The Sun. — London, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

#:ourti)92bition SUN OFFICE, Sevea o' Clock. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition) Match, 200. T.Y.C.—Saddle beat Cocoa Nut. 501.; for three yrs old. R.M. Telegraph Glutton... Athelstane Won easy. Handicap. T.Y.C.—(Deciding heat.) Liston Festus ~. Isis... ... 1 -. 3 RAILWAY CONBETTEES. (THIS DAY.) GROUP V. The Committee on this group met for the first time this morning, in Room No. 28; Sir Robert Peel in the chair. WATERFORD, WEXFORD, WICKLOW, AND DUBLIN. The object of this Bill was to enable the company to extend the time allowed them by their original Act for taking a lease of the Dublin and Kings town Railway—to authorise the alteration of the existing gauge of the Dublin and Kingstown Rail way, and to empower the South Wales Company to subscribe towards the Waterford, Wexford, and Wicklow undertaking to the extent of 250,0001. The Bill was unopposed, and the Committee passed the preamble. CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD. Mr. AUSTIN opened the case for the promoters of this Bill, which involved• the important question of al lowing railway companies to become the proprietors of steam-vessels. The Chester and Holyhead line was eighty-four miles in length; it had already involved an expemature of three millions, the original estimate being little more than two millions, and its success would de pend in a great measure upon the company being allowed to establish a steam-boat communication between Holyhead and Dublin. The Committee were, no doubt, aware that the Legislature had sanctioned the construc tion of a harbour of refuge at Holyhead, this company contributing 200,0001, and Government 800,0001. towards the expense of the work. In the last Parliament a pri vate Bill was passed authorising the company to can their quota, which contained a clause enao bl ing the company to become the proprietor t steam-boats; but the Select Committee appoin . ed to examine into the merits of the public Bill authoris ing the Government to expend 800,0001. of the public money upon the harbour, by an accident omitted to pass the clause enabling the Chester and Holyhead Company to establish a line of steain-boats, an this circumstance led to the withdra wal of the private Bill. Since then the proposal had been fully examined by the Board of Trade, who were agreed that it would be as much for the interest of the public as for that of the company that this Bill. should pass to empower them to run steam boats on- their own account between Holyhead and Kingstown or Dublin. The evidence taken before the Select Committee last year having been put in, a gentleman was called to prove the inconvenience that would result to the public if the company were not allowed to run boats. The Bid was opposed by the Steam Shipping but Asso ciation and several other intere s t s , the opposition was adjourned till to-morrow. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY. (THIS DAY.) AFTERNOON SI FANG. ' The business transacted 'at the afternoon sitting was entirely devoid of any general interest, being confined to the consideration of the organization committee's report. The Government short-band writers, Messrs. Bond, Hughes, and Bennett, still continue their attendance and take close "notes" of the speeches, although the speeches have for some days been exceedingly tame and entirely free from any seditious matter. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) SHABROTT V. THE QUEEN. The plaintiff in this case is the owner of some pro perty, which is required by the Woods and Forests for construction of the new park at Battersea. As he claimed some 7,0001. or 8,0001. as a compensation, which the Government refused to pay, the Sheriff of Surrey was directed to call a jury, to assess the amount to which the plaintiff was entitled. He did so, and after much inquiry the jury returned a verdict for 7501. Subse quently an application was made to this Court for a rule, calling upon the Crown to show cause why a writ fur prohibition should not issue. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL contended that the findinq of the jury was conclusive, and that if the Court were to accede to the application it would establish a dangerous principle, ina, much as in all cases where the amount of compensation had been awarded similar applications would be made to the Court, an no end of litigation and expense would be the result. - Mr. LusH, in the absence of Mr. M. Chambers, con tended, on the strength of several cases, that such a pro ceeding was perfectly regular and proper. Lord DENatalg said he would look at the affidavits before they come to a decision. THE QUEEN V. HENRY CRISPIN. Mr. COCKBURN moved the judgment of the Court upon the defendant, who appeared upon the floor of the court. It appeared that ill-feeling had existed for some time between the defendant and a gentleman named Henry Bolton Bea'tett, in consequence of the de fendant having alleged (which, however, Mr. Ben nett denied) that he bad run over and killed a favourite dog belonging to him. Subsequently he encountered Mr. Bennett at a concert, and after calling him a snob, and applying other offensive epithets to him, invited him to meet him at a duel ; adding, he would give anything to have a shot at him, and that he should have the first shot. Mr. Bennett declined the honour, and appealed to a magistrate to punish the de fendant, for endeavouring to incite him to commit a breach of the peace. The defendant was bound over, but on the same day he met Mr. Bennett in company with his wife and daughter proceeding down a passage towards a steam boat, and there he struck him on the back, with some violence, with the butt end of a whip. The defendant was indicted at the sessions and found guilty of an assault. Mr. Sergeant KING:SLAKE addressed the Court in miti gation of puniahineut, and read affidavits trom which it appeared that the defendant had offered to pay 200/. to a charitable institution, and that he contended that the passage to the steam-boat was narrow, and that lie accidently pushed against the prosecutor. He had de clined to pay the 2001., because the prosecutor required that he sht,ul:l pay the sa m e s um every year. Mr. r. CR,JWDER, on the other hand, said that the &- fondant h a d repeatedly threatened to bring an action against Mis. Bennett in the Queen's Bench, in which lie said he should examine the maid-!.ervant and " elicit some pretty disclosures for the edification of the Court." lie had shown a continual desire to commit a breach of the peace,:and to set the proceedings of a court of justice at nought. Air. Justice PATTISON characterised sentenced erised the as sa u lt as m ost violent and unprovok e d , enter the defen dant to pay a fine of 2001., to and n i aa nces of 2001., and two su ret i es or I ° oo hLs own recog .e good conduct for two years, and to b e im ach, for his prisoned in the Queen's Prison until the fine and recogniatinces are en tered into. COURSE OF EXCM Amsterdam ••• 12 434 Ditw, at sight •• .• .. 12 Rotterdam .. •••• • • • • ,intwerp ••••••• • .. • • • • liamburgh • • ....ALB. 13 14% Paris, 3 days' sight .. •• 15 40 Ditto, • • • • • • • • • • • • • • L.NGE.-(THIS DAY.) Leghorn •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ai Genoa 24 130 Allan •• ....... Naples Palermo, per oz ........ Lisbon.... • • • • • • • • • • • • ___ Oporto • • .. • • • • • • x Rio Janeiro • • • • • • • • • • Bahia Buenos Ayres • • • • • • • • New York, 2l days' sight Philadelphia .. • • • • • • • • MOW OP BULLION, rns. of, Foreign Gold in bars .. :7 9 N e w Dollars • • .... 0 0 0 Portugal Gold Coin 0 () () Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 411ver in bars .. • • .• •• 0 0 0 Marseilles • • •• • • • • Bourdeaux.... • • • • Frankfort on Maine.... Petersburgh, Sil. Rble . • Vi e nna, effec. do ••• • .. 40 Trieste, ditto.... • • • . .. Madrid •• •• ••• • •• •• • • Barcelona •••••••••••• savtue• • .• • ..... • • • • • 122% MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the the London New Price Current of M v y SCOAR.—To•day an increased d emand i a a s 9.) expe rienced cases stiffer rates were obtained, notwithstatz the market is well supplied. The home t West India to be the principle buyer s. at India Muscovado was, however, in excellent request for both the scale and refining purposes; the rates paid were, generally, 6d per cwt above those of Friday. T he purchases_, amounted to 630 hhds, &c., including a pub lic 1 sale or 140 hhds 12 tierces of Barbadoes, which went at full rates—tine' yellow Fey 41s 6d, middling3Bs to 39s 6d, and low 35s 6d to 373 cwt. REFINED.--To-da.y the home trade w ere muc h i n w ant I of refined good, and offered- advanced rates, th e supply is yet scanty. Brow n 55s g6rducery lumps realized 54 s 6d to 555, and Standard sugar several sal es were raatdoes,6a4n.d 217r1s13toan2d8ta d wereC p h a e i Chad for first and second sort. MAIIRITIUS.—To-d7 but there was was no v ar i at i on i n the value of Jamaica Rum in the demand. East India is dull sale improvement took place Is 6id proof strength. Leeward Island islit flae tis d reu 6 ire t d o and is not worth more than Is Id p roo f 60 puns have been sold at 2 s 4d fur 26 per eet ra n over Demera proof, equal to is 10d proof. E l sr INDIA.—This afternoon five p arce l s of Bengal Sugar, a.mounting to 8,659 bags, were offered at public sale, and the whole sold—white at hill rates, whilst yellow sorts went rather higher. FOREIGN.—TO day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar; but privately several inquiries existed. Stiffer rates being asked, caused the purchases to be of little moment. MOLASSES.