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irbtrb Vbttton SUN-OFFICE, Seven o'clock. SPORTING:INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) SOUTHAMPTON RACES.—YESTERDAY. Ha'adicap of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added. Three quarters of st mile. Mr. Payne's Rapture, 3 yrs (T. Day) 1 3A(r. I. Day's in, by Nimrod, out of Busk, 5 yrs 2 Mr. Pryse's Australia, 4 yrs The Borough Plate of 501., added to a sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each. Heats, once round and a dis. Mr. Hewitt's Stickler, aged (Horsley) 5 1 1 Mr. Stephens's Bavarian, 5 yrs Mr. King's Sultana, 4 yrs ...... 3 3 dr Mr. Payne's Rapture, 3 yrs Mr. Herbert's Teetotaller, 3 yrs.... The Hunters' of 5 sovs each, and 20 added, mile and three quarters, were won by Mr. Cattalo's Adrian, aged (Mr. Legg), beating Spangle and Stickler. The Champagne Stakes of 3 sovs. each, with a purse of 30 sovs. added. Heats, once round and a dis. Mr. Cattalo's Adrian, aged (Powell) 1 2 1 Mr. Jobson's Frank, 6 yrs Mr. Sadler's f, by Ishmael, out of Dewdrop, 3 yrs 3 4 3 Mr. Sadler's European, 5 yrs . SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Mr. Thomas Duncombe has given no tice of a motion which stands for discussion in the louse of Commons to-day, and will of course be op . • sed by the Government, though the facts it ern . ies cannot be denied, and the object sought to be obtained is an extremely proper one. Resign. inF all hope that the Ministers will listen to the voice of the country, which at numerous meet ings held in every part of the kingdom has urged the necessity of considering the public distress before the separation of Parliament, Mr. Duncombe asks the House of Commons "to represent to her Majesty an anxious hope that if, after the termination of the present session, 110 decisive improvement should take place in the condition of her Majesty's suffering and loyal subjects, her Majesty may be pleased again to call Parliament together at au early period." There is something so reasonable in this request, that it seems difficult to anticipate on what grounds it can be resisted. Should it be acceded to, there will be at Last a ray of hope reserved for those who are suffering f:om distress, and who look to the Legislature for the only means of remedy. Sir Robert Peel has pro mised that the operation of the new Tariff will pro duce a. beneficial influence, and afford better subsist ence to the mass of the people than they have been lately able to procure. What then can be more reason able than, in the event of the hopes he has held out not being realised, Nrliament should be called together to substitute some other means of relief for those which have been offered by the present Minister ? If the Tariff should answer the end proposed, Mr. Dun combe's motion need not be acted on ; but if the dis tress continues to increase—or even should it not sensibly diminish—the fact of the Honourable Mem ber's resolution having been carried may be productive of the best results on the feelings of the people, who will not be under the impression that nothing can be dons for them until the ordinary period for assem the Parliament. STANDARD.—There is a remarkable circum eta, ice connected with the Maynooth establishment that is seldom kept in sight. The establishment is pra 3tically condemned by Roman Catholics, as unequi voo illy as it is condemned in words by Protestants. The establishment is now nearly fifty years old ; and though, during its lifetime, the Roman Catholics have doubled in number, and more than doubled in wealth—though they have collected immense sums for political objects, paying Mr. O'Connell 20,0001. a-year, and their priests, according to the calculation of Mr. Massie, a Liberal Dissenter, a million and a half a year, they have not added one penny to the funds of 114nooth. We are told that, but for Maynooth, the Romish clergy would be with out education ; but how is this possible, when a con tribution of no more than five per cent. from the in comes of the priesthood, to say nothing of the sums expended for political objects, would support a much larger establishment? Again, it is said that the grant is insufficient. How, again, can this be, when, as we 3ee, such a contribution as we have spoken of would much more than double the resources of the establish ment ? The phenomenon is one which can be ex plained only upon the ground that the majority of Irish Roman Catholics dislike the Maynooth establishment; or, upon the other ground, that the Romish bishops prefer to take a comparatively small grant from the State to admitting the inferior clergy and laity to any influence in managing the institution. Both causes we believe operate to some extent, but either of them is quite sufficient to cause the Legis lature to pause before contributing any more money withoutinquiry. As to the system of instruction pursued at Maynooth, we have great reluctance in touching upon it. The political instruction is seen in its effects, because politics are necessarily striking. Its moral effects are not so manifest, because the vices of the very poor and remote are necessarily obscure. Lord Eliot has, it appears, been deluded into the vulgar belief upon this latter point. The Irish peasantry are not one jot more moral than the peasantry of other Roman Catholic countries, by no means so moral as the peasantry of the least advanced Protestant countries. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT: (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. Their Lordships met at the usual hour. In the absence of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the woolsack. MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. A message from the Commons brought up the Controverted. Elections Amendment Bill, the Wide Streets (Dublin) Bill, the Perth Prisons Bill, the Railways' Act Amendment Bill, and a few private Bills,•which were severally read a first time. THE LUNACY BILL. This Bill was read a third time, and passed. MINES AND COLLIERIES BILL. The Duke of SUTHERLAND presented a petition from Huddersfield, against the employment of females and young children in mines. His own opinion on this subject was, that the youth employed in mines should only work half time, while the remainder should he devoted to instruction and healthful recreation. It could scarcely be expected that children would attend a night school after ten hours hard labour in a mine. _FISHERIES TREATY ACT CONTINUANCE BILL. This 13111 went through Committee. SLAVE TRADE TREATIES ACT CONTI- NUANCE BILL. This Bill'also went through Committee. The District Courts and Prisons Bill, the Militia Ballot Suspension Bill, and the Turnpike Acts Con tinuance Bill likewise passed through Committee'. THE MILITARY SAVINGS' BANK BILL. This Bill was read a second time, and their Lord ships therx adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from the Pro testant Operative Association of the Tower Hamlets, against the grant to Maynooth College. Mr. VILLIERS presented three petitions from Dele gates assemtded from different parts of the country; pray ing for the immediate and total repeal of the Corn-laws. Mr. HAWES presented a petition from Putney, pray ing that the bridges in London might be thrown open free of toll, The SPEAKER informed the House that the Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, Mr. Wilson Patten, and Sir William M. Somerville, had resigned their offices as Members of the General Committee of Elections, and that it was his duty to a,ppoint Members in their room. Mr. 4.14.1)HAM presented a petition from the West Riding of Yorkshire, against the Bastardy and Appren tices' chtuses of the New Poor-law Amendment Bill. BURYING IN TOWNS. Mr. MACKINNON gave notice that he would, on the 4th of August, move fur leave to bring in a Bill to prevent buriaals within the precincts of towns.—(llear.) POOR LAWS. Mr. S. CRAW FORD gave notice that on the third reading of the Poor-law Bill, he would move as an amepdment that the Bill be read that day three months. Sir T. D. ACKLAND gave notice that he would - move a clause in the Poor-law Amendment Bill, which ould enable the local guardians to provide for the education of poor persons. Sir G. CLARKE gave notice that he would move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the 2d. and 3d. of Vic toria, called the Slave-trade Suppression Act. STADE DUTIES. Sir R. PEEL said, that seeing the Hon. Member for Gateshead had a motion on the paper relative to the Stsde Duties, he wished to inform him that it would be out of his (Sir. B. Peel's) power to enter into any discussion upon it. Negotiations were pending on the subject, and he could not, without prejudice to the public, go into any statement. He therefore hoped the Hen. Gentleman would not press his motion in the present state of the negotiations, which he had every reason to believe would be brought to a final close. Mr. HUTT was unwilling* to bring* forward any motion that would lead to a discussion which would in ttsferc with the public interests ; but it was because he understood the negotiations which were carrying on were conducted on a basis which, so far as he could ascertain, was likely to be prejudicial to the interests and honour of the country, he had taken the opportunity of bring ing the matter under the consideration of that House. He was desirous, therefore, that some expression on the part of the House should be given, and he did not think it would be consistent with his duty to withdraw the motion. Sir R. PEEL only trusted that the House would draw no conclusion from the reserve he should maintain on the subject.