The Sun. — London, England, 1852-06-16 00:00:00

v i) " the upper class would be most severely felt by the poorer 1 truth we had it not.. .Let their Lordships censider, if b e rea d y to b e cal l e d out at almost an hour's_notice. Now, c lass, and it is desirable, therefore, so far as youcan ! an i nvas i o n t oo k piece, ee2Sl the:, out owolg to the want he asked, would the proposed militia answer that de consiete.ntiy with the exigencies of the public s r vice, to of British_coar age or suo , .. , set 0 (sing to the want of i scriptien? It was obvious that no force not permaneutly avoid impothr, a tax of this kind upOn thOSO Who nosy proper discipline, it 81.1 " 19 ' P' J•27't.:f-'34t5f.L11, :last would i etnitodied could be suffittientlytliseiplined to meet regular 0 unable to b7ar i t . In th e Bill eS the late GOve.3.n. be the eft et on the item al teeete and moral diBol'eliee Men. - e ,es in the Act of 1802, it ane , proposed in the first of this country? Betidee, there yva3 r: ether eenshhra- :troops in the field. Their main• reliance must be on their army and navy. How could they expect to get men to nlslance to Proceed to the ballot. The pzeeeat Govern- lion—nalnly, the very greet thicartainty of obtainhne serve at 7s. a week who wer 3 Prtt'oahlY receiving at 104 C; raell' ~ ho we v er , cons idered most acait?usi)7 whether it those men tonna when once we hed parted with theirl. ; 12s. a weer wages as labourers? They proposed also to v ieuld not be postible :altogether to ditpeuee with. the He agreed watt the Noble Eerl that the ballet slitteY ! take them from their homee ler a peeiad of ate yeare, in necessity o f having recourse to a mode of proceeding so he avoided ; but, et the same time, if the Noble I'nea. order to mike them serve as ceerenon soldiers, with the adverse to the feetioge of the comedy, owe involving no relied entirely on his volunteerS, let, Lim remembee - .e ' disadvantages of being subject to martial law and to the such addition a l oXpenSo, incouseolsnce, and hardship, he relied upon men gathered feam all peels, of the e eel. regular military discipline. Looking at all the induce-; and after all, is railloteel cssesont of twenty, not:obtain- try, and persens .0! the moat locomotive dnsorineee. 1 reents held out to the soldier, he was of ! opinion that the 4 1. the services of those upon whom the ballot fails. In He could uuderatand'a state cif th:nge in which the fion; soldier': career was by no means a bad ote to. him who the year 1831, which was tho last oecasiou when the commissioned officers would be folly . occenied in folloW-' was ready to do his duty. . But this was not. the 'cue e ball e t was put into exe rcise, a force. was require d to be in g those Weer, from one pert of the country to th e o t h er , with the militia. If. they paid down the bounty at once T raised o f 2,500 men. here were balloted for not less and endeevourinr to bring there hick' to those coloars they would probably get .the most worthless. of the .po- than 18,000, tied of that number, eftergoing through which they had abarifincd, wed tvhitlh they had a mo- nulatiee, who would be tempted by the amount to enlist. ' , ll the processes of the preliminary inquiry, there were five in abandoning. He therefore ceuld not consider He feared that under this Bill men would he found 15 ,000 or 16,000 e xe m p t i ons which w ere claimed-and sliest the army raised under thin Bot t if it could to pocketing the bountY, with which they would proceed taken: called an army at all; we,?, or woell prose) to be; crie s ubstantiated, while of the 0 .000 or 3,000 actuallyto . Oalifornie, to Canada, or life ITaitedStaiet, and that' when they were Winded they ivehici not be, for.thcomieg. net nioro than 120 ot the.-e who were belioted - for which could be relied oe. served in the force; :Ito remalacler havice• provided aim a militia had been found avallah'e for ttcdve service, He could eot find in hisl.ery, And now a word 'upon the subject of desertion.. By the s ubstitutes. It ettele, therihore,, to. this—that by the at all reserebling that which was preposed to be reit:el Act of 1803, it was proposed to raise en army of reserve volunteer system you will g,-or, a t oecs the same oI,IISS- Of by this &H. The American m ili t i a b onen() resemblance if 4 9,5G 0 meth 'lle Ill:Labor actually raised wa5 . 45,492: Persons—not the Ines.: dteerable, parhapa, but still as to this in gay of its qualities, in the mods in which it Of these 2.873 were belloted- ment substitutes for re- Pablo of Frisking very good soldiers—who serve at sub- wee precuree, or in the military h :t otts which it ac- crusts. Oi the vv hole number only 44,071 joined 'their' solutes after, you have gone through all the delay, ex- : cpired; and evea .the recently raised armies of --the regiments, and of these, , dirriteg 'ten M0nth:4'5,651 de _Dense, and inconvenience of the ballot. Let me juste - United Stat es showed theeaselvea' neything but c.on- sorted, or were claimed as de ser t ers : aud 2,116 were Point out to.th e H o u s e, with a view of showing the delay Potent for . active e eeev i ce , as . w ee 'proved during tho charged with . ceoimitting other offences. tradee thiS and expense of 'proceeding under the ballot, some of the Mexican war. Again, there was the laedwehr of Ger- Bill, if men could not he preeured. by Voluntsry enlist. lcePs which are necessary to put that system in motion , many; but that was an army of re - nerve, compared of [cent, recourse'wes to be hadto the. ballot., There was In the first place, as soon as possible after the 10t.h of old soldi ers who came i n to the &Id clothed wigs all this, however, to' b e urged es a merit in the Act of Pcteher a su b-division meeting is appointed to beheld their milita r y a t tr ib utes , I t W ou ld undoubtedhe ple.ce 'lBo3—namely, that, every balloted , man .could claim. ; 11 every county; lists are then to be returned of all men tho courage of Englishmen in e, - false ttositit a if, under from the parish hi Which he lived onethalf of' the cur aetween the ages of 18 and 45 in the division; then any circumstances, they were to be sehjtcted to the fire rent price of a subititnte, provided a certificate were comes a notice to persens claiming exemption; lists are of a regular army composed of Well=disciplined troops. procured from the deputy-lieutenant of the county. kxt to be made out o f p e r s ons w ho have not claimed In the year 1831 the present King of the Belgians was It the price of a snlistittito should rise •to 301.., .which e xemption, notice, of a pp ea l i e then to be giver*, and, exposed. together with that kingdom itself, to a violent was a low average, the party could call name a fter disposing o f the appeals, complete lists ar e t o b e a t tac k f rom thseNetherlands,hand a coafliet ensued, in the parish to pay him 151. Although this-prevision trade' out and. forwarded by each sub: division meetiug which the Belgian troops were ' entirely worsted' was beneficial to the individual, it- was not so to the to the geeeral meeting of the county. This general re- by those of Holland. The reason wag, that - the 'country, which might, on account of 80,000 mat, he t urn is then t o b e f orwar ded to -the .Secretary of -State, Belgian army was imperfectly trained, - and - went ' - called upon within the next twe years to pay, perhaps, t he "numbers to be raised are apportioned to each su b. into the conflict in want of discipline and habit to meet a sum of 1,200,000/. 4 He thought it particularly' hard division, then comes a second meeting of the su b-di v i- the troops of Holland, who had all the advantage of' upon the people of the manufacturing districts to compel ton to appoint the members subject to the arrangements : training and discipline . - His Noble Friend (Earl Grey) ' service or impose a heavy fine. With' regard to prece 'sued by the general meeting. • ,Three weeks after that had just reminded him that when, in 1848, the courage dent, he denied that - the principle on which past militias Id third sub-divisieli meeting is to be held, to proceed to and spirit of those troops came to be tested, they proved had been raised was that of pressing the lower cirdera (li ke the ballet. Notice. is then to be .given of the that they were not wanting in either , end that they were into the serv i ce, i n prefrence to the .classoi above them. men w h o h ave b een s t ruc k b y the ballot, and three capable, under that Sovereign, of affording the most By an Act of Charles IL the onus of furnishing to the ,wo be held for the purpose of calling upon the men dent that this Bill would provide an army capable of glossing 501 . a year, or 6001. in money, was to supply a weeks after a fourth subdivision meeting is obliged effective assistance to any force. •He did not' feel confi- ranks of the militia was thus established. A man poss ' „,.. it i ittelately chosen by the ballot, to appear to - s h ow cause being depended on- in actual service. The Noble Earl foot soldier. A. person receiving 6001. a year, or in. the e t t uthy can why they .should . not serve . All t h ese pro . had. a right to ask • him (the. Marquis of Lansdowne) possession of 6,9001. in money, a horse soldier ; and men short occupy a period of, from first to last, not much whether he relied on the Bill of the late Govern- of smaller property were to Tubtheir funds together, a rt of three months, to say nothing of th e gre et ex- ment as affording an efficient militia. He was bound to enable them to supply their, contingent. He believed pence incurred in the various stages. The great bulk of in candour to say he did not so rely. At the same in the patriotism. of the people of this country, but it t f i r ese expenses were, under the Act of 1802, defrayed time ho thought it expedient that the people of this behoved Parliament to beware how it alienated that ola the county rates. We look upon this as a grievous country should be drilled --gradually -to the '' use 'of feeling of patriotism by committing sri act of injustice. treasure upon the 1 03% 1 finances of the country,• and we arms. He looked to the possibility of their bsing Bat he had oth_er objections to the Bill, Whilst *eve that even if it cannot be altogether avoided, yet, brought into a seaman which • they-would -be. useful for Hayed the milia would prove a - failure he 'at the.satem e tt3 far as Possible, we desire to throw it upon the gene- serving in garrisons incase of need; but he did not think time felt confident that it. would intarfere'with recruit ?' lands of the country, it being clearly and unexcep- that any militia, abort of an army of reserve, which was ing for the regulah array. It. was impossible to go.into :lonably an expense which should be tern° by the-cocas a very different thing, would supply that deficiency the market for 80,000 men fort thiS' force without crip ?l' at large - . We hope that in most cases we may be which we were bound to supply -with the view to -an pling regular enlistment, It could be incontestably shown 44 0 to dispense with the tedious and expensive =chi-. efficacious defence. With hie repugnance to a standing that the ballot had, in past timeh', had the effect of e nY of the ballot, We hopedat th • commencement army, he still thought it hie duty to avow his opinion checking theoprdin.ary recruiting for - the 'army; and that .so f., Of ' ' • the session ,and further information which we have that the best, safest, acri•most chimer of all remedies' men- held back in•the hopteof being required as sulisti- It t `nee received and hs to believe that in many, if -not in would be found in a force of that' kind. -.