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burtii4Slittion SECONDARIES'•-(THIS DA.Y.) (Before Mr. Secondary PorrEß.) RAPLEY V. SALTWELL, EXECUTRIX. This was an action to recover the sum of 441. 19s. id. The plaintiff i 3 a c orn-dealer, &c., at Clapham, and de fendant is executrix of Ann Saltwell, formerly an omni bus proprietress• The action was brought to recover the value of hay, corn, &c., supplied to deceased during her lifetime. Defendant pleaded that deceased had been indebted to her, and that she bad no assets in hand belonging to the estate. The plaintiff's ATTORNEY said that as they were not in a position to prove that the defendant was in pos session of assets, therefore they would take a ver dict merely to ascertain the amount due, so that it might be recovered hereafter when any funds were in hand. Evidence was adduced to show a general delivery, and the fairness of the charges. The jury thereupon gave a verdict for the amount claimed. FRANCE. The Siecle announces that it is about to publish a romance from the pen of the Emperor NAPOLEON. M. PAUL LACROIX, in the following letter to M. Louis DENOYERS, explains the history of the MSS. : "My Dear Friend.—You have not for ;often the dis covery of autograph MSS. of Napoleon Bonaparte, which were found at Lyons lying in dust and forgetful ness from the time that the pupil of Brienne had be come general of the army of Italy. These MSS., which were comprised in the inheritance of Cardinal Fesch, uncle of Napoleon, and Archbishop of Lyons, be long unfortunately no longer to France; but an au thentic copy has been given to ma to make what use I please of it. I bestow the copy ou the Szecle, which may pttblish the principal parts, with all necessary proofs of their authenticity. Among the manuscripts of the Em peror's youth appear a Corsican romance and several tales, which, without being . chefs d'oeuvre, show real power of imagination and originality of style, as the readers of. the Siècle will soon be able to judge. It cannot be denied that the name of the author of these works con fers upon them immense interest, and we feel assured that no contemporaneous publication is better calculated to excite public attention. (Signed) " PAUL LACROIX." GERMANY. Accounts from Dresden of the 20th inst. state that the conferences still continue. The following from Berlin, of the 21st, is given by the Siècle •--4. The system of M. DE MANTEUFFEL appears to be coming to a close, and the slightest in cident may cause its fall ; for it cannot be concealed that a great discontent prevails on the subject of the retrograde march of our policy in all its branches. If the present Ministry be overthrown, it is a Cabinet of the Right, and not of the Left, which will come into power. M. DE RADOWITZ, as far as regards the present state of affairs, evidently belongs to the latter. The discontent now felt is caused Jess by the difficulties with Austria and the abandonment of the policy of the Union, than by the irresolution and hesitation evinced in all the acts of the present Ministry. The KING and the Court have all their sympathies on the side of the Holy Alliance, and, unless extraordinary events should arise, our domestic policy will have as its principal basis a co-operation with Austria and Russia. Count D'ARMIN BROCHENBOURG will be the necessary successor of M. DE MANTEUFFEL, and every one is acquainted with the principles which guide that statesman." A letter from Berlin, of the 22d, says :—" One of the facts in which may be seen a symptom of reconciliation between the two German powers is the approaching evacuation of Hol- ' stein by the Austrian troops. 3,000 men have already taken the road towards Bohemia, via Madgeburg and Dresden, and the Prussian corps of observation on the frontiers of Holstein is to be shortly broken up. There will only, it is said, re main an Austro-Prussian corps of 8,000 men to occupy Hamburgh and the neighbourhood. The action which Prince ALBERT, the husband of Queen VICTORIA, had brought against the Treasury of the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha on the subject of the rente of 25,000f1. coming to him from the succession of his mother, has been decided in his favour. From the matrimonial conventions made between Prince ALBERT and the Queen VICTORIA, 1111 d which have been submitted to the judges, it appears, that in the event of the Ducal Crown ot Saxe-Gotha passing to the descendants of Prince ALBERT (bis eldest brother the reigning Duke is unmarried), it will be the second son of the QUEEN that will succeed to it. The duchy would in that case devolve to the Royal Family of Great Britain. The situation of affairs in Electoral Hesse does not appear to improve. The military tribunals continue to condemn civil functionaries and members of the Commission of the States. The attitude of the inhabitants appears to be still hostile to the govern ment of the ELECTOR." A letter from Muncch, of March 20, rays—" In the sitting of the Chamber V D?puties to-day, it was resolved to take into consideration a pro position of Prince WAILENSTEIN, that documents rela'ive to the question of Electoral Hesse and to the intervention of the Bavarian troops in the Electorate shall be produced by the Government. The discus sion of this affair will cause some agitation ; but it will not, it is stated, result in the impeachment of Ministers,'as desired by the Prince. The Cabinet has declared that it does not recognise the right of the Chamber to interfere in acts of the Government which do not concern the constitution. But the Chamber is determined to oppose that pretension, as, if agreed to, it would remove from its control not only all questions of foreign policy, but also the German question. ITAL 't . The Tuscan Monitor of the 17th inst. publishes a decree of the GRAND DUKE, regulating the price of passports and permissions to foreigners wishing to reside in Tuscany. Henceforth governors of cities, prefects, and sub prefects, are alone privileged to grant such permissions. Should a foreigner wish to chance his residenc, - , h© must provide himself with a fresh passport. A double tt.z is to be imposed on any foreigner neglecting to comply with the new regulations. PARLIAMEN TAR Y BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedinqs of the House of Commons. ) STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. The following Resolutions were reported from the above Committee : J. That in the case of the Hove Improvement Bill, petition for dispensing with standing orders Nos. 105 and 166, the said standing orders ought to be dispensed with:—That the parties be permitted ,to be heard upon their petition before the Committee on the Bill, notwithstanding the same shall have been deposited later than seven clear days after the second reading of the Bill. 2. That in the case of the South Wales Railway (No. 2) Bill, petition of Messrs. Roy for dispensing with standing orders Nos. 105 and 166, the said standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. 3. That in the case of the South Walesßailway (No. 2)Bill, petition of Anthony Hill for dispensing with standing orders Nos. 103 and 166, tha said standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. 4. That in the case of the Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Railway Bill, petition for additional provision, the standing orders ought to be dispensed with :—That the parties be permitted to introduce their additional provision, it the Com mittee on the Bill shall think fit. First and fourth Resolutions agreed to.—Report to lie on the table. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Sir John Liddell is better, and it is hoped will now do well. ....... The Contract for coals to the Mediterranean was taken yesterday by Messrs. Bromilow and Southerland, St. Helen's, Lancashire. DRVONPORT, MARCH 24.—The undermentioned war rant officers have been superannuated from the St. Georg e , as follows :—William Williams, carpenter, 751. Per annum; John Blake, carpenter, 561.; William Lucas, boa n tewain24/. 165.; William Callaway, cook, 341 . 17 5. 4 d. hu Berretta was paid advance this day by Commodore Lord Joh n Ray . The Petrel was paid off this afternoon. PORTSX , OR . TR, M Ancff 25 c apta i n L ord The Fairy Royal yacht, Adolphus Fitzelarence, embarked the Queen and Court at C owes th i s a f ternoon a b out two, and brought them to this port under the usual ceremo nies of salutiog,.. ';' 6 ¢ the fleet and the garrison bat tery. Her Maje s ty Was received on disembarking in the Clarence - ya rd, ti, ° sPort, by the naval and milit a ry chiefs and a guard of ho nour, and left at three o' c lo c k by special train, under t h e cha rge o f M r. S tov i n, t h e manager of the South-Western Railway Company, for London, The Argus steam-sloop has been masted to-day. She is to be brought forward a s an advance s teamer. The Birkenhead iron stea m troo p -fri gate, Master- Commander Salmond, has completed coaling, and will shortly convey troops to Halifax. .. The Penelope Steam -frigate, cap tain Lyster, h as top gallant masts up and fidded; and is ratt ling dow n . Wind south ; fresh breezes, with rain all day, WOOLIYICH, MATCH 25.—Th4 Birkenheac_t steam. troop and store-ship, Master-Commander R. Salmond, is ordered round from Portsmouth to Woolwic h to em ba rk da, four companies of the Royal Artillery—two f ar Cana da, one for New Brunswick, and one for Hallifsx, Nova Scotia—and will return to Woolwich with the Com panies relieved from foreign service. The Caredec steam-veseel is expected to be ont of the hands of the shipwrights on the 3d of April, and will then be c emniiesionEd 'by leenteneet Derrivaere at present borne on the books of the Fisgard to superintend fittings of the vessel, es she is intended for the mail packet ser vice on the Mediterranean station in conjunction with the Banshee. APPOINTMENTS. A....1..1). (1845), to be Deputy ' Surgeon, John Stewart , It4octor o,N o ta Hospital, vice Lindsey, appointed to yip gilsolar livipiOlLT o rtstnoulh. SurgepiiNeriEtendent John W. Elliott (1838), to the Bride hire m d aiseetecizaniletissht e ip r ; Norman (1847), to the Pene to 131 1 : . s trb elle. ! A I Zit: i a u t t P j o . r G ts . m u ou o t a h ico . 