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THE LEGAL TITLE ASSURANCE COMPANY. (Provisionally Registered, January 17, 1849.) Capital, 2,000,0001., in 80,000 Shares, of 251. each. Preliminary Deposit, 2s. 6d. per Share Pro yzenses and full information may be obto.n2d at the Tempo- Ofibes of the Company, 12a, Cannon-row, Westminster, on ap lication to G. F. HOWE. Hon. Sec., pro tern. BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAY 15, 1849. 1 Y!. . _ ;N:dice is hereby given, tint the Carriages procee'.ing t,o h ajes ty s Drawing-room:on SATURDAY, the 19th o' May, are to call into line and come down the left-hand side of St. James's-street, enter at the Iron-gate nearest the Palace, set down at the Arcade, turn round, and go ont by the Iron-gate nearest Marlborough House, to wait in St. James's-square. When called they are to r ass from the Square through Charles-street, into Regent-street and Jermyn. street, come down St. James's-street as before, take up, and go away through Pall-mall. No Hackney Carriages will be admitted within the Gates. For all Persons having the privilege of the Entree, Tickets will be delivered at the Dcard of Green Cloth, on THURSDAY next, from Eleven till Three o'cl ,ek : their Carriages are t pass through Constitution Hill Gate into St. James's Park: those belonging to the Ambassadors and Foreign Minis ters are to set down at the Ambassadors' Entrance in Marlborough-court, at the east end of St. James's Palace, and wait there till called. Those belonging to the Cabinet Ministers and Great ()facers of State are to set down in the Middle Court, and wait there. The Carriages of all other Persons having the Entrée are likewise to set dew n in the Middle Court, and wait in Stable-yard, or St. James's-park, till called. They are then to take up in the same order as they had set down, and pass away up St. James's-street. No carriage will be admitted with company a second time with the same ticket ; to prevent which it must be produced at Constitu tion Hill Gate, and Stable Tani Gate also, where a corner of it will be torn off by the enarshalmen in attendance ; and no person can be allowed the privilege of the entrée by any other approach to the palace than as above directed. FORTESCUE, Lord Steward. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. GRAND EXTRA NIGIIT, TO-MORROW EVENING. It is respectfully announced that a GRIND EXTRA NIGIIT, on the scale of former seasons, will be presented TO-MORROW EVENING, May 17, when will be performed Rossini's celebrated Opera, LA. CE-N.TERENTOLA. Angelina (under the name of Cenerentola), -Übon! ; Don Ramiro, Signor Calzolari ; Dandini, Signor Bolletti ; and Don Mag nifico, Signor Lablache. To be followed by the principal Tableaus of the admired Ballet of FIORITA. By lf. P. Taglioni; the Music by signor Pugni; the Scenery by Mr. C. Marshall. Pincipal parts by Mdlle. C. Rosati, 3ldtle. Marie TaglJoni, and M. for. —„.. The Selection will comprise the principal Pas of the Ballet, and the admired Tableaux of the Waterfall. To be followed by the Last Act of Bellini's favourite Opera of NORMA. Norma, Mdlle. Paredi ; Polllone, Signor Bordas ; and Oroveso, Signor Lablache. The whole to conclude with the much admired Ballet of ELECTRA ; or, the Lost Pleiad (Omitting the First Two Tableaux). . _ The principal parts by Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi, Mdlles. Petit Stephan, Marta, Thomassini, Julien, Attslundon, Lamoreux, Aidlle. Marie Taglioni and M. Paul Taglioni; and comprising the admired Pas de Deux d'Action " La Lutte," Mdlle. Carlotta Grisi and M. P. Taglioni, and also the celebrated Scene of the Restoration of the Lost Pleiad to the Regions of Light. Application for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets to be made at the Box-office of the Theatre, where Pit Tickets may be obtained, as usual, price 10s, 6d. each. Doors open at Seven ; and the Opera to commence at Half-past Seven o'clock. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Season 1819. FRENCH PLAYS and OPERA. COMIQUE. THIS EVENING, The Performances will commence at Half-past Seven o'clock with (For the last time) LES DIAMANS DE LA COURONNE, To conclude with LES RENDEZVOUS BOURGEOIS. Mr. Mitchell begs also to announce that, not;Vithatan ding the in- N•eased expenses of the present entertainment, the prices of admis sion are determined as follows: Boxes .. •• •• •• •• 6s. M. Pit• • •• • • • • • • 33. Od. Amphitheatre .. • • •• • .. 2s. Od. Subscriptions for the season may be arranged at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street ; Mr. Sams', St. James's-street ; Mr. Andrews', New Bond-street ; and at the Box-office of the Theatre, which is open daily from eleven till five. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. MADAME PERSIAN I. The Directors of the Royal Italian Opera have the hone:lr to an nounce to the Nobility and Subscribers, that they have entered into an ENGAGEMENT with Madame PERSIANI for SIX FARE WELL PERFORMANCES prior to her retirement from the Lyric Stage, which arrangement will enable them to give once more, the chefs d'teuvres of Mozart and Rossini, with unprecedented casts. GRAND EXTRA NIGEIT. TO-MORROW EVENING, May 17, will be performed Mozart's Opera, _ DON GIOVANNI, With the following powerful chiemble, viz. : Madame Grist, Mdlle. Corbari, and Madame ; Signor Mario, Signor Tamburini, Signor Tagliaiico, Signor Polonini, and Signor Marini (who will appear for the first time in the character of Leporello). The Opera will be supported by a Triple Orchestra and Double Chorus. Composer, Director of the Music, and Conductor, Mr. Costa. To conclude with the Divertissement from the favourite Opera of MASANIEL LO, Supported by Mdlie. Wuthier, MdHo. Louise Taglion!, Mons. Alexandre, and Si t znor Casati. The performances will commence at Eight o'clock precisely. THEATRE IW YAL, DRURY-LANE.— GERMAN OPERA. TIIIS EVENING, Will be performe3 (for the second time these eight years), Weber's Opera, DER FREISCIIIITZ. Agatha, MAlic. Romaai; Anncheu, Mme. Marlow; Mar, Herr Me; Casper, Herr Stepan ; supported by a Baud and Chorus, each consisting of 60 performers. Performances to commence at Eight o'clock. _ _ Private Boxes and Places may be obtained at the Box-office ; and at Messrs. Jullion and Co.'s, 214, Regent street. TH.LATICE WI( AL, IlAYMAttisx M. B. Wabster, Sole Lessee and Manager, Old Brompton. THIS EVENIN , " Will be performed HAMLET. Hamlet, Mr. C. Kean; Ophelia, Mrs. C. Kean ; Gertrude, Miss Laura Addison. After which a Classical Extravaganza, entitled THE SPHINX. THEATRX ROYAL, ADELPHI. 'Under the direction of Madame Celeste. THIS EVENLNG, Will be performed HIS LAST LEGS. Atter which a new grand Extravaganza, entitled THE DEVIL'S VIOLIN AND THE REVOLT OF THE FLOWERS. To conclude with the Farce called SLASHER AND CRASHER. Mr. Slasher, Mr. Wright ; Mr. Crasher, Mr. Paul Redford. /LOYAL L YC.6 UM TREAT 66. Under the Management of Madame Vestria. !...ole Lessee, Mr. Charley Mahe ,:s. THIS EVENING Will be performed a new comic Drama, called THE HUSBAND OF MY WIFE. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Harley, F. Matthews, Selby, and Parselle ; Miss H. Gilbert, and Miss Connor. To be followed by a Piece entitled HOLD YOUR TONGUE. Cha— racters by Messrs. C. Mathews, Selby, and Parselle; Miss 11. Gil bert, Miss Jane Coleman, and Madame Vestris. To be followed by BOX AND COX. To conclude with THE WATER PARTY. Dress oozes, es.; Upper Boxes, as. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, ls. No ball--price to any part of the house. The New 800-office, No. 2, Wellington. street, is open to the public every tay, from Ten till Six. PRINCESS'S THEATi:EI. Mr. J. M. Maddox, Sole Lessee and Manager. THIS EVENING, Will be peribrmed the celebrated Opera of THE SYREN. After which, Mdlles. W. and A. Neruda and their brother Victor will perform on the Violin, Violoncello, and Pianoforte. To conclude with the new Domestic Opera, entitled THE BLIND SISTER ; or, the Mountain Farm. ASTLJiY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor, Mr. W. Batty. Under the Patronage of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. Last Week but One of the grand Easter Spectacle. In active preparation, and will be produced at Whitsuntide a new grand Military Equestrian Spectacle, entitled MOOLTAN and GOWERAT ; or, the Conquest of the Seikhs. THIS EVENING, The performance will commence with a Grand Equestrian Spec tacle, by Fitzball, entitled THE WHITE MAIDEN OF CALIFOR NIA; or, the Horse of the Ocean. To be followed by an inimitable display of SCENES IN THE CIRCLE. in which the first Equestrian talent of the day will appear. To conclude with a favourite Afterpiece. Box-otlice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. TUE WEATHER—Sum OFFICE, MAY 16. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 49; Highest, 64; Noon, 66 BAROMETER, 29.53. WIND S.W.