The Sun. — London, England, 1851-06-17 00:00:00

---e -4:l4lkNion of fi—re and in the following year Com kite o ee , tee appointed by that Louse went Fully into the sub /Z.! and reported unanimously ie favour a Mr. Rendell's having the estimates before them. ?After a t ew words from C o l one l DuNNE an d Mr . l ENeet, the vo•e was agreed to. 1 1 4 , 1 , 44,000 1 to defray the expense of the construction of - Urs of re`'titYe. ~,,O fiUME hoped that this vote would be postponed teal the reports respecting them were laid before the m o vi e ' These works were commenced when Govern ep te Were under a panic that the country would be ims t t ately invaded. He proposed that the vote should be I dr 's' ets cl by 60,0001., leaving that for the Channel Islands , iuture consideration, when they had the report re- Itet ine them befo r e t he m . i t !he CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought the the opinion of the Hon. Member last year that wi e work s i n the Channel Islands should be proceeded th r t Th e tru t h was, t h at t h ese wor k s were a ll i n th e t,o "of forwardness, and it would be a great loss to ih iencl operations et preset. On the harbour of Dover mere Watt 34 000/. expended. PLUMPTRE said that the inroads of the sea at 1 4 "er were becoming quite alarming. The t iwn was pct re danger, and the harbour commiasiuner3 were te great expense in building sea wails to keep out I lt e ri e ea, tor whieh there would be no necessity if they b B upply of beach which was now carried into deep 'ker. aItirr.,CORDEN.. said that when the vote for the Chan eit,'"ends was last year before the House he su4gested (1 4 " thPy should have bad the estimates respecting them 14 - 7 / hp in the same form as the navy esamatee with ba n -e columns. They iver , voting away a large sum ot It t ' e 4 el' every year for Alderney, which was only about e Miles long and half a mile wide. The estimated pTof the harbour there was t wice as much as would i' u tso the whole island. He had never heard any beleetions from Lleyd'a or other pardes for a harbour to t ril ugo there. There was no commerce nor an) thing - mpt vess, le to enter there. This was but a part of ii l ,Rteat scheme of fo r tifi ca ti ons i nto w hi c h t hey rushed 11, 44 4 and 1845 w h en t h ey were p an ic- s irkken about. s„ ll4 , 4 flger of i nvas i on . Th e who l e est i m eted cost for bithearbour was 600,0001. They ought to be satisfied the first loss and go no further in this extravag a n t et ty. 1 3 ! 1 ,r. HUME had visited the Channel Islends recently, men cad therethe been informed that it would take 40.000 to rnan fortificetions there. He did not find a 11 1 - 8 % it; these islands who was not disposed to leueh at I na. He atso thou g ht the expenditure upon D o ver I T -r uour useless. BUCK sail that there wagon part that required the tr, -6 ' cl eration of the Government so much as the coast 1,4"11 Bristol to the Land's Ead, where there w e re Ile t ?Otir S of re f uge a t a ll. il e sir J. GRAHAM. suggested to the Government that Ce A h id be much more satisfact iry in respect to these IC Work it the same form of estimate was adopted as 11 4 . 11 1 A for the navy and ordnance. He thought that ta; lo ,te might be postponed until they had such a state et.," d before them. The vote for the Channsl Islands Oti state eat large, and was not placed so much under the la , p ot of the Government as other votes. 4 4h e CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would te objection to putting the votes in the shape sug abled,. The truth was that the report was placed un the ' t last year, which gave all the information that could required. th e a brief discussion the vote was withdrawn for e Pre 2 , ent. tt liB3l . to defray the expense of the necessary works .4 °ll Patrick. e , ',hi t •W. WILLIAMS should like to know how long ab,!Penditure was to go on. The harbour was of no utility. pi t ' ir P. BARING said that there was no doubt the Q o el had been abandoned as a packet station; but the itoternment thought it advisable to keep up the harbour Mere wreck and ruin under the idea that the har e* might be turned to some advantage again as r a il- It oo rnmunication advanced. i t r ' HUME said the public had nothing to do w ith it was abandon e d as a p ac k et s t a ti on . k r , r G. CLERK thought it was probable it might be- The g v ! aain a acket station. eote was ultimately agreed to. r,'3,239/ for defraying the expense of maintaining se eik‘l Public buildings in the department ot the Com kocioners of Public Works in Ireland; also for the ex iticrnoe inland navigation under the direction o f t h e miteortenaissioisers. r. SPOONER SPOONER w o u ld t a ke the sense of th e Com ae*" upon one item in this vote. He would move that th e grant be reduced by the sum of 1.2301. 103., being tri eL e tthe appropriated to the Royal College of St. Pe tro', fila,ynooth He objected to this vote on the . tl tici of principle as well as on pecuniary grounds. he iu g as it was, it formed a portion of the public Ft, 1 Y; but his main objection was, as to the principle. it /° ,,buld ever contend for that principle—namely, that t4,: l rrotestant nation they had no right to grant any ftl• tl .°Y to a religion in open hostility to the established as it had decidedly shown itself to be. within ioo di: 'est few months. The country would be greatly 4:,ll)ointed if, notwithstanding all their hoatile pro len;ilge against the Protestant Churn and the Die- Ir' e rs this grant was allowed. The late Sir R tbert t ot et t In:d in 1845 proposed that 30.000/. should be given 11 1 „ t he erectieneef uidigs at aynoot, and he ha Recur e d for the same institution the h payment of d a th!? twin annually out of the Co nso lid at ed Yr 4; 161 t five years the re had been paid, in acifitien to p i iita of 30,0001., no less a sum than 26,000/. an therl3; and now, in addition to th,se grants, t r 1 was p ro p ose d t h is sum , pa l try i n amount, b ut t at in principle.—(Hear, hear.) There was to be a year fer repairs, in addition to the 1h! 000 /. for building. Sr Robert Peel, in proposing te le c om, said that he meant to treat the Irish ie a ge • • et tis spirit, the hope they would be met in a cur 4Pote lieg spirit—that they wouldhe repaid for their th er4 lity by infusing a better spirit into Irishmen ; and afar thq ss 7 ould do this by ensuring a more liberal spirit l i ,education amongst them.—(Hear.) Had they, be t!;; e d, been met in a more liberal spirit?—(Hea,e) Had teas e hops been realized? Had there not, on the cons 4 7, been an open declaration of hostility azeicst them? \ ((ih sr th aers.) Within the last few days an Hon. Member * t . at House was reported to have made a speech or lellten a letter—he referred to what he had read in an Q..% Paper—and, according to that report, the lion. G ear had said that toleration was a word which tvi l' (the Roman Catholics) would not receive as appli eto them—that they would not condescend to Sc. toleration, when the Roman Catholics bad the right one established as the Church in Ireland.—(Cheers.) Spooner) was one of those who had opposed " 1 Godless colleges," but then he asked when that 0 1t 4 : 4 4 hail been made, bad it been received by the Ro -4 Catholics in a spirit of conciliation?—(Hear, 1 1 , : 1 ".) How had the Irish Roman Catholics received Had they not thrown back the grant in their teeth? man ifested h ear .) And w h a t was t h e lib era l s pi r it d Cl aifested by the Roman Catholics, an d ho w h a d it b ee n il t i c ienstrated? Was it not by an act of aggression on rei l Part of the head of that Church against the Sove tn of this nation?—(Cheers.) And then let them the h ost il e sp i r i t t h at h ad b een man i fested b y Irish to man Catholic Members of that House when the at -11;t1),, Pt was made to put down the act of aggression by a in that House.—(Hear, hear.) As to the concilia jut' of the Roman Catholics, ho told them it was a vain ett"ci"tc. (ti Pt._ e The Roman Catholics were not to be concili ar ) Every man of them who was a true t itett eanCetho . lic would never stop until he had put down e Pr o t estant Ch urc b . — ( C heers. ) Th ey were no t t o c ontented with with toleration; they must have ascend. and never would they rest tranquil until ascend -411Y had been obtained.—(Hear.) Too long had they i l `the P rotestants — su b m i tted to this state of th i ngs. H e e iieved that the abandonment of their Protestant prin rPles was a great national sin, and that if they continued t 1 the lame course they would bring down upon them ,tlyee a g rea t national enclgment.— ( Hear .) He moved a l, " the vote b e reduced ny the sum o f 1,230/. 10a. sir, the question being put, h alr. HUME was very sorry to h ear t h e speec h wh i ch Ftki been made by the Hon. Member for Warwickshire, ° l ,r, whatever mi g h t b e th e o pi n i on h e enterta i ne d as to time for discussing them. He concurred entirely in the "Pinion of the Lion. Member that had been referred to— !lithely, that the Roman Catholics ought not to be satis• b ged W i t h to l era ti o n when they were ent i tled to equality.'le asked the Hon. Member whether he would not do to ether s as he would wish to be done by? It app, ared to }lira that the Hon. Member was for voting against his awn principles.—(Hear.) The question was whether th ey were prepared to support those edifices which Par liament had alre-ady declared should be created, and the C reation of which the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir Robert p eel) had proposed an one acting upon true Christian Principles. Sir R. H. INGLIS observed that the Hon. Member fixed up two questions which were entirely separate from each other,—the proposal to reduce the sum for she repairs of 'elaynooth and the establishment of the Queen' s colleges. They had no t m et to discuss the l atter subject, and he therefore should confine himself to the college of Maynooth. Now, he asked whether the a Princip Cargument of the late Sir Robert Peel, when proposing his plan respecting Maynooth ' was not this —that h e wish e d to change from an annua l to a perma lent grant, for the purpose of removing this constant element of discord from their debates.