The Sun. — London, England, 1852-06-26 00:00:00

:~ ~,~ Vita Mbition+ GERMANY. A letter from Dusseldorf, of the 20th, says : "yreparations aro being made here for a great mu sical festival, which will commence on the Ist of August, and continue three days. At it will ap pear representatives from all the singing societies of Germany, Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland, amounting in all to about 1,500 persons, who will compete for ten prizes, consisting of pieces of plate, on which will tie engraved the names of the victorious societies. The King of Prussia, who is to arrive on the 20th of July, at the Château de Stolzenberg, will be invited to honour the festival with his pre- Fence, and Jenny Lind, Meyerheer, Spohr, Richard Wegener, and other musical celebreties of Germany will also receive invitations." A letter from Bremen of the 14th, in the Augsburg Gazette, gives an account of a misunderstanding which has arisen between the American Consul at Bremen and the Hanoverian authorities of Lehe, a place quite on the frontier of the territory of Bre men, and having, it would seem, jurisdiction over a portion of the roads of Bremerhaven. The facts of the case are these. Six sailors of the United States barque Arethusa had got into debt at Bre merhaven with a public-house keeper, who, on bearing that the Arethusa was to sail in a few days, applied to the authorities of Bremerhaven to get the sailors arrested, or else their pro perty seized ; but the authorities had no power in the matter, owing to a recent law of Bremen, w hi c h pro hibits the arrest for debt of sailors in active service, or the seizure of their property.. The creditor then bethought himself of the following plan to obtain payment. He tran s f e r re d hi s c laim to an inhabitant of Lehe, who applied to the Hanoverian authorities ; the latter, immediately on the Aret husa arrivi ng within their jurisdiction, sent out a boat, demanding the arrest of the sailors in question ; and as the cap tain demurred, he was threatened with forcible mea sures, and that the cannon of the adjacent Hanoverian fort were ready loaded to enforce the demand. Th e captain at last yielded, but applied to the American Consul, who has just sent a note to the H anover i an Government, demanding a Compensation of 500 dol. laea the liberation of the American sailors, and their free passage home, begging at the same t i me to b e informed of the exact demarcation of the jurisdiction of Hanover over the roadsted of Bremerhaven, that American vessels might &void it in future. The treaty between the Grand Duke of Hesse and the King of Bavaria, for the establishment of a tele graphic commu . nication b e t ween D armsta dt an d t h e Palatinate, havirg been ratified, orders have been gives f or the neeesi;ary works. The line will ex tend from Minn to S • pire, passing through Offenbach, Darmstadt, Worms, and Ludwigshafen. ITALY. Tile Giornale di Roma, of the 16th, publishes a programme., issued by the Medical and Surgical Academy of Ferrara, offerieg a prize of 1,087 f. for the best essay (monografia) on intermittent fevers, and mere particularly endemical ones, with an ample discussion on the hygienic means cf re moving their causes, and protecting man from their influence. The esays must have arrived free of postage to the Secretary of the sqi.3 Academy, on or before the 30th of April, 1854. Foreign as well as Italian praatitioners :ire admitted to the competition. Every essay is to bear a motto, to he repeated on the sealed cover containing the name and address of the au thor. 'the cover bearing the motto of the successful essay shall alone be opened, and all the other covers burnt. The essays may be written either in Italian, French, or Latin. They must all b 3 original, never have been published, and never presented to any other academy. They must be written legibly. The essays which have not gained the prize, may nevertheless be declared wor thy of being printed cr be honourably mentioned, in which cases the names of the authors shall be pub like that of the succesful competitor. No essay shall be printed without the consent of the author. Tbe essays are nareturned. T UIiKE Y. " We learn from Constantinople, under date of the 10th," says the Dads, "that Fuad Effendi was expected there the next day from his mission to Abbas Pacha. Alif Bey was to set out for Egypt, and thence to Jerusalem, immediately after the re :urn of Fund Effendi, in order to carry a firman from the Porte approving of the arrangements entered into with Abbas Pacha, and to have the engagements of the Porte with France rela tive to the Holy Sepulchre carried into exe cution. The Debats of May 29, containing the firman accorded to the Greeks by the Porte, on the subject of the holy sepulchre, had been re eeiicd by wry of Vienna on the Bth of June. It appears certain that that document was ante-dated, that it returned corrected from St. Petersburgb, and was not handed over for some time after the departure of M. Lavalette. However that may be, it was feared that this firman might lead to some complica tion in the regulations between France and the Porte. It was generally looked on at Constantinople as the indication of dispositions which nothing on the part of France justifies. As to the question of quarantine, it appears that the Porte has at length decidel to sign the convention agreed to at Paris, but with certain reservations. The financial question continued to occupy men's minds. Whilst the bank was endeavouring to come to some understanding with Europe to give more stability to its operations, the Porte was taking measures to improve its credit by reducing its issue of paper money, and on the 10th the Sultan was to proceed to the hotel of the Minister of Commerce, where 12 millions of piastres of that paper were to be burnt. Sir S. Canning had not yet left Constantinople. At a dinner given him on the 7tb of June by the English mer chants, he had made a speech, in which (with about two or three exceptions) he had comprised in the lame accusation of venality and corruption all the f unctionaries of Turkey, and drawn a most melan ell,°l9 picture of the Ottoman Empire. This outbr ea k o ' the Britannic representative had excited a great sensation at Constantinople." MINING INTELLIGENCE. Dari,(Zrom the Mining Journal of this day.) - 1 the w ee k, except f or di v id en d m i nes , th e amount lea, ,transac although num e rou s , are n o t to an y large e ‘ , al Bulier hea been sold st 730, and now 750 is eema e l ( '' n ' la d oi ?heal Basset has risen from 445 to 465; Devoe )to 315- South Caradon have advanced frEotalajei,e,,tao.r.-,e 127k;33 14i;Bot'allacks are Al fred,2so;hsve met w i t pu r eha l, Tru opal Consols, and United, - e ~o ed dis eere at a considcrable rise in price, owing -o e - eeee,i i no r i t ea made meetly in them. Al fred F; 0136 '-' 3, - 'd, Merliye South Tamar, South Tolgue, Seuth Fad ",s, Tincroft and Weet, Caradon, mill/win tlee ir p =ica s teadily-. , At the C ' Qudurr( B Ar 1414 ' 3 meeting, on Monday, the d- elat e -to accounts 511 ° We ,1,4 " lest eccount, 1461. 33. 7d.; ' tie ores Buie, `2,5201. 57. 3c1.2,666/. Bs. 103. copper anti a A nit and By labour cost, -?4,.._ . 7(1 ; rAY, 1,5151. 19,e Id.; mer chants' bid, 337/ " due , =, (1-20th), 1261. Zing belance in hand, Os. 31; by dividend-, . .51:c:to: p 1751. 63. I Id. A dividend of r share was declared. At the 2.lerllyn Mine l o i T s. soleel, i i" the accounts showed-April and MO' 10d ; pl 2 ticg' ancl June 10, t i t V, ell/. 105. 4d.; wer1,271/. 13s. 103. 2,370/. April cost, 449/. ' profit i ts . royalty, 2371: showing a bills, royalty, The expenditure and rece_ci::: 7:lsl::l;litianAcepriflrolam_ May,m`orcha_cct3;lsl. 1 0 2/. (),.. last account, 738/. 25.; received 2. p i '. ore sold to 12th May, 2,240/. 55.= 2 1 9, '' • hour cost, 389/. 19s. 3d.; 2371.; dividends, 975/. 165.; 11d., leaving a balance in hand .`" assets, against4tlecief which, with the 100 tons of ore receivable en tle:' July (1,1851.), shows 2,100/. 16s. assee. on s, a 62/, le - chants' bills to pay, 1251. 19s. 5d.; divia A divide/un; leaving balance of assets, 1,912/. 43. 7d. of ss. per share was declared. a / 1g on Wed, At the Tyn-y-berth Slate Quarry mee nesday, the accounts showed a balance of in favour of the company. the ac -5,0761 la. 7d. r-i -day At Wheal Harriett meeting on Weenee 1 counts showed a bal ance in favour of the mine 0 f 121. es. Id. At Langford and Baring United Mines meeting, 0 : Monday, the accounts show e d-B a l ance l as t account 221. 43. 10d.; received for ores sold, 3301, 9s. 7d.; call s, 6361. 7s. 61 = 9891. is. Ild,-By paid balance, Feb. coste, 88/. Ba.; secretary's salary, &c , 141. 13s. 20.; au' ditor's, 101. 10s.; March cost, 119/. 16s. Bd.; April, 126/. 2s. 3d.; Nicholls and Co., on account, 2001.; discount, 11. 12s. 3d.; loan repaid, 2501; sundry payments, 114/. 3s, : leaving balance to next =count, 631. 17s. 73, The assets were-Call in errear since October, 36/. 53.; ditto since March, 7911, 55.; ore at grass, estimated at 1404 = 1,0311. 7s. 7d.-Liabilities: Bills due, 3461. Bs.; May cost, 157/. 6s. 93.; June and July, 300/: leaving balance, 227/. 12e. 10d. The shame in 'arrear will be forfeited, unless paid on within fourteen days. At Bryn-Arian Mine bi-mcnthly meeting, held yes terday, the accounts showed-Dalance last account, 171. 15e. 3d.; call, 595/.=6121. 15s. 3d.-To paid March cost, 183/. 13s. 9d.; April, 164/. Is. Id.; merchants' bills, 521. Is. 6d.; due on .T. Brown's shares forfeited, 51 .; petty cash, 11, 103. 6d.; leaving balance to next account, 2061 Bs. 5d., which consists of cash, 104/. 18s. 5d.; arreara of calls due, 1014 103. At Cefa Gwyn quarterly meeting, yeeterlay, the ac counts showed -Call 339/. 10s. 6d.-Balance last account, 91. 13s. 9,1; March cost, 50/. 18s. 43.; April, 601. 