The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-18 00:00:00

COHMISPONDENCE RESPECTING THE
AFFAIRS OF ROME.

We extract the folluertog from papers to be pre-
sented to both houses of parliament, and which were
Wined ea Saturday :

YMOOVIIT PALMMUITON TO Tla MARQUIS OT 1101MATOn.
Foreign.oilloe, January 6, 1849.
Is regard to the preempt position of the Pope,•l have to
abeseve that as doubt it is obviously desirable that a person
who in his spiritual capacity has peat sad exteasive influ-
ence over the internal affairs of most of the countries in
Europe, *sold be in such • position of independesce se Dot
to be liable to be we d by say oas Raropeaa power as • poli-
tical lutetium's% for the annoyance of say other pewee • sad
in this view it is much to be wished that the Pope should be
sovereiget Ma territory of his own. Os the other hand, if it
be miraliMil as • general ptineiple, that queetinus and
' between the people and the sovereign of each
MUM illerahl be left to be settled by thaw parties without
rg ilMetileames et any foreign armed force, it is not nay
to me. in dm poet r porition of the Pope with regard to
bisenbiects Whet should make the R.-mace states an sump-
hien to this gweerel rule. The male circumstance in which
the relation between the Pups and hie subjects differ from
the relations Which subsist between other sovereigas and
?hair subjects is, that the Pope does not reign either by
hereditary right or by the camas of the people wheat he
governs, bat that i.e is .leafed by the College of esitiSSlS.
a body which is not in its emstitutiou national, which is,
believe, self-eleeted, and of which about a ban are not na-
tives of the state for which they choose the sovereign. These
circumstances would resin to render it the more incomhent
on the Pepe to give to his subjects the requisite emeriti. a
for good government, col these eircamatauc-s would also
appear to render it the less juu.ll tble fee any fore ga posers
to use armed in" rferen,e to e titer to twist the Pope In
maintaining, if he were so disposed, • bad system of govern-
ment.
'VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO Till MARQUIS OP NORMANDY.
Foreign Otfixe, March 9, 1849.
Although Great Britaia has not no direct an hewn.; as
France has in the ercte•iortical sad political questions which
arise rut of the pry.- t relations between the Pope and the
people of the R B:etts, the British gover. meat never
theiess cannot vie e woo, matters with 11.dd:fel...nee Great
Britain is indeed. a protestant state, but her Majesty has
many millions of tatn-be sulejects ; and the Bri i,h govern-
ment mat thereiur • be et.inius, with a view to British
interests, that the l'ope shoAd be placed in such • temporal
position as to be title to act with entire independertc- in the
esercise of his spiritual funettone. Great Britain is so tar
di.tant from I:say t at the p Wheal events of the tidier'
peninsula cannot have the same direct bearieg upon Britielt
interests which three event. must . xert upon the interests ul
nearer state.; but sail as thou events must always nave a
powerful infl.rence epos mat n involving questions of peace
SW war in Rarer, sue britisn dowernastut must me. ssanly
watch those even,• with much attention and anxiety.
The present eoridr.i en of the r l.tiona between the Pope
and the people of tt e Slate% has therefore been looked at with
deep silicitude by her Msjesty's gnvernmeer. It woula
have been the tarn-- t wish of her ll,j.sty's g•IT. rumen?,
bath os qeners' principles and with reletenee Li the particu-
he circiimat enc. a of the c se, that the eider, noes between
the Pope and his so j-e-s should have been adj sated by ne -
satiation, tithe. t we, n •Ite Pops slid Die subjects theta'',
or by means of the in treoeition of friendly powers. A direct
nepti.tion betwee n •he P pe and hi. subjects teems sow to
have been rendered impel b e by the course of events at
Rom^ and by tat teethe-. y those counsels which more
is mums to thiult are suirseeeed to the Pope by the per. o-.s
who surround him at Gaeta. But her Majesty's goverd-
TIMM do not see, even in tae recent °cairn Wes at home,
any reason for civic up the hope that the eiplomatic
filegitellition of fueudle powers might still, without any a •
teal eseploi went of msatary fore , bring shout each a setes
meat of did. rer ces as would enable the Pope t re turn to
I Rnme and to ri sum. hie temporal authority ; and her Ma-
jesty's government, dilemma ,g as they do, on principle, the
employment of a f resin m htary force to settle internal
dasen.ions in a sta., , except in ex reme and peculiar easel,
would greatly re juice it the powers to whom the Pope Las
now appealed fur ass*-edam to ..s,ricate him Ir ecu his diffr
ul
his, were to try the • Ikea of their moral inflornee at Rome,
before they reeert.d to any ether more active measures.
