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v (Jr - , IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 16. The House sat to-day, shortly after two o'clock, for the purpose of enabling witnesses to be sworn to give evidence before the Irish Outrage Committee. CHARACTER OF LUTHER. (From Mr. Cal iisle's Lectures.) Martin Luther presides yot over modern history. Great he was, not only in the actions he did, but in his own intrinsic qualities. And in all manner of contra dictions did he seem to have been born. The son of the very poorest people—liv f tth;•r a miserable in;ncr, his grandfather and all his ancestors peasants of like sort — he was reared in the depths of poverty, and struggled forward to the light out of an extremity of vilest hard ship. He " bore the bag" at. school, and he sang there, and in the streets, for asslstneee end support. But what of that ! Truth did not desert him tor It. " There was no formality in my :riend Martin . Luther." He could stand alone in the middle of the world. Law student he was at the first, but an event very sudden and 1 full of awe withdrew him from wordly studies. While yet only twenty years 61,1 he was walking with a friend in the University of Erfurt, when a thunder bolt darted out of Heaven aid struck down his companion dead at his feet. This seemed as it. were to Luther to have borne a mission from above ; and from that instant in which he thus saw eternity lying et his feet, law and all its matters, and indeed all other proceedings of the world, looked poor and mean, and insufficient for the cravings of his soul. He entered the order of Angus tines, and became a pious and laborious monk. At the first, as be expresses it, he was in a sort of state of reprobation. But he began to study the Bible, and it happened to him to see the Pope 1 This was on a mission to Rome, ween, just as the natural loveliness of religion had broken in upon him, he beheld in this way the worst. vices and corruptions of her ministers in the world. Yet he was silent. In truth, he now felt he had onother concern to look after, for was there not his own soul to save. Now, nothing. was so admirable as the entire simplicity and modesty of him ! The idea of reforming the Church never entered his head. The living the life of a true man—that was his notion—and all else flowed naturall, out of that. He saw that pe nances, and vigils, and the like would not, and could not, work out salvation. It must be more hope in the Bible—it must be more faith in the Bible. At this very time--in the memorable year 1517 Tetzel came to Wittenberg with a very famous set of indulgences for sale. Luther saw him enter his own church, and offer in exchange for sundry pieces of money what were called " indulgences," from " Christ's holy lord the Pope," for the total remission of sins—pieces of paper with a red cross upon them, by which, for a con sideration, the gates of hell were closed, and those of heaven and glory eternally opened! Luther saw these things publicly sold in his own church to his own people, and then spoke out and said, " That shall not be." This was the beginning of the Reformation. Again observe the modesty of Luther. He set forward no grand plea or pretence of reforming the church. He shouted out nothing in big words about what he would do. There was no vanity in him. All he did was to deny, and re fuse to tolerate, a falsehood—and so the Reformation began. Four years went on in this way, and then he was summoned to the Diet of Worms to appear be fore all the princes and chiefs of the Roman Catholic faith. It was on the 1 ith of April, 1521—a day to be remembered for ever—that he arrived at the old city of Worms, to testify eternally to the truth, or to give it up utterly. A fearful enterprise ! More than two_ thousand good people had gone out, on horse or foot, to meet him, and dissuade him from advancing further. He said he had the safe conduct of the Emperor. Well, they answered, Huss had it too, but it turned out to he safe conduct into a prison six feet long, seven feet wide, and two feet eight inches high, from which he was carried out to be burocd. " I cannot help it," Luther remarked, " I must go on. To Worms will I go, though the gates of hell, and the powers of air were against me. Yea, to Worms will 1 go, though there are as many devils in the city as there are tiles on the roofs of the houses." He went ac cordingly, and was asked to recant what he had written, and he answered that he could not. Whatever there was of intemperate expression in his writings he would, indeed, recant ; but the doctrine of them was God's truth, and he durst not do it. " Here I stand," he said. " I can do no other. It is impossible to admit any thing that is against the conscience, God be my help. Amen." And there and then, upon that very spot, was the Reformation consummated. A poor man stood up before the princes of the world and said that; and all the world rose up and said, " Yes ; it is right, that thing which you have said." And never—Mr. Ca , lyle continued, in affectionate eulogium on the personal character of Luther—never stood up a truer hearted, a better, or a greater man than he who stood bAOre the Diet of the German em pire. In his face might be read the various elements of his cearacter. A course, rugged, plebeian lace it was, with great crags of cheek-bones—a wild amount of passionate energy and appetite! But in his dark eyes were floods of sorrow ; and deepest melan choly, sweetness, and mystery were all there. Often did there seem to meet in Luther the very oppo site poles in man's character. He , for examp le, of I whom Richter had said that his words were half battles, he, when he began first to preach, suffered unheard-o'. agony ! " Oh, Dr. Stauplitz, Dr. Stauplitz," said he to the Vicar-General of his order, " I cannot do it ! • I shall die in three months. Indeed, I cannot do it 1' Dr. Stauplitz, a wise and considerate man, said upon this, " Well, Sir Martin, if you must die, you must — but remember that they need good heads up yonder too. So preach man, preach—and then live or die as it hap pens." So Luther preached and lived—and he became indeed one. great whirlwind of energy, to work with out resting in this world—and also before he died he wrote four hundred books ! books in which the true man was !—for in the midst of all they denounced or cursed, what touches of tenderness lay ! Look at the Table Talk, for example. We see in it that a little bird having alighted at sunset on the light bough of the pear tree that grew in Luther's garden, Luther looked up at it, and said, " 'That little bird, , how it cowers down its little wings, and will sleep there, so still and fearless, though over it are the infinite starry spaces and great blue depths of immensity! Yet it fears not ;itis at home. The God that made it too is there." The same gentle spirit of lyrical admiration is in other passages of his books. Come home from Leipsic in the autumn season, he breaks forth into loving won der at the fields of corn. " How it stands there," he says, " erect on its beautiful taper stem, and bending its golden head, with bread in it—the bread of man sent to him yet another year!" Such thoughts as these are as little windows, through which we gaze into the interior of the serene depths of Martin Luther's soul, and see risible—across its tempests and clouds—a whole:heaven of light and love. He might have painted—he might, have sung—could Lave been beautiful like Raphael, great like Michael Angelo. As it was, the extremes of energy and modesty met in his active spirit. Perhaps, indeed, in all men of genius one great quality strongly developed might force out other qualities no less. Ilere was Luther—a sa vage kind of man as people thought him—a Wild Or son of a man—a man whose speech ordinarily a wild torrent that want tearing (loan rocks and trees— and behold him speaking like a woman or a child. But no sentimentalist was ! A tolerant man, but with nothing of sentimental tolerance. He went to the real heart of that matter. When his reforming associates made vast fuss about, some surplice that somebody or other wanted to wear, he ceded the matter with a " What ill can a surplice do to us ? Let him have three sur plices if he will. That is not Our religion, nor inter feres with it at all. Domine misrrere mci. That is what we have to think of. That is what we must think the essential of Christianity." Nothing of what is com monly called cant, sir pride, or ambition, was in Lu ther. In his modesty, cart Ainly, there was an indomit able pride. It was this that made him not higher than the lowest man with a soul, nor yet lower than the highest. Thus, when he was threatened with the anger of " Duke George" if he went to Leipsic, he made answer that he lad no business at Leipsic, but if he had, nothing on earth should prevent him. If it rained Duke Georges for nine days mining, there he would go. Well, and this man who thought and acted in this way passed a whole life of suffering ! He was a deeply melancl'Vy man. More labour had fallen upon him than he you'd rightly bear, and it was in vain that he prayed to be releesed e he toiled and sorrowed on. Even with Satan hiraself—the evil principle of the world—was he destined to hold high argument. Men would laugh at that, and a cheap game, indeed, was ridicule ; but be it recollected that in Luther's days God and the Devil were equally real ; and that he thought he was from the first, as when he had that vision of the crowded house-tiles of the old city of Worms, a man speci , illy selected to fight with devils. Well then, he sat alone one night ; be was translating the twenty-third psalm, and, pondering on its deep sig nificance : he had sate fasting for two days, when the Devil rose and stood before him, and opened the famous dialogue, accusing Luther of crimes, and threate nin g h im with hell, and terrifying him to recant ; all which the Christian hero put an end to at last by taking up his ink bottle and flinging it at the Devil. The mark made by the ink on the wall is shown to this day ;—and a memorable spot truly, is that !