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F IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT-. HOUSE OF COMMONS. July 7. ,The &SLYER took the chair shortly after Twelve clock The Jesus Hospital (Newcastle) Estate Ili I sk as read trot, and ordered to be real 9 second tim to-morrow. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second time, F.r.d cr • to be committed T.—Duke of Richmoad's Estate moon's (or Lyon's) Estate. REPORTS. t , The following reports were brought up an I agreed So Somerset, and Weymouth Railway (No. 1 ). ; Yeovil, Bridport, and Exeter Railway, with Branches. CONSIDERATION OF REPORT. The report on the Sutton Harbour Improvement Bill was further considered and agreed to. LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills wet e SOnsidered and agreed to: — Aberdeen and Great North of Sc otland R (Amal gamation or Leasing). Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton Railway Acts Amend ment (Diversions of Line in the parishes of Blackburn and Bolton in the Moors). Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham Railway (Branch to Wisbech Harbour and Wisbech Harbour Improve ment). Caledonian and Glasgow, Paisley and Greenock Rail ways Amalgamation. Cheltenham and Oxford Railway. Direct London and Portsmouth Railway. Dundrum, and Rathfaraham Railway (Exten sion to Stephen's Green. Eastern Counties Railway Extension (Cambridge to Bedford, &c.) Eastern Counties Railway (Enlargement of London and Stratford Stations and Amendments of Acts). Callagow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Branch to the Caledonian Railway and Diversion of Canal). Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales Drainage and Inclosure Company's Incorporation. Limerick Docks and Harbour. Lynn and Ely Railway (Deviation and Lynn Docks). Lynn and Ely Railway (Lynn and Wormegay Navi gation). Manchester and Leeds Railway (Alteration of Levels of Brighouse Branch of the West Riding Union Rail l'arYs, and new line into Leeds). Manchester and Leeds Railway (Branches, Extensions, Deviations, and Alterations of Levels, and other Works.) Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Branch to Chapeltown and Thurgoland Coal Branch). Mold Railway. Portadown and Dungannon Railway. ARGYLE CANAL BILL. Mr. PARKER moved, pursuant to notice, that the Committee on the Arglye Canal Bill have leave to sit and report on Thursday. Mr. HUmE was desirous of having the minutes of the Treasury in reference to the Bill laid on the table of the House. Mr. CHRISTOPHER opposed the further progress of the Bill, because he deprecated proceeding with a measure as a private Bill, which was to cause the public an expenditure of upwards of 150,000 f. If this measure was allowed to proceed it would sanction the Govern ment, under the guise of a private Bill, to saddle the public with endless expense. He did not know whether it would be consistent with the forms of the House, but if it was, he would move as an amendment to the motion of the Hon. Member for Sheffield, " that it be an instruction to the Committee on the Argyle Canal Bill to proceed no further with the Bill during the present session." After some discussion, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the Government had dealt with the Bill as an unopposed Bill; as, however, it was opposed, he would move to discharge the order for the committal of the Bill, and move to morr ow th a t th e Bill b e re f e rred to a Select Committ ee as an opposed Bill. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE thought the Bill of such a na ture that it ought not to be referred to any Committee at They had had a Thames job, and now they had % regular Scotch job. He thought the best course Would be to withdraw the present measure altogether. Sir J. GRAHAM thought it would be absurd to pro ceed with t h e measure unt il i t was k nown w h e th er a Committ ee of Supply would allow the expenditure of so larg e a sum of money to carry it out. J. S. WORTLEY denied that the measure was a job. Lord G. BENTINCK thought the measure inexpe- Ili ent, and he would, therefore, support any motion that bad for it s o bj ect t h e prevent i on ot i ts procee di ng f u rther. It seemed that the Government were desirous to pass this Bill secretly through the House, at that late period of the session as a private Bill. Mr. BAINE also opposed the Bill. He said it was only i ntroduced into the House a week ago, and he defied those who supported it to show that any petition had b een.„, presented from the locality in favour of it.—(Rear.) 'LIoY, more, he believed that if the inhabitants on its route were consulted, that they would be found to op- Pose it. Mi.HurmE stigmatised the Bill as a job, and as likely to b e g second Caledonian Canal, which they all knew had proved ruinous; and the House ought, therefore, at once to mark . it sense of the conduct of tho Govt-rnment In bringing inns a private Bill a Bill which proposed to ' l Pend a large sum of the public money. Such a pro tosition oug ht t o b e ma d e i n a Committee of Supply. tie considered that the Government had hen imposed upon, as it was unlikely that Scotch laird, would give up anything that was likely to prove a s urce of profit. -- (Laughter.) If, however, the canal should turn out to be one of a public nature, and one which the locality earnestly sought, he might possibly support it in another session ; b ut as the Bill had been brought i n as had been, and considering the late period of the ses sion, he felt it his duty to move that the debate be ad journed until that day three months. Mr. WILLIAMS seconded the motion. He said the Government had promoted the Crinan and Caledonian Canals, but they were nothing tut 10'05 4 jOb-, as they fad been barely able to pay their incidental expenses; and as this Bill proposed the perpetration of another of I similar kind, he should strongly support those who apposed it.—(Hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Bill was undertaken by the Government owing to petitions which they had received from various parts of the Highlands earnestly calling upon them to provide employment for the indus trious poor by means of public works, and Sir Edward Belcher was sent down, to make a stir- Vey and to furnish a report, and he repeated that the ex isting canal could not be made available for the naviga tion of ships, and that another canal must be made to afford the accommodation the public required. Another Officer who had been employed in Ireland, Mr. Hamil ton, was ' also sent down and he reported that the canal could be constructed at no very enormous outlay. The Government undertook the work for the purpose of the a national undertaking, and as one which, at .ee same time, would afford employment to the indus trious poor. He denied that the undertaking could be looked upon as a job_ ,- and it would be well if Hon. limbers, b e f ore they rose to oppose the Bill, Would read through the evidence in favour of the -work which had been supplied by so competent an authority as Sir Edward Belcher. He would with d r aw • The motion, and defer any further proceedings in the r.,tatter until in Committee of Supply they submitted the proposition to the House. He hoped no further Mme would be lost in discussing the propriety of ad- Journing the debate. Sir J. GRAHAM urged the Hon. Gentleman the atenaber for Montrose to withdraw his motion. As at present advised, he was not prepared to vote against the grant of 150,0001. for the constructionof anothercanal in Argyllshire, not w ith s t an di ng h e h a d voted for the grant to the Caledonian Canal. Mr. HUME w i t hd rew hi s mot i on , an d t rus t e d that 44 2 would hear no more of the Bill.—(Laughter.) The original motion and the amendment were then Withdrawn. .CALEDONIAN AND GLASGOW, PAISLEY AND GREENOCK RAILWAYS AMALGAMATION— . VASGOW, PAISLEY, AND GREENOCK RAIL BRANCH TO THE CALEDONIAN RAIL WAY, AND DIVERSION OF THE CANAL). On the order of the day being read for considering tht' Lords' amendments to these Bills, Air. HUME moved that the order be postponed until 'Monday. He said the Greenock Company were about 30 perpetrate a gross fraud upon the public by this Bill -of theirs. Mr. BAINE explained that the opinion of the House had led the companies to cancel the agreement with the .veanal company. After some discussion, the Hon. Member withdrew ~,h is motion, and the amendments were agreed to. ‘!- GAELIC PROFESSOR OF ABERDEEN COLLEGE. Mr. MACKINNON presented a petition in favour of - -the appointment of a Professor of Gaelic in this uni t- Tensity. REPRESENTATION OF GREENOCK. BANKES wished to ask some questions of the rfonourable Gentleman the Secretary of the Treasury {Mr: Tufnell), respecting a letter, headed " Treasury , : tate& the 27th. of June, commencing " My dea r Mel gaud" (Lord Melgund), and dissuading that Noble Lord 'nom standing for the borough, and signed " Henry Ttinell."—(Laughter.) The letter was to this effect — Treasury, Whitehall, June 27, 1847. . 1 ` My dear Melgund,—Understanding that it has been denied that any Government influence was exercised to lirevent you originally from standing for Greenock, I think it right that your opponents should know, that in 'consequence of representations that were made to myself ILnd others respecting the state of parties in the borough, tad the feelings that were entertained on this subject in other quarters, I certainly authorised a strong remon eteance being made to you, and endeavoured by every mean s in my power to dissuade you from coming for , ward ass candidate.—l am, yours truly, " H. TUFNELL." lle wished — t - o know if the letter was written in his • official capacity—also the grounds on which he wrote it -- (Cries of " Oh! oh!")