The Sun. — London, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

MirrN'lNG _EDITION MAGAZINES-CONCLUDED. ENGLISH JOURNAL. this cheap weekly miscellany, which is pub ligied also in monthly parts, articles, both in prose and verse, may be found, from the pens of 80 111 e of our most popular living writers. Jer- T4d, St. Jplm, Miss. Mitford, and several others, Whot4elizht- writings have met with the award of Public-favour,- contribute to the present Part, the itb,r* article in which is decidedly the descrip tion of the night spent at Phyla, on the banks of tie_ Ti ile. . - • COLONIAL MAGAZINE. rn an article on the present state and prospects °lihe " China .Company," the writer makes the following remarks, which we quote for the sound sense that has suggested them :—" If the nobi litand gentry of England would cease to invest their surplus fund s i n foreign stocks and foreign banks, such as those of the United States, and W Qald employ it iu the prosecution of those un dertakings which seek to improve our vast and valuable colonial dominions, and in those enter prises which have for their object the extension or. Our trade with distant countries, the develop ment of new marts for the disposal of our accu ululating manufactures, and the affording of re munerative employment for the intelligence, ac t_tritY, and p ro bi ty w hi ch now p i nes and perishes for want of occupation ; if the great and wealthy vfotild indeed aid in promoting these truly na tional views, they would not only add considera bly to th e i r individual incomes, but they would Increase in an incalculable degree the riches and Prosperity of the n a ti on ." Of the few remaining articles, that which will exc it e th e most a t ten ti on these p resent feverish crisis, is the remarks on " Sugar Duties," though it is little more than a su mmary of th e l a t e P ar li amentary d e b ate on the subject. SPORTING REVIEW". • Yi 7. e have something too much of the " West ter Boy," whose reminiscences are conti kea, and, we hope, concluded, in the present umber; fb r t h ey g i ve us little novelty, and are ! ) t Penned in the most ad captandum manner. S porting Sketches f rom N ew B runsw i c k" are nUleh Pleasanter reading; and Nimrod's account " Month in Leicestershire " is better still. are,to Miscellaneous Sporting matters of the month . we perceive, diligently attended to. SPORTING MAGAZINE.. her_ are two exc e llent plates in this Num ttr—one representing " Gamekeepers on at Look-out;" and the other, the " Stag B ay." The former. shows us a pic „ure rsque sylvan landscape, the more rugged 11 etitur,ei s of whi c h are so f tene d o ff by th e I° "lght; and the latter, a stag driven to des ration b y t h e hounds and mak i ng h i s l ast con- A rs ive efilirt t o f ree hi mse lf f rom t h e i r gr ip e . f..ie co untenance of the half-frenzied animal is " vigorous expression. The literary con nts are neither better nor worse than usual. l e3f are all, with hardly one exception, devoted gporO g ' . rting topics. b "R CORN -IAWS AND THE MINISTERIAL aiA • • '—Porernost and chief in the list of wrongs which cla s . le ( oslation ha s i n fli c t e d on the country stand the orn C= and rovision-laws—the food monopoly. Markets 1 ,;: i 1 g, trade failing, workmen starving, wages lulling, • t O i eng rising ; thes e a re amongst the miserable effects l at ,. s Pernicious monopoly. And for what are the Corn t!pheld ? F or t h e ques ti ona bl e b e n e fit o f th e l an d e d v i - k ° Priefary, an d t hi s to t h e cer t a i n i n j ury o f a ll ot h er e e l e ss s I Or are they maintained to secure the relative d t „Y l ninn of the l an d e d i n t eres t in the social scal e by the t hr"sion of the commercial and manufacturing part of enniniunity ? Whatever be their object, the country ncer ig r( Ans under their weight. To suffer them to exist tu„,,i f,,7 54 i ( niger will be permanently to depress the produc a;l°' engies of England ; danger e versafe er der of society. I am to for en the total th and immediate trintoti of the Corn-laws. Let us have a free corn );;.". Let the importation of foreign grain and cattle 11 , r estricted by no duties or impediments. To the „,,,,,It,t ti ement of that object shall my energies be di lfed, if returned to represent you in Parliament. e relaxation of the Corn-laws proposed by the Go -2,..4• 44 1 1 , ant, halm a part of a general financial scheme. That it y support on many grounds : first, because m a L lm s a mortal blow at the colonial and landed mono -6r - "es under which the country labours--a blow after f."' ;eh hose monopolies may linger for a while, but Pc kt which they 'cannot recover, but must ultimately ex- V n i„ Second, bc.ause the 'most successful mode of revenue raised by duties on consumption, is by the facilities for consumption ; by adding to t K t 4 nripl B• . ) I lowering the price of the commodities on th;d an 4es for revenue are levied. The admission tfl:‘rei sugars at a lower rate of duty would tend to t '‘Ces g ult, the present rate of duty being such as al gittt to amount to prohibition. Third, because it pro tcy7 relief to all classes of the people, by its tendency liti; me ,nl ) ew sonic of the first necessaries and comforts of r extend the markets for our industry, to add to lab o :pnand for, and thereby increase the wages of, Price_ Thus the public revenues of the State, and the the R am .-- ' e '. l 'vetnue of the people would be benefited by Addr e , - ; g leans, and at the same time.—Mr. Gibson s 6 to the Electors of Manchester. saOci t 6 E TY OF ARTS.—On Monday a meeting for ski n; trihution of rewards, adjudged during the present ses shd:"k place in the Society's rooms, John-street, Adelphi, n umerously attended. Amongst the company was si 6 - tri ice Chirokjee, who came from India to visit the institu cobotry. At one o'clock his Royal Highness the pPh ° ' S ussex entered the room, and was received with great itld 1 11 1 :.; after which the report was read by the Secretary, dm% b e rewards were then presented to the respective candi stehe Y his Royal Highness, who accompanied each gift with art s , a ppropriate remark. In mechanics and other practical u e ; Prizes; varying from ten to two guineas, were distribute • „,ght individuals five of whom were Spitalfields weavers; Th_7ers received either the gold or the silver Isis medals. ridt ;_ptanks of the society were voted to several gentlemen for gifts and communications. In the fine arts, four sil hil• 7 e dals were vote d to lady amateurs, and seventeen silver f aoned other me d a l s to artists, amongst w h om was M aster Landseer, aged nine years, for water-colour drawings t,„te 'birds and beasts from nature, the silver Isis medal. On a toe othirnthanks.being passed to his Royal Highness, he said it li ons particular pleasure to observe so many useful inven that .r .the part of the workin n o. classes, who thereby showed pensneir. time was spent in laudable efforts for advancing their partieular trade, and promoting the advantage of their ow citizens. C P• DarbisherelEsq. and Mr. Winder, of Bol ;0. together with Mr. Ainsworth, M.P., had an interview da.y with the Marquis of Lansdowne, at Lansdowne House. INDIAN MAIL.—The Post-office has publish ed notice that Letters for the Marseilles route will be in time `v-morrow evening, the sth instant. 16, L TE MURDER OF MR. BRYA N.—A new is breaking . out as to the murder of this lamented gentle- It would app that he has fallen a victim to the same uorange f P ' ee ing of private revenge and sense of impunity which sedn the murder of Owen Murphy, of Ballybay, for which Gr ay was tried—for which the law has keen a dead letter 0f.7,7 0 ug1i net one word escapes the 'fory Press about the want l et s q g"r in the Gove r nment. In fact, the estate of Mr. But- Yan Was a d en o f O r angeism.—Dublin Pilot. "" ( s CO VENT-GARDEN 4evening, letll ast evening, the season having continued for 220 nights, .b o ut a month longer than that of 1840. Between the two ;,:js, Lo n d on Assurance an d B eauty an d t h e B east, M r. C . Iv or ilews delivered an excellent address, in which he used these re p •--" Encouraged by your increasing patronage we have i A jwed th e l ease of the theatre for three years." This was itZY ilietred. We congratulate Madame Vestris upon the the e which the success o f th e season h as ena bl e d h er t o a d op t i n i d e dress, and wish her for the future a continuation of the my which the management has so well deserved. RUSSELS JUNE 2.—This morning at nine , o~loek her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Prince 6 p ' '•!in:ngen, and her Suite, left the Palace of Laeken, and D eistlid by the railroad to Leige, from which city they will bfil s GeNiany, and after a short stay at Gotha, will visit the Villisbaden. The Duchess of Kent will pass a few • Nu s 4l4 on her return to England. MAY 28.—The Royal Eug k, Lln boat Salaniwler, with the Marquis of Clanricarde bt bo ar h u .. pas „d b y . on its way to London from St. Peters ' d e " to which city - , th %art.. e.lMarquis.as Ambassador from Englandat the Russian si } P, "Wednesday last during the oppressive heat Middle of the day the sands'were crowded with bathers. IsiZ"roteachers,thers was Mr. Pricol the sch himMso of elf essrs. Hermand and Price, , st the e lookine. on as his pupils It-„ e , n j°Ying themselves. An under-teacher, named Taylor, y o u9lhteets, and an excellent swimmer, was amongst the 06,nR gentlemen, whomihe always carefully warned from en- IZeving th emselves by getting into the current that sweeps siati ' the limit s wh ere th e men o f th e H umane S oc i e ty are his ° lie d- . But how uncertain is life ! Young Taylor with all tit of swimming suddenly disappeared—it is supposed , - ;7, 4e:was seized with the cramp. A Frenchman, surprised tonne time he continued under water, swam to where he had tw a e down, and soon perceived the current bearing him away; he r e _: n after him, seized him by the hair of his head , but the cur :, was too strong to resist, and, to save himself, was obliged „,_!et go his hold. Unfortunately the men of the Humane So- Lwere absent at dinner, no boat was on the sea, and the a It was the young man perished. We have seen some news rPers *maims their readers about bathing out of the limits wP r escribed b y t h e Humane Society, and attributing this de rable a cc id ent to this want of caution. A gentleman who t _as present a t th e t i me attributes the accident to no boat being 4,1:1, and no men o f t h e S ociety being present, r.nd strongly i O4 Ses fo r th e f uturethat one man at least should be always in tn.!' boat, whil e ot h ers go to dinner, as, should any accident oc nin future the numbers on the spot could always afford him f.eit assistance. The body of Taylor was found the same rnoon near Fort la Creehe.—BOulogn e Gazette. A curious instance of the effect of an electric cur rent was observed a few days since, Revigny, i n th e J ura . A a cave m in had t a k en refuge from a violent a ' storm at the entrance of in a rock, when he wa s s t ruck by lightning, and killed. LOa examining his body, the buttons of his coat, which were a mature of pewter, were found melted, each in One• half of their fie t, t, andiportion of the met a l th ey had lost was discovered adhering to the nails of the man's shoes. WONDERS OF STEAM.--Two gentlemen left -prussets at three o'clock in the tweernnopon.mof. oFncidslaytu, and rid to y arrived beingi e d to I.iverpool at a quarter before h.. __ • (4 stance of 430 mites, performed in the shorts pace o 271 'l e ts. The whole of the journey was performed by stea travellers left Broach by railway on Friday afternoon' vtcl'at Ostend in time for the packet, were lauded at Black: , 041 ,: h rirocOetled from thence to London by the railway, and just p the train from London to Liverpool as it was starting.t - .P E H tt P RINCESS ROYAL.