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THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—MALTA, APRIL 10.
—The Queen Dowager of England departed from this
island on the Ist, in the Hastings. accompanied by the
Rodney, 92, Captain Parker, the Vanguard, 80, Captain
Sir T. Fellowes, the Asia, 84, Captain Fisher, and the
Castor, 36, Captain Collier. At seven they cleared the
harbour with a light breeze from the S. W., steering N. W.,
and the escorting division having returned into port on
Saturday last, we are enabled to lay before the public, who
from the boisterous state of the weather for the past week,
have been somewhat anxious on the subject, the following
particulars of the cruise, to which we have to add, that it is
generally conjectured by the Officers of the squadron that
the Hastings must have taken shelter in Palma, or some
other port on the S. W. coast of Sardinia. At nine on the
morning of departure, when off St. Paul's Bay, a signal
was made from the Hastings to the effect that her
Majesty commanded the company to dinner, at half-past
four, of the Captains of the respocare ships in comptny, and
or
fr.
Ifter lo-

Gozo at about ten, and shortly after lost sight of these pos-
sessions. At four p.m. they hove to, lowered their boats,
and the respective captains went on board the Hastings,
except Sir T. Fellosves, who excused himself on the plea
of indisposition. Her Majesty presided at the dinner, and
was very affable to her guests. On the return of the
boats they were hoisted in, and they then hauled to the
wind during dinner. At seven the ships again hove to,
lowered their boats, and got the captains on board;
during the night the wind increased, and at daybreak on
Tuesday they were under double-reefed topsails and fore-
sail, with their top-gallant masts and yards lowered owing
to its blowing very hard from the S. E. ; at eight a.m. they
were off Maritimo, when the Hustings made a signal " If
the Commodore wishes to part company, he can do so ;
the Queen bids you all farewell, and you have her best
wishes." The Commodore then signalized to the other
ships under his orders to haul their wind on the star-
board tack, blowing at the time very strong, on which
account they could not otherwise salute her Majesty than
by hoisting their ensigns; at noon it blew a perfect hur-
ricane, such as no officer or seaman in the squadron had
ever before experienced in the Mediterranean ; the Rod-
ney's main-deck guns were constantly under water, and
the Vanguard and Asia were excessively wet; indeed,
no other sail could be shown than the main trysail ; the
Rodney, Asia, and Castor split their main topsails in the
act of taking them in, and several other damages were
suffered by each of the ships. On Wednesday the wind
veered to the west, blowing so frei,b as to baffle the endca-
,
yours of the ships to avail themselves of it, by getting to
windward of Maritimo and the mainland of Sicily, and
on
reached their anchorage in Malta harbour Saturdayt
morning at eight o'clock. The British squadron in
are busily engaged taking in four montles provisions,poanrd
it is rumoured that the ships will put to sea very shortly.
Lieutenant Lord Henry Russell, invalided from the Tyne,
has gone home in the Hastings, and Lieutenant Davy, late
of the Castor, takes his passage in the Firefly, to sail for
England about the nth instant. Mr. Douglas (son of the
Lord High Commissioner of the lonian Islands), who
lately met with a serious accident whilst serving on board
the Carysfort, now in our naval hospital, is doing well.
Mr. Simpson, of Edinburgh, who has for some
years past so hottourably distinguished himself by his ex-
ertions in favour of a general education, yesterday gave
the first of a series of lectures, in
Willis'sh i i: Willis's
Fr
Lore cs Rooms, on
the
i n
subject. The audience, wehlehmwanays
ofgthe Nobility and
point of numbers, cornpris a
Mr. Simpson delivered a very able and
their families.
which was listened to throughout
interesting lecture,
with the greatest attention, and was received with fre-
quent shouts of applause. Mr. Simpson's series of lectures
promises to be productive of the greatest aivantage.
MOUNT VESUVIUS.—The well-known exhibi-
tion
of the above at the Surrey Zoologica
called forth a number of imitators. Dublin,G ardKienn gstonha,s
Liverpool, Manchester, Bristol, and Sheffield, have each
their Vesuvius ! We understand the proprietor of the
Surrey Gardens, encouraged by t,he "exampled success
has in Wino, and uiil be completed
of his first production,
in a few days, a work more than double the extent of Vesu-
vius, painted by the same eminent artist
ist ( Denson). A few
of the cognoscenti, who have watched its progress, pro-
nounce it to be a wonderful effort o the pictorial art.
A DramATic LADY.—At Hatton Garden
Police-office yesterday, Mary Ann Prins (formerly Miss
Healy, of Covent-Garden Theatre) was brought before
Mr. Burrell, charged with being found drunk. In con-
sequence of having beenl, locked up, in the station-house
night last she wasro nose in
but shortly
since Saturday
when she expressed
after she was heard ma • bl
.'in
the
Passage, and she
Pancras workhouse. She
was again brought bench,ibtetefodreiattoJest.
her wish to be
stated that she had been separatedi from her husband, who
agreed to allow her IL a week, but
it had been reduced to
l
10s., and whenever she
cal le d at his residence for the
money, his landlady gave ier into charge for drunkenness,
and rather than be ~ bundled" about as
workhouse.. 0 51r. B. suhrererlaosrdsheered th wouldat
prefer starving in a
a letter should be written to
9 overseers. prisoner /
have applied to the overseers, but they will not admit me. I
belong to the Royal Society, and I have only fourpence
and what am Ind do ?
in my pocket now. She was ordered
to remain in the office until Edwards, the officer,
could ac-
company her to the overseer.
DEATH OF MISS BATHURST._..It appears that
was residing at Rome under the
Miss Bathurst, who
protection of her uncle and aunt, Lord and Lady Alymer,
rode out with them,
escorte by tire Fronds Ambassador,
Monte-Imre:lca The groom of Miss
the Duc de Laval
- ar
Bathurst was cent back to the residence of Lord Ayl-
mer, with some message; and when the party arrived
neAyl-
mer,
too Pont di Molle, the Duke proposed leading them by a
path which lie had often ridden along the bank of the Tiber.
The river having become swollen, portions of the bark had
given way, which had rendered the path so narrow that,
after pursuing it some short distance the Duke, who was
foremost, proposed retracing, their steps. In
endeavouring
to turn her horse, Miss Mal urst unfortunately backed him
too near the edge of the bank, and the horse and rider were
lunged into the river. Not one of the party could swim ;
nevertheless, Lord Aylmer attempted to rush into the
' water, and had advanced some paces when his distracted
wife forciblyseboae thisck. Nc\hrhatriotirineandyeorostag this sada
, .have
held him
able
t o rescue
catas-
trophe still more lamentable is, that the groom who had
been sent back to Rome is a good Swimmer, and might
been
' watery grave. —./.4ablin Mail.
1

