The Sun. — London, England, 1848-05-25 00:00:00

- • THE PEOPLE'S LEAGUE. Last night a public meeting, convened by this body, was held in the large room of the London Tavern, Col. Thompson, M.P., who was received with great applause, was called to the chair shortly after six o'clock. Among those on the platform we noticed Mr. Shar man Crawford, M.P., Mr. C. Lushington, M.P., Mr. 'Williams, M.P., Mr. Gardner, M.P. , the Rev. J. Bur nett, Mr. Luke Hansard, Mr. E. Miall, Mr. J. H. Parry, Elihu Burritt, and a large number of respectable and well known friends to reform. The room was densely crowded, and a large number of persons could not gain addlission. The CHAIRMAN, is opening the proceedings, said the League was established for the purpose of promoting the full and fair representation of the people. He had advocated for many years those principles which he now saw were rising fast into importance, and would speedily be crowned with success. Those who looked at the affairs of nations must be convinced that in the lone * run nothing would stand but justice. What he meant by justice was, what turn and turn about would be fair to all men, in short, the great principle of Christianity, " Do unto others as ye would that others should do unto yon."—(Cheers.) In the pursuit of this justice, different times required diffe rent modes of agitation. Our fathers fought for freedom in many a field, and we had, happily for us, nothing left now but to pursue a constitutional and a determined course. They could see th a t o pp os iti on was dyin g off, Ald there should be no difference among themselves. — (Hear, hear.) It was union and not division that was wanted.—(Hear.) He had been asked by a high-born and wealthy men to second a motion for the ballot in the House of Commons, a sort of little frigate I ent forth on an independent venture.—(Hear.) He was ready to do so. He was ready to unite with all who were prepared to grant or advocate popular rights, though they might not go the full length he did. He did not see enemies to the people in the ranks of the Aristocracy. They would in their own time and way become valuable aids to national progress. It was well said, that a house divided against itself could not stand ; let their house then be united, and they would soon succeed in amending another house that much needed it.—(Hear, hear.) They must repudiate all violence of either deed or language, and they would thus put amiet, peaceful, happy end to every thing to which the name of tyranny could be applied.— (Cheers.) The Hon. Gentleman then read a letter from Mr. G. Thompson. M.P., apologising for his absence from the .meeting, in which he alluded to Lord J. Russell's de claration, that the people were neither in favour of the Charter nor of Mr. Hume's motion. (This allusion was received with groans and hisses, and cries of "Turn him out of office.") In conclusion, he called on the meeting to use the interval between this time and the 20th of June in such a way as to convince Lord John that he was mistaken, and he was happy to see that as far as that meeting was concerned it was determined to do its duty.—(Cheers.) The Rev. J. BURNETT moved the first resolution, which was—" That this meeting, looking at the narrow, unequal, and unjust basis upon which the existing system of parliamentary representation :exist s—at the numerous proofs, patent to the whole empire, of the ex tent to which corrupt influences are usually employed to place the popular branch of the leg islature under the exclusive control of a selfieh oligarchy — and at the entire want of agreement between public opinion as expressed out of doors, and as professedly interpreted by Parliament —declare their conviction that the House of Commons does not truly represent the people, and that, so long as it shall continue to be constituted as at present, it neither will nor can become a proper organ for the expression of the nations will." He disclaimed all inte rested motives in coming forward on that occasion, as was alleged sometimes against parties who occupied such a posittton. With respect to the speech of Lord John Russell on the previous evening, he thought that they we re much indebted to him for that speech, because it presented a clear and distinct ground of contest. He told them to their face that the country did not want reform. —(Hisses.) He took his stand upon the temple of the Constitution ; and would, perhaps, paint and gild it on the same principle that Napoleon caused the dome of the Invalides to be gilded, in order to create a better public opinion in Paris. That had its effect at the time.— (Laughter.) But gilding did not suit in Paris now.— (Hear. hear.) There had been reading, thinking, and above all, suffering, which had made men sick of mere gilding ; children only were satisfied with gilt ginger bread.—(Hear, hear.) But they must not expect that any great improvements would emanate from the Go vernment. All past improvements in the Constitution had been made by the people, and he was neither a poli tician nor a philosopher who expected that any Govern ment would ever amend the Constitution until the people demanded it.—(Hear, hear.) They now had the Government and the people directly at variance. The :Government said the people did not want political reform ; and yet, looking at the armed forces, the police, and special constables, it seemed to him that the Government were really of opinion that the people did court these reforms. lie said they must ab jure all violence.—(Cheers.) No great revolution was ever effected by violence. They might point to France —(Hear, hear)—that was not in reality a revolution of violence. Louis Philippe could have easily put down the few violent men in Paris, but he could not put down the will and opinion of a nation. The House ot Com mons did not represent the people. They laughed at their petitions, and that was enough to show the fact. How was it to be amended? Only by doing away with all definitions, household suffrages, rating suffrages, &c., &c., and make the House of Commons the House of the whole people. Let the whole people have the :power of electing their own representatives.—(Prolonged ap plause.) But it was said the people were not fit for the exercise of this right. He knew that all the people were not fit, but it was not among the working classes only that these unfit men were to be found, but among all classes. He would only say, however, that if the people were so unfit, it showed the detects of our boasted con stitution which had educated them so badly, and proved the more conclusively that it required alteration.- 2 (Cheers.) He left the cause in their hands, calling upon thetas to work it boldly, but peacefully. Let public opi nion roll into the House of Commons like the waves of the sea, and they would carry their object.—(Cheers.) Mr. SHARMAN CRIWFORD, M.P., seconded the reso lution. In doing so, ho said he had no new professions to make. The principles contained in the resolution he had advocated both in and out of the House, and he was determined that no man should charge him with being reereant to his principles.—(Hear, hear.) In 1842 he had, at the request of the Complete Suffrage Associa tion, brought forward the whole of the six points of the ' Charter.—(Cheers.) He had tested the old House of Commons, therefore, on the question, and was sup ported by 69 votes. He trusted that in the present House a larger number would be found to support these principles. He attended that meeting for many reasons, hat principally because he approved of the objects of the League, and the mode by which it proposed to gain them. They were determined to use no violence, and though he would boldly insist upon the whole of the six points of the Charter; he would, at the same time, and he trusted they also would, gladly co operate with their fellow-labourers, who might not go as far as themselves.—(Hear, hear.) He felt also that it was his duty as a member of the Legislature, to support the Hon. Chairman, after the declaration of Lord J. Russell.—(Hisses and groans.) He said that the city of London was bound to show his Lordship he was mis taken, and that the people were of opinion, as he was, that every man was a slave who was not empowered to elect his own representative, and to have a voice in the making of the laws of his country.—(Hear.) As an Irishman, ho would say, that the miseries of that land were owing to its want of a proper representation.— (Hear, hear.) England could never be free or prosper ous while Ireland was enslaved.—(Hear, hear.) Irish men and Englishmen should unite for thin great object. —Cheers.) It was their interest to do so, and as an bpmble advocate of these views, he pledged himself to give his heat efforts, both in and out ofHouse, to promote the great cause which he was delighted. to per ceive they were all unanimous in supporting. Mr. GA.RDNER, M.P., supported resolution. Such meetings, though they might be hateful to those who maintained existing abuses, were the great mainstay of popular liberty, and he trusted they would Haver g „_ (Gr zer abstain av cheering, from " open and advised speakin oninagll their the major part of the meeting rising and w hats)—from "opem and advised speaking" sub jects of public interest, notwithstanding the effort s of so-called Liberal Ministry—(Groans) —to prevent thea expression of opinion ly a new Act, hurried through the House in a moment of panic, and which the electoral body would in time repudiate.