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

le ple ere 3st ey 1e far ald ►d for for Pc" TEE SUN, amber of ships and of men employed upon e it°h• • He hoped, therefore, the House would sot listen to any ph aof secrecy. F•om the speech Of the Hen, and Gallant Member f Weeimmster (Sir De Lacy Evans), it would appear that this couutry was better defended and had a stronger disposable military Power even than France. Look at the garrisons which It was necessary to keep up in that country—that of Paris with 70,000 men, and 83 others which required troops, and then take into acceunt the irregular gen darmerie, and it seemed that France had not at her dis posal 160,000 men available for any purpose of invasien. After 1835 and 1836 the regular force of the army, 1 2 111 7.11nd ordnance was for seven years 121,842. Tnis Year it was 161,592, being an increase of 40 000smen over the amount of force during the Bake of Welling- Ws Government. Our artillery and engineers had been doubled during the last seven years, of which he del sot complain. Their number :vas 8.000 during the war With sis France, and now i; was 15,000. Our navy used to co of '26,000 or 27,000 seamed and marines under ,the Duke o f W ellington ' s Adm i n i strat i on . Now we had 44,000 seamen and merinos, and yet we were told the eountry was not adequately defended. In the year 1841 the Duke of Wellington took the alarm, and a cora- Mission was appointed to inquire into the state of the national defences. Captain Sir T. Hastings and others visited tho whole coast of England, from the North Foreland to the Land's-end, and they made a report. But when the Gallant Captain was under examination 1 1 a Committee upstairs he stated that no efficiel infor larion had been laid before him that induced him to believe th at th ere was d anger o f i nvas i on . Th e G a ll ant lEcer (Majer Beresford) wished the House to believe, übe cause we wore able to land at New Orleans 6 000 or e,OOO men, when we had five or six days to d) it in, and were masters of the sea c;a11 the time, that 60,000 men "uld be landed on the English coast when we had ships to lotde after there.—(Hear, bear.) How could 60 000 men be collected and thrown upon our there without our obtaining some infirmation of their coming? He agreed wi t h t h e Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) that the country would have some intimation of the danger from the' • Press, from commerce, or from diplomacy, and he i red with hi m i n ca lli ng t hi s an " i gnom i n i ous pan i c ." Tae Commission on the National Defences had recom aretitled an outlay of 2.500,000/. er 3,000,0001., which ebeeli hid out in improving our harbours and coast t b e enr eess but which money he believed had been entirely theae y'r , ray. Then, in addition to steam-basins and andeetences we had a regular !orce of 161,000 men, an r r egular force of 54,000, as had been shown by his Atari; making in a ll u p war d s o f 200,000 armed men. peen ther e was the city and metropolitan police, 8,780 ; r e't of the police force in England and Wales, 2.749, .end 120 00 Irish cenetabulary ; making together more 'flan 20 , 000 men, who, added to the regular and irregu lar ;troops, co nst it u t e d a lt oget h er a f orce o f 237,517 men n ants in the service of their country. A force of 56 1500 men would let amply sufficient fur colonial ser 'lees and that would leave 180,000 men avilable fur the defence of their country. The Duke of Wellington's s a s , tlt hority had been quoted on the other side. But if "'el claimed the Noble Duke as their authority, they tiltht to adopt his remedy. The Duke of Wellington 7 d ninuiended the Government to raise an organiz-d and mleeiplined force for each of the three kingdoms equal in a r !": 21 1t to that ma i n t a i ne d d ur i n g the late war. Yet the ` 4o verement were content with proposing this petty and paltry force of 80,000 men for England, leaving Scotland and Ireland unprovided for. There was no panic in the b° se un lrY• It was only the late and present Ministries at were paninstrie ken. The Chancellor of the Ex-. %Lltquer, in his able and eloquent speech on Friday, said „„..."as unwise to i m p ose. a tax to which the feeling of the sous was oppo se d. L e t t h e Gov e rnment act in the ra rle spirit with regard to the present Bill, which was to the great body ot the people. If the Bill,,Should not be passed the hop and advertisement duty "light be repealed to-morrow. Mr. CHARTERIS said Le wished to take that op- Vertu • e o , en - I l ltY of expr ess i ng his astonishment at the self "lent manner in which the Hon. Member for Mon rnse and hi s fr i ends enunciated their opinions on mili r▪ Y In atters.—(Elear, hear.) Any person who listened tetho se gentlemen would suppose that they not only tnn a opolised all th e i n t e lli gence o f th e coun t r y, b ut t peed likewise monopolised all its professional n wledge. In the year 1803 Mr. Wyndham had made ,pl▪ iP ee ch, of which many portions were extremely ap is.e..able to th e p resent state o f t h at question. H e h a d , 0 :T that they had been told daily of the impracticability (11,1!Ivasion by many eminent lawyers, *by many sound Apr i n sk ess "emu country gentlemen, many respectable ▪ u nnta, many intelligent manufacturers, and tbs Y very handsome women--( laugh)—while bear a hlY persons from whom they did not that opinion were our soldiers and sailors. , 84 1( 41 r- Che,rteris) confessed that he did not feel the s) coned in his o wn judgment on military mat ters which confidence t k r Lose gentlemen appeated to a mi matters he was disposed to bow to the opinions of i geee tta rY men without attributing those opinions to the h eft — p c x il itY of age or to interested motives .—( Hear, ra t - ,7 ) He believed that the gentlemen who opposed the eon f or •going into Committee on that Bill were not sirerted by public feeling out of doors .—( Hear, hear.) b e t ! !!' ) alight be petitions against the measure; but he tee `"eed that a large portion of those petitions referred --ere bees the compulsory clauses than to the Bill itself. eeti the statements in the press, and from other indi th -tlns of public opinion, it was reasonable to conclude Conational a feeling of insecurity prevailed on the subject of national defences . He hoped they would go into cod make on the Bill with as little delay as possible, co wl, [ take it as complete and effective a measure as they V•ss( l- IFar. hear.) b e - ^ r • MITCHELL dissented from the statement made the late First Lord of the Admiralty, that our navy 114 e mPleysd to a great extent, in defending our coin be, er% With respect to the question more immediately .. the sore t h e House, he wcu ' d preeer an eugmsuta . tion o; h e army to the embediment of the milina, and tuthellved that the House. of C. melons would never re ta: to 'maintain an amount of force which the Govern touti_raleht declare on its responsibility to be necessary i e ' e !oe defence of the country. The Right Hon. Gen :0011nel 1 1 ( 1 ) 1 1 oth wan the Chancellor of the Exchequer told them the i saes o h f at their p dir ect la taxationthat should be extended eople. principle he entirely 111 4 . cP i rr , ed" but the propos a l now before the House was ~ a i s Y opposed to such a system. Suppose it carried, e....eble Lord with 100,000/. a year, it drawn for the Would find a substitute at a cost of say 101, 0• 1 " a a Man employed in a factory,. and earning only hi s a Year, would have to pay exactly the same sum for 'M su bstitute, if he wistul to provide one.—(Hear, ee r) ,e l low. this he called gross inequality and injun- Ale. ut if, instead of 80,000 militia, they were to half an additiOn of 20.000 men to the standing army h i d e expense of which might be paid by adding one 1f tae© Cent. to the income-tax—the working man %me income-tax was extended to incomes of 504 ..V4tlid have to pay ss. for the increase, while the Noble sn▪ ' would h ave to pay 500 1 —( Hear , hear.) H e l oo k e d an the cost of our national defences as an insurance, .li;ttitilt was j us t th a t t h e amount paid by i ndividua l s 'theo be in proportion to the extent of the property hQ Y had to be protected. The Bill before the House r,Pgarded s fraught with in justice, and therefre h felt -himself bound to give it his most decided opposoition.e I , l r- COWPER sa id t h e amendment before the House t 1 ,41 supported by the H onou r a bl e M em b ers f or _ c e West Riding and Montrose, becaus e th e y r i the idea of a panic on the subject in• 1 " .6 a1 0 n, and believed such a thing to b e possib' ' fa ie. Now th ere were t wo wa y s in w hi c h in tel.iitein might be p oss ibl e . I t m i g h t b e ph ) s i ca lly an d ma cidedlY ` o' and that was a point which should be de of for: 21 military End naval grounds. Or the condition such m i en countries and of Europe generally might be was a paint which invasion being attempted, and this which might b e j u d ge d o f by politicians, w_ Iv " one on whi c h t h e H onoura bl e M ember f or t h e f eat Biding and hi s f r i en d s m i g h t very proper ly give their o pi n i ons.—(gear, hear.) But the lion. 1 , tuber fo r t h e West Riding was charmed with the weft of having his opinion on the military part of the hquestion placed above that of the Duke of Wellington.— Elear, hear.) As to th e possibility of an invasion, wever, he thought the lit use could only look to the .I:ews expressed by those men who had made the princi- Plea and practice of war their study, and wh were - t c ustomed to the embarkation and disembarkation ac of r o op`.