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*maid Varliamtnt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY. Lord DIEN MAN moved the second reading of the Rules of ProCeedings (Borough Courts) Bill. The noble and learned lord said he wished to correct a misstatement that had ap peared in the public press, in which he was represented to have attributed to the House of Commons the absurdity of having so altered the former bill on this subject as to have rendered it no bill at all. Now, he hod stated very distinctly that there was a defect in the bill when it went to the House of Commons, which was suffered to remain in it, and which, therefore, rendered it necessary to briug in a new measure. This being the case, no necessity existed for considering whether the amendments made by the other house might or might not have been proper. He felt it to be his duty to state this, because he should be sorry to have it supposed that he would say anything disrespectful of the House of Commons. BEER BILL. Lord BiwyGlIAM said, he would at present only move that this bill be read a third time. He admitted that the opposi tion to 'the measure was conducted in a spirit of great fair ness ; and he thought it would save their lordships' time to take the discussion on the amendments which the noble mar quis (Salisbury) intended to move, than on the question of the third reading. Lord Ellenborough observed, that it would be an anomaly to have the bill read a third time, and that the sense of the house should be taken on the next question. Lord BROUGHAM said that nothing was more usual than such a course. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER said, he would object at once to the third reading. Lord BROUGHAM said, that, unless their lordships were prepared to say that the present beer bill was absolute per fection, as had once been said of our constitution, he hoped they would hear the proposed amendments. He would, therefore, now move the third reading, and would reserve any remarks be had to make until he heard the objections against the measure. Lord WROTTESLEY objected to the bill. The Marquis of SALISBURY said his amendments would go thus far :—First, he would move a clause to the effect that no new license for the sale of beer should henceforward be granted except by the magistrates. Next, that certifi cates should be granted to parties paying a rental of £lO instead of £6, as heretofore. The third amendment would be, that the sureties required by the acts 11th of Geo. IV. and Ist of William IV. should be resident in the same parish with the party for whom they became sureties. His fourth amendment was, that "from and after this time jus tices should be empowered to grant licenses for the sale of beer and cider only." Under the existing act, the moment a magistrate's license was granted, the party was entitled to a spirit license from the excise. There was also another amendment which he should be very happy to move, " That the price of the license should be raised," which would put an end to all those beer-shops the occupiers of which had no capital whatever. A man who had to pay for an £8 or a £lO license must expect to sell a considerable quantity of beer to meet that expense. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER said it would be a very hard thing it the bill should pass into a law, and he should take every opportunity of giving it his opposition. Lord D.scr.E thought the amendments of the noble mar ital' (Salisbury) objectionable, inasmuch as they did not meet the evil at all. ........ Lord ELLENBOROUGH said, if their lordships were not disposed to adopt the bill and the amendments at once, he believed the proper course would be to recommit the bill, which would give time and opportunity for consideration. Viscount NIELDOURNE was compelled to admit that there were great evils attaching to the present law ; but he could not believe, that its enactment and operation had changed the whole morals of the country—made quite a different escene of the whole land, and altered, as it were, the whole nature of man.—(" Hear," and a laugh.) As to those who used such language, it was enthusiasm which carried them away.—(Hear, hear.) In his opinion it would be a nugatory act on their lordships' part if they passed the bill of his noble and learned friend. Indeed, his noble and learned friend had proposed it, apparently, without much confidence in its success, and in a faltering manner. On the whole, it ap peared to him that it would be very unwise and imprudent to pass this bill, which he thought a rash and hasty measure. Ha apprehended there could be no possible doubt, that this was a bill which, if sent down to the house of commons, could not pass ; and he appealed to their lordships to pro pounce whether, under these circumstances, it would be wise and prudent to send it there. From all that he could learn, and ha had spoken with persons who had made careful in quiry, there was not one man in the house of commons in favour of it. From all he could understand, there was no reformer of beer in that house—(a laugh)—who was for going all the lengths of this bill, and therefore no very sanguine hopes of its success there could be entertained. Lord BROUGHAM said, he had never heard a speech from any person that betokened so entire and dark an ignorance of every part of the subject to which it related, as that which had been just delivered by his noble friend near him.—(A laugh.) His noble friend had told their lordships, that there could be no possible difference between the behaviour of a man licensed by the magistrates, and that of a man licensed by the excise. Why, there must be all the difference in the world. A mere name seemed to have the power of taking in his learned friend—he begged pardon, his noble friend—God knew he could not call him learned, at least on this subject. —(A. laugh.) Well, then, his noble and ignorant friend.— (Laughter.) He was sorry to see from the aspect of the house, that the present critical hour had had the effect of sadly thinning their lordships' numbers. Their lordships liked the Beer Bill little, but they liked remaining in the house after half-past seven o'clock less.—Much laughter.) Their lordships liked to see a good state of morality in the country the tranquil order of society they dearly loved—it was the very apple of their eye.—(Laughter.) But there was another affection operating upon certain deli cate organs in the constitution of noble lords still more inti mately than those connected with the peace, order, and purity of society, and reminding them of what had been called the most important event of existence—that of dinner. (Laughter.) " I am glad to find," said the noble and learned lord, turning to the episcopal bench, " that my ob servition is not confined to the lay lords ; it extends equally to those who are the appointed guardians of public morals and virtue. How often have I heard the beer-houses de nounced by the right rev. occupants of that bench ! There is hardly a bishop whom I have not heard imploring your lordships, from this very place, for God's sake to apply a remedy to that which makes all our preaching and teaching vain, to reform these nests of drunkenness, to remove these moral plagues. (A laugh.) And now that I come forward at their instigation—that I lend myself as their coadjutor— that I put myself as an humble instrument in the hands of the guardians of morality and religion—but two out of six and-twenty right rev. prelates will sacrifice their dinner, their regard to their belly, which is their god—" (laughter). The Marquis of SALISBURY.—I rise to order. I move that the noble and learned lord's words be taken down. Lord BROUGHAM.—That they may be taken down cor rectly I think Lhad better repeat them. I was saying that the bench of bishops Lord IsIENYON.—I rise to order. The moment the words are objected to, no time should be lost in taking them down. Lord BROUGHAM.—I am just repeating them, that the clerk may be at no loss. " The bench of bishops, more than all the lay peers of the realm, have expressed their strong sense of the evil effects of beer-houses to the moral effects of the people under their care, and it is chiefly at their instigation that I have brought forward a measure as their coadjutor, and an humble instrument in their hands, for the purpose of putting down what they abominate as prejudicial to the morals of the people"— The Marquis of SALISISURY.—These are not the words. Lord BROUGHAM.—AIIow me to finish the sentence; I am getting on. " But I find that the whole 26 prelates"— Lord KENYON.—I rise again to order. A noble friend of mine has called the noble and learned lord to order, and he must state the reasons why he did call him to order. Lord BROUGHAM.—The words must first be taken down. Considerable confusion here prevailed in the house, two or three noble lords speaking at once, which was terminated by the rising of Lord Erooternono (Jou, who said that, in point of fact, the opportunity had now passed. (Shouts of Hear, hear," from Lord Brougham.) The rules of the house required that the words should be taken down instanter. Lord BROUGHAM explained. The Duke of WreerNoToN observed, that, in passing this hill, with the amendments proposed by his noble friend, they would he more likely to meet the wishes of the other house of parliament, and so to achieve that good which all of them had in view. The Bishop of CHICHESTER rose to repel the most un charitable and unchristian attack that had been made on the bench of bishops. The reverend prelate had scarcely uttered these words, when he was called to order by Lord ELLENBOROUGH, who, if he was heard correctly, said, that, if the right reverend prelate wished for peace, he was not taking the best means to procure it. The Marquis of SALISBURY was sure that the noble and learned lord would withdraw the expression which had given such offence to the right reverend prelate. Lord BROUGHAM was understood to say, that he had given, as he thought, a satisfactory explanation of what he had already stated. If, however, the right reverend prelate was anxious to enter into debate, he was quite ready to repeat his expressions. The Bishop of CHICHESTER: I am the last person in the world to place myself in this position with your lordships ; but if Lord BROUGHAM : I have nothing more to to say, my lords. Go on, go on. Lord KENYON roar to order. The Bishop of CHICHESTER said, that, as far as he him self was concerned, he had only meant to say that the right reverend prelates, whose absence that n i ght had beenim pugned, had been employed, one and all, for five or six hours that day in committee upon the church building bill, and also non the church t li sc ipline bill. He knew that not one of them bad dined at seven o'clock; and he believed that they had all of them been employed that day from nine o'clock in the morning on public business. Lord BROUGHAM did not wish any person to stand in the way of the castigation which the right rev. prelate seemed anxious to bestow on him. This, however, he must say—if the right rev. prelates had been employed in committees all day, so too had the laity — (a laugh) ;—and he himself had no more dined at eight o'clock that day than their lordships had dined at seven. (A laugh.) No expression that he (Lord Brougham) has used was so disorderly as that which had come from the right reverend bench. He had only quoted an expression from Milton. The house divided : Content, 36 ; Not content, 19 ; ma jority in favour of the bill, 17. On our being re-admitted, the Earl of CHICHESTER was found moving that the bill be recommitted ; and it was agreed that the bill should be recommitted on Monday next. Adjourned. HOUSE OF. COMMONS.-MONDAY. In answer to Mr. F. Kelly, Lord J. RUSSELL said he had no hesitation in stating that no bill would be proposed during the present session for the settlement of church rates. PRIVILEGES OF THE HOUSE.