—Morning, heavy showers; Afternoon, cloudy. Rim.] wATKE, AT LONT)ON IittLUO.K. THIS DAY —Morning, 49 min. after 7 I Evening, 27 min. after 8 To-Moaaor —morning, 7 min. after 9 ; Evening', 39 min. after 9 ii'ngx-4,6.iti1, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1849. Nothing can justify a precipitate condemnation of the course pursued by the Government towards the Canadas—previous to the examination of those official dispatches which will be laid on Friday evening before both Houses of the Imperial Parliament. Whatever may be the nature of the provisions made in that Bill of Indemnity which has originated the insurrection at Montreal, the perfectly constitutional manner in which that measure has been carried through the Canadian Legislature leaves us, however, no room to doubt that the recent outbreak is the infamous result of a conspiracy on the part of a lawless and unprin cipled minority. We may each of us entertain a different opinion as to the advisability or non advisability of indemnifying indiscriminately all those who may have happened to suffer pecuniary losses during the last deplorable rebellion. One may, another may not, conceive that some defi nite distinction ought to have been made between those individuals who were injured in their property through their sympathy for the Government and those who sustained losses from their complicity with the insurgents. Such is strictly a question of morality, of expediency, or of con venience, upon the merits of which the views of the multitude might remain divided until the day of judgment. But upon this point there neither does, nor can there exist, any hesitation whatever— namely, that die Indemnity Bill (good or bad, expedient or inexpedient, convenient er incon venient as it may be to individuals) has been passed into a law calmly, honestly, dispassionately, legally, constitutionally. No one can assert to the contrary. The fact is already notorious in both hemispheres. The Bill itself is exclusively a Cana dian measure. The mother country has not inter fered in the matter to the extent of one tittle. The home Government has dictated no policy, it has not even gone to the length of hinting a suggestion. The Indemnity Bill is, we repeat, an exclusively Cana dian measure. , It has emanated from Canadian iatel ligence ; it has been sanctioned in principle and ac cepted in form by Canadian statesmen ; it has re ceived the countenance of two successive Administra tions—a Conservative Administration and a Liberal Administration. It has been passed with large ma jorities through the Upper and Lower Chamber of the Imperial Parliament. Those majorities were not only majorities of the whole Houses, but majorities of members of the British blood. Those majorities were not the packed majorities of a Cabinet, they were the free and honourable majorities of Canadian re presentatives. Such was this Bill of Indemnity which on its receiving the Royal assent through the lips of his Excellency the Governor General was made the pretext for en insurrectionary movement more dastardly and infamous than any recorded in the annals of our colonial possessions. Finding that their prejudices went for nothing against the force of public opinion, finding that they had been outnumbered by the members of their own Legislature—the rebel conspirators rose at a preconcerted signal. Mind—these rebels are the Tory gang! They are that Orange faction whose virulence and insolence is unfortunately not restricted to Ca nada. True to their audacious principles, they rose. Availing themselves of their accidental local superio rity in point of numbers, they domineered over their loyal fellow-citizens. Montreal became a prey to their wanton brutality, and seine of its noblest adornments have irreparably fallen under their licentiousness. The Parliament House was burnt by incendiaries ; the public records and state papers were consumed in the conflagration. When a shout was raised that the French representatives were so situated as to be rendered incapable of escaping from the burn ing edifice, there was a yell of diabolical exultation. Before the match was set to the woodwork one ruffian, placing himself in the Speaker's chair, declared (after the fashion of M. HUBER) that the Chamber was dissolved— another attempting a miserable travestie of the me morable act of OLIVER, marched out of the hall with the mace over his shoulder. His Excellency Lord ELGIN was availed by the rabble of insurgent Con servatives (what a monstrous burlesque on the title !) —being struck on the head with a pebble and on the face with a rotten egg. The houses of several of the Ministers were wantonly pillaged and destroyed. The whole city was given up to the horrors of a rebellion that at one time threatened a very serious effusion of blood. Such are some of the most conspicuous among the excesses of the Tory conspirators against the Government. And as to the certainty of the whole outbreak being the result of a conspiracy, there is no lack of the most conclusive testimony. When the mob first congre• gated on the Champs de Mars there was a general cry " To the Parliament House !" When those who were already assembled in the neighbourhood of the Parliament House heard the approach of the insur gents from the Champ de Mars there was a cry " They come." So soon as the rioting was tolerably well afoot, clubs assembled for the purpose of erasing the name of Lord ELGIN from their catalogues ; meetings were convened for the purpose of manufac turing petitions to the SOVEREIGN demanding the recal of the Governor-General as one incompetent to conduct the administration of affairs in the colony. Meanwhile, above the level of the rabble, one or two in dividuals were brought out in a rather conspicuous po sition, being thus identified in the glare of day with the excesses and atrocities of the insurrection. Colone GUGY was carried in triumph on the shoulders of the rioters. One PERRY stood out so conspicuously among the incendiaries as to have been subsequently incarcerated under a charge of arson. The Hon. G. MOFFATT, in like manner, occupied so very visible a place in the van of the movement as to have been afterwards arrested on a still more serious charge— that of high treason. As a sort of climax to the im pudent daring displayed throughout the whole trans action—the mace, stolen as we have already shown, from the Parliament House by one of the ruffians of the insurrection, was ultimately found in the posses sion of Sir ALLS 111.4. Nan One course, and one course alone, remains open to the Government. The nature of that course is per fectly obvious. The robbers, and pillagers, and in cendiaries, who have recently desolated the streets of Montreal, must be put down with the strong hand of y that law whose majesty they have violated. They must be compelled to make a bitter expiation. Their most prominent leaders must be subjected to sum maryl 1 and condign punishment. And as to the re ca l of Lord ELGIN, justice requires that the poli c y o f hi s administration should first of all be proved to have been harsh, peremptory, or in any respect unconsti tutional. Hitherto the fault of his government (if such, indeed, can be called a fault) has been its excessive leniency. That leniency has, with the Orange minority of conspirators, produced its I own evil fruits. This must henceforth be f o ll owe d l by a rigorous suppression of those rebellious passi ons 1 which are only fostered into maturity by the gene rosity of a genial Administration. This we maintain to be the only rational course open to the Govern. ment, as a beginning. First of all—the infliction of a tremendous penalty on the insurgents. Then—the resumption of a regenerative policy for the Canadas. Before that policy, however, is again taken up, the Cabinet must act upon the following principle — In the presence of Rioters, Not One Shadow of a Concession. The patronage of an Irish Bishopric is now vested in the Government, in consequence of the death of the Honourable and Right Reverend Dr. KNOX, late Lord Bishop of Limerick. A few words, therefore, in reference to the appointment of a successor to that diocese may not be deemed unseasonable. The late Prelate, for no less than fifteen years, drew from a poor and famine-stricken district an income of 4;973/. per annum, for the supposed discharge of his episcopal duties, which, as a Christian minister, and a shepherd of the fold of CHRIST, he was bound to have discharged with a willing faithfulness, duties which in any country, at any time, and under any circumstances, should have been strictly and re. lig iously fulfilled, but which, in a country where the Ch urcb, of which the deceased Prelate was an up; ointed Bishop, was placed in so peculiar a position wit h regard to the great majority of its inhabitants, and at a period when death in its most appalling for] ns of pestilence and famine was decimating the pea ple, and threatening to turn that beautiful but unhappy land into a wilderness, became of para mount importance, and should not have been con fids d to any hands but those of a person both able and willing to discharge them for the benefit of the pe eple, the advancement of religion, and the glory of GOD. We shall not now enter into the inquiry whether he fulfils the part of the good shepherd who Iflies to bask in luxurious sloth in the " sunny climes" of Italy, while his flock remains a prey to the wolves on the banks of the Shannon. We should not wil lingly speak of the departed in harsh or unkind lan gu age—Dr. KNOX has gone to render an account of his stewardship to the infinite justice and infinite mercy of the KING of Kings. But we would, strongly impress on those entrusted with the dis pensation of patronage the vital importance of exer cising a sound discretion in the appointment of a successor to the vacant mitre, for by the present selection the permanency of the Church Establishment in Ireland may be materially affected. The see of Limerick is situated in a district inha bite d by an impoverished population professing tenets strangly opposed to the Protestant Church, and natu rally desirous to discover any arguments that may be us ed against the continuance of a system which they are prone to regard as unjust and oppressive—a system which coerces a starving population, immersed in the lo west depths of misery and destitution, to contribute art enormous revenue to the ministers of a different rabgion, a considerable portion whereof may be squandered in a foreign land by