The Sun. — London, England, 1851-02-11 00:00:00

ettfo Mlittion SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock, GERMAN Y. The Landtag of the Grand Duchy - of Baden was dosed on the 4th by Baron von Marschall, the Minister of the Interior, with the following address His Royal Highness the Grand Duke has charged ave to express the regret he feels at being prevented by Nlness from appearing before you, as it would have given him the greatest pleasure to have completed in person the task begun with courage and goodwill, continued with perseverance and mutual confidence, and completed in the spirit of unity and peace—and thus fitly recog nised your beneficial labour& for the prosperity of the country. " It has, indeed, been impossible so soon to obliterate all the consequences and traces of the time of disorder; the fortune of men and the welfare of states are more easily destroyed than fuunded anew; principles of morals and religion are more easily undermined than re-estab lished again. But die path of improvement has been entered upon, and if it is pursued with zeal, firmness, and unity, the future may be looked forward to with confidence. • The support you have g iven the Government, and the spirit of justice and modration which has animated your proceedings, have already reacted favourably on public opinion, and his Royal Highness sees, with great satisfaction, that after the late deep agitation a calmer arid more settled state of affairs begins to prevail, with that respect for the law and recognition of the higher moral power of the civil order a.the State, to support which is the duty and condition of individual as well as of general prosperity. The people will feel thankful that by your assent to the numerous Bills laid before you, you have given strength to order and legality, regulated the public ex penditure, raised general confidence, produced a more favourable condition of commercial affsirs, and thereby in so many branches increased the general welfare. The p e opl e will be especially griteful.to you for having, without violating the rights and the essence of a rational free- d om , given the means of acting energetically against the abuse of liberty, and of exercising the public autho rity with effect. His Royal Highness can therefore so much the more expect from :every organ of the administration of the State, that, strengthened by these laws, they will con scientiously, discharge their duty, by putting them into operation,. impressed with the conviction that only when united with proper firmness can a real good will towards all be rendered of any activity. Baden, united and strengthened within, and rely ing on the newly created armed power, will take the place which the confidence of the German nation and the respect of other states secure to it. " Gentlemen, you return after your completed and successful labours to your homes. The best wishes of our Prince accompany you. You will continue to act among your fellow-citizens in the same spirit in which you have worked here. The _blessings of Providence will not be refused to the united exertions we dedicate to the happiness of our native land. " By the authority of the Archduke I declare the Landtag closed." DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES A letter from Copenhagen of the 3d says— " Yesterday morning the beating of drums and salvos of artillery greeted the troops returning from the duchy of Schleswig. At the Western Gate, which was orna mented with flags and trophies, they were met by the Prince, who is heir presumptive to the throne, the mu nicipality, the staff of the national guard, &e., and a great crowd of people shouting for the King and the brave Danish army. The troops then proceeded to the triumphal arch erected to - their honour in the old market place. The King waited for them there and addressed theta thus—' The whole nation unites with me in praisino• your patriotism, fidelity, courage, and indomitable perseverance.' These words called forth shoats of Frederick VII. for ever! " Long live the King!' The King then passed them in review, and afterwards led them to a banquet prepared for them in the riding-school of the palace of Chris tianoboig, the largest establishment of the kind in Europe. After the banquet, three toasts were drunk— one to the King, proposed by the president of the muni elpali'y; a second to the army, proposed by the King himself ; and a third to the country, proposed by the President of the Council of Ministers. Each of these toasts was saluted by a flourish of trumpets and a salvo of artillery. After this, the King walked round to every table, and spoke to several of the private sol diers. He then saluted them all in an affectionate man ner, and withdrew amidst shouts of ' Long live . the King !' from every part of the vast banqueting-room." - NEW STRAND THEATRE.—We are glad to find tleat the extensive alterations and improvements which have for some time been in progress at the New Strand Theatre, being now completed, this pretty " cabinet" Neill be opened early next month by Mr. Copeland, of the Theatres Royal and Amphitheatre, Liverpool, who has become the lessee. Among other important improvements, a new gallery stair ease has been erected, the entrance to which is in Surrey street. This wine a valuable "godsend" to the " deities," The company will be most talented and select. and the per- Ibrmances of a very moral and striking character. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOI:EION•OFFICE, FEB. 11, 1851. NOTIFICATION. It is hereby notified that Viscount Palmerston, her Ma jesty's Principal Secretary of Sate fir Foreign Affairs, has received from Sir Stratford Canning, her Majesty's Am bassador at Constantinople, a dispatch, enclosing an official . notification from the Ottoman Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated the 13th of January last, of the blockade of all the ports of Samos, by the naval forces of his Imperial Majesty the Sulta-. Such blockade to commence twenty days after tits said 18th of January. BUCKINGHAM PALACE, F. 3. The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon James Meek, Esq., late Comptroller of the Victualling and Trar.sport Services in the Admiralty. ADMIIeALTY F. 8. Erratum in Gazette of 26th January, 1849, page 247—For boats of Victory under Lieutenant Purcell, read under Lieu tenant St. Clair and Mr. Purcell. CROWN OFFICE, FEB. 11. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. Borough of New Windsor—The Right Honourable John Ilatchell, of Merrion-square, in the city of Dublin, Attorney fieneral for Ireland. WHITEHALL, FEB. 1. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Watkins Jones, of Beaumaris, in the county of Anglesea, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery. WIVEHALL, FEB. 1. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Trigonwell King, of Blandford, in the county of Dorset, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, FEE. 6. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Francis Parker, of the city of Chester, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in. the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. George Johnstone, publican, Newbury, Berkshire. Edward Hodges, surgeon, Swinford, Leicestershire. BANKRUPTS. John Baruch, oilman, High Holborn, to surrender Feb. 21 and March 24, at twelve, at the .Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Treherne and White, Buck lersbnry. William Leighton Wood, pianoforte maker, Charles-street, Drury-lane, Feb. 21, at half-past eleven, and March 28, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official as signee, Birehin-lane ; Wright and Bonner, London -street, Fenchurch-street. Edwin Bliss, brushmaker, Barbican, Feb. 21 and March 27, at eleven, at 'the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman- street-buildings; Baylis and Drew, Red , erossLstreet, Cripplegate. Richard Brickwood Coltman, Court milliner, Regent etreet, Feb. 22, at one, and Aprils, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Norcutt, Queen-Equare, Bloomsbury. John Alurrelis, barge owner, Colchester, Feb. 21, at two, and March 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groomi official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lombard-street; Wire and Child, St. Swithin's-lane ; Barnes, Colchester. Henry Durham Stevenson, merchant, Bishopwearmouth, Durham, Feb. 20, at eleven, and March 20, at one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, 4 ewcastle-upon-Tyne ; Wright, Sunderland ; Maples and earse, Q d Jewry. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the Londox New Price Current, Feb. 11.) Scam.—To-day there was more disposition evinced to operate in West India Sugar ; importers are also txmer, and obtained rates fully equal to those of Friday for bot grocery and reening qualities; of Barbadoes 169 hhds 19 trcs were sold at full prices, fine yellow realizing 4 .33 6d to 445, aad common to good 40s 6d to 435. The total p urc h ases were 62.0 talc's and trcs. At auction 48 I nl2 trcs 47 brls St. Kitts were sold at 38s 6d to ra cis ad for ord and good mid yellow, and at 37s to 39s fur washed, Renee]) To-day Refined goods were operated in with caution .horae trade purposes, rather lower, ruling and prices are The market for crushed at 48s 6d to 49s for brown lumps. forme r cr r u a s te hed Sugar has a dull tone, with free sellers at MAlRlTlErs.—ah2i.:,4;7ft_ernoon the biddings were brisker at a public sale selling at and full sates were ob tained, fine yellow at 41s to 425, other sorts 373 to 40s, and good to fine brown 35s 6d to 36s 6d. EasTAlNDra.—This afternoonßengal Sugar was more in demand, and realised lastwene:t's rates ; at auction 3,999 bags were mostly disposed to 44s 6d, mid of —good to fine grainy yellow went at 41s and good sd to 40s. good _ mid 41s Gd whi ce Benares 433 6d to 443, r a id wioerwenahidowever, only toe 493 6d. Of Madraa 1,213 bags i..i part sold at the former valae 38siofc yellow went at 30s to 335, and good to fine 343 t o FOREIGN.—To-day there was no Publi c . sa l e of Foreign Sugar, and privately the business concluded wss small for all purposes, but holders refused to sell under the rates of last week. . MoratssEs —Since . .our last report, operations h e y, be-n upon a limit( d'svale in ell carts, still tower - rates Prtt not accepted, sur ply being small. The„ value' of West I n di a i s f rom 1..'5s to 17a for low to finis; Cuba and Porto Raga 153 to Lis Cr/ I Mauritius and Bengal 1-23 to 14 : 4 per cwt.: r e . °," 4 --In consequence of easier rates having been i a ex tended for f ore i gn, opera ti ons have been a more ex and Para by p)nvato treat y ; Guaya q uil at 32.3, Bahia " to p :30s 6d per cwt. British Plantation is not cheaper, er, the 5 '4)0 being 3e m• t ll but dealers have operated with caution ; Trinidad at from 453 to 503, and Grenada 43s to 4 4s per cwt. COFFEIII.