The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-26 00:00:00

DRAWING I' ICKisR I N G, of Chester, Itavin. oininenced . ..CI.. TEACHING DRAWING in Liverpo , intends, after the Midsummer Vacation, to devote Mon and Tuesday in each week to that town.—Cards of his ter may be had of Mr. Gravel, Bookseller,, Mr. Linnecar, Printseller, and Mr. Bur. land, Carver and Gilder, Church-street, Liverpool; or applica tion, by letter, to Nicholas-street, Chester. PIANO-FORTES, J~"IME and ir try N ha b v e fc t o o n i s n ta foz o t h u e :a I F e ' r a ie n n e d x s te ns an d v thee Pub- 1 lie, that assort ment of Patent Grand, Semi Grand, Cabine and' Cottage PIANO-FORTES, direct from the Manuto ries of Messrs. Broactwood, Collard and Collard, To ison, and other esteemed and celebrated Makers. Old Instruments taken in Exchange sold by commission. Piano-fortes tuned and Repaired in Town or Country,, by eic perienced persons. Superior Roman and English Strings for Violins, Guitars, Harps, &c. &c. Best Steel and Brass Wire for Piano-fortes. Nu. 32, Church-street, opposite Pioo(field's Bazaar, and 40, Castle-street. SECOND HAND. PIANO-FORTES, &c., ON SALE, AT SMITH'S REPOSITOR Y; 6-1, LORD-STREET, LIVERPOOL, - A SIX-OCTAVE CABINET, by Broadw and Sons, 1111. nearly equal to New. Two 5i Ditto UPRIGHT GRANDS, Two 6 Ditto HORIZONTAL GRANDS A 51- Ditto SQUARE, A Good Toned Second-hand FINGER ORGAN, with Three Full Stops, A Ditto Two Single-action HARPS, • Two DOUBLE BASSES, one a Superior Instrument, by Betts, • Several Fine Toned Old VIOLINS and VIOLONCELLOS, amongst which is an Amati, Two TRIO FLAGEOLETS, by Bainbridge, A very Beautiful Edition of HAYDN'S QUARTETTS in 4 VolUmes, Full Bound in Call, with Patent Backs, Also, an Elegant Assortment of NEW INSTRUMENTS of every description, by all the First-rate London Makers, with every Article connected with the Business. WANTED, a respectable Youth as an APPRENTICE at the above Establishment. DITTO, with Six Full Stops, iTUGHES and QUAIL, TAILOHS, &c., No.• rJETBILEI- fIU 1. ILDINGS, Lord-street, Liverpool, beg inform their Frknds and the Public that they have coinm ced Business on the above Premises, and hope, by unremi g attention, punc tuality, and moderation of terms, to gai a share of their pa tronage. N.B.—Those Persons who find their own Materials may have them made up in the best style, and on the most reasonable terms. ADVANTAGEOUS OFFER TO MERCHANTS AND OTHERS. IN consequence of great inconvenience daily experienced in the. Port of Gloucester,tbrough the want of root r Bonded Yards,. &c., the Advertiser has, with great ingeu y and at an enormous expense , completed one of the LA • .ST AND MOST CONVENIENT BONDE D YARDS in the :i doru. Ile there fore begs to acquaint Merchants and other • ho wish to extend their Business to the Port of Gloucester, at he will receive their Cargoes of Timber, &c. into the above Yard for the pur pose of being Bonded, and will find Labour for the Unloading, Re-shipping, &c., on the most reasonable Terms. For further Particulars apply to GEORGE BETTISS, Esq., Carnarvon ; or to Mr. E. 0, JONES, Britannia Wharf, Glou cester. THE FAMILY LINEN WAREHOUSE, - 14, CHURCH-STREET, in) and H. ANDERSON, DAMASK, LINEN, XI/SHEET XL, ING MANUFACTURERS, beg leave to announ the arrival V/ from their Manufactory of a large assortm n of SPRING BLEACHED GOODS, consisting of Si e Damask and superfine Double Damask Table Cloths of every size, with Napkins and Overlays to suit, Sheetings of every width and quality, seven-eighth and yard wide Linens of a very superior description. Also, the most extensive assortment of Table Covers of every variety. i'" In returning thanks for the liberal support they have re ceived for so long a period, R. and H. Anderson hope to merit a continuance of it, by their still devoting their attention ex clusively to the Family Linen Business and from their manu facturing their own goods , they are enabled at all times to supply an article superior in quality and at lowest prices. Parcels of Yarn wove intu Cloths or Diapers of any descrip tion. Coats of Arms, Family Crests, and other devices, wove to order. CROWN WINDOW GLASS WAREHOUS 56, Jo ti IS SON-STREET, DALE-STREET, ( Lately occupied by B. T. Barnes.) 117 '1 LLIAM HARRIS has constantly on Sale n extensive Stock of the best Newcastle WIND GLASS, which he respectfully offers to the Trade and o hippers on the most advantageous terms for Cash. The sup • r quality of the Article and moderate Prices, he trusts, will erit an increased demand. A Stock ready cut Export Orders promptly attended to. always on hand. Glass-stainers will find this Article peculiarly adapted to their purposes. _:side and LATouit original dis to smell and ,ence of his jut- 1D GLOVES of every Colour CLEANED. out, so as to look and be equal to new, BATEAU, who has so much improved upon h . covery as to free it from every object►on, both harshness, neither of which exists in conse proved method. Specimens may be seen at Mrs. Lour 's, Smallware and Tea Dealer, No. '2, Cases-street, Liv rpool, who receives Gloves, Blond, Lace, &c., for LATO RATEAU ;atW. H. TORE K INGTON'S, 10, Exchange-street Manchester; at SAN nsksoN SPEAR'S, Verfumer, 2.3, Suffolk-street, Dublin; and LATOUR HATEAU and Co.'s, 130, New Bond-street, corner of Grosvenor-street, London. Caution.—The Public are respectfully cautioned against the pretensions of a discharged servant of L. Rateau's, who, by in sidious representations, is attempting to take in the unwary. N.B.—A BOX sent every FRIDAY EVENING. GENERAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY, LON DON. The General Steam Navigation Company is the only associa tion that has been able to maintain a regular communication between London and the most considerable ports of the Conti nent. The regularity of its management having attracted, the attention of the British Government, the duty of conveying the mails by steam vessels, twice in each week throughout the year, to and from Rotterdam and Hamburgh, has, fur the last two years, been entrusted to this company; whose vessels have per formed it with a regularity and dispatch under the most adverse circumstances, as respects the weather, which could ever have been anticipated—circumstances, indeed, which would have been impracticable and impossible to have been overcome, but for the extensive means and resources which this company were able to employ. The ditlicalty of this task may 'be conceived, when it is considered, that in the tremend'ous storms which pre vailed during the autumn and winter of 1833 and 1834, although vessels of every description were compelled to remain more than three weeks in the ports of Rotterdam and Hamburgh, yet those of . this company regularly performed their operations. It should be observed, as a remarkable feature of courage and enterprise, when supported by just pretension; and founded on secure principles, that during the period to which we have re ferred, in consequence of none of the steam vessels which had been previously employed by the government having arrived from other places, other vessels of the company wexe devoted to the service, and the mails were despatched in due course, and without the slightest irregularity; so that at one time nu less than twelve of their steam packets were absent from the river on this duty. This is a striking illustration of the value and advantage of such an institution as that of the General Steam Navigation Company. ASCOT HEATH.-Mr. Batson has challenged for the Eclipse Foot, and delivered his nomination sealed up. M. T. SADLER, Ese.—A letter has been received from Ire land, by which we are sorry to learn that M. 'l'. Sadler, Esq., who was previously in a convalescent state, has had another re lapse, and is now considered to be in great danger. His brother, who returned from Belfast only a few days ago, has again been sent for in consequence of this alarming intelligence.—Leeds Inteiligencer. 'nib; BAR.—in Spain, the bar holds a high and privileged position i❑ society, which it is almost difficult to reconcile with the despotic character of the government. As a proof of the rank yielded to it, it may be mentioned that a member of the bar is privileged from arrest for debt, and is also entitled to claim to die the death of one of the nobility, in the event of his having incurred a capital punishment. Mr. Gifford, of Chilliugton, a Roman catholic, has subscribed a munificent sum in support of the election of the conservative candidate for South Staffordshire, and is chairman of Sir Fran cis GoOdrickere committee- Admiral Sir Arthur Legge, late of Blackheath, who died last week, possessed of a very large fortune, has bequeathed the sum of £3,000 to his butler, named Smith, who leis been many years in the admiral's service, together with the whole of his Valuable wardrobe. He has also lett to Greene, his coachman, 1:1,0'JO; .to Burford, his footman, 1.3,1.X0; to Kitson, the groom, £1,000; and to his house-keeper £l,OOO. To his housemaid, who had ouly been three months in his service, he has bequeath ed the sum of £5O. In itddithin 'to the above legacies, he has ordered the sum of f:loo.tcr 14e paid to each of his servants in lieu of half a, year's wages. • • STROUD Bi.eciroN.—Literaembering the old saying "that a verse may find him who a sermon flies," we shall, instead of writing a dissertation on au instance of degradation, which in Milton's language is " lower than the lowest deep," simply in, form our readers that the town of Stroud, in Gloucestershire, has covered itself .with an imperishable robe of disgrace, in be coming a rotten borough for rejected ones. Lord J. Russell has waded to the senate through its sink of nomination, with which in comparison, old Sarum's odour was " Araby's per fume." Reader the refused of South Devon is member of parliament for gtrioid, ou the nomination of Colonel Fox. — Preston Pilot. LIE-ABILITY or , THE TAIL—The tail formed the Abject of dismission, the oth er d a y, b etween Joe Pease and Torn Dumcombe, who have got as thick as inkleweavers—both worthies having the reciprocal object of converting each other in view. '• Friend Thomas, (quoth the Durham Aminadab,) of a verity do I announce unto the ti•uth, from my own serious observe and reflection. There existeth not in the whole thirty and five called the 'tail, one —yea, not one, man of responsibi lity.'