—and whether it was written with the cognizance of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, the author of the Reform Bill? (" Oh! oh!" and laughter.) Mr. TUFNELL said, in reply to the question of the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Dorsetshire, he had to state that the letter was a correct copy of a private communication which he had addressed Lord Melgund.—(Loud cheers.) As soon as he telind it h a d b een pu bli s h e d i n a local newspaper, .e wrote to Lord Melgund, expressing his surprise that 11Private communication should have found its way into the column s o f a newspaper —(H ear , h e ar)—for the ar• n ments used in it were only those which one friend would not hesitate to address to another.—(Hear, hear.) _ Lord G. BE NTINCK inquired what t h e term Go vernment influence" in the letter meant, and also the dement _that his opponents should know the reasons which induced him to stand, and the remenistrance which he (Mr. Tufnell) had used to dissuade him. Mr. HUME interposed. He thought if the time of the House was to be wasted in private matters, that the public business would be materially retarded.—(Hear. hear.) It.might be the Noble Lord's turn by and by to be entrusted with the Government—(Laughter) — and he would then find that if every private matter of a similar kind was brought before the House that he would have enough to do.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. BANKES explained that he put the questions to the Hon. Gentleman, as the letter had appeared in a public newspaper. The matter then dropped. REGISTRATION OF VOTERS BILL. On the order of the day being read for going into Committee on this Bill, Mr. V. SMITH urged the Government to withdraw the Bill, as no practical good could come from proceed ing with it at this late period of the session. Mr. WALPOLE was surprised that the Hon. Member should have offered any opposition to the Bill. The Bill was so framed as to do away with the objections which were anticipated from Hon. MemLers. Mr. NEWDEG.ATE said that the Committee was a truly impartial one, and the clauses in the Bill had been agreed to unanimously. Mr. HEATHCOTE thought that the House were losing time in discussing a Bill which, at that late pe riod of the session, could hot be carried out, and which wobld not be entertained by the Parlialeent which would, ssuceed them. Mr. CHARLES BULLER said that it was impossible that such a discussion couli be brought to a successful determination in the present session. It was impossible that they could get through the clauses this session, and it would be better to leave this unprofitable d-bate at once than waste two or three hours more in doing that which could have no beneficial result, especially when a dissolution of Parliament was so near at hand. Mr. S. WOR'I'LEY said that it certainly was not in his opinion desirable that the Bill should be forwarded in the present session—for, even supposing that they could bring it to a conclusion, it would be productive of no beneficial effect. After a few words from Sir G. GREY and Mr. HEN LEY, which did not reach the gallery, Mr. WALPOLE said that nothing was further from his intention than to press this Bill against the desire of the House, but he thought it but fair that if this Bill were withdrawn that the other Bills upon the same sub ject should be also withdrawn. Sir G. GREY said, that with regard to the Parliamen tary Elections No. Bill, which was upon the paper for a second reading. that Bill should be postponed until to-morrow. There was some doubt as to whether it would be advisable to proceed with that Bill during the present session. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE said that it was not quite fair to avoid the discussion upon this subject after the repeated promises which had been made since the beginning of the session to take the matter into the consideration of the House. He thought that the termination of these Bills with regard to the Parliamentary elections was most unsatisfactory, and reflected very little credit upon the House. _ _ After a few words from Mr. B. ESCOTT and Mr. CHRISTOPHER, Mr. WALPOLE suggested that the Committee upon this Bill be de!erred until to-morrow, when the Noble Lord at the head of the Government would declare what his intentions were with regard to the other Bill.—(No.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that it was perfectly competent to the Hon. Gentleman to postpone his motion until to-morrow, for it was per perfectly impossible that it could come on.— (Laughter.) He thought that the course suggested was a very fair one, and the Hon. Member could in the meantime decide what course he should pursue with regard to it. Mr. NEWDEGATE said, that after the principle of this Bill had been admitted by the House, it was not quite fair to the mover of the Bill to shrink from its discussion in the present session. He (Mr. Newdegate) thought that the Bill was one which ought to be passed as speedily as possible. He should in every way he could throw ob stacles in the way of other measures which were taken in the place in which this Bill ought to be. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that this postponement was not the act of the Govern ment. Mr. T. S. DUNCOMBE moved the second reading of the Bill.—(Cries of " Divide.") Sir G. GREY said that if this motion were persisted in he should be compelled to oppose it. Mr. T. S. DUN COMBE said that the Bill was then in the hands of the House and if the Government wished, they could, doubtless, postpone it till to-morrow. After some further conversation, Sir JAMES GRAHAM proposed that the order of the day for the second reading of the Bill should be postponed. . . Mr. T. DITNCOMBE said he had already, in tiiiiib senee of his Hon. and Gallant Friend, the Member for Westminster, assented to such a proposal. (Het* Sir de Lacy Evans entered the House.) Now„ however, that his Hon. and Gallant Friend had come in he trusted the second rending of the Bill would not 'be postponed, but that his 11.41, arid Gallant Friend would proceed at once to take the sense of the House upon the question. If his Hon. and Gallant Friend would pursue that course they would know at once who in that House was for reform and who was not. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN said he for one should give the Bill his dEcided opposition, and in order that the'opnion of the House might be tasted upon it, he hop, d the Right Hon. Baronet the Si.mber for Dor chester would withdraw his propo,ition for adjourning th. second reading_ Sir J AMES GRAHAM said his only reason for maki! g that proposal was the absence of the Hon. and Gallant. G.ntletuan who had charge of - the Bill, and now that the Hon. and Gallant Gentleman had come in, he had no objection whatever to withdraw his proposi tion.—(Hear' hear.) Sir DE LACY EVANS, in rising to move the second readii:g ot the Bill, t-i k occasion to thank his ilonour,ble Friend the Member for Finsbury for having taken care of his interest in his absence. He was in the House just before the discus ion came on, and he had merely gone out to have a conversation with some of his constituents.—(Bear, and laughter.) It was a rare occurrence to see so large a House on a Wed neday's sitting, and on that account he ft.lt he had no right to adjourn the second reading of this Bill. He should, therefore, persevere in his motion for the second reading of the Bill at once.—(Hear, hear.) The object of the Bill was a simple one. It was to alter the date at which it became necessary for rates to be paid by voters, that is to say, the rates payable on the 20th of July would be those due in the preceding month of October, instead of the preceding 4th of April. The House then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading 67 Against it 72 Majority against it POOR REMOVAL AMENI)M - ENT BILL Mr. BODKIN moved the second reading of this Bill. The Poor Removal 811 passed last year provided that no person who had resided in a parish fire years should be liable to be removed. He did not object to the spirit of such a provision, but in times of distress it pressed heavily upon the parishes, and was excessively inconvenient to the poor, whom it was meant to serve. It threw so many persons upon the parishes that they were unable t) do full justice to their own poor; and the object of this Bill was so to amend the law that the maintenance.of the.non-removal poor, who were entitled to relief through having resided in a parish five years should be thrown upon the common fund of the union, instead of upon the individual parishes. He was willing to snake the measure temporary. Mr. CHRISTOPHER objected to the Bill on the ground of its centralizing character. Alter a few words from Sir W. JOLLIFFE, who opposed the Bill, Mr. SPOONER did not intend to object to the second rearing of the Bill, but he thought it quite true that a very great burden was laid on the towns, and that mea sures should be taken for the purpose of relieving them. He thought it fair that those towns which were unions in themselves should have the same privileges as those which formed only a part of unions. Sir GEORGE GREY said, that as the principle of the Bill had been already so fully discussed he did not think it necessary to take up the time of the House by further, di•cussiag it. He would not oppose the second reading, as he believed it would remove many of the evils of the Bill of last session. After a few words from Sir JOHN PAKINGTON, Mr. FLOYER was opposed to the Bill. He believed it would be found quite inoperative. Mr. HENLEY supported the Bill. The evils which at present existed in the law required a remedy, and believing that the Bill would have the effect of removing them he would support the second reading. Mr. WAKLEY t h ought the B i ll was necessary, but from all he saw and heard they must come eventually to a national rate for the support of the poor, and until that was the case the poor would never