The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

GERMANY. The Journal des Debats publishes the following as a detailed analysis of the report and the proposi tions of the Second Committee of the Conference of Dresden. That body has not yet completed its task, but it has already sent in the five following proposi tions, the adoption of which, the Journal des Debats remarks, will bea rude atta c k on the constitutional regime such as it is established in several German States :-- " 1. All -the members of the Confederation engage to abrogate all the clauses introduced since 1848 into the constitutions of their country, or concerning the consti tutions of these countries, and which may be incompatible either with the Federal Constitution or with the mo narchical principle. "2. In all cases where a dispute may arise between the Sovereig and the States of his country either on the interpretation or on the application of the Constitution, the States, as well as the Sovereign, will have the right to submit the question in dispute to the Federal Diet, which will seek to interpose its good offices, or will pro nounce on the question either by itself or through an arbitral tribunal. " 3. Any general refusal to vote taxes on the part of the States will be regarded as an act of resistance of the subjects against the Government, and will be, on that respect, treated conformably to Art. 25 of the convention of Vienna of 15th May, 1820. " 4. The Sovereign Princes, united in the Confedera tion, cannot be controlled or limited in any way by the States of their country in the accomplishment of their duties, or in the execution of the conventions resulting from the Federal Constitution. "5. When, in the cases provided for by Arts. 2.5, 26, and 28 of the said convention of Vienna, the armed in tervention of the Confederation in a German state shall be necessary, the Confederation wilt seek to enlighten itself as to the causes of the difference which ha 3 arisen; and, in the event of its being found to have its source in the Constitution or in tho laws of the country, it will cause thorn to be modified." Tee committee in its report explains that the object of its first proposition is the abrogation of the fundamental rights of the people voted by the Assembly at Frankfort on the 27th Dec., 1848—that is to say, the abrogation of the princii:l. of universal suffrage and that of all re strictions to the right of veto by the Sovereigns. The conference, in alopting it, will virtually adopt, Ist, the abolition cf tee oath to the Constitution taken by the army ; 2d, the principle of the non-inter vention of the tribunals in cases connected with the rights of sovereigns in order to render impossible the recurrence of what has recently taken place at Electoral Hesse, where the exercise of the public authority was cramped by the judicial power; and 3d, the principle of independence of the sovereign power with regard to the choice and maintenance in office of the Ministers, whose existence will be no longer at the mercy of a fluctuating or chance majority. The com mittee, moreover, declares that it considers the publica tion of new laws as useieas, and that it ern b- sufficient to correct or revise the federal convention and the final one of Vienna, and it is to this work of revision that its efforts will be applied. THE METROPOLITAN MARKET BILL AND THE CORPORATION. The following is the report of the Markets Improve ment Committee, to whom it was referred by the Court of Common Council to watch the procedings on the Bill for providing a metropolitan market, and conveniences eonnected therewith, in lieu of the cattle market at Smithfield, now pending in the House of Commons:— " The copies of the Bill having been laid before U 3 by the Rernembrancer, we proceeded to consider the same, and are of opinion that the Bill is an unjust and arbi trary interference with the preecriptivo riartite, privileges, and immunities of the Corporation of the City of Lon don, which has been seised in fee of its ancient market from time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary,' and which privileges have been fully es tablished and confirmed by charters from King Edward 111., Kings Charles I. and IL, and from other Sovereigns, sad still further confirmed and Acknowledged by many Acts of Parliament, and especially by an Act passed so lately ae the sth and 6th of King William IV., and is in direct contravention of, and opposition to, the opinion of the judges of the lend. solemnly pronounced in the House of Lord; in 1335, when, in answer to questions pro pounded by the House, they advise,l their Lordships That a new market could only be legally granted so as to pro vide for what might be called tha surplus accommoda tion of the public beyond what the market of Smithfield can afford,' and that the rights and interests of Smith field ought not to be affected; that the Lill would be a grievous interference, not only with the privileges of the say of London, but with the trade of its citizens gene rally, and more especially with those having dealings in meat and cattle, or carrying on business in the centre of the City, and would occasion a disruption of a branch of trade on which upwards of seven millions of money change hands annually in the sale of live stock, inde pendently of enormous amounts paid for dead meat, and would interpose great and unnecessary difficulties to the effectual and speedy accomplishment of commercial transactions in the sale and purchase of so important an item . of the people's food ; and beca us e th e Bill pr ov id es for the establishment of a new corporation, consist ing, of five persons nominated by the Crown, under the title of Incorporated Commissioners, who, whilst they will be wholly irresponsible either to Parliament or to the country, will nevertheless be invested with arbitrary powers of imposing tolls and fines upon the subject, of making rules and regulations having the r ffect and force o . law and even of levying,' a distress without resort to any of the ordinary tribunals of adjudication upon any individual incurring deht3 to teem for tolls; and because the necessarily heavy costs of this Incorporated Commissicn, together with the sa laries and wages of the staff of officers, and all other expenses whatsoever incurred by its authority, are to be defrayed by additional tolls upon meat and cattle dis posed of in the market, thereby inevitably increasing the price to the people of one of the articles which enter most largely into their consumption. And that it is also proposed, for the purpose of carrying out this Bill, to authorise the Incorporated Commissioners to raise a sum of 200,000/. by mortgage of the anticipated tolls to the Commissioners of Public Works, the solo security for such loan being the market tolls, dependent in amount on the success of the project, and which, in• case of a failure (as at Islington) would leave the amount of a loan for a local purpose a permanent burden on the con solidated fund. That the Bill further provides that so soon as the proposed new market shall be opened, Smith field market shall be closed, end no new cattle market shall thenceforth be opened within five miles of St. Paul's Cathedral, thus establishing a monopoly in favour of the proposed new market and the parties upon whose lands such market shall be held. That the Bi:1 having been introduced into the Hou-e of Commons was referred to I the examiner of petitions for Private Bills, who repotted that the standing orders had not been complied with; and the said Bill and the report of the examiner were 1 1 thereupon referred to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Standing Orders, who, after hearing the statement% for and against di.;pensing v,itih the standing orders, agreed to the following rr.s , ,iiition: " 6 That in the case o f th e S m i t hfi e ld -mar k et R emova l Bill the standing orders ought to be dispensed with. That the parties he permitted to proceed with their Bill on inserting the notices once in the Loudon Gazette arid for three successive weeks in the newspapers; nod that the Committee of Selection be instructed not to appoint the first mecring of the Committee on the Bill for an earlier day than ,Thursday, the Ist of May.' "The resolution was reported to the House of Com mons on Tuesuey, the 1 1 th inst., and agreed to, and no progress can therefore be made with the Smithfield market Removal Bill for three weeks from the present time. "Under these circumstances your committee have deemed it expedient to be prepared with a petition against the said Bill, and they directed the Rembrancer to settle the drought of a petition in consultation with the counsel retained on behalf of the corporation, and the said draught petition having been approved by your committee they r.nbmit thu ammo to this court. " H. L. Taylor. " Valentine Rutter. " Richard Hicks. " W. Webster. " Jchn Dixon. " R. C. Bocknall. " William William!. Obbard. " Stephen BakJr. " George Harker. "J. Josiah fillerd. "T. J. Holt. " T. H. Hall. " Dated March 13, 1851." ROW IS THE QUEEN'S GOVERNMENT TO BE CARRIED ON? This is a question to be asked with some emphasis at the Present juncture. " After me the deluge!" was the spe.lby which Metternich Mesmerised men into fealty through veer. 41 Myself or a dissolution!" such is the alternativ e by which Lord John Russell alone can stand. An appeal to the country at a moment like the present, is the foreieen calamity which " makes the Cabinet, of so long life." . With the " No-p o __ „ . Pcry excitement only dormant, and capable of being soon re-stimulated from the hustings " into fierc. 7 r li f e; wit h the Free-trade" struggle to be fought under eircumstmees the moat unfavourable to the progress, it prefer the perpGtuat. f feeble M . . t r'3 , ' well be that the Liberal advocates of party should ion o a inistry to the precipitation o f th at great conflict, compared to success or failure in which the mere interests of party are as nothing. dispose o f f the Ecclesiastical " Taxed &Tire going. to the country on the t 5 ,,,, 3 et . or Untaxed Bread," let us Titles Bill. Don't let the ‘ cry ) o protection" be etrengthened with the roar 0f ,, , , r ` a fft .„ Popery.. Don't t rto be sickbed ' " ex pose the zeal or the Free L i' s " with the fanaticism of the Re'lg'imi' r iheral Protectionist.f„r Let not Corn end CeTholics divide the, they so long united. Do not anatne tee , hazard' a return e_e t s ofi x ic e li d duties by exposing the weaker brethren to the of relaxed principles. Even with C:e utmost degren of dissoliit. impossible panic of which An Lionottrabb. House is eapahCv, it is not to f , ,rer... e 4:ors than one temp m too probable sky, und er stress of wh i c h it sees but gath e ring on probable the, th e nire n dy wa t e r-loged barque must fins,liy go down. Can the Colonial-of fice weather Mr. Baillie's Ceylon motion, of which we observe notice is given for next Tuesday week, and which lowers, ominous on the journals of the Route awaiting " in grim repose " i , s 1-(d-tape prey. Escape is no dolbt peuisible, brit surely the Noble and Bight Honourable Rulers of ,h .. Colonies must begin to street with those sentiments of ..