The Sun. — London, England, 1852-05-28 00:00:00

FRANCE. M. de Larochejaquelein has addressed the following letter to the editor of the lndependance Beige : " I have just road in the Independance of the 20th and 21st May a passage of your correspondence which makes me say that I was present a: the meeting of the aileries, at the residence of General Changaruier, of which so much has been said for some days past. The fact is false in all points, and though I contradict this statement alone amongst so many others of which I am frequently the object in the journals, it is becausa it ap plies not to me alone. " Receive, Sir, the expression of most distinguished sentiments. " M. DE LIROCHEJAQUELEIN AL long letter appears in the Elysean journal, Le Pays, on the fusion between the elder and younger branch of the house of Bourbon. It is taken from the Emancipation of Brussels, and, with the exception of a postscript, which states that all obstacles are now removed, contains nothing more than what has appeared on the same subject over and over again. The postscript referred to speaks of the fusion, or reconciliation, as in fact concluded, and that the friends of the Count de Chambord and the Orleans Princes have come to an understanding on the terms of a manifesto, the publication of which is adjourned for the moment ; that General Changarnier was on the point of setting cut for Frohsdorf to finish the matter, but was persuaded by his friends not to do so yet; and that General Bedeau has become a decided fusionist. The Gazette de Cologne of the 21st also states that the Count de Chambord was expected at Wiesbaden with his suite, and that the Orleanists, "having at their head the Dukes of Montpensier, Nemours, and Aumale, were to proceed at the same time to Ems, as also the Queen Arnelie:' There is no question that the present appears to be the most propitious moment, and many of those wh o bad heretofore held out may be tempted to go over ; and it is in fact stated that of the persons who had, until very recently, counselled the Duchess ofOrleans, out of regard for the interests of her son, against ac cepting the fusion, are now of a contrary way of think ing. If this be the case in some instances, in others, however, it is doubted whether many, who, though belonging to the opposition during a considerable part of the late reign, preserve their attachment to the King sons , will approve or sympat hi se w i t h an event which, as they believe, is owing to foreign influence. But whether the fusion be really in th e advanced state described or not, it is not un deserving of remark that the Pays, a journal that constantly supports the Government, pub lishes in extenso, and with much care, everything that appears about it is the foreign press. On the other hand, and with a perseverance no less re markable, 21. Emile Girardin continues his quo tations from the speeches of M. Guizot on various occasions, end particularly on the Belgrave• square Pilgrimages, i n w hi c h th e Legitimists as a political party are turned into ridicule and spoken of with contempt, and otherwise described as utterly- in capable of government. Day after day the war is carried on by that indefatigable writer against the Assembles Nationale—supposed to be the organ of M. Guizet—with the object of again exciting bad blood between the partisans of the 'Count de Cham bord and the Orleans Princes. The opinion that ge nerally prevails, however, is that this time at least the question of the fusion is decided favourably, POST-OFFICE NOTICE. ESTABLISELUEN T OF CONTRACT MAIL PACKETS TO CEY- L':N, MAURITIUS AND INDIA, VIA THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE On and after the 15th June next, the mail packets of the general Screw-steam Shipping Company, conveyi ng mails to the Cape of Good wiil call at Asce ns i on , and will proceed from the Cape t o Maori:an?, Point de Guile (Ceylon) and Calcutta. All letters and newspapers for Ascension or for Mauritius will hereafter be torwarded by these pickets, unless specially addressed to be otherwise sent, but letters for Ceylon or India intended to be sent by this route must be specially addressed " vici the Cape of Good Hope." Letters for all these Brii 7 .sh possessions will he liable to the uniform rate of one shilling, when not ex ceeding half an ounce in weight, two-shillings when not exceeding an ounce, and so on in proportion, but news papers will be cmveyed free from charge. The postage chargeable upon letters for Ascension and Mauritius must be paid in advance, but letters for Ceylon anclludia for war d e d b y t h ese pac k ets may b e posted unpaid. COURT OF CHAISCRY. NEW ORDERS OF COURT. INVESTMENT OF DIVIDENDS AND ACCUMULATIONS. Tuesday, May 4. • Whereas under and by virtue of an Act passed in the 36th year of the reign of his Majesty King George the Third, chap. 52, intituled " An Act far repealing cer tain dudes oa legacies and shares of personal estates, and for grantieg other duties thereon in certain cases;" and of an Act passed in the 37th year of the reign of his said M,je,sty, chap. 135, to captain and amend the said Acts, it is enacted that monies paid in under the first-recited Act into the Bank of England, with the privity of the Accountant-General of the High Court of Chancery when paid in, be laid out by the said Accountant- Gen,ral wi!hotat any formal request for that purpose in the purchase of Bank 31. per Cent. Annuities.. By virtue of the po.vers contained in the last-mentioned of the said Acts, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Right Hon. Ed ward Burtenshatv, Lerd St. Leonard's, Lord High Chan cellor of Great Britain, cloth hereby order and direct that the Accountant-General be at liberty, unless he shall have received, on behalf of some party claiming to be entitled, notice is writing of an intecded application to the Court for otherwhat disposing of the film], from time to timo to lay oat and invt-at the dividends on such stock when so purchased, and all accumula tions thereon as the same shell accrue due, in the purchase of like Bank 3/. per Cent. Annuities, without any formal request for that purpose, and place the stock purchased with such dividends to the said several matters and accounts to which the original sums of stock respec,ively stand, and the Accountant-General is to declare the trust thereof w h en purchased, subject to the further order of this Caura and for the purposes aforesaid the Accountant-General is to draw on the B ink according to the form s p rescr ib e d by the Act ot Parliament and the general rules and orders of the Court in that case made and provided. T. LEONARD'S, C. Friday, :`ley 7. The Right Hon. Eilarard Burtensbaw, Lard St. Leonard's, Lord High Chadcallor of Great Britain, with the aiatis•ance of the Right Honourable Sir John Ramilly, Knight, ?ilaster of the Rolls, dotb hereby, in pursuance of au Act of Parliament passed in the loth and 11th year of the reran of her present Majesty, in tituled " An Aat, for better securing trust funds, end for the relief of trustees," and in pursuance and erucutian of all other powers enabling him is that behalf, order and direct in inannerfolloaring, that is to say:— Where any trustee desiring to pay money or transfer stock or securities into the name of the Accauntant-Ge- Zr , l of the Court of Chanc er y, un d er th e said Act, is u"" a general order cf the raid Court, dated the 10th l ?). -n3, th "une, 1848, directed" to file an affidavit entitled for' e matter of the Act and of the trust, setting of c ot : t tain matters and thi ngs i n th e sa id or d er davit in e l : r eified and declared, in future, such whore the parties deem it uune cessaary t o hit Y v eaaa, a the money, or dividends, or interest ''' .l; " k see 'tritit, , a' itivetei the rnrantiztit,ahal further contain a airadavit shall cou ll i tateraent to that offtct; anildif the shall bo at l it such stsaaintnt, the Accountaut- General to i:lseat as soon as conVe.- r i en tly may be the said c a sh Baek 3/. per Cent. An nuities in the matter o f the sh diridend9 or intereet en ti Z i 6 n-tir tku ' t t or ill "'le of h r securities transferred, t stock, and alt w ench dividends or intereat l a came:s6ons of—the dividcmdst ef the t Iwhich such cash shall be itivested, aak of the s di o v c icivn i t n i3 w or in terest on sant' st„,;,tc securities as afore:rid; front tune to time in tate aaa :atter without by Oh 0 ORM i t , any special order made that behalf, and without any forattat req . !test for that U ' rpose. And the Aceountant-Gebettal LI • decla P re - the trust thereof when purchased, subject to the order of this Court. And for the Parnon , afore the the' -Aa's ceuratant-General is to a aata on the Bulk, accordion to the form prescribed by the tact of Parliament and the general r u l es an d or d er s of Inc Court in that case made and provided. Provided always, that if at any timo a requestin writing, b y or on behalf of any party claiming to be e n . titled, that such investment be discontinued shall be t e a t with the A ccountant-Generai, he shalt be at liberty to cease making any farther investment is the matte r o f the particular trust until the Court shall have made som e order in that behalf. ST. LEONARD'S, C. JOHN ROMILLY, M.R. RAILWAY LOANS. The following railway conapaTlies;re in the money matket for loans upon mortgage and debenture bonds:— SOUTH WALES —OO mor t gage, bearing interest at 4 per cent. per anunum, for peri o d s o f no t l e ss than three and not _excee iing ae 7 Pq years. LEEDS NORTHLIIN,-4q,i pk , r eect, per annum, for thr - e• cr five yeits. in slim:: (Jr MN. or upwards. GLASGOW AND Sortr34l/ESTERN.—I n sums of 5001. and upwa,rds, for tPrin.i ii,t.l,so ts-,:7.11 three years. MANCHESTER, BUXTON, AND MATLOCK.—Not exceed ing on the whole ino,ooo/. To motley is required for the purchase of the Crumford Canal and works, and the along:eggs constitute a that charge on both tin . dertakings. SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER —For a limited amount, to replace mortgages as they fall in. BRISTOL AND EYETER—Are reedy to either pay off immediately, iti cash, any debentutes of this company which bear in - ter - at tit".i — oFfl - per cent., or to grant per petual preference 4 per nett. stock in exchange fur there, allowing fo r th w i th, in either case, to the holder', the difference of intere s t. CORE AND BANDON.