The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-26 00:00:00

PAPAL AGGRESSION. ASSERTION VERSUS FACT. Mr. Reynolds asserted in the House of 'commons, on the 10th of March las:, that the people had taken no part in the and-P,,,pal aggression meetings. " The truth was," be said, " the honest and sensible people of England had folded their arms, and said to themselves, This is the Church's affair—it is a matter we have no thing to do with.'—(flear, hear.)" 'Vow, what is the truth? " A return has been made by Mr. Newdegate, setting forth the number of addresses which have been presented to her Majesty on the recent measures taken by the Pope with regard to this country, - whence they emanated, and the number of signatures to each. The total number of these addresses is 3,145, bearing 1,006,708 signatures, besides two Roman Catholic addresses expressing loyalty and fidelity, with 255,961 signatures. They are classified according to their origin in the following manner:—archbishops and bishops of the Church of England, 1; archbishops and bishops of the United Church of England and Ire land, 1; deans and chapters of cathedral or collegiate churches, 10; Church of Scotland, ministers and elders, 1; clergy of the United Church of England and Ireland, 89; clergy and others, 880; Wesleyan Committee of Privileges, 1; Protestant dissenting ministers of the three denominations, 1 ; universities, viz., Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and St. Andrew's, 4 ; colleg!s— Royal College of Physicians, Queen's College, Birming ham, Sion College, London, the " Redden," York, 4 ; hospitals, 2 ; county meetings, 35 ; other public meet ings, 139 ; corporations, 46 ; associations or other bodies, 20 ; city of London, 4 ; members of the English bar, 1 ; attorneys, solicitors, and proctors of England and Wales, 1; Isle of Man, 1 ; Society :for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1." This return proves that there are few instances of " the honest and sensible people of England" speaking out so plainly as they have done on the Papal aggression.—Derbyshire Courier. JOSEPH 11. AND THE JESUITS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slll,—The following is from a work published a few years since, on " Austria and the Austrians:"— " Of the evils of monachism Joseph the Second (of Austria) was thoroughly convinced. Of all religious societies, he considered the Jesuits the most dangerous and the most objectionable. After their expulsion from France, the Duke of Choiseul, then Secretary of State, wrote Joseph on the subject of expelling them from the Austrian dominions; but his mother (the celebrated Maria Theresa) then exercised the whole power, and Joseph could only give his opinions, as expressed in the following letter to Choiseul:— " thank you for the confidence you give me. If I were sovereign you might count on my ready co operation. As to the Jesuits, and the plan to abolish their congregation, I am entirely of your opinion. " ' Do not depend much upon my mother, for an at tachment to this order has become hereditary in the house of Hapsburg. Clement XIV. himself has had proof of this. " ' Meantime Kaunitz is your friend. He can do much with the Empress, and be is perfectly of your opi nion in regard to expelling the Jesuits. "' Choiseul, I know these gentry as well as any man. I know all their projects, all their efforts to spread dark ness over the earth—to rule over Europe from Cape Fi nisterre to the Frozen Ocean.' " At the present time, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the .3 - emits have, if I mistake not, the educa tion of the Atntrian youth in a great measure in their own hands. Let us beware of them.—l am, Sir, &c. March 24, 1851. WATCHMAN. TUE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. A recent writer says :•—" The present Church of England was self• styled the Po lr Man's Church. It is not difficult to understand how it has been so called. Church rev,rues were originally divided into three parts —tee first part for the maintenance of the pristhood; the second for the maintenance and repair of the fabric of the church; and the third for the relief of the poo-. But now the people have to keep the church in repair in the form of church rates; and the poor they have to support in the torm of poor-rates; whilst the bishops and clergy swallow up all. Ri.a.:l on, and reflect at the same time. Think if our present State Church does in any respect represent the spirit of Christianity, as handed down to the disciples—the poor fishermen of Galilee; or rather, does it not r2present the spirit of M.mmon not of Jesue. Its God is Money, Rich Bene fleas, Hard Cash " See the revenues of the Church of England, which amount yearly to the enormous sum of 10,483,6991. Re peat it,—cry it aloud. The sum of ten millions, four hun dred and eighty-three thousand, six hundred and ninety nine pounds, which enormous amount, if divided as was originally intended, to support the priesthood, to keep the church in repair and to relieve the poor, would indeed greatly relieve our vast community; but now, not one penny comes to the poor, bat rather the poor man's pots and kettles and the bed be•lies on are frequently sold by mintion to make up this amount." What will Churchman say to this? EXHIBITION OF 1851. RECEIPT OF GOODS-FINAL NOTICE. 1. On Wednesday evening, the 2d of April, the tem porary entrance into the building for carts, waggons, and carriages of every description will be closed, to enable the flooring of the building to be completed; and no articles will be admi:.ted into the building which cannot be.brought in by hand, and without the aid of machinery for lifting, &c. Even such articles cannot bo admitted if they should exceed the width of the entrances—viz., 6 feet 6 inches. 2. After the 3d of April, no packing cases will be admitted within the building. Any articles brought to the Exhibition between the 3d of April and the 10th of April must be delivered unpacked, and in such a way as to cause no litter in the building; in fact, they must be delivered as they would be brought into a private re sidence. _ _ 3. On and after the 3d day of April any articles sent through carriers, which require to be unpacked, will be deposited outside the building, and remain there until the owners or their agents attend to unpack there. 4. AU foreign articles must be sent to the east end of the building; all colonial articles to the south entrance; and all British articles to the west end of the building. 5. Although the reception of articles after the 10th of April will obviously occasion great inconvenience, in creased expen►es, and somewhat jeopardize the punctual opening of the Exhibition, the Executive Committee will not absolutely refuse to admit them, but they feel it necessary to discourage as much as possible such late arrivals. Accordingly, they give notice that articles can only be received after the 10th of April and until the 20th subject to the payment of the following fees to She general Mud:— s. d. Every article weighing under 281 b 0 10 0 Every article weighing above 281 b and under 561 b 1 0 0 Every article weighicg above 56ib 2 0 0 And at the rate of IL tellitioaal for every 281 b., or fraction of 281 b., above 561 h. 6. These rules apply to all articles except those spe cially exempted by the Executive Committee. 7. The Executive Coaanittee particularly request that all goods may be finally arranged on Monday, the 21st of April, in the way it is proposed they should be exhi bited, in order that the Executive Committee may then proceeding to having the building put in order for the admission of the public. March 20. M. DIGBY WYATT, Secretary. OXFORD AND THE UNIVERSITY COMMISSION. The venerable Alma Mater of the Isis has just dis covered a mare's nest of the first magnitude, and is pro claiming her discovery to the public with a degree of twaddling solemnity which is perfectly ludicrous. As all our waders know, a Royal Commission to inquire into the state of our two aucieut 'Universities , was ap pointed at the end of last session. It was announced at the time that the Commission was directed in no hostile spirit, but in friendly co-operation with the efforts at self-improvement which were being made in the Univer silica themselves. No one supposed that attendence before it was compulsory, or that It had any power to enrorce ;he pruritic:trill of (lucerne:tit» or the answering of ieterrogatrries. Of course tio much pogor can be con fenced c„, liii6sl(Ynere by the Crown sinely, or hy either house of Parliament eiugly. s im e er 11. 1 ,i Comm i s _ sloes had issued before; and it wits kuewn by aetual practice, se well ae from constitutional theory, that at tendance before them was perfectly optional. This had been proved in the case of the Municipal Curporatioes Commission; IMO an anslo,;Yous case ban occurred about thirey years ago, ler.fere the Education Committee of Lord (then Mr.) fireugiaam. On that occasion, the Watden of Winchester refused to produce. the College Statutes, or to answer any questions about them, and 1 ".1. 41 Y attempted to compel hire. W 11, the, Oxford University Commission was duly appointed; it had held several meetings; it had collected much information when suddenly the Oxford Dons pu blish a long legal . Opinion to prove, what nobody ever thought of disputing_tilmaiy, _.. that they and everybody else m ight refus e to give information to the Commis sioners,end that nobody could punish them for such a rya u4al. I f t h e 1-eeaning or an tt is is, that the Oxford Dons Mean to onstruet the C)tnissio n as much they can they he i we must say .°e taken a ver y s tupid wa y of announcing a 17,"-'7.y stuff id reseeleim They will get no good by concealme"t• Every abuse that exists among them will 1:e tedi- ,7 ` , 11 to be ten t i mes as b a d as it really is, on Liovtint of :heir effo rts to cloak it over; and a thoesand charges egainst them. will fi n d cre di t heiv e something with the public, which tree a" f air investigation would prove t, be nefoutelrel. The argument is deeisive; they /pest to be ashamed of or they .vou:d n ot shrink from being inspected.