!—" Friend Joseph, (answered the Corinthian,) though there may not be one man of responsibility amongst the Tali, thou canst not deny but there are man y w h o are d is ti ngu i s h e d for lie-ability."—Broadbrim burst the waistband of his smalls with laughing. WIIIM6 ARE Tlll3 SECI7RITY BILLS ?--The following para graphs, which we take from the provincial journals, will, we hope,. open the eyes of the sluggards who slumber on in dreamy inactivity, while Popery, ever watchful and ambitious, is strid ing with rapid march over the laud. "Last week (says the Leicester Herald,) 226 acres of lank situate in Cbarwood Forest, in this county, were sold by Thomas Githorne, Esq.;M P., to the Rev. Mr. Holum, Roman catholic priest, residing at -Loughborough, for the purpose of founding a Rom an catholic monastery of the Jesuit ortler."—And in the 13,ighton Gazette of Wednesday appeared the following:—" It is reported that the Homan catholics are going to build seventy houses, with a cha pel and college, on the extensive tract of land which they have purchased between St. Leonards and Hastings. ' m i c a , i t i s capable of containing more."--Whc, We should, like. to ask, , . are buried the bills called "securities," which accompanied the, Roman catholic emancipation act ? Have alb penalties therein expressed . against the increase of JeSuits ever been attempted to be enforced ? Here we lintl Jesuits springing up like mu s h.' rooms on the land; but, unlike mushrooms, their duration will be more permanent on it. .Is there no member who will ask Mr. Gisborne, the protestant legislator, respecting. the Jesuits 10 has located ? Empaiat I)arliamtnt. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESDAY. (Continued from the STANDARD of Friday.) • . LORD'S DAY OBSERVANCE BILL. 7 This billwas read in committee, and some amendments were agreed to. When the house resumed the report was brought up, and the bill, as amended, ordered to be re-committed. WILLS EXECUTION BILL. This bill was read in committee. Report ordered to be re ceived this day se'nnight (tomorrow.) SEAMEN ENLISTMENT BILL. Sir J. GRAHAM said that he should not have moved the second reading of so important a measure as the present at so late an hour iii the evening, had he not gone into an explana tion of its details on opening it to the house, and had he not found upon that occasion that they had met with the general approbation of the house. lu consequence of the notice which the hon. member for Sheffield had put upon the paper, he knew that that hon. member was anxious to take the sense of the house on one point connected with the bill. The hon. member had, however, consented to postpone the discussion of it to another stage of the bill, andlo take it either in the committee or as an instruction to the committee, before the house agreed to the committal of the bill. He should therefore do no more at present than move the second reading of the seamen enlist- Mr. WALLACE could not allow the bill to pass through its present stage without entering, on behalf of his constituents, his protest against its principle. (Hear, hear.) He protested against its being supposed that the house, by agreeing to the present motion, had given its sanction to the principle that the right of impressment belonged to the crown by the law of the land. He was certain that it would be impossible in case of a war to enforce that right iu any of our great maritime towns. Mr. BUCKINGHAM expressed his concurrence in the opinion just stated by the hon. member for Greenock. He explained his reasons for postponing to another stage of the bill the mo tion of which he bait given notice, and declared that on the mo tion for going into committee on thel bill he would move to strike out of it every clause which gave the crown a legal power to en force impressment.• (Hear, hear.) Mr. Mr. EWART, Dr. DOWRING, and Mr. Yourio briefly expressed their concurrence in the sentiments which had fallen from Mr. Wallace on the subject of this bill. e bill was then read a second time and ordered to be com mitted, but we did not hear on what day. On the motion of Captain PECHELL, the sale of bread bill was read a second time, and to be committed on Tuesday next. The Roman catholic marriages bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed on Wednesday. Mr. BYNG moved that the manure toll exemption bill should be read a second time. Mr. Seielis moved that it be read a second time this thy six months. Mr. WA eeurrroN said that a bill of a nature similar to the present had been voted out of the house by acclamation last ses sion. He hoped that a similar fate would t efal the present bill. Mr. O'Cortiver.r. hoped not, as the bill was likely to be very beneficial to Ireland. The principle of it was excellent for the landed interest. ' _ . _ After a short discussion, in which Major HANDLEY, Colonel SIOTHORP, Dr. BOWRING, Mr. M. PHILIPS, the ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR GENERAL, and Mr. BYNG took part, the amend ment was negatived, and the bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed on Monday. • The house resolved itsellit,toa committee of ways and means, and a vote of £8,000,000 from the consolidated fund was agreed to for the service of the year. . Mr. EWAhT brought in a bill to allow counsel to prisoners, and for abolishing the punishment of death in certain cases. Mr. P. STEWAhT obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the act regulating the salmon fisheries of Scotland. Mr. HAWES obtained leave to bring in a bill for the better re gulation and management of inns, alehouses, and victualling houses. It was brought in and read a first time : to be read a second time on Wednesday. Mr. CRIPPS obtaiined leave to bring in a bill to regulate the office of coroner Mr. WALLACE moved for returns of the clerks and fees of the court of session and other courts in Scotland. Adjourned at half-past twelve. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY. Mr. Handley and others from the Commons brought up the Islington Market Bill. Conyers's Divorce Bill was reported. Moore's (India) Divorce Bill (Mr. Gaselee having been heard in support of it) was read a second time.—To be com mitted to-morrow. The Marquis of Bute presented several petitions - in favour of a grant of money for additional church accommodation in Scot land. The Marquis of LONDON DERRY rose to give notice that he would on Tuesday next present to that house a petition with which he had been intrusted, coming from tipwards of fifty thousand protestants of the north of Ireland. He should move that their lordships be summoned for that day, in order that noble lords who were interested in the subject should have an opportunity of expressing their opinion on the statements contained in this most important petition. He wished to know from the noble viscount opposite whether he had received any information with respect to the disgraceful procession which had recently accompanied the lord-lieutenant of Ireland into Dub lin, and whether any, and, if auy, what steps, had been taken to punish the infraction of the law which had taken place on that occasion? Viscount MELBOURNE said, considering that the petition with which the noble marquis was charged had been agreed to six months ago, it was strange that it had not prior to this period been laid before the house. With respect to what the noble marquis had said in the latter part of his speech, he should only observe, that he was led to believe, from the information which he had received, that nothing in the slightest degree illegal had occurred on the occasion alluded to. It appeared that a large concourse of people, actuated by sentiments of kindness and good feeling, had been brought together • but that, as to the exhibition of flags and banners, the fact ha di been greatly over stated. No act of parliament had been violated, nothing in the slightest degree illegal had.been done, and therefore the case was one that did not call for inquiry. N ATIONAL EDUCATION. Lord BROUGHAM, at the close of a speech of great length on the subject of national education, brought forward a series of re solutions, fourteen in number, the cons►deration of which was postponed until after they had been printed. The house then adjourned. • HOUSE OF COMMONS, THURSDAY. The ballots for the Ennis and Halifax election committees having been appointed for this day, the gallery was not opened until nearly half-past four o'clock. Lord Jolly RUSSELL took the °Albs and his seat amidst cheers from the ministerial benches. TRINITY HARBOUR BILL, Mr. TooKE, after a few observdtious, * moved that it be an in struction to the committee to whom the Trinity Harbour bill now stands referred, that they do not enter into the question of compliance with such of the standing orders of this house as were required to be proved before the committee to whom the petition on the said bill was referred. Sir G. CLERK opposed the motion, as totally unprecedented. ABSENCE OF A MEMBER FROM AN ELECTION COMMITTEE. The foregoing discussion was interrupted by the appearance of Mr. Dyson at the bar, with the reduced list of the names of the members ballotted for on the Ennis election committee, and on the members being called to the table to be sworn, it appear ed that one member, Mr. Greene, did not answer to his name. The SPEAKER inquired whether any member could state that he had seen Mr. Greene in the house since four o'clock, and during the ballot. He was under the impression, and he be lieved he shared it with the house, that Mr. Greene had answered twice to his name. (Hear.) Mr. HARDY said he believed Mr. Greene was at present in Lancashire. (Hear.) He had seen a letter from him that morning, dated four days ago from Lancashire. An hon. member was understood to say he had seen Mr. Greene in the house that day. (Hear.) Mr. GOULBURN observed that he did not know any case that could be said to furnish a precedent to the present one. Mr. WYNN said a few words, hut was totally inaudible in the gallery. After the lapse of a short interval, The SPEAKER