—a spot that may mark at once the greatness and the poverty of man !—the record of a delusion which any doctor's or apothecary's 'prentice could explain now-a-days ; but also of a cou rage that could rise against what seemed to be the bodily impersonation of darkness and despair, and of e nmity to to good. No braver man than Lut her ever appeared is Zurope. - COURTENAY REDIVIVUs.— rt - le lant. the Red Lion and severml others have received a lit r it is from London signed ‘, Willi.trn Courtenay," where stated that he vts only in the grate seven days. and that he will make an appearnnce at the Red Lion, Boughton, in the course of this m onth ; that everything Is to be in pre paration, and he will then and there explain all mysteries and work miracles. We understand that the Rev. M r. o f H erne -bill, has see . none of the letters. Strange Handly, as it may appenr, many of his deluded followers in the Ville of Dunkirk are anticipating the day of his arrival . It was at the latter end of May !art year that the lament- able occurrences known aa the " Courtenay Tragedy' , the place. Tke.subject is too setious for a hoax - and th atte,.pt. an exciter': o f' th i s k i n d discreditable to the writers of these letters. —Kent .herald. lord o EVENING KMON': POLICE INTELLIGENCE• ---,,,--- , .HAT TON-GARDEN. Yesterday James Geary , c oal dealer, of No. 133, the Saffron-hill, v - as summoned by Mr. James Child, in spector of weights and measures, charged with having in his eossession a weighing machine of false balance.; The.-Irnfl;tnt's niece attended - to ans wer the compl a int, I '.l and said elle was prepared to pay the pe nalt y in the even' of a conviction. W:lham Turner, of No. 15 , Vine - st reet, Hatton assistant to the inspector, being sworn, stated that ort Sac- • turday the 11th inst , he went. in com p an y of the inspe tor, to the defendant's shop, where they found the weighLig machine, now produced. Witness examined it with tbs l standard weights, and the draft against the purchaser was 2.1 b, 2.1,- oz. After the small coal had been cleared away, they discovered that the false draft was caused by a pound and a half weights and a piece of iron, which were placed under the scale in which the coals were weighed. The niece said that the machine was certainly out of order, but it should not occur again. A neighbour had weighed some glass and left the weights under the scale. Her aunt was in ill health and unable to attend. Mr. BENITT—She is not to plunder the public because • she is in ill health, and profit at their expense. The defendant was convicted in the penalty of 51. and costs. The defendant, it was stated, was one of those selected by the Minister of the parish to serve out coals to the poor at Christmas. SHAMEFUL CONDUCT OF THE TOWN-CLERK AND OTHERS AT HUN TINGDON. We have received accounts of the reception of the anti- Corn-law lecturers at Huntingdon which must excite the surprise and indignation of every honest and right-mind beci reader. Will it be believed that t he town-clerk, aided y co uncillors, magistrates, landowners , fa rmers. &c., should pack the boxes of the theatre at Huntingdon, and, on the appearance of the lecturers, who had paid for the use of the house, commence a deliberate system of interruption and disturbance, which, in spite of the assistance rendered to them by the common people, forced them, after a strug - gle cf several hours, to abandon their attempt to obtain & hearing ? The town-clerk began by crying out in reference to some Christian and philanthropic principles laid down hi the lecturer, " We came to hear a lecture on the Corn laws and not some nonsens e about Christianity; " after which, in answer to the remonstrances of Mr. Sidney Smith, the lecturer, he insisted on his right to interfere . Meanwhile the house was in a tremend ous uproar, and though cries cf " Go on" proceeded from the majority of the audience, the gentlemen ra bble y elled only the loud and various missiles were thrown u p on the sta g e. A town° er, co uncillor, who expressed himsel f stron g l y as to she cowardly and disgraceful conduct of his brethren around him, was assailed with cries of " D—n your eyes," " to h—l," &c. After a while, Mr. Smith was beard J O l loud enough making the statement that the labour t is i!1 off whew food is de ar, and well off when i is cheap ; upon which the town-clerk exclaimed, " It's a d—d lie." A rich farmer said it wa s s "An infernal lie," and the s e outra g eous interruption were vehemently cheered by the aristocratic portion i of the audience. .Mr. Smith , taking advanta g e of the admissen of his opponents in regard to the comparative rate of weg ef d s in cheap and dear seasons, completely refuted the gross an, ruinous fallacy, exclaiming " Out of their own bel mouths I have condemned them." Tremendous cheer, mingled with yells and hisses, immediately followee• And from this moment the gentry who occupied the boxes would allow nothing to be heard. Attempts were. made to put out the lights, oranges, and afterwards ; number of halfpence were thrown into the pit, ee d d. scene of confusion , beggaring all descri p tion, ensue,. Many of the working men at length came from rbe lery to Messrs. Smith and Shearman, expressing the gin, e ir 10 ' dignatioo at the conduct of the ir masters, and dec that though they did not wish to interfere, seeing the lds lt were dependent on the gentleme n rioters, they wou m, least defend them, if necess ar y , from bodily harm. Td ra last it became evident to t he lecturers that they. "lite, make no progress, and , at the re q uest of a Magist who is respected by all pa rties, the y consented to retrieti on condition that their opp onents should leave thee o'__ first, which they accor din g l y did. On leaving the thestrb; Messrs. Smith and She arman went right through Id 0300 55 0 midst of the audience, amid great cheering and " God bless you." But many of the aristocratic I d ll or followed them with hootings and hissings to the verY _ehe of their inn. All concur in saying that the effect ei row will be worth many lectures. r s t ate A letter has been addressed to the Secretary' bet for the Home Department, calling his attention te_ t ,", ‘ „ the of the legal peace preserver (the Town Clerk)• he'": t he principal disturber of the Town of Huntingdn: ether above occasion. Defenders of the Corn-lan; of the places, who are desirous of emulating the cl,..e . e o ,,,turer s worthies of Louth and Huntingdon, a gainst t" the e tr " st of the Anti-corn law League, may ' depenu me ats. . ü blicity being given to their heroic achieve° SHIPPING INTELLIG'"' (LLOYD'S.) CUSTOM-HOUSE, MAY 16. for St,' E N TERED INWARDS . — B riton ' s Queen, Newto... Michael's ; Black Cat , Chesser, ditto; Ear' c o o• Lomax, Ostend ; Antwerpen, Bretten, Antwerp.;cka merce , Mason, Rotterda m ; Fortuna, Alsen, Fredris.t.l: Mi n e r va, Gromers, ditto ; Mar g aretba , 13lom, Scnwer, Dryade, Heard, Sydney ; Lord Nelson, Quenton, Michael's; Stag, Predeaux, Havre • Hero, Wickanh Pr Michael's ; Azores packet, Gibson, 'Havre ; Menix, 11 % fort, Havre ; City of Boulogne, Tune, Boulogne • 13 0 ,:, Love, St. Michael's ; Wm. Jolliffe, Pashley, COP' Ocean, Fife, Rotterdam; Harriet Carrel, Jersey. ENTERED OUTWARDS.—The John Bull, Corben, Har) bro ; Rob Roy, Lantret, Malta ; Liverpool, Burney, 1...17 bon ; St. Pierre , Potte r, Havre ; Caroline, William s, e' Adelaide. sober CLEARED OUTWA RDS WITH CARGO.--Tb% • &VOA. Whitcombe, for Antwerp ; Frau Margaretibtitior;--- Li .-cpm o arok r : Hambro ; Lord Strangford, Goddard, d Francis, Cape of Goo d Ho p e ; James C rul k ; Young, Trinidad ; A lexander Schroder, Kos now, Seeger, ditto ; Albion, Hick, Halifax. or Ria; °ll5 IN BALI , AST.—The Foy le p acket, Stevens, • r Dixon, Raven, Hannington, St. Pctersbur g h ; '1 Pegg, Riga. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Chi n¢+ of Arrival.---The General Palmer, noun, from tju l ,resb• Penzance, sailed 10th November ; St. Helena, 2 2 ' f ID ruary ; Setris, Trip, from Java, off Penzance; s ailed 11:1 St. Helena 7th March. tu j e se Arrivals at the Cape of Good Ho e.--Ser 'c,.eres, ship Nautilus, Beaufoy, March 8, fromPMauritius; '".- 6, Gilbaud,', 6, from Mauritius; St. George Willialil-' , from Calcutta. la eoele liv Departures from the Cape of Good Hope.---men 6 , ° Gilbert, March 5, for Loudon ; Sabine, Gil ' Mauritius. „J e/. ~. Passengers per Madagasc ar, Walker, from 13ellAg3 i Mrs. Smith and two c hildren, Mrs. Parks, Mrs. —1 Mr.' and two children, Mrs. M`Kenzie and two childre;cl,6di Macqueen, Mrs. Cragg and child, Mrs. Penny B„oal‘e° Mrs. Walker, Miss Watson, Miss Oakes, Miss .1. 001; Miss BagshAw, William Mackenzie, E l .. Dr. Als, c ,;, :i / 4 . 0 ; James Goss, Esq., Lieutenant Gunthorpet.,`; lir:: Lieutenant Bird, 12th N. 1. ; Charles Penny, n.' M i s s Leslie, Esq., and children ; Miss Boisesg°s'eseoet Carter, Miss Glass, Miss Callagher, Master 1 3 , ° 13 1 ste r'soo , Master T. Boiseagon, Mister Carter, Master 1 1 ; c i varle r and Master Somerville Carew. Steerage.