The Sun. — London, England, 1847-06-11 00:00:00

-•— ioter'erenc. is that ‘Nar, in concert %lieu France! and n 67lrn rins read - rif - reinai. - -intr; -- az -- ... had - frith - , rtO door a eSslve sptetafor 0; everts, twq e-/ithict of I he u nTkt4 Or of the po tit tq,w, B sii resi Cents in trio Cll,;,ott it S cps should tai taker, to give ti, ,, se Lsritish reAderits the rn , aria of removing their , elves, their If lao,ilies, and their movable propert) from Oporto: Ohl should S iSh to do so. I . is aluer i 1.0 he that the objects v,h'cli the 4HI " has' , in view may be lite.rripli , ll,d any aB 4lllt Ot (1 s,portii, and wii.h.,ut the loss of lite and nl,aid shed which an attack upon that city, fortified and gar risoned as it now is, must occasion. O RDER OF THE REDEMPTION. \ I kasong the mistllluAliuus sovereigns that have oune h onour to Italy, the Princes of the House of Geneva I . °r enl),Y the first rustle. Fruittul in great capuens, lee -4.) Ineo, and poets, this ancient and irobie House 01 G meaga has deserved, in the highest deg , ee, every Vecie s of distin c ti on , ai d h as turnishA to the hei ! ac arid religieus his.ory of Italy its fairest pages. The city of Mantua, which is the cradle of their ifittruey, and the eapital of !her sever, igetv , is new the honoured keeper of the relics of tites.. ;digest Princes. of Mantua w i t h supreme command , the powerful Duke; (4 Mantua have many times, at the head of num, tens armies deliv. r e d I ta ly an d t h e H o ly Chur c h f rom th e Peated attacks of the Northtnen. Rome was proud to reckon among her cardinals nine l'i 'totes of th e Wiese of Gonzaga. who at different epechs ; Paul 1111( ed the splendour of the purple of the Sacred Col- Pe, and invested it almo s t uninterruptedly, until Pope a • e desirin on g to fill up the vacency occesioned Pewee the death of eof them, raised to the Cardinalat(- Ferdinand, second si,n of Duke Vincent I. All Italy h a il e d t hi s nominat i on, anti Mantua beheld It with delight, because it was announced to her at the Mme moment with the tidings of the marriage of Prince C a neis, elder brother of the new Cardinal, to the Princess titarguerite, daughter of Duke Charles Emmanuel, et „ r il. Duke Vincent was desirous of perpetuating the — emery of a day So toepicious to his house, by founding lel noble institution, and he thought he , could not better father it than by associatinc , it with his own joy as a and the head of one of the most powerful sove reign families of Europe, the name of the Redeemer of e World, a precious relic of whom—the blood which trickled through his veins—had tor many centuries been Preserved in the city of Mantua. , rag known that Lingittus, an 'saurian soldier, after cacrowned with the palm of martyrdom, having col tjetit_,,A a few drops of the blood of our Saviour Jesus h ` l6 t, brought them to Mantua, and concealed them in ,„e ground, on the spot were now stands the church de ;new. 1 Andrew. This sacred relic, after being th e rein several ages, was discovered by a revelation in le reign of Charlemagne; anti Pope Leo 111. having a „„ ar rked the fact, repaired to Mantua, gathered up the 4 7, 1 'cl blood, gave some particles of it to the Emperor, li ji p' confided the sacred deposit to the devotion of the antn anc t.. A fter this tim e , I ta ly, unce a s ingly attacked by the th ulPeror s of Germa n y, w as e ve r ai.d anon exposed to Me danger of b ecom i ng t h e p re y of t ier enem i es , an d „pil& did not escape the general disaster; her pious 4 eb itants, jus t ly al a rmed f o r th e preservation of that : e eleus t reasure, the o bj ect of the i r pro f oun d venerat i on, :Posited one portion of it in the church of St. Andrew earl another portion in that of St. Paul. 114keentury afterwards, all trace having been lost of the „k ite „ a % in which the precious blood wa‘ deposited, the th e St. Andrew, in ity of the general affl.ction of or .Faithful. deigned to p reveal to St. Adelbert the part Po pe church in which ti divine relic might be found. t c ,',. ° Pe Leo IX. repaired, as his predecessor had done, (1 - 0 Mantua, to consecrate the second and miraculous dis e ei l t i of the Wood of our Divine Redeemer. It was an ebi7° ll of general jubilee to all the Christian world; Mourn the sequel many emperors, among whom were he Y lIL iu 1055, and in 1534 Charles V.. contributed p f i _ tneir grants and the concession of impertent or !liege, to the propagation of the worship of the blood I° 14 Lord J esus Christ. At ali a . s(l Yr the s o lemn su ff rag e of th e Council held a', e- w a in 1459, i n t h e p resence o f P o p e P a ul 11., con "teratod IN - the authenticity of ibe divine blood which sprang ~M the bosom whence flowed our redemption. 1 3 1 u uke Vincent 1., full of d: votion for this precious test d. as all his ancestors had been, gave the most strikieg G r lill ony of that d .voft in by instituting in the yt ar of sou 1 608, ou the occasion ot the marriage of his son s o ., be 's. and the elevation to the Cardinalate of hi' other tiou erdinand, the Equestrian Order 01 the " Retlemp nal, or the "Precious Blood." Among ether magnifi that orn aments assign, d to the new Knights, he decreed en , bi he collar of the order should he formed of an antique he comp of Francis of Gonzaga, one of his ancestors, and e a .."°lll`osed it of m an y ova l p a t ens o f go ld, on which .wh i ll e t a °I gold were engraven in relief in a creust of fire, t ot : . patens were disposed - alternatively with other beea ue nes of the same form, bearing for device these . 'Qs, taken from the 138th Psalm of David— . 110 thi s Domine I'robasti me. 30 3 , 1 , collar was susp,nded a rich gold medallion, on *.: eh was artistically Engraved the ampulla, appearing )1,e . 1 (111( alli three drops of the revered blood of the ee e elner Tr ith • cap the collar he prescribed a mantle and train . qiiiiular and ceremonial of crimson ,satin, lined with et tp le, with large sleeves embroidered in golden creuset3, h t : h a ting with the device Domine Probasti me. It is froe t .. . b d at the shoulder with a cord of gold knotted iii silve r ' the under vestment. or just a corps, is of cloth of all of u amask , the pantaloons, stockings, and shoes being Ti. crimson. oh ta r creation of this pious Order could not fail to tat: the high approval of the Sovereign Pontiff, who h... , eed the clause of the decree of institution, by which -47 Vincent declared himself and his legitimate sec ae_s°l's on the throne of Mantua, perpetual Grand -.44ters of the Order of the Redemion. ~.. (Here f o ll ow t h e t hi rteen articles pt of the Institution; a 4t Airteenth article prohibited the wearin g of the insignia 41 1 any oth er O r d er by the Knights, but - this was, by an Ulterior diaposition, removed.) !Duke Vincent then proceeded to the reception of the . nights, and W _?_lttrf,r.ldirdwerithbygrtehaet as himself invested with the insignia of CpanDrdpinal, his son Ferdinand, and re to the church of St. Andrew, ;;IL:ll_.a numerous and brilliant assemblage following, in kiiii7n appeared the Cardinal, the Infanta Marguerite of th_ boon appeared as a bride, the Ductless of Mantua and F .- rims, h:v. Princes of Sweden, &c., each of the recipients ell Ili g Previously signed with his own hand a formal Itagement to.ubserve the statutes. a i ,,',, b e oath of the 'Knight and the act of induction al;.:e a ccompanied with the greatest solemeity, and . the li t `r nobles of Italy eere enrolled among the earliest. th e is ° lost honourable Order has never ceased to adorn breu of . eith er sts the Princes of the august house of Mantua, it ( ~e r at home or in exile, and it has recently been re dieeo.7 b Y the Most Serene Prince Alexander, the present rne - a nd leitimate inheritor of all the rights and pre- . kiatives oft he Sovereignty of the ancient Dukes ol bi t : I LI!. He has, in the terms of the statute, declared tli gi ;"' (;rand Ma,ter, and having introduced d som some v*,,,t aludifications demanded by the pr sent pert() , the t nni,, r ,ble Ord, r will hereafter consist of three classes ii i lini — i l l L ed numbers : Grand Crosses, Commanders, and T g b ts, with differing insignias. th e „e ,Grand Mister has annexed to the Order that of k om Ladles," created in 1668 by Eleanor of Golizege, ( )ra r e r :" o t . Austria, under the name of the Noble - of the Crtee divided into two classes, L ;dies Gre er Cr .‘ • ' Ski L Crosses, with the corm. t and title of Uountesse , , ‘qtie ad " Chevalieres, with the title anti core et of si,,,l°untesses. They have a special costume and in kr a, r esembling in a great degree tne decoration of the . 11 g h t 3 .-- The Tablet IV 1.11 LATE CATASTROPHE ON THE NORTH feree„...4" RAILWAY.— WoLVERTON, WEDNESpAY —Tilia t ai] °° Captain Coddington, the Govern inspector . of et tua , s 4 YB: arrivei at Wolverton, and investigated lnwnt tlecircum- The'es connected with the late fearful and fatal collision. kintgalalant Captain made a minute sid ex ng a , minatien of the tittle oft Which the train entered 1 i the exact dis ae., e which from the Wolverton station is stated to be i 4. 7, 4 , , y v a e r r d po s. ol ,fter completing h is survey, he pursued his way it was understood, to attend . the adjourned in ,,ttest with regard to the falling in of the Dee bridge. , C e a rs pt a a n in d Kldington had a long interview with Captain Bruy other high officials of the railway, at the London terminus. e before he started for Wolverton, but none of them accomea ied him to the scen e o f t h e acc id ent . The whole of the bodies of the sufferers have been removed by their friends fortatertnent, litterinent, the last one wai t i ng f or identit' being this morn , in g • rec.() r i . gnised as that of Mr. H. Smith, citor, of Binning ,_ tn. The report as to the condition of the parties injured be lieved, they are progressing favourably ; some of them, it is Will be able to attend die adjeurned inquest. Tile at l ff er -44 Pany have directed that all the funeral expenses of the ers should be charged to them. P ROPERTY AND INCOME TAx.