The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-01 00:00:00

CORN.

HALIGIWORTH, July 31.:-We had a goad show of Wheat,
aid prices ruled esteedine'y heavy. Spring corn none shown. Wea-
ther r. m blustering and stormy. Wheat, white, to .Bs. per qr. ;
red, 40s. to Os.

Hutt., July 31 -The weather has been broken (luring the
past week, and heavy rain has fallen on siveral occa-iona. All reports
agree that we have bed more wet than is good for Wheat, and amply
sufficient kw spring corn. The period of reaping is retarded, and no
doubt move sun is desirable than we now experience. The trade is
lifeless ; holders retain their fiegnneast, though supply is rather in ex-
cess of demand, but it must not be foreotten that the inland factor,
miller, and dealer are eery bare of stock, that coaaumptinn is great,
and any alarm for the crop would tell cenaibly on prices at their pre-
sent moderate range. Our farmers brought a fair supply of Wheat
for this day's market, but we cannot w,ite the market more than Is.
lower. Of Nit.ign a good show, quality far the most part moderate, and
such difficult to *ell, even at la. to 2s. per qr. reduction, while tine
samples, which are lets plentiful, cannot be quoted more than la
per qr. lower. With another large arrival of Barley, the country
demand prevents our quoting more than &L per qr. decline, at which
there arc more buyers than sellers. There is no quotable alteration
in Beans or Peas, but tot Oats we have a good demand at folly our
currency. We have a good arrival of Limed, which for the
toot part goes direct to the mills, and has little influence on the
I market, which remains very firm; Cakes are uniltered, with a her
daily sale. Nothing doing in Rapeseed, but nape Cakes meet more
inquiry. Sales of Bones are practicable at our quotation, to specula-
tor,. Prices. - Wheat, English, red, 465. to 10s; white, 30s.
to 32..; Dantale and Konigsberg, 50e. to 325.; Pomeranian and
Hamburg, 445. to 465.; Danish, holstein, and Erieslaad, 40s. to 445.;
lignaLan and Odessa, 31s. to 38a. Oats, English, 13s. to 175.; Danish,
14s. to 165.• Friesland, Pls. to 18s.; Russian and Odessa, 14s. to lie.
Barley, making, 235. to 275. ; grinding, 225. to 235. Beans, 2es to
325,; foreign, 265. to 300. Peas, white, and yellow, 275. to 305.; grey,
23x. to 275. Linseed, Black Bet, Pas. w 41e.; Petersburg, 31s. to
395.; Riga and Archangel, 335. t 3 37a. • Konigsberg. 325. to Ns.
Linseed Cakes, Kull, 7/. 165.; fine, foreign, 6!. lin. • inferior foreign,
10e. Itapeseed, 26/. to 20/. nape Cakes, 820. Ca Tares, foreign,
2thi. to 23,.. Guano, 61. to 91.105. Bones, 82s. 6d. Rye Heal, V.

Irawicu, July 31.—We have had unsttVed weather
during the past week with heavy rains and thunder storms. Today
our market was well enpplied with Wheat, and trade dull, at a de-
cline of la. per qr. Barley, Beans, and Oats made Lid, to Is. per qr.
more money.

LEEDS, JULY 31 —We have a very fair show of
wheat. the [Meat qualities fetch fully as much money, but other sorts
go off slowly, and trade by no means active. Barley nominal. Outs,
shelling, and other articles as before.

LRIOHTOX BUZZARD, July 31.—There wan a good supply
of Wheat offering this day ; trade wee dull, but prices shout main-
tamed. In Valley, Beans, alai PCOA very little dower, at unaltered
rates Dona last week. Wbest, per haul of 5 toosbels, 2.0. 6d. to 31s.
Barley, ier imperial qr., 2.15. to Us. Beans, 21s. to 245. Peas, 21s.
to 225. Gd. per S bu,bela

