The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-19 00:00:00

tie r th egY. Much lees the laity, had been consulted on the ; a ` te r• He considered it was, in some sort, an aggression I h °4 the rights vested in her Majesty's subjects. e scheme for the division of the dioceses of Cloyne and d 3 in Ireland had its origin in Ireland, and the Pope had been nothing more than confirm the arrangement which had submitted to him on the subject. In that case there lee s bee n no aggression ; and consequently there had not I 17,„ e s nYthing to justify the monstrous attempt to include -"" in.the provisions of that measure. He thought that her m a . kin testy Govenimentlad come to a nextrope . r dete.r es, i t t ton ashen they had resolved on not ending the s i , - t e f iraents in the Bill beyond the requirements of the case; the 'f they' had Carr ed that determination fully into effect, t i l l would' have confined the operation of the measure to tin e c it et of% foreign power conferring titles in this country, rete ss ", (4ll4 not have extended it to the conduct of British 11 1 C 14 assuming certain titles. He had further to say, yo t any case the Bill ought not to be extended be trl! the country in which the alleged aggression had for P l aces The Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member s ta lee city of Oxford (Mr. P. Wood) had talked a good th e ' s ," ( the canon law of the Roman Catholic 'Church ; but st,W 4 °& - and Learned Gentleman had in his (Mr. Anstey's) Th e t r'evinced but a very imperfect knowledge of that law. tri -" was that the canon law varied in different coun- Ye e t B h' e a nd for his part he trusted that some measure would th e taken, if not directly, at least indirectly, to prevent e s .kt enion to - this country of that jus canonicum from e e the extracts of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had It e L) taken, i nstea d o f t h e anc i en t canon leas of England. th e , ~ b e haved there would be great difficulty in reconciling Ua r d ;s - "aanon law of England with that new canon law which try Wiseman seemed anxious to extend to this coun tess ne fact wa s that the new canon law was not the t s(t 'h law of England, in which there was a distinction be lief), sPirituals and temporals, but the canon law of the kit s tates. in which no such distinction was known. The ri ev :; e n under their consideration dealt not with a real Stse - eee, but was framed in compliance with a popular pre 'lt was, in fact, insufficient in one sense, and exces- See,seother. It would give no protection to' the Roman t s , e e ue laity in England, while it was most improperly and he eh e s e a s .sarily to be extended to Ireland. On these grounds tfth' e ual certainly give his vote against the second . reading ine this , asure. thi s f IASHLEY, notwithstanding all that had been said on Pse - "lect, would 'revert to the first question —" should the tsd t a ment, or should it not, legislate upon this subject?" of f , e asserted that they should. The rights and liberties and t at ,,ge class of her Majesty's subjects had been invaded, eher;i lc ae who opposed the aggression were denounced . as for t is' They did not, however, anticipate—they did not that,. British Peer would denaunce the proposed le :: 4 eitt s t°n against the Papal aggression, as " persecution," in th,.st did they foresee that British senators would denounce Dis t :, Rouse those who considered the aggression com 4tal h; ' 3 as a lawful ground for the defence of the Queen hsj r- Government in this country. Should they, then, '`oh s . „, te nd the step taken as an aggression and an insult, If " they not come to the assist a nce of the Sovereign ? t„ 'LI ,'.'aid be show that this movement of the Pope was an re s ,Pe inroad on the prerogative of the Sovereign of this 1 1', he thought it would not be disputed that the Par te,'",'Tlerts called upon to legislate on the subject. One !'os e "eotvever had said that everything done to oppose the 1 , 4 i - s;' 4 'the step he had taken amounted to persecution, a tinterference with the free exercise of his spiritual 1 %1 4 1 , 4 'k 'New if that doctrine was admitted, it would im 41iasi-Aks the Protestant subjects of this realm absolute sub- eos s L il to the decr ees of the Pope. The Legislature of this Act n, had made concessions to the Roman Catholics by the t he 43-2 9, and it was not, he must any, thought, when ee t : o .teetant s of this country had consented to make those s kli e - cohcees'ons which had made their Roman Ca nted f 'onve-subjects equal' with themselves—that they tie st , 'el Placed by any act of the Pope in a subordinate pi?- i goe se *-- (Rear, hear.) There was another party la . this ( lord bo wished:for legislation on this subject,. and . in his 4 1 u h. Ashley's) opinion they were now deliberating„not on aoAtitteJpeet hich woud hav a mer transient effect, .bu h O n w a subject l which e , if not e checked by legislatioh, t s. ist m "tre a dominant influence on the institutions of this tided be :: He must say that, of all the measures which . had Ndee," introduced into this country, this of the Pope had Qed h"t ° re than any other to disturb the privileges en- Ne e the Roman Catholics, than whom, he must say, ta h, bi et ' . :d not exist a' more loyal or more deserving class of i sest a "' - (llear, and cheers.) The' Protestants of England orej'aed that this step of which the Pope of Rome—a s' r) 4 Priest and potentate—had been guilty was a viola- S.: ( t t ,enly of the law of nations ,- but of the law of this (H ear, and cheers)—and a deliberate innovation on . Sealk . ` r egativ e of, and offence offered to, the Queen of this ;',t ti n (Renewed cries of " Hear.") He maintained that s'qtt a e bad violated the law of nations, and he would prove arils( reference to the Papal brief to restore the Roman , tt ig h eirarchy. The Noble Lord here quoted the follow tine s age from the Papal brief: " We, of our own proper d les t e l ! on certain knowledge and of the plenitude of our (derN sr ' e a.„ l Power constitute ' and decree that in the king ,-t, nglancl , according to the common rule of the k lo e f i t kit tle ) re be restored the hierarchy of ordinary bishops, 4, lett er , e named from sees, which we constitute . in th w es .. e . I, is i t • To begin with the London district, there s th e swe tees, that of Westminster, which we elevate ))eee degree of metropolitan or archiepiscopal dignity. 4tt-' oil be in the most flourishing kingdom of England t - ttis e „" 4l be established one ecclesiastical province, con tis.?:!one archbishop and twelve bishops, his suffragans. Ps„ ° ,r : e s s we now reserve to ourselves and our successors, "',.soda's of Rome, the power 'of again dividing the said I,,, )r aSe into others, and of increasing the number of tilo d'„,4nd general that, as it shall seem fitting in the here'e ri " e ,r l l . Sy freely decree our limits to them." Was Yt athg, be would ask, more imperious than the der of the Pope of Rome as expressed in that brief ti: % r t's u i,ge in which he claimed to exercise a sovereignty t. sel / s realm ?—(Hear, and cheers.) He would now refer 0111 4 3 4 ' e to the argument used by Dr. Twiss in reference eatre,,,question. Dr. Twigs, a learned civilian, said—" Th . e ,7 4 14;"nt could not have been externally more complete, iths-sseen,, of England had planed her realm at the disposal kL ( 'kt, - ;° l 3' See for all ecclesiastical purposes, nor could the s'o s ls t ' s " dealt with bis own territory in a more free and s'lth Staanner But, if there be any one principle of law h as received the sanction of that high usage and tr e : which constitutes it a binding obligation on all the Chr stendom, it is this, that the Pope cannot set N e see of a bishop within the territory of an independent i. ,t e Without his consent. Common sense suggests that ,7 4 , 15 thers than the sovereign power of the land can k V, 4 see within the land. The Pope may give a bishop e ., may authorise him to go forth as the spiritual "iti, - "'aslor of the Holy See; but that the Pope should a este 4kti t erritorial seat for his bishop in the t rea ua lm ar of an S a o tt v r e i: te &ea', er without its consent, would be ( t ,tc s i s Teal sovereignty, and to take posse o ssion o p t* the land s'le`;' l aatical purposes;" and Lord Stowell, as cited by sal s . ,se, says, that " a course of conduct to be legal must eel"la to be conformable to the usage and position of ac °Nletfk great part of the law of nations stands on no other ,te - , ° °•'' New he (Lord Ashley) maintained that that that the Pope had been guilty of an interference with "tiost;'egative of the Queen, and a violation of the law of (Rear.) He would refer the House to an extract °Pinion of D. r. wis! relating to the temporalities, ,a,c tee s ! kept in mind," said . ' t . hat . learned civilian, " that t ti t rralities were a civil, accident of the sees into th„ , ,Y were put in possession by an act of the Crow_n, 1 - Aki i ;_ r Consecration had taken place at the house of the t 're -a n. It was not, therefore, in any way, by reason lesteoralities being connected with the sees of . the j s bishops ve whom the Pope exercised ecclesisis sl tt,-t;siction' before the Reformation. that the Pope was i rlik ra e l' ait ° and use an usurped authority; it was not in :Powitroatter, but in causes which he called spiritual, that ; s t,hs • 0 dispense with the laws of the realm was disputed C ti t ,, tils, r e pt of England, and ultimately . declared to be un sh'° much for the law of nations, and he (the Pope) Act "P'n any more respect for the law af the land. s l t s . ,!l aii ° ,l ' 1 829 was framed to protect the priviliges of the th ef the Established Church this country ; and , stil s the: conditions put forwird for p assßing that Act was t : should be no other ecclesiastical corporation iat 1 1 . 4 ( 1 Llitorial power in this country; and he held that th en violated. He would go further, and say ae l dt. Postolic letter had violated the law of the ' tt - , 11 ,_ 43 Was now quoting from the " authorised ver iii,ssetss t he Latin Brief, printed and published by si t)t tie e - " at the Metropolitan Catholic printing-office.' " 'se at it appeared that the Pope had ap e't te tr a bishop to the Protestant see of St. David's. h:t h Was this: "In the district of Wales there will aai cs—that of Shrewsbury, and that of Menaira stir "to id" a); united with Newport We t . tesle, s.e Bishop o f St. D a vid's and Newport, as his thes-sventintiei of Pembroke," &c. Now he must saßb~y something very insiduous in this.—(Hear, should they allow it to pass without notice, it "Ss` it s " ins future time be said, should objection be raised ;I s s s ,„ 1) . that the House, when to tlegislaing on the subject, ' 1 1 4 'le•• -(4 ice and made no objection it. The bishopric 4t t t ea a e was a case in point, and referred to by Cardinal t st '414 in these words :—" But there has been a more re- N st i instance of the exercise of the Papal supremacy in 4 01 1 41 451 ' of bishoprics nearer home. Galway was not an t,t, t tt ed ' t 'ee until a few years ago lt was a . warden The Holy See changed hhe Was into a bishopric. . . . . Bishop ss " 58 consecratedAn October, 1831. No r . emon- Made, no outcry raised at this exercise of ' 4 Y, " e ll' Now there was a case nearer home. ,t 'ti p ' within the last few years, had been made adhi tiNhle_ d Dr. Browne was appointed bishop of that ici• Cear, hear.) Thus it was clear that the steps . taken e t N, u cpe were highly improper, as interfering with the ge,'ve of the Crown, and an insult offered to the Queent6rten _ (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He (Lord Ashley) _ 1 , ,, ) , ( e5 1 N that it was an interference with the functions of 1 4. 