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to mmi s . • - ssion of officers, and in the following yearn Com tsita, appointed by that Heese went fully into the sub- Ki ` t t i and reported unanimously in favour et Mr. needeit's the estimates before teem. ss after a few words from Colonel DuNNE and Mr. F. tem the vo'e was agreed to. 444,000/. to defray the expense of the construction of harbours of refuge. M r. BUMF hoped that this vote would be pooponed Ohl the reports respecting them were laid before the % Il k. These works were commenced when Govern 11..„edaty e i tiv el ere under a panic that the country would be ins invaded. He proposed that the vote should be ,eed by 60 , 000 L, l eav i ng that for the Channel Llands r,„!ieture consideration, when they had the report re s'Z re tiote them before t hem. The CHANCELLOR of the EXC'HEQUER thought „ 44 the opinion of the Hon. Member last year that works in the Channel Islands should be proceeded "°. The truth was, that these works were all in the ksrse of forwardness, and it would be a great loss to "ap e th e ad operations at present. On the harbour of Dover s .° was 34 .0001 expended. 1): Ir • PLUMPTRE said that the inroads of the sea at t er were be comine. quite alarmieg. The tmu was pu treat danger, and the harbour conatnissioners were t e to great ex pense in building sea walls to keep out el li es, for which there would be no necessity if they i t . ' a . supply of beach which was now carried into deep lr ater COBDEN said that when the vote for the Chantel • Islands was lest year before the House he suggested d, tthey should have had the estimates respecting them tl llw ee -il HP in the same: form an the navy esematee with se columns. They were voting away a large :win of to neY every year for Alderney, which was only about ee miles long and half a mile wide. The estimated t x r he l 2!ose of the harbour there was twice as much as would ;base the whole island. He had never heard any o phcatiens from Lloyd's or other panics for a harlaiur t l'tfuge t h ere. Th e re was no commerce nor anything o Ik e terept vessels to enter there. This was but a part of treat scheme of fortifications into which they rushed 'beis 1 844 and 1845. when they were panic - stilt ken about the e !langer of invasion. The whole estimated cost for harbour was 600,0001. They ought to be satisfied oath ay, the first loss and go no further in this extravagant re HUME had visited the Channel Islands recently, - 11 ; 1 0 had t h ere b een i n f or m e d that it would take 40.000 th an in man the fortifications there. He did not find a t he 11 1 these islands who was not disposed to laueeh at 4 43 idea, H e a l s o thought the expenditure upon Dover tbour useless. s e r• BUCK said that there was no part that required the hem of the Government so much as the coast 1 1 ° Io Bristol to the Laad's End, where there were no li thonrs of refuge at all. i t S ir J. GRAHAM suggested to the Government that w ould be much more satisfactory in respect to these t l ° works, it the same form of estimate was adopted as sip fled for the navy and ordnance. He thought that 10 4 VOte might be postponed until they had such a state ent laid b e fore them. The vote for the Channel Islands w very large, and was not placed so much under the tool of the Government as other votes. I'4 CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would .:te no objecti o n to putting the votes in the shape sug ated. The truth was that the report was placed on the lhole last year, which gave all the information that could required. the a brief discussion the vote was withdrawn for e present. „ 2 .7831. to defray the expense of the necessary works li t Port Patrick. ik?ar• W. WILLIAMS should like to know how long , 1 „ 1 expenditure was to go on. The harbour was of no • Ifts utility. Mace F. BARING said that there was no doubt the & l ice bad been abandoned as a packet station; but the i _cvernment thought it advisable to keep up the harbour OM mere wreck and ruin under the idea that the har 'tic might be turned to some advantage again as rail "111y communication advanced. I tr• HUME said the public had nothing to do with it Ito It was abandoned as a packet station. Sir G. CLERK thought it was probable it might be 411te again a packet station. The vote was ultimately agreed to. 2 3,23 e/ for defraying the expense of maintaining 5e ,...,7,111 public buildings in the department of the Com -I`asiolaers of Public Works in Ireland; also for the ex r.te of inland navigation under the direction of the lit Commissioners. Mr. SPOONER would take the sense of the Com mittee upon one item in this vote. He would move that th e I , grant be reduced by the sum of 1 2301. 10s., being Ze__ sum appropriated to the Royal College of Sr. ,21EPa- Maynooth He objected to this vote on the rund of principle as well as on pecuniary grounds. T rifling as it was, it formed a portion of the public money ; but his main objection was, as to the principle. • would ever contend for that principle—namely, that au II Protestant nation they bad leo right to grant any °,oey to a religion in open hostility to the established te dgion, as it had decidedly shown itself to be within ( pi) last few months. The country would be greatly ss _blePpointed if, notwithstanding all their hostile pro . "ediags against the Protestant Churca and the Dis reiters, this grant was allowed. The late Sir Robert • el had in 1845 proposed that 30,000/. should be given P the erection of buildings at Maynooth, and he had Vito secured for the same institution the payment of a „rge suer annually out of the Consolidated Fund. F. r the last five years there had been paid, in addition to t he sum of 30,0001., no less a sum than 26,0001 an• °,,eally ; and now, in addition to these grants, there was proposed this sum, paltry in amount, but Rte • at in principle.—(Hear, hear.) There was to be 1 14001. a year for repairs, in addition to the 6 . 0 ,000/. for building. Sir Robert Peel , in proposing this sum, said that he meant to treat the Irish in a ge terous spirit, in the hope they would be met in a cor responding spirit—that they would be repaid for their liberality by infusing a better spirit into Irishmen; and that they would do this by e nsuring a more liberal spirit of education amongst them.—(Hear.) Fled they, he %liked, been met in a more liberal spirts?—(Eleae) Had these hops been realized? Had there not , on the con trary, been an open declaration of hostility against them? '''s(Cbeers.) Within the last few days an Hen. Member Of that House was reported to have male a speech or 'written a letter—he reterred to what he had read in an Irish paper—and, according to that report, the Hon. Gentleman had said that toleration was a word which they (the Roman Catholics) would not receive as appli cable to them—that they would not condescend to ac cept toleration, when the Roman Catholics bad the right to be established as the Church in Ireland.—(Cheers.) Re (Mr. Spooner) was one of those who had opposed "the Godless colleges," but then he asked when that grant had been made, bad it been received by the Re tain Catholics in a spirit of conciliation?—(Hear, hear.) How had the Irish Roman Catholics received it? Had they not thrown back the grant in their teeth? '(Rear, hear) And what was the liberal spirit Manifested by the Roman Catholics, and how had it been demonstrated? Was it not by an act of aggression on the part of the head of that Church against the Sove reign of this ration?—(Cheers.) And then let them see the hostile spirit that had been manifested by Irish Roman Catholic Members of that House when the at tempt was made to put down the act of aggression by a Bill in that House.—(Hear, hear.) As to the concilia tion of the Roman Catholics, he told them it was a vain attempt. The Roman Catholics were not to be concili- Med.