The Northern Daily Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-17 00:00:00

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TO SHIPPERS TO THE WEST COAST, FINE BLEACHED WAX, AND STEARINE WAX, SPERMACETI AND STEARINE CANDLES, Suitable for the West Coast, and other markets. FRANCIS J. EATON, 7, Exchange•chambers. Apply to 1D J. NODDER HATTER, 81, CHURCH-STREET, Begs respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry of Liver pool that his NEW STYLES for the Season are NOW READY for Inspection. EVENING EDITION do- An Evening _Edition of Me NORTHERN DAILY TIMES is now Published every Afternoon, at Three o'clock, containing Me Markets, together with all the News of the Day, up to Me hour of going to Press. Tim ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION TO THE NORTHERN DAILY TIMES is TWO GUINEAS PER ANNUM. E4e 3qurt4trn (Tian THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1856 THE PALMERSTON Cabinet were defeated on the Maynooth Grant Bill on Tuesday night. This being a question of great national importance, and one which the Government cannot abandon, without an open violation of principle, the country must have Leen surprised to find that the defeat of Ministers was not followed by an announcemeut of a formal resignation of office—not that we by any wish it on this particular question. So long as any Church is supported from the consolidated Fund, so long will the Roman Catholics have a claim to grants for religious purposes. While the Protestant Church of Ireland receives 700,0001. a•year for its twenty-three per cent. of the Irish population, the Roman Catholics, and all the other religious seets,have an indisputable claim to 38,0001, for their seventy-seven per cent. No really im partial man will deny this. We know that a great variety of qualifications are employed in these d ays , to get out of what the Americans call a fix," but still a strict sense of justice must pre- We must all know, that if 38,000/ is enough for the religious wants of 77 per cent. o f any population, that a like amount ought to suffice for means 23 per cent. It may not be thought exactly right to treat the question in such a narrow commercial spirit; but fortunately, when we come to he actual am oun t th e E s t a blished Church receives annually from the Imperial Exchequer, reason able men may easily persuade themselves that we are soaring into regions of romance, or revelling amidst the spoils of a Lahore or Sebastopol. .700,0001. is the figure for which the Established Church of Ireland appears, year after year, on ce sheet. This is what the reformation in the Sister Isle bunk it high limo that some ne should be made to those , our national balan work of spir costs us, and we return of the work who have to pay their money for such purposes. n England we have something more than 77 per cent. of the population's spiritual wants supplied without the aid of one sixpence from the national purse. Pro. testanism has lost none of its primitive vigour by assenting to voluntary contributions for its succour. The followers of JAMES Fox, WESLEY, the Presbyterians, and all the other Protestant sects who cling to the Bible as their rule of faith, have not decreased within the last twenty years, during which time the Established Church of Ireland has received 14,000,0001. of money out of the public coffers ! We will not, however, push this argument any further, as we believe there are few subjects which ought to have been more studiously avoided at this moment. It is a matter which not only excites the wildest passions and at home, but it draws down upon us the attention of every foreign country. If this was the object of the majority of the House of Commons on Tuesday night—if the Government should be driven from office at this critical juncture by their division, we can only rely on the cool discretion, patriotism, and moderation of the House of Peers to defeat Mr. SPOONER'S manifestly unjust mode of dealing with the claims of the several religious portions of the community. Had the ultra-Protestant party to which Mr. SPOONER belongs brought forward a bill to discontinue all State grants for religious or church purposes, he would then have found the genius and voice of the age in his favour; but as it is, he offers a gross out rage to the Dissenters' sense of justice, and an unprovoked insult to every Roman Catholic in the realm. If this is to be the reactionary policy of the Opposition, so immediately after the close of a most bloody war, we think we need scarcely point out the necessity for the less rabid portions of the British public's supporting the present Ministry at any hazard. Mr. SRooNzu has shown us what he would do, and his party have shown us their strength ; and, if they are resolved to persist with their Maynooth Bill, they must either be foiled by an agitation in favour of the immediate abolition of all state grants for Church purposes, or Lord PAL3IERSTON must advise her, MAJESTY to dissolve Parliament, that the Maynooth question may be 'tried at the hustings. We must have no intestine warfare going on, while (all is doubtful abroad. England needs that repose for which she has been shedding her best blood, and paying millions of treasure, to secure to the rest of Europe. If we are not to have this, let us have an oppor tunity of testing the real strength of public morality. under the old Constitutional standard of a general election. Mr. SPOONER and his supporters can scarcely desire anything half so