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of railroad between the cities of Dublin and Cork and
Limerick is intended to pass, to be made to this House;
whether such property is held in fee, or by virtue of a
lease for lives or for years, under any Corporation, sole
or aggregate, lay or ecclesiastical ; distinguishing the
name of each person who is a Member of either House
of Parliament.—Agreed to.
The Bankrupts Estates (Scotland) Bill, Compensa-
tion to Officers of the Court of Session, weut through
Committee.
The Report on the Mutiny, and Marine Mutiny Bills
were brought up, and the Bills ordered to be read a third
time to-mot row.
The Ecclesiastical Suspension Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The Consolidated Fund Bill (8,000,0000 was read
a second time.
GOVERNMENT OF JAMAICA.

Mr. LABOUCHERE brought in;13111 for making
temporary provision for the Government of Jamaica,
which was read a first time, and ordered to be reid a
second time on the 19th of April.

--Tile House adjourned at Twenty-five Minutes past.
Ten &Clock.

SALE OF ARMS IN MONMOUTH.

Copy of a letter written by the Secretary of State,
and addressed to the Lord Lieutenant of the County of
Monmouth :

Sir,—Having been informed that persons have
lately been going about the country, employed either as
agents, or on their own account, in selling arms, not in
the way of trade, but with some mischievous intent,
I deem it right to call your attention to the subject,
and I request you to recommend to any magistrates in
the county of Monmouth, with whom you may think it
eedings.e
to
confer to keep a watchful eye on such pro-
capprehend there cannot be a doubt that any
persons combining to procure arms for the purpose of re-
sisting the laws, or for the purpose of committing any
act which is deemed by law an offence, are liable to be
prosecuted for a misdemeanour. It is, I conceive,
equally clear, that any person selling arms, who advises
and induces others to buy them for the purpose of re-
sisting the laws, is also &Ale to be prosecuted for a
misdemeanour. Satisfactory- 1,..0f of such combination,
or of such selling of arms, which of course will be .neces-
sary, would subject the parties to the penalties of the
law. I beg further to observe, with regard to the use
of arms, or training for the purpose of using arms,
that if any persons secretly practise training or drilling
to the use of arms, they are guilty of an offence under
the provisions of the training act (GO George 111., c. 1),
which enacts that all meetings for the purpose of training
or drilling to the use of arms without lawful authority are
prohibited. And every person who shall attend any such
meeting for the purpose of training or drilling, or of
being trained or drilled to the use of arms, shall be
liable to transported and imprisoned. In case of any
such training and drilling, the magistrates should take
the most prompt and effective measures for the appre-
hension of the offenders.

I shall be desirous of receiving from time to time, any
information which you may he able to give as to the
state of the county of Monmouth. It is likewise de-
sirable that magistrates should endeavour to procure de-
positions with respect to any seditious meetings in their
neighbourhood, at which auy excitements to resist the
laws may be addressed to the people.

COPYRIGHT BILL.

PETITION OF MR. W. S. LANDOR, TO THE HON. THE

COMMONS OF ENGLAND, &C.

" That your petitioner would represent to your
Honourable-House his strong persuasion that no pro-
perty is so entirely, and purely, and religiously a man's
own as what comes to him immediately from God,
without intervention or participation. It is the eternal
gift of an eternal Being, and to interfere in any way with
its benefits and blessings appears to your petitioner un-
becoming and unjust. _

" Your petitioner, therefore, humbly submits to your
Honourable House that no Legislature has a right to
confine its advantages to a thousand, or ten thousand
years, or to give them away to any person or persons
whatsoever, to the detriment of an author's heirs, after
any number of ages.

" And your petitioner offers the less reluctantly these
observations to your Honourable House, since he him-
self proposes no advantages to his descendants from any
of his literary works, all which he has consigned and
left in perpetuity to the discretion of a learned friend."

MALTA, MARCH, 24.—The ordonnance
abolishing the Censorship has given rise to a good deal of
argument in our journals, some of which, particularly the
Mediterranee, consider that the benefit awarded is a very
slight one, and that the liberty of the Press is a fallacy
while it is subjected to so many trammels. The Queen
Dowager has received the wife and the two daughters of
the ex-Bey of Bengale, who is sojourning at Malta. Her
Majesty sent her a special invitation, and his family was
accompanied by Mr. Dixon. attired in the Arab costume.
Her Majesty received the Bey's lady with great affability.
Coffee was afterwards served by the ladies of her Majesty's
suite, the gentlemen being all excluded, while the Tripo-
litaino family were present. Before they departed, the
Queen Dowager placed;abeautiful gold chain on the neck of
the Bey's lady, as a remembrance of the visit. On Wednes-
day last the Queen Dowager laid the first stone of a Protes
tant Church, with much ceremony. It is understood that
her Majesty will embark the day after to-morrow on board
the Hastings, and will touch at Cadiz and Lisboni on her
way to England. The Gazette de Corfou, which has been
received here, contains an account of the usual ceremonies
which take place at the opening of the lonian Parliament
by the Lord High Commissioner. The Commissioner
made a long speech, in which he dwelt upon the measures
which it was best to take to promote general education.
Ile also al:uded to the steps which he had taken, in con-
cert with the English Minister at Athena, to obtain repara-
tion for the insults offered by the agents of the Greek Go-
vernment to various subjects of the lonian Islands. M.
Altavilla Calichiopulo, the President of the Assembly, in
reference to these insults, gave his opinion that they were
only to be attributed to certain functionaries of the Govern-
ment, and not to any hostile disposition on the part of the
nation.

