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' is, 02", ScAi; ,1-& - "il k ) A *\•"/ ''`' -.- - , ,,-, , ,,„., A4 ,,,,,, ? :, DIY , 14 ' 44 '.C .Li k a t`, - ifik.......' 2) - 7 4 . 1/1 'I ' ilitO '4';'`. ,~ /u TRB EBRO CANALISATION COMPANY. the se The Shareholders in Englaud are respectfully reminded that .. cond Instalwent of 41. per s h a re is now in course of payment, 6tip.lect to a ded uc ti on of Six. Months' Interest, at the rate of 4 per ' e a. per Annnum, upon th e or i g i na l d e posit of 41. per share. Jute rest will Xex.t. be charged on any payments in arreir after 3 1 st March By order of the Directors. 4, Manes C. STEWART, Secretary. ....,..._ Court, Old Broad-street, 28th Feb,, 1853. z' ci LONDON SACRED HARMONISOCIETY. Conductor, Mr. SORBIAN, Founder, and 20 years conductor allthe Exeter -Hall Oratorios. TO-MORROW EVENING, Haydn's ATIOTT, preced e d by th e C an t a ta on the Birth-day of her I:Jesty Queen Victoria, composed and condlicted by Dr. J. G. Elvey. e B ° lo Parts will be sung by the Principal Vocalists—Mrs. Sunder , Miss Cl ara Henderson, Mr. Lockey, Mr. H . Philli ps , & c . The Band and Chorus will consist of / 4 00 Performers. Tickets—Area, Reserved Seats, area or gallery, ss. ; Central Reserved Seats, Rurabered, 10s. 6d.—to be obtained of the Principal Musicsellers, and o p the oraY office of the Society, No. 9, Exeter-Hall. Correct Books the Words, with 16 pages cf the "Creation," 6d each. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, ARCH 1, 1853. No. 18,857.] [PRICE SD. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. Now ready, Bve., sewed, 2s. Gd., T g E DEL U G E. By Viscount MAIDSTONE. Dedicated to the Electors of Westminster. London : Chapman and Ball, 193, Piccadilly. NEW WORK BY HORA.CE ST. JOHN. Just published, in 2 vols. post Bvo., price 21s. cloth, THE INDIAN ARCHIPELAGO ; Its PriStO: and Present State. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. By lIORACE ST. JOHN, Author of "History of the British Clonquest in India," "Life of Christopher Columbus," &c. London: Longman, Brown, IGEreen, and Longmans. ALEXANDRE DUMAS.—The Public, who rev remember the intense delight with which they read and m um: t he fascinating pages of" Monte-Christo," will rejoice to hear Ric Dumas' great Historical Romance of BUCKINGHAM and EIRLIEU will be ready on TUESDAY, March the Bth, in Weekly penny — Numbers. Sinnet, 490, Oxford-street, four doors from Holborn. LA:URENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.- road. Lessee, CHAItLES E. LAURENT, Onslow . house , th e OM Every Evening. The Orchestra will pe rform, during nor- week, a Th e Thistle" " Shamrock ," " C ar illonneur." and" Wind .. Ca stle?' Waltzes, the y " Champagne Galop," and "Marco Spada," I Cirque," and " Faridondaine" Quadrilles. Admission, Is. ine " olaen at Half-past Eight; dancing to commence at N °clock, and to terminate at Half-past Eleven. PATRON—II R. 11. PRINCE ALBERT. ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. T Ra LAST WEEK of the OPTICAL, and MUSICAL ILLUS. bR z . T . IobT of SHARSPERE'S "M ID SUM ME R NIGHT'S At io - "ar,” introducing the ORIGINAL MUSIC by Sir Henry .: O P, Morning and Evening.—LECTURES by J. 11. Pepper, to.-" on the endless AMUSEMENTS of CHEMISTRY, adapted , Juvenile Audience; by Dr Bachhoffner , on the MECHA NICALO PROPERTIES et a JET of STEAM; by Mr. Crispe, I ocI ItICSSON'S CALORIC ENGINE.—DISSOLVING VIEWS, Cau din g Bay and Night Views of WALMER CASTLE, WALMER Reg, &c., &c. Adali &s i on, is. ; Schools and Children under ten years of . age, _ _ half-price. LOANS OR 4NTED. LONDON EXCHANGE ADVANCE FUND, 2, Adelphi-terrace, Straud, facing the river ; City Braneh, 3, 7 13 road-street, City. The Right Hon. Lord ERSKINE, Chairman. Loans advanced, in sums of 101. and upwards, granted on a joint of laissory nate, repayable by eaey instalments, or on the deposit of deeds or other available securities. 1 3 111 s of exchange cashed at moderate rates of interest. F erns of application may be obtained at the Offices, or on forward , lo - Postage stamps. W NI. BROOKS, Secretary. RATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR ANCE COMPANY, 26, CORNIIILL. • Capital £500,000. COURT OF DIRECTORS. ~.4 . Campbell Barclay, Esq. I Thomas Nicoll , Esq. Charles Bennett, Esq. E. S. Symes, M D. 'Ugh Croft, Esq. p J. Leander Starr, Esq. " ° , ll - 1 1 Elliotson, M.D., F.R.S. I Clement Tabor, Esq. ' Win Moss, Esq. Joseph Thompson. Esq. MANAGING DIRECTORS. J. Leander Starr and Charles Bennett, Daps. MEDICAL EXAMINERS. tlliotson, F.R S., 37, Conduit-street. 4 . B. Symes, 77, Grosvenor-street, GrosvenOr-square. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., y.s.s., &s. RANKERS. _ _ - . . Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. Insurances granted on lives, joint-lives, survirorships, &c., lame ',e and deferred annu iti es , & e . a t °sPectuses obtained let the Company's office, 26, Cornhill, and i ftlE INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY, No. 72, Lombard-street, and 24, Connaught-terrace. ltich TRUSTEES. n ard Spooner, Esq., M.P. Richard Malin., Esq., Q.C., M.P. ' 41 :11pbell Renton, Esq., I M.P. James Fuller Maddox, Esq. William Wilberforce, Esq. 11j: I e POLICIES are INDISPUTABLE, in terms of the Deed of veement of the Company, duly registered, and are thus rendered ltu rt „ T AlN FAMILY PROVISIONS, and NEGOTIABLE DOCU 4TS of SECURITY. ii,_ 4ll _ l B Company has introduced, as more peculiarly applicable to tie Middle and Industrious Classes, a plan of SELF-PROTECTING °I7 ItANCE, whereby In one Policy for one rate of Premium are 4:2.bined an Insurance of a Sum payable either at death or on a specified age, and a pension or annuity after that age ; stl.. ut 6 i"ng the lull benefit of all Premiums that nave been paid, the payments should at any time be discontinued. ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager. NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE. VIE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 18, New Bridge-street, Blackfliars, London. CAPITAL—ONE HUNDRED 7110178 AND POUNDS. Chaim, DIRECTORS. C o —an—The Right Hon. the Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., It . .„. ll 9troller of her Majesty's Household. ;I,4 ll owley Barnes, Esq., I I, City-road, Finsbury. cleoeioel Clarke, Esq., late 17th Lancers, Junior United Service Club. Coode, Esq., Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, St. t ep i l Belie r's, Jersey, l ie en Cracknall, Esq.. 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting hill, and 11, J 7 - equare, Lincoln's-inn. Ljnes, M.D., Davies-street, Berkeley - squa re, and Lutterworth, 0 eor oestershire. Loft!.. l ., n ox, Esq., 15, Connaught - squa re, Hyde - Park, and Tor Al ztailordshire. "erAlaclean Esq„ Harrow-on-the -Hill. ,•, _ 0 01 e Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman - square. $ blew rriusep Esq., 147, Lea d e nhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park .►drew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple , Barris ter-at-Law. "witlilor e 7 s n . a n,, 21, Upper o Seymunstreet West, Connaught-square. — dng, 14, St. James's -square. F. J. t i AUDITORS. Lee ' ' B ch, - gg P 126 Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical, r a., and General Life Office. D ' ai n, Jones, Esq., Accountant, tort, Guildhall-chambers. ecK, Esq., D.A., Actuary he Engineers and Masoni.c Life uffice, 345, Strand. iII`BANKERS. Charles Price, Marryat , and Co., 3, Ring lafeasrs. Hopkinson and Co., 3, Regent-street. t, London. Dr. Lewis, Finsbury-place. --A .'' '. br. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square. BURGEONS. ,__U. T. Chapman, Esq. , 16, L ower Se y mour • street, Portman-s q uare. MlChael Teovan, Esq., 44, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-gardens. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.L.S. INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES. • F. P. F. Strousberg, Esq. STANDING COUNSEL. IMAM Wellington Cooper, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's-inn. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hill and Mathews St. Mary-axe. RESIDENT SECRETARY. 4 Charles W. Bevan, Esq. b e ir l'a Public Is respectfully invited to examine the principles of the b _Posit System of Assurance, whicb is based upon tables V.....and is under the immediate superrision or, Francis G. P.calculated Nelson, F.L S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company. TPParatiye Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a pers on aged of rtY next birthday, on the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT system ''asurances. ON THE ORDINARY SYSTEM. The sum the ordinary The sum the !Life Offices would give ordinary Life him if he were unable Offices would to pay, or if he omit , ed At the His give him for to pay his current end of policy the surrender Si. annual premium of Premium thirty at that or sale 'd pr 6s. 3d. after he has Annual yearswhen age, of his policy , p aid into their coffers to assure the party in case after thirty 249/.75.6d., and which .gz .00/ • is rift y of ears'payments they have had the use years old, death amounting to of at compound hewill have will be 249/. 7s. 6d. 4 Interest, or in t paid into worth which theyhave the event of his death the office. had the benefit one hour after such of at compound omission or inability 4"•••••---- interest. to Pay -. ----- 10 81. „, little more D a. ad. 2491.75.6 d. 5001. than SO!. NOTHING. perhaps 901. ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM. Hun able to pay, or not desirous of paying or omitting topay,thePo licy would still remain of its mix value, 522/.25.7d.ti1l death, if 20 years after, no fur ther payment beingre quired. Ifhowever the party, from any cause, wished to cancel the Policy, he could not onlydraw out all heh as rla put in, viz., 2251., but () a Od 225/. 5221.257 d 2871. 28. 9d. a certain bonus of 621. 