—STOCKDALE V. HANSARD. The order of the day for taking into consideration the se cond report of the select committee on printed papers was then read. Lord JOHN Re s s t Le proceeded to develope his plan. He would propose two resolutions for the adoption of the house. The first was to this effect, viz. that it is the opinion of the house, that, under the special circumstances of the case of Stockdale te Hansard, it is not expedient to adopt any mea sures for the purpose of staying proceedings on the writ. The second resolution was to the effect, that the house, consider ing the power of publishing their votes and proceedings as an essential incident to their constitutional privileges, would enter into a further consideration of those proceedings, in order to the maintenance of that power, as soon as the com mittee should have made that full inquiry into those proceed ings which they had declared it was their intention to make. His lordship enforced the propriety of the house acceding to these resolutions on various grounds, the chief of which were, that they . did not preclude the house from adopting, in any similar case, such measures as they might think fit for the maintenance of their privileges,—and that it would be con sidered an act of injustice if the house, after having directed the Attorney-General to appear and plead to the action,were to obstruct the sheriff in the execution of the writ. The house, having remitted the question to the judges, were bound to bide by the result. At the same time, his lordship dis sented from the judgment pronouncedby the Court of Queen's Bench, and endeavoured to show that it was an erroneous one. In these views of his lordship the more moderate of the committee, the majority alluded to in the report, con curred in the debate ; while the majorit, represented by the Attorney-General and 111 r. Serjeant ilde, urged by their speeches the course which the committee recommended. The discussion, which was protracted till one o'clock in the morning, terminated in Lord John Russell's first resolu tion being agreed to by a majority of 184 to 166, and his se cond resolution by a majority of 133 to 36. The imprisonment for debt act amendment bill was read a third time and passed. N JAMAICA. Lord J. RUSSELL postponed the third reading of the Ja maica bill until Wednesday, when he intended to propose that before the other orders of the day. The copyhold enfranchisement bill was read a third time and passed. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the acts for public works ; and in doing so, stated that one principal object of the bill was to recover the full amount of certain advances which had been made under certain expired acts.—The house then adjourned at two o'clock. HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY The LORD CHANCELLOR, in answer to the Earl of Wick low's inquiry, said that the difficulties in arranging the de tails had hitherto prevented the introduction of the measure promised, for extending the Imprisonment for Debt Aboli tion bill to Ireland, and that now it was obvious such a bill could not be brought forward this session. The Bishop of EXETER presented a bill for apportioning the spiritual superintendence of parishes in which two or more spiritual persons have cure of souls generally through out those parishes. It was read the first time, and ordered to be read the second time on Monday next. On the motion of Lord ELLENBOROUGH, several papers were ordered relative to beer shops ; also an account of the number of petitions against such houses presented in 1837, 1838, and 1839. Lord BROUGHAM, in expressing approbation of the mo tion, adverted to what had been said on Monday evening, as to the provisions of his beer act in part repeal bill being such as to endanger it in the commons, and stated that, on further reflection and consultation with others, he felt more strongly convinced that there was nothing in it to violate the exclu sive privileges of the other house, and he therefore trusted that Lord Ellenorough's prognosis would not be realised. Lord DUNCANNON stated (in answer to a question put the previous evening) that the £lOO,OOO advanced to the ecclesi astical commissioners out of the £ 1,000,000 voted for the clergy of Ireland, was to be paid back. Lord Denman's Borough Courts bill (second version) went through committee. Lord BROUGHAM moved the postponement of his Educa tion bill from Friday till Monday ; and his Beer bill from Monday till Tuesday, The Marquis of WESTMEATH said that there were omis sions in the parliamentary papers printed, regarding the Mullingar transactions ; and that, to afford an opportunity of supplying them, he should be compelled to defer his motion on the subject. The Marquis of NORMANDY said they were produced 'as he had received them. The LORD CHANCELLOR presented two bills : the first to regulate the course of proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas, as far as relates to the practice and attendance of counsel therein, during term time; and the second was for the better protection of parties dealing with persons liable to the bankrupt laws. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-TIIESDAY Mr. CRAWFORD opposed the further proceedings of the Commercial (" London and Blackwall") Railway bill. This led to considerable discussion. The result, however, was favourable to the report of the bill, which, after a division, was received and agreed to. DANISH CLAIMS. Mr. CRESSWELL, on rising to move, pursuant to his notice, " that an humble address be presented to her majesty, praying that she will be graciously pleased to direct the com missioners to whom it was referred to examine the claims of certain British subjects in respect of losses sustained by the seizure of ships and cargoes by the Danish government in 1807, to proceed to adjudicate upon the claims which they have received, and upon which they have made a report to the Lords of her Majesty's Treasury," said the simple ques tion which he had to put to the house was to inquire what was the meaning of the house when it came to the vote of last year upon the subject of the Danish claims. In the reading of that vote, he (Mr. Cresswell) and the right hon., gentleman opposite (Mr. Rice) were at issue, but if he (Mr. Cresswell) was right in his interpretation, he could not doubt but that the house would follow its vote of last year by agreeing to the resolution which it was his intention to con clude by moving. He contended, that on the terms of that address of last year, it was the manifest intention of the house that the cases of the class of claimants to which his present motion referred should be adjudicated upon, and though in point of form it could not be so expressed, that compensation for their losses should be paid them. (Hear.) The instructions to the commissioners, as laid before the house, were the same in respect to all classes of claims. Upon the other classes they had adjudicated, and compensation had been afforded; but with respect to the class to which he now called the attention of the house, the result (whether from private instructions, or from any other cause, he knew not) had been different: What he wished to inquire from the house was this,—did the house, or did it not, by the vote of last year, adopt the principle that compensation ought to be afforded to those British subjects whose goods and ships had been seized by the Danish government ? If so, the house could not have any difficulty in following up that vote by the address of which he had given notice. The right hon. gentleman opposite (Mr. Rice) said that the present was altogether a different question from that which had been dis cussed last year; but he (Mr. Cresswell) submitted that the question was identical. The right hon. gentleman then dis cussed the matter, and, with the law advisers of the crown by his side, endeavoured to persuade the house that a differ ence existed between the classes of claimants. Upon that point the house sat in judgment, and decided it against the right hon. gentleman; and now, should it be that a minister of the crown, having appealed to the judgment of the house, and that judgment having passed against him, should choose to say, " 1 will not act on that decision and judgment, but will impede it by all the means in my power?" On these grounds he confidently hoped the house would agree to his motion. The honourable and learned gentleman concluded by moving the address. - Mr. HUTT seconded the motion. Mr. RICE, said, that knowing the anxiety of the house to go into the discussion of the question fixed for this evening, he would shortly confine himself to the grounds on which, in the execution of his duty, he had directed his course in this matter. He thought the matter, however, of so much im portance, that he could have wished that a night had been set apart for its full, calm, and efficient discussion. On a former occasion he had stated his views to the house ; but he must now set himself right with the house and the country as to the grounds on which he had proposed votes in the estimates for the relief of certain Danish sufferers, and on which he had resisted the claims whivh were embraced in the present mo tion. In the year 1835 he had proposed a vote of £113,000 for the relief of the Danish claimants ; and in 1836 he pro posed a. vote of £78,000 for the same purpose ; and in the estimates for the present year he had proposed a vote of £87,481; making an entire sum of £278,481. He alluded to this for tie purpose of showing that there had been no un willingness on his part, if a case was made out, to propose compensation to the sufferers. But there was a difference between the cases in which relief had been granted and those in which the claims had been resisted. He had contended that when the wrongs sustained by British subjects were done by acts which were contrary to the usages of civilized Eu ropean war, the government unless they obtained compensa tion for those wrongs from the foreign country which had in flicted them, were bound to take the responsibilities on them selves, and in those cases the government has so taken it upon themselves. But with respect to the present class of claimants, the report of the legal authorities, both civil and common aw, had been that this class had not sustained any wrong in consequence of any act that was contrary to the law of nations as known and practised in Europe, but wrongs arising from the usual and accustomed course of ordinary hostilities. That being so, what was the question opened to the house? Was it to sanction the principle that individual subjects of the crown, sustaining wrongs or injuries in war, but not contrary to the law of nations, were to come to par liament and ask for indemnity ? If that principle was as sented to, where, he begged to inquire, was it to end ? If that principle was assented to, no person living could put a limit by possibility to the amount of claims that might be made in case of war. This was the ground of distinction be tween the two cases, and he called upon the house to hesitate in taking any step which would affirm the liability of this country in respect of losses sustained from the ordinary acts of warfare. It must be remembered in that proposition a general principle was involved, but if any doubts existed on this subject, those doubts were turned into certainty by the statement of the honourable and learned gentleman opposite, for the honourable and learned gentleman, because the house had affirmed an address to which the assent of the crown had not been given, appealed to the house whether, in voting that address, it did not mean and intend to vote the money claimed. Mr. HUME said that the government having received £1,260,000 of Danish money, and refusing to give British subjects a shilling of it in compensation for their losses, was a direct robbery of the public. The government had recog nised the principle that if the parties could make out a claim they were entitled to compensation. He agreed with the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the vote of the previous session was not a money vote, but it pledged the house to an inquiry to be made by competent persons into the nature and amount of these claims. He admitted that, if this were an ordinary case of loss in war, the parties would have no claim, but if ever there had been an extraordinary case in the annals of the British empire, the conduct of the British government in this case was most extraordinary. After a lapse of thirty two years, it was high time that an inquiry into these claims should be entered upon. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was of opinion that the length of time was to be held as a strong ground of inquiry into claims for compensation, and that, if such a principle should be laid down, they would perhaps Ilave claims laid as far back as the. seven years' war in the time of Charles 11. Lord SANDON supported the motion, and complained that the commission' which had been appointed to investigate the claims had never reported them fully to the house, so as to give information as to what claims appeared to be well found ed, and what were not. _ _ _ Sir STRATFORD CANNING thought it most unfair to refuse to take any step towards an inquiry into those claims, for the purpose of ascertaining which were well founded and which . were not. An inquiry of some sort was more incumbent be cause many were , misled into commercial speculations, who would not have undertaken them but for the secresy which was preserved before the commencement of the war. - Mr. GouLmin.N opposed the motion, as it was calculated to entail upon the house a body of similar proceedings. With respect to the secresy which attended the commencement of the war, he apprehended that the Foreign-office was not bound to afford information to every person who,thought to ask questions as to the course intended to be pursued by government. (Hear, hear.) Mr. WARBURTON thought that it was quite natural for the claimants to suppose that, when the commission was granted to inquire into their claims, something was intended to be done for them by the government. What other object could there be in granting the commission, and directing them to make a report? Having gone thus far, he thought the go vernment should not stop at that point. After a few words in reply from Mr. CRESSWELL the house divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it 32 - Major'. —63 On our return to theiallery we found The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stating that it was due to the house and to the public to say, that, until the question was affirmed, as to a money vote, he should never be a party to anything which would appear to countenance these claims• THE BALLOT. Mr. Gaort rose at a quarter to nine, to make his annual motion. His speech was characterised by ability, and it had the rare merit of being short. He professed to add nothing to his former arguments on the subject; he had the good taste, therefore, to present to the house only a skilful abridg ment of them. Fallacious as we deem Mr. Grotes's opinions on the ballot, and on almost all great political questions to be, it is due to the honourable gentleman to state, that his mode of giving expression to his opinions is eminently dis tinguished by courtesy and moderation. Lord Woasixy seconded the motion. Mr. GAsßum, opened it, as calculated alike to affect the morals and the constitution of the country. Mr. MACAULEY entered into an ingenious dissertation upon the abstract expediency of open questions. It was im possible, he said, for all the members of any cabinet to agree on all matters. Then, were they to make mutual conces sions ? Or were they to allow open questions ? He could only see these three courses, and he preferred the open sys tem, if not pushed too far. He was not aware of any good objection to them in minor matters ; the cases where they i were inadmissable were two—where a measure is introduced by government, and where a censure is aimed at a minister. Mr. Pitt had suffered reform, slave-trade-abolition, and other great questions to be open ones ; but his friends did not the less support him upon actual party questions. They were followed by Mr. Milnes, Lord J. Russell, Mr. Sheil. Sir J. Graham, Lord Howick, Sir R. Peel, and Mr. Grote (in reply). The house divided. The numbers were—ayes, 216 ; noes, 333—majority, 117 against the motion.—adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.—WEDNESDAY. The house did not meet to-day. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY Many petitions were presented against the government plan of national education, many of them also praying the house to address her Majesty to rescind the order in council appointing a committee of privy council on the subject of education. Mr. W. PATTEN moved that the order on Alison'S Di vorce bill be discharged, and that it be referred to Mr. Ord and the South Northumberland list (for private bills), and that they report to the house. The object was that the evi dence might be duly examined, as, he alleged, the way in which the business was conducted in the house was disgrace ful, nobody hearing the evidence, and yet all being required to vote as if they had heard it. Several members having spoken on the deficiency of the present system of conducting divorce bills, the motion was agreed to, and the order discharged accordingly. The Jamaica Enactments bill was read the third time, on the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, after which Mr. GOULBURN moved the omission of the three first words of the first clause of the bill. After some discussion thereon the house divided, and the numbers were—For retaining the clause as it stood, 267 ; against, 257 : majority (!) in favour of the clause 10. The bill was of 'course passed. NATIONAL EDUCATION. The house resumed the debate on national education, which had been adjourned from Friday night ; and now, as then, the interest of the discussion fell lamentably short of the importance of the subject. Mr. WYSE began. He contended that Lord Stanley, as the introducer of the national system of education in Ire land, was bound by analogy to support the present proposal for education in England. And after dealing with the gene ral subject in a zealous but decorous manner, he concluded by deprecating any cry of no-popery. Mr. COLQUHOUN, in a very able speech, disproved the analogy between the circumstances of England and of Ire land, and recommended au adherence to the system of grants already acted on in England. He believed that the church, the Wesleyans. nay, many of the other dissenters, would steadfastly resist any grant which should be coupled with a condition entitling a board of Privy Council to introduce its caparicious improvements into the schools. Mr. C. BULLER said' that education should be regarded, not as a mere charity to individuals, bat as a measure of precaution and security to the whole state, against the dan gers of the wild spirit now in fermentation among the igno rant masses of physical force. Yet, when the Government, tardily awaking to a sense of those dangers, proposed a re medy, the whole Conservative party had risen to bar their progress with the 39 articles. That party objected to all Bibles but one ; and the consequence was that the people were to read none at all. Education, in that large sense which ,imports the whole bringing up of a child, should doubtless be founded on religion ; but religion had nothing to do with mere instruction in certain useful branches of knowledge. The student of law or of medicine never in quires about his instructor's theological opinions, and a Conservative parent does not scrutinize the religious senti ments of the master who teaches French and music to his daughters. The danger of leaving all education exclusively to the church was peculiarly urgent now, since the progress which the new Oxford doctrines had made among the clergy —doctrines which he viewed with the greatest alarm, as checking the liberty of conscience with hardly less of coer cion than that religion which the Oxford theologians the most reviled. Mr. AcLANn - pleaded earnestly for the connexion between national education and national religion. The real question was, should we have a minister of public instruction, or should we have an established church. The toleration act, and other modern statutes of religious relaxation, had made no diflerence in the ancient legal and constitutional right of the established church to the general seperintendence of edu cation. The hon. member then went at great length into a variety of details, tending chiefly to show the extent of the services which the clergy of the established church had done for education throughout a vast proportion of all the parishes in England. Dr. LUSHINGTON rejoiced that the day was past when the principle of national education had been opposed. He imputed extensive misrepresentation to the opponents of the government plan, and was particularly indignant against the Wesleyans for objecting to tax the Protestants towards the advancement of the Popish faith, when they were so ready to tax the Papists for the exclusive support of the Protestant religion. He combatted the doctrine that the church is en titled to the general superintendence of education, and en deavoured to explain away several of the objections against the government plan, which were, in his opinion, mere mis representations. The learned gentleman, however, spoke with a warmth and vehemence so little suited to the grave and solemn character of the subject, as to injure, not a little, the effect of his argument, and invest it with a colour of par tisanship. When he concluded, the debate was again ad journed. A HINT. TO LANDOWNERS AND FARMERS. .The policy of laying down the land in permanent pastures, and allowing it to remain until the whole of the salts and alkalies are extracted .from the soil, and the surface overrun with the poisonous plants and insects, diseases the stock by bloating them up with acrid fat. I have constantly observed, that fat animals perish in the extremes of heat and cold ; the beat melting the oil, their bodies run off in a state of fusion. In cold weather the internal heat is not sufficient to prevent the condensation of the fat, and consumption of the lungs is sure to follow ; and what is worse, the disease is communi cated to the inhabitants. In order to demornitrate the pro priety of ploughing up the old grass lands, and routine crop ping the soil, I will point out some remarks from the agricul tural report for 1834, which state that there were 32,000,000 acres of land under cultivation, or capable of being culti vated; 3,250,000 acres were employed in the growth of wheat. the remainder for other crops ; 6,000,000.. acres of waste laud ; but it was stated that it was not advisable to bring the waste lands into a state of cultivation, because it was necessary to keep up the price of corn. There are 17,000,000 acres of the amount in pasture land. To con vince the landlords of the practicability and necessity of adopting the routine cropping or soiling, or feeding the stock with mowing grass, I will point out the various ex periments made in the county of East Lothian under the auspices of Sir John Sinclair, Arthur Young, Mr. Rainey, Dr. Anderson, and others, for the purpose of ascertaining the comparative merits of routine cropping, soiling, and pas turing husbandry. Ten acres were pastured, the animals were weighedbefore being put into the pasture, they gained 1921b5. avoirdupois weight per acre, per annum, of beef and mutton. Upon the supposition, that a healthy person re quires one pound and a half per day to support him, this would be consumed in 128 days. Cattle and sheep soiled on the produce of an acre of ground, yielding 4001bs. of beef and mutton, which would mantain double the number of men