Law as July 31.-The attendance at market te-day wan
small, both of buyers and sellers, consequently Wheat was In now
demand, at barely the rates of last week. Barley. Oats, Bean,and
Peas nat. Wheat, white, 87. to 121. la s. • rod, 71. to 101. 10a. Bar-
ley, 30s. to 325. Oat, 16s. to 2111. Bala, tte. to 38.. Pcast,34s.
to 36a.
LIVERPOOL, JOLT 31.-The arrival, of wheat, flour, and
Indian corn oleos last Tuesday have been large; of other articles
they are moderate. The transactions of the week hare been limited
to the immediate wants of p.achasets, and the tendency of prices has
been downwards. Indian corn hes fallen 2s. Gd. to te. per quarter.
There was a fair ettemiance of town and neighbouring millers at our
market toalay. Wheat was in moderate request, but to ettect sales of
the Mediterranean quality, a reduction of Id. per bushel from last
Tuesday had to he submitted to. Fine wheat was held at late rates.
Good sound brands of Hour command full prices. Oats and oatmeal
sell in retail parcels only. Grinding barley and peas meet a good
demand. Egyptian beans are held very firmly. lodise corn has
declined quite 4s. per quarter on the week, and the Irish demand is
reryslack. Prior : Wheat, per 7olbs.,English, real, 66. 7d. to 7..; extra,
Gs. Ild. to 71. Id. • white, 66.10 d. to 7s. 3d. ; extra, 7a. Id. to 7s. 3d. ;
Irish, red, 3a. lid, Gs. ed. . • extra, Ga. 4d. to fs. 7d.; while, Os. 3d. to
6.. 6d. ; extra, Gs. 7d. to 6s. bald. Barley, per qr.. English., 295. to 315.;
Chevalier, 31s. to 335.; Scotch and Irish, per 6014., 3s. 3d. to 3.. Gd.
Malt, per qr English, pale, 36.. to 60s. Oats. per 43.ba, English and
Scotch, old, 2e. Od. ra. I Id.; Welsh, old, Is. 7d. to 3s. ltd. ; Irish, fine
sorts, new, It 9d. to Is. Ind.; old, 2s. 9d. to 2s. 10d.; general,
new 2s. 742. to 2s. • • old, 2s. Bd. to Is. 9d.; Beane, per qr.,
English, new, 335. to 335.; old, 34a. to 364.• Seotch and Irish, per
18014., new, 28.. to 30s. ; old, 295. to 31e. ileasitze qr., English,
white, 33.. to $5..; Irish, grey, 295. to 30s. per 2801 be.,
Engtisti and Irish, fine, 335. to 36a. 6d.; supekne, 355. 6d.
to 376. Od.; extra. 365. 6d. to 38s. 6d. Oatmeal, per load
of :tints., Irish, 1818, 23e. is. to 24..; old, 225. to 22.. 6d.;
old, to 22a. Bran, per 2414., 10d. to
Mrnlgne : Wheat, Canadian, per 70th., red, 6s. 3d. to 64.9 d.;
white, 7e. Od. to 7s. 4d. ; United States, red, Os. 7d. to 7s. OcL ; white,
7.. 3d. to7s.Bd.;Danticie„mixed and red, 6s. 7d. to Ts. Od.;
7s. 9d. to Ba. Od.; Lower Battle and Romberg, red, 6a. 9d. to 7s. 3d. ;
white, 7s. Od. to 76. GI.; Riga and Petersburg, red, Se. 10d. to Ga. Id.;
is. 4d. to 3s. Bd.; Odessa, common. red, haild.to 3e. ed. ;
Iltrar,Sl4lorl. to 6s. 2d.; French, Spud* and Italian. red, 6s. Id. to
61.10 d.; white, 64.94. to 7s. Id. ; Bonnet and Marlanopoil, red, 3e. 9d.
to lie. Id. ; Egyptian, 4s. Od. to 4s. ad.. Mediterranean, Be., hard,
5a 3d. to se. td. Rye, per qr., Baltic, Re., 22.. to 215. Barley, per
601 b., grinding, 36. 6d. to 3s. Bd. Osts, per 4510., 2a. Bd. to 25. 9d.;
litusalan, 3a. 6d. to 2a. Bd. Beans, per qr., European, Va. to 336.0 d.;
per 48016., Eg •an, 235. Gd. to 245. Od. Pun per qr., Battle, Be.,
30s. to Ms.. ,Wadian„ 38a. to $O.. Mow per. let, 1961 b.,
sweet, 24a. to 255. ; U.S. Western Cank, sweet, 235. Od.
to 236. ; Ohio, 23.. Gd. to 2Ga. 6d. • l'hilodciphia and Baltimore,
sweet, 24.. 6d. to Me. 6d. ; U.S. and Canadian, sour, 236.6 d. to 346. 6d.
Indian Corn, 4801 b., American, white, 366. to 27.. 6d. • yellow,
26.. to 275.; European, yellow, 265. Od. to27a. 6d. Indian Corn Meal,
per 1961 h., 14 6d. to 13s. Arrivals Into Liverpool from the 21th
to the 30th of July inclusive: Wheat, 12,583 qrs.; Barley, 2,685
Malt, 840; Oats. 1,822; Beans, 700; Per, 400 ; Corn,
43,211 ; Indian Corn Meal, 87 barrels; Oatmeal, 53 sacks; Fleur,
I,OOE sacks, 14,529 barrels.

Lrirtr, July 31.—We have had • moderate supply of
Wheat to-day, and the trade dull, at prices rather below these of last
week. Glib. to WIS., 47e. to VA.; Ma white, Ns. Scarcely any
other grain offering.