-0a Lk:Mit:ire:l, in anums of not less than 1001., fur five or s , :v+-...rt yo 4 4 , at the rate of 41 :..earinc- interest Per cent, per annum, pflyt.l:o half early. 4 7 1 Y, kit4DONIIIC — °/ 1 d ebentares, in sums of 2004 and e 1 las i i r wait Per ann um , f ur 4 ,_ ;..,; A ,.. „...7 _ TH —Oa ebeuturee, i e n ral Lu B n% ' Y or r n ii o • t ....r;:ti .<1,;(10/.- utt h et , aumfi l oor a ttaira t ie : , .fi u y p e w , a o r r d: e, v a , t n a l tp ati er . cent. per annum, ~,,,,:. , I y•is# t 7 ,! ..._,... . ; - 1 '>: I . 4 s ti - -- - T, , •; . 411, _e. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. The anniversary meeting of the Royal Geographical Society and presentation of the royal medals, took Place on Tuesday, in the rooms of the society, Waterloo -place, Pall-mall; Sir Roderick Murchison, president, in the chair. The President announced that the council had this year awarded the founder's gold medal to Dr. John f Rae, of the Hudson's Bay Company, _oor his survey of Boothia, under most severe privations, in 1849, and for his recent explorations on foot and in boats of the coasts of Wollaston and Victoria Lands, by which very im- . portant additions have been made to the geography of the Arctic Regions. The patron's gold medal was con ferred upon Captain Henry Strachey, of the Hon. East India Company's service, for his extensive explorations and surveys in Western Thibet. The President then proceeded to deliver his usual annual address, which was of extreme length, and was a complete retrospect of all the subjects of interest that had been brought und er th e attention of the soeiety during the past year. Th e mos t prominent was a notice o f the different expeditions that bad been dispatched fro m this country to the Arctic Recrions in search of Sir John Franklin. With such men as Sir Edward Belcher, Captain Kellet, Lieutenant Osborne, Captain Pim, and a host of others engaged in this work, there was no doubt whatever on his mind that all that was possible would be done to throw light on the fate of their long-lost countrymen. He alluded to the two . abandoned ships seen by the Renovation, and e xpressed his opinion .. that they were the ships of the Franklin expedition, and that being seen in that latitude might . be accounted for in the strong currents that ran in that direction. The President also referred to the discoveries of gold in A us t ra li a , th e existence of which ho had indicated in a letter to Earl Grey in 1846, a pe riod long antecedent to the finding of the ore in Cali fornia. After touching upon other topics, he concluded an address of upwards of two hours' duration by con gratulating the members on the great accession to the stores of knowledge that had taken place through the means and energy of the members of the Royal Geo graphical Society. The Earl of Rosse moved the thanks of the society to the president for his able address, with a request that he would allow it to be printed for the benefit of the members. Lord De Manley seconded the resolution, which was put and agreed to unanimously. The President acknowledged the compliment in a brief speech. Sir B. Outram moved a vote of thanks to the retiring members of the council, which was agreed to, and the meeting dissolved. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 2B, 1852 NAVY PAY. The following is a Bill prepared and brought in by Mr. Secretary Stafford and the Hon. Captain Dun combe, to amend an Act of the eleventh year of King George IV., for amending and consolidating the laws relating to the pay of the Royal Navy : " Whereas by the 18th section of the Act 11th George IV., chap. 20, provisions are made for the payment of wages and pay of the officers and seamen of the Royal navy, and by such section it is, among other things, enacted that there shall always be left six months' wages in arrear and unpaid over and above the wages accruing to the time during which the ship's books shall have been prepar ing and examiniag, but that whenever any ship shall return home in order to be laid up, all the wages due for such ship shall be entirely paid off as soon after wards as may be: and whereas it is expedient to repeal the said 18th section of the aid Act, and to make other provisions in lieu of those thereby enacted, and also other provisions in regard to naval remittances. Be it, therefore, enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Com mons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: " 1. That from and after the Ist day of October, 1852, the 18th section of the Act of 11th George IV., chap. 20, shall be and the same is hereby repealed. "2. That out of all supplies to be granted by Par liament for naval services, the necessary sums of money shall be first appropriated, issued, and applied for the regular and puuctuai payment of the pay and wages of the officers and men of the Royal Marines; and when any of her Majesty's ships in commission shall be or arrive at any port of the United Kingdom, or on the coast thereof, on or after the Ist day of October, 1852, such officers and men shall be paid their pay and wages according to such regulations and subject to such restrictions as the Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, or the Commis sioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom, shall at any time or times, or from time to time, order, direct, or appoint, with power for such Lord High Admiral or Commissioners to alter or revoke at any time or times such regulations and restrictions, or any of them, or to make the same or any of them applicable, if he or they think fit, both to sea-going and stationary ships, or to make some applicable to sea-going ships and others to stationary ships; end to order, at any time or times, which ship or ships shall be deemed sea going and which shall be deemed stationary: provided always, that under such regulations and restrictions there shall not at any time be due to any of such officers and men, when borne on the books of any of her Majesty's ships in commission which may be at any such port or on such coast, more than the gross amount of three calendar months' pay and wages, except when any such officers or men shall cease to have full pay or bo discharged from the service, when all the pay and wages which may be due to them or to which they may be entitled as having belonged to any ship in commission shall be entirely paid to them as soon as may be. 3. That, notwithstanding anything in the said Act of the 11th of George IV., chap. 20, or anything in any other Act or Acts contained, all naval remittances what soever when made by any person belonging to one of her Majesty's ships not being in any port of the United Kingdom or on the coast thereof may extend to and include all such wages and pay which may be due to the persons respectively making any such remittances, as the Lord High Admiral or the said Commissioners may at any time or times, or from time to time, order or direct, with power for him or them, at any time or times, to order or revoke any such order or direction." fIEALTI7OF LONDON DURING Till , : WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) The total deaths registered in the metropolitan dis tricts, which in the first week of May were 972, and in the second rose to 1,070, declined in the week that ended last Saturday to 943. The mean weekly tem perature rose in the three weeks from 48.1° to 55 . 6'. In the ten weeks corresponding to the last, of the years 1842.:,1, the average number was 889, which if raised in proportion to increase of population, becomes 978. The mortality of last week is, therefore, less than the estimated amount by 35. Of the 943 persons whose deaths are enumerated in the present return, 449 were males, 494 females. It appears that the present reduction of mortality is among the old and the middle aged, and with regard to young persons that the number who died last week is near the amount usually observable at this period. In comparing the results of the last two weeks there is a difference, greater or less, in favour of last week in all the principal classes of fatal diseases. Although smallpox is gaining ground, and there seems to be a gocd deal of scarlatina, the mortality of epidemics in the aggregate declined from 234 to 228; of tubercular diseas:.s, from 200 to 189; of diseases of the heart, from 45 to 33; but the principal reduction occurs in diseases of the organs of respiration, which in the previous week were fatal in 169 cases, in the last in 131. Bronchitis, belonging to the last class, has declined in the two weeks from 79 to 50. Phthisis, of the tubercular order, has fallen from 142 to 1f.9. Of epidemic disorders, smallpox carried off 38 children and 6 adults. The corrected average is 18. It is only reported in three cases—those of a boy, aged 1 year, and a boy and girl severally 4 years—that vaccination had bean previously performed. Next in fatality are scarla tina and hooping cough, each of which destroyed 42 lives. Typhus, synoche, &c., number 41 cases,' and rheumatic fever 3. Croup carried off ten children, measles 12, thrush 2, noma 1. Diarrhoea was fatal in 14 cases, dysentery in 2, purpura in 2, erysipelas in 7, syphilis in 1. The diseasea incidental to childbearing were fatal to 10 women, 5 of whom sank under puerperal fever. Three deaths occurred in the Smallpox Hospital, of which the following are the particulars:— On the 16th May a glasspaintcr from Priory-street, Camden-town, aged 22 years," smallpox, confluent, un protected (15 days)." On the 16th May a labourer from Jennings'-build ings, Kensington, aged 24 years, "smallpox, confluent, unprotected (15 days)." On the 22d May a female servant from Little Camden street, St. Pancras, aged 31 years, " smallpox, confluent, unprotected (7 days)." At 17, George-yard, Islington, on the 21st May, the son of a labourer, aged 6 years, died of " variola con fluens; exhaustion." Mr. Butterfield