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After -------- 1 , 1 ..._ a e w obscrvationa from Mr. SHAW and the ATTOR " liENttsr, for Ireland, i t was agreed to. gad agreed The intermediate clauses up to c l ause 6 were severally put to. O tt that elaus r e rh ( s oc a cup e iers n of houses mid shops of the value of 10/. in borou d i schedule - A, and of the value of ti• in boroughs named in schedules B and C, entitled to be burgesses if resident within seven miles) being put, b e , 1 , 41. ; 81 1 A \V wished to know why the word " office " had Yea -3 anroduced into it ; the term was not in the Bill of last r; and he could not feeling that it had been put in the Presen t r t ,, Bill at the suggestion of some influenti d person. t 4 4,,e ATTOR NEY -GENERAL for Ireland replied that i p al of I, a offi ce" was introduced into the clause in the comm t ,llloaletlie lilt last year, and was in. it when it passed that Cllr was sent up to the Lords. whi ch h it A W stated that in the copy of the Bill of last year, with, e had obtained that day, the word was not to be met t ,i,A efteLa n o bservation from the CHANCELLOR of the Air, [l . P. E R , Ptils er , • YOUNG stated that this clause made it corn hae paid all persons claiming the right to the franchise to per e e rt r a 'a op all rates &c. It was the law in Ireland that no jt e .„" a was allowed to , vote unless he had paid up all the grand . pii-lbliecei,ss,,nd at the same time no means . were taken to give ti t r e O 'Y 1 !) the rate. As the law was, in his opinion, defec-, tl i n this Point, and it was calculated greatly to diminish introduceL„,,encc•ber of votrs, he aa would suggest that some words should Air ,d to obviate this objection. astb e . ; ( l C° NNELL denied that the law in Ireland was such decision had eeer,tl on. Member had described it, although a th e Y been came to by a tribunal of the nature described by Parti:l L Alt, came This, however, had been 'come to for a oters . a, ,,,, r p urpose, namely, to disfranchise a certain h t nu d m ee b is e t r on o , f but th is Aothing, however, was more unjust than t made f was not conformable to any statute law, but a had been A i '",',' a particular purpose. ° F a r e " L ,' P• YOUNG could not be ignorant of the allusion i rap ti l t 7. 4 °n• and Learned Gentleman. He thought tha n t 1_1: Election attempted to be cast by the Hon. Member, u o n.us l t. T he dn Committee, were highly improper, and most unjust. fi e t .? n • and Learned Gentleman said that the Committee What ij ght , i o the decision they did for a particular purpose. in a e i ad the Member to im we pugn the motives of an men tllee 4 a3c of this kind ? He, hover, indignantly repudiated kr a r , 1114 iPe ` 4) NNELL denied that he had imputed improper Mr. 3 to the Hon. Member. `fiber P. YOUNG replied that the Hon. and . Learned th e i f .,_ r stated that the Committee came to the decision they 117 particular purpose. t°e it; °'C °NN ELL had said that the decisionvva l s vo c u or d e re to . Patt,i h kr,Pose of excluding votes ; and he certainlyHe was glad - to re i'• that it was directly opposed to !he 13. tettieif the Hon. Member stood in suchgood odour with Il leat 'but he was sorry that the Hon. Gentleman's judg artletta not as good as his intentions. 1, 0 4 an observation in reply from Mr. G. F. YOUNG Zeti es B TANLEY thought this was not atime for ' this t e ,athe r qd iseussion.—( Hear, hear.) . The Hon. and Learned at ted ~l' r Dublin had certainly used the expression coin 1, of of as Imputing a motive to the Committee in question, ti kcl thF i nirse, the Hon. and Learned Member could not have te Nt, ll l , expression in an offensive sense ; he could only haste lor o ,, t gat the effect of the ComMittee's decision had been to I S °ver so many votes, not that they set out with a corrupt a to d o so. —(11 ea r, hear.) As . to the Bill before the Ild Scotch''t so far from its perfectly assimilating to the English lagrat:, measures, it was in many important respects a SPttetts ' deviation from them. In Scotland, the occupation of v°,l4ld house, in England,. a residence of nearly three it ' l ll ai l ! required to qualify. The Irish Bill was content . ' 0 44 'Pound house, and a six months' occupatiop. This, kr, n ct be denied, was a flagrant inconsistency. Iltati 9,11.0GHL6/ b d that these objections sounded stil:lleefeirrrntb,e, Noble ° Lord, serv w e who had himself, in supporting t kit e . Bill, loudly protested that a six months' residence Kt had to qualify for a vote for a Member 'of Parliament, ktti e „ ° `.',a (l So Warmly eulogized the 9th Geo. IV., which I, d ' eg a five -pound qualification.— (Hear.) kik4,44t4a-llaS,TedANLEY____lf he were inconsistent upon the first 1 1 ` , (1 by a 1 Lo, he was happy to find his inconsistency sup h.' he had a rge majority of the House. As to the 9th Geo. Y th e II not been the warm eulogizer of it as represented that Oh e . t Zav e °ll- and Learned Gentleman ; and, moreover, that the I,l'et r , tl , (11 1e of that political influence, which . . it thes'4oo.,e Present Bill to establish.--( Opposition cheers.) low,'Mireas not intended for the good administration of sit'cr,a,, land nor was it required for such a purpos_ n e .. . ti o e,e. °' ° b.) Its sole object was to raise a political i ttlitbNel C o i ll , Iteoi NOLLY said the whole spirit of the Bill was had tonitbis clause. The whole measure, so far from being Why Ras a relana, would be an incubus and a curse. 11: 4 A sot 4 been omitted from the Bill ?Simply because it Ver estant borouah, and the framers . Bill saw, I , ll ll alie t ' it t . litit no Political object could be gained to them by Wit t e etio kte.. et t i,, , CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would be f the omitted boroughs 150 tlit,,,,`° . deal with the cas tlitplabartr,ll, of the subject came_ before the Committee. As atokter,i;:nad not been omitted because of .its Protestant ill et 4". on the same principle that Mallow, Dungarvon, t ke jiaa 4 1 0 ' aces, had been also omitted. of new Corpora loai fo r „ s u es, object as the establishment The framers of the eti,t Poetical lielll Poll th e Purposes—nothing Municipalo f the government. td ar,se,eas, h ear, em as the means of good . .. ,Ple s °f ) As to the alleged dissimilaritybetween the eiceotia,the respective measures fur En gland, of pr,n_ 0 theclo, none such existed. When they spoke 1 iil k i lle ,tle' cre l tean . t by it the active principle of popu ar co l‘ i i itro . l, tli e , ,, oth eti . Principle by which those who performed Muni if i l , l tbo I n s were to do so subject to the responsibility of ( Al! t h eu i l/se theria.—( Hear, hear.) This was the prine t ir t ,: g le , It iqAatia g a,' lsh and Scotch Acts, as sanctio9ed by King, n 'All - l e mons • and this too was the principle of the 4 r °Voz) He ar, hear.) Lil t 4 . 411 d ,GHLEN said it was a curious thing, that while _ s . 44 4 IN* ‘iallant Member opposite complained that Li I Le: e selud ,i . Ai - ‘'iie t i A ' because it was a Protestant place, an Hon.. 4 11 r Bri 1,, 4 elnber on the same side - of the Hou se made it (11:' th e e rn li ce that Middleton, Ballyshannon, and . Beltur_bet, t lat tir dies gn°,l Protestant places also, were inserted.- 1 1 1. ide_ el l% th ) e !i was impossible to please Hon. Members on 4 114 . (),co otise. I N (I 'lee N NE LL said the scale did not descend . so low 4 44 48 Wealthy re A man with a Si.ouse in Tralee , _tli ek B c or, The eor nparatively as a man in Liverpooi with 10/. 'vki s cla i s '''ne Noble Lord opposite did not, it seemed,_ t ai4Perl„galY of the 9th Geo. IV. 'as had been supposed. hel li e d tc,P, b ecaus e he did not think it a good Act, that Nt e l h r . ; ~,kfj il vl e , , ,i t to every town in Ireland.