15s. 101.; May, 721 . Ils. Id.; Loudon management, 121. Os. 6d.; leaving balance to next account, 135/. lle. -being cash in hand, 60/.115,; arrears of call due, 751., of which. Mr. Walter stood fOr 451. All shares in are et'te rear were forfeited, unless redeemed in a given time •? „ ~ . .; -r, \ ""; At Lydford Conadis VPO monthly meeting, on Thurs ?ees*tcese day, the accounts showed-Calls, 3,792/.; interest and L 4 : - 4 )1.k .. '•:,.z.,F discount, 10/. Bs.; sundry receipts, 6/. 103 =3 808/. 183 • ;eete . -ez "" warkimcost and materials, 2,723/. 19 3..8i.; purchase , t,' , 7;e;e .eeeee,- ' of setta,'materials, and preliminary office expenses and management, 971, e xpensee, 579/. 15e.; 195.; legal ex . -4 e _He-::)e, - Penses, 11/. 17s. 103. ; printing and statienery, vtv v - • ;..• e , te 191. Is. 101; interest, 4s. 53 .: leaving halan.ce, -4 , .:) ..,9L ~ 3784:06. 31-The balance of assets over li a bili t i es was "- _3 4 1, 10s. 11d. A oall of ls. per .hare Was made. Tll E SUN, A call of is. per share was made on Bargally Mine ad-' venturers. At the Black Craig Mines adjourned general meet ing, on the 10th inst., a call of 23. 6d. per share was made. At Wheal Robins quarterly meeting, the accounts showed-Balance last account, 1311. 17s. 3d.; calls re ceived, 3671. 15s =499/. 12s. 3d.-March labour cost, 1131. ss. 91; April, 1461. 13s. 5d.; May, 1481. os. Bd.: feaving a balance to next account of 911. 12s. 5d.; add arrears of calls due, 2111., makes assets, 3021. 12s. sd.- The liabilities are 2661. 19s. 6d. A. ca ll of 2s. 6d. per share was made. At the Sidney Godolphin meeting, on the 9th inst, the accounts showed-Balance last account, 600/. 14s. 10d.; labour cost for four months. to end March, 1,0171. 9s. 6d.; merchants' bills, 2151. 95.; lords' dues (1-18112), 41/. Ils. 101,-_--1,875/. ss. 2d.-Ores sold, 7481. 13e. 10d.; calls, 5781. 10s.; sundries, Si. 3s. 9d.; leaving balance against adventurers, 539/. 175. 7d. A call of los. per share was made. At the Tywardreath meeting, on Saturday, th e ac counts showed-Four months cost to end of April, 925/. 135.; arrear of call 111.; balance to end of Dec., 1,4001. 19s. 3d.=2,3371. 12s. 3d. By calls received, 2,1371.: leaving balance to next account, 2001. 12s. 3d.-Arrears of call unpaid, 423/. Proceedings were ordered to be taken against parties in arreer, and a call of 2/. per share was made. D ur i n g the week business has been done in Wheal Buller, Wheal Basset, South Tolgus, Merllyn, Bedford United, South Tamar, West Providence, United Mines, Tamar Consols, Alfred Consols, Holmbush, Trelawny, Tincroft, Vale of Towy, Cabert, Cook's Kitchen, Clive, Harriett, Kilbricken, Great Bryn, Cofn Gwyn, East Tamar, Wheal Uny, Trevelyan, West Wheal Alfred, Sydney, Orsedd, North Vale of Towy, South Tre saevaecaonn: WestWbea Wheal Robins, Wheal Fortune (Sticklepath), Exmoor Eliza, Sid ney G o d o l p hi n , D u k e of Cornwall, B Poigootb, Bryn-Arian, Victoria, East Russell, Wheal Crebor, Lydford, Union Tin, Wood, Mining Company of Ireland, Wicklow Copper. In Foreign Mines transactions have taken place in Cobra, Copiapo, Santiago, United Mexican, and St. John del Rey; also in Linares, at 21. per share, and Anglo- Mexican Mint at 231. LONDO N, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1852. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN T. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 25. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his soot on the Woo sack at Five o'clock. LEGAL EDUCATION. Lord LYNDHURST asked the Chief Justice whether he was satisfied with the present state of legal education? Lord CAMPBELL said he thought the state of legal education had hitherto been very disgraceful, but re cently stops had been taken to place this in a much better condition, and be hoped that these improvements would be carried much further. Lord BROUGHAM said that, as a bencher of Lin coln's Inn he wished to say that he thought it was the desire of his brother benchers to carry the improvements lately adopted much further. For his own part, he thought the degrees sought to be conferred ought to be the result of compulsory examination. Earl GRANVILLE brought up the report of the Select Committee on the mode of Printing the Papers and Proceedings of the House, and made several sug gestions, the nature of which did not reach the gallery. o to f oor t k h d e report were adopted. A short conversation ensued, in which Lord Redes- Monteagle, the Earl of part, when the first and Derby, s d e a c l e o , n d recommendations Lord an d B L r o o u r d g h Grey m , L On the third recommendation, viz.:—" That in the event of a division taking place in any Select Committee, the question proposed, the name of the Peer proposing the question, and the respective votes thereupon of each Peer present, be entered on the minutes of evidenc,-. or on the minutes of the proceedings of the Committee (as the case may be), and then reported to the House on the report of such Committee," The House divided— Contents ::: • Majority a , ... ... . _ l7 THE LATE CONVENTION WITH FRANCE. The Marquis of C L ANRICARDE then a s k e d the qu e stion of which he had giv en not i ce — v i a ., w h et h er Non-contents .'..• 4 •-. :•••• 58 1 her Majesty's Government intend to announce to Par liamentwith her Majesty's Ambas sador French Ambassador in London, at an y r e re er concern i n g the law latel y enacted i n France, wh i ch occas i on ed the withdrawal o f t h e S urren d er o f C r i m i nals (Convention with France) Bill pr esen t e d t o th e H ouse . correspondence th The Noble Marquis thee went on to say that the Bill on this subject which had been before the House had been withdrawn without any explanation by the Noble Earl opposite. The grounds of that Bill were assumed to be the existence of a law in Francs—the law of 1808— which in reality was not now in force in that country. To frame the Bill that bad been withdrawn some treaty must have existed with the French Government, and he (the Marquis of C l anricarde) thought the House had a right to know the cause of the withdrawal. He did not under the circumstances, therefore, think that the Noble Earl had shown Proper considsration either for their Lordships' House, for her Majesty, or for the Govern ment of that country with which he presumed it was wished to maintain a cordial alliance and amity. The Earl of lI ALMESBURY—I will answer the question of the Noble Marquis at once. I have no com munication to lay before your Lordships' House in the shape of correspondence MI the subject of his question. But I am glad ,to be abl e t o s t a t e t o y our L or d s hip s , th a t the French Goverment, which, from the moment we came into office, have always acted in a frank and friendly manner to her Majesty' Government, aware that there Wes an impression in this House, on the n i g ht the Bill was introduced, not favourab:e to the measure, no sooner perceived that that impression was strongly shown in this House against the projet de loi which was Proposed, than in all frankness and friendliness they gave us an assurance that that law should not be persevered in. —(Hear.) So much for France.--(Hear) But, my Lords, I cannot sit down without expressing my fodder* as to what the Noble Marquis has said in reference to the two nights' debate with respect to the convention, and the Act of Parlia ment which wa s to give it life. And Ido not hesitate to say, that her Majesty's Government, knowing the facts—knowing that they are in a minority in the House of Commons—we trusted and believed, my Lords, that on a question in which party spirit should not be intro duced, we should have met with the full and entire as sistance of her Majesty's late Government in carrying out an Act of Parliament which was prepared by them selves and not by n _ 33.... _ (Cheers)—which was drawn up by their own of under their own instructions, and which was in no way altered by me either in sense or in text. I added two clauses certainly, my Lords; but one of them was for positively defining the offences named in the Bill to be those analogous to felony in this country, and, therefore, was framed in a spirit not by any means deserving of the reproof which the Noble Marquis bestowed on me; while the other was one which gave additional security to political offenders by preventing a second trial for the same of. fence, once they were rendered under the terms of the convention. — This was done, my Lords, after the Act had been drawn up by her Majesty's former Govern ment, and her Majesty's present Government had, there fore, every reason to expect and believe, as I have al ready stated, that the great party opposite would have merged all political differences, and assisted us in pass ing an Act so necessary for this country—(Hear) —so necessary, also, for France, and which it was due to France should be passed, inasmuch as the existing con vention, as at present enforced, is unfair to that country. —(Hear, hear.) Therefore, my Lords, when the Noble Marquis, who has shown himself so anxious to maintain friendly relations with France, lectures me on my want of knowledge of French laws, I do say that he has no right, I shall not say to turn round, but he should have given me that information of which he said I was not possessed, in order to carry out that convention by means of that Act of Parliament. The Noble Marquis finds fault with me, if I understand him, that I did not know the force of the convention, and that I did not pay sufficient deference to this House in withdrawing the Bill. My Lords, it was in deference to this House alone that I withdrew the Bill. —(gear.) The highest legal opinions in the House were expressed against it. It would have been presumptuous in me to contradict those opinions. I saw the impression that had been made on your Lordships' minds, and out of deference to the House I withdrew the measure. —(Hear.) I do not deserve therefore to be accused of want of respect to your Lordships; but least of all do I deserve the obloquy which the Noble Marquis has sought to cast on me, not for signing a convention which I did not make—a convention which was drawn up in fact by the Noble Earl opposite, and the Noble Viscount his predecessor in office—a convention which I tried to carry out by an Act of Parliament, described by the Noble Marquis as trenching on the liberty of the subject, when I only added clauses that strengthened that liberty.