—(llear, hear.) Mr. LAMBTON hoped the Hon. Gentlemen would withdraw his m otion. Mr. tiLITT said, that he had no acrimonious or fac tious motives in bringing the subject forward. t t had been entrusted to his hands, and he believed the nego tiations were cDnducted on such a basis as to be injurious to the mercantile interests of the country. Mr. HUME hoped, after what had fallen from the Right Hon. Baronet, that the Hon. Gentleman would not proceed with his motion. Lord PALMERSTON said, that as the Right Hon. Baronet had stated that it would not be consistent with his duty to enter upon any statement upon that subject, in consequence of the negotiations that were pending, perhaps it would not be advisable to press that motion But on the other hand, as the matter was entrusted to his Hon. Friend, and as he stated that he had every reason to believe that in the negotiations that were going on the present Government had abandoned claims which he believed they ought not to do; and as it was a ques- tion of great interest to the commercial classes of the country, it was advisable that the subject should be discussed before the negotiations were concluded. If his Hon. Friend waited until the negotiations were con cluded, he would then be too late. Sir ROBERT PEEL said that he was precluded frotn saying one word on the subject. Of course the Hon. Member could exercise his own discretion whether he would bring on the motion or not; all he wished was, that the House would not miscontrue his silence. Mr. HUTT—Then perhaps the Right Hon. Baronet would say whether it was a fact that on the present Secretary for Foreign Affairs, succeeding his Noble Friend (Lord Palmerston), he signified to the Hano verian Minister his (Lord Aberdeen's) determination to adhere to the policy of his predecessors ? ,Sir R. PEEL declined to make any communication whatever on the subject. Mr. HUTT said he certainly understood that the No ble Lord, the present Secretat y for Foreign Affairs, had stated his determination to follow the policy of his pre decessors ; but the concessions which were since made were at variance with the views of his Noble Friend, and inconsistent witt the, rights and interests of this country. He therefore thought that the House should express some opinion on the subject before it was too late. He understood that the question of the Stade tolls were to be settled on the basis of a: compromise involving large concession on the part of this country. If that was the fact, ho (Mr. Hutt) thought it right to protest against any such proceeding. If any concession was made, it was opposed to the views not only of his Noble Friend on the subject, but of every statesman in Europe; and if her Majesfis Government had concluded any treaty with Hanover, setting aside the Swedish treaty, they had pursued a course inconsistent with their duty, and one against which he most strongly protested. Mr. C. BERKELEY said that the Hon.Memberf or Bath had, on Tuesday, put a question to the Right Hon. Baro net the Secretary of State for the Home Department, re specting a person who had been improperly committed to Cheltenham gaol, to which the Right Hon. Gentleman replied that serious irregularities had occurred. and he (Sir J. Graham) had expressed his opinion to that effect, but he trusted that the Hon. and Learned Member for Bath, would not press for the correspondence. The Right Hon. Baronet must be aware that under the provisions of the Constabulary Force Act, the Magistrates had no right to interfere with Chief Constables appointed under that Act. The Magistrates were desirous of having their characters cleared, and he wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet if he had any objection to produce the correspondence which had taken place on the subject, and to have it printed ? Sir JAMES GRAHAM was sorry any misappre hension shold have occurred in consequence of what had fallen from him (Sir J. Graham). The Honourable Gentleman had certainly quoted his (Sir James Gra ham's) expressions correctly. He had certainly said that irregularities had been committed, but he had not said that those irregularities had been committed by the Magistrates. As the production of the correspondence might prejudice the ends of justice he must refuse to produce it for the present. RAJA OF SATTARA. Mr. HUME had inteAded in moving for the papers re lating to the deposition of the late Raja of Sattara, to have gone at large into the subject, but, at this advanced period of the session, he would abstain from doing so, and content himself m ith moving for the papers, to the production of which he understood no opposition would be offered. He would, however, next session go into the whole ques tion of the deposition of the late Raja of Sattara. He would therefore move for copies of the despatches from the Bombay Government, dated the 31st day of October, 1841, and subsequent dates, respecting the affairs of Sattara, with the inclosures therein referred to, as laid before the Court of Proprietors at the East India House, on the 13th day of May, 1842 ; also, a copy of a letter from General Ledwick, C. 8., and late Resident at Sattara, dated the 13th day of June, 1842, to the Court of Directors of the East India Company, respecting the proceedings at Sattara. as laid before the Court of Proprietors at the East India House ; also,. copies of all letters addressed to or from the deposed Raja of Sattara, that have been intercepted by the Bombay Government, by its Officers, and by the Resident at Sattara ; with Copies of the Despatches transmitting the same to the Governor-General of India, and to the Court of Direc tors ; also, Copies of the Orders issued, and any ob servations made by the Governor-General, and by the Court of Directors thereon.—Agreed to. INDIAN FINANCE—AFFGHAN WAR. Mr. HUME had a notice on the paper for the pro duction of the correspondence between the Board of Di rectors of the East India Company and the Government on the subject 'of Indian finance, in reference to the expenses of the Chinese and Affghan wars. The East India Company thought that as the Affghan war had been undertaken for British purposes, the nation ought to bear the expellee of it; and he believed the Directors had ad dressed the Government on the subject. The Right Hon. Baronet, too, had, in bringing forward his Budget, alluded to the subject of Indian finance, and therefore it was of importance that the House should be in possession of information on the subject. He (Mr. H.) however, had understood from the Board of Control that the corres pondence was still going, and that it would prejudice the public service if it were produced at present. Under these circumstances be would withdraw his motion. Sir R. PEEL, in allusion to what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman relative to his (Sir R. Peel's) speech, on bringing forward the Budget, begged to observe that although on that occasion he bad said that the state of Indian finance was additional reason for an effort being made to maintain public credit, yet he had by no means admitted that the East India Government had any claim upon the English Treasury on account of the expenses of the Affghan war. Mr. HUME did not mean to say there was a claim, but the Court of Directors thought they had one. LAW REFORM. Mr. PARKER wished to know whether it was the intention of the Government to proceed with the Law Bills that had lately been introduced into the other House of Parliament ? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that it certainly was the intention of the Government to proceed with those Bills. An HON. MEMBER wished to know whether it was the intention of the Government to postpone the Parish Constables Bill till another session? Sir JAMES GRAHAM said it was the intention of the Government to persevere with, that Bill. CASE OF MRS. FORBES. Captain PECHELL rose to call the attention of the House to the petition of Mrs. Charlotte Forbes, pre sented on the sth of July last. Mrs. Forbes was the wife of Lieutenant Forbes, now a lunatic in Haslar Hospital. It appeared that a portion of the lunatic's pay had been stopped for the purpose of defraying his expenses in the Hospital. The peti tioner complained that this was contrary to the general usage in the service, and prayed that the pay which had thus been stopped might be paid over to her. The Hon. and Gallant Gentleman concluded by moving for a return of the number of Officers on half-pay in the Lunatic Asylum at Haslar, the deductions from their half-pay made for their maintenance there, and the correspondence between the Government and the relatives of such Ofli•;ers. Sir G. COCKBURN said it was a matter of indul gence that Lieut. Forbes was received at all into the Asylum. He was received in consequence of the applica tions of his friends, who were aware of the existence of the regulations. Sir C. NAPIER said, that as it appeared that the Go -vernment had taken too much in the first instance for the maintenance of this officer in Haslar Hospital, and had subsequently reduced the amount deducted, he thought that the Government was bound to refund the money which had been so improperly de ducted ; and he thought thet a similar refunding ought to take place in every instance in which money had been deducted unjustly. Mr. HUME thought it was a pity such a case should have been permitted to be brought forward. He thought as a matter of justice, end of humanity, that the money ought to be refunded to Mrs. Forbes. Great credit was due the Government for providing for Lunatic Officers in Hasler Hospital, but still the families of officers ought not to be deprived of their rights. As a matter of justice they were entitled to the half-pay after the bare maintenance of the indi vidual which it appeared amounted to Is. 6d. a day should have been deducted. (LEFT SPEAKING.) TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING. Six O'CLOCK. COODWOOD CUP. 4 to 1 ag-t the Squire 10 to 1 agst Middleham 11 to 1 agst Marshal Soult 12 to 1 agst Charles XII. 12 to 1 agst Sleight-of-Hand GOODWOOD STAKES. 