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trb Initton SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE, (THIS EVENING.) ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, MARCH 24, 1851. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Hon. Bea trice Byng to be one of the Maids of Honour in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of the Hon. Caroline Dawson, resigned• FOREIGN-OFFICE, Mallon 24. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. L. A. Van den Bergh as Consul at Portsmouth, of Mr. G. C. Welsford as Consul at Weymouth, and of Mr. John Banfield as Consul for Scilly, for his Majesty the King of Hanover. CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 24. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Matthew Davenport Hill, of Lincoln's-inn, in the county of Mid dlesex, Eig., to be one of the Commissioners of the Court of Bankruptcy, to act in the prosecution of fiats in Bankruptcy, in the country, in the room of Ebenezer Ludlow, Sergeant-at-Law, deceased. MEMBER. RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of Thirsk—Sir William Payne Galiwey, Barnet, in the room of John Bell, Esquire, deceased. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, YlAncs 21. MEMORANDUM. — The date of the commission of First Lieutenant Henry Raymond Pelly, corps of Royal En gineers, is altered to July 26, 1850. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 21. The following promotions have this day taken place consequent upon the death of Admiral Sir Edward Hamilton, Bart., Admiral of the Blue George Barker to be Admiral of the White. Vice-Admiral of the Red the Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice-Admiral of the White William Henry Brown Tremlett to be Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue John Impey to be Vice-Ad miral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red Charles Philip Bateman to be Vice-Adnairal of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Alexander Renton Sharpe, C.B , to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain William Willmott Henderson, C.B. K.H. to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. And the following officers have been also promoted to the rank of Retired Rear-Admiral, under the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist of September, 1846, without increase of pay : Captain Joseph Digby. Captain Charles Warde, Captain William Ffarington. Captain James Rattray. Captain John Allen. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent. The Right Hon. George Viscount Torrington to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 18. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the CAinty Pa. latine of Lancaster. JamesLomax,Ezq : , to be Deputy Lieutenant, March 20 VirIIITEELALL, FEB. 27. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edwin Boxall, of Brighton, in the county of Sussex, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor had also appointed Parkin Wigelsworth, of Doniegton, in the county of Lincoln, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, MARCH 19. _ The Lord Chancellor has appointed Bruges Fry, o Cheddar and Axbridge, in the county of Somerset, gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, FEB. 13. Notice is hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a Levee at St. James's Palace, on Wednesday, March 26, at two o'clock. BANKRUPTS. Robert Avann, :fellmonger, Westgate, Canterbury, to surrender April 4 and May 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill; Venour, Gray's Inn-square; Furleys and Mercer, Canterbury. Robert Westmacott, nurseryman, Fulham-road, Chelsea, April 4, at half-past one, and May 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official as signee, Basinhall-street; Holcombe, Ebury -street and Chancery-lane. John Glasspool, ladies' boot and shoemaker, Regent street, April 8 and May 6, at one, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane; Wre lard, Golden-square. Richard Jackson, farmer, Selby. Yorkshire, April 14 and May 5, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Weddale, Selby; Bond and Barwick, Leeds. Aaron Crossfield, coal miner, Ty Mawr, Lanwonne, Glamorganshire, April 9, and May 7, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee, Bristol; James,lMerthyr Tidvil, Glamorganshire; Bevan, Bristol. Thomas Britten, wine merchant, Suffolk-lane, Can non-street, April 1, at half-past one, and May 1, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official as signee, Coleman-street-buildings; Sewell, Fox, and Sewell, Old Broad-street. Adana - Colyer, jeweller, Dover, April 1, at one, and May 1. at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. John son, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Harris, Moor gate-street. John Steele, brewer, potland-bridge, Rochdale, April 10 and May 2, at ele4n, at the Manchester Dis trict Court. Mackenzie, official assignee, Manchester; Hitchcock, Buckley, and Tidswell, Manchester. MARKET IN TEL LIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, March 25.) SUGAR.—To-day West India Sugar was offered upon rather lower terms, still the demand was small for all sorts by private treaty. The purchases amounted only to 410 hhds &c, including at auction 120 hhds crystalized Demerara, which sold Is per cwt cheaper, aed went at 40s 6d to 42s 6d for mid and good yellow. There was a further increase in supply of West India. REFINED.—To day the demand was much better for Refined Sugar from dealers, and prices are firm, Brown lumps at 48s to 48s 6d per cwt. In crushed Sugar there is yet little doing, with free sellers at former rates. MaceiTrus.—This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was dealt in with caution, and rather lower rates were ac ceded to, at auction 4,134 bags were obiefly sold, mid to fine brown 333 6d to 365, fair 32s 335, grey 35s to 403, mid and good mid grainy 38s to 39s 6d, mid to fine yel low at 37s 6d to 403 6d, inferior 36s to 373. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Madras Sugar met with little notice, and of 1,439 bags at auction a part only said at easier rates, mid and good grocery went at 37s 6d to 41s, and low brown was nearly all taken in at 28s per cwt; the public sales of 1,893 bags Bengal went off quietly at baroly former rates, mid and good white Benares 40s 6d, low dingy 38e 61 to 395, damp 31s to 423. FoREICN.—Today there was no public sale of Foreign Sugar, and privately only a cargo of brown Bahia was sold at 203 per cwt. MOLASSES.—There has been little business concluded and a desire is evinced to sell, low to tine West India at 14s to 163 6d, Cubs and kola() Rica 143 to 14s 6d, Ben gal and Mauritius 12s to 13s per cwt. COCOA.—British Plantation is not offered under for mer rates, and the supply at market is small. The value of red Trinidad is 513 to 555, grey 45s to 503, and Gre nada 42s to 483. In Foreign the sales made have been upon a small scale, Bahia and Para at 29s to 303, and Guayaquil at 313 6d to 325. COFFEE.—This afternoon there were few buyers of Plantation Ceylon Coffee, and privately some parcels were offered rather under previous rates. At auction 205 bags were taken in at 523 for fine fine ord. The market for native Ceylon has a dull aspect and 44s to 44s fid is the value of good ord. Other sorts of Coffee met with little attention for home use or ex port, and prices declined 2s per cwt at a public sale of 1,513 bags Costa Rica; fine ord 46s to 47s 6d, good ord 44s to 455, one lot common 40s; damaged 31s to 44s per cwt. TEA.—Publie sales are declared for next Tuesday. The middling and fine qualities of Congou are operated in with caution, and holders appear disposed to sell at from is id to Is 9d, but common has been in good de mand at 1 lid to Is, medium la Oid to is Oid, and the market looks firm. For good and fine sorts of Gree❑ the market has a quiet appearance, with sellers rather wader previous rates, and there is a more abundant sup ply, but in ord sorts a good deal bas been done at late terms; Canton Gunpowder and Young Hyson have been most in demand. Scented and Pekoe Teas have met with little attention, and can easily be obtained at former rates, consequence of a further reduction having been ac ceded to for white Bengal, a good business has been concluded, and the purchases are 7000 bags, including 2853 bags at auction. The value of good and fine is now gs 6d to lls, raid and good mid 8s 9d to 9s 3d, and low 8s to 8s 6d. Prices have ceased to decline for Madras, and there is an improved demand, 7s to 8s 6d have been paid for several parcels of pinky. In cargo or pearl barley there is yet little doing, and 7s to 8s is the value. In Patna, sales have been to %limited extent at from 10s 6d to 17s for low to tine, town dressed Carolina 20s to 28s, and American 16 s 63 17 5 6d. Sago is wanted, al rates tend upw ar d s . At auction 525 boxes re ized 19s 6d to 215 6d for mid to good small pearl, and p it 4 21, to other 3d. sorts ln large sort 21s 6d to 2 3 5. For A rr ow Root there are fe w buyers; the value of Bermudaa is la to of West India 4d to 10d, and Fast Tapioca sales are upon a more extended scale at 29d to bid. on SPIkES.—In Black liepper transactions have been u n a limited scale by private treaty a t rather lower rates. A. auction 640 bags Penang were sold at 33 to 3id for c Dr, mon light rather dusty. The value of M alabar is aid to sid, and clean Sumatra 3d. White is wanted at 6d to Bd. Pod is yet dull of sale at 305 to 40s per cwt._ or Ginger met with little attention. Jamaica is held f 21 Ss to 91 for common to fine, African 349 to 37 9 , and East India export sort 17s to 20s. At public sale 160 cases Cochin went at 70s to 94s for middling to tend, and mouldy 67s 6d to 19s. Cloves in fair demand—Bourbon and Zaczibar at 6d to 6id, and Penang 9d to is 4d. Mace is wanted Fine 2s 6d to 2s Bd, and other kinds 2s 2d to 2s sd. For Nutmegs there are several buyers, fine and good brown is 3a 2d to 45, low and raid 2s 8d to 2s 11d, and limed of first quality 2s Sd to 2s 10d. Some small parcels of Cassia Lignea have been sold rt 94s to 102s—Cassia Buds are held for 1085 to 1 los. To-day Pimento was in better demand, and full rates were obtained. At auction 567 bags were sold at 41-1 to sd, bat chiefly at 4-id to 4id per lb. SPIRITS.