The Sun. — London, England, 1853-02-16 00:00:00

P 'HE FRENCH EMPIRE. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday. They all contain long descriptions of the opening of the Legislative Chamber ; but as the speech of the Emperor, which we gave yesterday, could be the only point of interest to the English reader, it is unnecessary to make any more extracts further than to state that on the arrival of the Empress every one rose to receive her. Her Majesty wore a ruby-coloured dress, and had on a whit e s ilk bon . net t r i mmed with white marabouts. She was re ceived with loud acclamations, which continued until she had taken her seat. Immediately after the E mpress had tak en h er p l ace, the officers of the i Emperor's hou se h o ld en t ere d and took up their Places n the embrasure of the window behind the Inrone. An assistant master of the ceremonies, as the announced " The Emperor," the whole of 4 .. ti! persons still remaining standing to receive him. -1 1 1 - 18 Majesty wore the uniform of a general of divi sion with the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour, and having the simple cross of the Legion and the ral litarY medal on his breast. He took his place in frentbf the throne, having on his right Prince Jerome the in the uniform of marshal, and Prince Napoleon in that of a general of division. On the left of this latter was Prince Lucien, in his costume of S ena t or. His Majesty then, having taken his place on the throne, said, " Gentlemen, be seated." This being done, his Majesty read the Speech. ,agAt the clos e o f th e speech the oat h o f fid e lit y was inin istered in due f orm t o th e sena t ors an d depu ; 'Les Present. The form of the oath was this—" I swear ob e di ence to the Constitution and fidelity to Emperor." His Imperial Highness the Prince Jerome took the oath. The Ministers and the Pre :bsident of the Council of State also took the oath titefore the Emperor. The following gentlemen ie wise took th e oat h i n presence o f hi s M a j esty, ', Mi nister of Stat e , an d th e Mi n i s ter of Justi ce : M. de Royer Procur eu r-General of the Court of Cessation ; I VL. Routand, Procureur-General of the Imperial. Court of Paris ; M. Le Baume, M. Le lid, and M. C ordoen, Procureurs-General of the 4e TAerial C our t s of Agen, Nancy, and Orleans. At -QVeeting of th e L eg i s l a ti ve B o dy y es t er d ay, th e •enlsident announced that he had received from s o r a lett er conce i ve d i n t erms so i mproper that he considered it his duty to abstain from read ltn ° ig._it in publi c . "M . B ou hi r, " he sa i d, " is free ti l g i ve in his resi gna ti on , b u t it i s not perm i tte d at he should protest against the will of the nation and the Constitution." Mr. Bouhir exclaimed a ga i ns t th e i n t er p re t a ti on ascribed to his words, but the President ordered nisa. to be silent, and declared that if during the ile lt fifteen days he had not taken the oath re quired by the Constitution he should be considered 48 ha ving resigned. After this incident the Assembly rose. t ai , -A- „ company has b een organ i se d i n P ar i s t o es t tab a line of screw-st ea mers immediat e ly be weep. Bordeaux. Havre, Dieppe,. and Rouen. The Yetas e l s • each. be about 400 tons and 100-horse power hid valuabl e pa i nting by Poussin, for many years e n unsuspect e d, h as b een f oun d a t th e c h urc h of Notre Dame de Lamballe (Mayenne). The sub 3„eieb is the Descent from the Cross." By a sim -1" operation. the picture has been restored t o a , condition, and it is said to be worth at least ,0 00 francs. report of the comm itt ee a pp o i n t e d t o con 131der the "fusion " of the Eastern and the Nor dY railroacls, just about to b e p u bli s h e d, i s iscolared to be favourable to that project. thThe Moniteur of this morning states, that a few es a go/ during a debate in the First Chamber of nu Prussian. Parliament, M. Thadden-Triglaff was it o cl t,ing sonae expressions from the Emperor Napo address on the announcement of his intended 14.te cage, when the (Prussian) Minister of the agai r, ascended the tribu ne and protested raixe llst a the name of a friendly sovereign being tr aet ; d. llP in their discussions. M. Triglaff re- The Moniteur Moniteur mentioned yesterday that a letter 14.111,the Emperor ofaussia had been delivered by Somm e tie ICasseleff to the Emperor of the French. 1,4 t he e —osity is manifested salt. to the precise nba tho of that communication. s described ( y at t s ) : Who profess to know something of what passes rap, e : _ e ° l rt) as a letter of merely formal compli tiae reply to one announcing the marriage of o f the ineror ; and, moreover, that in return a bust I'ete l_ 2l nPress is about to be forwarded ,to St. t ri l :". L .,_urgh as a present to the Czar. Lo o ud '44cel lencY Lord Cowley has left Paris for - r t luatitute yesterday. Lord Brougham was his 1 ° L e . Paraenc his paper on light, and had all 2:615-Zeal and e eora - - the black etrical figures prepared on Pressu re o u f ea jd§. when, learning that there was a tested e i uusiness, in consequence of the con there ectien-0 la naember, and a secret committee g of .",t he decided on adjourning the further read lirou paPer u n til hi s re t urn t o P ar i s . L or d guara left Paris thi s morn i ng f or L on d on . co " appears that the cold weather which has lately L .... 111111 ellced in P ar i s i s general throughout the 71-latry, and private letters fro m B ez i ers s t a t e th a t tetation there is completely checked. The Bourse opened yesterday with ever y ~ ranee of a further rise in the price of public se lrities, and the Three per Cents., which were first ca j ed at 60f. 25c., rose to 80f. 40c. Some large dies We re made subsequently, it was said by cer -1;11, extensive speculators, who determined to tl i dllse the profits they had made by purchasing at o e lowest rates of last week, and the Three per - h ell t B . fell to 791. 85c., and closed at 79f. 90c. for f i te end of the month. A report circulated of a b -k 4,1 ex' reduction of the interest upon the Four- T - 1 1 ‘ 4-4- balf per Cents. added to the depression. L A ° Pour -and-a Ralf per Cents. closed at 105 f. 60c. i ea ntil Railway shares closed at 1,021 f. 25c. ; %V; 080 f. ; Havre, 480 f. ; Great Northern, Paris and Strasburg, 782 f. 50c. ; Paris and a l l' a e118 ; 880 f. ; Western of France, 7101. ; Bordeaux C ette, 57f. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 608 f. 75c. ; ea of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 7601. SPAIN. ti At Madrid, on the 10th, the result of 307 elec deb—„w, as known. The number of the Ministerial riV 3l , - I ,_" e s Was 244, that of the Moderate Opposition ti. — uers 44, and. that of the Progresista Opposi .4l 19. ° 11 41 3r 42 elections remain undecided. Thr e T hree per Cents. were done at 411 ; the New Per Cents, at 22 15-16 ; the Debt of the First at 10 ; and that of the Second at sg. TELE The INSURRECTION IN MILAN. -4 cl ai , Gozette publishes the following_pro bardo.." addres se d t o th e i n h a bit ants of the Lom 011 v enetian kingdom : Iv a `-'n the night of the 6th of this month, a band of eeve„rea', armednwith stilettos, 'traitorously attacked Xil -4 qaeers and soldiers in th streets of the city of or l an) ten of whom have died, and 54 have been more 1 14 0 4 rs a k tiOusly wounded. Penetrated with th e d eepes t 48 4 . ga inst the mo s t infamous of all crimes—salaried 4za.. ko ation—l am o bli ged to take severe measures f it oisY the city o f Mil an , and consequently, i n con - With my Ws p roclamatiOn of the 9th of J u ly, 1851, I th e - Ze fo llo:-1. The city of Milan is subjected to *ithlist rigorous state of siege, which shall be enforced 2. All" its consequences, and with extreme seventy.— tic% " strangers whose conduct is open to . suspi be expelled from the city of Milan.— te,,a'hue City of Milan shall provide for the main ef ti: e e of the families of the killed, and for . that w°llnded during their lifetime.-4. the iihalig?.tors and abettors of the crimes . committed c am. , na-re been arrested and punished, the city of Milan . 13 0 4 4ortribute an extra pay to the whole of the garn s _ese ev Mi lan, which has suffered considerably during i "° th e ',-,ents. Nevertheless, persons notoriously devoted Government shall be exempted from this contri serverl, ta Whatever class they may belong.