The Sun. — London, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

talked of the beeeitt . iii, wee- a e woo Celt zC epee the landierds of Ireland, anti of his being the proprie tor of lend is five cean:ies in Ireland. o:her Hon. Members spoke in the same strain. The Hun. Gentle men objected to the legislation for Ireland, and the poter• law especially. Now all these speeches, and this opeoe tion to our honesty, resulted from one state of mind— ri f eeling that Eiegland had a right to support Ireland. But, he would ask, where was the money for this rail road to be got from —where was it to come t rem? Why, from the pockets of the people of this country. What were they going to do? They were geing to advance Money from the Exchequer to Ireland to make a rail.. way. He was not in the habit of quoting h Hansard," but he held a speech of the Chencellor of the Ex chequer's in his hand with reference to a similar but larger measure. The Right Hon. Gentleman then said that he did not lik e the State to become a money-lender. If the parties cored give security for the money they wanted, and if the speculation was a good speculation, every one knew that there would be no difficulty in get ting a loan from private individuals. He wanted to know why the Ch ancellor of the Exchequer had changed his opinion. In 1847 Lord George Beittinck had pre- Posed a plan or railroads for Ireland, which, if ever such a Plan d eserve d support, was one that shoul d have re ceived it. The Chancellor of the Exchequer opposed it, and now came forward with a much smaller, to which, however, all his own objections applied as forcibly as ever. He told them that it would open up the district, and draw trade to it. Well, if that was the case, ac cording to his own showing, it should induce the private lender t o come forward. He must distinctly object alto gether to thi it lending money to Ireland, or to any other Part of the kingdom. Leok at the state of Ireland. It Was in every respect worse than it was in 1847. and what n s the s tate of things at present in England? In every e - eon in the country, in the rural districts especially, the poor -rates were increasing. In frueal industrious Scot land the r ates last year were half a million sterling, this Year they were likely to increase to 600,0001. While in mn st cases they bud not previously been 0 ,000/. T h i s was not a state of affairs to encourage any grants to Ireland. Be sides the Right Hon. Gentleman had formerly shown b itnself that Lord George Bentinek's plan would not ems Ploy the labourers of Ireland, but that the works would Is executed by abl e -b o di e d l a b ourers f rom E ng l an d. Without entering upon any argument upon the subject, be Would simply content hi:lilted' by strongly repeating bis Protest against taking the money from the pockets of the hardworking industrious operatives and artisans, to make railroads in Ireland for any company whatever. HUME said hi; Hon. Friend appeared to misun derstand.t the question entirely. The measure would not take a single farthing out of the pockets of the artisans of this country, nor would is take any of the taxes.— (Heir, hear.) All that was proposed was, that the Go vernment should aid the company with its credit, and in return it would receive a guarantee of ei par cent. on the line. He must repeat, a more unexceptionable and useful proposition he could not conceive. —(clear.) Mr. NE WDEGATE most heartily rejoiced that the plan of his Nob •e and lamented Friend was now could adm" not admitted to have been a practical and useful one. He but re g ret that the Hon. Member fir Sheffield should on such grounds oppose a plan which would benefit the landlords of Ireland. He could give his cordial support to the proposel of the Government, because he had given his support to a touch larger measure, when brought forward by his Noble Friend.—(Hear, hear.) The Government had then opposed that measure, whereas if they had had the comprehensive genius and foresight of his Noble Friend, Irelenil would now have been in a very different position. The arguments of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Cambridge were. in fact, the same as had been formerly used against Lord George Bentinek's pout But he totally denied that the Government ought to leave the people to perish, if their °wn rewarded exertions could not sustaiu them. The d • t u of ex`'ove , rnment was to tester the people, and elev. )e Pte` the m eans -b y whica their skill and industry could bee brought into profitable action , and in this respect he teved the cold and heartless doctrines of political econo my heil be en most m i se hi evens to the country. be es et • ROEBUCK. ,aid he did not object to this advance aware? K. e tt ,:: i t would benefit an Iri s h l a ndlo r d, a nd as to th e th e c eee t e iee of rereen h t ie 11,mour A ble F r i en d (11 r . H ume) t h at merely gave its credit, if they did so the ...,-uvertlment deem that would be in some danger of having to re- Si credit rR . L • Gent[ "-RRON said he had an answer to the wards of e ,:"- The Government had advanced up to eiervie y eti millions of money for public works, not rice , ro se Paliperised, and miserable Ireland, but to ployedParTZPerous England, where everybody was em °l t he means of cre a ti ng wea l t h were b oaste d vances th e Times as superabundant. Among these ad irrtliiir°4de,lle6oo.ooo/. found f or canals and b ridges, 1 470 0001.; --(Loud cries of °Hear" from the for sh Members.) For building poor-houses, 1 900,0004; waterwo rks —(Hear) -70.0004 ; an-1 for the Thames t ee unnel. 250,0004—(R newed cheers.) Where was the t, n. Memb er for Sh,:ffield then? Why was he not in ells Place to oppose such advances as these, not to tarnish ing Ireland, but to wealthy Etiglaud? The feet of the matter was, it was nothing but the bile and the anti- Irish feeling, which seemed to run in his blood, that induced him to come forward and talk as he had done of the hardship of texine the hardwork ing citizens of England for Ireland —(Much merriment was excited by the Honourable Barouet's mimicry of the voice and manner of the Honourable Member for Sheffield) He could show, however, from the highest authorities, that all such advances to Ireland heretofore had not only been repaid to the Government, principal and interest, but that actually their expenditure had proved of benefit to the revenue. For instance, on the authority of Mr. Le Moye he might state that the open ing of a road upon which 70,0001. had been expended, and all of which was repaid, had, in the short space of two years, given an increase to the revenue of 40,0001. The evidence of the late Chairman of the Board of Works in Ireland, an English gentleman, now in high offi ce in this country, was to the same effect. Mr. O'FLAIIERTY said he should not have felt sa tisfied if he had not expressed the gratification he felt, and which he knew pervaded all classes of the people of Ireland, at the intention of her Majesty's Government to render the aid they had proposed doing. He hoped that Governeaent would follow out their views, and he thahked them for bringing forward the present measure, Sir T. D. ACLAND said he had opposed the gigantic Noblewhi c h h a d been b rought forward by a lamented Noble Friend (Lord G. Bentinck)—and he had opposed it principally on account of its magnitude—but he had, nevertheless, in the course of the same year, and with perfect con , istency, supported other propositions for the benefit of Ireland—anti he should, upon the same prin ciple, give his support to the present proposition for Ireland. The lion. and Learned Member for Sheffield (Mr. Roebuck) had taunted an Hon. Member who hart spoken in favour of this measure, because he said he had property in five Irish counties. Now he (Sir T. D. Acland) had no property in Ireland, but he spoke as an independent English Member. and he felt it was the duty of this country to lend every aid that was possibie to Ireland.—(Hear. hear.) There were no mire g.avoul people then the Irish, and it was incumbent on the Go vernment, in the present condition of Irel and, to give all possible aseistarice.—(Heae, hear) He wished to know from his Right Hen. Foetid the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, whether the odes: c-s which had been made in 1847, had been paid u p? Because. it they were, under the circumstances of the dine, it was idle to talk o• danger or risk now, Tilf, best outlay of m nay would be that which would bring back profitable returns threng e the work and the lab tor to Ireland.—(Hear The CEIANCELLOR of toe EXCHEQUER, in reply to the coestion of his Hen. Friru I, caul t bear the most eatisteciory testimony to the fate that every single six pence which had b• en ai l ve nc,d to the railroads in Ire land, had been repaid.