—There are sellers of Leeward Island Rum at a reduction; still operations have been upon a small scale at Is 7d to is lid proof. East India has been purchased with caution, and the rates taken are is sid to is 6d. In consequence of a reduction of 2d per gallon having been acceded to for Demerara a good business has been transacted; and the purchases amount to 350 puns at 2s 4d to 2s 61 for 33 to 39 per cent over proof. There has been rather more doing in Jamaica. About 250 puns have been sold, fine and favourite marks at 3s 8d to 4s 4d for 35 to 38 per cent over proof, mid to good 2s 10d to 3s 8d for 30 to 34 over, and low 2s 6d to 2s 9d. Brandy is still purchased with caution for all purposes. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1850 at 43 3d to 4s sd, 1849 ditto 4s 6d to 4s Bd, 18453 ditto 4s 9d to 4s I Id, 1847 ditto 5s 2d to 53 4d, and inferior sorts 3s to 4s per gallon. Prices do not give for British made Spirit; but opera tions are upon a limited scale at 9s 8d to Os 9d; and Gin at 8s 3d for 22 per cent under proof. Geneva sells more freely at is 7d to Is Bd, and fine is 9d to 2s per gallon. INDIGO.—The demand for East India is improving, and there are now no sellers under last sales' rates. Spanish met with greater attention, and realized an ad vance of 2d; at auction 100 serons of Guatemala were a:1 sold at from 2s 4d to 4s 9d for very low to good. CCCHINEAL.-At public sale 160 bags were nearly all sold—Honduras silvers, low to good mid 3s 4d to 3s 9d, blacks 3s 7d to 4s 4d, Mexican silvers 3s 2d to 3s 3d, and Teneriffe 3s 6d. SALTPETRE.—British refined is cheaper, limited sales having bean made a t 29 s t o 30 3 p er cwt . I n B enga l th e business concluded privately has been small for all pur poses, and the parcels at public were taken in. Prices incline downwards, and rulo at from 26s to 28s 6d for low to fine Calcutta. For Nitrate of Soda the demand is limited with sellers at 14s 6d to 14s 93 per cwt. TALLOW.—The demand has fallen off for Russian on the spot, during the last few days, and prices are not so firm. There are sellers of fine new yellow Candle at 40s to 40s 6d, and old at 393 to 39s 6d per cwt; but only a limited business has been concluded. For delivery in last three months of the year there are sellers of new at 40s, and with few buyers. In home melted a good deal has been done at 39s net cash for immediately delivery. Of Australian 700 casks at auction were chiefly sold at 34s to 38s 6d for low to fine; but of 500 pkgs South American a part only disposed of at 35s to 375; 48 casks Belgian 38s 3d to 38s 6d; 318 skins Ibrail were taken in at 37s 3d; and 80 casks Odessa Sheep at 37s per cwt. Prices of Tallow are 3s to 4s above this time last year. Ons.—There is a further increase in the supply of Cocoa Nut, and all parties evince little desire to operate. At auction 600 casks Cochin were taken in at 28s to 32s 6d per cwt. Olive continued to be operated in with caution; and sellers are willing to accept 41/ lOs to 42/ for Gallipoli; 40/ to 41/ for other sorts, and a further reduction is anticipated. Linseed Oil is offered at lower terms ; the value is 33s to 33s 3d per cwt. There are few buyers for delivery, and with sellers at 33s 6d to 345. For Rape Seed Oil prices have be come firm ; pale realized 34s 61 to 355, brown 33s to 33s 6d; and Foreign Refined 35s 6d to 365. Palm is much wanted, and 29s to 30s is the price of fine, whilst there is no increase of supply. There is an improving demand for Seal Oil, and holders are less disposed to press sales; pale has been selling at 331 to 34/, and other sorts 301 to 321 lOs. Cod is not to be obtained under 371 10s per tun; few transactions, however, have taken place. Southern has been eperated in with caution, at from 301 to 311 lOs for com mon to fine. In Sperm sales are upon a more extended scale, and rates are firm at 841 lOs to 85/ 10s, with only a moderate supply. Headmatter is in fair request at 901 to 94l per tun. For auction on Friday 44 tuns; and 400 packages Seed Oils are declared the chief part Rape Seed, and Gingelly Oil. COURSE OF EXCFL Amsterdam 11 154 Ditto, three months 11 17 — Rotterdam .... • ... .. 11 17 Antwerp .. .... 25 2234 Brussels ...... 25 Ilamburgh .... • • 31.8. 13 7 Paris, 3 days' sight .. 25 234 Ditto. 3 months .... 25 20 Marseilles 25 22% . Frankforton Mains.... 119 1 4 Berlin • .. • • .• Vienna, effec. tio• ••• • • 13 20 Trieste, ditto.... •• .... 13 20 Petersburgh,Sll.Rble.. 37 Ms.drid .............. 50 Cadiz . • • • ............ 60% Barcelona Seville.. •• •• .• •• •• .. INGE.-(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar .. . • .. • • . • • • • . Leghorn ........ • •• 30 50 Genoa .. •• • • ...... •• 25 50 Venice.. .. .. •• • • .... Naples ...... •• Palermo, peroz ........ 125 Messina .............. 125 Lisbon 53% Oporto ................ 53% Rio Janeiro •......... Buenos Ayres .. • ..... New York,6o days'sight Philadelphia .. :....:.. PRICES OF BULLION, FEZ OZ. Foreign Geld in bars.. Xll 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0 Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .•...• 0 4 11% Silver is bars ......•• 0 5 IN, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woo] sack at Five o'clock. Lord PORTMAN presented a petition from a place in Somersetshire favour of copyholds enfranchise ment, and several against Papal aggression. THE CHURCH IN THE COLONIES.—THE MARRIAGE ACT. The Bishop of OXFORD wished to direct the at tention of their Lordships to the state of the Church in the colonies, and to know bow the state of the Church had been:affected by recent enactments, and whether the Noble Earl the Secretary for the Colonies had received any remonstrances from the clergy of the colonies on the subject of the celebra tion of marriages in the colonies. Earl GREY said that there were many difficulties affecting the question. He had laid it down as a rule that it would be wrong in colonial matters for the Imperial Legislature to interfere in any matters in relatio❑ to which the colonial legislature was competent to legislate. Now, he had not received any complaints from the clergy of New South Wales with regard to any matters in which it was not compe tent to the colonial legislature to legislate. He had understood that there was to be a meeting of the Bishops of Australia on the subject, to which the Right Rev. Prelate had alluded, but the result of that meeting had not yet been known; but he should deprecate legislating on any subject on which the colo nial legislature was competent to legislate. Lord MONTEAGLE thought the House ought to legislate in this matter. — Lord CAMPBELL thought the House ought to legis late on the subject of marriage in the colonies, so as to make the legislation in regard to marriage in unison with the law of this country. Earl GREY reminded his Noble and Learned Friend that the marriage law in England was different from that in Scotland and from that in Ireland, and he thought in Australia it ought to be left to the decision of the local Legislature. The Bishop of OXFORD declared that complaints had arrived from the clergy of the colonies of the ope ration of the law of marriage in colonies, and contended that the decision of the matter ought not to be left to the Legislature, but should be left to the decision of the Church. It was unjust to tie up the operation of the Church of England in this manner in the colonies. Earl GREY had never said that no complaints had been brought under his notice by the Colonial Church, but that no grievance had been so brought under his notice which could not be dealt with by the colonial legislature. It had been suggested that the colonial legislature would not deal with it, and in that case he thought it was not a case calling for imperial legislation, inasmuch as it was a mutter purely of colonial and domestic concern. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING-, tralian colonists, complaining that Government had im properly neglected the subject of steam communication with Australia, and praying the House to take the mat ter into consideration. The Noble Lord gave notice that to-morrow he should move that the petition be printed with the votes. Sir DE LACY EVANS presented six petitions from various parts of Westminster against the Sunday Trad ingßill._ _ _ Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Belfast praying for an altera tion of the patent-laws. Mr. HUME presented a petition signed by 412 ma riners and others, at Seaham harbour, in favour of the alteration of several clauses of the Mercantile Marine Act; also four petitions from places in Norfolk and -other places against the Bible monopoly. Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Mr. ADDERLE Y . presented several petitions against Papal aggression. Mr. REYNOLDS presented petitions for the total re peal of the Excise duty on paper from the following places, and persons connected with the following news papers:—" Tyrone Constitution," " Fermanagh Re porter," "Balling Chronicle," " Lurgan Chronicle," " Tipperary Vindicator," " Londonderry Sentinel," " Sligo Journal," " Tralee Chronicle," "Newry Tele graph," " Galway Vindicator," " Coleraine Chronicle," " Rosscommon Reporter," "Kerry Evening Post," " Ballyshannon Herald," " King's County Chronicle;" and inhabitants of Ballyshannon. Colonel FREESTUN presented a petition from the inhabitants of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis against Papal aggression, and praying the House to pass such a measure as will be effectual to prevent the assumption of territorial titles, or the exercise of synodical action, on the part of tlse Romish clergy, under colour of any authority from the Bishop of Rome by bull or rescript. century, when a good deal of excitement arose from the fact of some of the Roman Catholic clergymen having adopted titles, but then, es he hoped it e ould turn out now, it was thought unad v i sa bl e to battle :with trifles, and the excitement ultimately died away. Now if the House followed that example on this cccasion, and no longer frittered away its valuable time in wordy debates about nothing, the Legislature would elevate itself in the estimation of the country. Lofty terms and large expressions had been applied to Rome to stigmatize her for insulting the Sovereign of these realms; but those lofty terms and large sounding expressions were just as much applicable to the Free Church of Scotland as to the Pope of Rome, for they gave titles to their Church dig nitaries without consulting the Crown. Such, then, were a few of the objections which he enter tained against this Bill. Ile had many others, indeed their name was legion, but ho should be falling into the same fault that he was condemning if he wasted the time of the House by going over the whole of them. He had stated enough, he thought, to show that the measure was wholly uncalled for; and since be thought it opposed to the spirit of the Reformation, as a staunch and uncompromising Protestant be should assist his Roman Catholic fellow-subjects in giving it his decided and steady opposition. He maintained that it did not belong to incorporated bodies of any kind to petition the Crown on the subject of Church matters. As to the ar guments which had been used of the Pope's supremacy over the consciences of his followers, he asserted that the Roman Catholics of this country entirely repudiated any interference on the part of the Pope in their temporal concerns. No such power ever was conceded to him by his most ardent supporters in this country. The Hoch Gentleman then proceeded to refer to the three questions which bad been submitted to six of the Catholic universities of Europe—Louvain, Paris, Douay, Alenca, Valladolid, and Salamanca: whether the Pope could have any temporal jurisdiction in this country, whether he could absolve Roman Catholics from their allegiance to the sovereign, and whether there was anything in the constitution of the Roman Church which forbade its member& to keep faith with heretics. All these questions were answered in the negative by each of the universities, and more than one of then expressed its surprise that such opinions should be entertained in a co un t r y s o celebrated forits intelligence and freedom of thought.—(Hear.) He thought, therefore, he had fully succeeded in de monstrating that bishop in its original signification was not a title et all, and that in this country we ought not to be angry at the Pope interfering in spiritual matters. wpm we knew that he had done so long ago. They were gravely told th a t the Church was to be sub jected to the exercise and jurisdiction of this canon law. Why, when he looked around and considered that law, he was quite surprised that the people or the Hous e should in any way have been alarmed at such a bugbear as this. Let them look only into the mature of this canon and to its true position. If they did so they would find that it was, it every case, subject to theri common law of England. All the great writers by whom this country had been adorned averred that such was the case; and Blackstone himself, than whom no greater au thority could be adduced, had stated that the canon law vas overridden by the common law at all times dieing our history, as was remarkably evi dent by three great ensigns. It was in the first place subject to the common law; it was in the second only to be construed and explained by the statutes which arose out of that common law; and thirdly the decisions made under it were at all times liable to be reversed on an appeal to the sovereign of the realm. If, these, in them three great particulars it was liable to be subject to the common law of the land, how could it become the dangerous agent which so many persons had represented.—(Hear, hear.) He was not surprised that the Roman Catholic laity of the kingdom desired to have the existence of this law more practically effi cient amongst them, for they desired the presence of a body of eminent men, who would be able to settle questions upon just and right grounds, which were now too often decided only by prejudice or caprice.—(Hear.) That was the real state of the case—(Hear)—but they acted as if there was something improper or immoral in this law. They knew that such was not the fact, and he would ask the Noble Lord at the head of Govern ment, whether it was right—whether it was becoming— whether it was decent to raise at this time of day a cry of No Popery in the country.—(Loud cheers, and counter cheers.) The canon law was at this time part of the law of England, had been so, and would continue to be so, without any question of the validity of its decisions, until the Court of Queen's Bench should come to any different result upon matters which had been submitted to the operation both of the canon and the common law.—(Hear, hear.) They talked of the doctrines which this law would be likely to strengthen. He believed that many honest and able man in the Church of England were sincere believers in many of those doctrines.—(Cheers and counter cheers.) And they might talk of the effect of those doctrines; but when he saw an eminent ministers of the Church of England obliged to be protected from personal violence by police when is the performance of his pastoral duties; he thought the less they dwelt upon the effect or those liberality of those doctrines the better. He would call the attention of the House to an incident which occurred to Bishop Butler. That Right Reverend Prelate contended for external religion, and be was branded as a Papist for it; mistakenly branded, of course. Now, he thought the Tractarians could, like the great author of the analogy, afford to treat the opposition raised against them with content, but 119 warned the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, that this Bill would not set this mutter at rest. As yet they were only on the threshold of the excitement, and to him it seemed fearful to con template the results which would inevitably follow the passing of the Bill. But it was said that the Church of Rome was despotic and intolerant, and for that reason it was necessary to have a law of this cha racter in this country than was ever before an argunten tum ad omniunt more absurd than that presented to the House. Because tome was intolerant, the country ought to be intolerant too. Such an argument was so worthless that it hardly merited a reply. and he had only referred to it for the purpose of protesting against its introduction into this debate, There was another topic upon which he wished to say a few words. The Noble Lord the Secretary of Foreign Affairs told them the other night that the Bill was a compliment to the Catholic Emancipation Act. Now he allowed that one of the clauses of that Act, to a certain extent, prohibited the assumption of titles but he denied most emphatically that it prohibited their establishment of a hierarchy like that which the Pope had recently created, and he hoped that argument, like the other one he had just mentioned, would be abandoned without delay. (Hear, hear.) Instead of promoting animosities between the two churches, the Legislature ought to strive to apply itself soothing the angry feelings which prevailed out of doors, for he be lieved the Church of England had more to fear from irreligion' than from the proceedings of Christian Rome, and he therefore called upon the Government to retrace its steps and rather assist the two Ch urches in stemming the torrent of Atheistic principles than strive to promote religious finaticism and discord by a useless system of legislation. Tho church of Rome ignored the existence with the Established Church of this country, and he would recom mend the Government to return the compli ment and treat these bishops as phantoms or nonentities which could not be grasped. That was the only safe way of dealing with the so called Papal aggression—and though th e . Noble Lord could not recede from this Bill without injuring his own reputation, or proceed with it without producing great mischief, he recom mended the House to adopt the suggestion at once. He hoped, in conclusion, that as the Noble Lord valued the peace, security, welfare, and prosperity of this great country, he would desist from proceeding with his fatal Bill.—(Cheers.) Mr. PORTAL, in rising to make his maiden speech, begged the indulgence of the House for a few moments while he stated the reasons which induced him to vote against the second reading of the Bill.—(Hear, hear.) He could not admit that the Bill consisted of that judicious mixture of good and evil alleged by those who supportid it; so far (from it it was totally impotent for good, and all powerful for evil, while it was calculated to foment and excite religious controversy and d issension throughout the country, the injurious effect of which might remain for many years to come.—(Cheers.) The Bill was just large enough to irritate the Roman Catholics in Ireland, and not large enough to sa tisfy the Protestants of England.—(Hear.) He fully shared is the indignation and resentment which the act of the Pope had excited a spiritual invasion which literally ignored the existence of our own Church; but he disagreed with those who thought the measure of the Government was a proper one to meet the difficulty. The Bill was a mere mockery and delu sion, alike unworthy the deliberative wisdom of this as sembly and the dignity of this great country. Mr. JOHN O'CONNELL, in opposing the Bill, said the Roman Catholic Members were ready to admit that the Pope had no territorial power in this country, and that the appointments which he bad character. bad made in their Church were purely of a spir itual In the course of the debate many insulting , unfounded, and irritable allusions had been made to the Roman Ca tholics, but they had not retaliated by condemning the principles or character of the Established Church i n this country. CONDITION OF IRELAND. Mr. BROWNE gate notice of a motion for the ap. pointnaent of a Select Committee to inquire into the con dition of Ireland, with the Viet?? of suggesting a remedy for existing distress. MARCH 25, 1851. hospitals. 