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_.--~ ()ffi • ,p in any itise Only n militia the ;t, Grea t the!' or 0 :err. ar A tie, wit h trF• thivg bpi ter ne tt ~• • Tiirre f r igh• tful Y!' , the • .up• • perse" (0 oPe' The i r )oty fr° lll alsory. ~ the 59113 ,nd to the 'a t e 0 f ain sue b i' tCeS, Spilt ellings an d roc° 7h t safell 1 has b ee : of kn e w,'" Lent But to 11e 1 1 + 0 yes"' I co. oars" t wo lu "0 has bee when a nd d'' - lrity fr abie-BOt barging a r f „ re a n•votra. fo r urde't sug g.- of e 6c „ sPe t i i e bt „ in fr° lt o .1, oho.' ,0 , isvour . 0 to the oir to Oveto •ecti°' obi I a' 01 0 ei,ee ioc jEl as sera, s to is 4 005 Jo ver, Spy nail ' s 5 :0 the fe T Y KI • 91 ril s ' e DOS t viv g iit, ] e s rr iewildeo Deb his ty l ti' to o l wet. on. he e sc t life vi ise to tb olr [y tm e d d e r9 ire 111 0$ in the fr r e two Prig to 61j. the of fir e ..,'iog a dy,l. 9od The oi l' core° piaicl w ou icoDY, Y "Tul a Ititud es „ av of , o isi but P" hat Pe h rs , o o ger, 9 a of a lenlb e 0 Lon tim , „„u h ouse , ;i1 betw ee , rese t ', escapes 0 se 1 /41- t cotoP„ ht w o e five e s ° tio use hesitt ,p Ofe ere tu l ' a to e ti n u ti lii! the r of el7 and b' y tb' H ess a air ! e 4 gof . for en , f P err r wb O) tte The nigll e t ; earl eaker6 o of c le . a . th e ove. t he ./ 1 o rf a dttP TO. Iv hi , icke to •horrib i ts 0 &r ide rs ,' pas.. ceog e b v ° c p.:A • , , e ; • o t , t he 1,10 1 • to rkofsiot be t, 011. , i e fe f o r a iii ?‘ sea eP t her he "llter ti be a' .dl; rO 3, IL 6 )C —t ll ing • S it; erniq' th e oisid er su bjec t he t ed tbe 'g ferr e , pre or h_ , iend 6 . to 11 ,, t ,01 , ' leoce v' t itts c° r ,,, t itig t a c t thefib G. CP doo • Lofi r in "' tw en wh ich 89 It ar a 0101011 d b ro Y: ce e d il)f , P l al s)r al°tt 01 fund „ ° p ei" route 'he SPORTING LNTELLIGENCE. Nl7, Wif .A.IIK ET. TuEsnev NIGHT. 3-:NTitI:IS FOR WEDNF:•!DA Y. Towi, Plate.-Keshen i.vent, Viriaeopie, Stamp, Hersey, and Ruff. g' Fifty Pounds for three yr olds and upwards.-lonian, Me e., and Keppel. Sweepstakes of 10 cove. each. winner to be sold for 100, lae '""St. Doming., Carolitiii, and Seakale filly. to tn'taront. Cur.--even on the field agst Winesour, True- Milture no \rola, and the Irenmaster. ' ° "WOOT) STAKF.S.-P to 1 nest Liliel (t )-18 to 1 agst 1,7. 4 e" Tah 20 ti, 1 agst John I; ' Gaunt (t)-40 to 1 agst a e lv Wildair. No others ineetiere d. LeGeri -10 to 1 aest Ohl Eneiand (t). A very email rine., and busimes merely nominal. NEW MARK E .111 7 Y ?IEE -'1 rEEDAY. Reath haste with which our express was forwarded from the °f the th this aft ernoon prevente d our giving so full a description ;Inc race f or t h e J ely Stakes as it required. The fir-t start t at a failure; at the seeeen Gusman jumped off with the ead followed closely by the Little Vulgar 'Boy, Tit-bit, and t ra , aiNler Bill , an d t h e Messene celr lying up. with Garcia Vi"Y In th e i r wake. They ran in this way to t h e p l antat i on , er, n ere -usman nod the Wear Poy were beaten, and the rim r•ng was taken up by the favourit , Ge fee. w th some d .. ifficulty ing through her horses, taking seemo Plat?. nalt wa y u P we ropes the filly ch Renged, and, atter an indiffeent rare, e °11, 3; a length Tit le't third, bea-ing the Mess, ,ie en! • by a a n d Toga colt, Tr - ele ' onius (wi.o all :he was). o it, the Little Vulgar Roy, were beaten tee n 'team but ai a good place, but was beaten in the first 200 yatas. P • WEDNESDAY. re , lOUS to the races Me.srs. Tattersall bad a sale of blood d atue ir k , when the foilowing lot, bred by Mr. W. Edwards, were li med of 3 yes, a b c, by Liverpool, out of Princess Gs. Victoria 60 - p„_ sh , 3 yr s , a b f , b y di tto, d am b y A greea bl e BO 'utstool, 2 y rs , a b rc, b y Th e S a ddl er, ou t o f T ru d ge " . iri t tast.girth, 2 y rs , a c h f, b y Th e S a ddl er , out of Joisjou 2l OO ) 1 A f, 2 y rs , b y Th e Saddler, dam b y A greea bl e A i ) 3' yearli ng f, b y Th e S a ddl er, d am b y S u lt an Pr ee r j', by The Saddler, dam by Agreeable A L 514, aeh yearling c by the Saddler, out of Retamosa 200 it Yearling f by The ' Saddler, dam by Emilius 125 I Mr e e,we as• Vebber' s horses, Eldon alone was sold, the price ,on sequences of these sales, the races did not commence Ste "alf•past two 'e d awere not brought to a close until near following re particulars • !douverie's Science, Bst lib ( Whitehouse), beat Mr. l s Blanchie, Bst 41b, in a canter.-/ to 4 on Blancbie. l eepstak es of 100 sovs. each, for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b, 1 ° Indo sov fillies 41b.New ••• 8 t TY C Winner to be sold for Col• p eel's fby Sl ane , ou t o f Se a k a le .................(Nat) 1 Eaxete r ' s Adrianople 2 mr. Stee ' kr. R r Caroline .. 3 Ners's St. D om i ngo oth er tl 'ng-2 to I agst Caroline (t)-3 to 1 eget each of the qy Caroli ne cut out t h e wor k f or t h e fi r st h a lf m ile, a n d lettiti l i ,“" Passed by Adri a nople and the Seakale filly, the former and - g; the filly waited till half-way up the cords, challenged, *a% w el o a nimle d verly by a neck ; Caroline a bad third. The winner y • ford's'p er nen's Hartshorn, Bst 41b (Nat), heat Duke of Bed anther, Bst 71b. +5O/ • f 6t05 on Hartshorn. Won by a length. 9st thr ee yrs old. i st 2 1 h ; fi iur yrs , B st 71b ; fi ve y rs , of ; si _ )rs and aged, 9st 51b. From the starting post 111 r, 8 • ,„."`• 3 I• to the corner of A. C. Mt* on NjFir el 'utift 3 yrs Colp e . o .S. s ta l n u l n e l i a ' n s Keppel, 3 yrs •• •••• 2 3 i., lee go ; `on lonian Me al made all the play, and wen by a The lonian Pla beaten all the way "nsti te of 50/., for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b, and Coln , 6 liws. fit 31b. Last mile of 13 C. kr. T'. Peel's Her s ey._ ! itt. p 'g r ans% Krshet g s•ere e re t'rnati's scamp 114 Adri nonle k r. , I ; 'R. l'h m .it em ' s Ruff ••• 5 2 i i nlAin's Event Stai rs I agst Hersey ; 4 to I agst Ke-heng ; 5 to I Igo ~i tem; s to 1 a gs t Ad r i ann plo ; and 6 tit 1 aest Event. Aesht matte severe play, followed by Adrianople and Pa s i, i ` o l lib Horsey waiting on them ; they maintained these With /( 4 ' to the dista nce , where Hersey took the lead, and. ning winning and Sta n ip in waiting, made the rest of the run thte&-d'aing easy by a length. Nothing W:l 4 near the first Ch esterfield Stake. (this day).-Even on Free Lance. The WORC ST Elt I;At Es. yrs'ajteirn.....Stakes of 5 cove. each, with 25 added ; for three an , , et ; four yrst, Bst 41b; five yrs, Bst 131): six yrs, `, a ged. 9st 31b. Mile and a quarter. u_.l,_ollett'sCorranna, 6 yrs.. (Marlow) 1 iit/r..l,,ltickly's David, 6 yrs 111-e ltoerratt's Tottenham 3 yrs Tao- Yrs old Stakes ' of . 10 sovs. each, with 25 added. k r• v i he straight run in of the Five Furlong Course. Itr.,,,,,noper's Madcap ( Wakefield) 1 k i 'Nen% Astonishment ... ........ •• •• ......... 2 4,7". Collett's Nannie and Mr. Dawson's Lord • Harry • ti l ' a • „ Worcestershire Stakes of 20 sovs. east', 10 ft, and 5 only 14,etleelared, with 50 added; the eccond cave NS &II:P. iv.l.wo Miles. (15 Subs.) bi ro gillett's Oorranna, 6 vrc lir e iie n FleY • B Roderick. 6 `yrs ~ell. f l am's Poussin. 5 yrs ~,,,ut;ellia's Mainstay, 4 yrs A race fur the Members' Plate. Only two entered. ....- The GOODWOOD RACES. ho d official programme of the brilliant meeting about to be Si i at Goodwood has just been . made public through . the eet hu t endar, of which it occupies no less than eight Co.rae.a.f..lt is preceded by an intimation that no person guilty of witCsctics, or, notoriously in default, &c., will be admitted • ° t he Grand Stand or its inclosure, or on any part of the tf of Ri c h mond ' s proper t y i n S ussex, an d t h at s h ou ld any e t he Parties warned off in 1843 intrude themselves they will with regard The most stringent rules are also announce d tit) ~r e gard to the examination of horses of whose age ti t guoubt may be entertalned, for the observance of the the hi ded order of running, and otherwise for maintaining t gh station the Goodwood meetings have so deservedly at -1 m aed- A list of the nominations for the standing engagements 10 _ 1 1 ld oce„py more roo m t h an we can devote to such mustmatter content ourselves with a short abstract of the pro. rnis.ed sport. On the first day, Tuesday, July 29, there will be sov eleven races, the last in heats, viz., the Craven Stakes, of 10 LaysanetacZ'al(teB subs. the Three Hsu' nofs°"s• h ), to name the night before running-the )-the Hundred ,3() t, or -yrs f ' 1 • old (31 Subs.)- Subs.(s2 GSubdsre.d Says. a fo rs 2 old Stakes, h ft, for 4 yrs old (16 ratwieke Stakes, of 100 sovs. each, h ft, for )-the Ham Stakes. of 100 sot's. each, h ft, of 25 .„„Y" Subs . ( 4 1 Subs. )-the Drawing-room Stakes A, 8 -s * each, with a bonus of 10 stets. each (31 Subs. )- (a weep GiioentSletib9. st akes, of 300 soya. each, h ft, for 2 yrs old )-the Welter Stakes, of 20 sovs. each, for m en riders (9 Subs.)-The Goodenod Club Stakes of ' 8055 ' e ach (handicap), for Gentleman riders (15 Subs. )._ match for 500, between Antler and Red Deer-and the Inn ("Pell' Plate of 50/., heats. On the Second Day :-The r dw °°d Stak es of 25 soy!. each, 58 acceptances-The etoleent, Plate -The Stewards Cup, value 300 sovs.-The th e t nd Std r aY Stakes-Th e Chi,lesier Members' Plate, heats-and Plate, heats. On the Third. innsa Grand Day ta ta % C ri aPi value 300 soya., wiat 760 peeie, 48 hor , .es eae P soya. Stakes, for 2 yrs old (7 Subs. to (15 4 — , no Racing Stakes of s(t sovs. each, p.p., for :3 yrs old --ep h ° "•)-A Two-yr old Stake of 25 sot's. each (7 übs.) c ,e Sussex Stakes of '25 sovs. each, for 2 yrs old (10 Subs.) l leepstalies of 50 sovs. each, for 3 yrs old (6 Subs.) (4 ,87eaPstakee of 100 cove. each, for 3 yrs old h ft a'''. )-The Moleeemh Stakes of 50 cove. each. (29, Subs.) • - The D kei of Richmond's Plate of fur o k I andcap 1-and the Anelesea stakes, of 15 sovs. each, • k * : l itlemen Riders (12 Sub-) . in al, eleven races. Friday T h . ot " field day for the eerrlemen jocks, the ittily race; for t 1• gul,:t aiun als being, the Nassau Sakes of 50 case. each (24 te a . )--The Chesterfield Cup ( 19 e . ubs )-and a match tie aih;° 1 4dy Anna and Lady Trampolina, for e.ieh. The r sa.kee are the March Stake-, of 10 sows each (54 Subs). a t o ell 15 cure to produce three aces-The Bentinck Stake-, of St ale e ach, with 50 added (26 subs)-and the Maid-tone howea:es, of le sees , eac h, with 50 added. Taking them as they s tand, the stakes to be run for exceed 30,00t1L ! This, ~,• 7", will be greatly reduced by forfeits, but at a mo.ierate - at , on th e um to be phi will not be less than ,00 01. • gross S L B ETTING AT MANCIIESTER-TuEspeT. "ii- IRP ° O I- Cur.-6 to 1 eget. Winesour (taken )-6 to 1 Oilton (taken )-8 tot agar Truebov-10 to 1 agst Iron (take (taken and afterwards ofTere(l) -10 to 1 agst . Nereus I a ell ) -1-0 to 1 eget Rowena-14 to 1 ,get Lotharm-15 to le_gst Lightning -16 to 1 agst Warp-20 to 1 agst Duke of `7l (taken). AR:13,.13,,W00D STAKES.-8 to 1 asst Pythia (taken)-12 to 1 1 n 'duel (taken)-16 to 1 agst Queen Mab (taken)-6 to "c't Dawson's lot (taken). utw("lrcrooD STAKES.--2 to 1 apt Foig-a; lealleeit (taken) (taken). I agst Ironm as t er (t a k e n) -10 to 1 dept Aruneo Se, / Nst • • - e G ,EIt•-5 to 1 agst Weatherhit (taken) -6 to 1 Lei I Tee 2 'erry Monarch (taken)-0 to 1 agst Mentor-1 0 Annandale-i to 1 agst Ohl England-20 to 1 aritasa (taken)- 30 to 1 art Rodger ( , 81•:cr „ju t CRICKET. ti o ALARYLEBONE CLUB AND ( t'. COUNTY OF ▪ th T3 ', Wi ni BOX, PILCH, AND MIRTINGEIL -At the close l i tiP'aY in this match on Monday Vie gains stood thus 2- IsithlY l ebone Cricket Club-first innings, 146 ; Hampshire, Litt. five wicket s d own , 80-Box and Pilch still in, and both Tu g well • at th m 'lay these t wo pl a y er s ag a i n m a de their appearance e wicket., and hit away until the former had obtained , Ibi`n:l , the latter 55 runs in excellent style. The score of co un e t ! Proved the third "best man." The total score of the u 7, as only five fewer than that of the club. M elt I.37lehone then went in for their second innings, and . by Vh`,„ „ e ls ° f some very fine and beautiful play by Mr. Dewing, ear j ade 36 runs without a chance, and Mr. Haygarth, who Wi e n° ' out his bat for 20, and the Veteran Lillywhite, to har°!:saceout as many as 17 were placed, obtained d _a_ good s N e u , , although, when the filth wicket went. Pml 3° , h ad been gained, Mr. Dewing and Lillyw lite, . agai al l 3l 3' arrested the tide of id-luck which had set in unst their side, but ran ahead of it. th, aMpsliire had in the end 125 to go in against, and when l • iekets were struck for the day had lost two men for The match will be continued this morning. .