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a Ore of they acts, and said that it behoved the country to acquire wl. tiler the Noble Lord at the head of the Govern entl by the course he had pursued, and by exciting a feeling 0.,f the ag a inst Catholics, had not been playing into "l Pope's hands, and whether the whole conduct of the Go vernment on this occasion had not been lamentable and dis creditable. The gallery was then cleared for a division, hut was almost Immediately re-opened. Upon our re-admission, at KEOGH was addressing the House. The Nob'e Lord the head of the Government had not yet arrived at a s P' s °Per perception cf the dangers with which this Bill threat `nlcrthe empire, and especially Ireland.— (Hear, hear.) Did 'lel:Nob'e Lora intend to put this act-in force or not in Ire land? He professed that it was necessary, and that it was als intention to put it in force in Ireland. He said, too , t hat it was a similar Act to that of 1829, to which the R Noble Catholics of Ireland hadsubmitted. But he told the Aoble Lord that it was a different Act from that of 1829, and that the people of Ireland would not submit to it. In 1 846 the Charitable Bequests Act passed, the effect of which Wass to rep ea l th e offensive provisions of the Act of 1829 , and to le ga lis e th a t w hich was illegal before. He (Mr. 4 enah) maintained, that after the passing of that Bill it was _not illeg a l for th e R o m a n Catholic archbishops and bishops !?11Fsume the titles prohibitect`ty the Act of 1829, and that the penalties of that Act could not be successfully enforced. The Act of 1829 was a remedial measure, and the preamble purported to remove restraints and restrictions thaf had there.. lofore been imposed. But the preamble of the .present Bill d eclared. in effect that the assumption of the prohibited titles was inconsistent with the rights of the bishops and a rchbishops of the Established Church. That recital was untrue. In the preamble of the present Bill it was stated, 'and whereas it may be doubted whether the recited enacts l!ent extends to the assumption of the title of archbishop or 1) Ishop of a pretended province or diocese, Sm.", He asserted that such a statement was not true, and that the allegation Which it was said might be doubted was not doubte I. The next assertion was, that the attempt to establish under ' colour of authority from the sea of Rome or otherwise such pretended sees, provinces, or dioceses, is illegal and void." !le (Mr. Keogh) denied that. The preamble then contained three distinct falsehoods, tor the next affirmation was; that ` the assumption of ecclesiastical titles in respect thereof is I nconsistent with the rights intended to be protected by the said enactment." Lord J. Russell also knew that that was not true, and he had told the House so. Ha (Mr. Keogh) de clared that one clause of the Bill contained everything that the omitted clauses would have enacted, and this was not his opinion only, but the opinion of Sir F. Kelly, Mr. Brodie, and Mr. Baddeley. The pre sent Bill made .no reference to the Charitable Bequests ,Act. Be had warned the late. Attorney-General (Sir J. lot a omilly) that the present Bill would repeal the Charitable istlequests Act,, and this opinion had been borne out by the three eminent lawyers to whom he had just referied. The Charitable. Bequests Act provided that the voluntary endow ment of the Roman Catholic Church should be legal, but if this Bill passed the Roman Catholic bishops and archbishops never could accept any endowment or emolument under the provisions of the Act of 1846. The first clause attached a Penalty to any person who, not being authorised by law, should " assume or use the name, style, or title of archbishop, bishop, or dean of any city, town, or place, or of any terri• tort' or district (under any designation or description what soever) in the UnitecLKingdora. Then how was a Roman. Catholic bishop to be described? He could not discover any .lauguage that would lawfully. describe a Roman Catholic bishOp if these words were left in the enactment.—(Cheers.) The Noble Lord was playing fast and loose with the country if he did not intend to put the Act in force, and, if ha did, h a t stranglea the religious liberties of the Roman Catholic Church. The Noble Lord said that Ireland bad not com. Naked of the prohibition of ecclesiastical titles by the Act of 1829. The reason was, because it had been all a, " shim." He did 'net want to see other public men left to c arry out this Bill who might have as strong a. desire (he would not say a stronger desire) as the Noble Lord to restrict' the religious liberty of the people of Ireland. It was no dream or hallucination to suppose that at some remote :period during the next quarter of a century there might be ,another Administration in the country who might attempt to put the Bill into force. He implored the Noble. Lord to Withdraw the Nit remaining section of his Bill. He did nit!' dispute what the Noble Lord had done for Ireland; but, if this Bill passed, it would upset everything he had ever done, . sod place the millions of Roman Cath .lies lii Ireland in a worse position than they were in before. (Cheers.) The Noble Lord said that the feelings of the people of England mast be consulted. He admitted that the great majority of the people of England were Protestant; but nine-ienthm of ,the people of Ireland were Catholic; and was it be coming in a great Minister to talk of Coercing the religious opinions of one section of the people to satisfy the religious prejudices of the other?—(Cheers.) The Noble Lord had said, over and over again, that the proceeding of the See of Rome was a direct insult to the Protestant feeling of this country. Last. Friday night 202 Members of that House were ready to vote for the motion of the Hon. Member for Stafford. The form of that motion Was that the act of the See of Rome had been encouraged by the pr,ceedings of the Government, and that was the truth. (Hear.) He believed it; he was ready to prove it; and he .Would give the House, before he sat down, greater evidence than the Noble Lord dreamt of on the subject.—(Hear.) Ile had before invited the Noble Lord to a pleasing re. miniscence of his own speeches in that House, and would therefore not go over that ground again ; but, invited by the minority of 202 Members of that House, who were ready to vote that the proceedings of the Government had encouraged the act of the See of Rome, he would tell them they might most safely come to that conclusion without the least injustice to the Government. The Noble Lord was afraid of that issue. He knew well there were many per sons who went with him into the Lobby who were of the *pinion, and the Hon. Baronet the Member for the U 1- Versity of Oxford bad distinctly stated on a former ocresion, 'that the conduct of the See of Rome had been encouraged by the Government in Ireland. The Noble Lord knew that if that were the issue tendered by the Hon. Member for Stafford he would have been in a minority, and most rightly would, he have been so. The Noble Lord in 1844, 1845, and 1846, when he was in opposition— . Lord J. RUSSELL —Not when I was in opposition in 1846. Mr. KEOGH—WeII then in 1844 and 1845, made cer tain observations on. this subject; but in 1848 he said, "I will set everything right. I withdraw what I said before. I apologise to the country and the thing is settled as it ought to have been ;" and the Noble Lord said, in answer to a question whether he would sanction the appoint- Ment of a British subject by the See of Rome to a bishopric in this country with territorial jurisdiction, that he would Dot consent to it. But in February, 1849, after Cardinal Wiseman had been gazetted as Bishop of Westminster, the Noble Lord said — "But I own I do not think that this is a matter of very great importance. It was very agreeable to the feelings of the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops that they 'mould be called by the titles ,by which they were usually designated. Tlfey have received those titles; but that does tot imply any legal claim to authority, and I cannot con teive, th ere fore, that it is necessary for this House to take Sty p roce edings in the matter:" Hear, hear.) Perhaps his Learned Friends on the other aide would give some explanation, or, as the lawyers said, Would put in a special demurrer to what the Noble Lord Bald ; but he found the Noble Lord's colleagues more impe tuous and more anxious that no doubt should remain on the Mind of the See of Rome as to what it ought to do. On the 27th of July, 1849, he found that in the House of Lords, Lord Redesdale put a question to Earl Grey, and that Noble Lord declining to answer, a colleague sitting beside him thought he WAS acting injudiciously, and said that if any Cardinal came over to this country, everyone would call him " his Eminence." The Noble Lord who gave that answer Vita the Earl of Carlisle; and yet in face of those assertions the Noble Lord spoke of the insult of the See of Rome, when reading those declarations in the Houses of Parliament, it appointed a bishop to preside over the spiritual interests of Roman Catholics in this country.—(Hear.) It happened that he (Mr. Keogh) was at Rome when all this mischief occurre a ; but a remarkable fact came to his notice there, _and he did not know whether the Noble Lord the Foreign Secretary was in his place, but, if so, he bad no doubt the Noble Lord was aware of the fact. Cardinal Wiseman was treated 'Archbishop of Westminster, and directly the matter was published it was a subject of great rejoicing in Rome. Now this country had a diplomatic representative at Rome. We had a consul located there ; and over the doors of his .man sion were placed the British arms. He (Mr. Keogh) saw the d we lli n g of the British consulate brilliantly illuminated in honour of the appointment.—(Hear, hear.) Was the heti of Rome, then, to be under the impression that nothing would beSO 'distasteful to the" British Government as that appoint ment for which the British consul had illuminated his man sion? The Noble Lord had made a great deal of the subject of synod in Ireland; he said that all might have gone quietly but for that Synod of Thurles, which interfered with internal affairs The Noble Lord said the Catholics of Ireland had de ceived him, but they had only returned a comp iment. The Noble Lord when he came to deal with the Protestant eccle siastics in Ireland by no means ob j ected to their interference In the most violent manner with their flocks on the same temporal questions which he accused the Roman Catholic bishops of improperly interfering with. The Noble Lord would recollect that in 1832, 17 out of 20 Protestant bishops in Ireland, for they bad 20 then, and 1,730 Protestant clergy, protested against the system of national education.—( Hear.) And the Noble Lord who led the party on his side of the . House, supported by the Noble Lord opposite, said those right rev. prelates and those members of the clergy had a right to say that, disapproving of the system, they would not allow the attendance at the schools of the children of th irfl `flecks. It was perfectly competent for clergymen of e the Established Church to say that, but it was not competent to the Catholic clergy to say they would not disallow, but that they would not recommend their flocks to semi their children to the mixed schools of education in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Then the Noble Lord spoke of the synod, and was enormously cheered, as if it had been a Monster that had never before been heard of. But there was the Synod of Ulster,—of the Presbyterian Church of Scot land; there was the Synod of the United Presbyterian Church Synod—(A laugh)--and there was the Sinod of United Original Seceders, He must tell the Noble Lord that since his famous Durham letter no one would venture to ally that the Catholic people of Ireland ought to send their children to those sex inaries.