— 'redly ew s. A CHILD BURIED ALIVE by its MOTHER. On Tuesday last, on:. of the most atr ocious , enses of child m ur d er ever rec,rded was committed at SI , ingfield, in this county. by the mother, a young u,lmarried worriat!, 'tamed Maria Clarke. Clarke, it appears, fild been dis charged, .at her own reqw , st, from the Fulham Union House that rnocnini,7, and with her child, a male, six weeks old, she proceeded to Wingfield, where her friends reside. Before going to her - mother's cottage, she Called upon several of the neighbours, and in the af ternoon was seen proceeding in the direction of Mr. Hill's meadow, carrying the c hild on one arm and a scuppet in her other hand : I n t h e even i ng t h e c hild was missed, and suspicions being Fx ited by what had tr,ns,- pired in the afternoon, the mother was qu , ,stioncd, when she said she had sent the child to Norwich to be brought up by an aunt. Not - sat i s fi c d w i t h t hi s ...representation, she we directly accused of having midi, away with the child. :3he at first denied it, but at length made th e a stounding confession that she had murdered the child, but had Luried it alive in Mr. 1.11.4's meadow. Information of the circumstance was immediately given to policeman William Clarke, and the woman was shortly afterwards apprehended. The next morning the meadow was searched, and in a ditch about four feet deep, filled with water, the scappet was found, which it appeared had been missed from the cottage garden of a labourer named Das‘ey on the Tuesday afternoon. The mother then accompanied the policeman to acorner of the meadow, and pointed out the spot where she had buried the child. The turf was removed, and at the depth of six inches from the surface the body was discovered. The women,we understand, has since made a full confession of her guilt. She stated that she left the Pulham Union House because a young man in the neighbourhood of Wingfield had promised her mar riage. She was apprehensive if he knew she had a child that he would not fulfil his promise, but she had no idea of committing the murder until she was leaving the cottage of Dassey, when the sight of the scuppec standing outside the door, suggested the thought to her. She dug a hole, she said, laid her infant in it, and then sat down and cried. She afterwards covered the child with turf, " without hurting it at all," and then hearing it shriek in the ground she stamped upon the sod and stifled its cries ! She was taken before the county ma gistrates of the district,"the Rev. A. Cooper, the Rev. R. Colbeck, and the Rev. J. Hodgson, and remanded for further examination on Monday next. Yesterday Mr. Charles Gross, coroner, went to Wingfield, to hold an inquest upon the body. The prisoner is about twenty years of age.—Suffolk Chronicle of March 22. THE LONDON GAZETTE, March 25. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, MARCH 24, 1851. The Qaeen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Bea trice Byng to be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Caroline Dawson, resigned. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCH 24. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. L. A. Van den Bergh as Consul at Portsmouth, of Mr. G. C. Welsford as Consul at Weymouth, and of Mr. John Benueld as Consul for Scilly, for his Majesty the King of Hanover. CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 24. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Matthew Davenport Hill, of Lincoln's-inn, in the county of Mid dlesex, Esq., to be one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, to act in the prosecution of fiats in Bankruptcy, in the country, in the room of Ebenezer Ludlow, Sergeant-at-Law, deceased. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Thirsk—Sir William Payne Gallwey, Baronet, in the room of John Bell, Esquire, deceased. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MARCH 21. MEMORANDUM —The date of the commission of First Lieutenant Henry Raymond Pelly, corps of Royal Ea gineers, is altered to July 26, 1850. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 21. The following promotions have this day taken place consequent upon the death of Admiral Sir Edward Hamilton, Bart., K.C.B.:— Admiral of the Blue George Barker to be Admiral of the White. Vice-Admiral of the Red the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice-Admiral of the White William Henry Brown Tremlett to be Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue John Impey to be Vice-Ad miral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red Charles Philip Bateman to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Alexander Renton Sharpe, C.B, to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain William Willmott Henderson, C. 8., K.H., to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. And the following officers have been also promoted to the rank of Retired Rear-Admiral, under the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist of September, 1846, without increase of pay : Captain Joseph Digby. Captain Charles Warde, K.H. Captain William Ffarington. Captain James Rattray. Captain John Allen. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent. Th© Right Hos. George Viscount Torrington to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 18. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County Pa latine of Lancaster. James Lomax, &q., to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 20 Will TELIALL, FEB. 27. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edwin Boxall, of Brighton, in the county of Sussex, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor had also appointed Parkin Wigelsworth, of Donington, in the county of Lincoln, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, MARCH 19. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Bruges Fry, of Cheddar and Axbridge, in the county of Somerset, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 13. Notice hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Levee at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, March 26, at two o'clock. THE SUN, BANKRUPTS. Robert Avann, fellnaonger, Westgate, Canterbury, to surrender April 4 and May 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill; Venour, Gray's Inn-square; Furleys and Mercer, Canterbury. Robert Westnameott, nurseryman, Fulham-road, Chelsea, April 4, at half-past one, and May 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official as signee, Basinghall-street; klolcombe, Ebury-street and Chancery-lane. John Glasspool, ladies' boot and shoemaker, Regent street, April 8 and May 6, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Wre ford, Golden-square. Richard Jackson, farmer, Selby, Yorkshire, April 14 and May 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Weddale, Selby; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. Aaron Crossfield, coal miner, Ty Mawr, Glamorgan shire, April 9, and May 7, at eleven, at the Bristol Dis trict Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; James, Merthyr Tidvil, Glamorganahire; Bevan, Bristol. Thomas Britten, wine merchant, Suffolk-lane, Can non-street, April 1, at half-past one, and May 1, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official as signee, Coleman-street-buildings; Sewell, Fox, and Sewell, Old Broad street. Adam Colyer, jeweller, Dover, April 1, at one, and May 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John son, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Harris, Moor gate•street. John Steele, brewer, Rochdale, April 10 and May 2, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Mackenzie, official assignee, Manchester; Hitchcock, Buckley, and Tidswell, Manchester. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From din London New Price Current, March 25.) BIIGAR.—To-day West India Sugar was offered upon rather lower terms, still the demand was small for all sorts by private treaty. The purchases amounted only to 410 hhds, &c, including at auction 120 hhds crystalized Demerara, which sold Is per cwt cheaper, and went at 408 6d to 42s 6d for mid and good yellow. There was a further increase in supply of West India. REFINED.—To-day the demand was much better for Refined Sugar from dealers, and prices are firm, Brown lumps at 48s to 48s 6d per cwt. In crushed Sugar there is yet little doing, with free sellers at former rates. MAIIRITIUS.—This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was dealt in with caution, and rather lower rates were ac ceded to; at auction 4,134 bags were chiefly sold, mid to fine brown 33s 6d to 365, fair 32s to 335, grey 35s to 40s, mid and good mid grainy 38s to 393 6d, mid to fine yel low at 37s 6d to 403 6d, inferior 36s to 375. EAST INDIA.—Tnis afternoon Madras Sugar met with little notice, and of 1,439 bags at auction a part only sold at easier rates; mid and good grocery went at 37s 6d to 41e, and low brown was nearly all taken in at 28s per cwt; the public sales of 1,893 bags Bengal went off quietly at barely former rates, mid and good white Benares 40s 6d, low dingy 383 6d to 395, damp 31s to 425. FOREIGN.—To•day there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, and privately only a cargo of brown Bahia was sold at 203 por cwt. MOLASSES.—There has been little business concluded and a desire is evinced to sea, low to fine West India at 14s to 16s 6d, Cuba and Porto Rico 14s to 14s 6d, Ben gal and Mauritius 12s to 13s per cwt. CocoA.—British Plantation i 3 not offered under for mer rates, and the supply at market is small. The value of red Trinidad is 51s to 55., grey 45s to 503, and Gre nada 42s to 48s. In Foreign the sales made have been upon a small scale, Bahia and Para at 29s to 30s, and Guayaquil at 3186 d to 325. COFFEE.—This afternoon there were few buyers of Plantation Ceylon Coffee, and privately some parcels were offered rather under previous rates. At auctio❑ 205 bags were taken in at 523 for fine fine ord. The market for native Ceylon has a dull aspect and 44s to 44s 6(1 is the value of good ord. Other sorts of Coffee met with little attention for home use or ex port, and prices declined 2s per cwt at a public sale of 1,513 bags Costa Rica; fine ord 46s to 47a 6d, good ord 44s to 455, one lot common 40s; damaged 31s to 44s per cwt. TEA.