The Sun. — London, England, 1852-06-04 00:00:00

" s-,se- sessssess„sse,esssssts-sssss-ss-sysess-s-ss. ItTartssist inforaastion, which were now paid out of it.. h the exception of last year, there had not been since 1 822 60 small a sum voted tor secret service. The Ron. Baronet mast bear in mind the great increase of the re ,,tions of hat countrs with ail parts of the worn?, and Vcie multiplication of oil these CatlsPS which , required in ten:laden to be obtained. That being the case, the country had no right to lock with suspicion on the vote for secret service. In a country of the great power and secret of England much less was expended for _scret service than in many of the large states f Europe 17,ilimerica, and that, he thought, was rather a cause for _7! 'congratulation as indicating the stability of their in stitutions. In addition to what he had stated, it must he t oent; .oned that not a single shilling could be expended ec eePt under the warrant of a Secretary of State. Every Secretary.,, was personally responsible for the money ex pended the in his department; and, looking at the smallness Issre Sum, the importance of the service, the manner in ---,Leh it was expend e d, an d th e vouc h ers fired at the Audit -office, with th e secur iti es f or goo d administration ereby insured, he could not think the vote could be looked upon with suspicion.—(Hear, hear.) Colonel SIBTHORP said it was the nature of a Chancellor of the Exchequer to expend money, and his objections were not removed by what the Right Hon. Gentleman had stated. The CHANCELLOR o f th e EXCHEQUER said, on the Cont rary, the duty of a Chancellor of the Exchequer ( 1 : 48 , t° oppos e the expenditure of money as tar 04 he c oa l laugh.) Mr. SCULLY did not think any account was required, 1 !, 8 t h ey all kn ow how the money was expended. He - "Id ask seriously whether it was the practice of the Present Government to expend money in the payment ?f editor s o f newspaper i n I re l a nd? The public and the Iris h Members certainly had a right to expect that that should not be done again, although it was said to have been expended in the cause of " law and order." The CHANCELLOR o f the EXCHEQUER had no rsitation in assuring the Hon. Member that her Ma- Jesty's present Government had no intention of maki ng any investment of that sort in the cause of " law and order."—(A laugh.) He appreciated probably as much as anybody in that House could the influence of the Press, but he had always observed this, that no newspa- Per whose support was worth having could bo obtained by the employment of corrupt means.—(He ar hear.) Mr. MACGREGOR underst oo d th at those payments to the Irish newspapers were made, not out of the pub lic money, but out of the Lord - Lieutenant's private Purse.--(No, no.) Sir DE LACY EVANS said, out of whatever fund it was expended, there could be no doubt that it was ex pended for the good of Ireland.—(Oh, and cries of "No.") That he believed was the general opinion. The vote was then agreed to. On the vote of 216,5091. for stationery, printing, and binding for the various public offices. Sir G. PECHELL objected to the large amount of the vote. In the dockyards ships were pulled to pieces for the sake of rebuilding them, and in the poor-law office there was far too much scribbling in constant corres pondence. Mr. G. HAMILTON said there bad been careful e ci ? ° co in the statione deartment; the vote had been l osin nl ib y hing every year. r — y Vo p te agreed to. B ,_The next vote was 21,000/. for law charges, salaries, s '• in the office of Solicitor of the Treasury.— .. c.:reed to. d The next vote was 17,7001. for sheriff's expenses, the eticiencies of fees, and office of Queen's Remembrancer, --Agreed to. I he next vote was 8,830/. for expenses of Insolvent Debtors' Courts. M. WILLIAMS suggested that the duties of these 01,1„1.:ts should be discharged by the county court judges. ,pte agreed to. l and oe next vote was 121,163/. for law expenses in Scot decal' COWAN obs erve d u p on th e it e m for procurators th at i t had increased instead of dim i n i she d , w ° ugh they w ere now pa id b y fi xe d sa l ary , w hi c h it Pettl:ss ought would have the effect of decreasing the ex e Mr ' A. HAMILTON sa id t h e sa l ar i es had been nttimated G. on an average of five years' fees, and the u,rangetnent only took effect after the present holders of e k ef fiee vacated; it was entirely prospective. r • WILLIAMS remarked on an item of 1,000/. for yl e . e .. t i ejt Bills, of which only five had been brought into ,""anaent last year. This was a small item, but the tl l 6 ! r w e g, t ite of such items . caused an increase of 40,0001. on p est vote over last year's estimate. There was a A. dispa o between this and the corresponding vote folreland Mr 0, • A. HAMILTON said the supposed increase ,its °l y apparent. As to the item of 1,0001, the result thetLe arr angement had been a payment of 17,0001. to ....Consoidated Fund. parlr. WILLIAMS said this only showed that less was t his year fo r d o i ng not hi ng . vot e agreed to. p res n e next v ote was 57,710/. for expenses for criminal m e entions an d other law charges i n I re l an d. tureenLLIA.MS again observed on the disparity be. said tPYni I vote and the last, although more crime was to exist in Ireland. The a greed to. ii th ue next vote was 36,5001. for the metropolitan police üblin WILLIAMSth e ~• animadverted upon this vote, and piiidvr°Portion of the expenses of the force which was mr out of the local rates. a g G. 11411ILTON explained, and the vote was e ed to. ter! h e n ext vote was 240,0001. for certain charges for- T I T PEdd out of t h e county rates.—Agree d to. of eprisonst vote was 16,196/. for expenses of inspectors so d et YVILLIAMS observed that the estimate was not small a ded as it ou g h t to b e . H e a l so o b serve d on t h e s tance Pro duce of th e l a b ours o f t h e p r i soners . F o r in oh! tin Milbank, t h e net amoun t o f profits was the 1/ P Per head, w h ereas i n A mer i ca t h e pro d uce o f brlatircips Qner s labour paid all the expenses and left a Ur. SI, A Ni far more --EY remarked that free labour was worth —or e ie America. w rr Q.„ . " -L LIA.MS—No, it is not. th e • L."-JANEY Said the difficulty was in preventing free prisoner labour from coming into competition with sir glabour.—(iiper.) . W RITEY thought that in the prisons, the th,: t iLm ent of prisoners was not sufficiently severe, so obj ee P 4 _r p ties often rather desired to be sent there. The thi of prisons was to deter from crime, but how would . ooj ect b e . of prisons? attained if persons were not at all afraid thMr. SCULLY said, on the contrary, ho considered great object of prisons was not punishment, but f se a great ; and this object was carried out wonder -211137 on the Continent, so that prisoners left the prisons 'efortned and improved, and seldom revisited them. It W as on this ground desir a bl e to encourage the u s ef u l eroployment of the prisoners, especially the younger oal-a. Mr. ANSTEY said he found that the expense of gaols were alarmingly on the increase. Some time ago !t Committee had been appointed, the report of which had, however, produced no practical result, but which Proved why the expense of prisons increased. The fault lay principally with the magistrates, who too easily, Ott signs of " moral improvement," dispensed with the Punishments imposed. Some limit should be placed by imv on this power of the magistracy. Wherever the moral improvement system had been followed to the Po re judice of prison discipline, expenses of gaols had cr eased. Mr • P A.CKE said that in his own country the refer tmatory hat witrkr;inciple had been successfully carried out, and once- ,11 the last six or eight years criminals, having e iade their appearance, rarely made their appear titer, a sPeond tim e . _ .SLANEY deprecated the employment of prison workhouse ialemir at rates of remuneration which displaced independent labour. Sir W. JOLLIFFE remarked that the increase ob servable in the estimate was to be ascribed to the in eviLeassed difficulty experienced in dispo s ing of our con „ ' !et ; but th ere was every reason to anticipate the sue eaqul Working of the new system. , Sir LP r C. BURRELL d ef e n d ed the putting of prisoners e tuunerative employment. _ Captain SCOBELL was of opinion th a t if th e refer :eatery system was to be made effective it would be no essarY to make the prison diet less attractive. At P r esent the fo o d su ppli e d i n some o f our prisons was su perior to that enjoyed by the independent labourer. C M J. BELL took the same view ; a n d a ft er a b r i e f °tlv ersation, c ,?'ir. STANFORD deprecated the leniency sho wn t o ; I " l uinals in the Reading and other mod e l p r i sons , b ut : . :fend e d t h e i r em pl o y men t at t h e i r tra d es on t h e ground 4t hat it lessened the local rates. ,The vote was then agreed to. „ uu the v o t e o f 261,522/. to defray the charges of Go 'ernment prisons and convict establishments at home, ANSTEY expressed his belief that the punish blent of t ransportat i on h a d p rove d a failure, the more Pecially since the discovery of the Australian gold Mr. SLANEY said that the Government ought to Co nsider car e f u ll y the C 1111503 which had led to the im -lense increa se o f cr i m i nals i n t hi s cou ntry. In 1805, the Lumber of persons in England and Wales committed to gaol or admitted to bail, was 4,600; in 1815, it was 7,800 ; i n 1821, it was 16,500 ; in 1831, it i n 184 19,600; n 1841, it w as 27,740; and in 1848, it was 30, 300 . C rime bad thus inc reased three times as fast a 3 their popu lation. The Government ought to look to the improve ment of the minds of Youth, also of those of the working classes, and the protection of their health in great towns. The vote was then agreed to. 1 59,1231. was granted for defraying the expenses r:tttending the maintenance of prisoners in county gaols, )31 philanthropic institutions, and in lunatic asylums, and t he expenses attending th e removal of convicts. 