(" rcrl #v - ) I W~lls Serene Highness Prince Herman of Saxe itigalnar and brother left Marlborough House yesterday morn 'n a nd emba r k e d at London-bridge wharf, on board the lititsttfoBrteCiartenNda.vigation Company's steam-ship Sir Edward Ir roNt TUESDAY.—Ladv Ward, J. S. Drax, by ii; "' P., and Capt a i n K e ll y, R . N ., arr i ve d h ere this day ,e packet Magnet, from Dieppe. OF Sul Wm. S. WE M ISAN, BART. —Sir ken; 'Wiseman, Bart., died on Tuesday last at Hillindomeed, 1 812 The deceased was born in 1784. He married, first, in 14161,1418 s Macintosh, second daughter of Sir James Macintosh, andsecondly in 1827, Miss Davis, daughter of the Rev. t42ge Davis'. On the ' death of his grandfather, in 1810, he suc. , n,i ',( l l to the baronetcy. He enterer the navy at an early age, 1807' commissions were dated as follows :—L , eutenant, April 30, commander, Sept. 24, 1811 ; and captain, Nov. , 22, 1820. i n lt : i ciest ' l3 o by his first marr i age , M r . Ed mun d IA isemati, born succeeds to the baronetcy and family estate. af te ,,`' Queen and his lies a 1 'rime Albert. crier flak ing a farewell of the King and Quer n of the Belgians on the:faY morning next, will proceid by railway to Gosport, and 4tid r e rnhark on board the royal yacht for Cowes Her Majesty anti Prince Consort contemplate s ojourning at Osborne.house 42 a the close cif that week. 'I he Prince of Wa!er. arid the Princess 111r,.Will a ccompany their illustrious ',Aunts. the % Iv LOuts 3 PLane, of Baltimore, for mer ly Mi n i ster Pl en ip o . t u tit "e9 to the Court of St. James's, has received from Mr. Presi. Polk the appointment to the same post, and that he will sunester,s!ceed his Excellency Edward Ev ere tt, the present Mi. "' j - nr. M'Lane w as f or some tim.• Secretary for the U n ited tint resign e d hi s of fi ce in comvquenee of an unw i lli ngness ej"/" Part t assist in carrying out the views of the then President, . 11 Jackson.—post. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. RHUSE OF CO.VMOIVS. July 9. The SPEAKER. took the Chair to-day shortly after twelve o'clock. Leave way given for the different Committees to sit notwith standing the sitting of the Hou , e. LUNATICS ASYLUMS_ AND PAUPER LUNATICS GRAVESEND AND ROCHESTER RAILWAY. The report of the Committee on this Bill was brought up and received. TRENT VALLEY RAILWAY. The amendments of xhel;;lsto this Bill were severally read and agreed to. TAW VALLEY RAILWAY AND DOCK:.. The amendments of the Lords to this Bill were likewise brought up and agreed to. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to this Bill were brought up, read, and agreed to. Mr. BELLEW presented a petition from the county Louth in reference to the Irish Colleges Bill. SALMO Nl FISHERIES BILL. Mr. PAKINGTON said that the Committee on the Salmon heries Bill had been unable to bring their labours to a con clusion this session. and therefore begged that the second read . ing of the Bill should be postponed to nest session. UNIVERSITIES (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion that the Universities (Scotland) Bill be read a second time, Mr. MACAULAY said, that on the occasion of the first in troduction of the measure her Majesty's Ministers had con sulted together and had consented that the promoters of the Bill should have means to bring in the Bill. It was expected that the opposition was over. It was ex. petted that this important and salutary measure would have, been allowed to pass. It had, however, been intimated that it was the intention of her Majesty's Government to resist the further progress of the Bill. Were the present an ordinary case he should not have been so much surprised at that unex pected intimation ; at the same time, however, his confidence in the strength of his case was so great that he could not think that the opposition of the Government would avail in defeating the proposed measure. He had been sent to that House by the inhabitants of a great city, which was in former times the greatest city of a noble and independent country, and it still continued to be the in'el lectual metropolis of a free and intellectual people. The University had been so constituted that its renown during several centuries had progressed gradually to the furthest ends of the world as a great school of moral and intellectual science. That noble institution was now threatened with i g nominious ruin by the narrow-minded and short sighted policy of the Government, which was resolved on its destruction without even the miserable excuse of fana ticism. He pleaded for all the great academical institutions of Scotland, and, while pleading for those institutions, he felt satisfied he should be heard with patience by every man who loved learning, and who valued religious liberty. He said, firstly, that this Bill was founded upon sound prin ciples ; and he said, secondly, that even if the prineiple of this Bill was not one which could be defended as generally sound, still there were special circumstances in the case of Scotland which would make it their duty to pass the Bill. In the first place, then, he said the principle was sound, and whoever might controvert this proposition, of this he was sure, that it was not for her Majesty's Ministers to do so, for it was only the other day that they had come down to that House and proposed a system of secular education altogether divested of religion or religious instruction, and tests of every description. Yes, they brought in and defended that measure against zealous members of the Church of England, and they defended it, too, against the prelates of the Church of Rome; and it was only the day before yesterday that they refused to accept one of the most moderate tests he had ever seen. would narrow their choice to one-half of Scotland, and the emoluments would be proportionably reduced. If such a course were followed, the consequence would be the decay of the uni versities—those institutions which boasted of the names of Adam Smith, Dugald Stewart, Playfair, Black, and Jamieson. —( Hear, hear, and cheers.) The Gov, rnment went from one extreme to the other—backwards and forwards—like a reed shaken by the wind. They established four tests at Limerick, four at Glasgow, and three - at Aberdeen. Was it possible that such ! Government deserved public respect or public confidence? Was it not strange that even their most liberal measures failed t • gain the applause of liberal men ? Was it a Wender if they lost the confidence of the country ? But he spoke to the House—he spoke to those gentlemen who voted with the Go vei nment on Monday. He knew party had its obligations, but they had their limit, but there were some measures into which no party should follow their leader.—(Cheers.) They wanted to appoint men who would declare their opinions in favour of all points of Church government. He implored those members of the Church of England to protect those doctrines which they believed to be true, and all who loved science and learn ing to stand by them that day and aid them in averting the destruction which was threatened to the universities of Scot land. The Hen. Gentleman concluded by moving that the Bill be read a second time, and resumed his seat amidst great cheering from the opposition. Sir J. GRAHAM said, the subject which the Honourable Gentleman had brought forward to accompany a great question of public policy, should not induce him to depart on the present occasion from taking a fair review of the arguments which he hid brought forward, nor to trust to his abilities to sustain the decision to which her Majesty's Government had come to on a matter of importance with respect to the universities of one part of the United Empire. His (Mr. Macaulay's) arguments with respect to the new colleges were diametri cally opposed to those which it was his duty to urge on that occasion. The Right Hon. Gentleman had said that he had observed the marked hesitation with which Government had stated their views and intentions with respect to this particular measure. Now, in the last session of Parliament, this identical proposition was brought under the consideration of the House by a motion introduced by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Perth, and sustained with great ability and argument by the Hon. Member for Leith. On that occa sion it was his duty to state to the House the reasons which had induced the Government to resist this proposition. In the present session the Hon. Member for Leith asked for leave to introduce this bill, and he (Sir J. Graham) stated on the part of the Government, that although they were not prepared to resist the first introduction of the measure, yet the utmost de liberation hal not induced them to come to any deci sion upon the subject different to that which they had arrived at in the last session. On the contrary, they thought that their suhsequent inquiries had tended to confirm that de• cison, and although they did not oppose the first introduction of the Bill, yet it was distinctly understood it was left open for Government to pursue what course they might afterwards think proper to at opt. They had accordingly since paid due attention to the matter, and the result of their deliberations had induced them to come to the decision that it was their duty to resist the motion which the Hon. and Learned Member had just made. It was not for him, however, to go into foreign topics, but it was his duty to consider, in dealing with this question, what were the engagements which the Crown was under to the people of Scotland, and the effect of making the great change which this Bill sought to introduce into that country. Without having any regard therefore to foreign topics, but with a sincere regard for the interests of the people of Scotland, it was for him to ask himself what was the correct and proper line he ought to take in dealing with this question. Now, if it were simply a question for altering the religious tests in use in Scotland, in the same manner as that proposed the other evening by the Hon. Member for Devon shire in respect of the Irish colleges, he should be fully prepared to prove to the House that it was far better to adhere to the tests in use in the universities of Scotland, because they rested upon the sanction of ancient statutes, rather than to introduce any modified terms into them. The Right Hon. Gentleman in some parts of his speech had alluded to the conduct of Go vernment with respect to the Irish Colleges Bill in dealing with the question of tests, but he appealed to the justice and to the recent recollection of the [louse, whether throughout the whole of their arguments with respect to the admission or exclusion of tests from these colleges, they did not invariably rest the course they wore taking upon the pesuliar and especial circumstances connected with the people of Ireland ?—( Hear, hear.) He by no means contended that, as a general prin ciple, it was safe or expedient to exclude from universities of any sect the necessity of religious tests, but the course which the Government had taken in regard to the Irish colleges was justified by the peculiar circumstances in which the sister king dom was placed.