---".' ale' eon, Mr. Early, six English female, two native feloslV dtwiaocP,oorartpuagauye,sseilmiveansT:,rvants, an d 46 of the fl°a CoW el Passengers per Minerva, Ireland, for Madras.' 4 il, Bird, Madras N. I. ; Mrs. Bird. Captain Mrs'rensas, Mrs. Grant, Miss Grant, Miss Davint.on, '''''', IP; son ; William Lavie, Esq., Madras Civi! Serviee'fill' L ‘i ,vie, Lieutenant Pratt, 63d Regiment ; M r° ' gd s . ljor Jackson, her Majesty's 57th Regment; her T v Cassioly, 57th Regiment; Lieutenant Stewartt,r 04 jesty's 21st Regiment; Lieutenant Brabazon, i''' Cbe r ; e : ly's 21st Regiment.; Lieutenant Taylor, desl• Crete: Ellis, and Fane, Madras Civil Service L '. C. J. Bradley, Esq., Cadets ; West, Ea;ck eief . 0 00 1 / 4 °11 ; LIFE OF THE DUCHESS OF MA° ll°- of ' trot —We are requested to state that Mr. Colbur.sg, 0000-0,1 Marlborough-street, has this day published ' coer t v :of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, a nd of tr y , D" - 0 1 5 e Times of Queen Anne," by the Author O' lll°. O f Colbsri?spirls ip Henry VIII.," &c., in 2 vols. Bvo. Mr. just published New Editions of Mr. tlrqubart,:‘ grevrl~d• East," 2 vols. Bvo. ; Captain Spencer's a 1 ,00 -y i p!' Circassia," 2 vols. Bvo., with illustrations ; so t W, say's " Letters on the Holy Land," 2 volo.r,,, s pe l t i le 'ade r illustrations, which can now be had of 1 1111 ~,..g .----',„",. se, CHARLES X. AND Louis PlilLir',--.olr.- 01 this title a work is about to appears f b _ ic ie: l , ll e t t -011- _ P A - first time unfold the secret history of tsv.iiproL.,,ginc'" July, 1830. The contents' of this work °li v es; r ie co' thenticity, or never, perhaps, could it ka/ e t aslii land the that the circumstances • narrated could o°'-unclers`feasoos, curred. Although written in French, o/ e byloos, tea s at manuscript has been translated, as, fo r :ecl il l r - . such a publication could not have ape' . least during the present Government. 'lO na, SECOND HAND PLATE PUS „ (s e t r' ~.0 - 11 COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Etc , 47, ‘-' 1 " -b xe cu- 1, I ' ll' from Gracechurch-street), London,' infortillate, tb . s o M t ° , others, wishing to dispose of Second-ha n PO! I ,ll ' having a ready sale, he can offer more advantage°l2-06erOgtilto can generally be afforded by the trade. Strangerse ,t ° ,,r Of'; for sale are required either to give a refereoc;or tP" cheque crossed \N all their banker's name , 'w ich prefer. .0.0.1•1010MMIN FERRIMOMM•111.- Of bP-- BIRTHS. , , rs► t he On the 12th inst. , the lady of Henry Y je^e 0' field, Solicitor , of a son. w eer' s ' c ot On the 1 5 th inst.. in Leicester -place, I .l l bt•P f wife ot James Nichols, Esq., surgeon, of a the "iadf ° On the 15th inst., in Curzeu-street, t he B r uce, of a son. _ tt tei tic t e MARRIED. _ no , eril r ottor On the 16th inst., at St. George's, "` oleo' o f Hon. Henry Spencer Law, brot her of Lord__4ifort, Dorothea Anne, eldest daughter of Co on renane, Carlow, and niece of Lord Downes. _--------------------- •glif DIED. , Sri. ;joy , * 09 the 14th inst., in Oxford -street, Liverp"°," evil Lieutenant -Ye° ! byll. ' beth Grose, widow of the late aged 70. of V ag% On the 15th inst., Ann, wife of John Phillips, to one of the Society of Friends, aged 62. k Mrs. °' On the 13th inst., at Dean-street, Southvrar t j ot. Robinson. ~_„e j‘farP On the 9th inst., at Billericay, Es.ex, Care!!!') esq,, eldest daughter of the late Joseph Radford, aged ?"'"frorimv On the 11th inst., at Euglefield-green, Benornil3 aged 78. nt London: Printed and Public;lied by hlll}ll.lo s i t , i 4 . l .,s , • " '"" - 0-- Ns. 111, cuuaty uS :viiatife-557:—.F—ri#1;;:".1iiity 17, it CHILDRENS' FRIEND SOCIETY. NEW PEERS. Lord WEILOCK was introduced by Lords Bray brooke and Portman, and took the oaths and his seat with the usual solemnities. Lord Cor.loaNu was also introduced by Lords firaybrooke and Rosebery, and took the oaths and his seat. The LORD CHANCELLOR resumed his seat on the Woo!suck at Five o'Clock. The Earl of CAWDER presented several petitions in fa:your of an extension of the Church of England. r fhe Duke of RUTL AN D presented petitions from the Board of Guardians in the counties of Derby and Leicester, praying that in any alterations to be made in the New Poor Laws, the great principles of the Act might be retained : on a future occasion he would show their Lordships that the working of the Amendment Act had greatly benefited the labourer. The Marquis of NORMANBY presented papers respecting the Clergy reserves in Canada ; also papers respecting the employment of Indians in the late rebel lion in Canada ; also papers regarding the transactions which took place at Mullingar in June last. GLASGOW COTTON-SPINNERS. Lord BROUGHAM had a very important petition to present, and he was glad he had the opportunity r.f doing so in the presence of his Noble Friend the First Lord of the Treasury. It was agreed to at a public meeting held in Glas gow, and was signed by from 6,000 and 7,000 per sons, and they prayed for the merciful interference of the House on behalf of the five cotton-spinners who were sentenced to seven years' transportation for a conspiracy in January, 1838. They were found guilty by a majority of only one of the Jury of the two minor counts in the indictment, namely, assault and threats. Their moral character was unimpeachable, and their conduct while on board the hulks exemplary. The petitioners implore their Lordships to take the hardship 1 of the case of these men into their serious and merciful consideration:; and he (Lord Brougham) would add one word in support of that prayer. By the mere , accident of locality, they were convicted o f a crime 1 which subjected them to seven years' transporta tion, and of these seven years eighteen months had been I passed in the hulks, and by a blunder to which they were no . parties, committed by the person entrusted with the I management of the Crown Law-office in Scotland, they were kept three months in prison before that, so that they had spent twenty-one months in confinement , or 1 Eeven times as long as they could have been imprisoned, if they had committed the same crime 60 miles to the southward, in Westmoreland or Cumberland. He i really did not think it for the credit of the law that so great a disparity should exist in the measure of punish , ment to be inflicted.—(Hear, hear). He hoped their case would be taken into the merciful consideration of her Majesty's Government; and he should not, on the present occasion, give any notice for a particular motion on the subject. Petitions in favour of penny postage were presented by the Earl of ißosebery, the Marquis of Londonderry, and some other Peers. The Earl of BRADFORD presented a petition from Manchester, praying for religious instruction in the Colonies. The Earl of RODEN presented a petition from the Presbytery of Caithness, praying for the repeal of the Roman Catholic Emancipation Bill. The Seditious Societies Bill, and the Purchasers Pro tection Bill went through a Committee, and were ordered to be read a third time on Monday, the 27th. The Bishop of EXETER presented petitions from the Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter, and from the diocese of Ripon, against the Church Discipline Bill. The petitioners stated that they saw in the Bill the extinction of some of the most important parts of the Christian Church, as they considered that the sub ordination of the clergy to the Bishops was almost done away with by the provisions of the Bin, and that with respect to the Ecclesiastical Courts, it would render , the proceedings there much more a nno y in g than their were i at present. In his opinion, the provisions of the Bill had i a great tendency to the extinction of Episcopacy. Such was the feeling of the clergy with respect to this Bill, that he felt convinced before it again came under the conside ration of their Lordships numerous petitions would be presented against it. 1 The Bishop of GLOUCESTER would add his tes timony to that of the Right Rev. Prelate as to the feel -1,,..; of the clergy with respect to this Bill. , . The Bishop of LONDON could not submit that the remarks of the two Rev. Prelates should be al -1 lowed to go forth without at the sane time making one , or two remarks upon the subject. With respect to the tt.ndency of the Bill to extinguish Episcopacy, he must (I.•ny that it had any such tendency; nor would it in at:y way weaken the superintendent , - of the Wallop over the clergy. He must also deny, so far as I , ls intercourse with the parochial clergy went, that 11-.-re exictedamon.gst them any feelin,c against the Bill. 1 The Bishop of EXETER would lie prepared to jectify his opinions respecting the Bill when it was regularly before the House. i BEER BILL. In answer to a question from a Noble Lord on the Opposition side, Lord BROUGHAM said he should bring on the Beer Bill, if possible, ou the Thursday after the 27th of th's month. Viscount MELBOURNE 'moved that the House on its rising adjour❑ till Monday, the 27th. The Duke of WELLINGTON suggested that the house should not adjourn, hut that there should be an understanding that no public business of importance s'lould be brought on till the 27th, in order that the judißial businf.:s might not he interrupted. Viscount MELBOURNE said the had no objection t• this ; but The LORD CHANCELLOR said if the House were not to adjourn till the judicial business was ter minated it would never adjourn at all.