The Sun. — London, England, 1840-06-30 00:00:00

LEVENING E DITI ON. COURT CIRCULAR, Viscount Melbourne had an eedience yesterday of the Queen. Prince Albert rode on horseback yesterday morning to 13the Review, attended by Sir Edward Bowater, Colonel ouverie Colonel Wyld e , an d Si r G eorge A nson. Hi s Royal Highness returned to Buckingham Palace soon after two o'clock. The Duchess of Kent took an airing yesterday in a car- The Duchess of Gloucester, the Duke of Cambridge, and Prince George via:ieci the Princess Augusta yesterday at Clarence Houva St. James's. The Duke With a sitt; upon , of ' Sussex honoured Sir William Newton ag yesterday for his Coronation picture, painted t ,„ 64-masieur Moreno, the Buonos Ayrcan Minister, left own on Sunday for Belgium for the recovery of his health. A deputation consisting of Messrs. Basfield, Lister, and Baines, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday on the Hall of Science, &c. The Archbishop of Canterbury had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Colonial Office. Mr. A. Pott, High-Sheriff of Kent, and Mr Forrester, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the Home Office. A deputation on the subject of Distillers, including Messrs. More O'Ferrall, Callaghan, and Power, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday to Downing -street. The Royal Dinner party at Buckingham Palace last evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, the Earl of Uxbridge, and Lord Robert Grosvenor. Her Majesty had a Concert last evening at Buckingham Palace. The company began to arrive shortly before ten o'clock, and were ushered into the State Rooms which were all opened, and were brilliantly illuminated. Among the earli est arr i va l s were the Princess Lieven, Earl Grey, the Duchess of Northumberland, and Sir Robert Peel. The Princess Sophia Matilda, attended by Miss Coates, arrived at ten o'clock. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, at tended by Lady Augusta Somerset, and Baron Knesebeck ; and the Duke of Sussex arrived soon afterwards. Their Royal Highnesses were received by the Hon. Miss Mur rag. and Hon. Miss Lister, Maids of Honour; Lord Al fred Paget, Equerry in waiting, and Sir Edward Bowater, Equer,y to Prince Albert, and were conducted to the yellow drawing.room, where the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duchess of Kent, received their illustrious visitors. At halfapast ten o'clock her Majesty and Prince Albert, e ccompanied by the Royal Fairoly, entered the Graad Saleon, followed by the company, when the Concert co rinmenced. After the perfermance of the first part, %Upper was served in the Dining Room. The following is a Programme of the Concert PARTE PRIMA. DUO—" Viva bacco," Sigs. Lablache and Tamburini, ( II Ratto dal Serraglio) Mozart. Dun—" Dub tel Chicggo," Madame Grisi , and Sig. Rubini, (Parisinal Donizetti. Trio—" Pcnsa e Guards," Sig. Tambutini, Colletti, and Lablache, ( Margherita &Anjou) Aria—" Tanti affetti," Madame Grisi, (Donna del Lego) Rossini. Duo-...." Mira la bianca luna," Madame Per siani and Sig. Rubini, (Soirees Musicales) Rossini. ' 41 4----" A respettarmi apprenda," Sig Tamburini, (Moire) Rossini. Quartelto—" Ecco quel fiere istante," Mes dames Grisi and Persiani, Signors Ru bird and Tamburini (La Partenza) Costa. PARTE SECONDA. . Quartetto_. , Qual cor tradisti," Madame Grisi, Signors Rubini, Tamburini, and Lablache (Norma) Arta--" Col Sorriso," Madame Persiani (Pi rata) ..: Bellini, • 33 "--" Perebe fuggir," Signers Rubini and Lablache (Guillaume Tell) Rossini. Colei Sofronia," Madame Persiani acd Signor Colletti (Torquato Tessa) Donizetti. n r 4 4----." Sc il mio nome," Signor Rubini (Barbiere de Siviglia) Rossini. 1)uoa—" Se la vita," Madame Grisi and Sig nor Tamburini (Semiramide) Rossini. Quintetto—" Oh I Guardate," Mesdames Persiani and Grisi, Signors Rubini, Tam butini, and Lablache (Turco in Italia) Signer Costa presided at the pianoforte. • The following had the honour of receiving invitations : The French and Turkish Ambassadors; the American Minister and Mrs. Stevenson ; tho Bavarian Minister and Baroness Cetto ; the Netherlands Minister and Madame Van de W eyer ; the Greek Minister and Princess Mavro cordato ; the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow ; 13 arcn de Moncorvo, Portuguese Minister; the Prussian, SOrdinian, Saxon, Wurtemberg, and Spanish Ministers ; the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires and Madame de Lisboa ; 6 4 Mexi can Ch arge d'Aff a i res an d M r s. Marpley ; e Neapolitan Charge d'Affaires ; the Gentle to..,.ec attached to th e F renc h Embassy ; Baron de - Neumann, Marquis de Saldanha, Count Valentine Ester l'acYs Baron Knesebeek, Count Nostits, Count and Countess Woronzow Dortscbkau, Count and Countess Ziehy Ferraris, Princess Lieven, Prince Tufiakin, Prince Lubanoff, Count Pahlen, Prince Dolgorouky ; the Ladies i n Waiting on the Duchess of Kent, the Du. hess of Gloucester, the Duchess of Cambridge, and Princess Sophia of Glo uces t er ; th e L or d Chancellor, the Speaker, t„," Attorney-General, the Earl of Fingal!, Lord in , ; and the following ARCHBISHOP—York. D UKES—Richmond, Roxburghe, Argyll, Norfolk, Beau fort, Hamilton, Leinster, Northumberland, Rutland, Bed ford, Wellington, Somerset. DU CEIESSES—Somerset, Bedford, Hamilton, Northum uertatd Argyll, B eau f or t, Leinster, Richmond, Rox burr he,, MA aeursas—Abercorn, Ailesbury, Anglesey, West 711inster, Lansdowne, Headfort, Hertford, Douro, London derry, Breadalbane, Normanby, Clanricarde, Conyngham, hornond. MARCHIONESSES Breadalbane, Normanby, London derry, Thomond, Clanricarde, Lansdowne, Douro, West rninster, Abercorn, Ailesbury. E ARLS—Cadogan, Camperdown, Cardigan, Clanwil- Vra, Clare, Clarendon, Morley, Albemarle, Rosebery, Tinto, Meath, Zetland, Erroll, Falmouth, Listowell, Bruce, Surrey, Shelburne, Wilton, Belfast, Charlemont, Chesterfield, Cowper, Aberdeen, Sandwich, Howe, Belfast, Manverst Jersey, March, Tankerville, Lichfield, Hare wood. .t.,iverpool, Dc Grey, Ilchester, Grey, Bandon. . 1 -°.(rwrassas—Sandwich, Grey, De Grey, Tankerville , 4 'le.nteld, Cowper, Jersey, Bandon, Charlemont, Chester. 11 c 113 , Zetland, Manvers, Belfast, Erroll, Falmouth, Cado gm, Camperdown, Wilton, Surrey, Bruce, Clanwilliam, Clarendon, Meath, Uxbridge, Listowell, Albemarle, Rose %cry, ;Tinto. V ISCOUNTS—Sandon, Bamford, Torrington, Barring ton, Comhermcre, Milton, Ossuhton, Holmcsdale, East tor, Powerscourt, Norreys, Mahon, Melbuurne, Howick, P almar.ston, Emlyn. V ISCOUNTESSES.... Palmerston, Howick, Norreys, East nor, Barrington, Mahon, Holme3dalc, Powerscourt, Com bermere, Milton, Beresford, Torrington. Bisuor—Norwich. LORDS—Rarensworth, Templetown, Cowley, Seaford, Macdonald, Byron, Dalmeny, Ashley, Adolphus Fitzela tepee, Montagu, Wharncliffe, Willoughby D'Eresby, Fitz l'aT, F. Gordon, Compton, George Paget, Ellerborough, tavordale, George Lennox, Burghersh, Frederick Fnz tlarence, Leves,n, Hill, Seymour, Ernest Bruce, John Russell, 'Howard, Portman, Duncannon, Foley, Robert Grosvenor, Alfred Paget, Clarence Paget , R edesdale, 44 eY'.esbury, Stanley, Bate= n, Kinnaird, Saltoun. 'BARONESS—Le Despencer. LlDlES—Wharncliffe, Willoughby D'Eresby, Robert 'Grosvenor, Byron, Montagu, Ernest Bruce, Portman, Burghersh, Charles Fitz- Roy, Bateman, George Lennox, Kinnaird, Stanley, Heytesbury, Atbley, Ravens ' North, Cowley, Price, Mary Howard, Fanny Howard, • Anne M. Dawson, George Murray, Georgiana Grey, 1- 1- Bernard, Cadegan (2), E. Duncan, Ida Hay, S. Vil . tiers, F. Elliot, E. A. Anson, Bowater, Adelaide Paget, Caroline Barrington, C. G. Lennox, Agnes Byng, Mary Phipps, Wheatley, Frances Sandon, Dowager Lyt telto,4, Gra ham, Gore (2), Frances Clinton, Theresa D i gby, C. Stanhope, Seymour, F. Vane, Eleonora Pa get, Constance Paget, Peel, Frances Cowper, Frances dope, Jolliffe, C. Strangeways,:L. Fitzmaurice, A. Prim rose, L. Primrose, A. Somerset, Adcliza Manners, Vivian, Stratheden, Acton, ..Ouseley, M'Farlane, Mary Pierre- Vat, Catherine Haicourt, Georgiana Russell, Elizabeth 'Jutted% Isabella Wcmy as, Dowager Rivers, Cottenham. RIGHT HONOURABLES—H. Labouchere, G. S. Byng, F.. Baring, T. Macaulay, J. Planta. HONOURABLES—Misses Lyttleton, Frederick Byng, Charles Gore, Miss Cocks, Miss A'Court, Colonel Anson, Mrs. Anson, Miss Ponsonby, W. Ashley, Mrs. Ashley, Edward Bouver e, Colonel Cavendish, Mrs. Cavendish, Mr. Fox Maule, Mrs. Fox Maule, Miss Pcpys, Misses Foley (2), Misses Drummond (2), Miss Wellesley, Wil liam Cowper, J. C. Dundas, Miss Lister, Mrs. Heathcote, Captain Spencer, Mrs. Spencer, Miss Liddell, Miss Pitt, Miss Mitford, Miss Forester, General Upton, Miss Mon ' tagu, Berkeley Paget, Mrs. Berkeley Paget. SlRS—Edward Bowater, Horace Seymour, William • Jolliffe, Robert Peel, Gore Ousele•y, R. M'Farlane, Gco. Warrender, Robert Price, John Hobhouse, Hussey Vivian, James Graham, George Anson, Henry Wheatley, Fred. Stovin. MESSIEURS—Edward Buller, Brand, G. E. Anson, De nison, G. Heathcote, Luttrell, Norman Macdonald, Fred. Cavendish, Standish, Bultcel, Digby, Brinsley ,Sheriden. MisTaEsses—Bouverie, Shaw Lefevre, Planta, Brinsley Sheridan, Edward Bailer, Brand, Starley, Laboucherc, Standish. MlSSES—Stanley, D'Este, Peel, Ouseley, Kerr, Ca vendish, M. Paget, Wheatley (2), Anson, Wynn, Wyn yard, G. Vernon Harcourt, M'Farlane, Meyriell. CotoNELs—Cooper, Ilarcourt, Wernyss, Phipps, Bon eerie. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENC ARRIVALS. Mrs. William Woodhouse, M r. Woodhouse, and Mr. R. L. Hervey, at the Cavendish Hotel, Jermyn-street, •rom the Continent ; Colonel Maclean, at ditto, from Ma dras; Madame de Ranken, at ditto, from the Continent ; Lieutenant-Colonel Dalgairty, at Ibbotson's Hotel, from India overland ; Lord and Lady Guillamore and family, Mr. and Mrs. Bourke, at Crawley's Hotel ; the Hon. Mortimer West, Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell, at the London hotel ; Count and Countess Creptowitch and suite, at Mivart's Hotel; Lord Kinnaird, at the Burlington Hotel ; the Marchesa Salsa, the Hon. Sydney Herbert, M. P., Sir John Vandeleur, and Lady Acton, at the Clarendon Hotel ; Lady Oranmore and the Hon. Miss Browne, Mr. and Lady Carolina Maxe, and the Dowager Lady Astley, in Cavendish-squar DEPARTURES. - _ Lord and Lady Dunseny, for Dublin ; Lord end Lady Kilmaine, for Mayo ; the Bishop of Hereford and the Hon. Mrs. Musgrave, for Hereford ; the Bishop of Chi cheater and Mrs. Otter, for Sussex ; Mrs. Debrue Rad cliffe, for Cherbourg ; Tempest, Esq. and family, from Crasslels Hotel, for Yorkshire. l SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS PRCM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. ( From the Globe.) " The battle must be fought in the Registration Courts. Regi.:ter ! Register ! Register !" Such was the exhortation addressed by Sir R. Peel to the Con servative party immediately after the passing of the Reform Bill, when the Tories were lying discomfited and dispirited, driven out from their strongholds by the abolition of the close boroughs, in which their strength mainly consisted, and deprived of which, they saw no hope of regaining their ascendancy.. They applied themselves diligently to recover their lost advantages by first examining the means afforded by the new law to harrass their successful rivals, and derived hope from discovering that its details formed a machinery well adapted to their ends. Contrast this state of things in the Tory camp with the indifference and parsimony evinced by the Liberals, and which have given rise to dissatisfaction, reproach, and disunion, in numerous in stances. Enter a Registration Court : observe the pha lanx of shrewdToryattorneys,putting forth all their powers to assail a Liberal vote, or to establish a Tory claim, at- tended by their numerous well-drilled scouts, who have served the several 'notices of claims and objec tions ; see the adroitness with which they evade, or the confidence with which they answer, the questions put to them, according to the quarter whence the questions proceed ; their knowledge of every weak point in a Liberal's qualification ; their skill min - harrassing the claimant, by objections which cannot be sus tained, and in defending their partY . .,votes when the qualification admits of doubt, which would terminate in rejection—all evince the general superiority of men and means over the Liberal party, brought by the Tories to the conflict in the Registration Courts. If, instructed by past and painful experience, the leaders of the Reformers in the several districts take the proper preliminary measures for meeting the Tories in the registration courts at the approaching registration ; if their Committees assemble without delay, and furnish from t'aeir respective localities the necessary information, very important advantages cannot fail of being secured to th^ Reform party, by the accession of strength, and by the infusion of renewed confidence, in places where apathy and niggardliness with respect to the registrations have inflicted serious injury on the Reform cause, the effects of which arc seen in the diminished numbers and decaying zeal of the Liberal electors. (From the Standard.) There is but one adequate remedy for the present enormous evils arising out of the spiritual destitution of the country. Build and endow churches and schools, give the adult as well as infant poor time for domestic and religious habits, unflinchingly carry out territorial subdivisions, your ancient parochial, along with the pastoral system, adapting it to the overgrown dis tricts, and attending to the " vested rights" of the poor in common with those of other parties, whether lay or clerical—all who have an interest in ecclesias tical property bequeathed for religious uses—do this, and this country, with its generous hard-working-, but much abused, and cruelly neglected population, will yet see brighter and happier days. The circumstances un der which the great question of Church Extension is now brought forward are remarkable. A concur rence of events has placed it on vantage ground. We trust that no apathy or lukewarmness on the part of any of those who should promote, will endanger its success. On former occasions the plea might have been urged that the Dissenters would throw insurmount able difficulties in the way. But this cannot now be al leged. Our Dissenting brethren have not so interposed. Let the Baineses, the Humes, and the Duncombes make what blaster they please, and assert that they have the great body of the Protestant Dissenters at their backs—it is not so. One fact we have in reserve for these gentlemen, and it is this—in the cities of Lon don and Westminster, and the five adjacent boroughs, the Nonconformists have 408 chapels : of these not more than 38 have petitioned against a grant for chureh extension. The signatures to 35 of these petitions average but 72. (From the Courier.) It is not without surprise that we find men, appa rently of education, and of a higher rank in society than those who immediately benefit by the atrocities of the Irish registration, in opposition to a bill, of which the sole object is to render the detection of fraud more cer tain than it is at present in the courts of the revising barristers. We have so often explained the chief fea tures of this bill, as well as the abuses which have been procreated by the Irish Reform Act, and sometimes the proneness of the lower classes of Ireland to disregard the religious obligations of an oath, that we do not now feel called upon to dissert on any question of the kind— if that may be called a question, which question is none. In the Chronicle we find a sort of Jeremiad that Lord Howick and Messrs. Peter Ainsworth and Basset voted for the Bill. They are said to have again shown " the Orange coating of their lining :"—why, what rubbish is this to be offered to Englishmen! Not one of those gentlemen is unconvinced of the necessity which absolutely exists, if aught be cared for the welfare of the nation, for the immediate extinction of the facilities for committing fraud and perjury without the least chance of detection. They perceive that Lord Stan ley's Bill provides thoso means—the great desiderata of the .Irish election-system, which arc not wanting in England. The opponents of Lord Stanley first pre tend that they wish for an assimilation of the Irish to the English law of election, and when that is done they object that the same system which prevails here will be a wholesale disfranchisement of Ireland. Can anything be more ridiculously absurd ? CHINA AND THE CHINESE. (From the Baltimore American.) ARRIVAL-MACAO -LINTIN-A TYPHON. After a tedious voyage of one hundred and ten days, the joyful cry of " Land, ho!" from the mast-head, announced to us once more a glimpse of our mother earth, and in an hour or two we were sailing along the Straits of Sunda, with the romantic mountains and valleys of Java on our right, burthening the land-breeze with the perfume of their groves—so welcome to our sea•worn senses. After a delay of a few days, caused by adverse winds, we again lost sight of land, and passed rapidly over the green waters of the Java Sca, frequently called to the yes• set's side to see some huge pieces of timber that bad been torn from the adjacent island—or some tawny snake twisting its striped and hideous form through the almost waveless sea. At the entrance of Gasper Strait we were again de tained by head winds for near a week, not wishing to beat through so dangerous a pass. A leading wind at last favoured us, and profiting by it with alacrity, we soon found ourselves on the Chinese sea. After a pleasant sail of a few days on our northward course, we experienced one of those portentous calms, always dreaded by the voyagers in the eastern seas, scarcely a breath of air stirre the sails the entire day, whilst thick, white, heavy clouds lay piled upon the horizon, or shot up in tall spires or towers, solid as ma sonry against the blue and burning sky. The heat was insufferable, no comfort—no coolness—no refreshing water—and even after sunset until deep in the night, the west was one broad sheet of crimson light and the whole sky, even off to the limit