10 1,0411, was granted to defray the expenses connected With the transportation of convicts. 253 ,5871. was then proposed to defray the expenses of Convict establishments in the colonies. Mr. ANSTEY complained of this vote being 70,0001. More than it was last year. Sir W. JOLIFFE said that the increase in the vote w as Caused by the new convict establishments which had been formed in Western Australia. Mr. WILLIAMS complained that the cost for con- Western Australia was four times what it was I n this country. Sir J. PAKING TON explained that the increased e'fit arose by the present being the first year of the es tnablishment in Western Australia, which was built for larger number of convicts than at present occupied it; Out thut expense would of course bo diminished in suc "ding years. The vote was then agreed to, as also was 160,0001. for Public education. On th e vote of 52 ,3431, for the salaries and Expenses of the British Museum ° llt Mr. WlLLlAMScoLiplained that the vote was taken of its order THE SUN, LONDON, , The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that the Government nod no interest in p: easing the vote; but it had bee's cuotomaty to allow precedence to the estimate for the Briiish Museum. They could have put it first on paper, hut then they would have de siroted the privilege which it was tta, pride of the LT-on. Getitlemsn to avail himself of. Th e late Sir R, P?el and the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell). anti greater nu thoriths thou ke (the Chancellor of the Exahcquor) WWI, had always accorded this privilege to the Hon. Member fvr the University (Sir R. H. Inglis) as trustee of the Museum. After a few words from Mr. LABOUCHERE, Mr. STANFORD complained of the new arrangement by which the three classes of the attendants of the Mu seum had been amalgamated with reference to salary, and thus an attendant commencing now under the new arrangement at a minimum salary of 501. would not at tain the maximum salary of 150/. for a considerably longer period of years than under the old system. Mr. GOULBURN said that there was no ground for dissatisfaction to the attendants under the now arrange ment, which had been adopted by the trustees in confor mity with the recommendations of the report of the Committee of that House. That arrangemen t was that the attendants should be paid by salary instead of by fees, and that, in accordance with the principle adopted in most of the public offices, persons appointed to offices, as attendantz, should enter in the lowest class, from which they could rise by intelligence and ability to the highest class. But the trustees, in making that arrange ment, stated that it would not apply to those ,who had been appointed under the old system. Mr. ANSTEY objected to the vote being taken out of its place. It was No. 12 on the votes, and it was on this occasion taken as No. 2. Sir R. 11, INGLIS said the answer of his Right Hon. Friend the Member fur the University of Catneridge was perfectly satisfactory. He (Sir R. H Inglis) threw him self, therefore, on the indulgence of the House; and he hoped the Hon. and Learned Member would not think it necessary to interrupt the discussion. Viscount DUNCAN, for one, had not anticipated that vo:o No. 12 would be taken before vote No. 10. After a few words from Mr. W. Williams, Mr. Stan ford, and Mr. Scully, Mr. ANSTEY moved that the Chairman should re port progress. The motion was, however, withdrawn. 164,5771. for education in Ireland. In reply to Mr. FOX, Mr. WALPOLE said the system of education in Ire land was intended to be a combined system. In endea vouring to carry it out certain members of the Established Church complained that they were not partakers in that grant. Another objection was that every minister of the Established Church who objected to the greet was precluded from any chance of participation in it. There were serious objtctions to the system, and the answer of the Government was, that certainly, for the purpose of encouraging education, they intended to encourage applications from clergymen of the Esta blished Church, as well as otters, in respect to partici pating in this grant, without at all excluding itYliers. Sir J. GRAHAM said it had been his misfortune to differ from the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Dublin University (Mr. G. A. Hamilton) on former occasions with reference to this vote, but when he so differed from him he had to defend a measure of a former colleague of his, the present head of the Government; and the injustice, if there were injustice in the matter, as alleged by the parties adverse to the grant, was au injustice which was well weighed from tiar to time. When the Earl of Derby was his (Sir. J. Graham's) colleague, he was not only the author, but the steady defender and supporter of this measure; and he never admitted that there was any injustice in the mixed grant.—(" Hear, hear," from the Irish Members.) Mr. WALPOLE had not stated there was injustice in ,he mixed grant. What he said was, that it was an in- ustice that those who objected on conscientious motives to the mode in which the grant was distributed, v were precluded from the chances of preferment merely be cause they did not give the system their support. Sir J. GRAHAM had understood the Right Hon. Gentleman to take two objections—the last of which was not with reference to the grant, but to the distribution of patronage. The other allegation was, that there was in justice in the mixed system of education itself, in which 1,700 of the clergy of the Established Church could not participate. Now, he (Sir J. Graham) confidently con tended, as the Earl of Derby had hitherto confidently con tended, that if they departed from this system of educa tion, based on its present principle—if they attempted to rectify that injustice, which, according to the Secretary of State, was inherent iu a system of mixed education— they must come at once to separate grants in proportion to the population of Ireland, in which case he was very much mistaken if the Established Church of Ireland would gain materially by the change. This was not, however, the moment for discussing this question further.—(Hear, hear.) As to the other point— distri bution of patronage—the observation of the Right Hon. Gentleman did not certainly apply to the Govern ment of the late Sir Robert Peel, inasmuch as that Go vernment felt it to be its duty to recommend for promo tion to the episcopal bench in Ireland three bishops who, if he mistook not, were unfortunately as he thought, op ' posed to the system of mixed education, and who, al though they were elevated to the episcopal bench by the advice of Sir Robert Peel, nevertheless thought proper to use their episcopal patronage against that system. Lord EBRINGTON—When the Right Hon. Gentle man (Mr. Walpole) spoke of the exclusion of the clergy of the Established Church from all hope of preferment, he seemed to forget the enormous amount of patronage in the hands of the bishops of the Established Church in Ireland, and a great part of which had, in past times, been sedulously employed by them for the encourage ment of resistance to that combined system of education which successive Governments, down to the present time, had thought it their duty to defend. Mr. LABOUCHERE admitted that it was not con venient to discuss the question at that moment; but havi: g the deepest sense of the importance to Ireland of the mixed system of education, be could not refrain from stating that he had heard with alarm the language which had been held by the Secretary of State that night; and ho entreated the Government to take care how they tampered with a system of education on the maintenance o.! which the future prospects of Ireland essentially depended. Mr. W ALPOLE was in the recollection of the Com mittee, but he did not think one word had escaped from him from which it could be inferred that the combined sys tem of education was intended to be superseded —(Hear.) On the contrary, he said, in answer to the Noble Lord the Member for London, on a previous evening, some weeks ago, that there was no intention on the part of Govern• ment to interfere with the combined system of national education in Ireland. He said then, as he said to-night, chat he thought, when a grant of public money was made for purposes of education, that it was but reasonable every portion of the community should receive a share of that grant—(Cheers)—and that it was worthy of consideration whether those who, by conscientious mo tives, were excluded from a share of that grant at this moment, should not be included in it in future 2— :Cheers.) He also went on to say—on the ground of Lnjustice—that he did think it was an injustice, when he members of the Church of Ireland from conscientious motives objected to that grant, but were found agreeing upon all other questions of general policy, that they should be refused patronage merely on the ground that they would not give their adhesion to this system of mixed education. That he believed was all he said— that was all he meant to say—and he did not think one word tell from him to the effect that the Government intended to supersede in any way the system of educa tion in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Sir J. GRAHAM—The Right Hon. Gentleman had told the Committee what the Government did not in tend to do, and he now asked him, as a matter which to the people of Ireland was next in importance only to the question (Maynooth) recently brought before the House by the