The Sun. — London, England, 1849-04-20 00:00:00

IsTEWIVIARK_E T and CIIESTERFORD RAILW AY. The adjourned half-yearly general meeting of the Newmarket and Chesterford Railway Cpmpany was held yesterday, at the London Tavern, in Biihopsgate-street; Frith in the chair. The CIILIRMAN stated that the report of the com mittee of investigation was not yet ready, and he should therefore move an adjournment till the 3d of May. The resolution was agreed to; after which thanks /fere voted to the chairman, and the meeting adjourned. --- — LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, April 19. (Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice Parrnsols and Mr. Justice EaLu.) XECOYERING FROX A HUNDRED FOR INJURY WINTERBY POPI:1, LACE.-BARNWELL V. THE INILABITANTS OF NOW. This was an action against a hundred to recover com pensation in damages for the dtruction of some prolt - perty of the plaintiffs by a tumesultuous assemblage . appeared that the plaintiffs were miners near C hedder, and haul beenfor some time in the habit of washing he i r remi t ore a rv er near their wor ks. The ore, it appeared, p nated the water with the deleterious compound white lead, and the inhabitants getting afraid that they would be poisoned, went en masse in the night armed, and de stroyed the washing utensils of the plaintiffs. The ver dict at the trial went for the plaintiffs, damages 1301. .ar. CROWDER now moved for a rule calling upon the plaintiffs to show cause why the verdict should not be set aaide, a non-suit entered, or the verdict taken upon certain counts, on the ground that the offence of the inhabitants was not a felony, as set forth in the Act 7 and 8 Geo. IV., c. 30, which made the destruction of certain property punishable by death, but the capital penalty was some time ago abolished, yet the offence was clearly set forth as a felony. He contendej that the property destroyed was not of the nature walla the terms of the Act. The COURT granted a rule to show cause. SHERIFFS' COURT, April 19. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCELELL.) CAMPBELL V. GREGORY. This was an action to recover the sum of 2001. on two guarantees given by the defendant. The facts of the case are these:—The plaintiff is a brewer at Edinburgh, and defendant is a cabinet- maker in London-street, Tottenham-coart-road. Up to 1844 plaintiff had supplied a person named Wm. Archibald Meehans, a brewer, &c., at Clapham, with ales; but Meehans becoming bankrupt, and his certificate being suspended, the business was carried on in the name of his son, and a debt arose to the amount of 1,1874 and guarantees were given by defendant and others. The defendant suffered judgment to go by default, the jary, therefore, gave a verdict for the amount claimed. AMON V. JORDAN. This was an undefended action on a bill of exchange , and was the only other case tried. FRANCE. A hostile meeting took place on Wednesday after noon near Vincennes and Saint Mande, between M. Francis Lacombe, a writer in the Assemblie Nationale, and M. Charles Blanc, brother of M. Louis Blanc. The cause of the meeting was the publication by M. Lacombe of an article on AL Louis Blanc in the Assemilee Nationale, in which that gentleman was severely treated. M. Francis Lacombe was wounded, but very slightly, the ball having been deadened by passing through a thick great coat and striking a porte-monnaie. The fol lowim-i: note on the affair has been published • M- Charles Blanc, having considered that an article blished by the Assemble Nationale was offensive to pu IT Louis Blanc, his brother, wrote to M. Francis La combe, the author of the article, a letter, which has led to a reparation by arms. A meeting has taken place at Vincennes between MM. Charles Blanc and Francis Lacombe. The latter having been struck by a ball in the left thigh, the witnesses declared that honour was satisfied, and put an end to the combat. " N IEOWERH EREE, seconds of M. C. Blanc. " ALPHONSE DE CALONNE, XAVIER DE MON. TEPIN, seconds of M. F. Lacombe. " Saint Aland 4, April 17." AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Avasr 14.—The Wisner Zeitung of this day says— " BUCNAREST, MARCH 24.—We have just heard from Cronstadt that the outposts of Bem's army arrived there on Tuesday, several unimportant skirmishes having taken place in the vicinity of Zaiden on the previous Monday. " On Wednesday the Russian troops under General Engelhardt quitted Transylvania, covering the retreat the Imperial Austrian troops. These brave ooldiers, who, during the past month, have often aestified by act and deed that they are faithful to stheir colours and to their Emperor, are now in the most lamentable condition possible ; they have no ammunition whatever ; consequently every attempt at resistance would have been utterly futile. " Omer Pacha, Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Ottoman troops, in order to protect the frontiers against marauders, has made all the troops march from Bucharest and Statina to Kirnpulang ; they are to be replaced by troops coming from Galary and Braila. " Kaimakana Kantakazeno has given orders through the Minister of the Interior that all the miserable fugitives arriving from the various frontier villages, who have been compelled to leave house and home, I be received with the greatest hospitality in allachia, even without passports or the other usual formalities, and everything shall be done to ameliorate their sad condition." The Vienna papers c fthe 14th confirm the intelli gence of the victory of the Hungarians, and afford positive information of the occupation of the important position of Waitzen by the Hungarians. The details of this action, as given by the German papers, are to the effect that Prince Windischgratz, at the head of his best regiments, opposed the progress of the Hun garians in the direction of Comorn, and that he was backed by the corps of Gota and Jablonowski. A fierce engagement ensued, in which the superior tactics of the Magyars proved irresistible. Gene ral Gota and many of his officers fell while fighting is the streets of the city of Waitzen. The Imperial troops were driven back and partly routed. The siege of Comorn has been stopped in consequence, and part of the Imperial army besieging that fortress has marched to Waitaen to the rescue of General Ramberg, who still attempts to stop the progress of the Magyars from Waitzen to Comorn. The garrison of that fortress has meanwhile made a sally upon the remaining Austrians, and carried off part of their heavy artillery. Such are the statements of the Austrian press and of the correspondents of the German papers. If we are to believe them there is nothing to pre vent the Hungarian General Georgey from commu nicating with the garrison of Comorn, and if the rumour prove true of General ,Dembinski having crossed the Danube, and led his troops to Weissen burg, nothing is left to the Imperialists but to retire to Raab, for neither Pesth nor Buda can be held against a superior force. From Transylvania we have no news except ru mours of the vaguest kind. General Bern does not appear to operate in that province ; on the contrary, he is expected at the Hungarian head-quarters at Waitzen. Prince Windischgratz has resigned the supreme command in Hungary, and General Welden has succeeded him. Hammerstein will remain in Lem berg. General Pergen, who was in Hungary, will go to Brunn, and General Perin, who was in Brunn, to. Hungary. The General of the Ordnance, Nugent, will go to Gratz to organize a reserve corps, and is to be s ucceeded by General Buritz. General Castiglione w ill succeed Buritz at €Elenburg. The Wiener Zeitung contains a dispatch addressed by the Austrian Cabinet on the sth inst. to the Imperial Plenipotentiary, M. de Schmerling, at Frankfort. This document, which was taken by Count Rechberg at the same time with that of the Bth instant, addressed to the Court of Prussia, may be said to be composed of ten different heads. 1. A request that the Vicar-General of Germany, Arch duke John, will continue to hold his high office until such time as definitive arrangements as to the Central Government have been made. 2. The Ger man Diet, instead of having endeavoured to form . one great and powerful Germany, has attempted to create an ideal empire. 3. The Central Diet has, by paragraph 2, done all in its power to render Aus tria's union with Germany impossible. 4. The Na tional Assembly, by the resolution taken on the 27th ult., respecting the election of an hereditary head of the Empire, has departed from the projected plan of federations, and attempted to form one united state in a way which is incompatible with the inde pendence of each sep ara t e G erman G overnmen t. 6. The National Assembly, by its resolution of the 28th ult., which ordains that the constitution it has drawn up shall alone be law for the empire, as also by its arbitrary declaration that it will remain i ill permanence until the meeting of the Parliament to be hereafter convoked, has entered into an illegal path in which the different Governments cannot follow it. 6. Austria is unable to enter into a confederate state, a s understood by the Central Diet, though it by no means retsigns its rights secured by history and treaty. 7. This is the opinion of his Majesty the Emperor, an d from this he will not depart. 8. As his Ma jesty, in a dispatch of the 4th of February, pro tested against being subjected to a central power vested in any other German Prince, so he is no less determined not to subject, on any plea what- Ever, the constitutional legislative power to be ex ercised by him, in unison with the representa tive bodies in Austria, to any extraneous legisla lative Assembly. 9. That as Count Rechberg, who ! t ee been appointed your successor (M. de Schmer , ling's) is on his way to Frankfort, there is no obstacle to your return to Vienna. 