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RAILWAY COMMITTEES. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.): GROUP 11. This Committee met for the first time this morning in Room No. 22. LONDON AND rouTsmatrra (DIRECT DEVIATION EINE). This Bill was to authorise a short deviation between Godalming and Dorking. Mr. Cubitt, the engineer, was examined, and afterwards, at the request of one of the Committee, the case was post poned to see if any arrangement could not be come to with the Guildford, Reading, and Reigate Company, London and Portsmouth Direct, and London and Brighton and South Coast Amalgamation. The Committee were occupied the remainder of the day with this ease. The Committee adjourned at four o'clock. GROUP VI. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WETTSOITTU AMENDMENT (NO. XL) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. Micholett.s, solicitor, residing at South Beverton, Somersetshire ; A. Acland, Esq., sen of Sir T.D. Acland, Bart., residing at Dorchester ;W. Stevens, Esq., merchant, of e Brid port ; and Mr. Moore, Mayor of Exeter, gave evidencin favour of the Great Western echemes. The Committee adjourned till twelve to-morrow. GROUP X.XXIV• The Committee met at twelve this day ; Mr. F. Baring, chairman. The Committee decided that the preambles of the following Bills referred to them were proved : Blanchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Ashton Canal Purchase). London and North-Western Railway (Lease and Purchase of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway, Canal, &c.) Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Station Approach in Manchester). The preamble of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincoln shire Railway (Purchase of the Branch from Ashton under-Lyme to Oldham) was not proved. OLDILAM JILLZANCE, The report of the Commissioners upon this Bill had not yet been received. The Committee was occupied the remainder of the day in going through the clauses of the Bill. GROUP =V. The Committee met at eleven, and, after hearing Mr. Wrangham on the EAST LANCASHIRE EXTENSIONS, &c., decided (without calling witnesses), that as lines of railway were already in existence in the district to be supplied, that further accommodation was unnecessary. The Committee then adjourned. GROUP XXXVI. MANCHESTER AND STOURPORT (BRANCHES, di.c.) This Committee was engaged all the da y in hearing evi. dence on behalf of this scheme. GROUP XXXIX. This Committee re-assembled this morning after the holi days in Room 23. LEEDS AND TSIRSS. (LEEDS, DUTLEAVI, AND NEWCASTLE EXTENSION). The Committee were occupied the whole of the day with local and general evidence in favour of this Bill. The Committee adjourned at the usual hour. UNOPPOSED BILLS COMMITTEE. (Before Mr. GREENE, Chairman of Committees.) The following Bills, being unopposed, received the sanction of the Committee;— St. Ives (Huntingdon Improvement). Bingley Improvement. Manchester and Lincoln Union Railway (Deviation). Buckingham and Brackley Junction Railway, and Oxford and Bletchley Junction Railway Company's Amegama tion and Extension of Lines. Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway, and Chester and Birkenhead Railway (Purchase or Amalga mation). Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway (Deviation of Main Line and Cheshire Branch, &c.) Midland Railway (Leicester and Swannington Radway Widening, Deviation and Branches, Enlargement of Le 'wes ter Station, and extending powers as to Ibetock Branch). Portadown and Dungannon Railway. Manchester and Leeds Railway (Branch from the Huctiiers field and Sheffield Junction Railway to Barnsley, and Ex tension to Holmfirth Branch). Aberdeen and Great North of Scotland Railways (Amalga mation or Leasing). East of Fife Railway (Markinch Deviation). DISCOVERY OF COALS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. We have great pleasure in laying the following in teresting narrative before our readers. By our friea'ds in the neighbourhood of Southwell, Farnsfield, Olterton, and Mansfield, it will, we feel assured, be read with deep interest and delight, when we inform them that the Messrs. Gregory, who by their enterprising researches, have been the fortunate discoverers of this great colonial blessing, are the sons of the late Joshua Gregory, Esq., formerly of Southwell, and nephews of W. J. Gregory, Esq., of 011erton, and Mrs. Shipman, Mansfield. Th e farticulars of the ex p e di t i on are o b ta i ne d b y us part l y rom private correspondence and partly through th e medium of the Perth (Western Australian) Gazette, and: may be embodied as follows: With a desire to penetrate into and make further dis coveries relative to the terra incognito of the vast tract of country known as Western Australia, these scientific. and enterprising young men, consisting of Messrs. , Augustus, Francis, and Henry Gregory, voluntarily undertook an expedition into the interior, trusting to , find, if not coal, at least some extent of good country; which might be made available for the increasing flocke and herds of the settlement ; Government having for this purpose granted them the use of the four survey horses, they obtained some meal for the animals and a present of flour from Advocate• General G. Moore, and took their departure from Perth on the 4th of AuguElft last, hoping that by having undertaken their journey during the winter months they should suffer less from want of water than during any other season. After travelling for eleven days, during which them they repeatedly encountered groups of the natives, w:l2c appeared far more disposed to decamp than parley, they came in sight (on the 15th of August) of a range of lofty hills, distant about forty miles. From the singu)s.e appearance of these hills, which rose abrutly from the plain, with deeply serrated sides and a peculiar tint, it was evident that they belonged to a different geologic al formation to any the party had yet seen ; steering for these hills they passed over a beautiful grassy hill of trap rocks, the soil a dark brown loam; from the top they observed an extensive lake, filling up nearly -the whole of the valley for many miles to the north :and north-east. Descending from this hill they pushed on for the lake, and reached its margin at one o'clock 2 of the 16th; it, however, proved nearly dry, and cove] •ed with a thick crust of salt; the banks were very ate eP, nearly thirty feet high, and formed almost entirety of gypsum. They halted for the night in a thick sc rub without water. On the 17th, having discovered some granite -.rocks with water in them, they refreshed themselves and their tired and hungry horses, and resumed their joutriaey; having arrived at the summit of the highest peak, wl itch they named "Mount Jackson," they left their Ina rses and ascended through thick bushes, with whit h the sides were closely covered, and after half an ;hour's toil, they reached the summit—a mass of varie g ated trap rock, singularly stratified in thin layers of re,. and black; from this point the view was most extensive and delightful. Four similar ranges to the one :clic) , were now upon, presented themselves, bearing - re spectively east, south-south-east, north, and not th east, and being distant from about thirty to fifty miles. The whole of the intermediate space was nes rly one dead level plain of brown or glaring red sandy los c m, in many parts nearly bare, the rest covered with th ick scrubs or open forest ; a few native fires were but none to the east of the line they were upon. Hay ing descended Mount Jackson, the party returned to tl ieir horses, and went in pursuit of water, after searchi ;• in vain for nearly two days, they were reluctantly ct )m -polled to return in disappointment and exhaustiot 1 to their last watering place, where their thirsty hors as at once drank up nearly all the water that remained, tints obliging the party to fall back upon the only water with which they were acquainted, being not less the to 30 miles in the rear. From this time to the 24th the country, althou; '1 of an indifferent quality, was not devoid of the pictures q ue; the lakes in the valley to the right formed a plea sing contrast to the white cliffs which surrounded the in, broken as they were into detached masses by the ri ch foliage of the wild cypress. As they mounted each suc cessive ridge, a tall, majestic cliff, in the distance, witic .h they named " Mount Singleton," was ever and atic .n seen rearing its dark blue summit against the clear eik: and forming a beacon by which the now weary and tin d travellers were to keep their course. Early in the morning of the 25th, they started fulg• of hope, expecting to reach Mount Singleton, dista nc T about twenty miles, before night; after travelling ei , 4l tt miles the ground became open, and on emerging fr ox a forest of white gum trees they discovered a lake there e miles in width, whi c h l a y b e t ween th ems elves and th rasofl on hlanas whi c h s ki r t M ount Si ng l eton. Al t h oug h th e the margin wa s ex t reme l y so f t t h e y en t ere d th e lake, which was nearly dry ; with much labour ti !e horses got o within three ov er the first two-and-a-half miles ;w, n upper crust,lconsiiellnyards of the opposite shore, 1113 e ~.g of three or four inches of sal it and gypsum, gave brine', the horses sinking to th. r bellies in mud and after several attempts to extri - exhaustedeste them had proved uannadvsatilruing,rthe horses being ql2it e proceeded to two hours, a a a by plunging last resource the travellers - t d r,, t . o the oppo sit .e toge(le;awith bank and made two hurd les trees, twe 11 -e feet long, lashing them these, although so heavy that two could scarcrel ropes ; them across the mud, the