-er•---.. •,. \: /-*`• reeard Do.,. , ning- natural I - ff\ piety with which men of feeling minds t•elte their last 44.1.j00k at the scenes of their greatness and their glory. ,7, 1 `;,•;:, (4 j ; wou ld serve no purpose to run through the many LI similar instances of plssiblY "'Vending dinomfiture: it .., ei. ti.. York, nature of such a situation a s the present to .7''''''' stimulate attack, and enfeeble defence. Men will ....... i ''..... •,- 1 1 .• ' bVfight • harJ .- for glory or for lire, they will I r at:' --- ' ' 111 "b lt t faintly struggle ' -to prolong - a state w hi c h „ ita . c .i, "./ is, after all, but a lingering death. The Whig 4 N,, 1 ` S THE SUN, Ministry carrying through the session of 1851 is a spectacle which it depends on themselves to make either .Aibliuse or ri,llculius. I), e1,..g th,t they ar. restored to office by a state necessity, they seize the opportunity of signalising their new lease of power, by well-considered and honestly-urged measures of practical reform, they may retire at its expiration with general respect. If, on the other hand, they rely on the peculiarity of the crisis, as a sufficient excuse for inaction and reserve, the consequences of the national dissatisfaction may prove permanently disastrous to their hopes of future power. Let them be wise in time. — Weekly News. LONDON, listen to me, unless you take toe direct to the shirt, and be there within ten minutes from this time, I will give ,- , u • b:.:. I th'r.l. - at,t touch relish." Under tuts tared; tae rascal confessed he ss as not going towards the shirt, but he would now do so. They then turned back, returned up the hill across Mount Wise, out at the Southern Barrier Guardhouse, down Stonehouse- hill, over the Bridge, up Union-street, Stone house, Union-road, Plymouth, and then through Flora street, into Stonehouse-lano; into the very midst of the locality inhabited by cadgers, lurkers, thieves, and sharpers of all sorts, and into which few men, knowing the character of the neighbourhood so well as Mr. Ta gert, would have had the courage to have ventured at midnight, especially in such company. Determined not to be beaten, Mr. Tagert boldly went forward, and, on his companion knocking at the door of a public house, he refused to give him the chance of then escaping him, by acceding to his request to wait outside the door " while he went in after the shirt;" but," said the young man, "the room is a very small one." "No doubt," said Mr. Tagert, "if you can get in, I can also do so; at all events I will try." They went in, and in a room, not a small one, they found the shirt tied up in paper, apparently just as the fellow had received it from Mr. Tagert's ser vant. Mr. Tagert secured the shirt, and then gave his countryman some advice, enforcing one por tion by repeating it again and again—and that was that he should at once leave the town, lest in the morning ho should find himself in the custody of the police. Whatever use he made of some portion of the Rev. Gen tleman's advice, it is evident he was disposed to risk the chance of being taken into custody, for on the following evening, after eleven o'clock, he found his way to the residence of the Reverend AL B. Hutchinson, the incumbent of St. James, Devonport, whom he saw, and after apologising for calling so late, said he had come to him as the clergyman of the parish to ask his advice; the tact was, he said, he was the son of a gentleman, and had been sent to Paris by his father's wish to make himself acquainted with the pictures in the Louvre as the means of improvement as an artist, but was sorry to say that he had lived " too fast," and as a consequence had been obliged to leave France. During part of the six months he had been in England he had been engaged as a scene painter at Tiver ton. All went on well enough until a few weeks since the manager put his name (Mr. Arthur) in the play bill ; this reached his father, and the conse quence was a letter informing that unless he gave up his connexion with the theatre, his father would give him up and never again acknowledge or assist him; under this pressure he had left Tiverton and come into this neigh bourhood, and hoped to get employment here. He had written to his father who had promised him money, as the letter which he handed to Mr. Hutchinson would show. This letter had all the appearance of a genuine document, and promised him a remittance on Thursday. Now what he wanted advice upon was how he was to subsist until the money arrived from his father on Thursday. Mr. Hutchinson saw no reason for disbelieving the story, and the time not admit ting either of inquiry, beyond the applicant himself; or of arrangements fur his relief, thought the best prac tical aid he could render was to let the young man have ss. whereon to subsist, until other steps could be taken. He thanked Mr. Hutchinson for his great kindness, and promising to see him again, bade him good night. We need not say that he has net yet returned, and that we believe Mr. Hutchinson does not entertain an idea of the amount being returned to him through a post-office order. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. The following is the official statement of the quantiti corn, &c., received in the port of London from the pui Essex, from the 10th March, 1851, to the 15th March, both inclusive : ies c 851, LIGHT LOCOMOTIVE ENGINES. Several months since we gave the working upon the Brighton line of a light locomotive called the " Little England," and expressed an opinion that such a class of engines would be found economical for light passage traffic. Tho correctness of our opinion is confirmed by the following report of Mr. Adie, the engineer of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, for which the " Little England" was manufactured. Speaking of this class of engine, Mr. Adie reports— On the 3d of August last one was forwarded to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, under a guarantee that she was to work their express train betweed Edin burgh and Glasgow, consisting of seven carriages, to keep good time as per time bill, and not to consume more than 101bs. of coke per mile ; if she did that to the satisfaction of Mr. Adie, the company's engineer, they should purchase her for 1,2001. But if the work done, or the consumption of coke was not satisfactory, and within the guarantee, Mr. England was to remove her, and take her.back entirely at his own expense. "After the engine got to work, in order to test her powers accurately ?Ir. Adie appointed Mr. Cross, one of his assistants, to accompany her for several days, to see the coke weighed and to see the time was properly kept. He also placed one of the best engines belonging to the company, called the Sirius, to run from the opposite end, at the same hours and with a similar train, in order to compare the one with the other. " They worked a week, the Shins starting the morning trip from Edinburgh, and the Little England from Glasgow. They then changed ; and the Sirius started from Glasgow and the Little England from Edinburgh, thus making a fair division of the work, and the result proved that the small engine kept better time than the larger one, so much so that the manager, Mr. Thompson, was obliged to order the driver not to run in before time for fear of an accident. Her consumption of coke was 81b. 3oz. per mile, while that of the Sirius was 291 b. Icz. per mile. "The Little England would frequently run a mile in 60 seconds, and sometimes less. She started with less slipping, and could be brought to a stand in much less distance than the large engine. " The engine was afterwards tried upon the Campsie Junction line, where there is an incline of 1 in 75 for three miles, and a station upon it. She took up seven carriages and a luggage van crowded with passengers, and as she had to stop at the station upon the incline, Mr. Pa ton, the locomotive superintendent, who accompanied her, ordered a large coupled engine to follow to assist her away from the station, if necessary; but she went away with the train at the rate of 30 miles an hour, and the heavy engine could not catch her; for the result proved that the heavy engine could not ascend the incline alone at the rate cf 30 miles an hour. " When the engine got to the top of the incline, where another branch line comes in and joins the main line, she took on six more carrier-, twitting in all 14, and took them into Glasgow in good style, surprising every one who witnes3A it. "Se is now running the express trains between Edinburgh and Glasgow, consisting of five carriages, with a consumption of only 6ilbs. of coke per mile. During the heavy gales and bad weather which prevailed in the early part of January, she was the only engine upon the line that kept time. " On the 7th of September Mr. England sent another similar engine to the Liverpool and Southport line, where she took a train of tea carriages up an incline 1 in 100, stopping and starting upon it, and where there is also a sharp curve. She was delivered subject to a guarantee that hhe was to run a train of seven car riages at the rate of 45 miles per hour, and ascend an in cline of I in 100 at 25 miles an hour, with a consump tion of coke not exceeding 10Ibs. pr "She proved herself more than equal to the guarantee, and the directors paid for her when she had been in vvoik a week, considering she was more than equal to the contract. " There is one at work upon the Dundee and Perth line, which has been working thtare since June, 1849, and the locomotive superintendent declares that she has not cost them sixpence in the shape of repairs during that time; that she is always ready, and runs the mail train of fcur carriages between Dundee and Perth daily." HOW A CLERGYMAN SERVED A SCAMP. (From the Devenport Independent,) A few days since a young man, of respectable ap pearance and address, called at a bookseller's shop in this town to ascertain the names of some of the Protestant clergymen of the neighbourhood, and having been in formed of the Rev. Mr. Herbert, of St. Paul's, and the Rev. Mr. Tagert, of St. Mary's district, the latter of whom was mentioned to him in reply to his inquiry for an Irish Protestantclergyman, the scamp left the shop saying that was the very gentleman ho wanted. It appears, however, that he first visited Mr. llerbert, who listened to his