The Sun. — London, England, 1852-03-26 00:00:00

FRANCE. A descent of the officers of justice was effected on Monday evening, about eight o'clock, at the Cafe du Danemarck, in the Rue St. Honore, and led to the arrest of about 50 German refugees of Communist opinions. This establishment was long noted for being a place of rendezvous for the demagogical party. Eighty-four persons of the department of the Meuse, ordered for transportation to Cayenne or Lambessa, arrived in Paris on Tuesday. Amongst them are an ex-sub-prefect, three advocates, and two schoolmasters. Most of the prisoners belong to Total, Metz, and Nancy. It is stated that the measure determined on by the Government to re-establish prison labour is already producing good results. Everywhere labour in the prisons is being most successfully organized. The Tribunal of Correctional Police has con demned a man named Campion to two months' im prisonment, for baying, on the 21 of December last, been one of a group who cried on the Boule vard den Italiens "Down with Napoleon ! down ” with the President ! and for having declared that a captain of the staff, who happened to pass, ought to be assassinated. A man named Chollet was sentenced to forty days' imprisonment, for having. cried, .on the 3i Decemb er , i n th e Quarter Bour donna's, " Viva la Republique democratique et so ciale !" " Down with the President !" The tribunal also condemned a man name d Lansarle to four months' imprisonment a n d 100 francs fine for having, on being arrested for some offence, on the 4th hist , said to the soldiers, who were conveying him to the guardhouse, that 4 ' they were canailles and the butchers of the President," that "the President was a canaille," and that " the army degraded itself in obeying him." A letter from Toulon states that more than 500 of the political prisoners who were in fort Lamalgue have been set at liberty. The decree which regulates the internal organiza tion of the Council of State, the Senate, and Corps Legislatif, and their relations with the Prince Presi dent, published in the Moniteur does not elicit much observation. There is, however, a question raised by the Constitutionnel of a very serious character with respect to the powers attributed to the Senate. This body may quash any act of the Corps Legislatif which shall appear to exceed the rights conferred upon it by the Constitution. That is undoubted, but the Constitutionnel inclines to the opinion that it may equally overrule a decision of the highest legal court of appeal—that of Cessation. " The Senate (it says in the say of explanation) is the guardian and interpreter of the Constitution. It is to the Senate, then, that unconstitutional acts are to be referred. The Senate may be seized of a question by a decree of the President. But are there any acts which may not be set aside by admininistrative means without the intervention of the Senate? We . can only imagine two kinds, these of the Corps Legislatif and of the judicial power. If the Corps Legislatif should exceed its attributions then its acts wou4l be referred to the Senate to be set aside as unconsti tutional; but are we to think that judicial decisions may be equuly referred to the Senate, and that the Ccurt of Caseation will cease to be supreme arbitrator in questions of law? We raise the question without being able to ant ye it. This would be a serious innovation indeed, for it would make a body, the mere creature of the State, the last court of appeal with respect to differenses between the State and offending GERMANY. A letter from Dirschan (Prussia), of the 17th inst. says— "A suspension bridge over the Vistula is about to be commenced clo3e to this town, and will be certainly the most remarkable work of the kind in Europe. This bridge, on which the eastern railway will run, is to be 2,500 feet in length and 63 feet in breadth, and will be placed on six pillars, 500 feet apart, four of which will be placed in the bed of the river. Each pillar will be provided with a derence. , against the floating ice, and as in the Vistula the breaking up of the ice is attended with ceasiderable danger, and wculd carry away any works which were not terminated, only one pillar will be constructed a year. The cost of the bridge will be 7,600,0001., and a further sum of 11,400,000 F. will be required for the works at each side, in all 19 milliooa." ITALY. Negotiations have been opened between the Cham bers of Commerce of Vienna, Milan, Turin, and Germ, for the prompt transmi3sioa of telegraphic dis patches of the public funds of Paris. A courier will carry the dispatches from Milan to Novi, whence they will be simultaneously transmitted by telegraph to Turin and Genoa. The Count d'Aquila, brother of the King of 'Naples, is expected to arrive shortly in France. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa quotes a letter from Rame of the 15th, stating that the French Go vernment has again represented to the Papal See, that it is urgent to adopt reforms which may render the further presence of French troops useless at Rome. M. Charles Bonaparte, Prince of Canino, ar rived at Civita Vecchia on the 21st, on bor.rd the Telemaco, from Marseillef. RANGOON. We hava been favoured with the following particulars from a private letter to a friend from an officer of her Majesty's ship Fox, 42 guns, Commodore Lambert, be fore Rangoon, dated the Ist ult., which will be found highly interesting, as showing the duplicity practised in the negotiations with the Commodore and the Governor of Rar,,goon, which was succeeded by a renewal of hos tilitie : The Governor of Rangoon, having obtained from the Commodore thirty days' respite for negotiations after the first display of a vigorous intention on the part of the British to demand satisfaction for aggressions committed by the Siamese, seems to have made preparations for surprising the Bri tish- squadron. A new Governor having, durir ' e the thirty days' grace, arrived from the King of Ava, ha sent off, with all imaginable Eastern pomp, two emblazoned letters, borne on superb gold and velvet cushions, carried in state barges, rowed by a bril liantly dressed crew, with gilt oars—one letter for the Governor-General of India, and the other for Commodore Lambert. Proclamations were speedily afterwards issued forbidding any of the natives interchanging civilities or communicating with the Fox, or even going to the beach to look et her. One native, gifted with more temerity, or may be curiosity, than his fellows, went and had a peep at the British, for which ho was immediately de eepitated. Four hundred of the 98th (Queen'.) Regi alcnt and some artillery have been dispatched from Cal. °tate, and other troops have been ordered to hold theta -Ivta in readiness. Th e 80th Regiment has been or dered down from Dinapore to Moulmein. /ion ic . ,*.itarday morning (Ist February) arrived the cutta, ‘•;: it a h pany's steam-vessel Fire Queen from Cal modore fresh dispatches and instructions for .Lambert,Com conderiau and I regret to say, somewhat pr ,„ editup urY of the prompt and energetic line of the viant which has been hitherto pursued by a few weeks emcee. It will be remembered that Gov 4 cr eit the duct of the insolent and audacious con to break off cornier- of Itangoon canoed the Commodore i..l.l.ations, and to proclaim a blockade, and that the forts i n fli a a seve r e p a shri l on the frigate compelled him to them, by the loss of a large number of men from thi:ufii,t3ills of the Fox. The Gover nor-Generals wi s hes to purchase it with - i n c ti ß i at . any price; but if he a ttty, he should not have sent Commodore Lambert as soul. seater. We now learn that mere mild proceedings have answered bet ter; that the Commodore should b personall to confer with the Governor of Rangoonma gene Ild, Ra fi n e all", her Majesty's sbip Fox was t )ai ; ti and offer the same terms as before, proceeded At one o'clock io P• 3l January 31, accordingly. the f ri gateon, up the river, passing the Silva st oc ka de - on the amiable mission, in the tow cf t h e Fire Queen, and on battery was sainted with a shower ur .ivuud shot . T n%t tin. ~,r a- 0 Wee paid with good interest I need not say, as be g ,„ her Majesty's ship Fox was within range. Again the, fi re d the first shot, and slain have they felt the power of a fri gate's broadside, which it would seam they bad forgotten, as the indolent or servile policy of the Indian Govern. meat has received their insults unheeded, and allowed their misconduct, nay brutality, to English subjects to go unpunished f or many a long year. I re gret to say a fine manly young lad, John Watt, has lost his lag above the knee by a round she`. A fl3g . , of truce has now just started with Lard Dalhousie 'a last attempt to patch up a short Pea" with these savage and treacherous people; but as the steamer is now starting, no further information is to be had. Her Majesty's brig Serpent, 16, C omman der laard, is blockading Cape Negra;s, and the squadron is Ir,:aithy." THE MAURITIUS. A dispatch from the Governor of Mauritius, with a re pon on the state of the rural districts in that colony, has re e cently hnsn printed, and gives a very sanguine picture of its condition and prospects. The quantity of luxuriant , canes on lands redeemed within only a few years from the 1. ..42:5 a1a t or r the rock, the increase of steam machinery, and r_ , ; tern! improvement in the processes of manufac n7l,, I:let:pled with symptoms of activity, self-reliance, I.,,, tiri, tit ql , ry on the part of all claws of tho popula rteileols;:oegly divPlt upon. The habits of the raatrotiiivitii zts rns.ving become batter naderstuod, their satisfaztor_, theirand employers are noiv, it is said, highly once sn tt Y mero_o complaints on either side, which were furnishing them Witt, comparatively rare. The means of tau eilape, appear , c l o ricatior even in the most elemen dable diflicnitiesi% as to to be " beset with such fermi- Thrl great disparity a."• present of little hope of rrogress. cupidity between. the sexes. whi.-h relnitefl frnm i,,andratit of furmight at ih conimen:.lement of ill s • H a y ; •, 1, - b e t i s in cou:2,e 0 7 74 1 imrn . i % grat!on still con tz,rri lo the emancipated Leg g ) r aitlgted. With re it is re marked that they still shstain iciailtier ' almost totally from plantation 1.. i -sour, anti thus o • oritiero. t o • - `the curse w hi c h folic; ;v3 bLivery, 0 c exam They re wor.k to be 10 )1r::41 t! 33n '9 de t yr:4 ll i iin g til fl icaln either in the towns or in - s t, ; ;;V: lisaets, where they derive fte easy subaistence w h o y: r g oa l2 r ,%. pcajtry Creoles d eo a i nd charcoal. and other stock, or by a tragic in fire. leterraarringes between Indians and a . ra . very ear e, bet more frequent than formerly. A 0 . 