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THE SITN, The whole merit of it was due t o the late Government, and the maintenance of the beard and the necvsary staff. He he hoped they had bsen enabled to frame a measure which had heard it said that this Bill might, no doubt, be abt.o -w mid accomplish all the desired benefits, and avoid must, lately- essential for the protection of - small charities, if not all, tee üblectioes urged againet former measures pro • I en 1 that therefore it was perfectly right to call ore them to posed. The Bill dealt with charities, whose annuli iliciene pay for the great benefit they would derive from this Inca was very nearly 1,500,e00/. No less than 21,000 of them sure; but with respect to the larger charities, tics mecus had incomes of less than 201. a year, and upwards of 13 oeo which thee hadawing abuses were such th it they less than dl. a year. With regard to such charities, the would derive no advantage. He thought, hoirever, that this whole of their, property would be absorbed if they were taken was a misapprehension, and that the charities in question Into Chancery, though fur the largely endowed charities it weal,' receive a benefit from this measure at least commen was impossiele to conceive a tribunal better calculated to curate with the rate which it was proposed to impose upon carry into effect a system of control and administration than them, In the first place they woule fiad that provision was the Court of Chancery. The smaller charities, however, made by which the necessity of resorting to Parliament for were wholly unprotected. The law mainly depended on a Bills te accomplish various objects,bt which were absolutely statute passed in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, giving the neeessary under the existing f law, would now fl u sl y control over all charities to the Court of Chancery, but tirely removed.---(Heaa hear.) He found by a list before consmiseions of the description authorized by that Act be- hint that since 1800 there were no less than 135 private Bills came practically obsolete. Down to 1786 nothing whatever sought for by different charities. Now, tae average cost of was done in the way of legislation, but in that year the those Bills would be 600/. each, making a watt expendi- Act commonly called Gilbert'a Act was passed, which tune of 81,0a01. He asked whether the benefit would not required the ministers, churchwardens, and overseers be very considerable of a measure which to would prevent of every parish to m ake a return of all charities in any necessity for these applica arl the parish. Returns were made of charitable property and whether it was reasonable to object to pay 501. a year amounting annually to between 200,000/. and 300,0001. In in order to get rid of a cost which might go far beyond what 1812 an Act was passed by Sir S. Rornilly, a name always to they would be called on to pay under this Bill.—(Hear.) be mentioned with reverence, especially in connexion with As to the question of exemption, his opinion was that any reforms in the law, by which Act a summary remedy was other exemptions than those propo sed which it enabling parties parties to proceed in the Court of Chancery by pe- posed at present to exempt were the universities, collegiate tition. It had been well said that the word " summary " and cathedral churches, the British Museum, and institfourmer tions must be interpreted by the g lossar y of the Court of Chancery, supported wholly by voluntary contributions. for though the course of proceeding by petition was more occasions institutions supported principally by charitable expeditious and cheap than that by information, yet with contributions were exempted, but to this there were objec the costly machinery of the Court of Chancery it was little tions, and it was now stated in the exemption clause that adapted to meet the case of the smaller charities. In the where institutions were supported partly by charitable con same year another Act was passed compelling returns to tributions and partly by endowment, that portion of the be made relating to charities which might be created there- funds arising from the former source should not be liable to after, as well as those then existing. The provision with supervision. There would be an endeavour also made, he respect to charities thereafter to be created remained a dead was aware, to exempt the great London hospitals from the letter, and the Act applied to charities charged on land operation of the Act, but, notwithstanding the strong appeals only. He had informed the House of the whole law on the made on this point, he should feel it his duty most stenuously subject in 1816, when a Committee of Inquiry into charities to resist the endeavour. He looked with considerable anxiety and education among the lower orders in the metropolis to the result of the Committee on the Bill. Everybodywas appointed, on the motion of Lord Brougham. In conse- mitted the necessity for legislation.—(Hear, hear.) quence of the report of that Committee, in 1818 an Act of after y ed ear the the objections forcible man to. the pres ent year a systemyear been Pa r liament was passed, establish in g a commission of in- point out in most ner ; quiry into educational charities, which, in 1819. was ex- subject had been brought before the attention of the House, tended to charities throughout England and Wales, and and the House had been asked to interfere for the protection of an Act was also passed which empowered the companies te charities, many of which had been, he believed, annihilated, certify to the Attorney-General any case of abuse. These from their b-ins unprotected—(Hear)—and if, after all the c from time various attempts which had been made, this carefully ve ommissions were renewed by Act of Parliamentto time, and the last was appointed on the let of July, 1837. pared measure should fail like its predecessors, he should ut- The commissioners made 3.: reports, contained in 37 folio terly despair of ever being able to carry out any reform on volumes. As early as 1820 the commissioners pointed out the subject. When the attention of Parliament had been the absence of any efficient jurisdiction in regard to small so repeatedly called to this subject—when so urgent a ne charities. In all the Acts of Parliament exceptions were cessity for legislation had been proved, it would be a re introduced in favour of the Universities, collegiate and ca- preach to the Legislature to lose what he might almost thedral charities, some of the public schools and charities, descri •e as the last opp irturlity of introducing a measure where there was a special visitor ; but, from i 818 to 1830, which would meet every case and obviate every objection. no exception was made with reference to the gre it Leaslon He did hope that Parliament would, at east pass a Bill hospitals, or any City companies. In 1830 an exemption which would be of the utmost benefit to the country- - was introduced by the Ist and 2d of William IV...in favour _ . ...,•5jr A. C es OteeitileßN. seitl.h_, ~e eheule e be bappy_to assist he* errettayeeeses r...entaorr-ttowpreartai btrtr-is.--lea4-ttlat---e-x-wmpricrur,-- 'lac:word ---Vrind,"lll-4).,Sttig- tlle7priMartHEAiEVAlre. -- ; - Wtitiii he having been allowed to exist for four years, was taken away stated that the income of the charities affected by this Bill by the sth and 6th of William 1V Such exemption, how- amounted to about 1,500,000/ per annum, which at twenty ever, he understood, was to be strongly contended for on the years' purchase gaee 30,e00,000/. worth of property, every present occa'inn. In 1835 a Committee of that House was one would see the importance of the question. The grossest appeinted to consider the evidence awl reports of the corn- acuses had prevailed in the administration of charitable missioners, and the measures to be adopted for the purpose trusts. they were bestowed by donors, who were about to of completing the inquiry relating to uninvestigated chari- quit the world, for the benefit of the poor and needy, who ties, and to report iu weat mode charity feuds could be were without means to maintain their rights; so that it was most efficien - ly, promptly , and economically administered. no wander that abuses had sprung up. The municipal cor erations who were charged with the admits ietratien of these In their report that Committee expressed their opinion as P follows: charities had abused their trusts in a very great degree. In "Your Committee are inclined to recotnmene that the sto. other cases local jobbing had absorbed the funds of the chart perintendence, and, in certain cases, the administration of tics. Since the attention of Parliament had been directed all property devoted to charitable uses , slit old he entrusted to this subject, no less than 600"0/. had been recovered to a permanent board of three commissioners, or some other from persons who had abused their tru,t. The charity of St. Cross, one of the noblest in the kingdom, afforded an il independent authority, on waom should be imposed the duty of superintendence and control over the administration of all lustration of the manner in which the funds of these chari property devoted to charitable uses; that such board should ties were perverted by individuals. A suit had, however, have authority to call for, from time to time, and to enforce a been instituted, and he hoped that before long the funds of return or an account of the annual funds and property of any the charity would be made subservient to the purposes of charitable institution, and have power to summon before educatiou, end the other objects contemplated by its founder. themselves, or other persons specially authorized by them, all Some such measure as the present was absolutely necessary. parties concerned in the management or administration of All these charities were under the jurisdiction of the Crown, any charitable institution or funds; in case of necessity to which was exercised in the Court of Chancery, and set in appoint, and, upon adequate cause clearly established, to re. motion by the Attorney-General. But the Attorney General move trustees; to take care that no sale, mortgage, or was wholly incompetent to exercise any superintendence over exchange of charity property be effected without their these charities. Where gross abases were brought to his concurrence, and that all funds applicable to charitable knowledge, as by the Commissioners or by individuals, he purposes be invested upon real or Government security. could institute proceedings to allow his name to be used by The board to be empowered to suggest relators. But cases were submitted to by which he was 1 schemes for the government of all charities, and for the ma- sometimes misled. The consequence was that he allowed nagement of all estates and funds b-longing to such chart - suites to be instituted in his name fir bad purposes, and for ties, and to correct any abuses therei n, subject to the like con - g etting costs, and in this way suits were compromised for currence in cases where there are special visitors." selfish