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London, England, 1852-06-16 00:00:00

WEDNRSDAY

EVF,'NING,

was stated that the Emperor—en cxoc,ile;-,:t
ju.lge of the
art of war—declared that; le modern times this was far
too much disregatded, The measures he (Berl Grey)
reeeMmended could be carried into effect at a very mo-
derato outlay, vet:ea:4 of 200,0004 and would add ma-
teriallyAo the efileieecy of the army. He objected to
the Bill, la.e...ettio he bo:ioved it would not attainittObject
while entailing amen expzuste and tending to effect the
ng, "not content" to of
,the secand reading. •
tlieral•ray. For those reasons be should cer-
tainlyre uiti
a}
. Tile Earl of ELLESIIERB said he was of opinion
that the measure wag necesearyeand that it ought to be
:accepted by Parliament. Mo preiumed that no Govern-
mam would have undergone the-OblOony of proposing it
had there not been 01:10.Q sort of, appregheesien of danger.
He found suddenly &large .hecly of the country and of
that House agreed on the abstract question of the ne-
ceisity'Of some each defensive dieasu:e as was contained
in the present Bill. Prom .whitever cause ,this feeling
took its rise, he was bound' to Say ho entertained the
same opinions he had expreised fourryeaes ago. But he
his opinions sound or, unsound, they. rented on the con-
tinental relations which et present
be•sorry to make allusion to any individual or to cast
any reflections on Franece, he was'aware that the' road
to ticpultaity in this Ooontry some year 3 ego was abuse
of France; but that. fetling had-long iiinea changed. `..rile
existed.
noble person at the he a, -,-rt, of_utrairs in France had glveki
Ha should
n) reason to snppeee he had forgotten the hospitality he
received froin,thie cotiiatrY, or that, 4ing at the head of
potverful legions, he would ;1?e inclined, merely on am-
bitious ground?, to move them in hostility towards
this country. He said •thtis • much because be -was
anxious.to make itanpearethat he founded his pre-
sent views, riot on circurnstanees of the momen+,.hut on
general views and coesideratiens. He agreed with much
that had been- tiddre:ieed - te•their • Lordships. He ad"
mitted that mili;ite would prove- inferior when opposed
to well-disefPlined il'OoPi• fie did not think the present
Bill likely to prAiceeiFectivo froole; to meet the dis-
ciplined troops of Franco; 134 t he gepooded his support
of the Bill on the fact of other services that the militia
could with advantage perform. . They could be thrown
into garrison, and be•employed .in ;services where they
would ,be of the utmost use and assietance to the-regular"
army. He would not trespass • further except to sal':
that he could not reasoU•with-pehe'e societies.. Is lvas
impossible to meet their arguments,
because they were
based upon religious principle, and when religious
Principle was. imperted into a question it was impos-
sible to reason parties out. of their conviction. The
Noble . LOrd had • alluded -to an, expression which
had I.fallen from him some tune, agog which had been
much commented . upon, and which had drawn on
him, as he admitted, a• proper rebuke. He alluded
to an expression that had 'curiously fallen from him,
to ' the effect that if an invading army reached
London, the Lard Mayor would present the commander
with the keys at one gate, While the loot guards merched.
out at the other. He heartily ) ape
—ogised for these
words. He Meant no reflection on any body of men—be
onlymeant to.convey what he considered to be the true
defence Of, the country in case of invasion, . He believed
so vast wag London .that 149,000 troops •would be lost
in it, and that they would 6e shot ,down and destroyed
through loopholes in the houses.._s® believed; how-
ever, that Government was.prooeeth in ,
a-eight direc-
den in making:better provision for the defence' of the
country. ... ...

The-Earl of WALDEGR4VE approved of the mea-
sure (we understood); arid. considered the -objections
which had be,4lisaade.wero only questions
detail,,
The Bill waS then 'read a ISeemd time and ordered to
be committed on Thursday,;
The School Sites Act Extension Bill was read a third
time and passed,
Otherßill3 were =wed a stage.
The' Committee on Baron de-Bode's was nomi-
nated.