—(Hear.) But, sa i i t d the N o bl e a e n rdcohld Catholicsin Lord, there was a case in Sardinia- He thought would have been more apposite and cogent with the ftleouiL Ireland, since the Reformation, if the Nob d d have said there was a case there in which religiois inbeepeoundenta was stifled by the hierarchy instead of travelling came oat that Alps. But, in sober seriousness, he said that thisy inwas the worst part of the Bill. The cloven foot Part of the Bill to which he had alluded more than in all the letters and speeches of the Noble Lord a nd his colleagues. fthe If there should be a question as to the rel i g ious liberty o Episcopal Church of Scotland, no one would be more happy than he would be to insert a clause in the Bill to preserve it; but could it have escaped the Noble Lord, when be was hurling his invectives against the Roman Catholic religion in• Ireland, against those sacred ceremonies which its mem bers revered, when talking of the Synod of Thurles, that he had a case in Scotland much stronger than any he could have thought of in Ireland? What would the House say of excommunication in the orthodox Episcopal Church of Scotland. There was, however, a remarkable case of that kind before the Courts of Scotland - but in favour of the Synod and the establishment from Which it had emanated the Noble Lord was willing to insert provisions to exempt it froM the operation of the Bill, which was aimed altogether with sectarian bigotry against the Roman Catholics.— (Hear, hear.) The Right Honourable Baronet the Home Secretary once contradicted him for saying he had received a petition signed by the bishops of the Episcopal Church of Scotland, but, if it were not the petition of the episcopal bishops, it was a petition of the Society of Christian Knowledge, signed by those episcopal bishops—( dear, hear) — and that petition was received, although the Noble Lord said he 'would not receive a petition so signed by the Roman Catholic bishops of Ireland. But, he would read the terms of the excommunication in the case in Scotland to which he bad referred ;—" We, William Skinner, Bishop of Aberdeen aforesaid, with our clergy in syno d assembled, do hereby this 1 0th day of May, 1843, excommunicate the said Sir William Duilbar, Bart.,faithful to h o ld no and solemnly e. am all the oommunion 'with him in prayers or sacraments." Had' that escaped the attention of the 'Noble Lord? Was he aware of the 'existence of that excommunication when he proposed to introduce an exceptional clause for Scotland in the Bill before ie, therefore , be argument d completely .1 direct cppv it after I id 1 ,, was c'" e subject, nd of the Eigh t ed securra , dents a Selec t ; question iad wit h ; F affect e therefore 3 House' injury on ci n gdorrl , j Cnurch Catholic ime and o ' 6 .11 taking ion tb 3 . he posv e " order to a .elect !ed with the FA' [eve the 'nit Owl e would i to se to rag majority scl to his Unitive 'hat the suspect it waS )ositiOa dmired. a of the Ltd with embers >f order would aring reso• upoll. 1 Noble Would ee, and lug on tted it i 2 tree If be °coed iy the id not ._The ecause sively. for THE _SUN, the House? He might turn to those fifth-rate men who made themselves the lecturers • out of that: House of those whose opinions ho entertained, but who, in that House, never uttered a word (Hear, and a laugb)—and, he would ask their where would have been the cause of Pariiamen ary reform if Catholic emancipation bad not been carried . ? Where would have been the cause of free trade, or where. might it be, if the Roman Catholics declared against it ? Hear.) But he was consoled on that part of the subject by reflecting that there was not one distinguished Free-trader—he did not re fer to those gentlemen who shot their small arrows at them, but who.never,stood against• them—but to those Free -traders who supported the question both in that House and out of it—that there was not one who was not again :4 this Bill.. The distinguished members of the late Sir R. Peal's Government were against it; the Hon. M..inher for Man chester, the Hon. Member for the West Riding, and the Hun. Member fur Montrose were against it. ( Hear.) He would wart the Noble Lord, then, before he put this Bill upon the table, that by it he tnigirit arouse again in the people . of Ireland, who were just emerging from the conseqw-nces of pestilence and famine, and just reaching perhaps the shore on a frail plank, the fanatical spirit of sectarian animosity, and perhaps involve them again in another twenty years' struggle. If .indeed that struggle should come, the result would be, he was convinced, as it had been betore, victo rious to the people of Ireland, and never would they sheathe the sword until they had deprived those who had oppressed them of thdrpower of oppression.heers.) They won that struggle before, and they would win it- again. The Noble Lord boasted, and, if he did not retract all he had done, it was the proudest beast he could make, that he assisted them in recovering and reclaiming religious liberty. If then by a tyrannical uiajsrity in that House the Noble Lord struck down their liberties that night, - they would go forth from that House and would never cease until they had re•estn . - blished shem. They would never be intimidated by mo mentary defeat. They had braved scenes of persecution : the avenging sword of Cromwell was upon them; the in.. sidious treachery of the Stuarts beset then' ; exactions and confications—he used the word openly, plainly, and ad visedly,—the confiscations in which the ancestors of the Noble Lord had taken so . conspicuous a part, were up , n them. But they had triumphed over them, and would triumph again ; and they would do so, not forgetting their allegiance to their Sovereign ; but, while acknowledging tha^. allegiance, they would con-inue to assert, a. the Constitution allowed them to do, their allegiance In spiritual matter. to the supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church. " llum domus Capitoli immobile saxum Accelet, imperiumque pater Romanus habebit." , Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had certainly a very difficult task to perform, and he certainly had no hesitation in saying that he did so with very great ability. He should own, however, that it ap peared to him the case was beyond even the powers and talents of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman. Trio statement he made on a former occasion, and alluded to by other Mem bers of the House. was, that with respect to Ireland, the titles taken from sees, was forbidden since 1829, and that therefore Rbman Catholic bishops were under the greatest persecution from that time to this,or that the present Bill was not one of pains and penalties. It appeared to him that that proposition was undeniable, and the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman endeavoured to evade it. He (Lord John Russell) would next refer to his obi.ervations with respect to the necessity of consulting the . feelings of the people of England. He said no doubt it was necessary to consult them, but he did not say it was ne cessary to consult the Protestant, and all he did was to consult the national feeling.—(Cheers.) He should say in the same way, that when the Pope attempted to ob tain a complete dominion over France, that those who Ie- . - sisted it were those whose feelings ought to have been con sulted as the people of France, and although the great majo rity were Roman Catholics, they were not prepared to bow the knee to a sovereign not their own, and a foreign prince. —(Cheers.) It might well be said in that instance, that the feelings of the people of Franca ought to have been con sulted, because they would not submit to decrees which came from Rume.—(Hear, hear.) It certain'? was a mis fortune, as he said on a former occasion, that Catholic Eman cipation was so long delayed, because, as it was truly said by Mr. Grattan the effect of it was perfectly to incorporate the Roman Catholicsl with the See of Rome, and he asked no better evidence of the truth of that assertion, than the speech of the Honourable Gentleman who just sat down.—(Cheers.) The Honourable and Learned Gentleman said that he did not at all mind the Act of 1819, because it was never enforced, and he called on him (Lord John Ilea 6$11) to say would he now do so. That question had little to do with the present Bill, because if the provisions were never enforced, or if it were our determination to enforce them against all those who took their titles from existing sees, the present Act would haYe been quite sufficient, and no new Bill would have been required. Then the Honourable and Learned Gentleman asked, did they mean to enforce it in the same sense as the provisions of the present Bill? and quoted the opinion of a Learned Gen.leman to show that the first clause did not apply to Ireland with the same stringency as the present law. If no spiritual function.; could be exercise& should the present Bill become a law? How was it, that. in spite of an Act of 1829, these functions were exercised from that day to this, and nothing was done to prevent them? The Honourable and Learned Gentleman said they did not enforce the present Act, but he should remember that before that was done an offence must be committed, and evidence given. The blame could not be attached to Governments with which he was connected fir not enforcing the Act since 1829. It was not alone to Whig Governments, but to those of the Duke of Welling ton, and when Lord De Grey and Lord Haddington were Lords-Lieuteuant in Ireland, and the present Chief Jus tice of the Queen's Bench in that country was Attorney- General. But, independently of that, the Roman Catholic prelates of Ireland changed the law, and did not in scarcely an instance, use any assumption of sees or diocelids in Ireland. Well, then, if with an exception, a most . iiierend arch bishop, who took a title to which he had no claim, no public act of those prelates was signed by their titles, surely there was no necessity for enforcing a law which was not violated. —( Hear, hear.) It the Act was obeyed, what could they expect further ? .What was intended was to prevent the ostentatious assumption of those titles, and if that was obeyed the Government would be satisfied with that obe dience ; solhat the" difficulty of the Hon, and Learned Gentleman was no difficulty at all. What was. done in Ire land ? The Roman Catholics took titles from the ancient sees since a period forty years after the Reformation, and they saw no reason to interfere with that. It ought not to he the business of this, or of any other Government, to make out cases agains , them by inquiry; but when a person comes forward and declares that the Pope has divided this country into districts for the establishment of dioceses, and that by his authority he has abolished the see of Canterbury, then he must say that was not a question of exercising reli gious functions—(Cheers)—but a daring defiance of the authority of she Crown, and what might be pro perly called an act of a :gression to which the Parliament could not shut its eyes.