—(lean) Every man of them who was a true Roman Catholic would never stop until he bad put down the Protestant Church.—(Cheers.) They were not to be contented with toleration; they must have ascend ancy; and never would they rest tranquil until ascend ancy had been obtained.—(Hear.) Too long had they —the Protestants—submitted to this state of things. He believed that the abandonment of their Protestant prin ciples was a great national sin, and that if they continued in the came course they would bring down upon them selves a great national judgment.—(Hear.) He moved that the vote be reduced by the sum of 1,2301. 10s. Upon the question being put, Mr. HUME was very sorry to hear the speech which had been made by the Hon. Member for Warwickshire, for, whatever might be the opinion he entertained as to the support of the Catholic colleges, this was not the time for.discussing them. He concurred entire ly in the opinion of the Hon. Member that had been referred to — n am ely, that the Roman Catholics ought not to be satis fied with toleration when they were entitled to equality. He asked the Hon. Member whether he would not do to others as he would wish to be done by? It appeared to him that the Hon. Member was for voting against his own principles.--(Hear.) The question was whether they were prepared to support those edifices which Par liament had already declared should be created, and the creation of which the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir Robert Peel) had proposed an one acting upon true Christian principles. Sir R. H. INGLIS observed that the Hon. Member mixed up two questions which were entirely separate from each other,—the proposal to reduce the sum for the repairs of lelstynooth and the establishment of the Queen's colleges. They had not met to cle , ciaal the latter subject, and he therefore should confine himself to the college of Meynooth. Now, he ask ed whether_ _on the principal argument of the late Sir Robert Peel, whop proposing his plan respecting Maynooth, was not this —that ho wished to change from an annual to a perma nent grant, for the purpose of removing this constant element of discord from their debates.—(Hear, hear.) He (Sir R Inglis) had never contemplated that he should have to take part again in a discussion on the Pelaynooth grant, unless it should be in discussing a Bill introduced to put an end to the grant altogether. Here now, how ever, he found the debate revived, and that at a time the least propitious for calm discussion, by her Majesty e Ministers proposing this vote for 1,2001. They asked this sum to be granted by the country at the very mo ment that the country felt it necessary ;to put a stop to aggression—aggression, too, that was encouraged by too many high authorities in that House.---(Hear.) The Hon. Member for Montrose, for instance, had repudi ated the idea of toleration for the Roman Catholics on the ground that they were entitled to equality, or more than equality. He (Sir R. Inglis) denied it. He had that very 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 be 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 large 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 i n diff eren ce whether they supported that Church or not. _(Hear, bear.) It was only from false notions of ex pediency that such a grant as this could be made. He was prepared to support the Hon. Member in resisting a policy which was fraught with !wile to the religious. principles of this country.—(Efeer, hear.) EURDES bed, be ilwaye voted opiast THE SUN, grants for Maynooth; and be now wished to know from the Nobl, Lord at the heal of the Gr,verun2ent how he, who had deneune.el "Vie mummeries" ot the Church of Rome, should now sauction a vo . e for maintainieg those " mummeries," for such he believed wai the expression that had been made use of by the Noble —(Cheers and laughter.) By a recent bull from Rom., the Ro man Catholics were or lered not to attend at any of the Queen's collegesi and now they were called upon in that 11 )090 to give a vote for those who opposed those Queen's colleges, and to promote the education of those who were alone to be /donated in the mummeries of the Church of Romp.—(Laughter and cheers.) Why, he asked, was the Noble L)rd that night voting fur " the mummeries" of Rome, and all the rent of the session pruf , ssing to act in accordance with the Protestant feel ing of this country?--(Hear.) Sir W, SOMERVILLE did not think that a proper time for discussing the general policy of the Government was in con,,ifierina whether they should pay for the re pairs of certain buildings at Maynooth. 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 the buildings for which the 50,000/. had been granted, but for the repairs of the old College of Maynooth, 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 ihat iii accordance with its words, the 30,000/. was granted for the fitting-up and repairs; and by the 10th clause of that Act, the expense of repairs was to be defrayed out of the 30,000/. They gave 6,0001. for pro fessors, and 20,000/. for s'udents, 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 trio vote, Mr. H. DRUNIMOND said that he could not shut his eyes to the open declaration of war which had been made against them from Rime. The head of the Roman Ca tholic Church had oenlared them to ba all Pagans, and expressed his &sire to bring them back from the slavrry nl Protestantism into the glorious liberry of Popery.— (Laughti-r.) They were here called upon to pay for a body of priests to. preach against another institution which they had set up, Had that they desired to establish for the bent& of the Raman Clatholies. He would re• mind them or 1 1 4 seal's Letters, and of the teachings it his time of the secular clergy as opposed to the regular', 1111. , y would find that every one of iho doctrines th:st ba. 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 Cythnlic clergy in Ireland.--(Rear.) Mr. ANSTEY observed that the real point at issue— Peonomy, had . been overlooked by all the previotb speakers. WhPh the tira. carne it was his intention vote against the Regium Donum and against the gran` for the French retugewo, and awing on t'e same prin. ciple, he thought he should b-gin most tidy by votink against the proposed grunt in favour of his own Church. He could tell the House that ever since Catholic Ewen cipation passed there were many of the R man Catholic bishops opposed to the annual grant to Maynootb There was no man in the three kingdoms more strong') opposed to it than the Most Rev. Dr. M'Hule; and as the annual meeting of the Roman Catholic bishops a , Maynootb, 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 had from the Most Rev. Dr. Mtliale him self. It was most erroneous, then, to say that thr Church of Rome was desirous of obtaining those grants, or that there was anything like an unanimous feeling on the subject. Mr. W. WILLIAMS opposed the vote, on grounds distinct from religious asperity; he opposed it becaus Sir R. Peel had distinctly stated, on obtaining the grant of 30,0001. and 9,0001. a year, that no further annual vote would be demsnded. He (Kr. Williams) saw in the civil contingencies 1001. f,r auditing the accounts of the College of Maynootb. Why not put all the expewet. together? He would oppose that as welt as all other votes of money for religious purposes. Mr. NE WDEGATE congratlated the Hon. Member for Youghal on his candour, and the Hon. Member fo. Lambeth on his consistency. He was, however, sur prised to hear the Hon. Member fur Montrose, the op- ponent of all grants for religious purposes, say be would vote on the occasion for " Peter's pence," especially when it was borne i❑ mind that Maynooth College was Provided for out of the Consolidated Fund. He (Mr. NPwderate) was all the more suprised at the vote of the Hon.. Member, because after what the Hon. Member for Youghal bad said, it seemed