10. As to the Austrian Deputies, they must consider their mission as at an end, the debates on the Constitution being concluded, and have to return to t heir native country, as any farther con nex i on w i t h Assembly which, by the resolution adopted o n the 2 11 h 8 of jwitice awl is . t ult., qu itt e d th e pa th Bible. TURKEY. Redschid Pasha is indefatigable in his exertions to render the naval and military forces of the Turkish empire in a state of the utmost efficiency. Mer chantmen sailing under the Turkish flag are for bidden to leave the harbour, and an exact account is taken of the tonnage of every ship. Troops are being sent to the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, and also to Thessaly. Prince Woronzow is collecting a numerous army in Georgia and the Crimea, with which it is probable he will approach Constantinople from Lesser Asia. The Greek ships which in the winter season usually congregate, in order to run out into the Black Sea at the beginning of spring, are exciting a good deal of suspicion in the Turkish authorities. More than 2,000 of them have been preventing from quit ting the harbour. M. Rosas, the Greek Consul, has written to his Government for instructions on this subject. The Russian Ambassador, M. Titoff, pro tested against this, and insisted upon making the Porte responsible for any damage which might arise from this arbitrary measure. THEATRE ROYAL DUBLIN. THE WIFE'S SECRET. On Saturday night the first sppearat.ce of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean, in itself an event, was signalised by the production of a drama, new to the citizens of Dublin, but which, since its original introduction in America, has been attended with an immense amount of success, having been performed with undiminished eclat at the Haymarket for ,sixty successive nights. The au'hor of Ihe Wife's Secret, Mr. Lovell, has written two other successful dramas, both of which have been represented in our theatre, and the announcement of a new piece by him brought out under such attractive auspices, drew, as we antici pated, a full and fashionable attendance. The plot of The Wife's Secret is extremely simple, but there are many admirably-contrived and telling situations during its progress. The interest is sustained in a most ab sorbing manner from the first scene to the last; and the language possesses all the rich poetical imagery, origi nality, and vigour that characterise the works of the earlier dramatists. A fugitive Cavalier (Mr. Bland), who has suffered defeat in an ineffectual rising against the Pro tectorate, takes shelter with his sister, Lady Evelyn Amyot (Mrs. Kean), having first bound her by au oath not to reveal his presenCe to Sir Walter Amyot (Mr. Kean). The latter, one of the leaders of the Roundheads, arrives at the mansion almost at the same instant with the fugitive whose concealment forms the " secret" that alienates the husband from the wife. Jabes Sneed (Mr. Baker), a canting steward, whose dishonesty Lady Evelyn had discovered, and thereby made him her enemy, suspecting that there is some deep mystery connected with the locking•up of the chamber in which the Cavalier is bestowed, seeks every means to discover this secret. Having climbed up to the window of the Cavalier's retreat, he discovers Lady Evelyn'e brother, and having already vainly sought to poison Sir Walter's mind against his wife, and been rebuked for the attempt, he instantly communi cates this discovery to him. Sir Walter, however, is so conscious of his wife's purity that, though he listens to Jabes, he cannot believe aught to her discredit, until, through the window of her closed chamber, he beholds Lady Evelyn embracing the Cavalier, who was about to attempt his escape. A terrible and crushing revulsion of feeling follows, and Sir Walter falls senseless to the ground. In the last act, after some scenes of deep pathos, thrilling tenderness, and passionate feeling, between the still fond husband, wishing to conceal from every soul but his own what he believes to be his wife's dishonour, and the purely-proud Lady Evelyn, indignant that a doubt or suspicion should be entertained of her honour, the " Wife's Se cret" is revealed, and the drama terminates happily for all. This is but a very faint outline of the plot, the de velopment of which is most skilfully carried out, and the graver portions being admirably relieved by the love passages between a dashing, handsome, vain young Page (Miss Fitzpatrick), and a pert and pretty waiting maid (Miss Beaufort), forced by the man ners of the times to assume the attire, speak in the nasal twang, and adopt all the demure bearing of a staid Puritan. When we say we have never beheld either Mr. or Mrs. Kean to more advantage in any of the wide range of characters they have made their own than in those parts of Sir Walter and Lady Evelyn, we feel that we cannot utter greater praise. Indeed the chief em barrassment in noticing their performance consists in our inability to convey to others the impression made upon ourselves. The noble nature of the fond husband, so generous and manly, resisting, till conviction appeared to forbid longer resistance, every doubt of his wife's purity—hoping against hope that he might have been wrong in his jealousy—and then, at the last apparent proof being afforded, determined to screen her guilt at the sacrifice of his own peace, was truthfully and beauti fully depicted by Mr. Charles Kean. His alternate bursts of rage, despair, and grief, were painfully real, not the least exaggeration marring the perfection of his acting. His deep dejection and utter abandonment to sorrow were touching in the extreme; though at the same time they never bordered on the weak or the womanish, but were characterised by a fine manly tenderness throughout. In many of the noble passages with which the play abounds, his distinct and impressive delivery added beauty to the poetry of the author. Thus, nothing could be more exquisite than his apostrophe to his happy I home — "Sly home, my home—oh, what a worldless joy To be in thy familiar clasp again. In absence it seem'd almost too much bliss Fur hope to picture. My returning foot Paus'd on the threshold doubting still lest change, Like a spring frost, had nipped some bud away. But not a leaf is wanting- - --all's the same Love, peace, and joy, flutter in every breeze ; And my full heart—too small for its great wealth, Flows over with its rapture." Again, when Jabez is distilling his poisonous doubt of woman's purity into his ear, it was with the loftiest grandeur of manly scorn that he thus rebuked him— " Thou infidel, would'st thou be blind, And thank the lot that hid from thee the rose? Deaf, and rejoice thou couldst not hear sweet music? Fie, fie on thee—the tongue that rails at woman Blasphemes creation in its brightest work. A ribald jest upon her purity Is flinging stain upon the brightest mirror Where Heaven is glassed below." When, in the last act, Lady Evelyn, at the suggestion o Maud, hands him the safety-pass she is about to use for her brother's escape, in order that he may append the Aignature that, in his distraction, he has forgotten, the nsti - ''tones of reproach in which he noticed her col lectedness, while he was all unhinged, fell like accents of real sorrow on the ear. in truth, we could follow with equal eulogy every passage uttered by Mr. Kean till the falling of the curtain, and even then not be satisfied that we bad rendered him justice. When we inform our readers that the character of Lady Evelyn is exquisitely gentle and feminine, full of woman's purity, truth, and devotion, they can ima gine how beautifully such a part must have been personated by Mrs. Kean. So admirably through out did this graceful and gifted actress preserve the gentle and tender features marking the Lady Evelyn of the author, that the sterner traits of the part—when, with the haughtiness of conscious right, she abhorred the imputation on her faith—came out into much bolder relief by reason of the contrast. When, in the agonies of his doubts and fears, contending with his undiminished love, Sir Walter adjures her to prove to him her purity, that he may take her to his heart again, the splendid burst of impassioned feeling with which she thus replied held the audience spell-bound for an instant, and then drew down a peal of the most enthusiastic applause:— " Never ! The woman once suspected From that hour is never safe again; The sacred fence that hedgel her in (when once A doubt has entered) is broken down, Another doubt will follow With less obstruction. Easier still the next, 'Till they have worn themselves a beaten track, And trust there dwells no more." And when, in the phrensy of his jealousy, Sir Walter at length utters language that, in her soul, she knows he never should have addressed to his wife, the bitterness of feeling with which, slowly, distinctly, and emphatic ally, she said, " I did not think I could so nearly hate thee," was thrillingly, touchingly effective. Her despair in the last act was really fearful; and altogether we have never beheld a more perfect piece of acting. Miss Beaufort, as Maud, the metamorphosed waiting maid, pleased us greatly. In fact, both this clever actress, and Miss Fitzpatrick, ea the malapert page, added mate rially to the success of the piece. The alternation be tween the nasal twang of stage Puritanism and her natu ral round and sparkling accents—the merry twinkle of her laughing eye, shaming her demure garb, and her perpetual returning to her own proper flirting self on every possible opportunity, displayed rare -comie powers, for which we frankly confess we did not give Miss Beaufort sufficient credit. And then Miss Fitzpatrick, as the Page, besides being admirably dressed, and displaying, good reader, a very proper leg, did not commit any of those mincing prettinesses that young ladies in the male garb are given to, but ac quitted herself after such a bold