—The demand continues on the increase for all qualities, and there is again a slight rise in the value—the market is plentifully supplied. Since this d a y week 400 puns have been sold. At auction 24 casks, imported from Alexandria, were sold at 21s s d f or fiue. East India Treacle is more in request, at from 16s to 17s. . . COFFEE.—Thi3 afternoon the dealings in Native Cey lon were upon a less extended scale, and of 1778 1 bags at auction, a small part only sold at the former value, real good ordinary at 31s, and damaged 25s to 295. Of Plantation 660 bags were all taken in, fine bold colory at 625, good 52s to 555, middling 50s, but the damaged sold at 35s to 48s 6d, very ordinary 14s. 2,449 bags and 452 sacks of Costa Rica were bought in, fine ordinary pale foxey sound at 31s to 325, a few lost sold at 27s 6d to 28s for ordinary. TEA.—To-day the quantity of Tea offead at public sale amounted to 7,770 packages. A goo desire was manifested by the trade to operate, and 3,000 actually sold at full rates. Green of good and fine quality, met with the most attention, and realised stiffer prices—Congou, common sold at 6id to 61d ; Oolong 1 Ifd to Hid; Hyson, fair to good 2s qd to 2s 54d, fine 2s 6d to 3s ; Imperial, Canton lid to I lid ; Hyson kind, good and fine 2s to 2s 8d ; Gunpowder, low to fine Is 91d to 4s 2d per lb. Cocoa.—Prices are maintained for all sorts of West India, as the stock is small, and nearly all in the hands of one firm. The sales made privately have been of little moment, and none has been submitted to public auction. Foreign is held with firmness, the demand is, however, not more active, and 284 bags of Behia at auc tion were taken in at 37s to 38s for fine bright red, but damaged sold at 32s to 34s per cwt. SPICES.—To-day the purchases made in Black Pepper privately were of a limited character only; and 416 bags at auction were nearly all taken in at 21d for Sumatra; however, a small part sold at 2id per lb. SAGo.—rhere are sellers upon lo wer terms, and the supply is on the increase. On the part of the trade little desire has been evinced to make purchases, and 17s to 21s is the value of low to fine quality. Sago Flour is dull of sale, and can be obtained at a reduction, Rice.—To-day holders of East India were willing os 6 A d sellers upon the low rates p reviously noticed, still the At saaulcetsioenonc6louodebdagpsrivoaftelyavwere trifling trifling lOins all sorts. a nd damaged 4s 6 i d to 10; per good white rather broken, a cwt. SaLTPETIIEay there was no improvement in the demand for Roug h y rivately, privately, and 2,956 bags of Cal cutta at auction were nearly all taken in. CocuEszaL.—This afternoon there was little desire evinced to operate, and prices were depressed 3d to 4d per lb. SPiarrs.—Leeward Island met with little attention, and prices are still on the decline. Proof of low quality ca n be obtained at is Bd. Of East India only small andttle p a rcels ha ae been s t taken a t e a s t . lc l e n d t to h e l v s a 7 l o d e proof of De m strength, era.a ea is export apparent. For Jamaica orders purchases with whiche variationr con tinue trifling, and home buy ers ma k e purch • re luctance, although easier r ates wou ld be takenlli For th Havannah the market is dull, and Is .54-d per gallon is the value of proof strength. On the part of holders of Brandy a desire is manifested to make a slight conees , sion in the value on aeccount of in • creasing stock. The home demand has • been limited, and few ,export erders have been completed. The purchases made in Geneva have been trifling, and for all purposes. British made Sp irit cash, held with firmness at lOs 3d per gallon at which the demand is active, and the supply is small. INDICO.—The position of the market for East India of all descriptions was unsatisfactory to-day. Holders were in many instances inclined to further reduce their prices; exporters and home consumers were cautious in their proceedings; only 7,367 chests were declared for the Quarterly sales which commence d this day. The quantity passed amounted to 1103 chests. The attend ance of Foreign and home buyers was unusually small, and it became evident that orders were exceedingly limited ; although proprietors have given some support to their marks. Oils.—There is more firmness in the market for Lin seed Oil, a good demand has been experienced from the home trade, and exporters have been purchasers to a fair extent. Prices advanced to 22s 9d to 23s per cwt on the spot, and the supply continues lo be small, whereas the consumption is proceeding satisfactory. For forward delivery several contracts have been entered into. Rape Seed met with a much better demand, and realised en hanced rates. There is not the least improvement in Olive, although the demand is on the increase and arrivals small. Purchases to a fair extent have been made in Palm. Cocoa Nut met with little attention by private treaty, and can be obtained at a reduction. Ground Nut Oil is dull of sale. Theta is a further increase to notice in the stock of Fish Oils, and a greater desire is shown by holders to realize as the deliveries are unsatis factory. The demand for Seal has been extremely limited, and there are sellers of pale at 271. For ' Southern Oil prices suffered a depression of 10s per tun, as the quantity brought to market was larger than for some time past. At auction 125 tuns all sold. Sperm is cheaper, and the purchases mady by private treaty have been of little moment, 47 tuns at public sale were sold. For auction 60 tuns of Sea Elephant are declared. TALLOW.—Prices have suffered a further depression for Russian on the spot, as the demand continues to be extremely limited for all purposes, and merchants are willing sellers. The rates taken are 47s 6d to 48s per cwt for fine P. Y. For delivery in the last three months of the year there are sellers at 45s 6d, still the amount of business concluded has been small. Town Tallow is cheaper, and can be obtained at 48s nett cash, but the demand, is limited, and supyly greater. The public sales went •ff at reduced rates; the (inanity offered was large. ----- MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1848. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... 271 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... .., 41 Turbercular Diseases... ... 192 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 127 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 19 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... ..• ••• ••• ••• 158 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... ••• 49 Diseases of the Kidney s, &c. 14 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. ... 8 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. 1 Malformations... ••• ••• 3 Premature Birth ••• ••• •• 11 Atrophy Old Age Sudden ... .•• ••• ••• Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance ... 19 Causes not specified ... ..„ 6 DEATHS FROM ♦LL CAUSES ... ... 1,015 Penn'ellen Average weekly Deaths Enumerated, Deaths, 1843-7. in the 1841. Five Springs. Week. West Districts... 300,711 . . 143 ... 135 North Districts.. 375,971 .. 182 ... 189 Central Districts 373,653 ... 171 ... 179 East Districts ... 392,444 ... 199 ... 239 South Districts.. 501,190 ... 248 ... 273 ..... 1,948,369 ... 943 ... 1,015 Females ... ... ... 507 ... ... 508 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females ... ... ... Total . ... 1,536 THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) WHITEHALL, MAY 8. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Hon. Edward John Stanley, and to the heirs male ot his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Eddisbury, of Winning ton, in the county palatine of Chester. man Aprilr yl7 ; James Thomas Commission by th e L or d Li eutenan t o f Lanark s hire. Upper Ward an d Ai r d r i e C orps o f Lanarkshire Cavalry—ArchibaldYeo manryßrown, Esq., to be Gerard,Esq.,to be Captain, April 18. Captain, Commis s i on b y the Lord-Lieutenant of Warwickshire. Warwick s hi re WIIIT A3 E t Ii tY A promoted, ,ay Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry Cornet Robert James The Lord Chancellor t i o ,l l:4 , 3 ll L l ie y ut l e . nant, vice Bar nard,has appointed Richard Packer, W 111TEHALL i :n ti t l y e tSomerset, Gent., to be a , 11 1, M Court of Ch of Axbridge, in the Master Extraordinary The Lord Chancellor h,asinaptreintida in the High Charles William Chancery Court Lawrence, of Cit encester Gent., to be a Master Extraordinarycounty of Gloucester, of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Joseph Hughesdon and Alexander Mackay, Calcutta, to surrender May 16 and June 29,tnaetrcellants) at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, o ffi c i al n e B v _Ps nee, Ra,inghall-street; Fyson, Curling, an d Hope, ! 1. 11., e - . Simmons, grocer, Ramsgate, May 23, at two, derick's-place, Old Jewry. past two, at the Court of Bank.. . Groom, official assignee, ruptcY. and June Henry 20, at ha if and draper, 371, Strand, May Murtlyan, and Rowse . ll, Verulam-buildings, Gray's inn. Edward Callan, ta l i even, at the Court of Bankruptcy. 