The Sun. — London, England, 1847-03-26 00:00:00

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THE PROVISION SQUADRON- Searlett, has landed meal at Skilebereen, and is on her way ti MINT. The Goveromen:, it would atipear from ea: folluising list, have not decreased the number of vessels of her Majesty's navy engaged in conveying provisions to the destitute parts of Ireland, and the west coast of Scot land, but we believe that the steam-frigates will now he principally employed in conveying seed to the distressed population of the above districts. The officers and crews of our navy have performed this service in a manner which reflects the greatest credit on them as sailors—and the highest honour on them as men. By day and by night—in :mouth weather and rough gales, they have carried out the judicious and well-timed orders of the Admiralty and the intentions of the Government, with as much interest as celerity in their humane task. Their praiseworthy conduct deserves especial notice ; for they have made great sacrifices in this service, which we are sure requires only to be known to the public to be duly appreciated. Vessels of very large tonnage have been worked by one-half their usual complements, and with double the work they have been receiving only the same pay. The royal naval officers and seamen have been doing the drudgery of merchant colliers without the advantages of merchant seamen's wages, and without complaint or murmur ; but on the contrary, with cheer fulness and alacrity they have submitted to hard toil, and in many cases severe privations, in the good service on which they have been employed. We should not omit to notice another gratifying circumstance in connexion with this service. Although the crews have suffered so much inconvenience by being drafted from the particular ves sels tor which they entered, the number of desertions has been very few, and those which have taken place has been of worthless wretches, whose continuance in the service was an annoyance to the officers and only an ex pense to the Crown. Again, in speaking of those actually engaged in the ships conveying provisoes, we are led to notice the assis tance of the officers and crews of the guardships at the outports. Large numbers of the provision squadron have been officered and manned from the Poictiers and Ocean, ordinary guardships at Chatham and Sheerness; from the St. Vincent 120, and Victory, 104, port and ordinary guardships at Portsmouth; and from the Queen. 110, and Caledonia, 120, port and ordinary guardships at Devonport; and from other ships in commission at the above ports. Thus we have Captain Williams and a portion of the officers and crew of the Amphion. at Woolwich, away in the Odin; Captain Ramsay, Lieut. 'veed, and a portion of the officers and crew of the Ter rible, during her repair at Woolwich, in the Dragon; Lieut. Coles, with a party from the St. Vincent, is away in the Tartarus; Mr. Macdonald, master of the Royal Yacht, with another party. is in the Dauntless; Com mander Schomberg, and a party from the Queen, is in the Portland; Mr. Davey, supernumerary assis tant master attendant, and party from the Caledonia, are in the Centaur; and Mr. Brown, Master of the Cale donia, and party from the Queen, are in the Tyne. Whilst these officers and men are absent from their re spective ships, of course, the duty falls heavier on those remaining ; but Captain Milne, of the St. Vincent, and Captain Sir Henry Leeke, of the Queen, with other gal lant officers, not only carry on their duties efficiently with the diminished crews, but on every occasion where help is required in fitting or navigating they are always ready to afford it, proofs of which have been given in getting ready in a very short space of time several ves sels whose services have been most urgently required. Nor should the services of the officers and men of the dockyard and victualling be forgotten. With respect to the former, at Portsmouth and Woolwich, they have exerted themselves in a manner not rivalled even by the extraordinary efforts made during the war. At Devonport, too, in the store department, they seconded the exertions of the men of the flagship with the best possible effect ; but little could be expected from the shipwrights when the building of the 80-gun ships absorbed so much the strength of that department. The exertions made at Woolwich Dockyard we are bound especially to commend ; for, in fitting the Odin steam frigate from a mere shell to a sea-going ship in comparatively a few hours, they earned the highest praise Icons the Admiralty, and the warmest thanks of the Government. The officers and nn nof the victualling department have richly merited the great credit which has been given to them. Day and night they have kept the machinery going, baking biscuit and grinding wheat, barley, and meal ; rind while they have been fil hug the provision ship in the most expeditious manner, the quality of the biscuit made at the Clarence and the Royal William establishments is of the first description. Upon carefully reviewing, then, the whole service in connexion with the succours provided for and conveyed to the destitute population of Ireland end Scotland, whether we regard the chief direction of that service by the Admiralty, or the appropriation of the vessels and the arrangement of their stations—the commanding and navigating the various vessels engaged—the repairing, fitting, and storing th,m, or the preparation of the pro vis•ons for their shipment—to the Admiralty first, and secondly to their efficient departments, a deep debt of gratitude from the public is owing : STEAM-VESSELS. The Terrible, steam frigate, Captain W. H. Hall in charge, is at Woolwich preparing to receive seed for cenveyance and distribution to Ireland. The Adventure, naval transport, Tozer, master, is at Kenmare, as a floating depot. The Lively, lighter, Ilartfleld, mister, having landed meal at Dingle, put in at Skibbereen on her return to Cork. The Devon, lighter, Hicks, master, is on her way from Baltimore to Cork, for further supplies. The Ant, lighter, having discharged 450 sacks of meal at Kilrush, was towed to Limerick by the Swallow. The Sinbad, lighter, Follett, is conveying provhions to the depot in the Shannon. The Gipsy, tender, North, master, has landed meal at Skibbereen, and is on her way to Cork. - Th 2 Gossamer, Munchi, master, tender to the Croco dile, at Cork. The Badger, tender, has taken supplies on account of the British Relief Association to Cape Clear, Kinsale, and Skull. The Postboy, merchant schooner, arrived at Baltimore on the 18th instant, on her way to Bantry, with 750 bags of meal and above 400 bags of rice, supplied by the British Relief Association. . The Queen - ,;17;t1;IMerchant schooner, arrived a Galway on the 17th, with a cargo of meal, on account o the British Relief Association. LOLA MONTEZ. The National publishes the following strange epistle, which it has received from Mdlle. Lola Montez. It is dated Munich, 16th. A portion of it is very similar to what is stated in her letter to the Times, but as oaers are new , we give the article as we find it in the National: "Sir,--I have read in your journal infamous articles against my person, and against one of the most just and most noble of Kings. Far from complaining of them, I rather congratulate myself on an aggression which gives me the opportunity of enlightening you with respect to me. Knowing so well your fairness as to be assured that you will consider it a duty to defend a woman, ( posed to the infernal intrigues of the Jesuits, and of their blind partisans, I hope that you will also be kind enough to insert the present letter in one of the earliest numbers of your journal. Arrived at Munich towards the commencement of the month of October of last year, I soon saw with astonishment the Jesuits exer cised a fatal and immense influence in the city, as well as in all Bavaria. Having loudly declared myself against such an abuse, and being ignorant that the last Ministry conformed itself to their principles, I saw myself imper ceptibly and adroitly exposed to the cruel intrigues of *hick the disciples of Loyola are capable, without having given cause for them by my own conduct. Since then every day brought new attempts ; calumny in all its forms was employed; I received menaces of being poisoned, assassinated ; every day insulting letters, bearing my signature, were addressed to the most respectable persons of the capital, in order to excite them against me. Even an offer of a life income of 50,000 f. was made to me if I would consent to disap pear without noise, but I refused the proposition with indignation. His Majesty the King having, of his own free will, dismissed a professor of the University belong ing to the Jesuits' party, I was assailed in the house I inhabit by a mob which was paid by them, and though I had never meddled in any matter which concerned the Government, I saw myself exposed to the danger of being stoned to death. Happily the good sense of the inhabitants of Munich, and the Wise measures of the authorities, soon reduced the mob to order. This state ment of facts proves sufficiently the injustice that the newspapers have done me. If I had had any influence, and if I had consented to use it on behalf of my enemies, instead of being persecuted as I am now, they would not have failed to declare me the heroine of their patron, and then there would have been not only a Saint Igna tius Loyola, but, according to their proverb that' the end sanctifies the means,' they would have proclaimed a Sancta Lola ! " I have, &c., (Signed) " OLA MONTEZ." BAPTISM OF A JEW.—Wednesday morning, between 2,000 and 3,000 persons attended at Craven Chapel, Regent street, to witness the interesting ceremony of a converted Israelite being publicly baptised. A devotional service hay ing been held, the convert, a young man, named Joseph Bremner, was led into the pulpit, where he was interrogated by the Rev. Dr. Liefcbild as to his views of the Christian religion, to which he gave the most satisfactory answers He stated that his father and mother were both of the Jewish persuasion, and that he had been brought up in the strictest forms of that religion. When he was sixteen years of ag , his father died, and two years after his mother also died. He and his two brothers were then left in the care of sonni• relatives until they became of age, when they came into. possession of their property left them by their parents. Atter some time the three separated, each taking a different route. The elder brother came to England, and, under e clergyman, conviction was brought home to him that UN religion he had been following was not right, and he embraced Christianity. The convert was then baptised by the Doctor in the name of the Trinity. FIRE AT THE WESTMINSTER FRENCH PROTESTANT CHuncir.