that pasturing would; and soiling is a more cleanly way of feeding stock. In Belgium the process of soiling is generally adopted, and their butcher's meat and butter is infinitely su perior to ours ; and more than double the quantity raised from the same surface of land. This land converted into til lage, three or four times the number might be fed on its pro duce, as will appear; from the following calculation then made by three different farmers. The corn raised on such land was 48 Winchester bushels per acre, which was considered a low estimate, when we deduct four bushels for seed, six bushels for labour and horsefeed, allowing the average weight to be 4001bs. per qr., give 1,9001b5. of bread corn for the use of the people. When we estimate that one fourth of the quantity goes for bran pollard, and waste in the manufactory, the remainder amounts to 1425 pounds weight of flour, or meal to be used as bread, and other purposes, which at Bibs. weight per head, will supply food for 475 people for one day instead of 128. The comparison would be more striking where it extended to potataes and other esculents, which of course would form a part of every rotation, were convertible husbandry intro duced. None but those who tried it can be sensible of the vast improvement made by routine cropping. If 2,000,000 of acres of tillage land were sown down, and a like extent of old pasture land broken up, an additional supply of not less than four million stones of beef and mutton would thereby be thrown into the market. In short, were alter nate husbandry generally exercised in Britain, two millions of people might be advantageously employed in bringing the soil to a proper state of cultivation ; and have scattered over England and Scotland, and particularly Ireland, so admirably calculated to rectify the worn out soil. Provisions might be obtained to supply one hundred mil lions of people, however chimerical it may appear in the eyes of the landlord and farmers. I will appeal to the Jews while under the theocracy ; the Romans while under the commonwealth—and to the county of East Lothian in Scot land, as a proof of the correct view I haken of the subject. Three-fourths of the soil ate worn out, and the exclusive system generally followed, is attended with most pernicious effects to the public health, and more destructive to the public interest. One million of youths ought to be at once drawn from the over populous cities, towns, and villages, and planted on the soil as apprentices, to be taught the art of farming, and the mechanic arts necessary to a proper sys tem of rural economy. They would then make fine settlers to settle as emigrants. I cannot close this subject without strongly urging, the advantages of conjoining live stock and corn, and making them subservient to each other. Were the pasture lands converted into tillage, an immense quan tity of manures would thereby be furnished for enriching the poorer soils, and for ameliorating the old tillage fields before they are laid down with grass seeds, particularly when com posed with lime, salt, and new earth. Every three acres of old grass land broken up would furnish dung for one acre a year, consequently the ploughing up of a million acres would return.dung for 330,000 acres of barren or unproductive land per annum, for three years. Afterwards, by means of com posting the whole of the manure that is laid on, an additional increase of two quarters of grain per acre, and more of green crops, might reasonably be expected from it.—Drogheda Arg us. FURIOUS ATTACK OF A BULL-DoG4—On Wednesday week as the Royal Mail was about to leave the door of the Sen house Arms inn, at Maryport, on its way to Whitehaven, a bull -dog in a highly excited state, rushed open-mouthed upon One of the horses, which it attempted to seize by the throat. Falling short of its aim, it fixed its teeth in the animals breast, which it severely lacerated. The plunging of the affrighted horse shook the assailant off for a moment, but in an instant he seized hold of one of the fore-legs. The horse again plun ged and reared, and the passengers became alarmed ; one la dy leaped out of the coach, and fortunately sustained no in jury. In a short while, the horses trampled the dog under foot, and the wheels nearly passed over him ; he narrowly escaped death, and the mail went on ; in a minute, however, the dog was again in front, leaping furiously at the throat of the poor animal that he had already severely wounded ; the driver was obliged to pull up • and the dog again got hold of the horse, which he could only be made at last to relinquish by strangulation. The mail then proceeded, the wounded horse, although the flesh was torn in two or three places, being not seriously injured.—Carlisle Prtriot. The largest iron sailing ship in the world is now building in Messrs. J. Ronald and Co.'s yard, Footdee, Aberdeen. — This stupendous vessel is of the following dimensions ; Length of keel, 130 feet ; breadth of frame, 30 feet ; depth of hold, 20 feet ; length over all, 137 feet ; tons register, 537. Judging from her appearance, she is a beautiful model, and will, carry an immense cargo on a small draught of water. — She is intended for a company in Liverpool.—Aberdeen Herald. THUNDER STORM. — In tile storm on Monday evening, about five o'clock, the electric fluid struck the chimney of a cottage at Shawbury, in this county, inhabited by a labourer named Plassey, and in an instant the roof of the cottage was in flames ; but through the exertions of some persons in the employment of Mr. Wellings, the fire was fortunately got under, by their pulling off the thatch, which prevented it doing further damage. The lightning also struck one of the outbuildings of Mr. Bayley, of Besford, which it consumed before the engines could be obtained from Wem, which, how ever, on their arrival, prevented any further damage taking place, one calf only having been destroyed.—The lightning was very vivid in the neighbourhood of Whitchurch and Malpas ; and some trees in Iscoyd Park were struck by the lightning. —The 1 ghtning also struck a house at Garmston, in this county.—Salopian Journal. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, JUNE 15.—The elections have terminated. — The modern party has triumphed, both as regards the re election of metnbers:who voted for the acceptance of the treaty, and as relates to the avowed principles of those lately returned. This result is, of course, highly satisfactory to the govern ment, as it conveys the most undoubted approbation of its measures, and shows that the sense of the country is de cidedly-in favour of peace and tranquillity. HANOVER, HAMBURGH, JUNE, 12.—1 n the sitting of the second chamber at Hanover, on the 7th, the second debate on the budget took place, and it was agreed to, after a short bebate, only one member dissenting ; the third reading was fixed for the following day. It was declared, in reply to the question of a member, that it not being possible to examine and com pare all the items of the budget and of the expenditure, the chamber intended that, in case of need, the government should have the power to cover the deficiency that might oc cur under one head by the overplus in another. The cham ber then proceeded to the order of the day, which related to the renewal of proposals respecting the constitution. After some debate, it was moved, "To petition his Majesty the King to prorogue the assembly as soon as the budget should be voted, and at the next convocation of the estates to lay before them proposals for settling the question of the con stitution for their free discussion. The Estates further take the liberty of expressing their wish that when the corpora tions are next called upon to elect deputies, it may be stated to them that their proceeding to elect shall not be considered as a proof that they recognize the constitution of 1829." No opposition was made to this motion in itself ; it was unani mously agreed to, with a reservation of the right to propose modifications in the course of the second and third discussion. The budget was finally agreed to, on the third reading, on the Bth instant. TURKEY AND EGYPT. The following extracts will shew the great difference of the accounts received from the east, and how much they are co loured by the politics of the journals furnishing the different correspondence. The news from Alexandria, brought to Marseilles by the packet Seostris, reaches to the 26th of May, and in it we see no trace of the events indicated by the last telegraphic des patch. According to this intelligence the Turkish army is in the most difficult position, from the want of provisions.— This contrasts singularly with this passage from the Smyrna journal of the 22th of May. " The Turkish army," says that journal, " is inured to all sorts of fatigue, animated by the best spirit, and perfectly supplied in every way. After the reports which have been spread here of the defective organisation of the Turkish army, they have been exceedingly astonished to learn by reports, on which no doubt could be thrown, that it is in a very dif ferent position from that they pretended ; in fact that it has a decided superiority without speaking (of its numbers, over the Egyptian army. It has magazines on all the points it has passed, and all kinds of service goes on in the most regular manner." In contrast with this passage we quote an extract from a letter from Alexandria, dated May 26, published in the Semaphore:— "We are here in perfect security; nobody doubts but that, if war does take place, the pacha will have more than ever that victorious ascendancy which he exercised over the Turkish army in the first campaign, which was beaten from post to post as far as Koulah. Ibrahim Pacha has taken up an admirable position for defence ; a corps of the Egyptian army guards the Taurus, where fortifications have been con structed. From 16,000 to 20,000 horse and foot are ready in the neighbourhood of Balbeck to make any movements which they may be ordered. Ibrahim is in the neighbour hood of Aleppo with a corps of 50,000 men perfectly well disciplined. It is true, they, say, that the Sultan's army amounts to 100,000, and that in case of need, the Pachas of Bagdad and Mossoul will furnish 20,000 more ; but Ibrahim does not dread this superior force, and he writes to his father that he cannot think that they seriously mean to attack him with men ill-clothed, ill-fed, badly paid, and without discip line. Besides the Pacha of Bagdad would not easily resolve to come to the aid of the Turks, being himself threatened by the Egyptian General Kurchud, who, being already at Bas sora, could at any moment direct a formidable invasion of Bedouins on Bagdad. Mehemet Ali ' our Pacha, appears more gay than ever ; he is in perfect health. The long journey he has made has not at all fatigued him. Said Bey will leave for Europe, it is said, early in June. The Neapolitan corvette, the Valereuse, has brought us the Count de Syracuse, brother of the King of Naples. It results from other correspondence of the Semaphore, dated Constantinople, the 27th May, that 12 men-of-war were ready to sail, under the command of the Vice-Admiral, and that the remainder of the fleet would follow in a few days after the first division. All this naval force will, doubtless, parade as far as Smyrna, to return at the end of the season, whilst it might be usefully employed in the Black Sea to transport the troops, who would arrive quicker and at less expense at the theatre of war by Trebisond and Erzerum. But the Sultan must have the permission of Russia to enter the Port-Euxine ; for lately, having sent two frigates to Sinope for various materials, the Russian ambassador, who saw them pass bel)re his residence at Buyukdere, went im mediately to the Porte to ask for an explanation of the entry of these two frigates into the Black Sea. RIO JANEIRO Extract of a letter from an officer on board her Majesty's ship Electra, dated April 4, 1839.