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I EVENING EDITION• L/TkRATURE. ALISON'S HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Vol.. VIII. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1840. Of all the historians who have discoursed on the subject of that moral and political phenomenon, the French Revolution, we consider Mr. Alison the most thoughtful and sagacious, as he unquestionably is the most comprehensive. His work, indeed, is on a larger -and more satisfying scale than any history—with the single exception, perhaps, of Napier's Peninsular War —that has appeared in modern times. Gibbon's Opus Magnum, which ranges over a period of fifteen hundred years, is necessarily much of it in sketch— that portion in particular, which refers to the Cru sades is singularly meagre ; Robertson's brief, admir able summaries, such, fur instance, as his outline, or bird's eye view of the feudal system, in the open ing chapters of Charles the F.fth, are wel!-known ; . and equally notorious are Hume's hasty and imperfect notices of the Anglo-Saxon pe-iod of our history, for which he asserted that he could find no sufficiently authentic materials, though Sharon Turner Las since found the substance of volumes. The brief space of time into which the extraordinary circumstances which Mr. Alison relates, are crowded, is one main cause of his advantage over his predecessors. The events of scarcely twenty-six years constitute the entire subject matter of his volumes I Another great advantage he possesses, is derived from the multitude and authenticity of the materials at his command. Not a year, dating from 1789 to 1814, but has its host of annalists, politi cal and military, whether in France or England. But to arrange this immense mass of details ; to weed it of the strong prejudices of faction ; to decide between conflicting statements ; to know how far to re pose confidence, and when . to exercise a wholesome distrust;—these things require an acuteness, indus try, and cool collectedness of mind not often met with ; and here Mr. Alison exhibits to great advantage. It was our lot, not long since, to be en grossed upwards of a year with the subject of the French Revolation, during which period we consulted a vast nuinber of documents to which our author has also had recourse ; and as we tracko I him step by step, we .remernber being much struck with the extent of his re search, the impartiality of L s statements, and the ~correctness of his inference!. In one only instance, and that one of no moment, did we find him in error. 'ln relating the particulars of Howe's great naval victory of the Ist June,. Mr. Alison incidentally alluded to the crew of the Vcageur, who, he said, went to the bottom . crying " Vive La Republique !" Now, it happens that this was a clap-trap, invented by Barrere, for the pur- Pose of reconciling the French to their defeat ; and being du'y inserted in the Moniteur, and the other ' , Journals of the day, where our author found it, Was naturally enough mistaken by him for a fact. The present Admiral Gryffyths, who was him self engaged in the battle, has lately explained th e whole circumstances of the case ; and we . trust, therefore, that Mr. Alison will correct the error, in the next edition of his history. In the volume before us—which, though strictly matter.of•fact, pos sesses all the enchaining interest of the most startling romance—our author relates the chief incidents of Wel lington's campaigns in Spain and Portugal ; as also the ..Partieulars of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, and its disastrous results. His account of this last extraordi - usry event is a master-piece of narrative—eloquent, circumstantial, and remarkable for the distinctness and vigour of its descriptions. Few things in history are more stirring and picturesque than the details of the great battle of Borodino, and the night that suc ceeded it, which may be compared—and they will not lose by the comparison—with Sallust's sketch of the defeat and death of Catiiine. But .Mr. Alison is not merely a successful painter of battle scenes ;.he is equally at home in drawing the charae tett; of statesmen. His portrait of Lord Brougham is the justest we have yet met with, of this eminent man ; Romilly and Liverpool are hit off with equal discri mination and felicity of touch ; but of the characters of George the Third tied Fourth, we can only say, that 'e should have liked them better, bad they been less highly coloured. We close this hasty notice by saying that Mr. Alison's " History of the French Revolution," is the one of all others that gives us the clearest and fullest idea of the rise, progress, and extinction—if indeed it he yet extinguished—of that unparalleled national, or rather European, convuls'on. COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by Lady Bar "alas left Buckingham Palace at five o'clock yesterday afternoon, in a carriage and four, with outriders, for Percy's • Cross, Fulham, to honour Lady Ravensworth with their Presence at the public breakfast given by her Ladyship. Tile Royal Suite followed in three carriages and four, and 13 °Tutiatrd of the Hon. Miss Murray, Hon. Miss Lister, Earl of Fingal!. Lord George Lennox, Mr. Rich, Lord 'Alfred Paget, Sir Edward Bowater, and Mr. Fr:.neis Seymour. Viscount Kelbourne had an atdience Yesterday of her Majesty. The Royal Dinner Party at the Palace on Thursday c`mlaing, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Rent, attended by Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Earl of 1: rtall. Earl of Albemarle, Viscount Melbourne, and Lord George Lennox. The Band of the Coldstream Guards was in atten dance at the Palace during the evening. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert in aPected, yesterday,' at Buckingham Palece, the plate, 'consisting of candelabra, and a salver, made by her Ma bty's commands for the Archbishop of Canterbury , Arch bop of York, and the Bishop of London, as presents on abe solemnization of the Royal Marriage, which acre sub ta_i.tted by Mr. Bridge, when her Majesty and his Royal Highnes s were graciously pleased to express their appro oat len of the taste and excellence in the execution of the several piece 3. his Royal Highness Prince Albert did Mr. W. C. ROts. A. R. A., the honour to sit to him yesterday, for another large miniature. • The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George lad the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by Lady Augusta Somerset and Baron Knesebeck, left town tilort'y before five o'clock yesterday afternoon, to honour Lord and Lady Ravensworth with their company at t h e üblic breakfast given at their residence near Fulham. The Duchess of Gloucester also honoured Lady Ravens. worth with her company yesterday afternoon. Thursday was the birthday of the Duchess I da of Saxe l 'Seituar. The Duchess of Kent paid a visit to her S. rene Highness and the Queen Dowager, and partook of a de. • Jeuner, a military band from Hounslow being in attensi ance at Bushy Park. The Duchess of Kent returned to town in the afternoon. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cam bridge visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at Cal ence House, St. James's. The Princess Sophia Matilda and Prince George of Cambridge visited her Roy al High ness on Thursday. Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar came to town yester day from Bushy Park. His Serene Highness visited the Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the D uke and Duchess of Cambridge, and returned in the afternoon to Bushy. The yearly inspection of her Majesty's Body Guard of the Yeomen of her Guard took pace at St. James's Palac e on Tuesday, when the whole of the corps was in 3Pected by the Captain, the Earl of lichester, attended by the Clerk of the Cheque, and the other officers of the Corp s _ The Earl of Powis and the Dean of St. Asaph had an interview with Lord Jahn Russell yesterday, at the Co lonial -office. Mr. James Oswald, M P., had an interview pith the Chaucellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday, in Down ' ing-street, on the subject of sugar. A Cabinet Council was held on Thursday afternoon, at the Foreign-cffice. Dr. Lushington had an interview with Lord Jehn Rus sell yesterday, at the Colonial-office. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Sir Thomas Raikes Thompson, Bart., at the Burlington Rotel; the Hon. Mrs. Vanneck, at ditto ; Sir Charles Grey, at the Clarendon Hotel ; Captain Baithe Hamilton, ! 1 .P., at the Ptftcney Hotel; the Countess of Porcrnore ; Mr. Arthur Wellesley Piet ; Mr. Robert Peel; Lori+ Burlington and the Ladies Cavendish • Sir Walter and Lady Mary Farquhar and family; S'r John and Lady Ed wards, at Flaslong's Hotel ; Sir Clifford and Lady Con stable, and Miss Chichester; Lord Ipswich, at Lord Eus t9ll's ; Lady Sandon and family. DEPAItTURES. ti.cr. and Lady Caroline Hales Calcraft, for Kempstonc Hall, Dorset; Sir William Ingilby, Bart., on a Continen. ' tal tour; Mr. and Mrs. Verschoyle, for ditto; the Hon. and Mrs. John Boyle, for Brighton; Lady Oimonde and the Ladies Butler, for Tunbridge Well-; the Dowager Lady Croft, for Mortimer Vicarage; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Ni co l so n Calvert, for Hunsd-on House, lle , ts; Col. M'Adam, for Brighton ; Sir Keith Ball, on a tour ; Lady Mint() and family, for Putney Heath ; Mr. M.lbourne TYute ; Sir Montagu and Lady Georgiana Cholmeley , from tho Burlington Hotcl, on a Continental tour; Mr. 'IQ Mrs. Hope Johnstone, from ditto ; Colonel Fulke ( Greville, from ditto, for Portsmouth ; Sir James and Lady Alexander, for Kent ; Sir Geo•ge Talbot, Bart., and Miss Talbot, for Tunbridge Wells; the 11)n. Captain and Mrs. Frederick Spencer and family, for Br;ghton ; the Earl of anfurly, for ditto; Lord and Lady Dillon, fur ditto; Captain Miekelwaite, for ditto ; the Ba:oress Ilombzrg. - for Kent ; General Wodehowe and family, for Ila tings ; Captain Cole, 11th Lancers, for Dublin ; the Rev. Syd na'Y Smith ; Mr Neld, en a cruise in the Alarm y:cht; thie Hun. Mrs. Leeson, for Leamii , gton Sic ; Col. Litch field, for ditto. SINGULAR DROWNING.