Newcaana, July 31.—We bad heavy showers of rain
yesterday ; to-day is cloudy, awl the weather, on the whole, still ap-
pears unsettled. Our marks' today opened with heaviness, and re-
mained solo the elmo. Wheat was not generally offered lower, and
what SAW took place were to retail, at last Saturday's rates. With an
additional supply of Fleur to-day to last week's arrivals we have more
than the trade can take off, and only the best marks saleable in retail.
Barley, Beans, and grinding Peas were more inquired for. Malt with.
out change. &etch and English Oats Dell readily, and there in rather
more inquiry for iOrCiall.

utrie, Jul 31.—The weather continues showery,
and Wheat does not ripe. so fart as expected. Very little 'Teem.
likely to be flt to cut for some days. The trade wss dull at this mora-
ines market ; two eensplea of new Wheat shown there were very
damp end unfit for use. Imports are small, and mershants, millers,
end baking are likely to run wig bare before an adequate supply of
sew cora esa ha received.

BALIRBOIT, July 31.-Binoe our bat a great quantity of
heavy rain has fallen, with boisterous winds, which have had a ten-
dency to beat down the Wheat. Harvest operations an partially com-
menced, sad are expected, during the week, to become general, as
many Adds et Wheat near the city have already fallen beneath the
sickle. The sops are generally nukes of as being very fine. We
were rather abundently supplied with Wheat today, but toe attend-
noes was thin. There was only a moderate demand ex the best de.
mutations, but the hoiden were Are at Ism week's gouaches. which
were well supported. Werke Wheat was almost onealaible. No
alienates in the value of Flour. There was a eery short supply of
Barley, sad but kw sales were caned at a alight improvement in
vales. In Kelt but.little busloon was tranmeted at late currencies.
Menem@ an advance of 6d. to Is per quarter for line Oats; but the
deemed was not by any maw utesolve. There Wee no perceptible
*min the value of onset pride, and the trade was dull. Wheat,
Me. to 77: to Beans, bes.
a;f3relie, 40a to Pls. Berle', Ma. to ale. Oats,
lle. Mink Pees, Us. to 41s. Malt, 60e. to 61e.
per qr. P. It.. to Es per each.

HOPS.—Bozotroz, Auerer I.—Meagre. Pattenden and
Smith report that entombs are 'enmity bad from the plantations
this morning. The maket is In a quiet state, and prime remata the
some. Date, 70.00 W.

CATTLE, &e.—Daßay, Jo 31.—T4a number of fat
Beasts today was not so large, the simply eenistlng ally of our own
neighbourtig dlatrilvta ; the quality ~ally was al the middling
sort, but the attendance of purchase's was Lam yet the demand was
flat. The 'apply of Sheen and Lambs was only modesty without any
losproveznent la the demand. The amber of fat Calves was large,
and theta were many left as hand. Fat Pigs ware about an average.
pßeefm., 3d. tolo Std. Mutton, 41d. to Sd. lamb, 17a. 21s. Veal, 4d. to Sd.
lb. P, ea. to Bd. per more. Rough Pat, ha tkl. per stone of
itlba. Elias lact. pet lb. Calfaitlea, to iid. pez

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS.—Tuasniy, JULY 31.
The Earl of SmArrarsanaT (Deputy Speaker) took les
mat at 12 o'clock.
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.
Messenger, from the Commons boos. ht up several bills,
and amongst others the London Corpora ion Bill with
amendments, to which they required their lordship' assent.
TRADE AND NAVIGATION.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE laid oa the table pspers
relating to trade and navigation.
THE INDIAN ARMY.
The Earl of SHAFTES cURY said he bad to read a letter
to their lordships which bad been addressed to the Lord
Chancellcr by the Earl of DahouAe, in reply to a communi-
cation from the noble and learned lord, forwarding a copy of
their lordships' resolutionsof thanks to the Governor General
of India and the army of the l'uojaub.
My Lord,—l bare had the honour of receiving your lordship's
letter of the Roth inst., inclosing resolutions which had been adopted
by the Rouse of Londe on the preceding day. I have, in obedience to
the request of your lordship, common ted those resolutions to Gen.
Lord Oftgb, and to the several officers referred to therein ; and oo iny
owl part, I beg leave to express the swat: thole and pride with which I
received this distinguished mark of their lordships' approbation.
I have the honour to be, he.,
DAUIOIIIII6
MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS.