7 the great resources of the island is, it 13 sow conviction of present , Universally entertained, and it i 3 unquestion 4 bla that the l argo Ingdu-'ioof -k a sugar falls far abort of h W At rely ultimately b anticipated. . PRICES of WHEAT, FLOUR, and BREAD. Annexed is a compariso❑ of the present prices of wheat, fl.mr, and bread in London and Paris:— " The hightest price of wheat of the first quality in Paris is 30f. per 1 hectolitres, which is equal to 455. 10d. per quarter; and the highest price of white wheat of the first quality in London being 495. per quarter, it follows that wheat is nearly 7 percent. dearer in London than in Paris. _ _ " The highest quotation of flour of the first quality in Paris is 37f. the 100 kilogrammes, which is equal to 375. per sack of 2801 b. English; and the highest quota tion of flour in the London market being 40s. per sack, it follows that flour is about 8 per cent. dearer in Lon don than in Paris. The highest quotation of the second quality of white flour in Paris is 34f. 40c., which is equivalent to 34W. sd. per sack of 2801 b., and which, as compared with the quotation in London of 31s. for household flour, shows that this description of flour is about 11 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. " The price of bread of the first quality in Paris is 31e. per kilogramme, which is equal to about 54d. the 41b. loaf English weight; and the price of bread in London at the fall-priced shops being 7d. per 41b., it follows that bread is about 33i par cent. dearer in London than in Paris. The second quality of bread is quoted at 24?. per kilogramme in Paris, which is equivalent to nearly 4 per 41b. loaf." CHEVALIER CLAUSSEN'S FLAX COTTON. The Illustrated Exhibitor and Magazine of Art, in an article descriptive of Chevalier Claussen's flax-works at Stepney, gives the following account of how the dis covery of flax-cotton was made by M. Claussen, and of its valuable properties. We may add that a specimen of the raw material and of the flax-cotton, prepared by the Chevalier's process, may be seen at the office of Messrs. Rennie and Gordon, here. A greater contrast than the two substances present can scarcely be imagined; and the beautiful quality of the cotton at once conveys an impression of the very great value which it will be found to possess as a raw material for the manufacturer:— " The Chevalier was wandering along the luxuriant banks of one of the Brazilian rivers, when his attention was attracted to a white down-like substance adhering to the branches of trees overhanging and touching the stream. On obtaining a quantity of it, he was so pleased with its character, that thinking he had dis covered some vegetable product hitherto unkown he determined to trace it, if possible, to its source, and to ascertain the plant which produced it. Pur suing his task with great ardour, he eventually found that the substance had been washed from a bed of flax straw, the produce of some of his own land, and which, long before, he had caused to be thrown, as useless, near the banks of the river. As swollen waters had occa sional access to this heap, fermentation and the decom position of a portion of the plant had taken place; and in time the influence of natural chemistry had so saturated the filaments of the flax-fibre as to give the mass a cotton-like appearance; and some of it having been washed by the river, had b een arres t e d by th e over hanging branches. On the f ac t s th us b rou ght before him, M. Claussen proceeded carefully to reason, and the processes now to be described are, therefore, the re sult, not of mere accident, but of inductive research. The flax, brought from the breaker,' is boiled for four hours in hot caustic soda, or steeped in a cold solution of it for twenty-four hours. It is afterwards washed in water containing one per cent. of sulphuric acid, and then in pure water, when it is dried, and subsequently treated by scutching, heckling, &c., according to the universal practice in the linen manufactures. Here, then, we have an immense improvement, by the long and difficult process of fermentation, which occupied six weeks, being entirely avoided. Yet the process is most effective and profitable, as twenty per cent. of long flax may be obtained instead of seventeen, while the sub stance is far more silky and soft. It is a popular error that Claussen's process is merely to turn flex into cotton, which people say is like turning gold into lead;' whereas he obtains by it a much larger proportion of the long and valuable flax, and renders the refuse — ordinarily considered comparatively worthless—by a process row to be explained, capable of being worked into cotton, wool, or silk fabrics. According to the mode long adopted in the linen manaficturo, and immense quantity of tow is made, which can only be used for twine and similar coarse purposes. But the chemical process employed by M. Claussen effects a change which is highly important. A series of vats are put in requisition. The first vat holds a solution of carbonate of soda; and in this the fibres, previously boiled and washed, are saturated for a quarter of an hour. It is then removed to the next vat, in which there is five per cent. of sulphuric acid, the effervescence causing the carbonic acid gas to separate and divide the fibres, thus rendering them more flocculent, and completely altering their spe cific gravity, as they rise now to the top of the vat, while before they sank to the bottom. The next process is to place them in another vat of soda, to neutralise any re maining acid; and this being effected, they are trans ferred to the bleaching-water of the fourth vat, composed of a solution of chloride of lime and sulphate of mag nesia—thus forming a hyper-cblorito of magnesia. In this preparation they remain for two hours, daring which they are perfectly bleached, requiring only to be transferred to a bath of dilated sulphuric acid, and then to pure water. The fibres, on being withdrawn from the vats, are dried by atmospheric or steam-heat, or hot air, They are then taken to a machine similar to that used in chaff-cutting, where they are cut into lengths adapted for spinning or cotton machinery. To specify all the advantages secured by these processes would far exceed our limits. It must, therefore, suffice to observe that the following are a few out of many : Any cloth made from flax cotton-yarn may be readily printed, dyed, and bleached by the ordinary cotton pro cesses. The flax-fibre, from its milling properties, is capable of being made into common felt hats with or without an admixture of wool. Cloth in which flax is mixed with wool is reduced in price from twenty-five to thirty per cent. Flax may be spun with silk on the existing silk machinery; and any useless flax can be converted into a first rate article for the paper-maker. The advantages thus presented are opened to our view at a critical pericd. Our supplies of cotton frcm Ame rica appear to have reached their maximum, and conse quently an efficient substitute is required; while our im portations of flax from Russia have suffered a decrease of about twenty per cent. And why, it may be asked, should we thus continue dependent on continental Europe for the flax which the United Kingdom is per fectly capable of producing? Why should not the sums we spend annually for oil-cake and flax-seed go into the pockets of the employers and the employed of our agri cultural districts?" THE SUN, SUICIDE BY A GENTLEMAN. On Tuesday evening an inquest was held at Bath, be fore Mr. English, coroner for that city, to inquire into the death of a gentleman who had committed suicide at one of the first hotels in that city on the previous even ing. It appeared that the deceased went to Bath by the down mail train on Monday afternoon, and prcceedod to the hotel, where he took dinner, and a pint of bitter ale. About four o'clock in the afternoon, at his own request, he was shown to his bedroom by oce of the chambermaids, to whom he remarked; " What a confu sion the town seems in to-day." She said, " Des it, Sir; I have net been out to-day." Us replied, " Yes, it is; it is all through this bothering election; it is a pack of nonsense." The chambermaid, about eight o'clock the same evening, tried the door, but found it locked. She took no notice of the circumstance, suebo'sing the gentleman had gone out and taken the key with him. Next morning, however, as the gentleman did not make his appearanee, his door was tried and found locked, and, as no reply could be obtained from'evithin, a police,constable was seat for and the door forced open. The unfortunate deceased was then discovered lying on the flier in a large pool of bload, with hia throat frightfully cut, and quite dead. Upon the dressing-table was found a razor covered with blood, with which the melancholy act had been committed. The deceased's gold watch was also found upon the dressing-table, and 1/. o'. Qd. in silver and copper coin upon the mantel-shelf. ail coat and waistcoat were off, and in the pocket were found prescriptions, signed by Sir James Clark, so late as Saturday last, showing the deceased to have been under medical treatment. A letter, directed to " Mr. Underwood, architect, Oxford," was also found upon the unfortunate man, which is the only means by which his identification can be traced, as he was a perfect stranger to the hotel. A messenger was dispatched to Oxford as soon as ths melannholy elieenvPry was made. but as he nad not returned at ten o'clock on Tuesday evening the inquest was adjourned. On Wednesday evening the inquest was resumed upon the unfortunate gentlemen when it appeared that the deceased was Mr. henry Jones Underwood, architect, of St. John's-street, turd. 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' M o A.Thar • March 2.0 Twlcedail y April 21 !Apill 2 lApril 21 THEI Bi5:101. OF OXFORD AND STONE ALTAES.— We learn that the Bhhop of Oxford has directed the removal of the stone altars erected in the several cemetery chapels in that city, and that in consequence they have been converted into communion tables, by being separated from the walls to which they were attached, so as to become moveable tables according to the rubrics Of the Preteatallt University Paper. LONDON, IiVIRERIAL PA RLIAMEN T. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 25. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. On the motion ct the Earl of LONSDALE, the Commons Enclosure Bill was read a second time and ordered to he committed to-morrow. COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from Dol gaily and other places in Wales, in favour of the County Courts Extension Bill. EXTENSION OF COUNTY COURTS JURISDIC TION TO BANKRUPTCY CASES. Lord BROUGHAM said he had a Bill to lay on the table, to which he besought their Lordships' attention. They must remember that the County Courts Acts, im proved as they had been by successive legislative enactments, and received with such favour by the public, applied as yet only to solvent claims, and that there was, in cases of insolvency, the same denial of justice which there had been before in all other cases.