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de )wed Let if lina niza- I be tern- pre- se in was lin- • had , that egfd, it, done arch, Ll3O and with had man If the mons LSIOD. ority oon upon ties ,ople Lbers 11 at hioh tents ss of Doily tion, ,lere I re- The ipon bulls " 1 Sir ;tion ‘, igth • all onld I of • her I in h a exit, iVlt t-•-• S U N, LONDON, SA TO It f)A Y sin -)much - ----- - - _. stangercd at this propoititiont but the more i ! rare E xamined into the question, the more convinced p os r „ e , the y of the expediency of the course which he pro sed. If their Lahr hip's thaw:die when this Bill got to ' n 9 o lntnittee, the measure might be in some decree t h a " t i n od. provided it could he satisfsetoriiy made out n iv Roman Cathelics reoteld he enabled to do what the 6h u'lltherzei-1 them TO do. and to do it effectually, he ° Id hae. is no d'ffi^ulPv in seceding cat ion: , , - v. T h e rteede was one oletervetiee in what he had just l i ce Whirb. did Dot appear to him to be in exact 4 srdance w i t h this greet acuteness of his Noble and eb at ned Fiend. lie, opt - eared to have been some ni' Burp. iced that such a statute as that of the h , " Nof Eh: sa.beth had ever been passed in Ireland. He o r J• Grt ham) was not at all surprised at it. The s ir de and I ,eareed Lord had stated the reason, viz , that e ,e . fourt se of the inhabitants of Ireland were Roman It+ctlelice In England it was quite possible to treat the c, ° t ,,an Cat holies as a sect; but in Ireland belthe Roman n i; " ° hes 1 sere a nation, and they must eated as a en, ° "• --- (C ;beers.) But to return to the cleelarstory i i ,"„ se, he " - enred it went infinitely further than the Go eiir'n's inn - ated when they introduced the Bill. He eh ie 7s!d he. was alarmed at the doubt seed ambiguity in to „ Ce . "It el es shrouded. He knew not whether the At aif,"eYten oral for lrelaucl was in his place.—(lronical QC' °I " L :ear, hear.") Ha should be sorry it it were t:seht he intended any sneer at the Rieht ILin. and n i a petl Gt mtlemain who had raised himself to eminence d i , Is profs sssion amid snarly rivels. He had had the di'lldvantag;e of coming into that House late in life, a i:scivantag as Which he 'felt acutely for his sake; but still ~,,°eaupied An eminent situation, and he (Sir J. Graham) ii'ski like t o hear hie opinion on the effect of this clause.. t ' Haecl tell here entered the House.] He wets glad R t oe- thee. Right Hon. Gentleman in his place. He l b urs: the Route would testify that he had said toit:ig ralleind of 'the Bight Hon. Gentleman.—(Hear, k i:.) Hr, (Sir James Graham) repeated that he was siii w 'd titetlie ambiguity of the present clahse. He was a zone() alarmed when he heard_ the Government de ere - • • . . i f the it intention to revive old and dormant statutes th et ii pr esent enactment should prove insufficient. It id wen happily said by Curran that old statutes bung e s w ,ty armour, - and were only endured becaute they n e il T ;let executed; and it was their inactivity alone which g " r ed them tolerable in a free country.—(Hear, hear.) it( t ;Sr J. Graham) deeply regretted, therefore, to have iii. rd ; allusions made by her Majesty's Government to 4_P sssible revival of old statutes on this subject.— ; I nt r, hear.) N ot hi ng eve r gratified him more than the iil tt, l l, ictof the Government in withdrawing the second k r air& clauses of their original Bill, looking, as he li pan -that step as an indication of that spirit which I;ss Is el th eir couccile on religious questions generally, tr ed which he approved. He thought the afterthought ii , tt dr4pting this clause most unfortunate, and he must I t) ttsi ; against it, as he could not satisfy himself us to d!Pr( vise extent to which the House would be carried 1 , 3 ,0 o f the dense blindfolded.—(Hear.) 16 ,,' 4 ata' ATTORNEY-GENERAL took the liberty of rile with reference to the statement of the Right . °l3 - 'Gentleman, that the Master of the Rolls, on a pre nis•. , . i ,Lis gittseuesiou, him said that the Pope had the power ‘ ,la' V :,(7. appoint ecclesiastical persons in this country w ta dioceses and sees, that the Right Hon. Gentleman Val souring under a complete mistake. h, '; I. GRAHAM here read the note he had taken at 'tht a of the words of the Master of the Rolls, to the at t hat " he believed he was correct in saying, and he e,"` 4 si t Ice given an opinion, parcelling tere was nothing in the r tof prevent the Pope from p out the.country 'to a. tehbishoprics and bishoprics." i h titaATTORNEY-GENERAL said, the Master of Re ills had given no opinion on the subject to which ;., was not a party, bed be was therefore confident that a l , - i t e - , &ear orthe Rolls used the words quoted he must, z° steed. them with some restriction and qualification. 1 e bes t p roo f o f that was the original Bill drawn up ? the Master of the Rolls, the preamble of which stated e a t the attempt to. establish under colour of au pority :from the, F,ee of Rome, or otherwise, such pre ' ( ( ii id e't zees ,and , doceses. &e., is illegal and void."— ear hear.) Put passim. , now to the general argu ,, nset of the Ri g ' at H on . Gentleman, he must say that tc ansteellttlaes points raised by him had been previously discus led and: arisasercd to the satisfaction, he believed, of the House generally—(Oh I)—though not, perhaps, e 1 7 the satisfetction of every gentleman on the opposite i nehesi. Tete Right Hon. Gentleman contended that he present esle use enacted and created a new law. That :Stile Att or soy -General ) denied, maintaining that it the nothing raore then declare the law as expressed in . 110 recite' sof the preamble; and the reason, as he had e xplained he , fore, why the Government had thought : ri ght to yiel re to the suggestion of the Hon. and Learned la ernbar for I'siidburst, and consent to the insertion of the Present clans te, was because they believed, while it carried ""smatter n o farther than the preamble, it amounted to a ~ l h o t re e 3 na bles a end emphatic declaration that this attempt ,part .of the Pope was contrary to the law and ' 'unit t* - * f this kingdom.H took the liberty of 1 4 asking` C. 1011 y:3l 8 ~_ did f any Hon. Gentleman deny th© law as ex "ssed in tl lie recital of the Bill—that it was not cons- Vent for nee' See of Rome to establish archbishops and ' d'hope with territorial titles within this kingdom; and : that could not be denied to be the law, it followed as a '"essery tenisequenee that the brief, rescript, or letters 3PstolicaV conferring such jurisdiction or title was void 0 - TB a ' clause was simply declaratory, and, if issue CC join . , ?d, With Mai au that point, he was prepared to b ad the right to n con fe ign territorial titles in thi e s kingdom 1 witho u t the constant of the Crown.—(Hear, hear.). Con rqueatly the' ell'euse went no further than to declare the tor as it exi seed. 'The Right Hon. Gentleman went on to say that s tee clause would be attended with mischiev "as consequ races, because it struck at the exercise of the ec clesiastic si fanctions of the Roman Catholic Church 1 la Ireland, an d wou ld t h ere by i nva lid a t e th e ' or dination °1 Romar, . Catholic priests, and marriages celebrated by th em. - ..1 kit, again he asked, were rescripts or bulls from the Pope appointing to territorial sees in this kingdom , O W, le gs I. Dud valid?—(Hear, hear.) Whatever might h ave 'be en the ietention of Sir Robert Peel's Govera 'lent, fete Act of Elizabeth certainly was only repealed a lO far es the penalty of treason attached to the intro amaetioa of bulls into this country, but their intro "%ion into E ngiand, at any rate, was continued as an ",f-fence hi the, most express terms. The Right Hon. ` -t entleman ste e red that it was now proposed, by the pre sent clau se , to.-'affect in a great degree the Roman Ca irtic eeclesitnstical and spiritial authority in Ireland. - ,°W. the. Ac A of 10th George IV. rendered the tsstimp -- I ° l l by .B4On - an Catholics of episcopal titles derived from ' tXisting see i illegal and void, and yet there was not a ' 'ingle priest. in Ireland with respect to whose ordination a question bead been brought before a court of law. It ' r aft therefoiee clear that those inconveniences which the light Hone urable Gentleman apprehended had not fol ded from :the present law.--(Bear, hear.) What mar tiage, he, risked, had been annulled, what offspring, O therwise. 1 egitimatee had been bastardised in conse quence of at ay one asserting that the ordination of priests 1 ,4 Roman. , Catholic bishops in Ireland was an illegal l_ r ausaction 1! -The thing had never been heard of ; 'seause, with respect .to marriage and the consequence 44 Marriage , it was enough that there was a de facto litiest exert being his functions in a chapel ; and the or gleationnif , the priest on . the validity of the marriage °ever came into question. The present Bill placed the assumption of new titles on the same footing as the as- Neiption. ce! existing titles. Its object and scope was bet to intereere with the full and perfect exercise o f th e 'Piritual functions of the Roman Catholic Church, but solely to prevent a foreign power granting territorial titles within this kingdom. The Right Honourable Gen tleman referred to the examination of Dr. Wiseman at the bar, of the „House of Lords. Dr. Wiseman was tailed as an ,expert, to show what were the usages of the Catholic Church., and questions put to him to test his ,°Ompeteficy did not involve a recognition of his jurisdic tion. But what if they had? Dr. Wiseman was at that titne vicar-symbolic, and he declared that as such he ex trebled all the „turisdiction, ecclesiastical and spiritual, to which the Rig,ht Hon. Gentleman had referred. If so, could there b!,.a more satisfactory proof that this recent tescript of tb o Pope, and the invasion of the sovereignty Of the kingd.om by dividing it into dioceses, were utterly uncalled for ?