—We underst an d t h at ie e sillenald new i ron steam ship, Princess Royal, was tried on . i.deeosy last by Messrs. Tod and M'Gregor, the builders giiieers ; and, from the time taken to perform certain s rrh learn that Slie has proved herself the fastest sea istinfcteanaer allthit. - 'The Princess Royal is the property of k,ilasgow and Liierpool Royal Steam Packet Company, and v i7Peeted 'to Make the voya.ge from Greenock to Liverpool um 15 hours,— Ci/aspout C onstitutional. THE LAND INVESTMENT COM- PANY OF IRELAND. Thursday a meoting of Members of Parliament and other gen • tlemen interested in the promotion of the objects of the above Company took place at the Thatched House Tavern St. James's street. Sir David Roche, Bart., M.P., in the Chair. Amongst those present we observed Sir Richard Nagle, M.P., J. H. Talbot, Esq., NI P., J. Power, Esq., M.P., John C. Hector, Esq., M.P., Maurice O'Connell, Esq., M.P., J. P. Somers, Esq., E. B. Roche, Esq., M.P., Cornelius O'Brien, Esq., .M.P., John O'Connell, Esq., M.P., Sir Burgess Caruso, Sir John Hare, Thomas Edwards, Esq., John Joseph Keene, Esq., J. R. Elmore, Esq., John Reynolds, Esq., Major Steele, J D. Smith, Esq. The CHAIRMAN said that he had only that morning arrived in town, and was, therefore, unacquainted with the details of the arrangements of the proposed Company, but would leave them to be explained by Mr. Reynolds, the originator of the project, but he highly approved of the principle.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. REYNOLDS said before he would enter into a detail of the objects for which the Land Investment Company of Ireland had been formed, he would read the prospectus, of which the following is an extract : " Men of all sects and parties, acquainted with the state of Ire land, admit that a very large portion of the evils under which she labours may be traced to the very bad feeling existing between a large portion of the landlords and their tenants, the nature and origin of which are too notorious to require particular ex. planation in this prospectus; and, although some may be disposed to blame the landlords, whilst others attach censure to the tenants, every good man anxious to promote the peace, happiness, and prosperity of Ireland, must deeply deplore the existence of such great and afflicting evil;—evils which may easily be traced to the want of a substantial resident Yeomanry holding land as proprietors, and not for tenantable interest or as tenants. "In a country like Ireland, without extensive commerce or mann_ factures, the great bulk of the population is driven, as a matter of necessity, to look to the land alone as a means of support, and it is a subject of notoriety that although the farming and agricultural classes in Ireland possess several millions of money (a great por tion of which is deposited in the Savings' Banks, Joint Stock Banks, and in the hands of private persons, bearing a very low rate of inte rest) which they are most anxious to invest in land in Ireland, still for the reasons already alluded to, and owing to other causes too nu merous to be embodied in this statement, they cannot find favour able opportunities to do so, especially as the sales of land in Ireland are generally made in large quantities, and not in lots suited to small purchasers. "Those best acquainted with the state of Ireland are well aware that upwards of Three Millions of acres of land in that island still remain totally uncultivated, although ascertained to be capable of cultivation ; and that owing to the causes already stated, the richest and the most fertile portion of the lands under cultivation do not yield one.fourth of the produce which, under a proper and improved system, the result of science and capital, they are capable of producing, particularly in the, hands of active farmers employing men, labour, and capital for their own benefit. " It is admitted by all that no people in the world are more at tached to the land of their birth than the inhabitants of Ireland ; still the industrious, enterprising, and wealthy farmers, finding it impossible to invest their small capital in land at home, (migrate every year, to the extent of many thousands, to various parts of the world, thereby giving to foreign and often hostile countries, the benefit of their capital and labour; it is unnecessary to point out the frightful consequences likely to result not only to Ireland, but to the British Empire, from a system in its very nature so de. structive. " It may perhaps be stated that emigration is useful for Ireland ; but it is only useful as a palliative for existing evils. However, without meaning to enter on the consideration of a question so very important and so closely connected with modern political eco. nomy, no man will venture to assert that the withdrawal of such enormous sums of money from Ireland annually, to be invested in lands in Foreign Countries, coupled with the loss of the labour, industry and enterprise of the best portion of her inhabitants, does not increase the poverty of Ireland and the sufferings of her people." Mr. REYNOLDS, having read the prospectus, congratulated the meeting on having obtained such a Chairman as Sir David Roche to preside over their first meeting. It augured well for the success of the Institution .—(Hear, hear.) It was gratifying to see such a meeting in the City of London, and he was sure the Land Investment Company would have the support of British capitalists, when once its objects were known.—(Hear, hear.) Its chief ob. jects were two-fold; first, to make a safe and profitable invest ment for the Shareholders ; and secondly, to improve the condition of the people of Ireland. It was a matter of pounds, shillings, and pence, independent of the control or influence of any political opinion.—(Hear, hear.) It was a well known fact that the people of Ireland looked to the land alone as a means of support. They were obliged to do so, because there was no foreign commerce or home manufacture, in which they could employ their capital. The small capitalist had many difficulties to contend with. He could net obtain that quantity of land suited to his means, and as the prospectus stated that the chief object of the Company was to purchase estates in bulk, and divide them into small holdings, purchasing estates in bulk could not fail of paying the shareholders. He knew an instance of it in the province of Leinster, where an estate had been purchased for 200,000/., and when portioned into eight or nine lots produced between 40,0001. and 50,000/. more. He trusted that was a suf. ficient illustration of the profits which might be anticipated from such a plan. It was also a well known fact that there was in the savings banks' fund and joint stock companies in Ireland upwards of five millions of money, and the larger portion of which belonged to the labouring classes, who not having the opportunity of procuring that quantity of land, where they could employ their small capital and exercise their in dustry, were obliged to invest it in such securities ; whereas, if the small capitalist by his industry in time acquired means enough, he could have the ownership of his land by purchase, and become the freeholder. He might be asked in the purchase of estates which were crowded with paupers, how would they be disposed of? The Company in every instance will avoid purchasing estates so situated. However, as one of their leading objects will be to ame liorate the condition of the people, the Company will purchase a tract of reclaimable land in each district. It is proposed to build cottages on it, the erection of which to be at an expense not exceeding 151., and to allot twenty acres of such land to each, with a comfortable cottage, the purchase of which land would not cost the Company more than 2s. 6d. per acre per annum, and it was proposed to charge the tenant 6d. an acre more on a seven years' lease, and so increase it in a graduated scale, until they obtained a lease for ever, or it became theirs by purchase. It was another well known fact, that there are three mil lions acres of reclaimable land in Ireland, and what are the conse quences of leaving it in that state ? Why, emigration. And who are those that emigrate ? Why the best part of the population, the small industrious capitalist. There is not a year that passes but that half a million• of gold leaves the country with emigrants, which was a loss not only of physical strength but wealth; why not invest the money at home, where there were, within twelve hours' sail of Liverpool, three millions of acres of reclaimable land? Ought not the small capital►st have the opportunity of investing his money at home? Why leave a home and go 16,000 miles to seek one ?—(Hear, hear, hear.) The formation of the proposed Company would tend to cure all those evils. The benefits which it was likely to confer would be great. The cultivation of the lands in Ireland had as strong a claim upon policy as it had upon humanity.—(Cheers.) The Company be coming the purchasers would guarantee to the peor man a good title and a quiet and peaceable possession, and, instead of going to New Zealand, they would find a happy home in their own country. The CHAIRMAN thought that there would be another good re sulting to the industrious man, and that was as to the expense of procuring a title to his holding, which would be obtained in bulk by the Company, and guaranteed to him at a trifling expense. Mr. O'BRIEN, M.P., was of opinion that in the event of a poor man depositing a quarter of the purchase-money of his holding, 5 per cent. should be added to the rent until he paid the entire sum. Mr. TALBOT, M.P., said that with regard to paupers on estates, their condition could be greatly ameliorated, by reducing their rent,: as no doubt it was produced from paying rack rents for their holdings.—(Hear, hear.) He highly approved of the project, and it should have his warmest support. • " Sir RICHARD NAGLE, M.P., wished to know if the Company wished :o become landlords permanently? M. O'CoNYELL, Esq., M.P., said that they did not. Their intem. :ion was to sell the land, with the least possible delay. After some observations from Mr. Reynolds as to the number 3f Mares and their price, _ Mr. POWZR, M.P., moved a resolution, declaratory of the neecs. city there was for the formation of such a company as the Land Investment Company. Mr. M. O'CostiELL attended the meeting, but was obliged to leave before the chair was taken, a deputation waiting to attend a meeting of the Catholic Institute. He desired him to assure the meeting that the project met his entire approbation, and should have his undivided support, and he regretted very much not being able to remain. A provissional Committee was then appointed to make the ne cessary arrangements for carrying out the objects of the Company, of which Mr. Maurice O'Connell, M.P., is Secretary. Thanks being given to Mr. Reynolds as the originator of the plan, and to the Chairman, the meeting separated. THE WEATHER.—NooN, JUNE 4. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Barometer Thermometer... 62 Highest 7B 1 Lowest ... 45 Wind W.—Freezing Point 32 Deg. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) Lownort, JUNk 4.—Wind this day at noon, W., moderate pleasant breeze and fine weather. _DEAL, Julie 3.—Wind S.W., and variable—Arrived the Black River packet from Jamaica. Arrived from the River and sailed the Lady Kennaway, for Sydney; Agricola, Port Philip; Adullos, Ceylon; Mercy, Barbadoes ; Georgiana, Tobago ; Charlotte, Geneva ; Alfred, Gibraltar ; West In dian, Metes; Neuva Santa Anna, Teneriffe. RAMSGATE, JUNE 3.—The Ellison, from London to Sierra Leone, which was on shore on the Goodwin Stands, came off last night, and proceeded this morning for the River, leaky. DOVER, JUNE 3.—Arrived off, the Nereid, from Leghorn. HASTINGS, JUNE 2.—Arrived off, the William Fulcher, Laws, from Nevis ; Eliza, Cooper, Buenos Ayres ; Mary and Jane, Barnley, New York for Hamburgh. PORTSMOUTH, JUN E 3. —Wind W. N. W. —Arrived the Ann, from Limerick; Augusta and Melina, Calcutta for Bremen. COWES, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Yankee, from Rio Janeiro. SALCOMBE, JUNE 2. Arrived off the Jules, from Tobago. DARTMOUTH, JU NE 2.