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Vnowledge, or that the Press will exterminate their principles. This powerful and " destruc tive" engine pours red-hot shot into the citadel of corruption, and, therefore, it is the object of their implacable hate. We will tell them that the Press is the representative of public opinion where there is a demand in the market, there is supply. This principle in political economy is singularly illustrated by the present state of the Tory Press. If it were true that the ranks of the Tories overflowed with numbers and men of o f property, the caitiff's of eorruption would amply satisfy their ravenous appetites for Toryism and slander. But what is the fact ? Toryism has but one Morning Journal and one Evening Paper, and one " three days a week Paper." Two Sabbath-day publications constitute the aggregate Sunday food of the " Conservatives And what is their gross circulation ? We wonder not, therefore, that they vainly invoke the aid of the /are. We tell them plainly., that no Polignac, no Wellington administration, can ever " put dowii" the steam guns of the British Press. No Attorney or Solicitor-Generals, uo Scarletts, Sugdens, Knights, Pembertons or Pollocks, no " Judge"--ye a , no Lynd hurst or W ynford—can destroy our power while a British Jury of Twelve Men cover us with their shield. And when that pro tection is taken away from us, we shall know how to act. We are well aware of what has been meditated recently ; we know the machi nations now revolving in the heads-of the faction, but we defy them. We dare them to the com bat. They will find us ready and equal to the contest ; and while the moral force, intellect, and property of the people are with us—which the preponderance of the Liberal Journals de monstrates—we are impregnable. The Press is not to be stormed as 13adajos or Ciudad Rodrigo were breached by brute force ; the Printing Press is a battery which the Great Duke and 7loseph Sur:firce will find it difficult to silence. The doctrine that political subjects and the conduct of public men are too momentous for discussion, and that we are implicitly to receive and obey the mandates of' our " superiors," is exploded. The "system" has received its death blow which kept the people in abject slavery of mind, that a few might fatten on popular ignorance. Dr. Cooper, in his admirable dissertation on " The Right of free Discussion," well remarks, that " public opinion has awakened from her long slumb er ; an d t h e quest i ons are gone abroad, what are the motives and designs of those who would prohibit discussion ?—is it from a love of truth that inquiry is forbidden ?—what are the classes of society that consider discussion as dangerous ? A strong suspicion now prevails that the human intellect has been kept in fetters by men who have boldly assumed superior wis dom, that their dictates might pass without iu quiry—men who professedly deal in conceal ment, darkness, and mystery, and who thrive in proportion as knowledge is suppressed." The (lark ages of politics arc departed. If men come forward in public—if they meddle with the public interests, they must he amenable to the bar of public opinion. The printing press was the destruction of despotism ; before that extraordinary dissolvent error must vanish. Education is built on the immovable foundation of the Press. Joseph Lancaster could only be neutralized by Bell ; and even the Bishops, thirty years back, after vainly opposing the establish ment of Sunday schools, were compelled to abandon the wicked fallacy that the " populace" (the " lower classes") ought to be kept in ignorance, and be fed with falsehood for their own good. All attempts to restrain knowledge in the present day are abortive. " The spirit of inquiry has gone forth ; and no human power can now say, thus far shalt thou go and no farther." The " Conservatives" and Tories would fain enjoy a monopoly of the Press, as they have hitherto engrossed all political power and patronage. Hence their savage hos tility to a free Press. Formerly, this mighty engine, by the aid of pains and penalties and popular ignorance, was wholly in their hands ; but their patent is expired. And nothing can exceed the unblushing impudence of their pro tests against " personalities." We appeal to their weekly, to say nothing of their daily at tempts to run down the private reputation of public men. Their base parasites in the country towns, not daring to face open public meetings, have been, throughout the last eighteen months, contributing their anonymous, slanderous, and gratefully-received communications against every public man who came forward in the public cause. Ile vulgar and scandalous calumnies propagated by Tory Parsons, and the stiletto pens of other literary assassins, scattered in every town and parish in the kingdom, have indeed disgraced the British Press ; and we challenge Mr. John Wilson Croker to name one single liberal journal ofany name, which has condescended or re sorted to the use of these Italian weapons. We ask, who commenced this anti-national system at the period of the Queen's trial, in 1821 and who has continued this despicable system of detraction and slander to the present moment ? Who meets at Spring-gardens and Albemarle and Charles-street, who sits every soon-day and Friday in solemn divan on this " mystery of iniquity ?" We can proudly say, that what the Reformers do, they act openly, and in the face of day. Not so our plotting and cowardly foes. They work like moles under ground, and shun the light like midnight owls. Their motto is " leave alone the actions of Tory Legislators, and let us, with impunity, slander and vilify every excellent private and public character in the kingdom." A crusade against the Press is the daily subject of their miserable plots and self-deceit ; as well might they study to move the earth from its axis. These are not times for mincing truth ; we will unmask public imposters, and the time is drawing near when the large bluebottle flies, who have bloated on the spoil of the people, will be heard of no inore.