—(Hear, hear.) I t wa s not just or fair, therefore, of the Noble Marquis to say that I paid any y disrespect to this House in withdrawing the Bill, or that I neglected to secure the liberty of the subject by consenting to narrow his constitutional rights in this instance —(Hear.) But at the same time, my Lords, I am bound to say, that I have not altered my opinion as to the im mense importance of some convention on the subject before the House. The French Government have de termined to renounce the present convention as unfair and useless to them; and if that comes to pass you will not be able to claim our criminals in France any more than France will be able to claim her criminals in Eng land. The criminals of both countries who can contrive to escape will consequ en tly find impunity; and England as well as Franco will once again become a mutual and a safe asylum for the malefactors of each nation.—(Hear.) Earl GRANVILLE admitted that he was a party to the convention; but he protested against the conclusion of the Noble Earl that the opposition to the Bill was a party movement. It was, however, quite clear that the Government could not go on with the present convention. The highest legal authorities had objected to the Bill, and therefore the opposition to it. Lord CAMPBELL, who could scarcely be hear for hoarseness, and whose repeated attempts to clear his voice by preliminary coughing excited great laughter, was understood to say, that he never had been more as tonished in all his Political experience than he was at the statement of the Noble Earl the Foreign Secretary. He (Lord Campbell) d eprecated all party feeling in his opposition to the Bill; but, with the most sincere desire to assist the Governinent in the matter, he had felt that, as the Bill stood, i t was i mposs ible it could be carried into effect by Act of Parliament. The Marquis of N ORMANBY merely wished to con firm what had been stated by his Noble Friend opposite as to the just ground s which France had to complain of the existing state of the law in this country on the sub ject. His intimate acquaintance with France during the last few years enabled him to testify that great service had been done by the practical operation of the existing treaty to the interests of this country. Under it great service had been done, especially to the commercial in terests of this country, in enabling parties to obtain pos session of the persons of those who otherwise, from the neighbouring country being so contiguous, would have profited by the opportunity thereby afforded them to set the law of this Country at defiance, and enjoy impu nity. He was convinced if the French Government took the course which the Noble Lord opposite had hinted at, the commercial interests of this country would suffer. Re was, therefore, anxious that his Noble Friend oppos i te wou ld turn his at tention to remedy the practical difficulties which ap peared to , im pede the execution of this measure (Hear, hear.) Re could not sit down without confirming the testimony which his Noble Friend had borne to the prompt manner in which the French Government bad always met app ea l s Made to them for any assistance re quisite in cases contemplated by the treaty. Lord BROUGHAM regretted that some arrangement which might be carried into execution had not been come to between the two countries; as he could not ex pect the French G overnment to g i ve us the full benefit of the existing treaty whilst we gave them no advantage in return, in consequence of the different state of our laws from those of France. the The Marquis o f CL A NRICARDE repudiated to party purposes whi c h t h e N o bl e E a rl had attributedf the the Noble Lord s on that (the Opposition) sideoEarl House, in not supp ort i ng the Bill. If the Noble re ally wished him to make a charge against him (the Earl of Malmesb ur y) h e wou ld make one, and i ' It was this that the Nobl e E ar l h a d t h oug ht himself competent Bill within six week s or two mont h s t o produce a _been so model d on a subject which th e N o bl e Viscount who had l o ng at the he a d o f F ore i gn Affairs (L or d Palmerston) as at the and the Noble E ar l (E ar l G ran ville) when he w Foreign-office, had h a d so long under consideration. The conversation then dropped. etition from Viscount HEREFORD presented a P Brecon, complainin g o f the operation of the 14th and 15th of Victoria, c. le (the Highways Act), and its time rates falling excessively e x p ens i ve , and at the sam e s fallin g most un equally. The Noble Lord expressed a hope that the Go vernmen t would soon introduce a ge neral Bill on th e su bj ect , w hi c h would remove the ob. jeetions to the p resent A c t, and remedy the evils com plained of. GOODWOOD CIIP WEIGHTS. Age st lbl Ago st lb Rassborough Newminster Teddington Mountain Deer Nancy 4 8 13 Kingston 3 7 4 Lady Evelyn Ariosto Hernandez Waterfall Constellation Joe Miller Now or-never ... 6 7 8 Houlakin 3 6 10 Mary Knoll Auctioneer Frantic ....... .... 3 7 4 Galvard.im Poodle Redmd. O'Hanlon 3 7 41 THE ARMY AND NAVY. (From the United Szrvice Gazette of this day.) Major General Horne, late of the Grenadier Guards, we understand, will succeed to the command of the troops in Jamaica, on the expiration of Major-General Banbury's period of service there. It is rumoured that Colonel Sir Ord Honyman, Bart., Lieuttl.nant-Colonel Grenadier Guards, is about to retire from the service by the ;ale of his commission. A NEW INVALID DEPOT.—It is again rumoured that a de[ot, for the accommodation of invalid soldiers, is to be tcrmr:cl at I . l foolvrich, and the staff now at Chat ham will be removed to the former place. If this plan is carried into effect, much delay and inconvenience will be spared the sick soldier, who, when his case is finally disposed of, can be sent, either by railway or steam-boat to any part of the United Kingdom, with very little trouble to himself. Recruiting in the Royal Marines has continued to im prove since the standard was brought down to 5 feet 7 inche.:—quite high enough for the work. Lieutenant O'Connell, 65th Regiment, is about to retire from the service by the sale of his commission. Ho served Major of Brigade to the force in New Zealand as from 1845 to 1846, and was present at the at tack on Hekt's Pah at Mawie, on that or the Waikadi River, and at the captime of Pomare'a I'ah at Ruapeka peka in Juanary, 1846. A RM Y PROMOTION.-96TH REGIMENT.—Maj or Be sh and Captain Eyton are about to retire from the service by the sale of their commissions. Brevet Major Hill succeeds to the Majority, Middleton to the and Lieutenants Wilmot and vacant Companies. NEW Ross GARRISON.—The troops stationed at New Ross, under the command •of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel Powell, 57th Regiment, consist of Captain Hamilton's troop, sth Dragoon Guards, and Captain Law's com pany, 57th. The fit Id officer and cavalry will return to Kilkenny after the termination of the approaching election. ORDNANCE.—Gun, mortar, and howitz9,r practice, took place at the Pigeon-house Fort, Dublin, on the 21st inst. STAFF.—Major- General Manse!, K.H., commanding the Cork district, has returned to Cork from his tour of inspection. ORANGE PRCCESSIONS.—Companies of the 46th, 71st Highbind Light Infantry, Ist Battalion, and 91st Regi ment, Ist Battalion, will be detached in aid of the civil power at the expected Orange processions, on Ist July, in the Belfast district. TROOPS FOR INDlA.—Drafts from the depots stationed at Chatham, of the 18th Royal Irish, 29th, 53d, 61st, and 75th Regiments, embarked at Gravesend, on the 24th instant, on board the ship Buchophalus, for Bengal. THE SCREW FRIGATE SQUADRON.---OD, Wednesday, at 5 P.m., the screw steam squadron were standing into Torbay. Since leaving Spithead, they have had smooth . water, light winds, and fine weather. They were sailing on a wind, when the result will be found as follows:—Arrogant first, Dauntless second, Highflyer third, ana Encounter last; but so near does each chip approach the other in points of sailing under circumstances of wind, &c., as before mentioned, that we believe it would take months for either one of the ships to get out of sight of the other three. The Encounter's performances were unexpected; the Highflyer was nearly as good as Arrogant or Dauntless. The Sanspareil, 81, Captain Dacres, late of the Leander, is fitting for sea in Devonport harbour. Men are, however, coming in slowly, as the blue jackets al ways show a preference to vessels of a smaller class. It is reported that Captain the Honourable F. Pelham, now private Secretary to his Grace the Duke of Northum berland, will shortly supersede Captain Dacres in com mand of this fine specimen of a man-of-war of the new school. We presume C a pt a i n D acres w ill be a candi data for the first good service pension that is vacant. FRENCH AND ENGLISH NAVAL FORCES.