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HOUSE OF LORDS-MARCH 19. QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICES BILL. Moved, that the bill be now read a second time. Objected to. An amendment moved to leave out "now," and insert "this day six months." On question that " now" stand part of the motion—contents, 38 ; not-contents, 49. CONTENTS-38. LORD CHANCELLOR EARLS LORDS Campbell Saint Germans Lyveden DUKES Somers Manners Newcastle Spencer Monteagle of Bran- Somerset Wicklow ' don ➢IARQUISES VISCOUNTS Overstone Ailesbury Sydney Ponsonby Breadalbano Torrington Somerhill EARLS LORDS Stanley of Alderley Airlie Boyle Stratheden Caithness Carew _ Teynham Camperdown Cranworth ' Truro Clarendon Dartrey Wodehouse De Grey De Tabley TELLERS Granville Harris Foley, Lord Grey Hunsdon Taunton, Lord NOT-CONTENTS-. 49. ARCHBISHOP EARLS LORDS Canterbury Portarlington Feversham DUKE Verulam Gage Marlborough VISCOUNTS Grinstead MARQUISES Dungannon Kingsdown Ailsa Exmouth Northwick Normanby II ardinge Redesdale ____ Salisbury" Winchester Bianors Rollo Carlisle Salteraford EARLS Llandaff Saltoun Amherst London Silchester Aylesford LORDS Sondes Derby Berners Templemore Ellenborough Calthorpe Tenterden Erne Clifton Weitsleydale Graham Clinton Wynford Hardwicke Colchester TELLERS Home De l'lsle &Dudley Chelmsford, Lord Lanesborough Denman Colville of Culross, Lucan Egerton Lord HOUSE OF COMMONS-MARCH 20. COUNTY RATES AND EXPENDITURE BILL. Order for second reading read. Motion made and question proposed, "That the bill be now read a second tirae.* Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the question to add the words " upon this day six months." Question put, "That the word now' stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes, 126 ; Noes, 163. AYES-125. Adam,W. P. Glyn, G. C. Patten, J. W. Antrobus, E. Goldsmid, Sir F. Paull, H. Arnott, Sir J. Gower, F. L. Peel, Sir R. Ayrton, A. S. Greenall, G. Peto, Sir M. Bagwell, J. Greene, Capt. J. Pilkington, James Baines, E. Gregson, S. Pollard Urquhart W Baxter, W. E. Gray, William Rothschild,BarsnL. Bazley, Thomas Gurdon, B. Roupell, W. Beach, W. W. Hadfield, Geo. Russell, Hastings Beale, Samuel Hanbury, R., jun. Russell, A. J. E. Berkeley, H. Hanmer, Sir J. Russell, Sirffm. Bethel', Sir R. Hardcastle, Jos. A. St. Aubyn, J. Blake, J. A. Henley, Lord Salomons,Aldermall Bonham-Carter, J. Hodgkinson, G. Seymour, Sir M. Brand, H. B. Howard, Hon. C. Shafto, R. D. Bright, J. Hutt, W. Shelley, Sir J. V. Briscoe, J. I. Jackson, W. Sheridan, R. B. Bristow, A. Jervoise, Sir J. Sheridan, li. B. Bruce, H. A. Kershaw, J. Smith, J. B. . Buller, J. W. Kinnaird, Hon. A.. Smith, Augustus Butt, Isaac Knatchbull-Hugess Stacpoole, W. Caird, James Langston, J. H. Steel, John Churchill, Lord A. Lawson, W. Sykes, Col. W. H. Clay, James Layard, A. H. Tite, Wm. Clifford, C. C. Lennox, Lord G. G. Tomline, G. Cobbett, J. M. Lewis, Sir G.C., Bt. Turner, J. A. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Lindsay W. S. Verney, Sir Harry Coningham, Wm. Locke, John Villiers, Rt. Hon. C. Craufurd, E. H. J Lysley, W. Vivian, H. H. Davey. R. M'Cann, J. Watkins, J. L. V. Davie, Col. F. Maguire, J. V. Western, T. S. Dodson, John G. Martin,J. Westhead, B. Douglas, Sir C. Matheson, A. Whalley, G. H. Duff, M. E. Mildmay, 11. Whitbread, S. Dunbar, Sir Wm. Miller, William White, Jas. Egerton, A. F. Monson, W. J. Williams, W. Enfield, Viscount Morris, D. Woods, Henry Ewart, William Norris, J. T. Wyld, James Ewart, J. C. North, F. Wyvill, M. Fenwick, Henry Onslow, Guildford Finlay, A. S. Osborne, Bernal TELLERS. Forster, Charles Padmore, R. Trelawny, Sir J. S. Forster, W. E. Paget, C. Barrow, W. H. NOES, 163. Astell, J. H. Grenfell, C. P. Newport, Vied. Bailey, C. Griffith, C D. Nicol, William Baillie, H. J. Grosvenor, Earl Noel, G. J. Ball, E. Haliburton, Justice North, Col. Baring, A. H. Hamilton, Lord C. Northeote, Sir S. H. Barttelot, Major Hamilton, Major Packe, G. H. Bathurst, F. H. Hamilton, Viscount Pakington, Sir J. S. Beecroft, G. S. Hankey, Thomson Parker, Major W. Bentinck, G. W. P. Hardy, Gathorne Pennant, Col. Bernard, Thos. T. Hassard, M. D. Phillip ' G. L. Blackburn, P. Heneage, G. Pugh, D. (Carmar.) Blencowe, J. G. Henley, J. Ricardo, 0. Botfield, Beriah Hennessy, J. P. Rogers, John J. Bouverie, P. P. Hervey, Lord A Rolt, J. Bramston, T. W. Holford, R. S. Rowley, Hon. IL T. Bridges, Sir 8., Bt. Hope, G. W. Salt, Thomas Brooks, R. Hopwood, J. T. Sclater-Booth, G, Bruce, C. L. C. Ho,. lA, T. B. Selwyn, C. J. Buckley, Maj.-Gen. Howes, Edward Seymer, H. K Burghley, Lord Hume, W. Shirley, E. P. Cairns, Sir H., Hunt, G. W. Sibthorp, Major Cecil, Lord R. Ingham, R. Smith, Abel Clifford, H. M. Jermyn, Earl Smith, S. G. Clive, H. G. W. Johnstone, Hon. H. Smyth, Col. Codrington, Sir W. Johnstone, J. J. H. Smollett, P. Collins, T., jun. Jones, D. Somerset, Col. E. Cubitt, George Kekewich, S. Somes, Joseph Dawson, IL P. Kennard, R. Spooner, R. Deedes, Wm. Kingscote, Lt.-Col. Stanhope, J. B. Disraeli, Benjamin Knatchbull, W Stanley, Lord Drax, J. E. Knox, Lt.