of the eastern horizon, reflected the blazing hue. These presages were under- stood by our commander, who made everything snug for the dreaded " Tyfoon," carrying such light ;ail as could be easily handed at the approach of storm. At length it came, with pitchy darkness, and driving mist—torrents of rain , and sudden unsteady squalls oi wind, shifting every minute from opposite quarters — whilst, over all, roared the loud voiced thunder in its deepest tones. In this dismal situation we remained three days, entirely at the merey of the elements, until nearly exhausted by watching and fatigue,—the sky suddenly cleared off—the wind fell, and with a smooth sea and gentle breeze we anchored at Lintin in the do minions of his Celestial Majesty, the Emperor of China. The harbour of Lintin, of which we shall have occa sion to speak hereafter more particularly, was considered by our commander safer than that of Macao, so that we determined proceeding thence to the latter place in a Chinese vessel belonging to our Coast Pilot for the pur pose of procuring a skilful navigator, and a " Chop" or passport for our ship up the river. After breakfast therefore next morning we embark ed in our pilot vessel, a boat 20 feet in length, with one mast and a matting sail, crossed by strips of bamboo at tlistanees of two feet apart along its surface, to the ends of which small ropes were attached, and their ends fast ened in a knot near the tiller ; so that reeffing can be performed by merely lowering the haulyards whilst the ropes from the bamboo strips keep the sail under com mand like the braces on our yards. In the centre of . the boat is a small elliptical frame over which a matting is extended forming a comfortable cabin, where, extended at full length, chatting, joking, dozing, dreaming, we passed our voyage of twenty-five miles; our boatmen quiet and agreeable enough for their sta tion, and desirous to render our passage as pleasant, and what was better, as cool as possible. Approaching the harbour of Macao and rounding the for. on its south eastern promontory and the old monas tery thriisting out its pale walls among luxuriant her bage, we came near the beach, and were immediately surrounded by crowds of Chinese boat girls chatting at the top of their voices, and as eloquent and under standable as a flock of hungry seagulls over a dead whale. They wanted to take us ashore in their little boats they said—as ours drew toe much water, and they wanted besides—a quarter of a dollar a piece ! We chose the least ugly of the ducks, handsome there were none, and in five minutes we leaped ashore again after a voyage of 120 days. It required an effort to steaiy our steps after " walking the water like a thing of life" for four months. The joy of reaching land, of feeling your mother earth, of seeing trees, houses, new faces, lever 3'4 women, even a Chinese woman, is indescribable. Sterne Captive, notching hissticks, had holiday com e iareerd n :h an Indian voyager, his prison was—on shore. com pared It was Sunday when • we arrived, and the chuurch going bells and belles were in full swing. The Chinese shops were open, and their masters employed in buy ing and selling—..whilst at corners, and in shady nooks, other native idlers were busy with a game of cards or dice. Along the shore hundreds of pedlars vended their wares, whilst, intermingled with them, were seen people from almost every eastern land, habited in their splendid national dresses of the most beautiful and gor geous colours. We paid our landing lee of a dollar a piece exacted by the Chinese authorities, notwithstand ing Macao is virtually a Portuguese port, and went at once to the chief hotel, kept by a native, and fitted up with every oriental appliance of luxury, coolness, and comfort. Bidding adieu to " salt beef and potatoes" for a while, we ordered a dinner of fish, capons, and fruit ; and rolling about till the cool of the evening, then strolled to the eastern portion of the town, through a bazaar or two, and over a beautiful green lawn be fore one of the many churches which make Macao at once pious and noisy. At the city gates we found no guards, and passing through to the open country we struck npon a path leading to an eminence, where we found several of our countrymen enjoying the sea breeze. From this spot the whole peninsula is distinctly visible, and the narrow isthmus which connects it with the main, across which the Chincse have built a wall to prevent a foreign incursion. The back harbour of Macao lay at our feet on the right, filled with vessels ; and, on every side, extended groves and gardens, bending with the prolific oriental vegetation now in the fulness of perfection. As we were admiring the richness of the scenery, over which the setting sun was throwing his parting rays, a European lady passed us in a sedan chair, borne by two Chinese servants. It was the first white woman we had seen for four months. The dove was not more welcome to Noah with the olive twig ! A Chinese female passed nearly the same moment, step ping along with the aid of a staff, on her " small feet." But we bad no eyes for her or her queer " conti nuations." We gave the fair-haired European a part ing stare—ran after the chair a hundred steps—and kissed our finger-tips until it was lost in the folds of IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF — TrritirNS, JUNE 29. The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. WEAVER CHURCHES BILL. On the motion of Mr. CHOLMONDELEY that the debate on the Weaver Churches Bill be resumed, Mr. WILBRAHAM opposed the clause which was proposed to be introduced, on the grounds that the funds in question had hitherto been devoted to pur poses connected with the county-rates, and that they should not now be appropriated to a different purpose. Sir R. H. INGLIS spoke in favour of the clause. The House then divided, when the numbers were— For the clause 7O Against the clause Majority Mr. JERVIS gave notice that he would postpone the clause which he proposed to introduce for remodel ling the constitution of the Trustees, till the third read• ing of the Bill. Mr. WILBRAH AM then moved as an amend ment that the minutes of the evidence taken before the Committee be laid before the Ilouse. The Honourable Member, who spoke amidst cries of " Divide," anti was very imperfectly heard in the gallery, said that there never was an occa sion on which such a measure as this now before the House was less called for. The groat body of the population for whose accommodation the churehes in question were intended, were all Dissenters, extremely attached to their peculiar mode of worship, and to their own ministers. As far as there was any want of ac commodation for religious worship and instruction ac cording to the Church of England, it could be ade quately supplied by voluntary contribution. Sir C. LEMON said a great deal of spiritual desti tution and ignorance pr eva il e d in the district, and there were two fanatical women who were followed by large numbers of the ignorant and uneducated classes. Te' question was whther they would endow these women, or the Established Church was to be endowed. —( Great laughter.) Sir PHILIP EGERTON believed the amend ment had merely been moved for the sake of delay, and therefore he should oppose it.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HOBHOUSE next addressed the House, but amidst such a buzzing noise, that scarcely a single sen tence he uttered was heard in the gallery. We under stood him to say, the House ought to have all the evidence before it previous to its coming to a conclusion upon what he deemed to be a proposal for a breach of truit. It was not for delay that they had taken the course hey had done, but because they thought a great prin ciple was involved in it. Lord R. GROSVENOR thought that the evi dence ought to be laid before the House. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided. the path among the trees. No one knows the value of woman—of the 'true worth of female society—until he has played " fish out of water " on a Chinese voyage. It was growing dark when we retraced our steps after this romantic rhapsody, to our hotel, and sipping ourkrst cup of tea in the herb's native land, we again sallied forth, along the now cool beach in front of the factories. During an hour or more we clambered among the gloomy monasteries, silent streets and tottering walls of Macao, arid mounting the hills at the west of the town we passed through several groves to the city gates. The moon shone brightly over the unclouded eastern sky, and upon the still surface of the sea. The town was noiseless ; even the church bells were silent. The sentinels as they relieved each other were the only disturbers of the peace, until at last some love-sick officer stole out from his close military quarters, and strumming his " light guitar," serenaded his dulcinea in fancy, among the vine-clad hills, and olive trees of far off Portugal. Romance is a capital thing in its place--,but at eleven at night after a day of fatigue, it requires a vast deal of passion or enthusiasm to keep one out -of beid. We were unable to resist the drowsy god—so nodding to the mocn as our only permitted lady-love, we said our first • night's prayer in this heathen land, and unstirring—till the morning. • Ayes Noes... 136 Majority 3O . . Mr. HUME gave notice, that to-morrow he would move the amendment which he had formerly placed upon the books, upon the motion of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for the University of Oxford, for Church Extension. Captain PECHELL gave notice, that on Thursday ae would move for a return of the mates of the Royal , iavy, with the dates of their passing the Board. Colonel SIBTHORP begged to ask the Right Hon. .e Chancellor of the Exchequer whether it was the .4ention of the Government to bring forward the tivil Contingencies on Friday. COURT OF REQ TOWER HAMLEU AN limn Row,—Upon the nanal • gan and Tim 111 . Shanc being called, a_ pisintry" elbowed themselves forward as , .. defendant. Paddy Hegan's (the complaining party) right eye was in " mourning," and he displayed oth symptoms of having come off second best in a recen " shindy." " God save ye all, gentlemen," said Paddy, f o lding his arms a la Dan O'Connell, " and the likes iv all as ull dale out satisfaction to an aisy soul like mcself wets been murthercd and insulted by a spalpeen and a blag gard." COMMISSIONER—What is all this about ; who has been murdered ? Paddy—Meself, dead as a herring, by Tim M'Shane, the hather ; sure me own blessed eye was clane blocked up for more thin a w COMMISSIONER—That was very unfortunate ; but how did it all happen ? Paddy—Yer riverance, =self and Tim went to poor owld Macarthy's wake, pace to his sowl ! whin Tim tuk a dhrop too much iv dhrink, which same is mighty de saving in itself, when all in a suddent he jumps up and tuk off his coat, and axes me to have the purliteness to thread on it.—(Laughter.) COMMISSIONER—WeII, did you do SO ? Paddy—Faith an I did ; not wishing to be oncivil. C O MMISSIONER—After which, I suppose, a fight en sued between you ; was it not so? Paddy—That's tissue, and sure I'd bate Tim illegant hadn't he sthruck me onawares whin I was dhrinking a thrifle in whisky wid the deceased's widdy. C O MMISSIONER—But what assistance do you want from this Court, for we have nothing to do with these rows or " shindies." Paddy—Yer riyerance, it's a matther in siven shil lings I'm salting, as Tim tore me coat up the middle. It's not aisy I'll get another one equal to it ; ounly take a sight iv it. (Paddy here handed the remains of a bright blue coat with brass buttons, nearly as large as the lid of a warming-pan, such as is usually worn by Irish labourers on a Sunday, to the Commissioners for inspection.) COMMISSIONER—Was your coat torn during the fight. Paddy—He tuk howld on me be the two tails iv me coat, and parts them from each other in no time at all. COMMISSIONER—WeII, M'Shane, what have you to say about this affair ? Defendant—Yer wortchip, Paddy towld me I was a thaif, in regard to Mike Donovan's shovel ; and who'd like to have his caractur tuck away intirely, I'd like to know ? COMMISSIONER—But teasing his coat off his back would do no good in vindicating your character. Defendant—Paddy struck me first, yer wortchip, as the witness will prove, and thin called me a thaif. The defendant's witness, one Peter Shaugnessy, a " hodman," was here introduced. C O MMISSIONER—.NOW, what do you know about this? Witness—Yes banners, I carrys the " hod" for Misther Parkins. COMMISSIONER—WC don't want to hear anything about your " hod." Do you know anything abciut the quarrel between the parties? Witness—Yer honners, we were at the wake iv ould Macarthy, all iv us, as good a crathur as iver bruk the wurld's bread! barrin that he tuck a thrifle too much dhrink now and thin— COMMISSIONER—My good man, we don't want to know whether Macarthy was a tee-totaller or a drunkard. What do you know about this coat being torn ? What did you see of the affair ? Witness—Paddy called Tim a thaivish spalpeen, and said he tuck Mike Donovan's shovel. COMMISSIONER—Oh, you saw that did you? Witness—Faith an I did, yer hanner.—(Laughter.) COMMISSIONER—WeII, what else did you see ? Witness—Be me sowl nothing more at all, yer banner. The'dhrink takes away the sight and hear- The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER— Yes. Col. SIBTHORP would renew the notice he had before given, that be would then call the attention of the House to the case of Dr. Bowring. He had given the notice before, but by some means or other it was not entered in the book. The SPEAKER informed the House that the exa miners had reported to him that the sureties for prose cuting the petition against the return for Sudbury, were unexceptionable. ing too. COMMISSIONER—Oh, you were drunk, I suppose ; and the others were probably in the same condition? Witness—A thrifle that way, yer banners. The COMMISSIONERS said that the various tales were so conflicting that it was u tterly-impossible to ascertain who were the aggressors in the affair. They should, therefore, dismiss the case. Paddy Hogan, the plaintiff, left the Court in dudgeon. NITRATE OF SODA AS MANURE.--ThiS sub stance is, as its name implies, a compound of nitric-acid and soda, and in many respects is similar to common nitre (nitrate of potassa). It has been chiefly procured from Hindostan, where it is found in extensive natural beds. In the spring it was sold at 18s. per cwt., but it has now reached 225., and even in some places, we believe, a higher figure. It is sown by the hand, early in spring, at the rate of a cwt. to the acre ; and as yet it has only been applied to grass lands, and, in a few caws, to oats. Although in a crystallized state the crys tals arc very small, and in colour and appearance they very much resemble dirty herring salt. From its metallic base and large proportion of oxygen, the nitrate of soda weighs well to its bulk, and indeed a couple of cwts. may be put in a common wheelbarrow. It has thus the advantage of being very portable. When sown upon grass lands, its effects are said to be most rapid. Where tried, the rest of the field has been either left untouched or manured with bones or lime, and within a few days the land which had received the quickening influences of the Eastern manure took a start in vegetation, which it has fairly kept ever sinee. Where bones are used as a top dressing, cattle cannot be induccd for long after to touch the grass, but the application of the nitrate of soda is said to haven such effect. • The powerful acid which tu'ers into its e nnposition, appears to be an effectual extir pator of grubs, snails, and other ground insects, the source of so much annoyance and loss to the farmer. Like other salts, the nitrate of soda is a powerful agent in attracting moisture from the air, and the grass upon which it is sown has been observed to be "impearl'd with dew" when other fields were hard and dry. Probably this curious fact may have had no small influence in stimulating vegetation in such asea son of drought as the present. These are the qualities as cribed to this manure, the most important of which is undoubt edly its power of producing food for stock early in spring_ An extended trial of it will be necessary before any proper judg ment can be pronounced. It is as yet unknown whether its effects are lasting, and until this, of itself, is ascertained, caution must be used. It may be easily adulterated, but of course this will not be got over by tests ; a simple one will be to apply a red hot cinder to a small quantity, which, if pure. will give off oxy gen so rapidly as to produce, almost instantaneously, a full corn bustion.—Dtanfries Courier, DEPRESSION OF TRADE.—We regret to state that for some time past a very serious depression of trade in the weaving department has been felt here, and that a con siderable number of hands are out of employment. The exact number of these is not known, but we may state, that of the schedules prepared and laid in the Chamberlain's office for the unemployed to take out and fill up, 160 have been taken out, of which 100 have been returned, filled up in a way showing the state of destitution. Means are at present in operation for re-establishing the Work Committee, to give out plain work to such as apply. The greater number of sufferers, as might be supposed, are to be found in the weaving department; but in various other trades connected therewith, several unemployed hands are to be found. The prospects of the Autumn trade are, in the opinion of several of our most intelligent manufac turers, of a very gloomy tinge.