—Arrived the Waterlily, Glass, from Malaga, with loss of topma,t and other damage ; Columbus, Lendberg, Leghorn, for Havre, with loss of mainmast and foremast-head, and sustained other damage during a severe gale off Cape Finisterre. LivEarooL, Jul.E 3.—Wind INT:W.—Arrived the Princess Charlotte, from Bombay; Charles Eyes, Valpariaso; Harriet, Buenos Ayres; Commodore, do. Gratia ; Mary Ellen, German, La Gua}ra ; Columbine, Jos. Cunard , :Abbotson, all from New Orleans ; Marquis Bute, Mobile.; John Bentley, Desborough, Savannah ; Alert, Naples, Venus, Blundell, Bilbao. Sailed the Clifford, Halifax ; Beethoven, Valpraiso ; Sheffield and Isaac, Allerton,:New York. Arrived off, Tynwald and Galatia. The vessel seen by the Fortitude reported yesterday, sup posed to be a large steamer disabled, was In all probability the London, from Yarmouth, United States, which arrived here yesterday afternoon. The description and position of the dis vbled vessel corresponds with that of the London. FALMOUTH, JUNE 2.—Wind W.S.W. to N.W., light breezes—Arrived the Julie, Swenson, from Paraiba. Off Port, the Asia, from Batavia ; St. Thomas Packet, Peterson, Rio Janeiro ; Lucretia, Lears, Matanzas ; Strafford, Brewer, Alexandria ; Victoria, Johnson, Savanilla. BRISTOL, JUNE 3.—Arrived the Augusta, Balsdon, from Barbadoes. -- --- WATERFORD, MAY 31.—Arrired the Ellen, Murphy, from Trinidad. - Coaw, JUNE I.—Arrived the Swan, Hughes, from Alexan dria. Off Port, the Good Luck, Payne, from Buenos Ayres. HULL, JUNE 3.—Wind W.—Sailed the Waterloo, Predan, for Miramichi ; St. George, Leedam, Quebec. TO MARINERS.—BILLS OF HEALTH. The following has been received at Lloyds : Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade, Whitehall, June 3, 1841. Sta,—l au directed byi the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade to acquaint you for the information of the mer chants trading to Maracaibo*hat the Governor of that place has officioly notified to her Majesty's Consul that vessels arriving there unprovided with bills of health from the last port at which they touched, certified by the Venezuelan Consul, shall be subjected to quarantine, and that masters of vessels bringing persons not fur nished with passports shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars for each pessenger ; and I am to add, that this regulation will be r igidly enforced against all vessels and passengers without distinc tion as to the length of the voyage or to the poet or country from whence they arrive, I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Tothe kjeotetary to Lloyd's. DENIS LE MARCHANT. .LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 18411 f The Supreme Government had opened a new loati at 5 per cent., a circumstance which had caused much speculation throu4hout In.lia. The old loans of 4 per cent, have become deprecated, and would evidently not have been adequate to an emergency such as was contemplated in reference to new operations at II. : a t. Th e Bombay Army is marching to - ,wards Quetta and Candahsr. Major Todd had arrived safely at Gori,k. Generals Brooks and Nott, each at the head of 6,000 men, were waiting for further orders. The rumoured advance of the Pe rs i ans on Ilerat is now found to he some what premature. Ali was quiet in Nepaul and Scinde... The Punjaub , c on ti nue d i n a very disturbed state, The murder of Colonel Mofitoro, Captain Fowkes, and Paymaster Fore, by their own Sheik troops, near Peshawar, has been con firme i. The same mutinous body of soldiers have also mur dered 119 of their owr, native officers. General Lumley, with his troops, were prepared to cross the Sutledge at Ferozepore as soon as it might be necessary ; but it appeared that no de cisive course had been taken. * British interference had not yet been entered on withi n th e P un j au b ; meant i me it bad become a prey to the ravages of lawless troops amounting to 80,000 men. The Ilill tribes in the Cutchee were threatening to avenge their recent defeats. .Nu;seer Khan had been induced by Colonel Stacey to enter into arrangements, and to proceed with him to Quetta, to meet Mr. Bell, and ratify the treaty. Dost Mahommed was at. Meerut on the 28th of March, and left it for Calcutta next day. Calcutta and Cuttack had been suffering, severely from cholera; the deaths were for some days up to the 9th of April, 50 in the former city alone, not counAing its populous suburbs. The Rev. Mr. 13ackhouse, chaplain at Agra, had been carried off by it. The 32d Regiment of Native Infant" y was attacked by it on the Bth of March, between Dacca and Dinapore, and 100 sepoys, about an equal number of boatmen and followers, carried off in 11 days. The great discussion in Bombay respecting the contempt of the Supreme Court, committed by two sets of merchants, has ended by the Judges allowing the rules to be discharged agamst those sb s i c ) pptriioen of collected t ors grea st sentosati presenton lvas apiece of thereby, and a u to the barrister wh o pl ea d e d on the i r behalf. Th e w hole pal o t f e the bar has condemned his conduct, and the public has allowed the matter to drop into oblivion. CHINA, INDIA, AND EGYI-T. (From our Second Edition sf last night.) The following extracts from the letters and papers brought by the Overland Mail (in addition to what we gave in our Edition of yesterday) will he found exceedingly interesting : CHINA. (From the Canton Press, Feb. 27. ) Au eye-witness has kindly favoured us with the following interesting particulars : " On Thursday night a party of seamen and some native troops landed in South Wantung with three howitzers ; in land. ii , g they were fired on by the Chinese without eflect. In the course of the nigl.t a sandbag battery was raised, the Chinese firing at short intervals cn the, working party all night. At daylight this fire was returned with great effect from the newly raised batteries; about II a.m. on Friday the signal was made to get under weigh with floodtide and a very light wind. The Calliope led into action, 'the Samarang, Druid, Wellesley (towed by the boats), Sulphur, and Modesto, all attacking the North Wantung fort, occasionally firing at a small f,:rt on the side of the river opposite to Anunghoy, but this he ivy fire was not long answered briskly from the forts, and the steamers Nemesis and Madagascar soon were seen to run close to the fort and land the soldiers from on board of our boats they had towed; the soldiers speedily had the whole island in their possession, and I was told there was not a single casualty cn our side. The number of killed and wounded on the part of the Chinese was very considerable, but not, I understand, equal to what took place at Chuenpee. The pri soners at Wantung were about 1,000, and were carried over by the steamers to Tycocktow side, and let go. " The Blenheim and Melville assisted by the Queen steamer, attacked Anunghoy fort a little after the other action was begun ; the Blenheim was not apparently so near as the Melville. Their fire was answered with spirit for some time ; the marines and seamen were landed, and took possession of the lower fort, and soon went along the beach to the upper or old fort, and the whole by this time was in our possession, the Chinese making off up the hills. On the Tycocktow sids the hills were co vered with Chinese soldiers. At night, as we were coming away, they fired one or two guns, and soon after the whole line of hills where they had been encamped was in flames, I do not know how fired. The Calliope was leading a squadron up the river, but how far they go I did not hear. Not a man on our side was wounded, I believe, in North Wantung; I have not heard whether the Anunghoy division was equally fortunate. FORCES OF TIIE EXPEDITION IN CANTON RIVER. H. r Majesty's ship Wellesley, 74, bearing the broad pendant of Commodore Sir J. J. Gordon Bremer, C. 8., Captain Tho mas Maitland; Blenheim, 74, Sir H. S. Fleming Senhouse, K. C. H., Captain Pritchard ; Melville, 74, Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas ; Druid, 44, H. Smith, Esq. ; Calliope, 28, Herbert, Esq. ; Samarang, 28, James Scott, Esq. ; Alligator, 28, H. Kuper, Esq. ; Herald, 26, Nias, Esq. ; Hyacinth, 20, W. Warren, Esq. ; Modeste, 20, H. Eyres, Esq. ; Sulphur, 8, Belcher, Esq.; Starling, Killett, Esq. ; Jupiter, armed en flute as troopship, Fulton, Esq., Honourable Company's Service ; Queen, armed steamer, Captain Warden ; Mada gascar, Captain Dicey; Enterprise, Captain West; Nemesis, Captain Hall. AT CHUSAN. Her Majesty's ship Blonde, 44, F. Bourchier, Esq., Conway, 28, C. D. Bethune, Esq. ; Pylades, 29, T. V. Anson, Esq. ; Nimrod, 20, C. A. Barlow, Esq. ; Columbine, 18, T. J. Clarke, Esq. ; Algerine, 10, T. S. Mosson, Esq. ; Rattlesnake, troop ship, Captain Brodie; H. C. S. Atalanta, armed steamer, Captain Rogers. The determination of the Emperor to carry on war to the knife, caused Captain Elliot immediately to despatch her Majesty's sloop Starling to Chusan with orders, if possible, to intercept the transports and cause the troops to re-occupy the island. Captain Rennel conjectures that the Starling had pro bably succeeded, as none of the transports had reached Singa pore when the Water Witch arrived. A letter from Tinghae (Chusan) dated February 19, had been received at Macao, and as, at that time, the intelligence of the Emperor's resolve to make war a l'outrance had been received, the probability is that the troops had not even been embarked. We annex an extract from the letter, as its contents are of importance, inasmuch as they confirm the news received at Macao lintend writing you fully by her Majesty's ship Conway, which is to sail every day, but lest by any chance news should reach by the Kelpie prior to the arrival of the Conway, I take this opportunity of acquainting you, upon the most undoubted authority, that the Emperor has refused to ratify every article of Captain Elliot's treaty with Keshen. We have more than one version of the edict in question, but all agree in the impor tant particulars not to pay a farthing of opium Hong debts, for under this head has Keshen represented the 6,000,000 to be paid for the opium, and to yield us not one single inch of terri tory for us to set our foot on. There can be no doubt that such is the Bipedal mandate. Such being the ease, I tremble for the safety of you, or any of our countrymen who may have gone up to Canton on reliance upon the treaty, as the orders are to wage a war of extermina tion against us. Let every British subject, therefore, leave Canton as early as possible, and 1 hope that this warning may yet be in time. To-day I go over to Chinhae to demand the prisoners, and upon the reply of the Chinese authorities will depand our giving up the island or not. Hong Kong had, we hear, been evacuated by our troops, though not, of course, altogether abandoned, and everything now wears the appearance of a protracted war.