— (Rear, hear.) Mr. PETO coulti assure ti , e Hou,e that they had no better labourers on their railways, than the labourers that came from the sister country. Wnen they saw the advantage s whi c h h ad resulted from the making of roads in the vast highlands of S cot l an d , they might safely infer vast advantages which w u ld accrue to Ireland from the rn akin, of re il roade, and he thought that Govern mentcould not d o b etter than give ever) support to the eoni pletten and extension of such works, Mr. FREW EN eupperted the ' measure, Sir LUCIUS O'BRIEN claimed for his country the possession of a proper share of enterprise and industry, mitt' if, iu th e di spensations of Providence, a heavy cala• p,aypiheaodr. Ireland fallen upon th e l an d , he felt as i sured that the and would a pp rec i ate t h e l ib eral i ty of Go vernment in C oming forw ar d w i t h suc h a propos i t i on as the present, and he, for one, gave it his After a fe hearty support. sutio The CH the reset w tl aservati.ins from Mr. H. HERBERT, n was agreed to. e ANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he the di st ressedro had n ext to .use P e a furth e r a d vance for the relief of He had stated unities' months precedin• to be secured upon the rate in aid. a former occasion that, for the three rally prevailed in the harvest, the greatest distress gene more 1, Ireland They had already advanced feeieres. than the 100 0004 Which had been . voted, the dß*- " J h p a v t the tie advanced out of the civil contingen been more than ITOIIOI4 of June the advances Is a a e d not ad vance had that it could be lettill weekly. , Since then t been 15,0'04). weekly, and he did not suppose in full consumg which he Was d 3 the early crops of potatoes — to say were exceedingly good—were 175,000/•, which, with hThles7oohad he e een h a a d l re a a d d v y ,.n a c d . v 4 an t c h e a d t morning,_rta.. would make the entire advance 190,0001. It Was his intention now to move a resolution for a still further advance of 1 50,0001. He would state, before sitting down, that it was also his intention to make a vote for an advance for the reconstruction of work only mentioned it now i i lest houses, but he would move • it i a t h i o a a n l o d th b e e r a C ap o p m o m ae i d tte t e h . at H i e t had escaped his rec e.ction. The CEIANCIaIr by In answe r to a Mr. STAFFORD. were stated that he bad bet', r eel the EXCHEQUER further 2 e 3 h i i a m a list of the most distressed unions, that they he mentioned were the unions number, and among those Bandon, Castlereagh, c am of Babina, Bailinrobs e Ennis, Enntstowen, &ea:, Carrick-on -Shannon, Sir D. NORREI'S wished to know col lection o f ra t es h a d gone on in these how f ar the the coll ec ti on h a d b een enforced? u nions, and wh e th er The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER th..t the coll ec ti on o f t h e rate., in all the di replied unions h a d br‘ en en f orced to the utmost practie blstrebscd e extent. The resolution was then agreed to, and the House re sumed. POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL t l, -• qustion being put that this Bill be read a Third time, J-L , * otiN O'CONNELL rose to move the following claw.p, by %ray of 4m , oidinent :--" And whf rea<, by th, Act I a. d 2 Vic., c. 56. the l'o tr•law Colurnissione rs an. flit pow( red to appoint fit persons to be chaplains ti. w orkhouse., be it t-nact6d, that no clergy men 'hall be deemed a fit person for such office, or if appointed, to be continued in such offi,?e, who shall not be approved of by his ordinary; and that no clergymin shall be removed 1" . : • --, Not tor, out a esh l ; (Hear.) P i a ailway eased uni°'" o f in the tit,: quire 96 0 _1 1 0 ted, the 0o ; in the W r pness of 1, t 6,00 0 , 0 0 _, th portant . 4 ted fisber i a I now isis'i„ pillions ; a ws be all - „ t y it was Ar ition would cc lj d 51° relan • led to cn o , hem stin,‘ e , a nd brl eneration I he thou!, ity's aciple, Lid be v° , o l is prop 16 . ctly je s are alre' , o De was fa and cer o , s the s had hi s l 3posed tb r, Exchecreo ter,st The cop e d cool 0 auntrY j n which jv Id not ° s district , tip ae to O il , an b e for'; this was if proPe h r lio the ow view , of !man 04, 1 i; lity -- co log ~,je the viu'i,e which !P e, sting IL, re of ) . '"b Wed ; he rieb es e r his 0,0 m e jesti P kind ° 0 no t sgr% ly WO' iii !aleulelte, Shotpre hat it t . P t i of wh ic e t h e foo - r had ei'd 11°Ii i ? s • kr e :g irrY w n - cl up 11 .„ - J 3 his 0 " do iat TH tr, , to sun sAvi, tip' deatti;, vI ou;:c, in th , -ir natur-., without the c,,iistlit of his ordinary." Why should the focr-law Commissioners be constilutrA judges of the spiritual fitness of either the "Introit Ci thoic or ;he Protestant chaplains? He hoped the Go vernment would allow the cluthe to bo addict to the Bill, if only for the salu, of facilitating the working of the Ft): w. Sir W. SOMERITMLE hoped the House would not he induc , ti to consent t., the introdlction of the cl,u-e, which he doubted v•ry much wfinid. if adopt• d, facili tate the working of the pn,r-law. The first p ,rtion of the clause was Tiite superfluous. Special care was taken by the Poor-law Gimmis3ioners bafore chaplains to workhouses were appointed, to consult, in a resprctful manner, the archbishop or bishop of the district, as to their spiritual fitness. Mr. A. STAFFORD considered the latter portion of the clause would be found impssible to carry out in a correct spirit. Atter a few remarks from Mr. SCULLY, and an ex planation from 4ir W. SOMERVILLE, Mr. M. O'CONNELL expressed a hope that the lion. Member would not press his motion a division, as in the event of his doing so, he should vote against the clause as it now stood. The remedy in the present case would be worse than the disesse. The Committee divided, when there appeared— For the clause Against ... Majority against ... ... —7l Mr. GROG AN moved the following clause:—" And be it enacted, that from and af , er the passing of this Act, in all cases where any land, or any house and land, or any house, shall be held by the tenant thereof tbr any term not exceeding one calendar month, at a rent not exceeding the rate of one pound sterling by the month in Ireland, and the term or interest of such tenant in such land. house and land, or in such house, shall have ended, or shall have been duly determined by a legal notice to quit, and such tenant (if such tenant do not actually oc cupy the premises, or only a part thereof) shall refuse to deliver up the possession of the premises, it shall be lawful for the landlord; agent, or receiver of his rents, to cause the person or persons so neglecting to deliver up the possession to be served with a summons in writ ing, to be signed by a justice of the peace of, or having jurisdiction in, the county in which the said premises shall be situate, to appear before the next court of petty sessions to be holden for the district within which the said premises shall be situate, to show cause why the said premises should not be delivered. And if the tenant or occupier shalt not appear at the time and place appointed, or if such tenant or occupier shall ap pear, and shall not show to the satisfaction of the Jus tices assembled at such: court of petty sessions, reason able cause why possession should not be given, and shall s:ill neglect or refuse to deliver up the possession of the said premises, or such part thereof as he was in posses sion of at the time of the service of such summons, to the said landlord or his said agent or receiver, it shall be lawful for the said landlord, or his agent or receiver, to give to the said justic a proof of the holding, and of the end or determination of the tenancy, with the time and manner thereof; and it shall be 1 iwful for the said Jus tic. s to issue a warrant to any constable, authorising him within a period, not less than seven, or more than ten, clear days from the date of such warrant, to give posses sion o the premises to such landlord or his agent. Pro vided always, that entry upon any such warrant shall not be made ou is Sunday, Guud Friday, or Christmas day, or at any time except between the hours of nine in the morning and four in the afternoon." Sir L. O'BRIEN supported the clause. Sir GEORtiE GREY regarded the clause as one to facilitate 4 jectments, and as such ought not to bo consi der* d in connexion with a measure tor the relief of the Irish poor. IL- strongly recommended tae Hun. Gen- - 74 aortae to withdraw thenause. Mr. GRUB/AN then withdrew the clause, and pro posed another to the elf-et—That where any persoti, who shall be in the occueaiion of any land, or of any h -use atei laud, 'rider any lease, contract for a lease, or other tenure, in Ireland, of greater extent than a quarter of a isarute acre, etre!! apply for, and shall have received relief under the laws now in force for tesministering re lief to the destilwe pour in Ireland, it shall and may be lawU for the board of guardians of the union, within which suth p eons shall have ben resident when such relices was administered to him as aforesaid, and they art hereby required, on the application of the owner of the said lend, or house and laud, so held by such persen us aforesaid, or if his authorised egent, to grant to such owner, or to his agent, a certificive in writing of the relief so administered to such person; and it the said land, or house and land, shall be in an abandoned state or condition, and shall be unoccupied, it shall. be lawful for the said owner, or for his agent, upon the reeeipt of such certificate from the board of guardians as afore s,id, to enter upun the said land, or the said house and land, and the same to have, hold, occupy, possess, and enjoy, as in his or their former estate, n , twithstending any unexpired term in such lease, contract tor a lease, or other tenure of such land, or house and laud, and as if such lease, contract for u ieese, or other tenure, wee why lly void; and if, upon the receipt of such certificate as aforesaid by the said owner or Ins agent, the said land, or the said house and land, or any part thereof, shall be in the occupation of such person as aforesaid, or of any other person or persons claiming to hold fr-m, by, or under such a person as aforesaid, it shall be lawful, for tee said-owner, or his agent, to cause a summons in writing, sigeed by a justice of the peace, of or having jurisdiction within the county where said premises shall be situate, to be served upon the person or persons who shall be in the occupation of such land, or house and land, or any part thereof, to attend