18, and June 23, at e Turquan , assignee, Guildhall chambers ; Sidney, cer, Folkestone, Kent, May 16, Samuel Bay Jy, gro , half-past eleven, at the Court 92 at Ft nsburydcivrfficuis..ial at twelve, and June - Martin's-lane. 1 tobacconist, Fleet - street , Turquand , chambers ; Dods , Saint official assignee, Guildhall_ of Bankruptcy. William Plueknett Mick lam, May 16, at half-past twel ve, and June 20, a t half p ast eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.'a Earl-street, Cannan, official assignee, Birchin lane ; Gidley, street, Blackfriars l June 15, at one, at t e he May 17, at half-past one, and Coleman street-buildings; Cotterill, Throgmorton -street. James Blotnfield Rush, cattle dealer, Mylne-street, Claremont-square, Middlesex, May 19 at two, and June 10, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, May 19 Liddiatt, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Waugh and Mitchell, Great, James-street, Bedford-row. Follett, official assignee, y 19 and June 17 Smith, Joseph Barn Hill, d,, In b n u . ilder, Whitehead's-grove, Chelsea, 17, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy.jeweller, Birmingham. Thomas Williams a n d h . II t t • Basing a -s ree , William Williams,it jun., auc tioneers, Cheltenham. John Tomkinson, builder, Liverpool. William Hinton, builder, Pudding-lane, City. John Deely, ironfounder, West Broomwich, Stafford shire. Richard Grimbly, wine merchant, Banbury, Oxford shire. Thomas Cooper, baker, Tottenham -court-road. Robert Fletcher, manufacturer of steel, Great Winchester-street, City. Henry, Brading licenced victualler, Shepherd and Shepherdess-walk, City-road. George Murphy, plumber, 16, Church -street, Cam ber well. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. Messengers from the Commons brought up certain Bills. Earl FORTESCUE presented petitions from the mayor and town council of Torrington, from Thornburg, and various other places, is favour of the Jewish Disa bilities Removal Bill ; also several petitions from various lodges of Odd Fellows, praying for the legalization of their society. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Lord Provost and Corporation of Edinburgh in favour of the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from Wishent and several other places in favour of the Jewish Disabi lities Bill. Lord STANLEY presented several petitions, praying for the legalisation of the Odd Fellows' Society. Lord KINNAIRD presented several petitions in favour of the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill. The Bishop of LLANDAFF presented four petitions against the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE presented several petitions in favour of the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill. Also, a petition from Drogheda praying for some alteration in the law of arrest for debt. Lord LYNDHURST presented several petitions in favour of the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill. DR. POTTS' - INTENTIoN FOR PILE DRIVING. The NOBLE and LEARNED LORD then presented a petition from Dr. Potts, praying their Lordships to institute an enquiry into the merits of his invention for driving piles by mere pneumatic pressure. The Duke of WELLINGTON and the Earl of AUCKLAND bore testimony to the merits of the invention. PETITIONS. The Earl of EGLINTOUN presented several petitions in favour of the legalization of the Odd Fellows' Society. ODD FELLOWS. Lord BEAUMONT presented several petitions in favour of the Bill for the legalization of the Odd Fellows' (Society. Several other Noble Lords having presented various petitions with a similar prayer, Lord BEAUMONT moved the second reading of the Bill for legalising the society of Odd Fellows. The Odd Fellows Society was an association for the purpose of enabling the members of it to provide for themselves reliet in the time of distress, (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. TAE SUN, LONDON, NEW MEMBER. Sir R. HOWARD was introduced by Mr. Hayter and Mr. Lascelles, and took the oaths and his seat for Wicklow. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: Derby Waterworks Bill. Lambeth Waterwork s Bill. _ . Manchester General Cemetery Bill. Patent Galvanized Iron Company (incorporation of company, with powers to hold lands, to raise money by loan, and to purchase letters patent) Bill. DUBLIN STEAM-PACKET COMPANY. On the motion of Mr. FORSTER, it was ordered that the letter to the Treasury from the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company, upon the subject of the mail service between Holyhead and Kingstown, together with the reply thereto from the Treasury, dated the 22d day of December, 1846, be referred to the Select Committee on Railway Bills, Group No. 5. HOLYHEAD HARBOUR. On the motion of Mr. ANDERSON, it was ordered that the report from the Select Committee on the Holyhead Harbour Bill of the last session, with the minutes of evidence, ordered by the House to be printed the 23d of June, 1847, be referred to the Select Com mittee on the Chester and Holyhead Railway (power to purchase, hire, and use steam-boats, &c.) in Group No. 5 of Railway Bills. RAILWAYS. On the motion of Mr. W. BROWN, it was ordered that any statement or communication from any railway company, or any steam-ship company, or person, which has been received by the Board of Trade i❑ reference to the steam-boat clauses in the Chester and Holyhead Railway, the London and South-Western Railway Company's Acts Amend ment, &c., the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, and the Furness Railway Bills, and upon the question generally of railway companies becoming steam-ship proprietors, be referred to the Select Com mittee on the said Bills in Group No. 5 of Railway Bills. CONSIDERATION OF REPORT. After sshort discussion, the Queensferry Passage Bill swirl ordered to be re-committed. Colonel CONOLLY presented a great number of petitions from various parts of Ireland against the sys tem of National Education in Ireland. LONGFORD ELECTION. The Members appointed to consider the election for Longford appeared at the table and were sworn. Mr. W. BROWNE presented petitions in favour of the Sites for Free Churches in Scotland Bill. Sir G. CLERK presented a petition against the Health of Towns Bill. _ _ . Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition from Dundee in favour of the Scottish Church Sites Bill. _ _ Lord ASHLEY presented soveral petitions in favour of the Health of Towns Bill. _ Lord BROOKE presented a petition from a place in Warwick.hire against the sale of intoxicating liquors on Sunday. Mr. FOX MAULE presented several petitions from the county of Perth in favour of the Scottish Church Sites Bill. Sir ROBERT PEEL presented a petition from a place in Scotland to the same effect. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from the Birming ham Society of Modern Masons in favour of the Odd Fellows' Bill, and praying to be included in its provisions. Mr. W. MILES presented a petition from a place in Somersetshire against the Bill for establishing diplomatic relations with the Court of Rome. JUVENILE POPULATION OF LONDON. Lord ASHLEY gave notice that, on Tuesday the 6th of June, he would bring under the attention of the House the state of a large portion of the juvenile population of the metropolis. CROWN LANDS. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON moved for a copy of reports and papers relating to the Crown lands of Ball)kilcline, county Roscommon, Ireland (in continuation of Parlia mentary paper No. 457, of session 1847); and return of law costs which have been furnished as incurred or paid by the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods and Forests in the management of the Crown estate situated in the parish of Kinglass, county Roscommon, Ireland (in continuation of same paper) —Agreed to. On the motion of Mr. AP GREGOR leave of absence was given to the Lord Provost of . Glasgow till the 21st of May, on urgent private business. PRINTING PETITIONS. Mr. URQUHART moved that the petition of Charles Frederick Ellerman (presented May 6), be printed with the votes. Mr. THORNELY said the petition would come before the Select Committee on Petitions, and no doubt it would be ordered to be printed. Mr. URQUHART said that under those circum stances be would withdraw the motion.—Motion accord ingly withdrawn. Mr. E WART presented a petition from Dumfries in favour of the Scottish Church Sites Bill. SANITARY CONDITION OF THE METRO POLIS—WESTMINSTER. Sir H. WILLOUGIIBY said he had been informed that in the immediate vicinity of Westminster Abbey, and, therefore, not far from the place in which they had assembled, that a malignant description of fever, not unlike typhus, had broken out, which was stated to be traceable, in some degree, to the che mical experiments that had recently been made on the drains in the neighbourhood, in which operation too great reliance had been placed upon the process of deodorizing the poisonous discharge which eliminated from the drains. He had also been informed that traps had been opened into sewers in other parts of the metropolis, which had been the means of al lowing noxious vapour to escape, to the serious detriment of the health, if not the lives of the inhabitants of the locality. He had said that too much reliance was PL , c(-d in the principle which recently obtained so much favour namely, clarifying or deoderizing feted matter. Why, not long ago an engineer, who was examined before a Committee of the House, stated that he could clarify an d d eodor i se a quant i ty o f f o ul water. He did a °. a nd the water appeared perfectly free from all ob noxious matter bet when one of the gentleman present —a Gallant Admiral —drank a glass it instantly acted as an emetic.—(ltoars of laughter,) He wished to know Lord MORPETH if the Noble Lord could give him any information on of fever prevailed in the the subject. no sewer in the locality replied that there was some truth in he did not think it could had the statements of his a. Friend. A considerable amount re d eincts of the Abbey; but, as been opened since February, to the warm state o f the in, that no i some smells had traced t o that, but wa s ow i ng weather. He had b een i n f orme d , since the hot weath er had set prevailed in other parts of th e metropolis. In th e pre cinctseno t b t , able e fearedto the tdhreainfeavgeer was t o de any u - o i e o t. ofnePawas operation being carried on in connexion drainage in the neighbourhood. Dr. iichell, whowith the wa s the medical attendant of the school in West minster could not trace f ev er to any operation of h t kind. Recently- 6,535 cesspools had been empt i ed in the metropolis, and he was told not only that the sanitary condition of the districts in which this had been done had but that the inhabitants had express e d improved, great gratitude.