—Morning Chronicle. We did not intend to resume the subject of our diplomatic establishment till after the pass ing of the Reform Bills ; but the Gazette of Fri day obliges us to protest against some new ap pointments announced in it, and, above all, against the determination evinced by them on the part of the Foreign Office to preserve their old course. Mr. Hamilton, we observe, is to be promoted from the rank of Secretary to that (4 . Minister at Buenos Ayres. The assurances given by the anonymous correspondent of the Times, of his conversion to liberal and reform ing opinions, ha,e been useful to him : and, au reste, we suppose his services will be as useful to the country at Buenos Ayres as they have been in Paris. The appointment of Mr. Fox to Rio will give dissatisfaction to no friend of freedom or Reform, except possibly that he has not been sent to replace at once some of the tools of the faction in the higher European Courts. Ills name and his talents equally en title him to the confidence and favour of a popular Government. Mr. Canning considered him one of the most intelligent and able men ie the service. But we wish to inquire what especisl claims Mr. Aston had on a Whig Administra tion, beyond that of his connexion with the Hertford family, to be removed over the head, of the whole corps, supposing always it was expedient tc maintain the system, to be trans ferred at once from the post of Secretary at Rio to the same post at the Embassy at Paris ? Mt. Abercromby, the son of the Chief Baron of Scotland, to whom the Whig party and the Reformers of both countries owe such obligations, might have been removed from Berlinothere he was sent as Secretary after having filled a similar situation in a mission to Rio—if it was still considered that no competent person at tached to the liberal party, but who have not had the benefit of a Tory apprenticeship in the mysteries of diplomacy, could be found to per forwefficiently the duties of secretary at Patis. We cite the case of Mr. Abercromby merely to enable the supporters of Reform to look at these appointments in both points of view—and to show the animus which directs them. Some persons cannot divest themselves of old preju dices, or throw off old habits, although they ad mit them to be only fitted for times gone by, or to embrace heartily and cordially new connexions which they must feel have been useful and va luable to them—if only in having saved them from the the fate of falling into the same insig nificancy and nothingness with their former com panions of the red tape and pigeon-hole school —now dragging at the tail of the Tory-wreck. Mr. Gore Ouseley is selected from the squad of attaches to succeed Mr. Aston at Rio. We have some feelings of charity towards this gen tleman for the manlier in which he has exposed, in his late pamphlet, the libels vented on the American character in the Club trash-book, called Mrs. Trollope's ; but we shall wait to hear from the official journal of the Foreign Office, in what manner this appointment, like that. of Mr. Wellesley at Munich, is calculated to satisfy the just claims of those who have been fighting for the popular cause before these young diplomatists were born ; or to strengthen the ranks of the supporters of Ministers in Parliament. Enough of this subject for the present. We have done our duty, and the public are at least indebted to us for the discus sion which has already taken place. Every re spectable journal—we may say the whole influ ential press—has re-echoed our sentiments ; a convincing proof, if any were required, of the estimation in which the system and those who uphold it, are held in public opinion. If the Members of the House of Commons choose to submit to the disposal of the patronage of the state, by certain departments of the Government, if not with the intention, at least with the neces sary effect of increasing the means and power of the Opposition in the House of Lords, and of the enemies of the people, it is not at least our fault, and the consequence of such miserable truckling and subserviency be upon their shoul ders. At the same time, we urge no immediate notice of transactions of such comparatively mi nor importance until the Reform Bills are safe, or any discussion on these points which may em barrass the general measures of Government,or in terpose delay in getting rid of a condemned House of Commons. Ou r business as journalists is faithfully to record and animadvert upon these proceedings as they occur ; and we commit to the judgment and discretion of those friends of the people, on whom we know they can rely, the proper moment at which to press a fitting reme dy for so serious a grievance.—Morningehron. Nothing can be more ludicrous and idiotic than the sanguine conceits of the " Conserva tives," that they can for any time overcome liberal opinions, and arrest the march of events. The Duke of Wellington, four years since, con fessed that his assumption of the Premiership would be a sufficient act for a commission de latnatico iuquirendo. He, neverthess, braved his own opinion. What has been the result?— Necessity compelled him to ruin his own party, or resign political power. He elected the former alternative. Ignorant of public opinion, he braved the popular voice ; the reputation he gained as a Military General, he has lost in the failures of a Civil Commander. His Grace madly opposed all Reform, as a manceuvre to effect a junction with the Ultra Tories, cut off from him by Catholic emancipation. Having failed in that ruse, his Grace next tried his tactique on the people, by affecting to yield all of that claim, a minute portion of which he had so lately boldly refused to concede. Utterly routed and de feated in all his professional plans, what public man ever stood before his country in a more humiliating position ? No public man was ever more completely annihilated. An utter want of principle has characterized these miserable and desperate political manoeuvres. A marauding privateer, with false colours and " made up pa pers," never more disgraced a country : " give me power, and I take it on any terms," said the would-be Premier ! We repeat, that never, in the history of politics, was there such a despicable instance of political ter giversation or abandonment of principle.