The Express.
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THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 4, 1851.

all their cruelties as Indy peat of their tender regard for I would be given for full consideration of the subject, and,
the salvation of the soul. (Hear, hear.) Those days had.l above all, that the measure should not take precedence of
happily named away, but he recollected bdsing often and I the important financial business of the country, that that
often heard in that house eloquent speeches especially from ilmeinan would not be postponed to a late period of the
the Woolm proving
ek, pving that Keenan catholic, had then no sesalan ; but that it might be afforded a fair chance of being
cause of complaint, but were in full enjoyment of everyillelsigg entelt ouneured of an early day. (Hear, hear.)
privilege. The greatest opposition from the meet eminent rd J. MANNERS said Tie would take upon himself
quarter. was then given to the bill which gave to Romig to declare, considering the peculiar circumstances under
catholic' those privileges of the eunotitutien which it was f which the sub. lord opposite had reconstructed his cabinet,
now generally concedes) were properly bestowed. He must that from that (the protectionist) side of the house would
say that the speech of his noble friend near him, if good for • proceed no factious or unnecessary obstacle to the policy of
anything, was a very good reason fur repealing the Roman the noble lord. (Hear, hear.) But while he said this he
Catholic Relief Bill; hut that measure having been con- believed he was but empressing the general opinion and
coded. such tenoning came ton late. The propost.l mss- feeling of the protectionists when he added that should their
cure would, is the first place, be ineffectual, and, therefore, assent be sand to measures in antagonign to they general
would impose no penalty; but ha maintained that if it principles, whether in respect to finance, or protection, or
Were thought lawful and right of the Roman catholic that question which had lately occupied some days' consi-
charch in this country to constitute regularly and in an deratinn, then it would be their duty to withhold their as-
orderly manner their episcopal government, he maintained sent from such measures. Nay, more—he believed he
that any impediment thrown in the way of such action " might say that should her Majesty's ministers unfortunately
would be per.ecution ; because It would infringe upon take no notice of that agricultural distress which
what he conceived to be the rights of any church had been acknowledged by her3lajesty's late adviser,, then
that had been legally acknowledged. Their lordships ihe had little doubt that, although unwilling to interfere
must recollect that times had changed. If the Roman , with the general conduct of public business, the hon. mem-
catholies remained nut of the pale of the constitution, there her for Buckinghamshire (Mr. Disraeli), as the leader of
might he some force in their legislation, hut having given I the protectionist party, would ask the opinion of the house
them full civil rights, their right to an episcopal church on such a measure tulle should consider best calculated to
followed as a necessary consequence. They (the Roman afford relief to that distress. (Hear, hear.)
eatholim) might for reasons which had satisfied them have Mr. REYNOLDS said that, with every possible anxiety
thought fit to remain so long under vicars apostolic, but to respond to the wishes of the noble lord (Russell) to avoid
there Way nothing in justice or common sense to prevent discussion, he felt that if he did not make a few remarks en
them substituting the episcopal government, and regulating the present occasion he should be abandoning his impera-
the affairs of their church in the regular and constitutional I tive duty. Ile confessed that, after all which had occurred
meaner. lie hoped that debates like the present would not during the last 14 days, he had heard the declaration of the
be of daily recurrence on the presentation of every petition noble lord with reference to his Ecclesiastical Titles Bill with
—(hear, hear)—but he could not let that opportunity pass very considerable disappointment. hel
m.) He had hoped
of expressing his intimate conviction that the course the ' that the upset of the state coach, if ght use the expres-
government was pursuing was seriously erroneous. sion, would have involved the necessity of getting some new
The Duke of ARGYLL explained. passengers. (A laugh.) He had entertained a hope that
Lord STANLEY was understood to say that the noble there would not have been so much determination expressed