—T a-day rather lower rates being accepted for N:tive Ceylon CoffQe' occasioned a fair business to be concluded by private tre aty. were chiefly soild at 47s t 0,78 At auction 1,733 bags 6d . for good ordinary; a part was taken in at 504 for superior quality. Of Flaa- i THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 11, 1851 tation several parcels sold privately at full terms. Costa Rica is wanted, and 150 bags realised 51s to 52s 6d for good and fine ordinary. TEA.—Although Congou is offering rather under pre vious rates dealers operate with reluctanee. The value of common and good ord is lld to 1 lid, medium is to Is Oid, and better sorts is ld to is 9d per lb. The lower kinds are now least in request. For Green the market has a dull appearance. Scented and Pekoe Teas can be obtained rather under previous terms, and few buyers . are to be met with. Of 12,000 page offered at auction on Wednesday, only 2,000 found buyers. RICE.—For the best white descriptions of East India, a good demand exists for cleaning purpose, and full rates are paid. All other sorts are, however operated in with caution by shippers and home dealers, although offered rather under previous terms. At auction 4,762 bags Madras all sold at 9s 6d to 10s per cwt for good clean white Bengal grain; but of 6,604 bags pinkey not above half found buyers at from 7s 6d to 9s for low to good; of 1,800 bags Bengal a part sold at 103 to 11s 6d for mid to fine white. By private treaty there are sellers of Cargo and Pearl Barley at 8s per cwt., but few buyers are to be met with. Of cleaned Patna large parcels have been sold at lls to 18s for low to fine ; and there is a fair business doing in town dressed Carolina at 20s to 268; and American at 18s to I9s per cwt. In Sago sales are upon a more extended scale at 193 to 21s for small Pearl; and Sago Floor at 14s 6d to 15s. Ta pioca has been dealt in with more freedom at 4d to sd, but for Arrowroot the demand has been limited. Bar badoes is to Is 6d, other sorts of West India 3d to 10d, and East India at 2cl to 4d. SPICES.—To-day at public auction 31 bgs of Pimento sold at 4id to 4id for ord, and at 5d for mid; 16 bgs Madras-Ginger at 35s for sound; but 2,000 bgs pod Pepper were withdrawn. Sriarrs.—Leeward Island is held for is 8d to is 9d proof, the supply continuing small; at the same time there are few buyers. East India ha, been in good re quest, in consequence of Is 6d to is bid being accepted. We quote plain and mid quality 30s to 33s per cent over proof at 2s 8d to 3s, good to fine 33 to 38 over 3s 2d to 4e 6 I but oniy limited transactions have taken place. There con tinues to be a good demand for Demerara from 2s 6d to 2s 10d for 30 to 40 per cent over proof., Brandy Cognac best brands, of the vintage of 1850, at 4a 4d to 4s 6d, 1849 ditto, 4s 7d to 4s 9d, 1848 ditto, 45 9d to 4s 11d, and inferior sorts 3s to 3s 4d. Geneva is is 7d to is Bd, fine is 9d to 2s. British made Spirit is yet 9s 8d to 98 9d, and Gin 8s 3d for 22 per cent under proof. INDIGO.—The quantity declared for sale was 11,683 chts in the A, and 4,730 in the B catalogue; total 16,413 chts; of which 3,247 have not been printed, leaving the quantity to be brought forward 14,166 chts. During the progress of the sale 427 chts have been withdrawn. 1,180 chts (including 427 withdrawn) have passed the sale this day. There was but a small attend ance of either home or foreign buyers, and the orders generally appear to be very limited. COCHINEAL.—On the part of holders there is mole firmness, and none has been submitted to public sale since this day week. Privately a fair business has been concluded; Honduras, silvers 3s 6d to 4s, black 3s 8d to 4s.Bd; Mexican, silvers 3s 5d to 38 7d, black 3s 8d to 3s 10d, and Teneriffe 3s 7d to 4s 4d per lb. For auction the quantity declared is small. TALLOW.—An active demand has been experienced for Russian on the spot, with much firmness on the part of holders. For fine new yellow Candles the rates obtained have been 38s to 38s 6d per cwt. Several contracts were entered into for delivery in next two months at 37s 9cl;to 38a for new. The rates demanded are 39s to 393 3d for last three months of the year, but little desire is at present evinced to operate. Town melted is well quoted a; 37a net cash. In other sorts of Tallow larger purchases have been made, and at firm rates. At auction 1,250 casks Australian were nearly all sold at from 33s 9d to 37s 9d; 400 pkgs South Ame rican 858 6d to 38s; 800 casks wrecked Petersburg yellow Candle 36s 3d to 37s 3d per cwt. For public sale 1,400 pkgs are declared. 0i1.5.--This afternoon at auction 93 cks Cocoa Nut Oil frum Tahiti were sold at 25s to 27e 6d per cwt. Of 120 tuns Sperm Oil a small party only sold at 851 to 851 10s per tun for first sort. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT , (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. __- The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woo: sack at Five o'clock. PAPAL AGGRESSION. Lord ABINGER presented a petition from the county of Surrey against the Papal aggression. He thought the Government ought to put the existing laws into force before bringing forward any measure in Parliament. He complained of the inemcieney of the Govern ment measure, more particularly of that portion of it which prevented these bishops from administering to property left to the Roman Catholic Church, a provi sion which might be easily evaded. He thought that some measure ought to be adopted to put a atop to the great Roman Catholic conspiracy by preventing the monastic orders from exercising any power. In Poland:a Roman Catholic ministry had, after the Re formation,: been enabled by their episcopal and mo nastic organizatien to oppress and persecute the ma jority, which majority consisted of members of the Greek and Lutheran Churches. They had gone on until a civil war broke out, and . then the Roman Catholicsaap pealed to foreign powers for assistance; and the re sult had bees the destructihn—,4 the free king dom of Poland, and the partition df- the country; and if by a culpab!e neglect the Roman Catholics were enabled to carry out their ambitious designs in this country who could say what might be the result? Should the Roman Catholics be enabled to return some hundred Members to the House of Commons what would not be their power as a balancing body acting always together. They might command the majority. It was said that Roman Catholic priests were poor, but great conspirators had from this very secresy great power. Let them remember that at the Reformation two-thirds of the property of the kingdom was in the hands of the Roman Catholics, and yet • by energy the Reformation was carried. The Roman Ca- tholic priests were endeavouring to induce girls pos sessed of property to become nuns, and thus they sought to possess themaelvs of the property of the kingdom. They had seen at their bar a counsel pleading that a nunnery was entitled to property which under ordinary circumstances would have been the property of the nun, bet which the father had declared should not be the property of any - of his children who should become mem bers. of a religious order. Several other instances had occurred lately in which the Roman Catholic priests had endeavoured to deprive persons of their property. They had subjected persons of their religion to macerations until their minds should be reduced completely under the power of the priests. In one case in which the Jesuits had prosecuted for the recovery of property they had given 10,000/. to compromise the case. What must have been the dark features of that case which the Jesuits would wish to keep from the public eye, oven by the payment 7; of 10,0001! Iu another case a Roman Catholic priest had expended 4,000/. of trust money, and had refused to give any account. In monasteries persons were kept in imprisonment. They had inspectors of prisons and of lunatic asylums, and they ought to have inspectors of nunneries and monasteries, to prevent unfortunate per sons from being confined in those places who might desire to be set at liberty. They required a vigorous police over monasteries, nunneries, and monks. By the Emancipation Act they were to have registers of nuns and monks; no such register had been kept, nor had any registrars been appointed. Jesuits were prohibited from entering England, and yet they swarmed. He thought that personal property should be included in the statute of mortmain, which prevents the Roman Catholic religion from being en dowed. The intrusion of priests into our houses for the abduction of our daughters, of our wives, and of the ob taining of death-bed legacies, by working on the fears of the dying, should be prevented. The Noble Lord at the head of the Government - had, by what he had already done, excited the undying enmity of many implacable enemies, and he hoped he would carry out the work he had begun. The Earl of HARROWBY presented several petitions against the Papal aggression. Lord WODEHOUSE presented several petitions to the same effect. The Marquis of LANSDO WNE laid certain returns on the table. ' Reading,Waterworks. Reiding Cemetery Company. Regent's Canal Company. Saint Patrick's Cathedral (Dublin). Scarborough Gas. Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Railway. South Devon Railway (No. 1). South Devon Railway (No. 2). Sunderland Improvement. Taw Vale Railway and Dock. Trinity College (Dublin). Waveney Valley Railway. York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Branch to West Durham Railway, &c.) York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Abandonment of part of Bishop Auckland Branch, &c.) Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions from several places in Devonshire complaining of agricultural distress. Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented several petitions from Lancashire praying for a repeal of the window-tax. Lord C. MANNERS presented two petitions from Leicestershire, one against the Papal aggression, and the other praying for the repeal of the malt•tax. Lord G. MANNERS presented a petition from a place in Cambridgeshire praying for the establishment of county financial boards. Lord HOTHAM presented petitions from the East Riding of Yorkshire complaining of agricultural distress, and praying the House to take steps to remove it. Mr. SPOONER presented a petition to the same effect from Worcestershire. Mr. PLUMPTRE presented a petition from Kent against the Papal aggression. Mr. BOOKER presented a petition from Glamorgan shire complaining of agricultural distress. Mr. REYNOLDS presented a petition from St. Michael's, Dublin, against the Government measure for resisting the Papal aggression; a petition from Ros common praying for a new and equal valuation under the poor-law; a petition from the letter-press printers of Dublin praying for the total repeal of the duty on paper; and a petition to the same effect from the pub lishers and stationers of Dublin. Mr. CHRISTOPHER presented a petition from Lin colnshire complaining of agricultural distress. Mr. LUSHINGTON presented a petition from St. James's, Westminster, praying for the repeal of the window-tax. Mr. D'EYNCOURT presented a petition to the same effect from Lambeth. Mr. WILLIAMS presented a similar petition from Marylebone. Mr. HUME presented a large number of petitions from various places praying for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge. Mr. GEORGE BANKES presented petitions from several places in, Dorsetshire complaining of the opera tion of free trade. The petitioners stated that they were subject to highway rates, poor rates, and all the other obligations to which land was liable, and that they enjoyed none of the benefits of free trade ; and, therefore, petitioned that they might he exempt from the disadvantages of which those who enjoyed its benefits were ignorant. Mr. Herries, Lord March, and several other Members presented petitions to the same effect. Sir R. INGLIS presented several petitions to enforce measures against the Papal aggression. The Attorney-General, Mr. Alderman Humphery, and Lord Duncan presented petitions from several places against the window tax. _ AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Mr. DISRAELI—Sir, I beg leave to move that the conclusion of that part of her Majesty's most gracious Speech, which refers to the condition of the country, be read by the Clerk at the table. (This having been done, the Honourable Gentleman continued)—A condi- Von of general prosperity iu the country, concurrent with a continued depression of a most important class cf her Majesty's subjects, appears to be a conjuncture which should make the Minister reflect.— (Hear.) But, Sir, if such a combination of circumstance, be brought about by legislation, which has at the same time produced the general prosperity and continued de pression, I think the subject is one which merits not only the eonsideration of the Minister, but also the de liberation of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) Sir, these remarks, I think, apply to t he present condi tion of the owners and occupiers of land in the United Kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) It was, Sir, once my intention to have cffered to the House evi dence, which is in my possession, as to the present condition of the owners and occupiers of land, and I would have offered to the House such evidence as could be tendered by men in various parts of the kingdom, who are regularly and largely employed in the cultivation of the soil—men, in their class, of the highest skill and respectability, many of them well-known members sitting on both sides of the House—in Scotland and Ireland as well as in England.—(Hear, hear.) Sir, I feel, generally speaking, the objections to which such evidence, however strong, and even though certified by the names of those who respectfully offer their testimony.—(Hear, bear.) I feel generally the objection which such evidence is open to in a Parliamentary discussion like this.—(Haar, hear.) It is, Sir, in respect to that evidence that I now call the attention of the House, and I call upon them not to trust in their preconceived notions, or in any thoughts which may have induced Them to act, whether it be on this side of the House or on the other; but I call upon them as Members of Parliament to discuss in a calm and dispassionate spirit a matter which largely affects the interests of the whole nation.—(Hear.) The high cha racter which the House ought to sustain in the country calls for this.—(Hear, hear.) At least such is the notion which may have willingly or unwillingly chosen to ene tertain.—(Hear, hear.) But that is no sufficient answer to the complaint which I haxe to make, and no answer to the petitions of those who have suffered from the grievous mistakes which have been made upon this sub ject,—(Hear, hear.) The best answea which we can obtain is to be derived from the effects which free trade has produced. It is a strange thing that while the whole of the rest of the community are enjoy ing, it is said, unexampled prosperity, the agri cultural class are Buffering unexampled depres sion. This opinion is not confined to this side of the House, or to the other. lem prevented, as I have said, from the necessity of trespassing upon your atten tion on this matter, for my observations are cur tailed by the admission in her Majesty's Speech that this depression is univerval and confined to no par ticular class of the owners or occupiers of land. The opinions of all were agreed, at last, upon the fact itself. The very thing prima facie carries its own appearance that the agricultural class are severely and constantly opressed—(Hear, hear.) If that be the case, and the complaints come not from one side alone, there is an additional reason why a new investigation should be entered upon.—(Hear, hear.) There is yet a' third reason why this investigation should be entered upon. I remember that when a Noble Lord, whose position I most unworthily occupy, had expressed a great fear of the consequences of the Bill which was then about to be iutronueed into the House, and had asked the great Minister of the day whether he had duly considered the cousequencss of the legislation on which he was about to enter, he was told that little fear need he entertained on that point.—(Hear, hear.) And this opinion was entertained not only by gentlemen on this side of the House, but also,' if any faith were to be put in their expressions, equally by those on the other side. I remember that, five years ago, when the question for the repeal of the corn-laws was - mooted in this House, Lord George Bentinck—(Hear, hear, and cheers)—had asked a question of the great Minister of the day as to the purport of the views which he had pro mulgated, and had inquired whether he was prepared to bring in any measures to obviate the evils which must necessarily arise from the repeal of the corn-laws.— (Hear, hear.) Lord George Bentinok asked whether Sir Robert Peel had taken into consideration the effect of the repeal of these laws upon the commu tation of tites.—(Hear, hear.) Wheat was then at 58s. Bd. a quarter. Sir Robert Peel said that he had not, for be did not expect that any change would be made in the price of corn.—(Hear, hear.) Yet within less than seven years it was ascertainee that such was the working of the Act for reducing the corn-laws that it was not now more than 455. a quarter, and he left it to the judgment of the gentlemen on either side of the House to say whether it was, under present circum stances, likely to be higher. Sir Robert Peel had emphatically expressed it as his opinion that the repeal of the Corn-laws would make no alteration, or at least not any material alteration, in the price of wheat. And yet you have seen the results of Imperial Legislation on important class whose interest I am advocating.—(Hear.) Sir Robert Peel had plainly expressed his opinion upon this point, and the Hon. Gentlemen opposite were not without their share of responsibility, for the Right Hononrable Gentleman the Secretary at War openly and explicitly, had expressed similar opinions. That Right Hon. Gentleman informed the House that the Scotch farmers had not the slightest fear of compe tition with the foreigner; and he alluded to a case which had recently occurred of a farm in the county of East Lothian, called East Barnes, which had been let at an increased rent, but observed that it had been let to a person of energy and enterprise. Now, I happened to look over a Scotch Liberal paper lately, and there I found it stated that the rent of this man of energy and enterprise had been reduced by no less a sum than 6501 (Hear, h ear .) Sho iug that even a Scotch farmer may be liable to error as well as an English farmer. • That Minis ter, whose opinions on such a subject would naturally have considerable influence on the House, had always shown the least reserve on the subject; and he was sure if sanguine statements and chewing calculi tions from the Chancellor of the Exchequer could com pensate even for the absence of protection, they had not been spared, but indeed expended on the soil with an exuberant generosity which could not be excelled. The Chancellor of the Exchequer wai not only hopeful, but announced that the consequences which he did not fore see were only occasioned by what he called exceptional circumstances—now the harvest is short, now it is ex uberant, but whether plentiful or sterile, unfortunately for the owners and occupiers of the soil, whose difficulties are now recognized graciously by the Sove reign, unfortunately for this important class of her Majesty's subjects the result was always the same, whether there was peace or whether there was war, whether the continent was in convulsions or in a state of tranquility, the same effect was always pro duced in Mark-lane.—(Hear.) In 1848 the Chancellor of the Exchequer favoured the House with a most successful expression of his economical opinion, and cleared away all the difficulties which beset the question. He did this on a question which I first endeavoured to place before the House that long perverted question of local burdens.— (Hear, hear.) 'The Chancellor of the Ex chequer, in his speech on that occasion, in which, having dispatched the question of local burdens, which he treated with all his facility and ability, he gave us his matured sentiment and the matured opinion ot . the Cabinet on what be called agricultural distress. The Cabinet acknowledged that agricultural distress existed in 1849; but then they said it was principally most vexatious in the south of England, though that it prevailed to a certain extent in all parts was not denied. But the Cabinet, by the mouth of a financial Minister accounted for that distress. "He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) was inclined to think that the present depreciation in the price of agricultural produce was very much occasioned by alarm."— (Laughter.) The sympathy of his supporters excited him to s still stronger expression of opinion, and in the next five minutes he said "he thought there was abundant reason to believe that the present prices were unduly lowered by the language used at recent agricultural meetings."—(Laughter.) I believe he even intimated that the principal cause of depression of agricutural prices was some speeches, which were made by my Noble Friend the Member for Stafford.