The Sun. — London, England, 1848-07-18 00:00:00

RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. LORD SIIAFTESBURY'S COIIMITTEE.--EDIN BURGH AND BATHGATE EXTENSIONS.—PreambIe proved, "and clauses agreed to. ' GRO4P 4.— LONDON AND SOUTH -WESTERN RAILWA r niwerto-Purchase• Steam-boats, &e.) —The case tQr the promoters having closed, Mr.. Sergeant VirRANGHAA was heard against the Bill on behalf of the existing steam-packet companies, whose boats ply between Southampton and the coast of France; After which the room was cleared, and, after a short deliberation, - their Lordships came to the reso l u tion that the preamble of the Bill was proved, and that for fourteen years from and after the passing of the Act the South-Western Company should be at liberty to purchase and run steam- boats between certain ports on the western coast of England and certain ports on the opposite coast of France. The CHAIRMAN intimated that it was the opinion of the Committee that the reason the Bill had been allowed to pu gs without any of the railway shareholders appear ii to o ppose it arose from the circumstance of the nature of the measure not being fully known to the general body of the South-Western proprietary, and the Committee had therefore deter mined to introduce a clause, requiring that before the capital should be raised to purchase the steam-boats the consent of three-fifths of the shareholders should be ob tained to the step. It was then agreed that the ports to be inserted in the Bill should be Southampton, Portsmouth, Gosport, Lymington, Poole, and Weymouth, on the English coast, and Havre, St. Malo, and Granville, on the French Gout. The clauses of the Bill as amended were then agreed to, and the Bill ordered to be reported. GROUP No. 6.—OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOL VERHAMPTON (No. 2).—The object of this Bill is to au thorise a deviation in the line at Wolverhampton, and the raising of additional capital ,to build a joint station there. Preamble proved, clauses agreed to, and Bill ordered to be• reported. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN (Deviations and Ex tensiOns at Leamington),—Case opened and evidence taken - in its favour. ELECTION COMMITTEE. DUBLIN. The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. ReYnolds' majo rity was resumed yesterday, but the petitioners did not succeed in striking off any additional votes to-day. UNION BANK 'OF AUSTRALIA. The annual meeting of this company was held yester day at one O'clock, it the offices', Old Broad-street. The attendance ef proptietqrs was large; . 11r.Robert Carter occupied the chair.. , • Mr: JACKSON, the manager, having read the ,adver tisement. The CHAIRMAN saidvas the report was an ample one, it would b e unnecessary for him to make any observa tions, except such as might be elicited by any questions that might be addressed' ter - him with respect to the affairs of the batik . The Hon. Gentlethan then read the . following report;7 — "In presenting their tenth annual report, the directors feel that they, may without. hesitation congratulate the proprietors of the Union Bank of Australia upon the position which the bank has attained both at home and in the colonies. "The'system of busineis which they have adopted, and which their inspector ha; very ably carried out, has been, tried during the occurrence of many of those vicis situdes in the commercial world by which banking insti tutions are moriror less, affected, and it has stood the test— The . eapiiaTlia's been reserved for the purpose of aiding the legitimate wants of trade, and the bank's advaasces resericted,.within such prudent limits as are calculated to guard against any very heavy losses. T he e vents of every day have confirmed in the minds of the directors theimportance of 'a steady adherence to these • • • • • In their supplementary report, presented in January le.st;The di - reetoirg briefly communicated the substance of l',l'Laren's very satiaractory report of inspection, ;maid© on hi's return from viAiting the branches is Van Diemen'sLiind and New South Wales. " The accounts since received from the managers fully justify that report, and although the depressed state of the wool market in England, in addition to the high price of hibour Au,,,,;lia, must for a time press heavily upon the colonial settlers and the trade, yet the directors are glad to be able to state from their recent advices that the ,inspectors and managers are prepared for tfie events that may arise, and are prudently adopting measures to protect the interests of the bank. " The steps taken by Goverament to promote emigra tion _will afford most timely and important relief to the colonies, and it is very gratifying to the directors to find that the value and necessity of a well-regulated system of emigration and colonization is fully recognised by the Legislature afhome, and felt by every one who under stands the mutual interests and relative circumstances of the colonies and the mother country. " The improvement -which has taken place in the internal condition and general circumstances of the New Zealand eolonies has induced the inspector to open a branch at Auckland.; the'seat of Government, to which Mr. Alexander Kennedy *has been appointed manager. The branch had only commenced its operations at the date of the last advices. " Of the present position of; the affairs of the hank generally, and the zeal and prudence manifested by our inspector, the local directors, and the managers, the directors are gratilhd in expressing their entire satis faction. "James Bogle Smith and B. E. Lindo, &cp., two of the present directors, retire by rotation, and offer them selves for re-election at this general meeting. "The directors now proceed to submit their annual statement of accounts, the general result of which enables them to declare a dividend, at the rate of 6 per cent:' per eunuch on the entire paid up capital of the bank, to be payable in London on the Ist of August, andin' the colonies as soon as the inspector shall fix after receipt of advices. " The dividend will be paid free of income-tax, and in orsier to equalize the division, sevenpence in the pound be added upon such dividends as are paid in the colonies." itThe following balance-Sheet was also submitted to the proprietors....— X. s. d, Bills payable 107,072 5 0 Sundr3r balances • ~ 4,358 5 7 Reaerv(jund (10percent.)£56,384 16 1 Profit and toss 45;863 13 2 LIABILITIES. 120,248 9 3 raiii,up.4*tal- * , 820,000 0 0 : ... . £1,033,678 19 10 ~.. . ASSETS. A s. d. Branch - accounts (balance) Bills receivable Investments, Government stock, and loans on security Inarauces•and open policies, &c. Ca::sS , ... '...: .... 1 ... . • £1,033,678 19 10 PROFITS. £ s. d• lislauce of undividea•Profit-atJaneo. B4 7, 37,677 10 11 To which are fits for the now to he - a dded, pro year ending at 'the _branches 31st December , 1847; and at London Office, 30th June, 1848, • after deducting amount bad debts to the " above-mentioned date... 1163,762 6 11 Deduct one-tenth for re serve fund ... . ........... 6,376 4 8 57,380, 2 3 95,063 13 2 Deduct dividend paid et Midsummer, 1847.•••••. 24,60 0 0 0 Ditto, ditto, Christmas ... 24,600 0 0 49 , 200 13 2 . . "tiihitiee of stindiided profit at this date... 45,863. 1 3 2 RESER VE FUND. s• d. tine. 1847, as per itatement • ..... ... 50,008 11 5 Add to June, 1848 as per contr a ..... . ... • 6,876 4 8 4156,384 16 1 .4 — Sri!. DE SALIS moved the adoption of the report with great pleasiire, inasmuch as during a residence at .;Sj.dney of 'some year ' s, and a visit to the . seats of all the bganches of the bank, with the exception of New Zea was steadily in -"iisind, kad found that thP bank. , tcneasing in the confidence of tne public ; and from t, uidn be could ?the experience which 4e had had of the P - 41 1 1 W , with the utmost co nfidence, that under 2 th s e sgomaucche • 4, 4 of 4 ,Cent.ro„J3pard; to • whom they were , indavArd, its business would c ontinue to increase vita it occupied ,a position which, few b a nks co uld hope sto oisain. :7 -(cheers.), .„ , , . • The motign having been seconded, 7 Quigillitax ; stated, in reply to several questions, • :that .4P1% was the second year they had paid income (jai sharehOlders residing in the colonies. The shorehnlders at the Previous meeting unanimously —agrert to 40 so. . The subject of opening a branch at Adellsitlo occupied the attention of the board, but the , nlitt4i. was " .yet undecided Upon, and • .thereforp„ it would not , well to give any .farther information at ,Spreserit . upon the mat tcr. no expense of :their colonial establishments Iv as 1,829/. ;. in 'tendon, 3,1001. ; total, '14,02 0 /. (1 lean ) s,ooo/. had heen written off on'bad debts &IF _ i naT the past, year, and the estimated loss on the 'profit 16 i loss account for the 'seine period was 8,444/. retiring directors named in,the report having been re-a lectod, and a vote of 'thanks awarded tnihe Chair /nap. and. dire c tors, thili meeting broke 'up. • nations] , ... . _,,,, Do vgA R E rups ; . D.W.toua.—Thii i g i r t ett a t n . worle,s now progressing with much s ,to shy ntv sYn7l4on3s,of what it Will be, ' The firsbeg'" :.tion, ► nt, our : readers tkre aware, BO feet of art .Lon 4, has beep; Contracted fur by the Mesure". l l, a , c e siv : ..London r; _ and the works are carried on under thti sups=- : .'1 Anteruir , pee Of their .FloOve ,egenc, Mi. Scrim 'rho Plan is .., we belie 01 , 9 that of 3'. Walker; Esq.: the eminent engi: neer; a .rulta+c :exeaution:; of the engineering department I also de , Nivea on him and his partner, Mr. Burgess. The —.:worka I pow_cx.tend 130 i'et into the sea, - and - the curve . to,th,e.., pa,4070.F01. has been -cemmenced. One diving bell • °I . l put iiptp 170Aniiii*l'OTI Mond:iy last, in the process °I . Ie.YOR mg ihe roc'ks . for 'the foundation, and another -via .tte:;:x)ropgiA. into'. use next week• or the immense Ivan-tit, .of stone (8, ; 500 tons) which his been landed here 1 wi thin a few months, nearly one-half his -:already been 1 ?ti t down.