—(A laugh.) Besides, when not in that House, he was in the Court of Chancery where the business was also very heavy. It was ultimately agreed that the House should ad journ till the 27th, but that no business of importance should come on upon that day.—Adjourned. VOISIN'S ORTHOPHRENIC LECTURE. Tuesday, the above lecture was eelivered at the Mary le-bone Literary and Scientific Institution in the English language, it having been previously delivered in French. From this Lecture itself, and from the remarks with which it was prefaced by Mr. Blair, of Portman-square, we gathered that Dr. Voisin is faunder of the Model Establishment at Vauvres, near Pais, and that for the lase twenty years he has devoted himself to the study o 1 nervous and men t a l di seases ; a n d as the result of that study, that he is anxious to propagate sounder and more philosophical v i ews u p on t h e su bj ec t of education. In the application o f hi s princ i p l es , at en i nst it u ti o n o ver which he presided , a t B eau G rene ll e , un d e r the name of Atabhssernent Orthophrenique, or 'liaison de l'Esperance, he has obtained the highest success. His attention is directed, not to the deformities of the body, but to the vices of the heart, and the waywardness of the mind. Dr. Voisin divides his pupils into four classes—first, these whose intellectual developments are primitively stinted—secondly, those who are born with the usual advantages of nature, but who have become vitiated by an early and ill-directed education thirdly, those to whom nature has been lavish of her gifts; and from whose ranks society is sup plied with the greatest geniuses or the greatest villains ; and, fourthly, those who are born of insane parents, or, from their peculiar conformation, exhibit early indications of inherent tendency to this hereditary malady. The first class Dr. Voisin proposes to treat by lowering the standard of education, so as to bring it to the level of their stunted capacities. With respect to the second, he advised a system of careful and incessant moral culture. In reference to the third, his plan is, to raise the standard of education, so as to adapt it to the lower intellectual development, and thus to form the great and virtuous man. And in !renting the last, he would early watch those intellectual developments which indicate the approach of insan ity, be lieving that by careful and watchful efforts, there s reason in every case to hope for an ex em p tion from its destructive mental effects. The lecture was close d with practical and philosophical remarks, illustrative of the physiology of the brain, and demonstrating that ignorance of our own nature and of the vices of our institutions, are the causes which conduce to render human existence so un ennobled and miserable as it is found at present. The whole lecture, indeed, abounded with acute philoso phical remark, expressed in simple and beautiful language ; but we cannot say that it added either to our stock of in formation on this subject, or that it opened up a single topic which has not been a matter of investigation and dis cussion in this country over and over again. The object of Dr. Voisin, we understand, is to urge the establishment of an Institution in London, similar to the one over which he presides in France ; and from some remarks which fell from Mr. Blair, at the close of the lecture, we were led to suppose that such an institution is actually in contemp lation. The Orthephrenie Lecture having been completed, Dr. Voisin proceeded to the delivery of a Lecture, in the French language, upon the Study of Man, in his religious, moral, and political conduct, especially in reference to mental alienation. The attendance was highly select and respec table, and Dr. Voisin was frequently and loudly cheered. FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday night, about nine o'clock, an elderly woman, residing in Upper Gardener -street, Regent-street, was crossing the street from her own residence, when she was knocked down by the herses of a gentleman's carriage, and before they could be stopped the wheels had passed over her head, which was fractured in such a dreadful manner that the brains pro truded from it, and her death, as a matter of course, was almost instantaneous. It is said that the party who was driving, it is believed from the races, called out to the de ceased, but she being deaf was not aware of the warning. The body was taken into a shop, and on its being found that lif e wa s gone, a shutt er was pr ocure d, an d t h e unfor tunate woman was conveyed a corpse to her own house, w hich she had left but a few moments before in compara tive health. ..seeseemereeweeallenNeveweeemeessereeeweepeeee.,„„,„„....s.... The ninth annual meeting of the members of the Childrens' Friend Society took place yesterday, at twelve o'clock, at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate street. The Right Hon. the Earl GROSVENOR in the chair. Amongst the Noblemen and Gentlemen on the plat form we noticed Lord Eldon, Sir C Leman, M.P., Mr. Wilbraham, M.P., Mr. John A. Yates, M.P., Mr. Henry Gaily Knight, M.P., and most of the members of the Committee. The CHAIRSIAN observed it would have given him great satisfaction if the meeting had been presided over by the Lord Mayor, but having himself been applied to on the occasion, he was not disposed to shrink from as sisting in the promotion of this Society. He greatly regretted that statements had been put forth against the Society, so injurious to its vvell-being. He regretted also that they had not the pleasure of seeing, on the present occasion, those children who had been educated by the Society's fostering care, their countenances beaming with satisfaction and delight ; but they were not now present, because their wishes and feelings and personal comforts had been consulted, and it was thought probable, from the injurious way in which the So ciety had been assailed, that they might suffer in person and comfort from being brought through the streets. But he had another and still deeper cause for regret, and that was that the Society did not enjoy the presence of the mainspring of the Society, the gen tleman who had so much exerted himself in its esta blishment, who had exerted himself upon all occasions for the advancement of its utility, and whose career had been closed under causes of great compassion—he al luded to that most excellent man, for so he must still call him, although his character had been so grievously assailed, Captain Brenton.—(Hear.) All who were connected with the Society were bound to speak what they knew of him. He had now gone to his account ; but he had gone with great advantages ; for after hav ing served his country he bad devoted the remainder of his life to objects of philanthropy.—(Hear.) He (Earl Grosvenor) had been connected with the Society from its commencement. He had seen the manner in which Captain Brenton had exerted himself, and the spirit working in his breast to do good to his fellow-creatures who were in want of assistance, and support. He held in his hand a paper to which he would refer, for the purpose of showing how the So ciety had been treated, and this was the point which weighed most deeply on the feelings of Captain Brenton a few hours before his death. In the Times, of 6th of April, there was an article describing the Society as kidnappers, as crimping children for the Cape, and, as slaveholders, sending out these children for the purposes of sale.—(Hear, hear.) These were the points which had excited so much regret in his mind, and would ex cite regret in the minds of all persons interested in the well-being of the Society, which he believed to be one of the most useful that this humane metropolis could boast.—(Hear, hear.) With these feelings of regret there were mingled feelings of satisfaction also. The time had now arrived when they were enabled to put a check upon the injurious representations which had been made against the Society, by laying before the public a true statement, as far as possible, of all the circumstances con nected with the arrangements of the Society, in order to contradict the reports which had been circu lated so greatly to its disadvantage. It should be borne in mind that the Society was instituted in IS3O for the purpose of checking juvenile vagrancy. He wished it had been exclusively confined to that o bject, because the feelings of the managers had been acted upon by scenes of distress—in their leniency they had extended relief to cases not exactly within the line of vagrancy ; mothers who had children whom they were unable to manage, had entreated the Society to admit them, and he regretted to say that those children had given the Society more trouble than all the rest. The object of the Society was to place out those children as agricultural labourers at home. They found, how ever, this was put completely out of their power, and they were obliged to adopt the plan of finding employment for them abroad, and they therefore resorted to emigration. There were two points to which he wished to allude, as so much had been said against the interests of the So ciety.—( Hear, hear.) He had no hesitation in stating that in every instance they had adopted the wisest, the best, and the most cautious course they could ; and se condly, that their proceedings had been attended with the best success. It was supposed by many that when these children were se'.t out they were turned adrift by the Society, but such was not the case.