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tended that Catholicism was disappearing, and the people of England were called upon for renewed contri butions. The question was certainly one for investiga tion, and this investigation the Catholics of Ireland courted and craved. If the property of the Church were well managed, it would produce a million per annum. It was not honestly managed at present, and and the system of bishops' leases was most injurious. This great revenue was distributed among a close cord poration of younger brothers, many o f whom passe their time in the apostolic pastime of snipe-shooting. (A laugh.) He paid tithes himself, in eight parishes, and in none of them was he aware of any Protestant clergyman resident, except in thr ee out of the. t eight h se parishes, and there only a few Protestants even m era o hle parishes. In a parish he knew t here was a r the Re abbey which had been wrecked a t the time o Re formation. Within the walls of that ruined church the whole population of the parish (for there was not a Pro testant in it) knelt to worship, and under a single arch, which shadowed rather than sheltered the altar, the priest offered up the sacrifice of the Eucharist exposed to the winds and rains of heaven ? The tithes of this parish were paid to the vicars choral of Christ Church, Dublin ? Could their prayers and praises ascend to heaven t Was it possible to be loyal to such a law ? The religious policy of England in that country had been most evil in principle and vicious in practice. He was in favour of Church endowments, because he con sidered it essential that the poor should have the Gospel preached to them, which could not be the case on the voluntary principle. In Ireland, however, the religion of the rich was endowed, while the religion of the poor was left in poverty. (Hear, hear.) It was alleged that the religion of the Irish people was un scriptural and idolatrous. If it were intended to treat the Irish as a conquered race, no doubt this course might be reasonable ; but not if it were desired to deal fairly and justly with them. It was a begging of the whole question, so intolerant and stupid, that decency and policy should forbid it. It was obviously requisite to consult the opinions of the majority of the people as to the question of religion. It was said, indeed, that the Protestant was the religion of the majority of the em pire, but then the expense of the Irish Church ought to be paid out of the Imperial revenues. The argument, however, was clearly fallacious; for in Scotland the Epis copal Church was not established, although Scotland as well as Ireland was an integral portion of the empire. Then it was said that the Act of Union secured the sta tus of the Established Church. No doubt it was an ar ticle in the Union; but if both parties to a contract agreed to rescind it, of course it could be done. Again, it was said that every alliance between Church and State in volved reciprocal advantages, and recognised the influ ence of the State in the Church. That might be an ar gument for endowing the Protestant Church, but not for raising it on the ruins of the Catholic. The maintenance of peace under the present system was impossible, except by means of overwhelming force of arms ; whereas peace might be expected to result from the removal of this griev • ance, just as peace had been established in England by the expulsion of James, and in Scotland by the abolition of prelacy. The act that made Scotland happy and con tented was the act of abolishing Episcopacy, which as serted that the religion of the nation should be in accor :ince with their inclinations. Look again to Belgium : the differences that existed arose from religion, and had been terminated by the establishment of religious liberty Since then the people of Belgium had lived in peace and prospesity, as those of Ireland might, and one day would, under a Protestant Sovereign. (Hear, hear.) Ever since the Reformation division and strife ‘ had raged in Ireland, and all this would be put an end to only by the abolition of the Established Church. While an endowment of from half a minion to a million a year had failed to increase or develop Protestantism, the supporters of the Establishment now contended that the contribution of a few thousands voluntarily had suc ceeded in evangelising Ireland. One of the members for Warwickshire (Mr. Newdegate) had argued that the Irish became Protestants When they went to America. That was really to contend that they became Protestants when they got out of reach of the Established Church of Ireland. (Oh, oh, and a laugh.) It should be re membered that there was no Established Church in America, however. In conclusion, he (Mr. Moore) was anxious to give the Protestants fair play and a fair field. Let Protestantism breathe free air, and remove from its neck the golden collar. Let it step forth in its true pro portions to meet its great adversary, and might God de fend the right. (Hear, hear, from those sitting near the hon. member.) Mr. M. O'CONNELL confessed that he seconded the motion with great pain, because he felt exceedingly grieved that such a subject had been mooted at all. (Oh, and laughter.) The less this vexata questio was touched the better would it be for England and Ireland. The move ment was; a rash and imprudent one, and one which did not accord with the feelings of the English people. (Hear, hear.) What the opponents of the Establishment should do wars to ,get on inch by inch. (Hear, hear, from Mr. Moore.) Although he seconded the motion, he thought the present demonstration a rash one. (Oh and laughter.) Sir J. YOUNG said that in one part of his speech the hon. member for Mayo had stated that he desired a select committee for the purpose of inquiry and investigation ; but from what had fallen from him in another portion of his observations it was clear that he did not think inquiry or investigation necessary. If the house went into committee it would be with the warning that it was to abolish the functions of the Irish Church in Ireland ; and the hon. member added, that nothing short of religious equality would satisfy the people of Ireland. Mr. MOORE—I said that the noble lord the member for London said so. Sir J. YOUNG—The hon. member quoted the noble lord, but he also adopted his sentiment. He (Sir J. Young) presumed that by religious equality the hon. member meant the total destruction of the Established Church in Ireland. (Hear, hear.) With regard to Ireland, various causes, at various times, had been assigned for its distracted and unfortunate position. The right hon. gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire had attributed the evils of that country to a starving population and an absentee aris tocracy. In 1816 or 1817 they were ascribed to the spirit duties ; at another period to the want of a good system of registration. If those evils, however, were to be traced to a starving population :.,nd an absentee aristocracy, the best Church in the world would fail to correct them. He (Sir J. Young) was disposed to attribute the evils of Ireland to bad commercial lec ' islition and the general treatment of the people. With respect to the property of the Irish Church, it had been in its possession for 300 years, and if the hon. member proposed to apply these revenues to other uses he would violate a principle. Had the honourable member, instead of advocating the abolition of the Esta blished Church in Ireland, adopted the more modified views which had recently appeared in the newspapers, he (Sir J. Young) should have been prepared to show that there was room perhaps for a better dis tribution of Church property in Ireland, but that still that property was not more than sufficient for the pur poses to which it was applied. It was the will of the English people that tlnere should be a Protestant establish ment in Ireland. (Hear, hear.) If any fault could be found with the parochial system in Ireland, it would be that the parishes will too large. If the present parochial clergy were to exist, the revenue of the Irish Church did not afford more than an adequate maintenance for them. Although the Protestant population might be small in numbers, it was scatti zed all over the country. Allowing for the curates 45,0001., there remained for each incum bent 2101. a year. Now, comparing this stipend with the emoluments of the ordinary run of clerks in public offices or commercial establit Iments, he was prepared to contend that for the first ten years the incumbent would suffer a loss of 100/. ; and, comparing it with those emoluments for the next ten yearn—computing, in the mean time, the " rise" which took place in such clerks' salaries—a loss of 1,0001. (Hear,. hear, :from Mr. Moore.) If there were any great agitation in this country on the subject—which was not the case—he coul d fancy that it might be for the ad vantage of the Churc h to make a sacrifice for the sake of peace—to give up a p ortion of its revenue in order to afford security to the rest oir the property. There was no agita tion, however, in the public mind, and the English people desired just the reverse of the sacrifice of the property of the Irish establishntei it for Roman Catholic or secular pur poses. There was a jealousy of Roman Catholics in this coun try, and he thought tlds motion calculated toincrease it. At the time of Roman 0 atholic emancipation an assurance was given that the conceal don should in no way interfere with the Church establishment. In 1817 Sir Robert Peel delivered one of his !speeches against emancipation, but in 1821, Mr. Plunket, i the course of an address in favour of the measure, and as the organ of the Roman Catholics, said that if he thought emancipation would in any way militate against the 1 'rotestant Establishment, much as he cherished the Roman Catholic claims, he would abandon them ; and in the co - a xse of the same speech Mr. Plunket said, " I vindicate flu 3 Roman Catholics from any imputa tion of the kind, for t hey have no hostility to the Church Establishment." Sir John Young went on to say that the Established Church w - as the Church of Ireland before the Union, although the 4 lurch of the minority. The members of the Irish Parliamei it were exclusively of the minority, and it was clear that at the time of the Union they meant to defend the tempos dities of the Establishment, and to see that no part of th at property should be dealt with, ex cept for the benefit of the Church. If, however, it were for the benefit of the Cl iurch that its property should be dif ferently allocated, th a omnipotence of Parliament could deal with the subject . The Church of Ireland had been greatly reformed with in the last 20 years ; but, according to the hon. member I or Mayo, the improvements and re trenchments had prod uced no good effect whatever. The hon. member contend: ed that the presence of the Church of Ireland was as obrlox ions to the Irish people as it was before. With that announcement before