party succeeded in scarcel y alternately in front of the h orses ; the poor animal appeared to know the use o f . th em, and i mmediatct • ' they "It walked from one to the other with the utmost cauti In this manner, after toil, f ia v r e ri l v i i o n u g rs onfirm grou su n c d c j e u ed st ed as t retracing their steps, • grew dark. This was the first day they y mounted tiseii . horses, having walked at least 30 miles. On the 2d S e pt e mber they fell in wi th • a party of f , a natives, who were ev id ent ly taken by surprise; ! e 4 1 dressed them i n th e di a l ect o f th e York s ' they ad - district, try in, to make them understand that they were friends; 1 t after staring for about a minute without speaking th ): walked off a short distance in a crouching attitude, a 11 d - then took to their heels at full speed. They were flak( save their noolban or belt. On the 9th the party discovered a considerable xis et . , sand traced it for some miles, but as it tended too much to the southward they left it, turning to the west ; in a few miles, however, they again struck upon . it, math enlarged. On the 10th they continued the cou ra e of the river, which, making a sudden turn, entered as extensive valley two or three miles wide. Here the past ure , consisting of rye glass and wild oats, N 1 fps THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1847. most luxuriant, displaying large open grassy flats of 200 or 300 acres each, game in abundance, turkeys, cockatoos, crested pigeons , an d parrots, displaying their gorgeous plumage in wonderful and rich variety. The country along this river (which they continued to fol. low) is truly splendid, being the finest pieces of land either for pasture or agriculture that they have met with in the colony. Having followed the course of the river until it emptied itself into a small inlet of the sea, the party returned by a different route, along the south-east branch of the same river, and after a variety of diffi culties, fatigues, and adventures, and having travelled 1,100 miles, our adventurers at length ascertained the glorious fact that extensive coalfields did indeed exist in this wild and comparatively unexplored country of their adoption, and that within 180 miles north of Perth, on the river Irwin, and only 39 miles from the beach. These are indeed glorious advantages to the whole population of the colony—and to minds so well able to appreciate these advantages as the discoverers undoubt edly are—the first sensations of delight must indeed have been enthusiastic—nay, one would think almost a sufficient reward for all the toils, fatigues, disappoint ments, dangers, and anxieties they had undergone during their two months' expedition in search of it. The for mation proved of considerable extent, consisting (as far as they had time and means to ascertain) of two seams of from five to six feet each in thickness, with the usual accom paniment, shales and sandstone, which are peculiarly interesting as proving the exact coincidence of the geo logy of that continent with Europe on this point. In deed the cliff where the coal was found may really be said to be an execution in nature of Buckland's map of the coal formations. The coal is so advantageously situate for working, that in the space of a quarter of an hour one of the party extracted several hundred weight, with which they raised a blazing fire as a feu de joie! The coal gave a great heat, and burnt out to a white ash. Having supplied themselves with specimens both of the coal and shales, the party returned, with light hearts and joyful countenances, to Perth, where there arrival was hailed by the good citizens with raptures of delight. The coal caused a grand sensation, and was displayed for some days to the delighted public from the verandah of the Government offices. We shall not omit to state that the party are entitled, by virtue of this discovery, to a grant or reward of 2,500 acres of land from the local Government.—Nottiacham shire Guardian. AMERICAN AFFAIRS. NEW YORK, MAY 15.—My last letter, dated the 11th inst., by the propeller Sarah Sands, announced the defeat of General Santa Anna by General Scott, at Cerro a G n o d r d takeno. Since possession that affairof, JalapaGeneral a Scott nd p e hasPerote, e , without advanced op position,the Mexicans having abandoned these posts. General Worth entered Perote on the 22d of April. Perote is about 40 miles in advance of Jalapa. There is a rumour, not believed, that orders have been issued and forwarded to General Scott, directing him to halt, and not to enter the city of Mexico. If such an order has been issued, it will probably be of no avail, as Scott, it is supposed, will have taken the city before the order can reach him. There is another rumour, more ridiculous, that an extra session of Con gress is contemplated. The inquiry, in the American community, now is, having conquered all that is important or valuable of Mexico, what is to be done with the conquered territory ? The opinions on this point are conflicting. The high toned portion of the Administration party insist upon the Government holding all they have or may conquer until the Mexicans pay the expenses of the war. They say the army shall be supported by contributions levied upon Mexico, &c. On the other hand, there is another party that advo cates an abandonment of all conquests, or substantially so, contending that whatever territory it may be deemed expedient to retain shall be honestly paid for, at its real or true value. Between these two extremes there are a variety of opinions. What are the precise views of the Executive is not known. It is considered, I believe, a State secret. One thing, however, many think is definitively settled, so far as the Administration is concerned. Not an inch of territory of any value, which they may have the power to hold, will they ever surrender. Every act, every movement, indicates such a design. What the American people will ultimately require their Govern ment to do, is in the womb of Time. I yet hope and believe that they will indignantly spurn the idea of being recorded on the pages of history as freebooters and robbers. In the present state of public affairs, I shall hazar no other opinion as to the future policy of the Govern ment on the question of peace or war, than that above expressed. The partisans of the Executive are amass ing fortunes. They will, therefore, continue to laud Mr. Polk and the war. I neither know nor hear of any honest effort by those in power to terminate the conflict. A few weeks will probably develope more fully the views of .the President and his Cabinet. The latest accounts from Mexico would lead us to the conclusion that they were preparing for a guerilla warfare. On the 28th of April it was rumoured at Jalapa that Mr. Bankhead, the British Minister, has renewed his offers of mediation between Mexico and the United States, and that when the last diligencia left the city of Mexico the Congress was acting upon his propositions, whatever they may have bees. Notwithstanding the fixed and denunciatory tone of the press, there is a peace party in Mexico, and there may be something in this report of English intervention, in the distracted affairs of that country. But this Go vernment will reject all or any interference in this ques tion. To admit it, would probably defeat the views and policy of the Administration. It would certainly jeo pardise them. The following preamble and decree have been passed by the Mexican Congress:— " The sovereign constituent Mexican Congress, in use of the full powers with which the inhabitants of the re public have invested it for the sacred object of saving its nationality; and as a faithful interpreter of the firm de termination with which its constituents are decided to carry on the war which the United States are now making on the nation, without desisting on account of any kind of reverses; and considering that under these circumstances the first public necessity is that of pre serving a centre of union to direct the national defence with all the energy that circumstances demand; and to avoid even the danger of a revolutionary power arising which might dissolve the national union, destroy its in stitutions, or consent to the dismemberment of its terri tory, has determined to decree as follows: " Article I.—The Supreme Government of the union is authorised to dictate all necessary measures for the purpose of carrying on the war, defending the nationality of the republic, and saving the federal republican form of Government under which the nation is constituted. " Article 2. —The preceding article does not authorise the Executive to make a peace with the United States, conclude a negotiation with foreign powers, nor dispose in whole or in part, of the territory of the Republic. " Article 3.—Neither does it authorise him to make contracts of colonisation, impose punishments, or confer any civil or military employments other than those whose appointments are expressly entrusted to him by , the constitution. Article 4.—Every agreement or treaty shall be null and void which may be made between the Government of the United States and any authority whatever, which, subverting the act ua l o r d er o f a ff a i rs , s h ou ld set aside or take the place of the legally established supreme powers of the union. " Article s.—Every individual is declared a traitor, let him be a private person or public functionary, who, either in his private capacity or invested with any autho rity, incompetent or of revolutionary origin, may enter into treaties with the United States of America. " Article 6.—ln the event that the actual Congress finds it impossible to continue its sessions, a permanent Committee shall be immediately installed, to be com posed of the oldest individuals then found present of each deputation. " Article 7.