—(Hear, hear.) The consequence was, that in all the districts there were two distinct and independent local jurisdictions, that of the County Court and the Bankruptcy Court. How far it was possible to amalgamate the two jurisdictions, their Lordships had had an opportunity of consider ing last session, when ho had brought before them a Bill to effect this purpose—a Bill which made considerable progress last session, but, owing to the state of the public business, was not then passed into law. The Bill to which he had now to call their atten tion, and for which he had to ask a first reading, was of the same nature, and bad for its purpose to extend the jurisdiction of County Court judges to bankruptcy cases. —The Bill was then read a first time. The NOBLE LORD mentioned, in reference to the Bill which he had laid on the table the other night with regard to the shortening the time between the dissolu tion and the assembling of a now Parliament, he had heard some discontent expressed as to his having named thirty-five days as the minimum space to elapse between the two events. It appeared to him that this was the shortest space in which a new Parliament could bo got together after a dissolution. DISTRESS IN IRELAND. The Earl of GLENGALL presented a petition from the South of Tipperary praying that thellouse would take means to relieve the present state of distress exist ing in Ireland. The Earl of WICKLOW presented a petition from a place in the North of Ireland to the same effect. THE WAR IN AVA. The Earl of DERBY rose to ask the Noble Earl op posite (Ellenborough) to postpone a question of which he had given notice with respect to the war in Ave. It appeared to him that this question was, to say the least of it, premature, and as it appeared to him incorrect in its terms, as relating to what the Noble Earl called the war in Ave. Undoubtedly hostile collisions had taken place between her Majesty's forces and the Governor of Rangoon, but no actual war had broken out, and he was not without hope that such a misfortune might be averted. The first account of what had taken place had only reached this country by the last mail, and though accounts of a second colli sion had reached this country it had been by the medium of the Admiralty, and no account had yet reached the Board of Directors from the Governor-General, conse quently the information which the Government possessed was very imperfect, and they were not in a state to give anything but a very imperfect account of these t , ansactions. Under these circumstances he would propose that his Noble Friend should postpone his question until the arrival of the nest mail, which would probably put them in possession of what the state of affairs was at present, and what opinion the Governor-General had formed upon them. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said it was impos sible for him to refuse to postpone his question; but he hoped that he should be allowed to bring it on before the departure of the next mail. While he was upon the subject of this war he would call tbo attention of the Noble Duke at the head of the Admi ralty to the relations existing between the Governor- General of India and the Commodore cf the blockading squadron. The Commodore was in the position of the commander of an allied squadron, and though he might receive a suggestion from the Governor-General, he was rot bound to act according to his instructions. In fact, the Governor-General might advistabut could give no orders to the Commodore. This was au anomalous position, and he hoped that orders would be issued from the Admiralty to remedy it. The Duke of NORTHUMBERLANDsaid that Com modore Lambert had received instructions from the Go vernor-General in Conncil, and had acted upon them strictly and carefully. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said that might be, but it was in the Commodore's option to have neglected and disobeyed those orders altogether if he had chosen. That was a position of responsibility in which the Com modore ought not to be left. Lord MINTO said that he apprehended that the cum- mender on this station was placed in exactly the same position as all other commanders on foreign stations: he was obliged to act according to the instructions of the Admiralty. Lord BROUGHTON confirmed the statement of the Noble Earl behind him (Ellenborough). Shortly before he had left office he had received a letter from the Go vernor-General complaining of this anomalous position, and hoping that when the East India Company's Char ter again came under the consideration of Parliament some provision would be introduced to remedy it. The Earl of DERBY said with reference to this sub ject he had to give notice that on Friday, the 2d of April, he should move for a Committee to inquire into the operations of the Act under which the East India Company held their Charter. LAW OF WILLS AMENDMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving that this Bill be committed, said that the first cleave in it was the great ob ject which he wished to carry at present. He should move in Committee that the second and third clauses should be struck out of the Bill; but he should afterwards introduce them as separate Bills, and take the sense of their Lordships upon them. The House then went into Committee. The first clause was then read. It is in the following terms:—" That whereas, by an Act passed in the Ist year of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, entitled An Act for the Amendment of the Laws with respect to Wills,' it is enacted that no will shall be valid unless it shall be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence, and by his direction; every will shall, so far only as regards the position of the signature of the testator, or of the person signing for him as aforesaid, be deemed to be valid within the said enact ment, as explained by this Act, if the signature shall be so placed at or after, or following, or under, or beside, or opposite to the end of the will, that it shall be apparent that the testator intended to give effect to the writing signed as his will by such his signature, although the same shall not follow or be immediately after the foot or end of the will, and although a blank space shall intervene between the con cluding word of the will and the signature, and although the signature shall be placed among the words of the testimonium clause or of the clause of attestation, or shall follow or be after or under the clause of attestation, either with or without a blank space intervening, or shall follow, or be after, or under, or beside the names, or one of the names, of the subscribing witnesses, and although the signature shall be on a side or page or other portion of the paper or papers containing the will whereon no clause or paragraph or disposing part of the will shall be written above the signature, and although there shall appear to be sufficient space on or at the bottom of the preceding side, or page, or other portion of the same paper on which the will is written, to contain the signature; but no signature shall be operative to give effect to any disposition or direction which is underneath or follows it, nor shall it give effect to any disposition inserted after the signature shall be made in any blank space in the will." Lord CRANWORTH was afraid that this clause, as now worded, would create as many difficulties as it was intended to correct. The fault at present did not arise from the state of the law, but from the decisions of the judges upon it. As to the regulation which his Noble and Learned Friend had made for the case of persons making wills in extremis, he thought that their case should be made the exception, and not , the rule. He repeated that the language of the existing law was clear. Here the Noble and Learned Lord read the following clause from the Ist of Victoria, c. 21 : " And be it further enacted, that no will shall be valid unless it shall be in writing and executed in manner here inafter mentioned ; (that is to say), it shalt be signed at the foot or end thereof by the testator, or by some other person in his presence and by his direction; and such signature shall be made or acknowledged by the testator in the pre sence of two or more witnesses present at the same time, and loch witne.,.3 shall attest and shall subscribe the will in the presence of the testator, but no form of attestation shall be necessary." It was the judges of the ecclesiastical, courts, and not the judges of the courts of common law, who required that the signature of the testator should be at the toot of the rill, and who declared that whenever a large blank was left at the foot of it the will was invalid. Perhaps they might be justified in this; but the subsequent cases had gone much further—ay, even to the length of saying that if a testator signed his name at more than an inch below the will itself that will was thereby invalidated. His Noble and Learned Friend's clause provided that, "if the signature should be so placed at or after, or following or under, or beside, or opposite to the end of the will, that it shall be ap parent that the testator intended to give effect to the writing as his will by such signature, although the same should not follow, or be immediately after the foot or end of the will," it should be deemed valid; anti then followed a long string of althoughs, which the Noble and Learned Lord read, which showed that his Noble and Learned Friend on the Woolsack bad carefully read through all the existing deci sions, and had framed his language to meet them. Now, was not his Noble and Learned Friend opening a door by such a profusion of language to further difficulties? He thought that it would bean amendment of the clause to make it stop before the first "although" (so, at least, we understood). • The LORD CHANCELLOR had not expected any ob jection to this clause, especially after he had agreed to in troduce the two other clauses of this Bill as separate mea sures. his Noble and Learned Friend said that this first clause would increase a hundred times over the present (btu cultiei about wills. If that were so, he (the Lord Chan cellor) must be a very bad draughtsman indeed, and ought to hand over his measure for improvement to his Noble and Learned Friend. But he believed the language of the clause objection to his to so - _be correct as it stood. He had only one object in bringing fworizerduetlaii:lecinlanuiste; valid.an d th If his Noble emaankde Learnedall ev wills s e n n e d d could improve the language of the clause he should have no sant with this subject it, and he had carefully had not been doing g is though recently Th• gh pro duced,oatllu up in haste. He had been conver with as much r i e m d impartiality, life; he had written a book upon could command. Hecaasreeu, y perused and reviewed all the deci sionsy,and precision Friend s ien h d e 1 1N al o it ble and Learnedd that the clause, as altered by hiai ac complish the object w hi c h he hadLw would v o l u ew by no means After a short conversation, in Ivifich Lord LYNDHURST and Lord CHANWORTH took parr, but of was inaudible in the gallery, The Earl of ELLEN BOROUGH suggested that the Noble and Learned Lords should meet in Select Committee to morrow morning, and there settle the language of the clause. After making himself merry for some time with the multi plicity of adverbs somewhat.e)ntradictcrY, contained in the first part of this clause, he concluded by stating that they ought to be carefully considered, as the omission of one of them might jeopardize the iLlheritance of many. The LORD CHANCELLOR again rept:ate'', th ;t 111 (.1!d not expect such an opposition as this to the present clause, especially as the view which he had taken of the existing law was perfectly accurate. Lord BROUGHAM objected to sending the Bill to a Se lect Committee, as he doubted if that proceeding would be productive of any benefit. The Bill then passed through Committee. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER. The Earl of EL LENBOROUGH inquired if the Noble Lord at the head of her Majesty's Government was prepared to fix a day for the consideration of the East India Com pany's charter ? The Earl of DERBY replied, that he had already stated he proposed to take the subject Into consideration on Friday, April 2. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said, he had observed in one report, and in one only, of the remake in another place of the Right Hon. Gentlemen the President of the Board cf Control, that it was his intention to state his views on the subject of the East India charter on proposing the Committee of Inquiry. He could hardly think his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. Herries), who had been so short a time in office, could come to any final decision on so important a matter in such a limited period. It would be a great satisfaction to him to hear that his Noble Friend at the head of the Govern ment was not prepared to commit himself to any specific arrangement or to the details of any measure in reference to the East India Government without full inquiry. The Earl of DERBY said he would state iu general terms the course her Majesty's Government thought it expedient to take when he brought the subject before their Lordships', but that he would not feel justified in entering into details on that occasion, and that his observations would certainly be of a very general character. He was anxious that the Government should be guided in their final determination by the information which was to be derived from the labours of the Committees of Inquiry. THE IRISH DEBT. Lord MONTEAGLE moved for a Select Committee to which shall be referred the Treasury minutes providing for the debts due from the counties and unions in Ireland by the imposition of a consolidated annuity for a period not exceed ing forty years. He did not mean to find fault with the generosity cr the prudence displayed by this country, and the Parliament of this country, with reference to the noble aid they had extended to Ireland, to enable her to meet the most distressing calamity that had ever befallen any country; but the subsequent arrangements which had been come to with reference to the re-payment of advances to Ireland had been productive of great, if not permanent, inconvenience. One of the mistakes most often heard in discussion and met with iu print was the assertion that money advanced to Ireland was to be regarded as a gift for *the repayment of which it was useless to look; whereas the fact really was, that of the various sums advanced to Ireland, under the Acts passed for the purpose within the last few years, and which sums it had been asserted were not very likely to be repaid, no less an amount than 6,065,879/. had been repaid. And since the poor law had been introduced into Ireland, notwithstanding the distress which pressed upon the country, sums amount ing in the whole to upwards of 7,000,000/. sterling had been raised by Ireland out of her own resources for the relief of the distress afflicting her people. Owing to the peculiar circumstances of Ireland, and her being almost wholly an agricultural country, the agricultural calamity of a failure of crops had fallen on her with excessive hardship. The value of land between 1841 and 1851 in Ireland had exhibited a considerable decline. In the former year it was set down at 13,076,0001.; in 1851 it had fallen to 11,580,0001.—a fall of 1,5C0,000/., or 10 per cent. on the whole. This decline in value had been experienced princi pally in Connaught and Munster, where, in a valuation of .5,199,0001., the fall was 1,026,0001. In like manner the population had greatly decreased. In the period between 1841 and 1851 it had decreased 20 per cent., or 1,600,000 souls. Emigration had no doubt con tributed to that result; but the emigration was of a pre judicial character, for the persons emigrating carried away out of the country a greater amount of capital in pro portion to the capital of the whole country, than the number of persons emigrating bore to the whole population of the country. The consequence of this state of things was that the country felt most severely the amount of rate and local taxation, and that pressure was likely to be felt in augmented degree under the operation of the Treasury minute. The powers given to the Treasury were extravagant in their nature. The Act did not provide for any Parliamentary revision on the subject, and though objections were taken by certain Noble Lards, and himself amongst the number, they were precluded from proposing any amendment by the fact of its being a money Bill. The Act was passed on the 17th of May, and the first minute was issued on the 4th of June. That minute pointed out the mode in which the money was to be repaid, as well as established the machinery for its distribution ; and although the Treasury made the ad vances, and no account had been rendered the board of guardians, yet when these bodies, upon repayment being de manded, begged respectfully to be informed of what the items consisted, the imputation was thrown cut against them that they refused to pay their just debts. The Noble Lord then referred to the Labour-rate Aet, under which, he said, a debt was contracted to the extent of more than 2,000,000/. ' - but that debt was so excessive that no indi vidual in his senses could by possibility have dreamt that they would have the power of enforcing it. The ex penditure was not administered by any local authority whatever, but by officers of the Government, appointed by the Government, responsible to the Government, and acting under the direction and control of the Government; and there were some Noble Lords now present who well knew that, when the gentry, landowners, and occupiers felt it ne cessary occasionally to call the attention of Government to the abuses which were prevailing . under the public-works system, so far were they from receiving any of their state ments with candour or courtesy, that they were directed to mind their own business.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He granted that where there was such an army as 73,000 per sons employed, under the authority of 1,500 engineers and officers, abuses would arise ! but he made no imputation on the gentlemen at the head of the Board of Public Works on that account, for the operations were, undoubtedly, beyond their management and control. Having observed that his object in proposing an inquiry was to ascertain whether the claims advanced were just claims, and in the next place in what manner the 4,000,000/. sterling had been expended, the Noble Lord concluded by moving the appointment of a Committee. The Earl of DERBY said, with regard to the proposition for the appointment of a Select Committee to consider the subject which his Noble Friend had brought under their Lordships' consideration, lie (the Earl of Derby) had no ob jection whatever to make. His Noble Friend had stated very fairly the various charges which he had m Ale against the powers conferred by the Act of Parliament on the Trea sury on public w or k s i n I re l an d . I n some o f (the Earl of D er b y ) was rea d y t o agree . I n t those fif charges a t Noble Frie n d had bid good ground for, at all events, questioning the propriety of that portion of the Act which gave encouragement to an extraordinary expen-' r l g a e place carrying he e his diture on the part of the unions, the effect of which would enable those unions to evade the just repayment of their debt to the Treasury, He meant that provision of the Act which declared that the payment of the annuity should cease whenever the rates, not only in the union, but in any particular division of the union, should reach to a certain amount. That was a point which deserved consideration. might not be s ome a ll owance ma d e i n those cases Another point was a l so deserving of consideration, namely, whether t h er e there had been a cons id era bl e and unavoidable wheret h waste of money, and where the works themselves had not g i v e employm ent to and to keep alive large portions been of a benefi c ial character, nor un d er the contro l of any local authority; tho u g h, at the same time, they were works undertaken popu l ation, who, if such works had not b een u ndertaken, would have been l e ft unem pl o y e d of to the and in a state of utter destitution. He (the Earl of Derby) also concurred with his Noble Friend in the opinion that it was but right, when charges were made by the Government against any particular unions for the repayment of advances, that a full account of the should be furnished. What account would be matter of tee wou ld fairly examine i n t o th e case o f eac h union, and ct i o t r t y ne. N..) doubt the Commie and weigh the fact s d e lib erately, both on one rise and the other. He was glad to h ear hi s N o bl e F r i en d consideration ous particu lars rba3tio onf fordeemed tho i s eh e es charge stauiosffiaira state that there was no intention on the part of Ireland to ask for a remission of the debt justly due from the people of Ireland for that for which they had actually received value. On the other hand, he (the Earl of Derby) could assure his Noble Friend that the Government was quite prepared to give full consideration to the nature of the claims arising cut of charges over which the population of Ireland had not been able to exercise any controul ; and to make all due al lowance for any abuses which had prevailed in the expendi ture