( Hear , hear.) tutes in the militia. He confessed re shared in the ge d.°st, of the counties of England we-shall experience no He thought that an army of reserve would be far prefer. neral persuasion thatehis'meetare t would never be.car eiffieulty whateier in raising the quota which • may he able to any force raised Mader:4lin measure before the tied into effective operation.. It it. was,' he: thought it cratd by vo l unteers .an d w i thout having recourse to the House, and not much more exPonsive- He believed evoeld succeed in enlisting: only the least:. steady, - the a S'Ye .do not purpose to alter the •cha-- the expense attending this measure- would b e muc h least inclustrioul e and the lewd intelligent portion of the deter of t h e ex i s tie g militia—we do not desire to intro- greater than the Noble Lord imagined. At all events , working population. Would - it be wise to procure-such Pre sent a force of a less constitutional character than the an army of reserve would, be what the force r a i se d men, partially train them in, the use of art:me-and then, res erve militia,.—we, do n o t wish to obtain an army of under the Bill would not be—a real bona fide reliable 'after the lapse of five .years, turn them-loos - e - opon the iteserve under the name of a militia; but we - desire to defence.-e(llear, h ea r.) . .He trusted, in conclusion, that country.? The danger of-such a course had been felt in e " o tee th e f orce, su bj ec t as; th e present force is, to the this imperfect meas ure would be the only one which Femme, and it would be well to avert it here. At the . '"uiand of those country gentlemen who • the ,in tim e Parliament would have recourse -to for the purpoe e o f present moment there 'was no political excitement Of da pinnacle which was t tiger to the country, have never h es itated to take placing it on that essential to its amongst the working classes , owing, as he believed, to, ,slr proper, places in its defence, and who are entitled glory, its independence, an d its peepetuitye—(Cheers.) there being no grounds of complaint as to their cendi threeeive, as upon former occasions they have received, The Duke of WELLINGTON was at times very wen; but it ought to be remembered that ten years had eoufiden n ot yet passed over our heads since it was n , e • tee force ce of the Crown in raisin commanding imperfectly heard. He said—l am certaiely the last military f -- • manufacturing , , ace,sar to "gee when necessary. Vi e , , We have, however, --with fs man to have any hesitation of opinion as to the relative sen d a arcs into the districts to restore order. • H denied, -that t i t _ ;9 the increased efficiency of the force, made an . e.-there was any• inceusise of meting an enemy with disciplined or t cy in o osin this the in the qualifications of the different ranks of advantages - g en pp g Bill and supporting that of Lord, r ''' officers While under the 1 I - present system the- legal -with undisciplined or half-disciplined troops. The thihigs John Russell, for the two-measures . were - essentially ettalta ' so different that it - k r , cation depends upon the possession of landed pro- are not to be compared at all.--:-(Flear, hear.) _ With different, has hardly.- poigble to ap the% we propose ,that with respect to ail officers below disciplined troops you are acting with a certain dt;gree of the one and ' prove e . not disapprov© of the other. The rook of major—that having t he eoe _ tn. honour to hold a a confidence that what they are ordered .to perform one measure provided for what was - called legal a to sti fission in" her Majoatyta service shall be assumed els - militia , and the other for a . general militia ; 'la - oth v win eerform.—(Hear, hear.) With undisciplined l a Ni a sufficient qualification for the militia. •At the " t e e ' proposing to take the meaktire t pasied,at ; .the period of i ti k t ° time let me guard myself by saying that it is not troops you can have no such confidence; on the contrary, the last war as a, foundalion... . In. Igoe Lord C as tl e ., te f i ec ded in the slightest degree, by the introduction of the chances are that they. will do the very reverse of reagh, ins . ihtroducing • the, Bill for the formation t e ° ers holding commissions in the reaular forces, to in- w h a t they are ordered to do•-e(aear, hear, and a laugh.) of a local militia, maintaleed what he (Earl Grey) con tfere in l e d , any degree in this appointment—that will But we Must look a little at the state in which we stand force on which • a reserve ought to be enrolled to assist: • • tpe hihist as before with the lord-lieutenants of • -the re- at the present moment.—(Efear, hear.) This country is Under the old Act, in Case a . of ac the army. actual invasion, the local mill ',L.l've counties. Th e, time for which we propose the at poem; with the whOle,,world, except in certain parts, militiaaid be i t , .Lta shall be, called out in each successive year is a cr ore the frontiers of its ()van distant dominions, with eh . ,any part of the t io , li on ‘4 et 21 days, liable to be diminished at the discre- which operations of war are - carried on w's• conntrY, and sueh was the inbintion of tthe Bill of Lord .by means of our of f of her Majesty to three days, comprising, in. point - • John ties . as , ereegh proposed a strictly establishment. You are now ' .01' f peace provi ong fora a local force to, be permanently . embodied ' led in case of no- Sct a • t ete , °thing more than a mere muster, and of being .peaco estehlishment; yeti are at peace with the whole , invasion, • ' ' and thenonly ' ' • prat to not less than fifty•six days. -I do not - world; yoti aro providing for a peace establishment. teal cn in ease of .the i na bility on t i en eod to say that a drill of twenty-one days is suffi- I 'say that peace establishment ought to have been the part of co h un r i s , ho eupply voluntary corps. .He s e i d to convert a raw . recruit into an effective eirectua ily provided for long ago.—(Cheers,). If it (Earl Grey) t o.uget it unfortunate that the intention of ri ed 'ert but I think it trill not be contradicted that a pe- had been, we should not , bare needed now to be Lord Castlereagh had been departed from, and that a is e „ , ° ,i Eft -six days under , able and intelligent officers Cold, us we have been by the Noble Marquis about the l&cal neilitia,,whieh had proved . a most vapable force, to tll l '° sufficient ,to enable' the rawest: ountry recruits number of days and weeks it will take to train .;he '1" . I a mill kB i- . wile sepplanted by a regular railitia. Since the war the ~,,, tv eti . that petition, and discharge all the duties which' tie rtcruiis, -- or about the futility of expectipg a - eythieg h ts -, - regular zaiiitia bad costthecumetry 8,000,000/ •end from. ~ 13 4) In the event of an invasion, they would-be likely to to the urpea6 frees troops with Ebeir, three weeks' or d t th t at perm, e e present he .cloubtsd .whether it had , tl tealled upon to occupy and perform, while even a drill their six weeksh . oierhat time it may be, training. vh i ) contributed one iota, to tho safety of the em, -Lord la Iteli tYtone days will be found to be of great advantage have never, up to this moment, maintained a proper Jt Russell in hie Bill proposed that •no :militia should , „ subraised in those counties hehe be .. . w 1 voluntary corps could_ tee sequent ,training. Another important. point in: peace establishment—that's the real truth—(Elear, hear) Bill.• •be established. The OGntingent to be supplied , by.an. tr it „_ is a provisionfor enabling the - Board of Orda• —and •ve ere vow in the , ' poi;tion in. which we find oar- • • te;t'e to select, at a higher rate of pay, some men from •. se '"' ' ' ' organized police ought not to be He lee yee. . eselves forced to form a peace es!ablithineet such as this .. . forgotten, . 114, - . 1 Ilt 1 s for'the purpose of .instructing them in the •iieved that at the present moment la a majority of our country requires .—( Hear .) I tell you that foe the last • le (Ii artillery—a knowledge which could not fail tothe police force • ffi • counties ten years you h . h . , (Heir, hear )— and he thought county- magis teaerviceable to them when called upon to perform gor e).- than hnou b t to relieve t e sentries on duty of your sta- tr *es would do well if, a. .proceeding upon i t? m duty. There are provisions in the Bill for equalis- differ° tf h lions in t root parts o t . a world — (Telear, hear)— . 111; the atretsare of raising the mon in- different years. It ' - the _authority of Acts of Parliament, they set about • °Pos such is the state of your peace establishment at the pee le t e ed that of the 80,000 men 50,000 should be raised sent time; such has been the. t t - a a e of your peace estala- • forming a snore complete police force then now existed, tl t 'a Present year, and ft reduction being then-made iu lish ut for the - lest ten years H - hear) er the expense of the force to be ,thrown upon the general 110,011eailable population for future years, not more than ha t ve l3a b e een car t on War iii tilfirt(risCo"re' i , :. • 1 • ( ? 11 rexenue. A police force formed on - the. model of the 14 4 9° will be raised in the followiug . year. There is a d'fihte• tth dole by ma - f th. the glebe, it' Irish constabulary would ,be a protection to the country tai s „ l ,l?u. Also, that in the event of the. 50,000 not b e i ng . the ''- J., 7el .t.c f . ra.a:n n e t s-p,a,ce establish - . in time of war, and could render most effective , service went; you nave now with ar a , t the Cape, still continumg, til i ,„ - : io the prensent ear an excess . over the 30,000 'in time of peace. It was also a part of the plan of Lord e t ,' DB raised in the . next ' year, sufficient to make up which you carryestablishmentoe eol i r te %eece establishment ; yet John Russell to assist the formation of volunteer rifle n ittd llnl nher of 80,000; and in the event of throat- m On ni t th t an pe a ir e e enoui4 h to relieve the Y se ° n u tr Y i P os ti at a t 7 e n Apt ra°re t • cores, on the understanding that they were recommended N e t ? actual invasion, power is reserved to her statures in all parts of the and relieveo .