— The Duke of Wellington may " come in," but he will quickly " go out ;" and we only speak the universal, and loudly declared sentiments of honest Tories out of doors, when we say we do not know which feeling most pervades the minds of his own party—disgust or contempt. Nor is the conduct of Joseph Surface—Sir Robert Peel—a shade less despicable ; indeed his scene shifting actions, in the opinion of all his ci-devant political partisans, are aggravated by cowardice and meanness. A military officer, who exchanges, —his regiment being ordered on foreign service —does much what the Right Hon. Baronet has performed in the recent " merry go round" feats of the Most Noble Duke. Sir Robert Peel, like an old Newmarket jockey riding a "waiting " lying by," to watch hors es race," has been beat one another ; but the wily political rider will find himself distanced. The old paces will not do. Sir Robert Peel, with whining accent, and funereal style, has repeatedly stated, on the late discussions of the Reform question, that no party could henceforward govern—that is to say, that schedules A and B would disfranchise h i s party. Mayhap the Right Hon. Baronet, ac customed to the bye speeches of Joseph Sur face, did not implicitly believe what he said ;but, nevertheless, we do. The truth is, that whatever Sir Robert Peel may affect, or try to persuade himself, he knows inwardly that the spell of his political enchantments is broken. In the last act of the Schoolfor Scandal is the following clos ing dialogue Sir Peter T.—Sir Oliver, I should be more sur vrised at this declaration, if I had not myself found him to be mean, treacherou , , and hypocritical. "Lady T.—And if the gentleman pleads not guilty to these, pray let him call me to his character. " Sir Peter T.—Then, I believe, we need add no more : if he knows himself, he will consider it as the most perfect punishment, that he is known to the world. " Charles S.—lf they talk this way to honesty, what will tl!ey say to !re, by arid by ?—[Asi4c. 1"—! 1 / 9 r nin (ltronicle. ECON E DITION SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. IM ['EWA L PA RLIAM EN THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF-COMMONS. On the motion of Mr. DrxoN, the Newcastle and Car lisle Railway Bill was read a third time anti passed. Mr. /Wulf: brought up the amendments of the Com mittee upon the Bristol Compensation Bill, which were read a second time. On the motion of Lord STANLEY, the Chorlton-row Improvetnent Bill was read a third time and passed. Sir E. HAYES presented a petition from a parish in the county of Louth, against the proposed system of Na tional Education in Ireland. Mr. DUNDAS moved the third reading of the Edin burgh Po lic- Bill. An HON. MEMBER, whose name we could not learn, si lie had received a communication from a Committee of persons in Edinburgh interested in this Bill, stating that several alterations had been made in it which were nut fully understood by the parties interested, and therefore he hoped the Hon. Member wonld consent to a postponement of the third reading for a short time. Mr. DUNDAS could not consent to any postponement at this late period of the Session ; ii he did the Bill would not he passed this session, and consequently Edinburgh would he without any police whatever. He understood that the Lord Advocate hail communicated with the Committee in Edinburgh, and that that Learned Lord had assented to the 8.11 in its present shape. Mr. A. JOHNSTONE said that no question for a lon g time past had occasioned such heart-burnings in Edinburgh as this Bill, and if the Hon. Member did not choose to consent to a short postponement, he should take the sense of the House upon it. After a few observations from Sir G. CLERK, the House divided, when there appeared— . For the third reading Against it Majority —3 Mr. M. O'CONNELL presented several petitions from various parts if the county of Tyrone, and from Dublin, in favour of the proposed system of Education in Ireland, in favour of Reform, and also praying for the abolition of tithes. Mr. LITTLETON presented a petition from a hundred in the county of Stafford in favour of Reform, and one agreed to at a numerous meeting in the Staffordshire Pot teries, attended by 35,000 persons, praying- the House to stop the supplies until the Reform Bill be passed. PETITION OF THE COUNTRY BANKERS The HON. MEMBER then presented a petition from the Committee of Country Bickers, now witting in London, signed by the Chairman. The Committee was composed of bankers from nearly every county of England, and they prayed to be heard before the Select Com mittee of this House, notv sitting upon the Bank Charter, and the system of banking in London, in order that tl.ey might give such information respecting their interests, as might be desirable at the present crisis. They referred porticularly to the year 1826, when the House knew considerable alterations were made in the system of banking, and particuarly adverted to a note written by the then first Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exalt quer to the Bank of England, attributing the un fortunate events which then took place to the rash system of speculation then supported and fostered by the country hankers—(Hear, hear, hear,)—a statement that was wholly unfounded, but which was adopted by the House without investigation. The petitioners stated that they could, if allowed, prove the injustice of such a charge. They likewise denied the superiority of the Scotch banking system. The Hon. Member begged to refer to a note written by the Right Hon. George Daw son, by command of the Lords of the Treasury, in which it was promised that when the Bank Charter came under consideration, the interest of the country bankers should not lie affected without their being heard ; the petitioners now prayed to be heard, as that question was under consideration. In 1826 he expresssed the great injustice which had been done to such an important body by the allegation of the then Government, and he still continued to entertain the same sentiment. Although he admitted there was some thing pet nicious in the existing system, he did not expect such a great act of injustice would be done to the body of country bankers,' when it was clear that the system was attributable to the Bank of England and to the then Go vernment. He regretted that Lord Althorp was not in his place to inform the House what steps he meant to adopt as regarding the country banks ; but when that Noble Lord arrived he should take an opportunity of putting the question to him. Mr. HUME considered that this was not the cause of the bankers alone, but of the public. He saw no reason why banking should not be as free a trade as any other in the country.