purposes. Of the existing charities there were The present Bill was founded on the recommendations of 18,000 whose property did not exceed 101. per annum, and that Committee. The commissioners certified 383 cases to whose income did ~not exceed 60,C0)1. Any application to the Attorney-General, ant the charities benefited by the the Court of Chancery relative to these charities involved proceedings taken in those cases to the extent of upwards of an expense which rendered it utterly impossible for the 600,000/. ;schemes were established having an income of trustees to move the Court.. It was not intended to invest 20,0001. No attempt at legislation was made from 1837 to the Commissioners with judicial powers, because the parties 1844, when Lord Lyndhurst, then Lord Chancellor proposed interested would not in that case communicate with them a Bill to establish a jurisdiction in cases of small charities, with that entire freedom and absence of reserve which was which Bill was read a second time and dropped. Jr! 1845 necessary to enable them to exercise the guidance, supervi and 1846 similar Bills were introduced, and the last was sin, and control contemplated by this Act. It seemed to thrown out by a majority of two in the House of Lords. him that this Bill did all that could be desired. The Corn- Thome Bills adopted generally the recommendations of the missioners appointed under it would exercise no arbitrary Committee, and proposed to establish a board not merely for or inquisitorial powers. Its provisions were calculated to re advice and supervision, but for absolute jurisdiction over dress the abuses that prevailed, and he should therefore be charities of smatter amount. The blanks were not filled up happy to give it his supporr.—(Cheers. ) in the first Bill ; but the second applied to charities under Mr. Alderman THOMPSON felt the disadvantageous po -50/., and the third to charities under 1001. Power was given sition in which he stood in o pposing . this Bill. He w as in those Bills to impose a tax on charities to support the aware of the great amount of property involved, the abuses establishment of the board; in 1844 3d. in the pound was that existed in certain endowed charities, and the necessity proposed, in 1845 61, and in 18 46 3 d. in the Pound on the of some more efficient control over them. But there was a smaller charities, and 1 1 / 2 d. in the pound on the larger wide difference between charitable foundations endowed in charities. Lord Cottenham and Lord Campbell objected former ages and those in which the management was en to what they deemed the arbitrary and despotic powers given trusted to respectable individuals, and which was in great to a secret and irresponsible tribunal. Lord Cottenham, who Part supported by the contributions of benevolent persons. had offered a resolute opposition to that portion of Lord Lynd- He had no personal interest in opposing this Bill, but he had hurst's Bills which provided for the establishment of a board, for many years taken a deep interest in thew elfare and ma became Lord Chancellor in 1846, and introduced Bills in nagement of one of these institutionsese(Hear.) He alluded 1847, 1848, and 1849. A similar Bill was introduced by the to Christ's Hospital, an institution having an income of Master of the Rolls in 1850. Those Bills got rid of a board, le,ooo/. a year, which was managed by governors now living but provided that where charities existed having an income who had contributed not less than 200,000/. to its funds.— of less than 30/. the judges of the County Courts should ex- (Hear ) Were these parties to continue to have the ma ercise jurisdiction ; where the income was between 30/. and nagement of that institution, or were they to submit to the 100/. the Masters in Chancery were enabled to do all that in interference of commissioners? In the latter event he felt respect of the larger charities the Court of Chancery alone confident that the revenue, or a great part of it, would very could do. No appeal was given with respect to the decision of shortly disappear. There were st:o governors, every one the Masters in Chancery, and those of the County Court judges of whom was summoned from eight to ten times a year to could only be appealed against with the consen t o f the judge a ttend the business of th at hos p ital Twelve auditors were himself. That provision was objected to by the Right Flon. elect.d by the subscribers, who audited and published the Gentleman the Member for the University of Cambridge ( Mr, accounts in extenso, and sent a copy to every Governor. Goulburh), but the Bill notwithstanding was read a third What need could there be for the interference proposed by time. It was withdrawn, however, in the House of Lords, this Bill with such an institution? It was not the paltry and in the meantime a new Commission had been established 50/. a year that Christ's Hospital would contribute to the for the purpose of making inquiry into the cases general fund that he cared about, but those distinguished in of charities which had not been certified by the Attor- dividuals would be disgusted at the interference of the Com-, ney.General. That Commission was issued in 1849, and in missioners, and would no longer feel the same interest in the Jane, 1850, they made their first report, in which they management of the institution. Christ's Hospital clothed, stated that they had received numerous complaints of real- maintained, and educated 1,400 children—the children of administration of charities, and that it was evident to them Poor clergymen with large families, of half-pay officers in that great abuses still existed for which no sufficient remedy her .dajesty's army and navy, and the orphans of officers who had yet been provided. They went on to say— had fallen in the defence of their country. He deided that "It appears to us that in order to apply an effectual and any objection was made on the part of the royal hospitals permanent remedy to these various abuses arid defects, it is to the most searching inquiry by the Commissioners, necessary to create, by, legislative enactment , tome public For more than twelve months they have been employed and permanent authority, who should be charged with the examining into Christclaurch Hospital, and they pub duty of supervising the administration of all these cho. licked their report in three folio volumes. The on ritable trusts. • . We are of opinion that the creation Gentieman here entered into an explanation of the man age of such an authority as we have described would be the went of several of the large hospitals of the metropolis, to means ef saving a large amount of charity property by put- show the great care with which they were conducted and tang a stop to many actual abuses, either of neglect or miss the very close attention paid to the administration of their application, by advising a better administration to trustees funds. Teese in: titutions were the pride of the inhabitants who are willing to be advietd, and, in many instances, by and the wonder of foreigners, who were utterly astonished Preventing expensive liligation, which would seldom be when told that they were supported by voluntary contribu found nec e ssary w hen it was generally known that any in- tions. if a clause were in cited exempting from the opera found of neglect or malversation would meet with a certain tion of the Bill all estat lishments under the control of any and prompt interference." committee, as governors, appointed by voluntary subscribers, In the second report of this Commission they said — as was the case in previous Acts, he sbould be satisfied ; but " Considering, as we have already stated , that some leg i s - be was satisfied that if they were subjected to the provisions 'give me a sure was necessary to secure the due administration of the Bill it would ge far to stop H the stream of at charitycane in of charitable trusts, we have, with the sanction of your Ma - this country.—(Hear, hear.) e thought, jesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department. pre- time, that the expenses of the Commission, instead of being pared a Bill ' for facilitating and better securing the due drawn from charities in the way of a rate, should be paid administration of charities in England and Wales,' which we out of the consolidated fun:l.—Vicar, hear.) In conclusion, have submitted to the consideration of your Majesty's Go- the Hon. Gentleman moved that the Bill be sent to a Select vernment." Committee upstairs. The Bill so prepared by this Commission was in point of Sir R. H. INGLIS seconded the amendment. He did not fact, the Bill now presented to the House. it was brought deny that some legislation was necessary, but the present into the House of Lords in 1851 ;it was received with una- Bill would punish those who were guiltless, It would be nimous approbation, so far as the principle was concerned; very much to the injury of the voluntary charitable eats the Bill was read a third time, hut it came down at so late blisinnents of the country if they were to be exposed should to the a period of the session that it shared the fate of all its pre- visits and examinations of a paid commissioner, f decessors, and no law existed at the present moment for the be remembered that those institutions were conducted by correction of the abuses in question. The general character persons who rendered their services purely from motives of of the Bill at present before the House was this :—Adopting Christian charity. In the case of come of these societies— the recommendations oft he Committee of 1835, and follow- such, for example, as the Reyal Literary Fund—where the • jug out the Precedent of the Bills of 1844, 1345, and 1846, recipients of relief were peculiarly sensitive, the publicity it was proposed to establish a board, which was to con- thus given to the proceedings would go tar to deprive the slat of five Commissioners, two of whom wer e to be relief given of its value.—(Hear, hear.) to Ideaayedf societies like paid. Whether these t wo wou ld be sufficient or these were not exempted , th e aid given literary not would be a matter of important consideration men would become almost as public as that given at the for the 1-Luse.—(Hear. )It was reserved for the union workhouse.