—(Hear . ) Mr. BANKES inquired when the Noble Lord pro posedi to intro duce his Bill to n im te prove the s )Hilary tms con dition of London and We Lord MORPETH replied that he could not name a day, but that he should introduce it as soon as his leisure and opportunities enabled him to do so. PUBLIC EXPENDI PURE. Mr. HUME moved for returns with respect to the public expenditure in connexion with the navy and ordnance. BRITISH MANUFACTURES.-THE DRAWING ROOM. Lord G. BENTINCK rose to put a question which might either be styled a Protectionist or free-trade one, but which at the present moment was one of the deepest importance. Ho need not remind the House that an announcement had recently gone forth of a desire on the part of her Majesty—(Cheers)—that the ladies who intend to be present at the drawing rooms should appear, under the present depression of commerce and of trade, in no attire—(Roars of laughter)—except the— (Laughter)—except that which was the produce of British industry.—(Cheers.) No doubt h er M a j es ty' s h ear t` was breaking at the distress that prevail e d a ro un d her— at the distress which was overwhelming the weavers of Spitalfields, the ribbon manufacturers of Coventry, and the lace and silk manufacturers of Nottingham, whilst hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of goods were constantly entering our ports from Frunce and other • countries, driving out of the markets the produce of her own people.— In the port of London alone silk goods of foreign manu facture had . been imported e x ceee di ng t h e va l ue o f 400,0001.; which was sufficient to give employment to 31,000 weavers.—(Hear.) Foreign lace to the value of 20,0001., and needlework. to the value of 20,0001. had also been imported ; whi c h two amounts were suf fi • cientt ofthisogive employment to 40,000 of the needlework women coountry. Here had also been imported 7,000 dozen of boots and shoes, which would have given employment to 1,200 workmen in England; and he would ask the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) whether he had come to rescue the country from the measures of that party which his Noble Friend had so well descscribed as the phi losophers of the country; or whether the recommendation to appear in British attire emanated from her Majesty,who had always lived in the heart and the affections of her He would ask wh e th er i t was an emanation own heart, and wheth er i t was i ntended to include gopfeenoliptellerem'e as well as ladies, because he considered they were bound equally on the grounds of gallantry and loyalty to carry out that recommend a ti on ? P er h aps t h e Noble Lord had a dv ised her Majesty to issue that re commendatioe, and if so he wish e d to k now w h et h er i t was to be held as indicative of a change of opinion in her Majesty's Government ?—(Laughter and cheers) — that they were now going to retrace that course in which they had gone so far, and by which they had brought the country into its present state of distress? Lord J. RUSSELL said the Noble Lord had certainly made a s peech—(Laughter)—but with regard to th e question of which he had given notice, and which he had so involved by his speech, he understood it to be, whether her Majesty had given commands to the ladies of England that they should be attired in dresses exclu sively of British produce and manufacture. Certainly it was true that her Majesty had given commands that the Court should appear in dresses of British manuf ac t ure , but he believed that there was nothing new in such an erder.—(Hear, hear.) In former reigns such orders had been issued for the purpose of benefiting persons en gaged in the production of manufactures. The Noble Lord then went on to ask whether the advisers of the Crown had changed their opinions with regard to the admission of foreign manu factures, and whether the order of her M a j esty was to be looked upon as indicative of such a change of opinion. With regard to that, ho con s id ere d that the point immediately in question was in the confidence of the Lord Chamberlain ; but he begged to say that he had offered no advice to her Majesty. With regard to the foreign article which had been introeuced, he was of opinion that a great quantity of silk manufactures did not come through the Custom-house, but was smuggled into this country. He believed that the introduction of foriegn manufactures tended greatly to improve the manufac tures of this country ; and in the next place he believed that though a class of persons found that distress ensued from the introduction of foreign goods, yet still the introduction of such goods stimulated the production of our English manufacturers, and led to the exportation of a greater quantity of Bri tish goods, in exchange for these imported from foreign countries.—(Cheers.) Mr. BRIGHT would not attach any undue import ance to the recommendation of her Majesty, but he thought that the Government and the House should not be too anxious to do anything that would lead to the supposition among the working classes in this country, that they would derime benefit from the ex clusion of the manufactures of other countries.—(Hear, hear.) The working classes of France had driven out from that country some hundreds of the workmen of this; and he could see very little difference between that and her Majesty commanding the wearing of articles of English manufacture at the Drawing-room.— (Cries of " No, no.") There could be no objection to ladies forming themselves into associations to wear only English manufactures, but he had the greatest objection to the Government recommending the Queen to adopt a course that was calculated to deceive the working classes of this country. Sir DE LACEY EVANS would take that opportu nity of expressing a hope that the Government of the country would adopt some course to represent the claims of the English work-people who had been suddenly expelled from France, to the French authori ties, in order that something might be done for them. Lord PALMERSTON said that the subject had been represented to the French authorities, and he could assure the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman that it had been received in the most humane manner. What course was intended to be adopted he could not say, but he had no doubt the subject would meet with the consi deration it deserved. Mr. BANKS regretted that the order had not been issued earlier, believing now that it would have but little effect. However, if auy Member of that House would move an address to her Majesty, thanking her for the order she had made, he would most heartily second it. Mr. HUME thought the adoption of such a course would be moat mischievous, as it would be calcu lated to create ill-will among nations. He was afraid that the recommendation showed that the Lord Chamberlain was a Conservative, and not a political economist.—(A laugh.) Mr. NEWDEGATE, as the representative of the sense of the poor people who had been alluded to in the course of the discussion, would be wanting in his duty if he did not rise and express his gratitude to her Majesty for the kindness she had exhibited ;in the order. The distress of the district which he represented was great beyond measure, men, women, and children were daily growing lean in their struggles for a bare existence, while others rare absolutely dying of famine, and what ever political economists might say, he could assure the House that this kindness of her Majesty had sank deeply into the hearts of the people.—(Hear, hear.) Colonel THOMPSON said—Sir, it is clear that there are other parties to this question, who have not yet been mentioned. My constituents of Brad ford, Sir, are pantaloon and waistcoat piece manufac turers for foreign consumption, and they say and believe that these waistcoat pieces and pantaloons are virtually trucked against the ladies' peticoats from France, If that be the case, then is there any charity—is there any humanity----is their any justice—is there any policy—is there any common sense in this order in representing, in recommending hostilities to wards one portion of the manufacturing classes of the country at the expense of another, and the recommen dation coming too from such a quarter, I am sure no ono wishes to speak without the utmost affection and reverence.—(Hear, hear.) This, Sir, must have been the doing of some Count Polonious—(Laughter)— or of some Noble Lord who fills the responsible office of black or white stick in waiting, but at all events it is not the act of any lady. I have too great confidence in the ladies to fancy they have any hand in it. No, I believe the ladies would have been wiser ; for there is not a girl in England that wears a pair of French gloves that does not know that the produce of Bri tish industry has purchased them.