—(Hear, hear.) He cndemned the proceed ings of the Government in 1826, and although only 29 Hon. Members divided with him on that occasion, he felt perfectly satisfied that if the same motion was now brough;; forward it would meet with a very different de cision. —(Hear, hear.) He considered the country bankers on that occasion %vete very ill used, the faults of the Bank of England being laid to their charge. He thought the !louse would not do its duty if it sanctioned any measures of Government to carry on the present system,—(Hear, hear.) He hoped the case of the present petitioners would meet with that attention it deserved, and that they would be allowed the fullest opportunity of laying their case before the public. Mr. PAGET concurred entirely with the sentiments that had just fallen front the Hon. Metnht r for Middlesex, that the present was a subject on which the interests of the public was deeply involved. The petitioners bad no other wish than the preservation of perfect equality, and that the real burden should be placed on that bank which ought to bear it. At the time of the peace iu 1826, out of 100 bankers there were not more than seven wh o h a d not pa id twenty s hilli ngs in the pound. He hoped the petition would receive great consideration. The petition was then ordered to be printed. Mr. DIXON presented a petition from the shipping Association of Glasgow, praying for the protection of the West India interest. The Hon. Member concurred entirely with the prayer of the petition. Mr. GORDON presented petitions from the presbyte ries of Dromore, Forfar, and Stirling, also from parishes in Derby, Kildare, and Hereford, against the new plan of education in Ireland. Mr. BEAUMONT presented a petition in favour of the Government plan of education in Ireland from the in. habitants of North Shields and Tynemouth. Also a petition from the county of Northumberland, praying the House to stop the supplies till the Reform Bill became law. Earl GROSVENOR presented a petition from Stock port, praying the House not to grant its confidence to any Ministers who were not pledged to carry the Re form Bill. The Noble Earl also presented a petition from the freeholders of Stockport, against the Registry Bill ; also two petitions from workmen in factories in the county of Chester, against the Factories' Regulation Bill ; and from the Justices of the Peace of Chester against the New Beer Act. Lord DUDLEY STEWART presented a petition from Arundel, praying that that borough might return a Member to Parliament itself, and not be joined with Littlehampton. He said, that the towns were so far distant from each other that they could never be joined but so near (being in the same trade) that they could ❑ever agree. He was persuaded, that if the two towns were joined, the feelings of the people would run so high that no election could take place without riot or bloodshed. Mr. CHOKER had been requested to support the peti tion. He was informed from good authority that there were many churches near to the church of Ai untie] than was that of Littlehampton. He hoped that these towns were not joined so as to benefit any particular interest, but it so happened, that by the town of Littlehampton le:iag thrown into the borough of Arundel, the interest of the Duke •f Norfolk would there predominate. Lord ALTHORp said, the arrangements made for joining these towns under the Boundary Bill, were made by indepenndent gentlemen, and the boundaries were fixed with reference to no particular interest but that of jus tice. The gentlemen who were commissioners were in capable of such conduct as that imputed to them by the Right Hon. Gentleman. 31r. CROKER said that the Boundaries Bill was fixed to come on for discussion on Wednesday. He was anxious to know from the Noble Lord whether it would come on on that night or not ? Lord ALTHORP at present thought that it would be convenient to bring it in on Wednesday, but if not, there was an open day when it might be convenient for the House to take it. Lord DUDLEY STEWART then presented a petition from the Corporation of Arundel, complaining that that rown contained more than 300 ten-pound tenantry, yet Littleha ? a... had ,been joined to it, in order to send a n em ! ) , to Parliament, The Hon. Gentleman said, MEM.I.IO that the instructions which had been given to the Com missioners, and sanctiuned by that House, were, th no borough of more than 300 101.-houses: should any p rich be added, except it was immediately contiguous. lb considered this as a case of injustice, and hoped the pf4i s'oners would be allowed to make out their ease at.the of the House, or that it should be referred to a Scree' Committe. When the 11 , undaries' Bill came before I House, it this clause Was not altered, he would give it it most uncomprosing oppositi on . Sir R. VYVIAN hoped that as a case had been assert- erl by the Petitioners, the Ntble Lord opposite (Althorp) would allow them to make out their case at the bar ;' it not he begged of his Noble Friend to press his motion for a Sleet Committea, and if he (Sir R. V.) stood alon?, would press it to a division. Lord ALTHORP thought that the proper time for the discussion of this cose weuld be when the boundaries Bib was before the House. After a few words from Mr. CROKER., Sir C. WETHE KELL, and Sir M. W. RIDLEY, the petition was ordered to be printed. Lord D. STUART declared himself as favourable to Reform as he had ever been, and did nut conceive that in opposing one clause in the boundaries Bill, he was ding any injury whatever to the cause of Reform. He thought Ministers deserved the gratitude of the counti y for the course they had taken, and only hoped that that great measure, the Reform Bill, would to-night, in another place, be brought to a triumphant conclusion.—The petition was then ordered to be printed. Sir R. VYVYAN understood that it was intended to propose a Bill in one of the Houses of Pat liarnent to enable the Memb .rs of Government to find an easier access into that • House, and lie wished to know whether Ministers intended to give it their support. He also wished to know in re ference to the petition just presented, whether the Nob!e Lord in certain cases, would consent to bear evidence at the Bar, or would refer the matter to a Committee up stairs. Lord ALTHORP stated, it was not the intention of Government to propose any such Bill as the Hon. Baronet alluded to. With regard to the other question, he could not at present pledge himself to any partieulay course, but this he would say, that where ever any difficulties occurred, he would give every requisite means of information. Mr. DUNDASgave notice that he would move the second reading of the Edinburgh Police Bill to-morrow. Lord ALTHORP moved thot the Orden of the Day roc receiving the report of Ways and Means be now iced. Mr. LITTLETTON wished to put a question to the Noble Lord, on a subject of great importance, and relating to which he had presented a petition this evening from a Committee of country bankers sitting in London. The Committee prayed to he allowed to offer evidence on behalf of the country bankers, before the Secret Com mittee now sitting on the Bsnk Charter. And he begged to ask if the Noble Lord would have any objection to such a proceeding. Lord ALTHGRP said, there was no doubt that it would be ❑ecessary to call evidence before the Secret Com mitte, but he wished to know whether the Hon. Member's proposition was to hear Counsel.