-5. I re kilant° 111 3 , self the right of inflicting upon the city of furthe, according to the result of my inquiries, any further Penalty or contribution it may have jus ly d tubed t ln order to tranquillise all the inhabitants, 11, 1 that p u bli c tranquill i ty h as no t b een dis anY other part o f the kingdom. " Chi' a nd Mi li tary Gove rnor -General of the Lo mbardo-Venetian Kingdom, 'c Field-Marshal RADETZ Ky B p e b . 9 -tk„._ , . th4..,lna order of the police pe,... "ueatres are provisionallY closed. a waiter, of Milan 0 f t Th he e B s t e h v a e l n l a. 4ons executed consist of two joiners, 4ourney na°l.ter, a typefounder, a hatter, and a J Dt,ll butcher. Th . ere being no gibbet ready, the r o , or -was. shot instead of being -----..""nged' of the gates aTTh© Opmione of Turin states that to 9, 1 ? . have been reopened. The police, according the Ari ac , -1B PaPer, are stifl making new arrests, and L ee -11 3 are ao full that 'the prisoners for debt have The 11 released t room for the others. 4:1 4 „ . o make moupieds,. aver (4 to Tosa has been militarilY 44 ,, y ,11i 0 ,? the public edifices and the principal house kat .41ndred soldiers are quartered in the Palazzo and Ac ted others in the Palazzi d'Adda, Sornam, Ivilichcent The the of the houses before tiead,tile Paving had been taken up to make bar 4Pe w itla have been ordered to get the streets .4.-1,-Ired aetheir own expense, as they ought to for 3 ° PPesed the making of barricades, and in t7d. the authorities. The gates are open from L ln lli n ,:, ; ° 8 P.m. 'Workmen living in town, but klo -3 l'g t° manufactories outside the gates, are I,l,o_,lved to return later through certain gates, if torilded with certificates from their masters, coun 4Rtued by the proper military authorities. the p!legraphic dispatch from Milan of the 9th, in ~,,tnna Gazette, is as follows :-- her.l-4e most perfect tranquillity continues to reign ' a lcid in the provin Tim) iudiguAtio4 'which the cm. attempt has inspired being general, the punishment rapidly inflicted upon seven of the guilty has produced the most salutary effect. The Municipal and Provincial Council of Milan has sent in addresses of devotedness. The administration of Government goes on as usual." Letters from Novara of the 10th, in the Opinione of Turin, state that all the refugees living in the communes adjoining the frontier of Lombardy have have been ordered to remove either to Vercelli or Casale, at their choice. The Vienna Gazette of the 12th publishes the contradiction addressed by the Government to the Presse, which had accused the French Government of having fomented the disturbances at Milan. The Presse of the 10th contained an article in which it said clearly enough that the French Government had excited the outbreak. " That article ap peared," says the Gazette, "at a period when the Presse could not have yet received any intelligence from Milan, and the telegraphic dispatches in no way justified such an offensive supposition. It re sults from this state of things, that this monstrous accusation against a Government, on friendly terms with Austria, only had birth in the imagination of the editor of the .Presse, who must be made to answer for it." MONTENEGRO. The New Prussian Gazette has a letter from Vienna, of the 10th, stating that very favourable accounts have been received of the mission of Count de Leinengen at Constantinople, relative to Mon tenegro. Tho writer says that the Divan had ac ceded to the propositions of Austria, and sent orders to Omer Pacha to suspend hostilities. A letter from Vienna of the 9th states, from Montenegro, that the Austrian corps of observa tion has taken up its position on the banks of the Enna. ITALY. The Questor (Director of Police) at Turin, in c om pli ance with directions received from the Mi nister of the Interior, has issued a notice, calling upon all the political emigrants now in that capital, to present themselves within two days before the police, to deliver up their old permis de sejour, and receive new ones, in case they can prove their (rood conduct and sufficient means of livelihood. More over, no emigrant shall leave the commune in which he lives without a written permission. Any emigrant removing from one lodging to another in the same commune must inform the police of the fact within twenty-four hours. Transgressors of these rules are liable to arrest, and even to ex pulsion from the State. Similar precautions have been also adopted by the Questor of Genoa. In its sitting of the 11th the Piedmontese Chamber of Deputies concluded the discussion of the bill on the personal and furniture tax, and voted it by 79 votes to 47. It also voted, by a majority of 108 to 3, a bill authorising the Govern ment to levy 250 sailors for the royal navy. In the Senate, the bill for the issue of two millions of francs rente on the public debt, was passed by 43 votes to 6. Three bills were afterwards brought in, viz., Ist, for the better regulation of bills of exchange, and bills to order upon persons not con cerned in trade ; 3 dly, for the re-organization of the Chambers of Commerce ; 2dly, for the cession of certain dominial property to the town of Novara. The Ticini Gazette states that the Government of that canton has consented to pay a pension of about 1,500 f. each for three years to the Lombard Capuchins who have been expelled from their con vent. A similar pension is granted to the Sardi nian monks of the same convent. . The Pope, on Candlemas-day (the 2d), made, according to usage, a solemn distribution of conse crated wax candles amongst •different Sovereigns. The Holy Father set apart one for her Majesty the Empress of the French, although he had not re ceived the definitive news of her accession. NOW TO "FIX" THE CABMEN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,--While you are fighting the battle, which thou sands in this metropolis hope will end in a victory that will give them a mile ride in a cab for Gd., allow me to - suggeSt in the meantime a very simple and inexpensive plan that will secure what has hitherto .been an impossi bility, viz., paying only for the actual distance you are carried, at the present high rate of Bd. per mile. It re quires no ingenious or complicated machine to record the revolutions of the wheels, and will effectually prevent " cabby " attempting " to do a stranger or unprotected female " by driving them a long way round instead of the shortest cut, or any of the numerous ways that they now impose on the public, lam quite willing to allow that frequently cabmen themselves do not know the dis tance they have driven, and in such cases an honest driver will be glad to have a certain rule for his fare to any part of London. It is this :—At every cabstand have a map of London—say twice the size of the one in Brad shaw—with the names of the streets, &c., very clearly printed : each stand is its own centre, or starting point, round which, on the map, a number of circles in red ink are to be described—the first with a radius of one mile, and a person going to any spot within that circle pays Bd. ; the second with a radius of a mile and a-half, to any spot between the first and second red ink lines is., being considered a mile and a-half fare ; the third circle with a radius of two miles, 16d. fare ; and so on to any dis tance from the starting point. A double line three miles from the Post-office would show the distance for which back fare could be demanded after 8 p.m. These maps to be put up in a painted wooden frame, with a glass to protect them from wet or fingering, and placed against a wall or railings, as may be convenient ; a small jot of gas with a shade, as at jewellers' shops, will enable a person to ascertain his fare by night as well as day. The waterman might earn a legitimate penny by explanations and showing the stranger that he was going in the right direction. Now, here is a cheap, effectual, and quick remedy for a great evil ; no act of Parliament or ponderous civic board to set in motion ; nothing wanted but a map in a frame that a few shilling? will pay for, even if done in superior style. The cabdrivers, of course, will oppose it, and try and destroy the maps, but that can be easily stopped by the police. A practical friend, to whom I mentioned the subject, objected, that I took a straight line to measure my distances, instead of following the streets as a cab must do ; but I reply to this, that, although some will occasionally go to the very edge of a. red line, and then get alit to save ,the increased fare, others will stop 200 or 300 yards short, especially within the first mile. Should that, hoVevt'r, be a valid objec tion, it is easilkobviated by striking the circles at 7i or even 7 furlongs apart, instead of a full mile, to allow forthe angles. The