earl had intimated his opiuion respecting the papal aggress to proceed with this had bill. He fully joined in the re-
"ion during the late negotiations; but be (Lord Stanley) mark made by the right hon. member for Manchester (Mr.
dill nut recollect that he had previously expressed any M. Gibson), that there ought not to be so much precipi-
opinion. (Earl of Aberdeen, Oh, yin.") fancy about this bill, and that it ought not to be intro-
, COUNT II COURTS BILL. duced to the prejudice of other and more important ques-
Lord BROUGHA 31 announced that he would introduce lions. (hear, hear.) He agreed with the honourable
his measure extending the jurisdiction of county courts member for Athlone (Mr. Keogh) that the house ought to
on Friday next. know now whether the second reading of the identical bill,
Their lordships adjourned at 20 minutes past 6. lorof an entirely new bill, was to he proceeded with on
Friday. lie observed that the noble lord bowed assent, and
he understood by that movement th it the second reading of
the same bill was to he moved on Friday. lie was glad of
it, for such an intimation would be a public notice, at
all events, to the Irish numbers who f.lt as he felt that
they ought to be present to offer opposition. He had deemed
it his duty to offer it all the opposition in his power up to
this date. He had nut altered his determination; and
now he wished to declare this publicly that he would offer
opposition to it in all its stages. He teed been told that the
people of England had demanded the bill. He did not be-
lieve it- Ile believed the millions of England did not care
about it—that they were more anxious for enlighteued
legislation, for a repeal of the window tax, for a popular
parliamentary franchise, for a lightening of the pressure
of taxation, and not for what was proposed in
that house—e lightening of the pressure of taxation on the ,
rich, and an increase of it on the poor. He had looked
over the list of petitions, and found that the aggregate
number of petitions presented to the 21th of February, in
favour of the noble lord's bill, was about 2,000, and that
the number of signatures attached to them was shout'
120,000 ' • and this out of a population of 16,000,000. (hear,
hear.) And what had he further found ? Why, that up
to the same date the number of petitions presented against
the bill was 1,200, and that to these were annexed 1.4,000
signatures. lie had a right to offer his opinions on this sub-
ject, because the Irish liberal members had necivell the
thanks of their conetituents for having taken the liuchpin out
of the state-coach. lie hoped the noble lord would
give him some assurance whether he really intended to pro-
ceed with the second rending of the bill on Friday. (Hear.)
Mr. OSWALD asked whether it was tit, noble lord's in-
tention, in the bill as about to be altered on Friday, to pro-
hibit the bishops and deans of the episcopal church of
Scotland from taking the nature and titles of their dioceses
Lord J. RUSSELL said he would aleaain at present from
entering into any discussion of the hill. The hon. mem-
ber for Dublin (Mr. Reynold.) did not seem to recollect that
it was quite necessary to read the hill a second time, before
any amendments were made in it, in committee. (Hear.)
Mr. WAKLEY hoped the noble lord would review the
whole course of his proceeding with regardto this bill, that
he would not press its second reading at the present mo-
ment, but either shelve it for the session or refer it to a com-
mittee, whieh would have the Mlle effect. " and
laughter.) After the epeech recently delivered Hear
ivered 'by the
right hon. baronet the member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham)
he was satisfied that no hill of the kind now upon the
table of the house could be passed into law. If proceeded
with, it would lead to a vast deal of contention and strife ;
and as " the better part of valour was discretion," it ought
to be abandoned. The people thought the noble lord might
have surrounded himself with more efficient colleagues, but
they gave the noble lord himself great credit for sincerity. In
fact, the people eared nothing about whir or tory so long as
substantial measures of relief were afforded them. (Hear.)
The Marquis of Granby, Mr. Moore, and Mr. Sadleir
having added a few observations, the second reading of the
bill was fixed fur Friday next.
The other orders of the day were also postponed to
Friday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Movn.►Y, MARCH 3.
Th. 8 tonk the chair at the usual hour.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