-011 Friday afttrnoon att I,:quest was taken before Mr. Payn-, at the White Horse, Moor-;:me, Cripplegate, on the body of Markham Homer , ag ed three yeao, who was drowned in a water-jug. A witness fou n d t h e h e ad of the child inside the jug, and which was so faA fixed that slis was obliged to lift the jug up before she was Able to extricate it, The child was quite dead, but they put it in a warm bath and sent fur a doctor. CI he witness here, in answer to the jury, stated that there was a piece out of the jug at the top, into which the child had placed its bead, and also stated that it teat; so narrow at the top that the child could nut get its head back ; the jug was full of water.) The mother of the deceased said that she went to look for her child to put it to Led. Sh e found it in the wash-hone, when she (tied to take it out of the jug. As she was not ab le she cane - ,! fur assistance. She was not aware that he was dead. Verdict—" Accidental death." POLITICAL PUNISHMENT. PETITION OF WILLIAM PROWTING ROBERTS. The humble Petition of William Prowting Roberts lately of Bath, Gentleman, Showeth—That on the i Ith day of March last, at the Assize at Salisbury, he was convicted, in conjunc tion with Messrs. Potts and Carrier, on a charge of conspiracy, and of having attended public meetings at and near 'Trowbridge, and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Fisherton gaol, and, on the expiration of that time, to find sureties for his good behaviour. That your petitioner has been a z:alous advocate of the principles contained in the People's Charter, and he assures your Hocourable Hcuse that, during the whole of his advocacy of that Bill, he has uniform'y recommended the observance of peace, law, and order ; and he submits, that the three or four unguarded and improper expressions sworn against him at his trial are not inconsistent with this assertion. That the meetings proved at the trial all occurred in September and the following months in 1838, and Ja nuary and April 1839, and that he was not indicted for them till the last day but one of the July Assizes 1839 ; when, as he had thus but a few hours' notice of the charges, he traversed to the last Spring Assizes. That the wife and child of your petitioner remained in Salisbury three days after the trial, and that re peated applications were made for them to be allowed to see your petitioner, and that such applications were re fused by the Governor as contrary to the rules, which admit of no interview until after six months' imprison ment. That soon afterwards your petitioner was required to give up his money, papers, knife, and everything else he had about him, to wear the prison dress, and to have his hair cropped after the fashion of felons, to all which he made no resistance. But he is informed that his hair was not cropped so close as is customary with felons, and that his dress also varies from theirs ; the latter being a mixture of grey, red, and yellow, while his, like those of misdemeants, is of one colour, black. That your petitioner believes that the cotnpul)ion to have the hair cropped, and to wear the prison dress, are solely for the purpose of degrading the prisoner in his own eyes and with the public. That to the same cause your petitioner attributes the denial of his great coat j but which, on the order of the surgeon, was afterwards - granted him as necessary for his health. That to the same cause your p...titioner attributes the fact that, at the general weekly shaving, it is a rule that the whiskers, as well as the beards, of your peti tioner and the other convicts should be completely shaved off. That your petitioner, save as hereinafter mentioned, is deprived of the privilege of writing. That, about a fortnight after his imprisonment, the visiting Magistrates, whose general kindness and cour tesy he now desires to acknowlcdge,gave your petitioner permission to correspond once a week with his wife and son on domestic affairs ; and that, on application to fir; Secretary of State, he has also been allowed to corre spond with his agent on matters of business ; and be has also no doubt but that this petition will be allowed to reach your Honourable House. That the above permission of the visiting Magistrates was granted solely in consequence of your petitioner being unwell ; and their opinion, as stated in their order, that his illness arose from want of relaxation of mind. That your petitioner's correspondence is subjected to the surveillance of the Governor ; and that this is the case with all prisoners before as well as after conviction. That your petitioner is limited, as to food, to the prison allowance, which, in ordinary cases, is bread, and what is called gruel or skilly ; the former very good ; of the latter he knows nothing, as he never has touched it, and never will. But your petitioner desires to state that, soon after his imprisonment,_ the surgeon ordered him a bed to seep upon, milk. morning and evening, and, subse quently, a dinner from the Governor's table, and wine ; all of which, with an .unimportant alteration, he has had ever since. But then, also, your Honourable House must understand that such order is in conec quence of you petitioner's illness, and that, on a rein slatement of his health; they will all be rem oted ; he will be left to the bread and skil!y, and sleep on a coarse sack filled with straw. That your petitioner is not allowed to have his watch or penknife, nor even to have a knife to cut his dinner with, which, therefore, he cats after the manner of can nibals. Your petitioner believes that the denial of a knife is to prevent suicide, a crime which your petitioner has givon no reason to suppose he will commit. That your petitioner sleeps in a brick and stone cell, on a narrow iron bedstead, and has no chamber furni ture ; and that in this, and all other respects, explained as hereinbefore stated, he is treated as a convicted felon, with the exception of being allowed to wear his own linen. That your petitioner is not allowed to see a news paper, and is confined to the silent system, speaking to no one but . the Governor and the turnkeys, whose strict practice it island as he is informed it is their duty) to let him know nothing of what is passing beyond the rriion walls. That in the same gaol with your petitioner is William Potts, convicted with him ; but that he and your peti tioner are never suffered to speak to or .see each other. Even in going to chapel they enter by separate doors to separate pews, screened from each other ; and, in going out, lest they should give a nod of recognition, the one is got into the yard before the other leaves his seat. Your petitioner believes there is no parallel instance of such a regulation. That your petitioner is not allowed the use of book 3, except those on religious subjects, and such as the chap lain approves of. That " Gibbon's Decline and " Essays of Elia," and " Modern Egypt," have been sent to your petitioner by his wife, but that he is not permitted to have them, the chaplain not considering them proper. That your petitioner is not permitted to see his wife or children, relations or friends ; and that though, as he is informed, when he has endured three months longer, he wil! be permitted to see them, yet it will bo under such restrictions that he does not intend to avail himself of the privilege. His wife, in a dim half-lighted passage, will have to stand on one side of an iron-grated door, while your pe titioner stands on the reverse side of another iron-grated door, about six feet apart from each other, a turnkey standing between them, to hear and control their cot:- venation. This sort of interview your petitioner, then uncon victed, submitted to about a twelvemonth ago ; and, whatever may be his fate, he never desires to be pained with another ; so that unless lie should become so ill that his life would be considered in danger (in which case he is induced to believe there might be some little relaxation), he will see no relation nor friend, and hear of nothing, for the next twenty-one months. That, as an instance of the exclusion of all intelligence, your petitioner informs your Honourable House, that he will not hear of the reception or rejection or other fate of this petition, until the expiration of h:s sentence in March, 1842. That, though your petitioner humbly confides in the Almighty that he may be spared such an affliction, y e t he respectfully submits to your Honourable House that such treatment, continued for so long a period, is calcu lated to induce insanity or idiocy, or a state of mental imbecility bordering upon them. That the existence of your petitioner is, with the ex ception of the correspondence before stated, one entire blank. He is rung to his cell at sunset, and rung up in the. morning ; passing through the twenty-four hours without the interchange of a single thought. Through out the year, however cold the weather, he is to see neither fire nor candle. And if your petitioner did not conscientiously believe that society is fast progres sing towards a more Christian feeling, he should earnestly pray for death to relieve him from his sufferings. That your petitioner is desirous that this petition should not only be strictly true, but that it should convey no unjust or unfair impression against the prison authorities; he therefore desires to state, that at all times he has seen treated by . the Visiting Magis trates with great courtesy and humanity ; and also that from the Governor he has experienced much kindness and good feeling. your petitioner is informed, that in his case, as in- deed it seems to be in all others of a similar nature, the harships complained of are beyond the control of any ene, ani that no body in particular is to be blamed for them. That your petitioner has for some time been very unwell ,and he trusts that this will,with your Honourable House, be some excuse for any impatient or improper txpres: ion that in this petition he may have made use of. _ _ _ Your petitioner humbly submits this statement to your Honourable House, and prays such relief as to your Honourable House shall seem proper. And your petitioner, as in duty bound, will ever pray, &c. W. P. ROBERTS. Cell, Fisherton Gaol, Salisbury, June 13, 1840. SOUTH-EASTERN RA ILWAY.