1 ','t * t i n, and if not checked, who, he would ask, could , (4, 11e li ss ,t would be the consequence of the Apostolic brief ,7);eisf"`es s tent institution of this country ?.—(Hear, hear, ;(,,,It,i„,.eueers.) Was there, he would ask, ever any act of '4,l' 4 Fier s Potentate or foreign state more insulting than Ihethe""t britf?r-(Hear, hear.) If the Parliament would iss,lueen and the country would not.—(Hear, hear.) 4 4 ' 1 'e t: ) RMAN MAHON—The Queen ? VaLEY- The Crown would not yield. Whom eof , e ,pe sent t o ta k e possess i on o f t h e ki ng d o m? A ki ' 4 l t oshr eh e Church, a noble of his own Court. The t ) , that person had used were remarkable, iN:kts sr ,wetild not forget the tones of that dulcet in- It reminded him of the animal with "two e rapt ts l 9 , st a ram which spake like a dragon.', s. B y Ote ll " , 4 "‘ of September, his Holiness was pleased to ap- EyE most unworthy, to the archiepiscopal .. see of Oti, - 4 1, established by letters apostolic, giving us, at ey Nl* .'ne, the administration of the episcopal see of OS gea r an that at present, and until such time as the t'eliti n ail think fit of • erwise to provide, we govern, and oklt 1, 1 ek:1 41 to govern the counties of Middlesex, Hertford, oerrcrditiary ereof, and those of Surrey, Sussex, t Yl e 4 11 4 i lhire, and Hampshire, with the islands annexed, ti th Btt ator with ordinary jurisdiction," Such is the ,t,etlatiret,letters missive of all the bishops taking jurisdic- SSOtteaa authority. If they could mistake th,t, let ,tv ii , ; •' to an extract which he would read to them, I r ktp,:. lo t 4' ll4 Partant. as bearing upon ,this question. There (I ' 4 l in the country who was ignorant of the i i :tt":.tei s i r o e er of Thosnas A'Becket, who claimed for the V Wh i te e s ever all the estates of the kingdom, and whose ti e i lNaa si _ s that the Church should ride roughshod over to e s r it o f The extracts he would read would show Lts t tre these transactions. Here was one extract, fa i rn ` nc i o where and how I have been nourished th e jOi? y t i Eroph sit likely that I shah be behind . any other, istiltitti emSt Catholic of ancient stock, in defending g~i1A,,,1141.114 y Lord and master ? The second altar at "gete ßs -11 in the Holy City, was that which marks the csek -" St. Peter cemented the foundations of his un if!iqtt,a st?...tsvith his blood. The first was that of our o f', ( 4 tt Okr a horuas (of Canterbury). For 22 years I daily a tide te s t. ,'' e body representation of his martyrdom 7% Partook even of the bread of life ; there, for . to tar, teeopsrlebrated the divine mysteries; at it I received Ir a p o t bay hs e onsecration. He was my patron, he my fa °4l:l3el. And, withdrawn from the symbols of .k: q . t the tr 3' the supreme will of the late Pontiff, I 0 ) 41 1 414 e a-sury of his relics at Sees, and with fervent artYr asked and obtained the mitre which had crowned N e v 4 head."—e Words of Peace and Justice," by lae satin, 1838. If they did not withstand THE this Papal aggression now, they would have to withstand it hereafter, when it would have greater power. They had heard appeals made upon the score of conscience, with reference to this mat' er. He would ask them whether the introduction of the word conscience was to be a spell for which they were to be bound. That might be pleaded in a very extraordinary sense. It was put forward in the case of Archbishop Franzoni, in Sardinia, who claimed exemption for ecclesiastics from the jurisdiction of the civil courts, and that they should be all subject to the ecclesiastical courts alone. The Government of that country repudiated this as sumption, and maintained it. Yet the resistance presented in that case to the Government was called a matter of con science. In this case, the assumption of territorial titles was called a matter of conscience. He would ask what had territorial possessions to do with the domain of the spirit? The Honourable and Learned Member for Ply mouth said that for the exercise of the liberty of conscience,. they required that they should use these titles, and ob- served that they were legislating against the natural use of language. They had on other occasions, how ever, legislated against the natural use of language. They did so after the expulsion of James IL, when they pro hibited the assumption of the title of James 111. in his son. ( Hear, hear.) The legislated against the natural use of language when they found it necessary to repress a moral wrong committed against any individual or any portion of the body politic. They called this Bill a persecution, and also argued that it would be inoperative. He would ask how could that be called a persecution which confined itself to forbid a foreign potentate from c mferrin„m territorial titles within these kingdoms. This was a new plea. It was not argued that territorial titles were necessary in 1829, when the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act was passed, which was received by the Roman Catholic clergy, although it forbid the use of territorial titles which they used before. It struck him forcibly that if there was any persecution in the case, it wss on the part of the Pope against the Roman Catholic laity, who were forced to adopt ultra-montane opi ions. It was said it would be inoperative. The Bill, no doubt, disappointed many. It was weakened in the withdrawal of two clauses, but the residue was in one respect exceedingly valuable as a Parliamentary protest against this aggression— (Hear)—by which it would be proclaimed that it was denounced by the Queen, by her nobles, and by her people. He thought the case required some authoritative declaration of this sort. The Court of R me insidious and worldly wise, used all its appliances to familiarise the people of this country to a pro minent church. They constantly saw advertisements in the papers of services to be performed in Roman Catholic churches.—(An ironical " Hear, hear.") He did not wish to prevent that; he quoted the fact to them, the design on foot, to familiarise the people with the Church of Rome, and in order also to put the people on their guard against these efforts. The same priests, walking through the streets in their peculiar costume, and soon they would have before their view the pomp of a gorgeous hierarchy.---( Hear, hear.) His object was, not to prevent that, but he thought they were bound in duty to make a declaration that these were the works, and for the behoof of a power they repudiated and utterly abhorred.—(Hear, hear.) They should look to the real peril of the case. They were mistaken if they be lieved that Rome was changed, or harmless, or incapable. Milton had foreshown what was her policy When he said,— " Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names, Places, and titles, and with these to join Secular po er, though feigning still to act By spiritual . . . And from that pretence, Spiritual laws, by , carnal power, shall force On every conscience." Rome was not changed.— (Hear, hear.) Those who spoke of her with contempt were the most likely to become her victims. " The history of the world," says Ranke, " does not present a time in which the clergy were more powerful than at the end of the 16th century. They sat in King's counpils, and discussed political matters before all the people from the pulpit; they governed schools, learning, and the whole domain of letters; the confessional afforded them opportunity of prying into the se cret conflicts of the soul, and of deciding in all the difficulty and doubtful circumstances of private life." In France the power she had lost was restored in 1815. In 1830 she suffered something, but afterwards regained her power, and in Austria ruled with undiminished power. The effect in France was perceptible, for the cha-ter was there revoked as regarded Protestants, and in fact they were placed in as hard a condition as they were under Louis the Fourteenth by the revocation of the edict of Nantes. The condition of the Protestants was worse new in France than it was under Napoleon or any of the preceding monarchs of France; in fact, worse than in any former period, excepting the Dragonades. It could not be required of them to support such a power as that, or to give facilities to promote its ends. It was an ecclesiastical power spread over the whole world, under a perfect system of discipline, with one heart. The Wesleyan Methodists, Church of Scot land, and the Free Church of Scotland, the Free Episcopa lian Church of England, need not be denied synodical action because they were not subject to a foreign power. They were British in all respects, but because this was projected by - the Pope of Rome, that was the reason why they abhorred it, and would never submit to the synodical action of bishops under the influence of a foreign power, who would exercise their spiritual influence for political purposes. It was on these grounds that they offered it an uncompromising and indignant resistance. Though he respected the religious opini ns of the ,Noble Earl (Earl of Arundel and Surrey), yet he should say that too mach power was assumed by the Pope of Rome, and that such an extraordinary exercise of power should be checked. He did not want that any coercive law should be introduced, but he required that the Protestant Church should be preserved against the insidious attacks of the Court of Rome.—( Hear, hear.) When he looked to other countries which would not allow any innovation on the rights of their fellow-citizens, he felt at a loss to know why any trueborn Englishman should submit to the insult and indignity lately offered to this country by the Papal autho rity through its emissaries. —(Hear, hear.) Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT did not see any danger in the proceedings of the Roman C:tholic hierarchy in this coun try. In his opinion, if it was considered necessary by the Government to strike out the second and third clauses from the measure, it was as necessary to strike out the first, for if those two clauses placed such obstacles as they were said to do in the way of Roman Catholics holding that faith which they had a right to hold, the first clause placed as much restriction upon them as the other two, and therefore it ought to be struck out also.—(Hear.) What would be the effect of the first clause? They professed to be great ad vocates and admirers of civil and religious liberty, but the first clause rendered invalid any document signed by a bishop, and no legal effect could be given to it. Now, that was a most unjust attack, and would lead to the worst consequences. For instance, as regarded the ordination of priests, the bishop who conducted the ordination had to sign the certificate of ordination of er the name of his see, and eonseqsently to assume those titles which the clause prohi bited. Now, should the clause pass, that would be an illegal and invalid certificate. The priest whose ordination it was intended to certify would be considered in law to be no priest. The marriages celebrated by that priest would be invaqd, and the children, the issue of such marriages, would be illegitimate children.—(Hear, hear.) But sup• posing_that his Hon. Friend the Member for East Surrey (Mr. H. Drummond) succeeded in restoring those second and third clauses of the Bill in Committee, which he was bound to say that Hon. Gentleman had every reason to expect he would be enabled to do, what would be the consequence then? Why, the consequence must inevitably be, that Go vernment would be obliged to vote against the third reading of their own .taill.