—Paisley Advertiter, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 1840. dress be presented to her Majesty, representing that this House, before proceeding to pass vny Bill for the regulation of Cathedral establishments, desires to re ceive further information as to the duties and general purposes which are contemplated by the statutes o f the respective foundations, and which the capitular Clergy in conformity therewith, may beneficially discharge ; and humbly praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to authorise and direct the Visitors of the Ca thedral and Collegiate Churches respectively, and the Bishops of the dioceses wherein they are situate, after consultation with the members of their several Chap ters, to lay before her Majesty such plans as may in their judgments be best calculated to render each of those Churches ' most conducive to the efficiency of the Established Church,' and to ' providing for the cure of souls.' " In doing so he assured the House that he would trespass as shortly as possible upon their time. He knew that the Bill came recommended upon very high authority, but still there were authorities upon the other side. In the county which he had the honour to represent, the Clergy were unanimous in their opposition to the Bill—it was approved by thirteen Bishops, and by every Chapter in the country—not from interested motives, for they stated their willingness to give up part of their reve nues. They objected to the accumulation of the funds of the Chapters into one common fund, and he con tended that under the present law they were as much corporations, and as such entitled to their property, as any one Municipal Corporation in the kingdom. The clergy were opposed to the Bill because it took from them those dignities which would be beneficial to the Church, even although they were not paid for. He was opposed to the Bill, because it made no mention of the duties of the Chapters. They were very ancient institutions, and if they meddled with them at all they ought to give them some plain and substantial duties to perform. He trusted the House would agree to his amendment, for if the delay were granted, he thought the Biil might be greatly improved, and in any case the delay of one year could not be of much consequence. Colonel SIBTHORP seconded the amendment. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was exceedingly sorry that the Hon. Gentleman had made such a proposition, and certainly if it had come from a member generally less sincere in his objects he should have thought it had been made merely for the sake of delay. No valid reason had been urged why they should not proceed with this Bill.—( Hear.) The Commission upon which this Bill was founded, was appointed upon the advice given to the Crown by the Right Hon. Gentleman op posite in 1833. That Commission comprised, as the Hon. Gentleman had stated, the Archbishop of Canter bury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, and two other eminent prelates of the Church. The Commission devoted great attention to the duties they had to undertake, and they made a Report on the 24th day of June, 1836—four years ago. The Report, almost as soon as received, was laid before Parliament, and he had brought in different successive Bills on the subject. In the course of last year, after various religious pam phlets had been published, some grave and learned, and others exceedingly lively and facetious—(Laughter)— there was a sort of Committee appointed by the Chap ters of the different cathedrals in London. He did not think that the proposition of the Hon. Member had met with any assent from the Deans and Chapters them selves ; he thought it could not be said that Parliament had not the means of coming to a decision upon the sub ject. He trusted, therefore, that the lion. Gentleman would not persevere in his motion, as he could net see that any useful purpose would be obtained by it. As to the allusion made by the Hon. Gentleman with re spect to consu l t i ng the Bishops when the Bill went to the Upper House they could there state their opinions upon the subject. Mr. PUSEY said that in the allusion he bad made to the Bishops he did so, not in their spiritual capacity, but in their character of visitors. Mr. ES TC 0 UR T supported the motion of the Hon. Member for Berkshire. Mr. A CLA ND also supported the motion. He had not heard one word of valid objection against further inquiry on the subject, and he also understood that above two-thirds of the bench of Bishops had signed a protest against the Bill. The Hon. Member observed that the supply which the Universities might afford could no longer meet the growing demand for clergy throughout the country ; and it' they got over the difficulty, of which a solution was then offered to the House, he believed they might conciliate the feelings of the clergy on the subject then under discussion. It was very justly complained of that cathedrals were not now as efficient as they might be ; but the patrons were responsible for that state of things, end that could be no reason, in his opinion, for destroying those institu tions. The Hon. Member then at some length went into a detail of the destitution in the Church, and ex pressed his anxiety that some means should be adopted to put an end to them, and he did not think the Bill he Noble Lord was calculated for that purpose, and therefore it was that he felt bound to support the motion of his Hon. Friend the Member fer Berkshire. Mr. GOULBURN admitted that great difficulties surrounded this question, for,up to the prusent_naoment. no plan had been brought forward on the subject which had received general approbation. He for ono was not prepared to vote for the motion of his Hon. Friend, because he thought it was not for further safety of the Cathedral Establishments, that they should go on from year to year without coming to some definite arrange ment, with respect to them, which would be the effect of the motion of his Hon. Friend. He agreed with the Bill of the Noble Lord as far as it adopted the report of the Commissioners, but there were many parts of it in consistent with that report. Mr. GLADSTONE said he was glad at the very outset to say that the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) had approached this subject in a spirit, and with a de termination to make it as good a measure as possible— ( Hear, hear)--but while he gave that credit to the Noble Lord and those on his side of the House, he hoped he would receive the same while he felt it his duty to offer his op position to the Bill. He did so, because the measure came with the recommendation of very high authority. He was aware that there were five Bishops in the Commission, but he believed that it was a well known fact, that in the Report upon which the Bill was founded they wore divided as three to two ; and the Archbishop and the Bishop of London had frequently, previou s to the appointment of the Commission, ex pressed themselves as opposed to the principles of the Bill. They had then thought that they would be ini mical to the best interests of the Church. He thought the amendment of the Hon. Member for Berkshire ought to be agreed to, because discussion was wanted upon the subject, and from the opposition which it was sure to meet with, it was impossible to expect that i would become law during the present Session. He ob jetted to the Bill, because it gave a great shock to prop e rty. He did not think that they had any case str ong enough to warrant them in disturbing or vio lating the charters of the founders of cathedrals. They ou g ht not to violate or invade such property, but rather do all in their power to carry out the intention of those pious individuals. It was impossible that the Bill could ever accomplish its object—that of providing for spiritual destitution. The Bill confiscated the property of the cathedrals, and gave a preference to the parish in which the Cathedral was situated ; but it could not supply the general want of spiritual instruction throughout the country. There, no doubt, were abuses in the Cathedral, but the Bill before the House was not calculated to remedy them in a proper man ner. The Bill did not define or give substantial duties to the officers of the Cathedrals, which would be the only fair manner in which to carry out the intentions of those pious individuals who bad bequeathed funds for the establishment of cathedrals. The Chapters were intended to be a council to the Bishop, and although as such they had fallen into desuetude, in his opinion, so far from abolishing or weakening them, they ought to be restored to their pristine power ; the exigencies of the present day required that these functions ought to be restored, for the isolated position of the Bishop was very detrimental to the interests of the Church, while they were reforming by weakening the Church ; he was informed that the Church of Rome in England,—a poor and a voluntary Church—was now engaged in reorga nizing these chapters, for the purpose of restoring them to their useful labours. Complaints were frequently made of the exclusive character of the clergy of the Estalished Church, and he admitted thas it was most desirable that every means should be taken for the pur pose of strengthening the clergy by the accession of those virtues and that learning which were to be found among the poorer classes in this country. It could not be denied that sufficient facilities were not at present afforded to persons in humble life, to enter into the pro fession of the Church. It appeared to him that the great want in