The Sun. — London, England, 1840-07-21 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. HORRIBLE MURDER, AND SUI- CIDE OF THE MURDERER. (ANOTHER ACCOUNT.) Yesterday morning, about a quarter past nine, a most dreadful murder and suicide took place at No. 14, Caro line-buildings, Elliot's-row, St. George's, Southwark. The pot-boy of the Fountain, St. George's-road, and Mrs. Callaway, the landlady, who resided at No. 33, Caroline buildings, were attracted to the spot by hearing most dreadful serelms, and looking through the window were horror-struck at perceiving a man leaning over a female in the act of cutting her throat. He then re leased her, when she rushed from the house, with the blood pouring in torrents from her, to the door of No. 12, where she was caught by Mrs. Callaway, who took off her apron and attempted to stanch the blood, despatch ing persona far a surgeon, policeman, &c. The man at this time was brandishing the knife and threatening to stab any person who approached him. While several persons were engaged with the deceased the murderer placed himself behind the street-door, and, with the dread ful instrument in his hand, nearly severed his head from his body. From the particulars obtained on the spot, it ap pears the murderer was a lodger, and that the husband of the deceased had but a short time before the fatal deed was com mitted left home for the purpose of exhibiting in the streets a sea dog, or seal. - Various rumours are afloat in the neigh bourhood as to the causes of this dreadful deed—one stating that the deceased woman had left her husband to live with her murderer, but bad lately returned to her home. Thousanis of persons are on the spot, and no slight difficulsy is experienced by the police in preserving order. Wth the bodies remain in the house till the inquest. Another account says that the pot-boy, on hearing the screams of murder, burst open the door, and in the front room was horror-struck en beholding the woman lying on the floor, and her murderer in the very act of cutting her throat with a knife. The moment the pot boy entered Healy stood up with the knife in his hand, still reeking with the blood of his victim, and ex claimed, " Why don't you go for a policeman ?" The woman at this time, although her throat was cut in a shocking manner, made an effort to raise herself from the floor, and ran towards the door into the erect, ejaculating, He has murdered me—l am a dead wo man." The pothoy seeing Healy with the knife in his band, and having no weapon of any kind to defend himself is the event of an attack upon himself, ran into a neighbour's house, and armed himself with a shoemaker's last, with the intention of disarming the niarderer of the knife, and giving him . into the custody sff the police. When, however, Smith returned to the bowls where the murder was committed, which was in less than a minute, the moment he entered the room be Was shocked on seeing Healy standing before a glass, which was hanging against the wall, in the act of cutting his threat with the instrument with which he bad affected the murder of the unfortunate woman. The moment he had given himself two or three gashes be fell into a chair close at hand, and from thence on to the floor, and scram bled towards the street-door on his hands and knees, while the blood gushed in torrents from the wounds inflicted by hie own band. By this time an alarm was raised, and the people from the adjoining tenements came run. ning from their houses, and the first object that met their sight was the unfortunate woman We therley lying on her face and hands along the pave ment in the court, at a short distance from her own dwel ling. At that time she was not dead, and she was carried into the house, where, however, she soon afterwards ex pired, and Healy almost immediately afterwards. Hen ninghem, a policeman of the L division, was sent for with. out loss of time, and he having assisted in carrying the bodiss into the house, the fl s- of which were.cteluged in blood, afterwards found the knife with which the deeds were effected, at the street door, close to which the body eq . Healy was lying. _ The filth-and, who was in ProTect-row, on being in forteed of the dreadful event, ran home, and attempted to " m ane suicide by drowning. himself in the water-butt; he was, however, rescued by the police, and was con veyed to St. George's Workhouse, where he at present The &ceased, who was a fine looking woman, l e ft a boy aged 10 years to Lancet her untimely end Te e murderer was about 35 years of age, and single. le the confusion which necessarily attends so horiihle a transautien as this &Allele deed of blood, it is very difficult le asce rtain the precise facts of the case; and the different recounts which ae have received coesequcntly disagree in scene of the details. The brother of the unfortunate woman eveo has fallen a victim to the unhallowed passion of her p ane emur, who must be one of the best authorities, states that Wetheeley was not a seafaring man as had been supposed, probably frCrn his possession of the seal which he exhibited, but a fishmongee; that fur nerly be was doing very well in that business and was possessed of meney.but that, through his intemperate habits, be had latterly been very much re duced in his circumstances, and had hawked fish %bout the streets in the neighbourhood of Greenwich. where he teed his wife had lived for the last three years. About ' , ears ago Healy, who is a shoemaker, came up from two cvem , ii:ngland, and took ledginga with Wetherley the Greenwich, where he attended to his busi ness !. , s wife at' 4 occurrin; te disturb the bar witlicut any:. h ing , the occasional drunkenness of moor of the family beyoue the imsband. He bad not. hewever, lived long with them before he became very much attac;e7d to Mrs. wi th the and, in the language of the brother of the deceased, " was so fend of her, that he cleated upon the very ground on w',ich she stood." His attachment and attentioes to the wife soon excited the jealousy of Wetherley, and frequent quarrels among the three were the consequence. They eteli, however , continued to live together, and although both Wetherley mad his wife often attempted to induce Heal/ to get lodgings elaewhere—for the poor woman was wearied with the constant dissensions to which his unfortu nate attachment gave rise—ho still persisted in retainin g his grout!, sad would not b e persuaded by kind words or otherwise to quit the house. Finding that all their efforts to ejeethim kens the lodgings were useless, Wetherley and his wife agreed that they would take lodgings in London tea:known to Henley, and leave him in possession of the house at Greenwich. This they had done about a fort night ago, to the great annoyance of the infatuated Healy. who immeldiately resolved upon fieding - them out. On Swim -day he Met the wife in the neighbourhood of the Newel t, I:anabeth, and tried to make her divulge the place of their retreat. This, however, she refused to do, and did all in her power to induce him not to persist in a course which interfered with the happiness of hrr husband and herself. Ho was bent upon revenge, and this morn. ing doffed the steps of the husband home, by that means d'iScovering their dwelling. He then watched him (the husband) out with his barrow and seal, and thereupon pro ceeded to the house, when, finding the wretched woman alone, he despatched her as above described. The passage of the house in which the Wetherleys re sided resembles the floor of a slaughter house, deluged with blood, and the window frame on the ground floor bears the marks of the blood-stained hand of the ill-fated woman, whose first act after she received the fatal wound was to throw up the window to alarm the neighbours. Healy ways a much more temperate man than Wetherley, end but for the passion which be indulged for the other's eife. might be considered a decent and well-behaved man. After be had killed the woman be deliberately stood before the looking-glass, and cut his own throat from ear to ear. He then sat down in a chair opposite the glass, but was seen by a pot-boy of a neighbouring public-house, almost immediately to fall lifeless from the obair. The wound in his own throat is one of the most desperate that could bo inflicted by a man's own hand. The house La which the murder and suicide were com mitted is in St. Gee-ge's parish, and the inquest will be held today, if ajury can be impannelled in time. The seal which Wetherley had brought for the purpose of exhibiting, it appears that he had only brought up from Greenwich on Saturday morning. He heard of the mur der of his wife in less than an hour from the time he had quitted his house ; and he was for some time in such a state of desperation that the police took him into custody to prevent him laying violent bands upon himself. When he became more calm they gave him into the care of two of his friends, with whom he walked about in the neighbourhood for some time in a state of ex citement and mental suffering which it was painful to behold. Caroline-buildings are within a stone's throw from the house in which Oxford lodged. The bodies of both the deceased lie in the room in which tto murder was committed, the police with difficulty keep ing off the populace. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS rPRONI THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.) (From the Globe.) The true character of politicians is seldom - more clearly illustrated than by the discussion of what are denominated Church questions ; and from the fre quency with which these have recently come before Parliament, the nation has been supplied with a pretty safe test. for forming an estimate o f pu bli c men. Wh en Lord John Russell submitted to Parliament a plan for the abolition of Church -rates, by creating a permanent fond derived from an Improved system of management of Chinch lands, the opponents of the plan founded their resistance on the injuries which would be inflicted cn the lessees ; who, having expended considerable sums in the improvement of their leaseholds, on the faith of -renewal on the same terms on which their present leases were originally granted, would be unjustly dealt with were a system to be introducedby the operation of which they would be required te renew their leases on a valuation founded on the improvements made by themselves. These are,sitnents, founded on an amiable regard for the interests ototite-rs, were exhibited as proofs of the liberal spirit of the Church in the management of its lands. It was ad mitted that they might be made to produce an increased SUM by an improved mode of management : but, then, the lessees! Who would vesture on obtaining the means of extinguishing feuds in parishes respecting •' Church-rates, if the good were to be purchased at an expense so great as that of managing the estates of the Church on the same plan as if they were the property of the State, or of private proprietors? The discussion on the Farnham Rectory Bill, now before Parliament, has shown that the regard for lessees, so warmly pro fessed on former occasions, was time-serving, hollow, and worthless. The interests of lessees are sacred things when they can be pleaded by the Church, however spe eteusly against the public interests ; but may be seized On and sacrifi ce d w i t h i mpun i ty w h en t h e Ch urc h com mits the injustice of its own aggrandisement. (From the Standard.) The report of the Committee of the House of Com mons on Mr. Kelly's Bill for the abolition of capital punishment in all cases save treason and murder stands for Wednesday night. It, therefore, seems necessary , that w, and others who anticipate danger from the ex tent. to hich the tneasNare goes should lose no time in 0rr,,i,4 such reasons as in our opinion ought to ::v,al nzainst the excess of the proposed change. Wiloevcr can satisfy himself that by limiting the , it-fli of capital punishment to the classes of offences named, other classes of offences will not be encouraged, is, of course, unprepared to agree in our views ; for the general proposition, that the State ought to content itself with the fewest and the mildest punishments that are sufficient for the protection of the public, can admit of no dispute. We are not, however, satisfied that the effect of a mitigation of penalties is necessarily to diminish the number of crimes. We know of no instance in which the effect has been produced by such means ; and a priori, .the coercive influence of penalties would seem to increase with the terror they are calculated to inspire, and vice versa. (From the Courier.) Additional proofs of the value which Englishmen ought to place upon the word of the Noble Secretary for the Home Department, and of the nature of the violent opposition made by the Whig Government to Parliamentary investigation into the state of Ireland, continue to be received. No fewer than fourteen persons, of whom several were delegates from England and Scotland, were tried last Wednesday, at Carrick-on-Shannon, on a charge of being active members of the Ribbon conspiracy. We shall mention the general result of the charge, and then proceed to notice some new features that have been developed by the proceedings. Two of the party having pleaded not guilty, were placed on their trial. The Irish Government seem to have considered the cases of great importance, as the prosecution was con ducted in person by the highest law-officer of the Crown. The Attorney-General's speech appears to have been remarkably impartial ; indeed, we cannot discover in it the slightest attempt to exaggerate the facts, which, in reality, are of themselves sufficiently strong to show the imminent danger in which the country is placed by the criminal connivance of the Whig Go vernment at the existence of these treasonable bodies. After the examination of several witnesses, some of whom were gentlemen in high official situations, the pri soners retracted their plea, and their accomplices in iniquity followed their example, and recorded a plea of guilty. Thus here are twenty persons in the short space of three days convicted, either by verdict or con fession, of Ribbonism—that crime whose existence was boldly denied by the Marquis of Normanby. LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 20. The House aat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Monteagle, and Lord Wodehouse. The Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas was also in attendance. BOOTH V. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE of the Court of Common Pleas gave the opinions of the Judges in this case upon the question that had been propounded to them by the House, and the Lord Chancellor proceeded to pro nounce the judgment of their Lordships, affirming the decision of the Master of the Rolls with costs, which decided that the Charter of the Bank of England had been violated by the course adopted by the Joint Stock Banks. DOE V. VARDILL. The. Lorl •Chief Justice TINDAL also informed their Lordships of the decision come to by the Judges on the question submitted to them in this case. The House, upon the recommendation of the Lord Chan cellor, took time to consider these opinions before it pro nounced its final judgment.: LAIDLAW V. SMITH. The arguments on this part-heard appr al were re sumed and concluded to-day. Their Lordships postponed giving judgment. SIMPSON V. O'SULLIVAN. In this appeal, which was from the decree of the Court of Chancery in Ireland, The LORD CHANCELLOR at the conclusion of the ar zuments gave judgment, affirming the decision of the Court below. GODSON V. HALL. This appeal w. 15 dismissed with the costs of the day in consequence of the absence of Counsel. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT-JCIIELMSFORD, Mo)--DA r. Tne business of the Assizes for the county of Essex commenced this day, Lord Ab:oger presiding. in the Croxn Court, and Mr. Baron Gurney at Nisi Prius. The calendar contains the names of nineteen prison ers, three females and sixteen males, and out of the number only one can read and write. The charges comprise one of murder, one of attempt to murder, ono of manslaughter, several burglaries, and other serious offences. Lord ABINGER, in 1113 charge to the Grand Jury, observed that there was only one charge in the calendar that would require any observations from him to gentle men of their experience. The charge in question was ono against a husband and wife of having murdered their child by neglecting to give it the proper nourishment and attention it required. He did not see in the depositions, however, that any mention was made of the cir cumstances of the party, and in cases of this descrip tion that matter was very material, because it might be that the alleged neglect of giving proper nourishment to the child arose as much from poverty and necessity as evil intention ; and if this were the case, the parties would of course not be liable to answer the charge preferred against them. To make out the crime of murder, it was necessary that there should be a motive and an Intention either to destroy life or to do some mortal injury, and criminal negligence alone was not sufficient to substantiate that charge. It would be their duty to look very narrowly iato ail the circumstances, because cases of this description always involved very nice points of law. George Crane, a lad aged 16, surrendered to take his trial upon an indictment imputing to him wilful and corrupt perjury. _ _ Mr. Sames: with Mr. Marsh, conducted the prose cution ; Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Chambers appeared for the defendant. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutors were respectable farmers named Piper, Stevens, and Upton, who reside in the neighbourhood of Epping, and the alleged perjury was committed upon the hear ing of an information laid against them under the Game Act, for trespassing upon some land belonging to Mr. Abdy, a magistrate for the county of Essex. The de fendant was examined in support of the information, and he swore positively that he saw all the three defendants in a wheat-stubble belonging to Mr. Abdy, in pursuit of game, and upon his evidence the magistrates con victed the parties, awl fined them 20s. each. They did not appeal against the conviction, but preferred the pre sent indictment for perjury against the lad. The three parties who had been convicted were examined in sup port of the charge, and they all swore positively that they had not trespassed upon the ground as stated by the defendant upon the hearing of the information. Mr. CLARKSON addressed the Jury, and remarked upon the improbability that the lad should have com mitted so serious an offence without any assignable motive, and he called a witness, who confirmed the original testimony of the lad as to the prosecutors being really the persons who were on the field at the time in question. LordABINGER, having summed up the evidence, the Jury deliberated for a short time, and then returned a verdict of Guilty. James Crick, aged 17, was indicted for the man slaughter of Henry Ringer, a boy about his own age, by inflicting a mortal wound with a stone upon his temple. The prisoner, who appeared very much distressed, pleaded Guilty. Lord ABINGER said that in this case there could be no doubt that the prisoner had been the cause of the death of a f,llow-creature ; but at the same time there were many mitigating circumstances in his case. He had been provoked and struck by the deceased, and there was every reason to believe that when he threw the stone he had not the least idea or intention of causing such fatal injury as had taken place. He hoped, therefore, that during the rest of his life it would be a warning to him not to make use of any weaFon, or other thing cal culated to injure another towards any person. Under all the circumstances the sentence was that he be impri soned in the Chelmsford gaol for one week and then_ be discharged. CIVIL SIDE. The Cause List contains ten cases, two only of which are special juries. Mr. Baron Gurney disposed of se veral of these causes in the early part of the day, none of them possessing any features of public interest. It is expected that all the business will be concluded to-mor row, an d on, Thursday the Judges will open the Com mission for the County of Kent at Maidstone. dfather, grandmother, Weonard's, Herefordshire, when the g ran , On T ues d a y l a st a christening took place at St. and great. g ran df a th er , s tood sponsors, and the great-grand father ( w h o i s now upwards of eighty-four) bids fair to stand t • his fourth cfeneration.— Cambrian. TIIE 'POOR MAN'S CHURCH.—One day last week a poor woman was " churehed," and on the clerk asking for the fee, she tendered sixpence. He said that was not enough, fo r th e f ee was a shilling. On her stat i ng th a t six pence was a ll s h e h a d , he said, " \'ell, then, forgive von my s h are , f or the parson must have his!' Chel tenham Free P ress . I suppose I must SUDDEN DEATHS.--- Several melancholy in stances .>f sudden death h ave occurred in this town and neigh bourhood. The wife of a person belonging to her Majesty's dock-yard, named Oliver, was taken suddenly ill while at the house of a relative, yesterday se'nnight, and in a few hours expired.—A pensioner, named Taylor, who res , ded in Corn wall-street, died suddenly, on Saturday last, from the effect of fright. An inquest was held before A. B. Bone, Esq., and a verdict of " Natural death" returned.—On Thursday last, an inquest was held before Mr. Bone, on the body of Samuel Dinner, a brewer in the employ of Mr. Down, of the Three Tuns, Catherine-street, who died suddenly by the burst.ng of of a blood-vessel. Verdict returned accerdingly.—On Thurs day last, a pensioner, named Thomas Weeks, aged SO, when on hi s way from Holberton, near Plymstock, to Plymouth, in a cart, for the purpose of drawing his pension, dropped down, and instantly exsired, shortly after getting out of the cart. A n inquest was held on the body, and a verdict returned, " Di e d by the visitation of God, cau.sed by thelmrsting of a blood_ vessel near the heart."—Devonport Inclej:.endent. THE HARVEST.--The wheat in this neighbour_ hood is almost ready for the sickle. The ears are very heavy, and the straw is abundant.—Somerset Count,y Gazette. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1840. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 20. • Their Lordships met at Six o'Clock. The Duke of Wellington was present, and looked as well as before his recent attack. A message from the House of Commons brought up the Friendly Societies Act Amendment Bill, the As sessed Taxes Composition Acts Continuation Bill, and several private Bills. EAST INDIA DUTIES BILL. On the motion of Lord DUNCANNON, this Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to-morrow. _ The Bills brought from the Commons were read a first time ; and several Bills on the table were advanced a stage. The Bishop of LICHFIELD presented a petition against the carriage of goods upon canals on Sundays. He supported the prayer of the petition. The Marquis of NORMANBY gave notice that in consequence of what he had heard on the subject to which the petition referred, he would move for a Com mittee of Inquiry next Session. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER presented a petition from Cheshire against the Weaver Churches Bill. The Noble Marquis supported the petition, but his observations were not distinctly beard in the gallery. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE introduced a Bill for the continuation of the Bill of Exchanges Bill. The latter had been found to exempt from the operation of . the Usury Laws certain bills of exchange, and was to expire with this session. The object of the present mea sure was to continue the Bill for two years longer. The Bill was read a first time. Lord WHARNCLIFFE said the Bill was cruel and oppressive. The Noble Lord was proceeding to state his opinions, when The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the Noble Baron would have an opportunity of statiug his objections to the measure at another time, Lord STRANGFORD moved for a return of the quantity of goods taken out of bond since the passing of the Act the 3d and 4th William IV., ch. 37, distin guishing those that were taken out for inland transit and for exportation ; and also for a return of the number of persons against whom actions have heen bronght for illegally removing bonded goods since the same period. On the motion of Lord WHARNCLIFFE, the Committee on the Beer Bill was appointed, but we could not catch the name of even one of the Noble Lords who are to compose it. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS (IRELAND) BILL. On the reading of the Order of the Day for the third reading of this Bill, Lord DUNCANNON said that, before their Lord ships proceeded to take the Bill into consideration, be wished to state that he had had communications with Noble Lords opposite, who seemed disposed to consi der the measure favourably. With the particulars of those communications it was not necessary to trouble their Lordships at present, further than to say that they related to the boundary and compensation claims ; and he would now move that the Order of the Day be postponed till Monday next. The Duke of WELLINGTON said that when the measure was brought before the House he bad stated that be could not withdraw his opposi tion to it. The Noble Lord bad just said that there had appeared since to be on this (the Oppo sition) side a disposition to consider the Bill more favour ably. He (the Duke of Wellington), however, must say, that after what he saw passing in Ireland, in refe rence to this subject and other matters, he could not consent to this Bill passing, if it were to give such large powers of taxation., as it would give in its present form. In Scotland the Municipal Corporations were limited in their power of taxation to 3d. in the pound sterling. He could not see why the power of taxing should not be equally limited in Ireland.—( Hear.) In the city of Dublin the Corporation had not one shilling to ex pend on paving, lighting, and watching, nor for any other purpose as a corporation. Under those circumstances it was ridiculous to give them the power of levying such large taxes as the Bill proposed to allow them to levy upon the inhabitants.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He for one could not consent to it unless it contained some clauses of limitation, of the same description as those contained in the Scotch Act of Parliament. Lord DUNCANNON said he presumed the Noble Duke referred to the Bill brought in this Session, and not to the original Corporation Act. He could only say he was most anxious to try to accomrnodste the provisions of the Bill to the sugges tions of the Noble Duke without committing himself by naming any exact amount, which there would bo great difficulty in doing at the present moment. He had no doubt but the clause might be introduced so as to meetthe Noble Duke's views. Lord LYNDHURST said with regard to the boun dary and compensation clauses, the wishes of Noble Lords on his side of the House might he learned from the amendments they had proposed in the first Bill, and if those were compared with the Grand Jury Cess Bill, sent up from the other House, it would be found they very nearly corresponded. He hoped he under stood the Noble Viscount had acceded to the prop&si tion with respect to the question of compensation, to intimate that it should be substantially the same as in the amendment, and that the boundary clause should also be put upon the same footing. From a conversation with the Noble Viscount, he had every reason to believe that this was his intention, but he wished a statement from the Noble Viscount to that effect. Viscount DUNCANNON—It is so. After afew words from the Earlof HADDINGTON, Lord LYNDHURST said he understood the Noble Viscount to say he consented to a clause in the Bill for the purpose of limiting taxation, though he was not at that moment able to fix the amount. Lord DUNCANNON had stated that he agreed to the principle, but did not wish to commit himself as to the exact amount. Lord LYNDHURST hoped the Government would use the greatest possible expedition in bringing in these Bills.