The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-19 00:00:00

SUN, THE elesey--- b utte ; much less the laity, had been consulted on the this Papal astaresion now, they would have to withstand tip eti • He cunsiierei it. Wzt , , 11l bottle ..,01L, .411 .1 e ;g1', , o10 1 / I , Lettt.tl , l, ahe ii, r+o, .11.1 Lia,l' t e terusr pay. sr. The the rights vested in her Majesty's subjects. , They had heard appeals made upon the score of conscience, plaFheme for the division of the dioceses of Cloyne and with reference to this matter. He would ask them whether t i 7 3,7 in Ireland had its origin in Ireland, and the Pope had the introduction of the word conscience was to be a spell for 6: 1 . , Islothing more than confirm the arrangement which had which they were to be bound. That might be pleaded in a 1 1 - ,°, übmitted to hi non the subject. In that case there very extraordinary sense. It was put forward in the case of 1 4 ;°een no agg r es sion ; and consequently there had not Archbishop Franzoni, in Sardinia, who claimed exemption 1 41. _a, 1 1ything to jastify the monstrous attempt to include for ecclesiastics from the' jurisdiction of the civil courts, and a er ta in the pr o visions of that measure. He thought that that they should be all subject to the ecclesiastical courts i najesty's G over nment had come to a very proper deter- alone. The Government of that country repudiated this as se„,,Von when they had resolved on not extending th e sum p tion, and maintained it. Yet the resistance presented a ti Tamente in the Bill beyond the requirements of the case; in that case to the Government was called a matter of con ' If the ts ar . y had carried that determination fully into effect, science. In this case, the assumption of territorial titles was toe set have confined the operation of the measure to called a matter of conscience. He would ask what had . ii iid 'et of a foreign power conferring titles in this country, territorial possessions to do with the domain of the , s ab . would not have extended it to the conduct of British spirit? The Honourable and Learned Member for Ply sthiters assuming certain titles. He had further to say , mouth said that for the exercise of the liberty of conscience, a y ozo u any case the Bill ought not to be extended be - the y re q uired that they should use these titles, and ob tak" the country in which the alleged aggression had served that they were legislating against the natural kali place. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member use of language. They had on other occasions, how a,,,Joe city of Oxford (Mr. P. Wood) had talked a good ever, legislated against the natural use of language. tilTil,gf the canon law of the Roman Catholic Church ; but They did so after the expulsion of James 11., when they pro kron. and Learned Gentleman had in his (Mr. Anstey's) hihited the assumption of the title of James 111. in his son. .T! ts ° .n evinced but a very imperfect knowledge of that law. ( Hear, hear.) The legislated against the natural use of 4 . TaCt was, that the canon law varied in different coun- language when they found it necessary to repress a moral sa ets a . , and for his part he trusted that some measure would wrong committed against any individual or any portion of „ti ti "" taken, if not directly, at least indirectly, to prevent the body politic. They called this Bill a persecution, and L 4 eh tension to this country of that jus canonicum from also argued that it would be inoperative. He would ask Attu the ex t rac t s of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had how could that be called a persecution which confined itself . 1 7taken instead of the ancient canon law of England. to forbid a foreign potentate from conferring territorial titles th e • believed there would be great difficulty in reconciling within these kingdoms. This was a new plea. It was not a,,Pmatnon law of England with that new canon law which argued that territorial titles were necessary in 1829, when , s p ';' , o_al Wiseman seemed anxious to extend to this coun- the Roman Catholic Emancipation Act was passed, which 4',.__ The fact was, that the new canon law was not the was received by . the . Roman Catholic clergy, although it forbid 17."! a law of E ng l an d, i n which there was a distinction be- the use of territorial titles which they used before. It struck p li aaal spirituals and temporals, but the canon law of the him forcibly that if there was any persecution in the case, it lid States, in which no such distinction was known. The was on the part of the Pope against the Roman Catholic laity, .es s _then under their consideration dealt not with a real who were forced to adopt ultra-montane opinions. It was said ,jrance, but was framed in compliance with a popular pre- it would be inoperative. The Bill, no doubt, disappointed ,c, e 'ce. It was, in fact, insufficient in one sense, and exces- many. It was weakened in the withdrawal of two clauses, e s , s na another. It would give no protection to the Ro man but the residue was in one respect exceedingly valuable as aZolic laity in England, while it was most improperly and a Parliamentary protest against this aggression—(Hear)—by s7 -c essarily to be extended to Ireland. On thes e g rounds which it would be proclaimed that it was denounced by the Tould cer t a i n ly g i ve hi s vote against the second reading Q ueen, b y her nobles, and b y her people. He thought the the measure. case required some authoritative declaration of this sort. 'thiaLord ASHLEY, notwithstanding all that had been said on The Court of Rme insidious and worldly wise, used all its .I' l4 ,Phject, would revert to the first question—" should the appliances to familiarise the people of this country to a pro sad !aMent, or should it not, legislate upon this subject?" minent church. They constantly saw advertisements in the apers of services to be performed in Roman Catholic of, Ile asserted that they should. The rights and liberties P k w l arge, class of her Majesty's subjects had been invaded, churches.—(An ironical " Hear, bear.") He did not wish a t k et tiose who opposed the aggression were denounced as il- to prevent that; he gusted the fact to them, the design on fa sss il _i• They did not, however, anticipate—they did not foot, to familiarise the people with the Church of Rome, and e is ia7, that a British Peer would denounce the proposed le- in order also to put the people on their guard against these iition aga i ns t th e Papal aggression, as " persecution," efforts. The same priests, walking through the streets in 4 t hat did th e y foresee that British senators would denounce their peculiar costume, and soon they would have before Mined House those who considered the aggression corn- their view the pomp of a gorgeous hierarchy.—(Hear, hear.) salad of as a lawful ground for the defence of the Queen His object was, not to prevent that, but he thought they sti o h! G over nment in this country. Should they, then, were bound in duty to make a declaration that these were ... 411 I'leariad the step taken as an aggression and an insult, the works, and for the behoof of a power they repudiated Ifienld the not come to the assistance of the Sovereign ? and utterly abhorred.—(Hear , hear.) They should look t o e s aould be s h ow that this movement of the Pope was an the real peril of the case. They were mistaken if they be at-4aive inr oa d on the prerogative of the Sovereign of this lieved that Rome was changed, or harmless, or incapable. 114 t rY, he thought it would not be disputed that the Par- Milton had foreshown what was her policy when he said,— qnt was called upon to legislate on the subject. One " Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names, o „.ehowever, had said that everything done to oppose the Places, and titles, and with these to join 11 4 7 in the step he had taken amounted to persecution, Secular po Ner, though feigning still to act Van interference with the free exercise of his spirit ual By spiritual . . • lie s ;"° os . Now if that doctrine was admitted, it would im- And from that pretence, aa,,,: l POn. the Protestant subjects of this realm absolute sub- Spiritual laws, by carnal power, shall force %Zen to the decrees of the Pope. The Legislature of this On every conscience." a st i' t rY had made concessions to the Roman Catholics by the Rome was not changed.- (Hear, hear.) Those who spoke 0 1829, and it was not, he must say, thought , when of her with contempt were the most likely to become her ei a Ltotestants of this country had consented to make those victims. " The history of the world," says Ranke, " does lk s islogs - concessions which had made their Roman Ca- not present a time in which the clergy were more powerful hz; fellow-subjects equal with themselves—that they than at the end of the 16th century. They sat in King's titia7, be placed by any act of the Pope in a subordinate po- councils, and discussed political matters before all the people --(Hear, hear.) There was another party in this from the pulpit; they governed schools, learning, (4„, who wished:for legislation on this subject, and in his and the whole domain of letters; the confessional e ia l s 'a Ashley's) opinion they were now deliberating,tnot on afforded them opportunity of prying into the se teklect which would have a mere transient effect, but cret conflicts of the soul, and of deciding in all !' on a subject which, if not checked by legislation, the difficulty sad doubtful circumstances of private life." sei j a have a dominant influence on the institutions of this In France the power she had lost was restored in 1815. ets,, t , r l- He must say that, of all the measures which had In 1830 she suffered something, but afterwards regained lei d - s „"een introduced into this country, this of the Pope had her power, and in Austria ruled with undiminished power. iu. More than any other to disturb the privileges en- The effect in France was perceptible, for the charter i it aa by th e Roman Catholics, than whom, he must say, was there revoked as regarded Protestants, and in fact they were placed in as hard a condition as they were Ils I S• t c,lid not exist a more loyal or more deserving class of 44 ec ,,s•(Hear, and cheers.) The Protestants of England under Louis the Fourteenth by the revocation of the edict of T i Lamed that this step of which the Pope of Rome—a Nantes. The condition of the Pr Aestants was worse new in liken priest and potentate—had been guilty was a viola- France than it was under Napoleon or any of the preceding lai i ' not only of the law of nations, but of the law of this monarchs of France; in fact, worse than in any former period, excepting the Dragonades. It could not be required Ile L .