that matter was that of an organ who might watch over the funds of cathedrals as well as their application, and he was persuaded that if they bring forward an efficient measure on that subject, they would do more to make the Church independent of the pecuniary assistance of the State than they could do by any other means. The Hon. Member proceeded to say he could not depict in language sufficiently strong his sense of the mischief of the Bill then under the consideration of the House. He was not so much opposed to it for the positive evil which it did, as on account of the posi tive good which it intercepted. The greatest advantage might be derived from the institutions with which the Bill proposed to interfere, if instead of being mutilated they were turned to proper purposes, and to their muti lation he could not consent. Lord J. RUSSELL wished to address a few obser vations to the House in reply to the objections made to the Bill. It was said that the measure would interfere with property, and would divert it to purposes which its original owners could never intend. But it appeared to him that it was no violation of the spirit of the inten tions of those who, in former times, had founded chap ters and cathedrals to devote the funds attached to them to the propagation of that form of Christianity which the nation in the progress of time and enlighten ment might 'adopt. It was on • that principle alone that they could justify the uses to which the funds in question had been converted at the time of the Re formation, and which uses were in many instances OPIUM. Mr. MACLEAN begged to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, whether it was th e intention of the Government to take any steps with re gard to the certificates and bills of exchange which had been delivered to the British mer chants, on account of the opium surrendered. It appeared by the Report of the Commit tee, that they had declined to interfere on the subject, and he wished to know whether the Noble Lord intended to bring forward any motion for the purpose of granting compensation to these merchants Lord PALMERSTON had seen nothing to alter the views he had already taken on the subject, and which he had stated to the Committee of British merchants. Mr. MACLEAN wished to know whether' the Goverment repudiated the acts of Captain Elliot or whether they intended to continue him in the situa tion of Superintendent. Lord PAMERSTON said it was nut their inten tion to recall Captain Elliot. NEW SOUTH WALES. Lord ELIOT wished to asks whether any des patch had been received from New South Wales, or from the Governor of New Zealand. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said no despatches had been received, and it was not the intention of his Hon. Friend to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice, in the absence of information. PERSIA. Mr. MILES begged to ask whether any negotiations were going on for the renewal of friendly relations with the Shah of Persia ? Lord PALMERSTON said despatches had been lately received from that Court, and ncgociations were pending ; but at the present moment it would not be propel to enter into any statement. PORTUGUESE CLAIMS. In answer to a question from Lord SANDON, Lora PALMERSTON stated, that the Commis sioners for investigating the Portuguese Claims had arrived in London, and had been in communication for the purpose of arranging the plan of their proceedings ; and he hoped in a short time they would be ready to receive and investigate claims. Lord SANDON inquired whether it was intended to include naval claims. Lord PALMERSTON apprehended that it would include all those empinyed in naval or military services. He was not aware, however, that there were many naval claims. POST-OFFICE. Lord INGESTRIE inquired whether there was any probability of an arrangement being speedily made with regard to letters being posted at a later hour as for merly?—(Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that considering the persons employed in the Post office bad double the amount of business to transact, it was not his intention to recommend such a step a present. SUGAR DUTIES BILL. O m n i. the Hu m A o i t E i o n s a f i o d r t t h h a e t t i h n i r t d h e r e l a a d s i t n s g t a o cr h f e t oef the Bill, Bill it would be recollected that the House refused to re: i ti n u rr c c c v t e h n e i g duty h e o n ii F o o u r s e e i g n r e f S u u s e g d a r t , o a p n e d r , m e i e t tthhee p p a r e s e s aegde of' free labourers froai Bengal, and other p arts of the East Indies to the Mauritius; since that time the price of sugar had risen very consi derably, and it was likely to rise higher still, in conse quence of the deficient supply. What he wished, therefore, to know was whether it was the intention of the Noble Lord to take any steps to insure free labour in the colonies, on which the supply depended. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the proposi tion made to the House was the admission of free labour from the East Indies to the Mauritius. The House decided against that proposition, but as he understood on the grou nd that the y had not sufficient information, and not on the ground that it ought to be denied at once and for ever.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") As he understood that to be the wish of the House he certainly should not think him self justified in allowing the importation of free labour into the Afauritius without that further information was received. When that was received it would be for Parliament to say whether it would sanction such a plan. He did not think Government would be justi fied in advising the Crown to adopt it, until the question had been brought before the House. He was anxious by every means to increase free labour in our colonies, being convinced it was only by reason of a considerable increase of free labour that we •could at all compete, or make any successful rivalry with slave labour, which otherwise would, not only in the general markets of the world, but in the mar kets of England, exceed free labour altogether.—(Hear.) The Bill was then read a third time and passed. CHIMNEY SWEEPERS' BILL. On the motion of Mr. FOX MAULE the Chim ney Sweepers was CLE RGY re a RESERVES. ird time and passed. On the Order of the Day being moved for going into Committee on the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill, Mr. GOULBURN inquired when the Noble Lord opposite intended to proceed with the Clergy Reserves Bill ? Lord J. RUSSELL was not then able to fix a day, but it would not be brought on before Thursday or Friday. Colonel SIBTHORP thought the Government were acting most unfairly in postponing measures from day to day. He supposed they did so because they had not their forces ready. Lord J. RUSSELL said the ire of the Honourable Gentleman had arisen from entire misapprehension.— (Hear, bear.) The Government had not given any notice of proceeding with the Bill that day, nor did the delay rest with them, but was in consequence of communications received from other persons. Petitions against the Bill were presented by . Mr. Liddel, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Bell, and Lord Teignmouth. On the Order of the Day being read, Mr. PUSEY rose to move " That as humble ad. contrary to the express words of the founders. The Bill came before them with the highest sanction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, and ho (Lord J. Russell) believed that the suggestion which was submitted for its amendment would, if adopted, make them lose a great advantage, then within their reach, for a vi sionary good. Gentlemen opposite wished that a Chair of Theology should be established in each town, but he owned he could not view the execution of such a plan without alarm. He was persuaded that if cleri cal education were given in each town,instead of in the Universities, as at present, they would run the risk of introducing a diversity of doctrines which might be extremely dangerous. Such institutions might do some good, but he would venture to say that in the course of 20 or 30 years they would throw the country into a state of theological and polemical dissen sion. The funds did not at present serve any good pur pose, and the arguments used by Hon. Gentlemen °pp• site s u p pose d t h a t ; an d h e wou ld th ere f ore a sk if there were anything inconsistent with the purposes for which they were intended, that they should be applied to giv ing religious instruction, according to the doctrines of the Church of England, to those masses of the population who were now in an alarming, and in some places in a total, state of ignorance ? These were generally his reasons for disagreein g on the plan as proposed by the Hon. Gentleman. There were two subjects, however, which it was necessary for him to mention before the House went into Committee. With regard to the diocese of Wales he had thought it better to exclude it from the present Bill, ma ki ng that d i ocese h erea f ter tho subject of another measure, and with regard to the proposition