that the Roman Catholics themselves were far from unanimous on the subject. Tne Honourable Member, however, would at least admit, that these bonuses to secure the goodwill of thf 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 be traced to the policy which dictated this vote. It he (Mr. Newdega , e) believed for a moment that in supp•irt ing Maynooth he was supporting the means of giving a liberal education he would net oppose the present vote, but he could not find any alteratiOL in the characters o' the priesthood produced by it, except one that con trasted unfavourably with the priests who received their education io France, who were itribu--d rather with the lib-rality of the GaMean Church than with the bigotry of Ultramontane doctrines. Mr. KERSEIAW would vote against the grsnt, not on actv.ut,t of the Papal aggression, but because he con . . sidered it objectionable to support any sect of religionists by grant. , of the public , noney. He was opposed to the r eyium Donum, and would be to any grant to the body to which he Nevelt belonged; and he rtcommended to Parliament the ad..ption of the voluntary principle. Mr. MO WATT said th,se 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 5 , emed to him, it single mason in common in their opposition to it. The Honoureb e 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 million 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 vote for the grant in question. Colonel SIBTHORP should vote to 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 Taviateck 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 on 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.— (Laughter.) Mr. FOX would oppose the vote, but not on theologi cal nor on economical grounds. He 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 to en robbed of their megnificent cathedrals. He would not persecute the Catholics, 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 on the other the publics purse held oat 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 Commons 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. H e be li e v ed he was voting in con ssitsittuenen. cy ts with his feelings and the w i s h es o f hi s con stituents. The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the vote ... ••• ••• 121 Against it ... ••• ••• 119 Majority for the vote —2 The vote wag then agreed to. 10 6601. for Kingstown Harbour and works. Alderman SIDNEY ohjectud to the vote on the ground that there was no trade at Kngstown, and unless some explanation was given, he shoteld divide the House, and move that the chairman report progress. Mr. HU VIE objected to the form of the estimate. The House ou.ellit 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 , ut it. There might bo 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 tradi ng vessels. The vo,e wa4 then agreed to without a division. 92,3001. for salaries and expenses of the two Houses of Parildwent, and tor certain retiring pensions. Mr. W. WILLIAMS said the Committee who had they for such h r encouragement Committees . re commended re d uct i ons had g a d t h e i r re commendations totally disre gar d, d by the Government . It was very p w M er e e m t b o er h s av t e o tdhoeirthlaehiroodrus thus yin a made a nullity. In reply to a question as to the increase of 5,000/. in the estimate for the salaries of the clerks of the House, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCEIEQUER said the salary used to be taken from the Consolidated Fund, while now for the first time it was included in the es timate. s N a l E p s c i o t u i v i e d i c o r t e a u s n e de o r f s t o d oo tp . e i n e t lc h a P ! I de a ; o r n t inheMnertre.as far as he could understand the estimat es , Th e CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ex.plained that this was not the case. After borne further discussion the vote was agreed to. On the vote of 53,700/. for salaries and expenses of the department of the Treasury. Major IiERESFORD objected to the Assistant Secre tary of the Treasury having 500/. a year more than his superior officer, the Secretary of the Treasury; th e former having 2. 5001. a year and the latter only 2,0004, notwithstanding that in addi(ion to the heavy duties he had to perform in his office he bad to give constant at tendance in that House. He moved to reduce the vote by 500/. The 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 and Foreign Departments, that the moveable officers bad less than the permanent ones. He was not prepared to say that 2,500/. a year was too much f o r the 001.047 to the Unary; but in fixing hie 1113* LONDON, lary at 2,000/. a year they had only followed out the re co'nmenchtitto or the Committee en salaries. Mr. DISRAELI thought the G weritmeat on, ht to exptatn to the House the priectple upon which they acted with respect to the recoinmetalea.toes of the Cam mittee on public salaries. That Committee, for instance, recomalende.l that the embassy att Paris should be re duced to a mission, and the salary cut doern one-helf; but the Governey.trit did not adopt that recommendation, and the celery of the ambassador at Paris remained the same. Now, the Right Hon. Gentleman told them that they had reduced the salary of the Secretary to the Treasury against their will, in 'consequence of the re commendations of the Committee. The time was come for the Government to explain the principle on which it acted in the matter. No Government ought to agree to the appointment of a Select Committee. unless they were prepared to accede to the recommendation of the Committee. Wive 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 embassy at Paris? It was, besides, preposterous that the Assistant-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. Russet!) had already stated in the present session the reasons for which tho Government had adopted soma of the recommendations of the Committee and had disagreed to other:a and the general principles upon which they went on the whole question. He could not accept as just or reasonable the proposition of the am. Gentleman, that the Government ought not to assent to the appointment of a Committee unless prepared to accede to all its recommendations; nor could he see that because the public service would h 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 2,0001. should net 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 s successor. Maj BERESFORD said he meant to divide. He could see no justice in a Secretary to the Treasury re ceiving 500/ 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, aft-r be had undertaken to discharge the duties of his office at a salary of 2.51)01. Mr. DISRAELI protested against considering this as a personal questi and could not admit because a salary had been paid by the Treasury that the House was no I,ingPr at liberty to touch it. Mr. HUNIE said if there had been a vacancy in the Aer-seesetAryship, he would have supported the motion re,luclion of the salary; but that not hying the case, At present any reduction would be a breach of faith. Lord J. RUSSELL—Though the reduction in ques tioh was only 5001, yet an important principle was in volved in it. The office of under-secretary was gene rally given to individuals who had to relinquish other evocations, 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. Trevelyau 5001., but if the , ight to reduce the salary was admitted, what was there t prevent its being reduced still further in another 7 ar? If the lion. Member for Bucks had ever filled a v ablic 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 shat in question should be men of character and abilities. and how impossible it would be to obtain persons unless he salaries attached to their office were looked upon as certain. He hoped the Committee would not consent to ho reduc.ion. 