—This committee, in the absence of Con gress, shall perform the duties of a Government Cou ncil ; shall appoint, in case of vacancy, the person who is to take charge, temporarily, of the executive powers of the republic ; shall regulate the counting and taking of the votes in the election of a new president ; shall give pos session to the elected person, and shall call together the national representation. " Article B.—The powers which the present decree confers on the Government shall cease as soon as the war is concluded." A most unpleasont collision has taken place in Cali fornia, between Commodore Stockton and Lieutenant- Colonel Freemont on the one side, and General Kearney on the other. I pretend not to judge who is in the wrong ; but I may safely state, that public opinion is strongly against the Commodore, and in favour of the General. When Kearney presented his authority as Governor, Stockton refused to recognise it, and defied his authority. Oue charge against Colonel Freemont, it is said, is making improper and incorrect reports to the Adminis tration for sinister purposes. It is further said, that the General is only awaiting the arrival of troops to sustain him, and he will then, probably, arrest Stockton and Freemont as mutineers. Within the last ten days, it is announced, the Cabinet have had two conclaves on this serious subject. Freemont is the son-in-law of Colonel Benton. It is also stated, that Mr. Marcy, Secretary of War, sustains General Kearney, while Mr. Mason, Secretary of the Navy, deems it his duty to uphold the acts of his subordinate. This is, for the President, an unpleasant dilemma, to say the least of it, as it may produce un happy results. Mr. Walker, Secretary of the Treasury, is afflicted with an alarming complaint, and has not attended the two or three recent Cabinet meetings. Without being very ill he is losing his voice, and is now scarcely able to speak so as to be heard. He recently visited Balti morehadinterference. for medical advice, and it is said he is instructed to converse but littl e . In a form er l e tt er I remar k e d th a t the temperance The d ina s c ta h t e o ck ofN co e n w se y qu o e r nce k7 o th f r l o e u g g is h lat t i h v e e portion of g the importunity of certain fanatics, passed what was termed the retailin spirituous liquors. The independent , of but which was, in fact, a law prohibiting men) denouncedcommunity (many of them tem perancerights of the citizens, were re their denunciations, and a violation this law as oppressive, of the and so loud and lon su t . e adjournment of t a and promptly that a few days since, jif s t the Legislature, they took up the Acts prohi bitingrepealed the Excise or License law, Glicsedl the the sale of spirituous liquors. ha motion to repeal, the votes stood:— In the Senate ..... 25 2 In the House of Representatives 68 3a. Such is, and ever will be, the effect of coercion, wh e y substituted for persuasion, especially if the rights of th citizen are supposed to be invaded. A repeal of this odious law will promote the cause of temperance. — Timm A GENEVESE TRAVELLER. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGI- NEERS. PRESIDENT'S CONVERSAZIONE. Sir John Rennie, president of the institution, gave his first conversazione this season on Saturday evening, which was both numerously and brilliantly attended by the members of the institution, and by visiters who ap peared to be alike delighted with the intellectual treat provided for them in the extensive collection of works of science and art arranged in the suite of apartments, and with the host's generous hospitality, as displayed in the refreshment rooms. It would be impossible to enumerate all the objects of interest in works of art or models of machinery exhibited, we must therefore restrict our notice to some of the most prominent. Count D'Orsay contributed some spirited statuettes and busts of the Emperor of Russia, Daniel O'Connell, the Duke of Wellington, &c. which were deservedly much admired. Paintings and sketches by Oliver, Bass, Wood, Scanlan, Digby, Wyatt, and Ward ; enamel paintings by Bone ; chalk drawings from Mr. Fuller, and some beautiful sketches from Mr. Ackerman's col lection were profusely scattered through the rooms ; Taylor, Williams, and Jordan had some excellent speci mens of machine carvings, and Mr. Rogers some delicate examples of hand carving. The collection of models was more extensive than we ever remember to have seen it, and as the whole of the ground floor was devoted to their reception, there was ample space for displaying them to advantage. A series of models from the Admiralty exhibited the construction of a 50 gun ship at various epochs, from the highly decorated but clumsy vessel of 1637, to the simple but elegant and effective " Vernon" of 1840. Other models illustrated the most approved form of bows, sterns, and midship section, and the general lines of the vessels composing the experimental squadron were con trasted by a series of uniform models. The wave-prin ciple was illustrated by models from Mr. Scott Russell and Dr. Phipps, and the progress of the steam navy was exemplified by beautiful models of vessels and engines constructed by Messrs Renaies, Maudelays and others. The screw-propeller by G. Rennie, Woodcroft, and Maudeley, excited much attention. Models of Brunel's block machinery, and Harewoods patent scuttle were appropriate mingled with this part of the collection. All the various systems of electrical telegraphs were represented and were at work in the apartments : Bain's electric clock, Nott and Gamble's simplified single wire Telegraph, the Electric Telegraph Company's com plete and efficient system as used at the Admiralty, Brett and Little's apparatus, and Brett's printing tele graph, in which by depressing a series of keys, corres ponding letters are brought into contact with a continu ous strip of paper, and the communication is printed at any number of miles distance. Mr. Cowper contributed a series of models of the old French and other telegraphs, in order to form a contrast with the present instantaneous and certain methods of communication. A curious specimen of laminated granite from Dart moor, contributed by Mr. Freeman, appeared to excite much interest among the geologists. There was a series of models of bridges of all kinds, amongst which we remarked one of corrugated cast iron, erected by Mr. Barlow on the Tunbridge Railway. The wrought iron tube bridge, by Mr. R Stephenson at Conway, beautifully shown on various scales by Salter's elegant card-board models. A cast iron girder bridge by Mr. Borthwick, of the same construction as that over the Dee at Chester, and which is now exciting such painful interest. The drops for loading coal vessels, at the Date Dooles, Cardiff, by Mr. Highton, excited much attention, and appeared to be an ingenious modification of the system used in the north, well adapted to the purposes of the South-Welsh railways and shipping ports. Stephenson's long boiler locomotive, Bessemer's axles, Dunn's simple and elegant turn-table, Stevens's efficient railway signals, and Clarke and Varley's new atmos pheric railway tube, formed au interesting series of railway models. Cochrane's machines, for sawing out curved timbers of all forms without waste, was worked, and was uni versally admired: it was stated that these efficient machines were now being introduced into the royal docky-ards. Little's very ingenious new printing machine, by which the number of sheets now dispatched, great as the quan tity seems, can be doubled, was also at work, and ex citei much attention. We must reserve until the next meeting the notice of the other models, which were so numerous and well chosen that it is impossible to do justice to them all. Among the guests we noticed almost everybody of eminence in science and art, and a number of the aris tocracy, who from their Parliamentary duties have their attention now directed to scientific matters. The President reeeived his guests with that distinguished urbanity which is characteristic of him, and his obliging and hospitable attention to his friends, in which he was ably seconded by Mr. Manby, the secretary, was beyond all praise. It is manifestly impossible, in so crowded an assembly, to point out every noticeable individual present. We, however, remarked, amongst the crowd passing through the rooms in the course of the evening, the Marquis of Quadra, Earl of Devon, Count Rosen, Baron de Bode, Bishop of Norwich, Lords Orford, Auck land, J. Stuart, and Littelton; Sirs IL Ellis, R. Schom berg, D. Blair, Gaspar Atkinson, C. Lemon, N. W Mock, J. Clark, IL Westmacott, N. Delabeche, C. Douglas, E. Ryan, W. Newton, P. Egerton, C. Adam, J. L. Goldsmith, R. N. Inglis, R. I. Murchison, W. Ross, J. Copley, and D. Norris, Captain Schwabe ; M.M. Diego Echappar, Hebeler, Helberer, Alexandroff, Pan cratief, C. Euystrom, S. C. Chuckerbutty, Bolanoth Bose, Gopal, Chunder, Seal, Parsee Students of Medi cine; the Very Reverends Deans of York and Westmin ster, Professors Grant, Wheatstone, Faraday, Forbes, Pryme, Grove, and Owen; Doctors Phipps, Playfair, Jelf, D.D., Billing, and Paris; Colonels Sykes and Stanhope ; Major Willock, Captains Ford, Miller, Swinny, W. Walker, Wenn, CI - 1z: ther, O'Brien, Couloff, and Gordan; Messrs. Gustraffon, Fuller, Cubitt, Glynn, Clarke, Varley, Woodcroft, Ditchbourn, Salter, Brett, Oldmixon, Archibald, Cochrane, Little, Wild, D. Smith, Comrie, Bergue, Leigh, Pla.nchi, Drory, Stevens, Kerner, Mylne, Hicks, H. P. Boul, Clarke, Archer, Applegarth, Cowper, Laxton, Herapath, C. Words