13,. to the Penelope. ."' ;:t . )411r niet 111 .''.. Sir Francis-T. Darin hold a levee ...1 - • "'-' -- 1 . '.. L x k .r to-day at the Admiralty, at Whitehall, and it was at tended by the following officers:- Captainz-G. St.V. King (1841), John Forbes (1844), A Forbes (1846),,J. H. H. Glasse (1846), and G. W. D. O'Callaghan (1846). Commanders-William Grint (1 818 ), J. R. R. Webb (1828), Walter Kirby, K.H. (1830), C. J. F. Newton (1838), William B. Monypenuy (1841), Edward Dixon (1841), Horatio Blair (1841), G. Starmer (1842), F. White (1846), C. Y. Campbell (1846), C. J. Austen (1848), Robert Phillipps (1848), and Sir Godfrey Webster (1851). Lieutenants-C. Haydon (1810), S. H. Hemmens (1813), Bartholomew G. Waterhouse (1814), W. R. Davies (1815), C. C. A. Kane (1841), Julian F. Slight (1842), and W. L. Lambert (1842). Paymaster and Purser-John Colwell (1832). Rear-Admiral J. W. D. Dundas, C. 8., First Naval Lord of the Admiralty, held a levee to-day, and it was attended by the following officers:- Captains-Rundle B. Watson (1842), Douglas Curry (1848), and William Loring (1848). Lieutenant-Colonel Colombr, R. 51. Commanders -Charles I. F. Newton (1838), C. Star mer (1842), F. A. Campbell (1846), C. Y. Campbell (1846), C. Codrington Forsyth (1849), and George R. Wolridge (1849). Lieutenants-Henry Croft (1841), Samuel H. Derri man (1842), W. L. Lambert (1842), Augustus F. Web ster (1843), Richard G. Risk (1844), P. Saamarez (1847), and Charles S. Forbes (1848). Paymaster. and Pursers-John Harshaw (1840), and John Hayward (1849). STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—On Saturday last our mar ket, as well as that of Liverpool, was a good deal ex cited, and the upward tendency of prices was increased by the Cambria's advices of the evening before, which reperted a further rise of 1 per cent. per lb. in three days, at Now York, partly in consequence of an alleged diminution in the receipts at the ports, together with a narrowing of the esitmates in the south, and partly of the better accounts which the Pacific took out from this side on the 22d ult. On Monday we had the Europa's letters, which stated that cotton had gained i per cent. more in the same market. No additional advance has resulted from this, however, in Liverpool; indeed the extreme rates of Saturday are hardly maintained; but the gain upon Friday's quotations may be taken at / id. In our own market also, the vivacity of Saturday is in some degree sobered by statements in these latter ac counts clashing with the previous ones, and showing a further excess, instead of a diminution, in the re ceipts. Bat our spinners take their stand with much firmness upon an addition of id. to id. per lb. to the attainable prices of this day week for most kinds of yarn, and, in the rest, they are harder to deal with. The business of the day would be considerable, if last week's rates were accepted instead of id. ad vance, and if kd. more would suffice where id. is required. As it is, the transactions are limited, while the offers are numerous. The eastern merchants are doing more in 40-inch shirtings, particularly for China, and rather better prices are paid—as much as 3d. per piece for some kinds. Domestics continue dull, and other cloths inanimate; but the manufacturers, influenced by the course of things in cotton and yarn, hold more de cidedly to their previous terms. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—The :demand for flannel con tinues very limited, and the merchants are desirous to purchase at lower prices. In wool there is little change; the dealers are eager to sell, but hold firm to the prices of last week. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have had some buyers here since our last, and are glad to say that business re sulted, although not to the extent usual at this season of the year. The really chaste and novel styles were those chiefly sought after; and, although the prices ob tained were not such as had been calculated upon, we have not heard that they were altogether unsatis factory. The thrown silk market remains in the same dull state as reported for some time past. Many hands are without employment, and stocks of this article must be materially lessened before production to any'great ex tent will be ventured upon. There is no alteration in the raw silk market; quotations being fully supported. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—Our market to-day has been au average one, and a fair business has been done amongst plaids and checks of the newer patterns, and peculiar to this season. In blacks, of the thinner and better qualities, for the spring and summer home trade, a fair business has been done. The fancy trade, and trade generally, of th© cloth hall, has been rather flat. The warehouses, during the week, have been pretty brisk. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—We have no improvement to report this week in the demand for worsted goods, either in the Piece Hall or in the warehouses. There is, indeed, no noticeable alteration in the state of the market. A very general disinclination to purchase yarns prevails at present, and the spinners are curtailing their production as much as possible. A little more wool has changed hands—their exhausted stocks leading the spinners to purchase; but there is no change in the quo tations. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—We have had dull markets at the Cloth Halls to-day, but a fair quantity of goods continue to be delivered to order. Stocks keep low, and prices are firm. THE LONDON GAZETTE, March 25 BANKRUPTS. Robert Avann, fellmonger, Westeate, Canterbury, to surrender April 4 and May 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Carman, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Corhhill; Vencur, Gray's Inn-square; Furleys and Mcrcer, Canterbury. Robert Westmacott, nurseryman, Fulham-road, Chelsea, April 4, at halt-past one, and May 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official as signee, B;ltinghall-street; Holcombe, Ebury-street and Chancery-lane. John Glasspool, ladies' boot and shoemaker, Regent stree►, April 8 and May 6, at one, at the Court of Bank rup,.cy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Wre ford, Golden-square. Richard Jackson, farmer, Selby, Yorkshire, April 14 and May 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Weddale, Selby; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. Aaron Crossfield, coal miner, Ty Mawr, Glamorgan shire, April 9, and May 7, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis trict Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; James, Merthyr Tidvil, Glamorganahire; Bevan, Bristol. Thomas Britten, wine merchant, Suffolk-lane, Can non -street, April 1, at half-past one, and May 1, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official as signee, Coleman-street-buildings; Sewell, Fox, and Sewell, Old Broad-street. Adam Colyer, jeweller, Dover, April 1, at one, and May 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John son, official assignee, Basingball-street; Barris, Moor gate. s treet. John Steele, brewer, Rochdale, April 10 and May 2, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Mackenzie, official assignee, Manchester; Hitchcock, Buckley, and Tidawell, Manchester. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Henry Bart, gunmaker, Birmingham. Samuel Penn, sen., steam-engine boiler manufacturer, Birmingham. John Tattersall, grocer, Salford, Lancashire. Richard John Ross Ball, pilot, Milton-road, Gravesend. George James, shopkeeper, West Witton, near Ley- buin, Yorkshire. - - James Brown, labourer, Selby, Yorkshire. John Lockyer, butcher, Rimpton, Somersetshire. James Peers, bat manufacturer, Stockport. Robert Mc Laren, gardener, Old Peckham, Surrey. Robert Burdett, Phillimore-terrace, Kensington. Edward Fowler, agent for the sale of horees, Margaret street, Cavendish-square. William Wright. gun polisher, Zion-square, Whitechapel. Cornelius Osborn, farmer, Chipping Ungar, Essex. Hubert Daeffner, lodging-house keeper, Great Prescott street, Goodman's-fields. MAI k Collins, hatter, Dudley-street, St. Giles's. Joseph William Hugman, tallow chandler, Shoemakers'- row, Broadway, Ludgate-hill. William Brandon, gardener, Goldsworthy-terrace, Ro therhithe. Richard Tackle, baker, Lyndhurst-place, Creek-road, Deptford. George Fuller, cheesemonger, Crosby-row, Walwortb. Samuel, Bond, bootmaker's assistant, Rose and Crown court, Moorfields. Samuel Dyke, licensed victualler, Wrotham, Kent. Thomas Watkins, manager of a beer-shop, Cleveland street, Mile-end-road. James Barber, retailer of beer, Wine. office-court, Fleet-street. Henry Davison, plumber, Newport-court, Newport market, Soho. William Carter, maltster, Swavesey, Cambridgeshire. Joseph Emdin, law stationer, Bristol. James Smith, contractor, Lancaster. Teasdale Colledge, mariner, Bishopwearmouth, Durham. Christopher Currah, gamekceper,Edmondbyers, Durham. William Lloyd, surgeon, Cheater-le-Street, Durham. Margaret Parkes, licensed victualler, Rhyle, Flintahire. John Sloman Lovis, grocer, Tavistock, Devonshire. Joseph Bowker, fly maker, Chowbent, Lancashire. William Crickmore, husbandman, Broome, Norfolk. George Robotham, currier, Longton, Stoke-upon-Trent. John Roberts, labourer, Hereford. Thomas Frederick Tined, surgeon, Borough-green, Cambridgeshire. James Fisher Airey, tailor, Preston, Lancashire. Thomas Adamson, saddler, Kirkdale, Liverpool. Thomas Arnold, retail dealer in ale, West Derby, near Liverpool. John Barlow Brierley, provision dealer, Prestwick, near Manchester. James Cross, boatman, Turbetsy, Ely, Cambridgeshire. John Dean, grocer, Manchester. oseph Bind, grocer, Manchester. Martha