The Express.
London, England, 1852-04-03 00:00:00

HARWICH WRIT.

Mr. T. DUNCOMItE moved that Mr. Speaker do issue
his warrant to the clerk of the crown to make out a writ Gs
the electing of a burgess to serve in this pro vent parliament
for the borough of Harwich, in the room of Robert Wigrans
Crawford, Esq., who.. eli Minn ter. been deb rminoil to b..
void. 'lire Imo. men.t. r said that when ho mole this !no-
tion on the previous evening, it was under the impression
that it was acceptab,e to that (the opposition) side of the
house, but ho now found that ..he cue was otherwise. Me

mints/ awl died dry were bound either to insist on in-
quiry or le eerier& to the issuing of the writ.
The gaieties baring been pat,
Kr. BOOVERIB moved ea an amendment that no
warrant should issue during the present session. He
dissented from the hen member's statement that the house
had bat two courses to pursue—either to inquire or to
Wee the writ; they might upon their owe knowledge
suspend the issuing et the writ. (Hear, hear.) They all
knew the facts of the case with regard to this borough
without any more inquiry. Suspension under such circum-
stances was quite •eonstitutional practice.
Mr. NEWDEOATE thought it very unjust that small
boroughs should be sacrificed on the shrine of u morbid
sensibility about corruption.
Sir DEL. EVANS did not think that the character of
the tenant farmers was concerned in the question before
the house. (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman opposite
(Mr. Newdegate) complained of the morbid sensibility of
gentlemen on that (the opposition) side of the house with
regard to corruption, but the government supported by the
hon. gentleman and his friends had also introduced a bill
for tho purpose of putting down corrupt practices at eke-
tions. The case of Harwich was a very peculiar one ; in
no other borough had curb malpractices been committed.
The right hon.'gentleman (Mr. Walpole) was unable on the
previous evening to point out a single case of a similar
gross character ; but as the house hail thought fit to refuse its
assent to the motion for inquiry, lie did not think there
was a fair ground for suspending the writ. (Hi ar.)
Mr. K. SEYMMIt said that there was no proof of cor-
ruption at the recent elections for the borough.
Mr. ROEBUCK raid the suspension of the writ was
most improper proceeding, and the sooner it was stopped
the better. (Hear, hear.)
After a few words from Mr. Bright, Sir R. 11. Inglis, and
Mr. Cobbc Id,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that from 1594 down
to the present time writs had been continually suspended,
and the issue of writs directed not to be made, except in a
full house. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the particular
instance of corruption before the house he owned there
' was some doubt, but as the writ had been so long suspended
he did not see that any practical reasons had been urged
for discontinuing the suspension. When in office he had,
in concert with his right hon. friend (Sir G. Urey), agreed
to oppose the motion for the issuing of the writ. Though
he had seen no reason to change his opinion, as it was the
opinion of the house that the writ should bo issued, he
would suggest to his hon. friend the member for Kilmer.
nock to withdraw his amendment to the motion before the
house. (hear, hear.)
Mr. HUME was surprised at the course taken by the
house, though he certainly ought not to be surprised at
anything which occurred there. (A laugh.) It was note-
rious that the last elections were attended b as great an '
amount of bribery as the former. (No. no. It was true
that the last election was not set aside on t e ground of
bribery—(divide, divide)—but there was no doubt that
bribery had prevailed, and he thought, therefore, that the
suspension of the writ should he continued. (Divide.)
The ATTOItNEY-GEN ERAL consideml the noble lord
a high parliamentary authority, but the precedents which
he (Lord John Russell) had mentioned were all prior to the
passing of the Grenville Act. Was the noble lord prepared
to favour the house with any precedent applicable to the
peculiar circumstances ? It was rirfeetly true that in DM
there was a strong representation submitted to the house no
the subject of bribery is Harwich, but the house refused to
make any inquiry Into the circumstances, declaring that
they were not sufficient to justify disfranchisement.
(Hear, hear.) If ever there was a condonation of an offence,
it was the conduct of parliament towards Harwich.
(Hear, hear.) Since 1847 no acts of bribery had taken
place, tho house had refused to issue a commission
of inquiry, and he thought it was tho duty of the house to
allow the borough its representative. (Hear, hese.) If they
did not, they would commit an set of gyms injustice. The
noble lord said he had seen no reason to change his opinion,
and yet be suggested to the hon. member fur Kilmarnock to
withdraw the amendment, and allow the writ to be hissed.
He (the Attorney-General) did not think such a course con-
sistent. The government would support the issuing of the
writ. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. ANSTEY mid a few word., which, from the general
cries of " Divide," and " Oh, oh!" were quite inaudible.
After a few words from Mr. DEEDES and Mr. Mowarr,
Mr. BOUVEHIE said that in compliance with the sug-
gestion of the noble lord he would withdraw his amend-
ment.

Amendment withdrawn. The original motion for the
issuing of the writ was then agreed to.
REPAYMENT OF ADVANCES (IRELAND).
On the order of the day for the second reading of the
above bill,
Mr. F. FRENCH complained of the manner in which
Ireland had been treated with regard to these advances, as
calculated to destroy her industry and depopulate her
shores. lie begged to recal their attention to the mode in
which the Irish poor law had been established. The repeat
of the original committee was disregarded, and Mr. Nichols
was sent over and in six weeks settled the question. Mr.
Nichols stated that under no circumstances would more
than 100 workhouses be necessary, whereas at this
moment there were 163. lie stated that 312,0001.
would be the greatest annual expense, but that in ordi-
nary years 208,0001. would be sufficient. It was unneces-
sorry to say how far this estimate had been exceeded. With
respect to the items for which the bill legislated, he ob-
hcted to the first of 1,200,0001., but the second he believed
ad been useful and fairly appropriated. Neither did he
think them was any objection to the third, but he thought
it should not be culled up until the works were completed.
lie should move that the bill bo read a second time that
day six months.
Alter a few words from Mr. O'Ftalisavv,
' Mr. GRATTAN said, that Ireland had been wronged and
plundered there could be no doubt. The right hon. gen-
tleman the Chancellor of the Exchequer smiled, but he
(Mr. Grattan) did nut complain of him as he was no party
to it. What he wanted to know was where the money had
gone to ? He was sorry that the bon. members for Mont-
rose and Manchester, besides all those members who op-
hposed the Irish members on this subject, bad all left the
ouse. Ireland had been charged with a sum of four
; but what had she got by it ? Had the poor been fed,
or the people kept at home, or their moral condition im-
jectsproved ? Certainly not. The poor-law had failed in its ob-
,
besides which in 1849, the expense eattendant
on it had been four times as great as it was
in the year it was passed, the year of the
failure of the potato crop, which was the alleged cause
of its necessity. Look at the sum charged for workhouses.
Were the (sets not enough to exdte the indignatian
of so irascible a gentleman las the honourable and
learned member for Tunghai, and, if he had nut been ab-
sent, no doubt they would have had a suitable speech from
him, accompanied by those remarkable gesticulations with
which he was accustomed to " Adonise " himself.
(Laughter.) In the workhouses in Ireland the people
died at the rate of 1,000 a week. He hoped the govern-
ment would adopt a plan he would recommend, which was,
to direct the hon. and learned member for Portarlington,
who held an office in the Ordnance, to order out a park of
artillery, and blow every workhouse in Ireland down.
(Laughter.) That was the only way to keep the people
alive—(laughter)—and to have peace ; but, as it was, they
were killing the people at the rate of 1,000 a week under
the special care of Mr. Nichols. The hon. gentleman then
went through parts of the bill, which he declared no one
could understand, and inquired whether any part of the
four millions was to be remitted, or if it was all to be
paid back by annuities ? If so, he did not know how it was
to he done.