—(Loud cheers.) With respect to the question of distress there is enough of it in Bradford. Privations are suffered there of the most terrtble description. I have seen in stances of it with my own eyes; but is no privations or distress in Birmingham ? I asked two of the Members for Birmingham yesterday whether they had ever heard of anything being manufactured in Birmingham for foreign consumption. They said often; and I believe a large proportion of the manufactures of Birmingham were of that kind which it is now pureinnc'e the consumption enceto put odfoaunbt in attempt to secure of one class of En g lish manufacturers at the downpr proposed. s b e yd means n o expense of anot her, whose business it is to make consumption.—(Hear.) Really, then, I think that sufficient attention has not been paid articles for foreign to this matter, or no one could ever have thought of putting down one-half of the manufactures of the coun try to allow the other h alf to live. (Hear, hear.) ds from Mr.ROBINSON,CoIoneI SIBTHORP asked when the Bud g et would be brought forward? After a few wet . RO gave it as his opinion that the t ra ra aM d n e ur.f t a h ec a tti n l u e of house° thet)lJ R country imagi ned. SSELL did not consider this order was of so much importa nce as some Hon. Members wished to attach to it. It certainl y was no t issued upon the advice of Government , nor could it be viewed 1 r i s S' Ti E suffered more from free the Lord JOHN R (LEFT SITTING.) as a retaliation upon the Fr ench p eo p le.—(Hear, hear.) IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Mays. PETITIONS. Lord BEAUMONT presented several petitions from various places in favour of the Jewish Disabili ties Removal Bill. The Bishop of ST. DAVID'S presented a peti tion from the students of Lampeter College in favour of the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill. Lord KINN AIRD presented several petitions from various places to the same effect. The Bishop of WINCHESTER presented several petitions against the Jewish Disabilities Removal Bill. AFFAIRS OF SPAIN. s-- Lord STANLEY said he must detain their Lordships for a short time whilst he referred to the subject of dis cussion on Friday night last. Her Majesty's Ministers had since laid on the table of their Lordships' House the correspondence to which he then referred with re ference to Spain. He had no intention of submitting a motion on the subject, but, having perused that corre spondence, he could not refrain from stating the im pression which it had produced on his mind. The Noble Marquis (Lansdowne) seemed to have been labouring under a singular error the other day in attributing the publication of the letter from the Secretary of Foreign Affairs to Mr. Bulwer to a French newspaper, and in stating that he did not know how that paper got bold of the document, a most important part of which it had sup pressed. Now, it appeared from the statement of that newspaper itself that the first time it got into its columns was the 24th of April; whilst the Duke of Sotomayor had complained of its appearing in a Spanish paper on the 10th of that month. Upon looking at the letter itself, as it was now printed, he thought it had not been mutilated. The communication of the Noble Viscount (Palmerston), which commenced the correspondence, began by saying, " I have to instruct you to recommend earnestly to the Spanish Government, and to the Queen-Mother, if you should have an opportunity of doing so, the adoption of a legal and constitutional course," &c. Now, it ap peared to him, inasmuch as Mr. Bulwer could easily have an opportunity of communicating to the Spanish Government the Noble Viscount's dispatch, but might not be able to do so to the Queen-Mother, that the words " if you should have an opportunity of doing so," applied exclusively to the latter, and had no reference to the Spanish Government.—(Hear, hear.) It appeared to him by this correspondence, first of all, that there was a great difference of opinion between the British Minister in Spain and the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in this country; and secondly, that there was a still wider difference between the sentiments of the Noble Viscount and his colleagues. The reply of the Duke of Sotomayor stated that he did not understand what the letter meant by recommending the adoption of a legal and constitutional course, because at the time it was written an eineute had not taken place, and the Spanish Ministers were following a strictly con stitutional mode of government. What was the answer of Mr. Bulwer? He admitted the justice of the observation: he acknowledged that the com munication of the Noble Viscount was made before the Government had taken any step of an arbitrary cha racter, but said it was intended to refer to a state of things which might arise. The Noble Viscount, how ever, had not said anything about a state of things which might arise; he had given his instruction with reference to the actual, and not the future, state of things. Mr. Bulwer- was, however, obliged to admit to the Duke of Sotomayor that his argument was good; that the Noble Viscount had no reason for doing what he had done at the time at which he did it; but the opportunity had arisen, and he availed himself of it. But a more important fact was disclosed, and one which their Lordships and the country would require to have a full explanation of. He meant the different view taken by Members of the Government on this subject.— (Hear, hear.) He had mistaken the Noble Marquis the other night if he did not rest the whole of his case on this fact : that the letter of Lord Palmerston was a private letter to the British Minister at Madrid, and ought not to have been shown ; and he stated ex plicitly that he lamented the course which Mr. Bulwer had adopted. The leading Minister in the House of Lords, stated that he "lamented " the course pursued by a Minister of the Crown, and, by so saying, he meant that such conduct was not justifiable, and ho virtually passed his censure upon it. He (Lord Stanley) expressed a doubt whether that letter had ever been seen by the Noble Marquis (Lansdowne) or the Noble Earl (Grey). Why, at the time the Noble Marquis re ferred to it, on Friday night, he was not cognisant of what he was about to lay on their Lordships' table; he was not aware that the British Minister in Spain had, upon the face of the documents now before their Lord ships, received the entire and cordial approval of Lord Palmerston. The letter from Mr. Henry Lytton Bul wer was dated April the 7th, and there was another of the 11th of the same month. On the 18th, and also on the 20th, the Noble Viscount (Palmerston) had written to Mr. Bulwer, and in both dispatches approved of his conduct. In one he said, " Her Majesty's Government likewise approved of the note which you addresfed OR the 7th inst. to the Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs." Now he would leave it to the Noble Mar quis to explain that extraordinary fact.—(Hear, hear.) The letter of the 11th, from Mr. Bulwer, enclosed also the dispatch from the Duke of Sotomayor; and the an swer again of Viscount Palmerston to that was a most extraordinary production. He said, " I have received your dispactches," and not " I approve of the course you have adopted;" but " I have to instruct you to state to the Duke of Sotomayor that her Majesty's Government entirely approve of your representation of the 7th inst., and of your note of the lath inst., and thereby he took upon himself to throw upon her Ma jesty's Government the whole responsibility of the lan guage, tone, and manner of the correspondence. He took a course in which he involved her Majesty's Go vernment in the entire responsibility of a most offensive proceeding. But, in his attempt to place the correspon dence on a more amicable footing, he exhibited a degree of Christian forbearance which would have been credi table in a private individual, but which was quite incon sistent with the representative of a great power.—(Hear, hear.) What did he say? Having his dispatches re turned in a manner which one gentleman would not tole rate from another, he said, " Go and tell the Duke of Setomayor that I entirely approve of the course you have adopted; but her Majesty's Government are not at all offended." Thus you exposed yourself to insult, you got a kick, and then begged to say that you entirely ap proved of the course which induced it, and tell the person at the same time that you were not the least offended with him.—(Laughter.) It was a most absurd and lu dicrous anwer to as imprudent a step as he ever heard of. The Noble Viscount went on to conclude the cor respondence by reminding the Minister for Foreign Affairs, whom he was addressing, that in certain circum stances, unless Great Britain had interfered, he (that Foreign Minister), instead of being the Minister of his Sovereign, would have been a proscribed exile on a foreign shore. This needed no comment. He wished he could see a satisfactory issue to such a correspon dence. But he thought he should be excused for calling attention to the subject—(Hear, hear)—and, above all, that House and the country had a right to know whether the conduct of Mr. Butner, in taking the step which he had adopted, was considered by the Government to be imprudent, if not indefensible; and whether the Noble Viscount the Secretary for Foreign Affairs had not taken upon himself, in the name of the Government, to say that it was a proceeding which had their entire approval .