—WednEslay forenoon, shortly after the commence ment of divine service in the Westminster French Protes tant Church, Bloomsbury-street, St. Giles's, the congregation was thrown into a state of considerable alarm, by a report being raised that the sacred edifice had taken fire. It ap pears that for some few minutes a strong smell of burning wood was experienced, but nothing particular was thought of that circumstance, until dense bodies cf smoke commenced issuing from under the flooring boards. It then became ap parent that a fire was burning under the floor of the building The service was immediately stopped, and several persons having procured buckets of water, they were discharged upon that portion of the church on fire. At the same time intel ligence of the outbreak was sent to the engine stations. Numerous engines of the brigade quickly attended, and the firemen, upon removing some of the flooring boards, found that the jointing, &c., had become ignited, owing to a defect in the hot air flue used for warming the building, and there is no doubt that had the outbreak taken place at night, after the church was closed, that it would have been destroyed. As it is the damage is not very considerable. One of the fire men was left to watch the spot and the service was resumed. THII ARMY.—DEATH OF COLONEL LINDSAY, LATS OF THE 78TH HIGHLANDERS. —lntelligence has been re ceived of the death of this distinguished officer, which took place a short time before the departure of the last mail at Kandy, in the island of Ceylon. He entered the service as Ensign in 1794, but was for some years subsequently em ployed in home and minor services. In 1811 he proceeded to Java, and was present in the actions of the 22d of August and 16th of September. In the latter he commanded eight companies of the 78th Highlanders, and for his conduct on the field received a medal. In 1814 he served during the campaign of Holland, and took part in the bombardment of Antwerp. His commissions were thus dated—Ensign, July 3, 1794; Lieutenant, August 22, 1794; Captain, November 22, 1801; Major, January 4, 1810; Lieut.-Colonel, Nov. 25, 1813; and Colonel, July 22, 1830. Although retired from the army for some years, he was specially allowed to retain his rank. The Dragon. steam-frigate, Captain Ramsay, an chored in Plymouth Sound, on Monday, from Ireland, for sevvn hours, and left at five p m. for Portsmouth, and arrived at that port the following morning to ship seed for Ireland. The Odin, steam-frigate, Captain Williams, left Dr , vonport on Tuesday evening for Portsmouth, to ship seed for Ireland. The Avenger, steam-frigate, Commander Potbury, arrived at Portsmouth on Tuesday morning from Devon port and Ireland to load with seed. The Dauntless, screw steam-frigate, Master-Com mander M'Donald, is at Tobermory discharging her cargo. The Centaur, steam-frigate, Master Commander Davey, put into Cork at eight a.m. on. Saturday, from Portsmouth, from stress of weather. She is on her way to Kenmare with 50 tons of seed, for distribution by Dr. Sullivan. From Kenmare she proceeds to Galway. The Geyser, steam sloop, Commander Brown, was at Cork on Saturday, and was to proceed to the west coast and the river Shannon, with a cargo of provision, and 100 boilers, for distribution ; she is then to be detached to Portsmouth. The Bulldog, steam sloop, Commander Davis, was at Cork on the 20th instant, and was to proceed to Dingle with 820 sacks of meal for the relief committee, and with 150 packages of clothes, &c., on account of the British Relief Association. The Scourge, steam sloop, Commander Caffin, was detained at Tarbert for a short time by the violent wea ther. he is now on her way to the Clyde, her previous orders to proceed to Liverpool having been counter manded. REPORTED CONFESSION OF PLATTS, THE MURDERER. —During Monday it was currently reported that Platte, who was on Saturday last convicted of the murder of Collie, at Chesterfield, had freely and unreservedly confessed to having been a direct party in that horrible tragedy. It will be re collected that there were three individuals concerned in it, Platts, Morley, and a person at present unknown ; and that Morley died before the body of Collis was discovered , and , of course, before Platt s was taken into custody; no clue having yet been obtained as to the name of the third man. We immediately instituted an inquiry into the truth of the statement respecting Platts' reported confession, and we are informed that, in the pfesence of several magistrates, Platts made a statement which, although of a very rambling de scription, left on their minds no doubt whatever of his guilt. We are not enabled to say more at present; but it must be the jury has be en so ear l y a d m itt e d to be just. Platts' con ductvery satisfactory to th e p u bli c to know that the verdict of during his trial showed an almost entire insensibility to the position in whi c h h e was placed; and we understand that since then his beha v i our h as n ot materially improved. We believe the execution is fixed to take place on Thursday week, April I.—. Derby Mercury of yesterday. THE IRON TRADE.—We are happy to learn that there exists no falling off in the arrival of orders, such as generally is the case towards the close of each quarter, and more particularly might have been ex pected from the drooping condition of man y other trades, combined with the adverse state of the money- market. On the other hand, we are informed that t he order-books at some of the first houses are now better filled than they were at the commencement, and the spec ifications are in most instances for immediate delivery: That t here is no lack of money, or disposition to invest it wh e re reasonable and secure remuneration presents, may be ga thered from the ease with which the various railway calls i are paid up—the extraordinary outlay now going on in , new erections for mining and manufacturing operations —and the reported fact, that for the Government Irish kan one party was commissioned to tender more than double the whole amount required. It is, therefore, beyond a doubt that the aggregate of the railways now in progress, and for which Bills have been obtained, must and will be carried out; as also that this system of transit will be g , nerally introduced into India, and all the other British dependencies, and by its vast con sumption of iron, both in the construction and the con con- tinual requisitions fur m achi n e ry , and other contingencies, it will exert a powerfu l and p e rmanent influence on the prospects of the trade. It may also reasonably be ex- r wants progress of populationcreated eivpeeted that railways wi ll in du e time find their way to every nation under the sun, sh ould the absence of any pn, unde r th e i ncrease d facilities of commerce, to prevent that dreadful serious commotion allow t h e energies of mankind to i l i i z n, a t i these course a w n i d l i afford cl h e a v t e l w o p i t h t h m e r a n n s y e I thousands o and by a su by the ffi g e e i n en er t al co i n n s c u re mtio increase of depres sion which seems to be universally dreaded b y our of ra ilways manufacturers upon the completion in our own country.—Birmingham Gazette. THE FLORES EXPEDITION.--The following is a translation of an extract of a letter dated Chili, Dec. 27: ~ Since October last we have had the news here of the dis concerted and mad expedition preparing in Spain under Ge neral Flores against these states, and by the present steam packet, which brings us news from Europ e 11 p to the 18th of October last, we have received th e confir ma tion of that un dertaking; consequently, the Governments of these republics are very seriously occupied in preparin g th e most strenuous means of repulsing that invasion: Peru cularly alarmed, to such an extreme seems more parti that every man will shortly be under arms, if one may • Judge from the decrees of that Government, and the periodical Although the expedition should never rzeit)tes of that country. e . realised, arising from embarrassments met with in its o • cause excessive prejudices to these countries,ngl?, i t w ill alwa y s cf the enormous expenses they labour on account .e the necessary preparations of defence.under in . m i g Spain her selr, from her imprudent protection of the - and Santa Cruz, will have to suffer ye e ex -Generals Flores mercial intercourse with these new stra3;eseverely in her corn reflect, that by her perfidious proceedings, a she ought to paring a rod for herself by renewing an • s he is only pr.e which the lapse of time had nearly obliteratedcient animosities memories; bat now God only knows to extremeswhat t from sus impolitic nation may drive these Governments, w fear there would be no bounds to their des • as is 43 fear there desperation. It well known that British commerce has nearly 50,000,000 of dol lars disseminated on these extended coasts, and the whole body of our merchants established in those countries fully rely that the British Government will never consent to that expedition going round the Horn after twenty-five years' acknowledgment of the independence of these states, as if; such a measure is once tolerated, our commerce on this coast will indirectly feel the keen effects of the invasion, ev en more than the natives themselves." . The Stromboli, steam sloop, Commander Fisher, was at Oban last week, and was to receive meal from the --- Dauntless, and to proceed with it to Long Island and Boisdale. The Avon, steam vessel, Commander Otter (Com minder Smith in charge) has returned to Oben from Holyhead, and is ready at the requisition of the Com missary -General, Sir E. Coffin. The Blazer, steam vessel, Commander Wingrove, is on her way to Cork from Dingle, having assisted the Cockatrice thither to land her cargo. The Zephyr, steam vessel, Lieut. Commander Ladd, has latidiid supplies on account of the British Relief As sociation a', ixiettgariti, and is on her return to Cork. The Pluto, Lieut. Commander Lowe, has coaled and completed provisions at Tarbert, and has returned to .ysart, near Fergus, to afford ptotecticn to the meal vt:ssels passing between Limerick and the river Fergus. She is ready to attend to the requisition of the Commis sary General. The