them, he (Sir J. Young) asked, wiz, at encouragement had they to go into the proposed commill .tee? (Hear.) They might give up another 100,000/., but , according to the hon. member for t e yo, it was its exis fence and its efficiency which made Irish Church dish esteful to the Irish people. If, as the hon, member for Mayo had also admitted, the Irish Establishmentof Ireland, was 11 of a tax on the Roman Catholics But ought not was a grievance connected with their faith. What ?t the fee linos of Protestants to be consulted ? was pr 'u o r o t be the few dings of Irish Protestants, when it hear.) {',4tt a t entarealy to abolish their Church. (Hear, PR the hon, member for Mayo would state oposed to what he yr the eve nt of his a do with the churches in Ireland, in Two-thirds of thef 'i n e n " , i edi ng YL his motion. (Hear, hoar-) t .srequiredfor building th churches had been subscribed Protestants, and nearlythe pairs had been kept A i NYould the y h on the re ber's proposal excite Protestants ? (Hear, hear! ir J. Young) confessed par°tnOfseseumch he regarded the motie n nuf real object was not in prowe nne t n t at e and Its the Irish Church, win ch Was hone cuor::he total abolition of on the voluntary pri nciple. That ehntrochbo carried out formed • its minister :s were as pure ehand u h ,,,, a l d been re sphere of action as r3l y that could be named, anuailtheir jections on the score. of pluralities and non - residencye"- -existed.lf 1•I to house, then, determined to n° longer go. into ad, he believed they Nee thus war would giv e a committee die faith of this country. They would great shock to the pi 11 quiet and co ' o er-minded persons to believe th a t induce there was no reliant o t o be placed on a solemn compact, nor faith reposed in parties ; and, finally, they 1 drs or —e a e would loosen those 1 h.c h were associated with pro .es perty and prescriptio H (I. ea.) the motion. So long as Mr. MURROUGI I r supported Ireland had the " co r roding blister" of the Irish Church f e and be d iscontented. upon her, so long avol ald she chaf e and Church of As one holding corns n union with the had been had re- Ireland, he believed I that if proper MODS course to it was an institution which would have spread blessings innumerable upon that unfortunate country, in place of the destitution and dissension which had attended its growth. Mr. P. URQUHART supported the motion, replying at some length to the arguments of Sir J. Young, and con tending that the evils of Ireland were mainly to be at tributed to the infliction upon her of an alien Church. Sir R. INGLIS said that this was not a question of numbers, but of right. The Irish Establishment was guar anteed y the Act of Union, which was unlike ordinary acts, an d c ontained clauses providing for their repeal or alteration during the same session. It was a solemn treaty between two nations previously independent. There was now no Church of Ireland and no Church of England, but there was the united, and, he trusted, the indivisible, Church of England and Ireland. (Hear, hear.) This was no mere paper treaty, but the very condition on which Roman Catholic members sat in that house was their solemn oath that they would not attempt to disturb the property of the Church as it now existed. (Hear, hear.) He did not defend the Church in Ireland merely as a ve hicle of affording spiritual instruction to the people, but on account of the great social benefits which during the late famine had been conferred on them by the ministers of that Church with a self-denial that had never been ex ceeded and seldom equalled by those of any other faith. (Hear, hear.) Dr. Chalmers, no bigoted member of the Irish Church, had declared in unmistakeable terms in fa vour of that Church as the last hope of Ireland. He (Sir R. Inglis) thought that she had had much reason to complain, not of her adversaries, but of her pretended friends, who had abused her highest offices to political pur poses. (Cheers.) Still he should be ashamed of himself if he did not protest against the observations of the hon. member who had spoken last ; for there was at least one Beresford (the present primate) whose name alone would be sufficient to dignify any church to which he was at tached. He could hardly conceive how any one reading the act of union and the oath he had taken, could feel himself justified in endeavouring to destroy the Church in Ireland, merely because other members had set him an evil example. Knowing what the general terms of the resolu tion meant from the tone of the speaker, and those by whom it was supported, and regretting that it had not been met by the Secretary for Ireland on the right ground, he should give it the most unconditional opposition. Mx. R. GARDNER was understood to say that great in jury had been inflicted on Ireland by the Established Church. He attributed much of its political, social, and moral evils to the penal enactments of the last century. (Hear, hear.) He was opposed to establishme nts on prin ciple, much might be said in favour of the English Church ; but nothing could excuse the exisience of such an establishment as the Church of Ireland. (Hear.) Its ad vocates spoke as though convinced that they had a tho roughly bad cause. Though he should have preferred this motion to have come from another quarter, he would give it his cordial support ; and he hoped soon to see the time when Catholic claims would be discussed on secular grounds, and in a proper spirit. (Hear.) Mr. NEWDEGATE said it was notorious that the Church of Ireland was daily gaining strength in conse quence of the thousands who were quitting the Romish Church. This was also the case in the United States. And was this an argument for the destruction of the Pro testant Church, which was the real object of this motion ? This was also the main object of the Synod of Thurles, which was held under the direction of that Romish pre late who was the legate of the Pope in this country. (Hear, and " No, no.") Mr. M. O'CONNELL—I rise to order. We owe on obedience to him. (Hear and laughter.) Mr. NEWDEGATE said that at least those hon. mem bers were acting under his instructions. Mr. G. MOORE said that he had had no such instruc tions. Mr. NEWDEGATE—Then am I to understand that he is not acting under the authority of Legate Cullen ? Has he not the support of that Legato ? (Laughter.) Mr. MOORE—I really don't know whether I have or not. (Cheers.) Mr. NEWDEGATE—The house ought to be acquainted with that fact ; because I believe that the hon. member is chairman of an association in Ireland especially rec•m mended by that legate. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MOORE—That is not the case. (Cheers and laughter.) Mr. NEWDEGATE said he must certainly accept ,the statement of the hon. member for Mayo, and would sup pose that_ he was acting in contravention of the authority of the Pope's legate. (Laughter.) Still ho must contend that this motion was brought forward under,the sanction of the Roman Catholic prelates, and with a view to destroy the Established Church. If this were denied, ho would quote as authority a speech made by Dr. AP Hale in 1851, at a dinner at Athlone, given to the present Solicitor-General for Ireland (Mr. Keogh), in which he spoke of the never ceasing spring of Irish calamity being about to be dried up, meaning the Established Church. This motion was designed to striae at every Protestant sect in Ireland, though aimed direitly at the Established Church. (" No, no," from Mr. Moore.) The hon. member said he was an advocate for religious equality ; but was there ever an instance of the Romish church having been content with such equality? The present Pope had issued an allocution, directed to Spain, in which he declared that every other worship ought to'be removed and interdicted—(hear, hear)—and that all the magistrates of the kingdom ought to enforce due respect to the ecclesiastical authorities. Mr. O'CONNELL again rose to order, and protested against any allusion to the Roman Catholic churches of other countries. (Hear, hear, and cries of "order.") Mr. NEWDEGATE referred to the late events in Tus cany, and said that the same allocution provided for the suppression of other forms of worship in that kingdom. The same arrangement had been made there as in Spain for the enforcement of the temporal power in obedience to the spiritual authority. The result was seen in the perse cution of the Mulled. The same spirit was at work in Ire land as in other countries where the Protestants were in a minority ' • and this motion was evidently part of au organised plan to subvert the Established Church. The hon. gentleman (Mr. Moore) at the same dinner to which he referred had laid clown a rule for the guidance of the " Irish brigade," which was to deal impartial vengeance between Whigs and Tories. That was an exposition of the policy which had dictated this motion. The hon. gentle man and those who had acted with him sought to form a party which should embarrass all Governments alike, until they attained their object. (Hear, hear) They sought to destroy the constitutional action of that house, in order to destroy the Protestant liberty of Ireland. This inten tion was no secret; it hill been declared for years; and knowing the object with which this motion was proposed, he would give it the most decided opposition. Mr. J. PHILLIMORE said, the simple question was whether the Irish Church, as at present constituted, ful filled the high and important function of administering to the spiritual wants of the Irish people. The result of his inquiries led him to believe that the source of animosities in Ireland was to be found in religious discord and reli gious inequality. Mr. R. MOORE resisted the motion, contending that the revenues of the Irish Church were barely sufficient for the spiritual wants of the people. Mr. H. DRUMMOND observed!that no one could know anything of the Irish Church without knowing that in it there were as disgusting instances of nepotism as even in the Church of Rome. But the question was whether the state of the Irish Church was such as that the people ought to be satisfied. Almost every statesman who had been dis tinguished in that house had held that it was not. Many years ago ho had suggested a plan to Sir R. Peel, but that right hon. baronet had rejected it ; andshe afterwards offered it to the noble lord (J. Russell), but he also showed it the cold shoulder. (A laugh.) That plan, which he still believed to be founded on substantial justice, was that the whole ecclesiastical revenues of Ireland should be divided between the Protestants and Catholics, according to their numbers in the several parishes, and that in those parishes where there were no Protestant inhabitants they should go to the Roman Catholics. He would ask those hon. gentle men who saw no grievance in the present state of the Irish Church why it was that they did not hold the same lan guage in regard to the Church of Scotland ? When hon. gentlemen urged that