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3n trial Vatitamtnt. • HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. The House of Lords, after the presentation of a few peti tions, adjourned, to the surprise of hundreds congregated about the house. . . HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. The Speaker took the chair to-day at 10 minutes before. four - o'clock, at which time there was an exceedingly full.at tend4nce of members. The strangers' gallery, and every avenue leading to the house was crowded to excess. A great number of petitions on various subjects were pre sented, but the noise occasioned by members forming them selves into groups; and entering into animated conversations, rendered it impossible for them to be heard in the gallery. . On th€! motion of Mr. Vv ILBRAHAM the Liverpool and Manchester Extension- Railway bill was read a third time and passed. The White Lead Company bill was read a second time. BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIRE RAILWAY. Mr. HoPE moved the third reading of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Railway bill. Mr. G. BERKELEY opposed the bill, and moved as an amendment, that it be read a third time this day six months. After a short discussion, the house divided, when there eared, FOr the third reading. For the amendment.. . Majority The bill veas then read a third and passed. The Chin (Salop) Inclosure Bill was read a third and passed. _ On the motion of Mr. KEMBLE the Croydon, Merstham and Godstone Iron Railway Bill (dissolution of the company, was read a second t:mu. Sir R. Peel, Lord Stanley, and other leading conservative members, entered the house at 20 minutes before five o'clock, and took their usual seats on the opposition benches. Sir R. IxGLis presented a petition praying for the repeal of the Catholic Emancipation act. (Loud cries of Hear, hear, from the Catholic members.) The petition further prayed that if the house did not repeal the act, it would call upon Catholic members to give such securities as were necessary for the protection of the Protestant Church. (Renewed cries of hear, hear, from the Treasury benches. He (Sir Robert Inglis) was not in the habit of transgressing the rules of the Louse on the presentation of petitions ; but, after the loud and ironical cheers of members opposite, he felt called upon to make a few observations on the petition—(loud cries' of " Hear, hear," and " Order, order")—in the midst of which the hon, member presented the petition. Lord J. RUSSELL entered the house at ten minutes before five o'clock. The noble lord was loudly cheered by the ministerial benches, which were met with counter cheers from the opposition side. The scene at this moment was one of the most animated description. Sir W. SOMERVILLE presented a petition from an esta= blishment of yoUng ladies in favour of Mr. Rowland Hill's plan of penny postage. (Laughter.) !ICLAND presented a similar petition from a young gentlemen's establishment in St. James's. (Great laughter.) The presentation of petitions occupied the house until 20 minutes past five o'clock. MINISTERIAL EXPLANATIONS. Lord J. RUSSELL, after a long pause, during which no business was transacted, and on being called on by the SPEAKER, rose precisely at half-past five, and spoke as fol lows :—Since last I had the honour of addressing this house, the right honourable baronet opposite (the member for Tam worth) has received from her Majesty authority to form the plan of a new administration to he submitted for her Ma jesty's approval. The attempt of the right hon. gentleman to form that administration having failed, her Majesty has been graciously pleased to permit the right hon. gentleman to state to the house the circumstances which have led to that What I propose, therefore, now is, that the right hon. gentleman should state to the house what he may think ne,:essary to state in pursuance of that permission so granted by her Majesty; and I will then inform the house of the reasons which have induced her Majesty's advisers to resume the offices, which I declared, on the last occasion I addressed this house, they had resigned into her Majesty's hands. (Hear. hear.) The course I now propose to take is, to move the adjournment of the house to Wednesday next, giving notice that on Wednesday I shall propose a further adjournment to Friday se'nnight for the Whitsuntide recess. (Hear, hear.) Sir R. PEEL, then rose, and the most deathlike silence prevailed in the whole house. I have reserved, said the right hon. baronet, for this occasion, the explanation which I feel it my duty to offer with regard to the circumstances which have induced me to relinquish the attempt to form an admi nistration for the conduct of the public service. I need scarcely say that I disclaim all sanction for any other state ments that may have appeared ; for them I will not be respon sible ; they have been made without my Sanction, and made contrary to my wishes, if my wishes could have prevailed. If I were willing to forego all personal considerations—if I were willing to be the victim of any misrepresentation or any obloquy—still I apprehend that the public interest is so deeply involved on any question relating to a total change in the government of this country, and the practice has so long prevailed of informing the public mind with respect to the circumstances which may have led to the interruption of any government, that private inclination cannot be parmitted to prevail, but that this house and the country would declare that that explanation should be fully given in the face of parlia ment. (Loud cheers.) I am aware of all the difficulties which-attend such a proceeding, and of the peculiar difficul ties which attend existing circumstances. From part of those difficulties—difficulties that otherwise would have been inseparable, I have been relieved by the kind and gracious permission I have received from her Majesty to give an ex planation of the circumstances under which I relinquished the attempt to form an administration. I applied yesterday to Lord Melbourne for that permission, and I received in answer to that application the following communication. It is dated " South-street, May 12. " Lord Melbourne presents his compliments to Sir R. Peel, and having already been in expectation of such a re quest, he had taken her Majesty's pleasure on the subject ; and he feels himself authorised at once to signify to Sir R. Peel her Majesty's full permission to explain the circum stances under which he recently relinquished the attempt to form an administration, and with that view to make use of his correspondence with her Majesty, which took place on the 10th of May." a lit I am sure that every gentleman will feel that I am now fully authorised to give this explanation—(bear, hear)—and, in giving it, my chief anxiety is, that I may feel mindful of "the sacred obligations under which I act, mindful to do entire justice to that illustrious lady who is a party to these transactions. (Loud cheers.) I hope, under ordinary cir cumstances, I should feel the full force of 'that obligation ; but if anything could add to its force, or to my sense of its force, it would have been the relation in which I so recently stood to my Sovereign, and the intercourse which I have been permitted to hold with that illustrious lady. Of course, many communications must have passed with respect to the formation of a government which do not immediately bear upon the question, with respect to which the necessity of explanation exists ; but if in the course of my explanation I omit anything which I may think immaterial, I beg of the noble lord to invite explanations on those points ; I will supply the omission ; for, after the permission I have received, I will hold back nothing of those transactions, but I will state them without the Slightest reserve or qualification. In the first place, then, I will proceed to a statement of such facts as I consider, and as appear to me to have the slightest reference to the necessity of the explanation I am now called upon to give. I waited upon her Majesty, by her Majesty's desire, at two o'clock on Wednesday, the Bth of May. Iler Majesty had previously seen the Duke of Wellington, and ' had invited him to assist her Majesty in the formation of a government. The Duke of Wellingion had i n f orme d h er ' Majesty that, in his opinion, the chief difficulty of a govern ment would be in the House of Commons, and, therefore, partly upon other considerations, but chiefly on that account, the Duke of Wellington advised her Majesty to send for one who would have the advantage of appearing in the House of Commons as her Majesty's minister, and, at the same time, named me. I waited upon her Majesty, and was asked by her Majesty whether I was willing to undertake the duty of forming an administration. Her Majesty observed to me that she had parted with the administration which had just resigned with very great regret. (Cheers.) Her Majesty also said, that in all respects her Late ministry had given her entire satisfaction, but that it had become necessary, in con sequence of their resignation, that her Majesty should take steps for the formation of a new administration. I need not enter into a detail, but I must say that no one could have expressed more fully, more naturally, or more becomingly, the regret which her Majesty felt at the loss of her late ad ministration, nor, at the same time, principles more strictly constitutional with respect to the formation of a new govern ment. (" Hear," and cheers). I proceeded to state to her Majesty that I was not insensible to the enormous amount of difficulties which, in assuming the task, I had to encounter ; but I, at the same time, informed her Majesty that having been a party to a vote and certain proceedings in the Com mons' House of Parliament which had, in inducing the resignation of ministers, led to the present difficulties of her situation, nothing should prevent my rendering every assist ence which was in my power towards the accomplishment of her object. (Cheers.) This course I felt it a paramount duty to follow, in consequence of having been, as 1 conceived, in this respect, the cause of the difficulty in which her Majesty found herself placed with reference to the late government. I therefore undertook to form an administration, and ac quainted her Majesty I should return the ensuing day ; inti mating a hope that I should th en b e a bl e to present for her examination and approbation such a general outline or arrangement for the formation of a government as should secure the due administration of the chief executive officers of the state ; and should also convey to the public an assur ance that I was prepared promptly and energetically to per form the arduous duty which I had undertakers of forming an administration. In the course of Wednesday I conferred with those public men who afforded me the opportunity of imme diate communication, and requested their permission to sub. mit to her Majesty their names to constitutea part of the future government. Those to whom I referwereeightin number, and were as follows :—the Duke of Wellington, Lord Lyndhurst, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Ellenborough, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, Sir Henry Hardinge, and Mr. Goulburn. The following day, Thursday, I waited upon the Queen, and sub mitted those names for her Majesty's approval. I also men. timed, as requested by the noble- duke, that whilst the Duke of Wellington placed his services entirely at her Majesty's disposal, yet his own inclination would be gratified if he were permitted to be in the cabinet, without filling such a situation in it as would require him to take the lead in the House of Lords. Her Majesty expressed a particular wish that the Duke of Wellington should hold some important office—(geheral cheering.) I accordingly stated to her Ma lesty that I should as a matter of course, state the expression of that wish by her Majesty to the noble duke, and had no doubt he would waive any private disiriclination of his own, and consent to undertake, at her Majesty's desire, any office, however important, in the conduct of public affaira—(loud cheers). No question arose as to the formation of the administration, or as to the conduct of government, upon which I think it necessary here to make any remark ; but if I am mistaken in that respect, and the noble lord thinks that I am making any omission, I will readily, if he' will have the kindness to remind me of it, supply or explain that which he may consider defective in this statement. It was upon Thursday that the difficulty, or miseonceptioln if it may so be called, arose, which led to my relinquishment of the attempt to form an administration. This difficulty arose with respect to that portion of her Majesty's household which is filled by ladies—(hear, hear.) Her Majesty, lam bound to say, conceded everything iu this respect which could be ex pected from her with