2 ; county meetings, 35 ; other public meet ings, 139 ; corporations, 46 ; associations or other bodies, 20 ; city of London, 4 ; members of the English bar, 1 ; attorneys, solicitors, and proctors of England and Wales, 1; Isle of Man, 1 ; Society :for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1." This return proves that there are few instances of " the honest and sensible people of England" speaking out so plainly as they havo done on the Papal aggression.—DerGyshire Courier. JOSEPH 11. AND THE JESUITS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, ifarcit 24. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. NEW - MEMBER. Sin,—The following is from a work published a few years since, on " Austria and the Austrians :" " Of the evils of monachism Joseph the Second (of Austria) was thoroughly convinced. Of all religious societies, he considered the Jesuits the most dangerous and the most objectionable. After their expulsion from France, the Duke of Choiseul, then Secretary of State, wrote Joseph on the subject of expelling them from the Austrian dominions; but his mother (the celebrated Maria Theresa) then exercised the whole power, and Joseph could only give his opinions, as expressed in the following letter to Choiseul:— " • Sir,—l thank you for the confidence you give me. If I were sovereign you might count on my ready co- operation. As to the Jesuits, and the plan to abolish their congregation, I am entirely of your opinion. •' • Do not depend much upon my mother, for an at tachment to this order has become hereditary in the house of Hapsburg. Clement XIV. himself has had proof of this. " • Meantime Kaunitz is your friend. He can do much with the Empress, and he is perfectly of your opi nion in regard to expelling the Jesuits. Sir WILLIAM GALLWAY, introduced by Mr. Henry Herbert and Mr. A. Stafford, took the oaths and his seat for Thirsk. Colonel TYNTE presented petitions from Bridgewater and other pieces ngainst the window-tax. EXPENSES . OF PROSECUTIONS BILL. " Choiseul, I know these gentry as well as any man. I know all their projects, all their efforts to spread dark ness over the earth—to rule over Europo from Cape Fi nisterre to the Frozm Ocean.' " At the request if Mr. DEEDES, Sir G. GfiEY agreed to postpone the report of this Bill from Wednesday to Wednesday week, as he thought it advisable that the several alteracions proposed in the clauses should be in the hands of Members some days before they were considered in the House, and he should therefore move that the report be brought up on Wed nesday week.—Motion agreed to. THE EASTER RECESS. Lord R. GROSVENOR said, that as they had now reached the last week in March, it would be for the convenience of the House to know what arrangement the Noble Lord at the head of the Government proposed as to the adjournment for the Easter recess. Last year, when ho had asked a similar question of the Noble Lord, he stated his reasons for proposing that the House should adjourn on the Friday next before Good Friday, and his conviction that by following that plan the business of the House would be better proceeded with. He was afraid that, from the state of public busi ness this year, the Noble Lord would not accede to his proposition; but ho would ask the Noble Lord whether, in deference to the wishes of many Members of the House, and those whose leisure depended upon its sit tings, and in consideration of the small amount of busi ness it had been found practicable to transact in the week immediately preceding Easter Sunday, commonly called Passion Week, he would move the adjournment of the House for the recess on Friday, the 11th of April next. At the present time, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits have, if I mistake not, the educa tion of the Austrian youth in a great measure in their own hands. Let us beware of them.—l am, Sir, &c. March 24, 1851. WATCHMAN. Lord J. RUSSELL said that, looking to the present state of the public business, he did not think he could expect that the House should adjourn on Friday, the 11 th of April. At the same time, he did not think it very desirable to keep the House sitting on the Thurs thy before Good Friday—(Hear, hear)—and he thought therefore the House might adjourn on the Tuesday, or Wednesday, until the following Monday se'nnight.— (Hear, hear.) Ho should propose that after the 11th of April the House on alternate Thursdays should take orders of the day in precedence of notices of motion. MERCANTILE MARINE BILL. In reply to Mr. HUME, Mr. LA BOUCHERE stated that he had never at any time denied that he thought the details of this Bill were susceptible of improvement; but at the same time he must say that he intended to adhere firmly to the prin ciple of the Bill. Ho should, however, bring in the amended Bill in such time as would enable Members to duly consider its provisions with a view to its becoming law before the House rose for the prorogation. MISS TALBOT. Mr. REYNOLDS said that there was a subject to which he was exceedingly desirous of drawing the attention of the House for a few moments, and this request he made as a personal favour to himself. It was to every man of honourable feeling an object well worthy of regard to retain his standing in that House by stating there that which he knew to be true. —(Hear.) There, as well as elsewhere, be was always particularly careful to say nothing of which he was not perfectly cognizant. Feeling this responsibility, he was particularly struck with the bold assertion of the Hon. Member for the city of London, and with the still more bold contradiction of the Hon. Member for Mary lebone (Sir B. Hall), when he asserted that Miss Talbot was not and never had been a postulant.—(Hear, hear.) He now deliberately repeated that assertion—(Hear, hear, cheers, and laughter)—that Miss Talbot was not, and never had been, a postulant. He had it from the bishop who superintended the convent in which it was said Miss Talbot was immured, that she was not at the present moment a postulant.—(Hear, hear.) He did not mean to impugn the assertions of Mr. Craven Berkeley or any of his friends in that House. He believed that which they said they believed to be true,—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and ironical cheers.) Nevertheless he was wrong.—(Renewed laughter, and ironical cheers.) He was bound to say that the Hon. Member for Oxford had treated him with all courtesy, hut he had never re ceived the letter which bad been addressed to him, and he should therefore content himself with again asserting that Miss Talbot was not, and never had been, a postu lant.—(Hear, hear, and ironical cheers.) Sir B. HALL said that it appeared from the speech of the lion. Member for Dublin that one man had said one thing and another that which was totally opposite to the assertion of the first, and yet that both might be perfectly right.—(Loud laughter and cheers.) All he had to say was that what be (Sir B. Hall) had asserted respecting Miss Talbot he had from one of the Hon. Member's own bishops.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) He had believed the bishop in preference to Mr. Reynolds, and he was sorry for it.—(Laughter.) THE ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. PETITIONS. The Earl of DESART presented several petitions complaining of agricultural distress. The Earl of HARROWBY presented several petitions complaining of Papal aggression. The Earl of MALMESBURY presented a petition from the diocese of Bath a❑d Wells complaining of the manner in which the tithe rent charge was assessed, praying that all property might be assessed to the tithe rent charge. He complained of the unjust manner in which the assessment of tithe rent charge pressed ' upon the owners and occupiers of land. The Noble Earl then went on to contend that the support of the Church and the relief of the poor were national objects, and that therefore the tithe rent charge and the poor-rates should be liquidated by an income tax rather than by a rate levied, as at present the land holder should be relieved from the pressure of this bur den by taxi❑g the fundholder, the mortgagee, and the receiver of official and professional incomes. (LEFT SPEARING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. THIRD READINGS. The following Biliel were read a third time and passed:— Leicester Sewerage. Ouseburn Bridge and Approaches in Newcastle-upon- Ty ne. REPORTS. The following Bills were co❑sidered and agreed to : Mildenhall, Burnt Fen Road, and Lakenheath and Hockwold Roads. Pyecombe and Hicksted Turnpike Road. St. Patrick's Cathedral (Dublin). PETITIONS. A large number of petitions were presented against the Papal aggression. Mr. HENLEY presented a petition from a place in Oxfordshire praying the House to pass a law expelling Jesuits from the country. Mr. MUNTZ presented a petition from a Society in Carr's-lane, Birmingham, in favour of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. _ _ _ Mr. WILLCOX presented a petition from several Roman Catholics against the Bill. Colonel MURE presented several petitions from various places in Scotland in favour of the Bill. Mr. G. BERKELEY presented a petition against the Bill for legalising marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Mr. BERNAL presented a petition against the paper duties from Stroud. Ir:ilarn.dE. FRENCH presented a petition from a place in „ .r. _against the abolition of the office of