—(Hear, hear.) With regard to what the Right Hot}. Gentleman said as to the probability of pro *students- under the present clause, he was perfectly Convinced 0 - that ;it created no fresh opportunity for Such a tourse of proceeding. The clause was declaratorY, and if any prosecution for misdemeanour, for assuming these unlawful titles, could be instituted, they coal d equally be instituted without the present clause. • Sir .1. ~GRAHAM, in' reference to what had fallen from the Master of the Rolls, read from Hansard the following , extract from a speech delivered by that learned inilividual:on.the 21st of March last:- 4. On . tlic debate on the Bill for estaabliseabrmifneogn'rddmiPeint e H re o s n is . te li d e n rab matic relations with Rome , then n which was proposed by the t Lam beth, and, said that as the law stood the Pope could parcel out thicountry into bishopr ics a nd archbishopri cs; that if the House introduced the amendment which pro hibited 'dealing with spiritual matters, the Pope would still be ajsle so to divide the country, and t here w ould be , nothing ,to prevent him; and that the only mode of preventing him was by establishing diplomatic_ relations with hint That was to say, he deprecated such a mea sure, and 'Was desirous that the. House should pass a Bill which would enable the Government to take such steps as would prevent it. That was entirelyo_e s.as. accor dance with , what he•now said, and he believe h h correct in.saying-it, and had since given an opinion, that there was. nothing in the law to prevent the Pope from parcelling neat the country into archbishoprics and i bishoprics- that there was a law to prevent the ntro• duction oebulls; but no law to prevent him from parcel ling out the countrY." The AttOrnep•General had - argued, that when Dr. Wiseman was examined at the bar of the House' he was bishop stpestolie; and yet possessed all the poWer of 'other bishops with' respect to the ordination of priests; , but let the House' recollect that the only 'difference between a bishop-aptiatrilie With' a district and a Catholic bishop with a dimes was, that the former held directly from ' and was thehmere creature of the Pope, who then pre tended to be Bishop of England, and that the latter was One degree furthersewved from that potentate. Mr. OtEgRALL; who was imperfectly heard, was understood ,totil , . that with respect to the prohibitory clause of , 1t29, it was distinctly stated at the time to a deputation, of which be was one, that it was inserted to meet thoyieWs:of the then King and other persons, but that it was not the intention of the proposers of the Bill to put thafprovision into effect. It was o f ten ma d e a reproach in that House that the Catholic Members were uniief the - entire iniitionce of their priests. H e ut terly denied IA& inipbtation; tent, if true, would it not expose them l the4uspicion, if the present Bill 'p asse d, ib that they . w ould always be ready to support the Govern , went of the day, on the under6tEmding that th e . l3:ll should not be' enforced? lie never had anticipated; after 20 years' association with the Members of the_ G. Ternmentqu''llsiit Lli?use, that the moment could him T I/ IF, arrired when he would rause them his confidence. The Government might have been in a position which ren dered it imperative on them to propose legiAation on the subject; but he complained of the mode in which tint le:giiltatton had been introduced, and it was painful to hear the Noble Lord state that in 1845 he held opinions with respect to the Timm Catholics which he no 1 anger entertained. Such being the case, he felt bound to withdraw, though it pained him to do so, the confidence, both personA and political, he had rep.,ied in the Noble Lord. Mr. H A.TCHELL having referred to the hind manner ' in which the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir J. Graham) had addressed hies with reference to the operation of the Bill, said he would now state) what he conceived to be the ex istieg law of Ireland on the subject, to see whether the present law did more than re-enact its provisions. In the 13th of Elizibeth an Act passed. which did not ex tend to Ireland; but in the 2d of Eliz ibeth a similar law was pissed, which did extead ee Ireland. It had Len admitted that the Act of Richard had now been repealed. It must be admitted that in. the present day the Act could not ho pat into operation. The 13th of Elizeheela was 'still in .force.. No doubt bishops having spiritual authority were addressed by their own people by their respective titles. Ia 1809 it was judicially decided by Lord Manners, with reference to the Bishop of Cashel and the Bishop, of Watertord, who were made trustees to a will, that they could not be described by their territorial titles, which they held a3bishosie of the Church of Rome. With refereuee to the Act of '29, it came with some degree of alarm upon the Peorearatit portion of the country; but up to that time .the law was established against the Catholic bishops baying territorial title , and the only addition' made in the. Bill was as to the creation of new dioceses. Such, a bishop could not ordain a priest; stud all wriarrieges, iZ performed by him, vrore void. Ue vveuld come to the elett of '44, which, it was said gave them a right to assume their titles. Now he thoirght, if they_ looked at the statute, it provided the very contrary. An indictment under this clause weald not lie. If any indictment was preferred it should be on the old law, for this law prohibited nothing. With re speCt to the penalty he would not then advert, but he thought it his duty to present those few: observations with regard to the law of the case.--(Lear.) Mr. MOORE said, the Right Hon. and Learned Gen tlerean declared that the present Bill was a re-enacting of the law, and that though it did exist at present, yet that it was not put in force because the law was obsolete. But this re-enactment would give efficiency to the law which did not exist before, atuf TheFelore the Roman Catholics would find themselves, if this Bill passed, in a worse position than they were in at present. Mr. WALPOLE said he wished to say a few words on the clause which he had first 'proposed, and which had been now introduced into the Bill. He was cer tainly taken by surprise by the observations. If the Hon. Gentleman had applied his attention to it he would have found that there was no ambiguity in the clause, or any discrepancy betwcee the clauses. This clause did not alter the law, bat left it as it was before. It did not apply to Ireland beyond the antecedent law. What the meaning of the brief _was under the statute of ttichard 11. was brought to the test in the arise of Lalor. Van Espin, who was considered a great authority; stated that the Pope bad no authority to issue a bull for the appointment of bishops vtithout.the plecet of the Crown. Sehramn, who was only second to him in authority, laid down the same principle, which was in unison with the general law of nations and the law of England. When such is the case, he would ask why should England, because it was a Protestant country, be , prevented from doing the same thing when the privileges of the Crown were endangered ? It was also the unwritten law. The words which he had emhodied in the clause were taken from the statute of Richard the Second, which . course ho . adopted in order to avoid introducing any new disability against the Roman Catholics. The, lion. and Learned Member for Athlone said, that when the statute of Richard the Se cond was passed, the Roman Catholic was the religion of the country, which made a great distinction. That did not apply to the case of. Lalor. This country was then as much Protestant as it is now, The indictment preferred in that case was., that actions under the bull touched " the King's crown and royal dignity," and .then went on to describe) his acts under the bull in ap pointing bishops and priests to .parishes. Such, then, ' was.the state of the law they were now called upon to deciere. The first clause in this - Bill did that and no more. He would ask did this bull refer only to.spiri tuels? They appeared to have forgotten it. He would therefore recall their attention to it. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman then quoted the bull, and ar gued that by constituting districts as 'dioceses, and the Pope reserving all power to himself, and ignoring the existence of any other dioceses in the country, and disre- ' garding the authority -and pleasure of the Queen in this assumption of authority, brought it within the sphere of temporalities. He said he had reason to find fault with his Right Honourable Friend in not referring to the preamble, which recited the bull of September, 1829, appointing dioceses " in. England," which was afttrwarda altered to " the United Kingdom," which had the same effect. The Right Hon. Gentleman said it had a larger scope, and that it Would apply beyond England.. That Was not to deal fairly with the clause. nod to mislead the Houss. It did not go farther than to prohibit such briefs as were prohibited by the statute of Richard the Second. If the other. amendments were carried this would lay the foundation for a clause to prevent the introduction of other bulls and briefs. He put it to the Right Hon. Gentleman to say that the clause would extend to all other briefs—to those issued to vicars apostolic. Certainly, no lawyer would give an opinion to that c Get. At all events, it was not his in tention that it should have that effect. It was said that this 'law was revived in a persecuting spirit.. How was that', made out ? When , they. faund statutes were in force, instead of allowing them to continue dormant, they ought to renew them as soon as they found persons seeking to evade them. If the law had not been left in that htate, and if the statute of Elizabeth had not been repealed; this bull woujd not have' been brought into this country, but by leavigh Mrs that state, it led people to belies.° the introduction of these bulls was not con trary to law. When the Noble Lord stated that other laws might be neetessery, that statement gave great satisfaction when it was considered in what spirit that declaration was made.—(Hear, hear.) Ile and all others declared they had no intention to interfere with the spiritual functions of the Roman Catholics, but Hon. Gentlemen, in their speeches,' begged the question, and assumed that such was the object of the Bill, but he had heard nothing which showed that such would be the effect of the Bill. He would State the reasons why the declarations should be made. First, because Parliament had a right to uphold what was lawful against what was pulawful. Secondly, _because it was a national pro test against a usurpation. Thirdly, it was an assurance to the Protestant people'that they intended to adhere to the principles of the RefOrmation; and fourthly, it was a protection to the Roman Catholics, who were placed between the head of their Church and their Sovereign, as had been declared by Lord Beaumont, Lord Camoys, and the Duke of Ntrfolk. These were the reasons:why the declaration should be made. - They ought , to stand by them. If the brief was not condeinned, it would be a test of want of foresight, or wantiof Oourage;and Want of wisdom_ in not foreseeing the consequences, and not providing against them i and by tolerating them to allow them to gain the sanction of time. . Sir J. GRAHAM said, his Hon. and Learned Friend had given four reasons for this demo. As to the last, he (Sir J. Graham) was not exactly aware of the ex pressions Lord Beaumont or Lord Camoys might; have used, but ho remembered a saying of Mr. Burke's appli cable to this question—that members of a sect were the least competent judges of _whet was, necessary for the free exercise of the religion of another sect. Now, he regarded this clause as little short of a declaration of war against 8,000,000' of bent" fallow-countrymen.