—( Hear, hear.) The Honourable and Learned Member had remarked that English gentle men properly drew a distinction between the universities of Scotland and the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, but he begged to remind the House that in one most important particular alone there was a marked similitude between the collegiate institutions of the two countries. He alluded to the fact that the Church of Scotland drew its mi nistry solely from the Scottish universities. The Government were under solemn engagements to that Church by the Act of Legislative Union between the two countries, and it was useless to tell him that the late separation in the establishment had dissolved their engagements. It was no such thing, and therefore Government could not, consistently with their duty to the people of Scotland, allow this Bill to be read a second time. But now, turning to the constitution of the Scottish Church, he was prepared to show that the principals of the universities in Scotland exercised a general superintendence over the stu dents admitted into these colleges. They observed that no doctrines of a noxious tendency were inculculated ; and the House ought also to remember that the great majority of the professors of the university were also members of the Esta blished Church of Scotland. He repeated it, that the profes sors exercised a salutary control over the members of those uni versities ; and if Dissenters were admitted to these honours, there was a power existing to prevent any evil, and, at the same time, to allow them any liberty to which, as subjects of the British empire, they were entitled. In that stormy period of Scotland's history, when every interest was in a state of dis order, within the walls of the universities all was peace. It would be remembered that professors were nominated by certain municipal authorities, as in Edinburgh and Glasgow. In the first city the members of town council had the power of nominating the principals of the colleges ; and as regarded the Church of Scotland it was urged by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Edinburgh (Mr. Ma caulay) that it was in a minority. fie should be disposed to question that statement. The Church of Scotland, he thought, were in numbers greater than the followers of the Dissenting Churches. It had been stated that very great names were op posed to the present system of Church establishments, and those of Doctors Chalmers, Cunningham, and Candlish had been cited in support of that assertion. As far as those gentlemen were concerned, they had not expressed themselves opposed to the present law, they were in favour of the extension of it. On the motion that the Bill be read a second time, and after strangers had been ordered to withdraw, Mr. J. S. WORTLEY said that he regretted that no Gen tleman on the opposite side had risen to reply to the remarks of the Right Hon. Baronet and the Right Hon. Gentleman the Member for Edinburgh. He had heard with the deepest pain the speech of the Hon. Member for Edinburgh (Mr. Macaulay), and it was with not a little astonishment that he had listened to one observation which had fallen from that Was it seriously meant—was it desirable—that they should sink below the aborigines of New South Wales? If educa tion was an evil, he was sure no man in his senses would give it his support. He supported the Irish College Bill, the principle of which, and that of the Bill be fore the House, was one and the same.—( Hear, hear.) Scotland had a right to know from those who brought in the Irish Colleges Bill why they called upon them to throw out this Bill. In Scotland there was no clamour against the Universi tie, of Digland, or against the test taken by English professors ; and Hon. Gentlemen opposite well knew that whether they sent missions of peace to Scotland or not, Scotland would in every extremity be found faithful to the common cause of the empire— (Cheers)—and he was confident on that account, that anything bestowed on other parts of the empire ought not to be withheld from that country.—( Hear and cheers. ) In Scotland, as well as in Ireland, the Established Church was the Church of the minority of the population, perhaps not in so great a proportion as the people of Ireland, but. the members of the Presbyterian class were not less in proportion than the Catholics of Ireland. If they trusted the education a the youths of Ireland to professors who had not take the test, on what principle did they con ceive that the youth of Scotland were less safe? The Bill bad been founded on the same principle as that al lowed by Ministers. But if they did hold the principle of the Bill to be generally inapplicable, he could . show a peculiar r eason for adopting it in this case. He could not conceive how any person at all valuing consistency, and who voted for the motion of the Hon Member for Devonport, could refuse to vote for this Bill, nor could he understand how any Hon. Member voting tor the Irish Colleges Bill could refuse to vote for it, Academical education in Scotland had some peculiar character istics. It differed entirely from that of England and Ireland. The English Universities had a character of their own—ancient and a deeply-marked character it might be, but, good or bad, it was in perfect harmony with the system of tests. The Irish colleges had no character at all—they have yet to receive it from the Legislature, and would bear any impression which the Legislature put upon them. But the Scotch universities had a distinguishing characteristic quite out of harmony with the system of tests. He entreated English gentlemen not to be imposed upon by the word University, nor to derive their idea from the nature of the Cambridge and Oxford Universities. What ought to be done with the English Universities was a perfectly distinct question, to be dealt with on entirely distinct grounds. At Cambridge and Oxford the object was to bring up men members of a particular Church. At Cambridge, no person was suffered to graduate without de claiming his adhesion to the Church of England ; at Oxford, they were still more strict. The discipline even outside the walls of the college was analogous to that preserved within. Attendance in these universities was required at the common refectory ; they must be within the gates at a certain time ; officers were appointed to report whether or no the students had been present at divine worship, or in the hall at the proper hour. There were even officers appointed to watch over the students in the streets, to prevent drunkenness and gross immorality. Punishment was inflicted where there was any breach of decorum or intemperance. In short, the English universities undertook to form the religious opi nions and watch over the morals of the undergradu ates. Whether these rules and regulations accomplished the purpose for which they were designed was another question. They did not aim at inculcating any particular creed. A Jew might be a master of arts, or a doctor of medicine, in the Scotch universities, and the professors had no right to ask a man whether he attended a synagogue, a mass-house, an Episcopal chapel, or a Dissenting place. No inspection, no punishment, could take place. The relation ,between a Scotch professor and his student was the same as tha t which existed between a man walking St. George's Hospital and his superior —he might attend the lectures of Professor Faraday at the Royal Institution, or of Dr. Carlisle. Tests wore out of place as applied either to the student or the professor, and it was idle to require a man to be a Protestant to admit a Catholic, or a Trinitarian to admit a Unitarian to a degree. The Hon. Gen tlemen opposite might appeal to the Union and the Act of Se curity, but he denied that on those Acts they were precluded, nay more, he positively asserted, on the contrary, that they were absolutely required by them to apply the principle he sought, This he would prove, not by paltry quibbling, but what he believed would be the most incontro vertible arguments; arguments founded on that Union which he was willing to consider as a sassed trust, entered into by the two countries, binding them both to each other in bonds of indissoluble sanctity. — ( Hear, hear.) Now the Act of Union and the Act of Security provided that no person should be allowed to occupy any place as a teacher unless they subscribed to the Confession of Faith, and con formed to the Established Church. The Articles Union were sueh as he represented in 1707, in regard to tho Esta blished Church. At that time there was only one Church Now, he would ask, was the present Established Church of Scotland the same as that at the time of 1707 ? He would answer, not. British legislation had violated the Articles of Union by the changes which it had made in the Church of Scotland It was a principle of the Church of Scotland, at the t me of the Union, to allow the people to have a voic e in ins appointment of their religious teachers. The Articles of Union gave the people this privilege. This was the opinion of the great body of the Scottish Presbyterians. They considered that the right of appointing pastors by the people was a ques tion of great and vital importance. They stated this to be a fact which could not be impugned. They maintaiied that the people should have a share in the appointment of the mini sters who a , ministered to them religious instruction. On this point they held the opinion jure de vino. He was not exaggerating the opinions of the members of the Church of Scotland in what he was thus expressing. The Act of 1690 gave the power to the people of the disposition of presentations , which were generally considered to be a fair representation of the general body. That was the constitution of the Church of Scotland at the time of the treaty of 1707. Five minutes after the union task place a great violation of this compact occurred. In 1710 the Whig Government were driven from power, and a Tory Ministry was brought into office, and kept in office, and that Ministry regarded the Presbyterians of Scotland with great concern. The general opinion of the Union was, that the Eng lish were desirous of breaking the treaty as far as possible with out interfering with the State, and the Act of 1712 violated the treaty which had been originally entered into in 1707. From the Act of 1712 most undoubtedly followed every great secession and every great schism which had since occurred, and, among others, that of 1752. And in the last two years they saw, it might be with disap probation, but certainly not without strong sentiments of ad miration, 470 ministers of the Scottish Church throw up their charges, and resign themselves to the care of Providence.— ( Hear, hear.) They saw their followers also leave with them. They bad their worship, not in churches, for they had none, but on hills and moors, as their forefathers had done when they were animated by a similar spirit. The rich had, in the case he had cited, contributed in a princely manner, and the poor had also contributed in the same spirit with which the poor widow contributed her two mites to the treasury of Jerusalem.—(Cheers.) The secession was the first of the statute of 1712, and from that Act, and that only, did the present disputes arise. This was the true historical statement, and these were the results of the Act of 1712. He implored them to consider the manner in which that Act was acted on. They effected the treaty, and, in five years after, they broke through it, and the consequence was the secession of a great body of worshippers, until at last the Church was left in a minority. They ought to attend to the conscientious scruples of that Church, for, let them suppose that Boston, the author of the " Fourfold State," or other worthies of his class, were now ex isting, and supposing they explained to them the nature of the revolution which had taken place in the Church of Scotland— if they asked, " Is this your Church, is this the Church which was to be protected by the Act of Union ?" they would say, No ; our Church is the Church of Chalmers and Sir David Brewster, not the Church of Dr. Hill and Dr. Muir. The Right Hon. Gentleman had said that the universities was not now subject to these experimental tests. Those tests had been discarded by the Dissenters. The Ministers came down to that House to establish colleges in Ireland without tests, and then, tw) hours after, they proposed the introduction of tests into the Scottish universities ten times as stringent as they were before. He thought the Honed would not submit to allow such things as these to pass unnoticed. '1 he tests of late y ears had fallen into desuetude, and of the present processors in the University of Edinburgh twelve were Non-conformists. B oh the Right Hon. Gentlemen opposite had filled the office of Lord Ilec or of Glasgow, and could give good evidence that tests in the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh were aban doned, and, if abandoned, why were they now sought to be re vived ? They were not enforced while all the people of Scot land were members of the Established Church, but as soon as the majority of the people of Scotland became Dissenters, it was endeavoured to enforce the tests. He would read a paper from the Presbytery, conceived in such a spirit that he must say that he thought the Presbytery would have very little rea son in future .to speak against the intolerance of the Vatican. The paper was aadressed to one of the ministers, and concluded by r: commending the removal from his office, " for the love of botl G otte t es t da d nhe , oet md t e i h rsl e ::t s enh a rrd f ea e her safety y srft er o whot t eeam t xs h ntn e e f: C oet rh: committingsuhti h r te ycehfioi,rfntsthtoetl theei pmrr intolerance burnishingnis kt p che e ea r o : a t i intyuehdponefehigtenhel. injustice k sayt, i ,: n ome g fTes d Gho o eff m oo dgrn a hhoi n aren d dyr. defence in a warfare of that kind, the days of the Church of Scotland were numbered.