Viceroy. troduced f i o , ai slooNEa presented a petition from Camber- Well praying rE resistingot' t L a m ore the pstarrinagle aggression. Sir may be in located members Sir G. of. L . presented a petition from the un the National Land Company residing at p Brighton, i e i . i nnFi fnclagyx o o n f r v T o e f :e t ch:ll e lttA W ra i l n d d i i s n t g r - e u s s p . .i e r . w om. Bill. sse Mr. FREW EN pre sented r a p e titi on f rom a p l ace i n Ex , a pr p a e y t in iti g on for fr t o h m e Me chanics' Institute in Lancashire, a repeal of the taxes on knowledge. Mr. HEDLAM presented a petition from the coach makers of N e wcastle-upon-Tyne , praying for the repeal of the carriage duty. Mr. ROBERT PALMER presented • - a petition against the removal of Smithtield-market. Lord NAAS presented a petition from various Aus. . PATENT LAWS. Mr. RICARDU gave notice that on this clay se'nnight he would move the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the policy of altering the Patent Laws. FORTY-SHILLING FREEHOLDERS IN SCOT- LAND. Mr. J. B. SMITH postponed his motion for enabling forty-shilling freeholders in Scotland to vote for shires until this day fortnight. EQUALIZATION OF POOR'S RATE. Mr. G. BERKELEY gave notice that on this day fortnight he would move a resolution to the effect that there should be an equalised poor's-rate of Is. 6d. in the pound, subject to local government. COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA. Lord NAAS gave notice that when the Hon. Member for Lynn's motion came on, he should move that that branch of the subject which related to communication with Australia shonid be taken first. BORNEO—RAJA BROOKE. Mr. HUME gave notice that he should, on an early day, ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether Sir J. Brooke still held the appointment of her Majesty's Commissioeer of Borneo. NATIONAL EDUCATION. Mr. W. J. FOX gave notice that on this day fort night ho should move a resolution, to the effect that it is expedient for the better education of the poor that a system of national education should be established, to be supported by local taxation. ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOPS ABROAD. Sir R. H. INGLIS rose to put a question to the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, of which he had g i ven notice, whether any answ e r had been returned to the dispatch (with an inclosure) addressed by his Excel lency Sir Charles Fitzroy, on the 30th July, 1850, to her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies (endorsed as received in Downing -street on the 4th January, 1851); and if no answer had been sent, to explain the cause of the delay. And also to call his attention to certain inaccuracies in the printed copy of the said communication, as laid before the House, in answer to their address of the 24th February, 1851, and ordered to be printed (No. 105) on the 10th March, 1851. With regard to the first question, per haps, the House would allow him to recall to its remem brance that three or four years ago an order was issued by the Colonial Secretary, that the bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the colonies should be treated with the same distinction as those of the Established Church. This produced a remonstrance from the Bishop of Sydney that precedence was given to the individual, which was denied to the office, thus leaving untouched the great question, namely, the right of a foreign potentate to give dignities to which presidency was attached. Mr. HUME begged to interrupt the Hon. Baronet; he was going into details which could not at present be discussed. Mr. J. O'CONNELL said, that perhaps it would be better to defer the subject for the present, as of course there was another side to the case. The SPEAKER said that the Hon. Baronet had cer tainly a right to proceed as he was merely stating facts connected with his question, and not opinions. Sir R. H. INGLIS continued—This mode) of settle ment of the question had been disputed by the Bishop of Sydney,and several dispatches had passed on the subject. The next question he wished to ask was, whether the last five lines of the first paragraph of the dispatch was a correct expression of the feelings of the Govern ment on this point. Mr. HAWES said that the paper which the lion Member held in his hand was net in correct accordance with the dispatch which had been sent outifrom the Colo nial office. The fact was that the error arose from a typographical error. With regard to its effect in the colony he could give no reply, for no answer had been received to the observations made in return upon the dispatch received in this country on the 4th of January last. SIR EMERSON TENNENT. Mr. CHRISTOPHER wished to ask the Hon. Gen tleman the Under Secretary for the Colonies whether Sir Emerson Tennent had returned to this country from the governorship of St. Helena of his own accord, or whether he had been recalled by the Government. Mr. HA WES said that Sir Emerson Tennent had come to England in consequence of domestic affairs, and that he had not been recalled by the Government. CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. In reply to Mr. MULLINGS, -- -- Sir G. GREY stated that a Bill upon this subject was now ready, and would shortly be introduced into the other House. ORDERS OF THE DAY AND NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY said that in conse quence of the vote come to last night, and to which he was, no party both private and public business had been placed in a peculiar position, for.if notices of motion were altogether to be set aside, in order to give way to orders of the day, private Members would be altogether ex cluded at any time from bringing forward their mea sures. He wished to know whether he could now bring on the motion of which he had given notice? The SPEAKER said that the Hon. Member could only bring forward his motion after the present order of the day was disposed of. It was always customary in the early part of the session for the House to fix the days on which notices of motion should be specially en tertained, but it always reserved a right to itself ot set ting them aside on particular occasions. Therefore it was that the Hon. Member could not now bring on his motion. Mr. HUME said that in that case private Members were always in the hands of the House, and might never bring on their motions at all. The SPEAKER stated that in former days the notices of motion were frequently set aside without cere mony at any time, but now they could only be super seded by the orders of the day on an express resolution of the House. SALARY OF THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS. I❑ reply to a question from Mr. WILLIAMS, Lord JOAN RUSSELL stated that the new Master of the Rolls would be appointed with the understanding that the office would be subject to any alteration in the salary which Parliament might deem necessary. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY presented 49 petitions from Wesleyan bodies in the different counties of England praying that a more stringent measure than the Govern ment Bill might be introduced with regard to the Papal aggression. Thir. NEWDEGATE presented several petitions from Warwickshire against the Papal aggression. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL. ADJOURNED DEBATE. On the order of the day for resuming the adjourned debate being read, Mr. HOBHOUSE said he moved the adjournment of the debate last evening, because he understood the Hon. Gentleman the Member for the University of Oxford, and the Hon. Member for Buckinghamshire, were anxious to deliver their opinions to the House, and not from any personal vanity of his own.—(Hear, hear.) He must say, that the more he had heard of the debate, the more he had sifted the different arguments of Honourable Gentlemen, and examined the question on its merits, the more he was fortified in the convic tion which ho had previously entertained, that all legislation on the subject was unnecessary.—(Hear, hear.) H e wou ld grapp l e at once with some of the main arguments which had been offered, casting aside all those wordy arguments with which the subject had been invested fur the purpose of deceiving the House and pre venting the people of England from discerning the real truth.—(Laughter.) If he understood the arguments offered to the House, they wero principally these—that an insult had been levelled at the Queen in her character as first magistrate, and also as supreme head of the Church; that her authority and prerogative had been invaded, and the independence of the country interfered with by the act of the Pope in ap pointing Roman Catholic bishops. It appeared to him that the word " bishop" had not been sufficiently considered, that they had not separated the essence from the accident, the spiritual from the temporal authority, and hence they were led into a great constitutional error. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") In order to show what the meaning of the word " bishop " was it would be necessary to look back to the history of the bishops, and see how they were appointed in earlier times. Now, he thought no one would venture to dis pute that the original mode of appointing them was by the laity and clergy per clericum et pop u l um . This was the simple history of the origin of the bish o p s , and their functions were originally strictly spiritual. The temporal power which they now exercised was nothing more than an accident. The word bishop had reference more to an office than a title, and hence he objected to the Bill. It was simply directed against names, and he could not think that itself with was worthy of th e Houle to mix with such a matter as this. This was not the first time that confusion had arisen out of names in this country. Similar disputes arose in Scotland about the sixteenth (LEFT SPEAKING.) PAPAL AGGRESSION. ASSERTION VERSUS FACT. Mr. Reynolds asserted in the House of Commons, on the 10th of March last, that the people had taken no part in the anti-Papal aggression meetings. " The truth was," he said, " the honest and sensible people of England had folded their arms, and said to themselves, This is the Church's affair—it is a matter we have no thing to do with.'