—(Hear, hear.) It was required that every master should provide ample food, clothing, washing, lodging, and religious and moral instruction for the children, and in every instance the Committee abroad took care that such stipulations should be strictly fulfilled. With resp ect to the colony of the Cape of Good Hope, about w hich so much had been lately said, the Society bad in the first instance put themselves in communication with the Governor of that 1 colony, who issued an ordinance for their protection, and appointed commicsionera to look after their interests. The reports from these commissioners were for a long time satisfactory, and they had rejected the appli cation of many individuals who were supposed not to be very humane. After some years the Society was apprized that the children were not so well treated as they ought to have been, and very strong remonstrances were sent out to the Commissioners at the Cape of Good Hope. A Secretary, with a salary of 200/. a year, was appointed, whose duty it was to travel about the country, and look after the management of the children ; and although it had becti alleged that their religious instruction was neglected, he could state that there were not le , s than 140 clergy men and missionaries there—nearly one for every thousand—which was, he regretted to say, more in proportion to the population than the people of Eng knd enjoyed.--(Hear, hear.) And yet, notwithstand ing all that they had been called kidnappers, and crim pers, snd slaveholders.—(Captain Ackerley, who was on the platform, called out " Hear, hear—perfectly true.") When the children had made some progress at their trades, their masters allowed them some pecuniary compensation, and as the funds of the Society were limited, a portion of that money was received by the Society, and the remainder lodged in the savings bank for the benefit of these children when they had finished their apprenticeship. Now, with regard to the children not having written to their friends, he would ask whether mothers on all occasions found their chil -1 dren such good correspondents as they wished them to be ?—(Captain Ackerley—" You would not allow them to write.") If that gentleman had any observations to make, he (the Chairman) would be happy to hear him by and by.—(Copt. Ackerlev—" I intend to do so—l air. here on behalf of these children . "; He did not mean to say that the Society was per fect, but he was satisfied that any person who would investigate the circumstances, would admit that they had taken all the precaution in their power. And with regard to the writing of letters, as that was a point upon which difference of opinion existed, he would state that the Socie t y had in every case given directions to the children to write to their parents and friends. Again it had been said that the children had been sold as slaves, but lie would refer them to a passage in the Report in proof of the injustice of these statements :—" Although the Society believes that incalculable benefits will result to the community and to themselves by the emigration of the children of both sexes which infest our poor-houses, our streets, and even our prisons, yet it conceives that paramount care should be taken in all cases, and particularly in Colonies where slavery exists, that there should not be the remotest possibility that any of them should be con signed to a state of captivity, or to situations where, in the event of their being improperly treated, they should be without the means of redress.—(Hear, hear.) The Noble Chairmain then referred to the statements that had been made in the Police reports, of the treat ment of children at the Cape. These statements had been made hastily, and, he believed, unjustly ; and he regretted that the press had given currency to rumours to the prejudice of a Society which had done a vast deal of good.—(Hear, hear.) He believed it would be found that every exertion had been made, on the part of the Society, to promote the comfort and happiness of the c hildren sent out ; and he had no doubt that it would lay t he foundation of the future prosperity of that colony. The Secretary then read the Report, which was of very great length, and entered minutely into the pro ceedings which have been adopted by the Society since its first establishment. The Secretary then read the Treasurer's Accounts, from which it appeared that the receipts during the past year amounted to 5,8751. 13s. 6d., and the expenditure to 5,2141. 17s. 4d., leaving a balance in hand of 5701. 16s. 2d. Jones LABOUCHERE, Esq., the Treasurer of the So ciety, said, in looking over the Report there was one feature peculiarly striking, and that was the anxiety of the Committee to'court inquiry into its proceedings, and this was a strong prima faeie case in its favour ; and he trusted the result would be to convince the public that the Society was deserving of support. The Society had been accused of being ;kidnapping Society, the infer ence being that children had been sent out under false pretences. Now the 19th resolution of the Society completely refuted any such charge, and no child was sent out without its own consent and that of its pa rents, and there were instances of children return ing home after proceeding as far as Gravesend. The second charge was, that of the children not having written to their parents. Every inducement was held out by the Society to cause children to write home. The third charge, which was of the most paramount importance, was, that children were not properly treated ley their masters. An inquiry had been instituted, and it was impossible to speak positively on the subject un tilthini the ncge di improper o e pa s r ul p et th e r shoul dßheapdo r b t e m made known ; and he was con vwould occurred weresatisfactory. proper reme dies at the Cape, and if a case of oppression occurred on the part of a master, he was not allowed by the So ciety to have another apprentice.—(Hear, hear.) The meeting ought to give their confidence to the Society un til it was proved they had done something wrong. — (Hear.) With respe ct to Ca p tain B renton , t here was no man actuated by stronger feelings of Christian charity- DR. • ..- THE ‘2IJ . Ni L.O2DON, FRIDAY, NIA : k *44 still greater hardships would have occurred. The So ciety ought not to be condemned for one or two cases, and if the object of the Press should be accomplished the most lamentable c onsequences would ensue. He concluded by moving the appointment of ladies to su perintend the girls' school. Mr. MonGAN seconded the mation. Captain DoYLE said the Dutchmen at the Cape were most humane men, and he could on his own knowledge state, in allusion to the Commissioners, that not one of them was a landholder. The motion was then agreed to. A vote of thanks to the Commissioners was then agreed to, and acknowledged by Mr. RUTHERFORD. The next resolution was moved by GEORGE BRAll i km, ESC I ., Al. P., seconded by Mr. MoWBAIR, and _ -------___ and no one more deserving of universal sympathy, and in losing him he could not refrain from saying that the Society had lost one of its most valuable supporters. — (Hear, hear.) He concluded by moving the adoption of the Report. The Rev. HERBERT SMITH had long read with peculiar satisfaction the Reports of the Committee, and he had therefore great satisfaction in seconding the motion. Ho was convinced the attacks made on the Society would raise it higher in public estimation than it had ever been before.—( Hear, hear.) Last Monday he went over the whole of the Asylum at Brenton, and put a variety of questions to the inmates, who said they should prefer going out to the Colonies, but their mo thers would not allow it. After inspecting their food, and their sleeping apartments, he came away perfectly satisfied with everything he had seen. With respect to the attack on Captain Brenton in the Times, he felt compelled to make a few remarks. In September last he (Mr. S.) published a pamphlet, en titled " A Letter to the People of England on behalf of the Deserving Poor," advocating almshouses for the deserving aged. This brought an attack on him in the Times newspaper, and he was convinced the attack had arisen from the Children's Friend Society having to do with the children is workhouses. He mentioned this merely to show that the Times and other papers took up subjects without any ground at all.—(Hear, hear.) Captain ACKERLEY said the Press was almost the only remnant of our ancient liberties.—(Hear, hear.) The inhabitants of the Cape had no labourers, and were anxious to procure labour at the cheapest rate, and, therefore, they wished to get the Society to send out children. If children must be bought, let them be at once bought in this country.—(Disapproba tion.) It was in the power of the parents of these children to demand from the Society that they should all be brought back, according to the laws of the country.— (Hear, bear.) He did not doubt that the gentle men connected with the Society were actuated by the best motives, but they had been made fools of by those abroad. The children in St. Martin's parish had been sent out without the consent of their parents.—(Con siderable interruption was offered to the speaker, and it was only after two gentlemen had appealed to the can dour of the meeting that he was allowed to proceed.) The complaints which had been made against the So ciety were founded on the letters received from the children themselves, and their complaints were he be lieved well-founded. The meeting should consider the immense distance between the places to which the chil dren were sent, and that immediately after a child left the parent Society he might never be seen afterwards. —(Uproar.) As to the Commissioners they were landholders, and had an interest in sending out these children.