5 to 1 agst Knight of the Whistlo 10 to 1 agst Helpmate 12 to 1 agst Welfare 16 to 1 agst The Corsair 16 to 1 agst Daddy Longlegs 18 to 1 agst Arnagill 20 to 1 agst Studely Royal 22 to 1 agst Retriever The carriage in which the D u k e o f O r l eans was riding on the dap of the accident, was, says the com merce, a sort of cabriolet on four wheels drawn by two horses, known by the name of milord. It is larger and deeper than a common cabriolet, and it i s w i t h out a seat in front, as a postilion rides one of the horses. There are no doors to those vehicles , but simply an apron which was rolled up, on the occasion w e speak of. The hood was down, so that the Prince cou l d suddenly stand up erect, without striking his head, as was g enera l ly supposed. The springs are exceedingly flexible, so that the body of the vehicle moved con siderably at the slightest motion, which expl a i ns the fact of the Prince falling from a jolt when rising to speak to the postilion. THE SUN, LONDON, TIIURSDAY EVENING, JUL! 21, 1842 REGENCY QUESTION. (From the Gazette des Tribunaux.) The other day a journal, ill disguising its hatreds and desires under the farm of historical reminiscences, enumerated at length the calamities which nearly always in history accompanied regencies. It forgot but one thing, which is, that the then form of Go vernment kept the State also in a minority, by con centrating all power in the hands of the Regent, the choice of whom not being provided for by any precise law, was left to the mercy 'of party strife. This journal forgot that in searching history for lessons respecting our future fortune, we should at least search in histories where the Constitution is analo gous to our own. Had it looked to the History of England, for example, it would have found that the periods of minorities and regencies were as tranquil, as useful, and as glorious as any other. Previous to the Constitution of September 10, 1791, the law of France presents few texts relative to this question. It is in facts alone that is to be sought the solution of such questions, and at each step facts are modified or denied according to the interest of those who hap pened to be in power. Under the first race, there was no rule. The Regency was exercised by he mother of the minor King ; by his grandmother ; oftner it was usurped by some officer of the late King's House hold. it was only under the second race, in a charter of Louis the Simple, that that principle was first laid down, which was afterwards reproduced in the Con stitution of 1791, that the right to the Regency should be determined as much as possible by the order of succession to the throne. The right of the Queen Mother is also to be taken into consideration. Nevertheless, these two princi ples were not always respected, buth Queen Mother and Heir Presumptive being excluded frrm the Regency, as was the case after the death of Henry I. This was the germ of the Regency by right of the late King's will. Queen Blanche was thus named Regent by an Act of Louis VIII. during the minority of her son Louis IX., and her firmness overcame the obstacles which the young King's uncle put in her way. Independent of a Regency during ' the King's minority, there was that during his ab sence. In this case the King could choose whom he pleased. St. Louis preferred the Abbot of St. Denis as a 'Regent, rather than the Queen or his brothers. The settlement of a Regency during a minority was to be sanctioned by the grandees of the kingdom. This was the case when Philip the Handsome settled the Regency which succeeded him. The edict of Dec. 26th, 1407, is the first which is explicit on the subject. This edict publishes, as perpetual and ir revocable, that - minor Kings should be governed by the counsels and deliberations of the Queen-mother, if alive, or the nearest relation of the blood Royal, and also by , the deliberations and counsels of the Con stable and Chancellor of France, and other wise men. An express clause of the edict forbids any interpreta tion or change to be made in it ; but the edict was not the better observed for that. For instance, at the death of Louis XI., the last wish of. Louis U. was that his daughter, Anne de Beaujeu, should be Regent. This was violently opposed by the Duke of Orleans, heir presumptive to the Crown (since Louis XII.), who pretended to the Regency by right of the edict of 1407. Jean de Bourbon made the same pretensions. The dispute threatened to become serious, though the edict was evidently in favour of the Duke of Orleans. The States-General assembled at Tours settled the ques tion by declaring that, although the King was still a minor, he should be crowned immediately and govern himself; that the Duke should be President of the King's Council, and that Jean de Bourbon and Sire de Beajeu should have the right of sitting there. We cannot follow all the details of the struggle between Catharine de Medicis and the King of Navarre for the Regency during the minority of Charles IX.: a middle course was again had resort to. " The three estates of the kingdom," said the Chancellor De L'Hopital, "to whom the contestation was referred, determined either by equity or our pressing solicitaw tions, to give the guardianship of the person and pro perty of the King to the Queen, and the King of Navarre to be her assistant and councillor. It was thought that this would be a means of reconcilia tion, but it proved the contrary. The right of Queens to the Regency was soon after solemnly and unanimously acknowledged by . Parliament, which, on the very day King Henry IV. died, gave the. regency to Marie de Medicis. Louis XIII., warned by the dangers which the state had run during his minority, determined to avert, if possible, those dangers from his successor. He, therefore, declared in the month of April, 1643, Queen Anne regent during the minority of the Dauphin, and the Duke of Orleans, hil brother, lieutenant-general of the kingdom, under Qbeen, with a council to regulate by vote all the im portant business of the state. But after the King's death the Duke of Orleans and the Prince of Conde, having declared that they would take no other part in affairs but that which it pleased the Queen to assign them, the Parliament setting aside the late King's will, declared the Queen-mother regent, of the kingdom, with liberty to choose her own council. The will of Louis XIV. was destined to be as little respected as that of Louis XIIL, and Louis XIV. had foreseen it : "I have made my will," said he, " because I was besought to do so, but mine will be treated as was my father's." In this will, wishing to conform to the edict of 1407, he appointed no regent, but a council of regency, in which he named the Duke of Orleans chief. This council was to be composed of princes of the blood, not younger than twenty-four years, Ministers of State, Marshals Villeroi, de Villars, d'Harcourt, d'Uells, and De Tallard; and the number was not to be increased, even in case of the death of one of them. All business was to be settled by a plurality of voices. The Duke of Maine had charge of the King's education, and the govern ment of the troops of his household. The day after the death of Louis XIV. this will was annulled by Act of Parliament, on the grounds that if the Duke of Orleans were chief by virtue of the King's will, he was also by his merit and high birth. He was therefore proclaimed Regent. There is great obscurity as to the real term fixed for the majority of the Kings of France. According to Tillett the ma jority was fixed at the age of fifteen, after Hugues Capet ; but Dupois, in his " Traite de la Al ajorite des Rois," observes that Tillet spoke without authority ; and adds that in 1184, Philip was still a minor, though twenty years old ; that St. Louis was a minor till twenty-one ; from whence the author concludes, as from other examples, that the full majority of Kings is not reached till twenty-one. Philip the Bold was the first Who modified this state of things ; for by an ordonnance of 1270, he fixed the majority of his son at the age of fourteen. We find the same age indi cated for majority in an Act of Partition made in 1344, by Philip of Valois, and in the edict of 1374, by which Charles V. orders " that the eldest sons of Kings of France present and future, shall be of age at fourteen." These prescriptions were generally fol lowed afterwards. Under Catherine of Medicis it was disputed whether fourteen years commenced, or four teen years accomplished, rendered the King of age. Catherine caused the former to be decided. To prevent the return of similar disputes, the Con stituent Assembly thought fit to regulate in absolute terms the organisation of the Regency. In the terms of the Constitution of 1791, the King is a minor till the age of :eighteen is accomplished ; the Regency belongs to the nearest of kin to the King, following the order of succession. The Regent must be twenty five years of age, a Frenchman, and not heir-pre sumptive to another crown. Women are excluded from the Regency. The Constitution then fixes the conditions for the election of a Regent, in case the minor King has no near relative. 