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 best head that was to be ioand on any pair of shoulders in England. Mr. W. PATTEN admitted that he thought the Com mittee would have recommended the reduction had they given it their consideration; but hO was sure they would have 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 greatly diminished; that the cry for a reduction of the public expenditure had increased, and that there were now placed on Sir Charles frevelyan's shoulders duties from which he (Mr. Miles) hOped ,that the Hon. Gentleman would shortly be re lieved. The qaestion appeared to him to be simply this. After a service of five or six years, was Sir Charles Frevelyan paid well at a salary of 2,0001., or was he, merely upon a Treasury minute, which was adopted cer tainly previous to his accepting office, to have 5001. more ? It' they were to have a Treasury minute con- Ntantly thrown into the teeth of the House of Commons every time it was engaged deciding on votes, it would ~eena 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 ,he decision of tnn House. 'The CHANCELOR of the EXCHEQUER said that Sir Charles Trevelyan would have returned to India had he not received this appointment, upon the understanding nat at the expiration of five years his salary should be 2,500/. But the Treasury minute under which this ar rangerneit was made had been in existence for more than twenty Lard EBRINGTON supported th- vote. Aft , r a few words from Mr. J. EVANS, the Commit •ee divided, and the numbers were— For the anacndinect Against it 114jority ... t 6 The vote was int n azrerd to; as were also the votes of 25.2701. for salaries and expense% of the Homs•offtce, and 37 1001. lar War and Colonial llop , trtments. The Eloise teen resumed, and the Chairman obtained leave to sit again. ... 72 ... 118 THE JEW BILL. Lord J. RUSSELL, in reply to Mr. Bright, said he had tix.d tilt above BLII for Monday next. The Court of Chancery (Irellnd) Roulation Act Amendment BM passed thruugh Committee; as did also (he Fee F , rrn Rents (Ireifind) Bill. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT ABBREVIATION ACT i'UESDAY Hon. and teamed Friend sought to repeal as the first s7ep toward\ improving the language of Acts of radii meet—mid if ti;ern were a:iy iiriperfecti,ins in it notling wool,' have I,aeii easier than for his I ion. and Learned Friend to have brought in to amend it. instead of asking the House to repeal it altogether. He had also s•)nie reason to complain of his Hon. and Learned Friend, in pressing the third reading of his Bill at so late an hour, and in the abs , =nco of his Right Hon. and Learned Friend the Master of the Rolls; and would thtref move diat the Bill be read a third time that day six months. Mr. S ruArt V replied. Mr. STANFORD observed that the Master of the Rolls hal assented to the second re iding and Com mittee, and WEIF, therefore, pursuing a most inconsistent course in now onposing the third re ,ding. He would support the Bill, though he did not share in the appre hension of his Hon. and Learned Friend as to conferring the franchise on ladies, and perhaps would not much regra it such were the case.—(l lug,hter.) The .House then divided, when there appeared — For the third reading... 12 Against it ~, Majority ~.. ••• The Bill was cor :l , quontly lost. The sober bit%itiess was then disposed of, and the House adjourned at,,a Q setter to . Two o'clock. -54 Mr. Sergeant MURPHY p-zired wiih Culoael lIALL on :he miscolnine - Jus estimates. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Hon. Mary S Inaour, Geeeral Wcauss, and Colonel Bouvorie, went to the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Nations yesterday morning. II:1r Majesty arrived, at the Exhibition at twenty minutes past eir i e oclock, and continued her inspection of the machinery until eleven o'clock, and then returned with Prince Albert to Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Elighnesses the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred at tended ny Mr. Birch, visited the Exhibition yesterday f noon. Highnesses the Princess Royal and the Prince-s Alice, at tend.el by Miss Ellldyard, also visited the Exhi bition yesterday. Lord J. Hassell had au audience of her Majesty yes terday at Buckingham Palace,. The Queen and Prince Albert left Buckingham Pa lace, in an open carrisge,and four, at twenty minutes before four o'clock yestiAay afternoon, for Claremont, to visit the French ELVA ?amity. The Countess of Charlemont, Gen. Wetny e, and Colonel B buverie, at tended in another open caTiege and tour. Her Majesty and Prince Albert and suite returned to Buckingham Palace at ten minutes to eight o'clock. The R iyal dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening included her Hiehness the Duchess of Kent, his Serene Highnesathe Prince of Leinengen, the trquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, Lady Fanny Howard, the Baroness de Speth, and Lieut.-Colonel the Hon. C. B. and 11 I s Plain s . Her Royal Highness the Duchess, of Kent, at tended by the Baroness de Epeth, went Frogmore 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.;4Ir; Fitzpatrick, M.P., Mr. Sharman Crawford, M.P., Ind Mr. Beauclerc, had .an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board . of Inland Revenue, bad an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Downing-street. Sir Matthew Barrington transacted business yesterday at the office of the Commissioners of Railways in the Board of Trade. Mr. Etcott had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Horne , office. Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office, from the Governor of Western Australia. Dis patches wore also received from 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 Gibraltar. REPEAL BILL. Mr. J. STUART moved the third reading of the above Bill. I. was itnesssible, he contended, to keep tee Act which it wss intended to repeal on the statute book. That it had signally failed even the Acts passed during the present session bad proved. By the 4th see tion of the Act, it was provided, that all words import ing the masculine gender should also be taken to include females—(Laughter)—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 would that section operate with respect to the Reform Bill far inst fnce? On re ferring to it he found that every male 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 of 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 be very materially and seriously affected if the singular word " one" year was to be taken to mean many years. —(llear and laughter.) The Chancellor of the Exche quer seemed to he pleased with that interpretation. — (Laughter.) Although the Act professed to be one to shorten the language of Acts of Parliament, ho 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 teens 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 had admitted that the Act might be objectionable; but as he had not time himself to consider its repeal, he had referred him (Mr. Stuart) to a Learned Friend, with whom he 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 Alen 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 Ace, but he should say it was framed without care, and not even in a manner to carry out their views. In fact 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, lotit be so, and let it he 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.) Oa 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 tnat 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 prevents d a manifest inconvenience. The next was a provision relating to the same mutter. Then it was provided that every Art should be deemed a public Act, unless the contrary should be expressly enacted. This was always inserted in all Acts, and the objetit of the Act was to prevent the ne "'a:4V 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 Parliament. In short, he regarded the Act which his NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, MONDAY.