worth, Whishaw, Lyall, Rivers, B. Cowper, Melon, Westmacott, Gamble, Webster, Horn, Merryweather, Buchanan, Hebeler, Pickering, C. Enderby, Bohn, Bronde, Ayrton, W. Cubitt, J. Field, G. Rennie, M. and J. Rennie, Turner, Ward, Landseer, Perigal, Baxen dale, Albano, Donthorn, Carpenter, Buckedon, Amyot, Windsor, Clowes, Knight, Shaw, Bichner, Beetham, Babbage, Stoles, Codrington, Jones, Adolphus, Roper Doyle, De Burgh, Herbert, Sharpe, C. Barry, Bartly, Blose, Lefray, Miller, Donkin, Grissell, Donaldson, M‘Garrell, Wright, Wyatt, Scanlan, Galloway, Alex ander, Smee, Estcourt, M.P., M‘Gregor, Lee, Leslie, Gravatt, Hanson, Penn, Brandon, Cooper, J. Smith, Bain, Young, Vulliamy, Grainger, E war t, Jee, Macready, Broderip, Murphy, E. Landseer, Leech, Chadwick, Jordan, F. Stone, Scharf, Ure, and Meek. TRAGEDY EXTRAORDINARY. —At the Queen's Theatre, in Manchester, on Monday, the sock and buskin were laid under peculiar contribution in the representa tion of King Richard 111. Mr. Wyndham took a benefit, which, we trust, really proved what it was hoped to be ; and a quintet of comic actors, including Messrs. Sloane and Wyndham, undertook the novelty of strutting through the crooked-backed tyrant, one act of the tragedy being apportioned to each actor. Of course so startling an announcement as five Richards in the field astonished the " gods," who, as the several tragedians appeared, scarcely knew whether to laugh or cry. At length the climax of the tragic farce arrived, Mr. Sloane dashing upon the stage as King Dick. In the midst of a very grave soliloquy the risible muscles of the audience were disturbed, and this in decorous facial expression in the midst of a solemn tragedy was quickly followed by a loud guffaw, which Richard's philosophy could not scorn. Hastily stepping to the front of the stage, and, with his well-trained tragic face, he said, " Ladies and gentlemen, pray don't think we are playing comically, for I assure you that we are playing tragedy as earnestly as we can. You'll oblige us much if you won't laugh." The people again hardly knew whether to laugh or cry; and in a few moments afterwards the curtain fell amidst peals of laughter. RELATIONS BETWEEN THE HOLY SEE AND ENGLAND.—The following is (in substance) taken from a private letter just received from Rome, and we believe may be implicitly relied on. When his Holiness heard of the defeat of Mr. Anstey's (or Mr. Watson's) Bill, he exclaimed Englandln,eesrenew igmey os—f now T ew h pp e l e at vahne that t sNuncio Cooi uonn sso n tn. rs o e f mwliatihw sending nsiEllinngn God bless Pope Pius LX.—The Tablet. Haymaking has commenced in the neighbourhood of Bath, and the cropi promise to give a fair average yield. The wheat plant _ also is looking strong and healthy ; the genial showers of the last ten days having materially promoted its growth.—Bath Gazette. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The late copi ous rains, and glorious sunny weather, have brought penal diplomaticn': to oee laws a t ar wte o i vegetation forward with extraordinary rapidity. The wheat, and grain, and potato crops, indicate a plentiful, and, we trust, an early harvest • the country presenting so far every appearance of a ' fine and prolific season. There is also a fine show of fruit, and the advanced period of :the year gives promise that the blossom is secure from further frosts or chilling winds. We are gratified to find that a similar state of things exists throughout the country, as expressed in the different local papers.—Nottingham Review. A WINNER ON THE DERBY.—An amusing inci dent is recorded of a winner on this race. A person at consent ya t t . o o,s, Pontefract having 500./.. depending on the event, in his great anxiety to have the earliest possible intelligence, hired a horse and gig and proceeded to the electric tele graphic office,atCastleford,a distance of three or four miles. Cossack being announced as the winner was such a stroke of fortune for him, that he at once lost all recollection of the manner in which he had come from Pontefract, and proceeded home again with all possible haste on foot, without it ever once crossing his mind that he had left his horse and gig, until he reached his destination and wanted a pocket handkerchief from his top-cot in order to wipe off the perspiration from his face I—Leeds Mer cury. John Gorman, Dennis Gorman, James Coffee, John Gilbert, and Catherine Gorman, were finally examined at Westminster Police .court, on Saturday, on a charge of com mitting a desperate assault upon the police, and Ellen Gorman was charged with attempting to rescue one of the other pri soners. The first five prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial on the capital charge of assaulting and wounding with intent, &c. • and Ellen Gorman , who was proved to have t r i ed to rescue her husband, was admitted to bail, Col:enel Dundas had au interview with Sir George Grey at the Haze -office yesterday. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS, May 31. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool saek at Five o'clock. Messengers from the Commons brought up certain public and private Bills. SCOTCH PEERAGE. Earl ROSEBERY moved that the returns which he recently moved for with respect to the Scotch Peerage should be printed and laid before the House.—Agreed to. DIOCESE OF KILDARE. The Archbishop of DUBLIN presented eighteen petitions from clergymen of various parts of Ireland, praying for the re-establishment of the bishopric of Kild are. _ HIS LORDSHIP also gave notice that it was his inten tion to bring in a Bill on the subject of the royal prero gative with respect to the establishment of separate dioceses in Ireland. PORTUGAL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that he hoped to be able to lay upon the table of the House a copy of the protocol recently signed in London by the Plenipo tentiaries of England, France, and Spain, on the subject of the arrangement with the kingdom of Portugal. FACTORIES BILL. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition signed by 5,000 of the traders and merchants of Nottingham against the Factories Bill. OXFORD AND BIRMINGHAM JUNCTION RAILWAY. Lord LYNDHURST moved the appointment of a Select Committee to consider the case of this company. Lord REDESDALE felt it necessary to call the at tention of their Lordships to this Committee, and the subject to be submitted for its consideration. There was no intention of working the line, but there was no means of defeating an Act of Parliament. In March last the chairman of this Committee possessed 220 shares, but he had since sold 170 of those shares. Mr. Russell, the chairman of the Great Western Railway Company, held 220 shares, of which he had sold 199 shares, and now only held 21 shares, having en joyed the premium upon the shares which he had parted with. Then there was Mr. Stephenson, who held 2,025 shares, of which he had parted with 1,848 shares, retaining only 177. It was repre sented that the directors held 3,545 shares, but they now held only 957. On all these grounds, then, he thought that the order for this Committee was dangerous, and ought to be rescinded ; and he trusted that their Lordships would not, therefore, vote according to their instructions, but according to the conviction of their own consciences. Lord LYNDHURST said that the object of this com pany was to make a line direct between Oxford and Bir mingham, in order:to obtain a:competing line to that town; and this he had stated to be the object when he presented this notice to the House more than six weeks ago. But what had the Great Western Company done ? They had used every effort to bring the line into play, but the North-Western Company had bought 8,000 out of 50,000 shares, with a view to obtain a command over the proceedings of the company. He begged their Lordships to consider the powers of the Birmingham, now called the North-Western Company—powers given it not only for the good of the shareholders, but for that of the public also ; and he begged that they would look at the abuse which had been made of these powers. Such was the conviction on his own mind that he would persevere in his motion. Lord BEAUMONT thought there had been a great misconception of the case before their Lordships. The case was not one bearing on the relative claims of two contending companies, between whom their Lordships were oalled to judge. That was a misconception. The motion so grounded, was wrong, and without precedent. If a case of a public grievance had been made out, that would have been a legitimate subject of public inquiry. But the miscon ception had arisen from the misstatements of the Noble and Learned Lord: He thought the principle of selection for the Committee was that which applied to a Committee sitting on an op posed Bill. But the case was one of public grievance, and the Committee ought to haw been appointed in the usual way, the Noble and Learned Lord himself being a member and a Chairman of the:Committee. Lord WHARNCLIFFE thought the case was one fit for, and requiring a sifting inquiry, how those mono polising abuses had arisen. Lord STANLEY said it was assumed by some of their Lordships that there had been a public grievance; but he denied that there had been any thwarting of the intention of Parliament, or public grievance. The Wolverhampton and Dudley Company had power to sell, and sell they did. But how did they come to Parliament? Was it as bond fide shareholders? They first contracted to sell to the Great Western; they afterwards sold to the North-Western at a premium ; and they wished, with this money in their pocket, to exercise their influence. These parties came asking Parliament to inquire into the facts. What, then, was the Committee to do ? They would inquire into the facts, and report upon facts