reference to the relinquishment of their posts by gentlemen in the household under the late adminis tration. I think it better, in treating of that point on which the difficulty arose, indeed, upon mature consideration, infi nitely better, that before I go into the whole statement, I should refrain from entering in the first instance into any par ticular statement as to the impressions made upon me with respect to what passed in these communications ; and I there fore shall confine myself exclusivelyto the letters themselves upon the subject; because I cannot but feel, that were I to enter into and state impressions received, I should be merely stating them from communications which passed when two parties only were'present, and that I alone am in this house to state them and make the explanation—(general cheering.) I now propose to address myself to the precise point upon which those difficulties arose, and I shall not state more on that part of the subject, unless invited or pressed by the noble lord (Lord John Russell). Although I shall refer exclu sively to the letters which passed, I must, I conceive, state to the house what my own intentions ;were with respect to the formation of the administration. If misrepresentation has arisen I consent to be answerable and chargeable for the con sequences of imperfect explanation. Whatever blame may attach to it let that fall upon me ; but as to my own inten tions—of those I must be the best judge—and what those intentions were, I am now prepared to state to the house— (Hear.) Upon the Wednesday—that is, on the day preced ing that upon which I saw her Majesty—l had conferred with those noblemen and gentlemen whom I intended to form part of the government, and to submit next day as ministers to her Majesty's approval. It was about ten o'clock in the evening that I saw them at my own house • I then stated to them—and there are now pre s e n t f our Who ,heard the statement I then made : my right hon. friend the member for the University of Cambridge (Mr. Goulburn); my right hon. friend the member for Launceston (Sir H. Hardinge) ; my right hon. friend the member for Pembroke (Sir James Graham) ; and my noble -friend the member for North Lancashire (Lord Stanley)—l stated to them and to the others whom I named the course which I intended to pursue with respect to the household. I had very little in formation of, and had very little considered the household— lam speaking of the female part of it—l really scarcely knew of whom it consisted ; and I will state exactly the facts as they occurred. I took the Red Book, and saw there were different departments of the household. I said to those who were intended to be my future colleagues, that with respect to all the subordinate officers, meaning every appointment below the rank of a lady of the bed-chamber, I should submit to her Majesty no change whatever. (Loud cheering.) I said that with respect to the superior class that I presumed those ladies holding office in the household who were in intimate connection with the members of her Majesty's late government, would relieve us from any diffi culty by resigning those situations. (Loud and vehement cheering from the opposition side of the house.) I stated that I thought it of great importance in order to convey to the public an intimation of her Majesty's support, and indi cating her entire confidence in the new government, that there should be certain changes in the ladies who held those higher offices in the household. This passed in the confer ence on the evening before seeing her Majesty, and I men tion it in order to show my perfect willingness to have transferred to me exclusively whatever blame may be attached to any imperfect explanation that may be supposed to have taken place. Whatever misconception may have arisen with respect to that explanation I wish may attach entirely and exclusively to me. (Hear, hear.) On the next day a com munication took place upon this subject, but on the nature of that communication I will not now enter further, as I have before stated, than by reading two letters, the former stating her Majesty's views and impressions in respect to this sub ject, and the latter my own, and the reasons for declining the task which her Majesty had done me the honour to confide to me. The letter which I had the honour to receive from her Majesty was dated May 10th, 1839 (Th urs d ay ) , t h ough not eceived until Friday morning at an early hour. It was as fo lows __ " Buckinghani Palace, May 10, 1839. "The Queen having considered the proposal made to her yesterday by Sir Robert Peel to remove the ladies of her bed chamber, cannot consent to adopt a course which she con ceives to be contrary to usage, and which is repugnant to her feelings." (Loud cheering from the ministerial benches.) Immediately after the receipt of her Majesty's letter, I wrote the following answer : _ " Whitehall, May 11, 1839. " Sir Robert Peel presents his humble duty to your Ma jesty, and has had the honour of receiving your Majesty's note of this morning. ' " In respectfully submitting to your Majesty's pleasure, and humbly returning into your Majesty's hands the impor tant trust which your Majesty had been graciously pleased to commit to him, Sir Robert trusts that your Majesty will permit him to state to your 'Majesty his impression with re spect to the circumstances which have led to the termination of his attempt to form an administration for the conduct of your Majesty's service. " In the interview with which your Majesty honoured Sir Robert Peel yesterday morning, after he had submitted to your Majesty the names of those whom he proposed to re commend to your Majesty for the principal executive ap pointments, he mentioned to your Majesty his earnest wish to be enabled, with your Majesty's sanction, so to constitute your Majesty's household that your Majesty's confidential servants might have the advantage of a public demonstration of your Majesty's full support and confidence, and that, at the same time, as far as possible, consistently with that de monstration, each individual appointment in the household should be entirely acceptable to your Majesty's personal feelings. " On your Majesty's expressing a desire that the Earl of Liverpool should hold an office in the household, Sir Robert Peel requested your Majesty's permission at once to offer to Lord Liverpool the offide of lord steward, or any other which he might prefer. " Sir Robert Peel then observed, that he should have every wish to apply a similar principle to the chief appointments which are filled by the ladies of your Majesty's household ; upon which your Majesty was pleased to remark that you must reserve the whole of those appointments, and that it was your Majesty's pleasure that the whole should continue as at present, without any change. " The Duke of Wellington, in the interview to which your Majesty subsequently admitted him, understood also that this was your Majesty's determination, and concurred with Sir Robert Peel in opinion that, considering the great difficulties of the present crisis, and the expediency of making every effort, in the first instance, to conduct the public business of the country with the aid of the present parliament, it was es sential to the success of the commission with which your Ma jesty had honoured Sir Robert Peel, that he should have that public proof of your Majesty's entire support and confidence, which would be afforded by the permission to make some changes in that part of your Majesty's household which your Majesty resolved on maintaining entirely without change. " Having had the opportunity, through your Majesty's gracious consideration, of reflecting upon this point, h e hum bly submits to your Majesty that he is reluctantly compelled, by a sense of public duty, and of the interests of your Ma jesty's service, to adhere to the opinion which he ventured to express to your Majesty. " He trusts he may be permitted, at the same time, to ex press to your Majesty his grateful acknowledgments for the distinction which your Majesty conferred upon him, by re quiring his advice and assistance in the attempt to form an administration, and his earnest prayer that, whatever ar rangements your Majesty may be enabled to make for that purpose, may be most conducive to your Majesty's personal comfort and happiness, and to the promotion of the public welfare." These, sir, were my sentiments, and I thought myself justi fied in thus respectfully stating them to her Majesty. I have heard it rumoured, and indeed heard it since I came into the house, that I had made some proposals with respect to the nomination of certain noblemen and gentlemen to the house hold, which were not consistent, or ought not to have been made. (" Hear," from the opposition.) I can now say, from perfect recollection, that the single name submitted to her Majesty for appointment, was that of the Earl of Liver pool, whom her Majesty herself had selected, and the only other mentioned for the household were merely suggested from the conviction that they were peculiarly fit to fill situa tions in the household, namely, my noble friend the member for Dorsetshire, Lord Ashley, and my Lord Sydney. (Hear, hear.) I have heard it said, that is, rumoured, I was deter mined, in the event of succeeding to office, to remove the whole of the ladies of her Majesty's household, even inclu ding her Majesty's earliest friend, the Baroness Lehzen. (Hear.) Now, sir, I can, with the utmost truth, declare that her name didnot on this occasion escape my lips, nor did I ever contemplate such a proposition. (Loud cheer ing.) With respect to my intentions on the subject of the re-formation of the household, I will appeal to my right honourable friend near me, whether I ever stated I had determined upon dismissing the whole of the ladies of the bed chamber without exception ?—(loud cheers.) , Sir, I did de cline to undertake the duty of the .formation of an adminis= tration upon the understanding that the whole of the appoint ments to the household should, without exception, continue in her Majesty. Sir, I did it upon public principle, and from the sincere belief and conviction that it was impossible for me to encounter the difficulties with which I was encompassed in attempting to conduct the public affairs, unless I had the fullest and most unequivocal proofs that I possessed the con fidence of her Majesty—(hear, hear) ; for it appeared to me that there never was a period when the demonstration of that entire confidence was more absolutely necessary for a mini ster. The duties of the office of a prime minister are, I con ceive, at all times, the most arduous and the most important that any human being can be called on to discharge. It is the greatest trust, almost without exception, in the civilised world which can be devolved upon any individual. Sir, I was ready to undertake it, but could I look around me, at the present condition of public affairs —could I look around me and not see that it was my absolute duty to this country, and above all to her Majesty, to require that every aid that could be given me should be given ? What were the questions which would immediately press for my consideration? The state of India—the state of Jamaica —the state of Canada— would all require my immediate consideration, And with re spect to some of them, perhaps, the proposal of legislative measures. Sir, I considered the internal state of this coun try—l saw insurrection in the provinces—(loud cheers—l saw the letter of the noble lord opposite, inviting the respect able part of the population in many parts of this country to take up arms. In addition to the ordinary duties devolving upon a prime minister, there were, therefore, circumstances which rendered that position at the present moment particu larly onerous and arduous. Sir, I had a strong impression that, looking to the agitated state of this country, it was my duty to make every effort to conduct public affairs through the intervention of the present parliament. (Loud and gen eral cheering.) I did not think that the precedent of 1834 was applicable, and that I ought to commence the govern ment with a dissolution of parliament—(hear), after the fre quent dissolutions that had lately taken place and the balanc ed state of parties in this country. But what would be my condition with the present parliament? I should begin the government in a minority. (Hear.) Ido not shrink from the functions that it was proposed to commit to me, but could I be insensible to the important fact that I should have had to commence in a minority ? (Hear, hear.) Sir, if then I began the administration of public affairs without the confidence of the House of Commons, was it too much to ask that I should have the demonstration of the entire and unqualified confi dence of my sovereign? (Tremendous cheers.) Sir, her Ma jesty's ministers retired on the question of Jamaica, being in a majority of five. I should have had to undertake the settle ment of the affairs of Jamaica, being