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IRELAND.

DUBLIN, JULY 23.--ADDRESS TO THE KING FROM
THE IRISH PEOPLE.—We announce with extreme gratifi-
' cation, that the Address to the Sovereign, adopted at a re-
cent meeting at the Corn Exchange, praying his Majesty to
exercise his constitutional prerogative in support of the
claims of his Irish subjects to efficient reforms in their Mu-
nicipal Institutions, and a satisfactory settlement of the
Tithe question, has already been most extensively signed in
many parts of the country. It is probable that, before the
lapse of another week, the document will be ready to be
forwarded, with upwards of half a million of signatures.—
Dublin Evening Post.
GROSS JOBBING OF THE CORPORATION.—WhiIst the
Irish Tory Members in the House of Commons are op-
posing Lord Morpeth's Bill, to prevent the alienation of
Corporate property, the Corporators are actively engaged
in appropriating that property in the most barefaced
jobbing. Their " Honors" held what is termed their
Quarter Assembly yesterday, when an order for granting
1501. on the pretence of repairing the Mansion-house, was
proposed for adoption.—lbid.—LFrom a report of the pro-
ceedings of their " Honors" it appears that 4051. have been
voted away to a clerk of the Town Clerk, for opposing a
Bill, the object of which was to reform that Corporation.]
THE TITHE WAR.—A plan of a winter campaign for the
Tithe Commissioners has just been published, in anticipa-
tion of the failure of the measure now before Parliament, for
the peaceable settlement of that vexatious question. It is
set forth under the title of " Instructions to Commissioners
in the execution of Writs of Rebellion." One of the Com-
missioners has set up a gig on the profits of his holy calling,
and caused his arms to be emblazoned on its panels, viz., a
pastoral crook, and a scroll or writ, with the device, " Sol-
vendce suit Decimal," in gold letters ; a witty parody, said
to have been furnished by one of his Reverend employers,
upon "Delenda est Carthago.'"chere are some who say
it is not a parody, but a parallel.
THE TODD FOEGERY.—Dr. Todd (quasi Dodd), the re-
puted author of the forgery which the innocent McGhee
thought to pawn upon the " good people" of London, is
junior librarian of our university. About twenty-four years
ago, a hoax of a similar kind was perpetrated in this semi-
nary by a man named Leyden, who was professor of the
Irish language.
ARREST OF ORANGEMEN.—WC can now add, on the
authority of a letter from Cloyne, county of Monaghan,
t'iat, on the 17th instant, Captain Macleod, R. M., in
conjunction with the sub-inspector of police, issued war-
rants against upwards of one hundred persons for appear-
ing in processions on the Twelfth instant. Forty or
fifty of these Orangemen were apprehended. We should
mention that several of the Orangemen presented them-
selves in Orange insignia, when brought before the Ma-
gistrates to be bailed, viz., with Orange flowers and rib-
bons on their persons ; however, when informed that they
would not be bailed, if they did not strip themselves
of the gewgaws, they doffed the tawdry and departed.
At. the same time Chief Constable Hill apprehended thirty
other Orangemen, for walking in procession on the 12th
of July in the same county. They, too, have given secu-
rity for their appearance at the Monaghan Assizes. This
activity on the part of the police has had a very salutary
(Sect, as the other Orangemen yet at large are coming for-
ward voluntarily and tendering bail. The activity and de-
cision of the Government have, in fact, been attended with
the best effect. This is the first, or, at least the second
time, during forty years, that no blood has been spilt by
Orangemen on the 12th of July.
GREAT ANTI-TITHE MEETING, NEAR CLARA.—An im-
mense assemblage of the landholders and other inhabitants
of several parishes in the King's County, was held on the
iOtii July, at 131ackhollow, near the town of Clara, to peti-
tion for the abolition of the hateful and blood-stained tithe
system.

There is no truth in the report that Commissary-General
Haines has been appointed one of the Commissioners under
the Dublin Police Act.

