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of a French army of occupation will be to dispense
with the necessity of an armed people by rendering
powerless an interested, a corrupt, and despotic hierar-
chy. The reputation of M. Barrot's Cabinet, will,
indeed. much depend upon the success with which it
conducts the re-organization of the Government of Rome.
That Cabinet has as yet in foreign policy done little,
and it has had the great wisdom to say little. But
something, at least, is expected of it. It has accom-
plished the work of repression at home with firmness
and good results; perhaps it has overdone that work.
It has, therefore, to establish or redeem its character for
liberalism by securing to'Central Italy a constitutional
government. And this every one admits to be completely
incompatible with the combining of the powers of lay
sovereignty over the Roartn States with ecclesiastical
sovereignty over all Catholic countries.—Daily News.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, April 19.
Their Lordships assembled at Fire o'clock.
The Earl of ST. GERNIANS presented a petition
from Kildare against the rate in aid.
Lord CAM VBELL presented a petition from Cornwall
complaining of the persecution to which the Rev. James
Shore had been subjected.
Lord STANLEY presented petitions from Castletown
and other places, against the rate in aid; also a petition
complaining of agricultural distress.
PETTY SESSIONS BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL moved the third reading of the
Petty Sessions Bill,
After a few words from the Marquis of SALISBURY,
the motion was agreed to.
THANKS TO THE EARL OF DILHOUSIE AND
LORD G OUG H.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice that on
Tuesday he should move the thanks of the House to the
Governor-General and the Commander-in-Chief of the
forces in India for their conduct during the war in the
Punjaub and for the victory of Goojerat.
SICILY.
Lord STANLEY wished to know when the papers
relating to the mediation between
,Sicily and Naples
would be laid before the House, and whether the British
naval force had been withdrawn from the Sicilian waters.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE :said that the papers
would be laid on Ile table as soon as possible, and that
the naval force under Sir W. Parker had been directed
to withdraw from the Sicilian waters, with the excep-
tion of a few ships which had been left solely for the
protection of British interests and British subjects, and
that they had orders to abtain from all interference
between the belligerents.
Lord STANLEY considered the answer of the Noble
Maiquis to be perfectrg• satiffactory.
NORTH WALE•
RAILWAY COMPANY.
Lord MONTEAGLE moved that Mr. Chadwick and
Mr. Martiner be called to the bar. The Noble Lord
repeated the history of the proceedings whiCh their Lord-
ships had taken in relation to the North Wales Railway
Company.
Lord CAMPBELL said that all the parties had to
answer for was not obeying the order of the House.
Messrs. Chadwick and Marriner having been called to
the bar, and asked what they had to say,
Mr. Chadwick said, that had he received the order
to attend, nothing should have prevented him from obey-
ing it, and he read the evidence of the messengers of their
Lordships, to prove that the order had not been served
upon him until the month of October 1848. Had he had
the least idea that his preience would have been required
in September, he would have been in the way.
Mr. Marriner, on being called on, said he had done all
in his power to comply with the orders of their Lord-
ships' House, and proceeded to explain the steps he had
taken to procure and supply to their Lordships the in-
formation required, and it was not until after the pro-
rogation of Parliament that he had received any inti-
mation that his presence was required at their Lord-
ships' bar. From the moment he had received that inti-
mation he had held himself entirely at the orders of
their Lordships.
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Lord MONTEAGLE considered the explanations
apnadrtthoaft
thesetherepersons; to disobey the
bad been a deliberate in-
orders of their Lordships with an improper inten-
tion; and in order to show that their Lordships would not
permit their privileges to, be trampled on, moved that Wil-
liam Chadwick and John Marriner, having been guilty
of a breach of the privileges of the House by a disobe-
dience to the orders of the House, have been guilty of a
contempt of the House, and that they bo therefore
taken into custody.
The motion having been agreed to, Messrs. Chadwick
and Marriner were removed in custody.
FRENCH INTERVENTION IN ITALY.
Lord BEAU .lONT thought it was strange that one
of the first steps of the French Republic should bo to
interfere to put doSrn a republic in Rome, and that
a republic founded on the destruction of a monarchy
should interfere to restore the most absolute monarch
ho ever ruled. It would also be strange it it should
be owing to the intervention of the Protestant power of
England that the Pope should be restored. After the
statement of the Noble Marquis to-night, that Sicily
had been abandoned to the Neapolitans, when they com-
mitted the most atrocious enormities—after England had
abandoned the inhabitants of that unfortunate island to
the most horrid butcheries, he asked whether or not
the Government had consented to French intervention in
Rome. He should hereafter call the attention of Par-
liament to the conduct of England in relation to Italy
and to that unfortunate island Sicily.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the French
intervention in Rome had not been the subject of
negotiation, nor had the Government taken any
`part in suggesting it, but that an intimation of
such intended intervention had been made, and he
was not aware that any opposition would be offered to it
by her Majesty s Government. With respc;:otietdo
thatthe
unfortunate contest carrying on in Sicily, h©
her Majesty's Government had broken any pledge
whatever.
DANUBIAN PROVINCES.
Lord BEAUMONT gave notice that he should ask a
question on a future day on the subject of the continued
occupation by Russia of the Danubian provinces.
PROTECTION OF WOMEN BILL.
The Bishop of OXFORD presented several petitions
in favour of this Bill, and gave notice that he should
move the second reading of that Bill on Monday fortnight.
RECOVERY OF WAGES BILL (IRELAND).
On the motion of the Marquis of CLANRICARDE,
,his Bill was read a third time and passed.
Their Lordships then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, April 19.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.