1; seems to her Majesty's government that a strong and
unanimous maailestation of the opini en of those powers in
support of order on the one hot d, and of consti•eruonal right.
on the other, wield Owing to re town the minority who now
exercise peramouot authority at Rome; and would give
courage and confidtie • • to the majority who hive been
hitherto Intimid .4 d and overborne; and if Greet B, item luau
bean invited to I.e a per y o those negotiations, and if an io-
vitation to that effect had been metered, such would have
bet athe copse wniieh net ..eeteetj'a government would have
recommended Unit the puti.s to the transaction should

pursue.
Her Majesty's government have hunt with much pleasure
that France ha. D. en toe udet in the invitation addeseaed by
the Pope to &rue it the iat.,olic powers, r. qu ming th. m to
take an active merest in the pre.ent condi ion of nis .ff ire;
and her Blated,'s g 'venison.. hope that it Po r, is to be a
*mom among a iy of the rowers of Europe in regard to
those affairs. the Fr,uch goys-rumens will nut &cline the ion
vitstioa to be • party ih• reto. There are mai very ob-
viola reasons why in sev. ral points of view it would be de-
sirable that tit se 'lt• re abound not be disposed of without
the participation of Fringe.
Your eleslieory ,a) a teat the French government would
have prefeete t teat Sardinia should trivet been isvited to
take part In awe ueliberati.n.s. Her Majesty's government
are entirely of the e nee opinion.
The psi tide-too nt 8 utlialis would mitigate the foreign
character of the negodation, and it a contingency wire to
arise which should It'id to the employment of any aeiiitary
force within the it man territory, Piedmonte-e troops
would
fur many evident tr.:sous b • better suited for such purpose
than the troops of Austria or of any state not belonging to
the Italian Penh aul e.
The opinion then of her Majesty's government upon the
points on which the governmeht of France has • tolled to
have it is, that it would be doeirable that France should be a
pirty to the Fr reed dribi ra.ious, and that Serdioia should
take part in thane al-u; that it would be deiii able that r v,ry
esdearour should b- mode to bring about a tetti meet be-
tween the Pope and his subjects by negotia,iou and by moral
influence before re o tog to the employment of force ; and
that one condi ion of the reinstatement of the Pope ought to
be that he should engage to maintain in their main and e.-
sandal provisiohs the constitutional and Tepee...meta,' fial-
hitless which he granted tr his subjects lost y 6 r.
Gaeta, February 18, 1849.
His Henan', our master, from the very *pairing of his
pontificate, has had no other object than to bestow
benefits on hie sufjects in unison with the times, pro-
viding for their waters in everything. In tact, after
having pardoned those who were in exile or in
prison for political °fleeces, after having erected
the Consults di Stato, and instituted the Council of Minis-
ters, aster baring granted through the impericua necessity oe
circumstances, the institution of the civic guard, the new
law for a fair lib. rty of the press, and finally, • fundamental
statute for the states of the Holy Church, he had a good
claim to that gratitude which is des from the subjects to •
prince who looks upon them only a+ his children, and who
promises them only a reign of love. But far different was the
return he found for the many benefits and kindnesses lavish-
ed upon them. Aher brief tokens of applausth•hich t :ewer*
led by penults who already cherished the most criminal
designs in their hearts (tokens which the Holy Father by
every means known to his paternal heart, endeavoured to put
an end to), he • ry soon experienced the bitter fruit of Wirer
titude. Driven by the violence of a faction to make war
against Austria, he found himself compelled to pronounces*
allocution in the consistory of the 19th dry of April of last
year, in which he declared to the whole world that his duty
sad his conscience were not consenting to it. This wee
enough to call into open violence the maohinatioos which
were already predisposed, at this exercise of his full and ha
powers, compelling him to • division of the ministry Oir afw
into the seclesier *al and civil departments, a division which
he never reeognised.