2s. 9d. in the bargain, which is more than one-fourth of the whole of his payments, or he could either draw out a part, 201. or 501., diminishing the Policy only by the assured value of the sum se drawn out at the age when withdrawn. See pagess and7in detailed •••- pamphlet, by F. G. P. Nelson, T. bu ° ,l erth nvarison ef these two tables it will be seen that the fo a person big o novel system of DEPOSIT assurance can secure llow v aid annually, he can assure ' , la, antages, viz., Ist. For a less sum, P 2 udlhum in case of death than under the ordinary system. , In t h 3 i• In the event of a desire tosurrender b h is ie P h o a li p c p y ll h es e can receive SernPany, by the above example, system 3rdly. the event obi„„,7"nles as much as on the ordinary irlitY or omission to pay, his policy remsan his Current payments s still his property, rom a n:anle value as it was, though he cease both,„ J I ltunber of years ; whereas on the ordinary system, , he gets ithly. should he require to Increase ca or h d a e t er a e n a y se tim th e e , 0 3 , g c.,::‘ of his policy, he can do so at pleasure. '4 %01 v ' n e a fortnight's notice, withdraw any p i a t r h t has 5 amount of his previous payments and w le payment, three yearzithdrawn part one year he can. by interest. After u A p f th ter t h h e e h e or any time afterwards. raise his pol a icy " to g a greater or even hi, enter amount ; and by this system he can at h all times regulate ber.Znual savings by his annual expenditure, witesstiht3efatchielitsyaminethase 3 el'}2 of baying a fly to in case of nec te n rnk, with this palpable advantage, however, that he gets bate the a u ! his money, and in case of death his family receive more than o, 4 ,_ ul eent ot his hisssvings. In ordinary Life Offices be can do no e.ning, but policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment thu d toes to pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any become forfeited to the eo w,,',l l Y to for aid, all his hard-earned savings Itioref,o=ety, and his misfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his g li‘ „ rtunate co-assurers. /4 14 system tis too equitable and too striking to be overlooked IniivLk'ostv assurance is the only system of assurance which can be tlailv''allY recognized and adopted when the principles a.rehismP.ar od It e rde,... ean 'ressed, and its palpable benefits become widely cliff of greater advantages than a bank because it allows a fair h ra .. te . ha na ' a erest in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount it9 l o e lse: o r the Company to the representatives of the Depositor I death, thins combining the Abe • A NTAGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF „ AN ASSURANCE COMPANY. lyo te we of endowment assurances the advantages o f th e DEP OSIT k tvv :" ar e still more striking. AIT TAGES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY To th LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH. 5,0 001 ose wh o Prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to : i l le'rerY known principle thereof. 'tJett e ,, all but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been eul m . 4 `:_"Y other Orem, are taken at rates equivalent to the parti- Zete. to m or persm tro o/. and upwards granted on every kind of security, on tes Aa.,nuona 4 l, on the *lost equitable terms to the borrower of every description granted on very favourable terms. Prei t tf_Jr fei ture of a P o l icy —ln case of ina bi l i ty to pay the currant rat erirt,7°, ,, e, the Di rectors will either purchase tho Policy at a fair e° val ue, or give a new one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent., into- Pending in amount to the whole of the previous payments I) et ' a ' re b een m d posit : V e t Dr ae. eau :Vet osPectuses with tables in further illustration of the De -NI to the Ag ents in and any further altoinformn may be obtained on appli. the country, o CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary. 711.1 t -'"-*4A - 111 t4 Prautel 14 all PArtl Wald,. STEPHEN'S COMMENTARIES. —THIRD EDITION. Just published, 4 vols., Bee., Four Guineas, cloth, (dedicated, b y per mission, to her Majesty the Queen) the Third Edition of MIL SERJEANT STEPHEN'S NEW COMMENTARIES on the LAWS of ENGLAND, partly founded on Blackstone. Prepared for the press by JAMES STEPHEN, Of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, and Professor of Ei aglish Law, &c., at King's College, London. London : Butterworth's, Law Booksellers and Publishers in Ordinary to her Majesty, 7, Fleet-street. WITTE ROMANCE of MILITARY LIFE. Jl. By Lieut.-Col. G. POULETT CAMERON, C.E., K.C.T.5.,, A tunor of "Adventures and Excursions in Georgia, Circassia,. and R us s i a ." Part 1., price is., is Published This Day. G. Cox, 18, King-street, Covent-garden. Orders received b y all booksellers. B RITISH COLLEGE OF HEAVER, New-road, London. MORISON'S PILLS. TO TUE EDITOR. Sin,—Tke duty paid to the English Government for stami we on Morison's Pills amounts to 130,000/. This, perhaps, is the best answer to the false and interested reports circulated by the k river class of Doctors, to the prejudice of the above popular medi. one, which has now stood the test of 25 years' experience. As we have often said before, Doctors live by disease, and of co , nrse any medicine that cures at a cheap rite will never answer ftieir purpose. We are, Sir, yours, &c., THE MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH COLLEG OF HEALTH. New-road, London, February, 1853. DINNERS, BALL SUPPERS, and WE 1 1)- DING BREAKFASTS provided in Town or Country by Messrs. PURSSELL'S, Cornhill, including wines, and the bir. 3 of plate, linen, china, seats, tables, servants, carriages tents, awnings, dancing hollands. &c. Ballrooms lighted and adorned. In s ru " mental music provided, Bills of fare sent per post for any num bcr, or one of the firm will watt upon parties if required. A. nth cost display of Bride Calreir-ihrNintlbn. ile6ofiiteft Irta"fieve. Mt" elegant style. All the Parisian novelties in Wedding Stationer, Messrs. PURSgELL, 78, Cornhill (only). iF MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES C YOUTH AND 31ATURITT. DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUIRE, LONDC CV, Doctor of Medicine, and Matriailated Member of the LTniversit• r of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Me. lical Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Scc., &e. full - AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on 11_ the various disorders of the nervous and generative syst em, resulting from juvenile irreguTarities and excosses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and pre ma ture decay at all stages eflife, than perhaps any other class of dis eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical expert. !vice in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in e: Liq ence secret causes of self -acquired miseries and disappointed hop , ss in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which N M er sous Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful iurri ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and I :heir endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated wit lout incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret sue cued the heyday of inconsiderate self -Indulgence, how these pens Ries may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remo vei, and how the evil and its consequences may be avoided, aad above i all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functi anal derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a c acre. DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been eng; wed in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate c com plaints, and is the only legally qtialifled Physician who, regal*, Item of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to d irect attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of socie tr is free. In selectiag thi. department of practice, he has been ai ca ply row arded by the great success that has attended his efforts h i the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to . the care of unqualified mid ignorant empirics, who, with their pi rated publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended vi rtues of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those - who have been induced to place faith in their pretensions. ,At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Tiro, and from Six till Eight. All letters mast contain the fee of 11., and advice sand medicines can be forwarded to any initials or address. It is desirable that patients wishing to consult Dr. LA'3I ERT should first obtains copy of his work on SELF-PRESERVATION.' A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous . and Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty coloured engravings, and des cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits i and excesses. The perusal of this treatise will assist in the co greet description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in En ;Ash, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-sti uet ; Mann, 39, Comhill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; or free oy post for forty-two stamps, to any address from 'the Author's ;resi dence, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON. IMPORTANT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL WORKS, Just published, by IL BaiMere, 219, Regent-street, London. No I. Bvo., in cloth, price Cs. by post free, 6s. 6d., ON TRUE & FALSE SPERM_ATORRHCB. A, with the Viesl o the Correction of wide-spread Et ors In relation to the Treatment and Cure of Sufferers from Debility c f• the Generative System, or Sexual Hypochondriasis. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD "Dr. Pickford 's known to English readers by his frequent pr 'ace cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first rime, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the nox-t Medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he Irian detect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in t his rower to correct."