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_ MORNING EDITION. Mr. HOPE przsent , :d a petition from a place in Gloucestershire In favour of Church Extension. Mr. PALMER gave notice that, in Committee on the Poor-lew Bill, he would move the omission of clawe 33. Sir T. FREMANTLE moved that a writ should issue for the election of a Knight of the Shire for the county of Antrim, in the room of the Hon. John O'Neill, now Earl O'Neill. COPYRIGHT DESIGNS BILL. Mr. E. TENNENT hoped the Noble Lord opposite (Lord J. Russell) would have no objection to his moving the second reading of the Copyright Designs Bill, before the other orders of the day. Lord J. RUSSELL had no objection. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be ctmmitted en Wednesday next NEWFOUNDLAND. Mr.•PAKlNGTONsaiil;;;;l;tiood the Noble Lord opposite gave notice that he should to-night, on the order of the deg being read for going into Com mittee on the Poor-law Bill, move that that Bill take precelenee of all motions on to-morrow night. He (Mr. Pakington) found no such motion on the Orders of the Day, and therefore he would aok what was the course of proceeding which the Nold! Lord proposed to adopt ? He would remind the Noble Lord that he (Mr. Pakington) had given notice of a motion for the appointment of a Se'ect Committee, to inquiro into the state of the ooleny of Newfoundiend on to-morrow ; be would, therefore, Eel obliged by the Neli'e Lord's stating the course he intended to pursue in this matter. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he had given notice of a motion, that the Poor-law Bill should take preeedcnee of the notices of motion for to-morrow. It seemed to him a B:11 •of such importance—one of which the House ha 1 area ly discussed so many provisions—as also its ce:e.-.11 principle, that it was desirable they should go on with it in Committ re for as many fillet:CS^ ye flays as possible. W regoed to the motion of tl e Hon. G nt!eman, if he meant to discuss it, it wowed tier t linty put nitre (Lord J. Rassil )in a difficult situation wilh respect to the ns- t -it?elf, inependently of the Poor-law. He (Lord J. B.uisell) had not yet received sufliclent information on the suhjeet front the Governor of the et , lony of Newfourdland, and therefore arty st tte tsent thct he might inane on to-morrow would be ne cessarily iinoorre would, in feet, be inoonibie for him to ttate at present, as well as he could do in three or four weeks hence, the course which the Go vernmezt i..tnded to pursue. He trustcd the Hon. Gent'emcn would not seek to emb:rrass the Govem merit by pressing the consideration of his mAion. Mr. PAKING . TON repeated that he had no wish to embltrrass the Government, but, if the Noble Lord shoull - press his motion, he should divide the those on the subject.—( Herr, hear.) Lord STANLEY said the course the Noble Lord proposed to rake was one that bore very hardly upon indivirtval mernb?re.—(Hear, heir.) He was quite • awa:e the N•,oblg - Lord said last week that he wished to press no this 1311, but on all former ooc.:- sioas - ample notice had been given of the intention to take precedence. If ti e question was decided io this mac.nzr porsors who brought forward these motions would be placed in an unfavourdile or rather in an unfair position.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord had not play el on the votes of the House any notice upon this subject. The Noble Lord lii.d sated he wished to go into Committee of Inquiry, and if so he asked the Noble Lord, whether he thought, wh..n an Hor.. Member brought fo:w trd a motion for an inquiry into the whole state of the eslonies of the British-Empire, it-should be set aside without a si,ig'e doft, x, lanati n? He (Lo:d Soinley) did not think it light to ti.e House or to the cout.try, or that there was any reiion to justify such a curse. Lord JOHN RUSSELL sad he had co objection to the rppoittinent of a Committee, or ti go into the whole question when the matter was ripe for discussion. Bet he thought it would be most inconvenient end un:air to the parties concerned for the H,n. Genre nail to-bring forward a motion on that subject at a time when hirst.toments could not be met. auswei• to a que.tion by an HON. MEMBER, Mr. HAWES stste.il that-he did not intend to bring forward his Medical R:form 8.11, No. '2, until after Easter. - _ I Sir G. CLERK objected to the course propose I by the Government with respect to the order of proceed ing for to-morrow. It was a mot unusual proceeding. When it was first moved that even t:n Mondays and Filthy's the Government busilie,:s Should take the pre ced?nce of all oth,.:r business, it was Araogly objected to, as an inCringetnent of the undoubted privilege of the Lord J. RUSSELL believed the course which he had proposed was one which hal bees already pursued on speci it occasions with regard to important Bills be fore the House. He remembered that on one occasion the Hon. Member for Montgomery, w4hing, to move that the Orders of the Day should take precedence of motions, strongly advocated that view of the case. e 1 the Hon. Genthman opposite had not said that it was not proper in any case to teke the- course which had been proposed. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL complained that the Hon. Gentleman proposed to iutroduce his motion in the absence of sufficient information. He thought the Hon. Gentleman should adjourn it till he could obtain a full Howe and the subject be fairly discussed. Sir R. PEEL thought the question, whether or no bis Hen. Friend should proceed with his motion by a speech upon the state of Newfoundland, was quite dis tinct from that whether the House should supersede his notice by foregoing the order. It was, to say the least, a dacgerous precedent, and should only be resorted to in cases of strong necessity. A Government with a majority might at any time take that means of getting rid of ineonveniesA motions ; and the greater the majority, the more dangerous would be such a precedent. The Noble Lord bad better try and obtain the concurrence of Honourable Members whose names stood on the motion paper ; then there could not be any doubt upon the matter, but he did not think the House would be contented to etti blish a precedent so dangerous. With respect to Wednesday did the Noble Lord mean to super sede .11 the Orders that stood before the Poor-law Aniendno nt Bill ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL.—No. Sir ROBERT PEEL—So then an honourable Member who had charge of a Legiilativa Enactment was to have his day, but the Member who might have a motion of the utmost importance was to be stopped by an order of the House agreed to on a Monday, and without noCce. That was a motion that would e3tablish a most dangerous principle—one that would be more dangerous the stronger a Government wag, and he trusted his Hon. Friend would resist it by bringing on his motion at five o'clock, and pressing it. The Order of the Day for going into Committee on the Poor-law Amendment Bill was then read. On the question that the Speaker do leave the Chair, . POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. JOHN FIELDEN rose to move t h at i t be_ an i nstruct i on to the Comm:ttee to intro -54000 a clause repealing the Poor-law 'Amendment Act. (The Honourable Gentleman spoke in so low a tone of e v o o p ie pa e, it t i h o a n t b althou g h he addressed the House from tll se zia t ch near the table, it was impossib'e to hear a single and at times the noise occasioned of what he uttered, ne ed by Members con versingT h . Hon, was d together was so great voice altogether.) heris stood to condemn the Poor -11W posing burdens upon the country, in additio n to thc:s m e " sioned by the Corn-laws and the b a d state of theectia r rency. He also contended that the House ought not to delegate the power of making laws to any junta at - Somerset House, and that the Poor-laws, in ord er to become effectual, ought to harmonise with the feel , which the present laws did (as feel ings of su btjheectPwclsleOneto which trhees,eicltoutsheanoug:tbtth(::: we understood) to pay more the House was seemed wiling to do.— (Tile noise ' . so great at this time as to rendermthe Hon.Geillne e t m : ber quite inaudible in the gallery). The Hoe. . ,s man here proceeded to read extracts trout " Cobeett Legacy to Labourers," to show the relative proportions of the Poor-rates and Grit ermr erit taxes at different periods. In the year 1776 the Poor-rates amounted to one million nineteen thousand aid nip. ty-six pounds, the Government taxes to three in (The other extracts we were unable to catch.)—( :sear, hear.) Tie House ought to be emeriti how they tampered with the fe.l ngs of the English people. The people of England were the hest people on the face of the globe —the most honest and the most industrious and he knew of no one in society more deserving of sympathy than the honest able-bodied EngLsh labourer. Yet if he could not obtain labour, and asked for relief h e wAs seat to a prison. Was not that enough to make men violate the law ? Was it not enough to drive men to steal, when they saw their wives and little children perishing with hunger. If this inhu man law was continued Chartism would spread. If the House wished to suppress Chartism they must redecl the Poor-law Act. If facy did not re peal the Poor-law Act the Pcofile o f E ng l an d would yet one day be too strong . for Them. O ne argu ment which had lietu urged by the supporters of this atrocious law for ;t continuance was, th,t under its ad ministration tie rates had bccn reduced. It ti Cur rcal! ) , had been any redact:one of rates the people ha.t not derived any henefitefrom it, for it Ltd only numentea the rt nts of land i lerds. The Corn-laws were continued ; and a high,-rate tax-ttion was still continued, yet when the poor could not get labour or wages, they were told they 1111.1. q come into a prison . or die of Want. He repeated, as he had befo.e stated, that such a law was a disgrace to the nation. ' T B °Bliah people were no t deserving of such treatment , and the li ve year been presented against ui it must - be repealed. Petitions hal year after pe tition was again s t i t . The great Chartist d they listen to the prayers of the people? If they did ne insist upon i.s rep ea l, and theybecome b ;the English people would ought to do so. So dis gusted had the people ythe neglect with which their petitions hal bean treated sh a t numbers of the m de clared they would never petition the House again. The • Hon. Member concluded by moving that it he an instruc tion to the Committee to introduce a clause to repeal the Poor-law Amendment Act. General JOHNSON seconded the motion. He had no wish to recur to the old law, but he disapproved of the uneon stitutional power with which the Commissioners were invest ed. They had used coercion instead of conciliation. Ho ob jected to making poverty a crime, which was the case under the present law. He thought the bastardy clauses were provii)ns f,r seduction, and those