—(No, no, horn Mr. Lit tleton.) As it was a Secret Connnittce, he could not consent that Counsel should be heard, but it certainly was his intention to propose to the Committee to receive sueli in formation as the country bank,' s could give. Mr. LITTLETON expressed himself satisfied with the Noble Lord's answer. Mr. GOULBURN was desirous of ascertaining at what period the Noble Lord intended to call on the House to make provisions for the civil charges of Govern ment. At the commencement of the present reign, the House, in reply to the King's speech, expressed its readiness to provide the nec-ssary charges of the Civil Governmen and to maintain the honour and dignity of the Crown. The Crow❑ hid been provided for, and after a lapse of IS or 19 months, it appeared that not one step was taken to provide for the Civil Government. The subject was very important, inasmuch, as ins'ead of providing for the Judges, the Ambassadors and other high officers, there had been only small votes on account. Lord ALTHORP put it to the candour of the House and the country whether the peculiar circumstances in which be had been placed did not excuse him from any apparent negr'ect.—(Hear, hear.) He felt it necessary that the question should be settled as early as possible, and he plefl; , ed himself that it should be settled as far as could he, during the present Session. Sir ROBERT PEEL said, that at the commencement of the present Session, the Crown had recommended the establishment of a municiple police throughout the country, to prevent a recurrence of the scenes which had taken place lately in Bristo ; ndd the House, in their reply, assured the Crown that they would direct theii earliest attention to the subject. He u-ithed to ask whe- tiler the views of Government had been altered by any local obstructions, or whether it was still intended to bring some such measure forward. Lord ALTHORP could not pledge himself as to the period when he should bring the motion forward, but could assure the House that the question was in a state of Forwardness. Mr. WYNNE wished to know from the Noble Lord opposite, whether any measures were in progress to enable bis Majesty to incorporate tne new borough under the Act now in progress ? If any such measures were about to be adopted, he thought it was but right that they should be laid before the 1-hufe. Lord ALTHORP said that from the wording of one of the clauses of the Bill, it was necessary that some such measure should be taken, but be could not say whether those measures would be tuktn during the preses Session. Mr. IRVING wished to know whether the Noble Lord had, as yet, made up his mind to adopt any mea sures for carrying the report of the West india Commit tee into effect? Another question he wished to put to the Noble Lord was, thrt a Committee being now sitting to . . inquire into the state of the slaves in the West Indies, whether it was the intention of Government, during the sitting of that Commit.eo to suspend the Orders of Council issued on the 23d of November. Lord ALTHORP said that wite respect to the first questiou be would not give any answer. With respect to the Orders in Council they were law in the Crown co lonies, and would no t h e i nter f ere d w i t h ; b ut i n t h e ot h er , . colonies they could not be persevered in during the sitting of the Committee. Mr. BARING, on the motion for bringing up the report of the Ways and Means Committee, wished to know whether it was the intention of the Noble Lord to bring in any Bill this Session with respect to the Rus sian loan ; and he also wished to know whether it was true that this country was under an engagement for a considerable stun, for the purpose of placing a Ger man Prince on the thro ne o f G reece . _ _ was it would be laid on the table of the House, and then such measures as were necessary would be brought forward. Till that period, the payment of the Dutch Russian would be suspended.--( Hear, hear.)— with respect to the other question, it was one relating to negotiations not yet completed, and therefore he trusted the Hon. Member would not press the subject. The Report of the Ways and Means Committee was then brought up by Mr. Bernal, and on the motion that the House resolve itself into a Committee on the Scotch Reform Bill, Sir JOHN WALSH rose and was, (LEFT SPEAKING. HOUSE OF LORDS. Lord SHAFTESBUKY Sat as Speaker a little after Five o'clock, in the absence of the LORD CHANCELLOR. Mr. PONSONBY, Mr. HODGSON, Lind STAFLSY, Lord Moe rrrif, and other Members from the Commons came ❑p with seven private Bills, which were all read a first time. The Bishop of DURHAM presented a petitian from South Shields in favour of the Durham University Bill. Lord BERESFORD presented a petition from certain freemen of Berwick-upon-'Tweed, resident in and near London, praying that they might not be deprived of their elective franchise. The rights of the freemen of Ber wick-upon-Tweed were bestowed upon them by charter, as rewards for services performed by their ancestors, in the same way as their Lordships' ancestors had many of them earned titles and estates for their services. He could not understand upon what principle of justice the hereditary privileges of these freemen could not be taken away from them any more than their Lordship" titles and estates could be taken from them. Many of their Lordships were still in possession of abbey lands granted to their ancestors for their services, and it behoved them, therefore, to consider well before t h e y set an example of depriving men of their hereditary rights. Lord SELKIRK presented a petition from Glasgow, praying for enquiring into the state