—(Hear, hear.) Ile (Sir R Inglis) bad never contemplated that he ehoai d have to tyke part again in a discussion on the Nleynooth tract, unless it should be in discussing a Bill introduced to put an end to the gran t a ltogether. H ere now , how ever, he' found the d e b a t e rev ived, and that a t a ti m e the 'em i t p ro pitious f or ca l m di scuss i on , b y h er M a j es ty's Ministers proposing this vote for 1,200/. They asked this sum to be granted by the country at the very mo ment that the country felt it necessary :to put n stop to aggression—agqression, too, that was encouraged by too teeny high authorities in that House.—(Hear.) The lion. Member for Montrose, for instance, had repudi ated the idea of toleration for the Roman Catholics on th e ground that they were entitled to equality, or more than equality. He (Sir R. Inglis) denied it. He had that eery day presented a petition from the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, in which the pro- Per principle was laid down as to the national religion, and here the nation having declared that which was to he its national religion, he held that the Roman Catho lics had no claim to equality with that religion; that there should be nothing more than a largo and liberal toleration at the utmost for the Church of Rome. He would say nothing more of that Church than this— that he and other Members of that House having taken a certain oath, they would not regard it as a matter of 1 . ndiff-rence whether they supported that Church or n o t. —(Hear, hear.) It was only from false notions of ex pediency that such a grant as this could be made. He wasprepared to support the lion. Member in resisti ng a policy which was fraught with evils to the religious principles of this country.—(Hear, bear.) Mr. FORDES had, be laid, whop Toted splint TII.E SUN, grants for Maynooth; and he now wished to know from the NCO!. Lord at the head of the G.veroment how he, who had denounced "the mummeries" of the Church of Rome, should now sanction a vo,e for maintaining those " mummerieF," for cut+ he believed was the expression that had been made use of by the Noble Lord —(Cheers and laughter.) By a recent bull from Rom? , , the 10- wan Catholics were ordered not to attend at any of the Queen's colleges; and now they were called upon in that House to give a vote for those who opposed those Queen's colleges, and to promote the education of those who were alone to be educated in the mummeries of the Church of Rome.—(Laughter and cheers.) Why, he asked, was the Noble L - ird that night voting for "the naumnaerie." of Rome, and all the reat of the session prof , ssing to act in accordance with the Vroteitant feel ing of this county} ?—(Hear.) Sir W. SOMERVILLE old not think that a proper time for discussing the general policy of the Government was in c , usidering whether they should pay for the re- psirs of ctuttain buildings at &taynooth. Toe vote ought ' to be allowed to stand upon its own merits. Certain re pairs were to be done at Maynooth; these repairs were not required for this buildinf,s for which the 30.000/. had been granted, but for the repairs of the old College of Mlynouth, which was under the direction of the Board of Works. It was to keep up that building that the money was required. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON referred to the Act of 1845 to show !hitt in tr•cordatice with its words, the 30,0001. was granted for the fitting-up and repairs; and by the 10th clause of that Act, the expense of repairs was to he defrayed out of the 30.000/. They gave 6,0001. for pro fessors, and 20,0001. for students, and yet in addition to that they were now called upon to give 1.200/. a year for repairs. After a few words from Mr. TRELAWNEY in sup port of the vote, Mr. H. DRU ;IMOND said that he could not shut his eyes to the open declaration of war which had been made against them from Rome. The head of the Roman Ca tholic Church had oeclared them to b.. all Pagans, and expressed his desire to bring them back from the slavery of Protestantism into the glorious liberty of Popery.— (Laughter.) They were here called upon to pay for a oody of priests to preich against another institutioe which they had set up, and that they desired to establish fur the benefit of the Raman Catholics. He would re• mind them of Pascal's Letters, and of the teachings it, his time of the secular clergy as opposed to the regulars. They would find that eery one of the doctrines that bait been rejected. not by Protestant bigotry, but by the en lightened Catholics in every part of the world, that these were the very doctrines that were now taught by the Roman Catholic clergy in Ireland.—(hear.) Mr. ANSTEY observed that the real point at issue— economy, had been overlooked by all the previous speakers. When the time came it was his intention P. vote against the Regium Denum and against the gram for the French refugees, and acting on toe same prin ciple, he thought he should begin most fitly by votink against the proposed grant in favour of his own Church. He could tell the House that ever since Catholic Eman cipation passed there were many of the Roman Catholic bishops opposed to the annual grant to Maynooth There was no man in the three kingdoms more strongl) opposed to it than the Most Rev. Dr. APHale; and at the annual meeting of the Roman Catholic bishops a• Maynooth, that Most Rev. Prelate had propose i its re jection, and on such occasion had the support of a ver large minority of the Irish Roman Catholic bishops This fact he bad from the Most Rsv. Dr. Mtlfalo him self. It was mast erroneous, then, to say that thr Cburch of Rome was desirous of obtaining those grants, or that there was anything like an unanimous feeling on the subj , -ct. Mr. W. WILLIAMS opposed the vote, on grounds distinct from religious asperity; he opposed it becaus , fir R. Peel had distinctly stated, on obtaining the gram of 30,0001. and 9,0004 a year, that no further annual vote would be demanded. He (Mr. Williams) saw in the civil contingencies 1001. f at auditing the accounts of the College of Maynooth. Why not put all the expenses together? He would oppose that as well as all oche► votes of money for religious purposes. Mr. NEWDEG ATE congratlated the Hon. Member for Youghal on his candour, and the Hon. Member lot Lambeth on his consistency. He was, however, sur prised to hear the Hon. Member for Montrose, the op• ponent of all grants for religious purposes, say he would vote on the occasion for " Peter's pence," especially when it was borne in mind that Maynooth College was provided for out of the Consolidated Fund. fie (Mr. Is7(-Ivdegate) was all the more suprised at the vote of the Hon. tlember, because after what the Hon. Member for Youghal had said, it seemed that the Roman Catholics themselves were far from unanimous on the subject. The Honourable Member, however, would at least admit that these bonuses to secure the goodwill of tht, Roman Catholics had not been successful; indeed, on the contrary, the difficulties in which the country was at this moment placed might in a great degree oe traced to the policy which dictated this vote. It he (Mr. Newdcga'e) believed for a moment that in supp rt ing Maynooth he was supporting the means of giving a liberal education he would nct oppose the present vote, but he could not find any alteration in the characters o. the priesthood produced by it, except one that con trasted unfavourably with the priests who received their education in France, who were imbu , d rather with the hbmrality of the Gallica❑ Church than with the bigutr) ut Ultr4mont4rie cloctrinpx. Mr. KEIISHAW would vote against the grsnt, net on ncoout,t of the Papal aggression, bu: because he con sidered it objectionable to support any sect of religionists by grant-, or the public , r , oney. He was opposed to the egium Donurn, and would be to any grant to the body to which he himself belonged; and be recommended to Parliament the ad“pt!on of the voluntary principle. Mr. MO WATT raid these who voted against the grant because they were opposed to any grant, were consistent; but the opponents on the opposite bide of the House had not, it s, emed to him, a single reason in common in their opposition to it. The Ilonourab and Learned Member for the University of Dublin for got to state that the present vote was to prevent the 30 0001. to which he alluded being wasted. The Estab lished Church took from halt a tndlion to two-thirds of a million annually from the Roman Catholics of Ire land—which the Honourable and Learned Gentleman also forgot to advert to. This made the case of Ireland an exceptional case; and, therefore, he (Mr. Mowatt) should voce for the grant in question. Colonel SII3THORP should vote in support of the motion of the Hon. Member for Warwickshire, on the ground of consistency. He had never voted for the grant tor Maynooth, and he should not do so on this occasion. The Hon. Member for Tavisteck said he would vote for the grant to make the Roman Catholics less dangerous. He (Colonel Sibthorp) would vote against it not only for consistency sake, but because it was a clap-trap ou the part of the Government, and to put the Noble Lord in the wrong. He bade the Roman Catholics beware of the Government as of man-traps and spring-guns.— (Laughts,r.) _ Mr. FOX would oppose the vote, but not on theologi cal nor on economical grounds. Ile remembered that the Roman Catholics were entitled to equal rights, and he would not oppose them. On the economical side he would not oppose it, because he remembered that they had been robbed of their magnificent cathedrals. He would nut persecute the Catholic;, but neither would he pay them. There could be no more degrading position for a religion than to have public prosecution hanging over their heads on the one hand, and o n th e ot h er t he public purse held out to them for a paltry pittance as a set-off. For the sake of the Roman Catholics themselves, therefore, he would vote against the grant. Colonel RAWDON asked whether it was wise to re fuse this paltry sum in the face of other proceedings that were pressing on that House? To depart from the prin ciple acknowledgd by the House of Commen s in the in stance of this grant, would be a most impolitic act. Alderman SIDNEY supported the amendment of the Hon. Member for Warwick, because the policy of winning the Roman Catholic hierarchy by such means had totally failed. He believed he was voting in con sistency with his feelings and the wishes of hi s con aliments. The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the vote ... ••• ••• ••• 121 Against it ... ..