—We stated last week that much activity prevailed at the works of this railway in the vicinity of Dover; and we learn that at Penshurst and Leigh, in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge, they are also ra pidly progressing. The whole of the forfeited shares have, we understand, passed into the hands of holders of the highest re spectability ; and the prosperity of the Ccmpany is shown by their recent advance in the market ; while the recommendation by the Admiralty Commission of Dorn- Bay as a Harbour of Refuge will give additional stability to the undertaking.—Kent Herald.' A few weeks since the pious Churchwardens of Titehfield, Hants, in their zealous efforts to promote the sanctity of the Sabbath (or part of the Sabbath) summoned a poor barber before the Magistrates for exercising his worldly calling on the preceding Sabbath after the hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon. Being unable to pay the fine and ex penses, " his feet were made fast in the stocks" for two hours in the 11Iarket-place, for his profane conduct.— Wilts In. dependent. It has been remarked, as a peculiar coincidence, that Gould was a potrnan, Oxford a lotman, and Courvoisier originally a waiter. VIE SUN, LONDON , SATURDAY, J UNE 27, 1840. HAMBURGH MAIL. FRONTIERS OF SERvIA, JUNE 12.—Alarming re ports are spread that Prince Michael has suddenly bee❑ taken ill, having caught cold when out in a hunting party. He issued an order, enjo'ning all Councillors and Senators who remain at Belgrade to repair to Kragcinuoez. BERLIN, JUNE 26.—1 t is officially announced to-day that" his Majesty, according to the custom hitherto ob served i❑ the Royal Family, has been pleased to order that his Royal Highness Prince William, his Majesty's brother, shall bear the title of Prince of Prussia." HANOVER, JUNE 20.—His Majesty the King arrived this morning at tea o'clock from Dessau, which he left yesterday evening. His Majesty has resolved to send to Berlin a detachment of the Hussar Regiment of Guards, to be present at the hundredth anniversary of the Prussian Guards. It is not •Jelieved that the death of the King of Prussia will cause any change in the re lation of our Court to that of Berlin. VIENNA, JUNE 11.—If the disasters of the Russian expedition to China as well as in Circassia were at first perhaps exaggerated, it is certain that the worst account has - been far from the truth. No signs are made of any new movement, and it is propable that the main strength of the expedition has been delayed by the in clemency of the winter. Russian officers of distinc tion do not dissemble that the plan of Count Perow. , ..ky . was badly calculated, since it was strictly founded on the notion of procuring water on the arid steppes by meltit.g snow in the winter, while too little regard was paid to all other consequences. It is certain that the new expedition, which the honour of the Russian arm% seems imperativLly to require, will be carried en, ac cordingly, to a different place ; yet anxious doubts are entertained at St. Petersburgh ; and it is not likely that anyth'og will be carried into effect till the autumn.— Hamburgh Paper, June 22. - . - .. /IA MBURG BOUSENHALLE, JUNE 13. Bills. Money, Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank shares An 10-ltussian Loa., l, i 4 lop% Russia' 3 per Cent. ~ st series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Se. ics — 10.;% Rusiian 5 per Cent. Hop: and Lo. 3d and 4th Set ics - 9i% Ditto in Certificates • Dutch Actual Debt, 2% pc Cent " s*4 V.% Ditto 5 per Cell' • 99 Polish Bonds - Ncw ticket Anglo-Danish Loan; 3 per Ceti. . 75% '75% Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Lt-nt.... l(2 Spanish, New .1 per Cents. 21% - EXCHANGES ON LONDON. Hamacita, JUNE 23.-13. 6—Two months, 13 VA. CI3RIsTIANIA, JUNE 13.—Three months, 4 91. STOCKHOLM, JUNE M.—Seventy-five days, 12. 0. L Elem, JUNE 19.—Two mo .ths, 6. 121. Ti) THE RIGHT HON. RICHARD MORE O'FERRALL. Town of Leeds News Room, June 20. DEAR Sin,—ln the London papers of Saturday last, which I found on the table in this magnificent room, perceive under.the head " West India Mails" that ••ou have conveyed instructions from the Lords of the Ad miralty (" in consequence of a proposition made to their Lordships by the Chairman of the Royal Mal Steam Packet Company, that Southampton be fixed upon for embarking and landing the mails to and from the West Indies) to Rear Admiral S'r James Got dun, K.C.8., to act as Chairmain of a Committee to exa mine into the claims of the different ports in the Bri tish Channel, and to report which may be considered most eligible for the purpose with regard to facility of access at all times, and with reference to the internal arrangement of the Post-office for despatch in the trans mission of the mails. My Lords wish the Committee in the first instance to call on the Directors of the Royal Steam Packet Company, to place before them the rea sons for the selection of Southampton, and then to con• sidcr the memorials from any ports in the English Chan nel (notice of the inquiry being previously given to each port), and if deemed necessary, to call before them any individuals who may wish to be examinAl as to the points set forth in such memorials. " The Committee are also to examine into the advan tage of selecting any other port in the English Channel other than those which shall have come before them by memorial, and for such purpose shall give notice as they shall think necessary, and shall examine evidence as they shall think fit. The principal points for consideration, after having ascertained the draft of water of the vessels to be employed in the service, will have reference to fa cility of access at all times of the tide, and safe moarine of vessels in the harbour, as also the prevalen ce cf . winds and current at all periods of the year, along the -coast adjacent to the harbour. The facility of trans mitting letters by land to the point of departure is an important advantage, which, if combined with naval se curity, sllcuM considerably influence the decision of the Committee, but the safety and regularity of the set-% ice will much more depend on naval •considerations ; the Committee will give particular attention to tire latter object. The Report of the Committee will decide where the mails shall be taken on board, the Company Flavin , * the power to start the vessels from an y p or t ap pointed on the hours agreed on. (S'gned) "R. MORE O'FERR ALL. " Rear-Admiral Sir James Gordon, K.C.8." Upon reading this minute from the Lords of the Ad miralty, I felt astonished that aftur all the discusion upon Irish Harbours and Irish Railroads not one word is mentioned of St. George's Channel. 1 therefore now beg to put in the claim which Cork has over all' other ports to meet the terms of the foregoing minute. Make Cork the centre from which railroads, and other road:, will radiate to the different parts of the United Kingelom, then take either Southampton, Falmouth, or Bristol, and try the difference of snaking any of them your centre. Let Scotland look to this question, so vital a one to her interest. Let Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, look to it ; also, Belfast, Dublin, Waterford, and above ull, let Cork look to it. I purposely abstain from reaming any port on the West of Ireland, as the Railway Commissioners did not name them at all, though I have strong opinions favourable to them ; but I do claim for Cork as a tried habour (having, as I conceive, the advantage of all other ports in the English or St. George's Chap nel) to be included in this minute, and I call on our Irish Members to insist on this addition. I am taking to London a petition for Government Railways across Ireland more numerously and respectably signed (by men of all parties, Poor-law Guardians, Grand Jurors of counties and cities, as also by many of our most influential landed proprietors, and the first nobility in the land) than has ever before been presented on the subject of Irish Railroads. The last time I raw the lamented Mr. Drummond, during that sickness which unfortunately for Ireland terminated in the death of that lamented gentleman, he advised me strongly to press on the petition, and to get one line either to Limerick or Cork in the first in stance, and then other lines will be sure to follow. I hope his advice will have that might with the Legisla ture which his known ability and patriotism deserve it should have. We shall soon have a railroad from London to Holy head, then the journey will be performed in ten hours, whilst the passage from Holyhead to Dublin will not occupy more than six hours. When the railroad to Cork is made, a distance of 166 miles, this journey will be accomplished in six hours by the mails ; thus, in four-and-twenty-hours the mails may be transmitted from London to Cork, ready for embarkation to all our Colonies, and to North and South America, West India Islands included. By this route also the Mails from the Midland Counties of England can be taken up at Birmingham, whilst at Liverpool all the Scotch and North of England Mails will be taken up ; at Dublin those from the North and East of Ireland, and at