— (Hear, hear.) This was an offence against the nation, awl they could not therefore except Ireland as a part of the United Kingdom. What was required by the Act of 1829 has been done, but if in Ireland and in England by assuming these titles, they should set up this authority against that of the Crown, in that case the Crown ought to take steps to assert its authority. —(Cheers.) The Hon. and Learned Gentleman said the Act of 1829 was repealed by the Bequests Act, which had been brought in by the Government of Sir Robert Peel. Was it likely that the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon should in troduce a measure for the repeal of an important part of an Act which gave the right to Roman Catholics of sitting in that House without ever adverting to such an alteration in that measure. The words were, with regard to bequests, " in trust for any bishop or archbishop exercising functions in certain districts ;" and with regard to priests, they were described as persona "having pastoral care and superintend ence over cong•egations of persons professing the Roman Catholic religion." The next assertion of the Honourable and Learned Gentleman was, that it was doubtful whether the preamble was borne out by the law. It was the general opinion of lawyers, that by law they could not assume titles of any cioceses in this country ; but when the Attorney-General stated that there was a doubt upon that point they were justified in acting on that opinion_ The Honourable and Learned Gen tleman expressed an opinion that the law prohibiting the assumption of titles was null and void. The Honourable and Learned Member for Midhuret did not act upon that impression, for he did not propose to insert the words " be it enacted," but the words " be it.declared."' He could see whether the preamble was borne out by the law. The Honourable aed Learned Gentleman next stated that this Bill was a violati mof religious liberty, and in metaphorical language threatened them with the resistance they might expect to receive from the Roman Catholics of Ireland, when he said, they would.never sheath their swords until they had overcome their oppressors. He was sorry they should regard the Bill in the light of persecution, but on that ace count they were not called upon to resign a tittle of the rights inherent in the Crown.—(Hear, hear.) They must preserve the sovereignty and independence of the nation. He was not prepared to exchange the religious ',hefty which they enjeyed in this country, and which the Romau Catholics would enjoy aft er the passing of this Bill for the religious liberty in Rome.—(Cheers.) They were told that there was a person in prison in Rome fur circu lating a translation in Italian of the Sacred Scriptures.— (Hear, hear.) It was not at Rome, but in another Italian state.--(Hear, hear, from Mr. Keogh.) The Hon. Gentle man thought it a great triumph that the ease had not oc curred in Rome, but it was under the influence of Rome that the occurrence had taken place. Would the Hon. Gentle man say that Prcee,tants would be allowed to build a church at Rome, to go there publicly, and to defend their opinions as here? No such thing.—(Hear.) That was the sort of religious liberty they would enjoy at Rome. He rejoiced that he could read " Wheteley's Logic," and other works prohibited at Rome. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman pro duced an excommunition pronounced by a bishop in Scot land.—(Hear.) The title under which that bishop acted was not legal, the clergyman had therefore an action against the bishop, and got a verdict, and the bishop was obliged to compromise the action. He esteemed himself for tunate that he could compare this country for the enjoyment of religious liberty with any other, where the Church of Rome had the prevailing power. The Hon. Gentleman displayed an indignatioe which did him honour, against what had been done towards a Minist .r of the King of Sardinia. Let him be sure if these doctrines of the See of Rome, not the doctrines of the Roman Catholic religion, bat the political doctrines which they endeavoured to extend over Europe, were to prevail, be would not enjoy ball the liberty and halt the power of expressing his opinions and defending them in that House which he now did under a Protestant Sove i:llign.—(Hear;tarwas a p ) He repelled the to i sta e t s e s m u e r. n e t of the washe eHon. Member that w p 0 0 l u i t t i d c at uo t m s e e a ff s e u r r e t h a e g i a n m s t e ao f political s e n l c i r o o e a r c ty h encroachment t ee , and e h o e act of foreign aegree s i (Cheere.) Mr. BRIGHT said much struck with an observa tion made by the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon, when he gave as a reason that he could not consent to the Bill because the Government ttr did not know what they withwth the t h e country letter, would suppose that some griev ous injury was done. This as fromwhich had to do, or how to d o The No airy onebleLord commenced not ac quainted was on on the 7th of November, the fr ay an d within a week of that time, accompanied offi ce rs of State, the Lord Chancellor by the great lo Chief Justice , assembled at the fes r tiv a e nd the Lord board of the ch i e f magistrate of the city of London. On the occasion of the visit to which he had referred, m inutes after the loving, cup went round, speeches five livered calculated to excite discord a mongst her Majesty'swere de subjects. In the agitation which took place on this subject, there had been thirty county meetings, which would sho a strong feeling on the subject. Some of these meeting w were very insignificant. ne of them was held in York s . Special trains at half-price were engaged, and noblemen and gentlemen announced to attend, but although the meeting took place in a town with a population between thirty and forty thousand people, not more than 2,50 J attended, and a great many of them were Roman Catholics. There was no agreement displayed by the speakers at these meetings as to the remedy for the injury, if there was one. From the smallest of the country practitioners to the greatest of them there had not been found the soiallest thing that the Legis lature cou'd act upon. Then there was the celebrated Dr. Cumming. who delivered a lecture at which Admiral Her court presided. They made the proposition that the Cardial should be at once put on board ship andsent outof the country. 1 After.three months' deliberation, they had the speech of the LONDON, Noble Lord, which wal not very much to the paint. He had now found out his difficulty, and he found that he could not d-al with the matter -without thrriwing Ireland over board. The Noble LOrd objected to the Synod of Thurles, but the Protestant-bishops and clergy had been as meddle some 'and troublesome, and more so, than the Catholics, when they dared. Then the Synod of Thurles had been equally divided upo / the quest i.ur, and that was more than could be said of the Protestant bishops and clergy upon eimihtr questions. When' the Noble'Lord made his speech he could not point out the particular sin of which the Pope had 40 11 guilty, but had been obliged toyesort to what law yers would call cumulative evidence, in support of his case. But the real offence was the importation of this bull, yet he proposed to do nothing to prevent the introduction of an other bull. He (Mr. Bright) admitted that there had been offensive language, but then he never found priests who did not use offensive language. Toe language of the Pope, offensive as it was, was rather - a form than a substance, and was not a sufficient justification for the Lsgislature of Eng land to proceed to legislate upon the subject.. The supre macy of which the Noble Lord spoke was a mere fiction, and it was so from the time of James the Second. At the pre- sent moment there was no supremacy but that of the three estates of the realm and of the law, and unless these late proceedings had violated this, it was abs .rd to say that there had been any violation of the law. The making of bishops by the only power that could make them was no violation of the law, or invasion of the prerogatives of the Crown. The Qu en did not pretend to make them. It was no ignoring of the Protestant Church, because the Pope had always ignored the Protestant Church of England, and he took precisely the same view of that Church which that Church took of ,the Dissenters in this country. This was what one church al ways did to another. He was no friend to bishops of any class.— (Hear, bear.) A constituent of his had pointed out that this change was really an . increase of independence in respect of the petaple. Vicars apostolic were subject to the arbitrary will of the Pope, and those extraordinary statutes which tie might please from time to time to enforce. The chasge from vicars apostolic to bishops in ordinary was for the benefit of the Roman Catholics of this country.— (Hear, hear.) The course taken by the :r'ope was calculated to relieve the Roman Catholics from much of that ultramon tane doctrine of which they had heard so much. The Noble Lord said that a foreign power had attacked the independence of this country; but the whole matter was one of sentiment. He would admit that the language was insslent and offen sice, and he thanked the Noble Lord for not making this Bill more offensive than it was. The question now was not a question of Protestantism, but of politics. He would - lsok at it as such. And now who were the injured? The Pope and Cardinal Wiseman were unscathed. The true suf ferers were the Crown of England and the six or seven millions of its Roman Catholic subjects. The gulf which had formerly separated Ireland from this country was this session made wider than it had ever been before. This was an evil .of great mag nitule. The Noble Lord had adverted to the proceeding at the Synod of Thurles as one of the reasons for bringing forward this Bill. But at that synod one of the bishops was in favour of the Queen's Colleges in Ireland; but the Noble Lord's policy had united all the Roman Catholic Bishops against tisese colleies. The missionary powers of the Roman Catholic Church had taken hope from the present. The Apostles put down page* nand established Christianity by the influence of their preeching and washing. Luther, single-handed, wrested from the Church of Rome the power which it possessed. There they had Church identified with the State, and supported by vast temporalities, and yet they were afraid that this Church would be overcome by the Roman 'Catholic Church, which had no power here. The Church in Ireland was in such a state that there was not a man in the kingdom that would hold up his finger in sup port of it, and it.only required the Noble Lord to lift up his finger against that Church in this House to have it swept away.—(Hear.) Yet this was the Church which the Noble Lord said was; inviolate. It seemed to be a question be tween the Bishop in St. James's-square against the Arch bishop in Gol,:en-square. The Noble Lor.: said he had con sulted the Lord Bishop of London on this Bill. He re gretted that this course had been pursued. He had seen that the bishop at one meeting shed tears. It was rather a curious sight to behold a bishop with 20,0001. a year shed ding tears. It reminded bim of a story told of a monk of Cyprus, who could shed tears as natural as he could exhibit perspiration, and who subsequently teigsed madness to avoid being made a bishop.