of the Wrst India colonies. Lord WINCHELSEA presented a petition from the parish of Maiden in Kent against the proposed plan of education in Ireland. The Marquess of LONDONDERRY presented a peti tion from Mr. *Lanes Scott, of Glasgow, against the Re form Bill. Lord RADNOR presented several petitions from Wandsworth and othe places, praying to be in the borough near to which they were. It being now half-past five o'clock, the Lon]) Cu CELLOR, took his seat. EDUCATION IN IRELAND. Lord MONTAGUE presented petitions from the Piq•- bytery of Hamilton, against the lure plan of education'in Ireland. Lord BEXLEY that in the absence of a Node Viscount, who would hye perfor Li,e task much better, he was desirous to Ares",. their Lordships a petition a :ainst the propos !d plan of education in Ireland, agrded to at a public meeting at Exeter Hall It was signed by fourteen Peers, twenty Members of the House of Commons, 156 Dis'enting Ministers, and between 3,000 and 4 000 of the most respectable inhabitants of London and Weir minster. This petition could not be said to originate in party spirit, for it was signed by men of all parties and of all religious persuasions, with the exception, perhaps, of Roman Catholics. For his own part he was ready to sup port any measure of his Majesty's Government which would have the effect of pacifying Ireland, but it was be cause he thought the adoption of the proposed pl in would have exactly the opposite effect that he objected to. The Earl of WICKLOW was anxious to ask a question from Noble Lords opposite, on a subject of very great importance. The general assembly of the Church of Scoeland hail agreed to petition that House upon the sot, ject of the Irish Tithe System of Education, but the Solicitor-General for Scotland, as he had been informed, that dotnmunications had been received from the Irish Secretary, that a great change was about to introduced in the Government plan, and to establish in every school a Bible class, in which that book was to be read daily. He wished to know whethea this were true, as stated by the Solicitor-General for Scotland• Iffso, he would most readily relinquish all his oppositi , n to the measure. Lord MELBOURNE said that when the system was first promulgated it had been stated that changes might be from time to time introduced. And certainly there was no objection in principle to that stated by the Noble Lord ; at the same time he could not pledge himself that it was at the present moment precisely in the contemplation of his Majesty's Government. TITHES IN IRELAND. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM basked what wa the state of his Majesty's Councils upon that im• portant subject of tithes. Committees! Nadi been ap• pointed, after prolonged discussions in both Houses 01 Parliament, but still the grievances was unredressed ? Lord MELBOURNE said the Committer would, bye. and by, be enabled to present their report on the subject. The Duke of BUCKINGHAM asked when ? To this question no reply was given. Lord RODEN rose to present a petition, and was LEFIL SPEAKING. The House of Lords to-day at its opening at five o'clock was crowded with Peers, both Reformers and Anti• Reformers. The vacant places near the Throne and below the bar were occupied by upwards of 100 Members of the House of Commons, and, in spite of a heavy rain, the crowd outside was not inconsiderable. TATTERSALL'S.-(THIS EVENING.) THE DERBY. 11 to 2 agst Mr. Gully's Musgrave 11 to 2 agst Mr. Chifney's Erniliana 13 to 2 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Trustee 9 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Mixbuty. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Sir Giles 13 to 1 agst Mr. Vansittart's I'eriou 25 to 1 agst Lord Mountcharles's Minster POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W-STREBT. At the evening sitting on Saturday, Mr. Thomas, the police superintendant, came before Mr. Mrstsirum,, ac companied by Mr. Dermott and Mr. Morrison, surgeons, and stated that he bad received an anonymous letter, in forming him that the body of a boy had been brought for dissection, under very suspicious circumstances, to the dis secting-room of Mr. Dermott, one of the gentlemen pre sent, situate in Gerrard -street, Soho. Mr. Thomas added, that he immediately proceeded to the house described, but before he got there, he was informed that Mr. Dersnott had proceeded to Woolwich, where the boy had died, for the purpose of ascertaining personally the circumstances connected with his decease. He (Mr. Thomas) saw the body, and observed that the neck had been dislocated, and that there was the mark of a rope having been passed around it. These, and other appearances, induced him to believe that the deceased had met with a violent death, and his object in appearing before the Magistrate seas to suggest the propriety of having a coroner's inquest on the body. 11r. Dermott expressed his willingness to offer every explanation in his power with regard to his possession of the body, and stated that the body was brought to his dis secting-rooms on the previous day (Friday) by two re gular resurrection men, whom he thought he could swear to if he saw them, but lie neither knew their names nor where they lived. Perceiving the mark of the rope round the neck of the boy, he conceived it to be a suspicious cir cumstance, and asked the resurrection-men how it hap pened. They replied that they had fixed a rope round the neck of the subject in order to pull it up from the grave. The tongue protruded, the face was swollen, and there was also a tumefaction of the abdomen ; but this he ascribed to the body baying been buried i❑ a damp si tuation. Feeling rather uneasy, he went to Woolwich with Mr. Morrison, now present, for the purpose of satis fying himself as to the cause of death. Mr. Morrison was a surgeon in the Royal Navy. He made a drawing of certain marks, namely, a heart, an an chor, and a mermaid, which he discovered on the right arm of the deceased ; and on reaching Woolwich, he ascertained from Mr. Bossey, surgeon of the Convict Hospital of that place, that a boy named William Keith had died there on the NA) inst., arid Was buried at a place called Pumford. He then went on board the convict ship Ganyinede, where the boy who died had been confined, and learned from some of the men on board that his right arm had been marked similarly to that of the body which which bad bee❑ brought to Mr. Dermott's