—(Hear, hear.) He !Treed with the Hon. Lord Chancellor to appoint a third paid Commis- Allerman (Alderman Thompson) that the expense of super - :stoner, and his (the Attorney-General's) belief was, that the visiog those charities that r, quired it should be paid out of labours of the board, when first established, would b e so the consolidated fund —(alear, hear.) The sums given by considerable, in bringing matters into form, and in bringing ineividuals to some of the great hospitals were perfectly into o peration a system applicable to all the charities astonishing in . amount, and he might state that he had throughout the kingdom, that the proposed b oa rd o f heard of one gentleman who intended to give 5,00)1. to one two would be insufficient. This board was not to be of the hospitals of the etrop the rthoseolis, ut wh insti tu o hadtions refrained were or from invested with any jurisdiction over chariti e s at doing so till he learned wh b all. It was to be a board for the supervision, of control, and of advice, and Purpose of were not to be exempted from the operation of this measure. it was Ho hoped his Hon. and Learned Friend would not drive them • proposed that no suit or proceedings should be instituted in to object to the bill in toto, and that the measures ofthe respect to any breach of trust, or of any matter connected late Government could be carried out without depriving with these charities, without the content of the Commis- those who administered the charities of London and of other !stoners of the Board. The object and the effect of this pro er of suits which had bar.places of all personal intere st in those great establishments. vision would be to prevent a numb un-Ald erm an SIDNEY could no t concur in the amend fortunately from time to time b een brought, notwithstanding merit. He admitted the present efficac y of the administra the check and control of the Attorney-General merely for tion o f Christ's Hospital, but how could they b 3 sure th e the purpose of costs. It was a check which would be in h ti- same spi r it would evinced hereafter? The foundation and cries of nitely more beneficial in the case of large t an of sma c a.. was intended for the sons of of n i o n b d l igent freemen • but in effect rides, because the former were more likely to tempt the they found that the sons cupidity of speculators for costs. With respect to charities there.—(A laugh, ' ) Well it wa g s com “els.m,eenr, had been brou la up case. with e rhe with incomes under 301., it was proposed to give jurescite- money understood such was the Igeneral the charie Hospital, tiara to the County Courts—(Hear)--or the district Courts ties of London were not administered royalgard of Bankruptcy; and at to the cha ities with incomes between to the intentions of their beneficent er fo v r e n k d r e i rs p , r a e n p d es a e l d l o h f y th t e l fn le the le o a th st er r 301. and 1001., to give jurisdiction to the Masters in Chan- should be included under the supervision eery, not compelling parties, as now, to go by petition to the Bill.. If they excepted Christ's streets now ' el t h S ne t. , w T h h i o: i a d s l ' s e . court before they could be sent to the Master. There was a hospitals, such as St. Bartholomew's a pose. le that the provision in the Bill upon which he laid great stress, for must also be excepted from its operation, n And ye i t n , eo b n u v t e a .. enabling trustees and p ers ons interested in Charities to ob- short time ago Si. Thomas's had been not full lain the advice of the Commi sinners of the Board as to their nienced by the defalcation of the *treasurer F r a edt a lY • proceedings under the trust (Hear, hear)—and it wes pro- and disorderly persons were as common in posed to render those persons who resorted to the Commis- as in the days of Edward VI., they stoners for their advice safe in acting under it by giving Bridewell Hospital was carrying out the pur them an indemnity. The Commissioners would have power it had been instituted. At all events, there could r w b hich if the Bill passed, to send questions relating to all charities disadvantage in making proper inquiry into the mode 7 ° with incomes below 30/., either to the County Courts or to which these great trusts had been discharged, and he ob n the district courts of bankruptcy ; and they would have jected strongly to the exemption of the universities from power also to interpose. and to stay any proceedings which the operation of the Bill in that respect. Provision had they thought were improperly cosclucted. At the same been made so far back as the reign of George 11. for ineui l y time, in order to provide a check against any improper in- into the charities connected with the prisons of the city terterence on the part of the Commissionere, they were to of L on d o n by one of the Chief Justices or the Chief Baron have no control at all over the Attorney-General, who and three magistrstes, but it was only within the last few might proceed ex officio without giving any notice to them. weeks the first inquiry of the kind had commenced. AS When the Attorney - General took proceedings, an instance of the abuses which had taken place in this the Ciimmis- matter, he might no certificate was necessary from observe, that the Ashton charities , which ' sinners; but in any , other case it wa s absolutely requisite were founded 125 years ago, for the payment of 951. yearly before any suit could be in sti t uted either in the C. unty to the pensioners, had never paid one farthing up to the Courts or the district courts of bankruptcy, or before any present time ; and it was talc dated that the sum due proceedings could be taken before the Master or the Lord from them, taken at 3, per cent., was no less than 100,0031. ' Chancellor. Toe system proposed by the present Bill would The trusts were still in existence, but all that came of them obviate some of the objections which bad been urged against was, that the respectable solicitor who was interested in the ' former measures. In the first place, the Commissioners charity stated he had now 2,000/. or 3.0001. to render avail would be strictly a board and not a court —(Hear, hear.) able for the purpose. He thought it absolutely necessary They would have the power of directing proceedings to , that these charity funds should be inquired into, and he be taken; they would specify the court in which those I hoped no further °position would be offered to so excellent proceedings would be institutel, subject of course to the a measure as the one before the House limitation he had mentioned; and, as a check upon the Mr. Alderman THO APSON, in reply to the statement County Court Judges, they might remove a case from those that sons of noblemen had been presented to Christ's Hos- Courts:, and direct it to be carried before the Master or tehe pital, expressed his belief that there was only one case Lerd Chancellor himself. To one part of the Bill he was which could have afforded ground for such an assertion, and told that he must expect considerable opposition. He that was the presentation, made by himself, of a grandson meant that which proposed to tax the charities indiscrimi- of the great Lord Rodney, an orphan. nately to the amount of 2 d. in t he p ound, provided at the I Sir P. WOOD assured the Hon. Alderman that the com same time that the amount paid by n o charity was to exceed missioners under the Bill would have no other contro n l d ov r e e r . bO/. It was anticipated that this would raise a sum of the different charities except that of examination a ;OM a Seer NYIII4 Tfeltldi he DelieTedt b 0 40ficient for prtip 4 g, they §9 tlietiglat At. e 1 - 1 Q R4.4111ct be perry to see LONDON, any time loot in passing so excellent a measure as the pre sent by sen ,, i- • it to a Select Committee. Mr. FREStiFIELD spoke in defence of the management of the royal liespitals, and sail thA the trustees of those charities were most desirous of being exempted from the operation of the present Bill. If they were liable to any charge, let them be proceeded against, and let them take the consequences; but do not call upon them year after year to send their accounts into the County C mrts, to be copied by the registrar, and require them to contribute, however commendable their conduct, 501. a•year out of their funds to enable those commissioners to carry out the Bill. Mr. GOULBURN said, the present Bill came before them in a very different form from the one to which he had origi nally objected. He admit'eid the necessity of legislation on the subject, and was prepared to give to the Bill in its prin ciple his best support. Ha saw no ground why it should be referred to a Select Committee. The Bill was one well worthy of the consideration of the House itself. Mr. P. HOWARD thought it best to submit the Bill, not to the desultory consideration of an open Committee of the House, but to a Select Committee. He should therefore support the proposition of his Hon. Friend the Member for Westmoreland. Lord J. RUSSELL said, that after the delay that had al ready taken place, he should be very sorry that this Bill should be further delayed, Lied therefore he could not give his support to the suggestion of his Honourable Friend that it should be sent to a Select Committee, fearing that thereby fresh delay might occur, and that it might not pass in the present session. But he thought that circumstances had been stated as to the royal hospitals that deserved the con sideration of the Attoaney-General. It might be doubted whether they should be totally exempt from the provisions of this Bill; but the course suggested by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for the University of Cambridge, by which they would be free from constant interference, and subject only to the visit of the Commissioners, might be suf ficient. It was desirable they should be under the control of the Commissioners, but it would be a very unjust provi sion to tax establishments and charities that were well con ducted to pay for the management of those that were badly conducted. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON withdrew his motion, and the Bill then passed through Committee. BRIBERY BILL. On the order of the day for going into Committee on the Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill, Lord J. RUSSELL said he intended to reprint the Bill before the House went into Committee upon it. Mr. WALPOLE suggested that amendments might be necessary, especially f_r the purpose of making it retrospec- tive. Lord J. RUSSELL intimated his assent to such amend ments. Colonel SlBTHORP'opposed the Bill. Some rich men and Noble Lords often did mistier things than poor men.—(A lauz,h.) He (Colonel Sibthorp) never bribed; but when he found a fellow-stranger in distress, like the " Good Samari tan," he relieved him.—(Laughter.) Sir t. WILLOUGHBY -hoped the Noble Lord would consider whether it' was not possible to introduce clauses for ir.vfkatlaffisor.rupt pr.r.ripp. at elections, without having re course to the penalty of disfrancbis-ment ; oth - erwise parties might resort to those practices for the express purpose of ac complishing the disfranchisement of a borough. The bill was then passed through Committee pro forma, and ordered to be ncommitted on Friday next. ENFRANCHISEMENT OF COPYHOLDS BILL. Mr. AGLIONBY moved that this Bill be committed pro firma, for the purpose of striking out 'those portions of the measure which were objected to by the Home Secretary, and of reprinting the Bill in its altered shape, with the view of taking it into consideration on an early day after the Easter recess. Mr. WALPOLE approved of the course proposed to be taken with regard to this measure by the Hon. Member. He believed the Bill would have a better chance of passing into a law this session if those portions of it which he consi dered would be injurious to the copyhc.lders were omitted altogether, and the remainder of the clauses tending to the gradual enfranchisement of copyholds were retained, with certain amendments. The Bill was passed through Committee pro forma accord ingly, and was ordered to be recommitted on Wednesday, the 21st of April. MANCHESTER AND SALFORD EDUCATION. The following Hon. Members were nominated the Select Committee on M'inchester and Salford education : Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr. 