—Siri ce we drew ePtLblic attention to this subject, on the 15th if May last, we ti l' u os e t r'tand the Basingliall-sireet Commissioners have had a h ilareeearehing inquiry and investigation into the system of arg e , ef their , and have inflicted tni - .st summary justice on one h— ~ officials; but, if all we hear is true, their vengeance 9i4elallee upon a minor offender when compared with an ... er C onnected a ith the Stamps and Taxes, who has been ', receipt of no less a sum than 60 it, arising from the rar t (la p allowed by Government out of the Cy income fUrtis e wait the decision of the Board . before we make retie comment, but it is quite impossible this tax can be I'Lle,wed until Parliament has inquired into the whole rpro dew, Ogit connected with what has been taking place u i)g T act three months in Basingliall-street —Times. The .1 11 D n - G ALLERY or CLAUDIUS TARRAL . , .ESt - T ut liti n PriVate view of a collection: of pictures, whi , ch . is . a Arg submitted to the hammer by Messrs. Christieand d t:ailson took place on Wednesday. The collect ionwas forme vii,ottlsle,. continent by Mr. Terra!, and . c rises fifty-six in l b : , n one of which, with a single exceio:: m , • dat the sale P . have before been t l e v r e s y ..at prof is,ndn s. some iuth They t: prie ot , YbY hen I a i r ; l e . : i :1 1 :1 ;n : ;:ii; e i t : Iet l tr b a ' 'tryr ,tu a , - 1 1 , e : i a d i) :: ae g r N a r a i is n ie t :( . l: e : r Dutchi!o one ne Cardin al i h n a a l s i. are them .. a i r i e e t W )v e would par icularly mention „1 b y W. Atieris. A " Nativity%mne 1 e Mtti."' Lot and his lialigle era." by Jan Seen; ann . a"---4 -Rtl t is " d l 4 a T t ' Ll ' - --stpes by ' Wymnits, Fred. Moucheron, Decker, li tiYAL e le Ni - e*lncs ‘ y j E uLAR ni_ _ At, SPA G A RDENS, ,pen l•2 d o hi ßW t O h O e D su . — m. flier s,a i r43 ' be , utiful gardens %%ere: . o i ti ) t i ;ivitli °ll ;iii ' ' 't 'e grounds are very extensive, Ce‘ll'liluteittleweitli and are , lai l r s t e s-- • wad tame. In addition to the usual attractions nait !daces of this description, the tar-fame til l, . Ile-- ""' i" a' t T.-ere is a pleetitul sap': .of Neter from the ~, • lr "B ,:iid it " is said to p ossess Ingi'Y 3 tli tiel ( Pl''l , ies. A. r l i! ii,l ' si :la ien el th e ..t„.'ilems a ''''''.. . re '. vi " r4 n l""ig'i .. `" l ' ' ' f' o,ll a•i.ll.- of the &ie. aii 11- a lil 1:4 . Iti t lit, ,,,, , vg l. )(IA : * Y tit iiail of Lie surrowidiag rtl•.10, wiLl'i i P i ' . ::`,ery loviy. We lt•greile.l ti , S 0 5, sill tit ,II ,:t. , . otee e -4 4 v w ' sit "r 3 - tt 4 v ete er.i, 1 g, - .:,,,i Ihe g , -ttie I -, a , ` nr " , " , 14 . , i1l ' C UA P r "G.tily. li) I e ..v :tit et saili.:l , -e' pu! ,11, '.. . 4 4 , te. - -ti given 0, lie opeeitie,. day tirlini, JU NE 8. —it :a currently here t::- electi on - we *hall have a sharp contest here the en ui la g_ date ' as the Earl of Bective is coming forward as a ca n, an ,ender the influence of his father-in-law, Mr. Alder 7 of Q, far t '""nlason, and Mr. Crawshav, of Coversham Park and . L 1 ,, 13111 .:t t i, 4 1 ,„ c d'• l' , Atr ,. e,) r, a,:., Mr. Alr'110. 1 ) 11,11 , t , . ; -r°llgb. 1. J S` 4 , - . , °Vat,' i„fl,,euti .1 petaua, iti 1., e ' ' NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. 1'0:I1'S)10111:11, « EDNESDAY.-A coertereartiel. MM. air Ctiaries 1i.C.8., pre ; ('.taro ef the Vietery ; Capi t ol) Sir j ee ,,,• ; se t li n w, or the wee; Ce i eate Cha,ds, of the Exe,•ll , nt Captain Lueletige,n, o. the Veegeance ; i'qeein Milne, of the St. Vincent; Cap;a e u the flora. D. Peite_t o , of 'he Odin ; Cal taen Dec; or the Aver•ger ; e-d Mr. G. L. Greethatn, Deputy Jiwge- Advocate if ,h e F tee, ass. ieb•ed this miring at t•in- e'cieck, on re•eril %he Victory, 104, Cat t,,ia 1 3 ,.‘sc e flag ship (e Ad miral Sir Charles ogle, Commander in-Ctoef, to try Wiluam Thurman, private marine of the third class, beloeging to her Majesty's steameiloop Scourge, Com mander J. C. Caffin, on the following charges, preferred b that officer:- 1. For disobedience of the order of Li , -utenant W. Cr.:wterd, in having, on or about the 21st of May, 1847, Klllybegs,. Ireland. left the Scourge, while a prisoner at large, and got en board her Majesty's store ship An dromeda, alu glide Hell the Scourge wa, then lash d, et d afterwards, when brow; ht had{ to the ship by Rem hardier W. Ramsay, of the Royal Mariee Artillery, refu•ing to remain under charge of the s ntry at the geoezway, aid making use of most disgestine language to Corp. ral Staples and Colour-sergeant Forward. "2. For haviig On various occasions. between the 23i of February and thy 25th of May, 1847, behaved in an insub , rdieute and din atening manner towards Colour seigeant Jae es Forward, of the Royal Marines, and Corp ‘ral Staples, of the Royal M Artillery, of her ..lej , st,y's steam , sloop Scourge, fur disobedience of the orders of the said colour-sergeant and corporal, and for usinc disgusting language towards them.' These charges were in direct violation of the 2d, 19th, anti, 22,1 articles of war, for a breach of which it should be unuersteod the prisoner was tried, the penalty therein prescribed for conviction then eon being death, er such ether punishment as a court• martial shall think fit to irnpo-e, and as the nature and degree of the off nee shall deserve. Fl OM this the Court have no power to deviate. It is impossible we can give any portion of the evi dence in this case ; it was too disgusting and impious for repetition. We never heard a trial wherein the pri soner exhibited so thoroughly infamous a character as in ;his. Commander Caffin's humanity was totally lost upon him ; no man could have shown more forbearance than that officer has done towards the prisoner—very few half as much. The captain of the company to which the prisoner was attached had been compelled to refuse to take him on detached service to Ireland with him. Ho c Lme on board the Scourge without a cha racter, although he had been in the Marine corps seven years. The Court showed a willing disposition to admit every point of extenuation in favour of the prisoner, but none could be adduced. After a trial of six hours, one and a half of which was spent in deliberation, the Court adjudged the charges to have been fully proved, except such parts of the first charge which allege disgusting language to have been ii,ed towards Colour sergeant Forward and Corporal Staples, a! , (1 sentenced the prisoner to receive 50 lashes on board the scourge, to he imprisoned 12 mouths in Winch. - ster gaol, Bed kept to hard labour the whole of that tire-, except during one month (the last), when he would be kept in solitary confinement. and to forfeit all pay and servitude. He would inevitably have been hanged at the yard-arm for less than one-halt of the cremes laid to his charge and proved before this c‘eurt a few veal. , since. When his Royal Highness Prince 0,-car of Sweden was going over the dockyard yeste•rcla.t he was much struck with the facility with which the blocks were made by BI unel's machinery, and also with the patent :node (Brewer's) of manufacturing tiiose important necessaries in a ship' , rigging, being quite rtitlerent to the plan pr.ictised in every other es ablishin. nt. His Highness asked for one of these blocks to eurry to his own coun try with him, and this morning Captain Pasco sent one (a 10 inch) with some treenails on b.eard the Eng. nie. for the Prince's accepttence. The patent blocks now manataetured in this yard are supealt tee all other kinds. iefini•ely so to the galvaniz.d iron eirticla of the same deseription, some of whicn were made trial of in this establishment some years since, and conch-mhed we, failures, the gdvanisin not preventing corrosion of the iron, the shaepte.ss of the edges of which and the friction cotolxne i cuts and otherwise damages the ropes coining in contact with them. It is believed the patent wood block will bec:ane universal all over the marttime world on account of its immense sustaining powers combined wish everlasting durability. A private letter from the Collingwood, 80, Captain Smart, flag of Rear •Admiral Sir George Seymour, Com mander in. Chief of the Pacific, dated Valparitiso,Tete:B, 1847, says—" The Curae,rant steam sloop, Commander Seymour, and the Sampson steam-frigate, Captain Hen derson, besides ourselves, are in harbour here. The Carysfort, 26, Captain Seymour, sailed on the 6th for the Leeward Islands to get a freight of money for us to bring home. She is expected to be away about nine months. We expect to be homeward bound in twelve months. We do not expect to sail from Valparaiso until the middle of March, when we shall embark the Admiral and family and sail for Callao and the Leeward Islands. The Admiral shifted his flag from blue to white in con sequence of the late brevet promotion on the 17th of January. . IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LARDS, June 10. . _ The Earl SHAFTESBURY took his s..at upon the Woo6Aek at Fiv, ,)'v4,ck DIOCESE OF KILDARE. The Archbishop of DUBLIN p,tsented a petition from the Protestant AAioeiation of Bath fur the restora tion of the dii,eev,e of KiLlare. REPRi.EEENTATIVE PEERS (SCOTLAND) RILL. On the nr , tion the Earl of EGLIN TON this Bill was rail a third +ime. INFLUX OF IRISH PAUPERS INTO LIVER• POOL, &c. Lord BROUGHAM pr,sented a petition from Swan sea, praying that all national education should be. based upon secular principles; also a petition from Liverpool, complaining of thw influx of Irish paupers into that town. Already, the pctiti.n stated, had several of the inhanitants of Livertool, includ ing six captains of Irish steam .vessels, fallen victims t th fever these paupers had imported into the town, and the petitioners prayed that some measures sfe.tiA be adopt, d by the Legislature to prevent Ireland rum emptying her diseased, infirm, and starving popu lati. n into the town. was not to be debarred from resisting every future crea tion that may pe,,posed upon th- same principle. The Bishop of SALISBURY regrsttcd that this Bill had beeo placed in tli bands of Not,le Lords at so late a p-riod as this moriat,e, and preventing thereby that careful and deliberate attention which a Bill so important des , rved at the hands of th, , ir Lordships. The objec