—Public sales are declared for next Tuesday. The middling and fine qualities 01 Congou are operated in with caution, and holders appear disposed to sell at from is Id to 1s 9d, but common has been in good de mand at 1 lid to Is, medium is °Ad to Is Oid, and the market looks firm. For good and fins sorts of Green the market has a quiet appearance, with sellers rather under previous rates, and there is a more abundant sup ply, but in ord sorts a good deal bus been done at late terms; Canton Gunpowder and Young llytion have been most in demand. Scented and Pekoe Teas have met with little attention, and can easily be obtained at former rates. I h 4= ded consequence of a further reduction having 2.853 1) 0 4, at 9s 6d tolls, concluded • to for white Bengal, a good buAness has been the : purcha s es are 7,000 bags, including in ation. The value of good and fine is now parcels or pinky. to 8s 6d. lic i e l h and good mid 8s 9 , :t to 9s 3d. and low 8s ceased to decline for Madras, and there is an icop r owldved e-m4". 7s to 8s 63 have been paid Fo rn a r tn se a, e s: a le l s have beengto, a aa lt a ' d mit l e n d extentcargo a o t r f r pearl 0 s barley e . 73 to 8s is the value. In theta u yet little d town dressed re l s 7 si t d 6d C . are .s li a n g a o 2 j O s s ic t a o n 2 te B ( 3 l ,. mid to s r ection 525 boxes and l7 s f r it kre h e i r w i ca to n fine, 6d l oot there are fi , w to other sorts Arrow small pearl, and Bermuda is is t o l ra a : ;g li e i z a l: O ai r t t le 9 ;1 s 6"d 6 ' n d tdo t 0 2u 21796 a. 6d for di F 'ot.r o r buyer 4; tho value of of west Itifiia 4d to 10d, and East IndiaB24idd Tapioca salas are apon a more extended ; - 3 o' I' , c-lo at lid to sid. ; . .3•PrcEs.—lr. Black lioppor transact ion s have been u p on A a hunted scale by private treaty at ra t her lowe r rates. LONDON, WEDNESDAY auction 640 bags Penang were sold at 3d to 34d for com mon light rather dusty. The value of Malabar is 34d to sid and clean Sumatra qa. White is wanted at 6d to Bd. Pod is yet dull of sale ;41, 303 to 40s per cwt. Ginger met with little attention. Jamaica is held for 21 8s to 91 for common to fine, African 34s to 375, and Emit India export sort 17s to 20s. At public sale 160 cases Cochin went at 70s to 94s for middling to good, and mouldy 678 6d to 89s. Cloves in fair demand—Bourbon and Zanzibar at 6d to bid, and Penang 9d to is 4d. Mace is wanted; fine 2s 6d to 2s Bd, and other kinds 2s 2d to 2s sd. For Nutmegs there are several buyers, fine and good brown is 3s 2d to 4s, low and mid 2s 8d to 2s 11d, and limed of first quality 2s 8d to 2s 10d. Some small parcels of Cassia Lignea have been sold at 94s to 102s—Cassia Buds are held for 108 s to 110 s. To-day Pimento was in better demand, and full rates were obtained. At auction 567 bags were sold at 44d to sd, but chiefly at 4d to qd per lb. SPIRITS.—There are sellers of Leeward Island Rum at a reduction; still operations have been upon a small scale at is 7d to is 7id proof. East India has been purchased with caution, and the rates taken are is sid to is 6d. Ia consequeaco of a reduction of 2d per gallon having been acceded to for Demerara a good business has been transacted; and the purchases amount to 350 puns at 2s 4d to 2s 6d for 331t0 39 per cent. over proof. There has been rather more doing in Jamaica. About 250 puns have been sold, fine and favourite marks at 38 8d to 48 4d for 35 to 38 per cent over proof, mid to good 2s 10d to 3s 8d for 30 to 34 over, and low 2a 6d to 2s 9d. Brandy is still purchased with caation for all purposes. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1850 at 4s 3d to 4s sd, 1849 ditto 4s 6d to 4s Bd, 1848 ditto 4s 9d to 4s 11d, 1847 ditto 5s 2d to 5s 4d, and inferior sorts 3s to 4s per gallon. Prices do not give way for British made Spirit; but opera tions are upon a limited scale at 9s 8d to 9s 9d; and Gin at 8s 3d for 22 per cent under proof. Geneva sells more freely at is 7d to is Bd, and fine is 9d to 2s per gallon. INDIGO.—The demand for East India is improving, and there are now no sellers under last sales' rates. Spanish met with greater attention, and realized an ad vance of 2d; at auction 100 serous of Guatemala were all sold at from 2s 4d to 4s 9d for very low to good. COCHINEAL.—At public sale 160 bags were nearly all sold—Honduras silvers, low to good mid 3s 4d to 3s 9d, blacks 3s 7d to 4s 4d, Mexican silvers 33 2d to 3s 3d, and Teneriffe 3s 6d. SALTPETRE.—British refined is cheaper, limited eales having been made at 29s to 30s per cwt. In Bengal the business concluded privately has been small for all pur pose 4, and the parcel; at public sale were taken in. Prices incline downwards, and rule at from 263 to 28s 6d for low to fine Calcutta. For Nitrate of Soda the demand is limited with sellers at 143 6d to 14s 9d per cwt. TALLOW.—The demand has fallen off for Russian on the spot during the last few days, and prices are not so firm. There are sellers of fine new yellow Candle at 403 to 40s 6d, and old at 393 to 39s 6d per colt; but only a limited business has been concluded. For delivery in last three months of the year there are sellers of new at 40s, and with few buyers. In home melted a good deal has been done at 39s net cash for immediately delivery. Of Australian 700 casks at auction were chiefly sold at 34s to 38s 6d for low to fine; but of 500 pkgs South American a part only disposed of at 35s to 375; 48 casks Belgian 38s 3d to 383 6d; 318 skins Ibrail were taken in at 371 3d; and 80 casks Odessa Sheep at 37s per cwt. Prices of Tallow are 3s to 4a above this time last year. OlLS.—There is a further increase in the supply of Cocoa Nut, and all parties evince little desire to operate. At auction 600 casks Cochin were taken in at 28s to 32s 6d per cwt. Olive continued to be operated in with caution; and sellers are willing to accept 411 lOs to 421 for Gallipoli; 401 to 411 for other sorts, and a further reduction is anticipated. Linseed Oil is offered at lower terms ; the value is 33s to 33s 3d per cwt. There are few buyers for delivery, and with sellers at 333 6d to 345. Fur Rape Seed Oil prices have be come firm ; pale realized 34s 6i to 355, brown 333 to 33s 6d; and Foreign Refined 35s 6d to 365. Palm is much wanted, and 29s to 30s is the price of fine, whilst there is no increase of supply. There is an improving demand for Seal Oil, and holders are less disposed to press sales; pale has been selling at 331 to 34/, and other sorts 301 to 321 10s. Cod is not to be obtained under 371 10s per tun; few transactions, however. have taken place. Southern has been operated in with caution, at from 301 to 31/ 103 for com mon to fine. In Sperm sales are upon a more extended scale, and rates are firm at 841 108 to 851 10s, with only a moderate supply. Ileadmatter is in fair request at 90/ to 94/ per tun. For auction on Friday 44 tuns, and 400 packages Seed Oils are declared, the chief part Rape Seed, and Gingelly Oil. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, March 25. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool , sack at Five o'clock. Lord PORTMAN presented a petition from a place in Somersetehire in favour of copyholds enfranchise ment, and several against Papal aggression. THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES.—THE MARRIAGE ACT. The Bishop of OXFORD wished to direct the at tention of their Lordships to the state of the Church in the colonies, and to know how the state of the Church had been affected by recent enactments, and whether the Noble Earl the Secretary for the Colonies had received any remonstrances from the clergy of the colonies on the subject of the celebra tion of marriages in the colonies. Earl GREY said that there were many difficulties affecting the question. He had laid it down as a rule that it would be wrong in colonial matters for the Imperial Legislature to interfere in any matters in relation to which the colonial legislature was competent to legislate. Now, he had not received any complaints from the clergy of New South Wales with regard to any matters in which it was not compe tent to the colonial legislature to legislate. He had understood that there was to be a meeting of the Bishops of Australia on the subject, to which the Right Rev. Prelate had alluded, but the result of that meeting had not yet been known; but he should deprecate legislating on any subject on which the colo nial legislature was competent to legislate. Lord MONTEAGLE thought the House ought to legislate in this matter. Lord CAMPBELL thought the House ought to legis late on the subject of marriage in the colonies, so as to make the legislation in regard to marriage in unison with the law of this country. Earl GREY reminded his Noble and Learned Friend that the marriage law in England was different from that in Scotland and from that in Ireland, and he thought in Australia it ought to be left to the decision of the local Legislature. The Bishop of OXFORD declared that complaints had arrived from the clergy of the colonies of the ope ration of the law of marriage in colonies, and contended that the decision of the matter ought not to be left to the Legislature, but should be left to the decision of the Church. It was unjust to tie up the operation of the Church of England in this manner in the colonies. Earl GREY had never said that complaints had not been brought under his notice by the Colonial Church, but that no grievance had been so brought under his notice which could not be dealt with by the colonial legislature. It had been suggested that the colonial legislature would not deal with it, and in that case be thought it was not a case calling for imperial legislation, inasmuch as it was a matter purely of colonial and domestic concern. PETITIONS. The Earl of DESART presented several petitions complaining of agricultural distress. The Earl of HARR° WBY presented several petitions complaining of Papal aggression. ASSESSMENT OF TITHES AND RENT. CHARGES. The Earl of MALMESBURY presented two petitions from fifty clergymen of the diocese of Bath and Wells spina the present system of assessing the tithes and rentoharges for the poor-rates. He referred