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The 'Feet mgta ma., excluding those for Mexico, Linden; and
the Havannah, will be made up on the morning of the 17th July,
The malls for Vigo, ()port*, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and
will be made up on the morning of the 17th July.
The mails for British North /aerie*, Bernfeld', and the Laity
elates, will be made up on the evening of the 19th July.
Thy overland mails ter Lilwaltar. Malta, Greece, the lonian Wand;
IXit Aden, Ceylon, India, LG.: it-Kong, and China, cis Southamptto.
made up on the morning of the 20th July.
The overland closed mails, rio Marseilles, to the )(Whet....
Egypt, Aden. Ceylon, India, Long Kong, &e., will be made up en-II;
evening of the 21th July.
The mails for New South Wales, Tan Diemen's Land, and N.
Zeeland will be made up on the evening (.4 the 314 July.
The mails for the Brazils, the Rirer Pate, Monte Video, Perms.
buoo, Dahlia, Madeira, and Buenos Agree, will be made op 03 the
• ealmg of the 4th August.

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LONDO.V, TUESDAY, JULY 13,

IN the House of Lords, yesterday, Lord BROUGRAII
presented the report from the committee of their lord.
ships on the subject of receiving messages from and
sending messages to the House of Commons, which
was communicated to the latter at a conference. The
noble lord also, in an explanatory speech, submitted cer-
tain resolutions with a view to the prevention of bribery,
corruption, and intimidation at elections.—The Mar-
quis of LANSDOWNE on the ground that it was not
advisable to adopt an abstract principle, and with the
conviction that their lordships would willingly adopt
any measure sent up to them in the next session of
parliament for punishing such delinquencies and crime
in connexion with bribery and corruption at elections
as the existing law was not able to reach, moved the
previous question.—Lord BnotTinam, after an ex.
planation, withdrew the resolutions.—The subject
of the distress existin,, among Irish emigrants
to Canada was brought under the notice of
their lordships by the Earl of ENNISKILLEN, on the
authority of a letter from the Catholic Bishop of
Quebec.—Earl GREY' believed the account to be cor.
rect, assuring the noble earl that the attention of the
government and the colonial authorities was directed
to the matter, and that no means would be left untried
to mitigate the calamities of those whose unfortunate
condition he had brought under the notice of the
house.

In the house of Commons, Lord J. RUSSELL, is
answer to Lord J. MANNERS, explained the coarse
which had been taken with respect to trust deeds of
national schools, and denied the rumour that prefer-
ment in Ireland was only to be given to clergymen
who adopted the scheme of those institutions.--The
noble lord also intimated that, having had communi-
cations with her Majesty and the Duke of Welling-
ton on the subject of the statue testimonial, it was
not the intention of the government to take any further
steps towards its removal from its present site.—
Sir G. GREY, in answer to Mr. BERNAL, stated, with
regard to a newly discovered disinfecting fluid, that
he had caused information of its properties to be
transmitted to the authorities of several large towns,
with a view to its efficacy being tested.—ln coo.
mittee of supply the vote of 10,0001., for the expenses
of Portpatrick Harbour, was carried, on a division, by
a majority of 114.—The second reading of the New
Zealand Bill, proposed by Mr. HAWES, originated a
discussion, at the termination of which the bill was
read a second time.—The Bankruptcy and Insolvency
Bill, after some debate, was committed, when the flit
clause, for abolishing the Court of Review, was me-
ried by a majority of 41 to 37, as was the second
clause, for transferring the jurisdiction to a vice-
chancellor, by a majority of 47 to 40.—Lord J. Mao.
NEILS'S amendment to the Navigation Bill, on Satur-
day last, was not approved of by the Cn tNcEttol
of the EXCHEQUER, and was negatived.