—( Hear.) , i ii,e at . '" li te - ' it ' i : said that the Noble Lord did not propose to le pNe (if ,°f Georcr e IV. to Ireland. He admired the t. 44 3' t le bort u ' e t r n e Right ' Hon. Gentleman . the Chancellor of j 1 '' '' h t th at .a% to the effect of this Bill. Could there be Itical li eli e r, td It would confer political functions and Po ? ' The rati s and L'lot corporate functions and corporate o"nr Cor o ki I 11 °I 13 eamed Gentleman had proposed that the . r , ° h a b Ali n s I Q /iti ,0 hould he a model for other Corporations ; . a P nd_ "lati tth e t cla a des_ell..-elected or close ,the . Hon. and Learned lar tte again_w better. Charges of corruption had been t ti r ttp te cl oet ' i t this corporation, but he defied the_ Hon. and n a s nd a dilly ts 4 pia st t e t n 'an to point out a single case . . h . 1 . ttot sift the de C orporation, the effect of it, however, This Bill IN h op e debt from one property to another. Te was 1- 4 4 i i th, v " the Corporation of Dublin with corporate func 'lNi.eraa; w•erc especially excluded. The Hen. and Learned I tNl` ti 'aer s ; h ta avid which he had given before the Cop -111 ~,,do Ras 4 4 stated that the first thing the. new Corportion Na,,,gat w ,t 0 build a new atown-hall for public discussio9 ; rNt it a ia t i t nci be discussed there 9 Why, eveything lliYt thall linuse•--(llear, hear, hear.) Her admitted . it trr et ?e 1,110 exclusiveness should be taken out of the Ilan, s :11 to th Nssessed it ; but then it ought not to be trans-- tlete:' 13 1Zber sid e . k h l in a t Who CJIL EN said that the Hon. and LearnCd Gen tl,lllA : f - . la e''' itlst sat down, in referring to the charge (If:e72e,oo'ol7llo.ration of' Dublin of having misapplied the 0 ,1)1)., arn e d r.,•, ceelared that it was unfounded. if the Hon. ''' l ,ll' - e that h"entlernan persisted in this statement, he must hi e any otl -e k new less of the affairs of the Corporation 1 0 1 te , Bt e heolerrefPerson of the city of ll . ublii? ; for the facts i her a blish erred to in submitting this Bill to the House, 4 i) 4`4(1 tha n ed bY a decree of the House of Lords, made no 14.411,140t;e4_,ad eooltaitelt_.lear., after a litigation which commenced gape Y 4. 44 u the dept d till 1835, The Corporati n had not topt sfe,.re, !-'nt merely from one property to another, but ee re there or the i r t . to the pipewater estate, which was n ) i t r h e ttikr. ,ehxisteitrPoration, but public property ; aid tie - I:11,144'1A w didao right to make such a transter . . d , r.,t,att,tt.,,that tt.not deny the existence of the decree •, he ., t'll., pbril.Q e,it7 letter of th e law had been violae 1, but Le V44(1111611. l e i l l ee , q way corrupt motive on the part of the t it d e „ i °ee l , for '-:5 ntended that the pipewater estate NVas t 1, tilt . 4 1 th, t a 1, 1 _ 0 _0 ., years, the property of the Corporation. ts fe, i lll 4le l rs l vid uel ," t ollit._?. - of the money went into the pocke . s, t too t ' b ineinbers of the Cooration ; that was what iNt. k, p ut t Y corruption 11 didnotsay that this money ~ eee,„ o th e g „ t e c A kh r of ,-)NNE, •era Corporation account. l q '''llte r , ,the 1, . ,t, , L said the C...rporation had violated the Ihttroreraef 00 7 , _ just as the individual who filched the Aar ll o ,_ t hel a „ _ n. 4 , his neighbour's pocket violated the 17t4 11 u' .kott ia:,,aritnlest_ feloniously taking from the person. I,4lo„.Pipe,wateear es Gentleman then went on to argue_ r. i qt ; 4 4 1 ,,, e ate was not the property of the U 0 Iv e tth 1.0 4, 4, s „ NEY-GENFR uf ti et m ts ru i tt. _ . , . A . L begged to call the atten_ i 4 1q e k Li t. ,,,. 49 'a f t w ere the to the question really before them. _ I F merits or demerits of the CoiToration 1 1 4 41 11; 1 . lifi,a._lull' but whethe r in some boroughs the mu }4, tOalls ould be a 10/. and in - other boroughs a t' e tl l , o e l , r a 4 t is so 1t was necessary, with a view to popular con ierly 4 4 210 o h ; j.? roughs they should a 51. franchise. There !,,,:etrwb'yuloi.n Made to this clause which had not been Plll,ew wordTfilr_c_ni..,nd Learned Friend. . q:,,clat ter , frown Mr. E. Tennent,- Mn; Wise, and tr"les ' w as a 1 1 4 ,lieh , 1 7 , El, arid g n reed to, l i th e i t :lase 10 ,_u, were agreed to without any observation. t oil as k.re,..iosto tr,,i,ng proposed, a conversation ensued as to ad o ; eil e 4 trait N ,',,snts of freemen were to be preserved. 4 ef3111(111 v4rC'NrR I. new \ va t)] t ha t , av e o • • '. A.... stated that the town itki. l ti I ) , 1 , a w , ha _, 0 cliscretion on the matter • they should ll i e 'e v c ial le °ll , ll4 to r u ,j a ee n t glit, but those who bad no right they N i e. Was a greed . t k th Q 2 0 ; as were also clauses 11 to 20 til e I % l t _ist o at at k eti 4 . ,krR 1,7 being read, , l iot t . o o4 ll3 .`e of a ° erved that as in this clause was embodied od to _IP. th, t_ncoley qualification of 1,000/. in the larger glye i t thsemaller towns, for town councillors, he felt sanle opposition in this Bill as that which he had offered to the samap:inciple in the measure for Eng land of their.st Session. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD, agreeably to notice, rose to move that in the larger boroughs the qualification should be reduced from 1,000/. tq 5001., and in the smaller from 5001. to 2501. The A TTO RNE Y- . G ENE RA L said he proposed that in the smaller boroughs an alternative qualification should be given, arising from a house of 20/. yearly value. Mr. SHAMAN CRAWFORD declined to press his a:nendment to a division, in consequence of the proposition of the Attorney-General. Mr. O'CONNELL suggested, in accordance with the ex- press wish of a part of hiiConstituents, that the qualification, so far as regarded Dublin, should be lowered to 5001. He did not, however, think that this was a very material question, or one by which the main principles of the Bill were deeply effected. The clause, after a short converEation, va3 agreed to. Clauses 22 to 29 were then pa3sed. The clauses from 30 to 39 inclusive were ag Cad t 3 withou observation. Oa clause 40 being proposed, Mr. FINCH suggested whether it would not be advisable to alter_the Bill so as to preclude Members of Parliament from being elected to the office of Mayor. As a fine was to be im posed 'upon persons elected to an office under the Bill declining to serve, it became necessary to make a special exemption in the case of Members. Mr. O'CONNELL hoped the Hon. Member meant to ex tend his suggestion to the Recorder of the city of Dublin.— ( Hear, hear.) Certainly never two situations were more in compatible than those of recorder and representative, espe cially when the house of assembly was situated several hun dred miles from the court house.--( Hear.) An HON. MEMBER thought the Lord Mayor of London should be included in the exemptiou.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR-There is no necessity for that, fur I am nut resident in Ireland, and of course could not be elected to the office of Mavor.—( A laugh.) Mr. O'LOGHLEN would consider the suggestion before bringing up the report. The clause was then agreed to.—Clause 41 was postponed. On clause 42 (relating to the fines in case of individuals not serving offices to which they have been elected) being proposed, Mr. WYSE suvested that Members of Parliament should be exempt from the operation of the clause. Mr. O'LOGH LEN had no objection to the adoption of the Hon. Member's suggestion, and would more the alteration of the clause with that view. Sir H. PEEL put it to the Hon. and Learned Gentleman to say, whether the exception ought not to be extended to half-pay officers of the army and navy. Perhaps the better course would be to postpone the clause altogether for the pre sent, and take into consideration whether some fixed principle of exception, without naming particular cases, might not be established. Lord J. RUSSELL agreed with the Right Hon. Baronet in the policy of postponing the clause for the present. With regard to officers of the army and navy, he thought the sug gested exception would be unnecessary. After a few words from Colonel PERCEVAL the clause vas postponed. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again to-morrow (this day). SLAVE TRADE (SPAIN) BILL. _ . _ Lord PALMERSTON moved the third reading of the Slave Trade (Spain) Bill. Mr. F. BUXTON was free to admit that the measure of which the Noble Lord now moved the third reading was fraught with a great many advantages, and was likely to be of considerable importance in regard to the great question to which it referred, but at the same time it was his firm convic tion that it was wanting in one essential particular, absolutely necessary for the complete and effectual achievement of the object in view. Slave trading was not made by it a piratical offence, and until it was so pronounced it would never be put a stop to.—( Hear.) The point, however, to which he particu larly wished to direct the attention of the Noble Lord and the House was the conduct of Portugal in connection with this sub ject. It could not but be manifest to all even the least degree conversant with the matter, that without a similar treaty with the Portuguese Government, the one to which the Bill now under consideration referred would prove nugatory.-- ( Hear, hear.) In short, if there was a single flag under which slave vessels might sail, all that the Government would achieve by their treaties would be, the transfer of the trade from others to it, and the practice of slave dealing would go on as briskly as ever. For this reason, he much wished the Noble Lord and the Government would turn their immediate attention to the point, and endeavour to induce the Portuguese Govern ment to enter into a treaty similar to that just ratified with Spain. Negotiations upon the subject had been now pending for nearly twenty years, but hitherto without any satisfactory result. If, however, the Noble Lord were to inform the Mi nister representing the Portuguese here, that Great Britain was determined to wait no longer, but to take the suppression of the trade into her own hands—as she could, if she pleased, very easily do—he felt confident some understanding would at length be come to. Should the Portuguese Government re fuse to become a party to such a treaty as that to which he alluded, he trusted the Noble Lord would not hesitate to in form them that orders would be given to the British cruisers to take the pirates wherever they found them ; and he need not add, he hoped such orders would, in such an event, be given and acted upon:—(Hear,hear.) Lord PA - LME tisToN agreed with the Hon. Member in thinking that the most effectual plan for the suppression of the slave-trade was for all the nations to make it a piratical offence and punish it accordingly. It was obvious, however, that this could only be done by the consent and with the good will of all the parties concerned, and not by the mere desire of one or two of them. Other nations, unfortunately, did not view the trafficing in human life with the same feelings of disgust and aversion that England did, and the consequence had been that as yet it had been found impossible to persuade several of the necessary parties to concur in designating the trade as a piratical affair, and punishable as such. In the case of Spain, the British Government originally proposed to affix to the offence the severest penalty of the law, but it was even tually found impossible to persuade its Government to go to that extent. It agreed to affix to the crime a severe, but not the severest penalty. Notwithstanding that, however, he hoped that much more good would result from the treaty than the Hon. Gentleman seemed to expect. The Portuguese. flag, it was true, might be made use of for the purposes of t'ie trade, but it was undeniable that -the power which the treaty went to give Great Britain, of putting down the trade . when attempted under the flag of Spain, would be productive of most beneficial results.—( Hear.) With regard to Portu gal, he had only to observe, that the House must not suppose thot there was no treaty upon the subject between Great Britain and its Government. There was a treaty, which, as far as it went, was found tolerably effective, though not en tirely so. The defects were first, that the district of country south of the Niger wa; not included in the limits to which it extended ; and, secondly, that it did not em power the seizm e and condemnation of vessels found equipped for the trade, though not in flayranti de licit,. Upon these parts a negotiation was now pending with the Portuguese Government; and considering that on every principle of good faith, and regard to honour, Portugal was bound to enter into it, he (Lord Palmerston) could not believe but that all that was desired could be obtained. The negociation had been protracted in consequence of the recent change of Government in that country, but he was in daily expectation of receiving the required treaty duly signed. He had only, in conclusion, to assure the House that no ex ertion would be spared by the British Government to achieve the total abolition of the slave trade, and from the communica- tions recently received from Powers not actually engaged in carrying it on, but whose flags might be made available for the purpose, when those countries hitherto most concerned in it discountenanced its continuance, he and the Government had every reason to expect that their Efforts would be crowned with complete success. Colonel SIBTHORP thought it evident that no practical end had been obtained. A little smoke had been raised, just to give rise to the supposition that something had been done ; but as far.as the -suppression of the trade was concerned, it was evident no advance had been made. Lord PALM E RSTON observed that the smoke to which the Hon. and Gallant Member alluded must have got into his head, and rendered him unable to read the Bill under discus sion. —( A laugh.) Mr. FINCH agreed with the Hon. Member for Weymouth in thinking that until the traffic in slavcs was madc a piratical offence, it would never be entirely suppressed. Mr. F. BUXTON expressed his perfect satisfaction that the Government were doing, and would continue to do, all in their power to induce ether nations to join with them in dis countenancing the slave. trade. If, in the case of Portugal, nothing was done, he begged to say, that he would be pre pared to call upon the house, by a specific motion, to sanction British cruisers in seizint , vessels under that flag, in virtue of the existing treaty._(Hear, hear.) He wished before he sat down to know from the Noble Lord if any negotiation was pending to extend the limits of operation in the French treaty, on the same subject, to those which were to be found in the Bill before the House ? Lord PALMERSTON replied, that though the limits were nct quite as extensive as was desirable, no inconvenience had as yet resulted from their narrowness. No negotiation upon the subject was pending. The Bill was then a third time and passed. The Letter Stealing (Scotland) Bill was read a third time and passed. FACTORY ACT. Mr. PO ULBTT THOMSON moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Factory Act. Mr. HINDLE Y was proceeding to impress upon the House the necessity of looking vigilantly to the interests of the children employed in the factories, and was quoting a passage from a speech of Lord Althorp, to the effect that the existing measure did not go far enough with reference to that point, when Lord A SHLE Y_observed, that it had been understood be- tween the Right Hon. Gentleman and himself that leave should be given to bring in the Bill, and that time should be afforded for the discussion of its principle in a future stage. Leave was then given, and the Bill was brought in and read a first time. PORTUGUESE TARIFF. Mr. EMERSON TENNENT wished to ask the Noble Lord opposite if it was true that the Portuguese Government had issued a tariff, imposing duties on the importation into Portugal of foreign goods, the effect of which would nearly amount to a prohibition of English produce and manufactures. Lord PALMERSTON said it was certainly true that the Government of Portugal had issued a tariff , which, althou g h not esp ec i a ll y directed against this country, would have an effect v ery i n j ur i ous to our commerce. Th e co mmercial treaty between Great Britain and Portugal, expired (according to notice) on th e 30th of April last. N e gotiations were now pending for another commercial treaty with Portugal. If thr se n'gotiations should fail, and if the Government of Portugal persevered in enforcing the recent tariff, it would be for Atijesty's Government to submit to Parliament the expediew y of adopting measures which would prevent any foreign pow( r fro:n enjoying commercial advantages is her trade with th's country which she denied to nq. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. On the motion of Colonel PE RCE VAL a return was or dered of the number of stamps issued to each newspaper in Ireland in the year 1835. Adjourned to 25 minutes to one o'clock this morning. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TAT7'E R. SA 1.1; S. THE RIDDLESWORTH, P. T. 2 tp I agst Ld Jersey's Brother to Nell Gwynne—taken 5 to I agst Sir S. Graham's Bravura filly—taken 5 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Brother to Emiliana THI PORTLAND HANDICAP, r.r. Hernsea, Rioter, and• Sheet Anchor (Brother to Hope) were in considerable, force, and several commissions remained unexecuted for want of a trifling advance in the odds offered against them. Birdlime remains at last week's quotation, her friends are ready to "go on" as soon as they hear of her arrival at Newmarket. Dacre and Mnudig are on the decline. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Mostyn's Birdlime—offered 5 t.) 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Hornsea—take 6 to 1 6 to 1 agst Mr. Sowerby's Rioter—take 7 to 1 6 to 1 agst Mr. Bowlis's Mundig—offered 7 to 1 agst Mr. Cooke's Sheet Anchor, Bro. to Hope—taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. Grecille's Dacre—offered 8 to 1 agst Mr. Etwall's Revenge—offered 4 to 1 agst Hornsea and hfundig—taken Revenge is on his road, in company with Free Will, and one or two others, from J. Day's stables. THE DERBY. The state of the market at present is peculiarly unfavourable to betting round. Indeed, as the odds now stand, it is impossible to Make a book without losing ; nor do the backers of horses appear to thrive, for most of the favourites are retrograding. The principal feature of yesterday's transactions was the advance of Mr Chifney's Brother to Emiliana, which was backed for a large sum by one party, and rose from 30 to 18 to 1, and Brother to Nell Gwynne, Brother to Beiram, The Athenian, and Weighton, were on the " returned list." A busy afternoon closed as follows :- 5 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's lot—take 7 to 1 10 to 1 agst Mr. E. Peel's The Mummy—taken 14 to I agst 14 Jersey's Bro. to Nell Gwynne—take 15 to 1 18 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Bro. to Emiliana-20 to 1 t. freely 20 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Mcndizabal -offered 20 to I agst Lord Exeter's Muezzin, Bro. to Beiram—taken 25 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Weighton—offered 20 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Brother to Maria—taken • 30 to I agst Mr. Edwards's Mulberry—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr Chifney's The Athenian— taken 50 to 1 agst Mr. Fox's Tipple Cider—taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's Delphine colt—taken 50 to 1 agst Lord Egremont's Emmelina colt—taken Offers to take 9 to 1 about Brother to Banifylde and Brother to Emiliana.—Nothing done on the Oaks. BETTING IN THE COUNTRY. CHESTER TRADE CUP, P.P. (COUNTRY rarcEs). 11 to 2 agst Red Rover—taken , 15 to 1 agst Lady Moore Carew 7to 1 agst Jupiter—tak. freely 15 to 1 agst Turban 7 to 1 agst Usury 16 to 1 agst Oswald Bto 1 agst Stockport 120 to l agst Jacob Faithful 11 to 1 agst The Stag 25 to 1 agst Amurath—taken 11 to 1 agst Tamworth 25 to 1 agst Tomes's Gelding 11 to 1 agst Billinge—taken 50 to 1 agst Miss Charlotte 13 to 1 agst Altamont—taken TIUNTING APPOINTMENTS. The King's Stag Hounds meet on Friday at Riching's Park. Mr. Payne's Hounds on Friday at East Haddon; Saturday, at Dingley— qr. to 11. The Duke of Grafton's Hounds on Friday at Whistley Wood. Mr. Drake's Hounds on Thursday at Horton Common; Saturday, at Trafford Bridge—hf-p. 10. The Heythrop Hounds on Thursday at Westwell Village ; Fri day, at'Mangersbury Park—h;past 10. The Atherstone Hounds on Thursday at Birch Coppice ; Satur day, at Wharton Village—qr. to I I. Mr. H. Villebois's Harriers on Friday at Swaffham Splashes--11. The Knapton Harriers on Friday at - Eddingthorpe-11. Sir J. Flower's Harriers on Friday at Caston.Hall—at 11. Mr. R.' Bagge's Harriers on Thursday at Shernb9rne-11. The Essex and Suflblk Hounds on Friday at Gifford's Hall-10. Mr. Leche's Hounds on Friday at GresfOrd—lif-p.10.. The Wynnstay Hounds on Friday at Gobowert—at 11. Mr. Muster's Hounds on Saturday at Popplewick Hall—hf-p. 10. Sir C. Constable's Hounds on Friday at Wyton Ban-11. The Berkshire Hounds on Thursday at Uffington—half-p. 10. Mr. Pane's Harriers on Friday at Jointer's Farm—half-past 10. The East Essex Hounds on Thursday at Layer Fox; Saturday, at Topinghoe Hall—hf-p. 10. The Puclicridge (Mr. Dalyell's) Hounds on Saturday at Moon Hall The Duke of Beaufort's Hounds on Saturday at Chevenage Green. Lord Seagrave's Hounds on Thursday at Taunton Inn. Mr. Giles s Hounds on Wednesday at Higham—at 9. Sir J. Cope's Hounds on Friday at the flare and Hounds, Beenham. Colonel H. Wyndham's Hounds on Friday at Broadford Bridge; Saturday, at Lisgate Common—half-past 10. The Ashdown Forest Hounds on Friday at Pippinford Lodge. The F, D. H. Hounds on Thursday at Beast Common. The York and Ainsty Hounds on Saturday at Oulston. The Eddlethorp Hounds on Friday at Pluckham-10. The Duke of Cleveland's Hounds on Friday at Marwood-11. The Sinnington Hounds on Friday at Helmesley—at 9. The Cleveland Hounds on Thursday at Easton—hf-p. 10. The Bedale Hounds on Friday at Morton Bridge ; Saturday, at Watlass-11. The Hurworth Hounds on Saturday at Smeaton Bridge—at 9. The Duke of Buceleuch's Hounds on Saturday at Lauder. The Monmouthshire Hounds on Friday at Wonostrow. . The Tiverton Hounds on Friday at Cone Bridge-10. 11r. Phillipps's Hounds on Thursday at Dowisdown—hf-p. 10. The Pantykendy Hounds on Friday at the Common on the St. Clear's side of Laugharne. The Tivyside Hounds on Friday at Glaspant Ifouse. The Pembrokeshire Hounds on Friday at Llanstinan. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS TOM-HOUSE, IMARcH 14. The Ramona, Whitcombe, for Hamburg') ; Fanny, Fache ner, St. Michael's; Brockelbank, Grant, Boulogne; Sove reign, Tring, Guernsey ; Maids, Kettle, Tarragona ; Lord Hawkesbury, Overton, Rotterdam ; Alkmar, Heath, Rotter dam; Champion, Catta, Havaniah; General Brock, Frayle, .Bermuda. ENTERED OUTWARDS. FOR LOADING, MARCH 14. The Lamia, Dale, for Guernsey ; Montreal, Chaplain, New York ; Navarino, Playford, Hamburgh ; Harbinger, Cham pion, Gibraltar; Britannia, Strannack, Rotterdam ; Clorinda, Mitchell, Sydney ; Neptune, Haaks, Ostend ; Caroline, Greig, Quebec; Louisa, Meyer, Baltimore; London, Pearson, Rot terdam ; Calista, Jamieson, New York ; Carl Frederick, Prins, Hamburgh ; Bergu, Vercanteur, Ostend ; Britannia, Fox, Ostend ; Buchanan, Watson, Halifax. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, MAacn 14. The Mary, Cordin, for Antwerp. ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, MARCH 13 The Jane, Hill, from New Orleans; Rose, Kerr, Wigton; Earl of Surrey, Christian, Isle of Man; Herstelling, Sn:itb, Portiush; Lucy End, Wilson, Westport. TELEGRAPHED. Off Holyhead, inward bound, the Floraville, from Buenos- Ayres ; Constantia, and Balfour, Maranham ; Frankland, Demerara. EAST INDIA SHIPPING.. The Macassar, from Batavia, has arrived off Dover, sailed Bth Nov., and St. Helena, 12th Jan. The Kirkman Finlay, from Bombay, has arrived at Liver pool, sailed 27th Oct. The Syria, from Bombay, has arrived at Liverpool, sailed 12th Nov. The Lady Kennaway, from China, has arrived in the Downs, sailed 12th Nov., and St. Helena, 23d Jan. The Miranda, from the 'Mauritius, has arrived off Margate, sailed 23d Nov., and St. I-Hena, Jan. 8.. The Scotia, from Beng al, has arrived off the Wight, sailed from Calcutta in Octo ber, Sau gor , 19th Oct., and St. Helena, 12th Jan. The Lochiel, from Van Diemen's Land, has arrived off Dover, sailed from Launceston, sth Sept., and Rio, 20th Dec. The Zeemans Hoop, from Java, has arrived in the Downs. The Indian, from Batavia, has arrived in the Downs. The Alasco, from Manilla, has arrived at Cowes, sailed 10th Oct. The Jannet, from . the Mauritius, has arrived off Dover, sailed 29th Nov., and Table Bay, 21st Dec. ST. HELENA. ARRIVALS.—The Thames, Jan. 21, from Mauritius, and sailed 21st, for London ; the Heyworth, 22d Jan., from Mau ritius, and sailed 23d, for London ; the City of Amsterdam, 23d, from Batavia for Amsterdam; the Memnon, 23d, from Calcutta, for Liverpool; the Africaine, 23d, from Singapore for London ; the Globe, 23d, from Manilla, for Havre ; the St. -Lawrence, from Batavia for Germany ; the Zephyr, 23d, from whaling; the Elizabeth, 23d, from Bourbon. . CHINA. DEPARTURES.—The Syed Khan, Nov. 4, for Calcutta ; the Lady Grant, 4th, for Calcutta; the Sophia, 4th, for Singa pore; the Pascoa, 6th, for Manilla; the Helen, Bth, for Bombay. BOMBAY.' DEPARTURE.—The Malabar (fr. ship), Nov. 8, for the Ma labar coast. BARRINGTON'S SECRET MENIOIRSOF IRELAND. —Sir Jonah Barrington's skill in appreciating and depicting character has been long acknowledged. No country presents more peculiar traits of character than Ireland ; and he has taken full and able advantage of this in his chief production. In the course of the above important work there is scarcely a single leading personage of modern Irish history whose character is not forcibly drawn, and whose conduct is not analyzed. We might notice, in particular, his portraits of Lords Cornwallis, Moira, Clare, Castlereagh, Charlemont, Camden, Norbury, and Fitzwilliarn : the Marquis of Buckingham, the Duke of Leinqer, Messrs. Curran, Grattan, Flood, Fitzgibbon, Plun kett, Bush, Yelverton, Dawson, and O'Connor, who figure in these pages, among other persons of great prominence, in the stormy and eventf u times described by Sir Jonah. The creditors of the city of Edinburgh hang rejected the proposal contained in Mr. Lahouchere's Report, which was three per cent. interest on 15s. in the pound of their debts. The magistrates of the city have increased the offer to 3 per, cent. on the composition proposed. The creditors demand 3e on the full amount of their debts The difference is still great between the parties, and the magistrates declare their inability to propose higher.terms. A case described by. the Kelso Chronicle as one of •` Local Oppression and Clerical Big,otry," has excited a very unfavourable impression of the Rcv. Mr. Frickney's conduct towards the Rev, Mr. Brotherston, Eis assistant. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS \%T call the attention of our readers to a communi cation in another column, under the signature of " An Old Whig," on the subject of a letter in the Times of Satur7lay,. to which an. absurd importance has been given by the comments of our Morning Contemporary. The letter in the Times is evidently the production of a gentleman highly satisfied with himself, and -he bestows his censure on Lord Palmer- - stonwith a self-sufficiency which appears exceedingly ludicrous when his own pretensions are attentively examined. But our Correspondent has done such ample justice to " Anti-Metternich," that it is unne cessary for us to take any further notice of that diplo matic luminary. respect to the commentary of the Times, the great burden `of which, as otir Cor- respondent well states, is to show "that Russia looks upon the avowed hostility of Lord Palmerston as of more value towards the advancement of his own am- bitious and encroaching schemes, than the alliance of any European power." We may • remark, that the writer of this sentence, blinded - by his mortifiod pride and. . his scorned malit?nity, did not see that while he was per.ning it, he was pre paring the highest compliment that could be paid to a British statesman. He admits that Russia has pro jects of aggrandisement in view, and he complains that Lord Palmerston, to whom are confided the foreign interests of this great country, has vowed hostility to thoSe designs. Is this course of action a duty which the Noble Lord need blush to proclaim ? Is the Bri tish Secretary of State to crouch at the feet of the Cmsar—to offer him the incense of adulation—to suffer the trident to be lowered as this haughty Cahnuc passes by in his triumphal car ? Can it be true that the Emperor. considers the opposition of such a man as equivalent to the alliance of another empire ? If so, we who know that Noble Lord's worth, his aptitude for business, his unvaried principles of exalted and rightly directed policy, are proud to hear. from his sworn enemies that his moral power has at length been felt in the quarter where, above -others, it is of the greatest importance to Europe at this moment ..that it should be ac knowledged to its fullest extent.. If the knowledge of his Lordship's hostility be indeed worth the accession of a whole kingdom to the cause of RuFsia, why does she not proceed with her machinations ? How comes it that, although so strongly reinforced, she stands at this instant paralysed in all the operations she planned at Unkiar Skelessi ? What has become of her mighty preparations at Sebastopol ? Why lingers her fleet at Cronstadt ? Why is the citadel of Warsaw silent ? 'Why did she not dare, single-handed, to seize the Republic of Cracow ? We tell the Times and its baseabettors, that England never exhibited herself to the world in a nobler attitude than in that which she has uniformly held during the presidency of Lord Palmerston over her foreign relations. Such bas tard-diplomatists as Anti-Metternich, who are unfit to fill the,. lowest Consular-office, even in - such a state as St. Domingo, may quarrel, if they please, with the measures he has pursued - in Spain. We should much like to know from these modern Plu tarchs how they would have faced`a British Reformed Parliament had the caprice of Fortune entrusted them with the seals of power, and they had acted upon principles which would have opened to Don Carlos the road to Madrid ? It is not given to au English Minister to:command the chances of war. But this he may ) and must do—he must be guided in a great measure by the public opinion of this country in all the great and governing motives of his policy; acting in this sense he cannot go far wrong, or if he do, his error, shared in by a reflecting and enlightened people, will be one of which he can have no solid reason to repent.—/Iforning Chronicle. • • The public are as little divided in opinion on the subject of the accusation trumped up by the ex-Sheriff Raphael against Mr. O'Connell as were the Commit tee of the House of CoMmons. The Times and the Standard may continue to _rave against the Report ; but they will not shake the judgment formed_by any one who has attentively examined the evidence. The question is now fairly settled. Mr. O'Connell is uni versally allowed to have been innocent of the charges brought against him ; and Mr. Raphael is as generally set down as a shameless slanderer. It is so much a matter of supererogation to waste more words on this subject, that we alin . 