Coui2t, Lieut. Commander Johnstone, is carrying provisions in the neighbourhood of Limerick. She ar rived at Tralee, on the 7th, with 20 tons of meal. The ,yrmidon, Lieut. Commander Roberts, is at Waterford, to afford protection to the meal boats from hoi ng plund-red bi-tween Carrick, Clonmel, and Ross. The Urgent. Liverpool mail steam packet, Lieut. r Symes, when the Tyne has discharged her e.i.rgo, is to tow her to the southward of Cape Clear. The Lucifer, Lieut. Commander Smith, is attached to the depot at Sligo. To. Porrupin , -, Lieut. Commander Tumour, has pro ceeded to Kiutuil (Scotland), with Commander Maclean ano meat ihstr,botiou. Tim Shearwater, Lieutenant Commander Sir Godfr,y Webstc.r, Bart., ix at On,n, at the disposition of tbe Commissary Gerwrai, Sir E. Coffin, and to convey C.tonel 1 - lope to any place. Tim Firefly, Lieutenant Commander Buchan, is at Tol!erm, ry, wasting ouders. Tie Torch, Lieutenant Commander Morris, is also nt the r; quisition of the Commis.ary General, at Oban. The atsher, Lo Commander French, received the suppli,s from the Scourge, and proceeded with them for distribution. The Acheron, Lieutenant Commander Dunlap, hus proceeded to Black Sod Bay, for the protection of meal vessels posing that way from plunder. Tip. Tartarus, Lieutenant Commander S. Coles, is at Gal way, convey ing provisions. The Cuckoo, Lieutenant Commander Parks, is also at the requisition of the Commissary General, at Oban. The Fearless has left Cork with 130 sacks of seed, oats and barley, to Skull. The Dee, transport, Master Commander Driver, is at Cork making good defects in her machinery, and will then be ready for further service. The Rhadamantbus, transport, Master Commander Aylen, was at Oban last week, from Liverpool, with supplies. The Alban, steam-vessel, Master Commander Brad shaw, was on her way to Skibbereen with supplies. The Swallow, Second Master Commander Bryant, is at Limerick, under the orders of Commissary General Bev. itson. EAST INDIA HOUSE. , COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. A quarterly general court of the tihectors and proprietors y e , t e ro e.) . aCo eia a :toe held lei' tee diepeteh of of this company was held yesterday in the theatre of the East business. India House, Leadenhall-street. 'The Court was also made CITY OF LONDON CORPORATION REFORM. special for the following reason, namely, "to call the atten- Deputy PEACOCK brought up the report of the Ccm tion of the proprietors to the fact of the existence of a recent mitten of Privileges of the whole Court " for power to corresendence between e Home ities add the Go vernor-p General of India th relating to the author case of the deposed prepare a Bill ntr effecting certain reforms in the Corpo- Raja of Sattara, and to the circumstance of the exclusion ration of the City of London." of this correspor•ence from the return dated India House, Th e re p ort stated as follows:—" We again proceeded Ist of J u ly, 1847, made pursuant to an order of the House of in the further consideration of the matter referred to us, Commons. dated August 28th, 1816, in order that the pro- and this Court having on the 16th of March been prietors may take the proper steps to have the corre- pleased to agree with our re port then presented, in spondeece in question laid before them without further . which we stated we were of (Onion the Corporation delay." required soar ref; orm, which could only be effected by At twelve o'clock precisely, the Governor, Sir James Weir the aid of Parliament ; and being now of opinion that a Hogg, i ogg, the Deputy-Governor, and a full attendance of direc - B ,ll should be forthwith prepare :a for effecting certain tors, entered the Court, and the minutes of last meeting having been read, and some ordinary business transacted. , reforms ; accordingly we recommend' that we may be RAJA OF SATTARA. empowered to prepare the same Bill." Mr. JAMES ARTHUR LEWIS proceeded to call attention to : Upon the motion that the Court agree with the report the case of the ex-Raja of Sattara , and said , that on one and that it be referred back to the committee to prepare subject, that Court (whatever opinion they might have en- . the Bill tertained upon the justice of his claims) had always agreed, Sir PETER LAURIE said he considered the proposition namely, that all the papers connected with the circumstance to prepare a Bill for Parliament most extraordinary of his deposition and present retiremeut should be placed and injudicious in the present position of the Court. — before the proprietors, and they held that the suppression of (Hear, hear, and No, no.) They had submitted a such papers would leave the directors open to charges which series of propositioos to the law officers, with a view of were 'bett r avoided. It would be remembered that at a asc rtaining the ri i i-hts and p Thompson had read a communication showing that .owers of the Court, and the Court held on the 18th March, 1846, Mr. George oninion of thee- 0 officers as to the course best calculated to promote the weltare of the corporation, and without the Government of a former day had o ffered terms to the present ex-Raja, terms involvin g a w o oi n e eor the advice considered so necessary they were ' retirement, and an annual revenue suited to his for stet! , tug at once into Parliament. Be called that a station, if be would peaceably vacate his throne. The Goo- periodical tit.—( Loud cries of "Itis no fit," and " hear, vernor of that Company seemed taken by surprise that this hear.") There were three parties in this Court ; one a conversation existed, and he expressed his entire ignorance very smadl one, which supported the hazardous course that such terms ha , been offered. What was the duty of the which the Lord Mayor had been advieted to adept ; an- Governor and or (he Court under these circuit - is( ances ? other, also, he thought a small section, which desired, What, but to make inquiry into the truth or falsehood of the under any circumstances, to go to Parliament ; and a document, and to r e port to the Cour,. of Proprietors upon ek third, to white he belonged, and which cnsered that the subject. Why wi:hhold these papers ? Did the fact that the corporation possessed powers by which all reform these papers passed throughnhe •-cretCommittee, make them , that . was necessary could be easily accomplished.— contidentiel ?—( Hear, hear.) But why should such a docu ment a t a ll h a v e p a ssed through the secret Committee ? ' (Cries of " Hear," and " No, no.") At the same time But it was said that these paper , : were surreptitiously ob- i he would say, that if the motion, unreasonable as it was, tamed. B u t supposing that to be true,— assuming it to be - were passed, he should not think it worth while to oppose true—how did it affect the right of the proprietors to the it, but reserve his opposition, when the advocates knowledge of those papers. How did it affect the case of the of an application to Parliament should agree upon the Rsj i? But he denied that they were so obtained. The pa- form of a Bill. Many were anxious to go to Parliament, pers were ordered by the command of the House of Commons. but very few of that number knew what they were But did this objection come with a good grace from the to ask Parliament to give them, and he believed that in Court of Directors? Was it not the Beinbay Government t he , attempt to to pieces from i nternal fra disagreement. In 1835, came me their Bill, the Committee would that employed Balajee Punt Nato r, when a Prime Minister of the Raja, to watch over and a ct the s py u p on the conduct ran of hi s mas ter? Was it not that Government that hired their on the first attack of that fit, when the Court tried t o own servants to make out a case against the Raja? He render the Aldermen subject to periodical election, but would not refer (although he might well do so) to more was defeated by a majority of 63 to 38. In 1838, upon a of these atrocious actions, but he thought it ill became the similar experiment, the application to Parliament was Governor of Bombay, in this matter, to throw the negatived by 59 to 45; and in 1843, the orators who first stone. He trusted, therefore, that no further looked upon the victory as secure, found they were again objectioiseof this kind would be offered to the production of mistaken, although they wished to go to Parliament for these papers. Th e H on . Proprietor then read a letter from ' o - exactly the same thing which they at the present mo- Mr. Hume, ALP , one of the requisitionists for ca llin g this merit seemed disposed to apply for. Indeed, all the Ineeti, excusin . his absence, and also a copyobhous of thee, letter writte ng n by that gentleman to Sir John Cam Hobhouse, with Committee would have to do in applying to Parliament respect to the case of the ex-Raja. The Hon. Proprietor was to get up an old report and alter its date, lid het concluded by moving the following resolutions : result would be just what it was in 1843, when the prc " That, inasmuch as all pipers relating to the ex-Raja of posed bill was negatived by. a majority of 185 to 54. He Sattara, and hitherto recorded in the secret department, snould strenuously oppose the proposition to submit have been produced and laid before the Court of Proprietors, their privileges to Parliament, and he knew he this Court resolves that the Court of Directors be respect- could reckon on the support of a very large majority of fully requested to obtain the sanction of the Board of the Court of Common Council, who agreed with him Control for the secret Committee of the Court, to lay before that it would be madness to ask Parliament to interfere the Committee of the Court of Proprietors all corres with them, especially when by the charter of Edward pondence which has passed between the home authorities the Third they had the power of ordaining new laws and the Government of India, in relation to or concerning and customs to meet the wants and exigencies of the the ex-Raja of Sattara, which arose in consequence of a com munication, publicly made to the Court of Proprieto rs at the times.—(Hear, hear.) Quarterly General ourt, held on the 18th of March, 1846, Mr. ASHURST—AII was smothered by the Aldermen and which has not yet been communicated to this Court." upon the occasions to which you refer, Sir Peter. General BRIGGS seconded the resolution. Sir PETER LAURIE said there was no doubt as to in- Mr. GEORGE THOMPSON supported the resolution. The herent power in these charters, if these charters were Hon. Proprietor proceeded to read certain extracts from the ' understood.