public do not want anything beyond what is fair to the cabdriver, but they do want to be carried a mile and a-half for a shilling, which they cannot at present get without incivility of some kind. Let a stranger take a cab from Trafalgar-square to the Colliseum, he would be asked 2s. ; but might, by a show of determination, get off for is. 6d. By this plan he would see before he started that it came within the shilling distance, and be saved the trouble of any alter cation. The whole cost for maps and gas cannot amount to much : but if there are no funds that can be applied to so desirable a purpose, I am sure there are thousands of gentlemen and ladies who will contribute their half crown with pleasure, as they would save it in the first week. Trusting that you will continue the struggle unti fares are brought down to 6d. per mile, and urge this plan ; if you see nothing objectionable, I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, IL It. Feb. 14. SURREY BACHELORS' BALL—We perceive that the h sp a l v e e nd b i e d en H p a l l a l e o e f d C a r t m he er d c i e s , p and osal tohfe the "Surrey o s f u a rr n e t y e-room Bache lors," whose annual ball will take place on next Thurs day, in aid of the funds of the Walworth Literary and Scientific Institution. The arrangements made by the stewards are such as must promote the comfort and in sure the approbation of the visitors. Weippert's full band, including those eminent performers, Messrs. Bosisio, Baumann, Maycock, and Prospere, has been en gaged, and the services of Mr. Frampton secured as master of the ceremonies. It is to be hoped that the laudable object of the promoters of this festive meeting may again receive the liberal aid that has on former occasions rewarded their exertions ; and that the spa cious Hall of Commerce may on next Thursday be filled with the friends and patrons of literature, and the votaries of Terpsichore.—Sunday Times. AUSTRALIA.—A person, rejoicing in the ,name of Brice, last wee k v i s it e d G a i ns b oro, and issued a prolific supply of handbills, promising an exhibition in the old hall of a panorama of views in Australia, America, &c., several th ousan d f ee t i n extent. On Friday evening the sroomight of was somer o w v d e e r ( 3 l ,. , a n nd f er o t r h ea viewsud audience nbcye means s t treated a t: magic d t a a o n f d g r a a e n t a u r r , e r o h n e t e o m r r a ic, a t n i o d n g t e o o g r A n u s p h t y r a 1 a h , e a t l o i o k k e d l a e n s t t i e t r n u ie his audience across the Pacific and round Cape Horn to Australia) but at the same time containing some wholesome advice, which, however, by means of the newspapers and other sources, had l ong b een patent to all the world. At the close, a series of views for the delectation of the juveniles was shown. This called up Mr. Davies, who loudly contended that Brice had not kept faith with the public, not having exhibited what he had promised in his bills, and was therefore guilty of a fraud which ought to be exposed. Brice could not deny the "soft impeachment," but said he was only an agent—that the bills were stereotyped, but should be altered. This was a nice quarrel as it stood, but the lecturer adopted a novel mode of defence by stating that he had given 801. to Mechanics' institutions, and worse than all he had given half-a-crown to a Mercury correspondent to write him "a flaming paragraph ;" and on being questioned, said the transaction had taken place at Grantham. This state ment was transmitted to our correspondent at that place, and he remarks—" With regard to Brice, I never even saw him, nor had any communication with him, or any one in connection with him, or with any one on his be half, and had any consideration been offered to me I would have refused it, as I invariably have done such offers as calculated to destroy the independence neces sary to a newspaper writer." Mr. Brice says in his bills that his object is not to make'money but to diffuse use ful information, and the above is a specimen of his powers in that line, and seems to be of the Frenchman's opinion, Skurtfvrci Mercury, , that " nothing is so treacherous as figures except facts!" TTIE S.HARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. ItAnweJe. 'Closing Prices Yesterday Business done this day. lAberdeen • Ambg Nottng. Bost & Eastn. Birmng. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons Do., £2O Bristol & Exeter Caledonian. ... .... Chester & Holyhead! Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. 1 - , ""nss Drblin&Belfast anc Dune ee Perth &Aber ' deep Junction all 'Do. New all East Anglian (L 25 L E & L. et D.) all :Do., (,- 1 ..18 E. & all:Eastern Counties all!Eastern Union, Class A. lai,o E. U. El.— 8i Do., do.. all 'Do., B. ..;t C........... .00 East Lancastr'e East & West Ind. Dk. & Bix ming. June 1 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 1i Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edinb.Prth.&Dundee 100 Glasgow & S.Western 100 Great Northern Stk 100 'Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire.) 100 Great Western 11 I . rieh South-Easters. all IL a ncaste & Carlisle 14100., Thirds... 100 ILancash. &Yorkshir 15 i Do., Fifths . ...... 11.1 j Do., Wst. 'tiding Un. all ;Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt. London & Blackwall 'Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. r...ond.Bright.&S.Cst , London &N. Western, 00. Fifths Do. JUR.. &8... C London & . Nestern Po., £4O all iLnclndr, Ooleiaine, all 111,:dvdrry <Sr. Ennisk.l 100 1111 - lneh.She & Lincln., 4i Do. Man. &Lin. lin. 100 gidiand . . • 100 Do. Birm:ng.&Derb: 47i15fidland )o. 2 Slr all iNeweas:le 100 iNewmarket 'Do. Br y 11... Newpt.Aber_. I,Newry & Newry Wauenpoin & Rost cvor N0rr01k.......... ,Northn. Countic 3 Jn North Bri;:ish ..... . North Devon, No.l Do., No. 2 Do., A Deferred... Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire.. North Western........ N. & S.Westrn. 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St, 5 jpo. 4 p. c. Shares 1100 ICalcdoni,-.1.1 all ,Cheger & Holyhead Guar. 5: per cent • 34 7;o ,•k&Ba ndon N p.c. all 'Dundee 'e t'i&A;icr deem C 10s) 6 por cent Do. 7 per cer L• • D 6. 17s) 7 p. et Eas;.ern Court% , tens;on, p. c. No.l Do., No. 2....... ..... . Do., New 6 p. c. Easi,ern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent EastLaucash. 6 p.cts Edinb.Prth.&Dundec 5i per cent Glak;, , ow & S.Weltern, guar. 5 per cent... ,Great Northr. 5 p.c 'Do. 5 p. c., Rcdoew., at 10 p. c. prem Gt. Southn. &Weltu ' (Irelard) , Gt. Westn. Oaks & IHants Ex. 5 p. c.) G. West. fixed. 4j, p c I Lan. &York. F. £20,1 IDo., 6 p. c., London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. Frei:, 5 p. c. St Do. Convertib'o, 5 p c., 1852 Do. New Gr'tr. 6 p.c. London & S. Western, Con. Thirds Londonderry& Coler Shares Londy. & Ennis. Sh Manch.,Shef., & Lin., i Shares, No. 1 Do. New, £lO Do., £6. ... Marypt.&Carl. 4p. c. I Do. 4i per cent ! Do Mid. Consol. 6 p. c: St. Do. Consol. Bristol clt l Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 41 per cent Norfolk Extension Do. Guar. sa• pet. ct Do. Way. Val. 5 p c North British North Staffordshire Oxford Worcester di Wolverh. £15,6p. C. Do.. • Shrews& Bina. N. G. Shrew sby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent (South Devon 'Do. New IS. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 Os.6d. S.Yorksh.4p. c. Guar. Waterfd.&lolk.6p.c. York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.c.Pref Do York& N. Midland H. & S. Parch FORE: 3 lAntwerp&Rotterdam 3 BelgianEastu. Junct. all Charleroi & Erquelin. 6 Dijon and Besanon 8 Dutch Rle iish all 'East In Tian 1 Do. 11xtension all .Gt. Indian Peninsula 7 Lid. Juliet. of France 15i Gt. Western of Canada Shares 1 iLucca & Pistoja sp.c i ! pref.... .... • ..... 15 Luxembourg 10 Do. (Rti.ilwa y) 2 jDo. Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. et. Pr ef-- Lyons & Mediterran: .11adras Namur & Liege (wish interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds (;my. B. &A ms. 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Van Diemen's Land ••• 55 -- ••• -. 15 - 1 , r , 240 5i 54 573 3 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DA T.) LONDON, Feb.l6.—Wind at Noon, N. 1A) N.N.W., light breeze, and fine clear weather. DEAL, Feb. 15.—Wind, N.W., fair. Arrived—Yssel, Java, for Rotterdam ; Elizabeth, Micke oil, for Amster dam ; Demerara, Berbica. Arrived ' fr, m the River— Eliza Thornton, for Singapore ; Salida., Rio Janeiro. Arrived from the River, and sailed—Allan Olale, for Sydney, New South Wales ; Abberton, Hobart Town ; Port Wal lace, Melbourne. Sailed—Fortuna, Algoa Bay; Thomas Smook, Africa. OFF RAMEGATE, Feb. 15 . — Penelope, Swansea, with damage, having been in contact, and will procoed for London. DOVER, Feb. 15.