this was not a question of expediency and when they rejected altogether the carnal view and ap pealed to their consciences, he would ask, was not cons science as strong on the other side the Tweed as on the other side of St. George's Channel ? This was his difficulty —he could not understand how it was they practised one thing in regard to Ireland and another thing in regard to Scotland. He thought the time had come when the ques tion should be placed on a more secure and better footing. They had heard much about the ambition of the Popish priests. The Popish priests were as they had ever been ; but did they suppose the laymen were going to be such fools as to lend themselves to their ambiti•us designs? They did not find the Roman Catholic laymen quite so obe dient in France or Italy. He observed one hon. member had a notice upon the paper, the object of which was to obtain the removal of the French troops from Rome, but was he not aware that that would be tantamount to the priests in Rome having their throats cut ? (Laughter.) He would say, refuse to the Roman Catholic priests or laymen that which they demanded unjustly, but do not refuse either priests or laymen that which they justly demand. Mr. MAGUIRE considered that not only the represen tatives for Ireland, but English members also were indebted to the hon. member for Mayo for bringing forward this motion. That motion was not to destroy the Established Church in Ireland, but merely to inquire with the view of ascertaining how far the revenue of that Church could be made applicable to the benefit of the Irish people. And who were the people of Ireland ? Surely the majority— the 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 Catholics, rather than the 800,000 Protestants. It was contrary to the spirt of the Act of Union to force, by the power of this country, a Church upon Ireland which was not the church of the majority, but only that of a small minority. The argument that no one should contribute to the support of a faith in which they did not believe was used by the opponents of the grant to Maynooth, and the Roman Catholics of Ireland were equally entitled to protest against money being taken out of their pockets to support a church to which they did not belong. He (Mr. Maguire) disclaimed being a member of what was called the Brigade, but was an independent Irish member, sent to that house, not by the Pope or Dr, Cullen, but by those who wished him to act fairly towards all par ties, whether Tory or Whig, if they did justice to his coun try. The motion now made was only for inquiry—and A fair case had been made out for inquiry—into the revenues of a church which in Ireland caused dissension where peace and union ought to prevail. Mr. WHITESIDE observed, that, if this had been a motion by a member of the Church of the Reformation, pointing out abuses, it should have his support ; but, coin ing, as it did, from one who had openly advocated the selling the whole property of the Church by auction, and vesting the proceeds in trustees, and looking at the speeches of its supporters, it could not be doubted that its real or even moderate spoliation, purpose was not reform, but Legislative annihilation. He contrasted this purpose with the disavowal on the part of the Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland in 1826, which was embodied, in dils• tinct terms, in the oath under the Emancipation Act, which disclaimed, disavowed, acrd solemnly abjured any intention of subverting the present Church Establishment as settled by law in Ireland. What Ireland wanted was good government, and where Roman Catholic priests had not confederated to stop the progress of Divine truth, the Irish Protestant Church had advanced. He implored the house to act on principle in this matter, and that principle should be the maintenance of Protestantism ; for he be lieved the Papacy had two objects it desired to accomplish —ono to destroy Parliamentary government, the other to boat down Protestantism. Mr. he considered LUCAS found it difficult and painful to speak upon it of Protestmunt queition, which ought to pass as a matter of course; as difficult to restrain his feelings of indignation when w title. me ti the injustice done to 5,000,000 Roman Catho lics in Irea and it was painful to wound the feelings into all ecclesiast* in dwelling upon a case of enormous injus c tice, of the elation. of the Irish . submitted to the house by this motion t,es of © n and misrepresented. ;it was for inquiry mistak e tice to all clas• endowments in. Ireland ;it was not a bel/ a r .sueseue:est u nconstitutional o ; but how could was proposed in ordei • Church, but of jus t. immunity of Ireland ; and inquiry justice could be done by lqua ity of treatment in re the establishment of m sp o e t c i t o n t o w a a ll s religion i i ( g t i o t u: of Parliament. This they talk of a Constitution in Ireland when they were dis cussing the monstrous iniquity of the Established Church there, and when inquiry into this despotism was - refused? Lord J. RUSSELL.—In rising to state as shortly as I can my reasons for voting against this motion, I find it a great facility in performing that task that the hon. mem ber for Meath (Mr. Lucas) had perfectly kept his word to the house ; that he has frankly stated his opinions ; and that those opinions may be dealt with instead of the mo tion of the hon. gentleman (Mr. G. H. Moore), or the speech in which it was introduced. Laying aside every question with regard to inquiry into a number of circum stances that are sufficiently known already—(hear)--or which, if not sufficiently known, may be learned in the library by consulting the returns presented to Parliament on the subject—laying aside every question of such sort of inquiry, or the results which are to be pointed out before the select committee, the hon. gentleman does not conceal that this is a motion aimed directly at the aboli tion of the Irish Church. (Hear, hear.) The object may be a good and praiseworthy one, but at all events, in the speech of the hon. gentleman, it is not a concealed one ; and that, therefore, is the motion with which we have to deal. (Hear.) Now, sir, before I deal with that motion at all, let me say that I think the hon. gentleman in his statement of the condition to which he says the Irish peo ple are reduced by the existence of that Church goes far, very far indeed, beyond and beside the question. The hon. gentleman says that the Roman Catholics are in a state of social and political degradation. (Hear, hear.) Now, sir, that statement I entirely deny. I do not allow there is any political degradation, because, with very few exceptions indeed, every political honour, every political distinction, is open to Roman Catholics as it is to Protestants. (Hear, hear.) The seats in this house have been opened ; the highest honours of the State, with one or two exceptions, may be obtained by Roman Catho lics. Neither is there, as matters at present stand, any social inequality of which Roman Catholics have to com plain. Those inequalities which formerly were, we admit, attended with degradation, have been removed in later years. The hon. gentleman finds fault with those Roman Catholics of former times who expressed their gratitude for the relaxations made by Parliament in favour of Roman Catholics. I own I have been accustomed rather to admire than to blame the fervent zeal and loyalty with which, even in the worst of times, Roman Catholics came forward to defend this land, knowing they were debarred from its honours and offices, and the renerosity with which, in any period of peril, they were apt to stand forward to declare their loyalty to the Crown and their attachment to the country to which they belonged, and not merely by words, but by gallant deeds in arms, to prove that loyalty and attachment. (Hear, hear.) It may have been a fault, but if so, the hon. gentleman need not be afraid of it; for, instead of an exuberance of gratitude, the greatest concessions made by Parliament, the largest admissions to our offices and seats in Parliament have been met by revilings and reproaches—(hear, hear)— which rather seem to show that some, at least, of the Roman Catholics of t he present day wish to prove how much they differ from their ancestors, and that they wish to make up for that exuberance of loyalty and attachment to their country. (Cheers.) My belief, however, is that the hon. gentleman, and those who have spoken with him to-night, while they represent some of those who carry to an extreme the poli tical doctrines of the Roman Catholic Church, do not represent the great body of the Roman Catholic people— (hear, hear)—and my right hon. friend the Secretary for Ireland has been misrepresented as saying that, indeed it might be desirable to enter into some inquiry upon'this subject if there was a great pressure and agitation upon it. The meaning of my right hon. friend I believe was, that if the intelligence of the Roman Catholic body in Ireland in general,—if the intellectual part of the community in England as well as in Ireland generally—complained of a grievance, there would be more cause for inquiry than at present it can be pretended there is. But having treated of those political and social inequalities of which the hon. gentleman complained, I will now come to that which I admit exists—that to which the motion of to-night relates —namely, the ecclesiastical inequality that exists in Ire land. It is not a religious inequality, because, with re spect to religion, the exercise of religious worship is as free to the Roman Catholic as to the Protestant; but, as re gards ecclesiastical revenues, there is no doubt a state of law in Ireland by which the endowments of the state are given to the minority, and the majority of the peopleshare none of the benefits Qf these revenues. (Hear, hear.) For my own part 'I could wish, in treating of this question, that the honourable gentleman and those who think with him were entirely free from some of those bars and restric tions which have been imposed upon them in the debate of this night ; for my part I could wish that there was nothing in the oaths taken by members of Par liament which should preclude Roman Catholics from discussing subjects of this kind—from asking, if they thought proper, for the total abolition of the Established. Church of Ireland, and voting for its subversal and sup pression as a political question as freely as they could vote upon any other question. (Hear.) For my part I thought these were matters that ought freely to be debated in Par liament, and I am exceedingly sorry any oath taken at this table should stand in the way of any such discussion. (Hear, hear.) I think likewise that that argument with respect to the union of Ireland—though, no doubt, it is a matter for consideration—should not be pushed too far in an argument on this subject. My honourable friend the member for the University of Oxford says there is a com pact between the, two nations. I think