—(Hear, hear.) He knew that they were &led revolutionists and incendiaries when they demanded reforms in times of great public excitement. The Ministry then said, wait until t i mes are more quiet ; vre can then discuss and settle these claims for improved institutions ; but when those quiet times did come, ale Ministry then told them the people were quiet, passive, and contented, and there was no need for any reforms, which were merely the offspring of the distempered brain of interested demagogues.— (Hear.) He was not one of those who founded his opinions. on what had taken place in other countries. He did not base his opinions on these events, nor did he wish to copy either France or Germany. There were plenty of arrows iR the British quiver with which to amend the constitulon of that House, which ought to be the lepresentative of the people, but was now merely the reflexion of the selfishness and prejudices of the aris tocracy. —(Cheers.) When he found that the burdens of the nation were increased by this Parliament—that the Church, which ought to he the Church of the people, was anything but that—when he looked at the condition of the nation, he confessed he had his fears that the concession would be delayed too long, and be too stinted when it came .—( gear .) He thought it was th e i r d uty , before it was too l ate, to ca ll on the Ministry to change the present false and unreal mockery of representation Into a genuine representation of the people. Lord Palmerston hod recently written an offen s ive letter Minister. to the Spanish ister. He wished that s ome ki n d friend " rhhaydsieiaben, heal been there to . whisper in his Lord s hip' s ear, thyself"—(llear.) There were en ough of evils to be found in the home market, with put his going about on a crusade tout the affairs of a --( ther nations to rights.flear. p ) He believed th a t Spai had no Ireland, at leas t — ear\--whatever other dn e feat she had; and, when he !golf e d at the burdens im- Loved on this country - 4f the do ant 'moat unparalleled inequ a li ty of Church, and th e condition among the people, he could not but think th a t they ought to min d their own b us iness and "set their " EMr. Joseph Stu r g e here made hi s anpp house ea ra went ci en oor on a on r t he ' t platform, amidst loud cheers. ] Mr. Gardner .considerable length t o co m ment u p o n the declaration o f ,`,tie Premier, that the middle and working classes wer e I n ot desirous of political changes, and to condemn the finality policy et his Lordship. For himself, he said that six years ago he joined the complete suffrage e ao „.. 2 _ meat, was a member of its council, and had seen no rea s on since that time t o alter his opinion,. .He put no limit to his democracy, and would put none, short of giving every honest man the same rights he possessed himself. Mr. Hume's mo tion certainly fell short of what he considered neces sary; but at the same time it must be remembered that all reforms were to be got by operating upon the electoral body, and therefore they must not expect Members of Parliament to go further than their con stituents would let them. He did not mean himself, however, in this case, for he had a constituency who were better pleased with him the further he went.— (Three cheers for Leicester.) He said they must operate upon the electoral body, that was the true way to change the convictions and ensure the assistance of Members of Parliament. For himself, he was certain that these principles would triumph. He defied either finality Ministers, a corrupt House of Commons, or a Conven tion of Chartists.—(Confusion and dissent from the Chartists.) He merely meant to say that he defied any amount of impudence or apathy, either on the part of the working or middle classes, to prevent for any length ened period the full and fair representation of the people in their own House of Commons.—(Cheers.) A Mr. Euacerr here came forward, and attempted in vain to address the meeting. The resolution was then put to the meeting, and car ried unanimously. Mr. J. H. PARRY moved the second resolution:— " That in the judgment of this meeting, the franchise, limited by such regulations only as may be necessary to secure for it a legitimate exercise, is the right of every man—(Cheers)—that whilst the power to vote is distri buted with reference to the possession of property, purity of election can neither be had nor reasonably ex pected—(Hear, hear)—that any reform of the House of Commons which fails to recognise this right will be in complete, and, to the excluded classes, unsatisfactory and unjust; and that the constituency created by a frank and unreserved admission of all men within the pale of citizenship, would be more intelligent, more inde pendent, and more conservative of order, than any one restricted within arbitrary limits. For these and other reasons, this meeting avow their conviction that justice and expediency unite in recommending a hearty union of all reformers for securing the adoption of this prin ciple, by the Imperial Legislature." He said that, in order to secure the right of every man of sound mind, and uncontaminated by crime, to the possession of the suffrage, the resolution called upon that meeting to set an example to the country, and to cordially unite, whatever might be their peculiar shades of opinion, in an earnest and cordial spirit, for the securing of that great object.—(Cheers.) He himself was in favour of the principles of the People's Charter---(Cheers)—but at the same time, if another man was in favour of a six months' residence instead of three, he would cordially co -operate with that man.—(Hear, bear.) A ga i n, the question of the duration of Parliament was a question which ought not to disunite Reformers. He might be in favour of annual Parliaments, but was that any reason why he should refuse to act with the man who believed that triennial Parliameet s were best? which Lord John Russell h a d thrown d own T s h o e flippantly t last n ight, w as on l y thrown down because he relied on _aar e being disunited , hear,) isuni But ted he would find hi mse lf past politi ca l mistaken—(Hear , the p s ta e k op en l The people of E ng l an d, re membering theirprogress, wer e no t i nc li ne d to stand still whil e a l l the world was moving, merely be cause the Duke of Wellington or Lord John Russell was frightened. No; tathoeiT Englishmen, there assembled to contend thef o r the old great d a w t well-defined any sof the British consti tution —rights older than p dukedom thingsor title a t whateve r. they took warn i ng by the condition of affairs abroad?— (No, no.)—Were they satisfied with the Gagging and Alien Bills, which he regarded in no other light than as measures for the protection and preservation of many barbarous appendages of royalty ? He confessed him self favourable to monarchical institutions. Let the aristocracy array themselves, if they pleased, against the throne, but there was no necessity for the people to do so. The people of this country did not want to over throw the throne, but to secure their own rights ; and of this he felt satisfied, that if the Government went on passing Gagging and Coercion Bills, it was these acts that would tend to the overthrow of the throne, and not the constitutional conductof the people. In conclusion, he cordially moved the resolution, and he trusted the meet ing would as cordially approve of its purport, both the working and the middle classes joining heartily in supporting a proposition so desirable to have carried our. Mutuality, and not exclusiveness, ought to be their bond of union. All classes should unite, and if they showed their enemies that they were united, their friends in all parts of the country would rejoice at the fact. Mr. C. LUSHINGTON, M.P.. seconded the resolution, and, in doing so, gave his unqualified adherence to the principle it enunciated, although, in doing so, there was just a possibility that he might stand in opposition to a portion of his constituents. It was his intention to have supported Mr. Hume's four resolutions, but he would not limit his opinion with respect to the suffrage ques tion to that support, and neither he believed would Mr. Hume. The immediate object of the meeting was to get the suffrage of the people, and when they once ob tained that, all other legislative enactments necessary for the comfort of the people would follow. He would exert himself to the utmost of his ability to promote their cause, and they might rely upon him as one of their best friends. Mr. Josses STURMs supported the resolution. He highly approved of the meeting, and as he fully sym pathised with his Chartist friends in all their six points, ho wished to say a word or two to try aad promote a good feeling between the electors and non-electors by congratulating them on the auspicious moment that had arrived. Lord John Russell stated last night that all the people required was gradual re form. Even so far back as 1780 Fox and Aldis, and others, had advocated all the points of the Charter, and Fox was the man whom Lord John Russell professed to follow.