—Wind, N. to N.W. Arrived—Peter, Cape Hayti, for Bremen. COWES, Feb. 15.—Wind, N.E. Ar Buenos Ayres, for Antwerp. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 1 5.—Wind, E.N.E. bar, Cape of Good Hope and Mad ras. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 15.—Wi n d, N.B. Smiled—Gomelza, Adelaide, New South Wales • Calder, Calcutta ; Pan dora, Arica ; Alexina, M —ara— "ra ; Elvi:ra Ow en , New Orleans ; Constellation, New Y or k ; Ultousia, urrier Boston. Off Port—Gough. Th e Courio r, loading for Bombay, fell over on her beam ends upon tire Jenny Wren, for San . Francisco, and remains ; she makes no water. KINGROAD, Feb. 15.—Arrived—Borian3 a, Mauritius. HULL, Feb. 15.—Wind, N. S ailed—Skrme, Havannah. PILL, Feb. 15.—Wind, E. Sailed —Caro brie, Calcutta ; Pathfinner, New York. The Halkett, for Gloucester, and the Active, Milford to Bristol, were in conrtact—the latter r ove on shore; c ; re saved by th e form er, which pro- Havannah eded reter w . CARDIFF, Falstaff, Trinidad. Feb. 15.—Wind, E.S.E. Bailed—Memel, QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 14.—Wind, N.B. squally. Ar rived—Charles de Wolf, St. ; Three Bro thers, flo. Sailed—Dominica, St. J o h n ' s. DUBLIN, Feb. 15.—The Queen Victoria. (s), Liverpool to this port, struck on the rocks off Herwth, and went do; master and about fiftywn p ir e i rs a o b n o s ut d o ro no l s vo q ed uare s r om of e an of h t e h m e pasFienn.ers, sm, in number about forty to fifty, saved by the Ro scommon (to, arrived here. YOUGHAL, Feb. 15.—The Primeer, Messina to Liver pool, makes a little water, having grounded on the bar. Barbado CORK,es. Feb. 14.—Wind, N.E. unary Miller, Sailed—Mala- BREST, Feb. 14.—The Marie Rose, Naz i t e , to Bristol, has put into eb. Camarel with cargo healed, but does not leak ; and the Marie Anne, Nantes to Haverfordwest, Put here in a similar state and must dischar ge, out m a k es very little water. , LadySc SCILLY, Feb. Cuba, for for —Wind, set N le . a l y ., ; st a r d mi. Arrived_ Sarah Bayley, Cuba, for London. MARKET HEWS-(TWLS pAr.) CORN EXCHANGE. A very limited supply of English wheat, i n somewhat improved condition, was on offer in to-day's market. F or most kinds the demand ruled steady, and a good cle arance was effected at prices fully equal to those obtained on Monday. There was rather more inquiry f or forward delivery parcels. From abroad, the imports of wheat have be en confined to 1,230 quarters. Really good qualities changed hands steadily, at full currencies, and the value of o th er kinds was well supported. Floating cargoes were held at fully late rates. We had a good demand for both English and forei gn barley, at very full prices. Although the show of oats was very moderate, the t ra d e was in a sluggish state. In prices, however, no change took place. rat ß e e s a u n p s p , ii p e e s as o , n an off d e fl r. our moved off slowl y, with but Mode. English .. Irish .... Foreign .. A RRIVALS THIS NUM. Wheat. 1 Barley. Malt. I I Oats, Plow,. 770 I 1,190 I 4,780 860 4950 I 1,Y30 1 590 6,180 I -760 ag last week. WHITECHAPEL. Beef moved off freely, at an advance in the quotations Beef, 2s 4d to 38 6d , veal, 3s Od to 4s 4d; pork, 2s 8d to 4s per 8 1 bs by the carcase. of 2d per 81bs ; all other e m r kinds utton of me a t the 4s Lani.o BOROUGH HOP. All kinds of hops—the show of which is very mo d erate ingye a !s teadily, at fully last week's currency, 37 80 M 4 pm pm 141 .05i 151 50i %it LINES LEASED AT FIXEI RAILWAYS. Bedford and Bletchley.... Birm. & Oxfd. guarantee ... Do.withoutgr Birm.Wolv. & Dudleyguar. Do.wthtguar. G: B R : a Clydesdale , e. H6rtsLietp.i.ilrkp.n.i.ha:eppnlynrmstk_..._l4..grh. Hull & Selby.' Do. Shares. Do. i Share:. I Lon. & Greer - .1 - Do.Preferencel Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent... Do. 6 per et... Manch.Baton. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar . ...... Midld.Bradfd. Northern and Easternsp.c. Do. 6 per et..l Do.Fisedsp.c Prest. dtliryre Do. Shares. Roystn.dt Hit. Do.Shopth.St. Shef. Roth. di Goole g.5.p.c S. Staffordsh WoarValleygr 6 per cent Do.. • •• Wilts drSomrsti Agua Fria Anglo Californian Australasian 1 Australian . Australian Cordillera astralian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd.Dnchy of) British Austria. Gold British Iron Brazilianlmp.(issued at pm Do. Cocies & Cniacla Do. St. John Del Rey Carsons's Creek. Cobra Copper. Colonial Gold.. Copiapo Copper Min. of Eng Do. Pref. 7i p. cent, English and Austin. Copper Smeltg. Co General Great Nugget Vein.. Great Polgooth . Lake Bathurst....... Liberty. ..... Lor d . &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co Mariquita Mexican&S.Amerien New Granada 'Nouveau Monde.. 'Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymmo Iron 1Do: New Sa itiago de Cuba South Australian Tin Croft ....... ...... United Mexican West Granada.. West Mariposa Yuba JOINT-STOI (Australasia British N. American Bnk. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Lond English Scottish and Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia London and County. London Joint Stock. Lond. & Westminstoi National Prov. of Eng, Do. Now National of Ireland Oriental Bank of Corporation... IDo. New Provincial of Ireland , Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp Co South Australia Union of Ar Do. New Union of London.. Union of Madrid.. 'Leasing Compans, London da . N. West., Gt.Westn. Do ......... Do Do, L. &N.w Caledon Gt.Notrhu Gt. Westn. Yk. New. & Berw.. Y.&N. Md. Do ....... D 0......... S. Eastern . (Do ......... Norfolk . D 0....... Ln.diN.W. di Midld. Stekton di Darlingt. Midland... E. Count.. D 0......... L. dr 1 . W. (ST.Ludc Yk D 0......... Gt. Northn 'Do ........ Lancash. Yorksh Airldelean Stockt. dy Darling . Do . .. . Gt. Westn. MINES. Clos 4 Rig Prices Ye !tardily. -31 —3o,ixd 31xd 30xd 110 54 L 49 • - 151 32k- -33 i 113 • 115 56i - - 57! 27 - - 28 131. - - 141 25A - - 19 - - 20 23 - - 25 3 - - 3k oi 1;91 64- - 66 - - pm 151 - - 153 150 - - 152 ...I - - d • ad • 32xd - 104 , 30 29 108 53 31 - 103 - -1 21, 5 —6_ par par d 1 par 7 29 —3( par" 211 - ;* 5 _7 21— 144 11 34 3 i 1k ,d A d— -1 11 1 par 1 22 24 13i - par 11 liVIPER TAir, PARLIAMENT. Business this day. - HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANC) 3LLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. The Earl of WIC ICLOW presented a petition from a place in Donegal awa inst opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays ; also, fror a the guardians of Rathdown, in Wicklow, against xvl rat they term a most " unjust and iniquitous tax"—thei Consolidated Annuities. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from the Lord Provost and Town Council of Edinburgh, against the imposition of religiou,e tests on the professors of Scotch universities. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented several petitions from Belfa st, and other places, to a similar effect. Lord STANLEY of Alderley presented a petition from the London and North-Western Literary Society, praying for the distribution of Parliamentary papers. The Marquis of LAWSDOWNE presented a similar petition from a place b i Wiltshire. Lord WALDEGP:A.VE also presented a similar , petition. Lord LYTTLETO N . laid on the table a bill to extend ' the practice of gratuitous vaccination. The bill was read a. first time. CANADA CLERGY RESERVES. The Bishop of EXETER said he felt that he owed an explanation to their 7lordships for bringing before them to-night any question relative to a measure which the votes of the other Image had announced that it was the intention of the Goverrnment to submit that evening to the House of Commo:o s. It might seem strange, as the measure so to be ird reduced might afterwards come before their lordships int the form of a bill, that he should not await its arrival in that house before he:Presumed to express an opinion on 'the subject—he must own, how ever, that the very re ason for bringing the question for ward to-night was, th at he had read in the votes of the House of Commons ti iiit a bill was to be introduced into that house to-night deatingwiththissubject. He must say he thought their lordships had a right to express, he did not say complaint, but say surprise, a n d he hoped that some explanation wound be given by the noble duke the Secretary for the Colonies that the bill in question had not