—" We arrived at this beautiful place on the 28th' of March, after a tolerable good passage of 56 days from Spithead, having touched at Lisbon, Madeira, and Porto Praya. On the 25th and 26th of March we captured two slavers from the coast, with 480 slaves on board ; the brigantine Carolina gave us a 12 hours' chase, and did not heave to till the shot went over her. This in human traffic is carried on to such an extent, that 60,000 are said to have been landed on the coast of Brazil during the last six months! and unless the British government send out a number of fast-sailing vessels, the trade will increase. The lords of Admiralty have sent the Cameleon arid Wizard ; they might as well send a cow after a hare—indeed, the Bra ziliiins do not suppose the British are in earnest, or that they wish to suppress the slave trade, or they would take more efficient means to stop it. To give you an idea what a set of rapals these Brazilians are, au English• merchant was en gaged to act proctor to the captors, on which he received a letter, saying, if he interfered he would be murdered. You may,,therefore; imagine, what a set of rascals they are. We ought to have an 80-gun ship, with a flag at this port; the interests of the British merchants require an imposing force to protect them and their valuables. You will hardly wonder when I tell you that six and eight millions of British manu faCtured goods are imported annually to this country. On. our arrival here we found the Gossamer, and she only got in two days before the Electra. "APRIL 2.—Arrived, the Stag, from the Falkland Islands, in 17 days. Lieutenant Salbourn came passenger, haviog invalided from the Arrow. Lieutenant Robinson, the for mer lieutenant of the Stag, had been appointed to the Arrow. Commanders Mainwaring, of the Stag, and Preston, of the Electra, have exchanged ships ; the Electra will sail in the course of a few days, to join Admiral Ross in the Pacific ; Commander Smith takes a passage in her to join the Presi dent. The Dolphin, United States schooner, arrived from . the river Plata, on her way to New York. She left there many French ships of war, assisting the Monte Videans against the Buenos Ayreans, and her Majesty's ships Orestes and Actaeon. The ships here are the Stag, Electra, Came icon, and Grecian ; the latter sails to-morrow, to cruise off Cape Frio. From her superior sailing I have no doubt she will capture several vessels in a short time. Three schooners came in to-day, all in ballast. They certainly landed their black crop on the coast, as light vessels never come to Rio. When I boarded the pirate vessel the Electra took on the 25th, they were stowed like pigs in an Irish steamer, and wallowing in their own filth ; 58 of the poor devils were chained together, anal had been so for 30 days. As soon as she arrived at Rio the armourer of the Electra was sent to knock their irons off ; he released them, which delighted the poor devils, and nothing could exceed their gratitude. The small-pox is very prevalent amongst them ; since. they left the coast they have buried about 50 children Monthly. We are obliged to keep boats rowing guard at night to prevent the slaves from being stolen. The other night John Curtis (son of Sir Lucius), prize master, fired into a large beat that was coming nearer than she ought, and from the noise on board it was evident. some of the scoundrels had been hit. Since that time they had given our prizes a wide berth. Some difficulty is thrown in the way of condemnation. The mixed commission is quite a farce. "The next ship for England is 'the Fly, then Imogene. Samarang, Sparrowhawk, and Electra. Lieuts. Hesseltme, of the Electra, and Robinson, of the Grecian, have exchanged ship". " The Calliope sailed on the 19th of March for the river Plata, to strengthen the force in that river ; as, in conse quence of the unsettled state of affairs there., the French are carrying everything before them, The American ships Inde pendence and Fairfield are at Monte Video ; the latter is a corvette, mounting 22 long 24-pounders. I guess Symonds and Daphne would have no chance with her. The schooner is going to clear out the customs, and these letters must be aboard : so farewell." DUTCH INDIA. The Java journals of Feb. 23 and 26, lately received. con tain the following article :—" The undersigned, 'by order of his Excellency the Governor, hereby gives notice, that an official declaration of the Governor of New South Wales (New Holland) has been received to the effect, that by a de cision of the British government in Europe the trade hitherto carried on between New South Wales and the Dutch posses sions in the East Indiei can no longer be perriaitted between the subjects of the British and Dutch governments in the Eastern Archipelago, as the terms of the treaty of the 17th March, 1854, are considered as riot applicable to New Hol land, and that accordingly no Dutch . ship shall enter one of the harbours of New South Wales and its dependencies, which shall sail from one of 'the ports of the Dutch East India possessions after the publication of this measure, or which may arrive iri NeW - Souffi . Wales, liter The lit of Jan. 1839, without regard to the date of their sailing from one. of the ports of the Dutch East India possessiOns. The Secre tary General, Cornets de Groot."--Anzsterdam Paper. COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEWFOUNDLAND. Advices from St. John's the 24th May bring important intelligence. The Legislature has not been in session a week when another question of privilege arose between the' House of Assembly and General Prescott. The latter appointed Mr. Hugh W. Hoyles to the Acting Clerk to the House of As sembly during the absence on leave of Mr: Edward M. Ar chibald. The House looked upon this apppointment AS an infringement of its privileges, and on Tuesday, the 21st, Mr. Nugent moved that Mr. Walter Dillon be appointed Clerk during Mr. Archibald's absense. The motion was carried, and Mr. Dillon duly installed in the office. On 'the follow ing day (the 22nd) the day previous to that on which the Address of the House in answer to the Governor's Speech was to be presented, his Excellency communicated to the House a message to the following effect :—That having been informed that the house had refused to receive Mr. Hoyles, who had been appointed by commission under the Great Seal, to act as Clerk of the House of Assembly during the absence of Mr. Archibald, his Excellency was under the necessity of acquainting the House that he should be obliged to adjourn the Legislature until the decision of the home governMent could he known ; and that until the determination of the House upon this subject was made known to him the pre- Sentation of its Address in to his Speech must be post poned. The House of Assembly considered this message for some time with closed doors. Upon the re-admission of strangers, Mr. Nugent was proceeding to observe that it was of the utmost importance that the House should have a clerk on whom it could with the most implicit confidence rely. He admitted that in the first instance the appointment of the officers by the Crown was not improper, since they preceded the convention 'of the Assembly, and therefore the Executive was first in the field ; but as the question before the House was surrounded with difficulties (although he was prepared to encounter its risks) it were better that all the members were brought together to deliberate upon the result. He therefore moved that the farther consideration of the message be postponed until the Wednesday succeeding, the 29th, and that in the meantime there be a call of the House ; which motion having been put and carried, the House adjourned. In this state matters were at the date of the latest accounts (the 24th.) CEYLON. We have late accounts from Ceylon. The secretary of the government had addressed to the collector and comptroller of customs, at Colombo, a letter on the subject of Cooley emigration. The basis of the proposed measure for the future protection: of the emigrating Cooley is,, that " con tracts for labour, work, or service to be performed in the said colonies, are null and void, if made elsewhere than in the colony wherein the said labour, work, or service is to be performed." No ship is to be allowed her clearance until this provision be fully and completely explained to and understood by the emigrant Cooley. This would prevent much fraud and imposition in the terms of the contract entered into with the Cooley ; but it was doubtful whether the gratuitous duties expected from the Custom-house officers would be very zealously discharged, and it was recommended that a special and adequately-remunerated officer should be appointed to this duty. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S-MONDAY. The principal betting to-day was on the Goodwood Cup, for which the too-celebrated Harkaway was established as first favourite, at 9to 2 (taken.) Richard Roe and Decep lion were in about the same favour as before, but Galewood advanced several points. The Doctor and Alemdar were backed for small sums only, and were not currently in the betting. Most of the betting on the Goodwood Stakes was between eleven and the field : several hundreds were laid out in this way ; the names of the horses did not transpire. In the St. Leger a few changes will be found. The Provost dropped two or three points, nor was the Commodore in any force. Charles the Twelfth, now in Scott's stable, was backed at 200 to 8, and 16 to 1, the middle appearing to be his price at the close. The Lord Mayor had some friends at 40 to 1. Two or three little bets were made on the July Stakes, without leading to any other alteration than a slight improvement in Stamboul. Closing prices : NEWMARKET JULY STAKES. 5 to 2 agst Lord Exeter's Hellespont 6to 1 „ Mr. Thornhill's St. Preux (tk and aft off) Bto 1 „ Lord Exeter's Stamboul. GOODWOOD STAKES. 200 to 15 on the field (off) 16 to 1 agst Mr. Meiklam's Wee Willie 20 to 1 „ Mr. F. Craven's Barnacles (tk) 20 to 1 „ Captain Williamson's Mervan (tk) 20 to 1 „ Lord Eglinton's St. Martin (tk.) GOODWOOD CUP. 9 to 2 agst Mr. Fergmson's Harkaway (tk) 11 to 2 ~ Mr. Fulwar Craven's Deception 6to 1 „ Lord. Westminster's Richard Roe (tk) 9to 1 „ Mr. St. Paul's Galewood (tk) 10 to 1 „ Mr. Ramsay's The Doctor 200 to 12 „ Lord Exeter's Alemdar (tk.) Caravan's weight is 9st. 111 b. and not 10st. He is allowed 31b. for running at Chester. DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 7 to 2 agst Mr. W. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury Bto 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Commodore 14 to 1 „ Colonel Cradock's The Provost (tk) 18 to 1 „ Major Yarburgh's Charles the Twelfth 40 to 1 „ Lord Westminster's Lord Mayor (tk) 9to 2 „ Scott's lot. Euclid was backed, two or three days since, at 16 to 1. GOODWOOD CUP STAKES. Caravan, 5 yrs, 9st 111 b ; Culmuck, 6 yrs, 9st 121 b; King Cole, 6 yrs, 9st 71b ; Grey Momus, 4 yrs, 9st 41b ; Hark away, 5 yrs, 9st 41b ; Epirus, 5 yrs, 9st 41b ; The Doctor 5 yrs, 9st 21b ; Quo Minus, 4 yrs 9st llb ; Olympic, aged, Bst 121 b ; lou, 4 yrs, Bst 10113 ; Phoenix, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b ; Bay Hampton, 4 yrs Bst 101 b ; Albemarle, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b ; St. Martin,yrs, 4 yrs, Bst 101 b ; Industry, 4 Bst 61b ; Alemdar, 4 yrs, Bst 51b ; March First, 4 yrs, Bst 511); Beggarman, 4 yrs, Bst 51b ; Miss Eliza, 5 years, Bst 31b ; Talleyrand, 4 yaars, Bst llb ; Rachael, 5 yrs, Bst 81b ; Richard Roe, 4 yrs, Sst llb ; Huckster, 5 yrs, 7st 101 b ; Galewood, 6 yrs, ist 121 b ; Blooms bury, 3 yrs, 7st 121 b ; St. Andrew, 4 yrs, 7st Sib ; Deception, 3 yrs, 7st 71b ; Leonidas, aged, 7st 51b ; Obelisk, 6 yrs, 7st 51b ; Domino, 3 yrs, 7st 41b ; Euclid, 3 yrs, 7st 41b ; Taunton, 3 yrs, 7st 41b ; The Corsair, 3 yrs, 7st 41b ; Bul wark, 3 yrs, Est 31b ; Dart, 3. yrs. Est 131 b ; Clarion, 3 yrs, 6st 131 b ; Hyllus, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b ; Accelerator, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b; Bosphorui, 3 yrs ' Gst 101 b ; Zimmerman, 3 yrs, Est 101 b ; Tamburini, 3 yrs, 6st 101 b ; sister to Pickwick, 3 yrs, Gst 61b ; Confusionee, 3 yrs, Gst 61b • Vasa, 3 yrs, 6st 31b. Four or five in the above list, which we are unable to trace in the calendars, we have put down as maiden. The weights are calculated up to the present time, and are liable to many alterations before the race comes off. STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER.—We scarcely remember to have witnessed, except in periods of decided panic, a more gloomy and spirit less market than that of yesterday. The demand for yarn was extremely limited, and the prices which were readily and freely offered last week, could, in very few instances, be ob tained. In most descriptions of goods, too, the business done was very small, and, generally, at lower prices. In conse quence of this unpromising state of the market, the working of short time is again rapidly extending. The spinners and manufacturers in Ashton, Stalybridge, Hyde, and the neigh bourhood, who, as we stated last week, had resumed full time, have again resolved to restrict their time of labour to a time not exceeding four days per week ; and an agreement to that effect was yesterday signed by 47 of the principal firms in that neighbourhood. It is expected that this example will be fol lowed by the principal spinners and manufacturers in Stock port and the neighbourhood. In this town, too, the working of short time is extending ; and the extensive works of Messrs. Birleys and Co. have been this week, we believe, for the first time since their establishment, reduced to three days per week. Other mills have been I.,‘duced from four days to three, or from three to two days • and several have been stop ped entirely.—Manchester Guardian. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JUNE 17. — There is a further improvement in the market to-day, the demand is better, and some little advance in price has been obtained. Though the wool market has not been very active, yet the prices are rather stiffer.—Manchester Guardian. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, JUNE 18.—The demand for heavy woollens and light fancy goods was decidedly on the increase ; but sales were not large, in conseqnence of a bet ter price being asked. The advance of wools, especially lower sorts, has necessarily caused prices to look up. Stocks are small, and wools are more difficult to buy. The ware houses are more actively engaged. On the whole, au average business is doing.—Manchester Guardian. WATERLOO BANQUET. On Wednesday evening the Duke .of Wellington gave his annual banquet to the gallant officers who participated in the honours of that glorious victory—Waterloo. It would be difficult for us to give anything like novelty to this annual (we were going to say national) entertainment. What school boy is unacquainted with the principal victories of the noble and gallant duke ? and how many young hearts have swollen with ambition while their owners have been at tentively perusing the descriptions of the duke's brilliant achievements in the Peninsula? Since the battle of Water loo—a battle that eventually gave peace to Europe—the noble duke has been daily gaining on the affections of his country men ; and at the present day there is no individual so loved by his friends and so admired and respected by his enemies as the illustrious victor at Waterloo. Indeed we might ex claim with a popularfemale writer (the Countess of Blessing ton), that " happily for our generation we have a Wellington." The gallant guests of the noble duke began to arrive at a quarter past seven. Although a large concourse of perions had collected outside the gates of Apsley House, not the slightest disturbance was witnessed, from their being a strong body of the police under the management of Superintendent Barkerstationed at both gates. On passing through the hall, the company entered a small ante-room, containing rqarble busts of George 111., Earl of Lonsdale, Earl of Lauderdale, the late Duke of York, Gene ral Ponsonby, William Pitt, and Sir Walter Scott, executed in 1823 by Chantry. Also a bronze figure of Marshal Blucher, and a bronze bust of Massena. This room led to the stair case, where is placed the fine colossal statute of Napoleon, of white marble, from the masterly chisel of Canova, which cannot fail to attract attention. This magnificent statue was executed by the above artist for Bonaparte, but on the taking of Paris it was presented to the duke by the allied sovereigns. After ascending the staircase, the guests were ushered into an apartment to await the announcement for dinner. The banquet was served up in the spacious and elegant gal. lery. To give a minute description of this magnificent sa loon would exceed our limits, but a brief notice of the prin cipal features cannot fail to interest a considerable portion of our readers. _ . _ The walls are hung with a rich amber satin damask, the cornices and trimmings of gold. This gallery contains a valuable collection of paintings, among which are some of the chefs d'oeuvre of the old masters. We recognised the por traits of Lord Hill, the Marquis of Anglesey, the late King William IV., Lord Beresford, &c. A portrait of Viscount Combermere was placed in the gallery on Monday last. The dinner table presented a gorgeous appearance. The splendid Portuguese plateau, presented to his grace by the late King of Portugal, twenty four feet and some inches in length, ex quisitely chased, occupied the centre of the table, which was lighted from costly ormolu candalabra, a present from the Corporation of London. The service used at dinner was of gold, originally belonging to the Duke of York, and pur chased by his grace some years back. On two side tables was displayed a gorgeous assemblage of plate ; the silver-gilt shield, emblematical of the military achievements of the gal lant duke, a present from the allied monarchs, being par ticularly conspicuous ; as also a most elaborately chased solid gold vase, a tribute from the noblemen of England. and other costly presents made to the noble duke by the continental sovereigns. Coverf were laid for 74, but 60 only sat down to dinner. The following brave companions in arms of the noble and gallant duke were among the guests on this anniversary :- General the Marquis of Anglesey, K.G.H., General Lord Hill, K.G.H., General the Hon. Sir Charles Colville, K.T.S. and K.G.H., Lieut.-General Sir Peregrine Maitland, Lieut.- General Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, K.G.H., Colonel Lord Saudys, Lieut.-General Sir Colin Halket, K.G.H., Lieut.- General Sir Edward Kerrison, K.G.H., Lieut.-General Sir Andrew F. Barnard, K.G.H., Lieut.-General Lord Harris, Lieut.-General Sir Henry Askew, Lteut.-General Sir George Quentin, K.G.H., Lieut.-General Lord Fitzroy Somerset, K.G.H., &c., Major-General Sir A. B. Clifford, Major- General Sir,Henry Hardinge, Major-General Sir Charles B. Vero, K.T.S., Major-General Lord Saltoun, Major-General Macdonald, Major-General Hill, Major-General Sir William Gomm, Major-General Sir Edward Bowater, Major-General Slqigh, Major-General D'Qyley, Major-General Wyndham, Col. the Hon. PowyS Townsend, Colonel Sir Robert Gar diner, K.C.H., Colonel Sir De Lacy Evans, Colonel Wm. brnminond, Colonel Ellis, Lord, Marcus Hill, Col. Reeve, Sir James Clarke, Sir J. Lambert, Sir John May, &c. Shortly before 'seven his Excellency Count Pozzo di Borgo, who ; was to have dined with the duke, sent an excuse on ac count of slight indisposition. The party broke up at eleven. —Morning Herald. CHEAP SOlREES.7—Geoffry Shortbow, a country amateur, in his amusing letters to the editor of the Cheltenham Looker-on, gives the following recipe for getting up a Soiree Musicale on the lowest terms :—Take a lady possessing a large mansion, who has two or three daughters • then tak a piano- forte teacher, who has a good deal of influence among professional persons, both vocal and instrumental. Let the lady and the teacher put their heads together for half an hour, before a slow fire, then let each issue out cards of in vitation to a soiree: the lady to the nobility and gentry, and the teacher to his or her professional friends, who, to oblige him or her, will attend and exercise their talents gratuitously. The lady will have the credit of having given a splendid con cert, which must have cost nearly a hundred pounds, had the artistes been paid, as in honour, they ought to have been. The dose to be repeated as often as the simples can be culled together—without expense. THUNDER STop.ms.—Between nine and ten o'clock, on Thursday evening last, this town and neighbourhood, were visited by a terrific storm of thunder, lightning, and rain ; which was happily but of short duration, and unattended either with loss of property or life. During the time it lasted the sky was incessantly illumined by splendid corruscations of the electric fluid, and the loud peals of heaven's artillery, which reverberated in rapid succession through the wide athe real expanse, rendered the scene sublimely grand. We sus tained a similar visitation both on Monday and Tuesday even ings, but both storms rapidly passed over the town without doing any material injury. We have since learnt, that during the storm. of last evening, the lightning struck one of the chimneys attached to the buildings of Messrs. Banister and Joseph Eccles, at Park place, but, which being of stone and firmly constructed, resisted the shock without sustaining any other injury than the displacement of some of the Eine at the top. • We understand that the electric fluid on coming in contact with the canal stream immediately contiguous to the building, produced a shock as great as the report of apiece of heavy ordnance ; and turned the water in the immediate vicini ty of the concussion as black as jet.—Blackburn Standard: MISCELLANEOUS. FlSHlNG.—Notwithstanding the hard manner in which the rivers Eden, Eamont, Lowther, Petterill, and Bennet, in the neighbourhood of Penrith, have lately been netted, since the rain on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday last, the fly-fishers have had excellent sport, and large quantities of fine trout killed. Selling price five-pence per lb.—Carlisle Patriot. THE CROPS.—The late favourable weather of alternate rain and sunshine has produced a most desirable change in this county, and all ground for alarm for the growing crops may now be considered at an end. The wheats generally were never looking better : this may also be said of other kinds of grain. The grass has surprisingly improved, and in some grounds the swaths will be very heavy.—Worcester Herald. KESWlCK.—Notwithstanding the long continuance of dry weather, we hear no serious complaints of a deficiency of vegetation in thig neighbourhood, and since Friday last we have been favoured with fine refreshing showers. Potatoes, especially those planted in good time look very well, except a few of the earliest whose growth was retarded by the frost of May 15th.—Carlisle Patriot. FATAL EFFECTS OF THE THUNDER STOR➢I IN THE FYLDE.—On Thursday last, Poulton and its neighbourhood were visited by a terrific storm of thunder and lightning, ac companied by a strong east wind, and very heavy showers of rain. It came on about half-past two p. ►n. and continued about an hour ; it then abated till half-past five, when it com menced again with redoubled violence, and continued till past eight o'clock ; the atmosphere was for a time darkened, and the lightning at times awfully vivid ; a body of fire was seen to descend from the overcharged element, and the electric fluid killed a man, named William Helm, on Union Moss, Rawcliffe. We have not heard that any other serious injury, as respects either person or property, has been sustained in this neighbourhood.