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coneelved it would he unjust to exclude this line from public competition. After a few words from Lord JERMYN, the Blli was re. 1 ,1 a Fecond time. The Edinburgh Life Assurance Bill was read a third time. 'CONDE`,INED SEIV,IONS_IN NENVGATE. cwta7n POLHILL gave notice that he should to mor:ow u.ik the Secretary qf State for the Home Depart ment ii any e,remunicAtion had tali: place between him ar•l the Sh.n-iffi of London respecting the admission of person:, to hear the condemned sermon at Newgate ; and whether the Sheriffs had acted according to their un• doubted right and privileges ? EDUCATION IN ENGLAND. Mr. COLQUHOUN rase to put a question of which he hail given notice. He understood that an increased grant was intended to be proposed f. , r education in Erg land, and he was anxious to ascertain fern his Right Hon. Friend the Chaneeflor of the E-:ei,equer «he• fiber it was the intention on tho part of the Govern ment to alter the arrangement under which rues of mon. , y were granted by that Howe for education in Dv/land ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he eras aware that there was 'n uneasine's in the public mind about it.—(Hear, hear : )Hehadno such intention. CAPTAIN Flrznoy. c;pfain no 7 S said the House would remember that in March last, whcn the thin. Member for Dartmouth brought forward a motion respecting, New Zealand, that motion was un opposed, but an opporzunity was taken for making a fierce at tack on his friend Captain Fitzroy, the Governor of New Zealand. He was then absent, but he IA as happy to say that its effect , were as feeble ns the attack was fierce. The SPEAKER said the Noble and Gallant Officer was not in order. There was no question before the House. Captain ttOUS said th it he would put a question to the Hon. Gentleman the Under- Secretary for the Colonies (Mr. Hope), respecting, the governorship of New Zealand. Ile had heard with great pain that that officer had been super seded. At the same time that he asked this question, he would appeal to Hon. Gentlemen on b'th sides of the House, who knew the Gallant Officer, whether they did not believe him to be, both in public and private life, a straightforward, honour able man ? The SPEAKER said the Hon. Gentleman was quite out of order. He could only 'preface his question with such ex planation a; would make it intelligible. Captain ROUS--Tl:en he would ask the Hon. Gentleman the Under-Secretary for the Colonies whether or not it was true that Captain Fitzroy had b2en superseded as Governor of New Z?aland? Mr. G. HOPE said, his Hon. and Gallant Friend had given him notice, and, therefore, he was prepared to answer the question. But he understood that his Hon. and Gallant Friend wished him to state, upon what grounds the supersedeas was issued, and whether it affected Captain Fitzroy a 3 a gen tleman, or a 3 an officer in her Majesty's service. It certainly was the intention of her Majesty's Government to appoint a successor to Captain Fitzroy, but this intention had been com municated to none beyond the Members of the Government, except the members of Captain Fitzroy's own family, from whom the Hon. and Gallant Officer must have received the intelligence. The step did not in any way affect Captain Fitz roy, either in his public or private capacity, nor was it in con sequence of charges preferred against him, by members of the New Zealand Company. He would not go into the details of the whole question, or any statement of them; but he would read a passage from the last dispatch from the colony in refer ence to that officer. The Hon. Member read the paragraph, which was to the effect that the Gallant Officer was entitled to much praise for the great personal sacrifices he had made. _ _ 'GRANT TO MAYNOOTH. Mr. BANKS said that upon bringing, up the report on the Maynooth Bill, he would move that it be received that day six mouths. MR. CARUS WILSON. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, in answer to a question from Mr. ROEBUCK, that be had received letters and petitions from Mr. Carus Wilson, now confined in Jersey gaol, upon the subject alluded to by the Hon. Member for Bath, and he bad referred them to the governor of the gaol of Jersey. SCOTCH BANKS. Mr. FOX MAULE said that the first notice on the paper was that for the second reading of the Banking Scotland Bill. He wished to know (as we understood) whether it was the in tension of the Right Hon. Baronet to take the discussion on the Bill before the holidays? Sir ROB T ART PEEL said he hoped there would be no ob jection to take the discussion before the holidays, and he hoped that the House would allow the second reading, with the understanding that the discussion should take place upon the question going into Committee. POOR-LAW (SCOTLAND). Mr. F. MAULE said, that with respect to another Scotch Bill, he wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman the Lord Advocate as to his intentions ? The House would recollect that it was understood that every parish and county in Scot land should have an opportunity of considering this Bill before it would be passed. A great meeting had taken place , at which a committee had ben appointed to examine the whole suhject. The report o!' that committee was in preparation, but had not been published. He wished to know whether :the Lord Advocate would delay the Bill until the result of the in quiry was known ? The LORD ADVOCATE was understood to say that on Wednesday he would fix the day for the second reading. Mr. feOCHE wished to know from the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of her Majesty's Government, when it was his in tention to bring forward the Irish Municipal Corporation and Registration Bills, and what the objects of those Bills were ? Sir R. PEEL said that it was the desire of her Majesty's Government that the business connected with Ireland should undergo very full consideration during this session. He had already expressed his desire to state the general outline of the measures which the Governme,A pro posed with regard to academical matters. He was pressed very strong) , the other night by the Hon. Member for Kerry, as to any measures which he might intend to introduce with re spect to landed properey in Ireland ; but he was aware that the other House of Parliament would bring forward a measure during this session with reference to that subject. There were other measures with regard to Ireland which were also to be disposed of ; but there were no advantages to be obtained by placing several measures on the table of the House. It would be better to proceed with those which were mostipressing. He thought that the principles of the measure which the Hon. Member referred to, would have the effect of extending the franchise in Ireland, and making it equal to that enjoyed in England. Mr. HUME wished to ask the Secretary for the Home Department a question with respect to a man who was lately brought before a magistrate in the parish to which he belonged for an assault, and though it was a bailable offence, bail to any amount was refused. It had created a very strong feeling in his parish ; and he wished to know if the Right Hon. Gentle man had instituted any inquiry respecting it? Sir J. GRAHAM said that as yet he knew nothing of the case, except what he read in the public papers. He was to have a deputation from Marylehone to-morrow, when the matter would be brought officially before him, and it would be then his duty to institute an inquiry. Sir R. PEEL wished to say that there was another measure in contemplation, with respect to Ireland, relating to the banking establishment in that country, which would be brought before the House this session. Mr. MACLEAN said that to-morrow he would put a question to the Right Hon. Baronet, relating to any com munication that may haue b en made between the Tuilleries and St. James's, connected with the right of search question ; and also a question as to that part of the Emancipation Act which related to the Jesuits. Mr. ROSS wished to put a question to the Hon. Member for Montrose. lie wished to know whether it wa; his inttn • tiri to bring on his motion with respect to Sir Henry Pottinger to-morrow niAt ? Mr. HUME said that when he came down to the House that was his intention, but he was compel!ed to postpone it on find. ing that many Ah.mbers who would support it would necessarily be absent on that evening. l' -r. ESCOTT gave notice that it was his intention to call the House over on Thursday, the 22.1 inst. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY—IRELAND. . _ _ Mr. WARBURTON said that a matter of much importance oecurred during the business of the day, relating to the Great Western Railway, Ireland, respecting which a motion was made by his Hon. Friend the Member for Roscommon to the effect that this Bill be allowed to proceed. The motion was under discu;sion, and the Chairman and several Members of the Standing Orders Committee spoke on the merits of he motion. It was stated that in 3fio rases it was found that the standing orders had not been enmplied with, and that out of these 3tlo eases, there were thirty-four cases of very great importance. Other Gentlemen spoke in favour of the motion of the Hon. Gentleman the Member fur Roscomiten, and stated that it was a matter of the deepest importance that this Bill should be proceeded with, in spite of its non-compliance with the stand ing orders. The House came to a vote, and the motion wits emied by a majority of eighty or ninety. It was strange that a Member of the Goeernment, and that Member the Secretary for Ireland, spike in favour of that motion, and coted for it. Private applications had been made to himself( Mr. Warburton) to support motions for throwing over the reports of the Standing Order Committee, and particularly in the case of the Birkenhead and Manchester Railway, when all parties admitted that it was only in one or two cases where the standing orders of the Committees had not been comelied with. Many desired that the Bill should be proceeded with, and to cast out the report, but he would not he a par t y to the upsetting o f a r e p or t of the Standing Orders Com mittee, and it was his opinion that the House should not in dulge in the practice of throwing out such repents, for in many eases the question would not be decided on the merits. lie now rose to ask the Rieht Hon. Baronet the course that be now woul t recommend after such a precedent had been set to Hon. Gentlemen. He now would ask him what course he would recommend the House to pursne, in respect to the sup porting or not sdtpporting the recommendation of the Standing Orders Committee. If they allowed the Bill in this instance to nrccecd, great injury would be done to the Birkenhead and Manchester Railway Sir ROBERT PEEL wished to state to the Hon. Gen tleman, t son exem:lificatic.n of his own opinion, that a gen tleman principally interested in this matter came to him (Sir R. Peel), soliciting his interference to throw out the standing oreers, hut he told him that he ti.enellt that the report of the 0-hors Committee was a judicious one, and made with perfect purity of intention, and he positively declined to interfere in upsettin g it. Th e Vi c e-P r e s ident of the Board of (o Trade hart an i n t erv i ew w ith hi m ! h a t morn ing, when he Vote-Pr es id ent ) s a id t h at a l t h oug h it was a pr i va te mea sure, e, it had been usual for one Member of the Board of Trade to vote in favour Of the opinion of the House and to come to give hi s vo i ce an d vote in had favour of the decision ' of the Standing Orders Cna ornitteo. t and it was, therefore, entirely dependant connexion at all with the Bill, dependant upon his own viewe of the merits of the case. Mr. L&BOUCHERE said that he objected to the Secre tary for Ireland coming down there ' vote in that capacity. He hoped the Secretary for Ireland would ti not suppose that he was taking that opportu