that, although you entered into that agreement, if it be clear that the great body of the people of Ireland, if the intelligence and wishes of the people were in favour of a change in that respect, there is nothing in the Act of Union itself which should prevent your making a change in favour of the people of Ireland in respect to an article which was in tended for the benefit of Ireland. (Hear, hear.) So much for those considerations which might prevent us from coming to a fair argument and a fair decision upon this question. But I may say further, that, for my own part, I do not wish to hear any of those inquiries which the hon. and learned gentleman opposite alluded to with respect to any relations which may subsist between Ro man Catholics and the head of their church in a foreign country. I am satisfied that Roman Catholics should have and enjoy all the privileges they at present enjoy, and all the funds or endowments granted, whether by Parlia ment or otherwise, should be maintained to them • and for my own part I do not wish at all to interfere with the freest liberty and enjoyment by them of all the advantages they possess ; and when I say this, I do not say anything ex ceedingly liberal ; but I am saying more than any Roman Catholic could say with regard to Protestant endowments. (Hear, hear.) But when we come to this practical question, whether or not we should make some very great change with respect to the Established Church in Ireland, I must own that, with respect to that great subject, the experi ence we have had of late years should not be lost upon us. It has not been lost upon me with reference to this ques tion. (Hear, hear.) I thought some years ago it would be of great advantage, that it would tend to peace and concord, if a part of the revenues now given to the Estab lished Church of Ireland had been applied to purposes of education in which persons of all religions denomina tions might have participated • but I found in the course of the discussions, both in Parliament and in the country, neither side was willing to consent to such a compromise, and, while ono side steadily and honestly resisted all that spoliation, as they considered it, of the property of the Established Church, the other required the total abolition of the revenues of that church. I was obliged, therefore, to consider which course Parliament should take ; how it could remedy that which was alleged as a grievance ' • and I am sorry to think, that while I cannot hold that the present state of things is, in its apparent arrangement, satisfactory, I see the greatest difficulties — the greatest objections. More than that, I see no small peril in the alterations that have been proposed. The hon. gentleman who spoke last, as I understood him, said, " Let us have equality ; whatever mode you please to take to attain that, I shall be content with it, provided it is equa lity." There are only two modes obviously in which eccle siastical equality—for that is the important question — can be attained. The one is the total abolition of the revenues of the Established Church of Ireland. lam not prepared to take that course. (Hear, hear.) I never shall be willing to consent to the total abolition of the revenues of the Established Church of Ireland. (Hear.) Putting aside the great change it would make—the viola , tion of engagements it would make—setting aside these matters—l cannot but think that you could not abolish the revenues of the Established Church of Ireland without striking at' the root of ecclesiastical endowments and vio lating the great principle upon which all our endowments are founded. (Hear, hear.) That may be a wrong prin ciple—l mean the principle of ecclesiastical endowments • but it is one that I am in favour of, which has been hitherto maintained by the Parliament of this country, and I can not believe that you could abolish it in Ireland without leading in other parts of the United Kingdom to a similar abolition. (Hear, hear.) Then let us consider whether we can make a new distribution of the revenues at present of the Established Church according to number; and di viding them according to number you would give by far the greater part of those revenues to the Roman Catholic Church. In so doing you would be acting according to principle—according to the principle you have adopted in other cases, as the late Mr. O'Connell frequently put the contrast before us,—as you have the Presbyterian religion in Scotland, so you would have the Roman Catholic religion endowed in Ireland. If the Roman Catholic Church resembled the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, although it would not be just that the Roman Catholics should have, as the Presbyterians in Scotland have, a national church entirely devoted to them, yet I can imagine that a large endowment should be given to the Roman Catholic Church ; but, unfortunately, ecclesiastical equality would not be thereby increased. It has been evi dent of late years, that the Roman Catholic clergy—looking to its proceeding in foreign countries—looking to its pro ceedings in this country—looking to that church, acting under the direction of its head, himself a foreign Sovereign, has aimed at politiCal power—(hear)—which appears to ine to be at variance with a due attachment to the Crown of this country—(hear, hear)—with a due attachment to the general cause of liberty—(hear, hear)— with a due ettacoment to the duties a subject of the State should per form towards it. (Hear, hear.) Now, as I wish to speak with as notch frankness as the hon. gentleman who spoke last, let me not be misunderstood in this house. lam far from d.evying that there are many members of this house, an d man y members of the Roman Catholic persuasion, both in this country and in Ireland, who are attached to the throne and to the liberties of this country ; but what I am saying, and that of whic h I am convinced , is , that if the Roman Catholic clergy had increased power given to them, and if they, as ecclesiastics, were to exercise greater control and greater political influence than they do now, that power would not be mc.ercised in accordance with the general freedom that prevails in this country—(loud cheers)—and that neither in respect to political power nor upon other subjects would they favour that general free dom of discussion, and that activity and energy of the human mind that belongs to the spirit of the constitution of this country- (Loud and general cheering.) I do not think that in that respect they are upon a par with the Presbyterians of Scotland. (Cheers.) The Presbyterians of Scotland, the Wesleyans of this country—(cheers)—and the Established Church of this country and of Scotland, all no doubt exercise a certain influence over their congre gations ; but that influence which they thus exercise over their congregations must be compatible with a certain freedom of the mind—must be compatible with a certain spirit of inquiry which the ministers of these churches do not darn to overstep, and if they did overstep it, that in fluence would be destroyed. (Hear, hear.) lam obliged, then, to conclude—most unwillingly to conclude, but most decidedly—that the endowment of the Roman Catholic religion in Ireland in the place of the endowment of the Protestant Church in that country, in connexion with the State, is not an object which the Parliament of this country ought to adopt or to sanction. (Cheers.) Sir, these opinions of mine may lead to conclusions unpalatable to many who belong to the Rowan Catholic Church. They may lead to a persistence in a state of things that I quite admit to be anomalous and unusual ; but I am obliged, as a member of this Parliament, to consider—and to consider most seriously in the present state of the world —that which is best adapted to maintain the freedom and permanence of our institutions. I must look around me at what is passing elsewhere. I must see what is taking place in Belgium. I must See what is taking place in Sar dinia and in various countries of Europe. I must regard the influence which, if not exercised, has been attempted to be exercised, in the United Kingdom of late years. (Cheers.) Seeing these things, I give my decided resis tance to the proposal of the hon. gentleman for the aboli tion of the Established Church in Ireland upon the princi ples which I have stated, and which appear to me to be conclusive against the motion. (The noble lord resumed his seat amid great cheering from all parts of the house.) Mr. BRIGHT had been sorry to hear the speech of the noble lord. (Ironical cheers and laughter from the Oppo sition benches.) He did not know how the noble lord re garded his past career, or how it would be regarded by the country or by posterity, but no Minister, calling himself liberal, had spoken in that house for 20 years in a sense so adverse to those opinions which had been supposed to dis tinguish Liberal from Tory Governments for that period —(Opposition cheers)—and the noble lord had been cheered mainly by those who sat opposite to him, while those who sat around and behind him had, many of them, listened in silence, and, he suspected, with disapprobation, if not dismay, to the opinions he had expressed. (Hear, hear, and laughter from the Opposition.) The noble lord had not fairly met the question before the house. The motion was one which he might be expected to support, but the noble lord assitmed that every person who supported it was in favour of the total abolition of the Church of Ireland, and had met the motion, not with the previous question, but with a direct negative. No one would undertake to de fend the Irish Church. But it was said, "If you allow this question of Church establishments to be mooted on the other side of the channel, you will find it very difficult to maintain Church establishments here." (Hear, hear.) The house knew that to be true, and that was the reason why many people refused to do justice to Ireland. But on what a rotten and decaying foundation, then, the Church establishment in this country must be based — (oh !)