—Dover Chronicle. FRANCE. [The following appeared in our Third Edition of last night]:— The Moniteur publishes the following decree of the National Assembly, authorising the Treasury of the Republic to borrow 150,000,000 francs from the Bank of France : " FRENCH REPUBLIC. " LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRATERNITY. " In the Name of the French People. " The National Assembly has adopted the following decree ; " Article I.—The Treasury of the Republic is au thorized to borrow 150,000,000 f. from the Bank of France, subject to the clauses and conditions announced in the annexed treaty. which has been concluded be tween the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank of France. " Article 2.—The Minister is authorized, in order to realize the guarantees stipulated in the treaty-Ist, to transfer to the Bank of France the sum of rentes to be taken from th© sinking fund sufficient to cover an ad vance of 75,000,030 francs under the conditions determined by the ordonnance of the 15th June, 1834. 2d. To execute a deed of sale to the Bank of the state forests described in an appendix annexed to this treaty granted im lieu of another sum of 75,000,000 francs. Article 3.—A1l derogations, whether to the statutes of the Bank of France, or to the conditions imposed by existing legislation, which may be the consequence of the clauses and conditions of the treaty, are approved. " Considered at a public sitting held in Paris, the sth of July, 1848. " The President and Secretaries ; Aug. Portalis, Vice-President; Peupin Leon ; Robert Lan drin ; Berard; Emile Pean ; Edmond Lafayette." The conditions of the treaty concluded between the Minister of Finance and the directors of the Bank of France stipulate that the Bank of France engages. to lend the Treasury 75,000,0001., pay able by thirds during the months of July, August, and September of the present year, and 75,000,000 f. to be advanced in portions of 25,000,000 f. to be paid monthly from Jan. 1, 1849. Breviou.sly to the advance of the first 75,000,000 f. by the Bank, the Minister of Finance is to transfer to the direetors of that establish ment an equal amount of rentes to be taken from the Sinking Fund. The Government is, moreover, to sell a portion of the state forests to the directors of the Bank previous to the advance of 'the remain ing 75,000,000 f. The directors of the Bank are to have a right to sell those forests at any period after the ,Ist of January, 1849, but on condition that the sale shall take place publicly and to the highest bidder. In case there should be a profit on the sale of the forests, the direptors of the Bank are to pay the surplus:into the Treasury, or, in case of loss, the Government is to indemnify the Bank of France. The Moniteur publishes, moreover, the decree of the National Assembly, authorizing the Minister of Finance to convert the amount of the deposits in the savings' banks into rentes, bearing 5 per cent. interest for every 80 francs deposited in the savings' banks. Much pleasure is expressed in those journals at the announcement that, although.hiS recovery would be slow, the wound of General BEDEAU was progressing favourably. The _Ere Nouvelle contains the following incredible statement :—" M. LUCIEN MURAT, a representative of the people, when crossing the Champs Elysee3 on Thursday last, received two balls in his carriage. M. LUCIEN MURAT was, it is said, one of the representa tives devoted to the poiguards of the insurgents had they succeeded. The Deputies on quitting the Na tional Assembly stopped to examine the holes made in the carriage, by the balls." IVIOLD,AVIA AND WALLACHIA. The French National give the following narrative of the recent revolution in Moldavia : " Prince Bibesco was at Campo Longo, a town o the mountain, when •he• learned that a •movement was preparing at Bucharest. He returned in great haste on the 7th .June (the 19th, acUotkiing to our calendar), and immediately the authorities proceeded to search the houses of several kntiwn patriots, and among them that of the artist Nagoulitzi, of several members of the family Galesco, and of M. Galistiano. These searches hal to no discovery. The next day, the Bth (20th June), the Prince returned from the promenade, accompanied by the Minister. of... Finance, Villara. As they were passing three shots .were discharged from a vehicle, and one of them struck the epaulette of the Prince, but neither- ha nor his Minister were wounded. Whilst -the 'vehicle went off at a gallop, the Prince entered the house of his son-in-law Philippesco, and he caused himself to be escorted by a detachment to return to the Palace. Immediately after the poet C. A. Rosetti, Major Voinesco le Genne, and M. Alexander C'ocoresco, were thrown into prison as suspected persons. On the 9th (21st of June), the authori ties arrested the students of the college of St. Sebes tien; who, headed .by ar archdeacon of the cathedral, displayed agitation on the Promenade Fhilarate. Meanwhile the Prince received from Caracal, a town of Littlo Wallachia (the old barrat of Craiova), an address bearing a great number of signatures, among which were remarked those of the priest John ZnagOviano (of the monastery of Znagow), of John Ellard, of Stephen Golesco, of Gregory Plechoiano, and of Major Tell. This document made known to line that a revolutionary committee had just been formed at Caracal, and he was summoned in the name of Roumania, and of the sovereign people, to prove himself a true Rouman, to sign the new constitution, of which the text was SCLIG him, .ad to places Itimaelt* at the head of the movement. At the same time the young people of Bucharest spread themselves over the streets, distributing the new constitution. The people went in a crowd to the Palace to demand the signature of the Prince. Ile requested time fur reflection, and prayed the people to 'withdraw, and to return the next day. .But-they recalled to mind that the movement in Moldavia, two months previously, had failed for want of firmness, Stourza having demanded a day's reflection, and havingduring the night incarcerated, tortnred,and pro scribed the best patriots. The people accordingly remained: firM. Bibesco then hastened to the principal barracks, sounded the' disposition of the - soldiers, and tried to se cure their services, 'btit all declared they would not firo on their brethren. The prince accordingly returned to the palace, and signed the new constitution. On the same day, June the 2.lst, he composed a now ministry, in.. which - the chiefs of the move ment :entered. The Russian General Duhamel witnessed this revolution. , It 'is even stated that, before ceding, , Bibesco consulted him, and that Duhamel replied; ' I have no advice to give you ; the country is under mined by revoldtion -!' Imitiediately after Duhamel left for Leova (on the Pritth, in Bessarabia), and ordered the Russian troops to advance." The _Emancipation of Brussels has the following from Jassy, dated 29th ult. :—" The standard of li berty floats in Wallachia. The-Turkish cross has been raised,. and Death to the Russians! Long live the Sultan 1' is the general ,cry. • Couriers have been sent to Constantinople to solicit. roops. General DULIAMEL and the Russian Consul have fled to avoid becoming victims to the fury of.the people." The Independence of Brussels states, on the -authority of a letter of the 30th ult., from Cronstadt in' Transylvania, that "in consequence of the abdication of Prince Biaesco, and a sort of defiance thrown out to Russia by the new Government, three' regiments of Cossacks and ,hirty-two pieces of cannon had passed the Pruth." • - THE MODEL MOTHER-IN-LAW. ' (From Punch.) She is a tender creature, and requires the nicest care and the hottest luncheons to keep her in good temper. She has only one child, a daughter, but she is passion ately fond of her. She " only lives to see her dear child happy,"-:—and everybody, else miserable. To insure this it is necessary to be constantly with her. Accordingly, she " brings her things" some day before dinner, and takes possession of the best bedroom, only to stop for a week. Her weeks, however, never have a Saturday. She has no knowledge of time, as measured by the week, month, or year, but is sadly put out if supper is not brought up precisely to the -minute. But Julia always required a mother's care. She was very delicate, even as a child, and the little thing•is far from strong now. Shi3 has never left her side - for two days together since the hour she was born. Her daughter must not walk. "Do you hear Me, Julia/ I will net 'alio* it; the exer tion is too much for you,, and cabs are cheap enough, goodness. knows! You must not, exert yourself child; so give me the keys, and I'll attend to the housekeeping for You." - The shopping is attended to from the same gene rous Motive. The. tradesmen.soon look up to the mother in-law' as the mistress of. the .house, and it is not long before the- servants are 'made to acknowledge her sway, and come to her regularly for orders: - The husband is nobody—a creature to give money as it is wanted and to hold his tongue. if he ventures to remonstrate he is " killing" her daughter; and as a ,mother she is not going to allow the - milder:of lierarlitig child before her own eyes and not tell him what.she thuai s a b ou t i t ! H e i s reminded every day that "belittle knows the treasure • he possesses in that dear creature;':, and if he hints any thing about the creature costing him rather dear for a-I " treasure," he is asked if he calls himself it man? If l poor Julia has"a headache, the husband is blamed for it. "It is all his doing, he knows it is. Didn't he speak. harshly to her at b re akfast'?" If the dinner- i s ' b a dl y cooked he must not say a word, for the tears imme diately flow, and th e mother quickly upbraids hi Dir; a s atia a wretch Who ought , to be ashedaof,biunlfsehlfefrortipeeak ing in that way to a suffering go on ,the continent , his motive Shee r wyould clear; t have u le t ) the crime be upon