• ••• 119 Majority.for the vote ... ••• —2 The vote was then agreed to. 10 6601. for Kingstown Harbour and works. Alderman SIDNEY objected to the vote on the ground that there was no trade at Kngstown, and unless some explanation was given, he should divide the House, and move that the chairman report progress. Mr. HUME ohjecte , f to the form of the estimate. The House ought to know what had been expended, and how much more would he wanted. Alderman SIDNEY said this was a portion of a larger vote, and the House had a right to know some thing more ab iut it. Thera might be some small trade at Kingstown, but nothing to justify so large an outlay. Mr. HAMILTON said there was a growing trade at Kingstown. Mr. C LEWIS said the vote was for important pur- Poses connected with the making the harbour suitable for trading vessels. The vO, O was then agreed to without a division. 92,3001. for salaries and expenses of the two Houses of Parloiceent, and for certain retiring pensions. Mr. W. WILLIAMS said the Committee who had re commended reductions had had their recommendations totally disregard, dby the Government. It was very poor encouragement for Members to do their duty in such Committees if they were to have their labours thus made a nullity. In reply to a question as to the increase of 5,0001. in the estimate for the salaries of the clerks of the House, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said tilt. salary used to be taken from the Consolidated Fund, while now for the first time it wad included in the es timate. Mr. HUME could not understand the explanation. There was a positive increase of 5 0001 . in that dePart- me nt as far as he could understand the es ti mates. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER expl a i ned that this was not the case. After come further divussion the vote was agreed to. On the vote of 53,7014. for salaries and expenses of the department of the Treasury. Major Li ERESFORD objected to the Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury having 5001. a year more than his superior officer, the Secretary of the Treasury ; the former having 2 500/. a year and the latter only 2,000/., notwithstanding that in addi:ion to the heavy duties he had to perform in his office he had to give constant at tendance in that House. He moved to reduce the vote by 500/. Tire CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Assistant -Secretary, Mr. Trevelyan, had his present sa lary when the present Government came into office; and it was the case with all the Under-Secretaries of State, both in the Home aid Foreign Departments, that the moveable officers bad less than the permanent ones. ,He was not prepared to say that 2,500/. a year was tad much, for the Secretary to the Treasury; but iu fixing bib sa- LONDON, lary at 2,000/. e year they had only lollosved out the re conemeed.,t,ori e' the Committee on salaries. Mr. DISiZAELI thought tate G ivernment ou:=ht to expiem to the Mouse the principle upon which they acted with respect to the recointneedations of the Com mittee on public salaries. That Committee, for instance, recoin. , nended that the embassy at Paris should be re duced t) a mission, and the salary cut down one-half; but the Government did not adopt thee recomtaenda'ion, and the an l.try of the ambassador at Paris remained the same, Now, the Right Hen. Gentleman told them that they had reduced toe salary of the Secretary to the Treasury against their will, in consequence of the re commendatiees of the Committee. The time was come for the Government to expl tin the principle on which it acted in the matter. No Government ought to agree to the appointment or a Select Committee unless they were prepared to accede to the reccmrnendation of the Committee. Why did they not act in the case of the Secretary to the Treasury in the same spirit in which they acted with respect to the ernbasiy at Paris? It was, besides, preposterous that the Assistmt•Secretary should be remunerated with a higher salary than the Secretary, who was his superior officer. Lord J. RUSSELL sad the Hon. Gentleman must have forgotten that he (Lord J. Russell) had already stated in the present session the reasons for which the Government had adopted some of the recommendations of the Committee and had disagreed to others, and the general principles upon which they went on the whole question. He could not accept as just or reasonable the proposition of the Hon. Gentleman, that the Government ought not to assent to the appointment of a Committee unless prepared to accede to all its recommendations; nor c , eild he see that because the public service would b e injured by the reduction of the salary of the embassy at Paris to 5,0001. a year, that therefore the reduction of the salary of the Secretary to the Treasury to 2,000/. should not take place. Mr. V. SMITH said the proposed reduction would destroy the character for permanency which the salary of such an officer as the Assistant Secretary to the Trea sury should have; but he did not see any objection to a reduction in the case of Sir C. Trevely au s successor. Major BERESFORD said he meant to divide. He could see no justice in a Secretary to the Treasury re , ceiving 5001 a year less than an under-secretary. Mr. MANGLES thought it would be a breach of faith to reduce the salary of Sir C. Trevelyan, after he bad undertaken to discharge the duties of his office at a salary of 2.500/. Mr. DISRAELI protested against considering this as a personal question. and could not admit because a salary had been paid by the Treasury that the House was no longer at liberty to touch it. Mr. HUIIE -aid if there had been a vacancy in the under-secretaryship, he would have supported the motion 'or reduction or the salary; but that not being the case, at present any reduction would be a breach of faith. Lord J. RUSSELL—Though the reduction in Tees tioh was only 5001, yet an important principle was in volved in it. The office of under-secretary was gene. rally given to iedivlduals who had to relinquish other avocations, and it would be unfair, after having fixed the salary, to reduce it. Such a course would not be advantageous to the public service. It was proposed to reduce the salary of Sir C. Trevelyan 500/., but if the right to reduce the salary was admitted, what was there t prevent its being reduced still further in another er? If the Hon. Member for Bucks had ever filled a blic situation—and that he might do so some day was not improbable —he would have been convinced how im- portant it was that persons holding such situations as .hat in question should be men of character and abilities, and how impossible it would be to obtain persons unless he salaries attach, d to their office were looked upon as certain. He hoped the Committee would not consent to he reduction. Mr. BRIGHT said that the argument of the Noble Lord would be fair if the public servants were under paid, which no one pretended to say was the case. For 2,0001. a year they might have the bust head that was to sote hound on any pair of shoulders in England. Mr. W. PAT FEN admitted that be thought the Com mittee would have recommendt'd the reduction had they 4iven it their consideration; but he was sure they would nave stipulated that it should not be made except on the next vacancy. After a few words from the CHANCELLOR of the Ex • CHEQUER and Mr. CLEMENTS, Mr. MILES reminded the Committee that the expense of living had of late years very grea•ly diminished; that he cry for a reduction of the public expcncii - ure had increased, and that there were now placed on Sir Charles rrevelyan's shoulders duties from which ho (Mr. 01iles) hoped ,that the Hon. Gentleman would shortly bo re lieved. The question appeared to him to be simply this. After a service of five or six years, was Sir Charles Trevelyan paid well at a salary of 2,0001, or was he, merely upon a Treasury minute, which was adopted c.r .:ainly previous to his accepting office, to have 5001. more? Ii they were to have a Treasury minute con stantly thrown into the teeth of the House of Commons every time it was engaged deciding on votes, it would seem that all the Ministers would hereafter have to do was to pass such Treasury minutes as it pleased, and invariably to appeal to them against what ought to be aledecision of the House. 'The CH A NCELOR of the EXCHEQUER said that Sir Charles Trevelyan would have returned to India had he not received this appointment, upon the understanding .hat at the expiration of five year, his salary should be 2,5001. But the Treasury minute under which this ar rangement Wai made had been in existence for more than Lw-roy year,,. Lord EBRINGTON supported the vote. After a few words from tlr. J. EVANS, the Commit tee divided, end tho numbers were— For the aznendineut ... 72 Against it ... ... 118 ALjority .. ..