tale, but suspecting it not to be " genuine," dis miesed him without a copper. He then found out the residence of Mr. TagQrt, and was admitted to an au dience. He told a plausible story about the position and wealth of his family, his own indiscretions, privations, his present utter want of resources, and his hopes of a remittance from his filth( r on Thursday. This was on a Monday. "He had been in this neighbourhood some days, and was lodging at a house in Plymouth, where he bad a thorough clean and comfortable bed, for which he paid 6d. a night; in all his privations he said he had never slept in any but a clean and comfortable bad, and should be very sorry indeed to be compelled to do so." " Very proper," said Mr. Tag,ert. " I quite approve of your appreciation of cleanli ness." " Well, sir," was the reply, " unless I can obtain some help to pay for my bed until Thursday, when I re ceive the remittance from my father, I shall be reluctantly compelled to give it up." Mr. Tagert intimated his desire to help a countryman in distress. This admission actkl as a spur to the young man, who still more press ingly and pathetically urged his suit, and eventually succeeded in extracting from the kind-hearted clergy man 3s. After an abundance of thanks, and reiterated protestations of his determination to repay the money on Thursday, he bade Mr. Tagert good morning, and left. Encouraged by this success, he resolved w make some further use of his couti tryman's kindliest, and with this purpose he returned the following day. He said he had paid the 3s. for the bad, but the people of the house bad told him, unless he took it for a week, they should let it to some other per son, whom they represented as anxious to engage it; now the bed was very. clean and comfortable, and ho should be very loath to give it up,—would Mr. Tagert help him with the loan of a_ few shillings more until Thurz.day• next ? ho would he sure to repay it then, for since he was there on the preceding day he had ( - rot some engagement in view with a Mr. l)oel, a builder, in Fore-street, as a . . painter, end a further favour would be conferred by giving him a letter recommending him to Mr. Doel. Mr. Teg,art, who was at the time just about leaving his house on some engagement, cut this conference short by handing the applicant ss. (which he said would be sufficient to last until Thursday), and by declining, for the present to write any letter of recommendation. On the following day Mr. Tagert was favoured with another visit, an told by his persevering countryman how much he felt obliged for the kindness shown him, and how he would on the following day return the money he had received, and ended by the singular request that Mr. Tagert would still further increase his already deep debt of gratitude by lending him a shirt! He had been invited by some person to dinner, and had not a clean shirt to put on. Mr. Tagert hinted that his shirts were much too large, but, not to be put off by an ordinary rebuff, the young man said, oh, he would make the shirt fit beautifully and re-urged his :,uit with so much effect that Mr. Tagert sent his servant for a clean shirt, and handed it to !he applicant, who expressed his thanks, and left, again promising to return the next day with the money aed the shirt. Thursday passed and Mr. Tagert saw nothing of his "friend." On Friday the youth still kept in the " shade," and Mr. Tagert began to think he had been duped. However, he was not desirous of losing his money and his shirt easily, so ho was deter mined, if possible, to find out the gentleman. He dis covered at length that a man answering to his descrip tion had been seen by Mr. Doel, at the " Black Horse," and Mr. Tagert requested if he should come again that Mr. Doel would immediately send for him. The clock having struck eleven Mr. T. gave him up for the night, and proceeded to go to bed, but when half undressed a mes sage came that "the gentleman" had arrived. Mr. T. immediately put on his clothes, and arming himself with a massive crab-stick, proceeded to the house of Mr. Dee!, who showed him into a room, and having intro dured the " young Irishman," left tho room, closing the door after him. Neither spoke for a moment, hut Mr. Tegort, who is a tall muscular man, looked fall and steadily upon the sharper, who atter u pause, said, " I see lam done, sir." " Yes," responded Mr. Tagert, " You are done, as I will teach you, although you thought to do me; " you see this stick ?" (elevating his ponderous weapon), "Yes, Sir, I could not well help seeing it," or in a few minutes you Well, sir, repay me the 83., will feel it." The prospect was not a pleasant one, and, again acknowledging he was done, the impudent scoun drel dived his hand into his pocket, in which lie had more money than Mr. Tagart required, and brought up the Bs., and handed it over with far more reluctance and far less u' ereee than he r ceived it. Mr. Tegert then 'mid, " But now for the shirt." "He was very sorry, t s , u :v t nt e ly sh r i e r t t ur lls9 it n ., o , t in the house; if Mr. Tagert n would give him until the morning be would a mis i t e o g m e e l r er n ie n , t " to l b n e i us p t la h y a o v d e i w t i t t zn t i i e: e ht y .7 )u S n "No, no," said the per-' ! .7. 1 1 0 1 ~:avyc. it tn .° 4 l:', .. i n n r g eei m ng a h n e sa h i a d d , '• Welt, sir, I wil l . t once take you to where the shirt i.,, On !cavity , the Black Horse they took ‘Vi e. Thinking f,ina the slip, Mr. " welker and runner, and made a eraetienler ne saw him would applicati b i ll i e n ' . would tirnc f , flfidi lir thit, if he attempted to e h s i t s reet,Cand dawn towards Mount hT:avh ( l , :. j nrn e t : t esdvaiei„ondi might .uanl o wasbe - t o a g g o i o v d e eau ) difficulty : hh i net ire b it 1 believing;, ti next i ni to str.n4er who quite care hsueresahmeerun , from him, he 00 time, and, thedo v, , in tiir t t ho dirnt l . , Tahnedy passed Rich. ' Pethaes catch a blow ,' f , om. his crag-stick, whieh would not eavity be forgotten. rnight leake across would :Jo preteeted he ha Ti? intspon of runnin g, but m rak o e unt him ivis t e o , y ou t) where the shirt is, eon teat to walk with towards it, therefore mend-walk, when Mr. Tagert said, "I am eon- but I have no wish to be walking about all night, an d I do not think you are going First COAL MARKS' Chester Main 125 9d' East Adairs ElowareA's W. H. Neth. 14s 6d; Longridge'sW.Hartley 145 6d, Wylam Wall's End, &e. Gosforth Marton Hotspur l2s 6di Lawson Northumberland 13s Od Eden Main 13raddyll Burnhope.... ........ 13a Od Hetton Haswell lss 6d Lambton Lumley l3s 6d Ships at m g N a 5 23 79 g A' e, Colchester 5 44 460 4 718 Harwich Leigh Mallon . 382' 166 350 1 36 177 , 40 470 CHELMSFORD, MARCH 14.—Prices to-day were as follow: Wheat, white, old 428 to 465; new 41s to 465; red, old CHELMSFORD, MARCH 14.—Prices , day were follow: Wheat, white, old 428 to 465; new 41s to 465; red, old :363 to 41s ; new, 36s to 40s ; barley, 25s to 29s ; chevalier 2ls to 293; grinding 18s to 243; oats 153 to 20s; malt 53, to 55s ; chevalier 54s to 56s ; peas, partridge, new 27e to 29s ; old, —s to --s ; white, new, 26, to 288 ; old, —s to —s; dun, new, 26s to 28s ; beans, tick, new 24s to 26s ; old, 24s to 275; harrow ticks, new 253 to 275; old 00s to 00s; ma zagan, new 23s to 25s ; old 00s to 00s per qr. COLCHESTER, MARCH 15.—Wheat, white 42s to 465; red 361 to 40,3; barley 228 to 281; beans, mazagan 22s to 23s ; middle and small 24s to 28s; peas 26s to 28, per qr. HADDINGTON, MARCH 14.—The following are the prices of grain at our market to-day:— Wheat. I Barley. ' ... 503 Od ! 323 Od Oats. 233 Od Beans. 31s Od Second ... ... 39s 2d 2Bs 9d 2os 9d 27s 5d Third ... .. 34s Od 21s 6d 17s Od 25s Od Total quantity of Wheat in market 309 qrs., 309 sold Do. Barley do. 209 qrs., 208 sold Do. Oats do. 521 qrs., 508 sold Do. Beans do. '219 qrs., 203 sold GLASGOW, MAS.eI 12.—Provisions—Cheese, 33s to 42s Od per cwt ; retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, 20s Od to Os per cwt. Country fresh butter, Ild to Od per lb. Irish pow dered, in lumps, 10d to 10 3 / 4 c; country powdered, wholesale, 8d to Od. Country eggs, 8d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 56 Od per 120, or 6 3 / 4 d per dozen. Hens, 2s 9d per pair; Ducks, 2s 6d. FALKIRK, M &xeu 13.—Tho supply of grain in this day's market was 787 bolls; wheat at 17s Od to 21s 04 per boll; barley, 16s 3d to 18s Od ; oats, 12s 6d to 15s Od; beans, 12s 9J to 15s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. PERTH, ].A RCM 14.—Wheat, old, 00s Od to Os Od; ditto, new, 35s to 395; barley, new, 19s Od to 21s Od; oats, 13s to 175 ; peas and beans, 22s Od to 21s per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 00s to 285. Kimso, Melte 14.—Wheat, old, 285 to 211 s; ditto, new, 185 to 30s 041; barley, new, 12s Od to 17s 6d ; ditto old, Os to Os; potato oats,oos to 00s Od ; ditto new, 12s to 14s Od ; common oats 005 Od to 00s Od ; ditto new, 115 to 13s Od ; peas, 19, Od to 20s Od; beans, 19s to 20s per boll of six imperial bushels. STIRLING, MARCIA 14.—Wheat, foreign, 20s to 245; ditto. home, Os to Os; ditto ditto new, 185 Od to 20s Od; barley, per boll of 6 bushels, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new, 15, 6d to 175 6d. Oats, common, 00s Od to 00s ; ditto new, 10e Od to 12a 6d; ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 00s Od; malt, distillers, 31a 6d to 331; ditto brewers, 32s 6d to 34s ; beans per boll, 00s Od to 00s Od; ditto new, 1 is 3d to 14s 6d; pease 00, ud to 00s Od; flour, new per sack, 315 to 33s Od; ditto common ditto, 18s 6d to 20s Od; oatmeal, per load, 005 Od to o,)s Od; ditto new 26s Od to 265 6d ; ditto per peck of 71b5, 71d to 814; fresh butter, per lb, 9d to lld ; eggs, per dozen, 6d to 7d ; hay per ton, Os Od to Os ; ditto new, 80s Od to 845. BERWICK, MARCH 13.—Wheat, 345 9d ; barley, 225 9id ; oats, 18s 10Id ; rye, 00s Od ; beans, 00s Od ; peas, 00s Od average per imperial quarter. HAwicK, M&i cii 13.—Wheat, new, 18s to 30s Od; barley, new, 12a to 17s 6d ; ditto eld, 00s Od to 00s Od ; potato oats, 12s Od to 14s Od ; common oats, lls Od to 145 ; peas, 19a Od to 20a Od ; beans, 19s Od to 205 Oel per boll of six imperial bushels. 7.—YEBTXRDAY. 'Richmund ..... 13s 9d Hutton jSt owart's Whitwell 'Denison l3s 3d :Hartlepool Eieugh Hall Kelloe.. ......... 14s 6d I Thornley 4Whitworth . l2s 6d Backhouse Maclean's Tees l2s 9 Pease's West... l2s Gd Seymour Tees Tees Birchg. Graigola 19s Od Cowpen Hartley Hartley ...... . 13s 6d Sidney's Hartley arket. 188. SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent front the General Post-oftice by the night—and M by the morning —dispatch.] When made up in Fromwhat PLACES. General Post-office port dis- When Londoi. patched. due. America (by Brit. pkt.)N March 2S Liverpool • • March 26 America (by U.S. pkt.) N March 21 .. Liverpool .. Arrived America (by U.S. pkt.) M March 26 .. Southampt. April 5 Africa (West coast).. N 14th of the month Plymouth April 3 Alexandria* ........ N 19th & 30th of mo. Dover .. March 18 Belgium • • .. N Daily Dover .. Daily Brazil .. . .. 31 9th of the month Southampt. April 12 Buenos Ayres • • .. •hi 9th of the month Southampt. April 12 California(viaChagres) M 17th of month Southampt. March 20 Cape of Good Hope N 14th of month Plymouth.. April 3 Constantinople* .. N 7th 17th 27th of mo Dover .. March 20 Central America .. M2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. March 20 Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Ta. Th.Sa Chill M 17th of the month Southampt. March 20 France & N Twice daily .. .. Dover • • Twicedaily Greece* • • .. N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover March 20 llamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat. Holland .. Wednea. & Satur. London .. Mos.Ther Honduras .. N 17th of the mouth Southampt. March 20 Ireland .. • • Aff & NlTwice daily Holyhead .. Twicedaily India(via Southamp.) M2oth of the month Southampt. March 2* , India (via Marseilles) N 7th& 24th ofmonth Dover • • March 20 Mediterranean (via Southampton) .. M 20th of the month Southampt. Marsh 28 Mediterranean (via Marseilles) N 7th&24tlit ofmonth Dover • • March 20 Mexico .. 2d of the month.. Southampt. April 5 Madeira .. M 9th of the month Southampt. April 12 Malta* 7th,17th,1901,27th } Dover March 18 & 30th of month Naples* .• N sth 15th 25th ofmo Dover .. March 22 Papal States* N s th 15th 25th of mol Dover .. March 22 reninsular .. • • .. N 7th 17th 27th of mo. Southampt. April 24 Pere •• 17th 01 the month ISouthampt. March 28 Tuscany* .. N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover .. March 22 West Indies .. 3I 17th of the month Southampt. March 22 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) M 2d of the month .. Southampt. April 5 * The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are conveyed by French packet via Marseilles. GOOD FOR lIOAASENESS.—Mrs. Billington, the queen of all English singers, came one night to Drury-lane Theatre, to perform Mandane, in Artaxerxes, so hoarse as to re ?der it a question whether it would be possible for her to appear before the audience. To add to her perplexity, her maid had mislaid the key of her jewel-box, but persisted that her mistress must have got it with her. " What can I have done with it ?" said the syren. " I suppose I must have swallowed it without knowing it." "A n d a l uc k y thing, too,' said Wewitzer, "it may perhaps serve to open your chest." SINGULAR ACCIDENT.—Last evening a ca b man named Masters had driven to the stand near the border of the Channel, with the view of getting a fare from the pas iengere by the Harwich steamer. After the vessel had arrived, and whilst she was blowing off her steam, the horse, a blind one, became frightened, and as the driver was in the act of open i•lg the door in orde , to put two passengers inside the cab, issuddenly started off, stumbled down the declivity, and re gaining his feet hurried intojtho Channel. For a moment the horse kept his h ad above the water, but the weight of the cab soon sunk it, and in a minute the sweeping tide car ried both horse and vehicle down the river far beyond the reach of help.—lpswich Express. . _ The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President of the Coun ci►, returned to town yesterday, from his seat, Bowood Park, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. I it' `'s OF CC , 171; (.:7? The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. ANCHOR ASSURANCE (No. 2) BILL. This BE was read a second time. EAST iTONEHOUSE WATERWORKS BILL. This Bil was read a second time. GENERAL REVERSIONARY AND INVEST MENT COMPANY BILL. This Bib was also read a second time. EVENING, MARCH 18, 1851. ( of the country, but also placing the motion in the light of orm Lurti was iueriectly aware that there was no other party in the country ready to take office. The question was one of long standing, and though the Noble 'Lard all of a sudden affected virtuous indignation, ho must have ex pected it for some time, and indeed it was only in con sequence of the extraordinary course in refusing to produce the evidence which had delayed the motion so long. The House must therefore admit that he was not liable to the charge of obstructing the business of the country. He could perfectly well understand the difficulties the Noble Lord was placed in, and his anxiety to escape from those difficulties; and that, per haps, anticipating defeat upon this motion, he did not wish to have the trouble of pre paring those measures which it was his duty to bring before the country. The Noble Lord was, however, mistaken if ho thought that he (Mr. Baillie) would be made the instrument of his being allowed to escape from the duties which the public exigency called upon him to perform. The course, therefore, which he should take would be to remove his motion from the notice book, reserving to himself the leave of bringing it forward again at a time when it would not render him liable to the charge of impeding public, business. Lord JOHN RUSSELL had no reason to complain of the grounds on which the Hon. Member for Inverness, shire had founded his motion, but he had great reason to complain of the form in which that motion had been framed. The House would be at no loss to construe the object of the Hon. Gentleman, or of those who partook of his opinions in bringing forward the motion. He did not object to the motion, but he did object to the mode by which that motion bad been brought before the House. He did say that, on the present occasion, the motion of the Hon. Member was neither more nor less than to pass a vote of censure on the Government. There were reasons why this motion should be brought on, and he could perfectly understand why a vote of censure should be obtained against the Government, especially in a case in which the Secretary of State and the governor of one of the principal of her Majesty's colonies were concerned. What he had chiefly to com plain of was, that any member of a great party should bring a motion before this House under circumstance; from which it was impossible for his opponents to meet it in a fair and candid manner.—(Hear, hear.) He was not prepared to say what course the Government would pursue, but he complained of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Baillie) deferring his motion at a time when every ma terial was in his hands against Lord Torrington, a Peor of the realm, when his L viship was pr-'sent in tht, country.—(Hear, bear.) It was contrary to the prac tice of a great party to bring forward such motion as this, and then when the part) who brought it forward was perfectly aware of the influence which it must of necessity have, viz., the effect of a vote of censure upon the Government, to defer it. It seemed simply planned in wanton mischief, and he believed that the House would readily respond to his opinion, that a motion, in which the cha racter of a Noble Lord was implicated, and which charged him with gross and unnecessary cruelty, ought not to be entertained, or if entertained, ought not to be deterred to any future time for consideration.—(The Noble Lord. who had been loudly and repeatedly cheered, sat down amid loud applause.) Mr. DISItAELI'said that he must remind the House and the Noble Lord that this was no new question. They should remember that it was a question which had now been two years before the House, and that a Committee had expressly declared for the publication of those papers, which were alike necessary for the discussion of this question and for the satisfaction of the country. — (Hear, hear.) This was a matter of the greatest public interest and importance, and yet the Noble Lord desired them to legislate, in the absence of every document, through the evidence of which alone could they come at a right decision.—(Heekr, hear.) His Hon. Friend tha Member for Inverness-shire had applied at the Secretary's office, and had been told that the papers for which he applied had been returned to Ceylon, being necessary to he produced on the court-martial upon Captain Watson.—(Hear, hear.) All that he could obtain were copies of the documents, every one of which ought to have been laid on the table of the House a fortnight before. Now mark this. A copy of the evidence taken before the commis sion could not be required by the court martial at Ceylon, because the authenticated copy of the evidence would not be admissible before the court.—(Hear, hear.) The court martial were in possession of the original evidence.—(Hear, bear.) What necessity, then, was there for sending back the copy ?—(Cheers.) The reason, therefore, given by the Under-Secretary of State for sending back the copy was not only extraordinary, but unparalleled, and under all the circumstances, to say the least of it, most unsatis factory.—(Hear, hear.) And yet, under all these cir cumstances, the House having only just received the evidence taken before a Committee which sat two years— not yet being in possession of all the documents submitted to the consideration of the Committee, and the House having just discovered a strange and suspicious cir cumstance with respect to the evidence taken by the Com mission sent out to Ceylon, the first Minister got up, and assuming a tone of virtuous indignation appealed to the House against what he called the unfair conduct of a great party.—(Cheers.) Now had the Minister been in the position which no doubt he wished to be, the House would have heard,nothing of this complaint—(Cheers)— for the Minister would have been the last man who could wish to come to a conclusion upon a great judicial ques lion of such importance as this in the absence of the necessary documents, and after such inexplicable conduct on the part of the department whose policy was attacked.—(Hear, hear.) He thought his Honourable Friend had taken that course which good sense and feeling alike dictated, and he fin one had no objection to appeal to the verdict of the country as to his conduct on this occasion. —(Cheers.) Sir GEORGE GREY said the House could scarcely overlook the remarkable difference that existed between the arguments of the Honourable Gentleman the Member for Inverness-shire and that of his friend, his leader, and his protector on the occesion.