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London, England, 1865-02-08 00:00:00

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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8.

one average harvest and some

menial prosperity among
semi-Scotehmen of the
reason to believe that Lord ViEssznairiii
appointed the present Cam Ssaarrssor of
Timex% on the principle of counterirritants, as
odors apply a blister. Sir ROBERT PIM
always " brings out " the Irish question in full
force ; and it is better to bring out • malady so
insidious and so consuming than to salve it over
or suppress it. The CHIEF Sscarmar would be
an apt disciple of Dr. P.twowes if he could, but
his temperament forbids it ; be is constitu-
tionally " more Irish and lees Ida " even
than most of the Irish members whom he gets
up to answer and inflame. He will certainly, if
be remains in office long enough, bring all the Irish
questions to • head. And that will be half
a cure. At present, it is true, the Irish Mem-
bers differ as to the treatment of their own
oisse. One says, tenant right, another flax, another
absenteeism, another party emblems. But no
one an listen without respect to the Member
for Dungsrvan's generous and impassioned, yet
temperate and conciliatory, appeal on behalf of
his country and of the kingdom of which his
country is a part. No one can doubt the per-
fect sincerity of his convictions, or impugn
the manly fervour of his language. Sir Fas•citi
CROBSLIT spoke with a rough good sense when he
urged that no government could supply the want
of self-reliance in a people, no parliament create
enterprise and prosperity by legislation. But we
must take Ireland as we find it, with all the bur-
den of past oppression and neglect on its back ; we
must pay the penalty of the inequalities we have
inflicted in the inequalities of legislation that are
demanded of us now. What Ireland needs is
enablinv legislation, and • spirit of justice in Eng-
lish public men. An Irish debate in a House of
Commons which has nothing else to say or do
worth hearing or recording, is a very moderate
expiation of centuries of national wrong.

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OSBORN% Yo.

The Queen drove out yesterday afternoon, at-
leaded by the Dachau d Athole god Major• General the
Hoe. A. Hood. -

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Princess Hama rod Amer Lades also drove out.
Mrs. Parkes (Lite Mies Amy Sedgeriok) bad the homer of
roam Won her YAMoty, Prisons Ashok Names
Louise, mud Prime Leopold, yesterday imolai, a selsetioa
of poetry from Tempos, Shakespeare, sad dimeides
Kemal's.

The Prince of Wales west to the Hews of Lords yester-
day afternoon.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat Tesler-
day. Present : Lord Chelmsford sad the Lords Justices
Knight Bruce and Turner.
Gespatolses vire received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Govensoni of Gibraltar and Naha.