'The election is to be made by a college composed of special electors named in each district. The Senatus Consultum of 28 Floreal, year 12, treated also of the Regency. According to this Senatus Consultum, the Emperor is a minor until he is eighteen years of age accom plished. The Regent must be twenty-five accom plished. "Women are excluded from the Regency. The Emperor names the Regent from among the French Princes ; and in default of any among the grandees of the empire. In case the Emperor has not named the Regent, and none of the French Princes having attained the age of twenty-five, the Senate elects the Regent from among the grandees of the na tion. Regent is not responsible : the powers of the Regent are limited, especially in the declarations of war and signing of treaties—cases in which the Council of Regency must decide by a majority. The care of the Emperor is entrusted to his mo ther; in case of her death, to the prince named by the predecessor of the minor, or by the Senate. Another Senatus Consultum, of 1813, somewhat modifies these dispositions. Instead of excluding women from the regency, it declares the Empress-mother Regent as well as guardian. The Empress disposes of the regency either by will or letters patent. The Augsburgh Gazette gives some additional de tails respecting the late disturbances at Mantua. It appears that, for some time past, several of the young men of the town had been excited against the Jews by fanatical sermons, and only waited for a favourable opportunity to testify their hate. On the 30th ult., one of them being in a cafe with several Jews, gave one a kick and blow in the face. This was the beginning of a violent quarrel, which gradually extended itself to various parts of the town. The Commandant having hastened to stop the riot, one of the leaders pushed him violently back, and tore his decoration from his breast. The armed force was called out, and fired on the rioters. Several were killed, and others wounded. The populace then took part in the quarrel and opposed the soldiers, and as the garrison is but small in summer the tumult continued for three days. The country house of the Jewish family Finzi was pillaged, and for three days the Jews could not stir out of their habitations. At last troops arrived from Verona, and tranquillity was in some measure restored. In the course of the last week a woman of Ghent was delivered of four children ; they were all bops alive, but died soon afterwards. 1 URKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 29.—The Austrian Charge d'Afthires ad interim, M. Cletsel, has forwarded to the Porte a communication from Prince Metternich, wherein its attention is called to the disorders pre vailing in the administration of Bosnia. Numerous families of Christians had, in consequence of the op pression and grinding exactions of the Pacha, taken refuge in the Austrian territory, and the effect of this misgovernment is said to be a general insecurity of the frontier. The Prince expresses his hopes that the Porte will spontaneously take such measures as are calculated to restore confidence and tranquillity to those districts—that the refugees will be recalled to their homes, and protected in their persons and property. The country of the Montenegrins is also reported to be in a state of similar disturbance and insurrec tion, and the suppression of these disorders has been alleged as a pretext for marching an additional force of 2,000 men into Roumelia ; but the real cause of this reinforcement is, more probably, the precarious state of the relations of the Porte with the Greek Government. Negotiations, however, are said to have at length opened on this subject—protocols are being already drawn up, and bid fair, before the labour be complete, to be as numerous a progeny as those brought forth by the Belgian revolution. I mentioned to you last week that a circular had been addressed by the Porte to the different Lega tions on the subject of the abuse of protection con ferred on Ottoman subjects by foreign passports. It was occasioned, I find, by some previous corespon dence which had passed between the Porte and the Russian Charge d'Affaires. On the complaint of the Turkish Government with respect to the Rus sian protections granted to its subjects at Odessa, M. Titoff promised to write to Count Woron zoff, the Governor of the Crimea. He accord ingly did so, and received an answer to the effect that as the individuals in question were the bearers of foreign, and not Turkish, passports, from Con stantinople, the authorities could not refuse them Russian passports, when they applied for them on their departure. If the Porte wished to put a stop to this abuse, it shoed take the proper steps at Con stantinople. The contents of this letter having been communicated to the Porte by M. Titoff, the circular I have alluded to was in consequence despatched to the Foreign Legations. Yermanos, Archbishop of Therapia, has been elected to the vacant chair' of the Patriarch. He was on the 9th ult., inaugurated at the Porte, and afterwards harangued by the Grand Vizier, who told him he was sesponsible for. the loyalty of ten millions of the Sultan's subjects. Rifat Pacha, ex-minister for foreign affairs, has been appointed Inspector General of Finances in the European provinces of Turkey. He is to proceed forthwith on a circuit, to fulfil the duties of his appointment. Mr. BROTHERTON expressed his regret that this Bill should not pass this session. • Mr. COWPER expressed his regret that the House was about to close its sitting without having passed any measure for relieving the deplorable state in which vast portions of the poor were placed in large towns. This question had been before the House for two years, and had been amply discussed in the House of Lords. The necessity of the measure bad been proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, and yet the Right Hon. Baronet said they must wait for a Report. Dr. BOWRING hoped the Right Hon. Baronet would consult the various town councils of large towns on the subject, before he introduced another Bill. After a few words from Mr. R. YORKE and Mr. T. EGERTON, the motion was agreed to. POOR-LAW AMENDMENT BILL. On the bringing up of the Report on this Bill, Mr. ESCOTT moved the insertion of the following clause :—" That it shall be lawful for all boards of guar dians of the poor in England and Wales to grant such relief as in their judgment shall be necessary to poor persons at their own homes, any order, rule, or regula tion of the Poor-law Commissioners notwithstanding." He was neither a decided opponent, nor a decided sup• porter of the Poor-law Amendment Act ; his object was to amend the Act, with a view to the benefit of the poorer classes of this country. He should not speak as a par tisan ; he believed they were all desirous to improve the condition of the rate-payer and the recipient of pariah relief, and with that belief he should address himself to the clause now before the House. There was one important object which the Bill did not seem to contemplate, . and as it was proposed to continue this Commission for five years without the introduction of any remedial clauses, he conceived it to be imperative on him to do his best to supply what was wanting in that Bill, and with that view he had given notice of the motion which he had the honour now to bring forward. He should, no doubt, be told that the great objection to his clause would be that it was in direct opposition to the principle of the Bill. He could not see that. If the principle of the Bill was to encourage the honest labourer and to discourage the idle vagabond, to relieve the distresses of the poor, and at the same time to save the money of the rate-payers, then he would -declare once and for all, that lie was for the principle of, the Bill. If the principle of the Bill was that the honest distressed labourer and artisan should receive no relief unless he entered the workhouse, then he would say, once and for all, that he was opposed to the principle of the Bill—(Hear, hear)—and before they separated, he should feel obliged to the Right Hon. Ba ronet if he would tell them what really was the principle of the measure. He must dispute the rightfulness of Parliament ever instituting the. Poor-law Commission ; he should like to know in what author upon Parliamen tary influence, they would find the authority for insti tuting such a Commission, for delegating to three men the power of making laws, which power should be only vested in the two Houses of Parliament and the Crown. He should wish that the Noble Lord the Member for London were present, that he might ask him what was the authority upon which such a Commission had been insti tuted. The Commission having been institut_ d, they must acknowledge it, but still he could not see, nor could he ever ascertain upon what authority such a Commis. sion was established ; this being the case he thought they should pause before they continued that Commission for five years. He had heard in that House that the pro hibitory order could not be enforced in the manufac turing districts, but that the agricultural districts re ceived all the benefit from it, their rates