The Cork Reporter of Thursday brings us an ample re-
port of the adjourned investigation i❑ that city on the pre-
ceding day, into the charges preferred against the police for
improper and disrespectful conduct at the Imperial Hotel,
an the night that his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant was
entertained by the citizens. The secretary, several of the
guests on the occasion, and the proprietor of the hotel, de-
13;sA to the intrusion of the police into the dining-room on
the night in question—to their " heedlessly disregarding"
the directions to them to withdraw—and that a cry of "you
lie," or " that is an untruth," came from one of them while
Mr. Hayes was in the act of addressing the company at
table. The citizens of Cork have at length discovered the
traitor in the person of Pierce Lyons, the Mayor's sergeant.
Lona M uLGRAVE.—We learn by the IVateifordChronicle
that preparations are going forward to give his Lordship a
reception, worthy of them, and the most popular Viceroy
that ever brought peace to the shores of Ireland. "If
any consideration," says the same paper, " could induce the
people to cherish Lord Mulgrave with a still warmer at-
tachment, it would be the infamous and unjustifiable abuse,
which is heaped upon him by the bigots and corruptionists.
This abuse has Lord Mulgrave earned, solely by his
anxiety to act with impartiality, and to administer justice
with an even hand. At a meeting of the Cork Conserva-
tive Society, Billingsgate, in buckets full, was discharged
aspen his Excellency : and this, too, in a great degree, by
reverend! gentlemen. •The following is the language which
one of these clerical Conservatives, of the name of Free-
man, thought it becoming to apply to the representative of
the Sovereign :—‘ The deputy of Daniel O'Connell was
going through the country disturbing its quiet repose that
lie might get a cheer. He did not come amongst them
as Lord Mulgrave but as O'Mulgrave, the deputy of
O'Connell, who placed him in his situation, as he (Mr.
F.) believed Lord Mulgrave was as much disliked by the
King as he was by every gentleman in Ireland.—
(Cheers.) The gentry showed their abhorrence of the
deputy, as they have received him throughout the country
as what he was, the fac simile of O'Connell.—( Loud cheer-
ing.)' fhis reverend railer is, we think, as good a specimen
of a foul-mouthed parson, as could be desired.
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.—This powerful body, to
whose exertions we must now look for the peaceable work-
ing out of just and salutary reform, is daily spreading its
branches in all parts of the country.
TIPPERARY.—A meeting of the friends of Reform in this
county was called last week, for the establishment of a
Reform Registry Association in Tipperary, based on the
general principles of the Reform Registry Association of
Ireland. Another meeting was called at the same place
of the inhabitants of the county, to co-operate with the
General Association in protecting persons unjustly and ilk-
gaily persecuted on account of tithes, and using every legi-
timate means of obtaining municipal reform, and establishing
a justice rent for Ireland ; and a third meeting was called
in the evening, at the same place, for the latter-mentioned
purposes, of the clergy, gentry, and inhabitants of Clonmel
and its vicinity. All these meetings were held in succession.