said that the only course open to the house was to adjoutn the swearing in of the committe e , an d i n t h e mean time to have inquiry made as to whether Mr. Greene had been there at four o'clock, and if he answered to his name on its being called on the ballot—a misapprehension, if it were one, that he (the Speaker) laboured udder, in common with several other members. (Hear.) If Mr. Greene could not be found, the consequence would be (so we understood the right hon. gentleman) that the house must proceed to the appointment of a new committee. The members unsworn then retired from the table, and the discussion on Mr. Tooke's motion was resumed. A long desultory conversation, in which Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Flume, and the Attorney-General took part, then ensued, but was interrupted by Mr. Fs :4'N, who rose to order, and called the attention of the house to the provisions of the act of Parliament regulating the mode of trying controverted elections. It was expressly pro vided that until the ballot was concluded the house should not proceed with any other business, except to adjourn the order of the day for taking into consideration the election petition. (Hear.) The SPEAKER said, that until some further information was afforded as to the fact whether or not Mr. Greene was present during the ballot, it was impossible to say that the ballot had been completed. The conversation on Mr. Tooke's motion was then resumed, and after a few words from Mr. Hardy, Mr. Hume, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Wynn, Sir JohnWrottesley, Mr. Aglionby. and Mt. Gisborne, it was again interrupted by the entrance into the house of ~ Mr. Geaawa, who was called on by all sides of the house. The hun. member said that he had just been informed that his name had been called from the seduced list of the members to serve on the Ennis election petition. He had to state that he had not been present during the ballot,(" Hear," and laugh ter,) fur that he had but just that moment arrived at. the house. The S PEA KEK was understood - to intimate that the ballot was void, and that. the order of the day for the consideration of the Ennis election petition was postponed till Friday. The house at a quarter to s►x o'clock adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS.---FRIDAY. Petitions were presented by several noble lords for additional church accommodation in Scotland. The Marquis of LANsoowE moved for copies of several re turns relative to criminal proceedings against offenders of 1834, and for the reports of the commissioners of public works and the county presentments in Ireland in the year 1834. TIIE LORD LIEUTENANT'S ENTRY INTO DUBLIN. The Earl of RooErc, in r i s i ng t o p resen t a pe ti t i on f rom Skib bereen. praying for support to the established church in Ireland, took occasion to allude to th e p rocess i on w hi c h h a d a tt en d e d th e e ntry of his majesty's viceroy into Dublin. Alter describing the procession, his lordship said how the prime minister of the crown could look upon tins as a lawful assembly he could not conce ive. (Hear, hear.) If he did so—if he thought that those who appeared at processions such as these should not be prose cuted and punished, then he (the Earl of Roden) should, on the part of the protestant people of Ireland, demand an equal degree of justice whet.' they went forth with processions—when they carried their orange flags, not i nscr ib e d w i t h th e em bl ems of extended symbols of l o y a lt y . If to l erance were to those with theosesvh o attended the E ar l o f Alulgrave—ii toler ance were extended to the creatures of Mr. O'Connell, then would he contend that the power of the l aw s h ou ld b e equa lly kept back from those loyal .individuals to whom h e h a d re f erred . For his part he was of opinion that less danger would arise from allowing those processums to show themselves °pent) , and boldly than to endeavour to suppress 'them by legislative enactments. lle had come tn that opinion because , as it appeared to him, more animosity had beeu manifested since the law had pasied fur putting down those, processions than existed when they were allowed. to show themselves without molestation. He now claimed, after the declaration of the noble viscount, for the pro testauts of Ireland, for the orangemen of Ireland, that the mea sure of justice which bad been granted to their opponents should be exteuded equally to them. • (Hear, bear.) -.Lord 1614th:11N g defended the conduct of thelord lieuteUant. Il is lordship denied that any violation of the law had been com mitted. The.Ea.rl of HADDINGTON made a few observations as to the display made when he went to the theatie as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, being of a character totally different from that of Lord Mulgrave'.s entry into Dublin. Ile disapprove/I . °f it, but considered it a spontaneous manifestation of feeling, and not calculated to lead to any breach of the peace. The Earl of WicKLOW followed, in a speech of consider able warmth, in the course of which he said that the procession was arrayed by a man who had been denounced by ministers themselves id that house, and who had so far been complimented as to have been alluded to in the King's speech. Afterreferring to the late resignation of the Marquis Wellesley, his lordship concluded by saying, let it be clearly demonstrated to the pr testants of Ireland what the law really was; let. them distinct" know (if such were the case) that the existing law, though it clearly applied to orange processions, did not apply to others, au interpretation which, he feared, they would be very slow to credit. The Marquis WELLESLEY said it was not his intention to en ter on the subject which had given rise to this discussion, how ever important it might be considered, and however anxious he might be to express his disapprobation of party proceedings, and still less was it his wish to call the attention of their lotdships to that unfortunate subject, the resignation of the office which he lately held. But this latter point having been alluded to by his noble friend opposite, (if he might be allowed to call him so,) this much he must say, in cotrection of what his noble friend had stated, namely, " that his resignation was founded on intel ligence which he had received from Ireland, relative to the entrance of Lord Mulgrave into Dublin," that he was totally ignorant of the whole of the circumstances at the time when hi s resignation took place. ( Hear, hear.) He had at the lime 'no . knowledge of the matter whatever; and, therefore, he humbly requested, whatever opinion their lordships might please to'form on that event, to which some persons attached so much import ance, but to which he attached none, that their lordships would not be led away by the supposition that it was connected with any thing that had occurred on the occasion of the noble earl's entranceinto Dublin. (Bear, hear.) The Marquis of LONDONDERR Y, as we understood, after com plimenting the noble marquis on the talents which he had evinced ulailst he was viceroy of Ireland, expressed a doubt whether his explanation would give satisfaction to those who were connected with, and were consequently anxious for, the welfare of Ireland. He said this more particularly after what had appeared in the public journals, and what had transpired in that house, with reference to the resignation of the noble mar quis. He had formerly alluded to that subject. He felt himself in a situation to do so. He thought himself at liberty to state what he had stated, in consequence of a communication which he had'had with a noble and illustrious personage, who declared that he had the fact (ruin the mouth of the noble marquis • him self. He was sorry that the noble marquis had made his state ment in the absence of that noble and illustrious personage; but, as the noble marquis had addressed himself to the subject of his resignation, he would give him an opportunity at any time, on 1 uesday next for instance, to enter into Use causes which had led to his resignation, and to afford some information to their lordships on the subject. The Marquis WELLESLEY repeated that his resignation had nothing to do with the procession which accompanied the noble earl. He again declared that he was ignorant of the circum stance attending it when he resigned. His information was not so extensive as to put him in possession of every report that appeared in a newspaper. He now wished to observe, that he should not feel himself justified in eutering incidentally into any explanation with respect to the motives which led to his re signation. (Hear, hear.) If their lordships were of opinion that he ought to enter into such an explanation, then let him be called on to do so distinctly, clearly, and in a regular manner. (Hear, hear.) Let a proper inquiry take place as to the fact, if their lordships thought the occasion was sufficiently import ant. (Hear, hear.) But without such a course was adopted, he did not feel himself called on to give any explanation. He should reserve his opinion on all public questions till the proper time arrived for giving that opinion ; and then he should ex press it as an independent man, not being engaged in any con nexion that could in the smallest degree influence his decision. (Hear.) He would not, however, come down there to answer questions incidentally. When, however, questions were pro perly brought forward, he. would state his opinion o a them fairly, having first considered them with independence, with in dustry, with diligence, and, he shoUld hope, with justice. (Hear, hear.) He would not, however, state the grounds on. which his resignation was made, except by the order of th e i r lordships, or in consequence of a formal inquiry. On that principle he was most ready to act, and certainly he would not decline any disclosure required of him, if the subject were in troduced in a regular manner. The Earl of Wictcr.ow wished to know whether the reasons that induced the noble marquis to resign were in any manlier connected with recent appointments in Ireland ? The Marquis WaLt.is.sLuv did not feel himself at all required to answer that question. The