- Meer, and cheers)—and a deliberate innovation on krerogative of, and offence offered to, the Queen of this of them to support such a power as that, or to give facilities ilk l l' s (Renewed cries of " Hear.") He maintained that to promote its ends. It was an ecclesiastical power spread %i t Pe had violated the law of nations, and he would prove over the whole world, under a perfect system of discipline ts t i l aY reference to the Papal brief to restore the Roman with one heart. The Wesleyan Methodists, Church of Scot.! kt Passage heirarchy. The Noble Lord here quoted the follow- land, and the Free Church of Scotland, the Free Episcopa lian Church of England, need not be denied synodical action leoti; a ssage from the Papal brief:—" We, of our own proper Me, on cer t a in knowledge, and of the plenitude of our because they . were not. subject to a foreign power. They arital p owe r, constitute and decree that in the king- were British in all respects, but because this was projected th ars k. ) f England, according to the common rule of the by the Pope of Rome, that was the reason why they abhorred tr a,o, the re be restored the hierarchy of ordinary bishops, it, and would never submit to the synodical action leil.Snall b e name d from sees, which we constitute in these of bishops under the influence of a foreign power, who be ;:t!srs. T o begin with the London district, there will would exercise their spiritual influence for political 11 d t wo sees , th a t of Westminster, which we elevate purposes. It was on these grounds that they offered t he. si . degree of metropolitan or araliepiscopal dignity. it an uncompromising and indignant resistance. Though llii li ' then, in the most flourishing kingdom of England he respected the religious opinions of the Noble Earl fati a Will be established one ecclesiastical province, con- (Earl of Arundel and Surrey), yet he should say that gof one archbishop and twelve bishops, his suffragans. too much power was assumed by the Pope of Rome, and Ills ' r efore _ .iany ,we now reserve to ourselves and our successors , that such an extraordinary exercise of power should be l •wet_ ua t ffs of Rome, the power of again dividing t h e said checked. He did not want that coercive law should be ese ell •wce into others, and of increasing the number of dio- introduced, but he required that the Protestant Church te m ; and in general that, as it shall seem fitting in the ' we may freely decree our limits to them." anything he would ask, more imperious than W th as e k at •ls a e of the Pope of Rome as expressed in that brief should be preserved against the insidious attacks of the Court of Rome.—(Hear, hear.) When he looked to other countries which would not allow any innovation on the rights of their fellow-citizens, he felt at a loss to know why h. Page in which he claimed to exercise a sovereignty any trueborn Englishman should submit to the insult and indignity lately offered . to this country by the Papal autho rity realm ?—(Hear, and cheers.) He would now refer S ns ollse to the argument used by Dr. Twiss in reference rity through its emissaries.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT did not see any danger in the k lt : 1 _ 18 question. Dr. Twiss, a learned civilian, said—" The Va ti thent could not have been externally more complete, if proceedings of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in this coun fts`si een of England had plaeed her realm at the disposal try. In his opinion, if it was considered necessary by the holye7 . . See far all ecclesiastical purposes, nor could the Government to strike out the second and third clauses from 11 hate ha4e dealt with hi s own territory in a more free an d the measure, it was as necessary to strike out the first, for if IClete manner. But, if there be any one principle of law those two clauses placed such obstacles as they were said to k t ch has received the sanction of that high usage a n d do in the way of Roman Catholics holding that faith which l' o Ziee which constitutes it a binding obligation on all the they had a right to hold, the first clause placed as much restriction upon them as the other two, and therefore it ache of Christendom, it is this, that the Pope cannot set 1 asi„ge see of a bishop within the territory of an independent ought to be struck out also.—(Hear.) What would be the effect of the first clause? „They professed to be great ad- I llati' s e a without his consent. Common sense suggests that vacates and admirers of a t ; others than the sovereign power of the land can civil and religious liberty, but the first clause rendered invalid any document signed by a kj„ a see within the land. The Pope may give a bishop bishop, and no legal effect could be given to it. Now, that IliC i l s V. e., may authorise him to go forth as the spiritual M aria or of the H o ly Se e; but that the Pope should esta- was a most unjust attack, and would lead to the worst consequences. For instance, as regarded the ordination of 4 14 4 4 territorial seat for his bishop in the realm of a Sove a Power without its consent, would be to usurp an attri- priests, the bishop who . conducted the ordination had to sign kt ea l t local sovereignty, and to take possession of the land the certificate of ordination af er the name of his see, and , T o 'siastical purposes;" and Lord Stowell, as cited by consequently to assume those titles which the clause prohi „%;thownis, says, that " a course of conduct to be legal must bited. Now, should the clause pass, that would be an t., 44 . 'all to be conformable to the usage and position of ac- illegal and invalid certificate. The priest whose ordination ,nd,„ A: great part of the law of nations stands on no other it was intended to certify would be considered in law t i e be i le! sd ",e,_a." New he (Lord Ashley) maintained that th a t no priest. The marriages celebrated, by that priest Would L'e p rs ,Lnat the Pope had been guilty of an interference with be invalid, and the children, the issue of such marriages, Latle i ,'°gatiye of the Queen, and a violation of the law of would be illegitimate children.—(Hear, hear.) But sup • t l:•" -- (Hear.) He would refer the House to an extract posing that his Hon. Friend the Member for East Surrey tl!iete opinion of Dr. Twiss, relating to the temporalities, (Mr. H. Drummond) succeeded in . restoring those second and ~,,:‘ be k ep t i n mind," said that learned civilian, ', th a t third clauses of the Bill in Committee, which he was bound 3147 t oporalities were a civil: accident of the sees, into to say that Hon. Gentleman had every reason to expect he na . 11 9' were put in possession by an act of the Crown, would be enabled to do, what would be the consequence 'aisis,sueir consecration had taken place at the house of the then ? Why, the consequence ,"must inevitably be, that Go vt iyP_olitan. It was not, therefore , in any way, by reason vernment would be obliged to vote against the third reading n ecipoialities being connected with the sees of the of their own Bill.—(Hear, hear.) He confessed that to him _ it would be most painful to see things come to such a pass N 1 bishops, over whom the Pope exercised ecclesias as had,t For some years past signs of peace and harmony N i o l4 tisdiction before the Reformation. that the Pope was ilas kr _laim and use . an usurped authority ; it mas not in andProota t great extent, prevailed between the Catholics In regard to what had been said about toleration, he must 01 t_ 4l matter, but in causes which he called spiritual, that es ants.—(Cheers from the Government benches.) a war to dispense with the laws of the realm was disputed Itaklrown of England, and ultimately declared to be un !t, did thatnot coincide with his views. One Hon. Member say . that the sentiments he had heard expressed in reference '+Q So §o much for the law of nations, and be (the Pope) to laol?aidtoleration was limited, that it mus be kept pis A s shown any more respect for the law of the land. b` of of 1829 was framed to protect the priviliges of the and, in t hat case, the onus probandi lay with that within bounds, E3o as that the persons tolerated did not injure kll pf and of the Established Church in this country; and you; ),_ t ul t , ile conditions put forward for passing that Act was Hon. Member to prove . in what manner the privileges had Ni b ere should be no other ecclesiastical corporation been violated by th t e interference of the Pope. He also heard tillesag h g territorial power in this country; and he held that the Hon. Baronet,. he Member for the University of Oxford, ittlat 44 been violated. He would go further, and say utter a sentence in favour of toleration—(Laughter)—but his e : t he apostolic letter had violated the law of the opinion of the matter was, that the person tolerated must be i;ae and h e was now quo ting from the o authorised ver- of the same opinion as the Hon. Baro ne t was himself.— ‘ ll a of the Latin Brief, ' printed and published by (Hear, hear, aid laughter.) Now, neither of those con ti): e i ., at the Metropolitan Catholic Printing-office.' " structiona be would . put on the term toleration. His impres ts,ta extract it appeared that the Pope had ap- sion was, that in this country . whether . a man held religious 'S . , a bi s h o p to the Protestant see of St. David's. truth or error as the ground of his belief, being an English ittiroatr.a4 was this :—" In the district of Wales there will man, he had a right to hold that truth or error, because he It a t h s laboprics—that of Shrewsbury, and that of Menaira believed such to be the truth.—(Hear.) No doubt the argu- Nil'laavid's), united with Newport W e ment adduced by those who supported the measure, were Nub) the Bishop of St. David's and Newport, as his all very good as directed against the Roman Catholic reli esat 1, 1 the counties of Pembroke," &c. N ow h e mus t sa y gion. But he denied the correctness of their mode ) ,..;''ers' was something very insiduons in this.—(Hear, of reasoning. Were they prepared to say, that while they L sok i And should they allow it to pass without notice, it were members of the Established Church, they would not t7ti t , a t a9Me- future time be said, should objection be raised tolerate that religion, but hedge round its that Church with Nt step, that the House, when legislating on the subj ec t, enactments, as a means of preventing operation? He 4' no • a b ,lam os notice, and made no objection to it. The bishopric was a sincere member of the Established Church himself, j:le s ," ll 3' W4A. l a -case in point, and referred to by Cardinal but he confessed that he thought such enactments would *gail t - ZI: in see Wads :---e" But there has been a more, re- rather weaken-than strengthen that Church, by rendering it til e s le inittitimeof the exercise of the Papal suptemacyin obnoxious in the eyes of the world. His notion of tole a- : ' l o4; re ction'of , hishelarics nearer home. Galway wasalot an aion Mae:this -,they 'tolerated all religions, they admitted to tles,`"l4 l ise`iiiitil a feW years ago. • • • • •It 'was i seats in that House Members .of-tall religious denominations i I s h s rned by as' wa r de n The Holy See changed . who were Christians, and While they had: an Established 4,', I s l vardenship into a bishopric. . . • . Bishop Church, th ss 9' *save the fullest liberty at@ license to every s '',:f ee e was consecratedain October, 1831. No retnon- ferra of religions faith under the NOilllatiqy:. system. frue s , rs'° was :made, no outcry raised at this exercise of if they thought the *olunta system wrong, they ought to 4 4";, , power." Now there was a c ase nearer home. vote in favour of the measure; but so far as he was con- I liop '?3', within the last few years, had been made a bi- cerned, he did not think' it wrong, and his reason for not Ve: and. Dr. Browne was appointed bishop of that dio- dorng a s b o le wa t s, that he knew the Church of England was °a -- (Hear hear.) s s th q , , , Thus it was clear that the steps taken not the state in n which th e ground. However, . that was er a ,....lape were highly improper, as interfering with theich. they were placed in tins coon ry, h • an TtVative of the Crown, and an insult offered to the Queen having . . Established Church tolerating all religions, S i t 2 !ealm.