already well known. What were the Committee to do, or what did their Lordships mean to do ? There was no fraud. The shares of the railway in question were in the market, and were brought up as those of another would have been. Looking at the whole he felt it necessary to call upon his Noble and Learned Friend to reconsider his motion. If he pressed it to a division he would certainly vote against it. Lord ASHBURTON did not mean to occupy their Lordships' time, but the question was one demanding the expression of opinion. This was not like any ordinary railway Bill, for it affected the great manufacturing interests of the north, and it was evident that when the business of that district could not be carried on by one line of railway, that they were entitled to two. If, then, a mistake had been made, was it to be said that when the subject came before their Lordships that this mistake was not to be considered in order that the error might be remedied ? But how did this affect the great companies? They gave power to raise capital for effecting certain public purposes, and yet all those purposes were defeated by the proceedings of a rival com pany. A certain Noble Lord had stated that out of the 50,000 shares 38,000 had beea bought up by a rival company. To this it was replied that those shares had been bought, not by the company, but by individuals connected with that company ; but when he (Lord Ashburton) saw that the individuals who had purchased these shares were persons who were chiefly interested in the property of the rival company, he could not help believing that the opposition arose out of the conduct of the company itself; and he thought that this was an element well worthy of the consideration of their Lordships. Lord BROUGHAM said that the statement on this subject had been made with the clearness which charac terised all the speeches of his Noble Friend, but yet, notwithstanding all that, it should be recollected that he had only stated three or four of the bare facts, and though they were important facts, yet such as only gave a very meagre view of the case. Their Lordships should further recollect that this decision was not arrived at on the moment, but declared after an adjournment, in order to afford due considera tion to the subject, and no doubt whatever had been expressed upon the result at which they had arrived. He cautioned them against changing their decision so lemnly come to, on any but the strongest grounds. Un less they did so they would destroy all importance at tached to the authority of the House. He would sup port the motion for the Committee. Lord WICKLOW saw no good reason for the ap pointment of the Committee, and would oppose it. The Gallery was then cleared for a division, when there appeared for the Committee— ' Content Not content Majority in favour of the motion — 7 FACTORY BILL. The House then went into Committee on the Facto ries' Regulation Bill, the Earl of SHAFTESBURY in the Chair. The Bill passed through Committee, and was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. ARMY SERVICE BILL. On the order of the day for the third reading of the Army Service Bill being read, The Marquis of LONDONDERRY protested against the measure as a most ruinous one, and he prophesied that in a few years the Government would be most anxious to retrace their steps. It was a most rash and in considerate experiment. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. The Duke of RICHM OND presented petitions from the parishes of Marylebone and Lambeth, praying for an equalisation of the poors' rates. The House then adjourned. . 29 22 HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 31. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: Bridge house Estates Debt. Cleveland•square, St. James's, Westminster, Improve ment. Commercial Gas-light and Coke Company. Dunfermline Waterworks. Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle Railway, and Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 1). Imperial Continental Gas Association. York Kingsnorton, Northfield, &c., Rates. Paisley an d R en f rew R a il wa y (Sale and Improvement). Payn e ' s P a t ents A ss i gnmen t. Plymouth and Tavistock Road (No. 2). Warrin g t on G as -li g ht an d C o k e . Wexford F ree B r id ge . Westminster I m p rove me n t s . roaches REPORTS. The foll ow i n g reports were brought up and a g reed to: Improvenment (Lendal Bridge an d A pp ). Airdrie and Bathgate Junction Railway (Amendment and Deviation). Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Railway (Cowlairs Branch). Glasgow, Paisley Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No 5. ) Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Branch to th e Caledoni an Railway and Diversion of Canal). Great Northern Railway (Extension to Leeds and Wake field, Deviation of Methley Branch of Wakefield, Pon tefract, and Goole Railway). Great Northern Railway (Purchase of Ambergate, Not tingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Rail- "Y, &c.) Great N or th ern R a il wa y (Branch to King's Lynn). Great North ern R a il wa y (Deviations bet ween Lond on and Granth am ). London (Ci ty ) S ma ll D e bts. Lynn and Ely R a il wa y (Lynn and Wormegay Naviga tion). Newbury Cemetery. North British Railway (No. 2). Royston and Hitchin Railway (Sale or Lease). THAMES CONSERVANCY. On the bringing up of the report on the Thames Con servancy Bill, Colonel T. WOOD moved that the proceedings of the Committee on the Bill should be laid before the House. I Agreed to. CONSIDERATION OF REPORTS. The reports of the following Bills were further con sidered and agreed to:— Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Railway (Alteration of Line and Branches to Nottingham). Glasgo'w, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 2). Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway, and Ayrshire and Bridge of Weir Railway (No. 3). London and South-Western Railway (Andover to the Bishopstoke and Salisbury Branch, &c.) Mac Duff Harbour. Metropolitan Sewage Manure. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway (Exten sion to Taff Vale Railway). Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway Devia tions. Sandwich Haven. Swansea and Amman Junction Railway. Waterford and Limerick Railway. BIRMINGHAM, WOLVERHAMPTON, AND DUDLEY RAILWAY. On the bringing up of the report of the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley Railway Bill, reporting that the preamble had not been proved, Mr. SPOONER moved that the Bill be recommitted, which was agreed to after a few observations from Sir J. Graham. LIVERPOOL, CROSBY, AND SOUTHPORT RAILWAY. Mr. BROWN moved, on the further consideration of the report from the Committee on the Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport Railway Bill, that the Bill be read the third time on Wednesday next.—Motion agreed to. LONDON-BRIDGE RAILWAY TERMINI. Mr. GREENE moved, that, in the case of the London-bridge Railway Termini (General Enlarge ment), petition for additional provision, the Examiner should have leave to sit and proceed to-morrow. Motion agreed to. COMMISSIONERS OF SEWERS. Mr. KEMBLE moved that the Examiners of petitions for private Bills have leave to sit on the examination of the petition of the Commissioners of Sewers for the limits extending from East Moulsey, in Surrey, to the Ravensborne, in Kent, for leave to bring in a Bill " to facilitate the effectual drainage of certain districts within the Commission of Sewers for the limits extending from East Moulsey, in Surrey, to the Ravensborne, in Kent," without giving seven clear days' notice of the day ap pointed for such examination.—Agreed to. NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE RAILWAY. Viscount INGESTRE moved, on the further conside ration of the report from the Committee on the North Staffordshire Railway (Alteration and Branches) Bill, that the Bill be read a third time on Wednesday next.— Motion agreed to. _ HEALTH OF TOWNS. Lord EBRINGTON presented a petition, numerously signed by members of the medical profession, praying that the provisions of the Health of Towns Bill should be extended to the city of London. MEDICAL REGISTRATION. Mr. WAKLEY presented a large number of petitions, praying the House to pass the Medical Registration Bill in the present session. POLICE ACT. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition numerously signed by beer-sellers against certain clauses in the Po lice Act. MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION BILLS. Mr. BRUCE presented various petitions against the Marriage and Registration Bills from different parishes in Scotland. MEDIC AL BILL. Mr. ORMSBY GORE presented petitions against the Medical Bill from Brecknock and other places, and pray ing that they be referred to a Committee up stairs. MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION BILLS. Mr. FORBES presented petitions from Presbyterians in Fife against the Marriage and Registration Bills. Mr. H. DRUMMOND presented similar petitions from other places in Scotland. Mr. LOCKHART presented similar petitions. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Mr. SPOONER presented 13 petitions in favour of the removal of Smithfield market. EDUCATION. Mr. BANKES presented petitions from 'various Dis senting bodies in Dorsetshire, praying for a participation in educational grants. HEALTH OF TOWNS BILL. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE presented petitions from Durham in favour of the Health of Towns Bill. EDUCATION. Sir R. PEEL presented petitions from the Roman Catholics of Birmingham, praying that they should par ticipate in the Government scheme of education. REGISTRATION AND MARRIAGE ACTS. Mr. SMOLLETT presented petitions from Dumbar tonshire and other places against the Registration and Marriage Bills. Mr. FORBES presented similar petitions from Stir.. lingshire. _ _ Mr. D. M‘NEILL presented several petitions against the Marriages Act. EDUCATION. Captain PECHELL presented petitions from the Roman Catholic clergymen and inhabitants of Brighton, praying to be admitted participators in the Government educational scheme. MEDICAL REGISTRATION BILL. Mr. HUME presented several petitions in favour of this Bill. Sir G. GREY presented a similar petition from Devonport. CATHOLIC EDUCATION. Sir W. MOLESWORTH presented a petition from the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Malton in favour of a participation in the grant for educational purposes. CHURCH AT HONG-KONG. Dr. BOWRING gave notice that he should inquire as to whether the grant of 6001. for a church at Hong- Kong, which appeared among the miscellaneous esti mates, had been duly considered by her Majesty's Go vernment. IMPRISONMENT OF A GIRL NAMED DAWSON, Mr. FERRAND gave notice that he should, to-morrow, move that the petition of John Dawson, complaining of the illegal imprisonment of his daughter, be printed with the votes. EXCISE. On the motion of Dr. BO WRING the following re turns were ordered :—Returns, in columns, of the gross amount of duty levied by the Excise, year by year, from the year ending the sth day of January, 1800, to that ending the sth day of January last, showing the rate of duty on each article, and the amounts received on each; of the net amounts paid into the Exchequer, exhibiting the cost of collection, year by year, as above ; of the number of Excise seizures in each year, as above, show ing the number of condemnations, the number that were tried, and the number compromised, the value of the seizures and penalties, the amount paid into the Exche quer, and the annual cost of Excise prosecutions. PENSION WARRANT. Sir H. DOUGLAS inquired of the Hon. Gentleman the Secretary at War if he had any objection to lay on the table of th House the late Pension Warrant? Mr. F. MAULE had no objection. CONVENTION BETWEEN FRANCE, SPAIN, AND PORTUGAL. Mr. B. OSB'JRNE wished to know from the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, whether the protocol, which appeared in the papers of this been entered respecting a convention which had entered into by this country with France, Spain, and Portugal for an armed intervention was authentic, and whether he was prepared to lay it on the table of the House ? Lord PALMERSTON replied that the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn had intimated to him that he in tended to ask the same question, and also several others upon the same subject. As far as the perusal of the docu ment enabled him to judge, ho was in a position to state that the protocol which had been published in the papers was a fair and proper translation of the one agreed to on Saturday week. He had no objection whatever to lay a copy of it on the table of the House. In answer to questions put by Lord G. BENTINCK, Lord PALMERSTON replied that all the papers re ferring to the proposed intervention would be laid on the table of the House in a short time, when the grounds which had led to the intervention would be set forth. There had been a British naval force in the Tagus, but no 'collision had yet taken place between them and the insurgents. As it would not be possible to go into Committee of Supply, if at all, till a late hour to-night, he hoped the Hon. Mem ber for Montrose would pospone his motion. Mr. HUME said that he was unwilling to postpone his motion beyond Friday, when he expected the papers would be laid on the table of the House. He would, therefore, postpone his motion till that day, if he ob. tained an assurance from the Government that this should be the first order of the day then. Lord J. RUSSELL intimated that the remainder of the estimates would be taken on Friday. Lord JOHN MANNERS asked if there had been any information received by Government respecting a collision between the British troops and the Portuguese insurgents? Lord PALMERSTON said there had been no infor. mation to that effect. Mr. HUME said, that under these circumstances he would take the discussion upon the subject that evening, and he hoped that one of the remaining items in the supplies would be postponed, that he might have an opportunity of bringing it forward. Lord J. RUSSELL said he was quite ready at any time to bring on the discussion, if the papers connected with the subject were laid on the table. He could not, however, permit himself to fix a day till the papers were in the hands of the Members of the House. Mr. HUME would like to know from the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs what were the papers which could not be ready. He thought a few days were surely sufficient to have them in readiness. Lord PALMERSTON said that every possible expe dition would be used in getting them ready, but in trans actions such as these a great amount of correspondence necessarily passed, and it took some time to prepare it to be laid before the House. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK said,perhaps the Noble Lord would also consent to lay upon the table of the House the proclamation of the Queen to her subjects. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he should have no ob jection to lay the proclamation before the House when the other papers should be produced; but he hoped the House would not come to any decision upon the subject until the matter was fully before them. There were the offers made by other Powers which the House could not be aware of, and he therefore did not want to give any papers which would merely suit the object of Honourable Gentlemen who asked for them. Lord JOHN MANNERS suggested the charter by which the Queen of Portugal held her throne should be included in the papers. BUSINESS OF THE SESSION. Mr. PiiikT desired to know what business the Noble Lord the Prime Minister intended to proceed with, end what to abandon ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL—In answering that question, I beg to remind the Hon. Member that I stated on Fri. day, after having given notice what would be the busi ness I should propose to take in the present week, that I would state further on this day what course we intend to take with respect to other Bills which are on the table; and I think it will be better that I should take those different Bills in the order in which they now stand, than answer at once the question which the Hon. Mem ber has put. One of the first Bills in the orders of the day is the Registering Births, &c. (Scotland) Bill. I stated with regard to that Bill, and another which is connected with it, before the holidays, either that they should come forward this day or be taken into consideration next Monday; but what I now propose to do is, seeing the state of business, and seeing the great objections that have been made to these Bills in Scotland, to fix them for Monday next as the first thing to be taker., and that my Rigbt Hon. Friend who brought them for ward should then state their general purport, and the reasons for which he thinks they are not liable to the objections which have been made to them in many quarters, and state also what is the shape in which we should wish them to stand; and, after that, we propose not to proceed with them during the present session of Parliament, but leave . them for further consideration in Scotland. With respect to another Bill which stands for to-night—the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Bill—l think it absolutely necessary for the duly carrying on the business before that Commission that some amend ment should take place in the composition of the Commission; but, at the same time, I find that the particular mode in which we have proposed that that amendment should be made has met with strong oppo sition from persons of the greatest authority in the Church; and, therefore, I mean likewise to leave that Bill for farther consideration, and to see whether I can not by some other mode, or, if necessary, by persevering in the present proposition, carry, in a future session, a Bill for the purpose of amending the mode of conducting the business of that Commission, affecting, as it does, not only the property of the Church, but affecting great numbers of laymen in this country.—(Hear, hear.) Next, with regard to a Bill which has excited a good deal of discussion out of this House, and to which many objections have been stated, but which has been now put into another shape—l mean the Railways Bill—we propose to take the second reading of that Bill on Mon day next, unless this urgent question respecting Portugal should interfere. On Thursday in next week we should propose to proceed with the English Poor-laws Adminis tration Bill, which is already fixed for that day; and on the Monday following, the 14th, we propose to go into Committee on the Health of Towns Bill. Those are the principal Bills which now remain for the consideration of the House; and this disposes of the time up to the 14th of June, and answers the question of my Hon. Friend. He asks whether, that Bill being liable to many objections in its details, we mean to persevere with it? My answer is, that we do think that Bill of very essential importance, and I trust that, though it may create a good deal of discussion in this House, the objections do not affect the principle of the Bill, and that we may be able to arrange the details in Committee; and I do hope to see it carried in this session. —(Hear.) Sir R. H. INGLIS wished to ask the Secretary of the Home Department what were the intentions of the Go vernment with regard to the Bill which was to regulate the stocking trade. Sir G. GREY said that he intended to move the se cond reading of that Bill this evening. Mr. E. DENISON said that he had heard with some regret the avowal of the Noble Lord that the Bill for the reformation of the Ecclesiastical Commission was with drawn for the present session. Lord J. RUSSELL said that if the Hon. Gentleman would bring forward his motion ' 'without impugning the conduct of the Commissioner s , he should not oppose it, Mr. J. COLLETT wished to know whether it was the intention of the Government to create a new bishop or bishoprics this session ; and whether they were to have seats in the House of Lords? Lord J. RUSSELL said that the Government intended to introduce a Bill into the other House of Parliament for the purpose of repeating part of the Act for uniting the Bishoprics of Bangor and St. Asaph, and also for providing a new Bishop for Manchester. It was not intended to add to the seats in th e House. Mr. C. BERKELEY said he had received a commu nication from the First Lord Commissioner of Woods and Forests informing him that he was as yet unable to give him an answer to his question respecting the Wel lington statue.