states that "within a month there have been 20 cases of smallpox in this court, which has no supply of water, is entirely without accommodation, and wretchedly drained." • At 70, Shoe-lane, St. Andrew's, on the 17th May, the daughter of a tailor, 4 years, died of " variola ,con flaens." Mr. Nason, the registrar, adds that " the whole family, consisting of four, have been attacked with s o znallp )x. Two have not been vaccinated, an d o f these :1 , 1 died; the others are goi ng on f avoura bl y . O n th e gosh May, at 3, Gas-court, in the sub-district of o!i•street, the daughter of a labourer, aged 9 years, died Mfr. Austin giOe of mentionses I a ° et thereafter ar i i a - e p ii ofhttxhearer( was childisl u‘r considered h a oal y nst s s ) tiedh , a s n e o t , , vaecin vaccinated."elti "vaccination had been de eeraegioroof be 2 years ciuite h e a a c f l e s ., mal A lp t ox , , , e B ati t se , o ic - P i l a ce. t ,.New-street, Lambeth, on 17th May, the , aged 4 years, died of " smallpox, con- Mrnt Ilr days), without previous vaccination." this family, nI T TIA P J :ys:—" None of the children in about 10 four, have been vaccinated; the two younger ears old, eldest, who is years ago. The complaint when I calls was inoculated some (2unger were sickening from the The mother did nut approve frura ut r t h k e became convince of vaccination, but 1 t. ...? , g d when the ,rel3suroltminpon- creseen operation were pointed out." : 0 1 n f e T. A l a c h e a t a i l : s r!l s a :a se t i et n nh a te maligns seeond ( da s 3e e d tabhy:eint'af' frequently u r l l e r , i . nl a S tm g l y t c i o l d c n yo e s mw o Y ip b t c i s ha a e i r i r n :v ' ee e d s d i g : i oh e — t d .r, In open drain at the back par: of the crescent day a s 'a; L h es h udicial to the health of t c h followed aennebie neighbourhood." doubt of There its being p:ej aY, at 11, but hitherto without effect. agea one by co ' na " per 7. t t u h : I s n i s:n ( o 6 m o f w e r e a s : k s o s t ) o .:I;ha convulsions,asol 9 , th i hours)." " The drain," says Mr. Matthews, " are a (re ported to he very bad. At the Royal fiespital, Graenvoich, 8 Pens ioners died between the 13th and 20th May inclusive, ,the younest .. or whom was 6.1 yours, and the oldest 81 years, while year, direadfoe°7-13Poloadee:, their average age at death was 74 years. In the district of St. M ar y, Marylebone, at 5, S e . motifh "yard, on the 14th of May , a groom, an.,,, Li 3 3 yew: ca.(' his son, age d 5 months, died of phthisis. Th e hither and his child died within a few hours of e ach c,ther. The sou of a mariner, aged 10 wt". , W 4 O SW), catcd by a portion of food getting into the trachea ; died in five minutes. On the 11 th of April, at 1, But strode-court, Cavendish-square, a boy, aged five weeks, was "starved to (math." Post-mortem. (In qu-st.) On the 3d May a labourer, aged 30 years, was found dead in Copenhagen-fields, having been suffocated o❑ a clump of burning bricks. (Inquest.) A girl, aged 7 weeks, was accidentally suffocated in bed. On the 19th May the daughter of a shoemaker, aged 21 years, died of chorea, after 6 years' illness. A woman, aged 52 years, died of " pyrosis (18 months) bmma temesis." STATE OF THE WEATHER DURING THE PAST WEEK. SUNDAY.—The sky was clear throughout the day, Electricity—Positive, and tension moderate at each exami. nation. MONDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day. Rain fell frequently. From 9h. P.M. to 10h. 30m. P.M. light ning was frequent, and thunder was heard between 9h. 48m. and 10h. 20m. Electricity—No electricity was shown at the times of inspection. TUESDAY.—The sky was one•half covered with cloud at noon, at other times during the day it was overcast; cumu lostratus and cirrostratus. Rain fell frequently. Electricity— Positive, and tension strong during the afternoon. NV EDNESDAY.—Three-fourths of the sky were covered with cloud throughout the day; cumuli, cirrocumuli, and cirro strati. Electricity—From this time till Saturday at 1011. A.M. the apparatus was under repair, and during the re mainder of the day weak positive electricity was constant. THURSDAY.—The sky was one-fourth part covered during the morning, and overcast during the remainder of the day; cumului, cirrocumuli, and cirrostrati. Rain fell at night. FRIDAY.—The sky was overcast throughout the day; cirrostratus. Rain fell during the earlier portion of the morning. SATURDAY.—The sky was overcast till the evening, and was mostly free from cloud afterwards. _ _ The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main mast, and read each day at 9h. A.M. was 58.1°; and the mean reading at 9h. r.m. was 55.1° ; the mean readings at the Royal Observatory for the same times were 57.5 8 and 54.1° respectively. The reading of the barometer decreased from 29.89 in: at the beginning of the week to 29.46 in. by noon on the 18th ; increased to 29'86 in. by 9h. A M. on the 20th, at about which reading it continued till the 22d, when it further increased to 29.91 in. by the end of the week. FAMILKLIISTORY of a FAMILY FRIEND. The family seat of Potatoes is well known to be in America. They are a comparatively new race in our own country, since they did not come over until some time after the Conqueror. The genealogists have nearly settled, after much discussion, that all members of this family spread over the world, are descended from the Potatoes of Chili. Their town seat is in the neighbourhood of Valparaiso, upon hills facing the sea. The Potatoes were early spread over many portions of America, on missions for the be nefit of man, who had not been long in discovering that they were friends worth cultivating properly. It is said, that the first Potato who visited Europe, came over with Sir Francis Drake, in 1753; it is said, also, that some of the family bad accompanied Sir John Hawkins, in 1563; it is certain that a body of Potatoes quitted Virginia in 1586, and came to England with Sir Walter Raleigh. M. Dunal, who has written an elaborate history of the Potato family, shows it to be extremely probable that, be fore the time of Raleigh, a settlement of Potatoes had been formed in Spain. Reaching England in 1586, the benevolent Potato family was welcomed into Belgium in 1590. In 1610, the first Potatoes went to Ireland, where they eventually multiplied and grew, to form one of the most important branches of this worthy race. The Scotch Potatoes date their origin as a distinct branch, frum 1728. It was at dates not very different from this, that other branches of the family settled in Ger many. The Potatoes of Switzerland first settled in 1730, in the Canton Berne. In 1738. the thriving family ex tended its benevolent assistance to the Prussians; but it was not until 1767 that its aid was solicited inTuscany. In France, the kindly efforts of this family were not ap preciated, until, in the middle of the last century, there arose a man, Parmentier, who backed the introduction of Potatoes into France with recommendations so emphatic, that it was designed to impute to him the interest of near relationship, not indeed by calling him Potato, but by calling Potatoes by his name, Parmentiers. The benevolent exertions made by the Potato family on be half of France, during the famine of 1793, completely established it in favour with the grateful people. Pota toes, though so widely spread, are unable to maintain their health under too warm a climate. On the Andes, they fix their abode at a height of ten or thirteen thousand feet; in the Swiss Alps, they are comfortable on the mountain sides, and spread in Berne to a height of five thousand feet, or not very much less. Over the north of Europe the Potato family extends its labours farther on into the cold than even barley, which is famous as the hardiest of grain. There are Potatoes settled in Iceland, though it is a place in which barley declines to live.—Dickens's "Household Words." SEABORNE MAILS. [l7 signifles that tho mails are sent front the ( by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] Post-office When made up in From what When PLACES. General Post-office' port dis- Loudon: patched. due. America (by Brit. pkt.)N,May 28 .. Liverpool .• May 31 America (by U.S. pkt.) N Jane 1 .. • • Liverpool .• June 9 America (by U.S. pkt.) 11 June 8 Southampt. Jane 3 Australia (via South ampton) 31 !Southampt. Ditto (via Marseilles) N iDover Ditto, via C. of G. Hope N;June 2 .. 'Plymouth.. Africa (West coast).. N! lath of the month Plymouth June 3 Alexandria* ........ N,l9th & 30th of me. Dover .. May 28 Belgium •• •• N Daily • • .. .. Dover .. Daily Brazil .. 7,1 9th of the month Southampt. June 16 Buenos Ayres Ml9th of the month Southampt. Juno 16 CalifornhqviaChagres) Mltd& 17th of month Southampt. June 5 Cape of Good Hope 1 , 72 d & 14th of June Plymouth.. June 3 Cape do Nerds .. N,June 2 .. Plymouth.. Constantinople* Nl7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. May 30 Central America M 2 , 1 & 17th of mon. Southampt. l Juue 5 Channel Islcs •• N Mon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Tn. Th. Sat Chill .. 111:17th of the month Southampt. June 5 France .. &N Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedaily Greece* •• Ni7th 17th27thofmo Dover .. May 30 Hamburgh *Tuesday & Friday London Toes. Sat. Holland •• M;Wednes. & Satur.lLondon Mon.Th or Honduras .. N,'l7th of the month 'Sonthampt. ;June 20 Ireland M& N; Twice daily .. Holyhead• • Twiceclaily India (via Sonthanip.) 