at the iiext court of p-tty se,sio is to be holden in and for the district within which such land, or such house and land, shall be situate ; and it shall be lawful for the jus tices of the peace, assembled in such court of petty session, and they are hereby required, upon produc tion of the certificate of the said board 'of guardians as aforesaid, and upon proof that the said land, or house and land, or any part thereof held by the person named in such certificate as aforesaid, is and con tinues in the occupation of such person, or of any other person or persons claiming to hold the same, or any part thereof, from, by, or under such person as afore said, and that a summons to attend the said court has been duly served upon the person or persons who shall be in the occupation of the said land, or house and land, or any part thereof, to order and direct that the possession of the said land, or house and land, shall be delivered up to the said owner or his agent; and the said justices shall, upon the application of the said owner or his agent, issue their warrant under their hands and seals to any constable acting in and for the district within which such premises shall be situate, to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the said owner or his agent, the possession of the said land, or the said house and land, and the said warrant shall be a sufficient warrant to such constable to enter upon the premises with such assietauts as h, shall deem necessary, and to give possession aec,irdingly, not withstanding any unexpired tern in auy lease, contract land, iweanrurrae a n n tw d esr a he s l ease , contract c rpc o re n o t y r if a do c er t d t . b a. y for a lease, or other tenure of such land, or house and that!, ea se o n r o o s t u h c e h r whol lyi tl f u b e t h ny Linger period than ten days from the date thereof, and ro vided also that no such warrant shad P be executed until after four clear days' (Sunday, Good F. idey and Christmes-dey excepted) notice of the deci sion of tne said justices shall have been given to or lett et the usual place of abode of vie person or p,rsons woo snail be in the occupation of the said land, house and land, or any pirt thereof, by the said owner or his agent. Sir LUC US O'BIHEN supported the clause. Sir GEORGE GREY con idered it unnecessary, in asmuch as tie matter was provided for to a considerable extent by the teeesure be ore the liou-e. • - tew words from Mr. SHARMAN CRAW FURD, who supported the Onus Et , :d Mr. I'OULE F SCROPE, wh supported it, The Hous- divided, when there appeared— For the clause Agsiust it Majority att , onst ttle clause —74 Sir ARTHUR BROOKE next moved a clause to the effect of altering th.- lisbiiity of lessors for rates in re spect of tent:went& not exceeding the value of 41. to a value nut exceeding 2/. As the clause exist.,,ql he consi dered it operated unfavourably upon those parties who were rated at 41 Sir GEORGE GREY having oppbsed the clause, it waslieginved with out n division. Mr. NAPIER then moved the following clause:— " And whereas it is just and reasonable that the deduc tion fur poor-rate, claimable by the person immediately liable to pay tithe rent-charge, should not exceed the de auction by law allowed in the case of any fee farm r:•nt or other rent charge chargeable upon and payable out of the rents and profits of the rateable property charged with such rent and rent charge, be it therelote enacted that it shall not be lawful for any person immediately ha•>le to pay the tithe rent charge to deduct therefrom, for every pound in value thereof, any turtner or greater stim - than, one half of the poundage of any rate made atter the passing of this Act, fur the relief of the poor; provided always that nothing herein contained shall be taken to affect or alter the right of deduction of the en tire poundage of any rate made before the passing of this Act." Sir GEORGE GREY objected to this clause. He had made a suggestion to the Committee which sat on the Irish poor-law which had been adopted, and which he considered met the case alluded to in the clause. He thought that there would be an unfair advantage given to the titheowner by taking off half• the rate, and that it such should be necessary he thought that it should be settled between the landlord and the tenant, and not be tween the titheowner and the tenant. Mr. NAPIER said the case of England and Ireland were totally different in this case, because the landlord in Ireland is not held respinsible for the tenant, whereas in England the landlord is the responsible person for the tithe rent•charge. He regretted to say that in the case of rent-charge the clergy are the only sufferers ; for the jointures, mortgagt-ev, annuities, and other lauded in teresta escape, while the clergy, after a deduction of 25 per cent. previously, are still dlomed to a further re iluciion of rent-charge by this Bill. He considered that this clause of his was worthy of being inserted in the Bill, as it would obviate much injury to so worthy a body. After a few words from Mr. P. ScnorE and Sir J. YOUNG against the clause, on the ground that though the clergy had a little to complain of, yet while the landlords and tenants were made to be the principal sufferers, he thought that the clergy should the small share of the tnit=vanee.s, Mr. HAMILTON said that there was n'i analngy between the clergy on the one hand and the occupier and landlord on the other hand. Inc.use the occupier had the hew-ti's of his farm, and the landlord the ad vantage of his Ine.mutT, while the clergyman, had neither, because of his no-it Sir D. NOIIIiEYS said he felt fully assured that this question had uo reference whatever to the occupying tenant, but that it was wholly and solely a lai;tilia;l question, as the landlord would have to pay the whole of the rent charges; and as he could not nuke any de- LONDON, TUESDAY EV S N, &Aomori :rum the t,naw, sboAd thiirelon e.u'pport, the c l a use, if a divi4en should take place. Mr. -B. ItOCiik: said that he thought that the Hon. Baronet (Sir D, Norr,,ys) was a a supporter of thi. , .! Church, bee - ruse, as he believed, he (Sir D. Norreys) was hiinself a titheowner, un , l was. therefore, acAog own coup-All.—(l4'.ughter.) He obi,cted to the clause, because it unjuviy tended to exempt the tilheowner from those taxes to which he and every other occupier are subject. The - How? thPa divided, when there appaared— FJr thP cian ... ... ... 50 A” - aiT'St it ••• 125 _ _ Ittj aity against The clause was therefore lost. ... Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL then.moved the omission of clause 7, which appoints rent•charges by way of annuity and jointure made liable to deduction for poor•rate. He was curtain that this clause would give rise to endless litigation, and being co;ivi , )ced of its inity)licy, if he saw any intention of retaining it in the Bill he should cer tainly divide the House upon it. Tho motion was agreed to without a division, and the Bill was read a third time. On the queition that the Bill do pass. Mr. A. STAFFORD said that whatever inhumanity, injustice, or oppression, might attend the operation of the first and second clauses, it ought to be remember. d, and he wished it might go forth to the country, that the Irish Members wera in no degree chargeable with the consequences, for they had voted against them. He was by no means prepared to say that in this Bill the Government had not improved upon the Irish poor-law; but still he thought that a much more efficient and just measure might have been prop ised. The Bill was in tended expressly to introduce capital into Ireland, and in this respect it was an accompaniment of the Incum bered Estates Bill. The capitalist would purchase lan3 and--r the delusive impression of a maximum rate of five shillings, but would soon find that his rate would be eight shillings in the pound, the rate of 6d. for the rate in aid, and the balance added in C mimittee to make up the amount. The Bill, in fact, placed the property of Ire land in the hands of a people who had not to pay the rates, and that was the justice which Ireland had to re• ceive from a Poor-law Act. Mr. BRIGHT said he confessed that after sitting in the Committee from first to last ho found himself more confused at the end than he was at the beginning— (Laughter)—and on that account he had not voted upon the propositions submitted when the veto was in Committee. He had, however, formed an opinion against the principle of the maximum, and with regard to the operation of the whole Bill in Ireland, he thought it would be nil, or next to nil. To relieve Ireland ma terially reference should be had much more largely to surrounding circumstances, and he looked to other Bills, rather than to this, for any good result. Mr. H. HEHBEHT said he thought he might chal lenge the House to produce any evidence in support of the principle of the maximum, or of union rating. Sir D. .11ORREYS said ho only rose to express his regret that the question should have been pnssed through to this stage. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL postponed the con sideration of the Lords' amendments, particularly the 22d clause, of the Incumbered Estates (Iceland) Bill, until Friday next. The House went into Committee on the Joint-Stock Company's Act (1848) Amendment Bill. This Bill went through Committee. The Highway Rates Bill went through Committee. The Your Relief (Cities and Boroughs) Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed this day. The Titles or Religious Congregations (Scotland) Bill went through Committee. The Borough-, Relief Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be commit' ed this day. The Trustees Relict Bill was read a second time, and ,rd Ted to be c,,m eitted this day. The !louse went into Committee on the Turnpike Tru-ts Union Bill, for the consideration of the Lards' atnetidmente, rshich, after Kraie conversation, were %reed to, ai,d the House resumed. The Bribery at Eleetioes Bill, as ami.nded, was con -idea d, and the nwendmen!s agreed to, and ordered to o e priuteil and read a third time on Friday ❑ext. • The Friendly Societies (Nu. 2) Bill was read a second time. The Bankruptcy (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. . The adjourned debate on the Palace Court (West minster) Bill was adjourned to Thursday next. ot.er ord,-,rs of the day were disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarti-r to Two o'clock. RIGHTS OF PUBLIC DISCUSSION. A feeling of sympathy and commiseration, if not of respect, was pretty generally felt for the Duke of Bruns wick during his legal campaigns agahatt a certain obscene publication. To be compelled to maintain a protracted struggle with men who degraded literature into a means of pandering to the meanest tastes and most licentious pas,ions, was no slight addition to the loss even of a crown. The thought might indeed at times intrude itself, that the vermin of the press only fixed themseves on men who were less guarded in the choice of associates, and scenes of amusement, than strict pru dence dictated; but indignation at the venal inventors and dissetninataya of filthy scandal prevailed, and the Duke of Brunswick's actions for damages were seconded by the goodwill of toe public. But success in any pursuit is apt to be dangerous to men weak in intellect or deficient in prudence, and such a man the circumstances under which the Duke forfeited his throne bad sufficiently proved him to be. Tee success which attended the forensic exertions in which he generally hal engaged and persevered, against the advice of those who imagine that there is ecarcely less shaine in thrashing a scoundrel than in being thrashed by him, appears to have given the Duke an unhappy liking for such pursuits. The touch of da mages and costs has had the same effect upon him as the taste of blood upon the sluith-hound. Flushed with his victories over traders in obscene scandal, he is be ginning to strike indiscriminately at the whole press. Were there no principle of law involved in such pro secutions, by which the liberty of the press or the right of tree political discussion is endangered, they would have been quite unworthy of notice. The Duke of Bruns wick has been so completely thrown, by the waves of civil turmoil, far upon the beach, beyond the possibility of the highest spring-tide ever again washing him back into public lite, that there can be no use in drawing his ‘• frailties from their dread abode." His pugnacity, his eagerness to rush into law proceedings, is matter of notoriety. There can be little sympathy felt for indivi duals who get themselves involved in law suits by attack ing a person nut worth noticing, and who appears to like nothing better than the excitement of litigation. They might have known what would have come of it. But the law, as laid down by Lord Denman and ap plied by the jury, in the case of the " Dnke of Brunswick v. Harmer," is so pregnant with danger to the press and to free puiitical discussion, that a protest must be re corded against it. Four articles app eare d i n th e W ee kl y Di spa t c h news paper in the !th i of which the September d e a t h n d r 0 ne October, (nent o l f B t 4 h 7 e , 1 m 4B ' and march, 8 Duke of Brunswick was adverted to. The articles were purely of a p &twat character ; and the Duke's case was introduced inc ;dental!y byof way of parallel I le Pl u t arc h, in treating oue of the D u k e of L l u . fgcca the more recent themselves it is evident th e Duke felt that they scarcely warrant an acti on , for h e sought torwa,vs e uld g their character by establishin g a et eau exion g between at them and an article which had appeared in the same paper us far buck as September, 1830. The latter article also was in the main political, but contained allusions which trespassed upon private Life. Sir F. Thesiger, on he half of the defend ate, plea led the statute of limita tions in so far as the article of 1830 was concerned; but L rd Denman ruled that the subsequent publica tems barred the application of the statute, and the decla ration of the foremen showtel that the jury regarded the publicatiuns of 1830 and 1847 as one continuous act, and that they had read the succinct paragraphs of 1847 and 1848 by the reflected light of the more questionable one of 1830. amigos to the amount of 5001. were accordingly awarded against the proprietor of the Weekly Dispatch, on the ground that the article of 1830, and the articles published 17 anti 18 years later, were parts of a continuous sy.tetnatin attack upon the Duke of Brunswick. Is it in ;he sliehteat degree probable that any party or parties, animist--d by p..rsetial malice, would have allowed 17 years to intervene between their attacks? The utter silence regarding the Duke of Brunswick, persevered in for seventeen years, is proof sufficient that no ani m.tiity was entertained against him personally; and list the notice taken of Min was prompted solely by a desire to illustrate and establish a political principle. It is quite possible. even assuming that the articles of 1830 isn't 1847 proceeded from the same pen, that the writer in 1847 might have forgotten the existence of the article of 1830. Lis very probable that the prop ietor takes no part iu the management of the paper, and that the present edi tors and writers hal no connexion with it in 1830, and no knowledge of what it then contained. The uneuarded trespass; on the fi old of private life in 1830 was wrong, both in point of morals ant taste ; but it was doubtless rendered more venial by the style in which the controversy was at that time conducted on both sides. The Duke advanced grave charges (personal as well as political) against his uncles on the one band, and his ci-devant subjects on the other; and the advocates of his deposition retaliated in kind. Both parties were to blame for the introduction of irrelevant and exasperating topics. But the war of 1830, between the Duke of Brunswick and the Dispatch, is a matter of nearly twenty years past. The public had forgotten it. All parties now connected with the Dispatch had forgotten, if they over knew of it. It was as if it had never hap. pened, to all save the Duke of Brunswick himself, who had brooded over it—alto nrente rep6,4ant. It was with no small labour that a copy of the paper containing the obsolete offerice was ferreted out by the publishers, when applied for, they knew not why, by an emissary of the Duke. Yet, but for is gratuitous and forced con nexion of the forgotten article of 1830 with the articles of 1847 and 1848, the letter could not have been brought within the reach of the libel law. There is no safety for the press, or for any person engaged in political discussion, if such a practice is to be tolerated. Had an action been brought in 1830, the judge and jury would have been aware of every cir cumstance of extenuation or provocation. Now, they can only know that words wore used which bring the parties using them within the reach of the law. There is no ni however severe in the exercise of self-control, however cautious in measuring laneuage, who may not, at times, in the heat of dibcu-sien, outstep the date limit. And if every malt who has done this, and regretted it, may, niter nearly ',elf a century, be punished for such a lapse, because he engages in per tectly lair tli—ussi-n of the conduct of the same party, there is an end t o f ree an d u - c f u l po li t iC a l debate. Tire deeis . wi of the Judge at,d . t,ury in the case of , the " Duke of Brun s wi c k v. II ruler" :a (we have no doubt uninten tiont.lly) a Breve eneroachnewet un the liberty of political discussion,--.E xaminer. e.—cCONTINUED.) iBL IN UNIVERSITY. The papers comprisieg, the number of this able periodical for the present month are of a very high order. The first is an elaborate critical analysis of Mr. Raskins' interesting arid learned work, " The Seven Lamps of Architecture." The other literary notices are written in a fair and candid spirit, doing justice alike to the nuttier, the critic, and the public : The Virgin Victiale"—" Iphigenia"—" Jephtha's Daughter," a poem of considerable length, in two parts, of great poetical merit, glowing with true in spiration, and high and pure feeling. We cannot avoid treating our readers to a stanza or two from " Jephtha's Diughter," though perhaps not the highest specimens of poetical excellence we could select, but they seem to us simple, touching, and beautiful:— " And yet I know not—surely Life is sweet! Life—it is Love and Light. Li e--'tis to wonder on with buoyant feet Wherever Earth is bright. To know sweet labours, sweeter still reposes, To look on sunlight, and to smell the roses. Life—it is crowned with flowers, and full of eyes That we know well, and pleasant memories! And woman's life Buddeth thro' all its springs, and ripeneth That it may have some fruit, or ever death Raiseth his sharp edged knife. The soaring mountains, and the sounding sea, What are their songs, but life and liberty? Life, shouts the storm— Life, screams the Eagle—Life, th' unfolded flowers Have pencilled on their pstals by the showers And sun, where'er they form. " Yes, but there's more, for Life bath other things, IF it bath love, bath bate — If it bath pleasant walks, bath wanderings Or mountains desolate. Life, it bath weariness, and much vexation, And mid-stream strife, with no sweet alternation, And seldom