The holy father trusted, however, that by placing in the
various departments, persons fit for their posts and
desirous of order, things would take • better course'
and that a partial stop would be put to those evils
which already threatened misfortune. But a mur-
kraus weepoo, wielded by the hand of an alemain,
destroyed by the deed& eef the minister Rossi, the hopes
which had bees formed. Triumphant by this crime the
reign of violence was shamelessly inaugurated ; the Quirinal
was invested by armed men, attempts were made to set it on
Me, shots were directed against the apartments where the
sispeeme Pcmtiff resided, and it rushed unhatiody that one
tithe &wearies became a victim ; they would nave forcibly
bid open his pelisse by cannon if he had not yielded to the
aembelm sides ministry imposed upon him.
The Pontiff, having been compelled to yield to the empire
ethos, as is well known to every one, by • series of such
atiesisias deeds, found himself reduced to the cruel neeedrity
of pitting Rome and tne whole pontifical state, in order to
mew the liberty which had been taken from h4e, and
mid* he should sajov in the full use of his supreme power.
proceeded to Gaeta, under the directions of Divine
being sheltered by • prince eminently
male% sad surrounded by a large part of the
Bacred College, and by the representatives of all the
powers with whom he is in relations of amity, he
did not delay one moment to make his voice heard in an-
soancin4 by the Pontifical Act of the 27th November last,
the motives of his temporary separation from his subjects,
the nullity and illegslity of all the acts emanating from a
ministry which had been extorted by violence, and in nomi-
nating a governing cfmmissioa in order to assume the direc-
tion of public affairs during his absence from his states.
But the authors of therm sacrilegious outrages, caring
nothing for the promulgamition of his wishes, and endea-
souring by f ilea pretexts to elude their force in view of the
ignorant classes, pawed on to greater crimes, arrogating to
themeless the rights due to the Sovereign alone by the in-
stitution of an illegal governing eepresentadon under the
title of Provisional and Supreme Giunta di Stato; egainst
which most grave and sacrilegious deed the Hily•Father
solemn! protested by his other act of the 17th December
laic, declaring that the G;unta di Stato was only an usurpa-
tion of sovereign power, sad that therefore it had no
authority.
He expected that these protests would renal these mis-
guided men to the donee of fidelity and subjection, but in-
stead of that • new and more monstrous act of open villainy,
of real rebellion, filled up the measure of his grief. This
was the conveestion of a general national assembly of the
Homan state, for ti.e purpose of establishieg new political
hems he be given to the states of the Holy See. Thereupon,
by meat Mote Proprio, of the Ist of Imlay last, he pro-
VOA against that act, and condemned it as an enormous
cad inerilegions offence, committed in prejudice of his inde-
and sovereignty, deserving of the chastisements
by laws both human antedivine ; and he prohibit-
admit liswabj.cts from taking partthe same, warning them
that whosoever should dare to act spinet the temporal sore-

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY ,EVENING, JUNE 18, 1849.

reig•ty et the swum BeM Pontiffs would be liable to
asseares, and espesifilly to the grater execommanies-
tits, a penalty to irlishlte Mined liable those sloe who in
any meaner whatever, sail miler say take saint, have vio-
lated sad aimed kis avitheagy.