Maryborough all the West of Ireland ; and at Cork all the South-West—and all this can be effected without costing the Government one farthing. The Report of the Irish Railway Commissioners shows that the line to Cork will repay by traffic on it the advance necessary for making 168 English Miles of railroad, at 10,0001. per mile, or under two millions sterling ; but should this anticipation not be realized, all Ireland is ready to come forward and make up, by an as;essmcnt, the difference, should there be any deficit on the portion to be mac aerosa Ireland. Being a strenuous advocate for the consolidation of the Union, not its dissolution, I am the more anxious that the ground should be taken from under the feet of all repeaters, by showing, in all her acts, a desire on the part of England to consider Ireland as an integral part of the British Empire. Without this is done in rea'hy, it is idle to suppose that Ireland and Irishmen will be contented, and that they will tamely submit to be treated in any man ner diff erent f rom E ng l an d. L e t justice, then, in this instance, as well as in all others, be done to Ireland, and where her position and natural advantages gain her an evident advantage over Eng land, let not any feeling of jealousy rob my country of that advantage. I hope to be in London by the end of this month (at 23, Dover-street), when I will be glad to co ope rate with the friends of Ireland, and of the Connection of the countries, in following up this matter, so as at one and the same time to determine on the best port in the EngliA and St. George's Channel, to make the station from which mails shall be transmitted between the British dominions and its colonies, and the United States of America, and one making the railroad from Dublin to Cork, not doubting but that Cork will be considered far the best for that purpose.—l have the honour to be, Your obedient humble servant, THOS. BIRMINGHAM, Chairman of the Irish Railway Committe, Curamana, Kilconnel. . The late Earl Duce has left three sons—namely, the present Earl, the late Lord Moreton ; the Hon. Augus tus Henry Moreton, M.P. ; and the Hon. Percy Moreton, late Lieutenant in the 10th Hussars; and six daughters, the late Countess of Denbigh, Lady Julia Langston, Lady Charlotte Berkeley, and the Ladies Emily and Catherine Moreton, un married. APOTHECARIES' MALL.—Names of Gentle men to whom the Court of Examiners granted certificates of qualification on Thursday :—John Ramsay Brush ; William Thorntett, London; Henry Woodroffe Hare, Worcestershire ; Dayrell Joseph Thackwell Francis, London ; James Powell ; Henry George Noyes, Newport, Isle of Wight ; and James 1 homas Metcalfe, Masham, Yorkshire. SECOND EDITION. FHE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 9l; Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent C0n5...,,. .. Ditto Old Annuities 3., per Cent Red ...... .. 99L Ditto New Annuities — • New 31 per Cent ...... Ex. Bills, 1,0001...21 24 pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 5001 24 pm Long Annuities to expi re ' Ditto Small Jan. 1860 Oct. 1859 — India Stock for Acct... Jan. 1860 Consols for Acct 9la FOREIGN FUNDS. A astrian, 5 per ecnt._ ___ Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 27 Ditto, New Ditto 35.- Brazilian Bon's .. .. __ Prussian, 5 per cer.t ... BuenosAyres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent l:6 Ditto, 1824 ...... Ditto, Deferred ~. _ D.ini , 3 per cent.... Frencll,s per cent... —f. —c. Creek, 1825, 5 percent. Exchange .. 111exi..an, 5 per cent.... French,3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. 316 Dutch, 21 per cent 54; Peruvian,l32s, 6 per ct, Ditto, 5 per cent... .. SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway 7l/ Eastern Counties Railway Great Western Railway ...... lO4 Ditto New Shares Bull and Selby London and ll'righton Railway 2Bh London and Blaekwall Railway L - (Trunk) 1 l i London cin 98 Midland Countie s R a il wa y a a n n d d Scoruntyhd(l:nVeßstaeirl:alytailway ... b9 101 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, JUNE 26. A Clerk of the Cron from Ireland delivered in a return of the election of the Earl of Lucan, as a Represen tative Peer for Ireland, in the room of the Earl of En niskillen, deceased. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the Universal Society of. Rational Religionists, praying for a Commission to inquire into their doctrines. The Noble and Learned Lord also presented a petition from Aberdeen praying for a settlement of tha Church Question in Scot- Ltd. CASE OF THE REV. MR. O'REILLY. The Marquis of WESTMEATH gave notice that on Thursday, the 2d of July, he should move for a return of the name of the party or parties to whom 50/. were stated to have been paid by the Rev. Mr. O'Reilly, a Roman Catholic priest in the county Cavan, for the compromise of an offence with which he was charged ; and also of the purposes to which the money was applied, and a cupy of the discharge. Lord MELBOURNE said that the notice supposed the case that the money had been paid for the compromise of an offence. The Marquis of WESTMEATH took that for gran'ed from the admission of the Noble Marquis at the head of the Home Department. The Noble Marquis then pre. served a petition from three gentlemen of the name of Smith, and a gentleman of the name of - Sharpe, complain ing of the great dela)! in the Court of Chancery. ESTATES'IMPROVENIENT BILL. The Duke of RICHMOND rose to move the second leading of the Estates Improvement Bill. Its object was to allow persons having a life interest in estates to borrow money upon them for a certain number of years, for the purpose of applying it to the draining and improvement of the property. He thought it unnecessary to say more respecting it, than to express his belief : that it would be found beneficial to the farmers, to agricultural labourers, and also the fertility of the soil. If the clauses should be deemed „capable of improvement, he would be glad that they should receive it; or if it should be thought expe dient to refer the Bill to a Select Committee, he should not have the least objection to it. The Marquis of WESTMEATH was glad to find the . 13.11 , iould extend to Ireland, where it was much needed. If it were only intended to charge the estates fur drainage on the surface he thought it might be advan- Teously carried much further. - The - Esrl of PORTM A N thought it would be impos sible their Lordships could allow this Bill' to pass in its present shape, because it gave tenants for life of settled estates a power which it was not intended they should have by the person settling the estate, who, if hi had thought a charge for such purposes desirable, would have himself charged the estate with it. The Eal 1 of Haddington. the Earl of Devon, and Lai d Hathcrton. supported the Bill. Lord ASHBURTON doubted if the Bill were necessary. The Duke of RICHMOND was about to move that the Bill be referred to a Select Committee, when Lord ELLE NBO RO UG H said be did not see why that should be done. The Bill would then assuredly be lest. The Duke of RICHMOND therefore withdrew that proposition. Bill r,ad a second time. The Colonial Passengers Bill went through Committee, as did the Timber Duties Bill. Their Lordships adjourned before Rx o'Clock. ROUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 26. The SPEAKER took the Chair this afternoon, at Four o'Clock. The Report of the Poor-law Commissioners was brought up and laid on th e t a bl e . _ Mr. FRESEIFIELD brought up the Report of the Committee on Battersby's Divorce Bill. Toe Report was received, and the Bill read a third time, and passed. Mov.bray's E , tate Bill was read a second time. _ CLERKENWELL IMPROVEMENT. On the motion of Mr7EDUNCOMBE, the Clerken well Improvement Bill was read a third time and passed. WEAVER CHURCHES BILL. Sir C. LEMON brought up the report of the Weaver Cntr . ches Bill, and moved certain amendments. Mr. E. J. STANLEY moved the amendments be read a sceoial time that day six months.—( Loud cries of " Why ? why?") The lion. Member, however, remained silent, and strangers were ordered to withdraw. No divi sion, however, took place, and on cur re-admission to the gallery we found Mr. J. JERVIS on his legs. H 3 said it was quite cer. tain that if the public bad been aware of the ob ject of the Bill, or if the investigation before the Committee had been publicly reported and circu lated, great opposition would have been made to the measure. This was not a mere private Bill ; the principle involved in it was most important. The ques tion was whether that which had for years contributed 1 5001. a-year to the county-rates of Chester, and relieved the rate-payer of that county to that amount, of whatever religion such rate •pay era might be, should now be devoted to the erection of churches exclusively for the use of mem b,rs of the Establishment. This was the first instance in which it had been attempted to endow churches out of the county-rates. Hon. Members on the other side might be anxious to adopt that principle to a man, and might perhaps engage others to asst them in this instance who would not like to have the same principle applied to their own counties which it was now sought to apply to the county of Chester. In the Committee this had been treated entirely as a party question. The majority of that Committee was composed of Conservative Mem bers—to a man they had all advocated the . huildieff of these churches, and had on all occasions voted together; so that the purpose of that Committee was not so much a discussion of the question as the carrying out of the will of the majority. Owing, however, to the accidental ab sence of two of these Members he had succeeded in in troducing a clause which it was now sought to strike out, and Hon. Members opposite relied on the earlier and mote regular attendance of those Members who were desirous of building churches out of the county-rates to enable them to carry this into effect. He trusted that all those who objected to such a principle would vote in favour of the amendment. Mr. WILBRAHAM opposed the bringing up of the report ; and he did so because he did not think that money should be raised on a whole county for the purpose of giving additional church accommodation_ to a particular district. He looked upon such a principle as a dangerous one, and as interfering with the rights of preperty. Mr. THORNE Y was not only opposed to the mea sure but had a strong feeling against the whole system of taxation followed by the trustees ; and he hoped the county would soon b.! released from it. Mr. HUM E asked whether those Gentlemen who were favourable to the measure would support the principle that county-rates formed a proper fund for the building of churches ?