n ity o f attackinr him—he wished to see him using all fair means of gainii; g popularity, b u t h e should say that he never recollected such course as this. What he objected to cn this particular occasion was, that he as Secretary for Ireland took a partieular course b 3 with ut regard to a private Bill, which he not only not supported, resisted the sense of the Government as expressed by the Chancellor the Duchy of Lancaster. The decision was a most unfortunate of one, and he quite agreed with what had be en said bylaisHon Friend (Mr. Warburton). He (Mr. Labouchere) had been asked by some of his Irish friends to support their vie ws , but lie told them that unless the Chairman of the Committee had intimated to him that there were particular reasons which should induce them to deal with this Bill in a different way from the others, he would not support the motion which re si.dted the report of the Standing Orders Committee. Mr. OSBORNE said that lion. Gentlemen were not aware that in coming before the Standing Orders Commtt tee there were many more difficulties attending ilje tenure of land in Ireland, and in serving notice on middlemen there than in England. He thought that his Hun. Friend ( Sir T. Fremantle) exercised a sound discretion. Hon." Gentlemen who were not acquainted with Ireland, and who belonged to the Startling Orders Ccmtnittee, were not aware of those diffid ulties. If the standing orders were to be complied with, it would be im possible to construct a railway in Irelatal. Mr. ESCOTT said that he recollected that the very first words which the Secretary for Ireland used with respect to this question were these, that he did not wish to induce any man in the Heuse to vote in favour of th motion Lord J. RUSSELL said that it might be quite right that they should not require a strict compliance with respect to railways in Ireland, but it should be regulated by some rule of that House.—( Hear, hear. ) It would not be right that the Committee of Standing Orcl,rs should be respected with regard to all English Railway Bills, but whenever a report of an Irish Railway Bill was to be made it was to he set at nought. No public reivens could be given for upsetting their au thority. He wished that the House would come to some re solution with respect to Irish Railway Bills. Sir T. FREMANTLE did not think that he was deserving of the imputation of the Noble Lord, that he did not give his authority for opposing this report. He was desirous that every Member of the House should exercise his own discretion. He would not say anything that would influence the mind of any other person. He certainly did not vote in the capacity of Secretary. In his own individual capacity, he could not think that it was important that a railway communication, from the east to the west of Ireland—(Hear, hear) —should pass this present session. Mr. AGLIONBY said he could assure the Hon. Member that he had no personal feeling whatever on the subject ; but having been a member of the Standing Orders Committee he wished to say a few words in reference to this Bill. He was not present when the discussion Ras brought on, nor did he happen to be un the Committee on private Bills either at the time, though a member of the Committee also; but he did now seriously call on the House to pay attention to this matter, par ticularly as to what had been said on the subject of standing ortlers.—(Hear, hear.) The House well knew that the Com mittee on private Bills had been sub-divided into four sub- Committees, and each of them had to sit three or faur days in each week, and the chairmen of some of them had frequently to ask leave of the Speaker to Fit after the House had met.— ( Clear, hear.) Now, surely, if the same rule that regulated English Railway Bills was not to be applied to Irish Bills, he would say the sooner the standing orders were altered to that effect the better.—( Hear, hear.) At present the Committees had somewhat of a judicial charactert and if that were not to be kept up, and its decisioFs respected, the House had better alter the standing or. ers at once.—( Hear.) If the House did not do that, then he would pray that it would respect the decisions of its Committees—( Hear, hear)—for if it reversed those de cisions easily, or lightly, or inconsiderately, then neither the public nor that House could have any confidence in those deci • sions in future.—( Hear, hear.) He ILad heard something said about the non-compliance with standing orders in certain cases not being sufficient to warrant the House in rejecting a Bill. Now, he was aware of an instance—that of the Mao chester and Birkenhead, in which there were but a few instances of non compliance with the standing orders, and the line was not per mitted to be proceeded with that session ; but here was an in stance of a Bill which contained more instances of non-com pliance, fifty per cent greater than those:in the one he had men tioned, and yet the House had declared that the Bill was to be approved.—( Hear, hear). If the House meant to act with consistency, let them not approve of a bill that had 300 or 400 objections in it, or else alter the standing orders so as to suit Irish Bills.—( )lear, hear). Mr. F. FRENCH said, that if he and others had not been led to understand that there would be no opposition to the Bill in question, he could have beedprepared to show the Com mittee that none of the important standing orders had beers violated. Mr. WILSON PATTEN said it would be setting at nought the labours of the Committee, if such proceedings as had taken place here this evening were to be persevered in. And he should also remark, that in his opinion the House could not too strongly deprecate the practice of canvassing that had been going on—(hear, hear)—for the purpose of procuring a majority in favour of a Bill that had been reported against.— ( Hear, hear). If such a practice were to be continued—if the House did not strenuously set its face against it, there would be an end of the duties of Committees.—(Hear, hear.) He now begged to give notice that he would, on to-morrow, move a resolution, by which the whole merits of the case now in question would be brought before the House, in order to show that the Committee on Standing Orders had done their duty. Lord HOWICK looked upon this question as one of great public importance. They all knew how loud and general were the complaints that this canvassing and other jobbing had been going on, and that by it many Bills had been passed that never should.—( Hear, hear.) If the House persevered in the deci sion it had just come to, all the old system of jobbing would again be revived.—( Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Buckingham had stated, in his capacity of Chief Secretary for Ireland, that railway projects were of great importance to that country. He (Lord Howick) knew that perfectly well, but he conceived it would be much more important not to make Ireland the victim of a jobbing system. —( Cries of " Hear, hear.) Let this Bill now re main in its present position. A lapse of one year was all the time that could be lost, and it would be much better that that course should be followed than inflict upon Ireland the evils that would be certain to follow from tha effects of jobbing.—(Hear, hear.) They all knew the dan gerous results that had flowed from doing business carelessly in that country, and the Irish people should therefore be taught to do it as it was done in England. He had heard of a deci sion that the House bad come to in reference to one of those Bills this evening ; he 'looked upon that as a step taken in a wrong direction, which no time should be lust in retracing, and he believed it was competent for the House to do so.— ( Hear, hear.) He would therefore suggest that when this Bill should be presented, it should be postponed for six months. —(Hear, hear.) The Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for Ireland had spoken in favour of this Bill ; but it was well known that it was not in his private capacity as Member for Bucking ham he did so, but as the Secretary of State for Ireland— ( Hear, hear)--and it would be impossible for him to divest himself of the weight of influence and authority that attached to him in his official capacity. —(Hear, hear.) He would beg of the House not to take any step in this matter which they might have occasion t• regr et, but he hoped they would sup port the proper and wholesome authority of the standing orders. Lord ‘VORSLEY said that this was the first he had heard of canvassing ; but he was greatly surprised at it ; and he would ask, if it were to be persevered in, where would it stop ? —(Hear, hear.) If it were not put a stop to, it might extend to the members of Committees. Mr. DUNCOMBE contended that there ought to be some appeal from the decisions of the Standing Orders Committee; if not, the appeals that had been made would be a mere mockery. Here the subject dropped. THE NEW ZEALAND QUESTION. Captain ROUS wished to say a few words in reference to the New Zealand question. He would say that, in his opinion, it would be impossible fc k r any officer to rule that colony with ' the present Company ; and if ever that Company brought the question before the House, he would prove that they had_been guilty of most discreditable practices. Mr. AGLIONBY, as one of the Directors of the Com pany, begged to say that he could show that the Gallant Officer had been misinformed on the subject. Mr. RICE TREVOR said that no man could be more amiable in private life, or better intentioned than Captain Fitzroy. Mr. WARD said that no act of the present Government could have given more sa'isfact ion than having recalled Captain Fitzroy. Sir ROBERT INGLIS said he knew that Gallant Officer well, and was aware that he had made considerable sacrifice when going out to New Zealand. Mr. G. W. HOPE fully confirmed the statement which had been made by the Hon. Member for Westminster, that Captain Fitzroy had great difficulties to contend with. Mr. B. ESCOTT inquired when the Hon. Member for Sheffield intended to bring on his motion respecting burdens on land ? _ _ _ Mr. WARD said, that if Government could not fix days for public business, it was not to be expected that a private Mem ber could fix a day for any motion. MAYNOOTH BILL. . The order of the day for bringing up the report on this Bill was then read. A number of petitions for and against the Bill were pre sented. _ _ Mr. P. HOWARD presented a retition from Carlisle . against the Bill. Sir R. PEEL presented several petitions in favour of the Bill. Mr. SPOONER presented petitions from Worcestershire against the Dill. Petii ions against the Bill were presented by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Lockhart, and Mr. Granger. The report was then brought up. On the question that the amendments be read a second time, Mr. S. CRAWFORD rose to move as an amendment, that any provision for the separate or exclusive education of any par ticular religious denomination, or for the support or endow ment of any religious sect or sects by State grants or funds raised by ccmpolsory assessment, whether under the name of tithes, rents, ceases, taxes, regium donum, or under aey other name or form whatever, is a violation of the rights of conscience, detrimental to religious truth, and dangerous to civil and reli gious freedom ; and that all such establishments, grants, or el:- doer:news now in existence in the United Kingdom ought to be discontinued, with as little delay as may be consistent with a due regard to the rights of those who have life-interests in the same. He had proposed this amendment in order to pot on record the opinion of a large body of the people of this country, who had entrusted him with their petitions against this Bill. He did not oppose this measure in a very hostile spirit to his Catholic fellow-subjects. He believed that if this Bill were allowed to pass, other denominations besides the Catholics would call