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EVEN , NG EDITION. CHURCH ESTABLISIEVIENTS. The Rev. H. M`NETLE delivered yesterday his fourth lecture. The Reverend Gentlemandiscussed the question of the duty of the civil ruler ir, matters of re ligions Dr. Wardlaw had argued that this duty was to have no authority at all in religion - yet the Reverend Doctor had also stated it to be the duty of the Magis trate to perform all his official functions with Christian motives and on Christian grin ciples. Now, said the Reverend Lecturer, how we lig Dr. Wardlaw distin guish between the discharge wAt the Magistrrees official duties and his ruthority ? 'Pie civil ruler ought to act upon the standard of the Bible. Whate,ver a Govern ment makes its chief aim, the n'Aple would learn to regard as their ciiirif goe.a.—(Cheers.) Now the Bible inculcate a !subordination of the temporal and the present, to the •spiritvial and eternal. Hence, a Government ghoul]. iriar"ifest a deep regard for the religious education r f people, and not merely for their secular educati o A.—(l - It,ar, hear.) But the Rev. Lecturer said he ca .ild afford to descend from the high ground of scriptural zeithAty to that of practical utility. And lie declared the Established Church to be of greater benefit than an' other—nay, than all other institutions of the country —by promoting the peace, happiness, safety. and ir npiehvernent of the people, ever in the present world. Regulations of police could only reach to the Puvals } .ment or prevention of crime ; but the Church elm . Anted principles which tender to virtue— and ce ri'ious conscientious clergyman, teaching the ',aux; and the adult within his parish, and sisiti' ig the sick, would confer greater benefit on the tour ,try than a hundred or a thousand policemen. — Ghee rs.) But Dissenters said that a National Church was. • anti-Scriptural ; that there ought to be no eompul "l7 exactions for the support of religion ; and that it s'ec uld be left to voluntary contributions. This would be all very proper if the support of religion were con ed to the truly pious ; but then it could not be so cc ofined—the whole country must be instructed—there oat be the voluntary principle on a national scale.— (h [ear, hear.) The injunction of the Bible was to " baptize " and " teach " all nations ; and the moment the Sovereign of a country was enrolled among the believers of Christianity, there was a basis for the establishment of a National Church, to diffuse Christianity through the country ; and that Church Establishment was not the religion itself—let it be recol lected—but the instrumentality for diffusing that reli gion. The Rev. Gentleman went on to argue from the Old Testament—the history of which, be said, the Apostles had declared was left as our " ensamples " and " instructor," that there was a compulsory support of the Jewish Church. He said Mr. Burnet in his lecture at Hertford had defied the proof of any penalty for the refusal of any offering to the Jewish Church. " I accept the challenge," (exclaimed Mr. M'Ncile,) and forthwith referred to a passage in 17th Leviticus, in which it was declared that any person who refused the offering should be " cut off" from his people, and be said the word translated here " cut off" was else. where (in 3I st Exodus) used, for " surely put to death," which had been by Jehovah himself (Numbers, chap. xv.) declared to bo " stoning to death by the congregation."—(Hear, hear.) If, said the Rev. Lecturer, it should be stated that this argument - would go to uphold penal laws for the refusal of Church dues, he replied, the principle of compulsory support might be adopted without the extreme punishments the penalty should be on property, not person.—(Hear, Ihear.) He proceeded to argue that there was no force in the declaration of a conscientious objectien to the Payment of Church-rates, for it would be absurd to say that any person paying taxes was responsible for all the acts of the Government—(Loud cheers) —else it might be said that he participated in what be consi dered the guilt—the suicidal guilt—of supporting such a place as Maynooth.—(Loud cheers.) The Rev. Gentleman said, however, he had no objection to Dissenters, if they sincerely believed the Church anti-Scriptural, using all constitutional methods to re move it, al he himself felt at liberty to take the same course against Maynooth, only let them not take the law into their own bands,—(Cheers.) He, in conclu sion, contended that the doctrines of the Church were essentially Scriptural, and that on points non-essential she did not rigidly insist. SUMMARY OF MR. RURNET'S LECTURE AT H . ERTFORII, ON CHURCH tSTABLVSHMENTS. While publishing con•leosed reports of Mr. M'Neil's Lectures, (and: also slf.etches of Mr. Burnet) it seems fair to give a short account of the Dissenting side of the controversy. Mr. Burnet do:livered this lecture, at the Town Hall, Hertford, to a highly respectable audience, Sir Culling Eardley Smitb, in the chair, and the propositions he laid down were--ikat Christianity was a great moral sys tem, revealed, front Heaven, and capable of universal application, diffusing its principles by the force of their cram evidence, and maintaining them by their moral power, over the minds and conduct of those whofeel its influence. These propositions he support ed 'ay Scriptural authority, and then he defined and Proved, by Ecclesiastical law, a Xational Church Es 'tablishment to be an institution dictated by the votes of the ma,ority of the community ; diffusing its prin ciples by legal sanction, and maintaining them by force of law. And in conclusion, he plainly and simply con trasted the two systems, and argued that they were irrecroncileable, and directly opposed to each other. SKETCHES OF OUR CONTROVERSIALISTS. Mr. BURNET, The Apostle of Voluntaryism, the Achilles of Dis sent,—of Nonconformist Ministers the most able, most eloquent, and most active ; of anti-Churchmen the most zealous, the most uncompromising and most persever ing ; amsng. platform orators against establishments unequalled and ,unrivalled ; in deputations to Downing Street alike unanswerable and immovable ; the Lon d.on Tavern has trembled to his triumphs, and Exeter Hall acknowledges him a hero. Nature designed him for a controversialist. He was born to be a leader of the Nonconformists. Above his brethren of the Dissenting Ministry he towers high in all the attributes of authority. Every quality of his Physical or mental constitution mark him as their champion. He seems built to stand be fore thousands. There is a massy breadth of figure ; a reflective solidity of countenance—a mild gravity. of expression—a calm contemplation about his ample" o'er-Averer forehead—a weight of determined energy i n the lower portion of his features—a quiet simplicity in his whole appearance, which are thoroughly apropriate in the representative of the descendants of Owen and Baxter. If ever a man was born for an audience he was. He addresses them with the easy confidence of a master in music, about to play on his accustomed instrument, and the chords he touches never fail to vibrate in deep res ponse. Other men attempt public speaking as an ef fort--a study—an achievement ;to hint it is a recrea tion—a positive pleasure. We never knew a speaker who in his delivery united with so much natural ease so much sustained power. His voice is without exception, of all we ever heard, the most admirably adapted for platform oratory. Its Power is not what would be characterized by the terms 16 uditess or force, yet it is a voice which never fails to send its lowest tones into every corner of the largest of halls. It is the power (so to speak) of breadth, not elevation. It is exicentrative, not diffusive. It has a level, sustained energy—a peculiar continuity and m assiveness —which, without the slightest exertion— with the most perfect ease—keeps up, through asto nishingly lengthened periods, a uniform, uninterrupted, mellow distinctness of utterance, commencing with C alm, equable tranquillity, only diversified, perhaps, for a time, by the fine tones of an exquisitely cutting sar casm, or amusing irony, with which he often sharpens to a point the closes of his sentences. And when awakened into energy by some fitting subject, or aroused into eloquence in some forcible illustration, swelling out into an imposing grandeur of declamation, all the while never losing the calmness of his concen rltion his energy risi ng rat h er w i th his sulject than his excitement, and his voice ascending gradually and lieliherately, with still unbroken continuity—more