- (Hear, hear, and cheers.) He (Lord Ashley) and giving the greatest liberty and license to all. d _NtWned that it was an interference with the functions of Because . e was a member of the Established Church N 114 ,n: and if not checked, who, he would ask, could was he going to ask a man whether he belonged to this ~_llnat would be the consequence of the Apostolic brief or that ter C a hu e r f ch f , ait ? i r what were his opinions in regard s td i P rotestant institution of this country ?—(Hear, hear, to matters admit him and doctrine, and all such, before kli • land cheers. t a t ar. eers.) Was there, he would ask, ever any act of he wouldthemembers to the same privileges as a free citizen, 0 i ll ' I P. potentate or foreign state more insulting than which . . t of that Church enjoyed. If they gave sire 4 the brief?—Hear, hear.) If the Parliament would toleration in i s proper sense, it was ridiculous to put such IV h e Queen and the country would not.—(Hear, hear.) e aa, queries; and giving, as they did, that toleration, what right 4 or ,, GORMAN MAHON—The Queen? had they to prevent any of those denominations tolerated to kI " ASHLEY- The Crown would not yield. Whom 11 • th means for take all proper _carrying out their system of religi ous belief. And that led him to the question of the aggres- N a e Pope sent to take possession of the kingdom ? A sion by the Pope, so it h i talked about. So far as that ques t of the Church, a noble of his own Court The tion was concerned, was notorious to all that for a long 4 4 Which that person had used were remarkable, ta t , th e ,perio . d the Pope of Rome had this country marked out and h tl elit at tY would not forget the tones of that dulcet in- districts and divided into dioceses, over which he had placed ‘ l llls, 1 1 9, 11 . It reminded him of the animal with "two changes ostolic. And he wanted to know i w si le e a si et 0 ,„ . a ram which spake like a dragon." " lay p of late made in the establishmentnof hat . respect th . e Pi.rit 118 4 ' 9 th of September, his Holiness was pleased to ap- place .. status or their privi tiarath,, ttough most unworthy, to the archiepiscopal see of , religious? They t""llist by letters apostolic, a„ r ia ,.. er, established anotherthing; might talk to him of lan fiell4;le time, the administration of the episcopal see of uage, but that was sema wordsand, in respect to that, sh °l 3 , & a rk, so that at present, and until such time as the be might state that of di sounding and high pre tensions on . the part ecclesiastics, who had got a little sell ea ' e shall think fit otserwisa to provide, we govern, and k s lls litkna ~„ eto govern the counties of Middlesex, Hertford, 1 Power; ' conferred upon them, was no new thing, and ought s, -4, f t 'x, as ordinary t' . ereof, and those of Surrey, Sussex, 1 not to astonish them, while, 'at the same time, he admitted of the Pope's bull and the manifesto s i ., lie h ,rkshire, and Hampshire, with the islands annexed, that the language of f•j_le al!lnistrator with ordinary jurisdiction," Such is the ' the Cardinal was of the most offensive description, -(g ear , 10 e ss t he letters missive of all the bishops taking jurisdic- . hear.) It was said that one . great evil attendant upon the be I , k ee t 'Mer this authority. If they could mistake that, let i aggression would be that it would the means of intro gieh attend to are extract which he would read to them, ' ducing the canon law into this country. But the canon law Vta Iv had existed, more or less, ever since the Reformation.- i - a as important, as bearing upon this question. There• t i tto ri " a child in the country who was ignorant of the ( the system of vicars aposto- Hear, hear.) It existed under. ___ t1 ° ,14, 4 41 career of Thomas A'Becket, who claimed for the lic, or at all events such portions of it as the Pope chose to enforce, while, at the same time, as he was told, those vicars seat a rlinion over the estates of the kingdom, and whose apostolic were most offensive to the great majority of the Ro te strhi s -4 , was that the Church should ride roughshod over man Catholic la ty. And then, again, in Ireland, they had 4 1 4 ! 1 .:le realm The extracts he would read would show • Ach Pith of ' the whole canon law ; but there it did not clash with the extract, b ra , s -ee t. these transactions. Here was one and if civil law, it been nourished as was pretended it would do here, the b til e f remind. you where and how I have .1 1 " t h? Ilikely • dother, people of Ireland were enlightened enough to resist the as tht e I s ,T„,, sit that I shall be behind any sumption of that law, who could doubt for a moment but that • `"Phyte or h i riej, Catholic of ancient stock, in defendin s the Roman Catholics of England would do the same? In 1 , 0 ell r i r of m Lord and master ? The second altar at the Attor the next dace as to the r. t wls ' , nelt, in tie Holy City was that which marks the , ' l4 ll " r eon , St. Peter G I I 11 , 1 ld ney- enera at to them this measure was to preven ,so Is i . i g t hrone with. cemented the foundations of his un- far as the Roman Catholics were concerned, he would ask, ' 4 41 °14 St was it seriously intended to prevent that ? It was allowed th t b y , • Thomas (of Canterbury). For 22 years I daily iin every Church ' • in this country except the • sta- E ~_ltt fileore tbe bod r sentation of • y rep e is martyrdom ; at 'dt I blished Church, and it was not allowed in it be cause Partook even of the bread offfe • there, for the cause that Church being established did not require th N3iB , I celebrated the divine mysteries • a t t. it. I received Ott, c° P al consecration. He ' , I it. Perhaps it differed in form in different denominations, a e ln was my patron, he my m- 1 but in them all it existed in some shape or other, to o pa t Y model. And, withdrawn from tb 1 f 4 , ro ll , e sym o s 0 and why deny it to the Roman Catholics? They talked le a gat th ge bY the supreme will of theists Pontiff, I of the Synod of Thurles, and they blame the bishops then 1 ,,a 0 , 4. _ e treasury of his relics at Sees, and with fervent `ille in7rtity ~.asked assembled for interfering with civil and temporal matters. i th a'‘Yred and obtained the mitre which had crowned 4 Q 44 Wiseman,head."--" Words of Peace . and Justice," by ' 1838. - If they did not withstand Now, he was an assenting party to the establishment of those 1 colleges which called forth the strongest expression of their opinion and disapproval; And he mutated to these establish- merits because he thought they would be the means, by dif. fusiaa eiluaatiee ateata; the middle classes in Ireland, of greatly benefiting that country; but had they never heard of i any of the clergymen resident in this country interfering with secular affairs? Why, in 1845, when there was such a noise and commotion the country respecting the removal of the taxes on human food, had they not Dissenting ministers from all parts of the country meeting in Manchester for the pur pose of considering how each could in his own district best forward the repeal of the corn-laws.— (Hear, hear.) Cer tainly that was synodical action. Some Hon. Members, in proof of the tyranny and intolerance of the Roman Catholic Church, had alluded to the Sicardi laws, but that was the Church of Rome in Italy. I's was monstrous to say that there could be any comparison between the system here. and what was carried ( n in Italy and Spain, and it was as ridiculous to say that even if there was, they could get rid of it by declaring that such a one, instead of being Archbishop of Westminster, should be a Bishop of Melipotamus. But in Ireland no danger was dreaded on the part of the Roman Catholics who supported these colleges, notwithstanding that they had been denounced by the bishops; for he found Sir Robert Kittle, who was at the head of one of them, instead of quailing before the manifesto of the bishops, coming forward and boldly defending the rights both of Roman Catholic and I Protestant, in utter oblivion of all religion:3 , differences of opinion. From the speech of Professor , liane•he had derived mu .h pleasure, and he would not conceal the spirit of satis faction with which he had witnessed the eff.ct produced on the intelligent portion of the Roman Catholic mind in Ire land by the deliberations and resolve of the Synod regard ing the national colleges. So far from. yielding• slavislrobe dience to the dictates of that body they had ineawed their' support of the colleges. The Honourable tiaranet e 4i Member for the city of Oxford, had asked why thty;ffikiatie negotiate with Rome, and endeavody, through' diplomati agency to receive satisfactory apologies for the aggression that had taken place. Now he was taut certain that in the eyes of Europe they should be justified in proceeding to those extremities. If, as they had been advised by more than one Hon. Member who took; part in the discussion on the Bill, they were to proceed in a hostile manner against the Pope, might it not be asked, had they not, to a certain ex tent, given an invitation to an aggression of the description now loudly protested against? There was much truth in the statement that a proclamation might have got them out of a struggle which threatened to be fatal to the tranquillity of the country, and was likely to result in ridicule on them selves. But when they went striking out clauses, now said to be unnecessary, and leaving an insufficient preamble to the Bill, a state of inextricable confusion would be sure to follow. In pursuing the couPse recommended by her Majesty's Government they were striking a blow, not at the Pope for an act of foreign aggression, but at the Roman Catholics of England and Ireland,and this was;not the consti tutional mode of grappling with the difficulty. When the Bill came to be properly understood it would be regarded by the great bulk of the people as a penal law, and he believed that the spirit of the English people was decidedly adverse to persecution. Without having one of the advantages expected from the measure, they would be deluged in all its discredit. It might fairly be characterised as a sham piece of legislation. If, as the Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Solicitor-General said, the conduct of the Pope was an act of invasion of the Royal Supremacy, why were not the previsions of the Bill of 1829 put in force to stop it? The assumption of the title of Bishop of St. David's was clearly a direct violation of a clause in the act of 1829. Well, that being the case, why did not the Government put the law in force, if they really meant that the Bill now under consideration should not remain a dead letter? But, in truth, the Bill was a Bill to satisfy the feelings of the people, and at the same time to deceive them. The feelings of the people, however, were mistaken. The recent demonstrations throughout the country meant that the Roman Catholic religion was ad vancing, and that active steps should be taken to prevent it. (Hear, hear.) The people deprecated the enactment of penal law. The question weighing upon their minds was a religious question, and not a political question. Their attachment to the reformed faith formed the groundwork of objection to the progress of a religion which they regarded as unscriptural. Public opinion could not be beaten down by an Act of Parliament. For two hundred years that system was tried with the Roman Catholic people of Ireland, but ultimately the Government had to yield to fear that which should have been frankly given to justice. Were they now going to retrograde and to adopt a course of legislation inconsistent with the character of this country ? If they wished to repress acts of aggression by foreign Powers—if they wished to prevent the introduction of bulls—why not