clauses at all events ought to be revealed. With respect to the powers given to the Poor-law Commissioners, he thought it was impossible that the Commissioners could issue an order to meet all cases. In a manufacturing district, if a mill sopped, 500 people might be thrown upon the parish, for it was impossible that those who were subsisting upon a mere pittance could save anything for the day of adversity. There ought to be a power given to parties who were acquainted with the local circumstances, to afford such re l'ef as they thought proper. But objecting to tho Poor law Act as he did altogether, he should support the motion of hi; Hon. Friend. The SPEAKER then put the question, and strangers A etc immediately ordered to withdraw. The House divided, when there appeared— For the motion .......... Ag iinst it Majority rgainst the motion —l46 On our re.urn to the Gallery we found Mr. WAK LE Y referring to the medical clauses of the BLI, and Fa/ing that lt, had not the slightest de-ire of theta intru;i ig the subject upon the House, proviied be sh 'uld Lave an opportunity of doing so on a future occa sion. lie mai also unwilling to do so in the absence cf a Lcarncd Serjeant who bad paid great ctention to the subject, aid as it was one c f great importance he hoped that no technical rule would be interposed to prevent its being pro: rely dileuss Lord J. RUSSELL said he agreed in what his Hon. Friend had said on the impor ante of the subject. He should be very carry that it should come on Lt a late hour, or when the S, esker was in the chair, when it could not be brought for and with any good effect. He was quite rca 'y, and was desirous, when it was brought forward, that it should be fairly discussed. Mr. WA KL E Y was untierstool to sty, that such being the undwr3tanding of the Hoes-', be should citf,r the sub ject, but he hoped he should have a full attendance when ne brought it forwa-d. The Weir; then went into Committee. On cl cuss 6 Iy•ing propo(e - 1, Mr. W. .1 TTWOOD, is tl.c absence of Mr. J. Jane na:.v after !he x ords ", any f; e7ll rule," ta inFert the words " except rule*, (rder;, aad regulations relating t) r: lief ( r t 'ranee of the poor." . . . . Lord d. RUSSELL said . he proposed that the rulr► should b: ea ered on the iniautes of the Connis,ilaers, and ihty would then appear before Parliameut, as a mat t, r of course. _ _ lhe amendment was thrn withirawn, and the clause was ordered to stand port of the Bill. • • Oa clru.e 7 brit-g prop.)sed, Mr. TOWNLEY PARKER tad that he witio!d t.> move a prtv:so to t' - .e clause, bu - , io order to do so, it would be nec,ssary for him, in the first instance, to move tt.e disewsion of certain words in the clause. His opinion wap, that sufficient publicity uat not giv .n in the vatims uti.4ll; to the orchra and reel :zi9tl3 of the Poor-law Corn m4sioners. There were many unions in wh:ch the rules aid regulations of the Poor-law Commissioners did not meet the pubis e)e, aid were unknown eveo to the board of gaArttians, but were shut up is the drawers of the clerks of the union. It wits his intentiun to mote this ad. ditien to the clause—" Prt,vided al , ays, and be it enacted, that the Commis:i , r.ers shall he rtquired to publish elery order, rule, or rcgulation, which the said Commissioners shall issue after the passings f this Ac', before the same shall come into operation in any union at least twice in the puhlic newspapers circulated . wstain the locally of tie said union." That would Le a wholesome regulation, i. adove 1 ; and therefore in order that that proviso might be added, he leiged to notvz the omission of certain words in the clause. Lord J. RUSSELL thought it would not be -advisabl2 that the rules should be published in the newspapers. I, w ;old be vi•ry inconvznient to do so, ald would b.: very ex pensive. Colonrl SIR THORP was surpriFei that the Noble Lard shod oLj 7ct on the ground of expense. lie re r to say that there was a great deal of expense use le sly Intl c ed on tl e country—the salaries of the Noble Lord and Hon. Gentlemen opposite, for instance.— ( Laugl ter.) Ile theught it would be si.it'sfactory that publizity should be givzn to the orders of the Commis sioners, and be knew of no better channel through which it cou'd be made than the county newspaper. Mr. FOX :MULE thought the clause was one en tirely of a Emma e nature Suppose it should be desirable to relax a st-ingent rule by leaving out the words now pro posed to be left out, they would Le deprived of all power of relaxing the rule : and, if the advertisement in the county papers were insistei on, such relaxation could not take piece for fourteen days. Af er a fe.v words from Mr. T. EGERTON and M. GRIMSDITCH, Mr. T. PARKER withdrew his motion for the omis sion of the words. _ _ The clause was then egreel to, with some verbal amendment:, Mr. T. Parker having intimated 1.13 intec tbn of moving the proviso on the bringing up the clause. On the next claws, regulating certain proceedings in prosecutions, being proposed, Uri G. SOMERSET thought that in criminal pro c2cdings tLe clause might be fiund productive of incon venience. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL defended the clause. Mr. GORING and Mr. GItIMSDITCH objected to that part Lf the clause which applies to criminal pro ceedings. - The SOLICITOR-GENERAL 'defended the clause. Lord G, SOMERSET Paid he should take the sense of the Hou,e upou the omission of the words to which he bad objected. Sir C. GREY supported the clause. • After some further discussion, strangers were then ordered tl viithdraw, and the Committee divided, when there appeared— For the clause For the amendment 5B Majority _ _ Oa our return to the gallery we found Lord G. SOMERSET objecting to that pail of the clause which impose] costs upon the parties for disobeying the orders of tho Commissioners. He thought there abould be some prcviio with regard to the publicity of these orders in the first instance. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL thought there ought to be a discretion left in the Court as to cost!. Sir G. GREY thought the introduction of the words " if it shill seem fit," where the Court was empowered to award costs, would be the best way of meeting the objec tion of the Noble Lord opposite. Ali% J. JONES proposed to add in line sixteen after the word costs, the words "in any civil cute." The Hon. Member stated that his object in moving that amendment was that the provision might not apply to criminal cases. General JOHNSON said he did not think that civil cases were distinguishable from criminal ones. Mr. J. JONES thought that they were clearly distin guishable, and he would, therefore, press the amendment. After some discussion, in which Lord Granville Somer set, the "Attorney-General, Mr. Darby, and other Hon. Members took part, the House divided, when there ap rearcd— In favour of the amendment 64 Against it . B3 Majority against the amendment —24 On clause 9 being proposed a desultory convcr.ation, resfezt to its postponement, took place Letweep Captain Poeta, Mr. W. Duneombe, and Lord John Russell, when Mr. GRIMSDITCH said that the part of the clause which he proposed to strike out did not apply to the Gil bert unions. It was a part that involved a most important question. Lord J. RUSSELL wished to tell the Hon. Gentle men that they could not postpone a part of a clause—the whole clause should be postponed or none. Mr. GORING would propose the postponement of the clause till after Easter. It was important to know the time to which it would be postponed. Mr. GOULBURN:suggested the propriety of some day being fixed fcr the postponement of the clause, in order that Hor. Members might be prepared for the discussion ens to which the subject might give 'lir. Lreordd in J. its RUSSELL r e Itvhahtenthteheclisuesewgooultdobreoudgish la r o; e saidr. the Bill, Le imagined they would tate up the postponed clause s i n their order. the discussion on the present manse would come oni late Would give n ot i ce o f it: el.%the evenirg, he thought he being adjour ne d t o t h e succeed ing day. In reply to some observations from Mr. W. DUN- Lord J. RUSSELL said gone through by Frain night, if the 8111 s h o uld n o t b e pith the remainder o f ? I t. till n al he rid not mean to go ot . ter Easter. The clause was then postponed. Oa clause 10 being proposed, Colonel WOOD moved the inse • s nout es is which county tunat • talon of the w or d s , "I n lunatic asylums b blished for the recepion of pauper lunatics."ave been eats- Mr. C. WYNN objected to the clause, of its confounding schools for the p ,or w , t o ti r , t l t u he ground lums. It was very important that 1 ,; ...trat..e lunatic asylumsa-sy should be establahed in different parts of the c ountry b ut . s tead of mixing up the two objects, a separate Bill shouldn be introduced, containing, coercive powers for the purp ose of establishing them. The two questions, however, should be kept quite separate. Lotd JOHN it IJSSELL said the reason for iatrodue_ leg this provision was the very inefficient state of the law aHi reai ect to such asylums. There were many persons placed in workhouses who were not provided with adequate medical attendance. He would have no objection to sup. port a Bi l which would improve the present system, and with this view the Noble Ltrd said he would move that the words " insane or" be omitted. Lord ASHLEY thought the subject of great import ance Th-te had been great defects under the present system. Muth had been done in the t eighbourbood of the metropolis to remove the evils sshich bad prtvailed ; and he hoped the Noble Lord and the House would direct their attention to the subject, with a view to extend these benefits to all parts of the country. Mr. E. BUL I.4ER said there was a large class c f per. sons nho were very ill provided for. He trusted that some provition would be soon made for the it benefit. Lord GRANVILLE, SOMERSET hoped that Bill would shortly be introduced ; and that tho Noble Lord would not fqrget his promise. The omission was then agreed to. Mr. 13. WOOD moved in line 4, after tho word "fit," to add, " with th e consent o f a ma j or i ty o f each b oard cf guardians of such unions." Lord JOHN RUSSELL objected to the amendment, and was of opinion that the pr.viso which he had intro duced would be su ffi c i en t to prevent any abuac of the power given by the clause. Mr. HODGES supported the amendment. Mr; GROTE wished it was true that the guardians of the poor took proper care of the education of the children. He wished it were possible for therm to do so. They could not in the workhouse of a poor parish, when there were but twenty or thirty children, procure for them such tre.in ing as was provided, for instance, in the normal school at Norwood. Ile hoped the House would do' nothing to modify the clause or to render it ineffective. Believing that the object of the clause was to secure the best possible training for pauper children, he hoped it would be agreed to without•anysubstantial alteration. Catholic parents, objected to have his or their children educated in the doctrines of the Establ'shed Church, that objection ought to be scrupulously deferred to.