straighforward, but a decisive step must be taken, and at once. We have no great cause to be satisfied with the PALMERSTON policy in the management of the war, or with regard to the terms of peace, but on this Church question, he will not commit a great injustice in order to cloak a grievous wrong. The country should, there fore, support the PRE3IIER, not that Maynooth may be subsidised at the public expense, but that all Churches may be made to provide for their own support, and enabled to say with ST. PAUL, " Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought : " but wrought with labour and travail night and " day, that we might not be chargeable to any of " you." Mr. SPOONER will doubtless despise this doctrine, but if he should provoke the Dissenters to speak out, he now knows the source from whence they will date their opposition to all Church endowments. LIVERPOOL has just beheld, in the person of Lours KOSSUTH, the greatest hero of the age, and the most immortal among the European statesmen whose deeds the historian has to hand down to posterity. We have lived to see that man com bating in the councils of despotism, subduing cruelty by his determination, banishing injustice by his frown, and winning the pampered hire lings of tyranny over to the cause of morality by his truth, his eloquence, and unanswerable reason ing. It is before such men that the mightiest monarchs quail, and from such patriots and sons of mercy, nations borrow their highest, moral, and God-like attributes. We have seen KOSSUTII throw down the gauntlet to a despot who could boast of 400,000 bayonets. We have seen him at the head of an unarmed and unprepared people , exasperated to madness by years of unparalleled oppression and misery, burning with a wild spirit of revenge ; frantic with joy at their sudden release from their chains—their impassioned love of freedom inflamed by signal triumphs on every battle field. Hurried onward to renown by these tempestuous elements of civil war, we saw him raised to the supreme post of honour and power, and by moderation, and all the loftiest aspirations of humanity, turning the current of long-smothered passion and deep-rooted prejudice into the channels of toleration, and securing equal justice and protection to all classes of men. It is not often we see men who have played with the sword of victory those humane and truly magnanimous parts which they have o ft en pourtrayed with their pens, and advocated with their tongues. Visions of renown have perverted the noblest of minds, but we saw in KOSSUTIT a man whose understanding was equal to magical successes. The sincerity of the Patriot, unswerving adherence to justice, and ceaseless devotion to the cause of humanity, bore him onward against all the stern realities of an armed struggle. He had broken the chains and dispelled the horrors of domestic tyranny in a fair, though desperate fight, when a foreign despot was suffered to step in to crush a nation whose love of independence, and Constitutional freedom, has been the admiration of all ages. KOSSUTH, though defeated by this treason to the world's civilisation, says little in the way of rebuke, and knows no despair. He looks on the Concordat as the substitution of a spiritual for a temporal despotism; and caring not what mask the destroyers of his country's nationality may assume, he sees in the surrender of sovereign political rule, the restoration of the inquisition and the downfall of spiritual dominion. He tells fanatics that they may forbid the reading of Hungary's history in her national schools—and infidels, that they may prohibit the reading of the Bible, by her enlightened and tolerant people, while he ventures to predict the result, and calls on history as his witness. We may never again behold so brilliant an orator, so ernest a patriot, or so great a ruler, pleading for the civil and religious rights of his people, in a land of freedom, where every man enjoys the right of worshiping his Creator, according to the dictates of his own conscience. KOSSUTH asks for nothing beyond what every Englishmen demands for his country, and this he 'seeks at no greater sacrifice than the abandonment of that expediency which caused us to " drift" into war in 1854, H e informs us that the native language of the Magyar is to be banished from the schools of Hungary, and TIE NORTHERN TIMM—LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 18Se. the German tongue introduced in its place. And he would have the whole world beware of the dangers to be apprehended from unions of kingcraft and priestcraft, such as that into which the despotic FRANCIS JOSEPH and Pius IX have just entered. Now, if all this was addressed to the British public by a man who had disgraced his name and his country by a useless effusion of blood,• who had abused the sovereign power vested in who was a political shuffier, renegade, or a bigot in religion, we might be disposed to treat him with contempt, and heap upon him the ignominy such mortals deserve. But who can gainsay his histori cal reminiseenes, the conclusions which the past enables him to arrive at, as regards the future, the political degradation and revolting torture his country is enduring at this moment ? It therefore, behoves the friends of civil and religious liberty throughout Europe, to hear what this experienced politician and defender of their sacred rights has to say. If money could buy him, KOSSUTH had long since been silent or raised to the highest pinnacle of distinction, but he