—(Hear, hear.) He confessed that to him it would be most painful to see things come to such a pass as that. For some years past signs of peace and harmony had, to a great extent, prevailed between the Catholics and Protestants.—(Cheers from the Government benches.) In regard to what had been said about toleration, he must say that the sentiments he had heard expressed in reference to it, did not coincide with his views. One Hon. Member had said that toleration was limited, that it mus be kept within bounds, so as that the persons tolerated did not injure you; and, in that case, the onus probandi lay with that Hon. Member to prove in what manner the privileges had been violated by the interference of the Pope. He also heard the Hon. Baronet, the Member for the University of Oxford, utter a sentence in favour of toleration—(Laughter)—but his opinion of the matter was, that the person tolerated must be of the same opinion as the Hon. Baronet was himself.—' (Hear, hear, aid laughter.) Now, neither of those con structions Le would put on the term toleration. His impres sion was, that in this country whether a man held religious truth or error as the ground of his belief, b e i ng an English man, he had a right to hold that truth or error, because he believed such to be'the truth.—(Hear.) No doubt the argu ment adduced by those who supported the measure, were all very good as directed against the Roman Catholic reli gion. But he denied the correctness of their mode of reasoning. Were they prepared to say, that while they of the Established thatey would not were members tolerate that religion, but hedge round Church with enactments, as a means of preventing its operation? He was a sincere member of the Established 'Church himself; thought t s c uc hl h rse e h n , a b c yrenderingft r b a u t t h h er e w co e n ak fe e s n se t d ha t than ha s t tr obnoxious in the eyes of th e world. H notion oftole_ a ebneg tion was this - they tolerated all religions, they admitted to seats in that House Members of all religious denominations to every Church, they gave the fullest liberty and , who were Christians, and while they had licensean Established they ought to if they thought the voluntary system wrong,_ form of religious faith under the voluntary system. Irue e vote in favour of the measure; but so far as he was con cerned, he did no t thi n k it wrong, and his reason for not doing so was, that he knew the Church of England was not able to cover the ground. However, that was the state in which they were p l a ced in this country , having an Established Church t o lerating all religions, and giving the greatest liberty and license to all. Because he was a member of the Established Church was he going to ask a man whether he belonged to this or that Church, or what were his opinions is regard to matters of faith an d doctrine, an d all such, before be would admit him to the same privileges as a free citizen, which the members of that Church enjoyed. If they gave toleration in its proper sense, it was ridiculous to put such queries; and giving, as they did, that toleration, what right had they to prevent any of those denominations tolerated to take all proper means for carrying out their system of religi ous belief. And that led him to the question of the aggres sion by the Pope, so muchstalked about. So far as that ques tion was concerned, it was notorious to all that for a long period the Pope of. Rome had this country marked out and divided into districts and dioceses, over which he had placed vicars apostolic. And he wanted to know in what respect the changes of late made in the establishment of a hierarchy in place of that, could affect either their status or their privi g; and, in respect to t h a t, leges, civil or religious? They might talk to hi m o f lan guagme,igbuhtt th et a a t te wa t s h a a n t oth se e n r Q t d h i i n n g words and hi g h he pre tensions on the part of ecclesiastics; who had got a little power; conferred upon them. was no new thing, and ought not to astonish them, while, at the same time, he admitted that the language of the Pope's ball and the manifesto of the Cardinal was of the most offensive description,— (Hear, hear.) It was said that one great evil attendant upon the aggression would be that it would be the means of intro ducing the canon law into this country. But the canon law had existed, more or less, ever since the Reformation.— (Hear, hear.) It existed under the system of vicars aposto lic, or at all events such portions of it as the Pope chose to enforce, while, at the same time, as he was told, those vicars apostolic were most offensive to the great majority of the Ro man Catholic la ty. And then, again, in Ireland, they had the whole canon law; but there it did not clash with the civil law, as it was pretended it would do here, and if th e people of Ireland were enlightened enough to resist the as ' sumption of that law, who could doubt for a moment but that the Roman Catholics of England would do the same? In the next place, as to the synodical action, which the Attor ney-General had told them this measure was to prevent, so far as the Roman Catholics were concerned, he would ask, I was it seriously intended to prevent that ? It was allowed in every Church in this country except the Esta blished Church, and it was not allowed in it be cause that Church being established did not require it. Perhaps it differed in torm in different denominations, but in them all it existed in some shape or other, and why deny it to the Roman Catholics? They talked of the Synod of Thurles, and they blame the bishops then assembled for interfering with civil and temporal me ters. Now, he was an assenting party to the establishment of those colleges which called forth the strongest expression of their I o pinion and disapproval; and he assented to these establish- tT /4, LONDON, 71 tents because he - thought they would be the mhas; by dif ft ising education among the middle classes' in Ireland, of g reatly benefiting that country; but had they never heard of ny of the clergymen resident in this country interfering with ocular affairs? Why, in 1845, when there was such a noise ; and commetion ;in the country respecting the removal of the 1 axes on human food, had they not Dissenting ministers from t dl parts of the country Meeting in Manchester for the par niose of considering how each could in his own district best :forward the repeal of the corn-laws.— (Hear, hear.) Cer itainly that was synodical action. Some Hon. Members, in . eroot of the tyranny and intolerance of the Roman Catholic Church, had alluded to the Sicardi lawS, but that was the Church of Rome in Italy.. P. was monstrous to say that thee-e could be any comparison between the system here, anel what was carried en in Italy and Spain, and it was as rid iculous to say that even if there was, they could get rid of it .37 declaring that such a one, instead of being Archbishop of ' Westminster, should be a Bishop of Melipotamus. But in Ire hind no danger was dreaded on the part of the Roman Gt .tholics who supported these colleges, notwithstanding that th ey had been denounced by the bishops ; for he found Sir Robert Kane, who was at the head of oneof them, instead Of qu ailing before the manifesto of the bishops, coming forward and boldly defending the rights troth of Roman Catholic and Protestant, in utter oblivion of all religious differences of opinion. From the speech of Professor Kane he had derived much pleasure, and he would not conceal the spirit of satis faction with which he had witnessed the cff ct produced on the intelligent portion of the Roman Catholic mind dri land by the deliberations arid resolve of the Synod regard ; the national colleges. So far from yielding slavish obe dience to the dictates of that body they had increase t their sapport of the colleges. The Honourable Baronet, the Member for the city of Oxford, had asked why th y did - not aegotiate with Rome, and endeavour through diplomatic agency to receive satisfactory apnlogies for the aggression that had taken place. Now he , was not certain that in the eyes of Europe they should be justified in. proceeding to those extremities. If, as they had been advised by more than one Hon. Member who took; part in the (1 scu - sion on the Bill, they were to proceed in a hostile manner against the Pope, might it not ba asked, had they not, to a certain ex tent. given an invitation to an aggression of the description now loudly protested against? There was much truth in the statement that a proclamation might have got them out of a struggle which threatened:to be fatar to the tranquillity, of the country, and was likely to result in ridicule on them selves. But when they went striking out clauses, now said to be unnecessary, and leaving an insufficient preamble to the Bill, a state of inextricable confusion would be sure to follow. In puisuing ihe course recommended by her Majesty's Government they were striking a blow,, not at the Pope for as act of foreign aggression, but at the Roman Catholics of England and Irelaud,and this was:not the consti tutional mode of grappl'ng with the difficulty. When the Bill came to be properly understood it would be regarded by the great bulk of the people as a penal law, and' he believed that the spirit of the English people was decidedly adverse to persecution. Without having one of the advantages expected from the measure, they would be deluged in all its discredit. It might fairly be characterised as a sham piece of legislation. If, as the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Solicitor-General said, the conduct of the Pope was an act of invasion of the Royal Supremacy, why were not the previsions of the Bill of 1829 put in force to stop it? The assumption of the title of Bishop of St. David's was clearly a direct violation of a clause in the act of 1829. Well, that being the case, why did not the Government put the law in force, if they really meant that the Bill now under consideration should not iemain a dead letter? But, in truth, the Bill was a Bill to satisfy the feelings Of the people, and at the same time to deceive them. The feelings of the people, however, were mistaken. The recent demonstrations throughout the country meant that the Roman Catholic religion was ad vancing, and that active, steps should be taken to prevent it. - (Ilear, hear.) The people deprecated the enactment of penal law. The question weighing upon their minds was a religious question, and not a political question. Their attachment to the reformed faith formed the groundwork of objection to the progress of a religion which they regarded as unscriptural. Public opinion could not be beaten down by an Act of Parliament. For two hundred years that system was tried with the Roman Catholic people of Ireland, but ultimately the G Nernment had to yield to fear that which should have been frankly given, to justice. Were they now going to retrograde and to adopt a course of legislation inconsistent with the character of this country ? If they wished to repress acts of aggression by foreign 1-'owers—if they wished to prevent the introduction of bulls—why not legislate, not sgainst the Roman Catholic community of this country, or against the Roman Catholic Church, but against the foreign potentates who committed those acts of aggression on the royal prerogative? That was the practice pursued in other countries. He had gone