and manly fashion as a youth would do, engaged at twenty to be married to that delicious bit of affected prudery, Maud. Baker's Jabea Sneed wait too sardonic for our taste, but it was clever, as everything is that he attempts; while Bland, as the reckless Cavalier, and Barrett, as the French Captain, performed the little they had to do creditably. We cannot praise too highly the manner in which The Wife's Secret was put upon the stage; and our only wonder is, that, with the small encourage ment Mr. Calcraft has met of late, he could have had the spirit to undertake the large expense it must have entailed. The new scenery is splen didly painted. The antique fashion of the Round head's dwelling was exhibited in several life-like inte riors, and th e p resence o f some o f th ose rare o ld chairs, that curiosity-collectors have such a thirst for, s o c i en c e o . ne T ea h l e me ß n o t w ;o r r C th h e am c b e e v r e e, li w er hic a h form added gr ea tly to t h e genera l effect of the ra i se en ndth formed of the place of concealment for the Cavalier, and the Armoury, in Sir Walter's mansion, pr ' esented pictures of the olden time especially worthy of commendation; and indeed the new scenery altog e th er d eserve d t h e admira tion it elicited. The farce of the Irish Lion followed, in which Hudson convulsed the house with laughter. The Wife's Secret will be repeated to-night and on Thursday, and as the present engagement cannot pos sibly be prolonged, we recommend our read ers not t o omit the opportunity of being present on either occasion. —Dublin Evening Packet, April 17. Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial office, for the Governors of Ceylon and Hong - song. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1849. GREAT SOUTHERN WHALE FISHERIES. A public testimonial, in the shape of a grand enter- Ainnaent, was given on Wednesday, at the London Tavern, to Mr. Charles Enderby, by the merchants and citizens of London, the occasion being the departure of this enter prising and ingenious gentleman to his newly-founded colony at the Auckland Islands. In order to render the position of Mr. Enderby before the public perfectly clear, the fol!owing sketch of his enterprise may be very aptly cited:— Mr. Enderby has secured a grant of the Auckland Islands—a position in the South Pacific preferable to all others for the prosecution of the object in question — in which he and his two brothers alone were inte- rested. This grant they have ceded to the Southern Whale Fishery Company, allowing the com pany a site for the business of the fishery free of charge, and making no other reservation regarding the re mainder of the land, than they shall share, in equal pro portions with the company, any net profits which may be derived from the sale or lease of the land, after a suitable and sufficient site for the whaling station shall be selected. The company is established with a capital of 100,000/., the shareholders having power to increase the same from time to time, to the extent of half a million ; and with power, should the consent of the President of the Board of Trade be given, to increase the capital to any larger amount, in case the require ments and success of the undertaking shall warrant further increase of the capital at a future period. It is Mr. Enderby's intention, we understand, shortly to pro ceed in person to the Auckland Islands, situate in 51 deg. south latitude, and 166 deg. east longitude, for the purpose or organizing the business of the fishery, and to remain there a sufficient time to place it on a saris. factory foundation. The chair was taken by Admiral Deans Dundas. The gallant officer was supported by Mr. Labouchere, M.P., President of the Board of Trade, Lord Colchester, Mr. Thomas Baring, M.P., Mr. F. Scott, M.P., Sir W. Clay M.P., Mr. Bagshaw, M.P., and a most numerous and respectable body of the principal shipowners, dock officers, and merchants generally of this metropolis. The company consisted of nearly 300 of the Mite amongst the mercantile and commercial classes, and if the names were enumerated; the most distinguished firms of the city.of London would each be found to have a represen tative or a proxy present. After the cloth was removed, the customary loyal toasts were given from the chair, and most cordially responded to. Admiral Dundas made an allasion to the absence of Prince Albert from London, for the purpose of laying the first stone of the Grimsby Docks, a com mercial and maritime enterprise in which the present company could not but take a deep interest.—(Cheers.) Admiral DIINDAS then proposed " The Army and Navy," a toast which had seldom been neglected on oc casions like the present. General THOMAS and Admiral Sir C. MALCOLM re turned thanks. The latter officer remarked that, although the two services were out of fashion for the moment, it was to be hoped that the merchants of the city of Lon don would not forget the protection which their commerce had received at the hands of the British navy.—(Cheers.) Admiral DUNDAS then gave the toast of the evening— " The Health of Charles Enderby, and success to his un dertaking." The greatest honour an Englishman could receive was obtaining the approbation of his fellow-citi zens. Such an honour had been most amply conferred on Mr. Enderby, for never yet was beheld such a meeting as was now assembled. Local objects,cbarities, politics, would often call greater numbers together, but here was an object in which men of all political creeds joined, in the determination to meet together to bid farewell to a man who was about to proceed on a voyage which had for its accomplishment the revival of the great fisheries in which England formerly took so large and so prominent a share. (Hear, hear.) Thank God, the mere difference of political opinions did not prevent men from meeting together on occasions like the present; it reminded him of the " Happy Family," from the dissimilarity of sentiment which was to be seen amongst the various guests.—(Hear, hear, and a laugh.) He begged to propose the " Health of Mr. Charles Enderby, with success to his undertaking and reward fur his labours."—Three times three. Mr. C. ENDERBY rose and said that he stood in need of all the kindness of his auditors, for he was utterly unable competently to express his acknowledgments for the honour that had been done him. When he saw the Queen's Ministers taking an active part with the merchants of London towards the promotion of his designs, he could not but feel that this was a circum stance of which any man must feel justly proud. There was no instance on record, that he recollected, of a man having been so highly honoured by his fellow-citizens as he had been.—(Cheers.) He could only give a promis• sort' note. But- he was certain he should be able to redeem his word.—(Cheers.) Every facility had been given to him by the Government—(Cheers)—for the accomplishment of his objects. He feared, however, that it his enterprise should not succeed he should not be able to face his fellow-citizens again. He should be ashamed to do so.—(No, no.) Yes, he should be ashamed to show himself among his fellow •citizens if he did not succeed in carrying out his views.—(" No," and cheers.) Nevertheless, let him assure his good friends that he felt quite confident in the success of the enterprise in which he was embarked. According to a paper which he held in his hand (the Whaling Shipping List), there were 596 American whalers in the Southern Pacific Ocean, to fourteen British ships.—(Hear, hear.) His instruc tion was to restore the halance.—(hear, hear.) He had no j'.alousy or enmity towards the Americans, but he did wish to see British skill and British enterprise assert their own position. As for the Auckland Islands, he must say he should welcome the American whalers, and he wished them success, whilst he should make every endeavour to compete with them. Mr. ENDERBY then proposed the health of Mr. lA bouchere and of her Majesty's Ministers. Mr. LABOUCHERE said it was matter of great gratifi cstion to him to be present on an occasion like the pre sent, when all the principal merchants of the city of London were at the table .—(Hear, hear.) But more es pecially did he feel pleasure in the circumstance that he had a warm sympathy with the objects of the en terprise conducted by their worthy guest, Mr. Enderby. The presence of so many of the greatest merchants of London proved the value of the enterprise. It was deeply to be regretted that the fisheries of the deep seas had been resigned by English seamen to the United States. lie trusted, however, that it would be found possible to restore the influence which England once possessed in the whale fisheries. He hailed, therefore, with satisfaction the pre sent beginning, and as to the thanks which Mr. Enderby had offered to the Government for their promotion of his views, he could only say .the Government had done their duty in so acting. He hoped most earnestly that Mr. Enderby would return iu safety from his enterprise —(Hear, hear)—in which he believed he was as much actuated by patriotic sentiments as by hope of gain. (Hear, hear.) He did not agree with Mr. Enderby in chinking that failure in that enterprise would entail any shame upon him. On the contrary, he would do his best, and the generosity of his fellow -countrymen would always amply redeem his efforts from all chance of censure. He begged most sincerely to thank the company for the honour they had done him. The health of the Chairman having been proposed by Mr. Puwles, the clerk of the London Dock Com pany, and responded to, the company separated. AUSTRIA AND ITALY. It was vain to hope that Austria would not take full advantage of the victory gained over the only indepen dent Italian power on the field of Novara. . Towards Piedmont itself the conquerors, indeed, have shown for bearance. But at the same timo