legislate, not against the Roman Cstholic community of this country, or against the Roman Catholic Church, but against the foreign potentates who committed those acts of aggression on the royal prerogative ? That was the practice pursued in other countries. He had gone at greater length into the subject than he had intended, but he would say this, that he did not think there was the slightest fear to be entertained for the increase of the Roman Catholic body. He must add his belief that the doctrines t f the Church of Rome were foreign to the genius of the people. The right of private judgment, to which they had long been accustomed, they could not enjoy under its institutions. Let them only look at the Index ex Purgatories, for a list of the most excellent books which were prohibited on political economy, history, and religion. Amongst them were the " Scapulas Greek Lexicon," invaluable to a Greek student. If he studied political economy, there was Jeremy Bentham ; if history, there were Hume, Goldsmith , and Robertson ; or if science, then he must not look into Chambers's Philosophical Dictionary, or Locke, and a number of others, down to a small tract, called " The pairyman's Daughter." Such a system, therefore, was, in his opinion, unsuited to the habits and spirit of Englishmen. Without intending any offence to his Roman Catholic brethren, he must assert his confidence in the truth of his own religious faith. A certain element of persecution still remained, but until that spirit was extir pated the work of the Reformation would not be complete. Those who thought themselves Protestants because they acted in hostility to those who were not so were not true Pro testants, and he believed the time was drawing near for the triumph of the old maxim " Magna est veritas et preva chit,' and when they would seek to meet Romish aggression in the only way in which it could be met, by the spread of our Gospel principles, letting in light where darkness existed, and trusting with confidence to Almighty God for the result. Lord PALMERSTON said he must crave the indulgence of the House for a few moments; but would take care he did not encroach too much on their attention. There was, in deed, a great part of the speech they had just heard from his Right lion. Friend which belonged more properly to the Committee than to the present stage of the: discussion— (Hear, hear)—and there were some parts which he thought it would better to leave for the further consideration of his Right Hon. Friend, who, perhaps, if time had permitted, might have settled some questions which at present appeared to be undetermined in his own mind.—(A laugh.) First, what he would do, objecting, as he did, to what the Go vernment had proposed ; and next, perhaps, he might come to a decision as to whether the Bill• to which he objected was a nullity or a persecution.—(A laugh.) For his part he would freely confess that he never remembered, since he had had the honour of a seat in that House, any dis cussion that had been so painful to the mind as that in which they were then engaged.—(Hear, hear.) He had hoped that when the disabilities were removed in the first place from the Dissenters, and afterwards from. the Roman Catholics, that discussions and contro versies on religious questions would never again be heard within the walls of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) He had hoped that when they had established, not what gentlemen called toleration,—for he, like others repudiated that word (Hear, hear)—and said that the principle that was estab lished was not the principle of religious toleration, but the greater principle of religious freedom.—( Hear.) He had hoped, he said, that when that principle of religious freedom had been faily established by the Legislature of the country, those odious controversies with regard to religious doctrines would never again be heard within the walls of Parliament. —(Hear.) But whose fault was it?—(Hear.) Was it our fault? (Hear.) It was not.—(Hear, hear.) We were met % by an act of aggression by a foreign authority—an ag gression of a political character (Hear) —and in that re spect only would he address himself to it. It was an ag gression on the independent soveriegnty of the country which he held it was our bounden duty to repel.—(Hear.) He Said the aggression was by a foreign authority. His Right Hon. Friend had drawn a broad distinction between a foreign sovereign and the Pope, and said that the measure might have proceeded from the Pope, and when he might have been driven from his throne and lodging in Brook-street ; but he (Lord Palmerston) said that still the Pope would have been a foreign authority, and it was because it was the act of a foreign authority that he objected to the power the Pope had attempted to exercise in the realm of England.— (Hear, hear.) But it was said that this act was partly the fault of the Government; that certain indulgences had been shown to the Catholic episcopacy of Ireland; that certain courtesies had been shown to the priesthood of Ireland, and certain opinions had been expressed in debates in Parliament; and that all those things, and, moreover, the silence of his Noble Friend three years ago at Rome, when a supposed paper was shown to him, and he was said to have been told that that : regarded England; and that after those things they had no right to be surprised at what the Pope had done, because he was sufficiently borne out and encouraged in his expectations that they would meet it with indifference. He did not think those grounds were 'outacient to justify the act. Either the Pope thought the Meas4ires he attempted to ad )pt would , be agreable, or not at leaSt disagreeable, to the G'overnment and the people of thi s co u n t r y, o r he would not care whether they were agreeable or disagreeable to the Government and the people.—(Hear.) If he attached any value to the cir cumstance that his measures would be acquiesced in by this country, why did he not, in the three years that elapsed since the supposed conversation with his Noble Friend, and the period anterior to the publication of this Bill and other letters —why did he not take those steps that were in his power, to ascertain what was the opinion of the Government and of the people of England.—( Hear.) Where was Dr. Wiseman? Was he not in England? Had he no opportu nity of seeking a personal interview with his Noble Friend at the head of the Government, and ascertaining positively and beyond doubt and dispute, whether the measure the Pope contemplated, and of which he was conscious and aware, would, or would not give offence to the Government and the people of this country?—(Hear)— and, therefore, he (Lord Palmerston) contended that as that course of proceeding had been studiously omitted, it was impaisible for either the Papal authority or those who advocated his cause to shelter themselves under the pretext that things had taken place to justify the Papal Government in supposing that the step it was taking would not be offensive to the people of this coun try.—(llear, hear.) Well, then, this being an aggression of a foreign authority, what was the authority by whicn that aggression was made? It was an authority of an ecclesias tical nature, which had a double action on the minds of men. (Hear, hear.) He entered not into the question of the simple theological difference between the Prosestant and Catholic lieChurc With that they had nothing at pre sent to do. was sincerely attached to the Pros testant Church, and while he respected the difference of opinion of his Catholic brethren,—and far be it from h m y a a l s theological (ear, to utter one syllable that would be painful to their reli gious feelings,— he must say that the Catholic Church had hear.) bod The ba t character of the Catholic Church was not merely contra distinguished h a er politicalas p aspect,— , — a n . was d te m temporal I m b e o r d e y l on temporal power. Churches were corporate from, but exceeded all others in its encroach mentsbodies and corporate bodies were naturally encroaching ; but there was this difference between the Catholic Church and the Church of England:—The latter was a British Church, having its beginning and end in this realm. The in every place over the whole voured to spread its authority Church of Rome sprang from a foreign centre, and Christian world. world. —(Cheers.) But what was the action of that Church? What was its temporal and political action? Look at those countries in which the Catholic Church was , predominant. Look at Portugal—look at Spain—and look at Italy. Look also, he was concerned to say, at Austria.— (Hear.) They would find that wherever the Catholic Church was allowed to seize hold of temporal authority, that there its influence was painfully exercised over the temporal and , political interests of the nation.—(Hear, hear.) Then, he , said, that some measure was rendered necessary by the course the Papal Government had adopted, that it was neces sary to satisfy the feelings of the country.—(Hear.) lie thought that no man who had had his eyes and ears open during the last few months could for a enonieet dispute. He knew it had been said that they wished to keep up a de lusion, that the agitation of this country was a partial agita- LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, tion, the agitation of interested men, and was not at all the spontaneous feeling of the English nation. That was a state ment it was not worth while to refute.—(Hear, bear.) Whatever might be his opinion on the merits of the Bill, or on the necessity of doing anything, no man who knew what had been passing in this country could entertain the slightest doubt, or dare to deny, that that agitation was a movement of the whole Protestant body of the country—( Hear, hear) --and he said, that while he treated with respect and de ference the opinions of those who differed from him on reli gious questions, yet, as attached to the British Constitution, and the liberty and freedom of thought and action which belonged to that Constitution, be should be sorry indeed that anything should take place that should shake the political Protestant establishment of the kingdom in which he had the happiness to live.—( Hear, hear.) Then he said, that the voice of the people of Ergland required that something should be done.—(Hear, hear.) His Right lion. Friend said that what the Govern ment bad proposed was not the proper thing to do. If ho could understand at all the vague suggestions of his Right lion. Friend—(A. laugh)—he should infer teat what he would have proposed would have been, to have entered into some negotiation with the Court of Rome. llii Right Hon. Friend said, he thought it was absurd to legislate against our own subjects. He (Lord Palmerston) presumed that his Right Hon. Friend did net mean that they were to legislate as,-einst the Pope— (A laugh)—for if he thought our laws would not be obeyed by ourselves, surely he could not ima gine they would have much force with the Pepe—(A laugh) - his Right Hon. Friend very properly repadiated the idea that had been thrown out by some that they ought to have sent a hostile force to Civita Vecchia. He agreed with his Aim. Friend that bulls were not properly met by cannon balls.— (A laugh.) He w ,s quite of his Right Hon. Fr end's opinion that that was not a course fitting for this country to pnrsue, or likely to lead to any satisfactory result.—(Hear, hear.) But then he said he thought it would be unbecoming in this country to meet an act of unprovoked aggression by sending an envoy to sue from the Bishop of Rome.