—(A. laugh.) He (Sir George Grey) was in the House when the Hoe Gentleman gave his notice in a clear and deliberate manner, and he heard him distinctly state that he should so submit it to the House on the 26th instant. (Hear, hear.) - Andelsow, when his Noble Friend at the head of the Government asks him whether he in- tends to proceed with his motion on that day, the Hon. Gentleman does not say that he is not pre pared to submit his charge to the House, but he says he will not stand in the way of that im portant business which he holds to be the im perative duty of Ministers to bring before the House.—(Hear, hear.) That was what the Honourable Gentleman said himself, but what said his leader? Why he let the real reason out; ho said they were not pre- pared under present circumstances to bring the question torward.—(Hear, hear.) So then the Hon. Gentleman circulated a serious charge throughout the country against noblemen and the Government, and now it seemed it was not his intention to bring it for. ward.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.") Nay, be might go the length of saying that he dared not bring it on.—(ols, oh, and cheers.) Now, as it was a judicial question they were to consider, he hoped at least thin was not a specimen of the spirit in which the inquiry would be opened and conducted.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. ROEBUCK, being much interested in the wel fare of the colonies, listened to this discussion with soma degree of pain. --(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Gentleman the Member for Inverness-shire had, from the commencement of this transaction, expressed strong opinions with regard to the conduct of Lord Torring ton, and with great credit to himself he had carried the matter before a Committee of the House, who had taken two years to investigate it.—(Hear, hear.) And now the Hon. Gentleman brought a serious charge against Lord Torrington, and had given a formal notice of the day on which he proposed to go into it, but be cause the Noble Lord at the head of the Government considered the notice a vote of censure on his Govern ment, which, if established, would destroy the confidence of the House in the Administration, the Honourable Gentleman declined to press his motion for the pre sent.—(Cries of " Hear.") The conclusion which he deduced from all this was that the Government was weak, and because of that weakness the interest of the country and the colonies was to be sacrificed, and a serious charge allowed: to hang over the head of a Noble Lord recently: presiding over one of the colonies of England.—(Hear, hear.) Now, was it fair to delay this question?—was it fair to hold up Lord Torrington to the scorn and indignation of the country for an indefinite period under such a pretence as that which had been assigned in favour of the delay ?—(Hear, hear.) The excuse put forth to justify this postpone ment was nothing less than a pretence—a sham, and, as it related to a distinct criminal charge, it would be dis graceful alike to the House and the Government if those who preposed it ware not pressed to go on with it at once. But of all the persons who were wrong none were more so than the Honourable Member for Bucking hamshire—(Laughter) —who had shown he was totally unacquainted with the whole matter, and had brought forward some charge against the Colonial-office wholly unconnected with the matter in hand, and who fabricated—if he might use the expression without dishonour—aa accusation which the Hon. Member for Inverness-shire never thought of. — (Laughter.) It was quite clear that this course had been adopted for party purposes.—(Loud cheers.) Let the people of this, country understand that all their great interests—colonies, finance, and other im portant matters of legislation—were all now in abeyance in consequence of the proceedings of some twenty gen tlemen opposite.—(l.leer.) Of this he thought there could be no doubt, that when a men wv; charg , d openly with a crime by a M‘mher of the House, who said he had evidence in proof of his .tecusatioe, common justice—(Cheers) — ordinary good foci g, plain honest good faith, and fair play required that tte re should be no shrinking from that charge.-- 7 (Cheers.) He (Mr. Roebuck) knew little of the circumstances, but whatever might be his opiniou as to the result of the charge if it came before a jury, he thought the accuser was bound us an honest man—ar.4 he demanded it in the name of his country-- r (" Hear" from the Protectionists) —he thought that the Honourable Member who represented himself as the accuser of this man should now make his charge, a n d . if he could, endeavour to justify that charge.—(Cheers.) And lot no emu treat this matter lightly.—(Hear, hear.) Lot every one suppose for a moment that this was his oen case. (Hear.) The Noble Lord was charged with no less a crime than murder—(deer) — he was charged with having comm i t ted that murder when he r epro . sented this country in Ce y lon. If there were any crimes that was one.—(Hear.) He honoured a mar . f or 1 bringing a great cr iminal to justice, but he could not say ho honoured that individual who made ti grievous acenfition, mud who Afterwards, he mizht say. skulked that had fatten trom the Hun. and Learned Gentleman; and he would say, further,, that ho thought it utterly impossible for the Noble Lord at the head of the Go vernment to pursue any other course than that whieh he had adopted.—(Cheers.) It must be admitted by every impartial person that the motion of his Hon. Friend the Member for Inverness-shire was nothing more nor less than a vote of censure on the G.(vprin(-rit, and with (hat hanging over his h, , au how could the Nobi , L (rd bring forward the financial arrangements of the Government? (Hear.) A governor of the colony and a peer of the realm, as the Hon. and Learned Member had stated, was charged with the crime of murder. He would ask why the Hon. Member gave notice of such a motion, and then allowed it to drop ? It would only b 3 an act of fairness and justice to bring the subject before the House of Lords, where that Noble Lord, as welt as the Noble Earl at the head of the colonial department, might meet their ac cusers man to man and answer the charge made against them, and where they might be enabled to give a fair and legitimate account of the course of conduct they had pursued. The matter then dropped. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL—ADJOURNED hand, the states of H011...nd, since their fr , edAm from the • • • •"," prosperity and liberty of England were owing.' to the Reformatio. —(Hear, hear.) Scotla p oul nd owed its rosperity to a similar cause. In Switzerland the traveller could tell, by the very aspect of the people, which canton was Roman Catholic and which Protestant. In Canac"t da the distinction between Roman Catholic distri and Protestant districts was most ma rked. th e United States the same result prevailed. So in Mexico , se in Ir. land—(Hear) —and in ether places where the OP IA Catholic system existed. These examples were must strik ing ; but he did not mean or wish to attribute the cause quencea which ere witnessed in Roman Catholic code untries • to the peculiarities of the creed of Rome. —( Hear.) at; tributed them to the Ecclesiastical system of Ronee.—.(liee r ' i To no other cause could he attribute the difference which he had pointed out. These examples strongly proved the! it was the duty of every Government who valued civil and religious liberty to see that the progress of the Roman Catholic system be checked. (Hear.) With respect !I dad introduction of the Papal bull into this country, be not consider that any portion of a bull which conteinplattit purely spiritual objects ought to be legislated aganst. fetid purely spiritual matters were to be met, they must be met is!, a different way— not by legislation, but by reaioning anvil by the diffusion ofeound and Scriptural educatian.--(ll,ear*: But the Papal movement had an aspect ' ei very different kind. He affirmed it .as an aggression, 9 0 d an aggression upon those principles which ought: be respected and kept sacred by every Roman Cattiehe-:: (Hear, hear.) The very basis of the compact 00829 war that the Pope was to have no temporal power in te7, country. He could not regard the introduction of the l'aps l bull otherwise than as an infringement of that (Hear, hear.) The sole object of the bull, and establishment of a hierarchy, was to introd uce tbe airs law, which was, in reality, intended to interfere wit temporal action of the laws of this count r y . (11e° ' ?JO/ There needed no other proof than the distinct avoW__ Cardinal Wiseman in his pastoral addres s. Cardinal 1 V 15°- man stated— ler " All that we plead against is, the adoption in snY sure of that preposterous cant of the age, that the r . ec e n o , power, as such, is bound by its duty to God to exten'! stances which may attach to each separate case. creedeaysisre toleration to all religions, irrespective of the peculiar carcclinn, every man has a right to adopt s lch a religious, pleases is upon to say, also, that the temptlririlapeup"r7p,,, never called to pit obstacles in tbe way . erfectly gation of religious errors, is also untrue; but i"s Pend on true that the English law professes to tolerate that ground, as well as on our indefeasible rightaus; clairas of the true Church, while we meddle not with the sects about us, we take our stand." following It was suggested it could be only in one of the two formsfull coned' " Either the Holy See must issue another and would tution, which would supply all wants, but which r...uinil necessarily complicated and voluminous, and, ss a .. .s an d provision, would necessarily be temporary, sir th e '''d o d to complete code of the Church must be at once extend ed wit h the only the Catholic Church in England, so far as compatihie its social position; and this provision would be final._ m en t, in order to a opt this second and mere natural exp.' one condition was necessary, and that was, the Catholicturnerk have a hierarchy. The canon law is inapplicable 3 vicars apostolic.' i t should So, therefore, when Rome was considering how,.„ ° . a accede to the application made to it, it decided on law.ereelim hierarchy solely with the view of introducing the cant?! 7; e If that canon law was introduced, he asserted it vinn ta ,li t h the Court of Rome power to interfere in this countric. temporal matters.— (Hear, hear.) He asserted the do i i e ri p u ty ' of the canon law was no antiquated law. Ther e were P a JO of mo ern proo:s of this, and he need only refer to the . asserted of Reiffensteul that the Pope Canonicum," published in :831, at Rome, in which theft ecclesiastical constitution for the whole world, and , t e . na . a e of Christ, had a supreme power, if necessary., of Pet 0 .0 disposing of all temporal goods of all Christians. confined clear, therefore, that the object of hierarchy WAS 110 t _we to temporal things. It was right, therefore , for the legs which of the country in such a case to uphold the principles 0n.riff.....1 the Emancipation Act was granted, and to interfere.