the Austrian Cabinet and generals have practised some dissimulation with re gard to central Italy. It was understood in Paris, we believe, that Austria would not precipitate the march of her legions at least towards Rome; that time would be given to the Republic, an d th e population, to make their submission and obtain some terms from the Pope. Aus tria has, however, not waited. The warlike attitude assumed by the Tuscans in support of the Genoese, and the alliance between Rome and Florence, no doubt give colour to Austrian intervention ; and whilst we write the rumour is that the forces of Radetzky have entered Florence and must be approaching Rome. This German intervention has naturally called for a French expedition of a similar kind; and much as one may regret any such interference, it is better that it should be undertaken by two powers than by one. The original aim of Austria could be no other than to restore the absolutist regime of the Pope. France in terferes to modify this purpose, and to secure for the Romans the guarantee of a constitutional, and, conse quently, to a certain degree, of a lay government. In this aim the democratic portion of the National Assem bly has singularly thwarted the French Ministers. M. Barrot brought forward the vote of funds for the inter vention. It was referred to a Committee, which decided in its favour. But the withdrawal of the Members of the Left, leaving the Chamber a less number than 500, ren dered the vote null, and has thus retarded the expedi tion at least by four-and-twenty hours. We confess that the speech of M. Barrot was neither very liberal nor very satisfactory. But M. Barrot is Prime Minis ter, and it is his policy and duty so to conduct his in terference, for Roman freedom, that this may be at tained in accordance with Austria rather than in opposi tion to it. General Lamoriciere, President of the Com mittee, was more frank. He declared that the object was to laud troops, and to occupy Rome, if pos sible, before the Austriane. It is s serious event the mutual presence of the French tri-colour and the Aus trian double eagle in the streets of Rome. Not that we foresee any collision; it is too much the interest of both parties to avoid war. Nor is there any specious ground for quarrel. France calls itself Catholic as well as Austria. And Stadion as well as Odilon Barrot has presided over the framing of a Constitution. Why should the Romans bo denied what France and Austria enjoy ? We are sorry to see the Constituttonnel, a journal in the interest of the French Government, join in the wholesale and calumnious attacks upon the Roman Republic. We are no admirers of Mazzini or of the extreme party. But we do not see what the Romans could do when the Pope fled from them, but proclaim a Republic in imitation of France, making it as feasible and pacific as might be. There are very many members of the Roman Government and Assembly without whose concurrence and aid the French can never hope to found anything like a constitu tional government in the Roman states. We believe, how ever, that the aims of the French Government are liberal and wise. Those aims are to recommence the essay so unfortunately made by Count Rossi—the essay to sepa rate the temporal and ecclesiastical power and functions of the Pope, and to establish a lay government with constitutional g uarantees. It is very well known that the great impediments in Count Rossi's way were the not raised by the democratic or revolutionary party in first instance. It was the priests and the retrogrades who most fiercely attacked his career and exulted in his fall. With Austrian and French troops on the hills of Rome, this party may indeed in trigue, but can no longer employ either in ourreeciwitt or aaspasiu, Auci the great 114TOItAlte of a French army of occupation will be to dispense with the necessity of an armed people by rendering powerless an interested, a corrupt, and despotic hierar chy. The reputation of M. Barrot's Cabinet, will, indeed. much depend upon the success with which it conducts the re-organization of the Government of Rome. That Cabinet has as yet in foreign policy done little, and it has had the great wisdom to say little. But something, at least, is expected of it. It has accom plished the work of repression at home with firmness and good results; perhaps it has overdone that work. It has, therefore, to establish or redeem its character for liberalism by securing to'Central Italy a constitutional government. And this every one admits to be completely incompatible with the combining of the powers of lay sovereignty over the Roartn States with ecclesiastical sovereignty over all Catholic countries.—Daily News. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, April 19. Their Lordships assembled at Fire o'clock. The Earl of ST. GERNIANS presented a petition from Kildare against the rate in aid. Lord CAM VBELL presented a petition from Cornwall complaining of the persecution to which the Rev. James Shore had been subjected. Lord STANLEY presented petitions from Castletown and other places, against the rate in aid; also a petition complaining of agricultural distress. PETTY SESSIONS BILL. Lord CAMPBELL moved the third reading of the Petty Sessions Bill, After a few words from the Marquis of SALISBURY, the motion was agreed to. THANKS TO THE EARL OF DILHOUSIE AND LORD G OUG H. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice that on Tuesday he should move the thanks of the House to the Governor-General and the Commander-in-Chief of the forces in India for their conduct during the war in the Punjaub and for the victory of Goojerat. SICILY. Lord STANLEY wished to know when the papers relating to the mediation between ,Sicily and Naples would be laid before the House, and whether the British naval force had been withdrawn from the Sicilian waters. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE :said that the papers would be laid on Ile table as soon as possible, and that the naval force under Sir W. Parker had been directed to withdraw from the Sicilian waters, with the excep tion of a few ships which had been left solely for the protection of British interests and British subjects, and that they had orders to abtain from all interference between the belligerents. Lord STANLEY considered the answer of the Noble Maiquis to be perfectrg• satiffactory. NORTH WALE• RAILWAY COMPANY. Lord MONTEAGLE moved that Mr. Chadwick and Mr. Martiner be called to the bar. The Noble Lord repeated the history of the proceedings whiCh their Lord ships had taken in relation to the North Wales Railway Company. Lord CAMPBELL said that all the parties had to answer for was not obeying the order of the House. Messrs. Chadwick and Marriner having been called to the bar, and asked what they had to say, Mr. Chadwick said, that had he received the order to attend, nothing should have prevented him from obey ing it, and he read the evidence of the messengers of their Lordships, to prove that the order had not been served upon him until the month of October 1848. Had he had the least idea that his preience would have been required in September, he would have been in the way. Mr. Marriner, on being called on, said he had done all in his power to comply with the orders of their Lord ships' House, and proceeded to explain the steps he had taken to procure and supply to their Lordships the in formation required, and it was not until after the pro rogation of Parliament that he had received any inti mation that his presence was required at their Lord ships' bar. From the moment he had received that inti mation he had held himself entirely at the orders of their Lordships. teoti unsatisfactory, on , o o to e Lord MONTEAGLE considered the explanations apnadrtthoaft thesetherepersons; to disobey the bad been a deliberate in orders of their Lordships with an improper inten tion; and in order to show that their Lordships would not permit their privileges to, be trampled on, moved that Wil liam Chadwick and John Marriner, having been guilty of a breach of the privileges of the House by a disobe dience to the orders of the House, have been guilty of a contempt of the House, and that they bo therefore taken into custody. The motion having been agreed to, Messrs. Chadwick and Marriner were removed in custody. FRENCH INTERVENTION IN ITALY. Lord BEAU .lONT thought it was strange that one of the first steps of the French Republic should bo to interfere to put doSrn a republic in Rome, and that a republic founded on the destruction of a monarchy should interfere to restore the most absolute monarch ho ever ruled. It would also be strange it it should be owing to the intervention of the Protestant power of England that the Pope should be restored. After the statement of the Noble Marquis to - n i g ht, that Sicily had been abandoned to the Neapolitans, when they com mitted the most atrocious enormities—after England had abandoned the inhabitants of that unfortunate island to the most horrid butcheries, he asked whether or not the Government had consented to French intervention in Rome. He should hereafter call the attention of Par liament to the conduct of England in relation to Italy and to that unfortunate island Sicily. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the French intervention in Rome had not been the subject of negotiation, nor had the Government taken any `part in suggesting it, but that an intimation of such intended intervention had been made, and he was not aware that any opposition would be offered to it by her Majesty s Government. With respc;:otietdo thatthe unfortunate contest carryi n g on in Sicily, h© her Majesty's Government had broken any pledge whatever. DANUBIAN PROVINCES. Lord BEAUMONT gave notice that he should ask a question on a future day on the subject of the continued occupation by Russia of the Danubian provinces. PROTECTION OF WOMEN BILL. The Bishop of OXFORD presented several petitions in favour of this Bill, and gave notice that he should move the second reading of that Bill on Monday fortnight. RECOVERY OF WAGES BILL (IRELAND). On the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE, ,his Bill was read a third time and passed. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 19. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. BROMLEY took the oaths and his seat for South Nottingham, in the room of Colonel Rolleston. SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY. Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved that the order of the House of the 16th day of February last, referring the South• Eastern Railway (Removal of Restriction against opening the Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, and Ashford and Hastings Lines, Grant of compulsory Powers for purchase of Lands, Steam-boats) Bill, to the Committee of Selection, be now read.—This was done, the order was discharged, and the Bill withdrawn. THIRD LEADINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed:— Grimsby Corporation and Freemen's Arrangement. Kiddermioeter Union Small Tenements Rating. Macclesfield Borough Waterworks, Markets, &e. Marshland Smeeth and Fen (Equalization of Drainage Rates and Repair of Roads). BIRTHS AND MARRIAGE (SCO rL AND) BILL. Mr. DUNCAN preseaed petitions from Aberdeen against this Bill. y SUNDA -RAVELLING. Lord LINCOLN proseated a petition in favour of this Bill. Mr. SCOTT presented petitions against the Bill, al also did an Hon. Member ions the Orkneys. Mr. LOCKE presented a petition from Falkirk in favour of the 13ill for the regalation of Sunday travelling on railways. MARRIAGE BILL. An HoN. MEMBER presented a petition from the Ork• net's against this Bill; and another against the Births, Deaths, and Marriages (Scotland) Bill. Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition to the same effect. Mr. BANKES presented a petition in favour of the Marriage BilL Mr. HENLEY presented a petition against it. BEER LICENCES. Mr. TUFNELL presented a petition praying for an eAteration of the law regulating the licensing of beer houses. Mr. HUME presented a petition from a place in De vonshire against extending beer-houses, and that those at present in existence might only be licensed during the tenure of their present occupiers. Mr.WALPOLE present,ed a petition to the same effect shire complaining - FREE TRADE. Lord EMLYN presented a petition from Pembroke • praying for the equa li sa ti on o f taxation. ARBITRATION. of the operation of free trade , and Mr. COBDEN presented a number of petitions in favour of arbitration instead of war. Mr. E WART presented petitions to the same effect. CHURCH-RATES. Mr. EWART presented a petition praying for the abolition of church-rates. (POOR-LAW SUPERANNUATION FUND. , Mr. PEARSON presented a petition from the medical officers of St. Mary, Lambeth, praying for a superannua tion fund. Mr. Banker, Mr. Henley, and Lord Hotham presented petitions to the same effeet. SECEDING CLERGYMEN. Mr. PEARSON presented a petition from a Dissent ing congregation in Walworth in favour of the Clergy Relief B►ll. , Mr. HUMS presented a petition to the same cffect. IRELAND Lord CASTLEREAGH presented a petition from Down praying for the encouragement of the cultivation of waste lands, and against the Rate in Aid Bill. TUANPIKE BILLS, 14 1 r. C. LEWIS, in answer to a question from Mr. W. Patten, stated that the attention of the Government had been called to the Turnpike Bills before the House, and if it was thought expedient to refer any of those Bills to the Home Department with reference to debts, and so on, measure could be taken there to make a satis factory examination with respect to them. PACKET SERVICE. Mr. HENLEY gave notice of his intention on an early day to move the appOintment of a Select Committee to inquire into the Contract Packet Service. VIE P UNJAUB. Mr. G. THOMPSON postponed his motion relative to the Punjaub to Tuesday next. VOTE OF THANKS TO THE ARMY IN INDIA. fir d, AQ )3 I;I9UPg. ii4Y9.4etice obis Waco cola the 24th instant to propose a vote of thanks to the Go vernor-General, the Commander-in• Chief, and the offi cers and men of the army of India, for their late eminent services in the East.—(Hear, hear.) HOP DUTY. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in answer to a question from an Hon. Member, stated that he prop)sed to extend the time for the payment of the instalment of the hop duties, but he could not then state to what period. SICILY, DENMARK, AND BRUSSELS. Mr. DISRAELI wished to know from the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, whe ther and when the Sicilian papers would be laid on the table of the House. He also wished to know whether the Government had an objection to lay on the table of the House the papers relative to the negotiations with Denmark regarding Schleswig-Ilolstein, and also whether the Government had any objection to produce the records of the Congress at Brussels. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that, with regard to the first question, relative to Sicily, the papers were now preparing, and would be ready in a few days. As to the second, the negotiations with Denmark relative to Schleswig Holstein were still going on, and it would, therefore, not be advisable to lay those papers before the House at the present moment. With respect to the third question, the only answer he could give was, that although the record of the Brussels Congress bad been promised, that promise had not been kept. Mr. HUME wished to know from the Noble Lord the Secretary of State fur the Foreign Department, whether a report that was current was true, that a messenger had arrived on the 25th of March from Co penhagen, with letters to the Noble Lord, which had remained unanswered for two days, till in fact it was too late to put an end to hostilities. Lord PALMERSTON said that, in consequence of the papers having been mislaid, some delay certainly took place, but such delay was immaterial, as the propo sition contained in the letter was one that could not be accepted, and the answer would have been the same on one day as the other. RUSSIAN TROOPS IN CONSTANTINOPLE. Mr. ANSTEY—Sir, I wish to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he received any information from Constantinople on the subject •of an alleged demand made on the Sultan by the Government of Russia for the removal of Turkish troops from Moldavia and Wallachia under the menace that if the troops were not withdrawn, the Russian Ambassador would be in structed to ask for his passport.—(Hear, hear.) Lord PALIIERSTON—Sir, in answer to the ques tion which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman has put, I beg to say that I do not believe that any such demand has been made by the Russian Govern ment; on the contrary, I have every reason to believe that the report to which, no doubt, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman refers is totally unfounded. In fact, the pre sence of the Ottoman troops in the Danube was invited by Russia, and the fact that I am in possession of, is that re cently Russia sent General Souzglan, an officer of great distinction, to Constantinople, with the view, as I am in formed, of endeavouring to effect a friendly arrangement of the matter in dispute.—(Cheers.) THE IRISH INTERVIEW. On the motion that the orders of the day be now read, Lord CASTLEREAGH threw himself on the indul gence of the House while he introduced to its notice matters referring personally to himself, and having re ferenee to a correspondence which had passed between himself and the Noble Lord the First Minister of the Crown. Tne SPEAKER—I am sorry to interrupt the Noble Lord, but it is usual to agree to the motion before the House as a matter of course. Lord CASTLEREAGH was quite aware of that, but he threw himself on the indulgence of the House.— (Hear, hear.) It will be in the recollection of the House that a few days ago the Noble Lord at the head of the Government summoned the Irish Members, as a body, to receive from him certain propositions with reference to the rate in aid. Previous to that meeting, as it was anticipated that the Irish Members would be required to give an immediate answer to the Noble Lord, they were summoned together to determine upon what course they should adopt. At that meeting the Honourable Gentleman the Member for Limerick introduced business of an extraneous nature, and gentlemen present were unable to come to any conclusion as to who should be elected spokesman of the body. At the meeting with the Noble Lord he Ras requested by many of the gentlemen present to state tin it views, but he was unable to catch the Noble Lord'a attention, and was, therefore, not able to do so. He therefore addressed a letter to tie Noble Lord, which, with the permission of the House, be would read. It was as follows :—" My Lord: I beg to state to your Lordship, not only for myself, but on behalf of a numerous and influential body of Irish Members, that, whilst in deference to your position as a Minister of the Crown, we attended the meeting in Downing street, we were not prepared to pledge our selves to adopt any particular tax; we aro, however, willing to discuss any proposal for that purpose upon its own merits is the House of Commons, but without hearing the arguments which may be produced in the discussion of such a question, we could not put our selves in the position of answering for our con stituents, and therefore we beg to abstain from offer ing any advice to Government on the course they may think proper to pursue.