—(Langhter.) He should like to know when the Noble Lord would be able to answer his ques tion. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he understood the Noble Lord would be able to answer the question on Tbur*day. ARMED INTERVENTION OF ENGLAND IN THE AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL. Mr. BERNAL OSBORNE said he had to object to the armed intervention of this country in the affairs of Portu • gal, ashe thought such intervention would be dangerous to liberty, and favourable to despotism, and he hoped his Hon. Friend the Member for Montrose would not be induced, by honied words, to discontinue the prose cution of his views on this matter. Mr. HUME said he had already stated his intention of bringing on the question on Friday next. He should feel, himself bound to avail himself of every opportunity of bringing the question forward. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, he could assure his llon. Friend and the House, that there was no wish on the part of her Majesty's Government to avoid this discussion, be cause the more the question was known the better the Government would stand ; but he did not think that the House should enter upon the question until certain docu ments, for which the Chancellor of the Exchequer would move, were laid before them. Mr. HUME said, documents or no documents, he would move for a Committee on Friday. Mr. B. OSBORNE said he would refuse all motions to go into a Committee of Supply till the question was brought forward. Mr. P. BORTHWICK said the Noble Lord's answer would produce a greater effect on Portugal than any force he could send out. Ho hoped, however, the Noble Lord would hasten the printing of the papers as much as possible. Lord GEORGE BENTINCK asked if the Noble Lord would have any objection to lay the papers on the table of the House in detached portions, for if they were so voluminous as had been stated, it would be impos sible for Hon. Members to read them in sufficient time. He thought, therefore, it would be a great convenience if his suggestion were attended to. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said they would be brought forward as expeditiously as possible. POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that in moving the order of the day for the consideration of the Lords' amendments on the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill he wished to draw the attention of the Speaker to the course adopted by his predecessor, Lord Dunatermline, when he was in the chair in 1838. He would therefore ask the Speaker to state what his opinion was of those amend ments, and how they affected the privileges of the Hou-e. The SPEAKER said he had no hesitation in saving that the amendments made by the House of Lords to the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill and the Landed Pro perty (Ireland) Bill were an infringement of the privi leges of this House. In 1838, when similar amendments were passed by the Lords to those they had introduced into the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill, the House agreed to waive its privileges, and it was for the House to decide whether they would adhere to that practice in the present instance. With regard, however, to the Landed Property (Ireland) Bill, there was no precedent for the guidance of the House, and the case was the more difficult to deal with, because the amendments re lated to funds to be drawn out of the Consolidated Fund, while in the other case the amendments related only to local rates.—(Hear, hear.) It was, nevertheless, for the House to decide in both cases what course should be taken. The order of the day for the consideration of the Lords' amendments to the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill was then read. Lord J. RUSSELL, in moving the consideration of the amendments, said the House would perceive that th e opi i o given from n theChair in wa i s B3B e . n — ti ( r H ely ear i ). o conformity withtheone given question was whether it was expedient that they should w a waive their privileges. Those cases to which reference had been made were of local taxation, in which the object in view was not taxation for any object of the State, but had merely in view local objects. With regard to the last of these, one of the chief amendments made by the Lords was the division of the taxation into what was termed electoral divisions, and that was an amend meat which had been agreed to by the House of Commons. It did materially alter the burden of taxation ; but con sidering that the object of this amendment was the same as that to which he referred, he was not disposed to think that they ought to press the point of privilege. But it was quite another question when they came to consider it apart from privilege, and they should take intoconsidera tion in what state the House of Lords had returned to them the Bill which they had sent up. That Bill was of a very important nature—it extended relief to all the old and infirm, whether in or out of the workhouse, a n d to the able-bodied poor outside , if the workhouse was f u l l. With regard to those two great principles, he found th at the House of Lords had left them untouched. There was the amendment proposed for the purpos e o f li m i t i ng the operation of this Bill to three years. Such a clause would have been most injurious, and he was glad to see that no such provision ap peared in the Bill. He was glad to say that all the main features of the Bill remained unchanged on its return to that Hou se . I t was true that the Lords had insisted that the out-d oor relief should be given by clause, which w d h iv io is h ion se ; em b e u d t theretocounteract o was, te however, ract th e om i ss i on of the clause which relieved the o another visions from the payment of these these rates. , The provision introduced by the Lords counteracted the evil which would arise from the omis sion made by the Lords ; and, considering that as a change which would not be injurious to the Bill, and that the Lords had agreed to all the main points of the measure ; and, considering also the necessity of the measure receiving he was sanction d th isp e osed to o I both Houses thi s re commend them to agree to the amendments. He did not object to the alteration which enacted that the landlords of the highest rating should sit upon the boards cf guardians ; but he thought that it was very unfair that the non-resident proprietor should have a nominee and a proxy. Thfit provision being very objectionable, he should propose to the House to dissent from it. T he other amendments refered merely to matters of mino r detail, and he hoped to see no essential alteration except that he had noticed in those amendments. He would therefore move that these amendments be now read. The amendments up to clause 11 were agreed to. On clause 11 being read, Sir D. NORREYS objected to the ame ndment. For some time previous to the introduction of the,pre sent poor. law, circumstances were in operation is Ire land which caused the ev iction of the poor tenantry from the rural districts, and caused them to settle in the towns. As soon as the law of settlement was duced it had the immediate effect of settling as a permane°. t burden upon the towns the poorer classes of the, g?_. nantry, who for so m e ti me previous had taken up th , el r residence there. He thought it a very great harcigng upon the towns that they were to be sacrificed to sins and failings of the agricultural proprietors. .°l:r. therefore moved they disagree with the Lords' ment to which he had referred. Mr. CALLAGHAN seconded the motion. Mr. S. O'BRIEN hoped that the House would. expel Elite the work of charity to be performed by th1a.,,,„ 13 . and that it would sanction the comparatively trin7i; alteration which had been made by the other House. it . did . not concur in the Right Hon. Baronet's tons, for he thought that the alteration introduced if! one of • a wise and beneficial nature ; and thereforT; should support the amendment as sent down to" House. • obsero rhich had driven M r. tCALLAGHANbe populationo f said e th r a u t r a t h l o d s ei districts vri. , fro m {eve r them, had driven them back t o di e of hungeratrdYfe Sir J. GRAHAM (who was with difficulty heard) 71.1., that the House did not seem to attach so muc h iinP a to ante to the Lords' amendments as he was disposei_es attach to them. He had concurred with the steps !a i a ti j o by the Government in many of the provisions al had Bill. The Noble Lord, in his speech of that evell in g'd 00 departed in no great degree from what he had stat { this a former occasion with respect to the operation o woo it t Haamh h nmoe a peu t eaasiteo t ort h net hs e rthtehhoore a feu l l t ofdp e Hop r are a ormnr t tuoa i , o sttoei n bfos s unt ttaswhwneiehdot were d c teoo h i tudwhtie h aasulp a .cmp d puoeel Tnaaabrths calculated been introduced measure. He was at the same time °I . op is that, under the circumstances of the c • — , ls ' instance there was a case of real and substantial g of great portion of the rural district had gene intedulto towns, and a provision of the Bill had been fr o l teoe hinder the unmitigated burden of their rea` n " .