Hon. Member for North Warwickshire ( Vlr. Spooner), what was the intention of the Govern ment with a view to remedy the injustice of which the Right Hon. Gentleman stated complaint was made. Ile wanted to know wherein was the injustice in the present mode of distributing the vote? He understood the Right Hon. Gentleman to state that, in his opinion, as now dis tributed under the nyxed system, there was an injustice, and that that injustice ought to be remedied. It was not unreasonable, therefore, to ask the Right Hon. Gentle. man, since he was of opinion there was a practical in justice in the present mode of distribution, and intended, on the part of the Government, to adhere to a common scheme of education, and to one general mode, how he intended the members of the Established Church should participate in this grant, and the mixed system of edu cation be still retained. Mr. WALPOLE could not do better than repeat the observation he made in reply to the question of the Noble Lord the Member for the City of London on a former night. On that occasion he said it was worthy of consideration whether some portion of the grant might not be applied to those members of the Church of England and others in Ireland—tor there were others in Ireland who equally objected to the mode of distribu tion—whether some portion of the grant might not be applied to those who trom conscientious motives ob jected to the mode in which it was at present distributed, but he never intimated that there was any plan on the part of the Government as to the mode in which that was to be done. He meant that the question deserved consideration.—(He a r, hear.) The term of " injustice " he intended to apply to the refusal of preferment and patronage to persons merely on the ground that they would not give their adhesion to the mixed system of education in Ireland. That was an injustiee of which he thought they had a right to complain, and in answer to the question of the Right Hon. Baronet he might say that the remedy for that injustice was to di s t r ib ute the amongst those who di ssented from, as ho were in favour of, th e combined Bpi tem r nationale fairly education and he believed th a t t h e patronage i 0 pwaetlrlo as patronage w had been so distributed since her M a j esty ' s g those , pre sent Govern , I A hadmeldritlL T come osw , into toe prepared w e r .—(H t e ar ,; ) Mr. G. A. pro pose the vote, under th e impression that there was a full understanding in 'n the House, in consequence of what fell from his Right Hon. Friend some time ago, that it was the intention of Government to take the vote into consideration, and to adopt Sir J. Graham had taken a united system upon himself to assert, was some means of ascertaining whether th e sy s tem which (Hea-, hear.) He rence of opinion prevailed in Iri-hind.— n the subject or not, for that was a point upon which great diffe rence unwilling to enter into a discussion upon —(An iro n i ca l cheer from the Irish Members) —because he thought th a t all things considered, it wits not desira ble that a discussion should be proceeded with on a ques tion of this natu re at that particular m oment.—(Hear , hear.) He repeated, h e was quite willing to propose tne vote upon the un derstandin g, w hi c h h e b e lieved the House had come to, that th e Government had signi fi e d an intention of taking means to ascerta i n whether t his system was a combined system or not; and further, of considering whether some mod© might not be de wised by which to remove the conscientious objec tioes entertained by a considerable portion of the mem bers of the Peei;ablishsd Church its Ireland. With re gard to the course which he liimaslf lied taken upon the question, he rememnered stating in that House, on one occasion, that the syssern of education in Ireland was one of the institutions of the country, and chat, consi dering the number of schools in connexion with it, it would not be consistent with what was right and just to divide the House against it, but that ho thought such modification might be introduced into it as, without sub verting the system, would remedy the injustice of which a large proportion of the Protestant population of Ire land complained. Mr. KEOGH said that the two Right Hon. Members for Dahlia University (Mr. Napier and Mr. G. A. Ha milton) bad been most consistent, determined, and un changeable opponents of the system of national educa tion in Ireland, and that if the first-named Hon. Gen tleman were then present, he would not deny his (Mr. Keogh's) assertion that he had been also one of the most bitter of its opponents. The Hon. Member who had just addressed the Committee stated that he was in favour of a " modification" of the system, but that was exactly the same expression which was applied to every other subject—religious, social, commercial, or political, upon which Honourable Gentlemen on the Treasury benches had to touch.—(Hear, hear.) He as sorted that two thirds of the Darbyito candidates in Ire land had distinctly pledged themselves not to support national education as it existed—not to support May nooth—but to repeal the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill of lastsession.—(Hear.) This, he would admit, was per haps only a modification. But what was the modifica tion that was wanted? He knew that Government dealt in negatives, and that they could enumerate a long catalogue of things they did not mean to do, but he wanted to know what they meant to do? He had heard that it was essential to have consistency in public men. It had been generally admitted that the Noble Lord at the head of the Government had formed and marked out the present system of national education in Ireland. But when the Honourable Gentleman the Member for the University brought the same question forward some time back, the Noble Lord (Lord George Ban ana) was the principal speaker against the motion, and that system of which Lord Derby was the reputed author. He wanted to know whether that was to be considered in the light of a modification? If every thing was to be subject to modification—Maynooth—our commercial system—and the present question, the most important question possible to the people of Ireland, then ho was bound to say there was no confidence to be placed in public men, and the sooner the present gentle men who held office vacated their posts the better it would be for their consistency and the country. Mr. WHITESIDE vindicated the consistency of the Right Hon. Gentleman. He considered, however, that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman (Mr. Keogh) ought to have avoided the argumentum ad hominem, as, if he did not mistake, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman entered public life us a member of a Conservative body, and as a Conservative.—(Hear.) A change had " come o'er the spirit of his dream," and the Hon. and Learned Gentleman who had joined a totally opposite party, now advocated totally opposite principles with as much talent and as much honesty as he had for merly advocated Conservative principles.—(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Ripon, and the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, in their remarks had used the term the people of Ireland. If the lion. and Learned Gentleman meant to assert that he represented the entire population of Ireland, he must beg to dissent, and though he was desirous of paying due respect to the Roman Catholic people of Ireland, yet he must, at the same time, declare that the Protestant and Presbyterian part of Ireland were entitled to the attention of that House, for they represented a large proportion of the wealth, intelligence, and commerce of that part of the empire. What had been stated respecting the act of Sir R. Peel, in promoting eminent men to the episcopate in Ireland from England, formed a strong circumstance in favour of the argument of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary of State for the Home Department that this question ought to be reconsidered, and that something ought to be done whereby 1,700 members of the Established Church in Ireland might be able in their parish schools to read the Scriptures. Had the Right Hun. Gentleman (Sir J. Graham) read the debate on the question, he would have seen that one of the most learned of those prelates (the Bishop of Ossory) had not asked for a re versal of the system, but had recommended a reconsider ation of it, so as to allow clergymen of the Established Church in Ireland to do as clergymen of the Established Church did in England. The Right Hon. Gentleman, the Secretary of the Home Department, had not dis entitled himself to the respect of the Roman Catholic people of Ireland for what he desired to do. The Right Hon. Gentleman did not desire to withdraw a sixpence of the grant from the Roman Catholics; but he wished to devise some change which in his (Mr. Whiteside's) belief, if carried out, would improve the system both in Ireland and Scotland. He begged to remind Hon. Gentleme❑ that out of the number of pupils in the na tional schools there were between 36,000 raid 40,000 pupils members of the Church of Rome. Mr. KEOGH begged leave to answer the statement made so openly by the Honourable and Learned Gentle man, that he t,Mr. Keogh) had entered that House as a supporter of the Conservative party. Now he had very frequently heard that same statement made, but not at such a time and in such a manner as to permit him to give an explanation and contradiction. It ought to — be known to the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, as it was certainly known to many Hon. and Right Hon. Gentlemen whom he was addressing, that ,uch a statement was wholly and entirely unfounded. Ile Hon. and Learned Member for the University of Dublin knew that the statement was untrue; he had the most entire and perfect reliance on that Hon. and Learned Gentlomaa's honour, believing that no consideration would induce him to travel out of that line which con . _ science dictated and truth enjoined.