—(Hoar, hear.) He often felt indignant when he saw the Government putting down the people by every means but that of reason. H. implored the people, however, to set aside miner differences, and he trusted the time would soon arrive when the electors and non electors would show that they were not so indifferent to their rights as Lord John Russell appeared to suppose. The resolution was then put from the chair, and car ried unanimously. Mr. EDWARD MULL moved the third resolution, which was in the following terms:—" That thi s meet i ng rejoice in the formatio n of the People's League, having for its object to secure for the people universal suffrage, or the right of every man, 21 years of age, of sane mind, and unconvicted of crime, to vote in the election of Members of Parliament, together with such details as are essential to its exercise; and engage to render the association all the aid within their power in the prose cution of its arduous, but noble, enterprise." He pro claimed his devotion to the principle embodied in the association, and his acquiescence in almost all the details that had been exhibited in the People's Charter. If any difference arose between the supporters of that reso lution and the adherents of the Charter, it was to the means of attaining their object, and not as to the prin ciple involved. It was not simply the Charter the people required, but fair, full, and free representation. They might consider they would not have that representation until the points of the Charter were recognised by the Legislature; but was that any reason why they should prevent those going with them who were well inclined to promote the cause? If they were to have dissension, and if the working people would not lot them do good as far as they could, it was impossible they could obtain their end, or that their liberties could be effectually achieved. They should abandon all unworthy and paltry jealousies. Let no party sow the seeds of dissen sion. For his own part he never would be content with the state of the representation of this country so long as any one was excluded in consequence of not being pos sessed of property. He was for fair, full, and free re presentation. If the working nen went with the People's League for their principle, they would have their own principles as well. He would not stand up for property qualification. The object they had in view was to give the right of voting for Parlia mentary Representatives to every man twenty-one years of age, of ease mind, and unconvicted of crime. Would they take that right or throw it away ? That was the only question. Would the working classes take that right, if the League could obtain it for them ?—(Cries of " Yes, yes.") The two clause could go along a great way together, and he thought they would most likely be agreed on other points against they got that. Let them take what they could get in the first instance. (Cries of " No, no.") Then, if they would not consent to do so, let them throw it away or refuse, but for his part, he should see the wisdom of taking it as an instal ment, and not as a compromise. Mr. ROBERTSON seconded the resolution. He en f.oreed the necessity of un i on at this moment, and said itwas absolutely necessary, if they did not w i s h to p l ay the gam e of their enemies. It was a huge imposture to ',.a o .Y in the middle classes were represented. The House of the fri°stiloacreacon3y,seteeedepott Free-trade Club. It all elasses-didignhott s l o i ra tt e le ur e t l 3 a: e. than the proxies of M nn e w m n be n r i s te of th t e la y e deserved to be laughed at, even by so small a great ' man as Lord John Russell. —(Cheers- and groans.) . Union if Englisehrratneni,wou d not be distanced was necessary, B.4o .u a s n tr x ian s and Bavarians. in the race of freedom by f a union of Mr. E. JoNxe said he w the middle and working claases. united Their r ious power sl was s a u drtne siPAßTtted by all. Let the m not, then, demandi the Association .)mea- Mr. PIT protested against the insinuation that Association had adopted half measures._( Mr. JONES said either the League was for universal suffrage and nothing else, or for universal suffrage and the details. It the latter, what were the details ? I_4 l the League made up their minds on this point ? Mr. LoveTT said he had first convened this League, and it had been done on the principles of the People's Charter, but finding thathtohuesreehowldassumffge duni versalurcandisiffnerence among their friends as to h to te e Ie o r - f oils of the suffrage, they had adopted suffrage, and the details necessary essay the r principle universal suffrage, resolving that the details essential to its exercise should be considered at a subsequent meeting. Mr. JoieEs then resumed his address amid a scene of the greatest confusion and uproar. He advocated the Charter, and no surrender. The League did not go that length, and unless they supported the points of the Charter, he did not see how there could be any union of the middle and the working classes for the purposes of the present movement. Ile was not going to move any amendment, for he thought the present meeting had come out more fair than any of the other three meetings held in London for the same purpose. He should oppose any movement that did not deal openly and fairly with the Chartists; but where there was an approach to union, he would support such an approximation. Having made this statement, and a lengthened profession of his prin ciples, he left it to the meeting to decide wheth er t h ey would be content t o a d opt th resolution.. Mr. Jones spoke for nearly an hour in enforcement of his opinions, but the greatest uproar prevailed throughout the deli very of his speech. The CHAIRMAN put the resolution, and about a fifth of the meeting held up their hands in its favour, the remaining four-fifths yelling vociferously, and crying out that the concession or achievement of universal suffrage without the other points of the Charter would not satisfy them. A scene of great con fusion ensued, in the midst of which Colonel Thomp son declared that the resolution had been negatived. The Chartist section of the meeting then renewed the clamour, and one of the persons near the reporters' table having rushed upon the platform and attempted to create contusion there, he was gently reprimanded for his conduct by the Chairman and other gentlemen, and re quested at once to retire. Instead of doing so, how ever, he turned round to the dense mass of persons in the body of the room, and complaining that he had been assaulted, called upon " his brother Chartists" to avenge the wrong. Instantly some of the most riotously dis posed dashed across the barrier, bounded upon the plat form, and threatened personal violence to the League men if any of them " dared" to disturb their " poet," as they, facetiously we presume, styled the individual who had been the immediate cause of, or excuse for, this dis turbance. Colonel Thompson in vain endeavoured to restore order, and some policemen were introduced, but their exertions proved altogether unavailing. The riot increased, collision between the Chartists and Leaguers was becoming more imminent, when Mr. E. Jones stepped forward, and moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman for the impartial manner in which he had dis charged his duties. The proposition was received with loud cheers and some discordant noise, but was ultimately carried. The meeting then commenced to separate. SUPPRESSED NOTE RELATIVE TO THE SPANISH DISPUTE. El Heraldo of the 16th publishes the following note addressed by the Duke of Sotomayor to the Minister Plenipotentiary of England. "This note," observes our Spanish contemporary, " has not been presented to Parliament by Vi.geount Palmerston :" TO THE MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY OF HER BRI TANNIC MAJESTY. "Sir,—l have received the communication which your Excellency has had the goodness to address to me, dated the 12th inst., wherein your Excellency replies to some of the observations made in my note of the preceding day. " I do not think that the arguments put forward by your Excellency, with respect to the anticipated publica tion in the Clamor Public° of the substantial contents of your Excellency's note of the 7th instant essentially alter the character of that remarkable incident, since, without having any intention to question the assertion of your Excellency that the note referred to was written after the publication of the article in question, I consider that I was justified in alluding to it in the terms of which I then made use, and in presuming that the Opposition papers were in some way acquainted with the sense and spirit of a communication about to be made to the Go vernment of Spain relative to the internal affairs of the country. ela'r'elsn thatrep ylyteou com plainty if, examini ng th e co l umns of certain papers which support stronger r r gErexeceedllsenecfy which support the Governm en t of her Catholic Majesty Excellency language w e e r f e sometti attempt with the it to sentimentsconnect andtha laegyour sentiments eag a and of others. " I cannot think this a parallel or even a similar case ; I have found no fault with your Excellency or the Oppo iitionpr and p e rfect harmony press because your language w e and sentiments the sentim l e a n eg ts ea a g r e e in conformity and policy more or less befitting the representative of a foreign nation ; the press in Spain is free, and is at liberty to pursue the course which it deems most expe dient. Your Excellency cannot be held responsible for the complexion which its politics may assume, nor can it be retended that the Sp an i s h G overnment i s answer able f or the use which may be made of its rights by that portion of the periodical press which, without being actually dependent on the Cabinet, is accustomed to sup port its acts and uphold its measures. The case in question, however, is totally distinct, and the difference is too remarkable to escape your Excellency's penetra tion and perspicacity. " Equally unfounded, in my opinion, is the intima tion made by your