were lowered, and labaur was cheap. He (Mr. Escott) spoke only with regard to the agricultural districts, and he could say upon his own knowledge, that the prohibitory order had been productive of the greatest mischief, both to the rate-payers and the industrious poor. The prohibitory order was this : they told an able-bodied man that be cause he was able-borlied he should receive no relief unless he entered the house. He (Mr. Escott) had seen the effect of this order ; it was that the able-bodied did not continue able-bodied long. That was the effect upon the industrious poor; whilst the idle dis honest vagabond went into the house, and fat tened upon his idleness. Umder the prohibitory order not only were the best punished, and the worst indulged, but that which they fondly thought would be the means of raising wages, had turned out to be the moans of reducing them to a dreadful extent. Labour was abundant, and rather than enter the workhouse, and leave his wife and little ones to the hard hand of fate, the honest poor consented to work for trifling wages. In all the parishes in Somersetshire the rates were raised under the operation of the New Poor-law, although the poor were suffering extreme destitution. And how were they raised ? A man and his wife, and five or six children, threw themselves into the house, and it cost the parish, five and twenty shillings a-week to maintain them. If the poor man had received 2s. 6d. a week out of the workhouse, the parish would have avoided paying the difference. The object of this clause was to provide for this case. He knew there were some objections to the adoption of such a clause, but he asked the Secretary of State to consider which evil would be the least. Was it better to give a family half-a-crown a week to save the necessity of their going into the house, or was it better to adhere rigidly to one uniform principle of political economy? Heimight be told that the clause which he proposed was a mischie vous interference with the power of the Commissioners, and would diminish the power of doing good. He did not believe that it would have that effect. If he thought the useful authority of the Commissioners was likely •to be injured he would not have pro posed the clause ; but, in point of fact, it referred to a matter over which the Commissioners had no au thority, namely, the prohibitory order.—(Hear, hear.) The Legislature had, in the 15th section of the original, expressly provided that the Commissioners should have no power of granting out-door relief.—(Hear, hear.) Now, he was aware that there were environs where none of the evils which he had described existed ; but how were they avoided ? By acting expressly in opposition to the law.—(Hear; hear.) The object of his clause was to enable that to be done by law, which at present was done against the law. He had met with a Chairman of a Board of Guardians, who had boasted to him that he paid no attention whatever to the Assistant Com missioner. In some uniins, the guardians gave out-door relief by covert means,' by granting a loan of two or three pounds, which they did not expect to be repaid.—(Hear, hear.) Why should they not re move the necessity for such a practice ? He had fre • quently been told by Hon. Members that if he had seen the operation of the law in their part of the country he would change his opinions. —(Hear, hear.) He believed that in particular districts the law was wisely and hu manely administered, but in such cases it was because benevolent and exemplary individuals made up for the defects of the law itself.—(Hear, hear.) He believed that if the House passed' a third Act, repealing all the statutes which had been passed since the statute of Elizabeth, and leaving the law as it then stood, they would confer a greater benefit upon the country than by legislating during the whole of the nest session on this subjecl. With respect to the continuance of the Commission he did not agree with those who thought that it was intended to make the Corn mission perpetual. He had one ground for holding that opinion, which he thought would satisfy all who considered it. When the Bill was introduced in the House of Lords the Duke of Wellington said, one of the objects of the Bill then before the House was to brink the law back to the hands of the Magistrate, and replace it in the hands of those of the overseer, according to the old system ; when they had got back to the old system no one would be more glad than himself to see the plan abandoned. He believed that when the Duke of Wel lington uttered those words he had in his eye a return to the old parochial system.—(Hear, hear.) He should take the sense of the House upon the ques- tion, and, in making that statement, he 13:vggPd to say he had never pressed forward a question to a division which he did not think for the good of the public in general. Sir J. GRAHAM considered that the course pursued by the Hon. Member entitled his suggestions to the con sideration of the House. He felt how interminable the discussions on the present subject were, but he must say that the proposition of the Hon. Member was not only inconsistent with the present Bill, but that which was introduced in 1834. It was at variance with the work house system altogether, and the laws that had been in existence for the last century, ar.d would place the relief of the poor under the statute of Elizabeth alone. He was of opinion that, if the House agreed to the proposition of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, it would nullify and render void the Act of 1834, and he was quite satisfied that this would create inextricable confusion.—(Hear.) Mr. FIELDEN supported the clause as proposed by the Hon. Member for Winchester. He denied that the guardians had the power of affording out-door relief. He always considered that the Poor• law was founded on in justice, and ought to be blotted out of the statute-book. Mr. WARD would endeavour to remove the law from the statute-book if he thought it was unjust, but he did not think so. With respect to the poor man's wages, if the man had but 7s. or Bs. a week where lie ought to have 125., the man had his remedy against the farmer by throwing his family into the workhouse, as by that course he increased the amount of the poor-rates upon the farmer. Therefore, the effect of the new Poor-law Bill was to increase wages. In the Union of Ware, in Hertfordshire, 20 labourers employed in the gravel pits received wages out of the poor-rates before this Bill passed, while, since its enactment, the number was only 17. Mr. O'CONNELL would vote with the Hon. and Learned Gentleman if he went to a division, because it extended the principle, or rather the practice, of out door relief. The principle of out-door relief was ad mitted by the Right Hon. Baronet, as he, said that nine tenths of the poor received out-door relief at the present time.—(Hear.) Tho working of the Poor-law in Ireland was exceedingly dangerous: The two workhouses in in Dublin were full, and a person could not be admitted without an inmato going abroad. He should support the Hon. Gentleman, as the workhouses were full, while the number of mendicants had not decreased. Mr. HARDY supported the motion. Mr. AGLIONBY thought the guardians might very well be trusted to exercise a discretion in administering out-door relief ; he should therefore vote fur the motion of the Hon. Gentleman opposite. Sir E. KNATCHBULL opposed the motion. Mr. H. KEMBLE was of opinion that the Poor law Amendment Act required some alterations, at the same time he thought that the object which the lion. Member had in view was attained under time present law. He hoped the Hon. Member would not press his motion to a division, for if he did, he (Mr. Ketuble) should be com pelled to leave, or to skulk out of the House, because he would not pledge himself to the opinion that the guar dians were not capable of exercising a discs etion in ad ministering relief. Mr. S. CRAWFORD trusted the Hon. Member would divide the House upon his motion. Hon. Members might skulk if they pleased, but he should vote for the motion of the Hon. Member opposite. Mr. HUME approved of many of the sentiments of the Hon. Mover of the motion, at the same time he thought that the effect of his remedy would be to over turn the whole existing system, and send them back I again to the old law, of which he wai happy to say they were now rid. He thought he should be best support ing the interests of the working classes by voting against the motion. General JOHNSON supported the clause. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the clause Agatnst it Majority against the clause —3s Sir T. D. ACLANI) regretted that the Hon. Baronet had omitted the 29th clause, empowering the guardians to appoint local committees. He hoped he would con sent to add that clause. The Bill was then ordered to be engrossed and read a third time on Friday next. THE CASE OF MASON On the motion for going into a Committee of Supply, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said he rose for the purpose of offering some inter ruption to the pleasing occupation of voting away public money. Lord SANDON hoped the Hon. Gentleman would defer his motion. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE . said, when his notice had been on the paper the whole day he was surprised at the sug gestion of the Noble Lord. Here were eight individuals who, he contended, were improperly and unjustly impri soned, and he could not consent that they should remain in that condition. If the Right Hon. Baronet, the Se cretary for the Home Department, would consent that he should bring forward the subject on Frday he would postpone the motion, but upon no other ground.