• ••--46 The vote was tht n agreed to; as were also the votes of 25.270/. for salaries and expenses of the ilome•otfice, and 37.100 i. tar War and Colonial Departments. The House then resumed, and the Chairman obtained leave to sit again. THE .JEW BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL. is reply to Mr. Bright, said he had tix,od the above Bill for Monday next. The Court of Chancery (Ireland) Regulation Act Amendment Bill passed through Committee ; • as did also the Fee F,tr m R ents (Ireland) Bill. AUTS OF PARLIAMENT ABBREVIATION ACT REPEAL BILL. Mr. J. STUART moved the third reading of the above Bill. It was imp sssible, he contended, to keep the Act which it wss intended to repeal on the statute book. That it had signally failed even the Acts passed during the present session had proved. By the 4th sec tion of the Act, it was provided, that all words import ing the masculine gender should also be taken to include leinsles—(Lsughter)—and all words of the singular number should also mean the plural. Now that section had excited the greatest alarm, and might be produc tive of the greatest inconvenience. It included all Acts past as well as future. how vOtlicl that section operate with respect to the Reform Bill far instance? On !erring to it he found that every wale person paying rent and occupying a house of a certain value, should be en• titled to a vote. According to the Act, however, which he was then asking the House to repeal, that clause should mean every female person also.—(Laughter.) It also destroyed all distinctions between private and public Acts or Parliament, which was a very mischievous thing. How many Acts of Parliament had there been . passed in favour of the issue male, with the express in tention of excluding the female line?—(Hear.) They had already passed prison discipline Acts with specific regulations for the different sexes, and how would the Act be applied there ? Even this very session,one of the last Acts which had received theßoyal assent—he meant the Income-tax Act—would bo very materially and seriously affected if the singular word " one" year was to be taken to mean many years. —(Hear and laughter.) The Chancellor of the Exche quer seemed to be pleased with that interpretation. — (Laughter.) Although the Act professed to be one to shorten the language of Acts of Parliament, he did not find it to have that effect, for the wording of Acts during the present session was as lung as on any former occa sion. There were sections in the Act which did not seem to him calculated to shorten the wording of Acts of Parliament. On consulting his Hon. and Learned Friend the Master of the Rolls on that subject, the latter bad admitted that the Act might be objectionable; but as he had not time himself to consider its repeal, he had referred him (Nlr. Stuart) to a Learned Friend, with whom hn had carefully gone over the Act, and that gen tleman had also been sensible of the absurdity and in convenience of most of the clauses of the Act. He would not detain the House at that late hour (past one o'clock) by going further into details.—(Hear.) He was con vinced of the good intentions of those who introduced the Act, but ho should say it was framed without care, and not even in a manner to carry out their views. Its tact no man could hereafter decide upon the construction of an Act of Parliament unless he had the Act by heart, or at least a copy of it in his pocket. He received com plaints from many respectable legal friends of the diffi culty which the Act caused them. Even if the principle of the Act were to be carried out hereafter, let it be so, and let it be done carefully and advisedly ; but for the present he would ask them to repeal the Act by agreeing to the third reading of the Bill then before them. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL would oppose the third reading of that Bill, which he believed to be one of a most mischievous tendency. The Act referred to had not emanated from the Government, but had been ori ginated in the other House of Parliament, where it had had the sanction of the highest legal authority. The Act appeared to him a most useful one as tending to abridge the verbosity of Acts of Parliament generally. His Honourable Friend had referred to the Master of the Rolls ; but so far as they could form an idea of his opinion, it would seem to be tolerably plain, for he had a notice on the paper that the present Bill should be read a third time this day six months whenever his Honourable Friend's motion should be brought on.— (Hear, hear.) On referring to the first four clauses of the Act, he found that they were of a highly useful character. His Honourable and Learned Friend had alluded to the Reform Bill and the right it gave to males to vote ; now it never could occur for a moment to a lawyer that that could have a retrospective effect of the nature referred to. Then there was a provision that when an Act repealing other Acts was itself repealed, it should not ipso facto revive those repealed Acts. This section prevented a manifest inconvenience. The next was a provision relating to the same matter. Then it was provided that every Act should be deemed a public Act, unless the contrary should be expressly enacted. This was always inserted in all Acts, and the object of the Act was to prevent the ne cessity of perpetually inserting that provision. His Hon. and Learned Friend apprehended that this would tend to destroy the distinction between public and private Acts; but it would always be easy, when it was not in tended to be a public Act, to insert a provision to that effect. This was also intended to prevent the necessity of Perpetually repeating the usual clause in all Acts of Parliarceut. lii short, be regarded the Act which his TUESDAY Hoc. and teutini Friend sought to repeal es the first step towards improving the langvgo of Acts of Parlia ment—and if there were any imperfections in .it nothing would have been easier than 'foh his Hon. tied Learned Friend to have brcugh"tin a Bill to amend it, instertd of asking the House k) repeal it altogether. He had also soma reason to complain of bis Hon. and Learned Friend, in pressing the third. reading of his Bill at so late an hour, and in the ats9fice of his Right Hon. and Learned Friend the Matter of the Rolls; and would therefore move that the 13ill be read a third time that day six months. Mr. S ruAR r Mr. STANFORD observed that the Master of the Rolls had assented to the second reading' and Com mittee, and was,, thireforo, pursuing a most inconsistent course in now onpoi.ng the third raiding. lie would support the Bill, thou g h he did not shire in the appre hension of his llon. tod Learned Friend as to conferring the franchise on lacies t and perhaps would not much regret if such were tie case.—(Lsughter.) The House then divide], when there appeared— For the third leading... 12 Against it Majority The Bill was consecitently lost. The other businesi was then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Q cart-r to Two o'clock. -54 Mr. Sergeant MURFiIy ()lived wlih CulOid HALL on the miseGliantKan eititates, COURT CIti:CULAR. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by th., lion. Miry Simour, General Wousyss, and Colonel Bouverie, ve❑t ;to the Exhibition of the Works of I❑dustry of ell Natio;is yesterday morning. Her Majesty arrived it the Exhibition at twenty minutes past nine o'clock, and conei❑ued het -inspection of the machinery until eleven o'clock, and then returned with Prince Albert to Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred at tended by Mr. Birch, vi sitedthe Exhibition yesterday fore noon. Highnesses the Prittess Royal and the Princess Alice, a•t'❑ch by Miss,Hidyard, also ♦isited the Exhi bition yesterday. Lord J. Xsssell had an audience of her Majesty yes terday at Buckingham Palau,. The Queen and Prince Albert left Buckingham Pa lace, in an open carriage and four, at twenty • minutes before four o'clock yesterchy afternoon, for Claremont, to visit the - French Royal ,'amity. The COuntess of Charlemon% Gen. Wenayss, and Colonel B.niverie, at tended in another open carriage and four. Her Majesty and Prince Albert and suite, returned to Buckingham Palace at ten minutes to Wet o'clock. The Royal dinner party ai Buckingham Palace last evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highness 04 Fripee of Leinengen, the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, Lady Fanny Howard, the Baroness de Speth, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. and Mrs. Phipps. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at tended by the Barones3 d a Speth, went to l'rogmore yes terday morning, and returned to her residence Clarence House, St. James's, in the afternoon. A deputation, consisting of Viscount Castlereagh, M.P., Mr. M'Cullagh, M.P., M. Fitzpatrick, M.P., Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., and Mr. Beauclerc, had an interview with Lord John Rssstll yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Downing -street. Sir Matthew Barrington transacted burin, as yesterday at the office of the Cummissioiaers of Railways in the Board of Trade. Mr. &icon had an interview. with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home. office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of Western Australia. Dis patches were also received front the Governor of the Canadas. Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governors of the West India Islands, and also to the Governor of Ginraltar. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE: PLYMOUTH, MONDAY.—Port-Admiral Sir John Om maney inspected her lisiesty's ship Caledonia, 120, Cap tain T. W. Carter, in the Sound on Friday, and the next day she was towed by the Styx and Vesuvius into Ilansoaze, where the crew will be paid off. The Devastation steam-vessel sailed on Friday for the North American station. The artisans of the dockyard were mustered and in spected on Saturday, in presence of Commodore Super intendent Lord John Hay and the principal officers. WOOLWICH, JUNE 16. —APPOINTMENTS.— Gunner Edward ()wee, to the Cyclops; Boatswain James Mor ris, to the Cyclops; Carpenter John Whalebone, to the Cyclops. PRuNOTIONS.