--( Hear.) The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who spoke in a low tone, and was most indistinctly heard, was understood to say, that it was intended Mr. Bulwer should exercise his own discretion on the subject. He did not believe he had communicated the dispatch to a Spanish newspaper before it was known to the Duke of Sotomayor. He certainly regretted that it had been made to that distin guished individual ; but Mr. Bulwer, from his great knowledge of the affairs of Spain, must have had reasons for making the communication of an imperative charac ter. As to the approbation which had been signified of Mr. Bulwer's conduct, it was necessary either to express approval or disapproval of it ; and if the latter course had been adopted he must have been recalled. That was a course the Government were not prepared to adopt, because they did not think it desirable to make this matter a subject of permanent quarrel. They did not, however, think fit to give a species of triumph to the Duke of Sotomayor after the language which he had used, and the answer was accordingly sent to Mr. Bulwer to be communicated to the Spanish Minister. From what had since taken place he knew that all unpleasant feeling between the parties had been removed.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord had said that the communication was made at a period when arbitrary measures had not been taken ; but it was in tended to leave the matter to Mr. Bulwer's discretion, with a view to prevent the adoption of such measures.— (Hear, hear.) There must have been something to lead his nib, Friend to suppose that the affairs of Spain would take the course which he was anxious to prevent, and therefore he was justified in the advice which he tendered. That advice was given in a spirit of goodwill to the Spanish Government, and from an anxious desire that the peace of the country ensl the strength of the Government might be maintained; and not from a wish to interfere in the affairs of Spain in any other sense than to promote the prosperity of that country. It was a source of satisfaction to him to consider that an amicable feeling had been restored ; Mr. Bulwer's rocal had not been demanded ; and therefore he trusted their Lord ships would not think it necessary to revive a contro versy with respect to the merits of the proceeding. The Earl of ABERDEEN did not think much ob servation necessary on the explan a ti on o f t h e N o b le Marquis. He did not, however, seem entirely to agree an the course which had been ad o pt e d. H e a d m i tted with him that it would have been most unjust to have abandoned Mr. Bulwer, because he had certainly acted according to the spirit of the instructions which he had received.—(Hear, hear.) He was a most able servant of the Crown, and he had no doubt that Mr. Bulwer knew perfectly well what he was about when he made the communication to the Duke of Sotomayor.—(Hear, hear.) He appeared to have felt perfect confidence that he should meet with the approbation of his Govern ment, and when the Noble Marquis said it was left to his discretion se surely could not have read the com munication very carefully. If there had been a comma between the words " Government" " and" in the opening sentence of the letter it would have removed all doubt as to the pa ssage " If you shall have an oppor tunity of doing so " applying only to the Queen- Mother.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Bulwer had no occasion to seek an opportunity of communicating.with the Spanish Government—it was his right to do so; but he had no right to put himself in communication with the Queen- Mother.--(Hear, hear.) That such was Mr. Bulwer's idea was evident from his reply, in which he said, " In conformity with your Lordship's instructions, I took the opportunity of communicating to the Spanish Go vernment, &c." It was said that it was not desirable to give an apparent triumph . to the Duke of Sotomayor by withholding an expression of approbation from Mr.. Bulwer. That might do very well after the Noble Vis count had received the answer of the Spanish Minist( r, but it so happened that the approbation was expressed before that reply had been received.—(Hear, heur.) l its was anxious to know how the renewal of friendly feeling had been brought about, because he regarded the answer of the Spanish Minister as a most serious affair. Ile had had some experience in matters of that sort, but he had never before heard of the dispatch of a British Minister being returned as unfit to be received or re tained.—(Hear, hear.) It was the first time, he thought, that a British Minister had been subjected to such in dignity.—(Hear, hear.) If it had not been for the discussion in their Lordships' House Mr. Bulwer might have had his approbation in his pocket, but he would have met with the disapprobation of the whole country ; hut now it would be seen, if censure was due, that it attached to those who adopted the step which led to such a communication being made. Ile fully expected that the suggestion which had been thrown out the other night by his Noble Friend (Lord Stanley), as well as from something which he knew to be going on at Madrid, would have been adopted. He thought there would have been an explanation Offered by the British Government, that they did not in teed to interfere in the internal affairs of Spain, and then the effeesive communications on both sides would be withdrawn. That would have been the proper course ; but the whole matter was marked by such frivolity as surprised him; and he was at a loss to know how any Noble Lord, with the gravity of the matter before him, could have brought it to such a termination (Hear.) He thought Mr. Bulwer had lett it much better than it now stood, within so long to quoque wind ing up.—(Hear, hear.) It was quite indispensable that some understanding should be come to with the Spanish Government with a view to set at rest this most objectionable proceeding; for although we had drawn it on ourselves, yet we had received such an insult as had never been inflicted on any Government before.—(Hear, hear) He would for a moment refer to the language used by the Noble Viscount who had been so justly com plained of. The Noble Lord said—" The recent down fal of the King of the French and his family, and the expulsion of his Ministers, ought to indicate to the Spanish Court and Government the danger to which they expose themselves in endeavouring to govern a country in a manner opposed to the sentiments and opinions of the nation ; and the catastrophe which has just occurred in France is sufficient to show that even a numerous and well-disciplined army offers only an insufficient defence to the Crown when the system followed by it is not in harmony with the general system of the country. The Queen of Spain would act wisely i❑ the present critical state of affairs if sho were to strengthen her Executive Government, by widening the bases on which the Administratio❑ reposes, and in calling to her councils some of the men in whom the Liberal Tarty places confidence. If that meant anything it meant an approbation of the revolution which had taken place in France.—(Hear, hear.) It was not tem • sistent with good feeling, in a fortnight after the arrival of that unfortunate prince (the King of the French) and his family in this kingdom, to hold him up as a warning to the Spanish Government. And it was not true—it could not be said that he was governing France in " a manner opposed to the sentiments and opinions of the nation." The feelings of the people were expressed in the only legitimate way in which they could be made known, namely, by a Government majority in both his chambers. But, suppose this was so—suppose the Noble Viscount's representation to be correct, and it had been so stated to General Narvaez, he might at once have said, " If the King of the French had allowed his able, upright, and courageous Minister to act as I have done, he would still have been on the throne of France." General Nar vaez had put down the attempt at revolution by means which, unfortunately for himself, the King of the French abstained from using. It was therefore no argument as to what might have been done by firm resistance. — (Hear.) He must also say that the time chosen for giv ing his advice was most inopportune, it being just at ter the Spanish Government had put down an attempt at insurrection.—(Hear.) But objectionable as the com munication was it could not have been expected to pro duce such an answer.—(Hear.) Much depended on the feeling existing between the party who made the communication and the individual who received it. He should have had no difficulty in giving advice through Lord Cowley to M. Guisot, because of the friendly feeling which existed between them, and this communi cation, if it had been made by a friend, might have been differently received; but it was offered without the shadow of a hope of its being accepted.—(flear, hear.) Suppose that our interference had led to a change of Ministry, and that national calamities had followed this change, we should clearly have, in such case, been re svonsible to Europe for those calamities. He denied that the interference of the Government in the recent case was called for by any existing treaty. He con sidered it the duty of the Government of Great Britain to establish a friendly understanding with the Spanish Government of a clear, straighforward character, and to be no longer influenced in any degree by what should now be the dissipated bugbear of French influence. Lord BROUGHAM expressed his gratification to hear that friendly relations were once more established between this country and Spain, and suggested that the quarrel being now over, the less reference there was made to it the better. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY fully concurred in the Noble Lord's qualification that the misunder standing between England and Spain, occasioned by the unwarrantable interterence in Spanish affairs of our Secretary for Foreign Affairs, was now dissipated. Ile felt compelled, nevertheless, to denounce the conduct of the Noble Secretary in meddling as he did with ev(Ty thing and everybody, a mania which had involved him in the perfectly natural dislike and distrust in every Court of Europe. . The Marquis of CLANRICARDE contended that it was unjust to denounce as gratuitous meddling the con duct of his Noble Friend in directing our Minister at Madrid discreetly to give, when occasion should arise, such advice to a friendly Government as the Noble Lord, under the circumstances, deemed it well tor that Govern ment to have, not dictated, but suggested to it. The only error in the matter was an error of judgment on the part of Mr. Bulwer, in the mode of tendering the advice at a peculiarly critical moment. The subject then dropped, and their Lordships' ad journed. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 8. HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. Mr. SLANE Y in continuation proceeded to say—He believed that if the opponents of the Bill had read the rules and resolutions of the different Commissioners, who had been appointed to investigate the condition of the working classes throughout the country, and on which the Bills of the Hon. Baronet (Sir R. Peel) and the Noble Lord (Lord Morpeth) were founded, they would no longer continue their unjust and unnecessary oppo sition. He knew those Commissions to have consisted of the ablest engineers of the country, and felt proud to have the honour of being a fellow labourer with some of those personages on one Commission. He then in vestigated the condition of sixteen towns, among which was "Birmingham, and he should solemnly aver that a worse condition than that of the working classes, among pigs and stench, could not be imagined. There was great ignorance of the art of making drains amongst those to whom the care of their construction was entrusted, being made six feet high and three feet wide, when much smaller and much cheaper ones would answer every purpose. The consequence was, that the poor had not the benefit of as extensive a system of drainagii as they deserve and were entitled to. Earthenwar e p i p es were much cheaper, and carried off filth much better than brick channels. It was absolutely necessary also that they should have an abundant supply of water in the improved districts, and, therefore, the importaras of a measure to enforce all these provisions for the public health could not be too greatly appreciated. The only course that now lay before them, i n t h e i r en d eavour to realize the practice of these principles, was to go into Committee on the Public Health Bill, which had been very properly entrusted to the Noble Lord the First Commissioner of Woods and Forests, who had yielded a great point, viz., that he would consent to the Bill being carried into practice by the Government, assisted by two unpaid Commissioners. The Hon. Member for Exeter objected to the appointment of any Commis sioner, but he was sure that his anxiety for the health and comfort of the poorer classes would not allow that circumstance to remain an obstacle with him. The reports on the state of certain portions of the towns of Bristol, Bath, Frome, Merthyr, and other places of the west, were of a nature to rouse the most apathetic to a sense of the importance of a general cleansing system. The mortality returns were a true criterion of the wretched state of the population, and in the places he had named, it varied from 25 to 8, the general average throughout the country being 22 per cent. In some other places it amounted to as much as four, five, or even six per cent. After looking at the state of all those towns, he had come to the conclusion, that it was absolutely necessary for every class of society that reforms of this description should be carried out immediately, and if this were refused, or defeated, or impeded, the evil results of that line of conduct would sooner or later become apparent, because it was clearly the health of the poor that enabled them to render pro ductive the property of the rich. In Lancashire alone there were 336,000 cases of disease attributable to the want of measures of this sort, and that number would speedily be increased or equalled in other parts of the kingdom, and there was no knowing in what their neg ligence might terminate. Mr. C. PEARSON observed that it was extremely difficult to define the boundary line between the prin ciple and details of a Bill; as that which one Hon. Gen tleman might consider a principle, another might regard only as a matter of detail. Hence the frequent reply to objections against this Bill: " They are only matters of detail—let us consider them in Committee." Hisidea of the principle of this Bill was this—that so many cities, towns, and boroughs in the country as the Governm e nt should please to distinguish by an order in council were to be taken out of the existing law, which vested the power of making sanitary regulations in a local autho rity, and placed under the controul of a Government Board—that was to say, that the time-honoured insti • tutions of the country were, like ricketty children, to be placed in the go-cart of Government centralisa tion. That was, in his estimation, the principle of the Bill, and, being altogether opposed to it, he could not consent to go into Committ ee f or t h e purpose of considering how it might best be carried out. The Hon. Gentleman proceeded to combat the arguments of the last and other speakers, that this Bill would materi ally improve the . social and p h ys i cal condition of the peo ple, by referring to th e san i tary system of France and other continental cou n t r i es, of which he said this Bill was an imitation, and showing .that under that system those countries were inferior to England in morality, longevity, and ph ys i cal comforts. The proportion of deaths . in France was 1 in 42; in Prussia, 1 in 38; in Austria, 1 in 33; in Russia, lin 38; and in England, 1 in 45. The H on. Gentleman did not state what re turns he quoted fro m , b ut argued that in England, under hert own principle of local self-government, there was less - mortality than in those countries where the system 0 centralisation sought to be established by this Bill was in operation. He also quoted largely from returns re specting early marriages, showing a great preporideran h oo in favour of England, and particularly Lond on, while number of illegitimate children was proportional small. Ile wholly acquitted the Noble Lord the Member for London of having omitted that city from the Bill be cause of his political connexion, and must do him the . justice to say, that he believed there wa s not the slightest foundation for any such imputation. lie or posed this Bill not for the city of London. but as Member of Parliament speaking for the country at large; and as such, he must say with regret that the grost misrepresentations had been palmed upon the count ry _ respecting it. As the sample so was the sac k. found it stated in a report of the sub-committee ices Health of Towns Association—a body o f propagand' sl who were trying to infect the minds of the nation; " that since 1838 upwards of 58,000 children were a , f , stroyed in London who would not have been destroyen:,, the rate of mortality was the same as in the district °f Lewisham." If fairness were intended, a place having only only about 600 inhabitants widely separated would have been chosen as a comparison and placed in C O ' _,, e trait with a thickly populated city. This showed by, manner in which the public mine had been drugge a b : t the advocates of this measure. He would add tof though during the years stated the whole nunibrerl3o children aged 5 years and under who had died ii ; be city of London was 5,125, the number was stated il;40. publications put forth by these associations to be 58. 45, He (Mr. Pearson) should be ashamed to make is he charges here in the absence of those parties, unle°'ere had previously made them before a body of the rner°l"ith of these associations, when the secretary of the 11" w,, of Towns Association and the secretary of the M e he politan Association were both present; and yet deserted made the charge they stood mute monuments of e. p a. impositions, which they had not the courage to en Hence, he had a right to charge against these publications and statements which were grossly sills and only put forth to influence votes in favour e'tiot measure. Still, however, he did not pretend to ssY there was not room for great sanitay m that admission he made as broadly r as p he prover:l'e° could s t ate Led it.—(Hear, hear.) He would mention one case Sts te in a report published by the Statistical Soci et ',' e se which Colonel Sykes, Dr. Guy, and Mr. Neese ° oar parties. The case had reference to a pe stle 0 , locality, to which presently he would give a non e ,: nt he read it with shame and humiliation, to think to lived in a country were such scenes were per l334 ' w e of take place. These gentlemen ref erre d t o the conditio eighteen houses which had been visited consecu ti : e od Each of these contained a dense population closely P a lo. together to an extent which it wa s f r i g h t f u l t o contenif In these abodes the maximum amount of cubic felt of r air was 270 feet, but the average was 176 cubic the air for respiratory purposes. Why, an y felon h' - f , s ir country was allowed in his cell 1,000 cubic feet ° re p for the purposes of his health, and yet these Peeri.coll tures, thus huddled together, had an average of 176 feet. The report went on to state that in, to se• wretched abodes all ages and sexes w e r e huddle ° he rg ther—fathers and daughters, mothers a nd sons, b O ot ing and sisters, adult strangers male and female, rin dl t ot children—the sick and the dying—to a pressM: ini even brutes would resist ; and among them it w a o o, possible to observe the ordinary d ec encies of I ", e i aria hence immorality and vice grew with their gr°`"`„ o l l ° strengthened with their stren g th. T o put a° „ i ' fi aer such a system he would willin g ly j o i n w ith any:body of men. But where did a ll t hi s take nilau:' i the under whose control and gov e rn me nt ? 