his o wn head! " is 3. v e " gibes!"s .0- g mbles. about any 'extravagant -outlay? his feelings . a f ter wards for a thousand po! not If he i"g /Mow - her daughter toStarve tor, t n he d if the new p..nry." She tells him •' he is killing h er, a , , sake of a curtains' arc not instantly put up in the drawing rOOlll she will - notens - wet for the consequen ces! She s hould like very meet' to know what he ca lls himself. The Model Mother-in-Law .in her kindest mood is feartai, but she is Most despotic when there has been a tyrant then rules with the iron rulting-pin of a female Nero. All the little attempts of the poor husband to maintain his rights are •loudly anathematized. as " base machinations td 'secure her 'poor daughter's property. He .wishes to drive Julia malt, but she sees through his 'lean devices!" Letters, too, 'are • rifled - for Secrets—poCkets ransacked for_ billet dour old servants dismissed; new ones hired, the dinner Hour altered, Ihe lundheoa kept on the. table all day, and the children brought4onielfrom school, just as Mrs. Spitfire pleases. The hOuse 4 ; 0404 famiiy Basj tile. . No one -dares. mope jait,..err : some in.'without h* permission. The latch-key is surrendered : , the hutl • band is suite under the mother-ia-laws surveillance, anti THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 18, 1848. is only let out upon parole. Woe to him if he returns home a minute late! Ile is asked through the keyhole "if he is not ashamed of himself ?" and before ho has wiped his feet on the door-mat, he is told, loud enough for all the servants to hear it, that " Julia is determined not to endure his abominable profligacy any longer—the poor thing is sinking fast into a premature grave, and she is resolved upon having a separate establishment." The next morning the mother-in--law and her daughter leve with a hundred bandboxes, and the husband is left alone without as much as the key of the tea-caddy to console himself with. But he is not allowed to enjoy his solitude long. A St. Swithin of letters from the mother in the name of her injured daughter, keeps pour ing in upon him, reproaching him with everything short of arson. He is visited at length by his dread enemy even in person, and after an hydraulic scene, made more terrible by the threat, that " she will never leave him till she has brought him to a sense of the injuries he has inflicted upon that sainted creature," he is obliged to capitulate; he falls upon his knees before his wife, and begs to be forgiven. The mother-in-law stands by, like a stern Nemesis of the sex, and will not allow the poor culprit to rise before he has confessed over and over and over again how deeply he was in the wrong, and " what an infamous wretch he must have been ever to doubt such angelic goodness!" The husband's children belong, properly speaking, to the Model Mother in-Law. She superintends their education, dresses them, whips them, physics them, and does whatever she pleases with them. She begs " he'll not interfere in matters he can not possibly understand." It is at the advent of a new baby, however,othat her tyrannic power is the most ab solute; the whole household then, from kitchen to garret, is under her thumb, and the centre of a large circle of Godfreys, Gawps, Prigs, and Dalbys, she administers elixirs and commands alternately, which no one dares disobey. The doctor even succumbs to her; and as for the poor husband he sinks to the smallest possible point of virile insignificance. He rings the bell—no one answers it; he wanders about a miserable Peter Schlemhil in his own house—a husband who has lost even the sha dow of authority. He asks for his dinner—not a soul knows anything about it. A bed is fitted up for him somewhere in a lumber room at the top of the house. He asks to see his wife, but is met by the mother-in-law at the door, and questioned if " the man really wishes to kill his innocent babe and wife?" He is " the man." The Model Mother-in-Law is essentially a " strong minded woman." She is always telling people ." a bit of her mind." The husband .gets a bit every day. All his relations, too, who dare " to put their noses into what does not concern them," are favoured with " a bit "—a good large bit—also. Her mind, like the bell of St. Sepulchre, is never tolled, unless it is the prelude to some dreadful execution. She dearly loves a quiet family. The Model Mother-in-Law makes a principle of living with her victims. When once in the house she is as difficult to get out as the dry-rot, and if allowed her own way soon undermines everything and brings the house "in no time " about everybody's ears. She goes out of town with them every year. She should never forgive herself if anything happened when she was away and she was not near her dearest Julia to aid and comfort her. The husband's comfort is never con sidered. If ho does succeed in driving her out of his house his torments - are by no means at an end, for the chances are that she takes a lodging in the seine street, and lives just opposite to him. Then she amuses herself _by running' back - Wards and forwards all day, dropping in to, dinner or luncheon about six times a week, or else watching everything that takes place in his house from over the window blinds of her " first pair front." His only escape, then, is in e.tablishing a So ciety for the Promotion of Emigration from England of all homeless mothers-in-law who have only one daughter. If this.shonld be fruitless,this only hope is in procuring a law to annul all marriages where the hus band can prove that he has married " a treasure of a (laughter "Lpho has a " jewel of a mother," If this remedy . eveu .. should ho had better take a couple of Life Pills, for, there is "„uo rest but the grave" for the _husband ..wlaO groans under a Model Mother-in- Law.... • . . 131 PERI AMEN T i urn moved for on the 19th day of April last by Lord George Bentinck, relative to the articles imported during the first four months of the years 1845, 1846, 1847, and tB4B respectively, which articles are not included in the returns usually furnished by the Board of Trade, will be presented to this House; and whether it is the intention of her Majesty's Government to afford the whole of that information to the House which has been sent to the Treasury, under the above return, by the Custom-house authorities, before or on the 13th day of the present month. Mr. PARKER said the returns had already been laid upon the table. . SUNDAY-TRADING BILL. In answer to a question from Sir BENJAMIN HALL, Mr. HINDLEY stated that he was reluctantly com plied to withdraw the Sunday-trading Bill for the pre sent session. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 17. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. APPEALS IN CIVIL BILLS (DUBLIN) BILL. On the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, this Bill was read a second titre. Lord BEAUMONT presented several petitions from various lodges of Odd Fellows in favour of the Bill legalizing their societies. PROTECTION OF FEMALES. Lord BROUGHAM, in answer to a question from Lord Campbell, said be should not proceed with his Bill on this subject during the present session. IRELAND. Lord BROUGHAM called the attention of the Go• vernment to the recent field-day of the clubs in Ireland. These clubs should be taught that it was useless to wrestle with the law, and if the law was not sufficiently strong to put them down, it should be made sufficiently strong. The answer of the Marquis of LANSDOWNE was inaudible in the gallery. RETURNS FRONI THE BOARD OF TRADE. Lord BROUGHAM complained that a mernant had applied to the Board of Trade for the usual monthly re turns, and had been informed that he could not obtain them until the next day, yet that very day he had seen them in a newspaper. He complained that the Govern ment acted unfairly in not giving their advertisements and their information to all newspapers equally without favouritism. INDIAN COTTON. ; Mr. BRIGHT brought up the report of the Select Committee on Indian cotton. SUGAR DUTIES. Mr. HUME said he • had a notice on the paper to the effect that the Chamber of Commerce of Jawaica be heard, by their agent, at the bar of this I louse, against the Bill for admitting slave-grown sugar, and against the breach of faith and the injuries inflicted ttiereby on the island of Jamaica, as prayed for in their petition, printed in the Appendix to the 55th Report on Public Petitions, No. 1,153. Since giving the notice he had ascertained that the parties ought to have petitioned to have been heard against the Bill of 1846, and that they could not be heard against the present measure. The SPEAKER said the information the lion. Mem ber had received was quite correct. This was not a case in which petitioners could be heard. Mr. HUME said, under those circumstances he must withdraw his motion. DUTIES ON CORN. Lord G. BENTENCK asked whether the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) had any objection to lay on the table of the ilt;use the minute ntider which the remission of duties on corn had taken place. He also wished to know, 'assuming that the: course taken by the Govern ment in remitting those duties was illegal and un constitutional, whether it was the intention of the Noble Lord to ask the House to pass a Bill oflndemnity. Lord J. RUSSELL replied that he had no objection to lay the minute in question before the House. He did not consider that the course taken by the Government was either illegal or unconstitutional, and, therefore, it was not his intention to bring in any Bill of Indemnity. THE SPIRIT DEALERS' WAREHOUSING BILL. In reply to a question,. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that he proposed to take this Bill as it stood on the paper, but merely pro forma, in order that the suggestions that lisd been received from various _parts of the country, and which had been embodied in it, might be printed ; the Bill would then come before the douse in an amended state, in which he hoped it would be adopted. ARTERIAL DRAINAGE (IRELAND). SPAIN. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY wished to know whether the Government kept up any communication with Spain, so as to remonstrate against the renewal of such atrocities as the shooting of General Alzaa, and the reprisals which had taken place on the part of the Car lists by the shooting of certain of the civic guard. He com plained that the whole of the recent correspondence with the Spanish Government had not been published? He wished to know in what state we were with respect to our relations with Spain? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he would not take upon himself to say that the Government was in a state to answer all questions that might be put with regard to Spain; but he could state, with regard to the outrage alluded to, that one general had been put to death by another general, both of those generals having been formerly in the Carlist service; but this had oc ' curred before there had been time for any diplomatic • agent . of a foreign power to interfere. The E 4.1 of MALMESBURY said the present Go vernment of this country had a very considerable advan tage over their predecessors who were in office during the last civil war in Spain; and knowing well how anxious the Noble Marquis and the other members of her Majesty's Government would be to prevent the re currence of such deeds as disgraced the former civil war, he begged to remind them that the pretender to the crown of Spain was residing in London at the present moment, and was, therefore, within reach of the advice of her Majesty's Government. Den Carlos was not in London during the former war, and could not, therefore. have been communicated with. But he felt sure that if her Majesty's Governtnent made any suggestion to a party residing in this country, it would be attended to. He was quite sure it would he attended to by the Spanish pretender): and he hoped her Majesty's Government would use there influence with him to induce him to re call those partisans of his whom they saw leaving this country day by day, and going to lose their lives in Spain. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE reminded the Noble Lord that the personage alluded to was living here as a private gentleman; that the Government had no right to interfere with him; that it did not appear that he was holding himself forth as a Pretender to the Crown of Spain, and that. if he did so hold himself, the Government of this country could not recognise him by holding any communication with him as such. After a few words from the Marquis of LONDON DERRY, the subject dropped. CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT BILL. The Criminal Law Administration Amendment Bill was, on the motiou of Lord CAMPBELL, read a third time and passed.. .• • •.. scorns!' LAW OF ENTAIL BILL. On .the order of the day being moved for going into Committee on this Bill, The Earl of HADDINGTON begged to state some objections which he entertained ao certain parts of it. It treated some vested rights with a lightness which it was not becomine on the part of their Lordships' house to sanction. TFieir, Lordships ought to hold those rights scred. _ He did not conceive this Bill was called for by the necessities of the case; he should therefore move that the Bill be committed on this day three months.. Lord. CAMPBELL said that he did not consider that the • Noble Earl was very consistent in the course which he had taken, for he: objected to the present 'law of entail in Scotland, yet he called upon their Lordships to perpetuate the present entails in seculum seculorum. He should therefore oppose the amendment. Lord WII ARNCLIFFE entertained strong objections to the piesentlaw of entail in Scotland, but he objected to the present Bill, as it . was a most unnecessary interfe rence with private rights. Lord BROUGHA NI felt great douht as to the retro spectiie operation of this Bill in the way proposed. He did not yield without hesitation; but after the matter had undergone so much consideration, he thought they might go into Conimittee to see whether they could not improve it in such a way as to meet the objections urged against it. The amendment was negatived without a division, and the House having resolved itself into Committee, the Bill passed without amendment, and was reported to be read a third time to-morrow. CANADA UNION ACT AMENDMENT BILL. On the motion of Earl GREY, that this Bill be read a third time, Lord STANLEY said that he did not mean to object to the third reading of the Bill. It must be iu the recol lection of the House that it was enacted by the Canada Union Act !hat the English should be recognized as the only legal language of that colony ; but by this Bill it was proposed to go back and to allow the use of the French language in certain cases in the lower part of the coluny. He did not believe there was any necessity for this change ; and he_ believed the ultimate result of it would be to affect the validity of the union of the two provinces. ' Earl GREY said the existing state of the law had proved inconsistent with the welfare of the colonies, and this Bill was considered necessary to introduce a better state of things. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. The Officers Cl Courts of Justice (Ireland) Assimila tion of Appointments Bill and the Copyhold Enfran chisement Extension Bill went through Committee. . Their Lordships then adjourned. In reply to another question, The RIGHT floss. BARONET stated that the whole of the information on this subject would be contained in the general report of the Board of Works. It was in the hands of the printer, and would be laid before the House with as little delay as possible. BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. Lord J: RUSSELL then rose and said—Mr. Speaker, in answer to a question from the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) I stated that I would on this day follow in the usual course which has been adopted of late years, and state to the Muse what Bills the Government purpose pro ceeding with during the present session, and those which they intend to abandon. I can only state their intentions with respect to the principal Bills, those only which' are of great importance; it is not necessary, I think, for the Government to go into any statement with respect to the Bills which are of minor importance, with the details of which it is unneces sary for me to trouble the House. With regard to these Bills, the first that I shall mention is the Public Health Bill, which has passed through this House. It has been read a second time in the House of Lords, and now stands for a third read ing. With respect to that Bill, the Government in tend to press for the defiuite opinion of Parliament upon it during the present session. We hope to place that Bill in a position to enable it to receive the royal assent during the present session. The next Bill I have to mention is the Incumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill. That Bill has come down froia the House of Lords ; many amendments have been intro duced into it by this House, and it has gone through Committee with the general assent of the House. I shall press on that Bill, and endeavour to receive the assent of the House of Lords to the amendments made, in order that it may pass into- a law during the present session: I think that is a Bill of the greatest importance, and one which ought speedily to be passed into a law. There is a Bill which I introduced the other night, and which I propse shall be read a se cond time on Thursday next—l allude to the Bill relating to corrupt practices at the elections for boroughs.—(Hear.) That is a Bill likewise of great importance, as it refers to inquiries into the practices, into the conduct of the electors of such boroughs with regard to which the House has heard much during the present session. I think that that Bill is of too important a character to allow that it should be postponed. I shall therefore proceed with that Bill un Thursday next. There is another Bill with respect to which many ques tions have been frequently asked—the Diplomatic Re lations with Rome Bill. That Bill has come from the other House of Parliament ; it is in the hands of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affsirs, and he will, on the first open day, move that it be read a second time, with the view of proceeding with it in the present session. I come now, Sir, to a Bill of the utmost importance, founded on a recommendation of a Committee on the navi gation-laws, and on which various - debates have taken place. Owing to the debates that have taken place on the propriety of increasing the force of the army and navy. and on the expediency of the renewal of the income-tax, we were prevented from intro• ducing that measure early in the session—l mean the resolutions on which we intended to frame a Bill for an alteration of the navigation-laws. Since the mea sure was introduced in May, another measure has like wise been proposed with respect to sugar, on which long debates have taken place. We have, therefore, been disappointed in the hope which we entertained that we should be enabled to go on con tinuously with that Bill as soon as it was introduced. As matters stand now, considering the late period of the session to which we have arrived, the great importance of the question, and that it cannot for some time go up to the House of Lords, we have come very reluctantly to the opinion that we cannot proceed with that Bill during the present session.—(Surprise.) Having stated that we shall not proceed with this Bill during the pre sent session, I trust there will be no objection on the part of the House to go into Corn mittee on the Bill with the view of assenting to propositions of my Right Honourable Friend, so that the nature of its provisions, and the de bate upon them may be placed before the country for, consideration before the ensuing session. Sir, I feel that while this measure has been the sub ject of great discussion in this country, that the failure of its passing in the present session will be a great disappointment in some. of- our most important colonies.