—(Hear.) He en tered that House at a peculiar time—he entered it when to be a supporter of the Right Hon. Baronet the late Member for Tamworth was to place himself in a position of great unpopularity in Ireland. He believed he was the only man in the country who ventured to put him self in that position. He would, however, claim no merit on that ground. Conscience dictated to him the course he should pursue, and he followed that course. He placed prominently in his .addresses, which appeared in every newspaper in Dublin, the fact that he avowed himself to be a distinct, direct, unequivo eating supporter of the commercial and political policy recommended by the Right Baronet, and that Right Hon. Baronet having been driven from power by those Hon. Gentlemen whom he saw opposite by a combination which it was unnecessary to describe, he was perfectly prepared to support the policy that Right Hon. Baronet advocated. He might say the records of that House and the recollections of Hon. Members would prove that to that comm ercial policy ever since he had en tered that House he had firmly and continuously . ad hered ; and furth er , th a t he had never given a vote in contravention to that policy.—(Hear.) He should be sorry to recriminate with Hon. and Learned Gentlemen, but, as far as his policy and consistency were concerned, he would say for himself that he never was the person to go into private quarters and private circles and hold himself out as the supporter of a policy ho afterwards op posed. He did not prof ess i n e arly life to be an adv ocate of a retorm in the representation of the people. Ho never held out to the peopl e t h a t h e preferred republican to monarchial prin c ipl es . H e did n ot go down amongst a portion of the people of Ireland, with whom republican principles were a matter of history, and hold himself out as a person prepared t o carr y those principles to thei r uttermost limit.—(Hear.) Ho took his principles from a more moderate level. Ho saw the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth was prepared to do justice to the people of I re l and, and he gave hi m his support. Ho now declared his honest conviction to be that the Right Hon. Baronet was worthy of support. He had sat in that Ho use f or fi ve years, and the records of the House would bear out the assertion he now made. The Noble Lord, once the lead er o f t h e party opposite, had admitted to him that h e h a d not entere d t h e House as a Protectionist and turned Free-trader. He had de clared ho was a Free-t ra d er . H e a dh e red to that opinion, and if the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had reflected he would not have dwelt on such topics, the more especially if he looked to the Hon. Gentlemen who sat on his left. Mr. WHITESIDE said, that if the Hon. and Learned Metnber asserted that he had expressed anti-monarchi cal opinions at any time of his life, he could only tell him it was a fiction. During the twenty years he had been at the bar, he had always supported what he be- lieved to be sound Conservative principles. The Hon. and Learned Member had only done what some of his countrymen had done before him, and had drawn on his imagination for his facts.—(A laugh.) Sir J. TYRELL regretted that the discussion had de generated into a personal debate. He did not think the Hon. and Learned Member for Athlone was in a condition to lecture Protestant gentlemen on that side of the House, or the Government, on consistency or mo difications of opinion, unless he could show that he him self had been consistent in his personal conduct as a Member of that House. He had a strong recollection ,hat the Hon. and Learned Gentleman entered that House taking on himself the " moderate level" of the Carlton Club. How came it, then, that the Hon. and Learned Member was now on the other side? The fact was, that the Hon. and Learned Member looked up to a superior . __ . ._.. power—to the Synod of Thurles and to his Holiness the Pope, both of whom had denounced the mixed sys• tern of education as taught in the colleges recently es• tablished in Ireland. If injustice were done to a large portion of the Protestant people of Ireland by the miaed system of education in question, it was not surely im proper in the Government to consider a remedy for that inj tistice.—(Hear.) Mr. ANSTEY said the question before them was not meantthe c consistency n b s y i s m t e o n d c fi c o a f t H i o on n . H. A m ' c o lbr b ifi e ca s t io uwhat nt was the understood Minister b by the Duke of Richmond and ethers of the party opposite to mean the restoration of protection, and he wished to know what modification meant as applied to the national system of education in Ireland. He wished to know if a sum necessary to support the 1,700 sectarian Church schools were subtracted from the grant whether a cor responding sum would be given to the sectarian schools of the Church of Rome. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished to remind the Committee of The question before them. That question was the vote far the combined system of education in Ireland, and as that vote had been proposed by the Government, and as far as he could collect Hon. Gentlemen opposite were prepared to maintain that sys tem, the best thing they could do in the present state of Parliament would be to support the vote.—(Hear, hear.) A great deal had been said us to the intentions of the Government on this subject. He might be permitted to inform those Hon. Members who had addressed the Committee, that when the Government had to propose a ny change in a subject of so much importance as that tint Supply—(Hear.) They were s:de(rateionr,theywouldn all tdlol io s a o n i x na u Cs thatommitttheee of combined system of education should be properly sup- EVENING., JUNE 4, 1852. FRIDAY ported, and whether they thought it rhoald be permanent, or whether they were in favour of modifying it,. they wore all prepared at presmt to support it as it existed.. It could not bo supported w i t h out the passing of this vote, and he therefore hoped the C a.iniittee would agree to it. Af;er a few words fro, Mr. W. WILLIAMS, the vote was agreed tn. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and ob tained leave to sit again this day. THE COMMON L A W PROCEDURE BILL. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL having moved the second reading of this Bill, Sir A. COCKBURN expressed his regret that one of the most important feat ures in the measure, as recom mended in the report of the Commissioners, had been struck out of it, not in the House of Lords, but by certain authorities out of that House. The feature to which he alluded was the provision for getting rid of what was technically known as forms of actions, which were, he believed, too often a stumbling block in the way of justice. Eut, at the same time, he felt persuaded that the Bill, even as it stood, would be found one of the most important measures of legq reform which had been in troduced during the last half century. He should, how ever, add that that was , i n his opinion, only a first in stalment of what ought to be accomplished in that direction. They had yet a good deal to do before they could remove all the technical difficulties which formed such seriou s o b stacles to the due admi• nistration of justice. He believed that they should go further than they had ever yet attempted to and that they ought to app o i n t a further Commission—a mixed Commission of the common law and equity members of the profession—for the purpose of inquiring into the prop r i ety of amalgamat i ng t h e two systems, and effecting a general codification of our laws. He had no hesitation in saying that those laws were at present in a state which was disgraceful to a civilised country.—(Hear, hear.) They were a sealed book to the subject of the realm, and it would require the whole life of a man to make himself acquainted with them.—(Hear, hear.) It was not enough that they should improve their procedure; they ought t o codify their laws, and to make them intelligible to the people,—(Hear, hear.) The Bill was then read a second time, and was ordered to be committed on Monday next. THE MASTER IN CHANCERY ABOLITION BILL. Mr. WALPOLE having moved the second reading of this Bill, Sir A.COCKBURN said he believed that the Bill as it had been recommended by the Commissioners had been utterly spoilt by the Lord Chancellor, and that it was altogether different from the measure which had been recommended by the Commissioner s of Chancery Re form. He hoped that they would not th en b e ca ll e d u p o n to assent to the second reading of the Bill. Mr. WALPOLE said that that was a most important measure, and taken in conjunction with the next mea sure on the notice paper—namely, the Improvement of the Jurisdiction of Equity Bill —it would tend more to the improvement of the practice of equity in this country than anything which had been done since the days of Lord Nottingham. It would effect three impor tant reforms—it would prevent e xpense and delay in bringing cases to a hearing,it would prevent them in the consideration of cases, and it would prevent them in the inquiries which followed the hearing of cases. In some particulars the Bill as it then stood differed from that which had been recommended by the Commission ers; but those particulars had been most carefully con sidered by the most competent authorities, and they might hereafter be dealt with by the House in Com mittee. Sir A. COCKBURN said, that although he thought it very inconvenient that they should have to consider so important a Bill at that late hour, he did not wish to oppose the motion for its second reading. Sir J. GRAHAM said he hoped that, under all the circumstances of the case, the House would assent to the second reading of that Bill, and of the Bill which fol lowed. He had had the honour of having sat on the Com mission from whhili those two Bills had proceeded, and he was glad to be able to add that the report of the Com missioners had been unanimously adopted. He was also bound to say, that in the main those two Bills c arr i e d out fully and fairly, in his humble judgment the re commendations of the Commissioners.