—(Hear.) He thought the dignified and proper course for this country to take was to legislate for itself and not to go to the Pope and say, " You have done the t which has been a great affront. You have none that which we look upon as a great violation of our national independence, and an infringement on the sovereignty of the Queen, and therefore ye come to you to do something—either to retract what you have done or to modify it in some degree." Of course otr suit would have been rejected, and in what a humiliating position should we have stood under such circumstances !—(Sear, hear.) He was quite ready to admit that it would have been very incon sistent with the course which either the members of the Go vernment or the majority of the Legislature had pursued if they had proposed to Parliament anything that would have justified its being called a penal or persecuting enactment. He must, in passing, say, however, that when he saw the letters and declarations emanating frcrn Roman Catholic ecclesiastics setting up the cry of fanaticism, and persecu • tion, and intolerance, and looked to the course of proceeding in regard to toleration that prevailed in countries where the Romish priesthood were dominant, ht felt tempted to ex claim, " Quis tulerit Gracchos!" The words "persecution and intolerance" were surely words flat Catholic prelates ought most studiously to eschew.—(aear.) But he, for one, never would consent to be a party to what was pro perly called a penal enactment; and IO utterly denied that the Bill now proposed deserved in aay sense whatever to be so stigmatized. —(Hear, hear.) In point of fact, it was merely a complement of the measure which removed from the Catholic people of England the dieibilities under which they laboured. The Bill of 1829 prohibited Catholic pre lates from taking the titles of sees, or of any diocess or province which belonged to the British establishment. Whe ther by accident or not, it omitted to extend that prohibi tion to other places in the realm. Bnt was the law consi dered as a mere protection for the English Church ? He would not accept it on so limited a ground as that. He held that the law of 1829 was to be a defence of the sove reign rights of the country ; and it was to be defended, and justly, on the ground that they woulduot permit a foreign authority out of the United Kingdom to give to any person titles derived from any place within the United Kingdom. He contended, therefore, that the Bill now before the House was in principle precisely the same as the Act of 1829, and that it made good the gap that was left in that Act; and he was extremely surprised that any persons who were parties to that Act, whether the proposers or ! I mporters of it, should on principle object to the measure the Government had now proposed.— (Hear, hear.) The Bill they proposed was, in its principle, exactly on the same ground as the measure which formed part of the arrange ments of the Emancipation Act; and he contended, further, that being on the same ground as that measure, it could not be justly deemed as partaking in any degree of a penal or persecuting character.—(Hear, hear.) It was said the Catholic Church required officers of the rank of bishops, but for 250 years the Catholic Church in this country bad gone on with vicars apostolic, and he had heard in the course of this debate no satisfactory reason why, with vicars apostolic, it might not still go on as heretofore.—(Hear, hear.) He contended upon these various grounds, that tae measure that was now proposed applied directly to the evils for which a remedy was demanded—(Hear, hear)—he con tended that it imposed no restriction on the Catholic hierarchy in this country which was inconsistent with thelperformance of their sacred duty—(Hear, hear)— , and to those who said they thought the measure, if passed, would be inoperative, would be of no effect, would not be obeyed, he would reply that he wholly differed from tbem is that opinion—( Hear, hear) —he considered that if, on the one hand, it was a peculiar characteristic of the Church of Rome to be ag gressive and encroaching, on the other hand, it was also characteristic of that Church to be obedient to laws, to re spect enactments, and to make its aggressions and its en croachments wiihout openly violating the laws of the land in which it was operating.—(Hear, hear.) Judging from past experience of the Irish Roman Catholics, he did not contemplate that this measure, if passed into a law, would be disobeyed by the Roman Catholic bishops of this country. - (Hear, hear.) He believed, too, that the measure would meet the general feeling of the British people ; and it was not to be forgotten that there was nothing in the measure to pre clude the Legislature from taking further steps, if further steps were required, which he earnestly hoped would never be the case.--(Cheers.) On the motion of Mr. H. BEIMELE-Y . , the debate was then adjourned to Thursday. The House adjourned at Twenty minutes past Twelve o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) TUESDAY, MARCH 18. HASTINGS IMPROWMENT BILL. Order for Second Reading read; Motion made, and Ques tion proposed, " That the Bill be now read a second time :" Amendment proposed, .to leave °lit the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day six months." Question put, " That the word ' now' stand part of the question." The House divided : INENORITY—AzEs, 21. Adair, R. A. Greene, John Perfect, Robert Barnard, E. G. Guest, Sir John Power, Dr. Bellew, R. M. Higgins, George Thompson, Colonel Cowan, Charles Inglis, Sir R. Il.' Villiers Charles Curteis, 11. M. Lennox, Lord A. 'Pawn, J. T. Forbes, W. Mitchell, T. A. TELLERS. Forster, Matthew Moore, George IL Pigott, Francis Freestun, Colonel O'Connor, Feartu, French, F. MAJORITY—NOES , 59. Alcock, Thomas Farnham, E. 13, Mostyn, B. Arkwright, George Fer g uson, Sir R. Ashley, Lord Fole y , J. H. Naas, Lord Parker, John Bernard, Viscount Fuller, A. E. Patten, J. W. Gaskell, J. M. Best, John Russell ,F. C. H. Blair, Stephen Gwyn, Howel Sandars, George Harris, Richard Boldero, Henry Smith, J. Benjamin Bramstou, T. W. Hastie, Archibald Brisco, M. Idayter, W. G. Spooner, Richard Stafford, Augustus Broadwood, Henry Hea ld, James Thornely, T. Brotherton, Hill,Joseph Lord Marcos Tynte, Colonel Buller, Sir J. Y. H od g es, T. L. Tyrell, Sir J. T. Hutchins, E. J. Carew, W. P. Verner, Sir W. Ch'ld, smith Kershaw, James Walter, John Clive, H. B. Loveden, Pryse Williams, W. Divett, Edward L yg on, General Wilson, Matthew Manners, Lord c. Duncan, George Wrightson, W.B. W._ Duncuft, John Martin, C. Evans, Sir Do Lacy Masterman, J. Colonel TEL Matheson, Evans, William Frewen, C. H ERS .. David Ewart, William Morris, Holiond, Robert ..____ PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) STANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE. The following Resolutions were reported from the above Committee :- 1. That in the case of the Durham Markets Bill, petition for additional provision, the standing orders ought to be dis pensed with :—That the parties be permitted to introduce their additional provision, if the Committee on the Bill shall think fit, on proving to the said Committee that the notices have been inserted in the county newspaper for three successive weeks. That the Committee on the Bill, if they shall introdu . ce such additional provision, do report to th e House how far such order has been complied with, on the Report of the Bill. .4. That in the case of the East Anglian Railways ;(I o. 2), petition for leave to deposit , a , petition for a Bill, the stelding orders ought not to'be - diBP4nsed w i t h . 3. That in the case of the Leicester Waterworks' Bi)1, petition for dispensing with standing orders Nos. 103 and 166, the said standing orders ought not to be dispensed with. First Resolution agreed to.—Report to lie on the table. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, TUESDA Y MARCH 141. The Queen and Prince Albert walked early this morning in the park and grounds at Osborne. His Royal Hi g hness the Prince of Wales, th e P r incess Royal, and the younger members of the Royal Family took ',heir accustomed walks and rides. Colonel and the Lady Catherine Harcourt had the honour of joining the royal party at dinner this day. A Cabinet Council was held at the private residence of Lord John Russell, in Chesham-Place, Belgrave-square, yesterday afternoon. The Ministers present were—Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans downe, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Pal merston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Broughton, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Earl of Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanricarde, and the Right Hon. Fox Alaule. The Ministers met at half-past two o'clock, and broke up soon after four o'clock. The Oxford University Commission met yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Down ing-street. Present : The Bishop of Norwich the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembro ke, the Rev. 11. G. Lindell, J. L. Dampier, Esq. ; the Rev. Professor Powell, the R v. G. 11. S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (Secretary). Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview with the Chancel lor 01 the Exchequer yester day, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Transatlantic Packet Station Commission held a meet ing yesterday at the Board of Trade. There were present Earl Granville (Chairman), Hon. William Cowper, Sir James Gordon, K.C. B. ; Sir John F. Burgoyne, K.C.B. ; and Captain Stephenson Ellerby. Lotd Hobart, Secretary to the Commission, was in attendance. A deputation at tended at the Board of Trade, and had an interview with the Commissioners. The deputation included Lord Mont eagle, Mr. O'Brien, M.P., Mr. O'Flaherty, DLP., Mr. Blake, M.P., Mr. M'Cullagtl, , Mr. Randall, and DI. P., Ur. Inulvany Mr. Long, C.E. A TOUGH SUPPER.—On Wednesday evening the large serpent at our Zoological Gardens, who seems, by the way, to possess a remarkably good digestion, had two live fowls put into his cage for supper. He immediately killed and gorged one ; after which, leaving the other bird intact, he satisfied the cravings of his appetite by bolting his bed consisting of a piece of drugget two yards and a half long and a yard wide.—Bristol Mercury. DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN --Died at Clogbjordan, on the 13th inst., Mr. James Armitage, aged 109 years. For 89 years he was in church membership with the Baptist Church of C oghjordano To the last moment his intellect was clear and unimpaired.