—Englishman, April 2. (From the Bombay Courier, May 1.) The following copies of private letters and official notifica tions reached us at a late hour yesterday evening. We there fore submit them to the perusal of our readers, without fur- ;her comment : Macao, 15th March, 1841. PER GUNGA TO SINGAPORE. It is with regret we have to advise that trade continues still closed, nor is it possible to form a conjecture when it is likely to be re-opened. On the 3d instant our forces had reached Howqua's fort, about half way between Whampoa and the foreign factories at Canton, when an armistice was granted, on the solicitations of the Chinese; which having expired on the 6th, the forces ad vanced about two miles further, to a fort erected in 1835, with in a short distance of the suburbs of Canton. Captain Elliot then issued the annexed proclamation to the inhabitants, in an ticipation of the mandarins granting permission for their buy ing and selling with British and foreign merchants. But this not being the case, hostilities have been resumed—after some days' delay by the occupation and destruction of the little for tress v, ithin a mile of Canton in the Macao passage, and further hostilities are in progress. Capt. Elliot has stated, in a circular of the 10th, " a close embargo will be laid on the city and trade of Canton, unless and the whole foreign trade proceeds upon a perfectly equal kovernment." _ _ . Hov. all this is to end it is impossible to foresee : at present the local authorities allege they are not empowered to nego tiate in any way without further instructions from Pekin. '1 he Commodore has decided that merchant vessels are not to be allowed to 'go higher up than immediately within the Bogue, where several Americans now are. CIRCULAR TO HER MAJESTY'S SUBJECTS. Canton, Hall of the British Factory, March 20. A suspension of hostilities at Canton and in this province has been this day agreed upon between the Imperial Commis sioner Yang and the undersigned. It has further been publicly proclaimed to the people under the seals of the Commissioner and the acting Governor of the province, th,t the trade of the port of Canton is open, and that British and other foreign merchants who may see fit to proceed there for the purpose of lawful commerce shall be duly protected. No bond shall be required by the Provincial Governor, but there will be no objection on the part of the British authorities to the like liabilities for the introduction of prohibited mer chandise or for smuggling duly proved, which would follow such offences in England, detention of persons or property, penal consequences of all kind excepted. Pending the final settlement of affairs between the two countries, the under signed has consented to the payment of the usual charges and other established duties. Ships of war will remain in the near neighbourhood of the factories, for the better protection of her Majesty's subjects engaged in the trade of Canton. (Signed) CHARLES ELLIOT. PUBLIC NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the British and foreign mer chant vessels have permission to proceed to Whampna, all con sequrnees arising from the possible and sudden resumption of hostilities of course remaining at the risk of the parties. .1. J. GORDON BREMER. (From the Calcutta Journals. ) By the Queen steamer, having on board Sir Gordon Bre mer, which left Canton on the 31st of March, and Singapore on the 10th of April, we have the following China news:—The British flag flies over the Factory at Canton, and a Provi sional Government has been established on the part of the Chinese, and some ships were receiving teas. The frigate Calliope and the Aladagascar steamers were lying off the Fac tory at Canter', but the English could not with safety venture on shore. Some people belonging to the Calliope, having been seized while on shore, the Madagascar opened her fire on the city, and the boat of the Calliope discharging grape killed a great number of the Chinese, and eventually the prisoners were released. The Emperor is still issuing furious edicts. It is understood that Sir J. G. Bremer is come up for troops and orders. Keshen has been sent up to Pekin in irons by the order of the Emperor. It is supposed this will have a good effect as Keshen will be able to open the Emperor's eyes as to the real state of affairs below. The Madagascar steamer left Cantos the day before the Queen, and reached Singapore before her. She may be ex pected every hour. Captain Haines was a passenger in the Madagascar, but joined the Queen at Singapore, and came up in her. The .Melville and Samarang men of war have returned to England. Sir H. Gough had arrived at Macao. The Queen steamer, just arrived from Canton, the 31st of March, has brought the following important intelligence, which we give as briefly as possible to our readers : Canton is in possession of the British troops, and a truce had been agreed upon between the new Commissioner and Captain Elliot ; the trade is to he se-opened at Canton, pend ing the Imperial decision. The Commodore, however, has given notice that in permitting ships to proceed to Whampoa, ail consequences arising from the possible and sudden resump tion of hostilities, of course remain at the risk of the parties. Our friends say that this arrangement will succeed better than those hitherto attempted, but this seems doubtful. 'the accumulation of goods outside Canton is immense, and will now, without doubt, be thrown on the market. Prices will rule very low—Patna is quoted at 400 to 410 Sp. dollars, Benares 400, and Malwa 410. It appears that after Captain Elliot's notice of the. re-open ing of the trade, 9 American and 14 British ships proceeded to Whampoa, but in a few days new obstacles were thrown in their way, it being intimated that the Chinese traders were all armed, as the ships of war were so near Canton, and that no trade would be carried on until they were removed. It is said that Captain Elliot was inclined to yield this point. Before, however, any arrangements could be made, the reply of the Emperor to the despatch announcing the destruction of the Bogue Forts was received, which was fierce in the extreme, and orders a war of extermination to be carried against the English. The notices posted by the Canton authorities on the walls, a nnouncing the opening of the trade, were pulled down, a ri ( lnll co mmunication with the English ordered to be cut off. Keshen had been sent a prisoner to Pekin, by order of the Emperor. The Madagascar left China on the 31st ult. and two dabs afterwards the steamer Queen suddenly followed with Commodore Bremer on board, who has arrived to consult with Lord Auckland. It is evident that Captain Elliot is in a dilemma, and that the differences between the twe Governments are as far from a termination as ever. Another letter says, " All the factories in Cantoa are occu i p i e d by our troops. The Chinese villagers render every assist ance in their power to the steamer Nemesis, in removing stakes and other obstructions in the river, between Macao and Can ton."—Hurkurrt, April 20. The steamer Queen is in from China, having on board Com;. modore Sir J. G. Bremer. His Excellency landed about two o'clock under the usual salute. A truce.is concluded with China, our troops are in posses sion of Canton, for the capture of which a salute was fired this afternoon. Kesben has been degraded. The gallantry attending the forcing of the passage to Canton exceeds all praise. The Chinese lost 4UO men—ours only six wounded. —Calcutta Courier, April . . INDIA. An university at Madras had been o p ene d by Lord Elphin. stone, who continues to retain the government of that Presi dency three years longer. PERSIA. (From the Bombay Courier of April 20.) By the Emily schooner we have received the following inte resting intelligence from Bushire ; " Bushire, Ist April, 1841. " I am happy to inform you that the negotiations which have been pending during the last month have at length been brought to issue. Despatches have been received at Bushire from Teheran, stating that Dr. Riach had been ordered to the frontiers of Gorian to stop the advance of the Persian army, who were on their march to Herat, the Shah of Persia having issued orders for the withdrawal of his troops, in consequence of the English Government having consented to give up and evacuate Karrack. The Residency was to be immediately re moved again to Bushire, and the Resident was on his arrival there to meet certain authorities for the pacific settlement of the Persian question. The Shah of Persia .had openly ex pressed a wish to renew a friendly intercourse with the British Government, and amicably settle the matters of the late dis pute. Gorian is in future to be governed by Shah Kamran. Our Correspondent adds that just at present the country is in a most distracted state, the petty chiefs waging war with each other, but says that on the removal of the advanced army the country will be quieted." The above is copied from an Armenian letter, and we have every reason to believe in its correctness. The only thing that staggers us in our belief. is that part of the letter which states that Karrack is to be evacuated after all the sums of money and valuable lives which it has cost to main tain it. We have received letters from Karrack by the Emily to the 12th of March, at which time the H. C. sloop of war Coote, with the Commodore, and other ships had returned from a political trip down the coast. He had fired into some of the Arab piratical forts and done them much damage. The Rev. F. Spring and lady had proceeded in the little Emily to Bagdad for the benefit of their health. Captain Elder, of Ist Bombay European Regiment, and Dr. Mackenzie, residency surgeon, had taken their departure for England via 13agdad, on sick certificates: only two medical officers remained for duty, and, by some chance or other, medicine was very scarce, and a fresh supply much needed. The 16th Regiment N. I. have about sixty men in hospital, but no bad cases ; the Ist Bombay European Regiment had only eight men in hospital. However, the soldiers' wives and chil dren were very unhealthy, and kept the surgeon fully employed. The weather was becoming oppressively hot. The detachmen of the Ist Europeans which left Bombay in September, 1838 321 strong, has now only 182 remaining of the number, and great hopes are entertained of a relief before the next hot weather. Lieutenant Woodhouse had gone on leave to Bagdad, and Ensign Evans to Bussorah. Three officers on the sick list. The field engineer very hard at work building a Commissariat Godown near the fort. The following appointments have been made : —CTtain Lechmere to Lave charge of the Trea sure Chest, vice Elder, proceeded to Europe ; Lieutenant Jopp to be Assistant to the Resident, and Dr. Behan to be Staff and Residency Surgeon. No vegetables to be had in the Gul this year except what came from Bombay. A few potatoes, however, had been planted, and are now in blossom. The Re sident is much the same as ever. Mr. Dunlop, Col. Schuler, and Capt. Reid, Bengal Cavalry, were at Karrack; they are to proceed to Bombay in the Emily. Some French gentle men hive been here, but the Colonel requested them to leave as soon as convenient; it is believed they are also to go to Bombay in the Emily. No news of any moment from Persia —at least the peopld at Karrack know nothing. EGYPT. Our letters from Alexandria to the 22d ult., state that the Pacha had relaxed nothing in his preparations for defence. He had sent sixteen additional guns to strengthen the Pharil lon fort, which he had visited in state, with the French engi neer, Galise Bey, &c., on Louis Philippe's birth-day. 'I he powder carriers were again busy at midnight, carrying supplies from the magazines to the Pharillon, and to the other fort near the gate of Rosetta. The promised freedom of commerce has led to great loss and disap pointment to the merchants, for just as they were, on the 19th ultimo, on the point of shipping large quantities of flax seed, an order was issued detaining it, and taking it to the account at " Paella's" price. The explanation given was, that it would be wanted for seed next harvest, but it was known that the Pacha wanted to fulfil a linseed sale of his own to a large ;mount, and could not find sufficient, as the mer chants had been first in the market with cash. The cotton grown by Europeans is also impounded under a ruinously high export duty. Nobody dared to complain, for the extent of each man's business depended altogether on the goodwill of the Pacha, who is still the sole salesman for exports. On the same day that he laid hands on the linseed, he had received an address from 200 of the merchants, bankers, and others of the City of London, complimenting him on his highmindedness, liberality, &c., praying that he may long continue to develops the commercial energies of Egypt, unfolding in their fullest extent the blessings of prosperity and civilization, &c. The Pacha's reply was not expected by the Oriental. Sir David Wilkie had completed the Pacha's portrait, which he was bringing home in the Oriental to have engraved in London. Ibrahim Pacha had left Cairo for Middle and Upper Egypt to enforce his new regulations for the more effective service of the Government in military, financial, and agricul tural matters. His father was urgent for supplies of men, money, and produce. The ferocious Albanian mercenaries stationed near Damietta had a serious quarrel with the regular troops in their vicinity, and some blood was shed. These fo reigners were quartered in great numbers in the villages on the banks of the Nile, and were universally feared and hated. The plague continued in Alexandria and Rosetta. In the latter the cases were 25 per day in a population of only 8,(;00. The cases at Alexandria varied daily from 13 to 31. The official returns since the plague began there in December 1840, to 18th May, 1841, amount to 1,084 persons attacked; of these 530 are dead. Captain Cotton, son of Sir Willoughby, died on the morning of the 21st ult., at Alexandria, of an illness which he had been suffering under since he left Bombay. 