— (Hear, hear.) He had endeavoured to make himself master of this Bill, and had endeavoured to reconcile it with the variances that occurred to him, but he found it impossible to do so. The first parnofahe - preambie of his . Hon. and Learned Friend was almost identical with that of the Government, except that his Hon. and Learned Friend used the plain unambiguous term "of the king dom of England," and the Gevernment used the , term, " within the United kingdom." But then came words which greatly extended, the scope Of. what his_Hon. and. Learned Friend originally referred to; for the clause said that all such reseripts should, be null and void, not. confining the operaiioa of the Bill to this particular re- script, but extending it to all others; and as the Right Hon. Gentleman the Attorney-General for Ireland, who had addresied the Committee so perspicuously and in a manner so worthyof the office he filled—(Hear)--had s a id all rascripts in Ireland would fall under the p rovisions of this declaratory clause. His Hon. and Learned Friend . had referred to the statute of Richard; but he (Sir J. Graham) had also referred to that statute when he ad dressed the Committee,, and had drawn from it an infe rence oppoSite to that of his Hon. and LearnedrFriend. That statute was passed - in Catholic times, when the Ca.! tholic religion was the established religion of the - coun try; and the Pope of Rome, in the: exercise of the powers which were allowed by the constitutional authorities of England at that time, began to encroach on the.legality of the Crown and purported - to assign teinporalitiesnndee the authority ofhis temporal power.—(Hear, hear.) But it never sa id th at as t o t h e a ppointment of bishops'to the ,Fespeotiv e sees the r e shthild be `an interference Nvat e:vcr, and theyall 'rested with' the Pbtoe of Rothe. He . t J. Graham) contended, that throughoet EUKOPe the matters, and itathai only *Afore tfie‘Rotnan Catholic Tell , I° P ° Wa l.ille head ' of the.; Catholic Chitral' in epirituat svgteiaorteati , :i twahieno.res;_huFi el wit i rel A i n g d ierithl at. G thoconsent h of. S h " n l as the (own,. n h eit y f t e with the sPiritttalianisdie°t* aw ot -' *-t h hlat y ho r r lig ity C o t ' l3 4 ll het te Pre ' with regard to a religion rile the vesti6ilt ie it y s• ve to e f. d e , t he e t o t,l n o te e n t d it e tti d t t e bd o t f it was begging: Richard IL, and say that h the regality of 'the CreAvl Catholic religion'hehig heendOeseeee;V:c.ontetlila°tl7 whole matter settforth :in go dr was nceexeess whatever:of the , 'or.t e t: rfo?edcl'Ogiif 0,6 r o pe'. Pope's jurisdiction. The l e simplicity, If so Theo Hon: and Learned thus;_., Whereas' }stts esearneet - GeateeManl Gen tleman's ought to be frame& it is expedient, . on - account of pablio 'clanionti---(Hear hear)—to prevent the, spread of Popery= throughout this sotlClSahani; wishes]ll p r e realm, and to chock the full and free exereitte of • its spiritual authority in' the 'tame, be it entieted.",at e ,,, x hear.) :As to the power of indietMent under th e Bi d it was clear to him that its range would be very exten sive. The first :section eipressly .deelared that not only the brief, rescript,_or letters apoatolical, but "rill and every the jurisdiction, authority, pre-eminence, or title " conferred, or pretended t o be conferred thereb y , are and shall be, and be deemed, unlawful and void. It fel lowed, therefore, .that every attempt to exercise such jurisdiction or authority, every act intended to promote it rendered positively declared a thing unlawful or assist it, must be also unlawful, for when a statute every thing which 'was done for its support or encouhege .. print un l aw f u l a l so . " ctlia4do a liq u idprohibitor, pro hibitur et ernuever quad devenitur ad illud," said Lord Coke in his 3d Inet., 158. Every such act or attempt must be a contempt of the statute; and it was laid down by Hawkins, in his " Pleas of the Crown," vol. i, chap. 22, thet " every contempt of a statute is indictable, if no other punishment i 3 limited." S 3 again, Lord Chief Baron Come n, in his " Digest" (6t. " Indictment"), sei 4 " So for anything generally prohibited by statute, if it be done, an indictment lies- for it;" that as "an attempt to commit a misdemeanour (thud uncloulheily the viola tion of a statute which is prohibitory, as it is if it de clares a thing unl Levin!, is a misdemcanonr) bad been decided in many cases to be itself 'a misdemeanour." That the Bill in this case was prohibitory, and intended by the Legielature so to be, there could be no doubt, for the preamble, among other things, expressly said, " It is expedient to prohibit 'the aSsumotiou of such titles in respect of any places within the United Kingdom," Sec.; "be it tberetore ebacted," Zee., and them came the first chaise. The Attorney- General just now had suggested 'that in the opinion he had put forward in his previous speech he had been instructed by some one; but such was not the case as to that speech; but in what he now cited he certeiely. had been advised by a gentleman most competent to give advise) on the snbject. He would only add ehst the more he considered this clauee the mere he was convinced it was full, of clanger,—(lleateliear.) Lord. J. RUSSELL-The Right Hun. Gentlemen, in commencing his first speech that evening, had declared his opinion that this clause was calculated to create alarm; and at the close of his second speech he said that the more he considered the cheese the more he was con vinced that it was so calculated to 'create' alarm. He (L )rd J. Russell) must confess that he, on his part, felt alarm, and very great three, at the lensniage which had that erenine been held by the Right Hon. Gentle. meet —(lear, hear.) In the fleet place, that lengusge tended to reupw end to confirm - the tears and apprehen siona with reference to the exerciaceof the Roman Ca tholic religion in las coltitry which had been expresied by persons of far 1 ss authority:than tb© Right Honour ablcaGentlemen, Whose arguments in support of those appeehensiees hp thought had been Elllceoftilly enconn tered.ea(Hear, hear.) The Authority arid the, weight of the Wight Hon. Gentleinen's opinion would, however, it was to be feared, go near to revive those vain apprelZeue sioni. There WaionOther'eattie of alarm which he.dee rived from the Right Hon. Gentleman's. speech. The Right .Hon. Gentleman said, quoting Mr. Burke; that per sonal of one sect were very! bad' judges of what was requi site !for the cppseientions . exercise ef the religion of another sect ,ftem ivhom they differed: Applying this dictum to the question before the Committee, the Right Hole. Gentleman ;aid, very truly, ehet here. was a .ques don on which there was the greatest difference of opinion betweisn Orties in the House, - as to whether' or not it was a queetten affecting the regality of the Queen, the rights of the Crown,, and. the independence of the nation; and, on the other hand, whether or not it was a qtiestion interfering with the'exercise of their reliesion by the Roman Catholic subjects of her Majesty? - Now, on this particular 4ubject, there had been, so far, a gene ral concurrence tea! the part of those who supported the Bill,_ that while they desired es maintain the authority of the Crown and the independence of the nation, they had no wish to int irfere with the exercise of the Roman Catholie ,- religion.—(Hear, beer.) He believed that this had been the unanimous pelaration - of the' aup porters of the Bille- e -(liear, hear.) Oa the other side,' it was fair , to admit that those who opposed the Bill had said, ' " We claim only ,:the full exercise of the Roman Catholic religion, 'and the organisation necessary to thheeerciett; ac de not claim any power or jurisdiction to Overbear that which preperly. belongs to the Sovereignty Of the realm." Well, then, the diffi culty and the difference upon this point %vete. in-the ques tion whether the rescript of the Pope in anyway inter fered with the exercise of. the sovereignty of this rehire), or whether it vies deerelkinterided to promote the spiri tual welfare .of the,Roinan Catholics in this country? Such being the poiat,.the' Right Hon. Gehtlemin told them, that those alto did ,not belong to the, Roman Ca tholic religion—for this was the strict interpretation hero of the dictum he had quoted—were unfit. Jules of the question, and that;, therelore the question must be left entirely to the Roman Catholiethemselver t — (Hear.) In what manner were the Roman i.Catholics to . judge of it? The country had had, in the 'course of the het six months, pretty clear evidencb of the mode in which the Roman Catholics, if left to !themselves, - would- decide the ques tion.--(Hear.) They wohltidecide the question by saying, —" Here hes come la reicriPtlrone Rome; that rescript from Rome declares this to be a matter of, spiritual in terest, of spiritual tneerre, • and,by that rescript we will abide:"—(No, no!) He .must confess that such was the distinct impression !of the . matter which he bad derived from all the debate! upon it in that House - -(Hear, hear.) The Hou. Oentleinan who had jest exemimed "Nor" probably mbant that it was not entirely. for the Pope to decide the question, but that the Roman Catho lics themselves must have a good share in 'deciding it. Why; if that were to be so, the rest of the community would have no power .whatever left to them in the matter. —(Hear, hear.) Those who belonged to the Protestant Church would be wholly ousted of 'the power to de fend *hat they considered' to be . the temporal rights of the Grown, which even their Roman Catholic ancestors thought inherent in the Crown; nothing would be left them but to await the Reina,h Catholicl interpretation ,of the - matter; and he was by no means confident that this interpretatiOn .. would not `be as the organs of the Pope were very fond of declaring it should be, in a conformity not very agreeable to, contemplate with ' the -unchanging and unchangeable policy land pretensions of the Court, of Rome.—(Plear, hear.) Was there, then, no ground of alarm in the propositions of the, Right Hani. Gentleman?-h-(Hear, hear.) Were the Protestants ofEngland to give up, at once and for ever, ill power of judging for 'themselves 'whether the independence of the neap. was concerned, whether the rights; of the drown were invaded?—(Hear, hear.) Werethey to leaps it to the RomanCatholies, or; it might be, to the decision upon this matter shauld be; and, that decision pal: au thorities , to declare what the ' decision once so declared, 'owever humiliating it might be to thin great realm of En land, thenceforward to submit to it? —(llear, hear.) 4.1 e, for one, was not prepared to sub mit to any such ideciston.--s(Cheers.) He considered that the House °Koran:ions as a bpdy was fully able' and best suited to 4ecidO for thenaseaves this : great and important question.—(Rear,' hear.)..: e Ne doubt it was a queatibn for argument; no doubt they 'had been, bound , 1 to hear everything that could be urged to shew that this rescript affected mietteeshnerely spirituel, and that the Pope Was right is asserting that the Archbishop' of Canteibury no longer- eatisted, and was' to be 'blotthd out from the face Of ' the Spiritual a realm. . of, England. Any [ such. - arguments that eetny one , could 1 adduce Parliament was boned to hear; but Parliament must not divest itself . of ,that other bound :n duty, hiving ,heard e all : i.uqi arguments, to decide; for. itself, acid upon its own judgment, what was demanded in vindication Of - therights of theCreven and the independeecee of the ,nation.