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the 'Wool-
sack at Five o'Clock, at which time there was a
very large assemblage of Peers, particularly occupying
the Opposition benches.

Lord CA MPERDO- WN presented a petition from
Leith, praying that measures might be adopted for the
purpose of completing the Caledonian Canal.

. ,
- The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions
from Inverness, and a great many printing-offices in
London, praying for the adoption of a penny postage ;
the Noble Duke also presented petitions from Elgin
and other places in Scotland, praying for Church Ex-
tension in that country.

Lord CAWDOR presented a petition from the
county of Nairn, praying for Church Extension in
Scotland.

BEER-BILL.

Lord PORTMAN wished Co know if the Noble
and Learned Lord who had a motion for to-night on
the subject of an alteration of the Beer Bill, would
have any objection to postpone the discussion of thQ
subject to-night in consequence of a notice standing
on the votes of the other House of Parlia-
ment, for discussing the same measure to-
morrow night, and he (the Noble Lord) thought it
would he better that Government would introduce a
Bill on the subject.

Lord BROUGHAM said he understood why his
Noble Friend put that question to him at that moment,
and he begged to say he should not answer the question
then, but in a quarter of an hour hence.—(Laughter.)
The Noble and Learned Lord then presented peti-
tions from Stockport, Chapel-le-Frith, Canterbury,
Lewes, Bristol, and several other places against the
.13cer. Act.
RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS.