in a minority of five, and that minority including 10 gentlemen on whose support I could not calculate on any other question. (Laughter and cries of hear, hear." The first conflict I should have had to fight would have been for the selection of a speaker. On the very night upon which I took my seat as a member of the House of Commons and first minister of the crown, I should have to risk, perhaps, the fate of government, or the question of dissolution, upon the choice of speaker. Sir, I say that all these considerations impressed me with the deepest conviction that it would be a public duty on my part —an indispensable public duty which I owe to the country, to seek for every possible demonstration that I possessed her Majesty's entire confidence—(loud cheers)—and, sir, I do confess—without reserve, and without hesitation—that it ap peared to me that if the chief offices of the Queen's house hold were to be held by the immediate relatives of those mi nisters whom I displaced—(tremendous cheering from the opposition)—the relatives of my rivals for public power—it did appear tome that I never could impress the country with the conviction that I, as a minister, was possessed of the en tire confidence of my sovereign. (Reiterated cheering.) Sir, let me take that particular question on which thy chief difficulty would arise. Who can disguise from himself that my difficulties were not India, nor Canada —that my difficul ties were not Jamaica, but that my difficulties were Ireland— (a tremendous volley of cheers)—but what were the facts ? I, undertaking to be a minister of the crown, and wishing to carry on public affairs through the intervention of the present House of Commons—if possible to exempt the country from the agitation, and, perhaps, the peril of a dissolution—l, upon that very question of Ireland should have begun in a minority of upwards of twenty. A majority of twenty-two had decided in favour of the policy of the Irish government. The chief members of the Irish government, whose policy was approved of, were the Marquis of Normanby, and the noble lord oppo site, the member for Yorkshire. (Loud cheers.) The two chief offices in her Majesty's household are filled by the sister of Lord Morpeth, and th e w if e o f th e M arqu i s of Nornianby. I do not speak of those ladies but with the utmost respect— most distinguished they are for all that adorns our nature, and casting a lustre upon society less by their rank than by their virtues. (Cheers.) Still they stand in the relation of the nearest relatives of the two noble lords, whose policy I cannot approve of, but which was approved of by a majority of twenty two in this house. Now 1 ask any hon. member in the house whether it is possible that I could safely attempt the conduct of an administration and the management of the Irish affairs in this house, consenting . previously that the whole of the ladies forming the household of her Majesty should continue in those situations? Hear, hear.) Sir, the policy of these things depends not upon precedent—not upon what has been done in former times—they depend upon a consideration of the present times. (Cheers.) The house hold has now assumed a political character--.(cheers)—and that on account of the nature of the appointments which have been made by her Majesty's present government. (Loud cheering.) Ido not complain of it—it may be a wise policy to place in the chief offices of the household ladies closely connected with the members of the administration ; but such a change in the appointments.baving taken place has added greatly to the embarrassment of any person beginning . a go vernment afresh as premier if those ladies are to remain. I do not say that there would be the slightest use made of un fair means. It may be said they would be as fit as any others to hold those offices. lam confident that those ladies would confine themselves to the duties of their proper situations ; but observe, that is not the question ; that remark will apply equally to lords of the bed-chamber. We do not for a mo ment suppose that lords of the bed-chamber do at all inter fere in public duties. It is impossible that the country would be satisfied that a minister had the confidence of the crown while the relatives of his immediate political oppo nents fill the highest offices around the throne. (Cheers.) Upon the impression that I ought not to appear to the coun try, on accepting the administration, discredited and deprived of the usual symbols of the confidence of the crown. I have acted. And who, sir, were my political oppo nen t s ? W as not the wife of one of them, my Lord Normanby, one of the ladies who filled, and was, it was contended, still to fill the part of lady of the bed chamber to the Queen ? And was not that nobleman stated publicly to be the aspirant and rival candidate for the office of premier, the office I was to hold in the new government ? (Cheers.) Was not there another noble lady in the same situation near the crown, and who must thus have held her intimate place in the palace, though her brother, the noble lord opposite (Morpeth,) it was con fidently said, was to have assumed the post of leader of the opposition ? (Laughter, and faint cheering.) I know not why the noble lord's talents and acquirements might not justify his acceptance of that or any other pest in the event of the retirement of the noble lord who leads the administration in this house. (" Hear," from the ministerial benches.) Put the case of the administration of Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, or any other minister, and I ask whether they would tolerate, during the severity of those contests that took place as to who should be the minister of the crown, that the household should be in these who were by family connection opposed to the minister and his measures, or that the weight of high offices in the household should be in those who were by family connection opposed to the high minister and his measures, or that the weight of high offices in the household should be found in the scale opposed to the highest official adviser and servant of the crown ? (Reiterated cheering.) I felt that it was impossible that I could contend successfully with all the difficulties that encircled me, unless I had that proof of the entire confidence of her Majesty. As I stated before, I began without any certainty of commanding a majority of the House of Commons, w ith ou t h o p e o f th support of the friends of government. I began, having only to rely upon an appeal to their good sense—upon an appeal to their forbear ance, for the hope of support in the present House of Com mons ; being, nevertheless, perfectly prepared, on the failure of my attempt in the present House of Commons to govern the country, to advise her Majesty to resort to the only alternative which might present itself to enable me to main tain my post. (Great cheering.) But if the agreement, if the understanding upon which I was to enter upon office was, that I should encounter all those difficulties, and yet that the ladies of those ministers who preceded me, of those with whom I was to be in daily conflict, were to be in immediate contact with the Queen, and, considering the political cha racter given to the household, that I was to acquiesce in, that—there was something stronger than personal considera tions induced me to resist such a proposal. Though the public would lose nothing by my abandonment-of office— though the public would, perhaps, lose nothing by my eternal exclusion from power—yet the public would lose, and I should be abandoning my duty to myself, to the country, and, above all, to the Queen, if I consented to such a com promise, and permitted myself to accept office upon an understanding that the ladies of my warmest and strongest opponents should retain the highest situations near the throne. There was something in that proposition which told me this was not a time, and this was not a situation, in which it would be right and proper in me to become the prime mi nister of this great country. (Loud cheering.) Sir, I have attempted to make this explanation in as free and unexcep tionable a manner as possible. Such, I repeat, was my conviction of the impolicy of accepting office under such circumstances at the precise time, and I owe to myself and to the truth to add that intervening reflections upon the whole of these transactions have only confirmed and strength ened my previous conviction. (Loud and reiterated cheering.) Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the misconception which had existed was not as to facts, but as to principles. First, with respect to facts. It had been said that the question of the household had been mooted in the Queen's first conver sation with the Duke. Certainly, she had said that she had been told it was usual to change the Parliamentary members of the household ; but this was not by any advice of Lord Melbourne's on going out, for it had not occurred to Lord Melbourne as likely that any question as to that point would arise. There was no material difference as to facts between himself and Sir R. Peel. When Sir Robert waited on the Queen she expressed her resolve to deal with frankness and candour. (Sir R. Peel intimated a cordial assent) She gave him full power as to the men of the household ; he sought to apply the principle on which Lord Liverpool was selected to the ladies also ; and on this the antire subject hinged. Her declaration that she wished the whole of her female house hold to remain, put an end to all question as to a total or a partial change. Matters having come on Thursday to this stop, she sent again to Lord Melbourne, and consulted him what answer she should g i ve t o Si r R. Peel on the Friday morning. He called his colleagues together, and they ad vised her to send the letter just read by Sir Robert Peel. The question then was this—whether the required concession was one essential to the formation of a government'. Whether the change should be total, or only partial, it must be equally painful to a Queen's feelings. If the principle had been ad mitted, he might, when once confirmed as Minister, have in sisted on more removals, which she would have been unable to prevent without again breaking up the administration. Unless the usage of former Kings and Queens prescribed the concession, he (Lord John) was not prepared here to admit that she was bound to do violence to her own feelings by yielding it. He then referred to two or three precedents of continuance in service, which, however, had little analogy to the present case, having relation to Queen's consort, not Queens regnant, and cited the very inapt precedent of the Duke of Marlborough's two daughters, who remained indeed in the household after a change of Queen Anne's Ministry, but re mained no longer than while their father continued in office. The failure of Sir R. Peel to form an administration, when the Queen had given him full powers, both as to political office and as to so much of the household as was occupied by members of either house of Parliament, could not be imputed to her Majesty nor to those who had advised her. She thought that what he asked would destroy her personal com fort ; his political difficulties would not have been smoothed by the removal of the household • that removal might have proved a source of weakness rather than of strength; she would not have looked favourably on servants forced upon her ; and being of a high and generous spirit, she would have been likely to have felt and repaid a generous treatment. " On Sir R. Peel's resignation,' continued Lord John, " her Majesty commanded my attendance. As to the ladies, cer tainly she had not gathered the precise manner in which he proposed to exercise the power of removal. She asked me whether I thought she was justified in the line she had taken, and on my answering that I did, she said she hoped, that as she had had supported our administration, we should now be ready to support her." Next day, the former Cabinet assembled, and prepared a minute recording our opinion that the principle of change ap plies to the officecs of the household having seats in either house, but not to the ladies of the household. This recital of the opinion formed by the whig ministers, that their own wives and sisters ought to keep their places, excited a burst of laughter. Lord John endeavoured to turn the attention of the house by revertir ' s to that personal pass age o f th e Q ueen ' s letter to Sir R. Peel, in which she declared the removal of the ladies to be repugnant to her feelings ; but this attempt to place the stipulation in an invidious light seemed to pro duce but little effect, the less indeed, because everybody ob served that this appeal to feeling was only made when the whole matter was closed, and Sir Robert's trust already sur rendered back into her hands, Lord John concluded by say ing, that the question for himself and his friends had been merely whether they were willing to resume office, and be come constitutionally responsible for her Majesty'S decision. They had taken that responsibility, and must now trust to the opinion of parliament and of the country. Sir R. PEEL was glad to find that no material difference existed between Lord John and himself as to the circum stances of the' case, and would therefore add but this, that her Majesty had not only said she would act frankly, but had acted so' Lord JOHN thought it might be satisfactory to Sir R. Peel to know that he found nothing in Sir Robert's statement, to complain of. He explained in answer to a question from Mr. T. Duncumbe, that the adjournment from Wednesday to Friday in next week was proposed because Thursday would be the Queen's birthday : and added, that on Friday the election of a Speaker would take place. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY. The royal assent was given, by commission, to the Eccle siastical Appointments Suspension Amendment Bill, and several other bills. After the presentation of numerous petitions, and the for warding of some bills a stage, Lore MELBOURNE entered into explanations regarding the late negotiations for the formation, by Sir R. Peel, of an ad ministration. The statements of Lord Melbourne did not differ materially from those made on Monday by Lord John Russell. Lord Melbourne, like Lord .John, of course, ap proves most cordially of all that the Queen has done—and like the Home Secrerary, Lord Melbourne would stand by her Majesty at this crisis! The Duke of WELLINGToN.—I will endeavour, in the ob servations which I am about to address to your lordships, to follow the example of moderation shown by the noble viscount in part of his speech. (Hear.) In doing so, I shall do that which is most becoming my own situation, most suitable to the subject which we have to disduss,- aria which- I •know will be most agreeable to your lordships. My lords, in order that 1 may sustain that tone of moderation with which I have commenced my; observations, I shall take the liberty of lay ing out of the question altogether the reports to which the noble viscount has referred, and which, in my opinion, have nothing to do, with the subject. (Hear.) Probably, if we were to go into a discussion respecting reports, I myself might have a little to say respecting them ; but, as I have said, such reports as those alluded to by the noble viscount are quite foreign to the matter under consideration. My lords, I think I have one advantage over the noble viscount— ! have been in the service of my country for fifty years, and have served my Sovereigns, and through the whole of that period, through "good and through evil report," I have still the satisfaction of thinking that, whether the report was evil or good, my services were not deemed useless ; and this I know, that I was perfectly indifferent to reports. It has been said within the last few days that I and my right hon. friend have ill-treated our Sovereign. Was it likely that I, who was about to take upon me an office for the performance of the duties of which I was responsible, and bearing a share in carrying on the government, should do any such prepos terous thing? (Hear, hear.) As respects these reports, too, I think I have a little advantage over the noble viscount with respect to the preservation of my temper. The noble viscount has been pleased to announce to your lordships that he expected that I should have commenced the discussion, and not that he would be called upon first. Ido not know why the noble viscount should have expected me to state anything. A satisfactory explanation has been given in ano ther place by my right hon. friend, no longer ago than last night. This your lordships are, of course, aware of. Your lordships have every reason to expect ) when a minister in your house is placed in such a position as the noble viscount is, when he has taken part in such transactions, that he will explain the part he has taken, and state to your lordships what has passed upon the subject. My lords, it is perfectly well known that I have long entertained the opinion that the leading minister of this country, under its existing circum stances, ought to sit in the other house of parliament. There are advantages by such an arrangement, in carrying on the services of the Sovereign, which do not exist otherwise. I have thought it my duty to give such advice to the Sovereign, that the minister having the charge of the government should be selected from that house. When the noble viscount at tended in this house on Tuesday last, he stated that he and his colleagues had resigned their offices. It then occurred, my lords, to my mind, and my attention was particularly and at once directed to the subject, with, respect to the royal household, and all those circumstances connected with it, in case I should be called upon to assist in the formation of another government. My lords, I confess it appeared to me to be absolutely impossible that any set of men should take charge of her Majesty's government without having the usual interference and control over the establishment of the royal household—that influence and control, in short, which their predecessors in office had. (Hear, hear.) I confess it ap peared to me to be absolutely necessary that such should be the course taken. I considered well the nature bf the for mation of the royal household, under the Civil List Act, ' passed in the first year of her Majesty's reign. No doubt ' there is a difference between a Queen consort and a Queen regnant. The Queen consort h as no t t h e same po li t i ca l [ rights as the Queen regnant possesses. My lords, I con ' sidered all those circumstances. The noble duke then went on to notice what the course was taken by Sir R. Peel, • who would, as regarded that household, have consulted not only the honour of her Majesty's crown and the royal state [ and dignity, but also her Majesty's social feelings—(hear, hear), her convenience and comfort—(hear, hear), and indeed, ' everything which could possibly tend to render her happy. (Hear, hear.) Considering the age and comparative inexpe • rience of the sovereign upon the throne, he (the Duke of ' Wellington) must say that, if he were one to be consulted upon the exercise of the controul over the royal household, he would recommend any inconvenience to be submitted, rather than that a single step should be taken incompatible • with her Majesty's personal comfort. (Hear.) Such was [ his opinion, and he called upon their lordships to consider, the whole of the case ; and if they should entertain the opinion which he did, they would say that he had acted rightly. There was another subject,Ahowever, which he took into consideration, and that was the possibility of pressing • conditions or stipulations in respect to the exercise of this influence and controul over her Majesty's household. It ap peared to him that the person about to undertake the direc ' tion of the affairs of this country would make certain stipu ' lations or conditions, that he would do nothing more or less. But he thought that no man could make such stipulations as that of not exercising a controul over the household, and con sider himself worthy of her Majesty's confidence, or to con duct the affairs of the country. He had thought it abso , lutely impossible that such conditions should be made ; neither had he thought it necessary that the sovereign should propose such stipulation to any man. First of all, the sovereign who might make such a stipulation must suppose the minis ter to be unworthy of confidence—(hear, hear.) But supposing him to be worthy of the confidence of the sover eign, and to break off all comm un i ca ti on i n consequence o f such proposal or stipulation being made, why, he really thought that the sovereign would b e placed in a very awk ward and disagreeable situation ; and that the sovereign was placed in a position she never was before, and he hoped never would be thrown in. But he had attended at her Majesty's command to wait on her on Wednesday last. He had tendered to her Majesty that advice which he felt it his duty to give upon its being asked. The result was that his right honourable friend Sir Robert Peel was sent for by her Majesty, and he believed that - his right honourable friend had stated elsewhere the nature of the communications made by him to her Majesty, to which fact the noble viscount had alluded. After his interview with her Majesty, his right hon. friend Sir Robert Peel consulted his (the Duke of Wel lington's) opinion, as was stated in the papers which he held in his hand, on the important point of the continuance of her Majesty's household. In respect to this, he, with some other noble lords, and amongst others, his noble and learned friend near him (Lord Lyndhurst), gave an opinion exactly in conformity with that which had been stated in the papers; and they tendered to her Majesty on the third day such pro positions as they thought were fitting and proper. In the course of the conversation which Sir Robert Peel had with her Majesty on Thursday, the difference of ,opinion which existed in respect. to the 'ladies of the household occurred, and her Majesty expressed her desire, or he (the Duke of Wellington) believed that his right hon. friend offered to send for him (the Duke of Wellington), in order that her Majesty might have his opinion upon this subject. His right hon. friend came up to his house and informed him of what had occurred ; he consulted him on the subject, and what he (the Duke of Wellington) proposed was entirely in conformity with the principle which he had laid down, and which he con sidered to be correct in this transaction. He (the Duke. of Wellington) returned to Buckingham Palace, and was shortly afterwards honoured with an interview with her Majesty. His right honourable friend had stated correctly in his letter that part of the conversation which related to the interpre tation and decision which her Majesty came to ; which com munication he made to his right hon. friend in an adjoining room at the palace. The noble viscount had stated that he gave her Majesty his advice upon the subject on a statement whicll he admitted to be erroneous. Now, le did notknow any other conclusion-to which he could come than this, that the noble viscount should have taken more pains to come at correct information before he drew his conclusion. But whether the statement were erroneous or not, the noble viscount certainly had a right, if he chose to tender his own advice to her Majesty, that their advice (the Duke of Wellington's and Sir Robert Peel's) should not be taken ; and he only mentioned this to show that noble lords ought not to be in so great a hurry in future to give their advice, until they were sure their infor mation was correct. Now, in respect to the principle itself, , which he had advo ca t e d i n the case of a Queen regnant, he believed it was a valid and correct one. He admitted too that the Queen had no political conversation with those ladies of the household ; but what he contended for was, that the pub lic would not believe that her Majesty had not these political conversations, and that a political influence was not exer ci sed, particularly when they took into consideration who those persons were. Perhaps a number of instances might be cited, in which a secret, improper influence was exercised by certain conversations P • and perhaps he spok e w ith some feeling cn the subject. He had himself unworthily filled the station which the noble viscount now so worthily filled as her Majesty's prime minister, and he must say he had been in convenienced by the anomalous influence, not of the ladies of the household, but by influence of this description, in the way of simple conversations. He believed, and, indeed, he was certain, that he could show to the noble viscount with the utmost facility, that the country was at this moment suffering from the inconvenient exercise of these very secret conversations and this secret influence. (Hear, hear.) But this he must say, that, at the same time, he would put his right hand into the fire sooner than have proposed to her Majesty to make any arrangement which should be disagree able to her, (Hear.) He felt it absolutely impossible for him, under the circumstances of the present moment, to under take his share of the government, which he should otherwise, have done. He hoped that in making these observations, he had preserved more of the tone of moderation than the noble viscount had done. He had now only to add the ex pression of his gratitude to her Majesty, for the gracious condescension and attention with which she had been pleased to listen to what he had to say to her Majesty; and he must say that he quitted her presence, not only with a feeling of deep gratitude for her condescending kindness, hut with a feeling of admiration for the firmness with which she urged her objections. Viscount MELBOURNE explained the statement that Sir Robert Peel proposed to dismiss all the ladies of the house hold, not stating the extent to which it was to be carried left an impression on her Majesty's mind that it was meant to carry it to a greater extent than was intended. That im- " pression he had said on the mind of her Majesty, he believed was erroneous.—Adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF LORDO.—WEDNESDAY. No business of importance was transacted. Lord DUNCANNON, previously to their lordships separat ing, gave notice that Lord Melbourne would next day move that the house, at it's rising, do adjourn till the 27th instant." HOUSE OF COMMONS.—titsEDNtSDAY. Mr. PRAED referred to the extract from the " cabinet minute" of the 11th iastant, that had been read by Lord J. Russell, regarding control over the ladies of the bed chamber, &c., and inquired whether there would be any objection to the production of the whole of that document? Lord J. RUSSELL answered that he had the most decided objection to its production. Mr. LAROUCIIERE explained the circumstances attendant on Col. Prince's order to shoot certain prisoners in Canada. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he would state, " after the re cess," when it 'was likely he should move for a bill continuing the authority of the poor law commissioners. Lord J. RUSSELL, on moving that the house, at its rising, do adjourn till Monday, May 27, stated that, on re-assem bling, the first business would be the appointment of a Speaker; that, with respect to Jamaica, the Under Secre tary for the Colonies or himself would, on the 30th instant, submit a motion regarding the affairs of that island. The SPEAKER, in a brief but neat and appropriate ad dress, took his farewell of the house as the occupant of the chair. Mr. C. WYNN expressed astonishment at the long ad journment proposed when the internal state of the country was so alarming. . _ Lord J. RUSSELL said, that the proclamations issued had produced salutary effects ; though he had not biought the matter before Parliament, he did not say that some new measures might be requisite; and with a full conviction of his responsibility, he had repeadly consulted the attorney general, and directed the attention of the cabinet to the subject. _ _ PAKINGTON deferred till June 4, the further consi deration of the bill regarding the sale of beer. Mr. Humn moved the appointment of a select committee on " the lighting of the house," which, after some conversa tion, was agreed to ; and it wa s arrange d that the new plan, of an application of the Buae light, should be tried the two following evenings, from 10 till half-past 11 o'clock. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that On the 3lst of May he would move, in a committee of supply, a grant of £30,000 for the purposes of pubhc or general education in England. The house then adjourned till Monday, the 27th inst. The last accounts state that the insurrection at Paris had been completely suppressed. TRIIILTWE Of RESPECT.—On Tuesdaj, evening last upwards of thirty gentlemen met at Mr. Cooper's. the Royal William, West Derby-street, for the purpose of presenting to Mr. Ambrose Byforl his portrait, painted by Bishop, which was some time since subscribed for by the gentlemen fre quenting the bar. The likeness is au exceedingly faithful one. Its presentation was alike honourable to Mr. Byford and his friends. THE NATIONAL PSALMIST. —We call the attention of the musical portion of our readers to this publication, which is announced in our advertising columns. The work will con tain compositions written — expressly-by almost every author of eminence in England, including the celebrated Mendels.; sohn ; together:with.a selection of the most admired now in use of Handel, Haydn, Mozart, &e. &c. From the author having adopted the plan of harmonizing the tunes, .so that they may be sung by one, two, three, or four voices, we do not doubt but that the publication will be anxiously looked for by ali who take an interest in the improvement of this solemn and delightful portion of public worship, as well as in more social 'end domestic circles. CHEMICAL NUISANCES.—We beg to direct attention to the advertisement of Mr. Gossage in another column. As the suppression of chemical nuisances has excited great interest at Liverpool, and as the parties forming the deputation, whose certificate is given, consist of Mr. Fincham, who is well known as a practical manufacturing chemist, but not interested in alkali-making, Dr. Reynolds, who has been emOoyed by the corporation of Liverpool, to report on these nuisances, and, Mr. George Rogerson, whose evidence was so very powerful on the occasion of Muspratt's and other trials, we think that proprietors of all alkali works will be very glad to find from the evidence of these gentlemen, who were appointed by pur ties complaining of nuisances, that the employment of Mr. Gossage's apparatus is a complete remedy for the evils which have hitherto arisen from the manufacture. All that the public require is to be protected from annoyance, and this protection is completely afforded by the proper use of Mr. Gossage's apparatus, and is guaranteed by its being the direct personal interest of the manufacturer to effect a perfect condensation , of his vapours. On Saturday last, the directors of the Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway made their periodical visi to the road. After inspecting the new carriages at Glasgow, which are of the most elegant and comfortable description, they proceeded along the line to Greenock, examining every part of the works with much attention. Between Glasgow and Paisley the progress is rapid, and a great part of the permanent road is in course of beino. laid. The drift-way through the Ar kleston Tunnel is almost completed, and the tunnel is widen ed out for a considerable part of its length. In Paisley th e bridges and walls are very forward, and the large b r id ge o ver the Cart has its centre ready for turning the arch. Proceed ing westward beyond Paisley, the walls and embankments are creeping up, and the railway is already carried over the moss : the consolidation is becoming daily more apparent, and there is no doubt that an excellent bit of road will be the result of the precautions adopted. At Bishopton all is bustle and activity, and nowhere is there greater evidence of the late delightful weather. Between West Ferry and Port- Glasgow the work is comparatively light, and has made great progress since the last inspection. The directors, we learn, were much gratified with the energetic measures taken to secure the completion by the Ist of June 1840, and anticipate at their next quarterly visit having a long run on the loco motive. Indeed, there seems no question but that most of the road will be laid this year. In the evening, the directors entertained at dinner Mr. Wallace of Kelly, the active sup porter of the railway in parliament. CHURCH MISSIONARY MEETING ON TUESDAY EVENING. A second meeting of the friends of the Church Missionary Society was held at half-past six o'clock on Tuesday evening, in the Music Flail, when the attendance was equally as throng as on the preceding evening. The interest in the proceed ings seemed to be not only unabated, but increased. The Rev. Chancellor RAIRES presided. The Rev. CHAIRMAN briefly addressed the meeting, after which he called upon the Rev. Mr. Carpenter, the secretary, to read the report. This having been done, The Rev. R. P. BUDDICOM rose to move the first resolu tion, which expressed regret that the nation had not taken more extensive and efficient means for the spread of the gos pel in the British colonies. The rev. gentleman said, in the course of his observations, that there was no subject which had pressed more on his mind than that of the colonial rela tions of England. Viewed simply in a political aspect, an overweening colonial population and empire was like a large wen on the surface of the body, which, the more that it grew, the more it became a matter of disease to the body ; and the only way of making a colonial empire and population a bles sing and a strength to the mother country was by infusing into it, like a healthful circulation proceeding from the heart in this country, a portion, and a full portion, of the religious principle, of the high and animating motives, and of the glo rious gospel of the blessed God, that was' n our own hearts, so that there might be a community of interest, and the va rious people be linked together in one bond in the Lord Jesus Christ ; and then the very extent and enlargement of the tolonial system would give power, and substance, and soli dity, which, in the present state, and in reference to the very little that had been done in a spiritual capacity, we could not possibly expect to have. It might well be asked why such vast colonial possessions should have been given to England. It was a marvellous thing that such an enormous empire should have been granted to one little isle. It had been long ago said by Burke, that if our dominion in India should cease at any one moment, we might be tracked like the tiger, by carnage and blood. He hoped that all fear of that had long passed away. There were tens of millions of people now re posing Under the shadow of the constitution of this country, possessing privileges and justice which they had never before known, and enjoying the blessing of unaccustomed peace. But although this were true, if we stopped here, we should stop vastly short of the point which the gospel pointed out to us, and whither the love of it ought to carry us. The great question, at the day of judgment, would be, what had Christian Britain done for heathen India, heathen Africa, and heathen America. To enable us to accomplish what it was our duty to accomplish, there must be a large increase in our own personal religion. He entreated the meeting to think of thie, and not to depart with a sort of barren admiratio n o f missions, but to go away pledged to a more fervent support of them, to offer up more ardent prayers for their success and, with the determination of holy Jacob, to say, " I will not let thee go except thou bless me." (Cheers.) The Rev. F. CLOSE seconded the resolution. He said that there had been a time when missionary meetings were held in contempt, and by some it was doubted whether they were consonant with church discipline ; but those who once dis agreed had now come in, and they had the authority of the church, as well as of the word Of God, for meeting together and recounting what had been done in various parts of the world. It was not his intention to make a regular speech, but to confine himself to a little detail respecting one or two mis sionary settlements, and the way God had dealt with them there. The mission he referred to was one little known ; it was in New Holland, and bordered on the penal colonies. The way in which the natives had been almost annihilated was well known ; and the Colonial-office, proverbially slow in its movements, were tardily driven to do something for the miserable remnant that had not fallen a sacrifice to British gun and British vices. Year after year the mother country had poured out the scum of her society, there to spread on every side their baneful vices. He found, the other day, in reading over an official document, that two families, all that had been left of a once powerful tribe, had been taken away from their native home, and were now supported, that they might not follow the steps of their predecessors, who had fallen victims to the vices taught them by British subjects. The accounts which had come to this country of the state of degredation to which the escaped convicts had been reduced were appalling. He was acquainted with no heathen people that had been reduced so low. Their bodies were covered with loathsome diseases ; they were without .covering, and in many instances they were found roosting among the trees with the monkeys. He recollected Mrs. Watson, who went with the forlorn hope of this mission. At first she was so disgusted with the appearance of the poor creatures, that she felt it impossible that she could mix with them to do them any good. But, after having been there some time, that Christian woman was seen binding up the sores of those wretched creatures, in hopes that, by attention shown to their bodies, she might find the way to their dark and benighted souls. When Christian women read of one of their own sex making a sacrifice of all her woman's feelings for the sake of Christ, they must think it was a very little thing indeed to ask them for their prayers to cheer her in her benevolent work, and to support it by exery means in their power. The church missions were of a very varied character. They had one in Abyssinia, for it was their object to revive as well as to plant. The Abyssinian church had fallen very low, gross ignorance prevailed amongst the people, and he grieved to say that they were still under the influence of the pontiff, through whom the church missionaries had been expelled from the country. One of the missionaries, observing that the