—(Hear, hear.) There might be deviations, which many persons would regret, from those recommendations; but he entertained a sanguine expectation that all the detail s o f the two Bills would be satisfactorily adjusted in Committee. Mr. J. STUART said he hoped that the House would have no hesitation in agreeing to the s econd reading of the Bill after the stat emen t of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon, that it substantially carried out the recommendations of the Commissioners. The Bill was th en rea d a secon d time, and was ordered to be committed on Monday next. IMPROVEMENT OF THE _ JURISDICTION OF , bethis cßoimllmwiattsedread a second on the time, o motion o ando f E ZE. s Monday next . The Gen era l B oar d o f H ea l t h Bill was read a third time and pa sse d. IwTo ordered r ß pe ILL to On The Law of Wills Amendment Bill was read a third time and passed. The order of the day for the third reading of the Industrial and Provident Partnerships Bill having keen read, Mr. CARTER moved th© insertion of a clause to the effect that no member should be liable for the debts or engagements of a society beyond the extent of the shares which he held. After a short discussion the clause was negatived without a division, and the Bill was read a third time and passed. BISHOPRIC OF CHRISTCHURCH (NEW ZEA LAND) BILL. The order of the day for resuming the adjourned de bate on the Bishopric of Christchurch (New Zealand) Bill having been read, Mr. ADDERLEY said he wished to inform the Hon. and Learned Member for Youghal that he would be pre pared to strike out of the Bill any words which could be supposed wnic h it wayto g notive to the Crown power in the colonies legall y to po s sess. H e t r u s t e d that after that declaration t h ere could be no objection on the part of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to the second reading of the measure. Mr. ANSTEY repeated his objections to the Bill as it then stood. The House then ded v. Mr. SADLIER moved t , h yv e ., a .e dj n o t ti h r e n r m e a d j our nment of appeared— Againstt he debate. ••• Fom ai rthoer aiitt••• dy . .ej oarn m . n t _ 46 Mr. KEOGH then moved the • adjournt of the House. men Mr. such ADdmentsDERLEY said he would be ready to adopt amen of the Bill in Committee, as would completely meet the objections of the Honourable and Learned Member for Youghal and the trusted that the second reading would not a f ter that statement be further opposed. Mr. ANSTEY said h e w i shed to have such amend ments introduced into th e measure as would amount to ; ecclesi astical supremacy in it s co l onies. an acknowledgment that th e Crown possessed no The ATTORNEY-GENE RAL refused to give his sanction to any such pri nc i ple. After a short discus s i on the motion for the adjourn ment of the House was w i t hd rawn, and the debate was again adjourned to this d a y, taut D iss On the motion of M was read r. BR() T HERTON, the Protes en a to be committed on Monday ne se cond time, and ordered , t. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON obt ained l eave to b r i n g in Bill to continue an Act of sent Majesty, for amending thee 12th y ear o f h e r pre banks in Ireland; and the Bill l aws relating to savings first time. °i t" afterwards read a Mr. CARTER moved an address for a return of all the risoners sente nced to be whipp ed during the last three P years in this kingdom nt the various courts of quarter summary jurisdiction, the date O. the sentence, and the offence for which awarded, with the age of each prisoner punished. — Agreed to. so p The House adjourned at Two O ' clock - session, °yet.. and .terminer, and gaol delivery, and by ehrior,tfeo_ .ceßatiiset:nticeonyineegolfrt natpehshast,sco 000mwmn-- 0 0 iTIP 'Batisofrking those se th in e A 7 LE 8 . Yeete E LonErCesTumßil.Cg th T ei E r i L n f ui G ry ll of th w ith t haet Liv erpool i e e t — ri - efaGutta Percha Com pany'sbatter t i t patented e t ne telegraph substance a ph wires, terial than a casing of gotta pereha.n u e n a e n r g d r perfectly an d ma- Mr. James Ross, corresponding agent for the London aetory. The t and ens iyeiy American e ~n , had dealt newspapers ex -1 4 6 pany, who had improved e o h l3t m e s s t than v e9 efere Mess greater ros. month, and considered the present - ' w ate el month by system to be, generally speakin chargtei for long distances were cheaper ada nded to re- America, where the delays and inaccuraeie than they were here. The cypher Willtner and Smith, to which the attenti o g e mittee on a previous day was drawn, was , knowledge, having been engaged to do vent the transmission of the President's cer tain morning papers, so that Messrs. Willme ress to might secure it first for the newspapers th e y and Smith A second telegraph, in witness's opi n i on, " w Y supplied. tended with disadvantages. It was questionabl e be at there would be enough business for more e whether tha n whether the reduction of rates consequent 0 one, and tion would not make it a losing conce rn. u..9ompeti however, be an advantage, in the event of 400 i l e t would, stoppage of communication by one telegraph,u nt to or another. to have Mr. Ilawkshaw, C.E., held two shares in the El tric Telegraph Company. Was o f opinion that tec hes railways could not spare the am ou nt of spac e , six fe that would be required for a seco nd telegr a ph , eet ' particularly as, from the constant development onf3tor traffic, they now found their present space ins k e e e Believed that to confer the compulsory powers quate. for would be to strike at the root of railway safet sought he would not be responsible for the security of a r / il and under the c i rcums tances. Looked on the pro powers as an invasion of the r i g hts of railways. p osed Captain Huiss, general manager of the Lond on an d North Western Railway, thought that while no benefit would accrue to the publi c from a seco nd line o f tele graph, very serious injury would be indicted on the rail ways. Although co-operating with the Electric Tele graph Company, the London and North-Western had ex perienced great difficulty in connection with the opera tions of that company, and these would only be re doubled by the introduction of a duplex system. There had been two or three accidents, several narro w escape , and confusion, an d he dreaded the introducti on of al rival N o comp an y on the same ground. controlling power exercised by the Board of Trade could remedy the dangera pp rehended. The majority of the directors of the London and North-Western were at first taken 1 with the idea of a second line of telegraph, but for these reasons had altered their opinion. The existing tele graph had not occasionally done its wolk so well as could ba wished, but representations were instautly and properly attended to. Mr. C. W. SINDIENS, C.E. spok e t o t h e system of sub-hut:nous telegr a ph s in Prussia. The first cost of the underground system, of which there were 30 miles in Berlin, would be dearer than the suspensory system, but quite as efficient. Mr. W. H. SMITH, news agent, Strand, had had large experience in connexion with the working of the elec tric telegraph, end considered it was now done as effec tively as it could be by a large system with regard to correctness and dispatch. The Electric Telegraph Com pany supplied the provincial papers with the earliest and most important intelligence at far less than any reporter or agent could afford to do it. His firm had a mutually advantageous arrangement with the company. The committee here adjourned. BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. It has been fondly believed for some time that some where about the third week in this month our distracted and worn-oat Legislature would be released from its un profitable toils. Government having pledged itself to appeal to the people at the earliest possible opportunity, that pledge was interpreted to mean that by the end of June, at th© very latest, we should be saying "yes" or " no" to the question of Free Trade, by the choice of our representatives. Lord Darby, in popular estimation the very pink of chivalry, was party to this arrangement, and, if the terms were not very precise, it was presumed that he would be all the more anxious that there should be no disappointment. It is scarcely necessary to say how widely this political understanding entered into all public and private affairs; how many eager constituen cies were preparing to fight it out in July, and how many, both candidates and electors, were calculating on a holyday in August. They who cherished these delusions will find by the proceedings in the Commons last night how little trust is to be re posed in that proverbially rotten foundation—a Ministe rial promise. Instead of three weeks, which were to suffice for the few odds and ends that remained after the settlement of the Militia Bill, there is at least work for three months, even if the whole of that time is to be rescued from idle debates, and realised for the business of the nation. The melancholy fact has been gradually dawning on the minds of those who ventured to count the notices on the list, and the measures on their way from the