—Order postponed. The Marquis of NORMANBY laid on the table a return of the number of persons convicted of haying in their possession unregistered arms. COUNTY CONSTABULARY. The NOBLE MARQUIS then moved the second read ing of the County Constabulary Bill. He under stood that it was the wish of many of their Lordships that the Bill should be referred to a Select Committee, and he should make no objection to such a proceeding. Lord ELLENBOROUGH thought the Bill would not be generally introduced or adopted until the Con solidated Fund paid the greater portion of the expenses. He did not think the Bill at all necessary, nor did he think that the referring of it to a Select Com mittee would be of much advantage. When it was necessary to examine evidence or obtain infor mation, such a course might be adopted, but there was this great public inconvenience in sending Bills to a Select Committee, that amendments were made in them, and the 'pills cAme down and were passed through the House without any discussion, and the public knew no thing of the reasons upon which they were founded. After a few words from the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Devon, and the Marquis of Normanby, the Bill was read a second time pro forma and referred to a Select Committee named by the Marquis of Nor manby.—The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 20. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. FARNHAM RECTORY. Mr. EAST-HOPE presented a petition from an in dividual named (as we understood) Samuel Uckfield, one of the lessees, praying the House not to agree to the expulsion of the clause inserted by the Committee in the Bill, giving him compensation, otherwise great loss and hardship would be inflicted upon him. The Hon. Member moved that the petition be printed with the Votes. The SPEAKER observed that that could not be done, as it related to a Bill before the House. Mr. EASTHOPE would then give notice that he would submit a motion to the House upon the petition to-morrow. The Order of the Day for resuming the adjourned debate upon the Bill having been read, Mr. EASTHOPE hoped the House would not be induced to go on with the Bill, until those who were to be affected by it had an opportunity of being heard. The individual whose petition he had just presented 'would be deeply injured, if the amendment which had been moved on a form er even ing were introduced, and he prayed to be heard by counsel against that amendment. He would therefore move the further consideration of the debate till Wed nesday next. Mr. JAMES STEWART seconded the ino- tion, and wished to be allowed to state the reasons which induced him and the Committee to come to the conclusion that compensation to the lessees was only just. If he was inclined to quote au thorities, he might quote the speeches of the Hon. and Learned Members for Exeter and Ripon when the question of Church-rates was before the House. It was admitted to be a question of the utmost magnitude ; was it fair then that Hon. Gentlemen opposite should at tempt to strike nut a clause inserted by the Committee after hearing evidence upon the question, and that without any reason given—an attempt which, if suc cessful, would violate all law and equity, and justice. It was a settled maxim of conveyancing that thii species of property was recognised as property, and it was bought and sold in the market every day. It was recog nised as property by . Butler in his Notcs . on Coke upon Littleton—it was distinctly recognis . ed as property in Courts of Equity ; he admitted . that the tenant could not go into a Court of Equity and call upon his landlord to renew his lease, but Courts of Equity had distinctly recognised it as property on many occasions. It had also been distinctly settled as property in the great case of Lee v. Verner in the House of Lords. Was that House then to set as i de not only th e d ec i s i ons of Courts of Law, not only a solemn d ec i s i on o f t h e hi g h e st Court of appeal ? J3ut an Act of Parliament for the Church Temporalities Act for Ireland distinctly recognised the Lessees as having a fair right to compensation. The decision of 1 the Committee in this case was in strict analogy with that of the Church Rate Committee. Before expunging the clause, at all events, it would be but fair to hear Counsel for the petitioner; it would be but just, if they were determined to set aside law, equity, and common sense, to do so deliberately. Sir R. INGLIS had not the same desire to make the same speech twice over, as had been evinced by the first and last Hon. Members who had addressed the House. He would rely upon the arguments which he had already urged upon the House to reject the amend ments that bad been introduced in the Committee. Mr. EASTHOPB explained. _ . Sir G. GREY said there was an understanding that they should that day discuss the question of compensa tion. He thought the House could not allow the peti tioner to be heard by counsel, and he therefore hoped the motion would be withdrawn, and the House allowed to proceed with the question agreed for discussion. Mr. AGLIONBY concurred in the recommenda tion that the motion should be withdrawn, while at the same time he admitted it was very natural the petitioner, who was largely interested in this Bill, should desire to have an opportunity of expressing his sentiments on this measure. Mr. EASTHOPE knew there was an understand ing, and, therefore, withdrew his motion, at the same time observing that he did not consider the great ques tion of compensation compromised by his so doing. Mr. LAM BTON said the principle of compensa tion had been admitted every time the question of the interest of the Church Lessees had been brought before the House. It had been established by the Irish Church Temporalities Bill ; it had also been admitted during the debates on the Church-rate ques tion, by the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Pembroke, by the Hon. and Learned Member for Exeter, by the Hon. and Learned Member for Ripon. —(The Honourable Gentleman here quoted various passages from the speech of Sir William Fol lett, on Church-rates, in support of those views.) It was a manifest robbery to take Church property from the lessees without granting them any compensation, and be hoped and trusted the House would not sanc tionsuch an injustice. Mr. PHILLPOTTS was also opposed to the mo tion. It would render questionable the rights of pro perty, and interfere with settled engagements. After a few words from Mr. HUME, strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division took place. Lord STANLEY having risen to address the House, said that the House had had to deal with the subject some time since, upon the ques tion of the temporalities of the Church of Ireland ; and on that occasion he had considered that there were two courses to pursue—either to give protection against the injury which he was inflicting by Act of Parlia ment, or to give compensation for it. In that mea sure he thought it right to give protection, as that measure was to deal generally ; but in a case like the present, where private interests were af fected, he thought there ought to be compensation. He did not believe the compensation would be anything considerable, but he felt a very large principle was in volved in the question. He had on all former occa sions, whether on that side or the other side of the House, supported the principle of protection or compen sation to individuals on whom injury was about to be in flicted by Act of Parliament for no fault of their own ; and if a division was taken on the question, he must support the view which he understood had been taken by the Select Committee, and support the claim ; not for compensation, but for an arbitration, as to whether the individual was entitled to compensation or not. Mr. GOULBURN rose, but was met with loud cries of " Spoke, spoke." The SPEAKER said it was difficult to recollect who had spoken on the former occasion, but he thought the Right Hon. Gentleman had merely spoken on the quastioa of adjournment, and not upon the merits of the case. Mr. GOULBURN said it was always painful for him to differ from his Noble Friend who had just sat down. The Right Hon. Gentleman said