for endowments. He was against all State grants fur ecclesiastical purposes. He wished to go the full extent of repudiating all State grants. Religion was an ordinance of God, and not of man ; and man had therefore no right to interfere with it. It might be said that it arcs not in • terfering with the conscience of a man to impose a tax upon him. But ha contended that to make a man pay for a Church to which he did not helong, was to compel him to violate his conscience. In matters of religion the State ought not to in•• terfere. Let them render to Caiar the things which were Cw3ar's, and to God the things which were God's. State establishments and forced contributions were not calculated to advance religious truth. The Established Church in this country had large endowments, and yet they were im potent in extending their religion. The Dissenters were invading them with great strides. The State Church and the Church of the people in Ireland were always in a state of hostility to each other. Let them look at the dissensions which were at present tearing the Church in this country. There were dissensior s as to the colour of a gown, or the shape of an altar. How was that state of things to be remedied? Ceuld it be done bj that house ? No ; the only remedy that could be found was in the Church itself. They did not find, in the churches of the State. that any provisions were made for the poor. If a State Church were necessary, why was there not provision made for all its members. In the churches of the State, provision was always made for the rich, while the poor were not cared for. State chn-ehes were hus' Ile to religious liberty. State Churches were unjust and impolitic, and the proposition which he now submitted to the Ho ise, was a declaration against all Establishments. But while his proposition affirmed this principle, it did not violate any vested rights. He would propose that the revenues of the lands now applied to: ecclesiastical purposes should, at the decease of those parties who'at present had a vested right in them, he placed in the consolidated fund. He objected to this grant to Maynooth simply because he supported the volun tary principle. The Protestants of England had, on other occasions asserted the voluntary principle in preference to that of an Establishment, and if they were now opposed to the grant to Maynooth, on the voluntary principle, it ought not to be construed into hostility to Ireland. He was opposed to monopoly in religion, as be was to monopoly in trade. He might go into much detail in support of the proposition which he now submitted to the House, but as this subject generally was sn much before the House of late, he would not now enter upon it, but would content himself with proposing the motion of which he had given notice. Mr. HINDLE Y seconded the motion. Mr. W. WiLLIA NIS regretted that the motion of his _ Hon. Fri gn d was one of an comprehensive a character, and s id upport t i b t a , tb he o e u d g i h s a t g f e r e w d a r e d n , t r a e s i y i t w w i g a t b i i n te c h i im d e o n t o a l n l . embraced so ma n y i mportant considerations, that he could not He h ive voted for the p r e sen t measure, he would statsestt'hpePorreta. but for t (l h . ' reason he had ass i gne d h e ' could no s ons Having why t he did so. When he considered the vast amount of money paid for the support of the Protestant religion, and that a large portion of this money was paid from th e money contributed by the Roman Cathoiica and the Di ssen t ers , i n the shape of taxes, he was astonished that th e Hon. Baronet the Member for Ox ford, and the Hon. Member for Kent, and other supporte rs of the Established Church should have gi ven suc h opposition to the Government measure. 'fhe amount of money so paid was absolutely astounding. In the Army Estimates, the Navy Estimates, the Civil Contingencies, and the Miscellaneous Estimates, he found large sums appropriated for the support of he Protestant .Establishment. 'I here was no less a sum than TRU. SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1845. a million and a half paid for the building of churches. There was a million for tithes in Ireland. And he begged to say that that measure came upon the public surreptitiously. It was said that most effectual means would be taken to get the money b:ck, but when the Bill passed, they were told it was impos sible to collect the amount. Then, again, since 1826, there were 400,C0C/. taken from the taxes for the support of religion in the West Indies, and a sum of 11,600/. was voted for the clergy in Canada. The Hon. Baronet the Member for Oxford opposed this measure in an open and fair way, but he begged to ask him this questien. He begged to know from the Hon. Baro::et why he did not object to the payment of 1,0001. a year to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Quebec, and of 700/. a year to the Roman Catholic Bishop of Newfoundland. When he (Mr. Williams) divided the Ileuse upon the whole grant, he had not the honour of the lion. Baronet's support. '.t by so? Why, because of the 11,600/. no less a sum than 10,000/. was paid to the support of the Established Church, and the Hon. Baronet, because he got so much for the le . shops and clergy of his own Church, was not over anxious to object to the small sum which was given to others. If this was not the reason he should like to know what was. He found that 1(91. was paid out of the taxes to which the Roman Ca'holics and the Dissenters contributed for ( Hear, hear.) The present Government, he was sorry to find, had taken a different view of the mater, as be could see from a dispatch by the Earl of Aber.leen to the Commissioner, to this effect—that the Government had under stood that certain negroes from Barbado es were h e ld i n s l a very ; in Surinam but that it was the opi n i on o f th e Q uee n' s Ad vocate that Her Majesty's Government were not called on t take steps in regard to those negroes, as they clearly were not freemen, either by birth or by the benefits of the Act of Emancipation. If such had been the ease, then indeed it would have been incumbent on the Government to have used its strenuous endeavours to procure their freedom. But no doubt existed that these persons had been removed from the British possessions before the Act of Emancipation had come into effect. He found another dispatch to the Commissioners at the Havannah laying down the very same doctrines. He did not wish to dispute the authority of the Queen's Advocate, but he must remind the House that there was another Bill passed before that period, in the year 1t:06 and 1807, making the removal of slaves for the purposes of sale illegal. Surely under these circumstances the British Government was justified in demanding the freedom of those slaves. The Commissioner stated that in some of the plan tations in the island of Cuba, the British language was spoken, a clear proof, he conceived, that the persons doing so had been brought from British colonies. He hoped that the Queen's Advocate would reconsider his opinion, and that Government would see fit to interest themselves in this mat. ter. There were other persons also who had occupied some share ofthe late Government's attention, he meant the slaves captured in slave vessels, and disposed of under the authority of the Mixed Commission. Government, on pretence of finding them employment, hired them out to certain masters for a sum of money and for a period of five years. At the expiration of that period they still remained in the same condition, but in finitely worse treated than the real slaves. He very much feared that the present Governor of Cuba, General O'Donnel, was not like the Governor who had preceded him, General Valdez. He ( Lord Palmerston) greatly feared that he encouraged, instead of discouraging a traffic in slaves, for his own private purposes—( Cries of " Hear, hear.") With regard to Cuba, the law was not repudiated by the Go • vernment, nor w s it repudiated by the Spanish, for in Cuba General Valdez stated that a very great number of negro°, bad been landed under that very law. Nosy it would be remem bered that they applied to the Government of Spain to sign a convention, the purport of which was that the mixed commis sion at the Havannah should be authorised to inquire into the condition of the negroes, and to ascertain what ought to be done under the circumstances. The Spanish authorities took no notice of that communication until 1841, and at the end of 1811 the Spanish Government sent a very lengthy note, refusing compliance with the proposal ; and, eventualiy, the British Government acquiesced in the denial, and expressed themselves satisfied with an additional clause in the Act of Treaty, pro viding a punishment for persons concerned in the slave trade. Now, unless that law were acted upon, no Act which the Spanish Government might hereafter pass, could be of any service. Indeed, if that law was not carried into execution, no other was, and he did think the British Government rather lightly acquiesced in the refusal of the Spanish alinistry. With regard to negroes now in Cuba, they were as much en titled to their liberty as any of the Spanish peasantry in that island; and certainly, in his opinion, the mixed commission might to be inve , ted with power to decide in the c ices of negroes that might hereafter be brought into Cuba. It was very well for Government to say, it was a question of honour to Spain, and that a foreign authority had no right to mix itself up with their own internal—it was all very well fir them to make that objection, but they must remember that they had all established a foreign jurisdiction by their treaty with this country, and it was impossible that the proposal which was afterwards made to them could extend that jurisdiction much further. It was impossible for him to rely upon the Governor of Cuba in carrying out the treaty. He wanted some British authority to see that the law was put into execu tion. What was the course pursued now in Cuba ? The au thorities there said, that a man brought from the wilds of Africa where he had subsisted in his native state was not fit for society, and therefore he was compelled to undergo what was called an apprenticeship before he was emancipated. Now, what was his apprenticeship ? Why the female slaves w ere l e t out to respectable householders to act as domestic servants, but no security was taken to prevent them from always being kept in a state of servitude. The male slaves were employed in lighting the streets for a number of years, but the Government would give no undertaking, that they should be released from their bondage at the expiration of their term of servitude, nor was there any power to compel them to do so. Every report which came to this country dwelt upon this disgusting and dis graceful traffic ; and he must say, of all the measures which had been brought forward to suppress it, the most effectual was the extension of the right of search. With regard to that there was a report from the Commissioners at Rio, which showed the importance of the treaty with France being fully carried out. The Commissioners stated that the French vessels were daily getting more and more employed in the slave trade with Africa and Brazil. This was in consequence of an impression which was beginning to arise that the British cruisers had been ordered not to intercept or molest vessels sailing under the flag of France. The returns evinced the efficacy of the right of search in suppressing this horrible traffic; but there was another measure which ' had been exceedingly effective in its operation. He alluded to the destruction of baracoons on the coast of Africa. In 1842 the slave trade diminished very much, and that diminution was attributed to three causes, but the principal one was the destruction of the baracoons. When the present Government, however, came into office, the first thing they did was to write a letter to the commanding officers, prohibiting the destruction of these baracoons, stating that it was against the law of nations. Now, he really thought that was a most extraordinary act on the part of her Majesty's Government.