Lord MELBOURNE rose amidst evidently the
greatest interest throughout the House, and upon
which there was profound silence. His Lordship said—
My Lords, I consider it my duty to seize the
earliest opportunity of acquainting your Lordships
that in consequence of the vote to which the House of
Commons has come this morning, and which your Lord-
ships may see on the votes of that House of Parliament
—a vote which although not immediately fatal to the mea-
sure against which it was levelled, yet at the same time, to
all who are acquainted with Parliamentary proceedings,
we know is of such a nature as to render the final
success of that measure totally impossible ; and con-
sidering that measure as of the highest possible
and most paramount importance—that it is of
the most paramount importance, both with respect to
the island to which it relates, and to the working
out of that great measure passed for emancipating the
negroes, which has been voted by both Houses of Parlia-
ment with so much satisfaction, and for which so great
sacrifices have been made : considering that measure to
be of the utmost and paramount importance for those
great objects—and considering also that the vote upon
this occasion is not only necessarily ultimately fatal to the
success of that great measure, but that it also does with
sufficient clearness and distinctness, indicate such a want of
confidence on the part of a great proportion of that House
of Parliament,as torender it absolutelyimpossible that we
should continue to administer the affairs of her Ma-
jesty's Government in a manner which can be useful
and beneficial to the country, and that it renders it
impossible that we should take those measures of
energy and of importance which are absolutely
required by the situation and circumstances of the coun-
try, but which, my Lords, if they are taken, allow me
to say, there is no danger or peril to be apprehended to
any one part of the possessions of this country : I say, my
Lords, under these considerations, and under the
pressure of these circumstances we have thought it our
duty to tender to her Majesty the resignation of' the
offices which we hold, and which her Majesty has
been graciously pleased to accept. We, there-
fore, now only retain those offices and continue
to discharge the functions of them until other arrange-
ments are made, and successors appointed for the carry-
ing on of the business of the country.
Lord BROUGHAM—My Lords, after what has
fallen from the Noble Lord I shall postpoae the second
reading of my Bill, although I consider that Bill to be
of more importance as regards the public morals than
the_resignation.of any Ministry. I do not apprehend
hi in- a due

regard Co what I hold to
tions of the Legislature, namely, superintend
inn the morals and instruction and welfare of the people
under their care, as to allow any mere party
feeling, any temporary, and, it may be, only mo-
mentary gratification of those feelings, to interfere
with what I hold to be the highest duty
of the Senate in this country. My Lords, I hold this
Bill, and the repealing of this Bill, to be of greater
moment than any party question that can divide either
House of Parliament ; and I shall persist, whoever
holds the office of Minister of this country, in my en-
deavours to obtain the repeal of a measure which I be-
lieve to be permanently fraught with mischief to the
character of the country.—(Hear, hear.) I have only
to add, in reference to what has fallen front
my Noble Friend respecting the measure touched,
and, as he thought justly, fatally touched by
the vote of this morning in the other House
of Parliament—that I greatly rejoice to hear him
say that one of his reasons fur lamenting the fate
of that measure was, that he allowed it to inter-
fere with the well working of the great measure of Negro
Emancipation. My Lord, that measure was confined
to Jamaica—that measure if it was good for an Eman-
cipation Bill in Jamaica, was good for it all the slave
colonies over—and I therefore take the earliest occa-
sion of stating, that I shall not be wanting in
my duty to that great measure of emanci-
pation, and that whoever holds the Government
of this country, I shall give that Government an
early opportunity of testifying what I verily believe to
be the unanimous determination of all parties, of all
men, and of both Houses of Parliament, the strict en•
foreement, according to the spirit as well as the letter,
of the great measure of Negro Emancipation all over
the Colonies, and no greater error—believe me—no
greater error ever was committed by men, by parties,
by assemblies, or by Legislatures in general, than the
Jamaica Assembly will commit if they believe that this
is a triumph of the white over the black. Men may
differ as to the mode of proceeding,—men may prefer
one mode, or they may prefer another, but there is no
loss sustained by the slave, who has been emancipated,
in the loss of one measure, if other measures can be
propounded, which will efft!etually secure the working,
and enforcement in the spirit as well as in the letter, all
over the Colonies, as well as in Jamaica, of the great
measure of Negro Emancipation. My Lords, all the
Legislators of this country, and all the people of this
country, are solemnly pledged to take that course ; and
I do not believe that any Government can stand
in this country for forty-eight hours, which showed that
it was not determined firmly and honestly to execute
that law.—(Cheers.)
A message from the Commons brought up several
Private Bills.

The Bills oa the table were forwarded a stage.
The Bishops' Residences Bill w::nt through Com-
mittee.

The House then adjourned to Friday.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Me l' 7.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.

CLUN (SALOP) INCLOSURE.

Mr. CLIVE, on bringing up the report of the Com-
mittee on the Clan (Salop) Inclosure Bill, said as tie
present was the first Inclosure Bill brought, before the
House since the resolution of the Hon. Member for
Southwark, he would beg to state that it was proposed
by the Bill to enclose 1,700 acres—the population was
860, and it was proposed to appropriate 30 acres for the
use of the poor of the district, five acres for purposes
of recreation, the remaining 25 for the growing of turf
and other fuel.