like the solem n sound of many waves, slowly rising, and it nultaneously breaki ng a l ong au extended shore, than ."' the wild roaring of their tempestuous rage, or the rapid rushing of a mighty fall. Whoever has seen Mr. Burnet rise with quiet calm ness to address eager and anxious thousands, and marked the immovable imperturbability he exhibits, must have been struck by the evidently just confidence in himself, which can only be founded on a deeply-grounded in ternal consciousness of power. And this is indeed his main characteristic. He is a striking instance of that most valuable of all mental qualities—habitual, con tinual, self-concentration—a perpetual reference to, and self-exercise of, all the faculties of mind—a thorough knowledge and practice of their powers and combina tions—and thus a constant consciousness cf their pre sence--and of their readiness to be aroused from the quiet of dormant latency, to some steady and well-di rected Kurt. Mr. Burnet's is a mind possessed in an extraordinary degree of vigour, strength, and firmness. In the warmth of earlier days, it must have ardently thrown itself into the labours of mental acquisition and discipline. It is a mind which on all the objects that fall within the range of its widely extended researches, would exercise such a force of intellectual energy as at once durably to enrich its stores, and lastingly to in crease its powers. Minds of this order will, even in the lack of many of the ordinary opportunities of acquiring knowledge, so act on, so appropriate, so assimilate all they do acquire, and thereby infuse into their mental fa culties so much of force and vigour, that they have al ways an unfailing resource in original and independent trains of thought. And when the habits of internal re flectiveness, and concentration of the mental power, have had the effect of reducing them all to the most perfect and complete subordination to the will—when the mind has formed and fixed the tendency to go within itself for the source of its power where every vigorous and well trained faculty lies, in all the accumulated strength of an advanced maturity, sustained by all the maturity of experience—it can easily be imagined that a mind so constitutes must have a rock of support, on which it will always repose in the consciousness of an intellectual might, bearing unmoved all the shocks of excitement which confound and trouble ordinary minds —calm, and not easily disturbed—as the fathomless deep on which with tranquillity the vastest vessels sleep. And this it is which gives Mr. Burnet an imposing superiority over the mass of an audience—this it is which invests him with that unruffled self-possession which defies disturbance, and from the impregnable heights of which he, with quiet ease, wields at pleasure the power, of which the constant exercise has given him the ever present consciousness, and controls the multitude he addresses with a success as complete as it is unlaboured. This facility of public speaking, then, in Mr. Bur net is quite distinct from that excited fluency which in many of the best speakers is rather the off spri-ig of their feelings than their minds. Mcn of this stamp will be influenced mainly by the nature an(' extent of the exciting impulse they arc under at the time. But minds disciplined into power by habitual mental exercise, and internal concentration, will requ're no other influence than the conviction of their judgments. This will produce a steady equality of temperament— an evenness—a tranquil uniformity of :rind—which will elevate them far above the generality of natures. In those minds, the stimulants of the feelings are with difficulty excited, and when they are, are moved by, instead of moving, the judgment, and never supersede, but assist it. And of this class of mind is Mr. Burnet's. (TO BE CONTINUED.) SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING TAPERS Oy THIS DAT. (From the Globe.) As the da? of discussion and decision in Parliament of the great national question, the ;Corn-law monopoly, approaches, its advocates and opponents are employed in marshalling their means, and strengthening their posi tion*. The fact that public opinion has, during the last year, made rapid strides toward an entire revisal of the system, with a view to a gradual or immediate aboli tion of the monopoly, is admitted by the journals hitherto the most zealous in its defence ; while the advocates of abolition refer to the crippled state of our manu factures in proof that the abolition of the prohi bitory duties on foreign corn is the only means of averting the impending ruin which threatens our com mercial interests. Those for whose protection the monopoly was pro fessedly established begin to open their eyes to the fal lacy of the pretences on which the system is made to rest ; and in several districts the farmers refuse to sub mit to the injurious deception so long practised on them by the landowners, who alone pocket the advantage (if any), wrung no less from the farmers and labourers than from the manufacturers and those in their employ. (From the Standard.) The Morning chronicle has reminded us that among the subjects of discussion which the House of Commons might properly prefer to the "privile ge question," the ‘• Peel Club of Glasgow," or the comparative merits of the " Bude lights and wax candles"--the operation of the New Poor-law Bill holds no undistinguished place. Our contemporary has discovered that the new code cannot go on in company with the Cora-laws, and so far we agree with it ; but we go a little further, for we say that the New Poor-law code cannot go in company with the British Constitution, or without. totally subverting the social state of Great Britain, such as it has been for cen turies. It is well, however, to observe in the outset that this detected incompatibility of the new Poor-law Act with the Corn-laws comes suspiciously late. When the former was under discussion the very reverse effect was predicted. The landlords were told that nothing but the new law could save their estates, the manufac turers were assured that by raising the character and stimulating the working classes the proposed innovation would render wages to them a matter of comparative indifference, while a promise of greatly increased wages was held out to the classes who must live by labour. (From the Courier.) The progress of the privilege claims may possibly ter. minate advantageously to the public by clearing away those obstructions to the discussion of questions which are important to the nation at large. The fact begins to be undeniable by the most zealous supporters of old forms, that the laws relating to that indefinite offence called libel should be corrected. It is perfectly evident that if the House of Commons choose to protect its own officers in the issue of papers, said to be intended for the advantage of the whole of society, it will be equally ne cessary to extend the like protection to all who assist in the promulgation of the documents which are deemed so advantageous that they cannot be withheld unless at a sacrifice. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took Lis seat on the Woolsack at Five o'clock. Mr. BROTHERTON and Mr. GIBSON CRAIG brought up the Bolton Small Debts, the Plate Glass Company's, the Edinburgh Gas Company's, and other private Bills. The Earl of HA DDINGTON presented a petition from the County of Argyle, praying for an alteration of the law of Church patronage. The Marquis of NORMAN BY presented a petition signed by 500 of the most opulent householders in Stepney, praying for an amendment of the law relating to Leet Juries. Also a petition from the Total Tem perance Society of Dundee, praying for an alteration of the Corn-laws. CHURCH EXTENSION.—CORN-LAWS. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from Harford, in the county of Devon, in favour of Church Extension, and petitions from the same place, and from several other places in the counties of Devon and Dorset against an alteration of the Corn-laws. CHURCH PATRONAGE (SCOTLAND.) The Duke of BUCCLEUCH presented petitions from Edinburgh, Dundee, and numerous other places, in favour of the principle of Non-intrusion. He also pre sented a petition from Dumfries, which he said was of a very different character, as the petitioners prayed the House to uphold the present ordinations of the Church of Scotland, and they complained of the course taken by the General Assembly as nothing more or less than an attempt to separate the Church from the State. Lord HOLLAND rose to present two Lundred petitions which had been entrusted to him--[The Noble Lord was here interrupted 63 , ]-- The Marquis of LONDONDERRY, who rose amidst some laughter, and upon Lord Holland's giving way, said that he w as i n t ruste d w i th a petition of very greatimportance on the same subject. It was signed by 2,000 inhabitants of Belfast, who, considering the close relationship between the north of Ireland and the people of Scotland, could not behold without regret the d:ssensions which were now rending the Church cf Scotland. The petitioners prayed for the interference of the House to conciliate the differences. Lord HOLLAND said that in the absence of his Noble Friend the Marquis of Breadalbane he had to present 200 petitions, the majority of which were in favour of the principle of non-intrusion. Some of tile s , added to that prayer complaints of the p:oceed- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH t 9, 1840. ings in the Courts of Law of Scotland, others prayed for an abrogation of the rights usurped by patrons, but at the same time expressed a wish that the patrons might be compensated for the loss of any pecuniary or other advantage which they derived from their presentations. He felt himself honoured by being entrusted with conveying to their Lordships the prayers of those petitions ; but i.e was not able to say a word as to the merits of the subject to which those petitions referred. IThe Earl of 2 ABERDEEN said the Noble Lord had used a very wide word when he described the greater part of the petitions as being in favour of the principle of non-intrusion. If any Noble Lord would take the trouble of looking in►o the petitions, he would find that scarcely two of them were alike in their prayer.--(Cries of " Hear.") So ne of them simply prayed for the abolition of the present patronage, others somewhat inconsistently recognised the rights of the patrons, and prayed for compensation ; and others, again, prayed for an arbitrary veto in the General Assembly. Lord - HOLLAND said a few words in explana ion which were inaudible IRISH MUNICIPAL REFORM. Lord FITZGERARD said he had a petition to present to their Lordships of no slight importance. When he had on a former evening given notice of his intention to present it, he by no mans wished to pro pose any controversy on the subject—but re collecting what had passed i a former year when he had presented a petition from the inhabitants of Galway praying that they might be exempted from the operation of ceitain provisions of the Municipal Re form Act. He now took the opportunity afforded by the intervals between the stages of the Bill, in order that if any Noble Lcrd were instructed to express any dissent to the prayer of the petition he might have an op portunity of doing so, and he had the honour of presenting last year a petition from the same place. Its prayer was in some respects different from the present ; but the main object was to have the town of Galway removed frem the first schedule of the Bill, which gave to the towns contained in it the option of having a Corporation or not. The Bill of last year differed from that s►nce sent up with respect to the fiscal powers of Grand Juries, which it was proposed to transfer to the Town Council, but which provision was not included in the present Bill. The town of Galway did not object to the public funds being strictly audited—whatever was • his op ion of the Bill, and however much he de sired the abolition of all exclusive Corporations— after the discussions which had taken place, he -vas so impressed with the importance of settling the luestion, that he should offer no opposition to it. The Noble Lord said he doubted not that he would be ,übjected, as others had been, to animadversion and reprobation for what was called an abandonment of tormer principles. But those principles remained un changed, and he was convinced that he was, never ,beless, taking the right course in not adhering with stubborn obstinacy to one course. The in habitants of the town of Galway had instructed their Representatives in the House of Commons to move that it be omitted from Schedule A. Ind those representatives had, in accordance with this ;nstruction, strenuously supported its object. Yet those Members were among the steadiest and most stedfast supporters of the present Government. This showed ,hat it was no party effort. The petition which he had aow to prcs - mt stated that under the 5 and 6 Will. IV. he fords of the town had been provided for, and that 'he administration of justice, and the appointment of Sheriffs, had also been arranged by previous enactments. They thereore payed that the town might not be bur leacd with a corporation—bringing along with it officers r.o be paid by the burgesses—and that the town might be placed in Schedule B. The Marqu's of NORNIANBY could bear a willing testimony to the highest respectability of the peCtioners, at the same time be had a petition not exactly in oppo sition to—but not in accordance with, theirs—for :t prayed that there might be certain alterations .n the provisions of the Bill, but did not oppose the in sertion of Galway in schedule A. Lord FITZGERALD said the petition he presented comprised the names of individuals who paid nineteen twentieths of the whole town rating.—(Hear, hear.) Lord GLENGALL presented a petition from Clon well, signed, as he would testify, by three-fourths of the rate-payers, and a large majority of the most respectable inhabitants of the town, against its inclusion in the Bill. MUNICIPA.L REFORM (IRELAND). The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented petitions from the city and county of Londonderry lgainst the Irish Reform Bid, which he gave notice he would bring under the consideration of the House on the 26th instant, when he would put que tions to the Noble Marquis opposite (Lord Mormanby) for the purpose of ascertaining whether it was the intention of the Government to adhere to the declara- :ion made by the Noble Marquis i❑ May last. Lord LURGAN presented a petition from Belfast n favour of non-intrusion in the Church of Scotland. The Marquis of BUTS presented a petition from Abercorn, and several other places in Scotland, against the intrusion of Ministers. VACCINATION BILL. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, the Report on the Vaccination Bill was received. The Marquis of NORMAN BY and Lord ELLEN• BOROUGH intimated they had made some slight alteration in it. METROPOLITAN POLICE DISTRICTS. The Marquis of NORMAN BY presented a Bill for the better defining the pcwer of the Justices in the Metropolitan police districts was read a first time, and ordered to be printed ; and read a second time on Monday. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved for the dis• charge of the Order for the second reading of the 8.11 for the Administration of Justice until next week. The House then adjourned at Six o'Clock. SCOTCH CHURCH PATRONAGE. The following are the places from whence petitions were presented by Lord Holland, (in the absence of his Noble Friend the Marquis of B e.tdalbane), in favour of Non-intrusion from Dryfesdale, Melrose, Forglen, Campbelitown, Killearnan, Kinfauns, Kinrws, Kirtle, Abergaldy, Lochee, Collace, Kinclauen, Gir then, Anstruther Wester, Stirling, Moffat, Thurso, Marnoch, mirth, Morridie, Glenisla, Linbrabin, Pr( s tonpans. Cupar. Angus, Cleish, Lunan, Leuchars, Bre chin, Dron, Greenlaw, Wich, Eastwood, Blairgowrie, Cargill, Rhynd, Plochton, Stornaway, Torryburn, Kilmuir Wester and Suady, Glenlyon, Ardnamurchan, Glassery, Trinity Gash, Forteviot, Fearo, Newspeynie, Banton, Ravyne, Meigle, Glcndovan, Maghera, Perth, Lochgilphead, Duthil, Tinwald, Echford, Duntocher, Kilbrandon, Castledtwson, Brechin. Ruthwell, Balqu bidder, Annan, Kilmalie, 'Farhat, Bridehich, Kiri , hill, Newton Stewart and Penninghamc, Heriot, Glenorchy and Inishiel, Dartmore, Falkirk, Pettinweem, Milton of Balgowie, Lorne, Lethendy and Kinloch, Turriff, Kirk aldy, Halfmorton, Dunfermline, Ardenoig, Lawcrs Breadalbane, Troqueer, Larbert, Dunipace, Monitnali, Logic Easter, Elrig, Saint Peter's of Dundee, Logic almond, East Kilbride, Aberdeen, Lybstcr, Dumbaing, Birnie, Caithness, Barry, Fintry, Catnpsie, Inbermory, Strath Kinness, Dumfries, Kilmuir Easter, Rattray, Reay, North Knapdale, Elgin, Portree, Invertiel, Gar vald Caputh, Tenandry, Mordington, Bernera, Dun keld, Craig, Rothiemay, Balnahine, Glenelg, Logic, Chapelshade, Inverkeillor, Dalton, Speymouth, Forgan denny, Durinish, Killchrenan and Dallavich, Urray, Strathfillan, Fearn, Kilehoman, Darsie, Kirkpatrick Fleming, Dingwall, Kilmuir, Stanley, Strontian, Perth, Kembach, Roscobie, Cockenzie, Coekburnspath, Cul ross, Milnathort, Prestonkirk, St. Mungo, Irongray, 'cundergarth, Renton, Innerwick,, Gash, Kilspendie, Rosallisc Oban, Sprouston, Coutin, Kilsyth, Dunbar, Tain, Keis Portnahasen, Tillicoultry, Stow, B:in nockburn, Denny, Bernedale, Crieff, Torphichen, Uist- Soutlinapdale, Bowes, Burntisland, Abeniyte, Rotbes, Anwoth, St, Andrews, Banff, Watten, Knoch, Ben dochy, Kelso, Fortwilliam, Eassay and Nevay, Kin goldrum, Newtyle, Kilcalmonell, Borth Kennar, Kirk, ally, Ncwthornc, Kirkmichael, Abernethy, Scoonie, Cambernauti, Allot, Killin, Chinnie, Beath. Fodderty, Bruen, Legerwood, Duriblane, Dundee, Kennon ay, Marnoch, Loehbrootn. Dingwall. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from the Parliamentary Trustees for the improvement of the na vigation of the river Clyde, praying for an enlargement of the harbour at Glasgow. Also a petition from the Merchants' House of Glasgow in favour of the Glasgow Poo'-rate Bill. Colonel LYGO N presented a petition from Worces ter against the Birmingham Cacal Bill. Mr. WILLIAMS presented a similar petition from Coventry. BOLTON SMALL DEBTS BILL. On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON the Bolton Small Debts Bill was read a third time and passed. Sir C. DOUGLAS presented a petition from the Birmingham Canal Navigation Company -, agai ns t th e Birmingham Canal Junction Bill. THAMES PLATE GLASS COMPANY. On the Motion of Mr. BENJAMIN WOOD the Thames Plate Glass Company Bill was read a third time and passed. PORTSMOUTH FLOATING BRIDGE. On the motion of Sir GEORGE STAUNTON the Portsmouth Floating Bridge Bill was read a sc cond time and ordered to be committed. Mr. MILNES presented petitions from two parishes in the West Riding of Yorkshire in favour of Church Extension. BRITISH LEGION. Sir DE LACY EVANS rose to present a peti tion from 200 officers of the late British legion. T Hon. and Gallant Member observed that he would not trouble the House with entering into a detail of the statements in the petition, but if the House would allow him, he wished to make two or three observa tions.—(Cries of " Chair, chair.") He threw him self entirely on the indolgence of the House.—(Cries of " Go on, go on.") He wished to correct an erro neous impression that had gone abroad, that h had entered into a contract with the Spanish Govern ment for the pay of the petitioners and the men of the Legion. That was entirely a mistake. Neither he nor any other person entered into any contract with the Spanish Government, but merely agreed to certain conditions, as any other Government would do. He had catered that service, as any other soldier would have done, entirely upon his own judgment ; yet having had the . command of th e f orce , an d b e i ng t h e on ly Member of that force i n t h e H ouse, h e was placed in a peculiar position, and h e t h ere f ore w i she d to ma k e an o bservation or two. The SPEAKER said the Hon, Member ought to confine himself to the statements of the petition. If he confined himself to anything - strictly personal to himself, the House probably would grant its indul gence.—( Hear, hear.) Sir DE LACY EVANS—The observations he was about to snake were strictly personal to himself. Of course he felt the utmost anxiety to further the settle ment of the claim s of the petitioners ; but so long as the success of the constitutional cause remained in doubt, and until the sum due was ascertained, he felt that he had no right to bring the case before the House ; but as that cause was now safe, and as the sum was ascertained to be 280,000/., he considered that—(Cries of " Order, order.") He was anxious to abstain from going into details, but he would call the attention of the House to the petition after Easter—expressing a hope that b e f ore t h at t i me—( C r i es of " O r d er , order.") The petition was laid on the table. Mr. A. CHAPI,IAN presented a petition from Whitby, in favour of Church Extension. Siatilar petitions were presented by Mr. HAL FORD, from two parishes in the county of Leicester. Sir C. LEMON presented seven petitions from parishes in the county of Cornwall, praying that no alteration might be made in the Corn-laws. Similar petitions were presented by Mr. ComrroN and Lord WoasLEY, from several places in Linconshire. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from St. George's parish in Glasgow, praying that in any legis lative enactment respecting the Scottish Church, the principle of the Veto Act, as it was called, might not be recognised. Also, similar petitions from a parish in Lanarkshire and the county of Argyle. Colonel I'ERCEVA L presented a petition, signed by the High Sheriff, Grand Jury, and all the respecta bility of the county of Sligo, praying for the establish ment of an impartial system of railways in Ireland. Mr. R. CURRIE presented a petition from the in habitants of Long-Buckby, Northamptonshire, for the suppression of Ecclesiastical Courts, relief from Church rates, and the discharge of J. Thorogood. Also a pe tition for the same object, from the Baptist Congrega tion of the same place. Mr. A'COURT HOLMES presented a petition from the Isle of Wight in favour of Church Extension. Mr. JOHN FIELDEN presented petitions from Oldham and other places in Lancashire, praying for the total abolition of the Corn-laws : also a petition from Blackburn, praying for Universal Suffrage, Annual Parliaments, and Vote by Ballot. Mr. PUSEY presented petitions from thirty-two parishes in Berkshire, in favour of the Corn-laws. Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN presented a petition from Cornwall for the immediate and total repeal of the Corn•laws. Sir G. STAUNTON presented a petition from Buckinghamshire, praying the House to adopt mea sures for the suppression of the opium trade with China Mr. M'KINNON presented a petition from Lyming too in favour of Church Extension. Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition from Canada against any alienation of the Church property in that col ny. Mr. SAN FORD presented a' petition from a parish in the county of Suffolk, praying for inquiry into the operation of the Corn-laws. Also a petition from the members of the church and congregation of Shepherd's Market, praying for inquiry into the state of Church Es tablishments. An HC N. MEMBER presented a petition from Suf folk, signed by 4,831 persons, for the repeal of the:Corn laws. DIVORCE BILLS. Sir GEORGE GREY moved to amend the Stand ing Order on Divorce Bills, in conformity with the provisions of the Act 1 Geo. IV. c. 101, relating to India, and also the following resolution—" That in all cases in which the petitioner for the Bill has attended the House of Lords upon the second reading of the Bill, he be required to attend also to answer any questions the Select Committee may think fit to require that he should answer." Mr. HU ME expressed his regret that the Govern ment had not thought it their duty to consider what means could be adopted to prevent that House being made a tribunal for such purposes. Mr. FRESHFIELD presented a petition from the Clergy and Charch„ardons of Falmouth, praying for Church Extension. Colonel RUSHBROOK presented a petition from Worthington, in the county of Suffolk, praying for the repeal of the Corn-laws. An 110 N. MEMBER presented a petition from four parishes in Norfolk against any alteration in the Corn laws. Sir F. TRENCH presented a Petition in favour of Medical Reform. Lord TEIGNMOUTH presented a petition from certain bakers of London against Sunday Trading in the Metropolis. Mr. HUME presented two petitions praying for the release of John Thorogood, and the abolition of Church-rates, one from Stoney-Stratford, and the other from a place in Northamptonshire ; also six petitions from Glasgow, Ayrbridge, Irons a parish in Fifeshire, from the U n i versal Su ff rage Associa tion of Lanark, s;gned by 5,000 persons, and from two other places, praying for extension of the suf . - rage, and no -property quali fi cation ; also eight peti tions from Bradford, and various places in Lancashire, Dumfriesshire and Chester, praying for the abolition of the Corn-laws. Lord SANDON presented a petition from the Mi nisters and Elders of the Scottish Church in Liverpool. praying that the Legislature might settle the question ( f Non-i ntrusion. Mr. BAINES presented a petition from a place in the West-riding of Yorkshire signed by 700 persons, praying for on abolition of the Corn-laws. Mr. FOX MAULE presented a petition from a place in Nova-Scotia, complaining of the state of reli gious destitution in our North Amcr:can Co!onies, and praying the attention of the House to the subject On the motion of Mr. G. CRAIG the Arbroath and Forfar Railway Bill was read a third time and passed. On the motion of the same Hon. Member, the Lords' amendments to the Edinburgh Gas Bill were agreed to. Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from Glas gow against the Glasgow Poor-rate B;11. Ttic ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented a peti tion from the Chamber of Commerce of Edinburgh praying for a total repeal of the Corn-laws. CHINA. Sir J. GRAHAM gave notice that on the 2d of April he would make a motion with regard to China. The precise terms of the motion he would take care to state early next week. The CHANCELLOR of . the EXCHEQUER — They have bepri presented.—(A laugh.) Sir R. PEEL—But have they been printed? The CHANCELLOR o f the EXCHEQUER be lieved not. PATENTS. Sir R. PEEL also wished to know whether the papers for which he had moved respecting the decisions of the Committee of Privy Council on Patents had been presented. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the papers would be laid before the House as soon as possible. CHINA. Sir JAMES GRAHAM, seeing the Noble Lord the Secretary for Foreign Affairs in his place, wished to ask him two questions. The first question was with respect to opium. It appeared that a certain quantity of opium had been delivered by the Superintendent at Canton, under certificate. There was reason to believe that a further quantity of opium had been purchased by the Superintendent, and had been delivered up by the Chinese authorities, in order to make up the quantity mentioned in the certiii care : no such transaction appeared from the papers which had been laid upon the table. He wished to ask the Noble Lord whether such a transaction had taken place, and if there would be any objection to produce the papers relating thereto. The second question lie wished to ask related to the supposed destruction of the opium surrendered to, and destroyed by, the Chinese authorities. From those papers it did not appear that the destruction of the opium had taken place; the only mention made of it seemed to shew that it had been transmitted to Pekin for the use of the Chinese Government. He asked the Noble Lord whether he had any other information upon the subject, showing that it had been destroyed or so sent to Pekin, and if so, whether there would be any objection to its production. Lord PALMERSTON said, with respect to the first question, what happened was this—the parties in Canton having agreed to deliver up the opium in their or their agents' hands, each house made out a statement of the quantity they had in China, and the aggregate amount was given to the Chinese Commissioner. One of the ships containing the opium disobeyed the orders of the Superintendent, and sailed away ; the conse quence was, that there was a deficiency to the amount that ship contained. Captain Elliot purchased a quantity which bad subsequently arrived, in order to make up the aggregate quantity. He was not aware that there were any other papers in the office, but it there were, of course they would be produced. With re gard to the destruction of the opium, he had no other accounts than those contained in the papers which had been presented. Of course he had seen accounts in the newspapers, but he knew nothing farther officially than that contained in the papers. Sir JAMES GRAHAM saw by the instructions to the Superintendent in 1833, reference was made to an Order in Council for regulating the trade with the port of China. He wished to ask the Noble Lord if he had any objection to the production of that Order in Council. His second question was whether the Noble Lord had received and wss ready to produce the remonstrance said to have been made by certain American merchants at Cat)t)n against the b&ockade? Lord PALMERSTON said, with respect to these papers, he produced everything that appeared to him oecetsary to elucidate the matter, and he had not the east objection to the production of these to which the Right lion. Baronet alluded. With regard to the second question, he had not received any report of the remonstrance said to have been made by the Ameri can merchants at Canton. THE BRITISH LEGION. Sir DE LACY EVANS gave notice, that soon after Easter he would call the attention of the House to the claims of the British Legion. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH PRUSSIA. Mr. WODEHOUSE gave notice that on Tuesday he would move for the production of papers containing the negotiations respecting the Prussian Commercia League. THE CHURCH. Mr. lIUME gave notice that on Tuesday next he would move for the following returns :—Of the number of non-resident incumbents through England and Walns ; also of the curates in each diocese, with the atr.ount of their incomes ; also of the incumbents admitted by the presentation of the Crown, distinguish ing those of the Lord Chancellor and of the First Lord of the Treasury, and of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with the dates in each case of the entry and of the admission into holy orders, and the amount of the living ; also the aggregate period for which each person acually performed duty since admission. CARRIAGE OF BAGGAGE. The lioN. MEMBER also gave notice of a motion for returns of proceedings at the Horse Guards, relative to the carriage of military baggage. UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW. Mr. WALLACE gave notice of a motion for re turns respecting the absence of certain officers of the University of Glasgow.—(Laughter.) THE CHURCH AND VOLUNTARYISM. Mr. HINDLEY gave notice eof a motion for several returns relative to the number of places of worship in I each parish in England and Wales, whether connected I • 1 the Establishe d Church ( an d distinguishing among them those which were supported by the voluntary principle), or whether connected with Protestant Dis senters—stating also the numbers of sittings in each class. Sir HUSSEY VIVIAN said that on Tuesday night, in replying to a qUestion from the Hon. and Gallant Member for Sussex, he had stated th a t t h e d elay in placing the Report of the Naval and Military Commis_ sion before the House arose from the lamented illness of the Duke of Wellington. He had since as certained that that • statement was wrong, f or he had found that the report sent to the Duke of We', lington was returned within 24 hours—(Hear, hear, from the Opposition) — a nd that th e d e l ay had arisen in consequence of the Secretary being unable, from his numerous and laborious duties, to prepare the do cuments for the press. He had seen the Secretary that day, and he understood they would be ready within a fortnight.—( Hear.) _ _ POST-OFFICE. Sir It. PEEL wished to know from the Chancellor of the Exchequer when the papers, for which he had moved, relative to the Post-Ace, would be laid before the House? PREPARATIONS AGAINST CHINA. Mr. JOHN A. SMITH said the Naval and Mili tary Preparations going on in India being now matter of public notoriety, and as great anxiety existed on the subject. he wished to ask the Noble Lord whether he had any objection to, state the object of the ex pedition, and when it was likely to take place ? Llal J. RUSSELL said in answer to the Hon. Gentleman's question, he begged to refer him to the answer he had given on a former occasion to a question put to him by alloble Lord on the other side of the House. He had then been asked whether a declaration of war had not been made by the Governor-General of India against China, and his reply was that the Government had received no official information on the sub ject, and could not believe that report to be well founded, but that it probably arose from the order sent out by the Government to make certain prepara tions. What he had then stated had turned out to be the fact, as had been proved by the recent arrival of official despatches. The orders sent out were to make preparations to have a certain naval and military force in readiness. The Honourable Gentleman now asked him what was the abject of these preparatons, and he could only state very gene rally what they were. In the first place they were to obtain reparation for the insults and in juries offered to her Majesty's Superintendent, and her Majesty's subjects, by the Chinese Go vernment ; and, in the second place, they were to obtain for the merchants trading with China an indem nification for the loss of their property, incurred by threats of violence offered by persons under the direction of the Chinese Government ; and, in the last place, they were to obtain a certain security that per sons and property in future trading with China shall be protected from insult or injury, and that their trade and commerce would be_ maintained upon a proper footing. HILL COOLIES. Mr. MACKINNON begged to ask the Nobie Lord whether it was the intention of her Majesty's Go vernment to allow the importation of Hill Coolies into the Mauritius and the West India Islands, or whether he had any objection to the production of the des patches addressed to the Governors of the \Vest India Hands. Lord J. RUSSELL said he had no objection to the production of the instructions sent out ; they were ready ; and if the Hoa. Member moved for them, Le could obtain the information he desired. PETITION OF WILLIAM JOSEPH AND JOHN WORKMAN. An HON. MEMBER wished to ask the Hon. Member for Finsbury if it was his intention to call the attention of the House during the evening to the petition of Wil ham Joseph and John Workman, according to the no. tice he had given. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE said that he intended to postpone * the consideration of the notice of motion which he had given. PORTUGUESE CLAIMS. Lord SANDON wished to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Foreign Department if there was any intelligence from Portugal which might show that the case of the Portuguese claimants would be settled at an early period ? Lord PALMERSTON said that he had lately appointed a Gentleman to become a Member of the Commission who had to decide on the subject, but that Gentleman had declined the office, and he had not yet been able to appoint any one to replace him. Lord SANDON said he hoped that the Commis sioner in question might soon be appointed, and that the interests or the claimants might not he trifled with. Lord PALMERSTON said that the first appoint ment he had made was a bona fide one. Lord SANDON wished that the Noble Lord mighi fix a time within which he could complete the corm mission. Lord PALMERSTON said that it rras impossib'e for him to fix a day for the purpose, but he could assule the Noble Lord that he was in earnest on the subject. —( A laugh.) POSTPONEMENT OF MOTION. Mr. GOULBO URN said that it appeared that the Hon. Member for Finsbury did not intend to bring forward his motion regarding the petition of William Joseph and John Workman, presented on the 13th March last, although that petition had been ordered to be printed with the Votes of the House. The petition cotained serious charges against Magistrates and other parties in Sussex, and he (Mr. Duncombe) thought that this should prove to Hon. Members how cautious they should be in ordering petitions to be printed which were not to come under the consideration of the House. STEAM NAVIGATION. Sir T. COCHRANE wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite, the President of the Board of Trade, when he intended to proceed with the Bill re lative to Steam Navigation. Mr. LABOUCHERE said that there were a great many difficulties in that measure which had necessarily ied to its delay ; but he was in hopes of proceeding with it shortly. STADE DUTIES. Mr. HUTT presented a petition from Hull in favour of the motion he was about to make relative to the Stade Duties. _ _ The HON. MEMBER then rose to bring forward the motion of which he had given notice, namely, " That it is the opinion of this House that the tolls now levied upon British ships and cargoes in the river Elbe, by the authority of the King of Hanover, under the name of Stade Duties, are of doubtful legality, oppressed in amount, and highly vexatious in the mode of ex action ; and that it is therefore incumbent upon her Majesty's Government to take the steps necessary for procuring relief from imposts so injurious to the general interests of the country:' The subject was one of con siderable importance, and, so much expectation existed as to the result of the debate upon it that he confessed he wished it had been introduced by some Gentleman who was more in the habit of addressing the House. But he trusted he should have the good fortune to secure from the House that degree of atten tion for the statement which it would be his duty to sub mit, that a subject of such importance to every person connected with our manufactures and commerce merited It was also a subject of importance as regardedourin fluencc among foreign nations, without which neither maintain their trade nor our manufactures would long their superiority. H e complained that the Hanover had been in the habit of levyi ng on Kingßri tish ships and cargoes navigating the Elbe cer tain dues and charges to which he was not either by law or by treaty entitled, and that he was Information has been received by the police of the metropolis that a paper parcel containing 3101. in notes of the Cumberland Union, and other provincial an bks, and 339 sovereigns, directed to " John Wa llis, Esq., Whitehaven,' , was lost or stolen between Cockermouth and the Pack Horse Inn, Lowther-street, Whitehaven. A reward of 1001. has been offered for the recovery of the property, or information re specting it. REV. DOCTORS—Day, Hinds, Geble. REV. MESSRS.—John F. Coles ' 8.D., P. J. Bony woed, Charles Marty n , Th omas Haverfield, G. Clark, Thomas Randolph, J. T. Wilgress, F. Martin, J. Page Wood, R. C. Packman, T. S. Hughes, Charles Lacy, W. Pegus, T. Gregory, W. S. Rowe, C. Baup, H. W. Masters, J. Berudos, N. G. Schermers, W. F. Vance, P.. Gilbert, T. Jones, J. Surtees, R. Fitzgibbon. SERGEANT-AT.LAW—Wrangham. DocTons—Boisragon, Forbes, Field, Wm. Marsden, T. G. Balfour, W. Rae, R.N., Filkin, Hendley, H. Weatherhead. ALDERMEN—Harmer, T. Wood, Marshall, Lilly, Evans, Cullen, Keen, J. P. Swanwick. MESSIEURS-John Nightingale, Simkinson, Q. C , Whitemarsb, Q. C., Wilbraham Taylor, Hope, M. P., Augustus William Gadsden, Albert William Woods, Charles Russell, Ewart, M. P., Edmund Lionel W e ll s , Weymouth, George Robert Smith, M. P., John Phillpotts, M. p., George William Wood, M.P., Whitworth Russell, , F res hfield, M.P. Tatton Egerton, Byron, Balfour, of Pilrig, Cornwall Legh, Mundy, Jelf, G. Byng, Charles Kemeys Tynte, William Williams, M.P., Francis Bailey, Charles Graham, Tulk, Lacon, Bence, Thomas James Thompson, Butt, Hodges, M. P., Helbert Helbert, Wood - gate, 13Iewitt, M.P., David Mowbray Walker, Craven Berkeley, Annesley, Henry Berkeley, James, Watford, John Hare, N. F. Schermers, Matthey, Sheppard, M. F, Charles Bruce, Crawford, M.P., Edward Wilson, Bramp ton Gurdon, Harman Visger, Hopkinson, O'Connor Don, David Pollock, Q. C., Richard Thursfield, Milnes Gas kell, M.P., Standish, David Salomons, George Grote, William Crawford, George Selson, James Pattison, Joseph Robinson, George Bracher, Edward Wilson, John Tra vers, John Davies, J. May, Thomas Abbott Green, Henry Marshall, Arthur Pott, Hodgson, M. P., Chichester, M.P., Russell Ellice, MiGwire, John Hudson, Pollen, Edward Chetham, Brande, Robert Heywood, Dean, A'Court Holmes, Powys, John Brocklehurst, M .P., Gurdon Rebow, Townshend Main. waring. James Pcard Ley, Christopher Thomas Tower, Thomas Morgan Gepp, Disney, Heyward John St. Leger, Hockley F. Wood, Thomas Jackson, T. Wardle, Robert Williams, M. P., French, Broth erton, M. P., Hutchins, ct . mpelling th e d ayment o f hi s unjust demands by many circumstances of oppression, and in a manner highly derogatory to our national honour. It was not his in tention to deny that the King of Hanover had a tight to buy the tolls, unhappily for the interests of Commerce, he (Mr. II.) was compelled to admit that he had a right to levy those tolls, but he was push ing that right to a most extravagant and illegal excess, and was compelling obedience to his mandates in a man nor which neither our national interest or national honour would allow us tosanction. It was not his intention to make any personal attack on the reigning King of Hanover. The character and political opinions of that Prince were in no way necessarily mixed up with this subject —nay more, he would say he bed little doubt that the King of Hanover, in exacting those tolls, was merely exercising his undoubted rights, inasmuch as he was only continuing a practice that had been handed down to him by hls immediate predecessor. The circumstances under which the Hanoverian family obtained a right to levy a toll at Stade, formed a necessary part of his state ment, and they were full of instruction to foreign nation-3. The Stade duties were of some antiquity, they grew up among the early Emperors of German, under their sanction. In 1648 the town of Stade, together with other territories, were ceded to the King of Sweden. The King of Sweden excrcisad