—London Medical Gazette, May 30, 1551. "We promised in a former number that we should recur ti ► this war's, in order to exhibit its aim more clearly. The author 1 Is/les with great severity the impostors who make a livelihood by pn wing on the credulity of the public. The tribe of ' Quiet Symathi and • Medical Friends,' ago mercilessly exposed ; and if this Crook could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from th plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hriidreds uld to saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most pri zc— much m0ney...... This volume is well qualified to put an end b ► the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhcea, and to place the t re at merit upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, there ft likely to do much good."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. No. 11. avo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post free, 45., THE CURE OF STRICTURE OF THE URETHRA, on Pr in et pies at once Simple, Safe, and Efficient, in even its most Invett orate apparently Intractable Forms. BY F. B. COURTENAY, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. "In proof of his views he (Mr. Courtenay) has g Even he history of a great many cases successfully treated, as bad as any which Mr. Syme adduced, and on which he had open tted. Such arc cases ix., xi., xii., and xviii. No. ix. had resisted, I ir.r a period of twelve years, the treatment by dilitation, and was fir is By temoved in as many weeks. But cases xviii. and xix. apeapar, both In duration, severity, and complication o f symptoms, of more ag gravated character than any detailed by Mr. Syme, and yet . the treatment adopted by Mr. Courtenay proved eminently success Ettl." _Professor Lizars on the Treatment of Stricture. QIGNS of the TIMES—not the "Daily Tim %it" or the "Sunday Times," but the black and white rain ands new sort of " times," provoking the skater's wrath by broken sheet at of ice, freezing for every one to contemplate, unless they are habits e. in warm, firm, and comfortable attire, which, for these " times," sh , swN also be waterproof. Their being at this season many counterfeit S, it is no way improper to describe the features of the genuine art kin. It should be made of first-rate materials, combining firmness, strer telt, and superior finish—it should be cut on principles which secu re a correct fit, which cause the garments to fall in a graceful ma tuner from the person of the wearer—it should display workmanship w •hich cannot fail, and such as only a thoroughly artistic establishment can exhibit. The Dress to measure or ready made, presented b: rE. MOSES and SON, possesses all these qualities on the most comm. slid ing aspects, and is charged considerably lower prices than at any Sense. other lts variety affords the amplest choice for terms. Gentle] non or Mechanics, for Sport:me n or Juveniles, on the 7 fats and Caps, Hosiery, Boots and Shoes, &c., of thadhe best, most MOSES fash lon able, and serv iceable character, may be at E. Arid SON'S Establishment or its Branches, for very small outlays. EMIGRATION. Man y impositions being pr actised b y persons professing to heft lend Emigrants, it becomes imperative that all parties intending to • mi grate should purcbase all goods required at the well-known and 1 ong tried Establishment of E. MOSES and SON. Every article reqv tired may be inspected previous to being bought, and being marke 1 in plain figures, at a very low price, affords every opportunity of ma Ling a suitable and economical selection. A. distinct department is kept for Outfitting and Ship sailing information, with full lists of post dfits for ladies and gentlemen, may be had on application, or st free, to any part of the kingdom. • t imposition, having learned that the untradesman- like CAUTION. —E. 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Jebb in the chair, the object being the annual audit of the ac counts of . the commission for the past year, in accord ance with the 127th clause of the 11th and 12th of Viet., cap. 112, i.e.:— " And be it enacted, that the commissioners shall, after such audit of the accounts as aforesaid, cause an account in abstract to be prepared, showing the receipt and expendi ture under this act for the preceding year, under the several distinct heads of,receipts.and_e,xpenditexe,xith the statement of the allowance of the auditor or auditors; if lie or they shall have allowed such accounts, or of the parts, if any, which he or they shall have disapproved of such accounts, and also a summary statement and report of all contracts entered into by the commissioners in such pre ceding year, and of the monies owing to and debts owing by the commissioners on the 31st of December, in the year named." Sir J. Fellowes, Bart., and G-. S. Smith, Esq., were also present. The SECRETARY (Mr. Woolrych) read the report of the committee in approval of the auditor's examination of the state of the funds. A copy of the document was ordered to be transmitted to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in compliance with the terms of the statute. Subjoined is tho extract : General cash balance due Dec. 31, 1851 £3,355 11 3 Total receipts during tho year 134,999 18 5 £138,355 9 8 Payments during the same period 122,098 11 11 Cash balance Dec. 31, 1852 '.£16,25G 17 9 The statement having been unanimously passed, The AUDITOR begged leave to say, in the presence of the Commissioners, that his thanks were due to the gentlemen connected with the secretary's and accountant's depart ments of the commission, for the ready and valuable assist ance they had invariably afforded to him in tho prose cution of the arduous work in which he had been engaged. (Cheers.) Tenders for works having been entertained and disposed of, the Commissioners adjourned until this day. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FED. 28. The Thomas Arbuthnot, freight-ship, with the head quarters of the 48th Regiment on board, sailed last night from the Motherbank for Corfu. The Black Eagle, Admiralty steam-yacht, Master- Commander Petley, returned this afternoon with the Ordnance inspection party from the Channel Islands. The London, 90, Captain Mundy, sent up topmasts and topgallantmasts this morning, bent sails, and crossed royal yards in readiness for going to Spithead to-mor row. - - . The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain H. B. Martin, C. 8., has been docked to-day to be coppered. Her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, Commodore Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, G.C.H., Captain Crispin second in command, was docked to-day to undergo her annual refit. _ . - The Illustrious, 72, was docked to-day for conversion into a block-ship. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 28. The screw steam-frigate Desperate, Captain W. Cham bers, which left Plymouth at one p.m. on Thursday, for Cork, was 25 miles north of the Longships on Friday at 12, with the wind at W.N.W., when a sea struck her, and knocked in her stern ports and window sashes, and destroyed the contents of the captain's cabin, washing the stores, &c. about in all directions. It was with con siderable difficulty that a temporary planking was fixed inside, and this only partially stopped the leakage. We are afraid that the Desperate must be classed among the already large number of useless ships in her Majesty's navy. Her stern gun, 95 cwt.; was removed after the experience of her insufficiency in towing the ships of the Arctic Expedition from Scotland. She now has six 68's and one 95. Her machinery is excellent. The great disadvantage of the Desperate appears to arise from defi ciency of beam ; the length is about 182 feet, and breadth only 36 feet ; her quarter falls in, and, having a screw weighing 71 or 8 tons, the stern is plunged deeply into the water, whenever a heavy sea is encountered. She was built, at Pembroke, from designs furnished by the School of Naval Architectnre, and was fitted at Sheer ness. 18, was taken out of No. 5 dock last Australian, mail packet, was taken in evening, the same tide. This morning two waggon loads of mail bags have been taken out of her and conveyed to Ply. mouth, where they will be properly dealt with. They g,Nifndodthe appeared to be completely drenched d with water. with stores from Pembroke, wi ll load at once again with iron The Diligence, transport, boun to Devonport, ballast ; 800 tons will be required for the James Watt by the end of March. Mr, William Browett, mate of the Devon, lighter, has been appointed master of the Tortoise, vice Harris, superannuated. In the Sound—The Queen, 116 ; Vulture, 6 ; and Argus, 6. In larbour — The Imp re g nable, St. George 120 , ; Vengeance, 84 ; Edinburgh , 58 ; Ho g ue, 58 ; Valorous, 14 ; Desperate, 14 ; and Sylph, Avon, Nautilus, Con fiance, Devon, and Tortoise lighters. VICE-ADMIRAL AISCOITGH.—This gallant officer was taken alarmingly and dangerously ill on his journey from his residence at Southampton to Folkestone, en route to Paris, but succeeded in reaching Boulogne, where he ob tained the eminent services of Sir Robert Chermside and Dr. Lucas, and though the life of t he admiral was for two days despaired of, we rejoice to state he is so far recovered as to give great hopes to his friends and anxious family of his perfect recovery.