SECOND READINGS.—Bann Navigation; Cam Navi-
tion (No. 2); Dublin and Kingstown Railway; Duffield
and Sheffield Turnpike Road; Hove Improvement; Lee
nicer Trust; Malmesbury Turnpike Rend;; Mahon and
Drilfielil Junction Railway; Poulnasherry Embankment;
Thames Doyen Dock and Railway; Ulverstorie and Lan-
caster Railway; Dee River Conservancy; Royal Naval
School; Shrewsbury and Cheater Railway; Stockton and
Darlington, Wear Valley, and Middleklirough and %akar
Railway Companies
_Amalgamation (No. 2); Waterford
and Limerick Bilk.

ADJOURNKENT OF THE HOI:SE.

Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the house at its rising do
adjourn till Friday.
Mr. W. PATTEN said if that motion were agreed to,
it would be necessary to stivend the standing orders, to
enable the committees on private bills to sit and proCeed
with their lahoun.

Lord J. RUSSELL wa, undrntood to say there would
be no objection to that course.
. .

The motion for adjournment was then put and aFrreed to,
and the standing onlers, so far as they related to the sittings
of committees ou private bills, were ordered to he suspended.
ROYAL PALACES AND PARKS.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS moved for the following return :
" Account of the public money expended on each of the royal
palace., garden., parks, and the appurtenances thereof,
stating the amount of expenditure from parliamentary
grant•, crown revenues surrenden4 to the public by the
risil lid acts and other sources, and a statement thereof in
detail in the same form as that for 1842 in cacti year from
1843 to 1831 (in continuation of parliamentary paper, No.
313, of session 1843) ; and a return of the amount of the
salaries and other emoluments of the rangers and deputy-
rangers of the royal parks in each of those years. and also
of the number of houses and tenements pureha•cd foren-
larging the ground attached to Buckingham Palace."—
Ordered.

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LONDON, TrESD.II; MARCH 4.