establishment. Mr. Thomas said that the body was full in flesh, and bore no appearance of having died of a lingering disease. The teeth had been extracted, and the appearance re sented was very similar to that of the Italian boy. Mr. Minsilum, said, that after whet had occurred in that room with respect to the case alluded to, he deemed it right that in this instance a full inquiry should be made, in order to relieve the public mind from any unfavourable impression ; and for that purpose he should direct that a coroner's jury should be summoned. Suspicion was suf ficiently strong to justify him in adopting that course. Mr. Dermott had intended to apply to Mr. Thomas upon the sultject, if that gentleman had not called on him. Notice was then directed to be given to the parish offi cers of St. Ann's, with a view to summon a coroner's jury, and summonses were ordered for the attendance of witnesses from Woolwich. MARLBORO UGH. STREET. On Saturday, A. 13. Dottin, Esq., of Argyll-street, Regent-street, and Bugle Hall, Southampton, attended at this office, before Mr. DYER, the sitting magistrate. From Mr. Dottin's statement, it appeared, that on his return from his seat in the country to his residence in town he discovered that during his absence his drawing-room window had been fired through by ball, in three different places. On a further search, three leaden balls were found between the windows and shutters. Such a circumstance naturally created considerable alarm, and he deemed it necessary to make the occurrence known to the magistrates at this office, more especially as the windows of other gentlemen's residences in the neighbourhood had been si milarly perforated. Mr. Dawson, who, we believe, is a military officer, and has been residing in his present residence in Argyll -street about five months, pledged his honour to attend, and hav ing bowed to the Magistrate, left the office. The gun, &c. remain in charge of Mr. Plank. An old mars, named Has/en, who, it was stated, was by trade a carpenter, but who appeared more Ult.! au inhabi tant of another world, was charged with creating a crowd of persons round the house of Mr. Rothschild, in Piccadilly. It appears that the prisoner had a Bible in his hand, and loudly exhorted all persons to repent, and leave off their evil courses. He also begged of Mr. Rothschild not to dabble in loans or in Stock-Exchange transactions, for such practices were contrary to all religious principles. He would not move off when desired by the police, and they conveyed him to the station-house to give a lecture to some of the prisoners. On being placed at the bar on S ittirday morning, he stood in an erect position, with the Bible in both hands, and he frequently raised it to his lips. All of an instant he ejaculated, " I am yea, nay, and amen,—l um what was yesterday, to-day, and to.morrow." Then, raising his eye., he unuttered something to himself. Mr. CONANT asked him if he would promise not to preach again, when he repeated something like the un known tongue, and raised the book to his lips at the con clusion,--He was eventually discharged. THAMES- P OLICE. Henry Brant, a German, who has frequently been in custody, was charged with defrauding John Thomas, an old sailor, of 131. 10s. UNION-HALL. A few days since Mr. Shia, a bak er , at C am b erwell, 4,latained a warrant against a man for keeping a ferocious flog, which bad bitten him and several others. The man, when served with the warrant, cried and exhibited much s; distress of mind, as he said, he knew his dog, for whic he had a great regard rnu+t be sacrificed. On the mori ing of the day appointed for the hearing of the warrant, I took his dog, tied some stones round his neck, and thre him into the Surrey canal. He then went home an hung hill - twit . in an out-houss. His brother chancing see him, cut hint down. He was on the point of deat but medical assistance having been called in, he was r covered. Under these circumstances the Magistrate charged the warrant. QUEEN- S Q UA RE. A respectable looking young man, named Ainsword alias 11 7 i/sou, was charged with embezzling a 10/. note.- He was rein inded. -11.21.1?YLE8 ONE. On Friday, Thomas Coleman, conductor of one of MI omnibuses, was brought before Mr. Rawias sox, charged by Mr. Shillibeer with defrauding him of 3! ty evening last. Mr. Ilswr.imost committed the prisoner; but informs him he would be admitted to bail, and Mr. Shillibeer ani his witness es were bound over to prosecute him at the nex Old Bailey sessions. Mr. Shilibecr had another case against the prisoner fa receiving twelve shilling fares, and only accounting fir nine on We Inesday last, on the journey from the city to Pad• dington at one o'clock; but as he had not yet been abh to discover the gen•leman who hail engaged eleven places in Coleman-street to the Colosseum, and brought nine pa•• sengers, he could n it at present prove this case so clearly as the last, but hoped to find the gentleman, when he would prefer a second indictment against the prisoner at the session, LAMBE TH- STREET. Two persons, who lately returned from India by the Lord Melville, made the following complaint :—On land ing late in the evening, they went to a lodging•house in Poplar, where they slept. In the morning the landlady demanded 11s. each. They offered to give ss. but she would not take less, although the lodging had been of the meanest description. The Magistrates said that this was a frequent practice with such lodging-howe keepers. They directed an officer to go with the applicants to the land lady and endeavour to make better terms. A CURE FOR THE CHOLERA. We had begun to fear that this formidable pestilence, for which so many prepar.itions were made, and for the arrival of which so many of our medical friends waited with the impatience of the war-horse straining for the battle, was about to leave as as ignorant of its treatment as it found us. But we have just been relieved from our apprehensions on this point by intelligence of a remedy equally novel and extraordinary; and what is still more remarkable, it appears that our friends, the Leithers, heretofore reckoned at least half a century behind us, have had the merit, if not of discovering, at least of first reducing this discovery to practice. Dr. Latta of Leith is the gentleman, we understand, who first apdlied this new remedy, the original proposer having been Dr. O'Shagh nessy of London. The latter physician, it seems, was