—l am, &c." In answer to that letter he received an answer to the following effect: —"I should have waited to hear your Lordship, but it did not appear to be the wish of the members present that I should do so, and I thought it best to retire otherwise I must have heard other members who did not belong to that numerous and influential body to which your Lordship alludes, and I must have assisted at a debate instead of receiving a decision." He had thought it his duty to refer to those letters, and he would now leave the matter in the Isanis of the House exactly as he had stated it. He would only make one other re mark with reference to the numerous and influential body which the Noble Lord had alluded to in his letter. fie held in his hand the names of the gentlemen who constituted it, and, if the Noble Lord chose to see them, he would find that they were both numerous and influential. In conclusion, he had to state that the whole body of Irish Members had come to the reso lution, in conformity with the letter which he had the honour to address to the Noble Lord.—(Hear, hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL rose and said, as the Noble Lord had thought it necessary to make that statement he might be allowed to make a few observations in reply. He begged to state that after having explained what the views of the Government were he intimated that he thought it would be better if the gentlemen then present should take some further time to consider their decision, and expressed a hope that they would favour him with a reply in the course of this morning. The Noble Lord (Lord Castlereagh). as he understood, then began to state that he was prepared then to say what the opinion of the meeting was. Lord CASTLEREAGH—No, not the meeting. Lord J. RUSSELL then said that he was prepared to state the opinion of several persons. He (Lord J. Russell) was ready to receive the answer—he stopped to hear it, upon which several Gentlemen called out " No, no.") He thought that if he re eeived the answer of the Noble Lord he should not be receiving the answer of the meeting, and that he should be involved in a debate with respect to what the intention of the meeting was. Ile, therefore, adopted his original intention, and retired into the next room and expressed his willingness to come back again and make any other explanation that might be required of him. He could assure the Noble Lord that he was very sorry that any misunderstanding should have arisen, but he begged to say that he wished to cast no disparage ment upon any one, and was ready to make any apology which might be considered necessary.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. DISRAELI then rose and said—l think it highly unconstitutional to call a meeting in the way in which the Noble Lord has called one, and I am surprised that a Minister who is so well known for his knowledge of the constitution should have recourse to such meetings. —(Hear, hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL said that the Hon. Member was out of order. The SPEAKER said he had allowed the Noble Lord (Lord Castlereagh) to proceed with his statements, al though he was out of order, seeing that it was the general opinion of the House that he should do so, but the House would now see the inconvenience of the discussion pro ceeding further, and he trusted that he would now be supported in enforcing the rule of the House.—(Hear.) Mr. DISRAELI said—l rose to move the adjourn ment of the House, and I concluded that I was in order. I shall, however, take the first opportunity of bringing forward this subject again, and then a Minister of the Crown will not have it in his power to say that I had pre pared my observations.—(Lsughter and cheers.) NAVIGATION BILL (AS AMENDED). On the order of the day being read for proceeding with the consideration of thel Navigation Bill, as amended, Captain HARRIS rose to move to move the following clause:—"Be it enacted that the master or owner of every ship belonging to any subject of her Majesty, and of the burden of eighty tons and upwards, except pleasureyachts, shall have on board at the time of her proceeding from any port of the United Kingdom, and at all times when ab sent from the United Kingdom or navigating the seas, one apprentice or more, in the following proportion to the number of tons of the ship's admeasurement, according to the certificate of registry ; that is to say, for every ship of 80 tons, and under 300 tons, one apprentice at the least, for every ship of 300 tons and under 600 tons, two apprentices at the least, and for every ship of 600 tons and upwards, three apprentices at the least; all of whom, at the period of their being bound respectively, shall be subjects of her Majesty; and above twelve and under seventeen years of age, and be duly bound for the term of four years at least; and if any such master or owner shall neglect to have on board his ship the number of apprentices as hereby required, to gether with their respective registered indentures, as • signments, and register tickets, he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay the sum of ten pounds in respect of each apprentice, indenture, assignment, or register ticket so wanting or deficient." In moving this clause he would confine himself strictly to the matter in hand. He was unwilling to detain the House one minute beyond what was absolutely necessary for properly discussing the bearings of the clause which he had moved. Ile wished to prove to the House that the question involved in that clause was in all its bear ings of the highest importance to the merchant navy, in asmuch as the supply of seamen for the merchant navy would materially depend upon it s bein g carried into law. The Hon. and Gallant Member t hen went on to read th e zing ea the CTICI9LIC9 9f ahipoYOZeili Qtker parties WA question, but the low tone in which he spoke measure, and even voted against it, and also in another and the noise in the House rendered it impos- plac , the Committee, to which her Majesty s Govern sible to catch even their purport in the gallery. tnent had submitted this plan, had also expressed After reading some other extracts, which were quite in- their opposition to it; in their report. The witnesses audible in the gallery, the Hon. Gentleman concluded by brought by the Noble Lord (Lord John Russell) were proposing his motion, the House having become im- opposed to it, and the officials, the Poor-law Commis patient, and several Hon. Members having called loudly sioners, men who from their office might be considered for a division. to be favourable to any proposition of the Government, Mr. LABOUCIIERE hoped the,Gallant Officer would expressed their dissatisfaction of such a plan. Every not construe it into any disrespec to him if he merely evidence was against it and the chief commis s i one r, briefly alluded to i what he had said. The question when he he beard of such a measure, did not wait to be lay in a narrow compass. He was disposed to admit with called on to give his opinion about it, but knew it to be the Gallant Officer that the burden put upon the merchant so severe and unjust that ho immediately resigned his seamen service with respect to tonnage was a very heavy office. Under these circumstances, he thought that a grievance, and it was one which they had a right to Committee should be appointed to investigate into the claim exemption from. There was no lack of lads for whole of that question, so that if it be found that Irish the service. It was notorious that there were 10,000 property is not taxed according to a fair and just amount or H,OOO more apprentices than the service required. that a suitable tax be imposed on it. He contended It was, therefore, unnecessary for the House to enforce that the evils of that country were mainly attributable any such regulation as that referred to in the motion of to the conduct of Government, and he should at all the Gallant Officer. He hoped the House would not times oppose them When they pursued suck a agree to the clause. course as they were now adopting. His amend- Mr. HERRIES recommended the Gallant Officer to merit was, that an income and property-tax be as withdraw his motion, as on Monday an opportunity sessed on incomes and property in Ireland not liable would be afforded for the ample discussion of the matter, to income and property-tax under 11 and 12 Victoria, Indeed,he hoped the House would then reject the measure, chap. 8 ; but the Noble Lord's (Lord J. Russell) which was so framed that it was incapable of amend- proposition was that the 100,0001. should be advanced meat. for the relief of distres s i n some di str i cts o f Ireland, Captain HARRIS withdrew his motion. Mr. ANDERSON rose to move that in clause 1, after the word " deficient," to insert " and that any seaman quitting any vessel whatever in order to enter her Ma jesty's naval service, and being received into such service, shall he exempt from any penalty or forfeiture to which they would otherwise be liable as deserters." The Hon. Member proceeded to state several instances which had been brought under his notice of the hard ships and inconveniences resulting from seamen leaving merchant vessels when abroad and entering the navy ; among others, he stated one which bad happened to a friend of his own, in the case of the ship Anne Roberts, of 440 tons burden, bound to Hong Kong. Eleven able-bodied seamen belonging to that vessel volunteered to join her Majesty's ship Lydia. They bad received bills for wages and had gone ou shore to have them cashed, when they joined the Lydia. The ship was in consequence very much " distressed;" the captain could not proceed to sea without those men, and he ran considerable risk of losing his vessel. He thought that it was in the highest degree desirable that a state of things like that should be put an end to; and he submitted the clause which he had moved would have that effect. He was an advocate for a change in the navigation-laws, but on grounds different from those on which many Hon. Members sought their repeal. Mr. HUME seconded the motion, Mr. LABOUCHERE did-not pretend to say that the system of manning the navy