—(Hear, hear.) Almost ev er y such authority d decl are d that there was no such i m p oss i bility of in - tulion as the Hon. Member and his friends supposed. ont only th e D u ke of Wellington, but all t h e great badwho had served under him, and also tho se w h o ' I M been engaged in more recent wars, were of this opi 41Pne—(Hear.) And they could appeal not only to the uthori l of English but of French officers also. The 44 tk l) tt. Member here road an extract from the pamphlet of ▪ e Prince de Joinville, in which he suggested that ; a raers might bo employed for landing troopst in Eng " anti subjecting this country to ail the losses and i I M ulierio gs" of war; and then asked the Honourab e amber f or t h e W es t Riding whether ho had confidence in the forbearance and civilit y ; 1 ; - wrench officers as to suppose that they would ca Pable of d o i ng that which a prince of the blood be had dollyiKat and deliberately proposed? — (Elear , bear.) not steamers start from site opposite shore co appear ,rtnalencernent of the night, and before morning or at the tu - '" sours part of our coast, and bum and destroy ! er k 0.. tbtlte of our seaport towns, is the great hurneliaeu a f it e honour and dignity of Eagland?— ( Hear, he r s s e e P P 4 led reference had been made to the defence that al . "u'd be made by our navy; but, though he had the (3 st implicit reliance on the valour, skill, and success of til e eel eavy—and though he believed it never was more elent than at the present moment—yet he would not eat the defence of the country to one description of b o l e," Only; ho would rather have two strings to his i tae " , se that the one could be need if the other was in 'A or mistnanaged.— ( hear .) If Hon. Gentlemen we e e f p "Peeird this measure consulted the naval officers oe ereuce, they would find that every one of those po u ' s 'ets was convinced that invasion of this country was ' ib le--(Elear, hear.) It was therefore absurd to tell th e , le &Louse that the idea of invasion was visionary, when o f 'atm(' all the officers, not only of this country, but ranee, declaring that it wss a thing of possible tic . e"" tn P it ahnlent.—(Hear.) It had been declared that this Wintry was insufficiently defended, and if the opposi e'tt to tendency measure should succeed, would it not have a to lead foreign powers to make the tteenpt to invade it ?—(Hear.) There were some things t f i l the Bill of which ho did not approve; but at the same :le it would g i ve such an increase d f orce as h e th oug h t pr ould ; Place the co untr y i n a s t a te of safety, end his im -"ajn Was, that the mere eetablishm , nt of the militia :Leo would secure the object they had in view, which ( a' to prevent au invasion being even atteMpted.— erstseep. seemed Othaar.) The Hon. Member for the West Riding, and to . imagine that they would best promote batchoy diminishing the military fore's of the country; there were taro ways in which .-- o ,, sa t`le, , tme was b Submitting to aggressors, and the peace might be sought uy being strong enough to overcome them.-7 " • L W, War.) i;10 *94lTstl WO by itipPiOug the_ 114* nth Bill he should be beat maintaining the interests of peace; and that the true principles of peace would be best carried out by making this country stronr, and by sivieg it and the whole civil's el world from the ruin and misery which wetVd fellow if the greatness and civiliz ition of England were destroyed by a b.cslile invasion. —(Hear.) Mr. CLAY sincerely thought that this country was never so little exposed to en invasion as at the present moment; but if he were told ny military authorities that he was wrong in this opinion, then he tieiked what ware the tint means of defending the co entry ? Now, he had not heard ono of those military authorities in that House heartily support Oe 13:11 as afferdieg the best means of defending the country. ; and an Hon. end Gal lant Adaeiral. who spoke the othir eight, thought the best means of defence was by the organiz Ilion and in crease of our naval force. fie thought the Government would act wisely in encouraging the formation of vo luateer rifl-e corps; for their orgas:zation would intro duce. among the people a military spirit and feeling of self dependence, which would constitute the best gua rantee for the de force of the nation. Lard PALMERSTA4 and Mr. WAKLEY rose together. but the latter gave way in consequence of the general calls for ‘• Lord Palreasr , ton." Lord PALMERSTON, who was greeted with cheers, then said—l can assere the House that I shall detain them bat a very few minutes. I should not have pre sumed to address them on this subject in the present stage of the debate bat, having been alluded to so fre quently by Wale Lion. Members, I cannot reconcile it to myself not to soy a few words in reference, I can scarcely say in answer, to what they lan' dono UJO the honour to say. The only reply I can make to the ss3ertions of my Honourable Friends is to meet assertion by counter-assertion—(Elear, hear)—and their denial of my opinions by an equally 3trong.deuial of thrirs.—(Beer, hear.) The only answer they made to my observations oa a former occasion was to express surprise that those observations should have fallen from me, and to du - clare their confilent belief that they were unfounded. The Hon. Member for Manchester and the Hoe. Member for the West Riding are firmly convinced that an invasion of this country by the forces of France is utterly impossible, and, believing that to be impossible, they think it the height of absurdity for this country to make any preparation to guard against en impo,•sible event. I think, on the contrary, such an event in cer tain cases possible, to use no stronger word, and I think it the duty of the country to make preparation to guard against suct a danger.—(Hear, hear.) The country will jege bet - .seen those Hon. Gentlemen -and me.—(hear, hear.) It I am wrung, and if the advice I give is fol lowed, at all events the country is safe.—(Loud cheers ) If they ere wrong, and the advice they give is followed, the country may be ruiced.—(Renewed cheers.) They dispute authority; they will not receive the opinion of cffleers of great xperience, of sailors who understand their profession, of men who have practically faced the danger, which they c a ll on thi s country to provide epinst. These gentlemen, whose habits of life have been conversant with the peaceful arts, with manufac tures and industry, who know nothing of war or the chances of war—(Cheers)—who know nothing of the means by which war is carried on, or by which it is re• sistecl—these gentlemen with to lull the country into a feeling of security, and to prevent it from taking any means to provide for its defence.—(Cheers.) But they have disputed the English authorities. We have heard just now irons an Hon. Friend of mine that the opinion of foreign authorities correspond exactly with those of the English authorities. I3ut I have heard an opinion e-xpressed by a very high foreign authority bearing upon this gut stion. I have heard, and I believe it, that the late King of the French, when ho visited this country after that dispute which arose upon the question about Tahiti—and it is not inopportune or irrelevant to remind the Reuse that upon that occasion, when this country was on the point of being engaged totally unprepared in war, that the men who were the loudest in those declamations that were likely to bring on a rupture were the very men who are now preaching peace —(Great cheering from the Ministerial aide),—l have heard, I say, that upon that occasion the King of the French, rejoicing in the peace ful termination of that dispute, said, however, that he had been told- by his generals at the time that if a rup ture had taken place they would have undertaken that within a week they would have been in Loncae.— (Hear. hear.) That may have some weight with those who despise the opinions of English generals and ad mirals.—(gear, hear.) Much misrepresentation, Sir, has occuried of things that have been state.] by those who agree in oar opinions in the course Of this debate. My Hen. Friend a former Secretary to the Admiralty is supposed to have stated that the French have in the Channel u force stronger than we c Mid at the present time muster there. My Hon. Friend did not state that. What he said I apprehend was this—that the French, by the means they have of easily and quickly transmitting from the Mediterranean either the crews ot the vessels they have there, or the ships themselves, would have the opportunity and means, within a very short period of time, of placing in the Channel a su perior force than we in the outset of the war should be able to collect.—(Hear, hear) I have been supposed to say that the expense of 15,000 regular troops would not be greater than that of 80,000 militiamen, end I think my Hon. Friend who made that allusion just now seemed to mix up with this question the expense of the ballot. What I said was this—that the annual cost of maintaining 80,000 militiamen during the 20 or 28 days they might be trained and exercised would not be greater than the expense that might be incurred of maintaining 15,000 regular troops all the year round, and it was my opinion we should contribute better to our contingent means of denerice if we had the_power of calling oat 80,000 men within a week than by adding 15,000 to the reviler trooes. But ray Hun. Friend chellenged ine to say when this House had refused to etee Government the force which the Gevernment thought neces.ary for the defence of the country. For tunately this House has not yielded to those very ener getic appeals we have heard teem may lion. Friend the Member for the West Riding and others, to reduce the very limited force which we have deemed sufficient, from jime to time, for the immediate emergencies of the service. —(hear, hear.) But I would put it to them what would be their expectation of success of a motion of this kind, if the Government had pro- posed an addition of 20,000 or 30,000 men to the gular army, and at the end of two years they had been able to say—" You obtained this force under the panic of invasion; there has been no invasion, and you ought no longer to continuo an expense which experi ence has proved to ba wholly unnecessary e"—(Hear, hear.) I have the greatest possible respect for opinions which are sincere, and are founded upon deep conviction, and therefore I am far from thinking with anything like disrespect of those opinions which I believe to be at the bottom of much of the opposition which has been given to the motion now under discussion.