Excellency of the publication, some time ago, in a Lisbon paper, of the textual contents of it communication which I had the honour to address to your Excellency, and in which was declared the firm resolution of the Spanish Government not to interfere in the internal affairs of Portugal, notwithstanding the co-operation required by your Excellency with the view of obliging her Most F a ithf u l M a j es ty t o di sarm an d dissolve th National Guard of Lisbon, which had ren dered her such signal services during the insurrection at Oporto. The original of this document was directed to your Excellency, and copies were transmitted, ac cording to custom, to the representatives of her Majesty at the Courts of Paris, London. and Lisbon. If its contents were made public why is it to be attributed to a want of reserve on the part of the Spanish Government and its agents? Is your Excellency or the British Mi nister in Lisbon, to whom your Excellency equally for warded a copy of the document, exempt from the same responsibility? I explained this to your Excellency when you spoke to me on the subject for the first time, end added an assurance that it took place without my know ledge or authority; and I ought now to add that there is no comparison between a document which, before it reaches its destination, passes through many hands and a variety of channels, by which means it may easily acquire publicity, and another which, without even leav ' ing the hands of its author, constitutes him alone and necessarily the depository of his own secret. " Passing to another point, your Excellency is obliged to confess that when Viscount Palmerston transmitted his dispatch of the 16th ult., the Cortes were open, that all the public powers of this country were operating within their legal spheres, and that if, notwithstanding, he thought to recommend a more constitutional course, it was undoubtedly with a foresight of what was sub sequently to occur. Respecting the inconvenience of this proceeding, and the form in which it was carried into effect, I offered some observations to your Excel lency in my note of the 11th (10th?) instant, to which I deem it unnecessary to add anything further. But as the Spanish Government insists on its re fusal to recognise in your Excelleney, or in any foreign Ambassador, a right to criticise or to inter pret the acts of its internal police, I will nevertheless declare that your Excellency is greatly mistaken if you attribute the arrests or detentions consequent upon the rebellion of the night of the 26th, and the incessant machinations of the enemies of the throne and the national institutions of Spain, to the tyranny of the Government, or suppose that in adopting those mea sures it transgressed the laws. The Spanish Govern ment is as much authorised by them to do what it has done with the object of saving the nation from the hor rors of anarchy and social dissolution, by using the ex traordinary powers conceded to it by the Cortex for the purpose, as the English Government no doubt thinks itself justified to act for the repression, with equal energy, of the disorders which threaten the peace of the country confided to its care. " I cannot leave unanswered the strange disparity supposed by your Excellency to exist between her Ca tholic Majesty and the Queen of Great Britain, based on the circumstance that the Government of the latter august Sovereign lent its assistance and co-operation to Queen Isabella during the last civil war. Neither in struggle, nor in the memorable and glorious war of independence, nor in the war of succession in the last century, nor in any other in which the aforesaid English have taken part in the Penin sula, can it be conceived that Great Britain acted dif ferently from other nations in similar cases —that is to say, she always consulted her own glory, her policy, and her interests. Let your Excellency see, then, the reply that England might return to her own query, if she asked herself ' Why she preferred the case of Isa bella to that of Don Carlos?' The Spanish nation, however, does not the less acknowledge its gratitude for the services rendered to the legitimate throne and the institutions of Spain by the powers that were parties to the treaty of quadruple alliance; but Spain could never, even remotely, presume that this service would be thrust upon her recollection at a future period, and I cannot think that your Excellency, in so doing, exactly interprets the noble sentiments of the English nation. " Could it have been foreseen that the co-operation to which your Excellency refers in the note to which I reply, and which was so much the more appreciated as it was considered generous and disinterested, would be alleged at any time in support of a claim to exercise an undue influence in the internal affairs of Spain, I do not hesitate to assure your Excellency that it would have been energetically rejected, because the loyal Spaniards would have succeeded by their own unassisted efforts in fixing the Crown on the brow of their youthful Queen, and firmly cementing the institutions which have assured their liberty and inde pendence. If the co-operation of friendly nations had to be purchased at so high a price, your Excellency could not hope to attract many alliances in England. Fortunately we flatter ourselves with the persuasion that the British nation, with a due sense of its own dignity, will also deem our sentiments noble and elevated. " I ought not to conclude without again declaring_ to your Excellency that,:not being able to recognise ;your competency to treat on the internal affairs of Spain, I shall not enter into any further arguments with your Excellency on the subject. Lastly, and how tedious soever this correspondence may have been, it will have t l r a he i r d at d io o l w i n, henceforth and for ever, the principle that if G dwe r mo e astnSpan ish ef G am ov i e ty rnin an e d nt pe is rfee di t sp h o a s r e m d en to y s w tr i e th ngt t h h e a n t its f Britain countries,incompatible w much ill nwe a iv a teh p r o li s et s ns i b d lei decorum,t, s a e n lf d t t o o promote aary mreeasnpescatt w it h a i c c o h m ar ma e nd du t e hereciprocal interests of the the mean s actthe or rightsany to it as an independent nation. --I have the honour, Bac. " " Madrid, April T 15HE DUKE DE SOTOMAYOR. ." UrRAYUEND IteaLwax------.—New-cross and Deptford have assumed within the last week quito a new appear ance. The Gravesend Railway is the great object of notice. Upwards of one hundred hands were taken on to commons* work on the 15th instant, and many addi tional workmen are engaged for the present week. They have carried the line to the Nes-cross road, which they intersect by a tunnel. Most of the foot passengers who see this scene of activity are struck by the magnitude of the operations. Science combined with industry catch direction. M en wor ki ng under ground, others spread like b ees, in clusters, over exalted iTdemasof skillemßrpiltoiyshmeot o in f labourers is of considerable benefit to th e trading com munity e tt likeh n he g e i engineering dei n i n n s: t g e h ac venocad convey v a n b . e d o y v e m a d n e i c s h tr a i ni t c . s. Dispatches from the Governor of Van Diemen's Land, and also from the Governor of South Australia, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were sent off last evening from the Colonial-oice for the Governor of Ceylon. THURSDAY EVENING 'ffourtblattton OFFICE, Seven a' Clock. EPSOM RACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The Denbies Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added, for three year olds and upwards. Heats, the last mile and a quarter of the new Derby course. The first was a dead heat Racing.)eatbetwen Mignon and Pi mento; the second heat was won by Pimento. OAKS BETTING. 5 to 2 agst Wiasma. 5 to 1 agst Cymba 5 to 1 agst Do-it-again 7 to 1 agst Attraction 14 to 1 agst lodine 14 to 1 agst Queen of the May 14 to 1 agst Tisiphone 15 to 1 agst Aspssia 15 to 1 agst Astrtea 15 to 1 Prairie Bird 17 to 1 agst Miss Lydia filly RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) GROUP I.—W ATERFORD AND KILKENNY RAILWAY AcTAMENDMENT.—PreambIe proved and clauses agreed to. DRUMPELLER. Preamble passed and clauses agreed to. ABERDEEN.—The object of this Bill was to raise ad ditional capital. Preamble passed and clauses agreed to. ARBROATH AND FORFAR.—This was a similar Bill. Preamble passed and clauses agreed to. E AST ANGLIAN.—This Bill was to exten d the time the Ely and H unt i ng d on li ne. P reamble GROUP IL—SHEFFIELD AN D M ANCHESTER .—Th e p a l n e d tin cl g auses agreed t o . fCPorer:conadmittee passed; the above company's Bill for improv ing their Humber Ferries, but deferred the clauses. GROUP Ia—NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—The object of this Bill is to, deviate the line at Wellington. Case opened and evidence taken. unour IV.—This group, which embraces the im portant question of the gauges, and the Birmingham and Oxford dispute, met and adjourned again till Monday. GROUP V.—NEWPORT AND PONTYPOOL.--Cl5O fur ther heard. GROUP VI.—GREAT WESTERN. - -Engineering evi dence taken in favour of the above company's Bill fur making a line from Slough to Windsor. GROUP IX.—LONDONDERRY AND COLERAINE.- Clauses passed, and Bill ordered to be reported. NEWRY AND ENNIBKILLEIsT.—PTOR3Oter'S CRBO closed, and opposition of the Marquis of Downshire heard. GROUP X.—DUNDEE AND PERM —The case of the above compaey's Bill, to form a junction through Dundee with the Arbroath line, was closed, but the Committee postponed its decision. GROUP XIV.