- 10 being thrown upon the town alone. That probe most s n el r r at t gores been omitted by the Lords, and therefore thosee chi' serious inconvenience was likely to arise to tricts with which this great influx of the rural r r f p of tion had taken place. The p ro l o nga we t t i oll o : n hti o Pm f uwi t tasabbeai:-n i e i LbiS e l l e f . residence was, in his opinion, more tha n d s eeo to be beneficial, and therefore the Lords to la° o was could like be b likely to prejudice doubt rejudic thetbeatto operationwnalike L o i f verp t h oo i a nd There ste-rof Glasgow were great sufferers under the present r e. for instead of the starvin g population of suppliedlrels ceiving relief in thei r own co untry, or be in g re te, by the parish auth or iti es w i t h money to et 131 0;,, America, they were se nt over to English se w _ ° r oi l, be P owing to a defect in the existing law of rego "' l sre, came irremovable paupers. He would, there h commend the Hon. Member for Mallow not w Press -iS amendment to a division. iorf tooe, Sir GERGE GREY, who spoke in a Yell tha t Of, of voice, was understood to concur in muc h t A - j u st Or fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman who " s ' . l o oticr' down. He should be unwilling to consent ton bad ment of the Lords, if it were calculated tosod' tice upon this country ; but he, f or one, did 17 t or I cipate so distressing a result, although he did p ot gether agree with the whole of the clause. f, Course it should be found to work badly , of cou n to c would be amended ; and it would be el Y t ° o tbs understanding that he should consent the omission of the clause. The importance of.o so great, and the advantages it was likely toconr tt ill efetepro Ireland were so direct that it behoved t he Sous it without further delay. a g M re r a . t L e E b F ab ß g O e Ybeafedrmeiitttecdoutlhdatbelprelalcaendd i h a ad a p. to ro : sa ri pv - d ee e ro rg i n state, and he sincerely hoped this Bill here wollicl u w ere effect of producing that change. No doubt t onstrate; defects in the Bill, which experience would derowe d be but when these defects were discerned the alto no difficulty in remedying them. He owned th at Bill stood in its original form he sh tical as to its success, and he must, therefore, en dmeat t4 Government for having accepted the Lords' ti the large WY Sir R. H. INGLIS really thought, a fter former o jority that voted in favour of the clause on tt_ casion that the House would stultify itself if it b o red it to be committed. Besides, from what he the from the few words just addressed to the House to Right Hon. Gentleman, the Secretary of State_ t o o! , he Home Department, it did not appear to him th Right Hon. Gentleman altogether approved of the went hheeth:nkthere sion, but excused himself for adopting the amen ,hued upon the ground that it might be altered if it was J.„ to to render the Bill inoperative. Now, it did not seeTbe him to be right to legislate in that manner, 0° 4 , 0 thought that before the omission were acceded to, _,"" 0 House ought to have a conference with the Lords tir the subject. Lord C. HAMILTON could not consent to t ( 1/ ,: amendment of the Hon. Gentleman, the Member ' Mallow, and he trusted, therefore, that it would be w tit drawn. If the clause should be found to operate w l i o hardship another opportunity would be afforded the ln io s amend it, and he thought they could not do othere i o than adopt the course recommended by her Mai ° Government. Mr. BELLEW thought that the House would do we ll to accept the Bill as amended. Lord G. BENTINCK could not understan d the argligig; ment, that this clause would tend to flood England the Irish paupers. He could not see how relieving to paupers by electoral districts or by unions could w ish so send the paupers into this country. He did not 117,1 that go over the whole debate, but he certainly thougp _. te e the smaller the extent of district over which the ; be were to be levied was, the greater care woulSeere/al in employing the population of that distric t. trif lll4 thought that if the House were to strain at these 000 amendments, after having swallowed the ame n ho ld be introduced by the Lords in the year 1 838, it ser strangely inconsistent. He should most certainlY port the Bill as amended. (10 0 1 1 Sir H. W. BARRON thought that the atno°,, introduced into the Bill would go far to remedy t.eneits of the Bill, when sent up to the Lords, of the eltfr oo' rating. He did not think that there was °l n t' tb! Member unconnected with towns or borough g , "woo', country who could bring forward any argume nt : n .,,dior a° of union ratings. It was most unfair to the ise• tjle that they should be called upon to pay a rate • f°•,tbicti support of the poor over an extensive territory' iii p t spw h peeer e cer y etdeai c dt o o e u fra l e d i. at rhm not preparingeT e eth x hr e etgr rcise the slightest control over 6 1 - f icis oohwusageshlrloaauatt rates is ttpresenthhweehi their which ohs a ut general onettkrhy:yaaand dv ii e : E p i e ° S bour : and holding i n suc called upon to pay. Numbers of the - small !,, Br- tot landg ab ra d te wre fr tc o b m edn a ess, provement. In this state of pleased that the amendment had gn n t sh o i ist p rec r o o od s us vu n necteed _ r et;o1 e tt }l br Y : Lords. He had always been the supporter of %%Do law f . o t r ba l d rel n a o n t d, pa a s n s d ed the a House h t vv ha it t h i poor-law was itt out no state of respect to the paupers flooding greatlysome t yearse • as natural that the poverty of Ireland should fount mid' property of that country as for the sun to shine t. day. No law could prevent Irish paupers coming to two country so long as the union existed between thews, countries. Ireland had been treated by Hon. blew caner' and the press of the country, in a most insolent Mto, Mr. CURTEIS confessed to being on e of those H o v o " Members, whose conduct had b een insolent t 0,;,, Ireland, if to be insolent was to speak in terms of rer o , bation of the habits and the character of the Irish P: o f pie. With respect to the amendments of the 1-lons, Lords, he thought that there was a small clique or ;R e tion in the House of Lords, who would gladly h e ave ladiv t out of the poor- law altogether, and wou ld g- not the poor to be supported by this country. aid pas ° , think that the House of Lords dared to rel tle o ne the Bill if it were sent up with the amendments exe m otion' If the Hon. Member should divide upon his e to should most certainly vote with him, Mr. P. SCROPE thought that it would be h ,,, eit e e fi " ti agree to the amendments, than risk the fate of tu obs els by sending it back to the Lords, where it w as P r o tern that other amendments, of no more favourable 0 s uch would be introduced. He did not anticipate alietioes serious effects from the operation of the amen a beel In the counties of Cork and Mayo, evictions b e e , 11 going on to a most alarming extent, several vae ° been actually raised to the ground for the Pule lll clearing the ground, and the unfortunate PeOefoic f cast on the world, to find their resting plaeet.t Or o bes with famine, und e r th e h e d ges , and in the dl ho d their native eountry, where their ances tors sided for many years in ease and : 0 0 0° :.. The electoral division system of rating was 5 r to the Irish landlords to clear their estates, from tbvi , the poor had been driven to the towns, 0,1 t r, bear' t . would be shipped to the English ports.—C r iee sai h° 4 from Mr. Fitzatephen French.) Did the aco 00 for Roscommon know the way in which rite► corporations subscribed half a crown per beau ,(0 8 ' 1 " port the Irish paupers to the English shores. d db hear.) This was a fact. pier of Dungarvon, and he could not help regrettingiteuscodp4 Mr. SHEIL said that he was Member for the . b i f e t th.! amendment introduced in the Lords was aecl! ge otaa," o by the Government.—(Hear, hear.) The retru system was most defective, and he observe ture than the landed proprietors, becauso,:ve'retne:i towns always received more attention from thle';'llo_,l better represented. He conceived that the Lx_L be d b'e were right in their original intention, and he w" go had persevered in it, Gentleman he could bear out the statements _we'll had made with reference to the influx of Pa ll P en tepr, Mr. B. OSBORNE said as a constituent of tr io the town of Dungarvon. But if the Hon% the ren felt so very strongly the defective state otbola, sentative system, he, from his high position,,,T;ilystel He wa s f of rating was most unjust and unfair. ;00 o sefit. to bring forward some definite proposition • icmototo: that the Noble Lord would, in the next ~e s . • coa s ' • should be entirely revised. eert ol° tbsi dere - v Mr. LABOUCIIERE said, that from d liament, have to come down and beg that the be cons' e munications which he had received,_ to n or there were some points in which the sr cate,, t boy . . fl veal e tO ••ae "r^ en should be considered. With re erenc tin Lora 0 which had been made to him, respec g , e l Gr'd might be revised—and when the proper time and the charge which Ur. Scope had maw' a • :~ A I