Upper House, but there is a general feeling that to announce a danger is to precipitate it; and even now, when we talk of business to be done by the Com mons, we shall be thought to assume rather unnecessa rily that it will be done, and that the House is under an obligation to do it. Hence the small amount of confessed alarm and suspicion awakened by the growing tail of Parliamentary arrears, and hence the very great alarm and the more than suspicion which the portentous sum total will now certainly inspire. It required no ordinary mind to grasp the enumera tion of the Herculean catalogue, and put it before the public in a tangible form. Few, if any, but Sir James Graham, could so much as tell the House of Commons what it has to do during the next three weeks. The occasion was given him by a speech on the conduct of public business by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, which that ingenious gentleman managed to construct in the form of an urgent appeal to all sides of the House not to make unnecessary motions, nor to introduce irre• levant topics, but to assist Ministers in their laudable desire to get through the necessary work of the session with the utmost possible dispatch. Sir James Graham, with his usual suavity of manner and strength of pur pose, did not dispute the anxiety of Ministers to expedite public business, but retaliated their plea for forbearance by asking a like regard for human capabilities in the selection of the measures to be pressed as of urgent necessity. The list of measures so pressed is absolutely overwhelming, and we almost recoil from the sight. We can only venture to point out the heads of this gigantic review:—" There are no less than 27 ' orders of the day,' " says Sir James, " upon the paper of to-day." There are four notices of motion to be made before going into a Committee of Supply, with little prospect of such motions diminishing, now that independent Members are allowed fewer opportunities of making their own suggestions, There is the Common Law Procedure Bill, with 230 clauses, and requiring the fullest discussion both on its principles and on its details. There are two Bills, the results of a commission, in which Sir James had a place, for the aboli tion of the Masters' offices and the improvement of the mode of administering justice in equity. There is a Bill relating to suitors in Chancery, and another for the alteration of the law respecting wills. The New Zea land Bill it had been proposed to take this morning, but as this morning there is to be a Committee upstairs on the renewal of the East India Company's Charter, and another on the repression of crime and outrage in Ire land, the New Zealand Bill could not possibly have justice done to it at an hour already so preoccupied. There is a Bill which happens to be just now of great importance, on the " hereditary casual revenues." Then there is a Colonial Bishops Bill, a Bishopric of Quebec Bill, ;and a New Zealand Bishopric Bill, severally involving the most interesting and delicate questions, such as " clergy reserves" and episcopal jurisdiction. There are the renewals of the Eng lish and Irish Poor-law Board, and various other important renewals that must be made, and cannot be made without considerable discussion. Then the Ad miralty has introduced a Bill to alter the entire mode of paying her Majesty's fleet. There is the Metropolis Buildings Bill, with 79 clauses; an Extramural Inter ment Bill repealing the last, and professing to be a sub stitute for it; a Water Supply Bill, and a Sewers Bill; and there are 200 votes still to be taken in Committee of Supply. Meanwhile, with all this mountaih of work to be dispatched in some fifteen or twenty working days, Ministers themselves have created a pest that devours days by wholesale, that takes a mornin g at a meal, and attacks the next day with unabated appetite. The Maynooth question, at the rate hitherto allowed to it, would itself suffice for the whole session, and while it is in hand it is useless to reckon on any part of this mass of real business being properly discharged. With Sir James Graham we cannot but admit that man y, nay most, of these measures are necessary; and we also remember that almost invariably at the end of June, as now at the beginning, there is such an accumu lation of Bills before Parliament, that they unavoidably stifle one another. But the present case has this painful peculiarity, that Ministers stand pledged to wind up the session as quickly as they could, but have, notwith standing, caught at every opportunity and pretence of delay. Entirely through them Maynooth has become the constant, or, at least, the intermittent plague of the House, for without their encouragement Mr. Spooner would long since have collapsed to his usual dimensions. It is quite transparent, and all but admitted, that they think it their game to keep Parliament sitting, doing something or nothing, as long as possible. There are certain things that must be done, and that must be done in a hurry; so, if Ministers contrive to leave them out of sight just now, and amuse the House meanwhile, they will appear to be relieved of the odium of delay. The whole House of Commons will be compromised in the last push, and few will consider whose fault it is that matters have come to that extremity. As to the mea sures of legal reform, certainly wo should have wished to see them made laws as early as possible, but all con siderations must give way to the paramount importance of oar constitutional rule,—Government by a majority, and, we may add, to the not less important rule of poli tical honour and veracity. If these measurts cannot be canvassed and sifted as they deserve in the course of this month, they had better be postponed to the long session which is to begin in the autumn, and to be con tinued, with a simple adjournment over the Christmas holydays. To-night, or at all events on Monday, wo are to have from our Chancellor of the Exchequer an account of the wonderful method in which all this busi ness is to be safely and thoroughly dispatched. We shall then see whether Ministers really contemplate ex tending this do-nothing session to its usual length. If we are rightly informed, however, they have long since given up that idea, and we may still expect a dissolu tion in the present month.— Times. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons ) THURSDAY, JUNE 3. SUPPLY.—(IN THE COMMITTEE.) Motion made and Question put, " That a sum not exceed ing 3,2731. be granted to her Majesty to defi - av a portion of the expenses of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Eng land, to the 31st day of March, 1853." The Committee divided : -- - MAJORITY—AYES, 9 5. Acland, Sir T. Raiford, Sir H. Pugh. David Baillie, 11. J. 470 Hamilton, G. A. Richards, Richard Beresford, William Hamilton, Lord C. Spooner, Richard Berkeley G. F. Henley, J. W. Stafford, Augustus Best, John Hotham, Lord Stanley, Lord Bridges, Sir B. Inglis, Sir, B. Thesiger, Sir F. Brotherton, J. Johnstone, James Trollope, Sir J. Bruce, C. L. Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Tyler, Sir G. Chandos, Marquis Langton, W. H. Vivian, J. E. Cobbold, J. C. Lennox, Lord H. G. Walpole, Spencer Cubitt, William Lockhart, W. Whiteside, James Deedes, IV. Lowther, Colonel Williams, T. P. Disraeli, B. Manners, Lord J. Yorke, E. T. Ferguson, Sir R. Naas, Lord TELLERS. Forester, Colonel Newport, Viscount Dunne, Colonel Graham, Sir James Pakingtun, Sir J. Teunent, Sir J. MINORITY -NOES, 28. Bell, Jacob Ramie, Archibald Stanford, J. F. Bright, John liindley, C. Thompson, Colonel Carter, Samuel King, r. J. Thompson, George Cobden, Richard M'Taggart, Sir J. Verney,:Sir H. Cogan, W. H. Milner, W. M. Walmsley, Sir J. Duncan, George Mowatt, Francis Williams, John Ellis, John Salwey, Colonel Evans, Sir De Lacy Scholeileld, W. Fox, W. J. Scobell, Captain TELLERS. Greene, John Shat Hall, Sir B. li. D. Williams, W. Harris, Richard Sib thorp, Colonel ____ BISHOPRIC OF CHRISTCHURCH (NEW ZEALAND) BILL. Order read for resuming adjourned Debate on Amendment proposed to Question (28th May), " That the Bill be now read a second time," and which Amendment was to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words" upon this day three months :" Question again proposed, " That the word ' now' stand part of the Question :"—Debate resumed ;—Motion made and Question put, " That the Debate be now adjourned." The House divided : MINORITY-AYES, 8. Carter, Samuel Pechell, Sir G. TELLERS. Greene, John Scully, Francis Anstey, Thomas Hall, Sir B. Stuart, Lord D. Sadleir, John Keogh, William Thompson, George MAJORITY-NOES, 54. Archdall, Captain Galway, Viscount Pakington, Sir J. Bankes, G. Geach, Charles Renton, John C. Bell, Jacob Graham, Sir James Smollett, A. Beresford, William Grogan, Edward Spooner, B. Blair, Stephen Hamilton, Geo. A. Stafford, Augustus Bridges, Sir B. Hamilton, Lord C. Stanford, J. F. Brotherton, J. Heneage, G. IL Stanley, Lord Bruce, C. L' C. Henley, J. W. Teunent, Sir J. Butt, Isaac Hope, Sir J. Thesiger, Sir F. Chandos, Marquis of Jolliffe, Sir W. H. Thompson, Colonel Cobbold, J. C. Jones, Captain Trollope, Sir J. Cocks, T. S. Knox, W. S. Tyler, Sir G. Davies, D. A. S. Langton, W. H. P. Walpole, S. IL Disraeli, B. Lennox, Lord H. G. Whiteside, James Duncan, George Lockhart, W. Wood, Sir W. P. Dunne, Colonel Mandeville, Vis. Yorke, E. T. Edwards, Henry Manners, Lord J. TILLERS. Forester, Colonel Mundy, William Adderley, C. B. Freshtleld, J. W. Naas, Lord Deedes, W. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, THURSDAY.