'The Vizier of the Abyssinian Sultan Oubie had arrived at Cairo to solicit the Copt Patriarch to send them an Abouna, or missionary bishop, as usual. As the Oriental was preparing to sail, intelligence arrived that a regiment of artillery, stationed at El Arica, had deserted into Syria ; that Mehemet Ali had sent to recall Ibrahim Pacha down the Nile to Alexandria, and had also ordered down two more regiments from Cairo. The National Guards of that city were much dissatisfied at being drafted into regiments I of the line (Nizam) per farce. SPAIN. Our Madrid letters of the 26th ult. have arrived by this ex press. They state that the Ministers had been beaten on the election of a Vice-President to replace General San Miguel, appointed Minister of War. The Ministry and the Trinitarians supported M. Cortina. The opposition proposed M. Burial. Of 132 voters there were 79 for the latter, and only 49 for the Ministerial candidate. The Five per Cents. were at 27 for cash. WATERLOO-BRIDGE COMPANY.—Yesterday the Half-yearly Assembly of the Proprietors, was held at the Crown and Anchor, Strand, the Rev. John Rush in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been confirmed, Mr. Powell, clerk, read the report, which stated that the toll for the past half-year, ending the 23d February, amounts to (1,8591. 3s. 4d., being an increase of 2851. 2s. I Id. beyond what was received during the corresponding period of the pre ceding year. That increase was caused by the stoppage of Blackfriar's-bridge. A decrease of 2021. I Id. took place on the foot toll, which was attributed to the severity of the winter. Since the reduction of the latter toll to a halfpenny, the dimi nution in the receipts was very great. From the Ist of March, to the Ist of June, the receipts were 2,4101. 19s. 7d., being a decrease of 281/. 13s. 6d. as compared with those received during the same period last year for foot tolls. For the first two months after the reduction, the foot tolls diminishedat the rate of 41. Is. I Id. a day, and for the last month their decrease did not exceed 17s. 60. a day. During the 27 days that Westminster-bridge was closed the receipts increased to 844/. 4s. 4d. Mr. Powell was elected Clerk, vice Mr. Bridell, deceased, at the salary of 300/. a year ; he was also to act as surveyor. Mr. Boundman was elected Assistant Clerk, at a salary of lOU a-year. The expenditure cole, pe conded by Mr. James Bir d, the Report was ado p ted. to l, Cornier to give 500/. and th e latter 250/ . security. On the 23d of February a dividen d of 2s. 6iL was paid to the an nuitants. The bridge and i ts a pp roaches were in a sound state. The r o e 6 c 3 e l i. Opt s. 6d. amounted Upon 6 to 7,2 e 8 m 2/ o . t 4 io s n . 9d.,0f John n ROYAL BOTANIC SOCIETY OF LONDON.-- The Gardens of this Society were opened to the Fellows and their friends on Wednesday, for the purpose of exhibiting the progress of the works' n ow being executed in accordan c e t o the design of Mr. D. Burton and Mr. Marnock, which was re cently adopted by the Society. Many of the walks are com pleted. The principal one forms an extensive promenade, which was thronged by the numerous assembly attracted to the spot upon the occasion. The lesser walks wind among the trees, which afford an agreeable shade, and at various inter vals open to beautiful views of the neighbouring hills of Hamp stead and Highgate. The arrangements for the several scientific gardens are made with judgment, and prove the curator to lie a man of experience and taste. The weather was delightful, and the inner circle of the Regent's Park was lit era ll y crowded with gay equipages. Her Regent's Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and suite, and a great nuiriber of nobility and gentry were present, and appeared to be highly pleased with the change rriada during the last two months in the state of the grounds. Among the visitors were the Princess Augusta of Cambridge ; the Turkish Ambassador and suite ; Kurreem Khan and suite ; Mannockjee Cursetjee ; ; . r •Poreptess Obert ; Barons Kneseback and Dudon ; Duke and Duchess of Argp ; Duke and Don Luchivico di Lante ; Archbishop of York; Afar- Y ; Ladies Panmure, quis of Bristol; Earls Stanhop e, Coventr y , and Dartmo a u s th le ; .. a a nd r Loake Dashwood Ki ng , Pearson, Fowke, Nippesley , Lushington, Campb e ll, P r id eaux, Countesesas Cardigan and StanhEl e peg lor ds o i Bo Burgh ers h , Castle Imvaeinineo;c n Bishops of sh Durham, pccp y Norreys, Maclean, Hamilton, Sheffield, Burrow, A rc h er s he e, the Hon. Mrs. Phipps, .Kennedy, Tolleniadie, Wyndham, Pennant, Codsal, E f fi r. ., Hon. Misses Hardwicke, Katilline Ponsonby, Harriet Ponsonby, Erskine, the Hon. E. Phipps, A. Trevor, Vernon Harcourt, Sir Olin Campbell, Archibald Maclean, Burges Camay, Steven Hannock, George T. Staun ton, John Barrow, F. Fowke, J. Hamilton, Wm. Peirson, Norres, Edward Johnson, Benjamin Hall ) , Jauies Cla r k, John Hare; Colonels Austen , Muttlebury, cm -,„1,11 Miles, Jervis, Yavasour ; Captains R. inson, Hamilton, Evans; 7diss bong, Dirs. Grindlay, Joseph Gurney, Esq., Airs. Parrxatt, John IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, June 3. Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock. A Messenger from the House of Commons brought 'up the Turnpike Roads Bill, and several private Bills. The Duke of WELLINGTON presented several petitions from places in Somerset, Norfolk, Hampshire, and other coun ties against any alteration in the present Corn-laws. The Earl ofi ROSEBERYI presented several petitions from places in Stirlingshire, praying for an alteration in the Corn laws. " - • - • The Earl of LICHFIELD presented several petitions from the borough of Great Yarmouth, in favour of the abolition of the Corn-laws. The Earl of WINCHILSEA presented petitions from Can terbury and other places in Kent against any alteration in the Corn-laws. The Earl of WARWICK presented 55 petitions from the counties of Devon and Somerset, and 61 petitions from War wickshire, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Lord BEAUMONT presented petitions from places in Oxfordshire and Suffolk against any alteration in the Corn-laws. The Earl of RIPON presented 34 petitions from places in Essex and Kent, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. The Earl of HARE WOOD presented a petition from York shire, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. The Marquis of DOWNSHIRE presented a petition from Buckinghamshire, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Lord BROWNLOW presented a petition from Lincolnshire, against any altera ion in the Corn.laws. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH presented petitions from Somerset, Oxfordshire, and Northamptonshire, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Also a petition from certain in dividuals in Somerset, the rental of whose lands amounted to 90,0001. annually, and on which 100,0001. had been expended in improvements. The petitioners stated that any alteration in the Corn-laws would deprive them of a chance of remunera tion for the immense outlay of these sums. —( Hear, hear.) Earl BEAUCHAMP presented petitions from North and South Devonshire. and several places in Worcestershire, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Lord KINNAIRD presented seventy-six petitions from places in Scotland ; also fifty-eight petitions from Dundee and its neighbourhood, one of which was signed by 8,900 persons. He (Lord Kinnaird) had received a letter from a gentleman who had signed that petition, in which he complained of what he termed the smothering of discussions in that House. Earl FITZWILLIAM presented petitions from Hastings, Stirling. Stroud, Birmingham, Warwick, Devonport, Fife, Devonshire, and several other places, in favour of the re peal of the Corn-laws. Lord PORTMAN presented a petition from Stockton upon-Tees for an alteration in the import duties ; also a peti tion from Inverness, praying for no alteration to be made in thy present system of Banking in Scotland; also a petition from Staffordshire, praying for the abolition of Church-rates. The Duke of RUTLAND presented a petition from Lei cester, in favour of. ,church-rates ; also a petition from Grantham, praying thit no alteration be made in the present Corn-laws. Lord ASHBURTON presented several petitions from Es sex, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. ARMS (IRELAND) HILL. Lord DUNCANNON, after adverting to the conference that had taken place between the Houses respecting the amend ments to this Bill, moved that their Lordships should not insist upon their amendments. 'The Earl of CHARLEVILLE said, as the rejection of this motion would be the loss of the Bill, and as he thought an Arms Bill was necessary for Ireland, and that the present Bill was an improvement upon former ones, he should not insist upon the amendments he had proposed. The motion was then agreed to. VICTORIA PARK BILL. _ _ On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON, the Victoria Park Bill passed through Committee. Several private Bills also paved through Committee. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presented petitions in favour of the Corn-laws. The Earl of DEVON presented similar petitions from Blandford. JEWS' DECLARATIONuBILL. The Marquis of BUTE moved the second reading of the Jews' Declaration Bill. The Noble Marquis said the object of the Bill was to enable persons of the Jewish religion to held offices, to which they might be elected by their fellow-citizens. Ile would remind their Lordships that an Act had been passed to enable Quakers and Moravians to accept office without tak ing the usual oaths. It was not then deemed expedient to in clude the Jews, but he was free to confess, that, in his opi nion, the case of the Jews rested upon much stronger grounds than that of the Dissenters. He did not mean to go back to a remote period of history; but in their own day they found these Dissenters not only refusing Church-rates in the most obstinate and disagreeable manner, but also refusine , tithes. It really seemed to him that the claims of the Jews, under such circumstances, abstractedly from all political considerations, were much stronger than those of the Dissenters. He would ask their Lordships what was the state of the law as it at pre sent stood. He appealed to any legal Lord present whether it might not be evaded by any party who chose to do so? It was only necessary for the party elected to any municipal office to subscribe the declaration of the 9th Geo. IV., and the thing was done. It was to avoid the legal quibbling which such a state of things gave rise to, that he prayed their Lordships to give their assent to the second reading of the Bill. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY said the Noble Mar quis had certainly taken great care to avoid any topic of irri tation in his observations, and that added to the feelings of pain with which he felt it his imperative duty to oppose the second reading. There was one point which, it appeared to him, the Noble Marquis was in error respecting, and that was with regard to the insertion of the words " in the true faith of a Christian" in the declaration to he subscribed by the party accepting office. The Noble Marquis had stated that there had been no violence or resistance to the law on the part of the Jews, and to that he was ready to bear his testi mony ; but it was not to the character of the individual he looked in conceding a great principle like the present. His objection was to the religious profession of the parties, and he could not forget that they were of a religion which was apostate from the faith of Christ, and who held and believed that that faith was a tissue of fraud and imposture. He could not, therefore, give his consent to the admission of these persons to municipal offices and situatitsns of power and trust in this Christian country. It their admission was sanctioned by the Government he would say that the great principle on which they accepted office was violated, and that the exclusively Christian character of the country was done away with. It had been said that we ought to be charitable towards our neighbours, and do to them as we would be done by; but he did not think that a virtuous species of charity which would extend indulgence to individu als at the expense of their duty towards their God and the State. he Must Rey. Prelate concluded by moving that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. After a few words from the Marquis of BUTE; in reply, their Lordships divided, when there appeared, . .. . Contents Non-contents Majority for the second readin.. The Bill was then read a second time, and ° _ . The Bishop of LONDON moved fora copy •f the despatch from the East India Company to the Governor. .General of India, on the subject of further separating the Governor-Ge neral of India from the idolatrous practices carried on in that conntry.—Ordered. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 3. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock. ifaltby, from the Trinity Hou;e, presented papers. Mr. BERNAL brought up the Reports on the following Bills :—the Exeter Small Debts Bill, Stead's Patent Wood Paving Company, the Scottish Marine Insurance Company, and the Abingdon Inclosure Bill. Mr. Alderman COPELAND moved the third reading of the Stoke-upon-Trent Small Debts Bill. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. Mr. BROTHERTON presented a petition from the parish of St. Nicholas, Deptford, against the South Metropolitan Gas Bill. - On the motion of Sir J. YARDE BULLER, the Jackson Estate Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. ROUND brought up the Report of the Committee on the Walton (Essex) Improvement Bill. On the motion of bir T. FREMANTLE the Whaddon Chace Inclosure Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Sir G. CLERK the Stamford Improve ment Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of Mr. LASCELLES the Wakefield Water works hill was reported, and several clauses added. On the motion of Lord J. STEWART the Ardrossan Har bour Bill was read a third tims and passed. General ABERCROMBIE presented eleven petitions frOm places inStirlings.hire, praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws. Petitions to the same effect were presented by Mr. Childers from three parishes in Buckingham ; by Mr. Pease, from Bar nard Castle, and other places in Durham, and praying for a revision of the tariff; by Mr. Brotherton from four pa rishes in the county of Down ; by Mr. Marsland from Stockport in favour of the Government measures, and pray ing for the revision of the commercial tariff, and four petitions from agricultural parishes in the county of Barks, swing that the present Corn-laws make bread dear, employment uneer.• tain, and wages low. Mr. W. EVANS presented several petitions from North Derbyshire, praying for a revision of the Import Duties, and two from South Derbyshire, praying for the repeal of the Corn- laws ; Mr. THORNELY presented petitions from Stafford, and five other places, praying for a repeal of the Corn-laws. Petitions against a repeal of the Corn-laws were pre sented by Mr. Roche and Mr. Pease from an agricultural pasish in the county of Durham ; by Sir E. Wilmot, from places in the county of Warwick ; by Sir R. Hill, from Shropshire; by Lord G. Bentinek, from King's Lynn, and by Sir J. Y. Buller, from 67 parishes in the county of Devon. Mr. R. CURRIE presented 20 petitions from the metro politan dieti icts in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. VILLIERS presented a petition from a place in W- ur . cester, and petitions from St. Pancras and st":4ls‘i other dis tricts in the metropolis to the same pied. M r . WALKER presented four petitions to the same effect from Beverley. Mr. MUNTZ presented two petitions from Birmingham, against the Bill for regulating buildings in large towns; also a petition from the ward of St. Martin, in Birming ham, in favour of the commercial measures of the Government ;- and petitions from a place in Warwickshire, and the National Discussion and Mutual Improvement Society, in Birmingham with a similar prayer ; also a petition from a congregation of Unitarians in Birmingham, praying for the abolition of Church-rates. An Hox. MEMBER presented fifty-three petitions from places in Cumberland against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Mr. STRUTT presented several petitions from places in Derby, praying for an alteration in the Corn-laws. Mr. HINDLEY presented twelve petitions, signed by up wards of 3,000 persons, from the metropolis and its neighbour hood, to the same effect. Sir W. SOMERVILLE presented a petition faom Canter bury, in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented petitions frem Birming ham, Stepney, St. James's, Westminster, Marylebone, and several other places, all praying for the total abolition of the Corn-laws. Mr. BENETT presented thirty-five petitions from Wilt shire, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Mr. C HRISTOPHER presented petiti ons f rom S troud, Gloucestershire, and Buckinghamshire, to the same effect. Mr. VILLIERS presented thirteen petitions from thirteen diff ere nt parishes in the county of Buckingham, signed chiefly jay l a bourers ; also one from Walthamstow, Elpso m , L ei ton , Spitallieldl, St. Pancras, and Whit ee h ape l i and nine other petitions from different districts in London, al praying for the total repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. HECTOR presented a petition in favour of the repeal of the Corn-laws. Sir M. WOOD presented a petition from a, congrentiop of Dissenters in Fetter-lane, against Church-rates. Mr: C. ROUND piesentecla petition from a place in Essex, praying for Church Extension. Mr. W. PUNCOMBE presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire, against any alteration iii the Corn-laws. m r . riptigES present 4 a petition from a place i n x„„. miring for an Rlteratign in the • Corn.lawa : Si..- . .. i''' - ''' i • fan gteation in th- '' im le 1 .0. _-X -... several peti .... , orn-laws. • • 1 Mr. tiAIN t S presented a petition from a place in the West Riding:of Yorkshire against Church Ext ens i on. A i r, T. Dimiccolp,E presented a petition from Middlesex, .i 9 ,„ e d by 1,606 persons, iii favour of the Government measures '"" . • for the reduction of duty on timber, sugar, and corn; also a petition from Abingdon, praying that all restrictions on the importation of necessary articles of consumption be removed ; also petitions in favour of the liberation of all political pri soners, and a petition in favour of the Carter. Colonel SAL WEY presented a petition from Wellington prying for the abolition of the Corn-laws. Mr.''BAILEY presented fifteen petitions from the county of Hereford against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Sir H. PARNELL presented a petition in favour o; the re peal of the Corn-laws. Mr. GILBERT HEATHCOTE presented a petition from Lincolnshire, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Mr. H. ELLIS presented several petitions from Lancashire against the existing Corn-laws, one of which the Hon. Mem ber said was signed by the largest landowner in the county. Mr. HUME presented four petitions from Bucks in favour of the repeal of the Corn-laws; a petition, signed by tvw hundred and sixty-nine persons, from Johnshaven, in Kin cardineshire. Several similar petitions from Ireland, Also a petition from Sudbury, Suffolk, against any restric tion on free trade ; also a similar petition from Richmond, Yorkshire; and several from Scotland ; also twelve petitions from different pari:hes in Devonshire, praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws. Lord ELIOT presented ten petitions from the county of Cornwall against any alteration in the existing Corn-laws. Mr. PENDARVES presented a petition from Camelford in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. O'CONNELL presented 15 petitions from places in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, in favour of the repeal of the Corn-laws ; also one from Colchester to the same effect. Sir FRANCIS BURDETT presented apetition from Wilt shire, against any alteration in the Corn-laws. Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN presented a petition from Fal mouth, in favour of an alteration in the Corn-laws. Sir W. FOLLETT presented a petition from the neighbour hood of Exeter against any alteration in the Corn-laws : also one from the Victoria Theatre, praying for the abolition of the tolls on the metropolitan bridges. Mr. EDWARD ELLICE presented a petition from Nun eaton, signed by 1,460 persons, praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. R. STEWART presented similar petitions from various pal is of Scotland._ Mr. COMPTON presented a petition from Hampshire against any repeal of the Corn laws, and praying the House to address her Majesty to dismiss her present Ministers. On the motion of Mr. WOODHOUSE several returns were ordered with respect to the price of Foreign and English corn. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. Mr. GODSON moved that the petition of Edward P. Coxe, presented the second of June, should be printed with the votes. Mr. 'f. DUNCOMBE did not rise to oppose the motion, but these charges ought not to be made against, or any in quiry into the practice of bribery confined to, one party ; he therefore moved that the petition of Samuel Doubleday, pre sented by him yesterday, be also printed with the Votes.— (Cries of " No, no," and'. Order.") The SPEAKER said no notice of the motion had been given by the Hon. Member for Finsbury. He was proceeding to put the motion when Mr. DUNCOMBE said both petitions related to the same subject, and ought to go together. He, therefore, moved that the debate be adjourned till to-morrow.—( Cries of " No, no.") On the understanding that his motion would not be opposed to morrow he would withdraw his motion. The original motion was then agreed to. Mr. DUN CONIBE then gave notice of his motion for to morrow. LORD WA LDEGRAVE. Mr. LEADER, before the debate was resumed, wished to say a few words with respect to a misstatement which had ap peared in the papers of last week, and in consequence of which two persons considered themselves aggrieved. If the misre presentation merely affected himself he should not have thought it necessary to offer any explanation. He had received last night a letter from Mr. Chapman, the Marshall of the Queen's Bench Prison, and also a letter from Lord Waliegrave, who was confined in the prison, stating that they had seen a report of a speech of his (91r. Leader's) in which he had said that Lord Waldegrave and Captain Duff were allowed to be outside the walls, and received indulgence which other prisoners were not allowed. That, he believed, was the substance of the letter, but he (Mr. Leader) had not said that they were outside the walls, but in the out ward of the Queen's Bench prison. He made that statement in justice to the character of the marshal of the Queen's Bench, who con sidered it injurious to him to have it stated that he allowed an indulgence to those persons which he did not extend to other prisoners. WANT OF CONFIDENCE IN MINISTERS. ADJOURNED DEBATE. The Order of the Lay for resuming the adjourned debate having been read, Mr. COLQUHOUN said he was sorry he did not see the Hon. Member for Lincolnshire in his place, for after the phials of wrath which he had poured out upon his Right Honours able Friend, it was impossible that he should not advert to his extraordinary speech. Extraordinary it appeared to him under all the circumstances, but more ex traordinary still since he had come into that House, an Hon. Friend having put into his hand a record of the votes given by that Hon. Member whilst he occupied a Tory no mination borough.