Messengers from the Commons brought up a number of bills,
amongst others, the Irish Judgment Bill, Charitable Associa-
tions Bill, Bankruptcy (Ireland) Bill, and Bankruptcy Law
Consolidation Bill.
The house, at three o'clock, adjourned during pleasure.
Their Lordships re-assembled at 6 o'clock.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.
Lied LYTTELTON inquired whether in the case of
schools connected wi h the British and Foreign School Soci-
ety, the Wesleyan Methodists, and the Free Kirk of Scot.
land, the conditions which had been agreed on between the
Committee of the Privy Council and certain bodies repre-
senting those religions communities, would be equally com-
pul,ory with those which had been imposed on the Church
of England schools ?
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE replied that what were
celled the management clauses adopted and enforced by the
committee of education were enforced alike with respect to
schools in connexi in with &neaten and others in connexion
with the Church of England. He was glad to say that a
perfect understanding existed between the committee of
education and the church and these various dissenting bodies
on this subject.
THE TWELFTH OF JULY.
Earl RODEN then rose to bring under the notice of the
house the part which he had borne in the recent oecurrances
on the 12th July, at Dolly's brae. In doing so, he begged
to usure 'heir lordships that nothing was more irksome to
him than to have to trespass for • moment on their lordships'
attention on • subject per onal to himself. But there might
arise circumstances which made it incumbent on a member
of that house to take the opportunity of the privilege which
in such capacey he possessed, of eliciting the truth and dis-
proving anymis-stag meat which might have been made else-
where towards that individual, however humble a member
he might be of their lordships' house. (Hear, hear.) He
was most anxious, after the circumstarces to which he had
alluded bad taken place, at once to have appeared amongst
their I etehips to refute those statements, and he should
have done so before now had henot been detained in Ireland
by severe indisposition. The circumetances to which he had
alluded, and which he had no doubt were already present in
th-ir lordships' minds, referred to an occurrence which
took place in the north of Ireland on the 12th
July last, when an unhappy collision took place
between the two parties in that country and in
his neighbourhood, which collision, however, he would main-
tain, in spite of all contradiction, he had done his best to
prevent, and which, he would also maintain, in spite of any
further contradiction, ne individual, either in that country
or this, more sincerely lamented than himself. (Hear, hear.)
His reason, however, for now troubling their lordship was
in consequence of a comment which had been made else-
where upon those melancholy circumstances of which he
thought he had just reason to complain, for they had re-
ference to himself individua ly, and placed him in a light in '
which he should be sorry to remain in the eyes of their lord-
ships, whose good opinion he so highly estimated. In refer-
env! to these circumstances he found it reported in the public
papers, that within the walls of parliament it was stated (by
Mr. Reynolds) " That the author of these murders was Lord
Roden. It might be very unpleasant to hon. gentlemen to
hear this; but he believed that it would turn out so.
What were the facts of the case ? That Lord Roden
the late Grand Master of the Orangemen of tnat
province, invited 1,500 men to enter his domain on the
12th of July, armed to the teeth, dressed in all the gaudy
colours which Orangemen wore aspen their bloody amiiver-
airy ; that he prepared a banquet for teem ; that he ap-
peared among them in the dress of an Orangeman ; that he
read extracts from the Holy Bible to them ; that he regaled
them with beer, pewter, and whisky ; and, atter all that had
occurred, that they were to go to a place called 1) ,fly's-brae,
choosing a circuitous route and a bad road, because the im-
mediate district about Dolly's•brae was notoriously inhabited
by &aan catholics; that, not satisfied with spending the
d iy in triumph, with shout', and songs, and touts of Boyne
Water, when they became inebriated they determined to go
to the very houses of their neighbeirs to insult them—and
safely, too, for they had the Enniskillen Dragoons before
them, and two companies of infantry in tneir rear, and the
police at their Hunk." It was that he might have
an opportunity of directly contradicting these user-
tims that he appeared before their lordships upon
V.e present occasion, and he was sure they would
agree with him that it was natural he should take that op-
portunity of explaining as clearly as he could the exact facts
of the ease from beginning to cod, lc,ving it for their lord-
seips and the country to determine whether the stmt. meLt
he had Just made was or was net contrary to the fact. In
doing so he should not retort by any severe remerks upon
those individuals who bad used that language. He would
only sty that if there existed in their hearts one splrk of
generosity, they would feel at this moment now that
they knew the truth, much greater pain at having made
those statements than had been inflictel on himself by
their utterance. (Hear, hear.) The circumstances of the
ease were these : In the year 184.5 or 1846 the act which
prevented processions in Ireland aimed. He would remind
their lordships how extremely attached to those processions
the great masa of the laumhlet classes in Ireland were, and
how difficult even it was when there was a law against them,
in all instances, to suppress them in that cosatry. He
would also remind their lordships that at this time last year
there was existing in Ireland a spirit of rebellion which per-
vaded almost every district, but which had now, by the
Mt sling of God, been suppressed. The great cry of those
who were engaged in that rebellion—their great shiboleth
was the repeal of the union ; but at the same time there were
very many, not only of the higher closes, but of the poorer
also, who desired that the union should be maintained ; and
to make that feeling known, they were anxious to let it be
seen upon the 12th of July, when the Orangemen were in
the habit of meeting. Toe leaders of the Orange party did
not discourage that msetina, because they felt that it was
• time when it might be beneficial to show that there was a
large class of loyal men who were opposed to the repeal cry,
and were anxious to support the government of the country.
Aecordingly, upon that occasion, a meeting took place, with-
out any collision occurring, or anything which could give
occasion for after-regret. About a fortnight before the 12th
of July of the present year, he was visited at his house by •
gentleman who was a great leader of the Orangemen in that
part of the country, who informed him that the Orangemen
were most desirous, on the 12th of July, to visit him,
in order to have an opportunity of testifying their
affection for him personally. He (Lord Roden) replied that
he was now at an advanced p.riod of life—that those were
things which he had once entered into and once enjoyed,
but that he enjoyed them no longer and that he thought it
would be much better they should not come. At the same
time, he stated that there were some members of his family
in very delicate health, and that the excitement and noise
created by such an assembly congregated there might be
prejudicial te their health. The gentleman, however, still
pressed the matter upon hi.e, and said if he mold not receive
them they must take field at Cutlewellan, which was about
two miles distant. He (Lord Roden) then took two days to
consider what his final answer should be, and ultimately
told the gentleman, that after consideration he had deter-
mined that be could not invite them ; but that if they were
to take field near Cudewellan they would be muck safer, in
case of a disturbance, within the gates of his park than any-
where else, and all he could say was, that on the 12th of
July he would not shut his gate against any loyal Irishman.
The 12th July arrived ; those persona came to his gate and
were admißad. He (Lord Roder) stood at his hall-door,
and remained there until those Irishmen, to the number of
about 2,000, with their wives and children accompanying
them, passed the door, and be had bad an opportunity of
acknowledging their kindness. There happened at that
time to be lying in his house a near relative of his, afflicted
with the cholera. He communicated that circumstance to
those persons, so that no noise might be made, and they
passed through is so orderly and quiet a manner, that not a
word was heard, nor was their presence known in the sick
chamber. With regret he perceived that some of those men
were armed, but until they arrived at his door he was not
aware of the fact. He thought that it could not be an
illegal assembly, because on the 12th July, 1848,
when so many came forward to support and
maintain the legislative union, many were armed; and
again on the 17th March, when the procession of the ribbon
men took place, he himself maw many hundreds of them all
armed—and more than that, in his own village, and over his
own gate they fired a volley ; but there was no attempt to
stop either the Orangemen on the 12th July, 1848, nor the
ribbonmen in March, 1849. If be bad had the most remote
idea that the carryingof arms made that procession an illegal
one, not one of those men shonld have entered i.is gate.
Not more than 300 of the 2.000 men present were armed,
and of these very many had come from distant parts of the
country, and had reason to apprehend that they should be
attacked on their way. At none of their other assemblies in
Ireland on the same day were the orangemen, he believed,
armed. The procession having gone to a part of the park
where a platform had been erected, he had felt it his duty.
as It was his inclination, considering that at his advanced
period of life he might not again meet them on such an oc-
casion, to address the usemblage. It bad been stated that
in his address be had certainly desired the orangemen to
observe peace, if possible, but that he had also inculcated
upon them that they must meet violence with violence.
This advice, it had been added, he had given to men
whom he had previously inflamed, by feasting them with
porter and whiskey. Now as to this point, he would simply
stite that there having been celebra'ed, the day before, the
annual dinner which he gave to the school-children on his
estate, he had directed that six barrels of small beer, more
than the quantity usually provided for the children, should
be sent to his house, and these six barrels of small beer were.
with some bread and cheese, all the feasting that he had