Mr. CLEMENTS was not anions to get rid of the work-
houses or the poor-law, but to see them work out the ob-
jects intended by them, and therefore ho wished to exa-
mine this bill. its purpose was to legalise a treasury
minute of last year, which proposed that in every case in
which the expense of any union reached is. is the pound,
the repayment of the advances should bo so adjusted as not
to cause this sum of 41. rn the pound to be exceeded. Even
if this were so, when the county cess of 2s. in the pound
was added to it, it raised the local taxation to Gs. in the
pound, while in England the average woe not quite 2s. Gd.
in the pound. lie wu not ono who would repudiate the
payment of advances, if it were practicable, but he com-
plained that the treasury had kept the house and the people
of England in the dark uto the real state of things. (The
hon. gentleman was proceeding to comment on the report of
Sir Charles Trevelyan, when he was interrupted 14)1
..... . - .

Mr. TRELAWNY, who said—l rise to order. I have
overheard words pass between two hon. members which
are calculated to lead to a breach of the peace.
[lt will be necessary to explain that while Mr. Clements
was speaking Mr. Ansley, entered the house, and after ad-
dressing several members, evidently inquiring what had
been toil with respect to him by Mr. Grattan during his
at.ence, took his seat on the hint opposition bench by the
table. Mr. Grattan crossed the house and sat down next
Mr. Anstey. Some animated conversation paned between
them, after which Mr. Grattan rose and left the house.
Mr. Trelawnythen rose to order.]
Sir A. COCKBURN said ho had been an unwilling
hearer of words passing between the hon. members for
Toughs! and Meath, which he thought required that
they should be called on to state that wha' had passed be-
tween them should go no further. (Hear, hear.)
The SPEAKER said that the proper course was to order
the hon. member for Meath to appear in his place.
[Cries of "Oo on."] The attention of the house hail
been called to the likelihood of a breach of the peace being
intended between two hon. members, and the proper course
wee that a motion should be made, calling on the hon. mem-
ber for Meath to attend in his place.
Sir A. COCK SUltN—I beg to move that—
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was about
to rise to make that motion, and he begged to second it.
Mr. O'FLAIIEI(TY could see no reason for ordering
the hon. member fir Meath to appear in his place. An hon.
gentleman had drawn the attention of the house to circum-
stances of which at present they knew nothing, and they
had been called to decide upon the elf et of certain words
when they had not heard what they were. (Ileum., hear.)
He would not on such grounds veto for any gentleman's
being called to the bar. (lieu, heir.)
Mr. LABOUCHERE could conceive no other course for
tho house to pursue than to assent to the motion of the
right hon. gentleman (Mr. Disraeli). An hon. member
lvid risen, and had informed the house that he had heard
the holt. members in his neighbourhood make use of
language which was calculated to lead to a breach of the
peace.
Mr. O'FLA HERTY—Aye, aye; but what language?
The O'GORMAN MAIION—Who knows anything
about it?

Mr lABOUCIIERE continued—And, under these cir-
cumstance., the house would do right in insisting upon
the presume of one of the hon. Gentlemen implicated.
At this point in the "scene," Mr. (i RATTAN reentered
the house, and took his seat.
Sir A. COCKIII'UN begged that the hon. gentlemen
oppositc. Mr. O'Flahcity and the Oliorman Mahon)

would not hold him responsible for having first drawn the
attention of the house to this matter. It was the bon. gen.
tleman behind him (Mr. Trelawny) who bad first asked
the interference of the Speaker; and on the circumstance
being mentioned, he (Sir A. Cockburn) had thought him.
self called upon to state what he had heard.
Sir I'. NUOENT begged that the house would under-
stand that he had followed his hon. friend the member for
Meath out of the house with the intention of potting mat.
ten right. Ills argument with his hon. filen:: was that
anything that had been said in the house might to be
answered in the house ; and he had asked his hon. friend to
return to his place and await the answer which the hop,
member for Youghul might think fit to make. His hon.
friend had returned to his place, and so far matters hod
been settled, and the house would know what answer the
hon. member for Youghal would make.
Mr. TItELA WNY accepted all the responsibility of in-
terfering in this most unpleasant matter. He hoped he had
; not done wrong. [Several Irish members—" V. ry wrong,
I very wrong." wng.") Ile had acted with the hope of preventing
further eousequenews. [Several Irish member, -" Pooh,
pooh'.
The SPEAKER—The lion. member for Waif, listing
returned to his place, it is necessary to withdraw motion
made in reference to hint. At the same time the house will
minim to hear something from the lion. memoirs, that
neither honourable member will proceed further in regard
to this matter.
Mr. 0 RATTAN—I am very cony, for the sake of oho
house, that anything I am connected with should take op
its time. I addressed the house in refereo.o to the huts,
member for Youghal, without intending to give any offence,
geeing the hon. member afterwards inakirg inquiries in
this house, as to what I had said, I crossed over to him end
offered hint the document respecting the Youghel Union,
from which I had quoted. Thereupon, the hon. member
used to me thew words: "It is on your pelt neither
courteous nor courageous." • that I mallet . "Coura-
geous is not a word to be used in that way in this Loom."
Anil then, air, I left the house. (Loud cheers.)
Mr. A NSTEY.—The hots. member is perfectly corral is
the repot he has made of my words. But he has omitted
the circumstance which pines those words a meaning. Ile
crossed over to this hide of the house when I was woke.
vowing to ascertain the na.ure of the attack 11l ule upon
me during my absence; and, in an excited m .iiner, the
hon. member said to me, " You hate come back, end you
should ban been here to defend y' ur borough." I Said,
" That is no business of yours." lie said, "It is." And
then I said, " To make an attack on me in my absence fur
o neglect of duty was neither courteous nor courageous,"
These were the words I used and those were tier reasons
for using them.
An llos. Mumnta.—But withdraw them,—withdraw
them.
Mr. ANSTEY—I do everything, of course, due from me
to the house.
Mr. MAHER—Oh, but that won't do at all. (Roars of
laughter.)
Mr. ANSTEY—If any exolanation is necessary I am
perfectly willing to give it. But Ido not understand that
the offensive language, or the offensive manner of the hots.
member has been explained, or even alluded to; ..rod um:et
those circumstances the house will really see that it is not
for me to speak first. (Cries bf " Oh, ob.")
The SPEAKER—Is the 11021ta to undortand from the
hon. member for Youghal that the hon. member dots not
mean onything personally offensive to the hon. lUvlllbet for
Meath ? (Cries of " Hear, hear.")
Mr. ANSTEY—(Atter some hesitation and a very
solemn voice)—l mean, Sir, nothing perso.olly a H naive to
an man. (Roars of laughter.)
The SPEAKER—Is the hon. member for Month satis-
fied with that explanation?
Mr. GRA fTAN—The hon. member says lie does not
mean anything persoraily olliinsive to any man. Now, j
am a man; mid I ani therefore quite satisfi..l. (Great
laughter and tremendous cheers from Mr. WI-lotion, and
the O'Gorman Mahon.)
Tho O'GORMAN MAHON (who rose amid cries of
" No, uo," " Sit down")—Sir, I wish ouiy to make Otte
observation that may he of some use. I have to express a
hope that nay lion. Bitola opposite (Mr. J. Clement.) will at
once proceed with his address, and this chlitioual hope
that the house will never again degrade itself by entering
into such personal matters as loin occupied us Miring the
last floe minutes. (Cheers, and laughter,)
The " scene" then closed; but it eras some lime before
the indications of excitement and amazement sole ided.
Mr. CLEMENTS renewed his neldress to the home;
but, in the prevalent " burs " we die not catch his few roe
maining remarks,