was not susceptible of improvement; but he did say it would be inexpedient to endeavour in one and the same measure to amend that system, and at the same time the commercial naviga tion of this great country. He was sorry that any Member should have thought it necessary tor clog the measure before the House with amendments of that description, which would involve the Hu use in endless discussions. Ile would vote against the amend ment. Mr. HUME admitted that the impediment referred to by the Honourable Gentleman ought to be removed, but he thought there was a good deal in what had fallen from the Right Honourable Gentle man who had just sat down, and tie would therefore suggest that this motion should be post poned till the question of manning the navy came more tormally before the House. Mr. HAWES entirely agreed with what had fallen from the Hon. Member for Montrose. There could be no doubt that the shipping interest was very heavily bur dened, but until these navigation-laws, which the shipping interest fancied were so much protection to them were repealed, those burdens would never be removed. But let the House pass this Bill, and the shipowners them selves would be the first to seek redress, and those who were Free•traders the first to concede it ; but he thought it decidedly inexpedient to moot the question of their burdens at the present moment. Ile hoped, therefore, the amendment would be with drawn. After a few words from Captain BERKELEY, Mr. ANDERSON said, in deference to the opinion of his friends, he would withdraw the motion. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. Mr. LABOUCHERE said, with regard to the fol lowing amendment of the Right Hon. Member for the university of Oxford, he begged to say that he should have no objection to the first, but he most oppose the second part—Provided always, and be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for her Majesty in Council, upon an ad dress or joint address, as the case may be, from the Legis lative Council, or Council and Assembly, or proper legislative authority, of any British possession, praying her Majesty to authorise the conveyance of goods and passengers from one part of such possession to another part of such possession in other than British ships, to declare, by order in Council, that such conveyance shall be authorised accordingly, in such terms and under such conditions as to her rf ajosty shall seem good. And be it enacted, that upon a like address from the proper legislative authority of any two or more colonies, which her Ma jesty in Council shall declare to be neighbouring colo nieuf or the purposes of this Act, praying her Majesty to place the trade between such colonies upon the footing of a coasting trade, it shall be lawful for her Majesty, by order in Council, to declare that it shall be deemed and taken to be a coasting trade accordingly, for all intents and purposes: provided always, that the privi;eges conferred by this Act upon foreign ships shall not be diminished by any such order in Council, unless by regulations which shall be equally applicable to Britsh ships. Mr. GLADSTONE acceded to the proposil of the Right Honourable Gentleman. The proviso was accordingly introduced, and the other parts of the Bill having been agreed to, the report was adopted. should be secured on the assessed income of the rate in aid. Ile mould he in favour of having that loan se cured by the income and property tax; but at the same time did not see any charm or reason.why 70. in the pound in property tax, or 1501. per year in th e i ncome tax, should be established as a standard in Ireland, par ticularly as there was a precedent for the contrary in Scotland, in the case of property tax. He believed that property in Ireland was not fit for such a tax, and should read an extract from the speech of thy, Noble Lord in the introduction of the income tax for England. He (Lord J. Russell) then used these words as applying to Ireland, " That by extending this tax to Ireland. you would check her efforts at prosperity, and that by the check ing her you injure not only Ireland but also England and Scotland." The Noble Lord said Ireland was not fit to bear that taxation, and he (Mr. Herbert) believed that she was at present ten times worse than she was last year, when the Noble Lord 'adverted to her in those terms. He wished to exempt from this rate the farmers, who are the principal sufferers, and totally dif fered from the resolutions at a great meeting held in 1847 in Dublin, which proved the universal distress of Ireland. That meeting suggested the propriety of an income and propert-tax in aid of local taxation, but he wished for a general taxation in Ireland for local pur poses, and considered that every tax for every purpose should be paid into the treasury of the Exchequer, as • being a firm supporter of the Union. It had been said that this is a landlord question, and the Hon. Member for the city of Dublin stated in the House that the objeet of it was to shift the burden from the shoulders of the landlords to the honest and hardworking tradesmen; but to that he should sae that there was no proposition to exempt the landlords, and it there was he would be one of the first to oppose such a plan. On whom would this burden fall? It would fall on that class that are already ground down—on the unfortunate farmers who are using every exertion to keep their holdings—on men who are nut in a position to bear that burden, and who are daily emigrating in consequence of their inability to meet their expenses. Nor was the industrious tradesman, who has invested his little capital in building, fit to bear such a taxation. He hoped that his proposition would not be rejected, because there was no machinery fur car rying it out, as the poor•law measure bad been carried out without any machinery whatever. He should next leer to the plan of the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir Robert Peel), which he and the people of Ireland looked upon as a comment upon the do-nothing policy of the present Government, and which raised u hope in the minds of that people that the Ministry would not long continue in office; for the laissez faire, laissez passer policy of the Noble Lord's speech, in the beginning of this session, created but one opinion, and that was—that nothing good could come from that Government. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he (Mr. H.) supported. that policy. Mr. HERBERT said, that he, with eleven other Irish Members, to whose political principles he was opposed, had determined to protest against the conduct of Go vernment respecting Ireland. He should say that Go' vernment were the cause of the evils of Ireland. He was grateful for the grants made to Ireland, but he contended that the responsibility of their not effecting good did not rest upon the Irish or the Irish gentry, be cause the Government had disregarded their suggestions. He assured the House, that he was fully resolved not to withdraw his amendment, now that the Noble Lord had not stated what taxes he proposed to impose, and he should, therefore, conclude by moving the imposition of an income and property tax in Ireland. Mr. F: FRENCH said, he regretted that the Hon. Gentleman should have thought proper to persevere with his amendment in opposition to the opinions of the OW jority of the Irish Members. He could nut think that Ireland was in a position to bear any increased taxation. He denied that the Irish Members were bound to suggest • a substitute for the plan proposed by the Government lie objected to the rate in aid upon principle. He also contended, that Ireland paid an equivalent for the in come-tax levied in this country.—(Bear.) It should.be recollected that out of the thirteen millions of rental in Ireland, eight millions were spent in England which was subject to the income-tax, but for which Ireland did not; get credit. They were asked why they had not repel(' the million advanced to them for the purpose of building • their workhouses, when similar advances made in Eng' land for the same purpose were repaid? In England" this money was advanced to carry out an improvement . of the law, and was advanced at their request; but ie Ireland the law was objected to, and the advances were not asked for by them, but by the Poor-law Comtnis sioners. So obnoxious was 'this law, that the whole of the army and constabulary in Ireland were maintained te uphold the poor-law. Mr. J. O'CONNELL said they were placed between two alternatives of choosing between two burdens. It was asked was England to go on for ever making' grants to Ireland; but they should take into the spies' tion the fact that Ireland has been exposed to gi famine unpredecedent. d in the history of modern, times. They had for forty-nine years robbed Ireland' and now in a season of distress, when they hs., exhausted her resources, they taunted them with then poverty. If they were as generous and liberal as thsi claimed to be, they ought to be happy to contribute t ) the relief of her distress. It was most inconsistent now to propose a new tax, when, even before the famine tools place, she was too poor to bear it. He denounced th e. 'horrible and hideous process of evictions now going O ti in Ireland at that moment, but he would not then go into details. The Hon. Member who put forward the Pr e ; sent proposition was not, h e sa id, prepare d to conten'" 'that Ireland contributed her just share of the taxsttt i of the country, but oth e r s were p re p are d t o d o so, he allowed them, or had he not brought forward it i • motion, against the wish e s of the great majority of tiae Irish Members. The Hon. Member for B ue longbac• shire said, very properly, the other night, that Iri s s „, absentee proprietors, mortgagors, and others, paid w o come-tax; and stated so most correctly, for though n , returns could be got of the amount, he believed it 0 , 11 1 . at that moment 250,0001., in addition to 65 0001. O s , quit rents and other matters. Why should n ° Ireland get credit for these sums of money? Why fl 06 get credit for duties paid on articles in England whi eh c t were afterwards consumed in Ireland, and a ll of whi he believed, would in the aggregate am oun t to 700,0 0 u,.. or 200,0001. more than that sought for by the rate t; aid. He denounced the Hon. Member for Kerry f ° , l bringing forward such a motion as he introduced; ° o , although he did it in a less obnoxious manner than ! 