—(Hear, hear.) Those opinions and convictions have not been fully and broadly stated by those who haVe taken part in this de bate; but they have been broadly and fully stated in a pamphlet I hold in my band, and which is not unworthy the consideration of gentlemen who have turned their attention to this subject. It is a pamphlet ably written,' —written evidently with a deep and serious conviction of the principle therein laid down,—that it is contrary to the Christian religion to do violence to any man, even to your enemy.—(Bear.) The object of tend pamphlet, then, is to show that it is the Christian duty of this country to be conquered by France.—(Cheers and great laughter.) It is in the shape ot a dtelogue, exceedingly amusing, between gentlemen engaged in a r,fle club or in the duty of soldiers—a very odd duty of soldiers certainly— but one of the speakers in this dialcgu , 4 paints in very vivid colours the results of an unopposed invasion. lie says, "I grant you 250,000 men may come over from France to this country." I said that 50,000 or 60,000 melt mie h t come, but the writer of this partaphletgoes far bee and my calculation—(A Laugh)—but he says, " they will come unopposed, they will take possession of London, they will seize the Bank, where they will not find 18,000,0001, but they will I. vy contribu ions on all the inhabitants of London—(Laughter) — Parliament will be swept away; the courts of iiistce will bo abolished; the French Gene rals will issue edicts; there will be a new Parliament, eonsioing of Freachmen—(Roars of laughter)—the Code Napoleon will be substituted tor the,l4w of England— (Leughter)—the Sovereign will live like a private indi vidual in Scotland—(Great laughter)—the Government, of ceurse, will be annihilated, the country will be en tirely governed by this French army who is to invade it; but," says this writer, "what does it signify?— (Great laughter)—we shall go on working our mills -(Great ironical cheering from the Ministerial side, and counter cheers) —we shall stand behind our counters and sell our wares in our shops—(Cheering continued) — people must eat, they will want clothing, we shall sup ply them wile their wants, and we shall go on making money,"_ _(Great cheeriog and laughter.) One might say, if that even, should ever happen to those gentleenon 7: 1( ? mad© money th e y m i g ht find as unhappy application tmenaselhes of those very well-known lines— " Sic vos non vobis mellificatis apes, this fail pamphlet to eea eaten goesup b Sic vos non vo bi s y e l lers fort i s over, " —(Hear, hear, and laughter) —and the sheep would not y the wolve s . —(H ear , hear.) Then would astonish the on whole ol "Y that that state of things they wool;] creep on, no aria world.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) At first the French an sennush laid for them; ; would think there was nn there would be bush would be discovered among those 250,000 wouldbae;ine Christian t feeling without think e of the tams, after to and deep reflection, who , from wonderful spectacle of a nation a foreign foe; and in tho course of fury or more millions sterling had been removed this country to France, the French would be so ter ribly ribly ashamed of their position—(Great laughter) 1.- -o e the very ridiculous position in which they had placed thenweives that they would all go back to France and leavo this country to its own resources; n ay, so deeply would the sense of their ridicalous position he d' , they would impressed on their minds —and . we know that the F renc h people are Most susceptfide of ridicule—that offer to send us bac k those 50,000,0001. sterling which they had taken from our bankers, merchants, and trades men; and then they would be done a g ain; we should example— should ma show them a more glorious ex e in "sincer© and Yet I believe this is written nanimously refuse to take it. — (Roars of laughter. g ) sober earnest, and not at all in h but, if ho will read the pamphlet, lily lion. Friend may laugh, the spirit of ridicule. —(A laugh.) he will see there is throug out a tone of sober seriousness which convinces me that those who wrote it are, in point of fact, that WI at whose instigation much of the opposition made to this measure is raised. Now, then, the House and the country are to determine between two alternetivei— whether th - ey will, as required by the party from whom this pamphlet emanates, voluntarily submit this country to the miseries and iniq u i t i es—for those are the wor d s uzed—of a conquest by F eance as a just i atonement for _ t ' .the sins this country has i n former t this spro mes committed by waging war—for that is t h e ground on which 'Deeding is urged—(Bear, hear)---the country and Patlia meat, I on I%t to ( le toil lo whether they - will bow LONDON, the victims of that system of submission which is re spired by those whose organs, I must suppose and he, hove. tire resisting this measure in this Ideuse—or whe ther they are still sultieiently wedded to their ancient notions of independence and self-vindication hich w euld leaf them to resist a foreign invader and provide all necessary means by which,. if that invasion of the eoutory should ever flapper, it might be sufficiently re pelled.—(Letni cheers.) • • . Mr. W AKLEY regretted that, the Noble Lord, Gifted as he was with such gigantic po w e rs of intellect, shouldr have so fallen from his position as to have quoted such detestable trash as he had just read from a pamphler„-- (Oh, oh.) He (Mr. Wakiey) strongly suspected that this trash had been published in a lunatic asylum, and ho recommended the Noble Lord to pay a visit to it, for he would admire the institution and the persons he found in it.—(oh, oh.) Surely there must bo something going on in the great Whig family to induce the Noble Lord to act in this manner; it was only matter of wonder, however, that it hal held so long together, considering the heterogeneous and extraordinary materials of whice it was °Jeep med. But why hid not the Nohla Lord acted upon the opinion of the King of the French, and increased our army in 1844, it it needed augmentation? There could be no misunderstendieg the, cheer with which Hen. Gentlemen opposite had received that pas vage of the blockhead pamphleteer in which he spoke of the " working of the mills."—(lronical cheers.) But there had been something potent in the working of these mills; for they had ground a party of Protectionists into a party of Free-traders.—(ob, and laughter.) Hon. Gentlemen might make wry laces, for the operation was no doubt torturing, but they had confessed as much.— (Oh, oh.) The budget was ono proof, and the workers of mills had accomplished the. transformation.—(Cheers.) The Honourabh) Gentleman continued—Tou (point- , ing to the Opposition benches) must not repudiate the mills, nor your master, Richard Cobden—a greater man than any of you--(0h, oh.) Why, I atn sure no Hon. Gentleman opposite considers that an offensive remark. I say that Richard Cobden is one of the greatest men who ever lived, and you are his disciples.--(Oh oh.) I expect a great deal of effrontery from Hon. Gentlemen opposite; but do not be ungrateful to that great man, your mentor, Richard Cobden.-a(Oh, ob.) They had examples enough to show the evils arising from arma ments. Did they believe the liberties of ,any country were safe that had large armaments? Soldiers had brains, end no country was safe that relied upon armed men. He complained that Hon. Members on both aides of the House had been pointing out all the nooks and creeks by which a foreign foe could safely reach and land in England. But they had really no fears on the subject. They knew that the population would rise as one man and defend the liberties they held so dear, and the Sovereign they loved so well. The Governtiaent must know that they would not get skilled . mechanics to enter the militia—they would not leave their `work to take a shilling a day—they would get none but the farm labourers. and after a few days' training they would send them back much worse than Mere. If they were so wealthy—if free trade had given them so large an amount of spare capital, why should they not, instead of expending it in putting.instruments of death into the hands of the people, expend it in educating them? lie believed that the Bill would be found as mischievous as it was unpopular, and he should give it his must strenu ous opposition. Colonel THOMPSON thought the proceedings of the [louse were approaehiog closely . to a burlesque. He did not believe that any of the persons who were in terested in the promotion of the principles of free trade would hive written such a pamphlet as that quoted from by the Noble Lord. Ile. was ready to admit that a danger bad existed, but it bad passed away. He be lieved they would have ample notice of any attempt at assault or invasion, and although the despotic ruler of the French might be desirous of an assault upon England, he believed , the people of France would not now co-operate with him in such a perilous undertaking. He believed, also, that a volunteer rifle corps, of a small numerical strength, would bs far more efficient than a large body of local militia. That was the opinion of all military men of any experience. quoted by the Mr. H. DRUMMOND said he would be abl e to s ho w H a s o u as House. — t h ( e G r r o P a t u r l t a c u h g , h t t e h r e . r ) e were That w m o o u r l d e before he sat down that if the pamphlet P N u o u b o le hos L i o u rd tho w probably add much to the liveliness of the debate, and ho was sure they would receive the announcement with satisfse ion that the printer was a candidate for the seat of his Hon. Friend Mr. Hall for the city of Perth.- --(Loud laughter.) He regretted that the Noble Lord, the late- bead- of the Government, had not produced something better after six years than this hall-hatched egg. and given them some better means of def e nce. Th e Militia Bill was not applicable to their present position, b u t it was the only one their rulers brought before them, and they must either vote for it or reject it, and go undefended. He agreed with the Ho nourable Member for the West Riding that there might. be a better distribution of their forces. He did not think they required , troops in the north, and suggested they ought all to be moved . down to the southern counties. There was no occasion for troops in the large manufacturing towns to trample upon the peo ple.