Cath e .. rine, and Augustus Loftus, Lady Jane Hay, Captain George Dashwood and party. Amongst the noble and distinguished individuals honouring the performance with their presence on this occasion we observed the following :—His Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Marquis of Sligo, Yne, the Dowager the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Abo Lady Ward, the Countess of Harrington and S e er Jane St. Maur Stanhope, the Right Hon. the Foreign Secretary, his Excellency the American Minister, M. and Miss Abott Lawrence, and the First Secretary of the American Legation Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Miss Dawson, Miss Parnell and party, Lord Ward, Lord George Paget, Lord William Lennox, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, the Viscount Renelagh, Lord Sandys, General the Hon. H. Cavendish, Lady Augusta Stanhope, Colonel Lockyer Freestun, M.P., Freestun, Mr. H. O'Donel Clayton, &c. box St ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.--Tde Queen's , his and Mrs. Lockler the Royal Italian Opera was occupied last evening '-'s;va.. Excellency the French Ambassador and the C ouDte :t e nd lewski and party. Among the fashionable enniPaiLY; a the ling the theatre were —the Marchioness of Ilastia''',, jr n erton, Ladies Edith and Bertha Hastings and Captain ' l e d TZ.N . , the Earl and Countess of Sand lies borough, the Earl and Countess of 'viell' the Earl Lady fh the Earl Elizabeth Yorke, the Earl and Countess a ° .,t*C Butler, the mad Countess of Glengall and Lady M ar a g t - 1 , the Countess Earl and Countess of Stamford and Wmrin Vi ° scount Sydney, of Jersey and Lady Clementine. Villiers, V, 13entivoghe Viscount Dupplin, Viscount Chelsea, ''''' and the Hon. Mite Hardsvickerd, d'Aragon, Lord' and Lady Carrintou .. b ans and Mrs. and Carrinton, L .1 0t ° tIfe Hon. Miss Gage, Miss ord Cranstoun, Lady '1 " Spalding, Viscountess Gage an a Blake, Lady Catherine Lady Wallscourt and the Hon. isliis r e on Parke and Lady and Harcourt and Colonel Harcourt, 133 Miss Parke. TUE EItITISII TELEG ;0, ItArlisea affecting the railway Committee proceeded w ith the arations of which is adjourned interests,. the further BlLL.—Yesterday the o„COmnsittee affirmed the principle of the to this day. The , iv_w - F l a bility; no operations to be 9 0 _ . clause for giving lini!t e °, f ' t h e proposed capital of 800,00 01 taenced until one 13 MbScribed for, a id per cent. paid up. NAVAL I N TELLI GEN GB. I We rep to hear that Convnender John J. 113 Do n; flea. (1846), who e.nm?:ssioncci the Crane, 6. et Devon / port in -Octrobr 1a t, end prc.coeded to the e.: , r.st of Africa, died at Sierra Leone on tho - 15;h of April last. He was the second son of .the late Colonel liPDoonell, and grandsou:of the into Sir John John% , on, Bart. He filtered thonavy. in 1816, and when belonging to the Cs.mbriat, anti in 'charge of. a merchantman, beat off two piratical boats in the Negropont. He was - made a lien tonsnt. in 1326, commanded the Firefly schooner, and lost her in 1835 in the West Indies; commanded the Nautilus, 8, and was promoted from her in November, 1846. . • PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 10. The following officers nalsed in navigation yesterday a nd this day st the Royal Naval College, for the rank of lienteoant:—Nlessre. Charles Stirling, C. B. C. Dant, L. Lambert, P. E. Lozrd, J. P. J. Parry, IL E. Crezier, F. 0. Handfield, E.Vilmot, F. A. Hume, the Hon. R. A, Cg3e4, G. F. Aston, T. 11. Collingwood, J. G. C. Ewred, G. A. C. Brooker • (this gcntlernan gained the tigtc:st numbers), C. T.