Earl of H A naownv understood the noble marquis to say that his resignation was not owing to any thing that had passed on the entrance of the lord-lieutenant into Dublin, because at the time he resigned the noble marquis was ignorant of that transaction; on that point he would not make a single observa tion. His noble friend near him (the Earl of Haddington), with that delicacy which was consequent on the situation in which he stood, had confined himself merely to the fact ad verted to by the noble viscount opposite; the noble viscount had endeavoured to draw a parallel between the entry of the lord-lieutenant into Dublin, and the reception of his noble friend at the theatre. It did appear that an orange flag had been suspended, no one knew by whom, over the box of his noble friend in the theatre; and this, with strange inconsist ency, was compared with a procession formally promoted and arranged by a person whom he could only mention as being the only individual that had ever been held up to the reproba tion of the country from that place, (pointing to the throne.) But, to mark the difference more strongly, a communication had been made to the Castle of Dublin 6y an official person connected with the trades' unions as to the particular hour at which the lord-lieutenant was expected to land. (Hear, hear.) They knew well the power of the individual who planned the procession. Ile did not appear himself to take his place at the head of it, for alleged reasons, which it was unnecessary for him to notice; but perhaps he might have abstained from a feeling that it would be more dignified for him to make his entrance into the Castle of Dublin by proxy, than if he appeared himself personally. (A laugh.) He was unwilling to say anv in the absence of a noble person (Lord Mulgrave) whom ho had always been disposed to look upon as a friend; but this he woul4 declare,lhat he would rather have exposed himself to be torn to pieces by that mob who accompanied the noble lord into Dublin than have stooped to gratify their passions. (Hear, hear.) Whether those processions were legal or illegal he cared not ; but he was inclined to believe that the interpreta tion of the noble earl behind was correct. Such an exhibition in the present case was highly dangerous, because it exhibited the government of the country as if coming over to put itself at the head of a party. (Hear, hear.) It was sufficient to dis turb and exasperate the feelings of the country. Such proceed ings, he thought, ought no longer to be tolerated, if they hoped to secure peace and tranq u illit y for Ireland. Lord Melbourne, Lord Farnham, Earl Fitzwilliam, the Earl of Roden, the Duke cf Rich mon d. and the Marquis of Lans downe successively addressed the house, after which The Marquis of LONDONDERRY asked if the noble viscount had any objection to lay on the table a copy ofthe letter wtitten by the Lord Lieutenant with respect to this procession, and a copy of the instructions since transmitted to his lordship? Viscount Met.eoceNte said there were no instructions. He begged to take till Monday tb consider with respect to the other question. The Earl of Ron Est declared that his exertions had always been directed to the preservation of peace in Ireland. • The .Marquis of L tNSDOWNE presented a petition from Glas gow against a grant of money to the Scotch church.—Adjourned to Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FRIDAY, MAY 22. Owing to the ballot for the committee on the Ennis election petition taking place this day, the gallery was not opened till a quarter past four. LIVERPOOL POLICE AND CLERGY BILL. r. SPIERS moved the second reading ofthisbill. Mr. Ewa RT, after presenting three petitions againstsit, from Liverpool, said be Should feel it his duty to his constituents to oppose it. The bill was not so much for establishing a police in Liverpool as for appropriating a portion of the funds of - the cor poration of that town to the permanent payment of the esta blished clergy there, thus removing, them from that public con trol to .which their payment was at present in a great degree subjected, and placing' it altogether beyond it. Ile begged to state, that during the last ten years there were paid out of the corporation funds of Liverpool to the clergy, and for the repair ing and building of churches, no less a sum than £120,000; would the house add to that enormous sum, and allow it to be furnished out of funds to which the dissenters and the catholics contributed equally, as well as the members of the established church? He thought that such a tax would be most unjust. As to the necessity of a new police in Liverpool, be begged to say, that it had been declared by the commissioners of corpora tion inquiry, that they had a most excellent police in that town, and the same statement had been made by the superintendent of police, who had been sent down there by Sir R. Peel. The real object of this bill was to anticipate and take from the in tended measure of municipal reform, and to saddle the payment of the clergy of the established church in Liverpool upon all classes there. He moved that the bill be read a second time that day six mouths. Lord SANDON said, that in the course of last year, when the church rate bill was before parliament, it was apparent to the people of Liverpool that their regular clergy, whose payment depended almost altogether upon the rates, must, on their aboli tion, look to sonic other prOvlsion, and this suggested itself as the best. When Liverpool was converted from a hamlet into a parish, the rights of the rectors were commuted for £lOO a-year each, and a house and garden ; by a subsequent act that was increased to 1:400 a-vear. In the course of time this amount was - increased to 1.1 - ,5001-year,"to be distributed between two rectors and four curates. The noble lord, after dwelling upon the numerous duties which the regular clergy had to discharge in Liverpool, stat e d that a deputation from Liverpool wait e d last year upon Lords Althorp and John Russell, and that they concurred with the deputation, that in the event of church rates being abolished, some such provision as this should be made for the clergy there. A rate was not fixed upon, as it had this ob jection, that a rate would still be .levied for ecclesiastical pur poses upon all, classes by act of parliament, and the present ar rangenrent was, after much consideration, deemed satisfactory by all. He begged to state, that upon various occasions various portions of the inybitants of Liverpool waited upon the cor poration, requesting thrum to take upon them the expense of maintaining the regularelergy there. '!' his was for no party purpose—it was no tarty jab. The necessity for it was co ,„ cursed in by all. With regard to the police, he begged to s a y, that though the present police of Liverpool might, like the po lice of Bow-street, be fully adequate fur the apprehension of delinquents, there existed the greatest necessity in that large town for a preventive police, such as the new police of London. There was a pesuliaritv connected with the corporation of Li verpool, that they enjoyed a portion of propel ty, free land, which would amply defray the interest of the sum required, and. which had been given to them exclusively fortlietmtrhpaotsoeiolef maintaining the c lergy. T his was riot the occasion to en t er into the question as to whether it was a right principle sect should pay for the clergy of another, but as long as the house deemed it advisable fur the benefit of the general com munity that the clergy of a religion supported by time state should be paid for by all classes, he was sure that such observations as those made by his hon. colleague would make no impression upon parliament. This proposition had been made to a most numerous vestry in Liverpool, and adopted by it, and at last Easter the inhabitants of Liverpool elected a vestry unani mously in favour of the bill. Unless the house went the length that the spiritual wants of the people of Liverpool should not be supplied, on church rates being abolished, they must look to some other fund for the purpose, and the government must take the subject tothei r hands. -He was sure that they heves would adopt the principle of his hon. colleague, that it was not fair that the clergy of the established church should be maintained in preference to others. Mr. PRYME said that the merits of the question resolved themselves into a single point. It was not so much whether the clergy of a peculiar region should be maintained by all classes, but whether a fund destined for the benefit of the com munity at large should hare a portion of it appropriated to the benefit of a pa;ticular part of that community. (Hear, hear.) Corporate funds, he maintained; were held in trust for the be nefit of the whole community. He stated his belief that the churches of Liverpool were very inadequately endowed, and he 'should like to see endowments made for them, but he must maintain that the corporation funds, to which the dissenters contributed, should not be appropriated to such purposes. He would therefore vote for the amendment. Mr.'THORNEtY said that he had been requested to support the petition which his bon. friend the member for Liverpool had just laid upon the table of the house. Locally connected with Liverpool, he was able to state that the majority of the inhabitants were strongly opposed to the bill now under con sideration, and it was regarded by them as an evasion in antici pation of the measure of municipal reform which it was gene. rally understood to be in the contemplation of his majesty's government to submit to the legislature. The bill might have the support of the corporate body, which was said to consist of the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses, though the busin ess was conducted by 41 self-elected common councilmen, but he denied that this body represented the feelings of the majority of the town. The subject had been brought under the consideration of the parish vestry in October last, when, out of between 8000 and 9000 ratepayers, only 97 attended. The rector was in the chair, and granted a poll on its being demanded, when 63 per sons voted in favour of the