—(A laugh.) Nay, if the Hon. Gentleman would enter into a treaty with the President of the French to enter the Mersey instead of the Thames, he did not know whether he should not vote against' the Bill. He was not sure a small invasion would not do them a great deal of good. They were in a con didon like that of the overgrown spoiled boy, when all wished that somebody would give the fellow a good licking. He thought it would do the country a great deal of good to got a good licking.—(Great laughter.) If an invading army appeared, he believed these mills, which had done such wonderful things, would soon cease working. Now (said Mr. Drummond) they were a very rich peeple—they bragged of their wealth—but they fir er e though; much richer than they really were; and they advertised the fret that they did not intend to de fend themselves. Why, their refusal to do so was just as much as to say to the French, " Ceme over and plun der us, for we shall not resist."—(Hear, hear.) Lord J. MANNERS next rose, but was very indis tinctly heard in consequence of the noise that prevailed in the fleuse. He was understood to obEerve .that the Hon. Member for Finsbury had stated that no justifica tion was offered for this measure. He (Lord J. Manners) should, however, have thought that the opinions pro nousced by the most eminent moo in the country upon this subject might have had weight even with the Hon. Member for Finsbury. He must remind the Route of the necessity under which, this measure was proceeded with— viz., the House had pronounced by its vote that a Bill should be introduced for the organization of the militia, and it was in obedience to that vote that the present measure was brought in. The greatest objections were urged against the increase of the army and 'navy. Under these circumstances, it being genera ll y admitted ' that the defences of the country we re in a most defective state, the Government were of op inion that the addi regard to the beat interests of the country by the adop-: tional forces required' could be be st obtained with duo ; tioa of the present measure--a measure that was less , hostile to the feelings of the people, and bet t e r calculated to meet the objects they had is view, than any other, )urse which they could take. The Go vernment, therea • tore, confidently asked the House to reject the amend ment.—( Hear, hear.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL—Sir, I wish to state, in the first pleat), that I cannot vote for the amendment now proposed, because I think it d airable, the House having decided by a vela; large majority in favour of the second reading, that we should proceed in Committee to dis cuss the various clauses and provisions of this Bill. But whilst I cannot agree with many of the statements made in the very able speech of the Hon. M ember for the West Riding, I must at the same time protest against the formula put forward by the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton. The Noble Lord says that there is this alternative—" If you vote for this Bill you will at least be safe, whilst if you vote for the amendment you may p ,ssibly be ruined." Sir, the whole of my ob jections against this Bill are comprised in this, that it will not make you safe. I agree with the Noble Lord, not as to the extent of the danger, not as to the sudden nature of the attack that ho seems to apprehend, but as to the necessity for providing against dangers which, in the event of war, must be greater than they were at former periods. The Government, undoubtedly, has fairly un dertaken the execution of the wish of this House, as ex. pressed in its resolution, that a Bill should be brought in; btetT have co asidered this matter as well as I could 'before the second reading, with the view of ascertaining whether it was possible for me to propose such amend msnts in Committee as would render the Bill much mote efficient as a means of defence for the country, and it seemed to me that while I might perhaps succeed in de feating some of its clauses, I coald hardly be successful in inserting other clauses and other • provisions that would give strength and efficiency to the measure. I therefore came to the conclusion that it would be better that the Bill should at once be rejected, in order that tie Government might provide a better force for the defence of the cottetry.—(llear, hear, and a laugh.) I need not allude to the various other means that have been sug gested by different Members of this House, and some of them by myself, as being more adapted to secure the peace of the country. If this Bill had not been enter tained by the House, I feel not the slightest doubt if the Government had thought it necessary to resort to iorne of those other means, that there are hardly any of them that are not better than the present Bill.—(0b.) , I see Gentlemen doubt my opinion; but really though I have heard the Bill very much defended in this House, I hardly heard any ono of experience, still less any person of military experience, say that they thought this measure would be effective.—(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen seem to doubt what I have stated; but I shall put to the Gentlemen the following case, in order that Gentlemen may bring home to their minds the in efficiency of the measure which the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton says is to make this country safe. --(Hear, hear.) If the email regular force be not in creased no ono can doubt that if a war were to break out n g oarh e oo l cl ro o c separate perso t a h in the situation of commender•in chief would between able Lto ncollect h i d e the the nei hb south caait. Now an • ppob e an invasion took place in a distant part of th e c docks, and supposes in Cornwall, or in Pembroke suppose . 5,000 men of this raw militia were suddenly dire cte d agains t that organized French force, would any one believe that a such f cient to send sgainet-that frenc h force, and if th a t were me would- be suffi• not a sufficient force to send against be effective. But the n I am thattod the them this Bill w ill ac t proposed to introduce is one o f a siraiia measure that we n y question that may be r a i se d as to ther natare, and that difference be tween a local militia and a regul a r great importance, There is coupl e d with this °n° °f seems inconsistent with such statement —namely, Y s that whica it was right and wise, a nd entirely from publicam el'that spirit sad patriotis m, that a ma j orit y of this House refused leave to me to tiring in a Bill, founded up on a principled se of local militia; and, on the other hand, th a t I cou l d not oppose th e re g ular militia except from motives of party and faction.—(Hear, hear.) I own I cannot see (hot) ja Anything .very onyiuoing iw this statement,_ WEDNESDAY _EVENING, MAY 5, VP. (Hear, hear.) I have never found fault with the 1210- lives of those who proposed to.deprive me of the power of bringing in.a all on this subject.—(Hear, hear.) It was a proceedinz, I believe, quite without precedent. — (Hear, hoar.) Daring the tirne I have sat in Parliarnsrlt I have known no suca precedent. I did not hid fault with the motives of those who did it; but because I. on the second reading of this Bill, opposed it, it was said that my motives must not be with a view to the de fence of the country, but th at t h ey were party motives. hear.) I deny such as interpretation of toy. con:lact.—(Cheers.) It is a gross misrepresentation of what my inten'ions were ou the subject —(Elear.) I can hardly speak on this subject without saying that the Ri.T,ht Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and some Gen:lemea on the other s id e , have most fairly adireszed themselves to any argu ments I have used.--(Hear, hear.) have nothing•to complain of on their part; and With regard to the Right Hen. Gondeman the Secretary of State nothing could be more fair than the manni3r in_ which he met my argil. moat.—(Bear, hear) I Pvim, as the matter at present stands, I think it better that this .House, havinggo into decided in favour of the principl e o f the should Committee, and no alter a ti ons should be mule that are inconsistent with the general intentions of the Govern rnent.—(ilear, hear.) I cannot say I ta k e a very san guine view of its efficiency; and I think it will be found necessary, probably at the noMmencemeat of the next year, to review the whole sulej.±et of the defences of the country.—(Hear, hear.) I think • it probable- . —withailt any view to bur divisions on the - Subj , ct—that we may arrive at a system of defence that noay be perhaps bet ter than the local militia I propose, or'tho regular militia now proposed, and by w hi ch we will be all satisfied the country is sufficiently defentled.—(Elear, hear.) I am afraid you will find the Bill in its operation, while it will be obnoxious to many eotnplaints, will not give such'a force as you can rely upon; hint I d o not think that in the present session you will - be able to determine upon such a foree.—(Hear, hear.) I think it better that the present Bill should pass, and in the next session we can consider the alterations:that ihouldiee made, and the means by which we can best, ato,nd it.—(Hear, hear.) If I should prove to be totally mistaken—if 50,000 or 80,000 efficient men, on whom military men can rely for the defence of the country, can-be Obtained. I shall be glad I was mistaken; but iF, on the contrary, the gene ral sense of the House shall be that we are not secure, I trust we shall have some other and more efficient mea sure.—(Heer, hear.) The House divided, when there appesred— For Mr. Cobden's amendment Against it... or to.ftny reservoir the whole of the water from which is distributrii through district mains or pipes for other than domestic purposes. Clause 3. From and after the 31st day of December. 