some mitred digni tary, while the hard- working curate or the conscientious rec for is endeavouring faithfully to discharge the important duties of his station and his office, amid the most horrible scenes of disease and death, and devoting the greater part of his paltry stipend, in- sutEcient for the Wants of his own family, to mitigate 1 the distress of his suffering fellow-creatures. Let it not be supposed that the Roman Catholic population of Ireland are indifferent to the distribu tion of revenues to which they so largely, though perhaps reluctantly, contribute. English writers, clues observers of the national character, have said that. " the Irish are a justice-loving people ;" and 1 this principle N‘ould alone be sufficient to banish i 4-fr OM 1 .104, A =tll;. , ^ • pf x - /4 L • • it ßorr • fit..r, THE SUN, LONDON, apathy or indifference on such a point. But there are many reasons, independent of the innate love of justice, that would induce the Irish Catholic to desire a more equitable distribution of the revenues of the Protestant Church. The resident rector, the laborious curate, are his im mediate neighbours; they have many interests in common. The hateful pestilence, the withering fa mine that so lately prevailed (and R hick we fear st exists in many localities), scattering death and de• struction on every side, brought those parties into closer and more immediate contact. During that trying season the Irish peasant beheld the Protestan' clergyman entering into a generous rivalry with his own beloved and revered pastors, in works of huma nity and Christian charity, and he learned to regard with respect and admiration the pious labours of those who, despite the difference of creed, he could not help considering to be true and faithful ministers of the Gospel. Such labourers are indeed " worthy of their hire ;" and it is from amongst such men that we hope to see the new bishop selected. There is no lack of such persons in Ireland. Many have been " weighed in the balance" and not" foußd wanting." Many more there are worthy of such a dignity —men, remarkable for their sincere but un ostentatious piety, their profound learning, their un bounded and unrestricted benevolence, and for all the fitting qualities of head and heart. We have seen recorded in the pages of a recent number of our re spected and talented contemporary, the Dublin Uni versity Magazine, the works of persons such as we have been describing—of one, more especially, who, out of his private fortune advanced large sums of money to arrest the desolating progress of the famine in his neighbourhood, whose active benevolence was up and doing. While others, sunk in listless apathy, indulged in melancholy forebodings, his fore seeing prudence anticipated the dread visita tion. On his own responsibility he pur chased large quantities of food before famine prices had set in, and was thus enabled at a small pecuniary sacrifice to avert an enormous amount of human suffering, to preserve many a grateful heart from a miserable death, or from the scarcely less dreaded alternative of "the workhouse." Nobly were his benevolent exertions seconded by his amiable partner, who instructed several hundred females in works of industry, which enabled them to earn as much as was sufficient to support themselves throughout that fearful period by their own labours, and even to render valuable assistance to their families, thus superinducing habits of industry and independence, and saving the community from a heavy burden. While the Christian minister was supplying wholesome food cn cheap and easy terms, not merely to his own imme diate parishioners, but to the inhabitants of the surrounding districts of Cavan, Longford and Leitrim, who possessed no claims on him save those which misery and wretchedness confer upon every member of the human family, this exemplary lady was teaching helpless women and innocent children to earn their livelihoods by their own honest industry, and providing a market for their manufactures, which she in the first instance purchased at her own risk, thus giving remunerative employment to every one of her suffering sisters, who were able and willing to work. Acts such as these should not be suffered to pass unnoticed and unrewarded. The case to which we have just referred forms no solitary instance. Similar deeds of active charity might be recorded of the working clergy of Ireland. We have merely selected one from among many of almost equal desert, as an illustration of what a good pastor should be to the flock whose spiritual interests are confided to his care—of those who, having proved themselves good and faithful servants in a limited sphere, should be selected for higher, and (if possible) more important stations. A wise Government should hail such men as their best supporters, and most powerful and most useful adjuncts, should increase the power and extend the usefulness of such active spirits. The time—the country above all, the present position of the Church—call for such men. Public feeling will no longer tolerate that the high places in the Irish Church, the legitimate rewards of exalted merit, should be filled by drones or absentees. It is the duty, as well as the interest of a Government, administering the affairs of a nation afflicted with a starving peasantry, an embarrassed gentry, and an absentee proprietary, to appoint to places of trust, of honour, and of emolument those disposed to con tribute largely, in proportion to their means, to the alleviation of such an unfortunate combination of circumstances. Men should be selected well ac quainted with the moral and the physical wants of the people, alike able and willing to administer to those necessities—men who will reside among the flocks Committed to their charge, who will in spirit and in truth obey the precepts and do the will of HIM who enjoined them to feed his sheep and to feed his lambs. When the French army in 1822 was sent to put down constitutional liberty in Sp a i n , there washardly a private soldier in this country who did not feel regret, that brave men by the chances of war should be subjected to the necessity of mortification so extreme. Bets ran high that they would not submit; and some there were who did not. But in the main, the ancient clap-traps,—honour of the flag, though it was the conqueror's,—instinct of discipline, meaning readiness to do any work because commanded,—acted so strongly in aid of the necessity for obedience to the masters who were upon the Rhine, that the pill was swallowed, and the French army obeyed. The present day seems destined to prove, that there wants no necessity to make the French military the executioners of any extremity of unreasoning violence which may be put into the shape of an order from the adjutant. They would descend on Paris from Montmartre, and cannonade the Rue St. Honore, as readily as attack the capital of any other republic, if only the orderly book directed. A nau seous job has turned the simulated French Republic into a legitimist conspiracy for evading an outburst of public feeling; and the French army that attacks Rome, may equally be counted on for bringing back the Fifth HENRY that is to be, so soon as the heads of departments can agree. There will be no difficulty in such an operation ; the movement upon Rome will furnish the model. The Cossacks will bivouac at Fontainebleau, and send in a transcript of OUDINOT'S assurances that he comes to put down anarchy and encourage the honest party within the walls. Europe and the world are already laughing at the idea of the consummation. If things go badly for the present on the continent, this is the course the remedy must take. A few months' occu pation by the Austrians, with a taste of that stick they carry for securin the happiness of nations, will be the proper puns_ ent of a policy exemplifying i n all that is gr e at i n t .e wickedness of the design, and all that is little in the discreditableness of the execution. BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.) GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS.—IN RE THOMPSON. This bankrupt was described as of Osnaburgh-place, New Road, and Commercial-road, Lewisham, and came up for his certificate. The bankrupt had been engaged in extensive contracts in building churches and Government prisons at Spike Island and Portland. Since the bankruptcy the bank rupt had been allowed Si. per week, to carry on the works at Spike Island, &e., for the benefit of the cre ditors, and as they are nearly complete, the creditors will shortly be paid in full and there will be a surplus. The bankruptcy arose in consequence of the large out lay on the Government works, only about 43,0001. hav ing been advanced. The certificate was granted without the slightest op position. IN RE DE LEVANTE. IMPORTANT CASE.—SUSPENSION OF CERTIFICATE FOR TWO YEARS.—This bankrupt was described as of Wood street, shirt warehouseman, and now applied for his certificate. Mr. LLOYD opposed on the behalf of the assignees, on the ground of fraudulent trading and making sway with property. The bankrupt commenced business in Nov. 1847, and stopped payment in Out. last. He had com menced business without capital. He obtained goods, and very shortly afterwards sold at a ruinous loss, and ho continued this system up to the time of his stopping payment. The greater part of the goods had been sold to a person named Jackson, at a time that the latter was an uncertificated bankrupt. Mr. lavvaENasvaddressed the Court for the bankrupt, who was examined, and whose excuse was, first, that he went into business on the understanding that a gentle man would join him, but that person died. He had „sold at a i se d l o t s o s l i e n n order dhim okoeoe4p to o p trade, go ot for the losses. as w a ithfrainenddmhaadkepurop• His HONOUR considered that the bankrupt's cAlduct in his dealings with Jackson had been gross, and almost fraudulent, and had it been shown that there had been any cognizance that Jackson was a bankrupt, he (his Honour) would not only have refused the certificate but have recommended ,a criminal prowcution—it should be known that such jobbers in the trade were open to pro secution for concealment of fraud. He should suspend the certificate for two years. without protection, unless the bankrupt suffered six months' imprisonment. 