Hill, spinster, Liverpool. Francis Moore, farmer, Wolverhampton. Walter bpink i Christoph er Wilia William H ill Owen, lodging-house keeper, Blackpool, Lancashi re. Robinson, plumber, Manchester. , nnkeep er , Woolpit, Suffolk. James Stevens, vittrahour:eman, Hulene, Lancashire. Thames Jackson Stubbs, silk manufacturer, Hulme, Lancashire. c3sbir Jo Sibson, licensed victuaer, Manchester. Sidney Smithson , silk man ufacturer, Chorlton-upon- L4,aripcluamshibiierrezi,gtltrincbam, Cheshi A r e . d age nt, r Hulme, jorepcdhloTchk; A l L f r a e n d c a l s ' h r i e r c e i e . rick Aquila Taylor, cotton-wasto dealer, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. _ . At the Conrt, Basinghall-st reet. P. Thompson, son., Os nabur g - p lace, Ne w -road, St . Pancras, and Commercial - r o a d, Limehous e , carpenter and builder, April 16, at one—H. Bennett, Chatham, corn dealer, April 17, at eleven. THE SUN, LONDON, In the Country. G. M. Smith, Ironbridge, Shropshire, bookseller, April 17, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—W. Laycock, Liverpool, iron merchant, April 16, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Blain, Liverpool, stationer, April 16, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool. PAYMENTS OF DIVIDENDS. IL R. Holloway, Ryde, Isle of Wight, bookseller and stationer, ss. on Tuesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basing ball-street. J. Donovan, Oxford-street, fishmonger, 3d., on Tues days, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Pen nell, Guildhall-chambers, Basingball-street. J. R. West, Mill-wall, Poplar, block and mast maker, Is. Bd., on Tuesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall street. W. Haslam, Hertford, chemist and druggist, 55., on Tuesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall•atreet. R. Knight, Lewes, butcher, 45., on Tuesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall chambers, Basinghall-street. L. Samuel, Bury-street, St. Mary• axe, silversmith, Is. Id., on Tuesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street. R. Green, Brighton, ironmonger. Id., on Tuesdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, Basinghall-street. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall• street. C. Watt, Southampton-buildings, Pentonville, baker, April 16, at eleven—A. Glass, Queen's-road, Bayswater, April 12, at twelve. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. J. Harbidge, Islip, Oxfordshire, miller, certificate of the third class—G. A. Clare, Mount-street, Grosvenor square, house decorator, certificate of the second class— J. Breton, King Edward-road, Hackney, insurance broker, certificate of the second class—T. Neale, Reigate and Dorking, banker, certificate of the third class—J. Jowett, sen., J. Jowett, jun., and J. Jowett, Preston, stonemasons, certificates of the second class—T. Newell, Rhoeddu, Montgomeryshire, horse-dealer, certificate of the second class, at the expi ration of 21 days from March 20—J. Amos, Coventry, trimming manufacturer, certificate of the second class, but suspended the issuing thereof for 12 months from Nov. 7—R. Gibson, York, ironmonger, certificate of the second class, within 21 days from March 20. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Hastings and R. Pagan, Rochdale, cotton spinners, —R. Pagan, A. Stewart, J. T. Pagan, and J. Geddes. Rochdale, woollen manufacturers.—E. Cattermoul and J. 0. Cattermoul, Norwich, builders.—J. B. Davis and A.A. Tumour, Liverpool, merchants.—J. W. Coward, J. R. I)arsie, W.Myrtle, and C. L.Coward, Anderton, Cheshire, salt manufacturers—W. Hitchcock and J. Flower, Barron's-place, Waterloo-road, saw mill proprietors— W. M'Dowall and G. Topham, Little Queen-street, Lin coln's Inn-fields, printers—W. Jackson and C. Sampson, Orchard-street, Portman-square, decorators—T. Crighton and R. Watt, Manchester, millwrights—W. S. Searell and T. Searell, Buckfas tleigb, Devonshire, millers— J. Hardwick and W. Fawcett, Leeds, cloth finishers —R. Hicks and H. Feather, Plymouth, tailors— J. Dodds and W. Henry, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, builders—J. C. Leach, J. Leach, and P. Ormrod, War rington, Lancashire, and Runcorn, Cheshire, hosiers and drapers—E. S. Haycock and B. Giles, Birmingham, ma thematical instrument manufacturers—J. Drabble and J. Sanderson, Sheffield, saw munufactureis—R. Hassell and R. Tarrant, Bedford-place, Commercial-road, slop sellers—G. C. Arbuthnot, P. Ewart, E. Lyon, A. G. Latham, and R. Brown, Liverpool and Bombay, mer chants (so far as regards the said E. Lyon). INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. John Price, Builth, Brecknockshire, blacksmith. Enoch Evans, Brecknock, tinman. John Jones, Llanybyther, Carmarthenshire, printer. David Llewellyn, Pontypridd, Glamorganshire, ear. penter. Thomas Brederick, Swansea, draper. Thomas Lance Phillips, Merthyr Tydfil, surgeon. John Loader, Manchester, eating-house keeper. Robert Brown, Manchester, commercial traveller. William Coble, East Dereham, Norfolk, beerhouse keeper. Joseph Mari:leet, Mainfleet, All Saints, Lincolnshire, machine maker. Jeremiah Porter, Chorley, Lancashire, licensed vic tualler. William Lane, Upton-upon-Severn, sadler. James Glanville, Powick, Worcestershire. Thomas Smith, Cheltenham, painter. Thomas Nelson, Liverpool, mariner. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. _ _ _ A Taylor, Edinburgh, upholsterer, to meet within Dowell's Rooms, Edinburgh, March 29 and April 22, at twelve. SHIP NEWS. BATAVIA, JAN. 26.—Herd Van Nes, from Passa rouany for Holland, has put back to Sourabaya with a considerable part of her cargo thrown overboard, 1,000 bags of coffee, 300 boxes of sugar, and 50 slabs of tin, having been on shore on the reef off Dinfges Island, at the entrance of Bali Straits. PORT PHILIP, ()CT. 18.—Accounts from Launceston of the sth inst. state that the Thomas and Joseph Crisp had been on shore in Whirlpool Reach for about ten minutes, but was got off as the tide rose without injury. FREDERICKSHAVEN, Mulct' 17.—The Emanuel, from Bremen for Copenhagen, which got aground on the Thistholm on the 14th inst., was assisted off and arrived here to-day. As she is tight, she will proceed without repairing. HARWICH, MARCH 22.—The wind blew very heavy from the S.W. all laTt night, and several vessels at anchor in the harbour drifted from their moorings. GOTTENRIIRGH, MARCH IG.—Border Queen, steamer, of Leith, from Aarhuu3 for Leith, struck at the Wingo Beacon during a fog on the 14th, and it is feared will be lost; part of materials and cargo saved. NORDEN, MARCH 19.—A hawser, 75 fathoms long and six inches thick, and two ends of running rigging have come on shore near Box kuw, supposed to belong to a brig wrecked on the Branwers Plata. HALIFAX ' NOVA SCOTIA, MARCH 13.—A vessel, be longing to Nova Scotia, is reported to have been lost at Mtequelon ; crew missing. The Primrose, from Phila delphia for this port, went on shore at Barrington on the Bth inst. GALLE, Fns. 16.—China, from Calcutta, put in here Jan. 24, to stop a leak in her bows; has had to discharge cargo, to lighten for repairs, but is now expected to pro ceed in a few days. NEW YORK, MARCH B.—A large quantity of spars and barrels, and part of a rudder adrift, was seen Jan. 29, lat 47, long. 21. A vessel, bottom upward, spars and rigging alongside, was passed, Feb. 16, in lat. 37, long. 60, by the Constellation, arrived here. HULL, MARCH 24.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Brilliant, Gallipoli; Prince steamer, Kampen; Julius, Copen hagen; Claudit e, Jansen, Nykioming ; Maria, Rose, Gothenburg. GRIMSBY, MARCH 24.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. Wan deringman, Gothenburg; Azel and Walborg, Melanc thorn and Schien. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind W.N.W.—SId. her Majesty's steamer Cumberland, North American station; Ncrihumberland, New York. SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 24,—Wind S.—Arrd. 25., West India 'Buil. GRAVESEND, MARCH 24.—Wind W., light, cloudy. Arrived—Rachnel, from Bombay; Anna 'O., and Soho, from Antwerp; Emerald, from Boulogne; War rior, from Jamaica; Ocean, from Guernsey; Tiger, from Hamburgh; Adelaide, from Lisbon; Borneo, from Cey lon; Richard Cobden, from St. John's, New Brunswick; Clas, from Galatz; Merlin and Susan, from St. Michael's; Richard Mount, from Monte Video. Sailed—Seabird, for Port Adelaide; Diamond, for Dantzic; Agnes, for Jamaica. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Drone, from Newcastle for Philadelphia, March 9, in lat. 40 N., long. 30 W. Louisa barque, from Antwerp for Valparaiso, Jan. 4, in lat. 39 S., long. 44 W. Mount Stewart Elphinstone, from London for Adelaide, Jan. 20, six days' sail. Gratitude, from the Clyde for Moulmein, Dec. 20, in long. 88 E. Saghalien, from Manilla for Queenstown, Fob. 22, in lat. 7 N., long. 28 W. Emma Graham brig, running to the southward and westward, Feb. 24, lat. 12 N., long. 26 W. Vesta, from Dublin for New York, Feb. 26, in let. 51 N., long. 9 W. Liverpool, from Liverpool for Coquimbo, in let. 1 N., long. 21 W., out 43 days. Elise, from Tampico for Bremen, Jan. 31, in lat. 5 N., long. 10 W. Lady Hilda, from London, in lat. 20 N., long. 40 W. Clansman arque of Glasgow. in let . 