With regard to the myths given by the party to this
protest sad authoritative emionmetles, it is saleirst to state
that every effort was made to pont premelptills, that
punishment wee awarded ensile em ma visaing& dm '
acquaint the people with tie% wint abseil set ssemilbek
views; but notwititelsadiag sash wahlood.ef visionseAomse
rity of the 'Ojeda remind Mittel to their sus sew
reign, and emend timeliest to sesellises, anima to the
I danger of death rather than hil b their duty as subjects sad
eatiolies. Tie MN party, magsreeti
_mere and am at
suing their designs obatnicted, iniereesed the violates mid
terror in a thousand ways, without regesi to rank ar mar
tin, and being desirous at every NM to esespiste their
Lanus career, they bed Isiewles mu to the atts mint els
and mercenary. Thum maim iron ens mom to mat;
abusing the very benefits granted by the Pontiff, sadr
dal y convening the liberty of the es to the most
licentiossam alter the met meleenadede NM
m Wed in order to resod their esnemplimiondtesomise los
distance good and honest wierhaller so manyeasrdensemmitted
under their aegis, after having spread everywhere rebe/liss,
immorality, and irreligion—atter having misled so many un-
guarded young persons, no longer respecting sawed Mess
and the asylame of p. nee and solitude, nor even the pintos Cl
public education, but converting them into dm Ise a meet
undisciplined soldiery gathered from the ref sad bed
mete of foreign countries; they wish to reduce tie apital of
the catholic world, the seat of the pontiff., to a seat of im-
piety, and to destroy, Uit were possible, ev, ry idea of sove-
reignty in him who is destined by Providence to govern the
universal churn, and who, for the very object of exercising
freely his authority over tie whole catholic world, is in pu-
mmel= of a state as the patrimony of the church ; at which
sight of desolation and waste the holy father cannot but be
enely grieved, u well as moved by the cry of his good sub-
jects, who imphsre his aid and assistance to liberate them
from the most atrocious tyranny.
His Hol noes, as it is known, soon after his arrival in
Gaeta ea the 4 h day of September last, addressed all the
sovereigns w.th whom he has relations, and informing them
of nis d.parture from the capital and from the pontifical
slue, and of the causes which had produce/ it, willed up in
them for protection in defence of the dominions of the holy
are ; and it is a pleasing satisfaction to declare that almost
all nave kindly responded, taking the liveliest pert in his
grief, in as punnet poi ion, ufferiog themselves ready to aid
him, and at the same time manifesting the meat obedient
sense of devotion and of attachment.
Awaiting thee* fortunate and generous motel inn, whilst
her Majesty the Queen of Spain had so anxiously promoted
a congress of the c c hone powers to determine the means of
promptly re establishing the holy father in his states, and in
his full liberty and indeyendence, a proposition to which
aeverso catholic powers had given their adtesi n, and that of
the rest was esparto', it must, hoe ever, be stated with pain
that the attain of Om pontifical state are a ptey to wasting '
destruction through the acts of the party which is hostile to
very s anal institution, which, under the specious pretences
of nationality and independence, has omitted no measum to
e .mphte their is.iquities. The d-cree called " Fundamental,"
issued by. the Roman Coneti:uent Assembly on the 9th
instant, is an act which -abounds in every way with the
blukest ',daily and the most abominable impiety. Its
chief oecl nation is that the papacy has de facto and de jure
o ased from the temporal government of the Roman alive,
and it proclaims a republic ; another act decrees that the
arms of the holy father be taken dawn. At the eight of his
supreme dignity as a pontiff and a sovereign thus contemned,
his holiness, afore all potentates, and all and every catholic
the whole world, protests against this :cue of irreligion
and against so eutrageous a violation of his imprescriptible
and most sacred tights. if a remedy be not promptly a;.-
pled, the succour will not arrive until the states of the
church, now wholly a prey to its bitterest enemies, shall be
redoes. d to ashes.