Ora present easy-going government has reduced
the Royal Speech very nearly to the copy of •
common form. The first paragraph of the present
compilation is word for word identical with last
year's copy. Last year there was • pleasant little
idyllic interpolation, suggested by the happy birth
of a royal child ; otherwise Denmark, Prase*
Austria, and Japan keep their last year's
places in the Speech. This year, however, the
conclusion of a treaty of pesos by the
Emperor of Aueratz end the King of Panesta
with the King of DENMARK is announced ; and so
far as the English Crown and Parliament are con-
cerned with any rights of Schleswig-Holstein or
any wrongs of the Danes, a Treaty of Peace
" grows over them like grass." The paragraph
regarding the American civil war is all that the
most susceptible of belligerents could desire, and
it may be doubted whether the noble chief of the
Opposition in the House of Lords, who is occa-
sionally so parliamentary in his " Homer, " and so
Homeric in Parliament, has improved this simple
declaration of neutrality and good feeling by his
commentary. A Japanese Dainno in rebellion is
becoming • stock character in a Royal Speech,
and it is at least satisfactory to reflect that her
MaJrarv's foreign relations with the Government
of that Empire are not interrupted by those fre-
quent " operations " which in Japan are to be
interpreted, it seems, as merely local and personal
chastisements, though against any other Power
they would probably be considered as acts
of war. The conflict in New Zealand
is mentioned in terms of hope, we trust not
ill-grounded or premature, and the Royal sanc-
tion of the projected federative union of the Ca-
nadian Provinces is sufficiently emphatic, without
suggesting more than it expresses. India is in a
condition of "general tranquillity," which the Royal
Speech scarcely deigns to ruffle by a slight alto-
lion—and it is only an allusion—to the Bhooten
expedition, Satisfaction for the past, and security
for the future, are, on the whole, as handsome a
profit as can be easily got out of the biggest or
the smallest war, and we should be glad to rest
assured that these Bhooteas will prove somewhat
more accessible to such conditions than European
powers. India, however, notwithstanding the
Bhoozelui and the cyclone, makes no discord in the
pervading harmony of the Speech ; nor even does
poor Ireland, which under the fostering patronage
of a discreet CHIEF SECRETARY has actually after
three years' blight and famine shared in the ad-
vantages of • good harvest. Every year we are
taught to find economy and efficiency in the Esti-
mates, 11
and when we find them in our (dockyards
and arsenals this annual paragraph j will have
served its time.
One of the Liberal Members who criticised
the Speech in a skittish vein of harmless limes
described his party as the Do-nothing party.
Various measures of public usefulness announced
by the Royal Commissioners will save the existing
House from the nickname of the Do-nothing
Parliament. Mr. DANBY SEYMOUR thinks that
" PALMERSTON for ever ! No politics—no princi-
ples !" won't do for a hustings cry. Is not
" the party " a little unjust in flinging up its
heels in this vicious way at a Minister who has
made its life so smooth, and who is about to dig-
nify its last moments by submitting to its considera-
tion Bills for building new law courts, for taking a
step towards the formation of • digest of the law, for
the amendment of the Patent Laws, for con
ferring an equitable jurisdiction in causes of smell
amount in the County Courts ; for improving the
public schools ; for regulating the relief of the
poor—all useful, practicable, safe measures, such
as even an Imperialist Corps Ligislatif might pass
without wincing. And yet a speech composed
in this happy and quiet strain, under the
double inspiration of Signor Pococurante sand
Doctor Pangloss, though echoed by two
most pacific gentlemen, in dazzling uniforms,
unaccustomed perhaps to public speaking,
but not unworthy of the occasion, was
not accepted with absolute unanimity. There was
no amendment, or if there was any, Mr. SCULLY
fired it in the air ; not even a feint attack from
the front Opposition bench, which, indeed, was
deserted before the House adjourned ; but there
was a paragraph in the Royal Speech on Ireland,
and a paragraph on Ireland is to Irish members
an offence only one degree less intolerable than
no paragraph on Ireland. Last year
the representatives of the sister island were justly
indignant at the exclusion of their country from
the Speech. This year they were not les justly
indignant at the government for "taking Provi-
" dance into partnership," as the Member for
Dungarven expressed it, and claiming credit for

HEALTH OF CARDINAL WISEMAN-{THIS DAY.)

The critical condition cf the cardinal, as made
known in this morning's poem had the effect of bringing
snore visitors than ear so York-phae. A docammat was
shown at 1 *Week, pomading horn the embed patients%
which stated that " the cardinal has paned a better night
than was expected, and he is all the better far it." Drs.
W. Munk, M.D., Charles Hawkins, and Edward Twat are
rionstantly in attendance.

The Archbishop of Canterbury and the Misses
Langley have arrived at Lambeth Palace from Addlegton
Peek, Croydoa.
The Archbishop of Dublin has arrived at Mau-
rip's Hotel frees The PAW" Dublin.
His Excellency the Count Lavradio, the Portu-
guese Maltal. returned to tows last evening from re-
miring their Royal Highnesses the Coast and Coaster
&Mu, at Southampton, as their snivel from the Dm&
The Earl of March, eldest son of the Duke of
Richmond, has Jost entered the army as assign aad lieu-
tenant in the Cireasdiar Clouds