made some time ago by the Right Hon. Gentleman with respect to Ely, her Majesty's pleasure had been taken on that subject, and she had been pleased to direct that a great number of canonries should be established in Ely, and two professorships should also be founded. Upon the whole subject he thought the Commissioners had come to a sound con clusion, and he believed if the principle of the Bill were adopted, religious instruction would be increased, the bonds of social union would be more tightly drawn together, and the best results upon society generally would be then effected. S.r THOMAS ACLAND supported the propo. sition of the Hon. Member for Berkshire. He thought the Noble Lord had, in many instances, misconceived the differences that existed between himself and those on the opposite side of the House. A fallacy had run through the whole of the arguments relative to supply ing. the destitution of the Church. lie thought that by this Bill they would take away the whole character of Diocesan Government, and thereby lower the dig nity of the hierarchy of the Church. Mr. G. PALMER thought the Bill so objectionable in principle that every Member ought to vote against it. Straugers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared—. For the motion For the amendment Majority for the motion The House then went into Committee on the Bill. Clauses 1, 2, and 3, were agreed to with a few verbal amendments. On clause 4 being put, Mr. LIDDELL moved, as an amendment, that five canonrics only should be suppressed at Durham. He thought th!s a subject of so much importance, that it was his determination to take the sense of the Committee- on the subject. Mr. LAMBTON trusted that the Noble Lord would not accede to the proposition of the Hon. Mem ber for North Durham. After a few words from Mr. Bell, Lord Dungannon, Sir H. Verney, and Lord J. Russell, The Committee divided, whcn there appeared— For the amendment . 40 Against it Majority The clause, as amended, was then agreed to, and or dered to stand part of the Bill. Lord DUNGANNON moved that Canterbury be omitted from clause 5, so that the cathedral there should have 6 canons. The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment 27 Against it 75 Majority —4B On our return to the gallery we found Sir W. FOLLETT complaining of the Bill so far as it related to the bishopric of Exeter. The Bill would suppress the chancellor, the treasurer, and two canonrics, while there was in the district a great want of endow ments for the arch-deaconries in Cornwall. The chap ter of Exeter stood upon a different footing from others, and he would propose that the Noble Lord should suppress the three offices of chancellor, treasurer, and two canonris, but he would move that Exeter be omitted. Sir C. LEMON hoped his Noble Friend could so far accede to the motion as to allow the establishment of a second archdeaconry in Cornwall. After a short conversation, strangers were ordered to withdraw, end the Committee divided, when there appeared—. For the clause For the amendment 34 Majority against the amendment —23 . . The House then resumed, and the Chairman re ported progress, and asked leave to sit again on Friday next, which was agreed to. POOR LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Second reading put off for three months. POOR-LAW COMMISSION CONTINUA TION BILL. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Poor-law Commission Continuation Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Friday next. His Lordship stated, in moving the second reading, that its object was merely to continue the Poor- law Commission for another year. The Registration of Voters (Ireland) Bill, No. 2, was fixed for Thursday, as was the Qualification for Voters (Ireland) Bill. GOODS ON CANAL BILL. On the motion for the second reading of the Goods on Canal Bill, Mr. BROTHERTON said that be could not con sent to the second reading of the Bill at such an hour (one o'cic&&). Mr. FINCH said if.the Hon. Member for Salford objected to the Bill being proceeded with, he should not consent to any other business being proceeded with. Mr. AGLIONBY hoped, considering the late period of the Session, and that the present was a good Bill, he would let it pass one stage without discussion. Mr. LABOUCHERE admitted that a most im- portent principle was involved in the Bill ; but 11e hoped, considering the late period of the Session, that" the Hon. Member for Salford would allow the se cond reading, and take the discussion on going into Committee. Mr. CRAVEN BERKELEY would support the _ _ Hon. Member for Salford. If the Bill were of such importance, it ought to have been introduced earlier. Mr. B ROT HE RTO N, on the understanding that a discussion should take place before going into Committee, would consent to the second reading now without discussion. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Wednesday week. ARMS_ (IRELAND) BILL. The Arms (Ireland) Bill was then read a third me and passed. THOROUGHFARES IN THE METRO- POLIS. Mr. E. J. STANLEY obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Commissioners of her Majesty's Woods, Forests, Land Revenues, Works, and Build ings, to make additional thoroughfares in the Metro polis, The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter after One o'Clock. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 29. Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock. The Marquis of NORMA NBY presented a pet ion in favour of the Irish Municipal Corporation Bi The Noble Marquis then said he would take the op portunity of telling the House that he had consulted the Law Officers of the Crown on a subject to which the Noble Earl opposite (the Earl of Charleville) bad referred on a former occasion. The opinion of the Law Officers of the Crown was that a Sheriff might be continued in his office though he had since his appointment become a Peer. He believed there was no doubt whatever on that subject. The Earl of CHARLEVILLE was satisfied with the assurance of the Noble Marquis. His only wish had been to call the attention of the Government to the matter. Lord LYNDHURST presented a petition from Waterford, praying for certain amendments in the Irish Municipal Bill. The Marquis of DOWNS HIRE presented a peti tion from 8,000 inhabitants of Belfast, against certain clauses in the Irish Corporation Bill; the Noble Marquis then presented a petition from Mr. Stewart, the Se neschal of Belfast, praying for compensation for the loss he would sustain by the passing of the said Bill. The Marquis of WESTMEATH supported the prayer of the petition. Lord DUNCANNON laid on the table a copy of certain instructions sent to the Governor-General of Canada. _ _ PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of the Archbishop of CANTER BURY this Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from mem bers of the Church of England, praying for an alteration in the Liturgy. The Bishop of EXETER moved for certain returns connected with the expenses of the police. NON-INTRUSION. The Marquis of BREADALBANE in presenting. several petitions in favour of Non-Intrusion, said that the number of signatures attached to petitions in favour of Non-Intrusion amounted to 166,734, while those to petitions in favour of Intrusion amounted only to 4,161; from tins their Lordships might gather EDITION. what was the gentZal feeling in Scotland on the subject. The Noble Marquis then presented a petition from the Kirk Session of Doddington, and another from Forfar, complaining of the desecration of the Sabbath by the running of mails on that day. The Earl of ABERDEEN said, with reference to the enumeration of the signatures to the Pe,titions on the subject of Non-Intrusion, that nothing coold be a more fallacious test. Among all the great improvements which had taken place in our manufactures of Im'e years there had been none to equal the improvement whi,^l bad taken place in the manufacture of petitions.—(A latigh.) The petitions to which the Noble Marquis had refereed afforded a signal example of the perfection to which the manufacture of petitions had been brought. He could. give their Lordships some account of one of them, which . lid been most numerously signed—he meant the Edinburgh petition.—(Hear.) Among the improve— ments in the art of petitioning, one of the most novel, and at the same time the most effectual,, was the employing ladies to carry about petitions and solicit signatures. Of course, the younger and hand— somer these ladies were the better.—(A laugh.) He bad seen a letter from a gentleman, who stated that this petition had been brought to his House by two ladies, who had asked if he or his wife were at home, and being informed they were not, the ladies sent the petition up into the nursery, with a message stating all in the House belonging to the Established Church were to sign it. One servant and two children had signed it without knowing anything further of it than they had learned from the message. The eldest of these children was twelve )ears of age, and the other ten. He was far from wishing to undervalue the petitions of the people, but he thought the unsophisticated article was much better than the manufactured one.