11, The Secondaries Court did not sit. BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.) Two lightermen, named Clewly and Braithwaite, were charged before Mr. Henry with stealing coals from barges lying off the Adelphi. Policeman F5B observed the prisoners last night about twelve crossing from a barge belonging to the father of Clewley into others, and filling from them a sack which from time to time they emptied into a cart which they had left standing on Clewley's w harf. The con stable gay., information to the Thames Police, and an officur of that force (No. 18) went on board a b arge belonging to Mr. Clcwley, and there found the prisoner with a sack full of coals, which they stated belonged to the owner of the barge ; but a specimen now produced was pronounced, by Mr. Isaac, nephew and manager to Mr. Marchmont. coal merchant, whose barges lay alongside of Clewley's, to be of the same kind as those belonging to his employer, beini , what was called" Hartleys," whilst the coals in the barge belonging to the prisoner's (Clewley) father, were of a superior kind, easily distinguish e d by th e ap pearance. The officer (18) of th e Th ames Policy stated, that Braithwaite was a deserter from the 11th Regiment of Foot, and that Mr. Clewley, the father of the other prisoner, although be refused to prosecute, had admitted to him this morning that bath prisoners hid been for some time in the habit of robbing him of coals to a great extent. Mr. HENRY thought it would be difficult to establish the identity of the Coals at the Old Bailey, especially as Mr. Clewley refused to prosecute. le sentenced ae prisoners to two rnooths' imprisonment and hard labour, for the unlawful possession. LLOYD'S SHIPPING—CI:HIS DAY.) LONDON, MAY 16.—Wind at noon S.S.W., moderate breeze and dull cloudy weather. POBTSMOITTII, M AY is,—Wind W.N. W.—Arrd. De vonshire, llovey, New York, and sld. for London. OFF DUNMORE EAST, MAY 12.—Phcenix (of Greenock) Savannah, for the Clyde. CLYDE, MAY 1 2.—Arrd., Protege de Marie, Mallen, Nantes. 11th, Sid., Harmonie, New York. 12th, Packet, Trinidad; Tadmor, New York; Eliza Anr, Quebec; Jane Brown, Quebec. BRISTOL, MAY 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrd., Glenele, Player, Demerara. SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 14.—51 d., Fume, New York. Cows, MAY 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrd., Elizabeth Louise, Jachtmann, Africa, for Stettin; Union, Laffoley, Madeira, for Hamburgh. DEAL, MAY 15.—Arrd., Renshaw, Mogadore; Alice Palmer, Jamaica; Juniata, New Orleans; Cumberland, Smith, Cadiz. Sid., Harmony, Sydney, New South Wales, and since put back. HASTINGS, MAY 15.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd., Guar dian, Thompson, West Coast of Africa. LIVERPOOL, MAY 15.—Wind N. W.—Arrd. 14th, Ganges, Christie, Savannah; 15th, Princess Victoria, Sierra Leone; Britannia, Johnson, Ceara; St. George, Ferris, New York. Off port, Lady Rowena, Bridget, William Pitt, Henrietta. The May, M'Leod, from Liverpool to Camaroons, was totally lost about the 22d February, near Benin; crew saved. GRISISBY, MAY 13.—The Minerva, from Hartlepool to London, has put in here with loss of bowsprit, &0., and very leaky, having been in contact with a light col lier near the Dudgepn this morning. DEAL, MAY 15.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Straat Balie, Mulder, Batavia; Johanna, ditto fur Rotterdam; San derson's, Douglas, Shanghae; David Clarke, Swaine, Calcutta and Antigua; Esther Frances, Pringl2, Cey lon; William Dalby, BJmbay for Hull; Amy, Mauri tius; Emma, ditto; William Woolley, Headburg, Cape of Good Hope. Arrd. from the river, William Wilton, Gibh, Adelaido, South Australia; Nicolai e Jozan, Ra dulwicb, Ne w Y or k. KINGSTOWN, MAY Sylph, Quebec. LONDONDER RY , MAY B.—Sld. Barbara, New York. LIMERICK, MAY 14.—Wind W. — S l d. Williams, St. Thomas's; Leviathan, Quebec. CORK, MAY 14.—Wind S.—Sld. Sandwich, Boston; Mary, Quebec. SWANSEA, MAY 15.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. Union, Rapsey, Adelaide, S.A.; Mary Ridley, Clough, Cuba. i MILFORD, MAY 14. port and Grenada. OFF Scu.Ly.— Elizabeth and Johanna, Ballot, Danjoe wanzie for Zerikzee. DovEn, MAY 15.—Arrd. Nuevo Anm Wind W.S.W.—S I d. Ida, iNew- La Guayra ; Neptune, Stehr, Allezzeta,t'ela, Villabosa, both for Ham burgh; put in here in consequence of the Danish block ade. OFF PORTSMOUTH, MAY 15.—Buceplialus, Bell, Cal cutta. OFF THE WIGHT, MAY IC.—Rotterdam, Batavia, for Rotterdam ; Alice, Jamaica. 15th, Courser, Panama, for Hull. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORNEXCLIANGE-WEDNESDAY. Our market to•day was again very scantily supplied with all kinds of English Wheat. Although the attend ance of buyers was small, the demand for that grain nas firm, and a good clearance of the stands was effected, at prices fully equal to those paid on Monday. The im ports of Foreign Wheat this week have been only 7,243 quarters, but a large fleet of corn ships is working up the Channel from the Black Sea. Most descriptions ruled steady, and late rates were well supported in every instance. The supply of Barley was again limited ; most kinds ruled inactive; but we have no change to notice in prices. So little business was transacted in Malt that the currencies were almost nominal. Oats, Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn, were quite as dear. The Flour trade was tolerably firm. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. I Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. • 410 qrs, ,f) — 3 ( 1 111 . 1,220 rga. English •• •• •• Scotch .. •• • • Flour. 480skk.. 7,240 1,234 3,520 -- Malt, 1,090 qrs. BOROUGH Itol. briiIZIEET. The plantation accounts being favourable, the demand for all kinds •f Hops is heavy, and prices are with uiffi culty supported. The market is by no means well sop. plied. Sussex pockets, 21 4s to 21 18s; Weald of Kent ditto, 2/ 12s to 31 8s ; Mid and East Kent ditto, 3/ 53 to 61 18s per cwt. Irish. •• •• •• •• Foreign W IIITECILELPIEL. Although the demand was in a sluggish state, the late improvement in value was well supported. Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s 8d to 4s; Lamb,4s 10d to 61; Veal, 3s 4d to 4s to 2d; and Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 2d per 81bs. by the carcase. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1849. mond) felt glad that it was passed, despite the opposi tion of those men. In that Bill there are said to be some clauses of a doubtful character, through which, as a pretext, those men wish to get rid of the Bill ; but he hoped that Parliament would resolutely and vigorously oppose them, by standing up for the rights of the people. He asked was there such a loss of all truth at Downing street, that a Member of her Majesty's Government could say that he did not think that agricultural dis tress was not more prevalent now than at the time of the passing of the corn laws. He would only call their Lordships' attention to the state of Manchester, and the House would be able to see the condition of the agricul tural districts. One of the firms of that town specify in a circular that there has been a considerable draw back in their establishment arising from a want of trade with the rural districts, which trade before the passing of the corn-laws formed a very important items in their business. This went to show that this decline in the country trade arises from the low price of agricultural produce and bad harvests ; but he evidently knew that it was owing to the repeal of the corn laws. He firmly believed that the present agricul tural distress being so great, served as a cause that there were meny of the landlords in this country who had their farms on their own hands, as the farmers dreaded to risk the responsibility of taking them, through the low price given for their produce. And he asked was it wive, just, or expedient for their Lordships to turn a deaf ear to the requests of those loyal people—the farmers of England? He had been authentically informed that the general opinion of the farmers was, that if Parliament would not relieve them by some measure of protection, that they would be before a few years totally swept away from their holdings ; and he, in common with many of their Lordships, would have to regret, aid regret deeply, too, that this moral, loyal, and praiseworthy class should be forced to emigrate to a foreign land ; but, alas ! many hare already done so, and such should serve as a lesson to the Go vernment, as they are men that this country could not spare. Ile had heard it said that manufacturers would occupy their places as farmers, but why, he would ask, should we drive those men who have conferred so much benefit on the country from it to give their places to men who are not well known to be equally good orintelli gent as agriculturists?