at greater length into the subject than he had intended, but he would say this, that he did not think there was the slightest fear to be ep tertained for the increase of the Roman Catholic body. He must add his belief that the doctrines f the Church of Rome were foreign to the genius of the people. Thei right of privatelludgment, to which they had long been accustomed, they could not enjoy under its institutions. Let them only look at the Index ex Purgatories, for a list of the most excellent books which were prohibited on political economy, history, and religion. Amongst them were the Scapulus Greek Lexicon," invaluable to a Greek student. If he studied political economy, there was Jeremy Bentham ; if history, there were Hume, Goldsmith, and Robertson; or if science, then he must not look into Chambers's Philosophical Dictionary, or Locke, and a number of others, down to a small tract, called " The .Dairyman's Daughter." Such a system, therefore, was, in hii opinion, unsuited to the habits and spirit of Englishmen. Without intending any offence to his Roman Catholic brethren, he must assert his confidence in the truth of his own religious faith. A certain element of persecution still remained, but until that spirit was extir pated the work of the Reformation would not be complete. Those who thought themselves Protestants because they acted in hostility to those who were not so were not true Pro testants, and he believed the time was drawing near for the triumph of the old maxim " Magna est veritas et preva ebit,' and when they would seek to meet Romish aggression in the only way in which it could be met, by the spread of our Gospel principles, letting in light where darkness existed, and trusting with confidence to Almighty God for the result. Lord PALMERSTON said he must crave the indulgence of the House for a few moments; but would take care he did not encroach too much on their 'attention. There was, in deed, a great part of the speech they had just heard from his Right Hon. Friend which belonged more properly to the Committee than to the present stage of the: discussion— (Hear, hear)—and there wer e some part s which he thou g h t it would better to leave for the further consideration of his Right Hon. Friend, who, perhaps, if time had permitted, might have settled some questions which at present appeared to be undetermined in his own mind.—(A laugh.) First, what he would do, objecting, as he did, to what the Go vernment had proposed; and nest, perhaps, he might come to a decision as to whether the Bill to which he objected was a nullity or a persecution.—(A laugh.) For his part he would freely confess that he never remembered, since he had had the honour of a seat in that House, any dis cussion that had been so painful to the mind as that in which they were then engaged.—(Hear, hear.) He had hoped that when the disabilities were removed in the first place from the Dissenters, and afterwards from the Roman Catholics, that discussions and contro versies on religious questions would never again be heard within the walls of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) He had hoped that whe n th ey h a d esta bli s h e d, not what gentlemen called toleration,—for he, like others repudiated that word - (Hear, hear)—and said that the principle that was estab lished was not the principle of religious toleration, but the greater principle of religious freedom.—(Hear.) He had hoped, he said, that when that principle of religious freedom had been faily established by the Legislature of the country, those odious controversies with regard to religious doctrines would never again be heard within the walls of Parliament. —( Hear.) But whose fault was it?—(Hear.) Was it our fault? (Hear.) It was not.—(Hear, hear.) We were met by an act of aggression by a foreign authority—an ag gression of a political character - (Hear)—and in that re spect only would he address himself to it. It was an ag gression on the independent soveriegnty of the country which he held it was our bounden duty to repel.—(Hear.) He said the aggression was by a foreign authority. His Right Hon. Friend had drawn a broad distinction between a foreign sovereign and the Pope, and said that the measure might have proceeded from the Pope, and when he might have been driven from his throne and lodging in Brook-street ; but he (Lord Palmerston) said that still the Pope would have been a foreign authority, and it was because it was the act of a foreign authority that he objected to the power the Pope had attempted to exercise in the realm of England.— (Hear. hear.) But it was said that this act was partly the fault of the Government; that certain indulgences had been shown to the Catholic episcopacy of Ireland ; that certain courtesies had been shown to the priesthood of Ireland, and certain opinions had been expressed in debates in Parliament; and that all those things, and, moreover, the silence of his qoble Friend three years ago at Rome, when a supposed paper was shown to him, and he ws.s said to have been told that thi.t regarded England; and that after those things they had no right to be surprised at what the Pope bad done, because he was sufficiently borne out and encouraged in his expectations that they would meet it with indifference. He did not think those grounds were sufficient to justify the act. Either the Pope thought the measures he attempted to adopt would be agreable, or not at least disagreeable, to the Government and the people of this country, or he would not care whether they were agreeable or disagreeable to the Government and the people.—(Hear.) If he attached any value to the cir cumstance that his measures would be acquiesced in by this country, why did he not, in the three years that elapsed since the supposed conversation with his Noble Friend, and the period anterior to the publication of this Bill and other letters - why did he not take those steps that were in his power, to ascertain what was the opinion of the Government and of the people of England.—(Hear.) Where was Dr. Wiseman? Was he not in England? Had he no opportu nity of seeking a personal interview with his Neble Friend at the head of the Government, and ascertaining positively and beyond doubt and dispute, whether the measure the Pope contemplated, and of which he was conscious and aware, would or would not give offence to the Government and the people of this country ?—(Hear) - and, therefore, he (Lord Palmerston) contended that as that course of proceeding had been studiously omitted, it was impossible for either the Papal authority or those who advocated his cause to shelter themselves under the pretext that things had taken place to justify the Papal Government in supposing that the step it was taking would not be offensive to the people of this coun try.—(Hear, hear.) Well, then, this being an aggress i on of into o nt the the questionminds o f o f melt. the a foreign authority, what was the authority by whicn th a t aggression was made? It was an authority of an ecclesias tical nature, actionwhichhad en a te d r o e u d bl n e ot s - im (H ple eatheat.He theological difference between the Prosestant and Catholic Church. With that they had nothing at pre sent to do. He was sincerely attached to the Pro testant Church, and while he respected the difference of opinion of his Catholic brethren,—and far be it from h m to u tter one syllable that would be painful to their reli gious feelings, —he must say that the Catholic Church had another aspect,--it was not merely a theological body, but was a political and temporal body also. - (Hear, hear.) The char d stin a g e u te i r sh o ed f the f Catholic e x C e h e u e d r ch was ed all others not inmerelyits contraencroach ments on temporal power. Churches were corporate bodies, and corporate bodies were naturally encroachinz ; ibutn ithethere was Church of this d difference :,fh betweene latterth eCatholicvisa Church British t Church, having its beginning and end in this realm. Th e Church of Rome sprang from a foreign centre, and endea voured to spread its authority in every place over the whole Christian w rld. --(Cheers.) But what was the action of that Church? What was its temporal and political action? Lo k at those countries in which the Catholic Church was predominant. 'Look at Portugal—look at Spain—and look at Italy. Look also, he was concerned to say, at Austria.— (Hear.) They would find that wherever the Catholic Church was allowed to seize hold, of temporal authority, that there , its influence was painfully e xercised over the temporal and political inter es t s of the nation.—(Hear, hear.) Then, he said, that some measure was rendered necessary by the course the Papal Government had adopted, that it was neces sary to satisfy the feelings of the country.—(Hear.) He thought that no man who had had his eyes and ears open during the last few months could for a momeat dispute. He knew it had been said that they wished to keep up a de lusion, that the agitation of this country was a partial agita- , WEDNESDAY EVENING, tion, the agitation of interested men, and was not at all the spontaneous feeling of the English nation. That was a state ment it was not worth while to refute.-(Hear, hear.) Whatever might be his opinion on the merits of the Bill, or on the necessity of doing anything, no man who knew what had been passing in this country could entertain the slightest doubt, or dare to deny, that that agitation was a movement of the whole Protestant body of the country-( Hear, hear) -and he said, that while he treated with respect and de ference the opinions of those who differed front him on reli gious questions, yet, as attached to the British Constitution, and the liberty and freedom of thoughtand action which belonged to that Constitution, he should be sorry indeed that anything should take place that - - should shake the political Protestant establishment of the kingdom in which he had the happiness to live.-(Hear, hear.) Then he said, that the voice of the people of Eegland required that something should be done.-(Hear, hear.) Dia eltight Hon. Friend said that what the Govern ment had proposed was not the proper thing to do. If he could understand • 'at all the vague suggestions of his Right lion. Friend-(.4 laugh) 7 he should infer that what ho would have proposed would have been, to hare entered into some negotiation with the Court of Rome. His Right , Hon. Friend said, he thought it was absurd to legislate igainst our own sukjects: Ile (Lord Palmerston) presumed that his Right Hon. Friend did net mean that they were to 1t islate aganst the Pope - (A lavgli)eefer if he thought our laws would not he obeyed by ourselves, surely he could not ima gine they wiitild have much force with the Pope-( A laugh) hi.; Bight Him. ;Friend very properly reputliate.t ;tie idea that had been out by that they ought to have sent a hostile fori:e to Civita Vecchia. He agreerwith his lion. Friend that bulls Were not properly met 'by cannon balls. - (A ) He w s quite of his Right Hon. Fr end's opinion that teat was not a course ti - ting fur this - country to pnrsue, or „likely to lead to 'any -sitisfactOry resu4. 