Having exhausted all the meats at his disposal, urged by
the duty impo.ed on him in the face of tins whole catholic
world to preserve uninjured the patrimony of the church and
sweendenty,annexed to it, which is so iadispensoble to the
iniuteuance of his full liberty and independence as supreme
head of the church its• lf, and moved also by the
groans of the good, who are loudly calling out for
help, as being usable to hear any lot ger • yoke of iron
and a baud of tyranny, the holy father therefore applies
again to those same powers, and esp. wally to those catholic
powers who with 'lin generosity of mind, and in so untie-i
toting a meaner, have manifested their decided readir.ess to
dennd his cause, in the assurance that tsey will he most
anxious to come forward with their moral intervention, in
order that he may he restored to his see, to the capital of
those dumieions winch were constituted expressly to =un-
true his lull liberty and independence, and whic:i are more-
over guaranteed by the treaties forming the basis of the
European law of nations.
And whereas Austria, Fret ce, Spain, and the Kingdom of
tne Twn Sicilia, by their geographical position ere in *situ'.
ton to be eke to come foreasd promp ly to establish with
area, in the dominions of the Holy See, that order wh:ch
bas been destroyed by • b. nd of eectaries. Tree Holy Fa, her,
tem: ing in the 'cheeses interest felt by those posers,
daughters of the chug b, demands with full confidence their
armed intervention a specially to liberate the state of the Huh
See from that faction of bad men, who, with every sort of
wiekeanees, exercise in it the mist atrocious despotism.
In ti.i. manner only can order be restored in the states of
the church and the chief pontiff be restored to the free cur
else of his supr. me authority, as imeeriouely demanded b
hi. d and august character, by the interests of the uni
versal Church, and by the puce of no ions, and thus only
can he preserve that patrimony which he received on his
acceaeion teethe pontificate, to transmit it entire to his MC-
-74. The cause is that of order and of catholicism.
The refers the holy lather trusts, that while all the powers
with whom he is in relations of amity, ant who, in the situa-
tion into which be has been thrown by aparty of factious men,
have in so many ways manifeated the strongest interest in him,
will give amoral asiistanc- to the armed jct. rvention which
the serious state of circuinstanc s has impelled him to de.
mend, the four powers above men'ioned will rot deity one
moment t 3 perform the work requirwl of them, thus render-
tog themselves highly serviceable to the cause of public order
and religion.
The undersigned, Cardinal Pro Secretary of State of his
Holiness, engages your Excellency therefore to have the
kindness to bring this tote as promptly as posits's to the
knowiedee of your government ; and in the confidence of a
favourable reception, he has the honour, &:.
TISCOUXT PAILLXBILOTOII TO THI MAHOVIN OF KOILMANBY.
Foreign-office, March 27, 1849.
My lord,—l have received your Excellency's despatch 0!
the Bth instant, transmitting to me the copy of a note which
your exce limey had received from the &pantie nuncio, en.
closing the copy of a note which had been addressed oy Cu-
dinal
Antonelit to the representatives of all friendly powers,
requesting them to cooperate fur the purpose of rwestab.ish
hug the papal authority at Rome.
I have to instruct your sea llency to say to the nuncio that
her Majesty's government have received and have attentively
consideied the communication which he /MI made to them
through your excellency, and that you are instructed to ex-
press to him the deep regret with which her Majesty's go-
vernment have witnessed the differences which have arisen
between the Pope and his suljeets, the assassination of Count
Ito-si, the departure of the Pupa from his capital and states,
end the proclamation of a republic at Rome.
The British gevernment is fur many obvious reasons not
desirous of taking an active part in any negotiations which
may result from the application which the Pope has ad.
deemed to some of the catholic powers of Europe, whose
territories are nearer than Great Britain in geographical
proximity to the Italian Fenian's. But the British govern-
ment will be much gratified if the result of those negotiations
should be such a reconciliseion between the Pope and his
subjects as might enab • the former with the free good-will
and consent of the latter to return to his capital, and th re to
resume his spiritual functions and his temporal authority.