churches in Abyssinia were rather numerous, but small, asked what was the use of such small churches. " Oh," was the reply, " we do not think it necessary to go into a church to pray ; we only look at it when in the act of prayer." It was also explained that some of the more religious actually went up to the walls of the church, but they were looked upon as mere devotees, and were called "church kissers." They had in that country a beautiful instance of the special protection of Providence. The Rev. Mr. Gobar, who was now in Germany, had, when pursuing his missionary labours in Abyssinia, fre quently to travel through the dense forests of that country, and he was often awaked in the night by the laughing of the howl ing hyenas, and dare not light a fire for fear of being found out by men more dreadful than the beasts. Being asked how he acted on such occasions, he replied, " I committed myself to the protection of the God of missions, and laid myself down to sleep again." (Cheers.) This led him to refer to another very extraordinary instance of the watchfulness of Providence over missions. He perceived in the last report that there was a re solution expressive of delight at the success of the mission in the Zoulah country, in south-eastern Africa. New, the tidings had reached them that as the missionaries had been expelled from Abyssinia by the baneful influence of the pope, they had been driven out of the Zoulah country by its king, who was a most savage barbarian. Indeed, some of his acts were of such an extraordinary kind, that he (the speaker) could terra him no other than a most ridiculous monster. The Dutch boors who had gone to settle in the country, by his invitation, he deliberately murdered —man, woman, and child, all were slaughtered, and yet the Church of England missionaries, and an American missionary, then residing not far from the court, had been allowed to depart unharmed. How was that to be accounted for ? He could account for it in no other way than by supposing that God had said to the heart of the barbarian king, " Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm." (Hear, hear.) Turning from this, he should next allude to another mission, which to him was one of greatinterest ; he meant the North-west American mission. How widely spread were their labours ! They had missions in the burning plains of India, in the savage island of New Zeala n d, i n New Holland, in the in terior of Africa, and in western Africa, and he was now about to speak of one in the extreme north, among the eternal snows of North-west America. It was a singular fact, no less true, he believed, of other missions than of their own, that the most flourishing of them were those which were the longest before they returned any harvest at all. The dis couragement was Feat, and then, in God's own good time, lie added the blessing. When the agents of this society first went into North-west America, and joined the fur dealers, they said, "Itis no us e y ou com i ng h ere. The Indians are so wild that you will never catch them. Sometimes we never see them for six weeks together. They are like the wild asses ; they snuff the wind, and away they go to their bound less liberty." Nevertheless, it had pleased God to give them some singularly gifted, patient, and wise missionaries, (one of whom, Mr. Jones, had returned to this country, and was expected to have been there that evening, but lie had been prevented by continued indisposition,) and after fifteen or sixteen years of labour, what had been the result ? God had shown the English settlers on the banks of the Red River, that there was an attracting power in the gospel able to over come all difficulties, and to alter the character of man, in whatever state of developement. God had tamed the wild Indian. Three churches-had been built by their own hands, and four others were in progress ; and Sabbath after Sabbath, the houses of prayer were crowded by simple-minded Indians. Although they had been wild and fierce as the eagle, they were now in a right mind, sitting humbly at the feet of Jesus ; and wherever, during the week, they mi g ht b e pursu i ng their avocations, they were always in the house of God on Sunday. Some of them carry their aged parents through the snows of winter, that they may place them in the aisles of the church to hear the preaching of the gospel. It was his firm con viction that there was no mission, whether belonging to that or any other society, which bore more the impress of the finger of God. Out of 1550 persons who attended to three churches, (which, of course, were not like the churches of this country, but were little more than wigwams,) there were 300 stated communicants at the Lord's supper. The com municants there were not like those of our land. The strictest discipline of the old church of England prevailed there, the least degree of inconsistency was sufficient to cause their re moval from the Lord's table.. He could not here refrain from expressing his extreme satisfaction at the great increase in thejnumber of communicants in the different stations through out the world. The last time that he went out for the Church Missionary Society, the communicants were under 2000—they now amounted to 2608 ; and it was his deliberate conviction, formed from the knowledge which lie had of the missionaries, that amongst no denominations of Christians, of whatever rank or class, could there be found 2608 persons, whether white, black, or copper-coloured, who were better Christians than those communicants. (Hear, hear.) A very affecting circumstance happened at the Red River settlement some few years ago. The station was so far north, that the sum aner was ntcourse short and-precarious, and they were very much dependent on au annual shin from England, that brought stores and took back furs. Four years ago it pleased God to afflict them in three ways. In the first place, the summer was so short and bad that they lost their crops ; secondly, the sea was so little cleared of ice that the annual ship tailed ; arid, last and saddest, God removed from amongst them that excellent woman, Mrs. Jones, whom the Indians so loved that they called her by the name of mother. .some of the converted /ndians were heard lamenting her death in these strains :—" Our summer crop has failed, but another summer will come, and, by God's blessing another harvest. Our annual ship has failed, but the season will come again; and another ship will arrive ; but, oh, sound for weeping, our mother, our mother will never return , to us." That, he thought, showed the beautiful and civilising effect of Christianity on the minds of Indians. He would narrate another anecdote which likewise illustrated this blessed and civilizing effect of Christianity. There were two converted Indians, a male and female, who formed an attachment for each other, and who were married. They had a child, of which the parents were dotingly fond, and which, in a very few months, was taken away from them. The missionary, afraid that the young converts would, in their extreme grief, forget their Christianity, and show their sorrow in the In dian fashion, by maiz; their flesh, and by horrid howlings and yells, went down to the wigwam to see th e poor bereaved parents. He looked' down and saw the mother sitting with the dead baby on her lap, and, to his astonishment, with a smile upon her countenance. " How is this ?" said the missionary, "I expected to find you weeping and wailing." The I sultan mother looked up to him with an expression of sweetness on her face, and said, " Ah, s i r ! you taught me to believe that my child is happy. He has a softer bosom than mine to lie on at this moment." What Englishwoman could have expressed herself with more piety, or delicacy, or pro priety, than the Indian woman ? Well, from those Indians there was an urgent appeal for more missionaries. There, was now only one left foe those flourishing churches in the 'American wilderness. The last station to which he would call attention that evening was one of which they had not heard much. It was in Western Africa. That was the first and original mission of the society, and was once, if he might so speak, the New Zealand of their society ; that is to say, they were continually hearing flourishing accounts of the progress being made at Sierra Leone. God, however, as he invariably did when men boasted too much of their doings, had been pleased to humble th em . W estern Africa had proved the grave of more missionaries than the rest of the world together. He held in his hand a very interesting original letter, a brief extract from which he would shortly read. A young mis sionary, of the name of Graaf, a German, received ordina tior in this country, and went out to Western Africa. In twelve months he came back, formed an attachment' for a young lady, a very devout, pious, and excellent young woman. Before their union, he said to her, " Remember, if you marry and go with me, you go t o the land of death, and I feel that it i s almost wrong in me to make proposalato any one." She had been devotedly attached to the mission ary work, and she replied that if it should please god that she was to die an early death, she should look upon it as the greatest honour to be brought to an early grave, and to be buried in a Western African churchyard. And this was what God had in store for her; very shortly after her arrival at the station she', died. The letter he had alluded to was written by her husband to a lady in Cheltenham, and gave an account of Mrs. Graaf's last moments and burial, and was interesting as throwing light on the feeling of the negroes in that station. The letter said, " she began to groan a little, and soon gently gave up breathing altogether. Thus her soul departed from her body without any apparent pain, and a most sweet smile adorned her cold, fair face, as though her soul had printed on her material body the mark of that bliss she is now enjoying. Neither my tears nor my groan ings were able to, bring her to herself again : she has gone never to return. Hundreds of black friends came to sym pathise with me, and to speak a word of comfort. The following day her remains were carried to a place three miles distant, and buried there, accompanied by a multitude of more than 1500 persons, from all the stations, so me as far'as fourteen miles." The missionary and his wife had only been there twelve months, and 1500 persons attended the funeral of the lady, and hundreds went to condole and sym pathise with the widower. It was a delightful subject of reflection, even for the philanthropist, but how much more so must it be to the Christian ? Yet those kind-hearted ne groes had all once been in a slave ship, and had been taken there by Britons to enjoy liberty. One word more, for the purpose of provoking the jealousy of the audience, by stating what had been done by the negroes themselves, and then he should conclude. In the year 1837, the converted negroes themselves contributed no less than £96 to the Church Missionary funds. Now, he would put it to them whether £96 a -y ear f rom the Western Africans did not put to the blush their few hundreds in Liverpool, whose people were rolling in wealth and abounded in spiritual plenty, Altogether the negroes had contributed to the funds no less than £lOOO. He hoped that this example would not be lost sight of. Indeed, he was happy to say that the collections made at this anniversary in Liverpool already exceeded by £5O those of the last year. On Monday night, no less than £65 were collected at the doors of that room. (Cheers.) He liked that cheer, as he could not but consider it indicative of what was to come ; and, while he thanked them for past favours, he must tell them that his gratitude was something like the Frenchman's—a lively sense of future favours. (Laughter and cheers.) The collection was then made. The Rev. Mr. SEDDON, a missionary from Jamaica, moved the next resolution. He had been four years in Jamaica, and he could state, from his own experience, that a great change was taking place amongst the negro population. The negroes are not what they were, and in a few years they would not be what they now are. They were an improving and an improvable people. The great day of liberation was spent by them, at his stations, in an extremely quiet, orderly, and edifying manner. Whilst the places of worship were crowded, he did not meet, in going from one station to the other, a distance of eight miles, a single negro. If ever men were actuated by a feeling of gratitude, the conduct of the negroes exhibited it on that day. The rev. gentleman gave a rather flattering account of the progress of the mission in the island. Sir DIGBY MACKWORTH seconded the resolution, and said that he should confine his observations to one mission where he had personally been. He contended that England, as a nation, should have done more towards the propagation of the gospel in her colonial possessions. He was not so young that he could not recollect the day when it