—(Cries of " Oh, oh," and " Hear, hear.") letters of the ett-Raja to his agent Rungo Bapojee, stating If he was not mistaken, the Court would understand his determination to acce pt nothing less than full justice, them in less than one month, and it would be seen that although terms (the terms which he (Mr. Thompson) had laid before the Court) had been offered to him by Major the opinion he had given so frequently was based upon Carpenter, agent of the Government, in an interview held the most substantial grounds. with hi m at Benares, in September, 1345. Another letter, Mr. KING said the state of the Corporat ion at the specifyi n g the terms (the p a rticulars of which had been period quoted by Sir Peter Laurie was very different stated in the Raja's communication) was received from the from its present condition. At the several periods secretary of the deposed monarch, who added that the alluded to, there was a rabid faction in the Court, dis- Governor-General was himself expected at Benares, and pased to destroy the Corporation, root and branch. that he would endeavour to enter into arrangements in The present movement was an effusion, not of a party, a personal interview with the Raja. The secretary's but of the whole of the representatives of the Wards.— own impression was that an endeavour was being made to (Hear, hear, and applause.) They either were, or entrap the Raja into some admission which should have the authority of his hand and seal. He (Mr. Thompson) had they were not, a deliberative body, and if they claimed afterwards received a letter (the only one of the kind he had to be such, were they to submit to the dictation of on e ever received) from the Raja, expressing his regret that his man, and to be told by him that they should not discuss friends in E ..;land should have thought proper to take steps any subject which he did not think meet for their con which compromised him with Major Carpenter, who had sideration ?—(Hear, hear.) Was it to be said that the stated his annoyance that the conversation he had had with time was never to come at which some change should the Ilaja should have been made public. He (Mr. Thompson) be made in the constituency ? that the great majority and his friend Rung° Bapojee wrote, in answer, that theywere of the respectable men in the wards should be excluded accountable for the act, and that he was freed from an from the power of voting ? He did not think the Court implication in it. Mr. Thompson then detailed at great lengt would any longer endure the exercise of such authority the manner in which he had obtained possession of the secret papers referred to. They had been left unsought for at his as the present . Lord Mayor had shown so e rest an in ,ehambers. He had not thmented rebellion in their courts, clination to wield, and for the purpose of chucking the c ".„ 11 t who could blame him it' he had taken a dv a ntage of it?— continuance of such evils - as they had all lately wit (Hear hear.) But he did not run about the streets and nessed, he should adopt Parliament as the only medium babble to all the persons he met that he had p ossession of throu g h which their constituency could obtain that to t hese secret papers, but he did this: he framed a motion for which they were entitled. returns for the House of Commons, which Air. Villiers had Doctor LYNCH said they had affirmed the principle the kindness to make just before the rising of the last. session that Parliament must be applied to in order that some of parliament, but Sir John Cam Hobhouse had taken the reform might be effected from a source hostile to the tit : ray o f making a slight alteration in the terms of that no- corrupt influence of the Corporation itself —(Hear, by t " h and the consequence was, that when the papers ordered hear and expressions of disapprobation.) It was a gross of p.°, l siouse were laid before the House, on the re-assembling . o)under, and it was excessive fully to believe that the • Par liament, the very documents that were particularly m atured i r jo,vfere not among them. Mr. Villiers subsequently . saw Court of Aldermen would for a moment consent to rte athnadttteenraCin. H d ob t h h on t se; and in answer to the representations form itself, or that any improveineet could be accona these retuniasdt etch of the 24th August, 1845, plished in such a body without application to Parlia should issue tale e u rt a ce a m i lling thereto, were not included in inept. Whatever powers were inherent in the Corpora these him that • Right Hon. Baronet assured him lie lion as to the accomplishment of changes fir the benefi 'an order to the East India House to furnish of the citizens of London, it would be absurd to expect them; but on the evening of the - 15 h February the Hon. Stephe n Byng,any . advantage from the co-operation of the Court of the clerks unde t r the Board of Control, met Mr. Villiere in the lobby, and told him that he could not Aldermen, that monster evil to which it was most get the papers, that the East India Company would not give necessary to apply an immediate remedy. There were them up. Subsequently the matter was brought before the other evils for which the application of tho Parliamen- I House by Mr. Hume, and the result was known to them all. tary medicine would be necessary, but the Court of It was for the proprietors to accede to the motion of his lion. Aldermen stood at the head of all that was bad in Friend to have Sir John C. Hobhouse's sanction to have the Corporation of London. (No, no, and Yes, these papers before them, as the only bar to their production yes.) It was said that a reconciliation was existed in that house. about to take place between the two Courts. That was The CHAIRMAN said that he gave the Hon. Proprietor exactly what the constituency apprehended most.—(A Who had last spoken credit for having made no immediate laugh.) He feared that event himself, for he knew that Use of the papers which had come into his possession. But such a reform as would spring:from such a reconciliation that silence was imposed upon him by the consciousness that would be delusive and ridiculous. hey were obtained in a treacherous, clandestine, and sur- ;hiest of thLAIhRE. ose who formed the committee for the NCE said that Mr. King, in denying the reptitious manner. A great deal had been said a bout the al terations that had been made in the notice of motion which sincerity had been placed in the hands of Mr. Villiers, but the usual consideration of former measures of reform, exhibited course had only been adopted; for it was never intended, and his own insincerity on the present occasion, for as to the the House rarely ordered, that the papers of the secret office past, that gentleman had proved himself to be the should be given to the world. But Mr. Hume, in the after decided enemy to any proposition calculated to benefit session of Parliament, had moved for, not general papers, his fellow citizens.—(Hear. hear, and laughter.) What but documents of a specific date, which he had ever the feelings of the majority had been as to the pro seen fit afterwards to withdraw without a division, priety of applying to Parliament, from the apprehension because he saw that the sentiments of th e House Were in accordance with the opinion of Sir John of an interference injurious to the corporation , they Cam Hobhouse, whose opposition was founded upon a deter- , were now determined to peril all rather than submit to urination not to be coerced into the production of certain endure, what they had in the present Mayorahwtyasbseseind papers merely because they were in possession of some other subjected to, any longer.—(Loud cheers.) . It Person. He (the Chairman) resisted this motion on the same the Corporation had the power to reform itself. Why, ground, and he prayed the proprietors not to sanction a then, had the y not made the effort ? In fact, it would motion which contained an incentive to the production of be absurd to hope for the co-operation of the Court of secret information originally obtained in a base, and treacher- Aldermen when they had a Lord Mayor acting in such Otis, and surreptitious manner. a manner.—(Hear, hear.) The Lord Mayor was car- Mr. Tocitatt (Deputy Chairman) supported the motion. rying out the wishes of the Court-of Aldermen in riding Much as he had admired the eloquence and ingennity of his 1 ough-shod over the Court of Common Council. — Hon. Friend, he thought he had not, on the present (Hear, hear, and No, no.) Was there any man of spirit occasi o n, met the question ; which was, whether among the Court of Common Council who would bear such papers were, or were not, in existence. If y such degradation ?—(Cheers, and loud cries of " No.") they were in existence , he coul d tee no p ublic reason wh they should not be produced for the satisfaction of the p ro- It was s'aid "But look at what; you will lose if you go prietors. He should therefore vote fo r the motion. t o Parliament ? "—(Hear, hear.) But he would ask— Sir R. CAMPBELL (a director) was also in favour of pro- Will the Aldermen lose nothing ? Will they not be ducing these papers. clipped ?—(Cheers.) They knew it. Did they Mr. SULLIVAN was proceeding to support the motion, really object to the Qualification Bill? They cared When he was obliged to sit down from it: , :. a., sition. nothing about it until they learned that it would be Mr. WIGRAM (a director) opposed the til.rii on. He thought f diowed by the more important measure of checking that the Court should not sanction the production of parti- their owls expenditure of the City cash. Without ap cuter papers which had been obtained in a surreptitious plicatiou to Parliament, the Court had nothing to ex manner Mr. CLARKE denied that the motion specified any parti- Peet but a repetition of a hat had already occurred ; but cular documents. It was a resolution commanding the pro- if an application to Parliament would cause the screw ductions of papers having reference to a particular matter, to be put upon the Court oof Common Co until, Parlia and as such he should support the motion. ment would see the necessity of screwing up the Court Major OLIPIIANT (a director) thought that they had had of' Aldermen proportionately.