—if they were afraid that, because measures of obvious justice were conceded to Ireland, they involved measures of a similar character with regard to England. He (Mr. Bright) conceived that the noble lord was associated with gentlemen in the Government who found it extremely dif ficult to agree on a question like the present ; but the noble lord's political reputation and character ought to be dear to himself; and he (Mr. Bright) said, that the Roman Catholics of Ireland would be worthy of the contempt of the world if, with such an ecclesiastical arrangement in Ireland, they did not attempt to correct it. He would say that the Roman Catholic liberal members of Ireland would be unworthy of a seat in any senate in the world if they did not protest against the monstrous injustice inflicted on their country. (Cheers.) He suspected that all churches, if the truth were known, were not particu larly favourable to civil liberty, and he did not think that any church bound up in union with the State ever encouraged that State or any State to grant increased civil liberty to the people. The reason why in this country the Church appeared to be, and was to a large extent, more tolerant than many others was, because the people had gained greater civil power, and had by slow degrees and incessant conflict subjected in some measure the Church and the clergy to a more wholesome public opinion. If any man complained that in Ireland Catholic prelates and priests had too much power over the people, he (Mr. Bright) attributed that entirely to the fact, that for a long period the legislation of that house had bound priest and people together in one bond, and had done much to subject the people to whatever there was of unwholesome influence on the part of the priests. (Hear, hear.) At the present moment it was impossible for any man to travel through i Ireland and not perceive that there was one question which poisoned all the social relations of that country. Whether in the elections or in any other matter, political or social, this one question of the Church Establishment was the pestilent and poisonous question in Ireland, and made it as impossible now as for the last 203 years that that country should be in the possession of tranquillity and contentment which every man, he hoped, in that house would wish to prevail there. The hon. member for Meath said they might have a long, an arduous, but he believed it would be a successful, struggle. Now, if he (Mr. Bright) might give a piece of advice to Irish Liberal members, whether Protestant or Roman Catholic, it would be that they should make this question of religious equality in Ireland the cardinal question iu their political movements. Were he a Roman Catholic, he would not come into that house and let any occasion slip of denouncing the insult offered to his church and country. He said to the Irish members, let their measures be practical—let them bring all the information they had on the question before the house and before the people of England; and though at present there existed a feeling adverse to giving complete liberty to the Roman Catholics of Ireland and England, yet they might rely on it these fevers would pass away, and calmer and better•times would come. (Hear, hear.) Let the Irish members still join the English Liberal members in all they attempted to do for the common liberties of England and Ireland, and they might be sure, despite of the noble lord, and despite of the Government, which could not agree probably on a ques tion like this, there was goodness and there was greatness enough iu the people of this country yet to consent to a measure of full justice to Ireland. (Cheers.) Mr. J. D. FITZGERALD, as a Roman Catholic mem ber, could not permit the speech of the noble lord, the leader of that house, to pass without observation. He had felt the deepest disappointment at that speech ; for he cer tainly had not expected to hear the tone and arguments of the hon. and learned member for Enniskillen (Mr. White side) adopted to some extent by the representative of the Government. (Hear.) He had heard from the noble lord that which he conceived to be an insult to the venerated clergy of his church, and also to a considerable extent to the Roman Catholic members of that house. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord had argued that the Irish Church Estab lishment was not to be interfered with, not because it was just, but because there was a spirit abroad which induced the Roman Catholics and the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church to give political power to a foreign Sovereign, and interfered with the constitution of this country. He felt called on entirely to deny that statement—(hear, hear) — and in support of his denial he appealed to the experience of the 24 years during which Roman Catholics had been members of that house. There were many other points which had fallen from hon. members on the other side of the house to which he should have wished to reply, but seeing the lateness of the hour, he would no longer trespass upon tint attention of the house. (Hear, hear.) Mr. MOORE having replied, The house then divided ; when the numbers were -98 260 Ayes Noes Majority against the motion ACCIDENTS IN COAL MINES Mr. HUTCHINS moved that a select committee be ap pointed to inquire into the causes of the numerous accidents in coal mines, with a view of suggesting the best means for their prevention. Lord PALMERSTON said that the question was one of great interest, and was well worthy of being inquired, into by a select committee. He had himself sent to different parts of the continent for the purpose of ascer taining what were the modes adopted to prevent accidents in mines. The motion was agreed to, and the nomination of the committee was fixed for Tuesday next. REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCES BILL. Sir J. YOUNG (for Lord J. Russell) moved that the following gentlemen be nominated the select committee : The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, the Marquis of Chandos, Sir Frederick Thesiger, Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. Vincent Scully, Mr. Headlam, Mr. Lowe, Mr. Drum mond, Mr. Walpole, Mr. Dunlop, Spooner, Mr. Mul lings, Mr. Butt, and Mr. Hadfield.—Agreed to. DURHAM ELECTION PETITION. On the order of the day for the adjourned debate on the motion for a select committee, Lord GALWAY thought the committee ought now to be appointed to inquire into the circumstances of the with drawal of the petition. Lord PALMERSTON said that the debate had been ad journed till after the motion of thehon. member for Surrey, which stood on the paper, had been disposed of. As that motion had been postponed till Tuesday he begged to move that the present debate be adjourned to that day. After a few words from Sir J. TROLLOPE, Mr. DISRAELI said that it did not follow that the motion of the hon. member for Surrey would be agreed to, and thought the better course would be to appoint a select committee to inquire into the circumstances of this case. Sir J. TROLLOPE said if the house went into inquiry it would be necessary to go beyond the agents, and inquire who were, the parties who instru c t e d th em . Mr. BENTINCK said that it was matter of notoriety that the agent had not acted on his own suggestion. , He was credibly informed that the suggestion of the country petition came from the Attorney-General. (Laughter, and cries of "Name.") His informant was Mr. Trotter, a medical man of Stockton. He thought they were entitled to ask for inquiry. Mr. ATHERTON said that what the hon. member had referred to was unfounded gossip. He had certainly spoken to the Attorney-General on the subject as a private friend, and he knew not how the matter had escaped. The hon. member then explained the circumstances con nested with the petitions and the course which he had pursued. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL protested against private conversations being made the ground of public charges. He did not shun investigation, but it was possible that the one petition, as well as the other, had ulterior objects. Mr. DISRAELI said a grievance had been admitted, and a remedy ought to be applied. A fictitious petition had been presented by a person who was notorious as a dealer in such petitions. He hoped the house would come to a decision at once on the question. The house divided — For the adjournment of the debate BO Against it Majority against adjourning the debate 9 On the question that the select committed be appointed, Viscount PALMERSTON thought it rested with those who made the motion to state the reasons why this case required a special committee. In his opinion it would come more properly under the general motion of the hon. member for Surrey. Mr. DISRAELI repeated his statement that the peti tion was a flagrant tampering with the privileges of the house, and ought to be inquired into. Mr. ELLIOT moved the adjournment of the house. Sir J. SHELLEY said that perhaps the best course would be for the house to consent to the appointment of the select committee. The case, in his opinion, would prove a trumpery one. Mr. S. HERBERT said that the Government had no wish to throw any obstacle in the way of the appointment of a committee; but ho agreed with the noble lord that the case was one which should come under the general inquiry of which notice had been given. Mr. BUTT thought the ct se involved a gross breach of the privileges of the house, and should vote for inquiry. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that all seemed de sirous of inquiry. (Hear.) The only question was as to the time. The day after to-morrow the committee would proceed to try the petition against the return of the noble lord opposite (Lord A. Vane), and ho thought that this in quiry should be postponed till after that committee had made a report. Mr. BENTINCK said, if the house would agree to give the committee, he would agree not to press its nomination till after the decision of the committee in the case of the noble lord (Lord Vane). Lord PALMERSTON consented, and suggested that the motion for the adjournment of the house should be with drawn. The motion for the adjournment of the house having been withdrawn, the motion for the select committee of inquiry into the case of the Durham election petition was agreed to. The other orders were disposed of, and the bolls° ad journed at half-past two o'clock. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDAY. WHITEHALL, MAY 23. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be made use of in place of the Great Seal of Scotland, nominating and appointing Cospatrick Alexander, Earl of Home, to be Keeper of the said Seal. WHITEHALL, MAY 25. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Seal appointed by the Treaty of Union to be made use of in the place of the Great Seal of Scot land, nominating and appointing the Right Honourable Fox, Lord Panmure, to be Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland. The Queen has been pleased to grant the place of one of the Lords of Session in Scotland to George Deas, Esquire, Advocate, in the room of John Cunninghame, Esquire, resigned. WHITEHALL, MAY 28. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Reverend Augustus Page Saunders, D.D., the Deanery of her Majesty's Cathedral Church of Peterborough, void by the death of the Reverend Doctor George Butler. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAY 30. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Michael Robert Ryan, as Vice-Consul, at Limerick, for his Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh-Schwerin. DOWNING-STREET, MAY 30. The Queen has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of Lieutenant-General the Honourable George Cathcart, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, and of Major-General Henry Somerset, C. 8., to be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Second Class or Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath ; and of Colonel William Eyre, Lieutenant- Colonel of the 73rd Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel John Michel, of the 6th .Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant- Colonel Charles Cooke Yarborough, of the 91st Regiment of Foot, Lieutenant-Colonel John Maxwell Perceval, of the 12th Regiment of Foot, and Lieutenant-Colonel George Thomas Conolly Napier, late Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment of Cape Mounted Riflemen, to be Ordi nary Members of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the said Most Honourable Order. ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, MAY 28. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of Lord Foley, to appoint William Julius Marshall, Esq., one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, vice Peters. WAR-OFFICE, Mir 31. BREVET. To be Aide-de-Camp to her Majesty the Qneen;with the rank of Colonel in the Army—Lieutenant-Colonel William Eyre, 73d Foot. To be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army. Majors Frederick George A. Pinckney, 73d Foot ; David Forbes, 91st Foot ; Hallam D'Arcy Kyle, 45th Foot ; Charles Herrick Byrnaby, Royal Artillery ; John Jarvis Bissett, Cape Mounted Riflemen ; Arthur Horne, 12th Foot ; John Armstron g , Cape Mounted Riflemen ; William Fanshaw Bedford, flOth Foot ; William Heath cote Tottenham, 12th Light Dragoons ; Robert Newton Phillips, 43d Foot; Alfred H. Horsford, Rifle Brigade; the Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert, 43d Foot. To be Majors in the Army—Captains Henry Law May dwell, 41st Foot; Honourable Robert William Penn Cur zon, Grenadier Guards ; Henry Thomas Vialls, 45th Foot ; Honourable Adriat Hope, 60th Foot ; Robert Parker Campbell, 73d Foot ; Thomas Addison, 2d Foot ; Charles D. Robertson, Royal Engineers ; John Craven Mansergh, 6th Foot ; Lord Alexander George Russell, Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General ; Richard Tylden (Second Captain), Royal Engineers ; F. W. L. Hancock, 74th Foot • Edward Wellesley, 73d Foot ; Edward Selby Smyth, 2d foot ; Wyndham E. Bewes, 73d Foot ; Peter P. Faddy, Royal Artillery ; Honourable George Talbot Devereux, Royal Artillery. Commissions o be dated May 28. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE QUEEN. 2d Cm nwv.ll Rifles Regiment of Militia—Harry Reginald Sainsbury Trelawny, Gent., to be Adjutant, April 26. Norfolk Militia Artillery—John Gilbertson, Gent., to be Adjutant, May 2. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY THE LORD-LIEUTENANTS. County of Sussex—To be Deputy Lieutenants—The Earl De La Warr ; the Viscount Pevensoy ; Warden Sergison, Esq. ; Hargood, Esq. ; William John Campion, junr., Esq. ; James Hollins Pickford, Esq. ; Edward Tred croft, Esq., April 21; William Morgan, Esq., April 22 ; William ratwicke Kinleside Gratwicke, Esq. ; Simon Fraser Piggott, Esq. ; George Carew Gibson, Esq. ; Lord George Charles Gordon Lennox, April 21; John Dorrien Magens, Esq., May 12. _ Xrtiliery oOrps of the Royal Lancashire Militia—Adju tant William Campbell to serve with the rank of Captain, May 28. Lancashire Hussars—Lord Otho Augustus Fitz-Gerald (late of the Blues), to be Lieutenant, May 26. Norfolk Royal Militia Artillery—Francis L'Estrange Astley, Esq., to be Captain, May 11. Royal Berks Militia—Lieutenant William Wheble to be Captain, May 23. Royal Brecknock Rifle Regiment of Militia—Arthur Wilks Ludlow Gompertz, Gent., to be First Lieutenant, May 22. Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia Charles William Watkins, Esq., late Lieutenant in the 38th Regiment, to be Captain, vice Captain Frederick Vernon Went Worth, resigned, May 24 ; Henry Stone, Esq., late Lieutenant in the 13th Regiment, to be Captain, vice Captain Fitzpatrick Henry Vernon, resigned, May 25 ; Frederick William Bow man the younger, Gent., to be Ensign, May 24. 4th or Royal South Middlesex Regiment of Militia — George Francis Cooper, Esq., M.D., to be Assistant- Surgeon, May 26. sth or Royal Elthorne Regiment of Middlesex Militia— Captain Lodge Murray Prior to be Major, May 26. BANKRUPTS. James Sharp, builder, Queen's-road, St. John's-wood, to surrender, Juue 10, and July 9, at one, at the Coutt of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-cham bers, Basinghall-street ; H u t son , 'Upper Clifton-street, Finsbury_ Richard Wallace Dare, shoe factor, Lombard-street, June 14, at half-past two, and July 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch lane ; Linklater and Co. Sise-lane. William Pulford, cordwainer, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire, June 17, and July S, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court ; Harris, official assignee, Nottingham ; Coope, Not tingham. John Malley, silversmith, Lancaster, June 15 and July 6, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, offi cial assignee, Manchester; Sale, Worthington, and Ship man, Manchester. Jonathan Waddington, draper, Wigan, June 10 and July 1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Lee, official assignee, Manchester ; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester. Charles Parkinson Benjamin Laing, master mariner, London, June 9, at half-past eleven, and July 7at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Laurance, Plews, and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. - Francis Sadler, of 1, Fore-street, City, furnishing under taker, second dividend of is. lid. in the pound, payable at 2, Basinghall-street, on any Wednesday. Joseph Hughesdon and Alexander Mackay, of Calcutta, merchants, first dividend of 3/. 10s. per contum, payable at 2, Basinghall-street, on any Wednesday. George Coldwell, of Ashton-under-Lyne, boot maker, first dividend of is. 10d. in the pound, payable at 45, George-street, Manchester, on Tuesday, June 21, or any subsequent Tuesday. Howard James and Thomas James, of Rushall, Stafford shire, millers, first dividend of 15s. 2d. in the pound, on the separate estate of Thomas James, payable at 7, Water loo-street, Birmingham, on any Thursday. Robert Wall Ogilvie, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchant, first and final dilidend of 3td. in the pound, payable at the Royal-arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Saturday, June 4, or any subsequent Saturday. Wm. Crittall, of New Romney, Kent, grocer, first and final dividend of 2s. 7id. in the pound, payable at New Romney, Kent. George Waghorn, of Ticehurst, Sussex, carpenter, a dividend of is. 9d. in the pound, payaqle at the County Court, Tonbridge Wells. Jelin Brooker, of Hurst Green, Salehurst, Sussex, car penter, a dividend of ls. 6d. i n th e poun d , paya bl e at the County Court, Tonbridge Wells. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. F. W. Baddeley and John Blake, of Liverpool, insurance brokers—Joseph Blake and F. W. Baddeley, of Liverpool, ship chandlers--George Perry and Henry Meacham, of Tip ton, Staffordshire, coal dealers—George M ac k ay an d H. S. Champion, of 13, Austinfriars, ship brokers—Elliott Hirst and Thomas Shaw, of Berry Brow and Huddersfield, York shire, woollen cloth manufacturers—Hiram Nuttall and Benj. Tasker, of Manchester, plumbers—Francisco Antonio Franco and Samuel Gardner, of Birmingham, merchants— John Hargreaves and Henry Edwin Sykes, of Bradford, Yorkshire, stuff merchants—Edward Jones, Edward Lewis Jones, and Meyrick Jones, of 29, Marchmont-street, Bur ton-crescent, drapers—John Dangerfield and Thomas Ben nett, of West Bromwich, Staffordshire, patentees for the safety-valve and water indicator—Robert Jinks, of Stanion, Northamptonshire, and William Jinks, of Leicester, fancy hosiers—Henry Mills and William Hodgson Potter, of Liverpool, shipwrights—Alexander Hotson and Peter For rest, of Manchester, joiners —John Watson Burton, Robert Chase, and Daniel Penning, of Eye, Suffolk, flax manu facturers (so far as regards Daniel Penning)—George Paw son, John Smith, and Jesse Smith, of Ossett, Yorkshire, cloth manufacturers (so far as regards George Pawson)— Abraham Benisch and Abraham Pierpoint Shaw, of 11, Camomile-street,. City, printers Jabez Oldfield, John Waller, and William Townend, of Bradford, Yorkshire, stuff manufacturers (so far as regards Jabez Oldfield)— George Hosking Wills and Anne Allin Grigg, of Bideford, Devonshire, linen drapers William Mason and John Dodsworth Abrams,. of Sunderland, Durham, tailors — John Hetherington, Thomas Hetherington, and George Barlow Scholes, of Manchester, joiners— Fulke Tovey Barnard, George Thomas, Richard Jackson, and William Bartsam, of Bristol, accountants—W. T. S. Oakes, A. S. Patridge, T. W. S. Oakes, and John Collier Shackleton, merchants (so far as regards John Collier Shackleton)— Robert Whewell and Henry Whewell, of Bolton, Lanca shire, printers—Henry Taylor Roberts, Samuel Howship Barrow, and George Newby Wardell, of 7, St. Martin's court, Leicester-square, attorneys (so far as regards Samuel Howship Barrow). - SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Thomas Kay, of Dundee, baker, June 6 and July 4, at one, at the Dundee Arms Inn, Dundee. Alexander Haggart, of Paisley, boot-maker, June 2 and 23, at one, at the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley. James Liston, of Glasgow, oil manufacturer, June 7 and July 1, at one, at the King's Arms Hotel, Glasgow. [ADVERTISEMENT.]-131PORTANT SALE OF RICH SILKS, SHAWLS, AND LACE Goons.--Bankruptcy of Mr. E. Blakely, Shawl Manufacturer to the Queen.--Messrs. Atkinson and Co., Silk and Shawl W are h ouses, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster-bridge -road, Lam beth, beg to inform the ladies, of the United Kingdom that they have purchased of the assignees of the estate of Mr. Edward Blakely, shawl manufacturer, silk mercer, and laceman, of Norwich, a bankrupt, the whole of his stock, amounting to 9,0711. 16s. 2d., at a large discount off the cost price. It consists of the richest selection of sh aw l s, silks, robes, d resses , mantles, lace goods, &c., t o b e met with in England ; all in excellent condition, newly manufactured, and is now selling off at reduced prices. THE EPSOM TRAFFIC OF THE LONDON, BRIGIITON, AND SOUTH-COAST RAILWAY. - The arrangements of the Brighton Company for the convenience and accommoda tion of the public, during the race week at Epsom, have received general approval. We underitand the total number of passengers conveyed between London and Epsom during the races was 41,164, the number on the Derby day amounting to 26,926. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—To-day importers of West Ine;s sugar submit tirg to F:ces rather under those of Friday, occasion?d a good demand to preval from both refiners and grocers. Transactions amount to 810 hhds, which went at a reduc tion of 6d per cwt ; good to fine yellow se" 4 ng at 37s to ,38s 6d, low to mid 34s 6d to 368 6d, ord to fine brown 32s 6d to 345, mid and good grainy yellow 35s 6d to 37s 6d per cwt. REFINED.