—(Hear, hear.) But the Chan cellor of the Exchequer said there were other things to be considered besides the price of grain. But what was the average of 1848, from which I sup pose the - Cabinet drew their calculations in 1849 that this was merely a temporary depression, which would last only for a short time? I have the averages of 1848 as quoted by the Right Hon. Gentle man, and I have the averages of 1850; let us compare the two, and see whether there was any good reason for hirseto tell us that that depression was only temporary. In 1848 the average price of beef was 4s. sad., in 1850 depression , w then.hil while 1 8 it was 3s. B}d. So that, aft er t wo years : o f on ly t e mporary s w o t . s i a t r w e as no o w n i ly n a worse condition than we were The aver age pr i ce for mutton i n 1848 was s s . 2d., referring- to Chancellor only o b objection t 1) 0 7 : the. Exchequer,tihseto opinion he t ha e t 2fd. Ri t g h h e t rY llon. Gentlemen that, it may be possible to arrive at erroneous opinions upon that important subject, and then - , therefore, when great men on both sides have formed erroneous opinions, it is more the duty of this House to say whether they cannot discover the cause of this depression and pene trate the 'reasons of this anomaly.—(Hear, hear.) Unfortunately the Right Honourable Gentleman was not in his place when the subject was discussed last ) ear; but the Lord Presiden t of the Co unc il, a st atesman second to none in judgment, and, from his position in the country, and connexion with the lauded interest the object of respect and affection to a large class, that Noble Lord, before au august assembly, told the House that the depres sion had been caused only by exceptional causes. which would not last many weeks. That eminent states man informed the House this time last year thai the idea of the continuance of imports into this country was quite absurd.--(Cheers.) Well, Sir, when we have men of such high position in the country, who gave all their attention to these subjects, and act under a sense of the great responsibility attached to anything which may fall from their lips, when we have Ministers of the Crown deceived in like manner as their predecessors, it is an additional reason why the House of Commons should endeavour to fulfil their duty and arrive at a more sound and cautious conclusion than those who are our models and leaders.— Hear, hear.) I do not for a moment accuse the present Government of not having given great attention to this subject. It is not merely that we have the recorded opinions of the .Secretary at War upon Scotch farming, nor that the Chancellor of the Ex chequer and the Marquis of Lanadowne have applied themselves to this important question, but there a re Members of th e G overn ment' not occupy ing positions so eminent, nor fulfilling functions so responsible, have devoted their intelligence to the investigation of this subject, and favoured the House with their conclusions on it. I mean the Member for Westbury; he is a ►nember of the Administration, justly dis tinguished for statistical acquirements and economical information, and I may say this sincerely, that I know no man who has more successfully demonstrated that that which has happened ought not to have occurred. He could not but think that in all the discussion that had taken place great injustice had been done to the British farmer. He had been described as a sluggish and a slothful man. He thought that the occupier of the soil ought to be treated in a very different way to what they bad hitherto been. He thought that the effect of the present law was to blot out a class in their agricultural hierarchy.— (Hear, hear.) They were making a war against the middle class in England, the class which, he had no hesitation in saying, was one of the most important in the country.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") He trusted that the House, in discussing this question, would forget the past, and only look to the prevent aspect of affairs. (LEFT SPEAKING.) AGRICULTURE AND CURRENCY. (From the Journal of Industry.) The state of agriculture in tuis country is now that which Adam Smith defines as " misery," v:z., a state of "low prices and touchy." The yield is found, for the most part to be decidedly defective, while the average price of wheat for the week ending 17th of January, was 38s. ld. a quarter. Now when it is remembered that 1,200,000 men are engaged in agricultural pursuits in Great Britain, the depressed condi tion of so large a class becomes a most serious consideration to the country at large. Their distressed state must necessarily react on trade and the manufacturing interest. But, independently of this, it is impossible to regard the increasing depres sion of the once powerful agricultural body without feelings of deep concern. The land was originally the source of the mation's wealth. The Barons of Runny mede wero the representatives of the landed interest of their day. The country party has again and again stood forth to protect the rights and liberties of the peo ple of England. And what are the present prospects of the country party? " Already," said Sir James Gra ham, in 1825, " Mr. Peel's Bill has occasioned an im reouse transter of property." " Estates, which have been held from generation to generation in the same family, are rapidly changing owners; and as the country gentle man retires, the fundholder advances. Both the nobility and gentry must fall from their high estate under the operation of this Act; their reduced rental must be absorbed in the necessary outgoings, and fixed charges on their property, and nothing will be left to sustain the dignity of their rank and station. The occasional expansions of the circulating medium which Government hos seise tioned and encouraged, whereby a temporary prosperity has visited all interests, and the ingenuity with which the mercantile class has availed itself of commercial money to supply the place of coin and bank notes, together with the partial advantage derived from the corn-laws have en abled the agricultural interest to delay the evil. But the necessities of our vast population have now exposed the agriculturists to the conapetion of the world, and that evil day is last approaching. With mortgages, and in cumbrances fixed in money payments under a high scale of prices, the landowner must gradually sink under the burden. Lord Brougham has correctly defined what is meant by the ruin of the landed interest,—an expression which is often treated with derision. It is not, he says, that " the proprietors would be destroyed, that the land would become sterile, or sink into the sea, and the owners be exterminated. No : what is to be understood by the ruin of a great class, and by the destruction of the most commanding interest in the country, is shortly this : a change of property; much individual misery ; the whole relations of that class to the rest of society, and of its members to each other, destroyed, Such may be called the destruction of a .class ; when it happens to a community, it becomes the destruction of a state." Already the middle class of agriculturists, the tenant farmers, are sinking under the pressure of the monetary system. Many of the smaller farmers are already ruined, many more are on the verge of ruin, and the most pru dent, successful, and enterprising portion of the body— men of skill, capital, and energy—are witnessing the pro visions made for their families d H indling away, their capital depreciating, and the fair remuneration of their labour annihilated. And the pressure is reaching also that more numerous class, whose lot it is to labour for their daily bread. The winter has, so far, been f a vo ura bl e t o this class. The farmers, much to their credit, have, for the most part, manifested an unwillingness to lower their wages. Food has been cheap, fuel has not been so urgent a necessary of life, as usual at this period. But is it possible to imagine that the agricultural labourer will not speedily ex perience the ill effects of the ruin which is seizing on his employer? No: landlord, tenant, and labourer, must, if the present system continues, be involved in the same severe distress. Now this is the time to consider, calmly and deliberately, what should be done for the agricultural body, and also what should be done by them. We say. that . the existing depres sion calls for immediate relief, as tar as it is 'practicable. The severe depression of any large class of the community should never be regarded by a statesman with indifference. Where distress cannot be prevented, it should be relieved ; where suffering can not be remedied it should Ise mitigated. That hard hearted abuse of the principles of political economy, which leaves a class to "find its level," though that level be the dust; and proclaims that our fellowwen,whose errors or mistake of judgment have brought them to distress, are to be left to the punishment of nature," is abhorrent alike to morality, religion, and common sense. But where a large, important, producing class is struggling against the effects of laws which have reduced the puce of their produce to an extent never contem plated, and at the saute time increased the weight of their mortgages, incumbrances, taxes, rents, and all money payments, they are justly en titled to relief. Immediate relief is what they want ; and all practicable relief by lessening the heaviest burs dens on land, the land tax, the hop duty (a grievous tax), all rates pressing unduly on laud, and by causing all the payments which comp against - the land to undergo a careful revision, should be effected. But let the agricultural body be assured that all such relief, however it may - alleviate present suffering, is a mere expedient; it is not the remedy. The laws which have brought them to their present condition, and which threaten them with worse consequences, are the monetary laws which the late Sir Robert Peel established. To these laws are owing the repeated periods of depression which, with a productive duty first up to 80s. a quarter, then down to 705., to 645., and to _565., have visited them, in com mon with all the industrious interests of the country, during the last thirty years. These money laws were the immediate cause of the corn-laws being, at last, repealed. They render a return to protection impos sible. And these laws, as the wants of an increasing population become more urgent, will, when com mercial and manufacturing depression are added — as added they will be, when the " cycle" brings their arrival—will prodnce changes, financial, social, and political, greater. than 'any we haie yet seen. If the agricultural body wish to save themselves they must learn to