7 -(Hear, hear.) But hen he said he thought it would be unbecoming in this country to meet an net of unpr'ivoked &egression by sending an envoy to sue from the Bishop of Rome..e-(Hear.) lie thought the dignified and proper course for this country to take was to legislate -for , itself and not to go to Pope and say, " You have done th,t which has been a gteat affront. You have done that which we look upon as a gres Violation of our national independence, and an infringeme.nt on the sovereignty of the Queen, and therefore we coney:to you to do something-eeither .to retract. what you have done or to modify it in some degree." • Of course our suit'evould have ' been rejected, and in what a humiliating positiou should we have stood' under such circumstances 1-( &ar i l:leer.) He eves quite ready to admit that it would have beenvery incon sistent with the course which either the members of the Go vernment or the majority of the Legislature bed pursued if they had proposed to Parlialpent anything tiial,would have justified its being called a penal or persecuting enactment. He must in passing, say, however, that when, he saw the letters and declarations emanating from Roman Catholic ecclesiastics eeteing up the' cry-of fanaticism ,and persecu• tion, and intolerance, and looked-to the courseof proceeding in regard to toleration that prevailed in cOunteys where the Romish pr esthood were dominant, he felt tempted to ex claim, " Quis tulerit Gracehos!" The wordsl:fg persecution and intolerance" wer e sure l y wor d s that Catholic prelates ought most studiously to eschew.-(Hear.) -But he, for one, never ,would consent to be a party - to ghat was pro perly called a penal enactment; and he utterly denied that the Bill now proposed deserved in' any sense. whatever to be so stigmatized. -(Hear, hear.) In point, et fact, it was merely a complement of the measure which removed from the Catholic people of England the disabilities under which they laboured. The Bill of 1829 prohibited catholic pre lates from taking the titles of sees, or.o any diocese or province which belonged to th e British establishment. Whe ther by accident or not, it omitted to extend that prohibi tion to otherplaces in the realm. . Bnt was the law consi dered as a mere protection for the English Church ? He would not accept it on so limited a ground ias that. He held that the law of 1829 Was to be a defence of the sove reignh- rights of the country ; and it wa s t o . defended, an d justly, on the ground that they would not epertnit a foreign authority out of the United Kingdom to giVe to any person titles derived from any place within the United Kingd om. He contended,therefore, that the Bill nowleefere the !douse was in principle precisely the same as the Aet of 1829, and that it made good the gap that was left in that ,Act; and he was extremely surprised that any persons whO were parties to that Act, whether the proposers or suppelters of it, should tin principle object to the measure the Goverment had new proposed.- (Hear,. hear.) :The Bill thatc‘:preposed was, in its principle, exactly' on the same ground as the measure which formed part of the arrange ments of the Emancipation Act; and he contended, further, that being on the same groUnd as that measure, it could not be justly deemed as partaking in any. degree of a penal or persecuting character.-(Hear, beer.) ..14, was said th e Catholic Church required officers of the ran 3 / 4 70f bishops, but for 250 years the Catholic ~Church, in tilts country had gone on with vicars apostOlic, and he Red heard in the course of this debate no satisfactory reason!'why, with vicars apostolic, it might not still go on as heretofore.- (Hear, hear.) He contended upon these various efipunds, that the measure that was new proposed applied dioatly to the evil s for which a remedy was demanded-(Heck hear)-he con tended that it imposed no restriction on the Catholic hierarchy in this country which wasinConsistant Witliithelperformance of their sacred duty-(Hear, hear)-and to those who said they thought the measure, it pased; Woula be inoperative, would be of no effect, would not be obeyedel he would reply that he wholly differed from teem in.thettopinion-( Hear, hear) -he considered that if, on the' one hand,. it was a peculiar characteristic of the Church cOotne to be ag gressive and enc. ()aching, on the Other kind, it was also characteristic of that Church to be obedient to laws, to re spect enactments, and to make its aggressions and its en croachments wiliout openly violating the slaws of the land in which it was operating.-(Hear, hear.) Judging from past experience of the Irish Roman Cathblics, he did not contemplate that this measure, if passed into a law, would be disobeyed by the Roman Catholic bishops of this country. - (Hear, hear.) He believed, too, that the measure would meet the general feeling of the British people; and it was not to be forgotten that there was nothing in the measure to pre clude the Legislature from taking furthee:steps, if further steps were required, which he earnestly hoped would never be the case.-(Cheers.) On the motion of Mr. 11. BERKELEY ; the debate was then adjourned to Thursday. The House adjourned at Twen'y minutes past Twelve o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the V tes and Proceedings of the !bum of Commons.) TUESDAY, MARCH 18. HASTINGS IMPROVEMENT BILL. Order for Second Reading read; Motion made, and Ques tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months." Question put, " That the .w or d' now ' s t an d part of the question." The House divided MINORITY-AYES, 21: -- - - Adair, It. A. Greene, John P erfect, Robert Barnard, E. G. Guest, Sir John P ower, Dr. Bellew, K. N. Higgins, George : Thompson, Colonel Cowan, Charles Inglis, Sir it. H. Nilllers, Charles Curteis, 11. M. Lennox, Lord A. , Wawn, J. T. Forbes, W. Mitchell, T. A.' TELLERS. Forster, Matthew Moore, George li. Pigott, Francis Freestun, Colonel O'Connor, Feargus k ' rouch, F. MAJORITY-NOES, 59. Farnham, E. B. Alcock, Thomas Mostyn, E. Arkwright, George Ferguson, Sir H. Xaas, Lord Ashley, Lord Foley, J. H. Parker, John Bernard, Viscount Fuller, A. E. Patten, J. W. Best, John Gasket], J. M. Russell ,F. C. 11. Blair, Stephen - Gwyn, Bowel ~,__ dars, George Boldero, Henry Harris, Richard an I;ramston, T. W. Hastie, Archibald Sinith, J. Benjamin Brisco, M. Ilayter, W. G. Spooner, Richard Broadwood, Henry lleald, James Stafford, Augustus Brotherton, JosePn Hill, Lord M arcos Thornely, T. 'rynt e, C o l one l Buller, Sir J. Y. Hodges, T. L. Tyrell, Sir J. T. Carew, W. I'. Hutchins, E. J. Verner, Sir W. Child, smith Kershaw, James . Walter, Clive, 11. B. Loveden, Pryse, John Williams, W. Divett, Edward Lygon, General Duncan, George Manners, Lord C. Wils on, Matthewu, ', Duneuft, John Martin, C. W. rightson, W.B. Evans, Sir De Lacy Masterman, J. Evans, William TRLLEII2. Matheson, Colonel r revven, C. 11. Ewart, William Morris, David Ilollond, Robert PARLIAMEN TARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the H ouse of Conunons.) STANDING ORDERS COMMI TTEE. The following Resolutions were reported from the above Committee :- 1. That in the case of the Durham Markets Bill, petition for additional provision, the standing orders ought to be dis pensed with :—That the parties be permitted to introduce their additional provision, if the CommitteeC on the Bill shall think tit, on proving . to the said Committee that the notices have been inserted in the county newspaper for three successive weeks. That the Committee on the Bill, if they shall introduce such additional provision, do report to th e Rouse how far such order has been complied with, on thel4port of the Bill. 2. That in the case of the East . Anglian Railways (No. 2), petition for leave to deposit . a petition. for a Bill, the standing orders ought not to be dispensed with . 3. That in the case of the Leicester Waterworks Bill, petition for dispensing with standing orders Nos. 105 and 166, the said standing orders ought not to he dispensed with. First Resolution agreed to.—Report to lie oh the table. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, TUESDAY, DIARCH Is. The Queen and Prince Albert walked early this morning in the park and grounds at Osborne. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the younger members of the Royal Family took their accustomed walks and rides. Colonel and the Lady Catherine Harcourt had the honour of joining the royal party at uinner this day, A Cabinet Council was held at the private residence of Lord John Russell, in Chesham-place, B eig . rave-square, ve•Aterday afternoon. The Ministers present were—Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marqui s of Lans downe, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Pal merston, l' arl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Broughton, the Right Hon. Henry Lubouchere, the 4 Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. Fox Mauls. rfhelllinis . ers met at half•past two o'clock;and broke up soon alter four o'clock. ThA Oxford University Commission met yesterd ay at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Down ing -street. Present: The Bishop of Norwich, th e D ean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev., 11. G. Li iden, ° well, the V. v. J. L. Dampier, Es q . ; the Rev. Professor P G. 11. S Johnson, a nd th e Rev. A. P. Stanley (Secretary). Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Custom s , had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exch equer yester day, at his ( fficial resid enc e in Downing-street. The Transatlantic Packet Station Commission held a meet ing yes'erdav at the Board of Trade. There were present Earl Granville hairman), on. William Cowper. Sir James Gorden, K.C. ti. ; Sir John F. Burgoy Le, K.C.13 and Captain Stephenson Ellerby. Lord Hobart, S ecretary to the Commission, was in attendance. A deputation at tended at, the Board of Trade, and had an interview with the Commissioners. The deputation included Lord Mont eagle, Mr. O'Brien, M.P., Mr. O'Flaherty, M.P., Mr. Blake, M.P., Mr. M‘Cullagn, M.P., Mr. edulvany, Mr. Randall, and Mr. Long, C.L. A TOUGH SUP PER .—On Wednesday evening the large serpent at our Zoological Gardens, who seem s , by the way, to possess a remarkably good digestion, had two live I wls put into his cage for supper. lie immediately killed and gorged one; after Which, leaving the other bird intact, he satisfied the cravings of his appetite by bolting his bed consisting of a piece of drugget two yards and a half long and a yard wide.—Bristol Olercury. DEATH OF A CENTENAILIAN.Died at ClOghiordBll, on the 13th inst., Mr. James Armitage, aged 109 years. For 89 years he was in church membership with the Baptist Church of C o.:hjordan, 'to the last moment his intellect was clear and unimpaired.