—CharIes F. Oliver, to be acting gun ner; Edward Allen, to be acting boatswain. Preparations have been made at Woolwich to-day for the reception of his Majesty the King of the Bel gians, intelligence having been forwarded that his Majesty and suite will arrive at nine o'clock this even ing, in the Vivid Dover mail steam packet, Captain Smithett, and will land at the dockyard at-that hour. and proceed immediately for Buckingham Palace, on a visit to her Majesty. The appointments made to-day to the Cyclops, 6 paddle-wheel steam-frigate, of 320 horse power, are pre paratory to her being commissioned for the couveyanc, of troops to the Cape of Good Hope. The Barracouta, 6, piddle-wheel steam-sloop, built W Pembroke, has arrived in the river, and will be brought up this evening or to-morrow to have her engines fitted. The London freight-ship arrived at this dockyard of, Saturday from the coast of Africa, with a cargo of tim ber for shipbuilding purposes. Two new boilers, made at the fact: - . , ry here from a plan sent by the steam de p trtmeet of the Admiralty, h ave been tried during the last four week days on board the Hydra steam• vessel, of 220 horse-power, in the basin at Woolwich ; and they have been found superior to those at present in use, generating a much greater quantity of steam, and consequently reqatring a leas consumption of fuel fur working marine steam•eugines. LAUNCH OF THE SCR E IV-STEAITIEII CITY OF MANCHESTER. (From the Glasgow Daily Mail of yesterday.) This fine steamer, built by the enterprising firm ey Tod and M'Gregor, was launched on Saturday, from their building-yard at the mouth of the Kelvin. Beine the largest vessel ever built on the Clyde she attracted n great number of spectators, wno lined each side of the river, anxious to witness the interesting ceremony. About two o'clock, the tide being then at its height, preparations were made for sending her off the stocks. The river being clear, and all the arrangements com plete, the signal was given, when the stays were knocked away, and she glided majestically into the water, amid the firing of cannon and the enthusiastic cheers of the assembled multitude. When she was moving off, Mh o Henderson, second daughter of George Henderson, Esq , stepped forward, and gracefully dashing the bottle over her bows, named her the "City of Manchester." Wt have seldom seen a vessel sit so beautifully on the water— her extraordinary size and beauty of mould giving her as extremely graceful and imposing appearance. She ie the property of the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam ship Company, and is intended as a consort to the Cu) of Glasgow, in the Liverpool and Philadelphia trade, and in conjunction with the new American screw steam ships City of Pittsburg and City of Philadelphia, be tween Liverpool and Philadelphia. She has been built with a view to speed, extra accommodation and comfort to passengers, her internal fittings having been finished in a style equal to any of those princely vessels that now cross the Atlantic. She is fitted up to carry 160 passen gers in the first and second Cabiui, for whose comfort and accommodation no expense has been spared. The following is a note of her dimensions:—Length of deck, 274 feet; breadth of beam, 37 Let 9 inches; length from spankerboom to jib-boom end, 339 feet; burden, 2,1:15 tons. She is to be propelled by a three•bladed screw, which will be driven by two beam-engines of 400-horse power. She has four masts, which will enable her to show a large surface of canvas, and make her easier managed in stormy weather. She is, altogether, One of the finest vessels we have seen, and will, no doubt, add greatly to the already world-wide fame of our Clyde ship-builders. When she visits the shores of the New World, Jonathan may "calculate" that she excels in model, build, and finish, any that has ever been sea' from the stocks of the " consarned fine builders" of the " smartest nation in the world." She will undoubtedly fully maintain that high character which her eminent builders have already gained, and yield a handsome re turn to her enterprising proprietors. She, is expected to be complete and fully ready for sea in three weeks, her engines, boilers, &c., being all ready for fitting in. REPRESENTATION OF CARDIFF BOROUGHS.--With reference to the representation of these boroughs matters have come to a crisis. We announced some weeks ago that Mr. Walter Coffin had, in the absence of the sitting Member, Mr. Nicholl, and under the impression that he would not offer himself again to the electors in the event of dissolution, put out an address seeking their suffrages whenever a vacancy should take place. Since then Mr. Nicholl has made his ap pearance in the field, and declared himself eligible for re election. Referring to Mr. Coffin's movement, Mr. Nicholl says, in an address just issued :—" My opponent has very recently proceeds I to a personal c inYass of the electors gene rally. As the sitting Member I feel bound to abstain at pre sent from imitating his example. A dissolution is not im minent. Parliament is sitting, and is engaged on matters of vital importance. My first duty to my constitu en t s i s to remain at my post in the House of ; not to quit it for the selfish object of securing votes for a future election. This being so, I confide my interests to your keeping, and to the zeal and exertions of my friends. I doubt not those in terests will be safe." To this Mr. Coffin publishes a rejoinder, renewing his pretensions and expressing his confidence, from the result of his canvass, that his election is sure. He grounds his claims to the choice of the electors on his known ad vocacy of free trade and Parliamentary reform. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Another Extraordinary Cure of a Wound in the Leg by Holloway's Ointment and Pips..., Andrew Milton, a hostler, residing at Burton, about two years ago bruised his shin, and, being of a full habit of body, a severe inflammation ensued, which defied every effort to subdue; afterwards an obstinate wound formed, and notwithstanding various treatments it would not heal, and his leg became so bad that his surgeon urged him to have it amputated; but, not wishing to lose his limb bef,re giving Holloway's medicine a trial, he commenced, and he has reason to be grateful that he did' for by their use he has effected a sound and perfect cure.— Sold by all Druggists and at Professor Holloway s Establish lishment, 244, Strand, London. SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN AT BEENTFORD.--011 Saturday afternoon a gentleman, about 34 years of age, named William Granger, the son of a most respectable corn merchant residing at Brentford, put an end to his existence by shooting hithsilf with a pistol. When the unfor unite, man was found by•iiii . fathily the pistol was lying-by his side and life was quite extinct. No cause has been assigned for the rash act, except that it is known he his for some time past keen living 4 dislipatecl life. J UNE 17, 1851. CENSUS OF GREAT BRITAIN. HOUSES AND POPULATION. 1851 (31st March). HOUSES. POPULATION. In- (lulu- Build habited. habited ing. Persons. Males. Females. Great Bri ta'n anc , Islands in the British Seas... 1 675451 165603 29109 20919531 10184687 10734844 England & Wales.. 327697.5 152570 26529 179058311 8761554 9151277 Scotland. 376650 11956 2378 2870784 1363622 1507162 islands the Bri tish Seas 21826 1077 202 142916 1 66511 76405 - - London .. 307722 16389 4817 2363141' 11013561 1258785 1811 (7th June). Great Bri tain and Isla ds • I in the British Seas .. 34659511198129 30334 18655951 9074642 1 9581339 Englmd & Wales... 2943939 , 173214 1 27468 15911757 7775224 8136533 Scotland.. 502652, 24026' 2646 2620184 1241862 1378322 Islands in thu Bri tish Seas 191"0 669 220 124040 57556 - 66484 -- -- London ..! 262737 11321 4032 1948369 912001 1035368 NOTE —The army in Great Britain, and the navy, there:twit sea men, ant other persons on board vessels in the parts, are included in the return of 1851 ; the navy, merchant seamen, and persons on board vessels, we-e not included in 1841. The apparent decrease of houses in Scotland between 1841 and 1851 is attributable to the fact th in 1841 flats or storeys were reckoned 1.1 many places as " Houses ;" in the present Census the more correct definition has been emplo: ed. GEORGE GRABAM, Registrar-General. Census-office, Cralg's-court, June 14, 1851. THE CENSUS OF GREAT BRITAIN IN 1851. (From the Times.) We are enabled to-day to furnish an epitome of the grind totals obtained from the Census of Great Britain, taken on the night of the 30th of March last. These results have been anticipated with more or less of in terest in various quarters for the last two months, and we have met with persons who seemed somewhat dis appointed that they were not furnished with the general result somewhere about the middle of last April, and who might as reasonably have looked for it on that earliest day of the month which is specially set apart for the benefit of those who prefer unreasonable demands. The varied and lengthened processes of common arithmetic which were necessary before a few general results could possibly be obtained must be obvious to every one who will give the subject a very little con sideration, the result of which, we think, must be that disappointment will give place to admiration of the skill and energy with which a work of such magnitude has been completed. Let it be observed, then, that the number of enume rators employed in this workl on the 31st of March was 40,000 in England and Wales, Scotland, and the islands in the British seas, and on board the vessels in the ports of Great Britain, and that the schedules with which they were furnished called for several important particulars not required in any previous census, and often placing them in the position of persons engaged in " the pursuit of knowledge under difficulties." The " Instructions to Enumerators" is a paper of some complexity, approaching in stubbornness to a fluctional equation or a railway time-table, and we understand those " instructions" have been faithfully carried out, with scarcely an exception, and that in the face of strong opposition, or much ina•tention, or strange caprices on the part of certain " householders," by whom the schedules ought to have been filled up. From what we have had an opportunity of learning as to the difficulty pf eliciting the requisite information from many of her Majesty's lieges, we are satisfied that a very respectable and very interesting volume, perhaps " the book of the season," might be manufac tured in the shape of the History of the Census of 1851. Enumerators have strange tales to tell of ladies of a certain age who would rather lose a tooth—a loss they could ill afford—than admit they were a year older than when the census was taken in 1841—of Irishmen who were expected to give a straightforward answer, ander a penalty of five pounds. " besides the inconvenience and annoyance of appearing before two justices of the peace"—of various poetical householders," who " Lisped in numbers as the numbers came;" who gave figures, indeed, but not the figures which the sober censor called for—of mathematical " househol ders," who have made net among them a XIIIth Book of the Elements—and of the ravings of the thirty thou sand who, though at large and acting for themselves as responsible persons, seem on the way to the place of sadusion aad restraint, and whose seribblings have had to be replaced by authenticated facts. Notwithstanding all these difficulties, the enumerators had, by the Bth of April. to transmit their books, con taining all the required information, together with the schedules carefully arranged, to the local Registrar, and a summary, containing the name of each parish or town :ship, either wholly or partly in his district, the number of separate occupiers, the number of houses inhabited, uninhabited, or building, besides the computed numbers who were in barges, boats, barns, tents, or the open air. This information, as soon as it was obtained by the Registrars, and hid undergOne th.