1855, no iviLter shall be brought or conducted within the metropolis by any company for the purpose of dorwstie use, otherVvise than through pipes or through covered epoducts, unless the same shall be afterwards tilte , cd before distribution. "Clause 4 is to the following efr.ct: —From and after the 3t)th day of Auguit ev,..ry company- shall eff?ctnally filter ail water supp?ied by them within the metropolis or domestic use before the same shall pass into the pipes for distribution. Claine 5 states that three months before any com pany shall reArt to any now source of supply, su c h cornpany , shall give notice in writing thereof to the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plan ! tations hereinafter called the Board of Trade, aed there .upon, within one month af te r rece ipt o f such;notice,' th e • said Board of Trade shall, if they think fit, appoint a competent person as an inspector, who shall report with respect-to any sources then authorised by' Parliament, whether the directions of the special Act have been e )m -plied with in reference thereto; and with respect to any new sources, not authorised by Parliament, whether the same ere capable of supplying good and wholesome water for domestic purposes. "Glance 6 provides that the inspector so appointed shell, within ten days after such appointment, give notice in writing to the company thereof, and of the tirns at which he proposes to visit and inspect the sources. `" Clause 7 directs that the Board of Trivia shall, within 21 days after the receipt of the said inspector's report, rend to such company with respect to any such new sources of supply ❑ot authorised by Parliament, a certificate in writing of their approval or disapproval thereof ; and with. respect to any ench sources as shall then be authorised by Parliament, a notice in writing, stating whether in the judgment of the said Board of Trade the directions of the special Act have in reference thereto been complied with. Clause 8 specifies that in certain ewes the matter may be referred to the Attorney-General. ". Clause 9 provides, that if at any time complaint as to the quantity or quality of the water supplied by any company for domestic use be made to the Board of Trade by memorial in writing, signed by not less, than 20 inhabitant householders, paying rents for and sup plied with water by the company, it shall be lawful for the Bard of Trade, at any time within one month after the receipt of such complaint, to appoint a competent person to inquire into and concerning the grounds of such complaint, and to report to the Board of Trade thereon. _ _ ... 76 ••• ... 285 Majority against.. ..._209 Oa the question that the Speaker do lea - ve the chair for the House to go into Committee on the Bill, Mr. HUME blamed Lord John Russell for having counselled the passing of a measure which he himself had stated was inadequate to the purpose for which it was intended. For the Opposition to yield to the Noble Lord's advice was to place themselves in the same boat with himself, and that be (Mr. Home) was not prepared to do. He should. therefore, meet the *notion 'with a direct negative.--(0h, oh! and divide.) Mr. GIBSON asked the Home Secretary whether it was not possible to go into Committee pro forme, with a view to introducing another Bill, w hi ch should' com prise the whole of the militia law in one enactment? Mr. WALPOLE could not answer the question until he knew what the Committee might do with the amend ment of which notice had been given, to omit the com pulsory clauses of the Bill. Mr. BRIGHT asked if it *as intended that the 80,000 men who were to be balloted for, or who entered the militia as substitutes or velunteeta, were to come under the provisions of the Mutiny Act, "and be subjected to the punishment of flogging whilst in training? Mr. WALPOLE—The Hon. Gentleman would ex cuse him - if he declined answering the question until the Bill went into Committee. " Clause 10 stipulates that the person so appointed shall, within three days utter such appointment, give notice thereof in writing to the company; and after such notice as aforesaid he shall have power to inspect and examine the waterworks of the company, and to inquire into and concerning the grounds of such complaint, and the company and their offi.;ers shall afferd all reasonable facilities for such inspection. examination, and inquiry. " Clause 11 fixes the penalty for any person obstruct ing such inspector in the due prosecution of such inspec tion, examination, or inquiry, at any sum not exceed ing 101, Clause 12 directs that if, after receipt of such re port, it shall appear to the Board of Trade that the said complaint is well founded, the Board of Trade shall give notice thereof in ceriting to the company. " Clause 13 provides that if the company shall fail to remove the ground of complaint, the matter is to be re ferred to the Attorney-General. " Clause 14 makes it compulsory that every steam engine, furnace, or other work in which coma shall be consumed by any company for the purpose of the water works, shall be constructed on the most effectual prin ciple for consuming its own smoke. Clause 15 provides that after the expiration of five years from the passiag of this Act everp company shall, subject to the provisions of the special Act relating to such company, provide and keep in the district mains already laid down, or hereafter to be laid by them, a constant supply of pure and wholesome water, sufficient for the domestic use of the ,inhabitants of all houses supplied by such company, at such pressure as will make the water reach the top story of such houses, but not exceeding the level prescribed by the special Act of such company. Clause 16 provides that it shall be lawful for any company from time to time, with the approval of the Board of Trade, to make such regulations as shall be necessary or expedient for the purpose of preventing the waste or misuse of water." Tha document concludes with a clause interpreting the terms employed in it. The question of rates and tolls is to be determined in relation to the peculiar cases of the respective_oompa nies, to be inserted in • the several Bills. Mr. COBDEN thought that, before the House was called upon to go into Committee, his Hon.- Friend had a right to learn from the Home Secretary whether' he intended, by the provisions of the measure, that th ose who were balloted or who came under the provisions of the Bill by volunteering or serving as substitutes, should be subjected to-martial law whilst in training, and punishment of the lash. Mr. VirALPOLE'S belief was, that according to the provisions of the Act 42 George 111., chap. 90, the when embodied or enrolled, was put for the time under martial law ; of course he meant by that expres sion under the Mutiny Act. -- - The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ex pressedat]. Member for Mo n t rose a hope th a t t h e would withdraw his motion . ; but - . Mr. FIUME declining', The House divided, whelk:there appeared— . For the mot i on 219 Against it B5 Majority for the motion —.134 The House then went into Committee pro forma, Mr. BERteAL in the chair. Mr. BRIGHT hoped the Government would not hastily press forward the measure to a further stage. The - urgency of the measure was not proved, ed;and he be thought that any f urt h er stag e of the Bill should postponed un til t h e country ha d tine to declare its opinion on the subject. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the proposition of the Hon. Member was most pre posterous. The G overnment had b een urged from day to day to exp e dit e t h e business cf the house, and what ever other busi ness m i ght be on where any d ou b t of its importance mi g ht ex i st, the Milit i a Bi ll was that bust nes!), for the preponderating opinion of the- House was decheeid in support of the importance of the measure; and now the Hon. Member wished them to fix a remote day for its next stage, and for what purpose? Not to discuss the merit• of the Bill, but to agitate the country upon it—to go about the country agitating the public miud on it—a course which was most unconstitutional. ',w ee d, then, of fixing a distant day, he should, in con formity with the general opinion of the House, take the liberty of fixing Thursday next for proceeding with the Committee. After a short conversation in which Colonel Sib thorp, Mr. Fox, Mr. Walpole, and Mr. M. Gibson took part, as to the necessity of expediting the progress of the Bill as proposed by- the Chancellor of . on e Exche quer or of postponing it as urged by the H. Member tor ifanchester, Mr. HUME suggested, a s a middle course, that Mon ti. ay next of the Bill should be th e d ay for - resuming the considers- Mr. NE WDEGATE combatted the proposition for delay, as wholly uncalled-for and unnecessary, the mea sure having beer. already 80 long before the House. Mr. COBDEN repell e d the imputation of the Chan cellor of Exchequer, and warned the Right Hon. Gen tleman not to repeat that tone to Hon. Members on that (the Opposition) side of the Heinen.. A charge of agita tion come badly from g bad once before •bee n hlembers opposite. They Pe9sed to th em on a national question, and they couldheet charge him (Mr. Cobden) or his friends with want of forbearance on that occasion; but if they agitated the.country, it would not be for the purpose of reinstating on the Treasury bench men who, immediately on their entering Upon office, principles which they professed in opposition. Tne CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said abandoned the there was n misinterpretation, which had batter be set right at once. The Lion. Member for Manchester wished for delay in ord er t o appeal to the country, and he wanted to know what that meant, if not to agitate the country. He did not charge the - Hon. Gentleman with wishing to agitate; he drew it not as an inference, but as the natural conclusion fro m hi s own wor d s. Wi t h reference to what had f a ll en from the Hon, Member for the West Riding, he beg iTe d to inform him that ho (the rat Chancellor on the politics Which equier) was, t h ere t o put into ope side of the house.