—Port-Admiral Sir John Om maney inspected her kajesty'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. WooLwica, JUNE 16. —APPOINTMENTS.-- Gunner Edward Owen, to the Cyclops; Boatswain James Mor ris, to the Cyclops; Carpenter John Whalebone, to the Cyclops. PR, ,MOTlONS.—Charles 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 conveyanc, of troops to the Cape of Good Hope. The Berracouta, 6, piddle-wheel steam-sloop, built a Pembroke, has arrived in the river, and will be broil& up this evening or to-morrow to have her engin es 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 bailers, made at the factory here from a plan sent by the steam dep trtment of the Admiralty, have been tried during the laAt 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 thus. at present in use, generating a much greater quantity of steam, and conseqaently requiring a less consumption of fuel fur working marine steum•engines. LAUNCH OF THE SCREW-STEAMER CITY OF MAIVi,BESTEII. (From the Glasgow Daily Mail of yesterday.) This fine steamer, built by the enterprising firm o 4 Tod and .lileGregor, was launched on Saturday, from their building-yard at the mouth of the Kelvin. Heine 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, amie the firing of cannon and the enthusiastic cheers of the assembled multitude.. When she was m wing off, blis , Henderson, second daughter of George Henderson, Esq, stepped forward, and gracefully dashing the bottle over her bows, named her the "City of Mauchester." We 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 is the property of the Liverpool and Philadelphia Steam ship Company, and is intended as a consort to the City 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 cabins, 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 feet 9 inches; length from spankerboom to jib-boom end, 339 feet; burden, 2,125 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 over been sent 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 L 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 i❑ three weeks, her engines, boilers, &c., being all ready for fitting in. REPRESENTATION OF CARDIFF Boßouatis.—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. Nichol], 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 proceeded to a personal canvass 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 constituents is to remain at my post in the House of Commons; 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 t o the zeal and exertions of my friends. I doubt not those in terests will be sate." 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 Pills.— 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 lisbment, '244, Strand, London. SUICIDE OF A GENTLEMAN AT BRENTFOIRD.---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 hy.shboting himself with a pistol. • When the ,under nnate man we found .by his family the-pistolvaslyini by 'his' side and life was quite extinct. No cause has been assigned for the rash act, except that it is known he has for some time .past -been living a diaipated life. AVENING, JUNE 17, 1851. CENSUS OV GREAT BRITAIN. HOUSES AND POPULATION. 1851 (31st llareh). tlousEs. POPULATION. . In- Unin- Build- 1 % hablted. nabitecl iug. Persons. Males. I Females. Great Brl ta-11 an, , • Islands • in the British Seas... '1675451 165603 29109 209195311 10184637 10734841 England & Wales.. 3276975 152570 26529 17905831, 8754554 9151277 Scotland. 376650 11956 2378 2870784 1363622 1307162 Islands 1 , the Bri tish -:eas 21826 1077 202, 142916 1 66511, 76405 London .. 307722 16589 481711 2363141 11013511 1256785 1841 (7th June). Great Bri-' • tain and Islands in the British • Seas 3465951 , 198129 30334 18645981 9074n42 9581339 - En , z1,11,1 &, Wales ...' 29439391173214 27468 15911757 7775224 8136533 Scotland.. 5026321 24026 2646 2620184 1241862 1378322 Islands in the Bri• tish Seas 19110 869 220 124010 57556 66434 --- Londetn ..! 262737 • 11321 4032 j 194 5 369 912001 103q3(z8 • . NOTE —The army in Great Britain, ant the navy, merc:utot sea men, ant other persons on board vessels in the ports, are included in the return of 1851 ; the navy, merchant seamen, and persons on board vessels, were not included in 1841. The apparent decrease of houses in Scot'and between 1841 ant 1851 is attributable to the fact that in 1841 fiats or storeys were reckoned is many peaces as " Houses ;" in the present Census the more correct definition has been emploced. GEORGE GitAHA f, Registrar-General. Census-office, Craig's-court. June 14, 1851. THE CENSUS OF GREAT BRITAIN IN 1851. (From the Times.) We are enabled to-itAy to fartit.n an epitome of thi grind totals obtained from the Census of Great Britain, tsken 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 seemel somewhat dig appointed that they were not furnished with the general result somewhere about the middle of last April, an _ _ d who might as reasonably have looked for it on tha: earliest day of the month which is specially set apart for , he benefit of those who prefer unreasonable demands. The varied and-lengthened processes of common arithmetic which were necessa-y before a few general results could posibly be obtained must be obvious to every one who will give the subject a very little con sideration, the result of whicb, we think, must be that dis appointment 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 work 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 inattention, 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 of 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, under 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 out 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 seclusion and 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 R-gietrar, and a summary," cont aining 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 bargee, boats, barns, tents, or the open air. This information, us snort us it was obtained by the Registrars, and had undergone their careful revision, was passed on to the Superintendent registrar, from whom it was, according to the statute, to b received at 'he central office by the 31st of May. It is now 14 days, exclusive of Sundays, since all the requisite tif.irmation was received at the chef office, inf trma tion spread over shout 6,000,000 printed forma, ate' those forms weighing nearly 40 ions of paper, end the important contents of the whole in their grand results are to-day published throughout the country. The fact oneht also to be chrontch-d, that such was the extraordinary celerity manic, sted by the various officers under the C-n•us Corntoh.sion, that the approximate returns, in a manner sufficient for the pur poses of Government, but not for general publication, Nero 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 which our Government has been enabled to reach in ten weeks. It should be noticed also that in France, where the census has 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 have been obtained of this census in ten weeks are igainst four months in the last census; and we believe it was above a year before we could learn the results of ,he enumeration in 1831. The expedition with which the work has been con 'noted would, however, be of little value if it had been ieeured at the expense of accuracy. From the tests which we have applied to the abstract before us, we believe that the results will be found perfectly to ac cord with the expectations which might have been an ticipated. The decennial amount and rate of increase will be understood by the following table, in reference to which it should be observed that, owing to the early period of the year at which the census was taken, here has been a loss of 68 days, which ought to have lone into the interval between the last and the present census : Great Britain Persons 2,212,892 The decennial Persons 1 2 . 