sunlights—and decaying blossoms — And loves, deep-sepulchred in selfish bosoms, And Life bath also many quench'd eyes, Missed one by one, and restless memories That walk amsng the dead; They seek for comfort, finding none—so cold, Lies on the long black hair the heavy mould. Ocean and hills, disquieted, Grow weary in old age—the Eagles bear Life like a burden up the mountain air, And flowers men rudely crush, E'en where they live their little, happy lives, Betray'd, because they blush." The notice of the interesting - lifo and writings of the late Professor Butter, of Trinity College Dublin, is worthy the reader's attention. " Ceylon and the Cingalese" is continued in its usual graphic, amus ing, and instructive style ; " The Opium Clipper, an After Dinner Yarn," is light and characteristic. The paper which demands our attention is a satrical poem "Dublin," in imitation of the third Satire of Juvenal. This poem, though requiring a few additional turn ings of the stylus, and though somewhat rugged in the versification, possesses much merit, and has a dash of spirit and boldness current through it which rather pleases us; but we have some little more to do with this poem than its mere literary merit. We feel the author has done us great injustice in placing us in the category of the anti-Irish press ; the shaft of the satirist should be pointed with truth, otherwise it falls blunted and useless to the earth, utterly power less either to serve a friend or to hurt an enemy ; we feel that the arrow which has been shot at us has `passed by like the idle wind which we regard not." For upwards of half a century has The Sun been the successful champion of humanity and liberty, and long, ere this young aspirant for poetical fame emerged from the " black north," ere yet " His infant lungs inhaled Dungannon's air," The Sun was, as it still is, th warm advocate of the rights and liberties of Ireland ; perhaps, after all, we were but pressed into the author's service for the mere purposes of versification ; a few extracts may nerhaps amuse some of our readers. "./. I atheit, make not the least pretence To frank the fallacies of common sense;' Can't comprehend, and truly never could, How Abeetseeism does any good ; Nor how, just now, if Court and Parliament, Lords, Ladies, Commoners, and Madams went To live at Petersburgh, the Cockney folk Should take it as an economic joke. Worse still, I never yet could bear the jest Would make me evil bird' in my own nest, Nor simpering cry How Irish,' when some fool Has haply broken Hoylei or Priscian's rule. In Irelanl, ❑ow, would Irishmen advance, Who but your supple, servile, has a chance ? Nor hero alone the self-abasing game Prospers. In London, with e'en less of shame, As more of profit, 'tis pursued by all The servile Irish of the capital. Yes, I confess, that crew degenerate Are they of men I most abominate ; Nor shall one touch of tenderness debar My painting them the rascals that they are. 'ris not alone low Dodder disemhogues Its Brook's dull sediment of bulls and brogues; Lee, Shannon, Liffey, with united stream 9, All bear their foul contingents to the Thames. Nor only is the parasitic part In Letters p!eyed. It scandalises Art; Oh, shut the book—on sheets degraded cease To trace the shame and genius of Maclise. " Turn from the scoffing pago your saddened eyes, Where taste and feeling make self•sacrifice, And meagre Teague presents his rugged foil To the smooth Briton, in the sketch of Doyle Doyle whose fine pencil generously applied, Moves free as beauty in her virgin pride; Put to home mockings at detraction's suit, Stumbles and shrinks, a conscious prostitute. Ah! youths, before the gifted hand you lift To strike your mother, think who gave the gift; Nor scorn the land, tho' poor she be, and far, That nursed the genius makes you what you are. Yes—lrish all the men who chiefly mar Poor Ir. hind's pleading at Great Britain's bar. The anti Irish press, an Irish host Itself, Sun, Standard, Herald, Morning Post, In fine, who with seditious dirt begrimes Poor Ireland in the leaders of the Times Up-closes with the prompt diurnal lie The opening band of English charity. Gloats o'er our crimes, and laughs our woes to acorn? A servile Irish scoundrel, bred and born!" This number closes with a powerful and argumenta tive paper on the necessity of Church Reform. It is evidently written by a true friend of the Church, the admitted and palpable abuses of which he would wish to remove with the least possible danger to its sta bility. There is one matter to which he refers, call ing loudly for reformation, " the unequal distribution of Church property." It is monstrous to contemplate the enormous sums applied to the building of episco pal palaces, while in many dioceses the working clergyman scarcely receives as much as the labourer employed in raising these gorgeous structures. THE NEW MONTHLY. An article in the New Monthly for July, entitled " A Summer's Sunday in Town, " contains the fol lowing beautiful sentence in reference to flowers in the dwellings of the poor : ‘! But earths this repulsive picture some signs of beauty show themselves; and piles of plants, and baskets of fair flowers, soften by their presence the air of pollu tion, moral and physical, which the scene suggests — germs of good in the wild fields of evil—soft voices whispering of pure and lovely things, amidst all this rankness, and filth, and rags! And many, ay, many a sacrifice is made to home by the puichase of them as au °tiering to it—an offering that obviates half its coarseness, and lets in a glimpse of heaven on its unclean obscurit ; .for a sense cf sweetness, en appreciation of beauty, enters with them, and lone is not all lost, nor a latent sentiment of niceness banished, from the meanest room wherein flowers find a place." The following passage coincides with the sentiments in reference to Sunday travelling; &a., which we have again and again expressed : " Let not the man of leisure, or formal sectarian, rail at the thousandS who on this one day transport theta selvt s from their labour-world--the city's beaten tracks; its dingy offices and counting-houses; its crowded work shops and busy wharfs; its wearying shops and strange smelling warehouses; its endless sounds of barter; its ringing of monies; its cries of want; the rush, the throng, the clamour, the smoking of factories; the clanking of machinery; the harsh music, under cover of which beggary stalks the streets; the rattle of its thousand carriages running here and there an hourly race against time. Let them Rot rail at the bora thrall of daily labour, who takes advantage of the summer's Sunday to refresh his soul with a notion of new scenes —a taste of nature's beauty; who seeks the breezy hill side, the green fields, the silver -sanded brooklets, and bares his week-long-fevered forehead ' under a fresh tree's shade.' Is there no religion in the grateful glance with which his eye surveys the unaccustomed beauty spread around him?—the distant hills; the teem ing valleys with green corn making mimic waves upon thcir slopes; the scattered hamlets, ILke human folds, lying white and still midst pasture-meads and sunny orchards; the scented air; the soft blue sky, with clouds that look like frosted silver on it! Is there no sense cf inborn piety in the sweet peace that falls upon his heart, and purifies it?.' " The Modern Jew's Progress," " The Spirit of Change in Southern Europe," "Madame de Main tenon," and many interesting articles are also contained in this periodical. AINSWORTH. Mr. Ainsworth's historical romance of " Guy Fawkes" is commenced in this number. " Crichton" draws near its conclusion. Anew edition of this briNant romance, with the spirited illustrations of Cruikshank, which have appeared in this magazine, has just been published in one volume. "Crichtou" exhibits, in no spring degree, the various imperfec tions and attractions of the time to w hi c h it re l a tes, anti of the pen by which it is related, It is A ger- NING, geous picture of n dissolute court, and an enthralling history of a somewhat uuworthy hrro. Nicholas Mitchell has contributed an interesting story with a useful moral, "The "Woman of Fashion," to Ainsworth for July. UNITED SERVICE. The United Service Magazine gives the conclusion of the " Reliquite NelsonianEe." some remarks "On the Med ilg iestion." and other papers of military and nautical interest. In an article on "Republicanism in Italy" we find the Island of Elba suggested as a fitting residence for the Pope. THE MIRROR. Mr. Percy St. John resumes his most interesting adventures of a French Republican in the present number of the Mirror, and gives us a stirring description of the state of Paris, moral and physi cal, on the 4th of June, 1832, the day of the funeral of General Lamarque, and of the barricades of the Cloitre Mery. The interest of this tale increases as it progresses, and cintaining, as it does, a faithful history of the secret societies in which the Republic was organized, it cannot but be most interesting at the present period. The author of the " Biographical Sketches of the Kings of England" gives us in this number a biography of Henry VIII., and the author of " City Clubs" celebrates the Knights of Jerusalem who hold their revels in the far-famed St. John's Gate, where of yore Cave was wont to print and Johnson to write. Mrs. Ponsonby furnishes a tale of thrilling interest, entitled " The Island of the Loire," and Miss Fanny E. Lacy gives some de lightful snatches of poetry. As a whole this is rn excellent number of the Mirror. THE METROPOLITAN. The first article in the Metropolitan, for July, gives a severe, and we hope, a useful exposition of the vicious tendency of