1 0 . 4 . expected, yet it did not do away with the very seri° og , objections against it. He (Mr. J. O'Connell) bad r ‘o , as yet given any support to the rate in aid measure, w et cause be did not wish to press too heavily on the pol o ratepayers; tut now there was no choice left him- do found himself driven into a c or ner , an d a l t h ou gh s o should give the measure his vote that night he shoul d 14 so with a firm conviction o f it s utter inutility. He wo u ss vote for it, however, i n consequence of the frightful s Y 0 tom of evictions which was going on, as might be sr,ce from the account s g i ven i n the C or k an d Lime,r_ lx 00 papers. The Ho n . G ent l eman t h en rea d ex tracts 'k il , letters written by the R ev . M r . Fl anne lly and 511 ' t he both of Mayo in the w es t ern p arts o f I re l a nd, giving i s most horrible accounts of the privations which thep eoP suffered, and of the deaths which occurred from stain tion. Coerced by those horrible details which he r 0 thus read for the House, he should support the mo ll° of the Government. h° Captain JONES considered that he had only l ye choice between two modes of taxation, that proposed 0 . the Government as a rate in aid, and that by his o ° o Friend; and he had no hesitation in giving the lattere, preference. As a represent a ti ve o f t h e coun ty o f Der r f t ' he received a communication from the grand jerl' a id which they declared their disapprobation of a rate in j o • although willing to bear any burden which could h ° oo t vied in a more equitable manner. If the Governor o e persisted in levying their rate in aid measure, he b a d hesitation in saying, that they would, by doing so, en' lt f ger the whole measure of a poor - law in Ireland, 0 ! • 0 0 practical working, in consequence of the opPn,ssilloo which must arise to the payment of any rate whatu.„os, He was a warm advocate for the poor-law, and it se therefore, be was anxious that nothing shou ld be do ne mar its proper working. f b i° Mr. IL FOX should support the amendment to . Hon. Friend. In the union of Longford, where his P I perty was situate, the rate in aid amounted at the!' l ye meat, in support of the poor of Connaught, to 3d. L I/ o bits pound. That arose from the tact that the poor inPoca ants of the western parts of Ireland true s to eastwards, through Longford, on their w s Y,l 5 O l England—but while they "had the power in Enp o pc, to send them back, n o suc h au th or ity ex i s ted in 1 • 4 14 o f ford; and thus were they b u rd en ed for the sup P e er parties who were properly chargeable on unions ni se to, naught. —( Ht ar.) If the rate in aid were, theref or 'a et • ea be levied as proposed by the Government— lo s t w it its being 6d. it would be 9d. on him, and that, too, out any remedy whatever. He denounced it as %Jett to compel other parties to pay for the poor of Coon'o t h e or in support of the unions or that province, bees ° os or e present poverty was brought about in a great el e t sosi by the misconduct of landlords, the misconduct _ eg , who administered the poor law, and other c aua r. r which he should not then more particularly ref i t os es, g , his opinion an income-tax was more preterable , 1 111 011 , it was more just, than a rate in aid; and he -gietr' t`terefore, support the amendment of his Hon. ' O3O O O / 0 Now, from whatever source those sums ot piet a were to be derived, he wished to know how thg tre sae 4 'to be expended. The plan of relieving 7 .1 , 05 te',.. unions had, he believed, already caused the ars e e r, demoralization ; and that would be continue_dret_i.,toit: of money, and assistance of the kind propose d , did!, to be given. The way he believed in whi ch 1"49g c sp u o lt t y s, WI they W(110 willing ty btiut up tu u Vi l a e s av L o g b the m estOunwdasp otrottsoenasrctho oausstistth,et„.stes.incarlovois RATE IN'AID BILL. The House thou went into Committee upon this Bill; Mr. BEnNAL'in the chair. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER pro ceeded to make a statement to the House, to shoie the necessity of money being advanced for the relief of dis tress in the western part of Ireland; and having enume rated and named the several unions in which great dis tress is prevailing, and the difficulty, if not almost im possibility, of collecting rates to alleviate it, concluded by moving a resolution, to the effect, " That the House do authorise the Commissioners of her ➢Majesty's Trea•- sury to advance a sum of money not exceeding 100,000, for the relief of the distressed unions in Ireland." Mr. HUME admitted the prevalence of great distress in Ireland, and the necessity of granting relief in alle viation of it; .but ho should most decidedly object to the advance of the money until the Rate in Aid Bill should be first passed—and from an impression that many Mem bers of that House connected with Ireland would, if the money were first advanced, do all in their power to de feat the passing of the Rate in Aid Bill. lie should be glad to learn from the Nob!e Lord at the head of the Government what course the Government intended to pursue in relation to the proposed advance of 100.0001 There : was still sufficient money to go on fur a week or two of the 50,0001. grant, and as two weeks would be sufficient to pas the Bill, ho should move that no part of the. money be advanced until after the passing of the Rate in Aid Bill. Lord JOHN RUSSELL would state fairly what his views were with respect to the proposed advance of 100,0001. His intention was, that the 100,000 E should be advanced in reference to the rate in aid, and should the resolution be affirmed, that they should be repaid out of that rate; but when the Hon. Gentleman asked the House not to grant any portion of the money until the Rate in Aid Bill should first pass, he could not gi‘e his assent to ,that proposition. There were 6,0001. still in hand to be advanced of the recent grant, and should those 6,0001. be expended before the Bill be passed, then it was his intention to come down to the House, and ask for an advance of five or six thousand pounds, and in taking that course, if either this House or the other House should refuse to pass the Bill now under consido ration, then it was his intention to again come down to the House, and ask it to convert the five or six thousand pounds into an absolute grunt, and in relation to any further relief, he should not, he felt, be justified in calling on the House to advance any more, and upon those who might refuse this rate in aid, be the responsi bility and the consequences.—(Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in answer to a question from Mr. Vernon Smith, stated, that with respect to his asking the precise sum of 100,0001. to meet the distress, his impression was that the advance would be sufficient until the harvest be gathered in. Mr. HENRY HERBERT maintained that no sustain able argument had been advanced in support of the ne cessity of the measure now before the House.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble L',rd had stated to that House, that it was not his intention to ask Parliament to give its sanction to any more grants, should Ireland not consent to be taxed as now proposed. lie (Mr. Herbert) had Lc) hesitation in saying, that the county with which he was connected, and in which his entire interest was contained, was already taxed beyond its power of bearing.—(Hear, hear.) It had been decided by the House that some in crease of taxation should bo borne by Ireland, and it be came a question, by whom was it to be borne? It had been laid down by a high authority, that taxation should be borne by those who were best able to bear it. Now, when he came to examine that, he found that in the case of Ireland no one condition of it could at present be ful filled. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to the allusions of the Right Hon. Baronet the MembQr for Tamworth, to the precedents which he said had prevailed in this country of levying a rate in aid on one or more unions, for the relief of others in a zwtoatethoef R d i i g s h tr t e u ss o ; n. an ß d at p on ro e - t pro ceeded to say that he could s that what he said on that occasion was not entirely borne out. He would read to the House a return moved for by his Hon. Friend the Member for the University of Dublin (Mr. Hamilton) on this subject, in re tion to England and Wales. By that return, which ho now held in his hand, and which was entitled— " A return of the Names of any Unions or Parishes in England and Wales, in aid of which any rate or assessment for the relief of the poor has been made upon any county, hundred, union, or parish, during each of the ten years preceding Lady-day, 1848, so." He found that there was no similarity existing between the following eight parishes in Wor cesier—Whistones, St. Nicholas, Sr. Clement, St. John Bedwardine, St. Swithin, St. Martin, St. Helen, St. Peter, and St. Michael Bedwardine, and the electoral divisions in Ireland. respecting the rate in aid. He con sidered it most unjust and unprecedented that her Ma jesty's Government should press this measure, particu larly when many who had been trapped by the Noble Lord (Lord John Russell) to support the measure in Committee had afterwards, having detected the design, openly eamsocci sl46x cletmaineti inottiity tc) such a