—Naval and Mili tary Om*. The Archbishop of YORK presented several Petitions, praying for inquiry into the Coll eof Maynooth. The Archbish o p o f CANT E M 3 RY presen t e d a Ipe tion, praying for P ar li amentary p ers. The Earl of MALMESBURY, gave notice that he would to-morrow move for certain returns relative to accidents on railways during the last year, and that he would draw the attention of the Government to the sub ject, _ The Duke of NEWCASTLE presented a petition from Portsmouth, in favour of the admission of Jews into Parliament. .f REGISTRATION OF ASSURANCES BELL. Lord ST. LEONARDS gave notice that on the motion for the second reading of this bill, which stood on the paper for Thursday next, he should move that the bill be read a second time this day six months. The Earl of DERBt presented several petitions against the admission of Jews into Parliament. The noble lord said that if the bill - which had been intro duced into the other house by a small majority were brought into this house, he hoped that their lordships would deal with it as they had dealt with former bills. The Law of Evidence (Scaland) Bill was passed through committee. CANADIAN CLERG RESERVES. The Earl of DERBY a ga i n r -. and said—My lords, I have now to call your lordships'' tention to the prayer of 64 or 65 petitions to which, fro the importance, of the subject to which they relate, I halve thought it right to call your lordships' attention by placitig a notice on the papers of the house. These petitions are from various bodies be longing to the Church of Scotland in Canada. [His lord ship hero enumerated several orth ' 'es from whom the petitiona - emartatt•thn•-n • - 44.4.1... gallery; 59 of the petitions were from congregations cow nested with the Presbyterian Church of Scotland in Canada.] It is right, the noble lord proceeded to say, that I should state that the object of these • petitions is all the same, though expressed in various terms. They pray that your lordships will preserve inviolate the arrangement en tered into in the year 1840, and that your lordships will not interfere with, nor suffer to be interfered with, that arrangement with regard to the clergy reserves in Canada. It is quite right that I should state that a portion of these petitions were prepared so long ago as 1851, and that they were then brought over with the intention of being pre sented against a bill of a similar character, which was at that time before the Legislature. It was then the inten tion to place them in the hands of the noble duke, the Lord Privy Seal (the Duke of Argyll), to whose active and unremitting services the house and the country were mainly indebted for the withdrawal of that bill. The withdrawal of that bill rendered the presentation of those petitions unnecessary, and equally unnecessary was it, after the de claration of her Majesty's late Government, of which I was a member, to present any petition or petitions (luring 1852, but upon the accession of the present Government, those who were connected with the Church of Scotland felt it to be their duty to renew and reiterate the expression of their former opinions, and they have authorised me to state that these opinions of the congregations of the great body of the Church of Scotland remain unaltered. And un doubtedly these petitions would have been placed in 1853 as in 1851 in the hands of the noble duke opposite, but that the petitioners apprehended that they would thereby cause some embarrassment to the noble duke, who might not feel himself at the same liberty in 1851 to afford his valuable assistance to the petitioners; and in consequence of the position now occupied by the noble duke, I have been requested by the petitioners to present their petitions in place of him who would have stated their case with much more ability and power, and to pray the earnest at- I tention of your lordships to this subject. I confess that it is without any surprise that I saw the present bill, of which notice has been given to the other house, introduced by some portion of the Government. I regret undoubtedly to see that it has been taken up by the Government, and that it has been brought forward by them as a Government measure. I regret it because, without meaning any disre spect to them, I cannot but leek upon this measure as one that will deprive the Protestant Church in Canada of rights which they as ministers are bound to defend, and as a viola- tion of the rights of property of which they are the legiti mately constituted guardians. If I could look upon it in any more trivial light, I should not be insensible to the many conveniences and temptations to a Minister to acqui esce in the introduction of the bill, because I do not seek to conceal that the object of this measure is one greatly de sired by a large portion of the people of Upper and Lower Canada, by a large majority of the people of the united province, and by a considerable portion of the people of the upper province. I cannot deny also the general plausibility , of the argument that it is right to leave to the colonial legis lature the management of their own property a n d reg „l„ ll ,,„ 15f thiArir4TlVETerstrgi ailletiMlittellialOtiot insensible to the advantage to bo derived to any one who proposes to Parlia ment a mode which can recommend itself to their consciences of getting rid of a considerable amount of business, in re gard to which they feel themselves imperfectly informed. But my sense of public duty as a Minister compelled me to refuse to assent to that of which I saw the expediency, but of which I felt the viciousness of principle ; and the same sense of duty which led me, as a Minister, to refuse my assent, leads me on the present occasionto support the prayer of these petitioners, and to entreat your lordships not to sanction this measure. I have said, my lords, that I admit the plausibility—nay, I admit much more—l admit the justice of leaving to the colonial legislature as far as possible the management of their peculiar internal affairs. In 1840, when the civil list was reserved by an act of the Imperial Legislature out of the revenues of Canada, that interference with the property of the colonists was held by them to be highly objectionable ; and although under the circumstances it was impossible to avoid coming to such a measure, yet it was with great satisfaction that I gave my assent as Secretary of State to the introduction of a measure by which, upon the colonial legislature passing by its own authority, such a civil list as might be accepted by the Crown, the sta tute of the Imperial Legislature dealing with their property was repealed. The consequence was that that civil list rested on the authority of the colonial legislature. My lords, I will go further, and say that I do not thinkthat the mere impolicy of a particular arrangement, as it might strike a Secretary of State or the Minister for the time beinm, would be a sufficient reason for refusing the assent of th e 'Crown to that which might be proposed by the colonists and passed by the colonial legislature. In 1850 the Government which preeeded d me had refused upon more than ons occasion their assent, upon the ground of impolicy, to measures passed by the colonial legislature for countervailing bounties and privileges granted to American seamen bythe American Government, by coun tervailing duties on the part of the colonial legislature, and in refusing to assent to acts passed by the colonial legislature the ground taken was that those measures were at variance with the general principle of free trade. My lords, I mention this merely for the purpose of showing that with regard to acts of the colonial legislature I am not averse to leaving them the management of their own affairs bearing on their own interests ; and consequently, without expressing any opinion with regard to the policy of granting bounties to colonial seamen on the part of the Legislature, I consented to the measures of my predecessors, and I permitted the colonial legislature to deal with their own revenues as they thought fit for the promotion of their own interests. But my opposition to the measure now under consideration is, that in this case the colonists are seeking to deal, not with their own property, but with that which never was their own property, over which they never had the right to exercise any control, and which, by competent authority and the strongest guarantees, had not only been otherwise appropriated and taken out of their jurisdiction previously to the establishment of their constitution, but which upon two occasions was made one of the funda mental conditions upon which that very constitution rested. It was as early as the year 1775, when the Crown exercised an uncontrolled authority over the then province of Quebec, that it was thought necessary and expedient, when the principal guarantee was given for the exercise of the religion and the maintenance of the property of the Roman Catholic inhabitants of Lower Canad.a, to afford inducements to Protestants to settle in the province of Quebec by • the promise that they at all times to come There are at prese n t res idi ng i n Th e b n e dants of those w h o , qu i tt i ng should eo t, have t e t the r o s t e e c e u t ariatty churches withinguaranteed thatef ono-seventha n v n d c a e p , p p a rt of a r s o p a r i n a e d n t ac h ea ena those da rands m lands o a f n tyh of fe etr Crown, nheeda. e t s c o the United States, settled in the province on the strength of that guarantee, and on the faith of the British Crown, that in all times to come provision should be made from the lands of the province for the Protestant clergy, and the dissemination of the Protestant faith. My lords, I from tthaantd rin time to this mention it to the credit of the United States, that ther e are at this moment, in various of those states, endowments to the Episcopal Church of this country,p ceipnldeowo'nfatehnatts which were created previous to the revolution, and w hi c h great were wholly Republic, butadverseh w to t e he h f s been held sacred, and the rights of property have in' have favour of that Church been respected and upheld. What we ask is, that the British Parliament shall not be less just than the Republic of the United States has been to its own sub jects and to the Episcopal Church. I said that in 1775 this provision was made by royal proclamation. In 1791, as your lordships are aware, the two provinces of Upper and Lower Canada were separated—these institutions were remodelled and a constitutional government was given to the province of Upper Canada; and let me observe in pass ing that it is mainly, though not perhaps exclusively, to the province of Upper Canada, or that portion of it to which this question relates, that constitutional government was given, and in the very act which constituted and esta blished that province there was reserved, by the power of the Legislature, and confirmed by the Crown and by the act of the . Imperial Parliament, that reservation of the clergy reserves which had been previously given by royal proclamation in 1775. I am not speaking of the policy that endowment, or of the reason or farsighted ness of the separation of the two provinces. I am not speaking of the meaning which may be involved in the terms " Protestant clergy," but there is no doubt that at the time when that grant was made, that time being pre vious to the establishment of the constitutionitself, and of the rights of the subjects of the Crown