'William Miles, Mr. Peto, Mr. Monsell, Mr. Bright, Marquis of Blandford, Lord John Russell, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Heald, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. Fox, Mr. Ker geymer, Mr. Brotherton, and Mr. Bankes. On the motion of Sir W. JOLLIFFE, Viscount Newport, was added to the Committee on preserved meats (navy). Mr. BELL moved for a return of the number of electors who have been convicted of taking bribes, and on whom the penalty of 500/., with the forfeiture of their elective fran chise, has been inflicted within the present century; also, the number of persons who have, within the same period, been convicted of giving bribes to electors, fined 5001. or im prisoned, or both, with the dates of conviction. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON opposed the motion, which was negatived without a division; and The House adjourned at a Quarter to One o'clock. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Commander John King (1843) has been promoted to 6) captain on the reserved halt-pay list. He has served 17 years on full-pay, chiefly during the war, in which he distinguish:- 1 himself. APPOINTMENTS. Commanders—Alexander Little, from Leith coast guard station, to Wexford district, as inspecting com mander, vice Charles 11. Douglas, whose period of ser vice has expired; Thomas Cochran, from Grimsby to Leith district, as inspecting commander, vice Little; Edward Roche Power (1850), to be inspecting com mander of the Grimsby district, vice Cochran. Lieutenants—James Irwin to command the Lyne Cobb coast-guard station, vice Mr. W. B. Stocker. su perannuated; H. A. Clavering (1847), and C. S. Dun bar (1847), have been appointed to the Excellent, gun. nery ship, Portsmouth. Masters—Samuel Braddon (1851) to the Britomart, 8 Devonport; F. H. May ,(1844) to the Winchester, 50, Portsmouth. Mates—G. It. Fitzgerald °to the Higbflyer, screw corvette, Woolwich; E. S. Douglas, G. S. Dall, and T. M. F. Bunri, to the Winchester; Thomas Staekhouse to the Briton-lam Second Master—S. 0. Jones to the Retribution, steam frigate, Spithead. Assistant-Surgeon—Julia n W. Bradshaw (1847) to the Hasler Hospital, vice Henry Slade, to the Winches ter, 50, Portsmouth. Clerk—C. A. SBapcote to the Britomart. Midshipman—James 11 , st to the Highflyer; C. Baillie to the Leander, 50, Devonport. Mastvr's Assistants.—F, P. Haswell to-the Dauntless; W. B. Bastion to - the Britomart. Ganners—S. R. Brown to the Winchester; Richard Parkins to the Britomart. Boatswains—Janice Etheridge to the Winchester; J. Thompson to the Britomart; 0. D. Maxwell and Thomas Flintham of the-M•niarch, 84, Siticerness, have been com firmed. Carpenter—John Gedgo to the Britoraart. Higi.flyer, 26, screw-frigate, Captain H. J. Matson, ahtas"a'7r°ela'tleyb.' is som P e icki eighty up her crew very fairly. She ty pany on her bo o k s . The 3odr o n f in A et p y ril of is h t e h r e s d h a i y p's n acmomed tor her completion by the dockyard. She was tried down the river on Thursday; when the average of three runs, two up and one down, at the measured mile in Long Reach; she made a speed of 9.052 knots per hour.. Sitnoom iron - screw steam-ship, Captain liiegcome, which put into Devonport on Thursday, with the dis patches received from the Vulcan screw-frigate, Master ComMander Penn, off Scilly, on W, dnesdity, will pro 'oly sail again to-day for Portsmouth. the injury sus tained by the machinery being but trifling, though suffi cient to have placed the ship in to t rio peril, from the circumstance of her being at the time of the accident in the narrow channel at the east end of the breakwater. She was towed to the anchorage, inside the breakwater, by the Avon and Cocfiaace steamers. Vulcan had not arrived at Devonport yesterday noon, and from the point at which the wind stands, will have some difficulty iu working up Channel. Resistance troop-ship, Master Commander Bradshaw, arrived at Devonport on. Thursday, with victualling and naval stores, - and has b ?cn towed into harbour to dis charge her cargo, by the Confiaoce. Racer, 12, Commander Beddoes, was inspected by Captain Lowe on Wednesday, and towed into Devonport harbour on Thursday, to be paid off. Falinouth lighter sailed from Devonport, with stores, for Deptford, yesterday. . Prince Regent, 90, Captain Harris, and Leander, 50, Capt Decree ' ' left gaeenstown March 24, the former for Portsmouth, and the latter fer Davenport, to be " paid clowta" lORTSMOUTII, FRIDAY.—The Rodney, 92, Captain Graham, C.B. will, according to present arrangements, go to Spitheadon the Ist pros. The Antelope steam-sloop arrived at Spithead to-day from the eastward, aad came into harbour in the after noon. She will be paid advance previously to leaving this port. The officer& and crew of the Vesuvius steam-sloop were turned over to the Vixen steam-sloop, at this port, to-day. The Arethusa, 50, Captain Symonds, will be " paid down" to-morrow, and her crew will be granted a tort night's leave. The Arrogant, 46, Captain Robinson, will be "paid down" on Monday, MILITARY FORCE. We have between 30,000 and 35.000 excellent troops actua lly n i ...t n r iGuherees stop andat Britain, Artiller y, this point. b over . o and andndl. oaan b sg.owv ee some trust 8,000 o r 10,000 be on their way half-a d,:zan fine regiments ln a i back igol lod i from itgimilitaryoutottrp_o, a e ,. we have th ' e reWs certainly oeu rt coeo t sk b o e f ( nucleus iocucra re t regular army o oest that the principle which has at : h o e r the a rm y n: navy sb theyh o u ld n b o e w i d • xoteinndleadr large to e length been adopt , d abu t h uop e dmai a neb y diemer, s y u: on rda i iefritredr quittingat a h o a my t ee t r h yf e 6 ,sit short trained de disbandedd,aseivelrbsieshocuonishould t after bioense a s hanasarmbeyenof r a e lr s e e a r d w y e. In the case . o4 h lh m e done, and with • 1 more but the p,nsiooers, besides being pr, 3 neoptive y the whole body a p n e i n f, s s io t ne eu rs cu t t, h e i s s ; or less disabled,' do by . no moans form favoured with discharw d soldiers. We have been favoured with s:Jrie statistics on this point from credible authority,And we shall pronably surprise the reader in no h-. 11 eegr, e by st a ti ng t h at t h e num ber of soldiers annually disbanded exceeds six thousand. Many of these—and as the Limited Enlistment Act operates there will be many more —are in the prime of life ; in dew, it is computvd that at least 1,000 men actually purchase their discharges apart from any disability for s , •rvice. Now, thenhitf objection to the naval reserve, —that of tae dispersion of the seamen in vessels at tea, —would not apply to men who would km at hand in their several districts, exactly like militiamen or pen sioners; and, if they were induced by any small pri vilege or bounty to render th , mselves thus available, we should at once possess a relerve of trained soldiers, no oessarily more serviceable than county militias. With 40,000 troops of the line, 40,000 more of the " reserve," and 50,000 pensioners, less robust than the reserve, but capable of home service, we could surely give a reason able account of any expedition which could slip through a chain of steamers from the North Foreland to Fal. mouth, foul actgoiter cur Muunl squadron ;9 boot. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 27, 1852. conceived, a right—a sacred right, to ask for the gene roui aid of those whom he aidresed. It was im possible to overrate the power of the press; and in con nexion with that he referred especially to the " printer's ink." The atteript to educate the paople without the " printer's ink" were idle indeed, for it was education that taught t!.e neces'ity of self-civenclence and self respect.—(Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman concluisd a very pleasing and eloquent address by proposing " Con tinued and increasing success to the Printers' Pension Society."—(Cheers.) Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT, in highly eulogistic terms, proposed " The Health of the Chairman." The CHAIRMAN r2SpOßded to the toast in very elo quent terms. The 11 , !alth of the Sheriffs of London and Miitllo. Sex" was drank, to which Mr. Sheriff COTTRELL replied. Other toasts followed, and the total amount of sub scriptions received was announced at 3751., which was subsequent raised by a" whip " to upwards of 400/, Mr. Higgs officist , A as toaatmastcr. AMERICAN NEWS - - SOUTIIA:;IPTON. FRIDAY.—The United States' mail steamship at shi noon Fr today inlelin C , , Captain J. A. Wotton, arrived off Cowes mails and passengers, procethaileciviDtg o I l i s a nded the English vre, The Fraoklin left 7, :.:e>v Yeele on tea 13'se inst., wad has encounterad strong easterly winds during the whole passage. She brings 41 passengers (12 of whom were for England), specie value 170,000 dolls. far Havre, 155 bales of cotton, and 30 boxes of merchandise. The Franklin spoke the clipper ship Mercury on the 23d inst., 19 days out from New York. She brings no news ot the Hermann steamship; bound to Southampton and Bomnen, which left New York on the 7th inst. The British and North Armoric en mail steamship Asia arrived at New York on the 12th inst., after a run of 13 der. Beyond the usual commercial and trade accounts the Franklin brings no news of importance. The following fracas in the House of Representatives at Washington is reported in the New York journals:— " Mr. Brown, of Mississippi, made a party speech on the southern rights movement, which he said went down with the first Union Convention held in Missiseippi. He thought the movement originated in a patriotic spirit. Mr. Brown then alluded to some romarke of his col league, Mr. Wilcox, about the old line Democrats try ing to sneak back into the party; but he (Mr. Brown) thought it was Mr. Wilcox and his associates who put themselves into the pile of democracy by forming a union party composed of Whigs as well as democrats. " Mr. Wilcox rose and retorted sharply on Mr. Brown. My colleague, said Mr. Wilcox, says there was no party in Mississippi . in favour of secession. I had thought that the gentleman had too high a regard for truth to make a declaration so baseless of truth. " Mr. Brown asked if his colleague charged him with falsehood?. " Mr. Wilcox—l have spoken boldly. My language cannot be misunderstood on that point. " Mr. Brown—Do you mean to say that what I have stated is false?