- e the 'clriffen'a by the doOelieutenantslof ,countles, and that the parties it p - r s 'Y to increase the total force to 120,000 men. rent regiments in the tropics and oho . whet , t f, e ' e .. who composed • them, should find their own anis , and . lite p i ° ,?°eing tho adoption of the volunteer system we are vices theret--of' how long do' You suppose? e f a somese'- accoutrements Such:a force would add, he thought, - to tree ulopting a plan which was in actual operation in , e twenty - five years, in, none I , ss than °'in ta tthe•earety of the country. By encouraging such corps til e rid during the ,whole of the last wan, .In the course of. °-60.„,..atid; after ,vhich - , ten Yecees -- the prac.ice of the title would become as much en amuse tt te l is t war the ntimbei of men who volunteered into the (Hear, t n h ) i y i ou e . them five. . ea o r me nominall —fer it ment with the young men who belonged to them, as the yeareonly nomina l ly.. in use of the bow did with our ancestors. In a period. of tle tti 4 r tro o p s f rom the militia wa,s; 64,000, and among greet a- rnan Cases There ;ere for . thetanca, elle last. , l ete te t , h ° Noble Duke at the table (Wellington) will net t t i actual invasion such a . force would be found far- superior 'he moony tent out to the b roops w .: ape; instead ofkeep no - ` e to say that he found , rnany who, after a very - D a mere•b dofmercenaries , and although it might 0 - 0 y li P t Period ing them five years at home, after their long service •disciplined troops f te of letevice, were every way worthy to stand abroad, I wasohliged to send theta out' u after they had . not be able to contend. with the •o • •e6ja tide of the old-trained soldier of the Peninsular. Russia or France, it would, as containing the flower of only been Oxteen onh t h . m.. , s a otne.—( ear, hear.). My ) tell.iar, hear.) We proposie then to revert to the L d I 11 - er s, te yhuyou ye never had ti proper peseta calash the young .men of, Eit 'and, prove: a very , formidable h et , clown constitutionals ystem of the militia, but WO • ' auxiliary to the regule g ; army. The measure of his • thihment all letthis time. We are still at peace with all le t rse fo.reverae the process which has hitherto taken Noble Friend would have reduced the period of erabedi the world . ; us, than, have a peace establishment— la d e f t and instead of making volunteers subordinate to, meet to the minimum f' twelve months, or, is ordinary th e i ° llowing the hallo, we protake the ballot use to as h our constitutional peace establishment; end, when you of' circumstances, six montes. n o a The great objection to the got that, see what yeti will do next. The Noble let l ast resource. We believe confidentl that in thepresent ,Bill was, that the better classes of the people . ~ , . tenet majority of the counties• d, without the expense at- • Y Marquis, my Noble Friend, if he will allow me so to call would not ex ono themselves to the :risk of •being it tot upon the ballot, and without much difficu lty, we him, says he thinks he should prefer an army of reserve. called out to solve, as soldiers for so long a. period as te a , raise ley volunteers the full number of men which An army of reserve! What is an army of reserve?— fire' years, in the eve breaking cute The event of a war /be re ured iot a qt , and that this force will be raised by (Hear, hear.) Is it an army to cost less than 40/. - each Goveroment ,had at the ' limo, virtually, rejected the le u °lts who as volunteers will receive at once that man all round? If h© thinks that possible , I tell him offers of the volunteer Bain° ' 1 under*.the idea that they th,°.ty which they would receive as substitutes under' that we can have no such thing.—(gear, har.) But would interfere with e-e t r h e e• otps,, the militia.' T hat, lehiltallot, with all its inconveniences and expense. what I . desire—and I believe it i 3 a desire the most however, was a faillae. • sferryieteheoc l a s s . ofpersons. who ih r , „,(.' Upon the one hand Ido not feel it consistent with moderate shut can be formed—is, that you shall could afford to furniseih9 • l s s with arms and no- Ilt e : i t'scharge of the high and important chity which give . t. us, , in the first instaitce, the old . con-. contremehts were • not l' e li m ly seve enlist in the militia as etitu iona peace establishment.—(Elear, hear.) lo titt 7 es upon me to deprive the Crown of the last re- When common soldiers The '• e - to- ' ell Noble ' Friend ad klf '''' ) e'of that which I think necessary , though undoubt- we have got that, then you may do what you please. milted *e Bill of his . and 'though , undoubtedly, it also el for nan inconvenient. The Noble• Marquis says, ver tru -le that these 50 000, ,substitutes,, te th and oppressive mode of proceeding or 80,000, or 150,000 y. 'b fit f ' . lowed the ballot—it was ou lag resort or reserve; tk e t : service of the country, yet I desire to postpone ; : In six months, or twelve militiamenmo nths won't i e ht e or service , or e g e n moo . s, and if he had conceived there as the leasepossibility of I rled er eise of that method until -all others have been bat I. av the ''ll be fir t• 11 events for some service; its being practically required w -enforced , be would and Iltt •• I believe that in the course of the year we shall s- e . y t -11-- a ' , • 1 1 all l't and certainly they'll enable us - to employ iu - the field never hove been a party to the proposal of the measure. e % he experience that it will not be necessary to - • by the late •these i•• ree others who are t for servict—(hear, hear)—and in Government. He conceived, upon Piti t „ours° to any such proceeding ; but that the • • • grounds that the differ h • between t h e t w a t measures 4 v t i 4. Englishmenwill induce them 1011-I.°henteers•--• tt, d 6144' for the performanceonr their o services first all, no militia, and they were in as high a state of. discipline first it was impossible for anyone who had adopted , the now ti "at 1 f a comparative trifling duty, d • fit 'for service as any I ' measure to agree to the present one. men ever_saw iu my t ore eu urttly to take upon themselves to perform those an agde 'a 'ttecti life.—(Hear.) It was quite impossible to have a body offer a few oteservatiene on the' general .state the „tee d , ve ones which may fall' upon them in case it fences of the country . .. He considered that ; must We of troops ie higher order, or in higher discipline, or more • we st ueneCestary to employ them in actual service. I - . tt id that your Lordships • • 1 will give, if not an unanimous, -fit for discipline than these bodies of British militia were mainly rely on the regular troops and .the navy— principally, on' the ' navy. Ho was of opinion b leb 4 "eats . a very general co at the cemmencement of the present century up to _1810; , followingconcurrence to a policy, that we ought to possess a nayal,, .force cu r they were as fine corps 87 ever were seen—(Hear)—aod , ... .. . . d in the first instenee the course mom-d ever. ,Rik ; c1 by the late Government, but departing from the I say, no doubt thise bodies of 50,000 men or 80,000 perm to any, other, force which we pout e. ail te comtnended by itwith . respect to some of the de- men whatever the number Me bewill b •- y , eso tot., in have to meet in the .Channeleesequal ,to the. soles V' we h h the Course of time.—(Hear, -of France and Russia. It oral not necessary that the , a , .. . ave t ought it our bounden duty to attempt to r, hear.) Everything has its a 1110.- 'so t .' throu g h Parliament for the purpose of givin be and this is a commencement. You . Must force should be alveays in the Channel, but within . g per- . derate dietanne, Whatieedt could be brought bee in w tt ei mid entire security to the country,' not against an mame.a beginning here, and see that it will take some h tt e!lt invasion, but against the possibility of hostile the months before you Can England,gotnH short time:' '- It was batter for the eliecipliae Of thO navy 4440 12 ,—(E1ear, hear.) I beg, my Lerds, to move the hear.) The armies of g, who have served the that it should b 3 atationed la - the Mediterranean,or in i l d reading of the Militia Bill. . country so well, are your Lordahips so mistaken as to the Tagus than at Portsmouth. The Governmentshould N, t 7,e Mar pis of LANSDOWNE said that he felt too suppose that they were ever composed of more than one- take card, - liawever, •of what was to have information _ _ th tt `l the importance of the subject to remain altoge- third of real British subjects—of natives of this island? going on abroad , so LS to have a force always available , e ht et bi lelat on the present occasion. While he was not No such thing. —( Hear, hear.) Look at the East Indies , at short notice, superior to any force we might have to ,' , , , kil t ,ed to give his negative to the motion of the Noble Not more 'than one•third of the soldiers there ate such meet. As euperior naval force diminished she necessity th e e' be felt it his duty thus early in the debate to state. '''' nc ritish subjects. Look at the Peninsula; not one-third for a standing army, which, after all, was the only force kathrnands uon which he assented, to the. proposed _ the men employed " there Wore ever British soldiers on which, when it clnie to actual fighting, we .could G 'llre • H • common with her Majesty's 'Let I beg your Lordshipe to observe whet services those. place any reliance. With a superior naval force we te tt , • e believed, ill co soldiers performed.--(.llforce. Ile 'tem ' , tient, with his colleagoea with.whom ,he had re- • (Kerr, hoar.) Tiny fotight great might do, with a far less military l a y,, battles against the fin t -e ted and ho 'Might add in, common with the 6t troopa in the world; they went did not believe the defence - s - of the Country to be in so It t Portion " •of this country, r d s Fr epare to 'BB9 everythine r inadequafo ' a ectedition as had beeu represented; .on —a and b ' at i, of the reflectrog people ' s:mines ever thin • ' ,e ' to e StWOSStal 'he it id • ' 1,-eve the defences of .ei g, or thistcountry would e b boric the contrary, our naval :twee had been augmented iii net. le , u ti Cutterly . unsate to ~ , . I. them.