1711 J h ' locality was Church-street, St. Gil es ' s , an d the an ti was that of the Woods and Forests.—(Hear, House was aware that an Act had been pass ed V' e ee l( authority to the Woods and Forests to construc t street through St. Giles's to connect Holborn / I ti, ", rs et . ford. street; and for the construction of the neercE"ocioa' tax was imposed upon all coals imported into u e ,d by This tax, it had been untruly charged, was mansg,:, tee: the corporation of London. On the coetrarf, te w - bice nagemeat was placed in the Woods and F o rests, 000 01., department had a fund from that s ource of lye with which to make the new street, to pull down P i - a th e houses of the locality, and to make arrangementsehost)" better accommodation of the people who would,. ' d bee° displaced from their habitations. And what ,1 doe° the result ? Why, the houses had been P,e'lbeodes de{ and the people were driven into the wretched inmates ` scribed in the report he had quoted, th e t j- o r 67 ? et which had thus been increased to the eat en- w o ods an cent. So much for the management of th e Forests, that t" Lord MORPETII intimated across the new street and alterations alluded to had not bee coe y red out by the Woods and Forests, but under theoicli missioners of Metropolitan Improvements, of t o body the Lord Mayor was a member.—(Hear,heanf the Mr. C. PEARSON resumed—He was aware v d0 0; convenience of putting in the commission a few fits mies—(A laugh)—and no doubt the name of there it Mayor had been included in the commission to g c l o bt an appearance of popularity; but 110 man could i s it that the Lord Mayor, however respectable, wou ld ir into m easureless insignificance in the presence 0, „ i f table t or, dividual of so high a position as the Noble -tr. a . eit i , (Loud laughter.) If, therefore, the Woods and power and supervision of managed affairs so wretchedly so near home' soli; could be calculated upon as the result of W ir d itJ tj i In the course of this discussion the subject of partstrolling of B in se p o_ek ( s ue i s e r, - b i r : b e e visitation of the cholera in this country su rne 1 ago had been alluded to. At that tim e--047, fi 1832, he had been appointed chairman °'eere the parishes, to administer a fund of 10,0001. vote° - 1 ; Corporation. He entered on this point to show i t t i e d e l vantage of local government. The city of Lonu i e l btfe' termined to act for themselves, despite the fr Tt t b° edict issued by the Privy Council at that tittle , - fib e head of which was the Marquis of Lansdocce'ir pr e ; citizens of London stood their ground, as had °L e d $ 6 decessors at the time of the pla g ue. They ( 1 fr ci "; their own cost a board of health, which dissenterole the views of Sir Henry Halford and the GO e of h e medical men as to the contag i ous c h a racter 0 0 ; disease. And what had been the consequen e „ 9 , course pursued ? In Paris, where the dis e l - 0 - ; 8 0: , ,,h 1 treated as contagious, the deaths were as 1 'i t ' ' fl f Ors; in London, which had taken its own course ;" I W 4 3, dure, the deaths had been in the proportion o' 030 0:T o , of the population. These were proofs that th e tb etin er ment of local affairs ought to be left to local ° e eef whose exertions ought not to be permitted to ' ro e al lysed or deadened by the influence or inte r i c e n Government commissioners. —(Hear, hear.) bbe s e re think he should do service to the cause w"`",hi§ c i f f cerely advocated if he said more than to exPrt e olle,be viction that if this Bill should pass, whatever t ev od r e might choose to submit to, the city of Lond e° Dee P metropolitan districts would not tolerate such $ imp re l being applied to them.—(Hear, hear.) Lord ASHLEY said he was very anxinns," - ti eee:iie' upon the House the absolute and indispensabi e ,eeteg of commencing some measure calculated to re' - wor'.its vances which weighed so heavily ponied il o r, - • classes.—(Hear, hear.) His le Fr t bis er a workingorp) had said the other night thst i , - „ - 3 man's Bill. His Noble Friend ";ted Wb uttered a truer thing. The measure was con ne ,, - 0 t bd, the working m a n' s whole exist ence . It begi - t to oc 4 home—it affected hi s ca p ac i t y to go abroad -.-- ,130 11 1, - 0 ' his health, and it increased or dimi n i s hed hi s e obtaining a livelihood for his wife, his fan 3 l l Y, h 'e self. This question, formerly unknown to "lat • tt' was now well understood by them, and its e a st e do , ment was one of the dearest objects they I °S, cl ,ol 4l i c i tse j Hence it affected not merely the physical anui,, pee' fe l dition of the working classes, but also the'..%.arr,: t eO content or discontent, just as legislative u ' e 'neg l ' c ii o ; sanitary improvement were adopted or „et , Ile did not deny that there were V k iec" t t culties in the way of legislation on this " ti pr ee f e c e tt: that it required great ingenuity and pers e : %te devise a measure which should be an an t ` t nt°" 6 , prodigious and intolerable evils which at Pret a tb, e 'ii But the greatness of the se diffi cu l t i es could :b:: e 11 ° ought not to be, any argum ent f or stopp ing measure at the very threshold o f i ts d ue cons'o o "(;`,' namely, in Committee; and h e (L or d Ashlef)r, tli e be d Noble Friend opposite (Lord M orpet h) , and -in vernment, the highest praise for the manner icy they had addressed themselv es t o t hi s questil'ocei mode in which they had en coun t ere d those c tet tli t i4 At the same time, he fairly told them that, jo the Bill was susceptible of gr ea t impeoveli e sq whether or not, he (Lord Ashley) °to e ; House to let the Government have t re itte,,,;; j : tunity of dealing with the Bill in Ccn-cif cause it was a measure which had air e t bet,.',lld strong a hold upon the minds of the peoPle.' "iprr e f!'; essentially necessary to prove to them in de" - o ssl or was nut feasible in respect to the rent a ese i o i ) various abominations to which they were s t . n rg posed. It had been stated that the exis ti L VA/ sufficient to effect all purposes. The law "' s oy remove nuisances provided men had the o°, l - 01 t e' l l law; but still they were insufficient or t l , e ree e ffe institution of improvements, especially in re; t - ber e 'll",l' due and sufficient supply of water, and ilete g in repeated his hope that the Bill would be for investigation in Committee. He (1) : 0 - 05 8 ,4t should not have ventured to address the •'-" - dtlr' s q subject, had it not been for the observations!, tfroy the House the last night of the debate l '"wb°, 0 0 1 1 ? Member for West Surrey (Mr. Drumnsoed). tbee'ole that a number of interested persons availing be d!/ , '" of the feeling which prevailed in the countr,Pois d l an agitation in o r d er t o carry a meas ure 0 ` deeP o P? tion. As he (L or d A s hl ey ) h a d b ee n W be • W s- ye 13 Itt e s t ob t ain • e barked in th e w h o l e o f t hi s movem 7 been actively engaged in the endeavour to to / alt o , y lative measure on this subject, he was reedi coo o, o o;,' himself a share of as much blame a s 3 to upon th e p rocee di ng; b ut h e wou ld leave I (f,Of o r, Member (M r . D rummon d) t o show that b. e tlie s tO ley) had exhibited a grain of selfishness I,ll‘oo, roll —(hear, hear.) And he would ask the fop. , 0 0 0 3 4? whether, in the opposition to the measure' eo 'o° something of selfishness, and a low and ea pecuniary interests?—(Hear, hear.) ;c osse iee p Member treated the subject with so much s be it. o fd must have forgotten, or never have kno w o pon sf e st o od lag which existed through the country eri Itir o s e o eo lf could not have known that in almost ° m e ab to local boards had been formed to investif.iooi4 ipb" to make periodical reports which, from b to rf'so • t of " o il to showed one and the same complain r e st i quacy of the law for the removal of the gtwo be d been to I sPo ing evils they denounced. There had s ing e pros oh et/ from the city he represented —On the empted from the Bill—the other from to s if ; I II • e t e"; ceiling upon their representatives no t _ T i e nt t_,d local influences, but to make it subse,,,, e _ fotwo t eep neral good. He (Lord Ashley), sheretv o ,e be itte e, at liberty to act as he liked, and, act l ,,coose?„,, ! should vote for the Bill going intl . ' to ill"' there introduce such amendments as ~ 110° 1 3' 4414 TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 9, lB4B. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette publishes an official report from the Governor and Captain-General of the Philippine Islands, announcing the complete suc cess of the Spanish expedition against the pirates of Balmguingui. The island, with its seven villages and the forts, mounted with 124 pieces of cannon, fell into the power of the Queen's troops. More than 450 of the pirates were put to death. The QUEEN had rewarded General CLAYERIA, Captain- General of the Philippine Islands, with the Grand Cross of the Royal and Military Order of St. Fer dinand. MADRID BOLSA, MAY 3.—The Tbree per Cents. closed at 231 cash ; the Five per Cents., at 141 cash ; Coupons, 9 paper; Debt without Interest, at 5t Paper. MANLY ACTION.—Last week, at Jersey, the lives of two children, who bad been surrounded by the tide, were bayed by a little boy, son of Major Carlton, who, disgusted at the apathy of tho spectators , rush e d i nto the water at th e r i s k of his life.—Br i stol Paper.