—(Hear.) Sir J. GRAHAM said there would be another day for going into Committee of Supply, when the Hon. Gentleman would have the same opportunity of bringing forward the subject. He was not aware until yesterday of any of the facts of the case. He thought that that evening was a very inconvenient time for proceeding with the discussion. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE then postponed the motion till the next supply day. _ SUPPLY. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, Mr. G REENE in the Chair. Sir G. CLERK said he would now proceed with the Irish Estimates. A sum of 8,293/. was voted to defray the expenses of the Foundling Hospital in Dublin. 14,251/. was voted for the House of Industry in Dublin. A vote of 1,000/: was agreed to for the Female Or phan House in Dublin. 2,5001. was voted for the Westmoreland Lock Hospital. 1,0001. was voted for the Lying-in Hospital. 1,500/. was voted for Dr. Stevens's Hospital. 3,8001. was voted for the purpose of defraying the expenses of the House of Recovery and Fever Hospital, Dublin. 5001. was voted for the Hospital of Incurables. On the vote of 8,928/. for the College of Maynooth being put, Mr. PLUMPTRE said he should oppose the vote, and take the sense of the House upon it. Lord CLEMENTS defended the grant. Mr. BATESON opposed the grant. He thought the College had not answered the object which it was at first intended to attain. The College was founded in a time of war, for the purpose of preventing the Roman Catholic students in Ireland from going to the Continent fur the purpose of receiving educa tion. The College had not taught the students to yield tribute to those to whom tribute was due. The College was founded to prevent a spirit of revolution gaining ground, by obviating the necessity of Roman Catholic families sending their children to the Continent for an education. He trusted the House would not agree to this grant towards a system which was most baneful to the peace and well-being of Ireland, as the Roman Catholics of Ireland were enslaved by the system, and by it a spirit of revolution and treason was created. Mr. HAWES would enter his . protest. against the language used by the o - ponents of this grant. The Hon. Member ought to be a voluntary religionist. He called on the Hon. Member to consider well the course he was pursuing, for he struck at the root of all State contributions to an Established Church. He was ashamed of the debate—let them be consistent, and re fuse all State grants to every Church. He did not object to grants to Churches; if voted fairly and impartially. He did not assume infallibility—he lett that to the Hon. Member for Kent. He deprecated many of the topics which had been introduced by the Hon. Member who spokelast. What good could arise from his abuse of the clergy of the majority of the people of . Ireland ? The Hon. Gentleman had called himself a Protestant. He wished he hail called himself a Christian, and then he would have felt that he had no right to attack his fellow Christians in the manner he had done. He hoped the Government would not be influenced by the Hon. Member's reasons. Mr. BAILLIE COCHRANE opposed the vote. The Regium donum was on a different footing. It Nvas quite a different thing to vote the Regium donum and to vote a sum of money for the support of a religion diametrically opposed to our own. Sir G. H. SMYTH having found, on investigation, that horrors and filthiness were taught in Maynooth, felt conscientiously called upon to oppose the grant on account of the immorality of the system of education there. He could not vote for the grant when the Pro testant religion was *in danger, and surely it was in danger when that powerful man, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, said he hoped to live to see the day when high mass would be celebrated in Westminster Abbey.—(Loud laughter.) S irely the Protestant religion was in danger when the Lord Mayor of Dublin said that.---(Continued laughter.) He (Sir O. H. Smyth) had always opposed Catholic Emancipation violently— (Roars of laughter)—and he thought it was most unfor tunate fur the country that that measure had ever been carried. Mr. MONCKTON MILNES said that after what had fallen from English, Irish, and Scotch Members on that (tho Ministerial) side of the" House upon the grant, it might not be inconvenient for him to say a few words why he could not conscientiously refuse to vote for the grant to Mayn ooth. He could not say that the extravagant wish of the Hon. and Learned Member for Cork would frighten him out of his propriety, but he must say, in reference to the extracts from theological works alluded to, that isolated passages thus selected could not be with justice brought forward as a charge against the Catholic religion. He thought the English Government were bound to interfere in the education of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and while he insisted on the justice of allowing the grant to May nooth, he trusted that, considering the fiscal difficulties under which the State at present laboured, no one would seek for an increase of that sum. Colonel VERNER said there never was in any coun try, certainly not in England, an institution supported at the public expense, against which so many grave charges had been brought, and which had been so weakly met. He would quote the published opinions on the subject, of one of the chief supporters of the present Government; and one who was not only a supporter, but one of its brightest ornaments. It was the opinion of W. E. ladstone, Esq., student of Christ Church, in a pamphlet, entitled, " The Church in relation to the State." In that pamphlet it - was stated, " that this grant was niggardly in amount, and was vicious in principle, and would be a thorn in the side of the country, so long as it was continued. If, indeed, the public faith was pledged to the College, by all means let it be kept up." He (Colonel Verner) knew that that Right Hon. Gentleman was one of the last men to forfeit that pledge, if it had been given, but he (Colonel Verner) denied that it had been made. Those were the senti ments of a gentleman whose opinions were entitled to as much weight as the opinkpns of any individual is that House. The Duke of Wellington himself had also ex pressed a similar opinion to that of the Right Hon. Gen tleman. The Noble Lord, the Secretary for Ireland, had often told the House how much the Government was in debted to the Catholic priests for their exertions in pre serving the peace of the country. He only wished he could say the same thing of his own part of the kingdom. When were the priests ever found coming forward to support the authorities ? The Hon. Gentleman con cluded amid the greatest marks of impatience. Mr. BROTH'ERTON moved that the Chairman do report progress.—(" Oh, oh !" and "Go on.") Lord JOCELYN would support the grant, believing that the Government was pledged to do it, but hoping that an inquiry into the system would be granted by the Executive. Lord ELIOT thought the discussion had partaken more of the character of a theological controversy than a political debate. The grant had been approved by every House of Commons that had existed since it was passed, and nothing he had heard had induced him to think it ought to be refused. He thought so large a portion of the Irish people ought not to be exposed to spiritual destitution, which would be the case if they were deprived of the opportunity of receiving instruc tion in the fundamental truths of their religion. The Commission of Inquiry, issued in 1835, had given it as their decided opinion that nothing either immoral or disloyal was taught in the College ; the class•books that had been alluded to were the class-books used in every Roman Catholic college in Europe ; there might be a question raised as to whether those who were intended for the priesthood should receive such a course of instruction, but the plan adopted at Maynooth was that followed in every other Catholic college. As to the objections founded on isolated passages extracted from the works alluded to, they might as well go to the College of Surgeons, and object to the anatomical plates of their class-books that they were indecent and obscene. He thoughtno more forcible argument for repeal could be used than refusing this grant, and it was utterly inexpli cable to him how those wished to maintain the Union could vote against the grant. He felt bound to bear his testimony to the conduct of the Catholic priests in the disturbed districts. Mr. O'CONNELL would, if he considered himself at liberty after the speeches which bad been made, vote against the grant, for he, on principle, objected to taxing one set of Christians fur the religious purposes of an other ; besides the grant was a miserable, niggardly one. (Hear, hear.) It appeared that the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Colchester, had been unfortunate in his readings; he had diligently sought out that which every one else would avoid. It was a taste perhaps peculiar to the Hon. Baronet.