be treated as they ought. Mr. BANKES was in favour of the repeal of the Act of last session, and he was very happy to hear the Hon. Member for Finsbury admitting that there were evils in that measure. There were many attempts to amend that Act ; and as the present measure proposed to remedy some of the evils in it, he would not oppose it ; but he thought it did not go far enough, and he hoped it would be materially improved when it went into Com mittee. Mr. P. BORTHWICK was opposed to the Bill, but would not move an amendment. The Bill was was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed. B w l ere L considered and The h e agreedL o JUVENILE d t s o'.amendments o F n E t N h D i s E B R i Bill COMPENSATION FORBILDLA.MAGES (IRELAND) This Bill was postponed till to-morrow. NATURALIZATION OF ALIENS BILL. This Bill was read a second time. STOCK-IN-TRADE EXEMPTIONS BILL. The report upon this Bill was brought up and agreed to. Several other Bills were postponed till to morrow, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to Six o'clock. THE UN, LONDON THURSDAY DISTRESS (IRELAND) THIRD REPORT OF THE RELIEF COMMIS SIONERS. Relief Commission-office, Dubiie, June 17, 1847. May it please your Lordships,—We have the honou to submit the third monthly report of our proceedings under the Temporary Relief Act, 10 Vic., c. 7. Of the 2,049 electoral divisions in Ireland, 1,677 are nave under the operation of the Act, and are distributing 1,923,361 rations per day, gratuitously, at an average cost of 2id. per ration ; and 92,326 rations are sold. Of these 1,677 divisions under the Act, 1,479 have re ceived loans or grants, and 198 have not yet required any advance. Of the remaining 372 electoral divisions not yet under the Act, we have reason to believe that 60 will not desire to come under the Act at all ; and 312 hare not even yet sent in any returns or demands, although many of them are in much want. If the number of rations necessary for the returns still to be received shall bear the same proportion to the number of electoral divisions as those of which we already have cognisance, the entirt, number will be 2,388.475; and if the ordinary proportion for children at half rations be added, the number of persons to receive relief wiil be 2,729,684, horn 2,622,684 will receive relief gratuitously. The time and opportunities have been so ample for a suitable provision for the rosily di stitute, since the Act was in force, that if the dreadful cases of actual starva tion that have occurred in consequence of the calamitous failure of the potato crop ar 3 still to be found, the cir cumstance can only be occasioned by the neglect of local bodies, with whom rest the means of prevention. We believe, however, that these cases are now rare, and that an organisation is provided for arresting for the present so "general a calamity with more complete effect than was probably ever before attempted. We will not deny that this result has not been attained without an enormous expenditure, many abuses, and the adoption of some inconvenient principles that it will be necessary hereafter to counteract. As the working of the measure becomes more and more developed, we are enabled to judge of the effect of the organisation under which, it is proceeding, and of its final result,. _ _ Your Lordships are aware that the principle of the Act was to enable the different electoral divisions to provide in each locality for the prevalent destitution by moderate exertions and a reasonable expenditure on their own part, aided by loans and grants from Goveanment when required, and that the Acts of these divisions were to be subject to the superintending control of a finance committee for each union. vv The electoral divisions in Ireland vary in extent in area from 257 acres (Blackrock, in Rathdown union) ; to 145,598 acres (Belmullett, jn Ballina union) ; in population, from 514 (Seacor,OLetterkenny union) to 135,6(51 (South City, Dublin) ; and have been valued at from 3311. 10s. (Mullaghderg, in Glenties union) to 402.5161.35. 4d. (South City, Dublin). For the purpose of fixing upon an administration for relief in each division, the Lord-L;eutenant, by his order of the 4th March, defined the classes of which it should be composed, consisting of some who had the greatest interest in the welfare of the district, and of others who were likely to be most thoroughly acquainted with its wants. There are very few cases wherein, notwithstanding the difficulty existing in some localities of finding competent agents and machinery, the objects of the Act might not have been attained with comparative facility, if the per sons so designated had entered on the undertaking with earnestness and honesty of purpose. We regret, however, to report that in very many districts such is not the case ; and one result from the working of the measure appears to be manifest, viz., that for a general arrangement a trustworthy local management, in most cases, cannot be ensured for smaller limits than those of a union, although we are ready to acknowledge that, in a great number of dis tricts, the complaint is not applicable. The finance committees, composed of from two to four gentlemen of each union, have, with very rare excep tions, acted with zeal and intelligence, correcting in many instances errors of system introduced by the relief committees ; but they cannot always control details re quiring very accurate knowledge of the circumstances of persons and families. Where all classes of members of the relief committees have combined in good faith and spirit, the administra tion has been nearly perfect, affording effectual but reasonable relief to the really distressed, while maintain ing a due check on the attempts at fraud and imposture that are naturally attendant on gratuitous distribution. From this degree of perfection, however, we notice the gradation to some counteracting spirit in the body ; a wrong feeling of one entire class ; a degree of apathy or neglect on the part of some or the whole ; a yielding to intimidation or seeking for popularity, leading to the abandonment of any attempt to check unreasonable demands on the supplies ; down to the last degree, namely, that of actual connivance at the grossest frauds, and misapplication of the means at their disposition, which last two are frequently effected by previously driving any well-disposed members from the committee by violence or insults. In justification of ourselves, and as a proof of the dif ficulties we have to encounter in the endeavour to obtain a proper administration of the measure, we cannot refrain from laying before your Lordships instances of the kind of abuses practised. _ _ The first to be mentioned is the demand, in whole sale way; of rations for a greater number of destitute than there are individuals in the entire population of the district; this has occurred in several cases, and for thousands in excess. It is difficult to conceive the motive of such a reckless course. With some it appears to be an idea that, as an opening is afforded of drawing largely upon the public resources, it should be the endeavour of each locality to get as much as they can; while others who are not blind to the future consequences of such proceedings upon pro perty, would completely drain it for distribution among the poorer classes, under the delusive hope, it is presumed that the latter would then be permanently raised to an easy and independent state of existence. In several instances the government inspecting officer, on the occasional visits he is able to make to any one committee (having perhaps the charge of sixteen or twenty), found no difficulty in striking off hundreds of names that ought not to have been placed on the lists, including sometimes those of servants, and men in the constant employ of persons of considerable station and property; these latter are frequently themselves members of the committees, and in some cases the very chairmen, being magistrates, have sanctioned the issue of rations to tenants of their own of considerahle holdings, possessed of live stock, and who it was found had paid up their last half-year's rent. Intimidation (a very common cause of abuses) has, in some places, been openly encouraged by members of com mittees. It is a remarkable fact, however, that wherever intimidation, or the violence of the populace has been met with perseverance and energy by the committees and the inspecting officers, it has in all instances been suc cessfully resisted. When the efforts of the inspecting officers are unavail ing in checking such abuses, the only remedy in our power is to reduce the amount of the advances to what we see reason to believe, on the best information we can obtain, ought if duly administered to provide for the really destitute. Although we have no doubt that, even under such cir cumstances, our issue will be in excess, we shall expect that it will be in part misapplied, and an attempt made to charge us with a failure in supplying those who are really distressed. In enlarging on these unpleasant facts we would beg that it may be understood that they are clearly ex ceptions, although sufficient in number to be deserving of notice, and to show in parts of the country a great want of the principles necessary for minute self-go vernment. In other districts the measure is subject to the decep tions and petty frauds practised by many of the order immediately above the class of actually destitute, and which cannot entirely be checked by the best exertions of the best committees. Thus even in the districts where the service is most correctly performed, the numbers on the lists will, no doubt, exceed those of the really destitute; and it will become very necessary, in any permanent arrangement, to provide for better secu rity and tests than can be adopted under this act. Of these we have little on which to place