—( Ilear, hear.) That was the real principle then at issue. Mr. TATTON EGERTON said that the money in question could not be considered as a country-rate. The Hon. Member for Kilkenny was therefore mistaken on that point. Mr. UME—I will venture to ask, Sir, whether this is not a highway robbery ?—( Much laughter.) Mr. R. PALLIER said that the funds were not a county-rate, as was manifest from the purposes to which they were devoted. Mr. WARBURTON said that if this Bill were carried into a law, every dock, railway, and other public Com pany might be called upon to contribute to similar pur poses out of its surplus income.—( Hear, hear.) Lord SANDON said that the principle had already been admitted by the Legislature, in the case of a Mininr , Company, that where a large population was col lected in one district, by means of such a Company, the latter was bound to provide for the religious instruction of that population out of its surplus income.—(Tory cheers ) Sir C. GREY (who spoke amidst great interruption from the Tory benches) supported the amendment. He hoped the Church of England would not continue to pr&- ceed upon the engrossing principle supported by the pro. motors of this Bill. If so, the Church itself would be most seriously damaged.---( Hear, hear.) Mr. 14; WA WI objected to this measure, not only upon principle, but for the same reasons as had been stated by his Learned Friend who had jest sat down. He objected to the measure, because it was injurious to the Church it self, as it would set against it a large number of the mem bers of the community. It also awakened in the minds of members of the Church itself considerable doubts and dis cord, and many of them felt that they could not assent to the Act because it was a direct tax and injury to the country generally. General JOHNSON objectel to the mea3ure. Mr. HOB HO USE said that the question in the present case vvas.whether the funds intended for the Weaver Churches were to be devoted to an entirely different pur pose. lie would venture to say, if the present Bill passed that the worst consequences would result ; he, there fore, called upon the House to meet the Bill with the most determined opposition.—( Cries of " Hear.") He recollected that a Bill was introduced into the House for a purpose somewhat -analagous to the present. The fund was left for the building of a bridge over the river Dee. That fund produced an enormous surplus ; and it was net known in what manner the superfluous money should be applied. Under these clrenmstances the trustees came to Parliament, and applied for power to appropriate the funds to the establishment of schools, for the.ohject of building the bridge aver the river Dee was to promote civilization of the Highlands. That was a most- excellent purpose, and strictly analogous to the hiteation of the original donor. But Parliament did not allow that Bill to pass. The trusts were held so sacred, that it was thought they ought not to be violated, and although every one confessed the purpose was excellent, yet that Bill was rejected upon the prin ciple on which he hoped the House would reject the pre sent Cheers.) The rate-payers of Chester had a right to the whole of the surplus funds if there were any. They ought to be applied by the Magistrates in Quarter Sessions to certain specified purposes, and to no other pur pose whatever. He objected to the application of the fund for the purposes of Church building. The fund ought to be devoted, in the first place, to the purposes of navigation ; and in the second place, to the relief of the rate-payers of Chester. It was proved that there were 18 Churches along the line of the river, a distance of only 23 miles, and that the po pulation was fluctuating, arid contained a great many Dis senters. For the sake of the great principle, he trusted they would give their determined opposition to the Bill in all its stages. Mr. A. YATES said the indecent interruption s given during the debate by the Hon. Members opposite would show the country what motives actuated them in carting down in such numbers—they would judge whether it was to support pure religion, cr whether it was not because money was to be spent, and they wanted the patronage.— ( Oh, oh.) lion. Gentl. ought to remember that the Bill would tax the salt and coal trade upon the W eaver upwards of 10 per cent., and that for no useful or neces sary purpose. Strangers wsre then ordered to withdraw, The House divided, when thera appeared— For the amendments Against them 157 Majority in favour of tlaa amendments 70 On the motion of Mr. WILBRAHAM the evidence taken before the Committee was ordered to be printed. On the question that the amendment be read a second time, Mr. CHOLMONDELE Y rose to object to the clause providing that the expenses incurred by the opposers of the Bill should be paid by the promoters of it. If such a principle were to be established, he would ask whether the present was the case in which it was to be begun. It was for the House to consider whether it would entertain so extraordinary a proposition that in any case the expense of the opposers of the Bill should be paid by the pro moters of it.—( Hear, hear.) If the House agreed to this clause, which he could not conceive they would do, they would deliberately affirm a principle that had hitherto never been recognised, and so establish a precedent that had been hitherto utterly unthought of. He begged to move, that the House disagree with the amendment. Mr. J. JE RVIS said, that as the amendment of which his Hon. Friend complained had been intro duced by himself, probably the House would accord to him its indulgence while he made a few observations. In the first place he thought he had some reason to complain of the course which the Hon. Gent. had adopted. It was not usual he believed to make such motion on 'bringing up the Report. In private business, the course was to bring up clauses or to move amendments on the third reading of the Bill, and it was the ordinary course in the House and out of the House, when one Honourable Member in tended to move an amendment, to give notice of it. No notice had been given of the motion that had just been made. That was a very good reason for his pressing on the Hon. Member to arljourn the discussion till another evening. Lie thought, having regard to the public busl. Less before the House that night, it was impossible a full discussion of the Bill could take place within reasonable time. He now came to the statement of the Hon. Member re lating to the matter of the amendment, and he would ask Hon. Members if they could be safely guided by the Hon. Member, when he stated that the object of the amend ment was to make the promoters of the Bill pay the costs of the opposition to it, and that he had taken advantage of an accidental majority to introduce this amendment in Committee. (Hear, hear.) If such were the object of the amendment, Hon. Members would be per fectly right in voting against it. But such was not the ease. 'the object of the amendment ware this. Certain trustees of the River Weaver, amounting to about 105 of the landed gentlemen of Cheshire, who were utterly un connected with the navigation of the Weaver and the salt works, wished in fact to impose a tax of 20 per cent. on this navigation. Some of those gentlemen, constituting the majority, came to the House to get a Bill enabling them to build and endow churches out of the tolls of the river Weaver, and introduced a clause that the expenses of passing the Bill should be paid out of the surplus fund of the river Weaver trust. Hon. Members opposite complained that they were wearied by the opposition to this Bill, and he thought that the opponents of the Bill had an equal right to complain of vexatious application to Parliament. Another portion of the trustees (the miner• rity certainly, among whom was the Chairman of the Quarter Sessions, and Lord Stanley of Aldcrley), were of opinion that the trust would be violated by any such misapplication of its funds, and he presented two petitions against the Bill, stating that they were bound on principle as trustees to protest against it, and that they had no right to consent to, neither had Parliament any oight to authorize, such a violation of of a public trust. Ten thousand rate-payers of Cheshi7e, who were likewise interested in this question, inasmuch is the rates derived 15,000/. a year from their surplus revenues, had petitioned against it, considered it unf--ir to apply this trust fund to the erection of churches. Under these circumstances, he thought it was but fair that the expenses of that opposition should be defrayed cut of the surplus fund as well as the exp nses of the promoters of the Bill, and in this he had followed the uniform practice of the Court of Chan cery who when an application was made to it by trustees to carry out the purposes of any trust, and when certain other trustees of the same trust opposed the application bone fide, because they supposed the application