—(Hear h -' • • h 11°' are e . a v er 4 1 , 14 '1' . in their eresent coodition, and he weald armies were British, ear.) Not, one of those troop, 1845, and tele number of troops (excluding artillery) was, about tho same. The artillery alsehad been placedlipote •utei t 4 urink froth tale, his share in any unpopulerity and not mete! bee ' but they were brava troop, . a ... a light a t ") - . t ' pus times defaults _hut well-or- . ve—fer I believe every 138811 is brave such a Notifies, that it would soon.be nearly doublet what 3 10 wo rn o attar }1 to are athirip to p g : :ittized troops. ' it was when. Lord J. Russell accededlo office.. This was. i however, at - . lake the bettl f W a o . s , a a se e , effective state. •He teas haute , terloo—(Hear; Ilear)--loak at the • - . 'the branch of the service which,, as it took most time to 7tie m e :time to say that while he abstained froth op- troops at that battle. I can tell nurnbtr of Britis,h ;Ite i ,t stieh ' t • • • the e . •• . - your Lox dthips that in. , train,' ou,ght most to . be looked to in a period of a measure, because he..felt, la prese nt , that battle there were .' 16 battalions of, ii, - . Hi 'opinion was, that mews should,beeeken - to anl taster, no y no Pea". s i t hot nes bf the country and of . Perliament, if t verian militia, jest totaled, untiee the Command ,of• provide for properly increasing the regular troops. ThiS f all Passe, this measure they could adopt .no ,measure 1 the late 1 - fanoverian Atobassador , here ce' t could `not ho provide.d fe e r by a Mere increase of the, •,;, ,he iii .uttlated to give efficiency to our defences — ee leietmansegge, Who . behaved , most d • ' llia ' d' ' It ' •t to take means for be idi kid on li allrab;y, sten ing army. , was requtsi e i t O R a 9 that ground he was bolted so far to given and there were many other foreign troops who rabble curing the mere rapid recruiting of the troop in time of+ es , e gniesnence to the adoption of the measure, it •that battle, avowedly tee battle of ' — 'possible. 4 %1 1411 11y C d uty Ile _ te te te h is to state fairly anti wit h out exag- (Hear, bear)— h - helped ' w 030 operations . to bring about With respect to the system of, recruiting and training, he d tud with doubts and difficulties that pressed on his the victory which was followed by the ppece of Europe, , believed Considerable improvement might be . introduced if • u respect to the efficiency of this measure ; above for 32 Or 34 Years•—( l lhar, hear.) ,I in order to . attain th et '' ' - I .47 he' bad ' t ti e it ~,, • that has now lasted these objects. .. a 18 te,re luatie2, t ea to be considered as tt" solitary measure for • that however mach I admire . highly-disciplined., clued a Bill to shorten -4 -. e ° • • of the defences. V i t7 . r re ~ xtgencies. nee ,wes tha bay , d most espeCiitlly Atitlshdiseiplined troops, f yOiits. The illustrione Mike (Wellington), whose opi th t thoseexigencies? It would be a differenttroops, anniori on such • It' .would ' . , a .. hey wet . , eas e u st not suppose thet otbe:s , can n o t eoeQme suotecte it oe presumptuous to dis tell vou you n 3 t , Itit h , „ere prep ar i ng by slow degrhoS te to ;raise this . ~, hett at... en d no delibt, it you begin with ' P ut '' , had then declar e d •the affect f h nati v e , ‘ %eV) that station. which most of them were aidafied so teo—(fiesi, ' / d , th's Act of Parliament I 'would be, to deprive the a o 61.1 a a M tt u :$ 4to • - ' • ' • • the forma . . tion of corps un r 1 PO • "copy. But it was not a crisis—admit t i ng , 03. What their predeuessere in the mee who had served More thrin 10 eB . E 1 0 IISIbil• they .rill i b . year- ut he (ar 4 10 `ItY Of invasion—that would be likely tn lead . - in I•Pn - c ' e° . - • it a te, whet the former Grey) doubted whether it • or lig • ee _ J Militia were • and if ever tii ,-, s , Go ,),0 , ~ , .. . cur that 'n "• • '-- might ;sot }JO Well.even to in te , t .Protracted War. 'What we required was a large .,. , , , ) •t they tsill perform all. ' convetimnee in time of . . . ru sh atio ue e it akinour shores • which should at once nilatta.;tere, you May Teo/ on I t' - . ,te cure the great object or ' peace, in order to•se- : h e se' 5 u ,,,, _ o invasion. g N ! Now did Witt measure, give us :he services' they alio' he requhetri- to r f erforin.—e near, , trained troops, ,wllich was so etr-Q!)g reser" of' regularly t i_3 05,u;412a ,-- , i a. 1 . . heat.) I recom —d es ;' ' 4 " eura.a3 the to letup, .tht •mea. - - . the onpssit , Ori . -• ' tto important on account of ‘ t i v° ? 4 cc that an efficient and vrethniscip knee army ____ ~ , tee , 3 ,..„ 1 . . let „ ttttaaal., t e . ~ certain to be naade in th* • ' me.ncement of ais may t tid n o t e. was compelled to come to' the coeclueion: that. ' . ' w oempletiett, cis e peace"'''' , '.' u t :: , • e g a lo s t the cinthauence - of ' a .numerous ‘itti e . What would be the effhat of twe.pty-one days' ; t f t w e e n o te- 3; ( tlhs.r, he ar .) e t ; t een f ej ett y 9,1 * oonstitutt - at in time of pesos. ' His proposal Would b4etatneg ermY fu r e: k tsr'oien orfort -two or fitly six daysd traieing, this farce- :111_n ehhh t e at. flitte te''' ,g e . oul . 1 , ee:tre, - '' service soldiers should be allowed ' tfter,lo it will btOOU4 f reties A d b ee "ni g US with th Y t 'dial" which we wanted? He -., • tute y u, , greo:i and be enrolled as rensieners, who Would then f . n ~,,,. 0 e ma . froth a drill wnat yon wen,--en effici..o.' attali '" . t feted to tae rega •• , regularly trained force a •1 , ' ' • „ vai ao,e in any em ,* ereeney., With. t il e ta tti Cau n competent autherity, thatlar ariny..—(Hear, he ar ) ' I ' 3 - • •,- • • L eh _ 1 er r 0. recruits for the regular artny, the utmost r Eerl GREY saidtha t .- r:iining - e 1 - regerd to the t h f the treops, too, there Iva* g 1( at i - • a war t e that ud be expected of i twenty-one days Would . i ._ , , valua b le' e • th on.), airing room for impronernent. He believed at present that there 'hey w they them n , (A lau li ) ' rei itte wan a force, but itlitteted . shoe! d bet reco - t `was no sufficiently effective sof training ' system rusted 3, ts ,_ y should be able to niarch.—. • g - • 'that it ise then a perreeree ti • uuld certainly not be considered fit t 0.1 3 0.. eres intents , ~ h a. Y embodied force. To ale : „ lion in the army , ,and that especially with respect to 4 1 , 5 , , w ith muskets b ' ' t . eit ______ . end purpoetts it was a -second regul re '• TOO' them were riot proper facilities for practice or ayonets. At tealtt ev ,ty thes ar ar y • ball -firing .•• ee tt .- , ore e t •qurstion, however, for them to con , 'd - site rill would he reqUisit b 'for- they ' could be e . , ~ , ~. . . s. et er hero wet. ashes He l i,,a ,oh heard that the troops who had gone out in crop "I • teicarry each a ebe for..militia ther tea proposen militia was likely t o b ) dr illed • arm,. Well then, would a in ceee of ansodden ' ' • , e tmergency. Er n ,„ 4 4 , ; _A e a useful. fore° je' kenhead took their first lessons in firing ball the ir c ow _ in one or oven in t wo years, be in a state h ..„ a h h . d ' th"h surs ru int during a few daye while' the ship was detained at Ports - be with an experienced, - " •and well e mua. remark that tey . .a 110 experieue - • ' ' e to trait uaduth. He was of opinion aLo that the practice of for powerful them M I ' h • • 'wed to . " . at t el w a . guard e ge t 4te" Ei rray?—(Hear, hear.) ,' alarming b .het WBS • suffieien•ly attended to • our army. g t ` would t hinge to fans r , ontg, ex e 1 td a auddtn attach Liefore ty yWe "ad Buell an army, whai l 1- „ . prepared to meet it.' - The militia should be - - • - 1 1 -7 9 .''3 Ilk the - " Conversattons of the emperor Napoleon, "4 . RIO as to- THE SU N, WEDNRSDAY EVF,'NING, was stated that the Emperor —en cxoc , ile; - ,:t ju.lge of the art of war—declared that; le modern times this was far too much disregatded, The measures he (Berl Grey) reeeMmended could be carried into effect at a very mo derato outlay, vet:ea:4 of 200,0004 and would add ma teriallyAo the efileieecy of the army. He objected to the Bill, la.e...ettio he bo:ioved it would not attainittObject while entailing amen expzuste and tendin g to effect the ng, " not content" to o f ,the secand reading. • tlieral•ray. For thos e reasons be should cer tainlyre uiti a} . Tile Earl of ELLESIIERB said he was of opinion that the measure wag necesearyeand that it ought to be :accepted by Parliament. Mo preiumed that no Govern mam would have undergone the-OblOony of proposing it had there not been 01:10.Q sort of , appre g heesien of danger. He found suddenly &large . hecly of the country and of that House agreed on the abstract question of the ne ceisity'Of some each defensive dieasu:e as was contained in the present Bill. Prom .whitever cause ,this feeling took its rise, he was bound' to Say ho entertained the same opinions he had expreised fourryeaes ago. But he his opinions sound or, unsound, they. rented on the con tinental relations which et present be•sorry to make allusion to any individual or to cast any reflections on Franece, he was'aware that the' road to ticpultaity in this Ooontry some year 3 ego was abuse of France; but that . fetling had -long iiinea changed. ` . .rile existed. noble person at the he a, -,-rt, of_utrairs in France had glveki Ha should n) reason to snppeee he had forgotten the hospitality he received froin,thie cotiiatrY, or that, 4ing at the head of potverful legions, he would ; 1?e inclin e d, merely on am bitious ground?, to move them in hostility towards this country. He said •thtis • much because be -was anxious.to make itanpearethat he founded his pre sent views, riot on circurnstanees of the momen+,.hut on general views and coesideratiens. He agreed with much that had been- tiddre:ieed - te•their • Lordships. He ad" mitted that mili;ite would prove - i n f er i or when o ppos e d to well-disefPlined il'OoPi• fie did not think the present Bill likely to prAiceeiFectivo froo l e; to meet the dis ciplined troops of Franco; 134 t he gepooded his support of the Bill on the fact of other services that the militia could with advantage perform. . They could be thrown into garrison, and be•employed .in ;services where they would ,be of the utmost use and assietance to the - regular" army. He would not trespass • further except to sal': that he could not reasoU•with-pehe'e societies.. Is lvas impossible to meet their arguments, because they were based upon religious principle, and when religious Principle was. imperted into a question it was impos sible to reason parties out. of their conviction. The Noble . LOrd had • alluded -to an , expression which had I.fallen from him some tune, agog which had been much commented . upon, and which had drawn on him, as he admitted, a• proper rebuke. He alluded to an expression that had 'curiously fallen from him , to ' the effect that if an invading army reached London, the Lard Mayor would present the commander with the keys at one gate, While the loot guards merched. out at the