1(120th of tho month Southauapt. June 20 India(yiaMarsoilles) N Sthtir,24th efmonth Dover • • June 1 India, via C. of G. Hope N 15th of month Plymouth.. Mauritius .. N 15th of month Plymouth.. Mediterranean (via ! Southarrnton) •• M 20th of the month Southampt. Jane 20 Mediterranean (vla Marseilles) N Bth& 24th ofmonth Dover •• June 1 Mexico Di 2d of the month.. Southampt. {June 5 Madeira •• •• 9th of the month Southampt. June 16 Malta* 7th,170',19th,27th 1 Dover May 28 & 30th of month N ap l es * Nsth 15th 25th ofmo Dover •• June 2 Papal States* Nsth 15th25th of mo Dover June 2 Peninsular.. •• 31 7th 17th 27th ef mo Sonthampt. June 6 Peru •• •• •• M 17th of the month Southampt. June 5 Tuscany* ••• N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover •• June 2 West Indies 34 17th of the month Southarapt.lJune 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) 31 2d of the month —lBouthampt. June 5 The mails to those c French packet via Marsei 12,1 of the month .. ountrias thus marl Wes. 18outhampt. r Juno 5 cod (•) aro conveyed by INFLUENCE OF ATMOSPHERIC CHANGES OVER THE PASSIONS. Some years ago, Juan Antonio Garcia, aged between 35 and 40, was executed for murder at Buenos Ayres. He was a person of some education, rather remark. able than otherwise for the civility and amenity of his manners ; his countenance was open and hand some, and his disposition frank and generous ; but when the north wind set in, he ap peared to lose all command of himself, and such was his extreme irritability, that during its continu ance he could hardly speak to any one in the street without quarrelling; before his execution he admitted that it was the third man he had killed, besides having been engaged in more than twenty fights with knives, in which he both gave and received many serious wounds; hut, he said, it was the north wind, not he, that shed all this blood. When ho rose from his bed in the morning., he told my informant he was at once aware of its accursed influence upon him; a dull headache first, and then a feeling of impatience at everything about him, would cause him to take umbrage even at the members of his own family on the most trivial occurrence. If he went abroad his headache generally became worse, a heavy weight seemed to hang over his temples, he saw objects as it were through a cloud, and was hardly conscious where he went. Ile was fond of play, and if in such a mood a gambling house was in his way, ho seldom resisted the tempta tion ; once there, any turn of ill-luck would so irritate him, that the chances were ho would insult some of the bystanders. Those who knew him, perhaps, would bear with his ill-humours; but if unhappily he chanced to meet with a stranger disposed to resent his abuse, they seldom parted without bloodshed. The ac count the wretched man gave of himself was corrobo ratud by his relatives and friends.—Sir Woodbine Pa• rish's Buenos Ayres. NATIONAL BANK OF •IRELAND.—The seventeenth annual meeting of the proprietors of this company was held at the office of the bank, 13, Old Broad-street, on Wednesday ; Mr. Octavius Ommanney in the chair. After the usual preliminaries, the secretary read the report of the directors detailing the operations of the bank for the year ending December, 1851. The motion for the adoption of the report having been seconded, Mr. Dennehey went into a long statistical comparison, to show that the resources of the company had never been properly developed, and con cluded by . appealing to the directors to use their best exer tions to raise the bank to a level with its rivals in Ireland and in this country. Mr. Cartlan combated Mr. Dennehey's statements, which he charged with omitting all reference to the disastrous influence of the potato famine upon the Na tional Bank, and from the pressure of which its rivals in the north of Ireland and in Dublin were comparatively exempt. The report was then unanimously adopted, and after the vacancies in ,the direction had been filed up, the meeting separated. DEATH OF A WOMAN IN A POLICE-STATION.--01 1 Tuesday Mr. Payne held 'an inqu es t at t h e S t. G eorg e's Workhouse, Southwark, on the body of Eunice Kingmoore, aged 21, who died on Sunday last at the station-house, S'oneSend. Several policemen of the M division, and a woman who was locked np with deceased, deposed that the deceased ;was found drank in the Dover -road about nine o'clock on Saturday evening, and locked up in a cell in which three other women were placed. Deceased appeared very ill all the night, but did not complain till the morn ing about ten o'clock, when one of the women, having some tea brought to her, gave deceased some; and on the police being made acquainted with her illness, they immediately sent for the police surgeon of the district, but on his arrival life was extinct. A juror inquired if the deceased had any refreshment up to the time the woman gave her the tea? The superintendent of police, who was in attendance, replied that persons locked up are allowed to have anything brought to them, except beer or spirits ; and if they are • destitute, and locked up all day, they are allowed 3d. worth of tea or coffee, and bread and water, but nothing more, except in ex traordinary cases. Mrs. Squire, sister of deceased, stated that she did not believe her sister was drunk at the time she was taken up. She had been ill for some time, and had been five times ih the hospital with an affection of the heart and inclination to consumption; and suc h was the peculiar nature of her complaint, that she would fall down in the street in a kind of fit, and for hours after would appear to be intoxicated. The jury returned a verdict of taken to "Natural death ;" and th e y cons id ere d that more dire c t attention ought to b e pa id to persons who Were the ptatiox4-119voe is a state of IMPERI HOUSE OF LORDS, May 27. Tho LORD CHANCELLOR took his soat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. PETITIONS. The Duko of RICHMOND presented a petition from Portsmouth in favour of the enfranchisement of copy holds; one from Sussex against the present system of licensing beer-houses; and several others against the Maynooth grant. The Earl of RODEN presented several petitions from Ireland agains tthe Maynooth grant; also praying for the inspection of nunneries. MR. MATHER'S CASE. In answer to a question from Earl FITZ WILLIAM, The Earl of MALMESBURRY sa id t h at this case had at last, after great exertions and anxiety on the part of Mr. Scarlett, our charge :d'affaires at Florence, been brought to a termination, and had resulted in Mr. Mather having obtained an amount of pecuniary damages equi valent, according to Mr. Scarlett's opinion, to those which ho would have received in an English court of justice had the action been brought. All feeling of nationality, he might add, had been disclaimed on the part of the Austrian officer as prompting him to the un justifiable act of which he had been guilty. WELSH WITNESSES.' The Earl of POWIS put aquestion to the Lord Chan cellor, respecting the trial of John Joseph Corby at the Monmouthshire assizes, whether it wore true that the Learned Judge stated to a witness, who desired to speak Welsh, that if she did not answer in English, she would not have her expenses. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that it was per fectly true that the •Learned Judge of assiz3 had ad dressed such a remark to the witness in question. It was often found that Welsh witnesses who could speak Eng lish refused to be examined, except in Welsh, and the threat of not being allowed their expenses was the only means of making them speak English.—(Hear, hear.) In this case the Learned Judge had been informed that the witness, who was a respectable farmer's wife, could speak English fluently, and in answer to all re quests to her to speak English, she only answered that she would be examined in Welsh. The Learned Judge certainly did make to her the statement which was attri buted to him, but at the end of the cause he ordered her expenses to be allowed her, and she received them. Lord CAMPBELL protested that any Welsh witness, who could speak English, could insist upon being exa mined in Welsh. He also bore his testimony to the truth of the remark of the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack, that the only way of suddenly conferring the faculty of speaking English fluently on Welsh witnesses was to threaten them not to allow their expenses. After a few words from Lord DYNEVOR the subject dropped. COMMON LAW PROCEDURE BILL. Lord TRURO rose to move the third reading of this Bill, which he described as having arisen out of the re port of a Commission which had inquired into the whole subject of common law procedure in this country. After the Learned Judges had communicated their opinion upon it, the Bill was referred to a Select Committee, when most of the suggestions of the Learned Judges were adopted. He did not expect that the Bill was perfect in all its parts, but he believed it to be scarcely possible to frame a measure better adapted to meet the evils com plained of. There was a power conferred on the judges of effecting any improvement in the law they might think necessary, subject to the approbation of Parlia ment. Ile could not move the third reading without paying his tribute of respect and thanks to the Commis sioners for having conferred such an advantage on the country as the measure before them. To the able indi vidual who drew up.the Bill the Treasury proposed to pay him a fee of 50 'guineas; but it was subsequently considered that he was entitled to at least 200 guineas. He had prepared a clause for the more effectual execu tion of judgments in cases where the property or person be removed from the place in which the Court had juris diction from whence such judgments were issued. Lord DENMAN was heppy to express his high ap proval of the Bill, which he believed would effect a most valuable improvement in the law. He thought that the Commissioners were deserving of their highest com mendations for the great attention they had given to the subject. The country was also deeply indebted to tho Committee of their Lordships' House for the many im provements they had made in the Bill. It was of the highest importance that the measure should pass into a law without, if possible, a delay of a single week. It was his intention to introduce an amendment into that part of the Bill having reference to the wrongful conver sion of property, by the addition of these words, viz., " and wrongfully deprived him of the benefit and use of his own goods." It was necessary, be thought, to in troduce these words, as the law respecting the wrongful conversion of property was not sufficiently defined. He also proposed to introduce an amendment in reference to that part of the Bill which related to ejectment. Lord CAMPBELL expressed his great satisfaction in seeing the Noble and Learned Lord in his place that evening. He (Lord Campbell) concurred with him in thinking the measure a most valuable one, and would prove a vast improvement in the law. He would sup port the first amendment of the Noble and Learned Lord, but in reference to cases of ejectment, he thought that the plaintiff should be required to deliver in a written statement of his claim, and the defendant his answer to it. The Earl of WICKLOW thought that so valuable a measure ought to be extended to Ireland. The Earl of CARLISLE believed there was a law passed two sessions ago for Ireland, in which many of the improvements in the present measure were anticipated. Lord CRANWORTH said it would be totally im possible to frame a Bill of this kind in its integrity for application both to England and Ireland. There would of necessity be so many exceptions to introduce that such a measure could not well be framed to meet the cases of both countries; besides there should be a consult at i on with the Irish judges. He thought that the wisest course for them to take would be in the first instance to confine it to Eng land; and then if it were found to work admirably well, it would be easy to frame a measure for Ireland upon the same principles. In the meantime Ireland might say— " Nov= experimentum incorpore vili."