-ir careful revision, was passed on to the Superintendent lt , >gistrar, from whom it was, according to he statute. to b received at the central office by tne 31st of May. It is now 14 days, exclusive of Sundays, since all the requisite information was received at the chief office, _ t t on spread over about 6,000 ,000 forms, and printed those forms weighing nearly 40 tons of paper, and the important contents of the whole in their grand results are to-day published throughout the country. The fact ought also to be chronicled, that such was the extraordinary celerity manifested by the various officers under the Census Commi.sion, that the approximate returns, in a manner sufficient for the pur poses of Government, but not for general publication, were known a week ago by the Secretary of State. The excellence of the arrangements by which these early results have been secured will perhaps be the better appreciated when it is observed that the United States census of last year has but just now arrived at the point vhich our Government has been enabled to reach in ten weeks. It sly uld be noticed also that in France, where the Censui hag been taken every five years, a year has gene rally elapsed before the public have been able to learn the results. It is interesting to observe, that the results which nave been obtained of this census in ten weeks are tgainst four monils in the last census; and we believo it was above a year before we could learn the results of the enumeration in 1831. The expedition with which the work has been con ducted would, however, be of little value if it had been secured at the expense of accuracy. From the tests which we have applied to the abstract before us, we believe that the results will ho found perfectly to a:- !or(' with the expectations which might have been an ticipated. Fee decennial amount and rate of increase will be understood by the following table, in reference to shich it should be observed that, owing to the early period of the year at which the c-n.us was taken, here has been a loss of 68 days, which ought to have gone into the interval between the last and the present ;amine : Great Britain with the Cha nnel Islands .. 1 Persons 2,212,892 i The decennial Males.. 1,062,213 per centage Females 1,500,679 of increase is 1 Persons 1,946,384 Males •• 934 245 Ditto .... .. Females 1,012,043 Persons 245.237 Males.. 116,551 Ditto ...... Females 128,686 Persons 18,876 Males • . 8.955 I Ditto ...... Females P,921 / Persons 406,961 Males. 181,900 Ditto • • .... 1 Persons 12.10 Males .. 11.94 Fein -Iles 12.25 Persons 12.48 Males • . 12.24 Females 12.69 Persons 9.55 Males .. 9.51 Females 9.52 Persons 15.53 Males.. 13.85 Females 15.23 Per- ons 21.33 Males 20,," England • • .... Scotland . islands in the British seas .. London • , Females 222,061.. —Females 21.88 Had there been no disturbing causes in operation the increase of the population would probably have pro ceeded in geometrical progression t) an amount from which the numbers now presented materially differ. A. deficiency to this extent might, however, h ave been an licipated from the causes which have been in operation during the la , t ten years, and which have been sufficient to account for the diminished rate of increase which is obvious in the present return. The causes to which we refer—emigration and the visitation of cholera and diarrhoea—would necessarily modify the law of increase in the population so as to assimilate it to that of the in crease of money at compound interest, the rate of interest being diminished every year. We have, therefore, to expeet that the census, if correctly taken, would give us a regular increase of the population at a gradually lessening rate; and this is the result ac tually exhibited by the returns which are now made. We wish to direct particular attention to this point, as it will at once account for the somewhat startling fact that the rate of interest should have been greater between the years 'll—'2l, and '2l—'3l, than during the last ten years. It will be observed, also, that in Great Britain the de cennial per centage of increase is considerably in favour of females—a fact which, it will be remembered, is not in accordance with the law regulating the . proportion of males to females in a given number of births. This ap parent anomaly is accounted for by the great dispropor tion of male to female emigrants, by . the absence of a large number of men from Great Britain i n the army and navy, to which some addition must be made from those males who, during the last ten years, have " left their country for their country's goou" in greater . numbers than the female convicts, and by the well established law of the greater longevity of females. There is another point of comparison between the figures in the returns and a popu lar fact o f a pa in ful nature, which has lately engaged much public attention. We refer to the proportion of occupants in dwelling houses, which, it will be seen , has increased since the last census, the proportion i n IE4I being 7.42, and which has now, according to t he enumerators, increased to 7.65, showing the probability that they have not lost sight of any of the population , a nd at the same time con firming the details which have recently appeared respect ing the crowded state of the dwellings of the poor. It will be observed that Ireland is not included in that portion of the census the results of which are now pub lished. There is great reason to apprehend that the re sults of famine, pestilence, and emigration will present, in reference to that countr y , an aw ful deficiency between the actual amount of the population and the numbers that would have been returned had the ordinary rate of increase been uninterrupted. Those returns we await with much interest, as well as th e enumerat i on o f our co untrymen so j ourn ing or travelling in foreign countries, and the numerous Brit ish subjects in our East Indian and colonial possessions. -- THE UNITED STATES. NEW. Yong, JUNE 3.—Some months have now elapsed since the census returns of 1850 were sufficiently made up to show the aggregate increase of every class of population in each section of the country; but it is only within a few days that some of the minor details have been published, which cannot fail to interest those who have made a study of the present condition and future prospects of the black population in the free as well as the slave States. New England has, since the existence of the union, been generally looked upon as the land of pro m i s e as well as of refuge to the fugitive or emancipated slave— as the place where, of all others, his relative position to the whites would be least degrading; and among those of that quarter he has, doubtless, found more sympathy end kindness than has been elsewhere extended to him. The returns, however, do not afford evidence of that in crease in numeer which this state of greater equality should naturally have encouraged, and which is actually manifested in those States where his happiest condition is that of slavery. The total increase of the whites in New England within the last thirty years has been 1,066,294, or 65 per cent. upon the number existing in 1820, though the constant migration to the Western States has not been fully counterbalanced by the number of foreign immi grants introduced. Darin.. the same period the increase of blacks has -been 1,350, or only 6i per cent., notwili stantling the constant influx of fugitive*. Since tae previous census of 1840 0)4 number ea• absolutely de creased. The greatest faltieg off is in New Hampshire, where of all other states ,cost has been done for their safety . and present pr otect i on, and where no attempt has thus tar been made to pur sue a runaway; yet even ;here decrease the is about two-titths of the whole. In Ver mont and Cone.cticur it is al so v i sible, and the . increase in Massachusetts is only 105. The following table ehows the number of coloured persons in each of those States at the periods to which it refers 1850. 184^. 1830. 1820. 1790. Maine 1,313 1,355 1,177 929 with Mass New Hampshire 477 537 607 783 788 Vermont 7lO 730 881 918 271 Massachusetts ...8,773 8,668 7,049 6,740 *6,001 Rhode Island 3,543 3,238 3,578 3,502 4,355 Connecticut 7,415 8,105 8,072 8,009 5,572 22,*231 22.633 21,361 20,881 16,98 • Including the then province of Maine. Increase of coloured persons in New England— From H2O to 18'-i0 ........... 483 From 1830 to 1840 1,752 Decrease from 1840 to 402 Net increase in :30 years....— ..... 1,350 or 611 percent. WHITE POPULATION IN SAME STATES. 1850. 1840. 1630. 1820. Maine New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut ...... 