tions urged by the Noble Lord against this Bill were such as hart often been rip,ated in this House, and had as often been moat complutelv answered. The present Bill proposed to remedy an t- universally admitted, viz., that of the large amount of superintendence which de volved upon the present Bishops, and their inadequacy to the performance in a proper manner of those high and important duties. And it was from a deep sense of the necessity of an increase in the number of Bishops, that he and his Right Reverend Brethren were resolved to give their most cordial assent to the Bill now before their Lordship's House. Earl FITZWILLAM concurred with the observation of the Noble Lord, that it would be a serious anomaly that there should be one Bishop who had not a seat in their Lordships House in common with the other Right Rev. Prelates. Pe felt quite convinced that there was a necessity for a very extensive addition to the present number of Bishops, and he thought also that it would be de-irable that a careful subdivision of the large dioceses already existing, with a view to a more efficient administration of the duties which devolved upon those Right Rev. Frelates. _ _ _ The Bishop of OXFORD wished to tender his most hearty thanks to the Government for having brought in the present Bill, and for having given their minds heartily and warmly to the consideration of the ques tion. He thought, however, that there were some grave objections to the measure. The position of the English Bishop required that his funds should be ample and fully equal to that which they at present received. It was not a seat in the House which required the ne cessity of those funds. It had been said that seats in this House gave the Bishops a great deal of power ; be did not believe that such was the case. On the contrary, he thought that seats in that House tended to a dimi nution of the spiritual authority of their Lordships. He wished their Lordships to pass the Bill with the greatest possible unanimity, but at the same time with some minor amendments which seemed to him necessary; but one great fundamental difficulty met with in the Bill was the limiting of the new Bishops to four, because if they limited the number of spiritual teachers, they would limit the spiritual instruction of the people. He thought that the exten.ion of the see should be a matter to be dealt with on a future occasion. After a few words from the Bishop of BANGOR in favour of the B 11, and expressive of his thanks to the Government for its introduction, and from Earl Powis, the purport of whose observations could not be heard in the gallery (he was understood, however, to support the WIN The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, as none of the Noble Lords who had addressed the House had ex pressed their intention to oppose the Bill, it would be necessary for him to detain their Lordships with a few observations. He did not feel satisfied at present to rest only with a Bishopric of Manchester, because he thought that they must carry their reform further, and increase the number to tour. The funds by which the three additional bishops would be sustained were accruing, and when he looked at the extent of the population, at its rapid increase, and its increased spiritual wants, he confessed that he considered three additional bishops absolutely necessary, and as soon as the funds now accruing were provided, the three would be appointed. Her Majesty's Government believed that they were faithfully discharging their duty in bringing forward this Bill. The amendments proposed would be printed and placed in the hands of their Lordships, and wh n they came under their attention, he confidently trusted that they might be favoured with the p.tesence of the Right Rev. Prelate at the head of the Church, whose presence on all occasions was gratifying. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be reported VI-morrow. RAILWAY RESOLUTIONS BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented the report of the Select Committee appointed to report relative to the suspension of the Railway Bills of this session, and moved that it he considered. Lord KINNAIRD considered that the Bill would not prevent the evils it was intended to obviate; for iristance, it said that interest was not to be paid upon calls. He thought that these resolutions had been passed without due consideration. Lord REDESDALE said that he was opposed to those resolutions on many accounts. He considered them especially objectionable, as binding the House of Commons to a course which they were utterly unable to carry out. They gave the Railway Companies, having Bills before Parliament, the option of su , pending in this session, and resuming the same Bill in the next. Now, it was notorious that the very constitution of that House rendered any arrangement of this nature futile, because no arrangement entered into by this, would be binding in the next Parliament. After a few words from Lord GRENVILLE, the re solutions, with amendments, were agreed to, and their Lordships adjourned soon after Eight o'clock. fiOUSB OF COMMONS, June 10. The SPEAKER took the Chair to-day at Twelveo'clock. RAILWAY RESOLUTIONS. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EX CHEQUER, the adjourned debate, on the railway reso lut+iohnes SPEAKERiv, as c d h e a d v w i I g t h. put the first resolution, which was to the tollowingeffect:—" That the promoters of all Railway Bills in the present session of Parliament shall be empowered on the second reading, or on the comple tion of any subsequent stage of any such Bill, to suspend any further proceeding in the present session, with the option, under the . following conditions, of proceeding with the same Bill in the next session of Parliament, at the stage where the Bill shall be now suspended," Mr. R. HODGSON moved as an amendment to insert " or where the Bill shall have been referred to a Com mittee, hut the case of the promoters shall not have been opened." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had no objection to the amendment, and it was consequently agreed to. Colonel T. WOOD wished to know why these reso lutions should not. be imperative upon all railways? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob served that he had stated yesterday the grounds upon which he thought the adoption of such a course inex pedient. The resolution was then agreed to with the amend ments proposed by Mr R. Hodgson. The following Constisions were also agreed to, with a few verbal atuendim nts:— " The promoters of such Bills are to give notice in the Private Bill-office, on or before the 18th day of June; or if the Bill shall be in Committee, then within six days of the report of the Committee, of their intention to suspend any further proceedings thereon, on the completion of some sub sequent stage of the Bill. " Tile promoters of such Bills are to give notice by adver tisement for three successive weeks, in October and Novem ber, in the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Gazette, as the case may be, and in the local paper or papers usually in cir culation in any part ot the country through which the line of railway is proposed to pass, of-their intention to present a petition for the re-introduction of any t .uch Bill. •• Ipon a petition for leave to bring in a railway Bill being presented during the session of 1848, and referred to the Examiner of Petitions, he is to examine whether the pe tition be the same in substance as and• petition for the same purpose, and from the same parties, which was presented in the session of 1847 ; and in that case, whether any Bill brought into the House in pursuance of such petition in the session of 1847 was pending in either House of Parliament on the termination of such session, and, if so, whether a sub scription contract, as required by the standing orders, bind ing in the usual way the subscribers to the undertaking, has been entered into, and is valid at the time ot such inquiry, and whether the deposit of 1(l. per cent. upon such sub scriptions is lodged in the manner required by the standing orders. _ _ • _ " In suctt case, and In proof of such notice having been given as aforesaid, and if it appears that such Bill had, in the session of 1847, been suspended in the House of Lords, or in the House of Commons, on or after the second reading, the standing orders with respect to any such Bill, are to be held to have been complied with. " The time between the second reading of any such Bill ani the meeting of the Committee thereon is shortened to three clear days, the parties to give the regular notices at the Private Bill-office. _ _ _ "In case such Bill shall have been reported in the ses sion of 1847, the Committee on the Bill are to examine whether the Bill be in every respect the same as such former Bill at the last stage of its proceeding in the House in the session of 1847, and in such case no evidence is to be received by such Committee ; and on the reception and adoption by the House of a report of such Committee that the Bill referred to them is in every respect the same as such former Bill at the last stage of its proceeding in the House in the s scion of 1847, such Bill may be ordered to be engrossed without any further proceeding in respect thereof." _ _ The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the second resolution:— " That the deposits made in respect of all railway Bills, the proceedings on which shall have been suspended, shall be returned to the depositors; but that before proceeding in a future session, deposits to the same amount shall be again duly paid in, according to the standing orders of the House of Commons." Mr. B. VENISON considered that the words of the resolution were extremely lc& finite. B o i f ll, th th o a se t Mr. GISBORNE considered that these resolutions would not relieve them from the mire of railway legisla tion 'use the in winch they were mrolreii. He would give tribunals and the forms by wh i ch Railway Bills were passed. Unless some reformation in these tribunals was )gb t s etr h haia e netergli second c e rsu c ,e,w ( :nr , e n ead, i railway iletriwrt pursued eu a h3e,hr d e s i . wu n , Bi attentionlt i g yi dl i o. before af: th e incompetent t eht of het R ailway originyh e n i made no satisfactory issue could ever be attained. he n ru,wpre . trhi ' ha t ,mei i : w e e e : hs o ni tay , u gnw: l j o t d en, tribunals. 