But it is the opinion of her Majesty's government
that web a reconciliation could scarcely be effected, or it
elleiged for the manse; could
the bests up on which it was founded were to be that the
Pepe should engage to maintain the constitutional and re-
piesentative system of government which he granted last
yeas to his snipes, and unless the separation between the
spiritual authority and the temooral powers and institutions
of the state were so clearly and so distinctly established as to
put an end to those manifold grievances which the mixture
of the spiritual with the temporal power has for .0 long a pe-
riod of time prodtend in the R man States. The great im-
portance of admitting laymen to administrative and judi-
cial functions in the Roman states was pointed out to the
late pope by the memorandum presented in 1832 to the
Boman government oy the representatives of Austria,
France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, and the events
which have happened sines that time, not only in the
Roman states but In the rest of Europe, have tended to make
it still more important that such a Mona should be carried
out into full and complete execution.
Your excellency will give the nuncio a eepy of tins der-
patch.—l he. (Signed) PLLSIBON.

THE COURT.

His Royal Hiehn eat Prime Albert rods out on
horseback ea Satariay, attended by Wessel Bennek.
The Queen atm Prises Albert. the Dueller et Kent, the
WWI sad penman dna mart, and the domino house-
hablantsended akloejearrise yesterday swung is the prints
chapel in Sekinchan Palen. The Ron. and Rev. C. Leslie
CAsite2slierdTliar alelateißislutenes. the Psalm of ailment.; the
Dalton Cambridge, sad the Prisons Mary, attended urine
senile pub May inning in Groomer Chapel, South
Agri".
Par 41 .1111tbsernis the Duke's of Cambridge and the
Hanaltul want Daimon Mecklenburg's threlits attended
Miss urns. yetasedlay Bening is St. Paler; Knights.
brit*. Lady Anemia Oadesea and Mr. Mined Mining
were la weitutgen=ir Hishanese.
Rh Serum Prime Edward of Saxe Weimar left
town on Saturday fee Germany.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign office. It was attended by Lied John Rus-
sell, the Marin% of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minh) Sir
George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chan-
cellor of the Zuhequer, Sir Francis' Baring, Be John Hob
bow, Lied Campbell, the Reel of Carli.le, and the Right
Bea. H. Labouchen. The council sat two hours and a hell.

Bettor Molina, the Co,ta Rican Minister, transacted
business at the Foreign-office on Saturday, on behalf of the
republc of Guatemala.
The Chevalier Bunsen, Prussian Minister, had an
interview with Lend John Russell on Saturday, at his
official residence in Dow. lag-street. His Excellency also
transacted business on Saturday at the Foreir.office.
M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, had an
interview wilt the Chancellor ot the Exchequer on Satur-
day, at his official residence in Downing-street.
A deputation on the subject of the harbour of
P. rpatnek, consisting of the Marquis of Londonderry, the
Ent of Galloway, Lord Cutleresgb, Lord Drutalanrig, Lord
Newry, Lord Seam, Lord Duffetia General Hunter Blair,
Mr. John Dalrymple, M P., Bir John Rennie, Colonel
M'Doua I, Sir John M'Taggart, M.P., Admiral Scarp,
Lieut.-Colonel Stoptord Blair, Mr. A. N. Caird, and Mr.
John C. Moore, had an interview with Lord John Russell,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sly Francis Bering, and
the Marquis of Clanricarde, on Siurday, at the official red•
c'.enca ot Lord John Russell, in Downing-street.
A deputation on the subject of the Factory Act,
including Mr. J. Wood and Mr. William Walker, of Brad-
ford, and Mr. Samuel Firlden and Mr. P. Grant, of Man,
cheater, hail an interview with Sir George Grey, on Satur-
day, at the Home-office.
13nrd Moutetigle transacted business at the office of
the Commissioners of Railways in the Board of Trade on
Saturday.
Despatches were sent off front the Colonial-office
on Saturday evening, for the governors of the West India
colouies.

POSTAL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
SCOTLAND AND IRELAND.

A deputation, consisting of nearly forty noblemen
and gentlemen interested in the preservation of the .zi ting
route of communication between Scotland and Ireland, br
Portpatrick and Donaahadee, had an interview on Satutday
with Lord John Remit at his lordship's official residence in
Downing-street. The deputation was headed by the Mar-
quis of Londonderry, and among those accompanying his
lordship we noticed the Earl of Galloway, Viscount Castle-
reagh, M.P., Visconni Newry, M.P., Sir John M'Taggart,
at P., Viscount Sesham, M.P., Colowl Dalrymple, M.P.