—(Hear, heats) The Noble Lord felt he was in a quagmire. At least his colleagues did, and he thought the better, course would be for the Governmest to withdraw the Bill, rather than proceed with it. The truth rell ir was, the Noble Lti wAri prac tising a cheat upon the people of England. They , anted a Bill to put down what was called Papal aggres:4 4 but the Bill before the House was riot the measure thittAtity desired.—: Hear, hear.) The Hon. Member for Salford t aid that neither his Right Hon. Friend (Mr. M. Gibson) ' nor 'himself represented the feel ings of his • constituents on this subject. This might be so, and the time would:; come when_ that question could be settled ; but his H . 6n. Friend had now obtained the approval of a rev. parion in his borough who had al ways opposed him, but whesnow thanked God that he was represented by such 'a nab. That House was composed of six hundred and fifty-six Members. They were supposed to be the foremost men in the country, and it was their duty not to be the victim of a po: War cry. It was their duty to stem the cry rather than td be led away by it. Loakinss at England with her free press;'her progress in indusi ry and in morals, she would be ever , able to resist any aggression, whether it cane from Lambeth or from Rome. He was one ha s d ec s t ai t a ha h t e had suffered f of a sect which had invariably upheld the principles which he hoardatm princ iplesp tedto which advocate-the Noble Lord a ( 1 3eof this sill to uphold, but he felt it to be his duty as a citizen to raise his voice to withdraw it.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. SCULLY moved the adjournment of the debateSone reason for which was, that the legal advirer of the Govern ment for Ireland had not given his opinion on the subject. Mr. LAWLESS seconded the amendment. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion .. - ... 54 Against it ... 365 Majority against the motion ... ...--311 An HoN. MEMBER having moved that the House should now adjourn, Lord J. RUSSELL rose, and referring to the length of the discussion which the subject had already undergone, said, that in point of deliberation ? they might very well be consi dered in Committee.— (Heir, hear.) After the divisions which had already taken place, he was not disposed to detain the House by further divisions. He would, therefore, pro pose the debate should be adjourned till Thursday next. — (Loud cries of "Hear, hear,") The debate was adjourned accordingly. PROPERTY-TAX BILL. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the third reading of this Bill. After a few- words from Mr. COWAN, which were wholly inaudible in consequence of the noise in the House, Mr. HERRIES expressed a hope that the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not in the present state of the House press the third reading of the Bill. It appeared to him that the Committee on the tax, which had been agreed to, should be aiipointed before the Bill was read a third time. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, understand ing that the Bill was only to be passed for one year, consi dered that there could be ho objection to its being read a third time. Ile appointment of the Committee was wholly inde pendent of the passing of the present Bill. The Bill was then read a third time. On the question that the Bill do pass, Mr. BERRIES inquired when the Committee was likely to be appointed? The CHANCELLOR of the EYCHEQUER could not say until he ascertained what Hon. Members were willing to serve on the Committee. He was in communication with several gentlemen with a view of obtaining their services, but two or three gentlemen, who he had hoped would have served, had declined to do so. He had no doubt that in a day or two he would be able to lay a list of the Committee on the table. In reply to Colnnel SIBTHORP, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had before stated that the claims of parties assessed under Schedule D would bs fairly brought under the consideration of the Committee. The Bill was then passed. The Apprentices to Sea Service (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The report on the resolutions relating to conferences with the Lords was considered and agreed 10. THE WOODS AND FORESTS. Lord SEYMOUR moved tor leave to bring ii a Bill to make better provision fur the management of the woods, forests, and land revenues of the Crown. and for the direc tion of public works and buildings. The measure was, he observed, the same in its general features as the Bill of last year, though there were some alterations in the details. Lord DUNCAN hoped the Noble Lord would afford an opportunity for discussing the measure on an early day. A Bill of the same kind was introduced last year, but it WAS thrown over to the end of the session, and was never dis cus4ed. Sir W. JOLLIFFE suggested that the Government should take the discussion on the principle of the met- , ure upon the second reading. Lord SEYMOUR, would state, when, be brought in the Bill upon what day the second .ieadlng would take place. Leave was then given to introduce the bill. PETITION OF REV. PIERCE CONELLY. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY moved -"That the order of the House (May 1), that the petition of the Rev. Pierce Conelly bs printed for the use of members only, be read, for the purpose of being discharged." Mr. STAFFORD said, the circumstances of this case were somewhat peculiar. It had been decided by the Printing Committee th& the petition t'i which the Neble Lord's reso lution referred should not be printed in the ordinary way, so as to be accessible to the public, and therefore it had been printed for the usel of Members only. The allegations of the petition were so extraordinary, and affected so many persons, and the circumstances of the case were likely to attract so much public attention at this time, that without in the least wishing to prejudice the case on the one side or the other, he hoped the House would not be led, by assenting to the resolution, into the publication of a series of persona lities. The Earl of ARUNDEL and SURREY said that it was the excitement preVailing at the present moment which in duced him to take notice of this petition; under ordinary circumstances he would not have done so. He happened to enter the Committee on Public Petitions at the time that petition was under consideration, and when it had been pro posed that it should be printed for the use'of Members only. He moved that it should be printed and published in the usual way, but his motion was negatived. He disliked the half publicity which had been given to . the petition, and demanded from the justice of the House that full pub licity should be given to it, in order that he might obtain ' information which would enable him to disprove its alle . gations. Mr. THORNELY said, that after much consideration the Petitions Committee resolved to print the petition for the use i of Members, because it referred to an unimportant question, 3 respecting which a Member had introduced a Bill to the House; but they . refrained from printing it for general cir culation because it contained imputations of a serious nature on the character of individuals. „ Sir R. INGLIS apprehended that if the petition were printed for general circulation the House would be inyplyed in another Stockdale and Hansard or Howard case. , Mr. ANSTEY reminded the Hon. Baronet that by the provisions of the Bill passed a few years ago no action for libel could be brought on account of anything cow ained in a paper published by order of the House. All the facts stated in the petition had been given in evidence before the3Eccle elastics! Court. Mr. HENRY DRUMMOND had known the petitioner for two years, and had seen all the documents quoted in the petition- .. Mr. G. BERKELEY and Mr. KEOGH supported the motion. Sir'G. GREY thought, that if the petition was such as it was represented to be, the Committee had exercind a sound discretion in printing it for the use of Members only. iia ll o lr t . h A e G W L as l t o e- NBY thought it absurd to attribute secrecy to anything which had been circulated among' upwards of 600 persons. Most of the petitions would find their way w w h ala b e l7 n .. laugh. o — H t LE A N g L 1 tEelask)e t, and then they would go==-no one knew prevent him the him. ub fr j o e m et orfeptehaetinNgobthleemLotrod p w i a ir s . to refute the statements contained in the petition, there TUESDAY _EVENING, ties whom they affected, and obtaining from them the in formation necessary to vindicate their cluracters before the House. After some farther discussion, the House divided, when there appeared— For the motion .„ Against it ... Majority - against the m,,tiou TH E NAVY. On the motion of Mr. SIDNEY HERAIERT the follow ing returns were ordered : - " Of the number of officers on the present admirals, vice admirals. and rear-adrnira!s' list respectively,' who have not served a sufficient time as captains to entitle them to their flag: • "Of the number of officers amongst the first 100-and the second 100 respectively on the captains' list, who have not yet served a sufficient time as captains to entitle them to their flag: " Of the number of officers who, at any time since Sep tember, 1846, have accepted the retirement as retired rear admirals or retired captains: " Of the number of 11:g-officers, captains, commanders, and lieutenants respectively now on full pay: " And, similar return of the number holding employments, but not on sea pay, under the Admiralty or the Board of Customs respectively." The other orders were disposed of, and the Home adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'clock. 13( -90 PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIVISIONS. (From the V , ,tes and Proceedings of the House of Commons MONDAY, MAY 12. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ASSUMPTION BILL. Order read for re.iuming adjou ned Debate on Question (9th May), " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Cnair."— Quesion again proposed; Debate arising; Motion made, and Question put, " That the Debate be now adjourned." The House divided : MINORITY-AYES, 54. Armstrong, Sir A. Herbert, H. A. O'Connell, M. J. Arundel, Earl of Iliggins, George O'Fiaherty. Antkony Barron, Sir LI. ll,bliouse, f. B. Ponsonby, C. F. Blake, M. J. Hope, Alexander Power, Dr. Blewitt, Reginald Howard, Sir R. Power, Nicholas Bright, Joint Keating, Robert Reynolds, John Castlereagh, Vise. Keogh, William Roche, E. B. Clements, C. S. M'Cullagh, W. T. Sadlelr, John Corbally, M. E. Mogan, W. H. Scholefleld, William Crawford, W. S. Maher, N. Somers, J. P. Devereux, John T. Meagher, Thomas Sullivan, Michael Fagan, James Manners, Lord J. Talbot, J. H. Fox, Richard M. Moore, G. H. Tenison, Edward K. Fox, W. J. Murphy, F.. 8. Tennent, .J. Gibson, T. M Norreys, Sir D. Towneley, John Goold, Wyndham Nugent, Sir Percy Wegg-Prosser, F. Grace, O. D. O'Brien, John TELLEIta. Grattan, Henry - O'Connell, John Scully, Francis Greene, John O'Brien, Sir T. Lawless, Cecil MAJORITY—NOES, 365. ' Abdy, Sir Thomas Evans, Sir Do Lacy Mostyn, E. M. L. Acland, So T. Evans, J. Alulgrave, Earl of Anon', tlugh E. EVallB, William Mußings, J. It. Adair, it. Shatto Evelyn, William J. Mundy, William Adderley, C. Is. itwart, William Muutz, G. F. Agliontry, li. A. Farrel, James Napier Joseph Aloock, Thomas Fellowes, E. Neeld, John Anderson, Arthur Fergus, John Neeld, Joseph Anson, Colonel Ferguson, Colonel Newdegate, N. Ansley, Thomas -- Ferguson, sir It. Newport, Viscount Arkwright, George Filiner, Sir E. Nicholl, J. Ashley, Lord Fitzpatrick, J. W. Noel, Gerald J. Bagge, William Fitzroy, Henry Ogle, S. C. Bagsha ~ , John Floyer, John Ossuiston, Lord Bailey, Joseph Foley, J. a • Owen, Sir John Baines, M. T. Forties, William Facke, C. W. Baird, James Fordyce, A. 1.). Paget, Lord C. Baldock, E. H. Forester, H. C. . Paget, Lord G. Bankes, G. Forster, Matthew I'akington, Sir J. 