reliance, but the precaution of issuing cooked food, and we have every reason to believe this, wherever it can be resorted to, to be a most useful and beneficial practice; nor have we heard any valid objection to it, since it has been under• stood to consist of a thick stirabout of meal, rice, &c., and not of thin soup. It has been reported to us that the introduction of cooked food has been universally productive of the best effects on the health and a ppearance of the people. In several places those who were at first clamourous against it, now request to receive no other; the ration that as a pound of meal appeared so small, when mixed, we ll coo k e d, and swelled in its cold state to a mass of substance weighing from three to five pounds, exhibits manifestly a very reasonable amount of subsistence, and is frequently acknowledged as such even by those who have to depend upon it. In many respects, although subject to many of the evils and abuses to which we have before referred, we can report that the principal objects of the Act have been attained. The absolute starvation that was widely spread over the land has been generally arrested, as has also the progress of the particular diseases engendered by the great destitution previously experienced. As an instance we may give the union of Skibbereen, with its dependent electoral division of Scholl, the sufferings of which districts were so notorious. Although much wretchedness is still to be found in them, there is now a provision made for every part of the union, the population is gradually amending from their former emaciated state, and the people are be ginning to turn their attention to future occupation and improvements that may teed to their permanent employ ment and subsistence. In another union, one of the very worst in Ireland, where five-sixths of the population require relief, there has been produced by a general distribution the same cessation of utter pervading misery, and in this latter case we find that the cost of the present relief, extended as it is, will not much exceed two-thirds of that of the relief works, which left vast numbers of the most des titute totally unprovided, though assisted at the same time by large donations from the great charitable associa tions. Since our last report, the Temporary Fever Act, 10 Tic., cap. 22, has come into operation. We have reason to believe that the power given to re lief ootnmittees to attend to the proper burial of those who die in a state of destitution, and to clear away nui sances and ventilate and cleanse cabins, has been exten sively acted upon, a nd, at a moder a t e expense , w ill t en d to prevent the spread of the prevailing disease. Two hundred and seven temporary hospitals have been directed by the Central Board of Health to be esta blished, which are intended to serve so many of 481 con tiguous electoral divisions as xuay require to use them. - PARLIAMEN TARY DIVISIONS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons. TUESDAY, JULY 6. SUPPLY. Order read for resumTngadfou rned Debate on Amend ment proposed to be made to Question (sth July), " That the order of the day for the Committee of Supply be now read ;" and which Amendment was to leave out from the word " That" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words " it is the duty of this House to institute an inquiry into the conduct of the East India Company towards Purtuab Sing, the Raja of Sattara, in depriving him of his sove reignty, and sending him to Bermes, where he is in exile, *rived of his liberty and property," instead thereof:— Question again proposed, " That the Word* proposed to be 1 left out stand part of the Question ,"—Debate resumed : ' \ Question put. The House divided:— MAJORITY—AYES, 44. _krundel, Earl of Hawes, Benjamin Ogle, S. C. Baring, W. B. Hobhouse, Sir John Palmerston, Vis. Barnard, E. G. Hogg, Sir J. Parker, John B;J:liel.f, R. M. Hutt, William Polhill, F. Blackburne, J. I. Jervis, Sir John Price, Sir R. Buller, Charles Jocelyn, Viscount Rich, Henry Clive, Vise. Labouchere, Henry Rutherford, A. Craig, W. G. Macaulay, T. Shell, R. L. Dundas, Admiral M'Taggart, - Sir J. Somerville, Sir W. Ferguson, Sir R. Masterman, J Spooner. R. Gardner, J. D. Maule, Fox Ward, H. G. Gibson, Thomas M. Monahan, J. H. Wood, Sir Charles Graham, Sir James Morpeth, Viscount Greene, Thomas Morris, David TELLERS. Grey, Sir G. Morison, General Tufnell, H. Hamilton, W. J. Mostyn, E. Cowper, W. F. MINORITY-NOES, 23. Baine, Walter Duke, Sir J. Perfect, R. Beresford, Major Escott, Bickhama . Rashleigh, William Blake, Martin .J. Evans, Sir De Lacy Thompson, Ald. 13orthwick, Peter Hall, Sir B. Thornely, Thomas Boaverie, E. P. Henley, J. W. Williams, W. Bosrring, Dr. Hervey, Lord A. Bretherton, J. Lawless, Cecil TELLERS. Colebrooke, Sir T. M`Carthy, Alexathiet Hume, Joseph Colyile, C. it. Manners, Lord J. Ewart, William RAILWAf CO3I3III7EES. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(YESTERDAY.) Room B. COVENTRY, BANBURY, AND OXFORD. The Committee were occupied during the whole day with the examination of Mr. Blyth, C.E., in support of the proposed line, and Mr. R. Stevenson, C.E., i❑ oppo sition thereto. The Committee adjourned till eleven to-morrow. Room D. SOUTH TORXSHIRE (DONCASTER AND GOOLE). Mr. Cubitt, C.E., and other witnesses were examined in support of this line. Room F. READING, REIGATE, AND GUILDFORD. The Committee met this morning at eleven. _ _ The object of this proposed Bill is to enable the Guildford and Reigate Company to construct a portion of their line between Dorking and Gomershall, which, in the original Act, it was stipulated should be made by the Direct Portsmouth Rsilway Company. Mr. David Salomons and other witnesses were called hi support of the Bill. The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-(YESTERDAY.) GROUP VI. SOUTHAMPTON AND DORCHESTER (Win- BORNE AND BLANDPORD BRANCH). Evidence in favour of this line was offered. Captain Moorsom, C.E., was also examined with re spect to the engineering features of the line. The Committee adjourned till twelve tomorrow. VAUXHALL GARDENS. A grand fete was given on Tuesday upon the occasion of the anniversary of the Butchers' Charitable institu tion. There were upwards of 15,000 persons present. The gardens were more than usually brilliant, and the fireworks went off with great splendour. The great novelty was, however, the night ascent of the balloon, in which were Mr. Gypsum, the proprietor of the balloon, Mr. Albert Smith, Mr. Pridmore, and Mr. Coxwell. After some delay the balloon mounted with great velo city, and some rockets were discharged. It was soon, however, sailing out of sight, and the company in the gardens believed that the aeronauts had a pleasant voyage before them, when they were frightened from their propriety by the report that an accident had oc curred, as the balloon had been seen rapidly descending about a mile from the royal property. The most painful anxiety reigned for some minutes, which was, however, agreeably dispelled by the arrival of Mr. Albert Smith in a cab, to whom we are indebted for the following account of the occurrence:—As soon as the fireworks from the car had been discharged, word was given to Mr. Coxwell, who was on the hoop, to open the valve and relieve some of the gas, as the balloon was getting tens- from the elevation it had attained. A report resembling a rush of air was instantly heard, and the whole of the lower part of the balloon suddenly col lapsed, surging backwards and forwards as in a high wind, whilst a voice cried, " The valve has burst —we are all lost I" Immediately it began to descend with terrific rapidity, the elevation at that moment attained being, as nearly as could be calculated by the minuteness of the river boundaries, about 6,000 feet ; and, to add to the danger, the mass of the balloon was covered with the last sparks of the fireworks, threaten ing every moment to blow up. Fortunately the netting retained the upper part of the balloon in a parachute Aape, the neck collapsing into it, and to this may be attributed the preservation of the lives of the aeronauts. The first shock was aw►'ul as it struck the earth, throw ing the voyagers from the car with great violence, while the silk of the balloon, entirely voided of its gas, covered them. A smart concussion was fortunately the only re sult of the accident. The only gentleman who received • any hurt was Mr. Pridmore, whose knee was slightly lacerated. Perhaps in the annals of aeronautics there is not to be found an instance of so miraculous an escape. To the presence of mind of the gentlemen in the car may be attributed their safety. In tho few awful seconds which elapsed between the accident and the arrival on earth, every means, by lightening the balloon and otherwise, were coolly taken to obviate the shock of touching the earth ; and had it not been for their calm ness every life might have been sacrificed. The primary cause of the accident seems to have been the state of the atmosphere, which rarified the gas to such an extent that the mechanism connected with the valve gave way. The night was exceedingly sultry—the lightning playing about the heavens almost continually. But, as regarded the ascent, a finer one was never made, and every one of the gentlemen wa., more or less, acquainted with the principles of aerostation. HOP INTELLIGENCh. BATTLE.—In the parish of Crewhurst the poles are in most places well clothed with bine, and apparently in clined to branch very thickly, which gives to the grower a hope of success ; yet the bine looks something more dried, and the leaves less expanded than they were a fortnight back ; a warm shower would probably do them good. Amongst some young pieces, being the first year's poling, there were aphides, and one piece from which sap was exuding, and forming slight honey-dew on the, leaves, but nothing serious, the dry north-east wind bong rather unfavourable. The general opinion of the, growers in this neighbourhood is, that they are doing very well at present in the flat grounds, where it is cool and moist ; on the upward pieces:they are little:affected with insects. BECLLEY.