in Canada, that special reservation was made of one -seventh of the land under authority perfectly competent to make it, and made, too, in the most solemn terms by the act of the British Parliament for the maintenance, for all times to come, of the Protestant clergy in that province. Therefore, I contend that the alienation of that one-seventh, being already alienated and appropriated by authority perfectly competent, being sanctioned by the highest au thority of the Crown and act of. Parliament, being de clared to be A permanent endowment, and being the in' ducement by which many loyal Protestants were led to settle in that province, on the faith of the Crown and of Parliament—l say this is not a subject with which the provincial Legislature can claim to deal ; it is private pro perty, withdrawn and exempted from their jurisdiction at the very time when that general jurisdiction was conferred upon them. For a very considerable period of time those reserves were altogether unproductive. They were more than unproductive, because, there being no power to sell any portion, but only power of leasing, in a country where leasing was unknown, and the possession of property was easily acquired, it was impossible to realise any consider able sum for the maintenance of the clergy, and in the mean time the lands remained uncultivated and waste, an impediment to the advancement and general progress of the provinces. In 1819, a question arose, and an opinion was given by three very learned persons—Lord Gifford, then Attorney-General, Sir Christopher Robinson, and a noble and learned lord, who was at that time Solicitor- General, Lord Lyndhurst—to the effect that by the term "Protestant clergy" was meant the clergy, not merely of the Church of England, but. the clergy of the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and the clergy of other denomina tions. Ido not pretend to say how far that. opinion might have been in accordance with the original intention of the royal proclamation and the Act of Parliament. If I might venture to hazard an opinion, it would be that. in 1791 the endowment of the Church of Scotland did not enter into the intentions of the founders of the Canadian consti tution, but that it was intended to endow the Church of England merely under the terms " Protestant clergy." However, the opinion being given, and on very high au thority, that whatever might be the original intention, the terms "Protestant clergy" did not include the Church of Scotland, from that time Secretaries of State and Governors of Canada successively acted upon that principle, and in point of fact the proceeds of the reserves, such as they were, were apportioned between the Church of England and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. In 1827 the inconvenience to which I have before adverted was so much increased, that an act of Parliament was passed, not by the colony, but by the Imperial Parliament namely, the 7th and Bth Geo. 'IV., by which authority was given, not only to lease, but to sell a certain amount of the reserves, and invest in British security the proceeds of such sales, the proceeds of course to be applied to the saula.Purkosef3 as .t land. Under that Act of Parlia ment the rereficig' gr adtally becterneP 'irror - e---produetiuo. and more an object of interest to the various denomi nations; and I cannot conceal from your lordships that at that time the province of Upper Canada, being largely increased in population by inhabitants from the United States amongst whom there was a strong feeling against any endowment of any religious denomina tion whatever, there did spring up a strong and earnest desire to deal with those clergy reserves, some person,s de siring to appropriate them to the general maintenance of all denominations, some being anxious to devote them to purposes of education, while some were willing to secu larise them all together, and to devote them to the pur poses of the State. This was a subject of frequent con flict from 1827 to 1840. At that period a great change, as your lordships are aware, took place in the Government of Canada. After the suppression of the rebellion it was deemed necessary, or, at all events, advisable, to provide for the future government of Canada, and it was hoped that in so providing for it dissensions between the two provinces might be avoided by amalgamating in one Chamber the legislatures of Upper and Lower Canada. At that time it was felt that, with regard to the religious endowments, more especially, that amalgamation of the provinces must produce an extraordinary change of circumstances ; that whereas, to a certain extent, by provision of the act of 1791, the provincial legislature, subject to the control of Parliament, had a prospective power of altering the arrangements with regard to the reserves, and of modifying the future allotment of the proportions, it was a very dif ferent thing to have that power vested in a united legisla ture, nearly one-half of whom were Roman Catholics, and who, by a union with the minority of the upper province, might have the power of altogether secularising the endow ment, and of diverting it from its original purposes. It was felt, therefore, that it was necessary at the time of establishing the union between the two provinces again to confirm it in the most emphatic manner, and in the strongest terms, the original appropriation of the reserves or the proceeds of them to the purposes of the Protestant clergy, and to make provision for the permanence of that arrangement, whatever might be the future views of the united legislature with regard to `those endowments. Mr. Poulett Thomson, when Governor-General of Canada, ob tained, with considerable difficulty, from the legislature of the upper province an act which, to a certain extent, car ried into effect the original intention, by securing an en dowment, though only a partial one, for the clergy of the Church of England and of the Church of Scotland. An act was passed by which those reserves, and the proceeds of those reserves, were ever hereafter set apart for the en dowment in certain proportions of the Church of Scotland and other denominations of Christians, for the mainte nance of public worship. When that bill, in pursuance of the provisions of the act of 1791, was submitted to the Parliament—for it was one of the provisions of the original act that the measures of the colonial legislature must be submitted to the consideration of both houses of Par liament before receiving the sanction of the Crown —upon laying that bill upon the table of the house, the question arose whether the local legislature had not, in so dealing with those reserves, exceeded the power conferred upon them by the original act. Questions were submitted to the consideration of the judges whether in three specified points the Legislature had not exceeded their powers ; and the judges, by the mouth of Lord Chief Justice Tindal, on the 4th of May, 1840, stated that all the judges, with the exception of Lord Denman and Lord Abinger, were unanimous in their answers to the questions which had been put to them. They wore unani .moos-in asserting-that the worrie-,`a.Protestani-aloposr: did extend beyond the narrow construction which would have limited the clergy reserves to the clergy of the Esta blished Church. And when asked what other denomina tions might be included besides the Church of England, they added that the Church of Scotland also might be in cluded. They were asked whether the effect of the 41st section, by which the local legislature, subject to certain condition, were authorised to modify the appropri a tio n , was to be considered as applying prospectively or retros pectively, as applying to the allotments and appropriations previously made, or such as might be the produce of sa l es thereafter to be iade. - Upon that subject the judges were unanimous in declaring that the colonial legislature had exceeded their powers—that they had no power under the original act to deal retrospectively—that the rights of pro perty were beyond the control of the legislature—and that all they had the power of doing, even subject to the control of Parliament, was the prospective disposal of the funds thereafter to be raised. They further stated that they were all of opinion that the legislative council and assem bly in Canada had exceeded their authority in passing an act to provide for the sale of the clergy reserves, and the distribution of the proceeds thereof, in respect of both the enactments specified in your lordships' question—that was in reference to the power granted in 1827 to sell certain portions of the clergy reserves, specially vesting the pro ceeds of the sale in British securities ; whereas, the colo nial legislature had appropriated the proceeds of the sale, and vested them in colonial securities. Upon all these three subjects the judges were unanimously of opinion that the local legislature had gone beyond their powers, and had dealt with subjects over which they could exercise no control. It was, therefore, necessary to introduce a measure into the Imperial Parliament to remove the seri ous difficulties which had arisen , to the settlement of that great and important question ; and after grave discussion and deliberation, after no slight amount of objection from those who thought that by the act so introduced their rights were seriously infringed, Parliament, with tolerable unanimity, sanctioned the adoption of a measure by which a settlement of the dispute in question was made, and by which, for the second time, in establishing anew the con stitution of Canada, the right was secured to the Imperial Parliament alone to deal with the question of the clergy re serves, which,as smatter of property,were again withd rawn from the control of the colonial legislature. That bill was introduced by the noble lord the present leader of the House of Commons, and it was impossible to exaggerate the strength of the expressions with which the noble lord al luded to the partial departure from the act of 1791. He emphaticallydeclared that it was all-important and essential that this great question should be finally and at once with drawn from the possibility of future controversy, and that a