was said that if an attempt was made to introduce Christianity into India, the British power would be shaken from the centre to the extremity. In spite, however, of the fears of politicians, Christianity had been introduced into every part of India, and there had not been, in consequence, so much as a revolt or manifestation of hostility in a single village. Was not this an additional reason of regret that England had not sooner done her duty, and sent the gospel among 120 millions of people ? They who preceded Britain in the possession of India were not so slow in introducing their religion. The Portuguese had left many monuments throughout India of their religious zeal, and the Dutch had almost filled ancient Ceylon with their churches. The speaker then went on to point out the good effects which had resulted from the mis sion at Tinnivelley. The Rev. H. M'NEILE presented himself, amidst loud cheering, to move the next resolution. He said that before he read the resolution which he had been requested to move, he desired to add to what had already been so amply said with respect to the foreign operations of the society, by read ing an extract from a letter which he had just received from Miss Wilson, of the Orphan Refuge, at Calcutta. The letter was dated Feb. 6, 1839, and, after alluding to Miss White, stated that the writer left this country for Calcutta- in the year 1821, for the purpose of devoting herself to the educa tion of the Hindoo women. She went out with the late ex cellent Mr. Ward, of Serampore, whose address to the ladies of Liverpool, published in a missionary magazine, first led . her to undertake this interesting labour. Small day-schools were opened while money was being collected for the erection of the central school. That was finished and occupied in the year 1828, and by degrees 300 native girls were collected as pupils. At present, 132 orphan girls were taught and watched over by Miss Wilson and five other Christian females. The object of the sequel of the letter, the rev. gentleman observed, was to request that he would urge a de sire that some Christian man and his wife would go out from England and join in the work of education at the Orphan Refuge. Now, where, he would ask, could such a couple he better found, or more suitably proceed, if God willed so to honour Liverpool, than from this town? (Hear, hear.) He thought that enough had been said, at least for one meeting, on the foreign operations of the society, but he would just add one short extract from a letter from Miss White, who informed him that she had received a letter from Miss Wil son. It was dated January 28, and stated that the Bishop of Calcutta had been laying the foundation stone of a new school room, and that, the week before, he had confirmed 22 girls. The rev. gentleman then proceeded thus :—He was going to say that the managers of the society had so far suc ceeded very well in their administration that night. They had had, if he might so speak, a very good secretary for the foreign department, and he did not think that he had ever seen or heard a better chancellor of the exchequer, at any meeting ; for he had contrived to send round his Lox while the iron was hot. (Laughter and cheers.) The knotty point, however, was the home depa r t men t, an d t h at b rought him to the resolution. The resolution spoke of that gigantic mischief which stood in the way of the missions, and which, instead of being put down with all the authority of England, the great patroness of missions, had been patted and fostered in England, so that it was putting worse and more heavy prohibitions on the progress of missionary la bours in the colonies of this country. He hoped that the audience was not so dull as to require, after such a descrip tion, that he should name the gigantic mischief he had alluded to. (Laughter and cheers.) It was sometimes a difficult thing to speak plainly, Some people s eeme d t o f ee l on t h e subject of popery—(laughter, followed by great applause)— as the poor Hindoos, whom they had just heard of from their gallant friend (Sir Digby Mackworth) felt with respect to the idol which they had abandoned, but of whose powers they still retained a lingering dread, and therefore hesitated who should strike the first the first blow in the work of demoli tion. It was decided that the head marr of the village, by virtue of his station, ought to hit first : he did so, and as he (the Rev. Mr. M'Neile) delighted to be a head man in hitting popery, he should not shrink from striking at the idol. — (Laughter, and greatapplause.) And now, with all solemnity, he declared that he was willing to follow the example of the heathen of whom they had just heard, and on his knee, in the name of the Lord Jesus, he vowed to oppose popery as long as he lived. The resolution stated that " the activity of the Church of Rome in extending its influence, especially in those countries where Protestant missions are carried on, calls for increased liberality, faith, and prayer, on the part of the members of the Protestant Church, to extend to the heathen that system of pure Christian truth so fully embodied in her articles, liturgy, and homilies." There could be little doubt tof the justice of the position put forward. A fact was stated, on the ground of which a duty was propounded. The fact was stated, that the Church of, Rome was actively ex tending her influence in those places were Protestant mis sions were carried on, and the duty grounded upon was—in creased exertions on the part of Protestants to oppose that activity, in order that the heathen might be provided with a pure religion. And that pure religion was described in a way which should commend it to all, not. merely as the religion of scripture, though substantially it was so, but emphatically and descriptively it was set before them as a religion ex pounded from the scriptures in the articles, liturgy, and ho milies of the church of England. Here then we are brought into immediate collision with the church of Rome, because the church of England had her standard constructed, not merely what was in the Bible, but to express it in attitude of opposition to the corruptions of Rommusin. She was thrown into an attitude of defiance ; for Protestants were pledged to use all diligence, to banish and drive away all false doctrine opposed to the word of God. The Romish doctrines were enumerated in the articles of the church of England —some being described as false, some as vain things foolishly in vented, some as blasphemous and dangerous deceit. They (the Protestants) were all solemnly pledged to those as docu mentary interpretations of holy scripture, in opposition to the Romish corruptions ; and h e considered that every member of the church of England, and, still more, every minister of that church, was pledged, whatever might be his delicacy about using the hammer for the first blow, to strike at those corruptions ; and he was confident that the minister who refrained from striking did not perform his vows, (Cheers.) Should they not, indeed, ,stand on their testimony against Romish corruptions ? They had a foundation to stand upon that was laid before those corruptions were heard of ; but the attitude they assumed on that foundation was an attitude of opposition to Popery, and while that remained the attitude ought not to be relaxed. He thought, then, that it was of the last importance, considering the danger to their missions —to that very society—that they should arouse and oppose the last and most fatal attempt now being made by the church of Rome, in this country, to tamper with the scriptures them selves. He would ask what version of the Bible was it that our missionaries had been sending it abroad for circulation among the heathen—what was the version of the scriptures, or portions of the scriptures, which had been translated into Bengalee and other languages? Undoubtedly, the authorised version, and he begged to call attention to a most important fact respecting it. It was but a few days ago that a question was put by Sir George Clerk, in the House of Commons, to the Lord Advocate of Scotland, on the subject of the patent to the queen's printer in Scotland. Sir George inquired whether is was intended to withdraw the patent, and the reply of the Lord Advocate was, that it was not intended to renew the privilege, which expires in July next. He (the reverend speaker) saw this in a Scotch newspaper, and though that might have been satisfactory for ordinary information, he felt that it would be acting somewhat rashly to rely upon it on a point of importance about to be brought forward before a large and grave assembly. He th ere f ore ma d e in quiries from a member of parliament whether he had been present when the question alluded to was put and answered, or, if not, whether he could satisfy him (the Rev. H. M'Neile) as to the truth of the statement. The answer of the gentle man was that it was perfectly correct, and that he himself had been present at the time. Confirmed thus, the paragraph became authority indeed, and he therefore desired to call the attention of the meeting to the fact. It was the intention of her majesty's government, after July next, not to renew that national guard over the text of holy scripture which had, for so many ceuturies preserved to us a pure and faithful trans lation of the Bible. The consequence would be that the printing of the scriptures would be thrown open to all ; that trade would become like all other trades. One man might alter this verse and another man might alter that verse ; the text might here be varied to please this controversialist, and there to please that controversialist ; here a verse might be omitted to please the followers of Dr. Priestley, and there a word inserted to gratify the followers of the Right Rev. Dr. Murray ; and a sentence might be altered to please the Jesu its, who were poisoning the minds of men—the secret emis saries of popery, who called themselves friends and disciples of Mr. Owen. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) The meeting need not be astonished at that, for there were cunning Jesuits passing themselves, off for socialists. Beware of them. They were no ignorant lads that had written some of those socialist tracts and books. He would repeat—beware of them. It' was evident, then, that after July next such a principle was to be introduced in the printing of the English Bible as would allow the text to be tampered with to suit the views of any man, insomuch that it would at length become difficult to ascertain whether it were a genuine version or not. Now, this was precisely the consutnmation which the popish system had been aiming at. The ground of controversy between the two churches turned on the sufficiency of the word of God as the rule of faith. The catholic church denied the sufficiency of the word of God, and had recourse to antiquity ; the pro testant church asserted its sufficiency, and maintained that whatever was not read therein, or proved thereby, was not required to be believed as necessary to salvation. It was quite obvious therefere, that if, by any process, the Romish church could throw any doubt on the canon of scripture, it would throw doubt, and difficulty, and uncertallitfraf toga was the Bible. It wo u ld th en h av e a powerful PP of c o. antiquity, its tradition ; and where; in any strugg eet ot ) ; science, must the conflict end but ,in hopeless prYs",;lbeite the church of Rome, under her assumption of infaw dfe e (Hear, hear.) This was what she was aiming at. 