— (t!coliVf The essential feature of the hierarchy was the introduct i° h t had a right to iniavicrir the canon law, and as that was so r,bj ectiona bl e , it oog to be met by fitting legislation. Then the assumption ; titles was undoubtedly an evasion of the Queen's r i g bt, a nd was the exclusive right of the Sovereign t conf er titles, of the Pope had, therefore, no right to assume the now e , rho conferring titles on British sebjects as he ha d don d , to main objection to the Governm e nt measure, and, indee, any legislation at all on this question, was, that nothing,w_." to be feared from the acts and spread ' of Popery—that tine" had changed—and that Popery was not the same now as l i n t former ages. But he felt surprised at this assertion, ° no was perfectly clear that Rome had only not been quad:, mischievous in all ages and places, because kept int duo restraint. It was said that the Bill would fettes religious liberty. They who argued so argued as i f t „ he i l a were the great advocates of that principle. He was cer7 that such views were not the views of Roman Cathel generally. Many large bodies of Roman Catholics did n° . c a tholic entertain that view. In the Rambler, a Roman the ere statements truly represented made by the v . i m e w e ms publication, he found a statement, which, in his op an b o e f rs ß l in th an at maintained that no man had a right to bring religions liberty , into contact with civil liberty ; and he contended that th): were the best defenders of religious liberty who took c ar ; that civil liberty was net infringed. He was satisfied tit good would flow,from what had taken place. The rlg h " principle to act upon in this instance was prineipiis obsta. With respect to the measure, he did not think it sulfide: 4 Y comprehensive. He thought a condemnation of the ilitt7 duction of the bull of the Pope ought to have been insert,L"' CHaetuhseoli.csßutht turb: and a declaration prohibiting such an act, under pentinV for the future. Believing, however, that the Bill had been introduced in a spirit of sincerity, he was prepared to give 3 his support. Mr. E. B. ROCHE said, that the Honourable Gentleman who had just sat down, had served up same of the stale doe' trines of Exeter Hall.—(Hear, hear.) He had said that Jr" land was an example of the baneful effects of the Roman Catholic religion, but he should rather say it was an ext ury pie of the baneful effect that was growing up under their Protestant laws which were supported- by Protestant bar ' nets. Ireland, instead of being a stigma upon the Rant . Catholic faith, was a disgrace to Protestants, because sa was governed entirely in opposition to the feelings of the country. He held this measure to be an infringement of the Emancipation Act. The Act was the charter of Roman C..",: th o lic liberties, which they were a tt empt i ng to invade. T on did invade those liberties, and th ere f ore h e would oPP e o s it. The first clause of this Bill, be asserted broadly. w i. a s iia ,great an opposition to the endowment of the Roman CAti l ,to ,Church•as either of the two clauses expunged This Bui o f a retrograde movement, and going back to the legislition i. past ages. During the debates respecting the Catholic erna32 pation, in 1829, the Duke of Wellington stated that in ' lot a law was passed in Ireland to prohibit any Catholic 111,ita from assuming titles; but it was repealed in 1793 ,1 at it effect of the Bill was found so intolerant and unjust " we re was repealed, and up to 1:•29 the priests and prelettobo, t v ree to assume any titl es they pl ery improperly, eased. In 1819 the ban don lies consented, and he th oug h to A ~„. o f their liberties to a ce r t a i n ex t en t, and not to assume tu3;oo places belongitig to P ro t es t an t bishops. N nv i tigt wo called u• on to go back to the legislation of 179 3 . to h . legislating upon a p r i nc ipl e o f w hich they oug h t There ashamed, in the middle of the nineteenth centug,• .. ,,, o ero was another reason for him to oppose the Bill. .Iwvoire attempting to impose an Act which they called Sl y ff an , it hensive Act; but as it could not be extended to ar_u e ' ron ent was a oelusion upon th-, people at large. If Ge T w bether exten led this Bill to Ireland, he asked them ca ntor@ they were prepared to carry it nut? Would they bad law* to appeal to a Catholic jury ? They bad tha t die" and dissatisfaction enough in Ire and, an d ,_ d laws satisfaction was increased by us blac k upon the statute-book. This Bill would go into the ba d list, and they were therefore enc/ urag ing the r es P cin t . spirit of dissatisfaction. Upon them would rest__, into tine sibility.- (Hear.) A bull similar to that intredu_Crichen the country had formerly been sent to Sydney , a`:, 14 0 was then Protestant bishop complained, Lord StanleY, 1v.`,,_, 0 , affair and maintaining that a Colonial Secretary, said he did not consider it "j the Government. How then could they turn u n dnOW ari d say the bull really interfered with the Quee n ' - ar rived 14 . .. He did not believe that any man in this countr y . - that there the years of discretion, believed it. He believed nt*V. which, I was in this country a puritanical spirit of big7.l l Ope, and it many cases, had been got up by Protestant h . ... t ,,, w hich was bowing to this spirit of intolerance and hit-'' - '.. in an u l t i t i made them now attack this unfortunate Dr• h A 110th er e-s red this country. Now they were going to u" a - 00 1 4" thing, to extend it to Scotland, where no one .lansa intr.?" the Queen's supremacy. There was to be a v biahops is duced to meet the case of the EpisenP alian al'Lla le i a l- Scotland, who were in the same position ash :_„-s in ar-- Ireland, and why not meet the case of the 119"r.__:natice. land. If they did not, it would be monstrotub is la; cou ntry: , They did things in Ireland, which, if done _s in _ tan d on ea r 4";). supreneact. would make the very hair of their heads to ' said to theen , Yon That That was justice to Ireland. They Irish Papists, you shall have nothin;. hat Wilt -- eke We will place b ow bow chains upon you." He wanted to have to T o . believ e .% to they exrmpted bishops in Scotland and P i r i n o Pe seu the very same thing penal in Ireland. _ ..d ex tett . „ e d Bill was introduced by the Noble Lord a,t„ Este.b'''': n d Ireland, for the purpose of bolstering ire „ I ._' ia juatte s ee_i_,4 Church in Ireland. That Church was baseu 'X i " v ies gn a It . 11 ISS Si' ether ert t h e reason f.a. voting against the ill alteg_ ar y to suPP m o o n was a badge of conquest, and he thougbt Le by some people that the Bill .Bas nec,es9e then ilar q . u , uotet Protestant Church in England. In 2 said' protestant was mooted, and respectable old gentleme n admit the Catholics, or Church altogether." At that time you w ill destroy a t ra be en dment w ; 'la the p eke °f. ve to proposed similar to the present Bill, but __ lira it mu ~, 1 lington did not support it, and said he was u ,°; 4 . intro(' t e lia v a security to the Established Church, 1 b the to plunder those who were opposed to e... Act. Earl Malmesbury, who had bee . l l c. 'Z ia a g reed t , Emancipation Act, said, now that that A;_,,. uses of A a.',._ he would not consent to the introduction of n"! . , 0 no secure J r qualifying character, as he considered they a g a _!. hat were t he to the Church. He (Mr. Roche) bad show,: Einae c _l l l l l oo opinions of lieu who had been opposed to t Ile ''' . - this Act. He bed that the present Bill w woldu l d rion in er been introduced but for the spread of Tracts la ot th e dailjg r country. But the danger of ,the Pope was that h other dtsbnignie which alarmed the Noble Lord ; it was t leacheg d all front within the Church itself, and which was whe y ha , he said, to the very brink of the precipice. .. • af w hom 1 1 ! heard a great deal of the Rev. Mr. Bennett, s aid they must It was - not others wished to speak with great resect. there - wo uld EnistAncitpoa_ o_o, screw him down to the rubric; but were unt b e in the they must screw up to it? - (Hear, hear.)fac': call the attention of the Noble Lord to the R t o t a b i s , t Trinity • Chapel Royal, St. James's, and the ChaPe i , e way i n which College, Dublin, the rubric was violated by tu .., member thetit the c , mmunion table was placed. The Eon. _ p ra yer , m g li the ru bric read extracts from " Stevens's Bo k for the purpose of showing that in many " se t one singl e t was either omitted or altered. They had no t on e the W as not full o ~.t edition of their prayer book which w had shown thorn ti" glaring inaccuracies. Now, of Com " and by fifteen bighoPl, Prince Albert, by three archbishops the Chapel R o y in which it was stated, that neither in . . C llege, Pub- Trinity 0 . there was a prayer book patronised he by his Royal Night ie ' . to th e dministered according . lin, could the'communion be a . St. James's, nor in the CnaPel Roya l, les 'thic or the statute , not full of inaccurac ... edition of their Prayer book that was with his Blin• He warned the Noble Lord against proceeding tom eet with If Ministers persevered, they ma st be prepared ear.hpeop i e of law • and that, in fact, there was riot one every opposition in Ireland.