-a-(ralettrehears) .This was tl;s conviction iaehich he, for one, could not give up. —(Hear.) What was the alternative before them? The alternative, as sea* by the Right!?on. qrantlematibiitt e selfov a most alarpsaing e - On the one hen& he 'Awed. subser ient stilethis ion to that which had heretofore bees, and ,w ich would in a4airi be; a tremenaletneeegifte of . a tretnendeus pow r• to What'imight have ' ham clesig- - nated a mere spirit ality" in the 15th oi 16th century, or to whetever nary, or at: any future tienrehtbetrope might 'choose to call " mere epiritualtty,"e 7 (Hear, kar,) On the other hand; said the Right Hon. Gentleman, if you do:not onsent to tliis, you declare war against 8,000,000 of the laeople of this country.—(Heae, hear.) Surely this '143 a most alarming declaration on the part of the Right Hon. Gentlemen.--(Hoar, hear.): , It should be his (Lord i J. Russell's), endeavour, - however, to steer. as steadili as he could ;between these two dangers, and to prohibit that which lij considered interference, usurpa tion, ' eggression, Without at all interfering with the spirituhl exercise of' the Roman Catholic religion. He believed this could be. done,, and ho belieeed that this measure would do it.--(Heer, hear.) In, a great portion of the ; United Kindom the measure, indeed, 'was con sidered not sufficiently stringenta--(llehr, hear)—while in another. portion ofhhe,.United Kingdom, in,lreland, it was thpughe to go Leh beyond the legitimate.exercise of the powers of legielettion. His own conviction, however, was, that it did not ilin on the one aide or on the other. But, at; all events, he would. say, as he bad said before, that Parliament was ound to exercise its own judgment in the Matter; andi a could not Consent to surrender t l that judgment , as th Right Hon. Gentlematiauggesied. l —(Hear, hear.) They were not to be , satisfied . with learning from any Roman Catholic doctor, or anyßoman Catholic barrister, w at was their , duty in the case.a-- fEle farting r i could n t o t n h o e t . c o n e dealerl u t o io w n h w it h h ic e h hu i c l i 4, to o ad s a y heard, h great, pain, fall fro his' 'Right Hon . Priebe-1 who had lately pled the offs e of Governor of Malta.--(Hear, hear.) And first let imeay—and he said it with plea ou fritht . r e . .. 'sure—that the High Hon. Gentlernan had; in his api 7 .nion, ully justified the appeintmetit which he had.ac eepted,iot goyernor.of l that most important possession of this no#ntrY, — (r-reari hear.) .llefiad express e d, at the period of that appoihtmeht, - that wi t h th e Right HOn. Gentleamin'a abilities; his eieperienee of political life, his. .conciliitory views, he would do much towards redress ing the grievances known to be felt by tbeinhabitante of Malta, and would tint with perfect justiceetOwards all her 'Meiesty's subjects in ; , that islan.... 4 —(Elear, hear.) Thatianticipation had been justified; and i he believed that the labours of the Right I:Leon:able Gentleman in Malta had been 'meet beheficial to the Crown and most • teet e adreble to himsel .—(Elear.).- Bat when the Right i ffam. G en tleman info mod him that ho had totalliiiith draUrg ihis confidepee front'. him arecoetisepeeqcutettatieye ad uia pp i t r it ' ed liAd that goliey; • he dust' beg leaVe to state , ttiaL in MI - he head said add, &Milli 'o 6 f f .: t th h t e , malinennheerhiand which in he ih h is the case, he had everi believed, ands still, believed, that Invited said and don no More than wo u ld have been said ti.nel, done, under similar circumstances, b a member ' athet House of Commons,, and :by, a member of the: , Criiifn, in days when the whole of the , eornieunity was Roman Catholic.—(Cheers.) Ho believed that what would not be submitted to at this tier in Prussia, a Pro testant country—that what would not be submitted to in " Saxony, a Protestant;country, though having a Rohm] Catholic sovereigae Would'not - have 'been submitted to 'eanymore by our Roman Catholic ancestors. In the course of these discussions reference had beau repeatedly Mada to'what harlabeen done in a nc i en t times-.' in .E.nee. latial (Arrive the Reformer-ion; but theke was Ono remark - able 'Act to which he would point attention, -as having been passed after 9 - se •Refortnetten, arid, under 'a Popish Sovereign, havini for ita'object ''" to repeal 'all articles hind estrovisions Medi against the; See Apostolic of Romp since the 20th year of King Henry ;VIII., and ' for the establishment of all spiritual and ecclesiastical PassessiOns and hateilitaments convoyed to' the laity." Here, then, was a measure which, seeking to - reco n cile the Pepe, mi g ht b e su pp ose d' t o. g o very far in the vray of takes documents t pr fromovhl e concession to the pretensions of Rome; ,but inthis very ' Act' and 2 rhilip,ond Mary, cep. 8, special care wit` • Mental to the autiai7iuit4annosrl'hi'°gbi.intillidlity',c'a°dlll-3"dtPalp.enieaet Crown of England, regal and • • i - (Be ar, hear. ) ) i m i O ni .anythingnSe n or e r e 'othe rdo ef itrhie =perm .- efir, • Such was the spirit in which our ancestors, even SS, ^n belonging in matter eof religion to the Roman Catholic faith, thought it necessary to fratne their Acts of Parlia ment; such was the - protection which they, these Roman C a tholic English—as free men—deeined it necessary to give against the pretensiona of Rome to the rights, liber ties, and privileges of this country, and to the authority, dignity, and pre-eminence ot the Crowe, regal end imperiai; and he desired no other and no greatea - spirit to be shown by the House of Commons of the present time, when by this rescript of the Pepe the rights:, liberties, and privileges. of the country werenaenaced, end the authority, dignity, and pre-eminence of the Crown, regal and imperial, in vaded.—(Cheers.) They - were now to decide either that this rescript was unlawful, as every lawyer in th 6 house who had spoken had inaintalped or admitted it to be; or else they were to declare that they not only allowed the rescript to be :.laWful, but that - when any Papal instrument:; came into this country, whether bulls; roscripts, or letters-apostolic, however they might shock the epirit of. the nation, or 'oppose the authority of the Queen, Parliament bad no right to .resent such a pro ceeding, but must -agile some aernan Catholie authority whether, according to Roman Catholic views, the pro ceeding involved only a matter of spiritual jurisdiction. -(Hear, bear.) They must look thrown the Papal decrees to ascertain how far the definition of Spiritual affairs extended, and when a Roman Catholic authority declared a subject to be of a spiritual nature, the power and jurisdiction of Parliament Would be at once at an end.—(Rear, hear.) ' tiir J. GRAHAM said, the Noble Lord had steted that the House ought not to be ruled by the opinions of Roman Cstb.olic - doctors and lawyers upon the point at issue. Now he (Sir dr: Graham) hoped there was no Member of that House more sincerely and warmly Pro-, testant than hinosilia He was not guided'by the opinions either of Retrain Catholic doctersaor of-Roman Catholic lawyers. Ho had expressed his own dispassionate judg ment on the quesiee. -The.- Noble-Lord had also unin tentionally misrepresented hire upon one. : point. The Noble Lord said that, in qaoting.the doctrine of 13urke, that one sect was a very indiff?rent judge of what was necessary fer the free exercise of the' religioneef another sect, he (Sir J. Graham) hiad l applied the re mark generally to the question before the Hedge. He had done nothing of the kind. The point to which be applied the doctrine was this:—an Hon. and-Learned Friend of his had said that it was necessary to legislate, in order to relieve the hardships under which -Lord Camoys, LordApaumont,. and other members of the Roman Cstholic faith, who were deemed recusants by their Church, might suffer; and he (Sir J. Gra ham) observed, that he considered it unnecessary for them, as Preteslants, to legislate, with a view to relieve the religious scroplea of a certain number of persons. Mr. M. O'FERRALL said, the Noble Lord had as sumed that the act of the Pope was en intentional insult to the great body of this nation, and the Noble Lord also assumed that that net, with such intention, was favourably regarded by the Roman Catholics of this country. He (Mr. O'Ferrali) could only say that any act °t i the Pope or of any other sovereign which tended wantonly to insult her Majesty or this country would meet the most loyal and determined,resiatence frsm Roman Catholics.--(licar, hear.) He . (Mr. O'Ferrall) believed, however, that the Pope had no such intention, though he was willing to admit that the terms of the reset ipt, and the manner in which it was made known to the Ersglish people, might, by persons unaccuatomed . to the form of such documents—( laugh)—be deemed to some extent offensive; but the form used in this case was the same as had been adopted for many years. He considered it was an act of very great injustice to attach blame on this ground to the whole Catholic public of this kingdom, awl to make them responsible either for the nets of the .Pope or of Cardinal Wiseman. Be believed that if the Noble Lord (Lord John Russell), instead of writing his letter, had ascertained whether the supposed insult was intentional or inad vertent, he would not have thought it necessary to come down to the House with the present Bill.--( Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord considered thttt the re g ality of the lo Queen was affected by documents issued the Pope, but it aepeared to him (Mr. O'Ferrall) to refer solely to a spiritual jurisdiction. He could assure tbe Corn mitten that if the Noble Lord had proposed a declare- Lion setting forth iu plain and distinct language that neither Protestant nor Catholic in this country would allow any power, spiritual or temporal, Popo or Ems peror, to interfere with the rights and liberties of the nation, such a declaration would have _been most readily subscribed by every Catholic—(l.lear, hear)—and he thought, even after all that had passed, it was not yet too late to consider the question in that light. lie ob- jected to this Bill on the ground that if it were adopted religious liberty would depend not upon'the interpreta tion of the clauses,' but upon the will of the Minister of the Crown—(Hear, hear)—because at any time when a Minister chose to put the measure in force to suit his purpose, he might commence prosecutions which would interfere materially with the religious privileges of Catholics.