prefers having all the punish ments of exile, and the poisoned shafts directed against the truth,than the richest reward that traitors can bestow on falsehood. We need no other proof on this head than the simple fact that he is amongst us to-day, and not in Vienna. He tells us as a Protestant what his co-religionists have to expect, and what his Roman Catholic countrymen have to prepare for, from the Concordat. Yet Kossum leaves out of sight the great impracticabilities of his Despotism is the first of these, religious persecution the next, and cruelty the thing most abjured by the DEITY. Society has grown, and is growing, rapidly in the fullness of this abjuration and the world's enlightenment has created a universe of necessities and endless regions of resources. Men are no longer content with being good, unless they are great Here, spiritual as well as temporal des potism have to combat with those whom cotton exalteth, and the want of breadstuffs, which humble nations to the dust. Mankind would never bear beyond a certain pressure of misery, or a given weight of tyranny, and whatso ever may be found, in these days, to interfere with society in those pursuits in which goodness and greatness may be, and are allied, it must disappear like chaff before the wind. times We can have no spiritual dogmas, which assume, that every man is a barbarian and pagan, until he surrenders his freedom of action and thought to the keeping of others. We shall never again see spiritual tariffs regulating the commerce of millions of our species, or States denied all social intercourse with each other, because one happens to be heretically inclined and the other purely orthodox. Such things are impracticable— the merciless shedding of blood is impracticable —keeping up of overwhelming armies for the coercion of society is impracticable—the main tenance of innumerable dungeons and the machinery of religious tyranny is impracticable, as the first neglect or oversight in the direction of the economic and material affairs and interests of any civilised country would speedily demonstrate. Such things may, however, be attempted. FRANCIS JOSEPH, for example, may be induced, if he has not already created a necessity for keeping a large force under arms, to continue the Austrian army on its present footing, in order t o give full effect to the Concordat. But what Oorter cut could he take to beggar his subjects, and throw open the gates of Vienna to KOSSUTH, or any other honest and enlight ened Reformer ? England may be nulled into keeping up her present military force for a year or two, but the Ministry who would ask this country to continue her war establishments in a season of peace will require more than an ordinary amount of political effrontery and moral courage. The people of this wealthy country cannot bear it, cost —nor can any other State except they adopt the policy of Austria, and waste all their strength on san guinary spoliation and nnbridled tyranny, and leave themselves at the eleventh hour without a bayonet or a friend to defend them against their enemies. Finally, we were glad to see that Li ver p oo l gave the noble Hungarian Chief a hearty reception, and we trust that his present agitation will open the eyes of England to the position of Austria, with her newly imported danger, as it threatens the peace of Europe. THE COURT THE LEVEE—The Queen held a levee on Tuesday afternoon in St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and the Prince Consort arrived from Buckingham Palace soon after two o'clock, escorted by a detachment of Life Guards, and were received at St. James's Palace by the Great Officers of State. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar attended the levee. The Duke of Norfolk had an audience of the Queen, and delivered to her Majesty the Ensigns of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, worn by his father the late Duke. The Queen and Prince Albert entered the Throne Room attended by the Duchess of Sutherland. Mistress of the Robes, the Countess of Desart, Lady in Waiting, and the Great Officers of the Household. Her Majesty's train was of pink satin, covered with English lace, and trimmed with bows of pink and white satin. The petti coat was of white satin, covered with English lace, and trimmed with bows of white satin. The Queen had on her head a diamond circlet. The Foreign Ministers, including Mr. Dallas, the newly-arrived American Am bassador, were introduced, when the following presenta tions to her Majesty took place in the diplomatic circle:— By the United States Minlster—Mr. John M. Bixby, Mr. Frederick M. Kelly, S. H. St. George, Esq., a gentleman of Baltimore. The diplomatic and general circles were numerously attended. In the evening, her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, honoured with her presence the performances at the Lyceum Theatre, which opened in its new capacity of the Royal Italian Opera House. The theatre w,:s well filled, but not crow led. The Queen and Prince Albert occupied the Royal Box. The Royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desart, the Hon. Miss Stanley, the Hon. Miss Kerr Lord de Tabley, Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Francis Seymour. The Duke of Cambridge also honoured the performances with his presence. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO CHATHAM HOSPITALS.