given to the Orange profession. (Hear, hear.) As to th.
inflammatory harangue which he was described to Itoti
addressed to the meeting, he had an exact report of utii
speech in his band, taken at the time, and he would be to
read this report of his speech to their lordships.
My dear Brethren— I am anxious to express how grateful I Icalge
the spontaneous and unsolicited visit to me this dav, on the nowgigg
oar glorious anniversary. I feel that this is the mast „,
st gratifying
of your affection and attachm, at which you could have bestowed apm
me and my family. The thousands of loyal men that I Net mandate
—the waving banners of 30 lodges--the dense multitade, rut*
any voice to reach—the megoigcent scenery. by which we are see,
rounded—the mountains of Morne echoing to your elexti,„.
IRene Dastard, the mistreat of them all, looking dorm agar
our preeeedings —the waters of the tihimna flowing hogs*
us, currying the testimony of your loyalty to the on*
before as, makes it a glorious sight—one in which I gig,
every loyal man could have joined us to-day—one gind,
I would delight in thinking that even those opposed to us were lis*
to wittier. But, much as I thank you for this visit, I feel the ham
was not so much intended to me personally as to the., wombat
principles which I hod, and which I have endeavoured to malable
for a period of 30 years' residence amongst you. I have karat, cues
am convinced, that It is true protestant principles, h.ld rod
maintained in this land, that eau alone prove a guarantee for tics
liberties of all classes and denomination of the pope; it is tha
right of private judgment in the study of God's holy word**
'la the clue( blessing of any nation which snort, itself of
•It is for this principle orangemen contend, and whig,
I trust, they will never cease to assert, acting under 14
• teaching of God's word, which enjoins iorbe queer and 10,6
to all. I trust you will even chow to those wh, disapprove of your
organisation that you arc not a faction driven by party violence I,
commit unlawful acts; that you do not desire to 'thing,* 04
liberties and happiness of others; but that you wish to see all dewy
minatione of your fellow-subjects enjoying, the blew rocs which 7,
seek for yourselves. It is a greet pleasure to communicate to yeg
on the present occasion the probable arrival of our Gracious Quay
and her royal consort in this country. Oh, that we could see lee
fairy bark now approaching that shore—that we could see her :anftg
en that beach—how these woods would resound with the shouts
your thousand, ten thousand wetoomes—how her eyes none
sparkle at such a sight now before me, in the assetnCing of the
multitude of loyal men, ready to lay down their lives
the defence or her crown and her rights I (Great enemies
and shouting.) We have hid much to complain of by
the various parties who have ruled the country for the I*
20 years. "The rowers have brought us Into deep water "—wain,
seen heavy blows and great diecouraerment given to pmtestamiwa•
but still maintain your loyalty—you will never forget, I trust, tali
your motto Is unchanged—. Sewer Eiden.," Involving the plush
vation of your rights, the promotion of peace, and the werare of*
denominations of our fellow-subjects. I trust y.iu will rather WE
evil than provoke it; that nothing will induce you, in returning
• your homes to-day, to resent even any insult you may receive.
God bless you and uphold you, keeping you firm In your mind*
determined to support the laws of the country, and enabling you be
well-doing to put to silence the ignorance of foolish men." I dna
now °occlude, asking you before you go to in me in thiee tarty
cheers for ller Gracious Majesty and her Royal Consort, and my
they have a speedy voyage and happy arrival on our shorts.
' _