—Preston Chronicle- CHARTIST WHISTLES.—SMaII instruments made, and bearing this title, have been objects of great curiosity in Brad ford during the last fortnight. The whistle consists of a ca pacious cylinder, from near the top of which is an aperture that points directly to the eyes of the person blowing the whistle ; over the top of the cylinder is placed a little wheel, merely to add to the appearance of the whistle. The whistle is the invention of a young gentleman in Ivegate, Bradford, and the object is expressed to be that of signalising the Chartists in the night to arouse from their slumbers and take up their arms. Before blowing the whistle a person is told that a most powerful puff is necessary, accordingly impressed with this idea, the person blows with all his might, and pre sently his eyes and face become assailed with a tremendous volley of flour or soap, according as the cylinder is filled with either! —Leeds Intelligencer. UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.—At the chartist meeting in the Green on Monday, amongst a number of things which amused us, was the dialogue betwixt a woman, apparently from the country, and an Irishman. It is bona fide. Woman. How many folk do you think are here ? Irishman—Jist one thousand hundred. Woman—An' whatnre they a' wantin'? Irishman—Universal Suffrage, to be sure. Woman—An' what's that ? Irishman-0! its a vote to every man, boy, woman, and child ! Woman—An' what will ye vote for ? Irishman—A nimber, and no mistake. Woman—Weel, weel, every body to his taste, but as I dinna like ony thing I'm no acquaint wi', I'll jist hae a lade o' meal, an' a cog o' butter, an' twa bows o' tataes, wi' a pickle snuff to the gudeman, an' I'm sure a' my weans will vote wi' their mither. Here the Irishman was in the act of replying indig nantly, when a divot, thrown by some blackguard boy, struck him heavily on the mouth, and finished the conversation. — Glasgow Constitutional. ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.—On Wednesday evening week, a meeting of the respectable inhabitants of Trowbridge was held in that town, for the purpose of deliberating upon the best means of securing the quiet of the place and the protec tion of life and property, as soon as the police force granted them from London during the chartist agitation, should be withdrawn. When the meeting had broken up and were dis persing, it happened that a number of policemen were look ing out of the window, when six men and two women, of the lower class, passed by, and one of the former drawing a loaded pistol from his person, fired it among the police force, but, fortunately, without effect. The policemen, without waiting to pursue the offenders by going through the house door, jumped at once from the window and took the whole eight into custody. On some of their persons ball and powder were found, and the pistol was discovered in the hedge close by where it was fired. The matter waits full inquiry.—Bath Chronicle. A TRICK UPON THE LADIES.—The following hoax was carried on lately by some Cambridge men :—An advertise ment was put in one of the London papers for a lady's maid, and the situation represented as desirable as possible. Of course a great number of applications were made by young ladies of the description required, and after a long correspon ence, in which wages and perqusites were at length settled, ten, out of thirty applicants, were duly engaged as lady's maids, to Lady Godolphin, on the Hill's Road, near Cam bridge.—They were all desired to come by the fly on the same day, and Lady Godolphin's footman was appointed to meet them at Sawston, in order to convey them to the hall. About half past three, 17th May, the scene at Sa w sto n , was beyond description. Ten fair ladies, with trunks and band boxes, without number, alighted at Sawston, each expecting to find a gold-laced footman and phaeton ready to receive them. After a short time spent in comparing notes with each other, the grizettes began to understand that they had suffered a most vexatious hoax. The disappointment in having lost such a desirable residence as lady Godolphin's, together with the annoyance at their own simplicity, was painted most vi vidly on the countenances of all. But the worst was the laugh and ridicule of the crowd, which soon gathered round them. Some calling out, " The footman is coming; " others " The phaeton has lost a wheel and is getting repaired ; " with many other wittiscisms of the like nature. After the first piquancy of the affair had subsided, a Party of Cambridge men accidentally coming by, on hearing the piteous tale, made ample compensation to the silly dupes, for the ex penses incurred in the journey.—We need scarcely add, that the aforementioned gentlemen had been secretly enjoying the scene from a neighbour's house, and after witnessing the full completion of their joke, sallied forth to make proper amends to the injured party.—Manchester Courier. FIRE AND Loss OF LIFE IN DUBLIN. - About one o'clock on yesterday morning, a fire broke out in the stables of Messrs. Fitzgerald and Vandeleur, of Merrion-square, immediately at the rear of their houses in Holles-place, ad joining Holles-street. There were several valuable horses and carriages in the stables, which were taken safely out ; but an unfortunate stable-boy, named Kennedy, who was sleeping on one of the lofts where it is supposed the fire originated, was consumed. His remains when dug out of the ruins presented an appalling spectacle. They are await ing the coroner's inquest, which is to be held this clay. When the fire was observed, one of the policemen on duty in Mer rion-square and Holles-street, mounted a horse that had been taken from the stables, and proceeded to give the alarm at the Paving-board, and the various insurance offices. There was a quantity of hay and stray upon the lofts, which ren dered it impossible to save the premises even if a speedy supply of water could be obtained ; but, as usual on such occasions, a considerable time elapsed after the arrival of the engines before any water could be obtained. The houses of Mrs. Nicholson and Mr. Foote, of Holles-street, were at one time considered in imminent danger, and were it not that the morning was very calm, it would have been impos sible to save them, or to prevent the destructive element reaching the houses in the square.—Dublin Mail, Monday, June 17. THE LATE MR. Moui.—Some recent defects in the exe cution and tone of Mr. Mori, which close and accurate ob servers of his performances have not failed to notice, pro ceeded from a partial loss of power in the fingers of the left hand, in consequence of a slight paralytic seizure which he experienced about two years ago, and of which he afterwards had several relapses, that temporarily more or less affected both his memory and his physical frame. Few men have possessed the same degree of influence in the world that he did ; yet he was not generally liked by his professional brethren. The cause of the moral peculiarities which occa sioned this alienation is now explained. They were not his fault but his misfortune, the usual and inevitable attendants on the morbid condition of brain which, it has now been as certained, embittered his life, and was insidiously cutting short the thread of his existence. The immediate cause of Mori's decease was the rupture of a large blood-vessel in the chest. He died in a few minutes. The origin of his mental infirmities was chronic disease of the brain,. ossification of its blood-vessels, slow inflammation of its membranes, and softening of its substance. Over this slow and lingering state of disease he could have no control. His morbid irritability, which at times amounted almost to insanity, often led him to act uncourteously towards his professional brethren. He was really not accountable for his actions ; they were the re sult of disease, and not of moral delinquency.—Morn. Post. POPERY IN A WALNUT-SHELL.—A few years since, some friends of the Bible' Society in one of the provinces of the Netherlands, resolved on establishing the auxiliary as3ocia tion. Among She individuals who were invited to attend, was a popish priest. He was supposed to be favourable to the cause ; but, in reality, he was most hostile to it. Con cealing his hostility, he accepted the invitation, resolving to give, if possible, a death-blow to the institution. Upon his arrival, he was politely asked to propose one of the resolutions. He of course assented. Rising, at length, to propose the re solution, he took from his pocket a freshly gathered walnut, which still retained its husk. This, in the most prominent manner, lie presented to the view of the assembly. " You see," said he, " this walnut' it is an emblematical represen tation of three churches—of the Lutheran church, of the Calvinian church, and of the Holy Roman Apostolic church. The green husk, you know, is bitter nauseous, and useless. This represents the Lutheran church. I will now take off the husk. Here you see the shell. This is crabbed, and bitter, and worthless. Such is the Calvinian church. But now, with much gratification, I will shew you a just similitude of the only true church, which is the holy Roman church. You will see it in the rich and nutritious kernel !" Thus saying, he boldly cracked the shell, and lo! it was completely rotten! Church Magazine. SWINDLING EXTRAORDINARY.—On Friday, the -7th instant; a young woman of respectable appearance alighted from the Red Rover coach at Trentham Inn, and inquired of Mrs. Crisp, the landlady, if she could be accommodated there, as she wished to remain in Trentham a few days, for the benefit of her health • she being a perfect stranger, Mrs. Crisp at first hesitated, but on the lady representing fierself as the sister of a commercial gentleman who frequently stayed there, and intimating that she would h ave no o bj ec ti on t o s it and board with the family in the bar, Mrs. Crisp consented to receive her ; by her apparently mild and gentle disposition she very soon to a considerable degree engrafted herself into the affection and confidence of the family, who paid her every attention, and treated her with the greatest hospitality, being anxious that the change of air and the comfortS of the house might have the desired effect. On Monday, having, as she said, a little business to transact at Stoke, she kindly offered to execute any little commissions, she was entrusted accord ingly, and departed. In the course of the afternoon Mrs. Crisp having occasion to go up stairs, to her great astonish ment found that her drawers had been unlocked, a five pound note and a bag containing seven or eight pounds worth of silver extracted therefrom, suspicion immediately fell upon the domestics, search was accordingly made, which of course caused considerable uneasiness, as the whole of them pos sessed Mrs. Crisp's entire confidence, nothing however was found which would lead to the discovery of the guilty per son ; the lady was gone out, but not the slightest suspicion could possibly fall upon " Miss Cruden !" all remained en tirely in doubt, till, however, the lateness of the evening brought with it—not Miss Cruden—buti anxiety for her re turn—her box was searched, every article was gone—of course there could no longer be any doubt. Prompt mea sures were taken by some gentlemen connected with the Trentham Association, with what success we have not yet heard, but we sincerely hope that the Lady will be overtaken ; for we think a change of air would be most beneficial if not to her, most certainly it would be to the public generally. We are informed her conduct was the most artful that can possibly be conceived ; and it is surprising to think how com pletely she carried her plan of deception into execution; she frequently expressed her surprise that Mrs. Crisp did not re member her brother, who she said would be delighted to know that she was there. She accompanied part of the fa mily to church on Sunday, and appeared religiously inclined, she thought, " her manner might appear strange when she first came, but she felt so nervous on coming to a strange place, she felt quite a sisterly attachment to Mrs. Crisp's niece, and she should be sure to write to her when she left. On Monday morning she thought herself so much benefited by the pure air of Trentham, that she almost made up her mind to stay a few days longer. There is every probability, that she belongs to a gang of swindlers who are going through the country for the purpose of defrauding the public by the above and similar means, and we would advise Innkeepers in particular to be upon their guard.