the lessees in England and Scotland i n t hi s case stoo d upon a very different footing from the lessees in Ireland, whose rights were saved by the Churc l l Temporalities Act. The lessees in this case had no title to compensation at ail ; be sides, the Committee had dealt only with the claims of two lessees. There were other two whose claims were not thought or by the Committee. That was an anomaly which the House would cure by agreeing to the motion of the Right Hon. Member for the University of Oxford. Mr. DENISON said, that these gentlemen had paid first 16,0001. and then 13,0001. for purchase of their rights. The lessees were the only parties that suffered. The Bishop gained, the Archdeacon gained, and the only persons who lost were these unfortunate lessees ; and he contended that in custom, usage, pre scription, and honour, they were entitled to compensa tion. He would state what that compensation was valued at : their valuors declared that the lessees would lose three years' purchase, and it was very unfair that these gentlemen should be so dealt with. Sir - S. LUSH' NGTON differed from his Hon. Friend who last spoke, and he could not but think that this division, although of singular kind, would be one that would reflect great honour on the House, because it would exhibit on this Private Bill, g entlemen of both sides of the House voting with ou t being influenced by party motives according to their individual opinions of rightandjustice.—(Cheers.) His Hon. Friend had stated that certain valuers had stated that the compensation ought to be three years' purchase. The uncer tainty of renewal would render it utterly impossible to calculate on any compensation. In the present case the only interest to be considered was the interest of the party who possessed the right to the property, and that party had an absolute right to dispose of it as he might think proper. Under all the circum. stances he felt it his duty to vote for the clause of the Right Hon. Baronet, the Member for the University of Oxford. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when the numbers were For the clause . 79 Against it ................... 81 Majority The Bill was then ordered to be read a third time on Thursday next. Mr. MA CKINNON gave notice of his intention early in the next session to renew his motion with re spect to the importation of Hill Coolies. Captain PEC HELL gave notice of his intention to move to-morrow for certain returns relative to the Ad miralty. On the motion of Sir R. INGLIS, certain returns were ordered with respect to the Canonries and Dea neries now vacant. ECCLESIASTICAL DUTIES AND REVE. NUES BILL. On Lord JOHN RUSSELL moving the Order c) the Day for the third reading of this Bill, Sir ROBERT INGLIS presented a petition from the Chancellor of the Deanery of Exeter against the Bill. The Right Hon. Baronet thonght the Bill was still open t o great objection. It introduced suppres s i on where suspension would have been sufficient, and confiscation was the principle where contributi on oug h t to h ave been. He could not allow the Bill to pass without raising his voice against it. Mr. HUME had to express his regret that the Bill did not go far enough. As far as it went it in his opinion was a good Bill. It provided for a mere new distrsbution of the revenues of the Church—it put down a number of useless sinecures—it would have been better had it gone farther ; but he must protest against the application of the words suppression and confiscation as applied to it. He had no doubt it would work for the benefit of the country, and that the example would soon be carried further. Mr. GLADSTONE felt bound also to state that in his opinion the Bill was open to considerable objection. There was one point to which he wished to call the at tention of the House. Many of the opponents of the present Bill, and he was certainly one of their number, had opposed it on the ground that the establishment which it left to Cathedrals was placed upon so inse cure and precariou s a foundation, that the present pp measure appeared, as it were, only to prepare them for furth er measures o f re d uc tion. That was th e danger they h a d to apprehends and he was bound to say he did not believe any Cathedral institution could be secure wh e th er i t had twenty can ons, twelve, or four, or two, unl ess t h e patronage of these instituti ons should be exercised with fidelity ; and he grieved to say that during the period the Bill bad been under discussion in that House events had taken place which appeared to him to prove the Government was not yet convinced of the necessity (ries of " Hear , hear.") of giving t o t h e C at h e d ra l E s t a blishments that security which was th e on l y e ffi c i en t security it could have , namely, th e security that arose fr om a ri g ht distri bution of th e i r patronage . —C He would b e t h e l ast man t o complain of the Govern ment exercia' ng t h e i r power an d influence in favour of those who concurred with them in political opinion, but an appointment had taken place within the last few weeks of which he could not approve, he meant the appointment of Warden to the Collegiate Church of Manchester. It was in vain that by this Bill they cutoff one half of an abuse, if they pursued the old method of ap pointment to offices which still remained. He did not mean to say one word which could be considered per sonally disrespectful to the gentleman who now filled that situation. As a poet and a scholar, he admired him ; but it should be recollected that the collegiate church of Manchester was in fact the parish church of a popula tion of 10,000 souls, and they ought to have appointed to that office a gentleman who would have thoroughly comprehended his position, instead of one whose dis tinctions, let them be what they might, had not been derived from parochial ministration ; but this gentleman was also rcator of Spofforth, a parish containing 2 000 souls, and the income from which was 2,0001. a year. It was, in his opinion, an abuse to retain rectory en dowed preferments, without attaching duties to the m . From the great interest which the Noble Lord, th e ' Secretary to the Colonies, bad always manifested to in crease the utility of the Church, he at once acquitted him of having had any share in making the appoint. ment. He did not wish to interfcre with the preroga tives of the Crown or ecclesiastical patronage ; but this was one of the most important and strictly paro chial offices in the country.—(Hear, hear, hear.) He objected to that appointment, because it could not have been made with a view to promote the spiritual interests of the Church. Colonel SIBTHORP could not allow the Bill to pass without raising his voice against it. It. was calcu lated, like many other measures of the present Govern ment, to undermine the Established Church, and he hoped that in another House there would be determi nation enough to throw out a Bill so pernicious. The existing Government had overturned all the established institutions of the country. They would, by the mea sure they were then about to pass, degrade the Church, and he conscientiously considered them a most danger ous body. Mr. DARBY considered, that in the case of the lessees, compensation ought to be given, on the princi ple to which the House had assented in the previous division. Lord JOHN RUSSELL did not propbse to pro vide for any compensation to the lessees by . this Bill. The whole subject must come before the House in a general manner, in which he thought it would be right to have regard to the interests of the lessees. But as the Commissioners, under the present Bill, would have the power of renewal, ani as the lessees had not now the power of compelling the renewal of their leases, he did not see that they had any claim to compen sation.