—Leinster Express, MARCH 19, 1851. SUPPRESSION OF STREET BEGGING. ST. JAMES'S PARISH. " TO THE CHAIRMAN AND COMMITTEE OF THE LEICESTER SQUARE SOUP KITCHEN. " Gentlemen,—ln forwarding my report for the month of February, I have much satisfaction in drawing your attention to the annexed table, showing the gradual diminution of beggars detected asking alms in St. James's parish, all of whom were strangers, and igno rant of the measures adopted for their suppression. The street guardians continue to carry out your instruc tions in an orderly and systematic manner—meeting at given points, every half-hour, and communicating to each other the description of vagrants seen; this plan proves an insurmountable obstacle to the beggar, as he cannot possibly pursue his calling within the parish for a longer period than half an hour without detection; when once seen and cautioned, he deems it better at once to quit the parish than run the risk of a conviction by a repetition of the offence. " The duties of the street guardians were extended on the 27th inst. to the visitation of the principal streets, sad the public-houses therein, from half-past seven to ten o'clock in the evening. " The success attending this evening duty the past two nights has proved most satisfactory, and will, lu.re after, do much towards r , -moving from the streets a set ~f desperate prowlers, who, under the cloak of night meet you at (very turn, and, by necessimi importunities to your remonstrances, as they walk side by side, create considerable alarm in the timid —especially unprotected females. " The licensed victuallers esteem this arrangement as a great boon to themselves, as well as their bar and par lour customers; their attention to business being inces santly interrupted from dusk to closing time, in order ing out stalwart men beggars asking for money to pay a night's lodging; and women, boys, and girls, pretend ing to vend lucifer matches, combs, prints, ballads, &c. " The nuisanc e complained f in my report for January last of a large number of juvenile pretending crossing sweepers infecting the foot pavements for the purpose of begging, has been removed; the crossing sweepers now seen in the parish amount to about twelve men and six boys, all usefully and publicly em ployed. " A considerable number of lucifer match sellers, on being taxed with begging, have withdrawn themselves. " There can be no doubt that several thousands of vagrants will be drawn from the country to the metro polis this summer; it therefore behoves parochial autho rities—now that it is proved mendicity can be easily suppressed—to adopt stringent measures for checking the inroads of provincial mendicants, and for putting down the present existing intolerable nuisance in our streets. "BEGGARS DETECTED. Total English Total Irish Gross total " J. ETTERSIIANK, Supervisor." " MONTHLY REPORT OF THE LEICESTER-SQUARE SOUP KITCHEN AND ASYLUM FOR FEBRUARY, 1851. " I beg respectfully to forward my report of this in stitution for the month of February, 1851. The table of the number of recipients at the kitchen shows an in crease of nearly 4,000 persona over that of the month of January last:— " TABLE OF NUMBERS RELIEVED. Relieved in Soup Kitchen. Men, 9,317. Women, 1,605. Total, 10,022. Families and Sick Resident Poor. Men, 2,466. Women, 3,086. Children, 12,132. Total Families, 17,684. Total number relieved, 28,606. " THE REFUGE. " 280 women and 488 men have been provided with beds, supper, and breakfast. From the large numbers of deserving applicants applying all hours of the day, a Wilber number of 356 poor men and women have par taken of a morning and evening meal of bread and coffee. " LAVATORIES AND WATER-CLOSETS. " The free benefits of this establishment have been bestowed on 8,395 men and 4,516 women and children. " FREE REGISTRY. Number of persona registered , Obtained, situati o n s { Male 7 Female l2 "RAGGED SCHOOLS. " Supplied to ragged schools, 146 gallons of soup and 78 quartern loaves, besides frequent entertainments to the children of a neighbouring ragged school of an evening meal of tea, coffee, and bread, at the kitchen, with which they were pleased. "WANT OF BREAST MILE. " I am happy to state that all the poor female suf ferers applying for relief, with infants in arms, are now free from this complaint. By dint of care, and good nourishing soup and bread, they recovered their milk, and their babies have been restored to health, and saved from an untimely grave. They were very grateful for the protection and relief afforded them in the hour of trial. '.John Brownring, aged 78; James Kearney, 67; John Long, 10 weeks; and Willem Barton, 74—died during the month in this metropolis from starvation. " R. CRATE, Superintendent. " Ham-yard, Great Windmill -street, Feb. 28, 1851." " The principle of filling the famished and desti tute individuals who cry for help, with good, wholesome food, instead of giving coin which may be ill or disadvantageously spent —is ono which recommends itself strongly to the notice of the humane; and as the machinery for carry ing out the intention of the founders of this kitchen is now practically perfect, and its economical working rightly understood, it may safely be assumed that sub ,criptions destined for the amelioration of the houseless .'rid suffering pauper cannot be placed more fruitfully than here; for inasmuch as they are at once applied to the purchase and administration of nutritious food, so is there security against the alms of the philanthropist bt ing viciously and intemperately dissipated. We do no wrung, therefore, in inviting the attention of those who i.re blessed with affluence, and are not indifferent to hu man sympathies, to the soup kitchen in question—the resources of which, long before the winter has passed away, will no doubt require eleemosynary replenishment. The recipients in the course of a week amount to seve ral hundreds, and no real difficulty is put in the way of any one who unhappily needs succour. We have before enforced the claims of this praiseworthy institution, and eulogised the comprehensiveness of its plan, and the cha racter of its management; and we reiterate the appeal which the statement involves, with all the confidence suggested by an unmixed faith in its wide and vital utility." THE VERY POOR OF THE METROPOLIS. It is a terrible and heart-rending fact, that numbers of persons annually die in the streets of London of hunger and destitution. However anxious the public may be to shut their eyes to this appalling reality, it cannot be qualified, much less refuted. The fact stares us in the face in all its hideous deformity; fain would we shun the reflection, but it is impos sible. Great privations are endured, especially in the winter months, in many, foreign countries where the severity of the weather is most acutely felt. In the north of France, in Belgium, in Holland, and in many parts of Germany, the sufferings of the humbler classes are very great; but the oases are of extremely rare oc currence in which deaths from sheer starvation are re ported to the authorities in the principal cities of those countries. In London, however, the wealth and material greatness of which exceed that of any other city in Christendom, deaths from actual want of food are of daily occurrence. Strangers to our laws and social regulations may be in clined to question this fact. They may say that such cannot be the case in a country where the Government raises an enormous sum per annum in the shape of poor rates, and where a simultaneous collection of private bounty, unparalleled in amount to that received for similar purposes in any other city in the world, is constantly going on. The truth of these statements cannot be denied, and hence the marvel that there should be in the metropolis so many of the very poor. The solution of the difficulty ir, however, instant and in telligible. Enormous as is our national establishment for the relief of the poor, and numerous as are our pri vate charities, they are unable to meet the pressing exi gencies of those who die in the streets from want of food. There are hospitals in all quarters of the city where those labouring under every description of human in firmity may repair. The existence of present and palpa ble disease is the only qualification required for admission to those magnificent institutions. There are other esta blishments supported by the bounty of the affluent, or by the assistance of the prudent, in the hour of prosperity, which are the receptacles of those who have " toiled all day, and nothing spun." and where they may pass the declining years of their lives. But there is no adequate asylum for the wretched way farer, whose hard lot it is to wander hungry through the great thoroughfares of the town , and whose necessity ought to be sufficient to entitle him to immediate relief. The class of per sons who perish in our streets from the want of the commonest necessaries of life, are not what are com monly called vagrants. Far from it. The vagrant, according to the accepted term, is the knave who haunts the streets, ever ready to plunder or to beg, as the opportunity arises. The assiduity with which he, follows his profession secures him an ample return from the credulity of his victims; but the very poor of the metropolis are those whose wants are not paraded to view, who live in attics and cellars, and whose necessi- ties for the most part are caused by want of employ.. ment. Immense numbers of the resident deserving poor of this class aro at this season suffering the greatest privations. Another class, whose necessities are even more pressing, consists of those who are sojourners in the metropolis, and who flock from the provinces in the hope of obtaining employment. In many cases strong men, or men who were strong when they com menced their journey, have trudged on foot perhaps 50 or 100 miles, in the expectation of finding some descrip tion of employment on their arrival. Their hopes, how ever, are frustrated; no employment awaits them; and es their slender resources are consumed in a few days, they are forced to become outcasts i❑ the streets, with no alternative except starvation or crime. They have no claim upon the Metropolitan Union-house, except as casual poor. The utmost relief they can hope for is a morsel of bread and a roof to cover them for the night, and for one night only. Many of those workmen never return to their native place. To use an expression familiar to polirical economists, they are " consumed" in the me tropolis—that is, some find employment, but many, alas, the greater portion, are struck down by disease and famine, and ultimately become the subject for coroners' inquests, when the stereotyped verdict of " died from want and destitution" is returned. Within the last few days the public journals have re corded no less than three deaths resulting from want of actual food. One of these wretched beings died on the pavement i❑ the open street, desolate and alone, whilst thousands of his fellow-creatures were swarming around Hero is the official record :—" John Browning, aged 78, a labouring man from Frome in Somersetshire, fell exhausted from inanition, in Mornington-crescent, on Sunday, February 9, 1851, and died a few hours after wards. The verdict cf the jury was, Died from want and destitution.' " A policeman, giving evidence, stated, that a short time previous to the deceased's fall ing, he had ordered him, whilst lying shivering on the pavement on another part of his beat, to get up and move off, as he thouht he was shamming. The other instances to which we have alluded are thus chronicled:—" At an inquest held on Thursday (Feb. 20) on James Kearney, painter, aged 65, at the Goat, Tash-street, Gray's Inn-lane, it was stated that the b o dy l ay i n a wretched hovel, denuded of furniture, which had been sold to buy food; and the surgeon, at the post mortem examination, deposed that he had not found the least particle of solid food in the stomach." At an inquest held the same day, on John Long, at the Three Compasses, Cowcross -street, West Smithfield, the body presented an appalling appearance —was a " mere skeleton." Dr. Walker performed a post mortem examination, aud, in accordance with his opinion, the jury returned a verdict —" That the deceased (lied from want (f food and nourishment." Th , „, are terrible realirks, that must not be per mitt, dto continue in a Christian land. For the sake of our common !Lan, i; must he pre.maiti that the effluent are in ignornhee ot the t•xiiteilee of .tioh pdi::- tres in the midst of unprecedented plenty, prosperity, and grandeur. It must be that they do 11 , 4 kilo., of it, for ninety ind( ed is any genuine case or wreteticd ni•ss unrtdiered, wh , _n the particulars are fully known to the