—The French Forces have been so much increased, and the English Forces so much reduced, in the Pacific station, that our neighbours and rivals muster in the Pacific about fifty guns more than the British Navy. Captain Frederick C. Michell (1830) has been nomi nated to the command of the Queen, 116, to be re-com missioned when paid off by Captain Wise. Captain Michell commanded the battering flotilla at Algiers, but he has not been afloat for 20 years. The next thing w e may expect to announce will be the appointment of the Duke of Northumberland , by himself, to command the Channel Fleet at sea. PLUNDER SHOPS. From the Aye, a new Liberal Weekly Paper, just started.) Last month, Mr. Ike; Sharpe, formerly clerk to an attorney of the worst repute, issued from the portals of the House of Correction, wan in visage, gaunt in figure —knocking at the knees and out at the elbows—down at heels in the lower extremity, and short of the proper quantity of hair upon his head. This week, I. Sharpe, Esq., drives a prancer in a bran new brougham, and is to be observed on Saturday nights in his own stall at the Opera, ogling the ladies in the box of royalty. I. Sharpe, Esq., has had his figure studied to the best advantage by a fashionable tailor near the Albany, and the head, which was lately rudely subjected to prison scissors, is now each morning neatly trimmed by an assistant from the renowned establish. ment of Mr. Truefitt. Last month, Bluebottle was a portly figure, sleek, de mure, and dressed in glossy black, pouring champagne creamingly into " my lady's" glass, or courteously piling on her pictured plate strawberries at five shillings an ounce. This week, Bluebottle occupies the cell recently va cated by" that Ikey Sharpe," and performs twice a day tl 3 9n the same instrument Mr. Sharpe played upon at Brzinzton for three successive months, the said instrument 4,g a . wheel of large diameter, which Bluebottle treads i r pa n uo. and perspiration. wa ii ska ? rh t t : o o z r d ti .s n t e r — ee ta e s a i r n ly du i c n ed? wny e r_ n ee these changes which another wheel—the the month of May, there thereto, I? , ,vith the shutters up, and a board attached e zi t, took down the board and the shutters— glaziers, 0:1 ;!:: 0 Lot." One morning the painter and 4 ,, the interior—knocked up a mahogany rail __ . b li nd i ' al b . :_ side—polished the plate-glass, and put rail __' e g a n a n e d d a 4 narsiaboe_ttile, the butler, being on an errand s ui t ' a ' rpe , s eftres.l,l?ed, modestly and invitingly, "Mr. I. Next day 1 Berkeley-square, observed the theseribed thereon, and going home , r i i si nr t h dds o wp c i li hd g i n ttha b ß e o t ' enciaotil..,llf The following Stuid:M:),,ieet. Mr. Bluebottle's the Hildebrand Iloundsditch, Church, to read the V tiu r t i_desiring, on returning from Belt's Life wanting, a n d , ":Y Papers, found his copy of same, found it lying in th e o n . ,i e niniring respecting the if detective" was following, i [ utl ..r.: Pantry. con O s n ult t i h n e g ina ,retbaottle was observed day following, Sharpe on 1 11 newly-epened office. The tha t , & following,t business at the was run. The wcelc .after ,, t h e Derby t kr h .r s alid from inquiries, for suddenly to Sir I.llldqra.nd oundsdi seat where he was confronted bv „., ‘ .e mansion, annoy e d inheinterviewmagistrate. haadt a tender for Bluebottle, has been in hysterics ever °. he was committed, and quite incapable of .ProPerly"rie.. filling her duties at the toilette -glass. Sir Ril dthra u nd Houndsditch is obliged to officiate as his own butle r t in _ til he can get another, sihich h© finds no eas having lost all confidence in people , g; character s a f ter having been "so deceived" in Bluebottle, with whom h e had the best. The rest of the utsblishment aro i n dreadful consternation at the fac...ily catastrophe—the housemaids holding up their hands, and asking " Did you ever?" whilst the cooks And scullions run up the area at the sight of every policeman, to inqui re whether snything more has been heard concerning " Mr. Blue bottle." The police, on their part, are not o mamunica tive, as they do not yet know whether somet king more may not come out, and other servants prove 1;o be im plicated. To this point, indeed, their inquiries have been much directed, under the orders of the magistrate, who gave Bluebottle an extra month, in order to stop what he solemnly characterised as " the great increase of late of cases involving breaches of domes tic con fidence." The consternation and trouble thus occasioned in a family—the utter and irretrievable ruin of a fellow creature—the suspicions which yet rest upon other in nocent individuals—not to mention the trouble given to the police, and the argument afforded to Lord Granby, who will tell the public in his next speech that crime increases in the very teeth of Free-trade princi.ples—all this is owing, as we hereby see, to the opening of Mr. Ikey Sharpe's betting-office, at which Bluebottle, and many hundred other victims, have been plundered. The gaols are beginning to swarm with petty offenders, ruined for life in consequence of having fallen victims to these places of temptation. And not only nira the in terests of society suffering, but the interests of the Turf. Frauds are perpetrated on sporting men th rough the machinery of these establishment.: they are the means of bringing into connexion with Sport a class of persons who would not be tolerated in " the ring," dubious as is the character of many a man within that mag is circle. The thing cannot be tolerated. We put down gaming tables—we don't allow dominoes to be played in a ta vern—Middlesex magistrates refuse dancing and music licences—" Barthelmy Fair" is knocked on the , head— the police on race-courses seize remorselessly on every fellow who pricks the garter or sets down a thimble table—and yet we allow robbery shops to be openly started in every public thoroughfare! Our police regu lations permit Mr. Ikey Sharpe to open a large estab lishment, and not 40,0004, as one of these plunderers is said to have done during the present racing S'BIISOD, al though if he turned honest and got an employment, his master would be warned within a week by C 372 that he had better look out, for he had a man in his service who had been twice convicted ! Oh! it's a nice state of society ours is, and entirely free from anomalies of any sort! THE LONDON GAZETTE, June 25. BANKRUPTS. George Courthope Green, wholesale stationer, Bread street-hill, to surrender July 5, at one, and August 3, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street; Linklaters, Sise-lane, Buckkrshury. William Richard Carter, wine merchant, Ingram court, Fenchurch•stree', July 6, at half-past two, and Aug. 10, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Link laters, Sise-lane, Bucklersbury. Richard Cross, watchmaker, Southampton, July 2, at one, and August 6, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy, Basieghall•street. Carman, official ,assignee, Aldermanbury ; Taylor and Collisacu, Great James street, Bedford-row. Samuel Eardley, builder, Tanstall, Staffordshire, July 5 and 26, at half-past ter!, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, efficial assignee, Birmingham; Cooper, Tanstall; Motteram, Knight, and Emmet, Bir mingham. Ssrah Carson and George Carson, booksellers and stationers, Exeter, July 6 and 27, at eleven, at the Exe• ter District Court. Hirtzsl, official assignee, Exeter; Turner, Exeter; Laidman, Exeter. John Wilton, linendraper, Sheffield, July 10 and 31, at ten, at the Leeds District Court. Freeman., official assignee, Sheffield; Parker and Smith, Sheffield. William Jones, chemist, Conway, Carnarvonshire, July 6 and 27, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Cazanove, official assignee, Liverpool; Christian and Jones, Liverpool. Samuel Buckley and George Shortridge, millers, Macclesfield, July 8 and 29, at eleven, at the Man chester District Court. Lee, official assignee, Man chester; Higginbotham, Macclesfield; Hitchcock Buck ley, and Tidswell, Manchester. Samuel Bricknell, jun., shipowner, Exmouth, July 7 dad 28, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Her natnan, official assignee, Exeter; Bracey, Old Broad street; Laidman, Exeter. Richard Haler°, provision merchant, Sunderland, July 8 and Aug. 5, at one, et the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle upon-Tyne; B urn , j un ., Sunderland; Lawrence, Crowdy, and Bowlby, Old Fish-street. Thomas Matthewson, merchant, Hartlepool, July 8, at eleven, and Aug. 5, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon- Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, New castle-upon-Tyne; Turnbull, Hartlepool; Forster, New castle-upon-Tyne. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. E. Spettigue and G. Penance, Chancory-lane, book seller, July 16, at twelve. In the Country. J. Bird, Chester-le-street, Durham, linen and woollen draper, July 16, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle upon-Tyne--T. Moore, jun., South Heylton, Durham, merchant, July 16, at cne, at the Court, Newcastle upon-Tyne—J. Grinsell, Wolverhampton, grocer and tea-dealer, July 19, at half-past ten, at the Court, Bir- Mingham—J. Cuff, Manchester, hotel and tavern keeper, July 20, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Hill, Thorne, Yorkshire, wine and spirit merchant, July 17. at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield—C. Robarton, Mas borough, Yorkshire, steel manufacturer, July 17, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield—J. O'Donnell, Sheffield, grocer, July 17, at ten, at the Council-hall, Sheffield— G. Chadwick, Leeds, grocer, Aug. 3, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. W. Dalton, Charlotte-street, Pimlico, grocer, 3d., on Thursday, July 1, and three following Thursdays, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Basinghall-street. _ _ J. ifiavin, Wisbeach, drapor, 2s. 4d., on Tuesday, Juno 29, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basing hall-street. M. and L. Rowlandson, Whitechapel-road, drapers, 42d. on Tuesday, Jane 29, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street. R. N. Reeve, Newgate-street, woollen-draper, 45., on Tuesday, June 22, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall-street. N. J. Holloway, Minories, clock-manufacturer, lid., on Tuesday, June 22, or any subsequent Tuesday, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall -chambers, Basinghall-street. R. Youngman, Waterbeacb, Cambridgeshire, miller, 2s. 3d., on Tuesday, June 22, or any subsequent Tues day, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall -chambers, Basinghall-street. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. In the Country. J. Cuff, Manchester, hotel and tavern-keeper, July 21, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester.--W. Chadwick, Manchester, paper-manufacturer, July 21, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—W. Foster, Great Bolton, Lan cashire, confectioner, July 16, at twelve, at the Court Manchester—W. Richards, jun., Wednesbury, Stafford shire, coach smith, July 15, at half-past eleven, at the Court, Birmingham. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. W. Rock, Surrey-place, Surrey, printer and engraver, certificate of the second ass—J. Williams, Golynos and Varteg, Monmouthshire, shopkeeper, certificate of the first class—E. Walker, Huddersfield, woolstapler, certifi cate of the third class, after 21 days from June 21. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Mary Ann Sharratt and I.Shnrrait, Windsor, inn keepers —W. Prosser, G. Hadley, C. Lindsay, and J. Brock, Clipton-street, Fitzroy-square—E. H. Leveanx and W. Cort, Liverpool. wine and spirit merchants—J. Broadhurst and W. Green, Longton, Staffordshire, earthenware manufacturers—G. Cooper and J. V. Cooper, New Windsor, Berkshire, plumbers—W. Halli. day and J. Bywater, Leeds, joiners and builders—J. Higgs and R. Walker, Maidenhead, Berkshire, chemists and druggists—G. Firmstone, H. 0. Firmstone, and W. C. Firmstone, Staffordshire, iron merchants (so far as regards G. Firmstone)—W. Winakill and J. Good, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, joiners—J. Ramsden and J. C. Ramsden, Bradford, Yorkshire, worsted manufac turers—S. Thompson, R. H. Penney, and T. Westlake, Fordingbridge, Romsey, and Poole, flax spinners:(so far as regards R. H. Penney)—E. Shoults, R. Shoults, and H. Shoults, St. Olave, Southwark, carpenters and builders (so far as regards H. Shoults)—L. Allaire and E. Chabert, Grove House, Falham, whistlers or laundry men—A. Turner, J. Kippax, D. Noble, J. Noble, and J. England, Holmfirth, Yorkshire, stone masons (so far as regards J. Englaad)—R. H. atthews, T. Walker, and G. C. Hope, Lower Seymour-street, surveyors—J. Yox all and R. Aston, Nantwich, Cheshire, mercers and dra pers—J.B. Gorham and H.Gorham,Troubridge,Wiltshire, grocers—C. Biden and E. Moorey, Richmond, Surrey, carpenters and builders—D. Nicholl and W. Bians, Halifax, hatters—C. Leighton, A. Leighton, and S. Leighton, Great Cambridge-street, Hackney-road, coal merchants (so far as regards A. Leighton)—E. Simpkin and T. Simpkin, Alfred-terrace, Bayswater, tea dealers —Amelia Pearce and Arabella Susan Jenkins, Harriet street, Lowndes-square, Chelsea, milliners—J. H. Lake and R. G. Lake, Falmouth, Cornwall, booksellers—J. Driver and G. Driver, Castleford Pottery, tile makers — J. M. Bellamy and W. E. Bellamy, Abergavenny, wine and spirit merchants—J. Ellison and J. Wareing, Sal ford, Lancashire, spindle and flyer makers—J. Eeles and T. Calio, Leeds, marble and stone masons—W. B. Hindle, J. Longbottom, and E. Smith, Leeds, tailors and drapers—J. Bell and C. J. Tomlins, Accrington, Lancashire, commission agents—G. Stead and G. But ler, Huddersfield, stone masons—R. Cunliffe and J. Rhodes,__ Old Accrington, Lancashire, railway contrac tors—H. Glenton and D. Chapman, New Bond-street, Hanover-square, ironmongers—W. Lane and T. A. Gor es don, Manchester, commission agents. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. M'Ewan, Glasgow, tavern keeper, to meet within the Crow Hotel, Glasgow, June 29 and July 20, at one. J. S. Sillers, Glasgow, commisaion merchant, to meet within the Glasgow Stock Exchange, Glasgow, Juno 29 and July 20, at twelve. DEATH or MRS. CLARKE.—A letter from Boulogne, dated Wednesday, states that the celebrated Mrs. Mary Anne Clarke, who more than forty years ago caused so much sensation in England, in connexion with 'the charges brought in the House of Commons against the late Duke of York, died in that town on Monday last, aged 74. The Royal West India Mail Steam-packet Com pany now undertakes to convey in their mail steamers a limited number of emigrants as far as the Isthmus of Pa nama at very reduced fares. These emigrants find their own bedding and are victualled on the same footing as the crew of the packets. The Earl of CAWDOIL was understood to support the prayer of the petition. The petition was laid upon the table. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT BILL. The House went into Committee on this Bill. , The Duke of NEWCASTLE, in conformity with the I strong objections which he expressed with regard to some of the provisions of the Bill when it was read a second time, had now to move two or three amend ments, the first of which applied to the clauses from 33 to 39, which constituted the Upper Chamber of the Legislature of New Zealand. Having so recently stated his objection to that chamber being composed of the nominees of the governor of the colony, he would not repeat those objections on the present occasion. He might observe, however, that feeling confident that a better class of members would be obtained by adopting an elective system, properly re strained as regarded qualification and mode of election, than by acting upon the nominee system; and believing also, that by imposing a nominee system upon the colony not only the settlers themselves would be disappointed in their expectation of the advantages to result from the new constitution, but the governor would be placed in the painful position in which so many governors found themselves, of being obliged either to submit to the difficulties in which they might be placed, or of resort ing to the extreme measure of swamping the nominee council by the creation of new members; entertaining these objections very strongly, ho begged to move, in the first instance, the omission of the 33d clause. Should their Lordships give their assent to that proposition, he should then move the omission of all the succeeding clauses to the 39th inclusive, for the purpose of substi tuting the clauses which were in the Bill of the late Co lonial Secretary (Earl Grey), constituting the Upper Chamber of members to be elected by the local legisla tures of the six colonies, established under the other provisions of the Bill. The Earl of DESART regretted to say, on the part of the Government, that he must oppose the amendment of his Noble Friend, though he admitted the difficulties might arise from the proposed constitution of the Upper Chamber. Without intending to compare the nominee chamber to the House of Lords, ho might remind his Noble Friend that the same inconveniences to which he referred had sometimes arisen in this country from the House of Lords and the House of Commons differing in opinion with regard to particular measures; neverthe less no one could deny that the system worked well.— (Hear, hear.) Now, he thought that something might be created in the colony of New Zealand analogous to the House of Lords; and considering the great benefit which this country derived from such an institution— thaP, in it they had a legislative body which was not liable to be affected by popular influences, necessarily transitory in their character—the alteration which her Majesty's Ministers had thought necessary to introduce in the plan of the late Government was, in his opinion, a most valuable one, and he could not, therefore, accede to the amendment of his Noble Friend. Tho Earl of HARROWBY supported the amend ment, on the ground that a nominee chamber would have no moral influence in the colony, and would prove a mere instrument in the hands of the Government. There ought to be two chambers—the one representing property and the other numbers, and both should be &cave. The Earl of DERBY said, that however great might be his admiration of many of the qualities of the great American Republic, he was not desirous of framing the constitutions for the colonies of Great Britain upon the republican model. He quite agreed with his Noble Friend that property should be represented as well as numbers, and he believed that the Governor of New Zaland would be entirely departing from his duty to the state if he did not take care that the members summoned by him to the Upper Chamber were men of property, respectability, and standing, and possessing a large stake in the colony.