—( Hear.) With respect to what an Hon. Gen tleman opposite had asked respecting the appointment of a certain gentleman to the dignity of Warden, he (Lord J. Russell) could not disown all responsibility in that appointment, for he had expressed his appro bation of it at the time, although he did not know so much of the gentleman as the Noble Lord who made the appointment. After a few words from Mr. DARBY, Mr. GOULBURN said the Ecclesiastical Commis sioners were bound in justice to make the bargain which would be most consistent with the interests of the Church. He for one could never consent to be a party to any arrangement by which those persons who had leases for tithes, and which leases were now out, would be permitted to come forward and claim com pensation. His object was to promote the spiritual instruction of the people, and anything that diminished the funds of the Church would interfere with that ob ject, and meet with his decided opposition. The Bill was then read a third time. LordJ. RUSSELL proposed an additional clause, respecting the prebendaries of Ely, but we could not hear to what effect. Mr. GOULBURN said he claimed, on behalf of the University of Cambridge, perfect equality with the University of Oxford, and he did not understand why seven professorships should be endowed at Oxford and only two at C ambridge. The Noble Lord proposed by this clause, in the first place, that two prebendaries of Ely should- be retained, and conferred only on persons holding particular professorships. He thought this was not a fair provision, and he felt it, therefore impossible to assent to the clause without considerable amendment. On a former occasion he had stated the claims of these professors to the House, which, by his clause, the Noble Lord admitted. Ho had prepared a clause to meet the case, aed he would move that it be brought up. Lord JOHN RUSSELL wished his clause to be put in the Bid. Of course, if the House did not like it, then the Right Honourable Gentleman might move his. He thought the Cathedral of Ely was not so inti mately connected with the University as to justify the equality asked for by the Right Hon. Gentleman. The clause of the Noble Lord having been read, Mr. GOULBURN said as the clause stood the prebends when vacant were to be given to a professor, but they were not of necessity to be given to his suc cessor. In tile case of Oxford the Prebends were per manently annexed to the professorship. He only wanted equality. Lord STANLEY thought his Right Hon. Friend had not properly understood the clause ; it was provided that all but professors should be disqualified from hold ing the prebends. Mr. GOULBURN said the Cathedral of Ely was as much intended for the benefit of the University of Cambridge as that of Christchurch w.is for Oxford. He moed the substitution of four in place of two in the clause. The Strangers were then ordered to withdraw. House divided, when there appeared— For the amendment 26 Against it 6O Majority The clause was then ordered to stand part of the Bill. Several other clauses were brought up by Lord J. RUSSELL, and added to the Bill by way of riders. Mr. ACLAND moved the following clause : " Provided always, and be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall extend to deprive any Arch deacon or his successors of any endowment or patron age to which such Archdeacon is now by law entitled in right of his Archdeacoory," which was ordered to be added to the Bill by way of rider. Sir ROBERT INGLIS was glad that a clause had been introduced which would mitigate, in some degree, the mass of evil contai ne d i n the Bill. He had also given notice of a clause. the object of which was to leave the frame-work of the Ecclesiastical Establish ment, as it now existed. The clause was as follows : And whereas it is expedient that the several establish ments of the Cathedral and Collegiate Churches of England and Wales should be maintained in their in tegrity, so far as relates to the number of Members composing the said several establishments, and also so far as relates to the maintenance of the several Col leges or Corporations of Minor Canons and Vicars Choral of the said Cathedral or Collegiate Churches; be it enacted, That nothing herein contained shall pre vent any patron or patrons from collating any person duly qualified to any office, prebend, or dignity in any Cathedral or Collegiate Church : provided always, that the estate, hereditaments, income, and emoluments, now by law vested in any such office, prebend, or dignity, shall go and be applied in manner and according to the provisions of the present Bill, any thing herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding." He merely asked on behalf of the Established Church, that its ministers, constituting as they did a body of not less than 15,000 persons, looking forward to what might be called the prizes in their profession, which were fewer in number than the prizes in any other profession, should not be deprived of the emoluments and the honours of their profession. That was the object of the clause, and he hoped the House would agree to it. Lord J. RUSSELL opposed the clause, which he contended was inconsistent with the object of the Bill, which was that the ecclesiastical authorities should not be greater in number than the duties required. Mr. ESTCOURT supported the clause. He denied it would be inconsistent with the principle of the Bill to maintain those prebendal stalls, provided it could be shown they could be supported without diminishing the income required by the Bill. Mr. GOULBURN felt himself placed in a difficult position, because although he approved of the principle of the clause, yet he was compelled to vote against it. If the clause was admitted, three-fourths of the Bill would have to be sttuck out ; and such a course was totally unprecedented upon the third reading of a Bill. Mr. ACLAND said he understood the principle of the Bill was the application of their income, and not the suppression of offices. He felt the force of the practical objection of the Hon. Member for the Uni versity of Cambridge, but at the same time it was his duty to vote for the clause, as he thought it of great importance to retain spiritual offices, even when they were not attended with any emolument. He had received a petition containing the same sentiments, and he was justified in saying that his was the opinion of a great number of influential persons in the Church, since many of them had affixed their names to it. Mr. HUME would feel obliged by the Hon. Gen tleman informing him what he meant by spiritual offices without duties attached to them. He thought this petition exhibited somewhat of that worldly vanity which the Church so frequently inveighed against. Mr. ACLAND said the Hon. Member so identi fied officer and income that he could not conceive an individual filling an office without being paid for it. Those officers had certain duties which those who filled them would willingly discharge for the good of the Church. _ _ _......,..._ Mr. HUME said that he had always coupled duties with offices and emoluments with duties. The House then divided, when the numbers were— For the clause l5 Against it 55 Majority against the clause —4O On our return we found Sir T. ACL AND 'pro posing the following clause :—" And be it enacted, tlaat a plan may, from time to time, be laid before the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England by any of the said Chapters of the several Cathedral and Collegiate Churches, with the sanction of the visitors of the said Churches respectively, for re-establishing any Canonry or Canooriei which shall have been suppressed by or under the provisions of this Act, by assigning towards the re-endowment of any such Canonry or Canonries, a portion of the divisible Corporate revenues remaining to the said Chapters respectively, after paying to the said Ecclesiastical Commissioners the profits and emoluments of the suppressed Canonry or Canonries, so that the profits and emoluments of such suppressed Canonry or Canonries be not thereby diminished, and also by ac cepting and assigning for the same purpose any further endowment, in money or in lands, tithes, or other here ditaments, such lands, tithes, or other hereditaments not exceeding in yearly value the sum of two hundred pounds for each such Canonry so to be re-established ; and also, by annexing to any such Canonry so to be re-esta blished, any suitable benefice in the patronage of the said Chapters respectively, or of any other patron, with the consent of such patron, and, where any Bishop is patron, with consent of the Archbishop ; and any such plan may be carried into effect under the authority hereinafter provided, and such alteration may be made in the existing statutes and rules of the said Chapters respectively, as the case may require, under the autho rit) 'nereinhefore provided for making alterations in ex isting statutes. The clause having been brought up, Lord J. RUSSELL did not see the same objection to the present clause as he did to those of the Hon. Member for the University of Oxford. He could con ceive cases where the chapter feeling that an advantage might be gained by an addition to their numbers, it might be judicious to give them the power of making that addition, but there were objections to the plan, as it might diminish the revenues of the existing canonrics. Unless there were strong objections to the clause, he should not oppose its being added to the Bill, and going in that shape to the House of Lords for its decision.