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HOBROUSE denied that the temporal authority of the Sovereign had ,been interfered with by the act of the Pepe, and it was his firm conviction that in the course of six years this question would be looked upon iu this country in a very different manner from that in which it was then viewed. They should recollect that the Roman Catholic religion was not endowed—that it was in the sme position as the several bodies of dis senters in this country, therefore any interference with the internal affairs of that religion was a hardship and an injustice. 'He wished' to know *by this Bill should be extended to Scotland, no Roman Cathelin,bishop having been appellate(' in that country under tl - e re script of the Pope. He, therefore, wished to know whether the Noble Lord would have any objection to exclude Scotland from the Bill. Foreigners coming to this country at this moment must be astonished at the course of their legislation' on this matter. While the Pope only did so innocent an act as that appointing an archbishop 'of Westminster, he would not be lea aside by popular clamour to vote for a measure which he consi dered was unjust in its operation. Mr. IL 'GRATTAN hoped that the irriaistible speech of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon, and the style, the tone, the.temper, and forbearing remarks of the ex-governor of Malta, would make their due im pression upon the Governme s n tu t. rbe T d he b y y were any decide th e p eace and tranquillity of Ireland, and such he bog po. ged to tell them that the Irish would not submit to have that peace and tranquillity di tent Bill as that of the Noble Lord. Even at the eleventh hour he ventured to enter his protest against these pro ceedings. The late Sir R. Peel had told them that Ire land was his difficulty. If this Bill passed Ireland would be their impossibility. He bad no hesitation in saying that if they wanted to make Repealers in Ireland they could not have a better recruiting sergeant than the Noble Lord. Jf they carried out this measure- in, all its integrity they would" rue it- to the last*day of their pos Well existence. Mr. REYNOLDS said that notwithstanding four . akol ie bs i , cons id erat i o n , of this measure, th e greatest dif fereneet of opinion exists respecting it between states men on the one hand and lawyers on the other. The Attorney..Geneml now said . that this Bill would extend to ll:eland, acid the Honourable and Learned Member • • for Midhurst said ducc,l) the reverie. An oxerienced stniesnian—o: , e to whose judgme'nt and wisdom the public : of all . eksses aPPolled with conlichinen— be meant the Right Hun-Baronet the Member for Ri pon, had addressed a speech that evening to the House, - and, though no lawyer, he made th e mutter so clear as to have ended all con trov e rs y abou t it. And thelawyers, opposite, in their hqrnipt to answer him, had merel y re pasted their alreadY-qtprOsed epini ous . To him they' afforded an apt ilhistrc.tion of the ebarticter,drala by Goldimith of theyillage,sebolMn.ster-- The parson hiniseit W4S ioreeu to own his For even though vauquish'd he would argue still." The Nob le .affecting to 1 7 0 ply to the .e Lord alsq, Right Hon. Baronet, - had s ai d n o th ing new, but had taken (=to to steer c l ear - of all arguments, falling , back upon his menaorable,speech when he asked leave to introduce this Bill, and q uoted from the legislati on o f what he termed his " Catholic, ancesters.". Why should th e Ca tholics be placed in aWorsir position now than they were before the publication of the Pope's rescript? The clause, properly construed, was a 'drehaation of r e ligi o u s qualification, if not of religious 'war, a gainst ten , mil lions of, the Queens subjects.-(Oh, ob.), Wh a t had the Retain CithOlic archbishops and bishops of Ireland done to merit such a Bill? He w 0111.4, tell the Noble Lord. They had, preseried the peacer-they had reconciled the people to misgovernment op the ene hand, and to star-, vation on the other.—(oll, oh.) Pass this Bill for Ire-! land, and the Roman Catholic. Members for Ireland would pot, he believed,- trouble • that House with their presence (luring the remainder of the session.—(Alaugh.) The Bill was made up of shreds ,and; patchea7-part of it . belonging to Youghal, part Of it to Midhilreir; and Part .of it to the Master of the Rolls. Let the aonse do'somn business.--(0b, ands 106), L4,-ttke , Noble : tard withdraw his Bit'. 111 04,. .Rey nolds)' w o u ld advise t. r• him to bespeak a aonipartmea P it in the!gry4o,l : p a . lanc.--;-,(Lsughter, and cries. Of 04." and " Question.") Yes,‘ ho advised him to place it under a glass .ease„and exhibit it there awe, prime ePeeimen of Whig , legislation in the year 1851,-far thopurpose.of insulting and ooero.. ing the Catholics of:the:United Jtingdom, • . Mr: OSWALD, amid cries of "Divide," eaid he thou_ght it would be well i f the House werO informed by. the Lord-Advocate, Und 'made: completely*/ understand what was• the state. of the law in Scotland with regard to the subject before it proceeded to a division. The LORD.ADVOCATE replied 'that - that did'nat .appear to be 'necessary; f o r, whatever might‘be• the ttup 'posed force of the old atattite teferte4 to; by the Anti: Oentlemnn'ths other night; it Weald' not in: the' slightest. degree interfere with the proceeding in ,which the Uouse was now engaged: Thellgifit" Gentleman stated tlin other 'night that an old ket, inti4e4 Au Act; . t for abolishing the Pdpe;'"-4 . ' A- 10100 in'force in Scotland; - NOW. the'statior the law he.conceiied to be this--an Act, passed in,1700; ratified and re=enacted, , not that .statute directly, but cer-tarn other - ,statutes . by , name, und,,generAlly4.7all;Acts against the power:of the. Pope. The Act 33. Geo;llLubolisihod penalties' which were enacted against the Roman Cstbolice.by these statutes; : and,: 68111,:re . ad' the Act 9 and .10 of Victoria. (1846), that,Act'ol,-1700, with.pli the Actii ratified. by it, was, absolutely and completely repealed. , Mr. OSIVALV—The 4ct,Of 1567 .Was on the stat u te . book, and the 33 Geo: W. „repealed, not• the Acts, but. thu penalties mentioned in; certain .Acts.,recited in the statute of 1700. . All _that , the.,Aet of 1846 did was to repeal tbe statutes' mentioned in.the Act of 1700, the penalties for which bid been repOled by the 331 Gee. 111. He submitted, therefore, that . the- Lord-Advocate had not laid any ground whatever from which the Committee might conclude that:the statute old 567 hadbeen repealed. Mi. OSWALD:made ;several subsequent attempts to address the Committee„ , but he was received with eon- stant cries of" Ob," and Divide." Re was understood to move tbe Chairman to report pregresd. - • Load'. RUSSELL could not understand the motive of the motion: The LOrd4ldvodate had declared the law of Scotland, though he was not called upon to do EVENING, M A Y e'; but the clause hul nothing whatever to do with Scotland. The Han. Gentleman had ' not therefore the steeliest grounds for the course be had taken Mr. OSWALD said the House had begin told over end over tat they, were only, declaring the existing law. As wet-tuber for Scotland. heeled a right to know what was the law of Scotland.- -He three% the responsibility of rOrnsal °tithe ‘-Government,. ' . ' ' - Mr. J. S. 'WORTLEY hoped Lis, Hoe; Friend would not divide the Houle. The clause had nothing , to de With Seetland; end . oely drelared the la-iv. The - lion. Centimetre in thinning any irapediment - in the way 'of the Bill, had-combatted the general feeling of Scotland. Mr. REYNOLDS objected ,to ,the withdrawal" of the motion—(Cries of " Oh")—on the gromed that be heel tistsed, a question.—(Criese Of i` Dividse') 'He - 'sotiltl move' motion sifter ebotien until be was -heard.. The ,reassticei, eras .one of the grettestemportanceee his coun try, and he stood on his tight to have his oninions heard. He had'Put a 'question' to ihe'Attoriusi-Gene ral . for England in she course e f his 'observations that everting,. . and until it was answered in a satisfactory manner he should pp:reel-ere. His question was, seeps ing the Bill to - be law, in the event of an election for the Catholic Archbishop'of Dublin, would the Pope's bull .ratifying that election be illegal under the Aut?•, ..: - eta DISRAELI, suggested that it would,be batter to heir. the Loid-Adeopetelhen have an unnecessary divi sion. As far as he (Mee Disraeli) could collect the feel iug of the Committee, tbey wished to hear the opinion of tha Lord-Advocate, but though a Minister.of. -course never rose witbont having something to ssyethe Lord- Adeocate had resumed his seat without a word. It would be betteeto listen to his opinion than to - havenn unnecassaey division.—(Hear.) ' •- - -, - Lo 4 tl J. RUSSELL said the tord-Aevecete had ex e piessedbis readiness to answer the question; but the . general cry 'of." No'' , from the COMmittee caused 'him to resumeehis seat. The LORD-ADVOCATE had- not replied for two reasons. ..Firet, because he had answered the _question before( ,i,id, secondly, because' the questitin had little• or nothing to' do With the cluuee.',ln his. opipionthe'Act of 1.568.. was not in fotte, but repealed.--(Hear.) - , • ', T Lerd J. RUSSELL reminded the flen..Member for' Dublin that any xescript appointing a,Roman Catholic archbishop of Dahlia would be illegal by the 10th of George IV., and that. no Roman -Catholic ecclesiastic • Could ; assume that title, - , - . - Mr. REYNOLDS repeated his question. Unlit he received an answer he should support the Motion. Mr. OSWALD expressed atimself satisfied. Tne ATTORNEY-GENERAL, said that a rescript appointing a Roman Catholic ,bishop or archbishop, with. a territorial title, would be illegal under - the sta tute of George IV., and under the general - law of the land, as declared by the clause before the-CoSemittee. eMr.'IIEyNOLpS would, not now persevere, though the answer was not, satisfactory.—(Laughtee:), ' The amendment was accordingly withdrawn, and the Committee then divided on the original motion—namely, that` the clause stand part of the Bill—when there ap peared— - , - leer the clause • ... ... ... 244 ~ 1 Against it ... . e. - ... • ... 62 - . Loral Majority ... - .... ...-182 • ' J. RUSSELL said they had now got through the first clause, and the second clause was one upon which' he apprehended there would be considerable delay, from the number of amendments standing for dis cussion. Ile proposed, therefore, that ; the 'Chairmen Should repert progress, and ask leave to Sit again. The first elaiiie had been very fairlY debated; but with 're gard to another chase, "he wished ' to suggest to those Hon. Gentlemen who were supporters of the Bill, and Who- meant to make amendments, to consider whether there : was anything . in those ame.ndmenta which would carry the enactments of the Bill further. There were others of so objectionable a character that it , would be impossible for the Government' te_consent to them. He Therefore wished Hob. Members, without entering on any discussion of the subject on the present occasion, to :consider before Monday whethei there were any of amendments which they consi deeed of sufficient importance to press on the attention of The Committee. The Bill, as it appeared to - him in its present shape, stamped with a penalty the rescript of September, 1850, and by its second clause would render penal the assumption of titles 'to sees of existing bishops;, and these two clauses would form a declaration by Par liament sufficiently strong and authoritative to vindicate the authority 'of the Crown, of Parliament, and of the nation. He therefore wished these Hon. Members who thought the Bill might boimproved by the addition of ,the proposed clauses to consider whether the delay which must be expected from the divisions that must take place would not more than counterbalance the advantage which would be gained by persevering with those amendments. He did not wish.to raise any discussion, but in moving that the-Chairman report progress, he thought it right - to ask Hon. Members to take this into consideration. - • Mr. 