-( H ear , their 0 , h notwithl • they bad been true to their religion , .., one For centuries and they would be t rue • reit. standing Persecution , . was their . . blessings the people possessed of the greatest Ireland would not permit re li g i on tc. be interfered with. to them, disgraceful and any themselves, but a that religion was not only to Id ( } l ear ' nd a disgrace in the eyes of the wor • stigma a f they se than slaves, gion—it was very dear submitted to such laws_ He (Mr. Roche) bad had pro _ hear.) They would be slaves, and wore increase the irritation which the proposed measur e then Onrs e duced in Ireland; but he warned Ministers that that they were taking was the way to create rebellion . . in it country—(Hear, hear)-aad he feared it they pe teu no desire to TUESDAY DIVORCE BILLS. Maclean', and neathcote's Divorce Bills were read a second tine, WAREWORTH HARBOUR DOCK BILL. This Bill vas also read a second time. BUCKIZGHAWS COMPENSATION BILL. Mr. ELTADT moved the postponement of this Bill until Mondst) next. Mr. BRO TUE RTON presented a petition, and begged that the Bill slight be postponed, or altogether droppril, for Members bad been continually brought down most unnecessarily. Mr. PLOW - 3EN said that under the circumstances he should more that this Bill be read this day six months. _ Mr. W. PATEN explained that the only reason for postponing the 3ill was the illness of the Noble Lord by whom it ought t) be moved. Mr. ROEBUCK wished to inquire of the Speaker whether this Wn4 a private or a public Bill? It appeared to him that the tompensation contemplated by this Bill was to be grantel out of the funds contributed by the in habitants of thi s country. If so, it was evidently a public Bill, and lught to be dealt with accordingly. The SPEAKIR said that the Bill had been brought before the House some years ago, when one of his pre decessors, and as he thought correctly, had decided that it was a private 811. With regard to the other portions of the Hon. and learned Gentleman's inquiry, he might say that as he umerstood the matter, the compensation was to be given oit of the funds in the hands of the East India Compaq,. Mr. treating it as a prvate Bill. then assented to the propriety of Mr. WRI°LEUSBONC:k.TTEN moved that the Bill be taken into consideration 4 n the Monday after Easter. Mr. CHRISTOLUER suggested that that would be Easter Mo t pday. On the suggestio t of Sir R. INGLIS, Mr. PLO WDENthen withdrew his amendment. On the motion ofMr. BROTHERTON. the Bill was then ordered to he I . rici a second time on Monday. SMITHFIEL) ENLARGEMENT BILL. Sir JAMES DUEE moved that the Bill be postponed till a future day. Mr. CHRIS I'OPEER was surprised to hear such an announcement from the Hon. Baronet, and wished to know what was the intention of the Government with respect to this Bill in the event of the City persevering with it. Mr. C. LEWIS 81c1 that it was decidedly the in tention of the Governhent to oppose the Bill. Mr. OSBORNE bait that he thought the Hon. Baronet was pursuing a very knjurious course to his supporters by continually postponi ng this Bill. He stood there to advocate the plan of he Corporation, as the best plan that could he adopted, but his hands were now com pletely weakened. Sir J. DUKE said ttat he was in the hands of the City authorities, and must abide by their decision. The NU was then ntstpomei. Mr. TUFNELL prelented a petition, very numerously signed by the inhabitants of East Stonehuuse, against the late Papal aggrcssim. Mr. Muntz, Mr. Spo(ner, and several other Members, presented petitions frog Birmingham and various other places, prayieg the Muse to resist the Papal aggres sions. Mr. REYNOLDS and lir. B. WALL presented several petitionu from various 'laces against the Ecclesiastical 110 , s Bill. Mr. Cowan, Mr. Hon, Mr. Roche, and several other Members, presented pettious, praying for the abolition of the paper duty. Sir W. CLAY presented a petition from the Tower Hamlets against the Smthfield•market Remova Bill. Mr. HENRY and surre other Members presented pe titions praying for the atolition of the window-tax. Mr. CO BDEN present4d a petition from the inhabitants of Falkirk and Airdrie, stating that the grosseet bribery and corruption bad prevElled during and previous to the late election. They stattti that not less than fifty houses of entertainment had bees opened for tho corruption of the voters, previous to the election, and they prayed that this Hon. House would institute a sifting inquiry into the circumstances. Mr. COBDEN also pmented several petitions from different places in Yorkshre against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill. Mr. R. PALMER presented a petition from the dis trict of Newbury, cumplailing of agricultural distress; also a petition from the buchers of a place in Sussex, against the removal of Smthfield-market. The Earl of ARUNDEL, and SURREY presented a petition against the Ecclesastical Titles Bill. Mr. M. GIBSON presented a petition in favour of the establishment of counts financial boards. Mr. SCULLY presente4 a petition from the county of Kildare, against the Ecc'esie.stical Titles Bill. Alderman TIIONIPSON presented a petition from the city of London, complaining of abuses in the manage ment of the Board of Customs, and praying for inquiry; also a petition from the coal merchants of the City, praying for the removal of Smithfield -market. Mr. BANKES presented t petition from Dorset com plaining of the PapaLaggreision. Mr. S. CRAWFORD pretented petitions from places in Ireland against the Ecclesiastical 'Titles Bill. Sir GEORGE GREY prEsented a petition from Nor thumberland praying for tle repeal of the income-tax levied under Schedule D.—(lfear, hear.) Mr. BLAKE presented a plitition from Galway against the Ecclesiastical Titles 80, and praying that the property and incense of the Established Church in Ire land might be made avuilablefor the purposes of charity and education. Mr. W. WILLIAMS pre*nted a petition from an at Quebec and individual cosmupNlaiDnilnocg oTita f theletention of certain letters BILL. Mr. BARING WALL gave notice that when the s hould move that it be read a s eco nd time that day six Bill cam e )n for second reading he Sundaymonths. Trading Mr. SCULLY moved for copies of all correspondence in reference to the conduct st Thomas Young Prior, Esq. (a magistrate of the county of Galway), with his E xo u n t e t h n - issued 13 , ,, t h e sa id Th o m a s Young Prior, Esq., in June last, for the committal of prisoners t o n; j o u f ly Ir , e 1 1a 8 n 5 ( 0 1, ; o u r n w d i a th lso t , b a o c y e l n l f e a n c n y y t w h a e r r L a o n r t d s Lords Justices, in the L m ie cop to the Bridewell of Clifden , it the county of Galway.— Agreed to. EXPENSES OF POLICE IN LIMERICK. Mr. SCULLY also moved for a return of the number and the expenses of the police force in several baronies in the county of Limerick.--Agr ee d to. PAYMENTS DUE FR9%I BISHOPS TO TUE ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS. Sir B. HALL moved for a return of copies of all cor respondence or communicatio ns between the Ecclesias tical Commissioners and the Archbishop of York, the Bishops of St. Asaph, Bath and Wells, and Ely, in re spect of the sums due froia such Archbishop and Bishops to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, as set forth in the third and last report of the Ecclesiastical Com missioners of England, page 54—viz., from the Archbishop of York £2,317 14 2 Bishop of St. Asaph ... 1,661 0 10 Bishop of Bath and Wells ... 3,495 0 0 Bishop of Ely ... ... 9,242 7 3 Total „. ....£16,717 2 3 with the dates of such corr es p on dence or communica tion, and the periods when the several sums were in all or part payable, and any minutes of the Commissioners thereon.—Agreed to. REMOVAL OF WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE. Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to know what measures had been taken by the Government to carry out the recom mendations of two Committees of the House with re spect to pulling down Westminster-bridge and select ing anew site for the erection of a new bridge? Lord SEYMOUR stated that at the close of the last session a Committee was appointed to inquire into the state of the present bridge, and to consider whether an other bridge ought not to be substituted for it, and whe ther the existing site wa s i n a ll res pects the most desir able. On the last subject the Government received such conflicting evidence that t h e y were satisfied they wore i not n . possession of suf fi cient information to enable them to arrive at a satisfactory conclusion. It was, therefore, determined that a Co mm i ttee o f I nqu i r y should be ap pointed to ascertain whether the present or any the s i te nam w e e s el ( d )f that b Com mittee . be most Com c onve nient for a new bridge, and in a few d ays he would be able to state ASSUMPTION_ OF ROMAN CATHOLIC TITLES mi IN NEWFOUNDLAND. In reply to Mr. B. COCHRANE, Mr. LA.BOUCHERE, in the absence of Mr. Hawes, stated that dispatches had been received from Newfound land conveying the information that a Roman Catholic priest had assumed the title of Bishop of Newfoundland by taVour of the Holy See, and that Earl Grey had replied to it, that the individual in question had no right to use suo a title. In answer to a question from Sir R. H. INGLIS, Mr. LABOUCHERE said there would be no objection to lay the dispatch on the table. METROPOLITAN BUILDING'S BILL. In answer to a question from Alderman SIDNEY, Lord SEYMOUR said that he should take the dis cussion on this 13111 at as early Et day as possible. AFFAIRS OF CEYLON.—vorE OF CENSURE ON THE GOVERNMENT. L'rd JOHN RUSSELL wished to ask the Hon. Member for Inverness-shire whether he had made ar rangements with other lion. Members who had notices on the piper relative to bringing forward the motion of which he had given notice ou the conduct of the Government in Ceylon? Mr. BAILLIE said, in the first place, h• had to ex press his regret that ho was not present on Friday night when the Noble Lord mentioned the subject. In answer to the question now pat, he must take the liberty of observing that the course which the Noble Lord had taken was one of which he had great reason complain. The Noble Lord had stated that the motion was one which he should consider in the light of a vote of censure on the Government, and that therefore it was not his intention to bring forward his; great financial measure until the measure was die, poled of, thus placing him (Mr. Baillie) in the invidi ous position not only of obstructing the business DEBATE. Mr. MOORE resumed the debate on the second reading of this Bill. He said that the Right Ho nourable Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in moving the second reading of this Bill, had professed that he would clear the ground for the House to come to a proper understanding on the subject.