the writings of George Sand and French novelists generally. ECLECTIC REVIEW. The Eclectic Renew, as usual, contains several well-written criticisms upon interesting subjects, such as " The Poetry of Science," " The Rupert and Fairfax Papers," &c. In this last criticism we cannot think that justice is done to Mr. Eliot Warburton. Our opinions differ from those of the critic in the Eclectic, inasmuch as he tells us he read Mr. War burton's book " with much commiseration," and we ourselves have perused it with infinite delight. THE LONDON JOURNAL OF PATENT INVENTIONS. Among other interesting matters in this Repertory of Patent Inventions we find the following : METHOD OF RENDERING IVORY SOFT AND SEMI TRANSPARENT. BY M. LE DOCTEUR L. ELSNER. " For some time past ivory has been manufactured in Paris into semi-transparent articles, which, on being plunged into hot water or milk, are rendered soft and pliant, like leather. Necks of children's sucking bot tles, rings, and other articles, which it is customary for children to put into their mouths, have been manufac tured from this substance with so great advantage, as to have induced M. Geisler to undertake some experiments in relation thereto. He has found that the ivory articles may be thus prepared, by immersing them in a solution of phosphoric acid, known in commerce as acid. phos phoric. per., of ap. gr. 1.130, and leaving them there until they become transparent; they are then to be taken out, washed with water, and dried with a soft cloth, — and will, by this means, be rendered as flexible as leather. The ivory hardens again on exposure to the air; but will resume its pliancy on being plunged into hot water. Phosphoric acid of a less degree of con centration has no effect. With regard to the duration of the immersion, this cannot be determined, as it mate rially depends upon the quality of the ivory. " [A curious characteristic of ivory has been made known through Mr. Layard'a discoveries at Nineveh. In the ruins of one of the excavated palaces, he found some ivory ornaments, in good preservation, although they must have been buried for more than two thousand years; but, on being exposed a short time to the air, they crumbled at a touch. Some specimens of these °nut meats were forwarded to the British Museum, where they underwent an examination, which showed that the gelatinous portion of the ivory had perished ; when, however, this was restored, by boiling the ivory in gels• tine, its original quality of hardness and durability re turned.]—En. Lon. Jour." MISCELLANEOUS. Sharpe's London Magazine gives a continuation of " Lewis Arundel," and the conclusion of Dinah Muloch's beautifully told " History of a -Household." We miss the admirable "Diary of Mrs. Milton" this month. "The Story of a Family" is con tinucd, and is full of interest. The Sporting Review and the Farmers' Magazine each contain a ‘ portrait of the Earl of Yarborough. The Jo.nrnal of Design is as graceful and instructive as usual; among other papers in this number is Mr. Redgrave's " Lecture on the Study of Botany." The Colonial Church Chronicle contains a most interesting account of a " Conference with a Mussulman." The Colonial Magazine gives an abstract of a prize essay by Mr. J. A. Leon, on " Improvements for Growing and Manufacturing Sugar in the British Possessions," to which was awarded Prince Albert's gold medal at the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Com merce, on the 14th of last month. The Patent Journal as usual, abounds in matter of scientific and mechani cal interest, among which is an abstract of Sir Charles Lyell's Lecture on the Alluvial Condition of the Valley of the Mississippi. The Belle Asmra- We gives a beautiful portrait of the hapless Bride of Lammermoor. Dr. Shelton Mackenzie has com menced a serial tale in this number, which also' con tains one of Elizabeth Youatt's always delightful papers, and a poem by the accomplished editress, Mrs. Newton Crosland. Le Follet is as charming as ever ; it has reached us in company with Le Lion and a similar brochure of Children's Fashions. These last are as graceful as Le Follet, but the gentlemen who figure in Le Lion are far from rivalling the at tractions of their fair companions. One in particular is attired in a sky-blue coat, which would excite considerable attention in St. James's. The Land we Live In conducts us this month to " Nottingham and the Hosiery district." It contains a fund of interesting information, historical, manu facturing, and picturesque. Charles Knight's" Studies of Shakspere,' Part VI., forms the sixth number of the National Library of Select Literature. The Pictorial History of England (containing a map of North America) chronicles the death of the Due de Reichstadt. Frank Fairlegh proceeds with its wonted spirit. The pencil of Cruikahank exhibits, by way of illustration, the melancholy "results of giving satisfaction." LITERATURE. ALISON'S HISTORY OF EUROPE. Illustrated Edition. Vol. IV. If any previous historian ever saw more numerous editions of his masterpiece during his lifetime, we are convinced that no one has ever before witnessed in the prime of his manhood such various and costly reprints as Archibald Alison. The present volume of this beautiful republication of the " History of Europe," embracing the interval between 1796 and 1799 inclusively, is embellished with portraits of General Bonaparte, of Moreau, and of Ney. Per haps this particular division is about the most en thralling as it most certainly is the most marvellous of all the periods described by the annalist. In proof of this it is only necessary to remind the reader that it narrates the naval glories of Great Britain during the time when Jervis, and Howe, and Collingwood, and Duncan, and Nelson were in their zenith—that it records the rise of Murat, of Junot, ofDuroc, of Mas sena, of Augereau, of Lannes, ofNey, of Moreau, and of Marmont to celebrity—end that it recounts the appearance upon the field of European warfare of the most wonderful man of modern times, in battle a Cid, in generalship a Hannibal, in legislation a Justinian, in grandeur an Augustus, in ambition an Alexander, in pride a Sesostris, in daring of enterprizes a Caesar, in capacity of administration a Charlemagne. The miraculous campaigns in Italy, and the chivalrous expedition to Egypt, are here pourtrayed in succession ; :and, turning over the leaves of the volume casually, it is scarcely possible for the reflective student not to be struck by the sad and solemn omen contained in the superb quota tion from Livy, on the fly-leaf, that final sentence, we mean, where the master-annalist remarks—"et adeo variabellifortuna ancepsque Afars fult, ut propius periculum fuerint qui vicerunt." The words thrill upon our comprehension in all their astonishing and antithetical truthfulness when we pause in the flush of our admiration at the account of the dazzling vic tories of the young General Bonaparte over the Aus trians and the Arabs, and suddenly remember the crumbling away of his colossal empire, and his hor rible incarceration for six dismal years on the rock of St. Helena. Several points in the present portion of Mr. Alison's narrative arc directly opposed to our own unimpassioned and deliberate opinions. For example, he reprobates for their atrocity the massacre of the prisoners and the poisoning of the sick at Jaffa, when the former was manifestly a bitter necessity, and the latter has been proved to be a fabrication by the declaration of the surgeon that, at the period in question, there was not a single grain of poison in the medicine chests ! The three engravings are highly finished, and admirably characteristic. THE BRITISH POLITICAL, COMMER CIAL, ECCLESIASTICAL, AND HIS TORICAL GAZETTEER; Travelling Road Book, and County Atlas. The seventh part of this enterprising and useful publication has reached us ; it contains an excellent map of Kent, accurately marking the division of counties, boundaries of boroughs, distinguishing those boroughs returning two members, and those return ing one, those wholly disfranchised and those dis franchised of one member, principal places of county election, rolling plac es, market towns, with the dis tance from London, churches and chapels, seats of no bility and gentry, railways, turnpike•roads, bye. JULY 10, 1849. roads, mail coach roads, rivers, &e., &c. It is also t embellished with a beautiful engraving of 4 . The Brighton Via , !uct, on the Hastinsis Branch." It opens . with an interesting thscription of Old Blsing Dante, a township and chapelry in the parish and hundred ct BASingstolte, 50 mils from LO7l - as the place where Ethelred I. was de featcd by the Danes in 871. After the Conquest the manor was ai,sia-nfal to Hugh de Porter, who 01:70 held not less than 55 lorLlehips ' in this county. lie eri c:eal lsrge castle, which was rebuilt on a magnificent scale by his lir,eal descendant Sir William Paulet, who I was created Marquis of Winchester by Edward the Sixth, and will afterwards was made Lord Chamber ltthi to Queen Elizabeth. He - was Lord Treasurer of England, through the fitful 'changes' of the reigns of Edward VI., Mary, and Queen , Elizabeth. To oue who inquired how he contrived to ret&n his post through such a variety of circumstances,' he replied, by being a willow, not an oak.' John, the fifth Marquis, was distinguished as a faithful and able adherent of Charles 1., and defended the castle successfully during a siege of two years, until at last it was finally taken by Cromwell himselt in 1645. Hugh Peters, after the seige, in his report to Parliament, said, It was a house fit for an emperor to dwell in, it was so spacious and beau tiful.' Ihe Marquis from this defence