settlement should be made which should be accepted by all denominations as final, and which should ultimately re store, by the authority of the Imperial Parliament, peace upon this much vexed question to the legislature of Canada, by withdrawing the question from their jurisdiction. (Hear.) And to show the animus by which the Govern ment of that day, composed of a large portion of the mem bers of the present Government, were actuated, I may state that they, in a most marked manner, omitted from that new act the conditional permission granted in the act of 1791, to deal prospectively with any portion of the re serves. Under that act an arrangement was made by which a distinction was drawn, following the decision given by the judges, between property already realised and property thereafter to be realised. Two-thirds of the amount already realised was reserved for the clergy of the Church of England, and one-third for the clergy of the Church of Scotland ; and these reserves were vested in bodies constituted for the purpose, and charged with the administration of these funds. The funds so dealt with amounted to but one-fourth of the estimated amount of the whole of the clergy reserves ; and with regard to the other three-fourths, similar arrangements were made. The, three-fourths were divided into two equal portions. With regard to one of those portions, it was divided between the clergy of the Church of England and the clergy of the Church of Scotland. The other half was left entirely to the disposal of the colonial legislature, to be dealt with as they might think fit fer the great object of promoting religi ous worship, and even going such a length, in their desire of conciliating all parties within the province, and to leave no cause of complaint, as to omit the words " a Protestant clergy," and to allow the application of a portion of that half to be applied not only to Protestant dissenters, but to be employed for the purposes of the Roman Catholic clergy. The Governor-General of Canada, on that occa sion, went the length of saying that, unless this question were then finally and for ever disposed of, the union of the two provinces would be useless, and worse than useless ; and up to the year 1846 the most liberal members of the provincial Parliament held the strongest possible language with regard to the finality of that arrangement, declaring that they adopted it as a permanent and final settlement, and that they would look upon it as a curse to the country if it was not observed. My lords, it is the maintenance of that establishment, of that contract, and of those rights of property so solemnly and so repeatedly guaranteed, that the petitioners, not desirous of disputing the rights of the colonists to deal with affairs exclusively their own, pray that your lordships will not sanction a departure from the- great settlement then made—will not deprive them of the rights and property guaranteed by the highest au thority—and will not again introduce into Canada the con sideration of elements of religious discord which must lead to interminable confusion. (Hear.) The object of the great bulk of those who are seeking the right to deal with this property is not, as your lordships might be led to sup pose, an appropriation and allotment amongst the various religious denominations, more in accordance with their re spective numbers, and with the liberties of a country in which no dominant Church will be tolerated or supported. The object is one of a very different character. The object is to alienate from religion altogether that provision which the piety of former sovereigns and former parliaments granted for its support, and to introduce throughout the e length and breadth of Canad a th e republican principl of voluntaryism adopted in the - United States. (Ro ar .) D,; not deceive yourselves by supposing that the object of these parties is a better distribution of the revenues for the.pur poses for which they were originally intended —the main tenanoe of the Protestant clergy, the support of the Pro testant religion, or the support of any religion whatever. The object—the avowed object—of a large portion of those who are proposing to deal with the question is the secula risation of those revenues, and their applic a ti on t o ot h er than religious purposes. know it will be said with regard to measures of this kind, that if such an attempt were made the right of the Crown still remains, and the Secre tary of State might interpose the royal veto upon such an act. I hardly think the noble duke the Secretary for the Colonial Department will rely upon that argument ; be cause the argument of the present Government is, that with regard to these affairs the colonial legislature is the best and the only judge. And to give the colonial legisla ture the power of dealing with these revenues, and then to 1 controul them in so dealing, in granting a boon which, if you would maintain your position, would be a mockery, and which an attempt to maintain must lead to indescrib able discord and confusion. (Hear, hear, hear.) Grant that the local legisl a t ure h ave th e power ofi dealing with these clergy reserves, I will defy you not to follow up this principle, and say that the mode in which they deal with them is a question as exclusively within the right of the colonial legislature as the right of dealing with them at all, and that from the moment you sacrifice any authority or control which the Crown and the Parliament possess you give up the rights and property which the Crown and Parliament have guaranteed, and are bound to maintain, and you practically constitute an independent country. (Hear.) I speak with a full sense of the gravity of the alternative when I say that if in truth it be the desire of the people of Canada that they should exercise a wholly in dependent power of legislation—that they should in no re spect be checked by the authority of the Crown or by the interposition of Parliament—l say far better admit that principle frankly, and at once relieve the Minister of the British Crown from a nominal and often a very painful re sponsibility—declare openly that over the legislation of Canada Parliament exercises no influence, and refuse 'to go through the farce, as'it will then be, of advising the Crbwn by a responsible minister to assent to, or withhold its assent from, any specific measure that may be . passed. Admit the independence of Canada, and if the colony be still con nected by the tie of the Crown with this country, in that ..ease let it be aLiatinelizainderstood . that the Crown acts upon the advice not of tlirriiiieriat - liiirdf - the colonial - legislature, and that you j stand towards Canada in the same relation as you stand to Hanover. Ido not say that such an arrangement would not give me much cause of regret, but it would be far preferable to that doubtful position in which you at present stand, affecting to bxer cise a control which you dare not exercise, and responsible, or nominally resp onsi bl e , f or the approval of measures which—whether you approve or whether you do not ap prove—whether they be in violation of a plighted faith, in violation of the guarantee of the Crown, in violation of the rights of property—you equally hold yourselves bound to assent, on the general and broad principal that the colo nists are the best judges of their own affairs ; and that that which the Legislature of the colony has acceded to, the Crown is not justified in forbidding in this country. (Hear, hear.) In a pecuniary point of view, no doubt the advan tages of such a sep ara ti on wou ld be very great. With regard to the friendly relations which may still be con tinued, I do not despair but that those relations might be maintained and upheld, and perhaps even improved, by the absence of a nominal control ; and if the province de sires to place itself in that position, I, for one, would not be the person to withhold the assent of Parliament. But as long as the province remains a province —so long as the Minister of the Crown is charged with the vindication of the rights of British subjects —so long as Parliament. re serves any portion of colonial legislation in its own hand, and maintains the rights of British subjects guaranteed by that legislature —so long, whatever might be the hazard, I would not be a party to assent to the sacrifice of those rights, or to allow any interposition with regard to the rights of property which I would not sanction in this coun try—which I would not sanction with regard to the rights of the Church of Scotland—which I would not sanction with regard to the rights of the Church of Ireland—which I would not sanction with regard to the rights of any por tion of the community whose rights and whose property were guaranteed to them under the faith of the Crown by an authority competent to guarantee them. (Hear.) Do not flatter yourselves, my lords, that if you pass this bill you will by so doing avoid future controversy and future religious discord. You will more probably perpetuate, and aggravate, and embitter it. First of all, when the colo nial legislature should be enabled and empowered to deal with these clergy reserves, arises the bitter strife between all the contending parties who seek to appropriate these reserves each to their own body, and between that larger body still which seeks to deprive them of all, and to secularise the whole amount of these revenues. Remem ber that this is a question which mainly applies to the province of Upper Canada. But in Lower Canada there are very large endowments in land ; there is a very large property ; there are very large com pulsory payments in aid of the Roman Catholic clergy. These rights rest on a footing not a whit more strong than the clergy reserves. • (Hear, hear.) The two noble dukes opposite (the Dukes of Newcastle and Argyll) cheer that observation—do they foresee, do they believe it possible that with the sanction of the Goverment principle of secularisation once introduced, the Protestants of Upper Canada and the Protestant minority of Lower Canada would be satisfied with the assertion of that prin ciple that there shall be no dominant Church as relates to the Protestant body—that all territorial and other revenues appropriated to the purposes of the Protestant clergy should be secularised and converted to other purposes ? And .. they believe that that same body of men, with that, tion on the part of the Legis/atuia4fd _go Go 1 % ...;" 'll-temely 01 . 