—(Hear, hear.)" Aow, what is the truth ? " A return has been made by Mr. Newdugate, setting forth the number of addresses which have been presented to her Majesty on the recent measures taken by the Pope with regard to this country, whence they emanated, and the number of signatures to each. The total number of these addresses is 3,145, bearing 1,006,708 signatures, besides two Roman Catholic addresses expressing loyalty and fidelity, with 255,961 signatures. They are classified according to their origin in the following manner:—archbishops and bishops of the Church of England, 1; archbishops and bishops of the United Church of England and Ire land, 1; deans and chapters of cathedral or collegiate churches, 10; Church of Scotland, ministers and elders, 1; clergy of the United Church of England and Ireland, 89; clergy and others, 880; Wesleyan Committee of Privileges, 1; Protestant dissenting ministers of the three denominations, 1 ; un i v ersities, viz., Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, and St. Andrew's 4 ; colleges— Royal College of Physicians, Queen's College, Birming ham, Sion College, London, the " Beddeu, York, 4 ; THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH. A recent writer says:—" The present Church of England was self-styled the Poor Man's Church. It is not difficult to understand how it has been so called. Church revenues were originally divided into three parts —the first part for the maintenance of the priesthood; the second for the maintenance and repair of the fabric of the church; and the third for the relief of the pow.. But now the people have to keep the, church in repair in the form of church rates; and the poor they have to support in the form of poor-rates; whilst the bishops and clergy swallow up all. Read on, and reflect at the same time. Think if our present State Church does in any respect represent the spirit of Christianity, as handed down to the disciples—the poor fishermen of Galilee; or rather, does it not represent the spirit of Mammon not of Jesus. Its God is Money, Rich Bene fices, Hard Cash " Sea the revenues of the Church of England, which amount yearly to the enormous sum of 10,483,699/. Re peat it,—cry it aloud. The sum of ten millions, four hun dred and eighty-three thousand, six hundred and ninety nine pounds, which enormous amount, if divided as was originally intended, to support the priesthood, to keep the church in repair and to relieve the poor, would indeed greatly relieve our vast community; but now, not one penny comes to the poor, but rather the poor man's pots and kettles and the bed he lies on are frequently sold by auction to make up this amount." What will Churchmen say to this? EXHIBITION OF 1851. RECEIPT OF GOODS-FINAL NOTICE. 1. On Wednesday evening, the 2d of April, the tem porary entrance into the building for carts, waggons, and carriages of every description will be closed, to enable the flooring of the building to be completed; and no articles will be admitted into the building which cannot be brought in by hand, and without the aid of machinery for lifting, &c. Even such articles cannot be admitted if they should exceed the width of the entrances—viz., 6 feet 6 inches. 2. After the 3d of April, no packing cases will be admitted within the building. Any articles brought to the Exhibition between the 3d of April and the 10th of April must be delivered unpacked, and in such a way as to cause no litter in the building; in fact, they must be delivered as they would be brought into a private re sidence. 3. O❑ and after the 3d day . of April any articles sent through carriers, which require to be unpacked, will be deposited outside the building, and remain there until the owners or their agents attend to unpack them. 4. All foreign articles must be sent to the east end of the building; all colonial articles to the south entrance; and all British articles to the west end of the building. 5. Although the reception of articles after the 10th of April will obviously occasion great inconvenience, in creased expenses, and somewhat jeopardize the punctual opening of the Exhibition, the Executive Committee will not absolutely refuse to admit them, but they feel it necessary to discourage as much as possible such late arrivals. Accordingly, they give notice that articles can only be received after the 10th of April and until the 20th subject to the payment of the following fees to the general fund : d. Every article weighing under 281 b 0 10 0 Every article weighing above 281 b and under 561 b 1 0 0 Every article weighing above 561 b 2 0 0 And at the rate of 1/. additional for every 281 b., or fraction of 281 b., above 561 b. 6. These rules apply to all articles except those spe cially exempted by the Executive Committee. 7. The Executive Committee particularly request that all goods may be finally arranged on Monday, the 21st of April, in the way it is proposed they sh >uld be exhi bited, in order that the Executive Committee may then proceeding to having the building put in order for the admission of the public. March 20. M. DIGBY WYATT, Secretary. OXFORD AND THE UNIVERSITY COMMISSION. The venerable Alma Mater of the Isis has just dis covered a mare's nest of the first magnitude, and is pro claiming her discovery to the public with a degree of twaddling solemnity which is perfectly ludicrous. As all our readers know, a Royal Commission to inquire into the state of our two ancient Universities was ap pointed at the end of last session. It was announced at the time that the Commission was directed in no hostile spirit, but in friendly co-operation with the eff or t s at self-improvement which were being madei n the Univer sities themselves. No one supposed that attendance before it was compulsory, , or that it b a d any power to enforce the production of documents or the answering of interrogaties. Of course no such power can be con ferred on Commissioners by the Crown singly, or by either House of Parliament singly. Similar Royal Commis sions had issued before; and it was known by actual practice, as well as from constitutional theory, that at tendance before them was perfectly optional. This had been proved in the case of the Municipal Corporations Commission; and an analogous case bad occurred about thirty years ago, before the Education Committee of Lord (then Mr.) Brougham. On that occasion, the Warden of Winchester refused to produce the College Statutes, or to answer any questions about them, and nobody attempted to compel him. Well, the Oxford University Commission was duly appointed; it had held several meetings; it had collected much information, when suddenly the Oxford Dons publish a long legal opinion to prove, what nobody ever thought of d sputing—naraely, that they and everybody , else might refuse to give information to the Commis sioners, and that nobody could punish them for such a refusal. If the meaning of all this is, that the Oxford Dons mean to obstruct the Commission as much they can, we must say that they have taken a ♦ery stupid way of announcing a very stupid resolntion. They will get no good by concealment. Every abuse that exists among them will be believed to be ten times as bad as it really is, on account of their efforts to cloak it over; and a thousand charges against ;them will find credit with the public, which a free and fair investigation would prove to be unfounded. The'argument is decisive; they must have something to be ashamed of, or they woufd not shrink from being inspected.— Weekly News. A CHILD BURIED ALIVE by its MOTHER. On Tuesday last, one of the most atrocious cases of child murder ever recorded was comm i tted at Wingfield, in this county, by the mother, a young unmarried woman, named Maria Clarke. Clarke, it appears, had been dis charged, ,at her own request, from the Fulham Union House that morning, and with her child, a male, six weeks old, she proceeded to Wingfield, where her friends reside. Before going to her mother's cottage, she called upon several of the neighbours, and in the af ternoon was seen proceeding in the direction of Mr. Hill's meadow, carrying the child on one arm and a scuppet in her other hand. I n th e even i ng the child was missed, and suspicions being e xc it e d b y w h at had trans pired in the afternoon, the mother was questioned, when she said she had sent the child to Norwich to be brought up by an aunt. Not satisfied with this representation, she was directly accused of having made away with the child. She at first denied it, but at length made the astounding confession that she had not murdered the child, but had buried it alive in Mr. Hill's meadow. Information of the circumstance was immediately given to policeman William Clarke, and the woman was shortly afterwards apprehended. The next morning the meadow was searched, and in a ditch about four foot deep, filled with water, the scuppet was found, which it appeared had been missed from the cottage garden of a labourer named Dassey on the Tuesday afternoon. The mother then accompanied the policeman to acorner of the meadow, and pointed out the spot where she had buried the child. The turf was removed, and at the depth of six inches from the surface the body was discovered. The woman,wo understand, has since made a full confes s i on o f h er gu i lt. She state d t h a t she left the Pulham U n i on H ouse b ecause a youn g man in the neighbourhood of Wingfield had promised her _ a ad mar riage. Sh e was appre h ens i ve if h e k ne w she h child that he w ou ld not f u lfil hi s p rom ise, but she had no leaving the of com m itti ng t h e mur d er un til she was the cottage of Dassey, when the sight of the scuppet standing outside the door, suggested the thought to her. She dug a hole, she said, laid her infant in it, and then sat down and cr i e d. She afterwards covered the child with turf, " without hurting it at all," and then hearing it shriek in the ground she stamped upon the sod and stifled its cries ! She was taken before the county ma. gistrates of the district, the Rev. A. Cooper, the Rev. Colbeck, and the Rev. J. Hodgson, and remanded for further examination on Monday next. Yesterday Mr. Charles Gross, coroner, went to Wingfield, t o h o ld an inquest upon the body. The prisoner is about t wenty years of age.