0 occurring on the which were nightly ; entered it w as i m the . The House inquired lobby on a division, and regulated their vote aceorlingl), sa id he considered that the House aittiouoi they knew nothing about the matter. The possibb. for him to go into the subject at that time, as he had a Committee to attend. shown Eij ii i s t3 el E f a very incomperent and also a very in chiainlY,irs.ient tribunal in those matters. But be must say that the resolutions which he brought forward at the commencement ce the session had answered every pur p,se for which they were intend, d. - TH. CHANCELLOR 0. the X'."IIIEQUER said that it was ih., intenti. , n of t,ie Government to bring forwa; d the Railways Bill at the very earliest possible 1111 , Inee..t. After a few N orda from Mr. HODGSON, the resolu tion was agreed to. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the third resolution:— " That a clause shall be inserted in every R a il wa y Bill, way of disco un t on sub in the present and every future session of P ar li ament , pro hibiting the payment of any interest or di v id end in respect o s co of r osn(sex capitalcat pre-paid, u authorised o he r a i isg n edr t e e ea r t e o s b t bi b r at y om d. 8 V . ict., C. 16, a . 2 4 ), ou t the such Bill, either by TUE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 11, 1847._ means of calls, or of any power of borrowing contained therein." Mr. ENTWISLE would not oppose the resolution. but he leated that it would lrad to abuses, and would give an advantage to wealthy companies over poor ones. Mr. B. DENISON thought the present a most unfair resolution, which prevented the interest being paid spun all Bills which had been introduced in the present session ; it would injure the depositors who had paid this money on the condition of receiving interest ; it would prevent those parties who were only depositors now from being subscribers when the Bill was obtained, as they would say, you cannot fulfil your agreement with us to pay interest. They ought not to make a post facto law. He had no objection to such a resolution being made applicable to future Bills. He proposed an amendment, that after the words " Railway Bill" should be inserted the words " introduced for the first time in any session of Parliament.' Mr. RICARDO said that it had been stated that the withdrawal of powers for the payment of interest on capital was a discredit to Parliament. He thought that the insertion of such a clause was a discredit, for it in duced people to believe that they were investing their money instead of speculating with it. He had always struck out such clauses when they came before him upon Railway Committees. In order to pay the interest, the calls, instead of being 21. 10s., were 21. 155., and the ss. was paid back in the shape of interest at the end of six months. The thing was a delusion and a snare, and he was obliged to the Right Hon. Gentleman for turning his attention to it. After a few words from Mr. H. HINDE, Mr. RUSSELL said that he thought that the clause empowering the payment of interest upon capital was the greatest boon to those who really sought to invest their money in these enterprises. He regretted that any attempt should be made to strike it out. He wished to know whether this resolution was to be ap plied to capital already raised as well as capital to be raised. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said no, it would not. It did not repeal what was already done. Mr. HUME said, that in voting for this resolution he voted for it under the impression that it was to be ap plied to all railway Bills. It was, however, a good enactment, and he hoped that the House would sup port it. Mr. HUDSON said that when the payment of inte rest was introduced it was given when railway enter prise required all the encouragement that could be given to it. He thought that even then the principle was wrong, and that it ought not to have been given, for it was paying out of one pocket of the shareholder to put into the other. He thought that under the present system of railway legislation the principle was perfectly unsound. Mr. RUSSELL said that what he stated was, that it tended to introduce a more substantial class of specula tors than had come forward in the first instance. Sir G. S fRICKLA.ND wished to know whether they could justly extend this clause to those railway Bills which had already gone through Committee. He thought that the introduction of such a clause threw a great re sponsibility tic& the House ' • and though he e n t ire l y disapproved of the payment of interest upon capital in these eases, he felt bound to support the amendment which had been introduced, in order to avoid doing any injustice to the parties interested in these speculations. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished to ask whether, supposing this clause not to have been embodied, and the Railway Committees of their own wills refused such a power, what would have been said then* No complaint could have been made, and yet when the Government sought to interfere to repress un certain and gambling speculations, the strongest oppo sition was offered. Mr. GROGAN said that the very discussion which had taken place upon this paragraph clearly showed that some alteration in the present system was necessary, and the only matter of regret was that this step had not been taken earlier.—(Hear, hear.) Had this resolution been proposed earlier in the session a great deal of difficulty would have been avoided, for Bills which had been passed in the commencement of the session had the power of paying interest, while those which came for ward late would not have this power. He thought that the clause should apply to all future Bills and to all which had been passed this session. Mr. CHAPLIN said that he entirely agreed with the resolutions generally, but he thought that in repressing wild speculation many of the old lines were damaged, and were compelled to suffer for that which was not their fault. After a few words from Lord CLIVE, Mr. HODGSON said that this measure would greatly injure those shareholders who had signed their con tracts under the agreement that interest would be paid upon their calls. . Mr. BAILEY said that he thought it was a very great hardship upon those parties who had come to Parliament, at a very great expense, to impose these restrictions upon them without due notice being given. He thought that the justice of the case would be much better met by making these resolutions apply to next session only. Mr. STRUTT said that it could not be unjust upon the parties, for there was no implied understanding on the part of Parliament to grant such a power as the power of paying interest upon capital, and it was always at the option of Committees to refuse it. Mr. REDHEAD YORKE said there could be no doubt that the principle was a bad one, but he thought that it was unfair upon those parties who had come before them in expectation of the power, and who would perhaps never have come if they did not think they would get it. The House then divided, when there appeared— • For the resolution - 70 For the amendment 27 Majority for the resolution —43 The clause was then agreed to. Clause 4, " That in all cases of application to Parlia ment by existing railway companies, either for power to construct branches or extensions, er to contribute to wards the expense of constructing other lines of rail ways, a subscription contract for three-fourths of such ad4itional capital as may be required for these purposes shall be given in, beyond the capital authorised for the existing lines, and deposits shall be duly paid thereon ;" and clause s—" That a clause shall be inserted in every railway Bill in the present and every future session of Parliament, prohibiting any railway company from pay ing out of the capital which they . have been authorised to raise for the purpose of any existing Act, the deposits required by the standing orders to be made for the pur poses of any application to Parliament for a Bill for the construction of another railway,"—were then agreed to. On clause 6, " Thit in every Bill of the present ses sion containing powers of purchase, sale, lease, or amal gamation, a clause shall be inserted prohibiting any company from exercising such powers until they shall have proved to the satisfaction of the Railway Commis sioners that they have paid up and expended for the purposes authorised by their Acts, a sum equal to one half of the capital authorised to be raised thereby," ueing proposed, Mr Ht DGSON wished to know whether it was to be proved that there had been paid away in some manner for the purposes of the railway a sum equal to one-half of the whole capital to be raised in the proposed pro ceeding of the company, as well as equal to one half of that which they were already authorised to raise? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the clause referred to one-half of the aggregate capital the company was already authorised to raise. Mr. HODGSON moved that the words " that they shall have proved to the satisfaction of the Railway Commissioners" be omitted. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that he could not consent to any such amendment, as it was extremely desirable that some test should be estab lished. Mr. BAILEY said that he thought the resolution would operate most hardly upon all companies, but old companies. Mr. HUME said, that this resolution would have the effect of putting down what was already admitted to be a grievance. It was a matter of prudence that the pre sent system of persons lending their names to companies, of the merits of which they were ignorant, should be pre vented. After a mere verbal amendment the resolution was agreed to. The 7th resolution, viz.— " That in future sessions of Parliament no powers of purchase, sale, lease, or amalgamation shall be contained in any Act for the construction of a railway."