—( Hear.) He thought that if the two Governments were to concur in a sincere and honest determination to suppress the slave-trade, they could effect it. If they concurred in measures for sweep ing the whole of the coast, all debate about the right of search would cease. With respect to the " Razzias ' in the terri tory of Muscat, there was quite evidence enough that if Portu gal had co-operated with the Government of this country, those robberies of human beings would have ceased long ago. lie did not wish to go into the subject with any asperity, bat he would wish the Right Hon. Baronet opposite to take into full and careful consideration the condition of British subjects in Cuba and Surinam.—(Hear, hear.) He was satisfied that if the Governments of France and England were to co-operate faithfully and sincerely, the slave-trade could and would be suppressed. Sir ROBERT PEEL, who was throughout very indis tinctly heard, said that he must do the Noble Lord the justic to say, that be usually gave notice to the Government of any intention to bring forward a motion, or to put a question involving the general or particular policy of her Majesty's Ministers. But he (Sir Robert Peel) did not expect so important a question as this to be put upon an order of the day for the navy estimates. He (Sir R. Peel) had not expected that such an advantage should be taken, and he thought that some time ought to have been atlowed to him before he was required to give grave and deliberate answers to so many questions upon so his planation With and theambi guityhimselfequivocal,understood;anytakeifcare parto the c f that negroes at Surinam, he could not hesitate for a moment to declare that if any officer of the Crown had neglected his duty, in that case, the slave, or rather the injured person, should not be prejudiced by anything already done. He en tirely concurred in the sentiment that there should be a per fect cordiality between this country and France, an d th at any arrangement should be most faithfully worked out.--t Hear, hear.) He believed that the slave trade upon the eastern coast of Africa was carried on to a great extent,. There had been within the last few months a great increase of the cap ture of slave ships. With res pect to Cuba, he was not at pre sent prepared to go into the details, but he would admit, that under the government of Valdez, the facilities for slave impor tation had been increa sed. W ith respect to the baracoons, he was willing to admit, that if the naval powers were • cordially to co-operate, those depositaries of slaves might be suppressed, and that much towards the extinction of the trade might be gained by their suppression. If the Noble Lord had given notice that it was his intention to seek for this information, he ( Sir R. Peel) m ight be enabled to enter into a full explanation. Let him (Lord Palmerston) point out the way in which the information might be furnished so as to support the credit of the House, and it would ne doubt be supplied. Lord PALMERSTON wished to say a few words in ex planation. It was quite true that he lied rot given any notice of asking for this information ; but the statements of the Right. Honourable Baronet would lead him to think that he was glad that no notice had been given, whereby he was enabled to avoid entering upon matters in which a single word too much might involve the credit of the Governs - neat. His ( Lord Palmerston's) object wan to draw the attention of the Government to these points. It. was not his intention to bring on a discussion. FL. , meant to say that the course sugges•ed by the Right Hon. Baronet was the best, and was practicable in every rase —namely, that they should hold out inducements which would enable them to do so with great famlity. He would only say that the return contained very imperfect in formation. Mr. HUME was sorry to be obliged to differ from the Noble Lord who had just sat down. He agreed with him that it was desirable to put down the slave trade, and he could say that no person could have exerted himself more strenuously to obtain that object. lie (Mr. Hume), however, thought that he had been carrying on great expense, and in a gr e at ran g e , w ith ou t being able to effect his motives. He was of opinion that the trade remained as rife as it was when he began his operations. It was not perfectly clear that they had not added even to the evils which they tried to suppress. They could not suppress it by holding out inducements, for the trade was carried on for their profit and advantage; and as long as that was to be de rived, it would be impossible to cause even a decrease in the tr rde. They might destroy their barraeoons, and drive them from place to place, but the trade would continue. If half the money and half the trouble were devoted to increase free labour in their colonies, he believed they would have done much more towards putting an end to the slave trade. Mr. WARBURTON stated that the paper to which the Noble Lord made reference nave the following result. It ap peared in the course of the years from 1815 to 1843, the num ber of slaves transported from Africa to Cuba, and the Brazils, amounted to 639,145 souls, and according to the notice which was appended to that return, in order to obtain the seal amount, they were directed to multiply that number by two which would make it 1,280,000 souls. During that time the number liberated were 18.042. One-and -a-half per cent. was all that they liberated of the slaves that were shipped from Africa. Were they not to look to the past for the purpose of guiding their conduct in future. They were told that if Eng land and France joined to suppress the slave-trade the best re sults would follow. To that he would reply in the mode of a Spartan—if they will cordially unite to put it down. If, then, they looked at their experence from 1815 to 1843, and considered that the next thirty years would give a different re sult, then he might think that they might suppress it. He hoped that this perseverance would soon have its end, for by it they were exciting more attachment to the slave-trade. Lord PALMERSTON in explanation said, that the Hon. Member had only stated the number of slaves that had been liberated and landed in America, there were sixty or seventy thousand who were landed at Sierra Leone and had settled there. Sir CHARLES NAPIER said, he agreed with the Hon. Member for Kendal, and with the Noble Lord who had just sat down, and with the Right lion. Baronet opposite_- (laughter)—that " if " the French could be got to join Eng land in an effort to put down the slave trade, it could indeed be very easily put down._(Laughter.) But that they never reed expect to see ; for the French were at that moment en deavouring to put down the right of search question. But if the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of Her Majesty's Go vernment would give up all the humbug about freeing s'aves that lie had heard of late—(laughter) —and embark 2,000 of the West India black troop in s hips, and send them along the sea shore and destroy all the forts along the Barbary coast, without any regard to the law of n ations--(laughter)—the slave trade would soon be put an end to.—( Hear, hear, and laughter). Until that was done, there would be no use in making the attempt. Capt. PECH ELL differed from the Hon. Member for Mon trese as to the mode of putting down this nefarious traffic.—. (hear, hear.) The ships now built for the purpose were much better calculated to carryon this trade than those formerly in use : and, therefore, unless some decided steps were taken, it would go on at a great.' rate than ever. They did not see the fine old seamen that used to man the decks of their ships in war time. What had become of all those fire men who had gone through that excellent establishment, the gunnery ship at Portsmouth ? Sir GEORGE COCKBURN said he had great pleasure in the expenses of a journey made by the Bishop of Gibraltar, to Lisbon, in a steam-vessel, and that 3101. was voted to the same Bishop for journeys to Cadiz and Palermo last year. He had no doubt those were very pleasent excursions, but the Roman Ca sheiks and the Dissenters contributed to ray for them, and that ought to be taken into account. The Bishop of Antigua had received 1471. for similar expenses, and the Bishop of Barbs does, who had 4,0001. a year, received 1801. fe• his travelling expenses.—(Hears hear.) Now he should like to know how any person could justify the taxing of the Ro man Catholics and Dissenters for purposes like these. 13,0801. had been last year given to the Scotch Universities. The revenues of the Scotch Church were only 17,3001. a year, whilst three academies in the North of Ireland received 27,0001. a year. He did not see how honest men cculd tax Roman Catholics so heavily, and yet refuse to allow so small a sum for the maintenance and education of those designed to be religious teachers of the great body of the Irish people. The opposition to the measure was unjust, uncharitable, and based on a bad principle. A sum of 5,6001. was annually paid to the dissenting clergymen in the North of Irel '.nd, and why had not those who now so valorously, and on such a pretended as sumption of principle opposed the Maynooth grant, on the voluntary principle opposed those other grants he had enume rated in previous years ? He supported this measure with pain, because he acted in opposition to the opinion of many of his warmest supporters amongst the dissenting body . . He could not conceive why this question of voluntary principle should now be so warmly espoused when it had been for so many years suffs red to lie dormant. It certainly showed a bad and an unkind feeling towards Roman Catholics. He would give his conscientious support to the measure. —(Cheers.) Sir R. INGLIS said the Hon. Member for Coventry had asked him how he could consistently vote for taxing his Roman Catholic and Dissenting fellow-subjects for pecuniary advantage to the Established Church, or why he should tax other sects to maintain one sect. Now it was because he did not believe the Church of England to be a sect, but the great depository of the religion of the State that he had supported, and would always support it. He would support the Establishment of the Church 'of England at home and abroad. He would not follow the Hon. Member through all his statements, but would say that, with respect to the visitations to which the Hon. Member had referred as matters of expense, that the visitors could de rive no other pleasure from them but just that which men who felt gratified in the discharge of their laborious and onerous duties could derive. The Hon. Member for Rochdale was dealing with property the oldest and most sacred in the king dom—the property of God and of his Church. The general object of the Hon. Member was the destruction of all established religions, but was more particularly aimed at the Church of England. If that motion shoold ever succeed, the poor, to whom the blessings of religion were most important, could never hope to receive them. This was the chief reason why he had opposed, aad should always oppose, such a proposition as that of the Hon. Member for Rochdale. Dr. BOWRING said he considered the position of the lion. Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford as unenviable as it was infatuated. The Hon. Baronet said, my doctrines are the true doctrines, all others are false, and no money shall be appropriated to any other; mine shall be endowed, and no other shall get a farthing. He would vote against the amend ment, and did not think it a proper season to bring it forward. After much consideration be had, though at the sacrifice of the support of many of his firmest friends, who warned him not to do so, supported the grant. He thought the measure a just one, and that it would tend to conciliate Ireland. He thought it a step in the right direction, and was grieved that it had been met with such bitter:opposition, and that it had been connected with the question of State Church endowments. He felt de lighted to hear the Right Hon. Baronet say that Ireland was to be conciliated by kindness, and not to be ruled by force. He was distressed to witness the feelings which this measure had given rise to—thousands of men banded together from hatred of Popery and hatred of Papists—but he trusted this feeling would speedily subside, and that a better feeling would spring up between the people of both countries. Mr. HUME stated that he expressed his opinion before in that House, that this was merely an educational grant, and not an endowment of the Catholic Church. It was on that ground he supported the measure. They voted away annually a sum of money to make up the sa'aries of clergyman in Scot land whose means were under 1501. a year ; and in the same manner they voted money to the bishops, deans, and all grades of clergymen of the Established Church. There was not, however, in the Bill before the House a single word to endow the clergy of the Catholic Church. There was one point to which he would now allude. He should like to see a mixture of all classes—clergy and laity— in that establishment—(Hear)—and he thought it would be of great importance if that could be effected. He thought, that as they expected allegiance from all classes, they were bound to extend to all the advantages of a moral and reli gious education. He regretted that some of his constituents differed with him. He had received communications from the Wesleyan Methodists and other Dissenters, remonstrating with him on the line of conduct he had adopted on that question, but he had received none from the members of the Established Church. He thought this the more strange on the part of the Dissenters, for at the time the Test and Corporation Acts were under consideration, the Roman Catholics came forward to assist them to obtain that liberty of conscience for which they were then contending. He regretted therefore to see those very persons who had so much benefited by those exertions now come forward to exhibit so much ingratitude. He thought the Honourable Baronet ( Sir Robert Inglis) who had headed the Opposition to this measere, and of those who followed him, would have the tendency to call public attention to the enor mous wealth of the Establishment, and to the necessity of de voting it to educating the people at large. He would giv 3 his most cordial support to the measure through all its stages. Sir ROBERT PEEL apprehended that there was nothing in the former acts relating to Maynooth, imposing on the State the necessity of providing exclusive religious education ; and if there had been, the Catholics were not responsible for it, for when in 1795 a proposal was made to establish a college, Mr. Grattan presented a petition from the Roman Catholics against its exclusive character—that it should be an institution for the education of Protestants as well as Catholics—but the Go vernment expressly stated that it should be devoted solely to the education of the Catholic priesthood. There was no de sire, therefore, on the part of the Catholics to make it an exclusive institution, and there was nothing in the Acts relating to it to make it so ; but he was bound to say that, in point of fact, it had become so. But before they should con demn it on this account, he begged them to read a letter of Mr. Burke'.s,:written by that gentleman in 1795.—(The Right Hon. Gentleman then read the letter, in which the writer stated his conviction that the institution should be exclusively confined to the education of the priesthood.) Now that was the opinion of Mr. Burke, who was for making it an exclusive institution, not only so far as regarded Catholics, but also the priesthood of that body. As he stated before, there was no thing new now proposed. There was nothing in the Acts which necessarily made it an exclusive institution ; but he must own, on reading the opinion of Mr. Burke in its favour, he thou eht that his opinions were entitled to every respect. Mr. HINDLEY repelled the charge of ingratitude made against the Dissenters on this occasion, for the very year arter the time alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Htnee), they manfully came forward to assist in removing the Catholic disabilities. But their opposition to this measure was based on very different grounds. They considered it—and he must say that it was his opinion also—that it was the initiative step in the endowment of the Catholic Church, and to this alone was to be attributed their opposition. They had one Church already endow ed, and he wished to know why they en dowed it. War it because it possessed the truth If they had a secular power to tell what was truth and What was nut, he would bow to its authority. But he wished to know where this power resided, Was it in the Lord High Chancellor of England, or in the Archbishop of Canterbury? If that leas not the reason why they endowed it, perhaps they did so because it was the Church of the majr.rity. If that were the reason, why did they not apply that principle in Ireland ? The Honourable Gentleman then proceeded to show the superiority of the voluntary principle, and stated, that in the case of the London Missionary Society for the conversion of the heathen, there was subscribed during the first 10 sears of its existence no less a sure than 47,000/. ; in the second 10 years, 87,000/, ; in the third 10 years, '280,000/. ; in the fourth 10 years, 407,000/. ; in the fifth 10 years, ; and during the last year the Wesleyan Methodists subscribed for the same purpose 105,000/. ; and of that sum 1,2001. was subscribed by the emancipated slaves in Jamaica. —( Heer.) He might go through a great deal of statistics on the subject, but as the House had indulged him so much, he would not detain them any longer.—(Cries of " Divide, divide.") Lands ChWe3 Consolidation Bill The House then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment ..... ............ . ... 2 Against it Majority —139 being enabled to state, that during the last year the moat effi cient service had been renri.re.l by the cruisers on the coast of Africa. rrom the returns which had been made. it appeared that three out of every four of th., vessels which had sailed fi om the coat of Arica did not contain slaves. No stronger proof of the efficiency of the force on thv coast could be adduced. Since the present squadron had been on the coast of Africa the price of slaves had very much increase in the colonies. With respect to the ob.ervations of the Hon. and Gallant Officer as to the seamen in the navy, he could only say, that the navy never contained fner men than it did at present. They were in a high state of discipline, and were very efficient. When he commanded the squadron in the West Indies he had seen ships come in in which there were no returns of punishment of the men. The ships were as well disciplined and as efficient as in the time of war. From those circumstances, it appeared to him that men were not difficult to obtain. Captain BERKELEY said that he could give very cogent reasons why the fleet was not manned, could not be manned, and would not be manned. The entries for a parti cular ship—and he should like to ask the non. and Gallant Admiral why there was such discontent among thq . men who engaged under Captain Lockyer in the Albion ? Why did they send a ship's company to sea with an inefficient supply, and especially in an experimental squadron. But they dis gusted the men with the experimental squadron—and why ? Because the men see that they have work to do, which en tirely precluded them from anything like rest. What was the reason there was so much apprehension about the conduct of the men, in the event of any war with America, but because they were about to send ships to sea with a miserably bad establishment, and from which, from the experience of the last war, they never could expect anything like success. Sir G. COCKBURN, in explanation, observed that there was no intention to restrict the complement of sea-going ships ; but with regard to the experimental squadron, the object was not so much to try the men as the ships, and he could assure the Gallant Officer ( Captain Pechell) that so long as he re mained in office, he should take care that no ship went to sea without being well manned. Carain BERKELEY asked the Gallant Admiral ( Sir G. Cockburn) how the awn were dispo3ed of who left the Albion ? Sir G. COCKBURN could not say in what way the men were disposed of, but he believed that the men were entered into other ships. Sir C. NAPIER was not satisfied with the reply of the Gallant Admiral, for he believed that ships ought to be well manned ; and when he saw a cloud rising in the , west, he thought that ships ought to go to sea well manned. He would rather that seven ships should go to sea well manned, than eight ships ill manned. In coming up the other day with an officer of the Superb, who could have no possible reason for misre presenting the circumstances, he had heard that in that ship there were not more than forty able seamen. The men, it was true, were well behaved, but they knew nothing of naval affairs. And so it was with most of the ships of the line. The men were all anxious to do their duty, .but the crews were of inferior quality; and whilst they could command, as they could if they chose to command, seamen equal to any duty, he knew not why they should be content to send ships to dangerous and important services inefficiently manned and equipped. He th6ught they ought to build another Seaman's Home at Sheerness, to protect the seamen from the robbers by whom they were surrounded when they came on shore. Seamen were perfect children, and no matter where they concealed their money—whether they put it in their pockets, or in their hats, or anywhere else—they were sure to get robbed of half of it, before twelve hours: after they came on shore. Then, again, how were they treated when they were induced to go on service abroad? During the China war, men were induced to go to a bad climate becaiise the prospect of prize money was held out to them as an inducement to go. But when the navy and army were just on the point of taking Canton, the civil functionary interfered and prevented them from sacking the town. They thus lost the prize money which they ex pected, and got but a year's blitz instead. Again, how were the men who served in the war in Syria treated ? Why, when they came home, they got 101., and were dismissed being told to call again in a fortnight, but, of course, they were disgusted with the treatment they received, and did not come back any more. He would read to the Committee Lord Nel son's opinion with regard to thd mode in which ships ought to be manned. ( The Hon. and Gallant Officer then read the opinion of Lord Nelson.) He (Sir C. Napier) considered that the Registration Act of last year had been of the greatest ser vice, but he thought that an improvement might be made in the Enlistment Act. At present, the Government were afraid to issue a proclamation for men to come forward in the proba bility of a war, because they would have to pay 10/. bounty, and as there should be 40,030 men in the Navy, that would amount to 400,0001., which the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not much like to pay out of the Exchequer. Now, he did not think that the men themselves would expect that, but if the war were actually to take place, then that they should get the same bonnty.