—Leinster Express. MARCH 19, lB5l. SUPPRESSION OF STREET BEGGING. ST. JAMES'S PARISH. "TO THE CHAIRMAN AND COMMITTEE OF THE LEICESTER- SQUIRE SOUP KITCHEN. " Gentlemen,—ln forwarding my report for the month of February, I have much satisfaction in drawing your attention to the annexed table, showing the gradual diminution of beggars detected asking alms in St. James's parish, all of whom were strangers, and igno rant of the measures adopted for their suppression. The street guardians continue to carry out your instruc tions in an orderly and systematic manner—meeting at given points, every half-hour, and communicating to each other the description of vagrants seen; this plan proves an insurmountable obstacle to the beggar, as he cannot possibly pursue his calling within the parish for a longer period than half an hour without detection; when once seen and cautioned, ho deems it better at once to quit the parish than run the risk of a conviction by a repetition of the offence. " The duties of the street guardians were extended hn the 27th inst. to the visitation of the principal streets, and the. public-houses therein, from half-past seven to ten o'clock in the evening. " The success attending this evening duty the past two nights has proved most satisfactory, and will, here after, do much towards removing from the streets a set of desperate prowlers, who, under the cloak of night meet you at every turn, and, by unceasing importunities to your remonstrances, as they walk side by side, create considerable alarm in the timid—especially unprotected females. " The licensed victuallers esteem this arrangement as a great boon to themselves, as well as their bar and par lour customers; their attention to business being inces santly interrupted from dusk to closing time, in order ing out stalwart men beggars asking for money to pay a night's lodging; and women, boys, and girls, pretend ing to vend Lucifer matches, combs, prints, ballads, &c. " The nuisance complained of in my report for January last of a large number of juvenile pretending crossing sweepers infecting the foot pavements for the purpose of begging, has been removed; the crossing sweepers now seen in the parish amount to about twelve men and six boys, all usefully and publicly em ployed. A considerable number of lucifer match sellers, on being taxed with begging, have withdrawn themselves. " There can be no doubt that several thousands of vagrants will be drawn from the country to the metro polis this summer; it therefore behoves parochial autho rities—now that it is proved mendicity can be easily suppressed—to adopt stringent measures for checking the inroads of provincial mendicants, and for putting down the present existing intolerable nuisance in our streets. "BEGGARS DETECTED. Total English Total Irish Gross total " J. ETTERSIIANK, Supervisor." " MONTHLY REPORT OF THE LEICESTER-SQUARE SOUP KITCHEN AND ASYLUM FOR FEBRUARY, 1851. " I beg respectfully to forward my report of this in stitution for the month of February, 1851. The table of the number of recipients at the kitchen shows an in crease of nearly 4,000 persons over that of the month of January last:— " TABLE OF NUMBERS RELIEVED. Relieved in Soup Kitchen. Mon, 9,317. Women, 1,605. Total, 10,022. Families and Sick Resident Poor. Men, 2,466. Women, 3,086. Children, 12,132. Total Families, 17,684. Total number relieved, 25,606. " THE REFUGE. " 280 women and 488 men have been provided with beds, supper, and breakfast. From the large numbers of deserving applicants applying all hours of the day, a further number of 356 poor men and women have par taken of a morning and evening meal of bread and coffee. " LAVATORIES AND WATER-CLOSETS. " The free benefits of this establishment have been bestowed on 8,395 men and 4.516 women and children. " FREE REGISTRY. Number of persons registered Male l9B Obtained situations 7 Female l2 "RAGGED SCHOOLS. " Supplied to ragged schools, 146 gallons of soup and 78 quartern loaves, besides frequent entertainments to the children of a neighbouring ragged school of an evening meal of tea, coffee, and bread, at the kitchen, with which they were pleased. "WANT OF BREAST MILK. " I am happy to state that all the poor female suf ferers applying for relief, with infants in arms, are now tree from this complaint. By dint of care, and good nourishing soup and bread, they recovered their milk, and their babies have been restored to health, and saved from an untimely grave. They were very grateful for the protection and relief afforded them in the hour of "John Brownring, aged 78; James Kearney, 67; John Long, 10 weeks; and Wiliam Barton, 74—died during the month in this metropolis from starvation. " R. CRATE, Superintendent. " Ham-yard, Great Windmill-street, Feb. 28, 1851." " The prindiple of filling the famished and desti tute individuals who cry for help, with good, wholesome food, instead of giving coin which may be ill or disadvantageously spent —is one which recommends itself strongly to the notice of the humane; and as the machinery for carry ing out the intention of the founders of this kitchen is now practically perfect, and its economical working rightly understood, it may safely be assumed that sub scriptions destined for the amelioration of the houseless and suffering pauper cannot be placed more fruitfully than here; for inasmuch as they are at once applied to the purchase and administration of nutritious food, so is there security against the alms of the philanthropist being viciously and intemperately dissipated. We do no wrong, therefore, in inviting the attention of those vs ho are blessed with affluence, and are not indifferent to hu man sympathies, to the soup kitchen in question—the resources of which, long before the winter has passed away, will no doubt require eleemosynary replenishment. The recipients in the course of a week amount to seve ral hundreds, and no real difficulty is put in the way of any one who unhappily needs succour. We have before enforced the claims of this praiseworthy institution, and eulogised the comprehensiveness of its plan, and the cha racter of its management; and we reiterate the appeal which the statement involves, with all the confidence suggested by an unmixed faith in its wide and vital utility." THE VERY POOR OF THE METROPOLIS, It is a terrible and heart-rending fact, that numbers n_ persons annually die in the streets of London of h unger and destitution. However anx iou s the public may b e t o shut their eyes to this appall ing reality, it cannot be qualified, much less refuted. The fact s tares us in the face in all its hideous deformity; fain would we shun the reflection, but it is impos sible. Great privations are en dured, especially in the winter months, in many fore ign countries where the severity of the weather is most acutely felt. In the north of France, in Belgium, in Holland, and in many parts of Germany, the sufferings of the humbler classes are very great; . but the oases are of extremely rare oc currence M which deaths from sheer starvation are re ported to the authorities in the principal cities of those countries. In London, however, the wealth and material greatness of which exceed that of any other city in Christendom, deaths from actual want of food are of daily occurrence. Strangers to our laws and social regulations may be in clined to question this fact. They may say that such cannot be the case in a country where the Government raises an enormous sum per annum in the shape of poor rates, and where a simultaneous collection of private bounty, unparalleled in amount to that received for similar purposes in any other city in the world, is constantly going on. The truth of these statements cannot be denied, and hence the marvel that there should be in the metropolis so many of the very poor. The solution of the difficulty it, however, instant and in telligible. guermous as is our national establishment for the relief; of the poor, and numerous as are our pri vate charities,' they are unable to meet the pressing exi gencies ot those who die in the streets from want of food. There are hospitals in all quarters of the city where those labouring under every description of human in firmity may repair. The existence of present and palpa ble disease is the only qualification required for admission to those magnificent institutions. There are other esta blishments supported by the bounty of the affluent, or by the assistance of the prudent, in the hour of prosperity, which are the receptacles of those who have " toiled all day, and nothing spun." and where they may pass the declining years of their lives. But there is no adequate asylum for the wretched wayfarer, whose hard lot it is to wander hungry through the great thoroughfares of the town, and whose necessity ought to be sufficient to entitle him to immediate relief. The class of per sons who perish in our streets from the want of the commonest necessaries of life, are not what are com monly called vagrants. Far from it. The vagrant, according to the accepted term, is the knave who haunts the streets, ever ready to plunder or to beg, as the opportunity arises. The assiduity with which he follows his profession secures him an ample return from the credulity of his victims; but the very poor of the metropolis are those whose wants are not paraded to view, who live in attics and cellars, and whose necessi ties for the most part are caused by want of employ ment. Immense numbers of the resident deserving poor of this class are at this season suffering the greatest privations. Another class, whose necessities are even more pressing, consists of those who are sojourners in the metropolis, and who flock from the provinces in the hope of obtaining employment. In many cases strong men, or men who ware strong when they com menced their journey, have trudged on foot perhaps 50 or 100 miles, in the expectation of finding some descrip tion of employment on their arrival. Their hopes, how ever, are frustrated; no employment awaits them; and as their slender resources are consumed in a few days, they are forced to become outcasts in the streets, with no alternative except starvation or crime. They have no claim upon the Metropolitan Union-heuse, except as casual poor. The utmost relief they can hope for is a morsel of bread and a roof to cover them for the n ight, and for one night only. Many of those workmen never return to their native place. To use an express ion 2 familiar to political economists, they are " consumed in the me tropolis—that is, some find employment, but many, alas, the greater portion, are struck down . by disease and , famine, and ultimately become the sub jec t f" or roners inquests, when the stereotyped verdict of die c. o d from want and destitution" is returned. Within the last few day s the publ ic journals have re corded no less than three deat hs resulting from want of actual food. One of these wretched beings died on the pavement in the open street, desolate and alone, whilst thousands of his fellow-creatures were swarming around him! Here is the official record;—" John Browning, aged 78, a labouring man from Frome in Somersetshire, for Mr. Reeves in some part worthy of his powers; fell exhausted from inanition, in Mornington-crescent, on Ernani is promised in the course of a few days. I must Sunday, February 9, 1851, and died a few hours after- not close my letter without quoting an opinion given in wards. The verdict of the jury was, Died from want the foyer upon Reeves by the most celebrated composer and destitution.' A policeman, giving evidence, in France—' fie! 111essicurs, donne: moi ce gaillard ld stated, that a short time previous to the deceased's fall- pour trois niois, et len feral le premier tenor en Europe.' " ing, he had ordered him, whilst lying shivering on the pavement on another part of his beat, to get up and move off, as he thought he was shamming. The other instances to which we have alluded are thus chronicled:—" At an inquest held on Thursday (Feb. 20) on James Kearney, painter, aged 65, at the Goat, Tash-street, Gray's Inn-lane, it was stated that the body lay in a wretched hovel, denuded of furniture, which had been sold to buy food; and the surgeon, at the post mortem examination, deposed th a t he had not found the least particle of solid food in the stomach." At an inquest held the same day, on John Long, at the Three Compasses, Cowcross -strect, West Smithfield, the body presented an appalling appearance—was a " mere skeleton." Dr. Walker performed a post mortem examination, and, in accordance with his