—( Hear► hear.) Ho had been speaking of the children of con victs ; when he had been misunderstood by the Hon. Gen tleman he had been speaking on the subject generally, and bad not, perhaps, sufficiently guarded himself. He always had contended that whenever the natural guardians of a child objected to its beng instructed in the religion of the State that objection ought scrupulously to be deferred to. They had no right to force on any child a religion objected to by its parents.—( Cheers.) Mr. LANGDALE was rejoiced to hear the explana ti en of the Right Hon. Baronet. From his known tole tent principles, he had thought that be must have mis undertteod what had previously fallen from him. Mr. M UNTZ said that the Right Hon. Baronet had not said whether children, so situated as he had described, were to have any religious instruction in their own faith, or whether they were to be deprived of it altogether. Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House then divideJ— Mr. GRAHAM thought that the arguments drawn from the school at Norwood, is which the children of the metropolitan poor were receive t, could not apply to the agricultural districts, with which he was best a.:quainted, He thought that the effect of the clause as it stood would be most injurious. He felt the greatest difficulty in con senting to a compulsory power of removing the children from their own parish to distant schools, in which hey would he separated for years, if not for ever, from all local attachments and associations. He fe't the greatest objec tion to the proposed arrangement, but he did not intend to enforce his views by any substantive proposition, or (as we understood) by voting for the amendment. Mr. HAWES said there were 50,000 children scattered about in the neighbourhood of the metropolis without any means of education. Since the establishment of the school at Norwood numerous applications Lad been made to ob tain the services of children who before could procure no employment. Ths. children in that establishment readily found respectable persons to take charge of them. The Hon. Member complained that no adequate provision had b.ea male for the education of pauper children. Colonel WOOD said that if the Hon. Gentleman's statement was comet, the Poor-law Comn-,i:sioeers had been very neglectf u l of thei r duty. A very I.rge sum of money had been expeodeJ fir that purpose. —( Hear, h. ar. ) He thought that if they colt wed tee children in greet numbers is rural eistriete, they would break up connexio is which would be extremely useful to them in af.er life He thought the provition would have a very p.r..1 ions tendency, and, he would, therefore, give it nis best oppo.. shim?. For the amendment 172 Against it lOB Majoiity -64 On cur re-admitsim to the gallery we found L'rd GRANVILLE SOMERSET On his legs pro posing his amendment that in clause 10, line 5, after the words " infant poor" there shouid be insertel the word. " who shall be orphans, or who shall be deserted by thei, parents, or whose parents or guardians shall be assenting thcrete." Lord J. RUSSELL did not object to the amendment. The amendment was rgrend to. Several verbal amendments were made in the Mr. BRUGES proposed that in clause 10,Page5 - ,lir.e 39, after tht word •1 aforesAl" to insert the toliowing : " Provided elan that such pricc'pl sum rr sutra to to raised fur the purpose of prosi i.:g any such building or builnings as afr.r.lsaid, and all itit - 7rest thereon, shall 1c raised by a vhc.aai poor-rare to be made en the sereral parishei or ualunc., so united, es aft , : e _ said ; ar.d that it shall be lawful for every te nant frsim year to year, lia3iog such special rate, to deduct and detain out of the rent pa}able to his or her landlord, f:r the premises in respect of-which such special rate is payable, the full amount of such special rate so paid in respect cf the same premise , and every such ten-ant shall to and is Le:eby acquitted and discbarged of end front payrre of so much rent as such special ta.e so paid as afoiesaid shall amount to." • Sir FL VIVIAN said. from all he knew of t'se rural districts, he was of (Older, that the clause would operate very beneficially. In the ueien of which he was chair man ho had seen a partial application of she principle, and the result of his experience was that it was highly advae tee:sous ee poor. 'Lord STANLEY said the motion of the Hon. Mem ber for Eouthwark was to require the conseat cf ErUardialiS to the ineitution of certain e eablis , iments. As the clause originally stood, it included the infirm, the in sane, and tile infant. The word infirm bar been ex plained not to mean the aged, and the word insane t,al been struck out. The word infant only here left to be considere His Hon. Friend behind him had very justly stated, that under this system cennexions of great importance in their kfter life would be broken up. His Hen. Friend, howeses, had omitted to.notice another ( - djection, namely, that it was compulsory. The advan tage d r'ved from education, hoe ever great, was counter balanced by the eircarnstaece that the children's natural affecions were net eultive'e I. He willingly admitted the statement of the Hon. Gentlemen as to the street which Had been produced upon 'he et i!dren at Norwood. He would give to the Commieiioners paver to deal with chil dren who had no parents c,r n- tura' protectors, but he would not consact to an indiscriminate application of such a ptinciple. He,could never agree thet ilkgitimate chil dren had an equal claim upon the State with the children of virtuous parents, who had been unavoidably reduce to poverty. His Hon. Frlead the Member for Kilmarnock had g . vca notice c5l a clause presiding that a cle:grnan of the Church of England should be attached to these schools. They were about to place these children under the pro t .ction of the State, and it was right tint they shoukt be educated in the religion of the State.—( Hear, hesr.) Geri forbid that be should object to receiving the ch lJrcn of Dissenters into those schools, or to allowing them to receive all the he refits cf the system ; but he contended that all tl-e children should to pl.rced under the control of a miaister or the Establi.hed Courch. With t ere rest. i noes iuyd alteraliJaF, he should support the situ e. Lord JO tiN RUSSELL said, whatever ameedments he might be disposed to introdue!, he could not allow thct when paupers asked to 'be maintained at the public ex penc e that they would refuse to the State the power cf giving them a good and reigious education. H.: was borne out in this determinatien by the condition of the poor at the time t...ey had bee taken ieto unions. Hear, hear.) The Noflo Lord then read a statement of the former condition cf the poor in the Isle of Thanet and in the Union of Chalc. The poor had ea right to refuse to the State the power of making them Christrens. He could not see how it was possible reasonably to object to that view. The objection that the children were taken from their parent., and had no opportunity of cult'vating natural ties, was a very plausib'e objection; but he thought the society which the children met with its such placer was not such as would be likely to improve the morals of the children.—( Hear, hear.) With respect to the mrtion of the Hoe. Member for Kilmarnock, he (Le:el J. Russell) would think it an advantage that a clergyman should be established. But al objection had already been raised on account of the burdens imposed by the erection of chapels in connection with the we rkhouses. Wherever there was a board of guardians composed partly of Dissentsrs, any additional burdens would meet with great opposition. lie coul i not, therefore, agree to that proposition, netwith withraeding the benefit which it might he the means of conferring. Mr. GOULBUttN wished to know whether any plan could be adopted by means c,f which, in small dtstrivti, clergymen could be allowed to attend to the childrea is the workhouses,. Mr. LAW HODGES hope:! tie House would ag.c. to the aTt2ndinent, and that hii Hol. Friend would pres: is to a div Lion. Lard JOIN RUSSELL said th t the amendrne ;; would g> to put the entire rate upon the landlords. He would it vg.4est thw the•amendment should be so framed as to subj,et the landlords to may Lalf the rate. The su t .. , g •stiou t f the Noble Lord evxs then agreed to. After a t”a , words from CO LQUHOUN and Lord J. RUSSELL, on the subject of a prop( tot amendme.t by the Hoe. Ger.ticman (M-. Colquhoun), the Home re sumed. The Chairman reported irogress, and obtained Lave to sit main. In ans , er to a gaettion from an HoN..• MEMBER, Lord J. RUSSELL tad he did not mean to prove ay precedence of eke all b.-fore the other orde..s of :h1 day on to. morrow (this evenieg) after halt.pa , t eight o'clock. COURT OF CHANCERY (IRELAND.) _ Mr. PIGOT e- - rve to bring in a 1311 t.) further pro‘i,i,,n in relation to certain Officers in the Cwt of Chancery in Irelind. (Mond PERCEVAL would oppose the introduction of 11E! BP, if it were intended to tress f:c. sr cand leading Mire Eta c*. It ought to be printed and circulated iu Irela before it uai pressed forward through the House. Sir ROBERT INGLIS objected to t Lei g brought in in the present state of the House. Mr. PIGOT would not pledge himself nut to mcv.! the second reading until after Easter, ha it en the motion for the second reading it should Le desired to postpone the discussion, he should not ot)je.,t to the puttoonemero. Cvlanel PERCEVAL on that understanding would not oppose the motion. Leave was then given to h:ing in the Bill. Mr. BARRY BALD WIN motel fx. " a Return spr c:fying the names f all the guardians elected under tle Poor-law Act, of the several unions which have been t ste blishe l under the said Act, up to the present time ; the }ears its xhich they were elected ; and stating the pro fession, trade, or calling (if any) of such guardians re spectively." Sir R. INGLIS vrishel to know what could le the ob jeet cf such returns. Mr. B. BALDWIN wishel to show that the guardians were so respect able that they did nt,t need the superintend ence of the Comnaissioi.ers. Mr. HA IVES could nct see how the return woull fur nish any information on the subject. Mr. FOX MAULE did not oppose the motion, be cause ha was anxi .us to furnish every informtion relative to the Poor-lar. The ruction was agreed to. Col 'Bel SIBTHO RP moved for returns relative to the cases of Rebecca Moore, deceased, and of the child cf Peter Ricke:s, also dec.a3ed, in the Poole Unioc. The case was one of great cruelty and ought tl be known. Mr. FOX MAULE opposed the motion. Ttie case was at present under inquiry, and until those inquiries were terminate 3, he could not consent to the production of the pape:s. Colonel S I ITT 11 0R P was about to enter into a state ment is support of l i 3 motion, when Lord J. RUSSELL was understood to object to any such