10 with the Cha- Males • . 1,062,213 per centage Males • . 11.94 nel Islands Females 1,500,679 of increase is Females 12.25 Persons 1,946,383 Persons 12.48 England •• / Males .. 934,345 Ditto M ales .. 12.25 Females 1,012,043 C Females 12,69 Persons 245,237 Persons 9.55 Scotland ...... / Males.. 116,551 Ditto •••. • . / Males.. 9.57 Females 128,686 Females 9.52 Persons 18 876 Persons 15.53 Islands in the. Males .. 8.955 -Ditto Males.. 85 British seas • • Females 19,921 Females 15.23 Persons 406,961 Penons 21.33 London .•..• • • • Males.. 184,900 •Ditto • • MaFemales les• • 20.70 Females 222,061 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, have been an ticipated from the causes which have been in operation during the last ten years, and which have been sufficient THE UNITED STATES. N Ew y oRK, 3.—Some months have now elapsed since tne ',ensue returns' or . 1850 were sufficient! ) , made up to show the eggreg-ste 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 sieve States. New England has, since the existences of the union, been generally looked upon as the land of promise as well as of refuge to the fugitive or emancipated slave — as the place where, of all othere, his relative position to the whites would he least degrading; and among those of that quarter be has, doubtless, found more sympathy end kindness than has been elsewhere extended to him. The returns, however, do not afford evidence of that in ; erease in nemeer which this state of greater equality should naturally have encouraged, and which is actually raiteitested in those States where his happiest condition ie that of slavery. The total increase of the whites in New England within the last thirty years Ilan been 1,066,294, or 65 per cent. upon the nutru)nr existin4 in 1820, though the constant migration to the Western States has not been fully counterbalanced by the number of foreign immi grants introduced. During the same period the increase of blacks has been 1,350, or only 6i per cent., notwil standing the constant influx of fugitives. Since the previous census of 1840 the number has absolutely de- creased. The greatest falling off is in New Hampshire, where of all other states most has been done fur their safety and present protection, and where no attempt has ,hu, tar bets wade to pursue a runaway; yet even :here the decrease is about two-fittbs of the whole. In Ver mont and Connecticut it is also visible, and the increase in Massachusetts is only 105. The following table shows the number of coloured persons in each of those States at.the periods to which it refers 1850. 184 1 . 1830. 1820. 1790. llaine 1,313 1,355 1,177 929 with Mass New Hampshire 477 537 607 78 3 788 Vermont. 7lO 730 881 918 271 Massachusetts 8,773 8.6t;8 7,049 6 , 740 *6,001 Rhode Island . ..• 3,543 3,238 3, 5 78 3,502 4,355 C onn ecticut .... , 7,415 8 , ,05 8,07 2 8,009 8:57; 22,:31 22,633 21,364 20,881 16,987 • Including the then province of Maine. Increase , bf coloured persons in New England— From Ig2o to 18 0 ..... 483 From 1830 to 1840...... 1,269 1,762 Decrease from 184) to 1850........ 402 Net increase in ,?0 years .... . 1,350 or 6i percent. WHITE POPULATION IN SAXE STATES. 185'►. 184 ►. 1330. 1820. Maine ...581,920 500,438 398,.e60 297,340 New Hampshire ... 311,354 284,036 28,721 243,236 Vermont NlaQsachusetts ..... 985,498 729,030 603,359 5 l 6,419 Rhode Island Connecticut ...... 363,189 301,556 •,89,f03 267,181 2,704.729 2,212,165 1,933,310 1,638,435 INCREASE OF WHITES IN NENV ENGLAND. From 1820 to 1830.... 294,9n5 From 1830 to 1840-- ...... 278.825 From 1840 to 1850 49.',564 Total increase of Whites in 31 years 1,066;e94, or 65 per cent. Nor will the intereit of the investigator cease with this reference to the N , .w England States. The decrease {if coloured people in New York during the last decade has bk en 2,583, and in lodiana 2.068; the latter may, it is true, be accounted for by the imposition of civil disa bilities which are unknown in the former; bur, while the population of all the other non-slaveholding &ates has increased 37t per cent., that of the black has in the ag gregate increased less than 8 per cent: The exact in crease or decrease of both races itt 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 trifl POPULATION IN NON-SLAVEHOLDING STATES. Year 1850. Year 1840. lucrease. Decrease. New York ... 47,448 ... 50,031 ... ... 2,583 New Jersey 22,38 ... 21.714 ... 674 ... Pennsylvania 53,201 ... 47,918 ... 5,283 ... Ohio 25.930 ... 17,345 ... 8,585 ... Indians ...... 5,100 ... 7,168 ... 111in0i5......... 5,239 ... 3,929 ... 1,310 ... Michigan ... 2,647 ... 707 ... 1,840 ... ... 2,068 Wisconsin .. 626 ... lowa ... ..... 292 ... 196 ... 430 ~. 188 ... 104 ... 162,771 149,196 18,125 4,651 4 651 Increase in ten years ....... ...... 13,575 Deduct decrease in New England.-- 402 Net increase in all the non-slavehold- iag State: , , except California . ...... .. 13,173 WHITE POPULATION LN SAME STATES. 185 1 . 1840. Increase. New York .. New Jersey ... 461,283 I'•s' ,588 114,695 Pennsylvania ... Ohio • Indiana ...4, 983,614 678,698 304,935 Illinois . ... .. Michigan ..... 39 4 ,156 211,560 181,546 Wi,consin ..... 303.601 30,749 272.851 lowa 191.830 42 924 148,9(►6 Maine F 81.920 `00.438 81,452 New Hampshire 317,354 284,036 33,3 8 Vermont 312,756 291,z18 21.53 S Massachusetts ... 985,498 724.030 256.458 Rhode bland ..... 144,012. .05,517 3t. 2 ,425 Couuecticut .... :-.63.189 301,856 61,333 13,148,443 9,557,065 3,:,91,381. . , . The increase of white p.itiulation to t he slave st a t es since the pri shims census of 1840 is 34 per cent., of slavcs 28 tkr cent , and of free blacks in the satni.• States ab ut 9 p-r cent., being a greater per centage of increase than is found ausang the same class in the free States; though in many of their their civic tights are the same as those of the whites. This, of course, the census takers do not attempt to account for, nor is it to ob:able iv)) , cause could ho found for it, except in the wonderful attachment to birthplace and early ass ,, ciations which nature has so strongly, as well as visibly, implanted on the whole race. This it is which induces the einstomp:ted nt gro to submit to restraints, more degrading than those to which slaves are subjects-d, ina-anucir as they are voluntary, and because a ohango of residence would place him out of their power. 'rho actual existence of this peculiarity has been known and shown to the world by men cf science and philan thropy. who have pointed out the mode of taking adva:i tage of it, but appears to form Ito portion of the study of legislators, who csonot iniiigne a possibility of any other condition for the black than that of slavery us it now exits in the south, unle , s found in emancipation, at tended by the horrors of St. Domingo, or by the les sened production and depreciation of property like that o which the planter.; lit Jamaica have b ,, en reduced. It has been for some limo rumoured the, large claims are likely to hi, brought format-al a L ainst this country oy the Government of Mexico on account of Indian dt pre da,,,iols, the protection oglin , t which was guaranteed by the Treaty of Guaiialoupe Hidalgo. The accounts al ready on tile are said to amount tu-a heavy sum, and the full swing document, which is no doubt authentic, indi dicates an intention on the part of the authorities to push forward all claims which there is any chance of aubstantiatitv:— " State Department, Chihuahuam, March 5, 1851. " Tha citizens of this State are hereby informed (in con formity with instructions from the Government at Mexico), that all persons who may h ve claims against the Goverment of the United States for damages sustained from the incur pions of Indians will forward them to this department, so that they may be admitted and their payment demanded. " AMA DO DE LA VEGA." No doubt exists