of the money which had been advanced to meet those charges. At the same time, he must beg their Lordships to bear in mind that, if there had been abuses in the expenditure of those same advances,on the other hand, been v er y large had produced gr ea t goo d t o t h e expended therewh which had, people of Ireland. This fact ought to be set against any misapplication of moneys which might in other instanc e s have occurred. It was not because they might prove that in certain parts of Ireland abuses had prevailed, that, there fore, there existed a claim on the part of the whole of Ireland for a remission of those advances. To the extent of the abuses he admitted there existed a claim to consideration, but, on the other side, equal fairness demanded that where great aid had been supplied to the people of Ireland in their utmost need, on those portions of the country the Govern ment had claims for repayment which neither justice nor equity could resist. It would be the duty of the Committee to tie appuiutea to evimina and sift thacto arentinte, and strike a balance fairly and justly between the parties. Having done so, it would then be their duty to report to their Lordships the result, with a view to some further Par liamentary provision being made on the subject. The Noble Earl concluded by saying he had no opposition to make to the present motion, The Earl of GLENGALL thought the appointment of a Committee would be regarded with satisfaction in Ireland. There was a debt of 4,500,0001 to be paid by the Irish peo ple; but 7,500,000/. were claimed, including interest—inte rest at rather a Jewish rate. It was morally impossible for Ireland to sustain the enormous load of taxation imposed on her. There were counties where 53., 65., or 7s. in the pound were charged. 55., 68., or 78., in the pound ! Why, where was the pound? The pound was not there. Whole tracts of land were left without a beast upon them, or without a blade of corn. He spoke of counties in the west of Ireland espe cially. They could not support their poor, though they levied as much as possible oft' the face of the earth. Nobody would buy in those counties. An Encumbered Estates Act was in vented for the purpose of bringing new settlers to those parts. Those were the very parts to which new settlers had not gone. A plantation must have been establishei consist ing of new people, and no difficulty in carrying out the un ertaking would now crise from the necessity of supilanting the old population, for the whole population were either gone to America or were dead. The rates levied were no test of the wants mid requirements of the poor. Lest year there were 780,000 persons in the workhouses, a greater number absolutely than in 1848. Pauperism might be said to be increasing. Nobody wanted labourers, because the cultivation of grain had been given up. The people were therefore compelled to go into the workhouses, where they died exactly at the rate of a thousand a-week. And no wonder; for they got one meal of that nasty filth called ' Indian corn," which p ro d uce d d ysen t er y. That was what_ r. was called supportin g th e poor th roug h the system of he repeated, The existing state of matters was attributable, t of la to the want of employment -to that 't displacem b e e n Nichols, which had been so lauded as an admirable system._ reduced to believe so large a number of persons could b , e b a sudden indigence and destitution by any cause as of l y abour em ployed in the cultivation of wheat.. 300 000/. less in 1850 than in 1847, involving a value of f Leland to From 1841 to 1845 there were transporte om 139,000 acres under 'wheat cultivation 0 1 11 1. Ir , cland 7,500,00 0 quarters, there were exported in like manner 7,500,000 in the preceding England 14,6)0,00) quarters of grain ; fr exactly' one-half of the quantity 1845 to 1850 uarters. Coming to 775,009 quarters; in 1850, 168,00 0 w q ould find that, in 1847, the great trade in bacon, the House in 1850, only '09,000, Ireland exported 480,000 pigs; and, 3000,00,1. or 4,000,000/. period. The export of flour froempolreland, in 1845, was The loss might be estimated at , which hod • 1 t tr great, acta were hundreds of thousands of pounds, the annually. In the salt provision t rade, involved FRIDAY EVENING-, free tr,de, the late Board of Admiralty sent their contract, not to Cork, but to Galatz, in Wallachia. He only hoped the Noble Duke at the head of the Admiralty would have the kindness to deal with Cork.—(A laugh.) 'People had been endeavouring to effect an impossibility, to make the poor support the poor. Almost all classes had been reduced to nearly the same level. It was said property ought to support poverty ; but property had been destroyed, and poverty was left. A manufacturer, very largely connected with the woollen trade in Ireland, had described in conversation the ruinous depression which existed, remarking that wherever his travellers went there were shops closed. The question was as much an English as it was an Irish question. Before free trade existed Ireland exported 10,1,00,000/. worth of produce to England, taking back between 10,000,0001. and 11,000,0001. From the statement issued by a Chamber of Commerce which was in the practice of publishing informa tion on such subjects, it appeared that there had been a falling off in exports from England to Ireland amounting nearly to 4,000,0001. Everything used in Ireland, from a steam-en gine to the commonest nail, came from England. When peo ple ran down that country, and said the state of matters was the fault of the landlords, of the farmers, of the Celts, they ought to recollect that they had themselves destroyed the English market by their new policy, and were themselves losers. It was impossible to go on in this kind of way The more Ireland was distressed the more did Parliament seem determined to tax her. The system resembled that of the celebrated Dr. Sangrado ; the more reduced the Irish were the more did bleeding seem to be thought good for them. When he reflected on the misery that prevailed, the emigra tion which was draining the country of able-bodied persons, and other subjects connected with Ireland, he could not re frain from declaring that he was quite disgusted with the state to which matters had been brought. The motion was then agreed to. THE BISHOP OF COLOMBO. Lord TORRINGTON said, with reference to the notice he had given of his intention to inquire whether papers had been received from Ceylon, and would be produced, relating to differences between the Bishop of Colombo and his clergy, he had put himself in communication with the Noble Lord opposite, and he concurred in the views stated by the Noble Lord, namely, that under the present circumstances of the case it was not desirable that those papers should be laid on the table. It was undesirable also, under those circum stances, that he (Lord Torrington) should enter into the subject ; and therefore he should simply state that, believing the Noble Lord would be prepared to give the House the in formation required as speedily as possible, he should with draw the notice he had given, and abstain from putting the two questions to which it referred, reserving to him elf the right of subsequently calling attention to the differences that existed in Ceylon between the bishop and his clergy. The Earl of DONOUGHMORE had to express his thanks to the Noble Lord for not having asked for those papers, and also having abstained from asking whether steps had been taken by her Majesty's Government on the subject of certain unfortunate occurrences which had happened in the island of Ceylon—occurrences to which it would be inconvenient to give publicity at this moment. The Noble Lord might be assured that her Majesty's Government would, with the utmost attention and zeal, proceed to apply those remedies which they thought most desirable. Their Lordships then adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS, March 25. The SPgA.K.ER took the Chair at five minutes to Four o'clock. REDUCTION OF FEES FOR PRINTED DOCU- MENTS. Mr. W. PATTEN moved to reduce the fees payable at the House of Commons for copies of papers and docu ments, from five shillings and one shilling to two shillings and sixpence and sixpence respectively.—Agreed to. METROPOLIS WATER BILL. Lord J. -MANNERS-moved that it be an instruction to the Committee of Selection, that they have power to fix the Ctimmittee on . the Metropolis Water Bill for Thursday, the Ist day of April next. Mr. B. COCHRANE said the House was taken by surprise when this Bill was read the other day a second time. He considered the Bid was very objectionable, and if he had been in the House at the time, he should have opposed the second reading. It would not remedy a single defect in the present bad sup ply of water to the metropolis. The system of taking supplies of water from the Thames would still be per petuated, though the Board of Health had reported that such a source was very objectionable. He hoped the Government would see the necessity of introducing a more comprehensive measure on the subject. Lord J. MANNERS said he had merely taken up the Bill which was proposed by his predecessor in office. If the House agreed to refer it to a Committee, he hoped they would be able to devise a practical remedy for very grave and serious evils in regard to the supply of water to the inhabitants of London. Lord EBRINGTON protested against a public mea sure of this kind being referred to a Select Committee until the House had expressed an opinion upon the prin ciple involved in it. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE did not think this question would be settled as the House was now going on.— (Hear.) If the Bill wore referred to a Committee, before whom the old companies might appear as opponents, no man of common sense could suppose it would come out of the Committee this session —(Hear, hear)—it was utterly impossible. Therefore it was illusory to hold out any hope that the metropolis could this year get a better supply of water. He moved to add to the resolution an amendment to the effect that the Com mittee should confine their inquiry to this Bill only. Sir J. JOHNSTON treatOd the Bill as an absolute confiscation of the property of the London water com panies. They only paid now 4 per cent. upon their ca pital, and if the Bill camo into operation, the sharehold ers would not get a dividend of a farthing. Tho SPEAKER informed Mr. Duncombe that his amendment could only be proposed as a substantive motion. Mr. DUNCOMBE—Then I give notice that I will move it to•worrow. The motion was then carried. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following Bills were read a third time : East London Waterworks. Mansfield Gas. _ _ Patent Solid Sewage Manure Company. Scarborough Market and Approaches. Wolverhampton Gas. LONDON (WATFORD) SPRING WATER COMPANY. Mr. HOPE, in moving the second reading of this Bill, said its object was to give those parts of the metro polis now inadequately supplied with water a good and perfect supply or that important element by rendering available the water uow concentrated around Watford, and which, they were asaured.by competent authorities, perforated by a kinll of under-ground drainage into the sea, and was capable of yielding an enormous quantity. Mr. HALSEY moved that the Bill be read a second time this day six months, on the ground thatit had already been rejected by the House; 2d, that it was opposed by every individual and landowner in the neighbourhood of Watford; and, lastly, becauee he was opposed to its principle. That the supply of water to the metropolis was defective and ought to be improved, he admitted; bM it surely could not be said that the desired object was to be accomplished by infringing upon the rights of private indtviduels.—(Hear.) He thought the House was called upon to reject a Bill when, us in this case, it committed an injury to property for which no kind of compensation could be given. Mr. B. COOHRANE said this Bill would to some extent eupply the people with water, and he should sup port it. Mr. ROBERT STEPHENSON said ho had been em ployed to report upon the subject of the Bill, and with out pledging himself to all the allegations of the promoters, he thought the scheme which the Eill em braced was a good one. Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to have three questions answered: first, was it proposed to obtain this supply of water not from the source of a river, bat by digging a well 600 feet deep which would injure the district where it was sunk; secondly, had not the experiments which had been made failed; and thirdly, whether this very Bill was not thrown out last year? Mr. B. HOPE replied in the affirmative to the first question, but the well would not be so deep as 600 feet. In reply to the second question he denied that the ex periment had failed; while with regard to the last ques tion the Bill was not referred to a Committee last year, because the Government took the subject into their own hand& Viscount.EBRINGTON opposed the Bill, and called upon the House to lay down some settled principle for the regulation of the water question. He denied . that the supply of water in the metropolis was deficient; the fact was more _than half the aepply was wagtail, find nn the south side of, the Thames the land was compl e t e ly d e l uge d w i t h wa t e r. —(Hear, hear.) He blamed the late Government for not being. governed in this matter by the report which Lord Carlisle prepared on the subject, and called upon the House to negative the motion for the second reading. Ur. BAILEY also opposed the Bill, on the ground that ft would inflict great injury on the locality the water was to be drawn from. Sir .R. PRICE and Mr. MACGRECO R supported the where Bill. on ly opposed w as Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said the B ill opposed by the old water companies, and a n :. siy interest there were 68 Members of the House who bad apecn in them, they ought at least to abstain from this occasion. —(Hear, hear.) After a few words from Dlr. ttu t he 'louse v oting d e i n_ vided, when there appeared— 196 For the second reading ••• 65 ••• Against it • : "*" ••• — l3l Majority HOUSE The Bill was then restFTHE s s econd time. FOR ADJOURNMENT E ASTER. .1-4:wished to ask the Chancellor of the Ex chequer Mr . HUM— • • his intention to propose the ad journment on the 7th or the Bth of April wishedsvh;.h.toehretH.t journment to know, in the event of the next? Ile Lth House adjoUrning on the 7th, what would become of the motions fixed for the B th? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, I find that last year—and I wish, of course, to follow t h e precedent of last year, if the House has no ob jection—that the House adjourned on Tuesday. But I find that on Wednesday a motion is to be brought on by the Reit Hon.Gentlernan, the Member for Devon port (Mr. Tufnell), for the second reading of the Pro perty Qualification Bill. I should be sorry to interfere, of course, with any vested interest which the Right Hon. Gentleman has iu the notice book—(A laugh)—but if he has no objection I will follow exactly the precedent of last year, Should he, however, insist on maintaining his position, I will not move the adjournment until Wedn esday; otherwise I will move the adjournment of the House fro mTuesda y , t he u ntil 6.1) Monday, the 19th of April. Mr. 11USIE said the Right Hon. Gentleman had not mentioned what wcu'd become of the notics down for the Bth. He asked this question because he had a notice on the, paper for that day.—(A laugh.) Mr. TUFNELL said if it were the wish of the House he would not press his motion for that day.—(Cheers.) lie hoped, however, that he would be put iii the same .41 Cs.a iia DZ. • A; , . a :41. a assNilb Mr. DEEDES said h 3 was in the same predieam3nt as the Right Hon. Gcritlemen, and if he got an ear:y day for his motion, he hoped the same would not be retused to him. MARCH 26, 1852. INTERNATIONAL PATENT LAW. In reply to Sir DE LACY EV ANS, Mr. HENLEY stated that the suttjeet of International Patent Law would not be lost sight of by the G ,vern went, and a short Bill would be introduced speedily to continue the existing law for a period beyond she 25th of April, when it would otherwise expire. ROMAN CATHOLIC PRISONERS. Mr. REYNOLDS wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Rome Department what provision had been made for the religious instruction of the Roman Catholic prisoners in the several prisons of Scotland, and if he was aware that the General B and of Directors cf Prisons in Scotland had refused permission to the Roman Catholic clergymen of Perth to assemble the Roman Catholic prisoners confined in the prison of that town, at stated times, in the prison chapel, to receive spiritual instruction from a Roman Catholic clergyman, and whether the Roman Catholic prisoners were compelled or required to attend the prison chapel during the cel-bratiou of Protestant worship? Mr. WALPOLE said no provision was legally made for religious instruction of Roman Catholic prisoners in Scotland, but ministers of their persuasion were allowed to see them in their cells. A refusal hail been given to all religious denominations, excepting those belong ing to the Establisted Church of Scotland. Roman Catholics were neither compelled nor required to attend the prison chapel. THE POST- OFFICE. Mr. COWAN wished to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if there was any intention of instituting a revi• sion of the wile of salaries in the inland dqurtuient of the General Post-office, Edinburgh, or in any of the money-order offices in the kingdom; and in either case if by a Commission to be appointed by the Treasury or otherwise? Mr. HAMILTON said no such inquiry bad been made, nor was it intended to appoint such a Commission. THE MAYNOdI'H GRANT. Mr. KEOGH said—Sir, I rise to put a question to the Right Hon. the Changellor of the Exchequer relating to the Maynooth grant, of which I have given him notice. It will be in the recollection of the Right Hon. Gentleman, that in the year 1846 a Bill was introduced into this House by the late Sir Robert Peel, con ferring upon the Royal College of Maynooth an annual grant of 30,000/.—(Hear, hear.) It was carried through this House after it had reeeiv‘d great opposi tion, conducted with his wonted ability by the Right Honourable Gentleman himself, and it was sub sequently 'carried through the other House of Parliament, and after it had been opposed by the Noble Lord now at the head of the Government it became law.—(Hear, hear.) Now, some members of the pre sent Administration had lately declared upon the hustings that they were favourable to the repeal of the law, and it must be known that through. out that country there is a strong opposition to that Act.---(Order, order.) Well, then, in order that some thing certain should be known of the intention of Government on the subject he begged to put his enes tion, hoping to receive as candid an answer as that which was given the other night by the Right Honour able Secretary of State for the Home Department. on the subject of ministers' money in Ireland. He wished to ask whether it was the intention of her M ajesy Government to introduce, either in this or the n. x t ses sion of Parliament, any measure to repeal the Act con ferring the grant upon the Royal College of MaynoolL? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—Sir, in answer to the question which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman has put to me, I have no hesitation in saying that it is not the intention of the Government in the present Parliament to propose any Bill to repeal the grant to the Roy al College of Maynooth, to which he has referred.—(Oppomion cheers.) Gene rally speaking, I beg to observe that it appears to me that specific measures to be brought forward, for any subject whatever, in a Parliament which has not yet been elected, are not matters upon which any Govern ment ought to be questioned.—(Ministerial cheers.) . caußca ESTATE COMMISSIONERS. Mr. PORTAL asked the Right Hon. Member for the University of Cambridge, whether he had any objection to lay upon the table of the House, the particulars of all the enfranchisements which had been effected by the Church Estate Commissioners under the Act p asse d during the last session "to facilitate the man agement and improvement of Episcopal and Capitular Estates in England," and the terms upon which such enfranchise ments had been effected. Also whether he would lay upon the table of the House the parti c ul ars o f a ll t h e cases in which any ecclesiastical corporation, whether episcopal or capitular, had reported to the Church Estate Commissioners that proposals or applications for enfranchisement have been made to them by the lessee, and the number of the cases in which such proposals or applications have not been entertained. Mr. GOULBURN said the annual report of the Com missioners to the Secretary of State for the Home De partment had been laid ou the table, and was now, he believed, in the hands of the printers. It did not con tain accounts of transactions already concluded, as the short time which had elapsed since the Bill passed had not given the Commissioners an opportunity of bring ing any to a termination. The report concluded by stat ing that prop...ln had been submitted by the ArehhiA , of Canterbury and the Bishops of London and Norwich, and that there was reason to believe that similar appli cations would shortly come before the Commons from several other ecclesiastical corporations. CEYLON. Lord HOTHA.M inquired whether the Secretary of State for the Colonies would have any objection to lay on the