—(A laugh.) The LORD CHANCELLOR agreed . in the opinion that it would not be possible to apply this Bill to Ire land. If, however, the proposed change be found to work well for this country a similar change might be made in Ireland, The Bill was then read a third time. The clause proposed by Lord Truro was then added to the Bill; and the amendments which were moved by Lord Denman were severally agreed to. The Bill was then passed. On the motion of Lord COLCHESTER, the Regis trationand Marriages Bill was r ea d a second onh t time. Births,motion for Deaths, referring the Enfranchisement of Copyholds Bill to a Select Committee, Lord CAMPBELL said, however desirable the mea sure might be, he was afraid that it would not pass through Parliament that session, and therefore he thought it unnecessary to go into the details. The LORD CHANCELLOR referred to the Masters in Chancery Abolition Eel, and another important law measure, which had been well considered by a Select Committee within the space of four hours. CAMPBELL said the cas e s o f th e t wo Bill s an d were very different ; f or , i n respect to the L f o o rr r de former, they e the a y e were the Bills of the Noble and Learned Lord on the woolsack; but, in the case of the present measure, he believed that the Noble and Learned Lord was rather opposed to it. The Bill was then referred to a Select Committee. On the motion of the Bishop of OXFORD, the Com mittee upon the School Sites Acts' Extension Bill was postponed until the Bth of June, in order to afford time for remedying those objectionable parts of the Bill to which the Lord Chancellor had pointed his attention. The Property of Lunatics Bill passed through Com mittee. The Stamp Duties (Ireland) Bill also passed through Committee. REFORM OF THE COURTS OF CHANCERY- The reports on the Masters in Chancery Abolition Bill and the Equity Jurisdiction Bill were reesived. PROPERTY TAX CONTINUANCE BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. The Turnpike Reads (Ireland) Bill passed through Committee. REPRESENTATION OF LEARNING- Lion of the Hou a s b e g o e f WCboimebmmonays be e ro m vi a s d io e members of the ll that in any learned A tR 0 W professionsß . Y p es e n a t e n d d oathpeertsi,tivonrayfrionmg The Earl o ch F for the distinct and separate representation cre t h e edu cated intelligence of the country. The Noble Lord said the petition was signed by such men as Brodie, Bre'v s. ter, Murchison, Peacock, and others of similar character, and would, he thought, be deemed worth of attenotio the subjectln d eed, of attentiontbe representationha d bee nof o of lateth the much e d i rected atry hbaup but opinionin fav rvini may y e constitu tion s m t iat made country. many would think it best to have no change at a ll; strongly the current of oular feeling was running very eis e o r f et to merebe followed num bera ancient nor with unfortunate results.—(Hear.) Neither an modern experience encouraged this country to adopt 1 . , For instance, what: had been the effect of ' the expert - effect of meat in a neighbouring country? Tho firs e t n universal suffrage had been the establishment of '" but independent bodies or powers of CqUil The Presi antagonistic in their principles of "ticialas.soon as their dent and the Legislative Assembly bed, into opposi tion,powers were brought into exercise, be attended subversion of ono of oat ittb ewsotbaloadard. If this and the next result was the e life, liberty, them, and the extinction of all security f" This ought to be property, or opinion.—(User, hear.) the principle of enough to show the perilous nature o f Rome led to the same conclusion. In its wiser times , nacre numbers, The history of ancient nd when in later times presented rather than numbers, 'and resulted, and numbers merely were represented, anarchy right could a ultimately despotism. Moreover, by what s the mere tyranny classes . were re majority control a minority? It uf wa the whole object of of the siren "over the weak. by the representation this object could only be attained by some system under rather of classes than numbers—by opinions more than which members should not representstem of representing government was to protect thel3we'ay against the strong; majorities. Under the merely popular support, and ex treme Opinions in order to obtain that. moderate opinions moderate men had no chance, so they ought to c▪ -. , hear.) were not represented as remedy these evils, and it It was no doubt difficult to c ee n . borou h majorities of eunirbeearesa,tdidatcs professed was impossible to return to the r • the object system. fallacy. Education could not itioners. It was ap peared to be that suggested progress of education would do sometimes said that the f from the , away with the evil resulting r r epresentation of The only practicable means b o y f athttempheitng. numbers. But this was a be expected " et t o proceed to anon Eua extent as to AMEN T render men who passed their whole time in pursuits of trade and toil competent to control the representation of a country.—(Hear, hear.) And it was notorious that large bodies of men were most easily influenced and be came often mere mobs. There was a question which was of great importance, and well worthy of considera tion on this subject—that of colonial representation. — (Hear, hear.) It should be recollected that the facilities for communication were now greater between the mother country and some of her colonies than used to exist be tween different parts of this country itself.—(Hear, hear.) And without expressing any opinion upon these various suggestions, he threw them out for the consideration of their Lordships and of the country, as entitled to some attention.—(Hear. hear.) The Earl of DERBY said—My Lords, my Noble Friend had no occasion to apologise for bringing under your Lordships' consideration a subject of great import ance, and deriving additional importance from the great respectability of the names attached to this petition. — (Hear, hear.) Tho subject, my Lords, is perhaps one which would more fitly be mooted in the other House; but, at the same time, my Noble Friend has done good service in introducing it to the consideration of your Lordships, of the other House, and of the country. — (Hear.) Without expressing any positive opinion, I concur in many of his observations as to the present con stitution of tho House of Commons, and the effects pro duced by the changes consequent u p on t h e i ntro d uct i on of the Reform Bill. There has resulted from that mea sure, and from the abolition of the absolutely indefensi ble system of close boroughs, increased difficulty upon the part of men not:previously known in the world, and not possessing peculiar fluency of speech, or profes sing extreme views likely to recommend them to large popular bodies—there has been greater difficulty in the way of their getting access to the House of Corn mons.—(Hear, hear.) I agree also that there were of old means by which science and the colonial interests were indirectly represented in Parliament—(Hear, hear)—and .means by which young men disposed to avail themselves of the advaneages of a seat in the House of Commons, not for the purposes of amusement, but of really entering into the service of the country, might find admission into that assembly, and there make for themselves a name and character which might subsequently recommend them to the notice of larger constituencies.—(Hear, tear.) And I agree that men previously unknown, and of moderate and temperate opinions, may find in these days more difficulty than is desirable in becoming members of the Legislature.— (Hear, hear.) I agree further, my Lords, in thinking tbat it is not right or expedient that everything should be referred to mere numbers.—(Hear.) In whatever way you distribute the constituencies there must always be a large minority to a certain extent unrepresented; and, indeed, the absolute majority of the country may not be represented, for the majority of Members or seats may not represent the majority of electors—there may be small majorities in some places one way ceunterbalanced by large majorities in other places the other way.—(Hear, hear.) But, my Lords, I do not see in what way, under any system of popular government, it is possible to escape that difficulty.— (Hear, hear.) You must be regulated by the aggregate of votes of the representatives of respective constituen cies. 'But I agree that, if it be necessary to make any new distribution—to fill up vacancies arising from the alterations which the times may require—it would be unwise to look to the single question of numerical ma jority—(Hear, hear)—without taking into account the question of property, and (as far as it can be considered in legislation) the question of intelligence.