—(Hear, hear.) I think it my duty, however, to declare that, without blaming any one, or without im puting delay to any one, that the Government will pro pose to introduce the measure at the very earliest period next session, and after the discussion it has received, and the approbation of the principle exe pressed by •a large majority of the House, that the important province of Canada, and the foreign powers to whom we have held out the prospect that the navigar tion-laws would . be repealed, will feel confident that next session a measure will be passed taking away the restrictions on navigation—(Hear, hear)—and that they will entertain no doubt that such a measure will receive the assent of rarliatnent. It is also, as a conse quence upon that, the intention of the Government to withdraw the Mercha nt Seamen's Service Bill. There is another measure which I consider of very great im portance with respect to Ireland, namely, the Bill with respect to the Elective Franchise of Counties in Ireland. That is a most important measure ; but I am not.disposed at this time to begin a measure of such im portance, and I, therefore, propose to postpone that mea sure to another. session. There is another mea sure of great importance with regard to Ireland— the Landlords and Tenants Bill—which we shall endeavour to obtain the , assent of the House to in the course of the present session. There are various other Bills of minor importance in the long list of to-day, many of which the Government have no r thing to do with. I have, however, now stated the intentions of the Government with regard to the pr incipal Bills, and I shall now conclude by proposing t hat the order of the day for the second reading of the Merchant Seamen's Fund Bill should be now read for the purpose of its being discharged. Mr. GOULBURN said the repeal of the navigation laws w as held out to the House as being calculated to confer immense bvnefit upon the. West India colonies, and he therefore wished to ask the Noble Lord whether, in abandoning the navigation-laws, he had any other measure in contemplation to compensate the West Indies for the loss of the benefit that would have been conferred upon them by the repeal of the navigation-laws. Mr. HERRIES. entirely concurred in the course the Noble Lord proposed to pursue with respect to the navigation-laws, and he could state that his party would offsr no obstacle to the preliminary step the Noble Lord proposed to take this session'in reterence.to their repeal; but it was not to be understood by this concession that the * Protectionist party had at all changed their views nisi . ' the subject, or that they would not as strenuously eppose the repeal next session as they had this.—(hear.) Mr. BRIGHT considered this was" a fitting oppor tunity to make one or two observations with respect to the progress of business this session, and with regard to what his considered 'te be 'the unfortunate course Government had pursued.—(Hear,_ hear.) kle was not going to enter ,Into a discussion of the merits of the navigation laws, but he; was certain that they were mentioned in the Queen's Speech, and the great raaniffacturing, isimmerciel, and shipping towns were in favour of their abolition.—(Cries of Hear, hear.") The Noble . Lord bad introduced the Bill on the naviga tion-laws in May last, but he (Mr. Bright) confessed it was his,opinion that the Government did not appear to be very anxious to ,have it passed. He knew not . what . was the, rea son of postponing it, but no doubt . they were afraid of the hostility which the weasi z ire would encounter from Hon. p Gentlemen oppo site. Ile now thought it necessary to call the attentign • RAILWAY SHARE iVIARKETS. • , LIVERPOOL, JULY 17. .• STOCK . EXCRANGE.—Out share 'inarßet continues steady, but with "only' a limited business doing. The sales are— Great Northern, 8 5 , 8 dis.- - Lancashire and Yorkshire (late M. and B.), Fifths, 1 dis.--:Ditto,.lol. Preference, Bs. 9d. p. Ditto (late West Ridingliiion), Fifths, 31. 13s. 9d. dis.— Ditto (Preston and Wyre, No. 1), 34LA-44ondon and North- Western. 127—Ditto, New. Quarters, 1% p.—Ditto (Leeds and Dewsbury), 384—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln shire. 'lOl. Preference; 10 1 / 87 -Midland Stock, 106 c.—Ditto, New Halves, 5% dis.—North StaffordShite, 2% dis.—Shrews bury and Hereford,' dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 3, dis.—Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, dis.— 'Mk; Newcastle, and Berwick (G. isT. E. Purchase), p. '• ' • - MANCHESTER, JuLt 17.. Szocic ExcuANGE..—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction; 31/. Shares, 7 7-16 dis.— East Lancashire, Preference,' Quartets, 14 , p.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 42—Great Northern; 8 3 / 4 'dis. - Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, Ic. diX. - -;-:Ditto, Preference, 1,4 c. p.— London and North-Western (Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal), 23L-Ditto, ditto (unpaid up), 7 dis.— London and South-Western, 48!4—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference 101( 3 —Ditto (Grimsby), 20/. Shares, 8% dis.=Ditt6 (Slieffield and Lincolnshire), 9% ois.—North Staffordshire,' dis.South-Eastern and ' Dover, No. 4,2% e. dis:" • 'BIRMINGHAM, JULY 17. Brock EzCILINGE.—The absolute liminess transacted to day was very' limited ; the 'only sales being Birmingham. Wolverhampton, and • Dudley, 4 p.—and South Stafford shire, 275. Bd. dis. YORK, JULY 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was as follows : —Great Northern, 6% c.l—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N.E. Purchase), 9% c. ELOPEMENT ERTRAoRDINARY.—An event of this kind, attended with .rather strong circumstances, and which has 'furnihed a fertile subject for the gossip loving people' of Luton, near. Bedford, took place on Saturday. A jolly landlord, enjoying the name of Gregory, who also to some extent. carried on the bonnet trade, having a wife and seven children in one of nature's unguarded moments contracted an intimacy with a well- , known woman, .possessing the expressive name of Sharp, which 'ended in the matters about to' be re corded. On the morning in question the gay sprightly youth of forty proceeded to London by one of the early coaches, having previously forwarded a considerable stock of bonnets ; the frail fair one fol lowed by a later conveyance. The amiable pair were seen walking together along one of the streets in the town just before the coach started. It must not be, omitted to be mentioned that Gregory had told his wife) that probably he might not return home for a day or two, as the parties he expected to purchase the goods might not arrive in London on the darappointed. Nothing? wrong was suspected by his confiding better half until; the evening, when, on the non-appearance of her! husband, something induced her to , take stock of his, wardrobe. To her astonishment and grief, she found that her disgraceful partner had not only taken the' greater part of his clothes, but provoking cool ness had not forgotten his humble shaving ap- , paratue. On the following, morning certain un-: pleasant reports were circulated, which soon reached the ears of Mrs. Gregory, and greatly increased' her suspicions. Accordingly she started for London: on Sunday morning in search of her runawar husband, leaving the house and her children in the care of her sister. Search appears to have been whollrfruit less, as no tidings of his whereabout could, ,be learnt. Current report says he intends.proceeding to, Australia With his worthless companion. —Somerset County Herald.' BARR FORGERY AT •LREDs.—Yesterday a respect able l oo ki n o• man,, from twenty-eight to thirty years of age, was brought up at the Leeds Court-house, before the Mayor and two of the borough magistrates, charged with having uttered five forged notes, each purporting to be a 5/. promissory note of the bank of Messrs. Bec kett, the old and respectable banker§ in Leeds. The name of the prisoner is Samuel Bettison. Holmes, and he is said to be a solicitor, lately of London, but formerly of Hull, where he has some relatives well connected. The' evidence went to show that In the course of Friday, the 7th inst, the prisoner severally put off the five notes in queition—one at a public-house, one at a beer-shop, one at a linendraper's, one at a grocer's, and one at a provi= sion'shop, in each case purchasing some trifling artiele,, , 'tendering a forged note iu payment, and receiving back the chahge. He was apprehended at Ilunslet at an. early, hour on Sunday morning, at the house of a relative (a guard on the Leeds and Bradford Railway) Hedenied the charge, and said he should be able to prove an alibi ; but he admitted that, was in Leeds on the 7th of July, the day the forged notes were paid. He was remanded until Wednesday. The forged notes are tolerably well executed, - being well engraved, and the, signatures (always in writing in the genuine notes) being litho. graphed. Several other forged notes of the same kind have been successfully passed in Leeds and the neigh bourhood.-• Messrs. Beckett have offered rewards for the discovery and conviction of the forger, and of any person uttering or attempting to utter the same. RACE ROUND IRELAND.