--(Cheers.) quite sufficient grounds submitted to them to warrant the Mr. R. TAYLOR advocated the report vigorously. He production of these papers. They had, it he might be al- o t,h, t:j edy .c ih t , e a • e d d t f ( u o i t le h , e lb ar , g fo u rh m t., e t t of y Sir P. Laurie that because lowed to misuse a word—they had tricd, condemned, and were always to be traetreteo, dethroned the Beta, upon the evidence of certain papers, and , fifteen ft t ee e n m w o e f u t h he rg a 0 1 eifetehmeacn Court r t t h o e f. d A as l s e o r- t George 1., remindedwhen be (Major Oliphant), as one of the judges to the condentna men had gone to Parleano•nt, and succeeded in obtain • tion of the Raja, demanded, and he had the right to demand, ng i an Act which cemprehended the most &gran , other papers, if such evidence would set the innocence of the deposed Prince in a clear and satisfactory light. With these opinions he would support the motion of the Horn Proprietor. v o atum of the rights and privilege s of the Court of Sir Jastas LAW LUSHINGTON (a director) said that he C .ninon Council —(Hear, hear.) Why should not th could not consent to the motion. He would not attempt to Court of Common Council apply to the pre- e , ,t Parlia deny that those papers were in existence, and he would be mint fo r the n-peal of that obvious measure ? Would Most happy when the time came that they should he made any on- say that the evils which had been forced upon public, if they proved the innocence of the Raja. He (Sir t , ,..iin by Parliament, could be removed without the aid a. L. Lushington) would be the last man, in such a case, to of Parliaments—(Fl,llr, hear.) The difficulties in which support an injustice. 'hey were placed, hail been aggravated toy the decision Captain SHEPHERD (a director) supported the motion. against them in the court of law, with respect to the The papers were refuse o because they hod been obtained in a wlielesale dealers, end en appeal to Parham, nt was the surreptitious tnanner. It showed the weakness of their opi- onl means which which appeared to him to be likely to render nions that this was the ohly plea advenced. It was mon- y strous, it was almost incredible , that justice • hould be refused silly'''''''` ie • to this u nfortunate Prince, because one of their own servants S(r C. MARSHALL had thought that all angry feeling had been guilty of a gross misdemeanour b e twesn the Courts was dying away.—(Laud cries of Mr. D. SALMONS was of opinion that no time was better "Ni, no.") He was confident that this Court would b e than the present for re-opening the question of the innocence I, ug hed at if they determined upon going to Parliament or guilt of the Raja of Sattara, and he should therefore la fore they received the report of th•• seven gentlemen suggest to some of his friends, who held a strong opinion on thet had do potted to con' , with the Court of Aldermen. this matter, that the question should be left inns its present no- ,-; ' cation, until examined into by the Governor- ral of India ise s puty STEVENSb eaid the object was to propose a bill Mr. MILLS (a director) did not think that this motion, if for hirli.on , tit. but i:ot to go to Parliament without the carried, would benefit the Raja; and he trusted, therefore. consent of the Cent t. that it would not be persevered in. Mr. Astir:tea' said the forming the t A h l e de c r o m in en au s ) h n owdthe Colonel SYKES (a direetor) would divide with the proposer greatest premptitude in . Council, Of the motion. Mr, PLOWDEN (a director), on the ground that he was sentatives there, or to cause any other essential alters - when it proposed to -diminish the number of the repre desirous of ascertaining the truth, would vote for the motion. lion in that body • but the moment a word was uttered General ROBERTSON said that the Raja was condemned ateout making a ' charges in their ow n p owers, nothin g unheard, and the case could not b e therefore deemed a closed could be more iucunsistent. cnie• But this was not the pl ace to decide the q uestion. It t:o. with much force upon the nece ssit y of going to ny Mr. Ashurs t then p roceeded should be a djudicated on by Viscount , Pa Hardinge, who had in the case ot a Prince in the Pun sub (lately evinced his de- s, gue rliament. sire t o d o even -handed justice The case ti . the Raja was a Alderman COPELAND said he should su pport the similar one, and he should vote fo r the motion. motion, having alwa y s been of o p inion that the coffer - Mr. WEEDING (a proprietor) opposed the motion. !flees between the two Courts could not be settled with- Mr. GORDON supported the motion. out the aid of the Legislature. Mr. LEWIS replied. Several other members spoke in favour of the report, The Court then divided, when there appeared— amongst whom were Mr. Anderton, Mr. T. H. Hall, For the motion 4O Mr. Cash, and Deputy Peacock. It was opposed by Against it 3B Mr. Godson. To the arguments used the public have Majority t t l i l t e ne re a p e o c r u t st t o v r a a s ed a . greed to by a very great A considerable majority of the directors were aga inst the Motion, while the bulk of the proprietary were in its f avour. majority. The proceedings of th e d ay certa i n ly ga ve very little hope of the reconciliation spoken of at the The result was received with much cheering. c ommencement or the discussion; of the determination of Mr. D. SALOMONS postponed 114 motion relative to Lieut. the t t i f ) n li Cjn l es 7.em(rs sane b e C t o h u en businesscs l i i l g oh t f o t e sm g t oi question. u, ) t e o r Parliament, Waghorn's claims upon the East Media Company. The Court then separated. st i i i o n n Port A an f c te e r , t ' h e e t r t e ra c n a e Court adjourned. SIR GEORGE SIMPSON, the Governor-in-Chief of the Hudson's Bay Company's territories in North America, has just returned to England after a long absence. We understand that he is about to publish the narrative of hi, journey round the world, which was per formed chiefly overland in the years 1841 and 1842; the various important occupations in which he has since been constantly engaged having precluded him from bestowing his earlier attention to the subject. i 2 ADVANCE IN THE PRICE OF WHlSKY.—Several "ceased victuallers have, during the last few days, raised the Prica of whisky three-pence a bottle. LOSS OF A VRENcit GovEniimErri STEAMER.— We learn from Captain Guird, of the French brig Irma and Thomas, arrived at this port yesterday from Senegal, that the French Government steamer Charade was wrecked off that port on the day he left, and from 25 to 30 other crew were lost.— Charlton Courier, Feb. 25. THE LATE ACCIDENT TO CAPTAIN VYSE, M.P.— We have much pleasure in stating that Captain Vyse, who met with a serious accident while riding with Baron Rothe child's hounds on Thursday last, is steadily recovering, and that all danger is past SAILING VESSELS The Portland, 50-gun frigate, Commander Schom berg, is now at Portsmouth, loading with some hundreds of tons of biscuit, meal, seed, &c., for Ireland. The Tyne, frigate, Master Commander Brown, arrived at Tarbert on the I:th, and was to deliver her cargo, and then proceed to Devonport to reload. The Andromeda, frigate, Master Commander Thomp son, is at Killibegs, moored as a provision depot for that part of the coast of Ireland. The Madagascar, old frigate,' faster Commander W. Burney, is moored at Tarbert, in the Shannon, there to remain as a depot. The Aniromache, frigate, Master Commander John son, fitted as a store ship at Galway, there moored as a provision depot for that portion of the coast of Ireland. The Belvidere, fricat- , Master Commander Welling ton, is at Tobermoryr;lsle of Mull, moored as a depot. The 2E Aus, frigate, store-ship, Master Commando r Tucker, is stationed at Oban, as u depOt. The Cockatrice, schooner, idaster Commander Tucker, has landed previsions on account of the British Relief Association at Castlemaine, and is now at Dingle. The Mercury, tender, Second Master Commander IMPERIAL PAIfEIA HOUSE OF LORDS, March 25. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on theWoolsack at Five o'clock. DISTRESS IN SPITA.LFIELDS. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the. rector, the churchwardens, and vestrymen of Christ Church, Spitalfields, praying their Lordships to take into con sideration the distress in that parish, which was 13.-ing every day augmented by the distress prevalent in Ire land, and to legislate for the causes which operate on that distress in Ireland. The Noble Lord said he would not express any opinion on the prayer of the pe tition. He had already spoken on the subject of Irish distress, and he had the gravest doubt whether they could pass any permanent measures till they reached fairer weather. LAW OF SETTLEMENT. The NOBLE and LEARNED LORD also presented a petition from the rate-payers of Bradford, in Notting hamshire, against the law of settlement: MARKETS AND FAIRS CLAUSES BILL. On the motion of the Earl of CLARENDON, the House went into Committee on this Bill. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY, after the Bill had passed through Committee, was abont to report pro gress, when Lord'BROUGHAM interposed, and said he had pe titions from several companies whose Bills would be af fected by this measure to Present before it passed, and he did not know the occasion was so near, or he would have presented them before. He had also a clause framed by these companies, which he would lay befbre his Noble Friend (Earl of Clarendon) opposite, and he would take another opportunity to bring the amendment before their Lordships, when the Bill came to another stage. But, of course, the Noble Earl must at present report progress. Earl SHAFTESBURY then reported progress. Their Lordships having resumed, the Commissioners' Clauses and Waterworks Clauses Bills went through Committee in order to he reported with amendments. DRAINAGE OF LAND BILL. On the motion for the third reading of this Bill, The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH moved the insertion of a clause, limiting the amount of money to be expended in carrying out the Act. Earl MINTO resisted the introduction of the clause, believing that the Bill itself limited the amount to be expended. Lord ELLENBOROUGH said that there was no great use in pressing the amendment ; he only moved it by way of protest. The amendment was then negatived without a division, and the Bill was read a third time and passed. CONDUCT OF SIR EARDLEY WILMOT. Lord STANLEY rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice. He desired to obtain copies of the correspondence which had taken place between the Colonial-office and the Governor of Van Diemen's Land. His motion was of an unusual character, yet, as he believed that no objection would be offered by the Government, it would only be necessary to state the nature of the motion and the grounds upon which he made it. He did not make it of his own accord, but at the earnest desire of a public servant, who complained, though 16,000 miles distant, he had been made the victim of calumnious assertions against his private and personal character, which he declared to be wholly false and calumnious. He did not wish to enter into any disquisition on the government of the colonies, yet he was ready to admit that there could be no situation in which the observance of morality and decorum was more necessary than in that of the governor of a colony. While he had the honour of holding the office of Colonial Secretary, in 1845, rumours respecting the conduct of Sir Eardley Wilmot, the Governor of Van Diemen's Land, reached him. These reports were, that such was the scandal. ous misconduct of the Governor, and such was the immorality prevailing at his house, that it was impossible for any family to visit it. That state ment did not attract his attention; but, having been promulgated in this country, it reached the colonies in the month of April, where as soon as it was known that such statements had been made, _ _ in England, all the chief persons in the colonies, who were in constant intercourse with the Governor, sent back a counter-statement, which was received in October last in this country.