— (Hear,hear.) Mr. PROTHEROE had heard with very great re gret the observations of the Noble Lord, and should decidedly object to the clause. The clause was then added to the Bill by way of rider. Several verbal amendments were then agreed to, and the remaining clauses up to clause 32 were gone through seriatim. On the reading of the 32d clause, Mr. ACLAND objected to the retrospective cha racter of the clause as it affected the deans. Sir R. INGLIS coincided with the objection, and said that the clause was intended to affect the Dean of Exeter.. He hoped his Hon. Friend would take the sense of the House. Mr. ACLAND replied that he would certainly do so The House then divided, when the numbers were— For the clause 76 Against it Majority -68 The Bill was then read a third time and passed. CLERGY RESERVES, CANADA. On the reading of the Order of the Day for the farther consideration of the Report on the Canada Clergy Reserves Bill, Mr. PAKINGTON expressed his satisfaction at the improvement which had been made in the Bill, which, he said, enabled him to withdraw his opposition to it, although he did not altogether approve of all its provisions. He trusted the Bill would have the effect of laying the foundation of virtue and religion in Canada, and that it would lead to its ultimate prosperity. Mr. HUME differed altogether from the Hon. Mem her who had just sat down. Instead of the Bill being amended, in his opinion it had been made much worse. He had expected, from the letter which the Noble Lord had addressed to the Governor-General of Canada, that he would have acted in accordance with the wishes of the majority of the people of both provinces. lie was surprised that the Noble Lord should attempt to force upon the people of Canada tie distribution of the clergy reserves for the purposes proposed in the present Bill. There were several clauses in the Bill to which he had the greatest objections, and it was his intention, in Committee, to propose to leave out the 7th clause, which guaranteed the payment of the sum set apart by the sth clause, for the payment of the Protestant clergy in Canada. Sir R. INGLIS, while be admitted that the Bill had been improved, felt bound to say that lie considored it retained still a preat and predominant evil. He could not, therefore, admire the Bill even with the modifications introduced by the Noble Lord. He ob jected to the Bill, because it divested a large body of her Majesty's subjects of property solemnly awarded to them. For these reasons, he should say No to the fur ther progress of the Bill, though he should not give the House the trouble of dividing upon it. The House then resolved itself into Committee on the Bill. The preamble was postponed ; and upon the first clause bein g put, Sir JAMESGRAH AM wished to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he intended to include in this Bill the sale of the clergy reserves in Lower Canada. If it was omitted, that omission would give rise to very great discussion in the Legislature of the Province when it should as semble. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the reason for not inserting the sa!e of the reserves of Lower Canada was that the question had given rise to great discus sion and dispute in the Upper Province. A great portion of the reserves in Lower Canada had already been sold, but with regard to that portion still re maining unsold he would have no objection to the in troduction of a cause regulating the sale of the unsold portion, and directin g its sale and distributi on accord ing to the principle adopted in the sale of the reserves in Upper Canada. Sir C. GREY said that there had not been the same degree of litigation in the Lower Province that there had been in the Upper. But still there had been a great deal of correspondence on the subject, and the reason why that heat had not been excited in Lower Canada was that the Protestants felt it was a matter that could not be pressed in the Assembly, and since it had been felt that the Legislative Council was not an arena for discussing the subject. But now that there was but one Assembly, he thought unless the Lower Province were included there would be the same heats and animosities there as there had been in the Upper Province. With regard to the clause under discusion, he thought it would be better to leave it open to the Governor and the Society to sell more than one hundred thousand acres if it should be de sirable. The object being endowment the sale of only 100,000 acres, would leave only 7,000/. or 8,000/. to be divided among all the sects.—(Hear.) Now, in Upper Canada there were 70,000 Catholics, besides other sects, and thet•cfore he thought that amount would not be sufficient. He would gladly have seen some thing attempted by taking a bulk of land for the purpose of disposing of it at once, so as to form an adequate foundation for an endowment. Mr. GLADSTONE hoped the Noble Lord would include Lower Canada in the provisions of the Bill He did not think that would at all increase the opposi tion to the Bill. He would suggest whether it would not be possible to introduce a proviso, making the rules applicable to the sale of Crown lands applicable also to the sale of clergy reserves. He would propose the insertion of such a proviso in the clause, if it should be approved of. Mr. HUME thought that such a proviso ought not, in any manner, to affect the appropriation, as it would be unjust to give the same proportion to the Church in Lower Canada as in the Upper Province. Lord JOHN RUSSELL doubted whether the words proposed by the Hon. Gentleman could with propriety be introduced, as there were consideration s of a political nature affecting the sale of Crown lands, which did not apply to the clergy reserves. Sir JAMES GRAHAM thought the objections of the Noble Lord were very strong ; but if the Noble Lord had chosen to adopt the suggestion of making the Bill applicable to the Lower Province, he thought that more than 100,000 acres should be sold. He thought they should be sold as soon as possible, and that the same appropriation should take place in the Lower as in the Upper Province, as the Catholic Church there was amply provided for. Mr. PAKINGTON hoped the Noble Lord would not depart essentially from the proviso proposed. Ile thought that nothing like the value of the land would be produced, if it were forced into the market. He thought the calculation of the Hon. and Learned Mem ber for Tynemouth was much too low. He thought it desirable that no portion of this property should re main as a bone of contention for the new Canadian Le gislature. Sir GEORGE GREY thought the difficulty might be got over by restricting the sale to 100,000 acres, un less the approbation of the Secretary of State for the sale of a greater quantity should be previously obtained. Lord JOHN RUSSELL would consider the sug gestion relating to Lower Canada before the bringing up the Report. On clause 2 being proposed, Mr. GOULBURN moved there be added to the clause the words " The monies to arise from the sale of the Clergy Reserves to be paid to such officer or offi cers as shall be appointed by her Majesty." He did not know what public securities there were in Canada, but in the present state of circumstances they must be subject to great fluctuation. Sir C. GREY was afraid that such a provision would take out of the province a considerable portion of the capital. It would be better for the province, and the Church itself, that the capital should be left in the pro vince, where it was much wanted. Lord JOHN RUSSELL opposed the amendment, because he thought it would be exhibiting a want of confidence in the public securities of the province. Sir JAMES GRAHAM supported the amendment. The Committee divided, when there appeared-- For the Amendment Against it 5B Majority against the Amendment -30 The clause (as also clause 3) was then agreed to. On clause 4 being put, Mr. HUME complained that the clause would press unfairly on Roman Catholics, whose interests the Bill did not provide for. Lord J. RUSSELL had no wish to press unfairly on the Roman Catholics of Canada. He had made for them all the provision which he felt it in his power to do. Mr. DARBY thought that the funds should have been appropriated exclusively to the Established Church, to the exclusion of Roman Catholics altogether. After a few words from Sir C. GREY, The clause, as amended, was agreed to, as was also clause 5. Mr. HA WES said he understood, as the clause at present stood, it provided that any deficiency that ex isted should h.; made good out of the Consolidated Fund. Now, he should certainly object to the Bishop of Toronto being appointed treasurer, beceuse he had, in that capacity, been guilty of misappropriating tract-money placed in his hands. The CHANCELLOP of the EXCHEQUER supported the clause. __ Sir CHARLES GREY said the Bishop of Toronto %as a man of stuiborn and stirlicg integrity, and he doubted not that upon a proper investigation it would be found that the money which bad been vested in his bands was as safe as any other description of security. Mr. HUME said the despatches of Governor EVENING ED1T!014.4l Thomson fully bore out the statements of his Hon • Friend the Member for Lambeth, and it appeared to him that the Bishop of Toronto was by no means the most proper person to be selected for such a purpose. Mr. PAKINGTON said th a t hi s so l e o b jec t 10 asking the question he had asked some time since was to draw his attention to the fact that the Bishop's in come was diminished. With regard to what had fallen from the Hon. Gentleman, he hoped the House would suspend their judgment as to the Bishop's conduct at present, and not decide upon an ex parte statement. He thought the whole of those despatches which related to the transaction had been much better withheld. _ Mr. WARD thought the most severe censure had been passed by the Bishop himself on his own conduct, when he chose to designate this as a mere commos money transaction. The explanation of his Right Hon. Friend (Sir C. Grey) was anything but satisfactory. At all events they were tully warranted in refusing to entrust the Bishop with the administration of trust funds. Mr. GLADSTONE thought that if there were really anything wrong in the conduct of the Bishop of Toronto they ought to have the subject brought fa.. ward in a distinct manner as a vote of censure. There was no evidence to show that the transaction was not a bona fide one, and he considered it premature to call for condemnation on such evidence. He consi dered it blameable in Mr. Poulett Thomson to have sent home such a despatch.