0 P M -t o —the contriirecr einlovhuent of . 0 Roman Catholic Church with such enormous revenues, as the only endowed church, after the British Parliament shall have sanctioned the confiscation of the onlyprovision which our ancestors have made for theconservation of Pro testant worship in the Protestant portion of the colony ! From that moment arises a bitter feud for the alienation and confiscation of the provision made for the Roman Catholic Church in Lower Canada —from that moment all the differ ences of race and creed are brought into immediate and hos tile conflict. At the present moment the superintending and controlling authority of Parliament keeps all these ele ments in check; but the instant you sanction this new prin ciple the differences of religion and race again rise, and you aggravate, embitter, and perpetuat e th ose diff erences and dissensions whi c h, for so long a time, were the bone and curse of Canada, and the obliteration of which, by one great act of justice, was the object of the union of the pro vinces in 1840. (Near.) Do not flatter yourselves that by a dereliction of principle you escape from the difficulties of asserting the jurisdiction and supremacy of the Crown. Do not think you will introduce peace into the province. You will introduce perpetual and increased discord, and when you have made thisgreat concession you will find yourselves, step by step, involved in difficulties in which,in vindication of the rights of property, of the Crown, and of your fellow subjects, you are unable to interfere, and one after another you will be compelled to give the unwilling—l had almost said the degrading—sanction of the British Legislature to objects and purposes of which the Legislature, perhaps, cannot approve. If I refer to this subject strongly it is because I feel that the honour and dignity of the Crown is endangered by the bill. I know there may be risk from the firm but temperate maintenance of the right of the Crown; but whatever risk there may be, none can be so great to a British statesman as that of abandoning, for the purpose of expediency, the claim of principle and of justice, and the rights of property. (Hear.) And as while I had the honour of holding office under the Crown, not unaware of all the temptations to hold adifferent course, I was prepared to risk the existence of the Administration upon the mainte nance of the rights of property, and so in my place as a peer in Parliament I cannot refrain from entering my protest against Parliament being induced to do that which, as a Minister of the Crown, I never would consent to do. The noble earl concluded by laying the petitions on the table. The Duke of ARGYLL—My lords, it is true that in the course of 1851 a deputation came over from Canada, representing the! interests of the Established Church in Scotland, and placed in my hands certain petitions against a bill at that time in preparation by the noble earl then at the head of the Colonial-offiCe—a bill similar to that which has recently been introduced in the other house of Parlia ment. But it is not true that lin any way expressed my decided opinion upon the policy involved in that hill. (Hear, hear.) The petition was brought to me at a late period of the session, and I thought it extremely improb able that a bill could then be introduced. Although I said nothing in the house with reference to the subject, certain communications took place between me and the noble earl, from which I gathered that no measure would be intro duced, and I have to-night heard, for the first time, that any representations of mine had the slightest effect in pro curing the delay. But this I will say frankly to the noble earl, and to the house, that upon the statements made by the deputation from Canada, my own private feelings were rather against the measure than in its favour. But had all the facts been before me at that time, my opinion would have been different from what it then was. At that time the Session in Canada was approaching its close, and a new Parliament was about to proceed to be assembled, and I thought it was much better not to proceed with such a measure until the opinion of that 'now Parliament should' be expressed. The question has been fairly considered, and a considerable majority has declared in its favour. (Hear.) As the measure will come before your lordships at a future perm • d, and ample time will then be afforded for it s discus sion, I will not now enter into the whole subject ; but I wish to make one or two remarks. The noble earl ha s re . ferred to the settlement of 1840, as a final and conclusive settlement of this great subject. But what was the course taken by Sir John Pakington, the Colonial Secretary under the noble earl ? In one of his dispatches, in which he in timated that he was not prepared to proceed with the mea sure proposed by Lord Grey, he said no ground was left for any reasonable complaint on account of undue favour any particular religious deno m i na ti on, but the Govern count thought it might p oss ibl y be desirable e, onovern coun t of the change s t a ki ng place in the ch meter of as time should be consid ere d . population, that the dist r ib u ti on of the funds from ti me t o ask on what principl e th e noble (Hear, hear.) N ow, I wish to earl proposed t o proce e d in such distribution of the funds ? (Hear, hear.) Mr. Price, a Commissioner of the crown lands, and the originator and mover of the resolution of that three-fourths of the people believed l th Bs : ' arra sa n id gement was made in injustice and partiality. Do your lordship/ suppose that a settlement which ple of Canada -fourths of the 'Dee ,zenatrid_er unjust c t a hr n e i e ie considered a final settlement, o f the (Hear hear.) hear.) Although a member Church of Scotland, I have no jealousy of a larger "went being enjoyed by the Church of England, be and I B hr a l c d ged. glad to allow the existing settlement to remain uTic of Eng land find that although the members of the Church oulation of land are hardly more than one-fourth of the mfy4 l 3 ) than one the upper province, they get considerably ~_l les en j oy fr om half. And I find that the Roman:jaw° maint har en e than f the a considerably the the fund originally intended for i arger Protestant clergy stl - whole of the Presbyterian bodies and the Wesleyan 24etho dists pnt together. It is impossible that such a settlbmen i t, should be considered a final settlefuent • and again as on on what principle the nobl e earl *feinted to pro ceed in order to carry out the statent:,Of Sir. Joh n Pakington? Would he have taken from - Vlserge. Ahare now belonging to the Church of England , With the.Nifea; :Or :`';'' P.l distributing it amen the dissenting bodiefrofthrat If he had done so he would have met witikaa:Urcopp ks i.i,.7t:t tion from the members of the Church It r 4 ,04 thii x new make ; and if he had proposed to to eAraafefsi.sv; . a shilling he would have been asked by the rightvie.tetri4 prelate, in the words which he used the other ill , A whether he dared to commit the sacrilege of taking one "' farthing of those funds. (Hear, hear.) The noble earl said that the provinces of Canada were not entitled to deal with those funds. Now, it was perfectly clear, from the wording of the act, that it was the intention of the Legis latureto allow the Parliament of Canada to exercise large powers, not only with respect to the future distribution, but the future existence of the funds, because it was pro vided that the provision should be varied or repealed by any act of the local Parliament. It is quite clear that, if the colonial Parliament had interfered immediately after the passing of the act of 1791, they would have had com plete power over the large t portion of the funds, which, having failed to exercise that power, have accidentally passed out of their hands. (Hear, hear.) The noble earl, on the direct question of colonial policy, said it would be much better to abolish altogether the power of the Crown to negative acts of the colonial Parliament, than ' to retain that power, if compelled to use it on principles which may be adverse to our own. But he forgets that the main object of the existence of that power is not to enable the Colonial Secretary of England to negative acts concerning domestic affairs which may be passed by colonial assemblies, but to decide whether those acts do or do not affect imperial interests —whether they are or are not strictly confined to the internal affairs of the colony. (Hear.) When the present Government came into power they might have maintained intact the existing system without any alteration, or they might have abandoned the clergy reserves to the power of the colonial Assembly, leaving them to be dealt with as a question of purely internal concern. When Sir John Pakington penned his dispatch, did he consider the state of our Canadian poses sions ? Daring the last ten years the population of Upper Canada has advanced at the rate of something like 50,000 a year, or about 101 per cent. 