understand the true cause of their suffering; they must do more—they must combine and unite, they must exhibit that determined energy of purpose, that abrogalion of selfish and personal feelings, with out which even a good cause cannot prosper. They must give time, money, and influence to obtain redress. and above all, they must make common cause with all the other great producing interests. Bad money laws have injured the merchant, the trader, the manufacturer, the landowner, and the farmer. The poor operative, and the day labourer have again and again suffered all that humanity can endure from privation and misery. Let the landed aristocracy of England stand forward, not to fight for their class interests, but to contend for the general weal. What has immortalized the Barons of the great charter, and the. Great Charter itself? It is this. They asserted the rights and liberties, and assured the property and interests of all classes of ed ‘ n ‘ o Th i e ndi ß ff a e r r o e n nee " t s o a t j h 's e James Sir their Mackintosh,fe llow-countryjshneonw. in ferior classes; for in their articles they require a Parlia mentary consent to the tallages of London and all other towns, us much as to the aid and scutages which fall upon themselves." That charter provided for the welfare of noble, merchant, free-man, and serf. "We sh a ll se l l, delay, or deny justice to none." The Barons were strong in right, and strong in right will that body again be when they stand forth to rescue all the industrious classes of the community from a system which is the common enemy of all. Joule TWELLB. Perlethorpe, Notts. THE LATE FATAL COLLISION S IN THE FIRTH OF CLYDE.—GLASGOW, SUNDAY EVREING.-It has now been definitively ascertained that the crew of the Laurel, which vessel was ran down by the Thistle steamer on Tuesday night, numbered fifteen souls. There was also a gentleman passenger—thus making sixteen in all who have perished by this unhappy catastrophe, after having braved all the win ter storms of the Atlantic, and when within three hours' sail of the close of their voyage. A dressing-case, belong ing to the passenger containing the miniature of a lady, has been cast ashore. The name of this gentleman is believed to be Bradford, from Demerara. The name of the captain of the Laurel is Livingstone, not Dalrymple, as formerly reported. Little of the wreck has been cast ashore since Thursday, and none of the bodies, in consequence of the wind having changed, and being likely to surge them down the channel. In the opinion of nautical men, who have seen the wreck of the Laurel's stern, the frightful onset of the steamer must have cut the brig quite open, and gone right over her, sending her to the bottom almost instantaneously. It is presumed that the Laurel had been lying to at the time, waiting for the morning light to run up to Greenock. The name of the captain of the Eleanor, run down on the same night by the Vanguard steamer, was Kewley. a respectable man, aged 55. As the night was wild he had not retired to rest, but was sitting at the cabin fire with his clothes on when the collision took place. The three men en the watch on deck saved themselves by getting on board the steamer; but a cry arising that the latter was sinking, she put up steam and separated from the wreck of the schooner. When last seen, the Eleanor was on her beamends, and Captain Kewley with the two men with him were on deck waving lanterns to attract attention. As no tidings have been heard of her along the coast, she has undoubtedly gone down, and the three men have perished. The Eleanor was 105 tons, and belonged to Whitehaven. The survivors admit that they p u t the helm to " starboard" instead of to " port." according to the Admiralty regulations; and time the vessel and lives were lost by their own negligence, for the Van guard was seen ten minutes before she came down upon them. The sheriffs' authorities at Glasgow are making an investigation into the catastrophe of the Laurel, but, as yet, they have learned nothing beyond the imperfect account the crew of the steamer gave them; nor is it likely they will ever learn more. It is said that her Majesty will prorogue Parlia- I ment early in May. COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam •• .. 11 1 G Ditto, throe monthe.. Rotterdam ••.. • • 11 17 Antwerp.............. 25 17% Brussels ........ 17% flarnburgh •• 114.8. 13 G! ,, , t Altorta • • • • •• • • • • • • • • ••1 Paris, 3 days'sight .• 24 97% Ditto. 3 months .... 25 20 Marseilles •• 25 20 Bourdeaux ..... • Frankfort on Maine 118 Berlin • • .• • • ...... • • • • Vienna, effee. 12 52 Trieste, ditto.... 12 b 3 Petersburgh,Sll. Wale.. Madrid ........ 49% Cadiz •• ••• •• •• •• •• •• Barcelona IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMMONS, Fel 10. Sir R. IL INGLIS presented i petition !I'm a place in Essex, praying the House to take measures to extir pate Popish institutions in this country. ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Mr. REYNOLDS (in continuation from cur Third Edition of last night) proceeded to say—lle bad been told that some Catholics would support this measure. He could understand Catholics in office voting for it; but he begged to remind them that the day of reckoning would come, when they would be asked whether they were sent to the House of Commons to vote penal laws against Catholic bishops, and to tell a dying man who should wish to leave 1,000/. to Dr. Murray for charitable purposes that if he called him the Most Rev. Daniel Murray, Archbishop of Dublin, all his wishes would be frustrated, and that his money would pass to the Crown, to be given according to the will of the donor, or as the Crown should think fit. The Noble Lord had said that Roman Catholics were promoted to places in the gift of the Government; but what was the fact? In the Court of Chancery, in Dublin, the number of Protestants employed was 57, whose salaries amounted to 57,000/. a year ; while the number of Catholics employed was only 16, and their salaries amounted to 4,000/. a year. In the law courts there were nine Protestant judges and C 5 Protestant officers, whose salaries amounted to 54,7191. lss. hid., while there were only three Catholic judges and 17 Catholic officers with salaries amounting to 16,7571. 3s. Bd. The same principle existed in the Lord-Lieutenant's household, as well as in the Customs, Excise, and all other public offices; and the only cure for all this, the only cup of comfort to be administered to the Catholics, was that their bishops should not be bishops with Irish titles. Dr. Cullen had been spoken of as one not acquainted with Ireland, whereas he was born, reared, and educated in that country, and was more ex tensively connected with the upper and middle classes than any other Catholic bishop. The Noble Lord laboured under similar misinformation with regard to Dr. Wiseman, whom the Noble Lord had called a foreigner, but he was to all intents and purposes a British subject. He was born of Irish parents at Seville, in Spain, lived there seven years, and then came and resided in his own native county of Waterford.—(Loud laughter.) They all knew that a man born on board a British vessel at sea might call Sussex, Kent, or any other place his native county.—(Renewed laughter.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded by disclaiming all sectarian or bigoted views, and declaring that, with re ference to the Protestant Church he entertained no feeling towards her but that of kindness and respect. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, that if the House had taken the usual and ordinary course of allowing this Bill to be introduced at an early period, so that the House might become acquainted with its provisions, he should not have thought it his duty to trouble them with any observations at this stages but, as they had not only been occupied one long night, but would probably be engaged for a similar period in a discussion with respect to a Bill about to be introduced, in the absence of all knowledge as to its provisions—. a species of ignorance which they must necessarily labour under—and, as it appeared to him that the observations made by his Noble Friend on introducing the Bill, with re• spect to its purport and effect, had been misunderstood by the House, he was desirous of explaining what appeared to him to be the general scope and effect of the Bill as described by his Noble Friend. But before he did so he hoped the House would permit him to call attention to what was the offence which it was intended by this Bill to meet. It was to be observed that in the course of last year the offence consisted in the introduction of a bull, by which cer tain persons were entitled by the Pope of Rome to assume certain territorial sees and dioceses, defined by certain limits. That was the whole extent of the offence ; the consequences of it would have to be regarded and dealt with by the House ; but they were derived solely from the circumstance that those titles were authorised to be assumed as of certain pretended sees and dioceses of this country. The view he took, which was one he thought the House would agree in, was that in meetinng these consequences you should act on a very sound and safe maxim of politics, and that you ought not to introduce a remedy more extensive than was necessary to meet the evil complained of. lie thought, therefore, if they introduced and passed a measure which should effectually prevent persons from holding those sees, as being bishops or archbishops of those pretended dioceses in England, that the real object which was sought would be found, and that they needed not to legislate beyond the occa sion, or seek to provide against possible evils which had not yet arisen. —(Hear, hear.) Now, he believed the proposed Bill would in fact effectually prevent the evils which had been complained of. That such was the object of the Bill there was no question, and that it had been framed with considerable care to meet that object he was well assured—it would be for the House to consider with what success. He must be allowed to observe, that it was important to draw a distinction between the two different branches of the offence which would be constituted by the Bill. One portion of it—a very large portion of it—had re•• lation to what was conceived by many, and, as he appre hended, justly conceived, to be an insult to this country-- (Hear, hear)—the other portion of it was the injury inflicted on certain classes of the inhabitants. But those two things were in themselves perfectly, distinct. There had been this effect, that the insult offered to this country by a foreign power introducing a bull, by which he professed to govern the whole of the kingdom by his own immediate