—(C ere .) h had professed on the other After some further i d seession, the 1101180 resumed, , The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and obtained leave to sit againou Thursday next. T hu M r r. R U MX da the be then m Oved that M on d ay next, i nstea d o f Y ,y fized f or proceeding with the sda Committee. . The s Houe e motion edwhen there appeared— For .the Again" 31 it -• • . 103 Majority •• , 72 The-Meuse again divided on the motion that the House For the motion do resolve itself into Committee on Thursday next. 105 Against it ..• e ; 29 Majority _ 76 Adjourned at Twenty.Mi — " l ee Past Two o'clock.. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. (CONTINUED ON MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.) Sir,—On Monday the 3d, the Secretary for the Colo nies moved to bring in a Bill to grant a Representative Constitution to the colony of New Zealand. The Tories aro evidently bent on taking the wind out of the sails of the Whigs, wherever they are able; and the present afforded a brilliant instance of their talent In that re spect. It is quite true, that they found nearly all the features of the Bill sketched in by their predecessors; but the style of handling was what they had the genius to make their own. Instead of a snarling, grumbling kind of process, having the air of looking about for re cast-silts for the sake of a wholesome stirring of their bile, they cintrived that all should go smoothly as a wedding-bell. If there were disputable questions of do tail, they produced them as such, with professions which could be insincere, of their sea liners to submit them to acnicabk. discussion. On the (Trout point of all, in comparison of which questions of First Chambers and Second Chambers sick back into the pigeon-holes they were taken from, they spoke like men who knew that fortune hsd thrown into their hands the task of lay ing the foundation, of what rosy honestly turn out to be a world supremacy. If there b 3 one thing especially revolting to the man who has stut?ied his country's his tory and mankind's, it is to hear a "snobbish" and furacious individual prating about " the Anglo-Saxon race;" when the known feet is that the country in which ho speaks, is to a greater extent than any other in the universe, an agglomeration of all races and all divisions of the one blood of which were made the na tions of the earth. The Whigs have let the• Tories snatch from them the grand ex p er i ment o f amalga mating a race at the Antip odes int o supporters o f t h e British Crown, and thus striking into the principle which alone will enable us in the next century to hold our own against the offspring of oar negro-drivers. Con sult Defoe, and see how many bloods went to the com position of the " true-born Englishman." Why should not a dozen more be added to the list, bringing each the dowry of a province, or some a quarter of the globe? Can any mar tell, for instance, why India, or Africa, or the Antilles, should not, by something like the contrary of policies hitherto pursued, be studded over with popu lations of swarthy Englishmen, born to the climate, and boasting, like the Jew of Tarsus, of being citizens of no mean city, under a wider than Roman rule? Of a surety, if thero be truth in theology, the Romans will one day stand up with the glean of the South, and de mand of our whole string of Colonial Secretaries to show whether they have come up to the Roman mark, and given to races at the world's extremes the same fair play that was given to our rugged ancestors. Oae single thing bars the vast preepeet open to a true statesman's view;--the brutish instinct of race the vulgar roan shares with the rat miscalled of Norway, prompting him to see in all who differ from him by a shale of colour or a cast of fur, objects for blood-sucking instead of ma terials for a country's political and commercial great ness. The Americans have deeply sworn, within the life of man, which is threescore years and ten, to place an American army behind the Horse Guards, and haul down the " flaunting bunting" on Windsor Castle; and they will do it too, unless " Amalgamation" can beat " Non , Amalgamation" in the race. It Is easy talking about the friendly disposition of the Americans; but this is what is in their popular mind. America means to "annex" you; and if something is not done, she will. It must have been highly amus ing to Transatlantic slave-breeders, to see the zoil with which John. Bull on his late alarm from France, exclaimed " America will help us." If she helps you, it will _be) as the feeder helps the swine, to make bacon of the whole hog afterwards. It is not im possible, that the scene which Heaven's scene-shifters aro now raising before the audience of the world, is a struggle between the old and new English, to settle whether the more backward races of the earth are to be raised by the agency of the first, or tracapled on by the other. It is difficult to say what the expectation of ex istence of a Colonial Seeretary may he; bat the man may wri 'to " Vixi,',' who has had the opportunity of lay ing his band on so magnificent a cause. The Bill was ordered to be brought in, with a una nimityl and general applause which have been rarely witnessed. It is great pity but it hail bee n brou gh t in and carried through by somebody else. But what is n to be done, when men have not the gift of what artists call "getting things out of hand?" On moving to go into Committee on the M ili t i a Bill, Amendment The f getting tthhan on the moped this, must have been ved to call for certain retue hoperns . only good a r waseasonfo greater proportional division former occasion. Instead of which , an adjournment was moved, thereby sending useless or all who might think the adjournment _ y b 291 to 68, ill timed; the whole ending in being beatenf the former divi to the other side the votes of which is more than 4 to 1, instead o do not call this making an advaneteiao Militia Bill was On Tuesday the Amendment sion of 315 to 165, which is less than 2to 1. Tacticians with a majority of 219 to 55 negatived by 285 to 76; sincerely, I am, Sir, yours rery D REFORMER. AN OL and the_°_l32,ill carried into Com mitteeßlackheath, May 5, 1852. The Hon. W. E. DIINCOMBE paired against Mr. Cob• motion, with Mr. H. D. SEYMOU R in favour. Colonel CH ATTEATON paired off against Mr. Cobden 's EIOLEFIELD. motion, with Mr. LY PIE TR . OP °LIS! WATER SUPP.II .. of the Yesterclay,'after 70 days' investigation, c omm i ttee of tho House of Commons adopted tae Water t ilowing code of law for the future regulation of and public supply of the metropolis. Tho companies east of this inquiry is estimated at the rate o f 1 ,0004 , day, includ ing fees to 20 counsel, parliamentary LI aie „ s e. S, solicitors, c onferences, publication of khOrthßnd no t es, es, and o th er , h matters. The provisio ns are unde rstood to b e sat i sfae• tory both to the promoters of the Government measure and to the various water companies, Whose Bills will now be gone into seriatim by the committee. The Bill of the Chelsea Water Comp an y is n ow under considera tion, and there are ten others to be taken, 0 wing, it is stated, to the determi ned o pp ositio n of the compel - lies the provisions are totally differe n t to those prop , osed in the Government measure as ori g inal ly brought in. " Whereas it is expedie nt to melee provision f or se curing the supply to the metropolis of pure and whole- EOM rater, and otherwise to make further and better provision in relation to the water supply of the metro polis; be it therefore enac ted b y the Queen's Most Ex cellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority cf the same, as follows: " Clause 1. From and lifter the coman to 1855, it shall not be lawful for any p y take for the sup or of any part thereof, any ply of the metropolis, wwer from any part of the river Thames below Teddington Lock, or from any part of any of the tributary rivers or streams of the river Thames below the highest point where the tide flows it such tributary rivers and streams respectively. - " Clause 2. From end after the 31st day of December, 1855, every reservoir within a distance in a straight lin, from St. Pistil's Cathedral, in the city of London, of not n:Ore thee five miles, in which water for the supply of the metropolis, or any part thereof, is stored or kept by any company, shall be roofed in, or otherwise covered over; provided always, that this. provision shall not extend to any reservoir, , the water from which is sub jected by the company to efficient filtration after it is discharged from such reservoir, and before it is passed into the milks or pipes otthe OgraPanY for distaatiwa, [ADVERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Ointment and Pills have cured a Disease d Foot and prevented Amputation. —Mr. James Palmer, Na. 1, M ason-court, Blake-str eet , Liverpool, suffered dreadfully from a diseased foot ; the most eminent medical men attended him, and they deemed it 11CM. nary to remove one of his toes. Before this healed, h ohwever, the disease broke out preyhig p, and then they eta am putate the whole foot to p nt fatal consequences. This he objected to, and resolved to try Holloway's Ointment and Pills, which have effected a p erfect cure, and he can walk and work as well as ever. Th is can be verified by Mr. Martin, chemist, '4, Copperas - hill , Liverpool.