'taring, Henry B. Fortescue, J. W.. Palmer, Robert Baring, Sir F. Fox, S. L. Pahnerston, Vis, Baring,,, Fr eshfield, J. W. • Parker, John Barlitg,Werincis Frewen, C. H. Fatten, J. W. • BitriMW,i.W: H. Fuller, A. E. Peel, Colonel 13ateatin Thomas Gallwey, Sir W. P. Pennant, lion. Col. Bell, Jacob Gaskell, J. M. Perfect, Robert Benbow, John Gilpin, It. T. ' Peto, Samuel M. Hentiock, Lord U. Glyn, G. C. Pigott, Francis Berestord, William Goddard, A. L. Pilkington, James Berkeley, Admiral Gooch, E. S. Plowden, W. H. Berkeley, Henry F. • Greene, Thomas Fit niptre, J. P. Berkeley G. F. Grentell, C. Pascoe Portal, Melville Berkeley, C. L. Greaten, Charles W. Powlett, Lord W. Bernal, Ralph Grey, Sir (1. Prime, Richard Bernard, Viscount Grogan, Edward Reid, Colonel &titan, Richard Grosvenor, Lord It. Rendlesham, Lord Birch, sir T. Guernsey, Lord Renton, J. C. Blair, Stephen Guest, Sir J ono Repton, G. W. J. Blakemore, R. Gwyn, bowel Ricardo, Osman 1 Blatuiford, Marquis Hale, R. 11. Rice, E. R. I Booker, T. W. Hall, Sir B. Rich, Henry Booth, Sir R. G. •liallyburten, Lord Richards, Richard BOuverie, E. P. Halsey, T. P. Hominy. Colonel Bustles, Admiral Hamilton, G. A. Rumbold, C. E. Ho*, Colonel Hamilton, J. 11. - ltushout, Captain Bramstun, T. W. liannitoll. Lord C. Russell, Lord John Breinridge. Richard Hamner, Sir John Russell, Edward S. Brisco, M. liardeastie, J. A, Russell, F. C. Brockletiorst, J. Harris, Captain Sandars, George Brockman, E. D. Harris, Richard Seymer, H. [t: Brooke, Lord llaslie, Alexander Seymour, Lord Brooke, Sir Arthur Hastie, Archibald Shelburne, Earl of Brotherum, J. Ilatchell, John Sibthorp, Cot oitei Brown, H. Hawes, Hew. ' Smith, John Abel Brown, W. Hayes, Sir E. Smith, M. T. Bruce, Lord E. Head/lam, '.12. E. Smyth, J. G. Buck, L'. W. Heatheote, Sir G. J. Smollett, A. Banbury, William Heneage, G. 11, Some vine, Sir W. Burghley, Lord . nolleaget Edward Sotheron, T. H. S. BuxtoO, Sir E. Henley, J. w. Spearman, H. J Campbell, W. F. Herries, J. C. Spooner, R. Carew, W. H. P. Heywood, J ames Stafford, Augustus Carter, J. B. liildyar t , It. C, Stanford, J. F. Caulfeild, J. M. Hildyard, T. B, Stanley, Edward Cavendish, C. C. Ii i miley ,C. Stanley, E 11. Cavendish, G. H. Hodgson, W. N. Stanley. W. 0. Cavendish, W. G Hodges, T. L. Stanstieltl, W. R. C. Cayley, E. S. Hodges, T. Twisden Stanton, W. ii. Chaplin, W. J. Holland, Robert Staunton, Sir.G. Child, Smith Hornby, Jowl S..epheliml, Robert Childers, J. W. Ilothain, Lord _ Stuart., Lord J. Cholmeley, Sir M. Howard, C. W. G. Stuart, John Christopher, R. Howard, E. G. Sturt, IL G. Christy; Samuel Hudson; G. Sutton, J. H. Clay, James Hughes, W. B. Talbot, C. R. Clay, Sir W. Hutchins, E. J. Taylor, Thomas E. Clerk Sir G. Hutt, William . Thesiger, sir F. Clifford, H. M. Inglis, Sir It. Thickness°, It. A. Clive, H. B. Jackson, William Thompson, Colonel Cobbold, J. C. Johnstutie, Sir J. Thompson, Alderman Cockburn, Sir A. Jolliffe, Sir W. H. Thornely, T. cocks, T. S. Jones, laptaiii Tollemache, F. J. Codrington, Sir W. Kerrison, si r H. Tollemache, John Coles, H. B. Kershaw, James Townley, R. G. Collins, William King, 1-, J, Townshend, Captain Colvile, C. It. Knox,, Pi. s. Trelawny, J. S. Compton, H. C. Labouchere, IL Tanen, Newry Conolly, Thomas Langton, W. IL P. Tyler, Sir G. Cotton, W. H. Lemon,' Sir C. Tyrell, Sir J. Cowan, Charles Lennox i L or: , A. Verner, Sir W. Cowper, W. F. Leone; Lord H. G. Vesey, Thomas Crowder, it. B. Leslie, e. p,„ Villiers, Viscount Currie, Raikes Lewis, Sir T. Villiers, Charles Deedes, W. Lewis, q, C, Vivian, J. H. D'Eyncourt, C. T. Lewisham, Viscount Vyvyan, Sir R. Dick, Quintin Littleton, E. K. Wedding ton, 11. S. Disraeli, B. Locke, Joseph Wakley, T. Dud, J. W. Lockhart, At E. IViilpole, S. 11. Dodd, G. Lockhart, W. Walsh, Sir J. B. Douro, Marquis of Long, Iv, Watkins, Colonel Driix, J. S., W. LoPes;Sir Ralph Wawn, J. T. Drummond, Henry Loveden, l'ryse Welby, G. E. Duckworth, Sir J. Lowther, Henry West, F. It. Duff, George S. Lygon, Gen. Westhead, J. P. Dud, James Mackie" J o hn Whiteside, James Deice, Sir James Mackinnon, W. A. Wigram, L. T. Duncan, Viscount Macingliten, Sir E. Willcox, Brodie Duncan, George M'Gregor, John Williams, John Duncuft, John Mandeville, Viscount ' Williams, T. P. Dundas, Admiral mangles, It. D. Williams,.. W. Dundas, Sir D. Marshall, J. G. Willyams,•• H. Dunne, Colonel Masterman, John Williamson, Sir IL, Du Pre, C. G. Matheson, ;it J. Wilson, James East, Sir J. B. Matheson, Colonel Wilson, Matthew Ebrington, Viscount Made, 'Fox Wodehouse, E. Edwards, Henry Mansell, T. P. Weod, Sir Charles Egerton, Sir P. Miles, F. W. S. Wood, Sir W. P. Egerton, W. T. Alit:..trell, T. A. Wortley, J. S. Ellice, Edward M9Tatt, George Yorite, E. T. Elliot, John E. Mincreiff, James Enfield, Viscount Moody, A.J. A. TELLERS. Estcourt, J. B. Morgan, 0. Hayter, W. G. Eusten, Earl Morris, David Hill, Lord Al. AMERICAN NEWS. ARRIVAL OF Tll-. AMERICA. LIVEgI'UOL, 'L , IONDAY NinRNIAG. Tha British and North American Royal in.4il steam ship America tas just entered our river. She brings seven days la , er intelligence from the United States and 13citish North America, having sailed from Boston on the 30th ult.. and called at Halifax to land anci re ceive mails and passengers on the 21 inst. The number of pisieng.rs brought over is 111. She brings 26,0001 in specie on freight. _ The ArAerica spoke the Royal mail steamer Europa the 4 h inst. Tne Royal msil steam-ship Niagara, Leitch, arrived at Halifax :it 6 P.M. on the 29cn ult., and was after wards pays,d by tie America off Boston. The United State.; steatn-Oip Ohio, Shenck, With 11.ivntinsh mails of the I.S.h ulc., 200 passengers, au 140,0001. in gold dust anti 20,000 doll:. specie oa freight, arrived at Ne. York on the 24ch ult. The new United States mail steam-ship Humboldt, Linea commander, sister ship to the Franklia, would leave on the 3d inst. for Southampton. Our miscellaneous accounts announce that a large new steam-shin, of 1,200 tons, was being constructed at New York, for a new steam line, to run between Charleston and Liverpool. In Pittsburg Jenny Lind had been grossly insulted, stones having been thrown into her carriage, and afterwards into her dressing room. She subsequently refused to sing again, and left instantly for Ba).imore. Great indignities Had been offered in South Carolina to the officer from Boston who conveyed the fugitive slave Simms back to that state. On the 231 ult. a grand entertainment was given at Astor-house, New York, by the St. George's Society, at which Sir H. wuo had just recovered min severe indispo , ition, was one of the principal.gu , sts and speakers. Dr. Beals presided, and the Swedish Minis. ter, Mr. Lyvon, sou of Sir E. B. Lytton, was also pre sent. Several of the orations, more especially those of Sir H. Bulvrer, were of a remarkable character. Cap rain Cooper responded for the British army, Sir H. Bulwer for the Duke of Wcaltugt:)v, and Mr. Lytton for his father, the great novelist. A steam-boat had been seized at New York charged with having been intended for the Cuban expedition. Six persons had been arrested and held to bAI. The President has issued a proclamation against such expe diions. The particulars of the affair are thus re lated:— " The United States Marshal having received intelligence that a vessel had been chartered by certain persons inte rested in the invasion of Cuba, and secretly fitted out with implements of war, and tak .n down the bay, where she was anchored, awaiting the arrival of several hundred mea, the Marshal had the steamer Jacob Bell charterea and kept in readiness at Pier No. 1, North River. In the mean time he called upon the Chief of Police to furnish a force of his men to aid and as-ist the United States authorities. All ar rangements being consummated. they boarded the steamer Jacob Bell, which steamed towards Governor's Island, but turned up the East River and went alongside of a United States revenue cutter, and was made fast, and sailed down the bay in search of the craft suspected. The Marshal and his forces remained down the bay until Thursday morning, to watch the vessel and such persons as were expected to be conveyed to the craft at different hours of the night. The suspected craft, however, was the steam-boat Cleopatra, which, during all his search, was lying quietly at the pier, foot of North Moore-street. She is a large boat, about 14 years old, and was employed as a sound-boat, to which she proved herself well adapted. She has a large quantity of coal on board (we understand 250 tons were ordered), occu pying the forward cabin and hold, boiler-rooms, and a quan tity piled on the forward deck. She has also on board a great number of large empty casks, which now stand on end. the whole capable of containing, probably, some 7,000 gal lons of water. She looks rough, and not newly painted, nor has anything been done to her to give her any different ap pearance from an ordinary sound or river boat. The water casks, &c., we understand, were ordered by Captain .Wilson, who claims to command her. She was alleged to be bound to Galveston, Texas. There were some sugar-boxes, &c., on board, such as fire-arms are usually packed in, but on exa mining them, they were found to contain hams and other arti cles. Application wasmade to the Navy-yard during Saturday for some marines to take charge of the Cleopatra, which was granted, and they now have her in custody. Mr. C. Rack lewitz,a young man, a native of Poland, one of the deputy marshals, went to South Amboy on the same day, where it was said some Germans and others had assembled with a view to embarking in a Cuban expedition, disguised himself as an emigrant, and conversing in German wit . some of the parties, obtained informatiou which induced him to get five of the parties to come with him to this city. Affidavits were prepared charging William 'l'. Rogers, jun. (nephew of Dr. J. K. Rogers),-John L. O'Sullivan (son-in-law of Dr.R.), t;aptain Le , ' is, formerly of the steam boat Creole, engaged in the former expedition (charged with being, is tact, Cap tain of the Cleopatr,.), Major Louis Schlesinger, ne of the Hung 'Tian patriots. Pedro Sanches, a Spaniard, residing in this city, and Dr. Daniel H Burtnett, an old resident, with preparing the means for a military expedition against Cuba, in possession of the Queen of Spain, contrary to the sixth section of the Neutrality Act of the 20th of April, 1618. Tae parties thus charged were arrested and held to bail in 3,000 dollars each to appear for examination." The Erie Railroad was completed as far as Lake Ede. Sir Henry Buiwer delivered a long address at the St. George's Society on 23d April. From Mexico dates aro to the 9th of April. The financial condition of