plan. Mr. COL QUHOUN agreed that central schools would be a source of great benefit, but it appearel from the Reports of the Commissioners, that Dr. Kay bad given his testimony in favour of placing the children under the superintendence of a clergyman of the Church of England. Mr. SL A NE Y rose amidst loud cries of " Oh." He said there could be no doubt of the immense importance of the subject. These children were and would be often the offspring of guilt and crime; yet no fault attached to them, therefore, even if it was a question of expense, it was their duty to incur it. But he would be able to pi-ire that by being liberal in their education, tl , ey would, in fact, be saving the money of the nation, for those poor infants who were in darkness, would be brought to light, and prevented from cosiieg the country expense for their punishment as criminals. In unions there were not enough of children to provide a good schoolmaster—the. guardians would not go to the expense. Besides, iu the union workhouse, there was an impossibility of giving them that industrial education which would make them such servants as masters and mistresses desired to have. In proof of the old system having been a failure, in the unions of Norfo:k and Suffolk, the cost of giving premiums along with niece poor children was 40.0001., and the masters were of a low character and de scription, who, in place of tak no them with the intention of taking care df them, their only object was to get qui: of them as soon as possible in order to enjoy the premium. Even then, on the score of economy, they ought to adopt the new system, for the children had been so much im proved in both morals and bodily health, that masters and mistresses were anxious now to take them at thirteen 'cars of age without anypremium —( Loud cries of " Diviclo.") Sir R. PEEL after reading the vary int 'resting Report on the training of pauper children, had come to the opinion that by congeeg sting children in large numbers, they took the only means of afferding them a good and useful education.—(Cheers.) At the same time he Was of opinion that, as they would make the children the children of the State--chile the State had a State reli gion, they were bound to afford the children a religious education accordiag to the principle s a d opte d b y t h e gtate. —( Hear, hear.) The evi fence of Dr. Kaye, as well as the injunc:ions given t o the Chaplain at Norwood, folly proved the re:essity of giving children a religious edueas lion it' they wanted their education to prove of any use to them. Still these were the general principles—there were and might be many cases where great injury might be done, and gross violation of filial affection be done by a strict adherence to the general rule. Take tb.e case of a man, his wife and children being thrown out of work by some sudden derangement of trade. Suppose it to be Only temporary_; ay a week or two, or a month even—if they claimed the right to take the children of able-bodied poor, what an interruption of scholastic duties would take place if the master did not know but 100 of them might be taken away in so short a time. Yet were they to deprive those eildrea of all education? Surely not; thee they must have a double system.—( Hear, bear.) He thought or ;kens, er the children of consists, ought to be adopted as the children of the State. But he was not prepared to say that because a woman might have been sedeted and bad a child, which might be the only solace she had—he was not quite prepared to say that children under such ei corn stances should be forcibly taken to district schcola. He should wish to know what was the probable number of children that would be thus educated, and, consideiiog the expense the country had been put to in ere,:ting u ion workhouses, he hoped the Commissioners would net press too hardly the erection of these school/. The education in the workhouses was not so bad now as it had been re. presented. Out of 32 unions, 23 had sent Vie chiliron either to national schools or oodowed schools; so that there nave only nios left who had to provide educe ion. These, however, were merely difficulties in the workirg of the plan; but he was satisfied that, if they could tr2ct schools to be under the superintendence of chaplains of the Church cf England, they would be effecting agreat good, and the clause should have his cordial support. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET thought the amendment of the. Hon. Member for Southwark would LordinjOt ° li r rz the ß c lis m s ni E i l i r t ; r u s g i g a e n s d te h d e th sh a o t on 'the emeadment proposed by the Hen l . 2 he athueseful check on ail tendency to incur UtekBS expense Knareaborough should bo taken foi fore the division. thel i‘slseo, Member cb p ue o gr r s t io i r firi elr. LANGDALE. hoped - he had misunderstood whar eared in the Stro-e .!en of the State, should all be edu had fallen from th-a chil of the poor, l e e n , Hen- Baronet, that the children o f parental superintendence, and its appointment r f religion,eh, lie had no objection to the s t taking ere tTemciPl friend;, any regard to a child u l l , O " but he did otject to the might r irlrid, and of the r,l is Parli c a a rn e c it teas have been deprived the religion of its previous!; to become have received. yth s e eh t o e c ;m l. t gious instruction it 'Cuing it, in spite of its form er the State religion. If cf general supetrtiinc: awful propoition ever male not bring himself to believe that he hacr and he could . r e vi nt o l7 d m . an new c This pri u n r c el i understood the Catholic I c was "t ergYrnen ho strtut:d children in that 11 m shoulda rnc e ameantvc tine hadandi o g p h g t t o e d n H e o a a n t N d (3 . l. k tendency of the school, be might not Perhaps object to If the that; but if it were meant to give the chaplain the exelu till ' t t e rb b e chaplain h f a o p r a K i n sive right to giving religious instruction to the children, whether they were 'Roman Catholics cr Dissenter , , to that he would give his most decided opposition. Sir ROBERT PEEL had before said that if the pa rents objected to the children.beiag sent- to these sch oo l, to that objectioa.they ought to defer.—( Hear.) lie had always held that. they —4— . 1113 h right to force the religion of the Slate upon et - chilli!" the natural guardians, the parents, objected to it; and if a Roman Catholic father, or Roman An He Alastuatt moved that the House be counted and, there not hetug 40 Alt.mbr.-rs present, the Huse ad. journad at a Quarter sst One o'Cluck. THE CONVICT MISTER. (From the Shrewsbury Chronicle c.f Friday.) A few circumstaeces connected with this extraordinary 1 case bare come to our knowledge subsequent to the con . viction of the prisoner. The Learned Judge who pre sided on this occasion bad scarcely reached his loegisge ere he was waited upon by the prosecutor, Mr. :elates rah, who, with a feeling most honourable to his heart, was anaiaus, if possible, to obtain a mitigation of the sentence. He accordingly handed in his card ; but it was returned, wi h an intimation from his Lordship, that under the ce.curnstances he did not feel justified is grant ieg an interv'ew. On Wednesday morning Mr. elsekrt th addressed a letter to his Lordship, of which the following is a copy : Talbot hotel, Shrewsbury, 24th March, 1841. "My Lurd—l hope your Lordship will pardon the liberty I have taken by addressirg you in nerd to the unhappy man (Josiah Mister) who now lies under sentence of death in the gaol ef this town. And although lam satisfied thetlhe verdict of the Jitsy was a just and tree else yet, ivy Lord, I am prornpte I by my f ee li n ge, and a ore, hiian chasity, which t< aches 'to love all mer, and to do good to these that persecute us,' moat humbly to supplicate ycur Lordship to incline mercifully to my prayer ; and, if it elease you, to miti ga t e th e sentence of the unfortunate prisoner, by Sparing has hie. I am much it:- dined to beg your cleelency for the following reasons : viz. —that as it bath pleased Gsd to spare my life, and to restore me. to a state of health equally as good as though no acei de it had ever befallen me; for the sake of the prisoner's youth, his respectable connections ) and the Lope that his pre- vent afflictions may be the means of reforming his conduct, and induce him to spend the remaining portion of his life as a Christian is the sight of Gsd, with a grateful f=eting to his Maker, and the country whose laws Le has cffendel. For there reasons I humbly supplic ate your Lordships thet you al w lo o w ul i d ng hi bep m lea t s o el to prolong the life cf the prisoner, live until su c h t i me as G o d may, by in the order of rature, summon him to appear at the judg amejen,t3.tohurronbeo o r d f s C h i b p r , i s s t ‘ .. e ry M o e b s o t d r i c e n t pt Stidf u hiti'abl c ub; ei v i a t n e t m , y " W. M. MACKRETH." No answer has yet been received; but from ill arm tion we have obtained, we believe it is the intention of the Learned Judge to let the law take its c ours e ; ho being of opini t o o n that rho cri‘mvee now adVert to the prisoner.s in a moral sense i was equi valent Ou his return to gaol be was placed in the condemned cell, and a person was as usual placed to watch him night and day, Every attention, con sist:lit with the strict discharge of his duty, has bean exorcised by Mr. Dawson s the Governor; and the Chaplain, the Rev. D. Whinstore, has been unceasing his endeavours to prepare him for tl.o fa'e which awaits line, On Wedcesday morning he was irone3, pursw.ni to the gaol regulations ; he Was Visited by the High Sheriff, to whom he asserted t.ls innceeacc, and earnestly s: Lena his iatcre•Asinn fnr mercy. This, as may he supposed, pront'sed as far as the hon. gentleman could exert his in fluence, but no hope was hekl out. During the day he continued tolerably firm ; and yesterday mornicg he sent fa. his solicitor s Mr, Jones, and at lit .t time appeared coo sidcrably depressed. He sill persisted in his innoceec and suggested that a petition slp)old be addressed to the Secretes.) , of Stets far a commutstbn of the extreme pee natty. We understand that poet on was last eight dc spatchel to the Merquis of Normanbye The gene al impres:len, an impression founded, we believe, principally on the well known severity of h Judge MI .re whom he was We I, appears to 10, that these p9tHens will avail the prisoner nothing, and that ex:cation on th e morning of this day Week. The the extreme sentenee of the law will be carried into scaffeldieg for tee front of the gaol is bdsg put ie order, as, happily f or t h e cause both cf justice and humanity, the m ac hi ner y of the bangittan has so long fallen into desuetuet, in this as well as in most other rural dist r i cts , t h at i t r equires some time to givs it the fatal facility of operation it was wo:tt to possess ashen the use and abuse of mita:hail punishments were less well understood than at p:eseet. An idle rumour was afloat in the early part of yesterday that the psi. ' sonar