dependents, had produced an undue belief with respect to the extent of the injury likely to arise from that bull ; that the two things could not be separated in the public mind without some diffi culty, and that a very great desire for legislation had arisen, not merely from the injury it was suspected the introduction of the bull would cause, but, in a great measure, by the insult which the public considered to have been offered to the Queen and to the country. As to the insult that had been offered it would be useless to say anything. ° The expression of opinion on the part of the country and of the House was amply sufficient to show that the introduction of any measure containing an expression of their opinion would be fully adequate to repel, in the most proper and dignified manner, the insult which had been offered by the Court of Rome. With regard to the injury inflicted by the bull, it undoubtedly affected the Roman Catholic branches of the community, but it was, however, of a twofold nature. The first injury was of a spiritual, the second was of a temporal character. With the first he apprehended they had nothing to do; and if it was possible for them to separate completely any questions with respect to the spiritual and temporal effect of the introduction of the bull, and the assumptions of titles thereupon, it would be well and fit for them to do so, apart from the question of what was due to the honour and dignity of the country. It was said the effect of the hull in tem poral matters would be to give to certain persons assuming the titles of aschbishops or bishops of dioceses and sees the power of dealing with appointments relating to religious en dowments made by Roman Catholics; that it would enable them to deal with the property given to support charities, or for other religious purposes, in a different and more exten sive manner than at present, and that the result would be to give to those prelates powers not intended to be con ceded to them by the persons who founded those institu tions. As to the spiritual power introduced, he had not heard it suggested, nor had he seen it in any of the publications he had read, that there were any specific powers which might be enforced by the bishops of these pre tended sees,clietinct or different from the powers which might . had been enforced by the bishops in partibus and vicars apostolic, or anything to show they were not as great in one case as in the other; but with respect to the temporal power, it was of importance, he apprehended, - to stop the assump tion by any person being, or pretending to be, as; undoubt edly these bishops must profess themselves to be, under the canon law and dependent on the Pope of Rome, of dealing with the rights and interests of British subjects in a manner different from and inconsistent with the manner which had hitherto obtained. The difficulty to be feared would arise when the questions arising from these appointments came to be adjudicated upon by the courts of law, because the courts taking cognizance of every species of endowment for the benefit of Roman Catholics, and enforcing trusts connected with them, would inquire into the rights of appointments as mere facts to be ascertained,and would refer to the authority of the Roman Catholic bishops to know by what authority the persons interested had been appointed. Now, the Bill, as was stated by his Noble Friend (Lord John Russell) on a Errner occasion, was intended in the first instance to extend the provi s i ons o f the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 10th George IV., which imposed a penalty of 100/. for every offence, in case of any Roman Catholic prelate assuming the title of any existing see throughout the United Kingdom, that penalty of 1001. to be enforced for every offence, but only sued for by the Attorney- General. Now this Bill, by the first section, extended the penalties of that clause to the case of the assumption of any title whatever—whatever it might be—from any city, or any town, or place, or territory, or district whatever within the United Kingdom, If the clause had been found to be effectual — a matter on w hi c h he could not profess to express any opinion-. in preventing the assumption of the titles of existing sees, it mi g ht b e equally expected to have a similar effect in preventing the assumption of titles from places within the United King dom. But it did not atop there. Several instances had been alluded to in which it was alleged that Roman Catholic bishops assumed the titles of existing sees, and it was thought desirable to endeavour to carry into effect the ob ject of prohibiting the assumption of titl es b y ma ki ng every act done by persons holding sees of that description in their characters of bishops or archbishops null and void. It appeared to him that any clause providing that any Act whatever, or any deed, instrument, or writing made or executed by or to any one assuming such titles, or done in the character of assuming them, should be null and void, would have the effect of completely paralyzing, with respect to his temporal authority, all the powers of any person thus claiming to be a bishop, and that it would not be possible for him to do anything which was effectual in a court ofjus tice for the enforcement of any religious or charitable trust or use; for, as the Act of Parliament declared any deed by a person in that position to be void, it could not be given in evidence or proved, so as to enable any one in his quality of bishop to do that which, if done in any other character, would be perfectly valid. In addition to that they proposed to endeavour to prevent other persons giving those bishops of pretended sees titles from any place in the United King dom, and they therefore propose to enact that it should not be lawful for any one to endow or to give any suns of money whatever for the support of such dioceses or sees, or to any person performing ecclesiastical functions as such, of such districts, and words sufficiently large would be introduced to provide against any evasion of these provisions. Th e y further provided, that every devise of real or personal property given to any person by his title, as de rived from any diocese or see, should, in point of fact, be forfeited to the Crown, and that the Crown should be able to dispose of it in such manner as should be thought tit. The effect of that would be, that it would be totally impossible for any person intending to give any grant for charitable purposes, of which the bishop or archbishop of the diocese was to be the administrator, to give it to him by the name or with reference to the name of his diocese. Undoubtedly it was not intended to prevent any person making any be neficial bequest to any Roman Catholic; the only thing was, that in doing so he must give it by the name in which the donee usually went, and that, for example, he must give it to Dr. Wiseman, not to Dr. Wiseman, Archbishop of West- minster, as, if given by the latter name, it would be void, arid the money would be disposable by the Crown. The House would see, therefore, that if it was intended to make a beneficial bequest, it would be properly given by the name of the person who was to receive it ; that, if COUNTY COURTS BILL. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he should move the second reading of this Bill pro forme on Thuradsy, in order to introduce certain alterations in it. _ RAILWAYS IN NORTH AMERICA. Lord MONTEAGLE,- pursuant to notice, presented a petition from New Brunswick, praying that facilities Should be given for the construction of railways in British North America. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. Mr. HATCHELL, the new Attorney. General for Ire land, took the oaths and his seat for Windsor. PRIVATE -BILLS. The following Bills were then read a second time and ordered to be committed:— Appleby, Kendal, Kirkby Stephen, and Market Brough Turnpike Bi r k en h e ad Doc k s (Further Pow ers t o B i rkenhead Dock Company, Bangor and Road. Caern arvon Railway. &c. • Bristol and Exeterß a i lway. Cheltenham and Gloucester District Turnpike Ro a d. k Cheltenham and Painswic Road. Dee Standard Restoration. Dewsbury Gas. Downham Market, &c., Drainage. East London Waterworks. • Eastern Union Railway. arasit Central Gas Consumers Company. • 'Great Southern and Western Railway. Great Malvern Improvement, Police, Sewers, Waterworks, Gas, and Ma r k ets . Halesworth, B ecc l es , and Haddiscoe Railway. Harwich I m p rovement, Quays, and Pier. Hartlepool Pier and Port (Consolidation of Acts, &c. ) Hereford, Ross, and Gloucester Railway. Holyhead Railway or TramwaY: Itchen Bridge and Roads. Laird's Patent, Leicester Waterworks. • Leicester Sewerage. Liverpool Docks (Amendment of Acts, &e.) Midland Railway (Regulation and Increase of Capital, &c.) Midland Railway (Extension of Time, &c.) Millthrop and Levens Turnpike Road. Newark-upon-Trent Improvement and Market. North and South-Western Junction. Railway. North Shields Quays and Improvements. Coeburn Bridge and Approachea in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Price's Patent Candle Ciallipithy. CEYLON. Mr. HUbIE gave notice that he should on this day fortnight bring the affairs of Ceylon before the House. PUSEYISM IN THE CHURCH. Sir B. HALL gave notice that, on Friday next, he would ask whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to introduce a measure this session, to pre ' ent On introduction of Roman Catholic forms into the Established Church; and, also, that it was his intention to call the attention of the House to certain representa tions made, and to the memorial presented to the Bishop of London, by the inhabitants of Marylebone, com plaining of Roman Catholic forms in the Church, and of the answer received from the Bishop. THE CUSTOMS. Mr. MACGREGOR postponed his motion for an in quiry into the appointment of a solicitor to the Customs until this day fortnight. THE MARBLE ARCH. Colonel SIBTHORP asked the Nol3leLord, the Com• missioner of her Majesty's Woods and Forests, whether he could state to the House what further time would be re quired for the erection of the marble arch at Cumber •land-gate, and whether he could assure the public that the 4,056/. voted by Parliament last session would be sufficient to corer the whole expense of placing it in that position where it was never expected to be placed, and where it would greatly inconvenience the public ? Lord SEYMOUR replied that the erection of the arch would be completed by the Ist of May, and that the estimate would not be exceeded. CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. Mr. ADDERLEY asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, whether he intended to lay on the table of the House the correspondence