'The - Earl of DERBY—It has doubled within the last ben years. The Duke of ARGYLL—Was it possible for the Im perial Government to have taken on itself the task of redis tributing from time to time these funds in their proper portions among the different religious bodies of Canada ? It was impossible to have carried out such a plan with satisfaction to the country. You must take one course or the other. You must maintain absolutely the existing system, or else you must give over to Canada, as a question_ of purely internal ooncern, the distribution of those funds according to the changes in the population. The noble earl has intimated that in the divisions which took place, and which ended by giving a considerable majority in favour of giving the Canadian Legislature further powers r over the clergy reserves, only a small portion of it 'consisted 'fi , 2 . - - of the members of Upper Canada. But the members from Lower Canada representing the Roman Catholic interest would be more disposed to treat with hostility the Protes tant endowments in the Western Province. Now, I beg to direct the attention of the noble earl to the memorial of the Bishop of Quebec, whom I think the noble earl will acknowledge to be an authority on this point. At the end of that memorial the Bishop of Quebec states, that " the members generally from Canada East are understood to have regarded the question as one proper to Canada West, on account of the greater stake there existing, and the far larger proportion of Protestant inhabitants." So that the majority of the members from Lower Canada are stated by the Bishop of Quebec—a great Protestant authority—to have voted, not as against the interests of the Protestant clergy, but solely because they thought this a matter more particularly affecting the people of the Western Province ; and if this statement of the Bishop of Quebec be true with respect to the motives which influenced the members from Lower Canada, and that a change of opinion took plass in the representative body of Upper Canada, the members from Lower Canada would support that majority, and not interfere to disturb the. Protestants of Upper Canada in the endowments they possess. I I am confirmed in the im pression of the Bishop of Quebec by a portion of the noble earl's speech. It is perfectly true that a large part of the property, as it is called, or the endow ments of the Roman Catholic Church in Lower Canada, will be as accessible to the United Parliament of Canada as the reserves of the exclusively Protestant clergy. But ob serve the effect. There will be a great anxiety on the part •f the Roman Catholic members to oppose what the noble earl calls the secularisation of those reserves, feeling that the result may follow that, if the Protestant reserves are secu larised, there possibly may be a great desire to put upon an altered footing the Roman Catholic Church in Lower Ca nada • and therefore I maint a i n , if it i s th e op i n i on o f th e Protestant majority of Upper Canada that those clergy re serves shall be preserved intact, and on their present foot ing, or re-distributed in certain other proportions, but still confined to purely religious instruction, it is extremely probable that, influenced by those motives, they will be supported in their resistance to the secularisation scheme by the Roman Catholic representative of the Lower Pro vince. The noble earl, in the commencement of his speech, said this was not a measure which he should have expected from certain members of this house. It is true that the present Government does contain members of the Church of England, and at least one member of the Church of Scotland, who are all sincerely attached to the religious bodies to which they belong ; but it is no shame to us, as public men, that in connection, and with a great question of imperial policy, we should feel it is not our duty to act in this matter as Churchmen only, but rather as statesmen intrusted with the great responsibility of advising the Crown on the principles on which the connection between this country and Canada shall be maintained. I have no hesitation in saying, as a member of the Church of Scot land, that be the interests of the Church of Scotland what they may, they must be represented, and represented only, by its own representatives in the provinces of Canada ; and it is not my duty, as a public man, merely because I happen be a member of that Church, t o uponmy own opinion as to what its interests may be in the internal affairs of Canada ; but, on the contrary, it is ray clearest duty to agre* in the measur• proposed by the Government, being n*inced asl am, that not only with regard to Canada, but be thcl , olotries; - thr - principle on which we" --- must proceed in future is simply this, that in all matters of purely internal concern—the more if they are questions which rouse religious feelings and animosities in this coun try—in all these questions, be they what they may, of in ternal concern, we should allow the colonial legislature to deal as they think fit, and that the power of the Crown, as the noble earl suggests, should no t b e recklessly thrown away on our colonial empire, but that it should b e main tained solely with the view f enabling us to judge in re gard to each particular act, and simply whether or not those acts do concern local interests, or are matters of im perial concern. (Cheers.) The Earl of DESART said, it was shown, in a dispatch which would be laid that night on the table of the other house, but which was not sent to the colony owing to the change of the Government, that his right hen, friend (Sir J. Pakington) fully acknowledged the justice and propriety of that principle of constitutional government which gave to a colonial legislature the exclusive power of dealing with its own local affairs ; but his right hon. friend said in this case there was an exception, because it appeared there was an intention of taking funds which he considered the legis lature was bound in good faith to maintain in favour of certain vested interests. There was a very serious opinion prevailing in this country, that, in opposing the wishes of the legislature of Canada, we opposed the unanimous wishes of the Canadians. He (Lord Desert) did not think that was so. On the contrary, excluding Lower Canada, which he maintained he had a right to do, seeing that though there was a small portion of the reserves in Lower Canada, the Roman Catholics were in such a large majority, some thing like 750,000 to 50,000 members of the Church of England, it was quite impossible that their members could represent anything but the Roman Catholic religion, which - was embodied th ere i n a richly-endowed church an d well educated priesthood. But in Upper Canada how stood the fact ? He had not had an opportunity of analysing the figures, but he could state, on the authority of Archdeacon Bethune, that in the Assembly of Upper Canada there was only one majority in favour of the abrogation of the settle ment of 1840. He (the Earl of Dosart) would say, in con clusion, that he thought this was a question in which the British Government were bound by considerations of good faith to protect and guarantee a settlement made by them, on the suggestion of the Canadians themselves, and not only made, but accepted by the Canadians themselves as a final settlement. The Bishop of EXETER said the noble duke (the Duke of Argyll) had done him the honour to refer to something that he had said on a former night in reference to this question. It was flattering to him to be quoted by the noble duke; but he ventured to hope that the next time the;noble duke did him the honour of stating his (th e Bishop of Exeter's) opinions he would do so correctly, and not incorrectly. (A laugh.) If any of their lordships had done him the honour to attend to the observations he had addressed to them on a former occasion on this subject, they would recollect that he had applied no such word a s " sacrilege" in speaking of the re-distribution of these re for re-distribution, but serves. What he said was this—" Will your lordships will the British Parliament, will the subjects of the Britiall Crown, tell their Royal Mistress that she ought to • &aqui °see in a measure which is not oely which is for confiscation ?" It was upon the • fiscation that he said the sacrilege would be in poin of con. said if property was once given to Almig purposes for which it to the seculari. y God it could tha"ctlihleegaep.plied those Words, and to ht in cur r ed. He not be recalled again from the sacred migh t y beenof those given reserveswithout had sao that he applied them still, The Duke of ARGYLL begged to reverend prelate if he had misre presented apologise to the right the occasion to which he had f what he said on Arg,yll's) impression had be that re erred. His (the Duke of late had used the term " been . the right reverend pre (the Duke of Argyll) had stetrielde.ge" in the sense which he The Bishop of OXFORD said he felt called upon to give a Which he e n t e rtained upon utterance to th e opinion the _or r _ subject under 'th e i r lordships' consideration. He had many years taken a very deep interest in the welfare of the colonial Church, and had long been on terms of personal intercourse with the right rev, prelates at present at the head of the Church in Canaria, and it was with no small e regret that he felt compelled, by , se nse of justi th ce e , to rev cc erse to a conclusion upon the question before h th ad em .ved. The of that at which those right rev. prelateshito the oonclusion to first consideration which had led d the ni case of the Parliament which he had come was, that in of the clergy re. of Canada requiring, not a confiscation e Imperil Parliament to give serves, but calling upon th I :th them themselves, he to them the power of de aling in whose way, he thought, perceived a claim of jus ti ce, . should stand. The Go expediency no question of m ere untry ha d given, or professed to Go vernment , Canada a da this. p ower °° of settling her own internal give, -- a bound in justice to admit the claims 'and they we_re l . th any matter which concerned agues, ' ts to dea wl • mid be shown that it of the colon's . airs unless it co their "Fn aff-- 'al interest. The noble earl 9p. . ma tter of Im p sn ' was- en deavoured to convince them that evening posits had with that masterly eloquence which he in so eminent a de possessed, of the necessity of maintaining intact th ose gree en d ow ments whic h formed the subject of th a t di scuss i on. He confessed that much he He (the Bishop ofoxfor as that desired t o come to the same conclusion as at which the noble earl had arrived, he felt bound altogether t o dissent from th e views which the noble earl had ex p ressed. The noble earl had argued that the imperial legislature of 1791 had so c ompletely dealt with that question that it would be unjust now to interfere with the settlement which had then been made. Now the very terms of the act were inconsistent with such a conclusion. But the noble earl had quoted tke opinions of the judges in favour of his view of the case. He (the Bishop of Oxford) must beg their lordships to re• 7% *l - 814 :9N Time.