ASSEgBSIENT OF TRE PROPERTY-TAX.
The Duke of RICaNIQNP presented a petition from
Messrs. Elmo, of Suse,ex, complaining of the mode of
assessment to the income-taand the tuacbittery of ,p.
Re was effsid that it Might •With.too much truth
be said Out the mass of the farmers had this year made
a loss'instoad of a profit. A power of appeal was'to farnscrs if the tenant held from Mic.haelmas to iiiciraveci•
nts; but if from Midsummer to 311.1,unanser no appeal
grievancecould be beard. That was a practical grievance at ho
,hoped the Noble Lord would inquire into the 'mutter
with `a view of ascertaining whether, a remedy might not
be afforded by the Lords or the Treasury without. the
necessity of an application to Parliament.
Lord BERNERS supported the prayer of the petition.
-The Earl of DERBY was inclined to thiuk, from what
he had heard, that the grievance arose from what ho
might almost call a clerical error in the Abt,,, Ile pro-
mised his Noble Friend that he would make inquiry
into the point in order to sea whether there. .was any
mode of affording relief without-spPlYieg to Parliament.
After a few words from the Duke of ARGYLL
The petition was ordered to lie on the: table. ,
Their LDrdships then adjourned at a Quarter past
Ten o'clock.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD
REFORM ASSOCIATION.

allbject of .rbe.
_ --a.------
'(CONTINDED oh- MONDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS.)
ireedisietit-ifi Joinehl:he lite' "ideal
'Ms lil:;t7rltit.rtitcYl t
assault on Mr. Mither: This of course 'led to counter
representations on the. part of th© Ministers; ending in
proving that they had in the first-instance donwas badly
as could be imagined' but had--ended by taking the
alarm and determining to act vigorously, in ways which
,are yet under the darkbess of the future.
At a late hour, or more correctly on Tuesday morn-
ing, the Maynooth question vias-
once more brought for-
ward. The attendant Circumstan-Ces and the result were
so complicated and perplexing,
ahat it may be well to
atitq the position in 'Alicia r individirally stood, as the
whole, and thereby ;throwing light on my capacity for
giving evidence in oneidirectioh-or a:later- • a
This position was, a will
a--- you. remember, that although
One bf the most earnest suppcirtm,s
bf the Bill of • tbAe
means
Of
showin"he' point 'horn which I viewed the
late Premier, On the ground that the• Papal power had
upon the Catholics' establishment- at*Blaynootb,-on the
maltreated us, I had engaged
ground that this would' be maltreating them ',beg that
this tray be borne in mind, in what mayfollaw. •
The smallest acquaintance, with the cos of Cr-
to tote against any attack
1 sufficient tuesfabbsh
that no jean and no party
absolute
endings in a popular Assembly, i, a
can "4313 have an
command over the time at Which a; question shall be
brouht forward. A degree of generatahlinaay some
times be exerted on one side, or ---en
the Wain, the operation is to a • the other. But in
great extent under the
influence of chance; and all that can be said ii, that
parties must be' on the, look out,
forthcoming when the opponerit's op'porthnity la move
arrives. On the present occasion T