2,704,729 2,212,165 1,933,310 1,638,485 INCREASE OF WHITES IN NEW ENGLAND. From 1820 to 1830... From 1830 to 1840... .. From 184 i to 1850 492,564 Total increase of Whites in 39 years 1,066,294, or 65 per cent. Nor will the interest of the investigator cease with this reference to the New England States. The decrease of coloured people in New York during the last decade has been 2,583, and in Indiana 2,068; the latter may, it is true, be accounted for by the imposition of civil disa bilities which are unknown in the former; but, while the population of all the other non•slaveholding States has increased 37fr per cent., that of the black has in the ag gregate increased less tha❑ 8 per cent. The exact in crease or decrease of both races in each of these States is thus set forth in the returns, leaving out California, where the number of coloured people is known to be very trifling:— COLOURED POPULATION IN NON-SLAVEROLDING STATES. Year 1850. Year 1840. New York 47,448 ... 50,031 ... New Jersey 22,3x8 ... '21,714 ... 674 ... Pennsylvania 53,201 ... 47.918 ... 5,283 ... Ohio 25,:30 ... 17,345 . 8,585 Indians Illinois. ...... 5,239 ... 3,929 ... 1,810 ... Michigan Wisconsin lowa lucrease. Decrease. ... 2,583 ••• --- ... 2,068 162,771 149,196 18,226 4,651 4 651 Increase in ten years Deduct decrease in New England 402 Net increase in all the non-slavehold- --....... lag State , except California 13,173 WHITE POPULATION IN SAME STATES. 18.5 i. 1840. Increase. New York 3,042,574 2,378,890 663,684 New Jersey ... 465,283 851,588 114,695 Pennsylvania ... Ohio Indiana .. —.... 983,634 678,698 304,936 Illinois .. ... .. Michigan Wi-consin ........, 303,60) 30.749 272.851 lOWA ... .• • ..,,., Maine . New Hampshire .. 317,354 284,036 33,3i8 Vermont 312,756 291,218 21,538 Massachusetts .. .. 985,493 72:1,030 256,468 Rhode Lland ..... 144,012 105,57 3::4,425 Conuemicut 13,148,445 9,557,065 3,;;91,881 The increase of w hue p ,pulation in the slave States since the pry vious census of 1840 is 34 per cent., of slaves 28 per cent, and of free blacks in the same States ati•mt 9 p.r cen , ., being a greater per tentage of increase than is found among the same class in the free Stares; though in many of thew their civic rights are the same as those of the whites. This, of course, the census takers do not attempt to account for, nor is it probable any cause could be found for it, except in the wonderful attachment to birthplace and early associations which nature has so strongly, as well as visibly, implanted on the whole race. This it is which induces the emancipated ntgro to submit to restraints, more degrading than those to which slaves are subjected, inasmuch as they are voluntary, and because a change of residence would place him out of their power. The actual existence of this peculiarity has been known and shown to the world by men of science and philan thropy, who have pointed out the mode of taking advan tage of it, but appears to form no portion of the study of l.gislators, who cAinot imagine a possibility of any other condition for the black than that of slavery as it now exists in the south, unle, , e found in emancipation, at tended by the horrors of St. Domingo, or by the les sened production and depreciation of property like that to which the planter.; of Jamaica have boen reduced. It has been for some time rumoured that large claims are likely to be brought forward na,;ainst this country by the Government of Mexico on account of Indian it‘pre• dations, the protection against which was guaranteed by the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo. The accounts al ready on ti'e are slid to ...mount to a heavy sure, and the full 'wing document, wnicn is no doubt authentic, indi dtcAtes an intention on tip:. part of the auchori , ies to push I,r;kitrd till claims which there is tiny chance of substantiating:— " State Department, Chihuahnam, March 5, 11 , 51. " Tha citizen~ of this State ar , - hereby inh.rined (in con formity with instructions from the Governtnent at. Mexic , ), that all persons who may h ye claims against the Goverment of the United States fur de►nages sustained from the incur sions of Indiana will forwaru them to this depaement, so that they may be admitted and their payment demanded. AMADI) DIC LA VEGA." No doubt exists that the protection attorded ha. , been very unlike that which wws stipulated tor, while it is quite possibl, that the (itint Lamy country might be found insufficient, even it quirkred on the Mexican frontier. The Congress of that I public adjourned on the 20th of May. 1.3 , th Chambers annulled the contract made with senor Joie de Garay regarding 'Tehuantepec, and a motion was made to impeach the Minister who had granted the renewal after its privileges bud been twice forfeited. The Treasury Department appeared to be in the usual state of confusion. not lessened by the number of those who had attempted its direction. The present Minister, senor Yanes, was about to propose as a finan cial scheme to double all the taxes, as also to levy an extraordinary tax for the payment of preferred debts. Some of the States had protested against these projects as unconstitutional. Congress had refused to modify the tariff by removing prohibitory duties. At this city the number of vessels from foreign ports duringand the d m t o h n e en tho t f was 477. Of these 77 were British,ir! lay number of immigrants landed was 38,436. Accounts from California aro to the Ist of May. Two steamers bare, within two days, landed here 3,000,000 dolls. of gold from that country. The miners appear to be doing even better than usual. The Governor of thatthset steps may is the State has transmitted a message to the Legislature, announcing the organisation and departure of a f orce under a Mr. Morehead, who was Quartermaster-Gene ra l oser s of California, with the intention of revolutionising one of the b etaken to Mexican S a ta rr t e the States. ssi The leader, G and dr frustrateask ex pedition. This movement upon Mexico causes no sur prise here among those who have watched for some time past what bas!been going on in that quarter The Asia has just arrived from Liverpool . Exchange on London. 10i t o 1 0 1 I• I _Pi SUEANCE AGAINST LANDLORDI3.—,k MOngSt the unjust and anomalous laws which are disgraceful to our age h iel i seize the goods and chattelsallows of lodgers and visitors in the such bold relit-f, that I householder's rent not being paid, stands out in enacted by a British amamazed it should ever have been As the case stands, we are" sure of nothing but death Government.and quarter-day:" the land lord comes in for his rent, and the householder, perhaps, fulls through misfortune or dishonesty in the Payment' Lodgers and their friends, both "furnished and unfurnished," are ig norant of what is taking place, and their effe cts are p erhaps , seized some mornin g t o be sold. Is there no mode of insurance against the power of landlords in this manner . ? Builder. FOREIGN VISITORS TO TUE EXIIIIIITION.—The influx of foreign visitors to London is daily on the increase, , and bids fair to exceed the anticipations Of the most san guine. T:.e scene presented every evening at the terminus of the South-Eastern Railway, on the arrival ot the Paris special express train, is truly exciting. The great speed of this train, the short sea passage, anti the fact of the steamers and trains being in exact corres , ondence, thus avoiding all delay, render this special service extremely popular with our continental neighbours. About 300 pessengers arrived by ' this train on Sun da y evenin g , a g reat p ro p orti on of them journey, ' ladies, who did not appea r at al l fatigued with the the sea passage having ( ccupied only two hours and m i nu tes, notwithstanding the heavy freight. saved GRAY'S INN, JUNE 16, 1851.—At a ens . Hon. Society of Gray's lon, holden this day, P 31°11of the Gill banks, Esq, LLB. gad, 13 . A. , w as Ca 4 Jac k s o n Ga l-1 1361744eVat'lire ed to tho degeo of EVENING, DISASTROUS BALLOON ACCIDENT. Yesterday evening an accident occurred to Mrs. Gra ham, the celebrated aeronaut, and Mr. Graham, her husband, which perilled not only their lives, but thorns of many other persons, and occasioned the destruction of a large amount of property. For some days past an announcement has been made that on last evening Mrs. Graham would take an aerial trip, accompanied by her husband and other persons, the starting place being Batty's Hippodrome, a place erected, as its name implies, for feats of horsemanship, in the Kensington-road, a short distance beyond the gate which leads to the principal entrance of the Crystal Palace. As early as 3 or 4 o'clock many hundreds of persons collected in the neighbourhood of the Hippo drome with a view to witness the ascent, and these numbers gradually swelled until nearly six o'clock, the hour appointed for the ascent. True to the appointed hour the aeronauts made the necessary arrangements for the ascent, and a few minutes after aix o'clock the signal was given for starting. Mr. and Mrs. Graham were the only two persons who took their seats in the car. The balloon rose gently, and ascended about twenty feet above the top of a pole which surmounts the building, b ut s u dd en l y de- , scended rapidly up o n th e top of the pole alluded to, and alarge aperture was made in the balloon. The grap pling irons were thrown out, b ut t h ere was nothing to hold by, and the balloon again ascen d e d and descended alter nately, until at length it drifted away in a norther! dila ether towards the Crystal Pahrce. A policemaYn who was on duty in the park states that ass the benison was passing from the Hippodrome four men man%grd to seize the ropes which depended from it; but this app ears inexplicable., as it has been ascertained that four m i n of average strength might have held down the balloon, and have thus prevented the very serious mischief which afterwards took place. As the balloon approached the Crystal Palace great fears were entertained for the safety of a portion of that building, and of those who were inside. The police re port that at the time alluded to there were between 35,000 and 40,000 persons in the building, some little departure having taken place from the ordinary time of " clearing out." In a few mements the balloon was di rectly over the transept of the Exhibition. The aero nauts, seeing the fearfully dangerous position in which they were placed, let out the whole of their ballast on to the roof of the palace. At this time the grappling irons were within a few feet of the summit of the transept, and if a hold had been obtained a vast mass of the building must have been torn away. Clearing at length the Crystal Palaoe, the flagstaffs of which it destroyed, the balloon proceeded, or rather drifted, towards Grosvernor-gate, and thence took a di agonal direction b e t ween Half Moon-street and Engine street, Piccadilly. As though by magic it instantly rose again, and was driven towards the front of the houses in Arlington -street which face the Green park. These houses, together with those in Park -place, St. James's street, form two sides of a square, and upon these the • work of destruction appears to have been moat severe. Alighting on the park front of Colonel North's mansion, 16, Arlington-street, the grappling irons came in contact with the parapet. A gust of wind arose, and the bal loon again slightly ascended, bearing away, by means of the renewed force imparted to it, the heavy e ep i no , stones and a large portion of the parapet, hurling m e al; on the roof, through which they descended, carrying away in their downward course the rafters over the stair case, which they precipitated into the ball below. By this time the escape of gas from the balloon was so great that no altitude could be obtained. It drifted be tween the huge stacks of chimneys which surmount the houses in Arlington -street and Park-place, tearing down all with which it came into contact—breaking in roofs wherever they fell. At length the balloon became embedded between two huge blocks, the chimneys from which had been torn away, and this arrested its progress and prevented any further damage. A body of police, under the command of Mr. Superintendent Otway, immediately provided the means of arriving at the top of the house,twhere a fright ful spectacle presented it se lf. Th e car of the balloon was jammed between the two blocks so firmly that all means of releasing it appeared for a long time hopeless. Mr. and Mrs. Graham had been thrown from their seats, and were lying on the roof of the house apparently life less. The first impulse of the police was to procure medical aid for the unfortunate aeronauts, and they were removed with as little delay as possible to the residence of Mr. Moore, a surgeon, in Arlington -street. On ex aneination they were found to be alarmingly contused sad lacerated, but the surgeon expressed his opinion that death was not, to be apprehended. After having their wounds dressed they were placed in a cab and removed under the care of a police-officer to their residence, No. 8, Liverpool-street, Walworth. After considerable difficulty the tattered remnants of the balloon were removed to the Vine-street station, where the officials afterwards attended to make a preli minary investigation. Mr. Harvey Graham, son of the unfortunate aero nauts, who was present, in answer to Mr. Superintendent Otway, gave the following account of the matter:—My father and mother made arrangements for ascending in the Royal Victoria and Albert balloon from Mr. Batty's Hippodrome in the Kensington -road this evening. The balloon was conveyed over and ieflated in the ordinary way. It was necessary that the ascent should take place at the precise time mentioned, namely, six o'clock, in • order that the Hippodrome might be cleared for the evening performance. A few minutes after six o'clock I saw the balloon rise, and noticed my father and mother in the ear. It struck me at the time thaw it was a false wind that had taken them up, fur the balloon almost immediately, after rising about seventy teet, began to descend again, and as I wa t c h e d i t very i ntently I noticed that in its descent it struck a large flag -staff which is erected in the Hippodrome, which made en in cision in the silk of the balloon, at a place as nearly as I could see, about the zone. I immediately salt that the gas was escaping, and knowing that my mother was aware of the fact that the balloon had got injured, my impression was that she would endeavour to effect a descent in the park. As soon as the balloon cleared the Kensington-road I followed its course as last as I possibly could, and, as I had previ ously supposed, it drifted at an altitude of 100 feet, va rying however occasionally. On arriving at the Crystal Palace they threw out the ballast; I should judge all they had with them. I saw them fall on Colonel North's house in Arlington-street, and tear away the front part of the building. 1 saw them taken down from Colonel North's house, and taken to the surgeon's. My father was almost insensible when he was put into the cab. My father is 66 years of age, and my mother about 47 or 48. The balloon is nearly destroyed. I estimate the damage done to it at about 150/. I have no doubt that had they not thrown out the ballast when over the Crystal Palace a large portion of the roof of the budding would have been dragged away. The ballast thrown out was scarcely sufficient to break the glass. Police -constable Thomas Bird, C 24, said be was on duty at the Crystal Palace. Shortly after six o'clock he saw a balloon arise from Batty's Hippodrome in the,Ken sington road ; w h en i t ha d arisen a b out 80 feet, n as its ar d a e- a he could j u d ge , h e saw i t d escen d andagain, t to scent it appeared t o come i n to contact with the and of the went flagstaff on th a t b u ildi ng . It then rose again towards the Exhibition. It the transept, tore trance, and then making its waywant across the Sere passed over over the western en away several of the flags-aft?. It wf 7 direction over Park lane a block of houses between ant ) Pieeaditly, dropped on to pentrne, took a suutn-westerly Hat-moun and rose again, passed over the reservoir in darted over Park . E te , e gin G e- r s e t e r r , , te p t e s. ,.k, lie whereton the car became jammed between two !Haat' street, piece, and finally settled on the houses iu Arlington street, g of chimneys. In pectr W s l, who had been very active in render ing every r° s ssietance to the etifferers, d Jutted t h e s e particulars of the position in which they were found, mid the measure which be subsequently took for their sale conveyance home. Sergeant Bsrnes was also examined, and corroborated the statement of Police-coustab7e Bird. From inquiries made at Mr. Graham's residence last night it was ascertained that the unfortunate gentleman had received a fearful cut on the forehead, extending from temple to temple, and also a severe contused wound in the side. Mrs. Graham received an incised wound en the head and several contused wounds in the back. Both are in a dreadful state, and are unable to give any account of the accident which befel them. It is estimated that the damage done to the houses of Colonel North and his neighbours is not less than 5001. to 1,0001. An official report was conveyed to Mr. Commissioner from particulars of the hccident were correctly Msyne by Mr. Superintendent Otway as soon as the particularly un Mrs. Graham appears to have been fortunate in her asceuts. A very s hort time since some • h her balloon rustics brought a light by means of whicascertained was set on fire and herself dreadfully scorched. Mr. 'rufflell, Airqnber tor Devonport, has given notice of an instruction, on going into Committee on Mr. Mutt's Colonial Property Qualification Bill, for the purpoaa of doing away with any property qualification for members to serve in Parliament. The last discussion upon the suh,_ ject, on Sir William Molesworth's motion in 1837, led to th% passing of Mr. Warburton's Bill, which so much mi t i gated the system which formerly excluded any person who b a d not a real property qualification from a seat ,in the li oun f Commons. Public opinion has undergone a material h alo :, since that time; and were it cnly for the character House, and to save it from the imputation the allowing the evasion of a regulation whi c h it is found possible strictly to enforce, we ttust thpartoptheet y L:i b u e a r d al i s ci m oi possi every shade will unite in abolishing any tion, and leave the same tree choice of their - re r piese u n a ta l tire; to the constituencies of England and Ireland w hi ch Scotlan d Hutt h as always enjoyed. Mr. utt's Bill W e dnesday next. 15 on the orders for DETERMINED SUICIDE. --On Saturday evening, BD. W. Chapman, a gentleman residing at No. 11, Hyde Park-place, while walking Gar dens - bridge, the north b an k o f the Serpen tine, near Kensington ens - bridge, observed a man pre cipitate himself head foremost into the water. He without loss of time raised an al the body was found and arm, when the drags being procured, conveyed to the receivi n g - house, where every mea ns were resorted to by Dr. Woolley to re store animation, but life was found to be extinct. Deceased was attired in th e his pockets relativegarb of a stableman, an a from papers i n ~ a smallbettingto horse-racing, was ascertained to have been"T at tersall 's. No money w found up on him, but a atetter a ddressed to his wi•ean a c s l written with pencil, commen cing "y dear wife," and saying that that was the last token she would receive from him, for he could not thwart fickle fortune, and he hoped that happiness would yet shine upon her; conclud ing with, " This is my last farewell. Your loving husband. —W. Psemcte." . At the recent dinner of the tindolnshire . Club, at the Chu olden, London, the subject of the repeesentation of Lindsey was slightly alluded to, and Sir Montague Choi meley as,ured the Tory gentlemen present that he would not be ousted without having a good tight for his present psi •tion. It is said that some of the guests looked very blank •at this announcement, as - it it the expenditure of large sums of matey. The total cost to all parties of the last u ntest tor Not , tiLiLcautiire way estimated it 26,0001. 1 —.istamford Xercurg• nrt ear, Ito th© ost )ed I ad ~R ~: II