called the castle Love-Loyalty,' and caused the name to be written on each of the windows with a diamond, which so provoked the Parliamentary troopers, that they burned it to the ground. There was a bed there said to be worth 1,4001,, and the plunder was so great that a private sol dier got so much as 3001. in money. The loyalty of the Marquis was the more remarkable, as it came from a Raman Catholic subject to a Protestant Sovereign. The personal pry perty destroyed with the castle was esti mated at the least at 200,0001, an enormous sum in those days. The Marquis lived till the restoration, hut re ceived no rectomp.,2use for his losses. The sixth Marquis was created Duke of Bolton by William 111., which lapsed in 1794. The present, the fourteenth, is the premier Marquis of Epiglaad." Such historic records as these are full of deep in terest, and we trust will be fully appreciated. The present part fully sustains the character of the pre ceding ones. The first of the half-crown parts is pro mised by the Ist of August, which we have no doubt will be brought out with the same accuracy end beauty as the monthly parts. NE W Music. THE VOICE OF SONG. The Poetry by E. L. Blanchard; the Music by Lo ve ll Philli ps. This song, which is arranged in the favourite key of E flit major, has, to qi!ote a portion of its own words, " A magical charm in its strain." The melody is tenderly expressive, and the sentiment of each verse the true poetry of; the heart. TO MISS VANDENHOFF. ON HER RECITATION OF " ANTIGONE," AT EXETER lIALL, ON WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27. Shall genius such as thine be lost to art? Such gifted beauty flourish unreveal'd? Such grace and energy not play their part? Such inspiration, at its fount, be seal'd? Such passionate outpourings thrill the scene, Like gleams of bliss, too few and far between? The chivalry of intellect forbid The age's treasure from the age be hid! Behoves the foremost nation of the earth, On high, to elevate the foremost worth. For this is she of whom the Grecian dream'd, The grand ideal that convinc'd his sight, When, on his trance, the awful pageant beam'd Of Creon's haughty line all plunged to endless night. Thro' the throng'd vista of two thousand years, E'en from the life, the Bard his portrait drew; Saw, in a vision, as she now appear.; Antigone—dear, high-soul'd Maid!—in you, The first in whom—oh, memorable feat Of Woman's powers!—the likeness glow'd complete. Never, till by thyself, the Poet's aim Was fully vitahs'd and all-express'd; No, not when Athens, thund'ring to his fame, In inured crown her tragic hero dress'd; Fur masks and male Antiones could ne'er Fulfil the mission of his lofty verse, The chapter of the human face lay bare, The mind's emotions, thro' the eye, rehearse! The fenta.'e heroine, to Greece unknown, Thy fortune is to stamp Antigone thine own. THE AUTHOR OF " RURAL SONNETS." Inner Temple, July 2, 1549. k° Impersonations by women not being permitted on the Greek stage, its heroines and other female characters were entrusted to men. CONVENT OF MOUNT CARMEL. At daylight filled away, and the wind blowing fresh, wiled past the town of St. Jean d'Acre, its battlements frowning in the distance, and anchored under Mount Carmel, before the walled village of Haifa. With great difficulty I landed through the surf, in company with our dragoman and our vice-consul at Acre, who had come with us from Belrht. We were in danger of perishing, and only rescued by the Arab fishermen who came to our assistance. They are bold and dexterous swimmers, as much at home in the water as the natives of the Sandwich Islands. The increasing surf preventing further communi cation with the ship, we proceeded first to Haifa and thence to the convent for a bed, for in the miserable village there was no accommodation. The first thing in Syria which strikes a visitor from the western world, is the absence of forest trees. Except the orchards, the mountains and the plains are unrelieved surfaces of dull brown and green. No towering oak, no symmetrical poplar, relieves the monotony of the scene. The sun must surely be the monarch of this clime, for, outside the flat, mud•roofed, cube-like houses, there is no shelter , from his fiery beams. The road to the convent led for a short distance through an extensive alive orchard, and thence up the mountain by a gentle ascent. On the plain, and the mountain side, were flowers and fragrant shrubs,—the asphodel, the pheasant's eye, and Egyptian clover. The convent stands on the bold brow of a promontory, the terminus of a moun tain range 1,200 feet high, bounding the vale of Esdraelon on the south-west. The view front the summit is floe. Beneath is a narrow but luxu riant plain, upon which, it is said, once stood the city of Porphyrea. Sweeping inland, north and south, from Apollonia in one direction to Tyre in another, with Acre in the near perspective, are the hills of Sa,naria and Galilee, enclosing the lovely vale of Sharon and the great battlefield of nations, the valley of Esdraelon ; while to the west lies the broad expanse of the Mediterranean. But the eye of faith viewed a more interesting and im pressive sight; for it was here, perhaps upon the very spot where I stood, that Elijah built his altar, and " the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench." We were cordially received by the monks, " Bon frere Charles" in especial, who, as it was Lent, regaled us with vegetable soup and fish. Within the convent is the celebrated grotto of Elias, with a beautiful marble rotund() in front, and a chaste and richly decorated chapel above it. In front of the main building is a tent•shaped mausoleum, erected over 2,000 Frenchmen, who, sick, and unable to defend themselves, were massacred by the Turks. The con vent was then used as a hospital. The word" Carmel " means garden. Mount Carmel has been visited by Titus, St. Louis, and Napoleon. We procured here some ofthe fossil echini resembling chalcedony, in the form of fruit—petrified, it is said, by a curse of the prophet who was refused some of it bytbe proprietor when lie was faint and wear y . They are nothing more than round hollow pieces of flint, with smooth end coloured protuberances within. Friday, March 31.—Wind changed off shore with a smooth sea. Sent to Acre for horses, and huiited out the two " Fannies" and landed them with our effects. Pitched our tents for the first time, upon the beach, without the walls of Haifa. A graveyard behind an old grotto.look ' ing well (then dry) on one side, and a carob tree on the other. This tree very much resembles an al ple tree, and bears an edible bean, somewhat like the catalpa, which, in times of scarcity, is eaten by the poor. It is supposed to be the " husk " spoken of in the beautiful and touching parable of the prodigal son. Indeed, I have heard orien tal scholars maintain that " husk" is not the proper translation of the llebrew word. The fruit is called (by the Christians) St. John's bread, and the tree, which is an evergreen, " the locust tree," from the belief that its fruit is the locust eaten with w ild honey by Sr. John in the desert.—Lynch's Expedi tion to the Dead Sea. AN ELOPEMENT—AN ADVENTUIZOUS DAM:r_c . A Jew days since the ci daughter and only _ Haynes, retired excisA - officer, of Dartmouth, and o ~ Cueningharn, of the Orin of Masan Garter anger u St a ffordshire, eloped together. Th e you ng g tlaman had been forbidden access to t h e house, and the young lady was reasoned with; bu t the more this was done, m ore unreasonable she beco me. and by some means she who o o bt a i ne d communicationrtv , ,iihththo swain, his ladye-love. n his part It was was equally loth to pa therefore planned that on the next market day, or rather at one o'clock on the following morning, he should pro vide himself with the means of escape, which should be effected from the window of the young lady's bed room, which happened to face the publi c strt 0. The ni g ht arr ived, but her patience I), coming PxhatiqA, she could not wait longer, and, some hours before the appointpd time she herself escaped from her window (which ban pned to be a dormer one), without assistance, to the parapet of the house, and thus she [will:ly passe(' oust the roofs of four adjoining houses (throwing her bundle into the street as she went on), and gaining access to a window which happened to be accidentally open, she parsed through her neigh')our's house unheard, and has tened to the hotel where her liver usmilly put up, and where, indeed, he was safely enshrouded between the blankets. They afterwards went as fast as they could to Exeter, and were made man and wife in proper manner, to their satisfaction, 0 xi tt _ ~ ___ '-') '7rl"''' -7 -•i,..7‘'-'- ..._____ ._......, SPORTING INTItt,LIGENCE. .. . l TATTERSALL':. Y.t.'n.:k.pAY. LIVERPOOL .P , . 2 to I apt Mr. ilow - ii'i'lliri. tirtli, 3 ~.. .r, fist—L.:km 5Vi 2 e , i-,t Sir R. if,igut's Est tiui.,._3.a.i . -rg, sst tilb t:,1:, - .11 F4ral cifert,i N 11.1,1 \'.l L. 9 to 1 Ygst Mr. Disney's Kelesilea. 