'WALPOLE•said, as he entertained a' very strong opinion on some portion of these amendments, it might be convenient to acquitted the Government that the first amendment on the second clause which-he 'lshbuld pro pose related to three things—first, to subject persons to penalties not-merely.for the-assumption - of etclesiastical titles, but for these three matters — first , . if a p erson should do or assume to do any act, matter, or thing, under it brief dedlared to be unlawful; secondly, if any person.should obtain or cause to be procured from the Bishops of the see of Rome, or publish or put in use any brief, r script, letters apostolical, or writing for the pur c pose o constituting a hierarchy with titles derived from places , longing to the Crown of England; thirdly, if any pawn, under colour of any authority from the Bishop . ;of Rome, assume or claim to have or exercise any authority over any province or diocese within the United Kingdom. ' With regard to the first, he thought it a ne cessary consequence of 'declaring -the brief unlawful, and, eherefore, on that he would take the opinion 'of the Committee. On the second, he thought it was advisable that the opinion of the Committee and the House should be taken upon it in order to avoid fresh le gislation. He. had his doubts as to number 3, because .there was an ambiguity in the' clause, and there might be more difficulty en enforcing that prohibition than in the ()thee two. With regard to what was' called the prosecutor's clause, it might be convenient to state that he intended to adopt the _suggestiore _of , hie, Hon. and Learned Friend the Member for Abingdon.' It might also be convenient to state, in answer to ail observation made by the ,Hon. and Learned Member for-Athlone,' with reference to the proviso, that there 'should be no prosecution under the first clause without the assent of the Attorney-General—that he thought the proviso of the Hon. and Learned Member for Athlone might be in-, corporated with. the proposal of the 'Hon. and Learned Member for Abingdon. He also wished to press the se condend third paragraphs in the preamble very strongly on the attention of the Committee. Lordp - . RUSSELL must leave . the Hon. and Learned Membee to .take his own course; hut for his own part lib could not consent Lo any of the amendments which he tritende to propose. There was. one s however, to which be felt erhaps a stronger objection than the others, as tenesic be had not stated his intentions, namely, that part in which : he proposed' PI visit ,the second offence with a Penalty in addition to deportation. He should be e dispbsed: to' oppoie the infliction- cfs any pecuniary penalty lwhatever. • -' • ' • ' • ' - • els. WALPOLE would rather reserve ' what he had to say On that point till:Monday, when , he would state generelly thecource which be intended to pursue. The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and ob tained liave to sit attain. - - i CUSTOMS BILL. .. , . Oa ilia motion'for the second reading of this Bill. - Mr. DISRAELI reminded the Ceaaceller of the Ex esheqeee of:: the notice - which he had given, after the great -change which had taken place in the financial scheme of the GovernMent, that he would claim the right to reconsider 'that 'scheme; and' he Meat say, for himself and others who were absent, that the' could not ' allow my of the measure's connected with it to proceed without discussion, and he therefore hoped that the 'Government would not persevere with the second read . . ing.on that occasion. The ;CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had ,not-understood that the Hon. Member intended to op-, .pose the financial proposals of the Government, though he knevi - that he desired to have some discussion on some part of them. The Hon. Gentleman had not offered the slightest opposition to the course which he • had prOposed. . . . - -Mr. DISRAELI had certainly said that there was no intention of opposing the pities of the Government, but that was before the House bad come to the resolution that the income tax should only be voted for one year. But after that, important vote was arrived at, he consi deredet perfectly fair for his side of the House.to deal with the financial propositions of , the Government with reference to the effectof that important vote.---(Hear.) ' ". '.tr: MITCHELL hoped that no great delay, .would be gaffed . to . intervene in passing these measures, as the , . c delsy vag'injitrious to trade. l , . • ; ' The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would not-press the measure at the present moment, under the cireticnseanceS; but it was desiiable 'that no time should be lost. j ' , - -'. lifter tome ferther tionversatioti; : - The 'gill Waspoetponedeill Monday next. , . - „ INHABITED . ROUSE .DIJWY BILL , ~.,On the motion for the aenond reading of This Bill, '-71 , tre, pISRAELI Said he regarded this Billet's° as part of th . e.apente finances' scheme, and therefore hoped ' the Goverereent Would not press it at that moment: . - Lard j, JeUSSELL, said the Honeleamber had cer eainly reserved _to inaself the 'liberty to supp o r t or __op pose the Customa Bill. • . : The.secoud readingeof the Bill was then postponed till ' elleenday, ~, , e a iiiiiaiiine: and , 2.- The Bridgei,(lrelarid) Bill was read • passed: • TbesFee Farm Resets (Ireland) Bill-passed throngh Ootninittee pro forma. - ',. ' • - --. .; , -COLT IL PROPERWX QUALIFIC,ATI9N BeLie, , . • • , me. , UTT moved the second reacting of the Coionial . Peoeer y Qualification Billee • 'Mr. STANFORD , said he was opposed to all attempts oe ilia kind..to. Alter the Reform, 8e1..,..1.1e moved .that the, Bill •be read a second time that day six . months. , Mr.' -CIIOLEFIELD, sec ended, ,the _ntitendmeet; on the ground that they ought not - to =end what he considered the objectionable praceice of requiring any , qualifieetion for seats dit that House. After a few words from Mr. H . titter , eibtl .: M r re'Mitee - tiros in defence Of the Bill, '• • . - The-House divided, when there appeared -7 _ ': • For the e epoudeeadiege, ) , t .. , , ..., .72 . , Against it , ..• •." ... , ..., 31 . rdsjerity.for tbe_accond readlog .... —4l' . The Bill wasitherefere•read a second time. • , Mr. LABOUCHERE move for leave to introduce's Bill to alter and .amend certain. provisions of the Land ' .Cleuses'Consolidation Act of 1845 in Ireland.' The Oh ` ject of the Bilawas toeubstitate a system ofArbitratfon . i n iiiace,Of triai&bijuriee in calrying.ontsthe Ant of 1845. ' ' • ColoneeDUNNE expressed his disapproval of-the Bill. ' Itetveuld introduce into Ireland a prineiple which ewas 1 t not in force hi this country. • i . . ' . . 3c, z.cf; t. ....Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. Oa the motion of ColonelANSON, leave was given to bring in a -- Bill-to contitity 0444-Bury-ay of-Great-Britain, Berwick-upon-Twetql, end the I'le of Mar. On t'ho'notitsn - oVIr.•11 - uriplicrGs,. leiive 'was given to bring in 1 7 ..i . r.fIrther eemedyinga - defect in the tities of lands..puto'aasf,4 for charitable purposes. and for obviating "ditlintltifs 113 to copyhold or customary lands conveyed for sucfi pti:• - poye. Adjourned at . a Qiarterto o , le o'clock: • • PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. . . . (From tiesaril P r oceeding of The Muse oj - Vornmons ) VillTkr."ZtrXT - 30. - - ECCLESIASTICAL - TITLIf.S . • ASSUMPTION. BILL. (IN THE COMMITTEE.) . Question put," That Clause one stand part of the Bill." The Committee divided:— • • • • AIATORITY—AYES. 244. , • MINORITY-NOES, 62. • Armstrong, R. IL .• Gree n e, aOhll ' 'Oswalel;*Altx ander Arundel, Earl of Higg w , G eorg e Peel, Eredarick . . parroq, Sir H. . Hobhouse, T. Y. Ponsonby, C. F. Blake, Martin Ji Keating, Robert Power, .Dr. Bright; John Lawless, Cecil Pusey, Philip . . Burke, Sir-T. J. M'Culirt.: - ,11, W. T. • - Roche, 8.1.3. 'Clements, Charlet: Maga'', W . Li.- Sadleir, John - Colebrooks, Sir T. MSher, N. -,, ~ . Scholelleld, William Corhally, at. E. Meagher, Thomas Scully,Francis Crawfdrd, Ti' .. S. i , ...Mahon.ot_ 4 4 o rimsil seywur, H. D..- . Currie, Henry • Modell. llalllam Smith, R. V... Dawson, T. V. Moore, G. 11. nny the, George Dcvereux, J. T. Mut'Phy, F. S." V . Somers, J. P. ' vir.4, - :4- .• -•' -- ti:•-lcrtgent, Sir Percy Talbot, .L - 11. ---• Fagan, .fames . ' ''',,, igestrems.t.r D. '- , Sallivan,.Michael P ox; French, F. . O'Brien, Johm • Tenison, E. K. Geach, Charles O'Briv c ri ri.tr• T. . i . Tenuent, .J. • . . , Gladstone, W. E. O'Connell, John - ' Wee,g.roiser, F. • Goold, Wyndham ' O'Co`rfnell";M:J. ' - ' '' ' Grade, tO. 1). J. AD'Flaherty, Anthony • Reynolc“;Jonh O'Ferrall, Mote' - . TELLERS. ' Grahain, Sir J. - - Grattan, Henry Osborne, ltalph Keogh, William COLONIAL PROPERTY, QUALIFICATION BILL. Order - Order for Second Reading read; 'Notion made, and Q.ues- Lion proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time a"— Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the . end of the Question. to:add the words " u p on t hi s day six months . .Quegtjon put ~r That the word `now' stand part of the question." The House divided :-:. . , • MAJORITY.-AYES, - 72. - . .., . .. ... thdy, Sir T. N. Frowen, C. 11. Nugent, Sir Percy Addeiley, C. B. Geaclhirles , Paget, Lord A. Anson, Colonel - Goold, Wynctliaai' -Paget, Lora -U.- -,-- - Austen T. C. ' • - Grenfell,p: Pascoe - Patten,.j. W. Baines. M. T. Grey, Sir George Pilkington; - James Bass, - 31. T. 'June, Alexanderi : Rich,!lienry • :Bennet; Philip - -= Rare!) '..; Berkeley'. t. L. G. Hayter, W. G. : * -11Seuym33CellrtkI C. H. K. Blair,' Stephen ' mcrville, Sir W. Brisco,.M. Hindley, Charles So ' Mil; Lord *areas , Smollett, A. Cavendish, W. G d{ollond, Robert Spearman, IL J. Christy', Samuel 'Howard, E. G. Spooner, It. • Clive, if. B. - . Kershaw, James - Sullivan Michael - Cockburn, Sir A. . King, P: J. • Talbot, C. R. Codriugton, Sir W. A Lpwis, Sir I'. . • Thompson, Colonel Cowper, W. F. *, l,Ockliart, W; •• ' Verner,' Sir W. Douglas, Sir C. . Loveden, Fuse - Wakley, Thomas Duncuft, John Miles, Philip W. S. Wawn, J. T. Dundasi, Admiral itoncreiff, James .. Westhead, J. B. • Dundas, Sir David Morris, David Williams, IV. Dunue, Colonel - -Mostyn, E. M. L. Wilson, James Ellice, Edward Mulgrltve, Earl of • Wood, Sir W. P. Ferguson, Sir E. Mullingi; J. It: ' '- ' • ' TE urn.