94 question whether' we are justi fied in. trespassing. so far on our readers as to point out some glaring misrepresentations in the Times of yesterday. Our worthy Contemporary does not scruple to affirm that the " bargain" is " an affair for a Court of Law to deal with," and in order to justify this assertion, the offence of .‘ bribery and corruption" is imputed , to Mr. O'Connell, and to justify i i t i h .US, n e accusation,the Act'rizr es betterci tes the Act securing4.9t George h the independence . and purity, of Parliament, by preventing the procuring cr obtaining of seats in Parliament by t c i o l i r s r u s p t t a t i u g t e a , c ees. first A s e f e t e t i r o n re o c n i g h is quoted,t e i bay y in bl eof which it is declared that persons entering into any engage ment, for money, gifts, or rewards, to procure, or en deavour to procure, the election or return of a Member of Parliament, is liable to a penalty of 1,0001. So far all is favourable to the argument of the Times, but then it craftily forgets to add the qualifying " proviso," section 2, viz.: Provided always and be it further enacted, that nothing in this • Act contained shall ex tend or be construed to extend to any money paid or agreed to be paid to or by any person Ar any legal expense bona fide incurred at or concerning any election." Was the Money obtained from Raphael applied to defray legal expenses? On this important issue in the inquiry the Committee report as follows : " It appears that this money (the 2,0001.) had been ex pended under: the immediate direction of Mr. Vigor's, and others connected with the county of Carlow, in what may be c a ll e d L E GAL 'EXPENSES, or so unavoidabl e th a t your Committee see no reason to question their l e g a lit y ; an d that the balance was absorbed in defending- the return of Mr. Raphael and Mr. Vigors before the Committee ap pointed to investigate, on the 28th of July, 1835." We challenge the Times and all the world to show that one farthing of the money was illegally expended. All parties concerned in the disbursement of the 2,000/. honourably and legally accounted for its application. The Times, indeeT, impudently asserts, that ".certain parts of the purchase-money were to be appropriated in compensation to Mr. Vigot4 for prosecuting a peti tion relating to a preceding election in which Mr. Raphael had no concern whatever, and in the pay ment of the rent of voters." This is an unadulterated falsehood, an original slander of the Times, satisfac torily expOsed in the inquiry. As to the extract of the sessional resolution of .r he• Common s , w hi c h a nnually proclai ms th a t a ll persons implicated in "bribery" or " other corrupt practices" will be pro ceeded against with the utmost severity, we may ob serve that it is about as little applicable to Mr. O'Con nell as to the man in the moon. When the report an d evidence .are p r i nte d , an d . i n t h e possession of it will p er h aps be oepected of Mr. Ha r dy that he s ou.explain t o t h e H ouse t h e source o f t h e perversions er‘,er Members,i sions ld of facts and false accusations which he lent himself to propagate. He, will, no doubt, in his endeavour to satisfy . the House that oh‘evtsrvjausStiilfiocapt_aioit tr; to the att e mpt t o i m p ose on the House of Comm ons , by suppressing all mention of the letters which preceded those which he introduced into his statement, and all mention of the.previous transac tions between Raphael, Mr. Vigors, and Mr. O'Con nell. The Conservative s ought to rid themselves of Ra phael with as.little delay as possible. He can be of service to them no longer ; and the alliance, even for the furtherance of a party purpose, with such a mean and contemptible, fellow is -not a little discredia'.l! to t h em . We suspect that he will be dropt even by his new friends, the Member for Berkshire, the writers in a certain journal which that Hon. Gentleman can in fittence, a well-known Improvisatore and Novelist, and ladyes s of John rould ever ret u rn to power, qualit y w h o sm il e d on th e i r labours. If Alex an d er R ap h ae l , w h o at the C l u b s are said to be n ow un d er a cloud, if not he-nighted, w ill, no doubt, b e th e very first Baronets in The Ga- Itifletlrish Walter lteran zette.—Morill . ng Chronicle. Thorns appear to propagate themselves rapidly round Lord Pahnerston's pillow. It is not enough that his Lordship should have plunged into difTicul ties, from which not hi ng short of miracle can extricate . hiui,by his ill-man age d i nter f erence i n t h e affairs of Spain, nor does it appease his evil genius to have Me liemet Ali plauging England on one side, and Tur key embroiling her on the other ; but a new source of vexation and embarrassment has sprung up, from a quarter where the progress of mischief seemed hitherto asleep or suspended. Whatever differences may have arisen as to the duty of a direct interposition by Eng land and France for the maintenance of those treaties which guaranteed the national existence of Poland, we presume that upon the late violence exercised towards the unprotected state of_Cracow, unprotected at least otherwise than by the public law of Europe, there can be but one opinion westward of the Rhine. The ap parent concurrence of sentiment between the three military powers on this subject, countenanced by the co-operation of their forces, adds something of cariosity to the attention which such a movement naturav de mands. That there can be any general cordiality be- tween the two Courts of Vienna and St. Petersburgh is altogether past belief. 'We need not rest on special evidence for the support of such a persuasion. The . juxtaposition of their territories, the direction of their frontiers, and the inevitable course and relation of their respective systems of foreign policy, compel those two great Powers into a state-of rivalship which can no otherwise be dissolved but by the event of actual colli sions, involving probably the whole of Europe in their vortex. What it is, therefore, that may have induced this partial agreement in the joint occupation of Cra cow becomes a question of some - interest, though not perhaps, of difficult solution. The little republic had been an asylum for fugitives from Russian power, and had thereby herself become an object of persecution to the Czar. It d oes no t a pp ear --that Austria •or Prussia had been engaged in conflict of any kind with their Polish subjects—that they had any insurrections . to punish, any wrongs to perpetuate, or any victims to. lay hold of. No ;it has.been a quarrel strictly Russian, another outbreak of Muscovite revenge, ostensibly sym pathized in by the cO-operating Powers, .-because they did not choose that Nicholas should take the law into his own hands, or assign what limits he might think proper to his own grievances, and to the redress which he exacted. It was, therefore, we suppose, acquiesced in by Austria that there should be a joint occupation of Cracow, to prevent Russia from seizing upon it se parately. . But, in • the mean time, - is this - not a fresh outrage upon the rights of -Europe, and, morally speak ing, a fresh disturbance of the general peace ? We are indebted to a correspondent for a paper, which he entitles " Infringement •of. the Congress _Of Vienna;" and wherein he enumerates many distinct instances in which the articles guaranteeing certain specific rights to the Republic have been glaringly vio lated ; to which guarantees, it must be well under stood that the British and French Governments were parties, and by which violations, therefore, they, as well as the republic under their protection, have been openly insulted and aggrieved. We subthit this state of things to the nation as one which in no small de gree augments the mass of our accumulating dangers, and re-enforces those manifold considerations which render the continued reign of