first been introdu cod into their lordships' house. It emanated from that department of which the noble duke (the Duke of Newcastle) was at the head ; and he (the Bishop of Exeter) thought it might have been hoped that, instead of causing the bill to be introduced by his under-secretary in the. other house, the noble duke would himself have brought. it before their lordships. It was well known that at this season of the year their lord ships were not overburdened with business, and com plaints were constantly made on both sides of the idle ness of that house in the early part of the session, and of its being overworked at the close of the session. He thought, however, it was not impertinent to say, sitting on that bench, that in a case in which the interests of religion were so immediately concerned, it might have been hoped that the bishops would have had an oppor tunity of expressing, at an early period, their sentiments upon the merits of the measure. He thought it very possible that their lordships might have received some instruction upon such a subject from his right rev. brethren. He understood that the bill contained no provisions which, according to the practice of the con stitution would prevent its being considered by their lordships in the first instance. It was easy to con jecture that, in some cases, the motive for pursuing the course which had been taken by the Government might have been a desire to obtain not a very creditable advantage, by seeking to controul their lordships by the voice of the other house in which it might be supposed there was a better chance that such a bill would be successful. He could easily conceive that a person capable of endea vouring to take Such an advantage • might have preferred introducing the bill in the other house • but he fully acquitted the nobl e d u k e at t h e head of the Co lonial department of any unhandsome intention. The chief reason why he (the Bishop of Exeter) ventured thus early to call their lordships' attention to this subject was, that the whole course of proceeding with reference to it for the last year or two had lulled the colonists into full security that it was impossible any measure could be introduced without an opportunity being af forded them of sending deputies to this country who might claim justice on their behalf. Last year the late Government returned an answer to the address of the Legislative Assembly of Canada stating that they could not sanction the bill which it was wished should be in troduced, and that Government did not at all flinch from maintaining their resolution on the subject. In deed, it was notorious that, as the year advanced, the resolution of the late Government to resist the bill was strengthened. He had been informed, on no light au thority, that the late Government had entertained an increasing conviction that it would be contrary to the best interests of the colony and of the empire to assent to such a measure. The colonists had also the fullest grounds for believing that a measure of that kind would not have been introduced by the present Government. They saw at the head of that Government a noble earl whose whole life had been given to the support of those great principles on which the clergy reserves' security depended. They found also that in announcing the course of policy that would govern him in his admini stration, the noble earl declared his resolution to main tain the institutions of this country and of the empire, and it was naturally conceived that the interests of re ligion in the colonies would receive favourable regard and support from a Minister who rested his Govern. ment upon such principles. But the name of the noble duke who sat near the noble earl seemed to the colo nists a tower of strc:igth to their cause, and they be lieved that he would not con: 3nt to sacrifice the in terests of the Protestant Church in Canada by allowing the clergy reserves to be seized upon and confiscated. He (the Bishop of Exeter) thought the colonists had sufficient reason to believe that the noble duke would support their cause. He was quite ready, at the same time, to admit, that when a statesman found himself in volved in the duties of office it was necessary for him to review the conclusions at which he had before arrived on any important matter of public policy. He admitted that it was the duty of such a person to correct his first impressions ; and, undoubtedly, if the previous private impressions of the noble duke had been against this measure, and he had subsequently changed that view, and considered that, as 'a Minister of the Crown, he was bound to support the present bill, he honoured the noble duke for having yielded to reason and conviction. He, for one, confessed that th e f ac t o f th e no b le duke having succeeded to office, and being an important mem ber of the new Government, was to him a strong ground for believing that that Government would prove a friend to the Church of England and the Protestant religion as by law established. But, not only was the noble duke placed at the head of the colonies, but there was another remarkable circumstance—viz., that the noble earl who formerly held that office, and who was understood to be the most hostile to the views of the colonists on this subject, was no longer a member of the the Government at all, and this to the colonists must have appeared as another ground of confidence. Look ing to the other members of the Administration, they would see more than one right hon. gentleman whom they knew to be faithfully attached to true religion, especially as embodied in the Church of England. There was in particular one individual eminently distinguished by every public virtue, a man of whom it was impossible even when one differed from him, to speak without respect—he alluded to Mr. Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer —and what did the colonists know of him ? He (the Bishop of Exeter) was not aware that that right , hon, gentleman had ever publicly expressed an opinion upon this subject, but the colonists must have been aware that he had at first become greatly as well as favourably known to the world by the publication of a work on the relations of the Church to the State, in which he held and maintained the great principle that it was the first duty of the Government, as such, to sup port and advance the true religion. Had they not a right on that ground, then, to be satisfi e d th a t th e r i ght hon. gentlem en wou ld be found among the supporters of their claims ? There was another very special ground on which they must have formed some hope of the right hon. gentleman, and that was the constituency which had more than once selected him as their representative —he meant the University of Oxford—a constituency whose fidelity to the cause of religious truth could not for a moment be doubted. He mentioned these circum stances for the purpose of showing that the colonists had a fair right to expect that the present Government would have pursued the same line of policy on this subject as that which had been adopted by their predecessors, and that, therefore, they must be totally unprepared for the bill which was to be brought into the other house that night for the purpose of confis cating the religious endowments of the colony. He ob served that the noble duke (Newcastle) was taking down his words, and therefore he would anticipate his objec tion, and admit at once that the bill would not confiscate the endowments, but would merely allow the Canadian Legislature to confiscate them, if they wished. But he did not think, after all, that there was much difference between the two statements. It could not be denied that every member of the Canadian Ministry had com mitted himself in his place in the Canadian Legislature to the secularisation of the clergy reserves, if they had the power. (Hear, hear.) He begged to say, too, that the colonists had a right to expect that an opportunity would have been afforded them, before the passing of this measure, of sending deputies here to plead their cause. It so happened that there was a right rev, pre late connected with Canada at present in this country, but it was peculiarly unfortunate that, being alone and without the necessary documents, he was unable to resist the measure in the manner that was to be desired. He (the Bishop of Exeter) must say, without ascribing any unfairness to the Government, or to the noble duke who was especially responsible for the measures that whether intended or not, the result was a grievous injustice to the colonists. Their lordships