have not the alightest
reason for. believing, that any eXtraor
and take ,care
dinary generaishiP
was exerted on arty sidia stilile" that there was any-
thing which could be deuominatels " trick," though the
word was rather copiously used in subsennent pro-
ceedings. '
As the morning wore on, the -ant.i.miiii,toi.jal sine
began to drop off to bed; previou/ty to which, the two
sides had appeared pretty a 1
Atv4dY 'balanced. Some
lengthy speeches from their own,..eidi -„,,,,„ab1y contra.
bitted to thin the Oppoiition herleho,:.,'"
And when this
hid gone to it certain length,. nothi g
n would content
them but moving an adjournment of the House. - From
thiamement, 'the leader of -the,
antiaNlanooth move'
meat saw his road to success', or as .
the• French say,
w be
voyait sa belle.
You will perhaps ask, why I, whom, and , could
Gdesirebe to have an opportunity of aecon y
4iishin„. my . ei 3gage!
meat by voting on the main question b
, voted for the ad•
jeurnment of the House. Simply because I knew a
vote against it.woulda. be. claimed. tig.
a vote for the anti-
Alsynooth leader. And so it lame,
went
‘.. out; for he
to a triumphant 039jority of
d 133 to 29 against the ad-
eurnment of the House, "nh a—
_,,
--amearately announced,
jthat he was quite content writ .what he would accept att
a criterion of the feeling of the House, and would go no
be repeated still retly
farther. And this
ere triumphan
next day; the party,
with who had allnwed
themselves to be
uestiial
baiting hnn q
defeated,which ' of 3 as to what he would
and would , 'll not do, to
would what ha.nk • ben he
answered, tnat ho
~, . ,s
____ew,e.int ed, and ,w •
liked, without taking hi °pp=
the whole •°,, counsel. -
On looking' back. Wm " 1. pis clear that it
of
was a contest t d•
a diamond out ISIII0Eld:'
had itall fa, an -
d• that the
-, ar th party finally . - waeir own 'lv*
anti-w.aynoo. .
One reasonthat their o 0
probablymit demand forPP n are ditiied
themselves. The an
among Ants qy, acts h there can ho -
3 puzzler; for thong _0
u rea onable
3- a only another form of moving s
doubt that it is
it .
,that
the
th be disallowed, la notcharge for Maynoo
. everybody
to see this. ' The c
that can be expected , athol them.
agree, whet ar h they ought to I"
selves cannot
ho;ote for an
'lnquiry. And allot
Inquiry or against an
,r,easerr is;
to bed and grin:able ,
that it is easier to go
clock' in the r
a. terwards,
at three o
morning to watch
'than to be there
opponent. This 'not 6e •
the movements of tin ; being there is
for there is no D ,
what lets everything
down;
dwnof warfare, than "till" better
established in every kin
those
carry 'IL
who aro there, do very generally.their point
against 'those who are not.'
brought in for the Repression
.-- On Tuesdara- Bill was
Ireland, by 140 to 19 —
of Crime and Outrage in-
The
'clock and ro-ass,
House separated at five 0.
an intiiiio 'into the
at
seven; when, rho subject beingrheetise• of the ili-tr 0 duct of of the Government on,
of the Seettioh juise?atment
by their frimds the Austrians
escaped by thela
was
in Hungary, the inquiry
SO
being counted out.
Sir,
yours very sincerely, -
' • I am, i
—r D REFi.„,
AN via .. kJER.
Blackheath, June 852.
16,1