22 N., long. 41 W. Augusta, from the Clyde for Calcutta, in lat. 2 N., long. 21 W. Sisters, from Moulmein for London, in lat. 3 W., long. 21 W. A ship, supposed to be the Clifton, from Manila for Cork, the same day. Wanderer barque, from Liverpool for Savannah, Feb. 28, in lat. 26 N., long. 36 W. Lenhouse barque, from Calcutta for Liverpool, March 11, in lat. 52 N., long. 23 W. William of Hayle, March 8, east of Gibraltar. Pegasus schooner, bound south, March 17, in long. 8 W. Oriental, American ship, from London for China, Feb. 14, in lat. 3 N.. long. 22 W. Prince Regent, out 35 days, Feb. 20, in lat. 9 N,, long. 31 W. Lay Landys, from Ceylon, Jan. 23, in lat. 45 S., long. 26 E. Admiral Kenshuger, from Batavia, Feb. 31, in lat. 35 S., long. 20E. Symmetry, from Ceylon for London, Feb. 1, in lat. 32 S., long. 15 E. James Shephard, from the Mauritius for London, Jan. 30, in lat. 35 S., long. 36 E. Europe, French ship, for Cayenne, Jan. 27, in Ist. 44 N., long. 13 W. Mexican, from Bordeaux for Guadaloupe, Feb. 3, in lat. 45 N., long. 11 W. Perseverant, French ship, for Marseilles, Jan. 8, in lat. 30 —, long. 11 E. Mary Ann Peters, f rom Bristol for New York, March 5, in lat. 41, h - mg. 29. Caroline Mary Clark, American ship, fur New York, in lat. 45, long. 17. Bruy, of Annan, March 11, in lat. 32 N., long. 14 W. Lusanne, from Singapore for the Mauritius, Dec. 22, off Java Head. Annie, from Adelaide for the Mauritius, Jan. 7, in lat. 22 S., long. 68 E. charlotte, from Liverpool for Bombay, Jan. 8, in lat. 23 S., long. 67 E. Ottawa, of _Glasgow, from London for the Mauritius, Feb. 1, in lat. 33 . S., long. 15 E. Norjina ( ?), of Dundee, from Cadiz for Calcutta, Jan, 22, in lat. 17 S , long. 32. RoBgo, of and for Cork from Rio Grande, Feb. 3, in la' 1 f 3., log. 31. THE PAPER DUTY. In these days of division, it is gratifying to find that there are still some common objects of interest for which politicians are ready to work in concert, and not only ready, but zealous in their endeavours to promote what they can agree in advocating. The one of the excise duty on paper is fortunately one of these topics, and if combination of influences be of any avail to move the stony heart of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, we should feel disposed to regard the confident expectations entertained upon the subject as not wholly destitute of foundation. Five-and-twenty Members of the House of Commons, nearly all of them representing Irish constituencies, waited upon Sir Charles Wood, on Saturday last, for the purpose of urging upon him the claims of the paper manufacturer to be relieved from the oppressive tax and still more oppressive system of fiscal espionage under which it labours. The paper trade, as was stated by the gentlemen composing the deputation, is one of the few branches of skilled industry that has main tained its position in Ireland, affording a consider able amount of employment both directly and indi rectly to the population of several of the towns in the eastern portion of the island. There can be no doubt that the removal of the present system of disabi lities to enterprise and improvement would tend materi ally to the further development of this sp-cies of manu facture, in a country which still imports more than two thirds of what is required for its home comsumption. Not a few facilities naturally present themselves for this. lathe neighbourhood of most of the towns which are at present the seats of the manufacture in the sister kingdom, an abundant supply of water-power exists, useable fot the simple machinery which the trade re quires. Is in the case of the linen factories in Ulster, it would be easy to adapt the mechanism so as to render the motive power of steam and water alternately available, thus ensuring constancy cf work and economy in expenditure. There are few of the bleaching mills in the north of Ireland that do not possess a water-wheel as well as a steam engine; and as the price of coal is usually cheapest when ;the *apply of water from the mountain is most liable . to tail, the skill of the machinist pro- tects the manufacturer from being interrupted in his la bours or amerced in wasteful outlay for an indispensable element in his undertaking. In some of the paper mills now working in Ireland, the same alternative system has been broughtinto successful operation. But all expan sion of the trade is stopped by the vexatious surveillance of the excise snd the intolerable imposition of an exces sive tax. Another lecture in the case not without interest and importance is the sort of natural connexion between the growth and manufacture of flax on the one band and the paper nada on the other. Not merely is this true as regards the finer descriptions of fa brics, but eve' in the coarsest kinds the same ob • nervation applies. For the making of the more deli cate description of paper, linen rags, as is generally known, are mo* useful, and it is a curious circumstance connected with this part of the subject, that, owing to the limited consumption of fine linens in the country where they are made, it is found necessary to import largely into Rebind this peculiar species of rags. But this is not all. It has been found by modern experi ments that in the improved method of dressing and pre paring flax, the vast amount of refuse which formerly was thrown awry is capable of being turned to direct account as the raw material of the coarser kinds of wrapping-paper; and as this, from its great weight and bulk in proportion to its value when ready for sale is precisely the species of goods into the cost of which the price of the raw material most largely enters, whatever contributes to stimulate either the cultivation of the crop or the devebpasent of the manufacture, must needs produce reciprocal benefits. The tow and woody fibre which the improved process of flax-steeping collects and heaps together is one spot, is, under ordinary circum stances, of but little, and often of no marketable value whatever. In tie neighbourhood of a paper mill it would readily bring from 151. to 20L a ton. Here, then, is a case for consideration by every reflect ing man placed in a position of political judgment, but pre-eminently one for a Chancellor of the Exchequer to ponder and revolve. Here are the means of produc tion ready to hand—the disposition to employ them — practical familiarity with their use—and an almost una nimous expression of desire on the part of those who however closely or remotely sympathise in the matter — that shackles should be removed that hinder the growth of so unalloyed a good. The Scotch and English manufacturers are thoroughly at one with each other and with their Irish fellow-workers in paper-making. The voice of industry in the three kingdoms is in this affair the same. There is no jealousy, no discord, no local or petty interests warring with the general aim. A more popular measure of fiscal reform Government could not devise than the relinquishment of the excise on paper. The amount which it yields is unquestionably considerable ; but, be it remembered, that its remission would not merely add, as in other cases, to increased expenditure on tax paying luxuries and necessaries, but to the im mediate and extensive augmentation of t he general stock of wealth, by the additional creation out of valueless materials of saleable goods.— Daily News. THE BOASTED UNITY OF THE ROMISH • CHURCH. In the bosom of that Church which called and still calls herself indivisible, which claimed and still claims her oneness as her proof of catholicity, there were, and are schisms as numerous and as alienating as can be found in the past or present history of any society calling itself Christian. Let her own historian enumerate some of them:—Benedict sth anti-Popp to Lto the Bth ; Boniface the 7th, Benedict the 6th,"and John the 14th, all opposed; John the 17th against Gregory the sth; Sylvester the 3d in con flict with Benedict the Bth ; Honerius the 2d contradict ing Alexander 2d. These are but a few of the occa sions on which she has uttered uncertain and discrepant sounds up to the time of the tale before us. Time and space would fail us did we more than mention similar instances in after ages, when Gregory the Bth and Gelasius the 2d. Celestinus the 2d and Honorius 2d, Anacletus 2d and Innocent 2d, Victor the 4th and Alex ander the 3d. Nicholas sth and John the 21st, Clement the 7th and Urban the 6th, each anathematized the other, —each disannulled his rival's laws and judgments, — each invested with apostolical succesion his own followers, and pronounced all other orders to be invalid. And seeing that of none of these irregularities bath the Ro man Church ever purged herself,—seeing that her returns to unity have been forms of compromise between con testing parties, not the triumph of an ancient truth — where is her boasted oneness? What Roman Catholic can prove to his own conviction that the decisions which guide his faith are not the voices of usurpers? What one can confidently ba assure,] that the oil of consecra tion which fell upon the head of his soul's priest did not drop from the wrath-vial of sbmc spurious Pontiff?" — Hildebrand and the Emperor. The Clothworkers' Company of London, of which the Lord Mayor is a member, has offered to give 15 acres of building land, near the town of Coleraine, as a site for the erection of the proposed "Magee College," and also a dona tion of 3,0001 in aid of the fund for building and endowment. STRANGE CASE.--A few days ago a horse belong ing to Mr. William Ridsdale, farmer, of Rowley, near We therby, suddenly became ill and died. After dea th a living snake, eighteen inches long, was taken trom the animal's stomach. —Leeds listelligencer. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 25. WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 26, 1851. of their Lordships' Committee, by endeavouring to re model the law? The Archbishop of CANTERBURY thought that the clergy were under great obligatio❑ to the Noble Earl for bringing this subject under the consideration of the House; but he knew not whether the prelates should feel equal obligation for the contrast which the Noble Earl bad drawn between them and the clergy. Although the Noble Earl's statement was in most respects true, it,was not impossible that the public might draw a wrong in ference from it. As long as the law remained in its pre sent state, the contrast which the Noble Earl had ad verted to as existing between prelates and the clergy with respect to contributions to the poor rate must con tinue. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that there was no part of the episcopal income which did not contribute to the rates, although not directly out of the pockets of the prelates. The process was this—the pre lates paid the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the commissioners paid the rates. The Noble Earl, however, had made out a case for the clergy, and it certainly ap peared unjust that the personal services of that class, ithout which they could not receive their incomes, were not represented in tho rent-charge. Earl GREY believed that the Right Hon. President of the Poor-law Board had given notice of his intention in the other House of Parliament of introducing a Bill for the purpose of effecting some alteration in the law of settlement and parochial assessment. At the same time he could give no assurance that the proposed change in the law of settlement would be consistent with the Noble Earl's views. As tar as he understood the Noble Earl's views on the subject, he believed that it would be most detrimental to the interests of the country to carry them into effect. Lord PORTMAN wag understood to say that the ques- tion with which the Noble Earl wished Co deal was one encompassed by many and serious difficulties. Whether the Noble Earl intended to bring in a Bill to effect this object under another Administration he did not know, but he would advise him to pause before attempting to legislate en the subject. The clergyman referred to by the Noble Earl, as paying 10s. in the pound for rates, paid no more than the other ratepayers in the same parish. That the area of rating should be extended he would admit, but that was not the tithe owner's grievance. The Earl of MALMES BURY, with reference to what had fallen from the primate, disclaimed the remotest intention of casting a stigma upon the Right Reverend prelates. The Bishop of OXFORD maintained that the clergy were suffering under a grievance which demanded re dress. That proposition he submitted to the Committee of last session, and it was negatived by two votes only, and if his two Right Rev. Brothers who were associated with him on the Committee had been present on the oc casion the votes would have been equal on either side. By a strict adherence to the letter of the law, it was held that the personal services of the clergy must not be taken into cousideration with reference to the payment of rates; but if the law were strictly interpreted in another res pect all property should be equally charged for the sup port of the poor. Some time subsequently to the pass ing of the 43d of Elizabeth it was found desirable, from motives of convenience, to exempt personal propery from direct assessment, and that object was effected in a roundabout way. As long as agriculture was protected the consummer indirectly contributed to the support of the poor. Now, however, that the law had been altered—as he thought wisely—and the price of wheat was regulated not by the expense of produc tion, but by the cheapest rate at which it could be brought in from other countries, the consumer was re lieved from his indirect contribution to the rates; and the whole burden was cast upon the landed proprietor and the titheowner. This circumstance constituted a claim, not for the reversal of free trade, but for a re consideration of the principle on which rates were levied. He was satisfied it would be foiled the law pressed heavily on a most deserving body of men, the parochial clergy of the Church of Eugland. Lord BEAUMONT thought their Lordships had allowed one error to run through their speeches in not regarding rates as taxes on property. There was no injustice at present, as all real property was rated on the same principle; but, if the rates were reduced on one description of real property on account of services ren dered, there would be an unjust distinction between the rates on the same kind of property. He did not wish to see income rated to poor-rates, but thought realized per sonal property fairly liable. Lord PORTMAN observed that there were duties rendered by lay impropriators which did not procure them exemption from rating—for example, there were services as high sheriffs, on grand juries, and in the militia. After a few words from the Earl of Malmesbury. Lord Wodehouse, and the Earl of Hardwicke, the petitions was ordered to lie on the table. THE COMMONS ENCLOSURE BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. The Earl of RODEN presented petitions against Papal aggression from Cavan, Dublin, Down, and other places. Earl GREY presented petitions in favour of the Copy hold Enfranchisement Bill. Their Lordships adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS, March 25. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. ADJOURN ED DE BATE. On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate being read, Mr. HOBLIOUSE said ho moved the adjournment of the debate last evening, because he understood the Lion. Gentleman the Member for the University of Oxford, and the Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire, were anxious to deliver their opinions to the House, and not from any personal vanity of his own.—Oleos, hear.) He must say. that the more he had heard of the debate, the more he had silted the different arguments of Honourable Gentlemen, and examined tae question on its merits, the more he was fortified in the convic tion which ho had previously entertained, that all legislation on the subject eas unnecessery.—(flear, hear.) He would grapple at once with some of the main arguments which had been offered, casting aside all those wordy arguments with which the subject had been invested for the purpose of deceiving the House and pre venting the people of England from discerning the real truth.—(Laughter.) If tin understood the arguments offered to the House, they were principally these—that an insult had been levelled at the Queen in her character as first magistrate, and also as supreme head of the Church; that her authority and prerogative had been invaded, and the independence of the country interfered with by the act of the Pope in ap pointing Roman Catholic bishops. It appeared to him that the word" bishop" had not been sufficiently considered, that they had not separated the essence from the accident, the spiritual from the temporal authority, and hence they were led into a great constitutional error. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") In order to chow what the meaning of the word " bishop " was it would be necessary to look back to the history of the bishops, and ace how they were appointed in earlier times. Now, he thought no one would venture to dis pute that the original mode of appeintiug them was by the laity and clergy per clericttnz et minium. This was the simple history of the origin of the bishops, and their functions were originally strictly spiritual. The temporal power which they now exercised was nothing more than an accident. The word bishop had reference more to an offiee than a title, and hence he objected to tho Bill. It was simply directed against names, and he could not think that. it was worthy of the House to mix itself with such a matter as this. This was not the first time that confusion had arisen out of names in this country. Similar disputes arose in Scotland about the sixteenth century, when a good deal of excitement arose from the fact of some of the Roman Catholic clergymen having adopted titles, but then, as he hoped it would turn out now, it was thought unadvisable to battle with trifles, and the excitement ultimately died away. Now if the House followed that example on this occasion, and no longer frittered away its valuable time in wordy debates about nothing, the Legislature would elevate itself in the estimation of the country. Lofty terms and large expressions had been applied to Rome to stigmatize her for insulting the Sovereign of those realms; but those lofty terms and large sounding expressions were just as much applicable to the Free Church of Scotland as to the Pope of Rome, for they gave titles to their Church dig nitaries without consulting the Crown. Such, then, were a few of the objections which he enter tained against this Bill. He had many others, indeed their name was legion, but he should be falling into the same fault that he was condemning if he wasted the time of the House by going over the whole of them. He had stated enough, he thought, to show that the measure was wholly uncalled for; and since be thought it opposed to the spirit of the Reformation, as a staunch and uncompromising Protestant he should assist his Roman Catholic fellow subjects in giving it his decided and steady opposition. He maintained that it did not belong to incorporated bodies of any kind to petition the Crown on the subject of Church matters. As to the ar guments which had been used of the Pope's supremacy over the consciences of his followers, he asserted that the Roman Catholics of this country entirely repudiated any interference on the part of the Popo in their temporal concerns. No such power over was conceded to him by his most ardent supporters in this country. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to refer to the three questions which had been submitted to six of the Catholic universities of Europe—Louvain, Paris, Douay, Alcula, Valladolid, and Salamanca: whether the Pope could have any temporal jurisdiction in this country, whether ho could absolve Roman Catholics from their allegiance to the sovereign, and whether there was anything in the constitution of the Roman Church which forbade its members to keep faith with heretics. All these questions were anawered in the negative by each of the universities, and more than one of them expressed its surprise that such opinions should be entertained in a country so celebrated for its intelligence and freedom of thought.