—( Hear, hear.) He felt satisfied that if the Government came forward in a liberal manner they would have no difficulty in obtaining sea men. A paper had been recently laid before the American Congress showing that out of 115,000 men in the American naval service 100,000 were foreigners, and he (Sir C. Napier) believed that 90,000 of these were Englishmen, who, in case of war, would leave that service, and come into the English, pro vided a proper remuneration were held out, and that the slavish mode of impressment was not resorted to.—( Hear. hear.) But bold manly ttailers would not leave the American service to join one in which impressment prevailed. Offer the men good bounty, an improved pay—( Hear ' hear)—and by such means the assistance of able seamen would be secured, but the system of compulsion was only calculated to drive away able seamen from them, and to damage the character of their fleet.—( Hear.) Mr. C. WOOD was not at all surprised at the difficulty of obtaining seamen, which was always great at this season of the year, when merchant vessels were fitted out for shurt voyages. The late Government were constantly assailed by Hon. Gen tlemen opposite for the inefficient state of the fleet, but never, he would assert, since the year 1835, was the fleet of the country in such a weakened and defenceless state as during the last year. lie was convinced they could not restore the navy to a proper state unless they came down to that House and asked for an additional supply of men. Mr. BROTH ERTON then moved that the Chairman do report progress. But before theChairmau did so, Mr. S. HERBERT wished to disabuse the minds of Hon. Gentlemen opposite in supposing that our foreign coun tries Were not amply supplied with men, and to as3ure the House that Government had power to increase the number of men employed on the home stations whenever they pleased. The fact, however, was, Government did not think there was any necessity at present for adding to the number of men em ployed on the home service. With regard to the statement of the Hon. Member. that the coast was never so unprotected in a time. of danger since 1835 than it was last year, now he .. • . could tell the Hon. Member that in 1840, and 1841, a time of great danger, the court was much more unprotected than it was in 1835. Captain BERKELEYdid not think it was so easyto man the navy in the present day, as is. was formerly, and before the esti mates were got through, he should take an opportunity of stat ing his reason for entertaining that opinion. Lord PA LMERsToN denied that there was so much danger of a rupture between this country and France in 1841 and 1841 as there was in the last year. He admitted that some danger did exist in 1840 and 1841, but that danger ceased on a change taking place in the French GovernMent. Lord IN GESTRE did not dispute that there were less ships in port last year than there were in 1835 ; but he complained that the Cornwallis and another ship were sent out in the latter year without either a full complement of arms, men, or guns. After a few words from Mr. Corry, Sir C. Napier, and Captain Pechell. • Admiral BOWLES took occasion to state that he could as sure the House that there never was a time when the seamen or men-of-war were in a better condition than at the present time. Sir CHARLES NAPIER said that at the time the Gallant Admiral spoke of them, there were only four ships of the line in commission, and the vessels at Portsmouth and Plymouth not forty efficient men in them. The vote of 10,575/. sas then agreed to, after whieh the House resumed. The Scotch Banks Bill was read a seccrid time, as also the Mr, TURNER brought on his motion far a return of a copy of the coronation oath, and of the oaths of Ministers on as-uming office, and of Members on taking seats in the House of Commons, should be laid on the table; bat on the observa tion of Sir James Graham, that the violation of these oaths would subject the several persons alluded to, as well as to the very lowest members of the community to severe penalties, the motion was withdrawn and the House adjourned. THE BLOCKAD., OF THE PORTENDIC. On (Air being admitted to the gallery, we found Lord PALMERSTON nn his legs, addressing the House with reference to the blockade of Portendic. He wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government, whether it was intended to lay before the Heine the papers re lating to that subject? Sir R. PEEL had no objection to lay all the papers and correspondence referring to this subject before the House, shortly after the recess. CASE OF LIEUTENANT BRIDGE. Captain PECHELL wished to call the attention of the Gal lant Admiral opposite to a circumstance which had appeared in the public prints, and which was viewed with considerable in terest in the profession to which he had the honour to belong. Lieut. Bridge, of the Cormorant, it was alleged, had violated the 23d article of war, which related to disrespect to the supe rior officer, and he was tried by Court-martial for the offence, the captain appearing as a member of that court. He wished to know whether the Admiralty considered these proceedings regular, and if they did not, whether any steps had been taken to compensate Lieut. Bridge for his undeserved calamities? Admiral COCKBURN, who spoke in so low a tone as to be heard with difficulty, was understood to say that the Admiralty had yet taken no steps, but that the great probability was, that that officer would again be restored to the service of his country. Captain PECHELL said the Gallant Admiral had not yet answered his question. He wished to know if the proceedings of that Court-martial were considered regular by the Board of Admiralty ? Admiral COCKBURN—Perfectly regular. NAVY ESTIMATES. The House then went into Committee on the Navy Es. timates. ..... Mr. CORRY proposed a vote of 610,5451. for the victualing, &c., of the navy durinz the current year. ENSLAVEMENT OF BRITISH SUBJECTS. Lord PALNIERSTON wished to notice certain returns, books, and papers for the years 1835, 18?6, 1839, and 1841, and relating to the landing of slaves in the Havannah, in Cuba, and in other of the islands and on the coast of South America. He saw be reports from Cuba, the Brazils, and the coast of Africa that the slave-trade was undoubtedly on the increase. That was the distinct statement from these places. In Cuba and in Surinam there were considerable numbers of negroes who had been at differont periods brought from the British colones to Surinam and other parts of the Dutch pos sessions, and sold as slaves. They had been brought off before the Act of Emancipation had been passed. They were now in slavery, whereas it' they had been left in the British colonies they would have been included in the Act of Emancipation. Their ease was brought under the consideration of the Go vernment, to w hi c h h e ( L ord Palmerston) b elonge d . Th ey thought it was the duty of the Government to en deavour Ito procure the liberty of those Parti PARLIAMEN TARY iii V ISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) MONDAY, MAY 5. IRISH GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY (DUBLIN TO GALWAY). Report (30th April) from Select Committee on Standing Orders read :—Motion made, and Question put, " That the parties promot ing the Irish Great Western Railway {Dublin to Galway) Bill, be permitted to proceed with their Bill." The House divided :-- Devereux, the Lord Chamberlain, Viscount Sydney, Sir Frederick Stevin, and Gilimel Wylde. Her Royal Highness the Durthas ot Kent (att , .nileil by Lady Anna Maria Dawso,), their R-0$ ;ligneess..?.. the Duke and Duche-s of Cambridge, Prince George and tti• Plaices.; Mary, and the Hereditary Grant Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden (attended by Baroness de Strumfeder) also arrive.' at Marlborough House. A select party of the Nobility had been honoured with invi tations. Soon after the arrival of the Queen, the august party en tered the Grand Hall which had been fitted up for the perform ance of Lea Danseuses Viennoises, a temporary flooring having been laid down with a row of elevated teats at the south-side for the accommodation of the Queen and the other illustrious guests. Seats for the other visitors were also prepared in the gallery above supported by Doric columns. The recesses in the hall were filled with choice and fragrant flowers. The Queen and the Queen Dowager were seated in the centre of the elevated seats, and the other visitors having en tered the Hall, Les Danseuses Viennoises performed their dances, under the direction of Madame Josephine Weiss. The royal and august party were served with refreshments after the performance in the dining-rooms and other apart ments. At seven o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert and the Prince of Leiningen, accampanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, took their de parture. The Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strditz, and the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, also left at the same time. The Queen had a Concert last evening at Buckingham Palace. The company began to arrive soon after nine o'clock. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz arrived at half-past nine o'clock. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent (attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson) and the Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden (attended by Baroness Strurnfeder and Baron de Schreckenstein) arrived shortly afterwards. Later in the evening Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippsthal, Prince Gcoege, the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, and Prince Edward Saxe Weimar arrived. The general company were ushered into the Picture Gallery. At ten o'clock the Queen and Prince Albert were con ducted by the Lord Chamberlain and the Lord Steward to the Salool, which had been fitted up for the Concert. The Royal Family and the other distinguished visitors followed, and the performances commenced. Supper was served in the dining-room. The following is a Programme of the Concert : PARTE PRIMA. Trio," Quando a quest' alma amante " Madame Gris.i, Signior Mario e Lablache (Donna del Lago)—Rossini. Aria, " Della I-tosa it bel vermiglio," Madl. Castellan (Biancae Falliero)—Rossini. Duetto, " Qtrrido di sangne tinto," Signior Moriani, e Fornasari ( Belisario)—Donizetti. Duetto, "Lo conosco a quegli Occhietti," Mad. Grisi e Sig. Lablache (La Serva Padrona)—Faisiello. Aria, " Jamai qual aman gli angeli," Sig. Mario (Don Carlo, )—. Costa. Sestetto, " Vedi come it boon vegliardo," Mesda_►s. Grisi e Castellan, Signrs. Mario, Moriani, Fornasari, e Lablache (Ernani)—Verdi. PARTE SECONDE. Duetto, " Di Capricci," Mad. Castellan e Sig. Fornasari (Coraadino).