—(Loud cheers and laughter.) He would not now allude to the sophistry of the Noble Alarquis, that all thuse signing petitions in favour of Non-Intrusion were supporters of the monstrous pretengians of that Assembly. He (the Earl of Aberdeen) would have no objection to sign . a petition in favour of non-intrusion, although he was decidedly opposed to the claims of that Assembly. The Noble Earl then presented se veral petitions in favour of his Bill. The Marquis of BREAD ALBANE said, that not withstanding the statement of the Noble Earl as to the manufacture of petitions, he could assure their Lord ships that there was one general feeling throughout Scotland in favour of Non-Intrusion ; and the very an nouncement of the Noble Earl that these . petitions were to be found in nurseries, and that ladies were engaged in procuring signatures, showed that that feeling existed in ,lie inmost recesses of every domestic establishment.- -(A laugh.) In almost all petitions some legal remedy bad been asked for, and yet the Noble Earl took credit to himself that his Bill made no alteration in the enist- ing law. IRISH MUNICIPAL REFORM BILL. On the reading of the Order of the Day for the House going into Committee upon the Municipal Cor porations (Ireland) Bill, The Marquis of LONDONDERRY rose to wove t`,e postponement of the order. Lord LYNDHURST asked did the Noble Marquis mean to oppose the motion that the House go into Committee upon the Bill ? The Marquis of LONDONDERRY replied that he did so intend. Up to the present time he bad not thought it became him to oppose the progress of th 3 Bill. But after the unanswered and unanswerable spee:thes which he had heard delivered at the bar of that Hon:vv., he could not, as a landed proprietor in Ireland, give his assent to a measure which was in itself so pernicious, that not even the perspicuity, learning, and ingenuity of his Noble and Learned Friend (Lord Lyndhurst) could render it harmless. He did not expect that any thing which he could say would induce their Lordships to reject the Bill altogether, but as he had heard no answer given to the speeches of Learned Counsel at the bar, he felt bound to oppose it in the present stage. He had expected to hear an answer to those arguments when the Bill was read a second time. But the Noble Viscount ( Melbourne) did not attempt to give any answer. He only said that, as their Lordships passed similar Bills on two previous sessions, they were now bound to send down this Bill also to the other House.. But he (the Marquis of Londonderry) would ask the Noble Viscount did he act upon that principle himself? Did he now adhere to the measure which he had brought in in previous sessions ? Look at the ap propriation clause, which the Noble Viscount and his col leagues in the other House, declared they would not abandon, but would resign office rather? But what was their conduct now ? Had they not abandoned that clause, and equally gone back from their other declara tions? And yet the Noble Viscount asked their Lordships to send down this Bill, because they had done so in two previous session. Were not the circumstances of Ireland altered since ? Various Acts of Parliament had been passed for that count' y since : and the power engrossed by one man, had greatly increased. That individual bad sent to every Member of both. Houses of Parliament, and to every gentlemen, and every tradesmen, and farmer in Ireland, a deta.'led ac count of his plan for effecting the repeal of the Union. He (Lord Londonderry) agreed with their Lordships, that all this was perfectly abstwd ; but he asked their Lordships, would they give greater powcr to such a man ? would they give an ascendancy to the Catholic party in Ireland? He believed it was the duty of the Government to ar rest the mischievous proceedings of the individual ink question. Tho Noble Marquis concluded by expressing his conviction that the Bill would prove most detrimen tal to Protestant interests in Ireland. Lord LYNDHURST said that, from the compli cated nature of the Bill, he believed it would be most convenient to their Lordships that he should pursue the same course upon that occasion which he had formerly Acne—that was, to refer successively to the amend ments which it was his intention to move in Committee, and without the adoption of which he was persuaded. their Lordships would never consent to allow the Bill. to pass into a law. He would occupy as little of their. Lordships' time as would be consistent with the facts he. was about to lay before them. He would not say a single word on the principle of the Bill, or with respect to the effects which it would be likely to pro ' duce on the Protestant interest or the Protestant Church in Ireland, or with respect to the feel ing which it had created in Ireland, or the grow ing distaste of the measure which, it appeared to him, prevailed in this country. He would pass over those topics, because it appeared to him that they were not suitable to the present stage .of the proceedings. He would, therefore, confine him self strictly to the details of the clauses, and the amendments which it was his intention to engraft oa the Bill. If their Lordships would look into the Bill, there were circumstances which must strike them as singular. They had a Bill on the same subject its 1836, another in 1837, another in 1838, and another in 1839 ; and when all those Bills had come up from the other House of Parliament, they had been drawn up in the same form and. on the same model, so that it was easy for their Lordships, in considering these mea sures, to see what alterations were introduced in any of those Bills, and where their Lordships might apply a remedy in their provisions. But in the present Bill a new hand had been at work, and the whole Bill had been recast—with what view or object it was difficult to ascertain, unless it was for the purpose of introduc- ing some minute alterations—minute in appearance and form, but which, if allowed to pass undetected, might be productivo ofcousequences most injurious, as appeared to him, to the interests of Ireland. Those alterations made in the form of the Bill would also lead to some extra ordinary blunders, of which he would mention one or two instances. In the 68th clause their Lordsbipe would find that the churchwardens were liable to be in dicted for a misdemeanour if they did not perform the duties imposed on them by the Bill. But he (Lord Lyndhurst) had looked through all the clauses of .the measure, and he had not found a single duty imposed by it on the churchwardens. So much for the accu racy of the Bill on this point. In the 46th clause ho found it was the duty of the town clerk to prepare the lists furnished by the churchwardens, who were not, in any part of the Act, required to furnish any lists. So much for the accuracy with which the Bill had been framed. He would now direct their Lordships' atten tey m ust be familiar. which gave freemen atten tion to the amendments whi c h it was hi s i nten ti on t o propose, tawndasthe with many freeman'sof which clause,ieli h the right of voti ng f or M em b ers o f Parliament. It was his intention t o move that t h e c lause, as amended in 1838, be restored to the present Bill. That was briefly the effect of the amendment he meant to move. He would remind their Lordships, that on that occa sion the Noble Viscount said their Lordships did not know what the purport of the amendment was, and that they were merely the agents of some one behind the curtain. He could assure the Noble Viscount that there was no foundation for such a statement, and that the only object they had in v i ew wa s to secure to the freemen the rights they at pre sent enjoyed. If the Bill passed into a law as it at present stood, it would be a direct infraction of the provisions of the Reform Bill, by virtue of which the freemen could transmit their right by birth or marriage to other parties. Now the present freemen were Protestants, and the right could by birth or marriage be transmitted to Protestants ; whereas servitude, which was distinctly excepted, would enable Roman Catholics to obtain the freedom of these corporations. There were a large class of freeman connected with the different guilds, and who, by birth, marriage, or servitude, had an inviolate right to the freedom of the corporation, and it was a matter of course, with very few exceptions indeed, to admit them. All that class of persons were absolutely excluded from the right of voting if the clause wl s allowed to pass in its present shape, atd that he trusted would be a sufficient mo tive with their Lordships to vote in favour of the amendment which it was his intention to submit to them. The next point to which he would direct their atten tion was, the boundary clause. In many towns theie were large rural districts attached to the counties of towns. The Bill excluded these districts from the towns. When the Bill came up from the other House last Session, it was provided that, for purposes of Grand