Lord Pahnerston over the Foreign Departmenta calamity and disgrace to Great Britain. Since writing the preceding observations we have seen the following article, dated B er li n , M arc h 1, in the Allgenzeine Zeitung ;—the writer is a cruel wag. His pretence that jealousy of English power is the cause of this reluctant tyranny on the part of feeble and frightened Russia is the most insulting piece of irony which even diplomatic contempt has ever ela borated. Lord Palmerston, we suppose, has threa tened to occupy CracoW with some of the surplus bat talions of General Evans's army I Poor Lord Palmer ston I the very clerks in the back rooms of his office must laugh at this palpable joke : The occupation of Cracow, by the Northern PoWers, appears, under present circurnstance3, to In an event of great importance. It is evident that the threatening atti tude of England has made the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh so sensible of the danger of a focus of insurrection in its immediate neighbourhood, that a prompt and decisive inter ference certainly appears to be justified in the political situa tion of Russia.. It will be rememb ere d, t oo , th a t C racow has been for some time an object of the particular attention of the British Government, and this may serve to explain why the three powers lost no time in acting in their capa city of protectors of the city republic of Cracow, caring little for subsequent remonstrances. (From a Correspondent.) INFRINGEMENT OF THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA. .. Art. 6. The territory of Cracow twice violated 1. The 'Russian General Rudiger entered it during the late Polish revolution in 1831 ; and 2. At present, the armed force of the three pro tecting Powers. 15. The University of Cracow was • to be free to the youth of the kingdom of Poland and Galicia ; but the ad mittance to it for study was prohibited to the pup:ls from the kingdom by Russia long before the revolution; and those from Galicia and Prussia were discouraged from at tending the University, from the circumstance of the value of academical graduation having been annulled and ren dered useless for preferment. ACTS COMMITTED IN CONTRAVENTION OF THE CONSTI- TUTION OF CRACOW. Art. 4. The number of members composing the Senate has been diminished. According to the previous constitu• lion they were to be 12, with a president. At present there are only S and a president. 5. The 9 senators and the president formerly were elected From amongst the citizens and by the citizens, and 4 from :he chapter and the University—two by each. At present, he University has been deprived of the right of represen tation, an institution which was most likely to send intelli- gent representatives. 6. Six senators, when once elected, were for life ; the rest elective every three years. At present four are for life, and four elected every six years. If they are not confirmed by the three protecting Powers within six months, the ancient Senate continues in office till new elections take place. 8. In the University of Cracow professors were elected by the professors to the chairs in the different faculties by the means of what is called " Concours" (dissertation on a given theme), and then confirmed by the Senate of Cracow. Henceforth the professors to the chairs of medicine are to be appointed by Austria ; those of law, by Prussia ; those of theology and philosophy by Russia, by making reference to the Russian University of Dorpat, which is not of a Catho lic persuasion. Professors recently appointed do not know Polish. The chair of the Polish literature has been abo lished, contrary to the requirements stated in Art. 20 of the constitution, by which "every act of the Government, the Legislature, and the courts of justice shall be drawn up in the Polish language." 10. Formerly Diets were held in the month of Sep tember every year ; now the interval for Diets is fined at three years. They were held with open doors, now they . . . , are to be shut before the public. 17. " In cases eminently criminal the institution of the juries was to be employed." That -prevision is, of course, omitted as superfluous. At this instant justice is adminis tered by a court martial. " The Conferences" (as it is termed) of the presidents of the three protecting Powers have the power, on all occa sions, of scrutinizing the resolutions of the Senate. In case of three or two of them agreeing upon any measure, the Senate is obliged to bxe6ite .. oeir orders, and thereby becomes merely an execntiVe power, and acting in that capacity. Recent events have clearlyproyed it. . Liberty of the press, which - was to be no less free in the republic of Cracow than in the kingdom of Poland, is abolished, and not even thought of. Domiciliary search for prohibited works are of frequent _occurrence, and arbitrary penalties decreed.—Times. In another part of our paper will be found an ex tract from a statement published by the Anti-Slavery Society, to which we are anxious to direct the atten tion of our readers. The case which the Society make out on the part of the negro population in the in the West Indies is too strong to be passed over by the people or the Legislature of this country. In substance they declare, and they support their declara tion by a number of corresponding and irresistible facts, that the state of apprenticeship has turned out, under the management of the planters and their abet tors, to be little short of a complete delusion. Sla- very, if not in its full career, is still, it would appear, to a great extent in operation, though names have been changed, and principles have been asserted and recognized which would argue its extinction. If the statement now put forward be correct, apprenticeship is slavery by another name. We shall not enumerate here the facts brought forward in support of the assertion that cruelties are exercised, and evasions of the law arc prac tised, which in effect destroy the wholesome influence of the measure adopted for the relief of that unhappy race, whose past and present sufferings constitute the very worst feature exhibited in the history of mankind. One good, however, has resulted from the legislative enact ment—those cruelties which were only inhuman and barbarou s an d unc h ristian before, are now illegal and punishable. The law itself may be weak, its provisions may be inefficient, but the great principle is recognised, which, if carried to its full and fair extent, cannot fail to. correct the imperfections which impede its due ope ration. It is to this object that the Society are now directing their efforts. They find that the comnronrise (for it was a compromise upon their part, and upon the part of the Government, with the advocates of the old and in 7 quitonl system) has, in a i!reat measure, defeated the end which they had conjointly in view. They find that apprenticeship, surrounded with its restrictions and severities, does not work well. It is, therefo re , their duty to get rid of it. The conduct of th e ne aroes under this state of mitigated slavery, has, been such as to warrant that dependenceon the:r moderatiou and good condUct which, the Legislature w.ti too slow to. atticipate, when they fettered their boon with such a Condition, It is true that the West India papers have encLaVoured; by the most persevering misrepresenta tions, to keep up a jealousy of the apprentices; but the atithoriSed reports of the Government, and the .ac . counts of disinterested persons, and the testimony of the facts themselves, have been as uniformly in favour of the apprentices, as the Journal-, with one or two exceptions, have been against them.. The necessary inference from this would be, that the apprentices who have conducted themselves so %%ell are fit for fr,e.lotn. Indeed, they, have proved themselves better qualified to a their part in a free coaraiunity, than those who ha e shown so