WE regret that the great debt and credit income,
opened by famine and distress, should be one so
ostentatiously set down as between England end
Ireland. Here we have two countries, the unite
between which is indispensable to tho dignity, great.
ness, and prosperity of both. And, in both countries
we find assemblies engaged in totting up accounts,
in which each brings in the other debtor to the
amount of millions ; and thereupon each rings the
changes, with all the obduracy of a creditor against the
ingratitude and insolvency of a debtor. Mr. Hest E does
not establish the fact of Ireland's indebtedness with
more satisfaction to himsrif, than Mr. FosTEII and Mr.
Jour O'CONNELL establish the same fact against
England in their anti-conciliation ball. We well
know which party are the most egregious sophists,
but we know not which party is mast Impolitic in the
mode of stating the question between the countries.
For our part, we think that Ireland should he
treated as Yorkshire. If that province or county
was unable to employ its population, and that money
was borrowed from capitalists to enable the holden
of land to do so, the demand that Yorkshire pa I
prietors should pay at least one half of this experm
would be a most reasonable one. The account wing
be one between the government of the country sal
the proprietors of the province. It would not be le
tween England and Yorkshire—no more than it is be-
tween England and Ireland.
One is rather astonished to find Lord CLEMENT'
to be the man who would stand up for Irish
repudiation, especially for the repudiation of lug
the debt occasioned by the Labour Rate Act
For, if we recollect aright, Lord CLEmENTs was lee
of the few Irish members, who in a former part of the
'session very generously avowed the beneficial resale
of the works under that act. If the measure fag
in the principal result expected to be derived from
this was owing in a great measure to the lacks
of the Irish gentry themselves, who refused mod
of them to make any extraordinary exertias
And the consequence of their backwardness was
the vote of the Irish poor law by acclamatin,
and a subsidiary measure of temporary relief is the
way of alms, all others having been found imprint•
cable in a country of which the upper classes woad
make neither joint effort nor organisation.
We have always represented the almost impract-
cability of the workin,, of the Poor-law in the south
and west of Ireland without large auxiliary meatus
A contemporary goes fel ther, and has published
formidable array of figures, which shows de
poor rate and relief expenditure as so much greeter
than the rent value of a great number d
unions, that confiscation stares the landholder Mil
face. The present, however, is no normal yes.:
Should even the potatoes be partially affected,
is extravagant to allege that the present quantityd
rations and relief expenditure will be required fin!
length of time. The legislature will have to de:
with the amount of debt incurred, and the repaying
of that debt may be scattered over a large swine d
time. The question is not what government sod
capitalists have a right to demand, but what the le.
debted rental and property of the mortgaged rea
and poor rates are able to pay.
That is for future consideration. But in the meat'
time there is no need of representing the landed intweg
of Ireland as already bankrupt. All the monies sd•
yenned to it from 1830 to 1814 have been Bereft
lously repaid, with the five per cent. interest threw
accruing, as fully shown is the Dublin Evening PA4
of Wednesday. The time for repayment of admires
under the Labour-rate has not yet arrived, gadding!
Lord CLEMENTS chose to make an electioneering ellg
craving the exemption of the Irish gentry from.
payment of the half, we cannot think bun sense,
We may appeal to the good sense, even of Las
CLEMENTS, at a time when there is less pretuill
upon exaggeration.
That government shrinks front any sumwre
sweeping process of confiscation the withdrawal or
Encumbered Estates Bill by Lord Jolly Russets. PI
proof. But if there was any serious design of tergig
the poor-law screw to the uttermost, and 424
its consequence of dispossessing the landlordia
be far better to have passed the bill, and hile •
results. For in the present state of Ireland,els
much disaffection and blindness, caused •
amongst the lower classes, any policy vsea
render the upper classes equally disaffected
lead to such a unanimous demand of rePesdkjoar"
would almost realise itself without anyi

enactment at all.
We cannot conceive what an English and 101
journal can be driving at, which plainly dert:
progress of this confiscation, yet urges its
and admits, in one breath, the justice at Wit mer.:
strance, as well as that of the rigid pressure din,
lish creditorship. If the two countries be 71;
hallooed, like dogs, upon one another by the
pre
result cannot be other than physical strife, Ander
ing of each other limb from limb.