The Marquis of Clanricarde and the landed pro-
prietors isterestal in the drainage of the Sbaunon have
'pia stated their case in a memorial to the Lord Littete-
aaat, which he has seat to the Lords of the Treasury, sad
hes called their lordships' particular enaction to the great
import's*, of improving the arterial drainage of • Ireland,
and has requested them to give the whole sub;ect, which
has slrsedy bees brought before them with reference to the
nsaiserial of the Suck proprietors, their moat deliberate

On the navy estimates Mr. H. Baillie will move
that a saheteemehtss be appointed to inquire whether
her Majssty'a ships are at prams armed in • manner
suited to the zweesaities and regniremente of modern
warfare.

In committee on Bank Acts the Chancellor of
the Exchequer int ends to more that it is expedient to
make provision for empowering coaetry beaks of ism to
obtain conditionally relief from oertein restrictions.

Mr. Moor, on Friday, will ask the Secretary of
Stets for the agonies whether it i• the 'emotion of her
Majesty's government to dimoatinne the transportation of
criminals to Australia, and if so, at whet period such die.
erietinuance will be onnuisoced. _ _

The select committee to inquire into thelworking
of the New Bankrupt-4 Act, is proposed by Mr. Moffatt as
follows :—Ths Attorney-Owteral, Mr. Moffatt, Mr. Manny,
Mr. Makes, Mr. Wartalin, Mr. Gatboraso Hardy, Mr. Kirk-
=a Hodpon, Mr. Cram-Ewing. the Lord Advocate, Mr.
Lows, Mr. Vino', Mr. Cave, Mr. Goschoo, Mr. Roebuck,
Mr. Taverner John Miller, and Mr. Ayrtoa.
.. .

Mr. Torrens is to move, as a new etanding order :
" That on every private bill, to be considered by a commit-
tee of this house, all petitions presented by the promoters,
ontinento, or other parties connected with inch bills, be
printed at the expense of the petitioners, and copies et
those petitions, as well as a copy of the bill to be considered,
be delivered to each member of the committee not less than
two days previous to its emembling."

Sir-William Fraser, on au early day, will call
attention is the House of Commons to the condition of the
streets ci the metropolis as regards lighting, p►ving, cleans-
ing, sad trsinz.
- . . . .

In committee on Bank of Ireland (Consolidated
?mid) the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposselto more
that the remuneration to the Bank of Ireland for maaap-
inset of the public debt in Ireland shall be paid out of the
Consolidated Fund of the Milted Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland from and after the 13th day of April next.

Mr. Harvey Lewis intends on Friday to ask the
Secretary of State for the Heine Department whether it is
his intimation to introduce a measure rendering it obligatory
that in future the plans for theatres and all other ;gam of
public amusement shall be submitted for approval to an
architect to be appointed by the governmeet, whose especial
ditty it will be to see that every possible provision shall be
made spinet the danger of fire, and who shall also see that
proper and sufildent means of exit shall be provided la all
sulk balklisp.
It is stated that Serjesnt Howley has tendered
hie resignation as chairman of the county of Tipperary, a
position which he has held for nearly 30 years Two ap-
pointments are thus pieced at the disposal of t►e govern-
ment, ea it is intended to divide the county of Tipperary
late two chairmanships-one for the North Riding and the

other for the South Mier.
Mr. John Hatchet], ex-M.P. for Wexford
musty, sad private secretary to the late Dud of Carlisle,
has been appointed secretary to the Lord Chassellor, in the
room of Mr. Mark Perrin, who ban become Rankin: of
Judgments.

ill IC COMITaI ARTIAL AT PLYKOI7/11. ....Plolf .
XOl7lll, Fn. 7.—The Gout-martial held on O. F. Babinec
oommander, aad 0. H. Hammond, muter, of the sloop
Virago, was °enameled to-day. The murk einsidering the
charges against the pioneers preyed, adjudged Omen:ander
Palmer to be dismieed her Majesty's navy, sad Mr. Ham-
mond to lose two years' seniority of his rank, and to be
severely reprimanded. Commander Painter awed in the
I meal brigade NON Sebastopol.