public. Mete is only one institution in the metropolis the doors of which are ne.er shut :gLinst the destitute inh:t bitant of, or sojourner in, the metropolis. That institu tion is the Leicester-square Soup Kitchen and Hospice. It is to be regretted that the public are not more fami liar with the objects and practical working cf this insti tution, or no doubt its resources would be considerably greater. Its object is to provide a gratuitous soup kitchen, an asylum for sheltering the houseless, a free registry for servants and labourers, and free lavatories, &c,, for the poor. The incalculable amount of benefit it has done, and the extent of human suffering it has alle viated, may bo gathered from the fact that in 1850 476,111 persons were supplied with an abundant meal of soup and bread; 16,264 were sheltered in the hospice and supplied with supper, bed, and breakfast; and 227,371 were accommodated at the free lavatories with water, soap, towels, &c. An immense quantity of soup and broad was also distributed to ragged schools, and 237 deserving persons were placed in respectable situations. The total number of persons relieved at the soup-kitchen in January, 1851, was 24,642, of whom 11,189 were famishing children. But it must not be supposed that this relief is confined to the necessitous, who are unable to work in consequence of infirmity or old age, and who are struggling to keep out of the workhouse. A great por tion of the relief is given to labourers and skilled work men for whom there is no employment, and who would have been in all probability driven to the commission of crime had not this timely assistance been afforded to them. In the month of January last the institution relieved 3,870 labourers, 960 excavators, 548 carpenters, 7.54 bricklayers, 392 plasterers, 41 butchers, 37 bakers, 185 clerks, 167 waiters, 39 watercress sellers, 115 cos termongers, 26 bookbinders, 11 map-colourers, 21 wheelwrights, 13 blacksmiths, 369 shopmen, 8 harness makers, 507 painters, 432 glaziers, 557 servants, 621 female servants, 127 sailors, and 107 distressed foreigners. To descant upon the usefulness of such an institution would, therefore, be idle. There is, however, another class of persons to whose wants this admi rable institution has directed its attention. It is well known that hundreds of infants an nually die in the metropolis in consequence of the want of their natural food. It is impossible that the wretched mother, whose form is wasted by famite and exhausted by inanition, can replenish the fountain from which her infant ought to draw its life stream. Within the last twelve months 1.0 infants are reported to have died from " want of breast milk." This calcula tion, however, gives no idea of the number who ac• tually died from causes more or less attributable to a deficient supply of their natural food. In order to remedy as far as possible the ravages of this de plorable disease, the institution has notified that medical advice and nourishment will be afforded to all poor women applying under such circumstances. The result has been, in the highest degree, satisfactory and gratify ing, the poor women rapidly regaining their strength under the kindly and judicious treatment which has been affbrded them. An institution achieving so great an amount of good, and founded upon principles of such unostentatious philanthropy, is surely deserving of the countenance and support of all good men. To satisfy the madden ing pangs of hunger —to assuage the pains of disease— to allay the agony of mental distress—and, above all to snatch from the paths of temptation and ruin the young and guiltless, is a high and holy vocation. Great, indeed, will be the reward of those who assist in such an object. We feel assured that the claims of the Leices ter-square Soup-kitchen and Hospice will not be dis regarded by those whom Providence has favoured with ample means. That charity, twice blessed —blessing alike the giver and the receiver—cannot be directed to a quarter where its benefits are more urgently required, or where its influences will not be more sensibly felt. And how consolatory will be the reflection that the assistance thus timely afforded may essentially mitigate the great sum of human suffering—perchance restore to society many of its most useful members; but, at all events, ar rest the ravages of that disease and famine with which so many of the very poor of the metropolis are afflicted. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Monday the 17th, and the day following, the debate was resumed on the Papal Aggression Bill, with more of vigour than on the day of its introduction. Bit by bit, facts and arguments find their way before the House and the public, which were overlaid for a time by the clamour of the friends of Rome and the weakness of the ;Ministerial measure, Nobody now seems to deny, that in one way or other the Bill is not the thing. Some think there ought to be no Bill; but more that the present Bill is aimed at little, and that little wrong. It is beginning to be found out, that the receiving of directions from a foreign power is the evil required to be stopped. John Wesley might divide the country into circuits, and make provision for their governance during his lifetime, and for be queathing his power to a Conference afterwards. But if John Wesley instead of being an Oxford scholar and ex horting his military proselytes to fight to the death for the independence of the British Crown, had been a foreign priest residing at the French head-quarters, or with the French head-quarters established with himself, his operations would have been regarded with a very different eye by the people of Great Britain. The speech of Lord Ashley on Tuesday was worthy of the occasion and full of matter. In some way or other that nobleman appears to have incurred the repu tation of being exaggerated; and it would be easy to cite subjects on which there is strong contra riety between his opinions a n d tho se which have been often submitted for your judgment. But the truth is that Lord Ashley is a wise man, and a good ; and even to those who do not ultimately agree with him on a point at issue, ho comes out with an unexpected flow of reasons for his course. On the present question he doubles the small number of those who have hitherto shown themselves on a level with the case. Two particulars in Lord Ashley's speech struck me as novel; their correctness being of course open to scru tiny to any extent. One is, the ostentatious way in which the modern instrument of the Papacy has boasted of having formed himself on the model of Thomas ti Becket. Ile makes no secret of it; Becket has been all his life the hero of his adoration, and he comes here to imitate him if he can. And the other is, the extent to which the triumph of the Papacy is operating upon the Protestants in France. " With the exception of the Dragonades," they write, " their condition has never been worse." This may be exaggerated, but it would not be risked without to some extent being true. The man must be demented who does not see, that the power of Absolutism on the continent has come into combina tion with a now element, the power of the Papacy, and that the whole is " rolling onward like a compact solid globe," as was the phrase applied by its friends in our own country ; the end of which is with the Disposer of all events. If any of us has ever regretted, that he did not live in times when men could be martyrs in fire or field, a brief term of life may suffice to show him enough to set his mind at ease. I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER. London, 19th March, 1851. AN ENGLISH TENOR IN PARIS. Extract of a letter from a musical friend in Paris:— " An immense interest was excited in the musical circles hero by the debut of Mr. Reeves on Saturday night, at the Italian Opera. For the last two years every singer or other artiste, who has visited London, has brought back wonderful accounts of a certain magnificent tenor, combining tone, power, and expression unequalled since the days of Donzelli ' who possessed beyond a ll quest i on the finest voice ever known on the Italian stage. This tempt. was Mr. Reeves, and an Englishman. Now, the notion of a fine tenor and an Englishman at the same time presents a combination which no Frenchman could be brought to admit the possibility of, and hence the crowd that filled the Italiens on Saturday night; not a musician of note in the capital was absent. It was in fact a regular trial by a jury of musicians, and I am de lighted, for the credit Of old England, to say that Mr. Reeves came out of his ordeal most triumphantly. Real talent always makes itself felt, and Mr. Reeves had not sung half-a-dozen bars of his first dao with Madame Montag before the public felt that a great singer stood before them; and the manly amplitude of the style with which he poured forth the andante brought down a thundering round of applause, which was followed up by prolonged and enthusiastic plaudits at the close of the duet, and settled the question that Mr. Sims Reeves —(I wish he would get r id of that infernal " Sims")— is fully entitled to the first rank as a tenor, quoique an Englishman' Ile delivered the recitative in his cavati na "Se tanto in ire" with great expression, and gave the air with a mingled power and sentiment that won hint another triumph, and set the seal upon his success. A concluding duet with Linda comprises all he has to sing, which gloriously concluded the opera, leavi ng but one- disappointment upon the mind of the auditory, yothatone he f had not had much more to sing. I n a d d i tion the noblest tenor voices ever heard in Paris, Mr. Reeves appears to possess musician-like qualities of a very high order, and above all a perfect mastery over his imm ense organ, which reaches th e celebrated ut of Duprez with marvellous ease. His modulation will require some im provement, for his sotto voce passages, which delighted those of the audience near the sta ge, were nearly un heard on the second circle. T a most successful hit, and will conclude; this de was bring the season splen- I didly to its conclusion. We are now anx i ous ly looking in r 'y NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following officers had interviews with the Right Hon. Sir F. T. Baring, Bart., at the Admiralty : Rear-Admirals—The Hon. Sir F. B. R. Pellew, C. 8., K.C.H., J. B. Purvis. Captains—Peter M'Quhae (Commodore for the West In dies), G. Gifford, J. Harrison, T. R. Sullivan, C. 0. Hayes, J. B. Maxwell, J. Hackett, E. T. Michell, Douglas Curry, Thomas Fisher, W. Loring. Commanders—Grey Skipwith, L. S. Tindall, F. B. Mon , tressor, W. F. Maitland, T. Belgrave, Alexander Boyle, E. F. N. K. Wayse. Lieutenants -J. W. Dorville, A. M. Yoad, the Hon. R. Boyle, E. G. Crawley, W. K. Jolliffe, W. Horton, R. B. Harvey. In consequence of the proximity of the Court, the Vic tory, flag-sliip, the Britannia, 120, ordinary guard. ship, the Blenheim, 60, screw guard•ship, the Excellent, ship, and Vengeance, 81, Captain Lord E. Russell. at yesterday, tire ..1 Ruval salutes in hutiour u the aiiniyersary of the both other Bova] Highness the Princess Louisa Ca roli- e Alberta, her AlLjesty's youngest daughter. The day f(ir holding the court-martial on the officers and crew of the late steamer Flamer is not yet fixed. We hear that too other courts-marti;.l are likely to result. from this vessel, one on a marine for shooting a Krooman, sod one on a subordinate officer for urunkermess—but this we only give as a report. We are sorry to announce that reputf Medical Inspector Dr. James Allan (1843) died yesterday, after a protracted il.ness, at his resi. ence, Haslar _Hospital. We also regret to state that Master Charles Penrose Bel lamy (1822), late master attendant at Chatham Dockyard, (lied yesterday at Haslar Hospital, after a very 1.