bill, and 34, of whom he (Mr. Thor uely ) had been one, voted against it. He contended that this small division did not by any means manifest the feelings of the town on the subject; and though the bill had been rec enecend ed by the grand jury and by the recorder, still it ought to be remembered that the latter, as well as the foreman of the grand jury, was a member of the corporation. In short, he was satisfied this bill would never have been heard of had it not been that certain parties in the corporation wished to steal a march on the °good effects expected from the general government measure of municipal reform, and upon the result of the bill with reference to church-rates. On the whole the corporate funds, amounting to £lOO,OOO per annum (of which £50,000 was paid by the na tives of England, Ireland, and Scotland, in the shape of town dileS,) were perfectly adequate for the addition which this bill contemplated fixing upon the public, (hear, hear,) and he should certainly vote the amendment moved by his hon. friend, that this bill he read a second time this day six months. Lord F. EGEKTON said he should not have risen but that he wished to call the attention of the hon. member for Cambridge (Mr. Prvme) to one fact. The hon. member had objected to the bill, because it contemplated a diversion of corporate pro perty to purposes other than that for which it was intrusted to the corporate body. He begged to inform the hon. member; that very considerable property was vested in the corporation of Liverpool, for the express purpose of enabling them to pro vide adequately for the rectors and clergy of that extensive and important parish, and theretbre the objection of the honourable member was done away with, so far as the provisions in the bill with reference to the clergy. On this bill a vestry had been held in the manner stated by the hon. member for Wolverhampton; but since that period a still more recent general vestry had been held, as stated by his noble friend (the member for Liverpool, ) when not a single voice was raised against the bill, though the attention of the meeting was specifically called to it. He (Lord F. Egerton) did not mean to deny that many respectable per sons.resident in Liverpool might be opposed to the bill, but he thought the hon. member for Liverpool (Mr. Ewart) was rather. hard when he treated the bill as a job, emanating from some corner of that large towu, and unsupported by respectability. If he (Lord F. Egerton) considered this bill a job, no influence should induce him to vote for it. He believed the bill was sanc tioned by strong feelings of approbation held by a considerable majority of the inhabitants of the town, and he should feel it his duty to give his best support to the bill. Mr. SHELL said that the noble lord had suggested that the corporation of Liverpool held considerable property in trust for the maintenance of the church. If that were so, he begged to ask why, by this bill, it was sought to make a portion of the pay ment of the Liverpool clergy permanent on the people, instead of continuing, as now, temporary and gratuitous ? (Hear, hear.) At the present mome n t the corporation was bound to support the whole police force of the town, and yet this bill went to charge the public of Liverp oo l w ith tw o -thi r d s o f t h e expense of maintaining the increased and additional force. (Hear.) He knew, from information he had received, that the majority of the people of Liverpool were a d verse to t hi s measure, which he agreed in thinking was only an evasion of the promised govern ment measure of municipal reform. Other corporations were making similar preparations and arranging other devices, and as a proof be would read to the house a notice which had been given to him by au hon. member. The notice was to this effect: —"The corporation of Lincoln are now assembled in Common hall, to make a sudden disposal of all the property hitherto held amongst themselves, (Hear.) They had just broken up . the meeting, the decision being to convert the whole property into freehold immediately, so that if corporation reform takes plac e it cannot be made ava il a bl e to public uses." If the corpora tions were sincere in their wish for improvement, let them wait until, the general measure of municipal reform was brought for ward, without making precipitate attempts such as the present. (Hear, hear.) Lord STANLEY could not help thinking that the house would be more likely to fall into the error of coming to a precipitate conclusion, if it so far departed from its usual course as to reject this bill on the motion for its second -reading, and thus to deal with it on mere assertion, on one side or the other, instead of sifting those assertions before the proper tribtinal—viz. in com mittee. (Hear, hear.) He regretted that the hon. and learned Member for Tipperary should have thought it necessary to mix up with this subject those general attacks on the very name of Corporations, so general, when very shortly, he hoped, a measure for their reform would be brought finder the consideration of the legislature. The hon. and learned gentleman hail said that the Cast proportion of the people of Liverpool were strongly op posed to this bill. This was the point for fair inquiry before the committee upon the bill;• but surely the house would not deal with the bill on assertions, however adroitly introduced as rhe- torical ornaments. It appeared, in fact, that of the whole in habitants only thirty-four had recorded their voles against this bill. A petition against the bill also had been intrusted to the hon. member for Liverpool (Mr. Ewart) from sixteen indi- Viduals holding office in Liverpool; but that petition had been withdrawn, and those sixteen individuals ha.t, when their con duct in respect to this bill came under the revision of the vestry, been removed from office. (Cries of "No, no.") The number constituting the body from which the petition emanated wag eighteen, and of these, two had been re-elected by the vestry to office, while the sixteen who had petitioned had been replaced by others who were known to be in favour of the present bill. (llear, hear.) The question of church-rates stood -iii Liver pool iu a very peculiar situation, and even if the bill introduced by the government of Earl Grey, in reference' to church-rates, had been proceeded with, it would have h: en absolutely ne cessary to introduce in it special provisions for the town of Liver pool, "It was with this view that the parish, and not the cor poration of Liverpool, sought to combine in one bill the two great objects—viz., a proosion for an increased police force, and an arrangement with reference to their church-rates. In stead of throwing out this bill precipitately, let the house sift it from first to last. (Hear, hear.) The hon. and learned gen tletnau had not fairly stated the grounds upon which be sought to have the bill precipitately thrown out upon its second read ing. It had been agreed both by the inhabitants and the cor poration of Liverpool that this bill would give greater stability' to the maintenance of the clergy of that large and increasing town, and that might be the reason why the hon. and learned gentleman might wish to .throw out the bill, and thereby pre vent the completion of that benefice' object. (Cheers.) The hon. and learned member ought, howev er , t o remem b er t h at t h e. corpor a ti on o f Liverpool held a considerable portion of their p roerry under a grant to enable th em t o prov id e for t h e c l ergy of the established church in that town, which was daily rising into importance. (Cheers.) That grant had never been op posed either by dissenters or any other class, from the year 1702 to the time at which he was now speaking. (Hear, beer.) He therefore, under these circumstances, hoped the house *Gould not act with such injustice (as he must call it) as to postpone inde finitely this bill, but would refer it to a committee, by which its details could be examined, and he should also hope his noble friend opposite would not in such a case press the third reading until the house should have before it the two great government • measures on municipal reform and church -rates, when it could be seen whether the present bill contained any provisions which were inconsistent with those bills. This he suggested as a fair and proper course to be pursued on the present occasion. Mr. SHELL said he did not rise for the purpose of adverting to the very unprovoked attack which had been made upon him by the noble lord who had just sat down. (Hear, hear, and loud cries of " Order.") He perhaps had no right to complain of what he would not designate tevanton and venomous attack. (Great confusion and renewed cries of "Order.") He had risen to explain. (Cries of "Spoke,'.'. "Order.") Lord STANLEY.-If I have used a single word that is per sonally offensive to the hon. and learnid member, I beg his pardon. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. SHEIL again rose amidst loud cries of "Spoke," "Order." The noble lords words weie like the spear of Achilles, wound ing at one end and healing at the other. (Renewed cries of "SP o ke.") lie (Mr. Shell) rose to explain. He 'll4l. made no statement with respect to the town of Liverpool upon his own authority (as was alleged), but upon that of the hon. mem ber for Liverpool (Mr. Ewart), and of the hon. member for fWolverhampton (Mr. Thornely.) The noble lord had entirely orgotten those two hon. gentlemen, and had done him •(Mr. Shed) the honour of solely alluding to him. The hon. and learned member was proceeding with some further observa tions, which, from the confusion in the house, were wholly in audible, wh en Sir R. INGLIS rose and put it to the chair whether the hon. and learned member was not making a distinct speech, instead of confining himself to explanation. The SPEAKE R was understood to say that the hon. and learned member was in order in explaining the authority upon which he made his statement, but was certainly out of order in proceeding with comments on the speech of the noble lord the member for North Lancashire. Mr. SiiKIL said he should bow of course to the decision °Nile chair, however hardly lie felt he was dealt with. Sir R. INGLis said that in the course of his parliamentary life he had never heard any hon. member repeat an attack alter, ,luiving received such an apology as had been rhestie in this instance. - 111 r: FINN rose to order, but was wholly inaudible. Sir R. INGLIS said the hon. member for Kilkenny did not know him (Sir R. Inglis) if he thought to put • him down by interruption. The hon. and learned member for Tipperary was the first person in his (Sir R. Inglis's) memory (and he hoped.he would be the last) that, after receiving such an apo logy as had been made by his noble friend opposite (Lord Stanley), again and again attempted to come to the attack. (Cheers, and cries of "Question.") 