other. He heartily ) ape —ogised for these words. He Meant no reflection on any b o d y of men —b e onlymeant to.convey what he considered to be the true defence Of, the country in case of invasion, . He believed so vast wag London .that 149,000 troops •would be lost in it, and that they would 6e shot ,dow n a nd d e stroye d through loopholes in the houses.._s® believed; how ever, that Government was.prooeeth i n , a - eight direc den in making:better provision for the defence' of the country. ... ... The - Earl of WALDEGR4VE approved of the mea sure (we understood); arid . considered the - objections which had be,4lisaade.wero only questions detail,, The Bill waS then 'read a ISeemd t ime and or d ere d to be committed on Thursday,; The School Sites Act Extension Bill was read a third time and passed, Otherßill3 were =wed a stage. The' Committee on Baron de-Bode's was nomi nated. ASSEgBSIENT OF TRE PROPERTY -TAX. The Duke of RICaNIQNP presented a petition from Messrs. Elmo, of Suse,ex, complaining of the mode of assessment to the income-taand the tuacbi ttery of ,p. Re was effsid that it Might •With.too much truth be said Out the mass of the farmers had this year made a loss'instoad of a profit. A power of appeal was 'to farnscrs if the tenant held from Mic . haelm as to i i ic ir a v e c i• nts; but if from Midsummer to 311.1,unanser no appeal grievancecould be beard. That was a practical grievance at ho ,hoped the Noble Lord would inquire int o the ' mutter with `a view of ascertaining whether, a r e m edy might not be afforded by the Lords or the Treasury without. the necessity of an application to Parliament. Lord BERNERS supported the prayer of the petition. -The Earl of DERBY w as inclined to thiuk, from what he had heard, that the grievance arose from what ho might almost call a clerical error in the Abt,,, Ile pro mised his Noble Friend that he would make inquiry into the point in order to sea whether there. .was any mode of affording relief without - spPlYieg to Parliament. After a few words from the Duke of ARGYLL The petition was or d ere d to li e on th e: table. , Their LDrdships then adjourned at a Quarter past Ten o'clock. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. allbject of .rbe . _ --a.------ '(CONTINDED oh - MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.) i r e e dis i e t i t - i f i J oi ne h l:he lite' "ideal ' M s li l :;t7r l tit . rtit c Y l t assault on Mr. Mither: This of course 'led to counter representations on the. part of th© Ministers ; ending in proving that they had in the first-instance donwas badly as could be imagined' but had--ended by taking the alarm and determining to act vigorously, in ways which ,are yet under the darkbess of the future. At a late hour, or more correctly on Tuesday morn ing, the Maynooth question via s - once more brought for ward. The attendant Cir c umstan - Ces and the result were so complicated and perplexing, ahat it may b e well t o atitq the position in 'Alicia r i ndividirally stood, as t he whole, and thereby ;throwing light on my capacity for giving evidence in oneidirectioh-or a:later - • a This position was, a will a--- you. r emember, that although One bf the most earnest supp c i rtm , s bf the Bill of • tb A e means Of showin"he ' point 'horn which I viewed the late Premier, On the ground that the• Papal power had upon the Catholics' establishment- at*Blaynootb, - on the maltreated us, I had engaged ground that this would' be maltreati ng them ' , b eg that this tray be borne in mind, in what mayfollaw. • The smallest acquaintance, with the c os of Cr to tote against any attack 1 sufficient tuesfabbs h that no jean and no party absolute endings in a popular Assembly, i, a can " 4 3 1 3 have an command over the time at Which a ; qu e s tion shall be brouht forward. A degree of generatahlinaay som e times be exerted on one side, or --- e n the Wain, the operation is to a • the other. But in great extent under the influence of chance; and all that can be said ii, that parties must be' on the, look out, forthcoming when the opponerit's o p' p o rthn i ty l a move arrives. On the present occasion T hav e not the alightest reason for . believing, that any eXtraor and take ,care dinary generaishiP was exerted on arty sidia stilile " that there was any thing which could be deuominatels " trick," though the word was rather copiously used in subsennent pro ceedings. ' As the morning wore on, the - ant.i.mi i ii, t oi.j a l sine began to drop off to bed; previou / t y to which, t h e two sides had appeared pretty a 1 A tv4 dY 'balanced. Some lengthy speeches from their own,.. e i di -„,,,,„ ab1y contr a. bitted to thin the Oppoiition herleh o ,: . ,'" And when this hid gone to it certain length,. nothi g n would content them but moving an adjournment of the House. - From thiamement, 'the leader of - the , an tiaNlanooth move' meat saw his road to success', or as . the• French say, w be voyait sa belle. You will perhaps ask, why I, whom, and , could Gdesirebe to have an opportunity of aecon y 4iishin„. my . e i 3 gage! meat by voting on the main questi on b , voted for the ad• j eurn ment of the House. Simply because I knew a vote against it.woulda. be. claimed. ti g . a vote for the anti- Alsynooth leader. And so it la me , went ‘.. out; for he to a triumphant 039jority of d 133 to 29 against the ad eurnment of the House, "n h a— _,, --amearately a nnounced, j that he was quite content writ .what he would accept att a criterion of the feeling of the Hous e, and wo u ld g o no be repeated still retly farther. And this ere triumphan next day; the party, with who had allnw e d the mse l ves to be uestiia l baiting hnn q defeated,which ' of 3 as to what he would and would , 'll not do, to wou ld what ha.nk • b en he answered, tnat ho ~, . ,s ____ ew,e.int ed, and ,w • liked, without taking hi °pp= the whole •°,, counsel. - On looking' back. Wm " 1. pis clear that it of was a contest t d• a di a mond out ISIII0Eld:' had itall fa, a n - d• that the -, ar th party finally . - waeir own 'lv* anti-w.aynoo. . One reasonthat their o 0 probablymit demand forPP n are ditiied t h emse lves. The an among Ant s qy, acts h there can ho - 3 puzzler; for thong _ 0 u rea onable 3- a only another form of mo v i ng s doubt that it is it . ,that the th be disallowed, la notcharge for Maynoo . everybody to see this. ' The c that can be expected , athol them. agree, whet ar h they ought to I" selves cannot ho;ote for an 'lnquiry. And allot Inquiry or against an ,r,easerr is; to bed and grin:able , that it is easier to go clock' in the r a. terwards, at three o morning to watch 'than to be there opponent. This 'not 6 e • the movements of tin ; be i ng there is for there is no D , what lets everything down; d wn of warfare, than "till" better established in every kin those carry ' IL who aro there, do very generally.their point against 'those who are not.' brought in for the Repression .-- On Tuesdara - Bill was Ireland, by 140 to 19 — of Crime and Outrage in - The 'clock and ro-a ss , House separated at five 0. an intiiiio 'into the at seven; when, rho subject being rheetise• of the ili-tr 0 duct of of the Government on, of the Seettioh juise?atment by their frimds the Austrians escaped by the la was in Hungary, the inquiry SO being counted out. Sir, yours very sincerely, - ' • I am, i —r D R EF i.„, AN via .. kJER. Blackheath, June 852. 16,1 , • --,--- ' ' THE LIFE OF .A.IAHIE DE • MEDICIS, Q ty ,,,..__ , , 'l7' OP FRANCE. BY 31iSs PARDOE, 3 Vowl.—A Wm'i o f hi , literary and historical merit. Rarely have the strange vi o l; situdes of romance been more intimately blended with , - facts of real history then in the life 'of illitiits de m edit t i n ,_ e p9wee o f dratnatic delineation b e i ..; nor has the difficult problem of combihing with the fidei*‘t'y; of biography the graphic record of often more successfully solved than by the talenteadb: of the volumes before us. As- a peitonal narrativ e miss Pardoe's admirable biography professes the. most u r b t l i ft: . and constantly sustained interest;. as a historical the even ts of which it treats, its merit is of no ordinary purity description.- Throughout the work ` is c h aracterizld b y a carefulness of research , a fidelity to truth , and a- high of tone whi c h entitle Bliss Pardo°. to Jake rank among 'the mot suce€ssful writer's of history. —John Bull. IT 11 iTy'S • 0' f , [A.D :, EIiTISEAIEST•] .......0..0.41, • —13:1• Merit. a n d Pills have cured a remarkable case of Scrofula—The son of Mr. Alliday;2o9, High-street, Cheltenham , when three y ears old, was afflicted With s crofula in the n eck, and t he diseaieei " - d . corrupt creased so fearfully that in four years hp had ten ulcers on hni body, besides a tumour between the eyes. The best on his treatment afforded him no relief, the blood being so co that it was considered 'impossible Vs subdue the was sound' iseas e . At this crisis Holloway's Pills and Ointment were resorted to, a n d with great success, for in two months the boy cured by their use, and he has continued well for the last threYe' years.—Sold by all Druggists and at:Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, 'Strand, London. I SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. T FROM THE HORNING P.AZE US HIS DA Y. TMES.