— ( Hear, hear.) He found this Hon. Gen tleman, so eloquent on the subject of Ireland, voting again and again against the Catholic claims, and the only speech of this tionourable Gentleman, who could not bear to tear himself from the side of the Reformers—the only speech of the Hon. Member for Lincolnshire which he found recorded was a speech on the 28th of ,February, 1822, in which he denounced with the utmost contempt the measure of Parliamentary Reform. Then this Hon. Gentleman said to his Right Hon. Friend, " You have been false to party, but true to principle." Yes, it was true that there were men who did abandon the emoluments of place, and the connections which grew out of it, when a high and imperious principle demanded the sacrifice. He would ask the Hon. Gentleman what he thought of those who, on a very vital question, proved true to party—and a party to which they had very recently attached themselves—but false to their principles? The Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for the Tower Hamlets, in that earnest and eloquent speech which he delivered last night, had said that party connections were of the greatest value in order to carry great principles. But what should they say of those Hon. Members who when the most valuable principles were, by their own confes sion, assailed by the Government, st ill continued their support The Hon. Member for Lincoln (Mr. Handley) was very ttnx, ious on the subject of the Corn-laws. He (Mr. C.) could not enter into the Hon. Gentleman's fears upon the question. He did not think the revision of the Corn-laws was at all unadvisable ; but he was surprised when the Hon. Gentleman declared that, according to the great principles of his pelitical creed, he would support the G overnment on a mot i nn ot vote of confidence in the Government. The Hgq. Member for Lincoln said last night that he put himself forward as the representatiy4 of the heavy agricultural party of the county uf Lin coin, He (31r. C.) did not know whether the Hon. Gen tleman was qualified to be such, but it did strike him that he was better qualified to serve in a squadron which some long time ago was called by a very curious name, the squadrones volantes who figured in the Scotch Parliament at the time of the Union. They were at the same time friends of both parties giving their votes on an emergency when the balance of parties required it—giving their votes sometimes to one party and sometimes to anothOr, securing the confidence of neither ; welcomed by both when they came to them, but trusted by none, and at last when the emer gency had passed away which made the assistance looked for distrusted by all, condemned by the public, and repudiated by both parties. He (Mr. Colquhoun) did not see the Jedge-Advo cate in his place. He turned to his speech with great satisfaction because it was a speech characterised by honesty of intention,. and by great ability ; but he (Mr. C.) con f esse d t h at bi s Right Hon. Friend had put forward some questions which rather surprised him. When his Right Honourable Friend said he wanted to know what were the grotssids upon which the Conservative side of the house sought for the public confidence—what measures they had brought forward which seemed deserving of such confidence— when his Right Honourable Friend put forward such questions, he (Mr. Colquhoun), was indeed surprised.— ( Hear.) He thought it a most extraordinary question s to put to an Opposition, and if the R ig h t H on. Gentleman,would read the annals of Parliame n t ary war f are, lie would find that it was not the duty of the Opposition to tell on what grounds they claimed public confie,ence. But he (Mr. Colquhoun) would briefly refer to sortie of the measures which had been passed through the instrumentality of the Oppo eition side of the House. N 1 hen the Jamaica Bill was brought forward, was it not the Right Hun. Baronet the Member for Tamworth who had concocted it? Was not the deficient Canada Bill, was not the Electors Committee Bill, was not the Irish Tithe Bisl, was not the Irish Municipal Bill— ( Hear, hear, from Mr. O'Connell )—passed through the instrumentality of the Right Honourable Baronet ? He confessed that one proposition laid down by his Right Hon. Friend surprised him. He said that the proposition which they maintained was, that a Government unable to proceed with measures which they deemed important for the public interest should resign upon the fir s t d e f ea t. H e (Mr. Colquhoun) looked across the House, for he thought he must find there a Govern. merit just entered upon office, but instead of that he found a Government that had been in office six years, and had brought forward measures on which the House had ex pressed their opinion, yet they were told they were un able to pronounce whether the Government were or wore not worthy of the confidence of that House. But the next proposition of the Right Hon. Gentleman was, that if they could not carry measures necessary for the public service, it was their duty to resign or dissolve. If that was true in 1841 it was true also in preceding years, Why then did not the Government act uon it in 1838, when a great measure affectin g the Irish Church, was negatived? IVhy did they not act upon it in 1839, when they were defqlied on their Canada and J ama i ca measures? v did they not act upon it in 1840, when they were tyre •.c .Why did they not, on these on most important questions ? times soundly beaten offices, or appeal w to the country ? occasions, resign thei , r 7..0b1e Lord opposite said this as ee:al case— Oh but the it s;S", - ,s a special case of finance —and he (Mr. Colquhoun)Rillt Hon ' afraid if it had not been for the motion of the was Baronet that special case would never have been . made.. Had it not been for that her Majesty's present Ministers would have tamely submitted to the beating they had received, as they h a d hi t h erto done. His Right d t i v o o n e , a te, an talked 1 k ed stated ve ry tba l t oud tb ly ey last on How; ble iFlirgibentd, aboutthe Jaud gdeissoAlu that side of the House were prepared for a dissolution. It was true that on that side of the House they had dared her Majesty's present Government to a dissolution, but until the present time they had feared to meet the people. The Right lion. Baronet, the President of the Board of Control, had referred to the precedent of Mr. Pitt. He (Mr. Colquhoun) could recollect the time when the ex-Member for Westminster would have denounced Mr. Pitt. But now, such was the nakedness of his argument, that he was obliged to refer to Mr. Pitt's words. He (Mr. Col ouhoun) would now allude to the statements of the man Of very different principles to Mr. Pitt —he alluded to Mr.. Fox. Atter quoting from the speech of Mr. Fox in 1784, he begged to ask whether upon the show ing of Mr. Fox the present Ministers were justified in keeping their pl aces ever since 1838, from which time they had been unable to' pass any one opposed measure. ;He would ask them whether they considered such tenacity to office was consistent with their duty—if they could not conduct the business of the country in that House it was their duty to . appeal to the people, either by a dissolution, or in some other manner. But in all those references to the times and conduct of Mr. Pitt, it is to be remembered his situation was very different f r o m that of her M a j es ty's Government. He was . he possessed of the undoubted confidence of the C helievedhe had that of the people, and -in that belie 1. 4 . as fully justified, for whenever a general electisin took place, he was supported by a large majority. 11°'7(Lad the Ministers possessed—did they believe they possessed the confidence of the people since the year 1838 ?No—in defiance pg the well-known opinions of the people out of doers and in the face of those in that House, whose confidesace they did not possess, they maintained their places. He would askcould th I the ey u Ice ask in what more dangerous position v maintained °Meek t A Crown ?—( Cheers. ) kieb „ Jowls ..oe power of carrying a single measure w " ..ley deemed essential for the welfare of. th e Now, although he was well .....untry. ow, aviary the people was not to be t he loyalty of contended shaken —that it was i n domitable, still he the Crown in a most th a t they were placing d most difficult position.—(Cheers.) The Right dangerous an Hon. Baronet the President of the Board of Control had been the Member for Tam worth,•with the Right Hon. Baronet indignant e called the Government au oscillat because he had ing one; and be said was it an oscillating Government, EVENZNG EDIT ON, which had carried so rnanynneastarea, which he enemmetted? The policy pursued he the Government was, that of throwing themselves now to the right and then to the left, in order to adjust the balance of power. That was their only course, under the very skilful guidance of the Noble Lord. The Government, Sor instance, appealed at ine time to the sympathies of such Men es the Himourable Member for Shrewsbury and ethere, sincere friends of this Church, and at another time to Gentlemen such as the Hon. Member for Lambeth and others, who advocated the voluntary system. Now how, he woeld ask, could any•stee4hi e forward Ministry continua te follow up such a lineof pollee? ie 1836 the Noble Lord opposite supported some Most 'eniellent Church and Conservative measures-, and the Noble Lord then opposed the motion for expelling the Bishop* froth the House of Lords. A similar course was pursued in 1837 and 1838. In 1839, however, the scheme of nanonal education was brought forward for the purpose of redressing the balance. It was so, too, on subjects of general polity. In 1836 the Canada question was deferred, from an apprehension of displeasing the extreme Liberal party; but in 1638 certain measures mete adopted in . regard to Canada, which led t o a d e f ec ti on i n tee Minenerial ranks. hi 1339, however, when the Government, who had been defeated on the Jamaica question, again rent nod to pnwee, they thought it peeper to take some step for the pur poe of satisteirtg the extreme party, tint tee Ballot was aceord nely made an open question.