which had passed between himself and the Governor of the Cape, subsequently to the receipt in that colony of the Orders in Council, empowering the go vernor and his legislative council to frame a representa tive constittition ; and whether a petition had been transmitted to her Majesty from the inhabitants of Cape Town and other places in South Africa, praying her Majesty's sanction to the heads of a constitution em bodied in that petition. Mr. HAWES said that the correspondence in question would be laid before the House as soon as possible, but at present it would be highly inconvenient. With re gard to the petition, he might say that it was only on Saturday that they it been received. CEYLON COMMISSION. Mr. BAILLIE rose to ask the Under-Secretary of the Colonies, if it was the intention:of the Government to op pose the motion of which notice had been given, that the evidence taken by the Ceylon Committee should be printed. Whether it is the intention of the Government to lay upon the table of the House 'the report of the Royal Commission which was sent to Ceylon in conse quence of an address from the House of Commons in the last session of Parliament, us well as the evidence taken before the Commissioners. Mr. HAWES said that it was impossible to lay before the House the papers which the Hon.Mmber asked for,as a court- martial was speedily,to be held on Captain Wat son, and it would be unfair to publish these papers beforehand. Mr. BAILLIE said, in consequence of this refusal, he should be obliged to ask the Speaker two questions— the first of which was, whether the papers in question, having once been laid before a Select Committee of the House, they were not henceforward in possession of the House,'and if it was not therefore a breach of privilege to withhold them afterwards from the House. The second question was whether, as a Member who had been charged with bringing forward false documents, it was not in his (Mr. Rainier's) power to demand the produc tion of those documents for his own justification ?—(Hear.) The SPEAKER, said that with regard to the; first question, it depended entirely on the mode in which the papers in question had been laid before the Committee. If they had been produced in a formal manner, and en tered regularly in the minutes, they were certainly in the possession of the House, and it was a breach of privilege for any Governmental department to withhold them; but if they had not been laid formally before the Committee, the Governmental department in which they were could produce them or not at their own discretion. With regard to the second question, it was not a question of privilege, but one to be decided by a motion of the House. THE LATE EXPLOSION ON THE CLYDE. In answer to a question from Mr, MUNTZ, Mr. LABOUCHERE said that as yet no inquiries had been made as to the late explosion on the Clyde, but a report would be presented te the Board of Trade in a few days, when they would be better able to judge of the nature of the cause of the accident. THE • FRANCHISE. Sir JOSHUA WALMSLEY Wished tb ask Lord John Russell whether it was the intention , of her Majesty's Ministers to take any steps, during the present session, to extend the right of voting for Members of this House to other portions of the adult: male population of these realms than .those now in possession of the elec tive franchise under the provisions of the Reform Act; or whether there was any intention to amend the defi ciencies of the Reform Act of 18324' Lord JOHN RUSSELL—Sir, in answer to the two questions of the Hon. Gentleman, I can say, in the first place, that it is not the intention of her Majesty's Ministers to take any steps in the present session to extend the right of voting for Members to sit in this House.—(ob, oh.) With regard to the second question, whether there is any intention to amend the deficiencies of the Reform Act of 1832, I have on 'a pre vious occasion expressed my , opinion to the House that there were certain amendments to the Re form Bill which I thought it was desirous to make, with a view to the extension of the franchise.—(Hear, hear.) I still retain that opinion, and I shall certainly carry it out when I think the proper- time has arrived for doing 50.—(013, oh! and laughter.) • DESTRUCTION OF WORKHOUSES IN SUFFOLK. Mr. GRANTLEY BERKELEY wished, to ask the Right Honourable Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Departmen`, whether Government had received any intelligence , relative to a rather remarkable riot which was said to have taken place in Suffolk. It was reported that a workhouse had been destroyed by the paupers, and the military were called out to quell the riot. • . Sir G. GREY—I have received no information whatever. ' Mr. BANKES would be glad: to; kitow• of the Right Hon: Gentleman the president of the :Poor-law Board whether he had 'received any:information of this. Serious affair. Was it possible that a riot of this nature could take place without either the Secretary of State for the Home Department, or the president of the Poor-law Board receiving any infornaationlibout it. . Mr. BAINES saw the paragraph in the newspapers at nine o'clock this morning, and he. had made inquiry about it; but no ittorniation had .been received. EAST INDIA COMPANY. - Mr. ANSTEY gave notice of his intention, on a future day, to move an address to the Crown on the subject of the East India Company and the government of their territories, and praying her Majesty to tend out a Commission to inqUire into the. subject in 'lndia and report their opinion to Parliament: ' COURT OF. CHANCERY. Mr. STUART gave notice that on early day he should as k the First Minister whether it: was .the intention f to i e ntr ir od te u e c . n e w h i an th ee ou li t er de . lay te a B th il e l fo r r e t e h m e the expense • an d i n- * Vice-Chancellor o Wig ram , and wh et h er Wi ram he was oao appointment potlh.eeto Governm en teela t et put to in consequence of the want of a comietent judicial du that wer e l ate l y . ties . t c he b aecellor I im) conveni ence nie nc e suitors in the Court of Ch ancery aware of W raw.—(l:le jitsuclegheartogeddishcyhavrgieee N GT.-(Tl - 11S DAY.) Gibraltar.. • • ........ • • Leghorn .............. 50 55 (4.104 ............ •• .. 25 50 Milan ................ Venice.. _ ............ gaplas ........ Palermo, peroz Messina Lisbon.... •• .......... Rio Janeiro Buenos Ayres New York , 60 days'aight Philadelphia .......... PRICES 01 BULLION, PLA 08. Foreign Geld in bars.. 43 17 9 Iportmgal Gold Coin 0 0 0 'Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars .... 0 0 0 la bars 0 5 1% it was a charitab'e bequest, it could not be , except by some namewhich, betokened. auccees °; Its ven a certain corporate character, but if it as spiritual b eques t s h a d b een g i v en to the eB for it, would be p er f ec tly goo d for charitable pu r p o :; , the time being, an d wou ld b e en forced by the cour ts eve- They had also endeavoured to prevent in any way a ll ees on sions of the Bill from the bequest being given to in connexion with the bishop, or by reference to a a n n Y y_ e P P n a r a i p i : solar see, or to the person who held it, or any person set pointing to an office within it, and, made, it would have to be disposed of by the Crown,.o"nslr ble tbst beieg yossible for the person himself to dispose it tently with the law. It was thought more desire ke if any such beeeese Dot tbe there should be a forfeiture to the Crown than t° t r . le w hieb, bequest absolutely void, because there might be Wee" 43 , from accident or ignorance, a bequest might be made'y to of the relatives of a prelate, when it would nut be p e e. _ es , o annul the deed, and when it was right to enable tbaertutse to grant it to the person intended. That was, e , d, as be general scope and ground of the Bill, and it wa t t woo thought the House would see, effectually Pr ee en n e d P ieirte• from assuming titles from places in lee, United.sees dom, and the existence of territorial diocese-s 'p r ew ee The case referred t o by th e Hon. and Learn ed , of for Sheffield (Mr. Roebuck), of an archbishop at,:aelniog near Westminster, would some precisely within the, t h e or of the Bill, if it cou ld b e s h own t h a t those words bele. jlO. text had any ref erence t o t h e g i v i n g of the. ti t hh i s eop doubt edly, in ordinary, parlance, it was true th at Ante Arch. Musgrave, when sitting in the House of Peers, I T v o ee n w ei r bishop in Westmin s t er , an d i n th e same wile' 11, though hers in that Hou se were el em b ers i n W es tminstere, ee eof only one could be Member for I'Vestminster ; there ° the person claiming the pretended diocese residiegi., he se would give him no authority or title whatever. lt : said the Bill would not interfere with the sYne u l tha t out PP: er of the Roman Catholic prelates, but he differed ti,seete opinion, and thought it would be the necessary ee e tl! 4 ,,ell. of the Bill that this action would be interf re" e t ee It was desirable to effect that objec t j i dons' most quiet manner possible, but, if it was effe etu.- shou ld it was all the H ouse s h ou ld see k to do, and th e Y / r eel rest content with provisions suited to the oceasie e i sre sesef said, again, that they did not deal with the part ict apd the a Roman Catholic priest or prelate by Ineina" ta O reg o terrors of eternal pu n i s h men t i n d u cing a polle e : h otter the performance of several duties and rights /Yilic e eitt th e wise 'Catholich have done. For instance, wriS fee olatil Roman prelates might promulgate sepl e _ t h' to meet in a synod like that of Thurles, ancl..requseetbe clergy to threaten to deny the sacraments to• ael. plash enlisted in the British army or gave evidence, ja i : /l ot b e court of justice. That was possible, but it welteewee proper to introduce such a question when ther e ba d 0 0 reason for it, nor any likely to arise, and arise hesitation in saying that if stitch a question e. 0 , ob. would be an offence at common law, and he ha d fi Orel/ the courts of common law would be found suffiejealiwiteb-s to punish it.