Mr. U. mooltr: would not support the met:on of the
hon. metntier for Roscommon (Mr. F. French': anti he
believed that the hon. member had only propos. the mo-
tion for the purpose of obtaining the opportunity i.f making
a speech. lie would not either find any fault with the
I Present government. The conduct of the government had
been eiceeinigtry frank and straightforward. They had
done all that could have been expected from them, and
much more than was to have been expected from the late
government. (Hear, heat.) But he should like to know
how far the financial arrangements of the late governments
and on which this bill was founded, had met with the ap.
probation of the present government / (Hear, hear.) The
whole country party of I relaud—all the supporter+ of the
present government—were unanimous in complaining that
they were wronged in this matter. (Hear, hear.) They
demanded investigation into the circumstances, which
investigation, they thought, would bear out their ease; and
they appealed with all the more confidence to the Chancellor
of the Exchequer, knowing that his opinions, as her. to-
fore expressed, as regarded the burdens on land, soentiiely
accorded with their own. (Hear, hear.) It was ash many
years ago since the right hon. gentleman, supported on
the occasion by the whole of his party, had propow.d that
a very considerable portion of the relief of thé pauper-
ism of Ireland should be paid nut of the consolidated fund.
The argument urged at the time in opposition to the right
hon. gentleman, was, that local supervision was necessary
to economy, and that local supervision would be superseded
by a centralised system of relief. But such au argument
had no application whatever to a case in which
the relief had been governed and administered
by • centralised authority alone, and in which
local supervision and local authority were entirely
excluded from control of the funds, or from interference
with the expenditure. (Hear, hear.) Ho did hope that
the present government would act, in regard to this subjects
in conformity with their recorded votes and opinion.
(Hoar, hear.)
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER -I wish to
mind the house of the real question before us. The bill before
us is really • bill of indemnity, and the facts are the-e. The
late government, with, under the circumstance., a wise dis-
cretion, performed certain acts which the law did um justify.
They embodied in a treasury minute measures which they
deemed necessary in a period of exigency ; and it should
bo recollected that all the propositions on th.it minute,
though they may not have been so comprehensive
as may have been desired, or so extensive as sonic persons
may have hoped, were all propositions of arrangements of a
remedial and mitigatory nature. (Ilear, hear.) What-
ever may he the differences of opinion on the great ques-
tion which has been touched upon in the course in this de-
bate—namely, the relations that should exist between Eng-
land and Ireland with reference to claims made under re-
workable. and I may tiny unprecedented, Circumstances.
which will be fresh in the recollection of all present,
there can be but one sentiment as to the character of the
measures with which the bill under discussion is con-
nected. They were remedial measures—they w.-re mea-
sures devised to soften, to aimlierate, and to relieve ; and
therefore I could not have imagined that a bill like this
would have met with any opposition in this house, and
least of all could I hose conceived that an amendment, to
read that bill a second time this day six months, would
have come from Ireland, and from the member Ibr an Irish
county. (Cheers.) We can lay no claim to any credit in
connexion with this bill lave the humble credit of not
shrinking from doing justice to those who have preceded
us. The bill was prepared by the late government; it was
submitted to my consideration when I first entered °thee by
my predecessor; and it appeared to me that it was more
than a just, that it was an equitable and a kind bill.
It did not appear to me that in winctionino. it
I gave any general opinion uteri the large question of the
state of Ireland. It simply appeared to me notwithstanding
the peculiar circumstances of the session, anal notwithstand-
ing the anxiety which we felt not to crowd the paper with
numerous bills, but merely to carry out the measures which
were absolute'y necessary, that this was an absolutely ne-
cessary measure, and that it was what might be passed
without opposition, and even with warm feelin4o en the
part of Irish members. (Cheers.) It is unnecessary for ma
to vindicate this measure. I have not heard so yet a mur-
mur 'gaunt it. It is not pretended that this is a hill to add
to the taxation of Ireland. The relief which it se-
cures may be less extensive than is desired. hat
it Is a measure of relief, and it stand* on its
own merits. Those who support it are in n•
way pledged not to consider the larger question, and it is
therefore quite needless for me to vindicate • low not a
portion of which has been challenged, questioned, or criti-
cised. Some hon. gentlemen have intimated that they
would have preferred that the whole question should have
been considered through the medium of some larger propo-
sition. All I can answer is that this is a proposition
founded upon an examination of the facts, east as A direct
remedy to a certain extent for a peculiar and overpowering
grievance. Those who support it are not eteepp' from
bringing forward their general views on the subject ; hat
I cannot understand that any ono could desire that the
pas-ing of this bill should be postponed, as suggested by
the hon. member for Roscommon. The hon. member for
Mayo (Mr. Moore) has made an appeal to me, couched
in very ornate and courteous language, which I cannot
comply with, because I cannot see that it hears any ster-
e= to the question befere us. (Hear, hear.) It is enough
for me to may that I shall always be ready to uphold vile-
rally those opinions with re +poet to taxation to which the hon.
gentleman has referred. But I must say, not by particular
acts. (Hear.) Such principles as I have Lid doses 1 trust
I shall always assert, being convinced of their justice, and
feeling convinced that if applied in a spirit of justior they
would conduce to the advantage of the cemmunity.
(Cheers.) Undoubtoilly, in the consideration of a question
of that kind Ireland Is not to be mnitted. (Loud cheers)
I have never considered the question of local taxation and
omitted the question of Ireland. (Loud cheers.) On the
contrary, I have always kept the question of Ire-
land before the house, and I have 'hewn how
Ireland has suffered from an inequitable system of
local taxation. (Loud cheers.) With regard to the milers'
rendition of Ireland—as to tho cleitres, under which she
labour,; as to those burdensome engagements i omen it in
consequence of an unprecedented combination of eirrora-
static, s, from which she ho. not vet succoaseoqy , roc•I
I have no he- itatinn in raying that their is, on the p•rt of
her Maksty's government, a sincere desire to review thestate of Ireland in a comprehensive manner, w,tli the Mr
of supplying some effective remedies t" thoe tow-4210e.