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TIMPSDAT. ow Nom"wa FRIDAY.
N.H to fresh, Oome. N.H. to 9.11.., fresh.
soma snow In places.
&W.toN. W. and N.E., wurrsss. N.E. to S.E. and &W.,
variable, moder►te to moderate to strong,
fresh, rain In places. with some rain.
N. W. to N. E. and back N.F., and H.S.,
to W.. fresh, with freak, rain In places.

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N. to IL and 8.L., froth EASTERN. N.!. to N.E. and B.W.
to Wood, soon wow strong to moderate.

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Northerna.Beotland. Weatern=lreland, Wales, and &IA-
CeWill& Southern =English Channel and Bay of Macs/.
Eastrarn.Heatward England and North Sea.

Tim Qt-mes Bizstaor--The first paragraph of
the Queen's Message is verbally and literally identical with
that delivered at the opening of hut session. The second
Is devoted to a history of the pates between Germany and
Denmark ; as the third in that of last year wan to the
quarrel between the same partial. Japan and New Zealand
are also mentioned in the order of last session. But they
are preceded by a reference to the American war, which
was wholly absent from the last message. Last year the
conntey was congratulated on the birth of a son to the Prince
of Wales ; this year on the prospect of a closer union of
the North American provinces, is the most prominent
event noticed. There is a mysterious paragraph in yes-
tordey's message, to the obscurity of which Lord Derby
called attention in the Peers, and which Lord Grenville
stated referred to Shootan, bat the form of which would
suggest internal disorders in India, rather than foreign war.
AIREDIRION OF CLERGYMEN TO TEE BAIL—A
meeting of bendier' of the several inns of court was held
yesterday, Mr. Macaulay, Q.C.. M.P., in the chair, when
it was decided, by • majority of 12 to 11, that ordained
dergymen should be henceforward eligible for call to the
bar. The occasion which gave rise to the consideration of
! this question in this formal manner was the call to the bar,
in last Trinity Term, by the butchers of the Inner Temple,
of Mr. Francis Lasealles, who, having been an ordained
elesgyman of the church of England, renounced his mole-
shut:Leal preferment and joined the ranks of the Church of
Home.

g. Madame Drouyn de Lbuya, wife of the French
Webber of Foreign Affairs, has addressed a letter to Mrs.
Daytime, expressieg the profound sentiments of regret
whisk the death of the late Minister of the United flutes
has lett in the !semis of all who knew him. She declares
bow nosh she Mira had been affected by the lamentable
lees, sad bow simerely she sympathises with the widow
nadir her ad berearement.—New York roper.

WADNESDAY EVE/eNG, FEBRUARY "St .

THE DISOONTINIUNCE OP TRANSPI
OPPIOIAL DESPATOHES.

IMATION.