— (Hear, hear.) It was therefore e pers oas they should not attempt to meet cases erh er t e h e y W e !, were terrified by their spiritual instructors , " eee'" not cases legislation could touch, because, unless tie w h i ch before the courts of law, they were w atte ro o r° a wge were secret between the victim and the. ,P e es te b e il afforded him spiritual instruction. To ili°sl;is - by the instance already re f er red to hi itw isteri e Friend, where th e sacraments were refused to $ "e e d, ea 4 Piedmont, it was obvio us th a t if h e had.been tern" .lo re had consented to violate his conscience, and e to e fld pented of an act of whi c h h e really approved , u e obtai he h ned the sacraments of the Church, and-it then' mthe fa ade, ad not done so, and had died withe tit , se s, made, the cir cums t ance notorious. In all such7o.of they must appeal to the good sense and judgei .dis oofth e Roman Catholic b o d y , w h o would res i st t h e oPlet e ' e . toed Roman Catholic clergy whenever the latter were loth enforce it. He appealed with very great confi de ee P ietbSt e il ; Roman Catholic laity in this country, and be eorlsie: legislating on this question they were bottnu Leer that body as being in all respects, with th e °D as aler t tion of spiritual matters, in the same situationweifsw selves, animated by a sincere desire for the s od 0; the country, and for the preservation of order Was government. When, then, they thought it was n o t to introduce a measure of this descriptiolt, 1 ' 41 04 h u t merely for the protection of the Protestants, bu t t o oi l " conscientiously believed, not less for the prote, e ed that 'd Roman Catholic laity.—(Hear, hear.) He e h ei t ie e v e beh, ev l , large body of them felt in the same way, but arty feetl e e ee they were so bound down by their religion, hYP e e ' t hat t u e l and by a regard for the honour of their chere"' tho tPra u , s 4 " were not able fully to express their feelings as ° n ee bis ° ir e tages which would arise from the measure. For •.r" part, he would have been better pleased if the nicety nevid it had never arrived, and if the question its elf the re Olt arisen. —(Hear, hear.) He must say, he thought isfy, be little questio n as to whom the Bill would ray cell' could not satisfy th ose w h o sa i d—no d o ubt pero e ha d scientiously—they did not believe any inflicted by the introd uc ti on o f the he4b;eotedet hear.) These Hon. G e ntl emen cons cientiously ° sof shed any legislation, though it was possible enite.Y., if be bee thought the Pope would have acted more propene' kind t express _d his intention to introduce a bull of th,a,'• look ed , the State and to the country. As to those vi,. 14 0 " w ade upon the question in a political light, and ". o pt 6° ' handle of it for the purpose of embarrassing the PZ o trooP vernment, they could argue the Bill was either I. Z o jelle; or that it was not strong enough, and so it would ... fot °, sible to satisfy them ; but, with respect to that largefn}lyi bs e , of the House who really and sincerely felt 20 tot the been done which ought to be redressed, he l erd ers fer e % measure before them was a fit and proper Ine es t e - e rasa purpose for which it had been intended. The reelo 4 .re tholics had always professed their desire to obeYr„, we re had asserted, he doubted not with truth, that tuel..rotos— t tuated by the same feelings of loyalty as the ir t hee, ° I fellow-subjects. Was it no a fit and proper thing'. t aeas g l i r. they should obey a measure of this descrietie rl- ,itles which made it an offence by statute law to take ot opea s any place in the kingdom, or to administer &O r `. the cad would reference to those titles? He believed _ e . et it; e, e would find the Roman Catholics would not re' i s e to pheee; admitting that there was great danger in mak ie P e 'sayilig on political questions, he thought he was ssleop4p-ortto won seeing He thought it was but fair to give them art seeing whether they would not obey the law leh e ie n t ob i t be established, and he felt satisfied that if they did 1. 0 0 el e re the law, and that if it should be necessary to te stringeut measures, the power of Parliament wonlue-esesl.llli to be of the strongest kind, and could easily make 4 * - bet"; which would amply meet the question.—(Hea r ' sucri g a He did not think there would be an necessitY dos meaeure. He felt great regret that so rash a nd leir o ects . a step had been taken as that which rendered the 131 to the sary—a step which could h ave no b ene f ic i a l tendene. v o y Roman Catholic religion, and which might off er ite ba d the Roman Catholic laity • but at the same We' s aid - perfect confidence that the ' Roman Catholic laity would eioll. found disposed to aid every measure which iv es ) ° ,:oich tial for the due administration of the laW ,Bll- bet' designed not only for the protection of Protestantism, woe he believed, for the protection of the lees agaiult an mse o r assumption of temporal power.--(Hear, hear' ) mente.e Lord ASIII.e.Y rose, but was Audible for A In° 1. so, owing to the noise of Members in charge against the Roman holic bishops leaving e ing the ne ili 't tbef was , . tli c o s Ott,/ had seized on, and desired to keep, positions la this j, oaf' s which they would not he allowed to or h°l g °veN t 0 the same circumstances, even in a Catholic country, by a Catholic Sovereign.—(Hear, hear ) This ,0800ttP•to question which merely affected the Church of this e i fOrCt (dear, hear.) It was one that applied with eeleP eo , or bs' the Wesleyans, the Independents, and, indeed , ev estk e ‘w he class of Dissenters. It also affected the Rontai l h tsee s themselves, and most undoubtedly it affected the %b .... (10r; inferior c l ergy o f t h e Roman Catho'ic Chur e t he stelie hear.) Ile must here express his astonishment at w het _A ter ieee ment made by the Hon. Member for blanches ee t 0 3 . 00 , declared that the Dissenters of the north were sg e gee sit er , up with the opposition to the , Pep si t the des Lie could not help expressing his gratification 7 1 Ol mination which the Dissenters same to, when t Churc h ete that they would make common cause with the the peen f 13th' against the common enemy.—(Hear, hear.) ey en tere e ,,,e4 Member for Manchester declared that the D ies- the us 'be north had not made a movement in opposition t i f e 00 5 ' te e adopted by the Church of Rome in this ease , ithatAr rh i, permitted to take exemption t o th e corr ectness l o t, e t ee ment. For what were the facts upon thi s am" S . . pen ° L e i. that a most remarkable d ocument f r om' the . had u t i l e Learned Dr. Vaughan, of Moorside, Lancash ire ' ho tseetesl published, in which the whole question at isse d e s d thee eseel Protestants and the Roman Catholics, as roger: ability aggression, had been argued with consummate pre. - te ef ex tor with all that clearness of thought and .pow e e d Te e d " which were the characteristics of the 7,.. - nd, style.—(Hear.) He had this document in his c ier• cOri ong would read an extract from it • th e 370 14 lb° "In all this we see Romanism . in a form tr oll potic, arrogant, and offensive, strikingly more liberal interpretations of it so common • a . al in d Ac v :orsc Catholics before the passing of the Ema p a a el t l e a r i a - ou f p ld wi t eee form, indeed, which is so much after the the history of die Papacy, as to furoirisaggr,tagsittii. enough,times i if allowed silently to take his course,' tho se W dangerous alike to the British Crown and fathers bav" civil and religious , which our Protestant la' the queathed to us." This was a remarkable document, d h t o• ehowf te, Nonconformists of these days were re hk e 'd e retl i wheedled out of their Protestant d, thae the Wiseman's bY ;ire °i s : Wiseman's address to the people of England' wade le Nonconformists of farmer days, by the e ffort. et st ee th e same direction by James 11. - (Hear.) s i l ty ',ea .hit urged against the proposition before the H ouse ted• d i re e ms' weakness of the power against whom it was „ a rote was not weakness a relative term? Might - tro pe ' A s which was physically weak, be yet morally yoP e e , sot was it not clear, that although the power of t he bilg e veto sovereign was trifling, indeed, and had neither F e u co ld 6 , 0 1 armies to carry out his aggressive •policy, that to eP ee r.) by his influence, excite half the nations of Eurolee_er, his policy, and defend him against assaults -413 1 0 e u letet iP iG Had not France and Austria and Spain and :gai. ) o l ,l nese subsidies to espouse his cause on a recent oceas i _ 0 0 00 b e was not from fear that the measure before th 0 1 e. ..440 fs , brought forward. A great insult had been ti e Zet nation by the Pope of Rome, and that insule.ne. ppl;ite repressed.—(Hear.) But then it was said ties" jegl ti th olir tions before the House would interfere with th an p ries Rotn the gr extension of the ecclesiastical policy of the g il t Of /18' religion, and that, in fact, it was an infringetn e e °f t he t ee vileges granted to the Roman Catholics by tb , e 0" to se!. fo r Now, for himself, he would say, and he could e i e l ,ootls e ' s ese same declaration for many thousands out of t his ? s ea he had attended several large meetings held; ,to et t o tion, and had heard the opinions given expressi e ee ted F sd eJ —that he did not desire that the privileges , fern ipfri liwp. Roman Catholics by the Act of 1829 s hould w ug ers t ott erw g upon in the smallest degree.—(Hear.) They eonsi4lotell posing the Roman Catholics, but they were toot topic whether they would allow the Catholics to te ' to stanti e tbst rights which property belonged only to thePre og oe ea r of this country.—(Hear, hear.) But it, ass wte s A c es this arrangement on the part of the 'PeF e 'le ett iett Cps sary for the full development of the 1 0 . se, j e tholic religion. He had no liesie a V. l t heliee 'b lell . that by the Act of 1829 the Roman ee t heir , e se • right to a full and complete development e'e t i j a . o "ief gion, and he would go farther, and say th et eeis eet i _ li se se ; Catholic Church which had been goverued . 0 1 1 40 0, for 300 years, should have the power. if theLh o ps,r 4 so ge 4 sary, to convert these vicars-apostolic into te this grl9 hear.) But while he would give his sancti on ihe meat, he had heard nothing to prove that . ee ; 4 . 4 ; rry ont, es o were necessary to enable those bishops te ee iw e t te.e_e se lf Roman Catholic religion to its proper and leg . ,' 6 4 t dlPr so o . e, —(hear, hear.) Cardinal Wiseman would 4 ! Iste r r be .„ot Archbiehop of the Roman Catholics in West in " -- veisenje ra Jae in accordance with the statement which Dr.; ' d jag forth to the public, the Church of Roans .'s he A e i c itheiel llsl) „..s over all persons, wherever it had power., . , :ct d tiv eyttf o r sid Westminster would give an extelided,yVf,, n ,ipat sot Archbishop of the Roman Catholics Wee' its etre'rell give a limited and a defined jurisdictions . eee t ie'' titles important? They had the testimonfeeeo.-itseireLioe revolution of 1830, as evidence that they eve re eeehe revolution Louis Phillipe was -called, -;0 not as King of France, but as King_ pg . th e. hear.) So in the case of BeigiumeAtl e ,g e e called King of the Belgians, and not • 10 ,tk-",^, - , .V . . it 0,1 1" 53 1 ,4 53% th e! 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