Times of wl•ich then has been such load complaint.,
•
tams.) But I must tall the hon. member for Mayo that
thm, ia a task which is net to be undertakes in a
manner—(" How, hear," from lark
seen
-7,aa it certainly cannot be dons in a issues
wlfwhtea every occ.ision her Majesty's sown-
", like ether governments, are exposed to beim
(the
In *ember hours we say be
to survey the circumscircumstances like states :new, and to as.
shk
jitfi.,•at beawngs of all these various questions ow
, the other: and with such opportunity, I should ter-
-1.4 feel it to he the duty of the present goVernment—aad
j,tould certainly elect it from any government, as owe
eM ergruey--to consider the social grievances of
with the object of applying adequate remedies.
ibers) It was no idle boast .of my right lion. and
j, 11 friend (Mr. Napier), W edneaday, when he said
prepared to deal with the long-vexed question
74.1.,„nt and truant. that is a subject which had
at" kis attention long before the formation of the
Ltprat goe,rument, and, undoubtedly, there is much
to nide that great controversy. (Cheers.)
gir that alm is a ion stion unitconnected with the presest
ow. It is tri easy thing to come forward to this table and
oe rates of money to necessitous proprietors. Tha
toaster. is sot t.. mind the manner in which we should
wd eith the burdens on land. We must view that quer
caf mulct it. !Arisen aspect, We must endeavour to
on tree the eepest recese-s of the question, and to
Ire--le with all' it. most complicated eel diens. It is quite
w,* to maimpt to relieve the proprietor Of even theft:ta-
rla InLsod either from the burden of an imperial loan
wei,tht of local tasation unless, at the same
• ~ the tenure of that land is 1 laced in a more. rational
0„.1 satisfilory state-unless all those questions which
ars- iron the tenure of land are, at the Lune
• pat is a position which auxy slier some chance
.1 a es •re satisfactory state than that whah Inc many years
hen experienced in that country. (('hiss.) It is
..-h gf,. it the r imminent ore anxious to deal with
wt o .1 the a. Irish qui ," and when we have
*misty of viewinff that toestitas in all its vernier
is ar. it relations, we are prepared to consider
quidion of tl.e local location ut that country,
asks, the reticular burdens udo. which society new
edido it with an earnst desire to do what
es
Anefirer the eoadition of that country, and to
%es., the real sources of social grievances. This,
kern ien his nothing to do with the bill bc-
-1,, she beau. For that bill we are respon-
Et, WI. It is a bill of indemnity
k unrtiken for the is .1e( of a elms which is
!,....:tiassel thin riii.tht have been anticipated; and under
hope hon. members from Ireland will
;ammo th.ia thts o nut the happiest opportunity for a dia. !
tussles ot net... ter which bas prevailed. (Hear.)
NeNsl:ll w mid look anxiously for the realisation
hicit the house had just heard. No doubt
t, but it was see) desirable that
• I at rat condemnation of the principles
tat s'• ,•`‘ ti rt r. minim was based.
neattted that nothiag was done to give
ti to, satferistf welders( Irebtid. lf the government
1...; ....cc ter Ir..arid they might to tapers it frankly.
•,7 li. ti BARRON said be was rather surprised that
•• '.•.•1. ts.mbsr sh.add ask the present government to
,*.rir a 1..•.2.7. att. r he Mg a most abject sad consistent
.2;,ertir ci toe relies. of the IoM government, which had
Jr.. so mach sainbat in Ireland.

rata of the hone amid sat is anise the essninse, whet
a premien it nreiti be oat It ossolifiromoise to too
ton aloe amo es int atejseity ; bonen
know Act i<they seat nestles, "pond to the
et the knee nay would be liable to • anealsolee,
dsgrintiss et their rights whose it they
slops& the one nsey sense, whateveotre ad-
Vine' esivneloy would take masse, bro.) The
opposite (Mr. A anted to think
that Cirileatioe of the =Zvi be jest. bet Mr.
Pay speeldeg et Mr. led Mimed
I tho bows to les actuated by raided dais Ind pernmel
annises ; wed wee, therein% Ink to be • bikini ht
I dinned mane eases. Surely It went ma be less Mit
to nth feelings with regard to eemetlmmendes than with
re=to individual members. (Chien)
J. RUSSELL thought tho boa. pedestals had
taken an unnecessary alarms at the asses. Asentling to
the emendment them onset In the Sot phoebes report of a
select committee, that corrupt bed extensively
prevailed in the borough ; sad then mould always be
great difficulty in obtaining 'aldose, of that even in
boroughs where corruption was botorionsly very extensive.
(Hear, hear.) Well, but supposing that there we some '
evidence, the house would then ho asked to agree to an
address to the Crown for the appointment of a eemmiasion.
Then barristers, persons well qualified to take evidence,
would be sent down to the borough, or they might In cer-
tain came sit for that purpose in London ; and if there was
no legal evidence that bribery had extensively prevailed,
the run would full to the ground. (Hear, hear.) Halm
there wits a specific case, although there might be an
the borough would escape harmless, and no
farther procteilings would be taken. (Cheering.)
Supposing the borough to be corrupt, and the electors in the
habit of receiving bribes, then a report of the whole pro-
endings must be laid before parliament. Rut that would
sot disfranchise the borough. For that purpose a bill
must be introduced and receive the assent of parliament.
Neither would the provision carry tho powers of the House
ofeommons any farther than they at present existed. In
the [MC of Orampound he had acted completely on the
principle of this bill, and the borough was disfranchised.
It appeared to hint that there was no mode of proceeding
so satisfactory as that which had been adopted in
the cases of Sudbury and St. Albano, namely, that
of a special cvmmission. It was much better that
evidence should be taken before en impartial tri-
bunal, from sworn witne.se., •than that they should be
examined twice over by committees of both houses. Ile
thought the lion. member for Huntingdon had taken un-
founded alarm, for the power of the house would remain
the same. and if the hirough should prove to be thoroughly
corrupt, they could not do better than disfranchise it.
After some observations,
Mr. ANS FEY said he was inclined to test the sincerity
of the friends of reform, by proposing that the clause may
he postponed till they had a fuller attendance on that aide
of the house.

The CIIANCELLOIt of the EXCIIEQUR observed*.
the delay which hon. gentlemen on the opposition side of
the housc were interposing in the progress of public busi-
ness. Government being sincere in their desire to accele-
rate that propresa, he could not accede to the hon. gentle-
man** proposition, sad should press for a division on his
right hoe. friend's amendment ; and if, as had been inti-
mated by another hon. and learned gentleman (Mr.
Anstey), a motion was made to report progress, he should
take the sense of the committee on that ahu
The committee then disided :
For the amendment 137
Against it 26-111
The clause as amended was then agreed to, as were
clauses 3,4, and 6.