—(The confusion was at length so great that Captain Ackerley set down.) An individual in the meeting, named PALMER, said his children had written several letters, but his master had refused to send them home.—(Cries of " Name.") The name of the master was Dryer. The CHAIRMAN remarked that time should be al lowed for inquiry. He would merely suggest that the postage might not have been paid. 1 Major MITCHELL, Surveyor of the Colonies, said that no one could have prevented the boy sending a letter, for he was within a mile of the post-office. He believed the boys generally were very well situated. Mr. YOUNG, who had been in the neighbourhood of the Cape, said he invariably found that the boys who had English masters had nothing to complain of ; but they were very hardly treated by Mr. Dryer, who was a Dutchman. On one occasion he found two boys se creted under a bush, who complained of very hard treat ment. They said they could neither get paper nor ink. He believed their condition was ameliorated after wards on his (Mr. Young's) interference. Captain ACICERLEY wished to put some questions to Mr. Young, but was refused the opportunity of doing so. One of the Members of the Committee said that the gentleman who was now interrupting the proceed ings was a common disturber of public meetin g s. It should be known that he was Captain Ackerley, the as trologer. Major MITCHELL said that allusion had been made by Captain Ackerley to the Commissioners being land holders. Now, from his own knowledge he could say, that not one-half of them possessed even a garden. Mr. SIMPSON, of Hackney, having been enabled to see how the Institution of Captain Brenton was con ducted, was 'convinced that nothing could give greater satisfaction.—(Hear.) Some of the most satisfactory accounts had been received from the Cape as to the children who had been sent from Hackney, and he had been frequently importuned by persons in distress to use his influence in procuring admission for their children into the Institution.—(Hear, hear.) He regretted the attack which had been made upon the Society through the public Press, but was perfectly convinced that every one who nad heard the Report must have experienced the strongest feelings of satisfaction at the statements which it contained.—(Hear, hear.) Former ages boasted of their cowards and others, who exerted themselves to alleviate human-misery ; but what should he said of the man who had adopted the Mott efficient means - of pre venting- misery ?—(Hear, hear.) Captain Brenton de served a crown of gold, and he (Mr. Simpson) trusted that he now enjoyed a crown of glory.—(Cheers.) Lieut. AMSINCK remarked that it was a source of the greatest pain to Captain Brenton that the Society consented to emigration. But he (Lieut. A.) thought it the greatest blessing that had ever been conferred on Society.—(Hear, hear.) He bad always found a great disinclination on the part of children to write, and he was convinced that if these children had been dissatis fied with their condition, and wished to come home, they would have found means of communicating with their parents. He (Neut. A.) had not been connected with this Society for the last five years, but felt called upon to bear his testimony to its utility, which might be therefore considered the more disinterested. Mr. TWENTYMAN, had resided 16 years at the Cape, and could bear testimony to the fact of the com missioners not being landholders ; and also that the servants had no difficulty in procuring access to the post office. With respect to apprenticing the children to the Dutch, he would sooner do so than to any other per sons, because there they enjoyed the best opportunities of advancing in prosperity.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. ROBERT STANHOPE WILES, of Northumberland- street, said that the parish of St. Martin still remained very dissatisfied with the proceedings of the Society. The accounts in the Cape of Good Hope Papers were filled with complaints of children against their masters, many of whom were fined for their conduct. The child whose case was under consideration in the parish of St. . Martin, had been promised to be sent back, but nothing more had been heard of her. He moved as an amend ment, that application be forthwith made to Smith's Charity, holding a large sum of money specially for the liberation of Christian slaves, for the purpose of re deeming and sending home the children who have been sent out to Africa by this Society.—(Great uproar.) Captain ACKERLEY seconded the amendment. An individual here stated that his boy had been ab sent four years, and he had never heard from him but once. Complaints had been made of his ill treatment, and be was convinced that the party into whose hands the case had fallen would look into it. The CHAIRMAN then put the amendment for which the hands of the mover and seconder only were held up. The original motion was then put and agreed to. Lord ELDON moved the election of officers for the ensuing year. The motion was seconded by Mr. RAINCOCR, of Upper Canada. SAMUEL PALMER here presented himself to the meeting, and stated that he was sent out by the Society in 1833, and received very bad treatment on board the ship, and the food was not fit for a dog. He wrote a letter on board the vessel, intending to send it to a Ma gistrate of the Isle of Wight, and gave it to the cabin- boy, from whom it was taken by the Captain. It was afterwards sent to the Society. On arriving at Cape Town they were ranged in a row, and sold for 200 rix ' dollars, or 151. each. For breakfast they bad black bread, dipped in oil, and water to drink. The SECRETARY interfered, but PALMER persisted in being heard.' He escaped and made a complaint to Mr. Christian, who said he could do nothing for him. He afterwards went back, and re mained a short time, but ultimately returned to Eng land. He would ask was it justice to children to send them out in this manner, and dispose of them to Dutch men for sums of money?—(Laughter.) The SECRETARY said that Palmer was admitted to the Asylum on the 27th September, 1833, having been considered very troublesome by his father. On arriving he refused to go to Mr. Dryer, and ran away several times, and the Commissioners finding him so troublesome, they wished to get rid of him, and they applied to Captain Booth of the Trincalo, to take him and; some other boys on board his ship. There was a gentleman present who would declare him to have been a dishonest lad, and a most notorious liar.--( Hear, hear.) PALMER said his discharge would prove that he was a volunteer on board the ship. The SECRETARY did not doubt the boy was received as a volunteer on board. He did not know that he could be received in any other light. Mr. RUTHERFORD, one of the Commissioners, said that Captain Booth applied to the Commissioners, stat ing that several boys wished to engage in her Majesty's service, and the Commissioners knowing them to have been very troublesome, had not the least objection to their doing so.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. CARDEN thought that such an examination ought to be made as would remove any u npleasant feelings which existed, and he was willing to de vote a portion of his time and means to sucn investigation. He suggested the formation of a Committee for this purpose. JOHN ASHTON YATES , Esq ., M.P., would willingly withdraw his name to make room for the gentleman who had last spoken, for he deemed the inquiry to be of the utmost importance. He was confident the ar Society ha d not neglected its duty, and he trusted the p ents ofthe children would make inquiries of the Committee who would afford them every possible facility. The resolution was then put and agreed to. HENRY GALLY KNIGHT , Esq ., M.P., regretted that any instances of hardship should have occurred, but he was convinced that if this Institution had never been founded carried. Sir C. LEMON, M.P., moved a vote of thanks to the Chairman, which was carried by ac c l am ation. The Noble Ear l having acknowledged the compli ment, the proceedings, which had occupied upwards of five hours, terminated. MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. PUBLIC OPINION IN THE PRO VINCES. - _ There is not a sound or loyal heart in the empire which will not rejoice at the Sovereign's resolution and magnanimity, and scorn the faction and their base in strument for domestic despotism they vainly attempted to establish in circumstances where, if the vile oppres sors had an iota of generous sentiment, they should have acted with the utmost forbearance. In eis endeavours to trepan a victim, Peel " caught a Tartar." Her Ma jesty, with a dexterity and firmness quite Elizabethan, demurred to becoming the mere puppet of the coterie of Tory Dowagers which was about to be installed fur her permanent enslavement. The explanations elicited on Monday evening, in the House of Commons, do not in the smallest degree alter t►e previous stateof the question What Reformers, nay Revolutionists, these Tories are when it suits their purpose ! Precedent is cast aside, and custom hooted as idle cant ; the practice of former reigns fiercely innovated upon, and Conservatism ap pears in all the trappings of levelling Radicalism. — Worcestershire Chronicle. On the whole, though we are not at all surprised at, and do not blame, the desire expressed by Sir Robert Peel, to re-constitute the female part of the House hold, we certainly hold, that as such a course is not justified