had made a full confession rf his guilt, To the high sheriff, to his solicitor, the ja"cr, tee chaplain, and any of the more se to every one wh o h as yet b ee n permit e to see him, we behove, he conti nues t o ass er t his innocence , but he has not hitherto at tem p te d t o ex plain away s than suspieioni c i rcumstances cen clin hint with th e transa tion of the 20 t h- o f A ugu s' s g as developed during the trial. The Hereford Times says that trelve months ago a re port appeared in its columns of a tlashii.g case at Lee minster, in avWce air Josiah Mister enacted the principal character. Mr. Thomas Woodling, saddler, charged Mists:- with stealing from his thy's:beg-house nearly 201. in cash notes. Mis.er took his trial for the offence at our spring assizes of Last ye a•, and was acquitted in conse t quence of Weedi ng f a ili ng i n Court to i featly the note s . About a fortnight ago Mi s t e r wrote to our ia ormant at Leominster, stating that be should bring an ec:ion against him end the Editor of the Hereford Times for defamation of character The Temps states that the will of Mine. de Feu. cheres ht 9 fiaslly been declared null and void, on account of its infirmality ' and consequently that he r property, ' ll ' o l amounts to 9,000,000 x., will be divided into thirds, one of which will go to the father and mother of the niece whom Mme. de Feueheres intended should be her real. unary nethi , ng . . ogatee, and who, consequently, at present gets THE SUN, LONDON, TU.ESDAY, MARCH 36, iszil EASTERN IN/ ELI IGENCE. We hare receivtd by the Levant Mail a mass of intelligene.. from Constantinople, Alexandria, Smyrna, and Malta, which possesses more than usual interest. The affairs of the East are still unsettled. Mehemet Ali has refused to accept the conditions offered by the Prrte, and the Porte has not yet thought proper to grant the desired modifications. It would appear, therefore, that this state of things oce,sions some a nx iety at Al e x an d r ia, particularly as Mehmet Ali is making military prepa-ations at Cairo, and pursuing his system of armament with inure than usual ac tivity. . . CONSTANTINOPLE, MAncit 3.—The state of parties in the Ottoman ca., ital at the pre.,ent crisis is a subject of deep in terest, and offers mud' water for serious consideration. The present Ministers are very far from being p pular, and the ranks of the enemies of reform are daily recruited through the restoration to favour of individuals who, though partisans of the first reform, have long smarted under the lash of the se cond, We have seen Tah r Pacha called from his retreat, airs now Halil Pacha is about to emerge from the obscurity to which he was condemned by the council of Achem Re chid Pacl:a is allowed by his countrymen to pissess emi nent ta'ents, and to have rendered important services to the empire, but I believe a great majority would willingly tee Ida, rep:aced by a more orthod ,, x )Mister. Of the wher Minis t,rs of that party, Achmet Fethe Paella is generally disliked ; for what reason I am not able to explain, unless it be for his probity, and just, though it may be too stern, severity when punishicent is due. The Sultan himself is popular among ali elrm. The merits of the reform are at the present moment keenly attacked by all dames, who all find themselve, injured by it, tither in their interest or their pride. To begin with the Ulema, still a powerful and intluenti 1 body, they stigmatis, the quarantine as an insult to the Deity, b...cause it lays th axe at the root of their faveu ite doctrine, and averts by human: means a calamity fer which no other remedy was formed : deemed necessary than resignw ion and the inter ces , sien of then prayers to the holy prophet. They revile - at the intrAuction o sciences which are not to be found in the Koran, and whici. are consequently beyond the s e here of their knowledge, and sigh for those golden days when all Niussulman learning centred in their body—when a verse of the Koran, washed oh with water and drunk by the patient, was a panacea for all the ills of a true believer—when the utmost ambition of a learned Alussulenan was to gain the respected title of HaEz in learn ing the Koran by heart. In snort, the Morrie are enemies tt the progress of improvement and the " march cf intellect,' which would deprive them of a large portion of their eansiJera e tion, influence, and bakshish. 'lhr Pe uhas grumble at de= prived of bakshish, and are indignant atbeing confined to a seurv j pay, which, however, va-ies from 200 to 500 s te r li ng p er month. he people have deck-leery gained in their social well being bt the reforms; but then, rayas are raised to an equality will Alussalmans, and they repine alter the good old time, when the oaths of '2O honest Christians were as a feather in the scale against the word of a illossulman vagabond, who received r bakshish for lying. 'I he deploralle state of the finances, and the tartly returns made by the Mohassul, have c mboldent d al, these yelpers to give , ongue, and they are now all in full crj at the he els of the reform. Corruption is too deeply rooted ir, Turkey to be easily eradicated—an inordinate appetite fur bak shish i, almost intuitive in every Turk The foreign Ministers appear earnestly to desire the continu ance cf the present Adminis'neion, and support Res. hid Paths with all their influence, which alone, perhaps, prevent, hi immediate dismi-sal from &lite. None seem Ir): e hearty it. the cause than the ill nisters of Russia ani of Pin sia, who re. present on all occa-ions,.wiji suspicious eagernes., as the only remedy for an exha.ested exchequer, the necessity of an imme diate and extensive rcduc• ion in the army and fleet. I have already netieed thit Lord Ponsotiby dissented from the Otto man elinkter in the measure proposed by him relative to the tribute of Egypt, and was in a minority at the conference o' the 4th ult.., when that measure was carried in the face of his Lordship's opposition. 'I his is the first decided schism which h - as occurred among the Allit cl Ministers here, since the Con vention of July. 1 hare had the good fortune to procure a co pious abstract, in French, of his Lordship's addre s oa thatoe ca,ion, on the accuracy of which you may place entire confi dence, and of which I enclose to you the translation, withou , further comment. In Candia disorde:s have arisen from the same causes, and it has been found nevessary to send two Eritish ships of the line to repress them and rettere tranquillity. The fo•-eign Minis ters have counselled the immediate recall of th se robbers, which wou'd eradicate the evil and allay the fermentation it has occasioned among the muotainee s. Ibrahim Pacha is at Gaza dangerously ilt, beyond the hopes of recovery. Hi• comrlaint is drorsy, brought on by excessive drinking, for which he has several times undergone the operation 0 tapping. He was in the habit of drinking enormous quan tities o: rum, and never rode out without having a bottle of his favourite liquor attached to his saddle bow. The Ni'e steamer is in waiting to crnvey him to Alexandria, but the probatility is that he nrvcr reach that city alive. The troops have crop cd the desert into Egypt, where they arrived in a most dismal plight. sickness prevails to a considerably degree among the British troops in Syria, and General Alit• chell, who succeeded Sir Charles Smith in the command, ha fallen a victim to the climate. Admiral Walker came up in the Cyclops, and returned next day to Lampsaca, where his ship the tlahmoudieh is ling The rest of the fleet, 24 sa 1 in all, are at Chesrce and 'recede , . The ships are little more than bah . ..ma-fled, and a great pro portion of the crews arc oily half clothed, from which they suffer reverely in a climate so much colder than that of Egypt. SPEECH OF LORD PONSONBY. " The decheance of Alehemet Ali and the appeal to the Porte to reinstate him prove that the Convention no longer binds the Allies :n their conduct towards Mehemet Ali, who in refusing that Convention, has relinquished all his tights to the advantages which it contained. All that may be con ceded afterwards to Mehemet Ali is the result of the uncon strained will of the Allies. The Convent ien, then, is not ob ligatory on the Allied Powers, who are at liberty. to act on every point as they may think proper. My instructions say, that in the stipulations of the 15th of July may be found thy means of protecting the population of Egypt, of guaranteeing the Sultan against a renewal of hostilities, &c., without depriving Mehemet Ali of the pachalie. This proves clearly that Lord Polmerston considers the treaty as offering a source from whence may be drawn e e means of effecting the object which he indicates ; but it is not a ec claratioe - on the part of Lord Palmerston, that the treats ought to be considered as an imperative rule. If it were so, why do we depart from it . in a particular case ? If the treaty be not the absolute role, why ought V% e to advise the Porte to take a measure adopted in this treat) at a time when af fairs were in a position very d fferent from the actual state of things? The treaty was a compromise with Mehemet Al,, and all its stipulations were conditional, and made with a view of inducing Mehemet Ali to accept it. Mehemet Ali deter mined to refuse the treaty, and to try the chances of war. He has been conquered and has unconditionally submitted to his Sovereign. How then can the treaty oblige the Allied Powers (of which the Sultan is one) to take measures laid down for another posture of affairs, when that posture no longer exists? If then the treaty is not obligatory on the Allies, the counsel which we are now called upon to give to the Sublime Porte ought to be based on the instructions we have received from our Courts, and we ought not to advise the Porte to adopt measures irreconcilable and contradictory, or of such a nature as to destroy the effect of almost every other measure which we have been ordered to recommend. " The instructions • have received from Lord Palmerston. No. 270, have been communicated in extenso to my col leagues, and the Ottoman Minister of Foreign Affairs. They prescribe to me the conduct I am to follow. They say that care must be taken to make such arrangements as will be sufficient to protect the population of Egypt from the tyrannical oppression which has weighed upon them fos some years past, as well as to secure the Sultan against a renewal of those itos tilities which forced him to have recourse to the assistance o! his Ahics. Lord Palmerston says that these ar:angernents may be found in the Treaty of the 15th of July. The Treaty says that all the laws of the empire must be applied to Egypt, in the same manner as they are applied to every province of the States of the Sultan; and Lord Palmerston proceeds to particu larise the application of the principle laid down, relative to the future character of the land and sea forces of the empire, the extecieu of the legislative authority of the Sultan in the arrangement of other objects