— Yesterday afternoon her Majesty and his Royal High ness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal, attended by the Countess of Desart, Lord de Tabley, Lord Alfred Paget, Colonel Francis Hugh Seymour, the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, Major-General Wyld, &c,, left Buckingham Palace shortly after two o'clock, and proceeded to the Bricklayers' Arms Station, Old Kent-road, in two of her Majesty's carriages and pairs. The illustrious party travelled by special train, arriving at the Strood terminus of the North Kent Railway at half-past three o'clock. At Strood Statior. a guard of honour of the royal marine light infantry received her Majesty. On the arrival of the royal party at Strood , they entered two of her Majesty' s carr i ages, d rawn by four horses, and outriders in scarlet liveries , which had been sent from London fo r th a t purpose, and proceeded to the supplemental hospital at Bromp ton barracks, when on their arrival at the drawbridge a royal salute was tired from the Spur Battery, and the royal standard hoisted at Fort Amherst. O n her Majesty, Prince Albert, and suite arriving at Chat ham garrison, they were received by Colonel Eden and other military authorities, who attended her Majesty in her visit to the Crimean wounded heroes. The directors and other officials received her Majesty and the Prince on their arrival at the various railway stations. MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The Cotton Market continues steady, but the demand has not been so active, but holders con tinue to offer their stocks but sparingly, and prices are without change. The sales to-day amount to 12,000 bales, 3,000 of which have been taken on speculation and for export. The Liverpool Share Market has been firm and steady throughout the day, but the amount of business done has not been large. Prices closed steady at the following quotations :-Aberdeen, 131 131. Chester and Birkenhead, 151 16. Caledonian, 301 301. Chester and Holyhead,l6l 16*. Eastern Counties, 10 1-16 10 3-16. E as t L ancas hi re, 1 91 191. Great Northern, 231 231. Ditto A, 91 108. Great Western, 641 65. Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 89 89k. Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 17 171. London and North Western Stock, 1011 1011. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 298 291. Ditto Pref., 111- iii. Ditto New 6 per cent. Pref., 7-16 9-16 p. Midland Stock, 75 751. North British, 8 13-16 81. North Staffordshire, 6 bid. South Eastern and Dover, 21 15-16 22. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 191 198. York and North Midland, 281 281. Leeds Capital Stock, 151 16. Buffalo and Lake Huron, 1 15-16 2p. Dutch Rhenish, 11 14. Great Western of Canada, 261 26 15-16. Ditto New Shares, 31 31p. Ditto 2nd issue, 31 31p. Great Luxembourg, 7 71d. The foreign mails have not yet arrived, account of the boisterous state of the weather; con sequently, the usual reports of the Continental Bourses are not at hand. Telegraphic accounts from Constantinople state that the Ottoman government has decided upon permitting the entry of Russian merchant vessels into the Bosphorus. The Royal Mail Steam Company have issued circulars to their shareholders, inviting them to be present on board one of the company's boats to witness the approaching naval review at Spithead, which it is expected will be an unpre cedentedly grand affair. A meeting of the shareholders in the Royal Swedish Railway Shares is fixed for the 17th prox. for the following purposes. Ist. To consider and adopt a scheme for the raising o f further capital, either by loan or by the creation of, preference shares, and to make such alterations as may be necessary in the existing rights and interests of share and obligation holders in the company. 2. To make such alterations in the statutes, rules, and regulations of the company as may .be requisite for the above objects. 3. To adopt such changes as may be necessary in the direction and administration of the compay. According to a circular from Messrs. Schlasser & Co., of St. Petersburg, issued by Mr. H. Willis, it appears that the supply of tallow thence was expected to be 103,000 casks, being 10,000 casks less than last year. The price was 411 to 431 per ton, on board. Of hemp the supply was not expected to amount to more than 800,000 poods, being only 13,000 tons, but of very good quality; price about 261 to 271 per ton for clean. Of flax and tow about 900,000 poods are expected, or 15,000 tons, offine quality ; price about 311 lOs for 12 head. Of linseed about 320,000 chetwerts are expected, being about 224,000 quarters, and the price is 32s to 40s per quarter. Of wheat about 340,000 chet werts are expected, being 228,000 quarters, and the price is 40s to 45s per quarter. The Funds showed a little flatness this morning, but soon acquired increased strength, and closed to 1 per cent higher than yesterday, the final quotations being 931 to 931. The steady invest ments of the public continue to afford the chief support to the market, and suffice to counteract the depressing influence which is exercised by the dearness of money and by the anticipation that another government loan will be required during the present quarter. In most departments of Stock Exchange more elasticity is observ able now that the arrangements incidental to the settlement have been completed. The most striking feature is a further rapid rise in several descriptions of French Shares. There was a good general demand for money to-day, but in the Stock Exchange the rates were lower, the excep tional pressure occasioned by the settlement