strong a disposition to continue them in their former subservience and. thraldom. We hope and trust, therefore, that the T exertions of the Society will not be thrown away, but that, szanding upon sue!' ground as the extracts to which we,_ allude exhibit, they will persevere in the good work of striking off the last shackle ; for, until that last shackle be struck Off, his condition, call it what you will, or qualify it hos you will, can be nothing else than slavery. A - Bill, connected with this subject, it will be s een f rom .our Parliamentary report, passed the House of Com mons last night. We allude to the Slave Trade (Spain) Bill, as it is called in the Orders. But, as Mr. Buxton truly observed, until slave-dealing be de clared piracy, and punished as, such, it is vain to hope that . the inhuman traffic can be banished from the World. This country has already taken one great step towards that happy corisumin ttion by the measure of abolition. Another important step will be the render. ing of that abolition complete within our own terri tories. When that is done, we shall be in a better position to dictate to the rest of the world. At all events, we shall redeem our own character, and justify our own pretensions.—Morning Herald. They who serve Mr. O'Connell, and praise his Majesty's Ministers, the daily press, seem to be as much surprised as delighted that the Government Mi.. . . . . jority in the House of Commons has reached the astounding numerical amount . of sixty-four I It is, indeed, matter for' some astonishment ; but, considering the mere dross and refuse—the sweepings of political unions and debatin,-, clubs—of whi c h thi s ma j or i ty i s composed, it would °be more prudent on the part of those who make the advantage of these majorities to eat their dirty pudding, and hold their tongues. But this they will not do. They must not only make a noise about their disgraceful success, but cast about for a reason for it, and therein, indeed, they show an admirable boldness. To the political consistency and political character (meaning good character) of the Ministers and their supporters they attribute the success of which they boast I There is a comical hardihood in this. It is not merely that this modest assumption comes from the friends of Lord J. Russell, whose constitu tional feelings once recoiled with disgust from the bare suggestion of the abolition of nomination boroughs— it is. not merely that the question by the carrying of which the present Ministers came into power is pre cisely that one which twelve months before they vehe mently opposed—it is not merely that time individual denounced by them as the greatest enemy of the peace of the country is now as notorious for' his power over them as for being the very basest public character in. existence—it is not merely these facts which so oddly illustrate the boast about consistency and good cha• racter, but even the columns which contain the boast, so far as they are Ministeral (and if they are not they are an imposture), do themselves present as glaring and as monstrous inconsistency and turpitude of poli tical character as imagination can conceive or words can express. They contain Mr. O'Connell's speech on Saturday, at the meeting in aid of the sufferers from the great fire at New York. Mr. O'Con nell is admitted on all hands to be in close con - oec- Lion with the Ministers of the Crown. The Ministers of the Crown not only accept his assistance, but offi cially exist by means of it. Noe!, what political opi nions does this Mr. O'Connell avow at the meeting on Saturday ? He avows that the political principles upon which America is governed arc those most pleas ing to him. He says that, from which it is a neces sary I nference that lie wishes the • Monarchy of this country were at an end. A professing Liberal of the first water, he eulogises the Government which sus tains ncgro slavery. A professing Papist of the most wholesale faith, he eulogises a State system in which there is no Church government. We doubt whether this most strongly displays the consistency of those who, sworn to maintain the Monarchy, make a political friend of Mr. O'Connell, or of Mr. O'Connell him- self, who, boUnd to liberalism and Popery, exhausts himself in praise of a theory of Government which pro duces results that are directly opposed to the leading principles of both. There is, however, instru c ti on f or _ _ how who will receive it in Mr. O'Connell 's enlogtes of the rebellion against the British Crown which led to the democratic Government of .Ame r i ca . W e re _ _ _ _ .- - collect a countryman of Mr. O'Connell, who exclaimed one day, with great oratorical fervour, " My friends, let u anticipate the past." We think this worthy is best entitled to describe the speech of Saturday. Mr. O'Connell was anticipating the past. But let us take another view of our Ministerial Contemporary's 'consistency. The present happy state of Canada, under the ever-excellent management • of the present Ministers, is the topic of discussion ; and it is said, truly enough, that the British patty there is what the Orange party is in Ireland. The same policy is, there fore, to be pu►sued with regard to both. Although they are British, and the only party well inclined to the British monarchy, they ,are to be treated as a minority ; that is, they are to receive the smallest amount of fa vour and protection from the Ministers of the British Crown. But much disturba►rce is anticipated, and their it is unserupulouslystated, with a nonchalance worthy of Lord Glcnelg himself, between his naps, that they may settle the affair among them, unless indeed that ever-10-be-enlogi.sed Government, the Republic of the United States, shOuld choose to take Canada, and the trouble .of governing, it, out of British hands altogether. Our Ministerial Contemporary philosophizes upon this subject in the followibg manner : " If the Americans are obliged to undertake the settle. inent:--(it is our British dominions in North America which are alluded to)—to protect themselves from the inconve nience of confusion • on their- frontiers—and we sincerely believe that is the only ground on which they will be tempted to intefere, for they find their own territory suf ficiently extended, and the difficulty of maintaining a ba lance between• them sufficiently great—then the nation Canadicune, like the Dutch, Spanish, and French settler 4 in New York, the FlOridas, and Louisiana must a b ai id on its separate l anguage , cot l e o f laws, feudal institutions, and Catholic Church, and adopt the English language and laws of the rest of America, Jonathan knows and permits na distinctions. He will cordially adopt his English brotner in Canada, and take the French into his flock, tending and shearing them all alike, teaching them many notions: which will be new to Canadian understandings, but which will force on the improveMent of the, country more in the first ten years of the Union than in the next century of French administration." In the first place, the consistency of a Government paper thus coolly contemplating possessions of the Crownthe to United States, is de lightfully consistent. But, besides this, what shall we think of the approving chuckle with which the con templated liberal -Government is s f i t t he tha n t ati c o o c i t Lelandas this en:le is contemplated ? the Russian government of Poland ? Who is it that I n n ent either of rants in strains of -mingled falsehood and abuse against c l o s : t t l e 'e Z t n i :i i i i e l lit of Canada by the 1 what is called -Orange L t emocrat's United whisperNwoh,ictill:elrle°tisetn'eolithainglndeousin tvranny States, of objection t iPl. : ''eal a :aae t : l ika e g' l r t ‘ t °la o ev' e :e rr?.at, against provided it be the work of democracy ; there is nothing wickedly oppressive which the demo cro will not hail with deli ht ? if it be but the result, of . 0