table the report of the proceedings of the Finance Committee of the Executive Connell of Ceylon 2_ Sir J. PAKINGTON said the report was now in the Colonial-office, and he had no objection to its being laid before the House. PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. Mr. W. WILLIAMS presented a petition from Lam beth, signed by 1,641 persons, in favour of Mr. Hume's motion for Parliamentary reform. Mr. HUME then rose to move for leave to bring in a Bil to amend the national representation, by extending the elective franchise in England and Wales, so that every man of full age, and not subject to any mental or legal disability, who shall have been the resident occupier of a house, or of part of a house as a lodger, for twelve months, and shall have been duly rated to the poor of that parish for that time, shall be registered as an elector, and be entitled to vete for a representative in Parliament. Also, by enacting that votes shall be taken by ballot, that the duration of Per liments shall not exceed three years, and that the proportion of representatives be made more consis tent with the amount of population and property. He had been placed in considerable difficulty in bringing forward motions fur reform, in consequence of many Hull Members, who pretended to be reformers, objecting to vote on any abetra.t questions. In order to overcome those diffi culties, he now proposed to submit to the House a definite plan, and could not concur in any measure which would not embrace the points included in his motion. He considered it necessary to combine with the extension of the suffrage protection to the voter, so that, if the right of voting should be extended to him, he should be duly protected in the exer cise of that right; for, without such protection, it must be evident that the vote would not be the vote of the indieidual, but the vote of the party who might have power or influence over him.—(Hear.) If such a fear was only visionary he should be the last man to propose such a measure, but having witnessed the painful consequences of the influence exercised by men in power, and by masters over their workmen, he did not think it possible that anything like a fair representation of the people could take place without such protection being afforded. The object of his motion was twofold. In the first place, he wished to extend the right of voting, for it was a right, and not a favour, or a privilege; and as it was de sirable that it should not rest with the voter himself to re gister his vote, he proposed to make it the duty of some public officer to enrol every man who had been resident in ... house, or a portion of a house, as a lodger. He w t a xa :_ P : l ., nion that some of the most valuable and intelligens() al,sl,'_'.', the country were lodgers, and must continue to be on , y : v r i.y e Bill would contain a provision by which not ) householder resident for twelve months, a I lei te pay all an" .1d e sident ~for the same period, and rated laced on the regis the assessments to the parish, should be_ P limit tue duration of ter. Another object of the Bill was to ot. a long experience but every lodger re-_ Parliaments. He had in the course of conducted themselves at observed how differently Membersu d t the t, electors io acnads e m bh i g ee h t s h t h n o u u i: ht years, be thought the of g iving a member a ranted t for three years, in order that the commencement and at sh o e s trust should only be g end of a Parliament. Instead possess ran some check or control over his con it wtßhahseiellas complete. a p Ist intentionally, or by mistake, fcrteit ~o H mu e c d h id ; tmnoiglhitonboeutroaoblliettAlleeemrbetr: could objecto. Pal objects or given. These h we d r e e bs t ,.a le f e el p y rinci ion t a e a .ought forward an a brought forward the pledges he nt ne ha c d as h on is street proposition. year of theon thel late te subject,ur 01,, e r ls o because but o lan as could b p' p r e e e s s e ent circumstances of the country. e bi t n h r e t a nt t i gmf i h g r e li y vna re imagined, e' o u l d h t a h v e e pledge anyfro from the Lit introduced some plan which wo uld have been satisfactory to the country. But he had been sadly disapp o i nted, and the country had also been disappointed; and he was sorry to say that, instead of ful filling their promises, the late Government were too ready to recede from reform. One part of their late plan would cer tainly have effected an extension of the suffrage, but it t b r a i o l I t o s t ; would not hav e b een effectual, as it did not include the e vleirey onehad o re f recently received deputations from 145 dis tricts, extension of whomthe suffrage saidthey without should a r more egret to see any die : tribution of Members and protection to the electors. lie was particularly anxious that the House should express an opinion on the subject of reform, in conse quence of a declaration recently made by the Noble Lord now at the head of the Government. Ile deeply regretted the course taken by that Noble Lord, who was once such an excellent Reformer. He considered the Noble Lord at i ne time the best Church Reformer he had ever met with, for at one fell swoop he levelled tea bishoprics. The Noble Lord, after supporting Reform for nineteen years, was not only re ceding from his former principles, but abusing those who had not changed their principles as he had done When he found any man having recourse to abuse, and making use of nick names instead of resorting to reeson, it weakened his belief in that man's intellects and his honesty.—(Bear, hear, ana laughter.) The Noble Lord had done him and some of his Honourable Friends near him a great i.justice by calling them " demagogues." On looking into Johnson he found the definition of a demagogue to be " the ringleader of a rabble." He treated such an appellation with perfect contempt. He had often been at the head of large numbers of psup;e but never at the head uf a rabble, and nev er wou ld be; ol; the contrary, he lied done everything in his power to pacify men who had sometimes met in great numbers smarting under a sense of great injustice. His Honourable Friends the Members for Manchester were in the same category as himself, and no doubt would answer for them selves. For himself he w ou ld t h row back th im putation N im utatioi y on the Noble Lord, and s ay i t was unworthy of him, whet, alluding to the meeting i n Ch o -h am- place, to sa that it was attended by nothing but demagogues. He now wished par ticularly to direct the attention of the Right 'lmmure. , lk Gentleman opposite to some of the observations of the Noble very alarming. The Noble Lord asked, Lord, which were " Will you 4uPPort 4 liGniCrUXV4t which will exert itself, I b,lc, u 1 i i,, . 1.. ~altia , LIAI, i'..,11 i C1it....1 01 I ...A, C ii•l;* •, ‘ u'nay lo encroaching democratic influence in this country Wilich beut on throwing the whole authority of the country nollh fully into the hanos of the masses, practically into the bands of demagogues and republican", who exercise an influzne e over those unthinking masses? Will you support a ti c) ; vt.roment which is determined to resist that clatig,,rous o'l obnoxious influaice, to preserve the influence Sri prerogative of the Crown, the rights of your Lord ships House, and the liberties of a freely-elected 11 055 of Commons?" Nrw, how any man of coinoi on Bel could say the 'louse ot Cominues. was freely elected , t i e t rattly repres aced the opinion of the people, he a.pitr --, imagine. The tact was the very reverse.' The Noble Lori went on to say—" Tnese are the questions on which, wb es .if go to the country to make my appeal on behalf 01 Inr" w . ors t , and my colleague,, I claim to use the words whi ch the teLn who stands in the prisoner's dock has a right to env ploy, but which I do not deem unworthy of the First 111 „ i n a. Miter of the Crown of the first nation in the world, 813 " 11 ; would t,ll the Noble Lord that he ( illr. Hume) soy I elect to be tried by God and my countsy 4 " - Nvlio wished to put down the institutions of the cou nt , l li lie had too often stated the estimation in which he 1 3, a those institutions, and was convinced that if properlY acted upon they would carry out the gre .t object of good goveln: What were went-the happiness of the greatest number• the institutions of which the country was so proud? First, there was the Queen, the head of the Executive; then there was the House of Lords, standing perhaps between til impetuosity of the pore, and, it might be, throes tYvracnri.. ct the Crown. Ile considered that !Italy to be elga-a2ll - uot one stuuted tor the benefit of the community at lar6e , — ,,; c li s barrier against that hasty and incaisiderate I,gislation viP d ' I might be carried on by means ot popular agitation , b ut not a%•.iisshhedt to oi infringe c fr o i e n fi g u e e u the n t privilegee, and aid not like to see them interfere with the Other legl'; p th ee e r m s e t s o re teh t e a ir nd ie lU i s ti t re p a r iv e ileges; .. tive chamber. The House of Commons belong ed Hou se people, but he would ash= if there was one man in the i r e - e f who would say that. it was a lull sod fair rep do the macs ut the peo,rie? If nu man had the courage too the law every man in this country eras entitled that, tnen he would say let the $ ete be coudeamed• ): but they were nut allowed to elect any persons but those P .h e s . , sensing landed estate& In Scotland, however, no such q 5 ' . 7 ficatioa was r '- should not equi.ed, and he did hot see why the ra.e 55 1 ,,, ra gdont• be applied to the other parts of the -ao of He complained of the interference of men of w e r - I' .ers, with the election of Members of H 0- Cella mons—he complained the House ,ere that the mass of the comnatiniti ‘ s he not represented, and asked the House to remedy µt tbose present anomalous state of things, to remove grounds of complaint which excited and much etis eetisacti°ll in the minds of the people Hs° "dered ali t 5 e cons' to election, very unjust attack had been mad . wished to prevent any danger arising discontect the which prevailed. Wise men ought fromt f et of Peeecese and (11.111Alleb3 to remove the causes a in n enieo e t s al lc `"„„ -- a l " lead to danger. The country was now in such a 8- e ll e ° ll himself Should O . 0 that no one knew when a storm might arise. a feerieg arise as that which existed in 1842 and 1843, we . ,„ e r a million of artisans were out of employ meat, much strol%'. claims would be brought forward, and the most serious Gre y sequences might ensue. He found that in 1792 ae —um then Lord Gre, nut the presenr—(A:l a ' g b) ,, s e t the h ichmthusetLeesgtritsuland thoe who and pe ti tio many in tii which . commissioned by the so-called Association ot the krie e nl i s ee ns the People, consisting of some of the Most distinguisheu t A a a b tu le re m w en as i returns, namely, an extension of the suffrage to •al .