—The Sprightly port steam tender, Master-Commander G. Allen, sails to-morrow morning for Plymouth, with supernumeraries to join the Imaum and ships on the West India station, who go by the Buzzard steam-sloop. The Basilisk steam-sloop, Commander Egerton, has been undocked to-day. The Edinburgh, 58, steam-gunnery-ship, Captain Hewlett, has completed coals, and hauled alongside her hulk to receive her crew. The Dragon, 6, steam•frigate, Captain Gifford, has removed her powder and shells, and waits orders at Spit head, with the Gladiator. The Porcupine steam-vessel, Lieut.-Commander Jack son, sailed from Spithead to-day for the Isle of Man. The Encounter, 14, screw-steam-corvette, Captain Gordon, hauled out of dock to the fitting basin this afternoon. Wind, S.W.; fresh breezes and cloudy, with rain. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, JUNE 3.—Captain Sidney C. Dacres (1840), commanding the Leander, 50, at Davenport, is appointed to command the San mission 1, screw steam ship of 350. horse power, cod this day at Devonport. Captain George St. Vincent King (1841) to command the Leander, vice Dacres. u Commaner Lois S. Tindal (18410 study steam at the fact d ory at Woolwich Dockyard) t o , ce Seymour, passed. Seaond-Master John P. Dillon (1848), frm the Areat - th ose , 50, at Portsmouth, to the Fisgard, o flag-ship Woolwich. The Back Eagle steam-vessel Master-Commander Petley, returned to Woolwich this , fore no on, from Ports mouth. The Avon steam-vessel is to be taken out of the west or King William IV.'s Dock to-morrow, and the Driver steam•sloop will be taken into the dock during the same tide. The Triton steam,vessel, Lieutenant-Commander Lloyd, is on the river side of the wharf wall of the basin under the shears, having her rigging put up, being under orders to proceed to the Mediterranean, to serve as e a mail -packet on that station. 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Her Majesty and bis Royal Highness Prince Albert arrived from Buckingham Palace, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and escorted by a detachment of the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was pre sent, attended by Lord William Paulet. His Highness Prince Vere Raj under attended the Drawing-room. Major Drummond and three of the Prince's suite were in attendance on his Highness. Her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at- Arms was on duty in the State rooms, under the com mand of Major Harmar, the Standard-bearer of the corps. The Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard was on duty in the Palace, under the command of Capt. Phibbs, the Ezon in Waiting. A Guard of Honour of the Ist Life Guards, with the band of the regiment, was on duty in the large court of the Palace The Queen and Prince Albert were attended by the Mistress of the Robes, the Marchioness of Ely (in waiting), the Countess of Gainsborough, the Viscoun tess Canning, the Marchioness of Douro, and the Countess of Desart, the Ladies of the Bedchamber; the Hon. Amelia Murray (in waiting), the Hon. Lucy Kerr (in waiting), the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Ma tilda Paget, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, and the Hon. Mary Seymour, Maids of Honour; Lady Charlotte Cop ley, the Hon. Mrs. Geo. Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. E. Anson, and the Hon. Mrs. Trevor, Women of the Bed chamber; the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Groom of the Stole to the Prince, the Vice Chamberlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the Household, Viscount Galway, Lord in Waiting; Lord George Lennox, Lord in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse; Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to his Royal Highness; Major• General Berkeley Drum mond, Groom in Writing ; Colonel Wylde, Groom in Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Major-General Buckley, Equerry in Waiting; Colonel Bouverie, Equerry to his Royal Highness; Mr. Henry Farqu harson and Mr. George Gordon Macpherson, Pages of Honour in Waiting. The Queen wore a train of blue silk, brocaded in sil ver, of English manufacture, trimmed with silver blonde and white tulle. The petticoat was of white satin, covered with white tulle, and trimmed with bows of white satin ribbon, and blue and silver ribbons. Her Majesty's head-dress was formed of diamonds and feathers. The Foreign Ministers were introduced, when the fol lowing presentations to her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert took place in the diplomatic circle:— By her Excellency Madame Walewski—Madame la Duchesse de Vaimp et sa fide, Madame do Caux. By his Excellency the Ambassador of France—M. to Comte de Lauriston, Attach 4 I l'Ambassade. By the Prussian Minister—Prince Rodolph de Croy, eldest son of his Highness Prince Croy of Westphalia; Baron de Wartenberg, Baron do Schweinitz. By the Brazilian Minister—The Chevalier da Silva Maya, Attache a la Legation Imperiale. By the Sicilian Minister—Cavalicre Nicola Cimino de Valengano, Conte di Caltanissetta. The diplomatic circle was numerously attended. In the general circle the following ladies had the honour of being presented to her Majesty:— Miss Sophia Abercromby, by her mother, Lady Abet cromby. Lady Anderson, by Lady Charlotte Copley. Miss Anderson, by her mother, Lady Anderson. Mrs. Barkly, on her return from British Guiana, by Lady Pakington. Mrs. Middleton Berry, on her marriage, by Lady Loving°. Mrs. John Bisset, by Lady Radatock. Lady Blackett, by the Duchess of Northumberland. Mrs. Blakiston, by Lady Wade. Miss Anne Blakiston, by her mother, Mrs. Blakiston. Mrs. Edward Bode, by the Marchioness of Salisbury. Mrs. Bold, on her marriage, by Lady Morgan (of Tredegar). Lady Bonham, by Viscountess Jocelyn. Miss Bouchier, by the Duchess of Richmond. Mrs. Brise Ruggles Brise, by her mother, the Dowager Lady Bowyer Smith. Mrs. Arthur Brooke, on her marriage, by the Countess of Meath. Mrs. Bruce, by the Countess of Fortescue. Miss Cecilia Balkeley, by her mother, Mrs. Bulkeley. Mrs. Bulwer, by the Hon. Lady Bulwer. Miss Bulwer, by her mother, Mrs. Bulwer. Miss Alicia Banbury, by her mother, Mrs. Hugh Mill Banbury. Mrs. Burdon, by the Daucchehessss of ff Northumberland. Mrs. Burdon, by the D Mrs. Chamberlayne, by the Duchess of St. Alban's. by her mother, m M r r s s . . J C . h w ris a t i y ro , nbdycVlairsckoer on n tes h s N erm ew ar p r o i r a t ie, Lady Clay. Miss Isabella Baker Cresswell, by Mrs. Cadogan. Miss Croxton, by her sister, Mrs. George Paris Brad- sli 6 s h a a G w e e' rtrude s o is f t w er, es A t i m rs in lit te m r. . Foster. Miss Drax, by tChnenli ff Marchioness ebyher Miss Sarah Drax, by the Marchioness of Westminster. Miss Drew, by her mother, Mrs. Drew. Miss Emily Dutton, by her aunt, the Hog, Mrs. Ralph Dutton. Miss Rosa Elers, by her mother, Mrs. Geo rge El ers. Mrs. Evans, by the Marchioness of Ely. Miss Marianne Evans, by the Duchess of Norfolk. Mrs. Fay, of the United States, by Mrs. Abbott Lawrence. Miss Fay, of the United States, by Mrs. Abbott Lawrence. Mrs. William Foster, on her marriage, by the Countess of Meath. Lady Fox, by Mrs..Strutt. Lady Katherine Evans Freke, on her marriage, by the Countess of Longford. Lady Gladstone, by her mother, Mrs. Fello wes , Lady Constance Grosvenor,by the Marchioness of Westminster. Miss Hall, by Lady Thesiger. Lady Head, by Lady Pakington. Mrs. Howell, by the Countess of Egmont. Miss Julia Jolliffe, by Lady Jolliffe. Mrs. Kerr, by Mrs. Milner Gibson. Miss Leighton and Miss Isabella Leighton, by their mother, Lady Leighton. Mrs. Henry Constable Maxwell, by Viscountess Galway. Miss Middleton, by Mrs. Henry Constable Maxwell. Miss Frances Middl e t on , b y Mrs. Henry Constable Maxwell. Miss Milbank, by her mother, Lady Augusta Milbank. Mrs. Patrick Montgomerie, by the Hon. Mrs. Henry Baillie. Mis Fanny Morgan, by her mother, Lady Morgan. Mrs. Ric Iph. hard Oliver, o n h er marriage, by Mrs. Charles Rando Miss Charlotte Pare, by her mother, the Hon. Mrs. Par! Hon. Mrs. Josc e li ne Percy, by the Duchess of Nor thumberland. iss Annette Plowden, by her mother, Mrs. Cbicheley Plowden. Miss Chandos Miss Eleanor Chandos Pole , by M r s. Cbandos Pole. Mips Arabella Pr . P ole, by her mother , Mrs. Chandos Pole. Yatmon. Mrs. Richardson, etSman, by her s Mrs. Legh Richmond, by Lady Augusta Milbank. sister, Mrs. Hamilton Lady Rowley, by hassett. by her cousin, rs. The Hon. Ernestine Willbagton Sidney, by her aunt, Lady Augusta Gordon. the Hon. Mrs. Charles Rowley. Mrs. Arthur Smith, by Mrs. Milner Gibson \ 'l, .• , NJ I an ou h n e tre:aorfrißa Mrs. William Spek t e h , e Mi c s Tg i r t s; i s ec f m E , Ely. The Hon. Miss Agnes Stonor. by her niot - ber, 141 Camoys. Miss Louisa Style, by Lady Morgan. Mrs. Edward Thackwell, on her marriage., by the Dow.; ager Lady Talbot de Malahide.' Mrs. Tbistlethwayte, by her mother, the Hon. Lady Pakenham. Miss Fraser Tytkr, by the Duchess of Atholl. Mrs. Patr:ek Fraser Tytler, by the Duchess of Atholl. Hon. Mrs. Vereker, by her mother, Viscountess Gage. Mrs. Charles Whatman nee Baroness Harriet de Raigers feld, by Mrs. Whatman- Lady William Wynne, on her marriage, by the Countess Of Powis. Mrs. Hamilton Yatman, on her marriage, by Lady Sophia Towers. Miss Haworth, by Mrs. William Chicheley Plowd,sn. Miss Emily O'Conor, by Mrs. Balkeley. The Field Officer in Waiting had an audience of .the Queen. tier h aTe e a st l Y ter the p and dPrirnacwie nDrawing-room. Albert ro re turned to Ba e d:ic Palace LADIES' DRESSES. HER MAJESTY. Train of blue silk, brocaded in silver, of Englist manufacture, trimmed with silver blonde and white tulle; petticoat of white satin, covered with white tulle, and trimmed with bows of white satin ribbon, and blue and silver ribbons. Head=dress, diamonds and feathers. DUCJIESS OF NORTH CTNBERLAND,--TraiD of rich white damask, trimmed with Honiton lace and bouquets of apple blossom; petticoat, tulle over white glace silk trimmed with a wreath of apple blossom. Ilead-drisa, feathers, Honiton lace lappets, tiara of diamonds; orna ments, diamonds and emeralds. DUCHESS OF NORFOLK.