—The Liverpool Albion states that a novel match, for 2501., has been made by Mr, Naylor, the banker, and Mr. Thomas Ripley. Mr: Naylor has backed his cutter yacht, the Sultana,,of 100 tons,ao sail against Mr. Ripley's iron barque` Panic, 400 tons, round the coast of Ireland. On Saturday , about noon,"the vessels started' on tbbir' novel cruise, the starting point being the North-west Light-ship. There was a large company on board each of the rivaarques; and the start • was Made in' gallant style The. rival vessels will each take the same course round, going by the southern channel and returning by the northern. The Dreadnought steam-tug, which took out on Satur day a party of gentlemen 'to witness the start, returned about eight o'clock in the evening, and reported that, at the time she 'left the rival' craft the cutter yacht wag fully seven miles to the windward. of the barque. The captain-of • the Nimrod, Cork steamer, - saw the yacht about half past six on Sunday morning, and the barque little before ten, the former being about four hours' . sail in' advance of its opponent. The fineness of the weather se far, of course, tells powerfully to thu ad • vantages of , the yacht. The match, from its novelty, excites - considerable interest. The timo of return will x ou ittheat may e b lt r e e l y in e twi dependentt irt' winds t Mitroitp. -;-- Considerable activity prevails in the import trade at Pembroke Yard. There are at Present :- . everal vessels' discharging - timber there, the greater proportion of which is intended for naval purposes.- The toltowingure the-arrivals this week :—ltesolution, Gales; and Emilia Searle, Ilescroff, from . Quebec; Faside, Potts, from Savanaah Irvine, Doughty; 'and' Thomas, Drapf-r, from Ancona ; Adrastus, Markham, from Trieste.— Cumbrian.• • . • Prin — to ce A ta c k g e o e r "view V l o rir t h e 0 or oTu beforeeEh o t h i led O r i t i i S o E o ll e O s Liris Majesty,Txt t p ee o c o . a n ps e l oa r rc a te l , tirlh'ea feewortyasn'eler-in-Chief, and the members of the L6ndon Staff. Gin -drinking,' was first, brought into fashion by William 111. fit" St. James's Palaee, where 'his "Wing? Majesty sat drinking Schiedam till all was blue HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 17. • The SPEAKER -took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. Mr. Sheriff HILL appeared at the bar, and pre sented u petition from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the city of London, praying for leave to bring -in a Bill to amend the Recovery of Small Debts Act, so far as it related to the city of Lon don. CONSIDERATION OF LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were considered and agreed to:— Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester Railway Branches Bill. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Ash- ton Canal Purchase) Bill. Mid Lana Railway (branch to Ripley, &c.) BilL Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Bill. TEI IRD READINGS. The followlifg — BillT we're read a third time and passed: Herrick's (or Hale's) Estate Bill. New Grand Canal Company (Ireland —No. 2) Bill. Richmond. and Reeth Road Bill. River Nene Ithprovement and Drainage Bill. DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ROME. Sir R. H. ING LIS presented a petition, signed by 3,000 clergymen and members of the Church of England, praying the House not to pass into a law the Bill to esta blish diplomatic relations with Rome. of the House to one or two facts which were calculated on going into Committee of Supply, by which the whole t create in the minds of the people out of 1 state and condition of Ireland would be brought under doors the conviction that during this session their discussion, he (Lord John Russell) thought the present representatives had not attended to the duty which had was not the proper occasion on which to enter into been committed to their charge. The House met before the general question of the state of Ireland; but as the Christmas for the express purpose of considering the Hon. Member (Mr. Blight) had taken upon himself 1 Bank Charter Act, and also the afflicting state of Ireland; to represent the opinions of the Government, and .had but the only measure of importance which was then stated that the Government had declined to go on with passed was one avowedly for the protection of the rights tile 'lrish Franchise Bill because they understood it of property in Ireland, but in reality to disarm would be opposed as being a new Reform Bill, be a certain portion of the Irish people. Atter Christmas begged to tell the lion. Member that he was wholly another Irish question was brought before the House misinformed on that matter. With respect to his state and -he begged to observe that Irish questions had always meat on the subject of the navigation-laws the Hon. afforded a constant dish for discussion within the recol- Member was equally misinformed, because the Govern lection of the oldest Member.—(Laughter.) Measures went had been extremely anxious to carry forward their had been passed, with the unanimous concurrence of views on that subject, but it was impossible to have in-, the House, for the purpose of putting down apprehended troduced the measure at an earlier period than had or existing disturbances in Ireland, and it was with refe- been the case unless they had allowed the Income-tax rence to Ireland that his observations were chiefly intended and the Mutiny Acts to have expired. The Noble to apply. There was also another Bill which had been Lord the Member for King's Lynn (Lord G. Bentinck) introduc d, of great importance, for facilitating the sale had referred to the reply made to Lord Elgin by the of incumbered estates in Ireland. The Bill for extend- Canadian people on the subject of the navigation-laws,, ing the franchise in Ireland, and for improving the re- and had inquired why that document had not been. , gietration, was not to be proceeded with this session. laid on the table. The simple answer was, that the GO-- The session was now about to terminate, and vernor-General of Canada had not transmitted it to the the Government had given no information as Colonial-office. But, as a reply to the Noble Lord, he to what they intended to do with that country. (Lord J. Russell) would refer him to the original me lt was the duty of the Government to have considered morial of the Canadians, in which they state (speaking the question of the Church. The day V. as rapidly of the navigation-laws) that " they did not believe that coining when the Irish Church must sink, and if he the repeal of those laws would destroy the relations were an English Churchman ho should be one of the which ex isted between Canada and the mother countr y ;" first to get rid of the Irish Church question. If thus showing that they wished to maintain theconnexion, they were to believe the newspapers, they were and that they believed the repeal of those laws would ma the eve of .an insurrection in Ireland, and tend to that object. The lion. Gentleman opposite , Government ought not to allow Parliament to (Mr. Forbes) had inquired with respect to the Scotch separate till steps had been taken to convince the Irish Registration Bill, which was now in the other House. If people, who were not anxious for insurrection, that there that Bill came down soon his Hon. and Learned Frieud was some hope for the future. The Irish representation the Lord Advocate would proceed with it. • was a fraud and a delusion, and having wanted the House Mr. FORBES—On what day? of what his opinions were with regard to Ireland, he , Lord J. RUSSELL said he could not name the day must wash his hands of all responsibility for the evils until the Bill came down from the other House. His ' that were coming on Ireland.—(Oh, oh.) Hon. Friend the Hon. Member for the University -:of Atter a few words from Mr. J. YOUNG, Oxford (Sir R. H. Inglis) had remarked that Ministers Mr. VERNON SMITH said he did not think Govern- expected to prorogue Parliament in the second week in ' ment was open to the censure which the Honourable August. He (Lord John Russell) entertained no such Member for Manchester had cast upon them for not expectation. — (Hear , hear.) He did not thi n k it p ossible proceeding more rapidly with the business of the session. that it could take place so early; b ut o f course that It had aways been the custom to bring in a would depend upon the time given to the discussion of number of measures at the commencement of the session, those_Bills which were' intended to be proceeded with. and to-throw over many of them towards the close of In speaking of Ireland and Irish measures, it had been the session; but he confessed he thought there were alleged that, with respect to the Landlord and Tenant less Bills thrown over this session than he remembered Bill, the Irish Members had not been consulted. Now, to have been thrown over at former periods.—(Hear, that Bill had been referred to a Select Committee'. hear.) He should, however, have been more satisfied of which a great majority were Irish Members; — ' - and with the termination had the poor-law settlement and that Committee had recommended the Bill in its pre the emigration questions been disposed of: He hoped sent form. The Hon. Member for Manchester the Right lion. President of the Poor-law Board meant (Mr. Br e ght), in finding fault with the couduct to proceed with the Bill he had brought in on the ques of the Government, had admitted that the Sale tion of settlement.