—Suf f olk Chronicle of /anvil 22. THE ADJOURNED DEBATE. A large number of petitions having been presented for and against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, Mr. W. FAGAN, who, as a professor of the Roman Catholic religion, which had been so strenuously assailed by different speakers, claimed to be heard with the same attention as those who had been its assailants. In re ference to the speech of the lion. Member for West Surrey, he rejoiced that he was not successful in catch ing the Speaker's eye after that speech; and approach ing the question now in a different spirit, he regretted that any Member of that House, not alone should use such language, but that he should suffer such ideas to enter into his mind. It was hard that any Hon. Mem ber could be suffered to address such language to the religion of Members of that House. It was, however, only a sample of what took place all through the land. The legislation of the Noble Lord was productive only of rancour and bitterness of feeling in England and Ire land. He congratulated his countrymen and his con stituents upon not placing such men as the Hon. Mem ber in the Government. It was not his intention to repeat the indecent language made use of by the Honourable Member with respect to those ladies, many of them belonging to the first families of the country; and in reference to the convent of which more particular mention had been made by the Honourable Member for Dublin, be (Mr. Fagan) had a personal interest in it, as his daughter was under its roof; and he could state from competent authority—and be did state it to Mr. Berkeley on the evening the petition was pre sented—that Miss Talbot was not there as a " postu lant." There were but two modes of entering into a convent—that of a boarder or school girl, and that of a postulant. Miss Talbot having been previously edu cated in a convent could not be received as a boarder, nor did she wish to be placed under the same restric tions, and when her relations were leaving the country, for her stepfather was no relative, she applied to be re ceived as a postulant. The nunnery did not desire to receive her as a postulant because of her large fortuue, but tbey were undesirous to deny her a temporary resi dence. The fact was, therefore, that she was received as a postulant for the occasion, and at this moment the Rev. Dr. Doyle, her guardian, was actively engaged in providing her with a refuge. Leaving that part of the subject, he (Mr. Fagan) would refer to the general question under discusion. He agreed with the Hon. Member for Oldham that the present aggression arose altogether from an undisguised hatred of Popery, and he regretted to perceive that many Lion. Members of the House took part in that passion. Hon. Members had supported the Bill, because by introducing the canon law it gave the Pope a po we r o f i n t er f er i ng in the temporal as well as the spiritual concerns of the people of Eng land, but the contrary was the case, and after the Ca tholics in the House had denied it it was too hard ca. to have it thrust upon th em by l aw y ers . The Roman Ca tholics of this coun t ry h o ld w i t h t h e declarationoftbse French bishops, or Gallivan u ean Church, drawn Pby Boa suet in 1682, that th e P o p e h a d no power•ssiu eG xc e e e p tl t e o m v e e n r a th s e . spiritual concern s o f th e country. o • serted that the can on l aw would give the Pope power but over the temporal affairs of the people _. of England,or-General, no one had ventured to prove it. The Sol" it was true, argu e d th a t the Roman Catholic priests had a civil status, and that as the bisho t p he b r a e d fo a re ') sus pension over the priests, he had al bad argued that the o a we t r ere of pera power; and the Attorney-Gene! ugh often claimed laity, though livings was contested by the against any legislation found, d oase would be surprised to power of the Roman Catholic bishops to appoint to powers of suspending by them. He protested on ignorance of facts. The hundredfold greater than under hear that under vicars-apostol ic clergymen at will were a hu re He would, in proof, refer to the authority of bishops. rDonnell, of Birmingham —a the case of the Rev. Mr. an , who, without any cause as signed,much-respected clergyns d and "lent somewhere else. polio the Another was remove case was that of the R s e. Mr. Hearne, who w as removed Roman Cath o li cs there, that from Manchester without were cause assigned ; an d suc h were the feelings of f or s ome time to receive spiritual aid from they refused his successor. Tb e se things co u ld not have taken place under br . shoP He contend e d t h at the objections the establishment of a hierarchy and the canon l a w were unto ten able. The object of a norma l system of e the s rapid increase of Roman C a th o li cs ecclesiastical 1e s i a stical discipline was owing to w h at h e h a d stated —it was owing to in England. Their numbers now reached nearly a mil lion, and it was necessary to have spiritual teachers in sufficient number sufficient protection, which and with • B : as no t given under the vicar-apostolic system, b ut which was given by the episcop a l sys t em. I t was t hi s reason that had induc e d th e R oman Catholic clergy to petition the Pope for a hierarchy. He agreed with the Bishop of Beverley, and th oug h t h e was r i g h t i n w i ng , that had matters been left a s th e y were the clergy' would be in a worse position. But Cardinal Wiseman, the Archbishop of Westminster, was now freed from the power of the Pope; before this time be was the slave of the Pope.—(Bear.) With respect to synodal action, Cardinal Wiseman had not yet been able to call the Roman Catholic clergymen together to esta blish schools and other institutions, because be was anxious to avoid giving offence to the people of Eng land; but he had no doubt the time would soon arrive when a canon law suited to this country would bo in troduced and established. With respect to the canon law, he asserted, with the exception of those canons relating to faith and doctrine, which were founded on revealed truth, that no layman or priest was bound by any canon laws which were opposed to the municipal laws of the country.—(Hear.) All they had heard about the abominable canons of the olden time had nothing whatever to do with the Roman Ca tholic religion of the present day. In old times the Popes had assumed temporal authority and powers which they were not justified in assuming —but those times had passed, never to return, and the present times had totally changed. With reference to the alleged un changeable character of the Roman Catholic system, he said that applied to the faith only, but not to the disci pline of the Church—that was to be suited to times, cir. eumstauces, and countries, and, if necessary, to be al- terei conformably. It was ridiculous to talk of the but 1 Ira OETICe Domini, and other things, which Roman Ca tholics repudiated as much as Protestants. Ile contended that this ball had never been in force in Ireland, and had in fact been objected to by every Roman Catholic power. If the bull were in force, scarcely anything would he at rest in any Catholic state. He denied the accuracy of the statement of the Hon. and Learned Member for Oxford relative to the encroach ments of Popery, and the assertion that if you gave the Pope "an inch he would take an ell." The Hon. and Learuod Member bad referred to Sardinia, but he denied there was an encroachment on the part of the Pope in that country. There 'was 5 concordat between the Pope and the Sardinian lithfs, and it was not until an attempt was made to break through the conditions of the concordat that ill feeling commenced. As to the refusal to administer the sacra.. meats of the Church to Count Roses, he asserted that no churchman dare refuse the sacraments, except in cases where it would be useless to administer them-- namely, in cases of impenitence. In the case of Maria Manning the rites were not refused (we understood) by a Protestant clergyman, although Mrs. Manning refused to acknowledge her guilt. No Roman Catholic clergy man would have dared to hare done the same. The Solicitor-General had declared that this Bill would pre vent the the establishment of a hierarchy and y action in England. He would tell the Right H onourabe Gentleman neither this nor any other Bill would effect those purposes. They had failed to do it in da y s of persecution, and how dare they, then, to assert they be would do it now ?