to be an improper one, were uniformly remunerated their expen diture out of the funds which they sought to protect. This was, therefore, the proper opportunity of stating that it was not the intention to ask the promoters of the Bill to pay the costs of the opponents; nothing, of the sot t was in tended. The case was this : —A large fund was entrusted for certain purposes to certain trustees. Certain of these applied to Parliament for power, and violated the object of that trust. Certain of the other trustees were of opinion that the trust ought not to be violated ; -and therefore they came as they were bound to do, before the House. if a majority of them had voted to apply the money to some ex traneous purpose, ought they not to have came there to protect the interest of the trust committed to them ? If the Bill were carried, a most vicious principle might be adopted ; and on that grcund it was consistent with the principle of a court of equity, with justice and morality, that it should be met with a fair bona fide opposition. The Hon. Member said it was a vexatious opposition. But when it was only carried by a majority of one—when in a Select Committee, ten Members to one confirmed the principle of that opposition, it cculd not be called vexatious, and the Hon. Member had no right to call it so, not having entered into the details of the measure. There were precedents in its favour in the Court of Chan cery and in the House of Lords, though there were no precedents in that House on the subject. lie thorght that, under these circumstances, the Bill should not have been brought forward. Lord STANLEY said that he was not a member of the Committee which had sent in the Bill, and he had taken no part in reference to it, except by having before voted in favour of the second reading, and being then favourable to the amendment introduced by the Committee. If, how ever, any lion. Gentleman supposed that the slightest attempt bad been made to take him by surprise in any way,—although be believed that the regular notice had been given at the Private Bill Office, and though the Members of the Committee had been duly informed on the subject—(No, no)—if any Hon. Member could say that he was taken by surprise by the amendment, he should advise his lion. Friend near him —strong as he must be in the justice of his cause— to accede at once to the suggestion made by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite, that the further consideration of the question should be adjourned till another day. He was not disinterested in the matter, as be was anxious that the House should immedi ately proceed to important public business.—( Hear, bear.) He would therefore propose to his Hon. Friend that the question should be postponed till Monday next, when no one could object to its discussion. Mr. CIIOLMONDELEY was ready to adopt the suggestion of his Nob!e Friend. He thought he had given due notice on the subject, but he did not wish to take aay parties by surprise, He would, therefore, move that the debate should be adjourned to Monday next. Lord J RUSSELL had no objection to the debate being adjourned till Monday.' Mr. J JERVIS suggested to the Hon. Member to adjourn it till Tuesday, which was finally agreed to. Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET brought up the Report of the Committee on the Monmouthshire Iron and Coal Company. On the motion of Mr. G. PALMER Austin's Patent Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. BURROUGHES gave notice that on the bring ing up of the Report of the Poor-law Commissioners he should move an instruction to the Commissioners to au thorize the Guardians of the Poor to distribute out-door relief in certain cases. Mr. WIL BR AHA NI gave notice that on Monday next, in moving the Order of the Day, he should move an amendment that the evidence on the Weaver Church Bill b.l printed. Mr. LEWIS gave notice that on the further considera tion of the Report of the \Veaver Churches Bill he should move certain clauses for the purpose of remodelling and re-constructing the trustees. 'REGISTRATION OF VOTERS (IRELAND). - Lord STANLEY moved the Order of the Day for the house going into Committee on the Irish Registration Bill. Sir B. HALL presented a petition against the Bill, signed by 400 members of the Marylebene Parochial As sociation, and by 64 shopkeepers of Oxford street. On the question that the Speaker do now leave the chair, Mr. SLANE Y rose, not, he said, to offer any ob struction to the Bill of the Noble Lord, but to perform a public duty upon that which appeared to him a most im portant subject. He had read the Bill with the greatest care, and also the Bill of the Solicitor-General, and he was convinced that any one who would look at the two Bills dispassionately would see that the machinery of one Bill gave every facility to claimants, and the other gave every facility to objectors.—(Cheers from both sides.) He said this without 'rit" all imputing motives to any one. But tho Bill of the Noble Lord appeared to him as much cal sulated to give facilities to objectors, as the Bill of the 'Solicitor-General was calculated to give them to claimants. —( Hear, hear.) He had no doubt that the framer of etch Bill had no other view than to give to Ireland the best possible constituency ; but ho believed that the great difference between the two Bills was owing to the ambi guity of the terms in which the existing franchise as given.—( Hear, hear.) Hi s f r i ends w i th whom he Fad conversed were of the same opinion, one considered the matter one way, and another in another ; and such being the case, he would put it to the Noble Lord to say whether it was not impossible to settle matters without great and due consideration. He would allow that many had claimed the franchise that had no right to it, but be would venture to say that many of them were led %stray by the ambiguity of the words of the franchise.. • The barrister who had to sit upon t h ese matters cameto dif ferent conclusions, as did the tenants, landlords, arid j 'tikes of the land. If such was the fact what must be the ease with the poor and illiterate ? He would venture to sire without fear of contradiction, that it was impossible to do anything satisfactory either in the Bill of the Noble Lord or thz.t of the Right Hon. Gentleman, the Solicitor- General for Ireland, unless the franchise was defined on which they were going to legislate. The Hon. Gentleman must know that the oath was made entirely different at the time of the passing of the Reform Bill. The con structions which the Judges had put upon this oath bad reference to the Emancipation Bill, and not to the Reform Bill. On referring to the proceedings in tho House of Lords upon the Reform Bill, he found th a t a proposition was made by the Earl of R o d en, to retain the old oat h. That proposition was rejected and what was the argument made use of by the colleagues of that Hon. Gentleman and the Noble Lord opposite. He was not saying the subject was clear, but being ambiguous it was not good policy to legisl a t e upon it until they made it clear. He did not mean to say that the c onstruction was intended to be thus obscure, but what be contended for was,that it was utterly impossible for the parties who were to take the oath to arrive at a clear interpretation of it. No man could den y that, as the cage at present stood , the dt finition of the fra , ichis e was most vague and unsatisfactory ; and if they were about to frame a measure, it sh f ouldbeo is tie which should c l ear ly and distinctly define the rat : ehe He i i thought that the defin i ng of t i l , i e e f ß ra il n l. chis l e f they passed the would , takea away ' the principal objection to the Bill without great al t e rati o n, could it be doubted that po. pular excitement and agitation would be renewed in Ire land? If the Noble Lord and his party were to succeed to power, if they were to change places with H o n. G en tl e men near him, would it not bo desirable that the difficulty S U N • e - ' I FNENING which Ireland would offer to the. success of their . /e" stration should be removed? But be would not Ireland only. • Let them look to the distress nociiiisieiiil4lBori et i ing in England. The cause of the poverty and destitu tion in our great towns, was the constant influx of unfor tunate outcasts from Ireland, and it was impossible but that the number should continue, if agitation continued there ; therefore, speaking for the poor classes in these towns, he said one of the most effectual things that could be done for improving their condition would, be to tranquilize Ireland. It was admitted on both sides the franchise was ambiguous, and it should therefore be the chief object of both sides ta define it. He had acted thus solely from a sense of duty, aed a desire that some attempt should be.. made to settle the matter on some other foundation than ;- what would be called fightine it out to the last. Mr. O'CONNELL said the Hon. Member who had spoken last had declared that he came to the consideration of this question free from any party bias, which accord ingly he (Mr. O'Connell) was bound to believe, but if to possess a desire to sustain the franchises of the Irish people was to have a party bias, he (Mr. O'Connell) ad nutted himse If to be a party man, and as such to rise with a party feeling. He wished to imitate the temper in which the Hon. Gentleman had offered his observations to the House, and he had not come down to the House dis posed to quarrel with the arrangements that had been made between the Noble Lords as to the mode of going on with businesa but he desired rather to press on the House the consideration of the obligation to determine what the franchise was or ought to be. The impression on his mind_ was very strong that he ought to try at once to pro cure from the House a declaration on this subject, and if he did not press it at the present moment it was chiefly owi :g to the dispessionate and rational observations that had been made by the. Hon. Member for Shrewsbury. and to the perfect good sense that he thought pervaded his views on the subject of the definition of the franchise, and he did hope that what had fallen from that Gentleman would sink into the minds of Hon. Gentlemen on the other side, and that they would see that it would actually amount to en absurdity to proceed with the Bill iu its present elate. [lear, hear.) It seemed to him to be. as inconsistent with c. meson sense as anything could be to proceed with the But now; for what where they going to do? To settle the mode of registration before they had determined what should he registered. 