—For sozne time post heye been infested b 7 3 parce - 1 of th e i g. streets of London c.tress.of Roman Catholic ecclesiasti trty peDple in the of our metropolitan readers t Pear. There are Ca, HIUS, ha v e couples. crowded thorough. seine of these gentry in our most tires: They generally hunt in pleaestinsight cannot fie encountered in th e e glare 'ion mornitio's walk :hen a brace of those dilly crea t u res eiri ‘t - o- n : they glide about among the people with onee—eaand beefy step. _ Of course the object is to fainP ° e : the public with their presence; If Cardionl ,and his Privy C ounc il i n G o ld en - square could once, • defiance. of the English lawn establish the custom,w should soon have our street crowds diversified with every coneelveable costume of monkery. It is notorious that when the Roman Catholic Relief Act was paeied a clause was inteoduced, •enectiroe " that no Roman Ca tholic ecclesiastic, nor any member of any of the re ligiognerdere, communitiee, or societies of the Church of Rime, bound by monastic or reijoioll3 vows, should exetciso any of the rites or ceremonies of the Roriati Catholic religioui or, wear the habita of order, save erithin the usual places of worship of the Roman Catholic rsligion or in private houses." Such in the law of England, :and it is poi fently tall known to the persons sell° have for acme tithe p Lot. set it e.t dfilanee. It cannot be said that thisis ca old worn mit rekuletion such as the one which forbade undertakers to 'bury the dead in linen shrouds. The same ptovition was ro doubt introdueedjeto various-old statutes; teat valeta the Roman Cathode Relief was passed -in 1829, it was retained and solemnly re-enacted. Nor is there any reason why such a provision should be buffered to fall into desuetude. The 'Thinen Catholic tchie'ttains have not cemented themselves with sending their'noisome endiaerjes about the streets; it would seem Us though they had issued orders directing them to disturb the Protestant congregations while engeotrl in the celebra don of. public worship. To pat the existing law in force is, then, a simple net of self-defence. : 13riti 4 inti were it not for this additional aggravation, the reasons for maintaining the law in 1852 are stronger than they were for enacting it' in 1829. It was supposed at the time that the presence of Deem Catholic 'priests— the passage of Roman Catholic in:occasions 'through the public streets—might lead to a violation of the peace. The same danger exists still, and to a yet greater extent. We do not pretend to argue the point as feeling 1 any especial sympathy for persona who, with their eyes open, set the law at defiance. Still it would be a deplo rable thing, and a great reflection upon those who are charged with the duty of maintaining the public peace, itt from want of timely forethought, any broil should occur in the thoroughfares of the metropolis. It would f only need a brace at Passionists—a rabble of little boys —and a gang of Irish hodmen, to get up a row which might lead to tho most serious casualties—possibly to the logs of life. It will be seen that the Queen, by a procla mation issued yesterday, has expressed the determina tion of the Government to put down.the nuisance. The proclamation itself will be found in another part of our impression of this day. It is therein stated that the Ro man Catholic ecclesiastics do wear the habit of their orders in plaees of public resort—that Roman Catholic processions, with all the pomp, pride, and circumstances usual en such occasions, do perambulate our streets—that banners are dis played—symbols elevated in the public vier, end that consequently the peace of the town is en dangered. The offenders are solemnly waved 'that the law will be put in force against them to its fullest ex tent if they give further occasion of public scandal. We trust that strict orders may be henceforth issued to the police to conduct, them to the nearest stationdeouse. Wo ,wotild considerations of turmoil apart—have .the streets of Loudon become as the streets of Rome, along which_ swarms of unwashed beings in robes black, white, brown or grey, are to he seen passing at all hours of the day, like clouds over a landscape.' The Roman Catholic priests must, mane up their minds to- submit to the same regulations as practicallfeffect the Protes tant clergy. Although it is not illegal, no ote`ever sees a Protestant clergyman bustling about Fleet-street or the Strand in pudding sleeves and a square cap. There is no law on the - subject, for none ie needed. The tacit good sense of the Protestant c l e rgy prevents them from dragging their sa cred vestments through the maid—and oven running the risk of exposing religion to contempt in s the persons of is ministers merely on a question of costume. Let the Roman Catholic clergy follow the wholesome ex ample. So, again, with tee practice of out-doer- pro cessions and ceremonials—the thing is simply impoi. sible in England. However mtich the moderation of the bystanders may endeavour to stave off such a result, the moment would surely have come when a shower of black mud would have expressed the state of public opinion upon this feature of "Papal Aggroseien." Much more is this likely to be the, case if the procese siona are absolutely directed as hostile movements against the tranquillity of a body of Protestant wor shippers. It has been reported to us that is the imme diate neighbourhood of Orchard-street, Portman.separe, a platform is erected on which, from time to time, co pies of the Protestant Bible ure committed to the flames. We warn the telemeters of such proceedings, as- they value their own safety, to hold their bands while it is yet time. CBRONICLE.—We' have received, from time to time, very striking accounts of the alteration of public sentiment which has progressively disclosed itself in France since the appearance of the Orleans decree. General statements of this sort aro usually difficult to verify, but their accuracy in the present instance is re markably confirmed in the effects of the confiscation on the three great bodies with which Louis Napoleon pre tends to share the sovereignty of the State. It is to be observed that, exactly in proportion to the measure of independence they enjoy, is the susceptibility which they manifest to the discredit in which 'they are necessarily involved. The Senate makes, of course, no sign. 'The publication of the decree took place while that body was in course of fbrmation, and was just in time to pre vent its including a single member who might have made it other than it vests meant ter be—namely, a co lossal contrivance ler settling the President's Civil List, and ter rewarding tho subaltern agents in the coup d'etat. The Council of State, owieg to the profes• sional character of most of itti entice; is coniposcd of men, a thought more respeCtable than the Senators; but its close connexion with the head of the Government would have prevented its voluntarily engaging in any proceed ing equivalent to a condemnation of his policy. The appeal of the Prefect of the Seine has, however, left it no alternativa but to sit in judgment on the President's conduct. Although there seems no reason to doubt that its decision on the competency of the civil tribunals to adjudicate between Louis Napoleon and the Princes will be favourable to the Government, it is notorious that a must painful feeling pervades. the Council on the sui , ject, and it is suspected that a judgment confirmatory of the legality of the decree will probably be followed by seve aal resignations. Indeed, on the very eve of last Satur day's hearing, the managers of the case on behalf of the Administration had to withdraw their brief from the int - ids of their chosen advocate, M. Reverehon, who confessed that, even upon the ex parte instruc tion:4 before him, he had come to a conclusion against his clients. But that which, in th e &millers of State, is only unwillingness to make themselves open accomplices in the confiscation, becomes, with the deputies, a spontaneous demonstration of disgust. As the representatiie body is, at all events, not directly dependent on or connected with the President, it stands alone in having voluntarily created the moans of publicly disengaging itself from the responsibility of his most conspicuous misdeed. The common belief is that M. de Montalembert has managed to get inserted e in the report of the committee on the Budget an express censure of that invasion of right. Whether this impression be or be not precisely correct, the uneasy and deprecating tone of the newspaper which has been promoted to the place of the Coristilutionnel makes it evident that some proceeding., in the highest degree distasteful to the Government, has been ventured upon, or is being matured. The mere discussion of the point proves the sentiments of the Assembly; and when so feeble an organ sounds clearly, who can doubt that public opinion, were it unmuffied, would speck with the voice of a trumpet? It is not always, on very often, that the Crime for which a men is most heavily and conspicuously pit niched is exactly the offence of blackest enormity which he happens to have committed, Teo convicted pick pocket is frequently an unconvicted burglar; and report tans that a noble personage who was drum m ed out of society for cheating at cards, was heard to utter bitter complaints against Fortune , wh i ch h a d s uff e re d him to pass undetected in doctoring a horse for the Derby, and then consigned him to rain for 'turning up a kiug at whist. For the sake, therefore, of moral example, it is well when the crime w hich goes unwhipt and that which entails pun i s h men t are so clearly united, in point of time or natural connexion, as to render • unmistakable the double character of the retribution. We have some satis faction in thinking that a spectacle of this latter which ha v e v is i o n n de t f h en e sib t l h e a t c e ts w afforded by the two most indefensible been recently perpetratedf affa i rs . The seizure o Loui . s Philippe's.. ar . of in hE h i er r i o t p a e n an ce e from rivalling in immorality the long is very fa r Which the President of the French Repub lic i n to have engaged against the institu tionslie is now known the guaraian and trustee. Yet all of which j et n h se h q e ue w n a c s es which he has incurred seem at the pens first sight to have flowed exclusively from the minor crime; end it is only ins the the confiscation of necessary sequel of the trea the Orleans Property French liberty that w_e pro . ena e b se le t d s. to recon cilelf ctheson against apparent disiroportion lev o e f ll t e h d e a ir t t the a r ho sons of Louis d ec ree w hich Louis Napoleond at all, it is doubtful whe rhheirlitPhi)eee:awdounld s h e lv e s , be il e d n er a in siVe flaw in the success of g had the landmarks of the eon cretat.. e dispersed "r by succession of reveille lacy and right t o u ra c h U sed were the influential classes by fth'c'ele-t-esr°ror of the crisis which the Constitation• had pr ( 1--se obscure were the elements of ehe etrifo re n t he Preeidont and his adversaries lathe As h'z'ofc,c- t h a t, f o r ail we kiew, public opiniefe, nfter . a setntil ;„" " t enet have Fi , rtlrd . thhininto iyriik accept feel her - B — o ' ne ,p - ee tist el,e-spefi2ra•, end a virtdtd Weenie s ocro rel or eppleuee might' have it un 11TtY • ;even - a f n•eign crieie•Ve rai if a ce, , •, of rr!ec;olu'tion sanctioned by the inteiii 01.. the That no such general cene,nin,nV as ensued n du a l : e i n .