—(Hear, hear.) The colony of New Zea land was one of the most promising of our colonial de pendencies, and he had no doubt that in time there would arise a class of men, of large property and influ ence, who might fairly be said to represent the aris tocratic element in the colony. Then he thought it would be important that the Crown should have the power of appointing, not a body of men who would be the mere representatives of the Government of the day, but, being chosen in the first instance personally, would retain their rights of legislation, wholly independent of the Government, during their lives, not subject to dis missal, and consequently exercising a beneficial influ ence over the popular part of the Legislature, and over the Governor as well. That influence would go on ex tending and increasing just in proportion as the aristo cratic element developed itself, an d w hi c h e l ement, h e believed, judging from the character of the population of the colony, would be developed sufficiently to allow of the application of the principles of the constitution of this country. w u a k s e ne o g f ati N ve e d w , Newcastle, providing was also another n g T h e amendmentamendment:f the e D in the case of the Bills sent to this country after passing the Colonial Legislature, the Secretary of State should put his veto upon it at once, instead of suspending it for i that two years. The Duke of NEWCASTLE then moved the omis sion of the c l au ses which related to the land sales and the New Zealand Company, observing, that whether the charges which had been made against the Com pany were just or not, there was at any rate a prima facie case which absolutely required the fullest investi gation; and, under these circumstances, he though it was not desirable to place a company against whom such charges were advanced in a more advantageous position than that they now occupied. But this was done by the present Bill. The Earl of DESART must again express his regret that he felt himself obliged to refuse the assent of the Government to the amendment of his Noble Friend. He would not enter upon the question whether the New Zealand Company had or had not been deservedly accused; but he could not admit that the clauses in the Bill relating to that company placed them in any better position than they now occupied. By the arrangement which had been made the New Zealand Company would receive a fourth of the price of the land sold, and were quite willing to take the certainty which they would have under the present Bill instead of the uncertainty which had previouly existed. The last accounts from the co lony represented the claimants as perfectly satisfied, and that in less than twelve months the Government would have possession of the lands. With respect to the frauds he would not prejudge the case. The remaining clauses were then agreed to. The Bill passed through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Monday. The County Rates Bill; the Excise Summary Pro ceedings Bill; the Woods, Forests, and La nds Revenue Bill; the Valuation (Ireland) Bill; the Metropolitan Sewers Bill; the Nisi Prius Offices Bill; the Friendly Societies (No. 2) Bill; the Crime and Outrage (Ireland) Bill; the Encumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill; the Dis. tressed Unions (Ireland) Bill; and the Public Health Act (1848) Amendment Bill were read a second time. Lord LYTTELTON pr esented a petition from the inhabitants of the Canterbury settlement, New Zealand, complaining of an attack made by Governor Grey on the principle on which the settlement was founded, and praying that the Bill for the establishing representative constitutions in the colony might pass into a law. The Noble Lord, after describing the progress which the Canterbury settlement bad made, took the opportunity of contradicting the statement which had appeared in several newspapers, that the inhabitants were deserting the settlement for the gold districts in New South Wales. The etition was ordered to lie on the table. The r e port on the Suito rs in Chance Bill was re ceived. The Commons Enclosure Act Extension Bill was read a third time. The Turnpike Act Continuance Bill, the Poor-law Board Continuance Bill, the Inland Revenue Office Bill, and the Savings Banks (Ireland) Bill went through Com mittee. The Earl of DERBY said there were several Bills which he wished their Lordships to forward a stage as soon as possible, and he had, therefore, to propose that their Lordships should meet for that purpose to-morrow (Saturday), at two o'clock.—Agreed to. Adjourned, at a Quarter to Nine o'clock, till this day, at Two o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 25. (Continued from our Afternoon lidition of yesterday.) BISHOPS IN AUSTRALIA. Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to put a question to the Secretary of State for the Colonial Department, on the subject involved in the Lord Bishop of Sydney's remon strance, dated May 22, 1850. He wanted to know whether the Roman Catholic Primate in Australia was to be permitted to take precedence of the Bishop of the Established Church. Sir JOHN PAKINGTON was not aware until he entered the House of what would be the:exact shape of his Hon. Friend's question, but he was nevertheless pro pared to give it a detailed answer. The House must permit him to refer to the dispatches to which his Hon. Friend's question had reference. The first dispatch was a circular dispatch of Lord Grey, dated the 20th Nov., 1847, and in that dispatch these words occur:—" As Parliament by a recent Act, viz., the Charitable Trusts Act, recog nised the titles of Roman Catholic p relates, and . virtua lly directed that the Roman Catholic Arch bishop shall take rank with the Protestant Archbishop the Governor is instructed hereafter to address the Roman Catholic archbishop or bishop by the title of Tour Grace' or ' Your Lordship, as the case may be." Some misapprehension arose in the colony as to the construction to be placed upon this passage, as the pr&. raises did not justify the conclusion. It was thought that, according to this passage, Archbishop Cole had precedence over the Bishop of New Zealand, and a dispatch was forwarded from the colony to that effect. On the ,th November, 1849, Lord Grey sent another dispatch on the subject, in which he stated that he looked upon the Bishop of Sydney as a metropolitan, and there fore he considered that the Right Rev. Prelate took pre cedence of the Roman Catholic Archbishop. Then fol eperny, e l o 8 f 5 a ll l t a h and d Roman which fol lowed the remonstrance of the Bishop of Sydney re ferred to by his Hon. Friend, which was received at the w C e o r lo e n e i n al t - i o tl ffi ed ce by on la t w he to 4 t t h ak of Jreaeneudae contended that the bishops of the Established Church Catholic prelates and primates. That remonstrance still remained unanswered; but ho intended shortly to give his attention to the subject, and to send a dispatch to the colony communicating the views which the Govern ment took of it. Sir H. INGLIS hoped that his Right Hon. Friend was able now to state that Government was not pre pared to recognise the precedence which the Roman Catholic Archbishop claimed. Sir J. PAKINGTON could give no further answer than that which he had already communicated to the House. Sir H. INGLIS said that he should bring the subject under the notice of th© House, should he get a seas in the next Parliament. ------ CONSTITUTION-HILL. Mr. T. DUNGOMI 3 4 wished to osk the First Coin- missioner of Works why the privilege of riding down Constitution-hill to the Birdcage-walk was withdrawn from the public? Mr. WALPOLE said he was glad that this ques tion had been put, because he had a very simple reason to give to it. The privilege had not hen withdrawn, nor was it intended to withdraw it.—(Hear, hear.) No privilege connected with the parks had been withdrawn from the public since her Majesty ascended the throne, while last year the stable gate was opened to the public for the purposes of the Exhibition, and it was not in tended to withdraw that privilege.—(Hear, hear.) NEW ZEALAND. Mr. ADDERLEY presented a petition from Canter bury colony, in New Zealand, complaining of the conduct of the Governor m misrepresenting the principles on which the colony was founded, and praying the House to consider them a constitutional Parliament of their own. CHICORY. Sir PAGE WOOD said considerable apprehension was felt among parties interested in the growth of chi cory, in consequence of a statement which had been made in another place, and on behalf of a number of gentlemen who had invested considerable capital in the manufacture of chicory on the faith of a Treasury minute issued August, 1840, he wished to ask whether it was the intention of the Government to make any alteration in that minute; and whether it was intended that such alteration should take immediate effect?—(Hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Treasury minute respecting chicory had not been alt ere d, and when it was altered it would be done in such a way as not to injure the fair trade of the country.—(Hear.) THE CAPE, Mr. ADDERLEY wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Gdonies it recent information from the Cape of Good Hope represented General Cathcart's policy to ba that of driving the Gaikas over the Kei upon the tribes beyond, and occupying their vacated territory; and if Eo, what prospects there may seem to be of any remote termination of the war? Sir J. PAKINGTON said that he had to state that the last dispatch received from General Cathcart, which was the first the General had forwarded since his arrival at the seat of war, did announce to the Government that he had made public iu the colony his intention to drive the Gaikas across the Kei, but the Government did not regard that announcement as one which was in tended to bo put in force. It was looked upon as a threat which General Cathcart had thought necessary for tho purpose of bringing the war to a speedy termination. In answer to the latter part of his Hon. Friend's question, as to whether there was any prospect of a termination of the war, ho had only to state that General Cathcart's dispatch did give hopes of such a result. METROPOLITAN BURIALS BILL. Tho House reeilt into Committee on this Bill. In reply to Lord EBRINGTON . , Lord J. MANNEEtti said it was the intention of the Government to oppose any proviso to prevent closed private burial-grounds being used for building purposes. On clause 2, Lord EBRINGTON moved the addition of a proviso to the effect that no dwelling-houses, shops, or ware houses should be erected on burial-grounds in the metropolis in which burials were discontinued by order of the Treasury. Lord R. GRoSVENOR should be sorry to see closed burial-grounds built on, but thought if the proviso were agreed to the proprietors of the grounds ought to receive compensation. Lord DUDLEY STUART did not see how it was possible to pass the proviso without giving compensation. Sir a HALL took the same view of the question. Sir W. CLAY was glad the Noble Lord bad done him the honour of taking up the proviso which he had origi nally proposed. lie, however, admitted that the proviso without a compensating clause would be a great hard ship to parties, and for that reason he would suggest that the Noble Lord should withdraw it. Sir W. MOLESWORTH opposed, and Mr. B. COCH• BANE supported the proviso. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the proviso Against it ••• 80 ... -59 Majority ... -- Clause 2 was then agreed to. The other clauses were then agreed to, the House re slimed, and the Bill was read a third time. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH (NO. 2) BILL. The Bill was read a third time and passed. CORRUPT P RACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL. On the motion of Lord John Russell the Lords' amendments to this Bill were rea d. Lord J. RUSSELL said he could not say that the Bill had been at all improved in its passage through the other House. The first amendment was that an address for inquiry should be agreed to by both Houses, instead of proceeding from the House of Commons alone. The effect of that amendment would be to render two preliminary inquiries necessary be fore the effectual and real inquiry could be reached.—(Hear, hear.) This ho thought would be an obstacle in the way of inquiry. Lord Lansdowne had told him that he WAS taken by surprise when the amend ments were proposed iu the House of Lords, but that ho did express his disapproval of them, considering, as ho (Lord John Russell) did, that they would diminish the efficiency of the Bill. The other amendments were not of so much importance. It was true the Lords had de cided that it should not be in the powor of the Commis sioners to make a retrospective inquiry in the event of its not being proved that corrupt practices existed at the election with respect to which the inquiry was to be made. It would appear, at first sight, that if an election took place by compromise all the corrupt practices that had existed for a series of years in the borough would pass without inquiry, but that was not the effect of the Bill as amended. At a general election, for instance, every per son in a borough might be bribed, but if another hap pened in a few weeks afterwards, at which none were bribed, that would not prevent the House inquir ing into the corrupt practices at the general election. He therefore did not think that amendment would be so injurious. The next amendment was the omission of the word " treating " as one of the offences to be in quired into. It should be recollected that this Bill was intended to deal with bribery and corruption, and not treat ing; but still if there was a gross case of treating sufficient to affect an election, the House had the power of proceed ing by way of a special Bill, as well as by an address. He did not think it unreasonable that tae House should retain the power of proceeding by Bill in special cases, for there could be no doubt that treating in some instances might be as corrupt as bribery. On the whole he considered that this Bill, even as amended, would be a considerable advantage in regard to dealing with corrupt practices and bribery in boroughs. Though lamenting the changes in the Bill, he should propose to agree to them, believing that it was impro bable, if they rejected the amendments, they would be enabled to restore the Bill to its original state. Sir A. COCKBURN intended to take the same course as the Noble Lord, though he could not help thinking that the amendments were most material ones, and would seriously affect the operation of the Bill. He was astonished at the introduction of these amendments, inasmuch as the Government in that House had given their cordial co-operation in passing the Bill in its original state. This was another instance of what he might term the duality of the Government, having one leader in the House of Commons, and another in the House of Lord. The Bill passed this House without any important alteration, but when it got to the Lords it was dealt with by the Government in a different spirit, and great alterations introduced. He complained of the second alteration, preventing retrospective inquiry into corrupt practices at elections, observing that in no in stance had Parliament disfranchised a borough for proceed ings which had taken place at one single election. It was only when they were convinced of the long existence of an inveterate system of corruption that they disfranchised. He therefore thought that this amendment would frus trate the intentions of the Bill. He thought the altera tions most mischievous—that they entirely mutilated and spoiled the Bill. The Bill as amended might be some use, but it was very much limited. He thought that in making these alteratious in a valuable and effective measure, for preventing corruption, the Government incurred serious responsibility both in regard to the House and public. Mr. WALPOLE was astonished at the last observation of the Hon. and Learned Member. He attacked the Government for making alterations in the Bill which emanated from them neither in that or in the other House of Parliament. He also at tacked the Government for having supported one Bill in the House of Commons, and another in the House of Lords. Was it his doctrine of the Constitution that an independent Member in the other House of Parliament had not the power of pro posing an amendment which he thought just, and that the Government had not the power of agreeing to it if they thought it right? That was exactly what had taken place in the House of Lords. The first amendment was suggested by a Noble Lord, not a member of the Government, and had been adopted by the Government because they thought it just and reasonable.—(Hear.) The constitutional doctrine stated by the Learned Gentleman was quite novel. He (Mr. Walpole) would even go a step further, and say that even the constitutional doctrine stated by the Noble Lord was not what he should have expected from so high an authority, who was always ad vocating the rights of the House and the people on questions of this kind, in order that no undue influence should be exercised. The amendments as proposed would in reality take away from the Government an enormous power, which they might have used ;or disfranchising boroughs which were opposed to them. The majority in that House generally supported the Government,sr and if the Bill had remained as it was, it wouldt Coh e been in the power of the Government to appoiinn missions independently of the House of Lords, bo to institute inquiries with respect to any saar a Tory in rough. If such a proposal had fromemanatedtnnw be the teta:rrder stead of aWhig Government, the Oppoai ic r re i g ht be first to say that a power of this kind, n exercised in an arbitrary manner; onsavbetsntiogtattoedbetygibvoetnh, c o t n h s e t i e t t n i s n t a i unless the matter was thoroug l 1 Houses. Ile therefore beggedhteo demur great 9 t t o tutional doctrine both of also of his legal adviser. authority in that House t , was nothing but With regard to the Lords should have, as well as Lords should it right that the Housefinirlossf a voice in the question of the Rouse of rn C rissnion 'to disfranchise a borough, alPti pointing a co . Bill, and St. Albans the Legislature the cases of fill, and the House of Lords was called proceeded by r m ake ttledtifranchi upon sement, and why so confirm o t h e y make exception here, simply because hould it was :proposed to proceed by a dd ress? It was neither unjust nor unconstitutional, and he therefore called upon the House to agree to every OEd of the Lords' amend ments.—(Hear.) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said the Pei= Minister moved the amendment as to the joint address, and yet it was now suited tbttt it proceeded from ;in independent Peer. Mr. WALPOLE—Yea, Lord Redesdale proposed ft. DUNCOMBE—But the Prime Minister movei I it. When he came into offiee the Premier stet e d that he approved of this Bill which cl if 1 not then contain this amendment.—(llear, hear...) He was very much afraid the amendment had been ire • troduced to defeat the object of the Bill, and to secure the rotten boroughs of the Tories.—(lloar, hear.) The other amendment, that the Bill in a certain case should not be retrospective, he was equally cpposed to, for he could not assume that all the constituencies of this country were devoid of corruption ' and he therefore re - • gritted to find that the Noble Lord the Member fot the City of London was prepared to accept the amendments.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") The leading principle of the Government was concession and compromise, and he wanted to know why there could'. not be some little concession and compromise hero.. for the sake of securing as much purity as pcssible al the next elsction?—(Hear.) He would take that oppor tunity of pointing out an anomaly that existed in their recent proceedings in reference to St. Albans- St. Albans had been disfranchised, and yet there was are Hon. Member occupying a seat in the House as the late) representative of St. Albans, but now representing IA) constituency at all.—(Oh, and a laugh.) Now, wlor could not some claus e b e i n t ro d uce d i nto thi s or thls Controverted Elections Act to remedy that strange stow of things?—(Fleur,) the at Ho h u e se a h s ad any Col SIBTHORP cons id ere d hi msel f as goo d a man int other, and he begged to static objected to this Bill a.; 11 through the piece.—(Hear, hear.) He looked upon i t l s a e h a a c k t auopefloona cloak the at e o hl libertiesiibdeera thel of the people, and all ‘.n e s e t ° e t a t h t ihigonenrgo of expense e f s had in meanness h c e l i s a s r j o t f a , t ° 1 11 ,• ( I s t factte House who we f r r e oin con continually al 1y goingWhig-Radk'tll aboust the country, like quack doctors, spreading poison in the minds of the people, and attempting to make them dis be..tisfied with their state and condition.