THE worst of all revolutions, say the French, is a
restoration. There are many who will apply the
remark to the ministerial crisis having resulted
merely in the return of the old ministry to office.
For the friends of the whissi were as anxious for a
renovation of the dead parts of the administration
as their foes could be. But the unrcadiness of any
and of all parties, either in opposition, or semi-
oprition, to meet the religious and financial diffi-
cu ties of the moment, has rendered a change of
ministry impossible, and a modification, for the pre-
sent, equally difficult.
This is deeply to be regretted for the financial
interests of the country, which required at once the
grasp of a bold, a steady, and an experienced hand.
All the great men who ever took a comprehensive
view of the financial condition of the empire, in-
cluded the condition of India and its revenues in their
survey. Sir ROBERT PEEL did so especially when
he first introduced the income tax. But the result of
a syncope at present in financial legislation will be
to adjourn all questions relative to India, not merely
for a year but twenty years; in other words, ad-
journ iefonn for an entire generation.
' Law reform will no doubt share the fate of financial
reform. Whilst the colonies, which have watched
with anxiety the meeting of the legislature, some of
which had sent delegates to represent their case,
and all of which expected imitortant resolutions
from the minister—all these colonial expectations
will be disappointed; and the most unsatisfactory an-
swers will go abroad to our foreign dependencies that
England has been too much occupied by its Crystal
Palace, and too much put out of its way by Dr.
Wisem.tx's impertinence, to be able this year to give
consideration or relief to its colonies.
The questions, however, which have come to pre-
dominate over all others arc those of the Papal pre-
tensions and of Ireland. For it is impossible not to
see that they have become blended and entangled
together, and that the one aggravates the other to
a most painful degree. Now, however, we had de-
sired to see this ministerial crisis result in the admis-
sion of the successors and disciples of Sir Itemewr
Pert. to the management of our domestic finances,
and of those of India—and whilst, at the same
time, we could not deem any cabinet entitled to
the confidence of the people in preparing a measure
of electoral reform, until some members of the great
reform party were called to the councils of that cabinet
—we all along have held and do still maintain the
opinion, that on questions of religious tolerance and
equality, and on the measures which, for the sake of
public liberty and peace, should be introduced for the
regulation and restriction of sacerdotal power and
action, there is no statesman so fully entitled to the
confidence of liberal men as Lord JOHN ReSSELL.
We should consider it most fatal to entrust such a
question as the present to Lord STANLEY. Indeed,
his proposal to shelve it, either by empty resolution,
or by a commission, which would perpetuate inquiry,
and with inquiry, religious irritation—of these
proposals, the one is too illusory, the other too
insane, to be discussed. Great as is our respcet for
Mr. ums and Mr. COBDEN, we do not think it
would he for either their advantage or that of the
question, to entrust it to them. We well know what
undermined the old utilitarian party in this country-,
and what completely• marred the popularity that ntight
have been attained by BENTHAM and BowRING, and
Itorteeee. And we know of nothing that could
prove more fatal to that now enlarged, invigorated,
and promising party of popular men, than that
they should come before the nation with a line of
policy, and with arguments to support it, that could
render it possible to accuse them, even falsely, of
religious indifference.
If wo deprecate, fur a world of reasons, leaving
this religious question in the hands of either
Lord STANLEY or of the radicals, we have equal re-
pugnance to entrust it to Lord ABERDEEN and Sir
J.SMES GRAHAM. Their view of it is, in the first
instance, a cowardly one. They evade the difficulty
by avoiding and throwing it over altogether. The
merest schoolboy could solve any state difficulty in
the same way—that is, not solve it at all, but lisave
it to assume strength, and return to he grapples! with
under far greater disadvanta•ses. Besides, looking
back to the past career of these politicians, we find
that they are the very men who mused and aggra-
vated this quarrel with Rome. All must
recollect the bill which the whip brought in for
establishing diplomatic relations with Rome. It was
highly pleasing to the POPE and to his cardinals,
and, lad it passed, would have led to an amicable
understanding. It pleased, however, Lord &MIN-
TON to introduce an amendment, forbidding the POPE
to send here any ecclesiastic's as envoys. This was
turning the compliment into an affront, and, not
merely an affront to the Pore, but a cause of disgust
to the cardinals and members of the papal court.
Yet who was the chief speaker in favour at
that amendment ? Who carried it by his vehemence
against the Whigs ? Lord Aueninies. Now had
the original bill passed without the amendment, this
papal aggression never would have token place, for
then the papal envoy must have consulted the British