—(Hear.) He should next in form their Lordships thatmany of those petitions were for a repeal of the malt tax, which he considered to be un just and unfair, particularly as free trade is enjoyed by one pertion of the community. He hoped that the malt tax would he swept away altogether, as nothing was more just than that the *labourer should have his own home-brewed ale, and the farmer a fair portion of the produce of his farm, or that he should be obliged, through the machinery of bad lews, to go to a foreign country for the food necessary to fatten his cattle. When it would be considered by their Lordships diet the farmer was heavily oppressed by the operation of the corn-laws, which were passed subse quently to his taking his farm, and that he would not after the passing of those laws, be allowed to give up his ' lease, he strongly hoped for the sake of justice and duty, that Parliament would adopt some means to ameliorate their wretched condition, for if something was not done they would resist tithes and every other taxation, and in this opposition to tithes they would have with them Mr. Bright and such men as hate the Established Church, and then was the danger of the Church to be apprehended by the union of those different parties. When he saw that the mill-contractors and the malesters of this country were going to foreign markets, and leav ing their own farmers neglected at home, he did not think that much good could be foreboded for the agricultural interest. When he know what influence had been ex ercised about London to induce persons not to vote against the Government lest they should be thrown out, he should say that measures were not generally by detail, but th a t many went to vote irrespective of the measures to be discussed, and that thus the farmers of England were in the plight that they now were, and for that reason he wished that the present Government were out of ollice— (Hear, hear)—as he was assured that there would he easily found 16 or 18 persons who would di: ect the helm of the State better than the present Ministry. Yet he should say that, for his own part, he would take no part in any Administration whatever, and it was because of that resolve that he freely and frankly expressed his wish. With regard to Ireland, he should say that free trade had taken away her produce without making her any return, and that it is under the name of that mea sure that she is prevented from growing tobacco. lie strongly recommended the Government not to persecute the farmer class too far, for nature and necessity would force him, when he saw nothing for himself, his wife, and children, but the workhouse, to have recourse to means which their Lordships would deplore. He there fore implored then not to make such a rash experiment for tenants and labourers are already sulLring too much idling about their respective villages, and herding in twenties and thirties at an age when vice and danger are to be apprehended. lie insisted that no English agri cultural labourer should be without employment and a livelihood, while foreigners were drawing it from the vitals of this country.—(Hear, hear.) The Earl of WINCHILSEA said that he deeply de plored the condition of the tenant farmers and yeomanry in the county in which he was born and had spent his life, for if misery and destitution were to be sought after iu comparison to their former independence and happi ness, it was there to be found in consequence of the corn laws and other equally oppressive laws on the farmers and labourers of England. He was astonished that the Government did not arouse from their apathy and look around, and examine into the condition of those people remarkable for theirmorality and theirloyalty—men who were ever found to be the staff and stay of this empire in the time of danger.—(Hear.) When he knew the im mense quantity of corn that was being imported into this country, and other parts of Europe, from America, he had no hope for the British farmer but in some pro tective duties, and therefore he hoped that their Lord ships would duly consider for the farmers' future fortune. He would implore their Lordships, if they had done wrong, either advisedly or by mistake—if the step they had taken, by the destruction of all protection, to retrace their steps immediately, and to give to the agricultural population of the country, now fast increasing, the fair treatment which they deserved in common with other classes of the community. The Duke of RICHMOND said he would now put the question he intended to ask the Government, viz., bether they had recently considered the subject of agri cultural distress, and intended to introduce a measure to relieve it? Earl GREY said he certainly thought that this was not a time at which they could conveniently discuss so large a question as that of free trade, more especially as there was no motion before the House upon which it might arise. But he could not allow the speech of the Noble AIL() opposite, and that of the Noble Earl who follow ed him, to pass by without assuring them that her Majesty's Government were very sensible of the distress now prevailing in agricultural districts, especially in the south of England, and that they deeply deplored it, but at the same time they had to add that they were not pre. pared with any measure of relief. This was not the first time they had had complaints on this subject; and if his Noble Friend opposite contended that the mere fact of agricultural distress was to bo taken as conclusive evi dence of the failure of the free-trade system, he must re mind them that the very same complaints were made when tha system of protective duties prevailed.—(Hear, hoar.) He had had the curiosity to ascertain from the journals of both Houses of Parliament the number of years in which these complaints were made, and the sub ject fell under the consideration of Parliament. The corn laws passed in the year 1815, and in the next year there were various complaints to Parliament of the pre valence of agricultural distress. Those complaints had been repeated every year, with but few interruptions, down to the present time, viz., in the years 1817, 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823, 1824, 1830, 1831, 1833, 1834, 1835, down to 1846, so that of the thirty years during which protection prevailed as the corn-law, strong complaints were made in fourteen of them. He found, also, that the subject was mentioned on three occasions in Sing's speeches, and that in six different years Com mittees of one or other House sat upon the question. When they were told, therefore, that the distress arose alone from the operation of free-trade principles, that was the answer he had to give to the assertion.—(Hear, hear.) There was nothing at present that could at all encourage his Noble Friend opposite to look to a return :o i,he system of protective duties. The cause of distress seemed to him rather to arise out of the bad harvests which had of late years occurred, and when the Noble Duke said that maltsters would not buy English barley in preference to foreign, he thought it was directly contrary to the fact. On the other hand, he thought they were much indebted to the operation of the Act of 1846 for obtaining a large supply of food, by the help of which they were able to avert a calamity, the consequences of which must have been serious.— (Hear, hear.) It was now, he thought, far too late to repeal that measure, when it had occasioned such ex tensive preparations on the continent for the production of food. The Noble Duke had adverted also to the rent charge as a burden on farms, Upon that point, he could say he believed that most proprietors let their farms tithe free. He for one did so, and it was ob viously the most expedient plan to adopt, because if a tenant left his rent charge in arrear, and became insol vent, the landlord was immediately liable to make it good. With regard to the repeal of the malt tax, he thought that farmers, of all classes of the community, had the least interest in it; for it had been ascertained by experiments upon it, which well ertablished the inference, that it was not a species of food which, were the duty taken off to-morrow, any one would buy. A tax in itself was certainly not a desirable thing, but be believed that in the whole circle of their taxation, there was none which was attended with so small an amount of inconvenience as the malt tax. So with respect to tobacco. Tobacco was a plant of a very exhausting nature, by no means likely to be eitl'ivatetl profitably in England ; but if there was any chance of entering into a competition with foreign coun tries in growing it, then there would not be the slightest objection to adopt, in this instance, the ie relaxation ap plied to sugar, of allowing it to grow this country subject to the same amount of duty as that coming from abroad. The fact alleged with respect to the difficulty experienced by farmers in selling or letting their farms, was, he believed, utterly without foundation. Of this he had had several instances within his own experience. In one of these, a farmer went to a Noble Friend of his, holding large estates in Bedfordshire, and ex pressed his wish to give up the farm he held of him. His Noble Friend, surprised the gentleman by giving him an opportunity of returning the farm, but the latter asked time to consider, and ultimately declined to press his application.—(Hear and laughter.) The Scotch newspapers contained a great number of in stances in which leases of farms had been renewed at -------- equzi and higher rents.