Mr. 1). W. HARVEY said the House would be
gratified to find that its unanimous resolution had been
carried out in so liberal manner by the promoters of the
Bill. He trusted when they were doing very little in
that House but quarrelling with themselves, and
making such slight aqvanees in political or
social improvement, that the present trlfEng evi-
dence of a disposition to advance the interests of
the people would be received in a proper spirit.—
(Hear, hear, hear.) He believed it would be neces-
sary to give to the resclution the permanency of a
Standing Order, otherwise it would expire with the
present Session. It had been stated by some com-
mentator in the press that the resolution was stripped of
its utility because it did not impose on the parish the
permanent maintenance of the inclosure, but it would
be found that the resolution fully provided for that.
Mr. PRYME feared that land apportioned in that
way would occasion nothing but a mere scramble
among the poor, and suggested that it would be much
better to have it set out in small portions.
The Report was then agreed to, and ordered to be
engrossed.
LONDON AND BLACK WALL RAILWAY.
Mr. PRYME moved that the evidence taken before
the London and Blackwall Railway Committee be

printed. The Committee had sat tel days, and the
evidence was of a very voluminous nature.
The SPEAKER thought the application quite un-
usual, and he was not aware that the House had ever
authorized the printing of the evidence on a Private Bill
at its expense.

Mr. PRYME said the promoters of the Bill were
willing to pay the expense, but they understood it could
❑at be done without the authority of that House.
The motion was then agreed to.
Sir R. INGLIS presented a petition agreed to
unanimously by the Convocation of the University of
Oxford, in which they stated that under Divine Pro-
vidence, the Church of England had been the means of
conferring countless blessings upon this country—that
in consequence of the rapid increase of the population
of England and Wales, there was now great spiritual
destitution existing in the country ; that was a national
evil, and they prayed the House to take such
measures as they, in their wisdom, might see fit
for putting an end to it. The Hon. Baronet
also presented several petitions against the ecclesiastical
Duties and Revenues Bill, and for protection to the
Church in the colonies.

Mr. DEN ISON said lie had a petition to present
which gave him much pain, inasmuch as it reflected
upon the conduct of a Nobleman from whom lie had re-
ceived much courtesy, the Lord Lieutenant of the
county of Surrey. The petition was from Major -,
who stated that his family had resided in the county
since the days of Henry VIII., that he had held a Com-
mission in the militia for forty years, and durinc, the last
thirty years bad held the rank of a Field' Officer
The petitioner submitted that he wasjully qualified for
and entitled to promotion ; that in 1313 S he was abroad,
and was unable to make any application to the Lord
Lieutenant, but that on his return he did apply, and
was then informed that the Lieutenant-Coloneley bad
been filled up by the appointment of an officer in an
unusual manner, and, he believed, from political mo-
tives. The petitioner prayed that some regulation
might be made to prevent the recurrence of such in-
justice.

After a few words from Capt. PE RCE V A L, the peti-
tion was laid on the table.

Mr. HOPE JOHNSTONE presented a petition
fromKirkcudbright against any alteration in the Corn-laws.
Lord DUNGANNON presented petitions from
places in the County of Cambridge against any further
grant to Maynooth College, and a petition from Den-
bigh against the Government plan of education.
Mr. LIDDELL presented petitions from various
places in the county of Durham praying for support to
the Established Church in Canada, and also against any
scheme. of education not in connection with the Esta-
blished Church.

Sir R. BATESON presented six petitions from
various places in the county of Londonderry, complain-
ing of the religious grievances of Presbyterian soldiers,
and praying for the appointment of Presbyterian chap-
lains to Presbyterian regiments.
Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR presented a petition
from some place in Scotland, praying for a repeal of the
Catholic Emancipation Act.
Mr. MARK PHILLIPS presented several peti-
tions in favour of the plan for a penny postage.
Mr. PAKINGTON presented a petition from Won,
cester in favour of scriptural education.

Lord IN G ESTRIE presented petitions in favour of a
penny postige.

Mr. ELLIS presented a similar petition from Newry.
Serg?ant TALFOURD presented a petition to the
same effect from Reading.
Mr. AGLION BY presented a petition from Cock-
ermouth, praying for a uniform rate of Postage.

Mr. BRISCOE presented similar petitions from
Riegate and Chertsey.

RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS.

At five o'clock their being upwards of five hundred
Members present,

Lord J. RUSSELL rose and said—Sir, I wish to
make a communication to the House, in conseqaence
of what took place last night on the motion of the
Right Hon. Baronet opposite for the rejection of a Bill to
provide for the Government of Jamaica. Sir, it will be
evident to this House that that was a Bill requiring
more than ordinary support and more than ordinary
confidence, and that it met with less support
and less confidence on the part of this House
I than that usually given to her Majesty's Ministers.
It has therefore become their duty to consider in what
position they are placed. with respect to that Bill. It
would undoubtedly be in their power to proceed to ano-
ther stage of the Bill, and again to ask the opinion of
the House upon the question, but we see no reason to
suppose that the jodgment of the House on a second
,trial would be different from that already given. We
migiit likewise,- with the support of a majority no
greater than that which we received last night, send
that Bill to the House of Lords, . and
leave it to the House of Lords to deal with
it as they thought proper. But this course,
Sir, on a Bill which certainly vests in the
Government, and the Governor and Council of Jamaica,
unusual powers, would have an appearance of throwing
upon the House of Lords, a responsibility which I do
not think we are fairly entitled to throw upon them,
after the vote which has been come to by the House
of Commons. There seems, therefore, no option
but to give up the Bill, which it was our duty to
bring forward. Sir, it is then a question,
whether, having brought forward a Bill of that impor-
tance, we shall leave the state of affairs in Jamaica,
in the West India Colonies, and in our colonies in ge-
-1 neral, in a state in which a Minister of the Crown ought
to be content to leave these Colonies. It is obvious that
in Jamaica the authority of the Crown would be greatly
weakened by the support which a vote of the House of
Commons would give, in effect and in impression, to
the contumacy—for so I must call it—of the House
of Assembly, against the proposition of the Minister of
the Crown. Sir, I think it is obvious, likewise, that the
effect would be, that with regard to other Colonies,
where hitherto there has been, if not an eager, yet
an ultimate compliance with the wishes of the Crown.
there would be a disposition rather to imitate the resist-
ance which has been made by Jamaica, than a perseve-
rance in the course they have taken. But there is this
further question, that it was our intention and our
duty to have brought forward, within these few days,
another question relating to the Colonies—relating
to the important provinces of Upper and Lower Ca-
nada, whose affairs have repired, and do still require,
the most deliberate consideration of Parliament.
Now it is evident that the measure with regard to
Jamaica having been so opposed—opposed by such large
numbers in this House, that we could not calculate
upon the support which was necessary for the settle-
ment of the affairs of Canada—therefore,
Sir, in continuing in the administration of affairs,
not having, as I think we have not, a sufficient degree
of the confidence and support by which we could carry
on those affairs efficiently, we should be exposing to
jeopardy the colonial empire of this country—colonies
which I will not say are in a state of hazard, but in
which questions of considerable importance are pending.
Sir, hitherto her Majesty's Ministers have thought
themselves justified in continuing in the administration
of affairs, supported as they were by the confidence of
the Crown, and by the confidence of the House of
Commons. But after the vote of last night, Ido not
think I am entitled to say that, in the very great and
important affairs on which Government were obliged to
come to a decision, they have such support and such
confidence in this House, as to enable them efficiently to
carry an public affairs. It has therefore, Sir,been the duty
of her Majesty's Ministers, in consideration of all these
circumstances, humbly to tender their resignations. Sir,
with regard to the course which is to be taken to-
night., I shall take the usual course in such cases, to move
the adjournment of the House for a short period, in or-
der to (liable her Majesty to form an Administration
which may carry on the affairs of this country. But
I cannot, Sir, close what I have now to say without
expressing on this occasion, as I shall be ready to ex-
press on every occasion, and as I shall feel to the
latest hoer of my life, my gratitude to those who have
supported the Government during the four years
in which they have held the arduous situa-
tion in which they have been placed, under no
slight difficulties, under circumstances of no ease or
facility—to those who have supported the Govern-
ment in such a manner, that altksugh they have not at
• any time had the confidence of the majority of the
House of Lords, they have felt it consistent with their
1 notions of duty to carry on the administration of affairs.
Sir, I say, that to those who have given us this efficient
support, and who have been always ready to show in
' this House, their willingness to do everything in their

power to promote the great principles on which we aro
agreed, to them we shall ever feel the deepest gratitude.
Sir, I now move that the House at its rising do ad-