-C01.8.W Stirling, Wm. Duncombe, A. Lacon, Sir E. Stewart, Sir M. R. Duncombe, W. E. Langton, H. G. Stuart, Col. Dunne, Col. Leeke, Sir H. Taylor, Colonel Du Pre, C. G. Lefroy, A. Thynne, Lord E. Edwards, Major H. Lee, W. Thynne, Lord H. Egerton, Sir P. Legh, G. C. Tollemache, J. li. Egerton, E. C. Legh, W. Torrens, R. Egerton, W. Lennox, Lord H. G. Trefusis, Hon. C. H. Ellice, Rt. Hon. E . Liddell, Hon. 11. G . Upton, Genes al Elphinstmfe, Sir J Lindsay, Colonel Valetort, LOrd Estcourt, S. Lyall, G. Vansittart, Wm. Farquhar, Sir M. Macdonogh, F. Walcott, Adm. J. E. Fellowes, Edward Malcolm, J. W. Walker, James R. Fergusson, Sir J. Wins, R.. Watlington, J. W. Filmer, Sir E. Manners, Lord J. Whitmore, H. Forester, Col. G. C. Marjoribanks, D. C. Wickham, H. W. French, Fitzstephen Maxwell, Col. Woodd, B. T. Gallwey, Sir W: P. Miller, T. Wyndham, Hon. 11. Gard, It. S. Mills, A. Wyndham, Hon. P. Garnett, W. J. Moody, C. A. Yorke, Hon.E. George, John Morgan, C. 0. S. Getty, S. G. Mowbray, Rt. Hn. J. TELLERS. Gladstone, Capt. 'Mure, David Gordon, C. W. Murray, William Ridley, Sir M. W. ' erratical, Lord Wm. Newdogate, C. N. Parke, C. W. THE _IONIAN ISLANDS. The following letter details the history of the short Session of the lonian Parliament just con cluded • " The Session of the lo " n C ia O n it A FU ss , em M b A ly it , c a li ft l er 2. an existence of . 12 days, has come to an abrupt close. Although the politics of this State doubtless offer but little interest to the English public, it is as well that you should possess the real history of an occur rence which may, perhaps, attract public attention. " On the Ist inst., the day fixed by the Constitu tion, the Lord High Commissioner opened the pro ceedings of the Parliament with a mild speech, con taining nothing more than those unexciting gene ralities to which such discourses are very wisely limited. Of this you have already received a copy. This was met with apparent civility, and a com mittee was appointed, as customary, to prepare an address in reply, Some days were consumed in elaborating the draught, but last Saturday the report was brought up, and was then found to con tain a tissue of calumnies and absurdities relative to the protecting Power which bore on the face of them a sufficient refutation. It begins by assert ing that the misfortunes of the lonian people have now, attained their culminating , point; that the origin of these evils is the system introduced in equitably by the Treaty:of Paris of 1815, by which I the protecting Power was enabled to absorb in itself the chief functions of Government; and that the result has been obstruction to progress, and the substitution of despotism for liberty, depressed finances, and imperfect education. The Assembly declares that the country can only hope for a solu tion of those difficulties in a system worthy of its origin, its struggles, and its claims; in other words, in its union with Greece—a fate which it trusts to see at no distant day. "So far the Assembly had acted in conformity with Parliamentary usage, and one would have thought that sufficient had been done to express the feelings of that most noble body. Up jumps, how ever, M. Pacomis, of Zante, an Albanian natu ralised in these islands. The Parliamentary form of his proposal cannot be easily classified. Whether it was an amendment on the address, a resolution, or a thesis, is still a matter of doubt. The gist of it, however, was a proposal for an appeal on the part of the Assembly to 'the lonian people to declare by universal suffrage the popular will for annexation to Greece. Scarcely had he finished when M. Lombardo, another Zanteote, presented another proposal, being an appeal on the part of the' Assembly to the representatives of the people, to the Governments, and to the phi lanthropists of Christian Europe, in favour of suffering Hellas, founding itself on Lord John Rus sell's despatch to Sir James Hudson, and demand ing the liberation of Turkish Greece and its an nexation to the Greek kingdom of the seven Islands. After some discussion these three docu ments were placed, as subjects of debate, on the order of the day for the next constitutional meeting of the Assembly— e., this day; one or two legis lators at the same time announced their intention of Presenting other propositions in the same sense. Whatever may be thought of the first project of address, the two latter proposals were eminently and glaringly unconstitutional. By the lonian Constitution the Assembly has no powers except in conjunction with the other two branches of the Legislature. An appeal to the people by one branch alone is, consequently, in form and in substance illegal. By the lonian Constitution, the adminis tration of foreign affairs is exclusively vested in the Lord High Commissioner, and a form is laid down for all communications on behalf of lonians to foreign Governments. M. Lombardo's appeal was, in consequence, equally unconstitutional. " Public interest has naturally been much excited for the last few days to know the course Sir Henry, Storks would pursue. Shortly after the opening of the Assembly this morning a message arrived from his Excellency, requesting that the Assembly would observe the forms and spirit of the Consti tution, devote their energies to the crying require ments of .the people, and abstain from a course of illegality which the representative of the protecting Power could neither tacitly acknowledge nor directly sanction. " On this M. Lombardo proposed the resigna tion en masse of the Assembly—a vote which, as diminishing the incomes of the legislators, met with favour and applause only from the public in the galleries. "After an adjournment a motion was about to be made for an insulting address to the Lord High Commissioner, and, the proposals of Messrs. Pacomis and Lombardo not being withdrawn, his Excellency sent a farther message in the shape of a prorogation. " The Legislative Assembly is therefore pro rogued for six months, among the jeers of a people who see that their interests are neglected by a body, of whose purposes they have been made the tools." PULA VD. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) WARSAW, MARCH 12. Upwards of a week has passed since I closed my last letter to you. The nation still maintains its attitude of expectation, no answer having arrived from the Emperor, and no confirmation of the con cessions granted having been received from St. Petersburg. It is probable, however, that even before I shall be obliged to despatch this letter something important may transpire, a telegram from St. Petersburg having announced that the Emperor had sent off a special messenger with a manifesto, said to be conciliatory. His arrival can not now be delayed beyond a few hours. But you will like to hear how the week has been passed. To a stranger the town has presented its usual appearance. With the single exception of universal mourning, the streets have betrayed no popular feeling more than ordinary. Still, below the surface, it has been in active existence, controlled by a strong spirit of self-restraint, but only await ing an opportunity to show itself. Nor have such opportunities been wanting. Oa an early day in tha week the funeral of an old Polish officer took place, when a large crowd joined the procession and g ive the ceremony somewhat of a national and political character. But on Saturday , the event of the week occurred. The day was appointed for special religious services in connection with the state of the country. The Roman Catholic ritual allowing prayers for the dead, in every church a Mass was performed for the repose of thorn who were buried on the previous Saturday. The Pro testant congregations, actuated by the same senti ments, assembled in their respective churches to offer up prayers for the families of the departed ; and Jews, bound to their fellow-countrymen by the common tie of suffering and oppressed nationality, in like manner gave their ordinary Sabbath ser vices a special national character. The hour fixed was 10 o'clock. The shops were almost entirely closed, the streets deserted ; the churches and syna gogues, hung in black, were crowded. Aware of the intention to observe the day in this manner, the Municipal Couneil, now augmented in numbers and sitting daily in the Town-hall, recognized by the Viceroy, thought it advisable to publish an ad dress to their fellow-townsmen on the day before, requesting perfect order. Through their official president, General Paulucci, they also begged the Prince to withdraw all the military, in order to prevent any danger of collision. At first the Prince was much opposed both to the publication of the address and also to the withdrawal of the military, on the ground that it would compromise the Go vernment, who had force sufficient to quell any dis turbance. Yielding, however, to better influences, he consented to both recommendations of the Muni cipal Council, who made, therefore, all necessary provision for the preservation of the peace. Special constables, appointed from the citizens, patrolled the streets, and were in attendance at all places of wor ship to prevent disorder, and the day passed in per fect tranquillity. Such has been the attitude of the Poles during the week ; expectant, orderly, but yet giving their rulers unmistakeble indications that they were not to be put off by vague promises, or overawed by fear and force. - Perhaps nothing better shows the state of public feeling than the word that passes from mouth to mouth--- ,, Cot l e commencement de la fin." And what has been the Russian feeling during the same interval ? In some quarters it has been one of shame that the Government has yielded to no visible force. It is said that this feeling has spread to a considerable extent among the officers of the various regiments quartered here, many of whom would not, therefore, be sorry to occasion, directly or indirectly, a breach of the peace. But still the dominant feeling is one of alarm and insecurity. The exodus of Russian ladies continues, and during the week several regiments have arrived to strengthen the garrison. The military chest of the kingdom has also been removed from the custody of the Bank of Poland and taken to the citadel, which has been placed in a state of perfect readi ness to bombard the town in case of need. The order, the determination, the moral courage, the self•control. displayed by the Poles have perfectly surprised and bewildered the Russians. "To think," they say, "that the Poles should have arrived at such a degree of maturity, and we not have known it !" The fear is lest, this surprise and alarm having been allayed by the continued absence of violence and resistance, they should undervalue the moral power against them, and so shoald be tempted to withdraw concessions or to violate promises after the manner of Austria, To provide against this a system of peaceable demon strations will be continued on all occasions; and every month brings with it to the Pole several anniversaries, with stirring memories of the past, easily convertible into such occasions. If these are attempted to be put down by force, the awful responsibility of shedding blood will be thrown on those who (as on the late occasion) massacred unarmed citizens. WEDNESDAY, March 13. To-day M. Meyendorff,a special messenger from St. Petersburg, has arrived with the Emperor's answer to the address. It is couched in rather severe language, but promises the three following import ant changes in the administration of the govern ment of Poland :—First, there is to be a kind of Council of State in imitation of the Austrian Reichsrath, the members of which are to be Poles, but nominated by the Government. Next, in the principal towns there are to be municipal councils. And, thirdly, there is to be a complete reorganisa tion of the system of education in the country. M. Karincki, who went to St. Petersburg to explain to the Emperor the nature of the movement here, still remains there, and will only return in 12 or 14 days, when he will bring back with him the details of the above changes. Of course, much depends on the manner and the spirit in which these changes may be carried out. They may be made to mean absolutely nothing, or they may convey substantial benefits to the nation. And this is what the Poles seem to feel ; they have no guarantees for the sincerity of the Im perial Government, no warrant that what is con ceded is not simply to satisfy public opinion in Europe. This morning the committee who drew up the address were sent for by Prince Gortschakoff, but I am not yet acquainted with the result of the interview. I have little doubt that the nation will accept what is given, but rather as an instalment than as a settlement in full of their just demands. There is not the least manifestation of joy at the news M. Meyendorff has brought ; and in several quarters, entirely unconnected except by the tie of national sentiment, I have heard disappointment expressed that no mention is made of a matter very near a Pole's heart—l mean the employment of Polish conscripts, raised for the Russian army, in the kingdom itself. Hitherto the practice has been to send Polish regiments, or rather regiments chiefly composed of Poles, to the Caucasus, whence they rarely return. The return of M. Karincki will be looked for with great and increasing in terest. THE FRENCH CHAMBERS AND THE COMALERCIAL TREATY. A topic of considerable interest, not only to France but to England, has been just discussed with much earnestness in the French Legislative Body. The ninth paragraph of the Address to the Crown gave expression to an apprehension which was not unnatural, and to a resolution which was certainly well founded. It spoke of the " trial" to which French manufactures would be subjected under the competi tion introduced by the Commercial Treaty, and recorded a " hope" that the ordeal would be " triumphantly" endured ; but admitted that such success was only to be expected on the condition that raw materials were cheapened and the cost of con veyance reduced. This view of the case is perfectly reasonable. We can readily conceive the uneasiness felt by protected interests at the approach of Free Trade, for we have passed through these misgivings ourselves ; but we have learnt by experience that the removalof restrictions and disabilities prove more than an equivalent for the removal of Protection. The text of the Address indicated the true policy in such matters. Low freights and cheap material would, undoubtedly, assist the French manufac turers in issuing triumphantly from the trial of an open market, while the whole nation would gain by the change. So far the principles embodied in the next paragraph produced a singular inconsistency of argument and conclusion. In that clause it stood affirmed by way of pro viso, that industry of all kinds depended upoH con fidence, and that confidence could only be created by a certain steadiness or fixity in commercial legis lation. To this doctrine also, if properly under stood, we might give our assent, but the interpre tation which was assigned to it went far to contravene even the admissions which had preceded. An amendment had been presented to the effect that " an interest of the first order,"—viz., the shipping interest, imperatively demanded the con tinuance of the protection it enjoyed; and upon this proposition there ensued, not, indeed, a debate, for there seemed to be no difference of opinion, but a succession of speeches directed to one and the same end. M. Arman, who supported the amend ment, argued that the French Marine was debarred by natural inferiority from competition on equal terms with the British Marine, and for this in feriority he said there were three causes. The first was the dearness of shipping material produced by the " just protection" still afforded in France to manufactures, so that it cost considerably more to build a ship in France than it did in England ; the next was to be found in the obligations imposed on all seagoing classes by the Maritime Inscription ; while the third might be traced to the superior institutions and resources of England. In this view of the case M. Arman was not only followed by other members, but was confirmed by the Ministers themselves, and the amendment was only withdrawn upon the distinct understanding that the proposi tion it contained was accepted by the Government, and implied, if not expressed, in the terms of the Address as already framed. It will be worth while to observe the conclusions to which these doctrines lead. Of the causes assigned for the inferiority of the French Marino to the English one only is natural. It is undoubtedly truo that we, with our insular position, our numerous colonies, and our national predilections for the sea, possess "resources" beyond those at the command of France or any other Con tinental State. This cannot be denied ; but the most reasonable inference would seem to be that the French should avail themselves of our aptitude in this respect, as we do of theirs in others. If we can build ships more cheaply than they can and navigate them at a smaller charge, it follows that we are most fit to be carriers, and that the best way to secure that abundance of material and cheapness of freight which the French manufacturers very reasonably desire is to employ our agency in the business. If our neighbours would do this, or, in other words, if they would relax their Navigation Laws, they would immediately be gainers at the very points where they are most anxious for sup port, and English shipowners would presently place them in the way of competing on the most favour able conditions with English manufacturers. To this course, however, the French are in no wise in clined, and one of the speakers remarked, that though the reduction in the price of commodities was a very proper object for Government to con• template, it " must not be realised at the expense of the Marine." How it is to be realised otherwise is a question which was not discussed. But the contradictions of this protective policy are still more remarkable in the other portions of the argument. It will be seen that one of the disabili ties of the French Marine arises from the fact that the materials for shipbuilding are kept at an unna turally high price by artificial laws maintained for the protection of certain French manufactures. This protection, too, is described as a "just pro tection ;" but, unfortunately, its operation is directly against those for whose advantage it was designed. The manufacturers of France require, it is said, in order to place them on a footing with those of England, cheap material and cheap freights. English shipping would give them these cheap freights, but it must not be employed because of the protection due to French shipping, and the freights charged by French shipping are necessarily dear because of the protection given to French manufac turers. So runs the vicious principle in a circle, and one French interest is prevented from helping another French interest at a pinch by a restriction previously devised for the assumed advantage of the interest now complaining. It was the principle, however, of the Maritime Inscription which really governed the course of the discussion. Ministers asserted—and no one denied —that the Maritime Inscription was deserving of all support " as the basis of the national Navy," though it had been described in this very debate as one of the causes which rendered the French Mine inferior to that of other countries. I t appears that this "organisation" of resources has not been ac complished without serious drawbacks. The French Government can place its han ds in an incredibly short period upon all the seafaring population within reach ; it can send these men on board ships of war, and it can avail itself of their services to take the sea with an imposing force at a very brief notice. That, no doubt, is a political advantage; but when we observe at what a cost it is purchased we may be disposed to look with less dissatisfaction on our own system at home. In competing with the maritime power of England France starts at a heavy disadvantage. She has not got a population so nautically inclined, nor such numerous colonies to encourage nautical adventure, nor so favourable a position for turning such chances to account. These being the original conditions of the struggle, France aggravates them by her own legislation. She makea the materials of shipbuild ing unnaturally dear, and places all seamen under obligations calculated to obstruct the progress of a mercantile marine. This she does by way of laying the "basis" of a national navy, though it is now thoroughly understood that a national navy—in the sense here meant of a strong war fleet—can never be based on any better foundations than those of a marine naturally grown and spontaneously de veloped. " Ships, colonies, and commerce" fdrm the true elements of naval power. The most com mercial nations have always been the nations most formidable at sea. A commercial marine contains the germ of a fighting fleet as a matter of course, and the surest way to secure political power is to give free development to mercantile adventure. No one can be surprised at the intelligence that the French merchant service is on the deeline. It is sacrificed, on the one hand, to the exigencies of the manufacturers, and on the other to those of the State. One party takes care that ships shall be dear, another that seamen shall have a divided duty. Shipowners are embarrassed both ways, and they . will find, we may be sure; but little indemnifi cation in the turn of protection with which it is designed to encourage them. French shipping, in fact, is sinking under the elaborate system of bur dens and equivalents devised for its encouragement. It was declared in this debate that its depen dence was now on the fisheries alone, and the mere diminution of the duties on salt fish was fraught with peril to the Marine of France. We should think such a state of things ought to carry its own moral. The surest way to obtain a good Mercantile Marine is to allow it to grow in its natural proportions without protection or favour. These proportions, in the case of a country like France, would infallibly be large, but under the system now maintained France has no means of knowing what expansion her enterprise or her resources might really receive.--Times. AMERICA. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. The steamship Canadian, which touched at Lon donderry yesterday, arrived here to-day. In the Senate, on the 6th, the following debate took place on the proposition to print the Presi dent's inaugural message : " Mr. Clingman said, in voting for the resolution, he did not wish to be understood as endorsing the position of the inaugural, if he understood it cor rectly, for all in it was dark. The purpose which seemed to stand out clearly and directly, if carried ont, would lead to a war against the Confederate States. The policy indicated was therefore unwise, and should be avoided. He continued—The Pre sident expressly declares that he intends to treat the States as if they were all in the Union, and regards the acts of secession as mere nullities. Cer tain States claim to be independent, and if the President acts as he enunciates there can be no result except collision between them and the Federal Government. It is plain and unmistake able that he intends to hold, occupy, and possess the forts, arsenals, &c., in those seceded States, when he knows this can be done only by displacing the State authorities. The collection of the revenue must also lead to a collision of arms. After we declared our independence with Great Britain nobody supposed the colonies would •pay taxes. In fact, they refused to pay before their declaration of independence. He repeated, if the President's policy be carried out there must inevitably be war. " Mr. Douglas (opp.), of Illinois, could not consent that the senator's remarks should go out unanswered. He had read the inaugural, carefully, with a view of understanding what the policy of the Adminis tration is to be, as therein vindicated. It was cha racterised with great ability and with great direct ness on certain points. A critical analysis was necessary to arrive at the true construction. He had partially made an analysis, and had come to the conclusion that it was a peace rather than a war ?message. He had examined it candidly and critically, and thought there was no foundation for a dif ferent opinion. On the contrary, there was a dis tinct pledge that the policy of the Administration shall be conducted exclusively with reference to a peaceful solution of the national difficulties. It was true the President indicated a certain line of policy, so to be conducted as to lead to a peace ful solution, but it was not as explicit as he (Douglas) desired. He then quoted from the in augural in support of his position, saying that unless the means be furnished, the President can not execute the laws. He thought the President, in his remarks on this subject, was referring to the future action of Congress giving him power to enforce obedience to them. The President must have been aware that in 1832 a law was passed to enable President Jackson to enforce the revenue laws in the port of Charleston. The act expired in two years. Was it to be supposed that Mr. Lincoln thought he had more power without than General Jackson had with the aid of legislation? He repeated, when the President pledges himself to collect the revenue and enforce the laws, un less Congress withholds the requisite means, is it not to be understood that his act is dependent on the future course of Congress ! He thought that was the proper construction of the inaugural, for the President says, He shall perform his duty so far as practicable, unless his rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means, or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary.' The President further says, The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these ob jects there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.' The Pre sident does not say he will take possession of the forts, but that he will hold, occupy, and possess them. This was equivocal language, but he did not condemn the President for it. Beyond what may be necessary for these objects there will be no invasion, no using of force among the people anywhere. If it is the duty of the President to enforce the revenue laws, it is his duty to en force the other laws. It cannot be justified that the revenue laws shall be enforced, and all other laws which afford protection as a compensation for taxes shall not be enforced. He thought there were two points in which they could find a solu tion of these doubts. The President says—' Where hostility to the United States in any interior locality shall be so great and so universal as to prevent com petent resident citizens from holding the Federal offices, there will be no attempt to force obnoxious strangers among the people for that object.' The President draws a distinction between the exterior and the interior. If he has power in one case he has power in the other, If it is his duty in one case to enforce the laws, it is his duty in the other. There is no provision of law which authorises a distinction in this respect between places in the in terior and on the seaboard. This brcsght him to the construction of another clause—the most im portant of all and the key to the entire policy. But he was rejoiced when he read it. He invited at tention to it as showing conclusively that the Pre sident is pledged to a policy which looks to a peaceful solution of onr difficulties and against all others. He says the course here indicated will be followed, unless the current of events and experi ence shall show a modification or change to be proper, and in every case of exigency his best dis cretion will be exercised, according to the circum stances usually existing, and with a view and a hope of a peaceful solution of the national troubles and the restoration of fraternal sympathies and affections. In other words, the President says if the collection of the revenue will lead to a peaceful solution, then it will be collected. If the abandon ment of that collection has that effect, then it will be abandoned. So of the forts and arsenals in the seceding States. He will recapture them or not recapture them, and will reinforce or not reinforce Fort Sumter and Pickens—pledged in either case to a peaceful policy, and acting with this view. If this is not the true construction, why was there not inserted a pledge to use coercion, retake the:forts, recapture the arsenals, collect the revenue, and enforce the laws, unless there was attached to each one a condition on which the pledge w as to be carried out ? B u t th e p l e d ge is only to do it in order to secure a peaceful solution, and for no other cause. He submitted whether or not the friends of peace had not much to rejoice at. The i naugural was much more conservative than he had anticipat ed. It was more pacific and conciliatory than he had p re di c t e d. H e r epeated, after a car eful exa mination and analysis, he wa s clearl y of o p inio n that the Administration stands pledged to a peaceful solution and will do no act that will load t 9 'war ENV S PAPE - ' v o and make no.change of policy unless nee preserve peace. He thought the Preside „ stated the cause of the troubles clearly and, in eated a remedy. The President, in a mannr peculiar to him - -lf,'proceeded to show what did not produce the übles. Mr. Douglas here quoted from the inaugNi "- that, according to ibis, it was the attec.r._- ibit slavery or protest slavery in the - territories in the absence of an express constitutional provision for either purpose. If the President (said he) has truly stated the cause, what is the remedy ? It is to adopt a con stitutional provision on the subject. The President speaks of such amendments as to dsfine the powcz of Congress over the subject. He gives us to understand there never can be peace until the question is settled, and that it cannot be settled except by amendment to the Constitution. The President stands pledged to let the people decide on the mode of amendment. He will not interfere; he will not oppose it. It the people say that Con gress shall protect slavery everywhere, the President is pledged not to oppose it ; and so if the people say slavery shall not be protected everywhere jr they shall incorporate the Crittenden proposition, he will not oppose it. lie is ill favour of such amendments as will settle the question for ever by express provisions of the Constitution, leaving to the people to decide what amendments shall be made, and will accept them cheerfully. Taking this to be the meaning of the proposition, he (Douglas) found in it much cause for encourage ment. In the first place it was peaceful, not aggressive. The President will do no act of aggression, but all his conduct will be with a view of peaceful solution. In the second place, as the difficulty is owing to the absence of an express provision on the slavery question in the Territories, he will advocate that the people change that instrument by express pro vision. Whatever departure Mr. Lincoln has made from his party platform should be taken as an act of patriotism and not of infidelity. if he under stood him, Mr. Lincoln had sunk the partisan in the patriot, and was entitled for this to the thanks of all Conservative men. He did not want it to be inferred that he sympdthised with the Administra tion, or in any contingency that he and the Presi dent would be associated. ' He expected to oppose his Administration on those great principles'which separated the parties in former times ; but on ques tions looking to the preservation of the Union by peaceable means, and the settlement of the subject of slavery by amendment to the Constitution; if he understood the President's true meaning, he was with him. He believed he had put a proper con striction upon these parts of the inaugural. He believed the President was going to live up to it. He would not surrender this opinion until there • should be reasons to change it. The Union cannot be preserved by war, cannot be maintained by blood. It can only be done by peaceable means, and future difficulties can be prevented only by constitutional amendments to settle the slavery question by express provisions. These two remedies are clearly marked out by the President in his inaugural. He would ask the Administration to live up to the line of policy here indicated. So far from taking any political advantage, he would commend the act as one of high patriotism, while he dissented from the President, and would main tain his own opposition on all other questions." Washington advices report that the Southern Commissioners had made no official communication to the Administration, owing to the sickness of Mr. Seward. They had been actively occupied since their arrival in consultation and unofficial inter course. The subjects of the collection of the revenue and reinforcing Fort Sumter had not yet engaged the attention of the Cabinet. Great efforts were being made to effect a peaceful settlement of the questions of the seizure of the forts and the revenues. A despatch of the Bth says : " There are vague rumours afloat of an intention on. the part of the Government to evacuate Forts Sumter and Pickens ; but leading Republicans scout the idea. Mr. Lincoln rises early and takes horseback exercise before breakfast. He bears the fatigue incident to his position wonderfully. There is a crowd at his levee to-night, including several Boston belles. Titian J. Coffey, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, has been appointed AssistantAttor ney-General. Mr. Cobb, also of Pennsylvania, has been appointed chief clerk in the War Department." _ _ Mr. Judd had been confirmed as Minister to Berlin. Adjutant-General Cooper and Assistant Adju tant-General Withers had resigned their posts. Ex-Secretary Floyd has published a statement •indicating the acceptances in favour of Russell, 'Majors, and Co., and asserting their legality. He says that instead of there being 6,000,000 dols. outstanding, there are only 600,000 dols., and the contractors have secured these by assignments cf property, and if the Government will permit the earnings of the trains of 1861 to be applied to the acceptances, they will be liquidated in that way without recourse to assignments. It would seem, also, according to Mr. Floyd's statement, that the Godernment owes the contractors upwards of half a million, which is equivalent to the cash value of the Indian Trust Bonds, of the abstraction of which he (Floyd) repudiates all previous knowledge. He denounces the conduct and proceedings of the select committee with great severity, and says their sole object was political persecution and defamation. The Montgomery Convention had passed the Army Bill, and it was reported that 50,000 men would soon be ready to take the field. The Con vention were offering commands to officers of repute. The Convention had instructed the com missioners to European Powers to enter into nego tiations for the extention of international copyright privileges. A bill was reported providing, in the event of a conflict, or the refusal of the United States to recognize the independence of the Con federacy, that no State court shall take cognizance of civil cases of citizens of the United States, and all pending cases to be dismissed. The 'news from Texas is important. Captain Hill, in command of the Federal force at Fort Brown, had been summoned to surrender by Cap tain Nichols, at the head of a body of Texans. Captain Hill replied that he would defend the fort to the last, denounced the demandants as traitors, and sent to Fort Ringgold for 200 men. A collision was thought quite probable. The troops at Fort Brown were in good condition. QUEENSTOWN, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Com pany's steamer Edinburgh, Captain Brooks, from New York on the 9th inst. has arrived. She brings the United States' mails and 33 cabin and 95 steerage passengers. She landed the mail for Ireland. In, political and commercial circles at New Or leans the general opinion was that President Lin coln's inaugural speech meant war. In the Virginia Convention an ordinance dis solving the political connexion of Virginia with the other States of the Union had been referred. In the Missouri State Convention the report of the Committee on Federal Relations was to be pre• sented on the 9th inst. It would declare emphati cally for union, and recommend the adoption of the Crittenden Resolutions. North Carolina had voted against the holding of a State Convention by a majority of 1,000. It was reported from Washington that the rein forcement of Fort Sumter had been decided upon, General Scott having declared his opinion that rein forcements could be easily thrown in, and w ith little loss of life. _ All the United St a t es ' s hi ps now in the Pacific and Mediterranean had been ordered home to Northern ports. All the troops now in Mexico and Texas had also been recalled. The Southern Commiss ioners would not be recog nised at Washington. It was stated th a t on t h e i r return to Montgomery President Davis would de mand the surrender of Fort Sumter. The commercial intelligence by the Edinburgh has been anticipated. DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY MORNING.—MISS AYL wARD IN P RISON. --CURIOUS REVELATIONS,—To what ever cause it may be attributable, it ig certain that Miss Aylward has been treated with remarkable partiality by the prison authorities. The Roman Catholic clergy boasted, indeed, at the time of her committal that they would render her detention pleasant enough, if they could not abridge it, and they have undoubtedly kept their word. livery rule of the prison has been broken through to secure her com fort ; nothing that she could desire is kept from her. Con sidering the history of Miss Aylward's career in the Queen's Bench, and the atrocious case of kidnapping with which as n en her name is associated, the leniency now shown to her ofitrage upon society. She was committed for ! crime, and yet she is pampered like a martyr. Such eon duct on the part of the prison authorities, or whoever else ill to blame, can only bring the law into n dicule.