—PAISLEY, BA.RRUEAD, AND HIIRLET. —Case opened, and evidence heard in its favour. ELECTIGN COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) LEICESTER. The evidence and arguments upon the application of the petitioners for leave to amend the recognizances, were resumed, and ultimately the Committee acceded to the application. The recognizances having been accordingly amended, Mr. B. ANDREWS proceeded to open the case of the petitioners, who sought to void the election, ou the ground that it was carried by gross bribery and corrup tion. The bribery consisted of sums paid to various voters for the services which were due from a former election; while previous voters who had no claims of that nature were presented with sums varying from 10s. to 285., or received a gift of some necessary article of dress. The parties who committed the bribery would be proved beyond all doubt to have been the agents of the two sitting Members, and when the Committee had heard the evidence, he was sure they would have, no difficulty in granting the prayer of the petitioners. After the examination of one or two witnesses, the Committee adjourned till to-morrow. CHELTENHAM. An objection was taken: by Mr. WHEATLEY on be half of the sitting Member, Sir William Jones, to the ap pearance of the petitioner, on the ground that the recog nizances wero invalid, the petitioners being bound for the penalty of 1,0001. only jointly instead of jointly and severally. The objection gave rise to a lengthened ar gument, and at its close the Committee adjourned their decision till to-morrow. DUBLIN. The General Committee of Elections met this after noon and appointed the following Members to try the merits of the petitions presented against Mr. Reynolds's return for the city of liublin:—The Marquis of Granby, Mr. M. Baines,: Mr. Sotheron, Mr. J. Bright, and Lord Robert Grosvenor (Chairman). IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS _EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woolsack at Five o'clock. The Earl of ERNE presented a petition from the Protestant inhabitants of Balieborough against the National system of education in Ireland; also from the guardians of Lenniskea against the mode of assessment to the poor-rate in Ireland. Lord REOESDALE presented several petitions against Jewish emancipation. The Earl of FORTESCUE presented several petitions in favour of Jewish emancipation. The Earl of RADNOR and Earl GREY presented several petitions with a similar prayer. Lord STANLEY presented several petitions from the clergy of various dioceses against Jewish eman cipation. The Earl of GALLOWAY presented a petition from the General Assembly of the Church of Scot land against the Jewish Emancipation Bill. He cor dially concurred in the prayer of the petition, and he believed that the Bill was uncalled for. The Earl of ROSEBERRY presented a petition in favour of the Bill fur altering the Law of Entail in Scotland. to l him, a c c a o na n t he o ordered SPAlN.asked Lord STANLEYwhether it was the in tention of her Majesty ' s Ministers to submit to Par liament af .rdereel to leave that Court ? the circum s tances under which our Minister at Madrid had had his passports furnished The Marquis of LANSDOWNE were in course of preparation, and i said those papers ul u t was the anxious desire of the Foreign Secretary to lay them before Parliament to-morrow if possible, or at all events at the next sitting of the House. Lord BROUGHAM wished to drag attention to a late pretende d s peech of M. Lamartine, which stated that the p r inciple of the French Govern ment was to assist and help any people 4 to attain f what they called the ir ri g hts, and that an army 30,000 men was assembled , to be increased to 60,000 en to assist the re bels of Italy against Austria. mHaj his Noble Frie nd received any account of the speech? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had no know ledge of the speech alluded to, except what he had derived from the public papers. A dispatch had been received from our Ambassador in France this morning in which no mention was made of the speech alluded to. JEWISH DISABILITIES REMOVAL BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then rose to move the second reading of the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill. It was contrary to the spirit of our constitution to admit fo the principle of exclusion, an td therefore it was r t who sought exclude their fellow -subjects from the benefits of the constitution to prove the necessity for that exclusion. From the time of Magna Charta to the days of Queen Elizabeth, there had been no ex clusion of any person from the benefits of the consti tution. In the time of Elizabeth an act was passed ex. cludidg Popish recusants, and in the time of James 1., immediately after the Gunpowder Plot, would when it bind was considered that no ordinary oaths Catholics, an Act was passed against Popish recu sants, in which it was enacted that the person the oath should declare his allegiance to the Sovereign upon the true faith of a Christian this was aimed, not at bad religionists, but at bad subjects; and those were the words, and those were the only words which excluded the Jews from Parliament. (LEFT SPEAXING.) -------- i HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. MILNER took the oaths and his seat for the city of York, in the room of Mr. Redhead Yorke, de ceased. THIRD READINGS. Bridge efollowing Bills were read a third time and passed : D L ry o u n linlk dedoaDn,ißrercitghFteornr,ya.nd South Coast R ailwa y (London and New Cross Stat ions, &c.) Queenaferry Passage. SECO ND READINGS. Dundalk, Direct foll ow i ng Bill s were read a second time Castle Blaney, and Carrickmacross Roads. _Nantwich a n d Wh e elock Turnpik e Road. South Yorkshire Doncaster and Goole Railway Amendment (Extension to Penistone and Altera tion of Dodwortla Branch). Mr. H. DRUM MON D presented a petition against the Scotch Lunatics' Bill, and moved that it be re ferred to the Committee ; also a petition from the Presbytery of Perth against the Diplomatic Relations with Rome Bill. Mr. DUNCAN' presented several petitions from Dundee and other places in Scotland against the present poor-law. Lord ASHLEY presented petitions from the Anti- Slavery Society and others at Bath, against the use of slave-grown sugar in this country. Sir J. WALMSLEY presented a petition from Leicester, signed by 2,800 Odd Fellows, praying that free and heritable estates might be held by the societies of Odd Fellows. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Colonel THOMPSON presented a petition signed by 7,315 persons, from Bradford, comp l a i n i ng o f th e increased expenditure of the country in a time of unusual distress, but protesting against the slightest leaning to disorder and violence; and in favour of universal suffrage, vote by ballot, equal electoral districts, and no property qualification and payment of Members of Parliament, shorter Parliaments, and a direct system of taxation. The petitioners stated that although Bradford was exceedingly full of Char tists, they disclaimed any connexion with them. The Hun. Member presented a similar petition front the Chartist Union in the metropolis. Mr. SMITH presented a petition from Dunferm line in favour of Parliamentary Reform. HEALTH OF TOWNS. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Bir mingham in favour of some sanitary measure to im prove the condition of the poorer classes, and in favour of the abolition of the window-tax. Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition praying the House to pass a measure to enable the members of the Free Church of Scotland to obtain sites for churches. INTOXICATING LIQUORS. Mr. TRELAWNY presented a petition agains the sale of intoxicating liquors on the Sabbath. LIBERATING CONVICTS. An HON. MEMBER wished to ask a question of the Right Honourable Baronet the Secretary for the Home Department, which he considered one of considerable public importance. Dur ing the year 1846, the crime of sheep stealing was very prevalent in the county of Mon mouth, and after considerable difficulty a person on whom suspicion had long rested was apprehended and tried at Monmouth in January, 1847. He was convicted of the offence imputed to him, and was sentenced by the late Chairman of the Sessions, Lord Granville Somerset, to be transported for ten years. Latterly this person had come back to this country. He received a free pardon. His presence had created much consternation, because he was the second person who had returned to the same locality during the last few months, after having been convicted of a similar offence, both having received free pardons. He therefore wished to know under what circumstances the individual in question was liberated. Sir G. GREY replied that the person in question, Frederick Williams, was convicted in 1847, and sen tenced to ten years' transportation. On April 12th in the present year he received a communication from the authorities of the prison in which the convict was confined, enclosing a certificate signed by Sir Benjamin Brodie, and another medical gentleman, expressive of their belief that the prisoner was afflicted with pulmonary consump tion, and that further incarceration would en danger his life. Under these circumstances, and without any reference whatever to the crime of which he was convicted or the sentence that was passed upon him, which he did not think was too severe under the circumstances, he felt justified in exercising the authority with