that the protection atturded has been very unlike that which was stipulated for, while it is quite possible that the entire existing army of this country might be found insufficient, even if quartered on the Mexican frontier. The Congress of that Republic adjourned on the 2oth of May. Both Chambers annulled the contract made with Senor Jose de Garay regarding Tehuantepec, and a motion was made to impeach the Minister who had granted the renewal after its privileges had 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 Yaries, 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 agai nst these prejcts as unconstitutional. Congress had refused to modify the.tariff by removing prohibitory duties. At this city the number of vessels from foreign ports during the month of May was 477. Ot these 77 were British, and the entire number of immigrants lauded was 38,436. Accounts from California are to the lst of May. Two steamers have, within two days, lauded here 3,000,000 dolls. of gold tram that country. The miners appear to be doing even better than usual. The Governor of the State has transmitted a message to the Legislat ure, annou ncing the organisation and departure of a forc e ' under a Mr. Morehead, who was Quartermaster-General of California, with the intention of revolutionising of the Mexican States. T h e Governor asks th at one steps the may be taken to arrest the leader, and frustrat e ex pedition. This movement upon Mexico causes no sur prise here among those who have that etched for some h time past what has:been going on in at quarter. The Asia has just arrived from yverpool. Exchange on London, 10' to 1 04, .NSURARCE AGAINST LANDLORDS.—AMODgSt the unjust and anomalous laws which are disgraceful to our ag e and nation, that which allows the landlord of a house to seize the goods and event of the householdeehr , a s t t r e e l n s t onfoltobdegienreg an d visitors in the p such bold relief, that laomm am amazed b it should t aeid' caseevs e e t ! n s h t d a n a v n e o s u b:e swe e i n n enacted by a British Government . are "sure of nothi ng but death and quarter -day :" the land lord comes in for his rent, and the householder , perhaps, falls through misfortune or dishonesty in the payment. Lodgers and their friend s , both "furnished and unfurnished," are ig norant of what is taking place, and their effects are perhaps seized some morning to be sold. is there no mode of insurance against thi power of landlords in this manner ? Builder. FOREIGN VISITORS TO TOR EXHIBITION.—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 of the Paris special ekpress train, is truly exciting. The great speed of this train, the short sea passage. and the fact of the steamers and trains being in exact corres . ..ondence, thus avoiding all delay, render t his s p ecial service extremely popular wit h our continenta l neighbours. About 300 passengers ar r i ve d b y this train on Sunday evening, a great proportion of them a n n j d o journey, ladies, who did not a pp ear at all fati g ued with t the sea passage having tccupied only two hours rn inutea, notwithstanding the heavy freight. GRAY'S INN, JUNE 16, 1851.—At a • pension of the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn, holden this day, Ja c kson Gal t banks; .Esq.,. LLB, and BA, was called t o _th e -degree of Bittlitift*liw. DISASTROUS BALLOON ACCIDENT. Yeeterday evening an accident occurred to Mrs. Gra ham, the celebrated aeronaut, and Mr. Grate:En, her husband, which perilled not only their lives, hut thine I 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, accompan ed by her husband end other persons, the starting place being Batty's; Hirpodrome, a place erected, as its name implies, fur feats of horsemanship, in the liensiegton-road, a short distance beyond the gate which leads to the principal entrance of the Crystal Palace. As early as 3 or 4 o'cl uk 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 after nece six o ssarya,crrloaonkgete m h e l t g a n f a o i r w th a e s ascent, end a few minutes and Mrs. Graham w ere the onl y giv for starting. Mr. en 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, but suddenly de scended rapidly upon the top of the pole alluded to, and a large aperture was made in the balloon. Tne grap pling irons were thrown out, but there was nothing to hold by, and the balloon again ascended and descended alter nately, until at length it drifted away in a northerly direction towards the Crystal Palace. ets. who was on duty in the park states that as the balloon was passing from the Hippodrome four men man age d seize the ropes which depended from it; but this appears inexplicable, as it has been ascertained that four wen of average strength might have held down the balloon, and have thus prevented the very serious mischief which atterwards 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 these were between 35,000 and 40 000 persons in the building, some little departure having taken place from the ordinary time of " clearing nut." In a few moments the balloon was di rectly over the transept of the ExhibitionT i hea h e i r o; o nauts, seeing the tearfully dangerous position 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 Palace, the fl igstaffs of which it destroyed, the balloon proceeded, or rather dratt d, towards Grosvernor-gate, and thence took a di agonal dirt -eta-in between Halt aloon-street and Engine street, Piccadilly. As though by magic it instantly rose again, and was driven towa; ds the front of the houses in Arlington -street which lace the Crie en Talk. These houses, together with those in Park-pl ace , St. James's street, form two aides of t i) v " a r beautd upon o must ese severe.the work of destruction appears' o Alighting on the park front of Colonel Nei th's nriesion, 16, Arlengton.street, the grappling irons came in contact with the parapet. A gust of wild arose, and the bal een again slightly ascended, bearing away, by means of the renewed foice imparted to it, the heavy coping stones and a large portion of the parapet, hurling them on the root, through which they descended, carrying away in their downward course the rafters over the stair case, which they precipitated into the bell below. B y this time the escape of gas from the balloon was so great that nu altitude could be obtained. It drifted be tween the huge stacks of chimneys v nich surmount the houses in Arlington-street and Park-plece, 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 burly ot police, under the c :mmaud of Mr. Superintendent Otway, immediately provided the means of arriving at the top of the houstetwhere a fright ful spectacle presented itself. The car of the balloon was jammed between the two blocks so fi rm ly th a t 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 lite less. The first impulse of the police was to procure medical aid for the unfortunate aeronauts, and they wets removed with as little delay as possible to the residence of Mr. Moore, a surgeon, in Arlington-street. On ex amination they were found to be alarmingly contused sod 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 ware removed to the Vine-street station, where the officials afterwards attended to make a preli minary investigation. Mr. Harvey Gramm, son of the unfortunate aero nauts, who was present, in answer to Mr. Superintendent Otway, gave the following account of the matter:—My fattier and mother made arrangements for ascending in tbe Royal Victoria and Albert balloon from Mr. Batty's Hippodrome in the Kensington-road this evening. The balloon was conveyed over and iefisted in the ordinary way. It eras necessary that the ascent should take place at the precise lime mentioned, namely, Jim o'clock, in order that the Hippodrome might be cleared for the evening p , rlormitece. A taw minutes attsr six o'clock I saw the balloon rise, and noticed my father and mother in the