—Rossini. Aria, " d'Amore fra le ritorte," Mad. Grisi (Aleliandro nelle ladle )77Pacini. Duette, " 0 Ciel, ou courrez-vous?" Mad. Castellan e Sig Mario (Les Huguenot s)—Meye , beer Aria, " Dalla sua Pace," Sig. Moriato ( Don J.tan)—Mozart. Duetto " Vanne se Alberghi in petto," esdames Grisi e Castellan ( Andronico)—Mercadatite. Chorus, " Forza dell'Alma," Mesdames srisi e Castel:an ; Signori Morisni, Mario, Fornasari e Lablache (La Carita)—Rossini. Signor Costa presided at the piano-forte. The following had the honour of receiving invitations : His Serene Highness Prince Ernest of Hesse Philippstahl, His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the French Amba sador and the Countess de St. Aulaire, the Austrian Ambassador and the Countess Dietrichsteis, the Turkish Ambassadpr, the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Argentine Minister, the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Netherlands Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the Portuguese Minister and Baroness de Moncorvo, the Venezuelan Minister, the Russian Minister and Ba , oness Brunow and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechnar, the Sicilian Minister, the Hanoverian Minister, the Prussian Minister and Madame Bunsen and Mademoiselle Bunsen, the Brazilian Minister and Madame Marques Lisboa, the American Minis ter, and Mrs. Everett and Miss Everett, the Danish Minis ter and Countess de Reventlow, the Mexican Minister and Madame Murphy, the Spanish Minister and the Duchess de. Sotomayor, the Saxon Minister and the Baroness de Gersdoff, the New Grenada Chargé d'Affaires and Madame Mosquera, the Swedish Chargé d'Affaires and Baroness de Rahausen, the Chief Secretary to the French Embassy and the Countess de Jarnac, the Chief Secretary to the Austrian Embassy, the Chief Secretary to the Turkish Embassy and the Secretary Interpret, r, Baron and Baroness Arnim, Count Bonkowski, Baron d'Aehrenthal, le Duc de Broglie, le Prince de Broglie, le Baron de Folgoza, Count de Galva, le Baron et la Baronne de la Ronceire Le Noury, Count R. Kineky, le Coutre Amiral Pontiatine, Count Rosen, Mons. Van Kerekhove, Mons. Van Capenbergh, Baroness de Strumfeder, Baron Roth de Schreckenstein, M. Gustave de Gersdorff, Le Countesse Marie de 1.1131 La Countesse Henrietta de Lusi, Count Boleslas Potocki, Baron Knesebeck, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Lord Chancellor, the Lady in Waiting on her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the Lady in Waiting on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in Waiting on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, the Lady in Waiting on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, the Maid of Honour, in Waiting on the Queen Dowager, the Right Hon. the Speaker, the Gen tleman attending on his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam brid2,-e, the Gold Stick, the Silver Stick in Waiting, &c., &c. The Prince of Leiningen visited the Duchess of 'Kent yes terday. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Cuchess of Mecklenberg Strplitz ' at tended by Baron Knesebeck, visited the Colosseum yesterday. The Bishop of Fredericton had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday at the Colonial Office. Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, hail an interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at the Office of the Board of Trade. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY. CHESTER CEP. 4 to 1 agst Mr. Hesselane's Fitzallen—taken 6 to 1 agst Mr. Jacques's Setriserea—taken 8 to 1 agst Mr. Irwin's Ould Ireland—taken 9 to 1 agst Mr. A Johnstone's Obscurity—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. W. J. 11. Johnstone's The Era—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. W. Scott's Cataract—taken 14 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldestone's Sorella—taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. Skerratt's Intrepid—taken to 40/. 2 to 1 agst Semiseria and Fitzallan' 25 even on Fitzallan, Serniseria, Ould Ireland, and Sorella, agst the Field. There was a strong desire to back Fitzallen, but few bold enough to lay against him ; 9 to 2 was taken freely—Semi seria found friends at 13 to 2 and 6 to 1-10 to 1 was laid against Ould Ireland to a score or two, and notwithstanding a report that ho had stumbled upon the Rothtsee, was backed near the close at two points less-9, and afterwards Bto 1, was taken about Obscurity—and 12 to 1 each about Era and Cataract. The investments generally were to small sums. DERBY. 9 to 4 agst Lord Stradbroke's Idas—taken to 501. 'lOO to 10 agst Mr. Gully's Weatherbit—taken 3000 to 60 agst Mr. A. IV. Hill's The Libel—taken LATEST BETTING AT CHESTER. THE Cur.-7 to 2 agst 'Fitzallen (taken to upwards of 1,0001.)-6 to 1 agst Semiseria-7 to 1 agst. Ould Ireland (t) —7 to 1 agst Cataract-12 to 1 agst Era-14 to 1 agst Oto scurity-14 to 1 agst Sorella-1000 to 30 agst Queen of Tyne-1000 to 25 agst Counsellor-50 to I agst Milton. Ould Ireland struck a post severely during his gallop on Sunday morning. Alice Hawthorn, Winesour, and Fitzallen are at Delamere Forest. (RECEIVED THIS uAY.) CHESTER RACES. CHESTER, MONDAY EVENING. The following is a list of the horses that nave already :tr-- rived, or are reported to be on the road: — TWO YEARS OLD. Sotades, Princess Alice, Amelia, ch c by Hetman Platoff, out of Miss Thomasina, Queen Mary, f by Tory Boy, out of Miss Fitz, ch c by Stockport, out of Manila, Anna Bullen, The Traverser, Curiosity, Staircase. THREE YEARS OLD. Miss Holbrook, Outcast, The Witch, Lena, Queen Po mare, Manasseh, Bastion, Alice Grey, Freeman, Psalm singer, General Nott, The Helmsman, Frances, The Hermit, Ada, Iretwalda, Vaudeville, Gothic, Hope, Violet, Cinizelli, The Libel, f,by Sheet Anchor, out of L'Hirondelle, br c by Muley Moloch, out of Tillah, Yellow Boy, Crim Con, f by Jereed, out of Compensation's dam, Miss Elis, Fitzallen, Ould Ireland, &c. MAJORITY-AYES, 97 A cton, Colonel ' Forman, T. S. Northland, Viscoun Adderley, C. B. - Frenrmtle, Sir T. O'Brien, A. S. Begot. William Godson, Richard O'Conor, Don Bailey, Joseph Gore, Montague; O'Ferrall, R. M. Bankes, George Gore, Robert Phillpotts, John Barron, Sir H. Gree nail, Peter Polhill, Frederick Bateson, Thomas - Gregory, W. H. Ponsonby, C. P. A. Bentinek, Lord G. Grimston, Viscount Repton, G. W. J. Beresford, Major Guest,!Sir J. Roche, E. B. Berkeley, Craven Hallyburton, Lord Rous, Captain, Berkeley, H. F. Hamilton, J. H. Shaw, Frederick Berkeley, Grantley Hamilton, Lord C. Shell, R. L. Blake, M. J. Hastie, Archibald Smith, T. B. C. Bowes, John Hayes, Sir Edmund Smythe, George Busfeild, W. Henniker, Lord Somers, J. P. Butler, P. S. Hill, Lord M. Staunton, Sir G. Carew, R. S. Hodgson, F. Stewart, Joint Clayton, R. R. Howard, Philip H. Stock, Sergeant Clifton, J. I'. . Hussey, Ambrose • Taylor, Edward Colborne, W. R. Hussey, Thomas Tonnent, J. E. Collins, William Law,:C. E. Thornhill, George Colquboun, J. C. Leslie, C. P. Tollemache, John Conte, Sir C. Lowther, Colonel Trollope,:Sir J. Courtenay, Lord Mackenzie, T . - Tufnell, Henry Crawford, W. S. Mackinnon, W. J. Tyrrell, Sir J. T. Darner, Colonel Macnamara,7Maior Wall, C. B. Dick, Quintin 2ll`Taggart, Sir J. Watson, W. H Dlvett, Edw..rd Manic, Fox Yorke, H. R. Douglas, Sir H. Maxwell, J. P. Young, John Duncan, George Milnes, R. M. Dundas, Admiral Morris, David Escott, Bickham Murphy, F. S. Flower, Sir J. '. Newry, Viscount Forbes, 'William Norreys, Sir D. J. TELLERS. French,l% Redingion, T. N MINORITY-NOES, 81. Aidam, William Fitzroy, Lord C. Palmerston, Viscoun Arbuthnott, IL Glynne, Sir S. Parker, John Arkwright, George Greene, Thomas Pendarves, - E. W. Baldwin, Barry Grey. Sir George Pringle. Alexander Barnard, E. G. Grosvenor, Lord R. Pusey, Philip Becket t,lWilliam Hatton, Captain Rushbrooke, Col. Blackburne, J. I. Heathcote, G. J. Russell, Lord J. Bouverie, E. P. Hepburn, Sir T. B. Rutherford, A. Bowring, Dr. , Holihouse, Sir J. Sanderson, Richard Bright, John • Howard, Sir R. Somerset, Lord G. Brotherton, J. Hume, Joseph Stanfield, W. It. C. Buck, L. W. Hutt, William Stuart, Lord J. Chapman, Aaron Inglis, Sir R H. Strutt, Edward Childers, J. W. Irving, John Thesiger, Sir F. Christie, W. D. James, Sir Walter Thernely, Thomas Clerk, Sir George Jermyn, Earl Trevor, G. R. Colebrooke, Sir T. Labouchere, Henry Turn r, Edmund Compton, M. C. Lowther, Sir J. Vane, Lord H. Corry, Henry Lygon, General Waddington, IL S. Dodd, George Macaulay, T. B. Walker, Richard Douglas, Sir C. Manners, Lord C. S. Warburton, Henry Duncan, Viscount Mildmay, H. St. John Wilmington, Sir T. Duncombe, T. Mitcalfe, Henry Wood, Colonel T. Duncombe, 0. Morrison, James Wortley, John S. Egerton, W. T. Mundy, E. M. Wrightson, W. B. F.lphinstone, H. Napier, Sir C. - TELLERS. Entwisle, William • Ord, William Estcourt, T. G. B, Evans, William Pakington, J. S. Patten, J. W. COUR. UULAit. His Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen arrived at Buckingham Palace at half-past twelve o'clock yesterday from Brussels. on a visit to her Majesty. Her Alajesty the Queen Dowager gave a juvenile fete yes terday afternoon at Marlborough House. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princes; Alice, arrived from Buck ingham Palace at a quarter past four o'clock, and were received at the garden entrance by the Queen Dowager, attended by her Ladies in Waiting and the Vice-Chamberlain. The Prince of Leiningen accompanied her . Majesty .and Prince Albert. The Royal suite included the Viscountess Jocelyn, the Dow ager Lady Lyttelton, Lady Caroline Somers ,Cocks, Hon. Miss CUP HORSES. Alice Hawthorn, Aristides, The Era, St. Lawrence, Wine sour, Trueboy, Counsellor, Sorella, Semiseria. Extempore, Alamode, Queen of Tyne, Porto Bello, Beatrice, Everton, Cataract, Little:Hampton, Hemp, The Dog Billy, Agriculture, the Old Maid, Intrepid, Strathspey, Obscurity, Susan, Am bition, Stayley, April Noddy, British Tar, and three yrs old named above. Besides several others for Plates, &c. LATEST BETTING. THE COP. 7to 2 agst Fitzallen (t f) 18 to 1 agst The Era 9 to 2 agst Odd Ireland 25 to 1 agst St. Lawrence (t) 6to 1 agst Semiseria (t) 40 to 1 agst Intrepid (t) 9 to• 1 agst Cataract 50 to 1 agst Ceunsellor (t) 14 to 1 agst Obscurity (t) No others mentioned. DERBY. 2 to 1 agst Idas (t) 50 to 1 apt Cobweb c The weather is favourable, and the course, thanks to a few timely showers, is in most excellent order. THE CHESTEtt CU tj. (FROM A LIVERPOOL CORRESPONDENT.) On Sunday morning the Chester race-course was more crowded with horses at-exercise than I ever remember, but taken altogether, as far as regards condition, a more 'needy lot I never saw. Of Dawson's string of twelve, there were only two that appeared in anything like racing form—these were Tiueboy and The Era. I can not speak favourably of those (there were seven of them) under the management of the Scotts, and among the Irish division I have very little expectation of seeing a winner. The Pride of Kildare met with an accident at Birkenhead, and Ould Ireland fell and threw his rider, when pulling up from his gallop on Sunday morning. The only horses which appeared at all fit to start for such a prize as the Chester Cup mere Aristides (whose coat was like a looking glas , ). The Era, Qm-en the Tyne, Trueboy, and the Old Maid. Hessel.ine's lot were not there. Report says Temple man is to ride the old mare ( Alice), and to (14) a il h e eat to make Fitzallen a winner, and it he cannot accomplish that to try to win with her. Sorella, who jumped up from long odds to 10 to 1, was expect:d to arrive on Sunday night. St. Lawrence was also expected at the same time. In conjunction with Fitzallen, The Old Maid was backed . to some amount. The owner of the latter anima stands heavily upon her. So I believe does John Day upon St. Lawrence. Obscurity I will not have at all. She is in bad con dition. Her eye--the surest indication to good or bad health—is dull ; her action is lazy—feeble. I dare sty, by the time this appears in print, she will be altogeth,r out of the betting. I almost question if they will start her. I did not see her gallop, but her coat is as rough as a bear's. • Little Hampton will very likely run well and forward, but I did not sou him on Sunday morning. sa me lot (I old n -t , t,wortain 7;-,„ „,, in The Queen of Tyne and another in the ..) v—,t ~, e ry .ir , 4: . _ . ..ovelf lui , 2; ; I.,1• , 1 S . t ~; Wily I t, -. l',ll; r e t -t.l y w ;!' e t il ,ty he 1 yot dto mor , v litlable piliptri•6, ..e ' 2l tept a ql.t'ttiort ; !,, t , t , 1 0 ,0 'rive a !„). r ,0,!,. ac.. ite it of the start,rs ; ali:l for c.lis I Gill 1 ' 6 "" , , a wl debted to the active and intelligent Clerk of the CourSe, r. E. W. Topham. ' They will be— Aliee FlawViorn I I le , rip Arisi ides 1 Milton The Era The Dean St. Lawrence The Old. Maid ineasure Trueboy Intrepid Counsellor Obscurity Sorella Staley Seiniseria The Hermit Beatrice Oulil Ireland Portrait Fit: alien Little Hampton For the Produce Sweepstakes, on Fridav, there w il y ., ily two tart —Price's alt.! Bailt-,!ey's. Alice .El,Pvtli(riid 'NM most likely walk over for the Queens I'll te; 'or there will be a gcoil fi,.id f u r the gaiden Plate' SWeepstakes, as it is called. Perhaps One or two morebie , ill 1,1 On WedneAay, Mr. J. Standishe's Ninel la "" for very likely to poke her nose in advance of t i ' s rest the two-y 4 ar-old race;' and t irist, wi ll On Thursday, The Libel, half brot t o SAhr • be ver • •• j near, It not quite first, for the St, Leg e` . * A ND. BUBGELA t U. 