—(Hear.) It happened. that when this refutation was sent from the colonies his Right Hon. Friend had succeeded to the office of Se cretary ; he having also heard then rumours, and having on other grounds been determined to remove Sir Eardley Wilmot from the office of Governor, he addressed a secret dispatch to the Governor, in which he stated his reasons for his removal, adding, at the same time, that he thought it necessary to inform him that these rumours had reached him, and that unless they were satisfactorily refuted he would not be able to advise her Majesty to employ Sir Eardley Wilmot in any other colony. Sir Eardley immediately wrote back that he was exceedingly happy to receive the communication, and that he was prepared not only to give the most peremptory and absolute denial to the charges, but that he was determined to remain on the spot after he had been deprived of all authority, and that he would there submit his conduct to the strictest investigation. He did so, and a Committee was appointed of the Executive Council, to which was added the Governor of the Army and the Archdeacon. The Committee reported that none of the charges made were capable of being substantiated ; that there was only one mode that could be adopted, namely, to invite any person who had charges to make against the personal character of Sir Eardly Wilmot, to come forward and substantiate it ; but, whilst recommending this course, they admitted that it was open to objections, and would not unlikely lead to the creation of an impolitic precedent. The Council at that time had no power of calling witnesses, which made the investigation more difficult and uncer tain. They, therefore, reported that in their opi nion it was not expedient to enter upon the inves tigation, and gave as their r easons , i n exp li c i t terms, hat during their private and official intercourse with Sir E. Wilmot for three years, nothing had trans pired to show that he had been guilty of any violation of the decencies of private life. It was signed by the Commander of the Forces. the Colonial Secretary, the Colonial Treasurer, the head police magistrate, the minister of the parish, and other:. A petition, generally signed, was agreed to in Hobart Town, giving the most unqualified contradiction to the reports which had been spread injurious to the character of Sir E. Wilmot. He had the authority fur saying that the Right Hon. Gentleman who had suc ceeded him in the Colonial-office (Mr. Gladstone) had no objection to the production of the papers. When adofficer who had been told by the Secretary for the Colonies that unless the charges which were made against him were refuted, he could not recommend him to any other office under the Crown, and when that officer remained for some time on the spot in order that the charges might be fully, investigated, and when they were not proved, he considered that it was but justice that the papers should be produced. The Noble Lord concluded by moving for their production. Earl GREY said, except under no ordinary circum stances, he should have objected to the production of these papers; hut as the circumstances were so peculiar, it was right that the correspondence which had been moved for should be produced. The Honourable Gen tleman who preceded him in the Colonial-office bad no objection to their production. The motion was then agreed to. THE ARMY—LIMITING THE SERVICE. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY gave notice that he should put the following questions to the Noble Marquis (Lansdowne) to-morrow:—Whether: the Bill which had been introduced into the House of Commons by trier Majesty's Government for limiting the service in the army, had received the sanction and approba tion of the Commander-in-Chief; or if it had ori 4inated with her Majesty's Government, or of any officer, and whether the opinion of any board of general officers had been taken, or other competent authorities ; and, secondly, whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Ministers to issue a warrant like that issued in October, 1806, to raise the pensions of non commissioned officers when entitled to their discharge? Lord BROUGHAM moved for a return of the cor respondence upon an inquiry into the subject of relief works in Clare; and also the letter written by Captain Gordon, of Clare, on the same subject. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE 01 COMMONS. March 25. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. The following reports ware agreed to:—The Chelten ham Waterworks, the Darwen Waterworks and Reser voirs, and the Shipley Gas Bills. SECOND READINGS. The following Bills were read a second timei—Kil marnock and Ayr Direct Railway, and the North British Railway (No. 2). NAVIGATION LAWS. An IloN. MEMBER presented a petition from Blythe against the repeal of the navigation-laws. ipk--c navigaL. .• EDUCATIONAL GRANT. Dr. BOWRING presented a petition from Bolton against the proposed educational grant. THE RAJA pF SATTARA. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN presented a petition from several inhabitants of Dublin, praying for an inquiry into the circumstances which had led to the dethrone ment of the Raja of Sattara. IMPEACHMENT OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL. The HoN. MEMBER also presented a petition from the Rev. Mr. Maberley, complaining of the conduct of the Government in relation to the destitution in Ireland, and calling for the impeachment of Lord John Russell. POOR• LAW RATING. Mr. J. O'CONNELL presented petitions from a number of places in Ireland, against the mode of rating proposed in the Poor Relief Bill of Ireland; and also against the clauses for increasing the ex-officio guardians. THE REPEAL OF THE CORN LAWS. Mr. HAWES presented a petition from a friend of his whose name did not transpire, complaining of the mode in which his interests had been affected by the enact ment of the corn law of 1842, and praying for re dress . . -.. _....-- •... SCHO 7 OMASTERS OF SCOTLAND. ...._— On the motion of Mr. FOX MALTLE; a return of all the parochial setmolutysters in Scotland, who held any other office, together with the return and emoluments thereof; was ordered. POSTPONEMENT OF MOTIONS. Sir GEORGE GREY, on behalf of his Noble Friend at the head of the Treasury, requested that all those Members who had notices of motion on the paper would postpone them, so as to enable the House to go into Committee on the Irish Poor daw, and he would himself give the example hr postponing his own motion till Monday nf xt. Mr. SHAW then withdrew his motion, as did also Dr. Bowring and several other Members. SPANISH BONDHOLDERS. Dr. BO WRING said that as the Noble Lord (Lord G. Bentinek) had withdrawn his motion for inquiring into the relations of the bondholders with the Spanish Go vernment, he wished to ask him what course he intended to pursue. Lord GEORGE BENTINCIC said that he had post poned his motion out of courtesy to his Noble Friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, but that after Easter he should move an address to the Queen, praying that decisive measures might be taken for obtaining redress for the creditors of the - Spanish Government. CHINA. The following Members were appointed a Select Com mittee to investigate the state of our commercial relations with China:—Mr. Francis Baring, Mr. Beckett, Dr. Bow ring, Mr. Brown, Mr. Cardwell, Lord Courtenay, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Harcourt, Mr. Matheson, Mr. Moffatt, Mr. Sheil, Mr. John Abel Smith, Mr. Spooner, and Sir George Staunton. GENERAL FAST. On the motion of Sir G. GREY the thanks of the House were given to Dr. Dealtry for his sermon at St. Margaret's Church yesterday, on the subject of the General Fast. PUBLIC WORKS (IRELAND ) . Mr. J. O'CONNELL, before the House went into Committee, begged to draw its attention to the dreadful evils that would result from putting the labourers a the public works in Ireland, the doing of which would, he believed, be only consigning them to immediate misery and a speedy death. In order to show the ex tent of the evil that was likely to ensue the Hon. Gen tleman read several letters from clergymen and other offirials in Ireland stating their apprehensions on the subject. The Hon. Member then read several extracts from the Freeman's Journal, giving a description of the distress in Cavan, Longford, Kildare, Waterford, and other parts of Ireland, stating that persons holding one, two, three, and four acres of land, were reduced to as great destitution as those who had no land whatever. These poor people had to this moment borne their sufferings with the greatest patience and resignation, and he thought this should give them a still stronger claim on the Government to preserve them from starvation. He implored the Government to inter fere even now, and exert themselves to avert the entire annihilation of the people of Ireland. Mr. S. O'BRIEN concurred with the Honourable Member for Kilkenny, that the mode by which the disbanding of the labourers from the public works was proposed to be carried into effect would produce the greatest mischief. He thought the relief Committees, to be appointed under the new Bill, should have commenced their labours long since, so that the transfer from the one mode of relief to the other could be brought about more effectively, and with less suffering to the people. He hoped the appeal of th e Hon. Mmber for Kilkenny would have the effect of inducing the Government to come forward now, at the eleventh hour, and do something to avert the wholesale destruction of the people. Mr. LABOUCIIERE said, that the greatest caution was necessary in removing the labourers from the works, and though twenty per cent. of the labourers were or dered to be struck off on the 20th inst., a great discre tion was left to the Irish Government to apply that order as it might think advisable. The accounts which they had of late from Ireland were much more cheering.