I: latt iIE rose to esplaia. Thu boa. member had
he acs aa abject sad eutssistcut supporter of the
L., pt. want. It was not fair that the hue. gentleman
oa t.. argee on incorrect prensoies. (Hear, bear.)
to ..ay that be never was en abject or a consistent
mrs.,:tor of the late government. (Loud laughter.) The
s.c.c.eatiLiaast was going au to 'dams the house, whca

On clause 0,
Mr. WALI'OLE moved another amendment. As the
clause was now drawn the commissioners would have power
to inquire into corrupt practices at previous elections. And
by coupling what might have occurred ten or fifteen years
ago with what had taken place at the last election, make
out a ere for disfranchisement, though no conuptiUn had

11: SPEAKER said that the bon. gentleman rose to
utylas. hot Le um making a second speech. (Hear.)
li. W. IIAIIIZON said that the hen. gentleman was
d al events a steadfast supporter of the !ate government in
5... o.iir 101,1, ar, in that house. He was sure the hon.
cm'. non would nut deny that. Now it was not is
rseeloTti,n, or the recollection of his reading—
j. In.:eta). that any government had so misgoverned,
lud ruined, every interest iu Irelaud, as the
lit'. wetatrant. sad that was the reason of his sitting on
tt .t ,the nuuiskrisl) side of the house. (Ironied cheer.)
triple of Ireland would back him in flat opinion—
nasty tone out of every hundred would back him in that
erra.u. tie only remedy of the late government was
auems, taxation. taxation. (Laughter.) Ho had of
r. 5.2 the !au ;on rnment, and he should oppose the present
me. if they pursued a similar course with regard to his
oaten:
We. 1. Is( 1 1.1.1 said the sole question for Ireland was,
vta.tviet she would accept a remission of only 75,0001.,
leacb we. a one hundredth part of the cairn debt, or
&bast 214. in the pound. His country was entitled to much
use.

The 4)%011)1 AN )IA110:I said, each speeches as the
base dad hand that night trees suss et Ids eeisotrpsies
rahltead Irishm.m. in the. epee et bone Isteisissessand
lotSkoteh tarn, to the easpetraties at twig slim treks,
mean (Ile.a. hear.) As an Irkiimmi. be dietrtreed an
>lnt:dration with that class of peeme. Them who said
t.it Ireland owed no gratitude to 2‘100114 wee* men with
vt,m hr could never coincide. Nis Sharoght his country
st en qtly indebted to the menebees of the late govern-
• tor uttering the present boon.
J. SCULLY could not regard this questton us party
is. There were 2,579 electoral divisions in Ireland which
eeo e. rd no benefit from this measure, and they were surely
total. dto some relief. Emigration was taking place every
iry, and it was the date of the government to give some
lope to these who were disposed to remain.
L.:d J. RUSSELL vindicated the measures of the .
lab rot imment, and arknowledip d that the present ministers
win skrfectly justified in not declaring at this moment the
ACLU:" they meditated for remedying the social evils of
Its aml.
. _

taken place in the interiii: Blbimsiast would, is
effect, allow the commissioners, II the tam* at
the last election, to go bad' to the me as as;
bat that if they found an einem at raiMOm WI Wm
no bribery, then the inquiry okenkil alsp.
Sir A. COCKBURN— As hi uniantood fps mead
meat, he thought it would haw a nieehievoustandasey;
because. however great the corruption at the aissamis
which occasioned the inquiry, and however nelookii. the
constituency for corrupt practices, if front se midis or
other the previous election should have bass hue bon
bribery, then the power of investigation west* ems.
Alter a few words from Lord 1). Sloan:awl 11,. Sinn
701111,
Mr. BRIGHT suggested that the canning, Mash so.
port progromgand that the subject should be discussed au s
future day.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER maassradr
and the motion for reporting progrem was put and nisd.
Lord J. RUSSELL hoped that the auteadmatt maid bi
rifted before the bill was brought on eine.
The boom then resumed, and the Premiers' Act Ansa&
neat Bill pared through committee.
The Sheep Contagious Disorder Prevention Bill IPS
read a second time.

The ijaeToiitidenee (Scotland) Bill paned through
'nominee.

Ar• r 10MC remarks by Mr. H. 111111111111 T upon the Irish
!kir. W LEY reprowhed the Irish pmprietors with
ctet of their duties in that capacity, and ascribed the
foil. al Irel Intl to her not being trite to herself.
Mr. W I'l ESIDE repelled this &Stook, and, after some
bith.r 41, hate,
The amendment was negatived without a division, and
Lit rise. a second time. It was ordered to be cool-
r.db.l is Tuesday neat.

PROTECTION OF INVENTIONS ACT.
Oa the order of the day for the seesed mediae of this
til.

HENLEY said that this bill wail me* to °outlast
tht protium, of a ma'am paned WI make, for the pee-
Union of foreign inventions exhibited the. Clyolid
natal at satendm, at in the patent laws swam bays bola
Metal. Without it, time eihibitots wadi la agent No
rreat injury. Ile propowd also that the *Sid Man
.`w'.l tit, place on Monday neat, Is 111 vier that as dam
.t.

it LALOUCIIEItE entirely ceogeoni milk dis
gelebmsn.
The bill was then rcad a second time awl prima Womb