—(Loud ironical cheers froel the Ministerial Benches.) He was justified in ma king an inquiry, but he had not stated to the Bishop that his answer would be sent home ; he should have told the Bishop that he was to enter into his defence t o be sent home. Had he done that there would have been no cause for blame. Mr. WARBURTON said, that although the Hon. Gentleman had complained that they were premature is condemning the Bishop, he had not delayed one mo moot in pronouncing condemnation on the Governor.. General for pursuing whit he (Mr. Warburton) thought was only his plain line of duty. The Governor-Gene ral, as in duty bound, called upon the Bishop for an explanation, and whether that explanation was satisfac tory or not it must be for the House to decide (Cheers.) The Bishop having had notice that he would be called upon for his defence, described the affair as a simple money transaction.—(Cheers.) The Hon• Gentleman, after referring to the correspondence, oh' served that no one could help viewing the matter, as the Governor-General had done, as a most irregular a nd improper proceeding. Mr. VERNON SMITH defended the Governor - General, and observed that it was a gratuitous assume' tion on the part of the Hon. Membcr for Lambeth to suppose the Bishop of Toronto was to be Treasurer. Tic Governor-General would have neglected his dal if be had not disclosed the transaction. Mr. GLADSTONE denied having blamed the Governor-General for disclosing the transaction. 0a the contrary, he admitted it was the duty of the Go' vernor-General to inquire into it ; but what he blamed the Governor-General for was, that he had not given , ❑otice to the Bishop of his intention to state the cir cumstances. Mr. HAWES said the statements he had m a de w ere founded upon the official despatches that had been 10 on the tab!e of the House by the Government. • The clause was then ordered to stand part of the 13111. On clause 7 being proposed, Mr. GLADSTONE moved an amendment, t o the effect that the residue of the fund should be a t the disposal of the Governor-General, with the advice of the Executive Committee. Lord JOHN RUSSELL opposed the amendment' He thought if it were agreed to persons would imaging that the purpose of the Act was to make the Churche. of England and Scotland predominate in Canada. Mr. PAKINGTON hoped his Hon. Friend would press his amendment. - Sir R. INGLIS would not allow the clause to Pas s without recording his most solemn opposition to it• He felt great pain at the system of insult and injustice which pervaded the entire measure. The amendment was then negatived and the clauas agreed to. On clause 8 being read, Mr. HUME objected to the clause which guaiair teed the payment of 9,800/. by the English ExchequertO to the Churches of England and Scotland. He s hould move the rejection of the clause. Strngers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Committee divided, %vhen here appeared—. For the clause Against it Majority The clause was then ordered to stand part of the Bill. The remaining clauses were then agreed to, and tb ° House resumed. The R , port was ordered to be received on Thursdar next. The Ho•.zse then went into Committee of SupPIP pro forma, for the purpo 3e of postponing it till Wc,cines day next. The Toll on Lime Bill went through a Committee. The Church Temporalities (Ireland) Bill w 5 read a second time, and ordered to be committed 00 Thursday. The Prisons (Ireland) Bill was read a third time, av a passed. The Insolvent Debtors' (India) Bill w a s read 11 second time, and ordered to be committed on Thursday' The Canal Poli ce Bill was read a third t i me an d passed. Mr. E. J. STANLEY moved for leas e to bring in ° Bill to enable her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods , Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Buildings, to make a new street from Coventry-street, Piccadilly , t° Long-acre ; and for making and completing o ther irn" provements in the metropolis. Mr. HAWES objected to the Bill, as being tended to impose a tax upon the poor, for the sake 6 beautifying the metropolis. He gave notice that b ° would oppose the measure in its future stages. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. The other Orders of the day were then disposed O f, and the House adjourned at Two o'clock. SECOND BAND SILVER. WATCHES" . A variety of some dozens, may be selected from, price Tl f uineas each ; some rather more modern, Two and a-0, Guineas each ; an d an assortment quite equal to new, Mr Guineas each. The whole have been carefully examined, an a printed warranty will be given. T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill (Seven doors from Gracechur. street), London. N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exchanei SUPERIOR LONDON-MADE WATCHE S —A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Watcmakers, Ne. 9, COC hill, London (opposite the Dank of England), submit for S S; lection every large STOCK of Highly-finished London-raa ; WATCHES, the whole of which being manufactured unfleto their own inspection, on their own premises, they gam afford sell at least 251. per cent. below the usual trade price for as 4 ! t ' h tide of the same quality. A printed warranty is given W ith each 'Watch. PRICES MOUNTED IN SILVER CASES. Find Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double- 0 b acked engine -turned cases, warranted .. 4 Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled in four holes, maintaining p ower, w i th seconds hands, and ouble-backed cases, rarrented . ...... 6 Either of th e a b ove i n silver hunting eases, 10s. Id. e xtra-. A large va r i e t y of second-hand Silver Watehes, which ha ve 's . been caref u ll y exam i ned, and can be warranted at £2 2.5. " ( e GOLD CASES, SIZE FOR LADIES Fine Vertical 'Watches, jewelled, in engine-turned gold cases, and gold dials, warranted Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, will double-backed engine -turned gold cases and gold dials, warranted 12 12 Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled iu four holes with double-backed gold cases and geld dials, warranted GOLD CASES, SIZE FOR GENTLEMEN. Patent detached Lever Watcnee, jewelled in four holes, seconds, and double-backed gold eases, war ranted • Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in six holes, seconds, douh'c-backed gold eases and enamel dials, warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in six holes, seconds, double-backed gold eases and ' n 0 geld dials, wa rran t e d Either of the Gentlemen's Vi atche! may be had in gold hunt" cases, for 3/ 34. each extra N.B. Second-hand Wattnes rurchased in exeliange.,i, iURTHS. On the 18th inst., in Hill street, Berkeley-square, the Barn' ness de Cetto, of a son. On the 18th inst., in Dovsgate-Hill, Mrs. Henry Blenkallie' of a daughter. On the 18th inst., at Clapham-rise, Mrs. Thomas P. Chas' sereau, of a daughter. Nicholls' On the 19th i nst ., a t Blackheath-park, M Airs. J. J. of a son. On the 19th inst., in Nottingham-place, the lady of Jove° J. Keene, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 18th ult., at St. Mary's Church, Cheltenham, by the Venerable Archdeacon Beresford, Henry Charles Wade, k:51.; Madras Artillery, to A nn , e ld es t d aug h ter o f th e late Ma.l° Warburton, 97th Regiment. On the 14th inst., at Bognor, 13ulkley J. M. Praed, Egt: to Elizabeth Colthurst, elde s t (laughter of P. P. Fitzpat ricK Esq., of Bognor, Sussex. of On the 15th inst., at Winwick, Edmund Taverner, Esq New Broad-street, London, to Su san , secon d d a ughter of ." C. Lacy, Esq., of Kenyon House, Lancaster. On the 16th inst., at St. Anne's, Limehouse, Mr. Jame' _r Greathead, of Lowestoft, Suff o lk, t o A nn , f our th daughter 0' the late Mr. Thomas Astle, of Peckham, Surrey. On the 16th inst., at Boulogne-sur-Mer, Sebright sh eaf° Coffin, Esq., of the Madras army, son of Admiral Coffin, to Charlotte Isabella Grant, eccond daughter of Major Martin. DIRD. On the 29th ult., at Philadelphia, Edmund J., eldest son ° f T. Harper, Esti , of Henrietta-street, Brunswick- square of On the 12th inst., a t Cl a ph am - r i se , t h e i n f an t son Henderson. On the 17th inst., in Fleet-street, Mr. Richard Whit eave9 ' aged 89. On the 17th inst., in Portland-place, Clapham-road, Vic° . Chandler, Esq., age d 41. On the 17th inst., Frederica Henrietta Georgian'', second daughter of W. Osborne Rich, Esq., aged 18. On the 18th i ns t , J anet, s i xt h d aug h ter of M r . J o hn Morri — :: sort, of Craven-street, aged 3 sears and 9 months. 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