—To-day Refined Sugar was purchased with caution, by home dealers, and prices declined, brown lumps selling at 46s 6d to 47s and low to fine grocery 47s 6d to 49s per cwt. Crushed Sugar is less wanted, but rates are kept up. EAST INDIA.—This afternoon there was not much de sire to operats in Bengal sugar. The auctions comprised 6,700 bags, and barely one-half sold at 6d decline ; low to good white Benares went at 35s to 37s 6d, and soft brown 27s to 29s 6d. FOREIGN.—There was no public sale to-day. COCOA.—To-day at auction 450 bags Grenada sold at 28s to 31s per cwt, being under last week's rates. COFFEE.—To-day the market was plentifully supplied, and there was a brisk demand. Good to fine qualities realised 62s to 755, low mid to mid 57s to 61s, other sorts 53s to 565, and Triage 46s to 52s 6d. TEA.—To-day there was a good demand for both Black and Green Tea, still at previous rates there was evidently a desire on the part of merchants to realise. Of 13,000 packages offered at auction 7,000 found buyers, but there was a want of animation in the bidding, and former terms were not exceeded. RICE.—To-Caty East India Rice was held for full rates, yet privately little was done. In auction 1,828 bags Ben gal were nearly all taken in at lOs 6d to Ils for mid to good white, being rather above the value. OILS.—A much better demand has been experienced for seal, and there is an advance, pale selling at 33/ 10s to 341, and other sorts 301 to 331. In cod transactions are larger at 331 to 351. Southern is wanted, but remains in limited supply, and the parcels sold were at 321 lOs to 361105. A brisk demand for sperm; there is a firm market at 90/ to 921, headmatter 93/ to 94/ per tun. Olive is not much re quired, and there are sellers of Gallipoli at 681 to 691, other sorts 621 to 661. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, MAT 31. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Netts, from St. Bitt's ; Tasman, Hobart Town ; Harbinger, Mauritius ; Ambro', Barbadoes ; Panope, Buenos Ayres ; Patrician, Tobago ; Codrington, Antigua ; Bosphorus, Callao ; Chester, do. ; Gralidas, Rio Janeiro - British Yeoman, Callao ; L a dy Stanley, Colombo ; W . estbrook, Demerara ; Catherine Elizabeth, St. Vincent's ; San Jose, Porto Rico ; Samuel Appleton, Shanghai; Northumberland, Melbourne ; Jane, Faro ; Estrella, Oporto ; Brooklyn, Halifax ; George the Fourth, Sines ; Malcolm, Mauritius ; Cockermouth Costle, Trinidad ; Arnuta, Belize and Jamaica ; Margareta, Cadiz and Malaga ; Due Fratelli, Leghorn • Zillot, Carthagena, &c. ; Dorothea, Malaga ; Alida Hen dricka, Oporto ; Jeune Estelle, Marans ; Emmanuel, Memel ; Amelia, Seville ; Samson, Marstrand ; Johanna, Lisbon ; San Paulo, Alex andria ' • Adler, Randers - John and Elizabeth, Gothen berg ; Margaretha, Opo rto ; Johannes, Fedderwarden ; Nils Ericson, Gothenberg ; Agenoria, Smyrna ; Wilhel mine, Cardlineseil ; Wilhelmine, Hookziel ; Anne, Oporto ; Marie Stella, Lucon ; Martha, Lisbon ; Emelia, Malaga ; Catharina, Oporto ; Walburton, Lisbon; English, Bre men ; Irene, Port Larnace ; Deutchland, Cienfuegos and Cuba. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Patrician, for Tobago ; Orthena, Portland Bay ; Waterlily, Jamaica ; Tasman, Hobart Town ; Rajah, Singapore ; Prins Oscar, Stockholm ; Palmyra, Demerara ; Polar Star, Melbourne ; Mystery, Mo,gadore ; Joven Ricardo, Cadiz and Malaga ; Diana, Amsterdam ; Codrington, Antigua ; California, Adelaide, Geelong, and Melbourne ; Adelaide, St. John's, Newfoundland; Jane Gray, Cape of Good Hope , • Cre - denda, Geelong ; Herefordshire, Sydney ; Catherine Eliza beth, St. Vincent ; Albert, Dominica ; British Isles, De merara. CLEARED OUTWARDS, WITH CARGO.—The Juliana, for St. Vincent ; Henrietta Sophie, Adelaide ; 'Urania, Val paraiso ; Prima Donna, Cape Coast Castle ; Carmon, Cadiz and Malaga ; Marie, Grenada ; Jonge Pieter, Rostock ; Adonis, Bremen ; Desdemona, Melbourne. LIVERPOOL, May 31. The schooner Elizabeth M'Clure, of Girvan, laden with iron, sank in the Zebra Channel last night. The Juliet Erskine, Colombo to London, was spoken April 17, lat. 1 S., long. 21 W. The Stay, Liverpool to Newfoundland, was spoken May 27, off Cape Clear. The St. George, Callao to Queenstown, was spoken May 9, lat. 39 N., long. 39 W. The Mora, Mauritius to Greenock, was spoken May 26, off Bardsey. The Vesta, London to Port Philip, was spoken April 10, lat. 3 N., long. 23 W. The Empire, London to Australia, was spoken April 3, lat. 4 N., long. 18 W. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Emily, China to Liverpool, Feb. 8, in the Straits of Sunda. The Pratt, Calcutta to Liverpool, April 2, lat. 30 S. long. 44 E. The Confidence, Callao to Queenstown, Feb. 15, lat. 59 S., long. 80 W. • The - Petrel, from Liverpool, March 30, lat. 30 S., long. 87 W. The Duchess of Gloucester, April 30, lat. 4 N., long. 22 W. The Jane Cockerell, Calcutta to London, May 3, lat. 6 N., long. 23 W. The City of London, Calcutta to London, May 4, lat. 7 N.,long. 25 W. he Persia, Colombo to London, May 11, lat. 23 N., long. 38 W. The Lady Blaney, from Calcutta, May 25, lat. 43 N. long. 13 W. The Mary Ann, Shields to Havannah, May 6, lat. 40 N., long. 30 W. The G. T. Sutton, from Pernambuco, April 26, lat. 8 N., long. 37 W. The Galatea, Liverpool to St. Thomas, May 4, lat. 25 N., long. 41 W. The ProTero, Pernambuco to Liverpool, May 17, lat. 40 N., long 38 W. The Mora, Mauritius to the Clyde, and supplied with bread, May 26. The Denpster, from Calcutta, Feb. 10, lat. 8 S., long, 86 E. The Dahlia, Ceylon to London, March 25, lat. 33 S., long. 13 E. __ The Jumellan, Madras to Demerara, March 1, lat. 25 S., long. 61 E. The Ann, Southampton to Sydney, N.S.W., March 11 lat. 14 S., long. 27 E. The Diterpe, Bombay to Liverpool, March 19, lat. 24 S., long. 62 B. The Monk (barque), Arracan to Falmouth, April 22, lat. 15 S., long. 7W. ~.. The Argaum, for Melbourne, an d th e W. C arey, f or Calcutta, on the 10th February, lat. 35 S., long. 17 W. The John Francis, Liverpool to Quebec, May 3. The Peruvian, Clyde to Boston, May 6, lat. 41 N., long. 36 W., with loss of spars. The Dahlia, Ceylon to London, March 6, lat. 30 S., long. 48 E. The Nestor, for Sydney, Feb. 14, lat. 9 N., long. 20 W, The Bulgerstein, for Sydney, May 10, lat. 25 S., long, 21 W. The Curraghmore, April 2, lat. 5 S., long. 66 W. The Juno (Dutch barque), London to Sydney, N.S.W., April 23., lat. 24 S., long. 28 W. The Lavinia, from Arracan, May 18, lat. 37 N., long, 39 W. The Intrepid, from Algoa Bay, 25th, lat. 26 N., long 14 W. The Lord Ogilbie (brig), 27th, lat. 47 N., long. 18 W. The Peru, of and for Liverpool, from Bermuda, May 8 lat. 17 N., long. 35 W. LONDON MEDICAL REFORM COMMITTEE.—A meeting of this body was held last night at the Freemasons' Tavern, Dr. Lankester in the chair. Several new mem bers were added to the committee, and subscriptions from Hull, Leeds, and other towns, announced. The chairman stated that he had received a communication from Lord Palmerston, fixing Friday next for receiving a deputation from the committee. It was recommended that all medical men interested in the passing a medical reform bill this session should immediately write and urge upon their parliamentary representatives the im portance of being present at the deputation to support the London committee on this occasion. A letter was read from Lord Aberdeen in answer to a memorial from the committee, in which his lordship stated that her Majesty's Government were alive to the importance of the question of medical reform. HACKNEY CARRIAGES IN THE METROPOLIS.—Yester day a return to the House of Commons was printed, showing that there are 157 standings for hackney car riages in the metropolitan police district, and the num ber of carriages allowed at the standings is 1,950. [ADvERTisEmENT.] ASCOT RACES. --9, Albe marle-street, Piccadilly observe, opposite the York Hotel. The Royal Exhibition. A valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat-pocket glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one mile and a half distant ; they answer every purpose on the race-course, at the opera-houses, country scenery, and ships are cclearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Telescopes—A new and most important invention in telescopes, possessing such extraordinary powers that some, 31 inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons Saturn's ring, and th e double stars ; with th e same telescope, weighing only 3 ounces, can be seen a person's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat-pocket, and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and race-course glasses, with wonderful power ; an object can be clearly seen, from 14 16 to miles distant. Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, opticians, have in vented invaluable preserving spectacle lenses, immediately they are placed before imperfect vision, every object appears clear and distinct, the most aged, defective sight becomes bright and brilliant, is brought to its youthful, natural, and original state. Deafness—New Discovery— The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary powerful, and newly-invented instrument, for Deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass anything of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be produced. Beier , of the same colour as the skin, it is not perceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public as semblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears are entirely removed ; and it affords all the assist ance that possibly could be desired.—S. and B. Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Observe, opposite the York Hotel. . . [ADVERTISEMENT.] - The Earl of Aldborough and Holloway's Pills.—An astounding cure by this miracu lous medicine after every other means had failed.—See extract from his lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1845. To Professor Holloway. Sir,—l beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of the disorder in my liver and stomach which all the most eminent of the faculty at home, and all over the Continent, had not been able to effect—nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. (Signed) ALDBonouGn."—These wonderful pills will cure any 7 disorders of the liver or stomach. —Sold (also Holloway's ointment) at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London, and by all medicine vendors through out the world. COUNTRY MAREETR. IPSWICH—Ka 31. It was a decidedly larger supply of wheat at th;11 di .4: re market, but the trade was f rm., and prices agai n.. if buyer. Choice qualities commandel an advance of nor i j is per qr. The weather has spin turned very cold Etu j ungeuial for the growing corn. Sp7'ng corn is scarce Pn dear. The following are the quotatiors : s. PER QUA.RTEK.i rgn atrAl o , Wheat, red (old) 43s to 44,318ar1ey, grinding ... 00s to , Ditto (new) Ditto, whi (new) 46s to 53s Peas Ditto (old) te oos to 00s Oats Barley, malting ... 