CORRUPT PRACTICES AT /RUCTIONS BILL.
The house ...tot into committee ita this bill.
Oa elute 1.,
lb. BELL wished to explain orsund defects is the bill.
It -sseht to lettere the facility of essrlstios end to let
t-troid practices be followed 41 parliament. Them monad
1e ee own:citable iliZeolties is the meg edennybg that est.
Sas were the proceedings is sum ofeeeemot pentium tri he
(mud on—by a committee of inserthig, etc won the unties
st .shvidaal members ? Seal a Pam mesh ho Open to
yea &hews. The complaint of umgt pull= well
• made a party question. Another nwne ef
would he the 9th dame, whisk prey id thet wilnense
Iran to have as indemnity for any irthiemse
IMP nit inquiries before • committee. Beth es=y
butht only to be given with reference to sets that
bad taken place Freebies to the posies of the
an, otherwise it weal eat as a Mon
Lora on the conssaisien eseriqe peeniees.The
Cog. remedy ought to be reneeed. Men= out
to be
*curdy punished fur allowing themeless to be bribed, as
VA,lti wet for welling his blf yid& was eibilar to
the ,knits franchise of the deotee. • bosh.) Se
a twamittee of the hem was a moot Mb=
ratio.rola into election Winos, beano lie ambits ile-
r 'deg not in the judgment of the weetabeen bed es the
• .liaraett: of the erideoce. The se** engist to be
Pend is the hands of an impartial OWN&
31r. WALPOI.E said that the pidedgie of the
first elms of the bill was that an en address to
Ivr Majesty praying that ea immilley &mad be in.
'ood ender this act into the eiblons el corrupt
pi.e.me., a commisoon shout fats Am &ewers to pr0...4.,
...4., that loquiry. The mrjogity of the ban would
have the posit of obtain{ itemesillee d bblekry.
11 bad said yesterday that he flt eery strew sigeetisea
tninst such a power being gives MI a mono issjority—s
It oar which might be abused to a very rest extent.
Mar. To provide against that he bed tressed an
satadmint 'which he should propose to the 'enmities
t. insert in the first clause, to the elect that before onsb
an inquiry should be instituted there should be a re
%ad.• trios a committee of the boom to isquire ripest
ItertiralAr election, complaised of, oe of n isimunittes
I:104W geaervdly far the purpose of jogai:lag Into ell
erupt metiers at elestions. He thought the house would
with him that sock an amendment would rearm the
met part of the objectless to the ammo. The right hon.
r mimeo reed the words of the amendment, which con-
* 1.0..1 the alteration suggested shove.
Lett J. RUSSELL suggested a verbal amendment, which
•.• aceepted by Mr. Walpole.
tir. 'l% AK LEY thamit that the right hon. gentlemen
• propoeine to legislate upon a sew principle. titirtly
,'• Mao ought to be bound by its melovitY.
Mr. WALPOLE would willingly admit that the hoses
to bc Inoand by its majority, but the hoe. gestienae
e'cst sot forget that it was never booed by a info
There was the division on the leave to bring is :VIZ
in the committee, and again a division es the third
a 1.'114, and At eithwequint stages. (Hear, beer.)
Kr. ILEA IILASI thought that unbar' there were a public
ft rotor, and oak., provision were wads for the sa-
p of the reninsittce the enactment would be useless.
Mt. ANSTEY opposed the
nori amendment. nen bad
e a ease in which•• udty
_of the boom had done
r,. Wats, but it was not tolled a parliamiehl. bolt a
1•001,- (Laughter.) lle should move that the cossides,
r* a t.I the clam Sr postponed.
Mr. BILE!: wurported the amended clause
VERON .sMITII agreed with the right hen. gen-
ethst the bill ought to provide. sktiost a hasty or on-
hot lee Rai afraid that the °mended claw
.1 plot, nn olintacle to the objects I.l' the bill.
'qr. T. LA It I N ti defended the amendment, as tending to
pr. tint the tyranny which • majority of the house might
taktu..o; on; tile tonstiluescies of the onstry. U a simile

The Copyright Amendment Bill was read a third time
and passed.
The Municipal Corporatiess Acts Amendment Bill was
also read a third time and parsed.

MILITIA HILL.-NEW

Mr. Secretary WALPOLE brought up the Militia Bill,
which was read a Ant time, and in Axing the wooed read-
ing for Friday, the 23rd, the right boa. gentlemen said—l
wish to make one or two observations in respect to this
measure. The Ant is, that I hays consolidated all former
main' acts in this bill by way of reforesee, in order that
the house ssay be able to se* all the moistens on the
subject contained In as small a empties as possible—the
second observation is by way of notice—that is, I wish now
to give notice, that in case the house should agree to the
second reading of the bill, 1 shall move in innosittee to
insert a clause, providing that any person who shall serve
is the militia for two years shall be entitled to be registered
and have a vote for the county in which he resides. (Loud
ANIS from the lower oppoaition benches.)
Mr. M. GIBSON—I beg to give notice, that on the
resead reading of the bill I shall move es an amendment,
that It is not expedient to proceed with it further daring
the present pediment. (Hear, hoer.)
'rip wise lee the second reeding on Friday, the 23rd
Ike., wee
s than made ; sad the hews adjourned at half-psist
ee efelecik.

Xr. George Thempeou paired off with Mr. H. C. Lacy in
hvoar of Mr. Trewlawaers motion on church rates.

the erpreoo.

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LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 3.

MR. DISRAELI last night indulged the House of
Commons with another of his vague explanations
that mean nothing. It remains to be seen whe-
ther the liberals will tamely and weakly sub-
mit to such supercilious treatment. When it pleased
weak Queen ANNE, in the midst of a general
and necessary war, to dismiss the great Lord
GODOLPHIN from her councils—thereby sowing the
seeds of the disastrous events which involved the
Hanoverian succession in two Jacobite rebellions, and
Europe in armngenients,some of the ill effects of which
were lately fel: in the Spanish marriages—Lord Go-
DOLPHIN, and his friends in opposition, submitted to
the policy of their DERBY successors of that
reign. They induced the Duke of 'MARLBOROUGH to
prolong his command of the allied army until
HARLEY and his vile colleagues could disgrace him
and injure the fortunes of the world; they accepted
their defeat, and did not vindicate with courage mil
devotion their own principles. And this, even the
Tory historian, Mr. ALISON, says, was a fatal error.
Assuredlyit was; tor nothing, humanly speaking, but
the premature death of tho Queen saved England
front the return of the Sresays--the " protection" on
which the Country Party of that day had set their
hearts. HARLEY and HOLINOBROKR and their fol-
lowers, like the DERRYS and the DISRAELIS
of the present day, concealed their schemes and
plots in fine words and vague generalities—they
would wait for the nation to decide between them
and the Revolution of 108 S; it was a national affair
not to be hurried and precipitated : the country at
last would return to its sense and to its love of
the exiled family ; delay, postpone decision, was
then their policy. Well—they were permitted to
manage the elections, to corrupt the constituencies,
to alarm the clergy, to excite the squires, to do much
as they pleased. And the result was the unworthy
peace of Utrecht, the Jacobite rising of 1715, and
the Parrexnea's invasion of 1745. They did not,'
it is true, get the S'resters back, but they deeply in-
jured England and Europe.
Forbearance to ministers of had political character,
of dangerous political principles, and of fraudulent
political intentions, is weakness and folly; sure to
recoil on the heads of those who practise it ; almost
equally certain to injure the community in which
it is exercised. The revival of party bitterness
and strife, of' factitious moves and unreal centre-
versies, is a far less evil than the toleration of al
government prepared either to betray its own frieuds
or to rob for their benefit the pockets of the com-
munity, according to the exigencies of its own
interests.

FRANCE..

PARIS, FRIDAY 2'III3IINR.
Yesterdxy Louis Napoleon, attended by his minis-
ters, repaired to the Falai' d'Orsay, whore the
sittings of the council of state are held, in order to
receive the oaths of that body. The form wee read,
es in the inaugurative sitting at the Tuileries, by the
minister of state. Each councillor, in alphabetic
order, responded
2to the call of his name, by saying
Je le pore, and extending his arm. The presi-
dent, before the commencement of this ceremony,
addressed to the council the following speech :
Members of the Council of State,—l regretted, before
the constitution was in vigour, not to be able to preside
over you, for you well know that I regard it as one of
my first prerogatives to be the president of this se-
lect body. Happily, I have been replaced by the
distinguished statesman who has passed with me through
times of great diMculty, and wbo hu acquired a just ce-
lebrity by the talent and the courage of which he hes el-
ways given proof in the defence of the greet principles
on which our society reposes. Now that the constitu-
tion is in vigour, I wish myself to receive your oath,
fur everything which can draw deeper the bonds which
unite us is precious to me. Henceforward I shall frequently'
come among you, happy to communicate my ideas freely to
you, and t_ receive iu return your opinions and your ad-
vice ; for do not forget that each of you, by his attributions,
participates in the duty of minister and legislator, and we
are ea responsible towards the French people for the utility
of the labours to which we devote ourselves.