'Phis being a supply night, he should rather have expected that the hon. and learned mem ber would have reserved himself for the motion in reference to the established church, of which he had given notice prior to the recess, for the present discussion rather bore upon the ob ject of that motion. The hon. and learned member might well have left it to those who were locally concerned and interested in the onestion. ("Question.")' • Mr. Witxs hoped the house would not allow the bill to pro- Ceed further, as he could state front his own personal knowledge that it had met with the disapprobation of the majority of the most wealthy and respectable inhabitants of Liverpool.— The majority of that population were dissenters from the esta blished church, and he was not astonished that the hon. and learned member for Tipperary should oppose the bill, when he recollected that 4-]6ths of the inhabitants professed that faith to which the hon. and learned member was attached. Not withstanding the repeal of the corporation and test acts, the corporation of Liverpool had not yet admitted a single dissen ter into their councils nor upon the bench as a magistrate, though the majority of the bankers in the town were dissenters from the established church. They had therefore peculiarly jest grounds for complaint, and rrtoe so with reference to this bill, which in truth was framed for the purpose of giving a perma nent appropriation of the public molter raised front dissenters as well as churchmen to the clergymen of the establishment (hear) t although the corporation was bound to provide for them. If the trust had been such as had this night been de scribed, how could the corporation of Liverpool reconcile their conduct for the last 70 years, during which the rector and four curates had been paid £l6O a year each out of the church-rates? (Hear, hear.) He hoped therefore,-on all these grounds, that the house would not proceed further with the bill. Mr. M. PHILIPS said that the object of the bill was not in telligible from the title. It professed to be a bill for the pur pose of forming a new body of conservative police, whereas, on looking into its provisions, he was as t on i s h ed to fi n d somet hi ng like:a church conservative bill. (Hear, hear.) He 'should sup port the amendment. . Lord SANDON said he was anxious to remove the impression which the observations of the hon. member for Manchester would convey, and to do so would read the title of the bill. It was entitled "A bill to provide a day police in the town of Liverpool, and to provide for the payment of the local clergy." (Hear, hear.) Colonel SIBTLIORP did not rise for the purpose of prolonging the present discus s i on , but t o s t a t e i n re f erence t o what had fallen from the hon. and learned member for Tipperary respect ing the corporation of Lincoln, that he was satisfied that body would come out.pure and unsullied from any investigation that might be instituted into their proceedings. Dr. BowaING would not have risen on this occasion, had he. not felt wounded by the observations of the hon. member op posite, which he considered to bear hard upon him as a dis senter from the established church. (Hear, hear.) He owed it to the great cause of religious truth and of religious liberty t.) protest against the attempt of the hon. member to throw oppro brium on the great body of English diseenters. (Hear, hear.) He did not intend to say any th'ng more (loud cries of "hear") except that he protested against all attempts to set up that house as a religious tribunal. (Loud cries " Hear" and "Oh, oh!") Mr. O'CONNELL rose to protest against this bill on behalf of parties who were large contributors to the funds which it pro fessed to regulate. His constituents, the inhabitants of the city of Dublin, contributed very largely to the.funds of the corpora tion of Liverpool. (Hear.) He protested against the bill on other grounds. Of these, one was that there were 4.5,000 catho lics in Liverpool. (An hon. member—"62,o(Xo.") He was reminded that there were upwards of 60,000 catholics in Liver pool according to the last census, and yet not one Roman ca tholic had ever yet been admitted into the corporation of that borough. (Hear, hear.) That was the boasted liberality of the corporation of Liverpool. (" Hear; hear," and a laugh.) The number of protestant dissenters in Liverpool was not small, and yet they were excluded, as well as the catholics, from the corporation. (Hear.) And still the house heard of charges of bigotry brought against those who differed from these oppres sors and exclusionists. (" Hear, hear," from the ministe rial benches.) He was not surprised at the course which the noble lo'rd had pursued with regard to this bill. He was not surprised at his including parsons and policemen in the same act; for the noble l or d was known to be friendly to one as well as to the other. (A laugh.) He contended that this bill was, a downright fraud upon the house. (" Hear, hear, and. "Oh, oh !") There was not one word iu the recital of it, there was not one word in the preamble, about the clergy. (An hon. member—" There is i n th e titl e .) Oh, yes, there was in the title; but when the committee reported that the allegations in the preamble were proved, they did not report that a single word about the parsons was proved. (Hear, hear.) Till you came to the 14th page of the bill not one word did you meet about the clergy: and there, 'at last, you found them under a clause of which the marginal note was "limitation of actions." How, in the name of wonder, could a parson grow up such a clause?" (" Hear, hear," and laughter.) He had heard of a turnpike bill, in which the mayor of a borough—he forgot whether it was Bristol or Liverpool —contrived to introduce a clause to send his slaves front one island in the West Ihdies - to another, in spite of any local acts to the contr ar y. (" H ear , h ear ," an d laughter.) In this bill the corporation of Liverpool made a strange jumbling of parsons and policemen • and that, forsooth, because they held certain f un ds in t ru st for the clergy. (Hear.) Now the corporation of Liverpool did not want an act of par liament to authorize them to exercise that trust. Oh, no; they only wanted an act of parliament to extend and enlarge it. (Hear.) There was something oratorical in stating that only thirty-four persons in Liverpool had voted against this measure, and in concealing . the fact that sixty-three had voted for it. (Hear.) When, in addition to that, they found that, no pro testant dissenter and that no Roman catholic had vo t e d upon it at all, had they not some kind Of proof that the inhabitants of Liverpool generally were not favourable to the measure ? (Hear.) " The plain matter of fact (continued Mr. O'Connell) is this—it is an attempt to frustrate the great measure of corpo ration reform ; which we have in contemplation to bring in. (A tremendous burst of hears' from the opposition benches followed this annunciation, accompanied also by some laughter.) I mean all of us on this side of the house, (hear, hear,) and some of you on that side, (hear hear,) for nearly all arc agreed on the ne cessity of such ameasure, (hear, hear ;) and in the meantim e this private bill is brought in and is to go to a committee; and then, when it is reported, by some accident or other, as has hap pened before, some gentlemen, who have not heard a word of its merits, may come down and vote for it, in defiance of all reason, and may get sixty three persons together to outvote us, who do know something of its demerits, whenezer, the question on.the third reading was to be decided." (Hear, bear.) The hon. and learned gentleman then proceeded to ask his opponents wh, if they want e d a p o li ce bill, they did no introduce a police bill y ? Why, if they wanted a parson bill, they did not introduce a parson bill ? ('-Wear.) Why this unnatural conjunction of thieftakers and preachers ? (A laugh.) It was a most pre posterous conjunction, and yet who made it ridiculous. (Hear, hear.) Was it those who attacked it, or those who, in drawing it up, had been guilty of so preposterous a combination as par sons and policemen? (Hear, hear.) He knew that insinua tions had been thrown out against hon. members on his side of the house by those who dared not speak openly. (Ministerial cheers.) There was not a'worse species of persecution than that of attackiuo men by hints •and insinuations. If any man in that house had been guilty of that which had beets foully and falsely stated elsewhere (loud cheers from the ministerial benches,) let us have it boldly stated here, where we can meet the charge. (Cheers repeated.) In these _remarks he was alluding to those who had insinuated out of the house what no man yet dared to assert within it. (Cheers from the,same quarter.) If there were any man in that house who b e li eve d in those insinuations, let him put them forth directly in wor!s ; till that was done he should treat them with sovereign disregard. (Cheers repeated.) Mr. GOULBURN said that the hon. and learued member for Dublin complained of those who insinuated motives against those who conducted, or took part in, public affairs; and yet the whole of his speech had been an insinuation of motives against those who had brought forward this bill. (Hear, hear.) He had stated that their intention was to obtain surreptitiously a provision for the clergy of Liverpool under the plea that it was a provision for the police of that borough. (Hear, hear.) No one, said the hon. and learned member, would understand from the preamble that the s bill contemplated a p rov i s i on f or th e clergy. But what was the title of the bill ? His noble friend the member for Liverpool had read it, and it was in these words —" Bill to establish a day police for, and to provide for the payment of an annual sum to the clergy 'of, the borough of Li verpool." (Hear, hear.) " But the preamble,"—said the hon. and learned gentleman—"does not contain one word about the clergy." (Cheers from the ministerial benches.) Was not the hon. and learned gentleman aware that there were two pream bles to this bill ? One related to the police, and the other, ad verting to the payment of the clergy, first stated the expediency of making a certain payment to the clergy, then explained the details of that payment, and last of all enacted how ft should be • made and enforced. (Hear, hear.) And that' 'being the bill, the hon. and learned member for the city of Dublin, in the face of all the facts, imputed to the hon. gentlemen On his side of the house the monstrous charge of acting surreptitiously, and even fraudulently ? (Great cheering from thwoppositiombenches.) 