-_(1-fear, hear.) The difficulty was to obtain men of great eminence and abilities to fill the chairs of universities. Now they had all the world—all Scotland—to make a selection from. If they throw out the present Bill, they Hon. Member ; and he could scarcely believe his senses when he heard the Church of Scotland denounced as a factious as semblage —as a branch which ought to be cut off. What was the state of Scotland? r as well known that Scotland was in a state of religious lL 11 ension, and he was grieved to find that some of the Memoers of that House were ready to lend their assistance to the fotnentation of that difference which was already unhappily so great. He believed that the indiscreet language of several of the members of the Free Church had led to this spirit of opposition. The spirit of the Church of Scotland was entirely opposed to those principles which occa sioned division. It should be recollected that they were not about to impose any new tests, but simply to preserve the old ones, and he believed that this was the time to abolish any of those means by which the conduct of the universities in Scot land was secures!. The corporation of Edinburgh appointed twelve out of the twenty professors, and it was well known that the whole tendency of the popular excitement in Scotland was towards the Free Church. Now it should be recollected that the whole of those tests were regulated by the senatus acade micus. It was of little consequence whether - the officers of the several colleges were appointed by the popular voice or by the professors. He was one of that party—he believed it was a great party in that House—who felt that it was necessary for the Church of Scotland to be connected with the State.— ( Hear, hear)—and he wished to know how the Church was to be supplied unless the universities were under regulations which would enable them to supply the churches with ministers of principles similar to those on which the church was conducted? It might be presumptuous in him to differ from the Right Hon. Gentleman in points of history, but he should remind him that it was not the Act of the year 1690, before the Union, but that of 1712, which regulated the ministerial characters of the professors of those universities. That was the Act which transferred the patronage of those churches to the heritors, and it was necessary, therefore, to be careful that they did not deprive the Church of Scotland of one of those securities which had been given by the last Act for the government of the Church. The universities of Scotland were even now more open than any other universities in the kingdom, and there was, therefore, no reason to allege for the transference of that government on which their peculiar character depended. That was the real question. It was not to be overlooked that the object of this motion was to transfer the patronage of those churches and those universities to the hands of those who were their greatest enemies. He felt assured that in the late seces sion there was to be found an immense number of persons who had seceded simply from attachment to their ministers. The Free Church of Scotland had shown the utmost readiness to carry out the views of the body in an active interference with the academies of the country. In one instance, when a college in connexion with the Free Church, and when it was stated that 30,000/. were wanted, no less than 20,0001. was subscribed by a few individuals. He was no opponent to the Free Church, for he thought that the establishment of this Church was likely to excite a generous rivalry, such a s had been exhibited in England in consequence of the discus,ions at Oxford. From that discussion a new spirit had arisen, new churches had been built, new schools established, and all would allow that an impulse had been dif fused over the w hole Church. H o was no opponent to the Church of Scotland, or to those who were seeking to establish a better system of ec clesiastical p ol ity. He wi s hed to see a generous rivalry among the several portions of the community, but he must assert that this attempt to Popularise the govern ment of the universiti es was uncalled for. Sir G. GREY felt called upon to express his surprise at the course which the Government intended to pursue on this question. Pressed as they were by the arguments of his Right Honourable Friend in opposing; these tests, not a single argument of the least consequence had been ad duced to support their continuance. He was sorry to say that there was a total disregard of principle on the part of the Govern ment. lie wished to know what circ umstances had occurred during the last year to induce the Government to change their minds to suc h an extent as they did upon the present Bill? The Righ t Hon. Gentleman, in opposing the Bill, had resorted to such shifts that he could not adequately de -1 scribe them. He had stated, however, that in all the univer- I sities these tests existed. Sir J. GRAHAM —In all the universities except Edin burgh. Sir G. GREY replied that Sir D. K. Sandford, professor of Greek in Glasgow . was admitted through an Episcopalian pro test. The lion. Gentleman said that no evil resulted from these tests j but the reason why they did not result in evil was because they were never brought into actual operation. He Inped, however, that they would not allow sectarian collegiates to be tolerated in these countties. He would on these grounds give the Bill his most cordial support. If the bond of union between Church and State in Scotland was the system of patronage which existed, he should like to know how long the integrity of the Church would continue, as the great ma jority of the patrons were Episcopalian P ro t estants ? Thi s was a sample of the expedients which Hon. Gentlemen were obliged to resort to. He hoped the Government would not look to the opinion of the General As embly alone in this matter, but that they would re - consider the course which they had determined to adopt on this question, and remove for ever sectarian education from the colleges and institutions of the country. Sir ROBERT INGLIS hoped that he would be acquitted of any disrespect, if he said th at th e spe ec h o f I s i s H on . Friend had wily one argument of any value which called for the least attention. If it was t rue, sai d the Right lion. Gen tleman, that the Church, as established i n 1707, and by NI subsequent Acts in 1712 and 1712 1 was not the son church THE SUN, LONDON, TMURSDAI MORNING, JULY 10, 1845. as now established, he would ask, where the Church was to which the State was allied, and which required these Acts? The argument of his Right lion. Friend proved too much. He could never conceal from himself that it was his duty to promote the right of the Church to which he belonged, and in Christian charity he was equally bound to support the Church as at present established in Scotland. The question was not whether they would impose tests, but whether they would preserve those which had been considered necessary for the preservation of the Established Church of Scotland. To say that this was persecution was a very different reading of the word to what he had been accustomed to. He thought it was not fair for the Right Hon. Gentleman who made the motion, and the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down, to taunt the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir James Graham) with treating Ireland on a different footing in respect to collegiate education. His opinion was that the two countries were placed in different circumstances. There was no analogy whatever be tween them. He would certainly now look upon the Free Church of Scotland, which had withdrawn itself from the Establishment not from a difference of creed, but on a point of Church government, as not deserving of any privilege what ever. He thought the Church of Scotland should continue to receive that protection which it deserved, and that the vo'e this night would show, in a marked manner, what was the feeling of the House on this important question. Mr. PRINGLE did not like the House to come to a deci sion upon the Bill without aff or di ng hi m an opportun i ty o f re cording his opposition to it. The Government who had thought proper to establish those institutions imposed those tests, and he considered that it was only due to the Church of Scotland to fence it round by such provisions. He did not consider, how ever, that the members of the Free Church, any more than Episcopalian Protestants, were bound by them. lhe object of those tests was to prevent the subversion of the Church. They were not of much use in themselves, but they were indirectly of great benefit.—( Hear, hear. ) He had seven petitions to present tonight which he had not the opportunity of producing. He thought that if the whole Church were consulted on the matter, they would express their opinions in the same terms as were exhibited in the language of those petitions. These tests had been in existence for 150 years, and during that period there was no clamour raised— there was no complaint urged, and it was only within these last two years that they were inclined to force from their educational colleges all religious tests. Why should the Church of Scotland alone be deprived of that right which belonged to the Church of England ? What would be the con sequence of passing this measure? It was his opinion that if it passed, in the town council of Edinburgh every election would be more or less dependant on the reli• gious communion of the persons appointed. The students in the universities would be influenced in the same way. This mea.••• sure was not directed against the principal establishments in Scotland—it went much further, it was intended to affect the supposed system of education generally, and it would strike a blow that would be generally deprecated. He was entirely against any measure that would tend to sever sound religion from sound education. Mr. C. BULLER said that the test that was proposed to be continued by the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down ought to be the first to be abolished. The test which Sir D. Sanford took was, that he would practice and conform to the worship in usa in the said church. He would like to know what better plan was there that the most subtle enemy of the rights of conscience could devise to keep out all the members of other Churches, than to extract from persons a declaration that they would practise the worship of a Church to which they did not belong. The argument now in favour of the ab sence of tests in the Irish colleges was, that they would create a sectarian system of education, and would work out religious distinctions. Was that state of things peculiar to Ireland ? No ; thanks to the Government, who had placed Scotland in the same po-ition as Ireland in that respect, the same argu ment could be applied to Scotland also. He saw with great regret the course which the Government had taken upon this subject. In truth, it was an attempt to impose new tests. The great body of the clergy of the Free Church of Scotland had petitioned against the imposition of tests, and now was the time to conciliate that Church. By passing this Bill they would effect that conciliation, and the cost of that conciliation would merely be the abolition of a few tests. The LORD ADVOCATE said the Bill was intended to re peal a part of the Act of Settlement. The Bill proposed to abolish tests without any proposition for new ones in their stead being made. He was not aware that any body of the Dissen ters of Scotland had expressed an opinion in favour of this Bill. The resolution of the Free Church did not do it. The leading members of that Church were not in favour of this Bill at all. He did not think that it had been shown that any practical evil had resulted from the