—(gear.) He thought, therefore, he had fully succeeded in de monstrating that bishop in its original signification was not a title at all, and that in this country we ought not to be angry at the Pope interfering in spiritual matters, when we knew that ho lied dour so long ago : They were gravely told that the Church w as to be aeb jected to the e xerc is e and jurisdiction of t his canonlaw. Why, when he looked around and co nsidered that law, he was vile surprised that the people or the House should in any way have been alarmed at such_ a bugbear as this. Let them look only into th e mature of this canon law, and to its true position. If they did . so they would find that it was, in every case, subject to the common law of England. All the great writers by whom this country had been adorned averred that such was the case; and Blackstone himself, than whom no greater au thority could be adduced, had stated that the canon law was overridden by the common law at all times during our history, as was remarkably evi dent by three great ensigns. It was in the first place subject to the common law; it was in the second only to be construed and explained by the atatutee which ASSESSMENT OF TITHES AND RENT. CHARGES. The Earl of MALNIESBURY presented two petitions from fifty clergymen of the diocese of Bath and Wells against the present system of assessing the tithes and renteharges for the poor-rates. Ile referred to the Com mittee of their Lordships' House that sat upon this sub ject last session, and said he agreed in the recommenda tion contained in the 10th clause of that Committee's re port, that the present mode ,of assessing upon the full value of the tithe commutation, which in many instances was not received by the clergy, was unjust, s and ought not to be continued. Pensioners, fundholders, mortga gees, mines, except coal-mines, professional incomes, and official incomes, were all exempted from the payment of poor-rates, whilst the working clergy were o h ex empted. From returns before him it appeared that in the county of Oxford clergymen paid on an average 2s. sd. in the pound, or 12 per cent. for poor-rates; in Dorsetshire the average paid by the clergy was 2e. 2d., or 11 per cent.; and in Norfolk the average was the same. That was the average, but in some cases indi vidual clergymen paid as much as 15, 20, and even 30 per cent. on their incomes. The prelates of the Church were to a certain extent withdrawn from the operation of the law, for he believed that they were not assessed to the poor-rate on their fixed incomes. In that respect the contrast between them and the working clergy was pain ful. In one instance a working clergyman with 3001. paid 10s. in the pound, or half his income, for poor-rate, whilst his diocesan, who lived three miles from him, paid nothing. This state of things was not the fault of the prelates; it was the defect of the law. The prelates of the Church exhibited on all occasions the utmost liberality and generosity. But why had the law been permitted to remain in its present defective state after the grievance had been pointed out? Simply because the Government had not the courage to grapple with the question; but he trusted that, whatever Ministry might be in power, the day was not distant when the anomaly in the law, which now worked so much injus tice, would be corrected. The scheme which he pro pounded in the Committee of their Lordships' House last session had been condemned on the ground that it was founded on Socialist principles; but the principle of the scheme was simply the assessuaeat of all property, instead of particular species of property. to the sup port of the poor. 250 years ago a wise Sovereign and her sagacious Ministers, feeling that property had its duties as well as its rights, caused a law to be enacted by which property was made liable to the sup port of the poor. It was then intended that all pro perty should contribute equally to that object; but the rust of ages had impaired the efficiency of a part of the machinery of the law, and only that portion which ap plied to real property retained , its pristine vigour. The original character of the law ought to be restored to it. He had been desirous of introducing a Bill tentacled on the principle of the scheme which he proposed in the Committee of last session; but it must be obvious that this was not a suitable time for bringing forward so im portant a measure. In the present state of the Govern ment and of the other House of Parliament, and taking into consideration all the circumstances of the time, their Lordships must be of opinion that it would be useless to propose such a measure now. In conclusion, he would take the liberty of asking Ministe' s whether they had any intention—in the event of their continuing to be her Majesty's advisers—of acting on the report arose out of that common law; and thirdly the decisions made wider it were at all times liable to be rever.ied en an appeal to the sovereign of the realm. If, then, in them thr-io great particulars it was liable to be subject to the common law cf the land, how could it become the dangerous agent which so many persons had represented?—(Hear, hear.) Ho was not surprised that the Roman Catholic laity of the kingdom desired to have the existence of this law more practically effi cient amongst them, for they desired the presence of a body of eminent men who would be able to settle questions upon just and right grounds, which were now too often decided only by prejudice or caprico.—(Hear.) That was the real state of the case—(Bear)—but they acted as if there was something improper or immoral in this law. They knew that such was not the fact, and he would ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Govern- ' ment, whether it was right—whether it was becoming— whether it was decent to raise at this time of day a cry of "No Popery" in the country?—(Loud cheers, and count •r cheers.) The canon law was at this time part of the law of England, it had been so, and would continue to be so, without any question of the validity of its decisions, until the Court of Queen's Bench should come to any different result upon matters which bad been submitted to the operation both of the canon and the common law.—(fiear, hear.) They talked of the doctrines which this law would be likely to strengthen. Ho believed that many honest and able men in the Church of England were sincere believers in many of those doctrines.—(Cheers and counter cheers.) And they might talk of the effect of those doctrines; but when he saw an eminent minister of the Church of England obliged to be protected from personal violence by police when in the performance of his pastoral duties, ho thought the less they dwelt upon the effect or the liberality of those doctrines the hotter. He would call the attention of the House to an incident which occurred to Bishop Butler. That Right Reverend Prelate contended for external religion, and ho was branded as a Papist for it—mistakenly branded, of course. Now, he thought the Tractarians could, like the great author of the Analogy, afford to treat the opposition raised against them with contempt, but he warned the Noble Lord at the head of the Government that this Bill would not set this matter at rest. As yet they wore only on the threshold of the excitement, and to him it seemed fearful to con- template the results which would inevitably follow the passing of the Bill. But it was said that the Church of Rome was despotic and intolerant, and for that reason it was necessary to have a law of this cha racter in this country. Now was ever before an argumen tam ad hominem more absurd than that presented to the House? Because Rome was intolerant, the country ought to be intolerant too. Such an argument was so worthless that it hardly merited a reply. and he had only referred to it for the purpose of protesting against its introduction into this debate. There was another topic upon which he wished to say a few words. The Noble Lord the Secretary of Foreign Affairs told them the other night that the Bill was a complement to the Catholic Emancipation Act. Now he allowed that one of the clauses of that Act, to a certain extent, prohibited the assumption of titles but he denied most emphatically that it prohibited their establishment of a hierarchy, like that which the Pope had recently created, and he hoped that argument, like the other one he had just mentioned, would be abandoned without delay.—(Hear, hear.) Instead of promoting animosities between the two churches, the Legislature ought to strive to apply itself to soothing the angry feelings which prevailed out of doors, for ho be lieved the Church of England had more to fear from irreligion than from the proceedings of Christian Rome, and he therefore called upon the Government to retrace its steps and rather assist the two churches in stemming the torrent of Atheistic principles, than strive to promote religious fanaticism and discord by a useless system of legislation. The Church of Rome ignored the existence of the Established Church of tbis country, and he would recom mend the Government to return the compli ment, and treat these bishops as phantoms or nonentities which could Rot be grasped. That was the only safe way of dealing with the so-called Papal aggression ; and though the Noble Lord could not recede from this Bill without injuring his own reputation, or proceed with it without producing great mischief, he recom mended the House to adopt the suggestion at once. He hoped, in conclusion, that as the Noble Lord valued the peace, security, welfare, and prosperity of this great country, he would desist from proceeding with his fatal Bill.—(Cheers.) Mr. PORTAL, in rising to make his maiden speech, begged the indulgence of the House for a few moments while he stated the reasons which induced him to vote against the second reading of the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) He could net admit that the Bill consisted of that judicious mixture of good and evil alleged by those who supportid it; so far from it, it was totally impotent for good, and all powerful for evil, while it was calculated to foment and excite religious controversy and dissension throughout the country, the injurious effect of which might remain for many years to come.