—(Looking sternly at his colleague.) " Mr. Wilcox—lf you mean to pay there is nobody in Mississippi in favour of secession, it is false. " The last word was scarcely uttered before Brown drew off and planted a blow in Wilcox's face. Wilcox returned it, and both clinched. " The scene of confusion that followed was most ter rific. Brown was dragged off to a distance, and Wilcox l iemped on his desk shouting that he could whip him. Cells, in vain, were made for the Sergeant-at-Arms; the Saeeker rushed into the House, took the chair, and rapped to restore order, which was partially obtained aver a long effort. The cheirman of the Committee re ported progress. Both members then made very humble apologies to the House, asking forgiveness, and entreating the coma try'. pardon_ tnr their_most disgraceful conduct. " A resolution was passed to terminate the debate in one hour after the House shill again go into Committee. Alter much confusion the House then ad,ourned till to morrow." There was a rumour in the south that another Cuban expedition was on the tapis, but it was not generally believed, although it had been mentioned in the House of Representatives. The peoVe of Georgia Alabama, and Florida were about to memoralise the Government to negotiate with Spain for the purchase of the island. The Louisiana Democratic State convention has, it appears, nominated General Cass for the Presidency. The Royal Mail steam-ship America, which was seizA last week on account of a smuggling transaction, had ben appraised by the United States Customs at 250,000 dollars, to which amount bonds had been given, se that she will now be enabled to leave for England on. her re gular day. The expedition against Japan is much commented on. The following is a list ot the vessels which will compose the squadron recently ordered to the East Indies:— The steamer Mississippi, flag-ship, M'Clung captain, having on board Commodore Perry, commander of the squadron. Steam-frigate Susquehanna, Captain Buchanan. Steamer Princeton, Commander Sidney Smith Lee. Sloop-of-war St. Mary's, Commander George A M'Gruder. Sloop-of-war Plymouth, Commander John Belly. Sloop-of-war Saratoga, Commander William L. Walker. Brig Perry, Lieutenant Fairfax. Store ship Supply, Lieutenant Arthur St.',Clair. Na poleon B. Harrison, naval storekeeper afloat, to the East hdlg. squadron. The Susquehanna, Plymouth, and Saratoga are already on the Pacific coast awaiting the arrival of the remainder of the squadron. The St. Mary's is now on the way to Japan, having on board the Japan sailors, and on reaching Japan will await the arrival of the squadron. Tho residue of the squadron will probably get under weigh in the course of April. Tho objects of the expedition are well known. It is deigned to effect a landing at Jedde, the capital city of Japan, at all hazards, and orders have been given to make various explanations on shore, and to leave no efforts untried to open commercial intercourse with that long-sealed people. It is supposed the squad ron will be absent about 18 months. 'rhe San Augustin Herald narrates the following fiendish assassination, which occurred in Shelby county on the inst.:— "John and Henry Wadkins met Captain Marvel 11. Mosely in the road, near the residence of Colonel John E. Myrick, and intormed him that they designed killing him. Suiting the action to the word, one of the Wad kins fired a bail into Mosely's right cheek, which caused him to fall from his horse. Mosely then attempted to escape by running, but was again brought to a halt by the discharge of a rifle from the other Wadkins. Mosely was Low upon the ground, and apparently in the last agonies of death, but still be aaseilante continued to fire at him. As many as ten or a dean different reports wore heard by persons livieg near the scene. Believing Mosely to be dead, the Waeleiue mounted their horses and left, since which time they have not boen heard of. Captain Mosely is still alive, but hits recovery is con sidered doubtful." We take the following from a New York paper:— " A highly-respectable man named B rewer, and his wile, were both brutally murdered on t he 24,h ult., near Greenupsburg, Kentucky, by ,five men, who blacked their faces, and thus di, l ui e ed, proceede d to the dwell ing of the deceased, and created a noise among their ohickene, which induced th e unsuspecting victims to come ou', when they were knocked down b y clues. Mr. Brewer was instantly kiiled, and his wife so badly beaten that she aurvivt d but a short time. John Collins, who instigated the act; his son-in-law, Beuten Clarke; his brother-in-law, John Clarke; his brother-in-law, Wiliam Hood, and Turner Cfarke, wholived with Collins, theugh not related to the' others, have been ar resti-d,.and all of them bu t C o llins have confessed their guilt, and alleged that Collins instigated them to the horrid deed. Collins and Brower were m e m bers of the saLee church, temperance, but recently had a lawsuit." and of the same division of the sons of CO AKERCIAL NEWS. FRIDAY, MAILICH 12, P.M. In stocks there was a good deal of ac,ivity to-day, and a buoyant feeling generally evinced in nearly all the fancies. Long Island was tan exception, having risen too rapidly and fell off 1 per cent., closing at 23. Erie was very active, especially at the second board, when . 2,300 shores were sold closing at 85, an improvement of I per cent. After the board 85k was bid. Reading had !also an upward tendency, and improved to 71. Harlem was firm. Norwi c h was active, and improved 1 per cent. Now Jersey Zinc was in demand, and closed at 121, an improvement of 374 e. per share. St. Law rence Mining was in active inuiry at alt, and offered at 3i. For Erie Securities there was a large demand at improving prices. The sales exceed 115,000 dollirs, closing at 115 k for Ist mortgag ' e, 105 for 2d mortgage , 254 for Incomes, 93i for 1871 C onve rtibles 91i for 1862 Convertibles. fludson Riv er B on ds are also improving. At the second board the market was very buoyant and fictive. The foreign news was considered as favourable, and the prevailing impression was that there would be another expansion of prices next week. In exchange there is but little doing, and the quota tions are heavy at 9 to 10 per cent. for sterling; 5 184 to 5 174 for francs. The supply of bills is fair. Freights continue firm, with moderate engagements, but considerable produce offering. Some 2,000 or 3,500 barrels flour for Liverpool, at 2a. to 2s. 3,21.; 800 or 900 hues cotton, at 5-16 d., and including 360 Sea Nandi at it; grain, 7d.; dead weight, 225. 6d. to 253.; 1,000 bar rels naval stores, at 2s. 6k1.; and 500 barrels oil cake, at 2s. 61. To London, 509 barrels flour, at 2s. 6d. To Havre the market is doll at ic. The Franklin has 100,000 dolls. in silver engaged at per cent. To Cali fornia there is a fair business doing. There is some in quiry for vessels to load breadetuffs at the South for England. A ve,esel was chartered at 3s. for flour and 7d. for grain. One or two West India charters were made at previous rates. The supply of money continues to be very abundant, and there is no new feature to note. PRINTERS' PENSION SOCIETY. The twenty-fitth anniversery of this society, which is established for the relief of aged and infirm printers and their widows, was held on ' Thursd ay , at the London Tavern—Douglas Jerrold, Esq., in the chair, supported by Mr. Sheriff Cotirell, Mr. Under-Sheriff Hopwood, &c. The number who sat down to dinner exceeded those who had attended on any former occasion. The CHAIRMAN gave "The Health of her Most Gra cious M.Jeety"—a toast which was reo-ived , ay it always is upon such occasions, with enthusi ast i c cheers. He next gave " his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Albert Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family." They had had in former days a Sovereign who had built pagodas and pavilions, which were the m o c k, ry of one age, and the subject of ridicule and contem pt in a s ucceeding age. But now it happened fortunately for the society that they had a Priece who had built his fame on a surer ground. In conclusion, he bug, d the company to drink " The Health of his Royal El.ghness Prince Albert," and coupled with his nemo the future hope of England, " His Royal liigheess the Prince of ease,, and the rest of the Royal Funaily."—(Drunk w ith great enthusiasm.) The CHAIRMAN n ext proposed , the to as t o f th e rven " S was, u ccess . to the Printer e Pension Society." It au excellent custom in Bonin p o rts of G erm any to henGur t he 25th anniversary of the happy coul.l e, by celebrating what was called their silver wedding, gnu surely it was a custom which they might adopt at this rneeting, _ <choers )—for the society had entered upon its 25th year; and they were assemb:ed on this occasion, to celebrate tne eve nt, he trusted , by the exercise of practical' b e nevolence. The , Printers ' Pension Society was to a great extent self-supporting. There were upwards of 1,600 members now subscribing to the funds —1,600 printers , who vindicated their best claim to public sympat hy by bowing that to the extent of their limited means they had done their best to assist them mares; and when men did this they had, be humbly PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. The years pass away, Parliaments run their course, and Governments rise and 4all. Hero we are getting on in the last half of the century. and Mr. Hume, who was a financial reformer when " Lord Wellington" was fighting our battles in Spain, is once more moving the four points of his Charter. In the last session of a Whig Parliament, immediately after the introduction and failure of a second Reform Bill by the mover of the first, Joseph Hume is repeating his time-honoured mo tion in a House of which the Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli is the leader, and which by an extraordinary compact has bound itself to abstain from all the higher acts of legislation. If it be added that at this moment there is not a single constitutional Government in the world in ordinary and harmonious operation, that is, in which the Executive is in perfect harmony with the representative body, the one being responsible and the other free, we have accumulated more wonders of time than even the veteran Member for Mon trose could have anticipated. His forty years' sojourn in the wilderness have not given him so much as a Pisgah's view of his promised reform; and even his Joshes, who seconded his motion last night, seems scarcely destined to enter. Should Lord John Russell, indeed, find himself in a smell majority in the autumn, he may think himself °tinged to secure it, as well us increase it, by a measure of Parliamentary reform, necessarily followed by another dissolution. But his Lordship is evidently not yet prepared to go a step further in Mr. Hume's direction than the exigencies of party may require; and we venture to predict that the veteran's last words in Parliament will be an indignant protest against corrupt boroughs, aristocratic nominees, intimidation, bribery, and all the other anomalies and abuses of the present representative system. The debate last night was that which ought to have come off on Lord John Russell's measure. At the time of the late Ministerial catastrophe we pointed out the enormous sacrifice of material it would involve on this fertile topic. Oar own drawers were full of letters, sta tistics, reports, maps, articles—all