—(Several Noble Lords on the Opposition side of the House here took occasion to in form the Noble Earl that that was not the case on their estates—which produced much laughter.) The panic, however, did not prevail in many parts of the country; and in general he thought that the progress of agricul tural improvement wci3 highly 'satisfactory, In travel ling by railway recently, from Northumberland to Lon don, he had been much pleased to find a great number of draining tiles placed along both sides of the line, in greater numbers than had been remarked before, which tie considered an evident sign of improvement, and of enterprising activity. had only now to repeat, that together with his colleagues, he was aware of the dis tre,s now prevailing in agricultural counties; that he deeply depleted it, but that at the sune time, looking at the result of the proceedings in Parliament in termer years, his firm conviction was that any one of those measures which might be attempted, in the vain hope of relieving this distress, since it arose from causes placed beyond the reach of the Legislature, would certainly gratioe.—(Hear, hear) The class he sought to benefit were ji st those who could not help themselves. It Was said that the na t ura l resources of Irelan d were so go at that they might r pport treble the present population.—(Hear, hear.) He did I": think that question bore upon the profitable employmen" e f those who could not obtain it at home. UndoubtedlY the resources of Ireland were great, but what was their value if the means of developing them were wanting The other day the Under. Secretary of State seemed to intimate that the Irish were bad emigrants. Now the evidence adduced before the Emigration Commission. tended to show that th e I r i s h were a d apted for wor ks of great strength, that they were exce ll ent worker s when they had it to do, and th a t th ey did no t se ti e' assist:. race when they cou ld o b ta i n labour. Pi) thought it, therefore, most injudicious and unjust t e cast aspersions upon p eo pl e w h o were w il ling to " Si a fair day's labour for a fair day's wage" when; ever or wherever th e y cou id get it.—(Bear') There was not the le as t d ou b t t h at the United ,States ready to r e c e iv e an d ava il t h emselves o f any amount of labour which could be sent out front Ir e. land. Mr. Mackay, in his able work upon the We s. tern World, said that if half a million of Es ra• peen emigrants were to go to America, 8 1, were well distributed, th a t th ey wou ld f i nd a ready demand for their l a b our i n t h e S tates. In fact to% country was in a position to absorb almost any amen % of labour. He p resume d, f rom the information w hit had just been rec e i ve d f rom Canada, that there wa,s litt le chance of the col on y b e i ng in a position this Year to give employment to any large numbers of ene igraluft but there could be no doubt that many great pub i l l works might be unde r t a k en i n Canada, which would give employment t o thousands, and nvbi e " r upon their completi on , wou ld pay an ample' P e' „hi . tentage. There was the Quebec and n ahfsf a Railway, and also th e ex t ens i on o f t h e E rie Canal which he thought ought to be undertaken by th a tl a ; vernment. If Canada wer e annexe d to t h e U n i te d . State such a great national work as the Erie Canal wt/731d lle d commenced in less than five years, because it • woe afford a channel of transit for the profits ode !) of that vast and enormous tract of coons To turn to another col on y —th at o f S outhern Africa . was divided into two parts, and one part contain ed a much fertile l an d as S cot l an d , producing in gr eat abundanc e I n di an corn anti excellent c ott eo ; e ! 1,700,000 b a l es o f cotton had been growa '- Southern Africa in one year, and in A n ) at $ condition would this country be by the failure of diet sr', title in any one y e ar ? One-half of o ur expo its ; d 1 ," cotton goods came fr om S out h ern Africa and evert Hon. Member, especi a lly the Hon. Membars for West Riding of Yorkshire and Lancashire, would •seo the importance of cultivating that article in Southern .Africs' And now he came to consider the means which, it ec ,, curred to him, might be adopted to promote ene agratie: from Ireland. lie should take the liberty of su&tes ti Z t two means. In the first place, he would eagg`,", that greater powers and facilities should be con ferred upon the guardians for raising "ton e s to promote emigration. Power ought to be c teen; upon the boards of guardians to raise the money 111% the security of the ra t es , t h e money to be n ?paid 1 ) periods of five, si x , an d seven years.—(Hear, That was one measure. The other . was IP con oi fer a similar p ower on t h e landowne rs 4:0 Ireland, who would be glad to borrow money up 0 01 : 0 security of their lands to enable their unprod act tenants to emigrate.—(Hear, hear.) The money to 1.- 4 advanced in thi s wa y m i g h t b e raised by Governec e' i on Irish Consol s . Th e l oan woul d be for the honef it tills for and, of course , I re l an d ought to be respont e for its repayment.—(Hear, hear.) Without some 1 41 „ ° , measure as that, th e re w as no h ope for capital 1 )0 ' 4 attracted ; and h e s h ou li l eave i t i n the hat As Government and the House, trusting that t ile ; would lose no time i n a d opt i ng h i s suggc sa lons' and put an end t o th e p l ague that at paralysed the energies of the Irish people.— (ti e "; hear.) Repeat e d h a d b een t h e proposals for Pr-,, motiug emigration from I re l an d, an d i t was to h e re gretted that s o me o f t h em h a d not b een adopted befor e this.—(Hear.) He hop e d no one dreamt of the co, ttliP ii ," of Ireland ultimately- being ref or m e d b y . sr.ror ; i and death, since such a f ee li ng an d such a po t was far mote creel than th e p ract i ce o f the Cite who sacrificed their child ren to k eep d own the pt lation.—(Hear, hear.) Without troubling the Et g i ns any further, he would conclude with moving address to the Crow n f or the productien of two papers in the possessio n o f h er M a j esty ' s Governs te.., relative to Irish emigration to the North Amer colonies.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. J. W. FIT: PATRICK seconded the motion e Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL moved as an amench to substitute for that motion the following :.—" ! emigration is, at best, a partial, tardy, and most eat P er e sive remedy for th e ev il s o f I re l and; and that it is Ocu immediately necessary a t p resent to en d eavour to e 5° is the disastrous emi grat i on o f t h e f armers and small : 0 1 ) , ; talists of that cou n t r y, by g i v i ng them security age wanton ejectment, arid loss of the fruits of their ind , 0,7 and enterpriza, rath er t h an to st i mulate their d ,p ar ' , tare, or that of the l a b ourers w h o wou l d be employ ,d os e them if such security were given, But that tho Tn immediate and pressing object for this House to e °l3-i d der is the fri g h t f u l progress of starvation, disease and in lrel a n d; th e tota l i nsuf fi c i ency of local sneg 4 as well as of any assistance now afforded by the S tate in, arrest that progres s , an d t h e urgent necessity that exist° for additional contributions from the State to say a has . dreds of thousands from perishing, and whole o mind° from being depopulated. That therefore this Hous e do forthwith resolve itself into a Committee t ;o Sider of further advances for the relief of dist; ress u' Ireland." Ho did not agree w ith the Hon. Member s 8 to the benefits of emigration, if it could be accomp fishe d ;, But the practical qu e sti on t o come to was, Mac re /v e the money to com e f rom ? W ou ld t h e cost of emi gran. end with the charges attendant upon their remov if tl id new soil? The H un . M em b er h a d not stated the a ut°'eo of the Irish people that it wou ld b e necessary to eranto to effect this benefit. Wh at num b er did ho me 03 o f take? Then the next qu es ti on wou ld b e, the e Ds' yo removing each individual, an d t h en the cost of r ece°„ ing and locating the wh o l e . A nd, having once on ce h tamed that, the next i nqu i ry would be whale (I'LL money could not b e b e t ter spent at home. 1d to it down as a maxim that the more you did for ' 8 ; 1 ; 0 , individuals th e l ess t h ey would rely upon ahem seave wen , now the p u bli c wor k s i u Ireland. Remittance 'a vv-ris now sent hom e by I r i s h emigrants to assist thei c re fs tions to foll ow th em. L et the State once take up matter, and those remittances would instantly stof sides, the poor peasantry were not in a conditie Ito removed from their own country. Their physical a rat e . was completely gone , an d i n t h e i r present conditi 00 th would be unequal to the exertions that emigratio' a *o n o require. The e xer ti ons o f t h e S ociety of Fri ends Ireland were known to everybody, and he paid to the w , his unfeigned t r ib u t e o f a d m i rat i on. Nothing ( said too high in praise of their charity, their b in and their wisdom too, in aiding the poor Irisi mar i t a l put him in the way of earning a sub s i s t ence . He "iy now stated some objecti ons i n d eta il , t ut h i s got , era s jection was that the cost of wholesale emigrati( in w° nld he enormous. The fi rs t thi ng they ought t( do w -o a to try to save th e r esources o f t h e country. The; / wanted the assistance of th a t cap i ta l wh i ch the s mall er farmers w ou ld t a k e away w i th them if 0-"',l emigrated. The sm a ll cap i ta li st must b e en uour age e to spend his me ans on t h e so il , and there proper", came in the first part of his amendment. He a OW ca n ', to the second part, nod the m ore i mportant part, bas cause it related to the immediate salvation c life. Even the Opposition newspapers were now s .chnit L ll- , o ` that life was wastin g away . The lion. Gentle man 0 % read a portion of the charge of Mr. Sergeant E [owlet' the Tipperary G ran d J ury, descriptiveof the wretch e