Mr. BROMLEY took the oaths and his seat for South
Nottingham, in the room of Colonel Rolleston.
SOUTHEASTERN RAILWAY.

Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved that the order of the
House of the 16th day of February last, referring the
South• Eastern Railway (Removal of Restriction against
opening the Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, and Ashford
and Hastings Lines, Grant of compulsory Powers for
purchase of Lands, Steam-boats) Bill, to the Committee
of Selection, be now read.—This was done, the order
was discharged, and the Bill withdrawn.
THIRD LEADINGS.

The following Bills were read a third time and
passed:—
Grimsby Corporation and Freemen's Arrangement.
Kiddermioeter Union Small Tenements Rating.
Macclesfield Borough Waterworks, Markets, &e.
Marshland Smeeth and Fen (Equalization of Drainage
Rates and Repair of Roads).
BIRTHS AND MARRIAGE (SCO rL AND) BILL.
Mr. DUNCAN preseaed petitions from Aberdeen
against this Bill. y
SUNDA -RAVELLING.

Lord LINCOLN proseated a petition in favour of
this Bill.
Mr. SCOTT presented petitions against the Bill, al
also did an Hon. Member ions the Orkneys.
Mr. LOCKE presented a petition from Falkirk in
favour of the 13ill for the regalation of Sunday travelling
on railways.

MARRIAGE BILL.
An HoN. MEMBER presented a petition from the Ork•
net's against this Bill; and another against the Births,
Deaths, and Marriages (Scotland) Bill.
Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition to the same effect.
Mr. BANKES presented a petition in favour of the
Marriage BilL
Mr. HENLEY presented a petition against it.
BEER LICENCES.
Mr. TUFNELL presented a petition praying for an
eAteration of the law regulating the licensing of beer-
houses.

Mr. HUME presented a petition from a place in De-
vonshire against extending beer-houses, and that those
at present in existence might only be licensed during the
tenure of their present occupiers.
Mr.WALPOLE present,ed a petition to the same effect

shire complaining -FREE TRADE.
Lord EMLYN presented a petition from Pembroke•
praying for the equalisation of taxation.
ARBITRATION.
of the operation of free trade, and
Mr. COBDEN presented a number of petitions in
favour of arbitration instead of war.
Mr. E WART presented petitions to the same effect.
CHURCH-RATES.
Mr. EWART presented a petition praying for the
abolition of church-rates.
(POOR-LAW SUPERANNUATION FUND. ,
Mr. PEARSON presented a petition from the medical
officers of St. Mary, Lambeth, praying for a superannua-
tion fund.

Mr. Banker, Mr. Henley, and Lord Hotham presented
petitions to the same effeet.
SECEDING CLERGYMEN.

Mr. PEARSON presented a petition from a Dissent-
ing congregation in Walworth in favour of the Clergy
Relief B►ll. ,

Mr. HUMS presented a petition to the same cffect.

IRELAND

Lord CASTLEREAGH presented a petition from
Down praying for the encouragement of the cultivation
of waste lands, and against the Rate in Aid Bill.

TUANPIKE BILLS,

141 r. C. LEWIS, in answer to a question from Mr. W.
Patten, stated that the attention of the Government had
been called to the Turnpike Bills before the House,
and if it was thought expedient to refer any of those
Bills to the Home Department with reference to debts,
and so on, measure could be taken there to make a satis-
factory examination with respect to them.
PACKET SERVICE.

Mr. HENLEY gave notice of his intention on an early
day to move the appOintment of a Select Committee
to inquire into the Contract Packet Service.

VIE P UNJAUB.

Mr. G. THOMPSON postponed his motion relative
to the Punjaub to Tuesday next.

VOTE OF THANKS TO THE ARMY IN INDIA.
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