—Sold by all druggists and at Professor Holloway's Establishm ent, 244, on. DOG-FIGHTING PUNISHED. , Strand, Condon. -- Inurteen perions were yesterday, at the Worship-street Police-ccurt, e months, c o t w " amusement se verely punished for taking Ti active part in the were disgustimong o f dog-iightang. Two " mitted to the Ho use of Correction forofthtrhee were fined 54 each, and the ten o th ers 24 each. : MAGAZINES, &c. (CONTINUED;. I . NAVAL INTELLIGENE. BL A CK WO OD. His Grace the Duke of Nerthemberhind, First Lordof Attractive, perhaps, b:yond almost any other sub. the Admirelty, heid a levee et iiihirehall yest d ' ct er ay, and jest was attended by the follotilw.:: effiz.cr:-.... jeet that coul I lea just now selereed ra the theme of : a magazine centribetioe, grid is the subject of the Captaie , —Charlas Smith, William L. Castle, Philip Jusaec, Thotnae Fisher, Canee H. M. Buckle, Thoma s first article in Blackwood for .1114 y—" Gold: its Ne ,Frencis Birch, Thomas W. Carter, Harry E. &i ge n , rural and Civil History." Evidently wthten through- , .ed George 51oubray. Commanders—Thomae C Sher out with much refisetion and after very considerable wic G. Caswell, John A. L Wharton, Robert' T.. research, the met. will eminently repay perusal. ford, Jetties Wood. M. Done:lan, John Powney, Tr, Scarcely lees interesting, end, in a literary sense, itn- . Robert J. ()away. George Woodhowe, Lord Francis J. measurably m o r e valuable is the F econd essay in the Riosill, and F. P. %Varlet.. La utenantsa-M. Rodney, number, an appropriate review of the " Life of W. Visa:., R. G. White, J. Rainnier, W. A. R. Lee, G. Niebuhr," the most adventurous of all plea. 0. Willes, and H. Hannan , . loloeists. ' Full justhie is done by the writer neer-Admiral Hyde Parker, C. 8., held a levee yester to Niebuhr's profound and various erudition, and LL,y, which was attended by the following officers : — Caatains-11. Dunlop, H. E. Edeell. Thomas Fisher, what i s yet more—to his ardent and comprehensive Villiern L. Castle, John Powney, KAI., Frederick T. imagine' i on . A rat h er euper fi e i a l b u t gen i a l bi ography Michell, F. D. Hastings, M. Rae. and A. Mur ra y. of " Tho:nas Moore" startles us by commending r Cummine J. Wood what to our thinking is, of all his worke the one of Commanders—Arthu : e. _, .. , C. T. P. Newten, R. T. Bedford, E. D xou i , 1 ley . itell C. Michell, most questionable merit, his "Lire of Byron," but J. Whehten, and George Caswel . Lieutenants —John in the writer's final o• • the •t• ' . pinioe upon posi ioa as- ii,i„ ni „ 0 11 - 11 ,, and NV A. R. Lee. Surgese sumed by the bard of Ireleed in literature we most is'l Master—Frederick R. Card. NiNiadria, M.D. Second cordially egree, an opinion declarieg th A "Moores future fame will depend on his National 211elodios." ltear-&:miral Sir Phipps Hornhy, K C. 8., held a h ulwer Lytteu'e " Novel" par exeellehee io levee at the Admiralty yesterday,"and it was attended by called, the following Mils:era:— as it approaches its close, becomes more than ever enthralling. There is a Captains —W. L Castle, IT. E. Edgell, C. H. M. wisdom worthy of La Bruy ere in that "Initial Buckle, Henry D. Trotter, and Henry T. B. Collier. Chapter" in which the latent operation of Hate is no- Commanders—Arthur Cummin g , Henry Hire, T. ticed as among th e most peculiar char Chaloner, H. Dixon, C. Mi e b il. J. R. Rennie, and characteristics of Peter Cracroft. Lieutenants —J. Bainnier, A. B. Hodg• " E eglish Life " now-a-days. Almostadmirable _ as kin3on, H. Moore, J. White, Justus B. Kooystra, R. Lil this chapter is the lament pronouncedover the glory borne, and B. M. Noble. Masters —J. Brown and P. P. of Bond-street, long since departe 1. _ Our friend Cotter. Surgeon—P. Ni drie r M.D. Mate—P. Blekis- Squire Hezledean, accompanied 1:: ( Y Parson Dale, too. Paymasters and Pursers—J. Doyle, O. Walker, arrives in town, and his arrivalportends ill fortuneand It. to his fine •hearted scapegrace of p a son , Frank, Dr Marsh. Morgan, the benevolent homeeonatV ' * D a - - WI ' turns up " e ORTSMOUTLI, TUESDAY.—The Queen, 116, Captain again as in gratuitous attendance on the Squire's Wise, was to have come into harbour to-day, but it was cousin, Captain Higginbotham. Poor Burley—bi g deferred till to-morrow, when she will come alongside a John Burley—the strong man of genius ruined by the hulk, and her officers and ship's company will be turned very robustness of his vitality, the creation over while she is in dock. which of all others in the fie:ion does most A court of inquiry was held on board the Conflict, honour to the head and heart of Bulwer --(verifying steam-ship, to get at the circumstances attending th e bursting of one of her boilers, by which four men, his assertion in the explanatory epilogue to .Arot so s tokers, were scalded to death, and another so severely Bad as we Seem, that he is "proud of his order")— injure d tha t C. 8 ,, life is not h. Set c pron . oun ‘ led saf c e. am C s apt. JOHN BURLEY, henceforth the companion picture to Henderson DAVID FALLEN—dies. There is a noble pathos in and Captain Wa . r ' den n of e t i h m e ; Re a t p rib t u in tion olle c s omposel the the description. Leonard, who has discovered Burley court. Whether the' result will bo accent-martial or net through the charitable medium of Dr. Morgan, is, of we have not yet learned. course, at the death-bed ; and with the demise of poor The Birkenhead's affair will be divided ieato two Burley the present instalment terminates. Audley courts-martial. The first will be on Mr. Richards, Egerton, by the way, stern man of business though masthrhs assistant, and four men; and the second on the ho is, living even in the iron moil of public life, rem A a s i w ni e ng eta o t ffi ed cers and crew. yesterday,.a court-martial will be held wins upon us strangely in these later chapters, being on n charges preferred only less loveable than that most gentle and the Conflict for come insubordination. s d t bl tho second lieutenant of chivalric of all the characters penned by Be! wer— The Count d'Aqulla, admiralaottfonii t nf ei i dea l politan fleet, Harley L'Estrange. The bad genius of the story, a brother of his Ma'esty the King Rendal Leslie, becomes, we feel convinced by premo. expected ad day. The Vietotv's hsrgoaphease hag been nitory sensations, more and more involved in the web wmitiug to attend on Lis Royal nighties:, as was been of his own spinniog. One glimpse of him, obtained the Sprightly steamer. He had not, however, arrived at in ch. 10, b. xi., is in the streets of London at mid- half t pastie cluck, V f( i ) c u t r or o' 's a a d w a lite H . tehealnifde-lines were removed night, when the author exclaims, in eccents pecu- from to ComuiodOre - Eien, are expeetei,iactutebnant Gore, liarly his own, in their touching and almost solemn of the commander-in-chief, who has invite t d ° t he he lieu beauty —" Solitary amidst the vast city, and on governor,the a aura -superinten ent, and a large tenant- d . l ' d through the machinery of Civilization, went the still pa-ty to meet the Count. spirit of Intellectual Evil." Leonard, in the end, we Tao Wolverine, 12, Commander Falcon, sailed from feel assured, will gain, as his wife, Helen, and liar- Spithead for Chatham in the night, to be paid off. ley, Violante. "Oar London Gemini: sioner" is scarcely The Edinburgh, 58, steam gunnery ship (screw), has as emusing in his second as in his first contribution begun rigging its the steam-basin. Her steam was got —doing j us ti ce an d ( a l t h ough it is expressed in up to-day to try her boilers and engines. the langua ge o f a b so l ute panegyric) only justice to DEVONPORT, MONDAY.—The Rodney, 92, Captain Charles Mathews, th e most consummate artist and the Charles Graham, C.B, arrived here yesterday, from most perfect of a ll ac t ors, as a light comedian. Be- which she is above 100 short. She will proceed to Finder," Maga contains 'a e, Portsmouth, to complete her complement of men, of sides some gracef u l vers e Cork from this port, to join the Channel squadron. - entitled "Th e Gold- pleasant notice of Mr. Cork Amazon came into the Sound yesterday, in coma- Angus B. Beetch's last book, under the h • of heading pa rr y of the Rodney. She is to come up harbour to be " The Vineyards of Bordeaux." In this -" contribu tion peat off. we revel in the condemnation of that most The Britomart brig, Commander Heseltine, will be loathsome of all fruit the olive. Speaking of inspected by the Commander-in-Chief Admiral Sir John such titles for books as " Claret a n d Oli ves, " Ommanney, G. C . B , teeday, and will in all probability " Wine and Walnu t s " (a capital old gossipping sail on Wednesday for the coast of Africa. work by the way, and nut as th e reviewer The Vixen steam-sloop, Commander Barnard, still in Blackwood supposes, with " the wino corked and waits the arrival of Sir Charles Hotham, who was ex the walnuts wofully shrivelled"), as "Nuts and Nut- pected here yesterday. In the event of his Excellency's arrival in tam©, the Vixen will sail on Tuesday for the crackers," as " Grog and Biscuits," " Sherry and 8r4,15. Cheroots," "Alcohol and Anchovies," " Tumblers and Talk," "Ale and 2Esthetics," or " Beer and envr lTE t S o Dl th Y o .— Br S s i z r u C n: a r r l r e i i v li hered Oth atn , t c h st e e n r j ewly-apvia tod 'Batty" —we wonder no mention was made of "Cakes this ) (Tuesday) afternoon in the YVixena3et'eaamn sails .sloo p, and Ale," a production better known than all together, Commander Bereurd. and written moreover by one of Maga's own contri- Sir William Bennet, head of' the naval medical depart butors. The number closes with a political argument Merit, is now at Devonport on an official visit. upon what is called " Tne Democratic Confederacy.', Wcoeween, MAY 4.—Trident, iron steam-vessel, is now in dock receiving Mr. Bocciue's composition for protecting iron on her port ride; and Mr. Hay's, which has hitherto most succe.ssfully beaten all other compe titors for this purpose, is to be tried on the starboard side. AINS WORTH. After the customary chapters of " The Lancashire Witches," by the editor, we have some exquisite and heart-born verses, from E. E. M. K., entitled " The Birthday." Among the continuations are additional instalments of the "Florence Hamilton" of Miss Julia Addison, as well as of " Velthines" and "The Confederates." A rather wordy, but still graceful contribution, is the " Page from the Domestic Life of Pompey the Great," by. Mrs. Edward Thomas. "The Fatal Phial," or what is absurdly entitled ft tail of horror of Haverstock Hill—calling disagrecabiy to mind locker's ho7rible murder of Delarue—ii sheer extravagance. T(:m Hood might have made the incident laughable in the "telling," but Charles Vtrnet seems not to unders'Aud even the significance of his mother tongue, calling a rieglecel field " a mausoleum" fur dead cats and dogs ; as well call a ditch a cenotaph, as a field a sepulchral building or mauso leum. S. W. Thornbury has a rude but spirited metrical piece, called " The Jockey's Song." The rest of the number is of average merit, and, in stmc instances, of more than average mediocrity. The Driver steam sloop, Commander Charles R. Johnson, arrived at Woolwich on Sunday aft ernoon , and will ho p,id off here on Saturday next, having been in commission since B,!ptenaber, 1849, on the Pacific, station. She has brz.ngl3 home two eagles and two con- Lis frem South America. Tire Violet, Lieutenant-Commander H. P. Jones, sr rived from Dover on Sunday aficrnoon, and was taken into the. ly.sin to-day. The cui.ison Res rem I%d frcm the entrance of the basin to (1.4, and towed d.)ven to the East deck, where i is to be lengthen( d 9 fee*, the entrance to the basin having b:un orderA to be widcucd t) that Extent to neirn4 the AganannEen, 90, sNlitn that vessel is launched on Friday, the 21st inst. Uirst class Assistant Engiorer William Achindachy, second class As-..iitant William Robinson, aed third cla-,s Assistant Enigecr Joseph Gillard, to the Porcupine rteatn-vessO, at Porsmouth. ActiLg third CIE!. 33 gunner Pt.illip Turner, from the Excellent gunnery ship at Portsmouth, to the Porcupine. COWES, is'LL OF WIGHT. (mom 01.13 OWN CORRESPONDENT.) THE COMPTON. BAY WRECK.