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ft:.
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I SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
T
FROM THE HORNING P.AZEUS
HIS DAY.
TMES.—For sozne time post
heye been infested b 7 3 parce-1 of theig. streets of London
c.tress.of Roman Catholic ecclesiastitrty peDple in the
of our metropolitan readers t Pear. There are
Ca, HIUS, have
couples. crowded thorough.
seine of these gentry in our most
tires: They generally hunt in
pleaestinsight cannot fie encountered in the e glare 'ion-
mornitio's walk :hen a brace of those dilly creatureseiri‘t- o-n:
they glide about among the people with onee—eaand beefy step. _ Of course the object is to fainP °e:
the public with their presence; If Cardionl
,and his Privy Council in Golden-square could once, •
defiance. of the English lawn establish the custom,w
should soon have our street crowds diversified with every
coneelveable costume of monkery. It is notorious that
when the Roman Catholic Relief Act was paeied a
clause was inteoduced, •enectiroe " that no Roman Ca-
tholic ecclesiastic, nor any member of any of the re-
ligiognerdere, communitiee, or societies of the Church
of Rime, bound by monastic or reijoioll3 vows, should
exetciso any of the rites or ceremonies of the Roriati
Catholic religioui or, wear the habita of order, save
erithin the usual places of worship of the Roman
Catholic rsligion or in private houses." Such in the
law of England, :and it is poi fently tall known to the
persons sell° have for acme tithe p Lot. set it e.t dfilanee.
It cannot be said that thisis ca old worn mit rekuletion
such as the one which forbade undertakers to 'bury the
dead in linen shrouds. The same ptovition was ro
doubt introdueedjeto various-old statutes; teat valeta the
Roman Cathode Relief was passed -in 1829, it was
retained and solemnly re-enacted. Nor is there any
reason why such a provision should be buffered to fall
into desuetude. The 'Thinen Catholic tchie'ttains have
not cemented themselves with sending their'noisome
endiaerjes about the streets; it would seem Us though
they had issued orders directing them to disturb the
Protestant congregations while engeotrl in the celebra-
don of. public worship. To pat the existing law in
force is, then, a simple net of self-defence. : 13riti4inti
were it not for this additional aggravation, the reasons
for maintaining the law in 1852 are stronger than they
were for enacting it' in 1829. It was supposed at the
time that the presence of Deem Catholic 'priests—
the passage of Roman Catholic in:occasions 'through the
public streets—might lead to a violation of the peace.
The same danger exists still, and to a yet greater
extent. We do not pretend to argue the point as feeling
1 any especial sympathy for persona who, with their eyes
open, set the law at defiance. Still it would be a deplo-
rable thing, and a great reflection upon those who are
charged with the duty of maintaining the public peace,
itt from want of timely forethought, any broil should
occur in the thoroughfares of the metropolis. It would
f only need a brace at Passionists—a rabble of little boys
—and a gang of Irish hodmen, to get up a row which
might lead to tho most serious casualties—possibly to the
logs of life. It will be seen that the Queen, by a procla-
mation issued yesterday, has expressed the determina-
tion of the Government to put down.the nuisance. The
proclamation itself will be found in another part of our
impression of this day. It is therein stated that the Ro-
man Catholic ecclesiastics do wear the habit of their
orders in plaees of public resort—that Roman
Catholic processions, with all the pomp, pride,
and circumstances usual en such occasions, do
perambulate our streets—that banners are dis-
played—symbols elevated in the public vier,
end that consequently the peace of the town is en-
dangered. The offenders are solemnly waved 'that the
law will be put in force against them to its fullest ex-
tent if they give further occasion of public scandal. We
trust that strict orders may be henceforth issued to the
police to conduct, them to the nearest stationdeouse. Wo