'file question before them, stripped of all superfluous matter, was simply this :—There had been an arrangemententered into by the interested parties in Liverpool for the establishment of a better police, and fur an annual provision for the clergy. Those parties had desired the house•to consider whOher that arrange ment was fair and . proper, and whether the funds which were now in the possession of the corporation of Liverpool for the maintenance of the clergy, and also of the police, separately, could be combined and applied to the maintenance of both. He insisted that common justice required the house to grant a com mittee to inquire whether it ought to affirm that ar r a ngemen t or not. " No,' said the hon. and learned m em b er for Dublin, " no, I will not entertain that arrangement, however favourably it may have been viewed by the inhabitants of Liverpool. I willnot hear or admit of any such inquiry, lest it bring princi ples to which I object under the favourable notice of the house, and therefore I will proceed at once to crush the bill." (Hear, hear.) That was not acting with comm on fairness. (Hear, hear.) Common fairness required that they should let this bill go to a committee—that they should inquire whether the corpo ration of Liverpool had a right to apply these funds as was now proposed, and that they should decide after inquiry upon the propriety of this bill. (Hear, hear.) Air. O'Coaisigu. said that the right hon. gentleman had checked and reproached him for accusing others of making insinuations which could not be dealt with its direct chames, and had at the same time accused him of dealing in insinuations against the promoters of this bill. Now he (Mr. O'Connell) had insinuated no charge. (Hear, hear.) What he had done was an instance of the difference between insinuation and direct charge. (Cheers from the ministerial benches.) He had made a direct charge, and not an insinuation, against the parties. (Hear.) With regard to the observations made by. the right hon. gentleman on the preamble. be would ()lily say, " Look at the bill, and ace what I have alluded to. Up to page 12, taking the entire preamble and all the clauses which follow it, there is not one word about the clergy to be found. In pave 13, in the section on the limitation of actions. you h ave for the first time,. by a rhetorical flourish, I suppose, (a laugh,) a preamble in the middle of a clause. (' Hear, hear,' and a laugh.) There we find the clergy fur the first time. That is a queer way of having .a preamble." (Hear.) Mt. GOULBURN.—The hon. and learned gentleman said that there was an intention to take persons by surprise (loud cries of " hear,") in introducing provisions for the payment of the clergy in a bill providing for the expense of the police. I stated, and I now repeat the statement, that the title specifies both objects (hear, hear;) and though the first preamble of the bill, which relates to the 'police, says nothing about the clergy, yet, before the' question of the payment of the clergy was entered upon, there is a distinct preamble in the bill respecting it. (Hear, hear.) • _ Au hon. member (name unknown) congratulated the govern ment on the accession which had been openly made to it that evening. (Hear, hear.) Mr.-POTTER said that the bill did not at first bear the title which it bad now. The title was altered, afterlks him._ friend near him (Mr. Swart, we "believe,)'had called attention to the difference between the title of the bill and its substance. (Hear, hear.) He .had always thought that the preamble of a bill was its first clause (hear, liear,) and the clause said nothing about the clergy. It would create no small surprise in the country to be told that they were in future to look to the middle of a bill for its preamble. ( A laugh.) Lord SANDorq ruse to address the house: but the cries of " Withdraw, withdraw," prevented him from proceeding. The house divided, when there appeared— For the second reading Against it Majority for the second reading .... 14' Silt WM. GOSSETT. Mr. W. S. O'BiiiEts begged to ask whether 'Sir W. Gossett had been removed from the situation which he filled in•lreland, and whether, if such were the case, the government could not find an Irishman to fill a situation so comparatively humble as the one alluded to? (Hear, hear.) lie did not put the ques tion in order to embarrass the government, but it , was a thine much desired in Ireland that such situations should be filled by Irishmen. Lord J. Russat.r. expressed his regret that he could not then answer the question of the hon. member. LORD PALMERSTON. • The Earl of DARLINGToN had also a question to .put to the noblelord opposite on a subject of some importance. He had seen the appointment of Lord Palmerston to the office of prin cipal secretary for foreign affairs gazetted,- and the qUestion he wished to have answered was, whether it was intended that the noble lord should be raised to the dignity of a British peer, or whether any vacancy was likely soon to occur which would en able him to obtain a seat in that house? (Hear, hear, and great laughter.) He (Lind Darlington) asked for expl ana ti on on these two points, because it was unprecedented th a t th e noble lord—that a cabinet minister should continue to hold the high office he now filled without having a seat in either house of parliament. ( Hear, hear.) Lord J. RUSSELL said the noble lord's question involved a number of points. He first asked wlitither it was intended by the government to raise to the dignity of a British peer a eel.- taig individual ? Next, if any hon. member of. that house purposed vacating his seat to make room for the noble lord whose Caine had been mentioned ? And, finally, if he could neither obtain a seat in the other house of parliament or in that, whether it was his intention to relinquish the office to which he had been appointed - ? It might, to be sure, be a question whether there was any-body of elect4.irs who wt.urld be disposed to NPA Y 26, . elect the noble individual alluded to as th e ir representanre;, aDtl perhaps four or five or more other questions might be e/te'., l reference to Lord Palmerston's retention of the officeoriblez6t, secretary, but they were all, he (Lord J. Russell) must sabu la questions of so extraordinary and novel a nature that be "u nut be expected to answer them. The Earl of DARLINGTON.—Did the noble lord deny tbst it was unprecedented for a minister of state—a cabinet minister—: to hold office without occupying at the same time a seat in P al liament ? (Hear, hear.) to to Lord J. RUSSELL said that if such a state of things were II be of loneontinuance—if a minister of the crown were to 114, office fora hing time without being privileged to sit in P ar ' ment there would be some ground fur bringing th e matterbef o ±: the house; but that was not the case in the present instal!: inasmuch as his noble friend's absence from parliamen t ' merely temporary. Mr. A. TnEvon (as we understood) gave notice that on 1211 .1. e l.: day next he should move that the information received b y government relative to the riots, in consequence of the poor by amendment act, in Bedfordshire and Eastbourne, in Suss ex ' laid before the house. IPAL CORPORATIONS. Lord J. RUSSELLMUNI gave notice that he should, on Monday tb! Ist of June , move fin. leave to bring in a bill for the bette r re e lotion of the ' municipal corporations in England and Vi° (Loud cheers from the ministerial benches.) DISSENTERS' MARRIAGES BILL. Sir R. PEEL then moved that the dissenters' marriages bin be read a second time. After a short discussion the bill was read a second time a nd ordered to be committed that day three weeks. COLONEL FOX. In answer to a question from Colonel SIETHORPE, LO RUSSELL said that it was not the intention of g overnmen t " transport" Colonel Fox to Canada as a commissioner. ARMY ESTIMATES. Lord liowicx moved the several items of these estimatet which were all agre e d t o w ith h u t ver y li tt l e co mment fr ° ' either side of the house. The Douse adjourued at twelve o'elpck FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. The prom monstre still.progresses in Paris, though the Ol rest which the proceedi n g s at first excited is fast evapora t l The capital continued tolerably tra nq uil. Th e m arriage of t i , Princess Marie with Prince Leop o ld o f N a pl es is conliden t 'l stated to take place next month at Pontainbleau. The greatest uproar prevails in Madrid. The Prime Min is. ter, Mattinez de la Rosa, narrowly escaped assass ination . 