—(Hear, hear.) So far, however, from clearing up any of the difficulties which sur rounded the Bill, the Right Hon. Baronet bad kicked up such a dust that he had made the ground much darker and more difficult. He thought, however, that it would be conceded that the opponents of the Bill had since that time cleared the ground of a great deal—in the first place, they had cleared the ground of the Hon. Baronet himself for the space of ten days, and since the restoration of himself and his colleagues they had cleared the ground of at least three-fourths of the Bill ; they had cleared it of anything which could ever have imparted any shadow of consistency to it. rile Noble Lord at the head of the Government had openly avowed that the opinions of his former life were blunders and misconceptions, and that the present Bill was founded on an entire change of his opinion. They cad also exposed to the public view the paltry strings that pulled the puppet of intolerance and bigotry. and shown how the same strings that pulled the puppet's head up were ready to pull it down again. Be did not wish to refer to the erratic fights of indi viduals, but when he heard them accompanied e, ith the cheers of the House of Commons tie could scarcely forbear commenting upon them. He referred to the speech of the Hon. Baronet the Mem eer for Tam worth, and as he had beard That the lowest Jacobins were the Gamaliels at whose feet the Hon. Baronet delighted to sit, he hoped that from that source the Hon. Member drew his matter as well as his manner. The first question to be decided was, whether the set of the Pope was an aggression, expressed in insulting language; secondly, whether it had been a temporal or a spiritual aggression; thirdly, supposing it to be an aggression, was there reasonable ground for the Pope to believe that it was an act offensive to the British Government, or one which, on the contrary, was not only innocent but acceptable ; fourthly, if the Pope had erred in the conclusion, whether the relations of the Government with the See of Rome were or were not such as to warrant that error—in a word, whether the error was with the country or with the Pope ; and fifthly, still assuming it to be an aggression, whether the House 9. as of opinion bat it was an act which called for such a vindi cati n as that proposed by her Majesty's Government, and which was likely to lead to such a serious consummation. With regard to the first proposition he (Mr. Moore) freely conceded that the act of the Pope was an aggression— a spiritual aggression of a most decided character ; but then he maintained that the Pope was dis tinctly in his right, as every man, native and alien, had a right to promulgate his opinions when such opinions were tolerated by the State. In religion, which lived upon persecution, aggression was an inevitable neces sity. Without aggression the world would never have had Christianity any more than persecution. The question, then, was, could such aggression be opposed successfully by penal laws? That the Pope exercised spiritual authority over one third of the people of these kingdoms could not be denied. , That the Papal power was imperiurn in imperio, he would not stop to dispute; but he would maintain that it would be as reasonable to pass an Act of Parliament against the influence of the moon on the tides as against the immaterial and powerful authority of the head of the Catholic Church. Ar rogance had been imputed to this act of the Pope spiritual arrogance ; but the Turk on the banks of the Euphrates did not approach in the smallest degree to the arrogance of the English people on the subject of religion. In tact if all the pride of all the fallen angels had entered into their souls, they could not, in his (Mr. Moore's) opinion, exhibit a greater amount of arrogance in that respect ; and in proof of this he referred to the address of the prelates of the English Church to the Queen, wherein language the most illiberal, the most labouredly and grossly insulting, had been em ployed in speaking of the religion of one-third of her Ma jesty's subjects. What was the insult or aggression of one head of a Church to those of a whole hier archy, whom the Catholics were condemned to pay for anathemising them. In spiritual aggression as well as insult the Catholics were therefore the debtors of that hierarchy; and though they were obliged to imprison their pride in their own hearts, it was not the less strong for biding its time, and certainly they would not forget their , debt. The next question he should consider was, whether this aggression was temporal or spiritual in its character. He asserted it was not the former ; and he had not been able, I In all that was said or written on the subject, to discover a clear description how it became so, and still less a proof that such it was. The Noble Lord (the Member for London) had made a long speech in invidiam, quoting the words of Cardi nal Wiseman's letter, " We govern," &c., as an invasion of the prerogative of the Sovereign ; but with the exception of this Wretched perversion of that ecclesiastical letter, that or any of the speeches which preceded or followed it did n t I define that charge, or contain any evidence in support of it. He (Mr. Moore) maintained that the whole case got up on this ground was disingenuous ; for all assumption of temporal authority on the part of the Pope had been over and over disclaimed. In truth the entire argument of the Noble Lord and those who supported him in that respect was the same as had been used by the old ladies of this counif'ry at any time Within the last hundred years ; and nothing r more or less than what the Noble Lord himself had so often scorned and derided at any time within the last quarter of a century. He (Mr. Moore), however, looked upon the best reply to the Noble Lord's arguments—if such they , could be called— on this point, to be the statement of the Noble Lord the Mem ber for Bath, respecting the organisation of the spiritual body designated W esleyans in this country. The fact was, and it WAS well known its England, that Cardinal W iseman no more meant that he should govern Middlesex temporally than that he should govern the whole country. The Lou.t and Learned Member for Oxford had th own overboard that coarse assertion of temporal power, and taken refuge in a fine-drawn distinction intelligible to no one but himself; and yet for such a distinction the whole country was to be torn in pieces. The Hon. Member for the University oft . xford urged that the Church of Rome claimed authority over every baptised Christian. But was not this claim made by every Church ? The Hon. and Learned Member for the city of Oxford might say, no; but an Hon. Member for the Uni versity of Oxford said, yes; and he said moreover that every bishop in the Established Church claimed this jurisdic tion. Thus, then, were the bishops of the Episcopal Church in this country, the bishops , f the ecc esiastical Church in Scotland, and the bishops of the garrison Church in Ireland claiming all the dissenters, members of ,he Church of Scotland, and Roman Catholics; but did the Dissenters, the Presbyterians, or the Roman Catholics care an atom for this claim. The Roman Catholics, he could speak for them, certainly protested again s t the bishops of the Esta blished Church putting their hands in their pockets; but, as regards their claims to their souls, they regarded it with the most perfect indifference. The argument of the Hon. and Learned Member for Oxford, that the hierarchy would be followed by the canon law, and that under the canon law the Pope might depose the Sovereign and dissolve the alle giance of the subject, was as absurd as that which alleged that absolution would be denied to all who opposed ecclesi astics, in the same manner as was done by the Archbishop of Sardinia in regard to the author of the Siccardi law. There had been a hierarchy in Ireland for centuries, and the canon law was in force there; but none of these consequences had occurred ; while as regarded the refusal of absolutionolthough the people of that country were, be might say, devoted to their clergy, no one cared for the canon law, or the bull In Gana Domini, and no one was, above all, afraid to proceed against the priests. In honest truth, he (Mr. Moore) believed that the only suitor who would not get a verdict in an Irish court against the clergy was the British Government in case they proceeded with the present Bill. As regarded the question of spiritual power, the Attorney- General sail it was no more than was exercised by bishops in partibus p•eviously, and that with the insult the H ouse had nothing to do. Yet for a sta te of things so described by the first law officer of the Crown, the country was to be tern to pieces. The next question was, whether the aggressioe, if such it was, on the part of tie Pope, was one which he had reason to conceive would be offensive to the Government, or, oe the other hand, innocent in itself and not unacceptable to them. On this point the Noble Lord at the head of the Government had made a confession so very humiliating that he (Mr. ,stoore) should not press it on the notice of the House. The Noble Lord had been accused of makieg va rious statements on the subject at issue in 1834 and in 1845 —statements directly contrary to his present course of ac tion; and after considerable hesitation the Noble Lord ad mitted them, accounting for his conduct on this occasion by saying that he had now changed his mind. He (M r . M o ore) h owev er, appealed confidently even to those Honourable Members who were most opposed to him, whether this an swer would be held as satisfactory, or any other than diplo matic. The Hon. Member then referred to the letter of the Hon. Member for South Nottinghamshire, and concluded by contending that the Pope had reasonable grounds to suppose that his measure, if it did not obtain the sanction, would at least command the silence of her Majesty's Government. But if there had been any misconception on this point in the mind of the Pope, the state of the relations between the British Cabinet and the Papal Court were such as to render it perfectly excusable. There was no country in the world wbe'e such a monstrous fiction was maintained as that the head of the religion of one•thir i of the inhabitants—which religion was admitted by the State—should be ignored by the law. But it was not unparalleled in the history of England; for ages after France had cast out the English power. the Sovereigns of England claimed the title of Kings of France also. At the present moment Hon. Members distinctly swore that the Pope had no spiritual authority in this realm, when the contrary was well known to them to be the fact. And an internecine struggle was almost provoked for the maintenance f a falsehood so arrogant. The Hon. Member then referred to the debate on the Bill for diplomatic rela tions with Rome, and asserted that the Noble Lord at the head of tha Government was laughing in the face of the House when he made his statement in respect of the Papal aggression. It was not the division bf the a untry into dio ceses that made the aggression, but it was the people them selves who had fancied the aggression. It was not a proper vindication of the law to pass enactments that were not to be carried into effect, or were to be carried into effect in . ne part of the kingdom and not in the other. This course was more degrading to our national honour than anything else , that could be imagined. (Hear.) Mr. WIGRAM (who was indistinctly heard at first) said, this measure had been treated, during the debate, as if it was but of little consequence to this country, and as if it merely referred to a speculative opinion. He was sa isfied 1 this was a mistake. Wherever the system of Rome pre- , veiled, the liberty and prosperity of a nation d clined— wherever that system was checked, liberty and prosperity flourished.— (Hear, hear.) Look to the various states own- 1 ing the away of Rome. Spain had sunk to a contemptible 1 rank among nationts trader the sway of Rome. 011 the other I *~