REMARKABLE DEATH.—On Whit Monday last
a jobbing coachman, named Such, employed principally at
Kent's stables, Southampton-mews, borrowed a butcher's knife
for the purpose, as he said, of cutting a piece of leather from
a boot, but in reality to cut his throat with ; for in a few mi-
nutes after he had obtained the loan of the knife from a slaugh-
ter-house at the back of the stables he was found with his
windpipe cut nearly (or as reported) quite through, lying on
a dung heap in the yard. The cause of this dreadful act was
at the time generally attributed to the circumstance of his
having lost more money than he was able to afford in one of
the low gambling booths at Epsom races. He was immedi-
ately conveyed to the new London Hospital, Tottenham-court-
road, and the wound was sewed up, and every attention which
skill could supply was afforded. Notwithstanding the dreadful
nature of the in3ury the patient rapidly recovered, sustenance
being conveyed into the stomach by means of a pipe introduced
into the throat. The patient up to the middle of last week
continued to gain strength, and an advance was made so far
towards a complete cure as to admit of his walking about, and
to allow of his dispensing with the pipe, taking care, however,
not to attempt to swallow solid food. A day or two ago he
asked and obtained leave to visit his wife, and again he re-
ceived a caution not to swallow anything solid. While at his
wife's lodgings he was induced to neglect this advice, and, on
attempting to partake of a mutton-chop, the first mouthful
killed him. He was removed back to the Hospital, and, on
examination, it was found, as was contemplated, that he had
been choked by the food he had attempted to swallow. These
facts were laid before a jury, who returned a verdict conform-
ably to the evidence.
At an early hour on Saturday morning, notice was
sent to every Police-office of the escape of a convict named
Henry Williams, from Newgate, under very extraordinary and
mysterious circumstances. From the statements that were
made on Saturday, on astrict inquiry before the Sheriffs, which
lasted several hours, it appeared that the prisoner was locked
up in one of the condemned cells at the usual hour on Friday
evening, and he was missed from it between five and six o'clock
on Saturday morning. The massive hinges on the door of his
cell had been filed through, which enabled the prisoner to pull
the door towards him, so as to make an aperture large enough
for him to escape into the lobby, and it is conjectured that he
then made his way into the Governor's house, and jumped
through one of the windows into the Old Bailey, a task which
no person could credit, were they to see the immense locks he
had to pick, and the number of officers upon guard immedi-
ately upon that spot. The prisoner, although not more than
twenty years of age, has been for many years one of the most
expert and dangerous thieves in London. He was committed
from Hatton-gerbil Police-office about five weeks since, for a
burglary in a dwelling-house of Mesdames Arabella and Ca-
roline Mann, keepers of a ladies' seminary; at Highbury, and
several other robberies, upon which charges he was found guilty
and sentenced to death. While in the custody of Wadding-
ton, the gaoler of the above Police-office, he several times at-
tempted to get at large, and was double ironed.
The wife of a cannon founder at Lugunski, in
Russia, was brought to bed on the 22d of May last of 5 daugh-
ters, of whom four are still living, and are doing well. The
.Emperor sent 500 rubles to the mother, and ordered that she
L'inuld want for nothing.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, Juzr 25.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at four o'clock.
TRINITY HARBOUR.