of the most important nature, and concludes in these words The beats , specifies that no.taxes will be levied in Egypt, but those imposed by law ; which will secure the people against unjust exactions; and the execution of the convention of 1838, in terms of which all mo nopolies eliould be abolished, will free at once the industry f the Egyptian people from those oppressive restrictions which base, until now, subjected them to the most abject poverty, and which have deprived of culture large tracts Of land formerly in cultivation and productive. It appears to her 3lajtiety s Odiefrimetit that by similar measures security may be obtained for the future, both for the Sultan and for his Egyptian subjects, against the disposition of Mehemet Al! to revolt against his Sovereign, and to oppress the inhabitants of the province, which may be confided to his government. " 1 he fundamental principle of Lord Palmerston's instruc • tions isi the protection of the Sultan against rebellion, and of the people against oppression, and especially against exactions. The measures which, I understand, the Ottomati Minister ,proposes to take for the fu'ure government of Egypt appear to me to be perfectly conformable to the principles laid down in the iriitrtictione of Lord Palmerston, with one single excep tion, and that is the measure relative to the tribute, and the concession consequent' upon it to Mehemet Ali of the right to collect the revenues of Egypt, which will be at his disposition fur the support of the civil, military, and naval establishments of the province. " That tneaeare is in contradiction with the declaration that ' all the laws of the empire will be in rigour in Egypt; for the law of the empire is -that the Paellas shall not collect the re • venues, &c. It is true the Sultan, if it should be his good pleasure, may revoke this law, and thus put an end to this con tradiction,. but I am not authorised to recommend such a mea sure to this Porte, which, were it executed, would, I believe : open the way to a series of increasing difficulties to the Sultan, and wined lead to the destruction of the ameliorations already li aseamplished, by which the future welfare of the Ottoman people ettgbt to be wsured. Why not revoke the hatti-scheriff of Gulhane? " 'the principle of Lord Palmersietes histruetions, is pro tection for the Sultan and for the people of Egypt against Alehemet Ali: The suocess of the Sultan's arms has torn from Mehemet Ail the power of the sword, a power that he had treated by ablisiog the revetitieS of Egypt, which were paced in his hands—and it It pro'poOM to return them into his hands! he revenues of Egept have beets raised to an euormotie stilt through the exactions of Mehemet Ali ; and consequently the absolute master of men, to whom taxes and xactiors leave nothing beyond what is absolutely necessary for bare existence. HO can inflict what punishment he pleases to enforce payment, even when payment is im vo3Bll,lo ; and is master of the persons as well as the property of the Egyptians. Can this be conformable to the instructions of Lord Palmerston, which say, that above all the property - of the Eg . ,ptail people itiust be protected? It is proposed to limit the number of troops to be maintained in Egypte which will cause a reduction in the expenses of Mehemet Ali. I find in a report made by a fnan of accurate observa tion, that in the year 1533 the revenues of Egypt amounted to 62,778,750 f., and the expenditure to 49,951,500 f. The sur plus, arising from such a suite of the finances, will leave in the hands of the Pa , ha. a sum which will render him richer, in ready money, for his personal purposes, than almost any Sovereign in Europe, without taking into considerasion the enormous difference between the value of money in Egypt, and its value in Europe. But when the expenses of maintaining the army and fleet are reduced, the surplus of the revenues he wi I enjoy will b e considerably increased. Money is power, and more especially in these countries. It is the instrument by means of which Mehemet Ali has raised himself to an ale s vation, from whence it has cost so much pains and so much blood to displace him. Money is now the, only arm with which Mehemet Ali can injure the Sultan, and it is.proposed to pro vide him with it abundantly, and to furnish him with the means of bein g dangerous to the Sultan, by extorting money from the unfortunate people of Egypt, whom we intend to place beyond the reach of exaction ! If the amount of tribute be increased, Mehemet Ali will only receive a new stimulus to make exactions among the people, if it be possible, either by force or fraud; and an additional subject of malediction will fall upon Egypt. Is it possible to obviate these things by a great diminution of taxes in Egypt.? How can that be done excepting with the concurrence of Mehemet Ali, and with his frank anti loyal assistance in the execution of the measure? Is that to be expected? The absolute control over the revenues of Egypt gives to Mehemet Ali the full and entire distribution of rewards and punishments. It renders him master of the persons And fortunes of . all. How can the laws of the empire be introduced into Egypt, otherwise than with his permission and assistance. HoW can the hatti-scheriff of Oulhane be ins pi.sed upon a man who . pays every body, from the judge to the lowest officer of police, and who can, at his will, ruin the pecu niary teem:llo3s of every man, and allow him to exist or to prosper? " The treaties between the Porte and other Powers May be forcibly put into execution, through the fear of Mehemet Ali for foreign nations ; bet the Sublime Porte will not have the power to exact their observance through the employment of its own Meant. How will an end be put to the inonopolies in Egypt ? Ought they to be perpetuated through fraud ? All this is only a portion of the consequences which will arise from the act of leaving in the hands of Mehemet All this power, which of necessity well belong to him if it be left to him to col lect and distribute the revenues of Egypt, which will be the case if the Sublime Porte adopt the measure of taking a tri• bute from Mehemet Ali in the manner proposed. It seems to me teat this is a measure opposed to the declared aim and ob ject of my Government, as they are laid down in the instruc tion of Lord Palmerston, Nu. '270. It appears to me that the mea sure is not required by the Convention of the 16th July ; that it is at present neither necessary nor judicious for the arrangement of the affairs of this country; that it will confirm and perpetu ate the misery of the population of Egypt (being a perma nent arrangement) ; that it will hurt the mora.ity of Europe ; and that it is in direct contradiction with the benevolent desires of the British Government, such as they are developed in the instrucions of Lord Palmerston. I have, therefore, made this declaration of my opinions, and I refuse to give my approba tion to the measure in question, or to off r my counsel to the Porte that this measure should be adopted. lam afraid that my colleagues may differ in' opinion• with me, but they have already had under consideration my instiuetions from Lord Palmerston, which have been so often referred to. It is pos sible that they may be more capable than myself to give teem heir true interpretation ; as fur me I• can only understand them in the manner I have just explained. It belongs to others, not to me, to decide and to take such a part as they will judge the best. Those to whom I have just addressed my self ai e able to judge as well as myself what is the opinion of the British Government; My opinion is of little importance, excepting for myself alene ; but I have to answer to my country, and justify my acts. The world will know all that we do and say." CONSTA NTI NO mr, MA ucti 7.—The Cyclops sailed on the 4th for the Bay of Marmorizta, with despatches from Lord Ponsonby to Admiral Ommanney, and from thence she will proued to Malta. On Friday, the sth, the Peki Shefket arrived from Alex andria. Mehemet A'i received the Orman of the Sultan with Ail imaginable respect, and with many processions of humility and submission • but on analysing the conditions therein ia•cstribed for the regulation of his government in Egypt, he ob . ;ected to some of them as tending to sow dissension in .he country, and to deprive him of the influence which is necessary to make his authority respected. The ahiri Bahiri arrived on the sth from Acre, with Hus sein Pacha on hoard. Major I:\ apier, the brother of Commo lure Napier, is said to be upon the point of leading to the hy meneal altar a Syrian lady, the daughter of the Emir of the Druses. _ _ _ Camel Hodges has been appo'nted Consul General at Hani burgh ; and it is said that Mr. Wood, who acted with so much zcat and ab.lit y in Syria, will Le named Consul-General of that province. ALEXANDRIA, MALCH 6.—The I. 4 rench steamer, which ar rived here on the 26th ult , ot:ly goes to sea to. morrow, the French Administration having decided to run their steamers to .his ve:rt duly twice a month, at leiA for some time, un•il all of them have undergone thorough repa'rs, of which they stand very much in reed. Commodore Napier finding his servLes here no longer ne :essary, left in the Stromboli on the st instant, to jom the Powerful at Marmorice; and the Paella, on tie day plevious, started for Cairo, to see Ibrahim, who arrived there on the 22d ult., and who has takes up his residence at Rhoda Is land; he is said to be in a very bad state of health by some, but this report is contradicted by others, and from what may , be considered good authority. I understand he was very un well when at Gaza, and was then attended by the surgeon of the Benison, but he is now almost quite recovered. By last news from Cairo, we learn that all sorts of warlike preparations were going on there, and that the greatest ae tlvity prevailed in every deprtment, which shows that the Pacha does not 'consider things in such good train as was gene rally supposed ; in fact, after a long interview with Ibrahim, he called a divan of all the most influential persons about him, net it is said gave the m to understand that affairs were far i om being pet mmently settled, and that they must be pre pared to act in his defence in case of further hostile demonstra tions on the part of the Porte. The powder magazine is kept at work day and night, and a commis'ariat is being formed. The troops have been paid pan of their arrears, and: every means is being taken to content the army, which is now in ex cellent condition. So, after all the victories of the Allies in Syria, perhal.s we are still as far from peace as ever. The Pacha was so irritated a' the conditions attaching to the a....ceptance of the firman, that, previous to Commodore Napier's departure, he wished to recal the order f..r the release of the Syrians in.the Egyptian service, but after several warm dis cussions and some correspondence on the point the Commo dore at last succeeded in overruling the Pacha, and in showing him the fully and inutility of such a measure. Lieut.