imposition of the tests at present in force. If no evil had resulted from these tests, what ground could there be for the abolition? He did not believe that any class in Scotland was in favour of the entire abolition of tests in the universities of Scotland. Dr. Candlish had said he would rather have the present tests than no tests at all. The Dissenters wished the tests to be altered, so as to admit their own body to the universities; but they would rather the present tests continued than have no security at all, for in that case, if there were no tests at all, persons who were of no religion would gain admis sion to the universities. Why pass the Bill; why proceed with the measure—a measure which would be acceptasle to no one ? Part of the education inculcated on the students was logic, moral philosophy, Greek, Latin, and mathematics; to the two former sciences, viz., logic and moral philosophy, theology was intimately connected, but it was proposed by this Bill to render it obligatory on the Established Churchman to attend those lec tures as by professors of a different belief. Such a course was eminently inconsistent, and would only serve to introduce dis satisfaction, if not irreligion. The system proposed was wholly in contradiction to that pursued in Trinity College, Dublin, and he trusted it would be discountenanced by the House. Mr. P. M. STEWART, amid loud cries of" Divide," said, that after the admirable speeches of the Members for Leith and Edinburgh, the latter still remaining unanswered, he would trespass but a few minutes on the attention of the /louse. The opponents of the Bill had treated with contempt the opinion of the majority of the people of Scotland, for the Free Church undoubtedly comprised the vast majority of that country, and had despised petitions presented from that eminent body. The Government had now in their power, by passing this Act, to offer a boon to a divided Church—to heal dis•en sions—to afford relief when most required—and to consult the universal opinion of the people of Scotland. Let the Govern ment ad , ,pt some decided course; let them adopt the motto incribed on a banner, yesterday unfolded by one of their officers at his re-election--" Principle and no expediency ;" and thus entail honour on themselves, and confer justice on the Church. In the words of the Act which proposed the original test to advance the religion of Scotland and the good of the Church, they would at once take a better view of the case and oppose the Bill, for which Scotland would be lastingly grateful throughout the Church and the country. Sir R. PEEL said he had never concealed from himself the difficulties with which her Majesty's Ministers would have to contend in bringing forward any scheme for the education, of the youth of Scotland. It had subjected the Government to charges which had been most unjustly brought against them on a previous occasion. It had been said that the principles which had been adopted as to Ireland necessarily compelled the Go vernment to adopt a similar principle in other parts of the em pire. He would ask, what were the circumstances under which these new academical institutions were founded? It was wished to provide at the expense of the State good secular education. It is not proposed to insist on a system of sectarian education, ncr to educate ministers for the Church in Ireland ; nor was it pro posed to separate religion from the education which it was in tended to give. Having carefully considered the circumstances of Ireland, the Government had called upon individuals to 'make provision for the religious education of the young men at the colleges. There might be found existing, both in Ireland and in other parts of the empire, institutions of great antiquity intended for the education of ecclesiastics and ministers of the Church. In this very metropolis there existed King's College for the education of clergymen of the Establishment. In Ire land we find Dublin University established for a similar pur pose. Maynooth also existed for the Roman Catholics ; and in the north of Ireland a college for the edu cation of Presbyterian ministers had been founded. It was quite true that the Government had not imposed on the professors the taking of any particular test, but then they were told they were guilty of some inconsistency because they did not follow the same course with respect to Scotland as they had pursued towards Ireland. It was not intended to alter Dublin University or Trinity College. The Government had been charged with inconsistency because :they had not opened Trinity College to the Roman Catholics. - The Government had desired to establish these colleges with the understanding that the same principle must not necessarily be applied to similar institutions. These colleges were to be founded so as to meet the special circumstances of Ireland, and they defended the establishment of those institutions on those grounds. A suf ficient guarantee and security had been provided for the integrity of the professors. It waa proposed to give to the Crown the absolute power of appointment, and the absolute power of re moval, and that was the substitute for any test to be taeen. What was the case in Scotland? There were certain acade mical institutions which were immediately connected with the Church. In these institutions the ministers of the Church generally received their education. The proposed Bill ad mitted that the academical institutions of Scotland were con nected with the Church. It was especially provided in the Bill that nothing should extend to interfere with the chairs of divinity in any of the universities of Scotland. The Bill re cognised a material distinction between the collegiate establish ments of Scotland and those about to be instituted in Ireland. It would be found that an engagement had been entered into at the Union that the professors of those universities should make a certain subscription implying compliance with the doctrines of the Church. Could there be a doubt as to the meaning of the requirements of the Act of Union? It was ex plicitly laid down that the professors of these universities, before their appointment, should subscribe to the .‘ Confession of Faith" as the confession of their faith. The Right Hon. Gentleman admitted the binding force of that engagement. He said he would not attempt to quibble it away. The Right Hon. Baronet, after having alluded to the tests established in 1711 by an Act of Parliament passed in the reign of Queen Anne, and showing the consistency of resuming tests which had been in disuetude for 130 years past ; and speaking also of the disruptions that had taken place of late years in the Scottish Church, continued to say that the Government had been told that no tests had been required in the new institutions in Ire land, and .the objection might be further urged, that there were good grounds to abolish that principle in the English universities. He had contemplated the proposed schemes for the education of the youth of Ireland, and had thought it might be a great benefit. The Bill for the Scottish universities pro vided that all the professors of divinity should be subject to the tests. The Government had been assured that the Bill would meet with general concurrence on the part of the people of Scotland. If it had been otherwise, the Government, per haps, would not have been perfectly willing to have agreed to it. What petitions had the people of Scotland forwarded in favour of the measure ? He believed there had been one or two peti tions, but these did not contain the opinion of the people in favour of the repeal of these tests. Mr. HUME—There have been no petitions against—all in favour. Sir R. PEEL—The Hon. Member says none against. Since the Bill had been brought before the House the General As sembly of the Church of Scotland had met, and it had declared itself not in favour, but against the Bill, and prayed that the Act of Union should be maintained. He (Sir Robert Peel) was not prepared to set aside the Act of Union entered into with the r eople of Scotland. He was not pre pared to set aside the guarantees of the Act of Union with out great consideration, especially as the people of Scotland had not expressed themselves against it. Was there a general desire among them that these tests should be removed, on the grounds that they were against the sense and interest of the people, then he should hold it to be a matter worthy of serious consideration. But even then such a step should not be sightly regarded. They ought not on slight grounds to inter fere with that which constituted the basis of a national compact. —( Hear, hear.) They had desired to extend the benefits of academical education to Ireland, and it had been objected to that measure that the danger was the principle with regard to the appointment of professors which it contained would be extended to Trinity College, Dublin, and to the English and Scotch universities. There was, however, a great distinction between those institutions established for the purposes of aca demical education, and institutions established for other pur poFes—institutions set apart for religious instruction, and of great antiquity—( Hear, hear)—guaranteed by particular compact, founded for the purposes of theological education and the instruction of the ministers of religion, who were to exercise spiritual influence over the people. He did think it necessary to apply a different rule to these institutions to that he proPse4 for the Irish academical institutions. HD tyoql4 pot consent to alter the law so that the professors and instruetias of youth in the principles of religion should be exempted frSTii those testg which weve guaratittvi , 14 y t..he national compact, and which the opinion and feeling of the country required.— (Cheers, and loud cries of " Divide.") Lord J. RUSSELL thought it was hardly necessary to argue the question further.—(Loud cheers.) He had been taught to consider that religion was a matter of principle, and that it was necessary to maintain it as useful and beneficial to the State. He could understand the tenacity of the Hon. Member for the University of Oxford (Sir R. Inglis) in support of the tests and privileges of the universities, and he could comprehend the motives of those who looked upon those tests as cobwebs and snares to entrap the unwary. Those who entertained such opinions about the injurious nature of tests, as well as the Hon. Member for the Univei sity for Oxford, could well defend their opinions ; but as for the Government, it neither held one opi nion nor the other. They (the Government) told them one day there was no need of religious tests, that they were utterly useless; and the next day they came down to the House and told them that tests were absolutely necessary for the maintenance of religion in Scotland, and that in the language of the Lord Advocate, they should not, by any means, act on latitudinarian principles. He put it the House whether Ministers aught not to assert one principle or the other—(Loud cheers)—whether they were to act on one principle in dealing with the Irish Colleges Bill, and on other principles when dealing with English or Scotch universiti es ?—(L ou d c h eers .) I t was not sufficient for them to be told that such a course of proceeding was to serve the particular interest of the Ministry.—( Hear, hear.) He had heard an old story of two knights who met each other on different sides of a shield, one side of which was black and the other white; they fought a desperate battle in support of their opinions respecting the colour of the shield, the one knight maintaining that the shield was black, and the other asserting it was white. But the Ministry did something more than this. At one time they maintained that the shield was black, at another they declared that it was white. They sup ported one or two other principle alternately, so that it was impossible to know what they really meant on any matter involving the religious interests of the country.—(Cheers.) lie believed that these tests only entangled scrupulous persons, and furnished no guard against infidelity. That such tests did not fulfil the object for which they were intended, he need only refer to three notable examples—Lord Bolingbroke, Mr. Hume, and Mr. Gibbon—all of whom held important appointments under the Government. These tests did not prevent these men holding these appointments. They were good Tories arid Churchmen, though entertaining their well-known opinions on religious questions.