—Agreed to. On Resolution 8, viz.:— " That in future sessions of Parliament no powers of purchase, sale, lease, or amalgamation shall be given to any railway company or companies, unless previous to their application to Parliament for such purpose they shall have proved to the satisfaction of the Railway Commissioners that they have respectively paid up and expended, for the purposes authorised by their Act, a sum equal to one-half of the capital authorised to be raised thereby," being read, Mr. HODGSON proposed that the words "unless previous to their application to Parliament" be omitted. The amendment was negatived, and the resolution was agreed to. Resolution 9, viz., " That no railway company shall in the present or any future session of Parliament be authorised, except for the execution of its original line, to guarantee interest on any shares which it may issue for creating additional capital, or to guarantee any rent or dividend to any other railway company, until such first-mentioned company shall have completed and opened for traffic its original line."—Agreed to. Resolutions 10 and 11, viz., " That in Bills in the present, or any future session of Parliament, for the a malgamation of Railway Companies, the amount of ca pital created by such amalgamation hall in no case ex ceed the sum of the capitals of the companies so amal gamated. '• That in Bills in the present or any future session of Parliament, empowering any railway company to pur chase any other railway, no addition shall be authorised to be made to the capital of the purchasing company, purchased P a t r purchasing g h premium company. all i ß ctwi f rietaoalngorfe proposed that some resolution cbheyasoendd ;thaendaminoucnatseosfucthheca railwaypita h o the be rait account ethdetop.o r c o h f a togliotdhnOdteshese resolutions to regulate the taking f er at e , s a t n f d or no t t he as l a a t ad pr f e r s o e m nt th to e shall should private ocTuoh l deb premium, o s e nbe e m e Ira deasdoidenheuotdTot property for railways. He thought companies interest only when they commenced constructing pay their works. Mr. S MUTT explained that this grievance applied to a s y lon in o t the general Act for taking land. stihmouel,,bye btoooukndpotsoseps The business for which the House met being ended, the House adjourned till Five o'clock. The House re-asseTHmbled at Five o'clock. IRD READINGS. The Manchester, Buxton. and Midland Junction Rail way Bill wa. read a tnird time and passed. The Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, JUNE 10.—Wind N.W. by N., light breeze, and cloudy. DEAL JUNE 9.—Wind N.W., strong and squally.—Arrd. Sophie, Austin, Sandwich Island, and sailed for Bremen; Taglioni, Black, Adelaide, S.A.: Princess Royai . Ceylon ; Bombay, Bombay; Sir J hn Beresaird, Chreadgold, Bahia; Jessie, David, West Indies; Othello, Smith, Belize; Edward Robinson, Leyland, Calcutta ; Black River packet, Baker, Jamaica; Unicorn, Boston; Porto Rico, Newfound land. A schooner belonging to Truro, laden with lead, got on shore on the Goodwin Sands this morning, but came off without assistance and proceeded. FALMOUTH, JUNE 9.—Wind N. W.—Arrd: Foam. Kerr, Valparaiso h.B-10,000; Free Trade, liutehinson, Havan natl. Off port, ilooghley, Henry, Port Philip, left 16th F,bruary. LIVERPOOL, JUNE 9.—Wind N.N.W., moderate.—Arr.d New Yolk packet, Dring, Patagonia ; Herald. Warren, Macao, with loss of bowsprit. cur water, head, &c., having struck the pier; Irlam, Nlo-pheod, Barbadoes ; Alice, Aysh ford, ditto; Circassian. Dixon, New Orleans. CAERNARVON, JUNE 7. —Tope Maria, Port Talbot to Liver pool, is at an,hor oft' Llanddayew, with loss of fore topmast and mainmast head. LowEsTorr, JUNE 9.—lt blew a strong gale from N.N.E. the whola of last night, with heavy squalls. This morning several vess:ds parted from their anchors, to the north of Yar mouth, and several others hay , - run for fiarwich.• THE LATE CASES (►F POISONING. A I)JOUItNED INQUEST. On Wednesday Mr. T. Wakley, aI.P., resumed, at the Portobello Arms, Kensal New Town, the adjourned in quest on the bodies of Thomas Hickman, aged 34, and his five children, an account of whose deaths b ; poison has air. ady appeared in tin- jeurnal. Mr. Jehti B. Abercrornhy, of Kensal New Town, stated the result of the past mortem Pxamiu aV on of the hotiies. From the aeal,SlS 01 the vomited matt r there ne douut that etch was caused by arsenic Mr. George Brow:., surgeon. and 1)r. R. rt Barres were next examined. Tntir evid.nce differed in nu ma• tetial point, trim Mr. Abe , cromby's. Th.•nris Rtektuan, a youth of 12 years, said—On the Sunday in question we all sat down to dinner betwear one and twc o'clock. I was called in to chimer by my r. My aunt. amid tooth, r made the pudding be tween 01,11 . 1. I did not know that flt.ur, or anything like was It about. I did not know the cupboard where the arsenic was centained. I was never cautioned abote going to the cupboard. I never heard any one threaten ta poison lather or inolher. I was takt n ill about half past two. I telt a pain at the chest, a burning in the throat, end great thirst. taken T tie b t e .3 t o o it i e . es y E , R m — w How t.mkueenh ill?o f the puddinghad y Witness—One plate full. Mrs. Harriet Hickman was next examined. She said —On the Sunday morning I proposed that we t-ho Id have a rhubarb pudding for dinner. It was to be wade of fl o ur, bread, and rhubarb. The same morning my sister came to me about half-past six o'clock, and said she wanted some paper to light the fire, and inquired where she could find some. I told her I did not know. She then emptied the contents of the small bag in the large one filled with fl ur. The CORONER—Had you seen the small bag before? Witness—Yes, on the previous Sunday my husband shoeved me the bag, and asked me what was in it, when I replied that I thought it was arrow-root. Ile then placed it in the back room cupboard, where it remained till my sister to..k i , , down. The CORONER—Were you aware that poison was in the house ? knew that a small bottle con ta,,.ni.tg arsenic had b. en kept, but I gave that away to wy iather some time back, to destroy rats. The CORONER—What ail your husband went with arsenic ? i: ness—Before he was in the police he used to try t' xp-riments min gloss with it. Ile was in the lack of placing it in crucibles over the fire. The CORONER—Was your sister en friendly terms with your husband? Witness — Oh dear, yes; more than any other of the family. The CORONER-11.w long has she been with you? Witness—Since the Thursday preceding. She came to stop until she could get a situation. My husband was it werk in the New North-read, me home en Saturday eights, and went a wa y on Monday turningslslington, and o nl y Caroline Bonatney was next called. She said—l am a servant, at present out of a situation. I have heat stopping with my sister only a few days. 0,1 the Sun day morning I got up aml lighted the tire. I took the bag the frur to my - sis er, and asked her wh .t it w She rep' ed, "I suppose it is flour. I tht•ii emptied the hag into a large tie. Both wure flour bag , , 41.1441 Lad the bait, ra' mines 4a them. I netict d ills 1,11131• t-at the po der in the ,tnal bag was whiter !..han the ..th r, and 11,4 n net to mentattn it, bet forgo , to do so by m, brot ,, er , g to tne ant asking the t I liahotti the fire wi h .tne bag, but 1 d tn't know what becton, of the o ther. I hati eaten ore plate ~f pod dine, wet wa s ~b,..ut to take 'tnother, it lien my sister ca lied I'lE'i,take the baby." We we re then all se zed with s a ick.iess. Wh e n tte of thtr d•.ctors spoke to we, I r• in iubereil hayin g put the contents of one b..g Into ano h r. Iwa . not tt'Sl4,o that p.e.on arts in the house. s e te.; tie w ~It• r the tLt th.. Coroner s" l4 .'"up , thl n. j , t , tit :t: I) i•e:utritti avt r licr it, e ten ctl " T to ~h w eity-4-:: by are,allo t at"' 1- rho ; 1 44,14: e .1 wi 4, it, a 1 ) ,„ 111 b i-n t.qt :as :4 -buff b, tier tistra.wt, but 11W I ' 41' 44,, 14 14'3." • t-7 , • W 1: fl THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Some returns mixed for by Mr. Brotherton, Lord Lincoln, and Mr. Estcourt, re lative to the sittings of the Hon. the House of Commons and its divisions, have been puttlioetl. It appears that during toe ilouse :at Itt, and that ;her.. wee 70 divistous ou public matters, 61 uel,rre, and 15 after miunig ht. AFFAIRS OF PORTUGAL. Lord BROUGHAM complained that certain papers connected with the affairs of Portugal had been pubhsht d in the newspapers before they were laid upon the table of the House, and gave notice that on Tuesday he should submit a proposition to their Lordships on the subject. POOR REMOVAL ACT. Lord REDiDALE presented a petition from the unty of Oxford complaining of the operation of the Poor Removal Act. Several Bills were brought up from the House of Commons, and rid A. first time. QUAKERS MARRIAGES. Lord CAMPHELL rose to move the second reading of a Bill for declaring terrain marriages between Quakers valid. It was a Bill to confirm Lord Cottenham's Bill. An Act had been passed in 1896, to render the marriages of Quakers valid, but great doubts had been raised re specting their valid►ty, and in Scotland they had been declared to be untenable, and this Bill was to remove all diaibta respecting them, as great distress had been ex perienced in consequence of the decisions of the courts of law. The Bill was read a second time without a division. RE I'ITRNS FROM THE POST-OFFICE. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said that the last returns from the Poet office were not satisfactory, and therefore he wished to obtain further details.