-Co:oriel Napier is stil here waiting the return of the Pacha from Cairo (who is to leave on the 7th), to make arrangeartents for the transport of the Syrian hostages to their native country. Although it was at first intended to send them overland, they have been brought down here, and most probably one of the Pacha's steamers will now take them to Beyrout. There were originally eight Emirs (Chris tians), four Sheiks of the Druses, ten Christian proprietors, with thirty-five servants and other followers, but of these one Emir and six followers have died in exile. The free trade is now in force in so far as regards comesti bles, which are now only subject to a duty of 12 per cent., but on the return of the Pacha it is said that cotton w►ll be allowed to be exported on similar tetnis. The holy cities are said to have fallen into the hands of the Asseir Arabs, amongst whom a fanatic, calling himself a prophet, has arisen, and has managed to make many converts to his doctrines. ALEXANDRIA. FMDIAN SENT TO AIEHEMPT A.. We find in the Austrian Observer the following text of the finnan from the Sultan to Mehemet Ali, granting him the life government of Nubia and other smthern provinces:— " TO MY VIZIER MEHEMET i.LI YACHA, GOVERNOR OF EGYPT, UPON WHOM lIAS LATELY BEEN NEWLY CONFERRED THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PROVINCES OF NUBIA, DARFOUR, KORDOFAN, AND SENAAR. . . - " According to the purport of another imperial firman, I have confirmed you in the government of Egypt with here ditary right, and, with some conditions and certain further limits, I have granted to you, without hereditary right, the g o vernment of the provinces of Nubia, Darfour, Kordofan, and `ir:enaar, with all their dependencies—that is to say, with all that is attached to them out of the limits of Egypt. Guided by the experience and wisdom which distinguish you, you, will apply yourself to the government and organization of these provinces, according to my equitable views, and to provide for the welfare of the inhabitants. You will every year transmit to my Sublime Porte an exact account of all the annual revenue. From time to time the villages of these provinces are attacked by troops, and the young persons, male and female, who are captured, remain in the hands of the soldiers in lieu of pay. Not only does this proceeding ruin and depopulate the country, Lut such a stoic of things is contrary to our holy law and to equity. This abuse, and the no less fatal abuse of mutilating men for the guard of the harem being highly . disapproved of by my equitable will, and in complete opposition to the principles of justice and huma nity proclaimed since my accession to the throne, you will apply yourself with care to the adov ion of the means which may be necessary to prevent and repress fur the future such culpable acts. You will announce, that with the exception cf some known individuals who went to Egypt with my Imperial -fleet, I have pardoned, without distinction, all the officers, soldiers, and other persons employed who are now there. Although according to my other firman the nomination of your officers above the rank of Adjutant is to be submitted to my decision, those who are now serving will be confirmed in their }gists, but you will send to my Sublime Porte a list of these officers, in order that the Ermaus of confirma'ion may be forwarded to them. Such is my sovereign will, and to which you will hasten to conform.—Dated the 2l Zelhedji, 1256 (13th February,ilB4l)." The above firman was accompanied by the following letter of the same date from the Grand Vizier : " Ilis Highness the Sultan, satisfied with your eagerness to offer to him effectual proofs of your submission and your desire to fulfil the duties of obedience, has confirmed you in the go vernment of Egypt, with hereditary right. A. hatti-scheriff, containing some conditions on this supject, a vizier's decora tion, and a cup enriched with jewels, are sent to you by his Ex cellency the Minister of Justice, Said Muhib Effendi, on the part of his Highness. Your wisdom and prudence will never permit you to forget the line-of submission and fidelity which are a source of happiness in the two worlds. The Sublime Porte has entire confidence in you, and the insertion of the clauses in question does not proceed from any concealed views to y ards }our Excellency. As so signal a favour as the pre rogative of hereditary right trust necessarily le subjected to certain conditions, the Sultan has only inserted these clauses for the purpose of preventing all contestation which might arise in an unknown and uncertain future, and in order to secure the welfare of the inhabitants of Egypt. There no longer re mains any motive of distrust on the part of the Sublime Porte, or of uneasiness on the part of your Excellency, either as to yourself or your family. Thanks to God the difference which so long existed has entirely ceased. Ido not doubt that your Excellency, in your wisdom, will appreciate the full value of the benefits of the Sultan, and endeavour to show your gratitude for them. If it should please God we will in future form only one body, nothing will divide us, and we will labour under the auspices of his Highness to serve religion, the State, and the nation • in common with all the Ministers of the Sublime Porte I feel deep pleasure in this consideration." PORTUGAL. FALMOUTH, MARCH 26. We have received the following intelligence by the Tagus steamer, arrived this afternoon with Malta and Peninsula mails ; her dates of leaving are, from Gibraltar the 18th, Cadiz the 19th, Lisbon the 22d, Oporto no communication, and Vigu the 24th inst. ; _ _ " LISBON, MARCH 22, 2 P.M. " ConseqUent upon a majority of 21 votes having been ob tained on Tuesday last in the Chamber of Deputies upon the authorization to receive the decimas and imposts up to the end of June next, the Ministry has remained intact; and M. Costa Cabral, who had tendered his resignation, still r tans his portefeui Ile for the Justice department. On We.'nesday this project was sent up to the Senate, dis cussed on Thursday with little or no opposition, and on the following day received the Royal Assent. To-day the Cham ber will et ntinue the adjourned and simultaneous debates, for fixing the numerical force of the army and navy, as well as for the reorganization of the National Guard or militia. Against this latter measure petitions still continue to pour in from various parts of the kingdom, and, as generally surmised, will meet with a strong opposition. The land forces to consist of 24,000 men, 6,000 of whom are to be considered as always on furlough ; the marine force ht..s not been stated. " The formation of a Company for the protection of the cul tivation and commerce of the Douro wines (an attempt at the revival of the Douro Wine Company) has been thrown out by a majority of II votes : a substitution, to be referred to a o.mmittee, was subsequently proposed by MM. Joze da Silva Carvalho, Marreca, and Joaquim Antonio de Magalhaes, which was agreed upon. " The law upon the partial alterations of the Customs' Tariffs, to take effect three months after its date, the 11th inst., establishing a prohibitory duty upon almost all goods of British manufacture imported into the country for the Spanish market, was published on Wednesday last, the 17th inst. " The revenue of the Lisbon Custom-house, Excise-office, and Custom-house of Oporto, for the month of February last, paid in debentures, ex paper money, and coin, amounts con jointly to 229,515,303 refs, equal to. 52,5791. ss. Id. sterling, showing a deficit on the preceding mouth of Jannary of 9,142/. I Is. sterling. The Board of Public Credit has notified that the payment of the interest of the Four per Cents., due for the second half year of 1840, will terminate on the 24th inst. ; and the payment of the interest which has also become due fur the same half year, upon the consolidated bonds of paper money and titulos, will commence on the 29th. " The Cortes have just been prorogued by commission to the 25th May next, to the utter astonishment of the public in general. Exchange on London, at 30 days' sight, 53 pence per milrci. "The packet from England, with the mail of the Pth inst., has not yet arrived." MALTA.—MAncir 15.. • n th e 3'l Her Majesty's ships Edinburgh and Wasp le:" t ° ther est, instant for Syracuse, with orders, after watering et; bu. proceed, the former to Alexandria, the latter to beYr°‘ on the arrival on the 9th of the French Gove rnment ste t Acheron, bound to Alexandria, with M. de Ro han CIA)), 10 new Consul-General for Egypt, and which vessel is sal" te , have brought advices that the French fleet is about to d er to duced six ships of the line, and the crews of the rema? c es s be put upon de eace complement, the Electo steam-pace, to immediately patched to Syracuse, to convey instruatetvo'r,„ the Edinburgh to remelt} there until further orders, and cal the the Wasp. The Alecto returned on the Ilth, after a ,, t ic sage of only nine hours from Syracuse, and the Acheron, Tot, on to Alexandria on the 10th. In future, the (Great) loni sO pool and Oriental will not wait the mails from the Islands end Greece. - th The Dido was admitted to pratique on Friday, the po rt and early on the 9th the Castor frigate arrived off.tTat s hs from Cadre in the Bay of Acre with a signal flying r had the plague on board. Prompt measures were t". - et to, receiving her in the Quarantine Harbour of 31arsalo . % or where she was immediately moored under proper gu r ` ti . , the posite the new building, detached at some distance gran' toe Lazaret, erected expre.sly for a plague hosp i , d tal, w herei ,e , officers and crew, without loss of time, were rem eved t beit gregated in small parties in separate apartments, an clothing, as well as the ship and every thing on board,looel dergo the same process'of depuration which has beet a_A wi:h such complete success in the case of the Acheron several other similar occasions. too tbs It appears that the Castor, which arrived at Cairo .