having subsided. At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes closed at a rise of 1 to 3 per cent. The Corn Market to-day was quiet, at Monday's decline. All the country markets held yesterday, report a decline. Great interest is excited in Paris by the competition, for the concession of the great Transatlantic line of steam communication. No less than seven associations are applying for this privilege. With the conclusion of the settle ment the Market for Railway Shares has assumed a firmer appearance, speculators for higher prices conceiving that they have fair scope for their operations during the fortnight which will inter vene before the next settlement comes on. Most of the heavier securities advanced 1 to per cent to-day. The following are the closing quotations Caledonian, 611 mg. Eastern Coun ties, 10 10* East Lancashire. 76 78. Great Northern, 941 951. Ditto A, 78* 791. Great Western, 641 641. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 89 891. London and North Western, 1011 1011. Man chester Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 281 291 Midland Stock, 741 751. North British, 35 351. South Eastern and Dover,' 731 73/. York, New castle, and Berwick, 781 79*. York and North Midland, 561 57. DEATH or EARL COWPER.—We deeply lament to an nounce the sudden and premature death of Earl Cowper, which took place at. Maidstone on Tuesday evening, while the noble earl was on his way from town to his seat at Wingham, Kent, of which county his lordship was Lord-lieutenant. The deceased nobleman, who was born in 1806, was the eldest son of the fifth Earl Cow per, by Emily Mary, daughter of the first Viscount Melbourne, (now Viscountess Palmerston), and is the eldest brother of the Right Hon. William Cowper, president of the board of health. The late earl married in 11333, Lady Anne de Grey, daughter of the present Earl de Grey, and has isssue, Viscount Fordwich, (now Earl Cowper,) and other children. The immediate cause of death, is said to be disease of the heart. LADIES' COLLEGE, BLACKBURN E ROUSE.— A lecture on Modern German Poetry was given at the college yesterday, by Dr. Carl Retslag, the professor of the German lang nage. THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.-011 Saturday, in accordance with the recommendation of the Lords of the Treasury, the whole of the employes of the Post Office received an advance of wages. We have been requested by one of the Overseers of Everton to state that the church rate which is inserted in the poor rates bill, was put in without their knowledge, or that of the superintendent assistant overseers, and that it has been ordered to be struck out. FATAL ACCIDENTS.—On Tuesday evening, Anne Gleave, the wife of a labourer, went with her husband's tea to where he was working, at the south end of a pile of timber, and sitting down where some men were at work, a piece of timber fell and killed her on the spot.—Edward Brown was killed yesterday, in Burlington-street, by a lorry passing over him. SOUTHERN AND TOBTETH HOSPITAL.—WEEKLY REPORT, APRIL 16, 1856.—1 n patients :—Discharged : cared, 12 ; relieved, 0; at own request, 2 ; irregular, 1. Dead, 1 ; entered, 19 ; under treatment, 52. Out patients : cured, 48; entered, 62; under treatment, 54. Treasurer, James Houghton, Esq. Visitors, J. Farnworth, Esq., and B. Platt, Esq. Honorary chaplain, Rev. D. T. Barry, B.A. Physicians and surgeons for the week, Dr. Cameron, and Dr. Petrie. House surgeons, Mr. E. C. Garland, and Mr. William Townsend. LIVERPOOL ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCH2EOLOGICAL SOCIETY.—The usual periodical meeting of this society was hold last evening, in the Royal Institution, Colquitt-street. Mr. Hay, the president of the society, took the chair. • There was a very large attendance of members present. The secretary read the minutes of the last meeting, and announced the following donations to the society since the last meeting :—The Land 'and Building News, the Literary Gazette, the Irish Reporter, Nos. of the publications of the Architectural Society for 1855. The secretary then read the report, of the architectural competitions committee, the contents of which were to have been discussed on th's occasion. Some conversation then ensued as 'to the best means of discussing the report, and on the motion of Mr. Bennett, seconded by Mr. Froilsham, it was agreed that the report should be printed and circulated amongst the members of the society, and that a special meeting be convened for Wednesday next, to take the whole subject into consideration. Mr. G. H. Rollett then read the third of a series of papers on "the Wallasey Embankment," which was listened to with great attention, after which a vote of thanks was accorded to that gentleman, and the meeting separated. We regret to announce the death, in his 68th year, of the Right Hon. Colonel Dawson Darner, 0.13., some time M.P. for Portarlington, and afterwards for Dorchester. INCENDIARISIC—Information has been received by the Metropolitan Police of the total destruction of several wheat stacks, ricks of hay, and hay sheds, supposed to be set on fire by incendiaries, at Chatham, High Leigh, and at Hendall. RUMOURED ABDICATION OF KING LEOPOLD.