This morning uses issued, in a blue book of 56
pages, recent correspondence between our °cloak' mInI
mad the governors of the Australian colonies, relative to the
diseatinuanos of trumportation,
In August lest the Governor of Victoria communicated
the ideation of his wishes' to adept measure" for offer
Nally preveetiag intersoures with Western Australia on
amount of the eontiamase of traesportetion there, Sir
Charles Darling testifying at the same time to the depth
sad unanimity of the feeling our the subject.
Os November 26 Mr. Cardwell, In • despatoh to the
Governor of Victor*, stated that the Victoria ministers
is writhes letters without the governor's sanction to the
other plonks to procure • ecimorted eon= spinet trans.
pertatioe, " exceeded their legitimate authority, and plainly
violated those coutitctional prim:inks as which the well.
maim of every system of responsible government de-
pend,. The observance of them principles is as valuable to
every colony enjoying representative Institutions as it is to
Great Britain herself ; and I trust that you will be Tole to
=detain in future a regent of government coosisteet at
ewe with the tighte and liberties of the subject, and with
a due regard to the just preroptive of the crown."
Mr. Cardwell, however, concludes the despatch with inti-
mating that " upon a full and eareful review of the question
is all Its bearings, her Majesty's government have deter.
seised net only to issue the regulations for the disposal of
land In the new district, coupled with a provision that so
convict labour shall be introduced Into it, but also to pro.
pose to parliament in the ensuing session measures which,
V stlepeed, will in the short period of three years render it
unseceeemyany longer to continue transportation to Western
Australia. In taking this decision, her Majesty's govern-
ment have been mainly Influenced by • 'Moore desire to
give complete effect to the WOOS{ wishes expressed in
these addressee to her Majesty from the astern colonies
which were recognised by the Duke of Newcastle as ` from
their origin, their earnestness, and their loyalty, represeat-
Mg not may the numbers, bat also the property, the in-
telligence, and the character of three communities, and as
expressing not mere popular prejudice, but deep feelings
led Leval oosvictioes.' "
Is dispatches to the governors of Queensland and New
South Wales, Mr. Cardwell on the same date says that her
Majesty's goveramest are extremely glad to find that " the
irregular course of proceeding" adopted by the government
of Victoria has received no encouragement from the two
governsonte he is addressing, and he ooncludee with the
OM* that is has bees to her Majesty's government "a
entree of satiefacnon thus to terminate the oaly question
es which of late years any serious difference of °pluton has
*Med between the mother country sad the loyal and pros.
perms colonies of Australia. They sincerely trust that
the bond which mites those colonies to the crown may be
draws closer year by year, and that every sentiment of
reciprocal confidence and affection between them may be
sinegthesed."
The papers end with a despatch, written as late is
Monday lam, by Mr. T. Frederick Elliot, in reply to •
memorial from gentlemea in Englund connected with
Western Australia for son measure of relief and =open.
ethics for the discontinuance of transportetion—a liberal
supply of free labour, coupled with assisted pimps to
anal capitalist", being mestioned ss the only poseble
equiveleets. Mr. Elliot sitar reviewing the past relations
with Western Australia as to ocaviots, affirms, on
the part of Mr. Cardwell, that it la imposdble
to maintain • claim foe compensation, and concludes
" Whilst Mr. Cardwell I bound to infer from the evidence
before him, that the introduction of convicts into Western
Australia was not merely advantageous to it, but at that
time almost isdispessable, eirennotarcom have greatly
clanged. The gentlemen themselves who are united with
you in your espressetations on the so bj set, show • motions.
ass that the presence of omelets cannot but be attended
with memo drawback', which sooner or later must be in-
compatible with the good of a free and growing
community. Oise effect probably of • more prosperous oon-
&Mon, has been to stimulate enterprise, and to lead to the
discovery which has been made of an extensive and valuable
district of fertile country, much wasted in Western
Austral a. Now the best authorities oonsider that, io the
present date of opinion. the admission of convicts into that
district could not be reconciled with the program of the new
settlement. On the other hand it would, for numerous
reasoes, have been very difficult to continue importing con.
vice into one part of the colony and to exclude them from the
other. The time, therefore, had come when, in the inte-
rests of Western Australia herself, and quite Irrespective of
soy feeling or discussions elsewhere, it was inevitable to
deride whether, in order to carry on transportation to the
colony for an indefinite time, the hopes which might
reasonably be formed from the new country should be aban-
doned, or whether the much disputed practice of transport-
ation should cease, and the colonists be left to draw the
greatest amount of advantage from the unexpected addition
to their territory. Mr. Cardwell hopes and believes that
were this the only question at issue, the decision adopted is
that which is best for the "adoring interest' of Western
Australia, and nothing would give him greater satisfaction
than to find that after struggles which have never ceased
from the beginning of the colony, the settlers may at length
attain • solid prosperity, based upon a judicious encourage-
ment to the occupation of a country of that more fertile
character, of which the want has heretofore been the great
obstacle to the snares of their efforts."