„004, 17th ult., received on board, under date of the 20th, t"recisa seamen of tho crew of her Majesty's brig Zebra, via% thereat on the 2d of December, who hare been ever sineeo,so ashore under tents, endeavouring to save as muc h as Pn,frois of the wreck. These men were supposed to be sufferi%teetl fever. On the 21st on pp e man died ashore, where threc_l4 cv were taken i'l : on the 22d one of the two bro u g ht onboardbe the 20th died, and four others were brought on t to b e whe: eupon the rest were embarked, always supposing.introsee lever ; on the same night another died, when a snap nit th that it was plague, and accordingly it was r esolved to q, place wi'hout awaiting the return of some offic ers en lea; t f ell irt e Between the 21st and the 26th, fourteen seareen,:n be belonging to the Zebra, and only one to the Castor , 1 ,27 e attacked, ten of which cases had proved fatal, one bel u _.;oig ing, and nine at sea, and she has now on board the ret7a; four men in a state of convalescence. Sinee th e nee d al such were the precautions taken on board, that il'°t, a a „ . " has occurred, and no death since the Bth insane lost . t probability the c:.i.ease, favoured likewise by the co, 0 ,1( 11 the season, has been already eradicated, but even ~ ' ''r ev ;'" break out afresh the public need not have the leas aPP .ist el ll sion, confined, as under the rigid sanatory laws of this '` must necessarily be to the limits of the plague bili nt ,sav knowledge of which will, we trust, induce our Foreign .0 ", ths = to make such a report to their several GovernmentsP;e confidence which may be reposed in our senator oo e ." ° • tioo will not for a moment disturb our free communica pratique with continental ports, though we have hearo d pa r moored that the Neapeß an consul has already diss ua o, de tth ei seugers from leaving for Sicily, under the impression e'a,„itiv may be 'ejected, or at any rate subjected to a very lc: b ur t osik ea nine. Commander Sropford and Mr. Beale, roid', l ets 4. Loth late of the Zebra, and Lieutenants Winthrop aa,', tis l .• well, and .41r. Foley and Mr. Hore, midshipmen 3 ,. 1' ,„ - urri (4 • Castor, were left behind, having proceeded on " 10 1 to Jerusalem. rel -ry The wreck of the Zebra, lying about tvcot, r ow, miles from the town of Cain, was boake up by the Castor, which brought down all the spaie, as/ we las the topmast and main-yard of the Pique- , 0 ., The Carystort having had another case of small -11 riot admitted to free pratique until the 9th instant. OW The Benbow arrived on the 10th from Mannor iee all well, and cc''' The Magicienne is, the only vessel remaining ° a e _Am of Syria. hourly lied for Revenge, from Soda in Candia, may be hour for. e 1, re stores , The Princess Charlotte has already had some oLZ„felli i guns dismounted, and cabins fcr Admiral Sir R. family are being fitted up in contemplation of to "- parture. k f 'c a r c e rl The Ganges left yesterday for Syracuse for a sWe:sr& and the Inconstant will leave shortly for Trieste 50' tali visiting afterwards all the Principal intermediate coo st ole ports as far as Barcelona, where she will take up h er for the summer. t (11' 4, The Mama transport for England, with a detachine° bo st Royal Artillery, and some naval and military invalids° was towed out last night by the Confiance steamer. 'I he Oriental and the Lotus steamers arrived from early on the morning of the 12th, and the Prornethe_4., / Marseilles, with the overland London mails of the 4th l!'esael the evening. The Oriental proceeded on t he 13th to t o for s , trot , ; dria, and the Medea is about to leave with &sp ate: Rear-admiral Sir J. A. Ommaney, letters for the sl u t 0) 0 Min arorice, and orders for all the ships to revel'', a p ar to lonian Islands and a part to Malta. , t he I;Kb it , The Locust was despatehed on the evening or to Syracuse to order the Edinburgh to Malta, and littv l t h, !!' 14 the said vessel to sea, she returned to Malta on the Wasp left Syracuse at the same time. The Belleroph°Xeo''' burgh, and Hastings were ordered to England by to e , - e se t s ; but later despatches overland, by the Prometheus, "Pil l. / pended these orders until such time as the French . — ti o fiel" reduce their fleet,' arid the Turco-Egyptian question Is tively settled. A PPOI NT.MENTS. t he Mr. Davies, master of the Edinburgh, having in carob' rob, master of the Dido has been removed to the Edieb ti or l i d stPi master of the Was to the Dido. Air. Roberts , see 00'1, ter of the Aleoto, to the Wasp, as acting master, 0" ( A.P . master from the Ganges to the Alecto. Mr. SV ire t be late of the Dido, to be a master's assistant In Cel'a , Messrs. Smith, from the Beacon, and Harvey, from the D e ‘ O tt ' mates, have been appointed to the Gorgon. r ; ,(1' shipman, from the Hydra to the Thunderer. I"' ti t P i g , mate, from the Ganges to the Etlinburgb• Lieu r say Burrel to the Tyne, vice Johnson, vvhe has le,..; t : n der# 7 ,, land. Lieutenant Risk to the Bellerophon, Li m e "; invalided. • Lieutenant Coming to the Hydra, in lib u. to ; r 5 tenant Malley, sick. Mr. C. W. Elton, Alidshiro wi i t ta t 'he ' Cambridge ; Messrs. J. Miller and W. B. Masson, c . „ ° ' to of the Ist class, to the Inconstant ; and Surgeon_ Lo Rodney. IN PORT 15TH MARCH. . 0 1 Sit it o i Princess Charlotte, 104, bearing the flag of MO Oka Stopford, C.C.B. G.C.M. G. ; Ceylon, 60, bearing t" Rear Admiral Sir J. Louis, Bart. ; Edinburgh , 74 b ; or, rophon, 78 ; Thunderer, 84 ; Implacable, 74 ; Be - Inconstant, 46; Carysfort, 36; Wasp, 18; Castor, 36 ;Ord., 18 ; surveying vessels Beacon, and Magpie: stearnerlothe',, Gorgon,. Vesuvius, Phoenix, Confianee, Acheron, F f . ° oo pal l ,, l Megwra,_ Loeust_; the Peninsular and Oriental wad 'o* City of Dublin, Lotus. French steamers, M e ntor 3 crede. , o rat MARCH . d The Ganges left for Syracuse on 17 the 14th inst. , 50 here after watering. A .' ) 04 The Cyc'ops and Hydra steam-frigates arrive Canw), 15th ; the former in two days and a half from SudMaa, ,3rinorice, the latter from the same place, but last from • g three days. , dre „„ Wi eli We learn by these conveyances that Conint ° ° stro- b for having arrived at Marmorice on the 2d inst. in the, sth from Alexandria, left again in the Powerful o n t he t he Malta, and was followed on the 9th by the Howe. 00%0 The Magicienne and Hazard arrived at Marmo:ie*cult coact of Syria on the 28th ult., bringing Colonel ''Artill r ot , and the remains of the Marine battabon, leaving the p e yro and Engineers, the only Briti:h troops in Syria, a t o , h o but from whence they expected to be short ly Withdradeipatc '1 he Stromboli lett Marmorice on the S t h, ev eog e for Beyrout, and the Hazard on the 4th, and the 'irare rr e the Bth for Suda in Candia, where, but for the s trOg 1 : 16 and Hastings cff there, and which vessels keep a ” o 0 ', O O ready for disembarkation, the people would rise r `000 3 )0 1 not being at all contented with passing under th st abli s og yoke. It appears that 300 Candiote G eeks hav e e 1 1, i on thenrelves in the mountains defying all authorit3',airiods that their purpose was to possess themselves of the 1 0 ,0 which they had been originally expelled by the 'P r o p i t of were anxiously expecting a chief or leader, some i orti Albania, others from Athens, and have a strong „ 1 135 0 5 r3 4,500 in their favour among the inhabitan's. Greee' . ; disc _ A , France, and the Pacha of Egypt are all at work to o c `. , and strife, and but for the presence of the British O r ' o cet shed would, and :till will, perhaps, ensue. The h is floggth on stands neutral in the broil. Rear-Admiral Sir John A. Ommanney, with the,..tr , board the Britannia, was lying at Marmorice e n a Ilen oe r instant, with the Rodney, Calcutta, Cambridge 11° s t all which are, however, ordered to proceed to Co ' rf 3 `,„ C ll .O O Admiral Sir Robeit Stopford proceeds in the D 4 ' l° 4 loo l lotte Very shortly), by the Medea, which took her for Marmorice, and thence to Candle on the 15th. ~.„ier,e The brave and gallant Commodore Sir Charles..o"rof 0 1 0 , said to make no secret of his unfavourable eph?' ° : i tatelel harsh conditions attached by the Sultan to the re al- 0 0 0 J of Mehemet Ali, and his Highness is greatly en tics thereby in his hope that Great Britain will in 1 - '" A equity see him righted. instaut. and The Tyne left Corfu for Athens on the B th sca nt ' hi e Espoir arrived at Gibraltar from Lisbon on the 3d 'nt-b. the Lizard steamer on the 26th ult., from PlYnn u 01' 2 ;1 last-mentioned vessel is to remain at Gibraltar at t at lion of the Governor of that garrison, in case he' 'h, ° ,, t he 0 time have any important communication to make Commander. in-Chief in the Mediterranean • gth regain, The Sapphire troop-ship, with part of the 5 „ ba doe t be reached Gibraltar on the 24th ult., and sailed for P ar e ail c o the 271 h. The Asia on the 27th, and on the san' toO P° i° Smersetshire with the 92d, and on the ay after the left W o g wth the 47tb, arrived all from Malta. d These latt er corn ° ,4 for Barbarices en the sth inst., in company with th . e . ., " t he with the 92d, for the same destination, proceeded e ult. by the Boyne and Prince Regent with the 3 3 t 1. la st ' c ell, Mr. W. Wood, boatswain of the Ganges, was c tried by court-martial for drunkenness, and the Char P I 0 . vices, been proved, he was, in consideration of his l on g ser one 14 condemned to be dismissed the ship, and to lose Rear-Admiral Sir. J. Louis presided. 04 ( be o. ) ' IN PORT, MARCH 17.—Princess Charlotte I n bo the flag of Admiral Sir R. Stopford, G. GB. , Sir '' ° 74 , Ceylon six (bearing the flag of Rear-Adtn T ira n wab le 3(5, Louis, Bart.), lhumerer 84, .13ellerophon et ), T inir e nstan t „dr' Edinburgh 74 , Benbow 74, Carysfort 36, St 3— ve , Castor 36, Dido 18, Wasp 16, Magpie, Beaeor;gara,,,es Gorgon, Hydra, Cyclops, Confiance, Pheenis, V i ers suvius, Prometheus, Alecto ; and the French ste,oo,lo. and Tanerede, and the Oriental and Peninsular , made n e a ti p : ,i g, ...._ iron steamer Lotus. MARYLEB7NE VESTRY.—On SatUrdkft a Oa , t t l t ordinary weekly motion bein g r m e ar t ri?.ges, &c in the church dur n paid to the Bishop cf London for a faculty to s it '" ° / OO P Fe l,! o r n . d D el an t i b el a l t in a t . h s e s. e s h b s o i :n h ' i d r iro cory church, Mr. W ..ensett objected to the paynnent c..ric4 ,in the chapel during the repair' 800 money. He said that persons could as easiy ..,, af be in al 04 t.ie • other ti- '..4 0 1 instanced the repairs a 3 at .any toe raP ~0 Old Ca couple who were niarre lon iIV Camberwell cht,rch he opposed the payme nt ' tb e money. Mr. Gomm and ; other ' bit hop could enforce Vie demand against tl Tetra die den, sod I s let' ~, , recommended its liquidation. On ai, to is th vestry original motion was carr'ed by a large ISISiOritY, 4 vestry broke up. e s . • icrea s- DISPUT g WITH AMEIIICA.—Woat li 0 ,0 our regret at the present diaerence3tetween the e e N ti lic o re is the worthlessness of the quesfons is diputc• ~„' teo 'Wu; • debating • nbeaer the boundaries of terzitoriNi a• , „ ji• vast for their inhabitants, shall run for 100 nit p 3 in '',, n ir o .o men said thcabto., rection or in another ; —and whether an act done in 18 r s i t ic$ or was not strictly legal. All sensible persous.on be: a . d , of the water must say—Let the questions he relerieoi over terra!, or tossed up for, or settled in any wsY vi ' a w ar e compatible Kith our honour, so that is e may hear - ,cb ich of . them, and return to the confident intercourse en. a, " or :.:0 prosperity of both couirrias depends. Anst'l .07 Franee, or any other military non-commercial Stot-.ooi waste its resoui et's in war cr angry diplomacy, b it d i a ."- luxuries do not suit nations of agriculturists; --Man coo ttirers, and merchants. Six moothi of-ahent stAdl si cost us as much as a little war.--Exieniiiien-' ' ' ' MORNIN G Vres.7. 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