—They were granted. REWARDS TO THE NAVY. The Earl of HARDWICKE gave notice that he should postpone his motion on this subject from to-day till Monday next. LOANS TO IRELAND. Earl FITZWILLIAM movtd for a return of the loans made to Ireland for the relief of distress during the past and present sessions; also the sum which might be expected to be repaid. Zhe papers had b► en al► eady kid before the other House of Parliament, so that they could be easily supplied to that House. He thought the public of this country would be surprised when they were informed of the gross amount which had been lent tor this purpose. The people of this country had been taught the press to believe that the amount was much greatet than it was, but ►t would be found, he understood, that the totil amount was bet wt en 6,000,0004 and 7,000 000 L, which had been lent upon go,.d interest. The motion was agreili to SCOTCH BILLS. The following Scotch Bills passed through Cora inittee:— Service ..f Heir;. Ist aniferenve of Lands. Burgage Tenure. Heritable Securities for Debts. C ro.n Debtors. MES:AGE FROM THE COMMONS. Mess , ngers from the Corumon6 brought up several &Hs. BISHOPRIC' OF MANCHESTER BILL. Lord LANSI)O WNE rose to move the order of' the day for the second readieg of the Manchester Bishopric Bill ; and he would take that opportunity of stating, his regret that a jocular observation which was made the other night, and which was not intended to have been heard, sh ,uld have been published, and thus making the business of their Lordships' House appear to be conducted more irregularly than it really was. It was necessary from the great and spreading population of Manchester to establish a spiritual head in that town, and there was fortunately the means for the providing of a bishopric out of the paro chial funds, which had increased to a very great degree. These were the leading provisions of this Bill. The diocese would embrace a population of 1,123,000 per sons, and 1,220 square miles. He had stated that the funds were already provided for supporting the bishopric, and therefore the country would be put to no expense H hi e m d t id o o w o h t at whatever know thatby thethe there establishmentwere o o r f t h t e h r i s details diocese ior remark upon, and he had only, in conclusion, to move that the Bill be now read a second time. Lord MONTEAGLE was quite sure the Bill would be agreed to if it were notcalculated to involve the country in any expense ; but, under existing cir cumstances, their Lordships had long felt and admitted the necessity of this measure. If he understood the statements right, it was asserted that there was a surplus in the fund Of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, and that it was not contemplated to call for supplies front any other quarter. It should be recollected that this idea first arose from the Government of Sir Robert Peel ir. 1835 ; and the Commisan then in existence had recommended that there should be a consolidation of two of the Welsh bishoprics as well as as a consolidation of the sees of Gloucester and Bristol. Through these consolidations it was stated that the means would be raised for erecting a see of Manchester. But this question had excited great attention out of doors, and it was doubted that the Legislature had any right to in terfere at all with the principle which would be invaded by interfering with these bishoprics. A petition, numerously and importantly signed, was presented by his Noble Fri-nd (Lord B ro ug ham ) —and be did not complain of any want of consis tenc y in the conduct of his Noble Friend. But it should be recollected that the first object of the Commission of Inquiry issued by Sir Robert Peel's Government was to make a better provision for the parochial clergy of North %Val , s. Of that commission the two Arch bishops, the Bishop of Lincoln, and the Bishop of tiloucester were members, and thost. Commissioners came to the conclusion that there was not a sufficient fund to provide for these paro chial clergy. But it was aiterwarde found that the proceeds to be obtained from the consolidation of t...e two Welsh bishoprics were not only sufficient :or the addition to the incomes of the parochial clergy, but that toere would be funds to make a provision "or the new see of Manchester. Bit in the revel of the secerel Cotntnissien it was worthy of ob.ervatien that no notice Whatever was taken of the wants of the parochial el rgy of North Wales. Seeing the mischief that was likely to arise from tee consolida tion of the two bisho Tics, he had called their L .rdships' attention to the subject, indeed he had laid a Bill upon their table. But the Bill contained a new and most ha portant provi-ion—it was the first time they had b -en called upon to appoint tour new bishoprics, the rept., sentAtives of which were not o be permitted to have seats in that House; and bes.des their appointment was not recommended by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners as in all former cases. They were demanded by the people, and though they were not immediately to have -eats they were subsequently to be entitled to the When he looked at the great increase of the population, especially in ,owns, and the necessity of instructing them, he could not but bring himself to believe that the parochial clergy were unable, in some parts of the country, to provide for this necessity. In North Wales the inadequacy of church instruction had been felt more than in any other part of the country ; so de obmfeertnht that tf oft fe.,tive had it proved, not w ithst a ndin g th e appoint ethlaseohtcoahlbalyiroshho,epxasoo,eethdthaedtatthtebtpehreoghroenmausbmoor-f belongingwo dissent had been more rapid than the doctrines of the Church of England ; and this was a state of things which they were about to perpetuate by the Bill before them, and he considered that they should increase the clergy rather than the Bishops. He considered that the principle of creating bishoprics without seats, was most objectionable. Lord STANLEY admitted all that had been said by the Noble Marquis as to the impossibility of the present Right Rev. Prelate the Bishop of Chester attending to the spiritual wants of his extensive diocese in the way it ought to be done. He rejoiced, therefore, that the pre sent measure was introduced, although he considered that some of its principles were objectionable. The ob jection which he took to the principle of this Bill was the establishment of a bishopric without the ativatttage of a seat in that house. The Noble Marquis who introduced this Bill had stated that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners had recommended that in the establishment of new bishoprics, an arrangement should be made to prevent the erection of new seats in that House, except in one instance. Now he thought it was highly desir able that the public should know what was the number of sees to be established which should have seats in that House attach -d to them. It was evident that her Ma jesty's Government intended to make a considerable in crease to the sees of this country, without, however, appointing them to seats in their Lordships' House ; but, in his opinion, it would be much More satisfactory to make the number smaller and affix seats to each of them. It the principle to he established by this Bill were the creation of four-and -twenty sees with seats in • hat 'louse according to the seniority of the Bishop, and four and-twenty without seats, it would often happ,-ti that tin. most NI , need Bishops would he alt gether ex • clutlet from ih. , ir Lordships' House ; and he therefore thought it would b. , undoubtedly more satisfactory to reduce the number and give them all seats. Adopt the principle w this Bill, however, and they might go on establishing these new bishoprics without seats, me ta the number of sees reach 48, excluding, perhaps, t e,• most able and efficient of the Episcopal Bench from participating in the ecclesiastical government of the country; and as ' , Lich a step must of necessity be pro •mieiNe of jealeusies and dis-alisfactien amongst the „ 1 ,." niu‘t rep at his conivica..n that it would f heft/ r.o reduce ihe wont.. r ant give to each o; them ;pee ; 4ehts aid pro it ;;es. It was not his intention, n vo .i,, e e. s ., to elf r eny opposition to ti-is Bill. but in ifiie -wog tt.t C •ursts, he must eirna,tly entreat her Me jesty's Govt.rnment not to mislead the public, or to keep them in suspense by withholding from them the precise number, and the precise principles upon which they pro posed hereafter to establish the new bishoprics, Lord BROUG fIAM must also object to the anomaly of tT tvernment eßtehlishing one single bishopric in this country without the adventage of a seat, in tha•• House. It was a dangerous principle, and in refraining from opposing it now, he wished it to be understood that he and Manchestar and Lincoln Union Railway, and Ches terfield and Gain borough Canal Amalgamation Bill was also read a third time, and the several ameudme❑ts agreed to. REPORTS. The reports upon the tollowing Bills were brought up and ordered to lie upon the table:— Croydon Commercial Gas and Coke. Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riling Junction Railway (Burnley and Colliery Branches). Great Northern Railway (Deviations between Gains borough and Doncaster.) Huddersfield and Manchester Railway (Deviations and Alterations in Oldham Branch, &c.) Ipswich Docks. Legal Quays (London). Leominster Canal Navigation Sale. London-bridge Railway Termini General Enlargement. London (City) Improvements. London and North-Western Railway (Lease and Pur chase of the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, and the Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchetavr Railway). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Station at Sheffield and Branch to the Sheffield Canal). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Shef field Canal Purchase). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Junc tion with the Midland Railway, viii Barnsley, and Branches therefrom). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway ( Brat, ch to Chapeltown and Thurgoland Coal Branch). Midland Railway (Masbrough and Normanton Stations Enlargement). Midland Railway (Extension from near Leicester chi Bedford to Hitchin, and to Northampton and Hun tingdon, and Enlargement of the Leicester Station). Midland Railway (Gloucester and Stonehouse Junction). Midland Railway (Mangotsfield to Bath). North British Railway (No. 1). Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Rudders field, and Goole Railway (Partial Alteration of Levels, &c.) South-Eastern Railway (Widening of the Greenwich Railway and Arrangement and Enlargement of the London-bridge Station). South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and Goole Railway (Peni stone, &c., and Purchase of Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and Goole Rail way, Dun Nivigation, and Dearne and Dove Canal). Swansea Harbour. Wear Valley, Bishop Auckland and Weardale, Wear dale Extension, and Wear and Derwant Railways, and Shildon Tunnel Amalgamation. Westminster and Part of Middlesex Sewers. York and North Midland Railway (Knottingley Branch). - - LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' amendments on the following Bills were considered and agreed to :—Belfast Port and Harbour Railway, Ewell Rates Bill, Sheffield Markets Bill. ROYSTON AND HITCHIN RAILWAY (SALE OR LEASE). This Bill was read a third time and passed. WEYMOH AND MELCOMBE REGIS HIV.- HOUR AND BRIDGE TRUSTS. • This Bill was read a third time and passed. HOLYHEAD HARBOUR. Mr. WILLIAMS moved that Captain Berkeley, Mr. 0. Gore, Mr. Duncombe, Captain Jones, Mr. Bankes, and Viscount Clive, be added to the Select Committee on the Holyhead Harbour Bill. He would not have detained the House one moment on this subject, nut that he understood the Secretary of the Admiralty was to oppose it. The Committee ap pointed on the Bill was most unsatisfactory ; two of the Gentlemen appointed being directly interested in this Government job. The Hon. Gentlemen then quoted the opinions of some eminent engineers against the availableness of the harbour. Now, in the face of such statements as had been made by eminent engineers, whose attainments could not be questioned, and who had been employed in public works fora number of years, were they determined to act contrary to their expressed opinion on the matter ? It was estimated that the cost of the work would be 600,0001. That estimate was made by an engineer of eminence, opposed to which was the esti mate of George Rennie, that the cost would be 1,800,0001., who had stated a lso that great loss would be sustained by the blasting that would be necessary, and that it would be almost impossible to obtain blocks of stone of sufficient sine. Sir George Rennie also stated that the labour of throwing down the breakwater would be very great. Now by which of these opinions should they be guided ? He thought the House called upon to appoint a fair Committee, and he begged, therefore, to move that Captain Berkeley, Mr. Ormsby Gore, Mr. Duncombe, Captain Jones, Mr. Bankes, and Viscount Clive, be added to the Select Committee on the Holyhead Harbour Bill. On the motion that Captain Berkeley be added to the Committee, Mr. WARD opposed it on the ground that the addi tion of other names to the ten already appointed was utterly unnecessary and unwarranted by the usages of the House. Captain HARRIS thought before the Committee was appointed, the Bill should be for some time before the House. He was of opinion they should be particularly cautious before they laid out money on this harbour, and that the report should be laid before the House prior to anything being done. _ _ Mr. HUME said the House should be slow in laying out the public money on this project before the fullest investigation was had with regard to it. Mr. KELLY thought the interests of Ireland should form some ingredient in the consideration of this question. Ample information had been obtained, and all the engineers had concurred in recommending Holyhead harbour as the harbour of communication with that country. He trusted that the Government would persevere to stand by the decision of the Committee in this case. The gallery was then cleared, but no division took place, the Hon. Member having withdrawn his motion. Messengers from the Lords brought up sundry Bills. EDUCATION. Mr. WATSON presented a petition from the Roman Catholics of Newport, in Shropshire, and other places, praying to be admitted to a participation in the vote for educational purposes. _____ CHANCERY. Mr. WATSON presented a petition from seYere.l solicitors and attorneys, praying tor an inquiry into the evils of Chancery. EDUCATION. Mr. B. ESCOTT presented a petition from the Isle of Wight, and other places, against the vote for education. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Lord MAHON presented a petition from certain gra ziers in Hertfordshire against the removal of Smithfield market. THE EDUCATION GRANT. Lord J. MANNERS presented petitions from the Roman Catholics of Stamford, Penzance, and other places, praying for a participation in the Government educational nt. gra: RATE-PAYING CLAUSES. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the inhabitants of Liverpool praying for the total repeal of the rate-paying clauses. POOR-LAW AMENDMENT ACT. Mr. BANKES presented a petition, praying for the amendment of the Poor•law Act. RAILWAYS IN IRELAND. Mr. J. O'BRIEN presented a petition from certain parts of Ireland, praying for the extension of railway accommodation to Ireland. Lord G. BENTINCK presented a petition from the Midland Great Western of Ireland Railway Com pany, complaining of the selection by the House of three railway companies in Ireland, and also praying for assistance from Government. They stated that they employ upwards of 4,000 labourers, representing 20,000 persons, who have, by means of that company, been kept off as a burden from the public funds of this country. They further state that in consequence of the depressed state of the money market they will be compelled to throw out of employment the whole of their labourers, unless the same assistance is rendered to them by the Government as they proposed to render to other com panies in Ireland. They further stated that they had most unexceptionable security to offer to the Govern ment for any loan that might be advanced. The petition was then ordered to lie on the table. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Mr. PALMER presented two petitions from the far mers and graziers of Reading market against the removal of Smithfield market. Mr. HAWES presented a petition to the same effect prom Croydon. MEMBER FOR CORK. Mr. S. O'BRIEN gave notice that on Monday next he should move that the Speaker do issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out a new writ for the election of a knight of the shire for the county of Cork, in the room of the late Daniel O'Connell, Esq. ACCIDENTS ON RAILWAYS. Colonel SIBTHORP gave notice that on going into Committee of Supply, he should call the attention of the House to the accidents which occurred upon railways, and to the best means of guarding against these evils. SHRAPN ELL SHELLS. _ . Sir DE LACY EVANS moved for a return of the number of Shrapnell shells ordered to be manufactured at the Carron foundery for the British and East India Company's armies, since the period of the shell having been adopted by the Government for the use of the national forces.—Agreed to. BI itDCAGE WALK. Sir DE LACY EVANS asked the Chief Commis• sioner of Woods and Forests whether anything was to be done in regard to paving Birdcage-walk? Lord MORPETH said that materials were being laid down for the purpose. PORTUGAL. Mr. B. OSBORNE said he had seen it reported that the Conde Das Antes, with two thousand of his men, had been taken prisoners by the British fleet; he begged, theretore, to ask the Noble Lord at the head of the Go vernment whether he had received any papers with re ference to that, and whether he would lay them upon the table? Lord J. RUSSELL said he had received no papers on the subject. He had seen a telegraphic dispatch reportfd in the Moniteur, where no doubt the Hon. Member him self had seen it. Mr. P. /3ORTHWICK begged to ask the Honourable Member for Montrose whether he intended abiding by his motion on the Portugal papers, and whether he would take the discussion tomorrow? Mr. HUME said he was quite ready to take the dis cussion to morrow. Lord G. BENTINCS wished to ask the Noble Lord whether the instructions of the Government were (f , such a char ac t er t h at it was possible for her Majes ty 's . _ I naval force t o h ave acted thus against the troops o . i t he Junta, by t a ki ng the Conde Das Antas an d h is men prisoners ? Lord JoHN RUSSELL said it was q uire for Sir Willi a m P a l mer b a d ordered the b loc k ade Douro, and in case the Conde Das Antes h possi of b theie mu break N T ,\° in upon these orders, it was very possibl A ; l4 int .... might be the eons( :quo nce. ---, _ /.,.....- ~, 1; : -15 . , , , ', *- -, ----t-C4.: !i7.> f Mr. lIUME said he wish , d to know w vtti. tikems7. is7.si:ii .• were all the irwriteti,.i.s t! to 11 , :.d teen s,mt ,; 7 '. \ - %,_;-_ 7 _ -1".7:211/ Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that th, disp - v ; --,- -- t - ' -- - - ." - ) / tained all the diploma . te core. spondence. SAALL DEBTS (IRELAND) BILV alr aSs'AtiThP Mr. M. MILNES asked the Solicitor-General for Ire land whether he intethled introducing a Bill to mitigate the present practice of imprisoning for small debts in Ireland? The SOLICITOR GENERAL for Ireland said the subject was under consideration, and he was in hope* of being able to introduce a Bill this session on this subject. TREATMENT OF A CONVICT IN BERBICE. Mr. G. BERKELY said that he wished to call the attention of his Hon. Friend the Secretary for the Colo nies to a circumstance connected with a convict named Panco. It was stated that he was desirous of obtaining the rite of baptiem, which a Roman Catholic priest was prepared to administer, but which the authorities would not permit him to do. Mr- HAWES said, that wh , ii his Ilan, and Gallant Friend trought this subj. et before the li-tig , on a for mer oceasion, lie st,ti , d ht:t he cc old itstitute inquiries on the subject. Those iiiqulries had b c., read-• ° and it appeared that the convict . was attend e d by a Roman Citholic Priest on the marnaii, of ies execution, but as he wanted to administer the rite of b , ptisai only twenty minutes bEfore the execution, the auth:eides would not sanction ir. POOR-LAW ADMINISTRATION BILL. The order of the day for going into Committee upon the Poor-law Administration Bill was