-npg illness. By Allen's 21'ew Nary List we find that Mr. Bellaruy served iii the Apollo, fire-ship, at the attack of the I.,rench• fleet is Basque Ro a d s , an d i n the Walcheren expedition in .1809; was midshipma n of the Termagant, in the operations in defence of Sicily, including the attack on Reggio and Lag horn, and takirg of Genoa, and of the Albion, at the battle of Algiers. We understand that when the troops for the Cape em barked on board the Singapore steam-vessel, the crew of the American frigate St. Lawrence gave them three cheers. MORTALITY ON BOARD AN AMERICAN MAN-OF-WAR.--• The Preble, 18, recently returned from a four years' cruise in the Pacific and China, has lost the whole of her original crew, 145 in number, except one commissioned officer and two foremast ditto.— Halifax Journal. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—Vice-Adatiral Sir George Sey mour, K.C.8., in the Cumberland, 70, dropped down to St. Helen's on Sunday night, with the intention of getting into the Channel with the then favourable breeze, but it chopped round, and she remains at anchor. Commodore Bruce hoisted his red broad pendant as Com modore of the first class and Commander-in-Chief on the coast of Africa station yesterday, on board the Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, for the purpose of saluting. The' engeance then saluted the Port-Admiral with 17 guns, which the Victory acknowledged with nine. The pendant was afterwards removed to the Blonde receiving -hulk, which is hulking the crew of the Commodore's flag-ship Penelope. The Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. George Allen, Master Commanding, proceeded to St. Helen's to-day with Ad miralty dispatches for Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour. We regret to announce that Mr. Alfred Balliston, Acting • Master Commanding her Majesty's dispatch yacht Elfin, met with an accident whilst on duty with his vessel in attendance upon the Queen's commands yesterday, at Cowes, by falling off the paddle-box. Pxymouza, MONDAY,—He r Majesty's a' eam-vessel Alecto arrived on Sunday, at noon, from Woolwich and Portsmouth. She will be paid advance of wages here and proceed to the coast of Africa. The Sanspariel, SO, screw-propeller steam-ship, was launched from No. 5 slip on Tuesday, March 18, at four P.M. Her dimensions are as follows :—Length, 200 ft. 6 in.; breadth, 52 ft. 2 in.; depth in hold, 22 ft. 8 in. 'I he yard gates were thrown open to the public at three o'clock. WOOLWICH, MARCH 18.—The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master Commander Petley, was to leave Yarmouth harbour to-day, on her return to Woolwich. She could not leave be fore, owing to the small depth of water during the neap tide on the bar at Yarmouth. The African steam-vessel arrived at 'Woolwich at half-past 7o' clock A.m. to-day, to take a quantity of stores from the Royal Arsenal to the Rhadamanthus troop-ship at Sheerness for conveyance in the latter vessel to the Cape of Good Hope. THE ESSEX MURDERERS. (From the Essex Herald.) Up to yesterday evening there bad been little altera tion in Drory. 'tumours had been abroad of his hay. lug been attacked by brain fever, but there was not the slightest ground for the statement; his health eon tinues good, and his manner calm, and he appears to be sensible of the value of the anxious spiritual atten. tion of the worthy chaplain. He has not been visited by his friends since the day above stated, but it is un derstood his family will take their final leave of him at the close of the week. Many persons have been anxious to obtain an interview with him, some, probably, from mere curiosity, but this, of course, has not been allowed. On Friday, Mr. Hammond, one of the wit nesses against him, applied to the m ag i strates o f the Chelmsford bench, for an order of admission, but on stating, in answer to the inquiries, that it was only as a neighbour he wished to see him, and that he did not know the culprit had expressed any desire for Mao visit, the application was refused. Of course all sorts of rumours have been flying about relative to the cul prit and his connexioes, scarcely any of which have the slightest foundation in truth. Amongst other things it was stated that Miss Giblin, the young person to whom Drury was about to be united, was staying in Chelms ford during the whole of the trial—it was even added that she was in a condition that would render the matter doubly terrible to her and to her friends; but we have reason to believe that both assertions are utterly false, and we allude to them only because we feel that the con tradiction of statements that have been so widely spread is an act of justice to a respectable family. Drory'. victim, Jael Denny, it seems was not a na tive of Essex. Up to four yt ars ago she resided at Fransden, in Suffolk, where her mother married her present husband, arid they then left to enter into the service of the criminal's father at Doddinghurst. Jael is represented by those who knew her in Suffolk as hav ing been there noticed as " a superior girl for her sta tion," and her deportment and personal appearance gave her a prepossessing character. Mrs. Chesham, the other culprit, up to last night had made no confession of the crime for which she is about to suffer. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, MAncif 18. STOCK EXCHANGL—The only transaction to-day was— Bristol and Exeter, 85%. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 18. Srocx EXCHANGI. —A good business has been done to-day. The transactions were as follow : Aberdeen, 1814—Birken head, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 20—Amber gate and East Junction, 23,4—Caledonian, 16 1 4—Ditto, Pre ference, 6%—Chester and llolyhead, 26—Ditto, Preference, guaranteed 5 1 / 2 per cent., 18—Eastern Counties, 7 3 4—East Lancashire, 17%—Edinburgh Perth, and Dundee, MA GreatlNorthern, (A), 614—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 62 9 4 — Ditto, Fifths, 6 1 h dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 5 dis.— Leeds and Thirsk, 195;i—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 1 p. London and North-Western, 131 c. Ditto, New Quarters, 534 p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 3 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 39—Ditto, Preference, 12 3-16 Midland, 65 , 4—Ditto, Halves, 123,E dis.—North British, 11% —North-Western, 9% dis.— Shrewsbury and Chester, Pre ference, guaranteed 8 per cent., 15— South -Eastern and Dover, 28—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 22 ( I —York and North Midland, 28/i Boulogne—u and Amiens, 11—Dutch Rhenish, 3:.!i—Northern par—Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 3E4 dis.—Paris and Strasbourg, 4 1 4 dis.—Rouen and Havre, 12th—Sambre and Meuse, 51i—Toura and Nantes, 7 3 4 dis. MANCHESTER, MARCH IS. STOCK EXCHANGIL—There has boen a fair amount of business, but at much reduced prices, and the market closes decidedly weak. BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 18. STOCK EXCELANGII.-1 he only transactions reported to-day were—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A),31,4 dis. —Midland, 50/. Shares, 13 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 22%. YORK, Mascol7. firocK EXCHANGE.—The transactions t o -d ay were al follow :—Great Northern, 18S i —York, Newcastle, and Bel'. wick, 22 3 / 4 —York and North Midland, 28'ki. "---_____--- CHILD MURDER IN IadOLDBENESS.-011 Tuesday a country girl, named Sarah Harrison, aged 27, was brought before Messrs. Edw ar d Gibson, Heirs Wat son, and Robert llarrison, at the Sculcoates-hin, on the charge of having murdered her female child. The evidence entered into showed that on the Tuesd a y previous the body of a female child, verging on a . s tate of decomposition, and with its side comn l fh e ir te tLy n , , tra open, was found in a ditch in the township of employ of tar. man named James Kendal, a labourer in thelly a b m o . d o y f T by h i r il t i l r e . b s t h h e a that a: e herse lf for " the district, but afi th rd e ingly held over then put into the adjourned to Thursday next. Thesuperintendent r l' o c . n as as e e r a w e and he succeeded in ap of the middle division of II?Id thi e n rn twenty-four hours after the hands of Mr. Anthony Coulthard, prehending the prisoner within at No. 15, Alicia-street, Hull, adjournment of the me i g with her father and !nether. It ap. pegnant, she left Mr. Dunn, and Went h li a v d n lived with a Mr. Dunn, of Humbleton, pear where ed but, on finding to the Skirlaugh Union, where she was deli vered of a child on the 14th of January. She left the !salon on th e 4th of February, telling them that she was returning to Mr. D the seems to have re • mai ri a t I. at umbleton. rema in e d air. D unn', about ji a week, when she left, and came to Hull on Tuesday, the 4th inst. She then went to the house of a person . f the name of Ann llague, to whom she gave the infant's clothes, stating to her that the child died at the union, and had been buried there. A post mortem examination of the body sr" made by Dr. Kirk, of Iledon, and it appeared that the child had been killed by two stabs in the side, from the spine of the back to the breast bone. The prisoner, who cried bit terly while the case was proceeding, was committed to the assizes by the magistrates, and was conveyed t o York Castle on the same evening, in the custody of Mr . Coulthard.—Hull Advertiser. Love —a passion whichassion empires —a pas which h as cause d the cha nge o f has inspired heroism, and subdued avarice a p ass i on which he who never felt never was. happy; and he who laughs at never deserves to feel.—Eilza Cook's Journal. [AD VERTISEMENT.] Holloway's Pills, a most extraordinary C ure of D ropsy e ff ecte d b y t h e i r use.--Mr. George Rowley, of Tobago, had suffered from this disease for upwards of live years, during which period he underwent the operation of tapping five times, his malady was most skilfully treated by several practitioners, notwithstanding which he got gradually worse , hi s s trength and health failing so f ast as to render any hope of recovery almost vain. As a last resource he tried Holloway's Pills, and by persevering in th e i r use ac cording to the directions affixed to each box he was compl e t e l y cured in a few months, and he is now restored to a goo d state of health.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Hollo way's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. FRENCH CHINESE MISSIONS•A number of mis sionaries have arrived from France by a steamer from Bou logne, on their way to China, by a vessel about to take her departure immediately for that country. The rev. mission aries take with them a considerable quantity of vestments. plate ornaments, and other articles of a costly description for church purposes, to assist theta in ca rry i ng o u t the intentions of their mission. for M r . R eeves i n some part worthy of his powers; S .Enz , -.47v ard is p rem i se d i n t h e course o f a f ew days. I muO.I4IV not close my l etter w i thout quot i ng au opinion given'"' the foyer upon _Reeves by the most celebrated comp in Fraucc—‘ He! Messieurs, donne: moi ce gaillar pour trois mois, et fen ferui le premier tenor en Eurtr, ~' Aaa\ r a ' SA LV p.