- `Foley, J. H. Nicholl, J. ''' 7 mitt, William Freshileld, J. W. 'Norreys, Sir D. Agliouby, 11. A. , BIINORITY—NOES. 21. Arkwright, George' Greene, Thomas Stuart, IL Baldwin, C. B. Hall, Colonel Taylor, Thomas Bateson, T. Henley, W. Tyler, Sir G. Blackstone, W. S. 11111, Lord E. Waddington, H. S. Bolder°, George H. Lowther, Colonel Willoughby, Sir H. Duncan, George. Masternian,J. " mimes. Fauer, James Scholcilekl, William Stanford, J. P. Galway. Viscount Seaham, Viscount Forester, G. C. THE RECENT GOLD DUST ROBBERY. The official investigation by the authorities of the South- Western 'Railway Companyinto the circumstances of the mysterious gold-dust robbery was I.roceetled with on Wed nesday- and Thursday - last, at the offices of the cthivany, in the York-road, and was continued until a late hour each evening, iw.thepresop.ce of sev.eral:members of the board of directors. On Thursday_ a portion of the guards, engine drivers, and breaksmen were ,summoned to attend, together with all the servanta employed at the stations on the line 'a which the train stopped on the night in question. One of the attendants at a station_ was upwards of four hours under examination; this was followed by taking the evidence of Morgan, the breaksman to the train; which terminated the proceedings of the day. Several other persons are still to be examined, and it is believed that the inquiry will extend over two or three days more, as it is the intention of the "company to bring forward all the parties •in any way con cerned, and to sift the matter as far as it is possible for them to do so. : Inspector Field and Sergeant Shaw, of. the metropolitan detective police, and the City detective officers, Trent and Huggett, havebeen busily employed since the last examina tion at Winchester in collecting evidence, and the latter officers have made such inquiries at the different' stations .on the London and South-Eastern Railway as there is reason to belie'Ve . will enable them to fix positively on the person who travelled by the seven o'clock train to Dover, on the Friday morning after the robbery, and with whom, it is believed, the prisoner Plainpin was seen in conversation .at - the Lon don-bridge terminus, shortly after he left the coffee-house at the Eastern Counties Railway. It may be generally stated, that as far as the inquiry has gone, nothing has transpired to fix the slightest suspicion upon any servant in the employ of the respective companies, - and how the boxes were ab stracted remains, up to the pre ent moment, as much a mys tery as ever. COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONER PLAMPIN. WINCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING.— T h i s day William Plampin ' who stands charged with being eorlerned in the gold dust robbery on the South-West/ `railway, was again brought up. • Mr. Crombih, who , app'eh - ted for the lie tliStt; the part of the South-Western Railway CR S that in consequence of ths - suggestion throw Jut by the Worshipful Chairman on the occasion of the last exami nation of ..,he prisoner, he intended to clerk) his case this day, apd upon that to ask for the committal of the pri soner on the charge of stealing the , gold dust in ques tion.. As he had stated last week, inquiries had been going On between the South-Western Railway and the Royal l‘fail Steam-packet Companies, for the purpose of conneoOng the prisoner with other parties, but of which they were not prepared to offer the proof that day. There Could be no . doub‘, however, that a robbery had been &Omitted, and to the connexion of the prisoner with ithe was prepared with proof that day. After the evidence had been given, • The Mayor said that the Bench were not unanimous, 1 but there was, a great wejority in favour of sending the prisonei for trial, and ho must say that ho was one of that number. Fronr the evidence that bad been adduced, he thought that an opportunity should be given of in vestigating it in another court. The prisoner Would, therefore, be committed to the next Winchester sessions. The prisoner was then formally committed, but will be brouglit up again ou Friday next for the depositions. to be fi n ally completed: ' • ' • . THE 'LATE. COLLISION .ON THE—MID LAND, R4ILWA v. CTIP4TERFIELD,: FRIDAY.—The inquiry into the cir cumstances connected with the late lamentable collision on the lidland.Bailway was resuaied this Morning. Sir Isaac Morley and Mr. regot attended as dircaors of the Midland Company., , - - Furtler evidence, having been received, the jury , at half-pa t three.o'clock; having-been in consultatien two hours aid a quarto, returned the following verdict:— 1 , •° Th jury are unanimously of opinion that the deaths f John Meynell and John ' Blake have been caused y the. -reckless 'speed - Samuel Stratton was driving the engine of the, luggage-train on the night of Mo4day, the' 19th of May, and proneunce a verdict Of manslaughter against him. The jury can not sufficiently condemn the practico of allowing ,a luggage train to start five minutes after a passenger train, without -efficient measures being • taken to ensure the fOrmer keeping its relative distance from the other, as marked in 'the titre-table. The jury consider the officials guilty of great negligence in not placing a break behind the last earriage of the 'passenger train on the night the accident ozourred. It is also their opinion that a proper person ought to bh on duty at the fieui.lpSore at the Clay-Cross station, to attend to the night signals, as Well as those in the day, and strongly reprobate the neglect of this precaution. The jury consider the prac tice highly improper of allowing passenger trains to stop at stations notnamod 14 the time-tables?' Tee Coroner then issued his warrant for. the appro. bension and committal of Stretton, the driver'of the goods train, to: Derby, to await his trial. , -- -- . ABCIIITECTURAL PUBLICATION. SOCIETY.—The all• nual general meeting of the subscribers Io this society was held yelterday, at N 0.16, Lower Grosvenor-street; Mr. Syd ney Smirke, A.R.A" in the chair. The report, which was road by 4lr. Wyatt Papwortb, honorary secretary, stated that the diffic lties attending the early and consecutive publica tion of t e Cycloptedia of Architecture were such as had i t in duced th committee to publish•• it in that Order-which was most cr+enient and most economical for the present, taking care, ht ever, that when the whole work shall - have been gradually issued thatit should form a complete ,and consecu tive volunae, each part failing into its proper place, with Out regard to the actual date of its publication. From the state " ment of accouats..it appeared that the receipta for the,year' ended the 30th of April, 1851, • amounted to 4 2 31., and the ex p e nditnre to 291. The'lialfilities of the society amounted to 306/., hnd there remained a.balhnce in hold . tor further publicatipns of 881.95. 10d: The • report was received and adopted, I : and several resolutiens, expressive of the asE.—The ettiin . flat' in . n "subscri bers' appreciation of the manner . in which the business 44 the las conducted, were , paesed, and a vote of. tha n k s the chat man concluded the proceedings. to ; .. . neglected and of ' R ril ob E ert il; :n .r d E Lti k sr C A a T rren N te C r, who e were remanded fro nt last Thursday on a oliargh of - having cri o te f lly- the former, find been 'brought up ill-treated Christiata Carpenter, , child step-daughter of the latteriviere to . have on" Wednesday, but in consequence of a Medical certificate, aitenter ' stating that it would- endanger th th a e c life_ of .Christiana Car penter ce to ag a a tt ins en t d ß la er V t d c ay ari ' was Natteradjo urned a that she, will not be in a fit state to b b il ef f jr i e fe' n a e na xt ' Tuesday,ithe case: being known that the prime nesday, an immenae crow until that day. It .tha greatest excitement p e r i ev tl a r i e l l e Y d! li r . s were remanded until Wed- from Mr:Bernard was received, the pol ettl ic V e lllerin : communicated certificate.- lal I e, e fact of th e postponement of the ' cas . eto the.a.s sem bl e d crowd; but ' a 5 Mt. inspector. Bell said,__' We cOuld not convince them that_, ' prisoner would' not be brought up the ' reply we invariably received waR .• wo are not to be gain mud.' " • The unfortunategirl i nstill at the central stationi were she is treated. according to the requirements of her: to -day; the pitiable. condition. From her debilitated state, some time must elapsehefore she. is perfectly restored to health; but ttlere is,no doubt of her ultimate recovery.—Bristol Journal. [ADVErertsitaiiNT.] ---:-.llclloway7s - Ointment and ,Pills wonderfully efficacious in curing several Wounds in a per son's Leg.—Extraot 'of a letter From Margaret Jones to Messrs. Russell and • Watson, of Bacchus Marsh, Melbourne, Port Philip, dated Jan. 6, 1 851 1 " G e ntlemen,--Since I ap.. plied at,yOur stores for a supply of Holloway's Ointment and Pills, I hive made a sound cure of my leg after havingsuffered from several wounds in .it for more than two years. I tried preiiously many doctors in the country without obtaining any relief whatever from their remedies, but by using Holloway 's valuable medicin es for a few weeks ever y wound is healed, and my leg is now , perfectly seund."--Soldby all Druggists and at Professor Holloware 'Establishment; 244 , s tri d• L n , octal. S U N 49 ~ ... _ COURT CIRCULAR. .--:-( ':' ,- 1.- ..e1:..r.::•-..a"..(•,,,e.. 14 - hier Alrkjcity and his Royal llighnoss Pr i nce : ~ : rt.-.-,Nzr. - A. . . „ . thei . , ,41;; ' ,. 1 walt-tite-Prtreets--Ivoysl, atcompented by .• , • : ..-.. , --i • i 11.ilf9nci.sis the Dtd:e •aud. ,I)uchess of.:Ssxe C , coditi - ''''l'g. --ii r,l ~,,..... Gotlin,•end TiulittErotsiiif Witrtembcrg. ebutinued 1 4 77- , " inspection al tbe•w(iiiis of industry of• all' nations iiinti.NictS/4A3) ExhOition ycs:.!.mi,ty morning. 'rim. Queen and the' ' • Royal party %vete . at,tpinled . by,the Hon. Matilda raget, (. l olonel—the--1-19e. gharks--Grey,--and -- Lieut.-Colonel------, - Francis 11tti,, , ,h •Ssytnour. Their Royal Ilighnoises the-•-Y . l l Princo-rif Walr.s , ruii-Prince 'Altre.d, attended by Mr. 1 -.5" .. Birch, `ef . .o 'viatfl'el "the'Exhibittan - ywterday forenoon. .... Thir Royal Ilighnnssva the Dike and Duchess of • ' ' Sl2ce 'Cobo urz -G ot h a , anti Duke Ernest of Wurtemburg, ~ r _ttynded by Lieut.-Coloifel' Francis Seymour visited the Z , ological Gardena,- ii; it, Rpgenee-park, .yeaterday mornitrgtt ---,?,-2r) o. r, ...i ..,, r ::4 DI ~.• I. '' ' • . . ... -. , -••••• •. ' • ' • Isis , Rbytf: Ifightiesi- , Vrinen 'Albert, ttecompanietrbY • , their ~ll4nri eAsos , th e ,of :Saxe Cobourg • Goths, end bak e Ernest OfVUrteiiibuig, andhiaSerene , Highness the Prince- of - -.Leinengen, -end- attended by . Lieut.-Colonel F. 11. Seymour,:heinotired John Martin, at ternooo, &q., with a , lisit at Lindsay House; Chelsea, on Thurs dayto inspect his nevi , picture d "The 'Last So l ic i t: er g 41 1, 1 O y n a r i g u G i. : i t a ; 3 s the D ._ Judgment". M. B. de 'Treskow attended the Mike of Duclieas of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, attended.by the Baroness de Wangenheim, Lieut.