which he was vested, and recommended her Majesty to grant the convict her free pardon. . _ AFFAIRS OF SPAIN. Mr. BANKES wished to ask the Noble Lord the Foreign Secretary whether he was prepared to lay upon the table of the House any further correspond ence in relation to the affairs of Spain ? _ . Lord PALMERSTON said he had considered it his duty to look over all the papers forwarded from Spain, to see whether any could be laid upon the table, and he had made a selection for that purpose which was now in the hands of the printer, but they would not be ready to be laid on the table till to-morrow. These papers consisted of communications which Sir H. L. Bulwer had with the Spanish authorities pre vious to the 16th of March, the date of the negotiation referred to in the paper already before the House. Mr. BANKES said he had received an intimation from Sir 11. L. Bulwer to the effect that he was apprehensive that the question he had given notice of for to-morrow might affect him; but he begged to state that it was his intention in no degree whatever to reflect or bring in question our Ambassador at Madrid. His intention was only to raise a question relating to the instructions he had received, and to confine his observations to the correspondence which bad already been laid on the table of the House. It appeared that up to the period of the date of that correspondence the conduct of our Ambassador at Madrid had received the full and entire approbation, not only of the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, but of the whole of her Majesty's Government, and his view of the case would in no way affect the Ambassador at Madrid. He understood, however, now that a com munication was to be laid upon the table of the House which bore a date subsequent to that of the corres pondence before the House, and as Sir H. L. Bulwer was anxious that this communication should be on the table before they went into the question, he begged to state that he ,should not bring on his motion to morrow, but defer it to the next supply night, if the Noble Lord was not prepared to devote an earlier night to the question. Lord J. RUSSELL said of course the Hon. Gentleman would use his own discretion as to bringing his motion on to-morrow, but he begged to tell the Honourable Gentleman that it was the intention of Government to go into Commit tee of Supply to-morrow night, to enable him to bring his motion on. Looking, therefore, at the present state of public business, and bearing in mind that the discussion on the navigation-laws had to take place, he could not promise the Hon. Gentleman to devote another day to his motion ; but if he determined to proceed with it to-morrow, Govern ment would he prepared to offer it their decided opposition. Mr. BANKES said, under these circumstances, he would persevere to-morrow. Sir DE LACY EVANS put it to the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether it would not be detrimental to the interests of the country to go into the question while they were ne gotiating with Spain ? Lord PALMERSTON did not think it would. Mr. BANKES wished to know whether our Envoy had arrived from Spain? Lord PALMERSTON replied in the affirmative. CASTLEBAR. Mr. BOURKE inquired, pursuant to notice, of the Secretary for Ireland whether it was true that a sheriff's sale of all the furniture and clothing had taken place in the workhouse of Castlebar, and what provision had been made by the vice-guardians for the support of the poor of that union since the period of the sale ? Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that it was true that the sale had taken place, but arrangements had been made by which all the paupers were still in the house. SPAIN. Mr. HUME wished to know, after what had taken place relative to the departure of Sir Henry Bulwer from Madrid, whether it was the intention of the Noble Lord, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs that the discussion on that important subject should take place without the documents be ing on the table of the House ? Lord PALMERSTON said that he had already stated that the correspendence was in the hands of the printers ; he was in hope it would be on the table to-morrow, and in the hands of Members on Sa turday. Mr. T. D'EYNCOURT trusted that the Hon. Member for Dorsetshire would not, under these cir cumstances, press his motion to-morrow. Mr. DISRAELI thought that this was far too important a subject to be discussed without the papers on the table of the House. He thought the Noble Lord might and ought to hold out the prospect of bringing on the subject other than that of some supply night. Lord J. RUSSELL had no doubt that, after the discussion on the navigation-laws which he was not willing to postpone, there would be a day for going into a Committee of Supply. H e had, however, no anxiety that the Honour a bl e Member for Dorsetshire should postpone his motion if he thought proper to bring it on to-morrow. Lord MAHON considered the alternative to be, whether the discussion on this question should take place with or without the docu ments, or not at all. This was the alternative to which her Majesty's Government sought to reduce the House; but it was one, he trusted, they would not submit to. The transaction that had taken place in Spain was one of no ordinary character, and he thought it would not he unbecoming of the position of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, if he held out some prospect of an early day to discuss the question. Lord J. RUSSELL could not name any day for the discussion of the subject, but as soon as the debate on the navigation-laws was over, supposing the House affirmed the resolution for bringing in the Bill on the subject of the navigation-laws, he had no objection before the second reading of that MI that a day should be named for going into Committee of Supply. Mr. BANKES, considering that it would be useless to discuss the subject without the documents being before the House, would not force on his motion to-morrow, but he hoped the Noble Lord, in considering the question, would feel it to be of that importance that, for the. sake of the Govern ment and the country, it ought not to be postponed unnecessarily. He would, however, leave his motion on the paper for to-morrow, with the under standing that it was not then to come on. ISLAND OF TOBAGO. Mr. GOULBLTRN wished to know whether the Government had received any information from the Governor of Tobago with respect to the state of that island. Mr. HAWES said he regretted that no informa tion at all had been received from the Governor of Tobago. Mr. P. HOWARD seeing the Noble Lord (Lord Palmerston) in his seat begged leave to ask him whether now, or on a future day, he would be prepared to say what progress had been made in the negotiations with regard to the mediation between Denmark and Prussia, or rather between Denmark and the confederated powers—a matter which was deeply interesting to this country, and he was aware that some of his constituents had been sufferers by the course of warfare carried on. Lord PALMERSTON said he conld answer the question of the Hon. Gentlemen at present, so far as was consistent with his duty, and he thought he might state that there was a favourable disposition on both sides to consider the proposals which might be made, with the view to an amiceble adjustment of the diffe-. rences. He might state this fact—that whilst on the one hand the Danish Godernment had taken away some of their blockades, on the other he had been in formed within the last hour that the Prussian Go vernment did not mean to enforce the order which had been issued by General Wrangel. EXPULSION OF ENGLISH WORKMEN FROM FRANCE. In answer to a question of Mr. DIYETT, Mr. HAWES was understood to say that a number of the workmen and their families who had been expelled from France, during the late disturb ances, had been assisted to emigrate, and that it was the intention of the government to offer every rea sonable facility for the emigration of the rest wbo might be desirous of proceeding to our colonies. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME BILL. Sir H. INGLIS wished to know on what day it was the intention of the Noble Lord (Lord J. Rus sell) to proceed further with the Diplomatic Rela tions with Rome Bill, as it was still suffered to re main on the order- book of the House. Lord J. RUSSELL said the Government were desirous to proceed with two Bills of considerable public importance, which stood on the paper before the Bill in question, and that until those Bills were in a fair way of being disposed of, he could not name the day on which he could take the Bill to which the Hon. Baronet bad adverted. PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. On the motion that the SPBAKER should leave the chair, Mr. SPOONER rose and said he wished to make some observations with respect to what was done by the Noble Lord (Lord Morpeth) on Monday last. And with a view to enable the parties interested in the matter, he should move that the House resolve itself into a Committee this day fortnight. After a great deal of negotiation the Noble Lord agreed to introduce into the Bill certain clauses, in accordance with the wishes of certain deputations who had waited upon the Noble Lord from various parts of the country, and who left him on a positive pledge from the Noble Lord that he would introduce clauses to that effect in the Bill. The parties had evi dence that the clauses were printed at the request of the Noble Lord,lbut yet at the last moment, with out making