,wotild considerations of turmoil apart—have
.the streets of Loudon become as the streets of Rome,
along which_ swarms of unwashed beings in robes black,
white, brown or grey, are to he seen passing at all hours
of the day, like clouds over a landscape.' The Roman
Catholic priests must, mane up their minds to- submit
to the same regulations as practicallfeffect the Protes-
tant clergy. Although it is not illegal, no ote`ever sees
a Protestant clergyman bustling about Fleet-street or the
Strand in pudding sleeves and a square cap.
There is no law on the- subject, for none ie
needed. The tacit good sense of the Protestant
clergy prevents them from dragging their sa-
cred vestments through the maid—and oven running
the risk of exposing religion to contempt ins the persons
of is ministers merely on a question of costume. Let
the Roman Catholic clergy follow the wholesome ex-
ample. So, again, with tee practice of out-doer- pro-
cessions and ceremonials—the thing is simply impoi.
sible in England. However mtich the moderation of
the bystanders may endeavour to stave off such a result,
the moment would surely have come when a shower
of black mud would have expressed the state of public
opinion upon this feature of "Papal Aggroseien."
Much more is this likely to be the, case if the procese
siona are absolutely directed as hostile movements
against the tranquillity of a body of Protestant wor-
shippers. It has been reported to us that is the imme-
diate neighbourhood of Orchard-street, Portman.separe,
a platform is erected on which, from time to time, co-
pies of the Protestant Bible ure committed to the flames.
We warn the telemeters of such proceedings, as- they
value their own safety, to hold their bands while it is
yet time.
CBRONICLE.—We' have received, from time to
time, very striking accounts of the alteration of public
sentiment which has progressively disclosed itself in
France since the appearance of the Orleans decree.
General statements of this sort aro usually difficult to
verify, but their accuracy in the present instance is re-
markably confirmed in the effects of the confiscation on
the three great bodies with which Louis Napoleon pre-
tends to share the sovereignty of the State. It is to be
observed that, exactly in proportion to the measure of
independence they enjoy, is the susceptibility which they
manifest to the discredit in which 'they are necessarily
involved. The Senate makes, of course, no sign. 'The
publication of the decree took place while that body
was in course of fbrmation, and was just in time to pre-
vent its including a single member who might have
made it other than it vests meant ter be—namely, a co-
lossal contrivance ler settling the President's Civil
List, and ter rewarding tho subaltern agents in the
coup d'etat. The Council of State, owieg to the profes•
sional character of most of itti entice; is coniposcd of men,
a thought more respeCtable than the Senators; but its
close connexion with the head of the Government would
have prevented its voluntarily engaging in any proceed-
ing equivalent to a condemnation of his policy. The
appeal of the Prefect of the Seine has, however, left it
no alternativa but to sit in judgment on the President's
conduct. Although there seems no reason to doubt that
its decision on the competency of the civil tribunals to
adjudicate between Louis Napoleon and the Princes will
be favourable to the Government, it is notorious that a
must painful feeling pervades. the Council on the sui,ject,
and it is suspected that a judgment confirmatory of the
legality of the decree will probably be followed by seve-
aal resignations. Indeed, on the very eve of last Satur-
day's hearing, the managers of the case on behalf of the
Administration had to withdraw their brief from the
int-ids of their chosen advocate, M. Reverehon, who
confessed that, even upon the ex parte instruc-
tion:4 before him, he had come to a conclusion
against his clients. But that which, in the
&millers of State, is only unwillingness
to make themselves open accomplices in the
confiscation, becomes, with the deputies, a spontaneous
demonstration of disgust. As the representatiie body