—Emerald green Gothic moire train, lined with peach glace, and trimmed with guipure lace; peach Gothic moire petticoat flounced wit ti Irish guipure lace. Head-dress, feathers and lace lappets; ornaments, emeralds and diamonds. LADY JOLLIFE.--W hi te Gothic moire train, with glace and trimmed with point lace and black sod . white ribbon ; w hit e crape petticoat over glace, with' flounce of lace, and trimmed with black and white rib bon. Head-dress, feathers and lace lappets; ornaments, dia monds. gla L ce A D a v nd G t x. r it m D na sT e o dNwEi glace, trimmed w i th ribbon. Head-dress, feathers anti tulle lappets, j e t ornaments. t LADY CAROY S.— Train of rich pink and white damask h —Blacktu ll e ; Gothicbla black tulle moire,pe tto linedat s withovt_ silk, ornamented with ruche and ribbon ; corsage trimmed with blonde; petticoat of rich white moire an tique, ornamented with ribbon. Head-dress, blonde lappe:s and feather s; ornaments, turquoise and diamonds. HUN. MRS. JOCELINE PErter.--Vtolet Gothic moire train, lined with glace and trimmed with blonde; maize petticoat, trimmed with blonde and satin ribbon. Head dress, feathers and blonde lappets; diamond ornaments. HON. MRS. HENRY BAILLIE.-- Grey Gothic moire train, lined with white glace and trimmed with point lace; grey crape petticoat, over glace trimmed with gauze ribbon and cerise and pink roses. Head-dress, feathers and lace lappets; ornaments, diamonds. HON. MRS. NORTON.—Fawn silk train brocaded in colours, lined and turned back, with dark blue glace, and trimmed with tulle and plaitings of satin ribbon; blue tulle petticoat over glace, with full trimming of tulle, and tunic trimmed with plaitings of satin ribbon. Head-dress, feathers and lace lappets; sapphire orna ments. MRS. JOHN ABEL SMITH.—Corn-flower blue reps with train, lined with glace, and trimmed with guipure lase of grey Gothic moire; petticoat trimmed with gui pure lace, and bouquets of corn flowers and paquerettes. Head-dress, feathers and lace lappets; ornaments, dia monds. HON. FLORA MecDosALD.—Manteau of rich black gros d'Affrique; berthe of jet and lace; petticoat of black glace, with three tulle skirts, trimmed with lace and ruches of satin ribbon; the tunic elegantly looped with bows of satin ribbon, and jet ornaments. Miss BURDETT COllTTS.—Costume de tour, composed of a train of white and gold brocade, trimmed with gold and white ribbons and bouquets of variegated leaves and gold flowers; corsage to correspond, with rich gold lace and stomacher of diamonds; skirts of green crape over green satin, trimmed with flounces and trimmings of gold, chatelaine and bouquet of variegated leaves and gold flowers, with agraffe of diamonds. Coiffure of oa• trich feathers, gold blonde lappets, and diamonds. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM. A special meeting of this company was held at Shrews bury yesterday to sanction or otherwise a Bill for the amalgamation and consolidation of the Shrewsbury and Birmingham and Chester and Shrewsbury and Great Western Railways, and on other matters; the Hon. R. 11. Clive in the chair. Mr. ROY read the heads of the Bill for the amalgama tion of the Shrewsbury with the Great Western and Shrewsbury and Chester Railways. The CHAIRMAN then moved that the Bill be approved. Mr. BILL seconded the motion. Mr. NORRIS suggested that the directors be ern powered to agree to auy alteration s w hi c h m i g h t b e pro posed during the progress of the Bill through the House of Lords; and he moved an amendment to that effect. Mr. KNOX seconded the amendment. Mr. GEACH, M.P., said the shareholders never had had lair play at the hands of the directors, who used the machinery under their control to serve their own ends. Nothing had ever been done more calculated to damage railway property than their conduct. He de nounced the competition with the London and North- Western Company as the most injurious course which the Shrewsbury Company could take. It was not an unnatural apprehension for the proprietors to entertain, that when a settlement of the disputes between the great companies should take place the Shrewsbury Company might be left unprotected; but he had made it his business to inquire into the matter, and was at liberty to state, that when such a settlement should take place the for throwing basis would be on the part of the London and North- Western to give the Shrewsbury proprietors the option of a 4 per cent. guarantee. Rai l way shareholders were unquestionably greatly indebted to Lord Wharncliffe a shield of protection over their pro perty; and he (Mr. Geach) contended that the very best thing they could do that day would be to do nothing at all. Mr. SCOTT then proceeded to condemn an amalgama tion with the Great Western . Company, and said there was no necessity for it at this time. He would not con sent to an amalgamation with a n y com p an y which would not give him four per cent. for his money. A long discussion ensued, in which Messrs. Knox, Boyle, and Cheshire took part, as to the merits and th e demerits of the agreement with the North-Western Cor e . puny; • a n d ultimately a vote was taken upon the amend ment by a show of hands. The amendment was carried by a great majority. Mr. HODGSON then demanded a poll. An angry discussion followed, and ultimately Mr. Beale, on the part of the shareholders, and Mr. Roy, on the part of the directors, were appointed scrutineers' 10,855;the amendment, total votes f I ' 3a9; The state of the poll at its conclnsion last night * Was for tha amendment or amalgamation of this company' with the Great Western and Shrewsbury an d Chester C o mpanies:—Persons present, 141; votes, proxies, 1,230; or the amend votes, 747; proxies, 631; votes, 6,272 persons, 36; against the amendment, 7,019 votes, Against 7,019; majority total votes resent, 12,194. the amendment, 5,175. The • in favour of scrutineers that 571 votes had been received re also found above in favour of amendmentaddition to the belonging to the meancopy standi in respect of shares directors as trustees for the co ng in the names of three little more than three-fifths in I pany- There was than lion Bill; the amendment avour of the Amalgams four-fifths not being obta. was therefore considered lost, inn compliance with th 1"d; The other Bills retiair same fate. 0 VC harncliffe order shared the E 5TR?::.1.1:7 AY SHARE MARKETS' morning, but a llAll fterAt . d; LIVERPOOL, JUNE 3. only transactions reported were—Blackburn (late B l g % ' and W. Y.), Preference, 6 per cent., 21—Caledonian, (Railway and Canal), P retri asi nc e e, u gu E a s r T an E t ß ee , d A N Pe ir r London and N orth - Western 122%—St. Helen's Tdhecelisnheadr,eanmdarkcelotsoedpenheedavbiettly.er Tthiiii, ,I v was "el') " 31 STocx EXCHLNGE. The business to-day The only transactions reported were — s hire, Preference, In 9 IMancheater, Sheffield, and Lino , Dover, 20 3 h—North 13 X—Alidland, 68—South-Eastern and , ,_ Eastern Cousities, Riding, 4, s al6. 3 c . ent. and div., ,,._, 1 ted 71 . . Staffordshire, 6 1 / 2 dis.—W"t --........ j u li A a N 3 0 T_ vi c v , It FATAL COLLIERYACCIDaccEiNdeTn.t7BwhIiiIcShTOwL: same regret to say was attended with fatal results, , occurred at the ge sacrifice of human life, happened colliery known as " the Starveall pit,' situated at Kings wood,3.—Yesterdaycollieryaccident about six miles distant from this City. Thi s is the d p e i d t where, i it la w r ill be remembered, a dreadful accident, somewhere about nine gi th o a n t th t s he a p g r o t:T . en E t we have made it appears took place while one of" the carts, or buckets, in which the miners are in the w habit of bei4 lowered down to and as c ending from their ork, was being " lifted." A man being raised up the shaft, when from named Bryant w as be some neglect owing to the " bonnet" or shield not having been fixed, as is the rule when men are coming up or going after he had ascended only a few feet from the bottom large piece of stone fell from above, and in its o t down, s sha f t a descent struck him with great force, killing him on the spot. circular umbrella -shaped shield made ofT ihreon",baorindn,ebteitifsg p a laced over the heads of the men, is designed to protect them from such casualties as tehxiPs.ressSitYones, earth, &c., are continually falling from the sides and framework of the pit, and the precaution of using t he ~ bonnet" ought never to be neglected. The deceased was 54 years of age, and has left behind him a numerous fam ily; most of them, however, are grown up. Informa tion has been forwarded to the coroner of the lower division of the county of Gloucester institutesin whoe district the pit is situ ated, and no doubt he will a rigid inquiry into the matter. ACCIDENT TO took place a t t Wormwood-scrubs, Th O ich n the inspection o f in presence of Prince Albert a n d t h e Dukes of Wellington and Cambridge , the horse of C o l onel HOehold COLONEL Cavalry,l WOOD .—On OoD . Thomas Wood, son of the ex-Member for Middlesex, reared and threw its rider, afterwards falling upon him. Colonel Wood was taken up insensible. When the accident became known to the distinguished personages on the field, the Duke immediately terminated the inspection, and ordered the reFi ments home. Prince Albert ha v i ng more particularly In formed himself of the state of the sufferer, gave orders that his carriage might be placed at the disposal of the surgeon in attendance for the conveyance of the patient to his home, and himself returned to town on horseback. Upon being placed in the carriage, C o l onel Wood recovered his conscious ness, and complained o f pa i ns in his head. He is still suffer ing severely from th e i njury received, is not in danger. but it is hoped his life