of increasieg interest and value until about a quarter past eight on Friday the 20th ult., when they suddenly became a heap of waste paper. The same sudden depreciation affected, of course, the 656 speeches, or series of speeches, pre pared by the Members of the House of Commons; but these gentlemen cannot resign themselves to such painful sacrifices so easily as we are forced to do. When a man has composed a good speech, it haunts him till he has delivered it somewhere, some time, to somebody or other. So the occasion of Mr. Hume's motion last night was eagerly seized by many Members for discharging the burdens on memory. The occasion allowed, however, of nothing but a debate on the general principles of Parliamentary Reform; and, accordingly, wo were presented with essays of the most abstract and philosophical character by Mr. H. Drummond, Sir W. Page Wood, Mr. Napier, Mr. Roebuck, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Lord John Rassell. Whether we regard tbem as comments on a preposterous motion or on a withdrawn Bill, they are equally devoid of imme diate interest. They may all be laid by for the next rainy day—if indeed we are to have any rain this year — or they may be postponed till Lord John shall at length bring forward the improved version of his late Bill. We are obliged to give them as they urn; but as the public is not obliged to read them, it will consult its comfort, and lose very little, by taking the cream of them given in our summary. As Mr. Hume succeeded only in mustering 89 Mem bers prepared to go the whole length of his q uadruple resolution, it is evident the House of Commons, on the eve of an appeal to the people, is not yet enamoured of pure democracy. But it is equally evident, from the tone of the principal speakers, that unless th e new Par liament is very different from the present, it will deem it wise and necessary to give a larger share of the re presentation to the wealth and population of the country; and so far, it may be said, to raise the democrat:cal as compaied with the monarchical and aristocratical el - meets. The claim of abstract right is wholly and justly repudiated by all sensible men; but right iii one thing an d wisdom is another; and certainly nothing can be more unwise then the proud and stubborn maintenance of a state of things by which large populations, myriads of well-informed and respectable artizsns, and other deserving or powerful classes, instead of being included in the pale of full citizenship, and thereby added to the strength of the . Consti tution, are excluded from that pale and prc yoked into hostility to that Constitution. The opinion that seemed to be ascribed to the present Government, that there was no clear necessity to disturb the settle ment of 1832, we would fain hope means nothing more than a determination against Lord John Russell's !we Bill. Whatever we do, let us not wait again till the country is excited to a reform mania. That would be to appeal from Philip sober to Philip drank. Both sites of the House, and all sides in the country, except a taw "Radicals," are prepared to take a moderate view of the subject. But the moat moderate view, even the view of maintaining the balance of interests established in 1832, must admit the reasonableness of re-adapting the representation to the very great changes that have taken place since 1832. The unprecedented in crease of population and wealth that has occurred in these twenty years, which have witnessed the infancy and the completion of British railways, has fallen chiefly on the towns and manufacturing districts. This has disturbed the settlement of 1832, which requires, therefore, to bo regulated once more, like a machine that has gradually fallen out of order, or a calendar that no longer corresponds to astronomical facts. Since 1832 some of the metropolitan boroughs have increased cot far from 100 per cent.. while many of the smaller bo roughs spared by the Reform Act, and even some whole counties, show very little change. These are broad facts that are seen and felt, that speak for th e mselves, and will make themselves beard . At this stage of the question it is unnecessary to go into details, other wise we might prove to Mr. Disraeli the fal lacy lying at the bottom of his calculation that the rural population is less represented than the towns. In his rural populations, which his counties are supposed to be, there are, in fact, many towns. The question of Parliamentary Reform is clearly postponed for the pre sent. After two years of inactivity, and after a general election, it would be ridiculous to sacrifice another year —nay, the last Reform Bill occupied twu years—to this very grave question, unless it ehould be re-opened by a Protectionist controversy. But in all probability it cannot be postponed beyond the third or fourth session of the next Parliament. Till then, hewevar, it is surely premature and injudicious to make any needless decla rations ; and if any of our present Ministers are not yet convinced of the necessity of reform, the best thing they can do is to hold their tongue about it.-7itnes of Friday. RAILWAY RETURNS TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Miles opene d, ______.____NAME OF RAILWAY. Rece i p t 1852. 1851, 1852. Batumi. --- --- ----- £1,•41') £1, 467 72 Aberde,en .. - ..... •••••• • • • • • ••• • • 6,1 631 3 7 % Belfast and Ballymena •••••••• • • • • • • • It 3 217 17 Belfast and County D0wn............ 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1 992 1,199 26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• • • ' 045 711 3,563 3,72 . 2 85% Bristol and Exeter ••.•• • • • ..• •••• • • • 7 205 22 189 Caledonian.......• ••• • • • 7,517 8 94% Chester and Holyhead ...• ... •• • - 2,140 2,486 ••••• •• 6% Cork, Blackrock, and P assa g e ......, -347 7331.10 65 Dublin and Belfast Junction ...... .• 796 885 53 Dublin and Drogheda . • •• • • •••• • • • • • 6 Dublin and Kingstown •. •• •• •• 545 ...• •• • • 545 582 16% Dundee and Arbroath •••••• .. • ..... 3t:6 430 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 6 1 3 42 1 6 15 12 19 Dundalk and Enniskillen.• • • • • • • • • • • 68 East Anglian.... ••••••• • • • • • • • 61 3 6 692 3 79 East Lancashire .• • • ........ ...... • • 12: 5 , 0 46 1 4 3 . 13 .46 2 4 322 Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. •••• •• 1,. 54 1,934 95 Eastern Union ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • ••• . 3,454 3,458 89 Edinburgh and Glasgow .• • • • • • • • • •• 78 liklinburgb, Perth, and Dundee...... 1 L 940 2,302 6 Exeter and Crediton.. • • .... •••• • • • • 369 5 9 18 6 19 Furness Railway ••••••'• • " • • ' • - 3,57F1 3,777 171% Glasgow, and South-Western• •.•• • • • 7,868 10,774 24114 Great Northern and E. L. ••••• • •• • • 4,3U1 5,562 188 Great Southern and Western.(lreland) 13,2 , 4 15,013 277 Great Western •••••••. .• • • • • • ..... 1 25 Irish South Eastern .......... •• •• • • 3,77236 4,2D:58 90 Lancaster and Carlisle ••• • • • 14,• 8 % 15, 0 9 7 7 6 0 260 Lancashire and Yorksh ire..• ••••• • • •• 39 Leeds and Think .... ••• • • • ..... •• • 235 257 12% Liverpool, Crosby , a nd Southport •.. 40,410 41,186 539)4 London and North W estern .• ••• • • • 711 852 5% London and Blackwall• •••••• • • • • • 17314 London, Brighton, and South Coast:. 7 . : 9 2 " , 0 ;4 8 9: 0 3 8 , 0 8 244 London and South Western. •••• - • • i 24% Londonderry and Enn iskillen • • ...... 165 250 120 1081 5 11% M a nchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. 5743 6 167% Ilsui c h e ster, Shetti eld, and Lincolnshire ,••• 404 . 628 952 Manchester and South Junction .• .... 28 Maryport and Carlisle .. ••••••• • • • • .. 586 629 20,363 21,312 496% Midland ••••••••• ' • ' • • • ' • ••• • • 1 125 2,013 126 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... , 37 Monklands ........................ _ 822 . 1•'103 60 Newcastle and Carlisle.. • • .......... z . ' 126 2,307 149 North British ••..•••••• • • • • • • • • .... 3 ,9 , 87 3,353 222 North Staffordshire •••• • • • 47 North-Western ••••••••• • • • • • • • " 432 1 ;5 2 45 Scottish Central ..... ....... •• •• ••• 1,' , 04 1 ,765 32 Scottish Midland ••••••••• • • • • • • • • ;all 5 48 29)4 Sh re wsbury and Birmingham ••• • • • 1 5 563 7,,, 47 Shrewsbury and Chester •••••• • • •• •• ~3 1, ; 1 5 29 Shropshire Union .. •.•••••• • • • • • • • • a 35 ~,,, 58 South Devon• •••••...••• • • • " •• - .. 1,,, , ,i 1, - 5 ' 3 0 5 2284 Soutl Eastern.... •••• •• • ........... ii• 17 , 10 ,516 93% S o uth Wales ......................848 1 •305 77 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 1.113 1;410 40 Tall Vale •• ••••••• • •• • • • • ..... ••• • • 2 • 5 ' )5 I 2,376 36 Ulster . • • • • 25 Waterford and Limerick -.•• • •• •• •• 8,, ' I 28 i° 884 212 13 West Cornwall ••• • • • •••••• • • • • • .., 300 _ 12 Whitehaven Junction ..... .. • • •• •• •• 1 - 16 1 192 301% York and Newcastle, and Berwick ... 13,417 13,834 279 York and North Midland., .......... 7.057 , 7,7z8 I vos.EIGN. 152 Central of France ........ •• •• •• •• •• 3,070 3, 677 I 57 Dutch Rhenish ....- [ 21% 5laria Antonia 63 Montanan and Troyes ~, „ 964 9 92 ' 4425 Northern of France ....., •• •• ••• • • • 16,i 62 15,7" ) 1314 Orleans and Bordeaux- .••••• • • • • • 2,733 4,462 , 245 Paris and Lyons 82 Paris and Orleans .. •• •.• "••• • • " " 7.3t2 8,767 1 84 Paris and Rouen. .. •••••••• • • • • • • • 5,543 6,142 r 194 Paris and Strasburg . •••• .• •• •• •••• • : : •• :: 59 Rouen and Havre. 2 4 :2 86 12 7 8 2,4 19 5 3 1 121, Icar4 411 ,1 N 1,321 2,169 , ‘ Antes • •••..,,•••• 8,767 6,142 8,193 2,451 2,169 THE REV. J. E. GLADSTONE ON TR AC TARIANISM. On Thursday evening the large hall at the Free masons' Tavern was crowded with a very numerous and fashionable audience, to beer the last of a series of lectures by the Rev. J.E. Gladstone en Tractarianism. Mr. SNlTcrt was matimously- called upon to preside, and en taking the chair remarked that the best proof of the public being satisfied with any particular work was the fact of ita going to a second edition. In appearing before them a second time, he flattered himself that his services had received their approbation.—((;hoer..) They need, however, enter tain no alarm that he was going to Elect upoe teem a volume, or even to swell out observations to the length of a pamphlet, for he only intended to say a few familiar things, or, as Dickens woad call them, a' few " household words."—(A laugh.) First of all he would say that, in some measure, he had been the cause of the disturbance which had arisen between his esteemed friend Mr. Glad stone and the Bishop of London. When Mr. Gladstone first began preaching against Tracta rianism at Long-acre chapel he was so struck by the truth and force of his remarks that he took upon him self to send an epitome of his discourses to The .I.'un news paper, and he was happy to say the editor of that jour nal thought the discourses were of sufficient importance to be placed before the public.—(Hear, hear.) It ap peared they soon caught, the eye of the Bishop, for in a short time Mr. Gladstone was summoned before him. He (Mr. Snitch) went at once to Mr. Gladstone, and made a full confession—(Laughter)—and they would be surprised to hear he gave him absolution—(Loud laughter)—though without making any charge.