then read for the purpose of postponing it. The further consideration of the Bill was then post. pened until Monday next. PRICE OF BREAD. Sir DE LACY EVANS said that, in answer to a question asked the other evening by an lion. Member, as to whether there was any intention on the part of the Government to bring in any measure to regulate the price and weight of bread in consequence of the price of bread not rising and falling with the price of wheat. He begged to state that the price of bread had uniformly kept pace with the price of wheat in all its fluctuations. He hoped that alarms of this nature would not be given unnecessarily. Mr. BANKES said that he was amenable for what he said, but not for the way in which it might be reported. The speech he made was reported very correctly in the public papers, but he could not be answerable for any alarm it might create. He then held in his hand a pe tition from a magistrate in the country, stating that there was a considerable amount of fraud daily practised upon the poor man in the price of bread. In order to prove that, h. would state that a short timc since the price of bread in Paris was cheaper than it was in Lon don at the time when the corn in France was higher in price than in England. He thought that though there might not be any complaints of these frauds in West minster, yet in other parts of the kingdom the practice of the delivering fraudulent weight was very prevalent. Mr. HEATHCOTE said that the price of bread in London might be cheaper, in relation to the price of corn, than it was in Paris, in consequence of the easy mode of carriage upon the Thames, the better ma chinery and the cheaper price of fuel for baking. He could not, however, understand the reason of the price of bread varying from lid. to 110. in different parts of the metropolis, and he hoped that a Committee would be appointed to inquire into this subject. Mr. B. ESCOTT said that it was not possible to purchase good coarse bread in Landon ; but the pro duce of the bushel of wheat was wasted upon the forma tion of white bread. PRISONS BILL. On the motion that the order of the day for the ad journed debate upon going into Committee upon the Prisons Bill be read, Mr. NEWDEGATE said that he should not have troubled the House at all upon this occasion had it not been for the strong feeling which he knew was enter tained throughout the country, that the abolition of transportation would be a great misfortune. The evils which had arisen from the old system of transportation were attributable not to the punishment itself, but to the way in which it was administered. The failure of the system of punish ment in Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land had throughout been attributable to the inadequate means which had been given for carrying it into effect. Instead of any attempt being made to correct the error into which the late Government fell on this subject, they were pursuing a similar course. It was an opinion among the public in this country that the abolition of transportation would be injurious to this country by doing away with a means ot ridding this country of its superabundant population by sending out of it its worst members. They were adopting the principle of this measure upon most erroneous grounds, and were to substitute for transportation the silent and other experimental systems which had been by no means successful. The Hon. Member here read ex‘racts from several letters, to show that the system of Lord Stanley had failed, not through any intrinsic demerits of that system, but from its being jumbled up with some local regulations, and it was from that most unfair ground that the Government proposed the present measure. It was alleged by Lord Grey that the ground of abolishing transportation to the Australian colonies, was not any local defects, hut from a conviction of the soundness of the total abolition of transportation. The Hon. Gentle man here read some letters to show the peculiar adapta tion of the Australian colonies for purposes of transpor tation. The opinion of the judges on this question was to be taken into consideration, for he (IA not agree with what was said of these learned functionaries, namely, that their opinion was not to be valued, because they were men cf such microscopic eyes. that they could not comprehend any great subject. All the Judges, he believed, with the exception of Judge Perrin, were in favour of transportation, and had de clared that no description of imori , onment would be an efficient substitute for transportation. The Hon. Member then quoted the expressed opinion of Lord Denman, Mr. Justice Wightman, Mr. Justice Erle,and the Scotch Judges who deprecated the abolition of transportation. In Ireland to which he would now come, there was no part of the United Kingdom wh. re the operation of this measure would be so injurious, wnere the punish ment of transportation was so mnch dreaded. The Irish Judges had expressed their opinion very strongly in favour of transportation In short, to his mind, no opinion could bo so conclusive against imprisonment as the opinion of Chief Justice Pennefatber. He is not merely opposed to imprison ment, but equally against the system of solitary impri sonment. Solitary imprisonment was, above WI, hideous and odious to human nature. He had seen the model prison of Philadelphia, and it disgusted him. The system was tried in England with every effort to make it succeed, and yet what had been the consequences ? Dr. s)roly and his colleague report, as the consequences of the system, most evident symptoms of incipient insanity, the first appearance of the mind yielding beneath the treatment. In many instances these symptoms had been matured into confirmed insanity. This system had been established in almost every state in America ; it was popular upon its introduction ; but atter having been tried, it was almost universally abolished in favour of the silent system. Re regretted to hear the Secretary of State say that the Government had determined to adopt it—a mode of punishment the most horrible to man, and such as human nature could not support. Why, be asked, if they were to follow the example of America, should they begin at the wrong end? Why should this country not profit by the experience of America? He had quoted the opinions of the judges upon the other system, bow did they speak in reference to the silent system? Thirty-one judges had been consulted; twenty-three said they bad no means of judging of the system; four were adverse, and four spoke in favour. He was surprised that they could hesitate, when facts before them were such as Pentonville exhi bited, and as had been witnessed among the convicts sent out from that prison. Often the physical nature was nrostrated—often the mind was debased and brutal ised, if it was not bereft of reason entirely. He must say, that when such evidence lay upon the table, and when he had known of his own knowledge that the separate system had failed in America, he hoped that her Majesty's Government would pause before they imposed this silent system upon the whole country ; at was done in ignorance of the nature of man. When God had placed man in the world, and had tested his superiority, he said, "it is not good for man to be alone."—(Laughter.) He saw some Members inclined to laugh, he did not think that that was a proper way to treat the authority which he had quoted. He consi dered that the present proposition was a false step which had been made; for a Liberal Government who boasted to regard the popular voice, for that Government to change a system against the popular wish was a moot arbitrary proceeding. The Right Hon. Baron had explained transportation to be only placing th at the disposal of her Majesty's Governme nt. L c e b r ta a oaa !! i e a only imagine a clergyman passing senten ce u e po cri minal • let him say, you John Thomas have bee n con. convicted of a heinous mime, and it is my duty to pas & on you the severest penalty of the law, namely, to place you at the disposal of her Majest) 's Government. Would not that be a most lame and lamentable conclusion ; it would unsettle the public mind. And if an Irishman was the person sentenced, he would say, why such a pu nishment is not worse than being made a chalk clerk, for he is at the disposal of her Majesty's Gov e r nmen t. He believed that if her Majesty's Ministers persevered in this measure that they would forfeit the confidence of the eM. people. 'Mr. MILNES supported the Bill; they had tried the system of penal punishment in the colonies under every po-sible phase and they had failed, and therefore it, was wise in the Government to introduce a new system. He believed that they had failed in consee silence of the distance of the colons, and not from any Itailli, of those in office. .he system of assignment would be the life blood ot the colony to its very fountain, it was the very wo. st possible regulation that could be adopted—it was fraught with evil and ruin. Transpor— tation might, and did appear to be, a very ad.mirable mode of getting rid of offenders in the eyes of fore i gn. nations, but they soon began to discover that it betray,ed themselves. o o nyibsl4 a4t o al f d th is e re f g u a tu rd re of w t e h l e fa in re te o re f l t h s e n u o n t o fo n r ly tu o n f a th te e s c He would not detain the House longer, but conclude by e ressing his thanks to her Majesty's Government for t th icln s attempt ips to charge the resent system o f transports . There was one subject, however, to which he shed to direct the attention of the Right Hon. Gentle the Secretary for the Home Department, namely, Ist was to be done with those prisoners who had. Jergone the full term of imprisonment, bad were idy to be discharged. The number of recommittals s most erroneous--many of the prisoners having been., own to be recommitted four, five, six, ten, and a t ;en times, and there had been some cases wh ere :ornmittals had occurred to the incredible numb' ar of I) times. Surely this was an immense evil, and ',,eould upy a considerable share of attention, with v 4 v i e w to • some Measure for the prevention o"2 AA II 1 I