the customary privilege of collecting a toll at Stade upon all ships and cargoes proceeding up the Elbe, the flat' of Hanover being alone exempted. In consequence of disputes which arose in the col lection of these tolls between Sweden and Hanover, a con vention was appointed for the purpose of settling the mat ter between them. That Convention assembled in 1691. A treaty was drawn up with the sanction of both parties, which, after reciting the exemption of Hanover, ent on in a clear and explicit manner to lay down the mode in which other ships and cargoes should pay the duty. In 1692 a tariff was drawn up with the sanction of those two States, which was afterwards incorporated in the treaty, and the two documents were in the course of the same year signed officially. Almost all articles of Commerce were rated at 1-16th per cent., according to the real value as it appeared by the invoices of the goods. To this was added various provisions for the protection of Commerce and the King of Sweden, as Lord of the Stade, bound himself not to alter or increase the duties. In 1715 the Stade was ceded to George the First, as part of his electoral dominioos, in considerittion of the sum of 150,000/. paid by the British nation, and of certain acts of hostility committed against Sweden. The sacrifices were a good deal complained of at the time, but the Minister of the day justified himself by stating the great importance of obtaining the Stade for the promo tion of the British trade. Of course the Elector of Hanover took possession of the country bound by all its obliga tions, and amongst them the Stade duties, against which he did not paote;t. Under these circumstances the power of levying the dues at the Stade was transferred to the Hanoverian family. In 1736 George 11. in consideration of his obligations to the British nation, modified in a great degree the manner in which the tolls were to be paid by British and Irish vessels ; and again in 1740, he went further, and gave up his right to levy the toll, but which continued only for a time. In 1804 the French took possession of the North of Germany, and then the duties at the Stade ceased. In 1814, the French were driven out of possession, and the dut:cs were restored under circumstances of very considerable aggravation. One of the first objects to which their attention had been directed, had been the intercommunication between the several States by means of the navigable rivers ; and the grounds had then been laid down of the great principles which for the future were to regulate the question of river navigation, and on which all future negociations on that subject were to be based. The principles were of the most salutary character, and were expressed in language as clear as legislation had ever employed. They had been received throughout Europe with the greatest feelings of satisfaction, more parcularly had they been received with the utmost satisfaction throughout Germany. 'rho enlightened men of that county thought with delight that the noble rivers of the Fatherland were about to be made the medium of commercial intercourse, and consequently civilization. They hoped the time had at length arrived when these magnificent streams should no longer be closed at the will of every petty arbitrary power which might choose to exercise its authority. But this pleasing dream was fated to be disappointed. The Congress of Vienna had decided on the general principle, but the details were left to be regulated by a Convention of repre sentatives from the States more immediately con cerned in the river navigation. This Conven tion met at Dresden, in the year 1819, and consisted of representatives from Austria, Prussia, Saxony, Hanover, Denmark, Mecklenburgh, and Hamburgh. There had been no document published officially by that Convention, but a full account of the proceedings had been published by a learned German lawyer, who had access to all the documents, and he hoped the House would permit him to refer to that publication. The object of the Convention of Dresden was to carry into effect the principles laid down by the Con gress of Vienna. Hamburg had declared in accordance with those principles, at the very firtt sitting of the Con vention, her willinones to give up all taxation on the navi gation of the Elbe. On the 9th June, however, the Minister representing the State of Hanover astonished the meeting of the States by claiming for the Stade Duties an exemption front the considera tion of the meeting, on the plea that these duties were a tea tax, and did not fall within the sphere of the inquiry. The President of the Assembly protested against this objection, yet, whenever the subject of the Stade duties was brought forward, this miserable quibble was resorted to, and although it was afterwards given up.—(Here the impatience of the House became so great that the Speaker was obliged to interfere for the restoration of ordar.) The Honourable Member continued he was afraid that these were dry and uninteresting details.—(Loud cheers.) He wished it had been in h s power to have rendered this subject otherwise ; but it was necessary in the making of any s•a'ement on this subject to explain the whole ques tion, and he therefore trusted the House would extend its indulgence to him for a short time.—(Cheers.) Denmark and Hamburg protested against the with drawal of documents of so much importance, and at last a resolution was come to which constituted the 13th article of the Convention of Dresden, by which the Stade duties remained untouched. Having said this much he thought he should have very little dffiiculty in proving the justice of the charges he had been making against the Crown of Hanover. Up to the year 18:29 the Tariff for the purpose of protecting the Navigation of the Swedish rivers was a secret tariff. The answer of the Court of Hanover was—" You don't know what it is, and we don't intend to tell you." Last year, however, the Noble Lord obtained a copy of the document, and it appeared that it had no resemblance whatever to the tariff submitted to the Convention of Dresden—it bore no resemblance to that establishment in 1632, or if it bore any it was that of a hideous caricature. In the firs' place, it was ten times the amount.---(Hear, hear.) I❑ the second place all the provisions and regulations for the protection of commerce had been struck out. In the third place there was so much ambiguity in the cording, and so large a discretion left to the collecting officers, that the Stade Tariff might sanction any abuses or exactions. To give the House an instance, it appeared that goods shipped as " bales," were liable to pay double the amount of duty as if they had been entered under another denomination. English horses, of which a large number were exported, were liable to a duty sixteen times the amount of that imposed on horses of any other country. In short, the whole system was one of usurpation and injustice. These were not merely his opinions, but they were those of the autho rities at Denmark and Hamburg, whose interests were averse to the continuance of these duties. He would read to the House the statement of the Niinisters of Denmark, when their attention had been turned to the subject in the year 1835. The Hon. Member here read the document in question, in which it was stated, that the taxes levied in Hamburgh were unjust and oppressive, and were little better than a renewal of the Club law of former times. (LEFT SPEAKING.) CATTERSALL'S -THIS EVENING. THE DERBY. 13 to 1 agst Angelica colt 16 to 1 agst Confederate—taken 16 to 1 agst Theon 20 to 1 agst Launcelot 20 to 1 agst Gambia—taken j 23 to 1 agst Bokhara 30 to 1 agst Monops, 30 to 1 agst Waraan—taken 30 to 1 agst Chameau 33 to 1 agst Melody—taken. 40 to 1 agst Black Bess—taken 40 to 1 agst Torres Vedras 50 to I agst Grey Milton—taken 50 to 1 agst Diplomatist—taken 1000 to 1 agst Dreidnought—taken. 1000 to 10 agst Refresher —taken. 1000 to 10 agst Janns—taken 1000 to 15 agst 31olineux—taken 1000 to 15 agst 'Morgan Rattler—taken 1000 to 20 agst Assassin TILE OAKS. 7 to 2 agst Crucifix 8 to 1 agst Black Bess—taken 8 to 1 agst Lalla Rookh—taken 12, to 1 agst Filly out of Rowton's darn TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Crucifix—taken 6 to 1 agst Wardan 7 to 1 agst Angelica colt—taken to 1 agst Angelica winning 2000 Gs. Stakes and Derby— taken, Very little doing. EVENI G EDITION 4. - HER :MAJESTY'S LEVEE. s.a. The Queen held a Levee yesterday afternoon atmS;....