—(Con tinued laughter.) On the contrary, he said he was much obliged to him. It was partly from this circum stance that he took so active a part in the present move ment. His heart and soul was in the cause, and he hoped that by the special grace of God he might be enabled to do in the cause that which he had done, and he trusted with some success, throughout his professional career. —(Cheers.) When a good surgeon had an operation to perform, and met with unexpected difficutties, ho did not throw down the knife and run away, but called to his aid all the resources of his art, and if he possessed, as every good surgeon ought, an eagle's eye, a lion's heart, and a lady's hand, he always came off victoriously.—(Loud cheers.) He had tie doubt his excellent friend would come off victoriously, but at all events he wies not the man to throw down the knife and desert him in the hour of need.--(Cheers.) For it should be remembered that his esteemed kind friend offered himself up a living sacrifice to this great cause, and he would never desert it until the unclean thing, Tractarianism, was cast out.—(Lsud cheers.) After a few more observations, the Cnairman concluded by cailiag upon Mr. Gladstone t. proceed with the coats ' nua,tion - of hie lecture, " What is to be done with Ttac tariauism?" The Rev. J. E. GLADSTONE then came forward amidst loud applause. Hsviug laid down some general prin ciples tor the guidance of anti-Tractarians, and recapi tulated the heeds of his former lectures, be proceeded to say that though much blamed for the course he had taken, he had done or said nothing without much prayer, deliberation, and forethought; but having once made up his mind, he spoke and acted in a way which he be lieved right in the sight of God, careless altogether of the taunts, complaints, or accusations of any party. Thougti be had said as strong things as any man in public, he had not uttered one word which he was not prepared to abide by.—(Cheers.) On the last occasion sown one had been led to believe, in consequence of his alluding so frequently to the Church of England, that he pretended Dissenters were not Protestants. Now that was very far from his intention, for he believed the time was fast approaching when good Dissenters and evangelical Churchmen would have to unite together for their own protection.—(Loud cheers.) Let it be understood, however, he had no desire or intention of leaving the Church of England.—(Cheers.) No donut the Bishop would be heartily glad if he had.—(Laughter.) Some said that when a man resisted his bishop ha ought to leave the Church, but because a bishop was unfaithful were the faittlful to go out of the sanctuary? —(Cheers.) On the contrary, it was their duty to do all they could to expose the unfaithful bishop and to reform the Church.—(Hear.) There were now good signs that men in high places would soon be convicted; that Popery, wherever it was found—whether in con nexion with the Church of England or the Roman Catholic Church, to the latter of which it properly belonged, with all its persecution, aggrandizement and oppression, could not be trusted, and must be speedily dealt wide.— (Cheers.) A notice to the following effect was pub lished in the London Gazette on the 23d of March:— " Notice is hereby given, that the presentation to the Queen at the Levee on Thursday, the 26th of February last, of the Very Reverend Monsignore Searle, is cancelled, that title having been assumed without the required authority.' —(Laughter and cheers.) Thank God, it was declares that the title had been assumed without the required au thority.—(Cheers.) The great endeavour of the Trac tarians was first to get hold of their souls, and then all they possessed. As an evidence of their tyrannical and soul-debasing character, he had had forwarded to him the report of a conversation which a Mr. W. J. Knight had with the Rev. E. G. Edouard, incumbent of St. Michael's, Burleigh-street. This Rev. Gentleman, it appeared called upon Mr. Knight to know why he ceased to attend St. Michael's, and had instead gone to attend the ministry of Ur. Hutton, at St. Paul's, Covent-garden, and he questioned him thus:—" Do you know that in leaving your district church you commit a mortal sin?"—(Loud laughter.) To that Mr. Knight replied that if error was preached there, he surely was justified in seeking the truth elsewhere; but Mr. Ed ouard answered by asking " how he could tell what the truth weer —(Lsughter.) Now that was Popery in the bud, and Tractarianism in the bloom. Liberty of conscience was to be violated, and private interpretation of the Scriptures forbidden.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Gladstone then adverted at some length to the answer of the Bishop of Exeter to Miss Sellon, the Superior of the Protestant sisterhood at Devonport, aull showed that though he had withdrawn his name as visitor of the institution, ho still possessed great admi ration for the lady and her doctrines, and said he should not cease to take the same lively interest in the pro sperity of the institution, which he frankly acknow ledged had done a great amount of spirituel as well as temporal good. The reason al leged by the Bishop for his withdrawal was that the sisterhood, in violation of the original rules, were to be prevented departing with their own free will from the institution, and that on entering they were to be deprived of their property, which was to be placed in the hands of the treasurer, and was to become part of the common fund of the community. Therefore, according to the Bishop's own interpretation, a young lady who entered this so-called Protestant convent with a large fortune would, on leaving, be rendered almost pen niless, unless her sisters chose to return a portion. A worse system of disgusting chicanery and tyranny never before existed.—(Cheers.) It was nothing less than spiritual swindling.—(Cheers.) t But did the Bishop condemn it as a wicked, unscriptural, and dishonest mode of proceeding ? No? He only said he gracefully retired from an institution which he considered had done much spiritual and temporal good.—(Laughter.) There could be uo doubt he was only induced to retire from a conviction that unfaithful bishops must soon be called to account for their conduct.—(Cheers.) The Bishop of London did not get rid of Mr. Bennett until he was almost driven out of his church by the storm which the people raised.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") In order to show that the Bishop of Exeter entertained no unfriendly feeling towards Miss Sellon, Mr. Glad stone quoted the end of his letter, in which he sub scribed himself thus, " Believe me, my dear Miss Se!- lon, ever to remain yonr faithful, admiring, and affec tionate Friend. H. EXETER."—(Laughter.) The esta blishments of these convents were to be greatly feared, for the one at Devonport was only intended to be the parent of others in different parts of the kingdom. Si milar societies, under the superintendence of Miss Sal- , lon, bad been formed at Bristol, Gosport, and recently, ' he believed, in London. The young lady inmates at Bristol were compelled to do all kinds of menial work, having to wash the floors and light the fires, and 'go of errands at all hours of the night and morning. When one of these girls complained of her treatment she was called before Miss Sellon, who severely reprimanded her, and said that when she (Miss Mon) spoke, she was to think it was the voice of Christ.—(Cheers.) This was a downright system of crushing despotism when exEr cised by bishops, priests, or mother superiors, repug nant to the feelings of the Christian Protestants of Britain, and they would not have it.—(Cheers.) If his bishop were another Jewell, no one could obey hi e with more humility, confidence , and faithfulness than h e (Mr. Gladstone) would; but if, on the other hand, h e were an unfaithful bishop, so far from owing him alle giance he considered he should betray his Master if h e did not denounce him in the strongest terms, for lan guage could sufficiently describe the m e e x ar te .) nt o f n h o is_ re sponsibility, or rather culpability.— stone next adverted to the trial and execution Arch bishop Laud for high treason, and of Arch" Mr. Glad did not now take warning from the fate Bishops of London, Oxford, Exeter, a Beth and Wells whose anxiety to introduce thefaantesaolfdthtahtax.:fin3if theste idol atries, into the worship of the e t , En l a nd lest they would also be impeached his head, and quickly When his hearers sew th Romanline Caotthocloionduot adopt a different lrch of g peachedfor i was a poison which was extending:, throughTractariatinto, 1 and would not the deprive them of only destroy their reli • but their liberties, and sen d religious hop discordC9' wretchedness into their famities, he Celt confident they smhigh treason. — would each exert themselves to rouse t ci'aatio of their countrymen the in —(Cheers.) It against so dangerous n enemy. and fatal a s might easily they remained but true to each other; y the birth would slay the giant, and then the lacndheoero The Reverend still be Protestant g En - jand.— a slieg the rules of an Anti• Geutls man coneludt d by re ading was proposed to be formed Tractatian Association interest in the present movement. by those who took an t 5 to seek redress with regard to The main o b j ect of it w 5 E bl ' C ton • fir- Vces in the 3 isae , Tractarian Po e h p of London, and if he refused or from the lad lli; d l e ) ins, then from the Archbishop of evaded their hey be equally unsuccesalul with Shou - Canterbury. t h e Arc be taken to h av e their heishop, tee n ste p s were to 1.4 N heir grievances laid before her Majesty. This proP o,ition was well received, and the rules of the a ssociation were formall y p ro p osed and a g reed to. The Cueetteraw indatated that on the following day the cas e of Mr. Gladstone was to come before tile Eselesiestical Ceurt ; but whatever was the result of the trial in that place, which he might not inap tl y call a hornet's nest—(A laugh)—he should always remem ber with pleasure the vivid and truthful pictures his Rev. Friend had painted, accompanied, as they were, by a degree of oratorical wit and eloquence which rarely fell to the lot of unassisted mortals. They would bete after be regarded as bright visions of glory. The effect of his discourses was not to end there, for a spirit had been kindled that would burn throughout the length and breadth of Oze laud. The c9baulittee bad received, and were continuing to receive letters from various parts of the kingdom; and Slr. Gladstone had bsen solicited to give lectures at various places. 