—(Hear, hear.) Provisions were flowing into the country in great abundance. Thus proving that the Government, in leaving the providing of the pro• visions to private enterprise, were correct in that policy, anti in the anticipations they had formed of its success. In the port of Limerick alone he had accounts stating that 23,000 tons of bread-stuffs had been imported since September last, and there were 150 vessels at present in the Shannon laden with provisions. Mr. SHAW thought it unsafe to remove the la bourers from the works by any strict rule—at aoy rate till the relief committees were appointed, as by this means the transfer from the one mode of relief to the other would be less felt. Sir GEORGE GREY said if the Hon. Gentleman would refer to the papers which had been furnished this morning he would find that the relief works would not be discontinued until the relief committees were in full operation ; he would also find that an increase of 250,000 men had recently taken place in con nexion with some of the works. From the last report of the Board of Works it appeared that the farmers had experienced some difficulty in obtaining persons to work at field labour. What his Hon. Friend had stated was not that a simultaneous reduction in the persons employed on the public works would take place in every locality, but a gradual reduction. The time when such reduction should take place, and the locality, being left to the Board of Works. There was ample employment now in field labour for those who had left the public works. Lord G. BENTINCK said he could not allow the last observation of the Right Hon. Baronet the Secre tary of State for the Home Department to pass without some notice. That Right Hon. Baronet had informed the House that, although cultivation might be going on in some parts of Ireland, yet it had been discontinued in other parts from causes over which the Government had no influence ; but when the House recollected the press ing letter of the Earl of Besborough, in January last, to Lord John Russell, urging him to cause a supply of seed to be sent to Ireland, and stating that there were many parts of Ireland in which it was not possible for the farmer to obtain seed without the assistance of the Government. When the House also recollected that Captain Wynn sent a letter to the same effect, and then that the Government came down to that House in the first fortnight of the session, and announced that it was their intention to advance 50,0001. for seed ; and further, that it was not till the eleventh hour—till they had given the whole Irish people reason to believe that they would receive assistance from the Government ; and' further still, that at the last moment the Government had disappointed them, he was perfectly justified in saying that the Government had exercised a most pernicious influence over the culti vation of the soil. Why, when there were 100,000 farmers in Ireland who, thinking the Government were prepared to make the advances they bad proposed, and when they recollected that the Lord-Lieutenant, had pressed the Government not to furnish green seeds, but corn seeds, and that the farmers were led to believe that they would be sup. plied with corn seed, and when they had induced the farmers to purchase green seed out of their own funds, the Chancellor of the Exche quer now came down fo the House and told the Irish people, in this place, that the 50,0001. was to be advanced not for corn seed, but for the green crop, which they would not require till the summer, and which would only be useful for turnips, parsnips, and grass. There fore, he (Lord G. Bentinck) wanted to know whether under these circumstances, her Majesty's Government were not most blameable with respect to the course they had taken with regard to th* supply of seed. Then he could not allow some of the observations of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Secretary for Ireland to pass without observation. He had glorified himself and the Government to-day for basing supplied various places in Ireland with provi sions. He had told them that since the month of September—that was now six months-50,000 ton' of provisions had come into the port of Limerick. But in one week, in the course of t'lis year, 30,000 quarters of corn went out of the port of Limerick; so that, after all, what did these 50,000 tons of provisions amount to when placed by the side of the 30,000 tons exported from the same port?—(Hear.) But that was not all. It might be true that these provisions were now imported by private speculators; but what compensation was that for the deaths of some 200,000 who had died from starvation, or from pestilence growing out of starvation, whilst waiting for this supply? But if the Government bad had one tenth part of the sympathy shown by the people of Boston, by America, for the starving people of Ireland, all that food might have been supplied at least six months ago. What did they see by the last returns? They were told that, although the meal depots had been diminished, yet, in truth, they had increased, and that it was quite a mistake to argue that, because there were now 24 depots, whereas there were 93 when they came into office, that the amount of provisions distributed had been in like manner diminished. He had looked at the last calculation. and what was the value of the food dis • tributes! for the week ending the 6th of March by the present Government? It was 262,C00/., about 1,048,0001. a month—but one tenth part —scarcely an eleventh part —of the food distributed by the late Government in the month of June last, when the famine was not a ninth part what it was at the present moment. It was under these circumstances that be considered the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, had little cause to congratulate himself when he reflected upon the hundreds of thousands of persons who had died under his administration of affairs in Ireland. Mr. WILLIAMS thought that statements of the ex penditure for Ireland should be weekly laid on the table of the House, in order to show how much this country was doing, and how little the landlords of Ireland were doing for the relief of their own countrymen. In South Wales one small town subscribed at a meeting 3,000/ for the relief of the Irish distress, and at the different assizes in that part of the kingdom large sums of money had been subscribed for a similar object. This country was doing much, but those on whom the people of Ire land had the greatest reason to look in their present suffering were doing absolutely nothing. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that the observations which bad been made by the Noble Lord were merely repetitious of his speech the other evening. The Government could not answer such repetitions, which would merely occupy the House, and he hoped that Hon. Men , b,rs would allow the Bill to go on. Mr. COLLETT said that he rose in consequence of information which he had received on Saturday last from Wicklow, from a gentleman resident there. It was stated to him that the preservation of the public peace was very doubtful, in consequence of the discharge of nemerous men from the publi c wor k s. Nearly 1,000 persons had been discharged, and they could now have nothing but. plunder to loak to for the preservation of Seretary f or i lite. He had felt it hi s d uty, see i ng the Ireland in his place, t o r i se an d give the ntormation as he had received it. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIESLI ER wished to say one word. He had that day received a letter from Colonel Jones, in the district referred to by the Hon. Member, a n d h e stated that thereduction of the EDUCATIONAL GRANT. Mr. FORSTER presented a petition against the pro posed grant for education. SCOTTISH REGISTRATION ACT. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from the ses sion clerks of Scotland against this measure, which they stated would, if passed, injure their interests in a most serious manner. The ELON. MEMBER also presented several petitions on the same subject fr. an different parts of Scotland. SCHEME FOR GENERAL EDUCATION. Mr. spill: S. O'BRIEN presented a petition from lienrick it the education plans of the Government. . SMALL DisTILLERs OF LONDON. On the motion of Lord U BENTINCK, it was or dered that the petition of the small distillers of London should be printed and circulated with the totes. numbers employed upon the publictiro ks had passed Olg very quietly, and no disturbatieik.