—The D u t c h b arque j,pare, on adore in Compton Bay, was hove off y esterday morning about balf-past tea o'cleek, and at half-past one, when labt seen, had been warped ne.r ly half a mile out to the vuth-vrest; but the was still in shallow water, and as the wind bad shifted to the S.W. (right on), the Rose cutter, the only vessel in sight, c uid be of no uASUITIW. The barges and Mesas. White's life-boat have returned to Cc.mo. 11.;c1 a steam-vessel been em ployed the ship w.ultl have ben here also. A steamer, Her nejesty, has b,en engaged to go round for her to morrow morning. Some folks had made up their minds to break the good ship up, ard even v li!t they were to 4 ive for her; but Proviiancl has dm eppennted them. l: c t . , COURT CIRCULAR. The Qacea‘ and his Itoy.:1 High,,, , " Princ attended by theCountel.% of Cnurlernont, the li on . E! es _ nor Stant,v, the 1-Ic.m. Mende Paget, Lord Polwor,h, Lrd Charles Fitzroy , and Li utr li o nant-Colonel the n. ,!. Gordon, honoure d her iViejesty's Theatre ioas A t b ev r if i g with their presence. 1 - 1, , r 11-,yal Ilighr:essth:sl.)ruhcehaot: ~tlifßeat,htt an ded by LTly Anna M tri:t Daw son , J i o tioneurd th e performance, at Li. Mai e) u t tc,. y ,n, on out ,nt His Royal il,ghneis Print,,, A iiic l t r , L 6 iii: s e w ith her pre:Knee lust tvenin;:. 13.,ek l eaterday morning, atte id Al by - h C o o rs lo: e nvl Hon. A. GordAn 'I he r 1?..yal Ilighnusei the Prince prinec-ss IZoydl, I r nee Able:, , i _ t i' ' ee of WaleP, the atten d e d by Mr. Gibbs, it , v , e;t.d f.' the Princess Alice, earth in Leicester-squ i a n , N , - ,-" ilrge model of the -_. • c ' t " . " s Y morning. A deputation fro's.l IILi), 0 ..4444:1ag of Mr. A. Ban nister ( "tayor of Llu'ei). Mr. lErrisou (Si - .eriff of Hull), Mr. Herry Eknc it ( +, `eal:prim: of the Town's Com initte,), Mr. W. IL P, r. J . Middleton, and Mr. Holth.r, ltz:d interview with the Right Honour able J. W. Henley, ycstPrday, at the Board of Trede. Mr. Mco:e ha.l an interview c-:ith the Earl of Derby yuLterday, at hiu official residence in Downing-street, on the subj,ct o preserved A thputation had en interview with the R;gbt Hon. W. 'lenity and Lord Colchester yesterday, at the Board of Trade. Mr. Watson Taylor had an interview yesterday with Sir John Pakingio . at the Colonial-office. A deputation headed by Sir Benjamin . Hall,. and Lord Dudley Stuart, M.P., the Earl of Dcrby yesterday. with the Right Mr. G. F. Young had an interview had an interview with a li n on in . t J er . v W iew . H w en i l t c h T th the yesterday. Right Hon. N . G ew en d t e i g em at a e n ha a d t also tit e Board of Trade. day from the Governor of GI Dispatches were received at b r te ita C r. olonial office yeeter- DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. This number seems peculiarly dedicated to fl mer., a suitable offering indeed for the "queen of months." "The Heirs of Randolph Abbey" is continued ; the two chapters are very awful—" a murder is planned which the law cannot reach," and " the record of a madness which is not insanity." The following verzei are very beautiful : "A COINA. FOR MOORE. "Another Genius is not slaw To gather home her jewels now, Ncr might she spare the opal rare, That shone on Erin's brow: That caught from every changing light A flush, a sparkle, or a hue That trembled 'mixt them both—bat oh! 'Twos beautiful all through. " Aioore, at the watchword of his name, What witching scenes before us smile, The sunny landscapes of the Eas', The old mysterious Nile. Bright fancies glistening while they weep, Or glowing ti.l those tears depart, In sweet uncatain striAns that hat g Like rainbows round the iaeart. "My mother sanz them hy fi-e ' Her voice was true and soft of tone, It teas my chillish thought that Moore And melody were one. My love to thu, my country's WO, Thy praise a familiar theme, My ITTy cradle has been rocked ILO the 3 oung man's dream.' " Oh, bin would we our minstrel's grave Were wept upon by Erin's "horrors, But still, though Eagland holds his dust, His fame—himself—is ours. And I, that I Lhould write of him As one who all for love would come, To plant a wild forget-me not Beside a marble tomb. "Farewell, farewell, I love to think Thy minute of 4eternity' Made earth look dim when angels moved The crystal bar for thee. The sparkling garland thou hast dropped, Unlike the pod's, facleth never, 'Tis bound about thy country's brow For over and for ever." MLYCELLAIVEOUS. The Eclectic Ilevieg Jcom mences with a "hi story of Maynoca. .11 College, in w hich the writer st rong l y * maintenance. Th e art i cles on Lord objects to its and Holland's u Memoirs a the Whig Party," and williain ~ Mary llowitt's °• Literature of . N or thern Europe ,, fire the most stf:king. The Sportsman contai ns i ts usual variety of subjects. Anecdotes of foxes will be found entertain ing. The engraving, entitled " Holiday , re Time" - presents a hou n d an d three beautiful little span i els, who are playing in a fi e ld . Two articles on the Kafirs are found in the Colonial Magazine, No. XI. o f " British Possessions and Colonies" is descriptive of the island of Ceylon. The " Verses on an Aged Emigrant " are pleasing and well written. The Farmers Magazine is devoted entirely to agricul ture, presenting much information on this subject. Tait's commences with No. 2of " The Governments of Continental Europe." It consists of France and Rome. " The Working Alan's Way in the World " has reached the fifteenth section. The plates of Le Follet are, as usual, the chief attraction. A sheet of pltterns for embroidery is, however, added. The Ladies.' Companion contains the Story of Angelique, by the talented Miss Jews bury, Mrs. Ogilvy's Autobiography of Laura Stud legh, is contin ue d ; the `'Fate of a Flirt in the Olden rime" may perhaps prove a lesson to young ladies of the present day. The Church of England Magazine is illustrated by an engraving of Trinity Church, Cam bridge' and several i ns t ruct i ve sermons. The Illus trated Exhibitor has a portrait of J. Turner, M.A., snd eight pictures of the History of Pegasus. The British Journal and The Biographical Magazine are continued in their accustomed style. In the latter may be fou n d a hi story of Thomas Moore. The Po pular Ed ucator i s a new serial, which conveys instruc tion in th e ru di ments of all the usual branches of education. S o much i nformation, at a very low is rarely t o b e o b ta i ned. price,] over take Since Time is not a p erso n we can over en he is past, let us honour hi m with mirth and cheerfulne ss of heart while he is pasiiiVE.Kidd 3 Journal. TOO LATE! Not long ego tho I.lolinfirth reservoir burst its banks, aid the waters, swcep az down the narrow valley at midnight, suddenly drowned some eighty perso n ,, and destroyed half a million pounds' worth of property. The cornmis6ioners were long meditating the repair of the leaking embankment; they were ready to spend the necessary 121. 10s. for the purpose, but they deferred until it was TOO LATE, and then all re p a i rs were needles?. Too LATE might be written on many of our public schemes of meditated repair and reform. The mischief to he apprehended is obvious enough. Many oyes are directed towards the swollen waters, and to the cracks and rents in the embankment which still keeps them pent up. Some call out for repairs and they are an swered that "it is time enough!" And this go es o _o a a t from year to year, until at length down comes the ig r ake midnight, and the inhabitants of the valley on I . restrained, to find that all their attempts at repair haire s come TOO LATE! Let little children be undiseiplinc d, and turroundcd by all le an t ner of induce r f i ll into evil wage, marts to bad living; 1 V g them begins; i nt o -bf - - row u- of time, are put commit erninal acts, gaol. Then it Is that our concern for a di scipline. and • an Bat it we now put-Virtu under training is an too late. The habits bsve and, in course been faze d; the character has been formed; the criminal h as been made. It is too have begun at the late to reform him —vve .wrong e n d . make hie) live his life ba c k ward, We cannot Tr y and - reform an evil habit — th at of drunken nets, for e xamp l e. In nine hundre d and n inety ont of the tho wilt fail. The habit is the life. It h wand cases you wi ag wcund itself the life aq • in and throng r • fin InkaTal 6 partof cannot tear it oie. Or, try to make a habitually nnvir tuous person virtuous. It cannot bo dune. The habit has been thoughts ±, in the thoughtthe pas sions, and poisoned tie wh o l e '-- • feelings, the nature. It is too late to reform. The only safe vray • is, so to educate and bring up children as to pre vent l i s heginni i ,g at the right, e" habits being formed. This end not at the wrong end.— Eliza Cook's Journal, We hear that the youthful Lord Lurgan has de. ,ermined to retire fora the WI Ire •, te d, ew ig) he - Ili- re nit he..; ee• 00 per