government. The ti ae, the orignal cause of our pre-
sent embarrassment is no other, therefore, than Lon'
ABERDEEN. Mr. GLADSTONE, too, Supported the
amended bill. And as to Sir Loma GRAHAM, he
took as little notice of it as he did of the first reading of
the present bill. And it is now this very party, this
very Lord ABERDEEN, who denied to the POPE the
privilege of being represented in this country, he it is
that comes clamouring about the indignity of refusing
territorial titles to papal delegates. lie indulges in
the theatrical exaggeration of coupling Lord Jolts
and the Bull with" CILVIN'S burning Seaveres,
and the Duke of ALVA decimating the pro-
testants of the low country. Were not
this the merest twaddle, we should call it the lan-
guage of disappointed faction. Men such as these,
who can blow hot and cold on the same question, who
drive their opponents into errors of which they take
DE VTR OF TUE EARL OF-41ARRINGTON.—'This advantage to trip them up, whilst affecting anxiety
nobleman expired yesterday morning at Brighton, after a to relieve them—these are not men to whom could
short illnese, in his 71st year. The Duchess of Bed- be entrusted the task of providing for the security
1.5e1_...y Barrington, of the country and the dignity of the sovereign
ford, sister to Lord Harrington,
and Lady Jane St. .llaur, her &inviter, together against papal 'a
with Mr. Fitzroy Stanhope and Mr. Henry Stan- a ..m
As far, therefore, as lggressegislation in religious matters
hope, were present at the last moments of the accessed
earl. The deceased, Charles Stanhope, succeeded to the title may become the duty of parliament, we pin our faith
in 1829 upon the death of his father, the third earl. In I far more in Lord lolls RUSSELL than in any living
1831 be married Miss Foote the celebrated actress, and by statesman. There are many politicians whit might
her had two children—Chjales,
viw'unt Petersham, who undertake with more vigour or effect other branches of
died in April, 1536, and Lady Jane St. Maur, who is now in I administration. There ma be rime ministers more
the 18th year of her age. The heir to the title is the Hon. y p Leicester Fitzgerald Stanhetw, brother to the late earl. P conciliatory, more comprehensive, less entangled in
Lord Harrington was a colonel in the army, and his sue-; the network of family connexion. A leading states-
cessor is a commander of the order of the Saviour, and also : man with a character to make, may be more bold
a colonel in the British army.
.arreaurrso " GAnorte" ROBBERT.—An instance ,
than one who has accomplished a limg and not in-
glorious career. But for conducting the government
been. new species of &ring robbery which has recently ; .
and legislature of the country through the mazes of
ben committed on several octwiono, in Manchester and '
London, took place in Strangeways on Saturday evening. its contending sects, maintaining the great principle
Mr. Joseph Makin.con. commission merchant, Lloyd-street, of tolemtion,advancing that of equality,rcpre:sing the
lee Manchester hortly before eight o'
cl'x'k on Saturday 1 clamours of the fanatic, discountenancing the arro-
s
evening,to return to Ida residence in Broughton-grove. Bury emnee of the highpriost, there is noone whom we could
sew-road. When he reached Fairy-lane (a short distance "- beyond Broughton-lane and the bnek-kihis), he sm., „nut_ put on a par with the member for the City of London. If
denly :tusked by three men. The first threw his arm round we look farther and closer than the matter imme-
Mr. Makinson's neck, and attempted to disable him by diatelv under parliamentary consideration ; if we
strangulation : the second struck him twoor three violent consider how the Cantle of protcstantism and religious
blow, r the bead with some instrument loaded with lead. of freedom is to be best strengthened against the con-
! the lifi.preserver or heavy-headed whip kind; and the third • land • h
dragged him from the Bury Neweroad d6uu„. up stitution.a argumentative
.osti ty of Rome ;
Fairy.lane. Although 67 years old, Mr. Makinsoa is if we think how hest our universities can he purged
strong and active, and struggled so successfully with his of supe.rannuatedbigotry,and renderedefficient for the
I ruffianly assailants es to get near the window of a house in , education of protestant youth and of the protestant
!Fairy lane, occupied by Mr. John Redfern. coal merchant, clergy • how best the great positions of the church are
and taselernaker. After another struggle, Mr. .Makinson be '
; and die •to preserved from those Puseyite priests who,
contrived to strike the shutters of the window
i blow and scuffle haling been heard by Mr. Redfern's eon, I having eold themselves to Rome, hesitate to go
he hastened to op. n she door ; the first sound caused by ever till thee can bring their flocks too--if we
wthe the three eve.. to ;mite their desire this, hut desire it unaccompanied by re-
•
es: ape as ,peedily .1' pot Able. Mr. Makinsoa was taksa action, or persecution, or injustice, then may we hail
II into the house. and shortly afterwards, ha • somewhat • the continuance of Lord bony 1ir5.431, in that post,
recovered, he was conveyed home by a policeman. He is
now gradually recovering.-11aUfaz (kaniials. I in which the confidence of the sovereign has placed