—(Hear, hear.) The numerical majority is that which commends itself to the popular opinion as one which is most easily ascertained. Next in difficulty is the question of pro perty. But the most difficult is the other—how to se cure such a Legislature as shall give a due balance to intelligence, either in every constituency, or by system recommended by the petitioners, of having Members who shall assume exclusively to represent the intelligence of the country. My Lords, I am far from saying that, though I think there is difficulty in introducing that element to a great extent, it would be desirable to introduce to a greater degree the principle of representing intelligence and education apart from mere numbers.—(Hear, hoar.) Bat I apprehend that there would be considerable diffi culty in bringing the principle into practical operation. To a certain extent it is adopted by the constitution of the Houso of Commons as it stands, in assigning seats to the three Universities—of O x f or d, Cambridge, and Dublin; and if there were any other bodies suffi ciently numerous (for I think we cannot altogethersover look the question of numbers in considering the popular representation), and sufficiently separate and distinct — as scientific bodies, for instance—l think such bodies would have a claim for the consideration of the Govern ment in the re-organizetion or amendment of our repre sentitive system.—(Hear, hear.) On the part of the Go vernment I can assure my Noble Friend that the subject has not escaped their attention, and on a recent occasion I anxiously sought for the means of making an addi tion to tne constituency. There are, however, I repeat, great practical difficulties in the way. For instance, take the case, of the Scotch universities. There are three or four of them, some the very reverse of numerous, and all of them together not containing materials for a very large constituency (supposing we considered only the graduates), and if we grouped them together for the pur pose of representation, the smaller ones might not, per haps, consider it a boon, for they might apprehend that the general interests of science might be overborne by the particular interests of the larger universities, or their preponderating opinions on political or other subjects. Then, agaiue my Lords, there are the inns of court, bodies ever capable of furnishing a most respectable and valuable constituency—(Hear, hear)—and probably of returning to Parliament a very useful Member. It might be highly honourable to a lawyer to be returned by these societies rather than by some popular constitu ency, receiving his election as a mark of approval on the part of those belonging to his own profession, and sitting peculiarly as the representative of the law. But, my Lords, I must say, that, of all classes, those who find the least difficulty in obtaining seats in the House of Commons are the e lawyers.—(Hear, and a laugh.) The tendency seems really to be to that whicb has been found in other countries productive of mischief —too great an infusion of professional men in thenepre sentation of the people.-(Hear, hear.) For th ese gen . tlemen, in '° going circuit," h av e opportuniti es o f making themselves known—bringing themselves befor e th e pub lie, and forming acquaintances, and acquiring local in fluence. Still, my Lords, Ido not say that the inns of court would not form a constituency entitled to great consideration. With respec t to learned or scientific so cieties I am afraid there wo uld be more of a suggestion ore difficulty. Be fore noticing them I must at once di. o tue h n a cy ve .— a d o of erecting all retiredmilitary a It P a wouldr 1 utm e nt ary never constituency..._ I perceive has been ma _. or naval officers into (Hear, and a l g au e h.) 'United Service" 'Club.— member for " The . ._ (Laughter.) as to scientific and learned Now, my Lords, . , be a difficulty so wouia cieties, there the line between them so as to arrang e w hi ch of them ' . d entitled to r e presentation, and there should be deemed entitled grouping them ' would be difficulty in together for that hear.) And, my Lords, lam not sure purpose.—(Elear, of the politicalelement. that the introductionlikely to conduce to into their societies would be their harmony. I Take the cases, for (Hear, hear.) instance, of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. It would be ien a Member, and • possible to give to each , if they both returnedto one, the result would be, I fear, to cause gether dissensions between them. jealousies and body, I doubt whether it And as to each particular the power of their benefit to have lean hear)— d returning a Member of Parliamenn — C the and whether they would the worse for infusion of political feeling thus not be d It would be impossible to give eachof h cause • Member; it would be difficult to d t ese so cieties a of course it raw the line between them, and posst 'We to c ombine them altogether into one body for e of forming a Parlieme the Plop" la r for this ntary constituency, uniting toget e , „ . Purpose the Geographical So d the Royal bociety, and the • " Statistical Society, cietY, an , ical Society, and an d the Botanical 4, ) Moreover, my Lords , although laugh,) - a their constitution learned • • fthese societies are lor scientific bodies, they coinprise man y persons who have no special claims to a c haracter for science or learning —(gear, hear)— of rank deeming it an honour become members men to ecome members of them; and if the additi ona l i nducement were held oat o f beeonaieg members of a Parliamentary constituency, the introduction of members for the purpose of thus ac quiring votes might ultimately endanger therevious p o bjects of the societies.—(Hear, hear.) The whole ques tion, then, as to these institutions is • embarrassed by great difficulties.—(Hear, hear.) Then, my Lords, as to the subject of colonial rep resentat i on; it is one undoub tedly of great importance and also of difficulty.—(Hear, hear.) Bat if the object could be attained —more par ticularly sines the alteration of 1833, and the conse quent abolition of indirect colonial representation—it is one well worthy of the consideration of the Go vernment.—(Hear, hear.) If by any means such , a system could be devised as should fairly secure the representation of different interests, and bring before Parliament tho questions affecting the material, sociel, and political welfare of the colonies, a groat ad vantage would no doubt be gained.—(Hear, hear.) It would create an additional tie between the mother coun try and the colonies—(Hear)—and secure the advan tages now inadequately attained by the exertions of amateur colonial legislators, who are not always most discreet, even if the most zealous, advocates of the colo nies to which they attach themselves,—(Hear, and a laugh.) There weuld, however, be considerable diffi culty in carrying • out the plan—difficulty as to the mode in which the returns should be, made, and the manner in. which the members should,repreeaut separate or con current colonial interests.—(Elear, hear.) To have a member from each colony would of course be practically impossible, and to arrange the grouping of the coloured constituencies would be necessarily a matter of great delicay.--(Hear, hear.) My Lords, I cannot upon these I concur in .a, great portion of the observations of toy Noble y Friend. And if I cou ld see my way in any alterations hereafter mad e i n our representative system, or any additions to be made consti tuencies—if I could see my way to the to our e introduction, in a greater degr ee , o f t h e element telligence, I th e should think ter education and object—difficultin as I deem it to be—well entitled t gislature.—(lear.) And I o the att en ti on o f the Le certainly feel that it may be desirable to to do something which may neutralise the prevailing tendency to throw power in the hands of not the most intelligent or educated classes, but the most nu merous—and lam afraid in many cases the most easily misguided portion of the community. My Lords, I re peat, I did not rise to express any positive opinions even on my own part, still less to express the opinions of my colleagues; and, perhaps, I have already gone fur ther than I ought, but I only desired to convey toy sense of the importance of the subject.—(Hear.) Myo Noble Friend has not introduced any proposition man this occasion to your Lordships, and, therefore, will have the only say that the subject is one which , „_____ at nu 0 Aim° se `best attend= of the Ugyerilaaeut; and th • - - . .. •• , ..• ..• .. __. and prop9r occasion, when any definite preposition may be submitted to your Lordships, they will be ready to consider it. The petitions were then laid on the table. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice that ho should, on Monday week, movo the second reading of this Bill. POSTAL ARRANGEMENTS. The Marquis of CLANRICAIWE gm notice of a question for the same day respecting our postal arrange ments with France. BUINESS OF THE HOUSE. The Earl of IDERBY gave notico that he should (to day) move the adjournment of the House to Thursday nezt, and should propose (as there was no measure of a pressing nature before them) that no business of im portance should be taken until Monday week—the ob ject of his moving that the House meet on Thursday being to proceed with crivate business and appeals. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 27. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock, PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: Beacon field and Redhill Road. Eaitern Union Railway. Humber Conservancy r:nd K ingston-upon -Hull Docks. Kettering and Northampton Road. Kingston and Sheetbrrige Roads. Kingston•upon•Hull Dues and Docks. Manchester 'louse of Recove,ry._ Nene Valley Drainage and Navigation Imp rovement. The following Mils were considered an d agreed to:— Corris, Machynlleth, and River Dovey Railw ay , with Branches. Great Western Railway (No. 2). London and North-Western, and Buckinghamshire Railways. Monmouthshire Railway and Canal. Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway. Shrewsbury and Cnester Railway. Swansea Local Board of Health. Wycombe Railway. Clarkson's Estate and the Pimlico Improvement Bills were read a second time and ordored to be committed. WEXFORD HARBOUR. Mr. SULLIVAITmoved that the Wexford Harbour Improvement Bill be re-committed to the Committee to whom it was originally referred; that the Committee have leave to sit and proceed to-morrow, at twelve o'clock; three selected Members to form a qaorum. Mr. STAFFORD said the Admiralty would remain neutral upon this question; they would neither oppose nor support the motion, but leave it fur the House to de cide whether or no the Bill should be re-committed. Sir WILLIAM MOLES WORTH opposed the mo tion as chairman of the former Committee. After a brief conversation, in which Mr. M'Cullagh, Mr. Wilson Patten, and Mr. Reynolds t oo k p ar t, th e opposition was withdrawn, and the motion agreed to. PETITIONS. Sir JAMES DUKE presented a petition from the City of London against the Maynooth grant. Sir W. VERNER presented twenty petitions from the county of Cavan, in Ireland, to the same effect. Mr. ELLIS presented a petition from Aylesbury against church rates. Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from Warwick shire against the Maynooth grant. Mr. B. CABI3ELL presented a petition in favour of ocean penny postage. Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from the Irish League in Manchester, praying for the repeal of the Ec clesiastical Titles Act. Mr. HUME presented apetition from Newbury against church -rates. Mr. PORTER presented a petition from Hampshire against the post horse duty. Mr. BOOKER presented a petition from Hereford shire, praying the House to take steps to secure the in spection of nunneries. Mr. HORSMAN presented a petition from Plymouth, praying the House to address her Majesty upon the sub ject of issuing a commission to revise the Book of Com mon Prayer. Mr. B. CARTER presented a petition from Winches ter in favour of ocean penny postage. Lord D. STUART presented a petition from Maryle bone, praying for the repeal of the attorneys' certificate duty. • DROPPED ORDERS. The dropped orders and notices of motion were re appointed. SIGNALS OF DISTRESS. Mr. MACGREGOR moved for copies of all letters, and answers thereto, sent from the Admiralty to Mr. Robert Rettie, the inventor of the coloured lights system of signals for saving collisions of vessels at sea, showing signals of distress, ships at anchor, &c., when in Scot land and in England, since 1842 to 1852; when be was entered on board the navy or the books of the Rattler steam-frigate, and at Woolwich and Portsmouth, where the various trials took place, under the Go►ernment t of Sir Robert Peel: and of the various memorials to the Admiralty from tho different ports and steam navigation companies for their adoption.—Agreed to. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. A messenger from the Lords brought up the follow ing Bills, to which their Lordships have agreed:— Stock in Trade. Highway Rates. Porthdinllaen'and Nanthwynant Roads. Eastern Counties and Newmarket and Chesterford Railway Companies. Southarn to Kineton Road. Romsey, Broughton, Stockbridge, and Wallop Roads, without amendment. Athlone Markets and Customs, with an amendment. Newmarket Railway. Lancaster Waterworks, Cemetery, and Gas, with amendments. Property -tax Continuance. York and North Midland and East and West York shire Junction Railways. Dumfries and Maxwelltown Waterworks. Haw Bridge and Roads. Bedford and Kimbolton Road. Deeside Railway, without amendment. South Essex Estuary and Reclamation, with amend ments. Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardrossan Railway, with an amendment. ACCIDENT IN MINES. On the motion of Mr. CAYLEY, it was agreed that a Committee should be appointed to inquire into the causes of accidents in mines, with the view of devising some means to render them less frequent. SENTENCING A BRITISH SUBJECT TO DEATH Y A FOREIGN R. Lord DUDLEY ed STUART wish POW to E ask the Noble Lord the Under-Secretary for the Colonies a question, of which he had given notice, namely, whether theattention of Government had been called to the case of Mr. Murray, a gentleman of English descent, whose ances tors had served in the British army, and who himselt had held a commission under the Crown. This gentle man, after being imprisoned for a period of two years in Rome, had suddenly been brought to trial before a secret tribunal, end sentenced to death for a political offence. Now, what ho wanted to know was, whether the Go vernment intended to take steps to prevent that Sentence being put in force?—(Hear, hear.) Lord S LANLEY said it was quite true what the Noble Lord had stated. Mr. Murray wrs a British subject, and had formerly served in the army of Rome under the Re public. He exchanged that position, however, for the office of head police agent under the Republic at Ancona, and while he filled that situation several murders took place of persons who had been favourable to the cause of the Pope. It was thought at the time that Mr. Murray had connived at these murders, and he was arrested, but afterwards liberated. At the fall, however, of the Republic he was again arrested, and remained in prison two years and four months, at the expiration of which time he was brought to trial for the previous offence, and sentenced to death. This came to the knowledge of Mr. More, the British agent at Ancona, and he, together with Mrd Free born, the consul at Rome, sent home to the Government a history of the whole case. Instructions were immediately returned to them directing them to make an effort to obtain his liberation in the event of their believing that he was innocent of the crime imputed to him, or, en the other hand, to plead for a mitigation of his sentence. The unfortunate gentleman had since been removed from Rome to Ancona, and efforts were now being made to prevent his sentence being carried into effmt.—(Rear.) Lord DUDLEY STUART asked if it w as true ,that Mr. Murray was accused of a political o ff ence only? Lord STANLEY' said the accu sat i on was that Mr. c.e Murray had connived at murder, which gre zd a r te . r ll t u ha m n E a p a o sk li e ti d ca i l f ( Mr.'ff ne Murray e—(Dear.) was a r ')wtrai:d som ething before secret tribunal? Lord STANLEY said he was tried before a special tribunal. Mr. HUME wished to know if Mr. M urray in gaol so long without a n _ remained y information of the fact be ing sent home until recently ? Lord STANLEY said it undoubtedly was so. Lord D. STUAR T gave notice that he should call attention to the subject again to-morrow.—(Hear, hear.) Noble Lord said that - to-morrow h e s h ou ld as k t h e the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether any actual communication had taken place between the Government and the Governor of Ancona with regard to the case of Mr. Murray . Lord STANLEY consideredfo r that the present it would be better to drop the subject. MAYNOO In reply to a question from Mr T . EL P. HOWARD, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he had voted for the adjournment of the House on Tuesday, without any reference to the Maynooth tore tion, but simply because there were live motions upon the paper affecting the revenue of the country which he did not wish to be brought on.—(A laugh.) He did not vote for the adjournment of h the House with the s 1 g telt reference to the Maynooth question, and his view s on that question were id en tical with those he had expressed the other day.—(Hear, hear.) THE LOBOS IS LANDS. In answer to a question put by Mr. BAGGE , Lord STANLEY state d that applications had been frequently made, during the l s year, to the British Government by merchants and other persons interested guano trade, to know—fi rs t, whether the Lobos Islands, from w hi c h guano was t o b e obt,ieed, were held to belong to Peru? secondly, whether British ships would be allowed to land there? and thirdly, whether the British Government intended to send a eh' of war there for the b protection of the trade? And the simple reply made that whethery the late and the present Government had been, the island s were held to bel n t Peru or not, it w as certain they did not belong to ng land; the British Government h d no claim upo n th em , and it was deemed d n a anti visable to send any ship of war these. IC was staid , 911 Lisa QM )111110, 0 1 *1 these were not mentioned in the written constitution of Pet that the islands were at a distance from the cosst;'t! they were wholly unoccupied and destitute of fa w,ter, with no buildings erected upon them; that no of sovereignty hod been exercised over them by Fel and that, according to the law of nations, the mere PI Bence of , eartering tribes was not sufficient to consiitt a claim of right of provrty. Oe the other hard, t claim of the P. ruvian Geve- lament was, that the WAD were formerly held to belong to the Spanish previa and that on the separation of Peru from Spain th passed of themselves to the Government of Peru witho any special mention; that one was distant about for miles, and the other only twelve miles from the col that they were by no means newly discovered; and tb a distinct act of sovereignty had been exercised to' them by the Government of Peru in prohibiting the I dian tribes from hunting upon them, lest the bill should be disturbed. Resting upon this claim, the G' vernment of Peru had declared that they would resist g attempts upon these islands. Her Majesty's Goya ment bad examined the case, and the Noble Lord tl Secretary of State (the Earl of Milaiesbury) had state , in reply to a letter upon the subject, that the Geyer! 'inept were not prepared to send ships of war to these lands, and that, however advantageous it might be I Great Britain to appropriate the islands, or to declal them common property, we would not violate interns doled law. At the same time, the Government enter tained a sincere hope that (as we understood) such er rangements might be made as could effect the object sired, and secure a supply of guano. Sir F. BARING mi g ht b e a ll owe d to say, es tb , se transaction passed in some d egree w h en h e was in GP"' that within the last few days (as we understood) be 1 ?