car. It struck me at the time thaw it was a false wind that bad taken them up, fur the balloon almost immediately, after rising about seventy feet, began to desceted again, and at I watched it very intently I noticed that in its descent it struck a large flag-staff which is erected in the Hippodrome, which made era in eisien in the silk of the balloon, at a piste us nearly as I could see, about the zone. I iminsdiately saw that the gas was escaping, and knowing that my mother was aware of the fact that the balloon bad got injured, my impression was that she would endeavour to sflact a descent in the park. As semi as the balloon cleared the Kensington-rosd I dlowfd its course as fast as I possiely coula, and, as I had previ ously supp , sed, it dared et en :altitude of 100 feet, va rsii,g however occa,ion.dly. Ott arriving at the Crystal Palace they threw out the ballast; I mould judge all they had with them. I ,aw them fall on Col ni I North's house in Arlington-street, and tear away the (rent part of toe building. I saw them taken down hem' Coletiel. North's house, and taken to the xurgeon'‘. My father was almost iesenstble when he was pot into the nab, My father is 66 years ot lig , % and my mother about 47 or 48. Tee hellfire, is nearly nestr‘q ed. I estimate the damage done re it at shalt 1501. I have no doubt that had they nor thrown out the butlost vrhen over the Crystal Palace a large portion ot' the root of the budding would have been dragged uw ey. 'the ballast thrown out was scarcely suffic cut to break the glass. Police-con,tabio Thomas Bird, C 24, said he was On duty at the Crystal Palace. tihorily atter six o'clock _he saw a balloon arise from I.34t:y's Hippodrome in thefKreans stugton real; when it hat arisen about 80 he could itiegs, he saw it descend again , a the top of the de scent it appeared to corns into contact with I n ee d t it a i s its a de tewards the Exhibition. It passed ove r western ad w e e n n - t flaeoeiti ou that huilfing. It then rose again the :he transept, tore trance, and then making its wee took a south-westerly direction over Park-lane ov w e e r . nt across the ' Ser ' a p ts e ' n et i a: l f? e , vere lof the ft .g a ffs. It . into Piccadilly, dropped on to a is block e a o g f mn h.o,uspsseasbeed ova* Halt-moon and Esgine-streets, r) r . i the reser voir in tbe Green - park, darted over Park. place, an finally settled on the houses inri . ngton- A s t r eet, where the car became jammed between two stacks of chimneys. Inspector Whall, who had been very active in render ing every possible assistance to the sufferers, detail e d the particulars of the position in which they were found, aid the measures which he subsequently took for their safe conveyance home. Sergeant Barnes was also examined, and corroborated the ate t e ment of Police-coostatae Bird. F r om 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 tensple to temple, and also a severe contused wound in the side. Mrs. Graham received an incised wound on the head and several contused wounds in the back. Both are in a dreuctul state, end are unable to give any account of the accident which befel them It is e.timated that the dramage done to the house s of Colonel North and hi s neighbours is not less than from 5001. t , 1.0001. An off teal report eves conveyed to Mr. Commissioner Mayne by M r . S uperintendent Otway as so on as .. the particulars rs. G r a i h f am appears to have been p articularly un. abortthe uccid'nt were correctly ascertained fortunsee i n h er ascents. A very abort time e h s e i r on ne b e a s ll o o ple rustles bro ug h t a l i ght b y means of which ched. A I Was set on fir e awl herself dreadful l y sear ------ Mr. Tufnell, Member for Devonport, has given notice of an instruction, on going into Committee on Mr. Hutt's Colonial Property Qualification Bill, for the purpose Th e last discussion m u of dOing away with any property qualification for member s :I n n materi al change °use of to servain Parliament. the sub ject, on Sir Williem /ilolesworth's motion in 1837, led to the pas,ine of MN. Warburton 's Bill, which so much mitigated qualification from a seat in the House of the system which formerly excluded any person who b a l . not a real pr Commons. o p Pu e b r t li y c opinion has undergone a • mimeo that time; and were it only for the character House, and to save it from the imputation of d eliberately of the allowing the evasion of a regulation which it • strictly to enforce, we is found im possible true that every shade will unite in abolishing any . , the Liberals of qualifica tion, and leave the same tree choice of property to the c onstituencies of England and their representatives has always enjoyed. Mr. Butt' lreland which Scotland Wednesday next. a lis on the orders for 0 ETV RMIN ED SUICIDE ''''' —n n Saturday e venin g , Mr. W. Chapman, a gentleman residing at No. 11, Hyde Park-place, while walkin near Kensington gon the north bank of the Serpen tine, himself he a d f Ga r dens-bridge , observed a man pre cipitateoremost into the water. He without loss of time raised an alarm, when the drags hei. g procured the body was f oun d and conveyed to the receiving• house ' where every m eans were resorted to by Dr. Woolley to re store animation, but lif e was f o und to be extinct. Decested was attired in the garbof his - pockets relative to horse-racing, was ascertained to have been" a small betting man" at Tattersall's. No money was found upon him, but a letter addressed to his wife, and written with pencil, commencing "My dear wife," and saying that that was the last token she would receive irom, him, for he could no t thwart fickle fortune, and be hoped that happiness would yet shine upon her; conclud log with, " This is my last farewell. Your loving husband —W. PEIRCE." • At the recent dinner of the Lincolnshire Club, at the Clarendon, London, the subject of the representation of Lindsey was slightly alluded to, and Sir Montague Chol mele, assured the Tory gentlemen present that he would not be ousted without having A good fight for his present posi. tion: It is said that some of the guests looked very blank at this announcement, its• it forebodes 'the expenditure of large sums of money. 1` .he total cost to all parties of the last comes for No/41 Lincolnshire was estimated et 26,00 e/. P . r .iStarigford ,a3ferctoy. o 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 diminiehed every year. We have, therefore, to expect 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 so 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 ventage 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 in 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 goon" 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 popular fact of a painful nature, which has lately engaged much public attention. We refer to the proportion of occupants in dwelling houses, which, it wit! be seen, hAq increased since the last census, the proportion in IE4I being 7.42, and which has now, according to the eiamerators, increased to 7.65, elieeine the probability that they have not lest sight of any of the population, and at the same time con fi,ming the details which have rec o e af n p t v l ing the crowded state of the dwellings of the poor. It will be observed that Ireland is not included in that h th er e e c i e e ns g u r s ea th t r e e r a e s s o u n lt t s o now pub lished. h u itt p t r h e e sent portion T re sults of famine, pestilence, and emigration in reference to that country, an awful 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, es well as - the enumeration of our countrymen sojourning or travelling in foreign countries,' and the numerous Britishsubjects • in our East Indian and-eoloaial posseEsions. - - - - yrheihcheadieti ap p eared respect" pow.. pod rear, ed to the most 'abed had the He 1004 :Tent .ch ; )uld lee ton bat bat rk, Tar l~ `~ J