—The Belgian journals are openly alluding to the abdication of his Bel gian Majesty. Is it a canard t Very likely. Yet there are circumstances that lend to the rumouur a certain air of probability. His Majesty is a Protestant, and ultra montane reaction is dominant and rabid in Belgium. The Duke of Brabant, the heir apparent, is a bigoted Roman . Catholic, and has lately been courting public attention to an unusual degree. If Leopold resigns the Crown of Bel glum to young'and less tolerant hands, the friends of free dom in Europe may have reason to regret his Majesty's abdication. The proscribed will see the rights of refuge circumscribed still more stringently, and the Belgian people will feel more sensibly the pestilent rule of Jesuit ism. —Morning Advertiser. COURAGEOUS CONDUCT IN HYDE-PARE.—On Sunday afternoon, whilst the Right Hon. the Lord M ayor was walking along the banks of the Serpentine, a child play ing on the bank with a dog unfortunately fell into the water. A young gentleman who was passing at the time instantly plunged in and rescued it, and it was conveyed to the Royal Fi umane Society's receiving -house. A mob soon assembled round the young man, and among them the Lord Mayor, who asked the name of the courageous youth, which he declined to give, and walked away in his wet clothes. His lordship ordered the incident to be entered on the society's books, so that the young man may receive a medal if he should wish for it. AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS BlLL.—This bill has been brought down from the Lords. It requires the Poor- , law Board every year to take measures to obtain from every occupier of two statute acres of land (and above) in England and Wales a return, referring to the Ist of July in each year of certain particulars of information, including the produce of the farm and stock, &c. Abstracts of these returns will be published periodically by the Board of Trade. Any oc cupiers neglecting to fill up the blank form which will be left at his house for the purpose, may be summoned before a justice of peace, by whom the required particulars will, so to speak, be extorted ; the expenses of this proceeding will, of course, be paid by the occupier. Should the occupier refuse to obey a summons, or fail to give all particulars on exami. nation before the justice, the latter may issue a warrant authorising the collector of returns "to proceed to obtain by other means the said particulars of information" the ,4 other means" including a personal inspectton by the collector of lands and premises of the refractory occupier. A fine of £2 will be imposed on occupi ers neglecting to, make, or making false returns. The bill awaits the approval of the House of Commons. MAILS FOR SWEDEN.—lnformation having been received that the steamship London, .under contract with the Swedish Government for the conveyance of mails between London and Gothenburg, is about to re-commence running, mails will be made up at this office for transmission by vessel on each occasion of her departure from Lon don. Letters forwarded by this route will be 'liable to the same rate of postage as letters sent via Ostend—viz., Is. 2d. for a letter not exceeding half-an-ounce in weight, 2s. 4d. for a letter exceeding hal-an-ounce but not exceed ing an ounce, and so on, according to the scale for charg, ing inland letters. This postage may be paid in advance, or the letters may be sent unpaid, at the option of the senders. Upon newspapers a rate of ld. must be paid in advance. The London' is appointed to sail from London every three weeks, the next departure being on the morn. ing of Sunday, the 13th instant, and letters posted up to the usual hour on the Saturday previous will be in time. All letters and newspapers addressed to Gothenburg and Uddewalla which are in this office at the time of making up the mail, and are not addressed to be sent otherwise, will be forwarded by the London, but ]::tiers and news papers for other parts of Sweden intended to be forwarded by this vessel must be specially addressed "per steamer London.—By command of the Postmaster -General, Row- LAND RILL„ Secretary.—General Post-office, April 12.: i W ... 0 l•ii' IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNESD AY The SPEAKER took the chair at twelve o'clock. PRIVATE 13ITISINESS. The Gravesend Imp rovemen t Bill was, on the mo tion of Mr. BROTHERTON, re-committed to the former committee The Gloucester G as Bill was rea d a second time and. ordered for third reading. Numerous petitions were presented against the gr Ma) nooth, and the Oath of Abjuration Bill. Mr. J. O'CoNNELL presented a petition from praying for an enquiry into the fall of Kars. Mr. WICKFIAM presented a petition from the eons lary of the West Riding of Yorkshire, asking tha t a pensation clause should be introduced into the Police Bill. Mr. E. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. BALL presented a petition from sha,reholders of the Eastern Counties Railway against a bill to enable th e directors to raise money by loan. The SPE AKER o b serve d that the presentation of th e petition was inform a l, as it had reference to a private measure. QUALIFICATION OF JUSTICES OF FRAM The House went into committee on the Justices Of th Peace Qualification Bill. 0 t The amendme n t was adopted extending the Was"'„,. Ireland.. A discussion was then raised respecting the qualifi of Lion of magistrates, which led to the consideration whether the measure would be retrospective or not' A it ,Mr. CO LVILLE , w h o had charge of the bill, cons idereu , would be merely p rospective, but the Chancellor of t" Exchequer and Mr. Bouverie expressed a contra/1 opinion After two hours' discussion, Mr. IL VE RNON move d that the chairman shou ld rep ort The committee then divided, when