The noble eailsittithat,hsl4ag thus far explained his ohm
conduct, to the satisfaction, he hoped, of their losthhips—
(hear, hear)—he would not on that occesim g, further
the case, but await the result of that inquiry which then.
vernment had most properly directed to be made into the
whole matter. (Hear, hear.)

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE had listened with the as•
moat attention to the statement which the noble earl had kit
it to be his duty to make, but the noble earl would not
charge him with disrespect, if, in the exercise of what Fermi-
dared a wise discretion, he did not, under the cireurartances
of the pending inquiry referred to by the noble ear, himself;
express on this occasion either his dissent or his utunt to soy
part of the noble earl's statement. (Heir, Lea.) That
statement refereed to a transaction which had created the
utmost pain in the minds of all who had heard of it—to a
transaction involving a loss of property, of life, and a deep
injury inflicted on the feelings of a lerge pr perils of the
population of Ireland. When the result of the in-
quiry which the government had instituted alleald
be made known, their lordships w.oold hive the
memo of judging in what circumstances the tram
action originated. All he could say on the present
occasion was that it must be matter of deep regret to all to
witness a state of society in which, from no motive et passion
or interest, without any proooestion, but m. rely ~n account
of the recurrence of a particular day in the cal, 0,: r, such
proceedings u these should talc. place. (Hear, tb•re) If
no effectual remedy should be found again t these outrages,
the legislature must interiere with some special manure.
(hear, hear) ; but—anl he was glad of the opportunity
distinctly to make the observation—in the mean liens it was
not be supposed that the country was destitute et the mean
of, at .11 events, encountering the evil. 'The continuo law el
the land denounced all such asaemtileges, whether sinned, as
in the present case, or unarmed, calculated to excite peke
,tisturbanee and to endanger the publi: peace, as in them-
selves wholly illegal—( hear, hear)—and to be pros. cured u
such by the government, by the magistracy, and by every
well-wisher to the country, who were bound to hoer nn Coy
in Fringing the offenders to justice. (Hear, hear.) So fir
from there neing anything in the existing circumstances of
Ireland to warrant such an outrage as this, the cireumstances
of Irland, on the contrary, were such u to enforce upon the
mind of every rational, loyal, and well-disposed porsou is
Ireland, a course of a wholly opposite character. (Heal
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.