—The hops in this and the neighbouring parishes are much infested with fly, but are in growing and thriving condition. BuawAsii.—Among the hops one race of insect is devouring another. The " niggers" are eating up the lice ; the fly has disappeared ; there is, however, more honey this week than last, and the appearance of the bine is in most gardens less healthy now than then. BuTunTLING.—The hops in this parish, in some gardens, are much worse than they were a week back, and have some honey dew; while others are growing fast and looking very promising. FLETCHING.—The hops this week have made no pro gress, and generally they are much infested with vermin and honey-dew. Some of the gardens are look ing very bad. GARDNER-STREET.—Since my last the hops in this parish have undergone a change. In many gardens there is a considerable quantity of honey-dew fallen in the past week, and the appearances are not so favour able for a crop as they were ten days ago. HEATHFIEED.—The past week has been a disastrous one to the hop-plant, and not only is -it general in this locality, but wheresoever we gather intelligence from the -like inawpicious cry is given. The myriads of vermin (flea, fly, and lice) have been daily increasing, and continue to do so, while the honey-dew has literally begrimed most of the large leaves, on many of which in the hot afternoons it flows freely and drops off. All these evils are rapidly progressirg concomitantly with a continuous north-east wind, remarkably cold nights for the season, blue-misty mornings and hot afternoons, so that a more unpropitious combination of circumstances fur the hop plant, which is daily getting of a blacker hue, can hardly be imagined, and unless speedy change takes place, a general blight is foreboded by many. HORSMONDEL—Some plantations are very much honied, and the leaves are getting black, with an increase of lice, which are in a doubtful condition. In other parts of the parish that are comparatively clean, the bines are progressing satisfactorily. We are still of opinion that the crops will be partial. MAYFIELD, JULY 4 . —The hops are not improved this last week, but in some instances in worse condition, being attacked with honey dew and covered with lice ; but we live in hopes of a favourable change, not forgetting what took place last year. NEWICIL—With the exception of two or three gardens, the hops have since the last account much gone off. Vermin and honey-dew exist to a great extent, indeed so much so, that it is the general opinion there can be but a very slight crop. NINFIELD, JULY 3 . —The hops in this neighbourhood are growing, but are not free from vermin. We have at present but little honey-dew; fine weather for a week or two would very much assist them. ROTIIFIELD.--Fly and vermin among the hops in this district are very partial; some are in an improving, others in a declining state. TusinnmaE.—Within the last three or four days the lice eo a .rAc t t i oD d hluda h tuv o ch,eß n aass e enrt y xe.l - p:a d nes e w have increased in some grounds in this neighbourhood ; generally, the accounts are less fa vourableYvvi e w h in e n e c e de k h sd 'o t a p h s adt i e n chi t da h ev i de s district prevailed change f s o i r n f o c t h e r the last a f n c v e days and have the honey-dewchecked grounds.— Sussex s e a the p w p o e ir a as r sel : Advertiser. THE OBSERVER OF SUNDAY, JULY i 1.--The Ob server account of the Three Days' Proceedings at Cam bridge picturesquely illustrated. A sixpence enclosed to Mr. Clement, jun., 170, Strand, will ensure a copy by return of post to any part of England, Scotland, or Ire land. There is scarcely a club-house, institution, library, or news-room in all England, Scotland, Ireland, the Continent, East and West Indies, or America, in which the Observer is not taken in, and in many instances du plicate copies. The extensive publication of the Observer c•immences at six, and concludes at ten on Sunday mornings. A Monday edition of the Observer, best adapted for the country and abroad, is regularly pub lished at four o'clock on Monday afternoon. MORN IN G 3 UL Y s, 164 L The measure has been too recently in operation for us to be able to report on its effects, except that in the N, rth Dublin Union, by energetic proceedings and with the advantage of the resources of this city, scone seeds were speedily prepared, and patients in fever, for whom there was no previous provision, were at once treated, and several discharged cured. We annex a variety of returns and the circular orders which have been issued since the last report. We have the honour to be, my Lords, Your Lordships' most obedient humble servants, J. F. BURGOYNE. T. N. REDINGTON. R. I. ROUTH. HARRY D. JONES. E. T. B. TWISLETON. D. M'GREGOR. The Right Hon. the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, &c. &e. &c. THE REPORT OF THE FRENCH COURT OF PEERS ON THE AFFAIR OF GENERAL CUBIERES. This report, which in its entire. state would make a good sized printed v,)luese, has just been made public. It begins with a printed notice of the origin of the prosseti tion of General Cut Ores. Our readers are already aware that, in u suit between the General and M. Par tner:tier, respecting a dispute about a salt mine, M. Par mentier published some letters of the General for the purpose of making it appear that he hal obtained a large p , rtion of the shares on pretence of using them as a bribe to persons in authority to promote the interests of the company, but had converted theta to his own use. These l'ttera excited public attention, and, the affair being noticed in the Chamber of Deputies, the Gov ernmeut resolved upon an investigation. The Chamber of Peers formed itself into a judicial court, and General Cubieres, who is himself a peer and an ex-minister, was called upon to answer two charges —one of having, by false representations, obtained possession of property, to be employed, as he said, in the corruption of public functionaries ; the other, of having employed, or attempted to employ. the means of corruption. M. Parmentier was included in this second charge. As the investigation proceeded facts transpired which induced the commission appointed by the Court to report upon the affair to include in the prosecution M. Pellaprat, an ex-Receivat-General, as a party to the corruption, or the attempt to corrupt, and Baron Teste, ex-Minister of Public Works, on the charge of having accepted a bribe to induce him to favour the scheme in which the other three defendants were engaged. A large portion of the report is devoted to an account of the:.mining affair in question, and to the pecuniary interest taken in it by General Cubiires, who is stated to have had in the first instance only a hundredth part, but to have obtained subsequently by purchase six other hundredths, making altogether seven, at a total price of 159,000 f. In order to make this spe culation complete, it was necessary to obtain certain concessions of grants from the Government, and accord ing to the report the negotiations were intrusted to Ge neral Cubieres, who informed the other shareholders that nothing was to be obtained without bribery, and induced them to set apart a number of shares, valued at about 25,0001. each, which were, he said, to be given to the high functionaries, in whom the power of concession was vested either in a direct or indirect way. The re port, which is not a very clear document, is, however, divided into periods for the purpose, as it states, of ren dering the matter more clear than it would otherwise be. In the first period, the history of the case is related from the 24th of April, 1841, to the sth of February, 1842. General Cuballres and M. Parmen tier :are stated to have made their arrangements for bribing the Minis ters of Public Works and Finances, and long extracts are given from their correspondence, and their answers to the interrogatories of the commission of the Court of Peers to show that they were really engaged in the attempt to corrupt these Ministers and the public functionaries whose reports were necessary for the obtaining the concession. The letters of Gen. Cubi eres, in which he urges the mining company to set aside funds for the purpose of corruption are qnoted at great length. The second division, or period of the report, comprises what took place from the sth of February, 1842, to the 18th of June in the same year. The shareholders of the mine of Gouhenans had, it is stated, yielded to the suggestions of General Cubiares and M, Parmentier, and set aside twenty-five shares for the purpose stated by them. These persons are spoken of as having been actively engaged in the prosecution of their illegal object, and M. Pellapra is alluded to as an accomplice called in to aid the efforts of M. Cu bieres, it being supposed that he had an influence with M. Teste. In this part of the report, we find strong allusions to the accusation of M. Parmentier against General Cubieres of having been guilty of fraud in obtaining possession of shares on the pretext of employ ing them for the service of the company, but in reality appropriating them to his own use. All this is denied by General Cubieres, who declares that he never offered M. Teste a bribe, and expresses regret that in his correspondence he should thoughtlessly have compro mised the honour of that Minister. The report states that in the papers of General Cubilres, which have been laid before the commission, there were various projects of divisions of the forty shares, which were considered necessary to be used as bribes, and that in one, twenty five of them were entered in the name of