Sir A. L. HAY presented a petition from Edinburgh,
in favour of the Trinity Harbour Bill. The Hon. Baronet
moved the second reading of the Bill.
The LORD ADVOCATE opposed the second read-
ing, and would state why he conceived it ought not to pass.
He had not during the present Session opposed any of
the proceedings with regard to this Bill. The promoters
of the Bill had no right whatever to make a harbour
within the bounds sought for by the present Bill. There
was a judgment of the Court of Session by which a Mr.
Alexander Scott had been prohibited for unloading goods.
or making a dock for their reception within those bounds.
Further, he had been prohibited from building, or
erecting a harbour or dock, or from doing any thing so as
to encroach on the rights vested in the Corporation of
Edinburgh. There was only one point on which an express
judgment had not yet been pronounced. The question the
House had to consider under these circumstances was,
would the House consent to pass a Bill empowering per-
sons to make an harbour within the limits of another
harbour? It was clearly an encroachment upon the rights
of property, and no case had been made out in the present
instance to entitle the promoters of the Bill to in-
terfere with the rights and privileges of the City of
Edinburgh, and the judgment of a Court of Law.
He would put it to any Hon. Member of that House ac-
quainted with the rights of private property, whether they
would sanction such a proceeding. The measure had been
before the House of Lords, but from the omission of certain
clauses, it had been again brought back to that House ; but
from the decision which had been come to by a Court of
Law, it was clear the parties had no right whatever to make
such an harbour. There was no former instance of a Bill
being brought in after passing that House, and being
thrown out in the other. The other side cited
one instance in the case of Leith, where a Mr.
Dunlop petitioned against a Bill ; but if it was neces-
sary, he could prove that that case was not at all
within the parallel. The Dock Committee had op-
posed the Bill throughout, and they had a right to do
so yet ; but how could they do so now, at that late period
of the session, and after they had already spent a great
deal of money ? Under all these considerations, he hoped
the House would not sanction the unusual proceedings,
and moved that the Bill he read a second time that day six
months.
Mr. WILKS had a Parliamentary experience of thirty
years, and had never before seen such an opposition
shewn to any Bill which had ever come before the
House, and he hoped, upon this occasion, the
House would stand firm. The decision of the
Court of Session which had been alluded to did not at
all bear out the untenable claim of the Corporation of
Edinburgh : it merely went the length of saying that
Edinburgh was entitled to the Harbour Dues along the
shore, and not that Mr. Scott should not raise a harbour.
The Court of Session had determined that the Corpora-
tion of Edinburgh were entitled to Harbour Dues. Now
look at the case of the City of London ; that Corporation
had a paramount right to the navigation of the
River Thames, and had, therefore, a right to de-
mand clues ; but would it be tolerated that the
city of London had any claim to say they had not
only a right to claim Harbour Dues, but that they
could also prevent parties from erecting docks, or ally
thing else, unless certain dues were paid. He was fully
convinced the House would not allow the opposition that
had taken place to be successful, but would sanction the
second reading of the Bill.
Mr. PRINGLE thought the opposition that had been
made to the Bill had been made upon the best of all grounds
—and that ground was supported by public opinion.
There was a general satisfaction expressed when this Bill
was thrown out. Various means had been tried to preju-
dice the minds of Hon. Members with regard to this Bill,
and he held in his hand a paper which had been circulated
for that purpose, to a few passages from which he entreated
the attention of the Hon. and Gallant Member for Elgin
(Sir A. L. Hay). He wished to ask the Hon. and Gal-
lant Member if he knew any thing of this pamphlet, or if
be understood what it meant?
Sir A. L. HAY said he was not answerable for it.
Mr. PRINGLE would read a few passages for the
Honourable and Gallant Member's information. The
paper had been circulated out of doors, in order to
prejudice people's minds.—(Hear, hear.) It complained
of the unjustifiable opposition that was offered to this Bill,
both in that House and elsewhere ; of the statements that
had been made with regard to it, in which statements this
pamphlet said there was not the slightest alloy of truth—
that it (the opposition to this Bill) was grounded altogether
upon the most palpable fallacies, and that as no just grounds
could be stated in opposition to the Bill, the objections to it
were grounded upon vague generalities and dullness.
Now, lie asked if it was fair to circulate such statements ?
The Hon. and Learned Attorney-General had stated in
that House that this Bill had been lost elsewhere by a
blunder, or somethin,, worse. Now, the objections to
this Bill were founded upon the forms of the House,
which had been altogether set at defiance by the promoters
of this Bill. These were the grounds upon which this Bill
was rejected. He believed there had never been a case
productive of more pertinacity than the promoters of this
Bill bad exhibited in endeavouring to pass it through
that House. The House would agree with him in thinking
it ought not to give its sanction to such a measure.—
(Cries of " Divide, divide.")
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided, when the numbers were—

For the motion
Against it
Majority in favor of the second reading —45
On our return to the gallery we found
Sir A. L. HAY on his legs, protesting against the sys-
tem which had been pursued. with reference to the present
Bill, the object of which had been to defeat the progress of
the Bill through the House of Lords. He should now
move that the Bill be committed that day, notwithstanding
the orders of the House.