—(Cheers.) The Bill was just large enough to irritate the Roman Catholics in Ireland, and not large enough to Sa tisfy the Protestants of England.— (Hear.) He fully shared is the indignation and resentment which the act of the Pope had exeit, d— a spiritual invasion which literally ignored the existence of our own Church; but ho disagreed with those who thought the measure of the Government was a proper one to meet the difficulty. The Bill was a mere mockery and delu sion, alike unworthy the deliberative wisdom of that as sembly and the dignity of this great country. Mr. J. O'CONNELL spoke the opinion of the whole of the Roman Catholic body when bo affirmed that the Pope had no temporal jurisdiction in this country. He did not think that anything that had transpired in the course of the deb sto had at all advantaged the case in favour of the Bill; and it was clear that no Crown lawyer would so far risk his reputation as to assert thet the supremacy of the Crown in religious matters was at all consonant with the common law. Blackstone, who whole not have hesitated to assert such a doctrine, had it existed, had said nothing of the kind. He did not mean to enter into the subject, because the Right lion. Gentleman the Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) had in a few sentences admirably refuted all that could be said upon it. He trusted that the Right lion. Gentleman would go on in the course he had commenced, for the people of Ireland would appreciate his sentiments and his desire to protect them from insult, and to place them on a footing with the other subjects of the empire. At the same time it was a part of the case that Roman Catholics could scarcely be called upon to argue, be cause it was the very essence of their religion that they should allow the absolute supremacy and power of the Pope; and if any kings in former times bad denied that supremacy they had ceased to be Catholics. In speaking of the affairs of Switzerland, the Noble Lord at the head of the Foreign-office stared that the .iaroteetant majority in that country had a right to interfere with the education of the children of the Catholic cantons, simply because they were the majority. Was that doc trine to be entertained by this country, because, if so, he oonfessed that he should think it of the most startling consequence to the people of Ireland, for, though the Ca tholics formed toe majority in Ireland, they were yet the minority in the empire? It was no unreasonable fear upon his part that such might be the case; and it was remarkable that there had been no answer from the Treasury bench to the eminent legal opinions that bad been quoted to show that the first clause of the proposed Bill carried with it all the venom, and would have e ll the practical effect of the others which had been struck out. The Most Rev. Prelate the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh had been most peculiarly the subject of u nfair attack in the course of the debate. But it was not title that Dr. Cullen was a man ignorant of Ireland. NC_ 'ea, the representative for many years, and chosen agnenbt? :tt the Catholic bishops of Ireland at Ro me, d ho had therefore the most intimate acquaintance ne t on the affairs of Ireland. His choice the prrt of the Pope; but the covni:entoo(ent bishops of pra Ireland being required was a perfectly _ el d "bon a e; be that was a concession made by the P o p e, He had done so ° novel chose he might revoke that concesa ion, tie found that in this case for a most laudable p ur i `iT e e ee divided among the Roman Catholic episcopacy b who was themselves by the arts and bla vcrnment, and he had selected Dr. Cullen, wom monk, but but an eminent and illustrious man, of h [The Hon. Gentleman n :dishments of the G no o land had reason to be p roud. pastoral of Dr. Cullen, to ndemned secret societies, roadshow th; strongly e e c ed the upholding of treason the preaching t e extracts ha d o of saul t T hi s s had been made of the pro- Thurles, but whet crime was able practices.] Ceir d iP o a r ceedings of the Synod o th f er e e d ad been distinctly laid down by Protestant Church that education hioen?decliatrsahhtions_of that synod on the suect i u n c a the the province of the bishops and was a matter wit cherch, and this principle had only writers of the Enghliin pastors of that by the Catholic prelates. (T o show b ee n carried of the mixed system of education, the the danger o nr bar read some extracts from the evi- Honourable kiLei n professor b e a in 18-7 before the Perlin dence given j riil9SlOn of inquiry into the Belfast educa tional Com • al institutions, who admitted that he did not con don Chist to he God, but believed him to be a cider Jesus A professor of ono of those institu created ue dons also w rote a work of such infid e l t en d enc i es that hie brother professors, although no two of them enter tained t h e somereligious belief, were completely shocked, and called him to account. It was, then, a mo ckery to say that there was no danger in this mixed s ystem of education, when such men were allowed to exercise the office of professors, and the law had no r ight to require that Catholics should place their chil dren in such establishments. But the Noble Lord (Lord Russell) had endeavoured to cast a slur upon the loyalty of Catholics because they would not violate their conscientious feelings by accepting these institu- tions. That was a most audacious insinuation, and he (Mr. O'Connell) threw it back 'with indignation. In 1844 the Nobl e L or d d ec l are d that h o t h oug ht it a foolish prohibition to prevent Roman Catholic bishops from styling themselves by the names of their dioceses; and the Noble Lord might be assured, that whatever Par liament might do, the Irish people would still uphold their bishops, obey their counsels, and reject everything that might tend to impair their authority. Mr. LAWLESS considered that every Member re presenting a Catholic constituency was bound to raise his voice against the present Bill, and he felt himself the more bound to do so because he was a Protestant re presenting a Catholic constituency. When the Noble Lord now at the head of the Government succeeded to office bonfires of rejoicing were lighted up throughout Ireland, because the people retnbered the opinions he had expressed in opposition, and especially his declara tion that Ireland was occupied, and not governed. Th ere were now, however. other bonfires in Ireland, and in every one of them the Noble Lord was burnt in effigy. (A laugh.) It might be said this was but a proof of the fickleness of popularity and at the capriciousness of the people. That be (Mr. Lawless) denied. It was the Noble Lord WhO had been capricious, fur he had riot fulfiled his promisee. The Noele Lord had given the Irish people Arms Acts end Coercion Acts; and he (Mr. Leas lase) hal the authority c f Mr. Berwick, a revising. • barrister in the south of Ili I Ind, for stating that the Franchise Act passed for Ireland would, so far from eot or-crating beneficially, be a disfranchising Act with re- e-se geed to a large portion of that country. Then in the terrible famine with which Ireland had been visited, and which was met by the people with a pa• cleric° which did them credit and honour, the a da Government had not taken those measures which . e g they were bound to take, and he contended that , they were responsible fur every life lost by that fa- ewes mine. And now, to crown all, the Noble Lord proposed 41 a penal law directed against the Irish Catholic clergy, "tta who had bsbaved in the most exemplary manner during ." 11 '' the famine, for he could say, from his own experience, that but for their exertions there would have been blood- ea iti shed from the north to the south of Ireland. He regreted' 1, 0 , that in the course of this debate the Hon. Member for ~d i Surrey (Mr. Henry Drummond) had used languago f.rf) which—although he (Mr. Lawless) was a Protestant— see had excited in his mind a feelirg of horror and disgust. azs The Speaker bad ruled that the Hon. Gentleman Ives in e•dil in order in using such language, but he (Mr . Lawli se) e s:o could only say that in no other Assembly in the world reea. would any one have been allowed to use such a string of eif ti e; obscene words, A meeting had been held on the s ubject of that language at Kingsiown, and resolutions had been to s adopted expressing surprise thet no notice had been taken l in that House of the disgraceful language us ed within it. aieaini He believed there was not a single Member of that House, eye whether Catholic or Protestant, who did not regard that language as most shameful, and he was sorry to see that, .101. in the resolutions of the meeting to which he bad referred, erg,' the Noble Lord at the bead of the Government was eac!-! . coupled with the lion. Member for West Surrey.-, This ho supposed had arisen from some mistake; for the- . ' b n : Noble Lord had never used such language as that in- r lc dulged in by the Hon. Member for Surrey. Indeed, ,g,, the wily fault he had to find with the Noble Lord was that he had not sufficiently condemned the language of that Hon. M tuber. Nothing but his advanced age (as we understood) prevented that Hen. Gentleman from being severely dealt with, and he (Mr. H. Drummond) had better not trust himself in Ireland, or he might. perhaps, meet with the same sort of treatment that bad been experienced by General Haynau in this country. He could assure the House that it there was one mea sure which was more calculated than another to rouse the indignant feelings of the people of Ireland, it was all insult to their clergy. There was no excuse whatever for extending this Bill to Ireland, where no aggressio h u had been committed, and where no pre text for any such legislation existed. The way in which the Noble Lord brought forward this Bill was worthy of the most petti fogging attorney. The Noble Lord wrote his notorious letter, containing allusion to "mummeries," and other language which gave very just offence to their Ca- r eta, tholic fellow-subjects; and then, in excu se for using a.a such language, the Noble Lord said that it was sales, directed, not against Roman Catholics, but against Puseyites. Why, then, was Parliament called upon to ar e ess , legislate against Catholics, and not against Pusey (Cheers.) He was glad to say that many of the Pro testant clergy regretted the system of legislation now attempted against the Roman Catbolics of this couutry. Mr. Lawless then read some passages from a letter written by a Protestant clergymaa to a Member of that House, xpressiog the opinion that it was not the pro- ites?