—( Hear, hear.) That sa stern of compromise went on. In 1840, precisely the same system was pursued. There was a declaration, by the Hon. thidersSect teary of State, of attachment to the Scotch Church, which was re-echoed by the Lord Advocate ; hut when a proposition was brought forward to support the Church, down came the voluntary princie!e men and the Dissenters, declaring that if such a measure was prencsed they a ould withdraw their support from the Government—( Hear) and thus everything was obliged to yie d to the system of compromise. How had it affected their finances? The same sys tem had obliged them to pass the Penny-Ponaee, a good measure in itself, but brought forward at a time wan they were in circumstances of great difficulty, there was no justification for it. The Hon. and Learned Member for Reading had said that it was not material to the question in what state the finances of the country were left in the hands of the Government. Now, he thought the , most ma terial to the consideration of the question of whether the Government possess the confidence of that House. If they re. ceived the finances in a flourishing condition, and left a ba n kr u pt Exchequer,—if they had a surplus of a million in le3G, and ended with a surplus expenditure in, he hoped, their last year of office, of 1.800,000/., did not this justify a vote of scant of confidence? There was another proceeding in which he thought the Government was not justified. They had been cutting and carving out commissions, with what object he did not know. He could not tell the amount, but upwards of 800,0001. had been doled out amoung 800 Baronets, Majors in the army, ex M.P.'s, and lawyers of six years' standin g . The eireign affairs of the country had, for the last six Settle,, been conducted most disadvantageously for its interests. The Stade duties, the proceedings of the Noble Lord on the Coast of Africa, and the trade in South America, had been the subject of complaint with Members who rarely whispered a syllable against the Government. What was the result of all this? Why, Commissson after Commie. sion—a Commission in China, in Africa, in Portugal, and in , all places where the evil resul:s of this policy had been experienced. He confessed that on all these grounds —on this ground of the oscillation of their general policy —on the ground of their neglecting the trade of the country, and un the ground that they had afforded no protection to the people, he could not place any confidence in her Majesty's present Mi nisters, anti rejoiced in the present motion. It was only when they were tumbling out of office that they were endeavouring • to retrieve their ways. It was most desirable that they should at last come to the conclusion of the 1-resent .state of things, and it was time that it should he known which party had the confidence of the House, and also o f th e country. He rejoiced in the moti on o f the Right lion. Baronet, and would accordingly support it. Mr. O'CON N ELL said that there were three grounds.of complaint which he had to make . against the Honourable Member who had just sat down; The first was that he had not mentioned the resolution of the Right Hon. Baronet; the second was that he had taken a liberty with the Gallant Member for Lincoln ; and thirdly, that he concealed. his real antipathy to her Majesty's present Slinistern. The Honourable Member had not reael the resolution Liocaese there was not the confidence of the country in it; and as to his Gallant Friend the Member for Lincoln, he had attempted to tuke the gilt off his gingerhreed, for he had repeated almost all that he had said, but he had not touched upon the real cause of complaint agains , the present Ministers. He (Mr. O'Connell) was not acquainted with the public his. tors of the Honourable Member for Lincolnshire (Alt. 'Hand ley). That Hon. Cent!eman had sp o k en i n V ety serseig terms of the t ur pit u d e of public ineon,istency, He (Mr. O'Connell) did not know whether be was -eight iw his recollection; but eertsinly he thou se bt there was a certain Ho noura bl e Gentleman who was Member for leemarneek, whose principles at the time of the Reform Bill approached to Radicalism. —(Hcar, hear.) Yet they found that Hon. Member now on the Opposition benches, the ardent advocate of that party rho had been opposed to the Re form Bill throughout. His (Mr. O'Cnnnell's) object in rising now was merely to protest against the present attempt of the variegated party on the other side of the House to seize the reins of Government. They wrro not now special pleading in, that House on the precedents of former Administrations- There was a great question before the House, and that was„ tempt t t o i s s e e e i li e n country reins s to o fbGeogroerrnerrzidat? wasll enleiveelirevlnedadte:es;:.taiitot: more courage than at the present moment. (lltupHre:wetseiaonsbntealoy,,i,ehdvolea:i;itiatgh:et ihetoes considered full eu m rlde e d r n i ao t wee:arsidigiintr according; oipo the i e t e e c a l l a im c o daring.claims to hold the reins of power. The Oppoltion 'nadeeteulished that the principles of the 'present Administreticn were such as that the country oeknt to condemn it. '1 hey had to prove that their own - erinciples were such as that the country ought to adopt thesn, They had beets exceedingly cautious in tell ing the House what they would do for the isountry if they Caine into power. They had not b een successful in impeach ing the present Arlm'oeistration as to any substanti a l port i ons of their rolise . Their foreign policy the Opposition wouVe attack he vete They could not say they would be more ev e _ cease!) in the East—in Syria, India, or Chine, ten say that the coleeles were so mismanaeng They could that it was ne cessary to change the Administration it order to establi,h a better system of things in that part Of the British empire. On the centrary, ther e sees peace asee tranquillity in all the colo nies, and the geter, majestic experiment that was made of libe rating 800,0()Q human beings had succeeded, even beyond the most satizeine hopes of the supporters of that measure. Look in, Ince on th e period of ten years, during which the ecuntry was governed tau anti-Tory principles, how maeynee ful measures were aeon to result from those princtples ? When he contrasted the conduct of the present Government in Ire land with the mode in which that country bad been governed before them, be felt a most powerful motive to call on the country to support her Majesty's Ministers. They were the first and only A dteinistretion that ever sought to conciliate Ire land by dting justice to that country. Wnat was it then that celled upon that House to change the administration ? It was not as he had said, their foreign policy, nor their colonial policy, nor the tulmini , tration of affairs in England itself, nor above all thu administration of affairs in Ireland. Fur in Eng, land u , hat, impeachment lay against their p , -hey ? If they had the fault at all, it seas that they had not gone far enough in the cause of reform, that they had stayed too much the movement towards ameliorated institutions. They had, governed the cometee during periods of discontent, and tumult, and turbulence, and they had, restored peace order, without resorting so any uneunstitut.unal law, claiming any powers that 'were not familiar to the institutions of the country. . They had been o..nhted with the Chartists to go too far; but let the result be at ; was not peace in that respect completely etht , lisile 3 't Had not the Constitution vindiCated itself, and that without a single attempt being made at a prosecution that could, be : justly segmatized. 'They vindicated the law ; they nuoished the delinquents ; they established perfect tranquil lity, and abolished the slightest ground for apprehension on that subject. That was their policy in England. What was it in Ireland? It was described in one word—doing justice t_ 43 that country as far as they could. He knew that those twe e would inflict injustice on that country, were the first to, sneer at the notion of doing justice to it. He defied sole- man to look back to the history of Ireland,-and point out a period during which any Government had condueted itself towards than. country as the tenesent Administration had done. Let them show him any period in which the interests of party were not preferred to the inte , rests of the people in the Government of that country. An Hon. Member opposite had spoken of the Irish Corpora tion Bill ; and what was the explanation eiven upon that sub ject ? It was said that the Bill had been made perfect by the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Tamworth and his sup porters. He (Mr. O'Connell) wished that that should go to Ireland. The Corporate Reform Bill made perfect ! aye, and in that way th e Administration of the Right Hon. /31;ronet would be made perfect in Ireland ; that was to say, by depriv ing the Irish people of their rights and franchises. The Irish , Corporation Bill, as brought in by the Government, resembled the English and the Scotch Acts; but the Right Hon. Ba.. ronet and his party subsequently altered it. He brew that the Right lion. Baronet would give them very pla'asible explanations upon the subject, but no extent of i;:ypoerisy could pre ven t t h e people of Ireland from seein4 The indignity . that hail been done to them. The great euesestoris in agitation in that House related to the administrateen of affairs in Ire land. The differences between both stiles of the House were of general ; approached each not great upon any other subject, y other at all ever is, but toe nearly in his opinion, on queetio_ns It i great and, important divisions took place betwee c n an t confidence was said that the Government did not possess the a but it was on the affairs of Ireland that the had lost it by reason of separate elections. in isolated Istbomie thus .‘ja. sg e t e h a e t re majority who of t h h e a a t rd hiHouse;m that but did how t h k d n t ri h e t y hp lost it? elections wer e carried by the grossest ofan„ from en Hon. bribery ?—( A loud and vehement cryHe repeated that tiri Was there one man who did not know th d at t e h v a ery mo o s r t te pa ot ipame Member on the Opposition benches.) although it might not have been confined to diminished franel4e,lf created by the far. The corruption was coupled with the Bal'Mt, then berg had taken place to an enormous d xt w en e t i a th t e th r e si l d a e te in elee paroi ties: :: the franchise' were , extended, endea n opposite. 'are allowed to ficial measures h h e eir re u l tm t would not extend the franehine come into office ? They e bribery must cease. But uon - e G l e a n t t c e h m a e nce of any of , - those bens. t ch ar vm, yours to annihilate it altoge he told them their ' would be a lull. instituted in place of tithes, England, while in Ireland they would v When n e t t wide throe and now dis coid ding far and r:,,nout Ireland. Them, tent Was sprea disturbances or outrages • had been fewer agrarian since the ac. Government to office than in any forme e. but he_also told them it would only be aWe cession of the present period of the history of Ireland. The consequence was that landlords and incoming tenants, finding themselves safe, turned' the and wretched people out of thei r h ovels —they were now' thrown - out in hundreds to die by the way side. Crime wars' increasing; within the last fortnight two of the most atrociona murders had been committed of any upon record—committed.' too, sot upon the enemies of the people, but upon two men who all their lives supported Liberal principles, Mr. 1 - 14 1 1 and Mr. Butler land. Now if Bry e annco , and they had arisen ou t o f di sputes as to he iming, or at least the expeetatit, Adminfs-, tration were to give Ireland Orangemen for Magist.rates,.parti sail Sheriffs, and packed juries —nay, i, upon the Bench they were to see bigoted enemies to the religion of the Irish people • could it be expe c t e d th at they 'would suffer it in patience and sileteo Who was to gove,A Ireland—the Right .Hon. Ba• rouet? Alas, Ireland knew that ho had governed her before. His predecessor leatl brought the country to such a state of quietude that he repealed the Insurrection Act. The Rigid, Hon. 13aeonet had not been two years in office until he duced the Peace Preservation Act, the Punishment of Assanits 1 Act, and another, all of which renewed the tyranny tit the former, In that year, too (in 1814), he proclainetee himself the champion of Orategeisur; in July of that year he rose in his place in Parlia:;..ent and gave an account of the rise arid pro gresal: oratigeiim. The House might tnov,( 'now true it was fet the last sentence of the eulogiuee. It was GE s e far from being liable to the charge brought against them, their only fault was an exuberance of loyalty."—(Laughter.) Was the man who said .thg, fit for the government of Ireland?—(Cheers.) Did be 1 member the, Report of the Orange Committee? Did he re; w b a e s red an the eltuimbea vtish"it e member the tnianimous vote of th a t House condemnatory "of body? fie y t e iN t i :: Q tligr nn o e n l l i y ) r f e a m ul esn fault l th oy a a t lt y." man was Oran appointed to any office whatever who was net bigoted geman. He remembered the' time hen'an tornee-General dared to wr i te to a Chief Justice, sv desiring Milk'