Lord BROUGHAM having first expressed hie entire ma.
currence in the course adopted by his noble friend opposite
is relation to the statement which the noble earl
had very properly made, proceeded to say that he desired is
a few words to c ell the attention of their lordships to the
expediency of adopting some course to ensure that the Mesh
which passed .hrough parliament should be not only well
and correctly and safely prepared, but should be also well,
and correctly, and lately superintended in their passage
through parliament. (Hear, hear.) At present many sot
i nportant measures were in their passage through parlia-
ment, so altered by incongruous ineertions in clause', se am
tilated by the excision of probably the most vital provident;
so perverted by new clauses, that when they came back to
the house whence they proceeded, they were
no longer recognisable by their authors.. (lieu!
hear.) What he considered was, that there should
be a board appointed for the purpose of preparing
bills and of exercising a vigilant inspection over the bills ia
their proems through either house, rot, for an instant, sa
control the legisl tare, but only to p: event it from being ab-
surd and incongruous—for the purpose of siding it. He
remembered a c.ese in which a bill of Sir Samuel Homily's
had been so twisted about, so altered, so petrel ted, so Eta
figured, so added to here, so cut dawn there, that when it
came back to its learned parent he bad not the slightest
recollection or knowledge of it. The evil of which
he complained was one which alike impeded and
embarrassed the makers of laws and the judges
who had to expound those laws, and who were harassed and
confused at every turn by the incongruous and contradictory
enactments which incongruous and contradictory legislation
sent down to them. (Hear, hear.) It was not only the me •
with private, or quasi private bills, where of two parties one
conceded to the .they this or added that, to secure cooseut to
the rest, wholly regardless of the public, but it was almost as
much the case with public bills of the moot universal and
vital importance, as, for example, with the Bankrugcy Con-
solidation Bill,the 273 clauses of which the House of Commons
had despatched in two hours, being at the rate of about 35
seconds a clause. (A laugh.) The motion which he was
about to make was for a return of the number of cues in
which proxies had beer called for the last ten years, and the
number of eases in which votes by proxy hvd umed the di-
vision against votes present. Although he was somewhat
sore on this subject of proxies, having been defeated by them
on three occasions within the last few months, he was a
friend to the principle of proxies, and considered it a print'.
lege of which their lordship, ought not to divest themselves.
He might mentiem another case, often r.curred to by the
late Lord Eldon, in which, upon a question wherein that
learned person felt a very deep interest (the regency question,
as we understood), although there was a majority on the
part of the presents in favour of a motion he had submitted,
that motion was carried against them by the proxies, the
numbers being relatively 90 and 102. Olean ) Thai un-
expected result, it was generally understood, had had the
effect of urging Lord Eldon, for many. years afterwards,te
carry on a sort of war in disguise against proxies. In the
year 1637 it was permitted to their lordships to call proxies
on judicial precis: ding, even; and no alteration was
found to have occurred in this practice till the entry in their
lordships' journals of a standing order in the year 1783,
the famous case of Lady Mecelesfield, where it was foul
that such an eression of the privilege was very near led
ing to a Judicial murder at the instance of the poet Seaga
The order (Leered that in future no proxy should he d
force on any vote on judicial questions.
Lord REDESDALE had listened with very great attm
den to the statement which the noble and learned lord kind
just made, of the inconveniences arising from the walla
a batter system of management and preparation of ball,
amendments having been introduced into them ebb
where, which rendered it necessary that they should be Silk
brought under their lordships' consideration. No dealt
if any practical measure could be devised for obviate(
these hasty errors and oversights, or getting such imperial
business into shape, it would be highly desirable, sad a
very beneficial thing for all parties. But he (Lord Bei*
dale) feared that this was precisely one of those cases whores
measure, ab nit the expediency of which there could be as
second opini io in pointed principle, would be found abseiled,
impracticable in execution. With regard to the constitutional'
any commission, for the revision of bills such as the noble sad
learned lord seemed to glance at—that was a consideratioa
very grave importance, and suggested doubts in his (Lard
Redesdale'r) mind, as to how far the plan could be carried
out without involving the most serious questions touching
their lordships' privileges. Of whom must such • coM-
mission consist, if not of persons " learned in the
law," according to the technical phraseology aPPlilca,,
to such bodies; and to what, in effect, erase
their revision of public and private bills awaiting the deci-
sion of the House of Peers amount to, if not to a delegeliag,
by that house of its faculties of legislation? (Hem)
However valuable, therefore, such an amendment in the
mode of preparing bills and other business might be, as
tks
noble lord bad suggested, with a view to obviate in feature
those evils of which he had with so much justice complained,
he fldsrd Redeadale) must be permitted to repeat that lie
considered the object sought to be attained by his noble and
learned friend was wholly impracticable. Re must, thee:
fore, vote against it as a measure that would inevitably lag
to more perplexity and confusion than any which it was de
signed to remedy. With respect to the calling of peal"
that, also, was a question of great delicacy and importance.
He himself had been a member of their lordships house now
for about '2O years, atd in all that period until the precut see-
Bien he had never known more than two instances inwhiet the
proxies bad struck a majority on the vote against a me wiry
of " presents." The one of these was on the Earl of Wick-
low's motion in 1832 on Irish educed n ; the other was el
later period, on the proposition for taking the evidenced
witnesses on the Silk Weavers' Bill at the bar. In the coma
of the present session, however, he must say this calling for
proxies had been pushed to a much greater extent.
had been no leas than four very remarkable casesof this am
In one of them, although on counting " presents " there ap-
peared for a given motion a majority of 14, it had been actu-
ally set aside by the proxies called. Another instance-4
motion of the Duke of Richmond's—had been memorable
within but a few weeks for a similar result; the Presi° cat-