—(Hear.) Let him, therefore, no t told that this Bill would prevent synodal active. They s nod I might encumber their statute-books with laws, but sy'o o : dal action and the canon law, in spite of all that could he dime, would still be the action and the law govern ing the Roman Catholic Church in England. With re spect to legal opinions as to the effect of the first clause, he believed that any act done by a Roman Catho lic pre late under a prohibited title would be null and void under the first clause of the proposed Act; and as he consi dered this was not an extension of the Act of 1829, bu an attempt to impose new penalties, he sho uld resist t he Bill. So far from putting the English and Irish bistops on the same footing, as pretended, the reverse would be the case, The Bequests Act recognised the Irish Roman Catholic bishops, and in consequence of that the judges of Ireland, and among them Sir Edward Sugdee, h considered the prohibitory clause in the Emancipateeb bishops. This new Bill, however, Act put aside, and had recognised the titles of t o e,_ the sam ts placed the Iris h Roman Catholic bishops in situation as they were before the Bequests Act was passed. The people of Ireland looked on the measure, even in its mildest form, as an insult to the religion of one-third of her Majesty's subjects. He was " re f upset all this, Noble Lord was not aware of the excitement and ere ment this Act had created in Ireland. He could not bare believed, after four years of depression and absoluste starvation, that it was possible to rouse the In people to any exertion; but their religion was coneetqlvo: in this question, and on that subject they we re sensithia d and exciteable. In his district the Irish peopl e called on him to oppose every Government measure , 11 , s , matter what the principles involved in them; b ut be co l u h t: not subscribe to that resolution consisten tl y with was anxious to sustain.—(Hear, hear.) If the respect due to himself and to that public character ore were passed the Noble Lord would lose the suplibrbt of the people of Ireland; and the Noble Lord, seeib,g, ' 3 4 parties were made up in that House, must know full he could not sustain his party without Ireland.—(B e ar' near.) Until this change in the ecclesiastical system U f the Roman Catholics in England was conteniPla ted ' b n o person was more popular at the Court of Rome tn t mosso Noble Lord, but since then the Noble Lord bad become_. winghaw, had stated that he wished a most unpopular. Dr. Utlathorne, the Biehop of Bi t London to be appointed, but his proposal o 7 been rejected. And with respect to the erea ti " of a Bishop of St. David's, he could only ssY believed the Papal brief bad been wrongly transitions. d (Hear.) The Noble Lord (Palmerston) had esPr s ess b e v his surprise that no communication had been ma Id the Pope of Romo to Downing - street. B u t how c°l l that take place when the Pope was not recognised eitn er ? , Bishop. in his temporal character or his spiritual character bete_ have sent to Downing -street after the Diplom It would not have cemported with the Pope's dignity ' tions Bill had ignored his existence, even as a spiritual power. He was surprised to find how any mad tined &tic Bela: could come down and say that the Pope had ineu",i be en insult to the Crown or the people oi England' f Government had no good ground for the introduction 0. such a measure as the present; but the Catholics bad g ni o n o r d are g li r y o . und He fo n r ppn w s i e s d hi t h b g e f ß o i r li, th b e ena e n s s t e ab i l t is y l: a m s e a nt re o t f r o! grade movement in legislation, an infringement of the g Catholic Emancipation Act, and a departure fro m the broad principle of civil and religious liberty. —(Cheers.) Mr. SMYTHE wished to state to the House the rea sons why he should vote again s t what he could not help calling a sham Bill of sham p a ins and sham PeD altig e s s against a sham aggression.—(Ch e ers from the oplA n ' s of the Bill.) Entertaining so strong an opinion on this qua Von, he was not surprised at the tone adopted hl the Hon. Member for Cork, who had just sat down, be cause, after all, what were our relations with the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland? It was idle to shrink or evade that question. It could not be denied t hat within the last ten years the State had contracted a mor g anatic' or left-handed marriage with the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland by means of the Bequest s Act and the grant to Maynooth, and that it now sought to insult the Irish and to repudiate the not illegitimate offspring.—(Hear.) Ina far different spirit had the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies acted, whose far-seeing and courageous view, overlooking the miserable scruples of pedantic) uniformity, had not disdained to afford Catholic prelates in our colonies the titles which Mr. Pitt would have, granted them; and who, knowing from the archives of his office that we governed St. Lucia in the spirit fits French laws, and Trinidad by its Spanish law s ' allowed the Cetholic prelates in those colonies the titles which their Church awarded to tb,..,e m ' In Malta there were a Catholic population, U 4• tholic laws, and Catholic prelates. In Australia there were Catholic congregations and Catleolie bishops. Why, therefore, in Ireland, should there net also be Catholic bishops to Catholic flocks? Eby " I also in England ?—(Hear.) What the Pope bad really done in this country was to accord territorial title with no territorial government. Cardinal Wiseman had no thing more than the title of Archbishop of Westmi nster. He no more posse.sed the territorial governme nt of Westminster than the King of Sardinia and the Two Si ' cilies possessed Cyprus and Jerusalem. Although ho had the title of King of Cyprus and Jerusalem , the sing of Sardinia could not govern them without umbrage to the Grand Turk, who de facto governed both, a nds n a sense far different from that in which Cardinal Ar n:1 is 8 1! proposed to govern Westminster. In fact, Cardinal Wiseman would no more govern Westminster than th three Electors of Hanover, who were constitutional t h ey mo narchs of this country, governed France, though took the title of King of France — no mor e than Janice 111., Charles 111., or Henry IX. governed this country, Never though they took the title of King of England. they thelese, though these p rince s h ad o nl y the title, were still Dei gratia et voluntate hominum King s of Eng land to the consci ences o f all w h o b elieved in their right. If they were to proscribe Dr. Wisema n, still be would be, in the same manner , Dei g ratin et voluntate hominum Primate of all England to conscientious Roman Catho lics.—(Hear.) The distinction was one which defied and eluded legislation, because it was in foro conscienticr• and between man arid his God. Is reminded him of the old doggrel of the Jacobites:— " God bless the King, God bless the faith's defender, God bless—there is no harm in blessing—the Pretender; But who is that, and who the King, God bless us all,—that's quite another thing." —(A laugh.) It had been said that the Pope by his se.cclewsieasretictableyr,igthbtesn7ganniontgbetr name fur l tespiritual act c fa r c e a u t i e t i c e ! legis e itorial rights, late against spiritual faculti es — not di rect ly, but against territorial on account of spiritual faculties ?--- (ear, hear.) It would, in his opinion have been q uite as H competent f or th e Emperor Julian to have eng a g ed in , apersecution of th e Ch r i s ti ans f or their doctrine 01 original sin, or f or any ot h er o f t h e i r d oc trines —or for L . o us XIV. to hav e und er t a k en a dragoons& against his __ subjects on account o f C ar t es i an ideas.—(H ear.) Was the Government of this country a bout to run a muck against spiritual f acu l t i es b e y on d man's volition and hu man control? Or if, as some held, t h e belief in t hose depended on f ree w ill, was not t h a t precisely why they should not legislate, because every man iP case possessed within himself the power of a fs ic l n ation ledging or nullifying them?—(Hear.) No leg audio would make those who believed in the spiritt]ll3 would it rity of Dr. Wiseman abnegate that belief, Noble Lord compel the mecreans to believe in it. The e as a blunder opposite had spoken of the bull of the Pope sudden; but if it were so, he was sure the machinery by which the Pope sought to carry out the bull would be the blunder slow. Was it possible this a reatsbs7 any statesman in the nineteenth centu r y could dream of laying the foundations of spiritual unity in England , T I ; less it was the same statesman who in t he same period dreamt of establishing political unity in Italy? If t _ Pope was earnest in his aggression, he had an army of troops far mare formidable than Cardin al Wiseman and his suffragans. It was by the monastic orders that everything of any practical use to Rome bad been gained. He spoke in particular of one order, which__ o d .. been lavishly abused, but which had survived the rl os vinciel Letters of Pascal and the provincial speecliesoket the winter of 1850 in England—(A sr. of the order of Jesus, of whom the wisest of 3 n it g philosophers, Bacon, was not afraid to say, they are, would they were ours." In the reign If other organization was not complete. Thumbscrews If it were bath and James they were in this country, thou% their means of torture could not repress them. said that the Jesuits were already in of them, he should that there had been no persecution his favour, for it claim that as en argument in of their this country, and would expose the monstrous hypocrisy egise 1803, that they that the Jesuits were in this country in vinces—that they had lation on this point. If—as he believed it to be true — had divided Great Britain into pro the increased instrn n i n t n i great part of as it not monstrous that in the hands of that order--w they should seek to strain at a gnat while they had rinfloufetteCsaitnhcoeliicBc-rldrtileiltoaf England was In the present case the swallows the camel? — ( Hear.) Pope had preferred to send seculars, and in one respect Pr or and a n examle and be For the first time in historpy, t his act was et once se Established Church, had . pwoaprnetinbgytetshoeusrist e(s)i. an reading speech of Sir g. a con nected thee grandeur of a hierarchy with the voluntary principle. He remembered Deering, the Member for East Kent, in the Long Par liament, in which he alluded to the legend that when Christianity exchanged the persecution of the r.g , es l Emperors for the su pp ort of Constantine, an ting was heard to cr y out— " Hodie in eccle siass venentim jiinditis."—(fl ear, he ar.) But what was now mekil that Church so powerful —so powerful that the °W.3