condition, the calamities, and the misery of the in"' bitants of that l oca li ty. The Hon. Gentleman then r e f ferred to documents showing the state of the , wes t i ° 0 Ireland ; 860 d eat h s had taken place in one week "- Ballinasioe workhouse. Persons were found dead n c t the roads and in the fields, famishing people w see font lying by the wayside with wasted forms, clad in 1 ' 60 ; and dying with h unger, and the churchyards in bem:l, cases were ov er fill e d w i t h the carcasses of ,he de s a The selections he had made were of the slip htest w most trivial kind f rom t h e mass of materials r .t his de puss", and h e as k e d t h e H ouse what it inttn dad to de in such a case? It was ev id ent t h at Ireland had a great effort, but it was breaking down u nder t" pressure ; the tenants were flying from the c ountry notwithstanding the ex p en dit ure of Governrat .nt ; ce tractors for unions were giving up their c nitrites rates could not n ow b e co ll ec t e d i n su fficien t amounts to preserve lif e , an d h ow w as it possib: to then t° raise an additional rate for emigration? Note ithstall"G ing all that they had done, ho did not undery wh o a , the House had done, yet having taken upon itself Ot t burden of the Irish people, and deprived then of till natural protector, a domestic Parliament, the' a nuu st , a something more. He would not propose the last Ow"; graph of his amendment, which called upon th t ° g t into a Committee forthwith. But this he woul reP ea- ' that unless they were prepared to agree in • tkose ac cursed doctrines of political economy which P era i °l3 e calling themselves Chartists advanced there a .11d else' where—they must immediately take into consi dera" r other and more efficient measures than doles ,t* mete] by small instalments. They must act prompt" tide of pauperism was rising higher and era all classes—it was sweeping away those who al ( eW - in since were living comfort. Remedial t aeasure', which it was hoped would be effective in tl e co urse of a few years, woold, he feared, be found to be fa ilures' In the mean time, society would be destroyed. and the Noble Lord wou ld only find that he had made a des ert ' and called it peace. Something must be done to arrest the downw ar d tendency of all classes, more extensil than any t hi ng yet proposed—and he call e d upon the House to go into a Committee for the purose of ira rne diately a rrest i ng death and starvation. lie dii I not c are whethe r th e measure he might propose were lot ,ked uP ° n ry as revolutionary; they were not a whit more rev( dutineene than those proposed by that great anti-r e volts tionist t he Right Hono ura bl e M ember for Tamworth.l3 0 " id tu n.. absentees fr om I re l and were deserters from tlrein " at try. Th e y oug h t to be in Ireland—they ougl eta bend home, in or d er to take counsel with the p =opt' , a T: spend among them whatever rents they ci d ge was said that property should support po , ner ar f d t Well, then, l et th em have all the property o f In to to support its poverty, not a part. In anlelfth 1 1 ., this measure, let them pass a measure giving see urt s v a to tenant farmers; and also carry out land drainsfi ,t o improvements as auxiliary and secondary measures. . 1 -tP 4 step which would save much time now wasted in ~u to [louse, and promote more efficient legislation, won I_7" to send a Committee of the most eminent and 07.1' 91 _, eneed Members of that House over to Ireland, ir, ci;r u ) % that they might s:e for themselves what its squill ditiornwas, and a practical judgment on the spot. ".1_ House would then be able to legislate with a kuowled g e of the nature of the cue. He ended by saying, as be began, that ho brought forward his ame=ndment in 3 I ; . spirit of hostility to the motion of his Lion. Friend, simply froa a fear that if the motion was carried `The Earl Of MALNIESBURY said it gave him plea sure to hear the Noble Earl admit the distress of the agricultural community, but be owned it was only a poor one, when he afterwerde confessed that the Government did not intend to remedy it. The Government had the power to remedy it materially, and he and many others could not but regret their disinclination to exercise it. Notwithstanding all that the Noble Earl had said, he still would lay at the door of free-trade-policy the origin of all those evils to which his Noble Friend near him had ad verted, and he was convinced that they could only look forward to a continuance of free-trade principles for a continuance of poverty and distress in the agricultural population, and of stagnation in agricultural operations. But he did not attribute all this mischief to free trade alone, nor to free trade and bad harvests acting together. He was persuaded, that the gradual increase of local taxation had rested with its whole weight on those por tions of the population in rural districts, who were ex pected by free-traders to rise superior to the difficulties which surrounded them. The Government might have removed some of those local burdens, and, by so doing, have alleviated, at least, the hardships of the free-trade system. From a calculation which he had made, En glish farmers paid at least fifty per cent. more money into the Exchequer than the American grower, upon the sale of the same quantity of wheat realising the same price. It was, in fact, a differential duty in favour of the American as against the English producer. But the greatest sufferers from free trade were the clergy, whom nothing less than twenty per cent. of a main average protection would compensate. The question was one in which he felt deeply interested, and one which every year, nay, every month, strengthened his convictions that there was danger to this country. The Duke of RICHMOND requested their Lordships' attention while ho presented several petitions on this subject, from various counties and places in England. He could cite several instances to their Lordships of the prejudicial operation of the measure of free-trade. With respect to the surrender of farms, arising from that mea sure, he might mention one instance of an indepen dent and unquestionably honest farmer—a gentle. man of his acquaintance—who refused, however, to surrender his farm because be believed that the time was not distant when there would be a re action, and when agricultural produce would have its just protection. He believed a reaction was going on, although the Houses of Lords and Commons were, per haps, the last places where reaction would he likely to manifest itself. He did not say that the Legislature ought again to return to a sliding scale, but he would say that the time was fast approaching when a protective duty should be levied for the purposes of revenue, and on this point he rejoiced to tell their Lordships that the Protectionists had now in their favour a largo body of the mercantile and shipping interests, and they had, in addition, in the manufacturing districts, large masses of the operatives in favour of a return to a protective duty— men who hid experienced the sad effects of free trade, and some of whom declared that under the operation of that measure they often got but half a day's work, and fur that but a quarter of a day's pay.—(Laughter.) The Noble Lord concluded by presenting a number of peti tions from places in the counties of Kent, Sussex, Suf folk, Stafford, Wilts, Rutland, Devon, Leicester, Glou cester, fec , in favour of a return to a protective duty. The House, on the motion of the Marquis of LANS DOWNE, adjourned to Friday. HOUSE OF C0,11.410N5, May 15. EMIGRATION FROM IRELAND. Mr. MONSELL then rose, pursuant to notice, to call the attention of the House to the importance of encou raging and promoting emigration from Ireland. It was difficult to introduce such a question, as matters con nected with Ireland had become quite irksome to the House. He perfectly agreed, however, with the sentiments expressed by the lion. and Learned Solicitor-General, that what was wanted for Ireland was a series of beneficial measures, and he did not in the least imagine that emigration alone would be serviceable in all parts of Ireland, or that in any part of Ireland it could produce alone the results that they all desired. The last time this question was brought forward was in February, 1847, by the Honourable Member for Gates. bead, and in June of the same year by the Noble Lord the Member for Falkirk, and it must have struck all who listened to the remarkable speeches made on those two occasions, that all the prophecies then wade had been since literally fulfilled. Every statement made with regard to the results that were to be apprehended if the sug gestions then thro en out were not attended to had been more then verified, and be thought that was a very good reason why Government should take the subject into their early consideration.