to the Com mittee of their Lordships' House that sat upon this sub ject last se..sion, and said he agreed in the recommenda tion contained in the 10th clause of that Committee's re port, that the present mode ,of assessing upon the full value of the tithe commutation, which in many instances was not received by the clergy, was unjust, ! and ought not to be continued. Pensioners, fundholders, mortga gees, mines, except coal-mines, professional incomes, and official incomes, were all exempted from the payment of poor-rates, whilst the working clergy were not ex empted. From returns before him it appeared that in the county of Oxford clergymen paid on an average 2s. sd. in the pound, or 12 per cent. for poor-rates; in Dorsetshire the average paid by the clergy was 2s. 2d., or 11 per cent.; and in Norfolk the average was the same. That was the average, but in some cases indi vidual clergymen paid as much as 15,20, and even 30 per cent. on their incomes. The prelates of the Church were to a certain extent withdrawn from the operation of the law, for he believed that they were not assessed to the poor -rate on their fixed incomes. In that respect the contrast between them and the working clergy was pain. ful. Ia one instance a working clergyman with 3001. pacllos. in the pound, or half his income, for poor-rate, whilst his diocesan, who lived three miles from him, paid nothing. This state of things was not the fault of' the prelates; it was the defect of the law. The prelates of the Church exhibited on all occasions the utmost liberality and generosity. But why had the law been permitted to remain in its present defective state after the grievance had been pointed out? Simply because the Government had not the courage to grapple with the question; but he trusted that, whatever Ministry might be in power, the day was not distant when the anomaly in the law, which now worked so much injus tice, would be corrected. The scheme which he pro pounded in the Committee of their Lordships' House last session had been condemned on the ground that it was founded on Socialist principles; but the principle of the scheme was simply the assessment of all property, instead of particular species of property, to the sup p irt of the poor. 250 years ago a wise Sovereign and her sagacious Ministers, feeling that property had its duties as well as its rights, caused a law to be enacted by which property was made liable to the sup port of the poor. It was then intended that all pro perty should contribute equally to that object; but the rust of ages had impaired the efficiency of a part of the machinery of the law, and only that portion which ap plied to real property retained its pristine vigour. The original character of the law ought to be restored to it. He had been desirous of introducing a Bill founded on the principle of the scheme which he proposed in the Committee of last session; but it must be obvious that this was riot a suitable time for bringing forward so im portant a measure. In the present state of the Govern ment and of the other House of Parliament, and taking into consideration all the circumnancer, of the time, their Lordships must he of opinion that it would be useless to propose such a measure now. In conclusion, he would take the liberty of asking Ministers whether EVENING, MARCH 26, they had any intention—in the event of their continuing to be her Majesty's adviseri—of acting on the report Of their 14:71-dstupl,' Committee, by enchavouring to re- Model the Law? The Archbishop of CANTERBURY thought that the clergy were under great obligation to the Noble Earl for - bringing this subject under the consideration of the House; but he knew not whether the prelates should feel equal obligation for the contrast which the Noble Earl had drawn between them and the clergy. Although the Noble Earl's statement was in most respects true, it was not impossible that the public might draw a wrong in ference from it. As long as the law remained in its pre sent state, the contrast which the Noble Earl had ad ironed to as existing between prelates and the clergy with respect to contributions to the poor rate must con -I,tinue. At the same time, it should be borne in mind that there was no part of the episcopal income which did not siontribute to the rates, although not directly out of the pockets of the prelates. The process was this—the pre- Ltes paid the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and the commissioners paid the rates. The Noble Earl, however, had made out a case for the clergy, and it certainly ap peared unjust that the personal services of that class, without which they could not receive their incomes, *ere not represented in the rent-charge. Earl GREY believed that the Right Hon. President of the Poor-law Board had given notice of his intention in the other House of Parliament of introducing a Bill for the purpose of effecting some alteration in the law of settlement and parochial assessment. At the same time he could give ne assuranoe that the proposed change in the la, of settlement would be consistent with the Noble Earl's views. As far as he understood the Noble Earl's views ca the subject, he believed that it would be most detrimental to the interests of the country to carry them into effect. Lord PORTMAN was understood to say that the ques tion with which the Noble Earl wished to deal was one encompassed by many and serious difficulties. Whether the Noble Earl intended to bring in a Bill to effect this object utder another Administration he did not know, but he !ould advise him to pause before attempting to legislate to the subject. The clergyman referred to by the Nobli Earl, as paying 10s. in the pound for rates, paid no fore than the other ratepayers in the same parish. That the area of rating should be extended he would adait, but that was not the tithe owner's grievance. The Earl of MALMESBURY, with reference to what had faller from the primate, disclaimed the remotest intention of casting a stigma upon the Right Reverend prelates. _ 7 The Bislop of OXFORD maintained that the clergy were sufferng under a grievance which demanded re dress. Thtt proposition he submitted to the Committee of last session, and it was negatived by two votes only, and if his two Right Rev. Brothers who were associated with him on the Committee had been present on the oc casion the v)tes would have been equal on either side. By a strict adherence to the letter of the law, it was held that the personal services of the clergy must not be taken into considetation with reference to the payment of rates; but if the lay were strictly interpreted in another res pect all property should be equally charged for the sup port of the Nor. Souse time subsequently to the pass ing of the Odd of Elizabeth it was found desirable, from motives of convenience, to exempt personal propery from direct assessment, and that object was effected in a roundabout way. As long as agriculture was protected the consummer indirectly contributed to the support of the poor. Now, however, that the law had been altered—as he thought wisely—and the price of wheat was regulated not by the expense of produc dor, but by the cheapest rate at which it could be brought in from other countries, the consumer was re lieved from his indirect contribution to the rates; and the whole burden was cast upon the landed proprietor and the titheowner. This circumstance constituted a claim, not for the reversal of free trade, but for a re consideration of the principle on which rates were levied. He was satisfied it would be found the law pressed heavily on a most deserving body of men, the parochial clergy of the Church of England. Lord BEAUMONT thought their Lordships had allowed one error to run through their speeches in not regarding rates as taxes on property. There was no injustice at present, as all real property was rated on the same principle; but, if the rates were reduced on one description of teal property on account of services ren dered, there wculd be an unjust distinction between the rates on the same kind of property. He did not wish to see income rated to poor-rates, but thought realized per sonal property fairly liable. Lord PORTIIA.N observed that there were duties rendered by lay impropriators which did not procure them exemption from rating—for example, there were services as high sheriffs, on grand juries, and in the militia. After a few words from the Earl of Malmesbury, Lord Wodehonse, and the Earl of Hardwicke, the petitions was ordered to Le on the table. THE CGMMONS ENCLOSURE BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. The Earl of RODEN presented petitions agains► Papal aggression from Cavan, Dublin, Down, and other places. Earl GREY presented petitions in favour of the Copy hold Enfranchisement Bill. Their Lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 25. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. is expedient for the better education of the poor that a systtm of national education should be established, to be supported by local texati,n. ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS ABROAD. Sir R. H. INGLIS rose to put a question to the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, of which he had given notice. whether any answer had been returned to the dispatch (with an inclosure) addressed by his Excel lency Sir Charles Fitzroy, on the 30th July, 1850, to her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies (endorsed as received in Downing•street on the 4th January, 1851); and if no answer had been sent, to explain the cause of the delay. And also to call his attention to certain inaccuracies in the printed copy of the said communication, as laid before the House, in answer to their address of the 24th February, 1851, and ordered to be printed (No. 105) on the 10th March, 1851. With regard to the first question, per haps, the House would allow him to recall to its remem brance that three or four years ago an order was issued by the Colonial Secretary, that the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the colonies should be treated with the same distinction as those of the Established Church. This produced a remonstrance from the Bishop of Sydney that precedence was given to the individual, which was denied to the office, thus leaving untouched the great question, namely, the right of a foreign potentate to give dignities to which precedency was attached. Mr. HUME begged to interrupt the Hon. Baronet; ho was going into details which could not at present be discussed. Mr. J. O'CONNELL said, that perhaps it would be better to defer the subject for the present, as of course there was another side to the case. The SPEAKER said that the Hon. Baronet had cer tainly a right to proceed as he was merely stating facts connected with his question, and not opinions. --Sir R. H. INGLIS continued—This mode of settle ment of the question had been disputed by the Bishop of Sydney,and severaldispatches had passed on the subject. The next question he wished to ask was, whether the last, five lines of the first paragraph of the dispatch was a correct expression of the feelings of the Govern ment on this point. Mr. HAWES said that the paper which the Hon Member held iu his hand was not in correct accordance with the dispatch which had been:sent out from the Colo nial-office. The fact was that the error arose from a typographical error. With regard to its effect in the colony he could give no reply, for no answer had been received to the observations made in return upon the dispatch received in this country on the 4th of January last. 1851. arose out of that common law; and thirdly the decisions made under it were at all times liable to be reversed on an appeal to the sovereign of the realm. If, thee, in thole three great particulars it was liable to be subject to the common law of the land, how could it become the dangerous agent which so many persons had represented ?—(Hear, hear.) He was not surprised that the Roman Catholic laity of the kingdom desired to have the existence of this law more practically effi cient amongst them, for they desired the presence of a body of eminent men who would be able to settle questions upon just and right g rounds, which were now too often decided only by prejudice or caprice.—(Hear.) That was the real state of the case—(Hear)—but they acted as if there was something improper or immoral in this law. They knew that such was not the fact, and he would ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Govern ment, whether it was right—whether it was becoming— whether it was decent to raise at this time of day a cry of "No Popery" in the country ?—(Loud cheers, and counter cheers.) The canon law was at this time part of the law of England, it had been so, and would continue to be so, without any question of the validity of its decisions, until the Court of Queen's Bench should come to any different result upon matters which had been submitted to the operation both of the canon and the common law.—(Hear, hear.) They talked of the doctrines which this law would be likely to strengthen. He believed that many honest and able men in the Church of England were sincere believers in many of those doctrines.—(Cheers and counter cheers.) And they might talk of the effect of those doctrines; but when he saw an eminent minister of the Church of England obliged to be protected from personal violence by police when in the performance of his pastoral duties, he thought the less they dwelt upon the effect or the liberality of those doctrines the better. He would call the attention of the House to an incident which occurred to Bishop Butler. That Right Reverend Prelate contended for external religion, and he was branded as a Papist for it—mistakenly branded, of course. Now, he thought the Tractarians could, like the great author of the Analogy, afford to treat the opposition raised against them with contempt, but he warned the Noble Lord at the head of the Government that this Bill would not set this matter at rest. As yet they were only on the threshold of the excitement, and to him it seemed fearful to con template the results which would inevitably follow the passing of the Bill. But it was said that the Church of Rome was despotic and intolerant, and fur that reason it was necessary to have a law of this cha racter in this country. Now was ever before an argumen bait ad horninem more absurd than that presented to the House? Because Rome was intolerant, the country ought to be intolerant too. Such an argument was so worthless that it hardly merited a reply. and he had only referred to it for the purpose of protesting against its introduction into this debate. There was another topic upon which he wished to say a few words. The Noble Lord the Secretary of Foreign Affairs told them the other night that the Bill was a complement to the Catholic Emancipation Act. Now he allowed that one of the clauses of that Act, to a certain extent, prohibited the assumption of titles but he denied most emphatically that it prohibited their establishment of a hierarchy, like that which the Pope had recently created, and he hoped that argument, like the other one he had just mentioned, would be abandoned without delay.—(Hear, hear.) Instead of promoting animosities between the two churches, the Legislature ought to strive to apply itself to soothing the angry feelings which prevailed out of doors, for he be lieved the Church of England had more to fear from irreligion than from the proceedings of Christian Rome, and he therefore called upon the Government to retrace its steps and rather assist the two churches in stemming the torrent of Atheistic principles, than strive to promote religious fanaticism and discord by a useless system of legislation. The Church of Rome ignored the existence of the Established Church of this country, and he would recom mend the Government to return the compli ment, and treat these bishops as phantoms or nonentities which could not be grasped. That was the only safe way of dealing with the so-called Papal aggression ; and though the Noble Lord could not recede from this Bill without injuring his own reputation, or proceed with it without producing great mischief, he recom mended the House to adopt the suggestion at once. He hoped, in conclusion, that as the Noble Lord valued tho peace, security, welfare, and prosperity of this great country, he would desist from proceeding with his fatal Bill.—(Cheers.) Mr. PORTAL, in rising to make his maiden speech, begged the indulgence of the House for a few momenta while he stated the reasons which induced him to vote against the second reading of the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) He could not admit that the Bill consisted of that judicious mixture of good and evil alleged by those who supportid it; so far from it, it was totally impotent for good, and all powerful for evil, while it was calculated to foment and excite religious controversy and dissension throughout the country, the injurious effect of which might remain for many years to come.—(Cheers.) The Bill was just large enough to irritate the Roman Catholics in Ireland, and not large enough to sa tisfy the Protestants of England.—(Hear.) He fully shared in the indignation and resentment which the act of the Pope had excited a spiritual inwasion which literally ignored the existence of our own Church; but he disagreed with those who thought the measure of the Government was a proper one to meet the, difficulty. The Bill was a mere mockery and delu sion, ulike unworthy the deliberative wisdom of that as- sernbly and the dignity of this great country. :Mr. J. O'CONNELL spoke the opinion of the whole of the Roman Catholic body when he affirmed that the Po;pe had no temporal jurisdiction in this country. He did not think that anything that had transpired in the course of the debate had at all advantaged the case in favour of the Bill; and it was clear that no Crown la s'yer would so far risk his reputation as to assert that the supremacy of the Crown in religious matters was at all: consonant with the common law. Blackstone, who weeuld not have hesitated to assert such a doctrine, had it existed, had said nothing of the kind. He did not mean to enter into the subject, because the Right lion. Gentleman the Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) had in a few sentences admirably refuted all that could be staid upon it. He trusted that the Right Hon. Gentleman would go on in the course he had commenced, for the people of Ireland would appreciate his sentiments and his desire to protect them from insult, and to place them on a footing with the other subjects of the empire. At the same time it was a part of the case that Roman Catholics could scarcely be called upon to argue, be cause it was the very essence of their religion that they should allow the absolute supremacy and power of the Pope; and if any kings in former times had denied that supremacy they had ceased to be Catholics. In speaking of the affairs of Switzerland, thee Noble Lord at the head of the Foreign-office stated that the Protestant majority in that country had a right to interfere with the education of the children of the Catholic cantons, simply because they were the majority. Was that doc trine to be entertained by this country, because, if so, he eonfessed that he should think it of the most startling ceeesequence to the people of Ireland, for, though the Ca tholics formed the majority in Ireland, they were yet the minority in the empire? It was no unreasonable fear upon his part that such might be the ease; and it was remarkable that there had been no answer from the Preasury bench to the eminent legal opinions that had been quoted to show that the first clause of the proposed Mill carried with it all the venom, and would have BB the practical effect of the others which had been struck out. The Most Rev. Prelate the Catholic Archbishop of .Armagh had been moat peculiarly the subject of unfair attack in the co urse o f t h e d e b ate. B ut it was not tine that Dr. Cullen w as a man ignorant of Ireland. air was the represent a ti ve f or many years, and chos en agents of 't and he this Catholic bish o p s o f Ireland at R oc "' had therefore the most intimate acquaintan ce novel act on with tle) affairs of Ireland. His choice th prrt of the Pope; but the novel practice; liesland