Sir GEORGE CLERK protested against such a course
being pursued. There had been a good deal of irregularity
connected with this Bill, and he hoped it would not be fur-
ther persevered in. There were more than a hundred in-
stances in which the Standing Orders had been dispensed with,
but these were Bills to which no opposition was offered ; but
there was no instance of such a course being taken when a
Bill was opposed as this one was. The Leith Police
Bill had been instanced, but it was not at all an
analogous case. It had passed that House after a very
strenuous opposition. In the House of Lords, by mutual
concession and compromise, a new Bill was introduced and
passed ; but it was not at all the same Bill, or anything
like it. The Hon. Member for Boston had said the case
was analagous to a wharfinger's building, a dock, or wharf
along the Thames ; but in all such cases the parties
built upon their own property, while there was no
allegation that this harbour was to be taken
out of the sea-beach, which was the undoubted
property of the Corporation of Edinburgh, which
extended so far as the turnpike-road. He hoped
the House would not afford such a pernicious precedent, as
to give a party a right by Act of Parliament to do that
which the Court of Session had precluded him from doing
by an injunction. Under these circumstances, therefore,
he trusted that the House would postpone the committal
of the Bill until the usual period of eight days, in order
that the parties aggrieved might come forward.
Sir A. L. HAY moved that the Bill be committed that
day.

The LORD ADVOCATE deprecated the establish-
ment of a precedent so contrary to every decision hitherto
made by the House.

Mr. WILKS was quite sure, as the suspension of the
Standing Orders had not been moved, the House would
make an order that the Committee should sit to-morrow.
Mr. PRINGLE said that this was the first case in
which such a precedent had been set, as that, in an opposed
private Bill which was brought before that House, the
promoters of it should move that the Standing Orders be
dispensed with, and that they should go forward in such
an irregular manner in defiance of all the Standing Orders.
Sir A. L. HAY merely rose to put the House in pos-
session of what was the real petition to be heard by Coun-
sel. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh reported yesterday,
that at the request of a solicitor of London he had
signed a petition which ha xi been sent to him agai▪
nst
the Trinity Harbour Bill , of which he hoped that
Counsel would approve. Consequently the Solici▪ tor
in London was the person to be heard.
Sir G. CLERK said that the Hon. and Gallant Mem-
ber forgot to state that the imagistrates of Edinbugh had
unanimously approved of what had been done by the Lord
Provost.

LONDON CEMETERY BILL.
Mr. D.
W. HARVEY moved the third reading of
the London Cemetery Bill.
Mr. WILKS said every side of the House got up to say
that these Cemetery Bills wee good, and requisite for the
health of the metropolis, yet no-t one Bill passed without
upholding the clergyman in exacting large fees for doing
nothing. He would not opp, Ise the progress of the present
Bill, but he gave notice that: next Session ho and other
Members would oppose any Cemetery Bill wherein such
unjust clauses were introduce d, or unless the whole of the
ground was consecrated, and no fees exacted.
Mr. POTTER wished to. know whether :he was not
right in supposing that the le es attached only to that part
of the ground which was cons(!cr ated, and not to the other
part, which was not ?

Mr. D. W. HARVEY w As /ell pleased that the Hon.
Member for Boston would calA th e attention of the House
to the subject at a future time. an the meantime he felt

rather surprised that the two Honourable Members
who spoke last, the able advocates of the Dissenters,
should advocate the consecration of the whole of the Ce-
metery grounds.--(" No, no," from Mr. Potter.) In reply
to the question, he had to say that originally it was pro-
posed that each body should pay two shillings to the
clergyman, but he opposed the plan. He said the sum
was too small, and that he would oppose the Bill unless it
was augmented. It was under those circumstances that
the sum had been increased to that which had been fixed
in other Bills of a similar nature.

After some observations from Mr. WILKS, Mr. HAR-
VEY, and Mr. A. TREVOR,
Mr. POTTER moved that the third reading be de-
ferred till to-morrow.
Mr. HUME wished to know from the Hon. Member
for Southwark, whether Dissenters would be compelled by
this Bill to pay fees for interment in consecrated ground ?
Mr. D. W. HARVEY could not give a direct
answer to the question of the Honourable Member ; but
but from his general knowledge he should say that Dis-
senters would not be compelled to pay fees.
Mr. BAINES thought that the Bill ought to stand
over till this point respecting fees was ascertained, so that
there should be no ambiguity about it.
Mr. HINDLEY thought the Dissenters in that House
would not be discharging their duty, if they allowed this
Bill to pass in its present shape.
Mr. HARVEY consented to postpone the third reading
till to-morrow, which was accordingly done.