- - vince of the Queen to confer spiritual rights. The , writer observed that because the temporal barony which As es the Queen added to the spiritual office was the maat • seen and regarded, the mistake had been made of calling , A the names " bishop" and " archbishop" " titles," whe n they really were only ecclesiastical desig nat i on s of fora sons who sustained a spiritual office in a n episcop al church, just as the name " ministers" was the name given to persons who held a spiritual office in Me thodist or Presbyterian churches. The writer therefore i n ' ferred that there was no ground for any measure in ra" gard to what had been improperly termed " the es' sumption of ecclesiastical titles." Such was th ones" taken by a Protestant clergyman; would to " g oo he was a bishop !—(A laugh.) The argument of the Solicitor-General, comparing our present relations with Rome to those of Roman Catholic times in England, was absurd ; in Catholic countries bishops were not appointed by the Pope without the consent of the sove reign, but now we did not acknowledge the Pope. With regard to the public feeling upon the subject, the, papers, particularly the Times, had made the Most of the question, and done all they could to excite public spirit; in that day's Times there were five letters with regard to Miss Talbot's case—(" Hear, hear," And laugh)—he regarded this as showing the sort of false impetus given to the subject in order to back up th°,, Noble Lord in passing this measure.—(" Hear, bear ; "Ohl") It was painful to him (Mr. Lawless) to con trast the language used by bishops of his own church with the temperate address of the Roman Catholic Bishops of Ireland to their flocks upon the subject of this measure. (The Hon. Member read several extracts from this address.) Surely the proceeding now in ques tion had arisen as much from ignorance as from a wish to offend. It was not impossible that the Pope, especially in his present weak state, should wish to insult and ex asperate a country like this. What had occurred wag very much to be attributed to the shameful state of things, as between the Pope and her Majesty, with regard to temporal subjects. With 7,000,000 of Roman Catholics in Ireland, there should be a proper understanding with the head of their church. This could not have arisen if there had been a concordat with Rome. But what bad we? Why, a titled spy; for the Noble Lord who went to Rome was without any proper credentials, and was desired to melee out the most he could of matters at Rome. Then fallowed a misunderstanding as to what passed with the Pope; and some stated that what then passed in regard to this measure had very much eecou raged the Pope in this " aggression."—(Hear, bear.) With regard to the scandal which bad occurred in Ire land, in respect to " the godless colleges," as they saws called, he (Mr. Lawless) begged to say that ho did his best to further the national system there, and his father before him endowed four or fir© of the national schools —(Hear, hear)—he was very sorry that from some mis understanding between the Government and the heads of the Catholic Church—it could be nothing more—these colleges were not likely at present to be of the use he had hoped they would be.—(Hear, hear.) Ho proceeded then then to refer to the opinions given by Mr. O'Ha gan and by " Messrs. Bethel! and C 0.," and stated that he believed the Bill went further than the Noble Lord (Lord John nussell) wished or intended, though. Heaven knew, he intended bad enough to the Catho lics.—(Laughter.) The Hon. Member adverted again to the case of Miss Talbot, expressing (as we under stood) his belief that she had had her own free will. and that she had always intended to come up to London. LA MEMBER — " For the Exhibition ?"—A laugh.] Yes, but a pretty exhibition there had been.—(Hear, hear.) She would be the only sufferer by the publicity. She had:his sympathy.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the course taken en the part of the Government, he said he could not believe the Noble Lord meant what he wrote iu his letter; he had too high a respect for him- - fur his intellect.—(A laugh.) The Noble Lord took ad vantage of a cry. thinking he could streugthen himself in a position in which he felt shaking.—(Eleer, hear) Not having gone far enough to please the " Protestant ascendancy boys"—(A laugh)—and having deserted the real ‘• religious liberty men," and those who we would re for total freedom of conscience-oi, ar, hear) —he find that " between the two stools he was falling to the ground" —(Laughter)—and would probably be over whelmed in the ruins of his own agitation. Mr. MUNTZ thought it was a thousand pities our Govern ment connived at, or did not protest against, the occupation of Rome by the la ench ; but for that the Pope would have had something else to do than disturb the peace of this country.—( Hear, hear.) This discussion had often turned aside, as he thought, from the real question. He did not support this Bill on the ground of the question between the Roman Catholic religion and the Protestant, which was the best religion. Each had a right to his oen religion, and each might think the other' s r idi cu l ous; it was the old story Orthodoxy is my doxy, and heterodoxy is another man 's d°xY • (A la ugh.) The real question was, had the Pope comnAtted an aggression against the Sovereign end the people of this realm ?—(Loud cries of " Hear.") Now it was extraordinary that almost every speaker had acknowledged that this was a great aggression—(Hear, hear) —an impu dent and arrogant aggression—(. , Hear, hear," and "No"); all those speakers who were not under the influence of the rope. —(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham) in his very able and clever speech acknowledge d hear . at i t t was an aggression, and an offensive one. - (Hear, h Then, if so, upon what principle was Protestant England to sit down and submit to an aggression from the Pope ? (Hear, hear, and cheers.) W ere we come to such a miserable , condition that we must submit to an aggression from any quarter whatever, wi hoot meeting it? - (Cheers.) On the introduction of this Bill he (Mr. Muntz) assignadaa reason why lie voted for its introduction, viz., that e he aUa_ never been able to discover that any country where th; tholic religion had been supreme had enjoyed libert y 0 prosperity.—(Hear, hear.) He bad listened attentiveld o y to this debate, and had not heard - n y- instance given; an u ir of his objects in rising was to ask if som e gentleman co enlighten him upon that point. (Hear, hear.) Till then, however, lie must act upon his own judg ment.— (I -I °'.' r ' hear.) The practical question, as the m atter regarded th e prosperity and welfare of the country , wa s to be considere d ; o and, not having the slightest wish to persecute or injure any man because he professed a different religion from his own' 1 (Mr. Muntz) was not going to encourage a religion which was not found consistent with the prosperity o r, t hen inter ~!.! of any country where it prevailed.—(llear, hearo-Latels: did not admit the necessity of the appointment f the Ca , bishops; he was inflamed that every advantage Priding to being so, why was he to consent to appointmen.s - e ast , tholie religion was obtained under vicars-apostolieo,l and that tweet' el e su touch dissatisfaction and unpleasant feeling he al' exception rent sects ?—(LI ear, hear.) With one very sme e • wereallowed to there was no state in Europe where bishop s nt of the Go be appointed by the Pope without the copse vernment ; why was Protestant England nt would do what no other nation, Catholic or Protestant, would d do? to ee called upon to lately G —(Loud cries of "hear, hear.") But it h Catholic waga constitutiona bjection. Could o vernment to keep their people in a state in Austria. Well, it was the interest of the . Austrian on any one show an instance where Government maintained under tlic , u. har die religion? b fit [ l, A rt MEMBER Belgium ] Belginin 3 : 1E 37 1 orn • — , l enty hear ) How long had it e.xist. r L d f fluent W HEW , years. What was an existence,to.ear the y_?.tears? (Hear , years.) People said, oh, don , That I °Pe; he is . fur rounded by French bas °nets.. was a reasoli inion of his own.--t 1 1 " fearing him. He had no op theaaa a how nearly the matter might Lear.) Who could s Y ~-n p eror Rus..' Austria? he connected with the I , - . ,aa or of (Hear, hear.) It was then est card they could play t never had such power they would have if they coultra. iluence.— (Hear, hear.) H e °A. employ the Pope'a inesae very much struck with a spec aluntz) was very . b e y • ate le , an WA• Baronet (Sir R. Peel 'ea use early in this deb El. *straightforward lieve) -.a maidy, os—, independent, assert.—( There Wes tn Switzerland a state-ll o l f burg—wbere the Pope was allowed'to appoint bishops fre e _ e d the control of Government. The bishop there encourag ae the people to march against the Government, and money out of his own pocket for the purpose. woes /rfbeett rested, and sent across the frontier to Rome. lLe t • received there as a martyr.—(Hear, hear.) " f,, ~ :~