probably knew enough of the nature of the blergy reserves to render it unne cessary for him to detain them at any length in explana tion of them. He would only remind them of the gene ral outline of the facts. The right rev, prelate then proceeded to refer to the passing of the 31st George 111., c. 31, allocating a seventh of all the land sold in Canada " to the support of a Protestant clergy," and maintained that the national faith was pledged by that act to the maintenance of the reserves for that purpose. What, he asked, was the inducement for an honest Englishman to , migrate to Canada except it was that he knew he was going to a land where he would find the means of pay ing his duty to God according to the forms of the church in which he had been reared ? When the country became fuller of inhabitants, it was found that the funds derived from the reserves were not sufficiently large to provide religious ministrations for all the population, and the consequence was th a t th ere a rose a godless population, Ue did not mean all the population, but only a portion of them. Among that portion there had arisen an agitation against the reserves, principally in Upper Canada ; for, so far as the Lower Province was concerned, the agitation was not known till the end of 1849. But were their lordships prepared to accept the fact of agitation as a reason for passing a measure ! Canada was not the only country where agitation pre vailed. They had only to look across the Channel to Ireland, and there they would see agitation, not of the mildest form nor the least threatening, nor the least powerful. (Hear, hear.) He hoped the Government were prepared to support the Irish church, and, if so, , they would certainly add to their own embarassments in defence of that church by giving such an open en couragement to the agitation against the church in Canada. Oh, but it was said that the reserves were public property. He knew not if their lordships were prepared to sanction this principle, but, if they were, they would be doing what no House of Lords, since the Heptarchy had ever dreamt of doing, or dared to do. He warned them also that they would be setting a pre cedent which would justify, not merely the spoliation of the church in Canada and in the United Kingdom, but the estates of many of their lordships, It was within his own knowledge that in the case of one of the greatest and best landowners in this country, who held a large portion of his property by grant from the Crown, the land having once belonged to the church, some of' his tenants were in the habit of saying to each other—" This land is ours ; it is public property, and we have as good right to it as he has." He was not saying whether this was a sound argument or not, but the persons who used it would, he was sure, be delighted at the precedent which would be set by the proposed bill on the Canada reserves. (Hear, hear.) The first paper for which he proposed to move was the Government Gazette of Canada of the Bth of May, 1849, or any other document in the Colonial-office, containing a copy of an address to the Governor- General of British North America from the Romish prelates and clergy of Quebec in the year 1849, and of the answer of his Excellency to that address. He asked for that document, because he was assured that it contained an answer of the Governor-General to an ' address from the Romish prelates and clergy of Quebec : that the first signature to that addreiss was " Joseph, Archbishop of Quebec," a see which the Pope had no right to create, any more than he had a right to create sees in the mother country, and that the answkr to the addre ss h a d b een directed to " his Grace t i Archbishop, his Lordship the Bishop, and the other Members of the Catholic Clergy of Quebec." If he were rightly informed upon this branch of the subject, it would appear that the Governor-General had by that act 'recognized and sanctioned titles which in the eye of the law had no existence whatever. The second return for which he moved was a list of the bills passed by the Canadian Parliament, whether reserved or not, in the year 1849, and a statement whether and which of the same were disallowed by her Majesty. He believed that this return would show that in May, 1349, an act was passed in the Canadian Legislature to incorporate the Roman Catholic archbishops and bishops in each diocese in Canada. That act could not take effect un less the Home Government gave their assent to it within two years from the time of its passing the Canadian Parliament, and he was desirous to know whether it had been allowed to lapse, or whether it had ever been sanc tioned by the Government of this country ? Their lord ships would observe, that the interval betwe.en the pass ing of the act in Canada and the time when, in order to take effect, it must be sanctioned by the Rome-Parlia ment, embraced the period when the famous epistle was written by the noble lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, which shook this country to its inmost parts, and was made the ground of the strongest expres sions of animadversion against the Pope. At that pe riod, and when that act of the Pope, so familiar in the recollection of us all, was being declared by him to be unprecedented, a bill was actually before the noble lord from Canada, the object of which was to incorporate an Archbishop of Quebec. He (the Bishop of Exeter) con tended that this was a matter with which it was not competent for the Colonial Legislature to deal, that it was an imperial question involving the highest and most sacred part of our constitutional law, and that it was one upon which the Imperial Parliament alone should decide. The Legislature of Canada had shown its re gard to religiOn already by completely secularising a college, which had been founded and endowed for the purpose of the church in that country, and he did trust that the Church would not be left to the tender mercies of such a Legislature. Another act had passed that Legislatur e , the 11th and 12th of Victoria, chap. 143, the object f which was to incorporate a religious order of persons in Canada, who were bound by their oaths to do any service which was required by the Pope. That measure actually had received the sanction of her Ma jesty's Government at the very time when there was such an outcry against the Pope in this country. (Hear, hear.) There was only one other document for which he should at present move, and that was a copy of any official letter from the Lord Bishop of Quebec to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, one of her Majes ty's Principal %Secretaries of State, on the matter of clergy reserves in Canada. That latter had been hastily written ; but it was perhaps, the more satisfactory on that account, as containing the deep and earnest impressions of the writer. His right rev, friend had kindly favoured him with a sight of the draught of that letter, and he perceived that he de clared that no measure could have sacrilege more plainly stamped upon it than one which provided for the abso lute confiscation to godless uses of property solemnly dedicated to God, in order to satisfy the claims of the American loyalists. He asked their lordships, were ' they prepared to sanction that sacrilege ? There had been times when the HOuse of Lords would have spurned the very notion, and he begged to remind the Govern ment that the act would be in direct contravention of the coronation oath. He knew statesmen did not like a reference to that oath. It permitted a great deal ; but one thing it did say—that the Protestant church should be upheld and preserved in England and Scot land, and all the dominions belonging thereto. He con tended that it had been properly construed that that oath bound the Sovereign to the utmost of her power to preserve the Protestant church and the Protestant re ligion in this country and all its dependencies. But, independently of this, there was another reason why the proposition of the Government should not be sanctioned. The whole amount of the provision from the clergy re serves was about 20,000/ a year in the upper province ; and there was a restriction that not more than 1001. a year should be allowed to any one clergyman. If there were at present but 200 clergymen receiving 1001. a year each in that country to support the true church, he asked their lordships were they prepared to sanction the disturbance of that property in the face of an enor mously wealthy church ? The estates of St. , Sulpice alone, in Montreal, were estimated at 60,0001. per annum ; and he might safely say that it was the richest spiritual corporation in the world. He would be no party to a breach of the treaty which bound us to hold inviolate the property of the Roman Catholic church ; but it must be remembered that that provision was the very reason which had induced George 111. and his Ministers to recommend the measure of 1791 to Parlia ment, and which had led to its being triumphantly carried by the Legislature of that day. The right rev. prelate concluded by moving for the production of the papers. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said, that as it would probably at no distant period be his duty officially to oc cupy their lordships at some length on this subject, he would not now take up much of their time in discussing the various points introduced by the right rev, prelate. He did not, of course, complain of the right rev. prelate g s having brought forward the subject on the present occa sion, but he thought the house would concur with him in the opinion that the course so adopted by the right rev. prelate was not altogether convenient, seeing that, on the one hand, there was no measure before their lord ships on this subject, and that, on the other hand, a member of the Government was, he believed, at that very moment stating to the other house of Legislature the details of a bill by which the Government proposed to settle the question, which bill, he anticipated, would, in due season, come before their lordships for regular dis cussion. (Hear, hear.) That measure, indeed, the right rev, prelate, though evidently unacquainted with its provisions, had thought proper to stigmatize as one of confiscation, as designed to pervert the clergy reserves in Canada from their legitimate purpose ; but their lordships would find, when the bill came before them, that the right rev, prelate's apprehensions on this head were without foundation. The right rev. prelate com plained that the measure had not been introduced first in their lordships' house. In the first place, pre cedent had established that such bills should originate in the other house ; in the second place, the state of their lordships' benches then—as usual at this early period of the session— showed the inexpediency of intro ducing a measure of so much importance 0 _ such circumstances ; and, thirdly, the very character come underthe bill itself rendered it desirable that it shou b l e d f i ona t before their lordships, and especially before t gh as rev, bench, in a condition as discussedmaturely might be elsewhere deemed fit. Any one this would imagine a new subject, on which the opinion o it was a question on from the right rev. prelate's speech . th f a t t bem l wa oni s st q s ui r te e. re mained to be ascertained, whereas he colony had been which the wishes and feelings f t r st t e b d e o l v as e t r 3 a o nd y o ea v ra er , a a ga nd in t , h ic o h f which had htad be b e e n en th i e n subjectagt-i agitation single exception, of whom, c o o n l e onial ministers of this country,r epeated despatches of most recent date, the consideration of the colonial, and was a matter for had declared the principe that this with one be said • h Canada, it could not with accuracy not of the Imperial Legislature. With regard to the clergy of _ g proposed elsewhere, that they were taken being proposed in the Government bill at that moment e . . for Archdeacon Bethune, who was now in this country, had published a pamphlet on the subject, in which he declared his expectation that legislation would take place, and in the ve r y sense now contem plated by her Majesty's ministers. A s little could be said that the colonists were taken by surprise in the matter, for he held in his hand a Canadian newspaper of recent date, a most respectable and well-conducted journal, and ong, he might add, of strong Conservative opinions, which, adverting to the measure anticipated from her Majesty's Government, spoke of it, not by any means as a bill of confiscation, but as a course of legislation to be encouraged and supported in the most emphatic manner, as confirming th e p r i nc ipl e of the ind e f ens ib le right of the Canadian Legislature to legislate on this matter, peculiarly its own affair, for itself ---a principle in which her Majesty's Government fully concurred. The suggestion of the right rev. pre late that danger was to be apprehended to the Church in Canada, because, as he stat e d, some i n di v id ua l mem ber of the Government there had expressed strong opi ni9n4 de, the object s wade of AD AYA since , whatever the private opinions of an individual memb of the Government mi g ht b e , • they could in no degrreer operate against the declared opinion of the colonists through their Legislature. The right rev. prelate was mistaken in the supposition that the Bishop of Quebec had been taken by surprise in the matter. He (the Duke of Newcastle) had availed himself of the earliest opportu nity of conveying to that prelate, who was now in Eng. land, the intentions of the Government, and he had, three weeks since, given the same intimation to Arch deacon Bethune, with the promise, in each case, to com. municate the time at which the Government would bring forward their measure, which promise had been fulfilled. When that measure came before their lord ships in due course he should be fully prepared to satisfy them, he believed, that it was a bill neither of confisca tion nor of sacrilege, The papers w hi c h th e r i g h t rev. prelate desired would be readily produced. The first named by the right rev, prelate was already . on the table of their lordships' house. Of another, the ex tract front the colonial Gazette, there was no copy at present in the Colonial-office, but a letter should b e immediately t ransm i tted to Canada for a copy. He 'thought the right rev, prelate had not been perfectly candid in his statement, but he attributed that, not to any disposition on his part to be so, but because he was not so well acquainted with the facts as he would have been if he had reserved his opinion until the bill had been before their lordships. He had received only yes terday a letter on the subject from the Bishop of Mon treal ; but, 'having considered it with all the attention and respect due to that right rev. prelate, he was never theless bound to say, that in it he found assertions he could not admit, and arguments it would, on a future occasion, be his duty to confute. The right rev, prelate (the Bishop of Exeter) had spoken of the proposed mea sure of the Government as sacrilege. That was a charge of so grave a nature, that, however anxious he was not to enter into the details of the measure, he felt bound at once to say he could not recognise its truth or justice. If this measure were sacrilege, what was the act of 1840 ? The Government did not propose to deal with the clergy reserves as they wore dealt with in 1840, transferring from one body to another the arbitrary dis position of the property ; but assuming that it went the whole length the right rev. prelate contended for, and that the reserves were applied to secular purposes, he would ask the right rev, prelate what was the character of the act of 1840, which he had supported ? Sacrilege ,could not be a question of degree. If a man broke into a church and stole some plate, he would be equally guilty of sacrilege whether he only took a small quan tity or more. But what did the right rev, bench do in 1840 ? He did not attack them for it, but there must .be consistency in this matter. They supported an act which took away from the Church of Eng land a large portion of the clergy reserves, and it was applied, not to the purposes of other creeds or forms of Christianity, but to secular purposes. (Hear.) But he went further, and asked what were all the preceding aets that had passed upon this question since 1791 ? What had been the course taken by the Legislature of Canada, and the recommendation s sent out by the Gov.ernments of thi s country? Had they been guilty of saorilege ? What did Sir J. Pakington say ? lie said he was prepared to deal with this question—that circum stances had occurred, such as emigration and others, which made it necessary to have a redistribution of these funds, necessarily taking a part from the Ch urch of England; and he was therefore just as guilty of sacrilege as th e present Government would be if they had proposed to hand over the whole of these funds to secular purposes. Upon this subject, so far as the Church was concerned, and any religious dues were involved in this measure, it was as between the present and the late