struck with the rematkahle deficiency in the serum of the blood remaining in the body of a cholera patient. This peculiarity suggested to him the practice to which we have itlluded, which consists, as it has been described to us, of throwing into the blood vessels a quantity of water, with salt and albumen (the white of egg) sufficient to supply the deficiency in the blood of these materials occasioned, it appears, by the cholera evacuations. The quantity of aqueous fluid which may be added to th e c i rcu l at i ng b loo d in this ext raor di nary aisease, not only with impunity, but with effects almost miraculous, is hardly credible. What will our readers say to 401bs. of salt and water being pumped into a man's veins within 24 hours ; while the patient, instead of sinking under this deluge, has his pulse restored, and from the jaws of death is pl iced in a fair way of recovery. The eff et of this new practice is described to us as pe culiarly interesting. A patd , ut is lying on his back, cold and blue, sunk in the lowest stage of collapse. The pulse is gone —the breathing oppressed, and the only indication of vitality is an occasional paroxysm of spasm. A vein is opened, and the point of a syringe being introduced, salt and water of blood-heat, is slowly pumped in, six or ten pounds being transfused. as it is called. As this new ele ment is added to the circulating blood, the countenance re covers its colour—the lips become red and full—the eye brightens—the spasms cease—the pulse returns, and be comes steady—the patient begins to talk and joke—his whole body warms—his thirst is relieved, and when the operation is over, lie falls into a quiet sleep. Such is the description we have beard of this very ex traordinary discovery, and we understand that both at the Leith and in the Drummond street Hospitals there are pa tients in a convalescent state, into whose veins from eight to forty pounds of salt and water have been thrown. After this who shall say that there is nothing new under the sun ! Caledonian Mercury. GERMAN AND LISBON PAPERS. MuNlckr, MAY 29.—The day before yesterday the Council of Ministers assembled, and on the same evening a courier was despatched to his Majesty. The delibera tions in the Department of the Interior continued till late in the night. Yesterday morning Counsellor Voltz went out for the circle of the Rhine, as it is said, by order of the Ministry, to be present as extraordinary Commis sioner from the Government at the festival at Haimbach. According to the latest accounts from Professor Thiersch, the affairs of Greece are more intricate than ever, and the arrangement between the parties in that country, appears less likely than ever. —Nuremberg Cor respondent, May 23. (This Journal gives a❑ account of the disturbances on the evening of the 2 lat, in which it states that one man was killed and several wounded, and some arrested. At two in the morning tranquillity was entirely restored.) LISBON, MAY 15.—1❑ compliance with the express order of the King our Sovereign, the Royal Board of Commerce, Agriculture, Manufactures, and Navigation of these kingdoms and :heir dominions, has determined that that the persons oppo•ed to the loan opened by decree of 12th November, 1831, who in consequence of the decay of their fortunes, find it absolutely impossible to furnish the sums at which they were rated, and which they still owe, are, to present their representations, duly authenticated, to the said trittunal. (Signed) JOSE ARCA RSIO DAS NENES. Lisbon, May, 4, 1832. On Sunday the 13th instant, a very devout procession issued from the church of St. Mary Magdalen, destined to implore the Divine protection against the contagious disease which has ravaged so many parts of Europe. The procession was made at the expense of the brotherhood of Senhor Jesus dos Pendoes, whose meted image, which has very rarely quitted that church, was, on this occasion, carried through the neighbouring streets, followed by various religious bodies, besides 140 persons clothed in sackcloth, and barefoot. Round the bier, on which the image was borne, were some ladies of the highest rank and many others following-. This religious ceremony made a deep impression on the innumerable spectators. On the return of the procession there was a sermon and prayers suited to the occasion. The John Bull of yesterday proclaims the gracious m miler in which the QUEEN performed her part in the ceremonial of Monday. " Her MAJESTY was greatly affected (with tine address of the Bishops), and concluded her reply with this very touching sentence :—' My L or ds, I an particularly obliged to you for this declaration of at trehmenr, at a period when I ant most cruelly and unde servedly insulted and calumniated upon many occasions.' We know of no greater calumniators of the QUEEN than rite boroughmongers. Has it not since the Reform Bill was first before the country, constantly drawn a distinction be tween the KING and QUEEN, selecting the latter for the special object of their applause, and thereby insinuating that she favoured a party held in detestation by the people of this country, and consequently injuring her in the esteem of tie nation ? The people of this country are not disposed to insult their Queens; arid her MAJESTY has to thank those %Oho represented her as a partisan hostile to the best interests of the nation, for any change which may have taken place in the public feeling regarding her. It is right that her MAJESTY should know her enemies.—Morning Chronicle. BIRTHS. On the 31st ult. at Cromer Hall, Norfolk, Viscountess Ennis more, of a (laughter. On the '2,1 inst. in Connaught-square, Mrs. George Parkhousco of a slaughter. MARRIED. On the 9.d inst. at St. George's Hanover-suare Captain Henry Bowden, Scots Fusileer Guards, son of q John , Bowden , Esq., Grosvenor-place, to Emma, youngest daughter of the late George Norman, Esq., of Bromley-common, Kent.' On the 2,1 inst. at St . MaryLbone Church, John Alves Ar buthnot, Esq., secon d son of the late Sir NVilliam Arbuthnot:. Bart., to Mary, eldest daughter of George Arbuthnot, Esq., c " Elderslie Lodge in the county of Surrey. DIED. On the 2d inst. in Great Ormond -street, in the Sad year of h is age, Charles Butler, Esq., K.c . On the 31st ult. at Portsmouth, Frederick George, young e ' t , son of Capt. J. Wentworth Loring, Royal Navy, C B , Lic° Governor of the Royal Naval College. 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