„ 6 received a letter fro m th e a d m i ra l i n command, stiti"; that he had sent, or was on t h e po i nt of sending , a 're.° to protect the trade with these islands. UNIVERSITY COMMISSION. Mr. HORS MAN gave notice that to-morrow he shoc i , ask th e S ecretary of State when it was pro b a ble that % i Unive rs i ty C omm i ssion would conclude their report; d a m l a s ey o a)n w ta i st s o h t e th d aek t e o filr it hs n et ow if the Chancellor of the Excheqb intended to bring on the Committee of Supply a s EXCHEQUER MilitiaGfi I:Ttht Government nA Bill ha u : a N s.d e oc n Et LL business oß o f t to-morrow o rro w been a n o n r o d uen Committeercrpd thattboef S d a a u f r l theto-morrowTherß o i g rt h b :0 :( t ht : eb ; i received, he meant to give • Gentleman (M r. Slaney). who had kindly relinq uis- c his advantage on a former occasion, an oortunit); gave notice MAIL. Mr. COWAN TH g ve O bringing on hi s motion, and then he meant to reve— s t the orders of th e d ay. that ho sbneld 116 k Secretary to the T reasury if any arrangement could b made by Government t o expedite or shorten thetain'in taken up in the trans m i ss i on of the London and burgh mail.—(Hear, hear.) MILITIA BILL. On the motion for considerin g thi s Bill as amends'e Colonel SI LiTLIORP moved in li nes 21 and 22 5 " the words " appointments to the rank o f major,„ (11 leave out the word " major," and insert th e wer ej " captain or any higher rank." It was admit!, by two Governments that the militia was P p cessary, and he wished to make the forc e w hat or ought to be. The militia was formerly kept up in a c A s stitutional and efficient manner, and he desired it S 1 be so for the future. bjo Mr. HUME said no amendment would reconcile to the Bill, which he pr o t es t e d aga i nst i n o t o impolitic and barbarous in these enlightened dap s le ; establish a eystem of conscription among the 1 04 1 ,r and he should not hesitate to avail himself of everl b i portunity to oppose a m easure w hi c h i nvo l ve d 6 principle. Mr. W. WILLIAMS also observed that pothingc o o reconcile him to th e measure . H e h a d begn opro s t , o sf it from the comm encement; fi rst, on t h e ground tb military defences were sufficient; and, 2dly, that 1 , 0 0 were not, the militia wou ld not supp l y the deficlosli The system of ballot, as p rov id e d f or i n th i s c l aus e, greatly embarrass the Government when it was P ° „018, operation, f or not hi ng was so odious and obje nio?;eol to the peopl e o f thi s country as conscription in a 9 yid profound peac e . Th e pu b lic had been grossly cl,doce to believe that th e m ili tary force available for the de ,'Oll of the country was only one-half of its real pOO extent. lle ° Mr. WALPOLE sa id reasonable time would bAce t he by the Gov ernment f or Hon. Members to onnsiue-dieg' course they s h ou ld ta k e on the third resweet, He would fi x th e t hi r d reading for MondaY„ 001 In regard t o the amendment of the lion. and ‘ 7 ° w oe Colonel, h e s h ou ld ma k e certain alterations in t he c which he thought would meet his objections. The amendment was then withdrawn. sir Colonel GILPIN then proposed a proviso , oil powerinecommanding officers of regiments to 01) 44 f°l non-commissioned officers from the ranks of de soldiers. The amendment was agreed to. e . pre' Mr. THORNELY then propos e d th e followinLi ve viso at the end of clause 18:—" Provided always, the not member of the Senate of the University of LeedeT o iss. any exam.ner, or other offic er th ereo f, nor all .P. t ita. sor, tutor, or lecturer of an y co ll ege , sc h oo l, or Ina ges . Lion connected with th e sa id U n i vers i ty, un der fbe f r o f visions of any charter thereof, nor any student 0 pitt• such college, sch oo l, or institution, who shall bacevele triculated in the sa id un i vers i ty, s h a l l be li a ble to ser the militia und er t hi s A ct. Mr. GOULBOURN said the provi s o went d an beyond privile ge en j oye d b y the Universities of W ha ro s t r a, l f Cambridge, as i t extended to all persons w ho culated. As reg ar d e d schools, also, it wo nt beY.° ndtb l privileges accorde d to the Universities of Conbcidge s P Oxford. 'odi c° Mr. GLADSTONE sugges t e d th a t it wouldrJ 05 so the cause it e s po use d, t o p ress th e proviso, it ce v ith. loose and so vague. He suggested it should be _. be drawn, and some test of residence sought for, w brought forward on a future occasion. • t if Mr. HEYWOOD thought it would effect the obi ° scholars engaged in education were comprised a love-0 4 Mr. THORNELY, under these circumstances, 1" withdraw his amendment. In reply to Mr. HEYWOOD, Mr. WALPOLE said he was quite satisfied tB 4 lllee t he the University of Durham on the same footing P so d other universities—namely, London, Cambridge' Oxford. be ta ken Mr. BERNAL said St. Bee's ought also to into consideration. . 11 was re- The amendment was withdrawn, a n d the S i ig o ndel ported, and ordered to be read a third time oil week. VALUATION OF PROPERTY (IRELAN D; %Li" On the second reading of this Bill, Lord NAAS reminded the House that, and 7th William IV., the valuation of 26 counties is 1 ; 1 41 land had been made ; but, some years after the poor- I °, o came into operation in Ireland it was found necessarf..;), alter the mode of valuation. Another Act ass s o !„, sequently passed, which was based on what wasouls, posed to be the letting value of lands and be it : e `d, Glider that system only five counties had been "', O O l under the 6th and in three more it was partly finished, in the cont, b 0; five years.—(llear, hear.) It was impossible that i l, e i t • system could la, continued, and bequeathed to r io grandchildren. There was also the greatest difficulq e if the mode of conducting appeals, Ithoe Bt):1151.11ajit:: cumbersome and unsatisfactory to all parties. The gl o p, which was excesst e o object should be to make one uniform mode of valit ec e and with that view the Right Hon. Gentleman the D' av t,, Bill last session. That' bar for Drogh e d a b r ought in a however, was found to be so cumbersome that it gan" be satisfaction whatever. The present measure violf7 iii s different—it proposed to proceed on an average e` 00 price of agricultural produce at 6,000 markets for pr e last three years, as taken from the different newir r af:Do m That o s n v e a r s ,oifavfaalcuts, valuation, e a a n d d i is gafs efeat ure rwar :I f s appeal, which was first to the c c : r • uttered the mode of sessions. Ho , had every reason believe , that '- e' Bill were approved ' to he i' oi, the whole of Ireland would - tof f lued in system four or five years, and the present unsatisfacc.'ord moved put an end to. ha conclusion, the Noble ' the second reading of the Bill. 'for' Mr. CLEMEN TS deprecated: such a 0 11- s bringing suc it et! ward on the eve of a general election, and when tie natural to teen- e expect that Irish Members would bo fl, -- „ he iolb Ireland. He protested, therefore, 'the No - against : w continued at the present time. The first Bill Was '`, l fel duced •in 1826; five others had since followed, as the the question la was far from being settled, shay' - 0 1 11 complex and difficult nature of the question• A c r oss' was also introd uce d i n t h e l ast sess i on , it Was 4 , 0 oe witted twice, and yet had to be abandoned. It !Lore , a totally different principle from the present 1 1 _,7,00 0 : which showed that it required great consinw," o o o The whole of this valuation had already cost in ~,' a to numbers 260.0001., and surely they were not g_.°P - c ;re• incur mere expenses, without having the subject filly considered. He knew something of the i ll ' c i 03 0 in England as well as in Ireland, and believe o ss in the majority of unions the poor-law valllati a n li e . rior not a good ore for the purpose of t axa ti on , but °rote' to that of England in many instances. It w e %to e rious that sta t e already made were t hrown "- set' state of great confusion by t h e appeals to quartei.erit sinus, and he was therefore ag a i nst t h e es tabliehlbst of such a tribunal. It was impossible to exPe et fl ed such a measure should pass in the present session' r to he put it to the Noble Lord if i t were no t het te be of postpone it until next year. The delay could un i t „ l ion any consequence , for no alteration in the vitt ot would affect the constisuencies for the next tlic e t - -pte four years. For his own part, even if it W ent 0 1 00 Committee, which he deprecated, he believed it '; rut meet the fate of its predecessors. He should, th er-f° g' !it._ oo th , move that it be read a second time that day three Ku l ot Mr. H. HFRPERP ' , . represented a part of Ir A c ere tl where hih such a measure was Lo necessary, that he O rl : a rd. - t anks to his Noble Friend for bringing it fo r ", v - j3f even o at that period of the session. He did not see condo HD. Members for Ireland could • -the coo' not imitate aeo .. of Scotch Members, who in discussing measures a'. I I vat sing their country put themselves in communication oils the Government upon the mere details, andswer e 00 0 enabled to overcome all difficulties. He was quite oul d his Noble Friend, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, C!, v ot listen to any suggestidns made to him, and he rhu_ de d see, therefore, why she Bill could not be proce, e , with. He denied that the Poor-law valuation gav e g at neral satisfaction, for in his own part of the count r y was quite the contrary. valv e , tion R. FERGUSON denied that the poor•law %icy, tion gave the dissatisfaction alluded to by th e ] age Member for Kerry, for Mr. Joseph Kincaid, wbn d i i • connected with very extensive properties in Ireland , t he tinctly stated, in his evidence before a Committe e of :p, House of Lords, that it was, generally speaking' t i o f proved of. He was oppesed to the b r inging forriar or such a Bill at that period of the session, when °° ,4 de portunity would be given to discuss it carefully OIL' liberately. e the 0111' Mr. VESEY supported the second reading 0 . ,O. The 0000 oyekem of vatiaiiim wilu toperogyv r '