- tev( r was app headed. It was impossible to alai • r the state of the whole country, but in general_ th • stricts in which these reductions had taken ply: perfectly qu i et . Major LATARD tbOyg . ht ig atta c k s w hi c h ha d been made upoialieVoi . ertinle.tliaier e most unjustifiable. The Hon. Member for Shrewsbury had laid the blood of the people upon the head of the Government, and the Noble Lord who had lately spoken upon this subject had laid the blood of the people upon the head of the Noble Lord at the head of the Government. A j ur y in Ireland had, by their ver di ct , ma d e the Noble Lord answerable for the lives of the people, but then they were in a state of excitement at seeing the people star. ving around them. He thought that these attacks should cease, and the Government be allowed to proceed with the Bill. INFLUX OF PAUPERS INTO ENGLAND. Lord SANDON wished to know whether greateg freedom of action could be given to the law which one. bled the authorities to remove the Irish paupers from this country. These people were coming over by thou• sands and tens of thousands, and unless some machinety was introduced. for the purpose, it would become impose sible to remove them from this country. There was 411 great unwillingness at present to remove any of these persons, while proper provisions did not exist for these in Ireland, but he thought that in Committee upon this Bill a clause should be introduced for the purpose he had mentioned. Sir GEORGE GREY said that he bad received some information from Liverpool as to the difficulty of removing these people. There did not seem to be any very general disposition to send them away, while means did not exist for their relief in Ireland. The Govern* meat however proposed to introduce a vagrancy and when that Bill was introduced into the House it would afford a fitting opportunity for the insertion of any such clause in it. IRISH PAUPERS. Mr. SHAW wished toknow if the vast number of per• sons returned as paupers coming fromlrelandwas not over— stated, and if many of them were not persons who had placed themselves on the list as paupers coming from Ireland, when in reality they had been chargeable upon. a district in England for some time before. Sir GEORGE GREY said, that upon inquiry thw returns would not seem to be rather overstated. About, 60,000 persons arrived annually from Ireland into Bris tol and Liverpool. About 20,000 were emigrants to America, and the other 40,000 were spread over the country, and became in time entitled to relief. Mr. NEWDEGATE had not intended to say one word on this subject, but he could not allow the obser vations of the Hon. Member for Carlow to pass unno ticed. He could not help thinking that the Hon. Mem ber had snatched an opportunity of making unjust and severe reflections upon the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn. After all the Members on that side of the Mouse had determined not to continue the discussion, according to the suggestion of the Government, the debate had been renewed by the Hon. Member, and an attack made by him after it had been understood that the subject had been dropped, and yet he complained of attacks being made upon the Government from that side of the House. Mr. CARDWELL wished to remark upon one fact connected with the observations of the Recorder for Dublin. He had read a letter from a stipendiary magis trate in Liverpool, stating that in spite of the influx of paupers there, there was no desire to remove them if some provision was made for their sustenance. The in flux of paupers was at the rate of 2,000 per day, and in a few days a fever hospital capable of containing 400 would be ready. That showed that some measures were being adopted for the relief of these people. The pro positions made by several Hon. Members, applied rather to the removal of a technical difficulty, which was, in reality, met by the spirit of the existing law. Mr. P..SCROPE despaired of the Government being able to solve the problem which laid before them, as to the means of putting an end to the terrible state of things which existed in Ireland, unless a sus pension of party attacks were made. The time of the Government could not be occupied in answering these attacks, instead of attending to the business before the House. Mr. GROGAN said that the Government had in formed the House that a Bill for mendicancy and vagrancy was about to be introduced, but he hoped that the House, in considering it, would not pass such a measure as would throw the support of the poor of a whole district upon a particular locality. He wished to call the attention of the House to the charges brought against that side of the House of unnecessarily attack ing the Government. It must be borne in mind that twice in that day th e su bj ect had originated from the other side of the House. If the Government could not control their own friends how could they expect to go on undisturbed? lie had observed that a great number of officers had been appointed upon Relief Committees in Ireland, and he wished to know how they were to be paid ? Lord J. RUSSELL said that the vagrancy Bill had been prepared, but it would require a great deal of at tention on the part of the Government, and was likely to require a great deal of consideration from the House. The Bill would be shortly introduced, and if any Gen tleman_could suggest any plan for the better preserva tion of the public peace he would be happy to give it every attention. With regard to the preservation of the public tranquillity, the accounts which were received showed that there was no great cause for fear upon that head. He did not doubt that every gentleman connected with Ireland would assist the Government in the pre servation of public tranquillity.—(Hear.) Mr. CALLAGHAN said that he wished to say a few words before going into Committee, for it was rarely the opportunity was afforded to them of saying something.— (Laughter.) There were very general complaints in Ireland of the neglect of the Government in not pro viding seed for the land. In many instances the po tatoes kept for seed had rotted, or had been consumed by the people, who were therefore wholly without seed. Mr. BELLEW said, he thought there should be but one feeling on the present occasion, and that to unite for the carrying out of those measures which would be most advantageous to the country. Sir H. BROOKE said, he hoped that her Majesty's Government would not supply the landlords of Ireland with seed, for he thought that they should put their hands in their own pockets on an occasion like the present. He thought that her Majesty's Government had done as much as they had a right to do. Mr. DILLON BROWNE said he thought that there would be greater distress next year in consequence of a little money not having been expended in supplying the people with seed in an emergency like the present. He had received several communications from Mayo, deny ing the statements that had been made in that House as to the disinclination of the people in that quarter to cul tivate the land. The majority of the people had not seed to do so—the landlords would not give, and the Government, under the circumstances, should do so. Sir WALTER JAMES said, under the very difficult circumstances in which her Majesty's Government had been placed, he did think it to be his duty to state his opinion that as far as every effort and energy went ail' had been done to all ev i a t e th e famishing poor of Ire land.—(Hear, hear.) He thought that it would have been right for other Hon. Members as well as the Noble Lord at the head of her Majesty's Government to say that every effort had been made to relieve thu poor of Ireland. The Hon. Gentleman who had last spoken had accused the landlords of Ireland of not having supplied the, people with seed, but if they would look at some correspondence that had taken place on this question he might view the question in a different light. He held in his hand a letter from a Mr. Mahon, who had offered to supply his tenantry with seed, which they refused to take. He must say that these circumstances were quite sufficient to give a colour to the charges which Hon. Gentlemen had brought forward. He was very sorry to have been induced to prevent the House going into Committee. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION BILL. Mr. COLLETT said he wished to ask the Noble Lord at the head of her Majesty's Government whether it was his intention to create tour new bishops under the Bill which he proposed to submit to the House? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that, in answer to the Hon. Gentleman, he begged to state that on the first Tuesday after the Easter holidays it was his intention to bring the subject to which he alluded before the House, and that it was intended to make some change. POOR RELIEF (IRELAND) BILL. The discussion on this Bill was then resumed. Mr. HAMILTON said he begged to say that he did not understand the Noble Lord's observations to be any thing else than that hopes were held forth which it was not the intention of her Majesty's Government to fulfil. The House then went into Committee on the Bill. . Mr. J. O'CONNELL moved that clause D, section 11, p. 4, which goes to enact that the number of ex officio guardians of the poor shall be increased from one fourth to one-half of the whole number, be struck out. He thought Hon. Gentlemen had been guilty of inconsistency in introducing the preseet clause at all. It had been stated that an extended poor-law would answer at pre sent, because the landlords of Ireland would not do their duty without a Poor-law Act. Yet what did they do ? They handed over to them the power of taxing themselves to jest that extent they might wish. It, was not to be supposed that landlords would punish themselves for conduct of which they did not admit themselves to be guilty, and that punishment which it was the professed object of the Bill to inflict was prevented from falling on the proper parties. IZEi sd business oul of the board of guardian s wou ld pass into the h The ex officio guardians amo un t e d t o one - fourth of the whole number at the present ti me . B es id es they had would considerable interest from th e p roperty they possessed. aaidnueidentth. constituency, stthietuepnrcorsed anda arrangement whole create lieom c a ands of the ex-officio guardians. Ile did not thin • k any case whatever had been made out for the proposed increase of the ex-o icio guardians. There had cases of fraud or war.ton prodigalitybeen no against swam elected guardians, that they should now be ped. While they _had regularly at tended to their d ut i es, from their connexion with the mass of the people, they were better able to understand their wants and provide fur them d . hroughout Irean tl►ere were 2,600 Protestant •t T l maps rates, and but 410 Catholic magistrates. This would show how the proposed arrangement would operate. It had been already shown that this difference in numbers operated must injuriously in the working of boards of guardians. The Honourable Member referred to the proceedings of the North and South Dublin Unions, and other Irish unions, in illustration of the bigotted conduct of the ex officio guardians under If they, therefore, increased th e the present law. number of these guardians the evils referred to would Lord at th e h ea d o f be greatly increased. The Noble the Government, in introducing the Bill, had e x p resse d e hope, th a t in future, parties in Ireland would be con ciliared towards each other, and would act for their country's good. The sentiment was very creditable to the Noble Lord, only he was sorry to say that there was little ground to expect its r ea li sat i on. If he was required to give an illustration, he might refer