is, at all events, not directly dependent on or connected
with the President, it stands alone in having voluntarily
created the moans of publicly disengaging itself from
the responsibility of his most conspicuous misdeed. The
common belief is that M. de Montalembert has managed
to get insertedein the report of the committee on the
Budget an express censure of that invasion of right.
Whether this impression be or be not precisely correct,
the uneasy and deprecating tone of the newspaper which
has been promoted to the place of the Coristilutionnel
makes it evident that some proceeding., in the highest
degree distasteful to the Government, has been ventured
upon, or is being matured. The mere discussion of the
point proves the sentiments of the Assembly; and when so
feeble an organ sounds clearly, who can doubt that public
opinion, were it unmuffied, would speck with the voice of a
trumpet? It is not always, on very often, that the Crime
for which a men is most heavily and conspicuously pit
niched is exactly the offence of blackest enormity which
he happens to have committed, Teo convicted pick-
pocket is frequently an unconvicted burglar; and report
tans that a noble personage who was drummed out of
society for cheating at cards, was heard to utter bitter
complaints against Fortune, which had suffered him to
pass undetected in doctoring a horse for the Derby, and
then consigned him to rain for 'turning up a kiug at
whist. For the sake, therefore, of moral example, it is
well when the crime which goes unwhipt and that which
entails punishment are so clearly united, in point of time
or natural connexion, as to render • unmistakable the
double character of the retribution. We have some satis-
faction in thinking that a spectacle of this latter
which have
vis
ionndetfhenesibtlhe atcets w
afforded by the two most indefensible
been recently perpetratedf
affairs. The seizure o Loui.s Philippe's..ar. ofinhEhierriotpaenancee
from rivalling in immorality the long
is very far
Which the President of the French Repub-
lic in to have engaged against the institu-
tionslie is now known
the guaraian and trustee. Yet all
of which jet nhsehqeuewnacses which he has incurred seem at
the pens
first sight to have flowed exclusively from the minor
crime; end it is only
ins
the the confiscation of
necessary sequel of the trea-
the Orleans Property
French liberty that w_e pro. enaebseletds.to recon-
cilelf
ctheson against
apparent disiroportionlevoeflltehdeairt t
the a rho sons of Louis
decree which Louis Napoleond at all, it is doubtful whe-
rhheirlitPhi)eee:awdounld
shelves, beilednerainsiVe flaw in the success of
g had the landmarks of
the eon cretat..
e dispersed"r by succession of reveille
lacy and right
tourachUsed were the influential classes by
fth'c'ele-t-esr°ror of the crisis which the Constitation• had
pr (1--se obscure were the elements of ehe etrifo
ren
the Preeidont and his adversaries lathe As-
h'z'ofc,c- that, for ail we kiew, public opiniefe, nfter.a
setntil ;„" " tenet have Fi,rtlrd.thhininto iyriik accept
feel her-B—o'ne,p-eetist el,e-spefi2ra•, end a virtdtd Weenie
socrorel or eppleuee might' have it un-
11TtY • ;even - a f n•eign crieie•Ve
rai if ace, , •,
of
rr!ec;olu'tion sanctioned by the inteiii 01..
the
That no such general cene,nin,nV as ensued
ndual:ein.- deliverance from fie undoubted danger, mutt be sat
atirely to the o:leans decree. Alreedy it has
ndfeed the sympathies of the. Freeeh people
tweir;
the enisting g.naernmene,.o4 well as flair estimate
of the circainstances which produced it; and with.
t doubt it is destined to modify profoundly
out don it is destined to modify profoouy
the wiz() course of French afFeirs, so long as they
are controlled by the military rule of Louis- Napoleon.
As regardnthe great cause of -moral justice, the 'pan-
ciTjai use of the Orleans decree has consisted in the light
which it has thrown on the character of the 'President.
It has made misapprehension of his motives impossible,
and it Etas stamped the leading features of his mind as
something distinct from that contusion of principle en
questions of public and constitutional right which uu.