the Republic was deplorable. A formal complaipt had been made by the Ministry to the United States Government as to the Indian outrages on the frontier, which by treaty the United States were bound to protect. Mexico refuses to ratify the Tehuan tPpec Treaty as yet. The correspondents of the New York journals say that there will be a deficiency on the year to meet the exigencies of the Government amount ing to 4,000,000 dolls. The Minister of Finance was endeavouring to consolidate the interior debt, and to raise a revenue. A loan of several millions was con templsted. Truziva and Co., Mexico, had failed for 250,0001. sterling. Our latest advices from Hayti furnish a more con nected account of the recent plot to overthrow the Im periel Government, and re-establish the Republic. The conspirators, it would seem, were blacks, and not mulat toes. The discovery was made in consequence ut the arrest of a person who was suspected of rubbery. Five of the conspirators had been shot. New Orleans is again threatened with the :desolation of water, owing to the Rood in that river and the cre vasses in the levees, both above and below the city. Butte, field's stables with fourteen horses, and several adjoining buildings, have been destroyed by fire at Utica, and the alleged incendiaries have been arrested. Incendiarism is the curse of American cities. At New Orleans, last week, Charles Roussell and his wile agreed to commit suicide. He mixed two tumblers of poison and took one of them, but the lady changed her mind immediately after her husband had swallowed the fatal dose. He died. She lives, and has been dis charged from custody by the magistrate. The cause of this romantic suicide is said to have been jealousy. .John Clines was hung at Freehold, New Jersey, on Friday, for the murder of James Shields. 'The night before his execution he set fire to the prison, but the flames were extinguished and his escape was prevented. a few days since a terrible railroad riot, in which six hundred Irishmen were engaged, took place at Hornersville, New York. It arose out of a strike for wages. Three were killed, and many wounded. The military were called out, and the ringleaders arrested. Another railroad riot took place on the Central-road, near Greensburg, Pennsylvania—one killed, and several wounded. Hazard's powder mill blew up at Enfield, on Friday week—one killed and three wounded. A free negro woman, named Barnes, was murdered at Leonard town, a few days ago, and her husband is accused of the foul deed. A curious affair recently took place at Rushville, Illinois. A blacksmith, who was a notorious drunkard, with a wife and family he did net support, was convicted of inveterate intemperance, and sold by auc tion, for the term of four months' labour ! During March the New York Post-office received by the European mail steamers 618,990 letters, and 293,264 newspapers; and forwarded 620,181 letters, and 366,916 newspapers. Btisinees throughout the States was in an excellent condition. The eXpurt of specie from New York con- tinued to be on a considerable scale, and seemed likely to continue, as quotations for English exchange bad not given way. The money market continued in a satisfac tory state. Money was by no means scarce. The de mand for stocks was firm, at former rates. There was little doing in breadstuff, at receding prices. Western canal flour, 4 dolly. 310.10 4 dolls. 50e. per barrel; Gennessee prime wheat 1 dull. 12c. to 1 doll. 14c. per 601 b.; Indian corn, round yellow, 62c. to 64c. per bushel, steady; Indian meal, 3 dolls. 12ic. to 3 dulls. 25c. per barrel. The cotton market at New York continued in a de pressed condition; sales could not be made except at a reduction, which holders generally had submitted to. N,,w Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to Lair, 1 lfc. to 12i -e. per lb.; Uplands and Florida, mid. fair 10le. to 1 per lb. The current excess of receipts wai 200,000 bales over that of last year. Prices declined on toe arrival out of the Agia's news. Provisions were in good demand, at firm prices. Freights were inactive, and low in quotation. Exchange on London 1101 to 1104 (vod demand), Paris 5 10, Ilamburgh 36i 364, Brecoeu 79i 79i. BARREL ORGANS AND ADVERTISING VANS.—The following is a re urn to an order of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated April 14, 1851, for copy "of the instruc tions given by the Commissioners of the Police to the police officers relative to the preventing obstructions and other nuisances, ca Ind by the large travelling barrel organs and advertisingyans in and about th e metro p olis": 6 ' (MERIORANDUM. ) " March 21, 1851. " The police would be justified in stopping music playing in the streets, and, if necessary, removing the parties in cases where, from the loud noise or other circumstances, danger is caused to passengers in the streets, horses frightened, or the thoroughfares obstructed. Let instructions be given accordingly for the guidan ce of the police. "RICHARD MAYNE. LOSVENTS, &c. Motion made, and Question put, That the Order of the House (May 8), that the petition of th e R everend P i erce Connelly be printed for the use of Members only, be read, for the purpose of being disc h arged." The House divided:— 10N URITY AYES. 41. Aglionby, H. A. Hutto, Alexander P ec h e ll , Sir G. Anstey, 'I! C. Higgins, G. G. Pil kington, Jamas Armstrong, Sir A. Hohhouse, T. B. Portal,,Melville Bankes, George Hutchins, E. J. Power, ,icholas Keogn, William Reynolds, John Ball, J,icob Lawless, Cecil &W e i r, John Berkeley, 11. F. Blake, M. J. magan, W. H. Scully, Francis Clements, CharleS Maher, N. St a ff or d , A. Cotton, NV. H. mangles, R. D. Sta n f or d , J. F. Drummond, Henry Moore, George H. Sulliv an Mi c h ae l D MID e, Colonel Noel, G. J. Tow n e l ey , J o h n Ellis, John O'Brien, Sir T. Foley, J. IL O'Connell , M. J. TELLERS. O'Flaherty, Anthony Arundel, Earl of Goold, Wnydhard Greene, John r a ga, Lord George Berk e l e y, Grantley MAJ ()HIT Y UES, I'l. . Acland, Sir T. Frewen, C. H. Paget, Lord Clarence Adderley, C. IL Geach, Charles Pakington, Sir John Arkwright, George Greene, Thomas Palmerston, Viscount aines, M. T. Guinea, Charles W. Parker, John Baldoek, E. H. Grey, Sir George Patten, J. W. Barrow, W.. 1.1. Gwyn, Howel Pet% Samuel Bellew, R. n. Hall, Sir B. Pigott, Francis Berkeley, William klallyburton, Lord Plowden, W. H. Berkeley, Admiral Hamilton, Lord C. Ponsonby, C. F. Berkeley. C. L. G. Hanrner, Sir J. Ricardo, Osman • Batchell, John Rich, Henry Birch, Sir T. Blair, Stephen Seymer, HenryHawes, Benjamin Russell, F. C. Booth, Sir R. G. Hayter, W. G. Ker Boyle, Colonel llcneage, E. Seymour, Lord Brocklehurst, J. Henley, J. W. Sibthorp, Colonel Butler; P. S. Heroert, li. A. Smith, J. A. Crew ; W. P. Heywood, James Smith, M. Tucker Carter, J. B. Hill. Lord Marcus Smollett, A. Cavendish, C. C. Hollond, Robert Somerville, Sir W. Cavesdish, W. G. Hornby, John Sotheron, T. Childers, J. W. Howard, C. W. G. Spearman, U.S. Chesty, Samuel Howard, E. G. Spooner, Richard Clidord, Henry M. Inglis, Si R. Stanley, W. O. Collins, William Jackson, William Stanstield, W. B. Cowper, W. F. Jolliffe, Sir W. G. Stanton, W. S. Cowan, Charles Kershaw, James Stephenson, Robert Deedes, W. King, P. J. Stuart, Lord J. Dodd, G. Knox, W. S. Tetrison, E. K. Duckworth, Sir J. Labouchere,. Henry Tennent, R. J. Duff, George • Langston, J. H. Thickness% Ralph Duncan, George Lewis, G. C. Thompson, Colonel Duncuft, John . • Littleton, E. R. Tufnell, Henry Dundas, Admiral Lockhart, W . . Tyler, Sir O. Dundas, Sir David Loveden, PrYse Watkins, Colonel Ebrington, Viscount 31asternum, J. Wawn, J. T. Edwards, 11 - . Matheson, Sir J. Westhead, J. B. Elliot, Solon Matheson, Colonel Williams , illams, John Estcourt, J, B. B. Mauls, Fox H. Evans, William Moncreiff, James Wilson, James Fergus, John Mostyn , E. M. Wood, Sir Charles Ferguson, sir R. Mulgra ve, Earl Wood, Sir W. P. Fitzpatrick, J. W. Mullin" J. B. Floyer, John Newdegate, C. N. TELLItag. Fordyce, A. D. Ogle , S C . Thornely, Thomas Forster, Matthew Packe, C. W. Brotherton, J wenn [AnvEwrisEmENT.]--Another Itnportent Cure by Holloway's Ointment and Pi lls of a Wound in the Leg,..._m r ,„ "Whitehall-place, April 1 9, 1851. Malcolm, wife of the lighthouse -kee p er at the entran ce of the "To the Superi ntentants." g be iv in en g a t n o y th la e w p s o p li e c c e ia r l e i spect p in r g . river Tees, near Redcar, had been a sufferer for u p war ds of ten years with a severe wound in t he le g . which, durin g the last the four years of that period, was so b ad that it made her quite in- " a N d o ve h ;t s i t s r i instructions vans,nstio ha cable to them. in thereve been not chae se p o o f li a c c e tu w al ou o l b d str i u n c t t e i r o f n ere o , f a un ithorough capableoteryaPi of walking without crutch es. To heal it many reme- fare by these vans dies had been tried in vain before Holloway's Ointment and cases of obstructions, and_ enforce th , e , R Ia I NL A 2d and m 3d Vie., Pills were used, but these excellent remedies being at last re- chap. 47, section 54 (6 RD ATER . sorted to, effectually healed the wound in about nine weeks, and the patient is able to walk about, even without the support "Whitehall-place,Rfteetionisa A ti p ) o r . i w l l e 9 r , 1851." sorted mind, giving out of a stick.—Sold by all Druggists and at Profess or Holloway's wholesome fragrance; reverie is the same flower, when weak Establishment, 244, Strand, London. and running to seed. -Eliza Cook's Journal. R ATHER STRANGE.—AD individual in Leth am , c o ußosioN IN STEAM 13 41 , Eus.—The following Fifeshire, the other day, found a piece of bottle-glass in a ex p e rkm ro e r n k t sh b i a r s e, b b o y en th t e rie p d rop a r t i O et w or l s e , tt m ll es a s i r l s. C A c i ll a i sez ., Gilder duck's egg ; it was somewhat eliptical in form, and might ston, and As measure one-eighth of an inch t h e one way and nearly one- g uith. It appears that the two boilers used at this landsale fourth the other. This is an inte restin g q ues tion for Mau- colliery are built in the oblong form, and are each 32 feet in ralists to solve. length and 5 feet in diameter. From the harckess of the RECRi,ATION.