any communication to Hon. Members who had interested themselves in the matter, the Noble Lord caused six clauses to be struck out of the Bill without the House hardly knowing what was going on at the time. The parties interested had a right to complain, as many of them had a large quantity of capital inverted in waterworks. and as great injustice had been done to them they ought to be allowed time to consider the altered posi tion in which they would be placed by the Bill. However important the carrying out of this Bill was it was still more important that such an occurrence as that in which he was animadverting should not occur again. He, therefore, called upon Hon. Mem bers, in justice to all the parties, to maintain that for the future no such sweeping alterations in a Bill should be made w ith ou t th e d ue deliberation and consent of the House. The Bill had undergone great changes, which had entirely altered the Bill, and therefore he did not feel justified in proposing that those omitted clauses should be intro duced. If such a proceeding had been taken by any one else except the Noble Lord, he should have been justified in applying the terms " juggler" and " trick ster" to him, but he respected his character, and could not suppose but that he had done so under a miscon ception. He did not wish to enter into a discussion whether the adoption of the clausea was advisable or not, but he took his stand upon the way in which they were omitted. For two years the parties in question had been endeavouring to convince the Noble Lord of the truth of the principles they concluded for ; and after they had convinced him of their value, it was too bad for him to turn round, after the pledges he had made, and destroy all he had done. The Noble Lord had made upon pledge upon this subject, and upon no ground ought the Noble Lord to depart from it. He should, therefore, move as an amendment, that this Bill be committed this day fortnight. Mr. MUNTZ seconded the motion. This Bill as it stood would act most unjustly toward the public; and as he was present when the Noble Lord gave the pledge he now called upon him to fulfil it. Lord MORPETH said, nothing was more painful to his feelings than that the Honourable Member should fancy that he had been wanting in firmness and good faith, and if the House were of opinion that such an imputation could be cast upon him he was prepared to ask the House to put him in a positio n t o remove i t. B e could not, how ever, bring himself to believe that the course the Com mittee-had pursued was open to the charge which the Hon. Member had preferred against it, for he appre hended that the Bill in no way gave power to inter fere with the affairs of private persons without the intervention of Parliament; but be was quite prepared to introduce an express proviso into the 66th clause precluding every local board of health from supply ing water with the consent in writing of any com pany, should such exist within the jurisdiction of the board, if that would remove the objections of the Hon. Member. Mr. NEWDEGATE thought if there was any blame to be attached to any one for the suppression of these clauses it was the Noble Lord. He thought the clauses necessary, and he believed that the country generally was in total ignorance of the real provisions of the Bill. Mr. SHARMAN CRAFORD trusted the Com mittee would agree to the proposition of the Noble Lord, which he considered to be a perfectly fair one. Mr. WILSON PATTEN objected to the with drawal of the clauses, believing that if th ey h ad been discussed they might have been rendered totally un objectionable. After some observations from Mr. Henley, Mr. Shirley, and Mr. Hudson, Sir W. CLAY suggested to the Honourable Mem ber for Warwickshire to withdraw his motion, be lieving that the couse pursued by the Noble Lord was calculated to promote the interest of the parties con cerned. (LEPT •PEAZING.) UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, MAT 24.—At a congregation this day the following degrees were conferred:— Doctor of Divinity by Royal Mandate—Henry Wit. kinson Cookson, 8.D., Master of St. Peter's College. Hon. Masters of Art—Viscount Bangor and the Hon. G. H. Stanley (son of Lord Stanley, Bickerstaffe), grand compounders. Bachelor of Divinity—Rey. C. P. Nicholson, Trinity College, grand compounder. Masters of Arts—J. B. Harrison, Trinity College; J. W. A. Taylor, Trinity College; E. E. Body, St. John's College; H. S. D. Smith, St. John's College, grand compounder; R. Barton, St. Peter's College; Thomas Woodcock, Catharine Hall. Bachelors of Arts—Robert Temple Frere, Trinity College; William Maule, Trinity College; Thomas Bissett, St. Peter's College; 'William Reece Queei'a College; H. H. Westmore, Queen's College; Frederick Lane Emmanuel College; G. E. Parry, Sidney College. At the same congregation the following graces were offered to the senate:- 1. To confirm the report of the Fitewilliam syndicate of the 13th inst. 2. To appoint Mr. Cartmell, of Christ's College, one of the auditors of the University accounts, in place of Mr. Fowler, of Sydney College, who is unable to attend. 3. To add the names of Mr. Cookson, master of St. Peter's College ; Dr. Paget. of Caius College ; Mr. Birkett, of Emmanuel College; Mr. Warter, of Magda lene College ; Mr. Bateson, of St. John's College ; and Mr. R. L. Ellis, of Trinity College, to the syndicate of the University press. 4. To add the names of Mr. Buston, of Emmanuel Col lege ; Mr. R. L. Ellis, of Trinity College ; Mr. Atlay, of St. John's College ; and Mr. Fuller, of St. Peter's College, to the Fitzwilliam syndicate. The first grace (for the appointment of a practical builder as keeper of the Fitzwilliam Museum), Was non placetted, and lost ; the following2 No npc is ept the .ia. .e.; I. .. voting ... .... .... .. .... 52 Black Hood House. White Hood House. Placet 5 Non Placet The other graces passed. Her Majesty the Queen has appointed Wednesday, the 31st inst., for the receipt of the University address. Tyrwhitt's Hebrew Scholarships.—The following gen tlemen have been declared the successful candidates for the above exhibitions :—T. J. S. Perowne, Cor pus Christi College ; Michael F. S a dl er, St. John 's College. . F. B. D. Ramadge, of St. John' s College, w as declared by the examiners to have passed the examination with credit. Sir William Colebr ooke had an inter►iew with Earl Grey yesterday, at the Colonial-office. CIVIL ENGINEERS' INSTITUTION MAY 16. (Joshua Field, Esq., President, in the chair.) No paper was read, in order to afford time for the cussion of Mr. Gooch's paper on the resistance to railway trains at different velocities, which was read at the Meet iug of April 18. The principal speakers were Messrs. Brunel, Gooch; Bidder, Locke, Harding, and Russell, and their ergs meats were necessarily so complicated by ealculatioss to render it difficult to convey, within reasonable linsmits, even an outline of the discussion. had It was contended, on one side, that this subject - been so treated in the paper as to make it almost Ole!: tion of the comparative gauges ; that the experilue,..7 upon which the arguments were founded cou ld mot received as applicable to railways in general, ipss° 3l ! c t , por Do w as it was presumed from the statements that the of the line was selected as being in the best working ce dition ; that the engine and the carriages picked as being in the best order; and that therefore he results were due to these peculiar circumstances, and p h : to the ordinary working state of the line ; tbst x t fr. amount of resistance per ton was understated by t „ Gooch, on these accounts, and that of the rate of resist ance, arrived at by the committee of the British Ass:ci eiation, by projecting trains of carriages down incl il ! t , planes, was nearer the truth than the expression of resiii mice arrived, at with the locomotive and the dynamo:l°, were also t.a ter; that the tables were partly nude up from the sal results of the experiments, and by using Mr. ilsr diPg o formula, which had been repudiated in other cases t_o incorrect; that the greater weight of the trains in tli LI) late experiments, as compared with those of the Bri , Association, &c., reduced the value of the deductio.aS: that the atmospheric railway could alone give the rel°,l ance due to the frontage, which was not given wbO r , locomotive was used, as it covered a portion on the riage frontage, and the dynamometer being .behind the engine, the resistance of the train of carriages shwre could be arrived at, and that the valuation of the press is. of the wind upon the train at various angles was not W i t factory. Such was the general tenor of the argall' e Lj and on the other side it was urged that Mr. Gooch '!",„ endeavoured, as much as possible, to avoid introducil in any degree the question of the gauges, and to gl of % the results of the experiments, in order that ever,' Pe ril h o examining them might draw his own conclusions; .I"rt, the portion of the line on which Mr. Gooch's axe meats were tried was not selected for its good co pelf that it was only fixed upon by Mr. Brunel himself to night previously to the experiments, and was 12c4 ° l i st part which had been originally int e nded to be used; t. woerrkei not s the best of their the engines and carriages w ere suc h as could bs s P l a c r t f t r h o a m t they w the results were not due to peculiar circumstances, o k cw t r i e r n c l o s t ! P s t i e t k h e a d t t r e i r d b -° r ti t i were those of the average working of the line; but I b j, even had the line, engine, and