- Williamson, Gilbert Norman, Lord Grosvenor, E. F. Weld. Tho following second master ilso raised for the rank of master: —Mr. Alfred Joseph Veitch. The following young gentle=cm also paiised examina tionsat the samellme, qualifying for entry into the navy as masters' assistants: —Messrs. T. E. Biddlecornbr, F. C. H. Petob, and H. V. Russell. The following also qualified ter entry into the services as naval eadets:—Meesrs. H. E. C. Robinson, J. Ho them, H. L. Barker, and John Shoitt. The Fairy royal yec'nt, and her tender the Elfin, were 1 take out of • harbour to• day to make trial of their efficiency, by Commander Crispin, prior to being re ported ready for the service of the Que en . ' Sprightly steam-tender, Mtter-Commander Alien, ' arrived from Plymouth this morning, bringing up a few 1 supernumeraries. Ediegburgh, 58, :crew-tender to Excellent, Captain Hewlett, bent sails yesterday, and has had her com passes adjusted. She will go to Spithead in a day or two. hav V e u h l a oa d n 4B s h or o ew , Came out of deck on Monday, and has been trying her -troo . p ship, Commander Von Donop, steer;' machiner in the basin. With the Ex c eption of one or two short intervals, we 9 TEMRSDA.Y. "" Wi lliam IP, Miltonof sappers and e s n ag vast deal of good in li gD e t e xy;ozibputo:tea u a rl i ;_i Tt a w il a ra d i e n, a which still comes down this locality. freight-ship, party Chennie, having hadehdeethis morning, with stores and a tTiners, for the Cape of Good Hope. Torch, tender to Herald and Torch wereEteroanld, coals, went out of harbourrdefects made good, and taken in Her Majesty's screw steat (Wednesday),Lieutenant-Commander advance of wages yester dayby Commodore paid abisilhir Tuesday Seymour. eaynms pc au e rr v e. e i n i i was g a .5 Thecorn y Daeres of the Leander, is m l a ss p i p ° o u i e n ci te o d n t T o u h e e s r d . a ne e w a i P ll Her corn- K m a i o nd .. of T the s a Leander os p m r obi! is o CaptainhearSOUGeaCceeodm'epdleininentht officerseofco7moo - i e r i oatd dock m Majesty's en ' t f o r ie•aavt have her hSepra copperrtan, 2 6 e , z e vv:a n a g s i:oneniclS7ta_.lll:bieneseedraney: paired. She ili be taken out and masted paratory to being commissioned at this pert. to -day, pre piement will be 230 officers and men. The Buzzard steam-sloop, Commander Debbie, g nearly ready to proceed for service in the West Indies. j- She takes a number of supernumeraries for dist-ramsea among the squadron on that station, which the Sprightly" brought to this port from Portsmouth. SHEERNESS, THERSDAY.—Her Majesty's paddle wheel steam-sloop Barracouts, 6, took in her- faltaiss ee __ tity of coal on Monday, preparatory to proceeding on a trial cruise down the Channel. She is ordered to s a il this day, and will be fully tested both under steam and canvas, under the direction of Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie , commanding the advanced steam &tills at this port. Lieutenant Seccombe, senior lieutenant; Mr J. W. Harvey, second master; three engineers, and 80 seamen of the Horatio; are placed on board her for the cruise. The Admiralty pilot at this port, Mr. Taylor, is ordered to proceed in her as far as the Downs. The Barracouta is an untried vessel, having been launched from Pembroke last year, and recently added to the ad vanced steam squadron at this port. Her Majesty's ship Waterloo, 120, Port Admiral's flag-ship, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford, is now fully rigged with her proper spurs and gear; her masts are fitted with lightning conductors on the pAnciple adopted by Mr. Snow Harris. Her Majesty's steam-vessel Myrtle, Mr. W. S. Bour chier, Master-Commanding, and African steam-tug, Mr. James Watt, in charge, proceeded to Saitpan-reach yes terday morning, and removed the Vestal, 26, to moor ings abreaq the dockyerd, preparatory to her being taken into the fitting basin to be got ready fur 'foreign service. Captain Cospatriek Baillie Hamilton has been appointed to command her. Sho was launched frcin this dockycrd in 1833, having been built by Sir W. Symons, and is of 943 tons; she was last employed in the East ladies, under the command of the lion. Captain Talbot, now Lord Ingostre; sho h no 7 reported to be destined fur the South AMerioan station. The Chatham yacht arrived here yesterday morning in'tosvot the Adder sterner, hiving cn board Captain Peter RiOaLtht , , of her MajestS's ship Boseawen, who had been Eunamoned to attend a court-martial on board her 11!..k.sty's ship Waterloo, 120, Captain the Hon. Montagu Stopford. Captain Richards rett*ned to Chatham immediately after the breaking up of the Court. Her Mejesty's screw steam frigate Amphion is re potted to be put in commission very shortly at this port. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, JUNE 10 . — Captain—Charles Talbot (1830), to the MEencier, 44, at Chatham, commissioned by the gallant officer for service es flag hip at the Cape of Good Hope, and he Ns ill hoist his bread pendant as Commodore of the second class proceeding to relieve the Castor, 36, Commodore Christopher Wyvil, in the com mand at . that station since May, 1849. Commander—John A. L. Wharton (1848), to be Agent for Mails on board of a contract screw steamer for the Cape of Good Hope. Lieutenant—Arthur R. Henry (1842), to the Vestal, 26, at Sheet - Lc es. , Masters—Timothy W. Sulivan (1849), to the Vestal; Stephen Johns (1845), to be Acting-Master to the Lean der, 50, at Devonport. Surgeons—Wiiliam Q. B. Jones, M.D. (1837), bo the Boscawen, 70, at Chatham, vice Gunn; John Dunlop, M.D. (1833), to the Sampson, vice Donnelly. Paymaster and Purser—Stephen Rains (1841), to the Spartan, 26, at Devonport. A stistant-Surgeons—G. F. A. Drew (1851), is con firmed to the Inflexible; James Sproule (1851), is con firmed to the Scorpion. Midshipmen—Lindsay Bruce and Gerald B. Vi v i" , to the Vestal. Masters' Assistant—W. L. Dock's, to the Vestel. Gunner—Thoress Rourke, to the Vestal. Boatswain—Frederick Huilott, to the Vestal. Carpenter—Charles Leca , n, to the Vestal. PROMOTION. Samuel Osborne, scaond-class Assistant-E n be first-class Assistant-Ecgineet. Assista nt-En gineer, to cott-RT CIRCULA.R. Wnvnson, TERTRBDAY.—The Queen left the Castle at e i g h teen . minutes past twelve this morning for Ascot nee& The royal cort ege consisted o f e i ght carriages and four, with postilions, i n state sca r l et liveries, and mime and Prince Alb ert, and the royal party, returned to the Castle a t t en minutes past five o'clock. Viscount la s Ma jest , count Mandeville left th e Castle to-day. rooutriders jest on horseback. Her . The Countess of J ersey and Lady Clementine Villiers are expected to arrive at the Castle this afternoon, on a visit to her Majesty. Her Royal Highness ae Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Highneon. ss the D uc h ess of Cambridge at die Cast The band of th e Cohistream Guards attended this foreno dinner Ca ri st e le rm du s r j i • eve ni ng in e n s g ty gave a gran d dinner this vases , , The 'table was George's Hall gold plat e, ith candelabra, ice pails and tureens of Yeeterdsy. in . t s h t : op posite the Queen's seat Wes placed tb,:iS4.ere „ , two lofty delabruns. At each end of the 11- a c‘Tt selection buffets, on which were displayed a rntiinkards, sod sts of gold shields, salvers, cups, 9- ValeSe'aOh buffet , being a tuettes. The centre ornament .4:)_, (the property of Goodwood Cup, won by Fleur-delis successive y ears , his Majesty King mill= IVO " Y " 1829 and 1880. decoratedG co w ith gsde can - At The Que en h a d a f ter wards an The Countess of Desert ; -a i n Waiting to the Queen. of Ely in her duties as Lee.Y_____ h h s evening g e pa M rt ait hienese bad an interview yesterday with .----_. Lord Beaumont had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpol e yesterday, at the Home-offiee. Viscount Hardirge the Earl of Derby, at his official residence in Downing street. Mr. Mackinnon had also an interview with the E x chequer yesterday, at his offinal mai- Noble Earl. Viscount Harding° bad an interview with the Chan- Viscount Harding j o l t; t D h Mr. Blozata had an interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole y.esterday. Mr. Leman had also an interview B ght with the Ail.-- . 'Lion Secretary. oewnExivegh!street. PAR LI t S,IIiENTARY COMMITTEES. 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