M. C—, and in another ten are put down to C—, and fifteen to P.C. These papers were acknowledged by Gen. Cubieres to be in his own hand-writing. An extract is given from the answer of Parmentier to the interrogatories which %sere put to him. When asked by the commission what he understood from the letters addressed to him by the General, he replied, three things, viz., the necessity of corruption, the power of corruptin , z, and the will to corrupt; but he said: he did not believe the General ; and if he did not t-11 him so, it was because he would not make him the enemy of the company, as he might in such a case have acted secretly against it. General Cubieres is stated to have replied to the question as to whom he meant to designate by the initial P., that it was M. Pellapra, but he denied that the shares set against him were to be given to him for the purpose of bribery. He was, he said, to purchase them of the company at a price to be discussed. M. Pellapra, when interrogated, says the report, energetically pro tested against the deduction to be drawn from the paper of General Cubiares. The report now arrives at the name of M. Teste. " All the accused, all the witnesses," says the report, " were unanimous in exculpating M. Teste from the accusation or suspicion of corruption. All declared that an equivocal word had never come from his lips, and that no proposition of bribery had reached his ear." But this tardy reserve of the authors of the letters, which would be laid before the Court, is declared by the commission to be in disaccord with the gravity of the - imputations contained in their correspondence. Amongst the letters mentioned, and from which extracts are given, is one from General Cubieres, in which he alludes to an observation said to have been made by M. Teste, that another competitor for the concession was in the field, and he suggests that this might be a mere trick to compel the company to yield more readily to extortion. M. Teste, when called upon to explain the meaning of General Cubieres, replied, " General Cubieres only can say what he meant. All that I can say is that never did M. de Cubieres or any other person, directly or in directly, make me the shadow of a proposition or over ture having for its object to induce me to take an interest in the affair of Gouhenans, and that my inflexible rule of conduct has always been, never to take part, not merely in any affair connected with my ministry, but in any other affair." M. Parmentier, on the other hand, declared that M. Cubiires had positively men tioned M. Teste to him as being the Orlon whom he intended to bribe. The third division or period of the report comprises the proceedings from the 18th of June, 1842, to the 3d of January, 1843, the date of the ordinance of concession for the mine. M. Pellapra, who is described as a very rich capitalist, having, it was sup posed, peculiar influence with M. Teste, is much spoken of in this part of the report ; but we do not find any direct evidence against him. It is by deduction from that correspondence that he is chiefly implicated. Large extracts are made from the letters of General Cubieres to M. Parmentier, in which the General speaks of the exertions that he has made, and insinu ates that he meets with obstructions which he attributes to the determination of the persons in authority, with whom he had to deal, to extort as much as they could. From what is stated by the commission, M. Pellapra had been in close relation with M. Teste on the subject of the concession, and had communi cated to the company some information obtained from the Minister ; but M. Pellapra, when interrogated, de clared that he had not sought to influence the mind of the Minister improperly, and that what M. Teste had said and done was in a friendly but disinterested spirit. Pellapra had, it appears, up to this time, been heard by the commission as a witness, but some supposed prevarication in his evidence had induced the commis sion to inform him that he would in future be heard, not as a witness but as a person accused, M. Teste, when pressed with questions on this subject, replied as he had before done, that if he had given information to the parties who applied to him, it was chiefly with a view of pointing out the difficulties in the way of the concession, and that ho had acted towards them in the same friendly and open spirit as he would have done towards any body else. A letter from General Cubieres, in which he speaks of M. Pellapra as having discovered through M. Taste that there were difficulties opposed by the Minister of Finances, and that, in consequence of the informa tion thus received, he had been able to change his tac tics, is quoted at great length. This letter being laid before M. Teste, he said there was some truth and some falsehood in it. It was very possible, he said, that he might have talked to General Cubitlres of difficulties arising from the attributions of the two Ministers, but he denied that he had said anything to lead General Cu bieres to suppose that the Minister of Finances had inter posed obstacles, and had pointed out how they were to be overcome. The result of the interrogations of the accused parties, and of the examination of the correspondence, is stated to have been that the commission felt it right to change the character in which M. Teste had appeared — via., that of witness, and to announce to him that he would in future be heard only as a party accu tic ecL M. t Taste replied that he was thankful for t his s character of P would enable him to get rid of the his defence. The a mere witness and to stand fully up-oanssli-ii fourth and fifth periods or divisions of the report are filled with the correspondence of eneral Cubieres, M. Parmentier, an d M. pellapra, a befor e and after the resti tution of the 25 shares set side for the supposed pur pose of corruption, and with an account of the action at law brought by M. Parmentier against General Cu bieres, of which we have already given a report. In the resume of the Commission it is stated that the most po sitive proof of the different public functionaries whose names had been involved, had resulted from the labours of the commission, with the exception that there was something as regard to M. Teste yet to be explained. With respect to the other defendants, the commission leaves it to the Court to declare the view that it takes of the facts which have been adduced. TREATY OF CO MMERCE AND ! NAVIGATION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE GRAND DUKE OF TUSCANY. Signed at Florence, April 5, 1847, I Ratification exchanged at Florence, June 12, 1847. j Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany. being equally animated by the desire of extending the commercial relations be tween their respective dominions have agreed for this i purpose to conclude a treaty of commerce and naviga- Lion, and have named as their plenipotentiaries, that is to say : Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the Honourable Peter Camp• bell Scarlett, her Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court of his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany. And his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tusstany, Alexander Humbourg, Knieht of the Mili tary Order of Saint Stephen Pope and Martyr. Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit, with the tide of Saint Joseph, C: - ,cnrirn:ci(-r of the Orthr of Cied Merit of Saxony, Knish: of that of 1, - -.)poid Austria, Privy Cousittill,4t of State. Finance, r.rel War, Diree!oe of the Royal Seereteryship of War. Ministz , v of' Fereien Affairs of his Inip,rial and Royal Highness. Who, after having communicatod to each ether di it respective full powers, found in good and due firm, have agreed upon and concluded the following articles : Article I.—From and after the date of the exehanee of the ratification of the present treaty, British vessels arriving at, remaining in, or departing f rolu , t h e p , :rts of Tuscany, and its dependencies, and Tuse,in vessel,. arriving at, remaining in, or departing from, the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Br.tain and Ireland, or of her Britannic Majesty's possessions abroad, shad be subject to no other or higher dues or charges, of whatsoever nature they may be, than those which are now, or shall hrlpafter be, imposed upon national vessels, on their arriving at, during their remaining in, or on their departure from, such ports. Article ll. I. All articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Tuscany and its dependencies, which are or shall be permitted to be exported from the ports of Tuscany and its dependencies in Tuscan vessels, shall likewise be permitted to be exported from those ports in British vessels, either to the ports of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland, or to the ports of her Britannic Majesty's possessions abroad, or to the ports of any other foreign country. 2. All articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the dominions of her Britannic Majesty, which are or shall be permitted to be exported from the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in British vessels, shall likewise be permitted to be exported from those ports in Tuscan vessels, either to the ports of Tus cany and its dependencies, or to the ports of any other foreign country. 3. All articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Tuscany and its dependencies, which are or shall be permitted to be imported in British vessels, from the ports of Tuscany and its dependencies, or from the ports of any other foreign country, into the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, shall likewise be permitted to be imported in Tuscan vessels. 