opinion, the jury returned a verdict —" That the deceased died from want of food and nourishment" These are terrible realities, that must not be per mitted to continue in a Christian land. For the sake of our common nature it must be presumed that the affluent aro in ignorance of the existence of such appalling dis tress in the midst of unprecedented plenty, prosperity, and grandeur. It must be that they do not know of it, for rarely indeed is any genuine case of wretched ness unrelieved, when the particulars are fully known to he public. There is only one institution in the metropolis the doors of which are never shut against the destitute inha bitant of, or sojourner in, the metropolis. That institu tion is the Leicester-square Soup Kitchen and Hospice. It is to be regretted that the public are not more fami liar with the objects and practical working of this insti tution, or no doubt its resources would be considerably greater. Its object is to provide a gratuitous soup kitchen, an asylum for sheltering the houseless, a free registry for servants and labourers, and free lavatories, &c,, for the poor. The incalculable amount of benefit it has done, and the extent of human suffering it has alle viated, may be gathered from the fact that in 1850 476,111 persons were supplied with an abundant meal of soup and bread; 16,264 were sheltered in the hospice and supplied with supper, bed, and breakfast; and 227,371 were accommodated at the free lavatories with water, soap, towels, &c. An immense quantity of soup and bread was also distributed to •ragged schools, and 237 deserving persons were placed in respectable situations. The total number of persons relieved at the soup-kitchen in January, 1851, was 24,642, of whom 11,189 were famishing children. But it must not be supposed that this relief is confined to the necessitous, who are unable to work in consequence of infirmity or old age, and who are struggling to keep out of the workhouse. A great por tion of the relief is given to labourers and skilled work men for whom there is no employment, and who would have been in all probability driven to the commission of crime had not this timely assistance been afforded to them. In the month of January last the institution relieved 3,870 labourers, 960 excavators, 548 carpenters, 784 bricklayers, 892 plasterers, 41 butchers, 37 bakers, 185 clerks, 167 waiters, 39 watercress sellers, 115 cos termongers, 26 bookbinders, 11 map-colourers, 21 wheelwrights, 13 blacksmiths, 369 shopmen, 8 harness makers, 507 painters, 432 glaziers, 557 servants, 621 female servants, 127 sailors, and 107 distressed foreigners. To descant upon the usefulness of such an institution would, therefore, bo idle. There is, however, another class of persona to whose wants this admi rable institution has directed its attention. It is well known that hundreds of infants an nually die in the metropolis in consequence of the want of their natural food. It is impossible that the wretched mother, whose form is wasted by famine and exhausted by inanition, can replenish the fountain from which her infant ought to draw its life stream. Within the last twelve months lio infants are reported to have died from " want of breast milk." This calcula tion, however, gives no idea of the number who ac tually died from causes more or less attributable to a deficient supply of their natural food. In order to remedy as tar as possible the ravages of this de plorable disease, the institution has notified that medical advice and nourishment will be afforded to all poor women applying under such circumstances. The result has been, in the highest degree, satisfactory and gratify ing, the poor women rapidly regaining their strength under the kindly and judicious treatment which has been afforded them. An institution achieving so great an amount of good, and founded upon principles of such unostentatious philanthropy, is surely deserving of the countenance and support of all good men. To satisfy the madden ing pangs of hunger—to assuage the pains of disease— to allay the agony of mental distress—and, above all to snatch from the paths of temptation and ruin the young and guiltless, is a high and holy vocation. Great, indeed, will be the reward of those who assist in suck an object. We feel assured that the claims of the Leices ter-square Soup-kitchen and Hospice will not be,dis regarded by those whom Providence has favoured with ample means. That charity, twice blessed—blessing alike the giver and the receiver—cannot be directed to a quarter where its benefits are more urgently required, or where its influences will not be more sensibly felt. And how consolatory will be the reflection that the assistance thus timely afforded may essentially mitigate the great sum of human suffering—perchance restore to society many of its most useful members; but, at all events, ar rest the ravages of that disease and famine with which so many of the very poor of the metropolis aro afflicted. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. The following officers had interviews with the Right Hon. Sir F. T. Baring, Bart., at the Admiralty : Rear-Admirals—The Hon. Sir F. B. R. Pellew, C. 8., K.C.H., J. B. Purvis. Captains—Peter M'Quhae (Commodore for the West In dies), G. Gifford, J. Harrison, T. R. Sullivan, C. O. Hayes, J. B. Alaxwell, J. Hackett, E. T. Michell, Douglas Curry, Thomas Fisher, W. Loring. Commanders—Grey Skipwith, L. S. Tindall, F. B. Mon• tressor, W. P. Maitland, T. Belgrave, Alexander Boyle, E. F. N. K. Wayse. Lieutenants —J. W. Dorville, A. M. Noad, the lion. R. Boyle, E. G. Crawley, W. K. Jolliffe, W. Horton, R. B. Harvey. In consequence of the proximity of the Court, the Vic tory, flag-ship, the Britannia, 120, ordinary guard-ship, the Blenheim, 60, screw guard-ship, the Excellent, gunnery ship, and Vengeance, 81, Captain Lord E. Russell, at noon yesterday, fired Koval salutes in honour of the anniversary of the birth of her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa Ca roline Alberta, her Majesty's youngest daughter. The day for holding the court-martial oia the officers and crew of the late steamer Flamer is not yet fixed. We hear that two other courts-martial are likely to result from this vessel, one on a marine for shooting a Krooman, and one on a subordinate officer for drunkenness—but this we only give as a report. We are sorry to announce that Deputy Medical Inspector Dr. James Allan (1845) died yesterday, after a protracted illness, at his resioence, Hasler Hospital. We also regret to state that Master Charles Penrose Bel lamy (1822), late master attendant at Chatham Dockyard, died yesterday at Hasler Hospital, after a very long illness. By Allen's 2eew Navy List we find that Mr. Bellamy served in the Apollo, fire-ship, at the attack of the French fleet in Basque Roads, and in the Walcheren expedition in 18 9; was midshipman of the Termagant, in the operations in defence of Sicily, including the attack on Reggio and Leg horn, and takirg of Genoa, and of the Albion, at the battle of Algiers. We understand that when the troops for the Cape em barked on board the Singapore steam-vessel, the crew of the American frigate St. Lawrence gave them three cheers. MORTALITY OS BOARD AN AmERICAN MAN-OF-WAR.— The Preble, 18, recently returned from a four years' cruise in the Pacific and China, has lost the whole of her original crew, 145 in number, except one commissioned officer and two foremast ditto. —Halifax Journal. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY.—Vice-Adiairal Sir George Sey mour, K.C.8., in the Cumberland, 70, dropped down to St. Helen's on Sunday night, with the intention of getting into the Channel with the then favourable breeze, but it chopped round, and she remains at anchor. _ _ _ Sir,—On Monday the 17th, and the day following, the debate was resumed on the Papal Aggression Bill, with more of vigour than on the day of its introduction. Bit by bit, facts and arguments find their way before the House and the public, which were overlaid for a time by the clamour of the friends of Rome and the weakness of the Ministerial:measure. Nobody now seems to deny, that in one way or other the Bill is not the thing. Some think there ought to be no Bill; but more that the present Bill is aimed at little, and that little wrong. It is beginning to be found out, that the receiving of directions from a foreign power is the evil required to be stopped. John Wesley might divide the country into circuits, and make provision for their governance during his lifetime, and for be queathing his power to a Conference afterwards. But if John Wesley instead of being an Oxford scholar and ex horting his military proselytes to fight to the death for the independence of the British Crown, had been a foreign priest residing at the French head-quarters, or with the French head-quarters established with himself, his operations would have been regarded with a very different eye by the people of Great Britain. The speech of Lord Ashley on Tuesday was worthy of the occasion and full of matter. In some way or other that nobleman appears to have incurred the repu tation of being exaggerated; and it would be easy to cite subjects on which there is strong contra riety between his opinions and those which have been often submitted for your judgment. But the truth is that Lord Ashley is a wise man, and a goad ; and even to those who do not ultimately agree with him on a point at issue, he comes out with an unexpected flow of reasons for his course. On the present question ho doubles the small number of those who have hitherto shown themselves on a level with the case. Two particulars in Lord Ashley's speech struck me as novel; their correctness being of course open to scru tiny to any extent. One is, the ostentatious way in which the modern instrument of the Papacy has boasted of having formed himself on the model of Thomas Becket. He makes no secret of it; Becket has been all his life the hero of his adoration, and he comes here to imitate him if he can. And the other is, the extent to which the triumph of the Papacy is operating upon the Protestants in Fiance. " With the exception of the Dragonades," they write, " their condition has never been worse." This may be exaggerated, but it would not be risked without to some extent being true. The man must be demented who does not see, that the power of Absolutism on the continent has come into combina tion with a new element, the power of the Papacy, and that the whole is " rolling onward like a compact solid globe," as was the phrase applied by its friends in our own country ; the end of which is with the Disposer of all events. If any of us has ever regretted, that he did not live in times when men could be martyrs in fire or field, a brief term of life may suffice to show him enough to set his mind at ease. I am, Sir, yours very sincerely, AN OLD REFORMER. London, 19th March, 1851. Commodore Bruce hoisted his red broad pendant as Com modore of the first class and Commander-in-Chief on the coast of Africa station yesterday, on board the Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, for the purpose of saluting. The Vengeance then saluted the Port-Admiral with 17 guns, which the Victory acknowledged with nine. The pendant was afterwards removed to the Blonde receiving -hulk, which is hulking the crew of the Commodore's flag-ship Penelope. The Sprightly steam-tender, Mr. George Allen, Master Commanding, proceeded to St. Helen's to-day with Ad miralty dispatches for Vice-Admiral Sir George Seymour. We regret to announce that Mr. Alfred Balliston, Acting - Master Commanding her Majesty's dispatch yacht Elfin, met with an accident whilst on duty with his vessel in attendance upon the Queen's commands yesterday, at Cowes, by falling off the paddle-box. PLymourst, hIOI4DAY,-ller Majesty's s'eam-vessel Alecto arrived on Sunday, at noon, from Woolwich and Portsmouth. She will be paid advance of wages here and proceed to the coast of Africa. The Sanspariel, 80, screw-propeller steam-ship, was launched from No. 5 slip on Tuesday, March 18, at four P.m. Her dimensions are as follows :—Length, 200 ft. 6 in. ; breadth, 52 ft. 2 in. ; depth in hold, 22 ft. 8 in. The yard gates were thrown open to the public at three o'clock. WOOLWICH, MARCEL 18.