Colonel Cathcart, Goneral H. Blair, Coluntl blau, Colonel
M'Dowall, Mr. H. Montgomerie, tte Mayor of Loch Ryan,
the Provost of Summer, and Sir John Rennie.
Lord John Russell was attended by the Chancellor of the
Each. Baer, the Postmaster General, and the First Lard of
the Admiralty.
Tile Martini. of LONDONDERRY said it was univer-
sally admitted that the shortest sea passage between Soot-
land and Ireland was that which ought to be maintained,
and yet it wet contemplated to abandon a passage of 21
miles between Portpa:rick and Danaghades and adopt one
of 90 miles between Greenock and I.l:liast. His lordship
having pointed out the great inconvenience resulting from
the proposed step,
The Earl of GALLOWAY said that if the government
had endeavoured to do ell chat it matt to prevent the rapid
tran.it of the mail. and prove prejudicial to the early de-
-I:very of letters, they could not have devie.d a scheme better
calculated to eff. et such an object than tact proposed.
Sir J. RENNIE then gave his opinion of the eligibility
of maintaining me harbour of Portpstrick, and bore testi-
' mony to the perfection of the nee works constructed there
under his advice and rem,- mendation.
Tee deputation wire inform d by the Marquis of CLAN-
RICARDE and Sir F. BARING that the contrac-x :or the
Urcenock route were now in progress, and could not be
altered.
DALRYMPAX pressed the premier for a positive
answer as to whether the government bad Basil determined
on abandoning tl.e P-rtpatrick route.
Lord J. RUSSELL said he would take the substance of
r the various ul boons expressed by the deputation into m-
aid twin, and Lard L.ndondsrry should be made acquainted
with toe dee AOll of the government thereon.
The deputation then retired.

•
INQUEST, SATURDAY.—DEATII OF A FISMALZ
TROY TUE ADMINISTRATION OT INDIAN TODACCO.—Be-
fore Mr. Baker, at the Market-house, Finsbury-market,
touchier the death of Jane Garner. seed 23 years. Mr.
John Leeson, a surgeon, stated that on Thursday morning
he was called to the deceased. Be fiend she hid just ex-
pired. He was informed by Mr. Garner, her brother, that
the deceased had caught a violent cold, and that he bad ail-
=Joist, red doses of lobelia, some ling to instructions in a work
which he had purchased. entitled " Coffin's Botanical
Guide to Health and Nyland Pathology of Disease."
He asked Mr. Garner how much he hid given
to his sister, and he replied one tea-spoonful. He
added that the work recommended half en ounce of lobelia
as a dose, which was to be repeated until it operated, and
that be was in the habit of sung it himaelf for come time
at as an emetic, when be felt unwell. The lob, lit indite
is an India& weed of a very powerful character, and a nar-
cotic poison. Witness had made a post moetem examination
and attributed death to the poisonous effects olobelia. lie
found upwards of 400 grains of it is the stomach, which
was quite sufficient to produce death. Lobelia acted upon
the nervous system in the same manner as prussic acid.—
Habana Ford stated that her father was an kabala in
Covent-garden and in Union-street, Spitalfields. Witness
had sold Mr. Garner various quantities of lobelia, and bad
herself taken a teaspoonful of lobelia on several occasions.
Witness's mother had taken fire or sin spoonfuls every day
for some time past. The jury retuned the following special
verdict "That the deceased died from the deleterious effeets
of a certain noxious weed called lobel:a inflate, alminirered
to her as a medicine, and without any intention to derroy
life ; but the jurors cannot separate • ithout expr,saing their
opinion of the iejurious effects which have ben thus pro.
dared by a book publiahted, and entitled ' Coffi is B fta,ical
Guide to Health,' which has led to en incautious and Judi,-
criminate ate of the weed in question, and which work is
• condemned by the whole of lb. medical profession."