him, and where even the late political earthquake
has left him standing.

Tnn ambition of Cardinal WistntAm is unbounded.
He is bent upon achieving distinction at once in the
fields of politics, literature, and art. He has thrown
down a gauntlet to an English premier, challenged
Lady 'MORGAN to a discussion of antiquarian lore,
run a tilt against Punch in the MAIM Review,
and, last and must daring of ull, he has :,et up as a
rival of ALEXIi SOVEIt. Nicitoi.As, Cardinal Arch-
bishop, is resolved to be the Admirable Crichton of
the nineteenth century; 1w deserves that Mr. AlNS-
\vomit should write his biography, in the same sym-
pathising spirit with which that distinguished
author has already vindicated the fume of Gni'
FAWKES.

It is the latest aspiration of the versatile cardinal
—his effort to snatch from the brows of SOYER the
culinary crown—that now claims our attention.
SOYER'S loyalty and devotion to the cause of con-
stitutional reform arc as notorious as his mastery
of the art and science of cookery. It is to this triple
enthusiasm that we owe his magnificent project for
making the year 18.51 an epoch in the annals of
the gourmands. His contemplated exhibition of
culinary art at Kensington. Gore is a reverential
tribute to the spirit of the age as represented in
Prince ALBERT'S industrial exhibition. NICHOLAS
Cardinal Archbishop, on the contrary, in his last
new pastoral, a droller device than ever awakened
the admiration of Polmiins, takes upon him to de-
nounce by anticipation that heretical display as no
better than what Jolix RUNYAN would have (41.4 a
" vanity fair." " Whatever is fair to the eye," says
the ascetic primate, "and alluring to the appetite,
will temptingly hang on every bough of thc newly-
created paradise. Great as may be the spectacle of
material grandeur which will thus be presented to
all nations, who does not fear the increase of sin and
vice which this immense concourse for such a pur-
-1 pose must inevitably produce? All our usual temp-
tations to folly and extravagance, to dissipation and
worldliness, will be increased, every snare that
awaits youth will be multiplied, every evil principle
more variously and ingeniously advocated; and there
will be a concentration of corrupted and corrupting
elements poured into the metropolis and the nation
such as no other occurrence could unite. All this
will endanger faith and morals, and perhaps still
more charity." And to avert these evils the Cardi-
n Archbishop takes the field, and opposes the
rethac of a Roman prince to that of a Queen and
Prince Consort; while to counteract the allurements
of a SOTER he assumes the character of a "gastro-
nomic regenerator."
It is somewhat startling to the preconceptions of
this protestant country to find a bill of fare ap-
pended to a pastoral address of a bishop to his dock.
And to confess the truth, the somewhat lengthy
homily of the Cardinal Archbishop looks in this
strange juxta-position wondrously like a dispropor-
tionately long grace to miserable short commons. It
reminds one of poor Cut.tat.Es-LAMB'S melancholy
reminiscences of the long graces in the Illuecoat-
school, which prefaced with ostentatious and tine-
tuous allusions to " creature comforts" the boys re-
pasts of stale bread and small beer.

The Lenten dietary of the Cardinal Archbishop
would in fact palliate a riot in a workhouse. Flesh
meat is allowed on all Sundays, and once on Tues-
days, Thursdays, and Saturdays, with some trifling
exceptions. Eggs are allowed at " the single meal "
of those who arc bound to fast, and 6 discretion to
those who arc not so bound, except on one or two
days. Cheese is allowed " under the tame restric-
tions." Fish and flesh meat are not to be indulged
in at the sante meal—a proviso borrowed apparently
from the fish dinners of Greenwich and Blackwall.
But the most notable proviso in Dr. WISEMAN'S
bill of fare The use of dripping or lard is per-
mitted at dinner and collation on all days except,
&c." This special notice of " dripping " denotes a
benevolent anxiety not to cheek the sale of the per-
quisites of the propagandist scullions organised by
Father IGNATIUS.

The odds are in favour of the cartes of SOYER
against the bill of fare of WISEMAN. Some, too, may
he of opinion that, in propounding his "spare feast"
for Lent—a season which will terminate just as the
SorER season is about to commence—the Cardinal
has committed a blunder in tactics. There is a risk
that his preliminary period of abstinence will only
send his votaries with sharpened appetites to the
luxurious banquets of SorER. They will be eager to
make up for lost time, and will gulp "whatever is
alluring to the appetite" with increased avidity.
Should any one feel surprised to hear a Romish
prelate talking of the Industrial Exhibition in lan-
guage generally understood to he used exclusively by
the conventicle, he ham only to recollect that the
English play of " The Hypocrite" is a mere copy of
MOLIERE'S Tartuf*."