15T4,02e3 would soon be enrolled under their fiamirg banner that would strike terror into the camp of the Tractarians, and they would see that the heroic spirit " was not dead, but sleepeth." He heard them ask, what he meant by the heroic spirit? He would tell them, from a work he had been lately reading, and which teemed wi h eloquent aspirations:— "It is the spirit that has produced everything that is great, everything that is noble, is all ages and in all o'Juntries; since first the course of time began, since first the world revolved in e tLer. Li annals are adorned by a glorious company of apostles—by a goodly fellow. ship of prophets and by a noble army of martyrs. It numbers in its lists of glary—it counts in its ranks of fame, sages, poets, philosophers, patriots, warriors, legidators. The catalogue comprises centuries and tens of centuries—its sphere of action—the extended globe. It is the spirit that has created all the immortal ones in history. in all its divisions, ancient and modern, sacred and profane. It is the spirit that piled the funeral pyre of Tlaormopylm —the spirit that led Eustac e f rom the walls of besieged Calais—the spirit that illumined the last momenta of a More, and that glittered round the prison of a dying Socrates." Could they have a nobler aim for their energies, a wider scope for their exertions? Could they look higher than to serve in the courts of the Most High? Could time be better spent than in the dissemination of principles that should flourish in eternity, when time should be no more? This wa s w h at the heroic spirit could do, and might God give it them so to use for his honour and glory, and for the salvation of this great cause.—(Cheers.) The meeting then separated. ___.............. COURT CIRCULAR. of his R oyal Highness t h e Her Royal Highness the D uc h ess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday, at Buckingha m P alace. Yesterday was the birthday Duke of Cambridge. His Royal Highn ess P r i nce Al bert, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable A. Gordon, paid a visit of' congratulation, at th ree o ' clock i n the afternoon, to the Royal Duke, at his r es id ence in St. James's Palace. The Duke of Cambridge afterwards visited her Majesty at Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses Prince Alfred and the Prin cesses Helena and Louisa, took their accustomed exer cise yesterday, is the garden of Duzliiagham Palace. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, attended by the Countess of Mount Edg. cumbe, the Earl of Morton, Captain the Hon. J. P. Den man, R.N., and Colonel Bouverie, honoured the Prin.. cess's Theatre with their presence last evening. Her Majesty's private band attended in the Palace on Thursday evening, and played the following pieces:— Overture, (3erggeist) Finale, (Alertly) ... Flotow. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester House, Piccadilly. A deputation from the Society of Arts, consisting of Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., Professor Solly, and Lieu tenant Tyler, RE., had an interview with Sir John Pa kington yesterday at the Colonial-office, for the purpose of acquainting him that the Society of Arts had recently appointed a committee for developing the resources of the Colonies, and requesting his assistance and co-ope ration to enable them, in the first instance, to place themselves in communication with kindred institutions, and with influential individuals in the colonies, A deputation on the subject of the Irish Railway Grand Jury Presentments Bill had an interview with the Right Hon. J. Henley and Lord Colchester yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation consisted of Lord Mon teagle, Mr. Tenn e nt, M.P., Mr. Devereux, M.P., and Mr. M'Cullagh, M.P. A deputation on the subject of the Passengers' Act, consisting of Sir James Duke, Mr. J. M. Gall, Mr. John Chapman, Mr. W. Philipps, and Mr. Norman Macleod, had an interview with Sir Juhn Pakington yesterday, at the Colonial-office. The Marquis of Salisbury had en interview with Mr. Secretary Walpole yesterday, at the Home-office. Mr. R. C. Hildyard, M P., had an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley 3 esterday, at the Board of Trade, to present a memorial from the shipbuilders and shipowners belonging to the port of Whitehaven. A deputation on the subject of the Hertford coal duty, consisting of Lord Mahon and the Hon. W. T. Cowper, had an interview with Lord John Manners yesterday, at the Office of Works and Public Buildings n Whitehall place. A deputation, consisting of the Right Hon. R. A. Christopher, rkl.P., Mr. Hltidley, M.P., Mr. Gore, M.P., Dr. Ryan, Messrs. Irvine, G. Barber, J. S. Christopher, Atkins, Vardy, Spooner, ALP., N. Spooner, M‘Dermott, and Newall (Parliamentary agent), had an interview with the Right Hon. J. W. Henley and Lord Col chester yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The Oxford University Commission had a meeting yesterday, at the cfficial residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street; present, the Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. H. G. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq , the Rev. G. H. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary). A deputation, including Messrs. R. Baxter, C. Few, and Blunt, had an interview with Lord John Manners yesterday, at the offica of Works and Public Buildings, in Whitehall plkce. Dispatches were received et the Culonisl•office yes terday from the,Governor of St. lieloaa. Dispatches were set.t yesterday to the Governors of th© North American provinces. COW - ES, ISL i OF WIGHT: FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) ELECTION MOVE MEN rs. COWES. I:IIDAI.—ANOTEER 12.1.bi.OTER FROM Tug PROTECTIONMT RANKS.-001. F. V. Harcourt has pub lished an address to the electors of the Isle of Wight, stating that by the with of many of the most influential landed proprietors, he hes been induced to offer himself as a candidate fur the representation of the county of the Isle of Wight, at the approaching election. He says they cannot give their support to the present Member, as they are not prepared " to sanction the vote by ballot or the abolition of all ecdowment9, and of church rates. . . If you should return me as your Member, I shall vote against any re-imposition ot the duty on corn, whether for the purposes ot protection or revenue; but I should trust that the Governm-nt of Lord Derby, to which on other points I should be disposed to give my support, will take the earliest opportunity of ascertain ing whether some relief may not be given to the agri cultural interests, the present depression of which I sincerely lament." BOROUGH OF NEWPORT.—Mr. Biggs addressed the electors at the Town-hall, Cowes, last evening, very successfully. We hear nothing of the old Members. We suppose they are getting their house in oriler. • Died at Mill Hill House, yesterday morning, after a long illness Eliza, the wife of Maj3r Ellis, and eld es t daug , ter of late General Richardson. She was in. her 41st year. She arrived in the island only on Sa turday last. Married, at St. Mary's Church, the Rev. Samu e l Knell to Miss Mary Rose. The Franklin steamer, which arrived here thi s morn ing from New York, brings letters and papeis to the ed 18th instant, after dispatching which an d her pas. se ngers, she proceeded for Havre. Captaines W n expreesed much surprise on being days y o s t t b o e in'orm that the I:fermat:4 which left New York fur Correa . fure the Franklin, had not arrived. TEE ARC LIC SE ---------7 plorations along the coast of i\l ng . , d, Edit r his late ex' Tho return of lir. Rae to E I 21"Cil. search of Sir John Frankli n ' interesting feature in th e m 31 'h Ameriee, is another and even improved healih with his whole party eyes of the civil word • 6 "r"iti°l3 present ' s w the : n 7 d il l7, panorama which the his arrival in excellent unusual risk, of lif e that Arctic service is —; tans another to the manyrpreoven - ---the same being the case also ofs fur from involving losgo ° _,,,_ r another returns ' Mackenzie- and sear without any diminution of numbers, or injury to individuals. It will be re ..• the first instance, return of Mr. R tuumbered that, in or of health. One party arm John Richardson oa eli of 1 ° was the c Jjator of Sir in effectio4 the the coast between the 0 rivers ; and that, Copperann . . niter the accomplishment of this object and the further explorations decided carry on by himself the regretted that these should have Sir John Richardson, he was left behind to u L pon. It is only to be been nccessarilysi:o Jo thatoffilliendFtroanklumar.tferormwhitcahk—ingif a th s e o c u o th n- .. Austin, . insurmountable obsta ou ja not afford any success. c e llsi p o r n e s v l e C d apta in g . relics" mentioned in Mr. ' It ' letter, as having been piek - co up by him on his re -1 a ° i Victoria Land to the Coppermine cannot fail turn from - to be a subject of deep interest, and they leave room for some little conjecture. It appears to us, however, to amount almost to a certainty that ono piece of wood is ' from the wreck of the Fury, which was left high and dry weTstinirrisfetc'dbssanced .ePf.itjeacit—cie on the beach on the west side of Regent Inlet by Sir Edward Parry—but of which the remains were not to be found on the spot where she had been so left, when it was visited several years afterwards by Sir John Rose s who surmised, in con.equerce, that she must naae been carried off by the pressure of the ice, and broken up, " adding to the drift wood in those seas." With respect to the piece of the flag-steff and rope, with the red line twisted in it, they may have belonged to Captain Pul len's boat expedition, as it is perfectly well known that there is a set of the current from west to east through Deere and Simpson's Strait, or the passage between Victoria Land and the coast of America. We trust that this interesting subject will be mos t minutely investigated in all its bearings before the de. parture of Sir Edward Belcher's squadron. The Omnibus of N tples of the 4th gates that the town of Bagnara, in Lower Calabria, has been visited of late by such violent shocks of earthquake that the inhabitants have been obliged to leave their houses, and live in barracks of wood outside the town. [ADVERTIiEMENT.] Holloways Pills have Cured a Liver and Stomach Complaint of long standing.—Sergeant Wilton, late of the Honours.ble East India Company's Service, and for nearly twenty • five years employed on the Bengal estab lishment, suffered most i n t ensely from sin affect i on of the liver,indigestion, and sickness of the stomach, which appeared to be rapidly unkrinining, his constitution, notwithstanding the treatment of some of the most eminent of the medical profession. On his return to this country he was advised to try Holloway's Pills, and this superior medicine h as effected such a perfect cure that it h as astonished all that were aware of his former apparently hopeless case.—Sold by all Drugg i s t s a nd at Professor Holloway' s Est a bli s hment, 24 4 , Strand , London. Sir Thomas Fre mantle ha d a n interview with the Chan cel.or of the Exch equer on Thursday Mr. Pressly had also an Interview with th e R i ght Hon. Gentleman. A deputation o n th e su bject of the Dorchester and Exeter Railway had an i nterv i e w with.' the Right Hon. J. W. Henley en Thur s d a y : A the : railway department of ,the 139arkl v Trade.