'Id ! , o1 the Bible should be looked upon by any Pe°P le as at3e till parallel authority with tradition, or of parallel _ a the with the book of nature either—whether philosophY,:oree one side, or popery on the other, elevated the book )jth the ation or tradition to a parallel place, in theory , to s book of God—so soon as either was elevated in teeee: r e parallel place, it would become in practice snperlanula be would have the ascendant practically, because it T ecc iee found more congenial to man than the Bible. All f s ot; that partook of falsehood partook, in some degree, ° f of God thing congenial to human nature. It was the w° . on , alone that made no allowance for man's corruPtl etro ee maintaining its standard at the very height, at the e"_ e „ t e perfection, set forth the way of salvation witleoutteevrorte mise, without even the shadow of comromise.lll Bible alone that gave no quarter to man's cornieto n ' o ll# wonderful! It opened the bosom of God to man' ..,eO, the very warmth of love which it showed to save, AA shamed the sin out of the heart and out of the soue l l i o ) , t ee the sinner detest himself, while he found himself„ b 4o 3 God. This ran counter to the human heart. An eijt^ found something parallel. Tradition was full of conar s e ted e Popery was ready to make a bargain with man —it wa eu elf'l to allow him to run riot at one time, provided he % f og , for so doing at another time. It had its penance an o u ro t t eat and its purgatory, all connected with payment , t tar' paroxysms of the humaia conscience ; and it had its ca sa e its dances, its headlong riot, and its sabbath-breakiatieliq, the paroxysm was over, in order that these things Of, the foundation of a fresh paroxysm, and that par° l l s e to fresh payme n t s . (Ch eers .) Th us i t was that, lettin th down to man's corrupti ons , it p l aye d f as t a nd loose an IV unclean creature, managing still to leave it unclean' t i e s; it was that popery left man corrupted and degrade(' , se eit t was that in popish countries there had been no preg,r e- to eec i in the higher branches of learning, no raisiri N g s, morals. The aim of Christianity was to elevate t or it was so entirely opposed to any indulgence of sine ow ere" a : s e f i w n ta t ' s gie : li t i; proportion to itself was the hatred of sin. PoperY:',, sought not to elevate man, but itself and its off ee t - g eaf man—to elevate the commissioned officers of feat revolt from Christianity which had waged, must continue to wage war with God and his Great Captain returned in power, and with a strong 3r d . gMI 4 , down Babylon the Gre a t. Oh! s h e s h ou ld fall ; fl an bi eel:' would be the shout when th e wor d was g i ve n, " P, 3 t e'en fallen, is fallen !" (Mu c h c h eer i ng. ) But -teens' must continue to wage war with the saints—t"'„ must accommodate herself to man's corruption s, !ate 111 ' by a false peace with his conscience, to procrastl, Or e fears for eternity, an d k eep him degraded in time °dig he has passed f rom th e visible world, make me rclia?, tof his precious soul. (Ch eers .) Oh ! h ow graellic„e al much after the manner o f men th at spoke in l al t i e completely and truly h a d s h e b een described leY," teacher, who was asked to tell what purgatory wa s '. It aq . that purgatory was the priests' cow that never o ei r d o g (Laughter and cheers.) There was a volume of 01 ,, e8 , - er that reply. They (the protestants) were frequenuY 9 'l'l at because of their strong testimony on this subjeaf•cp were laughed at by grave and sober-minded men , W :,.' e e them all sorts of sneering names, just as if they c ar d es,' people called them. (Laughter and applause.) P' ' ell Sr minded of this, not'from the way in which he ha d be frl ken of on the previ ous n i g ht b y his reverend br oth, Cheltenham (the Rev. Mr. Close), who, by the nee' spoken very civilly of him, but by a paragrayh i :t 3 ril paper, to which a friend had called his attention ti ph ;d mg, when he came h ome f rom L on d on. Th e earag - ,0113 as follows :—" It w as announce d to a religious as,l'Ougd London, by Lord Winchilse a an d our own belovedt eel; (loud and long-continued applause)—that Sir It i ,ob er i iden‘ A ' visit to the Queen was an interposition of Divine 1 ,111)e P :io but, without imitating this pious blasphemy,. Pr, Illec may inquire why Divine Providence was less kin° ""ezile' day than on the preceding day. It is certainly a P e - for 5 devout tories, but, in their grief, we must not lo ok ica th solution." The paragraph had reference, a 3 ceS 6 et -have seen, to the subject of the ministry, which ha 1 ... d s so much interest within the last few days ; but he 10V, afraid to venture on it because it involved s;politic be fe was not ashamed of politics, and never intended t ti eeis te r : i this reason, that it was impossible for any Christian 'coo to acquit himself, in a country like this, withal!, of into contact with profane writers, such as the yr' dle j paragraph he had quoted. To that he would nt 4 , a n eit d . himself. First, then, he distinctly asserted, O w Lord Winchilsea nor himself said anythin about . pel e f t Providence in the case alluded to. (Hear. n ut ,' o lo 2 that they had, was it blasphemous to call the t:"jeir•P cd ! of any man, in any circumstances, however ," direc e e Divine interposition ? Was it not the Lord th at the ways of men? and did the writer mean to Or the doctrine of special providence was, in the cole c ietl; a lofty-minded man like/ him, a pious , blasena) • er g sc e e people of England hear, and learn what thenefer e m e tre d 'e (Cheering.) Let the people of England know II boa,°"o - who sneered at all that was good, and great, a a pi d as,'", f ) able in the country, and who claimed to be them w o e sidered as the climax of all that was liberal. JeF t ;, - e `a,P l i o rf that they pronounce a reference to Divine Peorine t t ' re " 0;0 blasphemy. (Cheers.) Was there anything el '" - of fe ol in a , man s a yi ng th at i t was the good p ro videnaLtiev watching over th e l an d, that had entrusted the w t ,ealco the country to on e who was not only an emine nt e s peeil ie e but a man of p r i nc ipl e — a man who would not r t ie'. ,, , sovereign, who would not accept office, keeping 4 . 1° 0 0 1 9 ground his intentions, who would - not be guilty ( chef:t il l)! degrading, liberal conduct—(vehement applause) -- ; ir l ie not lend himself to any intrigue, but who at once' - be 1 0 1 beginning, honestly stated the only terms on w hich , 0 woo stand aClast. There were, no d ou b t, pers ons w„ P ; e t a P oi have counselled hi m (Si r R. P ee l) to h ave kept,± l "dge, ,e j; he was secure, not to h ave t o ld t a l es until things ° a One far that his remaini ng i n office could not - Imvg b eell oa lk o there were those who would have so counselled , an i o ef or rals who would have so acted ; but Sir Robert Pe ee e e el ale duty better, and acted in an open and straightfe m .r" o eidvd ner. And if that were an interposition of Divine l'"oe it was no more than a righteous retribution that s - t ., evel had failed—that cabal had succeeded, and our eaj e s'ie ft e and interesting Queen was made the the victim ol ) ts t y men and women. (Hear, hear, and loud cheela W o e pausing for a moment, the Rey. Mr. M'Neile satiety had been pausing to determine whether he shoul°,, , dude his observations, as the hour was growing la,lete' were loud calls for the rev. gentleman to eoceea' wo tt! A was past ten o'clock, he declined doing so. Ile cif'', affect to say that he then concluded because he Inf it , pi that he had to say, for he had not said one-tent'the bf should he ever cease prot es ti ng aga i nst pope ry wbil o da'de 4 ( 4 health and power to speak. (Cheers.) He O r ' aeltv",oil exhorting the meeting t o b e i n d e f at i ga bl e i n their e t l l ol,, to drive popery, not only out of England, Se ° l ; e t Ireland, and out of Hi n d oostan an d Abyssinia' - f at e ride world. (Raf turaus aiplause.) fe d, t i 4 The resolution havin g b een secon d e d an d adol) v ec of thanks to the r ev . c h a i rman was passe d , and the then separated. POLICE IN7'ELLIGENCE. TUESDAY. 11" LITTERING BASE COIN. 0 Peter Conno r was placed before M ess rs. Birch kell, charged with having uttered a base half-cr°! s f - Mrs. Jane Jone s s t a t e d , t h at s h e was the w'e Jones, who kept a beer-house in Limekiln- ptl half-past two o'clock on Monday afternoon , I ri f e a s walked into he r h ouse an d sat d own. Ile asl(c",, is 1° sixpenny ale, and wit ness serve d hi m w i t h it. - i so ac e t ee' a half-crown i n p a y men t , w hi c h she (witness) Pr c 's sh e le i be a bad one. He said he had no other money , 3 ,1,0( 4 4 the ale back, returning, him the half-croWn, and 0,5 F, not to offer it again. He prOmised he would tt ,,'„llse , s he had received it. from a person for two unl;„,e , he had sold for fifteenpence each. He left the w t - i;er", ( 0 4 . 1 " five minutes afterwards she saw the prisoner in h alt e r, cf two police-officers. Witness had no doubt t he ,serbi` r produced by Constable Crowe was the one which 'ars' - offered to her. She knewit by a mark upon theS . (S l l she particularly observed when it was in her 1 139 . e r, Sarah Eaton, wife of Richard Eaton, shoO e „ eP s dart's-garden, not far from Mrs. Jones's, s t r " -- s half-past two o'clock, on Monday, the prisen, e i de ss oef t : her shop and asked for twopennyworth of brc 3 'he She cut the bread and cheese, and gave it to t i o ses l es He placed half-a-crown on the counter; witnef.; bi l o°;,, and saw that it was bad. She pusheh it tow°, ►itiV, told him it was bad. He said, "Ifitisa h 3 t 1 for me, for I have been working very hard a t tw e s, o it for it." He did no t enter the shop for the Plq l ing if the half- crown was a b ad one ; be did "s t and e i ' s fe„; at all, but put it d own f or payment for the bre't'tsel°dser' The prisoner departed. She watched him in to Mrs. Rigby. Sh e a f terwar d s saw Constable if 1 formed him of th e c i rcumstance, an d h e went 8 , has V io e prisoner into custody. She had no doubt but til t h hg produced was that which the prisoner offered t°- '";c' time she was cutting the bread and cheese, she.S:eri' prisoner held something like a sixpence in his II" knew the half-crown by a mark on the side. oor / ;e l l, 4 e t Alice Rigby, a widow, stated that she kePt g ct tge . °,, l e d 'O6 dart's-garden, near Mrs. Eaton. About halt .- P l ', s l 's on Monday afternoon the prisoner came in tt " s peile„"te' s , how she sold eggs. She replied, three for t '''' ‘ ,. - 3 :ihi", s to"' asked for twopeunyworth. While. she Nvils w r Constable Crowe entered mid took the prisoner°. r ise e rf , He did not ask if the half-crown were a gc°el°l-11cthe P► 1/sal John Crowe, officer 95, stated that he toot` srs° o ' into custody in consequence of what he I, ,e B f r „ t io 15' ° ,416 1 Eaton. When secured, he exclaimed, " with me?" Witness saw him put his hand up IhT,, I ,ts i b i He said, " What have you in your -03tr p d s . "Nothing !" and opened his hands. Wi tn-5 . -,ec* hand up his sleeve and found a had half-eroonposoilo. !s ty " What are you going to do with this ?'' The s orae' o .. s" " I got it from Warrington for mendin 4 . o to s4e 4 s las." Witness asked him whereabont in Wa r ,' froc n 'et s l,l said, " I have not been in Warrington. I ( Tr7pri s.° lf l castle at half-past twelve o'clock to-day." " : ! 1- : ' efrs• .5 0 taken to Bridewell. The officer returned t'' c , i ees e ll o : o l shop, and close to the door he found a bad six Pit to o es tv i bi Jas. Ainsworth, constable, statedthat lie W e rrheY s Jee where the prisoner lodged, in Preston-street. P a z , all the room, and in the privy, in one of the P raz , a v is°,, s e slates, found some sandpiper, and, in a check r crown. Bridget Rigby. the person with who ill her to lodged, st a t e d th at h e s l ept with another man s and had lodged with her about a fortnight. ,5i11' 5 10,0 6 The prisone r i n hi s d e f ence sa i d, h e h a d a Pf e il vse' pocket, and he gave it,. on Monday, to a wt°' - iie umbrellas ;he went home and mended them. o ne 'isl if .is( out and met a car t er, w h o as k ed him t h e He charged l s . 6d. each. The c a rter bough t s ':, s e pr i c e 0 , vo.fot o ro i r crown. He went i n t o th ese s h ops f or the pore whether the half-crown was a good one. s st The prisoner was coinmitted for trial. 10 , Ire: A BRUTAL TRICE. t tles' OP' 0,11°51e• The practic e o f th row i ng ginger-beer lici, te ► 0 5 ' r is has long b een very common amongst cer t a in quest the gallery of our theatre. The wretch es hit, t ` e thl of a dangerous nature, reckless who they P leY dise, o° ,lsr` - ii ,„ ging themselves in the certainty of not heml s i,s O s ter', On Tuesday, a fellow named Thos. I - Icrs'i s ing - e si°lo the bar of the POlice-court, charged with s to° 4 of injured a gentleman named Cloys, by throwing. 03 : 0 1iebres. beer bottle from the gallery. Mr. Cloys st 3 `he t o close of the second act of the first piece l he,"„ vi, li . o t io% in the pit, about four seats from the orclici 3Lt ,."!-De e f o il, e od s ceived a violent blow on his head from a g'''S' ero lys, to h o lt It cut through his hat and injured him so ,se' oh inseil . a severe wound in his forehead, that he was s o re!' di a . , to,' the house. He gave information to Mr . .1 in fl ti se so;llf.' Tyrrell, who went to the gallery and suececd eu s delinquent, whom he took into custody an use Bridewell. The ►prisoner endeavoured to eP - ' spir y of . s onic sr , A o, d saying, that he and some companions tools o l eo s' theatre in the bottle. He was drinking , : al his t e t ee knocked his elbow and the bottle slipped I t old the e(1 c° t l the front of the gallery. This, it appear ' thg, sic s , case ; for Mr. Cloys stood so close to the sl es abl e iv ally must have been thrown forward with ent is s i e f a ult° The prisoner w a s fi ne d - P3 and costs. In he was committed for six weeks to prison. Bt t o', 5 p r e Lord and Lady Francis Egerton intend lefiviThi2,ll.3o jor7 close of the ensuing month for a tour. flish r : chased a tine brigantine yacht of near 2 0 ° t °'" t voi ship, although recovered from his recent vole 0, e gout, is far from being reinstated in health, wi d t b a c° o l ',lo sequence, being ordered by his medical attends°oo,lo air. The noble lord contemplates a cruise ° I —Herald. Po .k 7 ., " e Lest N 1 1 xi s Pres ( bra t Z ens wi , i il tw, T o Which ,