--He th a t sp e nds his time in sports, water a corrosion had taken place. After trying a number ; , and calls it recrea tion, i s lik e him whose garment is all made of experiments without success, they put between 7lbs. and ,), .., of fringes, and his meat nothing but sauces. They are magi. i 81bs. of leather curries shavings into each boiler, and ':i 1 '1,7 lees, chargeable, and useless..ricrony Taylor. bee-entirely prevented all tanner corrosivn. V. %- - -"-:' , - ''. • * ' .. • . . • s s 1 i THE DALTONS. No. XIII. By Charles Lever. t Amusingly, as after the wont of Mr. Lever's fictions, the three roads of life are traversed—the in cidents and accidents encountered suggesting, as hitherto, comical etchings to Phiz. With out marring the interest of the story, it may be obsery ed that the narra t i ve has so far advanced that Frank h es a t l engt h visited his uncle, and that Mrs. Ri 3ltett's " at home " at length been disturbed. Wi th the nut nber just the secon4l49luthe has be g/1 ... cm/uric ed. MAY 13, 1851. St. John. LITER ATURE. mmrtur SE DL EY ; or, THE TARES AY _D • THE WHEAT. A Tate (f Real Life. By Lady Bulwer Lytton 3 Tols. Shoberl. L Buiwer Lttun, in a iively Freoch tion, pr ,, sents these volumes to the Countess Hen riette D'Angeville, in which dedication her Ladyship's remsrks on her own countrywomen are anything hut com plimentary, e. g.:—" Et ce n'est point etonnant, ) vu que l'idolatrie du veau d'or suit notre culto na tional, quelques belles et bonnes exceptions pies, la femellt. Britsnnique (animal sans (Tour et sans tote, inedite par Buffon) est vraiment une nullite odieuse et voila pnurquoi le commerce social est une chose incomprise chez nous ; car tandis que la France a produit tent de femmes celebres et de grandeS dames, l'Angleterre ne fait gatte que mettre bas (et a kans) des femel'es, des femmelettes, et des fine ladies. La prem;a-e ne sait rien, la seconde ne fait rien, et la troisieme ne dit rien." The plot of "Miriam Sedley" is slight, and possessed of little or no roman tic interest, it may rather be regarded as the connect ing link of a series of lively sketches and observations, for the most part brilliant, occasionally truthful and beautiful, but more often sarcastic and even tent soft pea spiteful ; as, for example, the above quoted re marks from the dedication. Among the most truth ful and sensible advice bestowed by Lady Bulwer upon her fair readers are some excellent recommen dations to good housekeeping and the care of invalids. Her remarks on the requisites for a good attendant in a sick chamber are full of practical utility, and her enumeration of the excellences of good cookery and plain work versus crochet and Berlin wool, would satisfy M. Soyer or Mrs. Ellis. " I've no toleration," says Miriam, "for a woman who cannot do every sort of plain work, both neatly and expeditiously; for there is something unfeminine in this sort of incapacity, and an unwomanly woman is always detestable. Most of us take naturally to Berlin work and em broidery; they are a part of our organization, like hysterics and fainting-fits; but what can be a greater incarnation of discomfort and disgust than one of your dawdling, desultory women, who neither do nor knowtow to do. 'anything about a house, but accu mulate disbider and privations for themselves and every one about them." Good practical teach ing such as this is seldom put before the novel reader, and such observations contrast somewhat strangely with the flippant sarcasm and not very gentle severity to be met with in other chapters of " Miriam Sedley." Although "variety" is proverbially " charming," it should be, neverthe less, characterised by a certain amount of congruity; a quality in which Lady Bulwer's very " various bservations are strangely deficient. For example, we are at one moment charmed with some beautiful passage like the following :—" But, in either instance, whether our lot be evasion or execution, it teaches that one great truth, that on God alone we must de- • pend, and that there is no appeal from man but to Him; and then, come what may, we shall still be lieve that whatever is, is right, however wrong the means may appear that are employed to achieve it, for everything leads one to suppose that that strange and complicated tissue, called human destinies, must be the tapestry of heaven, which, like every other, is always worked on the wrong side, showing us nothing but the cross grained snreds and nottings here, and which there alone we shall behold as a beautiful and finished whole. Laying doWn my load for the present," adds Miriam, " I knelt down and prayed. Oh blessed boon of God to mortals, prayer is the electric telegraph of heaven : it asks for mercy and the in stantaneous answer from above is peace." And then, shortly afterwards, we are grieved to find a hand that can pen graceful compliments as well as Chris tian truths condescending to set forth thoughts so un courteous and uncharitable as those contained in a foot-note complimenting Thackeray—" the only English novelist deserving that name." The concluding sentences of this note will convey an idea of the good taste and refinement of the whole passage : " It is much to be regretted, for his own sake that Mr. Thackeray should be splashed by the literary mud of his present entourage; but as he appears to have the feelings of a gentleman, and neither blows a black smith'a bellows of self-praise, charged with hyper borean German plagiarisms, or writes vulgar carica- . ture (!) of waiters eating up schoolboys' dinners, at inns, or all sorts of fine sentiments against cruelty and injustice, the better to toady and herd with all that is most loathsome in moral depravity, it is to be hoped he will soon emancipate himself." If we filled twenty columns with a criticism of " Miriam Sedley " we could hardly give our readers a more just idea of its peculiarities, both of style and sentiment, than the above brief specimens; may suffice to convey. Recognizing the talent manifested in this production , we feel assured that Lady Bulwer Lytton might bestow upon us far more interesting and valuable works if she would condescend to give her readers credit for good taste and kindly feeling, and if she would, moreover, re member that in order to be " brilliant" and "sar castic" it is not absolutely necessary to be un charitable or warn.. TIM :LIFE OF COLUMBUS. By Horace The author of this admirable little work has com pressed into a very small compass a succinct narrative of the life and adventures of the great discoverer of America, and has defended, and successfully defended, the character of his hero against the accusations which the envy of contemporaries had brought against him, and which the apathy of posterity had, in too many instances, left uninvestigated, and, consquently, unrefuted. We know no work so admirably suited as a prizT-book for schools as the " Life of Colum bus" by Horace St. John. LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. Edited and Published by John Weale. A compact and comprehensive guided-book to the metropolis has in this volume been produced at a reasonable price, and at a time singularly opportune. Besides containing an admirable map, the work is embellished with 205 illustrations. It elucidates the natural as well as the physical characteristics of its architecture. with an account of its antiquity and architecture. The portions of the letter-press relat ing to its arts, trades, manufactur , s and organization will no doubt be peculiarly acceptable to the majority of foreigners, while the more intelligent among them will, of course, regard with no small amount of in terest the sketch given of its social, literary and scientific institutions. Sight-seers, again, will turn with no slight curiosity to the numerous galleries of fins arts in the capital and its vicinity ; and these in quiries will be rewarded, moreover, by a large fund of valuable and interesting information. MAGAZINES, Sce.—( CON TINUED.) COLBURN'S UNITED SERVICE. The present number of Colburn opens with the introductory paper of what promises to be a valuable series "The History of the British Conquests in India," by Horace St. John. The object of the writer is to prove how utterly unfounded are the charges of unprincipled aggression which have been brought against the East India Company. The paper is well written, and displays great research, the writer quoting his authority for every statement made and every assertion advanced, and we must confess that, as far as he has gone, he has completely i made out his case. Another most valua ble article o this number is the paper of the designs of Austria, in which the writer proves that the &mutes in Tuscany and other parts of Italy were the work of Austrian emissaries, in order to give the grasping red Emperor an excuse for the military occupation of the Duchy, and that the recent Papal aggression in our own country was also an Austrian manoeuvre, as a proof of which It may be mentioned that Cardinal Wiseman dated his letter to Lord John Russell from Vienna, and that almost the only persons in this country who have ventured to eulogise the monster Haynau have been Cardinal Wiseman and Mr. John O'Connell. The author of " Singleton Fontenoy" brings to a close his amusing account of " Pipp' s Naval Career," and Captain 1311ew continues his Narrative of the Campaign in Arracan." The o' her articles in this number are all above th e usual average. THE CO.IIIC HISTORY OF RomE. B y the Author of the Comic History of England. illustrated by John Leech. Part 1. Right glad are we to meet Messrs. A'Beckett and Leech once again in the field. A right merrie his tory doth this of Rome promise to be, and veracious and impartial—a matter to which it would have been better that historians of greater pretensions, the wordy Alison for Example, should have attended. The illustrations are glorious. The illustration on the cover is alone worth all the money charged for the part. SCHOOL SERIES. Edited by , the Rev. g../1,..7.1 Gleig, M.A. Thi r d B oo k o f lii s tory.--Joir" ' India. This is an excellent number of the valuable school s-ries publishing by Messrs. Longman. We have here in the small compass of 1•6 puges a resume of the history of the provinces confitituting British India from the earliest ages, down to the conclusion of the second Punjaub war under the Governor-General.. ship of the Marquis of Dalhousie. • COUR7O CIRCULAR. t The Queen gave lagt evening a Concert, to which` of between three and four hundred, comprising Om Family, and illustrious Foreign Visitors, the Dipl4 Corps. and a numerous circle of the principAt ni were itivited. Her Ro; al Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at Btickieglnim Palace, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Prineesa Mary of Cambridge, ant attended by Lady F.- Howard, Baroness de Spat); and Lord James P. Murray. His Royal Highile,s the Duke of Cambridge was attended by the Hon. James Macdonald. His Royal Highness the Prince Henry. of the Netherlands arrived at halt:past nine o'clock, attended by the Chevalier Van Rappard and the Chevalier de Casembroot. The general company were ushered on their arrival to the Picture Gallery. Shortly before ten o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert were conducted by the Lord Chamberlain to the Grand Saloon, which was fitted up for music. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Ductless of Kent, the Duke of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, the Prince and Princess of Prussia, • P! ince Frederick William of Prussia, Prince Henry of the Netherlands, and his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting cn her Majesty and Prince and their royal guests, attended the august circle, arid were followed into the saloon by the ai sembled company. The concert then commenced. Mr. Costa presided at the pianoforte. Refreshments were served to the company during the evening, and at eleven o'clock supper was served in the principal dining. room. The following had the honour of receiving invitations:— , His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, tile Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Argentine Minister. the Ruiedan Minister and Baroness de Brannow,• the Sicilian Minister, the llanoverian Minister, the Prussian glinister, and Madame Bunsen, the Brazilian Minister and Madame M.Krerils Lisboa, the Danish Minister and Countess venti o w, the Netherlands Minister and Countess Schmm melpenninck, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister axid Baroness Rehausen, the Costa Rica Minister, the Bolivisia Minister, the United States Minister and Mrs. Lawrence,the Sp tnis.t Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the G reek Minis ter and Madatne TricOupi, the Nicaragua Minister, the Turkish Minister, the Austrian Chargé d'Affaiies. the French Charge d'Affaires, the Portuguese Charge d'Affaires, en i Maj or Heinz, the Mexican Charge d'Affaires, the Peruvian Charge d'Affaires, the Tuscan Minister, the Couniess A. de . li ac y, f ,, the Countess Louise Oriolla,Coun Coun t ePuutke a r n , t v roe Boyen. Count Goltz, Colonel Fischer, the Chevalier van Rappard, the Chevalier de Casembroot , Baroness de Speth, Count de Flahault, Prince Pignatelli , M o a n y Mousier de Viebahm, Count Harrach, Monsieur Stein, Baron C. Dupin, Prince Victor Bariatinsky, Etc., &c. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred ac _ompanieeby the Prince and Pri ncess of Prussia, and Prince Frederick William of Prussia, paid an., early visit yest er d ay to the Exhibition of the I n d us t r y a au Nations in Hyde- par k . The Royal suites cons i ste d o f the Countess A. de H ac k e, the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Lieuteuant-Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour. t riuce Albert afterwa r d s went to the opening of t h e Museum of Practical Ge logy, in Jermynestreet His Royal Highness was attended by Lord George Lennox, Colonel the Honourable Clrrles Grey, and Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Prince was received at the Museum by Lord Seymour ' Chief Commissioner of the Woods and Fotests, and by the tellowing officers of the Museum, viz.. Sir H. T. De la Beche, Dr, Lynn Playfair, Professor Forbes, Professor Ramsay, Mr. R. Hunt, and Mr. T. Reeks. Prince Albert returned to Buckingham Palace shortly be fore two o'clock. Prince Albert presided, at three o'clock in the afternoon, at a meeting of the Royal Commission for he Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations. His Royal Highness arrived at the Exhibition building in Hyde-park, attended by Lieut.-Colonel Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Lieut.-Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Commissioners present were the Earl of Rosse, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, OLP., Sir Richard Westma cott, Sir Charles Lyell, Mr. Barry, Mr. Thomas Bazley, Mr. Cobden, M.P., Mr. Cubitt, hie. T. F. Gibson, Mr. John Gott, Mr. Philip Pusey, M.P., Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., Mr. John Shepherd, and Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P. Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. Scott Russelt,'and,Mr. Edgar Bowring, Secretaries to the Royal Commissioners, were i attendance. Colonel Reid, Chairman of the Executive Committee; Dr. Lyon Playfair, and Colonel Lloyd, Special Commissioners, were present. The meeting broke up at a quarter before five o'clock. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and her Royal Highness the Princess of Prussia, Went to Claremont yes terday, and visited the Duchess d'Urleans and toe Duchess de Nemours. The Prince of Prussia, Prince Frederic William, and the Princess Louise of Prussia, attended by Countess A. de Backe, the Countess Orient', lion. Beatrice Byug, Lord Waterpark, Al.ijor Von Buyen Colonel Fischer, ant4Lieu te..unt Von Heir z, left Buckingham Palace, at twelve o'clock yesterday, travelled by the Great Western Railway to Windsor, and immediately proceeded to the Castle, where lui.clieun was served. In the afternoon the Royal patty took a drive in three open carriages and four, and viaited..the gardens at Frog more. At a quarter, past four Mit* be illustrious party returned to Backtug,ham ,Patace, travelling to town by the Great Western Railway. Pritice Arthur and the Princesses Heleca and Louisa took a tidy% )esteraay, iu an open carriage and four. A deputation, on the sm,ject of bonding foreign goods in Manchester, had an i‘lterview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his 1 fficial residence in Downing street.. The deputatior, consisted of Mr Thomas Agnew ( Mayor of Salford), Mi. homas Bazley (Chairman of the Chamber of Comm mt. ; Manchester), Mr. James Aspinal Turner (Chairman of the Manchester Commercial Associa tion), Mr. Alderman ,Valker (Manchester), Mr. Alderman Kay (Salford), and Messrs. James Atherton, Wm. Gibb, Tool:Ras Benyos, I vo. Mackie, John Hunter, and N. Crompton ( Alauchester_t. The deputation was accompa nied by the Right 11.. n. T. Milner Gibson, M.P., Mr. Bright, M.P., ...tar. W. T. Egerton, M.P., J. Brother.. ton, M.P., Mr. J. Kershaw, M.P., Mr. Duncan, M.P., Mr. Brown, M.P., Mr. Alex Henry, M P., and Mr. C. Himi• ley, M.P. Sir James Brooke had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell, his official residence iu Downing strea. Sir IVilliam Gibson Craig, Mr. J. R. Gardiner, Mr. Charl ton Lane, Mr. 0. K. Davis, and Mr. Simpson, had an in terview with Lord Seymour relative to the improvement of Kennington-common, at the office of her Majesty's Com missioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place, yes terday. Mr. Morris (from Canada) had an interview with Earl Grey yesterday at the Colonial-office Sir M. Barrington, Bart., and Mr. Jeffers, had an :inter view with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday at the Board of Trade. Mr. Thornely, M.P., and Messrs. Baldwitt and Bew (of Bilston), had an interview on Saturday with the Commissioners. _ _ Mr. . - alrymple had an interview yesterday with Lord John Russell. Lady John Russell's party, in Downing-street, for May 14, is unavoidably postponed to June 4. THE GREAT EXHIBITION.—Yesterday it rained heavily during the ::fternoon, and so unfavourable was the state of the weather that we expected to find the Crystal Palace half deserted. Public curiosity has, however, great _ perseverance whel once fairly excited, and, notwitbstan qn d e l- n 4 so formidable a drawback, 1,6001. was taken in 55. 3 at the door. The sale of season tickets also experienced decline, but not so great as might have expectedbpee a n vera _ nearly 750/. was collected in this way,th s , ool. havi n gaverage for some days past considerably exceeded settled more Com mission have, after lengthened consideration, upon which the jurors P fof Its of their. shall make their awards, bat the . r specifically than hitherto the grounds ' deliberations b o e lN k r e o p o t L p w ril c at i e l .. garrison assem wit\hr reference lslT oF THEto trshiusKsuEbjoeFctcw;mlle,usiugt il.sysGtahsideT, in ; t he undress i7th un if Lanceo 35,, on A.M.at 10 o'clock—the Horse Ar end proceeded to the common 1 NAV 12.—The whole of the troops in bl e d at half-past nine o 'clock tillery, under Lieuten under Lieutenai the right under Lieutenant -Colonel ir .colonel Lawrenson ; the Foot Artillery,, in three hattations e , (to which was attached Captain Harri with gunners dismounted, and t i n-Colon toel day y ll , s pounder 9-pounder battery, with gunners dise 1 reer Lieutenant-Colonel Stowe, the left battalion mounted) under Cs W oan i p l ltiaalin:l2.s, thecesnt9br moun the three un d e r Colonel rettenden ; the Royal M ar i nes, under under Lieutenant -Colonel Thorndike, and batta lionsl.7eiitennn L Lieuten an t -Colonel Pratt; and the light field batteries of Artillery, under Lieutenant-Colonel Anderson. On the line being formed on the common it extended to such a length from the south edge of the barrack-field that the Horse Artillery on the extreme right were out of sight of the posi tion at the flag staff, the entire line extending, although formed at an angle, across the common to near the Shooter's hill-road. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Downman, C.Be K.C.H., accompanied by his staff, arrived shortly before eleven o'clock, and joined his Royal Highness aro Duke of Cambridge, who had just arrived in plain clothes. His Royal Highness, accompanied by Sir Thomas Down man, then proceeded to the part of the common where the 17th Lancers were drawn up in line, the Duke of Cam' bridge being Colonel o f t h at gallant corps, and Lieuten nant Colonel Lawrenson rode forward to meet his Royal .11 , igh__,.. d The troops afterwards broke into open columns and . la e ru" corp , past at slow time, each band playing their resp 1 ! eentArtillery past the Lieutenant-General. The Royal and the 17th Lancers changed their fronts, and dthe hill, four a canter. The troops were again drawn up bland two troops troops of the Lancers on the extreme right,, i ns pected them on the extreme left, and his Royal Llighr o % agam mar c h e d in that position. At theconclusion, th t r ie l ir o F Herreturned at b a rracks. Shortly past at quick time, and proceeded to . left the common liness after twelve o'clock his Royal Mg an d went to visit the with Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrenson, Mire. barracks of his regiment in t h e Wrest-eq E 00,1.8,--5.1r. Beard, of DAGUERREOTYPE FC :Ztly added another to the many has recently in making in the Ddguerreo- King-William-street, improvements he has latest improvement c , nsists of a mode of ype process. The la even be washed like an oil paint ] to by means of which it is no' liable injury. The advantage does not n a a b rn e e t l a l r in n g ish th e e d, si a liver nitg e nig a nay ; ing without sesta n for under this improved process the A brillianc) and depth of tone hitherto un ,93lours acquire d so me of the specimens now exhibited in Mr. attainable, and stop here, 11011,0er+. will bear comparison with the best miniatures. Daguerreotype portraits appear so harsh and Beard's g The ear l ier T--- • contrast with those now produced, that it is difficult crude in de oneself they are results of the same process. to ner sua __Times. We are happy to inform the public that want a va luable specimens of natural history have been this wee added to the Hon. East India Company's museum, " Le o a f ball-street, among which the following are wor! . h.v_ _ Ovis no tice:—Ovis Ammon, male and female, fromjhi n u e V male; Alahura, male and female, from Thibet ; Ovisvig Capra, domestic Ovis Vignei, domestic sheep of Thibet; nquiis Kiang, goat ; Capra Ibex, domestic goat of Kunio! is n 6e tour-horned wild ass of Thibet ; Tetracerus Quadricor inesented by Captain antelope. The whole of them have been_P historian is deeply in- R. Strachey, to whom the natural d arranged by Air. J. debted; and beautifully stuffed,a,n pa ny and to the British B ker, animal preserver to the ientific naturalists generally Mnseum, who is admitted by ec to he the most successful animal pre server in Europe. LONDON NEWS.—We THE F R ENCH ILLUSTRAT ED second number of the Illustrated have now before us the London News in French. It is admirably got up , written i n praise when we consider the " Strat pure French (no small of much of our newspaper French), ford by the Bowe" stylel printed, and the illustrations are is carefully and correctty. We congratulate the spirited pro of a high order of complete succese of an experiment wholly prietors on the e s o t tn or P , ) of journalism. unique in the history x ARCHERY MEETING.—This meeting will take pIace LEa LEAMINGTO Nt non the 25th and 26th inst., i ns tead of the a t Leaming to n and 27th, as stated iu our paper of ) es " terdaY. ,;,,,,,,,„. . • (8 , 57 , i, ,... :5. „,-t. ) ~,„, A-,,,..„;-:: ,„.4 C44.,t,1itf.,:,2144,:,1:7'., -).., r.4...,...,, :i , +fi tl ~.1;‘,- ~,i ~. 3 9 -126 ressed d that h bad ()Man s well ,crate 11V t 0 ent it genl . 3trUC verY not , mber in the ntivg e ap ment