—The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master Commander Petley, was to leave Yarmouth harbour to-day, on her return to Woolwich. She could not leave be fore, owing to the small depth of water during the neap tide on the bar at Yarmouth. The African steam-vessel arrived at Woolwich at half-past 7 o' clock a. c. to-day, to take a quantity of stores from the Royal Arsenal to the Rhadamanthus troop-ship at Sheerness for conveyance in the latter vessel to the Cape of Good Hope. THE ESSEX MURDERERS. (From the Essex Herald.) Up to yesterday evening there had been little altera tion in Drory. Rumours had been abroad of his hay jog been attacked by brain fever, but there was not the slightest ground for the statement; his health eon tinues good, and his manner calm, and he appears to be sensible of the value of the anxious spiritual atten tion of the worthy chaplain. He has not been visited by his friends since the day above stated, but it is un derstood his family will take their final leave of him at the close of the week. Many persons have been anxious to obtain au interview with him, some, probably, from mere curiosity, but this, of course, has not been allowed. On Friday, Mr. Hammond, one of the wit nesses against him, applied to the magistrates of the Thelmsford bench, for an order of admission, but on stating, in answer to the inquiries, that it was only as a neighbour he wished to see him, and that he did not know the culprit had expressed any desire for the visit, the application was refused. Of course all sorts of rumours have been flying about relative to the cul prit and his connexions, scarcely any of which have the slightest foundation in truth. Amongst other things it was stated that Miss Giblin, the young person to whom Drury was about to bo united, was s taying in Chelms ford during the whole of the trial—it was even added that she was in a condition that would render th• matter doubly terrible to her and to her friends; but we have reason to believe that both assertions are utterly false, and we allude to them only because we feel that the con tradiction of statements that have been so widely spread is an act of justice to a respectable family. Drory's victim, Jael Denny, it seems was not a na tive of Essex. Up to fcur years ago she resided at Fransden, in Suffolk, where her mother married her present husband, and they then left to enter into the service of the criminal's father at Doddinghurst. Jael is represented by those who knew her in Suffolk as hav ing been there noticed as " a superior girl for her sta tion," and her deportment and personal appearance gave her a prepossessing character. Mrs. Chosham, the other culprit, up to last night had made no confession of the crime ,for which she is about to suffer. ,KETS. RAILWAY SHARE MA BRISTOL, MARCH 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only transaction to-day was— Bristol and Exeter, 85%. LIVERPOOL. MARcm 18. STOCK EXCRANGI.—A good business has been done to-day. The transactions were as follow : Aberdeen, 181A—Birken head, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 20—Amber gate and East Junction, 2%—Caledonian, 16 1 4—Ditto, Pre ference, 6%—Chester and Holyhead, 26—Ditto, Preference, guaranteed 54 per cent., 18—Eastern Counties, 7 3 / 4 —East Lancashire, 17% —Edinburgh Perth, and Dundee, 10%— GreatiNorthern, (A), 6 4—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 62% — Ditto, Fifths, 64 dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 5 di&— Leeds and Thirak, 19%—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 1 p. London and North-Western, 131 c. Ditto, New Quarters, 5% p.—Ditto, Quarters (C), 3 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 35—Ditto, Preference, 12 3-16— Midland, 65 1 / 4 —Ditto, Halves ' 1234 dis.—North British, 114 —North-Western, 9% di&—Shrewsbury and Chester, Pre ference, guaranteed S per cent., 15—South-Eastern and Dover, 28 —York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 224—York and North Midland, 28 1 ,x—Boulogne and Amiens, 11—Dutch Rhenish, 3 3 4—Northern of France, par—Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 3 1 4 dis.—Paris and Strasbourg, 4 1 4 dis.—Rouen and Havre, 12%—Sambre and Meuse, s%—Toura and Nantes, 7 3 4 di& MANCHESTER, Maituu 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been a fair amount of business, but at much reduced prices, and the market closes decidedly weak. BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 18. .... . , --. STOGIE EXCHAIMB.—The only transactions reported to-day were —Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A),3% di .—Midland, 50/. Shares, 13 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 223 i. YORK, MARCH 17. SirocnE EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Great Northern, 18% —York, Newcastle, and Bar. wick, 22:14—York and North Midland, 2876. CHILD MURDER IN HoLDEnrotss.—On ,Ta27es,dawyasa country girl, named Sarah Harrison, e° brought before Messrs. Edward the Sculcoates-hall, Wat son, and Robert Harrison, Gibson,agKeiro female child. I sho w ed that on the Tuesday on the charge of having in The evidence entered into female child, verging on a state previous the bodyof a with its side completely ripped of decomposition, d a e t red her and ditch in the township of Thirtleby, by a inquest was accordingly held over Kendal, a labourer in the employ of t. open, ma n namedw a was found u j i i a d m in e e a : the coroner for the district, but the body by M r. next. The case was then put into the to Thursday adjourned Anthony Coulthard, superintendent constable hands of Mr... Hyam. of Thirtleb ives A oZ ',ldle division of Holderness, and he succeeded in ap prehending the mi of the prisoner within twenty-fcur hours after the prehendmg adjournment of the inquest, at No. 15, Ali cia -street, Hull, . w here she was living with her father and mother. It ap peared that she had lived with a Mr. Dunn, of Humbleton, but, on finding herself pegnant, she left Mr. Dunn, and went to the Skirlaugh Union, where 1, s-e was delivered of a child on the 14th of January. She left the union ou the 4th of February, telling them that she was returning to Mr. Dunn's, at Humbleton. She seems to have remained at Mr. Dunn's about a week, when she left, and came to Hull on Tuesday, the 4th inst. She then went to the house of a person , f the name of Ann Hague, to whom she gave the infant's clothes, stating to her that the child died at the union, and had been buried there. A Post inortein examination of the body was made by Dr. Kirk, of Iledon, and it appeared that the child had been kill e d b y two stabs in the side, from the spine of the back to th e b reast bone. The pr i soner, w h o cried bit terly while th e case was procee di ng , was committed a to the e assizes by the mag i s t ra t es , an d was conveyed to . York Castle ull on the sa me even i ng, i n t h e cus t o dy of M r . Coulthard.-1 Advertiser. Love—a passion which has ca used the change of übdued empires —a passion which has inspired heroism, and Subdued ho never felt never was appy ; avarice-a passion which he w and he who laughs at never deserves to feel.—Eliz a C oo k' s Journal. - [ADVERTISEME_NT• -- Holloway's Pill s , a most extraordinary Cure of Dropsy effected by their use.—Mr. George Rowley, of Tobago, had suffered from this disease for upwards of five years, during which per:od he underwent the operation of tapping five times, his m alady was m os t s kilfully trea ted by several practitioners, notwithstanding which he got gradually worse, his strength and health failing so test as to render any hope of recovery almost vain. As a last resource he tried Holloway's Pills, and by persevering in their use ac cording to the directions affixed to each box he was completely cured in a few months, and he is now restored to a good state of health.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Hollo way's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. FRENCH CHINESE MISSIONS.--A number of mis sionaries have arrived from France by a steamer from Bon logn eway for that to China, by a vessel about to take her departure, on immediately their country. The rev. mission aries take with them a considerable quantity of vestments, plate ornaments, and other articles of a costly description for church purposes, to assist them in carrying out the intentions of their mission. AN ENGLISH TENOR IN PARIS. Extract of a letter from a musical friend in Paris:— " An immense interest was excited in the musical circles here by the davit of Mr. Reeves on Saturday night, at the Italian Opera. For the last two years every singer or other artiste, who has visited London, has broughter back wonderful accounts of a certain magnificent tenor, combining tone, power, and expression unequalled since the days of Donaelli, who possessed beyond t all e q . This the finest voice ever known on the Italian question the tenor was Mr. Reeves, and an Englistiena. agNow, at the same notion of a fine tenor and an Englis h man and hence the time presents a combination which noorenchman could be brought to admit the possibility night; not a crowd that filled the Italians. r! S ° I was absent. It was in musician of note in the capit . a st _ sicians, and I am tect a regular trial by a Jury or u de lighted, for the - 1:1 England., to say that Mr. credit of ordeal most triumphantly. Real Reeves came out of h talent always makes i s g elf felt, and Mr. Reeves had not bars of his first duo with Madame sung half-a-dozen Sontag before the public felt that a great singer stood b e f ore them; an d the manly amplitude of the style with which he poured forth the andante brought down thundering round o f a pp lause, which w a s followed up by pro longed and enthusiastic plaudits at the close of the duet, and settled the question that Mr. Sims Reeves --(I wish he would get rid of that infernal ‘, Sims")-- is fully entitled to the first rank as a tenor, quoique an Englishman! He delivered the recitative in his cavatina "So tanto in ira" with great expression, and gave the air with a mingled power and sentiment that won him another triumph, and' set the seal upon his success. A concluding duet with Linda comprises all he has to sing, which gloriously concluded the opera, leaving but one disappointment upon the mind of the auditory, that he had not had much more to sing. In addition to one of the noblest tenor voices ever heard in Paris, Mr. Ree ves appears to possess musician-like qualities of a very high order, and above all a pe rfect mastery over his immense organ, which reaches the celebrated ut of Duprez with marvellous ease. --- il is modulation will require so me im provement, for hi s sotto voce passages, which delighted those of the audience 'ear the stage, were nearly un heard on the second circle. To conclude; this debut was a most successful hit, and will bring the season splen didly to its conclusion. We are now anxiously looking