being required was a perfectlye and when ho consentwe no bishops of thrtt was a concession made by the.PeP 'He had done so chose he might revoke that concession. Fie fee found that in 'this case for a most laudable p P the Roman Catholic episcopacyblandishrn of the Go . had °been divided among themselves by the arts and ustrious man, of whom Ire ver nment, and he had selectedi Dr. Cullen, who was no m rink, but an eminent and illustrious d. [The Hon. Gentleman la ad had reason to be P r t ° h u e pastoral of Dr. Cullen, to re ad several extracts fro , r y n condemned secret societies, show that he had stt•ocal strongly condemned the upholding of treason th e preaching of sedi t ion,C om plaints had been made of the pro able practices.] dof Thurles, but what crime was ce ridings of the Synod subjec t of su t there in the declar ations of that synod on the of education? It h a d been disti nct l y l a id down by writers of the English Protestant e gli . sh Church th a t e d ucat i on wree a matter within the province of th e bi s h ops an d pastors of t h a t Church, and this principle had only been carried out by the Catholic prelates. [T o s h ow th a o f the mixed system of education, the danger Member read some extracts from the evi- Honourable . _by a professor in 1827 before the Perlin dence given ontary c o mmission of inquiry into the Belfast educe mtitaaal institutions, who aderitted that he did not con sider Jesus Christ to be God, but believed him to be a created being.] A professor of ono of th ose institu tions a l s o wrote a work o f such infidel tendencies that w his brother professors, although no two of them enter tai aed the same religious belief, were completely shreeked, and called him to account. It was, then, a mcckery to say that there was no danger in this mixed system of education, when such men were allowed to ex ercise the office of professors, and the law h.ld no right to require that Catholics should place their chil dren in such establishments. But the Noble Lord (Lord J. :Russell) had endeavoured to cast a slur upon the loyalty of Catholics because they would not violate their conscientious feelings by accepting these institu s. That wag a most audacious insinuation, and he (Kr. O'Connell) threw it back with indignation. In 1844 the Noble Lord declared that he thought it a foolish prohibition to prevent Roman Catholic bishsps from sty ling themselves by the names of their dioceses; and thu Noble Lord might be assured, that whatever Par lia raent might do, the Irish people would still uphold th sir bishops, obey their counsels, and reject everything that might tend to impair their authority. Illr. i.tIWLESS considered that every Member re- P r e 3 oniing a Catholic constituency was bound to raise hie voice against the present Bill, and he felt himself the more bound to do so because ho was a Protestant re presenting a Catholic constituency. When the Noble Lord now at the head of the Government succeeded to office bonfires of rejoicing were lighted up throughout Iceland, because the people rembered the opinions he had expressed in opposition, and especially his declara 'don that Ireland eves occupied, arid not governed. There wore new, however, other bonfires in Ireland, and In every one of them the Noble Lord was burnt in effigy. (A laugh.) It might be, aid this was but a proof of the fickleness of popularity and of the capriciousness ef the 'people. That he (Mr. Lawless) denied. It was the Noble Lord who had been capricious, for he likd not fulfilled his promises. The Nolte Lord had even - _th e Irish people Arms Acts and Coercion Acts; and he (31r• Lawless) had the authority of Mr. Berwick, a revising barrister in the south of Ireland, for stating that fr the Franchise Act passed for Ireland would, s o far om operating beneficially, be a disfranchising Act with re gard to a large portion of that country. Then in the terrible famine with which Ireland had been visited, and which was met by the people with a Pa• deuce which did them credit and honour. the Government had not taken those measures which they were bound to take, and he contended that they were responsible for every life lost by that fa mine. And now, to crown all, the Noble Lord proposed a penal law directed against the Irish Catholic clergy, who had behaved in the most exemplary manner during the famine, for he could say, from his ow n p nee, Xe ie that bat for their exertions there would have been blood shed from the north to the south of Ireland. He regret that in the course of this debate the Hon. Member for which—although be (Mr. Lawless) language Surrey (Mr. Henry Drummond) had u sed had excited in his mind a feeling of horror and disgust. The Speaker had ruled that the Hon. Gentleman was in in order in using such language, but he (Mr. Litwl es could only say that in no other Assembly in the world _ would any one have been allowed to use such a string of obscene words. A meeting had been held on the aubjec was a Protestant of that language at Kingstown, and resolutions bad eebefall adopted expressing surprise that no notic e had bn tak! t. in that House of the disgraceful languag e used within i He believed there was not a single Mem ber of that Ilouse, that, language as most shameful, and he wa s sorr y whether Catholic or Protestant, who did not regard that to see in the resolutions of the meeting to which be had referrefad the Noble Lord at the head of the Government Vi y coupled with the Hon. Member for west theSurre. This he supposed had arisen from some mistake; for Noble Lord had never used such language as th at 1 Indeed, ss dulged in by the Hon. Member for Surrey. the only fault he had to find with the Noble Lord w, that he had not sufficiently condemned the language of that Hon. Al , tuber. Nothing but his advanced age_r(o we understood) prevented that Hen. G•entleman f ue !I! being severely dealt with, and he (Mr. H. Drtlernmlll. ht, had bettor not trust himself in Ireland, or h . at had perhaps, meet with the same sort of treatment tn t one MOS- He could assure the House that if there was 5 been experienced by General Haynau in this country. sure which was more calculated than another to ran g : the indignant feelings of the people of Ireland, whateverwag on for extending thin Bill to Ireland, where no aggro es s s u i ch insult to their clergy. There was no excuse had been committed, and where no pretext for any brought forward this Bill was worthy of the most tti P ious legislation existed. The way in which the Noble Lord fogging attorney. The Noble Lord wrote his notoort. e _ letter, containing allusion to " mummeries," t heir Ca r language which gave very just offence to their usingy such language, alone fellow subjects; and then, in excuse for wag directed, not against Roman Catholics, but s Puseyites. Why, then, was Parliament called upoeiii_te legislate against Catholics, and not against Puseyiet j. the Noble Lord said that it against (Cheers.) He was glad to say that many of th Pr o n ,... testant clergy regretted the system of legislation country attempted against the Roman Catholics of this "uletteYr Mr. Lawless then read some passages from s „at written by a Protestant clergyman to a Mem House, expressing the opinion that it was not th p e f. vines of the Queen to ceder spiritual rights. which writer observed that because the temporal barony w'_., the Queen added to the spiritual dice was gaping seen seen and regarded, the mistake had been made of the names " bishop" and " archbishop" " titles," ros: they really were only ecclesiastical designations picro'pea sons who sustained a spiritual cffice in a u t eP e iS n arno bete. r , church, just as the name " ministers" given to persons who held a spiritual officewians or Presbyterian churches. The writer therefor? re in ferred that there was no ground for any enea sure e l : as gard to what had been improperly termed " t view sumption of ecclesiastical titles." Such w as the a , taken by a Protestant clergyman; would to ', g ood t g b a o he was a bishop !—(A laugh.) The argument of with Solicitor-General, compar' t relations e- Rome to those of Roman Catholic times ing our presen e ., _ la d, was absurd ; in Catholic countries bishops werre appointed by the Pope without the consent of the e. reign, but now we did not acknowledge the PP; O With regard to the public feeling upon the subject , t t o f papers, particularly the Times, had made the mos . ~ 0 the question, and done all they could to excite PM 3 . 1 , 1 e spirit; in that day's Times there were five letters rid"; regard to Miss Talbot's case—(" Hear, hear ," 5n 'se laugh)—he regarded this as showing the sort of fa lse impetus given to the subject in order to back UP t ~ Noble Lord in passing this measure.—(" hear, hear "Oh !") It was painful to him (Mr. Lawless) to con: chure° tract the language used by bishops of his own with the temperate address of the Roman Catholinf Bishops of Ireland to their flocks upon the subje ct ° t , this measure. (The Hon. Member read several extra c from this address.) Surely the proceeding now in clue 0 Lion had arisen as much from ignorance as from a wi sh t offend. It was not impossible that the Pope, especially in his present weak state, should wilds to inaelt and 0- asperate a country like this. What had occurred we. very much to be attributed to the shameful state of things' as between the Pope and her Majesty, with regar d . ° temporal subjects. With 7,000,000 of Roman Catholeg in Ireland, there should be a proper understanding is the head of their church. This could not have arl e t e- s in—lbenthisediin9t.; if there had been a concordat with Rome. Bat viz'!" had we? Why, a titled spy; for the Noble Lord 'IP A ° went to Rome was without any proper credentials, g`: was desired to make out the most he could of matters n' Rome. Then followed a misunderstanding as to wh at passed with the Pope; and some stated that wha t then passed in regard to tis measure had very much eecou." With regard to the scandal which had occurred in raged the Pope in this " aggression."