by previous example, must be personally very disagreeable to the Sovereign, and would needlessly in terfere with those rights as to her choice of friends and c ompanions which the meanest subject possesses, her Majesty was not constitutionally called upon to make the conce,sion claimed ; nor, when she appealed to her old Ministers not to abandon her i❑ such an emergency, could they, as loyal and devoted servants to her Majesty, take any other course than that of ex pressing their readiness to continue to hold their situa tions, even in spite of the difficulties which beset them. —Manchester Guardian. If we contrast with Lord Melbourne's " tenacity of office" the disinterested conduct of the Duke of Wel• lington, who, when sent for by his Sovereign, tells her that " the Prime Minister of this country, under existing circumstances, ought to have a seat in the other House of Parliament," and that for himself, although he " pre ferred serving her out of office," yet that " if her Majesty and her Ministers preferred it, he was ready to conduct the duties of any office,—to do, in short, whatever would be most convenient to her Majesty and to her Ministers," —when, we say, such disinterestedness is seen—so ut terly different from anything witnessed in the ranks of the Whigs, we need r►ot marvel that such conduct should, in the words of a Radical Contetnporary,have " given to the Duke of Wellington the extraordinary moral weight which he possesses in the country."—Brighton Gazette. We do not blame the Queen. The reservation not having been made in the first instance, affords a strong presumption that it did nut originate with her. Her Majesty is young, and she has, through what we cannot help considering a defect in her education, been kept a stranger almost to the very existence of Court in trigue, the less skilled to discern its workings, or to escape its toils. She has consequently, ever since her accession to the Throne, been led blindfold by a set of men the most unprincipled that ever abused high poli tical trust, and has at last lent herself to the insidious designs of the same men to retain the substance of power after they have been compelled to relinquish its outward insignia, and to throw a petticoat screen over one, at least, of the agents of their atrocious policy, against whom the recent disclosures before the House of Lords are believed to afford just ground for hnpeach ment.—Liverpool Courier. Sir Robert Peel has not disappointed the great Con servative body in the State, of which he is now more than ever the deserving leader and honoured head. A word or two more. Will the " finality" Lord John and the self-denying Lord Melbourne now go to the people with the card of " the Queen" in the hands, and ask for their suffrages ? We say—let thenz try it ! The Queen of England, in the twentieth year of het age, is the legislative trustee of a free State, of an extent of dominion on which. " the sun never sets"—the Sovereign of a nation of freemen ; and the personal feeling of the Queen of England, acting under re sponsible advisers, were even those feelings involved, have nothing in common with the supreme welfare of he State.— Worcester Journal. HANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM. A Special General Court of the Middlesex Magis trates was held yesterday at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell, to consider the subject of the Hanwell Lu natic Asylum. The Hon. F. BYNG, brought the subject under the consideration of the Court, and at some length insisted that there had been great mismanagement in the Asy lum, owing to the negligence of the Visiting Justices ; especially in the accounts, which were considerably con fused. He did not hesitate to assert, that the visiting Justices were quite incompetent for their duties. There must be some c hange—some system of going out of office.—(Hear, hear, from Serjeant Adams.) Aye ; no doubt it would be said there was ' • but he meant, the co ntrol of the rate-payers.—(Loud cries of " Hear.") He did not intend the irresponsible control of the " se lect." Why, he well recollected what was the state of the vestries before the passing of Sir J. Hobhouse's Act ; and he knew that since the introduction of the representative system, every thing had gone on better : the poor men improved in condition and the rates reduced one half.—(Hear, hear, hear.) And it must come to this eventually in the Visiting Justices, there must be an infusion of the popular principle. The Visiting Justices were a select body — the d ut y of visiting was delegated generally to one or two indivi duals who made it their " hobby," and visitations were very ceremonious, and by no means so frequent as they ought to be. The Honourable Gentleman concluded by moving that the 49th Report of the Visiting Justices be, reconsidered. Mr. Sergeant ADAMS undertook the vindication of the Visiting Justices. He considered that his friends Messrs. Tulk and J. Wilks, or himself—though a ser geant-at-law—were fully competent to superintend ac counts. As for himself, he thought that in his legal business he had acquired some experience in such mat ters. At all events, he could declare that all of them had faithfully and zealously discharged their duties. The principle of their management had been to secure the comforts of the patients—not to screw them down to the bare necessaries of existence—as on the plan of the New Poor Law,—under which the object was dif ferent from that to be kept in view. With respect to a Lunatic Asylum, the design of the Poor Law being to compel men to rely on their own exertions— whereas in the Asylum a more generous economy should be practised. It might perhaps he said that meat could be had cheaper than Gs 2d per stone ; but let it be recollected that the quality of the diet on which the patients were fed, had a great deal to do with their recovery. Some remarks had been made by certain parties as to the original cost of the Asylum. Now,•the accommodation for GOO patients had cost only 124,000/. odd, and it having been found that this provision did not come up to the demand, additional accommodation for 300 more was pro vided, at the small cost of 20,0001. Surely the parishes which had objected to that demand, could not have rightly understood the great advantages which were to be derived from it—(Hear , hear.) —for if they did, it was impossible that they should have grudged the sum of 20,000/. to secure such an extensive addition.—(Hear, hear.) To show, now, that the parish of St. George's, Hanover square, had not gained by the new arrange ment of the rating, the Learned Sergeant proceeded to state that, whereas the number of patients from that parish being fifty-one, the proportion of the rate for merly was one-sixteenth, it now was one-tenth.—( Hear, hear.) The last rate being 29,000/., their quota was 2,9001. Groat fault had been found with the expendi ture on the land attached to the Asylum, and the cows. Any person who had observed the enjoyment and the healthful exercise which the patients experienced in the cultivation of the land, would never deem it unimpor tant or valueless. And could the number of twenty cows be thought too large, to supply the important ar ticle of milk for 900 persons ?--(Hear, hear.) Was it upon such pretexts as these, that a body of g entlemen.' of character and station, bearing the Queen's commis sion, were to be stigmatized as incompetent?—(Hear , hear.) The Learned Sergeant concluded by moving that the Report be received and adopted. Sir PETER LAURIE seconded the motion, and bore his testimony to the attention which had been paid to the Asylum by the Committee of Justices. Mr. WOOD, M.P. especially testified to the zeal and disinterestedness of Col. Clitherow, whose health had been injured by his exertions in the cause of the Asy lum ; and who had established a fund, to afford some thing like a provision for those destitute patients who were sent from the Asylum cured. To this fund, her Majesty the Queen -Dowager had desired her name to be affixed, and the present discussion would not be useless, if it had no other effect than to bring more into notice the - benevolent object of the " Adelaide Fund."- - -(Cheers.) Sir J. S. LILLIE thought Mr. Byng fully justified in 1 bringing forward the subject, and that a Committee of Inquiry should be appointed. Mr. TULK c onsidered that not a single one of the complaints which had been made had ever been sub stantiated. Mr. LESLIE, one of the Vestry of St. George's, Ha nover-square, who had been present during the discus sion, and who ccnceived that he had been personally alluded to, rose and addressed the Chair. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Strachan), amid loud cries of " Order," said that no person but a member of the Court could be heard. Sir J. S. LILLIE said if Mr. Leslie would write on a piece of paper anything he wished to state, he would communicate it to the Court. Sir P. LAURIE said he did not think Sir John Scott Lillie had any right to make such an offer. Sir J. S. LILLIE (warmly)—But I shall do so, Sir Peter, notwithstanding your interference.—(Order.) Sir C. FORBES thought the whole affair had been " Much ado about nothing."—(Hear and laughter.) Several Magistrates spoke in high terms of Colonel Clitherow, deeply lamenting his ill health. The Hon. F. BYNG shortly replied, expressing his hope that the discussion would at least have the bene ficial effect of promoting vigilance for the future.