there progress. appeared Ayes...,, Majority Mr. FIT ZROY th en l e ft the chair and the House res nmed. '-- MINISTER'S MONEY (IRELAND) BILL. f s er'i On the motion f or th e second reading of the 1101--t Money (Ireland) Bill, Mr. HAM ILTON moved, as an amendment, that theinbig e 4 be read a se con d ti me that day six months. He "e lf . a the charge of th e m i n i ster ' s money to be siwP,i-ired charge upon prop er t y , which bad been act under it, and if an y i n j ust i ce was inflicted, it wou ld eebp its abolition. The act was originally passed in 16 65, : a order that per s o ns , w h o h ad acquired the con fiscat ed property of Roman Catholics, should be charged uponlo 4 the property for th e support of the Protestan t c lergJ . certain towns in Ireland, and its removal now woul d gll the owners of the p roperty a benefit to which the)" Wero in not entitled. The act was amended by Sir J Yeun'ncl a 1854, exemptin g h ouses b uilt in future from the tas' ""fie he thought that settlement should be considered final" could not under s t an d upon what principle the ecc losi3 so, cal commission should be compelled to provide fu nds en t substitution of the ta x , an d h e h oped the G o vernm would not consent to the proposition. Mr. MEAGFIER argued that the ecclesiastical conall 3l Io was the proper source f rom which to obtain funds fo to the support of th e P rotestant church. It was loi ns ' o . tax the Rom an C a th olics and Protestant owners of that perty for such p ur p oses, and some of the houses to would be liable t o the tax had been built subseque nt the imposition. In Mr. A. BLA CK d rew a comparison between this ~,r Ireland and the annuity tax in Scotland, both of wh : oh a% he considered unjust. It was not the amount of th e . 00 that was complained o f, b u t the feeling of the injustice and unscriptural nature of the'impost. Mr. 14Itata. followed to the'same effect. e 9 . Mr. J. FITZ GERALD was h ere i ntroduced, an d took th oaths and his seat on hi s re-e l ection for Enn i s , on his appointment to the:officel o f Attorney-General for Irel and- The debate was then resumed by Lord BERNARD, who looked upon the tax as a de b A t due by the property o f cer t a i n corporate towns in Irela‘,l to the Establish e d Ch urc h , and for that reason he w°ll not assent. to the proposition to abolish it. Mr. HORSMA N ob serve d th a t when the tax was imP:' sect ija in the reign of Ch ar l es 11 ., P rotestants alone were to' it, and he thought now that Roman Catholics had right to be exempted from it. The question was nc' t mere local one, but was to be considered as out rot many involving the principl e o f t axa ti on o f pro perty ecclesiastical purposes. With regard to the intentiow:c; the Government with respect to the measure, be s t, that having so r ecen t y passed an act supporting the tag' they could no t now hastily advocate its abolition. ISTl3eg the Government w ere sat i s fi ed of the failure of the c3cl3ij law, they wo u ld b e prepared to consider the questi°ll of further legislation. Mr. NAPIER seconded the amendment. way . of Mr. J. FITZ G E RALD po i nted out difficulties in the "" - ... . of tb! enforcing the payment of the tax. measure, Mr. Whiteside an d M r. M aguire supported the and Lord John Russell opposed it. f th e After some rema r k s f rom M r. Fagan, in suppo rt ° measure, the House divided. The numbers were 121 201 For the measure, Against it Majority against the bill 80 A NO The Reformatory and I n d us t r i a l Schools Bill ' reV a second time. The Exchequer Bill s (e 2 1,182,700) Bill was rea d a Or a time and passed. The House rose at a quarter to six o'clock. n RECREATION O F THE PUBLIC.—The King of Sweu A e i s o bi d , made a present to th e c it y o f S tock h olm of a little ja w situated opposite to the Royal Chateau in the ~,e li t Malar. For the futur e thi s i s l an d w i ll form a maga"' promenade open to the public. THE SHARESP ERE ANNIVERSARY.—Great preparataay are making for the celebration of Shakespere's at Stratford-on -Avon. Thi s ann i versary festival to r a oa place as usual o n St. G eorge ' s day, the 23 r d instan t ' gr• will on this occas i on, b e un d er the presidencY,,,,, ° ' oar Benjamin Web s t er , th e c h a i rman appointed by c mittee for the present year. DESTRUCTIVE F IRE N EAR E DINBURGH.— Th e go mentions that a fire broke out on Sunday morning 1. t he Caledonian Distillery, near the Haymarket Station ° boa Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. It had in st ,,ieio erected, and was one of the largest and most coM„P„," 000 Scotland. The property destroyed was nearly .`"' in value, but the building and machinery escaped- the CALCRAFT, THE EXECUTIONER.--On SaturdaYt t aldermen forming the g ao l comm i ttee h e ld a meeting aided, Guildhall, which Calcratt, the public hangman, attofiaid,, to explain hi s con d uc t a t t h e execut i on of 8° 115 ,. 0 )( 1 The meeting was strictly private, but it is Tin`l er ' s to that Ca ' craft's s erv i ces are to be retained, and that hie have an assistant. the 13w EXTRAORDINAILY BIRTII.—O n S un d ay morning 7.- h-n, of April, betwee n t h e h ours of eight and ten, Mrs. D' 1 Agdo T wife of Edward Phi n , a guard in the service of the A'`l.l4l and North Western Railway Company, residing 3 ", i ,,1ir• Scofield-street, Blo oms b ury, /Armin ham was safely u „,%11 ered of five children— th ree boys born alive ' an d doing " and two girls born dead. .crO, - - - elu i , LIFE grz THE PUNJAUB.