A BANQUET AT THE TUILERIES.-There
could not reasonably be desired a more glorious spectacle
than that of the Hall of Diana, wherein were now seated
six hundred of the proudest dames, and most beautiful
damsels of the time ;—surely no inconsiderable link
uniting the pride and beauty of the pc.st with that pride and
beauty which are to come. Around the room were ranged
the noblemen and gentlemen ; and, in their gorgeous
dresses, am I wrong in likening the scene to a vast picture
of silver in a golden frame ? Swiftly and noiselessly move
round those tall servants in crimson livery ;—the services
of solid silver, and sometimes, far better, of solid gold,
shine in their kid-gloved hands. How respectable, and
even venerable, do they often look in those grey hairs I
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That veteran with the champagne glass, how admirably
md does
can read in those countenances what those hearts desire ;
he has carefully studied human nature in one of its phases,
namely when hungry. He knows very well that the wish
for a slice of pate de foie gras is very d:fferent from a wish
for a goblet of Johannisberg, and he seems to read that
difference in your expressive face. At every change he
brings with your silver plate a clean napkin ; and have a
care, or like yonder lady, you may count seven napkins in
your lap at the same moment. But hark, the music rises
—it is from a band. You have now only to get nectar and
ambrosia, and here will you have no unworthy image of a
chosen banquet of all the choicest goddesses. In your
dreamings. and imaginations there is nothing to bring you
back to things earthly save, perchance, the voices of cer-
tain German barons behind you gsating in their native
dialect.—Bentley's Miscellany.
A Coroner's inquest was held last evening, before
Mr. Wakley, at No. 18, York-street, Portman-square, on
the body of Captain Brenton, late Secretary of the Chil-
dren's Friend Society, who died on Saturday last. On
the evidence of Mr. Dodd, surgeon, of Portman-street, it
appeared that ossification of the heart had taken place to a
considerable extent, and quite suflicient to account for the
deceased's death. The Jury returned a verdict of " Natu-
ral death."

On Thursday night, a butcher of the name of
Stouden, resident at Wadhurst, arrived at the Queen's
Head Inn, Borough, and gave his horse into the charge of
a man in the yard, whom he believed to be the ostler.
Next morning he found that the ostler had never seen the
horse, and that a person answering the description of the
supposed ostler, had been seen riding it over London
Bridge,
about half-past twelve o'clock.
A WOMAN'S TONGUE AND ITS EFFECTS.—.
luly conscious of his own blamelessness, Mr. Longinfr
concluded that, provided he could only get the first word
with her,
could not get the first word, although he hadit on his lips
the storm might be blown aside. But, alas
1 he
as he entered the door. Mrs. L. attacked him before he
came in sight: and, in all probability, such an oratorical
display of all
the deprecatory figure! of speech—such dis-
paragements, and condemnations, and denunciations; such
hatreds, and despisinga, and contempt, and upbraidings-7
were never before, throughout the whole range of domestic
disturbances, collected to ether within so brief a space of
time.h having
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opposingwords syllable
between them, he was at last compelled, after the royal was rained
upon the unlucky husband, and so suddenly, that, without
example of some of our too closely besieged Emperors and
Kings, to make good his retreat at the rear of the
premises.—Colin Clink, in Bentley's Miscellany.
FORGED BANK OF ENGLAND NOTES.—Since
our fair, a number of forged notes, purporting to be of the
Bank of England, have been put into circulation in this
town and neighbourhood. One war, taken in payment at
one of our banks last week, and another was presented at
a bank on Monday, and rejected. The imitation is good,
but clumsily executed; and the paper is thicker than that
on which the Bank of England notes are printed._
Shrewsbury Chronicle.
A PATRIARCHIAL PARTY.—On Tuesday
last, eighteen of the poor men of Soutliminster, upon 1
whose heads time had heavily laid his silvering hand, and
whose united ages amounted to 1,310 years, were col-
lected together at the White Hart Inn, by the bene.
valence of the Rev. Dr. Scott, who gave them an excel-
lent dinner of roast beef and plum-pudding. After this
substantial meal the health of the worthy Doctor was I
drank with all the earnestness of gratitude, and with all
the heartiness with which age would permit the venerable
party to raise the glad hurrah.—Essex Herald.