—(Yes.) For though that measure of Incumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill was an A c t did not go the length. he could wish, he hoped it might essential to the foundation of the improved social con ! lead to such a solution of - the difficulty as should be be- dition of Ireland; and he (Lord J. Russell) asked the neticial to .the poor. With regard to emigration, he douse whether a greater compliment could be paidtd thought it might be approached with more advantage the Government who introduced and pressed forward now than at any former time. The colonies were most that measure than the admission made by an Hon. Mem anxious for our superabundant labour, and our unem- ber when indulging in attacks and invectives upon the ployed labourers were anxious to emigrate. He hoped Government? - In reply to a question put by his Hon; his Right lion. Friend would state whether he intended Friend the Member for the University of Oxford (Sir to propose any vote or motion on this subject before the R. H. Inglis), he had to state, with respect to the mea session closed, which would probably give rise to discus.. sure for the alteration of the oaths required to be taken sion. by Members, that public business had so much increased Sir J. WALSH understood the Noble Lord to say • since he had given notice of that treasure, that it was that he would ask the House to agree to the principle not his intention to make any motion on that subject of the Landlord and Tenant Bill, but did not intend to during the present session; but, believing as he did that press the details this session. He feared such an arrange- the oaths now taken were very unnecessary and almost went-would be most inconvenient, and he hoped the drew ridicule on that which ought to be a solemnity; he Noble Lord .would recotisider his determination. should, early next session, renew his notice, with a view Lord J. RUSSELL had said that he would endea v ou r to their alteration. As to the Diplomatic Relations' with to pass the measure, but that he attached more impor- Rome Bill, he believed there would be no great opposi e Lance to the principle of it than to any details it might tion to it, and he hoped Parliament would not refuse contain, but that he should not therefore refrain from its assent to it before the present session was brought to proceeding with the details if possible. a close. Sir J. WALSH—But it was in the details that the Mr. B. OSBORNE said, though he agreed that dia.. real importance and efficacy of the measure consisted. cussions like the present were unfit to be entertained, Sir R. INGLIS could not conceive with what hope still he was of opinion that at this moment the Ilduse his Noble Friend proposed to proceed with the Diplce ought not to deceive itself or the country with respeCt. to matic Relations with Rome Bill, against which he (Sir the real state of Ireland. That was a matter of far 'too R. Inglis) had that day presented a petition signed by serious import to be dismissed in an easy off-hand man -3:500 clergymen of the Church of England. When the nor, as had been done by the Noble Lord at the bend of • Hon. Member for Manchester told them in a tone of the Government, and by other Hon. Members who had eloquence which he hoped not to imitate—(A laugh)— spoken on the point. He intended to make no attack on that the Church of. Ireland must go down and the Church the Government with respect to their conduct towards of England with it, he would say to that Hon. Gentle- Ireland, because on the principle that he would not man that he hoped and was confident that the Church of speak ill of the dead, so he would say nothing against Ireland and England would long survive his sect. With a dying and expiring Government.—(" Hear, hear," .regard to his Noble Friend at the head of the Govern- and a laugh.) Ile had resisted the cry for repeal, iP he a r rli f a o m r e m nt a l low but (sir h D. Mont, he must ask him what he intende d to do with the because he had thought justice would be done to theH nouorab p l e e r m al ena eland Bill of which he gave notice on the Ist of June, for al kln tering the oaths to be taken by the Member s of that joined s with by the Norreys) in saying, that if session after session wasal- House,—(Loud cries of "Hear.") - Mr. RICARDO said 'that it' the Noble Lord had lowed to pass—if promises made out of office were not been sincere in the principles of free trade he had so fulfilled when in office, he would join the Irish Con often enunciated he - would net have abandoned his federation to get the management of their affairs into measure for repealing , their own hands. He must say that the conduct of the the navigation-laws, which was towards Ireland had been a delusion, a stoc k er in tact the key-stone of free trade.—(Hear, hear.) But, Whigs ); whether he was right in that opinion or not , certain he and a snare. They had induced their supp or t e r s to join was thht it was deeply wrong and mischievous to delay them in a factious vote to turn out the Right Hon. the settlement of a great question. In this case the Baronet the Member for Tatnworth ; and when they got delay would leave the shipowners, merchants and ship- into office the first thing they had done was to pass a builders of the country in a state of the utmost uncer- coercion Bill, and since November the only remedial tainty, which must be productive of the greatest evil. measure was the Incumbered Estates Bill ; and even Mr. HUME concurred in the Hon. Member's opinion, that would not have gone on but for the circumstance of the Hon. and . Learned Member for Plymouth having and called attention particularly to the effect of this succeeded Sir D. Dundas in the office of Solicitor bGu e t naenr anarchy r l c . h y T a h n e d coursebloodshed, and d y hteh for r Noble c cared e o r d d hn a eo ri at slid howoh i s , • extraordinary announcement on the colonies, producing, as in this country, the greatest uncertainty.—(Hear, hear.) The conduct of the Government respecting Ire- colleagues with respect to Ireland could lead to nothing soon they were out o: ti rf li elc i. e . :2 ;;;; land was still more extraordinary, for• after great pro be t a en a u tr re of raises of measures of amelioration, their chief measure was a gagging Bill.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Baronet Government, of any party, would turn out the men ° of strawiren Ireland this were country now the Member for the University of Oxford expressed a hope that the Irish Church would last as long as the Church in this country. He (Mr. Hume) greatly Mr. Ng W DEG ATE reminded Hon. Members-that &edited it—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," from the when tie people of Ireland complained that more was Irish Members)—for he looked at that Church as being not done for them, they forgot that they did not 'ap the root of the evil in Ireland. prosch either the Government or the House in a forum Mr. LABOUCHERE felt as deeply as any Hon. or method that was at all calculated to conciliate. - He Member the evil of deferring to another session the final was sure the Government and the Legislature had not decision of Parliament on the question of the navigation- shown any indisposition to meet the physical wants of laws. Indeed; he had, in an . early period of the present Ireland, and therefore he utterly repudiated the dne session, impressed on the House the necessity of settling trines held by the Hon. Member for Manchester(Mes, that question, and all he would now say, after the state- Bright) as to the destruction of the Church of Ireland, 'relent of his Noble Friend, .was, that the decision of the and the hint that the Church of England must followethe Government to postpone it had been arrived at most re same fate. Ic was right for the House to tell the Irish luetantly. He was happy to think, however, that the People that while it was ready to meet and rem e dy any discussion of the question had not been unattended with known grievances, sedition, conspiracies, and the--for advantage in Canada, and also in the West Indies, the mation of secret societies against the constituted autho- papers relating to which, particularly from Canada, rities were not the means by which to conciliate ; this would, he was sure; do much to convince the opponents country, so as to induce her to extend all her , privileges of the measure submitted by Government of the absolute and advantages, to them. As to an extension of- the franchise, hannttiht nhfere whichf o i t r e h a ow d ne trehbeenat more grerfouufisnet ground Ireland fined o t o Englandh receivead i a t a a t n h j d a n n S :l g o r Ireland. Government of a modification of the navigation-laws. - Lord G. BENTINCK would not quarrel with the Bill umNhmeNadbdEiearpl passed s g eera r de e s pu t a e er d ase le efe t roo h srn a . dtbaesl reading,s i the :id. Q an u n a do 1 itsit ft 6 a, t h : prim' Government for abandoning the repeal of the navigation laws ; but he heard with the deeest surprise the Right o owl n f ricct c vrh o ,e) m oalaotss p nee l ore a tsnl i h n eßDe t ri . unle lion. Gentleman who had just spoken say that the cor chipelecobueresne t p he u r r e s b u y ed ad b o y pt t e h d e , it G w ov a e s rn no m t en to t w be oui p d roc te e:e t d o respondence from Canada afforded matter for congratu lation, when he found it stated in a dispatch of Lord Elgin, that if the river St. Lawrence should not continue Colonel SIBTHORP did not rise to fire another volley to be the high way .of commerce to Canada, the inevi table result would be to draw Canada closer to the against her Majesty's Ministers, but simply to State that * United States, and dissolve the ties' which connected her with the mother country.—(Cheers.) Regarding the West Indies, he should wait to see what they would say he should move, when it came on, that the Corrupt in their petitions next year .. to a repeal of the naviga- Practices at Elections Bill be read a second time that tuna-laws. But he must just observe that there were now day six months.: All those other measures the Govern. no less than 31,600 tons of sugar in excess kept out of went were disposed to proceed with he should oppose. this country by those laws.—(Hear, hear.) for there was not one good measure amongst them. Mr. MACGREGOR expressed his deep regret that s M ag E teo S t.r S tn A hme G t E fhoel lLoFyfoßrindOgaM stated a T iii H s: E_ t hLaGtOl Bills: —Glasgow , theirS w . , P Lordships aisi e y, The order of the day was then read and discharged. her Majesty's Government should have found themselves had A agreed m in - a - position that - obliged - them to abandon their men - es sure on the subject. ' ' Mr. S. CRAWFORD complained of the non-legisla- Kilmarnock, and Air Railway (Revision of Maximum of , *lion for Ireland. 