- Colonel F. S:yinouc, and .M. B. d e T reskow, visited the Colowurn yetterday afternoon. ", - • His Royal Ilignnet. s princs Albert presided yesterday afteinnen at a meeting of the-Royal Con:mist:ion for the Exhibition of the. Works of Industry of all Nations at The Exhhition: int llytie-park. ,Righne e s aaivel• Ft three o'clock, attended .by Lieut.-Colonel F. 'IL.Sey ) ur. The •• Cmconissioners present were the Duke : of Buc clench', - the Eert,lof 'Riess% Earl Gran v ill e the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Lord Stanley,- Charles Lyell, Sit Charles L. EaXtialse, Mr. Cubitt, Me.. John . Gott, Mr. John Sheplreed,• and Mr. Alderman Thompson, M.P. Mr;i?igat Bowrine, secretaries. to the Royal-Commission, attended. • Colonel Reidy Chairmen of, the .ExeCutive C omm i ttee, Lleut'- q earl Lloyd,, Special Commiasiener., and Dr. .- 'l,yen Playfair, Special Outuirtissioher, acre 144 9 in at- tendance. • '• . „ broke up soon . ' after -five , eclock whe n - The meeting • iti • Prince Albert, attended by his Equerry "e . pg, . re- :nined tzo Buelagham Palace. • • *f Ths .Albert . and • the Princess' Hele4.•uccompanted by the Duchess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, C oo k a drive yi,sterdays.f __tempo in an :open car iktgo hod four. Lord Allred. Paget" and Col. Ilon.; C. eirrt'V,attended orrhorsehack. Primer, A lber t, oceolupenied by the Duke of Saxe Cc:oaq; Gotha a n d D u k e Errtest Wurtemberg, rode sit on tto.rs44l - mc# • yeatei:Ctay 'afternoon. Lieu,t.-Colonel I. 11. mour.,amt 142 . B. de TreskoW:attended. • Iler Male Sty: n 01.4 I . ldd Royal. Highness Prince Albert , . accompanied by their 'Royal Ilighnessea - the Duke and Duchess of Saxe ,Colatug and Duke Ernest of Wurtemberg, honoured theAfp6rfocreanee of the French plays bith their presence last evening. The Royal suite .were Viscountess Jocelyn,, the Hon. Mary Seymour, Baroness de Maragenbeim, Lord Dafferin r Colonel lion.' CharleaGrey, Lieutenant-Colonel F. tIL Seymour, and • M. B. de TreshoW. ILA Serene highness the Prince of Leinengen visited her Majesty's Theatre last evening. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at - -the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers pre sent were—Lord•John Russell,'the Lord Chancellor, th e Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto,-Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston,. Earl Grey, the Chancellor of 'the Exchequer, the Right Hon. 11. Laboutthere, Lord Broughton. Sir Froncis Baring:,', and the Marquis of • Clanricarde. 'The Connell sat two hodri and a haft: • Lord Lucan had an interview with the Ch-ancellor of the Excheqner yesterday, at his official residence, Down ing-street. Dispatches were sent off yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governor of the Gonadal:, and the Governors of the -other North American Colonies. COWES, ISLE OF - WIGHT. (FROI OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, • dais 30. ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY ELECTION. CHAIRING. OF. THE MEDIBEE.—The whole of the Liberal part Of the population of the island turned out yesterday (Thursday), to bear the state of the poll de clared, and to chair the tree trade Representative of the Royal lalv. Newport was all alive, and carriages, loaded with happy tacos, tiled the streets, but there were very few private cues. The, peat of the laud were not to be fmnd there to honour the procession; there were very tow large landowners, no parsons, and hardly any officers in either the army or navy ; the taxeaters were all on the other side—but still there were carriages enough to reach from the Town-hall down Quay-street, along Sea-Greet, ar d up High-street, to the Hall again, so that both ends met. Mr. Dawes was most rapturously received, made an excellent speech, as did Mr. Jaques, Mr. A. Clarke, and other of his friends ; they then pa ra!ed tin orgh all the principal streets of proud New port, to the serious annoyance of the Protectionists. The farmers dared not show— tis their fate, at present, either to be led or driven,—the . Majority preter the former, and make a merit of necessity ; but there are still a titubborn few, of the John Bull sort, who, if they cannot do what they are now convinced is right, set up, actually jib, and wilt not•go at all. The Protectionists had never calculated on being de feated, and the blow has come , on them with double se verity ; they can scarcely believe that they are beaten now—the impudence, the insolence of people, whom no body knew or tor, setting their opinions up egainst their betters, has driven them mad; they have sustained a defeat they can never recover ; the people are now aware of their strength, and . at the next registry more than 100 electors will be added to the last. MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.—Tbis morning, as a lad (a eon of Neptune) was on. the top of a 50-round ladder, paint ing the'spouts on the roof of Mr. M. Betsey, the yacht builders' house in the High-street, Hatch and Co.'s luggage-van was carelessly driven between the foot of the ladder and the house, kuoeking the ladder down and the painter off, from a height of between 40 and •50 feet. Everykdy bought that the poor fellow would be dashed to pieces, bar, providentially, he fell on the top of the cauvas-roof el' the van, breaking two of the hoops, but none orhis bones, not even injuring himself in the least; he directly leaped off on to the ground, 'Tack then hitched up his trousers, and, stepping up to the carrier, exclaimed, " If you come that, again. my fine fellow, I'll crack your head—you have capsized my paint and sprung the I tddix." NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. APPOINTMENTS. Lieutvuaut—The lion. IL W. Chetwynd (1850), to the Cumberland, 70, flag-ship of Sir George Seymour, West Indies. • Clerks—B. P. Heather, in ebarge to the Janus steam veisel, Lisbon; Nickolas' Giles, to the Merlin steam 'packet, ';Alediterraneati; Alex. Allen; to - the Vengeanc e, 84,-Spithead.• o,l • ' .1 .••. . -_ ' , ' . The Port-Admiral, Sir John Omeianney_. K.C. 13 .1 i n Goldsmith, eras ' company with Commodore Lord John Hay, .paid an d official visit on. Thursday 10 ternoou -to Keybam, an minutely inspected%the;new stesm worlis.uow i.n his Hess. Admiral the Earl of Dunclonald, G.C'.l.; 'w l a n s u i t s Ber: ship Wellesley, 72, Captain , mode' May 4, waiting to 13.3 relieve y_ Sir (I.`F. Seymour, w-fri , rate egtera in n o r t e h e du b m b e be r r se l e la n:, 70. , 0 e . the2d TROoPS FOR T RE C O .B A;F: G .-- .C: r i h% Sheerness ou the 6th instaut,wh9_chrks, Master- Command; r ' Iloffmcister; w ill hewill I) embarkpal ! , t for do Cape. • She 19 to return to Spithead Regiment, ad vance; and will immed.te . ely, calling . at St, Uolena and Ascension. Wildfire steam-tender was ordered on Monday last proceed to . 1) , from Sheerness, to run down the coast for the protection of the .13riish fisherman. , , mornin o ia ri e T h i a l i a g r e sd o a f y l :i v e . u i t t e h u ni an a t Ei S n t es eve a n n g e ct , RAribution, 28, steam-frigate, Captain Warden, an arrival at Portsmouth from Lilbon, is to be docked. vengeance, 84, Captain Lord E. Russell, exercised Pembroke,',arafiiialGre.ryatinsfm-rosomi°u°thP'and sailed great guns and small arms at Spithead yesterdzy Oatatoir.. officers of the Royal nt mari ne o Y yA L ALARINES.—DINNER., TO, AD*AAL in the after n arrived oRo S for Plymouth. NET.=--On Wednesday last the t Am o ngs t a pp o intm e t n h t e • igt guests e ? t o e iiiinVde r t - o i a m - C e e h t i etfh the t Admiral Ma rine Corps gave a sumptuous entertainment to Admiral Sir John Ocanianney,A.C.R., on the occasion of, his Devon port.reeworeen ComMedore.Lord Jahn Hay, C. 13: - Captain- SuP" - intendant Ricb, Captain M'Cornaich, Captain KennedY. Lieutenant Lord John Hay, Flee-Lieutenant Warren, &rated Dr. Rae, Mr, Dye - d -SuPer" g o ordered to : t: r o t ; yhtre muck aT 1 ' l ik salute t i c ' r, secretary to the C om modo re -Sane: ore intendent, &D. , ' " - • • POR fete i et will at one o'clock; slit, troops in and the Gosport garrison will Ito the ramparts on this. luding with three shore and fire a Teti de joie at ;12. con e A ti h er Y e c t u e 3 m o s t o -morrow,. t — au i c ir3tar - Majes t y's h a j fi i '` andsfitYe:647biwillrinibbdefiaorYeel 7i: cheers; the .men of the dockyard and other governmen tal theernmett tat establishments will have holydaY; go to , the Great Exhibition, " 4434 Garden s; r the e" • he ftaonaY grand Porchaster Castle the Clarence _ military on the grand parade at 11; Will troop the Queen' i c olour a a sumptuous banquet at h . the kort-Admiril will g th© Lends , iV of .dopartme . is official manattn.to,,..o3 „ meetly the C ap nts:;, the cap taif,s if' the fleet, t r ue P°ll l &Int of Royal6l.ll . s, 'c i . f_th a , Turkish' ship, tb.f; c ,° 132 , '„, 11 „ 13 . and • .T. .,, ~ 414 6 1 16 k and P.oyal Marine Ar in tliLer_Y 'en`" owning.' "a,i' h "Y e liklica `sill give a-sotile dan.sante .we . lastnight4Yeirs' gave a dinner grand celebratioto the . corporation, 1 Ia - largo 'civet - - ' . the magistrecfy, apt • th e of Ilion& in honour of the same occasion a t . 0 George Hotel. . -'The Mirsl Zafir, Turkish frigate, Captaid metw t aat . Bay, is again ail atarta, and will propably drop out to , S p ithead to.m)YrOw. , ~ .. ~ . , . . , WooLvrlCEt, MAY 3 0.—His Royal Highness Prince h e nry of the Netherlands visited Woolwich Dockyard- .; to-day, accotipanied'h Captain May and two other o ffi • " ° ere etlhelky4 - Navy o f that' country. Sts ,RoYal Ilikhness proceeded to Warless the'working of Nasinyth's hammer. He also iniveted the saw tnilP a nd then the San Fiorenae.so- gun; f r i gat e, bUildi eg at tile east end of the par .1. Atter going .ovor , the Warrior cobvict hulk he proceeded t 4 the west end of the yard to witness the wOrking of the machines in 'the factory, and then went on board the R'o3ial Alb e rt 120-gun ship-in progress of building, He also went on board the Greenock steam frigate; and afterwards partook of the hospitality of ' Commodore Eden, and left Woolwich-from the Charlton pier for London at a qoarto r past three o'clock. ' The Govertiolo Sardinian steam frigate arrived at VlDolwich-yetihirlitiy "afteill°6l_________t______... •r •• • t4:l. t Mr: Adato-, Anderson . was unanimously elected day, in -the place of bir . M'Seill, uiaburgh, ori. Tues.. Dean of the FAcurty.of Advocatese,leavtated to the bench. Th e . ne w plinetjust discovered in En g land b y Mr Hind was seen from the Paris Observatory on the night of Sunday last. —.Galli/I'4"i° • ", -ri ~: lt, to nuch eatly to at I in n•thy this Was, Cipla , the mg ition e Es thete arch- the. Dther ached case that kitten n fo- Sir who lid be 3s he louse ut to gland e you pea to in tatri con- r the og to Wry- Ca, rities itries that lode )n of that the iticns -The acing ris it dis have the oe as ieral, ether 1 it to n?— ass I :ulty, W4ll stip- UrEO, rites id to alga- ty or Utry,