—(flear, hear.) He not only highly a p prove d of the amen dments, ' but sincerely regretted that the other House, who had se often stepped in to rescue the Crown and the laws frogs destruction, had not thrown the Bill out altogether - —(Hear, hear.) He could n o t stop t h e B i ll, b ut h et could protest against its passing, as an un j ust , unc oi l s. stitutional, mean, and uncharitable measure.—(Hear.) Mr. AGLIONBY would not resist the adoption of the Lords' amendments, but nevertheless he mus t be allowed to express his opinion that they wonla render the Bill entirely inoperative.—(Hear, hear.) The amendments, be fact, were a grievous encroach moat upon the rights and powers of the House c f Commons; and he was therefore surprised to flail the Noble Lord the Member for the city of London adopting them almost] without opposition.--- (Hear, hear.) He strongly objected to the amendment, which struck out the clause relating to treating, and called upon the House to restore it.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HUME concurred with all that had fallen feeeta the Honourable Member whet last addressed them. It looked as if the Noble Lord the Member tor the city of London and the Government were not sincere in re posing to redress the wrongs of the people. The t ire°, however, had come when they must not be frightttned at the word democrat, which meant nett dog more than government by the people, and he objected to Honourable Gentlemen, who were the mere lateral nees of Peere, talking so slightly of the Liberal party. The Peers wore always found ; sup porting abuses, and looking at the objectioreeblo amendments that they had introduced into this Bill, it would have been much better had the Noble Lord the Member for the city of London abandoned the Bill, rte :her than succumb to the desire of the Peers to secure tlieir oligarchical system.—(Hear.) Mr. HUDSON could not help expressing his satisfac tion at the improvements which the Lords had intro duced into the Bill. The Lords ought to have n voice in this matter, for the sake of so curing the privilege of the Bill, and he for one agreed with that eminent personage who once Feld, " Thank God, we have a House of Lords."—(l3.ear, hear.) Either let the House oz Lords be an active and efficient part of the Legislature, or do away with it, and as he, for one, entertained the former and not the hitter opinion, he was not sorry that these amendments had l teen introduced into this highly objectionable Bill.—(Hear.) Mr. BELL could appreciate the merits of the 3111, having had some experience in corrupt practices. Too much importance seemed to be attributed to the amendments introduced by the Lords, for he wits convinced that only simple and uninformed parties avno fell into the hands of designing electioneering age oats would come under its operation.—(A laugh.) Thus Bill would, however, never put an end to bribery, for within the last few days he had had several boroughs offered him at from 5001. to 3,000 L, and he was satisfied that the House was not going the right way to put an end to these corrupt practi,cea. Parties who were convicted of bribery ought to be dis graced, while every facility ought to be afforded for the de tection of the corrupters. The electors receiving the b ribe should bo fined and disfranchised, and the party adeni nistering or sanctioning the bribe disgraced in some w ex ner by the law.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. STANFORD still believed this was a weak m as sure with all its amendments, and had little hesitation_ in declaring his conviction that it would bo found inopera tive.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. OSWALD said the amendments ought properly to be considered in Committee, where they could be discussed in detail. He objected to handing over oho privilege to the tender mercies of the House of Lords,: old charged the Government with having allowed the 13i11 to be burked in the House of Lords for the sake of securing the votes of those of their supporters who owed their return to Parliament entirely to bribery and c or ruption.—(Hear, hoar.) He should, therefore, take the liberty of moving that the House do negative the Lords' amendments.—(Hear, hear.) Sir DE LACY EVANS said the Bill bad been Bo disfigured that he was at a loss to recognise it as the same Bill which went up from this House some short time ago. He considered the amendments were unjuitt and uncalled for, so much so indeed that the Bill was now little better than a sham.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BRIGHT thought the observations which h*td been made would satisfy the House and the country that the Opposition did not approve of the motion for the adoption 'of the Lords' amendments. There Weise innumerable boroughs notoriously in a state of corrup tion, but the next election might be cone: promised so as to aviod a contact, artd then should any future case arise Parliament would be precluded from inquiring into all the former corruption.—(Hear, hear.) No good Bill ever had. a chance of passing the Lords unless there was some se vere pressure from without, and the amendments which had been introduced into this Bill wore simply for the p ur pose of throwing obstacles in the wey of a searching in quiry into the corrupt practices at elections. The elections —at least some of them—of this country would be a dis grace to any nation, and be regretted that for the sake. of morality the Lords had not allowed the Bill to pass in all its integrity.—(Hear, bear.) Sir JAMES GRAHAM allowed that his Noble Friend, the Member for the city of London, had been most successful in his exertions to cheekcorrept preoti eels at elections. His most brilliant successes were achieved in opposition, and he hoped this Bill would be no exc op tion to the rule. Still he admitted that the Bill had been sadly mutilated, but the amendments were not of that character as to entirely destroy the Bill. They decidedly impaired it, hut far from destroyed it, r.nd therefore he urged the House to suffer it to be pas sod into a law.—(Hoer, hear.) He believed that, practically, it an address were agreed to on a prima facie case by this House, the House of Lords would concur in the address. He felt that the Bill would he extremely valuable in checking corrupt practices at the elections for the future Parliament, and if a division took place, he would vote in favour of the amendments. Mr. BROTHERTON concurred in the observations made by the Right Hon. Baronet. He had been too long a Member not to know that it was better to accept measures by instalments from the House of Lords. If they wont for everything at once they would not have the remotest chance of attaining what they desired. He thought that several of the Hon. Members of the House had dealt somewhat unfairly with the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell). The amendments of the Lords were then agreed to. SESSIONAL AND STANDING ORDERS. On the motion for considering the report of the Ses sional and Standing Orders Revision Committee, _ Mr. W. PATTEN entered into an explanation s o o f the alterations proposed by the Committee. He also hided to the conduct of private business, observing ta: the country was under the greatest obligatiosinou, ae see. many Hon. Members who had, during the se_s ona considerable sacrifices in attending upon u e n _2f47 sa d Both the House and the public were whollyeo under with the great labour which these gentle:3 gone. The Committee on the supply 49 days. metropolis had sat no less than . . wa s more impor- Mr. HUME thought that nothfitchge 'louse than the f Asteretwt. to the tent to the regular proceedings ()Ire considered that the the great attentio n n e be s es hadi d n ael . simplification of these ordertsian) was entitled to the Hon. Member (Mr. W. Pa of th t e h gr. WALPOLE and Mr. AG ethoatendksto After a few words from s e u H b ; c u e s: for reed and recottunen ese orders passed as e, OF MR. BURNS. CASe , LioNBY the report Was 4 5_ e rs relative to the motion of Mr. HEADLAM a return was agreed case of Mr. Burns, to for farther paPreom Mr. Nich namely, e t letter of o of Singapore; a letter On the Mo_i the Sultan Borneo to Sir James Brooke, and from minutes of a conversation held with Pangeran Makota, wade by Mr. Low, Governing Secretary in Labuan. T KANSmISISION OF PARLIAMENTARY RE PORTS TO LITERARY SOCIETIES. G he ov M er A nm ST en E t ß to o T amongst dreterns printed by 9 t f he the ROLLS called the attention of the under certain regulations , a expediency of distributing gratis , .reports and order esefleacteloHnefursoemofthcemnmons. the literary institutions and mechanics' insti tutes throughout the United Kingdom. He said it would be idle a t thi s l a t e per i o d o f th e session to move for a Committee of inquiry into the subject, but be fe l t confident that his Hon . Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not refuse the application. The papers to which he referred would be the means, if cir culated, of diffusing most valuable information. Many petitions had been presented from various societies upon the subject, all tending to show Low great would be the benefit arising from the transmission of such papers to the different scientific and mechanics' institutions. Ile proposed to refer the subject to the Printing Com mittee, who should decide upon the matter. Mr. HUME observed, that although he was equally desirous with his Hon. and Learned Friend of commu nicating information at as cheap a rate as possible, yet many of the papers to which rcfcrenco had been made could be purchased for the sum of ono penny, and be transmitted through the post for a mere trifle. It wog open to any institution to make application fer Ito pa: