The Sun. — London, England, 1854-03-29 00:00:00

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Stock, ) avoid. of next terling and at n va,n- 3 for a ;eneral public that if ossible ie pre le rest crease and if uld, in to the ,les at )vern- ; and r capi nd are being mated. nomi -22k to c divi -72.1 to 'rench 'Lange L to I, 1 and tstern mness reach t the Com- ICES. Etir-v. tit Alt . , 4) ," 4ti NORTHAMPTON RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) NORTHAMPTON STAKES. JACQUELINE BRACKEN DEFIANCE Fifteen ran. TRIAL STAKES Orestes STAND PLATE. Roebuck Seven ran. WHITTLEBURY STAKES. Redemption 11 ran. PYTCHLEY STAKES, Census..... Anteverta Rataplan Eleven ran. QUEEN'S PLATE. Seven ran. fottrthVbition SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented against the opening of public-houses on Sundays. Mr. PHILLIPS presented a petition praying for a reduction of the duty in Fire Insurance. Mr. LIDDELL presented a petition from the Odd Fellows of Liverpool, against the fourth clause of the Friendly Societies' Bill. Mr. LOCKE presented petitions from various dissent ing bodies, praying that the Universities may be open to all her Majesty's subjects without reference to religious creed. Mr. MIA.LL presented a similar petition. Mr. HUTCHINS presented a petition from Lea mington in favour of ocean penny postage. EASTER RECESS. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that on Tuesday, the 11th proximo, he should move that the house at its rising do adjourn until Monday, the 24th of April, and after the recess he should move that on Thursdays orders of the day should take precedence of notices of motion. WAR WITH RUSSIA. The Noble Lord also gave notice that to-morrow he would give in the terms of the address which he proposed to move on Friday in reply to the Message from the Throne on the subject of the war. EPISCOPAL AND CAPITITLAR ESTATES BILL. The Marquis of BLANDFORD moved the second reading of this bill, which he said proposed to deal with property of large annual value, and to provide a new mode of administering it so that it might be improved in value, while it was made more available for the spi ritual wants of the great body of the people. There was no subject of more importance than the spiritual interests and wants of the people, and to none could Parliament more usefully direct its attention. The commissioners, which sat upon it a few years ago, reported that the incomes of the bishops and working clergy of the Church of England were most unequally distributed, and shortly afterwards an act of Parliament was passed for regulating the stipends of different sees. The property of each see was transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and fixed incomes affixed to each bishopric. It was subse quently found that the revenues of these sees greatly exceeded the stipends which had been allotted to them, for instance, in the case of Durham, the stipend was fixed at 8,0001. a year, but it turned out that the an nual revenue of the see was some times 20,0001., but seldom or never fell short of 15,0001., and an act was passed in the 13th and 14th Vict. which gave the bishops definitively fixed income without reference to the revenues of their sees, the surplus of one see over the income being applied tb making up the deficiencies of others. In this way the incomes of some ten or twelve bishops had been provided for, while by another act the property and incomes of some eight deans and chapters had been dealt with upon a similar principle. This legislation, in a like spirit, had taken place with regard to the property of the Church, and the object of this bill was to place the episcopal and capitular estates of the country entirely under the control of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and so relieve the bishops of their management. Thus, the commissioners would have power to appoint their own agents to receive the revenues; but the fees which the bishop received in his official capacity would be exempted from the operation of the bill, though it would provide that he should make an annual return of the funds he received in that way. A clause in the bill would prevent the fee of the property being vested in the commissioners; but in all cases the management of the property should be handed over to the commis sioners, both in the case of bishoprics and deans and chapters, and they should be required to pay the digni taries an annual income calculated at the rate, say, of seven years' value of their estates. The bill provided a scheme of enfranchising upon a rack-rent tenure of all episcopal and capitular property, which would have the effect of considerably increasing the value of the estates attached to the Church, and it was proposed that the surplus revenue so obtained should be devoted to augmenting the incomes of small livings and endowments. It was calculated that a sum of 506,6411. a-year, to provide in this way for the increased spiritual wants of the people, and by the machinery of this bill an annual income of not less than 550,0001. would be secured to meet that laudable purpose. The noble lord concluded by express ing his conviction that this bill, if carried, as he hoped it would be, would conduce to the glory of God and the good of man. Sir W. CLAY appreciated the motives which had in duced the noble marquis to introduce this bill, but at the same time he thought this measure was inadequate to the important subject which it dealt with. It was in complete in its machinery, and though he was quite ready to admit that clerical persons were bad adminis trators of temporal affairs, he yet did not think that the details of this bill would improve the existing state of affairs. It proposed, in fact to transfer the management of the episcopal and capitular estates to the estates com missioners, a body acting under the superintendence of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who derived their au thority from no less than 40 Acts of Parliament, dating from the reign of Henry VIII. to the present time, and since the law was thus rendered complicated and uncer tain, a bill of this nature, to be useful, should be a con solidating as well as an enacting measure. In fact, while it made Legislative changes in the management of church property, it should go a step further and amalgamate the commissioners for the administration of Queen Anne's Bounty with the Ecclesiastical Com missioners, or the bill would fall short of the purpose which the noble marquis professed to have in view. The noble marquis had the interest of the church at heart ; he had shown that, under proper management, the church property would yield a surplus revenue ; and since the noble marquis seemed anxious to pro mote peace and good will amongst men, it was to be re gretted, perhaps, that he did not provide that a portion of that surplus should go towards the reduction if not the abolition of church rates. Believing it would be impossible to attain these objects by remodelling the bill in committee, there was no alternative left to him but to move that the bill be read a second time this day six months. Mr. HADFIELD seconded the amendment, and in sisted upon the necessity, not to say the expediency of applying the surplus revenue of the Church to the aboli tion of the Church-rate, which was a scandal alike to the Church and the Legislature. Mr. MOWBRAY opposed the bill in a lengthened speech. He contended that it would seriously disturb, if not absolutely destroy, the security of church pro perty. Besides he objected to the principle of centralisa tion which the bill embraced, and which he was afraid if agreed to would prove greatly detrimental to local in terests. In fact, the central board which the bill proposed to establish would be liable to overlook local wants, and therefore instead of promoting the spiritual welfare of the great mass of the people, it was likely to prove highly detrimental to their interest. He agreed that it was highly desirable that the clergy should be relieved from their temporal functions ; but he thought the best way of accomplishing that object would be, rather through the instrumentality of local boards than a centralised commission. Mr. HUME thought the subject of church rates was quite beside the question of this bill. Parliament had hod already laid down the principle that these estates were public property, and had passed enactments for establishing a particular system under which such estates should be managed. Now that system was at present not carried out to the fullest extent. The machinery which Parliament had created for the purpose was de fective, and he thought the noble lord was quite right in introducing the bill. It was simple in its object, and clear in its details. It pro posed to establish a better or more extended means for improving the value of Church property, with the view of making more extensive provision for meeting the spiritual wants of the people, and if he bad any influence with his hon. friend the member for the Tower Hamlets be would use it to induce him to withdraw his amend ment. Mr. GOULBURN regretted that this question was not being discussed in a fuller house as it materially affected the social condition of the empire, while it equally bore upon the spiritual wants of the people. He thought, however, this bill was calculated to retard, rather than promote the laudable object which the noble marquis who proposed it had in view. Hitherto Parliament had acted wisely in providing a common fund for the support of all bishoprics of the country, and he looked with alarm upon a bill like this, which provided that a separate account should be kept for each chap tor and each bi-hopric The bill, in point of fact, would render the stipends of the dignitaries of the church most uncertain and insecure, and he hoped the house would not sanction the second reading. Mr. HORSMAN thought the opinion of the right hon. gentleman who last addressed them should be re ceived with very great caution, because he had always been the champion of church abuses whenever any reform in the church was proposed to Parlia ment. All the objections which had been or could be urged against the bill were mere matters of detail ; its principle was both sound and just, and he thought those who opposed some of its pro visions would do better to reserve their opposition for the committee on the bill, than resist the second read ing. The real object of the bill was to extend the use fulness of the Established Church, and he was quite at a loss to understand how any section of the house could oppose such a laudable object as that. The Church was not a matter of private property, but it was intended to be a great public blessing, and in order to increase its usefulness it was indispensably necessary that its clergy should be relieved from their temporal duties in the manner proposed by this bill. Mr. GOULBURN, in explanation, denied that he had always been opposed to Church reform, and in proof of that denial he stated that he was the Secretary of State who first signed the commission appointing the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. Mr. LIDDELL said it was highly desirable that the house should be in possession of the opinion of the Go vernment on the subject of this bill, and it was, there fore, much to regretted that this debate bad been carried on in the absence of all the Cabinet Ministers. He objected to the bill on precisely the same ground as the hon. member for Durham, Ratitely, that each diocese and chapter had a right to its own revenues, and there ought to be no common fund applicable to the whole country. Sir G. GREY said there was great inconvenience in discussing a bill of such importance, in the absence of all the leading members of the Government, who were detained elsewhere by very important and pres sing. duties. (Hear, hear.) He considered, more over, that all the considerations and suggessions sub mitted by the hon. member might be much more advan tageously discussed when the bill was in committee. Mr. HENLEY said he, like almost every other per son who had addressed the house on this subject, did so under great disadvantages, by reason of not knowing the views of her Majesty's Government on this bill. He thought the real principle of this bill was different from what had been stated ; but he confessed the bill was not very clear to him. He believed most good would be effected by putting Church property into a common fund—that was the Ecclesiastical Commission--on the ground that if they laid hands at all on the property of others there might be some little palliation in putting it to a good use. He was sure the house and the country were under a great obligation to the noble lord (the Marquis of Blandford) for bringing this subject forward, as it was one of great importance. Sir J. YOUNG hoped the noble lord would consent to postpone the farther consideration of the bill in the unavoidable absence of the leading members of the Govern ment. After some further discussion, in which Mr. Ingham, Mr. Wigratn, Mr. R. Phillimore, and Mr. Spooner (who moved that the debate be adjourned to 6th April), The Marquis of BLANDFORD said he concurred willingly in the motion for adjournment, owing to the absence of the Government. (Hear, hear.) The debate was then adjourned to Thursday, 6th April. COUNTY COURT EXTENSION ACT AMEND- H s SU IT, MENT BILL. On the motion for the second reading of the above bill, it was postponed to this day week. INCOME TAX. In reply to Colonel BLAIR, Mr. BERKELY said the debate on the income tax would have precedence to-morrow of the other business. The house then adjourned at half-past 5 o'clock. STATE OF TRADE. (Front the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, March 28.—The state of the market is soon described. Buyers are holding back from busi ness with a more marked caution than before. In save kinds of yarns there is as yet but little accumulation— in some there are still orders in hand ; and, in these, but little giving way is as yet perceptible. The growth of stocks is much the greatest in 7-8 and 9-8 cloths for printing or bleaching ; and these show the greatest rela tive decline of value. After all, however, although pro ducers manifest an increased anxiety to sell,they do not attempt to force sales, and there is nothing like panic in the market. The Liverpool cotton market is becoming weaker and more irregular. HALIFAX, March 25.—Our piece hall has been very slenderly attended to-day, both by merchants and manu facturers, and few goods of any description have found Purchasers. The manufacturers are greatly curtailing production. The demand for yarns is diminished, and prices consequently drooping. The spinners are very generally running short time. Wools are very inactive, and the quotations somewhat lower. ROCHDALE, March 27.—The flannel market con tinues bad, with little or nothing doing. In fact there is no demand for goods of any kind. Wool is a shade lower in price, with a limited amount of business doing. HUDDERSFIELD, March 28.—There has been rather more doing to-day than last Tuesday, although the market may be reported flat. Goods for summer wear are now being introduced and command a few sales, but they are more of a retail than a wholesale character, merchants evidently intending to buy as near as pos sible from "hand to mouth." The wool trade, like the other branches, is quiet, the sales effected being very light weights in most instances. BIRMINGHAM, March 27.—The buoyancy of the iron trade has at present suffered no diminution. The pre liminary meeting of the trade will be held at Dudley on Thursday next, but excites less interest than usual ; the position of most of the dealers and manufacturers being out of the reach of any resolution that may be aimed at them. Good qualities of pig-iron are unprocurable to any extent, and pig-makers are obtaining almost any price they please to name for the few they have to dis pose of, irrespective entirely of any relative value of manufactured iron, while they are necessitated to be equally submissive to the mine-owners from whom their ore is procured. MARKET NE W . :4-(T WS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. A very limited supply of English wheat was on sale in to-day's market. There was a fair number of buyers in attendance, and a good clearance of the stands was readily effected, at fully Monday's prices. The imports of wheat were 7,410 quarters, and the show of samples was very extensive ; nevertheless, the trade was decidedly firm, at extreme currencies. Some of the im porters refused to sell except at enhanced rates. Floating cargoes were dull. In prices, however, no change took place. There was rather more inquiry for barley, at full prices. _ In malt very little was doing. Oats, beans, peas, and flour sold at Monday's prices. The imports of the latter are 6,730 barrels, chiefly from France. Wheat. 950 ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Barley. Malt. I Oats. Flour. 1,510 1,770 1,730 1,220 5,500 8,180 6,730 brl English .. Irish .. •• Foreign .. 7,4i0 I 140 1 - WHITECHAPEL. The general trade ruled steady to-day, as follows : Beef from 3s 2d to 4s 2s ; mutton, 3s 6d to 48 4d ; lamb, 58 2d to 6s 8d ; veal, 33 6d to 5s 2d ; pork, 3s 4d to 4s Sd. per Blbs by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. _ _ . Our market continues firm for all of hops, and last week's prices ara well supported. NORTHAMPTON RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LATEST BETTING-'-12.30 O'CLOCK. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. oto 2 agst Defiance. 11 to 2 agst Swiftsure. . 8 to 1 agst Red Lion. 10 to 1 agst Latnprocles. 12 to 1 agst Bracken. 1u to 1 agst Chief Justice. 20 to 1 agst Pancake. 25 to 1 agst John Bull. 25 to 1 agst Jacqueline. Dawson declares to win with Chief Justice. Kingston is scratched. ENTRIES FOR HER MAJESTY'S PLATE OF 100 GUINEAS. —l-lungerford, Chief Justice, Kingston, Ilex, Shara vogue, Red Lion, Eulogist, Rataplan, Defiance, Racka pelt, Reiver, Jujube, Lord John, Caliph, King Alfred, Bridesmaid, Ptolemy, filly by John o' Gaunt out of Blanche, Sir George. ARRIVALS FOR THIS DAY'S RACES. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.—Kingston, Defiance, Pancake, John Bull, Caliph, Lamprocles, Red Lion, Benita, Chief Justice, Hungerford, Kohinoor, Mr. Sykes, Jacqueline, Olinder, Bracken, Ptolemy, Swift sure, Jujube, Jacob Petler, Roebuck, Little Jem, Red Lion, Veteran, and Sine qua Non. El Dorado does not run. CONTRACTS FOR HEMP.—Tenders were delivered yes terday for the navy contracts for hemp, but at such high * prices that the Government did not entertain them. THE STRANGERS' GALLERY AT THE HOUSE OF COM MONS.—Any person who has listened to a debate in the House of Commons will, I am sure, agree with me in my complaint of the want of comfort and accommo dation afforded to those who obtain admission to the Strangers' Gallery. On the occasion of an interesting de bate there is naturally a large attendance in the waiting pas sage, and as the rule "first come first served" is a just one, to obtain the advantage some come as early as twelve o'clock, where they have to sit until four o'clock. There is a fire, that is something ; but most of those who wait would like to read if they conveniently could : this ad vantage is almost denied them by the only gaslight in the passage between the doors, which are not always shut, through which there is a great traffic, and, consequently, a thorough draft. This inconvenience might be avoided, by simply putting a gaslight under the stairs. There is one other little alteration I would wish to speak about, and that is the hard boards of the benches in the Strangers' Gallery. Sittig,. in eager ex pectation, on the sharp edge of an uncushioncd board, is, to say the least, an uncomfortable position. I trust the proper authorities will place these suggestions among the " little things" that are worthy of their consideration.— Co'esPozamt of the .Build der. 'LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1854. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. THE WAR IN THE EAST. A letter from Belgrade of the 27th, published in the ill(miteur of yesterday, confirms the news we gave yesterday respecting the affair at Turtu kai. It says—" On the 15th, General Gortscha koff attempted to seize on the island of the Danube situated in front of Turtukai. His troops were already covering the bridge which they had estab lished, when the fire of the Turks succeeded in breaking down the bridge, which was carried away by the current with everything then on it. The loss of the Russians is estimated at nearly 2,000 men killedas well on the bridge as on the bank. The loss of the Turks, sheltered behind their entrench ments, was almost nothing." Accounts from Vienna of the 27th state, that on the 23d 18,000 Russians crossed the Danube and occupied Gedshid. General Luders had left Galatz, and had marched to the spot to protect the operation. . _ The Russian General Stakelberg, who was at tached to the Russian embassy at Vienna, is about to leave that city to take part in the war. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated last evening says—There is no doubt of the passage of the Danube by the Russians in great force. Besides the division which crossed from Braila, General Luders passed from Galatz, with the main army, without meeting any serious opposition, and with very slight loss. 4,000 Turkish troops are in Prevesa, and as many in Janina. THE BALTIC FLEET. By the International Telegraph, via the Hague, we learn that Admiral Napier's flag-ship, the Duke of Wellington, 131, anchored at Kiel yesterday (Tuesday), and that the whole fleet was then off the harbour. The Bulldog steamer, 6, Captain King, was in port, and the captain had had an interview with the British vice-consul about the supply of coal to the steamers. All was well on board the fleet. Immediate destination was not known. A letter from Revel, 17th, states that the roads near that town are filled with people quitting the Place with all their most valuable effects. The greatest agitation prevails. None of the light houses near the port are now lighted. . _ . A letter from - Revel of the 24th nit., in the Journal de St. Petersburg, says :—" The roadsted of Revel, which was covered with ice on the 13th January, was freed from it in the night of the 22d. It was again frozen over on the Bth February ; but since the 21st, a thaw has caused an opening behind the double battery. On the previous day, a ves sel freighted with provisions arrived at Port Baltic, and its cargo was forwarded to St. Petersburg." The British Consul, at Cronstadt, has left his post ; the French Consul is absent on leave. were presented authorising loans or the imposition of extraordinary taxes in the towns of Saumur, Orleans, Alby, and Dunkirk, in the commune of Aix-la-Chapelle, and in the departments of the tiers, Maine-et-Loire, Yonne, and Loire-Inferieure. The Minister of State was then introduced with the usual ceremony, and, in the name of the Emperor, read to the Chamber the following message : " Messieurs les Dtlputes—The Government of the Emperor and that of her Britannic Majesty had declared to the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh that if the difference with the Sublime Porte was not replaced in a purely diplomatic position, in the same way as if the evacuation of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia was not commenced immediately and terminated by a given day, they would see themselves forced to consider a negative reply or silence as a declaration of war. The Cabinet of St. Petersburgh having decided not to reply to the communication thus made, the Emperor charges me to inform you of that determination, which places Russia with respect to us in a state •f war, the whole responsi bility of which appertains to that power." _ The moment the Hon. Minister concluded, the loudest acclamations arose from every part of the Chamber. The President then rose, and after having formally acknowledged the reception of the message just delivered, said : "The Emperor may reckon on the unanimous co-ope ration of the Legislative body as on that of the whole of France." Fresh acclamations greeted the assurance thus given by the Hon. President. The proceedings then ter minated, amidst reiterated cries of Vive i'Empereur! At three o'clock the Minister proceeded to the Senate to make the same declaration. It was greeted there, as in the Legislative Chamber, by a unanimous assent with the loudest acclamations. The President then said : " The Senate gives a formal acknowledgment to the Minister of State of the communication which he has just made in the name of the Government, and which it has listened to with a profound sentiment of most entire and most devoted co-operation. I think I express the unanimous feeling of the Senate in adding that it con. fides fully in the Emperor, who will know how to con duct the war with the ability and energy which have so eminently distinguished the negociations. The commu nication of his Excellency the Minister of State shall be inserted in the minutes of our proceedings, and the ori ginal shall be deposited in the archives." The Senate hailed these words of the President with unanimous cries of Vim l'Empereur I It is believed that, notwithstanding the order issued by the Emperor Nicholas, recalling to their own country the Russians residing in France, there are still a considerable number in Paris, and who, not having property to be confiscated in Rus sia, will not leave this country, of which they in some sort consider themselves natives. The last Russian Consul, M. d'Ebeling, leaves Paris to-day. It is said that a contract has been entered into with the Government for the transport of 2,400 English horses by the Lyons Railroad. Every ono was taken by surprise immediately after the proceedings in the Senate on Monday by the announcement made by the Minister of State with respect to the declaration of war. The only sitting of the Legislative Corps announced was in its bureaux, and the Senate was not summoned at all. The consequence was that messengers had to be despatched in every direction for a few members of both houses ; but, notwithstanding these efforts, very few members were present in either house when M. Fould read the passage. Some doubt is entertained if the French Govern ment is quite so well prepared for commencing the war as has been generally supposed. It appears that the embarkation of the troops is proceeding with much less alacrity than could be desired ; and delays have occurred, not only at Toulon and Mar seilles, but in Algeria. Besides this, the troops which have embarked have been rather unfortunate. The V6loce and another, which accompanied the Chris tophe Colomb, encountered a violent gale in the Gulf of Lyons, and were obliged to put back to Toulon. The V6loce is so much damaged that she will have to be laid up. The troops and officers who were on board of these two ships have been disembarked, and are now waiting a passage by some other means. The French Baltic squadron is also far from being in a forward state. So badly off is the Minister of the Marine for ships, that he has been obliged to detach the Henry IV., and four other ships from the Levant fleet. They have received orders to return to Brest forthwith, to be placed under the command of Admiral Parseval Des chesnes " On Monday evening M. de Hatzfeld, the Prussian Minister, was received by the Emperor in a private audience, for the purpose of delivering an autograph letter from the King of Prussia, which had arrived in Paris that morning. He remained for an hour with the Emperor. A report was current here yesterday and Monday, which, strange as it may appear, it is right to mention. It is said that certain members of the Senate and of the Legislative Corps have conferred together on the propriety of offering a dictatorial power to the Emperor during the continuance of the war. A meeting of members of the two Chambers took place on Monday evening (the report goes), at which was discussed the best mode of draw ing up a proposition for the suspension of the ordi nary, laws, and the establishment of a dictatorship. Persons who are well informed seem to think that this project is not without chances of being carried out. The committee to inquire into the affair of M. de Montalembert has at length, after a great number of sittings, nominated its reporter. It is M. Perrot, whose opinion has been always considered favour able to M. de Montalembert, inasmuch as he is against granting the required authorisation to pro secute. The fall of English Consols, and the official an nouncement of the state of war, produced a general decline yesterday on the Bourse. The Three per Cents closed at 62f. 40c. for the end of the month ; and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 89f. 25c. ; Orleans Milway Shares, 1,040 f. ; Rouen, 830 f. ; Havre, 425 f. ; Great Northern, 705 f. ; Strasburg, 680 f. ; New Shares, 505 f. ; Lyons to Paris, 780 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 637 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 555 f. ; Bordeaux to Cette, 510 f. ; Great Central of France, 400 f. ; Lyons to Geneva, 420 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 492 f. 50e. THE BRITISH EXPEDITION TO THE EAST. A letter from Malta, of March 24th, says, last night, before dusk, the Christopho Colomb, French Govern ment steamer, having on board Liautetant-General Canrobert, Lieutenant-General Bosquet, Lieutenant- General Martinprey, 45 officers, 800 soldiers, and 50 horses, and with the French transport Mistral, with 27 soldiers, and 40 horses, in tow, hove in sight, and ran into the grand harbour-of Valetta, about 6 o'clock. As she passed St. Elmo, the artillerymen and men of the 3d Buffs and 62d Regiment manned the walls, and gave a thundering round of cheers, which were returned by their gallant allies. The French sol diers, indeed, continued cheering all the time the vessels proceeded up the harbour whenever a boat with a redcoat in in it came in sight, and seemed in excellent spirits. These vessels left Marseilles on the 19th, and conveyed the first portion of the French contingent. It is understood that at least one steamer will arrive here, in Valetta, on each alternate day till the whole force has passed. General Canrobert, so well known as one of the most dashing and energetic leaders of the armee d'Afrique, landed in the course of the even ing, and was received by the authorities with all the re spect due to his rank and mission. He went to the opera—for we have an opera here—and was the object of much observation. An order has been issued for the brigade of Guards to parade on the Floriana at 11 o'clock to-day, and the Rifles are also to be present. General Canrobert and staff will attend ; and, indeed, it is on their account the review takes place. The steamer and transport, with all on board, sail at 4 p.m. this evening. Their destination is Gallipoli ; and Gene ral Canrobert says, that not only the French, but the English army will disembark at that favoured spot. The Kangaroo, with the 77th Regiment (Colonel Egerton) on board, arrived this morning from Liverpool. The men disembark in the course of the day, and take up their quarters under canvas. The happy arrival of the Simoom, after a voyage of 16 days from Portsmouth, while it eased the anxiety of the timid, deprived many of an interesting subject of censure and speculation; we now learn that her detention was caused by the utter dislocation of her machinery, every bit of which came undone, went wrong, or got out of gear that could by possibility do so. She came into harbour with the Scotch Fusilier Guards on Saturday night (18th inst.), and the troops were disembarked the following day, and landed at their quarters in the Lazaretto. When one reflects on the passages made by the Himalaya, the Orinoco, the Cambria, the Ripon, the Emen, and even by the little Manilla —by every vessel, in fact, which had not the honour of flying her Majesty's pendant—and com pares them with the voyage of the Simoom, he cannot but lament that the engineers, mechanics, and artisans of the Royal dockyards do not learn a lesson or take a hint from our great public companies. Of course, it is scarcely fair to compare vessels like those above-named with a ship like the Simoom, which is a man-of-war as well as a transport, carries guns, &c., but there is no sound reason why the engines of a man-of-war transport should be always breaking ; nor do the considerations suggested by a reference to the ex press object for which these vessels were built com pletely account for the exceedingiy great disparity be tween her Majesty's ships and those of the Peninsular and Oriental and other companies. More than one screw must be loose to cause all this delay. The Fusiliers disembarked in excellent order, so have all the regiments which form this first part of the expe ditionary army. The horses were rather fresher than the men ; for, although the accommodations of the Simoom were good and spacious, the latter felt the con finement, heat, and want of exercise. The Guards, who occupy the Lazaretto, in spite of the local derange ments caused by their "liberty" carousings in acid wine and fiery brandy on their arrival, enjoy good health, though the average disease has been rather augmented by the results of an imprudent use of the time allowed to them ere they left London to bid goodbye to their friends. On Friday Lieutenant-General James Ferguson, C. 8., commanding the forces, attended by his staff and a number of officers in garrison, inspected the 28th Regi ment, the 33d, and the Rifles, on the Floriana parade ground, at 4 o'clock p.m., and expressed his satisfaction at the appearance and discipline of the whole' of the brigade. On Monday, the 20th, Lieutenant-General Ferguson inspected a brigade (not of the expedi tionary army), consisting of the 3d Buffs (Lieut.-Col. Van Straubenzee,) the 41st Regiment (Col. Carpenter), the 68th Regiment, Durham Light Infantry (Lieut.-Col. Smyth), on the Floriana parade ground, at 11 o'clock. The appearance of the men was excellent, and the steadi ness of the line and column marching and advance unex ceptionable. Brigadier-General Bentinck, attended by his aides-de-camp, the military secretary, Colonel Drum mond, Col. Hay, Col. Codrington, and a number of other officers were present, but there was a scanty attendance of natives, probably because events of this kind are not publicly announced in Malta. It is said that the brigade of Guards will be inspected by the General on Thursday, the 23d, and very great curiosity is ex pressed by the Maltese to see all these " plenty big men" together. In fact, there is little doubt but that all the regiments will undergo minute inspection ere they leave for service, and that they will have as much drill and exercise as the nature of the ground will admit. The island is so swarmingly populous—the surface of it is so cut up with roads, garden walls, stone enclo sures, drainage courses—and the houses so numerous, that there are few open spaces left sufficient to ma noeuvre a company in, except the Floriana and St. Clement's, and even these are of exceedingly moderate dimensions. Except a march along a hot and dusty road, or the drill of the barrack-yard, there is little opportunity for the commanding officer of a regiment to get his men through much work. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, March 29.—Wind this day at Noon, W. ; light breeze, and fine clear weather. DOVER, March 28.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—St. Pa trick, from Papal. PORTSMOUTH, March 28.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived— H.M.'s st James Watt, from Plymouth. Sailed—York town, for New York ; H.M.'s steamers St. George, Heels, and Prince Regent, for the Baltic ; st Magicienne, Spithead. PLYMOUTH, March 28.—Wind, W.S.W. Sailed—Betsy, for Oporto. Feimounr, March 28.—Wind, N. Arrived—Freya, from Dram ; Jantina Annechina, Galatz. Sailed—Elbe, for Carthagena ; Alexandrina, Salonica. STOCKTON, March 28.—Wind, W. Arrived—Nymph, from Mandal. BRIDGEWATER, March 28.—Wind, N.W. Arrived— Ocean, from Hambnrgh. SWANSEA, March 28.—Wind, N.W. Sailed—Esther Francis, for Madeira. SHIELDS, March 28.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—Bel mont, from Faro. Sailed—Demerara, for New York; Friends, Quebec ; Harrison, do. ; Catherine Ewing, Malta ; Halcyon, Genoa; Whitwell Grange, Carthagena. HULL, March 28.—Wind, W. N. W. Arrived —Carol ine, from St. Michael's ; Lightning, do ; St. Kiernan (s), Rot terdam ; Zephyrus, Dantzic. LOWESTOFT, March 28.—Wind, variable. Arrived -14% dia Jane, from London, for Sunderland, with loss of bowsprit. HARWICH, March 28.—Wind, N.N.E. Arrived— H.M.'s st Rosamond. SUNDERLAND, March 28.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived— Stafford, from Hamburgh ; Generous, do. ; Caroline, Christiansand. Sailed—Auckland, for Quebec; Juno, Carthagena. CALCUTTA, Feb. 18.—The Harry (brig), from South Australia, arrived at this port, reports having been chased by pirates off Cape Nicobar, Jan. 9. GEELONG, Jan. 2.—The Statesman took fire off Point Henry on the morning of Dec. 26 (supposed from spon taneous combustion of some wool shipped in a damp state), and was scuttled ; she has since been raised, and her cargo (2,500 bales of wool, and other produce) disposed of by auction. MAURITIUS, Jan. 6.—The Moultan, from Swansea, with patent fuel, arrived here with part of cargo thrown over board, having been on shore on the reef of Grand River. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, 10.30 a.m. Wind, W. ; fresh breeze, and fine. Arrived—Andes, from Boston; Shamrock, steamer, from Havro ; Teresa, from Cienfuegos. The brig Eagle, of Halifax, was passed a derelict on the 3d of March, in lat. 40, long. 61. The Martha King, from Wilmington for Liverpool, was passed on the 3d of March, in lat. 40, long. 61. The Martha Kin , f, from Wilmington, for Liverpool, was passed on the 3d ofMarch, lat 41, long. 26, with loss of sails, bulwarks, pumps choked, and 1,200 barrels of tar thrown overboard. The steamer Washington, from Southampton, arrived at New York on the 16th inst. The steamer Arabia, from Liverpool, had arrived at Boston. Accounts from Portland Bay, Australia, via Boston, state that the fine new ship New Zealander, which had arrived at Portland Bay on the 30th November, with 660 emi grants from Liverpool, was on fire on the 16th December, and expected to be a total loss. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.12 a.m. Wind, W. ; tide, low water ' • fine. Arrived, 28th — Maria Jose, from Pernambuco; Provi dence, Terceira •, William Pitt, Cuba. Arrived, 29th.—Dolphin, from St. Michael's; Berta Hendrika, Palermo ; Antwerpen (s.), Antwerp ; Albion (s.), Boulogne. Sailed. --Belgium (s.). for Ostend; City of London (s.), Dunkirk ; Ottillia, Port Phillip. DEAL, Wednesday, 0.45 a.m. Wind, N.W. ; fine. Passed.—Spartan, from Jamaica, for London, 50 days out; Barrack, Demerara, for London ; Vancouver, of Bos ton, China, for London; Orwell, Ballina, for London; British Queen, Berdianski, for London ; Manuel, barque, Havannah, for London ; Electric, for Cadiz ; Tom Bow line, for Port Phillip. Sailed.—Admiral, Barhampore, Anne, and Maitland, all for river. Remains.—Diego de Leon, from Trinidad de Cuba, for London. Report of the barque Spartan—March 11, spoke the ship Caronema, of Liverpool, lat. 45.40 N., long. 29, 13 W. ; March 20, Childs Harold, lat. 48.40 N., long. 6.50 W. ; March 24, brigantine Baldur, lat. 49.0 N., long. 33.50 W.; March 25, barque Woodbine, bound to New York, lat. 49.30 N., long. GO W. AN IMPERIAL BORQUET.—A bouquet to be offered by the Horticultural Society of Toulouse to the Empress was exhibited there on Sunday at the Capitol in the Salle du Trone, where a vast crowd went to see it. Not less than 10,000 violets and 300 camelias have been em ployed in this gigantic bouquet, which is 21 feet in dia meter by 3 feet high. It is composed of a dome of violets surrounded by a circle of camelias, garlands of these last running down the dome, on which are to be seen the initials of her Majesty in orange flowers. A blue riband, also having the cipher of her Majesty, ties the stem of the bouquet. This beautiful object left Tou louse on Monday, and was to be presented to her Majesty on Wednesday by M. Duplan, member of the Legislative Body, president of the Horticultural Society of the Haute Garonne. 25 25 18 20 St. 50 40 25 25 20 20 50 20 27] 22 25 812s1 6j 25 50 20 1100 8 100 100 all all all 26f 13i 20 20 5; It is 2/ 2s 100 100 100 100 St. 10 St. 25 2I 2s all 16 100 8 100 20 all 51s. 100 20 134 100 THE GERMAN POWERS. The Cologne Gazette states from Vienna that the negotiations between the Austrian and Prussian Cabinets are rendered difficult by the great irrita tion of the former against Russia, to which Prussia is said to incline more_ than is agreeable to Austria. According to the correspondent of the Cologne Gazette, the determination of the Russian Govern ment lat its armies shall cross the Danube has given great dissatisfaction to that ofAustria, although every assurance has been given that in all the ope rations of Russia the political and commercial inte rests of Austria shall be respected. The Grand Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha has re turned to Gotha, from Berlin. The object of his visit was, says the Hamburg News, to persuade the King of Prussia to join the alliance of the Western Powers, his Royal Highness feeling that if such a step were not adopted, Prussia would become iso lated from the other German Powers. A letter from Berlin, of the 25th, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" The discussions in, the committee on the loan bill are still continuing. The commit tee asked for explanations, and particularly as re gards the negotiations with Austria. M. de Man teuffel did not refuse to give them. Yesterday he appeared before the committee, but his explana tions were not considered satisfactory. The mem bers of the Right proposed that the explanations should not be made public. This was supported by the Government, but the committee has not consented to it. The Government having admitted that it has no immediate need of the loan, the com mittee is of opinion that it will be right to await the development of the situation, which will enable the Government to give more precise explanations, and the Chamber to act with a full knowledge of facts." A Berlin letter, of the 25th, states that the King of Prussia had passed a tranquil night, and that there was no increase of fever or of the swelling of the face caused by his recent accident. M. de Severin, Russian Ambassador at Munich, gave a brilliant fete on the evening of the 22d, to which 400 persons were invited. The French and English Ambassadors were not among the number, but those of Prussia, Austria, and Hanover were present. A Vienna letter of the 23d states that the 6th corps d'armec of Austria has just been placed ou a war footing. THE GREEK INSURRECTION. The Nouvelliste of Marseilles says :-- "A letter from the Piraeus of the 17th mentions the expected arrival of two Envoys Extraordinary from France and England with the last propositions of those powers to the Greek Government. It is stated that King Otho will leave Athens and proceed to the Morea, in order not to receive these diplomatists. The Greek Government only exists by name in the provinces. No one pays any taxes, and when the coliector arrives the tax-payer is found cleaning his arms, and he replies to the demand of the functionary by saying—' What do you come for ; we have given everything to the insur rection, and we are preparing to join it.'" The Journal de Constantinople is equally formal in its accusation against the Greek Government. It says : " In the conspiracy which was discovered some time since at Constantinople, having for object to excite the Christian population of the empire, 46 Greek captains were found to be engaged. They were in frequent rela tion with their countrymen at Athens, and the Russian agents who were scattered over the Danubian principali ties and Roumelia. They had for chiefs at Constanti nople M. Caimacam, a superior employ 6 in the Russian post office at Constantinople, and Baron (Elsner, who was arrested with some of his accomplices. From the ex amination into the affair, which is now almost brought to a close, it appears that these chiefs weee in direct corres pondence with Menschikoff, to whom they announced that the insurrection in Greece and among the Christian populations of the Turkish empire would break out and be come general as soon as the Russians should have crossed the Danube. The insurgents were then to massacre the Mussulmans and the Catholics of the European pro vinces of Turkey. From the arrival of Prince Menschi koff at Constantinople up to the moment of the discovery of the conspiracy these wretches were incessantly en gaged in exciting the people to revolt, holding out to thew all kinds of lying promises in order to bring them over to their views. All these efforts have failed before the intelligence of the people, who, confident in the solicitude of the Imperial Government, know that their welfare can only be increased by their respect to the laws and their submission and devotedness to the Imperial authority. The anarchists have only found companions worthy of them in the prisons and the bagnes of Greece, among the officers of the army of that kingdom and in the aides-de-camp of the King. Our correspondent at Athens writes us under date of the Bth that the army itself, which was on the frontier, marched over to the insurgents with their band and with the royal flag flying at their head. This is not an evil ; for, as the veil of hypocrisy has fallen, Europe will see whether the Greek Government is not connected with these acts of turpitude. The repression will not be more difficult and will be more general : and the guilty will receive a lesson which will benefit them now and hereafter." THE lONIAN ISLANDS. The lotniatn day P month.arliamen A m Parliament was pr e o ss r a o g g e ue f d ro o m n the 18th to that the Lord High Commissioner, addressed to the Presi dent of thG Legislative Assembly, explains the motive which has led to this step, stating that an address was now lying upon the table of that body for further consideration, containing allu s i ons t o foreign politics, with which the Assembly has constitutionally no right to interfere. " This ad dress," says the Lord High Commissioner, " is to be read to me as a representative of the Queen, in a public sitting. If I receive it in silence, I shall be considered as concurring in its spirit. If I oppose it, and I can only do so by reiterating the advice already given in the name of her Majesty, against any participation in the movements of Epirus (with the assurance, however, that her Majesty, together with her allies, will exercise her influence to secure a stable and satisfactory posi tion to the Christian subjects of the Porte; and to place their rights under the guarantee of Europe), I shall find myself in collision with the Assembly, in a matter relating to questions of much delicacy, which will be constantly arising under different forms." FRANCE. FRENCH DECLARATION OF WAR. The following is a fuller account of the proceed ings in the Legislative Body and in the Senate than we were enabled to give yesterday : The Legislative Body met on Monday at two o'clock—M. Billault in the chair. M. Lequien presented the report of the committee appointed to examiue the accounts of 1651. Several local bills SPAIN. The Herald°, Madrid journal of 'the 23d, states that some sensation had been caused at Saragossa on the 20th, by the report that the Bourbon regi ment which had been marched from that town had, after proceeding some distance, refused to go fur ther without knowing where itwas to be taken ; that thereupon the captain-general had gone after it, and did not return until he had ascer t a i ne d th a t the regiment was continuing its march for Navarre. A letter of the 24th says :—cc All Madrid is at present occupied with the pilgrimage which the Queen is to make to-day to the church of Atocha, to decorate the statue of the Virgin with the Col lar of the Golden Fleece and the Order of Charles 111. But what is not generally known is, that the Queen in acting thus only executes what was the wish of her august father. A few minutes before the departure of Ferdinand VII. for Vallencay his Majesty went to the church of Atocha, and pre sented to Our Lady of Atocha the rich Collar of the Golden Fleece, which he wore, together with his Grand Cordon of the Order of Charles 111., to which was suspended a cross in diamonds of great value. In 1836 these two precious objects disap peared from the church, and w ere rep l ace d b y a collar and a cross in inetal. Que en I sa b e ll a 11. desiring that the intentions of her father should be respected, and wishing to render homage to his memory, made a vow to restore those very valu able objects to our Lady of Atocha. Su c h i s th en the object of the pious pilgrimage which her Ma jesty is to make this day. ,, The Three per Cents. were done at 34 45 ; the New Three per Cents. at 18 30 ; the Debt of the First Class at 8 10; and that of the Second at 4 35. ARRIVALS OF GOLD.—The Admiral has arrived from Melbourne, whence she sailed on the 19th of December, with 45,592 ounces of gold. valued at 182,300/. The Sovereign of the Seas, the Blackwall, and the Harbinger have left Port Philip with an aggregate amount of 120,000 ounces of gold, equal to about 500,000/. TAKING STOCK.—The Commissioners of Customs have given notice of their i ntention immediately to commence taking stock of all the goods at the bonded warehouses throughout the United Kingdom, in conformity with the clauses in the Customs Consolidation Act, requiring that process, and its repetition every five years. SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE VICTORIA THEATRE.— An unfortunate accident happened in the Victoria Theatre on Monday night during the first performance of Mazeppa, which threw a portion of the audience into a painful state of excitement. It appears that in order to give due effect to the piece the management had en gaged a number of horses, and Mr. N. T. Hicks, the comedian, was cast for the leading character, Mazeppa. The performance proceeded most satisfactorily, until that part of the play came on where Mazeppa, after crossing through the waters followed by ravenous wolves, is seen to rush over the mountains on his wild steed, when by some accident the horse slipped, and Mr. Hicks was pitched head foremost against some of the machinery, which so severely injured him that he was obliged to be carried away. Medical attendance was promptly obtained, but the sufferer was recommended to be at once taken to his home, which was accordingly done. Mr. J. T. Johnson took the character for the re mainder of the performance, but that portion of the audience who were unaware of the accident, on finding that Mr. Hicks's character had been transferred to another, began to give vent to their disapprobation by hooting and hissing, when Mr. Johnson came forward and made known the nature of the accident, stating at the time that he bad un , ;lertakcn the character at a moment's notice, but if they wero not satisfied with Mazeppa, they could have any other performance they chose to call for. The explanation was perfectly satis• factory, and the remainder of the entertainment passed off with Mae, SHARE MAEKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastu. Janet Belfast & Ballymena Birming. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey.,,.., ,,, Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O. Blyth & Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. 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Purchase York & N. Midland Closing Prices this day. 20 - 22 4i - 41 7i - 8i 1 3 —ll diet 15 17 8 — 7 d ••• - 88 - ik 50 i - 514 12 - 13 8 --4 10 ii -: ii 7 - 8 _ tii - iii di = iii 58 - 60 54 - 56 i i - 21 56 . 60 85 a 86 72 73 118 - 120 80 - 84 71i 72 85 90 10 12 D 10 - 12 591 -- 591 8i -- 'lid lii - 12 'it -7- it 93 —93 931 - 94 14d. 1 d Par r - di 731 —74 1 i 13 12 11 —10 d 19 - 20 551 - 56, 30 - 32 id— id 7 5d 6 - 8 40 - 43 3i 30 29 ... 30 50 54 Par — P Gad - 7 - 74 26 - 28 76 80 48 - 62 50 - 55 50 55 3i 2d 14 -- 16 7 -- 8 10 -- 12 3i -- 3id 13 15 58 59 29 31 4 2d 1 5 ii -: iO 2 -- 17h . 18i 4 -- 5 21 -- 23 5 -- 6 **6 = *i 606 616; 10 --96 51 —4.1 d 426 -- 4361 Business done this day. 61 4 8 71 43 i 21 PREFERENCE SHARES. St. 100 Aberdeen St. 100 Do. No. 2, p. c. 25 30 Blyth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 50/) St. 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 20 5 Do. 4p. c. 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Ams.Shs ) dl NoanTrunkPref Parad Lyons al Ditto Bonds 11 Paris and Orleans .11 Paris and Rouen- 11 Paris and Strasbourg .0 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. .04 Quebec & Richmond 11 Rouen and Havre..,,, 2 Royal Danish ........ 2 Royal Swedish .11 Sambre and Meuse 6 Do. 54 p. cent. Pref. 6 Southern of France 6 St. Andrew's and Quebee (A) 11 West Flanders .11 Do 5. per c. Pref .0 Western of France 7 West. of Switzerland 2 Wiesbaden .5 Zealand 3/ 2/ 6i - 7 27~ - 28 - 8 10i - 11 p ii. -43 32 - 34 261 - -27 i ... - Pm 28i i - is -- 21 20i n 1 i* - - 7i i .. - pm 3 # - 3. 2 - 2 4 ,i - IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS--(YESTERDAY.) CONVENTUAL AND MONASTIC INSTITUTIONS. Upon Mr. T. CHAMBERS moving the nomination of the Committee on Conventual and Monastic Institutions, Mr. BOWYER moved that the order for its appoint ment be discharged. He suggested the impolicy of bring ing forward on the eve of a war any measure that would sow dissension in the nation, or produce discontent in any class. This committee was calculated, he said, to exaspe rate the feelings of Roman Catholics, who considered it as a bitter i nsult. He characterised the object of the committee as incompatible with the principles of the law, and, in re spect to convents, and as repu g nant to the feelings of Englishmen. He again implored the house n o t to emark on an inquiry which would light the torch of religious dis cord throughout the country. Mr. ESMONDE seconded the motion, objecting to the inquiry, because the circumstances under which it was voted no longer existed, and also on constitutional grounds. Lord LOVAINE protested against such a plea as that there was more danger in meddling with Roman Catholics than any other class of her Majesty's subjects. This was not more a Roman Catholic than a Protestant question. The constitution laid it down that no person should be confined in any place whatever, except by due course of law. All he asked was that the regulations to which Roman Catho lics were subject abroad should be adopted in England. He denied that there would he any intrusion on the pri vacy of ladies, for if such were to be the proceedings of the committee he would oppose its appointment, but there would be only an inquiry into the circumstances under which those establishments were conducted. Lord J. RUSSELL did not know whether the question which had already been decided by a considerable majority of that house, ought to be brought forward again, but it appeared to him that it was well worth the consideration of the house whether they would persist in the motion for the appointment of this committee. (Hear.) But, then, as the noble lord (Lord Lovaine) said, this was a constitutional question, the house o ug ht t o t a k e care not to appoint a committee on vague supposition. Some case ought to be made out of persons detained in these convents against their will. But for persons to come forward and make statements that convents were bad places, and that per sons were confined in them against their will, without offering any evidence in support of those allegations, seemed to him not a proper g round for going o n w ith th e question. He said again that there was too much vague ness and uncertainty with respect to the sort of inquiry that was to take place. The noble lord did not wish to in quire into what took place in the private matters in these houses. Did the noble lord mean that the committee were not to send for persons to examine them? If so that would make a great alteration in the case. If the com mittee were empowered to send for papers but not persons, the inquiry would be of a totally different character. But, if they were to send for persons, it was no satisfaction to be told by the noble lord that he did not wish private matters to be inquired into. When he looked at the names of the committee he could not not help feeling it was not very impartially chosen—(hear, hear)—and that names would be found on it connected with strong prejudices and extreme opinions, and this hardly afforded a sufficient guarantee against inquiries not being pushed into private matters. (Hear.) If there was really any case made out—if the liberty of the subject had been infringed—if against the law of the land persons were prevented from leaving these conventual houses— then, he said, there ought to be no delicacy about having an inquiry ; the allegations ought to be inquired into thoroughly and promptly. But if no such case was made out, why should they inquire ? Those who wished to alter the law should look into the existing law, and propose such regulations as they thought fit. Let them look into the laws of foreign countries—let them acquaint themselves with the rules and regulations on taking vows—let them consider all these things, and then propose a new law to that house. These foreign laws could easily be obtained, and when they were looked into a bill could be brought into that house. (Hear, hear.) The re was anot h er part of the inquiry which had relation to monastic institutions against the letter of the law, and contrary to law. The hon. gentleman said he wished to have inquiry with re spect to monastic institutions. lie (Lord J. Russell) had no wish for any such inquiry. (Hoar, hear, and oh.) He knew there were many laws existing on the statute book which had fallen into disuetude, and no evil had been felt. He knew that in time such laws became practically extinct. If any particular grievance, if any infraction of the law could be proved in the case of monastic institu tions, he said let there be an inquiry; but he confessed he did not see to what purpose they were to have an inquiry. When he had the honour to fill the office of Home Secre tary ho found it necessary to write to Lord Normanby to ascertain if it was necessary to make an inquiry into a particular monastery in Ireland. Lord Normanby replied that the monastery was the cause of a great deal of good— that it promoted agriculture, and otherwise conferred much benefit on the district. With that answer he was satisfied, and he consequently gave no public directions for an in inquiry. But if they were to have an inquiry, as the right hon. gentleman urged, then the house must come to one conclusion or other, either to take further measures— which were not difficult to take—to suppress monasteries —to establish an effectual machinery by which, if monas teries were found to exist in any place, an officer of the law would be empowered to drive the occupants out, and to prevent them from occupying the building. They must either have that, or they must have a law repealing the ex isting law, and allowing monasteries to exist. Was the right hon. gentleman prepared to take either of those courses ? Was the right hon. gentleman prepared to drive monks out of the country ?—a harsh measure, not called for either by public policy or necessity. (Hear, hear.) If he could be convinced that any ladies in this country did not enjoy the benefits of the liberty allowed by the laws, he certainly should have an inquiry, with the view of applying a vigorous remedy. (Hear, hear.) But not be lieving a word of the stories that had been told on the sub ject of nunner ies—stories which generally came under the denomination of what were called cock -and-a.-bull stories —or rather of what the French called hi3toire,s de coq -d- Mite—not believing the many inventions that had been throughout the world ventilated on this question—seeing no benefit whatever in the inquiry proposed—thinking that the house would act much Tore wisely in no t meddling at all with the subject, an d that the proposal would be a piece of very peddling and useless legislation, he certainly should, if he voted at all, vote in favour of the amend/ilea of the lion, and learned genntl:nhaienhoap:issister. itz (C al h le e t e i rs so ) u g ht Colonel NORTH s t a t e d a case which had occurred at Banbury, in Oxfordslsire, i to be relased fro m a nunnery She inywaeinvei ~ as a writ of habe as - corpus would not ap p sub sequently con trived to effect her escape. Mr. H. DE UMMOND had not liked the terms of the motion, nor the speeches f or it , nor the speeches against it. The latter had evinced misconception, or wilful p erv ersion anagei n a of of meaning, as there haile never b een anyinteption to interfere with th e i nternal m these establishments, and no gentleman had ever thought of summoning any lady b e f ore the committee. But t he same reasons now existed passe as for thisd. The 1 e ir the Ecclesi astical Titles Bill w e :R as e , w a Catholics had not retracted a word. of the aggression then then made, and wore equally determined on brin - sing the country under the spiritual and temporal dominion of the Pope of Rome. Members avowed that they were sent here by the priests to advocate the claims of the Pope. The object of the priests was t o enveiglo girls with money into the convents, and force them to leave their money away from their re latives. Lot priests have the powerthey sought, and where would be our liberties ? These institution had been per verted to infamous purposes, according to the power en joyed by th e priests. lie pledged hims e lf to prove his case against these establishments, if permitted. Captain BELLEW supported the amendment. mittee. Mr. CROSSLEY d e f en d e d the appointment of the corn*mittee. Even admitting that th ere rescind its former resolution. Mr. C. FORTESCUE hoped that the house would to consider wheth er th e as a Protestant, a sk Protestan ts had be en groun d s for it, which he would not do, he wou ld , terbalance any poss ib le (1 i t could e ff ect. This i nqu i ry gOO evils which would ' arise from this inquiry would no t coun terbalance uncalled-for by the Roman Catholics, who we re th e ed in its operation, and it did not only parties concern present a s eemly s pectacle to the Roman Ca tholics of Eng land and Irela nd, that the Protestants of England sh ou ld b e legislating for them, not merely without th e i r consent, u SPOONED , said the real question upon w hi c h t h e i n quiry was founded was that a moral and und ue i n fl uence b t absolutely against it. was exercised upon young g ir ls to induce them to enter into nunneries, and that by a continuance of that in fluence they were induced to leave their property to these convents away from their relations. The inquiry was car ried by a large majority on a former evening against the strength of the Government, and no grounds had been brought forward to warrant the house in retracing its ' steps and discharging the committee. 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