'one c OAL ra.eizzirzT. gsin Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Adt,:t Tsri 15s ; Carr's Hartley, ; Chester Main, 15 s 3d , 165; field, 14s; Basting's Hartley, 17s • Holywell Ma lEl 'ord's Nelson's West Hartley, 16s 6d ; 0 9 1 d Poutup , h '; 14 West Redheugh, 14s 6d; Pott's Primrose, 13s; Eavensw ort ,7, 6d; Hartley, 16s 6d ; Taylor's, 16s 6 West Hartle', d West Tyne Main, 14s ; West Wvlatn, 1 5 s 6d ; j;ell Bell and Brown, 16s 9d ; Bewieke and Co. 17s' 16,6 d, Robson, 15s 6d ; Gosforth,l6s 9d ; lieaton,l6s,6d ; gild Killingworth, 16s; New Walker, 15s 6d; Riddell's, . I ; a st Wharnchffe, 16s 6d ; Eden Main, 17s; Belmont, 1156'E-1440Th 11 1158 e 38 ;6 t ° du n ; , i cLi l l a6mms Richmond, tdo H n a i s 7l : B • Haswell Pemberton, br 9 te d rst : ins f , l 3l e 3.6 t d t s o ;6 n d , ; I B B u s e d i s .1e !. t 6 e j s Kello 17s 3 d ; "" e, Leasingthorne, 1636 d ; So ll ut a llt Trimdon, 17s 3d ; Trimdon High Main, lis • A d 9 d; Ed er/ Browl.'s Deanery, 17s 3d ; Cowndon Tees,' 16s 9"; sods Hartlepool, 17s; Gordon, 15s 3d; Maclean s Tee Co Durham, 16s 9d ; Tees, 18s 4d ; West Hetton, 1601;00 pen Hartley, 173; Dement Water Hartley, 1 , 6 , s ;,, t gtotl e l Duffryn Steam, 22s ; Sidney's Hartley , 16s 9el; '' e Natherton, 16s 6d.—Ships arrives, 19 . 6. P e role;c:1:7:16:5;; CAUGHT AT LAST.—The police at I' Mtti tra'ive rs -- ---- '„Ilon ra,ye " caught at last" one of the most ex teas iv h e Er e Ver g thieves and receiver of stolen oods, Pe-4,,,:tch 5, known in that town and neighlir g iurhoe a ' . : l int:l, l°sll h silver spoons, forks, and plate of every deac ri P a thoug ealimoroalstoillmsmamedoivartletiyhriteerreacentitel;rbeedeanditolhe:;:,;lll,oyl:; ratted the actual thieves have been aPPreLie 0 the t° ' none of the stolen property cold be found aP„, 3 , g reaS nor could their hiding place be discovered. ' e he is -ecret, however, has at last been discevered, all , t d ,,, :. si i n rain of the gang has been ca tors d and ' lf ` I Y .1 t W hit' p..is. n. Oa eunday caerrin , 2 ( la.t Sup; ri"'ettid9e" cool worth and one ot iii, e- hi,ellead) ": th veal" pollee, while be dm) at Snrinton, observed t iree_ : , „tett er, alout 14 years of age, engage.r l in a slispiciousior and following cl;rs iy, apprehended theca i 3, u s ,'. ot ILY sneer(: hens.eirit: i; 1 i . withini lnwth he t et h h e w,.T l a i ym theyit t o s thethifaed lock-up oc t k o - w u n tp , i w eorin i t e n p,r t : c: p v : e., ' r' yell to 12 : 5 any s 0 , , he ), , e irchin• threw awa a sit -er w ,teli, , inch pr""' l n a vititY orali stolen the previous eveiono, with a larg c' e t o ta l l • I Olt,. tr m the residence ;;f Mis- Flint, a ' ll4l ' el , "- In Grey fria• s•gate, i n t h e t ,„ ti Of NottlegOrisenerer l'nesdly a cenfession was n•ie try one o r the P j o'hi‘ e ' which has led to the apormensien of Edwar tn, eltal watch and clockmaker, Goose-gate, Notti n g iv loon° though apparently a respectable iradestnan, is '',i, stOlel CO have long kept a depot for the reception -„,,,i5e.0 go da, which he has received f-orn a regularly l''' - py la corps of thieves, whum he used tu meet tseiee.l..,ette3 thy fields adjoining the town, to receive their D ' treasures. t y DIV YI"' v eer 29, ALBEMARLE STREET, PICCADIL- - r ',,tge o • h o INVENTED SPECTACLES, POWEHFUL, '''''. -- ,,,d by " i . OPERA GLASSES, MICROSCOPES SLC._-1,6001,1)306,0ger Majesty the Icing of Hanover, 'her Grace thekishope Duchess of Bedford, their Graces the Arc hu f Dev°l: Canterbury, York, and Dublin, the Duk es :oo o° u ' , shire, ,Norfolk, Argyle, Marlborough, an in' nd C ti f Bishops of Exeter, Lincoln, " Mes , rs trac --°tl. • - S. and B. Solrnons, OpticiaePr ti ee ns , c i s totlr s vented Spectacle Lenses upon a nen' Elphin, Immediately they are placed before ilaPerreei della c y either by day or candlelight, that rai St ni till o ‘ ed, ev ez.a ge d which appear before the eyes is at once r e ,"; - Post 's object becomes clear and distinct, so tha t t "; g o, 911- 10 detective sight becomes bright and brill.: _, aje ; 6 ofiginn3l Opera Glasieti, brought to its youthful, natural, and the most powerful achromatic Telescope, "'Pestie Inst i l, Microscopes, Invisible, and all kinds of - c°tl c a utiO c . , 4 ments for relief of extreme Deaf ri , es i s. ,, ar e n Kildare., alio," ~....e. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, OPti e 't e s .'s3tn e amt i l he in any way connected with a person of tu vy po t of t ,.. an d ü bser"' in their immediate neighbourhood, O r in a country. To prevent mistakes, be street, op only to be had at 39, Albemarle-street, tic o posite the York Hotel. • ~,,, ,a„g SVI IEB , 0 [ ADVERTISEMENT. I—A. I - B.om q - ~,,, NESS , ' - t S e l GREATLY FROM IMPAIRED lIFALT/T, " --5 1 The "... DEBILITY, CURED BY HOLLOW ' AY S e WO „ 5 6 , PI L S •. 4 r ia 0 lowing is a statement made b the wife of 5 NM' ,tsr,h:tivenneslailt swelled constitution army icoph a nte s hr to the following frets e ti a p sni p cz e iee a s : feda without cshoil chilli's , e sf c eb a e L i e n3 cl g t aa h n :a 3 A d. t became ulcerated to a fearful degree ; in nth i er r e e s y l) ,,Y e .! she appearedlike one in the last stage of ur°, ` l 'lll'' was completely cured by giving her HollowYisey, the when every other means had failed." Mr. j3' ;h s e e proprietor of the Exeter . Chronicle, can giv e " 3ed 1 and address of Mrs. General B—, who Wi tl Y s- t ind cure. Sold by the proprietor, 244, Strati , chemists. ifoC Sa , MEMOIRS OF PRINCE CHARLES STIJAU f t Vi the o° ll ,o paint h e le 1 r a ) 56 : : 1311b a :ri grs s ht , 1: 1 1) 0 :4 PRETENDER.—The most critical epoch n i: f°l. throne, 0 00 of Hanover, since its accession to the .- 1, -- i * , e is4 f ° ,o' unquestionably the rebellion in 174 5 . I I ) Is ast," e at hundred years have elapsed since that last all ov er t`' o f tnida'sle attempt of the exilett Stuarts to re re phl te j lost crown and empire, and still no special _ °g „„eda e 0 the Prince by whom the bola eUterpriSe ",s i S e - oe y i 5 o f has been given to the public. This detl e g ola 3 ,tr. lrn th supplied by a work entitlra " f * „,,i:le t '' c ol' PRINCE CHARLES STUART." the author 0 in t ee esti Klese, h!s exhibited exiraordinar) in d us to u....d bon , ‘io tr: o f ketion ei' hi, , materials, and equal jteigaleutviirtstie in separating the real a ' dvens tires and char 3° .ee tat' 3 , v bich fiction t io a n of his hero, not only from the mist , pr. ( l - ter est '' e w l T l i a te iti rs 'Y o ' f Is h o rive fr s o t m udi t e h ( a i THE YORKSHIRE SOCIETY --'fhe 3 4 ' 11 4t uolgli l i oler, of this benevolent institution was celebrated aa - - 0 , t o A 7 0 0 of London Tavern, when a party.of about 7 0 sat 4 . ° „ i " , r oPti e v iod , wlech reflected the h ghest credit on the attentl'4 C. 1 , / ,. that establishment. The chair was talon by '' Dart., Ache s tone , r, iv. ed I V M.P., vi ho was supported by Sir J. V. B John ttordrudi,tie ll'hoth. .ary Mr. R. M. Manes, M P., Mr. W. B. Hugnes , , 14. lion"rod'ored; the usual introductory toasts, which w ere dat l , ear t oe' children at present under education in the schools ‘veille th tire and their healthy and intelligent appearance wa' of: 3 1 ° 0 0 0 universal congratulation. Tile chairman ri ce .00 1 , ? ',' l ps I t ' means he had taken to test the condition of the wairita''', „alit examination, and earnestly appealed for-aid in _,,ditie w ' t ieg t° present efficiency, and extending its benefits to °" 0 , 0 11 0 001' impart to ,tinvivoi to hers. This appeal was responded to, and 3 tuns . si rs Al, ; t i l about 300/. was collected, including donations b all, t. ,-;tit ll; of York, 205.; the Chairman, 10/. lOs ; Sir 3. ' ~e erlli' cl o f 14 ; Hon. Mr. Petre, 5/. 55., &c. The proceedings we d ' irec tio o , o , fa' the aid of a small corps of vocalists, under the ex ere`„yeldi wr itten rtio yi oo e Martin ; and an amusing Yorkshire' ditty, the occasion, and containing amusing allusions to ! I to, to 0 00 ge nte o e 0 was sung with much effect by a professional musical skill the Society has been much inde bted 'll te ' g• tbs formation. , yaNC . ..JO . .k. following yachts have arrived during ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTETw- ov 5. - 0 60 , " Royal Yacht Squadron cutter Dream, Captain 6 ` iraul lo vaN, from Malta ; schooner Esmeralda, T. Fleming, 1 :; , 1: 9 00 i",,,rr e ' r mouth, and proceeded to her moorings off Din st r„ I lla , , 0 /,,,, the Royal Yacht Squadron schooner Louisa, 't'oth'isilo'j arrival o T ff h t e h r e e h r ya a a r r b e ou s r ev s e h r e al s the week : . arg e Ve 0r Bart , from the westward, and proceeded for ro rt f he DO I , 0 0- e the Solent, and many up the harbour refitting ; 0 - , Danle,te; ee l the the Will-o'-the-Wisp, Captain Williams; 'Pt/ . A rdivr e te et of of Orkney ; and the Nautilus, belonging to Mr. '' e ar '" %t sP'; troll has received her foremast, and it is said tha t : o ff tied iota' round daily for a mainmast. She will be ha ule ,,- 0 - h •h'',ll tide preparatory to fitting out. It is said that Ni i w ifi '` f, l3 l ; , c h d ts hoefr ntluien3sbqtistir%::::::o7ciligi plates altering his Alarm into a schooner. She s 'l l e ,„. ettt, t f s toO'! ii , up in a day or two to be re-coppered. The itei"u_ll.,yoo"ttie it> purchased by the Earl of Cardigan, has sailed fro; ed f o r ost o Dublin. A new cutlet, of about 90 tons, int ° ~ Il yil „A Mr. Hare, will shortly be launched from Dun° ' Rants Advertiser of Saturday. —..----------------------- -- - Willi f) : BIRTHS- t he wife ° On the 2rlinst., at Osney-court, ent, , i sreo" ror r J. Banks, Esq., of a daughter. " able On the 2d inst., Mrs. Puzey, of Rees . '"' tb e tv d l l ;ier , New Kent-road, of a son. On the 4th inst., in Hereford-stree t, rats ,of 5 ,,t0n. Vesey Thomas Dawson, Esq., barrister -at-" the P . • r a On the 4th inst., at Hyde-park-gardens' 4. JO Arthur Kinnaird, of a daughter. 11, g r ` r f Wi fe° On the sth inst., at High-street, Shoreditc th e Deane, of a daughter. io ta, th e On the Ist inst., in Dean's-yard, Wrestta ;liter sits : the Rev. William Tennant, of a daughter- , n org a ff On the Ist inst., at Wenvoe Castle!' (3'3' 0,01 lady of Robert Francis Jenner,Esq. of a sibY' nsq., On the Ist inst., the lady ofJohnO'lle place, Brighton, of a daughter. 11 310' .c. C. ho tla ;i.a.ki.ELP;rl, • ~.,. t f o rd, P oizau On the 30th ult., at St. Andrew's,„Pethire, _la „ford; sear phreys, Esq., merchant, Birkenhead, 01° --oflic'e:oo to second daughter of Thomas Chambers, I"%sVecittiefiel'ell6t. On the 24th ult., at St. John's Churclnrrtj 1 gel., ,0 00 r i, tenant. Colonel Norman Maclean, C. 1 3; ,, J 'i7t l l, Re s s , 1 ,, 1 , ,t) i Ann, relict of the late F. F Mathews, l'A'' t aita c esr r " )' ' Oa the 26th ult., at Trinity Church , , F . 1. "- / horn, James Montgomery Stuart , to )lan' of Castel Nunvo, near Volterra, in Tosclo*. pp,' Ge org Dias) ter of .., .„...,.. On the 30th ult., at Hill place, par' Fart. Aatigli fourth daughter of Sir East Claytoir Eas t ' . te geat ' af• On the 30th ult., at Torquay, f,ouis, . - Y,_ ° ` ae 0 0 -ictir Ju lian the late W. H. Lonstiale, Esq., of Ard" ni l, • ,er' On the 30th ult., in Cecil -street, tr",j,,,hage• et a 1 ,0 ville, Esq. of the Islands of Trinidad cod,. e _hill, 11 ~,,,r. On the Ist inst ,at Chatham -place, h; (4 the P pool, Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Joh, EST t he wif e ° yeSt On the Ist inst., in London, Elizabeth, ti, obs tir , Thomas Clack, of INlilton Damerel, Deeq t ! --"s-r O3 act' , ° r i ng' IJ I On the 4th inst., at Parhant-plaCe• Charles Charles Varley Snitch, only sou of Mr' aged 1,8. geon, Brydges-street, Covent -garden, of 0 ; 1 - 0 310103° "..°•„--lot ant-1 e u bt , Lsn.ii rrie- 1 t ow The Stab . the (1? trar) , ,, tht, o f the Savoft 111 Bliddlessz, Tuesday, May 6, 1845. Lc,~l: error qo. 12. • . k