- James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, a ft tended by their Suite, arrived from Buckingham Palace, escorted by a party of the Royal Regiment or noise guards. In waiting were the Mistress of the Robes, the Dowager Lady Lyttelton, Lady of the Bedchamber in Waiting, Earl of Mogan, Lord in Waiting, and Lord Robert Grosvenor, Groom of the Stole to Prince Albert, Hon. William Cowper, Groom in Waiting. Colonel Wemyss, Equerry in Waiting, Colonel Wylde, Equerry to Prince Albert, Mr. Seymour, Groom of the Bedchamber to Prince Albert, aid Master Chi chester and .thister Byng, Pages of Honour in Waiting on the Queen. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge was pre sent at the Levee. Her AlAjesty gave audiences in the Royal Closet before the Levee to the following Foreign Ministers to deliver Letters : Count de Mandelsloh, Envoy Extraordinary and Mi nister Plenipotentiary from the King of Wurtembc..rg. B.iron de Cetto, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary horn the King of Bavaria. Baron Munchhausun, Envoy Extraordinary aed Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Hanover. General Alava, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Pie nipotcliti,ry from the Queen Regent of Spain. Their Excellencies were respectively introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 13 , her Majesty's Principal Secretary of Static for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, Master of the Ceremonies. The following presentations in the Closet took place, by Viscount Palmerston, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs on his appoi n t men t as The Hon. Ralph Abercromby, her Majesty's Misisier at Tui in. The Hoa. William Fox Strangrvays, en. his appoint ment as her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minist er Plenipotentiary to the Germanic Diet. The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke of Cambridge, and attended by the Great Officers of State and Principal Officers of the Household, entered the Throne Room. The following were then presented in the Dipiomatic Circle:— Mons. C. B. de Oliveira, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary rorri the Emperor of Brazil to Russia, by Commander Marquis Lisboa, the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires, S. Bekir Paella, Major-General in the Ottoman Army, and Blesikyi Effendi, by M. Agap, the Turkish Charge d'Affaires. :11. Victor Van de WQestyne, Attache to the Belgian Legation, by M. Drouet, the Belgian Charge d'Affaires. Count E. Zichy Ferraris, by M. Hummelauer, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires. At the Entree Levee the Lord Mayor of London was presented to the Queen by the Marchioness of Normanby. The Rev. Samuel Smith, Lord Mayor's Chaplain, was presented to her Majesty by the Lord Mayor. The Wowing Noblemen and Gentlemen presented Ad dresses to the Queen at the Entree Levee : His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex—of Congra tulation, from the Corporation of the Highland Society in London. The Earl of Errol—of Congratulation, from the Noble met., Deputy Lieutenant, Commissioners of Supply, and Justices of the Peace of the County of Aberdeen—also from the Convener, Master of Hospital, Deacons, and ether Members of the Seven Incorporated Trades of the City of Old Aberdeen. The Master of the Horse—From the inhabitants of New_ -market, of Congratulation. The Lord Mayor, Mr. Alderman Harmer, Mr. Alder man Thomas Wood, Mr. David Salomons. Mr. George Grote, M P., Mr. William Crawford, Mr. James Pa•tison, Mr. George Selson, Mr. Joseph Robinson, Mr. George Bracher, Mr. Edward Wilson, Mr. John Davis, and Mr. John Travers—of Congratulation, from the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Livery of the City cf London in Common Hall assembled. Tile Duke of Buceleuch—of Congratulation, from the Noblemen, Gentlemen, Commissioners of Supply, and Justices of the Peace of the County of Edinburgh ; also from the President and Members of the Royal Caledonian Horticultural Society ; also from the inhabitants of the town of Dalkeith. The Archbishop of York—of Congratulation, from the Dean and Chapter of York. Earl of Charleville and Colonel the Hon. John Westenra, M. P.—of Congratulation, from the High Sheriff, Nobility, Gentry, Clergy, and Freeholders of the King's County. The Marquis of Anglesey, Lord Lieutenant, and the lion. W. 0 Stanley, Member for;the County—of Con• gratulation, from the county of Anglesey. Earl of Aberdeen—of Congratulation, from the Univer sity an: l . King's College of Aberdeen, and also from the President, Council, and Fellows, of the Society of Anti quaries of London. The Marquis of Nermanby—of Congratulation, from the Highland Society, in General Council assembled. Mr. Stanley—of Congratulation, from Maeelesfl old. Viscount Sydney—or Congratulation, from the County of Bent. Sir James Graham—ofCongi atulationt, from the M a y or , Aldermen, and Burgesses of Pembroke—also from the inhabitants of Teriby. The Entree Levee was attended by the French Ambassa dor, the Prussian, Swedish,Wairtemberg, Bavarian, United States, Sardinian, Hanoverian, Grecian, Spanish, Vene zuelan, and Saxon Ministers; Baron de Misumann, on a Special Mission, front Austria; Baron Brunow, on a Spe cial M.ssion, from IZussia ; Monsieur de Hummelauer, Austrian Charge d'Affaires ; Commander M. Lesbos, Brazilian Charge d'Affairea; G. Capece Galesta du Docile de R. gina, Sicilian Charge d'Affaires ; Mr. Musphy, Mexican Charge d'Affaires ; Mr. Charles Drouct, Ikluian Charge d'Affaires ; Mr. J. Agop, Charge d'AMires of the Sublime Porte ; Mr Kisseleff, Russian Charge d'Affaires ; Mr. Benjamin Rush, Secre wry to the United States Legation ; Mr. B. Muriel, Se cretary to the Mexican Legation ; Baron de Lebzeltern, Secretary to the Austrian Embassy ; M. F. Pampillo, Attache to the Spanish Legation ; the Lord President, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, the Secre Lary at War, the Lord Steward, th, Lord Chamberkin, the Master of the Horse, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen.at- Arms. Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Captain of the Yeomen Guard, the Tres surec of the Household, the Comptroller of the House hold, Sir Henry Pirnell, Paymaster-General, Mr. Back house, Under- Secretary of State, Foreign Department, the Master of the Ceremonies, Sir Edward Pearson, Lieu teaant of the Yeomen of the Guard, Sir William Woods, K. 11., Gartcr King of Arms, the Solicitor-General, Co lonel Cavendish, Clerk Marshal, Mr. Henry Robinson, Standard Bearer of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at- Arms, Colonel Sir Frederick Stovin, Groom in Waiting, Lord Radstcck (in Waiting), and Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk, Naval A. D. C., Colonel Sir Robert Gardi ner, Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, Major Hyde, Assistant Master and Marshal of the Ceremonies, Colonel Richardson, Royal Horse Guards, Silver Stick in Waiting, Captain Pechell, R.N., Equerry to her Majesty the Queen Dowager, Mr. James Bunco Curling, Clerk of the Cheque of the Hon. Corps of Gen tlemen at Arms ; Captain Seymour Sadler, Exon in Wait ing; Sir Benjamin Smith; Lieut.-Colonel Sir Frederic Smith, Gentleman Usher to the Privy Chamber in Wait ing; the Attorney-General to the Queen Dowager; Mr. Anhui Blackwood, Groom of the Privy Chamber in Wait ing ; Mr. Randall, Gentleman Usher in Waiting; Lieut.- Colonel Wright, Gentleman Usher to her Majesty the Queen Dowager ; Lieut.-Colonel Spencer Stanhope, Grenadier Guards, Captain of the Guard. Among the general company were the Lord Mayor of Dublin ; Mr. Mayers, Agent for Barbadaes ; the Lord Mayor of York ; and the following DUKES—Buccleuch, Somerset, Buckingham, Chandos, Sutherland. MARQUISES—HuntIey, Douglas, Headfort, Westmeatl% EARLS—Brecknock, Lindsay, De La Warr, Listowtl, Denbigh, De Grey. VISCOUNTS—CoIe, Gort, Castlereagh, Cantilupe. BlSHOP—Hereford. LORDS—Tullamore, Kenyon, Colville, Cremorne, El lenborough, Prudhoe, Rayleigh. RIGHT HONOIiItABLESSir Alex. Johnstone, Sir Chas. Bagot. HONOURAPLESChas. Geo. Noel, M. P., Sidney Her bert, Rev. Wm. Law, H. Spencer Law, Rev. Frandis Grey, G. Cecil Forester, W. Bathurst, Woa. buncombe, Capt. Cary, R. N., Capt. buncombe, M. P., E. J. Stan ley, H. Ashley, M.P., J. F. Strangways, H. Cholmoti deley, W. 0. Stanley, M.P., W. Begot, Capt. Cost. BARONETS—MichaeI Hicks Beach, Thos. Hare, H. St. John Mildmay, John Herschel, R. H. I ng li s , T. Baring, J. Hall, Edw. Knatchbull, E. Filmer, G. Strickland, W. Stirling. Sies—Frederick Pollock, Char:es Williams, J. Hens ler, F.R.S., J. Simpson, W. Pym, G. Stephen. DEAN—Bristol. ARCHDEACON—Bath. r~ ~ ~ • .S.t . „ . :\LW I I 1 r I r