- -
It has, it is said, been just decided that the council
of State shall sit all the year, with the exception of
the two months' vacation, during which a committee
will be appointed to transact the necessary business.
You are aware that the deliberations of the Senate
are secret. Hence no journal is permitted to give
any account of what passes in the sittings of that
body. At an extraordinary sitting which was held
yesterday, the draft of a *endue consuituna wss
brought forward by Jerome Bonapartettor fixing the
amount of the Prince-President's c►vil list. No

journal has been allowed to breathe a syllable about
this sitting, the result of which was given by the
Patric simply in the form of a rumour without
any allusion to the Senate. That organ reports that
the amount of the Prince's dotation will be 12 mil-
lions of francs. But the charge of maintaining the
palaces is not included in this sum, which was also
assigned ne the civil list of Louis Philippe. As the
expense of maintaining the palaces amounts to six
millions, the civil list now said to have been voted
by thu Senate amounts virtually to 18 millions. The
Senate has, by the way, shown already some
symptoms of opposition, in the appointment
of the secretaries. Those proposed by the
president, Jerome Buonaparte, were MM. de
Heckcreen and Leverrier, who, as you will have per-
ceived, were not the successful candidates. Mean-
while the president of the Senate has taken up his
residence at the Petit Luxembourg, where he will
remain during the continuance of the session, and
give receptions once a week.
In the sitting of the Corps Legialatif to-day the
new Coinage Bill was read by the president, M. Bil-
moult. It aclopts the principle of reducing the copper
dicime or penny from 20 to 10 grammes. A smart
debate took place with regard to tho election of
M. do St. Hermitic, the validity of which wee sea-
tested by MM. Bonhier do l'licluae and de Bassiml,
the two leading legitimists of the Chamber, wholhone
nevertheless talon the oath of fidelity to the Presi-
dent. The election was finally ratified, and M. de
tHermine admitted as deputy.
The secret committee appointed by the Coupe
latif to consider the costume question Ms Mlle=
decision that deputies may wear thole iledeffiele Of
not at ordinary sittings, just as they plasm.
The next bill which will bo sent from the am&
of state to the Corps Lcgislatif is that on penitentia-
ries. The leading provision of this bill is that all
prisoners condemned to a degrading punishment will,
ipso facto, incur the punishment of transportation to
a penal colony.
The President of the Legislative Body has already
given receptions. At the first, some of the members
of the corps diplowtatique, the papal nuncio, and
several ministers and dignitaries were present. On
Wednesday evening the reception was also numerous;
among those present were many of the senators,
councillors of state, generals, and almost all the
deputies.
AL Chevalier, ex-secretary-general of the Elysee,
has been named director of palaces and manufactures,
vice M. Cave, deceased.
General de Castellano, commandant-in-chief of tho
army of Lyons, has arrived in Paris.
A telegraphic despatch has been received at Mar-
seilles, directing that the vessel that was to have left
on the 30th, with political prisoners under sentence
of transportation in the Château d'lf, should not sail
till further orders. It is said that none of the sen-
tences of transportation will be carried into imme-
diate effect except in the case of those prisoners who
are to go to Cayenne, and a frigate is hourly expected
to take them to their destination.
The following ph in the Patric looks like
a preparation for tho very of thet evident neces-
sity for the empire, which the President in his
speech said would arise if parties continued their
sourilea menages:
It is stated that the evreprinentatives now in London
have constituted themselves into clubs, representing the
various parties to which they formerly belged. These
bodies Sr. conducted on the pbsn of the clubs of the Rue
des Pyramid's and of the Bus de Band!.
The members of the Court of Caseation and the
first presidents and procurenn-generaux of the
courts of appeal are to take the oaths before the Pre-
sident of the Republic at nine o'clock on Sunday
evening next, at the Ely.te.
M. Weiler, formerly a notary at Beaune, and M.
Bernardet, notary at the same place, have received
orders to quit the French territory.
Ml' Sonesmes, a rich proprietor of Montargis
(Loiret), condemned by court-martial to deportation
for participation in the armed resistance to the coup
d'ltat, has been pardoned.
A letter from Italy announces that the Duke and
Duchess d'Amaule have been well received by the
Grand Duke at Florence, and that they are proceed-
ing to Claremont. The Duke d'Amaule avoided
Rome, to spare embarrassment to those officers who
served with him in Algiers.
The Independence de 1' Ouest, a provincial paper,
having published an article tending to a return to
another form of government than that of the exist- ,
lug constitution, his received a warning from the
prefect if the department that, upon a repetition of
the oases, the paper will be suspended. The cone•
try joined hereupon claims the honour of being the
first to 'kith the new law of the preps has been sp. li
air This is not correct. The &ode received •
official warning a few days ago foe a rani
l=m; cause; and it has, in oonaciamtlik dm*
from commenting upon passion eetionb
11. BIM de Girardin to-day continues in the
Preen W articles upon the text borrowed from the
Pearl,* apeech, "Let us keep the republic." Be
Ammo eat tho present government could only be
Pea as mg to by an assessination, a conspiracy, or Ir
rebellion. Es thinks the two latter improbable, the
the penis ma know that not the democracy bet
the BourimollipWrealii profit by any change of govern•
Pleat. He ISM art think the present constitution
Wens than any aid Henry V. might be expected le
meat. An amemloatfori,M. de Girardin think. probs.
Me, and that all means should be taken to prevent sad
a catastrophe. Ho dechuus that on the 20th Des.
he voted "No," but that he feels himself overruled
by seven millions of electors. Ile professes anal-
mislabel' confidence in universal suffrage, pine the
Possianst down to his temporary power of ten years,
as Has in thing as the empire was brewing-, and
espooes his belief that the present institutions are
eneeeptible of gradual and peaceful improvement and
expansion into a tolerable government. He con-
cludes by saying to the republicans.
Everything examined and carefully weighed, if yea will
trust to me, you will not look at the matter too closely, for
that would be to play the game of the royalists • you will
not be more difficult te plesae than seven millions of electors,
end you will be contented with what still exists under the
mane et the republic. To be content with it is the way
le preeters it; it is the way to prevent a restore-
tics se monarchical absolutism, not only in France,
but is ell Europe, in Belgium, in Switzerland, In
THE MILITIA BILL Pi is Spain, end in Portugal. After the
24th sit how did the vanolliPed act ? Did
lily run! the republic ? No ; it was Mr. Milner Gibson has placed on the paper of the Ihri__,__evoing
House of Commons the following notice of amend- gin7d`elad tams' that
•rl:monthe end
merit to the motion for the second reading of Militia acising'7„ preinsicanee which they had lost.
Bill : Let this • Immicried trim MM. de Montalambert,
" That this house of opinion that it in not cape- 'teener, and MAIN In the republicans, if they
dient to proceed with the Militia Bill in the present desire to preserve the republic. Let them everywhere ac-
cept, for west et seema better; and through fem. of
parliament."
Anmething wens, thos wore of the speech delivered et
The public will learn with surprise the.proposition tb.• Tuilk rim IS Ranh 29: "Let um keep the republic ."
made by Mr. Secretary Walpole last night in the On the mysterious subject of the Prince de Ca-
House of Commons. It is that every man who serves nine's mission, the Univers has the following :
two years in the militia should have a county vote. We have mentioned the emotion caused at Rome by tho