1852.

happily characterises some of the very best of French.
men. Cowardice, in the ordinary sense of the term, is
perhaps not imputable to Louis Napoleon; but there
must have been a deplorable lack of civil courage in the
man who employed the first moment of security te:make
so glaring an °di:cis:don of the fears with which the per-
fectly legitimate, and not very dangerous, opposition of
a Bourbon Prince had inspired him. Hyp,,,crisy must
have framed or adopted the pretext by which that deed
of unmanly revenge was sought to be veiled, Cynical
contempt of prescriptive right wfts betrayed by the very
',imagining of such a method of retaliation; ant: ser-
vility to the judgment of the lowest populace shone
in every line of the clauses winch distributed the
Possessions of the dead King among the con-
verili°o4l objects of charity and compassion.
A
th revciltion of such qualities in the princip3l author of
8 Z recent events was a commoni;ary on the events them-
p„2'-'I%* The country awoke to the absurdity of sup-
o eiz.l.;cotirutestreerildfedhbyblessute,i.inhaand.9,eannstitu. Lion which had been
pwrie•otnefee.
sIlt):;t oure blh'-'* dto the degradation of
elves to a participation . 6•
to lenci sit;lns
in so mihty a
servl!ei few vAto quid be brought
which
ite.catrie alive to the emptiness of the.
:Lt. igrOvbe rl
Zer‘otf t hb'el'ri
grown sceptical as to "t/
obtained. It had already
,ivnvate fora/
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..i.!lsembly, tvlion the letteut`ein'l'P'nuttaista°p3eBrvwerliscehnet of the
to render even the last unrosr°4.f°Crillith
c:cro came to fasten Osis guilt
stitations had assumed saws
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black treachery by which Choy
the °cleans decree it is praorAbdaptliestchea;t proper head, and
tdestroyed. But tor
which Tree in-
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were contrast with the
never have been written,
have mot with no general credence.
suff --,.,, them
to be published, the Government morel
tult.a of supposing that the state of opinion
it undoubtedly would have been if noviolationlv.3 such as
&implett maxims of morality had been
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COIIIATITTES on the CASS of MR. O'CO..VNOR.
Yesterday, the Committee appointed to inquire into
the matter of the. netition of Miss O'Connor, praying
that Mr. Feargus O'Connor may bo liberated and con-
fidea to the custody of his friends, met at four o'clock,
in Committee-room No. 13. Present—Mr. Walpole
(chairman), Mr. M. Milnes, Mr. V. Smith, Mr. Miles,
Mr. M. J. O'Connell, the O'Gorman Mahon, end others.
Dr. Tweedie and Dr. Lawrence, who have been in daily
attendance on the unfortunate gentleman during his
'Confinement, were examined on the subject-matter of the
petition. Subsequently Miss O'Connor, who is a petite
and rather prepossessing person, with the O'Connor
caste of countenance subdued into the delicacy of female
feature, was examined, and requested permission of the
Committee to be allowed an interview with her brother.
The Committee deliberated, and asked the advice of
Dr. Tweedie, who expressed himself adverse; but
on Miss O'Connor becoming importunate, her re-
quest was encec'ed to; and Mr. O'Connor having
been conducted from the " tower" down stairs,
she proceeded to see him, accompanied by Captain
Gossett, the Assistant-Sergeant-at-Arms, Mr. Bell,
M.P., D. Tweedie, and two of the messengers. Here
they met Mr. O'Connor, with two messengers and two
sergeants of police, quietly promenading along the well-
known lengthy corridor of the Committee-rooms of the
House of Comtnous, the doors at the entrance from the
grand staircase having first been securely closed. Miss
O'Connor appeared much affected, end the unfortunate
gentleman continued to walk ep and down with his left
arm cast careleszly behind his sister. On arriving at
the doors that had been locked he called out to the
police; through the glass panels on the other side, " Open
this, open this," at the same time trying to undo the
doors; but on being told by Captain Gossett it could not
be allowed, he returned quietly, and continued talking to
his sister, No remarkable change has taken place in Mr.
O'Connor, either for better or worse, during the last few
days..He still indulges in• rapid, rambling, aberrations,
reciting to his attendants snatches of what he states to
be his own poetical compositions, uttering now and then
an eloge on the late Sir Robert Peel, abruptly broken
off tea:lomat on the disasters of an old woman and her
pig in the bogs of Ballinhassig--of a stud of some
twenty long-tailed black horses his brother kept in Ire-
land, Fall whimsically interwoven by such canticles as
are heard at the Coal Hole or by the recital of a litany,
interlarded with tears, on the failure of the unfortunate
land scheme. A difficult question has preaented itself to
the Committee as to what it will be their duty to do, or
rather what jurisdiction they can have in the matter,
the case being without preeedent on the journals of the
House. It appears, however, to be the impression that
although Mr. O'Connor is in imprisonment for contempt
of thi House and disorderly conduct, yet that the proper
course will be to discharge him and assign him to the
care of his friends or Hanwell, frpm which asylum Dr.
Conolly visited him yesterday, end was understood to Le
of opinion that Mr. O'Connor's insanity is only symp-
tomatic or incipient, and that with attention, and in a
short time, ha may be restored to a state of mental con-
valescence. His nephew visited him yesterday, and the
interview is stated to have been similarly affecting to tha
with his sister.