Government a mere question of degree. But as regarded the measure itself upon the most im. portant view —namely, the colonial view, it was a matter not of degree, but of principle. The whole question was this--was it to be a colonial or imperial question ? Were they to fellow out to its true legitimate conclusion the principle of not merely a repre sentative but a responsible Govern-ment, or to deprive the colony of the full benefit of that responsible Government and thereby to leave it in an ano malous position ? The right rev, prelate had said that the question had been considered as settled in 1840. The late Government had not so considered it. The Bishop of Quebec and other bishops of Canada in 1846 applied for a different arrangement of these reserves ; they wished to reopen the question, though undoubtedly for the benefit of the Church. They who claimed the finality of the settlement of 1840 wished to reopen the question in 1846. How then could they say in 1846 it was not settled as to part, and yet that it was closed as to the whole in 1853 ? He thought that when their lordships came to consider this question they would arrive at the conclu sion with him that upon purely and 'strictly colonial views it ought to be settled at once, and in the way pro posed by the Government. The right rev. prelate had spoken of the effect it would have on the coronation oath ; but he thought their lordships would see, when this bill came to be printed, that the Queen would have the same power of veto she now had, and that in no way, as he conceived, was the coronation oath affected by it. The right rev, prelate had also entered into a comparison of the Church of Rome and the Church of England in Canada. Upon some future occasion he would enter into the question ; but he could assure the right rev prelate that, whatever might be, and he believed it to be greatly exaggerated—the wealth of the Roman Catho. lie Church in Canada, that Church would stand on pre cisely the same footing as to being dealt with by the Canadian Legislature as the clergy reserves under this measure. The right rev. prelate had spoken of the Roman Catholic endowments in Canada, as though they had been settled by acts of Parliament which were about to be left on the statute-book, while the clergy reserves were disturbed. But the Roman Catholic Church stood on a much 'weaker foundation. If the right rev, prelate would refer to the treaty of Quebec, he would find th a t the treaty tend e d t o confirm little more than perfect freedom of worship to the Roman Catholics of Canada; and as to the very instance put by the right rev, pre late—that of the corporation of St. Sul.pice—what was its title ? It was not confirmed by treaty, but was so weak that a Oanadian !ordinance was passed, and it was under that its possessions was now held. Again, what had the' Legislature already done as to the Roman Catholic endowments ? They con sisted in one form of tithes, but they were not payable by all classes of the communion —(hear, hear), and so strictly was that the case, that if a man changed his religion he became exonerated from the payment by the mere fact of such change. Moreover, in Upper Canada the tithes had been abolished ; and in consequence of that, as he believed, the Governor of Canada had con ferred on the Roman Catholic Church a grant out of the clergy reserves ; and under that grant the Roman Catholic Church was receiving 1,600/. a-year. That Church, therefore, stood upon precisely the same footing as the Church of England. There had been an amount of mystification and misrepresentation upon this subject which he hoped by discussion in that and the other house of Parliament would be removed ; an d h e con fidently anti c i pated that the • right rev, bench, viewing this measure not abstractedly as affecting the Church of England alone, but as a great national concern, would regard it as one of the greatest advantages to the Church in Canada. As to the Legislature of the United States never altering any endowments of this kind, he doubted much whether in all instances they had adhered to that rule. In one of the greatest States of the Union he believed that the endowment of the Church was now held by an 'Unitarian body, though, generally speak ing, the endowments of the Church of England had been respected in the United States of America, and he gathered from that precedent this example and warning, —that if they trusted men with their own concerns, and placed these matters within the jurisdiction to which they belonged, they would disturbed d en b t y s a b n e d mooldre seinttclliemneedntstotbarnespiefctthepyrevivioeures long agitationt hat and they repeated couldonly contests. act uponS So b strongte clear was hisconviction and defined principle of colonial freedom upon all ques onuisltdrabtieonof prepared,thei own affairs —(h — nt t e b rn at al h a e d m s without reference to the result, to t a k e th e course the Government were now about to pursue ; b u t a t t h e same time he must say he was confident a great deal would depend, as regarded the future issue of this question, on the course, the conciliatory course, apart from all bias and party feeling, from all that irritation which, unfor. tunately, frequently arose upon any question in which the religious feeling of the country was involved, taken upon it by that and the other house of Parliament when it came before them for consideration. (Hear.) The Earl of DESART, after expressing his regret at the absence of a noble earl who had been most anxious to be present at the discussion of this subject, in which he took the greatest interest, said that, as an individual, he tendered his thanks to the right rev, prelate for hav ing brought the subject before their lordships, as it was most important the public should be made sensible of what he must consider as a i great blow to Protestantism in Canada, and he said that the more advisedly, ina.e. much as the Canadian Legislature had made no secret of their intention to divert these lands from ecclesias tical purposes. The noble d u k e was right in sayi ng that Sir J. Pakington had been open to consid er any proposals th e Canadians might have made as to the redistribution of the clergy reserves, for he considered the settlement of 184 Q was only final in appropriating the proceeds of those reserves to ecclesiastical pur. poses, and thought most justly that the Canadian people could best judge in what way those funds should be applied. There was one point which he thought was not well understood by the public. It was considered by many that the great majority, or almost the whole population of Canada, were in favour of the abrogation of the settlement of 1840. He did not think that was • the case. On the contrary, he found that among the members returned by Upper Canada—and, after all, it was those members who must mainly be considered, for those of Lower Canada were Roman Catholics and French people, and h a d no i nterest in the two to four, and al so th a t th at m i nor ity w m of the clergy r es erves —th e minority had s increasedlinte actuallyfrl th th having received majority of the Legislatur e —th e minority only 23,500. upwards of 24,000 vot es , an d the majority returned by a larger numb er o f constituents an e The right rev. prelate said that this was an agitation of three or four years, an d he thought that was true ; but the agitation about these funds was the very reason th a t forced the settlement of 1840, and prompted the Cana diand' I Parliament to pass a bill placingthe disposal of and were anxious it should be not settle it themselves, or other, and in 1846, Mr. Price finally settled questionone way being again raised by the Bishop of the funds in the Imperial Parliament, because they could upon the said hewas unwilling to disturb the settlement had proved so satisfactory and so a,dvan feeling of t h e p eop le o f • to the good tageous the people of Canada might justly complain of must say being taken by surprise, for, although agitation was rife, _ it had been met by a refusal en the part of the Govern. ment, except to reconsider the redistribution of the funds of 1840, which for ecolesissitiCAl PurP9Pea a that nothing would have 8 4o x d 31 i g; zd I THE SUN, LONDON, 1.0.61 131 20 20 50 St. 16 St. St. 10 20 20 20 66 51 X 33 2 ni 44 120 901 1 57 6 71i 1 61.11 21 J 1 i x in x in x in 341 4 25 i 31} i EDNESDAY EVENING, F_EBRUARY is, 1853. 30 20 1 40 30 1 10 2§4 Paid{ all 100 all 100 all all all all all 13.5 all 15 i all all 15 10i all 20 10 20 35 1 -= 'P ►P rar P P 3 t .tt C 2 ;:ip tp • P ! 2i 2d