Nor is the question between the liberal party,
representing as it really and truly dues the pith
and heart and intelligence of the country, and
the DERBY cabinet, one of free-trade, cheap
bread, and unrestricted labour only. That is but
the prominent question, the advanced guard, the
present war cry. Behind it are even greater
matters and things, if inde d that be possible. The
present government has not merely revived tho pre-
tensions of monopoly to deprive us of some of the
earnings of our industry ; it has, by the revival, post-
poned for a while useful measures of improvement on
which we were engaged; it has substituted the policy
of retrogression for the work of programs; it has
audaciously announced to a parliament in which it is
in an "acknowledged minority "—to a House of
Commons actually engaged in extending the suffrage
and improving the representation of the people—that
it will oppose further suffrage and representative re-
' form; that the voter shall have, if it can prevent him, no
security in the exercise of his franchise; that the
church shall be dominant in England; that English
education shall be placed under the control of its
clergy; that in Ireland tho national system of edu-
cation shall be disturbed to please Lord RODEN and
Mr. NAPIER ; and that democracy and democratic
influence shall everywhere and in every manner be
opposed. This is what Lord DERBY has avowed
plainly and frankly to a parliament in which ho has
not a majority ; and yet it is, he argues, factious in
such a parliament not to let him do as he pleases,
and to dbeolve whenever he thinks most conducive
to the defeat of those principles which are predomi-
nant in its councils. Think, then Reformers, what
he could dare and do, in a parliament in which he
had a majority !
Freedom of trade is a great and welcome blessing,
to be preserved at any price. But, all priceless as it
is, it is only part of a general system of freedom ; it is
a step—a great, and perhaps the greatest, step—of that
democratic movement which Lord DERBY, with all
the vanity of CANUTE'S courtiers, has under-
taken to turn back in England. The adoption
of free-trade into our commercial system seven
years has advanced by half a century the poli-
tical education of the English people, has developed
by half a century their political fitness for fuitr
power, has made the concession of that power a prac-
tical question of the day, and not a mere trading
speculation for extreme politicians to indulge in.
When, then, Lord DERBY boasts that his govern-,
ment, though in a minority, will dam up the pro-
gress of democracy, and tells us that he means to
prevent further extension of the suffrage, and a re-
distribution of theropese tation, he thereby imposes
a further mad as obligation on the liberal
Ws visas& its own principles ; he raises a
issue than freedom of trade and cheapness of
hod between it and him ; he whets our appetite
mere than ever for his overthrow.
There are, of course, free-traders who look on
etimaisereial freedom as an isolated question ; as in-
volving nothing further or additional ; as unconnected
withyolitioal,re4ione,intellectualfreedom; ashaving
nothing n•messAy or logically in common with the
zrof the democratic principle. Bach men are
.... in Mr. WILLIAM Beexerr, of Leeds; in
Mr. Swat of Dorsetshire ; in Mr. CARDWELL, of
Liverpool; and in the Peelites generally. Their as-
sistant)" on that particular question, being valuable,
is set Os be refused. But they are amongst ue, not
des their skin is the skin of ESAU, though their
rein is the voice of JACOB. And the danger is, that
at the election too large a proportion of such men be
returned. What is needed to overthrow such a ministry
as Lord DRIEST'S, are representatives of the people who
accept free-trade in all its fulness, and in all its
democratic tendencies; as leading to such material
comfort and physical prosperity as are the natural
cams of moral and intellectual improvement, enti-
tling men to a pard. cipation in the exercise of political
rights and privileges,such as Lord DERBY, in his pride
and audacity, terms "the torrents of democracy."
There are many false fm-traders ; it is not eve 7
one who undertakes to support by his vote Sir
ROBERT PEEL'S policy that ought to be trusted;
but those only with whom free-trade is only
ono item in the great creed of political progress.
In the forthcoming elections it Is not, therefore,
merely necessary to return free-traders, but men
who, in addition, are prepared to take issue with
Lord DERBY on the promos of democracy, who are
as resolved and deters deed to aid in its advanoo as
he has declared he is prepared to arrest and turn it
back. Without mama we may be able to preserve
free-trade, but how get swinvw rearm; bow protec-
tion to the voter; -bow eeieetleal reform ; how
economy in our °seawater'? How, in short, pro-
mote real progress? Bat beim these subjects are
in the hands of the Gloster" the liberals now in par-
liament have to decide when the dismantle" is to take
place.

news that the Prince de Canino had arrived at Civita Vec-
chia. It is well known that this personage played a very
active part in the events of 1848, and only left Rome where
he was during the whole of the siege on the third day
after the entrance of the French troops. Included in the
decree of expuldon promulgated against the members of
the Roman constituent, he has not been excepted from it
by any amnesty, and has hitherto remained under the law
which exiled him not as a foreigner, but as a Prince and
a Roman subject. Having since again become a French
citizen by a special decree of the President of the Re-
public, is the decree of the Pontifical government set aside
by hie new quality ? That is the first question. But
even supposing that to be replied to affirmatively there still
remains another. The police laws in force in the Pontifical
States do not permit any foreigner to set his foot on them
unless he is provided with a passport vizi by the agents of
the Pontifical government in the country whence the
foreigner comes. The Prince de Canino neglected to have
his passport esad by the apostolic nuncio at Paris,
and he did tot repair this omission at Marseilles
by applying to the Roman consul-general in that city. There
is also a third question—the political one, and which, in
fact, is the real question. Can a power impose on another
independent and sovereign one, the presence and pro-
longed residence of a man whose journey is announced
by all the enemies of that power, as having no
other object but to cause disturbance in that country?
The demagogical journals of Turin and (fence, repeated
by all those of Italy, had announced the arrival of the
Prince de Canino at -Rome, by affirming that he had a mis-
sion from the French government, aqd that that mission
was hostile to the Holy See. If we may credit the infor-
mation which we have received, the language of the Prince
de Canino during his journey, and particularly at Genoa,
rather goes to confirm than to contradict this fabulous
version. Having made these observations, we shall re-
mark that what there Is to he regretted in the affair is
that there should have been any misunderstanding, and
that we have the strongest reasons for supposing that the
whole matter is now completely arranged. This conclusion
could not have been positively known at Rome at the date
of our letters (the 24th), but It was calculated on ; the good
faith of the French government, and all that it has done
for the Holy See, does not allow it to be believed that it
can be otherwise, however different appearances may be.
At the Boone the Five per Cents. rose 30e., closing
at 101.30; tho Threes rose 20c., and closed at 71-90.
Bank of France shares row) 20f. The railway set-
tlement was in favour of the rise. Orleans rose 30f. ;
Northern, 10; Strasbourg, 7.50; Lyons and Bor-
deaux, sf. each ; Marseilles and Tours and Nantes,
1.23. each.