1 • leaving the chamber the other day, the foremost of his assal t ants being National or Urban Guards. Queen Christine vras Aranjuez, and it is not expected will ever return again to the cain tal. The greatest disorganization exists in the troops under: command of Valdez, while the victorious Zumalacarregui , full march.uon Vittoria with thirteen battalions. The inter vention of France seems now to be seriously spoken of, , measute about which we consider a great deal more will be saT, than done. The next intelligence from the Spanish capital wl " be highly important and interesting: " Portugal continues tolerably quiet. Nothin g further h as transpired relative to the fresh nuptials of Donna Maria. The affairs of Austria, Russia, and the Northern PoweFsl present nothing of consequence to'remark upon. save the de"! . of the Emperor of Austria's indisposition. Belgium and 11 ' 1 land remain in state quo. BUENOS AYRES. We have t.eceived, by the Cora, which arrived on Satur d el Buenos Ayres pap ers t o the 10th of March. They contain particulars of a mos t a pp a lli ng crime -the murder of Genq a .. .uiroga and his retin ue , consis ti n g . of nine persons. The tseed neral was on his return from a mission, having been appni. l2 „. tir mediator in the differences which compromised the tranclui" ll „ of the provinces of Salta and Tucuman. The frightful ge n ; occurred at a place ca ll e d B arranca Y aco, about niOteeof leagues from Cordova, ab o ut e l even o ' c l oc k on th e morning the 16th February. The mediatory commission was travellino at a slow pace on accp.int of the delicate state of General Q 0 1; roga's health, when arrivin g at the above-mentioned sphuscaeot, whi,e, c is a thick wood, a band of villains, who bad been in a m busca de' suddenly rushed out upon the coach, discharged their carb ines, and commenced the work of ex t erm i na ti on an d h orr or, the el . ecution of which was facilitated by th e ra pidit y o f t he surpris e and the fatal confidence with w h ic h th e un f ortuna t e v i c tims tr s ,:, yelled. A courier, named M ar i n , was t h e on l y pers on 1.4 " escaped the massacre, and h e owe d hi s sa f ety to h aving been` short distance in the rear of th e coach. Various conjectu r : were afloat at Buenos Ayres as t o th e mot i ves f or t h e u trociou deed some that it was political,. others, that it proceeded fr ore private revenge or the act of robbe rs . Th e event h a d p r oduced a powerful sensation in the Argentiue capital. Dr. Nlaza, the Governor, ad interim, had, in conseqnence the difficult situation of the count's - , aggravated by the la' events in the interior, resigned his office. The house of repre sentatives accepted the resignation, and General Rosas had bee n nominated Governor for the ordinary term of three years, with the investiture of e xt r a or di nar y p owers for such time as the Wo e might deem expedient. MECHANICS' INSTITUTES: Under the head of " HUMBUG," the Times of Friday las t contained the following letter addressed to its editor. " Sir,—Your readers and the public may have observed I n. your journal of yesterday, an account of the annual meeting o' the London Mechanics' Institution, at which speeches wet. e made and prizes distributed. Of the prizes, the two chief, It should seem, were given—one to a man named Clifton, for 0 0 essay " On the ill effects of our present Patent Law, and nn the claims of inventive yenius"—it is not said who Mr. Clifton is—the other TO A VERY YOUNG MAN, A SMITH AND BELL' HANGER BY TRADE, FOR AN ESSAY ON EDUCATION. OW' prizes are awarded to three youths for their proficiency Its short-hand. Proceedings like these really cease to be objects of mere derision: they are detestable and noxious humbugs! 19 it credible that the people, many of whom are complaining s O clamorously of the pressure of taxation, can be duped out 0 their money by such tricks as these—" A very young man, bY trade a belt-hangur, rewaided for an Essay on Education ?.; Would he were a man-hanger instead of a bell-hanger, an d then he might dispose o f M r . Clift on f or hi s E ssay on the of Incentive Genius. Poor Barrington is dead long ago, anu his inventive genius first struck out, we believe, the art of pick ing pockets by Itiechanism ! I am sorry to see a certsia Baronet sacrifice, inadvertently I trust, to the god Demoger gon. He ought nut to be seen in the company of such men 39 those with whom he was there assembled, except in a certain house, indeed: I don't of course mean the new deformed House of Commons. The object of his ambition is, like himself, O s honourable one—the love of bis countrymen ; but let hint not mistake: those were not the people of England whom he Wet there, but the curse and bane of the people of England—nnen who obtain a temporary popularity by cheating and tricking the people of England; whom they wiil at the lust leave in the lurch, without obtaining for them one single benefit of an! , kiwi, except making them discontented, and drawing theta from their avocations, by which they might obtain real advance ment in life, be benefits. The hon. baronet, however, is not often seen in the company of these vagabonds. Butt " a mall cannot touch pitch without being defiled." Dr. Birkbeck too- Why is he not attending his patients; or if he has none, why la he not striving to get some ? The study of the claims of " In ventive genius" will but ill supply the place of that of Hippo crates and Boerhaave. " The whole is humbug, humbug, humbug ! but still there is this of method in it—that those who practise it are seeking their own advantage, at the expense of the public. " ANTI-HUMBUG." SCRAPS FROM TUE MONTREAL HERALD 150' APRIP. Radical gentlemen have droll notions of humour and justice. The Assembly of Upper Canada is divided into a radical majo rity and a conservative minority. The former cannot exceed 35, and the latter cannot fall below 25. The assembly furnishes itself with newspapers at the publics expense. Where the two parties are so nearly balanced, a few' conservative journals ought to be ordered; but the majority has decided otherwise, and has resolved to withhold from the mi nority every English paper but the Morning Chronicle, the Despatch, the, Spectator and the Examiner. Such a stretch of power, if one may speak seriously of small matters, is infamous. There must be ample employment for a Court of lropeacit ment in Kentucky. There are now fire of the Circuit Judges of Kentucky ar raigned before the Legislature of the state on trial, anti two others have resigned. The lion, which was presented by the Emperor of Moroco President Jackson, has been bought for dollars by the of a managerie in Boston. A HINT FOR THE LADILS.—it was stated in a discourse re cently delivered before the members of the American l►,stitute , that therp were annually consumed in the United States mole silk than all the wheat., corn, rye, oats, flaxseed, biscuit, potatoes and hops which are exported will pay for, by nearly two millions of dollars I' ! Think of this, ladies, and beware how you extend the dimensions of your sleeves, or we shalt be compelled to add cotton to the appalling list. NORTH DEVON CONSERVATIVII Ctrs. 7 -OH Friday last a meeting was held at the Public Rooms in Barnstaple, for the purpose of establishing a "North Devon Constitutional and Conservative Association." lt was with unspeakable pride that we witnessed on this occasion an assemblage of wealth, intelli gence, and respectability, which we never remember to have seen before met together within the precincts of this borough. Above three hundred persons were present; two hundred au l. fifty of whom, we hear, enrolled themselves previous to their departure, and many ate making daily applications to be ad mitted as members. It being market day, some of our mot respectable tradesmen were prevented from attending by real occupations ;- others, we-happen to know, aheentegi-thens;Jelves from the fear of giving offence in quarters where, we have good • reason to believe. similar power of intimidation will, ere long, be greatly lessened. The meeting, however, went off to thu entire satisfaction of its promoters. L. W. Buck, Esq., was unanimously called to the chair. The tirrii, loyal, and able way in which he addressed the meeting, produced tne most rapturous applause. Sir Trevor Wheler, T. W. Harding, Esq., and many other gentlemen, came forward, shortly, proposing and seconding various resolutions, and though last, not least, Arthur Chichester, Esq., M. P. for Honiton, was loudly called for He spoke right manfully and constitutionally; his generau• flow of language did honour both to his heart and to his heat's He was enthusiastically cheered during the whole of his speech • andconcluded amid the loudest plaudits.—North Decor. User. NATIONAL. TRIBUTE TO SIR R. Par :L.—The eagerness marl fested to contribute towards the shilling subscription w hich hes been set on foot in this town for the purpose of presenting some tribute of respect to Sir Robert Peel is beyond all precedent. The list of subscribers surpasses all expectation; and. if followed up through the kingdom, a national tribute my be offered which shall deserve to be handed down to the right honourable ba ronet's'ddscendants. We would suggest the propriety of form ing.i,mmediately a committee in London.—Brighion Gazette , . Lady Howard de Walden had, a few days ago, nearly poisoned herself, by a large dose of laudanum she swallowed, by ro rs- . • taking it for some other medicine. A timely application pt emetics administered by Dr. Martin, of his • Majesty's ship Hastings, who fortunately happened to he on the shore, removed the powerful narcotic, and her ladyship is now out of all (Lange!. though not without having suffered much inconvenience.—Li' - bon Correspondent of the Morning Herald. VOTE MANUFACTURING.—The Cornwall Gazette contains the following letter, which is both worth reading and preserving. illustrative of the system of vote-manufacturing :—" Sir, I hr d the curiosity to attend the polling of voters at Tavistock on Monday last, on the occasion of the election for the south: rn vision of Devon. Whilst there a person named Charles Buller. jun., polled in favour of Lord J. Russell. Ou inquiry, I found that this gentleman was the learned member for Liskeard, and, conceiving that one will filled so important a situation ( was a man of large estate,' my curiosity was tardier excited. I exa mined the registry to ascertain of what the learned gentleman's qualification consisted, and found that he was pOisessed of a rent-charge ofdls,a year,' recently granted him out of an es tate belonging to Sir William Mcles worth, the mem; 4ir for East Cornwall. " Oss;•.!..4'szon." " May 6, 1835."