°.,, e a Holders, limitation of Parliaments to three ye ars, - ea an alteration in the quelificatlen of Members. 113ZaPea titioners stated that at that day the House of to le 2, s u society, kea to g t r o o p t r e sb e e e v h ue sr a! of i ntms did not fully and fairly represent the P t hi ef England in a manner consistently with what el 'W ed believed to be the rights of the people. They co i ne d, a nd that the electoral franchise was 60 unequally uistribute.scary In so many instances ciminitted to bodies of men of very uniteu number;, that the majority ot the House el : b "as mows was elected b e lees than i 5,000 electors. Now, sue and i the nature of the complaints that were made at that chl Y' o eld f Hon. Members would referto the debates they a vi d at find that the very same objections which were alieg' e , e el' that time against granting reform were those that wet` T a us urged in certain quarters, and therefore he was very . n ria ,tti i aL the opinions of such men as the Duke of Richenou , 4 ,,,` be Mr. Larebtou, which were there stated, should not h e , L ae overlooked, The Duke of hichumnd stated that one e ' a id sectuniee of the House or Commons was that it sh e el e be a representative body freely chosen by the P :l e e themselves, independent of the Crown and Qt the er f, of cracy, and au - tenable at short intervals to the judgMem" a e te itli the constituents. Mr. Lambton said: " The exal ti r - f e ett situation of another kingdom are held out to deter aB b vie unovations of any kind. We say that the reforms w hic at to have iu view are not innovations; cur intention is e t o destroy but to restore; not to displace but to reinstall ,ft Constitution on its true basis sue legitimate grounds.' ( l o use another occasion the Earl of Chatham declared in the He of Lords that what he meant by his advocacy of reform W'.7, to infuse new life into the Constitution ; that his reason s favour of Parliamentary reform were g rounded on an °Pe e f rience of twenty-six years, which, whether in or °llLthe o ffice, bad convinced him that the improvement ot see House of Commons by the restoration ot th e rights of t ee psople was the only remedy for that system of corrupti..... which had brought the nation to disgrace and Pov er Y . i (Hear.) In his (Mr. Hume'e) humble opinion the . o F at ' . means of enabling this country to bear the conspesttritieue which would curve upon it ere long from various qu nra Was by making that House fully and fairly to represeit; cons the mass ot the people, in order that t he muuroe at large might acquire an interest in our national P ___ perity by having those rights given to them which _wer e ', now withheld.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord late the head of her Majesty's Government had 'stated t r ip. other night that he should continue to support the sa elt a er sion of the sufirage to all men who were Wore _Jas tit to exercise it. His (Mr. Hume's) answer at the e de'' had been that he would not accept as a favour what 11 . ~. mended as a right, because he considered it to be th_etirrewt of every free born Englishman to be represented i . s ° , House, and he only drew the line of clistinOtiOn Wherilt,S +absolutely- reqUlrol It. The Noble Lord had very ca_ alt.! . admitted that no injurious results had followed from the.aro forms which had already taken place, and that all neen.7 ( : r . would give the question a moment's consideration n i ti t S b t e lit' rive at the conclusion that those reforms had been o ra _ aa . most advantage to the country during the extra° . e tif',4 changes that had been going on upon the Eng l a nd Ja,' Europe. He (Mr. Hume) did not believe thet e,d would have remained quiet, or that the public peaciel.cffsa have been maintained, if the state of the country „II sls_ the such in 18-18 as the Noble Lord found it in 1831. b v e ll it contrary,' the changes introduced by the Reform Bill dthat his opinion, checked the lawless march of democracy---ae ,_.,„, democratic progress could only be evil when it bearer theirT" less, since the people had as good a claim to seek fo retted rights as any other class of the community. B e reg Out/ that the Noble Lord at the head of the Government sh . i'•_'•_ have concluded his able speech on a recent oc casion O,Y .s saying that no progress could be made by the cheese' P towards obtaining their rights without danger to other_ and that he was not prepared to give the suffrage to every man s,ho had a right to it, but only to those who were fl to exercise it. He (Mr. Hume) would quote the woreis ''',. a very high authority with respect to wha the rib eery n! the people were. Btackstone said that upon the true th rY and genuine principles of liberty every la-member of the cote" munity, however poor, :heuld have a vote, and that every man who was supposd to be a free agent ought to have a voice in the election of the representa t i v es ot the p eo p l e. Earl Grey and Lord John Russell ha , quoted that authority iii IE3I, and it had received the support of several other fistinguished names. It was upon such grounds that he (Mr. Hume) asked the House to conceoe those rights. If t sense of injustice existed, how could any man rest satisfied while the injustice lasted; and he said that every eh!, ought to be ready to extend what was j ust and fair to all classes of the people, and thus prevent disaffection end dis content —(Hear, hear.) In the year LW, 3il .gembers! fin-ming a majority in that House, were elected by t, 1 49J I m'ber. electors, giving an average of 450 electors for ev: Y . gis e t r erea voters, Thus, one-filth part of the whole of the t h hen el r e e ei a majority in amounting to 956,000 in number, ni e ite o.. t a He would not the House of Cummons.—(Hear, n e lists w show the ine ;rouble the House by referring to the land, E n gue Would Say quality Letween Scotlande n:ation did seem to him to be 0 unequal that tee end so state a t he repterenst, not o nly with regard to electors inconsis with respect to pro a perty, that and populaien, but antited, and he did in reat honourabl e great injustice W as coni the least de • t Members, if to Was had sire to carry out the and to • see ntry,the impedimen ts institut i on s of theta to u t o its prosperity, loin in supporting his measur e. a t a manuleeturin There was n ;ea competitor, g country which was not vying with -machines ' in order to obtain the best cos si-le it produced. fo r t the -" manufacture of articles which, the ing inac e i n e or . country, through what. mac every a re mitted his contenbution to the general stuck; l i n o rder might be wisely t h a t those drafts upon industry '''' l 4 '--- y seeseage dr they ought to :have the best possible machines, accordthe to the example of all het other man f u actueers (Hear) —and t ~,, could only be done by • • ' removing the prese , t inequalities. l' awn were only given their right-and t cted in the exercise of those • e, were pro t the) ? rights he would venture to say that would exercise them properly. The industrious classes WO atenfold PrOpe ,• ' other r . ion of taxation to that borne by the classes of the community, and, therefore, in order to reform l3. that House, try, so Se' and to enable it to perform its duty to the con._ as to make the laws and taxation just and equiataanthee they ought to give the people a share in electing lion-sir. t __d . independent,. Members. Would any man tell him O r _ flume), looking at the exposure which bad recentlytegen place, and seeing a candidate become a Member Of that House who had declared that, if he were put 013 a 9tn' mittee of Inquiry, he would declare hiraself ill; gaily elected, that the representation of the Peq z . was, in any degree, fair or just? After the that posure of St.. Albans, and knowing as they did ~ s, the same syetent existed in at least ninety other borougr. he could not conceive how any one, having the slight presente tence to be a reformer, could be satisfied with the i . state of things.-- (Hear hear.) Unless they granted an, (3 ,,, e tension of the suffrage they would leave on the minds of t', people a conviction that they were unjustly treatede,rup: when times of danger came they would not join ill th oafish, port of those institutions which they believed to be _ asa and unless the ballot were also given there would be no b P t r h u e Section for votens.—(Flear, hear.) Whatever 111'00104 result of the division that evening, he was fir uil Y ' t : n of that before long, when they came to revise the taxa, ; hicih° the the country, anti to show the unjust position .n I v a woe industrious classes were placed, they would appear in .. be better state than that of sofs, and that then there woul . a o u do ° reason to regret: that more attempts had not been Maa ... 1 13, reform the House of Commons. As a friend to the .' a to to the Peers, and to the House of Commons, he desirat 0, see all classes of this country participate in the beneefit. _ at ' reform. His wish was to remove injustice, and to pr 7 ....... L ' those evils which might arise in times of excitemerand (Hear, hear, an d cheers.) The lion. Member cona Ja4ned oy moving fur leave to bring in t h e B ill of which fie given notice. e el tO Sir J. WALMSLEY. in seconding the motion, begg the congratulate his Hon. Friend who had just sat dowu eu . ese, earnestness with which he had pursued his even- coi_ ely and on the evident progress which he had made, valve in the country, but in that House—( Hear, hear) ° a d hundred and twenty Members of which had already . I ', e ri ` et in favour of his motion. He (Sir J. Walmsley) dia•,,.. doubt that that number would very shortly be greatly 10. creased, and he believed it to be merely a que,Aioisfccet, lime—(Hear)—for the motion itself wes founded on ju _ i ,,, Time corrupt state of the representation had so frequeehlr, been the subject ot discussion that it would eeem to e h ....re most unnecessary to offer a word in support of env ns ir . l ', s _, calculated to ausend or to mitie,ate the evis of such a.* ; „ tern. Bet the course which had been pursuewel a as ir i ; etererce to that question, and the meaetneee Lars had been recently introduced by the Is; ebl a al io he Member for Londen, induced him (Sir . 1° those Walttieley) to offer some observations as. to . _ the ieterins which he believed to be earnestly desred iq tro ' Noble Lord in great m , jority of the people. When time No „wrn!' uced his Bill, he (Sir J. eValnesley) had taken the .. hoe the n%vents .ad nits to state that he believed that it would ,"' e support and confidence of the people. Subsequen.ee was yerY to some extent justified that observation, and D hod 12 1 4 ill" glad to find that the .Is.Toble L9td. himself had Wino err Lion, into 1 form (Sir J mesa' V r ga be be de