—(Hear, bear.) called, he (Mr. Lawless) begged to Ire) land, in respect to " the godless colleges," as they we!! before him endowed four or five of the adonal vthat he father best best to further the national system there, sa and his father —(Hear, hear)—he was very sorry that from some mit; understanding between the Government and the heads et the Catholic Church—it could be nothing more —these colleges were not likely at present to be of the use lig, had hoped they would be.—(Hear, hear.) He proceed ea then then to refer to the • ' ' • by Mr 01 15 • • oinions en . , g gar and by " Messrs. Bethel! and C0.,"0 and stated tna Noble he believed the Bill went further . than the Lord (Lord John nussell) wished or intended, thought school , Heaven knew, he intended bad enough to the Cath?' lics.—(Laughter.) The Hon. Member adverted ow s the case of Miss Talbot, expressing (a s we ander,' ' to stood) his belief that she had had her o wn Lon d o n, wll and that she had always intended to come up to laugh.] [A MEMBER—" For the Exhibition?"—A Yes, but a pretty exhibition there had been. licity. Ele ar. hear.) She would be the only sufferer by the pub She had:his sympathy.—(Hear, hear.) With reiP eet t ° ci the course taken en the part of the Government, he S T he could not believe the Noble Lor d meant what he wrote in his letter; he had too high a respect for him -- for his intellect. — (A laugh.) The Nob le Lord took ad-e ge vantage of a cry, thinking he could strengthen hear,) i; in a position i n w h i ch he fe lt sbaking.—(Hear, he Not having gone far enough to please the " P r otesta o ascen dancy boys"—(A laugh)—and having d esert ed the re al ‘• religious liberty men," a nd those who were fat: total freedom of conscience—(Hear, hear)—he wain find that " between the two stools he was falling to the ground"—(Leughter)—and would probably be over whelmed in the ruins of his own agitation. Mr. MUNTZ thought it was a thousand pities our Govern' ment connived at, or did not protest against, the occupation of Rome by the French; but for that the Pope would have had something else to do than disturb the peace of this ceuntry.—( Hear, hear.) This discussion had often turned man Catholic religion and the Protestant, aside, as he thought, from the real question. He did not support ß this Bill on the ground of the question between the best religion. Each had a right to his o icn religion, and each might think the other's it old story ridiculous; was the —" Orthodoxy is m d r man's y oxy, and heterodoxy is another -onus. „ —(A • " (A - 'Y. laugh.) The real question was, had the Pepe committed an aggression against the Sovereign and the which was the people of this realm ?—(Loud cries of " Hear.") Now it eat extraordinary that almost every speaker had ac knowledgel that this was a great aggression—(Hear, hear)—, J en 4 11 dent and arrogant aggression —S." Hear, hear," and" ''`''' a ) pop e those speakers who were not under the influence of the _ —Wear, hear.) J ed that rt in his very The Right lion. Baronet (Sir able and clever speech acknowledg 11 r hear.) was an aggression, and an offensive one. (--e a-, , Then, ,if so, upon what principle was Protestant Englan d to sit down and submit to an aggression from the Pope? — (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Were we come to such a miserable condition that we must submit to an aggression from any quarter whatever, wi,hout meeting it? - (Cheers.) On the introduction of this Bill he (Mr. Muntz) assigned a Graham reason why he voted for its introduction, viz., that he b Ca never been able to discover that any country svhe tholic religion had been supreme had enjoyed libert or y prosperity.---(Hear, hear.) He bad listened attentived one ne to this debate, and had not heard -ny insta nce given; an of his objects in rising was to ask if some gentleman could enlighten him upon that point. - (Hear , hear.) Till then, however, he must act upon his own judgraeat.— hear.) The practical question, as the matter regarded the prosperity and welfare of the country, was to be considered; and, not having the slightest wish to persecute or injure any man because he professed a different religion from his ceses,he which (Mr. Muntz) was not going to encourage a religion was not found consistent with the prosperity or the inter ests of any country where it prevailed.—(Hear, hear - ) He did not admit the necessity of the appointment of these (Hear, Ca bishops; ; he was informed that every advantagelic, of the Ca tholic religion was obtained under vicars -apostolic, and that being so, why was he to consent to appointments leading to so much dissatisfaction and unpleasant feeling between diffe rent sects?—(Hear, hear.) With oise very small exception there was no state in Europe where bishops were allowed to be appointed by the Pope without and to of the Go vernment ; why was Protestant England to 1 e called upon to do what no other nation Catholic or Protestant, would do? —(Loud cries of " Hear, on, But it had been done lately in Austria. Well, it was the interest of the Austrian Go vernment to keep their people in statee of subjection. Could was handy born.— (Bear, any one show an instance where ther was a constitutions' Government maintained under the Catholic religion? [A [A Mesaure—Twenty hear.) 40Bwellgurilugmha]d Bitelegxiuismt, d ? ~ oh, don ~t fear the Pope; he is years. ] What was an existence, of twenty y e ars? __ (Hear, hear.) People said, sur rounded by French bayonets.. That was a reason for n h e e e c r u . say hew nearly the matter might fearing bins. He had no opinion of his ONVl3.—LH eart they could play; co uld wictohultdhe Emperor of Russia or of Austria ? - (Hear, hear.) It was the best card thee' power as they would have if they could Popes influence.—(Hear, hear.) Be (de very much struck with a spech Inauv in this debate be an H early , on. Baronet (sir R. Peel, we bee lieve) —a manly , -English, independent, straightforwaeu speech.--(Cheers.) There was in Switzerland a state—Fsi elinemeuvpieiltorzyh)aNtivlhasesucl,'hery burg—where the Pope was allowed:to appoint bishops free , t h e c ontrol of Government. The bishop there encourage" se the pe ople to march a ga i ns t t h e G over nment, and gar money out of his own pocket for the purpose. a odd bee res ted, and sent across the frontier to Rome. received there as a martyr.—(Hear, hear.) , Was • Oat THIRD READINGS. The following 13111 a were read a third time and passed:— Leicester Sewerage. Ouseburn Bridge and Approaches in Newcastle-upon- Tyne. REPORTS. The following tills were considered and agreed to : Mildenhall, Burrt Fen Road, and Lakenheath and Hock wold Roads. Pyecombe and Illeksted Turnpike Road. St. Patrick's Cathedral (Dublin). PETITIONS. A large num ber of petitions were presented against Papal aggression. Mr. HENLEY ?resented a petition from a place in Oxfordshire praying the House to pass a law expelling Jesuits from the cctintry. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from a Society in Carr's-lane, Birmingham, in favour of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Mr. WILLCOI presented a petition from several Roman Catholics against the Bill. Colonel MU RE presented several petitions from various places in Scotland it favour of the Bill. Mr. G. BERKELEY presented a petition against the Bill for legalising carriage with a deceased wife's sister. Mr. BERNAL resented a petition against the paper duties from Stroud. Mr. F. FRENCII presented a petition from a place in Ireland against theabolition of the office of Viceroy. Mr. SPOONER presented a petition from Camber well praying that a more stringent measure may be in troduced for resistitg the Papal aggression . . Sir G. PECHELL presented a petition from the un located members of the National Land Company residing at Brighton, in favour of the Winding-up Bill. Mr. FREWEN presented a petition from a place in Essex complaining of agricultural distress. Mr. W. J. FOX presented a petition from a Me chanics' Institute it Lancashire, praying for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge. Mr. HEDL AM presented a petition from the coach makers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, praying for the repeal of the carriage duly. Mr. ROBERT PALMER presented a petition against the removal of Suithfield-market. Lord NAAS presented a petition from various Aus tralian colonists, complaining that Government had im properly neglected the subject of steam communication with Australia, and praying the House to take the mat ter into consideration. The Noble Lord gave notice that to-morrow he should move that the petition bo printed with the votes. Sir 1)E LACY EVANS presented six petitions from various parts of Westminster against the Sunday Trad ing Bill. Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Belfast praying for an altera tion of the patent-laws. Mr. HUME presented a petition signed by 412 ma riners and others, at Seaham harbour, in favour of the alteration of several clauses of the Mercantile Marine Act; also four petitions from places in Norfolk and other places against the 13ib1e monopoly. Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Mr. ADDERLE Y presented several petitions against Papal aggression. Mr. REYNOLDS presented petitions for the total re peal of the Excise duty on paper from the following places, and persons connected with the following news papers :—" Tyrone Constitution," "Fermanagh Re porter," " Ballina Chronicle," " Lurgan Chronicle," " Tipperary Vindicator," " Londonderry Sentinel," " Sligo Journal," " Tralee Chronicle," "Newry Tele graph," " Galway Vindicator," " Coleraine Chronicle," Rosscommon Reporter," " Kerry Evening Post," " Ballyshannon Herald," "King's County Chronicle;" and inhabitants of Ballyshannon. Colonel FREESTUN presented a petition from the inhabitants of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis against Papal aggression, and praying the House to pass such a measure as will be effectual to prevent the assumption of territorial titles, or the exercise of synodical action, on the part of the Romish clergy, under colour of any authority from the Bishop of Rome by bull or rescript. CONDITION OF IRELAND. - _ Mr. BROWNE gave notice of a motion for the ap )ointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the con iition of Ireland, with the view of suggesting a remedy for existing distress. PATENT LAWS. Mr. RlCARDUgaivenotice that on this day se'nnight he would move the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the policy of altering the Patent Laws. 4011.11 C-SHILLING FREEHOLDERS IN SCOT- LAND. Mr. J. B. SMITH postponed his motion for enabling forty-shilling freeholders in Scotland to vote for shires until this day fortnight. EQUALIZATION OF POOR'S RATE. Mr. G. BERKELEY gave notice that on this day fortnight he would move a resolution to the effect that there should bo an equalised poor's rate of is. 6d. in the pound, subjece to local government. COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA. Lord NAAS gave notice that when the Hon. Member for Lynn's motion came on, be should move that that branch of the subject which related to communication )vith Australia should be taken first. BORNEO—RAJA BROOKE. Mr, lIUME gave notice that he should, on an early day, ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Sir J. Brooke still held the appointment of her Majesty's Commissioner of Borneo. NATIONAL EDUCATION. Mr. W. J. FOX gave notice that on this day fort night he should move a resolution, to the effect that it SIR EMERSON TENNENT. Mr. CHRISTOPHER wished to ask the Hon. Gen tleman the Under• Secretary for the Colonies whether Sir Emerson Tennent had returned to this country from the governorship of St. Helena of his own accord, or whether he had been recalled by the Government. Mr. H A WES said that Sir Emerson Tennent had come to England in consequence of domestic affairs, and that he had not been recalled by the Government. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL In reply to Mr. MULLINGS, Sir G. GREY stated that a Bill upon this subject was now ready, and would shortly be introduced into the other House. ORDERS OF THE DAY AND NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY said that in conse quence of the vote come to last night, and to which he was no party, both private and public business had been placed in a peculiar position, for if notices of motion were altogether to be set aside, in order to give way to orders of the day, private Members would be altogether ex cluded at any time from bringing forward their mea sures. He wished to know whether he could now bring on the motion of which he had given notice? The SPEAKER said that the Hon. Member could only bring forward his motion after the present order of the day was disposed of. It was always customary in the early part of the session for the Howe to fix the days on which notices of motion should be specially en tertained, but it always reserved a right to itself of set ting them aside on particular occasions. Therefore it was that the Hon. Member could not now bring on his motion. Mr. FIUME said that in that case private Members were always in the hands of the llouse, and might never bring on their motions at all. The SPEAKER, stated that in former days the notices of motion were frequently set aside without cere mony at auy time, but now they could only be super seded by the orders of the day on an express resolution of the House. SALARY OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS. In reply to a question from Mr. WILLIAMS, Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that the new Master of the Rolls would be appointed with the understanding that the office would be subject to any alteration in the salary which Parliament might deem necessary. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY presented 49 petitions from Wesleyan bodies in the different counties of England praying that a more stringent measure than the Govern ment Bill might be introduced with regard to the Papal aggression. Mr. NEWDEGATE presented several petitions from Warwickshire against the Papal aggression. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. ADJOURNED DEBATE. On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate being read, _ _ Mr. HOI3HOUSE said he moved the adjournment of the debate last evening, because he understood the Hon. Gentleman the Member for the University of Oxford, and the Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire, were anxious to deliver their opinions to the House, and not from any personal vanity of his own.—(Hear, hear.) He must say, that the more he had heard of the debate, the more he had sifted the different arguments of Honourable Gentlemen, and examined the question on its merits, tha more he was fortified in the convic tion which ho had previously entertained, that all legislation on the subject was unnecessary.—(Hear, hear.) He would grapple at once with some of the main arguments which had been offered, casting aside all those wordy arguments with which the subject had been invested for the purpose of deceiving the House and pre venting the people of England from discerning the real truth.—(Laughter.) It he understood the arguments offered to the House, they were principally these—that an insult had been levelled at the Queen in her character as first magistrate, and also as supreme bead of the Church; that her authority and prerogative had been invaded, and the independence of the country interfered with by the act of the Pope in ap pointing Roman Catholic bishops. It appeared to him that the word" bishop" had not been sufficiently considered, that they bad not separated the essence from the accident, the spiritual from the temporal authority, and hence they were led into a great constitutional error. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") In order to show what the meaning of the word " bishop " was it would be necessary to look back to the history of the bishops, and see how they were appointed in earlier times. Now, he thought no one would venture to dis pute that the original mode of appointing them was by the laity and clergy per clericum et populum. This was the simple history of the origin of the bishops, and their functions were originally strictly spiritual. The temporal power which they now exercised was nothing more than an accident. The word bishop had reference more to an office than a title, and hence he objected to the Bill. It was simply directed against names, and ho could not think that it was worthy of the House to mix itself with such a matter as this. This was not the first time that confusion had arisen out of names in this country. Similar disputes arose in Scotland about the sixteenth century, when a good deal of excitement arose from the fact of some of the Roman Catholic clergymen having adopted titles, but then, as he hoped it would turn out now, it was thought unadvisable to battle with trifles, and the excitement ultimately died away. Now if the House followed that example on this occasion, and no longer frittered away its valuable time in wordy debates about nothing, the Legislature would elevate itself in the estimation of the country. Lofty terms and largo expressions had been applied to Rome to stigmatize her for insulting the Sovereign of these realms; but those lofty terms and large sounding expressions were just as much applicable to the Freo Church of Scotland as to the Pope of Rome, for they gave titles to their Church dig nitaries without consulting the Crown. Such, then, were a few of the objections which he enter tained against this Bill. He had many others, indeed their name was legion, but he should be falling into the same fault that he was condemning if ho wasted the time of the House by going over the whole of them. He had stated enough, he thought, to show that the measure was wholly uncalled for; and since he thought it opposed to the spirit of the Reformation, as a staunch and uncompromising Protestant he should assist his Roman Catholic fellow -subjects in giving it his decided and steady opposition. Ho maintained that it did not belong to incorporated bodies of any kind to petition the Crown on the subject of Church matters. As to the ar guments which had been used of the Pope's supremacy over the consciences of his followers, ho asserted that the Roman Catholics of this country entirely repudiated any interference on the part of the Pope in their temporal concerns. No such power ever was conceded to him by his most ardent supporters in this country. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to refer to the three questions which had beau submitted to six of the Catholic universities of Europe—Louvain, Paris, Douay, Alcala, Valladolid, and Salamanca: whether the Pope could have any temporal jurisdiction in this country, whether he could absolve Roman Catholics from their allegiance to tho sovereign, and whether there was anything in the constitution of the Roman Church which forbade its members to keep faith with heretics. All these questions were answered in the negative by each of the universities, and more than one of them express e d it s sur p r i se th a t such opinions should he entertai n ed in a coun try so celebratedar.) for its intelli g e nce an d f ree d om o f thought.— He thought, therefor e , h e h a d fully succeeded in was ndaes monstrating that bishop in its original significa tion not a title at all, and that in this country we ought not to be angry at th e Pope interferingin spiritual matters, when we knew that he had done so long ago. They were gravely told that the Church was to be sub jected to the exer c ise and jurisdiction Why, when he l oo ked around and considered of this canon law. o nsidered that law, he was quite surprised that the people or the House should in any way have been alarmed at such a bugbear as this. Let them look only into the nature of would this cano n law, and to its true position. If they did so they find that it was, in every.case, subject to the common liter of England. All the great writers by whom this c ountry had been adorned averred that such was th e case; and Blackstone himself , t han whom no greater au thority could be adduced, had stated that the canon law was overridden by the common l aw at all times during our history, as was remarkably evi dent by three great ensigns. It was in the first place subject to the common law; it was in the second only , to be construed and explained by the statutes which tear: iin