4. All articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, which are or shall be permitted to be imported into the ports of Tuscany and its dependencies in Tuscan vessels, shall likewise be permitted to to imported into those ports in British vessels. Article lII.—All articles whatsoever which can be le gally imported into the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Tuscan vessels, or into the ports of Tuscany and its dependencies in British vessels, shall, on their importation, be subject to the same duties of importation, dues, and charges, and be entitled to the same bounties, drawbacks, and allowances, whether such articles be imported in vessels of the one or of the other country. Article IV.—All articles whatsoever, which can le gally be exported from the ports of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Tuscan vessels, or from the ports of Tuscany and its dependencies in British ves sels, shall, on their exportation, be subject to the same duties of exportation, dues, and charges, and be entitled to the same bounties, drawbacks, and allowances, whether such articles be exported in vessels of the one or of the other country. Article V.—The lonian Islands being under the pro tection of her Britannic Majesty, the subjects and vessels of those islands shall enjoy in the Tuscan dominions all the advantages which are given by the present treaty to the subjects and vessels of Great Britain, as soon as the Government of the lonian Islands shall have agreed the same reciprocal advantages in those islands to the sub jects and vessels of his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany ; it being understood that to prevent abuses, every lonian vessel claiming the bene fits of the present treaty shall be furnished with a patent signed by the Lord High Commissioner, or by his re presentative. Article Vl.—The present treaty shall be in force until the Ist of January, 1857, and further until the end of twelve months after either of the high contract ing parties shall have given notice to the other of its intention to terminate the same • each of the high con tracting parties reserving to its e lf the right of giving such notice to the other on the Ist of January, 1856, or at any subsequent time. And it is hereby agreed between them, that at the expiration of twelve months after such no tice shall have been received by either party from the other, this treaty, and all the provisions th:reof, shall altogether cease and determine. Article Vll.—The present treaty shall be ratified, and the rAtifications thereof shall be exchanged at Florence, at the expiration of two months, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof the above•named plenipotentiaries have signed the present treaty in two originals, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms. Done at Florence, the sth of April, in the year of our L .r,l 1847. (L.S.) P. CAMPBELL SCARLETT. (L.S.) A. HUMBOURG. DECLARATION SIGNED BY THE BRITISH AND TUSCAN PLENIPOTENTIARIES ON THE EXCHANGE OF THE RA- TIFICATIONS OP THE PRECEDING TREATY. The undersigned, Plenipotentiaries of her Majesty the Queen of the Unit4d Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, having met together for the purpose of exchanging the ratifications of the treaty of com merce and navigation, signed at Florence, on the lith of April last ; The plenipotentiary of her Britannic Majesty hereby declares, by order of his Government, that the provi sions of the treaty shall extend to the British possessions of Malta and Gibraltar. The plenipotentiary of his Imperial and Royal High ness the Grand Duke of Tuscany hereby declares by order of his Government, that British steam-vessels may enter, remain in, and depart from Tuscan ports, without being obliged upon each occasion to pay the port charges of any kind which may be due, but that the account thereof shall be settled by the end of every six months, and the Consul of her Britannic Majesty in Leghorn shall arrange with the authorities in Tuscany as to the measures to be taken fur regulating and assuring the payment thereof. The plenipotentiary of his Imperial and Royal High ness further declares, by order of his Government, that British steam-vessels are permitted to maintain in Tus can ports coal-hulks for their express use, and at their own charge. Done at Florence, the 12th day of June, 1847. (L.S.) P. CAMPBELL SCARLETT. (L.S.) A. HUMBOURG. THE MURDER IN MARTLEBONE.—OH the first day of the session an application was made to the Common Sergeant by Mr. Bodkin, to postpone the trial of Mary Anne Hunt, for murder, to the next session. The ground for the application was, that the case had only just been taken up by the Treasury to be prosecuted on their behalf, and that there would not be sufficient time at the present session to prepare the evidence. No opposition was offered to the application on behalf of the prisoner, and it was therefore acceded to. The late Mr. T. T. Rennell, of Enfield, has left 1001. to the Middlesex Hospital, and 150/. to the endow ment of a Chapel of Ease at Enfield Highway, being a portion of money accrued from property left to him by his father, the late Major Rennell. JENNY LIND.—In Jenny Lind we see realised our ideal of the Teutonic maid. She is the loving, earnest creature, German authors so delight in depicting 1 * t$- embodiment, in short, of the creations of De la Motte, Fouquds or AOrbach, the last mentioned of whom, in his " Tales of the Black Forest," pictures many a Jenny Lind, singing in the greenwood in all the fresh simpli city of nature. She is not one of your regular beauties, whom novelists have such a facility in painting ; indeed, according to the general acceptation of the term, she is no beauty at all; nevertheless, she is the most enchanting creature imaginable—" In that we all agree." What is it, then, that fascinates the whole house, and makes it rise, as one man, with loud acclamations directly she appears? It is the mixture of earn estness' s, simplicity, and genius we see stamped upon her feattilmrees lighting them up with an expression a thousand beauty. more ravishing than the most Cleopatra . n like with the Like a little child, she makes frie -d c s , like the great company at once. She sits in noar golden beams • b., fairy in the pantomime, surrounded y tuned nervous' Bute-like sweetness s o f her but from her, as from some ng pautrehrteeb trem bling y e w xq h u om sh e c chords r s d u s r o f Sym centre, invisibly ray olu.torounded. pathy to every human he Great as is her singi d t e h l e icio n u ti s te highest voice, swelling with al t . o e h u a s ve he n r o acting sin6er n gr t e h a e t of the A nn o n l y ian fin h e ar:s e t e i: attrac tion, and this for,,t the reason, that although we have sense of the term,h as any very great conception of cha racter. Indeed there appears to be a tacit agreement in t h e public mind that acting in an op era i s not on l y qu i te a s econdary matter, but that it mi g h t b e o f a perfectly conventional character, and many of our greatest singers seem to think that their arms are only necessary as vocal air-pump handles with which to fetch up the deeper chest notes; and one is often annoyed by seeing, in the midst of a scene of intense passion, the arms of the prima donna swinging mechanically in the air. In Jenny Lind, on the contrary, every utterance of her transcendant voice is accompanied by an emotional rather than a volitional action; in other words, by an involuntary working of the muscles: and this is the great reason of the utter absence of effort which distinguishes all her performaaces.—People's Journal. MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 14 per milk, which, at the English Mint rice of 31. 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange 095.50 ; and the exchange at Paris on Lon don at short being 25.45, it follows that gold is 0.20 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 432 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.81; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.9, it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent. dearer in London than in ilgmburgh. The . LIVERPOOL E following homdhiii hay LECTION. bean txter,sivoy ELECT , RS OF LIVERPOOL. " In ehoooing your representatives, stlect no man who will not pledge himself t o a rev i s i on o f of the money laws. •• SJ long as row materiai, tobour. sod skill are abun :Lint in the country, or con h.:7 readily obtained, if we rvssess a flfficient me-. - licon of exchan , ,e, Re base the elements of everything that is waered in human exi pi t-nee ; but if any of these aro deficient, merchants and traders are embarrassed, and workmen thrown out of employment. " Will you say we lack labour? Wi!! you say we lac skill or industry? Do we lack the raw material nei:ceoe sary for our clothing or building. or land on which to r )duce or procure food? It we lack none of these things. nd, besides, a large portion of the world is eager 'or otrr productions, and anxious, upon toir tetras, to exchantry illcirs for ours, what do we lack but moro'y an'i , - ,,, n0r , ,c.:lseY—Not a centrreted currency, which riisAs the price trod when it ought to h e eneope•-;t. an,/ reAkte, , s rho %Lie ~t I,tonr 11,:d of all icaLlittetw L-o-Celot.. pe;:k,nts thp iironet, :oci.sty at.d fire Cs!• Oh, ft,! "'no Cur rel.(": cif rt Ps PI t‘di pt - cr. eurAe of tho enurn."\ ; Therofor, cariti:fiatc- agti. rea34 , ns) Ni,() , MA: L. , v.)r., `...r ft modification of the i•emc. CHIGHTFUL ACCIDENT IN TILL MILE-LND ROAD. fill Ttwsday Mr. Baker held an inquest at C'c Loaiitat I r.or:pital on the body el R'zitmth 1.11)th, aged 36, Ike ife of a se'.