- de liverance from fie undoubted danger, mutt be sat a tirely to the o:leans decree. Alreedy it has n d f eed the sympathies of the. Freeeh p eop l e tweir; the enist i ng g.n aernmen e,. o4 well as flair estimate of the circainstances which produced it; and with. t doubt it is destined to modify profoundly out don it is destined to modify profoouy the w i z () course of French afFeirs, so lon g as t h ey are controlled by the military rule of Louis- Napoleon. As regardnthe great cause of -moral justice, the 'pan ciTjai us e of the Orleans decree has consisted in the light which it has thrown on the character of the 'Pre s id e nt. It has made misapprehension of his moti ves i mposs ibl e, and it Etas stamped the leading feature s of hi s m i n d as something distinct from that contusion of principle en ques tions of public and constitutional right which uu. 1852. happily characterises some of the very best of French. men. Cowardice, in the ordinary sense of the term, is perhaps not imputable to L ou i s N a p o l eon; but there must have been a deplorable lack of civil courage in the man who employed the first moment of security te:make so glaring an °di:cis:don of the fears with which the per fectly legitimate, and not very dangerous, opposition of a Bourbon Prince had inspired him. Hyp , ,,crisy must have framed or adopted the pretext by which that deed of unmanly revenge was sought to be veiled, Cynical contempt of prescriptive right wfts betrayed by the very ',imagining of such a method of retaliation ; ant: ser vility to the judgment of the lowest populace shone in every line of the clauses winch distributed the Possessions of the dead King among the con verili°o4l objects of charity and compassion. A th rev ciltion of such qualities in the princip3l author of 8 Z recent events was a commoni;ary on the events them p„2' - ' I% * The country awoke to the absurdity of sup o ei z. l.;cot i ru t e s tr e eri l d f edh b yb le s s u t e,i. in ha a nd. 9 , e a n n stitu . Lion which had been pwrie•otnefee. sIlt):;t oure b lh'-'* dto the degradation of elves to a participation . 6• to lenci sit; lns in so mihty a servl!ei few vAto quid be brought which ite.catrie alive to the emptiness of the. :Lt . i g rO v b e r l Z er‘ o t f t hb'el'ri grown sceptical a s t o "t/ obtained. It had already ,ivnvate fora/ e :b o P it l s : p a ssive complicity in the change ..i.!lsembly, tvlion the l ette ut ` ein'l'P 'n u t ta is t a ° p 3 e B rv w er li s c e h net of the to render even the last unrosr°4.f°Crillith c:cro came to fasten Osis guilt stitations had assumed saws :gander and.Lamor black treachery by which Choy th e °cleans decree it is praorAbdaptliestchea;t proper head, and tdestroyed. But tor which Tree in t.hoate letters would were contrast with the never have been written, have mot with no general credence. suff --,.,, them to be published, the Government morel tult.a of supposing that the state of opinion it undoubtedly would have been if noviolationlv.3 such as &implett maxims of morality had been pzrpetra` change it. uncl to n IYthat E d' 3 theyi't b e wouldn a i s - COIIIATITTES on the CASS of MR. O'CO..VNOR. Yesterday, the Committee appointed to inquire into the matter of the. netition of Miss O'Connor, praying that Mr. Feargus O'Connor may bo liberated and con fidea to the custody of his friends, met at four o'clock, in Committee-room No. 13. Present —Mr. Walpole (chairman), Mr. M. Milnes, Mr. V. Smith, Mr. Miles, Mr. M. J. O'Connell, the O'Gorman Mahon, end others. Dr. Tweedie and Dr. Lawrence, who have been in daily attendance on the unfortunate gentleman during his 'Confinement, were examined on the subject -matter of the petition. Subsequently Miss O'Connor, who is a petite and rather prepossessing person, with the O'Connor caste of countenance subdued into the delicacy of female feature, was examined, and requested permission of the Committee to be allowed an interview with her brother. The Committee deliberated, and asked the advice of Dr. Tweedie, who expressed himself adverse; but on Miss O'Connor becoming importunate, her re quest was encec'ed to; and Mr. O'Connor having been conducted from the " tower" down stairs, she proceeded to see him, accompanied by Captain Gossett, the Assistant-Sergeant -at-Arms, Mr. Bell, M.P., D. Tweedie, and two of the messengers. Here they met Mr. O'Connor, with two messengers and two sergeants of police, quietly promenading along the well known lengthy corridor of the Committee-rooms of the House of Comtnous, the doors at the entrance from the grand staircase having first been securely closed. Miss O'Connor appeared much affected, end the unfortunate gentleman continued to walk ep and down with his left arm cast careleszly behind his sister. On arriving at the doors that had been locked he called out to the police; through the glass panels on the other side, " Open this, open this," at the s ame ti me try i ng to undo the doors; but on being told by Captain Gossett it could not be allowed, he returned quietly, and continued talking to his sister, No remarkable change has taken place in Mr. O'Connor, either for better or worse, during the last few days..He still indulges in• rapid, rambling, aberrations, reciting to his attendants snatches of what he states to be his own poetical compositions, uttering now and then an eloge on the late Sir Robert Peel, abruptly broken off tea:lomat on the disasters of an old woman and her pig in the bogs of Ballinhassig--of a stud of some twenty long-tailed black horses his brother kept in Ire land, Fall whimsically interwoven by such canticles as are heard at the Coal Hole or by the recit a l o f a l i tany, interlarded with tea r s, on the failure of the unfortunate land scheme. A difficult question has preaented itself to the Committee as to what it will be their duty to do, or rather what jurisdiction they can have in the matter, the case being without preeedent on the journals of the House. It appears, however, to be the impression that although Mr. O'Connor is in imprisonment for contempt of thi House and disorderly conduct, yet that the proper course will be to discharge him and assign him to the care of his friends or Hanwell, frpm which asylum Dr. Conolly visited him yesterday, end was understood to Le of opinion that Mr. O'Connor's insanity is only symp tomatic or incipient, and that with attention, and in a short time, ha may be restored to a state of mental con valescence. His nephew visited him yesterday, and the interview is stated to have been similarly affecting to tha with his sister. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES. SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER AND SHREWSBURY AND BIRMLNGHA.2I AMALGAMATION.—Yesterday, ill Lord Redcsdale's Curnmittc: , , the standing orders were de clared not complied with, and the - Bill was accordingly lost. EASTERN UNlON.—Yesterday the Committee of the Lords declared the preamble of this Company's Bill for arrangeintnts as to capital proved. MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE.— This company's Bill for new branches passed in the Committee of the ',orb. LEEDS, BRADFORD ; .A:ZD HALIFAX.—The preamble of the Bill for making this line was declared proved in Committee of the Lords. In Lord Redesdale's Standing Order Committee the following Bills gassed:—Chester and Holyhead, South Yorkshire, Cords and Mechynhlek, Worksworih Mining, and Commercial Gas. BRITISII ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COM PANY'S BILL. REAsoiqs in support of the Tuna) READING, which takes place on 'THURSDAY, 17th instant, immediately on the SITTING of the Harm This Bill was for fourteen days before a Select Com mittee, and after the fullest and most patient inquiry, the Committee have decided in favour of the Bill. The object of the Bill may bo simply stated to be, to break through the barrier which the Old Electric Tele graph Company has been proved before the Committee to have interposed between the metropolis and the pro vinces, by which they effectually prevent any electric communication reaching London by any other means than their own telegraphs. Thus they have completely nullified the intentions of Parliament in granting the British Telegraph Company's Act of 1850, and have thus rendered that Act almost a dead letter, and hence the present Bill, to restore vitality to that Act. The Bill has been mot with the most strenuous oppo sition by the Old Telegraph Company, with whom were joined tho repre6entatives of seven or eight railway com panies, who, from motives of i n t erest, h ave bound them selves to assist in promoting the monopoly of telegraphic intelligence. The chairman of the Great Northern Railway Com pany gave evidence in favour of the Bill, and proved how that company had been coerced by the Old Tele graph Company to submit at present to its monopoly. Clauses are contained in the Bill by which the fullest and most complete compensation and protection have been secured to the railvv.,y companies. The Board of Trade are by the Bill empowered, upon complaint of any railway company,. to prohibit the Bri tish Company alto g ether from erecting their telegrap hs upon such railway, should public interest or private jus tice require such prohibition. Petitions in favour of the Bill have been presented from the following (among other) important seats of commerce and manufactures, viz,, London, Westmin ster, Southwark. Lambeth, Finsbury, Liverpool (seve ral petitions), Manchester (several petitions), Glasgow (several petitions), Greenock, Edinburgh (several peti tions), Newcastle (several petitions), Leeds, Bradford, Halifax, Huddersfield, Hull, Shrewsbury, Bath, Bris tol, &o , &c. In the voluminous evidence produced during the in quiry into this subject, many facts of the most striking and vital public importance to mercantile and other in terests were elicited. Amongst other facts it was proved in evidence that a regulation exists in the office of the old Telegraph Company by which the messages secil o s i f t n h a e l chairman of that company (k nown by a special AK) are on all occasions forwarded before the mes sages of any other person, and in preference over even the messages of the G overnment or Royal Family, ell other business being laid aside immediately on an A being p a r s not esen ted. It proved that any improper advantage had been taken of the se f ac ili t i es for communicating with looking at the exc l usive the n g i r s e rn at a m ni t k t i e i st e , t i s io o h however, e t ve e empire. r,th,t_ t aots ,ruh:epiispne agrements that have been made with the leading e f e a I n c and r t a h p e completelyh Company haveisolated b ya tr t p r i o n ; w ‘l h aY ich " t in hro n l i d es T are justly en meats, contrived to place themselves (by b cli z e avenue to competition) that the concen every great and dangerous powers in single hands ratiolsl a state of things for which the public do seek, and titled to seek, the remedy which the present Bill, El 3 it Rill, has passed the Committee, will effectually By order, London, June 16,1852? EORGE SAW A", Secretary. yotabei'Le:76tt _................._„7........ .... -EBIARKABLE SUCCESSION OF HURRICANF° bably the greatest number of hurricanes ever experienced . r „ b b ,Y one vessel in a single voyage has been felt b arrived at Liverpool yesterday from si n of November she sailed from the latter port, gapore. sn' on tl',,, b y of D(ceniber, in lat. 12 S, long. 99 E. she isings,n-ut'erca ri Hurricane. Struggling under this disabifity shelf , n , e4 ,'Z g ar LIP asecOnd hurricane on Christmas-day, but was ahie n - anuary, for the Mauritius, where she arrived on the gal ° . Euce d two under jury -masts. While lying exP e e r n- case corn niore hurricanes, which, however, proved in iLhipping sui paratively harmless, alth ough much o f the s ; n After refit there she tained material damage ou the hater occasion. Burch, and tho:.,l3b;fter one of the ting. .slie left the ATAUt il iiii on reached the Mersey on Monday min"' most perilous voyages on record. 1,3 t►g eou , on Sa- CCiIIRAGEOUS IiCTIO:S.—At, Pa n u d courageous act was turday atternoon„ a :most humane a li - • of St. Peter's, Wal performed by the Re v . James O'Re. s. i. s ) ,'' flger3 had fallen into worth, who, perceiving one ,of the ; 1 e ) ,. --- au d was being fast, car the water, whil e st epp i ng to tied down by the tide, at enc- the lifcbuoy was thrown to nately held the man up until t e with the utmost prompti tude P. pet' overboard, and fortu their assis!ance, which was both were rescued from their tude by the pier-man, vihe cheers of all on board, the rev. perilous position amidst the e rmest congratulations from those gentleman receiving the evhrigtian conduct. who witnessed his noble JUNE 16, S U N tw_ , ..„.„..._ NAVAL 1 ipz:!.':t„..,',.:g! N TET,ell e 7 : 43 t k ii:.)- tit 4e The U.lowipg officers attEnded the Duke -- -4' -ick ;4: ,*.t -- -;,--4 * thumberLudis levee yestertl.l :— Commander 7& 1-2 - "K-' ''.- - j' - ' '- Jones, Lieutenant T. B. Cooystra, Captain S. no '' -..--- ,-,, .. rr kl Lieutenant T. E. Lane, C apta i n kl etiry Smith, • -,.,., aVitS.IVIVIP" mender D. Robertson, Commander T. T. Paulson, and Commander W. T. Rivers. The' following officers attended Admiral Parker's I ,, vre yLuterday :—Lieutenant. J. Field,`COnamander 11. T. Jones, Lieutenant T. E. Lane, Commander D. Ro bertson, Lieutenant Sir /1. , Wilmot, Co mman d er G . Ssell, Mr. J. Dathen, Lieutenant W. W. Eyton i Cap tain W. B. Oliver, Captain T. P. Thompson, Com mender 0. J. Jones, Captain J. Dowman. Captain C. Elliot, Dr. A. Bluebell, Mr. E. Smith, Commander Paulson, Captain G. Baku, Commander R. Fegen, and Commander Rivera. The, Queen's ship's company still continuing very discontented at not having been paid off, we understand that orders have barn for4artlad- from the Admiralty- to the t: fact that she is to be immcdietely put cut of eats misiion. She will, hoe ecer, iu all probability, b© brought forward as an advr_nced chip. PORTSMOGTa, JUNE Is.—Tbe Gladiator, 6, steam frigate, Captain Adams, fins been paid off to-day at this port.- __ _ The Sprightly port steam-tender, Naster.Cuninander Allen, sailed this, afternkon fur Plymouth . v.-lin super- Limt,raries and seamen paid off from the GlediatOr. The Righflyer, 21, ,crew steam-frigate, Captain Mat son, has taken on board h er powder and slitl4 at Spit head to-day. . . The Victoria and Albert, esptain . Lord Adolphus 'Fitzclarence, came out of the bas.i.i to-day. The Grampus, 50; has been brought down alongside the yard to-day to he, docked .to hf:7o , .e . her ,eoppa exa mined. The Edinburgh waits favourable weather. APPOINTMENTS. Master—Thomas Winer (1847), bonne on the books of the Magicienue, 16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, tor service in the Buzzsrd, to the Leander, 50, at Devon ooiztrn port. to the SZ -partan 26, at Devonport. P "Ymaster and parser—George F. C. Bateman (1847), th:V istun t - Surgeoh-Gecrge - Everest, M.D. (1844), to Second"lean steam troop-ship at Portsmouth. -°-° ` e R ' I: li rt (captain 1825), and George ti n e , -- -- m lastor —ff. S. Lay, to the Leauder. at present e enly , .3R. Assistant-Engineers —Ed station, is :wed to the good service pension, on the promotion of Capt ' Sir rear-admiral. rain" Edward Parry to the rank of appo . attoleg the Fox, 42, on the East Indies win Boulton, to the_ Heels steam-sloop at Portsru Masters' Assistanls—ri. v SPrightly steam. vessel, "th Thomas Lewis,: to the mouth. tender to the Victoria a Ports- Gunner—Joseph Olivier, Russel and F. C. IL Potch, to the Victory ,s - H. • frigito at Dovonport. Dauntless screw steam.. t 6 I t ' h e n.t P"rtsiztouth. PROMOTIONS. Second Class Assistant-Engineers--Patrick Fall and Charles King, to be first class assistant-engineers. Second (;labs Assistant-E7gineers—Robert wri, Charles Cotten, and John A. thi c hi e , to ho actinniamsg first class assistant-engineer s . Third Class Assistant-Engineers—W. E. Campion and William Gill, to be tec)nd class assistant-en gineers. Third Class Assistant-Engineers —Joseph U. Kea ne and Joseph Churcher, to be acting second class assistant_ engineers. Her Majesty's .steam-frigate Simoom arrived at Quebec on Sunday morning, May 23, with detach-, wents of troops of the 23d, 54th, 66th, and 71st Regi ments, and immediately after she cast anchor fired a salute, which was returned by the artillery from Dur ham terrace in the afternocn. The Simoom had a very rough passage out, only using her engines about four days during the voyage. Off the banks of Newfound land she encountered 'a very heavy gale, in.which her main yard vies broken and two boats carried away. The detachments of the 54th and 66th Regiments stationed at Quebec) wero landed on the following day, and, pre ceded by the bands of their respective corps, marched tip to the barracks; those for the 23d and 71st Regi ments proceeded up to Montreal the same night, in the steamer Quebec, to join their regiments at that station. The Emperor of Rustia's steam-yacht Alxandris arrived at Copenhagen after a fine pesasge of sixty-one hours from Blaqkwall. She there found the Victoria (formerly the Peterhoff) and the Tourist all ready for starting, and they left Copenhagen together for St. Petersburgh. The Edinburgh, 58, Captain Hewlett, is now taking in her powder and her shells. On her trial on Saturday along the measured mile she far surpassed in speed all other screw-line-of-battle-ships. In six runs she averaged 8i knots; but for the first four at full steam she made an average of 9 knots. This may be attributed to her beautifully placed engines, their excellent working, and freedom from friction. She makes 12 or 14 more screw revolutions than either of the corresponding vessels of her class, and consequently her speed is superior by 1k knots. Mandalay and Field are the makers. l OUitT CIitUtJLAR. , . - ----- The Queen held a Privy Council yesterday afternoon at one o'clock, at Buckingham Palace. It vs attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Lord Presi dent, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Trea sury,- the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the President of the Board of Control, th 3 President of the Board of Trade, toe Postmaster-General, the Chief Commissioner of Public Works and Buildings, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. At the Council a preclamation was ordered to be issued respecting Roman Catholic processions. The Hononraule William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Privy Council in waiting. The Earl of Derby had inr audience of tho Queen. Mr. Secretary Walpole had an audience of her Majesty Sir Harry Smith, G.C.8.. was presented to the. Queen on his return from tho Cape of Good Hope, by the Right Hon. Sir John Pakiegton, her Majesty's Frineie ' pal Secretary of State for the Colonies. The Lord Chamberlain had an audience of the Queen. The Lord President had an audience of her lelejesty. i , The Queen was attended by the Treasurer of.,the ' Household, the. Vice-Chamberlain, the Coreteroller of the Household; the Marquis of Anglesey, Gold Stick in Waiting; Lord Crofton, Lord in Waiting; and Major. General Berkeley Drummond, Groom in Waiting. fifer Royal Highness the'Ducbess of. Kent visited the Queen yesterday at Buckingham Palace, and partook of luncheon with her Majesty and Prince Albert. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Marquis of Abercore, Colonel the Hon. Charles lirey, and Colonel Bouverie, left Buckingham Palace at a quarter past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, for the purpose of laying the Foundation Stone of the Cam bridge Asylum, ut Norbiton. The Prince travelled by the London and South-Western Railway to Kingston, and from thence proceeded in a carriage and tour to Norbiton. His Royal Highness returned to Bunki ng . ham Palace at a quarter to six o'clock. Their Royal Ltighte esee the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the Princess Alice,t e f r eda D e n e t h a c a se r ; I , p erraio , and his Royal Highness prince yes attended by Mr. Gibbs, visited the British M Albert, . " Bu on oile a y lE , e a li nd a t e r i ty r m isl o a rr e i s n t3 g ; Go a t e t ,ir e om n ri cl ac e ni d PB b lo y a4y t v h we e riitl Countess thhoeni rourp o of ast evening... Her Meier-Gene thel Murray, Lord Crofton, Royal Highness the Duchess mance of the honoured the performance ja , mes A deputation from the West Indßiaell: Lady Fanny Howard, and Lo r d Liverpool. and Glasgow, on evening with ner presenceur r , a lastl so laws, had an interview with th 3 subject of the Patent ley yesterday, at the Board the Right Hon. J. W. Hen ley yesterday, of Mr. Tinne oard Depu ties had an interviewoffie of Trade. The deputation and Mr. Russell (from andi Mr. Bouch (of Liverpoei2i by Mr. Cardwell, ALE% with Lord JelTe Mannersl distrie ila zeigow), and were A deputation from Depa terday, at the the Protestant Dissenting yes- Whitehall -place, 0 e of Works end Public "' the Metropolitan Burialg Bill. .. Th e nd the subct consistedofof Mr. J. Re ber'Von elm s r deputation vrress, Mr. Han n Mr. ‘ e airman), Mr. T. Pawtless, secretary. She • Carlisle, Air. Cana r and the Tne Rev, Henry - 8 ' Mr. Countze ie (vicar), and . , . and Mr. Barron Mackenzie ( vicar ), s t . Martin s-in-the- Fields) had (churchwardens of Lord John Manners , also an interview with Yesterday. Mr. Tyrrell, the City Remembraneer, had an inter view with M,. Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the Rome ~, ''. of ditto), °nice. Lord Hothem, M.P., Sir A deputation, consisting of Mr. Cardwell, M.P., H. Barron ALP:Mr. Huet, ltfle sacsactootoienintpeiosensud boyf Mr. Grogan, M.P., Mr. Pratt, and Mr. Wm. John Hall (Stearn Association,: London), Mr. Morgan (secretary uud Mr. Nultain (se cretaryMe Tall (deputy chairman), Mr. Collinear (director), Mr. Frost (solicitor), and ßon . M j r .. Hull Dock Company), Mr. Sydney Smith of the e _, n interview with R i g h t had a , at the Board of Trade. • consisting of Sir W. Molesworth, Bart., A deputation, e onrt, Mr. Martin, Mr. Macdougall, Rviri.ngirroesbei,ey Yesterday, M.P., Mr. - cs i 3l e terk, and Mr. Newell (Parliamentary Lord John Manners agent), ha d Office of Public Works and Buildings. 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