carriages been selecgeto engineers would, from the res u lt s , have been si,l9le„cl make allowance for other case s , a nd that it was beilit-f, that in descending Wooten Basset incline by 10 1/ "'a without the the aid of an engine, a greater velocity had ha or been attained than the maximum recorded is S periments of the British Association; that ille,"; - ; 9 - were divided into columns, distinctly showing wit,: tvt i e • suited from experiment and what from the use d t o ff kn; that it was impossible with engines of the er''',7 to weight, as now constructed, with an ordinary tr i ll: 0 0 limit the experiments to such small weights as bnor formerly used; that in all cases the surface of the e ,,ist , motive was allowed for in calculating th e frontag°% - to anee; that it was expressly st a t e d in the p a per, the 0 apparatus for the wind gauge was not so satisfaet°/ess could have been desired, and therefore its restli c3 t ity kept separate in the table; that Mr. Gooch had aspen' tended to cast any reflections upon the former r bidi mentalists, but merely to point out the errors ja ° , - er . ' he thought they had fallen, and to induce, by his t' th i S meats, others which should fix more certai v il l ess amount of resistance ; thi s , it was still conteoclie0;000 less than had been f ormer ly stated, and 114 noe s other experiments, would b e necess ary to set the Zola; tion completely at rest, it was unan imously ag ree laa bis Mr. Gooch's experiments and paper were verY , b•- contributions, and it was hoped he would co 11011" observe • tions on this most interesting subject. • ieg The paper announc e d t o b e rea d at the m eet s scar f th . r. Tuesday, May 23, was "O n th e principles 0 w yet atruction of ventilating water-wheels," by Mr' A bairn, Memb. Inst. C.E. The President's annual eonversasione was so °: to be held on Tuesday evening, May 30, at th e 'Jot , " the institution, 25, Great Ge e at to ' ' pro' orge-street, and the members requested to use their influelle!„:o4 04 curing good models and works of art for exhibl on that occasion. 11 ' RAILWAY SHARE IVIAltg. LIVERPOOL, MAT 24.: th Sl 6 ° t°. STOCK EXCHANGIL-The following were .-e h i o e, 3 ,0 14 day :-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Ju i a t c- . Fast7 o Shares, 7% dis.-Ditto (late C. and B.), 1374-- alort i* Counties,ll -Ditto, New 10/. Shares, is o • Grea t ..“ cli< Lancashire 9 , kli s die.-Great G r a e n a d t Grimsby Yorkshire late Sheffield, fß S . a t , i .Ll : 3l3rt ';' s ll 4illl • 49 ? l t t to ,ll. dis.-Leeds and Thirsk, 21 3 ,i di London 1 "',; .... 11 `.", i d Western, 132 c.-Ditto, Neiv Q s. u - arters, 1 ,4 i gr . e id, '''f. Quarters (A and B), 2% c. p.-M h ter, She dP e Lincoln, Eighths, 4% ilia-Ditto - a l l : e"Grirnsbitii rl( Ci ,.. )' 3 1 4 p.-Midland Stock, 104 c.-Ditto, field), 20 dis.-Manchester and Bir ( mi t ham, t 2°' s s OS' p-.-SoDuittht-oE(asG.teNrn. a E n . d pu D r o ch v u e - r, e) 2 , 5 e 1 -]:l p i s .t t . to le 4 ' T priet w 11 North Staffordshire, 2% dis. N e.- 2 itto,and Csr , ,l s " r l / 2 dis.-York, Newcastle, and Berwick (No. ' 2), E x- ' % c. - Dover, tt Excll N A o N . G 4 E , - 2 •eat MANCHESTER, MAT 14. joctl, STOCK T l ll 5 D i o l Preierence, 9-16 P.-Great North ern, 94.jsbir" _ Leeds, Fifths, lt,i dis.-Midland, 105-North 2 7-16-West Riding Union, 3 13-14 dis. - 6 16 sa d le ii- ar E e- ast C er n n es e neirtle°l- i esitili-: h ill BIRMINGHAM, MAY 24. ford 6- d ir ; STOCK EXCHANGE. -The sales are-North Sta, ,Gr y " 475. 6d. dis.-Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A ) ' ' North of England Purchase, 1 1 4 1 , - , 'o!t in , A g d: LEEDS, MAY 23. NoLl.alves:, it o: t,. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are Ambergei t4 o. l \6 s, re ham, and Boston, 2% dia.-East Lanc - ashire , N °° :'-i ritf, lj do. l- ' dis.-Ditto, Quarters, 1% dis.-East and We e " ° 9i't ~• guaranteed full interest, 9% dis.-Great Northern' dis', -Lancashire and Yorkshire ( West Riding Uni° ll) ' a 14 A - 1 7 Leeds and Thirsk, 21% c. dis.-Huddersfieldf°o4, .4,1. Chester, Thirds, 2 dis.-Leeds and Dewsbury, p r efer niiefr dis.-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, ~1.t6/1' 2s. Gd. p.-North British, Thirds, 38s. dis.---V itt° ' sion, Bs. die.-North Staffordshire, 2 1 4 die. , r/1 a s ol STOCKfollows:-Great s E : _ lcc u n r A e a n t 0 E N . YORK, MAT 23 Berwick, No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 11N 11' soitiOr HULL, MAY 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Arnbergetl',/, 161/._ ham, and Boston, 18s. 9d.-Great Northern, 't'vsrtet'' - or T th h e e ra b , us 4 Lnes y s airrkit,nsasctedetisg, ow Hull and Selby, 99-Midland, 106-North Britisb' 51. as. 6d.-Ditto, Thirds, 225. 6d. 23 NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE , MAT.,1',.;b0rthc 9 .. ,4 STOCK EXCHANOZ.-Th e sales are-Great '°*- 11 / 74 " dis.-Newcastle and Carlisle, 114-Ditto, Scr i p' . 6P P- Ditto, ditto (red), 9 3 4 p.-North British, re rti4 GLASGOW, MAY 23. and Al STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are-Dundee s y r d 'obor,, Northern, SS I Quarters, 395.-Eastern Counties, New, 63s i r dis - -- 1 , 1 , 6 6 1 ,1 0 c and Perth, 135.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and C Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves, Ne. l ",; B o ll4 er 134111' STOCK EXCHAI`EPOIEI'.I2B S . a head, and Hurlet, 278.6d.-Scottish Cntral, -North British, Thirds, 235.-- 1 ...-- -'. _BTUhReG salesA T a r 2 e - ..5 T . 11 .E i r d d i s la l i r il ‘ , g . ll ll Pre. fteQuarters, r 5 1 , ° 5 3 / • is r h en , Q ce a , Norther (Newport), 81. lls. 6d.-Ditto, Gr ai k fr o 'rtb 13 i r1 ,, .- 53. G - rea p t i N tt z N th e e w rn , s 5 , 5 5 . / 6 . 1 17 s. fid- -- ,, , l iirdi,'" A 'ices fee; TUB CHOLERA.-We are informed bf 1-- oar coined yesterday that the Asiatic cholera had o P r chif d Ye' . ti' at Constantinople. By information publishe _oo it eve a Of in our paper from the Journal des Dibali,_, o w • it fled that the pestilence had re-appeared at zar e we. , j prior information, derived from the official r r ,ons I/ 41 appears that during the last year 300,0 00 P s e c itiP • been attacked and about 100,000 persons h n siog o, in Russia. In certain towns in Russia, o° ll3 : g isck e 1 -Ditto , A population of 411,246, 21,295 persons had bah ° e heini o , of whom 11,361 had died, the number atta ck 0 t oll to 19.5 of the population. In nearly the s to ber , but with a smaller population, 305,329, th ° 3 3 0.3 1 itil e sick on the former visitation in the 15,550, of whom 9,018 died, the number of ° L, of 1 1 , year 1. . 0 , bell then Ito 19.6 of the population. The late corropecvl disease in Russia is agreed to have been la 11 , 1 ,,„ 0 11 " _ .. ,0 II was W . ' D W similar to the course in 1830-31. period wu in to, by the frost, and re-appeared with the sPl:ing' , ea l l° hoped that it had spent its force at the peri • tot 1 7°. jed frosts set in, but its revival at widely dis re ef • under similar circumstances to the former, l as gifrif with great interest by the medical authorities, v no ; its own warning, which, it is to be hoped r 236.1 m•r., '" I needed. Mr. Christian Allhuson, and Mr. Hutt, ;cheoet an interview with the Chancellor of the Aaseet" yesterday, at his official residence in Dovrning 0 , BIRTN.3. On the 14th inst., in Baggot-strset, Dublin, the o f Dalbiac, Esq., 4th Light Dragoons, of a son., u „ tc hisol l ' On the 18th inst., at Wilton-place, Mrs. J. .1-n -.i.,, lad,' °I. , n ark• ir a daughter. On the 20th inst., at Stanhope-terrace, Ilfu e-r 1 ,„ 0 dens, the wife of 0. A. Field, Esq., of a soh- , clorkr , '"' Os the 20th inst., at Long Litton, Mrs. ,-/- - , t he I. oi ''- a. son. On the 21st inst., at Selmeeton Vicarage, the i cl i Rev. H. Foster, of a daughter. )lire t"bli' ° On the 21st inst., at Doughty-street, - • F. he On . the son. of • i° the 21st inst., at Newtown, Hants, the Tr--e °f C Stratton, Esq., l 'i of a daughter. ife ° On the 22d inst., at Cla ham-cominon , t ' hi, " Howell, Esq., of a son P sßhei o yr en. W. Carus, C l a B r t us h , i n ll s t . . , Collier,s tT rifuArlisitUlllgiti:ol2.l snteaspriCers:db:citinel) lasi:4 by O.: o f _Cli , u t roc Sarah, •rowLtihmiredlideausueg,h3tieird-diestshxe.late T. Burro ws hi , op , '''' On the 23d inst., at St. Mary A.bbett's, gensing jolith the Rev. J. R. Pitman, Mr. IL Squire, of Pall-mall, tlc..,'Aris' youngest daughter of W. L Pepys, Esq., F• 13 " 6 " °t. , terrace, Islington. On the 10th inst., at Grantlavillas, Queen's d Dil l"00' J. Briht, Es q., late a cashier in the Bulk of ED41,,,, t' On g the 18th inst., aged 76, Jane, relict of C. ws A of Upper George-street, Portman-square. IWe . On the 21st inst., at Kingston-on - T hames, aged 61. ;0 Esq., of Kingston, and the Mount, Hampstead, , s e lls, • On the 22d inst , the Rev. S. R. Dlaberly, ' ot 110' Somersetsh* . f J hfaberley, Es c ° t ire, youngest son o J. o 1e On tr Af tiler 11:g. ' On the 22d inst., at Upper Clapton, W...-••• -- ii Godmanchester, aged 67. OW' .sti'' On the 23d inst., at Clapham New Park, T. D. re , late of Cheapside. p a , do, rgb -s4 On the 23d inst., at Doughty-street, Mecklenbu Matilda Jane, the beloved wile of F. Webb, E 3l2 ' d, Zscl• J. Boor _• 0 At Park-hill, near Newton Abbott, 11. --------‘4"----Do l'Olg a i It London: Printed and Published b j .--,;-- " d io, 1 4 1 , N,,, -1 .1 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at 71. 4 ' 31 " 2 .2 - iis o. llllv Strand, is the Precinct of the Savoy , ul Ilidileaes, Thursday, Hay 25, ISA r ~ + ,~'_ THE SUN, __LONDON MAY 96 9 1848.