—( Hear, hear.) But the tests under consi deration did not exclude from the universities those men who held different doctrint s to those c f Presbyterianism. They excluded those who agreed with all the leading d oc t r i nes o f t h e Presbyterian Church, but who differed upon points of Church Government only. On this ground the tests shut out professors of natural philosophy and mathematics. If any man, a teacher of mathematics, did not hold with the policy of the present General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, he was excluded from all chance of filling a professor's chair. He happened to knew the futility of these tests, having attended the University of Edinsurgh, and been present at the lectures of the celebrated Dugald Stewart. The class that attended the teachings of that great philosopher was composed of all denominations. At the close of the session a Committee was formed to draw up an address to be presented to that celebrated man, which was composed of a Presbyterian and a Member of the Church of :England, while the party who drew up the address was a Roman Catholic—then Lord Killeen, now the Earl of Fingall.—( Hear, hear.) It was said that the clergy of the Church of Scotland had not peti tioned in favour of the Bill. This was not to be wondered at, as they were, in fact, the excluding body.—( Hear, hear. ) Suppose they were to ask the Primate of Ireland, or the clergy under his care, their feelings on the expediency of the May neoth Bill—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear ")—what would be the result? Why, he doubted if there were five or six of the clergy would support that measure, or even the New Colleges Bill. (Cries of " Hear, hear.") The appealing to the clergy of the Church of Scotland was, therefore, no sound criterion to guide the House in legislating on this question. But really after all, without entering into the question any fur ther, he was t'isposed to ask the House to establish either one or the other of the principles he had enumerated. His Hon. Friend the Member for Oxford (Sir H. Inglis) said the Go vernment had a general policy, and that they had made an ex ception to that policy in favour of the Irish colleges. But let them adopt one principle or the other, and do not let the country ask what it was. It would be most injurious that the opinion of the country should be altogether shaken—that there should be no resting-plane on any principle by that House. If they adopted a vacillating course, the people of England would be at first be wildered, but when they came to their senses, they would con demn the conduct which had led them into this painful di lemma. He had, therefore, to appeal to the House, as he be gan, not to suffer this stain on their character—to trust upon the Government of the day—and to let the House of Commons remain in future free from such a stain, and not to be touched by such a dishonour.—( Great cheering. ) The House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion lOB Against it Majority against the motion ... —8 The amendment was received with great cheering by the Opposition. BILL. Lord ASHLEY moved that the House should resolve itself into a Committee on this Bill. Mr. LIDDELL regretted the absence of any of the Mem. hers of her Majesty's Government. as he was anxious to draw the , r attention to the fact that persons who had private lunatic asylums would be greatly injured by the operatf in of the Bill. He wished to know whether any &awe would be introduced into the 811 to give ;hem compensation. He was favourable to the principle of the Bill, thinking it the duty of every county to give support and an asylum to its pauper lunatics. _ _ _ Mr. WILLIAMS agreed with the principle of the Bill, but he regretted that it had been introduced at so lace a period of the session. A Bill of such importance ought to have had more time for consideration. He thought that the case of parties who would be injured by the measure ought robe taken i to corsideration, where that consideration would not inter fere with the princip eof the Bill. He objected to the juris dic•ion of theiustices of the peace, thinking that the Commis sioners were the proper parties to adjudicate upon any question that might be raised. Mr. P. HOWARD said that the Bill had caused great apprehensions in that part of the country from which lac came, and it was thought hard that small counties should he compelled to erect lunatic asylums, when there were num bers of other asylums to which they might be removed. He believed that lunatics would be much sooner cured by removing them to a distance, than by placing them in asylums where old scenes and recollections would be fresh belore them. If some ma terial alterations were not made in the Bill, he should on the third reading move the rejection of the measure. He thought it quite unnecessary to force such a measure forward at the pre sent late period of the session. Lord ASHLEY thought it would be better to go into Com mittee on the Bill, and to discuss the different points that had been adverted to when the clauses with respect to them came before the Committee. The House then resolved itself into Committee on the Bill. On clause 46 being proposed, Mr. LIDDELL objected to the imprisonment of idiots ana imbeciles in these lunatic asylums. Lord ASHLEY observed that ten per cent. of the lunatics of England were idiots and imbeciles, but as all lunatics were to be taken before a magistrate, he would be governed by the opinion of a medical man, which, if it were to the effect that any of them were only idiots or simpletons, and harmless, they would, of course, be discharged. Mr. WAKLEY considered that great care ought to be taken that the opinion of the medical man who first saw the lunatic should not be the opinion on which the magistrate should act. If this precaution was not taken, the lunatic would not have that protection to which he was entitled. Lord ASHLEY considered if that course was adopted, it would greatly retard the operation of the Bill. The subject, however, he could assure Hon. Members, should be fully con sidered. The clause was then agreed to. On clause 47 beirg proposed, Mr. WARBURTON doubted whether sufficient protection was given to the public under this clause. The little savings of the pauper lunatic have been sold by an order of a magis trate, which ha- left him and his family destitute. The same, also, applied to small tradesmen and persons with trifling in come, who had the misfortune to become lunatics ; their per sonal property did not meet with sufficient protection under tie proposed law. Lord ASHLEY instanced a case of a poor hardworking woman. with 9s. per week, with a large family, who had the misfortune to be afflicted with insanity, and who was supported by the parish for some time, and eventually the entire family, owing to the mother's inability to supply them with necessaries, became chargeable to the parish. If this woman in the first instance had been sent to the County Lunatic Asylum, she would probably have been cured at an expense of 41. or Si., and the parish would have been relieved from the burd n which hats been entailed on it. 'I his clause woeld provide against any such occurrence as that which he had descr b-d. Ai,. PA KINGTON observed that the clause would make the pauper lunatic chargeable to the county and not to the pari,h After a few words from Mr. Raring, Mr. Vernon Smith, Mr Briley, Mr. Wortley, and Mr. Bouverie, Mr. WA KLEY s.itt that he knew of many most atrocious ca-es in which lunatics bad been confined in order that their prop , rty might be appropria , ed by their relations. He thought that the clause, as it at present stood, would tend to encourage constables ie doing wrong, by affording them facilities for selling the property of pauper lunatics. The clause was then vvithorawn for the purpose of being in troduced in an amended form on the bringing up of the report. Clau,e 43 was agreed to, as were also clauses 49, 50, and 51. On clause 52 being read, Lord DUNCAN objected to the hurried manner in which the hill was being passed. He also complained that the town councils and magisuates had not been recognised by any of the clauses. After a few words from Mr. VERNON SMITH, the clause was agreed to, with verbal amendments. Clauses 52, 53, and 54, were agreed to, with some verbal amendments. Clause 55 was then proposed and agreed to, after some slight Lii , cussion as to its wording. Clauses 56 and 57 were then tgrced to. Clause 58 was then proposed. Mr. WAKLEY objected to the free access of the overseers and guardians to the lunatic paupers, which was allowed by the clause. He thought that they would go on parties of pleasure to the country, under the plea of making an investigation.— (Laughter. ) Lord ASHLEY moved that the words " at all reasonable times " be inserted after the words " free access." The clause was then passed as amended. Clauses 59 and 60 were agreed to. Lord ASHLEY then moved the postponement of the fur ther consideration of the clauses, to give an opportunity of swearing in a Member. The motion was carried, and the SPEAKER took the Chair. Sir J. DUCKWORTH was immediately introduced by Lord Lincoln and Sir J. Y. Buller, and having taken the oaths, took his seat in the House as Member for Exeter. The SPEAKER then left the Chair, and the House went again into Committee. Clauses 61 and 62 were then agreed to, as also were clauses down to 70. Clause 71, which makes provision for the discharge and re moval of lunatics from asylums, and for a penalty of 50/. on officers for allowing them to escape, or to be at large without permission, was objected to on the ground that the penalty was too high. The clause was amended, and the insertion of the words " if not more than 201., and not less than 101.," and agreed to. Clauses up to 74 were also agreed to. Clause 75, which provides that in case of the death of a lunatic its cause should be stated, and sent to the clerk of the peace and the Commissioners of Lunacy, was proposed. Mr. DuNcomrsE objected to it, on the uround that in every case of the death of a lunatic information of the fact should be sent to the Coroner, who should hold an inquest on the body, and proposed that the clause should be so amended. Lord ASHLEY said they should recollect that they were dealing with public lunatic asylums. He could not see the necessity of holding a't inquest in every case, however necessary such a step might be where death oceurred in private asylums. Mr. WAK LEY had had considerable experience as to the necessity of the amendment during the 'Tried he had held the office of coroner. He con idered that it was also necessary as a species of supervision on the Commissioners of Lunacy. Whenever a criminal died an inquest was invariably held on his body, and he saw no reason why this should not take glace on the death of a lunatic. It half a dozen rate-payers were eto ed to visit an asylum, and inspect the beds , of a lunatic, he should not press the necessity of hold it.g an inquest. They ought to give these unfortunate persons alt the Protection in their pow. r. Mr. V. S slit H was in favour of adopting some middle course respecting those flying in private as well as in county asylums. It "ught not, how ver, to be made peremptory, becau-e many lun ',tics died from a long course of disease, aod not from any other cause. Besides, the triends of the lunatics might have a great objection to the holding of inquests on the bodies of their r•lat ions. He objected to it being left to rate payers, who might he incompetent for the discharge of the duties which woul.l thus devolve upon them. Mr. DU:NCOAIIiE thought the holding of an inquest out , ht not to be left to the option of 'he friends of the deceased. The same protection extended to the rich ought to be extended to the poor. The H.,use then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it prity against the amendment ... —33 Mr. WAKLEY moved that the names of the parties present at the death of a lunatic should be insered in the schedule ep cified in the Bill, which would be signed by the medical officers of the asylum. Lind ASHLEY offered no objection to this proposition, and the clause was, as amended, agreed to. On the next clause being proposed, Mr. DUN COM B E inquired why Bethlehem was to be exempt from the operation of this