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He was anxious to occupy the time of the House as briefly as possible, and therefore he should touch but little on the existing social state of Ireland, with which unfortunately they had been made too well acquainted by the repeated debates which had taken place iu the House ou the subject, and the statements which were to be found in the newspapers and the blue books. By this time every gentleman in the House must be well acquainted with the fact that no country in the world had ever been in a worse con dition than Ireland was at the present moment. The ex isting state of things in Ireland was unparalleled in the history of nations. Never had a country suffered so much as Ireland had done during the last few yeare. Any gentleman who referred to the Poor-law Returns would find that while in England the sustenance of a pauper for the year cost something like 4Z, the suste nance of one in Ireland did not cost so much as 11.; and notwithstanding the difference, the rates were so high in Ireland that persons could not pay them e and there was every prospect of the state of the country be coming gradually worse. A most remarkable statement had been made with regard to the west and south of Ire land, by a distinguished foreigner who was well known to Members of that House, and whose knowledge was only exceeded by his philanthropy. He said, he had seen in his perambulations round the world humanity in most of the latitudes and longitudes, including the aborigines in .North America, the South Sea Islands, New Zealand, and Australasia, but nowhere had he seen misery of such an aggravated character as in the western unions of Ireland. He (Mr. Monsell) freely admitted that emigration would do no good at all in some districts of Ireland, for the people were reduced to such a state of misery that they would not make good emigrants, and therefore it would be idle to attempt emigration in their case. But, on the other hand, he believed that in as many as thirty unions, in which distress was not so acute as in the eight or nine unions of which they had heard so much, emigration might be beneficially re sorted to, and he moreover believed that it would rescue them from becoming as bad as other parts of Ireland. He was perfectly certain if they did not comply with the petition of the Limerick board of guardians, which he had alluded to, that in the county of Limerick the same scenes of distress would be witnessed that had occurred elsewhere. In the union of Ballina, such was the misery that some of the population had scarcely a human appearance, and many cme before the As sistant Barrister to pray that he would transport them, saying, that they would rather work in chains abroad than be at liberty at home without enough to keep them alive. Even the lauded proprietors were ruined, their goods were distrained upon, and they were left in fact without any resources for their support. How was it that the potato failure of 1847 found Ire land in the position it was? The population had been for years excluded from all the privileges of subjects, they had been reduced to the lowest possible state of degradation, they were satisfied with the lowest possible amount of human food ; there was no other country in the world where the people ware contented with such a low amount of the means of sub sistence. The potato failure of 1847 found them in the position of passengers on board a ship who had been living on short allowance. He thought it must strike the House at once that their condition could be only relieved either by some means for in creasing largely the amount of the food in the country, or else by removing the people to some other country where they could procure it. Compare their condition with that of the people in other coun tries. In the ten years from 1821 to 1831 the popula tion of Munster, for example, increased 15 per cent. In England there were 53 persons to each arable acre; in Ireland there were 60 ; b u t i n I reland three-fourths of the population were wholly dependent on agriculture, whereas in England only a fourth or a fifth were de pendent on agriculture.—(Hear, hear.) In France there were only 39 persons to 100 arable acres ; whilst in Ireland there were 60 persons to each arable acre ; and it should be recollected that there was in France a con siderable amount of manufactures,whilst in Ireland there was hardly any. Under those circumstances, was it won derful that the unemployed people were eating of the very vitals of the country, and hanging like a millstone round the neck of every person who endeavoured to exert him self ? So long as that social state remained it was utterly impossible to introduce capital into Ireland, and introduce would believ e d every reme d y w hi c h they could would be utterly ineffectual until they removed that great and most tremendous evil. The only chance of getting any portion of capital into Ireland was to make the so cial condition of Ireland such as would attract capital. He did not believe that the grants they had made had conferred all the good that was claimed for them.—(Hear, hear.) Why, all the money ex pended under the Land Improvement Bill, which was an exceedingly good measure, did not employ 2(1,000 people, who would not be permanently benefited by what was done in this respect for them. Had the money been employed in emigration the country would have been relieved, and the poor emigrants would them selves have been materially benefited. The result was. not so bad as was stated, since successful emigrants al most invariably sent over money to their friends at home, thus forming as it were the funds for future emi gration. It was said that the emigration was excessive. What was its nature?—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Those who had real recently the accounts of the class of persons going to New York must perceive that they consisted of the middle class, the very persons who employed the labouring class; therefore an irreparable injury was inflicted upon upon the country. The Hon. Gentleman read statements from Inspectors in various parts of Ireland in support of the accuracy of this statement, and to show that many corn merchants had become bankrupt because the farmers to whom they had lent money had sold off their stock and made for the new world.—(Hear.) He denied that assisting emi gration would prevent, us heretofige, Voluntary emi- IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. I K O E N S p HOUSE OF LORDS, M a y 15. * resented several The Earl of STRA P D E B T I I I. peti tions complaining of agricultural distrev:. The Bishop of CASHEL presented several petitions against the Rate in Aid Bill. Lord STANLEY presented several petitions com plaining of agricultural distres s . RUSSIA ANt) AUSTRIA. Lord BROUGHAM wished to draw attention to the extraordinary step taken by Russia of marching a largo force into Hungary. Russia had no interest whatever in Hungary, yet there was co doubt that a Russian army had marched in Hungary and Gallicia. He asked if any communication had been made to this Government as to the intentions of Russia in thus inter fering in the affairs of Austria? He had no doubt that Austria bad consented, but we had a right to cq m p! a in, and to protest against it. At the same time no one entertained a stronger desire than he did to see our faithful ally Austria in full enjoyment of all her rights, and he thought no Go vernment acted wrongly which sought to maintain the ex isting distribution of power in Europe, and of putting down those reckless agitators, with their folly and their crimes. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, who was very in audible, was understood to say that there had been con siderable movements of Russian troops towards the Austrian frontier, but he did not think that the fact of the interference of foreign troops in another country, with the consint of the Government of that country, formed a case fur interference. Lord BROUGHAM did not object to Russian inter ference to preserve to Austria her dominions. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. The Duke of RICHMOND then rose, for the purpose of calling the attention of the House to the existence of distress in the agricultural districts. He, for one, did not wish to be an alarmist, but when large bodies of cur fellow -countrym en are suffering from severe pressure, and when larger numbers of agricultural labourers are being th rown out of emp l oyment t h an a t an y p er i o d s i nce the Passing o f t h e Poor -l aw Amendment Act, when hun dreds and t h ousands o f agr i cu l tur i s t s are l oo ki ng t o P ar - Lament for r e li e f un d e r their heavy pressure, which if not given th ey will be compelled to discharge many of their labo urers, because, f rom l ow p r i ces , th e i r pro d uce does not p ay their expenses; a t suc h a t i me th e i r case required imperative consideration. — (Hear.) Those farmers h a d not been i n t h e h a bit o f com bi n i ng , t h ey were loyal to their Sovereign, and had done their utmost to carry out the law at all times, and they now say, and he said it in that House, that they ought not to suffer because a knot of tree-trade Manchester cotton-spinners chose to excite and agitate and raise large sums of money. He was not sure whether they got large sums from many Members of that House, though, if he re membered well, they did from some, and be believed a Noble Friend opposite, now one of the Ministers of the Crown, did send the munificent donation of S,COOL— (Hear and lau g ht er .) He even recollected th a t a N o bl e Lord 'lad given a munificent donation to those free traders at Manchester, at the time they were agitating every town in this country for that purpose, while on the other hand the agricultural interest of the British empire was allowed to droop and sink beneath the influence of those Manchester alarmists.—(Hear, hear.) And he aho recollected that they admitted no persons to their meet ings who did not exhibit his ticket of admission. They deluded the people of the country by promising that the result of their free trade mission would be an abundance of bread and clothes, that their wages would not be re duced, and that it would not be compulsory for them to work more than ten hours each day; but when the corn-laws ,were repealed by the desertion of some and the treachery of others, they turned about on those people whom they had beguiled, and opposed the Ten Hours' 1 3 111—(11ear, hear)—but he (the Duke of Bich-