'They did not know what those forms of reeieeetien were to result in, or what they were to apply to. They ought to begin at the beginning; They ought first to ascertain what the Irish franchises were, and if they did so there would be no difficulty in forming a ?roper re gistry'. Surely there ought not to be any obj,:ction to a fair mode of ascertaining the franchise.—( Hear, hear.) - Would the House recollect for one moment that there was a Bill before it for that purpose ; and would it not be a proper and reasonable course to take up that Bill first in which there were but teo or three clauses that could occupy the time of the House at any length ? But tke whole question would arise on that Bill, and tke fran chise could be settled by it either way, when the registry would be a matter of comparatively little momeet. Wee he to be told that he threw out that suggestion to -delay the Bill ? He was told that he off ere d a vexatious oppo sition. Was there not alto vexatious hurry ? The Noble Lord opposite himself did not propose that the Bill should come into operation until 1841. What occasion was there then - to hurry it be fore the franchise was settled ? The Noble Lord would have sufficierit time to aptly himself to it nest Session, if the Bill for ascertaining the franchise were no: settled in the meantime. The Noble Lord, with his unr;valled power of debate, had t ken advsntage. of the former Bills brought in for the registration, in which he ( Mr. O'Connell) had cot:cursed. But in those Bills the f , •anelise was d, fined. If the object of this BEI were only to prevent fraud, cud if it was not intended to take away the franchise of the Irish people, the course which he suggested would be adoped, and the franchise itself be first determined. The t fleet of the present doubtful state of the franchise was not to afford facilities to the icgistry a-. large in numbers, but to limit the _constituency to a niserable minority. The constituency of Wales was rqu,l to cue-half of the consti!u .ncy of all Ireland, and one riding of York shire lhal as many voters as all Ireland. The sm:llest county in England had es many voters es the Itrizest county iu Ireland, where the population was 700.000. If they narrowed the constituency they woull almost annilii4ite it ; and when it was known that all the litigation which had taken place in Ireland arose from net hating the franchise dtfined,—if LI! V cue things were kn,wri to the El ,use, surely they would not waste their time by proceeding with the Bill until that question had ben settled. Ile would not, however, lose the benefit tf the conciliatory speech of the [lon. Meaibcr for Shrews bury ; thert fore, he wou!cl not press the instruction of which he had given notice: be would have other oppor tue:ties, end lie would not fail to take advantage of them. The [louse then went into Committee, Mr. FRESIMELD in the chair. Mr. O'CONNELL would beg of the Noble Lord to postpone the interpretation clause. It would come better in at the end of the Bill. Lord STANLEY could not consent to postpone the clause. Any amendments that might be made would be in sucl► words as wou:d interpret themselves. NIORPETH thought that the clanse would b' more in its place at the cr.d cf the B II ; however, as it was.almost the solitary instance of a clause, to which he had no uhjcetie n, he would not pros; its pAlponernent. Mr. O'CONNE :A, moved, as an amendment, that the clause le postpones'. Strangers were ordered to withdraw. No division, however, took place; and the clause was agteed to, and crdered to s - and port of the Bill. clause 3 'acing propcsed, '.Lord MORI'ETII said that clause raised the question, whether :Ley would introduce the innovation of annual re gistration.—( Hear, hear.) He was decidedly opposed to the p►iuciplc—he much preferred the present system of quarterly registration.—( Hear, hear.) There were se veral amendments he had to propose in the clause. Would it not be better to take the debate upon an early part of the clause, as if he (Lord Morpeth) succeeded, it would save much time ; and if he failed, the Committee would hare an opportunity of considering the amendments af tcr►rards. Lord STANLEY considered the principle of annual registration as an essential pa►t of the Bill; and if tho Noble Lord succeeded in obtaining quarterly registrations, it would be so inconsistent with the whole frame-work of the Bill, that he would think it a condemnation of the Bill, and would give the House no further trouble upon it.— (Cheers. ) He wished both sides of the House to under stand the question ; and if it was raised upon the present clause, or on another, it mattered not to him—he wlla satisfied. M. O'CONNELL—The principle of the Bill, then, was annual registration ; and if the Noble Lord was de feated upon it, it would be a mere waste of time to debate the amendments that were to be proposed. He would pro pose that the debate be taken upon the first word of the clause, or upon the words "in any year." Let,them come at once to the principle of the clause. Ltd STAN LEI had no choice in the matter. Ho was there to propose his clauses—to afford explanation of them—to consider and give way to reasonable amendments, and to defend his Biil against obketionable ones. He would enter into no arrangi.ment with the Ma. and. Learned Merzbcr. lie would take what course he pleased. Ho (Lord S:anley) was ready to proceed in any way the House pleased. Lord J. RUSSELL thought the debate and division ought to. be taken upan an early pait of the clause ; be cause, if it were carried, then it left it open to the Com mittee to make amendments after. He thought the pro per place for it was when it was proposed to fill up the blank with the " 20th July." The CHAIRMAN read over the clause. Where it was proposed to require twelve months residenca previous to registration, `Mr. O'CONNELL objected. Why should .there be any change from six months, as at present. The greater part of the leases in Ireland commenced in March, so that larder the Bill a man must be in occupation fifteen montl s. Nay, sometimes, if there were even a slight mistake in the notice, for nearly three years. That was not the way the voter was treated in England. Lord STANLEY would in a few words show that no injustice would be done to the Irish voter by the present Ltill; and that in reality under it be would be placed in a. better situation than the voter in England. He confessed that he could not follow the Honourable and Learned Member, nor make out how it was possible to keep a vctcr cff the registry under the Bill for fifteen months or three years.—(hear.) In the first place, he must dens , that all Irish tenures were from March. To his own knobs ledge many came into possession in Sep.. tember. The time of serving no:ices, objections, and the registration, were all the same in his Bill as in the Eng.. kit Reform Bi:l ; only the English Bill required tweivo months' occupation, while he had a proviso that any lands or property coming into the possession of any one within the twt lye months might register upon an occupation 0 six months. That was an advantage which the English voter bad not. Ile did not desire injuriously to affect the franchise, and he gave an advantage to the Irish voter, for be gave him the benefit of the time which he was over six montirs and under twelve months on the registry, while the existing law reouircd that he should be on the registry more than the twelve months. The Solicitor-Generat for Ireland, proposed a different course, and one which would he itsjurik.us to the claimant, for by his Bill the claimant should be more than twelve months on the re gistry, and he might in many cases be sixteen or seventeen mouths on it before' he was entitled to vote. As compared with the English voter, the Irish voter had an advantage by the new Bill ; and be was also placed in a better pear.. tics than that which, he held by the existing law in Ireland. The amendment would, on the contary, place the voter in auoirse position than the clause which it was proposed to alter. Mr. O'CONNELL— ter The a N b u e b tt l e e r L p o o r s d iti h o a n d t s h a n i n d b th y at tht hie Bill wou of the S o licitor-General for I , cland ; but in that the Noble Lord was mistaken, for the Bill of the Solicitor-Geteral, made the registries quarterly, would give th e c l aimant the advantage of being able to urge hi s t i t l e which sooner than he could do by the Bill of the Noble Lord, whie: made the registries annual. The Bill of the Solici tor-General tojk : way nothing, and that could not be said ref the measure viWch they were then considering. By th e Bill of the Noble Lord, a party making a mistake, no matter how unimportant, when he first urged his claim, would be unable to vote for two years and five, six, or seven months, as the case might happen. The Noble Lotd said that the objectionable provision in his Bill existed in the English Act; but what comfort was that to-Ireland? —( Hear, hear.) There was not a single mischief in the English system which the Noble Lord did not give them. while he kept b-ck its benefits. He oished the Noble Lord would give them What was good in the English Act, but would keep back what was bad in it to himself. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the Noble Lard required en occupation of twelve months in all county qualifications, whether arising from leasehold er:freehold property, and the Noble Lord said that the state of the the law in that respect was the same in England. In that, however, the Noble Lord was mistaken; the law Eng_ . land, with respect to freehold property, requiring a quali fication of only six months. The Noble Lord was, there fore, about to inflict a provision on Ireland which did apt exist in this country. North Midland Railwa - --y ........ Ditto New Sh ares York and North Alidland Railway 7l SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF TIIIS OAF. (From the Globe.) We - do not know with whom the Liverpool meeting to address the Queen•originated, but suppose they were not Whigs ; for the . -Liverpool Standard thanks them, " whoever they were ;'' ans says, " that nothing could he in be:ter taste than giving the moving of the ad dress to that distinguished Christian patriot, the Rei. IL• 111`Neile ;" and, according to the report, every thing went on well, until the Rev. Gentlethan came forward to move the third resolution, when he was ussuileJ with cries of " No Jczabel!" accompanied with yells and hooting!. This was a strange reception for an eminent Christian patriot ; and the Standardaccouats for it on the supposition that " the savages never heard a gentleman speak before." We dO not know who moved end seconded the first and second resolutions ; but if the Liverpool Standard is right, the Committee did not put their best leg foremost on the occasion. Perhaps, know ing the bad taste of their townsmen, they thought the singular eirtues and gentility of the Rev. H. M‘Neile should not be dropped a plomb among them, as being too overwhel m i n g; and therefore began with rather a coarse person, growing " fine by degrees," until they came to the unequalled refinement of the reverend gen tleman. Without, however, too closely scrutinizing the taste displayed in the arrangements of managers, tha Rev. H. M.Neile did appear, and was hissed off the stage. And there would have been an end of the matter, but for the injudicious attempts of his party to convert what ought to have been a cause for burni!iatioa into a source of triumph. (From the courier.) A correspondent at Naples, upon whose information we have reason to rely, assures us that the sulphur dis pute moy now be considered as terminated. The state of affairs was considered so s.aisfactcry, that Admiral Stoptord lied left Naples {or dta on board the Con fiance steamer. The Admiral Inzel received instructions to liberate all the Neapolitan vessels detained at Malta. Of this fact there is no doubt, and as a further confirma tion, we may state that a letter from Maltr, dated the 15th inst., mentions that the Admiral had actually ar- rived there. The Princess charlotte and Bellorophon had left. Naples, and also the Kliadamanthus. The two former were bound for Malta, but the destination of the KkadamanMus was not known. The Grenadier, French corvette, was at anchor in the Bay of Naples on the 13th inst. (From the Standard.) Of the effect of the division last night upon 'Ministers, it is scarcely necessary to speak. How often soever they may be beaten, they will adhere to office, and for our selves we thank them for their tenacity., The public mind is now in an excel!ent course of training. No day passes in which some pseudo Liberal theory is not exploded ; but the public have something still to learn ; and Conservatives, too, have something to learn ; before they take upan them the administration of the Government. It will be useless to displace the NI/big-Radicals if we are to fall to pieces among our selves in a few months, to make way for their return to power ; but we certainly will fall to pieces if more in• fl tense is cot allowed to the Conservative democracy than was allowed by former Tory Governments. Part) bonds are good things ; but it' they arc to be used a: letters, binding us to the old engagements, or the old predilections, of men who have come over to us, how respectable socver axle men may be, it will become our duty to break them again, as w•e have broken them before. We allude more particularly to the great question before the House of Lords, in which there is understood to be a difficulty arising from the obstinate adherence to some supposed pledge, given by a dis tinguished Nobleman, not a member of that assem bly. We know not when the pledge was given ; un doubtedly it was not given in public, and - therefore it cannot be held to bind a party ; nor will it bind a party who, as we have said, will not wear fetters im posed by any hand, much as they may honour it. If the pledge was given in other times, while other connec tions exisi.ed, surely it must be felt how disrespectfully the Conservatives are treated when they are called upon to hold it binding. We have, we hope, said enough— and what we have said it has been extremely painful to us to write ; but we owe a duty to the Conservative parry, and it is our duty to let the leaders of that party know, that we have not for ten years been so near " a split" as at this moment. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JUNE 25.—A Congregation was this day holden for granting degrees, &c., when the following were conferred : BACHELOR IN DIVINITY—II)n. and Rev. W. Herbert, of Merton College, Grand Compounder. ' BACHELORS IN MEDICINE—Richard M. Coley, of Queen's College; William Twynirg, Baliiol ditto ; Ed ward Wells, New ditto; Henry B. Leeson, Trinity ditto, Grand Compounder. MwsTErts OF ARTS—Richard Thompson, of Brazennose College; Charles E. Grey, ditto; Rev. Edward Marshall, Corpus Christi College; Rev. James S. Hodson, Merton College; Rev. Francis Rowden, Wadham College; Row land Michell, ditto; Rev. George W. Huntingford, New College; William Browne, Balliol College; Thomas H. Iladdan, Exeter College; Henry G. Allen, Christ Clitirch; Rev. Edward 0. Trevelyan, Corpus Christi College ; John E. Wyndham, Oriel College ; R ev . W. H. W eston , All Souls' College; Rev. Ed war d C . Sh e dd en, St. Mary ' s ; Rev. Thomas Halliwell, New Inn H a ll ; R ev . George BA3a E S L lt o o r t s t , O Fellow l A l o R w T so—f William Worceste r T h Cole om p s ge on . of Queen's College ; William L. W. Vaux, BalPol College ; James S. Sandam, St. John's College ; Henry M. Lefrov, Exeter College; Henry B. Mcrewether, St. Alban's Hall. WINDOW PEEPING.—A wag, not a hundred miles from Powis Castle, who has acquired considerable dis tinction for fun, ready wit, and smart sayings, remarked the other day, in reference to the blocking-up-window system, which had been going on at Bishop's Castle and elsewhere lately, that he supposed they were singing in mournful strains " The light of other•days." Talking of the inspector of win= doves, he said, " He is a liver upon the people's lights, but hoped his heart was good, and his pluck right."—Salopian. Journal. In the month of July, 1837, two Deal boats— viz., the Flora, Frost, master, and the Po, caTell, master, saved the captain and one of the crew of the Norwegian vessel, Der Rake Bonde, which was a wreck on the Goodwin Sands. On Thursday se'nnight the boatmen were rewarded with the sum of 20/., transmitted from the Norwegian Government, by order of his .lbjesty the King. The reward was distributed by E. Iggulden, Esq., Vice-Consul, in the Town Hall, the Mayor and Magistrates being present. Tl:e Mayer, in laudatory tetras, commended the conduct of this worthy body of men, who, when the lives of their fellow -creatures are in jeopardy, look nut to hazard and dar.ger, but fearlessly risk all to rescue from death those whom misfortune has cast upon the dreadful Goodwin Sands. PORTSMOUTH. —Rear-Admiral Sir James Alex ander Gordon, and a Commiss'on of inquiry (which have been sitting here several days), have closed their labours. The result is, of course, unknown ; but the probability is, that Southampton will be preferred for the arrival and departure of the West India steam-packets, from having a railroad and other natural advantages. Ile Vanguard, 84, Captain Sir David Dunn, will be ready to depart to the Mediterranean in about three weeks, but is to make some stay at Lisbon, previously to joining the fleet. The crew is nearly completed.—Brigh ton Gazette. ORIGINATION OF THE WORD " DUN."— Isuppose that it comes from the French word mplying a demand, or something duo; but the d t S r o:n:n e o er r e , i word is from one John Dun, a famous bailiff of the town of Li ncoln, so extremel y active and dexterous at the management of his rough business , that it became a pro verb, when a man refused to p a y his debts—wh y don't you Dun r i no give ; n ofe ou tb s him ?—that is, w hy do you not send Dun to arrest h:m. Hence it became a custom and a proverb, and is as old as the days of Henry the Seventh• But the word dun is not merely confined to demanding pa yment with importunity, but any other thing demanded in a snnilar manner.—Mirror. Yv BUONAPARTE ON THE COWARDIC E OF SUICI D E.—" Suicide is a crime the most revolting to my feelings ; nor does any reason present itself to my understanding. by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate cowardice. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortune ? True heroism consists in becoming superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge him to the combat." On another occasion, when talking on the same subject, Buonaparte observed, " If Marius had slain himself 1n the Marshes of Minturnw, he never would have stood the seventh time for consul.—Anatomy of Suicile. We have heard that Mr. Charles Kean is in treaty for Drury-laae Theatre ! Mr. Butler, it is said, is also ctriclidgte!