—ln an advertisement on our second page, offering a reward for her apprehension,. a description of her person is given.—Staffordshire Gazette. THEATRE ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. 1 4,0 1 1 ,j FOR THE * BENEFIT OF MADAME lm and the Last Night but Five of her Engagen'en"g- Night but Five of Mr. CHARLES MATIIEL4s? The New Dramas of PATTER VERSUS CLATXOIII FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LAI": e etlA' been receivqd on each representation with the most siastic applause, will be repeated This Evening'. b e (1 5 ' THIS present FRIDAY, the 21st instant, 11111 formed the favourite Comedy of THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL. ‘ei theol' Charles Surface Lady Teazle .... Madame V es tris, o f In which she will sing the highly popular Sod, " be no Submissive Wife." 0 ,00 After which, for the fourth time here, a new Dol s ge stei by Mr. Charles Mathews, and performed with ut r i e go success at the Royal Olympic Theatre, London, u"-- entire season, called PATTER VERSUS CLATTER., gebell s Captain Patter.. (his original character) .. Mr. ' D oh To conclude with, for the third time here, a New called t c. r AD, FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR 100 Ruy Gomez as originally performed by him in London . Duchess de Torrenueva. as originally originally performed by her in London. oj , On MONDAY, the popular Melo-Drama of GAND.—After which, the new Drama, by frt Charles Mathews, called WHY DID YOU D I , I P ;0: 11/1 derick Stanley, Mr. Charles Mathews.—To be Al the petite Comedy of A HANDSOME I-lUSBA vegf° Wyndham, Mr. Charles Mathews; Laura, MadletgO, —To conclude with the favourite Drama of ON I' g o de Mr. Charles Swiftly, Mr. Charles Mathews ; J uba ' Vestris. Vii. )£ Zibripoot &tanDarti• FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 21, 3:313 ' ° d h e 11 Well ! Mr. Grote has made his speech -4- tio d of Commons has voted—and the Ballot qil es ' ot i l d consigned to the tomb of the Capulets, unt il (1 311 ,,e Session permits the Radicals to bring ful ly° try bf this deval de battaile, and disgust the CO;; their reiterated attempts to force it down t he otli t of Englishmen. But it will not do. The 63° , 0 0 arguments have been urged which have beep triumphantly met and overthrown, and in ue , e D clir advocates of Ballot seem to have come to t he ;oft sion that they had better not meddle with re da i( o on the subject, but trust to reckless and n ien ha pe assertion for carrying their point. They ring g tei l on the words Corruption and Intimidation, ie part of which exists only in their own di atelll lo fancy; and, having laboured to prove wha t I' d denies—that such evils are to be found in t he noisily clamour for the Ballot as the club of Pe 0 which is to destroy the many-headed lir ill ' ha tY they have not ventured to meet the argumen t ' ~t n it advocate of clandestine voting has yet shall: - b 64 Ballot-box is to effect this ; for it can be and PP , er . dd over and over again demonstrated, that, ° a d or secret system, undue influence over the vot es r oii' pendents will be exercised quite as much —in citt it iS cle of last Tuesday we have shewn .present. a dd s Indeed with regard to Bribery the G11)60014/ this, and we have to thank Mr. Babington who, however practically he may " go the wh eje o d c g has grace enough to disown some of the fals e ,„ : ll ,, s er the party to which he has seen fit to ally for telling us that, "in small constituent budie:out bery, under a system of secret voting, would c° 0 1? to exist, though, at the same time, without agsravation." So that, in small constitueilei why not in larger ones also ?—the Ballot-ba ' gravate Bri!;ery ! Verily, Mr. Grote, You tt er . ll struct your followers and discipline them ue o o next Session, for it is inconvenient to allow tr u of these to escape and fly in the face of your O ment. But we do not...mean to waste time upon a -- A e oa bate jejune in argument, and so feebly supPort e l part of the Radicals. They were really har w ' r , powder and shot on the occasion, but if °lir refer wish to know how they were d emo li s hed, we re , ir 0 1? to the spirited and unanswerable speech of ', 1105 0' kell, who, by argument, facts, and historic al I r " tion, poured a fire of grape-shot into th eir , tbo t under which they will reel and stagger for se ln dec ii The enlivening feature of the evening was the yam tion of Lord John Russell that this unendor3b ofe: maly" was left by the Queen's Government as 0 a 00 .ic? question, and the naivete with which Lord f r d: told his auditors that this was the best mode O ri as'"' ing its introduction. This is strange log ic l tro or When your citadel is attacked, disband yo r te . When the enemy is thundering at your gal — ' r io" that the garrison within is wavering and a t ; fa l Meet fierce and inexorable demands by d° ll ,,,, r eo l ' fusal ; and in each case, says the lean -witted s`tbi4 at War, you will come off victorious. But if the real object of the Ministry,—and that it ° v tb o ls . , of the less disreputable portion of them we d ft , then what words can express the contumely they practise upon the Radicals ! This parade ' ralism—this cant of deference to popular °, this tribute of homage to the two hundred d e lD' t ot: who last year voted for the Ballot, is nothild 1 ' trick—a mean, shuffling, dirty trick—to g et ro pe P measure which they want boldness and honest}' f:li to oppose. But, ye gentlemen professors 0 " 401 '. and thimble ! how .long do ye expect Radi cal foie es if you venture upon such coarse affronts ? of retribution is not far distant, and then, b e :1;e I I this frank avowal of Lord Howick will ll°. gotten. s ; ,,h • But we proceed with the argument whi ch ss sgP „i t hos $ menced in the last number of this paper, 'l' a ciPt li , feel that in doing so we may appear to b 0 compliment to the debate of Tuesday whic h h i e fo l , serves. But more perhaps may be said f °l. t rio i)o 4 ., than its supporters in Parliament have wi t e- nt urge, and we write not to answer the irrelev a . 0 1)" . t o 4 0 mation of Messrs. Grote and Macaulay; hot to the minds of any portion of the communitY o f be inclined to put faith in this quack r etool efr perate Democracy. d the ill eed " In our previous article we demonstrate ciency of the Ballot to work out its Pr""1,001'01 It now remains to show that the remedY d or 11 worse than the disease. And first let us ti ed. point which we have not yet seen properly 119 , 1 . isP„4 A asks B to vote for C, and holds out to l ' c ti sh ments or threats for that purpose, and 1 3, t hr- e tt or hope, does vote against his conviction , does an act which is not right :—but, after ; ere r F the amount of vice in such a case ? It is 3 cieer'lol al l ter of opinion which of two rival Candid ates li lt ti 4 support, and if I vote for one man while r another is preferable, I am acting again. judgment indeed, but, in all probability, so" tions are not so deep-rooted as to Mak e t. sve go ir one of very great turpitude. For insta nce ' o r stantly see men allowing private friendshOtbe tulle, or.gotne feeling that has .no relation t e .,'., ar liso, or unfitness of the Candidate for a scat in ,e do 4` to influence their political votes ; and ‘` strongly condemn for this, for the heart oft° Ig o, over the head. But when a man delibe rat ' M' to do one thing and does another, or ' he ° ll s, upOn a systematic, plan and course of d ee guilty of nothing more nor less than a lie"' " An odious, &tuned li e ' Upon my soul a lie ; a wicked lie." s°l:' No sophistry can palliate this. No water c` .eocee f t d t Ethiop white. The accommodating con s i el er y, honourable member for Edinburgh may " e 0 411 1 ' Bering in political morality," but we think be yin sr po t vindicate by any rhetorical juggle, such 3 v ote r r morality as this. Upon the soul of the fal' e , r th a w the heavy burthen of wilful mendacity , andloPees quent exercise of any mode of conduc t Pr°‘ bold 'ie ) and habit character, then shall we ha ve . COO,/ the •e manly, and stout handicraftsmen of n 9,111, e it llo into a set of pitiful sneaking wretches, wi'litidef afraid to avow their opinions, or tigh t or o f IC I colours, and strain their thrOats in fav" 01,111/ which they have secretly resolved to uncler._os j Pe tor; are told by Herodotus, that the ancient ,eiiir s eze j their children three things, to throw the.! This he r 6 the horse—and to speak the truts. f a t . 4 0 of education will lie reversed with us. 00 teach his child a reverence for truth wherl i.cei t ' is in the systematic habit of tricke r y a at' Ipi, child will respect veracity, when, by the 11 1jo g°Y the family circle, he hears his father clines 0 05 jes ts" 0 , 4 falsehoods he has been telling, and the 0 P in which he has gulled his political oPP°IIO 01' e 0 1 t' , o Again, supposing the Ballot wer e i n f -01d9 amongst us, who could trust the wort. of a°b ejec t' , reference to his views of an approaching . At o is absolutely certain that a candidate and li e l o s de , friends would set engines at work and ascertain what r Ile wo uld not b ( xithout some dzi eulate the P tt the ca se was ache du mb sh gestures w ent, (1 that under t h e Itituself b y words victory, he wouk th e individu al ly as p shop of Mr. (:utsty and buy to the fair hoses; Now ter of an w ould th e hour' s f sitell a su wish e l ky fool d his defeat Itlloebiftol: so g binaglZad tc.r te wltat would case the hint be Par t of the C ato, a hold h e at onc e gloves would he s nt e of the argur ttNany of coerci 4.1, and th mo: tip we make e the al fawn and flatter al no means of t estin caudidate would h l klence th at he h secoluiebrt after all whi meant t o v should not know Nat important (in S ki other grievot k.t et S sh ah th uffrage wi en jud ge of aid treat them ace' 4tt that a large m. l ore, Euglarld are Cor. these will b e t i cals, and as th a k tuethi theta to Dissenters i n: rtlt it the safer ng likert ce trliti that /fl atlY DiS !bestions of Theolc ~'°(l government, 1 1n o ; e Conservatives , , and therefore, an d inti rn id a the arninent for tl: eieutiou s D isse 41 the C hurch anc 'NI Schh the factious, d illacorticosrai twehoof at k tutp 71? we nlnst d r; e we out hlatation. We co' fvl 'ce do not b e li eve t ffo ever become the aha ll neve r b c elear, arid we will e have already ,q4tiet with Which Itlrtounded• ht Tlte Vo/unta' 4irkein. 24. The ehampior 14)011 the 3 unhaPPY k P d. The ,woswornfoi rbitrary and irresP° Goth' The tnen of Goternittent merely °ele(l as little as po' .it't to entangle the 3 tlen' and yet more fe' 4114 cooksion• sth. The men wh( titanged, because " i that arrangements of qlahge of ministry, Pdiacatioa of the da iliite of pose thi politi cal pov s I ch eale \v ; for gi thong] higsh hrse i o perpetuuni n' 1 tf),,r,_ se 1 . they hay 16: uP° * Lansdowne H Nt int o b e the fountain 'Norlift, an d that to think of Peel or R I to be tr ained as 81 4 6t1.114.t Aoalithaonogsayhtl, 'ktl 1e ''' I'IY to me y e t the tin e and variety c it de an d ha' , \\ehleyari, and even ',44 tkcite and few se' t4hePoptaor arid liber k h ' or the sake of e 4 rtiYirig the utmost sci 'ttedoin of opinion ; ph . scanty ti eqe are a ~,.'t' 11C1 contradicti°n oki , N._ , -. 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