saaberiag the majority of A. " preseste." Still he wee
fivenseble, his the made mad Leonia lord beside him, to Ike
wan of proan ; but he thought their aalNmg skald be
goesoed by seme sort of Mariam.
The Mer spa of CLANRICARDE wee curious to know
hew easy sash Ossetian could be practically reserved if
=were a beaked at all; and again, how the noble sad
lewd (Rodoestele) who had ass spoken, meant to
obviate the watiagebsy of s majority a the " pressals"
Wag oectsissay set aside ea akin pear. Septum at
Houk period of the session ono-third of all the peers had
left cars sad deposited their proxies, such of than
71,7dioje co de so, with the.. peers who remised. It was
*Sons that no say Gestated question there would always
o gnat pnibililitY, a proxies being ailed, of aay Ruda
soy el privioits befog outvoted.
Lied CAMPBELL lama that the noble lord's (Reda-
ogle) aides of the llama extreme of the power of giving
is o proxy br an assent poor amounted to this, that whim
So resoldag easarity oa any questinn in which lie gees it
kippesiod to be en the side for which it was so given by
gin, he, the noble baron, coneeiva he had eureka
gee privilege under doe discretion; but whim the maps
rill era against the side supported by the proxy so Gentri•
Paled, then the nails baton felt he had used his proxy
aliscreetly. (A laugh.)
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was glad to find that
the noble aid leaned lord was in favour of retaining the lass
of peoxies. At the saw time he thought it appeared, on the
Amine of the noble and learned lord himself, that the
allies likely to be experienced in regulating the sort of dis-
affirms, with which he seemed to eoatend that the privilege
should be always outsized, would be found is pasties endless
aid impracticable. There were difßculties —there would
didlesities—es to the nature of the questions on which
proxies should, and as to those on which they should not, be
tolled. As to the commiesions for tensing ths bills,
sod other business, from time to time taming
beihre the House of Peers from another place, he wee
pita at a lose to see how the nohle and leaned lord could
hope to make provision for all conditions of the prin.
Spies he desired to apply without taking from this
branch of the legislature same of its chiefest and most
peculiar functions. Ile found himself, therefore, unable to
swede to env such proposal as that suggested by the noble
sad learned lad. And it occurred to him to add, for the
mosidentioss of that noble and learned lord, smother element
of difficulty in connexion with the potability of regulating
the discretion of using proxies, or indeed of calling them.
What additional weight ought to be attached to the
minims of the peer in whoa hands other pars, out of de-
fortace probably to the oeneral soundness of these opinion.,
bed co' filed their proxies ? In short, be could see no way
out of the many censideratinns that surrounded the sug-
rations which had has submitted to the house, and wh'ch,
thereon, he trusted that the house would decline to adopt.

Lord BROUGHAM felt that no course renitined
to bias but to withdraw hi. proposition, after what
bed fallen from the noble Marquis who had just eat
down But the noble marquis would give him leave
to say, when he talked of the impossibility of patting ar.y
antroul on the exercise of the privilege of calling proxies,
that they hsd already established precedents for that control
in several eases. (Hear, hear.) Fur example, the Standing
Orders bad miteemtively prohti• it'd the questions in respect of
ell jadiciel queetiooe, on &alms suer, and on votes of
wasare.—Motion withdrawn.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid upon the table vai-
n; pipers, among others, the Seennd Annual R put from
the Commission,' s foe earning into effect the New Poor LAW
in Ireland ; Papers and Correspondence relative to the
Affairs of Italy; Report of the Registrar of Births, Deaths,
aid Marriages; Return, Marco to the Agricultural Pro-
duce of Ireland, for the year 1848. Statistical Returns con-
meted with the levy of Poor Rates in Ireland, site.
Their lordships then adjourned until Wednesday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TursoAY, JULY 31.
Ms [lmam took the chair at 12 o'clock.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

LORDS' milibilirriidoillibEezto.—Losth
Nukes asi Improssavuts ; Norfolk Estuary, *a. ; Bills.

PUBLIC BUSTWISS.

PETI !lONS PRESENTED.

ZONCIARY.—By Lnrd D. STUART, from • naeotior bald
MaryMbotao, oa the 24th oh., in favour of the resognition
of Hoogarlin iodepandenoe; by Mr. HIIMZ. frees Mary-
Wow agreed to at a meatier. a.tooded by 3,000 persona,
vial the mar prayer; .141 a petition from St. Pancras, to
dr wee effect.

TAINS ON KNOWLAIRON.—Mr. MOWATT preened •
petition fawn as ma.cistine It4ving for its &lett the shell.
tioa of ell mi. sen knowledge, Freitag that the stamp of
newsmen may be tate* off.

Sir J. Draw. took the oaths and his seat fir the city of
Loadoo. He was introduced by Mr. Madonna& and Mr.