—(A laugh.) The Hon. Member for Kent, it appeared, was °Glided. lie was sorry for it, for he thought there were none who would take the trouble to appease the Hon. Member; but the Hon. Member need not take the trouble to go so far as Maynooth for the . doctrines which had offended him; he would find them much nearer home. He would only have to travel as far as Oxford to find them—(Cheers and laughter)—as the lion. Member for l'ontefraet could tell him, who it ap peared had approached so near to Catholicity that he was determined never to join it.—(Cheers.) He knew not what had become of the Hon. Member for the University of Oxford. He would not say the Hon. Baronet had skulked away—(Cheers)—that it seemed was an unpar liamentary word—(Loud laughter)—but he wondered where he was. lie was sorry to see, too, that the Gal lant Officer, the Member for Armagh, was. not in the House. That Gallant Officer was one of their Colonels —(Laughter)—and he thoughrhe ought not to have left his post. He thought he might have come reeking from the battle of the Diamond.—(Cheers.) He did nut be lieve that the Hon. and Gallant Member had designedly exhibited his Orange handkerchief, when he had talked of the feelings of intolerance inculcated at 3laynooth He agreed with the Hon. Member, that feelings of into lerance were bad ; but there was something worse, and that was ,the pretence of feelings.—(Cheers.) Wha 4 protection, he would ask, did the Catholics get from the magistracy in the district in which the Ga.llua Colonel resided?—(Cheers.) There was the Catholic village of Magheray, which had been wrecked in do Gallant Colonel's presence—the village had been do stroyed, and the inhabitants forced to fly fur their lives. The Jury, however, had not been found unfavourable to those brougllt before them, for not one individual had been convicted or punished for it. The Catholic clergy were subject to many provocations. Was it nothiegy when the Protestant gentry brought up their youth with the bitterest feelings of animosity to the Catholic rer ligion?—(" No, no," from the Ministerial benches.) esl yes ; animosity the more apparent, from the flimsy Y Yet t beneath which it was attempted to be hidden.—(Loi'l cheers.) Feelings the most malignant were encourage,' among the youth of the gentry against the Calhu l A j c. clergy calumnies the most foul were propagated against that clergy—calumnies which he (Mr. O'Conne,i,," would undertake to disprove, and to the proof of whl 'l he had repeatedly challenged the calumiators.—(Cheer s ' ) Those who poisoned springs, were accounted miscresol? unworthy of civilisation ; and what should they accotot those who would fain poison the. minds of the youth e' a country against a body of men the most worthy, If most exemplary, the most self-denying on the f ace the earth?—(Cheers.) The people of Ireland loved tile clergy. If they were sick, if they were dying, ti reP their clergy were administering to them consolatier)' Their clergy never deserted them.—(Cheers.) It los t : fact, that the typhus fever never raged in Iceland, btl,l an immense number of the Roman Catholic clergY victims to it.--(Cheers.) And these were the clergo whom a youth had had the presumption to attack, i ll spirit of the bitterest animosity.—(Cheers.) Sh sl3/- 1 on him for doing so.—(Cheers.) Shame, shame cn th , who educated him in such principles.--(Loud cheers. He was sorry he bad taken up the attention of tb s . House so long, but he felt it his duty to fling off th °se , calumnies. He regretted to hear so many cheers wl ' er' there Aught to have been disapprobation. The xoCi bers of the Catholic Church might be assailed, but th e Y never would be conquered. ng Colonel VERNEIt explained. During the wree l ' i l of the village of Magheray, he had risked his life seve r ' times to save the village. Mr. O'CO3TN ELL—It was the Orange yeo ol4 l that wrecked it, and not one of them was ever punishe Mr. BATESON said that the Right Hon. Alet edr for Cork had cast a strong imputation on a very et., relative of his, the late Member for Londonderry' (Mr. O'Connell) had mentioned the word " miscreitebt, in connection with that gentleman, in allusion t° t manner in which he (Mr. Bateson) had been brought 1111 ; Now he would not mention how the late Meraber 0 Londonderry had brought him (Mr. Bateson) up. Wile would mention how he had not brought him up. had not brought him up to be a cowardly blusterer tl mendicant hypocrite.—(ob, oh; and Hear, hear.) Uo Mr. O'CONNELL said he could forgive the Y9",i gentleman for the language he now used. He bad 0 . 1 an admirable specimen of what might be expect ed -1. him. _ _ ------ The Olhnmittee then divided— For the grant , 95 Against it Majority in favour of the grant — 4 ' 3001. was voted for the Royal Irish Academy. .0 The sum of 3001. was voted for the Royal Hiberill Academy. tbc 7001. was voted for the salaries and expenses et Commission of Charities in Ireland. , o l e 1,9501. was voted for defraying the salaries o f Royal Belfast Academical Institution. • ~ 17,345/. was vote-A for the expenses of the baildni', department in Ireland.. , of .On the vote of 23,4631. for defraying the expen se " the Secretary and Privy Council of Ireland, Colonel SIBTHORP objected to the vote, when Iv Mr. BROTHERTON, moved that the Chairman port progress.—Agreed to. The House then resumed. The Wide Streets (Dublin) Bill was read a flux . • a ti pc and passed. BRIBERY BILL. A be Sir THOMAS WYLDE asked when a day c ool fixed for the bringing forward the Bribery D r. Sir R. PEEL said it was the wish of the utr i ; be ment to proceed with the supplies, and he i'shoulu t he better able on Friday to say what day he .....ould . fix fo r he Bill. Considering the state of public business', t he thought it would be advisable that the House toviard.4 end of the session should meet at twelve o'clock e` day.—(Hear, hear.) SOUTH AUSTRALIA BILL. On bringing up the Report of the South Aust ri° Bill, re. Dr. BOWRING thought the Bill ough t to be r e . poned, as the Hon. Member for Montrose had givell'rt. Lice of two special clauses on the bringing up the Be Lye Sir R. PEEL could not postpone the Bill becaus ° Hon. Member for Montrose was not in his place. v Mr. B. WOOD thought the Bill oug ht not to brought on at that late hour of the night. , f 111 Lord STANLEY said the question ba d been discussed last night. He should press t he , Dr. BOWRING moved that the debate be 11 6 J°4''''' . Mr. P. WOOD seconded the motion. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw; o r) House divided, when there appeared— For the adjournment • 1 Against it 58 Majority against the adjournment " - A" w ith The announcement of the numbers was receivuu shouts of laughter. rt leie t Bill to Report was then brought up , and the ° to be read a third time this day. PRISONS BILL. The Prisons Bill was read a third time and pass e re ol The Common Law Courts (Ireland) Bill e lts d on - a second time, and ordered to be committe Monday next. a this The Election Petitions Trial Bill was read time and passed. The Customs Act Amendment Bill went th rd Committee. Report this day. itte e , The Stamp Duties Bill passed throne?. Con llll Report this day. The Exckequer Bills Preparation Bill went thro Committee. Report ordered to be received this s e' The Game Certificates (Irel nd) Bill was read $ cond time. GO The House then adjourned at Half past Two 0 w gS , DUTCH AND LiERIVIAN PAP' - 0 (110 THE HAGUE, JULY 16.—The melancholy intelligence • death of his Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans , bas to to d profound impression in this place. It is the subject Of ; 0 1l conversation. Our Court is greatly affected by this melee event. I THE HAGUE, JULY 17.—His Majesty King Willim ftlijAitHe' rick, Count of Nassau, gives audience every day. t is that he will leave the Hague in the course of this week- a4sf General Nepven, his Majesty's Aide-de-Camp , se tsout L for Paris, to convey to his Majesty the King of the Freoccre the whole Rojal Family, the expression of his esty'a slil tlis condolence on the melancholy death of his Royal H i g eer- Duke of Orleans. f t he All the elections of Members of the Second Chamber o f States-General are now known. Of the 19 Deputies oh e r4 io out by rotation, ten have been elected, of the nine ot?!,te room of whom new Deputies have been chosen, five D 7. quested their constituents not to re-elect them. DLTCh lON U:.—AMSTERDAM, JULY 18. ' NOPCY• B'' Actual Dett, 241 per Cent .Jitto, ditto 5 per cepa. - Arnett Sendic,4% percent. 93% ;81t t Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent Commercial company, 4% per cent l44lti Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent.. ....... )4 %,"" Loan 1837, 5 per cent. ......... Exchange on London, One month Two months 12 5 Hamburgh, One 35 75 Two months 35 5a Dutch Papers, July 19 AUSTRIAN UN Ds.—Vturota, Jots 9 flveper Cants. Metalliques 1(0)4:i Four per Cents. l7g Three par Cents. Rank Shares .............. THE VIEW OF THE THAMES I' A.s os' MEDWAY BY THE LORI) MAYOR, A S C - - SERVATOR. , ot a race, Mr. Smith, the chief clerk in the Town Clerk's-en, bi t` Mr. Johnston, the Lord Mayer's private secretary; h a toi n during the last two days engaged in making prepernteed' the reception of the Lord Mayor's and the Lado . _,t guests at Rochester, where the grand dinner is to 7, - peig, P ; and at Southend, at which the nobility and gentry of t4.l7,chey bourhood are to partake of a splendid d6euner a la. P 7 with the Right Hon. Baronet and his Lady. tO ' e sr The Lords of the Admiralty have issued instructions tain Bullock, R.N., to render every assistance and pa the dation to the Conservator of the Thames and MedvraY,er to, survey, and Captain Bullock has ordered his sm all stgw,io el follow that in which the view is to be taken, fo r the ger the ladies. ttd tb° The Aldermen who have already passed the Chair , e e l co p' Sheriffs, are amongst the invited persons to the itor v oc ot nected with the Corporation, as are the following l c Toe" ) the Corporation : The Recorder, the Chamber/ail), l b Toe Clerk, the Common-Sergeant, the Comptroller , the e under biancer, the City Solicitor, the Seconda ries, th Kb Sheriffs, and the Clerk of the Peace. viers Amongst the distinguished persons invite d to th e r diof ' are not connected with the Corporation , are the 1 , 4 ro eete Admiralty, the Secretary of the Admiralty , the 1.1• P tives of the City, the Fort Major at the Tower. w ith The invitatior, to the nobility and gentry W rula lo be!' Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress , include a grat 31embers of both Houses of Parliament. The water bailiff's six-oared shallop, with his state Wat es, s otil a six-oared shallop, with the city watermen in rincifie their d,Topeor the boat and men of Captain Fisher , the p.:Liogh' master of the port of London, are to be in attendance w ont the excursion. aMw e ' Each invited person has received, along with t a h l e irl , f li ,„ ...e ,, t o sb se ce map of the various points to be inspected om e ns Medway, and a card contag the arrangemen t° to , whe re for the dinner on Friday, at the Crown Inn; Recve, s bes 6 dishes will be laid for between 160 std 200. Mayo'' ...11 Alderman Coeland was the l Lord _ that occ. s, ll ei l o, a ne y r , t : h r i a e, l : t f y ntth t e h er e tmaons,ntidist septennial view was taken, and u Pf u t here W et !, tin w g e u r is e hed ship's hospitality. most srlend and Loro pen "' partakers o f co toe The Constitucional of Barcelon a annoy n .. ter ro• execution of Felipo, after having undergone s ole Journalgationa i. s d t a t received t spiritual the litt l e consolati on be:ll,s_l:,:jnunitedti, under the orders of a chief named Pla_ de":_" . The broken up, and has entered Franco one by °":,,,jee Spanish French rebels, a French frontier. rewhsoaithl had do choanvceeft;ierdresttheeduitseeniveos. 0-n the AFFAIRS OF WALLACHIA. The following letter from Bucharest, under date of the 23d June, gives an interesting account of the re cent political occurrences in Wallachia : " General Duhamel has not delayed to make known the object of his mission, which was to institute an inquiry into the state of the country, and to examine the complaints of the General Assembly against the existing Administration. The first result of his arrival has been the dismissal of M. le Baron Michal Ghyka, Minister of the Interior, and elder brother of the Prince Regent ; and of M. Const Can tacuzeue, Secretary of State. You are aware that these two Ministers, and particulrrly the first, are accused of being the authors of all the abuses and all the evils which have desolated the country. M. the great Logotheate Prince Const Soutzo, till now Comptroller-General of the Finances, has been named Secretary of State ; and M. Stirbey, who is at pre sent at Vienna, Minister of the Interior ; M. le Baron Gregory Baliano will assume this place, ad inte rim. Colonel John Campiniano has been named Comptroller-General in the place of M. Const Soutzo. It is very doubtful if M. Stirbey will accept of the functions which have been tendered to him. As to the other nominations they have been viewed with general 'satisfaction. M. Const Soutzo has already given incontestible proofs of capacity and activity ; his enlightened views and profound information leave no zoom to apprehend that his Administration will not rapidly repair the mischief caused by the errors, the carelessness; and inconceivable apathy of his predecessor. M. Campiniano is, among all the Wallachians, he who possesses the greatest talent, knowledge, and integrity. His patriotism has been already proved, he having sacrificed all his fortune in speculations which had no other object than to awaken the Wallarhians to a sentiment of nationality, and encourage industry in the country. He has, in short, suffered severely by long and cruel incarceration on account of his opposition to the existing Government. "It is probable that the entire Ministry will be changed ; but the members and leaders of the oppo sition appear to have formed a league in order to af fect the overthrow of the Prince, to whose place they all of them aspire. It is said even that they have contracted a formal engagement with one another not to accept of any office or any functions whatever be fore they have obtained this resuit. "M. da Tunoni, the Austrian agent, has received from his Government, under date of the third instant, instructions to co-operate with General Duhamel and the Ottoman Commissioner, with a view of adjusting and conciliating the differences which have urisen between the Prince and the General Assembly, and to restore order to the country. These three Commissioners are to act in concert for this object. " The close of the annual session of the General Assembly took place on the 16th instant. I have been assured that, before they separated many of the most influential members had determined upon the drawing up of a petition, which fourteen of them immediately signed, and hich was to be presented to General Duhamel, after being clothed with as many signatures as possible. Although this measure has hitherto been conducted with the greatest secrecy, it is affirmed that the petitioners demand nothing less than the deposition of the Prince Regent. " The Ottoman Commissioner, Shekib Effendi, Member of the Supreme Council of Justice, and al ready distinguished by the missions he has ful filled with success and ability in Greece and also at London, arrived here yesterday, the 22d in stant, and alighted at the house of Mr. J. Mano, Director of the Administration of the Interior. It had been already prepared for him by the Govern ment, which had spared no pains to render his recep tion as flattering as possible. His ExCeliency, Shekib Effendi, who from the first had succeeded in producing a strong impression in his favour, de clined the guard of honour which had been assigned to him, and which immediately withdrew at his request. Shekib Effendi is the bearer, among other testimonials of the satisfaction of the Sublime Porte with the great zeal and fidelity displayed by the Prince on the occasion of the late disturbances at Ibrailow, a sword of honour, as a present to him, and which is very splendid and costly. He is also the bearer of a firman, which is to be read with much solemnity in the presence of the Prince, and all the great Boyars assembled—provided always that Gen. Duhamel do not oppose this proceeding, as it is said to be his intention to do." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 20. BONDED CORN BILL (No. 2). (Continued from our Third Edition of last night.) Mr. HUME said, whatever might be the motto or the intention of the English landlord, the result would be such as had been expressed by his Hon. Friend. He believed the measure was a good one, and he hoped it would pass. There ought not to be a voice raised against this measure. Colonel SIBTHORP would not waste the time of the House by replying to the Hon. Member for Bath, and the Hon. Member for Montrose. They were too con temptible.—(Laughter.) The grapes were sour. If those Hon. Gentlemen had some of the acres which were in the hands of the landed gentry, the treatment of the manufacturers and labourers would be much worse than it was now. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided— _ For the second reading Against it Majority in favour of the second reading --97 The Bill was then read a second time. DRAINAGE REGULATIONS BILL. On our return to the gallery, we found • Sir JAMES GRAHAM requesting the Hon. Member for Devonport (Mr. Tuffnell) to postpone the further progress of the Buildings Regulation Bill until the com mencement of the next session, when the Bill could be brought forward in conjunction with the Drainage Bill, under the responsibility of the Government. If the Hon. Gentleman consented to postpone the Bill, he (Sir J. Graham) believed, that so far from retarding the Bill, it would materially advance it. If the Hon. Gentleman consented to the postponement of the Bill, he (Sir J. Graham) would do all in his power to advance it the next session of Parliament. Mr. BERNAL said, that before the Hon. Member re plied to the proposition, he wished to call the attention of the House to that part of the Bill which gave the power to town councils to fix certain fees. They all knew that in town councils great difference of opinion existed, and under the provisions of this Bill power would be given to town councils to do very unpleasant and injurious acts towards political opponents. Mr. T. EGERTON agreed with the Hon. Gentleman that this part of the Bill was objectionable. The ap pointment of surveyors by the councils would led to great inconvenience. Mr. TUFFNELL said, that after what had been stated by the Right Hon. Baronet, he had no other course to pursue but to postpone the Committee on the Bill, but still he thougtit it was a little hard on the parties in terested, as airs Bill-was brought in with the object of legislatipg for .the poor in, large towns. If the Right Hon. Bsxonet Would take - it up, he (Mr. Tuffnell) would be most happy to leave the Bill in his hands, as it would then have a better chance of success, and he should, therefore, moy that the Bill be committed that day three months. it. N -, 41