3 r, , , Gst 12.11)-- takcti arid after ;yr/Ms 0ff4(1.1 _ _ 13 to 1 ggit Mr. B. Green's Wubtow, 3 yr., sst— notniroil 20 to 1 agst Mr.. Driiksld's Suter la C , :ure, 3 3rs, 4st 101L—ialieti to 150/. Iu th,A early part of thj aftclut,,ou as little as 6 to 4 was taken about Thrirg4rlh—st the close 7 to 4 was offered currently; Esscthirius,w as very steady at 5 to 2; 7 to 4 laid on the two agst the field, and 500 to 3 agat Cattczolt. GOODWOOD STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Captain Virratber's Maid of Masbam, 4 yrs, 7st 91b 14 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Tophana, 4 yrs, 61t 81b— taken 15 to 1 agst Mr. Gregor) 's Clermont, 5 yrs, 7st Glb 16 to 1 egst Mr. E. R. Clack's Giselle, 6 yrs, 6st 121 b —taken 16 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Firo•eater, 3 yrs, Est 31b 100 to 6 agst Duke of Richmond's Syrup, 3 yrs, 4st 91b 17 to 1 agst Mr. Blake na Bacchanalian, 4 yrs, sst 131 b—taken 18 to 1 agst Mr. Roles Collingwood, 6 yrs, 9st 81b—t 20 to 1 agst Mr. Parr'S Van Dieman, 3 yrs, sst 61b—t Bacchanalian, Maid of Mashana, and Collingwood, were the only horses in request; almost any odds agst Plaudit. GOODWOOD CUP. 5 to 2 agst Lord Stanley's Canezou, 4 yrs, Bst 111 b 4to 1 agst Mr. Powney The Hero, 6 yrs, lost 9 to 2 apt Colonel Peers.Tadmor, 3 yl5, 7st 41b—t 10 to 1 alga Lcrd Eglinton's Solon, 4 yrs, 6St 31b 14 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Belus, 3 yrA, 7st 41b The odds against Solon were taken to at least 500/. Nothing else backed to any amount. DERBY, 1850. 18 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Tho Italian-20 to 1 taken freely 25 to 1 agst Duke of Bedford's John o' Groat—take 28 to 1 50 to 1 agst Mr. B. Green's Witchcraft A large sum was laid out on The Italian at 20 to 1. Nothing che backed. DERBY, 1851. 10,000 to 100 agst Jingle colt—taken 10,000 to 100 agst Jenny Jumps colt—taken 10,000 to 100 agst Edward of York—taken 5,000 to 75 agst Trunnion—taken LIVERPOOL RACES. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY EVENING, FIVE O'CLOCK. The following horses have arrived:—SWyda, Ribaldry, Penthesilea, ch f by brother to Biddltswortb, 0/d Dan Tucker, Garen:len, Essedarius, Sweetheart, the Widow, Romance, Shilinalier West, Harriott, Harum-acnrum, 2 yrs; f by Don John, out of Sister to Ainderly, 2 yrs; by the Provost, out of Patroness; Crazy Lid, Anthony, Captain Grant, Stepping-stone, Bon-mot, Lamb's-wool, Hammer and Tongs, c by Tearaway out of Sister to Johnny, and Timothy. Executor is not expected. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY NIGHT. ENTRIES FOR PLATES, &C. WEDNESDAY. The Croxteth Stakes. Roland, 3 yrs—ch f by th© Provost, dam by Actaeon, 3 }rs—Essedarius, 3 . yrs—Rsby, 3 yrs—Sylvan, 4 yrs. Plate of 60 nova. Roland, 3 yrs—b c by Young Longwaist, dam by In heritor, 3 yrs—Dies Faustus, 4 yrs—May-day, 3 yrs— Bughley, 3 yrs—Old Darlalda, 3 yrs—Gareudoa, aged. THURSDAY. Sweepstakes of 10 SOY& each, and 30 added. Old Darialda, 3 yrs (100/.)—Lidgate, 2 yrs (500— b c by Young Longwaist, 3 yrs (501.)—b c by Tearaway. out of Sister to Johnny, 2 yrs (501.)—La Voleule, 3 yrs (50/.)—br f by Touchstone, out of Lady Emily, 2 yrs (801) ller Majesty's Plate. Thibault, 3 yrs—b c by Young Longwaist, 3 yrs-- Raby, 3 yrs—Roland, 3 yrs—Dies Faustus, 4 yrs— Great Western, 4 yrs—Sylvan, 4 yrs—The Arab, 3 yrs —The Alp, 3 j FRIDAY. The Selling Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 50 added. The Arab, 3 3ri (1201)---old Ihrialda, 3 yrs (1001.) b c by Young Longw•aist, 3 yrs ( 50 1)—Criay Lad, 4 yrs (501.)—Great Western, 4 yrs ( 5 0/)—Anthony, 3 yrs (501.)—b f by the Provost, out of Patroness, 3 yrs (501.). GOODWOOD CUP WEIGHTS. st lb Chanticleer, 6 yrs lO 01 The Hero, 6 yrs lO 01 Pah Tromp,'s yrs 10 Cossack, 5 yrs 9 4 Flatcatcher, 4 yrs ... 9 4 Surplice, 4 yrs 9 4 Fernhill, 4 yrs Ellerdale, 5 yrs Canezou, 4 yrs Meld of Alasham,4yrs 8 6' Limestone, 5 yrs 8 5 John Cosser, 4 8 1 Nil Desperandum, 4 yrs at 1b Tadmor, 3 yrs Borneo, 3 yrs 7 4 GlenalvOn, 3 yrs Chicaneur (French) 4 yrs Standard (German) 4 yrs Jellyfisb, 3 yra The Flea, 3 yrs 7 0 Eva, 3 yrs Robert de Brui,3 yrs 6 13 St. Winifred colt, 3 yrs 6 10 Landgrave, 3 yrs Solon, 3 yrs 6 3 Bela, 3 yrs 7 4 1 Juggler (French) 3 Black Eagle, 3 yrs 7 41 yrs Lord Glasgow is the new steward ot the Jockey Club, vice Lord Eglinton, who retires by rotation. THE DISPUTED RACE FOR THE MEMBERS' PLATE AT NEWCASTLE.—It may he remembered that in this race Miss Ann, having won, was objected to by the trainer of Shithead, on the ground that she carried 31b. over weight without declaring it halfan hour More the race. On behalf ot the objection i: rns proved that the over weight was carried, and that no declaration was posted until twenty minutes before the time at which the race was advertised to be run. Oa the part ut the winner it was shown that the declaration was made to the judge' —and to the clerk of the scales—neither of whom con sidered it to be their duty to receive it. When the pro per official was at last found, and the declaration duly made, it wanted only twenty minutes to the prescribed time of starting, but from various delays the race was not run until fifteen minutes after the appointed time. Under all these circumstances, the stewards of the Jockey Club, to whom the question was referred from Newcastle, de cided that the declaration was sufficient. It would be well if in future the stewards of country meetings would adopt and publish the rule that all declarations respect ing weights should be made to the clerk of the scales— who is certainly the proper person to receive and deal i with these matter:. ENTRIES IN FICTITIOUS NAMES.—A feeling is abroad adverse to this time-honoured custom of the turf, and some recent occurrences have caused its inconvenience to be slightly- felt. Nevertheless, the veil is very con venient, without b:longing in the least degree to that class of deception which attach discredit to their perpe trators. In fact, in nine cases out of ten no deception is intended. The only object is to protect a personal identity from the keen eyes of curiosity or prejudice. It is a pity that so fair a screen should not remain avail able for proper purposes and honest men, who yet may be unwilling to parade their names upon the turf. Per haps some middle c,urse might be adopted to preserve au honourable incognito, without risk of the evils which are now justly made the subject of complaint. Parties entering horses in a fictitious name, might at the same time be bound to send their own names to the secretary of the Jockey Club, in confidence, to be revealed by him only in ease the party entering should make default, or otherwise become amen ibb.b to turf law. Thus the pre sent evils would be obviated, without attaching odium to a practice which, like many other useful customs, is only dishonoured in its abuse. EPSOM AUTUMN MEETING —That indefatigable turf commissary, Dorling, has succeeded in establishing & third meeting at Epsom. It was originally designed to have come in between the Newmarket first and second October meetings. To this the Jockey Club demurred, on the ground that it would interfere with their es tablished stakes. T ues d a y, the 18th Septemb e r, is al& day finally selected-50 01 . will be given in public money —and if the meeting but receives the patronage it seems to merit, we shall no doubt enjoy a vet), good d ay ' s sport in the autunin4l gathering at Eps ,, m. Abing , lon races are " postponed until further notice. The Produce Sttles are ann, uneed to be " off by con sent." Altogether, this looks very much as it the whole affiir were " off by consent " for ever and a day. THE LORD'S DAY Acr.—A return moved for by Mr. C. Blring Wall, shows that the number of persons convicted in Ecgland and Wales, under the Act of Charles 11., commonly called the "Lord's Day Act." in the year 1848, amounted to 151. The offences consisted of " driving cattle through the streets to the terror of church goers;" "playing at unlawful games during " Divine service;' " " exercising their worldly calling; . " travelling with a waggon;" "driving lime-carts , " driving - aszes end mules laden with coals," and " work ing on railwayi." CREMORNE-GARDENS.—Yesterday the first of a series of aquatic amusements was exhibited on the river in front of the garden's of this place, in the presence of a great number of people. There v..ere combats, both with 14nces and swords, between men belonging to the Blues; teats of strength and activity between several wreAlers of tirst-rate celebrity; tilting at the quintain, &c.; and the curious exhibition of walking the oscil latory pole," or, in other words, a bowsprit projecting r r e e . d with are well conducted to render' overthe fe ssistants. It was nhe 7trclu(t'iltiisl are now i n R ood order, ntlucted by the pro late hour that i6iDet t °c' t h rft e htaeh( :: his ofd,ae andr t t h l l le e n; sem:et cure. entertainments e - ,e clo a st:d, and the company dispersed. BoT AN IC St; CI ET r.—Yesterday afternoon ItL the y c A ouversa^ion e o f the society was held in the conservatteries and gardens in the Regent's-park. The novelty of the a h o e c p e res .o ence of ladies w a s amo ngst the h attractions of with the fineness of the weather, combined ''l t n o , g together a more than usual number of persons. The illustration of economic botany was the subject proposed. There was a con siderable collection of paintings, several of which were the productions of the artists and students of the School of Design, who are permitted to study in the gardens. The specimens of plants and their application were very many. Among theta were British plants, fossil plants, coniferm, New Zealand plants, tropical fruits, .tic. Mr. F. Whishaw*Exhibited applications of guile perch°, fo. the telekouphonon and accothtic apparatus. Mr. Ba g . • shaw, Mr. Sowerby, and Mr. Varley exhibited micro scopes. The gardens and g eneral collections w e r e we th re e thrown open. Amongst the companY Present Duke of Beaufort, Lord .llenuiker, Ladies Morgan, Fel. 'owes, L. Grattan, C. Stirling, Murchison, Hamilton, Winston, and Barron; the Hon. Mrs. Ryd er Barton, W. &e.; Sir C. Murchison, Si r F . K nowles, S i r J. Hamilton. &c.; Colonels Sabine, H anmer, Bentley, many other members ( a lc ad t and perso na connecte d w ith science. hlelr'ilfsl;ioPurtiobfesswororAldn:ted' and