'rolls and Charges on the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, Mr. FORBES inquired what the Government intended and Ayr Railways), without amendment—Manchester, to do with the Bill for the registration of births, deaths, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Station at Sheffield and marriages in Scotland ? and Branch to the 1) Sheffield'Cana . London and South' After a few words from Mr. Slaney, Capt. Pechell, Western Railway Company and Southampton and Dors ' and - Mr. Henley, • chester Railway Company Amalgamation—London and Mr.' W. FAGAN thanked the Hon. Member for Blankwall Railway (Improvement and Branches to St- Manchester for the way in which be spoke of Ireland. Katharine's and London Docks), with amendments. Two measures were passed for that country with the RUM DUTIES. • rapidity of lightning—a coercion and a gagging Bill— On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the, la' mull but the Government had wholly failed in their promises CHEQUER the House resolved itselt into a C 'ttee of measures of amelioration, excepting the Incumbered of the whole House on the Ram Duties,. Mr. Bernal 1 0 Estates , Bill. Such a statement would not satisfy his the chair. constituents, nor any portion of the Irish people. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be With every respect for the House, he was of opinion, rose to propose the second of the measures which the after - an attentive consideration of the manner in which its Government had announced for the benefit of the West business was conducted, that it was utterly impossible for Indies by facilitating the introduction of their produce the House to do justice to the affairs of Ireland—in fact into this country; and he was happy to think that by it had not time to devote to the concerns of that coun- the measure he was about to propose, not merely d! try. Every succeeding day convinced him the more of interests of the producer but those of the consumer had absolute necessity, in order to maintain a connexion been consulted. The principle on which the Government between the two countries, that the affairs of Ireland Proposed to legislate was, that as far as restriction went should be transacted there, and that the laws by which the colonial producer should be allowed to bring hit/ she was governed ought to be passed by a Parliament articles into the market on the same terms as the pro ducer of the same commodity in this country. Last of her own .—(Hear, hear.) ountry. Sir D. NORREYS inquired what had become of the't would be remembered b who ' s 1 . h l . y those Hon. Merano* Bill (for the introduction of which leave had been given e he a e t n in a teast Parliament, that his first propesitioe on Friday night) for the conversion of leaseholds for had differential duty of 6d. per gallon, and that he had not then been lives renewable for ever into freehold tenures. He had by the British injured to admit the claim made been given to understand that this—another remedial . distillers for a differential duty of 7d. pe r measure for Ireland—would be proceeded with. At all gallon.. If then, in 1847, 6d. was a fair differentoi duty, events it had not been laid on the table. it was not in the slightest degree inconsisten t Sir G. GREY (handing a copy of the Bill to the with that --opinion that , now, under the altere d , Position of circumstances , Hon. Member) observed that the Bill had not only P be adequate. a less duty than 6d. would been introduced, but, as he saw, was actually printed. 1 e slid. In the first place he wished to state , 0 10 Sir D. NORREYS said, he had not received a co py i . not think it possible to deduce any direct conclu until that moment, and the statement he had made sion from the mere consumption of spirits during the Isi s rested on the authority of one of the Hon. Members, )ear. No doubt t h at cons u mpt i on was entirely to he whose name was appended to the Bill. But, apart attributed to the circumstances of the year, partly arising, from that measure, he must remark that the from short crops, and partly to the necessity of divertint, the Government with respect to grain from the manufacture of spiritsthe °'' promises of to purposes Ireland had been great, but their performances had food for the population. This was proved by the fella been most miserable. Where were the promised altera- off in the quantity of malt brought into charge, and free' mien of the grand jury laws, the amendments of the law the fact that corn imported for the purposes of distills. affecting medical charities, and of the poor-law; and, tion had actually been re-exported to supply food 0 lastly, the measure for the extension of the elective fran- foreign countries. This accounted for the falling off, i e chise in Ireland? In- every respect the people of I re l an d the revenue from these sources, and proved th a t the.ftsw e had been decei ved and disa pp ointed b y the Whigs, in ing off had not arisen from the introduction 0' whose behalf he had struggled to retain his seat in that fore Len spirits. The whole amount of foreign star° Howie as a friend to the legislative union, but if legis- entered for consumption in Scotland and Ireland We lation proceeded as of late years, though he should riot shown by the evidence given by the Chair ' 0 become a repealer—for he was now too old to change his of the Board of Excise before the Select Peol" politics—(Cries of " No, no")—yet he could not blame mittee. The quantity of spirits brought into chair those who advocated the management by Ireland of her in Scotland iii 1846-7, was 6,123,000 gallons, w own affairs. For himself he would say he not care did the quantity of rum entered for consumption there h how soon the Whigs changed places with the Honour- beets only 382,000 gallons; and in Ireland, of home ais# able Gentlemen opposite, for the former were always tilled spirits there had been entered on charge 6,037,; better in opposition than when they undertook to con- gallons, and only 176,000 gallons of rum entered fort! . J ew; duct the affairs of this great nation.—(Hear, hear.) consumption during the same period. Therefore, new' Lord J. RUSSELL said he had understood that his could say that any effect had been produced on the cote lion. Friend had risen in order to put a question, but sumption of home-manufactured spirits by the introdli although he had made many ob servat i ons, h e h a d om i tte d tion 0f so trifling a quantity of colonial spirits. Hew Or, to put the question he had said he wished to ask.—(A now state why he thought the duty on rum might ber; laugh.) If he understood his Honourable Friend right, duced to the point he was about to propose. He , ° ; s e he wished to know whether it was likely that the Bill served that in the Committee on sugars great stress '',,, t , for c inverting leasehold tenures in Ireland into tenures be-n laid upon a supposed difference in the case of ee .lt',, in fee would be introdnced, and that question had been malt distillers and that of the distillers from raw gre . ,,,,, - ; answered by the production of the Bill in a printed form. In that distinction he could not concur. It was deg '''"_,-- The Honourable Member for Manchester (Mr. Bright) both competed with success with each other, and,theeqe had also asked some questions with respect to the affairs fore both were entitled to equal protection e and adeo l ; a r of Ireland, but as notice had been given of two motions p rotection for the one would be adequate protectitgl' 7 e t the other . The malt distillers got WI additional Po POOR-LAW. Air.X. DENISON presented a petition from officers in the Ms'don Union in favour of the Bill granting su perannuation allowance to officers of poor-law unions. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from New-town, Manchester, to the same effect. REPEAL OF. THE UNION. Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a petition from Grey Abbey, in Ireland, in favour of the repeal of the legisla tive union with Ireland. NAVIGATION-LAWS.. Mr. ROBINSON presented a petition against the Mi nisterial proposition, fir the repeal of the navigation. laws. POOR-LAW. Mr. S. DAVIES presented a petition on behalf of the officers of the Mau(lover Union, praying for superannua lion allowance. R nte ß 4 l ap LL. e Mr. S. CHRISTy, petition from ;Broom field, in Essex, in favour of the Beer Bill. MONTREAL .iffROTECTION. Lord : G. as .r.tiv Kinquired if the Colonial-.office was in possession of alWer'iroca the SecretarY of the Montreal Emigration ,. B oa rd to the Canadian Govern meut stating, that great danger c o u ld not fail t o result from the abandonment of protecting the mother co untr y , unless such a step was accompanied by measures of coal- peusatiou; and if so. why it had not been produ ced with the. thernapers?- I (The buzz that prevailed in the House BEER prevented the question. from being very accurately heard hi the gallery.) ,• 11 r. HAWES .was' understood to say that no such letter_ had reaCheti the.COlonial-office. THE 'HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY. Lord ..LINCOLN asked if any inquiry ha d been instituted into the' way . in which the Hudson's Ba'Y'.COrtipiny - had managed the di strict assigned to theth, arid, if so, whether the result of that inquiry had led the Croverithint` to ,feel disposed to grant them the additional :district of Vancouver's Island ? ka ov whether the N oble Lord would on.krt'ulie.tl - rtt no Cession of Vancouver's Island should be tliadr, to the Hudson's Bay Company Until the papers on the'suLdect had been laid on the table? Lord 'JOHN ItUSELL said that the Govern ment, considering the length of time required for 'communication between that country and England;, ~liad thought it better to proceed with tli., 'arrarventimt that hiul been made with the Hudson's Bay COMpany. lie could not, therefore, make the pledge Nobli,Lord asked. The Government of Vanti6nver'S Island would be entirely free, and such as had" bOeu granted to other colonies. The agreement wioin made should b° laid on the table of the House. The Earl of LINCOLN was much disappointed with the answer of the Noble Lord, and he would therefore give twice of his intention on the first opportunity of g,oing into Committee of Supply, to move an address to 'the' Crown upon the subject. RETURNS. Mr, NWDEGAT.E wished to inquire whep the re- • tc re! ..i