-ernalter, whole Oeatit took plate under the tulatwing sborkiog circumstance::— Benjamin Fearu, of' Is, Alapts-roir, Stepney-green. turncrek to the East London Wat,r Company, said that en Friday night last, between 10 and 11 o'clock, he was walking up the Mile-eud-road, when he saw a waggon, drawn by three horses, iu the act of .passing through the new toll- ga t e , at White Horse-lane. Wit ness also saw a light spring cart come from behind waggon, in which there was a man driving, and live other persons. The cart was drawn by a single horse, and was going at eight or nine miles per hour, and, whilst attempting to pass the waggon on the off si•le, the wheel of the cart caught a post placed to pro tect the toll-house, and in au instant the lighter vehicle' was upset, and the whole of the passengers and the bone were thrown under the waggon. The wheels of the waggon rested on the deceased and also on the head of the horse. The animal was saved only by its collar. Witness saw the waggon pass over another person, also heard the bones in her body crack. Witness laid hold of the horse and held it until the parties were all extricated. George Webb, of James-street, Globe-fields, Mile-end. confirmed the evidence given by the last witness as to the accident, and added that if there had been a light on the t. .p of the toll-house the occurrence would not have hap. pened. - Mr. John Nash, one of the house-surgeons, said that deceased was admitte - r with a severe compound fracture of the left leg; the right leg was broken and quite crushed. There were also several bruis , s o❑ the head and over the body. The deceased never rallied, but died a !most immediately after her admission. The Coroner—How are the other parties? Witness—They are all very bad ; it is doubtful whe ther any of them will recover, and one party is fast sinking. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death," at the same time requesting the coroner to write to tha cl.2rk of the trustees to have the place better lighted for the future. WISDOM OF THE EXCISE LAWS (Abridged from the Edinbutgh News.) A highly respectable paper -manufacturer near Dover was lately subjected to one of those many annoy. ances that the Excise-laws, as they now stand, unjustly warrant. In order that those unacquainted with the Excise-laws in regard to paper may understand the feirdship of this case, it may be necessary to premise that the Excise duty on paper is levied by scale weight only, and that the Excise officers themselves weigh the paper. lc is a custom of the trade (introduced by stationers) to mark each ream of paper one pound heavier than the actual weight, and 10 per cent, on the actual weight is allowed by law for this " making up." A hundred reams were charged by the maker in question, and because it happened that these hundred reams, in the bulk, e ere a few ounces under the prescribed allow ' once, they were instantly seized and carried off in triumph, the officer himself sitting on the paper in the waggon, as if' some great fraud had been committed, instead of a trifling inaccuracy in comp u t a ti on on t h e part of some of th workpeople; and, he it observed, an error which, even if' intent:onel, could neither be pro ductive of benefit to the manufacturer or loss to the revenue. Nevertheless, in addition to the loss of the paper, which was enough indeed, a highly-principled manufacturer, of thirty years' standing, had his hitherto high reputation injured by a cartload of seized paper hying paraded through a populous neighbourhood to the residence of the supervisor, no one but those immediately concerned knowing the why or the where fore—the only construction that could be put on such art xhibition being, that an attempt at fraud had been detected. On sth November, 1542. a puncheon of spirits, in the act of being lowered into the `Princess Royal' (a London steamer, lying at Granton and bound fo: London), slipped from the slings and was smasked to atoms at the bottom of the hold. The spirits con tained in it were of course dispersed over the whole veer se! by the violence et the concussion, aed thence run nine- down amongst the bilge water, were utterly lost. Timis accident happened in the presence of many highly respectable witnesses, and one might have imagined that no duty would have bten charged on spirits which had rlize; Lever gone into consumption. The distil'-r accord irely petitioned for remission of the duty, but was in. stantly refused; he then sought that, at all events, he sleeild only he charged the Scotch duty of 3s sa a n, since, if the stints were held to he consumed, , they were, at all events, consumed in Scotland. And what was the reply ? Why, this, that the distiller had intended these spirits for the London market, and that, therefore, to the London market they should go ; or, at all events, that whether they went to the London market or not, the distiller should pay the duty upon them. Accordingly, the full English duty of s. 10d. per gallon was charged, and the distiller was forced to pay to the Crown the sum of 65/. 13s, Id. for spirits which he bad satisfactorily proved, by the oaths of the parties in charge of the vessel, had not, and never c.aild have been consumed. The whole value of spirits, exclusive of duty, was 151. 9s. 6i., and this loss one might have supposed, was sufficiently heavy ; but no, the Excise duties, amounting to 651. 13s. ld., must be paid in addition, and the unfortunate trader's loss was thereby increased upwards of four hundred per cent. by the exactions of the Excise. A seizure was ones' made by a supervisor of about fifty little parcels of paper at a mill, because these were tied up in wrappers without labels being pasted upon them. The Excise, at the time in question, did not allow paper to be put up in less quantities than a ream. and the parcels referred to consisted of remnants of so many different kinds, ranging from one sheet or quire up to nineteen. They had been tied up for no other purpose than that of keeping them clean and in good order. It only required the statement of this circumstance to the Board of Excise, to procure the restoration of the paper, though not without a good deal of trouble, and te ter some weeks' delay ; but, in the meanwhile, the trader had to endure all the odium consequent on the f ee t, proclaimed abroad, of a seizure having been made, without its being known that it proceeded from excess of zeal in a contemptible officer ; the manufacturer, besides, being greatly inconvenienced by the want of specimens of the papers which he had been previously making, in consequence of these rem nants having been carried away. This robbery wag e7en sanctioned by the letter of the law. On the Bth of August, 1844, an extensive fire happened at Leith Distillery, when among other things, a considerable quantity of spirits and wash was destroyed. One might suppose that so great a calamity overtaking an indivi dual would be loss sufficient; but no, the Excise must share with the devouring e n le :t m wa e nivl ri h t inios i v.km n es t o h tra e e —4151. ls. 4d., duty on 2,264 gallons of spirits, which the but the Excise assumed ought to have been nate distiller! If a distiller in Cam of y P o be ri t ew York (and g d d amount aur ro t d y P e s t t h of tsl i ftu f :i h reil e which never were produced , u.i a w fb a e s e l xepv i o e r d te o d n p ufu r t r h o e wm u is n hL f e o is r v t e ti tro i export 20 puncheons of malt t ß ,, r in ot - h d e e r w J ), on th a e tha e n x , ci b se e it known , in re somewhat amusing; for, i . r" d a e. out 1001., no tri fl ing pool, the distiller pays 8 a g gow or Greenock. c eg t l o y e of b exporting from the Upon 20 pun cheons,y.'" h 1 :ci f: amounts o e re p r th l v e t esux Mersey' rt 0 Mersey instead i t thisa from f 0 ofr P ORANGE raocEssioNs.—We regret to leans that the addresses issued by some of the Orange leaders. 'wt. ing the abandonment of party processions, in the present lamentable state of the country, had been utterly disre. garded in various districts. In Dungsnnon, Rathfrilaad. Newry, and other places, the Orangemen walked, and riot and stone-throwing followed as usual. In Tyrone and other northern counties there are to be large processions, with the usual accompaniments of banners and party tunes, on the 12th inst., and considerable alarm is expressed in'some of the letters that have reached us as to the consequences,. This is another lamentable evidence that the demon spirit of faction is still rampant amongst the Orange Lod;voa. The Government, no doubt, will adopt all due preeawaons to protect public order.—Dublin Evening Post, THE JEWS AND THE BISHOP' OF OXFOID.--" ABUSE OF CHRISTIANITY.—From an article in the Jewish Chronicle, addressed to the Bishop of Oxford, in& consequence of that prelate's speech at the meeting . of the Society for the Conversion of the Jews, we give the following :—" You, Lord Bishop of Oxford, you, high in the list of favoured schoolmen ; you, the representative of the humane Christian Church ; you, the disciple of tolerance and religion, you could venture to say we had no God. You could distinctly add to this, that you had discovered the source of, our wretchedness and misery, and your penetration told you that Their misery is directly to be traced to their want of Christianity.' My lord, my lord, as the lion is seldom roused but by the touch that wounds 'aim, so awakens in our breasts at these words all the indig nity of past ages, all the cruelty, all the inhuman' prac. I ices that have been put in force against us ; our t whole soul is roused, for we feel with all the bitterness of those eho have suffered, that our misery proceeded toot from our want of Christianity, not from our refusing, the light of Christianity, but because its light was a 'torch that lit the stakes to which we were led; because from Chris. tianity and its abuse has sprung, and in In any places yet springs, all our misery, all our faults, al our degra dation." ST. PETERSBURG, JUNE 23.—His 'Majesty the Emperor has just issued a ukase to the St a tth o lders of the - Transcaucasian provinces, facilitating the comer' cial custom duties on the east coast of the 'Slack $