30s to 31s Flour, per sack ATERAGEB FOR THE WEEK ENDING Mkv 28, 1853. Wheat Barley Oats Beans 00s Od , Peas 2, HULL—MAY 31. f wh est " At this day's market only a m oderate supply ° per which met a brisk sale at an advance of fully is to 2, qr. Chambered and inferior wheats are still negl ec av i We note no alteration in barley but there is a fair del l o • for grinding qualities. Oats id per stone dearer, a,, 5 ),. further advance is asked on beans, which, on sal e %pd. ties, is obtained. For peas ther e is some little dern; 4 , ( l, Linseed without much inquiry. Linseed cakes in td o i4 and an advance of 5s round mai n t a ined. Nothino sr. in rapeseed, but a little more inquiry. For bones 00 ket is tame. s s Wheat, English, red 48 to 50 Ditto white 4B to 52 Dantzic and Konigs berg Pomeranian and Ham- is Peas, gray and black 3 3 ti e Linseed, Black Sea... t 46 04 5 Ditto Petersblugh 40 Ditto Riga and Arcir angel.•••• ' ............. Ditto Konigsberg and Memel ............. 36 Lins. c., Hull 7/1250te lli v A us r tki ef Ditto fine for. 71 5s Od v,,", Ditto inf. for 6l 15 s to Ol Rapeseed 261 lOs to illape cakes liTarest E ng li s h ...... 365 to '; :o , IDitto foreign .. 275 t° IGuano . 51 91 tolV o I i Bones 97s 6d W 1 06 0 ,6 I Rye Meal .................. 48 to 521 brxgh Danish, Holstein, and Frieilaud 43 to 461 Russian and Odessa 40 to 43 1 Oats, English Ditto Danish Dit;;o Friesland Ditto Russian lB to 19, Barley, malting Ditto grinding 26 to 281 Beans Ditto foreign Peas, white and yel 36 to 40, CORK—Rey 30. Currenltso , Os 0(1--'2° 00 White wheat 00s Od to 00s Od Redwheat 00s Od to 00s Od` Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od Ditto Oos Od to 00s OdJ 3 Barley l2s 9d to 00s Od . Ditto OGs Od to 00s Od Ditto 00s Od to Oos Od, Bere Oos Od to 00s Od 110 Oats Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od Ditto 00s Od to 00s 03, Pigs ...00s Od to 00s Od Quantity of grain and number of pigs Wheat, 65. Barley, 557. Bere, Pigs, 00. oo oa- 20 (I°' OOs Odds go, On Oa lls 8d 4°, 00s Od per sold last wee k 'l9l. 00. - Oats, Return of cattle sold for week ending fay, 28 Pigs, 163. Sheep, 306. Cows, 14. 66 1 pro CORR.—Flour—First, 13s 6d t o 14 s Od ; e xtra, - seconds, 12s Od to 13s Od ; households, 10s to lls 6d ; 7s to lOs Od per cwt. Meal—lndian meal, 78 6 cl i „rc7i oatmeal, lOs 6d to lls ; wh ea t mea l, 9 s 6d to 105 o' rips Indian corn, 71 Os Od to 71 12 s 6d p er t on . Bran, 4' ve rg", to 51 Os Od perton. Hay—F armers, 20 s Od t o 44 8 0 d ; e c „.o4' 38s; dealers, 45s Od to 55 e Od ; averag e, Os per ton. P,, , S et h., 6 d Farmers, 20s Od to 30s Od ; a verage , 25s • dealers 00s Od ; average, Os. per ton. Bread— Wheaten loaf, 9l G Od ; household ditto, 5Ad to Od per 41b.—Fresh butter , be lf, lld per lb. Eggs, 4s Od to 4s 21 per hundred. 4P to 8d ; mutton, 6d to 6t,d ; veal, 5d to 8d ; P er oll'; 6d ; bacon, 7d to 8d ; sau sages , 6d per lb . —Fi s h, Ne w t oo' land, 11/. Os to 12/ Os per ton ; Scotch herrings, 00510,6 Red, do., 30s per brl .— Potatoes , white, 10d to 12 ' 1 ; 101 , 171 12d to 15d..—Coals, Newport, ls ; Lydney, 19s ; l o x Od per ton.—Whiskey, 25 0.p., 68 10d per imperial g' Hides, market, 30s to 365; Salted, 30s to 38s per ewt. too;i skins, 3Ad per lb.—Bangor sl a t es 21. 17 s . 6d t o 31. Pero r , Fleece wool, 00s to 00s per stone.—Hemp, 381. o , n/ ft"; ton—Timber, Memel, 3/. 15s ; re d pi ne, 3/ . 15 s ; 3/. ss. per ton; deals, 191. to 201. per hundred.-- -13 '" go?' 8/. to 101.105. per ton.—Tallow, 49s to 49s 6d per 06.1" 71.108 to 01. per cwt.- Tar, Ar c h ange l, 19 s . p e r bri. - Peruvian, 121. Os to 001. per ton. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, MAY 31. fO, STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share Market has Iww : DO' dull and heavy with a g enera l d ec li ne i n q uotati o Caledonian, 34i ; Eastern Counties 134 ; Lancash, Yorkshire, 7n - Lancaster and. Carlisle, Third 5h.„. 3 0, prem. ; Leeds Northern, 16i ; London and North - " e- 51)1 1 1174, 117 c. ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Linco l n i oir Midland, 74i ; South Eastern and Dover, 224 ; ; ili; haven and Furness, 7i ; York and North Midland' Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, New 61., 9 46 P. MANCHESTER, MAT 31. j ejlr STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business to-day Was no 9;..) 1 siderable, but prices were firmer than yesterday. 10 were :—Blackburn, 6i, 7 ; Caledonian, 34, ;,‘ Counties, 13 5-16 ; Lancashire an d Y or k s hire, I 'l ditto Fifths, 4 dis. ; London and North-WesterTh One-Eighths, 7-16 preen ; York and North Midland, BIRMINGHAM, MAY 31. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The Share market in all t l i ; ar tions of railway stocks h ere was extremely do" inactive to-day, and a very small amount of busineo A io , acted on 'Change. Som e sa l es o f comparatively 110; portance were done in p r i va t e , b u t no t reporte d, go Otio was, we believe, little change in last quotations . 05 only sale on 'Change was—London and North - 7,4 1 .iir Eighths, which were done at pr em ., th e price ow yesterday. COURSE OF EXCEL Amsterdam • ..... 11 17% Ditto, three months .. 11 19 Rotterdam ............ 11 1914' Antwerp .............. 25 32%' Brussels .............. 25 32%, Bamburgh ............ 13 8% A1t0na.............. Paris.. ........ •• • • .... 25 7%, Ditto, three months 25 30 • • .... 25 32% Bourdeaux ............ Franklort-on•atalne .... 1201,E ANGE—YEsTERDA I ' Gibraltar ........ • • •• " 4 9 1Legh0rn..............0 Genoa i Milan .. ••• • • • • " " :14 Nap. l c es e ; Palermo ...• ••• • •• Messina .... •• • • •".. •• 0 Oporto ........•• **** • „. $1 Rio Janeiro .. ..... • •• Buenos Ayres.. • • New York, 60 days sig ht A Philadelphia •• • ".•,• Pr , a- 7 PRICES OF ETILI,IO‘, I3 11 Foreign Gold in Bar's Ili Portugal Gold Coln •• Mexican Dollars •• •• 0 1 1 1 New Dollars •••• '• 0 Silver in bars ..... • -------------- Vienna 11 1 Trieste ............ • 11 2 Petersburgh ............ 37N Madrid ................ 50% Cadiz... ...... ......... 50% Seville ................ SEABORNE MAILS. _ co, (N signifies that the mails ar e sen t f rom th e Gene re Y )3 , the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] by the night—and M by the morning—dispatch.] l'illt ' Day when made up From Wi th " t ,: 0 1 ; 1 0 1' COUNTRIES. in General Post- Fort , „........./ 00 , Office, London.* Disp--- atchen• --------- 00 r .—,-- America(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday .... LtverPo° l ".• 0 1 America (byNnited Sts. Atr rir packe') .... .. ....IV May 31 .. America (by U. States P 1411111.t packet) .......N May 25 ........ Southiun- I _..,,, Australia (via South- JP'''Sl ampton) ..........M July 4 .......... SonthaniP thB 301.1 Ditto (via Marseilles) N July 8 ... Dover .. '•'• ii 0 Ditto (via Cape of Good ,„. Pil lt ,9 l Hope) ... •• • . ..N June 4 . . Africa (West Coast) ..N 23rd of the month. Plyrnou th • 1 ,1 _,", 4 Alexandria..........N 8,9, 24, & 30 of m. Dover .. :1 0 . 0 . JP:., 1. Alexandria ...... .. —ld 4th & 20th of mon. SoutharuY,,,ornr,, / Bahamas ...........M 2nd of the month SolithatOP .w . 04%; 0 Belgium .......... ..NI Daily . .. Dever •• • t • ' . 1 1, 11 l Brazil ..............M:9th of the month.. SouttllMPton Jon ! Buenos Ayres .... .... 5119th of the month.. SouthauLP • P . ,0 r Cape of Good Hope ...N'l4th of the month riyraotlL. ' 04' 1 01 Cape of Good Hope ..N 14th of the month Plyinot •.; t I P I 4 Cape de Verdi ......N 14th of the month. PlY ohu -Al vOl Ceylon (see India) A r - 0, natll ' vv. , Ceylon .... .. . • ......N 14th of the month "'lnn- ton -...6 . Channel Isles .. .. .. ..N Mon ~Wed.,&Frid. Southsito ar Chili— ......_.... .. M td & 17th of month Seutlann " 0 0 China (see India) 0 0 44 Constantinople ......N 7,8,17,2 f,&27 ofm. Pgr rer " .. 0; 1 ; li j ee' r Constantinople ........ 4th & 20th o f mon . Southar° .• • r 01/ Cont. of Europe M & N Twice daily Dover .• • of Egypt (see India) 4 ,•. •' ' • nee France ........ M& N Twice daily .. .. Gibraltar .. . ... AI 4,7, 17, 20, 27 of m Sou th 00 1 0 1 ' Greece (see India) •._ tbaraPt hB TOO j ,: Greytown .......... M 2nd & 17th of mon. 7 . 0 A,.,.. .... jo,o o , r e' Harnburgh ..........N Tuesday & Friday po u ;',,TooPtoh 00.1 1 IlavannahSou"' oe Holland ............. M Wednesday & Sat 'tonLondop 5 : 0 0 4 , Honduras ..........M 17th of the month. • 4. o 4° lb h ;; oB° 0 104' India (vlaSouthampt.)M 4th & 20th of mon. - - u ...• co , D o ver India (via Marseilles)M Bth& 24th of month 01 4 lonian Isles (see India) flolYl lead t.o .. n . iirj : 6 Ireland ........ M& N Twice daily .. •• • • „,,thiunP- 10 ,15 Liib0n..............M 7,9, 17, &28 of tn. v",,, o oiptou fon t' Madeira ............M 9th of the month So .. .„u — ou tn j Madeira ....... .... N 23rd of the month PIP — 0 11 1 7 4 Malta (see ladle; Dover ••".. 09' Mal ta • • • • • • • • • • .. .•N 7,17,19,28, 30 of m. 4pr , Mauritius (see India) PlYra hgril ton .18• i Mauritius ..........N 14th of the month ~„„thoroP• rao ° 1 Mexico ...........M 2nd of the month T,'":,, er .. •• *; pl er o o N aples .. .. . .. . ....N sthlsth2sthofmon go vv t;thls o P r fti rfl' New Granada ...... IA 2d & 17th of month ~..40, 9 po f oe i New Zealand .......... By private ship •• ,v,--, e r .••••; 00 I Papal States ........N Ithlsth2sthoflnon. .... uth oopto n 0 04 15 0 Peninsula ..........M Ithl7th2Bthormon . 4 0 athau* r° n ri .9 Peru .............. 31 Id & 27th of mon ~,„,n o utll ' Igo - Port Natal ..........N 14th of the month ~',,.7 , ;1 . . • .. .. 10° , ! j i , Sicily ..............N sthlSth2stholmon•i' ‘ `,.' ve ,......: l ; jot • Tuscany ............N sthlstll2sthofino n; `;tharoP tv Venezuela ..........M 2d & 17th of month ~, 1,. Van Diemen's Land (see „., To pto ll /B°l oo' ' w .e t us f r ri a d l i l e a s ) .. .. .. .. M ld& 17th of month Sou.'o.llo —Ass , . th e , : i n.: 1)151 1 /81 • When any of these dispatches on the followi Southampton), and the I day preceding. dates fall on a Su log day. with the e. Malta, both of whit ep„thoef ;Ile . do r Ylll eit i f MARRIED. Al b V On the 28th tilt., at St. Giles's, Csra berWel ber l' v iel4 ° I second son of Thomas Massey, Esq., cif,,,, C l i ' l l rel, giliP Mary Charlotte, eldest daughter of 'fuel -i• Vassal-road, North Brixton. --• DIXD. 8 60- f it l ia . her el On the 28th ,at Totteridge, Sorts , 0 1 00— Charlotte Mary, 'oungest daughter saa„„ier* child of the late Ge y neral the Hon. Sir Al° 1 °"" 01)vr Bart. VO A ` On the 29th u at Newington-Place' #5. 1 Esq., late of the Ind i a „...s nth 68 h y ea LONDON 1,7 ocrol- ) sl LONDON: Printed and Publiekid -- CS- ' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The me $l4l . ibe et Strand, in the Precinct Ju ne . Million; Wednesday, Is DP, Brig. BIRTHS. 00~d6°‘ OF A SON. e On the 28th nit., at No. 6, Devonshire-terW ' . road, the wife of Dr. Hayne. e OF A DAUGHTER. Th N wieg t4 . On the 28th ult ,at High - stre et, Stoke ,-,e Henry Stevons. --------------- —t. MI THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE I, 1853. ilia