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES.
SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER AND SHREWSBURY AND
BIRMLNGHA.2I AMALGAMATION.—Yesterday, ill Lord
Redcsdale's Curnmittc:,, the standing orders were de-
clared not complied with, and the- Bill was accordingly
lost.

EASTERN UNlON.—Yesterday the Committee of the
Lords declared the preamble of this Company's Bill for
arrangeintnts as to capital proved.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE.—
This company's Bill for new branches passed in the
Committee of the ',orb.

LEEDS, BRADFORD; .A:ZD HALIFAX.—The preamble of
the Bill for making this line was declared proved in
Committee of the Lords.

In Lord Redesdale's Standing Order Committee the
following Bills gassed:—Chester and Holyhead, South
Yorkshire, Cords and Mechynhlek, Worksworih
Mining, and Commercial Gas.

BRITISII ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COM-
PANY'S BILL.

REAsoiqs in support of the Tuna) READING, which
takes place on 'THURSDAY, 17th instant, immediately
on the SITTING of the Harm
This Bill was for fourteen days before a Select Com-
mittee, and after the fullest and most patient inquiry,
the Committee have decided in favour of the Bill.
The object of the Bill may bo simply stated to be, to
break through the barrier which the Old Electric Tele-
graph Company has been proved before the Committee
to have interposed between the metropolis and the pro-
vinces, by which they effectually prevent any electric
communication reaching London by any other means
than their own telegraphs. Thus they have completely
nullified the intentions of Parliament in granting the
British Telegraph Company's Act of 1850, and have
thus rendered that Act almost a dead letter, and hence
the present Bill, to restore vitality to that Act.
The Bill has been mot with the most strenuous oppo-
sition by the Old Telegraph Company, with whom were
joined tho repre6entatives of seven or eight railway com-
panies, who, from motives of interest, have bound them-
selves to assist in promoting the monopoly of telegraphic
intelligence.
The chairman of the Great Northern Railway Com-
pany gave evidence in favour of the Bill, and proved
how that company had been coerced by the Old Tele-
graph Company to submit at present to its monopoly.
Clauses are contained in the Bill by which the fullest
and most complete compensation and protection have
been secured to the railvv.,y companies.
The Board of Trade are by the Bill empowered, upon
complaint of any railway company,. to prohibit the Bri-
tish Company altogether from erecting their telegraphsupon such railway, should public interest or private jus-
tice require such prohibition.
Petitions in favour of the Bill have been presented
from the following (among other) important seats of
commerce and manufactures, viz,, London, Westmin-
ster, Southwark. Lambeth, Finsbury, Liverpool (seve-
ral petitions), Manchester (several petitions), Glasgow
(several petitions), Greenock, Edinburgh (several peti-
tions), Newcastle (several petitions), Leeds, Bradford,
Halifax, Huddersfield, Hull, Shrewsbury, Bath, Bris-
tol, &o , &c.
In the voluminous evidence produced during the in-
quiry into this subject, many facts of the most striking
and vital public importance to mercantile and other in-
terests were elicited. Amongst other facts it was proved
in evidence that a regulation exists in the office of the
old Telegraph Company by which the messagessecil os
if tnhael
chairman of that company (known by a special
AK) are on all occasions forwarded before the mes-
sages of any other person, and in preference over
even
the messages of the Government or Royal Family, ell
other business being laid aside immediately on an A
being
pars notesen ted.
It proved that any improper advantage had
been taken of these facilities for communicating
with
looking at the exclusive
thengirsernatamnit k
tiei
ste,tisioo h
however,
etvee empire.
r,th,t_
t aots
,ruh:epiispne-
agrements that have been made with the leading
e
f
ea
Inc and
rt
ah
pe completelyh
Company
haveisolated
b ya
tr
tpr
ion;
w‘lhaYich"tinhronlidesT
are justly en-
meats, contrived to place themselves (by b clize avenue to competition) that the concen every
great and dangerous powers in single hands ratiolsl a state of
things for which the public do seek, and titled to seek, the remedy which the present Bill, El 3 it
Rill,
has passed the Committee, will effectually
By order,
London, June 16,1852? EORGE
SAWA", Secretary.

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-EBIARKABLE SUCCESSION OF HURRICANF°
bably the greatest number of hurricanes ever experienced.r„bb,Y
one vessel in a single voyage has been felt b
arrived at Liverpool yesterday from sin
of November she sailed from the latter port,
gapore.
sn' on tl',,, by
of D(ceniber, in lat. 12 S, long. 99 E. she isings,n-ut'erca
ri Hurricane. Struggling under this disabifity shelf ,n,e4,'Zgar LIP
asecOnd hurricane on Christmas-day, but was ahien-anuary,
for the Mauritius, where she arrived on the gal °.Euced two
under jury-masts. While lying
exPeern-case corn-
niore hurricanes, which, however, proved in iLhipping sui-
paratively harmless, although much of the s
; n After refit-
there she
tained material damage ou the hater occasion. Burch, and
tho:.,l3b;fter one of the
ting. .slie left the ATAUt il iiii on
reached the Mersey on Monday min"'
most perilous voyages on record.
1,3 t►geou, on Sa-
CCiIIRAGEOUS IiCTIO:S.—At, Panud courageous act was
turday atternoon„ a :most humane ali-•of St. Peter's, Wal-
performed by the Rev. James O'Re.s.i.s),''flger3 had fallen into
worth, who, perceiving one ,of the ;1e),.---aud was being fast, car
the water, while stepping to
tied down by the tide, at enc- the lifcbuoy was thrown to
nately held the man up until te
with
the
utmost
prompti-
tude P. pet' overboard, and fortu-
their assis!ance, which was both were rescued from their
tude by the pier-man,
vihecheers of all on board, the rev.
perilous position amidst
the
ermest congratulations from those
gentleman receiving the
evhrigtian conduct.
who witnessed his noble