--Fro m 1851 to : Aca-, inredsiv 7 no less than 743 child ren were killed, and 137 i n J u r . ,• r iod wolves, leopards, and b ears. During the eagle 918 wolves, 90 leopards, and 14 bears have ben aestr"ipt The Judicial Commissioner expresses his co nvictio , ,,'.. t. the above retu rns d o not represent the actual e xt-' the evil.—Lahore Chronicle. THE AUSTRIANS IN PARMA.—During the last Is dozens of persons, arres t e d f or supposed pol i t i ca l OP' have been sent off t o M an t ua . Military law s I with the utmost severity. Th e Austrians sly ; 0 no long trials—" The guilty w ill b e shot, an d the 111,e set at liberty." The wh o l e ma l e population weartu3" have been shaved by authority. EXTRAORDINARY CONFESSION OF POISONING. -- day last a woman calling herself Eliza Hanna, ani gadener to Lady Annesley, at Castlewellan, that she was the wife of a.: man named Hanna, lb r lt police . barrack in Downpatrick, and confessed that , t o living at Castlewellan, about a year ago, she poisooet:10 of her children by giving arsenic to them. She ga i v ,; lfl self into the custody of Head-constable Wright, w',., 1- co rn her brought before David Harrell, Esq•, J•P•9 r4 l `"ftlrE milted for further examination. The bodies of children arc to be exhumed.—Banner of Ulster. -cr The following hoax appears in La Palma, a Cadiz Pepin —" Most people will, doubtless, be surprised at le 3 r 7 to , that the celebrated English minister, Lord Pa ll , e fo tnr contemplates retiring into private life, and fixing his enterei(Nllt residence at San Lucar-de-Barrameda. We learn, %jos authority, that a negociatiou i s going on far the P u t " lot of a magnificent property, on which the ontuen intends settling with his family, and where . he h o p es teo e, spend the last days of hi s agitated and celebrated ex,l6 , e a o f amid the perfume of o range groves and under the shade gigantic olive trees." LATEST INTELLIGENCE, THE CONGRESS PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The sittings of the Plenipotentiaries in Confer ence concluded to-day. The representatives of the Great Powers have been occupied on the consideration of questions of detail, namely, the free navigation of the Danube, the internal regulations of the Principalities, the limitations of the frontiers, and the situation of the Christian population of Turkey. Commissions have been charged to regulate the details on all these points. THE PEACE. A further despatch from Paris announces that the ratifications of the Treaty of Peace are expected to arrive in that city about the 23d instant. The Earl of Clarendon's return to London is mentioned as likely to occur in the early part of the ensuing week. FRANCE. We have this moment (3.20 a.m.) received the following (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) • PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. All the talk of the diplomatic and political circles is, at this moment, about the speech which Lord Clarendon delivered on the state of Italy, in a recent sitting of the Congress. In this speech, his lordship denounced in very vehement terms, the system of governmment which pre vails in Naples and Rome, declared that it is a danger not only to Italy, but to Europe, and that it is impossible for any government, in the present advanced state of civilisation, to disregard altogether the popular will, and to govern according to its own arbitrary pleasure. His lordship it is said, required that his speech should be mentioned in the minutes. It is said also, that the speech caused great offence to Austria, as was natural, not a little to Russia, and some to France. On dit that the government has received by telegraph the news of the ratification of the treaty of peace by all the powers. The Congress met again to day, and, as I told you yesterday, its next sitting is expected to be the last. The Constitutionnel announces that the christ ening of the Prince Imperial is fixed for Monday, the 9th day of June, and that it will take place with exactly the same pomp as was displayed in the baptism of the son of the first Napoleon, the King of Rome. The same journal says that after the ceremony the Emperor and Empress are to attend a grand banquet and fete at the Hotel de Ville, and that grand rejoicings are to take place at St. Cloud, and other towns, in which there are Imperial residences. Prince Napoleon gave a grand banquet to the Plenipotentiaries in the Congress yesterday, but I am told that neither the Austrian nor Prussian Ambassadors was present. If this be true, the fact is not devoid of gravity. The Duke de Broglie, the new member of the French Academy, paid a visit to the Emperor on Saturday. His Majesty said, with more art than he generally displays, " Duke, I am glad to see you ! I have read yOUf inaugural speech with great interest, and thank you for what you said of my uncle. But I doubt not that when your grandson comes to speak of the coup d'etat of December he will use the same language as you did in speaking of the 18th Brumaire !" A treaty of commerce between Russia and Prussia is about to be negotiated. A Credit Mobilier Society is about to be estab lished at Warsaw. Accounts from Constantinople to the 3rd have arrived. AtVarna hostile demonstrations had been made against a Pacha by the Christians for having assaulted a young woman. There had also been disturbances at Katkiara and other places. A decline of 5 per cent. had taken place in specie. Russians vessels had obtained permission to enter the Bosphorus.