— ( Hear, hear.) The question was then put that the Report be adopted, which was carried, with but one dissentient, we believe. IRELAND. The " glorious news" of Sir Robert Peel's discom fiture, it appears, reached Dublin, Waterford, and some other places in Ireland, at an early hour on Sun day. That the defeat of the Tories and Lord Mel bourne's resignation should have diffused the liveliest satisfaction amongst the Irish, is natural, and the exul tant tone of their Liberalg might have been expected. The joy of the journals is great. "It came upon us," says the Dublin Evening Post," like the sudden bursting of the sun through a dark thunder cloud—dissipating and chasing the storm with which the land was menaced." In another part of the same Paper the writer record: the p'resent Ministera' .triumph- in an article beginning thue---; - - - " V ICT ORI A I God save our gracious Queen ! Long may Victoria reign I God save the Queen ! " RESIGNATION OF THE PEEL-LYNDHURST MINISTRY. " So they are O-U-T—out—the Delzoes—the Draw. cansirs—the Orangemen—the Tories—the Big Wigs —Sergeant Jackson and all—and the little Wiglings, who, having, nothing to do, met you in the Hall of the Four Courts, with the smirk of my lady's gentlewoman— or, the vulgar sneer of my lord's own man. The inso lence—the insolence of manner, tone, language—thank God! has received a sudden and mortifying rebuke. The domineering and impudent faction has been smitten hip and thigh. The Queen bath but spoken, Their legions are broken, And chariots and horsemen are dashed in the waves. Yea, their mighty men of war, and their great men of talk—their Wellington, their Alienus Lyndhurst—their Peel—and the little warriors, moreover—Hardinge and Perceval, and their small talkers, too—Shaw and Lit ton, Lefroy and Praed, all are fallen— Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from their high estate, And weltering in the mud. Gratitude, boundless and enduring—devotion to " the last grasp of truth and loyalty" to our young, beautiful. and magnanimous Queen ! To her enemies and to ours —for they are the same—confusion and disgrace ! Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks, Plunge them in the river Styx— Or, if they prefer a warm bath, in the Periphlegiton. The Waterford Chronicle says the news " was as un expected as it was joyous, and spread with the rapidity of the lightning's flash throughout every part of the city, and far into the rural districts, bringing joy and conso lation to the people, who had well nigh abandoned them selves to despair at the thought of the accession of the ancient taskmasters to power, and bitter chagrin to the unholy faction which, (luring the few previous days, chuckled with an irrepressible delight, because of the prospect opened to it of another reign of its abhorred ascendancy over the Irish nation." THE -IRIsH RECREANT MEMBERS.—Mr. S. O'Brien is one of the members charged by the Dublin Evening Post with political recusancy--" His address, we un derstand, for we have not seen it, has been pub lished in the Orange journal in Limerick, one of the basest of the tribe, certainly, and, incomparably the most stupid. But though we have not seen the address —and, certainly, shall not take the trouble of reading it—we learn that the Honourable Gentleman offers to resign if his constituents demand the sacrifice of his Parliamentary life. Electors of Limerick County— take Mr. Smith O'Brien at his word. We tell you, the example will be a wholesome one—an example that will work good to the whole country—an example which will teach a lesson to Members of Parliament, which let them neglect hereafter at their peril." ..--..___ Charles Dixon, Esq., of Stanstead Park, has generously given the munificent donation of 1,000/. to wards enlarging the wings, extending the wards, an d otherwise promoting the utility of the Chichester . Infirmary. THE WEATHER.—The whole of this month, with the exception of one or two days, has been unusually cold, and has exhibited little of the characteristic, so fre quently spoken of by the poets, of the rosy footed May. A few flakes of snow, last week, were proofs of the ungenial state of the atmosphere, but it has since increased in inten sity ; and yesterday we were visited, every now and then with showers of hail aid snow at short intervals ; and the wind blows still from the E. and N. E. The seed season is reported to have been, on the whole, good, and farmers speak of the potatoe never having been put into the earth under more favourable c i r cumstances. —Scottish Pilot. ZINC MILK-PAILS. —Among the patents lately CAUTION TO SODA -WATER D RINKER s.— taken out in America, one is for a p! t oces s s a. f,2r t e a x t tra_e z tlng The p u bli c are no t aware that there is not one bottle i n a cream from . milk by . _ the . use of zinc. 1 milk be is at. h if "" l hundred w hi c h is sold for soda-water that contains one be put int the milk, pail, or the made of that substance, the same quantity of milk will grain of that valuable alkali, but is merely spring water ield a rester proportion of cream or butter. —Repertor impregnated with fixed air. The reason of the soda y. not yY being put into the water is not on account of the atti r e o f of Inventions. g the soda itself, but of the expense of properly menu ac. COACH ACCIDENT AT NEWTON HEATH.— turing it • for instance, if fifteen grains of the carbonate About three o'clock on Saturday afternoon last, as the of s o d a b e ' put i nto eac h b o ttle it will require ten times the Umpire coach was passing through the township of New. 1 labour and pow r of machinery , and consequently that ton Heath„ on its way to this town, the near fore wheel addition a l eo - st toe make pure soda-water, to that which is came off; the coach was consequently upset, and the required to make this cheap, useless, and spurious article.. outside passengers were thrown to some distance. An The test is simple—viz•, pour a bottle of the water into a elderly lady, Mrs. Ann Elliott, of Bury, was very much tumbler, stir it about • with a teaspoon for three or four hurt by the fall ; she was conveyed into a druggist's minutes, when nearly all the fixed air will be liberated shop, and a severe contusion which she had received then take a s muc h tartaric acid in powder, a h s wil i l half fill on the head, having been dressed, she was able to pro. i a tea-sp oon , an d d ro p it into the w ater ;f t ere s soda in ceed to this town within about two hours after the the wat er t h e tartar i c a cid will im mediately act upon the accident. The other passengers escaped with slight soda, and, in neutralising the alkali, produce a very power- bruises. All four horses started off at full speed with the ful effervesence ; if, on the contrary, it does not effervesce, pole and bars of the coach ; and, after running about $OO "11„may be assured there is n o soda in the water. y ards, the near leader came in contact with a coal cart THE BODY-MANGLING R E PRESENTATIVES. with such force that the animal was thrown down, and —At no p er i o d was this county so indelibly disgraced as broke its back. The other three horses were then stopped when it s e i g h t T o ry representatives last week voted against without difficulty, and without having sustained material the J ama i ca Bill, an d for prolonging th e e n fi t e h n e d h is i h ae c k rug t e i s . inju i r t y i — o ilianchester Guardian. practised by the quondam slave- o wners T.—For some time past a spirit of discontent lation of Jamaica.— liTorcestershire C h ronicle. to an alarming extent has manifested itself among the BEGGING LETTER I M POSTOR.—Tuesday a weaving part of the population, owing to a decrease in dashingly dressed young man, named James Wilson, alias the rate of wages paid to them. On Thursday the spirit Thompson, alias Vandenhoff, was committed to the House of discontent increased to such a degree, that the lives of Correction for three months, by Mr. Rawlineon, r of Ma- and property of the inhabitants were in imminent danger, rylebone-office, for obtaining money under false pretences from Colonel Baillie, M. P., for nton, Devonshire. and it was found necessary to apply to the Sheriff-sub- Andrew it ibertaon, Esq., and the Procurator- The prisoner has for years pest been looked .. upon as king fi sca l, for erotecti. el. These gentlemen, accompanied by a of the begging-letter fraternity, from his store of legal large body of the posse contitalus, proceeded to the . , town, where, after investigating into the matter, e i g h t knowledge. DEATH WHILE BATHING. Between eight or nine individuals were taken into custody. The and ni ne o ' c l oc k o n Wednesday morning, a y out h name d mo b, however, with furious threats and execrations. imme pa- diately proceeded to the gaol , which the y broke open, and Edward Willis, between 15 and 16 years of age, whose rents r es id e at N o , 4, Beaumont -place, Ch e l sea , was liberated the prisoners. They then preceeded to arts of drown e d w hil e bathing in the Thames opposite the Peni- violence against the persons of the Sheriff, Fiscal, and tentiary, Th e unfortunate youth had swam Ou t i n t o th e constables, who, after being dreadfully cut and maltreated stream to th e distance of about 50 yards from th e sh ore , with stones and missiles, were obliged to take refuge in the when h e was no ticed to suddenly sink, and did not again back of M-. Robb's, adjoining the Cruse, from whence rise to th e sur f a ce. It is s upposed that from the co w ries , they contrived to eecaee to Forfar, where the arrive] of the we a ther he was seize d with the cramp. 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