Act? Lord ASHLEY was understood to say that there was a special Act of Parliament now in operation applying to the hospital of Bethlehem. Mr. T. D tJNCO MBE thought that if Bethlehem were exempt, St. Luke's ought a'so to be exempted. He believed that the Noble Lord was afraid to grapple with the monopoly existing in the institution of BeililelVeni.. Lord ASHLEY said that Bethlehem was an institution distinct from all other lunatic asylums in the country. It had been established by royal foundation, and was under an especial government of its o.s n. Mr. DUNCOM BE still thought that this Bill ought to apply to Bethlehem Hospital. The clause was then agreed to. On the first schedule being proposed, The Earl of ARUNDEL suggested that some provision should be made for the spiritual instruction of lunatics who had anv glimmering of reason in their minds. Lord ASHLEY was afraid that provision being introduced into this Bill respecting religious opinions of the lunatics might much impede the effectual working of this Bill. The Earl of S ELBURNE thought that such a provision would have a tendency to lead to religious persecution. Mr. T. DUNCOI%IBE thought the suggestion of the Noble Earl (the Earl of Arundel) ought to be entertained. Previ sions similar to that suggested by the Noble Lord were always introduced into Acts of Parliament relating to prisons. Why, then, not be introduced into this Bill? Mr. P. HOWARD said, that when a man was not abso lutely raving mad, it might be of advantage that religious in struction should be afforded. The House then resumed, and the report was ordered to be received on Friday. RAILWAY STANDING ORDERS. Mr. GREENE moved that standing order No. 123, re quiring reports on railway Bills to be discussed upon every Tuesday, be suspended to the end of the present session. Agreed to. MANCHESTER AND ALTRINCRAM RAILWAY The Lord.' amendments to the Manchester and Altrincham Railway bill were agreed to. MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to the Manchester and Birmingham (Ashton branch) Railway Bill were agreed to. ASHTON, S I'ALYBE.I Y RAI DGE. AND LIVERPOOL LWA. The Lords' amendments to the Ashtoe, Stalybridge, and Liverpool Railway Bill were agreed to. LONDON AND BRIGHTON RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to the London and Brighton (lb sham branch) llailwas Bill were agreed to. NORTH :VALES RAILWAY. The Lords' amendments to the North Wales Railway Bi were agre,d to. GROUP A. Mr. LASCELLES moved that the reports from the Com mittee on the Railway Bills and projects included in group A, with reference to the South-Eastern Railway (Widening and Extension of the Greenwich Railway) Bill, and on the South- Ea-tern Railway (Tunbridge to Tunbridge Welk) Bill, be taken into consideration on Friday next.—Aereed to. BETHNAL-GREEN RECTORY BILL. The St. Matthew's, /3ethnal-green, Rectory Bill, was read a Wird time and passed. CATHOLIC RELIEF BILL. Upon returning to the gallery, we found Mr. WATSON moving that the House go into Committee on the Bill. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman said he would shortly state to the House the grounds upon which he asked their assent to this Bill. He did not mean to invade what were termed the safeguards of the Established Church, but simply to repeal some statutes which were a disgrace to the statute book and to the age in which they lived. The present Bill had passed a Committee of the House of Lords during the last ses sion, and, so far from going beyond the wishes of the Lord Chancellor and the law lords, these noble and learned per sonages only complained that it did not go far enough. A Com mission had been appointed in the present session, which made a most valuable report on the general laws affecting numerous classes of their fellow-subjects in a religious point of view. He had been blamed for not making the Bill more comprehensive, but had he extended i' s provisions to all classes of Dissenters, it would not have passed through both Houses of the Legis lature. Ti.e first class of penal measures to which he would allude, was that which affected the supremacy of the Pope. The Commission steed that those Acts ought to be repealed. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman then went on to the penal statutes chiefly passed in the reign Elizabeth and William the Third affecting the Roman Catholics, imposing the penalty of high treason upon those who a second time were convicted of acknowledging the poli tical supremacy of the Pope. Many of these statutes were not only absurd, but wholly inoperative at the present time, for beads and Agni Dei were imported at an ad valorem duty of 30 per cent.—( Laughter.) Not so the regular clergyman, and yet we had this penal enactment. He could not under stand why this penal Bill should be retained on the list, for he believed that they were not sufficient for the education of the youth of this country. He expected the support of that side of the House. The Members on that side had voted for the Maynonth Bill, and for the education of the people of Ireland. If the Right Hon. Baronet would look to the several statutes he would see that they were totally inapplicable to the circum stances of the case.—( Hear, hear.) If he would look at these reasons he would see that the principle of penal laws affecting religious opinion were bad. He had expected a most respect able opposition from the Hon. Member for Oxford ; but if the question were to be discussed, he trusted that the principle for which he had contended was one which ought to be recog nised in every legislative assembly. He was obliged to the House for their attention to the observations he had felt it his duty to make.—( Cheers. ) Sir J. GRAHAM said that, in the opinion which he had expressed with respect to this Bill, there was, in fact, no dif ference between him and the Government. This was shown by the decision which had been come to in the Lords. And with respect to the amendments, he had no personal objection ; but he still thought that, so far as the Bill of 1829 was con cerned, he was obliged to say that her Majesty's Ministers had duly considered the measure, and they were of opinion that great care was requisite before they came to any decision. He was not aware that her Majesty's advisers had ever inti mated, either directly or indirectly, their readiness to concede to the repeal of the laws now denominated obnoxious. Such a course he, for one, regarded as highly inexpedient ; and he re peated what he had more than once previously stated, that in the present state of public affairs, it was not advisable to pur sue it. At the same time he would admit that, in the next session, some measure might be introduced which would satisfy the Hon. Member for Kinsale, and render it safe for him to withdraw his resolution. Mr. REDINGTON reminded the Right Hon. Baronet that this was the only day in the week on which such orde.s could be brought forward, and he trusted that his Hon. Friend, who had so ably and perseveringly introduced the measure, would not too readily abandon it. Some short time since he heard a discussion in another place upon the severe enactments still maintained and exercised in Portugal, and the Colonial Secre tary, in reply, appealed to the fact of this country having only a few years since repealed penal acts equally as stringent. One would have supposed that such a plea would not have beer, urged unless the Government could come into court wilt pure hands and prove that this country was wholly free from the taint of religious intolerance.) And yet how diametrically opposite was the fact. But let the House look to the imposi tions virtually placed upon that estimable sect of the Catholic Church—the Jesuits ; and yet Prussia—Protestant Prussia— had successtully, and with honour to herself, established institu tions for the benefit of that order. Again, the late Dr. Doyle, esteemed for his charity and conciliatory feeling, and that re nowued friar, Father Matthew, were virtually regarded as proscribed. Sir R. H. INGLIS said the measure was not the least important which had been brought forward in the present year, and yet at this late period of the session they were called upon to deliberate on it. Few in that House who were not interested in it knew the nature of the Bill, and cer tainly none out of the House were aware of what the Bill proposed to effect. It proposed at once to entirely repeal the Act of Supremacy, repealed the Act which prohibited Jesuits from appearing in that House, and repealed the Act which pro hibited Roman Catholic processions. He apprehended, if the Bill passed as it now stood, there would be no restrictions placed upon those processions, and a Roman Catholic Bishop would have a right to claim a participation in a see of the Established Church; and he asked the House, having already incurred the obloquy of the country for adopting similar measures, were they prepared to proceed further with this Bill ? Well, then, he should sit down, trusting that the further consideration of the measure would not be pressed upon the House, and would eon elude by moving that the Bill be committed that day three months. Mr. SHELL thought that the Right lion. Baronet ought to be the last person who should talk of the bigotry of Jesuits.— ( Hear, hear, and cheers.) He considered that ho had mani fested an opinion of their principles and proceedings which was really astonishing:: He would ask him what country did not bear evidence to their exertions— " Quay regio in terris non nostri plena laboris." NV hat country, he would ask, did not benefit by their labours ? The Right Hon. Gentleman talked of the late proceedings in Switzerland, but did he ever hear of Vestris, the professor in ' Zurich ? Sir R. INGLIS—IIe was expelled. Mr. SHELL—Yes, tardily expelled, but was he not the principal instigator of the late outbreak ? He could speak from experience, that the Jesuits were the most zealous promoters of education. Ile, himself, was educated in a Jesuit, college, and he could say that they were always devoted to the cause of genuine liberty. Mr. NEWDIGATE found fault with the Government, and accused them of a breach of promise with regard to the present question. Sir J. GRAHAM disclaimed the imputation of the lion. Member, and said that the Government never contemplated making any alteration in the Bill of 18'29 so far as regarded the Jesuits. Mr, M. J. O'CONNELL did not exactly understand the position in which the House stood with the country. Ti , Government had been pledged to everything and to tiotiling. They had disappointed the e xpectations of the people on several measures, and it was now time that they should understand what they really meant to do. He was prepared, for himself and other Irish Members, to say that they thought the present proceedings of Government most unrequired and unjustifiable. Mr, B. ESCOTT had heard nothing to induce him to vole with Government on this occasion. Sir R. PEEL said that on this subject the Government had appointed a Corninissicei, which had only returned its report, on the 30th of May, but ev.:r ig to the pressure of business, they had not !2eo able.yet to give it 11 1:::ir consideration. lie was willing to admit Illy ess to cope with what he regarded as the prej of the - •" in present instance, lie people ; but,t .., not prepared to legislate gratuitously, when legislatieu wet I unnecessary, if n ot unsa f e . The Roman Catholiz Bequests Act had been conceded by the Government to advance the interests both of the Church and general community of Ireland. It was not intended as a means of prejudicing the archbishops of the various sees in that country, nor of lessening their influence there; it had been accorded as a boon, and he saw no reason for introducing its pretended deficiencies into this debate. Lord J. RUSSELL thought it desirable that the Govern ment should introduce its own proposition, rather than incur the difficulty of discussing and satisfactorily legislating on clauses of a Bill in Committee. But as no such step had been taken by the Right Hon. Baronet the Prime Minister of the Crown, and as no prospect was held out of the law of 18i9 being amended, or its penal enactments re pealed, he should vote for the House going into Committee, without pledging himself to the adoption of all the clauses of the Bill, or the abolition of certain restrictions. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it Alajority against the motion The Schoolmasters (Scotland) Bill was read a third time. The Bankruptcy Declaration Bill was read a second time. The other orders of the day having been disposed of, the House adjourned at a Quarter-past One o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIV I SIONS. (Frans the Votes and Proceedings of the goose of Commons.) TUESDAY, JULY 8. DUDDESTON AND NECHELLS IMPROVEMENT (No. 2) RILL. Report considered; Motion made, and Question proposed, That the Amendments made by the Committee to the Bill be now read a second time:"—Amendment proposed, to leave out front the words "'That the" to the end of the Question, in order to add the NN OrLIS " Report he taken Into further — consideration upon this day three months," instead thereof :—Question put, " That the words pro posed to be left out stand part of the Question." The House divided : MAJORITY-AYES, 70. Ackers, James Feilden, W. Lennox, Lord A. A\ curt, Captain Fremantle, Sir T. Lockhart, William Adderky, C. B. Fuller, A. E. Lygon, General Antruhus, Edmund Gaskell, J. M. Mackenzie, W. F Arkwright, George Gore, Montague Mackinnon, W. J. Astcll, William Gore, W. 0. Morgan, O. Bailey, Joseph Greenall, Peter Newport, Viscount Baldwin. Barry Greene, Thomas Norreys, Lord Baring, W. 11. Grimston, Viscount Pollington,: Viscount Barrington. Viscount Hamilton, W. J. Htshleigh, W. Bentinck, Lord G. Hampden, Penn Russell, J. I). W. Blaekburne, J. I. Harcourt, 0. 0. Shaw, Frederick. Bodkin, W. H. Hawes, B. Smolleit, A. Buckley, Edmund Hodgson, F. Somerset, Lord G. Burrell, Sir C. Holmes, W. A'Conrt Sotheron, T. H. Carew, IT H. P. Hope, Sir John Stewart, John Chute, W. L. W. Hope, Charles Thornhill, 0. Clerk, Hr G. Hughes, W. B. Trotter, Jahn Denison, E. B. Hussey, Ambrose Troubridge, Sir E. Dodd, George Inglis, Sir R. H. Vesey, Thomas Douglas, Sir 11. Jermyn, Earl Duncan, Viscount Jocelyn, Viscount Buncombe, A. Jolliffe, Sir R. 0. Egerton, W. T. Lambton, 11. Estcourt, T. G. B. Lawson, Andrew TELLER& Spooner, Richard Newt.legate, C. N, MINORITY-NOES, 65. Archbold, Robert Gill, Thomas Osborne, Ralph Baring, F. T. Grey, Sir George Paget, Colonel Bellew, R. M. Hayter, W. G. Palmerston, Viscount Berkeley, Craven Heathcoat, John Pattison, James Berkeley, Captain Hill, Lord M. Raw don, Col. Blake, M. J. Hindley, Charles Ross, D. R. Bowes,!John Holland, Robert Shed, R. L. Brotherton, J. Howard, P. H. Shelburne, Earl Buller, Edward Howick, Viscount Smith, J. A. Chapman, Benjamin Hume, Joseph Tanen, Henry Colebrooke, Sir T. Labouchere, Henry Vane, Lord H. Collett, Joh❑ Lemon, Sir C. Villiers, Charles Craig, W. G. Macaulay, T. B. Vivian, J. H. Windstorm, J. Mangles, R. 1). Warburton, H Divett, Edward Marjorlbanks, S. Ward, li. G. Duncan, George Marshall, William Wawn, J. T. Duncombe, Thomas Moffatt, George Wilshere, W. Ebrington, Viscount Morris, David Yorke, H. R. Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Murphy, F. S. Ellice, Edward Napier, Sir C. Esmond., Sir T. O'Connell, M. J. Ewart, William Ogle, S. C. Forster, Matthew Ord, William, TILLERS. MtllltZ, O. F. Isannerman, A. SLAVE TRADE. Motion made, and Question put, " That an humble Address he presented to her Majesty, that she will be graciously pleased to give directions that there be laid before this House a Return of the Names and Description of the Witnesses examined before the Mixed. Erilish and French Commission appointed to inquire into the hest means for suppressing - the Slave Trade ; and Extracts of such parts of their Evidence as relate to the value of a mutual right of search as a means for the suppression of the Slave Trade." The Nouse divided: MINORITY-AYES, 51. Archbold, Robert Ferguson, Sir R. A. Baring, F. T. Forster, Matthew Berkeley, Captain French, F. Blake, M. J. Granger, T. C. Brotleerton, Joseph Hindley, Charles Chapman, B. Holland, Robert Christie, W. D. Horsman, Edward Clements, Viscount Hutt, W. Cowper, W. F. Inglis, Sir R H. Craig, W. G. Labouchere, H. Curteis, 11. B. Leveson, Lord Dalmeny, Lord Mangles, R. D. D'liyucourt, C. I'. Martin, John Duncan, George Moffatt, George Dundas, Admiral Morris, David Ebringt , m, Viscount Napier, Sir C. Esmonde, Sir Thos. O'Connell, M. J. Etwall, Ralph Ord, W. Pahnerstoli,:Lord Redington, T. N. Russell, Lord J. Seymour, Lora Sheil, R. L. Shelburne, Earl Sheridan, R. B. Smith, Vernon Somers, J. I', Somerville, Sir W. Vase, Lord H. "Vivian, J. H. Warburton, Wawn, J. T. Wyse, Thomas TELLERS. Ttifnell, Henry Pechell, Captain MAJORITY—NOES. 94. Acland, T. D. Flower, Sir J. Marjoribanks, S. A'Court, Captain Fox, S. L. Masterman, John Antrobus, Edmund Fremantle, Sir T. Meynell, Captain HaiMc, Joseph Gaskell, J. M. Mildmay„ll. St. John Haillie, Colonel Gladstone,"Captain Milnes, It. .M. Baldwin, Barry Gordon, Captain Neck!, Joseph Barkiy, H. Gore, W. 0. Neville, Ralph Baring, W. B. Gore, W. R. 0. Nicholl, John Barrington, Viscount Goulburn, 11. Peel, Sir Robert Blackburne. J. I. Graham, Sir J. Praed, W. T. Bolden), H. G. Greenall, P. Pringle, A. Bowles, Admiral Greene, Thomas Pusey, Philip Boyd, John Grimeton, Lord Rashleigh, William Brniston, T. W. Hamilton, George A. sandenion, Richard Bruce, Lord E. Hamilton, W. J. kcott, Frances Buckley, Edmund Hamilton, Lord C. Shaw, Frederick Buller, Sir J. Y. Healey, J. W. Smith, T. R. C. Cardwell, Edward Herbert, Sidney Smollett, Alexander Carew, W. H. P. Holmes, W. A'Court Somerset, Lord G, Christopher, R. A. Hope, Sir John . Stuart, Henry Chute, W. L. !lope, Charles Sutton, H. M, Clerk, Sir G. Hope, G. W. Tennent, J. E. Clive, R. 11. 7 Hotham, Lord - Trench, Sir F.W. Cockburn, Sir G. Hughes, W. 11. Trevor, U.R... Corry, Henry J ermyn, Earl Vesey, Thomas Courtenay, Lord Jocelyn, Viscount Waddington, li. S. Damer, Colonel Lennox, Lord A. Wtiletley, Lord C. Darby, George Lincoln, Earl Wortley, John S Denison, E. B. Lockhart, \V. Douglas, Sir 11. Mackenzie, T. Escott, Bickham Mackenzie, W. F. Estcourt, T. G. M`Nclll, Ti can Fitzroy, Henry Mahon, Viscount TELLERL Young, John Baring, IlenrN ABINGDON ELECTION. At four o'clock on Tuesday the poll closed, when the num bers were : The Attorney-General General Caulfield Majority EXETER ELECTION. EXETER, TUESDAY, 5 r.m. FINAL CLOSE OF THE Pot.z..—The High Sheriff has ust declared the state of the poll as follows : Duckworth Briggs . Majority At the election in April ►ast Major-General Briggs polled 529, so that there is, in less than fifteen months, an accession of 59 voters to the free-trade cause, amongst a constituency entirely dependent on the agricultural interest. The number of electors in the city is 2,653, so that a number, namely, 1,395, exceeding in amount all who recorded their votes in favour of the successful candidate, remain unpolled. We wish, for the credit and consistency of Exeter, we could justify as easily as we can account for this self-disfranchisement of the Exonians. The truth is, that the old Whigs, the friends of Mr. Divett, the supporters of Lord John Russell's fixed duty, are fixed in the determination of neglecting their own duty, and are not yet prepared to follow their great political chief in his liberal and enlightened views on trade and commercial policy. The aristocracy and squirearchy of a wide range of neighbourhood have resorted, without disguise and without shame, to the usual " influences" they so well know how to apply ; but, despite all their terrorism, the Liberals might have won the election had they been only true to themselves. . 1,258 588 ..ERONAUTICS.—On Monday evening Mr. Charles Green ascended with his handsome balloon, called the " Albion." from the garden of the Royal Standard and Albert Saloon, at Iloxton. It was his third ascent this season, making upon the whole, no less than three hundred and two times that he has thus explored the atmospheric regions. On this occasion he was sc. companled in his flight by his father, now upwards if seventy years cf age, and by Mr. Brading, jun., son of the proprietor of the Albert. The exhibition attracted countless thousands cf spectators to the fields and highways in the vicinity, aud the gardens of the tavern were very well filled. The balloon, fully inflated, was displayed during the afternoon, besides which a sort Of fc'te champetre had been prepared for the company. It was after seven o'clock when the travellers took their places in the car, and the buoyancy of the machine having been tested, it was released. anti rose most majestically into the air, amidst the cheers of the spectators. The balloou having attained a considerable altitude, bore away in a direction for Essex, and the travellers wereexpected to return at night to the Albert, where the company were in the meantime entertained by the theatrical company, by Ramo Samee, a display of fireworks, Ike. FIRE IN BARBICAN.—Tuesday night, between ele ven and twelve, a fire was discovered raging in the basement boor of the house of Mr. rim, linendraper, &c., No. 57, Barbican; but it was ingeniously got under by the firemen, who cut a hole through the floor above, and played water upon the flames from the \Vest of England engine. The damage was considerable. FIRE AT BLACKWAI.L.—EIGHT HOUSES BURNT.— Tuesday night a fire broke out in one of the house in Folly-rove, near the Folly.house, Blackwall, and which destroyed eight houses, the abode of nearly forty persons, who have lost the whole of their furniture, and in some instances the greater portion of their wear ing apparel. The first discovery was made between the hours of seven and eight, by one of the occupiers named West, a poor water man, whose attention, it appears, was directed to the chimney of his hahitation, by noticing flames issuing out of the same. He immediately got upon the roof and endeavoured to subdue the fire, which was then confined to the chimney In that, however, he was foiled, for the door of the room having been left open, and the wind blowing strong from the south-west, the flames an d s p ar ks were driven upon the roof, which, b e ing composed of thatch., was very speedily in a general blaze. As soon as the fire became visa. ble in the High.street, mounted police were dispatched fur the aid of the engines. With all possible expedition the parish engines were drawn out, but from the peculiar situation of the blazing premises, they were unable to get sufficiently near to render the least assistance. Meanwhile the fire, unrestrained, eau_ Untied to burn with the greatest intensity, completely li g h t ., ing up the river as far as Greenwich and Woolwich. The engines of the London establishment from Schoolhouse -lane, Wellclose and Jeffrey.scrres stations, with Crookland, the fore. man of the district, were remarkably quick in arriving, but un. fortunately the distance of the road from the fire prevented them f rom getting to work in anything like time to stop the ravages of the fire. To get to the spot the engines were obliged to be taken across the marshes of the Isle of Dogs. When matters were at length adjusted one engine was effectively worked ; but the olds good that could be done was the putting out the bodies of solid fire lying scattered along the ground. ' By nine o'clock the whole chi "' of houses, eight in number, were nearly destroyed, very little more remaining than the bare walls. The whole of the cc cupiers, hard-working people, have thereby been bereft of every thing they once possessed. The following are the names of the wry! crs :—James West, Joseph \Vest, and Joseph Taylor, water- MOH ; Joseph West, a gardener; John bidden, a sawyer; Jame Moore, captain of the Emma ; Leonard, police inspector; I and Joseph Lund. SHAMEFUL CONDUCT Ar VAUXHALL GARDEN,..- On Tuesday a benefit club hired Vauxhall Gardens for: the purpose of dining. A vast number assembled (havirtg pre viou,ly promenaded the streets with music, banners, &e.) In the evening a great number got intoxicated, and vroeeeded to demolish ever)thing around—chairs, tables, belnches, beer muds; plates flew about in all directions ; the ornamental harts of the gardens were trodden down, the beautiful figure of Nep tune was broken, and, in fact, the gtlrdens were strewed with, fragments. The police wire calleu, and a party of the rioters e6oveye.l to the station-house. The proprietor has detaine their bar.ut:rs, &c., for th damage. Such conduct is disgrace ful to benefit clubs s und injurious to the proprietors of gardens Ituch as Vauxha2l, whose aim and desire ought to be, and we believe is, keep up the respectability of the establishment. I